1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. Welcome to the month of December, 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: the first Fifth Hour podcast for the month of December. 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: I am Ben Mallor you probably are knew that with 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: the Great Danny g Radio. And this is the very 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: beginning of the December broadcast season. Always an interesting time, 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: Always an interesting time because a lot of vacation coming 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: up over the next month into twenty twenty four. But 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,639 Speaker 1: here we are Danny beginning a new How exciting is that. 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 3: I'm actually a little blurry eyed right now because it 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: was iHeart Company party last night. 20 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 4: We were all looking for you too. You never walked in. 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: I have not been to an iHeart Christmas party since 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: they were at the Beverly Hills Hotel. And like the Hilton, 23 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: and these are these massive, massive parties. I actually did 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: want to go this year though, to be fair. To 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: be fair, I did wanted to, you know, be like 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: everyone else there and try to suck up the management 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: at the iHeart Holiday party. But because of the schedule, 28 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: it was just physically impossible. But you were there, Danny. 29 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: So what was the food situation? Like? What are we 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: looking at here? Was it just appetizers? Did they pay 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: for drinks? Usually they don't pay for alcohol at these things. 32 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 3: What they do and it was the same way last year. 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 3: They give you a couple of drink tickets when you 34 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: walk in, okay, so they try to control the damage, 35 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 3: and then there's bartering going on between coworkers with extra tickets. 36 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 3: The food was like sliders and little mini burgers. There 37 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 3: were some hot trays of wings and stuff like that, 38 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: so the food was pretty good. Then the desserts I 39 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: didn't partake because I've still been sugar free the past 40 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 3: five weeks. But there were people walking around with cookies 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:26,839 Speaker 3: and brownies. 42 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: Okay, who do you think ate the most? 43 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 3: I saw Rich go back and forth about five different 44 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 3: times after he had a few drinks. Is at first 45 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 3: he wasn't eating and I heard Covino say dude, you're 46 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: not eating, and he's like, no. Later after I drink 47 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 3: and he got enough drinks in him to where I 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: saw him, as he said it, nibbling on the food. 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: But it was after everybody else was done with the food. 50 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: Did anyone take a doggie bag of food when they 52 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: were on their way out? Did anyone say, I take 53 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: that tray of sliders. I'd like to have that for 54 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: tomorrow's lunch. 55 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: No, I didn't see that, but I did see what 56 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 3: you were talking about, with a lot of butt kissing 57 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: and stuff like that. You'll be proud to know that. 58 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 3: I went up to Julie Talbot, who is the president 59 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 3: of our company. 60 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: One of the most powerful people in broadcasting. 61 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: And I did not kiss her, but I immediately started 62 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: to ask her about Animal Thunderdome. 63 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, yeah, she said, what. 64 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 3: No, no, no, She was a fan about kick the coverage 65 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: and listened to it every morning, so she knows Animal Thunderdome. 66 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: And she's the one who drew up the paperwork for 67 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: Clay as she lives at Nashville and is a neighbor 68 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 3: and his friends with him. So that was my You know, 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: I've known her for a while, and I walked up 70 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 3: and said, so, what's going on with Clay? What's going 71 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 3: on with Animal Thunderdome? And she threw her hands up. 72 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 3: She's like, I No, I gave him the paperwork. I'm 73 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 3: waiting for him to sign it. 74 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: So all right, right, So now you can pester Clay then. 75 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 4: Exactly all right? Instead of and that's a rule. 76 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: On our afternoon show yesterday, Coveno and Rich did the 77 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 3: rules of holiday Christmas parties and they said that one 78 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 3: rule is you're not supposed to talk business. 79 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 4: But I broke that rule. 80 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't agree with that. I haven't gone to 81 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: these things in a while, but I was at one 82 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: of the greatest Christmas parties of all time. We've talked 83 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: about this over the years, so if you if you've 84 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: heard this before, you can just fast forward through the podcast. 85 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: But I don't know that you were at the company yet, Danny, but. 86 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 4: With a strip, Yes, yes, I love this story. 87 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: So there was one of the guys that didn't have 88 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: a girlfriend and so he did love going to the ballet. 89 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: He enjoyed the jiggle joint and was a regular there. 90 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: And as often happens in that world, you become obsessed 91 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: with one particular ballet dancer that you have to get 92 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: their attention. And so this guy, and I don't know 93 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: if we've named in the past, what. 94 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 4: Was it, What did he do? Let's just say that 95 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 4: what did he do at the. 96 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: G He did not work on the air. He was 97 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: behind the scenes. 98 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 4: Okay, so like a sales guy. 99 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: Not quite a sales guy, but but he was worked 100 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: behind the scenes. And somebody that I knew and I 101 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: had known for before we worked together at at Fox 102 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: and then after and I still know him to this day. 103 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: But he did have a girlfriend and producer. 104 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 5: Uh so we you know, we were buddies and and 105 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 5: so this man, I mean, these are back in the 106 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 5: days when you know, money was just flowing. 107 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: I mean it was I mean, I'd go to these 108 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: holiday parties and they'd fly in all the big Premiere 109 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: Network stars like Art Bell would come in from Perrump. 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: Matt Drudge was doing a radio show for the company 111 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: see case them. Doctor Laura was a huge star in 112 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: radio at the time. They had her a bunch of DJs. 113 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know who they were, but they seemed important 114 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: and they were there, and the big shots, and I 115 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: mean it was just crazy. I mean, somebody that loves radio. 116 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: It was like wow, I mean, like the biggest names. 117 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: I was like an All Star team, you know, it 118 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: was like the All Star Game. They're all coming out there. 119 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: And they used to have these things at these big, 120 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: swanky Beverly Hills hotels. Now I don't usually go to 121 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. I live, I used to live at the time. 122 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: I lived close to it, but I'm you know, it's 123 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: not my jam. So I went to the party, and 124 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: I was I did not have a date, I know 125 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: one I was dating at the time, so I went 126 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: by myself. But the guy, he didn't want to go 127 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: by himself, so he brought He brought the girl that 128 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: he had been giving all his money to the ballet 129 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: and she came with him, which would not have been 130 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 1: a problem Danny, except she dressed like she had to 131 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: work after the show, after the party she had to 132 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: go to. And the the snickering and the whispering from 133 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: the other women, the wives and the girlfriends that weren't 134 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: strippers because it was so over the top, and uh 135 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: and it. 136 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 4: Eventually because their lives aren't as interesting. 137 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: I guess, but you know, the alcohol starts flowing. Initially, 138 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: it's just you can tell everyone's talking about this woman 139 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: because she's dressed like a total whore, and uh, they're 140 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: all talking about all the other women are you know, 141 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: you're getting real caddy and all that, and so we're 142 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: like we're trying to figure out what's gonna happen. We're 143 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: doing the math on the alcohol. The open bar at 144 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: those days, we had open bar. Uh buffet style food 145 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: was just just wonderful, massive amounts of food and I 146 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: was fat, so I ate a lot of it anyway, 147 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: So uh, sure enough, once the booze started flowing, one 148 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: of the women who was I don't know she was. 149 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: I assumed she was married to one of the other people. 150 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it was a girlfriend. But she 151 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: worked up enough liquid courage to confront uh the stripper, 152 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: and there was a there was a brief conversation confrontation 153 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: type situation, and then then that inspired some other women 154 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: who had to get something off their chest they wanted 155 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: to say. So it was quite. It was quite the scene, 156 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: but it was it was hilarious because it was just 157 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: you don't expect to see something like that at a 158 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: family company holiday, part family there were no kids there, 159 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: but it was all all dressed up and all that stuff. 160 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: And there was family education, money involved. 161 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good. And then I was at another 162 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: different year. We were at one. I don't know if 163 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: you were at this one, Danny, it might have been 164 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: before you worked at the company. Two. But there was 165 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: a employee who while the president of the company was 166 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: giving the State of the Company address, this employee was 167 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: sitting there listening. 168 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 4: Oh, I was at this heart During the speech. 169 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: His wife was the one that was talking shit, and 170 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: she she laid it on like and she I guess 171 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: she didn't know that we could hear everyone else could 172 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: hear what she was saying that she was echoing the 173 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: president of the company. And this the Holly party was 174 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: like on a Friday or a Saturday. I think it 175 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: was on Saturday, but maybe a Friday night. It was 176 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: one of those days. But anyway, we did the Hollay 177 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: Party and then we show up to work on Monday, 178 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: and the guy no longer worked at the company. 179 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be like if my wife he got faded. 180 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: And then Scott, you know, was giving this big speech 181 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: about how awesome everything's going, and she's. 182 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 4: Saying, yeah, right, you're not even paying my husband enough money. 183 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty much how it went. That's pretty much. 184 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: That's pretty much how it went. 185 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 4: So because of what your significant other does. 186 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, but that does happen, right, We see that 187 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: in sports people have gotten in trouble because their wives 188 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: are done. True, So it happens on this pod. I 189 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: one story before I forget. I also remember getting my 190 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: balls busted when I would go to these parties because 191 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: they charged a lot of money to park at these 192 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills hotels. So I would cruise around Beverly Hills 193 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: all dressed up to try to find street parking. And 194 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 1: then one of the parties I went to, I found 195 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: street parking, but then I had to go back every 196 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: couple hours to feed the meter. 197 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 4: And weren't you worried about your Porsche being on the street. 198 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately, they never paid me enough to have to 199 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: have a Porsche. So I think that was the company's 200 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: way of looking out for me, Danny. I think they 201 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: knew that if I had, you know, a really expensive car, 202 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: it would be a problem. But so then I would 203 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: I would go back, you know, to feed the meter, 204 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: and I'd run back and I ended up getting covered 205 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 1: in sweat because I was really fat at the time, 206 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: and you know, people, well, are you all sweaty? What's 207 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: going on? Good memories? Though I wish I could have gone. 208 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: I mean, these things are always like during the week 209 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: in the like early evening. 210 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 4: They're not three to five pm. 211 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 3: So we missed more than half of it because our 212 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 3: show was on the air. As soon as the show 213 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 3: ended we crossed the street, people were already buzzed. When 214 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 3: you walk into a party late like that, you have 215 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 3: to quickly go to the bar and try to catch up. 216 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's really a racing ends time because you 217 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: only have you know, you have probably by the time 218 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: you got there forty minutes maybe you know, forty minutes 219 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: to eat. And one thing I will say for this company, 220 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: they are by the clock when it comes to two hours, 221 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: not two hours, and ten minutes not two hours. You know, 222 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: five minutes. That thing cuts off at five o'clock. And 223 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: if you're if you want that extra slider, you better 224 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: grab that thing at four fifty nine fifty nine or 225 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: you're not getting it. It's over. 226 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 3: They did refresh the food, which was different than last 227 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 3: year because I remember the food being cut off promptly 228 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 3: at five last year, but this year they brought out 229 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 3: some fresh food before the deadline and then for those 230 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,719 Speaker 3: who stayed after the bell, our Boss Scott put his 231 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 3: card at the bar. Huh buddy, right, But Rich Davis 232 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 3: didn't know this, so he took his Covino and Rich 233 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 3: credit card for I guess like their Patreon show they do. 234 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 3: He took their company card and he was buying drinks 235 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 3: on that when he found out that card was at 236 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 3: the bar. You should have saw the look on his face. 237 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: Oh man, awesome kick to the nuts right there. 238 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: An employee came up to Scott and said, they're gonna 239 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: now close your card. Would you like one more? And 240 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 3: Rich looked at him and he's like. 241 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 4: Wait, your card is at the bar right now. 242 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 3: This was after he had signed all these drinks on 243 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 3: his own card. 244 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: I would like a bottle of whiskey? Can I get 245 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: a whiskey bottle and a kiel It to go in 246 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: a doggy bag? I would like to have that. We've 247 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: got on this pot. We've got Doc Mike Doppelganger, the 248 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: Taco canquistad and Hush Puppies. We start with this and 249 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: it is Friday, and so this is the time where 250 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: I tell you that I have a TV show, the 251 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: Chronicles of Television. It's week thirteen. We have made it 252 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: another week on Bennie Versus the Penny picking NFL games 253 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: against the spread man. 254 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 4: What does that TV money feel like? 255 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: Oh man, it's so amazing, it's so great. It's a 256 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: little better than radio a little better than radio money. 257 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: But you know, who knows. It's only a seasonal show, Danny, 258 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: so you don't know. But it is on. If you 259 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 1: don't live in a city that has Benny Versus the Penny, 260 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: a reminder, it's on Direct TV, It's on Fubo TV. 261 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: But I turned out to be this week during Bennie 262 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: Versus the Penny doc Mike doppelgame, I did not drink 263 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: my own piss. I didn't do that. But let me explain. 264 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: So doing the late night show in if you're familiar 265 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: with LA if you're not from the area, we do 266 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: this in Sherman Oaks, which is right where the four 267 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: oh five, the infamous four oh five Freeway and the 268 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: one O one Freeway meet, just over the hill, down 269 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: the hill from bell Air, one of the ritchiest neighborhoods 270 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles where a lot of fat cats and 271 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: Hollywood moguls live and all that. So we do the 272 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: show down the hill from there. Across the way is 273 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: a famous shopping center, the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and then 274 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: the San Fernando Valley where you have places like where 275 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: in Sino Man, that classic movie in Sino Man, Woodland Hills, 276 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: all these different places. That's one direct. Now the other 277 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: direction is North Hollywood. That's the next kind of town 278 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: over North Hollywood. And then you've got burd Banks down 279 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: the way and whatnot. So I get done with the 280 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: radio show in Sherman Oaks and I hop on the 281 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: one oh one Freeway and I head east away from 282 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: from the main heart of the San Fernando. Well, I 283 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: hit the other direction and head into Century City. 284 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, you drove away from the money. Yeah good. And 285 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 3: then and then there's a little bit of money again 286 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 3: when you get to Universal City exactly. 287 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: So we went over there, yes, I says central, Yeah, 288 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: Universal City. So I went over there. Universal Studios is 289 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: where we record the TV and so I have my routine. 290 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: Now I do the radio show and then I zoom 291 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: over to Universal and there's no one there. There's like 292 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: a security guard who looks at me like what the 293 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: fuck are you doing here? You know, like why are 294 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: you here at this hour? So I get that, but 295 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: I know my thing. So I park in the We 296 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: have the Abbott Costello parking, so I park in that, 297 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: and then I walked to the to the place we 298 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: do the TV show. I'm the first one there. There's 299 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: no there's like a security guard sleeping at the desk, 300 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: and then there's like there's like two people manning the 301 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: NBC News the bureau, the NBC News Bureau desk, the 302 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: overnight people. So I go to I go to our 303 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: little room and I'm getting ready. But this week a 304 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: little different than other weeks. Now why was this week different? Well, 305 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: for some reason, I was even more tired. I must 306 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: have been the hangover from Thanksgiving and I had a 307 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: night off which was odd and all that stuff. So 308 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying to coordinate my schedule. But I'm really tired, 309 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't nap. I don't do that. 310 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm not a napper. And I didn't really have time 311 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: to nap because I had a lot to do. I 312 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: had a lot of notes I wanted to go through 313 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: I'd done a lot of prep, but really the process 314 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: of how we make the hot dogs is I do 315 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: a lot of the number I put a lot of 316 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: the numbers together on Monday and Tuesday, and then you know, Wednesday, 317 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: I do do more. That's where we meet with the people. 318 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: I have email correspondence and meetings with the people in Boston, Vinnie, 319 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: the guy that produced the show, and those guys, and 320 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: John who's in Philadelphia. So we kind of email the stuff. 321 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: I give them the stuff they need and then they 322 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: tell me stuff that I need and then so that's 323 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: how that goes. And so then we do that. But 324 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: then when I get done with the show, I just 325 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: really put everything together. It's like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, 326 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: but it's not really heart a jigsaw puzzle. It's a 327 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: twenty two minute TV show, not that hard. But that's 328 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: the way I do it. And so I need a 329 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: certain amount of time to put everything together, just to 330 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: give you an idea I'm giving I'm like the inside whatever. 331 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: So I'm really tired. I'm like really really tired, and 332 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: I end up, as I said, becoming Doc Mike s Doppelganger. 333 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: I fell asleep at my computer while I started out 334 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: sitting up falling asleep, and then eventually my face gravity 335 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: took over and went down on the keyboard, which did 336 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: wake me up. It did wake me up. So I 337 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: wasn't even out for that long though, Danny. I only slept. 338 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: I think it was about fifteen to twenty minutes. I 339 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 1: think that's about it. But it was like a micro 340 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: nap and it actually worked. I woke up feeling refreshed. 341 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I was like perked up crazy. And the reason I've 342 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 1: been I say, Doc Mike, because if you've been with 343 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: the show a long time. Years ago, Doc Mike, when 344 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: Michael Vick was in prison, Doc Mike drove from Chicago 345 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: down to Levenworth thinking that Michael Vick would take a 346 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: meeting with them. They'd have a meet and greet at 347 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: Levenworth Prison, and so Doc was documenting his trip from 348 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: Chicago to Kansas. Wasn't that long a drive, but he 349 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: didn't sleep, and he told me what he would do 350 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: since he didn't sleep, was he would just pull over 351 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: to the side of the road or get off one 352 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: of the off ramps and sleep for five to ten 353 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: minutes and then get back on the road for another 354 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: hour or two hours and I said, what are you going? 355 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: What are you a dumbass? 356 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 4: Here? 357 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: I am. 358 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: I didn't plan on doing this, It wasn't intentional, but 359 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: I ended up doing it, so it worked out. I 360 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: was able to get what I needed to get done. 361 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: And as many people have pointed out to me in 362 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: the past who are older than me, the thing about 363 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: get it done, it's done when the show when they 364 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 1: tell you, as we know with radio, right Dan, you 365 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: prepare Dan, you prepare for the radio show, and you're 366 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: never prepared, at least I've never prepared enough. But ultimately, 367 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: when the light goes on, you have to the show 368 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: will be fine. You know what I'm saying. Like, you 369 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: do as much as you can, but usually it doesn't 370 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: really matter. You're ready to go. And as far as 371 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: the TV show here in week thirteen, first of December, 372 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: we are actually not on quite as much in LA 373 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: because of the there's high school football. We're getting preempted 374 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: by high school football, which is a kick come on. Yeah. So, 375 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: for example, I believe on SoCal Sports Net tomorrow just 376 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if you can record things day, but 377 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: we have a one showing I think it's six am 378 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: because if there's like high school whatnot. And then we're 379 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 1: on Sunday morning at a and am. But as far 380 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: as today, we're on in Boston on NBC Sports Boston. 381 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: After the Celtics play the Sixers. We'll have back to 382 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: back prime time late night TV showings at eleven and 383 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: eleven thirty. Philly. We're on a eleven thirty Chicago. We're 384 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: on our normal ten o'clock slot in Chicago. We're on 385 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: a couple times in San Francisco on NBC Sports Bay Area. 386 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny six o'clock ten thirty will be 387 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: on NBC Sports California, Sacramento there and that's at eight 388 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: and I mentioned so Cal. Also, our normal time slot 389 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: on SNY at eleven thirty am on Sunday in New 390 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: York will be on. There are regular times, so that 391 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: is that's the TV show. So see if you can 392 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: figure out that I was so tired I fell asleep 393 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: in the I think I fell asleep a second time, 394 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: but I the first one was like the big one 395 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: that really kind of woke me up, and then I 396 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: started popping caffeine pills trying to trying to keep going 397 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: on that. So there is some big news here outside 398 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: of the doc. Mike Doppelganger must alert the Mala militia 399 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: down the line here that I don't know if this 400 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: counts as breaking news, but it is a news update. 401 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: My tight wadd ways have led me to move on 402 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: to divorce something that was very important in my life 403 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: that I have had in my life. 404 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 4: Oh I love your wife, Oh not her. 405 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: For I've had. This has been in my life longer 406 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: than the wife. It's been. Oh, probably I think this 407 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: has been in my life, Danny and I want to 408 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: be almost oh man, almost thirty years twenty five for sure, 409 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: Probably not thirty, but twenty five years of my life. 410 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: This has been part of my life. And I've ended it. 411 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: I've said that's it. It's not you, it's me, and 412 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: I must move on. 413 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 4: From you your moped. 414 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: Did you see my notes my cherry red and moped. No. 415 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,959 Speaker 1: I have made a economic decision due to the pootin 416 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: price hike. I have eaten my final crunchy taco at 417 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: my beloved Tito's Tacos. 418 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 4: Oh man, I have it should be funeral music right now. 419 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: I have ended it. I love the neon orange cheese, 420 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: the the crunchy taco. Just everything about the beef just perfect, 421 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: the oil that tastes weird. I love it all, but 422 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: I just can't. When I started going to Tito's tacos 423 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: long time ago, the tacos were less than two dollars 424 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: a taco. Now, and this is not I'm sure you've 425 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: been there day. It's not fast food or it's not restaurants. 426 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: It's fast food. It's like a fast it's basically fest food. 427 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 4: It's fast food Mexican. 428 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: It's fast food Mexican. Five dollars and seventy cents for 429 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: a crunchy taco one five dollars and seventy cents. That 430 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: same taco was two dollars. Now, you say, well that's 431 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: a long time ago. Now, I would agree with you, 432 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: it was a long time. But him in that long 433 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: to more than double the price, and really almost three 434 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: times the price. That's not that's not right. Nine five 435 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: for a bean and cheese and meat burrito night for 436 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: a breeda, and I know, twelve fifty for a beef burrito. 437 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 438 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 3: So like how I got an egg McMuffin last week. 439 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 3: It was like a real treat. It was five ninety five. 440 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, so I get it. People have to make money. 441 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: Restaurants have to make money. I understand food's not et. 442 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: You know, cheap stuff goes bad. I understand all that. 443 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,959 Speaker 1: But I know I'm out. So I have now become 444 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: the great taco canquistador. Oh no, yeah, I am a man. 445 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 3: Oh the way that you the way that you did 446 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 3: your knockoff roundtable pizza, Your gonna knock off their tacos. 447 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: Well, not quite. I realize we essentially live in Mexico here, right. 448 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: We live in a nice part of Mexico in southern 449 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: Caras and I love it. No, I'm not saying that 450 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: in a bad way. I think it's great. We have 451 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: the greatest Mexican food you could possibly have, outside of 452 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: just driving down to Tijuana or going to Mexico City. 453 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: It's amazing. Right in California, It's just awesome. So and 454 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I love Tito's, but I'm sure 455 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: I can find there's other It's gotta be thousands of 456 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: crunchy taco places in La So I am a man 457 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: on a mission. I am. Now I'm seriously thinking about 458 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: starting a food blog. Danny that my taco cantista doorways, 459 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: I should start like an Instagram page of me just 460 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: trying restaurants. And then I thought, if I did that, 461 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: maybe it would be like a tax write off. You know, 462 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: I could write it off or something like that. But 463 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: because I'm that cheap, no. 464 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: Non or you could be like Portnoy where they give 465 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 3: them or they try to give them lots of free pizzas. 466 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 3: He claims that he always pays for the pizzas. But 467 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 3: I mean, if you're not the taco guy, you could 468 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 3: probably get a lot of free tacos. 469 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 4: It's a good idea. 470 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: So I started my mission as the great Taco Conquistador, 471 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: to conquer the crunchy taco, the gringo tacos. My friend 472 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: Alex Mexican guy. He died years ago, but he he said, gringo, 473 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: you eat the gringo tacos. He said, we eat the 474 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: regular tacos. That's what they eat in Mexico. I said, well, 475 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: I like the crunchy talk, and so I started last week. 476 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: I found a place in the Arts district in downtown 477 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Right now, this is a great neighborhood. It's 478 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: actually an up and coming neighborhood in LA but it 479 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: is surrounded on one side by the La gun Club. 480 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: On the other side is skid Row, and so it's 481 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: kind of wedged in between theirs. But in between there, 482 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: I went to Chewi's Tacos dorados. 483 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 4: Now, what's your number one thing you're looking for? The 484 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 4: price point. 485 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: Two things, price and crunch crunchability. I'm trying to get 486 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: that crunch ability and I don't want to pay. I 487 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: want to pay less than four dollars of taco. Is 488 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: that too much to ask for. 489 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 3: Dan, No, it's gonna be hard, though. I would think 490 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 3: that taco is going to be around two fifty. 491 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: You think two to fifty. See, I think I look around. 492 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 3: I think at little hole in the wall spots two 493 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 3: fifty to three dollars. Okay, Titos is taking advantage of 494 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 3: the fact that they are like a famous spot, kind 495 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 3: of like that famous doughnut spot that overcharges. 496 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: Oh, the one in the Voodoo Oh that one's too important. Yeah, 497 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: but there's a lot like you in Hollywood Pink's Hot Dogs. Yes, famous. 498 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: So once you get a reputation like that and you're 499 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 3: kind of like a tourist attraction, I feel like you 500 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 3: double your prices. 501 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're made man, You're good to go the 502 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: Quick Malor food review as the Great Taco Conquistador. Went 503 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: to this place, Chewy's Tacos Dorados, and I ordered three. 504 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: It was four crunchy tacos. I had the shredded beef. 505 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 1: I had two of those, the potato and the ground beef. 506 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: They also have a pork option. I did not get 507 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: the pork taco. Good news, Danny. The taco cost with 508 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: cheese three dollars and fifty cents. 509 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 4: Okay, all right, that is a. 510 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: Reasonable price for a taco. I'm okay with the price. 511 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: I'm fine with. I don't love. I wish it was cheaper, 512 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: but I'm okay. I realized it's twenty twenty three and 513 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: stuff's expensive, So I guess. 514 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 3: I'm thinking of street tacos, which are a little more 515 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 3: affordable than the crunchy right. 516 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're paying. It's a premium item, Danny. It's a 517 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: premium item with crunchy taco soumringo. That's right, yes, so 518 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: I pay my money whatever. It's got this weird kiosk 519 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: thing at Chewi's Tacos Dorado's. They're in the Beautiful Arts district, 520 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 1: and the crunch was solid. It was it was pretty solid. 521 00:27:59,040 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: I did not enjoy the. 522 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 3: Meat, though, I think a lot of people would be 523 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 3: more concerned about the meat. 524 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, the shredded beef was really good. The potato not 525 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: so good. The ground beef I would never order again. 526 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: I wouldn't feed that to my dog. But the shredded 527 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: beef was really good. So on the malarimeter of food 528 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: goodness as the great Taco Conquistador, all right, one to ten, Yeah, 529 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: with ten being amazing, like the greatest thing you've had. Master. 530 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: I'm giving this place a seven point five giv that's 531 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: a solid score. Seven point five Mallard Food Review, seven 532 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: point five. I will be back. I think my plan 533 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: is I go to a lot of Dodgery games during 534 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: the summer, and sometimes I get there early and I 535 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: prepare for the show. So it's in downtown Los Angeles, 536 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: so I think I'll just cruise by there, pick up 537 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: some tacos, and then go to Dodger Stadium and that'll 538 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: be that. And the parking is not the greatest. There's 539 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: a lot some street parking. I'm sure it'll be really 540 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: bad when stuff's going on in that neighborhood. I happen 541 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: to go a Thanksgiving week so it was kind of 542 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: quiet down there, but it was good. So it's a 543 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: good start. And let me know, guys, send me a 544 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: message if you you would actually want. I'm seriously I'm 545 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: thinking about starting a food review blog that just like 546 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 1: obviously only in southern California, but when I travel and 547 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: I go to other places, I can visit my brother 548 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, my other brother in New York. 549 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 4: Or is this like a YouTube thing? 550 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 1: I think I would maybe do it on Instagram, but 551 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: I would I think Instagram probably be the way I go. 552 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: I could because those are short videos, right, those aren't 553 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: very well Yeah, I could do a minute or I 554 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: don't even think there are a minute a lot of 555 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: those things, right, Maybe maybe they are, but not that long. 556 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 4: It sounds like a TikTok opportunity you can get. 557 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: I'm writing the demo on TikTok. We have one other 558 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: note I want to get out on this. So Jeremy 559 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: from Vermont is a big p one of the podcast. 560 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: He emailed me. He said he always listens to the podcast, 561 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: the radio show, and he's not missed the fifth hour podcast. 562 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: So thank you Jeremy and beautiful vermontt Home of Arnie Spaniard, 563 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: and I hope to visit Arnie in your state of 564 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: Vermont next time I go back to Boston. Anyway, Jeremy 565 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: emailed me and he says, hey, Ben, this is right 566 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: in your wheelhouse. He says, I love the he loves 567 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: the words and the phrases that we do every week, 568 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: the origin stories, and this is an item that I 569 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: have loved since I was a little boy. The first 570 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: time I everate this item was at Long John Silvers. 571 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: Did you ever go to Long John Silvers? 572 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 4: Got a few times? 573 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: The fish fast food fish rest. Yeah, my parents took 574 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: me there when I was a kid, and as a kid, 575 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: we thought that was fine dining. 576 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 4: We were like fast food fish sticks. 577 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. We were convinced that our parents were spoiling us 578 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: at Long John Silvers, that we were great. My dad 579 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: loved the he loved the tartar sauce, but he also 580 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: loved the vinegar. So Jeremy said, I found this on 581 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: the internet thing. It's fascinating and it's the origin story 582 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: of hushpuppies. And this is actually a couple of years old. 583 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: I looked it up. I did some research here, Jeremy, 584 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: and so the claim it was a Facebook page that 585 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: posted something claiming the term hushpuppies came back from the 586 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: slavery days in America that fried cornmeal was thrown by 587 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: escaping slaves at dogs to prevent the dogs from following. 588 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: Now this is quite detail, So I was like, is 589 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,719 Speaker 1: that really that? I mean, is that really true? And 590 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: here's what I found that nobody seems to know for 591 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: sure whether it's like it's possible that that is exactly 592 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: what happened, and that's the story. Everyone's convinced that it 593 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: was around the Civil War. It was in the South 594 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: where the hushpuppies came came about. And I guess they 595 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: think it was derived actually originally from a South African 596 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: fryed corn meal. There was a fried cornmeal dish called 597 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: mealy pop and that goes way back. The Southern states 598 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: have taken ownership of it. Louisiana claimed that nuns who 599 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: came to New Orleans and the seventeen hundreds made the dish, 600 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: so it goes back that far. There are plenty of 601 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: stories about Union soldiers during the Civil War. There's another 602 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: version where fishermen or runaway slaves the quiet the howling dogs, 603 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: which we just gave that one. There's the fisherman's story, 604 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: a guy claiming that anglers who returned from fishing expeditions 605 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: to try try to cook the food the fish over 606 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: the fire, that their dogs would begin barking and yapping 607 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: from the aroma, and so to quiet the dogs down, 608 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: the fishermen fried up bits of corn meal that they 609 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: were using to cook the fish, and they just put 610 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: the cormea and they fed it to the dogs. But 611 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 1: they are people that deny that I mean. And so 612 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: the gist of it is, there's like three or four 613 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: different versions of what actually happened. The earliest mention of 614 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: the term hushpuppies, from my research, occurred in the nineteen 615 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 1: twenties actually nineteen twenties in Macon, Georgia, but these obviously 616 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: go back before that, and all in the South, all 617 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: in the South nineteen thirties though, and so the gist 618 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: of it is the hushpuppies in America. The modern version 619 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: of the hushpuppies definitely came from the South. But there's 620 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: a lot of creative writing where people that would write 621 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: stories about anything that came out of the South, anything 622 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: food related. Every single story of Southern food involves plantations 623 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: or the Civil War, So who knows whether it actually 624 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: happened that way or not, but it's a good story, 625 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: and so people like good stories. We'll get out on that. 626 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: It is Friday, Danny, the first of December. What do 627 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: you got going on? I'm off from the radio. I 628 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 1: worked last night, so I'm done. What do you have 629 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: going on here? 630 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 4: Danny? Speaking of last night? 631 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:24,760 Speaker 3: Just really quickly, they had potato croquettes at the holiday party. 632 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 3: Do you think those are a cousin of what you 633 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 3: were just talking about? 634 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: Oh, the hushpuppy. Do you like hushpuppies? 635 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 4: I do? Yeah. 636 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: I don't know anyone that doesn't like hushpuppies. 637 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean they've ever. 638 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: Met anyone that's anti that's anti hushpuppy. 639 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 4: You'd have to be Canadian or un American. 640 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, hushpuppies are great. 641 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 4: I could just eat hush I love you Canada. 642 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh cold. But you'll be on with Corvino and 643 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: Rich right. 644 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a fun Friday show from two to 645 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 3: four pm. We'll be doing our weekend hob nobbin in, 646 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,800 Speaker 3: previewing all the NFL action for Sunday and even talking 647 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 3: some college football today, so that'll be good five to 648 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,280 Speaker 3: seven pm in New York City. 649 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: It's a big night tonight in college football, the PAC 650 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 1: twelve Championship game, and I'm pulling for Washington. They'll probably 651 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,240 Speaker 1: get smashed, but I'm pulling for the Huskies here, big underdog. 652 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I like their quarterback. 653 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think I don't know if I've said 654 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: on the podcast, but my best friend Hunter, my gambling 655 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: buddy from high school. His sister actually works for the 656 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: University of Washington football program, so she's like connected. So 657 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: she hasn't got me a free hat though, so I 658 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: shouldn't promote them. But anyway, all right, I have a 659 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 1: wonderful Friday. We've got new podcast, all weekend tales that 660 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: have never been told before. We'll have some foody fun 661 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: on the Saturday podcast, I believe, and we'll see what else. 662 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,279 Speaker 1: We have a lot of interesting tales to tell, and 663 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: so have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your day. 664 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 4: Asta pasta, got a murder. I gotta go