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Speaker 3: But dang, we are back at it again. We had
Speaker 3: the global review of the Malard Meet and Greet on
Speaker 3: the Friday podcast, but there are still more tales to
Speaker 3: be told from the Naked City, and we have those tales.
Speaker 3: The streets are talking, and we'll have some more of
Speaker 3: those tales here on this the Saturday podcast, including a
Speaker 3: root beer Delight which Key the Baker surprise, and a
Speaker 3: meaty showdown. So we have a lot of content and
Speaker 3: we'll jump right into it. We're gonna do a belly whopper.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned the Mallard meet and greet on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Last Saturday, a week from today, we had the Mallor
Speaker 3: Meet and greet.
Speaker 1: We went over to the detail.
Speaker 3: So I was there in Minnesota on Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 3: And on Sunday I did something that is very out
Speaker 3: of character for me and the wife. We decided we
Speaker 3: enjoyed going to Lake Minnetonka so much, and I went online.
Speaker 3: I was like, what's the biggest lake in Minnesota? I
Speaker 3: want to go to the biggest. I don't want to
Speaker 3: go to the second, or the third or the fourth biggest.
Speaker 3: I want to go to the biggest, Go bigger, go home.
Speaker 3: So I did a quick Google search, just Google in
Speaker 3: my case bing because I like to get the points.
Speaker 3: So I get those Amazon gift cards. So I binged
Speaker 3: it and it said this is not only the largest
Speaker 3: lake in Minnesota, this is the largest freshwater lake in
Speaker 3: the world. It happens to be in Minnesota. And so
Speaker 3: this is a real Laker trip, Not the La Lakers,
Speaker 3: the real Lakers, the Minnesota Lakers. So I got up
Speaker 3: Danny at the crack of.
Speaker 1: Dawn with my wife.
Speaker 3: We got up at six am on Sunday, six am
Speaker 3: on Sunday to make the trip all the way up
Speaker 3: the state of Minnesota to the North Country to the
Speaker 3: north star of destination, Duluth. And that is the home
Speaker 3: of one of the ports of Lake Superior. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so another one of the great Lakes. Now I've been to.
Speaker 3: Now that I've been to Lake Superior, I've been to
Speaker 3: Lake Michigan many times, Lake Erie.
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 3: How many of the What are the other great I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think I've been to the other I think
Speaker 3: I know I've been to Lake Erie, have been to
Speaker 3: Lake Michigan, I've been to Lake Superior. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think if I've been to any of the other great Lakes.
Speaker 3: I think those are the only three I've been to.
Speaker 3: I think there's there's a couple other ones right.
Speaker 1: That I forget.
Speaker 4: There's Ontario and Heron.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've not been to those. Where is Lake Huron?
Speaker 1: Is that Michigan that's it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to say that's Michigan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lake Ontario I've not been to.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I was very cool to be at Lake Superior.
Speaker 3: It is literally the largest lake in the United States
Speaker 3: and the largest freshwater lake in the world. As my
Speaker 3: wife and I had the same look on our faces.
Speaker 3: We go to the lake, you pull up through, you
Speaker 3: come down a hill into the Luth because the city
Speaker 3: of Duluth most of it is on the hillside overlooking
Speaker 3: Lake Superior. The way they built it, and this you
Speaker 3: might as well be at the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 3: As far as you can see is nothing but water.
Speaker 3: But yet this is not an ocean. It's a lake
Speaker 3: and it's mind blowing the size. But it's a two
Speaker 3: and a half hour drive. The reason we had to
Speaker 3: get up so early is we we had a two
Speaker 3: and a half hour drive up to the through the
Speaker 3: heart of Minnesota where the there is literally nothing by
Speaker 3: the way, Danny, nothing but trees and random empty lakes,
Speaker 3: and that's about it. There are there's nothing else in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Almost hard to find a gas station in Minnesota out
Speaker 3: on the on the back roads of the state. But
Speaker 3: we had a trip to Duluth planned and we were
Speaker 3: gonna go on a.
Speaker 1: Boat tour of Lake Superior. So the thing.
Speaker 3: Left at nine to thirty. We had to get there
Speaker 3: at nine, so we got up at six. We got
Speaker 3: on the road at six thirty to drive up there.
Speaker 3: And here's a fun fact. You want a fun fact?
Speaker 3: You can't handle a fun fact?
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Yeah, on the edge of our seats.
Speaker 3: I know this is gonna blow your mind. Alf the Alien,
Speaker 3: O Pinter and Fergdog are gonna love this one. So
Speaker 3: Lake Superior is so large.
Speaker 4: How large is it?
Speaker 3: It is so large that it could hold the water
Speaker 3: from all of the other Great Lakes combined along with
Speaker 3: three more lake eries.
Speaker 1: That is how big this thing is. It's crazy. It
Speaker 1: spans from.
Speaker 3: Minnesota through Wisconsin, that peninsula Wisconsin, and then also above
Speaker 3: it there's Canada.
Speaker 1: So it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why they named it Superior.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's a size things. It's clearly a
Speaker 1: size thing. I like the extended winner, damn you.
Speaker 3: So then the other big surprise was, man, look at
Speaker 3: the pollution and Lake Superior. The water is like the
Speaker 3: color of shit. What happened?
Speaker 1: Right? Oh man? My wife's like, the water looks disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's like the color of coffee.
Speaker 3: And the locals, though, say it is a root beard
Speaker 3: delight the water in Lake Superior.
Speaker 1: And I had no idea. I never in there, how
Speaker 1: would I know this? But into Luth, Minnesota, the water
Speaker 1: is brown. Now it's a light brown. It's a root
Speaker 1: beer color on the north shore. And the reason that
Speaker 1: is I looked it up.
Speaker 3: I was like, what the hell is going on with this?
Speaker 3: I don't understand, Like, this is disgusting. And they claim
Speaker 3: that it's from the streams that lead into Lake Superior.
Speaker 3: The water it comes from the plants. It's not so
Speaker 3: much the iron. And they say it's very common after
Speaker 3: they get rain that the lake will go a darker
Speaker 3: shade of brown because of the various rivers.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay lead into Lake Superior.
Speaker 3: But if you just look at it and you have
Speaker 3: no concept of that, it looks like poopy water or
Speaker 3: coffee water. And it was interesting, and so I enjoyed
Speaker 3: my time into Luth. I did not know what to
Speaker 3: We've had callers. We had a guy working at a hotel,
Speaker 3: Hotel Ryan from Duluth years ago. It was a big
Speaker 3: star caller on the show. He got married, he had kids,
Speaker 3: he stopped stopped calling the show. But it was freaking
Speaker 3: freezing here by our California standards, it was. We got
Speaker 3: to Duluth and we got ready to go on the boat.
Speaker 3: It was fifty one degrees. The wind was howling, and
Speaker 3: the estimated wind show factor it was in the low
Speaker 3: forties of the high thirties. And we sat on the
Speaker 3: very top outside Danny on the boat. We were outside
Speaker 3: on the boat and got taken around the harbor there
Speaker 3: of Lake Superior. And then when we got done with that,
Speaker 3: we tried to warm up a little bit. Went to
Speaker 3: Costco to get gas because we had a long drive back.
Speaker 3: So there is a Costco in Duluth.
Speaker 1: We went there.
Speaker 3: I was disappointed though, because the price of gas was
Speaker 3: pretty much the same as the other stations I think.
Speaker 1: I think Minnesota is one of those.
Speaker 3: States they do not allow Costco to lower the price
Speaker 3: too much for competitive reasons, which I think is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But whatever, So we got gas there and then we went.
Speaker 3: To this this shopping area. They have this big mall,
Speaker 3: of course indoor mall, because you don't want to be
Speaker 3: outdoors in Duluth most of the year.
Speaker 1: And we went to this.
Speaker 3: Local burger place there's like a brewery burger place, and
Speaker 3: had my first ever poutine burger. I never had a
Speaker 3: poutine burger. Not bad, by the way, not bad, like
Speaker 3: a barbecue poutine burger. And it was so wild because
Speaker 3: this shopping center Danny was right up against Lake Superior.
Speaker 1: So we were walking through the different stories. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: send you a photo here.
Speaker 3: I want you to check this out, just to prove
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not lying. So we walked through this
Speaker 3: big shopping center and you know, you got a bite
Speaker 3: to eat. We're walking around the different stores and these
Speaker 3: stores are right up against Lake Superior. So like there
Speaker 3: was a kitchen store sea if I can find this,
Speaker 3: I got a lot of random posts. So there's a
Speaker 3: kitchen store. And then right behind the kitchen store is
Speaker 3: this most amazing view of the lake. Like it's like
Speaker 3: right there, it's it's in all its magic, in all
Speaker 3: it's it's glory, this massive Lake Superior, and it was
Speaker 3: it was nuts. It was absolutely crazy. As I try
Speaker 3: to find said photo.
Speaker 4: Miles and miles of poop water.
Speaker 1: Well that was behind it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me see.
Speaker 1: I can show you the all right, I found it here.
Speaker 1: So there's a picture.
Speaker 3: I won't tell you what's in the picture, but you
Speaker 3: gotta you gotta zoom in a little bit here, Danny,
Speaker 3: and you'll see what I'm talking about, because it is
Speaker 3: just like a reg the store or whatever, and it's
Speaker 3: back is to the lake and so you can get
Speaker 3: a you see the photo there should have come through.
Speaker 3: Now you get any kind of kitchen supplies you need
Speaker 3: at the kitchen company.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see the kitchen supplies.
Speaker 1: And look I was zoom in a little bit. You
Speaker 1: see behind that that.
Speaker 5: Is oh yeah, so it looks like you're on the
Speaker 5: lake still exactly.
Speaker 1: It looks like you're in the lake.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was right behind it. This place called
Speaker 3: Fitgers was the shopping cent I guess it's an old
Speaker 3: brewery in in Duluth. And it was very it was
Speaker 3: very cool.
Speaker 1: I had a good time.
Speaker 3: I had a fun time there, and I don't know
Speaker 3: that I'll ever would be back, and I'd be a
Speaker 3: one and done, but it was worth it had a
Speaker 3: good trip and nice meal, and then headed back because
Speaker 3: I had to go see my brother back in Minneapolis,
Speaker 3: and I had some more things to do. Had to
Speaker 3: go check out the different stadiums around Minnesota, so we
Speaker 3: did that. We'll get to that later in the podcast.
Speaker 3: It's all about the key. But which key is it about?
Speaker 1: Danny? That's the question, Which key is it about?
Speaker 5: You know, like you Ben, I had a traffic incident. Oh,
Speaker 5: you have that in common. The difference is mine was
Speaker 5: almost on TV.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: So now I'm trying to get home to watch the game.
Speaker 5: I was doing post production for a Covino and Rich
Speaker 5: after the show. So I get the podcast stuff up
Speaker 5: and I run to the parking garage. I get on
Speaker 5: the freeway and of course Sherman Oaks is slammed. Four
Speaker 5: h five not moving, one oh one, not moving. It's
Speaker 5: traffic hell. So I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 5: listening to the game on the radio. It's fine, but
Speaker 5: I you know, I'm like, want to get home, have
Speaker 5: some dinner, watch the game the rest of the second
Speaker 5: half at home. Daddy finally to Woodland Hills and traffic
Speaker 5: clearing up now to where I can at least move
Speaker 5: gaslight comes on. If I don't stop and do it now,
Speaker 5: there's no way I'm going to do it the next
Speaker 5: day in the morning. It just sucks. So I'm like,
Speaker 5: I gotta deal with this right now before I get home.
Speaker 5: So I exit Shoot and you might know where that
Speaker 5: is in the valley. You know, it's an easy off ramp.
Speaker 5: There's a couple of gas stations right as you turn
Speaker 5: off of the off ramp. So I get off, put
Speaker 5: gas in, and then I tell it. Instead of going
Speaker 5: on the boulevard, I go up onto the surface street.
Speaker 5: This frontage road takes you all the way to Valley Circle,
Speaker 5: probably behind like five cars waiting to go left back
Speaker 5: onto the freeway. The light changes, nobody moves, the light
Speaker 5: goes to red. Nobody has moved. What in the world
Speaker 5: is going on? And I'm thinking, God, there's got to
Speaker 5: be an accident or something up there. So I'm crazy
Speaker 5: my head. I'm pushing my head out the window trying
Speaker 5: to look far ahead, and I do see some sirens.
Speaker 4: It must be a fender bender or something up there.
Speaker 4: And they have this freeway on ramp blocks. What do
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 5: I'm listening to John Ireland and I'm like, God, I
Speaker 5: got to get home and see the rest of this
Speaker 5: on TV. No offense to John Ireland, but as you know, Ben,
Speaker 5: listening to a game and watching it just two different animals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and John Ireland of course a member of the
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Yes, he did a show
Speaker 3: with Stephen A. Smith of all people. But you'd rather
Speaker 3: watch the game. You want to sit down on your sofa.
Speaker 5: And yeah, and I know my wife he had dinner
Speaker 5: waiting and they're all watching the game, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: I want to get home. So now I had an
Speaker 5: executive decision to make. There's a double line, you know,
Speaker 5: to the left of me, so I'm thinking, should I
Speaker 5: take a chance and do an I legal U turn
Speaker 5: and go catch the frontage road to go up to
Speaker 5: the next freeway on ramp. I'm so happy, Ben that
Speaker 5: I took a couple of beats here and this this
Speaker 5: just goes to prove think about it before you make
Speaker 5: a move. As I finally decided to turn my wheel
Speaker 5: left and break the double lines. As I'm starting my
Speaker 5: illegal U turn, I stopped just for a moment because
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is eerie.
Speaker 4: No cars have been coming this direction.
Speaker 5: It was almost like they blocked off, you know, both
Speaker 5: lanes mine and the oncoming lane. And I was like, man,
Speaker 5: is a cop gonna see what I'm doing and then
Speaker 5: come after me?
Speaker 4: Oh me? Thank god, Ben, because.
Speaker 5: Right as I finally decide to start turning my wheel
Speaker 5: to the left, a Harley comes blasting. He has to
Speaker 5: move his bike to avoid the nose of my car,
Speaker 5: which is now starting to stick out into the oncoming traffic.
Speaker 5: Coming behind him is a string of CHP officers after another,
Speaker 5: after another, after another.
Speaker 4: I'm not shitting you.
Speaker 5: Fifteen to seventeen cruisers are chasing this guy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Man, I was in the middle of a Los Angeles
Speaker 5: car chase.
Speaker 3: That's authentic LA. And when you think of LA, you
Speaker 3: think of the bacon wrap hot dog, and you think
Speaker 3: of the car chase, and you experienced that. And what
Speaker 3: was it like, Danny when you look around and you
Speaker 3: saw the helicopters over your head.
Speaker 1: I assumed they were there right for the local TV
Speaker 1: and whatnot.
Speaker 5: So I'm hurriedly trying to get my wheel back to
Speaker 5: the right, to get myself back into my lane. Now
Speaker 5: that I know what's going on, my nose on my
Speaker 5: car is still sticking out a little bit, and my
Speaker 5: heart is going super fast because I'm like, holy.
Speaker 4: Shit, that's definitely a car chase.
Speaker 5: So I quickly open up my spectrum map on my
Speaker 5: phone and I'm now watching this on Fox eleven and
Speaker 5: this guy, this Harley guy's being chased, and on my
Speaker 5: phone screen graphics say man with gun on motorcycle. Oh boy, yeah,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, holy I almost took out the guy
Speaker 5: that they were chasing.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm freaking out.
Speaker 5: I call my Wifey and I'm was like, hey, turn
Speaker 5: on Channel eleven and she's watching it and she's like,
Speaker 5: what's going on. We're trying to watch the Lakers game.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand. I
Speaker 5: almost hit the guy that they're chasing. And she's like,
Speaker 5: what are you talking about. So I'm explaining it to her.
Speaker 5: I get home. We were watching the Lakers game, and
Speaker 5: I told her, I said, you know, la, as soon
Speaker 5: as they catch this guy, they will then post the
Speaker 5: entire chase with the aerial view and the you know,
Speaker 5: the anchors all covering it. And of course this is
Speaker 5: on Facebook and other apps where you see people after
Speaker 5: the fact watching the whole thing and then commenting. So
Speaker 5: I quickly went through the video, found the part where
Speaker 5: he got to Valley Circle and I took a still
Speaker 5: shot of my car almost hitting him. By the way, Ben,
Speaker 5: the Lady news anchor, was on with a retired police officer,
Speaker 5: and as he almost hit the nose of my car,
Speaker 5: they both said, ooh, oh, that was close.
Speaker 1: That's good. Now here's the question.
Speaker 3: Anny, if you had actually made contact with the Harley,
Speaker 3: would you a have been seen as a good Samaritan
Speaker 3: that was helping the police out or be a guy
Speaker 3: that was a douchebag trying to cut in line?
Speaker 1: Which one would it have been?
Speaker 5: Danny, you have very good radio instincts, Ben, because that's
Speaker 5: why I named this. Which key would it be the
Speaker 5: key to the city or the key to the slammer?
Speaker 4: Because I would have.
Speaker 5: Took out the guy they were chased seeing, but I
Speaker 5: also would have done an illegal U turn.
Speaker 4: So would they have given me a pass on the
Speaker 4: traffic violation.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what they would have done.
Speaker 3: The police would have said, well, we do not want
Speaker 3: good Samaritans to injure themselves, but we are happy that
Speaker 3: it worked out this way. This person helped us out,
Speaker 3: So I think you have been okay, Danny.
Speaker 1: I think you would have been in good shape.
Speaker 3: But that's that's why I've been I've never been that close.
Speaker 3: I've been on the freeway when those things happen, on
Speaker 3: the highway when the chases have gone by on the
Speaker 3: other side, but never been in the middle of one.
Speaker 1: Never.
Speaker 5: Next the next day on Coveno and Rich I got
Speaker 5: to tell the story, and Dan Bayer said that the
Speaker 5: problem I would have had was with my insurance company,
Speaker 5: because he says they would not have covered the damages
Speaker 5: to my car because you.
Speaker 1: Were you made the illegal turn, you were vised.
Speaker 5: So I could have got a high five from the
Speaker 5: mayor and I could have been a big hero, But
Speaker 5: then I would have been left with a destroyed car.
Speaker 3: I did see the photo you sent me the car chase,
Speaker 3: and I see the Danny Gmobile, which is like a
Speaker 3: Superman car there and you're clearly crossed over the double line.
Speaker 3: And then there is a Harley, a white Harley, which
Speaker 3: you say is evading police LAPD pursuit in San Fernando
Speaker 3: Valley right there, and it does look like you are
Speaker 3: the only car crossed over the double yellow.
Speaker 4: I would have clabbered that guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or he would have clobbered. He would have driven
Speaker 3: in the side of your car.
Speaker 4: Right, my car is built like a tank.
Speaker 5: I think I would have been okay, but he might
Speaker 5: have flown over his handlebars.
Speaker 1: Dude, you could have killed the guy. Oh my gosh. Wow.
Speaker 3: It ended up a happy, happy story for Danny, although
Speaker 3: not happy for your Lakers. Unfortunately, Danny quite go so
Speaker 3: well for the Lakers.
Speaker 5: But you know what, Ben, they played seventeen extra games
Speaker 5: that I didn't expect. As I learned from you, making
Speaker 5: the Final four is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, When you're the Clippers, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3: But I was told the standards are different for the Lakers.
Speaker 3: That's what I was talking to me.
Speaker 4: Fair, No, it's a big deal for any team.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I was told you guys all told
Speaker 3: me it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 1: Don't get all excited about it. We're the Lakers.
Speaker 3: We don't get excited about the Final four. Anybody on
Speaker 3: the Clippers is half of what Kobe Bryant is edited
Speaker 3: audio is what that is anyway, the Baker's surprise here. So,
Speaker 3: during my long drive back from Dluth to Minneapolis Tales
Speaker 3: of Malar's travel log Tales from Malor's travelog. So on
Speaker 3: our way back, me and the wife we get back
Speaker 3: to Minneapolis, back to civilization, and we were trying to
Speaker 3: find a cinnamon role place in in Duluth, there was
Speaker 3: this play called Sir Benedict's, but they called it Sir Ben's.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to go there because I wanted to
Speaker 3: get a shirt that said Sir Ben's on I thought
Speaker 3: that would be kind of funny. But they were closed
Speaker 3: on Sunday, a day of God and so a day
Speaker 3: of rest, and so they were closed. So on the
Speaker 3: way back, I kind of I was jokingly pointing out
Speaker 3: to the wife. I was like, hey, you promised me
Speaker 3: a cinnamon roll. I would you know I want a
Speaker 3: cinnamon roll.
Speaker 4: Once you get something like that in your cra you
Speaker 4: can't let it go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So she goes on her phone, she starts googling bakeries
Speaker 3: in Minnesota, and she says, I got one.
Speaker 1: We're going to try this place out.
Speaker 3: It's a local mom and pop bakery, and so she
Speaker 3: types it into the to the map app on the phone,
Speaker 3: and so we're going down the highway there in Minneapolis,
Speaker 3: we get off on thirty sixth Street and turn left.
Speaker 3: Thirty from downtown thirty sixth Street, turn left. That's the
Speaker 3: off ramp, and we're cruising along. We're looking for the bakery,
Speaker 3: cruising along and we go up a couple of blocks.
Speaker 3: We make one turn and as we're driving off in
Speaker 3: the distance, okay, we get the ultimate baker's surprise. On
Speaker 3: our way to the bakery, I see in the horizon
Speaker 3: these two giant like they're probably seven feet tall, fists
Speaker 3: in the sky.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: They're made out of like a statue, but they're not
Speaker 3: a well made statue that's kind of put in the
Speaker 3: middle of the street.
Speaker 1: There's a traffic.
Speaker 4: Circle and look like paper mache.
Speaker 1: Yeah kind of.
Speaker 3: It was large, but it was like paper mache. And
Speaker 3: there's this roundabout and then behind it is a liquor
Speaker 3: store and there's a bunch of signs up about. We
Speaker 3: couldn't really make out what the signs were, but we
Speaker 3: knew we were in an interesting part of Minneapolis. And
Speaker 3: you want to take a guess. This turned out to
Speaker 3: be one of the most notorious intersections in American history
Speaker 3: in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm not familiar with this.
Speaker 3: That intersection is where George Floyd was murdered outside.
Speaker 4: Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: I always forget that it happened in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I knew it happened in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was telling him I was, I listen,
Speaker 3: and the one area we probably should not go to
Speaker 3: is that area, just because I didn't know I was
Speaker 3: going on there and on. But we didn't know where
Speaker 3: we were going. We just typed it in the GPS, and
Speaker 3: we ended up cruising right by there. There's a big
Speaker 3: mural for George Floyd that's there, The liquor store is
Speaker 3: still there. There's a bunch of random protest signs that
Speaker 3: are out in the roundabout in front of the liquor store.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was really wild, Danny. I mean I
Speaker 3: did not want to go there. I thought, you know, whatever,
Speaker 3: it's not a place for me to visit. And then
Speaker 3: we ended up there and we drive we drove by,
Speaker 3: but I saw the spot where the incident happened, right
Speaker 3: in front of the liquor.
Speaker 1: Store there, and it was really interesting to think about.
Speaker 3: I mean, what had happened there and everything that happened
Speaker 3: since then, that event in Minnesota, which happened. The third
Speaker 3: anniversary was on Thursday of this week, so just a
Speaker 3: couple days ago was the third anniversary back in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty of the event, so it was We did eventually
Speaker 3: get to the bakery. They were out of cinnamon rolls,
Speaker 3: so that was also disappointing. But I did get a
Speaker 3: donut which was pretty good and all that, so that
Speaker 3: was that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So I got that and that was my.
Speaker 5: We were there still people visiting that area or was
Speaker 5: it more like the mural and the signs and stuff
Speaker 5: were just left from the past.
Speaker 3: No, there were some signs for different people that had been,
Speaker 3: according to the signs, had been the victims of brutality
Speaker 3: from law enforcement.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like the staging here.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to describe it properly, but that's
Speaker 3: where if you have something to complain about or protest
Speaker 3: about it as an injustice, you put the sign up
Speaker 3: in that area. There weren't too many people there. It
Speaker 3: wasn't like it was overwhelming the area, but it was
Speaker 3: only a couple of miles from where we were staying.
Speaker 1: It was like everything's real close in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of distance between anything in Minneapolis
Speaker 3: and Saint Paul. I got to walk across by the
Speaker 3: way the Mississippi River, which was kind of cool. I
Speaker 3: can add that I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, the
Speaker 3: Golden Gate Bridge, and there's this other bridge in Minnesota
Speaker 3: where it goes right across the Mississippi River, the Mighty
Speaker 3: Mississippi River, And.
Speaker 4: That was pretty important and very important question. Yes, they
Speaker 4: were out of cinnamon rolls, So what did you order
Speaker 4: at the bakery?
Speaker 3: So I got a donut and then there were some
Speaker 3: other pastry type things that my wife recommended that we
Speaker 3: we picked out.
Speaker 4: You don't sound too thrilled.
Speaker 1: I did not. It was not. It was not I want.
Speaker 1: When you want a cinnamon roll, you need a cinamon role.
Speaker 1: You don't need this other stuff. You don't you don't
Speaker 1: need it. And I didn't get my cinnamon role. I
Speaker 1: did get it later.
Speaker 3: I got a different kind of a cinnamon type role thing.
Speaker 1: But it was the Mississippi River.
Speaker 3: It is this stone arched bridge, so this old bridge
Speaker 3: that was designed for railroads, and then once the railroad
Speaker 3: track they took it off.
Speaker 1: The bridge.
Speaker 3: You could walk from side to side across the Mississippi
Speaker 3: and it was it was cool. It was somebody that's
Speaker 3: not normally around the Mississippi River. And we saw the
Speaker 3: original Pillsbury factory where pills started in Minneapolis, and that
Speaker 3: was kind of neat as a kid that grew up
Speaker 3: on Pillsbury and there's.
Speaker 1: A street named after him, and so that was all
Speaker 1: kind of cool.
Speaker 4: That's a very cool looking bridge.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's great the skylines behind it and you can see
Speaker 3: the water going through.
Speaker 1: That's the end of boat travel.
Speaker 3: You can't go past that point from the south, like
Speaker 3: if you're coming from the Gulf Coast and you're going
Speaker 3: up to the Mississippi, that's where you have to get
Speaker 3: off the boat because they can't go over there's a
Speaker 3: little waterfall thing that they're not able to go over.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. We have a little time left.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to the Meaty Showdown.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to the normal bits that we do
Speaker 3: next week with the let's get scientifical and.
Speaker 1: All that other fun stuff that we have.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that next week, but I did want
Speaker 3: to I did want to give you the Meaty.
Speaker 1: Showdown, if you will. So my trip to Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Was filled with burgers, but not just regular burgers, burgers
Speaker 3: filled with cheese, the local culinary delight as we chowed
Speaker 3: down and we went big in the Twin Cities. I
Speaker 3: want to thank Greg, who is a fan of this
Speaker 3: podcast and a fan of the radio show. He's a
Speaker 3: retired chef. And I also want to thank Al among others,
Speaker 3: who recommended the Big Three the Holy Land of the
Speaker 3: Juicy Lucy. Now to give you an idea of how
Speaker 3: crazy this trip was food wise, I'm fasting. I cut
Speaker 3: back my fasting a little bit, but I's still fasted
Speaker 3: every day. We landed about one o'clock on Friday. I
Speaker 3: was up all night from the overnight show. I had
Speaker 3: not gone to bed. I pulled an all nighter and
Speaker 3: I didn't use what jed who fled uses there's no adderall.
Speaker 1: I just whatever.
Speaker 3: So I get to town at one o'clock. We get
Speaker 3: to town at one o'clock, We get the rental car.
Speaker 3: We can't check into our the place we're staying till
Speaker 3: three o'clock, so we had some time to burn And
Speaker 3: before getting to the place, we were saying, me and
Speaker 3: the wife are like, you know what, let's go get
Speaker 3: our first meal in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: The plan was we were going to go eat, We're
Speaker 3: gonna go back, take a nap, and then go back out.
Speaker 1: Again for more food. Why not.
Speaker 3: So me and the wife we drove over to Saint Paul,
Speaker 3: which is real close. It's like a ten minute drive,
Speaker 3: and we went to this place called the Nook. This
Speaker 3: was Greg's choice. He said, it's the number one juicy
Speaker 3: Lucy in the Twin Cities. So we had cheese curds.
Speaker 3: I had the traditional juicy Lucy.
Speaker 5: My wife, had you looked up the Knook's menu on
Speaker 5: a previous podcast.
Speaker 3: Yes, we talked about that. The Paul Molitor was there,
Speaker 3: so yeah, So I went to the Nook. We ordered
Speaker 3: the cheese curds. I had the originally the traditional juicy Lucy,
Speaker 3: which was delicious.
Speaker 1: Chef's kiss the curds.
Speaker 3: This is going to offend my brother who lives in Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: but these were the top cheese curds we'd ever had
Speaker 3: at the They were perfectly balanced, proper amount of cheese,
Speaker 3: proper amount of crunch, proper amount of oil. They weren't
Speaker 3: too heavy, they went too light. They were perfect, just wonderful.
Speaker 3: The burger, though, there's an art to eating a juicy lucy.
Speaker 3: And here's the art, Danny. You gotta have patience, they
Speaker 3: tell you. And they saw we were a couple of
Speaker 3: noubs when it comes to the juicy lucy, like we
Speaker 3: were not experienced. And so the person at the at
Speaker 3: the nooks like, listen, you gotta wait three to five
Speaker 3: minutes otherwise you're gonna burn your tongue and the roof
Speaker 3: of your mouth, and like, all right, whatever. I didn't
Speaker 3: really believe the guy, but I was like, all right, fine, whatever,
Speaker 3: So I set a timer on my watch. My wife
Speaker 3: thought that was funny that I said a timer. I
Speaker 3: didn't want to burn my mouth.
Speaker 4: You can't count to three minutes.
Speaker 3: No, no, you remember the last time I burned my
Speaker 3: mouth when I made pizza. And then I decided to
Speaker 3: eat the pizza very quickly, and I sounded like I
Speaker 3: sound like Lou Holtz for two weeks?
Speaker 1: Is that a lisp?
Speaker 3: Because my tongue. So I was like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: get injured on this. I'm not, so whatever, I sent
Speaker 3: my timer. I end up biting into that that juicy
Speaker 3: lucy and it was still scolding hot. It was still
Speaker 3: scolding hot, but it was wonderful, and then over the
Speaker 3: course of the weekend at different points we ate at
Speaker 3: the other two locations matts in five twenty eight. Now
Speaker 3: you know how in la there's a great debate about
Speaker 3: whether or not the French dip started at.
Speaker 1: Cole's or Philip's, the two.
Speaker 3: So in Minnesota there's a debate is it match or
Speaker 3: is it five twenty eight? They go back and forth,
Speaker 3: and so we we ate a match. After the Mala
Speaker 3: meeting mentioned, I couldn't eat anything that it didn't have
Speaker 3: time to eat.
Speaker 1: Just had a glass of water. So we went out.
Speaker 3: We actually watched I watched the end of the Laker
Speaker 3: Nuggets game, which was Game three, watch from Matts and
Speaker 3: I'll give you the positives and the negatives of Matts.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The positives solid Burger, the decorp had a good charm
Speaker 3: to it. It looked like it was the same as
Speaker 3: it had been seventy years ago when the place opened,
Speaker 3: hadn't changed anything. The negatives hash only so no credit cards,
Speaker 3: which is a nuisance in this modern world where we
Speaker 3: paid with everything with credit cards. Not a lot of
Speaker 3: room was an older place that was part of it
Speaker 3: was a blessing and a curse because it was really
Speaker 3: cool because it was old, but it was.
Speaker 1: Kind of tight. It was small, yeah, pretty expensive.
Speaker 5: It seemed like they cleaned seventy years ago as well, or.
Speaker 3: Well, the last time they cleaned it was about fifty
Speaker 3: years ago, so not seventy they cleaned it fifty years ago.
Speaker 3: And so we went there, and then I went to
Speaker 3: the five to twenty eight on Sunday night. We went
Speaker 3: to the five twenty eight with my brother positives on
Speaker 3: that nice big location, lots of parking, large portions. We
Speaker 3: ordered onion strings and they gave me enough onion strings
Speaker 3: to fill Lake Superior. It was that many onion strings.
Speaker 3: The burger was big. However, I docked five twenty eight
Speaker 3: points because the burger was undercooked.
Speaker 1: Dude, I can't handle that. It was.
Speaker 3: It was disgusting that it was not cooked well enough.
Speaker 3: Send it back nine and send it back as I don't.
Speaker 4: Want to be that guy.
Speaker 3: The overall quality, I didn't think it was up to
Speaker 3: the other restaurants. Like the portion size was awesome, but anyway,
Speaker 3: the Malor report card on this Meaty Showdown the ultimate
Speaker 3: report card on the Juicy Lucy. So the mal report
Speaker 3: Card Juicy Lucy one to ten, with ten being a
Speaker 3: masterpiece five twenty eight. I gave that only a six.
Speaker 3: The reason and I gave it a six is because
Speaker 3: the portion size. I'm guessing if I went back there
Speaker 3: and they actually made the burger the right way and
Speaker 3: it was a little more well done, I'd actually like it,
Speaker 3: but they didn't, so I docked them points, so I
Speaker 3: all gave them a six.
Speaker 1: Matts.
Speaker 3: I went pretty high on this one. I gave it
Speaker 3: an eight. And the reason I gave it an eight,
Speaker 3: I thought the burger was pretty good. I did like
Speaker 3: the ambiance. I dockted a point because it was a
Speaker 3: cash only situation. They did not give large enough portions,
Speaker 3: so I gave that a minus one point also, so
Speaker 3: I ended up with an eight. And then the Nook
Speaker 3: on a Malord report card one to ten, with ten
Speaker 3: being the greatest of the greatest. I gave the nook
Speaker 3: a nine point five a five. I loved the nook
Speaker 3: in Saint Paul, I recommended I give it the Malord
Speaker 3: stamp of approval. They're not paying me to review this.
Speaker 3: They didn't give me free food. I loved it. In fact,
Speaker 3: we loved it so much. Danny our last stop on
Speaker 3: the way back to the airport after we checked out
Speaker 3: of the place we were saying. The final meal we
Speaker 3: had in Minneapolis was the Nook and I ordered the
Speaker 3: Paul Molitor. I had the Paul Molitor and it had
Speaker 3: the pepper jack in there.
Speaker 1: And it was very messy, very messy.
Speaker 3: There was cheese everywhere, gooey cheese all over. I got
Speaker 3: my shirt stained with these. I enjoyed every second of it.
Speaker 3: Saint Paul is beautiful. I went to the state capitol
Speaker 3: in Saint Paul checked that out and it was just awesome.
Speaker 1: It was great, So good job by the Nook.
Speaker 3: It's right across from this baseball field at the local
Speaker 3: college in Saint Paul. There's a grocery store on the
Speaker 3: other side. There's a gas station on one other corner.
Speaker 1: But it was great.
Speaker 3: It was as a barbershop, little barber shop there, So
Speaker 3: that is the man.
Speaker 5: Mothers. They're doing a victory lap right now when they
Speaker 5: hear this news.
Speaker 4: Ben. It was great.
Speaker 3: The Knoock was wonderful and if I make my way
Speaker 3: back to Minnesota, I will go there again. I also
Speaker 3: did visit quickly, Danny. I visited all of these sporting venues.
Speaker 3: None of the teams were in town. They the It
Speaker 3: was so funny. We were at an arcade on Friday
Speaker 3: night watching the Twins game as they were playing the Angels,
Speaker 3: which is not far from the north Woods where the
Speaker 3: Malor Mansion is in southern California. So we're watching the
Speaker 3: Twins play the Angels while I'm in Minnesota and they're
Speaker 3: in southern California.
Speaker 4: So that must have felt weird.
Speaker 1: That was at awkward.
Speaker 3: But then I went to Target Field, went to the
Speaker 3: Viking Stadium, went to the Target Center, and that whole
Speaker 3: area wandered around there. My my wife thought we were
Speaker 3: gonna get shanked because we went around sundown. There's a
Speaker 3: there's like a zombie apocalypse in downtown Minneapolis, Danny, just
Speaker 3: like you see in LA or San Francisco or New York.
Speaker 1: It's no different. It is scary.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of crackheads walking around and totally disheveled
Speaker 3: and messed up, and you don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not legal whatever they got going on.
Speaker 3: And fortunately we did not get shanked, and I did
Speaker 3: take some photos. Maybe I'll post some of those photos
Speaker 3: today from around Minnesota. I'll do it this weekend at
Speaker 3: some point. But I went to the to all the stadiums.
Speaker 3: Viking Stadium is amazing. That's where the old Metrodome used
Speaker 3: to be. That site, I'm told Quin's Ballpark looked good.
Speaker 3: Target Center the house that Patrick Beverly built that great
Speaker 3: playing championship a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: For the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3: So good times, good times all around, and I think
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that. Anything else, Danny, you want
Speaker 3: to promote Saturday in the city.
Speaker 5: No man, Saturday is for our podcast, so thank you
Speaker 5: for downloading, and of course we'll be back with the
Speaker 5: mail mother Sucker tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: I get a mail bag on Sunday, and I really
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you, thank thank you so much. Tell
Speaker 3: a friend word of mouth average. I think you've been
Speaker 3: so great about that. We do appreciate it. We'll have
Speaker 3: the mailbag for you tomorrow. Have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 3: your Saturday and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go get a cinnamon roll right now and
Speaker 5: a later skater watch your GPS though Vopulation