Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: Boom Shaka Laca in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. He will
Speaker 1: rejoin me, he's producing this podcast, but he will rejoin
Speaker 1: me on Saturday. We'll have Danny with us all weekend,
Speaker 1: but not today. He's on assignment. He's in Vegas for
Speaker 1: a fight. I have no idea who's fighting. I have
Speaker 1: no idea who's fighting. But Danny is in Vegas. So
Speaker 1: you've got me today on the fifth Hour and only
Speaker 1: me and we thank you for supporting the podcast. I
Speaker 1: just got some podcast numbers from one of the big
Speaker 1: corporate muckety MUCKs. Podcast doing very well, very well. The
Speaker 1: company very happy making lots and lots of money off
Speaker 1: the podcast. Myself and Danny, Eh, you know, not that much,
Speaker 1: but we're hanging out. It's a labor of love. It's
Speaker 1: a labor of love. So today is the last podcast
Speaker 1: we are doing in the month of January twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: We will not be doing another podcast in the month
Speaker 1: of January. Is our final show in January of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and we celebrate National Fun at Work Day today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: today being Friday, and what a wonderful holiday. You gotta
Speaker 1: have fun. Well, most people would say, if you want
Speaker 1: to boost team around, just let people off from work,
Speaker 1: and that would be a great way. A modern way
Speaker 1: to make sure that people have a good day at
Speaker 1: work is to not actually work. Now, I do have
Speaker 1: a random fun factoid which is not the word of
Speaker 1: the day. I'm gonna get to the word of the
Speaker 1: day in a minute, but the random fun factoid is
Speaker 1: that the word office. I got to go into the office.
Speaker 1: I have a studio in the Malor Mansion, which sometimes
Speaker 1: I say is the studio. Sometimes I say it's the
Speaker 1: remote radio station. But sometimes I'll say it's the office
Speaker 1: because I got to do stuff in there that's like
Speaker 1: adult stuff, you know, I got to go adulting. But
Speaker 1: the word office goes all the way back to thirteen
Speaker 1: ninety five. That is the first time the word office appeared.
Speaker 1: So think of all the different generations of our brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters that have come before us that had to
Speaker 1: deal with the word office. Now. Jeffrey Chaucer an English poet,
Speaker 1: and he didn't even know it. The guy was an
Speaker 1: author philosopher back in the thirteen hundreds. He first used
Speaker 1: the word office as a place to describe a place
Speaker 1: where business transactions take place. And that was in the
Speaker 1: Canterbury Tales in thirteen ninety five. But you got to
Speaker 1: wait all the way up until the seventeen hundreds. The
Speaker 1: first actual office building was built in the seventeen hundreds,
Speaker 1: the Old Admiralty, a three story building complex with offices
Speaker 1: and board They had a boardroom, they had apartments and
Speaker 1: all that for the lords of the Admiralty. I think
Speaker 1: I'm mispronouncing that, but anyway, you get the point. You
Speaker 1: get the point. So the couple of random fun facts,
Speaker 1: and there's some other thing. It's Nolan Ryan's birthday today,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Nolan Ryan. The record that will last and last,
Speaker 1: They'll have to be a unicorn that comes along to
Speaker 1: pass Nolan Ryan by who is the greatest strike up
Speaker 1: got pitched twenty seven years, twenty seven years. Win the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame nineteen ninety nine. I believe he was
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. So he's been in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. But he's worked as an executive in
Speaker 1: baseball and all that for years. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: working anywhere now. Was he seventy seventy eight? I believe
Speaker 1: something like that. I think he's seventy eight. But Nolan Ryan,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday him. And let's get to the meat of
Speaker 1: the matter. On today's pod, We've got cow Abunga, dude
Speaker 1: phone a friend, and also very good, very good. Plus
Speaker 1: that we have time, we'll get to the idiom of
Speaker 1: the week, the idiom of the week first, though, this
Speaker 1: being Friday morning, hopefully had a chance to hear the
Speaker 1: overnight show, which we did many hours ago, and in
Speaker 1: the overnight show we ended with some gusta No, we
Speaker 1: had some solid moments. The fact that weed Man Hippie
Speaker 1: is in a hospital in Miami because of some kind
Speaker 1: of viral infection that he has because his mouth is
Speaker 1: all messed up and it spread to his eyes, so
Speaker 1: he's all messed up, all jacked up, and he's still
Speaker 1: called up from the hospital to take part in lame
Speaker 1: jokes of the week while there were other people in
Speaker 1: his hospital room. You know, you're weed man, hippie. You
Speaker 1: don't get your own room at the hospital. I don't
Speaker 1: get my own room at the hospital. I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody get their own room. You gotta be like a
Speaker 1: big time rock star to get your own room at
Speaker 1: the hospital. So he's in the hospital room with someone
Speaker 1: else from multiple people, and he's laughing at the jokes
Speaker 1: while he's getting medicated and all. It was pretty amusing.
Speaker 1: But the Cowabunga, dude, Hey, you heard it. You know
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. So we had William from
Speaker 1: central Florida, kind of in between Orlando and Tampa, and
Speaker 1: he was matched up against Don in Bizmarck. So that
Speaker 1: was the matchup in Sports Jeopardy, The Great Sports Jeopardy
Speaker 1: and Florida versus Bismarck, North Dakota. That the match up
Speaker 1: basic sports Trivia Sports Jeopardy. So simple and yet so hard,
Speaker 1: so so hard. If you heard it again, you know
Speaker 1: exactly what I am talking about. But maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 1: So the question that will be remembered. I will do
Speaker 1: the Bennies in a couple of months, and we'll have
Speaker 1: to make sure that this ends up somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: I would be shocked if it doesn't. So this the
Speaker 1: latest episode of sports talk radio Callers Say the Darnedest
Speaker 1: Things during game shows. It was a six hundred dollars
Speaker 1: question in Sports Jeopardy, and if you didn't hear it,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the question. Tim Duncan though he had
Speaker 1: hit or thought rather thought he had hit a game
Speaker 1: winning buzzer beater to win the game, but with zero
Speaker 1: point four seconds put back on the clock, that allowed
Speaker 1: future NBA head coach, This, this future NBA head coach
Speaker 1: to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. So
Speaker 1: that was the question, rather basic right, rather basic question.
Speaker 1: And my man, Don Don I love you. Don't be upset.
Speaker 1: Don You made my day. Your answer made my day.
Speaker 1: So again I said, allowed this future NBA head coach
Speaker 1: to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. And
Speaker 1: my guy Don in beautiful Bismarck said Bart Scott. Bart
Speaker 1: Scott was the correct answer. That's right, that's right. The
Speaker 1: former Jets linebacker, who I guess does radio stuff or
Speaker 1: something I don't know. Everyone's got a media job somewhere.
Speaker 1: Bart Scott was the answer. I'll never forget when the
Speaker 1: NFL player hit the zo point four second shot to
Speaker 1: win an NBA game, it was It was amazing. So
Speaker 1: I made my day and almost as much as hearing
Speaker 1: weed Man from the hospital. And we had our friend
Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton to call in and inform us that
Speaker 1: one of his dear friends has been put in a
Speaker 1: convalescent home. What a terrible way to go out right,
Speaker 1: and some people are forced to do that. Sucks, But
Speaker 1: that's the story. With the Dixter giving us the inside skinny.
Speaker 1: Now we've got business to take care of. There are
Speaker 1: no NFL games, no NFL games this weekend in terms
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl obviously is not played until following Sunday,
Speaker 1: February ninth. This is our last day of January. It
Speaker 1: is an emotional roller coaster on Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Now I have been accused in the past of dabbling
Speaker 1: in hyperbole, let me tell you something. This is the
Speaker 1: favorite show that we've done. I love this show of
Speaker 1: all the shows we've done this season. In season two
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny, this is my favorite. It
Speaker 1: is I love it and had a grand old time
Speaker 1: happy days of heere. We had no games to break down,
Speaker 1: no real football games because no real football games played,
Speaker 1: so we were just hucking it up and having a
Speaker 1: great time. And you can watch the product, the finished
Speaker 1: product of Bennie Versus the Penny. It's already been broadcast
Speaker 1: in some places. Maybe it's being broadcast right now where
Speaker 1: you are, I know on our hub on inb EC
Speaker 1: Sports Boston at six pm tonight, you can watch. Right
Speaker 1: after Felger and Maz on NBC Sports Boston, you can
Speaker 1: watch Bennie Versus the Penny, and then the Celtics are
Speaker 1: playing a little bit after that, and then we're on
Speaker 1: after the Celtic postgame show at midnight. We're scheduled to
Speaker 1: be on and there'll be a bunch of other showings
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and I think a few on Sunday in
Speaker 1: the morning. Check out Benny Birthus Penny. And there is
Speaker 1: a moment I tease this on the Overnight show last night,
Speaker 1: but there is a moment in the show which is
Speaker 1: dedicated to one of you guys, one of the callers
Speaker 1: to the show, and it was one of the most
Speaker 1: ridiculous things that's happened on the TV show, but it
Speaker 1: was because of the radio show. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to give any more away. I want you to watch
Speaker 1: it or listen to it if you're blind and pretend
Speaker 1: like you're watching and you'll hear all about that. It
Speaker 1: was interesting, very velly thing, shall we say so. Then
Speaker 1: after we got done doing the TV show, which we
Speaker 1: gain no games to handicap, but we did a TV
Speaker 1: show about handicapping games. So after that we started meandering
Speaker 1: around the Universal Studios Hollywood back lot. Now we have
Speaker 1: explored this year almost all of the back lot. We
Speaker 1: thought we were doing a little opposition research, and we
Speaker 1: realized that there were several iconic sets that we have
Speaker 1: not found, even though we have gone back and forth.
Speaker 1: What we thought was all of the back lot at
Speaker 1: Universal Studios, Hollywood, but we could not find a couple
Speaker 1: of iconic sets and it was driving us insane. And
Speaker 1: we've only got a few weeks left in the TV show,
Speaker 1: and so we wanted to see everything we could possibly see.
Speaker 1: Check that box right. Who knows if we'll be back.
Speaker 1: I hope we're back. I'm optimistic the show will be
Speaker 1: picked up again. But even if the show is picked
Speaker 1: up again, maybe we won't do the show from Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do the show somewhere else. You never know.
Speaker 1: So we we were wandering around, and of course I
Speaker 1: don't like talking to anybody, you know, I'm an introvert.
Speaker 1: I do talk radio, but when I'm not doing the show,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna keep to myself
Speaker 1: and we'll find it and we'll just back we'll backtrack.
Speaker 1: I'm telling Looney, we're walking around. It's quite cold, California cold,
Speaker 1: and we're walking around. He's got a big jacking on.
Speaker 1: I've got my uh my work cloath. So we're wandering
Speaker 1: around and we can't find it, and we're really getting
Speaker 1: kind of upset because we we figured it's got to
Speaker 1: be here, somewhere we must be missing, right, We're looking
Speaker 1: through the back of buildings that are fake buildings, and
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, we're gonna find it. And we're
Speaker 1: sniffing around like, you know, we're like a basset hound,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of basket hounds trying to find
Speaker 1: it so we can in find it. And then finally
Speaker 1: Tom Looney not not an introvert. An extrovert, Thom says,
Speaker 1: I whatever, let me just ask this guy. So there
Speaker 1: was a group of dudes that work on the crew.
Speaker 1: They make the the sets or whatever, right they do
Speaker 1: the They fu's around with the sets, and so they're
Speaker 1: sitting in a golf cart. It's kind of killing time.
Speaker 1: You could tell they're killing time. They don't have much
Speaker 1: to do at that point, and so Looney goes over
Speaker 1: and starts smoothing them and he's like, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find this in particular set. We don't know where is
Speaker 1: it up? Is it up the hill? And one of
Speaker 1: these guys we got very lucky talk about being a
Speaker 1: lucky devil. So one of these guys is like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where that is. You want to ride?
Speaker 1: Do we want to ride? Right? Do we look? This
Speaker 1: is called phone a friend you know on who wants
Speaker 1: to be in there. Looney shows the phone of friend
Speaker 1: option and the phone of friend option. We started chatting
Speaker 1: this guy up and he was, you know, wanted to
Speaker 1: watch the TV show. He didn't know about the TV show.
Speaker 1: And he drove us up this massive hill. There were
Speaker 1: all these Universal Studios tram cars that were all over
Speaker 1: the place park because the amusement park wasn't open, And
Speaker 1: so we go up this hill, megawright turn, and boom,
Speaker 1: We're on one of the sets we were looking for.
Speaker 1: And then we keep going and we go through this
Speaker 1: parking lot where they have all these iconic cars. And
Speaker 1: when I say iconic cars, I am talking some of
Speaker 1: the most famous cars that you have ever seen in
Speaker 1: movies and TV shows and they're all side by side.
Speaker 1: It was visually overwhelming. It was like my childhood was
Speaker 1: in front of me under and I was like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I was trying to process everything and
Speaker 1: all that. We're going to try to get back there
Speaker 1: and do some videos in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: so you guys can see what I'm talking about. It
Speaker 1: was wild, right. We found the set that has all
Speaker 1: the houses that have been used in many, many movies
Speaker 1: over the years, and I don't want to give any
Speaker 1: of that away because we might be doing a video
Speaker 1: from there in the coming weeks. And so the whole
Speaker 1: thing was just great. It was awesome. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to walk this guy he gave us the VIP throw
Speaker 1: and I've always wondered, I've said this, I think on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I don't know the etiquette on the golf
Speaker 1: carts in Hollywood. Everyone's got a golf cart. Me and Looney,
Speaker 1: don't we walk like a couple of puttzes. We're wandering
Speaker 1: around and we see golf carts everywhere, Like, well, can
Speaker 1: anyone just go use a golf cart? Do you have
Speaker 1: to have? Like is everyone have their own golf cart?
Speaker 1: There's no way everyone could have their own golf cart
Speaker 1: because there's not enough golf carts for the people. And
Speaker 1: it seems like people are just coming and going. And
Speaker 1: then there's like a number system and maybe there's a
Speaker 1: colored system meaning that the certain colors are for certain
Speaker 1: parts of Universal Studios and all that, and we don't know.
Speaker 1: So we were like, well, stay away, We'll just stay away.
Speaker 1: But we did get a ride. It was very cool.
Speaker 1: So now we know everywhere we need to go. We
Speaker 1: know everything that we did not get to that we
Speaker 1: can still get to. So consider it done. We'll get there.
Speaker 1: In the company. Now, we did film a video today.
Speaker 1: We went back to the New York Skyline downtown Manhattan
Speaker 1: and they were filming. Oh you'll see, there were a
Speaker 1: bunch of really cool cars there too. And they were
Speaker 1: filming some I think it was a commercial, but it
Speaker 1: might have been a might have been more than that.
Speaker 1: We're not really even sure they were. They were hard
Speaker 1: at work putting the the logos on the glass because
Speaker 1: every time they filmed something new, the people that come
Speaker 1: in that make the sets have to change everything out
Speaker 1: and they're there when we're there. And did you see
Speaker 1: any actual shooting of the show. But they were putting
Speaker 1: all the sets together, which was a monumental, monumental amount
Speaker 1: of work, and it was it was pretty cool. So
Speaker 1: we were doing that, wandering around and whatnot. Now, I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention this since Loraina started on the show
Speaker 1: back in the day, Since Lorena started on the show,
Speaker 1: she has become very popular with some of you boys.
Speaker 1: All Right, she gets a lot more mail than me.
Speaker 1: I have been usurped. I don't get as much. I
Speaker 1: get a little I get a little bit. I get
Speaker 1: my prison mail. A couple of you guys take care
Speaker 1: of me, and I appreciate that. But Lorena, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is about her. Apparently she's got some
Speaker 1: things I don't have, and she's the beneficiary of a
Speaker 1: lot of food, a lot of candy, a lot of
Speaker 1: stuffed animals and random things. And I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's boxes coming in and it's got my
Speaker 1: name on it. It is Ben Malors show. But for Lorraine, now,
Speaker 1: the cool thing is she often will get a lot
Speaker 1: of food and she'll share with the class. So this
Speaker 1: past week, a listener and I'm not sure who I
Speaker 1: would give you credit if I I knew, she didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think she told me. Maybe she did not forgot.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the listener said, this giant box of Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day candy, chocolates and different snacks for Valentine's Day January,
Speaker 1: still January this week. I know we're going to February
Speaker 1: this weekend. So anyway, this's giant box. And they had
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff, and Lorena was showing me the
Speaker 1: many delicious treats that she was given, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool, that's neat. Why not? And one
Speaker 1: of the items I had not had it was strawberry
Speaker 1: frosted pretzels. That's the way I would discover me. You know,
Speaker 1: I have chocolate pretzels, but I've never had strawberry pretzels.
Speaker 1: I have had chocolate covered pretzels. Ya, you've never had any? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I never had. You want some? You want some? So
Speaker 1: she gave them a little doggie bag. It was actually
Speaker 1: a ziplock bag. But she gave me a bag with some.
Speaker 1: And I didn't eat it, of course, because I'm fasting,
Speaker 1: so I waited until yesterday. Last night, I broke my
Speaker 1: fast and and I down the the strawberry very good,
Speaker 1: very good, strawberry frosted pretzels. Now it's a good item.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would go out of my
Speaker 1: way to buy the item, like I thought it was
Speaker 1: a solid item. I don't know that it was the
Speaker 1: greatest thing that I've ever had, But I was breaking
Speaker 1: a fast and all that. So stuff always takes it
Speaker 1: tastes better when you're breaking a fast, and so I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I thought I thought it was. It was
Speaker 1: an enjoyable snack. So thank you to whoever sent the
Speaker 1: strawberry color covered covered pretzels. It is appreciative. Let's get
Speaker 1: to some foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it. Every
Speaker 1: single week we go bonkers, well almost every week. Last
Speaker 1: week we didn't really go bonkers, but we'll have a bigger,
Speaker 1: expanded dance remix of foody fun. These are actual food
Speaker 1: stories because we all got to eat. We all got
Speaker 1: to eat. Will start out with Subway and they have
Speaker 1: that foot long cookie which is pretty popular, so they say,
Speaker 1: you know what, why don't we crank that up a
Speaker 1: couple of notches and Subway is partnering with the people
Speaker 1: at Oreo. That's right, introduce the all new Oreo foot
Speaker 1: long Cookie. Now this is not everywhere, It's at participating locations.
Speaker 1: They claim that this cookie will change your life in
Speaker 1: amazing ways. It served warm and you're supposed to share
Speaker 1: it unless you're a hawser. As my grandfather would say,
Speaker 1: then you'll eat the whole thing. But the Oreo foot
Speaker 1: Long Cookie features a rich chocolate cookie dough and Oreo
Speaker 1: cookie pieces top with sweet vanilla cream and even more
Speaker 1: Oreo cookie pieces on top. Now I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: photo of it. It is not esthetically pleasing. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look like an Oreo. It looks like a chocolate cookie
Speaker 1: with white frosting on top and then oriole pieces on it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the suggested retail price five dollars, although if
Speaker 1: you live in California you're paying more than five dollars
Speaker 1: for that, according to the interweb, So good luck on that.
Speaker 1: That sounds solid. I don't need to sew it a lot.
Speaker 1: Usually when we travel, we're in a hurry, gotta get
Speaker 1: some food so we'll get the subway going. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I think I had one foot
Speaker 1: long chocolate chip cookie that I split with some other
Speaker 1: people and I thought it was pretty good. Popeyes, Popeye
Speaker 1: the Chicken Man. Popeyes has launched a limited time ten
Speaker 1: dollars deal. You get twelve wings or tenders for ten bucks. Boy, guy,
Speaker 1: this inflation is no joke. For twelve wings or tenders.
Speaker 1: Back in my day, you ten bucks, you would get
Speaker 1: like fifty tenders or at least twenty five. Now you
Speaker 1: get twelve, and you better be happy. And that limited
Speaker 1: time and as always, as always, you know the drill.
Speaker 1: Right then, let's just walk in. This is online exclusive.
Speaker 1: You can't just show up and say here's my money. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: They got to track you and then they'll give you
Speaker 1: the deal. Otherwise, forget about it. El Poio Loco, the
Speaker 1: Crazy Chicken. There's a Crazy Chicken location, El Poil Loco,
Speaker 1: right across the street from the Fox Sports Radio World
Speaker 1: headquarters and in that particular location, El Poiloko, we have
Speaker 1: seen Magic conson, we have seen Oscar dev A Hoyle.
Speaker 1: Over the years, a lot of the rich people that
Speaker 1: live up in the hills in bel Air will come
Speaker 1: down where the commoners are to get their chicken at
Speaker 1: that old Poiloco. Poiloco launched a new mango ho a
Speaker 1: narrow chicken nationwide nation wide. Oh yes, they tried this
Speaker 1: last year. We talked about it on this podcast, and
Speaker 1: it is nationwide. Eh eh, I mean I'm okay. I
Speaker 1: don't really need that citrus marinated. Eh. I think it
Speaker 1: sounds better than it is, Like how a narrow that's
Speaker 1: a fun word to say. It's a fun word to say.
Speaker 1: El Poiloco celebrating fifty years, their fiftieth anniversary. They're not everywhere, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're not everywhere, but there are a lot of places
Speaker 1: out west. I don't see a poll local back east.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have many locations, if any back East. Well,
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day is coming up, so fast food restaurants are
Speaker 1: trying to cash in fast food pizza joint, pizza hut.
Speaker 1: They have decided, you know what, the American people need,
Speaker 1: we need to bring back are popular heart shaped pizza. Tadda, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that says romance to your significant other then
Speaker 1: bringing them a piping hot pepperoni pizza that is shaped
Speaker 1: like a heart. And you can do that. You can
Speaker 1: change your life in amazing ways. What a romantic you
Speaker 1: will be February eleventh through February seventeenth, and they say
Speaker 1: it's perfect for the Valentine's Day occasion. The heart shaped
Speaker 1: pizza will be available in restaurant or throughout their online
Speaker 1: apps and all that crap. And the suggested starting retail
Speaker 1: price prices may vary eleven ninety nine. Good luck finding
Speaker 1: that for eleven ninety nine. Now I do not have
Speaker 1: the Pizza Hut menu in front of me. I am curious.
Speaker 1: Is that the same price as a regular shaped pizza?
Speaker 1: Could they really be charged more because they're shaping the
Speaker 1: dough like a heart? Is that really worth charging more money?
Speaker 1: I mean, I probably is, I guess. I mean you
Speaker 1: really want the pizza like that, but it's your heart
Speaker 1: shaped pepperoni pizza. Wait to go? Now this one right
Speaker 1: in my wheelhouse. Windy's people will break. Windy's have unveiled
Speaker 1: a new thin Mint Frosty. Tada. Yes, Wendy's is partnering
Speaker 1: up Yep, you guessed it, the Girl Scouts of America
Speaker 1: and they are launching a new Thin Mint Frosty. This
Speaker 1: starts later this month, February twenty first, so actually we're
Speaker 1: still in January, so we have to wait, but February
Speaker 1: twenty first, and they will combine the two classic fan
Speaker 1: favorite treats, the Frosty and the thin Mint a medley
Speaker 1: in your mouth. Wendy's also offering a one dollar Crispy
Speaker 1: Chicken sandwich, but only this weekend through February third, with
Speaker 1: any purchase in the app. So they're gonna get you
Speaker 1: to buy something in the app and then they'll they'll
Speaker 1: throw a bone in your way and get you that
Speaker 1: one dollar Crispy Chicken sandwich. If you're a fan of Starbucks,
Speaker 1: I better let my wife know. Starbucks planning to cut
Speaker 1: thirty percent of its menu thirty percent of its menu
Speaker 1: by the end of well not the end, but by
Speaker 1: late twenty twenty five, and they think this is the
Speaker 1: way to get customers back. Less is more, Less is more.
Speaker 1: Starbucks sales went down four percent in the US and
Speaker 1: worldwide in the latest quarter that didn't make Wall Street
Speaker 1: very happy. That did not and Starbucks paying a ridonculous amount.
Speaker 1: There's a record amount to their new CEO who they
Speaker 1: lured away from Chipotle. Is there a free agency in
Speaker 1: the ceo world or where there is in baseball? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The guy that's in the Starbucks CEO who took over
Speaker 1: just a few days ago, earned a five million dollar
Speaker 1: bonus after one month on the job, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: collect another five million in March. So it's good to
Speaker 1: know that it is not only the world of professional
Speaker 1: sports that is frivolous with money, but also big business
Speaker 1: in America. Now we know this, but Mike, God, do
Speaker 1: you really need that? I mean, I know Starbucks is massive,
Speaker 1: I get that. But so his whole plan is to
Speaker 1: go back to the basics. Ten million bucks. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna make between January and March a signing bonus of
Speaker 1: ten million dollars ten million to decide that we're going
Speaker 1: to get rid of a bunch of products, We're gonna
Speaker 1: streamline everything, and yeah, okay, good luck, good luck on that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring back the sharpies and God only
Speaker 1: knows what but there's the news about Starbucks. What else
Speaker 1: do we have? Well, this is actually kind of funny.
Speaker 1: So Denny's is running a promotion for two dollars four
Speaker 1: dollars six dollars eight dollars value menu items, and there
Speaker 1: are multiple reports that have filtered into the foody world
Speaker 1: that Denny's, well, they do have two dollars four dollars
Speaker 1: six dollars eight dollars items. They have only one item
Speaker 1: priced at that price point on their menu. So they're
Speaker 1: promoting you, Oh, come on in, get a couple of
Speaker 1: two dollar items, a couple of four dollars six dollars
Speaker 1: eight doll No, no, they only have one each. And
Speaker 1: it gets even better. But wait, there's more in California.
Speaker 1: And I think this is also true in New York.
Speaker 1: It's not even two four six eight. It's who do
Speaker 1: we appreciate? Inflation? Inflation is who we appreciate, because it's
Speaker 1: even higher than that, my gut. All right, we'll get out.
Speaker 1: We have the Idiom of the week, the Ideum of
Speaker 1: the week, the inneral all the Week card. Here's the
Speaker 1: Adium of the week. More bang for your buck, more
Speaker 1: bang for your buck. That is military slang. It goes back.
Speaker 1: More bang for your buck to World War Two obviously
Speaker 1: means getting solid value. You think Starbucks is getting solid
Speaker 1: value for the ten million dollars signing bonus they gave
Speaker 1: their new CEO, whose idea was to just get rid
Speaker 1: of a bunch of menu items. Yeah, okay, anyway, bang
Speaker 1: for your buck it means better return on investment. And
Speaker 1: it was military slang. A lot of the phrases that
Speaker 1: we have are from the military. This military slang during
Speaker 1: World War Two and it was use to describe the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of those bombs in relation to how much they cost.
Speaker 1: The phrase bigger bang for the buck was used by
Speaker 1: US President Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Charles
Speaker 1: Irwin Wilson, in nineteen fifty four. He used it to
Speaker 1: describe the new policy NUK policy rather and it was
Speaker 1: about nuclear weapons. Rather than have a large army, they
Speaker 1: would streamline the army kind of like Starbucks is doing
Speaker 1: their menu, and they would keep the Soviet Union in
Speaker 1: check because they would get more bang for their back,
Speaker 1: a bigger bang for their back with nukes. I have
Speaker 1: no idea whether or not they realized at that time
Speaker 1: that those same nukes they had back in those days
Speaker 1: are these same nukes that we have today because there's
Speaker 1: no way to get rid of them. They're here forever,
Speaker 1: and all it takes is one bad day and then
Speaker 1: game over. We're all cooked. All right, we'll get out
Speaker 1: on that. I know that's a weird, weird flex, but okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you. Danny G will join me on the Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday podcast. Don't forget Benny Versus. The Penny is
Speaker 1: back and better than ever. Check it out or week
Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl show. Week before the Super Bowl Show,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch it on NBC Sports Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: a bunch of other cable channelsill being on LA tomorrow
Speaker 1: on the Lakers station. So if you're here in La
Speaker 1: La Land, you can check that out and we will
Speaker 1: catch you next time. Have a wonderful, onderful rest of
Speaker 1: your day. Later, skater Austa Pasta Did I do that
Speaker 1: right now? All right? Thank you? Got a murder.
Speaker 2: Gotta go,