Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, the extra crispy Fifth Hour with Me,
Speaker 3: Big Ben and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: A Happy eighteenth Day of May. As we slide into
Speaker 1: the Saturday. On a Saturday morning, it is National No
Speaker 1: Dirty Dishes Day today, which I support. That's a holiday
Speaker 1: I get behind. And I'm the head dishwasher in the
Speaker 1: Malor Mansion, and I've talked about this on this podcast
Speaker 1: in the past. I believe you cannot go to bed
Speaker 1: with a sink filled with dirty dishes. That is a taboo.
Speaker 1: You cannot do it all dish no dishes left behind
Speaker 1: that are dirty. All dishes must be washed. That's the
Speaker 1: way that it works.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I'm a clean person, but I can
Speaker 4: say you have a little touch of OCD. Same as
Speaker 4: my wifey. I think there's two cups in the sink.
Speaker 4: They're not going to kill anybody, and no home inspector
Speaker 4: is gonna come over in the middle of the night
Speaker 4: to look at our sink and be like, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: five hundred points that I'm gonna have to deduct off
Speaker 4: your score. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The thing that does annoy me, though, Danny, is when
Speaker 1: I get the dishes done and then somebody gets the
Speaker 1: late night munchies and then they put a dish in
Speaker 1: late at night.
Speaker 4: That bothers me, but great part of getting a snack,
Speaker 4: though You do a dish in the middle of the
Speaker 4: night when you have the munch.
Speaker 1: That's rude to do a dish, right, it's not. It's taboo.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't do a dish.
Speaker 4: Oh, dish can wait for the morning, have someone else
Speaker 4: clean it for you.
Speaker 1: In honor of National No Dirty Dishes Day, they sent
Speaker 1: a big board, not a list because I don't do
Speaker 1: list podcast, but they sent a big board of the
Speaker 1: top ten foods Americans order to avoid dishes that there's
Speaker 1: there's literally a big board for everything. So the number
Speaker 1: one should be obvious, right, what do you think the
Speaker 1: number one food is to avoid having to do dishes.
Speaker 4: Chinese, No, no, because people eat okay, but I would
Speaker 4: think Chinese too, because we'll eat right out of the
Speaker 4: cartons and throw the cartons into the fridge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have egg rolls on here, just a little
Speaker 1: lower down. Number two was French fries and then chicken wings.
Speaker 1: But chicken wings are pretty messy. They're covering sauce, right.
Speaker 4: Am I the only person who feels like a fat
Speaker 4: blob after I eat French fries?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't eat much, so when I eat, I
Speaker 1: like to enjoy fries. I do like I do like
Speaker 1: to I do. I feel bloated out, Yeah, I feel blurred.
Speaker 4: I just I do.
Speaker 1: I feel bloated. But I'm okay with that because I
Speaker 1: know I won't eat for a while, so I'm kind
Speaker 1: of okay being blow I'm like, okay, we're fell like.
Speaker 4: Twenty pounds heavier after eating a serving of fries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I you know, I didn't really notice
Speaker 1: this when I was really really big back in the day.
Speaker 1: But you do instantaneously, like you just gain a few
Speaker 1: pounds by you eat a big meal. You're gaining a
Speaker 1: couple of pounds. But the good thing is you can
Speaker 1: drop it a lot of it within a couple of days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's ice cube. In one of his classic songs,
Speaker 4: he had a famous line where he says he had
Speaker 4: to go in to use the restroom and he said
Speaker 4: coming out feeling about ten pounds lighter.
Speaker 1: Now today is also the Preakness, which is not as
Speaker 1: famous as the Kentucky Derby, but is a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: freeloaders event. My friend sports with Coleman during the week
Speaker 1: sent me some photos as he attends every media junket
Speaker 1: at Pimlical Racecourse there in Baltimore as all week. There's
Speaker 1: there's buzz and all that stuff. The smell of horse
Speaker 1: craft from the barn at the Preakness, and they have
Speaker 1: all kinds of crab.
Speaker 4: Dinners, sweet aroma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's a big it's a big horsepoop and
Speaker 1: crab and people wondering will we get another triple c
Speaker 1: I remember for years there was no triple Crown winner.
Speaker 1: Like the last ten years or so, we've seen a
Speaker 1: couple two or three.
Speaker 4: I think the fix is in. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the mystic Dan, I've known guy's named Dan. They
Speaker 1: were not mystic, but like Dan Byer. There's nothing mystic
Speaker 1: about Dan Byer. Right, we know Dan, but there's nothing
Speaker 1: but mystic Dan.
Speaker 4: Right. There one interesting thing about Dan he's never seen
Speaker 4: any of the Rocky films, and he's never had Benny
Speaker 4: Hannah or Hibachi. Cin are always joke that they're going
Speaker 4: to take him on his first date to get Benny
Speaker 4: Hannah and watch the movie Rocky.
Speaker 1: He's not.
Speaker 4: He's kind of around our age. How is it he
Speaker 4: just doesn't watch Rocky yet? He doesn't watch movies. He's
Speaker 4: not a movie guy at all.
Speaker 1: I don't watch movies anymore either, But back in those ways,
Speaker 1: he didn't haven't watched movies when we were really watching movies.
Speaker 1: But back when movies mattered, you had to see the movies.
Speaker 1: That was our entertainment. There was no social media. We
Speaker 1: lived in the Stone Age.
Speaker 4: Yeah, found out recently too, he has never seen Shawshank Redemption,
Speaker 4: what one of the best films all that classic. I
Speaker 4: know I've seen that several times. So there's something a
Speaker 4: little mystic about that, dude. Yeah, well, we'll get into
Speaker 4: it today. There's some other dope holidays. Today it's National
Speaker 4: Marvin Marvin Day. So if you know someone named.
Speaker 1: Marvin uncle named Marvin, talk to him in a while.
Speaker 1: It's great Marvin Gaye National Cheese or so Flay Day,
Speaker 1: that's like fancy, Yeah, it's I love Reese's Day, Reese's Cups.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love those peanut butter cups? What's with parts
Speaker 1: of the country saying Rece's Yeah? People odd in some places?
Speaker 1: You know, that's it's a recess.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: Hershey's Company. Holliday was created by the Hershey's Company ten
Speaker 1: years ago, fourteen years ago. So there you go, wonderfully
Speaker 1: created their own holiday.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it on this podcast. We've got a
Speaker 1: Pirate's Life for me, the Mallord Travelogue two point zero,
Speaker 1: the twelve pack edition, and we've got some other things
Speaker 1: that will work into the conversation. Also, we'll have a
Speaker 1: we Yesterday we did the phrase of the week, so
Speaker 1: we'll do the marketing slogan of the week today. And
Speaker 1: I know, Danny you've got some tales that you'd love
Speaker 1: to share as well. We'll get to at some point
Speaker 1: here throughout, but we're gonna begin with this and I'll
Speaker 1: go back. I failed to mention this last week. Bad
Speaker 1: job by me, bad job by me, and this was
Speaker 1: one of the coolest, most unique things that I was
Speaker 1: blown away by. When I was in the state of
Speaker 1: North Carolina, there's a lot of history there, some of
Speaker 1: it very dark history in the South. For example, I
Speaker 1: was in Charleston. They have one of the tourist destinations
Speaker 1: they have. I guess it's the I guess the Ellis
Speaker 1: Island for slaves. It's this port where they brought the
Speaker 1: slaves over and they kind of broke them up and
Speaker 1: sent them on their way from this location in Charleston.
Speaker 1: I think I'm describing it right. So that was, you know,
Speaker 1: depressing thing about what happened at that point. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Civil War history, but there's just all
Speaker 1: kinds of random history from the past. For example, we
Speaker 1: went out to have a nice walk and have a dinner,
Speaker 1: me and my in laws, and we were walking along
Speaker 1: this river walk right next to the Cape Fear River
Speaker 1: in Wilmington, North Carolina. We had gelatto. We had a
Speaker 1: nice gelato right next to the Cape Fear River. And
Speaker 1: that is where Edward Teach made a name for himself
Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds. In seventeen hundreds, he's working for
Speaker 1: Britain's North American colonies in the Carolinas, and he was
Speaker 1: a pirate. And when my brother in law told me
Speaker 1: about this, I said, ah, that you're you know, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: So he kind of told me the story and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute. And so he had he
Speaker 1: was more known for his as Looney would say, his
Speaker 1: gangster name or his.
Speaker 4: Nickname, Kirstime Looney.
Speaker 1: All right, So this guy had a very thin beard,
Speaker 1: a thin bill, rather, he had a beard kind of
Speaker 1: a fearsome appearance, and he he became one of the
Speaker 1: most legendary pirates of all time. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I heard about this guy. They made movies featuring him.
Speaker 1: Edward Teach went by his nickname Blackbeard.
Speaker 4: I think he's the most famous pirate, right.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any pirate more famous than black Beard.
Speaker 1: But three hundred years ago, Blackbeard the pirate was brought
Speaker 1: to justice off the Carolina coast. I had no idea
Speaker 1: that he was, you know, he died in what is
Speaker 1: now American soil, but I never put it together that
Speaker 1: that he you know, he did that for Britain in
Speaker 1: the American colonies, and he had sailed across the high
Speaker 1: seeds from you know, from New York to the Caribbean,
Speaker 1: all over the place, and they have all kinds of
Speaker 1: like shops and souvenirs. With black Beard and the Cape
Speaker 1: Fear River, which I was told is the dirtiest river,
Speaker 1: dirtiest waterway in the Carolinas, That's.
Speaker 4: What I was told, looked like San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he resided in the town of Bath and spent
Speaker 1: a lot of his years. Obviously he was robbing merchant ships.
Speaker 1: Although I did hear, actually I read this that he
Speaker 1: was not seen as a pirate, as like a bad
Speaker 1: guy for the British government. He was seen as like
Speaker 1: a wing of their military. That he was helping the
Speaker 1: British government gain gold and stuff.
Speaker 3: The greatness of the raiders.
Speaker 1: So it was it was interesting. So they had a
Speaker 1: bunch of stores and stuff. But I was wandering away
Speaker 1: eight Gelatto, right next to the famous river where Blackbeard
Speaker 1: the pirate made a name for himself. Now, as far
Speaker 1: as the Mallard travelogue, we have the twelve pack Mallard
Speaker 1: Travelogue two point zero, and this is the part where
Speaker 1: we went. I went from Wilmington to Charleston for the Malametrie.
Speaker 1: So we left the house, now did We planned to
Speaker 1: go to BUCkies, but BUCkies was out of the way
Speaker 1: and out of the way by like one hundred miles
Speaker 1: total extra one hundred miles. Yeah, that's too far, not
Speaker 1: so fast. But anyway, it's not that bad, Danny, if
Speaker 1: you just go from point A to point B. That's
Speaker 1: not how the mallards roll. That's the crow flies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those birds going. So we started out.
Speaker 1: My wife's like, all right, there's this really good bakery
Speaker 1: in Wilmington that my my mother in law's titles. But
Speaker 1: the mother in lawge she liked it, and so we
Speaker 1: went there to get some some pastries or whatever. So
Speaker 1: we were at the bakery and it's it's a good
Speaker 1: you know, it's a nice bakery. Let me have good
Speaker 1: bakeries here. It's a good bakery, good local bakery. And
Speaker 1: so we get a text that back in my father
Speaker 1: in law's house, the gator had shown up across the street.
Speaker 1: So we then had to high tail it back to
Speaker 1: the house because the week, we know, the week we
Speaker 1: were there, the alligator lives in this little retention pond
Speaker 1: to cross the street from the house was not there.
Speaker 1: He was out crawling around in the forest. So this
Speaker 1: is like big. We had to see the alligator. How
Speaker 1: many times you don't see alligators aroun here unless you
Speaker 1: go to a zoo. And I did go to a
Speaker 1: zoo by the way, and I saw al get her zoo.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we went back to the house and sure enough,
Speaker 1: there's the gator going for a swim. And so I
Speaker 1: asked him, I said, well, is it safe to walk
Speaker 1: around the retention pond? And he's like, yeah, yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: they won't bother you. He said, just don't, you know,
Speaker 1: don't run at them or don't come too close to them.
Speaker 1: But they'll just they won't worry about you. They'll'll do
Speaker 1: your own thing. They'll do your own thing. And they did.
Speaker 1: They did their own thing all right. So then we
Speaker 1: left there. We then had to go back on the road.
Speaker 1: We then went to my sister in law's house to
Speaker 1: see her baby. Right, so we still haven't left Wilmington
Speaker 1: and she lives on the other side of town, so
Speaker 1: we had to go over like a couple of bridges
Speaker 1: and whatever. So then of course we get back on
Speaker 1: the road and where do you think we had to
Speaker 1: stop Danny Starbucks, right there to start start, I had
Speaker 1: to stop at Starbucks, so you got a refresher. So
Speaker 1: then we drive a little bit and then wait a minute, wifesight,
Speaker 1: we hat to get some food, so we ate what
Speaker 1: I think was the first lunch. We stopped at bo Jangles.
Speaker 1: I stopped number five by the way at bo Jangles.
Speaker 1: So then right across the street from bow Jangles, we realized,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, there's a Pigley Wiggly, So I want
Speaker 1: to see the Pickley Wiggly. So then we went to
Speaker 1: the Pickley Wiggly and I did a little video in
Speaker 1: the parking lot at the Pickley Wiggly and and you know,
Speaker 1: promoting the Malor Maiden greet. So there we were. I
Speaker 1: was at the Pigley Wiggly. Uh. Then we got back
Speaker 1: in the car and we drove and we drove and
Speaker 1: we drove. So we've had six stops and we're finally
Speaker 1: leaving the Wilmington area. Then, and I mentioned this on
Speaker 1: the Overnight show, had one of the most surreal stops
Speaker 1: I've ever had, a place called South of the Border.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of South of the Border? Danny
Speaker 1: never never? I never heard of it either. I was
Speaker 1: blown away. I was told you got to go check
Speaker 1: this out. It's wild that it still exists, and that's
Speaker 1: not a lie. So South of the Border, how would
Speaker 1: I describe this? It is like being in a time
Speaker 1: capsule from a time far far ago. It's like a
Speaker 1: roadside attraction that used to have a lot of these.
Speaker 1: It is right on the state line from North Carolina
Speaker 1: to South Carolina on I ninety five, the main thoroughfare.
Speaker 1: I'm told it is halfway. That point is halfway between
Speaker 1: New York and Miami on I ninety five. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that will stop there because it's
Speaker 1: a halfway point or whatever, and it's you gotta look
Speaker 1: it up. Then I could say you this some photos,
Speaker 1: but it's it's Nutso it has every stereotype you could
Speaker 1: possibly want right out in front there. It was built today.
Speaker 1: As I said nineteen forty nine, I'm going to look
Speaker 1: it up south of the border in South Carolina off
Speaker 1: I ninety five.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1: Originally we stopped to go to the ath room and
Speaker 1: then it was like, wait a.
Speaker 4: Minute, here this there's like lots of old, big like statues.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I took some photos in front of the the
Speaker 1: statues there. It's very very bizarre. Let's see, there's some
Speaker 1: souvenirs here. I don't know which ones I want to
Speaker 1: send here, we'll skip over that one. Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. All right, I should you
Speaker 1: should have fireworks and yeah, and some of some of that.
Speaker 1: But this, this place was I had never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. I didn't know it existed. I thought, how
Speaker 1: bad could it be? How crazy could it be? But yeah,
Speaker 1: right there, I just sent you a bunch of photos.
Speaker 1: You'll get at a little taste there. Danny should take
Speaker 1: a second. But the magic of telecommunications and text messaging.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, different things there.
Speaker 4: Right, look at that. You're standing next to a racist statue.
Speaker 4: It's like Speedy Gonzales Burrito loco. Oh nice, yeah, nice
Speaker 4: gift shop. Yeah, there's the big chicken statue. Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 4: A couple of chickens there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it opened originally nineteen forty nine. And check this out.
Speaker 1: What I sent you is actually the cleaned up version
Speaker 1: because it used to be more racist, more on the
Speaker 1: racist side, I guess, back in the day. But they
Speaker 1: made it more of a cartoonish type thing. After they
Speaker 1: had to take all the Confederate flags down. Oh you
Speaker 1: still see them, You still see them anyways. So that
Speaker 1: was our stop at South of the Border. Then we
Speaker 1: kept going and shortly after that, about forty five minutes
Speaker 1: I think it was, we got the BUCkies in Florence,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Gas and dinner, Gas and dinner, or usually
Speaker 1: dinner and then gas. But we were at BUCkies. Awesome,
Speaker 1: live up to the hype recommended. Love my BUCkies. Love
Speaker 1: My BUCkies was everything I thought it would be. And
Speaker 1: then some people were not lying when they talked about Buckies'
Speaker 1: biggest gas station I'd seen, and they had unbelievable food options,
Speaker 1: endless amounts of food. I went with the brisket sandwich,
Speaker 1: which was just delicious, just wonderful. And then we did
Speaker 1: something Danny by the way, where eight stops in on
Speaker 1: the Mallard travelogue two point zero from Wilmington, North Carolina Charleston,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. So I went to BUCkies, got back in
Speaker 1: the car, and we we audibled audible, audible audible. Leaving Florence,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. We then drove all across South Carolina and
Speaker 1: we stopped we were monster hunting. Danny Monster Hunting stopped
Speaker 1: at a small town in the boondocks of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Most towns are small in South Carolina. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of the lizard Man of scape or swamp?
Speaker 4: Negative?
Speaker 1: Yeah, neither did I. But one of our close confidants said, hey,
Speaker 1: you got to check this out. There's like their version
Speaker 1: of Bigfoot. And so this goes back to the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: late nineteen way back in the late nineteen eighties in
Speaker 1: Lee County, South Carolina, there's supposedly a creature walking around
Speaker 1: a swamp, the lizard Man of Scape or swamp. So
Speaker 1: we punched in the GPS where the swamp was. We'll
Speaker 1: go there, we'll check it out, and we did. We
Speaker 1: went there and we drove off this dirt road, just
Speaker 1: like you'd think in all those movies about the South
Speaker 1: dirt Road. We went to the end of a dirt road.
Speaker 1: It had rained a little bit. Everything was all muddy,
Speaker 1: that thick southern mud all over the car. So we
Speaker 1: then parked the car. Then the GPS says, we have
Speaker 1: to walk about a mile to the swamp.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we did.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: We were wearing we all had like sandals on for
Speaker 1: the drive, so we made a last second decision to
Speaker 1: I walked a little bit down the path to the swamp,
Speaker 1: but there were so many beer cans, like a bunch
Speaker 1: of like dudes were hanging out drinking beer all over there,
Speaker 1: probably thinking they're going to find the lizardman of the swamp.
Speaker 1: So we didn't actually end up getting all the way
Speaker 1: to the swamp, but we were out. We were close enough,
Speaker 1: but we were worried the car was gonna get stuck
Speaker 1: in the mud, the rental car, and then we.
Speaker 4: We totally totally screwed.
Speaker 1: So we we did try to find the swamp monster,
Speaker 1: but we didn't. And then on the way out of there,
Speaker 1: driving through South Carolina, our tent stop was unexpected. We
Speaker 1: were driving through Sumpter, South Carolina, and right on the
Speaker 1: side of road was a historical site. Who were like, oh,
Speaker 1: what could that be? And sure enough that was a
Speaker 1: battle from the Civil War right there on the side
Speaker 1: of the highway, Battle of Dingles Hall. Now I had
Speaker 1: never heard of that. That's not the most famous Civil
Speaker 1: War battle, but this was one of the final battles
Speaker 1: of the Civil War before it ended, and in fact
Speaker 1: it had actually ended. According to the sign there, but
Speaker 1: communication was not good. They didn't have text messaging back
Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds, and so even though the South
Speaker 1: General Lee had given up, the soldiers in Sumter did
Speaker 1: not get the message. So they were fighting still, even
Speaker 1: though the war had already been decided. That the North
Speaker 1: beat the South. That sucks. Yeah, that's pretty bad. But
Speaker 1: they had a memorial.
Speaker 4: They had some dude, imagine losing your left leg in
Speaker 4: a fight that didn't even count anymore, I know.
Speaker 1: And there were dudes that had died there and they
Speaker 1: had their their they were buried right there on the battlefield.
Speaker 1: Now here's where it gets at awkward, Dady. So we're
Speaker 1: out in the middle of nowhere, off the side of
Speaker 1: this country road, Battle of Jingles Hall. I gotta go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. So I want to be respectful. I
Speaker 1: can't go go to the bathroom on a Civil War battlefield, right,
Speaker 1: you know that that'd be rude, even though I don't
Speaker 1: think the people there will complain because they're not around anyone.
Speaker 1: So but I had to go partly. So what I
Speaker 1: did is I walked. I made a technical decision. I
Speaker 1: walked out into the to the woods behind the battlefield,
Speaker 1: and uh, and I took care of business back there,
Speaker 1: but it was a pretty decent one. I felt like
Speaker 1: it would be rude to do it right out, and
Speaker 1: we were the only ones there was. There was no one,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as I could see. And then
Speaker 1: on the way we got back and we were driving,
Speaker 1: that was the ten stop. We did not stop in Darlington,
Speaker 1: but I am amazed. I'm not a big NASCAR guy,
Speaker 1: but we we drove past Darlington, which is home of
Speaker 1: the Lady in Black. The Darlington Raceway, it is nuts.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of lambeau Field. That's the comp I
Speaker 1: would give the Darlington Raceway because I've been to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and you go to Green Bay, there's nothing there, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you have this Matt monstrosity
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. Well, Darlington, South Carolina has about six thousand
Speaker 1: people that live in it, and they have this fifty
Speaker 1: thousand seat NASCAR stadium right there, right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the town. So that that was pretty pretty nuts.
Speaker 1: So and then we kept going ahead and stop at
Speaker 1: Target to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 1: I guess I drank too much. I had to keep
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom. Then we had dinner at Zaxby's.
Speaker 1: Zaxby's we had. I guess that's the second dinner we had.
Speaker 1: I think that was the second dinner at Zaxby's. And
Speaker 1: that led to a great debate, Danny, between me and
Speaker 1: a key member of the entourage. Zaxby's or bo Jangles.
Speaker 1: Which is better Zaxby's or bow Jangles. Not bo Jangles,
Speaker 1: but I was debating zaxby We agreed raising Canes is
Speaker 1: better than both of them, and bo Jangles is coming
Speaker 1: to LA next year. I believe Zaxby's is fine, but
Speaker 1: bo Jangles is better. It's more options, more side dishes
Speaker 1: at bo Jangles. We were there a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago for a wedding, and I don't know how often
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the South, though I guess
Speaker 1: more than I would anticipate, because my father in law
Speaker 1: bought a house there in Wilmington, so I would think
Speaker 1: I'll probably end up going back a fair amount of time,
Speaker 1: at least every few years, every you know, three or
Speaker 1: four years, something like that.
Speaker 4: It'll be a bo Jangles Jangler club member.
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout. Yeah, exactly, we
Speaker 1: do have though, Danny, I mentioned on yesterday's podcast, we
Speaker 1: had the phrase of the week, but now we have
Speaker 1: the marketing slowgan of the week. Are you ready for that?
Speaker 4: Marketing slogan of the week?
Speaker 1: All right, and the slogan of the week this week
Speaker 1: is finger licking good. Now. I love this phrase from
Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken. The advertising slogan pimpsah yeah, baby looking good.
Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken has used that in It goes back
Speaker 1: to the nineteen fifties, and it's rather obvious what it
Speaker 1: refers to that their food is so delicious and you
Speaker 1: have to lick your fingers to savor all the juices
Speaker 1: and the crumbs of the chicken left behind it. It's
Speaker 1: so amazing, you have to enjoy it. It's just greats.
Speaker 1: But I looked up the backstory. How did they come
Speaker 1: up with it? It must have been some slick marketing firm
Speaker 1: that came up with it, a Manhattan marketing firm that said, okay,
Speaker 1: this is a good slogan for a chicken restaurant, finger
Speaker 1: looking good.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: No, The slogan finger linking good happened by accident. It
Speaker 1: came about by accident during a commercial. A customer featured
Speaker 1: in a commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken was eating the
Speaker 1: chicken in the background, and if view were called in
Speaker 1: to complain about the customer licking his fingers, and the
Speaker 1: manager who was part of the ad, this guy named
Speaker 1: Ken Harborough, responded to the person complaining about the back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, if you're licking your fingers, that
Speaker 1: was a sexual act. And this guy Ken, the manager
Speaker 1: of the chicken place it, responded by saying, well, it's
Speaker 1: finger licking good, and that slogan from that point forward
Speaker 1: has been used by Kentucky Fried Chicken. So a guy
Speaker 1: named Ken the manager there, telling telling the tail, and
Speaker 1: that's how that Originally. It wasn't some slick marketing firm
Speaker 1: that came up with it. It was just some dude
Speaker 1: trying to calm down a disgruntled customer who was offended
Speaker 1: by someone licking their fingers after eating the chicken. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that is the marketing slogan of the week, finger licking
Speaker 1: good and anything else, Danny that we forgot here, anything
Speaker 1: that we did not get to that we should have
Speaker 1: gotten to. I'm trying to think, what do we have?
Speaker 4: Well I have I'm glad I didn't have to drive
Speaker 4: on this trip. I'm going to be headed to the
Speaker 4: airport here in just a little bit on this Saturday Thursday,
Speaker 4: when I got home from work. This is we could
Speaker 4: use this as a PSA. I don't know if these
Speaker 4: are necessary on podcasts, but on our network we have
Speaker 4: to do a certain amount of psa time, and I
Speaker 4: know you give those from time to time on your
Speaker 4: overnight show.
Speaker 1: At one point I was the king of the PSA. Yes, yep,
Speaker 1: mister PSA.
Speaker 4: Don't do a lost cat magnet.
Speaker 1: Don't do a lost cat magnet.
Speaker 4: This is called slow down or have nightmares forever. So
Speaker 4: the first time this happened was a few months back
Speaker 4: when the WiFi and I went on a little Mini
Speaker 4: Vaca when we were in Waikiki. We jumped from one
Speaker 4: hotel to another one halfway through the trip. As we
Speaker 4: left the first hotel, we got the rental truck, threw
Speaker 4: all the luggage in, and thank goodness, I did not
Speaker 4: speed off of the property. I took my foot off
Speaker 4: the brake and I started to move this big truck slowly.
Speaker 4: Thank god, Ben, because out in front of the truck
Speaker 4: came a little kid, just a couple of years old,
Speaker 4: who ran away from his mom and dad, and he
Speaker 4: made a beeline straight into the valet area and ran
Speaker 4: right in front of my moving truck. Whoa that was
Speaker 4: Klausch I hit that brake so hard, came within a
Speaker 4: few inches of hitting this kid. Had I been going
Speaker 4: fast or not paying attention? So now fast forward to
Speaker 4: just this past Thursday. I'm driving into the neighborhood that
Speaker 4: we live in. Again, out comes a little kid running
Speaker 4: right into the path of my car. What is going on?
Speaker 4: I slammed on my car's break. Thank god. I was
Speaker 4: going super slow because once I get to the neighborhood,
Speaker 4: I slow down. I slow way down because I know
Speaker 4: there's some kids out there. How many times is this
Speaker 4: going to happen in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 1: Well, and yeah, I mean remember a few years back
Speaker 1: the former Ravens Titan ended up accidentally hitting his daughter.
Speaker 1: He killed him backing. I think it was his driveway
Speaker 1: in Arizona. I remember talking about that story on the
Speaker 1: show Todd Heap, and it was just I remember that,
Speaker 1: I remember the accident, and it just I mean, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You know? I mean, it's crazy
Speaker 1: crazy anyway? Uhh Yeah, just drive a little safe, slower
Speaker 1: travel drive like you were in Carolina.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have your head on a swivel.
Speaker 1: What we do have to check the Backscratcher before we
Speaker 1: get out of here? Back Scratcher? Will we get one review?
Speaker 1: Two reviews? No reviews this week? We had one last
Speaker 1: week after not having one for two months. So, Danny,
Speaker 1: what do you think this week?
Speaker 4: I'm backscratcher after everybody hearing you'd celebrate a little bit
Speaker 4: of a cartwheel last weekend, I'm gonna say we got two.
Speaker 1: All right, Danny, you're overly optimistic. We got one. Actually one,
Speaker 1: we did get one. I'll say, well, I'll take one
Speaker 1: one a week keeps the boss away. Steve from Minnesota,
Speaker 1: he writes, and he says excellent show, five stars. As
Speaker 1: one of the many listeners to both the podcast as
Speaker 1: well as the original recipe show. I felt compelled to
Speaker 1: write a review, not because Ben and Danny Gee are
Speaker 1: begging or anything, he says, I have ever. I've been
Speaker 1: consuming the fifth hour pod from day one and thoroughly
Speaker 1: enjoy the different interviews and topics that come up every weekend.
Speaker 1: Please keep up the good work. As from Steve in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: So thank you Steve and you can write a review
Speaker 1: and we'll scratch your back. You scratch our back, We'll
Speaker 1: scratch your back here every Saturday on the podcast Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast Apple podcast page. It's in the description on
Speaker 1: this podcast. Very simple to do and we do appreciate
Speaker 1: you helping us out. We'll get out on that. Danny
Speaker 1: safe travels back to Cali.
Speaker 4: Yeah yay, And enjoy the horses today.
Speaker 1: And well the mailbag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Asta pasta,
Speaker 1: my flation.