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 soul fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air eywhere thank you for finding and listening
Speaker 1: and doing all that. The Fifth Hour, as a new
Speaker 1: weekend is upon us. And of course that means that
Speaker 1: Danny Gee's back. He's back. Well, you knew he was
Speaker 1: already back, but he's back on the podcast after a
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate weekend away where I got to hang
Speaker 1: out with the vegan for a few days. But Danny
Speaker 1: back from why. I'm sure you have some amazing stories
Speaker 1: to tell for the weekend about your travels to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: We'll hear all about what happened and whatnot as we
Speaker 1: go through the weekend. It is Friday. That's a big weekend,
Speaker 1: big holiday weekend. If you enjoy Saint Patrick's Day which
Speaker 1: is on Sunday, Today's the fifteenth day of March, which
Speaker 1: I am told is everything you think is wrong day.
Speaker 1: That that is one of the dopey holidays today everything
Speaker 1: you think is wrong, which is a good day to
Speaker 1: remember that you are not that smart.
Speaker 3: Prefer National Potato Chip Day, which was yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not a bad day. But the problem with
Speaker 1: potato chips is you cannot stop eating them. It is
Speaker 1: impossible to stop eating them. And I can eat the
Speaker 1: whole bag. Yeah, properly chip, I just eat the whole thing.
Speaker 3: So now, what's say you ones with ridges or the
Speaker 3: old school potato chip?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the ruffles with the ridges I enjoy.
Speaker 1: But there's not really a bad potato chip. It's hard
Speaker 1: to find. And now I even like the flavored chips.
Speaker 1: I don't love the barbecue. You know what's really good
Speaker 1: Those crunchy kettle chips.
Speaker 3: Oh those are really good.
Speaker 1: Those are amazing. And I'll even eat what's the one
Speaker 1: with the dip flavor, the sour cream and onion. I'll
Speaker 1: eat that.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, a chip form? Probably the cool ranch dorito
Speaker 3: is one of your favorites too.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ed that out of the podcast. Anyone
Speaker 1: will hear that, But no, you know, a taco flavored
Speaker 1: dorito solid. The ranch is the devil's blood is, you know,
Speaker 1: But the taco flavor one not bad. That's kind of
Speaker 1: an old school type taste.
Speaker 3: As far as yeah, yesterday, I was thinking about the
Speaker 3: classic tortilla chip too, when they come hot to your
Speaker 3: table at a Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no. And you know my rule, Danny, You've
Speaker 1: known me a long time. My rule, I have a
Speaker 1: steadfast rule. When I go to a Mexican restaurant, there
Speaker 1: better be a basket of chips and sauce on the table.
Speaker 1: When I go to an Italian restaurant, there better be
Speaker 1: a basket of bread, and if not, they charge extra
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: I'll not go back. I'm going to start living by
Speaker 3: your mantra. Because we had a bad experience at one
Speaker 3: quote unquote Mexican restaurant. We only went to one in Honolulu,
Speaker 3: and they charged for the chips, they charged for the
Speaker 3: salsa even and right then and there we should have
Speaker 3: walked out. The meal was horrible. I'll tell you about
Speaker 3: it later on the weekend, Ben, But had we lived
Speaker 3: by your words, we could have avoided disaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you build in if you're in there, and we've
Speaker 1: got listeners that are in the restaurant business, and I've
Speaker 1: had some people that have been pen pals of mine
Speaker 1: through the show that work in restaurants. And you build
Speaker 1: in the cost and because like, there are people like
Speaker 1: us that will eat a lot of chips, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people do not, And so you just
Speaker 1: gotta gott a fact to that. D But if you
Speaker 1: don't have chips and sauce at a Mexican restaurant, you stink.
Speaker 1: And you don't charge nickel and diamond. You know, come on,
Speaker 1: you overcharge for the food as it is. I understand
Speaker 1: you have to make money, but it's ridiculous. So this
Speaker 1: being Friday and the first podcast since the Greatest Night
Speaker 1: in Overnight sports radio, we have a tradition on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, the first pod after the Benny Awards, what
Speaker 1: we do is go in depth post game covers. Nobody
Speaker 1: else has this. You know how much we spend for this,
Speaker 1: Danny g the amount of revenue that iHeart spends to
Speaker 1: have exclusive postgame rights to the Bennies. This is an
Speaker 1: insane thing and it's ours. We have it. No one
Speaker 1: else has it, Danny, It's on this podcast. We are
Speaker 1: the mouthpiece to the post game of the Bennies. This
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing. It's like doing the postgame show
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You're not kidding. Later this morning, I'm meeting up with
Speaker 3: the guys to get on a Southwest flight to go
Speaker 3: do a live broadcast. And we don't have travel expenses
Speaker 3: for this little remote. They said, all of the travel
Speaker 3: budget is used up to run the Bennies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just all the producers, the makeup people, the
Speaker 1: wardrobe people. It's it's just a crazy, exciting.
Speaker 3: One coops botox.
Speaker 1: So let me if you missed the Bennies, it is
Speaker 1: available the podcast, but I'll refresh your memory. And we're
Speaker 1: not going to spend too much time on this, Danny,
Speaker 1: but we we will. You know, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's a big fan night. I had people sending me
Speaker 1: who won Benny's. I had a couple of people, I
Speaker 1: had one, well one I didn't have. I had one
Speaker 1: person send me an email saying how important it was
Speaker 1: to them, and it was like really, really emotional. And
Speaker 1: then of course I ranted on the air and said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just a stupid bit on a radio show. And
Speaker 1: then I got an email bag. Well, you didn't have
Speaker 1: to say that. You know, I can't win. I can't wind.
Speaker 1: I can't win. But the categories, the nominees, and we'll
Speaker 1: kind of go over this because we gave out who
Speaker 1: won very controversial ending to the Benny Awards, very controversial,
Speaker 1: the biggest award. But we'll start with the Rookie Caller
Speaker 1: of the Year, and if you remember, that went to
Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay. Tony has really mastered the art
Speaker 1: of the witty sarcasm. I think I like about Tony's
Speaker 1: calls is they don't usually didn't take that long, and
Speaker 1: he normally says something right on the line. He's like
Speaker 1: towing the line of what you can get away with
Speaker 1: and what you can't get away with. And occasionally he
Speaker 1: won't even tow the line. He'll just say a dirty
Speaker 1: word and get dumped, you know, just like that. But
Speaker 1: I enjoyed. I actually laugh at a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff Tony says on the ear. I find him very enjoyable.
Speaker 1: So I was happy he won, but it was really
Speaker 1: close for Rookie Caller of the Year. Always accused me,
Speaker 1: and you'll have the same people call and you have
Speaker 1: no new calls. Well, this category proves there is new talent.
Speaker 1: There's always new talent out there that called the show,
Speaker 1: that find the show, even with me not giving out
Speaker 1: the number most nights, so Tony one but heavy metal
Speaker 1: Kevin from Maine gave him a run for his money,
Speaker 1: and my guy Eddie and Charlotte the thumbs up thumbs down. Dude.
Speaker 1: I like his calls a lot. I wish he would
Speaker 1: call more, but those those three were like neck and
Speaker 1: neck and neck for Rookie Call of the Year. We
Speaker 1: had the game show contests in the year, and that
Speaker 1: was Uncle Moe as he took down Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I think he won by five percent of the vote,
Speaker 1: which is a fair amount. We had thousands of votes
Speaker 1: and whatnot on the different the different platforms, So that
Speaker 1: went to Uncle Moe. Who's I learned this week. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird, Danny, Uncle Mo and Eddie are text
Speaker 1: buddies that they text each other. I thought was interesting,
Speaker 1: kind of odd to me because my experience with listeners
Speaker 1: having my number is they don't stop calling, like Doc
Speaker 1: Mike has had my number for fifteen years or that's
Speaker 1: probably longer than that now And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he has the hotline number as well, so
Speaker 3: it's a double not anymore though.
Speaker 1: Because we changed the hotline right, we moved to the
Speaker 1: new studio, so he does not have the new hotline number,
Speaker 1: which drives him nuts and he why can't I get
Speaker 1: the number? What's over that? We had the lame joke
Speaker 1: contributor to the year. We have so many great joke right,
Speaker 1: I had lame jokes just earlier today in the overnight
Speaker 1: and that went that was that was a route or
Speaker 1: route as surfer Todd the comedian. He got over forty
Speaker 1: percent of the popular vote, so good job by him.
Speaker 1: Chip and Maine though, did he did very well. Chip
Speaker 1: and Maine finished in second, and he was in second
Speaker 1: by a wide margin. So those are the top two
Speaker 1: in that category. You're listening to our exclusive coverage of
Speaker 1: the Benny's postgame. It is made possible by Danny ges
Speaker 1: depleted bank account from his trip to Hawaii. We have
Speaker 1: asked Ben category the top asked Ben questions. This was
Speaker 1: very close. This was very close between It went to
Speaker 1: ferg Dog Fergie one. He edged out the late night
Speaker 1: drug tester and Alf the Alien opiner, who are neck
Speaker 1: and neck right behind him. So he won, and then
Speaker 1: I love my favorite part of this category is Rory,
Speaker 1: who on X he used his full name, this guy Rory,
Speaker 1: and he's like he realized that that didn't really work
Speaker 1: for branding purposes. You've got to have more of a
Speaker 1: memorable name, and so for branding purposes, he's screw that
Speaker 1: and he's now going by King Rory or Rory the
Speaker 1: King or something like that. So ferg Dog was very
Speaker 1: happy with his win, as he should be. Best crew filling,
Speaker 1: very big category. Used to be in this category, Danny,
Speaker 1: but not anymore because you have you're on a different show.
Speaker 1: We had Brian no Moncey Balanos Finley and Mark Ramsey
Speaker 1: and Mark fils In pretty much worked more than I
Speaker 1: was Sam the last year.
Speaker 3: Dude, he's got such a huge personality. I don't see
Speaker 3: how he could lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just bubbling up. I know this. You know
Speaker 1: certain things that have been true in the Mallard militia
Speaker 1: over the years, and if there is a a woman
Speaker 1: on the show, generally they win every contest. Have you
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: And are you saying that you have a bunch of
Speaker 3: thirsty dudes listening.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, there's been a pattern. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this for a long time and the entire time these
Speaker 1: these these horn dogs, they hear a female voice and
Speaker 1: they vote. Vote. Mat Manzi won by She got almost
Speaker 1: forty five percent of the vote.
Speaker 3: That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was forty five percent. Everyone was voting for
Speaker 1: the Drop of the Year. Now, this was a very
Speaker 1: competitive category on the Bennies, and we could have done
Speaker 1: many more than the final that we're getting. We had four.
Speaker 3: If you're fill in board operators don't even know what
Speaker 3: drops to play the past few months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's we have really gone downhill. Like I was, Sam,
Speaker 1: I love saying, but he didn't, you know, he kind
Speaker 1: of stopped putting stuff in and he didn't play him.
Speaker 1: And you were really good at the drops, and Roberto
Speaker 1: was really good at the drops. We need to, you know,
Speaker 1: get back to that. I'd like to get back there,
Speaker 1: but uh we The final four were Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: I'm a Crackhead, which is was by far my favorite,
Speaker 1: Jet who fled I'm on the Ben Mallor radio show
Speaker 1: dumb Ass. Then we had Dad Gummett burping on the
Speaker 1: on the show of the drop.
Speaker 3: Wow, low standards there.
Speaker 1: Marcel singing wheels on the bus go round and round,
Speaker 1: wheels on the bus go around around, and this went
Speaker 1: to Jed, who fled. I did not approve of that.
Speaker 1: I did not think that was the drop of the year.
Speaker 1: I think that was bad job by the constituents. I
Speaker 1: don't think they did a good job on that. Danny
Speaker 1: I would have gone with I'm a crackhead.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think Jed would have finished in second place there
Speaker 3: if we didn't have a Russian judge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not right. And the separation, I mean it
Speaker 1: was close. There was about seventeen I think seventeen votes
Speaker 1: separated Jed who won, and Marcel. But that was one
Speaker 1: of the funny saying Marcel, I know he's got some
Speaker 1: issues and what he loves calling the show and the
Speaker 1: night he said he was a Seattle ambassador and we're like,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of the Cracket And he's like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he said yes or something. So I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what their fans are called, the crackheads. And
Speaker 1: he's like, yes, I'm a crackhead.
Speaker 3: It was a really quick bend before you move on
Speaker 3: to the next category. While we're on Drops, You'll be
Speaker 3: happy to hear that I spent not one, but two
Speaker 3: hours with Lorena this past week getting her the right
Speaker 3: songs to play on Friday to continue that tradition, and
Speaker 3: a list of the best Ben Mallard drops, classic and
Speaker 3: new to play when she takes over.
Speaker 1: Well, that's good and bad, but I would also I
Speaker 1: thank you for that. I would like to point out
Speaker 1: that I have had freedom the last couple months because
Speaker 1: I was say I'm just stop putting stuff in. So
Speaker 1: I will say I have just said ridiculous stuff that
Speaker 1: would have I know, would have come back to haunt
Speaker 1: me if DROPS. So I had the freedom, the editorial
Speaker 1: freedom Danny to just say the most ridiculous things because
Speaker 1: I knew they would not come back too.
Speaker 3: Well, she doesn't have a happy trigger finger, so I
Speaker 3: don't think she's going to over inundate you with DROPS,
Speaker 3: which is good. I told her less is more quality
Speaker 3: over quantity. I think she gets it. So yeah, it'll
Speaker 3: be a nice little comeback and pushback on you hogging
Speaker 3: the whole network to yourself.
Speaker 1: Well I am, I'm excited. I think she'll be really
Speaker 1: good for the show. Sure, we'll talk more about her
Speaker 1: as we go for it, maybe we'll get her on
Speaker 1: the podcast and all that. But yeah, the properly time
Speaker 1: drop is much more effective. It's kind of like it's
Speaker 1: like the profanity on satellite radio. If you it's rare
Speaker 1: and appropriate, it has more of a lethal nature to it.
Speaker 1: And the same thing with drops. If you plably drops
Speaker 1: every five seconds, it's like, all right, you know, can't well.
Speaker 3: And there are some that are tradition and like our
Speaker 3: thing and almost like a bit you know where, like
Speaker 3: when I just said a Russian judge right after that
Speaker 3: on the podcast, you hear racist, and the listeners love that.
Speaker 3: They laughed their ass off, And I did that on
Speaker 3: your live show, and you know, it's been a tradition now,
Speaker 3: so that's things like that have to continue for the
Speaker 3: rest of the time you are on FSR.
Speaker 1: And Iowa Sam did not use the racist job, so
Speaker 1: I think the inappropriate playing what's things that aren't racist?
Speaker 1: When you played is hilarious, Like yeah, it's just the
Speaker 1: perfect thing, and everyone laughs at that. I don't know
Speaker 1: anyone that doesn't think that's funny. And if you don't
Speaker 1: think that's funny, you probably got to stick up your wazoos.
Speaker 1: So hey, all right, the female caller of the Year,
Speaker 1: and we had Tammy and Montana on this one, Andrea
Speaker 1: the astrology Lady, spin Cycle, Regina who hosted the Malor
Speaker 1: Meet and Greet at the Mermaid in Minnesota last year,
Speaker 1: Pam and Seattle who won the Malard Palooza talent show.
Speaker 1: And this was this was a route or root as Andrea.
Speaker 1: Very controversial. Andrea, she got a ton of votes. She
Speaker 1: won by a pretty wide margin. Here wow over Tammy
Speaker 1: and Montana who finished I don't know, she finished in
Speaker 1: second place. I'm sorry spin Cycle re Gina finished in
Speaker 1: second place. I thought it was Tammy, but it was Regina's.
Speaker 3: Should have been Tammy. I was gonna say about Andrea.
Speaker 3: I don't know if she does fifteen minute hits on
Speaker 3: your live show, but whenever I'm listening to your show,
Speaker 3: it feels like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Well, it balances out Jed who fled because Jed he
Speaker 1: does about seventeen minutes in ninety seconds. And so by
Speaker 1: the way, Andrew will get about, you know, about four
Speaker 1: minutes of content, but it'll seem like it'll seem like
Speaker 1: a good twenty minutes. The beer Drinking Brian Worst Call
Speaker 1: of the Year. I said on the air, very controversial
Speaker 1: take that this is the most competitive category on the
Speaker 1: Bennys and the Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of the Year.
Speaker 1: And this was overwhelming, the highest percentage of the vote
Speaker 1: for any winner, and it was ridiculous. This guy got
Speaker 1: fifty five percent over fifty five point two percent of
Speaker 1: the popular vote. Poppy in San Diego is so far
Speaker 1: ahead of all the other bad callers it is ridonculous. Now,
Speaker 1: I would like to congratulate Dad Gummett, who finished in
Speaker 1: second by a wide margin. So he versed keg Drinking
Speaker 1: Steve was in there, and then Andrew the blind guy
Speaker 1: from Bakersfield was far back. Now, somebody sent me an
Speaker 1: email and said, then the winner of the Worst Caller
Speaker 1: of the Year should be the person that gets the
Speaker 1: fewest votes, and that not the one that gets the most.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's kind of Poppy, who won the
Speaker 1: award while being suspended for about half the year. Danny,
Speaker 1: we suspended him for about half the year and he
Speaker 1: still won the Beer Drinking Brian Memorial Worst Caller of
Speaker 1: the Year award. So that's very impressive work.
Speaker 3: It's appropriate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the last category, the most controversial category, and there's
Speaker 1: no way to sugarcoat this. We had controversy. We had
Speaker 1: absolute controversy. This has never happened. We've done the Benny
Speaker 1: Awards for a long time, goes way back, way back,
Speaker 1: and this is the first time this has ever happened.
Speaker 1: So the Genie and Medford Caller of the Year, greatest
Speaker 1: honor in overnight talk radio. We had a tie. We
Speaker 1: had a tie.
Speaker 3: What there's no ties in the Bennies.
Speaker 1: Oh, there are tie. We had the same number of
Speaker 1: votes exactly for Jed who fled, and Marcella and Brooklyn
Speaker 1: they both got twenty three point nine percent of the
Speaker 1: popular vote.
Speaker 3: You should shootout with real ammunition.
Speaker 1: Marcell would would point the gun up in the air probably,
Speaker 1: but died. I mean and Laron Maine. What we didn't
Speaker 1: talk about, and this is what you only get here
Speaker 1: on the fifth hour Benny's postgame show, is that Blair
Speaker 1: in Maine we almost had a three way tie. Like
Speaker 1: Blair in Maine was only a few votes away from
Speaker 1: having a three way tie, which we would have had
Speaker 1: to do something. If we can't have a three way tie,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have it. I shouldn't have a tie either.
Speaker 1: And we talked to the Blue Ribbon Panel Danny next
Speaker 1: year and we are considering a rules change so this
Speaker 1: will never happen again, that this will be the only
Speaker 1: time that Benny's have a tie for the Caller of
Speaker 1: the Year, that in future Benny Awards we will have
Speaker 1: a runoff vote to decide. Okay, So, but we didn't
Speaker 1: have any rules in place. We had what we had
Speaker 1: and so congratulations to everyone that was nominated. Andrea the
Speaker 1: astrology Lady was in there, Andre from the Commonwealth and
Speaker 1: Emmett the Blind Seahawk fan, he was in there as well,
Speaker 1: the Big Three, Jed who fled, and Marcel who tied,
Speaker 1: and then also Whoopee Pie Blair who finished just a
Speaker 1: little bit behind. And we're talking about having some new categories.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of people send me email Danny
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what about a fifth hour contributor category?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 3: That's a great Abut that's a really good idea.
Speaker 1: This is this is like an extra arm from the
Speaker 1: podcast or from the radio show. Right, this is just
Speaker 1: the The whole theory is that you've listen to the
Speaker 1: radio show during the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it should be like a fifth Hour mail
Speaker 3: Bag award.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the mail that's a great idea. So we
Speaker 1: will toss that into the Bennies for next year. And
Speaker 1: congratulations to everybody that won, and thank you for those
Speaker 1: of you that didn't complain too loud that you weren't nominated,
Speaker 1: although you did complain, and all of that wonderful stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's Saint Patti's Day weekend kind of a big deal,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to help out the boys because we
Speaker 1: usually do foodie fund and we could do We do
Speaker 1: a few foodie fun stories, but the most important thing
Speaker 1: here is to get your free get your freebies on
Speaker 1: Saint Patti's Day weekend here. For example, if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of Krispy Creme, they are offering a deal starting
Speaker 1: today here on March fifteenth through Saint Patti's Day where
Speaker 1: if you wear green, you get a free glazed donut.
Speaker 1: So they're also bringing back their green original glazed donuts,
Speaker 1: so you if you have to buy anything. It doesn't
Speaker 1: say you have to buy anything. And I have to
Speaker 1: go in there this weekend and get one of my
Speaker 1: free donuts.
Speaker 3: I might think they're just banking on the fact that
Speaker 3: you'll feel embarrassed if you just go for the freebie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a figure. You're gonna buy something. Raising canes.
Speaker 1: I love my Raising canes. And they offer the same
Speaker 1: deal they do every year for Saint Patti's Day, and
Speaker 1: the tradition continues here and through Saint Patti's Day. You
Speaker 1: have to be a Rewards member, but you'll get a
Speaker 1: free twenty two ounce Lepracaun lemonade. They actually killed lecpra
Speaker 1: cons and put them in the drink. It's fascinating. Um me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's delicious. You can drink drink Leprechaun juice and it's
Speaker 1: it's great. There what else you have? Burger King? I
Speaker 1: know you love Burger King. You're all about the Burger King,
Speaker 1: Danny love.
Speaker 3: They stink on.
Speaker 1: You get a free whopper on Saint Patrick's Day and
Speaker 1: you might be lucky enough to win one million dollars
Speaker 1: with the Burger King promotion ek million dollar Whopper contest.
Speaker 3: And this is some bullshit. I want to see the receipt.
Speaker 1: Was it one of those things you get a million
Speaker 1: dollars where we're going to pay you five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year for you know X.
Speaker 3: Number of years a million dollars and eight of it
Speaker 3: is credit for the store.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, all right. So those are some of
Speaker 1: the free minis. Some other ones that Bar Louis, which
Speaker 1: is not everywhere, but they have a few deals there.
Speaker 1: They have cheaper beer, green beer. They've got the heins
Speaker 1: of Guinness for cheaper and all that. And Bennigan's they
Speaker 1: got a whole lineup of food. When you're named Bennigan's
Speaker 1: and Saint Patrick's Day, you kind of have to do
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. A couple of things on Foody
Speaker 1: Fun I saw we talked about McDonald's No, no, it
Speaker 1: was in and out. Remember in and Out closed their
Speaker 1: first ever location in Oakland, Lime and that we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about that. Well, Taco Bell is closing all
Speaker 1: dining rooms in Oakland because of crime. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to offer cash lists, drive through service only. Now. I
Speaker 1: talk to a friend of mine who works in the
Speaker 1: kind of the food business, and he claimed that Taco
Speaker 1: Bell is taking advantage of the crime in Oakland, that
Speaker 1: this is just a cost cutting measure. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is pretty bad there, so I'm not sure sure
Speaker 1: about that. And there's a study out that says it
Speaker 1: is true that fast food prices have risen higher than
Speaker 1: the inflation the last fifteen years, so they're ahead of inflation.
Speaker 1: They're higher than the actual inflation rate. Which Yeah, how
Speaker 1: much is a value meal?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Value is like fifteen bucks in a lot of these
Speaker 1: places for a value.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure you saw how it went viral. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you talked about it last weekend with
Speaker 3: the vegan but all the complaining about five guys, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what we talked about on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but I did see the noise that was shot soon. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a guy guy's receipt that went viral
Speaker 3: because he ate by himself out of California and it
Speaker 3: was like twenty six dollars just for himself, and that
Speaker 3: would have been a couple dollars even more had he
Speaker 3: been at a California location.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have not. I've been to five guys. I
Speaker 1: think five guys is good, but it's not worth the money.
Speaker 1: It's overpriced. And I'm good. And they got rid of
Speaker 1: the peanuts during COVID. I don't know if they brought
Speaker 1: them back, but that annoyed me.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows peanuts give you COVID clearly.
Speaker 1: I saw a guy at the gym this the other
Speaker 1: day on the treadmill and he had a mask. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: what do you do my head? I'm like, you come on,
Speaker 1: I mean that's I don't think that's good for you.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's good for anybody else. But I
Speaker 1: don't think you're stopping anything.
Speaker 3: But then I saw a guy wearing a mask in
Speaker 3: our hallway, and then I saw him at Sofi Stadium
Speaker 3: and he didn't have a mask on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Get out on that.
Speaker 3: I didn't say any names.
Speaker 1: It'd be great. Friday, You're going on a plane today,
Speaker 1: Danny is hell you're doing today? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are going to do a live broadcast Friday afternoon,
Speaker 3: four to six pm Central Time in Nashville for the
Speaker 3: Graduate Hotels SEC tournament in town. And so they have
Speaker 3: us out there to do the show live. Oh, you're
Speaker 3: going to Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, the music city.
Speaker 1: A whole weekend there, just.
Speaker 3: One day, No, just one day. It's a quick turnaround.
Speaker 3: They are having us out for the show. We're gonna
Speaker 3: spend the night and then come right back on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Okay, And is you're gonna see your guy Clay. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna gona come by and say hello?
Speaker 3: Oh you know I talked to Clay yesterday. He is
Speaker 3: down in Florida right now. Oh yeah, he's like, dang it.
Speaker 3: He texted me back and he said, oh man, we
Speaker 3: would have had we could have got dinner on Friday night,
Speaker 3: but I'm I'm down in Florida. So man, better luck
Speaker 3: next time.
Speaker 1: He said. He said, he'll he'll get you when you
Speaker 1: do the Animal Thunderdome together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I you know what, Usually I end the
Speaker 3: text by asking him about the start date. I didn't
Speaker 3: even bother this time. Yeah, just you know, just leave it,
Speaker 3: just leave it alone. It's in the lawyer's hands right now.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll have a wonderful Friday, and we got
Speaker 1: a new podcasts all weekend long, so come on back,
Speaker 1: come on back, and make sure to listen. I mean,
Speaker 1: you need five minutes listen to the whole thing now,
Speaker 1: But five minutes is all we need. All right, have
Speaker 1: a great day later, Skater gotta murder. I gotta go