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 fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. Welcome into the podcast dojo. It
Speaker 1: is a Friday, October twenty seventh. As we are doing
Speaker 1: this in real time, Ben Mahler, and that would be
Speaker 1: me talking to the third person and Danny G Radio. Hello, Danny,
Speaker 1: yo yo, Yeah, Ben loves himself some Ben, Yes, exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: we were just catching up. We had a great meeting
Speaker 1: this week Danny about the State Radio and it was
Speaker 1: really it was really fun. I had it was a
Speaker 1: hearty it was a hearty conversation, a couple of radio
Speaker 1: guys just breaking down the nuts and bolts, the meat
Speaker 1: and potatoes, the guts of the radio business. And I
Speaker 1: love I love conversations like that, Danny. I don't have
Speaker 1: many of those conversations.
Speaker 3: We're losing another radio pro to a school district job.
Speaker 3: I know there's pensions involved, but it just kind of
Speaker 3: blows because how many of our friends been have said
Speaker 3: peace out to radio and the broadcasting business and have
Speaker 3: moved on to other jobs. I'm talking decades, yeah, three
Speaker 3: now for us where we're on the third decade of
Speaker 3: some of our friends saying later, see you on the
Speaker 3: other side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild, And I gotta tell you, I have
Speaker 1: not lost the passion. I still get excited when I
Speaker 1: walk into the radio station. I do. But the problem
Speaker 1: is a lot of these situations, it's family, it's ours,
Speaker 1: or it's a combination of that. And also obviously money
Speaker 1: is isn't a big factor, but it's you know, as
Speaker 1: far as like doing the job, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know there's anything else I would want to
Speaker 1: do that I would I mean other than just having
Speaker 1: I mean obviously I didn't have. If nobody would hire me,
Speaker 1: i'd have to get like a real job. But for
Speaker 1: me to choose to leave this, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: that's a tough that's a tough road.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing is I've had family members and friends
Speaker 3: ask me what network are you going to go to next,
Speaker 3: and I like, is you really That's the weird part too,
Speaker 3: of the state of broadcasting because obviously our business got
Speaker 3: screwed up a couple of decades ago as Clinton was
Speaker 3: on his way out of office. That's a whole other
Speaker 3: story with consolidation and deregulation. Yeah, regulation and the whole
Speaker 3: start of basically a monopoly in radio. But that's a
Speaker 3: whole nother podcast episode. There were a lot of guys
Speaker 3: who saw the writing on the wall at that point
Speaker 3: in time and did a pivot and went to some
Speaker 3: other business or industry to work in. But when you
Speaker 3: do sports radio, what are you going to do? Ben
Speaker 3: move to Connecticut and work for ESPN. No offense to them,
Speaker 3: but their radio network has stunk for a little while now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of those things. Like when we started
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio over twenty years ago, people kind of
Speaker 1: poo pooed it. They were like, yeah, ESPN was the
Speaker 1: king of sports radio. I mean they had the biggest,
Speaker 1: the biggest names in sports radio all worked there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, back in the day, what was it, Mike and Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Dan Patrick was there.
Speaker 1: Tony Kornheiser did a show for a long time than
Speaker 1: Cowherd replaced him. You know, there were this huge, huge
Speaker 1: names and they were heard everywhere. And now that's you know,
Speaker 1: there's still hurt a lot of places. But Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio in the radio business is the number one radio network,
Speaker 1: not even really close. I mean, I'm obviously biased. I
Speaker 1: think we're both biased here, but the numbers speak for themselves, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you can actually have we have data to
Speaker 1: back it up. I mean it's not now. We do
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys that used to work there,
Speaker 1: you know, I even work People don't know this, but
Speaker 1: when I was starting in San Diego, I was a
Speaker 1: one of my first you know gigs. I was a
Speaker 1: reporter and one of my clients was ESPN Radio. I
Speaker 1: was a stringer and when ESPN Radio started, they only
Speaker 1: had weekend programming. They had the Sports Babe during the
Speaker 1: week and on the weekends they had a show with
Speaker 1: Chuck Wilson, Tony Bruno, and Peter Brown. Peter Brown is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite radio people, but I have Tony
Speaker 1: two and so they did they did like a seven
Speaker 1: hour show on Friday and Saturday, and I was one
Speaker 1: of the people they used as a reporter in LA
Speaker 1: Like I'd go to different games and give them back.
Speaker 1: In those days, we'd call up and give scores and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I did that and all.
Speaker 3: But oh, you were a stringer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a stringer and I got paid doing that,
Speaker 1: and I get paid to have get guests on and
Speaker 1: things like that. But a long time ago. But now
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's Fox Sports Radio is the
Speaker 1: premier sports radio network and all that, but it's just
Speaker 1: a wacky world. And outside of ESPN, I mean, you
Speaker 1: look around, there's there's a small network and I think
Speaker 1: it's in Houston. I think, uh, And I don't even
Speaker 1: really know. Outside of that, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's much like It's the equivalent to you being Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes on the Chiefs and your friends saying, what's team
Speaker 3: he going to play for? Next?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. People, It's it's hard to explain to people that
Speaker 1: are on the outside of the business what it's like,
Speaker 1: because yeah, I always get the why don't you do
Speaker 1: a show during the day, and I have to explain.
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, you know, you don't pick the time,
Speaker 1: and there are negatives and positives to everything, and you
Speaker 1: have to weigh everything. I'm more of a night person
Speaker 1: than a day person, and you know, the money's a factor,
Speaker 1: but you have to weigh Everything's all variables in life,
Speaker 1: and you have to drop some knowledge on people and
Speaker 1: explain here's how it works. And you know, you're actually
Speaker 1: on more radio stations when you're on late at night
Speaker 1: and you are during the day less people listening on
Speaker 1: each station, but you're on more stations, so you got
Speaker 1: to explain all that. But anyway, and it's all different
Speaker 1: now too, because when we started there was no podcasting,
Speaker 1: and now everything's recorded, so you get more than one
Speaker 1: chance to hear I kind of liked the old days
Speaker 1: when we did radio and if nobody heard it, they
Speaker 1: could that was it. It was gone. You know, it
Speaker 1: was like quitting time. Once we got done with the show,
Speaker 1: that was it. You're done that.
Speaker 3: They called it appointment listening. Yeah, if you missed it, man,
Speaker 3: you missed that appointment and you were in a doctor's
Speaker 3: office with them telling you to buzz off, you suck,
Speaker 3: you're late, You're out of here. No appointment for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You're like, yes, what you do with traffic
Speaker 1: on the ones you had to tune in on one
Speaker 1: just to hear the traffic and whether on the fives
Speaker 1: or Sports on the fifteens or whatever whatever it might
Speaker 1: have been. So I a couple things that we can
Speaker 1: get into the booster rocket. We've got commandeered, and I
Speaker 1: have a daily double for the word of the week,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what else we have time for. But
Speaker 1: shocking that it is already Week eight of the NFL
Speaker 1: season that kicked off with a Thursday night game. I
Speaker 1: would like to thank Baker Mayfield and the Bucks last night, Danny.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the game, but the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers were down by two scores in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield the Bucks took a They took seven minutes,
Speaker 1: They had a seven and a half minutes. They had
Speaker 1: a seventeen play drive methodically la la la la la
Speaker 1: la la la la la la, lollygagging down the field.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Gamblers across America had big smiles on their faces.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had the Bucks plus the points and I
Speaker 1: got it. I think it was eight and a half
Speaker 1: what I got if I remember correctly, it got it
Speaker 1: went higher than that. And I'm watching I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are they doing? Like are they trying to win the game,
Speaker 1: and then they got bailed out by penalties from Buffalo
Speaker 1: a couple of times on the drive. But the lack
Speaker 1: of urgency is stunning, Like what is Todd Bowles doing
Speaker 1: on the cyclises Like you have to kind of pick
Speaker 1: up the base, you need to scores. And then they
Speaker 1: still had a chance to win. If Chris Godwin had
Speaker 1: turned around sooner, not to belabor the point, the Bucks
Speaker 1: would have won the game out right by an extra point.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but as far as get to the point,
Speaker 1: because Week eight bunch of games. Obviously everyone's playing. It's weird.
Speaker 1: We've had a bunch of bye weeks this week in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Everyone's playing, and then they get back to
Speaker 1: the bye weeks after this, so it's an I don't
Speaker 1: know why they're doing that. No, they didn't ask me,
Speaker 1: they didn't consult me. So anyway, this week we amazingly
Speaker 1: not long is it week eight? I can alert all
Speaker 1: of the podcast listeners, all of you, I'm talking to
Speaker 1: you and the other person over there, that the show,
Speaker 1: my TV show has still not been canceled, that it's
Speaker 1: still on the air. And yesterday was hanging out at
Speaker 1: Universal studios taping the show there. It is very cool.
Speaker 1: You always cool, got there early, hung out for a
Speaker 1: few hours.
Speaker 3: Have you seen anybody surrounding your show yawning.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the executives that that areying. But so we
Speaker 1: do the show from this NBC like the LA News
Speaker 1: Bureau for NBC's News Bureau for LA. We do it
Speaker 1: out of that building. Yeah, the Brocosts Center. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: CEE NBC's there and all that. So they do like
Speaker 1: dateline and all that. But I would like to alert
Speaker 1: you that we do have a change today on this Friday,
Speaker 1: a booster rocket. I think this is great news for
Speaker 1: the show. We were debating this, but I think it's
Speaker 1: really good news, and I'll tell you why. Because NBA
Speaker 1: season started this week, the long winding road of the
Speaker 1: NBA regular season, and what that means is for the
Speaker 1: TV show, we're getting moved around because of NBA programming.
Speaker 1: Like in Boston, we're on the Celtic station. Chicago's got
Speaker 1: the Bulls, Phillies got the Sixers. In the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: they've got the Warriors, and we're on the Sacramento King station.
Speaker 3: Left off a major one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know there's some team in LA. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that team where Lebron and ad tour
Speaker 3: shit up. Last night, you're on the Lakers station. I watched.
Speaker 1: They were down by twelve going to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I guess the team without two of their top three players.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would use that terminology to
Speaker 1: describe what happened.
Speaker 3: But are you really gonna talk smack when they're promoting
Speaker 3: your show.
Speaker 1: I don't know I would do that. I'm just just
Speaker 1: saying I'm just merely pointing out that I don't know
Speaker 1: the verbiage was anyway, Yeah, we are on in LA
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: So well, the day before I heard Lebron was done.
Speaker 3: So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Well, this is how little Darvin Ham not to do
Speaker 1: a sporty podcast. But the coach of the Lakers came
Speaker 1: out boldly said Lebron's on a minute cap at twenty
Speaker 1: nine minutes. So this got reported everywhere. Everyone wrote this that,
Speaker 1: everyone talked about this on radio and television. Lebron twenty
Speaker 1: nine minutes, the twenty nine minute man. So Thursday night
Speaker 1: they're playing the Sun's Lakers are trailing. Lebron's played twenty
Speaker 1: nine minutes they played another six they just like just
Speaker 1: left me in there.
Speaker 3: Like to be fair, that sounds like one of our podcasts.
Speaker 3: We'll do twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We always plan on cutting it out
Speaker 1: and then we end up going to like another extra
Speaker 1: ten minutes, yea extra ten yeah, to get to the point.
Speaker 1: So because of the NBA schedule, we are on different times.
Speaker 1: For example, the Boston Celtics play the Heat today and
Speaker 1: we are on after the game at after the postgame
Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock Boston, and they play this they can
Speaker 1: play show back to back. We're on in Philadelphia. There's
Speaker 1: no Sixers game today, but we were on at six
Speaker 1: thirty and eleven thirty in Philly. Chicago, we're on after
Speaker 1: the Bulls play the Raptors, and we're on actually pre
Speaker 1: game before the Golden State Warriors game, and actually Golden
Speaker 1: State's playing Sacramento, but we're on different stations. Anyway, I'll
Speaker 1: just check your local cable listings at all. And I
Speaker 1: know in LA on Saturday because of the Lakers, believe
Speaker 1: they're on the road in Orlando. I think I think
Speaker 1: I saw that. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but anyway,
Speaker 1: the show's got to air at six am and then
Speaker 1: again at eleven pm on Spectrum Sports Net in LA.
Speaker 1: In the other there's a bunch of other showings, but
Speaker 1: you can that's on Saturday for the LA market and anyway,
Speaker 1: check check it out. It would be really cool. My
Speaker 1: picks have been absolutely horrible. They have been embarrassing. I've
Speaker 1: been explaining to people at NBC Danny that I was
Speaker 1: actually good at this, Like we have tape that is
Speaker 1: available to prove that I am not incompetent. I have
Speaker 1: not changed anything. It's not like I've changed anything. And
Speaker 1: yet here were the Dodgers. Are you pressing too hard? Well,
Speaker 1: there was that like we were going over the schedule
Speaker 1: and we have to tape. There's a show that we
Speaker 1: normally tape on Thursdays, and obviously Thanksgiving is coming up
Speaker 1: in a few weeks, so we are like, well, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to tape on Thanksgiving, so when do we When
Speaker 1: do we do it? And then it's like do we
Speaker 1: push it forward but it's got to air at certain times?
Speaker 1: Do we do it earlier? And I think my response was, well, clearly,
Speaker 1: more prep time isn't going to help me because I'm
Speaker 1: spending endless amounts of time here and it's not quite
Speaker 1: quite working out. So but anyway, the show, I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't really hear it's actually actually better as we've
Speaker 1: said for the show at the Penny Wins and all that.
Speaker 1: But I just want to have one of those dynamite weekends, Danny,
Speaker 1: like we had last year where I end up going
Speaker 1: like eleven and four or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that you were on cloud nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I want one of those. I haven't had
Speaker 1: one of those. I mean, I've been a terrible week
Speaker 1: last week. Anyway, Benny versus the Penny checked that out,
Speaker 1: pressing on turning the page. If you will, commandeered, calm undeered,
Speaker 1: that would be the Halloween holiday and we'll have a
Speaker 1: lot of Halloween related content. I would imagine this weekend, Danny,
Speaker 1: but commandeered, that would be the holiday of Halloween. This
Speaker 1: is not something that is new, but it is continuing.
Speaker 1: It is a trend in society that is continuing for
Speaker 1: the Halloween holiday, which is coming up on Tuesday. But
Speaker 1: this is a big weekend for Halloween parties right tonight
Speaker 1: Saturday night, party, party, party, party, So you've got Halloween
Speaker 1: and a survey was done of Hey, what are you
Speaker 1: going to dress up? And what kind of costume are
Speaker 1: you going to wear for Halloween? And so they servet
Speaker 1: a bunch of adults all over the age of eighteen.
Speaker 1: According to the poll of fifty eight percent of adults
Speaker 1: are going to wear a sexy costume. No, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: sexy costume. There's also a show that women putting in
Speaker 1: more work to look you know, like whatever, whatever, sexy blank,
Speaker 1: and they want to look like but this.
Speaker 3: Is going to be the sluttiest Halloween of all time
Speaker 3: according to the experts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seventy two percent. You can spin numbers anyway you want.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of women are likely to wear a sexy
Speaker 1: outfit this year, compared to forty three percent of dudes.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: There's oo's in this house. There's some os in this house.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So you can turn anything into like a
Speaker 1: slutty outfit. You can. It's just you put less less
Speaker 1: clothing on, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, slunt nurse, slutty police officer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just go for it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: The funniest is when they do like the like the
Speaker 1: ones that like the scarecrow, like how could you make
Speaker 1: a scare scarecrow sexy. Well, you know, if they're creative,
Speaker 1: they can come up with the way there. And the
Speaker 1: service said fifty six percent of people are going full
Speaker 1: throttle with their costumes, even if people can't recognize them.
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's all kinds of weird things in this,
Speaker 1: but they said thirty nine percent of people assume those
Speaker 1: wearing sexy Halloween costumes are seeking a fling. They said,
Speaker 1: it seems about that, seems about right right somewhere in there.
Speaker 3: I'm looking right now by the way, bloody angel, sludy cheerleader. Well,
Speaker 3: here's the steady playboy buddy costume.
Speaker 1: I would say, And I want to speak for all
Speaker 1: heterosexual men, but I think most heterosexual men would agree.
Speaker 1: The most female participants in this claim they're dressing the
Speaker 1: sexy dressing outfit is catwoman. Okay, yeah, sixteen percent. That
Speaker 1: cat suit hard to pass up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at a rhymestone cat suit right now.
Speaker 1: Not bad. The Harley Queen, I don't know, is that
Speaker 1: just like dressed up like a motorcycle checker? Oh, Harley Quinn,
Speaker 1: Harley qual is there? I don't en know who that is?
Speaker 3: Who is that comic book character?
Speaker 1: Oh it's a sexy comic. Is it sexy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's uh, she's got curves.
Speaker 1: Oh, good for her, and a nurse nurse eleven nurse
Speaker 1: can't go wrong with nurse No Maid, though disappointed No
Speaker 1: Maid on the Maid did not make the top three.
Speaker 1: That's upsetting, no mate. Uh men, they say the number
Speaker 1: one outfit, Well, there's a three way tie, police officer,
Speaker 1: gladiator and batman. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And how many couples are gonna be Travis Kelcey
Speaker 3: and Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1: Yeah, or Kenon Barbie from the movie Yeah from Yeah
Speaker 1: I went too.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be one of Taylor Swift's truck drivers.
Speaker 1: Well, just don't be her security guard there that remember
Speaker 1: the guy that the guy that left to go back
Speaker 1: to Israel to fight in the in the battle and
Speaker 1: one of the like her top.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guy was making tons of money too. That's ah,
Speaker 1: it's quite the commitment. Uh. Anyway, so that was commandeered?
Speaker 1: Which when do you think that started? Because we were kids, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't remember like going out seeing a lot of women.
Speaker 3: You don't remember your mom wearing half of an outfit
Speaker 3: saying later, honey, I'll be home in the morning.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like this, Like it's just like the last.
Speaker 1: I think the last. I think it's been a while.
Speaker 1: It's like fifteen years or so, but.
Speaker 3: I think it's been a little bit longer than that.
Speaker 3: I I hell, I remember hosting Halloween nights at a
Speaker 3: club twenty years ago and all the girls.
Speaker 1: Looked like a bunch of hookers and cocaine. Hello, hey, hey, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, of course. So we have the daily double,
Speaker 1: daily dabble, daily dabble, daily daball, daily dabo phrase, word
Speaker 1: of the week, phrase and word of the week?
Speaker 3: What phrase and word of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now we'll start with the phrase of the week,
Speaker 1: which I don't even know if this counts as a phrase.
Speaker 1: Jack o lantern in honor of Halloween. I wanted to
Speaker 1: go big. So jack o lantern. We all know, I
Speaker 1: assume we all know what that is, right, the carved
Speaker 1: up pumpkin and all that. But did you know the
Speaker 1: rest of the story, the history of jack o' lanterns.
Speaker 1: I looked it up because I was curious. It goes
Speaker 1: back to the British Isles and people it wasn't pumpkins.
Speaker 1: They would carve up turnips and something called a mangle wurzel,
Speaker 1: which is I guess a beat like a vegetable, like
Speaker 1: a beet thing. And they would carve these really disgusting
Speaker 1: faces in these turnips and these beats, and they'd use
Speaker 1: them as lanterns on Halloween. And the tradition came to
Speaker 1: the United States by Irish immigrants. They brought it with
Speaker 1: brought their traditions with them, and they switched to pumpkins. Now,
Speaker 1: why did they go with pumpkins. Why didn't they just
Speaker 1: keep going with turnips and beets or whatever, Because that
Speaker 1: was the native fruit. That pumpkin is a native fruit
Speaker 1: to this condent in North America. And so you break
Speaker 1: it down even further down the rabbit hole. Here's my
Speaker 1: favorite part of this. The name jack Oldland comes from
Speaker 1: an Irish myth. This goes back hundreds of years about
Speaker 1: a man named Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack is why we
Speaker 1: call it the Jack O'Lantern. Who was Stingy Jack? Well,
Speaker 1: it was a mythical character. But the story goes that
Speaker 1: Stingy Jack tricked the devil and was doomed to wander
Speaker 1: the earth with a lantern. And that's why people would
Speaker 1: carve things up and put a little light in there,
Speaker 1: and they would do it to honor Stingy Jack. So
Speaker 1: the phrase, which I don't even know if it counts,
Speaker 1: jack o lantern, the phrase of the week. Now for
Speaker 1: the word of the week, the word of the week,
Speaker 1: and here we go. The word is rather simple. Halloween. Halloween.
Speaker 1: Now many people know the hallows, the all hallows and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, the Eve of all Saints, the
Speaker 1: last night of October Halloween originally was spelled ha llow
Speaker 1: space e and then kind of not an explanation point
Speaker 1: one of those little lines, and then e n and
Speaker 1: seventeen eighty one. That seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 1: In Scotland, the Scottish shortened the term to all hollows.
Speaker 1: And it goes back, I mean goes back even for
Speaker 1: the going back to the Middle English thirteen hundreds. There's
Speaker 1: a thing on the Celtic calendar the Old Year's Night,
Speaker 1: which was a night where witches. It was a pagan holiday,
Speaker 1: and so it goes way back. And then in this
Speaker 1: is like a bonus here the trick or treat thing.
Speaker 1: The origins of trick or treat go back. They don't
Speaker 1: go back quite as far from what I was able
Speaker 1: to uncover with some research that I did here and
Speaker 1: again it goes back to Scotland. Parts of Scotland in
Speaker 1: the about three almost three hundred years ago, give or take,
Speaker 1: and a trick or treating originated in a Celtic celebration
Speaker 1: Sam Hayne, I believe is how it's pronounced. And the
Speaker 1: legend says that people dressed in costumes and they represented
Speaker 1: the souls of the dead and were given offerings. Right
Speaker 1: and you know, the souls of the dead, the deceased
Speaker 1: were given offerings. And the phrase trick or treat is
Speaker 1: a twentieth century invention. How about that. The actual act
Speaker 1: of trick or treating goes back further than that. But
Speaker 1: when kids say trick or treat, it is actually extortion.
Speaker 1: It is a form of extortion because essentially what the
Speaker 1: kid is saying, it's like, you know, give me all
Speaker 1: of your candy. I'm gonna knock on your door, and
Speaker 1: if you don't do that, I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: a trick. I'm going to break break something. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break a window or you know, tore the paper your
Speaker 1: house or something like that. So throw an egg at
Speaker 1: your car exactly exactly, and so I'm.
Speaker 3: Not speaking from experience, by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh, you would never, you would never do No.
Speaker 3: My mom taught us not to aim at cars because
Speaker 3: the egg was really bad for the paint. So she
Speaker 3: taught us to aim for the door, the front door
Speaker 3: of a house or apartment.
Speaker 1: That's nicer, that's very nice, she said.
Speaker 3: That's much easier to clean up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to do a little foodie fun. We
Speaker 1: haven't done foodie fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Little foody fun for Yeah. Yeah, because we all got
Speaker 1: to eat. We're still waiting for a foodie fun jingle
Speaker 1: from Ohio al or O Buddy in Richmond or anybody.
Speaker 1: You don't take. Anybody wants to send it a little
Speaker 1: foodie fun jingle. So I'm going to try to save
Speaker 1: you some money. There's a bunch of restaurants with Halloween
Speaker 1: coming up that are offering deals. Chain restaurants Windy's is
Speaker 1: offering free crispy chicken, sandwich and more. It's all part
Speaker 1: of their Spooky Good Deals that starts today here on
Speaker 1: the twenty seventh, through Halloween. What else do you There's
Speaker 1: a bunch of other random somewhat discounted foods. Dominoes Avoid
Speaker 1: the nooid. Remember that commercial. Avoid the noise. Dominoes is
Speaker 1: offering you have free pizzas to anyone that has a
Speaker 1: student loan payment. So that's their deal. Applebee's is offering
Speaker 1: free boneless wings on Halloween. Okay, there you go. It's
Speaker 1: got to be a catch on that, right and nothing
Speaker 1: you got to buy something. I'm sure that is a
Speaker 1: giving away. Sonic you can get a fifty cent corn
Speaker 1: dog all day on Halloween. Who doesn't want a Sonic
Speaker 1: corn dog to celebrate Halloween? Sign me up? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Taco Bell, this is not a deal. Taco Bell is
Speaker 1: offering they've added new Blazing Scorpion chicken flavor with Tabasco
Speaker 1: Scorpion sauce. Does that interesting call? Danny? Are you? Are
Speaker 1: you a hot food guy?
Speaker 3: Nah? I like to enjoy the food as it sits
Speaker 3: in my stomach.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Oh that's Taco del Mar. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what that is? I said, did I say, Taco Bell?
Speaker 1: Taco del Mar? What is Taco del Mar? Have you
Speaker 1: ever been to a Taco del Mar?
Speaker 3: Never heard of it?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that didn't sound like Taco Bell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it in Del Mar in San Diego?
Speaker 1: Taco del Mar. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 3: You go misleading us again on a radio broadcast.
Speaker 1: We got bad information. Well, this one's legit. Chunky Campbell's
Speaker 1: Chunky has introduced new turkey soup for the holidays, just
Speaker 1: in time for the holiday season, Danny Turkey soup.
Speaker 3: Nasty man. Our parents use so much canned goods when
Speaker 3: we were kids, it turns my stomach just to even
Speaker 3: go down that aisle of the grocery store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was a kid, we had a lot
Speaker 1: of boxed foods and a lot of frozen foods like chicken.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think you're like we Well, the fish sticks,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of that. I didn't realize at
Speaker 1: the time. I guess the family didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but we had a lot of spaghetti and
Speaker 1: a lot of mac and cheese. And as I've grown up,
Speaker 1: I really, well, those are some of the cheapest foods
Speaker 1: you can get. A box of mac and cheese doesn't
Speaker 1: cost you that much, and little cheese powder and all that.
Speaker 1: What else do we have on foodifunt we have new
Speaker 1: chocolate lovers Twinkies have popped up at Walmart just in
Speaker 1: time for Halloween. Danny, you were chocolate lover. You can
Speaker 1: get one of those chocolate twinkies.
Speaker 3: I've had cocoa.
Speaker 1: I hear you. These. I mean they're not aesthetically please,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna. I mean it's chocolate. Lovers like chocolate
Speaker 1: and chocolate, because you got the chocolate on the outside
Speaker 1: and then the inside the cream filling is the chocolate
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: So that's overload.
Speaker 1: Did you know how many Riese's peanut butter candies are
Speaker 1: available on the market in time for Halloween? You want
Speaker 1: to take a guess how many different products they have available.
Speaker 3: Let's say they have eight different variations.
Speaker 1: According to what I uncovered here, twenty nine different versions
Speaker 1: of Reese's candy in time for the holidays. They got
Speaker 1: the big cup, they got the regular cup, they got
Speaker 1: Teresa's Popcorn, They've got Teresa's miniature cups. They've got the
Speaker 1: Reesa's Stick, the Teresa's Pieces, the Veresa's minis, Teresa's thins.
Speaker 1: I mean, they put this in all kinds of confections. So,
Speaker 1: but just stick to what you know when you started
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties or whatever it was. The peanut
Speaker 1: butter cup. That's the classic go to peanut butter cup.
Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with the Reese's peanut butter cup.
Speaker 3: The solid Yeah, like we said last weekend, give us
Speaker 3: the big Reese's pieces cup, but charges for the small one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way to go.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Speaking of food, foody fun, there's a food hack that
Speaker 1: people are using to fall asleep faster. Do you see this?
Speaker 1: Which food people are eating to fall asleep faster?
Speaker 3: Alligator?
Speaker 1: Alligator? That's a great answer, it's actually donkey eating. No,
Speaker 1: the correct answer is pineapple. Pineapple's started on TikTok. Of course,
Speaker 1: everything starts on TikTok, and it's one of the life
Speaker 1: tricks that has popped up there. And the claim is
Speaker 1: that this is a hack that will help you fall
Speaker 1: asleep in mere minutes. I think this is likely bullshit,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I have trouble falling asleep. I
Speaker 1: can't shut my mind off. They claim that pineapple before
Speaker 1: bed fall helps you fall asleep. Eating pineapple before bed,
Speaker 1: we'll get you to sleep much quicker. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a trick here, and you trick yourself into
Speaker 1: getting the best sleep ever. Pineapple after dinner, try it
Speaker 1: with coconut whipped cream. Well, that sounds pretty good, And
Speaker 1: I don't know, like they claimed, the science on this
Speaker 1: backs it up. There was a study done years ago
Speaker 1: that said certain fruits like pineapple, bananas, and oranges one
Speaker 1: at a time would help like a wash out period,
Speaker 1: transitioning between fruits until blah blah blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: they said that it boosted the the melatonin levels. Supposedly
Speaker 1: the pineapple, it boosted the melatonin levels two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty six percent. I don't know. That seems like maybe
Speaker 1: I should mix more pineapple. Might have to try it
Speaker 1: because I do have trouble fall asleep. But I don't
Speaker 1: eat that much. That's the problem, daty, I don't eat that.
Speaker 3: Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits.
Speaker 1: I love it too.
Speaker 3: There's that old story too that you know your wife
Speaker 3: will ask you to eat a little more pineapple.
Speaker 1: I've heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking maybe that's how people go to sleep,
Speaker 3: not from the fruit, but from what happens after dessert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they might get that pineapple flavor one way or another.
Speaker 1: Here you well, McDonald's you're a fan of the mcflurry
Speaker 1: spoon at McDonald's.
Speaker 3: The spoon is cool, the mcflurry is just okay, well
Speaker 3: they're going away soccer. It's because they're hard plastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah they Originally it was the plastic straw.
Speaker 3: It was like a straw spoon, right, it was a combo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the mcflurry because, as you mentioned, Danny, we
Speaker 1: cannot have nice things. We cannot have nice things. But
Speaker 1: the mcflurry and McDonald's people getting rid of the the
Speaker 1: the current spoon and mcflury. I mean, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a couple of nuggets here, but essentially it comes down
Speaker 1: to a plastic issue, and so they're they're chopping. So
Speaker 1: I guess you can't have the mcflury then if you
Speaker 1: don't have the spoon. McDonald's says it's part of the
Speaker 1: chain's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Because as long
Speaker 1: as McDonald's reduces the emissions, I think we're all better,
Speaker 1: right the fact that China, Russia, India are just pumping
Speaker 1: out emissions, but McDonald's will make it better for the
Speaker 1: whole world there. But yeah, it's it's the spoon, the
Speaker 1: Talow doubles as like a spindle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I noticed some of the frozen yogurt shops
Speaker 3: that used to give out the nice hard plastic spoons,
Speaker 3: they're doing the same thing. They're ditching those. How are
Speaker 3: we supposed to steer utensils from places now?
Speaker 1: It says mcflury going forward will now have a smaller
Speaker 1: black spoon that uses much less plastic. Racist much less plastic.
Speaker 1: So congratulations, you're you're helping fix the world with a
Speaker 1: crappy spoon. Now, can you hoard the it's plastic so
Speaker 1: it'll last forever. So could you just get a bunch
Speaker 1: of mcflury spoons before they get rid of them, and
Speaker 1: then you can keep them and I don't think they
Speaker 1: would wash very well, but you know it'd last a
Speaker 1: while if you get enough of them. Right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we have a drawer that's filled with yogurt
Speaker 3: Land spoons.
Speaker 1: Oh, very nice. That's very kind of yogurt Land to
Speaker 1: give you some spoons. Panda Express is testing some new
Speaker 1: dim some bites now at the past Sadina location here,
Speaker 1: So there isn't it. Didn't Panda Express start in Pasadena?
Speaker 1: I think they did. Actually, I think their first they've
Speaker 1: got let's see here they're gonna have. The menu includes
Speaker 1: lobster and shrimp dumplings, mini chicken wantans, apple pie roll
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty good, fried crispy fried rolled pastry filled
Speaker 1: with juicy apple and fall spices and dusted with sweet cinnamon.
Speaker 1: I did that, and then they got a bunch of
Speaker 1: other random, random things. There's being sold individually on the
Speaker 1: location on Foothill Boulevard there in Pasadenas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right, they're first of the restaurant chain
Speaker 3: opened up at Panda Inn in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I actually went to the original location. I
Speaker 1: just happened to be in Pasadena for something other than that.
Speaker 1: We drove by it. I was like, Wow, that's like
Speaker 1: a sit down nice Panda Express. Well that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: Well, here's one of your favorite restaurants, Danny. I know
Speaker 1: you'll be going to get this. Arby's announcing they are
Speaker 1: getting into the fried mac and Cheese bites. New fried
Speaker 1: mac and cheese bites from Arby's.
Speaker 3: Oh boil. Those sound delicious unless they don't.
Speaker 1: Here's a we'll get out on this Trader Joe's Trader
Speaker 1: Joe's apparently an item that is blowing up. People love it.
Speaker 1: It is amazing, either for breakfast or as a dessert.
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's devotees claiming that sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes
Speaker 1: are the way to go. These look amazing. I guess
Speaker 1: this must be a new item. I've never seen these
Speaker 1: at Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3: That sounds good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look really good. Chewy, flaky dough filled with
Speaker 1: gooey cinnamon sugar filling. And they say the dough is
Speaker 1: it's got the proper amount of chewiness.
Speaker 3: What are they called?
Speaker 1: They are called sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes. That's quite
Speaker 1: the name. And yeah, they look they look good. They
Speaker 1: look solid. You can prepare the pancakes coming to a
Speaker 1: Comeford to a box according to this, and they have
Speaker 1: all the obviously the ingredients and all that. I really
Speaker 1: care about that. But it doesn't take long to cook
Speaker 1: and looks pretty good. I could see that with a
Speaker 1: nice scoop of vanilla ice cream as a dessert, and
Speaker 1: I might. I might have to pick those up. My
Speaker 1: wife loves breakfast foods. I don't eat breakfast because I'm
Speaker 1: usually sleeping when breakfast is traditionally served, so I might
Speaker 1: have to go with that. Anyway. It is Friday, We've
Speaker 1: already gone longer than we played Danny yet again. Ye
Speaker 1: that's late plans of mice men and podcasters. I have
Speaker 1: a little going on, a little going on today. I'm
Speaker 1: going to try to regroup from a very hectic week.
Speaker 1: What are you up to Danny today? You got you're
Speaker 1: doing the regular double header action. Yeah.
Speaker 3: After I produce this podcast, I'll get in my car
Speaker 3: drive to Sherman Oaks, California. What is the fancy place
Speaker 3: right above us on the hill? Oh, bell Air, Well
Speaker 3: Air bordering bell Air, California, where the Fresh Princes live.
Speaker 3: We're going to be doing the Friday edition of The
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich Show, having a lot of fun from
Speaker 3: two to four pm on the West Side. That's five
Speaker 3: to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: All right, and enjoy that, and please if you are
Speaker 1: able to do it, if you have access to it,
Speaker 1: you have Direct TV or Fubo TV, or you happen
Speaker 1: to live in a market the show is on. I
Speaker 1: would really love for you to watch the TV show
Speaker 1: Benny Versus The Penny New Times this weekend because of
Speaker 1: the NBA. So I am excited, Danny. I would rather
Speaker 1: be on after the NBA games than before because I
Speaker 1: know at sports bars all over Boston and Chicago tonight
Speaker 1: they're going to be stuck looking at my ugly mug
Speaker 1: when they just leave the TV on. And so we'll
Speaker 1: have new people that experience the show, which I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about.
Speaker 3: So, and the closed captioning will be on a lot
Speaker 3: of the screens. Yeah, read your bad jokes with Looney.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's mostly Looney's Looney's bad jokes. It's mostly
Speaker 1: mostly Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Friday. We
Speaker 1: got fresh podcast Saturday and Sunday, and we'll catch you
Speaker 1: next time.
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