1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 2: Hot takes break free for something special. The fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The fifth hour that means the 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: weekend has arrived is We're hanging out with you all 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: weekend long. You got fresh podcasts, your one stop pod shop. 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: As myself, Ben and Danny g we form Voltron And 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: this being the fifth day of April, we are united 14 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: as one to celebrate National Deep Dish Pizza Day, fine holiday, 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: one of those made up holidays. Danny and I deprived myself. 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: I'd been to Chicago many times over the years, but 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: it was only a couple years ago that I first 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: had Deep Dish pizza. And I was always against it 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: because I saw the tomato on top. I said, who 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: would want to eat a pie with the tomato? I 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: thought it was just a tomato pie. I didn't realize 22 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: I was so stupid that the cheese is under the tomato. 23 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: I had no concept of that. 24 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 3: Dandy. Yeah, that tomato still grosses me out on top 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 3: of that pizza. Otherwise, I like it. But we need 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: room in our belly because we are fresh off of 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: National Burrito Day, which was yesterday. 28 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: It's a big food week, big food week here in 29 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: the month of April. And I learned, because this is 30 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: the kind of crap that we need on this podcast, 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: I learned that Deep Dish Pizza has only been around 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: for a little over eighty years. It doesn't go back 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: for that. Of course, I guess before that didn't didn't 34 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: people you see leftovers and they just put a thing 35 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: a dough over leftovers and they'd have that for breakfast. 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: But the Deep Dish Chicago pizza was invented in nineteen 37 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: forty three by a guy named Ike Sewell, you familiar 38 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: with Ike. You like Ike, Danny? No? 39 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 3: I like Mike and Ike. 40 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. So this guy was the founder of UNO's Pizzeria, 41 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: which is still around. 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, I used. 43 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,839 Speaker 1: To like in southern California, there was a place called 44 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: Numero Uno. Dummy, like a ripoff, I guess of that. 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: But you think of the history of deep dish pizza 46 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: and right there in Chicago at the descendants of a 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: famous Italian family cooked up on the North Side, not 48 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: far away from Doc Mike or Mike North, any of 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: our friends in Chicago. Oh, there's no question. Still, all 50 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: these years later, Hey told stoall right. 51 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: Hey, speaking of food, did you see I know you're 52 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: big on TikTok, so you probably saw this, the New 53 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: Ballpark nine nine challenge. You have to stay at the 54 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 3: game for nine innings and you have to down one 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 3: hot dog and one beer per inning. 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: All right, so this is impossible. I'll tell you why. 57 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: First of all, they close the beer stands in like 58 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: the seventh inning, Right. 59 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 3: Well, I guess you got to get the last three 60 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: ahead of time. 61 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, but can't you most stadiums I've been to you 62 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: can only get two at a time. So I think 63 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: that's bull craft. I think that TikTok challenge unless you 64 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: had to have somebody with you. Two guys is enough 65 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, and who do they think they are? 66 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: So it's it's a beer and what else per any. 67 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 3: One hot dog one beer per inning? 68 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's listen, you've been to Dodger games. The guys 69 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: pregame in the parking lot. I mean that's supposed to 70 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: but they're they're they're pounded more than nine. You know, 71 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: the hot dog. How is that gonna cost you, by 72 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: the way, the hot. 73 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred seventy five dollars at Dodger Stadium. 74 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll go out with some chains on your wrists, 75 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: metal change. It's gonna be arrested. My god. 76 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: Oh the one seventy five is just for the Bruce Kis. 77 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: Then you got to pay for the hot dogs. 78 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck. 79 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 3: I think I think you could do the liquid if 80 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 3: they gave you nine bathroom breaks, But having all those 81 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: hot dogs sitting in your belly, Yeah, that would be 82 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 3: the hard part. 83 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 84 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: Like, I like a hot dog if it's well done, 85 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: and a lot of the hot dogs you get the 86 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: ballpark are barely cooked. It's just not ye not good. 87 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. They used to grill them well when we were kids. 88 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was wonderful. I love it grilled dog. 89 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the magic of a Dodger dog. Now 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 3: they're lightly boiled and we're like, yeah, cat food. 91 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: It's like they're barely cooked. It's like just just enough. 92 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: So the health department doesn't shut down the concession stand 93 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: like just barely above that, but not much above it, 94 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: just just a little bit like a whisker quin. 95 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 3: Breakfast spots bring you what they call toast piece of bread. 96 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 3: That's all it is is a piece of bread. It 97 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: seems like they had it in the toaster for ten seconds. 98 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, last week I was we'll get to this 99 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: during the podcast. I'm sure have you know tails from 100 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: our weekend? And I was, I was in Vegas. I 101 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: ended up in Vegas like you were in Vegas. I'm not. 102 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: I didn't fly. I drove, but driving out through the desert. 103 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: I've done that drive so much. We have our favorite 104 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: spots that we stop in. In the last I guess 105 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: the last year. There's there's a certain diner out there 106 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: that we stop out quite a bit, and it's an old, 107 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: like nineteen fifties themed a diner. And they get they 108 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: had my wife got something that I had toast on it, 109 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: and you're right, it was just like it was like 110 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: one slice of a bread cut in half and barely 111 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: cooked with a little butter. 112 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 3: Always ask for your toast toasted well please, And then 113 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 3: they just bring it back normal like it's just normal toast. 114 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: Same thing for a burger, right, you tell a medium, 115 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 3: usually they'll bring it back medium well. 116 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: Or the key thing at McDonald's, as we've learned on 117 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: this podcast that if you want fresh fries, say no 118 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: salt on the fries. Yeah, and then they have to 119 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,119 Speaker 1: make a batch and then you add your own salt, 120 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: which is a pain in the ass. 121 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: Like an animal, you pour a shit ton of your 122 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 3: own salt onto it. 123 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, can I get my fries? I want no salt? 124 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: And can I have seventeen packets of salt? Can I 125 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: get seventeen? Not sixteen, not fifteen? I need seventeen packets 126 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: of salt to pour on my fries. That's what I 127 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: need right there. I did get an email kind of 128 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: late in the day here the news of the week, 129 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: Danny the Athletics. We knew they were leaving Oakland, but 130 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: now we know that the end is this year probably 131 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: should have already happened, because no one's going to their games. 132 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: They're gonna be both moving a short trip away, a 133 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: couple hours whatever depending on traffic, to Sacramento, yeah, Tomato. Yeah, 134 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: so they'll be hanging out. And I've been to Sacramento 135 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: in the summer. It gets a little toasty there in 136 00:06:59,440 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: the summer. 137 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, I started my radio business in Stockton, California, 138 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 3: which is right next door to Sacramento. They already have 139 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: a good size amount of A's fans there because the 140 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 3: A's are their closest pro team, and the city is 141 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: really excited because they've wanted pro baseball there forever. Yeah. 142 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: So the email or was asking your thoughts, Danny, as 143 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: somebody who was an A's fan. Right, you've said that, right, 144 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: You used to go to A's games when you were 145 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: little as a kid. 146 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I wouldn't call myself an A's fan 147 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 3: as an adult, but as a kid, my family moonlighted 148 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 3: in the Bay Area. We spent half our time in 149 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 3: the Bay the other half in LA So whenever we 150 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 3: would be in the Bay, we would go to Oakland 151 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 3: A's games and chair for Ricky Henderson and the last 152 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: season for Reggie Jackson. He wore the A's uniform for 153 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 3: his last season. 154 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: It was nineteen eighty seven, I think. 155 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. In the late eighties saw the very beginning of 156 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 3: Mark McGuire's career. Jose Canseco, so I very much was 157 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: there around the Bash Brother time as a kid, so yeah, 158 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 3: very familiar with the Oakland Coliseum when it came to 159 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 3: A's games. That was the one ticket ben that my 160 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: family could afford when it came to a sporting event 161 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: in the Bay Area. 162 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to be able to get in cheap. 163 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: I don't even know what the prices are for A's 164 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: games now. Apparently they're so expensive no one can go. 165 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: All the boycotters are in the parking lot. They had 166 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 3: more boycotting in the parking lot than the fans that 167 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: actually went inside the gates. 168 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: Now, I've told this story in the past, and I 169 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: don't need to get too far into it, but I 170 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: actually one of my early jobs in radio, I got 171 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: a check from the Athletics and it was like the 172 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: coolest thing in the world. I was a radio reporter. 173 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: I was a radio stringer, and the Athletics they in 174 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: the days before the Internet, back in the Bronze Age, 175 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: to get updates on other games during the game. They 176 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: had this great idea because the A's used to really 177 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: have good teams, which was shocking. Danny. If you're a 178 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: kid now, you know, if you're maybe twenty five or 179 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: something like that, You're like, wow, they have sucked most 180 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: of my life, right, But they used to consistently have 181 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: good teams. 182 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 3: Oh, they were great back in the day. We're talking 183 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 3: Carne Lanceford, hendu Uh. Let's see who else was on 184 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 3: that team. 185 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: Bob welch Ye, Dave Stewart, Dennis Eckers. 186 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 3: One of the best. He was the best closer in 187 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 3: baseball at that time. 188 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: They got Mike Diego. There were some solid players on 189 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: the Oh was that short Geigo was second? 190 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, second base, Carney Lanceford third base, Mark McGuire at first, 191 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 3: and then yeah, Hindu out in the outfield. They had 192 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 3: some great, great teams in the late eighties and early nineties. 193 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was it was around that time, early nineties, 194 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: and I was a radio stringer and they would pay 195 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: me to give updates on the Angels because the Angels 196 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: and A's were often competing for positioning, and if if 197 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: the Angels were bad, usually they were playing somebody who 198 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: the A's were competing with in the division, whether it 199 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: was the Mariners who like Griffy and guys like that, 200 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: or you know, the Rangers had some good players in 201 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: that time too, so they would they would call up No, 202 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: I'd call them in the fifth inning and it was 203 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: really cool because the the play by play guy would 204 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: whoever it was at the time, whether it was Bill King, 205 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: who I had a good chance, a good opportunity of 206 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: meeting and Ken Korak and they would toss to me 207 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: and Ani. But they actually actually paid me for that, 208 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: and they paid me. They'd send a check, like an 209 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: actual check with the A's logo on it. It was like 210 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: the coolest thing in the world. That is it was 211 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: pretty neat, you know. It was like I was like, 212 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to frame it, but then I'm like, well, 213 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: I need the money, so I don't. I can't really, 214 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, I can't really frame it. I get a 215 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: I'm a struggling radio guy. 216 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: You needed it for your chili cheeseburgers. 217 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: Speaking of the A's, I fell down a rabbit hole, Danny, 218 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: because I was thinking, the A's have that dopey elephant thing. 219 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: You know, they got the elephant on the uniform and 220 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: they've had that forever, They've always had Yeah. 221 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not a promotional gag from the owner 222 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 3: back then. 223 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: No, I thought it was. I thought that was like 224 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: something that Charlie and Finley came up with, but this 225 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: is amazing. So this is one of those things. I 226 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: fell down a rabbit hole and I was like blown 227 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: away by this, and I was like, I gotta hear 228 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: I gotta learn more about this. So that actually goes back. 229 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: The origin of the elephant goes back to nineteen oh two. 230 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: Think about this. Baseball at that time. 231 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 3: It was my freshman year of high school. 232 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 1: Baseball at that time was not that old a sport, right, 233 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: And it started in the eighteen Maybe it did start 234 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: in the eighteen seventies, but still I'd say thirty years. 235 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: But the American League didn't start until I believe right 236 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: around that time. But anyway, the story goes a long 237 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: time ago in a land far far away, John McGraw 238 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: had a news conference with the Riders. I'm sick and 239 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: tired of fricking Riders. So he had a news conference 240 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: and he he was going to leave his position as 241 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: the manager of the Baltimore Orioles to take the same 242 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: job with the New York Giants. So A writers like, hey, hey, 243 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the Philadelphia's, because apparently the 244 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: A's were like the Dodgers of today. Back then, the A's, 245 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: it's made spent a lot of money. They brought up 246 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of contracts of top players that were in 247 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: the in the National League at the time. They brought 248 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: them over, and guys that were Hall of famers, And 249 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: you probably don't know who they are, because why would 250 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: unless you're a baseball nerd like Rube Ridell, who yeah, 251 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: good old Rube. So anyway, get to the point, please. 252 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: So this guy, this guy John McGraw, who was I 253 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: mean legends, had a lifetime employment. And so he responded 254 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: with snark to the question. He said, the Philadelphia club 255 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: will make no money. They have a big white elephant 256 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: on their hands, is what he said. Racist. And and 257 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: so McGraw, that comment by John McGrath got back to 258 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: Connie Mack, the legendary Connie Mack who wore isn't he 259 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: the guy that wore the suits and the dugouts? 260 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 3: Yeah? 261 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So he was the owner of the A's 262 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: and he liked the team so much he managed it. 263 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: He was like the Jerry Jones of his day, and 264 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: except I think I think they won occasionally. Anyway, he 265 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: was so taken aback by the comment, Yeah this is great, right, 266 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: So he made the white elephant the team's unofficial mascot, 267 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: and three years later, the A's played the Giants and 268 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: John McGraw in the World Series in nineteen oh five, 269 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: and they had a white elephant statue that they presented 270 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: to John McGraw before Game one of the thing. Anyway, 271 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: so it goes all the way back to. 272 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: The that is very baseball gangster. 273 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: Early mom and pop baseball, before baseball became a billion 274 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: dollar corporate machine, the industrial complex of baseball. That's back 275 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: when you could do crap like that, right, not now, 276 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: it's when. 277 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 3: The announcers all had old timing voices too. 278 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: They didn't even have announcers, Right, there's no radio. 279 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: Been somebody there on a microphone, right, I the actual ballpark. No, 280 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 3: I don't know. 281 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: Public address? 282 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, what did they use, like public address GUYE? Maybe 283 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 3: he had like one of those what are those things 284 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 3: called that? 285 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: Oh you see the circus when they talk. Yeah, I 286 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: don't know. 287 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 3: I don't know the name of that. But you know 288 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 3: what we're talking about. We caught it to do when 289 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: we were kids, old paper towel roll. Well, here's to. 290 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: Sum this up. To put a ball on this day 291 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: because you're a program director is in radio like to say, 292 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: put a ball on things. So the A's have come 293 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: full circle. They were mocked in nineteen oh two for being, 294 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: you know, the white elephant, right, that big white elephant, 295 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: and now in twenty twenty four they are the white elephant. Right. 296 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: They are the Booby Prize at this particular point. And 297 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: they are making mistake. And I said this on the 298 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: Overnight Show last night, Danny, they're making a mistake. They 299 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: should fully embrace Sacramento like it's like they're there, but 300 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: they don't really want to be there. They're not going 301 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: to use the Sacramento name on the jerseys or they're 302 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: going to be called the athletics or the A's. That's 303 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: a bad job by them. You're gonna be there, Embrace it, 304 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: enjoy it, yeah, because what you're doing, and I think 305 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: I referenced this on the show last night, as you're 306 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: just creating a great black market, an underground market for 307 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: people to sell Sacramento A's stuff. Just embrace it. And 308 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: why not put Sacramento on the road uniform. Man, Dude. 309 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 3: I would even go next level to stick it to 310 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 3: Oakland and get one of the surrounding cities and put 311 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 3: their name on everything, like the Elk Grove's I like it. 312 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: I like it. Just go a next level troll. And 313 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: that guy John Fisher who is totally totally ob twos right. 314 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: And I saw that the headlines yesterday about he was 315 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: talking about watching Aaron Judge hit a home run in 316 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: Sacramento and people were having a field day with that. 317 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: So he was trying to paint an image of how 318 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: exciting it's going to be to watch other players on 319 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: other teams hit home runs against the Atletics, which is 320 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: about right because the A's don't have anybody. But I 321 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: watched some of that ads series with the Red Sox 322 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: this week. Oh my god, that is hardly anyone that 323 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: you can recognize. It is it is not so so 324 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: this past weekend at a quick trip to Vegas, and 325 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: it was because of my odd success. I'm not going 326 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: to give out my one nine hundred number to get 327 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: my picks or whatever. Dude, I've done. 328 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 3: Boats, I'm gonna put one in your driveway. 329 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you a brand new yacht. No, but 330 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: I've done pretty well. I've been to Vay, I guess 331 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: a bunch this year. We went for a friend's birthday, 332 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: went for the Super Bowl, and then there was a 333 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: third trip that we made, and each time on my 334 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: way out of Sin City, I would put a couple 335 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: of bets down, just saying, you know, what the hell, 336 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: I'll have some action when I get back to La 337 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: So I'd put the bets down and I kept winning. 338 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: All three trips. I won, but I had to collect 339 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: the money. And now we were talking in our production 340 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: meeting Danny, how you can send them in certified mail 341 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: and they'll supposedly give you the money. But I don't 342 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: trust that. I want the money in my hand. 343 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 3: I got you. You seem like the kind of guy 344 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 3: that trusts everybody. 345 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted the money, so I was like, I 346 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: got put it in my palm, show me the money. Anyway, 347 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: So we went to Vegas. It was like a one 348 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: day trip and we stayed at my wife's favorite hotel, 349 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: which I'm gonna say is currently my favorite hotel because 350 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great compromise for both of us. 351 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: We stay it at the Virgin in Vegas. I didn't 352 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: see a lot of virgins there, but it is called 353 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: the Virgin, and the reason you know why we love 354 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: that hotel. We've talked about it in the past. 355 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 3: Think and that's where you should have went in your 356 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 3: early twenties in radio. 357 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: Up until my thirties probably, But no. The thing about 358 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,719 Speaker 1: the version which is great is my wife loves the 359 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: beds because they've got these memory foam beds, and most 360 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: hotel beds are terrible. 361 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not kidding. 362 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: She complains every time we travel somewhere is oh the 363 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: beds there my back and all this stuff in them. 364 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: But that's the one hotel she doesn't complain about because 365 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: they have good beds. And then for me, you know, 366 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: I am El Chipo. That was my name in the 367 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: Mexican cartel, El Chipo, and I like free Park. That's 368 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: one of the few hotels that has free Park. It's 369 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: off the strip a little bit, but it's close enough 370 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: if you're motivated, if the weather's not bad, you can 371 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: walk or take a cheap uber ride to the strip 372 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: and walk around. So it's it's a good compromise. But no, 373 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: I know it's it was. It was good and so 374 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: we had a fun time and I went around, did 375 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: our did our thing, went a little gambling. It's some 376 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: good food again in Henderson, by. 377 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 3: The way, gotta go to that sourdough place. 378 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: That sourdough place is amazing. We tried a new pizza 379 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 1: place which was pretty good as well. Let me so 380 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: if I can find the name of it here it was. 381 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: It was also in Henderson. Had a Philly cheese steak pizza. 382 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: They're like a cheese steak pizza place. And that was 383 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: pretty good. That was not bad either. Enjoyed that. We 384 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: went to Eenie Meenie miney mo h. Those guys pies. 385 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: Those guys pies, I well, something like that. That is 386 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: a lot of meat. So I walked in there, Danny right, 387 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: and like, these guys have commercials on TV and stuff, 388 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: and so I walk in. They had a TV above 389 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: where you order, and it was the commercial they were showing. 390 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: They had the commercial from the restaurant and the guy 391 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: on the commercial was the guy that said what do 392 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: you want? He was like he was there taking the order. 393 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: So as I was in the commercial, I was like, Wow, 394 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: I'm in the commercial for the pizza place. It's the 395 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: guy I think he was the owner, and it was 396 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: it was. 397 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: Really kind of like if he was an actor. He's 398 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 3: working overtime all. 399 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: Right, it was like a surreal situation. Phrase of the week, 400 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: Phrase of the week. It's the phrase of the week, 401 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: as requested by Alf the Alien Opiner. Our friend Alf said, 402 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: I I want to know one of the origin of 403 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: this phrase, since it's early in the baseball season. A 404 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: Texas leaguer. A Texas leaguer. You've heard that term before, right, Yeah, 405 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 1: that's one of those blue pits that falls between the 406 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: outfielder and the infielder, just like just out of the 407 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: reach of the infielder, but just in front of the outfielder. 408 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: Texas leaguer. It's been around forever. 409 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 3: I haven't heard anybody say that recently though. 410 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: Well, according to Alf, it's a big thing. That's what 411 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: That's what Elf said, Texas leaguer. But here's another one 412 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: that goes back to the early nineteen hundreds, and is 413 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: it true that you can thank Ollie Pickering for the 414 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: term of Texas leaguer. Do you know who Alli Pickering is, 415 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: Danny g No, of course not. Because you have a life, 416 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: you have a family, Yeah, you're married, you have a job. 417 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: Of course you wouldn't know who Oli Pickering is. Never 418 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: heard of them. So let's take you back in the 419 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: Hot Top time Machine to nineteen oh one, so this 420 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: predates that white elephant thing for the Athletics, but the 421 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: term Texas Leaguer dates back to nineteen oh one. There 422 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: was a guy named Ollie Pickering who made his debut 423 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: with a team called the Cleveland Blues. Give me the Blues, 424 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: not the Saint Louis Blues, the Cleveland Blues, and that 425 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: franchise would become the Cleveland Indians before the Wokesters got 426 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: all upset and now they're named after a bridge. But anyway, 427 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 1: this guy Pickering, Ollie Pickering, had become a icon in 428 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: the Texas League in minor league baseball, and they put 429 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: him right at the very top. He was the leadoff 430 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: guy for the Cleveland Blues. And as the legend goes, 431 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: he gets called up and dominates right. He just is amazing. 432 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: He's like, the guy's the greatest player they've ever seen before. 433 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: And he actually had the first at bat in the 434 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: history of the American League. There's another fun fact. I'm 435 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: gonna have to save that for a future who am 436 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: I game that no one will get, right, Ollie Pickering 437 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: the first at bat in American League history. Anyway, this 438 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: guy was so great, Danny, so memorable that his first 439 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: seven play appearance has all resulted in a little blue 440 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: pit just over the head of the infield and in 441 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: front of the outfield, and his teammates said, Okay, this 442 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: guy's from the Texas League. That's a Texas leaguer. And 443 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: that term lasted. Although it's not it's a colloquial term. 444 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: It hasn't been used much, as you've said recently, but 445 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: it stuck for over one hundred years. The term Texas 446 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: leaguer named after Ollie Pickering, a phenom of the bluep 447 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: pit from back back in the day. So thanks to 448 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: Alf for recommending the phrase of the we you want 449 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: some foodie fun. 450 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 3: Danny, let's do it. We started the podcast by talking food, 451 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: Let's end it by talking food. 452 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, come full circle, come full sir. Now you actually 453 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: sent me a food story. I was unaware of this 454 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: that I was excited about. Our favorite sandwich shop is 455 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: branching out and right there they're expanding. 456 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, fat Seals, which you hear Ben and the 457 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 3: whole crew talk about often on the Live Overnight show. 458 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 3: They have a brand new location that's inside the Woodland 459 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 3: Hills Mall at the Topanga Westfield location and it's inside 460 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 3: this fancy food court there. They call it the Topanga 461 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 3: Social Straight Cash Home. 462 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. So if you're ever in southern California, 463 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: fat Soals. There's locations of fat Cells in what Austin, Texas, 464 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: I believe, and a few other places. 465 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 3: It's not just in La Nope. It's that kid from 466 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 3: Entourage who started fat Seals, yeah and making a killing right, Yeah, 467 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 3: he's doing really well. 468 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: Hey we're making sandwiches over here. Yeah, that's their slogan. 469 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 3: I'd but to see it inside a very fancy Beverly 470 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 3: Hills type mall was really cool. 471 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: That is that is pretty neat. That's cool. So I'm glad. 472 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll put one near my house here in the 473 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: north Woods. That would be ideal. So we have a 474 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: few stories. We'll just kind of bounce around here. Foodie 475 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: Fun seven eleven has declared this is a big event 476 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: on my calendar. I check my phone every year, I say, 477 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: when is the start of slurpey season? Well, good news, 478 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: April thirteenth. April thirteenth coming up is the start of 479 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: slurpey season. And they have a promotion where you can 480 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: bring your own cup. So here's my question, Danny, I'm 481 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: not that smart. If I got a cup the size 482 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: of a bathtub, would seven eleven allow me to fill 483 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: it up with delicious slurpy? 484 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess that an employee there would stop you. 485 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: Probably, probably, so right, Probably So. McDonald's is launching in 486 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: All cap a new surf and turf burger, and so 487 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: the speculation in the foodie world is that if it 488 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: is successful in Canada, where do you think it's going 489 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: to end up America? That's right right here in the 490 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: old US of A, right here in America. So good 491 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: luck to our Canadian brothers and sisters eating the surf 492 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: in turf. I don't see a lot of surf in Canada, 493 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: although there is more. I think there's more coastline in 494 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: Canada than just about any other country in the world. 495 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: But you don't think of it for surf. You don't. 496 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 1: Don't do that. Windys in Canada has launched a new 497 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: white chocolate strawberry frosty. Does that do anything for you, Danny? 498 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 3: Do their prices surge on that or they stay? Do 499 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 3: they stay? Five kid size? 500 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: Yes, the white chocolate, because it's a little bit different 501 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: than regular chocolate that'll cost you an extra eight hundred dollars. 502 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: KFC has introduced new apple pie poppers. That sounds pretty good. 503 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 3: It does sound it sounds fried, so well anything. 504 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, how's your diet going good? 505 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 3: I've stayed away from the fried food. Yeah, yeah, and 506 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 3: I still haven't. The only sugar I had in Vegas 507 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 3: with Covino and Rich we ate at a restaurant there 508 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 3: inside the MGM called Crush, and they ordered one big 509 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 3: slice of cheesecake at the end of the meal, and 510 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 3: they said one slice, four spoons. So I took a 511 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 3: couple of bites off the back end of the cheesecake. 512 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: And was it worth it? 513 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 3: I think it was worth it because it was a 514 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: really good cheesecake. 515 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 1: All right. 516 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 3: Rand in the bathroom and threw it all up. 517 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: You're like an old school Hollywood starlet. Yeah, just put 518 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: your finger right down your throat. A wiener snitsel bringing 519 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: back chili cheese fries, the burrito version. So okay, last 520 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: time you ate it wiener schnitz. 521 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,719 Speaker 3: Oh, since I was a kid. 522 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the only German word I really know, wiener stittle. 523 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: That's about That's about it. What else is going on 524 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: in the foodie on a lot of new items. Jack 525 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 1: of the Box bringing back popcorn chicken chicken intry. I 526 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: got so fat on popcorn chicken from KFC when they 527 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: debuted that. I thought that was like the greatest thing 528 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: ever Mang bang. I would get these giant boxes of it. 529 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: They've also Jack in the Box. I love it Jack 530 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: in the Box. It isn't even pretending like they're not 531 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: trying to appeal to the late night munchie. The weed crowd, 532 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: a Pineapple Express shake coming to Jack in the Box, 533 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: smoke weed every day are coming back to Jack in 534 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: the Box. So they've got that. Your friends at Arby's 535 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: are giving away one free samwich a week here in 536 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: the month of April. I know you will take full 537 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: advantage of that. 538 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 3: So only time they're open, actually because they're up front 539 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 3: for a big drug operation. 540 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: Every time I see Arby's, I think of you saying that. 541 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: As I saw in Arby's, I was driving back out 542 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: in the desert in between LA and Vegas, and we 543 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: drove by in Arby's, I said, oh, that's probably if 544 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: Danny was here, he'd say that's a money laundering yep, 545 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: place right there. What a job, bunny. Two more quick 546 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: things that we'll get out on this. So McDonald's they 547 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: went back and looked at the data going back to 548 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Take that for data. McDonald's has doubled its 549 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: prices is twenty fourteen. Shocker, they have app And that's 550 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: not my opinion. Okay, it's a fact. 551 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 3: All right. So there's one more challenge that's been going 552 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 3: around on TikTok in thirty six hours? Could you spend 553 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 3: and eat one thousand dollars at McDonald's. 554 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: How many hours? 555 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 3: Thirty six? 556 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: Yes, I could. 557 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 3: With inflation the way it is, I said on the 558 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: air that I think you could do it. We keep 559 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: trending this direction with inflation, we could do this in 560 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 3: a few months. Easy. 561 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, they say, I love this a news story from scripts. 562 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: But they're like McDonald's is double its prices, but the 563 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: other fast food restaurants they have increased their prices by 564 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: sixty percent. So McDonald's is still they're still better than 565 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: everyone else can in comparison. Like okay, yeah, right, that's 566 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: the that's the ticket. Now, speaking of increased prices and 567 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: how you are manipulated by the matrix, these fast food restaurants, 568 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: especially in California now, because they're paying fast food workers 569 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: twenty dollars an hour, and if you have a certain 570 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: number of restaurants to know they're making more than us 571 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: pretty much, that's pretty wild. So of course what they've 572 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: done is the fast focompis have just started firing people 573 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: because they don't want to pay too many people that money. 574 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 3: Is Ama Robot and I now run Wendy. 575 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. So if you've been to these fast food restaurants recently, Dania, ye, 576 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: a lot of them have kiosks. They've had these for 577 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: a while, but it's even more now. And they did 578 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: some research and determined that the fast food industry loves 579 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: the kiosk. Not because they save money, that's part of it, 580 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: but they actually get you to spend more money. About that, 581 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: they used mind tricks while you are ordering. They know 582 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: that if they show you, you know, hey, you place 583 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: your order and they say would you like to add 584 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: a drink with that? Or would you like to add 585 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: fries with that? 586 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 3: What the upsell is? And I saw this inside the 587 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 3: Tepango mall. I had to order on a kiosk there 588 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 3: in the food court, and all the sides that you 589 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,959 Speaker 3: normally would just ask a live person for like, oh 590 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 3: could I get some ranch please? Or some of your 591 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 3: barbecue sauce. They charge for all of that on the 592 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 3: Kiosk screen. A bunch of bastards. 593 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible terrible. Yeah. So this guy that 594 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: runs Shakeshack, the CEO, did this interview and he was talking. 595 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: Actually I think this is from he's trying to investors. 596 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: It wasn't even from an interview. They just recorded him 597 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: talking to the people that were investing, and he said 598 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: that people who ordered at Kiosk rather than at cashier's 599 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: spent about ten sent more on average. And they said 600 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: that is because sometimes the people working, the actual human 601 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: beings would forget to ask would you like to add 602 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: so and so and so and so because they were 603 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: so busy there was a long line. But the digital 604 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: kios they don't care whether there's a line or not. 605 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: They try to upsell you, get you to buy a 606 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: larger item, bigger fries, bigger drink, all that. All right, 607 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: we'll get out on that, have a great Friday. You'll 608 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: be back Danny with Covino and Rich. 609 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you're done with your broadcasting for at least 610 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 3: the live radio show. This week, I'm going to be 611 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 3: having some Friday fun with weekend hob Nobbin and more 612 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 3: with Covino and Rich. That's this afternoon, two to four 613 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 3: pm on the West Side, five to seven pm in 614 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 3: beautiful Philly. Is one of those birds going. 615 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: Is it beautiful? 616 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 3: There's beautiful parts of Philadelphia. 617 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: Not the parts I've been to. We have a great day. 618 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: Lader Skater got a murder. 619 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 3: I gotta go.