Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: another Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: and Dainty g back at it again. No days off,
Speaker 1: no days off, and here we are, very exciting, very exciting.
Speaker 1: How's life treating Danny? You were on the show this week?
Speaker 1: That was it's good to have you in for a night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really fun being in on the live show
Speaker 1: to company the podcast this week. Yeah. People were very
Speaker 1: excited that that must have made you feel good. And
Speaker 1: people were like, oh man, Danny Jay's back. You know,
Speaker 1: tell you what. Coop deserves a lot of credit, even
Speaker 1: though people love giving him a lot of crap. Because
Speaker 1: you have so many plates spinning at once on your
Speaker 1: overnight show. You gotta keep it going, Daddy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's always surprised motherfucker. You gotta keep it
Speaker 1: like that, going one thing after another and all that.
Speaker 1: But a lot of moving parts on your show. But
Speaker 1: that's a compliment to your programming. Well, thank you. And
Speaker 1: as you know, Danny, it can get very slow in
Speaker 1: the overnight hours, so we try to keep the ship
Speaker 1: moving and the time does fly. I've noticed the time
Speaker 1: does go by pretty quick. And my only complaint is
Speaker 1: when it came to password, one of the two contestants
Speaker 1: was a slug and we could tell, and you could
Speaker 1: tell that that of putting your name first like always do,
Speaker 1: but my name first, so that he would choose me,
Speaker 1: and sure enough he did, and I got the worst
Speaker 1: partner in the history of password. Well, part of the
Speaker 1: problem was we we actually I saved some more time
Speaker 1: for password because you know, usually I don't Usually I'm like,
Speaker 1: nobody knows how to you know, nobody knows any words. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a hot mess. You know, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just a disaster. You know, it's like what every week
Speaker 1: it's like. But this week I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll leave a little more time. And then we had
Speaker 1: Chris and Houston if I remember correctly, and then Gordy
Speaker 1: in Waterloo called back using the name Doug from wherever Toronto. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so that threw us off. We had to hang
Speaker 1: up on him. Then we had to wait for somebody
Speaker 1: else to come on. Then the guy that came on
Speaker 1: was clueless. I don't know what was going on with
Speaker 1: that guy, but but you're right, Danny, I one thing
Speaker 1: I've picked up. I know, there's a few things I
Speaker 1: picked up with ears, but human nature, I could tell
Speaker 1: that guy just was scan in the radio, had no
Speaker 1: idea who I was, had no idea who you were
Speaker 1: the show. He was like, where was he in Boston
Speaker 1: or something like that, I don't know, somewhere somewhere in
Speaker 1: the Northeast. And he he was just like scanning the
Speaker 1: dial and he stumbled on the show and he was bored.
Speaker 1: So I knew he didn't have no he had no
Speaker 1: idea of who we were. He never heard password before.
Speaker 1: He just called up because he had some agenda that
Speaker 1: he you know, he wanted to spew a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1: So I knew, based on my years of doing this,
Speaker 1: whatever name you say first, most of the time they'll
Speaker 1: pick and if they don't really know the show worked
Speaker 1: out advantage me. Disadvantage. I'm sorry about that. I had
Speaker 1: a good move by you for me. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: you got to play password. You know, you didn't have anybody,
Speaker 1: you had a cadaver with you, but you got to
Speaker 1: play password. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: And this edition of the Fifth Hour on Saturday, the
Speaker 1: Life of Math or the Life of Danny g and
Speaker 1: some of the stories that you know, for what every reason,
Speaker 1: I don't talk about this on the I don't toot
Speaker 1: my own horn on the show. We you know, we're hard,
Speaker 1: oh sports showing and then we just talked to a
Speaker 1: bunch of drunk people around that. But but no, I
Speaker 1: I have some random things that have taken place, and
Speaker 1: so I bring those up here on the Saturday podcast
Speaker 1: and some some seem to enjoy that. And you know,
Speaker 1: we have time for whatever else pops up, we will
Speaker 1: we will see here depending on the time. So we've
Speaker 1: got uh, the playground, Arby's, the Arby's so where's the meat?
Speaker 1: Owes two fs and the goose Chase and possibly again
Speaker 1: time permitting, we may have you know, pop quiz, which
Speaker 1: is what we've done from time to time. So we'll
Speaker 1: see how much time we have left, but I want
Speaker 1: to start now. This was actually a a sad week
Speaker 1: for those of us that our fans of radio. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna do a whole rant on the
Speaker 1: Overnight show. I chose to save it for the podcast.
Speaker 1: So this is not really a life of Mallard story.
Speaker 1: Kind of is is a little bit of it that
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've shared before. But as a
Speaker 1: connoisseur of radio, one of the quirky figures in our
Speaker 1: business turned off the mic for the final time. And
Speaker 1: we go to Chicago, the Windy City and one of
Speaker 1: the great towns, Chicago, and a lot of family in
Speaker 1: Chicago from Chicago moved out to California before I was around,
Speaker 1: and I still have family in the Chicago and area. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's where the news came from. Danny. So this this
Speaker 1: radio talker, legendary radio taco named Les Grobstein, and we
Speaker 1: found out he had passed at the age of of
Speaker 1: sixty nine. He was still working on the air in
Speaker 1: chicag Ago. This guy a Chicago original. You know, we
Speaker 1: have Doc Mike that calls the show, and I often
Speaker 1: say that if you cut open Doc Mike, you'll get
Speaker 1: like a deep dish, Chicago pizza or one of those
Speaker 1: Italian sandwiches that they have in Chicago. He's just reeks
Speaker 1: of being Chicago. But so did Less Robsney. And he
Speaker 1: was a radio guy covered sports. You know, it's weird.
Speaker 1: He started at age nineteen. I started in radio and
Speaker 1: age night you were actually younger day here. How old
Speaker 1: were you when you started, uh, the high school radio station?
Speaker 1: I was fourteen? Fourteen? Wow, So I was nineteen when
Speaker 1: I started in in radio right out of high school,
Speaker 1: you know, like the year after that I got into it.
Speaker 1: But this guy started with nineteen. He worked over fifty
Speaker 1: years covering Chicago area sports, professional, college, mostly professional the
Speaker 1: last you know, forty five years or whatever. And you
Speaker 1: know the fact he started as a kid and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. An amazing run and Less Robstey and held
Speaker 1: down the overnight shift at the Score in Cargo, which
Speaker 1: is one of those massive signal on terrestrial radio station
Speaker 1: type deals. I mean, we were on the Score in
Speaker 1: the early days of Fox Sports Radio, and it was amazing.
Speaker 1: The signal went from like Tennessee obviously covered the Upper Midwest,
Speaker 1: but it went to Tennessee and then I forget, but
Speaker 1: it was like way out west, like pretty much blanketed
Speaker 1: most of the country on six seventy on the AM dial,
Speaker 1: The Score. I think they have an FM now too,
Speaker 1: if I'm not not mistaken. But it was a massive thing,
Speaker 1: massive station for terrestrial radio that boomed all over the place.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know the funny story about that. We
Speaker 1: used to be on The Score on Fox doing the
Speaker 1: night programming was on there, Uh, and we got in trouble.
Speaker 1: Doc Mike actually got us in trouble. Um. But the
Speaker 1: big thing was, I don't know if you remember this
Speaker 1: or not, Danny, the Cubby Chubby song, which we'd play
Speaker 1: from time to time. Uh, it was it was it
Speaker 1: was a Chubby Cubby or the Cubby Chubby, which one.
Speaker 1: I think it was the Chubby Cubby. I think that
Speaker 1: was it. I think it was like this. I just
Speaker 1: played it. I've played it for you before when you've
Speaker 1: reminisced over it on the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
Speaker 1: that was the song that got us in trouble for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. And there were a few other um mitigating
Speaker 1: factors that played in that We're out of our control.
Speaker 1: But this guy, he made like a barbershop quartet cub song.
Speaker 1: This is back. It had to be like oh five
Speaker 1: or something. Rememb remember the Cup of the Uh the Bartman.
Speaker 1: Remember Steve Bartman that the kid that messed up the
Speaker 1: Cubs were gonna go to the world. I mean it
Speaker 1: was six somewhere in that period of time. I forget
Speaker 1: what they all run together, but it was a Steve
Speaker 1: Bartman year and we were on there and the Chubby
Speaker 1: Cubby or the Cubby Chubby whatever it was, we played
Speaker 1: that song got in some trouble. But anyway, that's not
Speaker 1: a Cubby Chubby. I just looked it up. Cubby Chubby.
Speaker 1: There you go that it so uh. Think of this
Speaker 1: more like a euloge. You've been like a fun eulogy,
Speaker 1: a tip of the mic, if you will, A blinking
Speaker 1: of the on air light to Less Grobstein and one
Speaker 1: of the other things. And I wanted to bring this
Speaker 1: up his claim to fame. Danny, do you know what
Speaker 1: Less Grobstein did that we have played on our show
Speaker 1: every year since I've been at Fox Sports Radio, we
Speaker 1: played at least once a year. Uh, and many other
Speaker 1: radio shows do. Let's Less did something that will obviously
Speaker 1: it's outlived him and it will outlive many other people. Uh,
Speaker 1: do you know what he did? Danny? What what? Less
Speaker 1: Grobstein has claimed to famous No Less grob glad thanks
Speaker 1: for playing along, Less grow I know you probably. Les
Speaker 1: Grobstein was at Wrigley Field in the early nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: It was April twenty nine. Nine. Happens to coincide that
Speaker 1: my birthday. It's not I wasn't born in three, but
Speaker 1: my birthday is on April twenty nine, and I was
Speaker 1: gonna kick out of this. So the Cubs were playing
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, which makes it even better. A right Cubs
Speaker 1: and died. You got a sword on one side. Now,
Speaker 1: the Cubs were being managed by Lee Eliot, and they
Speaker 1: were not playing good baseball. They were not playing good baseball.
Speaker 1: The crowd was very upset. The Cubs got off to
Speaker 1: a five and fourteen start, and the fans at Wrigley
Speaker 1: were just throwing trash on the Cub players because if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, the locker room in those days was
Speaker 1: out like in center field or something like that. It
Speaker 1: was like they had to walk out to the to
Speaker 1: the clubhouse if I remember anyway, for somebody hadn't walk
Speaker 1: out in the outfield and they were just raining down
Speaker 1: like just crap at the ballpark, just like the Cowboys game. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: it was similar. But you know, now everyone freaks out.
Speaker 1: There was no social media in nine three. It was
Speaker 1: you could do whatever you wanted pretty much. It was
Speaker 1: a different world than it is obviously these days, where
Speaker 1: everyone's pearl clutching everything. So then I get to the point, please,
Speaker 1: So Les Grobstein was a radio stringer, a job that
Speaker 1: I had for many years. Would you just a radio
Speaker 1: reporter and that job which doesn't really exist much anymore,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I would go to games. I
Speaker 1: would phone in at the top of the hour. I
Speaker 1: would give like a twenty second update. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been Mo'm a Dodger stadium. Blau know it's fourth inning,
Speaker 1: Dodgers lead the Cardinals, you know, five to three, and
Speaker 1: that's it. And uh, and then I'd have to get
Speaker 1: some interviews, and I have to use my tape, my
Speaker 1: my Marants tape recorder to go in the locker room
Speaker 1: and do interviews and and then I would feed it
Speaker 1: on the phone back to whoever I was worried for.
Speaker 1: And so that's the job that West had. But three,
Speaker 1: he's at the Cup game and Lee Elia chose the
Speaker 1: nuclear option. Uh, Danny, he chose the nuclear option. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was not happy. It was bad time for the Cubs,
Speaker 1: bad time for Lee Ilia. And thank god that less
Speaker 1: Robstein happened to be there and had his tape recorder
Speaker 1: and recorded it for posterity's sake. So to honor less Robstein,
Speaker 1: I am now going to play in its entirety no
Speaker 1: bleeps because we're on podcast, right, Danny, we can play
Speaker 1: bad words. So let's just enjoy and celebrate the greatest
Speaker 1: piece of audio art in my life to come out
Speaker 1: of a locker room. This is Cubs manager Lee Elia.
Speaker 1: We go back in the way back machine, all the
Speaker 1: way back to April of n and here is the
Speaker 1: Cub manager addressing the Cub fan. Here we go, buckle up.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one fucking thing. I hope we get
Speaker 1: sucking hotter than ship, just to suck it up them
Speaker 1: three thousand fucking people that show up every fucking day,
Speaker 1: because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can
Speaker 1: kiss my fucking ants right down down and print it
Speaker 1: really really behind you around here, my fucking hands. What
Speaker 1: am I supposed to go out there and letting my
Speaker 1: fucking players get destroyed every day and be quiet about it.
Speaker 1: For the fucking nickel dyone people to show up. The
Speaker 1: motherfucker's don't even work. That's why they're out of the
Speaker 1: fucking game. They're only go out and get a fucking
Speaker 1: job and find out what it's like to go out
Speaker 1: there in a fucking living ay. But to say of
Speaker 1: the fucking world work it. The other fifth didn't come
Speaker 1: out here the fucking playground for the cot suckers hip
Speaker 1: some motherfucker's hip them. Cut the cocksuckers what the fucking
Speaker 1: players got busting their fucking ass, and the sucking people bow,
Speaker 1: And that's become my fucking ant. They talk about the
Speaker 1: great fucking support that the players get around here. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it this fucking yet. The name of the
Speaker 1: game has hit the ball, catch the ball, and get
Speaker 1: the fucking job done. Right now, we have more launchers
Speaker 1: than we have wins. So fucking changes that have happened
Speaker 1: in a couple organization are multi fold, all right, They
Speaker 1: don't show because we're five and fourteen. Unfortunately, that's the
Speaker 1: criteria of them. Some fifteen motherfucking percent to come out
Speaker 1: to date baseball. The other eight earning a living take
Speaker 1: more than a five and thirteen or five and fourteen
Speaker 1: to destroying the makeup of this club. I guarante see
Speaker 1: you that there's some fucking pros out there that want
Speaker 1: to fucking play this game, but you're stuck in a
Speaker 1: fucking mother fucking Dodgers and the Fillies and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: and all that cheap ship. All these mother fucking editorials
Speaker 1: about say and fucking uh, the Telliitis and all I
Speaker 1: said that they'd sickening. It's unbelievable. It really, it's a
Speaker 1: disheartening fucking situation we're in right now. Five and fourteen
Speaker 1: doesn't negate all that work. Hundred forty three fucking games left.
Speaker 1: Who I'm trying to say it, don't rip them fucking
Speaker 1: guys out there, Rip me. Do you want to rip somebody?
Speaker 1: Rip my fucking head. But don't rip them fucking guys
Speaker 1: because they're given everything they can give. But once we
Speaker 1: hit that fucking groove, it'll flow, and it will flow
Speaker 1: the talents there. I don't want to make any clarantry.
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated. I'll guarantee I'm frustrated. It would be different
Speaker 1: if I walked in this room every day at eight
Speaker 1: starting and saw a bunch of guys. It didn't give
Speaker 1: a shop ship all right. That was the the full lead,
Speaker 1: Hell you're ran. He actually kind of calmed down towards
Speaker 1: the end the first the first minute of that. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Yeah, unbelievable. That that is Michelangelo. That is
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa. That is uh, that is insane. That
Speaker 1: the rant of the world's work in the other come
Speaker 1: out here. It's a playground for the blank blank. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he said, it's a playground for the cocksuckers.
Speaker 1: Oh man. Now I remember playing that several times on
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard Show throughout the years. Obviously tons of leaps.
Speaker 1: I've never heard it unedited before. That was amazing. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's awesome, And almost forty years later, it still is
Speaker 1: the gold standard for a RAM. People talk about Dennis
Speaker 1: Green or Losorda had a bunch back in the day
Speaker 1: and just just amazing, just absolute, really great. And Lee
Speaker 1: Elia is still alive. He's in his mid eighties now
Speaker 1: and he's still around. And the other thing about that
Speaker 1: he did not get fired right away as the cup manager. Today,
Speaker 1: in modern times, if you did what Lee you did,
Speaker 1: you'd be fired immediately because of social media and all that,
Speaker 1: and that people would be upset. But Lee, really I
Speaker 1: believe he lasted another I have to go back and check,
Speaker 1: but I think it was like a couple of months
Speaker 1: or maybe even longer before kept saying five and fourteen,
Speaker 1: So they waited until he was what five and thirty
Speaker 1: one before they fired. Yeah, it's something like that, and
Speaker 1: and and so the other part of the story. Now
Speaker 1: for the rest of the stories, The great late Paul
Speaker 1: Harvey would say radio legend from a different era. So
Speaker 1: I actually had the chance to meet Less Grobstey and
Speaker 1: the guy that just passed away that did record that audio.
Speaker 1: And it was years ago. Was that the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis? That gives you the year the Pacers were
Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals. I happened to be there and
Speaker 1: and I actually have a mutual friend with Less, the
Speaker 1: late Joe McDonald who was a Titan in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Radio and Afternoon Drift kind of like the Mike Francessa
Speaker 1: of l A Radio and you know, control the airways
Speaker 1: for a long time and new Less anyway, I ran
Speaker 1: into Less at I think it was called the Concico
Speaker 1: Field house at that time. It's got some new name. Now.
Speaker 1: The pacers were playing, and we chatted for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: and the rafters of the of the gymnasium there and
Speaker 1: I I believe it's like wife either worked in an
Speaker 1: airline or had some some connection to an airline, because
Speaker 1: he traveled a lot. And he was very polite. Les
Speaker 1: Grobsteen a little shy, true radio introvert, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of radio guys that I'm an introvert. Less was
Speaker 1: it's two introverts. I was being less And I told
Speaker 1: him I appreciated the lee O your thing. He's probably
Speaker 1: heard it eight you know, at that time he'd probably
Speaker 1: heard eight thousand times. And we chatted a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I've heard the same thing about lee Elia that
Speaker 1: I heard about Losorda, that the that rant which we played,
Speaker 1: which was just absolutely amazing, that there were actually some
Speaker 1: other rants that were as good or better that we're
Speaker 1: not recorded. And I've heard the same thing about Losorda,
Speaker 1: that the Kingman's performance in kirk Bavakwa and and the
Speaker 1: rants that have been recorded for the sorta like there
Speaker 1: were other rants where it was just the sports writers
Speaker 1: and nobody was recording it, and those were We're awesome
Speaker 1: also so uh and rest in peace. Uh the as
Speaker 1: you cross over those pearly gates that are Les Robstein
Speaker 1: And what a what a amazing running radio I was working.
Speaker 1: It was still overnights at age sixty nine, still working crazy,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I mean when you're seventy, I hope your
Speaker 1: show is still running. My god, if I was, if
Speaker 1: I was at seventy, how many years oh, my god,
Speaker 1: like fifty years on on Fox Sports Radio at that point. Well,
Speaker 1: knowing you in the way you like to save money,
Speaker 1: you'll probably still be on at seventies. Well, the good
Speaker 1: news is, Danny, that the company is paying me enough.
Speaker 1: We're I'll probably need to be on until I'm seventies.
Speaker 1: So I just want to thank them for that. The
Speaker 1: motivation to continue to work, Danny, it's it's outstaying. So
Speaker 1: now I understand we talked last week somehow Arby's came up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the conversation, and you had said that you were
Speaker 1: going to try to find and Arby's near you, the
Speaker 1: home of Where's the Beef for? What? What was their slogan?
Speaker 1: What is the we we have the meats or the meats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not the beef. The meats. Back in the day when
Speaker 1: we were kids, Wendy's used to say, where's the beef? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: they had that old woman and she had the disappointed
Speaker 1: look on her face looking at the bun and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So when you think of Arby's, you think
Speaker 1: of the like the classic roast beef, the curly fries, that,
Speaker 1: but they have a lot of other stuff on their
Speaker 1: menu these days. So you you found how far away
Speaker 1: was the Army's from your house? About a ten minute drive.
Speaker 1: When we talked last week on the podcast, I said
Speaker 1: that I was convinced that they were like a storefront
Speaker 1: for a big drug dealer in because I didn't know
Speaker 1: anybody that ate there, and I hadn't eaten there since
Speaker 1: the late nineties, a couple of decades at least. So
Speaker 1: I got my tender Roni, who was not a fast
Speaker 1: food fan either, is my wife. She didn't like fast food.
Speaker 1: What is it with these women not liking fast food?
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, well, yeah, I couldn't eat it
Speaker 1: every day, dive to time like I my my my
Speaker 1: go to my guilty pleasure if you will, is I
Speaker 1: love like raising Kanes I'll go to Raising that's fast food.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's about it. I like. I like Raising
Speaker 1: Kanes too. You're the reason why I've eaten there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, but like the junk food of fast food restaurants.
Speaker 1: So you can't really eat that stuff every day? Well
Speaker 1: maybe coope? Can we all know you today? But all right,
Speaker 1: so I stay away from it. It's a treat to
Speaker 1: go to fast food restaurants. So I told my tenderoni, look,
Speaker 1: it's show research. We gotta go check this out and
Speaker 1: take some pictures. We took her daughter doesn't get a
Speaker 1: lot of it, but knows what's good and what's bad.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm a rating from you. We founded
Speaker 1: on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. It looked like this Arby's was
Speaker 1: straight out of the nineties. The tables that we sat
Speaker 1: down at had not been cleaned since n That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: That is that is that's not what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a good start. But luckily in our car
Speaker 1: we have a pack of the Lysol wipes. Well, is
Speaker 1: it someone there like hit you hit like a buzzer
Speaker 1: supposed somebody supposed to come over like clean it up
Speaker 1: or something that like most fast food restaurants, it's like
Speaker 1: one person clean stuff up, right, maybe pre COVID, but
Speaker 1: now during the past couple of years, the ex uses. Oh,
Speaker 1: because of COVID, we can't clean tables and we can't
Speaker 1: have an employee doing any of that. So there was
Speaker 1: no employee walking around cleaning anything or servicing the customers
Speaker 1: inside where the tables were. Outside where the tables were,
Speaker 1: we we cleaned the table ourselves. And this black cook
Speaker 1: is all over the lysol whites. I mean it literally
Speaker 1: had not been cleaned in years. So we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you know a lot of people were just there
Speaker 1: was a lot of foot traffic though, people were taking
Speaker 1: their food and leaving, so a lot of people were
Speaker 1: just walking in, grabbing food and going back home. These
Speaker 1: are the days of eating your food at home during COVID.
Speaker 1: Sure do you say euro or gyro? I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people say it differently. Well, you can say
Speaker 1: to either way. I think I think the proper ways,
Speaker 1: Uh what is the proper way euro? Right, That's what
Speaker 1: I was taught. But then even when I was in
Speaker 1: New York visiting, people were calling it a gyro. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to say Gyro, but then somebody told me
Speaker 1: what guy. Yeah, it ran into somebody that yelled at
Speaker 1: me and they said, it's not Giro, you stupid American.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, that's the other one, so Guro. But then
Speaker 1: it's like, I thought that was money. Lady was sitting
Speaker 1: out eating one, and I was like, man, that looks good.
Speaker 1: I didn't come to Arties for one of those, but
Speaker 1: I think I'll try that. My TENDERNI ordered a market
Speaker 1: fresh turkey and bacon sandwich which had ranch in it,
Speaker 1: so you'll love that. That's disgusting. Her daughter ordered one
Speaker 1: of the classics. She got a beef and cheddar cheese sandwich. Well,
Speaker 1: she's a purist. She's a she's a purist of the armies,
Speaker 1: which she is. They put it on a nice onion roll.
Speaker 1: We got some crinkle fries, and the daughter also got
Speaker 1: some mac and cheese. Let's see, it was for the
Speaker 1: four of us. There was three of us. She ate
Speaker 1: like two people, um three for the three of us,
Speaker 1: it was twenty four bucks. But that's not horrible for
Speaker 1: these people. That's okay, we get the food problem. She
Speaker 1: opens up her mac and cheese and there is a
Speaker 1: human hair right on top of the mac and cheese.
Speaker 1: You hate to see that. You hate to see that,
Speaker 1: and you hate to eat that. Also, you're like, come on, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we weren't off to the best start. But my
Speaker 1: Tinderoni marched inside and with a soft voice so other
Speaker 1: customers couldn't hear, told the girl what was wrong with
Speaker 1: the mac and cheese. They threw it in the trash can,
Speaker 1: told her they would start another one. So we opened
Speaker 1: up the rest of our food. It was better than
Speaker 1: what I thought. The quality of the ingredients were pretty good.
Speaker 1: The fries were delicious, my eurro was good. The sandwich
Speaker 1: was really good. Uh, the melted sheddar on the beef
Speaker 1: was not a hit with her daughter. And her daughter
Speaker 1: wasn't really a fan of the mac and cheese either,
Speaker 1: because they're trying to do like an uppity mac and
Speaker 1: cheese with the white cheddar. Now, you don't need the
Speaker 1: white cheddar. That's too that's a bridge too far, the
Speaker 1: white cheddar. Keep it keep it simple, stupid, right, the
Speaker 1: kiss method. Keep it simple, stupid. Her daughter was like,
Speaker 1: this tastes like the bac and cheese at Panera Bread
Speaker 1: and she gave a thumbs down on that love the
Speaker 1: fried Oh uh, let's see, she gave it a six.
Speaker 1: Tinderoni gave it a five. I would say I would
Speaker 1: give it a seven because I like the quality of
Speaker 1: the food, the the ingredients that they used in their food.
Speaker 1: The cleanliness of the restaurant gets a minus nine. Back
Speaker 1: it all the way up, all right, And now did
Speaker 1: you consider the There's been a lot of buzz on
Speaker 1: social media in the last couple of weeks. I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is why we talked about it,
Speaker 1: but the Diablo chicken sandwich, which is like their big
Speaker 1: gimmick right now. Supposedly it's the spiciest sandwich available at
Speaker 1: a main, mainstream fast food restaurant. And then their whole
Speaker 1: gimmick is they give you like a vanilla shake, like
Speaker 1: a little small vanilla shake. Did you consider doing the Diablo?
Speaker 1: Did you consider going down that road? I did not,
Speaker 1: but we did discuss it on the ride over to Arby's.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's how this all came up on the
Speaker 1: mail bag last week was because we had our listener
Speaker 1: asked us if we've ever tried the Hot Nashville. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. That and ironically enough, last weekend. I don't
Speaker 1: usually eat late at night because I have to I'm
Speaker 1: on this gazey fasting diet, you know. And but we
Speaker 1: were driving around and my wife said she wanted to eat.
Speaker 1: She wanted me to go with her, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: i'll eat, but then I'm not gonna eat on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I didn't, you know, that's the deal I made
Speaker 1: with I'll eat like at midnight, but I'm not eating tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And so she said, okay, whatever you do, you stupid
Speaker 1: do it everywhere. And so we went out. We found
Speaker 1: a Dave's Hot Chicken, which is like a like an
Speaker 1: one of those uh you know, it's I guess it's
Speaker 1: a chain, but it's a small chain. And I ate
Speaker 1: a spicy chicken sandwich like midnight. And there were a
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, a bunch of like college kids
Speaker 1: in there, challenge down and stuff, and it was great.
Speaker 1: I loved it. It was wonderful. There's always a line outside. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's good. I mean they were open late. And I
Speaker 1: actually a lot of chicken last weekend. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna turn into a chick. I'm gonna start clucking good
Speaker 1: bait taste like Bernie, Uh, what's your your trip to Arby's? Now?
Speaker 1: I had from OS to FS. So I made one
Speaker 1: of my semi regular radio appearances. I there's a few
Speaker 1: radio shows I call into because I know the people
Speaker 1: and I'm friends with them, and I don't I don't
Speaker 1: get paid for them. But one of the semi radio,
Speaker 1: semi regular radio appearances I did from a parking lot
Speaker 1: at a different Chicken Shack restaurant in in southern California
Speaker 1: last week and I was still battling, as you know,
Speaker 1: my voice, it's most of the way back, I'd say,
Speaker 1: it's about I'm not quite all the way where I
Speaker 1: wanted to be, and hopefully it'll be back back soon.
Speaker 1: So but last weekend it was weird. I got off
Speaker 1: the air on Friday morning and I had this big,
Speaker 1: like coughing fest, and then I messed up my my
Speaker 1: vocal cords because I've been coughing so much, and so
Speaker 1: I was like, oh crap, Like I could not have
Speaker 1: done radio Friday or Friday night or Saturday night. My
Speaker 1: voice was all messed up. And but my buddy Sports
Speaker 1: with Coleman, beloved Baltimore media icon and longtime nemesis of
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, the Ravens coach, and so he wanted me
Speaker 1: to come out and talk some NFL playoffs. So when
Speaker 1: Sports with Coleman ask you, you have to accept. So
Speaker 1: I said, I'll do it and popped on the radio
Speaker 1: in Baltimore and the interview was scheduled for five forty
Speaker 1: I have l a time, okay, And I had planned
Speaker 1: the schedule so i'd have things to do and then
Speaker 1: that would, you know, kind of wrap it up. But
Speaker 1: I got done with the stuff I had planned with
Speaker 1: my wife earlier, and then my schedule got all wong
Speaker 1: because I got everything done. And then, you know, as
Speaker 1: a result, my wife wanted to go eat a little earlier,
Speaker 1: and I said, I don't want to eat until I
Speaker 1: get this thing done. You know whatever. It was my
Speaker 1: my neurosis, and she asked if I could just do
Speaker 1: the interview earlier. I said, well, no, that's not That's
Speaker 1: not how it word. When you're scheduled to do an interview,
Speaker 1: you can't say, hey, uh, let's do it at a
Speaker 1: different time at the last minute. That's rude. You're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do that. So I explained to her, and
Speaker 1: she like, all right, whatever, so we drove to the
Speaker 1: chicken shack that we were gonna have uh lunch slash
Speaker 1: dinner at and uh anyway, I sat in the car.
Speaker 1: My wife went out and ordered the food and went
Speaker 1: to the restaurant, and I sat there and barked and
Speaker 1: bloviated into the phone in my car about the NFL
Speaker 1: playoffs and all that stuff, and uh, we did the
Speaker 1: whole thing. But I did get a shot and I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of this from O's two F's or from
Speaker 1: f st Os. I did get a shot in at
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles on Baltimore Radio. So I felt good
Speaker 1: at that from OS to FS because yeah, they're raising
Speaker 1: the fences at the iconic Camden Yards, which has been
Speaker 1: around a while now, and I ripped I would a joke.
Speaker 1: I ripped him to me, that's one of the cathedrals
Speaker 1: of baseball, and you're breaking up concrete because you're you
Speaker 1: can't find a good starting pitcher or you can't find
Speaker 1: a guy that can hit the ball to the moon.
Speaker 1: And it's a joke. Right as I was taking it,
Speaker 1: I felt good to rip them on Baltimore Radio. So
Speaker 1: I was very proud of myself. Danny that's a real story.
Speaker 1: They were moving their fences back. Yeah, you can look
Speaker 1: it up. Not a lot of people talking about it
Speaker 1: because it's kind more of a Baltimore local Baltimore story.
Speaker 1: But if somebody should have said, no, no, don't do that,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you what's going on with you?
Speaker 1: What a bunch of pussies? Yes right, not pussy willows.
Speaker 1: They're pussies. Changed there from the orioles to the pussies.
Speaker 1: They should imagine what their logo will be. I have
Speaker 1: no idea unbelievable willows. Yeah, exactly, all right, I think
Speaker 1: we'll put the baby to bed. We got a big
Speaker 1: mail bag day fighting about that and the man that
Speaker 1: saved the mail bag that'll be on the Sunday podcast.
Speaker 1: We almost had no Sunday podcast. I got excited, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'll tell the story on the Sunday podcast. But I
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, we can. We have to do
Speaker 1: two podcasts. We don't have to worry about the Sunday podcast.
Speaker 1: And then the very last minute, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh man, it's like, oh, I guess
Speaker 1: we have to now do the podcast. So anyway, we're
Speaker 1: getting all that any promote Danny, any comedy gigs, any
Speaker 1: music gigs, anything at all you want to promote, just
Speaker 1: to fit our podcast. Make sure you rate it, subscribe
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, that would be great help. We used
Speaker 1: to make a big deal about that back in the
Speaker 1: old days on the podcast. So yeah, if you write
Speaker 1: a review it makes a difference. It does. It shouldn't,
Speaker 1: but it does. Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the NFL playoff games today and we will catch
Speaker 1: you next time. Population