Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
Speaker 3: In the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Welcome in. It is the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mallor and Danny g as we slide into
Speaker 1: the second day of the month of December. And Danny
Speaker 1: who knew that the guy that I have mocked his
Speaker 1: entire career would give me something that I use now
Speaker 1: on the air. Dak Prescott, who played the other night
Speaker 1: on Thursday against Seattle. It is I laughed my ass
Speaker 1: off when I watched the Cowboys play, and I think
Speaker 1: this is amazing. It's a professional football quarterback and his
Speaker 1: cadence as he's calling the play at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage in the audible is here we go. And then
Speaker 1: they snapped the ball. It's not a fake. Here you go.
Speaker 1: They're announcing to the defense. Here is what we are about.
Speaker 3: To do.
Speaker 1: It blows me away. It's the funniest thing. I can't
Speaker 1: get over. It's like high school or Pop Warner football,
Speaker 1: and it's a Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas f and Cowboys nanny.
Speaker 3: How about that interception from Bland? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: another great And he had been picked on the first
Speaker 3: half of that game.
Speaker 1: The first game first, the first play, I believe right
Speaker 1: it was yeah, earned by Metcalf seventy three yards. Thank
Speaker 1: you everybody. Touchdowns later, goodbye, out of here.
Speaker 3: Do you know Deron Bland is from Modesto, California?
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Where do you go to college?
Speaker 3: Sacramento? And then he transferred to Fresno State?
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, he's pretty good? Now? Is he really really good?
Speaker 3: He used to be a wide receiver. Part of it
Speaker 3: is he thinks like a wide receiver and that's why
Speaker 3: he gets those really good jumps on the quarterback's throat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays the ball like a receiver exactly. Pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good? All right, So here I can run
Speaker 1: a football team. I need to get a center like
Speaker 1: Jason Kelcey, a quarterback that's got tree trunks for legs
Speaker 1: like Jalen hurts, just so I can run the tushy pushy,
Speaker 1: and then I need a defensive back. I'm all my
Speaker 1: defensive backs will be former wide receivers.
Speaker 3: You'd go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm in good shape. So on this the Saturday pot
Speaker 1: We've got billable Hours, arts and crafts, the word of
Speaker 1: the Week, the word of the Week, and word of
Speaker 1: the week. We'll also have some foody fun as well,
Speaker 1: so we'll get right into it. And whatever else pops up,
Speaker 1: why not, so we will start with this. It is
Speaker 1: the time of the year. Tis the time of the
Speaker 1: year where the people over at Spotify like send out
Speaker 1: messages saying, hey, you have.
Speaker 3: Listened to so and so, but yeah, your yearly wrap up.
Speaker 1: The yearly wrap up is absolutely correct. And so I'm
Speaker 1: not really like a Spotify guy. I have to go
Speaker 1: on there. If I want to watch the Joe Rogan experience, right,
Speaker 1: I'd have to go He's on there's this thing. So
Speaker 1: there's that. And I started getting messages from big fans
Speaker 1: of the show that were sending me some sent me emails.
Speaker 1: Some people post this stuff on social media, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of billable hours, and I really am I
Speaker 1: know you feel the same way, Danny. When people send
Speaker 1: you these things, I mean, it's flattering, it's a major
Speaker 1: ego boost. It's very cool because we do the show
Speaker 1: either way, whether or not you listen to the show
Speaker 1: or not, we do the show. But it's it's actually
Speaker 1: nice to know that people not only like the show,
Speaker 1: but then they listen even more and they're real p ones.
Speaker 1: And a couple of the ones that stood out. Can't
Speaker 1: close the deal, Neil, a show legend. Can't close the deal, Neil,
Speaker 1: and he sent me a MESHI. According to Spotify, he
Speaker 1: listened for twenty four thousand, five hundred and twelve minutes
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. So I did the math on that.
Speaker 1: That means that, Neil, seventeen full days of twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: This guy listened to the Ben Mahler Show, which is
Speaker 1: just crazy, right, absolutely crazy. It can't close the deal, Neil.
Speaker 1: He no longer works at night, he's a daytime guy,
Speaker 1: but he still obviously listens to the podcast religiously, So
Speaker 1: thank you for that. And then a guy named beast Slayer,
Speaker 1: who I'm not even that familiar with. Beast Slayer. Maybe
Speaker 1: I know who this is, but I don't recognize the
Speaker 1: name who. And this guy said, hey, hold my beer
Speaker 1: to can't close the deal, Neil, And he sent me
Speaker 1: a screenshot and I reposted this on x He sent
Speaker 1: me a screenshot of his Spotify page and he is
Speaker 1: a top one percent fan of the Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 1: I would say, so, this guy listened to thirty seven,
Speaker 1: eight and ten minutes of content from the show this year,
Speaker 1: and we did the math on that twenty six full days,
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day for twenty six days.
Speaker 3: Holy.
Speaker 1: That means this gentleman bastlayer really only had eleven months
Speaker 1: of the year to live his life, because the other month,
Speaker 1: that's almost a full month of non stop listening to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: Your producers don't even listen to you that closely.
Speaker 1: No, No, I actually had a funny moment this week
Speaker 1: where that happened. I don't know if I should tell
Speaker 1: this anything. I'll get in trouble. Coop doesn't listen to this, right,
Speaker 1: but I want to mount it. I started breaking up
Speaker 1: the monologue unless there's like a really big story. I
Speaker 1: used to just do one topic monologue, but as I
Speaker 1: kind of gets boring and I have attention deficit disorder,
Speaker 1: so usually what I will do is I'll do three.
Speaker 1: I'll bounce around at least three. Sometimes I'll do four,
Speaker 1: kind of mini micro thoughts on in the mount of
Speaker 1: the monologue on top of the r And the other
Speaker 1: night I did a rant. Part of the monologue was
Speaker 1: about the Patriots and Bill O'Brien, and Bill O'Brien came
Speaker 1: out did the standard bull crap that all coaches do,
Speaker 1: ranting and raving about how well you know, it's not
Speaker 1: mac jones fault, I'm the guy, blame me. So I
Speaker 1: did this rant and Coop sends me a message because
Speaker 1: he usually gives me a heads up on what's coming up.
Speaker 1: On the third degree. He says, all right, so here's
Speaker 1: what I'm going to ask. And it was the Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien like, it was about that, And I said, well, Coop,
Speaker 1: you know I did I just did that. I just
Speaker 1: did it. I said, were we off the air? And
Speaker 1: but no, yeah, he's he was working on something so
Speaker 1: he was not was not listening. But seriously, thanks to everybody,
Speaker 1: And if you have one of these things you want
Speaker 1: to send it in, you don't have to be at
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand hours minutes or whatever. That is. Those
Speaker 1: are extreme cases from Can't Close the Deal, Neil and
Speaker 1: The Best Layer. But thank you no matter why, I mean, listen.
Speaker 1: If you listen one minute, that's well, actually one minute
Speaker 1: doesn't really help.
Speaker 3: But five minutes or TI five minutes. You got to
Speaker 3: listen for at least five minutes.
Speaker 1: Hey, give us a good five minutes and we're good
Speaker 1: to go. You know, we're really good to go. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much, and it's great. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much I listen to. I'm not on Spotify, so
Speaker 1: I don't think any of these other platforms keep track
Speaker 1: of it. At least I don't recall. So that was
Speaker 1: the billable hours. We move on. Now it's for the children.
Speaker 1: You can do anything you want in society. If you
Speaker 1: say it's for the children, no one can question. It's
Speaker 1: like COVID right out of an abundance of caution, you
Speaker 1: say that people can't question it. And in this it's
Speaker 1: for the children. But this past week in rather Calm
Speaker 1: had an extra time off Thanksgiving break. I love that.
Speaker 1: We had a Friday Friday NFL Dolphins and the Jets.
Speaker 1: Not a good game, but fine, So I had the
Speaker 1: extra time off catching up on some sleep life zooming
Speaker 1: me by with all these different jobs. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: feel the same way, right, Danny. We're working a lot,
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of downtime, right, always on the
Speaker 1: move doing something, and you've got the sun. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got your son CoA. So got a lot going on,
Speaker 1: no time to burn up the dance floor. But I
Speaker 1: did have a chance to watch some random college football
Speaker 1: and NBA games and let a bunch of NFL. But
Speaker 1: we were back to work on Sunday night in the monday,
Speaker 1: but on Saturday had lunched. The sister and brother in
Speaker 1: law drove to the Malor mansion in the North Woods
Speaker 1: with the kids, so I got to hang out with
Speaker 1: my zany niece and nephew, and I decided, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm Uncle Benny. We've got to go next level as
Speaker 1: Uncle Benny. Knowing that they would be stopping by, so
Speaker 1: I ran out to the arts and craft store. What
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I'm going to crank up
Speaker 1: my game a little bit, and I returned to my
Speaker 1: chocolate teer. Ways, and my niece is obsessed, as most
Speaker 1: little girls are, with a certain character. Not not Barbie,
Speaker 1: Not Barbie. Hello Kitty, Hello Kid. This was big when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Dan, It's quite big when you
Speaker 1: were a kid too, Right with the girl they loved
Speaker 1: the Hello Kitty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my sister, my sister closest to my age, loved that.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was in elementary school and the
Speaker 1: girl that sat next to me had like the Hello
Speaker 1: Kiddy notepad and the pencils, and she was like the
Speaker 1: star of the other girls because she had that. That
Speaker 1: was like a big deal. Anyway, So get to the point, please.
Speaker 1: So I go to the store. They have a Hello
Speaker 1: Kitty chocolate mold. I'm in, I'm in, come on, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get like ultimate ultimate brownie points. And I had
Speaker 1: to use her in a my niece when I read
Speaker 1: I read her the Shatner book, which we talked about
Speaker 1: that experience last week where I thought I just do
Speaker 1: a photo op. And these kids loved the Shatner book.
Speaker 1: We had to keep reading it because they just loved
Speaker 1: the story. Anyway. So I made a little little chocolates
Speaker 1: of Hello Kitty's head and bow ties little her bow tie.
Speaker 1: I guess that's not her both, Tay, she wears in
Speaker 1: her hat or her hair, right, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Hello Kitty guy hair bo. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: if I'm my nephew. Now, I had an old chocolate mold,
Speaker 1: but he's so little he didn't remember. So it had
Speaker 1: little chocolate dump trucks, race cars, and monster trucks, and
Speaker 1: he seemed to really like those. He seemed to really
Speaker 1: enjoy those. So that was my arts and crafts. I
Speaker 1: am such a radio loser. And now we have the
Speaker 1: word of the week. Are you ready for the Word
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 3: Before we get to word of the Week, I have
Speaker 3: to mention my WiFi and I watched Benny Versus the
Speaker 3: Penny while we were in beautiful Pismo Beach, California.
Speaker 1: Love Pismo Beach awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So last week I get a text from my
Speaker 3: cousin Chris, who lives in San Jose, California, and he said, Hey,
Speaker 3: my wife and I were here spending the weekend in Pismo.
Speaker 3: How far is that from you, guys? And I told
Speaker 3: him it's like two hours fifteen minutes from our house.
Speaker 3: We don't have any plans on Saturday. So after the
Speaker 3: podcast and I get that posted and everything, let's drive
Speaker 3: up to Pismo. So we get baby CoA in his
Speaker 3: car seat, drive up to Pismo and we have a brunch.
Speaker 3: It was awesome watching my wife as an octopus because
Speaker 3: with one hand she was trying to cut up French toast.
Speaker 3: The other hand she had CoA and she was rocking
Speaker 3: him as he was getting a little bit fussy.
Speaker 1: And it's multitasking, it is very much so.
Speaker 3: So they're looking at him getting fussy, and my cousin says, well,
Speaker 3: you guys, aren't I've been right back to southern California
Speaker 3: after brunch, are you? And I told him we haven't decided.
Speaker 3: I said, we each packed a bag just in case
Speaker 3: we didn't know how it would go with Coha, whether
Speaker 3: or not he would be able to be in the
Speaker 3: car for a total of you know, four and a
Speaker 3: half hours. My cousin was feeling bad and he's like,
Speaker 3: you know what, since you guys drove up here to
Speaker 3: visit us, I'm going to get you a nice hotel
Speaker 3: room tonight here in Pismo outstanding. This is now the
Speaker 3: second time we got something free because of the baby
Speaker 3: number two. First we got that cabana which I told
Speaker 3: you about in Palm Springs or yeah, another score, man,
Speaker 3: I'm part of the kids club. I've driven up myself
Speaker 3: to visit family. Has any family ever said, Danny, you
Speaker 3: drove up here to visit us. I'm going to buy
Speaker 3: you a nice hotel tonight.
Speaker 1: No, I've never had that.
Speaker 3: No mean either. But suddenly I have a baby. People
Speaker 3: look at the baby and they're like, oh, poor guy.
Speaker 3: He I don't on him in his car seat. And
Speaker 3: we get another free item. That's number two. Ben, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna start making a list. Sure, I'm gonna itemize all
Speaker 3: the freebies I get thanks to adorable CoA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta milk this because CoA you got, you
Speaker 1: got a few years to work with. But then they
Speaker 1: kind of get to the age where they're annoying, but
Speaker 1: you gotta Yaha. Weool ways to go before that. So
Speaker 1: you're in good ship and you could start your I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start the food blog and then start the daddy
Speaker 1: deal blog. You know how to get free crap because
Speaker 1: you have a kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're in this nice hotel room and we
Speaker 3: turn on the hotel guide. As my girl is like
Speaker 3: going through all the channels looking at what's on, she says,
Speaker 3: look at that benny versus the penny. Yeah, yeah, clicks
Speaker 3: on it and starts watching it. And I sent you
Speaker 3: the screen grab of that. I was like, look at
Speaker 3: what we're watching in Pismo Beach, California.
Speaker 1: That's awesome if I appreciate that very much. I love
Speaker 1: That's one of the coolest things about the TV show
Speaker 1: because people can say, hey, I'm listening to the radio
Speaker 1: show here, and you know, I have had that happen.
Speaker 1: I had a guy on a tug boat on the
Speaker 1: Ohio River that said, you're listening to the show. But
Speaker 1: to see a photo of it, it's kind of like proof.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, yeah, it's actually happening. They're not
Speaker 1: lying to me and all that. If you're not familiar,
Speaker 1: but it if you're not from California, you know where
Speaker 1: Pismo Beaches, it's right in central California, right, that's beautiful
Speaker 1: central coast. Yeah, California. It's there's a cluster of beach
Speaker 1: cities right there. It's in San Luis Obispo County, right,
Speaker 1: I believe I think that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's bordering Santa Barbara County and Santa Luis Obispo County.
Speaker 1: What's your move here? Do you stop in Santa Barbara?
Speaker 1: Do you stop in Buleton. I like Bueleton. I'd go
Speaker 1: to Buleton, then Solvan.
Speaker 3: Get the gas in Santa Maria.
Speaker 1: Yep, Costco Santa Maria.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we stop at the either the McDonald's or the
Speaker 3: Starbucks in Golita. Oh, and then there's the it's a
Speaker 3: nicer Walmart in a Royal Grande right before Pismo Beach.
Speaker 3: We'll usually stop and grab some items there.
Speaker 1: That's a high end Walmart where the people they don't
Speaker 1: do the crack.
Speaker 3: There's no old guy sitting on a big wheel smoking
Speaker 3: a cigar like we saw it your Santa Anna, Beautiful
Speaker 3: Anna Walmart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Walmart, the one near me. It's like Disneyland.
Speaker 1: There's people out there selling like light up balloons, like
Speaker 1: you know. It's like, hey, kids, we're going to go
Speaker 1: on to the Walmart. You want a balloon. I should
Speaker 1: go out there and sell cotton candy. I mean, make
Speaker 1: a killing on that, right, come on, Hannah live geez
Speaker 1: oh man. All right, Well, let's get to the word
Speaker 1: of the week. Now here we go the word all
Speaker 1: the week, and the word of the week is copy cat. Now,
Speaker 1: most people know the word copy cat, right, it's the
Speaker 1: one who animates, imitates, rather imitates or copies someone else
Speaker 1: their actions, appearances, whatnot. And it's been said that flattery
Speaker 1: is the highest compliment one can give. But the term copycat,
Speaker 1: we're is mimicking other behaviors and whatnot. Where did this begin?
Speaker 1: It's actually not that old a phrase, at least that
Speaker 1: was the initial thought. Right now. We know the word
Speaker 1: cat has been around as well for a long time.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing in the term copycat. It is
Speaker 1: a derogatory term, the term cat, which goes back. The
Speaker 1: usage of cat as a derogatory term goes back to
Speaker 1: the at least the fourteen hundreds Middle English, the word
Speaker 1: cat katt that now became cat, and it was a
Speaker 1: derogatory term for a person meaning someone who is sly
Speaker 1: mean or cowardly. You were a cat, You were sly
Speaker 1: mean or cowardly. And then we fast forward about four
Speaker 1: hundred years during the late eighteen hundreds. What happened in
Speaker 1: the world, What changed the way the world operated in
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds, and we still use this today. Although
Speaker 1: the technologies improved a lot. The emergence of the printing press,
Speaker 1: the printing technologies, the ability to mass manufacture and that
Speaker 1: led in the newspaper world, the newspapers ruled the roost
Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds. There was concern like what a
Speaker 1: plagiarism and people copying other people. So the term copycat
Speaker 1: popped up around that time, in the late eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: and it referred to someone who copied the exact work
Speaker 1: or product of another, like they'd steal something from the
Speaker 1: factory they'd remake it, or the newspaper they'd rewrite a
Speaker 1: story word for word. The first known use of the
Speaker 1: term copycat in a printed publication was printed by constant
Speaker 1: Carrie Harrison. I believe I butchered that person's name. It's
Speaker 1: a woman eighteen eighty seven memoir bar Harbor was was
Speaker 1: mentioned there. She described boys who copied exactly what had
Speaker 1: already been printed. And so the term, the word copy cat,
Speaker 1: which is in a way an idiom. It's a way,
Speaker 1: you know, it's an idiom. It's spread around and over
Speaker 1: time it's obviously changed a little bit, and it goes
Speaker 1: to anyone who copies the actions ideas it works of
Speaker 1: something that is a unique original and they just steal
Speaker 1: it as ow. We know people in Radio Danny that
Speaker 1: have stolen other people's access a lot of When I
Speaker 1: was younger, there were a lot of people that ripped
Speaker 1: off Jim Romes act. Now it's Colin Cowherd. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of ripoffs of cow Herd. You get that, and a.
Speaker 3: Lot of my hip hop radio station benchmarks I had
Speaker 3: ripped off from me. Yeah, back in the day. It sucks.
Speaker 3: They say, oh, it's flattery, No it's not.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, listen, I have a experienced people stealing stuff.
Speaker 1: I for years I would do stuff overnight, and then
Speaker 1: I'd get reports that certain morning shows were doing the
Speaker 1: same exact thing hours later, almost like they were listening
Speaker 1: driving in to do their morning show, and then thought,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Maybe I'll steal that, almost word
Speaker 1: for word what Malard did at two in the morning.
Speaker 3: As I remember, there was a southern California rock station
Speaker 3: that stole the Tinderoni tips idea.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I do remember that. You were not happy
Speaker 1: by that. By the way, you were slightly angry and
Speaker 1: considered legal action, I remember did not work out. So
Speaker 1: let's get to some foody fun, and we will press
Speaker 1: on for the foodie fun. This is not a copycat.
Speaker 1: This is an original bit foody fun original bit. These
Speaker 1: are food stories from the world that you know we
Speaker 1: all gotta eat now. I mentioned this the other night.
Speaker 1: I think it was Thursday and a Friday I mentioned this,
Speaker 1: But we can get into it a little bit. More
Speaker 1: big news from the fast food world as we start
Speaker 1: foody fun. Donald's has overhauled the iconic Big Mac. This
Speaker 1: is massive. The signature burger of McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Shriveled up little Burger. Now it sucks.
Speaker 1: Yes, So you've had the new Big Mac.
Speaker 3: I don't know how they're changing it, but I had
Speaker 3: it maybe a year ago. Yeah, I was upset. The
Speaker 3: Big Mac sauce is awesome, but it didn't even look
Speaker 3: like a Big Mac.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So McDonald's made a big announcement. They announced they
Speaker 1: revamped the Big Mac and other burgers. But we're focused
Speaker 1: on the Big Mac. And they claim they're doing this
Speaker 1: because they want to compete against five guys. So are
Speaker 1: they I didn't see this. Are they making the Big
Speaker 1: Mac a smash burger big Mac? Because that would be
Speaker 1: pretty good. I would think, right, a smash burger big bac.
Speaker 3: How much does make the patties big enough to where
Speaker 3: it is a big Mac? Because you saw the little
Speaker 3: thin slices of burger that they had in this thing.
Speaker 1: They claim McDonald's, I know in Chicago they have like
Speaker 1: the McDonald Donald's Test Kitchen in the Windy City that
Speaker 1: they test all this stuff out. So they're claiming that
Speaker 1: they've made all these changes, right, they've been working on
Speaker 1: this since twenty sixteen. But the latest changes to the
Speaker 1: Big Mac include, you're gonna like this, Danny two, smaller
Speaker 1: cooked all beef patties, more special sauce, fresher lettuce, cheese pickles,
Speaker 1: smaller patties, yes, more sauce, and less less all beef patties.
Speaker 3: That's already the way their Big Mac looks right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's ridiculous. So what this is, and I
Speaker 1: give them credits, it's weasel terminology. What McDonald's is doing
Speaker 1: is they're like, hey, we're making a new, improved Big Mac.
Speaker 1: This is going to be so good. But really it's
Speaker 1: shrink flation Big Mac.
Speaker 3: What a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 1: Yeah. McDonald's ranked only thirteenth.
Speaker 3: In Talking to You, Ronald.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. McDonald's rank thirteenth among US
Speaker 1: fast food chains for customers calling their burgers desirable so
Speaker 1: that they claim that's why they're changing.
Speaker 3: I feel like, speaking of Golita, when we stopped at
Speaker 3: the McDonald's there, they were packed for breakfast, and my
Speaker 3: wife made the point that she's never seen a McDonald's
Speaker 3: packed like that for dinner, which is a great point
Speaker 3: because we're not. Maybe people crave their fries, but how
Speaker 3: many people do you know that are like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I have to have a McDonald's burger.
Speaker 1: No, in McDonald's is what you eat when you're looking
Speaker 1: for a relatively cheap meal. But it's not even really
Speaker 1: that cheap, not cheap anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's ala combo on their menu that is thirteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, well this actually ties into that seat.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you were reading my mind, Danny, and
Speaker 1: you were looking ahead on foody fund because Red Lobster.
Speaker 1: This is a hilarious story. Now I'm not I like
Speaker 1: the cheddarbat biscuits, but I'm not a big seafood guy,
Speaker 1: so I don't go to Red Lobster. I would just
Speaker 1: go and eat the biscuits.
Speaker 3: So we've made those biscuits at home, by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh they're really good. Oh my god, they're so good.
Speaker 1: So this is hilarious. So the people at Red Lobster
Speaker 1: announced that the revenues went down, that they actually lost
Speaker 1: money in the third quarter of twenty twenty three. And
Speaker 1: the reason they lost money is because they offered the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars ultimate endless shrimp deal at Red Lobster, not
Speaker 1: anticipating the volume of Americans that wanted a cheap all
Speaker 1: you can eat meal and ate so much freaking lobster
Speaker 1: shrimp rather shrimp. They ate so much shrimp.
Speaker 3: Remember Coop's famous story he and his friend tried to
Speaker 3: out shrimp each other.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, not alone. This twenty dollars all you can
Speaker 1: eat shrimp thing promotion. They did it to increase restaurant visits,
Speaker 1: thinking people would go in and some people would order
Speaker 1: the shrimp and they'd eat reasonable amounts of food, and
Speaker 1: they'd order other foods which cost more. And it's been
Speaker 1: a promotion for a long time at Red Lobster, from
Speaker 1: when I was reading, and they just they totally backfired.
Speaker 1: Were coming in there with moon moves on to get
Speaker 1: the shrimp. It's like they were.
Speaker 3: In smoking bulls in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: It was like Bubba Gump shrimp. They were in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and say I think he ate like sixty seven shrimp,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, something like that, and his buddy ate
Speaker 3: like sixty two or something. That's just two people. An
Speaker 3: entire restaurant filled with people stuffing their face like that.
Speaker 1: So the company Red Lobster announced they anticipated did all
Speaker 1: the marketing and they said, okay, so we believe this
Speaker 1: promotion will increase traffic to our restaurants by twenty percent.
Speaker 1: That'll be twenty twenty percent more people come to Red Lobster. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's great, that's wonderful. Twenty you know, toyette, they ended
Speaker 1: up getting forty percent. Business went up by forty percent,
Speaker 1: but they lost money because they were giving the the
Speaker 1: shrip away. They were giving it away basically. And but
Speaker 1: the lesson is rather obvious, right that people are desperately
Speaker 1: trying to find affordable, re fast food type stuff that's cheap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's you gotta you gotta figure out what you
Speaker 1: want to do, how you want to get people in.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The average American right now is like I don't
Speaker 3: know whether I should go to the grocery store or
Speaker 3: go to quote unquote fast food because it all costs
Speaker 3: the same, right, now and it's all inflated and it's
Speaker 3: all a ripoff right now, that's.
Speaker 1: Some bullshoy right there. So Red Lobster we can follow
Speaker 1: up on this because instead of getting rid of the promotion,
Speaker 1: what they did is they just decided, Okay, we're getting
Speaker 1: killed here, we're getting smoked, right, We're just getting cooked.
Speaker 1: So they started slightly raising the price to like twenty
Speaker 1: two dollars. Now it's at twenty five dollars. And so
Speaker 1: they is keeping raising up the price, trying to not
Speaker 1: drown in endless shrimp.
Speaker 3: But that is and they seek coop at his local
Speaker 3: Red Lobster and they make Kim pay for two all
Speaker 3: you can eat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. What else we have on foody fun? Well? Costco?
Speaker 1: I love my Costco. They are launching another they've already
Speaker 1: launched another perfect Christmas dessert item just in time for
Speaker 1: the Christmas holiday. They Kirkland signature chocolate moose. Isn't that great? No,
Speaker 1: that's I'm looking. It looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's a refrigerated treat. Three sweet chocolate layers. A.
Speaker 1: He's got the crumble, the cookie chocolate chip cookie crumble base.
Speaker 1: There's a glossy chocolate coating. What else do we have?
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I can't do a show without mentioning Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: And here we are in the fifth hour.
Speaker 3: I need a dollar from you for the punished jar.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Taylor Swift drinking an affordable rose. And
Speaker 1: so what do you think happens if Taylor drink Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift drinks something. Oh my god, she's drinking it.
Speaker 3: I gotta drink it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is created a frenzy. People dying desperately trying
Speaker 1: to buy this rose. And so we don't need to
Speaker 1: give them a plug and all that, you know, there
Speaker 1: does no need to do it, but there you go.
Speaker 3: So she's Taylor Swift jumped off of half dome inside
Speaker 3: Yosemite Park. How many how many Swifties would follow her?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, she jumped off the mountain. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it too, oh I know.
Speaker 1: So there was a there was a photo which actually
Speaker 1: popped up on the iHeart social media pages of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: She was eating raisins off a wooden kitchen counter and
Speaker 1: fans the Idea is a place in Brooklyn, and right
Speaker 1: behind her was a bottle of this rose, and so
Speaker 1: of course people are, oh, I got a Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. And so it has
Speaker 1: been selling like you can't.
Speaker 3: Believe a cheap brand? Or do you know?
Speaker 1: It's a gas lighter? Is the company? And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like twenty three dollars or seventeen dollars.
Speaker 3: So okay, so it's like not the cheapest but not
Speaker 3: the most expensive.
Speaker 1: But here's the catch. They say the minimum order because
Speaker 1: they realize they want to take advantage of the Swifty's.
Speaker 1: The minimum order is at least three bops.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I have three bobs of.
Speaker 1: The rose Taylor Swift's Rose. Well, Martha Stewart is back
Speaker 1: in the foody fun the people over at what I
Speaker 1: used to call Dunkin Donuts, but now it's just Duncan.
Speaker 1: They got rid of the donuts part, but they still
Speaker 1: sell donuts, but they want to focus in on the coffee.
Speaker 1: That's what they want to focus in on. But Duncan
Speaker 1: has hired Martha Stewart again to sell merchandise. They decid
Speaker 1: how old is Martha Stewart. It's got to be one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven exactly. Yeah, So among the items
Speaker 1: that she will be pimping herself out for the initial
Speaker 1: product was a Duncan teenye and a Martini shaker twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars. To have a Martini shaker with the Duncan
Speaker 1: logo and glasses are twenty dollars apiece. There's a let's
Speaker 1: see here page. I mean, there's a bunch of other
Speaker 1: crap here. I think I'm good on my I have
Speaker 1: nothing against Dunkin Donuts, but I don't know that I
Speaker 1: need to have something with the Dunkin logo on it.
Speaker 1: But if you want something Danny, I'm sure somebody can
Speaker 1: get it for you if you're interested in that. Probably
Speaker 1: not Jack in the Box. This is actually going on.
Speaker 1: It has been going on for a while. They're having
Speaker 1: their Jack Miss Deals promotion food item free food. But
Speaker 1: it's one of these things, all these free food deals.
Speaker 1: You have to be on the app so they can
Speaker 1: track you. You are the customer, you are the power.
Speaker 1: So remember that. I don't think many people care though,
Speaker 1: right that they're the product.
Speaker 3: You think. Now, we're used to it, and we're used
Speaker 3: to being tracked. We know with our iPhones nowadays, whatever
Speaker 3: we say or search or scroll on that's going to
Speaker 3: pop up continuously on your phone right afterwards, because they're
Speaker 3: spying on us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not paying for something, you are what
Speaker 1: You're the back, you're the currents. So it's like social media,
Speaker 1: these apps that say, oh, I'll give you free maps,
Speaker 1: and I will keep track of everywhere you go, and
Speaker 1: then I will sell that data about what restaurants you
Speaker 1: went to and what stores you went to. I will
Speaker 1: then sell that to somebody and I'll make money, and
Speaker 1: then they'll use that to direct market to you and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. See what else do we have? Page down? Oh,
Speaker 1: here's this is a sugary food deal, so cover your ears.
Speaker 1: Danny Subway offering next week A I guess this coming week.
Speaker 1: Here a new foot long chocolate chip cookie. They say
Speaker 1: it's for free on National Cookie Day. That's the national
Speaker 1: beautiful National Cookie Day. And let's see here from one
Speaker 1: to six. Now, I don't see it available here in LA.
Speaker 1: I see it in Chicago, Dallas, and Miami in New York.
Speaker 1: But December, December fourth is National Cookie Day. How are
Speaker 1: you celebrating National Cookie.
Speaker 3: Day by finding a sugar free cookie?
Speaker 1: That's right, em, that's right here you go. So that's
Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of days. So on Monday, cookies,
Speaker 1: big big day there for Subway. Sure, but I always
Speaker 1: think cookies.
Speaker 3: I think Subway, well, their cookies are better than their sandwiches. Hey,
Speaker 3: oh it's true, it's true. Have you had a Subway
Speaker 3: sandwich recently?
Speaker 1: I have not?
Speaker 3: Oh Man, talk about shriveled up products. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: big giant sandwiches on their commercial. Yeah right, those are
Speaker 3: some smashed, little, skinny, crappy sandwiches if I've ever seen
Speaker 3: or tasted one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other thing, too, is I always get
Speaker 1: annoyed when I go to a restaurant and the people
Speaker 1: working there are so paranoid they're going to lose their job.
Speaker 1: They have to weigh all of the condiments that they
Speaker 1: give you, like all this. I don't need that, Okay,
Speaker 1: just go by, go by the feel when it looks
Speaker 1: good and all that stuff. But anyway, that's that is
Speaker 1: that I think we'll get out on that. We've gone
Speaker 1: a little long here, Danny. It is Saturday. We've got
Speaker 1: more collegiate football as we wind out before we wind
Speaker 1: up for the playoffs in college football.
Speaker 3: And you made us all hungry to go get a Sandward.
Speaker 3: So I want some Jersey mics right now.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a big mac. You're not.
Speaker 3: I'll eat their breakfast, but I ain't eating their burgers.
Speaker 3: Forget that.
Speaker 1: You're good on that. The McDonald's like the cone the
Speaker 1: apple pie, although it's not the same. The fried apple
Speaker 1: pie is the way to go, but only one location.
Speaker 1: I think that the original McDonald's that's left.
Speaker 3: The original, only one that burns your tongue so good.
Speaker 1: I have so many memories of the burning my tongue
Speaker 1: and then taking a little bite. It's like the opposite
Speaker 1: of getting brain freeze. Tongue burn and yeah, your tongue
Speaker 1: cools off, you take another bite, so it burns it more. Anyway, Danny,
Speaker 1: anything in particular, just kind of take it easier.
Speaker 3: Family. No, no, Actually, we're traveling today after post production
Speaker 3: of this fine podcast. We are going to drive to
Speaker 3: the north Woods because my cousin, Jordan, his son is
Speaker 3: a one of the best basketball players in the country
Speaker 3: right now in his age group. He was sought after
Speaker 3: by a different high school who transferred him to their
Speaker 3: school because they wanted him so badly to play basketball
Speaker 3: for their school. He is balling today around noon, so
Speaker 3: We're going to go there to watch his game.
Speaker 1: Nice awesome, well, very cool. Sounds like a good time anyway. Listen,
Speaker 1: we have another podcast tomorrow. Tomorrow, we've got the mail bag.
Speaker 1: I think if we have time tomorrow we will be
Speaker 1: able to get to pop the culture. I will do
Speaker 1: all that, but I have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 1: Thank you for downloading this, and don't forget Benny Versus.
Speaker 1: The Penny still airing. Check your local TV listings. It's
Speaker 1: distributed by NBC and watch Benny Versus depending on Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, I promote the channels. I know for sure
Speaker 1: it's on, but I've had people in Florida, people in Michigan,
Speaker 1: people in random states. I don't promote those channels. So
Speaker 1: you do have to look at your local cable listings
Speaker 1: and have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next time later. Skater population