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Speaker 1: In the a Everywhere.
Speaker 3: Welcome into the Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday. Additionally, Fifth Hour
Speaker 3: with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. As it
Speaker 3: is week number eighteen, it kicks off later today. We
Speaker 3: have double barrel action Danny in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Pets, Trailers.
Speaker 3: The Insers, and the Poets with a backup Poets the Ravens.
Speaker 3: That's the first game today at four thirty Eastern time
Speaker 3: one point thirty for those of us that live in
Speaker 3: the West. And then the late game the Texans and
Speaker 3: the Colts. That's a playing game, the Texas and the Colts.
Speaker 3: The winner will be a playoff team. Unless my math
Speaker 3: is wrong, the winner of that game will be a
Speaker 3: playoff team.
Speaker 1: At ten.
Speaker 3: And seven, and there's all kinds of holidays, Danny. Today,
Speaker 3: every day is a holiday. I mentioned this the other day.
Speaker 3: Is so many dopey holidays and nobody knows about and
Speaker 3: people for some reason like these. I got a good feedback,
Speaker 3: Danny about dopey We need to mention more dopey holidays.
Speaker 4: Oh you mean like the national days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's today. You know, this being the sixth
Speaker 3: day of January. It is Apple Tree Day today. It's
Speaker 3: observed annually on January sixth. It's Cuddle Up Day. That's
Speaker 3: Big Epiphany Day, also known as Three Kings Day. It
Speaker 3: is Fruitcake cost Day, so if you want to toss
Speaker 3: a fruitcake, and if you're you're looking to fart a lot,
Speaker 3: it's National Bean Day today.
Speaker 5: Most of these days are stupid, unless there's some fun
Speaker 5: twist we can have on the radio, like fart sound effects.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that could be that could be good. It's a
Speaker 3: National Technology Day today.
Speaker 4: That's it's great glorying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is this is actually relevant National takedown. The
Speaker 3: Christmas Tree Day is January. If my wife so paranoid
Speaker 3: because she works in law enforcement, she hears stories about
Speaker 3: people's houses burning up from Christmas trees. We got rid
Speaker 3: of that thing. The first sign of that tree starting
Speaker 3: to die, I think was gone. We just said, get
Speaker 3: the f out of here, we're done with you, and
Speaker 3: he got rid of that thing right away.
Speaker 1: So I think that tree has been gone for a while.
Speaker 1: But I guess.
Speaker 3: Today is national take down your Christmas Tree. But on
Speaker 3: this podcast, we've got foody Fun Tommy Paradise. Not related
Speaker 3: to foody fund men in a way.
Speaker 1: It is in the face opposition research.
Speaker 3: And that will likely be all we have time for.
Speaker 3: But foody fun.
Speaker 1: Is where we begin.
Speaker 3: These are stories about food that caught our attention, and
Speaker 3: so he said, why not Red Lobster. They are offering
Speaker 3: twenty dollars lobster and shrimp scampy deal.
Speaker 1: Are you a lobster and shrimp scampy guy.
Speaker 3: I'm not a big seafood guy, so it really wouldn't
Speaker 3: apply to me, but it's true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm probably not from Red Lobster. I do
Speaker 5: love their cheddar Bay biscuits, though.
Speaker 1: I've had those. Those are really good.
Speaker 3: That's through tomorrow, by the way, so you have like
Speaker 3: today and tomorrow little Caesars slices in stick pizza. It's back, Danny,
Speaker 3: It's back.
Speaker 5: No, you knowcet about diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea.
Speaker 3: Pizza pizza, Pizza Del Taco offering sixty cent snack tacos
Speaker 3: now Del Taco available in the West. That's not a
Speaker 3: national chain, it's a regional chain. But that's through March
Speaker 3: early March. So there is that Starbucks new iced shaken
Speaker 3: hazel nut oatmelk espresso espresso.
Speaker 4: Well I saw this. It's only seventy two grams of sugar.
Speaker 3: You will literally walk out with diabetes. But that is
Speaker 3: the that is the gift. It's an added bonus. It's
Speaker 3: an added bonus.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: What else did I see that was interesting? On Foody Fun?
Speaker 3: Here's another one of those stories about fast food items
Speaker 3: that you can get cheaper versions of by going to
Speaker 3: places like all the Costco and Walmart. We've used a
Speaker 3: lot of these, We've gotten some good feedback on them,
Speaker 3: and so I guess I'll mention a few of these. Now,
Speaker 3: are you an all de fan? There are all these
Speaker 3: where we are. But the problem I have with all
Speaker 3: these you got to put like quarters in to get
Speaker 3: the cart. That's annoying, Like that.
Speaker 5: I can use a cart. When I went in, I
Speaker 5: had my first all the experience about four or five
Speaker 5: weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Oh, you you're a newbie to all the I've been
Speaker 3: there before a few times over the years.
Speaker 5: There was no rhyme or reason to where everything was
Speaker 5: located in the store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little bunch.
Speaker 5: Of like leftover stuff, I guess, a lot of discontinued
Speaker 5: items and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a cheaper You've got a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff that's on sale, give you a deal. But the
Speaker 3: claim is that if you love the McDonald's Big Mac,
Speaker 3: you can find double the patties, double the flavor option,
Speaker 3: the all the double cheeseburger, and they claim it's all
Speaker 3: these versions. They have their own version of the iconic
Speaker 3: Big Mac.
Speaker 4: Is that in the frozen section.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's also the white Castle Racist, which I think that's.
Speaker 1: From White Castle, So I don't know that that is
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we've seen that in the frozen section.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not something to get all excited about.
Speaker 3: What else Costco they have? Oh, yeah, we've talked about.
Speaker 3: This is the Chick fil a Nuggets ripoff version and
Speaker 3: the chicken the just Bear lightly Bear, lightly breaded chicken chunks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We've been buying those here at my house for
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are really good. Those are those are solid.
Speaker 3: And then Walmart's got the actually tried that. I think
Speaker 3: we talked about this last we talked about it last week.
Speaker 3: I don't know I saw it. I don't know if
Speaker 3: we mentioned it on the podcast, but that that you
Speaker 3: can get rip off Taco Bell taketos at Walmart. And
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that's you know, that bullshit. You
Speaker 3: know that's not going to taste like Taco Bell. And
Speaker 3: I'm not even a huge Taco Bell fan. I just thought, well,
Speaker 3: I've had the taktos at Taco Bell and I thought
Speaker 3: they were all. They were fine and it's restaurant quality.
Speaker 3: So I bought bought the box, and I mean it
Speaker 3: was pretty pretty much the same. I was like shocked, Like, man,
Speaker 3: it was like the Dell mex version of the taketo,
Speaker 3: the chicken and cheese version, and it was pretty right on.
Speaker 3: They got the dipping sauces that are dupes, and the
Speaker 3: taketos are just like Taco Bell, the rolled chicken tacos,
Speaker 3: and I mean there's a bunch of other stuff, but.
Speaker 5: You'll give you a quick hack. You know the Polynesian
Speaker 5: sauce at Chick fil A. Uh huh, it's sweet. It's
Speaker 5: almost like a sweet and sour. Yeah. At Costco they
Speaker 5: have those egg rolls that they sell really good and
Speaker 5: they're pretty healthy. Get the Polynesian sauce. You can buy
Speaker 5: the Chick fil A Polynesian sauce at any grocery store.
Speaker 5: Put that on a plate, a little of that. Put
Speaker 5: a few of those egg rolls in the air fryer, boom,
Speaker 5: You're good your gold.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I felt very plugged in because of this podcast any
Speaker 3: because during the week, I think it was the Friday show,
Speaker 3: the end of the show.
Speaker 1: At the end of the week show.
Speaker 3: And Cooper Loop we're talking in our production meeting, which
Speaker 3: is really like a brief conversation off the air, and
Speaker 3: Coop said that he went to Costco and they had
Speaker 3: chocolate chip cookies and he didn't realize they were going
Speaker 3: to have chocolate chip cookies. So then I got to
Speaker 3: explain because of the podcast, and I'd given the story
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the chocolate
Speaker 3: chip cookie replacing the churro in the Costco food court,
Speaker 3: which is really big news for everybody, and Coop said
Speaker 3: two fifty for the cookie, and it's their version of
Speaker 3: like the Crumble cookie, and it was well made, but
Speaker 3: probably not worth two fifty.
Speaker 1: He felt like, not worth the two fifty. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: his movie, but yeah, yeah, it's one of those.
Speaker 5: Times with those crumble prices. That's not a bad deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, crumbles like ten bucks probably for the same cookie.
Speaker 3: So if you're into it, and kids generally love cookies,
Speaker 3: so I gotta believe they're good. They're banking on kids
Speaker 3: with their parents who go shopping that on the way out, Hey,
Speaker 3: I see a giant chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be call in a couple of years, Danny.
Speaker 5: While we're inside FOODI fun, I should mention that I
Speaker 5: got to sample some of Benny's brittle, that peanut brittle
Speaker 5: that you put in the Christmas box you gave me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's the first sugar or the first candy I should
Speaker 5: say that I have intentionally eaten in the past thirteen weeks. Ooh,
Speaker 5: and man, was it worth it? That brittle is better
Speaker 5: than seese candies?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you I'm not kidding, not just pulling your leg here, Ben, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you can get done with radio, which could be any
Speaker 5: moment after yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the gift card.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, with you emailing the boss about a phantom
Speaker 5: gift card. Seriously, you could call it Benny's brittle. That
Speaker 5: peanut brittle you made was so good. I kept sneaking
Speaker 5: back to the box and taking pieces out, and I'm
Speaker 5: not supposed to be eating sugar right now.
Speaker 4: I couldn't help myself. I was like a gremlin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm sorry you fell off the wagon because
Speaker 3: of that. I thought, but maybe you give your kids
Speaker 3: or your wife could have so well, no, no, it's good.
Speaker 3: I just started futzing around with peanut brittle and I
Speaker 3: was like, because I saw some other people that made it,
Speaker 3: and I was like, well, my brother in law has
Speaker 3: made us, so I thought that can't be that hard.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to, like really really nail it, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 4: I want to.
Speaker 3: It's a science to it. It's it's actually just it's
Speaker 3: not hard to make, but to do it right. I
Speaker 3: even went out and bought It's what a loser I am.
Speaker 3: I bought a candy thermometer because.
Speaker 4: All right, you mentioned that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like the whole, the whole secret thing.
Speaker 3: Is is there's this sweet spot where if you mix
Speaker 3: everything together, you got to keep stirring it, but it
Speaker 3: has to get to the perfect temperature and then you
Speaker 3: have to quickly get you have to pour the brittle
Speaker 3: out and let it kind of set. And if it's
Speaker 3: not the right temperature, and I screwed it up a
Speaker 3: couple of times, it's terrible. But if it's the right temperature,
Speaker 3: it's it's the quality of like a bakery or a
Speaker 3: dessert shop.
Speaker 5: Maybe a new nickname, the Willy Wonka of late night radio.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, and I'm I'm my next thing, and
Speaker 3: maybe I'll do this today and we can talk about
Speaker 3: it later on on the podcast.
Speaker 1: If I do, maybe i'll do it tomorrow. But it's
Speaker 1: he I'm gonna do a brittle, but macadamia nut brittle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Hawaiian style.
Speaker 3: So that yeah, because I had that when I was
Speaker 3: a little kid, we went on a family vacation to Hawaii.
Speaker 3: I didn't appreciate Hawaii because I didn't want to go.
Speaker 3: It was a long flight. I didn't, you know, a
Speaker 3: fat kid at the beach. But the thing my mom
Speaker 3: gave me that I still remember and I loved it
Speaker 3: was the Macadamian nut brittle that that was so good?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was so amazing. I still remember it,
Speaker 3: and I don't really I haven't had it outside of Hawaii.
Speaker 3: So that's my new as my grandfather will say, michigos
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna mess around with.
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser. A couple of the
Speaker 1: foody nottes quickly.
Speaker 3: McDonald's Canada has added new hot honey mccrispy sandwich to
Speaker 3: the menu. Hot nuts, yeah, so will that be coming
Speaker 3: to a Meca? A Mahka CAFC has introduced new honey
Speaker 3: barbecue wraps with a new spicy mac and cheese wrap.
Speaker 1: I think I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: There are five McDonald's pies to try around the world.
Speaker 3: Does that interest you at all? Five McDonald's pies to
Speaker 3: try around the world. In Malaysia they have a banana
Speaker 3: caramel pie that actually doesn't sound bad. It could be
Speaker 3: all right, Oh this sounds terrible. Japan beef stew pie. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are they doing in Japan? Come on, nasty? This
Speaker 3: one's in the in Ireland. In the UK, you can
Speaker 3: get Galaxy caramel pie, crispy deep fried chocolate pastry, pie
Speaker 3: filled with caramel sauce. It does look like the original
Speaker 3: apple pie. The crust on it looks like the original
Speaker 3: apple pie. Let's see what else do it?
Speaker 5: That kind of stuff all looks so gross to me. Now,
Speaker 5: maybe a little bite of it. I can't believe I
Speaker 5: used to eat crap like that, like the old dessert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're better not.
Speaker 3: I'll only give you a brittle like once a year
Speaker 3: unless you want more than again.
Speaker 4: Be my brittle pusher.
Speaker 3: The ovaltine pie available in Hong Kong. That is one
Speaker 3: of the most disgusting things I have ever recently looked at.
Speaker 3: Here a chocolate crust, chocolate filling, but it's all like ovaltine.
Speaker 4: Hard pass on that.
Speaker 1: I'm good on that, all right?
Speaker 3: So that ends the foody fun portion of the podcast,
Speaker 3: but there is more to go. For example, this is
Speaker 3: the Saturday part to a Life of Mallard, Life of
Speaker 3: Danny G. So we had a staycation last weekend, the
Speaker 3: last weekend of twenty twenty three. Me and the wife
Speaker 3: pretended that we were like La tourists that had a
Speaker 3: grand time. We were grubbing around La Destination Pastrami paradise,
Speaker 3: which means Langer's Delhi talk about it every once in
Speaker 3: a while. I go there every once in a while
Speaker 3: on the podcast A Slice of Delicatess in Heaven.
Speaker 1: Right across from MacArthur.
Speaker 4: Park in LA.
Speaker 3: You can get any kind of you know, fake id's
Speaker 3: or drugs or contraband in that park during the and
Speaker 3: then if you go back at night, Danny, you can
Speaker 3: get shanked.
Speaker 4: Got a murder.
Speaker 1: So it's really whatever you need. They got a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything.
Speaker 3: And the way I look at this, if you're going
Speaker 3: to charge almost thirty dollars for a pastrami sandwich, it
Speaker 3: better be good, right, it better be good. This place
Speaker 3: is amazing. It's better than the New York delis. And
Speaker 3: I just learned that last year. We went to the
Speaker 3: to New York to visit my my brother for my
Speaker 3: niece's graduation from from high school.
Speaker 1: So we were there for like.
Speaker 3: A week, you know, we went did that whole thing,
Speaker 3: and and we went to the famous Kats's Deli, which
Speaker 3: had been my favorite New York Delhi, and it hailed
Speaker 3: in comparison to Langers. I don't know what they do
Speaker 3: there that's so good now that I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: go back to New York next time and try some
Speaker 3: other delicate testants.
Speaker 1: So maybe some of you guys who.
Speaker 3: Are in the New York area, let me know what
Speaker 3: your favorite delicate testant is, and I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 3: I was always gone to Kats and wasn't that good.
Speaker 3: But this place in La Is Nuts, it's it's just wonderful.
Speaker 3: And so that's how we started our day. We waited online.
Speaker 3: There was a line to get in. You have to
Speaker 3: eat lunch there because you can't have dinner. The thing
Speaker 3: closes at four o'clock. It's that bad a neighborhood. They
Speaker 3: close at four o'clock. You don't want to be there
Speaker 3: when it gets starting, you know, you just want to
Speaker 3: get out of there because it's just terrible. The next
Speaker 3: stop was the Neon Lights, and that's Glendale Bro, Glendale Bro.
Speaker 1: I used to love.
Speaker 3: Working out at the gym in Glendale. I enjoyed that
Speaker 3: very much, very much back in the day. Sus to
Speaker 3: live not far from there, but they have a Neon museum.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to the Neon Museum, Danny, No, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't know about it.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know, but i'd heard about it.
Speaker 3: But I'd never gone, and we decided, Hey, we're doing
Speaker 3: our staycation. We had a nice pastrami Paradise. Let's go
Speaker 3: over to Glendale and there we will right across from
Speaker 3: Americana by the way, right across fro Americana and soak
Speaker 3: up the ambiance the neon lights as I believe ten
Speaker 3: Bucks if I remember correctly, right across a big mall
Speaker 3: in Glendale. If you're in the LA area, you're familiar
Speaker 3: with that. If not, if you visit LA. I enjoyed
Speaker 3: my stop. Some of the high lights.
Speaker 5: Love that mall by the way, the outdoor part of
Speaker 5: it with the water fountains.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's great. Yeah, Americana is a beautiful mall.
Speaker 3: So anyway, the the highlights, there's all the stuff's available
Speaker 3: on Instagram. Ben Maler on Fox on Instagram and more
Speaker 3: on the Instagram page. Tomorrow on the I got a
Speaker 3: story I'm gonna say for tomorrow. But after after that
Speaker 3: we moved on a little bit. But some of the
Speaker 3: signs my favorite was this old this I put it
Speaker 3: right at the front of the I posted some photos
Speaker 3: on the Instagram page, which are also available on Facebook.
Speaker 3: But it was this exterminating company from back in like
Speaker 3: the sixties in La and the sign was a guy
Speaker 3: wearing a top hat like he was Abraham Lincoln and
Speaker 3: a jacket, like a nice dress jacket and running with
Speaker 3: a case with his name on it.
Speaker 4: Doc.
Speaker 1: He's a cartoon character.
Speaker 3: Doc kills kills him and it's all the neon and it
Speaker 3: says his patients all die.
Speaker 1: It's massive and it's it's urine. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: Some of my my other favorites. There was a horse
Speaker 3: that kind of moved a neon win with winning wire.
Speaker 3: It was called There was the La Pama Chicken sign,
Speaker 3: which was pretty funny. This is like a bunch of
Speaker 3: like random random stuff.
Speaker 1: That was was pretty cool. So so there was that.
Speaker 3: Enjoyed that and from there we are last stop we
Speaker 3: we we hung out at the Grand Central Market more
Speaker 3: and that maybe later. But it was not in the face, Dan,
Speaker 3: I mean, the food was in the face, but that
Speaker 3: was about it. That was all that was in the face.
Speaker 4: In the face that went down your pie hole is
Speaker 4: what that food did. Hello, did you.
Speaker 5: And your wife split the thirty dollars pastrami or you
Speaker 5: each had your own?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm a cheap soob So we did
Speaker 3: split because and but it wasn't because of that.
Speaker 4: Well that's all. I'm not hating on that. That's a
Speaker 4: veteran move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like it was really expensive and we
Speaker 3: were planning on kind of grazing like cattle. So we
Speaker 3: figured we were going to eat again. So let's not
Speaker 3: spoil our. You know, we want to head. We wanted
Speaker 3: to have room, so we did split. That's the way
Speaker 3: to go, just to taste of the base exactly. Now
Speaker 3: our very first parent fail. Oh yeah, let's back up
Speaker 3: the last week of December, a couple of days before
Speaker 3: the new year. Baby CoA drooling because he's teething. He
Speaker 3: needed a bath, and she's like doing baby talk to him. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wash her here, I'm gonna clean it. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna clean your poop.
Speaker 5: But so she wraps him up, she runs the warm
Speaker 5: bath water, gets him in there. I hear him splashing
Speaker 5: around having fun. I'm watching some TV in the bedroom
Speaker 5: as she's in the bathroom, you know, giving him a bath,
Speaker 5: and I hear.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, oh, no, oh no. Yeah, you don't want to.
Speaker 1: You don't want to never, it's not something you're looking for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I run into the bathroom, the light on, her
Speaker 5: phone on and it in his face, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: what is going on?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 5: She took baby body wash, started by washing his arms
Speaker 5: in his hands, and CoA immediately took his hand and
Speaker 5: directly put his hand right into his eye.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the face in the face, the face. No,
Speaker 1: you don't want to eyes cor Oh boy, man, he
Speaker 1: see those things come on.
Speaker 5: My mom liked to say everything was a bloody murder scream.
Speaker 4: It really was.
Speaker 5: Though he had this big red ring around his eye.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even half open. Quickly googling what to do
Speaker 5: when you get soaked directly into the baby's eye, and
Speaker 5: the Internet says to flush the eye out with room
Speaker 5: temperature water for ten to fifteen minutes. Okay, yeah, we
Speaker 5: got him leaned down and we are rinsing the eye out.
Speaker 5: But remember he's still wrapped in a towel. There's there's
Speaker 5: no way we could get him all the way dry,
Speaker 5: and now we are getting him even more wet to
Speaker 5: the face and he's out of the warm bathtub. Uh So, now,
Speaker 5: besides that red eye and us examining the eye every
Speaker 5: few minutes after that to make sure he was okay.
Speaker 5: The next day he came down with a cold.
Speaker 4: Boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 5: Ah, double parent fail daily, double poor a guy. And
Speaker 5: it's not as old school as it used to be
Speaker 5: with getting the mucus out of the baby's nostrils.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, because.
Speaker 5: Obviously the little baby, they don't know how to blow
Speaker 5: their nose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get a cold.
Speaker 5: It's horrible because you have to take it almost looks
Speaker 5: like a turkey baster and you have to jab that
Speaker 5: into their nostrils and suck the mucus out.
Speaker 1: Ah, it's terrible.
Speaker 3: And the thing that sucks when you're a kid, like
Speaker 3: he's got to get sick a bunch of times to
Speaker 3: get kind of get. I don't know what's the term
Speaker 3: I'm looking for you, but you gotta get. You gotta
Speaker 3: get sick, and then your body kind of adjusts to
Speaker 3: certain things and you get sick less.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's how it works, right, you gotta.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, And this is his first experience with
Speaker 5: ever being sick. But now they have and it plays music,
Speaker 5: and I'm convinced that he's gonna have this traumatic memory
Speaker 5: of this music. It's digital. It's a digital nose suckers
Speaker 5: and it actually it has a light and it plays music. Really,
Speaker 5: so here comes my better half, you know, walking towards
Speaker 5: him with this thing with a light flashing and music playing.
Speaker 5: The first time he saw he got excited because he
Speaker 5: thought it was a new toy. Now when he sees
Speaker 5: that thing, he screams and if he could run, he
Speaker 5: would have been running. Kind So this thing is like
Speaker 5: a suction cup kind of like that. Have you seen that?
Speaker 4: What do they call it? A nuvage? For adult?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have seen yeah.
Speaker 5: Little mini version of that. But for baby, he's finally
Speaker 5: getting over it right now, but he is not one
Speaker 5: happy camper, especially with getting his nostrils cleaned out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 4: Double parent fail.
Speaker 5: Though it was was not a fun or a memorable
Speaker 5: New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at the Yeah, that's not that thing's
Speaker 3: kind of the the vaje thing.
Speaker 1: They have a baby version. That's the that's not good,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: Opposition research, opposition research. I would go back to the
Speaker 3: Grand Central Market. We stopped by the Grand Central Market
Speaker 3: on her way on our staycation after the Neon Museum.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to the Grand Central Market on
Speaker 3: Broadway in downtown.
Speaker 1: Have you been down there?
Speaker 4: I was there as a kid.
Speaker 3: Like I've lived in La my entire life. I lived
Speaker 3: like a mile two miles away from there in Lincoln Heights,
Speaker 3: and I never had never been there.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I let it up there.
Speaker 4: It's a pretty cool spot.
Speaker 3: It is it is, and I've never been there. It's
Speaker 3: a tourist trap, I guess at this point. And there's
Speaker 3: like around forty restaurants, just a little kiosk type things
Speaker 3: for restaurants, and they have this place which supposedly has
Speaker 3: the greatest cheeseburger in Los Angeles called for the win.
Speaker 3: So what do you think I did?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 1: What do you think I did?
Speaker 5: You sampled the cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: I did not what I did?
Speaker 3: I stood there because they have an open kitchen, and
Speaker 3: I did opposition research. I studied how they make the
Speaker 3: number one cheeseburger in Los Angeles, the smash boog.
Speaker 4: Of those little spy cameras.
Speaker 1: No, it was.
Speaker 3: Funny because I didn't really feel like a burger. But
Speaker 3: I like to make smash burger because I have a griddle,
Speaker 3: so I love making smash burgers and I like I
Speaker 3: can make them better. So I was like, I was fixating.
Speaker 3: My wife said, well, are you good at smashburger? I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't even feel like, but I'm just I want
Speaker 3: to see how they make them because this is supposedly
Speaker 3: the top place in Los Atas. So I was watching
Speaker 3: how the guy behind the griddle was making the burgers
Speaker 3: and the techniques that he was using. And I took
Speaker 3: this opposition research and I started playing around. And I've
Speaker 3: got a little more to fine tune how I make them.
Speaker 3: I have to go to a chef's shop at some
Speaker 3: point here. There's a different burger smasher I need to get.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna mimic the one they have at that restaurant,
Speaker 3: but looking forward to messing around see if I can
Speaker 3: make If I can make the perfect burger at the house,
Speaker 3: I don't have to go and pay fifteen dollars for
Speaker 3: a cheeseburger at a you know.
Speaker 5: A candy thermometer and a special burger smasher. Your mom
Speaker 5: would love this. You would know you had never thought
Speaker 5: in one hundred years you'd be shopping for items like this.
Speaker 3: If anyone that knew me when I was like in
Speaker 3: my early twenties to think that here I am. I
Speaker 3: guess I'm middle aged. I hope maybe not probably past
Speaker 3: middle age. But my god, what have I done with
Speaker 3: my life?
Speaker 1: Back then?
Speaker 4: You were just drive through Smasher.
Speaker 1: Oh, I draw, I knew.
Speaker 3: I had the Windy's that night, I had the del Taco,
Speaker 3: I had the McDonald's night, the Carl's Junior Night.
Speaker 1: I had a little night for everything. Other restaurants.
Speaker 3: They had the Lucky Bird, Fried chicken, sandwich place, McConnell's
Speaker 3: ice cream, which is that famous place from Santa Barbaro.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, donut Man. I used to live near the original
Speaker 3: donut Man. I used to live out in the San
Speaker 3: Gabriel Valley in Glendora, in the San Gabriel Valley part
Speaker 3: of La Sticky Rice. That looked pretty good. There were
Speaker 3: a lot of Mexican places I'd never heard of. There
Speaker 3: was a deli, Wexler's Deli, which is supposedly famous, but
Speaker 3: it's pretty cool. So a grand central market and a
Speaker 3: lot of cities have this kind of place, and they
Speaker 3: have it, like in Philly they've got a famous market.
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Seattle. I didn't even know this thing.
Speaker 3: It was around in LA. So it was pretty pretty cool, right,
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that. It is Saturday today, the
Speaker 3: sixth day of the month of January. A couple of
Speaker 3: NFL games. I'll be watching those. Anything else going on
Speaker 3: with you, Danny today? Anything special?
Speaker 5: Ah NFL and using that mucus sucker on co Hopefully man,
Speaker 5: hopefully this is over in a couple of days, Ben,
Speaker 5: because I swear this is the one part of being
Speaker 5: a parent that I didn't want in my life. Having
Speaker 5: to bring little kids to urgent care and doctor's appointments,
Speaker 5: all that sort of thing was one of the reasons
Speaker 5: I didn't want kids for all those years. But the
Speaker 5: flip side of it is you have a wonderful kid
Speaker 5: and they bring a lot of joy to your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wherever they'll you know, it calls when he's older.
Speaker 3: It once you're like really old. Hopefully Cole will still
Speaker 3: take care of you, right, love.
Speaker 4: You and all.
Speaker 5: Oh and as soon as he's like nine or ten,
Speaker 5: he can drive himself to the urgent care.
Speaker 3: That's a good move. You know, about ten years old,
Speaker 3: that's old enough to drive. You know, you should be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, have a wonderful Saturday, thank you, will have
Speaker 3: a fresh pod with a mail bag and probably have
Speaker 3: pop goes the culture, and I will tell a story.
Speaker 3: I saved it. I saved it for tomorrow. I got
Speaker 3: a couple of things that I have not talked about
Speaker 3: that that happened recently that we'll get to tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I saved them for the Sunday pot. Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Austa Pasta bopulation