Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
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 in Happy Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: the ninth day of December, as we are slaving over
Speaker 1: the hot microphones of the podcast, myself Ben with Danny
Speaker 1: g As. We're hanging out with you here all weekend long,
Speaker 1: and it is our Saturday podcast on the fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: which means all about the life of Mouth or the
Speaker 1: life of Danny g. We've got the craftsman, sword fighting,
Speaker 1: the foody fun, which is always good. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: get to that yesterday. We didn't get to it. Backscratcher,
Speaker 1: the idiom of the week, which we probably won't have
Speaker 1: time for, but we're going to attempt. We're going to
Speaker 1: attempt all of that content and anything we don't get
Speaker 1: to we will just push to the Sunday podcast is
Speaker 1: we have normally normally Yeah, but we'll start with this today,
Speaker 1: a big day, the ninth day of December, the social
Speaker 1: event of the year is taking place, unless it's not,
Speaker 1: but it is on like Donkey Kong in Malortown. We
Speaker 1: can use that name because that podcast was canceled. Mallard Town.
Speaker 1: The Party Extravaganza, the twenty twenty three Ugly Sweater Party
Speaker 1: is tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. Excited to welcome friends,
Speaker 1: family inside the walls of the Malor Mansion. Be a
Speaker 1: lot of food, hopefully some fun one I'm sure alcohol
Speaker 1: will be flowing. It's been a hectic It's been a
Speaker 1: hectic week year as we crossed the t's and dot
Speaker 1: the ash trying to get ready for this thing. But
Speaker 1: my main job now, the wife's done a lot of
Speaker 1: cleaning and things like that and decorating. My main job
Speaker 1: has been the craftsmen of cookies because we will be
Speaker 1: serving I'm the dessert guy, so I'm in charge of
Speaker 1: the dessert. So we were serving up multiple cookies and
Speaker 1: including I'm gonna make a cookie I've never made before,
Speaker 1: will debut at the Ugly Sweater Party. So if you
Speaker 1: attend the Ugly Sweater Party, you will be a guinea
Speaker 1: pig for this particular for this pre night. And and
Speaker 1: also you know we're working the gigs and all that.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of time to do this.
Speaker 1: We were busy making dough a couple of days a
Speaker 1: week and melting chocolate last night, a big chocolateier kind
Speaker 1: of a night making the delicious chocolate, which is not
Speaker 1: that hard to make, but is time consuming and can
Speaker 1: be annoying if you don't get it right, it comes
Speaker 1: out like crap. So eat and be merry. But I
Speaker 1: am the craftsman of cookies, taking advantage of the different socialists.
Speaker 1: We just I made a bunch of cookies for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which was not that long ago. And now we get this,
Speaker 1: and there's another party down the line. So the Malard
Speaker 1: Ugly Sweater Party is tonight. There will be no sword
Speaker 1: fighting at that event, my Danny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
Speaker 4: And of course I got the baby club where I
Speaker 4: can tell you and Rich Davis man, I would love
Speaker 4: to come out and go to Christmas parties, but got
Speaker 4: a baby at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the ultimate excuse. It's the great you don't
Speaker 1: have to go to anything now and nobody, nobody can complain.
Speaker 4: It's a real excuse right now for us though, because
Speaker 4: if he's out past seven pm, he gets so pissed off.
Speaker 3: Really, it's like, I want my bed, I want my booby,
Speaker 3: I want milk, and I want to go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh man, But we when I babysit my niece and nephew,
Speaker 1: and I hear all the time from their their mom
Speaker 1: and dad they're like, oh, yeah, they got to be
Speaker 1: in bed by like eight o'clock. You know, they're little kids.
Speaker 1: They gotta be in bed by eight. If they're not
Speaker 1: in by eight, this, you know, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: night mare. They're going to be terrible. And every time
Speaker 1: I've babysat them, they want to stay up till midnight,
Speaker 1: and nothing ever happens like all the marketing about oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's gonna be terrible. Their kids are fine.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to watch TV now they'll fall asleep
Speaker 1: or whatever. But they they they're not grumpy or anything
Speaker 1: like that. At least I haven't experienced it, but small
Speaker 1: sample size, so who knows. I'm sure. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: around co all the time. Right, So who knows? Who
Speaker 1: knows what's going on with Cole? But yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: litt upset with Rich Davis scheduling his party the same
Speaker 1: night of my party. It's a bad job by him.
Speaker 3: I think you guys did this last year too, did we?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's a it's a really popular weekend for
Speaker 4: Christmas parties.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't make the schedule. The wife schedules the
Speaker 1: Christmas party. I just go along with the holiday party.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much pretty much saw we do it? So yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure?
Speaker 4: Hey or fighting? Yeah, the sword fighting came at school.
Speaker 4: I haven't got to tell you about the kids lately.
Speaker 4: Of course, they're getting antsy because they want their winter break.
Speaker 3: The winter break is coming. Kids are a little antsy.
Speaker 3: Wednesday morning early, everything's normal. First couple of kids arrive.
Speaker 3: There is a what they call a zero period at
Speaker 3: the school. Do you know what that is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They didn't have that when I was around, but I am.
Speaker 1: I am aware. Yes, Yeah, you got to get.
Speaker 4: There early, and those kids get to leave early. I
Speaker 4: think I would have signed up, wouldn't you have?
Speaker 3: I believe I was not.
Speaker 1: It's nice leaving early, but I was not. I'm still
Speaker 1: not a morning person, like I, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Good thing, you're not on the radio early in the morning.
Speaker 1: No, I know, I know, but I would I really
Speaker 1: don't get like. My motors started in later in the day,
Speaker 1: even when I was younger, so I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would do well. But yeah, if I was a
Speaker 1: morning person, I'd be like, oh, let's gets thing on,
Speaker 1: get it over with, get me out of there. I
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with the bull crap later in
Speaker 1: the day it is out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: This zero period is kind of confusing on campus too,
Speaker 4: because the school bells keep going off at seven am.
Speaker 4: But they don't do zero period every day, but the
Speaker 4: bells always ring. Some days the gates entrance to the
Speaker 4: school is closed. Other days the gates are wide open.
Speaker 4: The days that the gates are wide open, my job
Speaker 4: is much easier because all of the early arrivors can
Speaker 4: just go right to my classroom. The days where they
Speaker 4: have it all locked up like a fortress, I have
Speaker 4: to continually go to the front and let each kid
Speaker 4: in like a valet.
Speaker 3: What's your name, son? Round?
Speaker 4: So I let the first few kids in there are
Speaker 4: now I don't know about four seventh graders inside my classroom,
Speaker 4: and that could be a problem with no supervision. So
Speaker 4: I go and I let the next kid in. I
Speaker 4: do my long back and I'm thinking cardio steps.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 4: I'm it's like crisp morning air. I'm getting some steps in.
Speaker 4: I get back to the classroom and two of the
Speaker 4: seventh graders are sword fighting in the middle of the room.
Speaker 1: I'm like fencing, Like, are they the Star Wars?
Speaker 4: So one kid has one of those long rulers that
Speaker 4: sits on the what used to be a chalkboard. Now
Speaker 4: it's a combo of a flat screen with one of
Speaker 4: those dry erase boards.
Speaker 1: Sure, I don't know the kid, but I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you that would make a good lightsaber.
Speaker 3: He's got that as his.
Speaker 4: The other kid has one of those long tubes that
Speaker 4: posters go in.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, that cardboard thing.
Speaker 4: So they are in full battle mode, and as I
Speaker 4: tell them, what the heck are you guys doing, the
Speaker 4: one with the big cardboard poster tube hits the other
Speaker 4: one right in the shoulder hard. You hear the sah
Speaker 4: thump this kid. Now, I'm not sure what was inside
Speaker 4: this tube or why it was in that classroom. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but needless to say, the kid that got struck over
Speaker 4: dramatically complained that he was hurt. And he now sat
Speaker 4: in the corner of the room, and I'm like, I
Speaker 4: did not ask you guys to sword fight while I
Speaker 4: exited the room. Apparently he did not go to the
Speaker 4: nurse's office or complain. But for Thursday morning, all Thursday morning,
Speaker 4: while I was there, I thought that you know that
Speaker 4: feeling you have where you're headed for some trouble. I
Speaker 4: thought I was going to get canceled.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's probably not that bright to figure that out.
Speaker 1: But who would win? Like he got the long ruler, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is wood, but it's like balsa wood. It's not
Speaker 1: thick wood, right, I assume it's not the thick wood.
Speaker 1: But then you've got the cardboard, which is probably pretty thick,
Speaker 1: but it's cardboard.
Speaker 3: It's one of those big heavy ones that was in
Speaker 3: the classroom, all right, So.
Speaker 1: You would have an advantage. You would be head in
Speaker 1: that battle. You should win the role poster rule.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I got to say it made a really
Speaker 3: good sound effect when he nailed that kid in the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Now, were there were other kids watching this or oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had five or six spectators to their lightsaber fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably had making bets, you know, they had that
Speaker 1: all going on. And anyway, all right, well listen, it's
Speaker 1: the beauty of school, all right. So we have the
Speaker 1: idiom of the week, the not to be confused with
Speaker 1: the word of the week, that's totally different. This is
Speaker 1: the idiom of the week.
Speaker 3: The week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, and it's called shot in the arm.
Speaker 1: Shot in the arm is the idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: I think we know what that means most of us.
Speaker 1: I use it from time to time. I don't use
Speaker 1: it all the time. That's a shot in the arm,
Speaker 1: but a sudden or encouraging events, quick enhancement, right, something
Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of a boost, a
Speaker 1: little bit of a boost. The idiom shot in the arm,
Speaker 1: that is a colloquial expression, as we said, means something,
Speaker 1: you know, energy, enthusiasm, confidence, helps you out right. The
Speaker 1: Clippers traded for James Harden, and that gave him a
Speaker 1: shot in the arm until James Harden played like a dog.
Speaker 1: What is still wrong with the Clippers? The dog with fleas?
Speaker 1: But a shot in the arm. Very a colorful phrase.
Speaker 1: The history, though, does not the backstory in this does
Speaker 1: not go back that far, does not the idiom a
Speaker 1: shot in the arm. The belief among those that study
Speaker 1: this crap is that the term originated only in the
Speaker 1: earliest twentieth century, the early twentieth centuries. It is not
Speaker 1: that long ago when you think about the history of
Speaker 1: the world, and it began a around the time. It
Speaker 1: coincided with the time the hyperdermic needle became a big
Speaker 1: popular thing for people, and they began using the phrase,
Speaker 1: you know, a sudden boost of energy and all that.
Speaker 1: But it first appeared in the form it's in now
Speaker 1: in print in nineteen sixty an article on something called
Speaker 1: the Lewiston Evening Journal, and they went into it and
Speaker 1: they were talking about the upcoming presidential elections. In that
Speaker 1: period of time, the war veterans could give politics a
Speaker 1: shot in the arm, they said. That's how they phrased it,
Speaker 1: and the term. They believed that it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a mystery about exactly who used it first, but it
Speaker 1: was around that time, and they think it originated in
Speaker 1: the medical field, like the military hospitals, where this is
Speaker 1: kind of appropriate for the times we've been living in
Speaker 1: recently here where the medical injection was a big thing.
Speaker 1: The hyperdermic needle became a thing. Military people had to
Speaker 1: get vaccinated for different things, and so the shot gave
Speaker 1: you a boost, a boost of stamina for you soldiers.
Speaker 1: So the idiom of the week is shot in the arm.
Speaker 1: Shot in the arm, the idiom of the week. And
Speaker 1: we move on now to footy fund. We're all about
Speaker 1: that food by request Danny before I forget my buddy
Speaker 1: sports with coleman is demanding a food review.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I did attend the La Rams game last week. The
Speaker 1: Rams played the Cleveland Browns. Joe Flacco actually looked all right,
Speaker 1: which was shocking. The Browns defense not that impressive, not
Speaker 1: that impressive. Rams won going away. It was close for
Speaker 1: a while, like most NFL games. But I go to
Speaker 1: these games and it is a freeloaders paradise at these games.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, insane and media freeloaders is my mentor
Speaker 1: Jim Healy used to say back in the day. So
Speaker 1: what I have done here is I have dissected the
Speaker 1: different food options that are available now this game, the
Speaker 1: Ram Browns game, they began they have two meals day,
Speaker 1: so pregame they had among the food items that were available,
Speaker 1: seasonal fruit platter, chicken and waffles which was just chicken
Speaker 1: tenders and Belgian waffles covered in sugar, very good biscuits,
Speaker 1: and gravy, sausage, gravy scrambled eggs with chives. Cheese tots,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with the other kind of tots.
Speaker 1: These were cheese tots that were available, and so you
Speaker 1: could get that as well, And that was just the pregame.
Speaker 1: Then they also had like a dessert bar where they
Speaker 1: just had a bunch of candy bars and all that.
Speaker 1: So they had that going for you. All kinds of
Speaker 1: carbonated beverages that was available pregame at the Ram Browns game.
Speaker 1: Then as the game progressed, as we got later in
Speaker 1: the game, at halftime, because you've already eaten once, you've
Speaker 1: got to eat again a couple hours later at halftime,
Speaker 1: they had fried chicken sliders. Unfortunately, they did have pickles,
Speaker 1: curly fries, mac and cheese bites. They had that at
Speaker 1: the RAM game. Build your own chili dog and that
Speaker 1: includes beef, chili, cheddar cheese, and onion. So that was
Speaker 1: just some of the food that was available.
Speaker 3: Don't tell me you were fasting during all of this.
Speaker 1: Well, I did fast during the breakfast portion because I
Speaker 1: don't use I like breakfast. But then I at like halftime,
Speaker 1: I went for it.
Speaker 3: I went big.
Speaker 1: The cheesy not bad, the mac and cheese bites, solid
Speaker 1: curly fries.
Speaker 3: Were they lightly fried?
Speaker 1: Uh? No, I mean they were fried. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't like when those things are two fried.
Speaker 1: No, no, I mean they were mass produced foods.
Speaker 3: So yeah, hard to find the right oil.
Speaker 1: You get what you get. But I am told the
Speaker 1: Belgian waffle was outstanding, that the sugar encased in that
Speaker 1: was a win. So I'll have to try that at
Speaker 1: a future event. Now, foody fun, because we all got
Speaker 1: to eat, some of us have to shop to Costco.
Speaker 1: Big news, big news on foody fun from Costco. They're
Speaker 1: rolling out new and improved shopping carts, new and approved
Speaker 1: Costco shopping carts that that is coming here. I thought
Speaker 1: the Costco shopping cart is fine. I don't think they
Speaker 1: needed to upgrade the shopping cart. But according to someone
Speaker 1: who has all way too much free time on their hands,
Speaker 1: Costco and a location in Wisconsin debuted a new shopping
Speaker 1: cart which doesn't look any different than the old shopping cart.
Speaker 4: This does make a difference to shoppers, though, Ben, because
Speaker 4: I told my wife, I said, let's just stop at
Speaker 4: this grocery store right here, because she's really picky about
Speaker 4: what grocery store we're going to stop at. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: and let's just say this one that I was trying
Speaker 4: to get her to go to. It's the same first
Speaker 4: name as that Irvin guy we used to work.
Speaker 1: With, Burger all alone in first place after the third round.
Speaker 1: He oh sure, sure, yeah, never heard of.
Speaker 4: Like, I don't like that one. It's kind of ghetto
Speaker 4: and the cart suck there. They all the carts have
Speaker 4: bad wheels there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they need to clean inside that grocery store.
Speaker 3: Oh like, no, I'm trying to get the best deals.
Speaker 3: They have good deals in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm see. I'm the same way.
Speaker 1: I'll go to any grocery store I like. I like
Speaker 1: going to like kind of seedy neighborhoods because you know,
Speaker 1: the food's a little cheaper in there, and you get
Speaker 1: some interesting things that I don't normally see at my
Speaker 1: grocery store in the north Woods. So and I'll go all.
Speaker 4: Over as long as it's not the grocery outlet where
Speaker 4: I was scarred for life as a kid because my
Speaker 4: mom would go in there and throw cans on the
Speaker 4: ground to dent them even more to get a bigger discount.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: I've had like.
Speaker 4: Adam Sandler and Big Daddy. If it's not grocery outlet,
Speaker 4: I'm okay. But I am not walking inside a grocery.
Speaker 1: Outlet, okay. So that that's off the board.
Speaker 3: But that's where I draw the line.
Speaker 1: And I've told the story before. Like I love good
Speaker 1: Mexican food. I like to make food at home. So
Speaker 1: but I'll go to like you know, and we live
Speaker 1: in LA and there's some great.
Speaker 3: Oh you go to the Latino markets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go to the Mexican markets. Racist. And I
Speaker 1: used to live in Lincoln Heights, which is like, you know,
Speaker 1: Mecca for Mexico. That's where I started doing it. When
Speaker 1: I lived in Lincoln Heights. There was a great market
Speaker 1: and it was a Mexican theme, you know, obviously market,
Speaker 1: and I was the gringo walking in there and I
Speaker 1: loved it and food was wonderful. It's like amazing. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is this is the way to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Costco apparently getting new shopping carts look exactly like
Speaker 1: their old shopping cars. A lot of McDonald's news here
Speaker 1: this week on Foody Fun. McDonald's announced their opening their
Speaker 1: their first cosmic location in Boiling Brook, Illinois, which is
Speaker 1: in Chicago, and so this I was reading about this,
Speaker 1: and as I understand, I think this is their way
Speaker 1: of taking market share away from Starbucks. I believe that's
Speaker 1: what this is all about. This mc cosmic is just
Speaker 1: a way to attack Starbucks. The menu has mostly drink items,
Speaker 1: the coffee. They have other new items. There's something called
Speaker 1: a sour cherry slow bush, a spicy Queso sandwich, savory
Speaker 1: hash brown bites, and more. But it's not a McDonald
Speaker 1: it's more like a coffee drink shop.
Speaker 3: That's what it's said, somewhere you'd stop like on a
Speaker 3: road trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that goes in with another news nugget from McDonald's.
Speaker 1: They are doubling down on chicken and coffee. They're going
Speaker 1: big on the cold brew at Mickey De's. And I
Speaker 1: think we mentioned this in a few weeks a few
Speaker 1: weeks back, but they are going all in on AI. Also.
Speaker 1: They have a plan to use AI loser. They claim
Speaker 1: it will produce hotter, fresher food for customers. Eh. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that, but that's what they say. They
Speaker 1: partnered with Google Cloud and they're bringing AI to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: They claim it will be used to simplify the way
Speaker 1: that they make the food and all that we could
Speaker 1: possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong with that?
Speaker 1: And while we're at it, we told the story last
Speaker 1: week on Foodie Fun about McDonald's and the big Mac
Speaker 1: the smaller patties which guess got even smaller. Well, McDonald's
Speaker 1: heard the pushback and they have determined, well, we probably
Speaker 1: need to fix that. We probably need to fix that.
Speaker 1: So McDonald's is going to introduce bigger hamburgers. They've decided,
Speaker 1: you know what, these people complaining, I guess there's something
Speaker 1: to it. They claim the pushback from customers who want
Speaker 1: larger they say high quality burgers. I don't know that
Speaker 1: you're going to get that. But a McDonald's executive announcing
Speaker 1: two investors this week that the company plans to launch
Speaker 1: a larger burger campaign.
Speaker 3: You're going to charge me nine dollars for a burger,
Speaker 3: It better fill me up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Now is it going to be actual meat? Are they
Speaker 1: going to mix it in just more byproducts and meat
Speaker 1: substitute's who knows. I don't know. They haven't, they haven't
Speaker 1: done it yet, but yeah, you should you charge that
Speaker 1: much for fast food, Like, come on, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta do better, You gotta do better.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: They're making all kinds of of upgrades allegedly. We talked
Speaker 1: about that as well, But the size of the burger
Speaker 1: not particularly a great I think that's all. Well, there's
Speaker 1: one other McDonald's story that McDonald's has done very well
Speaker 1: with gen Z because they brought Grimace back and that's
Speaker 1: all that took.
Speaker 3: They had that you like adult Grimace shake. Remember, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that that.
Speaker 1: Too, but they it's like a grown up kids.
Speaker 3: Mew you know you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, but grim is very popular and they claim
Speaker 1: they have the numbers there and it helped the bottom
Speaker 1: line for McDonald's. They scored very well, very well with
Speaker 1: the Q score right right right. Well, Subway is launching
Speaker 1: three new foot long items soon. Wasn't that exciting? None
Speaker 1: of them are sandwiches though, So I didn't they get
Speaker 1: sued because the foot long wasn't actually a foot long?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked about it last weekend. That place stinks.
Speaker 1: Subway not a fan, not a not a fan either.
Speaker 3: Oh, Jersey Mike's is so much better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last time I ate Subway. We were going out
Speaker 1: to the forest and we needed sandwiches and it was
Speaker 1: like the only sandwich shop that was around. So we
Speaker 1: picked up some sandwiches and cruised out into the forest.
Speaker 1: But it was not great they're selling. Here are the
Speaker 1: items they have, Danny foot long for two dollars. That's
Speaker 1: actually not a bad price. Foot long Turo foot long
Speaker 1: turro from partnered with Cinnabon.
Speaker 3: That sounds healthy.
Speaker 1: Three dollars will get you a foot long pretzel, Okay,
Speaker 1: get down with that. Yeah, it's an Anti Ann's pretzel
Speaker 1: for three dollars.
Speaker 3: What about the melted cheese with it? Though?
Speaker 1: They does look like they have a cup of cheese
Speaker 1: that might be extra. And then the final item on
Speaker 1: the new foot long Sidekick menu is the foot long cookie,
Speaker 1: which we talked about in the previous episode. This sings
Speaker 1: five bucks and it looks like a boat, like the
Speaker 1: whole of a boat, you know what it looks like.
Speaker 3: But does it come with insulin?
Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty good, so yeah, I don't think you'd
Speaker 1: go wrong with any of those.
Speaker 4: I think I would actually go get the pretzel better
Speaker 4: than their sandwiches.
Speaker 1: It's the size of your forearm. It is the size
Speaker 1: of your forearmed, Danny, this foot long pretzel. So there
Speaker 1: you see that you can rip Subway. But this seems
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I take everything back I said about Subway.
Speaker 1: Except their sandwiches. Their sandwiches blow.
Speaker 3: But this stuff then their sandwiches, which is what they serve,
Speaker 3: they're awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well I did mention Taco Bell for some reason.
Speaker 1: But Taco Bell is welcoming back. Double decker Taco Oh
Speaker 1: I saw this, and double decker Taco Supreme is back.
Speaker 3: So are you I like those double decker tacos? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And how much do those cost? I probably don't want
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 3: Probably that up on the Taco Bell app for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably not going to go go that. Well, Well,
Speaker 1: you're a white Claw guy at a party's nanny. You
Speaker 1: love that racist, racist big fan. Well, white Claw is.
Speaker 3: Those are girl drinks?
Speaker 2: Sexist?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, they're releasing a new Seltzer, which you could
Speaker 1: say is even more of a girly drink no alcohol
Speaker 1: in it. So a new seltzer, you get that white
Speaker 1: claw experience without the booze.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, That's why people drink those is for
Speaker 3: the booze. Give me a break.
Speaker 1: I would think who's dying to buy a dry white
Speaker 1: claw will find out they must have done market research. Well,
Speaker 1: I might have to go to Panera and get one
Speaker 1: of these caffeinated lemonade things. Did you see again? This
Speaker 1: week someone blamed a lawyer blamed Panera for the death
Speaker 1: of their client who died, they claim from the caffeation
Speaker 1: in the in the Panera bread drink, don't they put
Speaker 1: They put warnings on this stuff, but it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: so there's no other lawsuits thats been filed and all that.
Speaker 1: How much sugar and caffeine do they put in that?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, I've never had it, but it
Speaker 1: must be an insane amount for some people to drop
Speaker 1: dead based on drinking that.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy, Ben that I've been looking into the
Speaker 4: contents of some of these drinks, because I would go
Speaker 4: to Starbucks, not every day, but maybe once or twice
Speaker 4: a week and get like a frappucino.
Speaker 3: There is like fifty three grams of sugar. Those fifty three.
Speaker 1: Signed, and you're getting older when you start looking at
Speaker 1: the content of sugar.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you kind of have to so that
Speaker 4: you can live longer. Yeah, imagine drinking those daily like
Speaker 4: some people do.
Speaker 3: You're basically slowly killing yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're enjoying it. Well, it happens, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean you're enjoying the sugar and all.
Speaker 3: That really quick.
Speaker 4: By the way, double decker taco three nineteen for the regular, one,
Speaker 4: three eighty nine for the supreme.
Speaker 1: All right, so that's about I guess the rate and
Speaker 1: anything in the three fifty to four dollars range for
Speaker 1: tacos is good, but it's it's a fast food taco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that should be fifty cents cheaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's still cheaper than Tito's Tacos, which is
Speaker 1: also fast food, which is like almost six bucks of taco,
Speaker 1: which is ridiculous on every level. Starbucks, they have this
Speaker 1: Red Cup Day promotion that they've been doing, and I
Speaker 1: guess it's not working anymore. It had less than half
Speaker 1: the amount of added traffic as last year, so seems
Speaker 1: that worked. What do I know. I'm not a marketing guy,
Speaker 1: but Starbucks Red Cup Day promotion apparently wearing thin, the
Speaker 1: public waning on it. So we'll see what they come
Speaker 1: up with next year. But in the early early window this,
Speaker 1: you know, throw all the data's the chain claimed Starbucks
Speaker 1: based in Seattle, they got a thirty one point seven
Speaker 1: percent foot traffic boost on on Thursday, the sixteenth of November.
Speaker 1: But you start digging around the numbers and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is actually not as good as
Speaker 1: it would indicate, or you would think that would be
Speaker 1: the case. And we have what do we have next year?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: We were backscratcher. Are you ready for backscratcher? Of course
Speaker 1: you are now backscratcher. This is where we beg people
Speaker 1: to send using who follow the podcast, not subscribe to
Speaker 1: the podcast, follow the podcast the fifth hour this week, Danny,
Speaker 1: did we get zero one or two one numero? Who know?
Speaker 2: Danny?
Speaker 1: You are correct? Why you from Rebel Viking who rights
Speaker 1: in otherwise known as James in Arkansas, he says, just
Speaker 1: to help. It almost makes me sad to hear you
Speaker 1: beg for reviews. He says, five stars as usual, Hey, management,
Speaker 1: leave these kids alone. Some James in Arkansas, thank you
Speaker 1: for that was like.
Speaker 3: A backhanded review.
Speaker 4: And you don't let the bosses know that we talk
Speaker 4: about this stuff on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because people will be grazing through podcast also and
Speaker 1: say what's this podcast about? Why should I subscribe to this?
Speaker 1: And if you see the people say, well, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: subscribe these people, you know you, they'll let you go
Speaker 1: for free, you enough to buy tickets and all that.
Speaker 3: Like, what do you James, this is like the fight Club?
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, I mean that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3: Ja.
Speaker 1: I mean think it's a bad job and a good
Speaker 1: job by you at the same time. And it's a
Speaker 1: good job for taking the time to post because so
Speaker 1: many people don't. Based on the number of downloads we
Speaker 1: get every weekend and the number of people that post
Speaker 1: maybe one or two every other week, at the most
Speaker 1: advantage to you who post. So we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: I think we cover you had fruity fun.
Speaker 4: By the way, James, the next time you leave a review,
Speaker 4: you could be sarcastic.
Speaker 3: That's the best way.
Speaker 4: Just say something like these guys never even ask for reviews,
Speaker 4: which is nice. So I figured I would review the
Speaker 4: podcast out of you know, the kindness of my heart
Speaker 4: something like that to where we know you're being a
Speaker 4: dick about it and it's funny, but if a boss
Speaker 4: looks at it, they have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to kind of help us out a
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't have to be by the letter
Speaker 1: of the law, the spirit of the law, the spirit
Speaker 1: of sarcasm. So what's coming on up for you today,
Speaker 1: Danny on this the I've got the ugly Sweater party tonight,
Speaker 1: so that's my main focus. But what do you have
Speaker 1: going on with your charming son CoA and your wife?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm on a mission to clear a path
Speaker 4: in the garage big enough for his stroller, because while
Speaker 4: my chick is trying to work from home, while she
Speaker 4: rocks him in one arm and is on the phone
Speaker 4: with work calls in the other, she's trying to make
Speaker 4: a workspace in the garage. And the trick is going
Speaker 4: to be that she puts him in his stroller and
Speaker 4: rocks him by pushing the stroller handle, and then also
Speaker 4: can wheel him out of the garage and walk him
Speaker 4: around the neighborhood if she needs to, because that'll put
Speaker 4: him to sleep. Right now, there's not a big enough
Speaker 4: pathway in the garage. Let's see what kind of damage
Speaker 4: I can do today.
Speaker 1: Go to home depot and rent a wheelbarrow and just
Speaker 1: fill it up, and then you're good.
Speaker 3: With the kid. Put the kid in a wheelbarrow, you.
Speaker 1: Get rid of the stuff, and then once you do that,
Speaker 1: then you put the kid in there. It's like an
Speaker 1: amusement park. The kid will love it like you've taken
Speaker 1: them to Disneyland or not. It's Verry Farm or one
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 4: Say this sounds like a new ride you went on
Speaker 4: at California Adventure Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why not? Yeah? All right? Anything else? I
Speaker 1: think that's it right. We'll get out on that, as
Speaker 1: we said, so have a wonderful.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't forget about the mail bag tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well that's right with the mail bag tomorrow, So check
Speaker 1: that out. We'll have your questions, our answers, and I
Speaker 1: believe we will also, time permitting, we will have the
Speaker 1: somewhat popular pop goes the culture at least a few
Speaker 1: of those stories. We'll get to that when we get
Speaker 1: to it. But have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 1: I will try to post some photos from the Ugly
Speaker 1: Sweater party, but have a wonderful, wonderful day, and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.