Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: Well, come in, here we go.
Speaker 3: It is the Fifth Hour podcast, which means the weekend
Speaker 3: is upon us. I am Ben Hi, and you like
Speaker 3: we already know what this podcast is about. Now, My
Speaker 3: man Danny G is on assignment, hard at work doing
Speaker 3: stuff with the Colino and Rich Joe, so he will
Speaker 3: return to the Saturday podcast. We'll be back tomorrow, but
Speaker 3: we wanted to get the weekend started. Just have to
Speaker 3: settle for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Danny G here, I'm still producing this bad boys,
Speaker 1: It's just me.
Speaker 3: This the second day of February, and a thing that
Speaker 3: has become a bit of a tradition here of late
Speaker 3: on the podcast is to see what dope holiday it
Speaker 3: is today? Today is not a dopey holiday day. Today
Speaker 3: we mentioned this on The Overnight Show February second.
Speaker 1: A massive day for you if you live in.
Speaker 3: A city that actually gets winter, because today you probably
Speaker 3: already know now it is groundhog Day today. Now I
Speaker 3: reference groundhog Day quite a bit. Part of the reason
Speaker 3: I loved the movie.
Speaker 1: Named Groundhog Day with Bill Murray back in the day.
Speaker 3: It's a classic and has stood the test of time
Speaker 3: in my opinion. But it's a day where Pontsatani phil
Speaker 3: is the star and there's actual see a couple of
Speaker 3: different Groundhog Day celebrations, but the one that is the
Speaker 3: most famous is Gobbler's Knob in punk Satani, Pennsylvania, and you're.
Speaker 1: Waiting for the rodent. The rodent is the star of
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: It's the only time other than like Mickey Mouse, which
Speaker 3: is like a cartoon thing, this is a real rodent.
Speaker 3: A groundhog is a legitimate rodent. And this tradition actually
Speaker 3: started back in the seventeen hundreds, and it was started
Speaker 3: by German immigrants, the settlers in Pennsylvania. I don't know,
Speaker 3: well you called immigrants in the seventeen hundreds before before
Speaker 3: the you know, everything was settled, probably not, you were
Speaker 3: just like traveling, but anyway, the German settlers will call
Speaker 3: them racist. They visited Pennsylvania and they put up residency there,
Speaker 3: and in the seventeen hundreds, over three hundred years ago,
Speaker 3: they brought this superstition from Germany with them. And the
Speaker 3: legend is if punks atany phil sees his shadow, the.
Speaker 1: Winter chill will continue. This good day.
Speaker 3: To watch Groundhog Day, I might have to dust off.
Speaker 3: I don know what streaming service groundhog Days on. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure, but I'll have to track it down and
Speaker 3: watch it. A yearly rite of passage on this day,
Speaker 3: Groundhog Day, Gobbler's Knob.
Speaker 1: What a town, What a town? Just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3: I believe though that Groundhog Day was filmed in Chicago,
Speaker 3: a lot of it. I read that years ago. What
Speaker 3: else did we got National Bubblegum Day Today?
Speaker 1: It's a big day there.
Speaker 3: And the urban legend if you swallow a piece of
Speaker 3: bubble gum, it will stay in your stomach for what
Speaker 3: eight years or something like that remem when I was
Speaker 3: a kid.
Speaker 1: My family would scare me used to a lot of
Speaker 1: bubble gum, But I was a kid.
Speaker 3: The big thing was well, first of all, it was
Speaker 3: like toys, R US fruit stripe gum, which I believe
Speaker 3: just went out of business within the last couple of months.
Speaker 3: But then we also had this Big League chew, and
Speaker 3: as I remember it, as a kid playing little league,
Speaker 3: I grew up in an era where baseball players would
Speaker 3: take softball size gobs of chewing tobacco and their entire
Speaker 3: cheek could be blown up like a cartoon with this nasty,
Speaker 3: repulsive chew, And of course, being an impressionable child, I
Speaker 3: wanted to be just like them. Not that I did
Speaker 3: chewing tobacco, but the next next best thing. I had
Speaker 3: Big League chew, which came into pouch just like the
Speaker 3: chewing tobacco, and I was able to get the whole
Speaker 3: pack and chew it, and I recreated recreated that. Now
Speaker 3: I am not a bubble gum guy these days. I
Speaker 3: do not do bubble gum. I have not had a
Speaker 3: stick of bubble gum in I would say at least
Speaker 3: ten years, at least ten years, probably longer than that.
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm exaggerating about ten years, give or take.
Speaker 1: But it is national.
Speaker 3: Bubblegum today, so day today, so enjoy chewing that rubber.
Speaker 3: Have a great day, Dick and Dayton like this one.
Speaker 3: It's National ukulele Day. Loser.
Speaker 1: Whoopie damn do and Marcel.
Speaker 3: I thought of Marcel when I saw this and I
Speaker 3: was going through the calendar, I said, this is this
Speaker 3: is a day for Marcel.
Speaker 1: It is National tater Tat Day today.
Speaker 2: You killed it with the knife.
Speaker 3: As you you probably know from listening to the Overnight show,
Speaker 3: one of the many ridiculous drops we have from our
Speaker 3: friend Marcel is tater Tots.
Speaker 1: The way he said, tater Tots outstanding.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, it's.
Speaker 1: Just tat the Tots. Marvelous drop from our friend Marcel.
Speaker 1: But anyway, now we get.
Speaker 3: To the main event and no dilly dowling, no wasting time,
Speaker 3: none of that stuff. It is the Friday Pod here,
Speaker 3: the second of February, Groundhog Day, and normally on Friday.
Speaker 3: For the past twenty weeks we have provided you with
Speaker 3: shameless touring of a.
Speaker 1: Certain television show.
Speaker 3: However, this weekend different than all other weekends that we've
Speaker 3: had over the last several months. Because all was quiet
Speaker 3: on the Western front this week I did not make
Speaker 3: my weekly sojourn to Universal Studios. I did not walk
Speaker 3: through the bowels of the NBC News bureau to go
Speaker 3: to our studio in order to record the show. You see,
Speaker 3: there was no NFL game this weekend, and it's pretty
Speaker 3: hard to do a TV show picking NFL games if
Speaker 3: there are no NFL games with a winking a nod
Speaker 3: to that Fugese Pro Bowl, which I believe is unwatchable
Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl games.
Speaker 1: Not for me, maybe for you.
Speaker 3: So the TV show was dark this week after twenty
Speaker 3: consecutive weeks in sun, rain and whatever their weather popped up.
Speaker 1: No new episode this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yup, bupkis And I'm not sure whether NBC is going
Speaker 3: to put a test pattern up or not in our
Speaker 3: time slot.
Speaker 1: It might get a better ratings. I'm kidding, but do
Speaker 1: not fear.
Speaker 3: Benny versus the Penny will return to local regional cable
Speaker 3: television for one final shining moment as our final of
Speaker 3: the season. The finale episode. You always remember, the last episode, right,
Speaker 3: The most famous last episode of all time in television
Speaker 3: and the highest rated television show I believe ever still
Speaker 3: is Mash.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, Mash was on. My parents
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 3: I watched more reruns than the original show, but it
Speaker 3: was fine, you know, at that time that was quality entertainment.
Speaker 3: But everyone I was watching that most ratings of all time,
Speaker 3: and that show went.
Speaker 1: Off the air.
Speaker 3: And then in addition to that, you would say the
Speaker 3: most ridiculous ending would be Seinfeld back in the nineties
Speaker 3: when their final episode with very bizarre odd ending, and
Speaker 3: the Sopranos had a weird, weird ending to that. But
Speaker 3: this will be our Super Bowl fifty eight extravag is now.
Speaker 3: We weren't able to pull off last week a TV
Speaker 3: show with only two games. Now this coming week next
Speaker 3: week will have just one game.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3: Ask a creature of habit. It was occasionally I do
Speaker 3: a lot to you, but not now a creature of habit.
Speaker 1: It was a little odd.
Speaker 3: It was a little lot not doing the normal preparation
Speaker 3: for the various things I need to do during the week.
Speaker 3: He was wandering aimlessly across the side of the road
Speaker 3: looking for something to help kill the time. You see,
Speaker 3: I have become programmed like a robot to handicap NFL
Speaker 3: games every week.
Speaker 1: This a long time, and really.
Speaker 3: Got into it this year. I waited till the playoffs
Speaker 3: to take it to.
Speaker 1: The next level.
Speaker 3: Playoffs, and so it threw off this week threw off
Speaker 3: my bio rhythms.
Speaker 1: If that's even a thing, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But on a positive note, I did go to and
Speaker 3: oh last week in against the spread, so my playoff
Speaker 3: record is a chef's kiss.
Speaker 1: I got a little more sleep this week, so I'm
Speaker 1: told that is good for my health. Who knows.
Speaker 3: I believe no matter how much sleep you get, you're
Speaker 3: still going to drop dead. Also had a few spicy
Speaker 3: text message exchanges with my TV partner Tom Looney and
Speaker 3: reminded him he looked like a total jackass on national
Speaker 3: television with the outfit he wore last week. If you
Speaker 3: happened to watch last week's episode of Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: you likely know what I'm talking about. If you missed it, though,
Speaker 3: Looney went full Lamar Jackson brown noser fanboy, and he
Speaker 3: had the Ravens colored jacket which looked like it was
Speaker 3: from the nineteen nineties. He had that going on purple jacket.
Speaker 3: You could tell us an old jacket was in the
Speaker 3: back of Looney's closet for a long time. I made
Speaker 3: a black shirt so he was wear in the Ravens colors,
Speaker 3: and he was waxing poetic, singing the praises of Lamar
Speaker 3: Jackson and just going on and.
Speaker 1: On and on and on and on.
Speaker 3: And then they had to play the game, and Lamar said,
Speaker 3: thank you very much, I am now going to puke
Speaker 3: all over my uniform, all over my uniform. And despite
Speaker 3: a defense for Baltimore that shut out Kansas City in
Speaker 3: the second half, there was no roar from Lamar Jackson
Speaker 3: in the Ravens effect the signature of moment for Lamar,
Speaker 3: and I thought of Looney.
Speaker 1: I laughed when I saw this.
Speaker 3: Lamar jacks the chess master during the regular season, who's
Speaker 3: playing checkers in the playoffs. Lamar goes out there and
Speaker 3: the Ravens are trying to come back the second and
Speaker 3: a half, they're driving the ball down the field and
Speaker 3: he threw the ball into triple coverage.
Speaker 1: Triple coverage against Kansas City.
Speaker 3: A bold strategy, Cotton, and it did not work out.
Speaker 1: Did not work out.
Speaker 3: So now we have the upcoming week Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 3: eight next week the Chiefs. The Chiefs in the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl were sixty minutes away from all Taylor Swift all
Speaker 3: the time. Well, it's actually been all Taylor Swift. I
Speaker 3: stand corrected all Taylor Swift all the time this week.
Speaker 3: And then if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, oh man,
Speaker 3: all bets are off. All bets are off. Should the
Speaker 3: Chiefs win the Super Bowl, point that out. But we'll
Speaker 3: have another episode next week. So thank you for supporting
Speaker 3: that TV show all year. It has been a dream
Speaker 3: of mine to have the TV show.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I was a contributor at NBC years ago, and it's
Speaker 3: it's been awesome. It's been an amazing experience to have
Speaker 3: a team of people that work with you, work hard,
Speaker 3: that want you to look good and put the effort
Speaker 3: in and the energy and this is something I've wanted
Speaker 3: my entire career to have, you know, that kind of
Speaker 3: support system, and it's been great to have that at
Speaker 3: the people at NBC have just been just absolutely wonderful
Speaker 3: and hopefully that shows and the product. But we got
Speaker 3: one more We got one more episode and we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens with that time. Now for the phrase all
Speaker 3: the week, that's right, not the word of the week,
Speaker 3: no no, no, not the metaphor of the week.
Speaker 1: The phrase all the week on the fifth hour podcast.
Speaker 3: So if you listen at all, and you obviously listen now,
Speaker 3: so you do listen some you know that I love words.
Speaker 3: I'm not the most educated chap in the world. I
Speaker 3: was a bad student. I was did not do that
Speaker 3: well in school. But I like to pride myself on
Speaker 3: self education that every single day I try to learn
Speaker 3: a little something and put it in the back of
Speaker 3: my head, put it in my toolbox so I can
Speaker 3: I can use that at some point, and maybe I'll never.
Speaker 1: Use but I like to do that.
Speaker 3: And a guy early in my radio career, a guy
Speaker 3: told me, he says, you know, talk show host is
Speaker 3: not someone that digs a giant hole. They don't go
Speaker 3: deep down in any topic, but they have to know
Speaker 3: a lot at the surface of just about everything. A
Speaker 3: good talk show host knows a little something about everything,
Speaker 3: but not too much about anything, because you're talking about random,
Speaker 3: different topics. And so I've always taken that to light
Speaker 3: and tried to pick some things up. Now, this week
Speaker 3: the phrase of the week is by request. By request,
Speaker 3: I actually do read your email. I'm bad about it,
Speaker 3: but I do. Certainly for this podcast, I have to
Speaker 3: do it. And you know it's an invasion of my
Speaker 3: privacy to have to read the email, but I do.
Speaker 1: No, it's fine.
Speaker 3: But this one comes from listener Gary, a dedicated minion
Speaker 3: to the Overnight Show, and he said, why don't you
Speaker 3: you look up the term safe harbor. Now, this came
Speaker 3: up in conversation earlier in the week as a listener
Speaker 3: said something you can't say. I think it was angry Bill,
Speaker 3: but it could have been a number of people that
Speaker 3: say things you're not supposed to say.
Speaker 1: But it came up a conversation.
Speaker 3: We pointed out that we are floating in the Overnight
Speaker 3: through the safe Harbor, that I am the captain of
Speaker 3: the SS Safe Harbor.
Speaker 1: So Gary wrote.
Speaker 3: In He's like, hey, you know you and Jason Smith
Speaker 3: are on at why don't you let me know more
Speaker 3: about safe harbor.
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, so I said, you know what, that's a
Speaker 1: good idea. I don't really know much. I know the
Speaker 1: term because I have to do training every year.
Speaker 3: For the show to be able to broadcast, I'm required
Speaker 3: to do a certain amount of red tape training, which
Speaker 3: is I actually did it during the show.
Speaker 1: This was kidding. People thought I was kidding. I was
Speaker 1: not kidding. I got an email. You're fully you're full
Speaker 1: of crap. You didn't do it, ur I did, no,
Speaker 1: I had. I literally was doing it while I was
Speaker 1: doing the show. Because one of those things is like
Speaker 1: the way I would go through that.
Speaker 3: I want to get too specific here, let you know
Speaker 3: how we make the hot talks, but what the hell,
Speaker 3: it's the podcast. If you're listening to this, you're like
Speaker 3: the one percent of the one percent, right, you're the
Speaker 3: super fan, God bless you. So the way the training goes.
Speaker 3: The closest I would say it is too, is if
Speaker 3: you've ever gotten a speeding ticket and you have to
Speaker 3: go online and take one of those courses online. It's
Speaker 3: a lot of clicking and waiting for videos to play
Speaker 3: and to scroll through things. It's all timed out, so
Speaker 3: you just have to click the next one. You know,
Speaker 3: here's a here's a vignette about so and so, and
Speaker 3: five minutes, click the button, move on to the next one.
Speaker 1: So it's that kind of thing. And I already know
Speaker 1: what I need to know, right. Everything's I've done this
Speaker 1: a long time and it's not my first rodeo. I've
Speaker 1: I've been.
Speaker 3: Here, I know how to do it, and I know
Speaker 3: what you need to do, what you don't need to do,
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So I'm well versed in FCC
Speaker 3: rules and they don't change the rules very often, so
Speaker 3: I'm good. So the term safe harbor get to the point.
Speaker 3: Please well believe it or not. Listener Gary, and you
Speaker 3: listening as well. We can thank dead comedian George Carlin,
Speaker 3: former sports talk radio caller in Los Angeles. George from Venice.
Speaker 1: He used to call.
Speaker 3: He was a big sports radio listener in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: New York had Jerry Seinfeld. We had George from Venice,
Speaker 3: and he didn't say he was George Carlin. He would
Speaker 3: just call up as George from Venice and want to
Speaker 3: talk ball and talk sports. He became friends with a
Speaker 3: guy that I worked with a long time, Lee Klein,
Speaker 3: likely a lot. Actually they went to lunch and they
Speaker 3: hung out and George invited him to his comedy shows.
Speaker 1: And all that. It was pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: But we can thank George Carlin for the term safe harbor.
Speaker 3: You see, the term safe harbor refers, if you're not
Speaker 3: familiar with it, the lingo of broadcasting. It refers to
Speaker 3: the hours during which broadcasters can legally transmit material deemed
Speaker 3: indecent for children. The term safe harbor legally means from
Speaker 3: ten pm to six am, from ten o'clock at night
Speaker 3: to six am. That was established, believe it or not
Speaker 3: by the United States Supreme Court, not even the FCC.
Speaker 3: The United States Supreme Court which validated a case. It
Speaker 3: was the FCC versus Pacifica, pacifica Broadcast Company. It goes
Speaker 3: all the way back in the hot tub time machine
Speaker 3: to nineteen seventy three October thirtieth, just before Halloween nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy three, radio station WBAI in New York City FM
Speaker 3: Radio New York City, they aired a broadcast we are
Speaker 3: told that included a segment which featured the George Carlin
Speaker 3: comedy routine Filthy Words, the seven things you can't say
Speaker 3: on radio. It's one of the iconic bits in comedy, right.
Speaker 3: It's just absolutely wonderful. Uh and and I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it, and it's it's it's actually more now
Speaker 3: than than then. But but Carlin's comedy bit was gold
Speaker 3: and you know seven, I'll say it now and maybe
Speaker 3: maybe Danny in the editing can can bleepless. But the
Speaker 3: the seven curse words that George Carlin listed in that
Speaker 3: comedy bit seven words you can never say on television
Speaker 3: were shit, pissed, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: And tits.
Speaker 3: And he he did that bit was hilarious. It was
Speaker 3: absolutely hilarious. It was wonderful. And uh but he got
Speaker 3: played on w b A I in New York and
Speaker 3: the wrong person was listening.
Speaker 1: Right, it was part of the program.
Speaker 3: And you know, Carlin did his bit about the attitudes
Speaker 3: towards language, and a couple of weeks later, this guy
Speaker 3: named John Douglas. You don't know who that is, and
Speaker 3: nor should you know who that is, but he was
Speaker 3: a member of something called the Morality in Media group.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a fun, fun group of people. So he
Speaker 3: had stated in a formal complaint to the Federal Communications
Speaker 3: Commission that he happened to be listening. He happened to
Speaker 3: be listening while he was driving with his fifteen year
Speaker 3: old son as they played the Carlin bit.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the kid never said any of those.
Speaker 3: Words, right, never, ever, never would have used any of
Speaker 3: those words. Now, this guy Douglas also stated that the
Speaker 3: material was inappropriate for that time of day. The broadcast
Speaker 3: happened at two o'clock in the afternoon AM time, right
Speaker 3: two o'clock in the afternoon. Now, in response, the Pacific
Speaker 3: Broadcast Group, which owned WBAI in New York, they received
Speaker 3: a letter a reprimand from the Federal Communications Commission and
Speaker 3: they were censured for violating broadcast regulations. They were prohibited
Speaker 3: from airing indecent material.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
Speaker 3: So this led all the way to a Supreme Court
Speaker 3: battle because s PACIFICA Broadcasting said, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: What are you doing. It's ridiculous. This is a long
Speaker 1: ass time ago, right, We're going back fifty years.
Speaker 3: Fifty plus years. So they went to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's ruling. This happened in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight, so the original broadcast was in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy three.
Speaker 1: This thing lasted five years.
Speaker 3: To nineteen seventy eight, and it was by one vote,
Speaker 3: a five to four rulings. So if it had gone
Speaker 3: the other way, if that ninth person had gone the
Speaker 3: other way, we would have had a much different outcome.
Speaker 3: But the ruling was that the routine was indecent but
Speaker 3: not obs scene. You know, I think he's up there now,
Speaker 3: smiling down at US. So the court, the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: said that the FCC had the authority to prohibit such
Speaker 3: broadcast of the George Carlin comedy bit during hours which
Speaker 3: children were likely to be among the audience. And so
Speaker 3: that opened up Pandora's box for the Federal Communications Commission,
Speaker 3: gave them an iron fist to determine what constituted indecency
Speaker 3: in different context. And it's like that old line from
Speaker 3: the the FCC or the Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 1: From from back. I'm trying to remember the it involved.
Speaker 3: I think I think it was involving Uh it was imhorn,
Speaker 3: I believe it was, and uh it was what was
Speaker 3: it it was I'm trying to think of the exact
Speaker 3: the exact term, but it was something like you know
Speaker 3: it when you see it. It was it was that
Speaker 3: kind of thing, uh, regarding pornography, right, it was.
Speaker 1: I would know it was upset it here it is.
Speaker 3: It's, uh, I know it when I see it regarding
Speaker 3: obscene material.
Speaker 1: So I know it when I see which is that.
Speaker 3: That's like NFL officials, I kind of know it when
Speaker 3: I see it. It's subjective, not objective, So there's a
Speaker 3: there's a difference there anyway, So that was the the
Speaker 3: origin of it, the court saying that you you could
Speaker 3: not do such things during the day.
Speaker 1: So they cooked up the term save harbor.
Speaker 3: And that is when kids are not likely to be
Speaker 3: in front of televisions or radios. Let the record show,
Speaker 3: when I was growing up, I rarely went to bed
Speaker 3: before midnight.
Speaker 1: I was, even as a.
Speaker 3: Child, a night owl. And that's just how I operated.
Speaker 3: And that's the way.
Speaker 1: That it be or is or whatever.
Speaker 3: All right, meanwhile, we have a little time left, and
Speaker 3: let's go into the kitchen for some foody fun, fruity fun.
Speaker 3: That's right, tell me, all right, So these are stories
Speaker 3: about the food world, and we don't have much time.
Speaker 1: We'll do a few of them. We'll do a few
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: There's a few things that stood out here, some new
Speaker 3: items that caught my attention.
Speaker 1: This is not a new item.
Speaker 3: I actually kind of like this. So Starbucks is allowing you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is at all locations or not.
Speaker 3: And I don't drink coffee, so you're probably saying, why
Speaker 3: the hell do you care about Starbucks? Well, my wife
Speaker 3: loves coffee. She loves going to Starbucks. And when she
Speaker 3: goes She'll get me one of those fruit.
Speaker 1: Drinks, one of those fruity drinks, like a lemonade tea
Speaker 1: type thing. And I like that. It's pretty good. Get
Speaker 1: extra sugar in there, and it's really bad for you.
Speaker 1: I don't do it very often anyway.
Speaker 3: Starbucks says you can now bring your own cup to
Speaker 3: Starbucks for drive through and mobile orders.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: They're accepting clean personal cups when you order in cafe
Speaker 3: or at the drive through through their app. And so
Speaker 3: they're claiming that this is a way to save on
Speaker 3: waste and increase reusable products, and so that's what I
Speaker 3: was saying.
Speaker 1: But it's a way to save money. Let's be honest here.
Speaker 1: They save money. They don't have to spend as much
Speaker 1: money on cups. That's expensive.
Speaker 3: And I like this not for the environmental part of it,
Speaker 3: but I like it from the standpoint. I can bring
Speaker 3: a bigger cup, I can get a bigger drink than
Speaker 3: the Starbucks cup. I can get a massive I'll get
Speaker 3: one of those giant, super big gulp cups from back
Speaker 3: in the day, and I'll do it. So this is
Speaker 3: supposedly was tested during the Colorado or in Colorado and
Speaker 3: before COVID. You used to be able to bring your
Speaker 3: own cup in and they would wash your cup and
Speaker 3: make the drink in it. They discontinue that during the pandemic,
Speaker 3: and then they brought that back but made it contactless.
Speaker 1: But now they're going on. So I liked it. I
Speaker 1: dig that. I think that's great and bring your own
Speaker 1: why not? What the hell? Knock yourself out some new items.
Speaker 3: Burger King can't remember the last time made a Burger King,
Speaker 3: but if you're a Burger King person, was it the
Speaker 3: Kelsey brothers.
Speaker 1: Their favorite food is burger King. I think I read
Speaker 1: that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: A Burger King going to launch a new candied bacon whopper,
Speaker 3: available for a limited time. It starts next week. It
Speaker 3: starts next week, candied bacon Whopper. They've also built a
Speaker 3: new fiery big Fish sandwich at Burger King that starts
Speaker 3: February fourteenth.
Speaker 1: I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: I don't need the candied bacon whopper and the big
Speaker 3: fish sandwich.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I eat fish once a year, normally at an ocean
Speaker 3: side restaurant beer battered fish strip fish sticks with tartar sauce,
Speaker 3: and that's.
Speaker 1: I'm good I'm good for the year. I at once
Speaker 1: might go over to Huntington Beach here something like that.
Speaker 1: There's a great restaurant rut of the beach over there.
Speaker 1: I might do that. But that's about it. Now.
Speaker 3: This is an item that caught my attention for McDonald's.
Speaker 3: McDonald's has really shaking it up.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: McDonald's was like the old, old, old.
Speaker 3: Blue blood that would never change. But they've really tried
Speaker 3: to change their stuff. They've got the double Big Mac. Now,
Speaker 3: they've added some new items and McDonald's is set to
Speaker 3: launch the quote spiciest burger to date. Their first ever
Speaker 3: UK food collab collaboration. McDonald's UK is launching a food
Speaker 3: collab with Reg Frank Red's Frank's Red Hot Sauce. If
Speaker 3: I could speak, that would help. What it's called the
Speaker 3: mixed Spicy and they're gonna put that red that Frank's
Speaker 3: Red Hot sauce all over. That's that's gonna be the move.
Speaker 3: So good for them. A few I think that's. I
Speaker 3: think we're good. All right, we're good. Everyone's shaking their head, Yes,
Speaker 3: we're good. So I am done for the rest of
Speaker 3: the day. I did the overnight show last night, and
Speaker 3: I'm done today, no TV show to pour myself out
Speaker 3: to this weekend, So I'm gonna have a big announcement
Speaker 3: on tomorrow's pod that if you're a fan of the
Speaker 3: show and something that has been in the works for
Speaker 3: a while, but I'm ready to make the formal announcement,
Speaker 3: and I will do that on the Saturday podcast. That's
Speaker 3: what we call a tease. Have a great day. Danny
Speaker 3: will be back with me tomorrow, my man, Danny g
Speaker 3: so we'll shoot that you know what with him. We'll
Speaker 3: have a grand old time. This podcast not regulated by
Speaker 3: the FCS, so we do not have to worry about
Speaker 3: our language, Thank goodness, because I just said earlier all
Speaker 3: of George Carlin's seven bad words. Nonetheless, have a great
Speaker 3: Groundhog Day, and we will catch you next time, which
Speaker 3: will be tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow right here, same
Speaker 3: ben station, same bend. Time, you make your own schedule,
Speaker 3: listen on demand whenever you want, however you want to
Speaker 3: the fifth hour, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1: And as Danny would say, later, skater gotta murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go