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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. Welcome to the final weekend of
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny G. Radio.
Speaker 1: As we are in the air everywhere bloviating on this
Speaker 1: glorious Friday. Well, I don't know if it's glorious or not.
Speaker 1: I guess it's early in the morning, so we'll see
Speaker 1: if it's glorious or not as the day goes on.
Speaker 1: But it's the twenty ninth day of December, and my
Speaker 1: man Danny G we are hanging out here. Podcast continues
Speaker 1: even on a holiday weekend when we could conceivably go
Speaker 1: to management and say why would we do a podcast
Speaker 1: because it's a holiday weekend, But we're here anyway. That's
Speaker 1: how much we love the pot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are the Joe Flacco of Podcasting Alive and
Speaker 3: Kicking Oh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Joe Flacco. Man, Now, I know I was
Speaker 1: not at my post last night, but I didn't do
Speaker 1: a couple of shows this week, So I don't feel guilty.
Speaker 1: Jerk yourself away. I don't feel guilty. But I had
Speaker 1: a chance to settle in and watch a bunch of games.
Speaker 1: On Thursday night, I was flipping around. I watched a
Speaker 1: little bit of that Pop Tart. That Pop Tart game.
Speaker 1: I saw that, and I actually believe it or not
Speaker 1: watching an NBA game. I watched the end of the
Speaker 1: Celtics and the Pistons on NBC Sports Boston as it
Speaker 1: huh oh man, that game, now listen to. The Pistons
Speaker 1: didn't win the game, but they covered the spread. And
Speaker 1: that's one of those games you're like, is that the Mafioso?
Speaker 1: I we used to call that a Soprano special back
Speaker 1: when that show was on the air. I was like,
Speaker 1: how does that happen? I know the Celtics were without
Speaker 1: a couple of guys, but still the Pistons blow and
Speaker 1: they had the Celtics. They were up big. They were
Speaker 1: up like twenty points in the first half of that game.
Speaker 4: It was nut.
Speaker 1: So I watched that and then but I really focused
Speaker 1: in on the Thursday night game. Now, normally I wouldn't
Speaker 1: give a rats ass. I'm not on the Jets and
Speaker 1: the Browns. I mean, what is that? And I didn't
Speaker 1: have to watch it. This is how buch a loser
Speaker 1: I am, Danny. I didn't have to watch it. I
Speaker 1: wasn't doing a show. I didn't have a monologue to
Speaker 1: do about the game. And I watched it anyway, what
Speaker 1: a dumb ass I And I actually enjoyed it. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what my first point on that. And
Speaker 1: I know we're not here to do sporty. We don't
Speaker 1: do sporty on the podcast. But it was a little
Speaker 1: bittersweet watching the game because in my head, I'm very
Speaker 1: concerned that my guy, Al Michaels is going to be
Speaker 1: put out the pastor was a little sentimental because it's
Speaker 1: conceivable that that was his final NFL broadcast. Now nothing's
Speaker 1: been announced yet, but there's no Thursday night game in
Speaker 1: week eighteen because they don't want to give anyone an
Speaker 1: advantage for the playoffs, and so if Al does not
Speaker 1: come back next year, he's not going to do a
Speaker 1: playoff game for NBC. He's been kicked out of that,
Speaker 1: so that it's possible that that was it, the final
Speaker 1: broadcast of really what is part of my youth? Al
Speaker 1: Michaels It's and you too, Dan's. It was a little
Speaker 1: bit nostalgic, and I hope that's not it. I hope
Speaker 1: al comes back and does another game. I don't care
Speaker 1: how many young young idiots on social media rip him.
Speaker 1: I love the guy because I watch al Michaels. I'm
Speaker 1: like ten years old again watching al Michaels. That was
Speaker 1: my first thought. And you know, again, maybe it's nothing
Speaker 1: and it's just me overreacting here, but all the negative
Speaker 1: stuff around al Michaels, I'm like, well, that could be
Speaker 1: the final practice. And the other thought I had was
Speaker 1: this Joe Flacco thing, and am I let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Am I a bad person? I guess it's
Speaker 1: been a rhetorical question. Am I a bad person? Get
Speaker 1: a little jerk in that part of me really wants
Speaker 1: to see the Cleveland Browns go to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: for two reasons. Okay, Number one, it would make de
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson, the creepy quarterback, look about as bad as
Speaker 1: you could possibly look right. That's the main point. But
Speaker 1: then also the Jets when Aaron Rodgers got hurt and
Speaker 1: the Jets had a bunch of turns out there playing quarterback,
Speaker 1: and Flacco wanted to play for the Jets, and they
Speaker 1: wouldn't even return his phone calls. And if he were
Speaker 1: to go on a magic carpet, right, and he is
Speaker 1: historically one of the ten greatest postseason quarterbacks in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Jim Plunkett is number one, number one, your guy from
Speaker 1: the Raiders at eight and two in the postseason. Mahomes
Speaker 1: a second Brawn, Adshaw, Aikman, Brady, Montana, Warner and Flacco
Speaker 1: in terms of winning percentage in the postseason. So that
Speaker 1: those were my thoughts. And the game the second half
Speaker 1: the Browns, they had a couple of injuries to the receiver,
Speaker 1: they did nothing. Flaccoed thirteen yards passing. I believe in
Speaker 1: the second half of that game last night, I gets
Speaker 1: the Jets. But uh, what do you think that, Dandy?
Speaker 1: I my nuts? Am I out of my mind here
Speaker 1: thinking that Al Michaels that could be it for Al
Speaker 1: and that that might have been his final final broadcast.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 3: Seem for Al no I mean one telling sign. He
Speaker 3: walked into the tunnel side by side with Randall Cobb,
Speaker 3: so that might.
Speaker 4: Be it for al Michaels last dance.
Speaker 3: Usually when somebody's walking next to Randall Cobb, it's over
Speaker 3: very disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yes, especially when he's walking out of a huddle. That's
Speaker 1: usually a bad sign. Went.
Speaker 3: And then as far as Joe Flacco, I think the
Speaker 3: really cool part his comeback Player of the Year status.
Speaker 3: He was literally in his kids drop off line at
Speaker 3: school when he got the call from the Browns.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Normally when you get a call from the Browns, you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I hope I didn't clog the toilet. But this is
Speaker 1: I mean, this is exciting here. Now he's got a shot.
Speaker 1: And it's as you know, Danny, a lot of what
Speaker 1: we do now is as we are radio gas bags
Speaker 1: in Blullhearts. It's all about the story. That's a really
Speaker 1: good story. That's a great story. But I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it unlike most of the media, where the media is like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is great. You know, old guy rises up one
Speaker 1: last hurrah fhades in the sunset. I'm looking at from
Speaker 1: the shot in freuder perspective as I said that this
Speaker 1: would be like an f you to Deshaun Watson, who's
Speaker 1: there forever quarterback who stinks for the Browns. And then
Speaker 1: it's also an few to the Jets because they didn't
Speaker 1: want to touch this flat even though they knew Rogers
Speaker 1: was going to be out all year, and they put
Speaker 1: that stiff, a complete thunderhead, Zach Wilson in there, and
Speaker 1: then they've had a parade of suck that has followed him.
Speaker 4: No, I love it too.
Speaker 3: I mentioned it as Covino and Rich filled in for
Speaker 3: the Dan Patrick Show Thursday morning. I said, it's an
Speaker 3: indictment on the Jets for not giving Flacco a chance.
Speaker 3: Everybody knew who Zach Wilson was. The Jets acted as
Speaker 3: if they knew something we didn't know, but it obviously
Speaker 3: didn't pan out that way. Zach Wilson is who we thought.
Speaker 3: He was not going to change. That dude is going
Speaker 3: to be a career backup in the NFL who bounces
Speaker 3: around from team to team.
Speaker 1: The great stat that I saw bouncing around Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: thirteen touchdown passes this season. The New York Jets as
Speaker 1: a team have eleven, and Flacco didn't even play until
Speaker 1: December third. It's not like Flacco's perfect, He's not turned
Speaker 1: the ball over a lot, but it's working. It's not
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the greatest thing in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but it is working.
Speaker 3: One thing I did want to mention, though, was it
Speaker 3: because I like stats like that. I saw at Antonio
Speaker 3: Piers stat the Raiders defense. They have better stats right
Speaker 3: now in seven games with Antonio Pierce, then their defense
Speaker 3: put up all last season in seventeen games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he's been he's been great. If they still
Speaker 1: got to find a quarterback though, even if you keep
Speaker 1: anton eight and O'Connell, ain't it.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he's speaking of backup quarterbacks. He'll be a
Speaker 3: good He'll be a decent backup. But obviously the Raiders
Speaker 3: do need their franchise quarterback. But that defense, Holy walk
Speaker 3: em only did you pick the Raiders to cover on
Speaker 3: Christmas Day?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I did not on the team. It took the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in that game. But well, when the Raiders playing the
Speaker 1: Colts this weekend, so I so that's a back to
Speaker 1: back road game. But yeah, the cult.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts changed on or your view of Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 3: has it changed a little bit? He used to just
Speaker 3: strike me as ultra competitive. Now I look at him
Speaker 3: as a big kind of cry baby.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing about Mahomes, The first thought on Mahomes
Speaker 1: is I didn't think he would fall down this far,
Speaker 1: like I thought, you know, the Chiefs don't have great playmakers.
Speaker 1: But his the pouting and stuff. I don't get really
Speaker 1: worked up about that because I said Tom Brady did
Speaker 1: the same crap. You know, he was how many times
Speaker 1: did Brady pout and cry if he didn't get a
Speaker 1: call or something like that. So that's it's annoying, and
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't seen a lot of that from Mahomes.
Speaker 1: The other thing I love, and this happens all the
Speaker 1: time when a team wins the Super Bowl, has success
Speaker 1: and then they fall fall down a little bit. It's you,
Speaker 1: you're doing too many commercials. It's Taylor's swift. It's this
Speaker 1: that one of my and we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 1: on the TV show this week. One of the storylines
Speaker 1: that Mike Florio and others are thrown out are or
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs need to bring back Eric b Enemy right,
Speaker 1: that that that's why they're not any good on offense.
Speaker 1: And so I did did a little recon on Eric B.
Speaker 1: Enemy and I noticed and this does not does not
Speaker 1: fit the narrative, so they don't like to talk about it,
Speaker 1: like you know the old story. When the legend be
Speaker 1: comes to fact, you go with the legend. And so
Speaker 1: the legend is that and I have nothing, you know,
Speaker 1: I have nothing.
Speaker 4: I don't know B.
Speaker 1: Enemy or anything like that, but I just know that
Speaker 1: he has not been the savior, the messiah. The Washington
Speaker 1: football team, they actually, Danny have worse numbers in total
Speaker 1: offense year to year with Eric B. Enemy and they
Speaker 1: did the year before. And the Enemy was brought in
Speaker 1: and he was supposed to be this guy that was
Speaker 1: gonna help the quarterback Sam Howell blossom and Howl just
Speaker 1: got benched this week. So but but yet these stories
Speaker 1: still get written about. You know, Pienemy needs to come
Speaker 1: back to Kansas City and all that. They know what
Speaker 1: the Chiefs needs. They need better players, that's what they need.
Speaker 1: They need better players is what they need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't And I don't want anyone to ever
Speaker 3: feel sorry for them because they stuck it to my
Speaker 3: favorite team for a few years, for quite a few
Speaker 3: years now. And remember when they ran that ring around
Speaker 3: the Rosie play. Oh yeah, oh, Kansas City.
Speaker 1: But look at the Chiefs. So if you if you
Speaker 1: look at it from this perspective, they're not particularly good.
Speaker 1: They've gotten worse, they haven't gotten better as the season's
Speaker 1: gone on. But you look around the division. The Raiders
Speaker 1: fired their coach, the Chargers fired their coach, the Broncos,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're Russell.
Speaker 4: Wilson, you know, you fired their quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's honorable discharge by you know what Russell was. So
Speaker 1: it's like the whole division in his flummox and Kansas
Speaker 1: City is still not particularly great, but the whole division
Speaker 1: is wonky in the West.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you said it about the Raiders quarterback situation.
Speaker 3: Imagine if they had signed a Baker Mayfield or a
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, if they had a serviceable quarterback right now,
Speaker 3: they could seriously be looking at the playoffs. I know
Speaker 3: they could still sneak in with a couple of wins
Speaker 3: to end the season and a couple of losses from
Speaker 3: other AFC teams, but if they had a serviceable quarterback,
Speaker 3: they could be a true threat in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. A couple of things I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call this one razorburn. On the podcast, we have
Speaker 1: more oddities from the boob Tube now. This week, as
Speaker 1: we talked about it, a couple of radio shows. Typically
Speaker 1: we are dark this week racist on my end, you know,
Speaker 1: over the years, I've usually taken the week between Christmas
Speaker 1: and New Year's and not done any broadcasting. But we
Speaker 1: had to do the TV show, which is a good
Speaker 1: problem to have, So I figured, why not. The way
Speaker 1: the show works, the way we do it, we have meetings.
Speaker 1: One day, we go over everything. I have to do
Speaker 1: my prep. I do that a lot. But we have
Speaker 1: one day where it's just like all put together, and
Speaker 1: then I have to contact We're in communication with our
Speaker 1: producers and Benny versus the penny there Vinnie who's our producer,
Speaker 1: and so I have to work with him, and then
Speaker 1: we do the show the following day. And so it's
Speaker 1: a couple of days of mildly hard mental labor. And
Speaker 1: so I figured, I'm working those days anyway, why not
Speaker 1: just do the radio. It's not like I'm going to
Speaker 1: have days off, so I might as well just do it.
Speaker 1: And so I might as well double dip. We did,
Speaker 1: and we mentioned this last week on the Podcastie, I
Speaker 1: had a shaver malfunction. My beard trimmer met in untimely demise,
Speaker 1: and so if you watched the last week's episode of
Speaker 1: the show on Christmas weekend, had a little more hair
Speaker 1: than I normally do it. So my wife didn't assauld
Speaker 1: that she ordered a brand new shiny razor, so I
Speaker 1: would be be right there. I'd be prim and proper
Speaker 1: for the camera. I'm groomed and ready to go.
Speaker 4: Is this a Harry's razor commercial?
Speaker 1: Well, if they want to contact our sales department at iHeart,
Speaker 1: we would love to do.
Speaker 4: Well. I know they're on the air on a couple
Speaker 4: of our shows.
Speaker 1: So what do you expect? Then? Let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: What do you expect? And you listening, what do you
Speaker 1: expect when you order something online in the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three into twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: What you expected to arrive the following day?
Speaker 1: Exactly right? At most two days later. At most two
Speaker 1: days that's reason. But one day would be great, two
Speaker 1: days you're okay with it? Well, I did not receive
Speaker 1: the razor. I asked my wife to look it up
Speaker 1: and see where it was, and she said, well, it
Speaker 1: says it's not going to be delivered until the day
Speaker 1: after the TV show. That's a razor burn situation. So
Speaker 1: it was getting close to deadline day and I had
Speaker 1: to do something I don't often do. I was starting
Speaker 1: to look like Gandolf from Lord of the Rings, subs,
Speaker 1: disheveled and all that. So I called an audible. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Oh maha, oh maha, and I visited the
Speaker 1: great Walmart, made a rare and appropriate midweek trip to
Speaker 1: Walmart in a desperate attempt to buy a shaver a
Speaker 1: razor to saving. That was my lucky day because, as
Speaker 1: you know, the state we live in, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of animals vermin that steal everything that's not locked down.
Speaker 1: So you go to the stores in California to shop,
Speaker 1: and anything that's worth more than two dollars is behind
Speaker 1: a glass case. So and the razors are all behind
Speaker 1: a glass case. And then so they're locked away, and
Speaker 1: then it's a pain in the ass. You got to
Speaker 1: call somebody over to open the thing, and then they're busy,
Speaker 1: and then they come over and then they want you
Speaker 1: to pick what you want to get out of there.
Speaker 1: But I'm a guy that likes to read the box.
Speaker 1: I like to see what's you know, when I'm getting well. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: I walk into the section of the pharmacy they're the razors,
Speaker 1: and the lady at Walmart had the case open and
Speaker 1: she was putting stuff in there. So I was able
Speaker 1: to use the analytics and I was able to take
Speaker 1: my time and methodically read all the boxes, and mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: A saved. I also saved a bunch of money because
Speaker 1: the one I bought was much much more cost effective
Speaker 1: than the one that had been ordered. So screw you Amazon.
Speaker 1: That razor is going back, uh back back, back, back back.
Speaker 1: It'll be going to an Amazon discount store near you.
Speaker 1: You can buy an unused I mean open it unused.
Speaker 1: It did show up, but I unused, so knock yourself out.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And one other footnote, Now, after we got done taping
Speaker 1: the TV show, UH, high tailed it. High tail that
Speaker 1: out of there. Now. Typically this is the worst part,
Speaker 1: the worst part of my week, Danny, is because I
Speaker 1: don't usually sit in trap. You have to sit in
Speaker 1: traffic because of your schedule with Colvino and Rich You're
Speaker 1: in I would think pretty bad rush hour traffic most
Speaker 1: of the time, right, yep, Yeah, it's terrible. I I
Speaker 1: one of the great benefits of being on the race
Speaker 1: d A ninety eight point five percent of the society
Speaker 1: is sleeping, is there's usually not a lot of traffic.
Speaker 1: You gotta avoid drunk drivers. That's the main obstacle, or roadwork.
Speaker 1: Those are the two problems. So typically the worst part
Speaker 1: of my week we do the TV show and then
Speaker 1: I have to sit and rush hour traffic driving from
Speaker 1: Universal Studios to the Northwoods. It normally takes forever. Now
Speaker 1: I try to rationalize it, and I have music I'll
Speaker 1: listen to to try to calm me down. I'll listen
Speaker 1: to a podcast, or maybe I'll even sample some of
Speaker 1: the old shows to make sure I sound somewhat decent.
Speaker 1: But I mean Gridlin rush out bumper to bumper to
Speaker 1: bumper to bumper to bumper bump.
Speaker 4: But not this week.
Speaker 1: So many people either are not working, working remotely or
Speaker 1: visiting family. They're not from LA. Most people aren't from
Speaker 1: LA and they go somewhere where their family is. So
Speaker 1: it was Moses like be partying not of the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: the parting of the one oh one freeway and Interstate
Speaker 1: five and all these other highways that I take smooth
Speaker 1: sailing speed racer and looked just absolutely loved it. Didn't
Speaker 1: have to spend any time in bumper to mumft traffic.
Speaker 1: It was the way to go. So that was that
Speaker 1: was Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know on Christmas Eve we drove to Anaheim for Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: That was the fastest trip I've ever had in a
Speaker 3: car to get to Anaheim. We literally flew one hour.
Speaker 3: Ben that's usually a three hour fiasco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that what like Shohel Tani who goes
Speaker 1: from the Angels to the Dodgers, he he lives kind
Speaker 1: of near the Big A in Orange County, That's what
Speaker 1: I've been told. So for him to play for the Dodgers, now,
Speaker 1: they do leave kind of early to get to the ballpark,
Speaker 1: but he's going to be in that traffic and it's
Speaker 1: not three hours, but it's like two and a half
Speaker 1: maybe for him.
Speaker 4: He's got the helicopter after kind of money.
Speaker 1: Be careful with those helicopters. But anyway, so as far
Speaker 1: as Benny versus the Penny who, as Danny likes to say,
Speaker 1: just check your local TV listings. I do have a
Speaker 1: couple of times the flagship of Benny versus the Penning
Speaker 1: in the Week seventeen episode with myself and Thomas Looney.
Speaker 1: The hub is NBC Boston, NBC Sports Boston, and the
Speaker 1: Celtics are playing tonight on Friday. I know they played
Speaker 1: the Pistons on Thursday. They got the Raptors tonight and
Speaker 1: that game is in Boston. I believe it's might be Entry.
Speaker 1: I don't matter what it is either way. Because of that,
Speaker 1: we're going to be on a little later the debut
Speaker 1: Maiden Voyage in Boston. For Week seventeen, we'll be on
Speaker 1: back to back primetime late night TV, making late night
Speaker 1: television great again. On NBC Sports Boston. We'll be on
Speaker 1: there from eleven pm. First running at eleven pm, then
Speaker 1: an encore running at eleven thirty. That's after the Celtic
Speaker 1: and the Raptors.
Speaker 4: You were right, that's in Boston.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it is in Boston. And then we also
Speaker 1: have NBC Philly. We're on there at six point thirty,
Speaker 1: which is a good time to be on there. On
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Philadelphia, it must not be a game on
Speaker 1: We're in Chicago. We're on after the Blackhawks and the Stars.
Speaker 1: Little NHL action there will be on NBC Sports Boston
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. If you're in Chicago or that area.
Speaker 1: It's also parts of Indiana, parts of Iowa, you get
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Chicago. We'll be on there at ten pm
Speaker 1: Central time. And in the Bay Area, got a couple
Speaker 1: of showings on the Golden State Warriors channel and the
Speaker 1: Giants channel there six pm and ten thirty pm on
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Bay Area, so we've got that in. On
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings channel, we're on after the Kings play
Speaker 1: the Hawks at eight pm the Hawks Kings game in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: so that's early for the West Coast. And then we'll
Speaker 1: be on a couple of times well, I think the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I believe there's a Laker broadcast on Saturday, so we're
Speaker 1: on a couple of times. Less in LA but we'll
Speaker 1: be on at six am and then three pm in
Speaker 1: La La Land on Spectrum Sports Net SoCal that's Danny's
Speaker 1: favorite channel. And then on Sunday the usual slot. Every week.
Speaker 1: We've had a very consistent I want to thank the
Speaker 1: people that sn why the Mets station, because they give
Speaker 1: us that time slot even if we don't deserve it,
Speaker 1: even if there's seven people in the Tri State area watching,
Speaker 1: they still give us that time slot eleven thirty AM.
Speaker 1: So the way that works in New York, you watch
Speaker 1: that and then you flip over to the network pregame.
Speaker 1: You watch that, and then you flip over to the
Speaker 1: network pregame that's on New.
Speaker 4: Year's pre pregame.
Speaker 1: Exactly. It's like the warm up act for the pregame.
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser. We do have the
Speaker 1: word of the week. Are you ready for the word
Speaker 1: of the week?
Speaker 4: What word of the week?
Speaker 1: Now, you could argue this is more than one word.
Speaker 1: You could make that argument, and I wouldn't probably disagree
Speaker 1: with you. This more than one word, But I consider
Speaker 1: it one word because this word goes with this word
Speaker 1: all the time, especially this weekend. The word of the
Speaker 1: week is more than one word. It's New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: not two's three for one special, the three for one special,
Speaker 1: Danny g And obviously we know evening before the first
Speaker 1: day of the new year, which will be Sunday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday. That phrase new Year's Eve goes back to
Speaker 1: the thirteen hundreds, how about that? And I was reading
Speaker 1: about this the Julian calendar began on January first, but
Speaker 1: the Christian Church did not like that because they didn't
Speaker 1: want the pagan celebrations evil pagans, and so they chose
Speaker 1: the feast of Anoxiation. I believe is how you say
Speaker 1: March twenty fifth, as that was supposedly their New Year's
Speaker 1: day the Christian Church. And then at some point they
Speaker 1: changed it and they just the almanacs began on January first,
Speaker 1: But it is you know, is concealed. If they had
Speaker 1: gone the other direction, we would be celebrating New Year's
Speaker 1: on March twenty fifth, which would be very bizarre considering
Speaker 1: how you know, we've lived our lives. But the calendar
Speaker 1: reform of seventeen fifty one restored the Julian New Year
Speaker 1: in England, and the New Year's was the main midwinter
Speaker 1: festival in Scotland in the seventeen hundreds, and so the
Speaker 1: word or words of the week New Year's Eve goes
Speaker 1: all the way back to the thirteen hundreds. But really
Speaker 1: for calendar purposes, the modern calendar that we all keep
Speaker 1: as men, women and children goes back to seventeen fifty one.
Speaker 1: And as far as gatherings, I know, in America. Here
Speaker 1: everyone loves going to Times Square in New York and
Speaker 1: freezing their ass off and watching the ball drop because
Speaker 1: everyone loves balls dropping. Not the kind of balls I like.
Speaker 4: Edited audios.
Speaker 1: What that is wrong? But that started? New Year's Eve
Speaker 1: gathering in public places began in eighteen seventy eight in
Speaker 1: jolly old London Shout out Terry in England, and that
Speaker 1: was after they installed the bells. The new bells were
Speaker 1: installed in Saint Paul's and people were out there and
Speaker 1: they celebrated at one am. What a bunch of rebels.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of rebels. So anyway, word of the
Speaker 1: week New Years Eve is the word of the week.
Speaker 4: Words of the Words a week.
Speaker 1: Couple of footy notes before we get out of here, Danny,
Speaker 1: As you know, we're on a tight schedule. We have
Speaker 1: a network clock unless we don't. So there were actually
Speaker 1: some good food related stories, including burger King story out
Speaker 1: this week in the food world which people a getting
Speaker 1: all worked up at the fact that burger King giving
Speaker 1: discounts to people. Did you see this with hangovers? They're
Speaker 1: using facial recognition technology.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you had to blow into a breathalyzer
Speaker 3: at the drive through.
Speaker 1: It might as well, but I would argue that anyone
Speaker 1: eating burger King at around one in the morning is
Speaker 1: likely hungover, right, I mean, I'm just, you know, all
Speaker 1: due respect to Burger King, I don't think they're an advertiser,
Speaker 1: but the program they're testing this out, it's gonna run
Speaker 1: until January second. And yeah, supposedly you going to Burger
Speaker 1: King and the little frazzle there burger King in Brazil.
Speaker 1: This is in Brazil. By the way, They announced that
Speaker 1: they will be using facial recognition technologies scan customers faces
Speaker 1: to determine the degree of hangover detected and the size
Speaker 1: of the recommended combo and discount offered to remedy said
Speaker 1: hang on, So all right, well there you go. When's
Speaker 1: the last time he ate Burger King?
Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: And I bet you wish it had been like nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, the last time he ate burger King?
Speaker 3: Right, probably it was really good in the eighties and
Speaker 3: it's gone downhill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, it was pretty bad. There's some new
Speaker 1: food items, a crispy fish sandwich. Returning to Arby's, I
Speaker 1: know you love Arby's, Danny. You've been very supportive of
Speaker 1: Arby's here on the podcast. Then that'll be coming in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. The Crispy Fish sandwich returning. It's a
Speaker 1: big event there. Windy's has a one cent bacon cheeseburger
Speaker 1: this week and you got to get on that app
Speaker 1: to get it. Here's one if you're in Bakersfield, California.
Speaker 1: We have some listeners in Bakersfield. Shout out to Rod,
Speaker 1: the ambassador of Bakersfield. Jack in the Box testing chicken
Speaker 1: and waffles in Bakersfield. Because when you think chicken and waffles,
Speaker 1: you think you think Jack in the Box, right, No.
Speaker 3: I think Ross Goes but yeah, and I don't think
Speaker 3: fast food for chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1: Probably not. Probably not. Taco Bell unveiled recently a new
Speaker 1: three cheese chicken flatbread melt. That's that's available. McDonald's has
Speaker 1: brought back something called the Prosperity Goldberger. You've got to
Speaker 1: go to South Korea to get it. So I think
Speaker 1: we're not gonna we're not going to get that. It
Speaker 1: includes it's a long patty. It kind of looks like
Speaker 1: the old Burger King chicken sandwich.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the one they used to
Speaker 3: cut in half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like that. It's elongated burger and
Speaker 1: then they put a hash brown patty on top of it.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe they still have that sandwich at Burger King.
Speaker 3: I think that's the last thing I ate there in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two. Oh, the long chicken sandwich and on
Speaker 3: and that long chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this burger if I'm mean to McDonald's, if I'm
Speaker 1: feeling like McDonald's, it looks all right. I guess the
Speaker 1: hash brown thing. It's not that audacious, it's not that ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they're gonna be available. If you're happening to
Speaker 1: travel to South Korea through January twenty sixth of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, you can get your hands on that. See
Speaker 1: what else is anything else that really pops out in
Speaker 1: the food world? Here? Jack in the Box offering revamped
Speaker 1: twenty dollars Mega Munchi's.
Speaker 4: Box, Smoke Weed every day.
Speaker 1: Way to go on that? What do you got going
Speaker 1: on today?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 1: It's the last fry before we head into the big
Speaker 1: holiday weekend here. You're up early, right, you're up early,
Speaker 1: early early.
Speaker 3: Today, DP one last day the hat trick we did
Speaker 3: Wednesday through Friday, nice.
Speaker 1: Very good, and I will be nowhere appearing nowhere at
Speaker 1: all but TV. We've got Benny Versus the Penny, as
Speaker 1: I already hoored myself out and promoted earlier on the podcast.
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Speaker 4: Austa pasta got a murder. I gotta go