WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Craftsman Cardboard Burger 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:36.720 In the air everywhere. Welcome in Happy Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.640 the ninth day of December, as we are slaving over 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:47.040 the hot microphones of the podcast, myself Ben with Danny 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.680 g As. We're hanging out with you here all weekend long, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.120 and it is our Saturday podcast on the fifth Hour, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.280 which means all about the life of Mouth or the 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:01.080 life of Danny g. We've got the craftsman, sword fighting, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:05.720 the foody fun, which is always good. We're supposed to 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.959 get to that yesterday. We didn't get to it. Backscratcher, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.640 the idiom of the week, which we probably won't have 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.399 time for, but we're going to attempt. We're going to 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.880 attempt all of that content and anything we don't get 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.399 to we will just push to the Sunday podcast is 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.640 we have normally normally Yeah, but we'll start with this today, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.800 a big day, the ninth day of December, the social 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.200 event of the year is taking place, unless it's not, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:36.320 but it is on like Donkey Kong in Malortown. We 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.839 can use that name because that podcast was canceled. Mallard Town. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:45.080 The Party Extravaganza, the twenty twenty three Ugly Sweater Party 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:52.440 is tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. Excited to welcome friends, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.560 family inside the walls of the Malor Mansion. Be a 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:02.480 lot of food, hopefully some fun one I'm sure alcohol 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.480 will be flowing. It's been a hectic It's been a 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.400 hectic week year as we crossed the t's and dot 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.080 the ash trying to get ready for this thing. But 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.919 my main job now, the wife's done a lot of 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.000 cleaning and things like that and decorating. My main job 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.239 has been the craftsmen of cookies because we will be 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.440 serving I'm the dessert guy, so I'm in charge of 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.200 the dessert. So we were serving up multiple cookies and 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.720 including I'm gonna make a cookie I've never made before, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.280 will debut at the Ugly Sweater Party. So if you 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.240 attend the Ugly Sweater Party, you will be a guinea 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:39.280 pig for this particular for this pre night. And and 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.960 also you know we're working the gigs and all that. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.480 I didn't have a lot of time to do this. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.320 We were busy making dough a couple of days a 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:53.919 week and melting chocolate last night, a big chocolateier kind 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.160 of a night making the delicious chocolate, which is not 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.280 that hard to make, but is time consuming and can 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.679 be annoying if you don't get it right, it comes 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.320 out like crap. So eat and be merry. But I 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:13.760 am the craftsman of cookies, taking advantage of the different socialists. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.200 We just I made a bunch of cookies for Thanksgiving, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.240 which was not that long ago. And now we get this, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.320 and there's another party down the line. So the Malard 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.959 Ugly Sweater Party is tonight. There will be no sword 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.119 fighting at that event, my Danny. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:28.720 Yeah, man. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.760 And of course I got the baby club where I 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.720 can tell you and Rich Davis man, I would love 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.360 to come out and go to Christmas parties, but got 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.280 a baby at home. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.040 Yeah, it's the ultimate excuse. It's the great you don't 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.480 have to go to anything now and nobody, nobody can complain. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.080 It's a real excuse right now for us though, because 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.360 if he's out past seven pm, he gets so pissed off. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.880 Really, it's like, I want my bed, I want my booby, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.040 I want milk, and I want to go to sleep. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.240 Oh man, But we when I babysit my niece and nephew, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.360 and I hear all the time from their their mom 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.560 and dad they're like, oh, yeah, they got to be 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.080 in bed by like eight o'clock. You know, they're little kids. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.520 They gotta be in bed by eight. If they're not 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.120 in by eight, this, you know, it's gonna be a 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.240 night mare. They're going to be terrible. And every time 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.880 I've babysat them, they want to stay up till midnight, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.160 and nothing ever happens like all the marketing about oh 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.200 my god, it's gonna be terrible. Their kids are fine. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.520 They didn't want to watch TV now they'll fall asleep 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.240 or whatever. But they they they're not grumpy or anything 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.359 like that. At least I haven't experienced it, but small 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:39.680 sample size, so who knows. I'm sure. I'm sure you're 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.360 around co all the time. Right, So who knows? Who 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.480 knows what's going on with Cole? But yeah, I'm a 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.080 litt upset with Rich Davis scheduling his party the same 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.039 night of my party. It's a bad job by him. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.240 I think you guys did this last year too, did we? 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.520 Yeah, but it's a it's a really popular weekend for 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:56.560 Christmas parties. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.919 Yes, I don't make the schedule. The wife schedules the 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.680 Christmas party. I just go along with the holiday party. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.480 That's pretty much pretty much saw we do it? So yeah, 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:06.920 for sure? 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.360 Hey or fighting? Yeah, the sword fighting came at school. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.000 I haven't got to tell you about the kids lately. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.279 Of course, they're getting antsy because they want their winter break. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.320 The winter break is coming. Kids are a little antsy. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:28.080 Wednesday morning early, everything's normal. First couple of kids arrive. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.480 There is a what they call a zero period at 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.360 the school. Do you know what that is? Yeah? 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.800 They didn't have that when I was around, but I am. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.240 I am aware. Yes, Yeah, you got to get. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.880 There early, and those kids get to leave early. I 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.560 think I would have signed up, wouldn't you have? 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.480 I believe I was not. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.760 It's nice leaving early, but I was not. I'm still 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.520 not a morning person, like I, yes, I don't know. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.159 Good thing, you're not on the radio early in the morning. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.360 No, I know, I know, but I would I really 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.200 don't get like. My motors started in later in the day, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.919 even when I was younger, so I don't know that 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.400 I would do well. But yeah, if I was a 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.240 morning person, I'd be like, oh, let's gets thing on, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.400 get it over with, get me out of there. I 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.359 don't want to deal with the bull crap later in 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:12.800 the day it is out. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:13.360 Yeah. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.440 This zero period is kind of confusing on campus too, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:21.279 because the school bells keep going off at seven am. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.680 But they don't do zero period every day, but the 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.240 bells always ring. Some days the gates entrance to the 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.039 school is closed. Other days the gates are wide open. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.800 The days that the gates are wide open, my job 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.240 is much easier because all of the early arrivors can 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.040 just go right to my classroom. The days where they 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.640 have it all locked up like a fortress, I have 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.080 to continually go to the front and let each kid 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.039 in like a valet. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.120 What's your name, son? Round? 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.080 So I let the first few kids in there are 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.960 now I don't know about four seventh graders inside my classroom, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.240 and that could be a problem with no supervision. So 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.719 I go and I let the next kid in. I 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.799 do my long back and I'm thinking cardio steps. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:08.360 This is good. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.840 I'm it's like crisp morning air. I'm getting some steps in. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.440 I get back to the classroom and two of the 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.200 seventh graders are sword fighting in the middle of the room. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.360 I'm like fencing, Like, are they the Star Wars? 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.040 So one kid has one of those long rulers that 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.280 sits on the what used to be a chalkboard. Now 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.040 it's a combo of a flat screen with one of 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.280 those dry erase boards. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.000 Sure, I don't know the kid, but I gotta tell 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.640 you that would make a good lightsaber. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:42.960 He's got that as his. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.800 The other kid has one of those long tubes that 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:47.960 posters go in. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.800 Oh sure, that cardboard thing. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.240 So they are in full battle mode, and as I 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.360 tell them, what the heck are you guys doing, the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.960 one with the big cardboard poster tube hits the other 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.680 one right in the shoulder hard. You hear the sah 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.400 thump this kid. Now, I'm not sure what was inside 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.080 this tube or why it was in that classroom. Yeah, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.080 but needless to say, the kid that got struck over 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.880 dramatically complained that he was hurt. And he now sat 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.760 in the corner of the room, and I'm like, I 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.840 did not ask you guys to sword fight while I 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:33.520 exited the room. Apparently he did not go to the 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:38.800 nurse's office or complain. But for Thursday morning, all Thursday morning, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.560 while I was there, I thought that you know that 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.040 feeling you have where you're headed for some trouble. I 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.520 thought I was going to get canceled. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.120 Oh, he's probably not that bright to figure that out. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.720 But who would win? Like he got the long ruler, yeah, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.960 which is wood, but it's like balsa wood. It's not 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.640 thick wood, right, I assume it's not the thick wood. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.040 But then you've got the cardboard, which is probably pretty thick, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.000 but it's cardboard. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.240 It's one of those big heavy ones that was in 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.480 the classroom, all right, So. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.840 You would have an advantage. You would be head in 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.640 that battle. You should win the role poster rule. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.640 Yeah, And I got to say it made a really 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.360 good sound effect when he nailed that kid in the shoulder. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.440 Now, were there were other kids watching this or oh? 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:29.320 Yeah, they had five or six spectators to their lightsaber fight. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.080 Yeah, probably had making bets, you know, they had that 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.680 all going on. And anyway, all right, well listen, it's 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.480 the beauty of school, all right. So we have the 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.400 idiom of the week, the not to be confused with 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.080 the word of the week, that's totally different. This is 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.479 the idiom of the week. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:47.839 The week. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.360 Yeah, that's right, and it's called shot in the arm. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.360 Shot in the arm is the idiom of the week. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.360 I think we know what that means most of us. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.880 I use it from time to time. I don't use 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.719 it all the time. That's a shot in the arm, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:05.360 but a sudden or encouraging events, quick enhancement, right, something 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.400 that gives you a little bit of a boost, a 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.679 little bit of a boost. The idiom shot in the arm, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.840 that is a colloquial expression, as we said, means something, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.160 you know, energy, enthusiasm, confidence, helps you out right. The 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.360 Clippers traded for James Harden, and that gave him a 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.880 shot in the arm until James Harden played like a dog. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.000 What is still wrong with the Clippers? The dog with fleas? 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:36.480 But a shot in the arm. Very a colorful phrase. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.720 The history, though, does not the backstory in this does 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.400 not go back that far, does not the idiom a 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.880 shot in the arm. The belief among those that study 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.720 this crap is that the term originated only in the 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.920 earliest twentieth century, the early twentieth centuries. It is not 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.600 that long ago when you think about the history of 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.800 the world, and it began a around the time. It 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.400 coincided with the time the hyperdermic needle became a big 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:11.200 popular thing for people, and they began using the phrase, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.160 you know, a sudden boost of energy and all that. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.760 But it first appeared in the form it's in now 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:23.439 in print in nineteen sixty an article on something called 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:28.320 the Lewiston Evening Journal, and they went into it and 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.559 they were talking about the upcoming presidential elections. In that 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.319 period of time, the war veterans could give politics a 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.600 shot in the arm, they said. That's how they phrased it, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.040 and the term. They believed that it's a bit of 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.120 a mystery about exactly who used it first, but it 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.800 was around that time, and they think it originated in 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:57.199 the medical field, like the military hospitals, where this is 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.199 kind of appropriate for the times we've been living in 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:05.120 recently here where the medical injection was a big thing. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.120 The hyperdermic needle became a thing. Military people had to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:14.040 get vaccinated for different things, and so the shot gave 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.440 you a boost, a boost of stamina for you soldiers. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:24.160 So the idiom of the week is shot in the arm. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.199 Shot in the arm, the idiom of the week. And 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.959 we move on now to footy fund. We're all about 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.480 that food by request Danny before I forget my buddy 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:41.280 sports with coleman is demanding a food review. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:41.440 Now. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.600 I did attend the La Rams game last week. The 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.400 Rams played the Cleveland Browns. Joe Flacco actually looked all right, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.760 which was shocking. The Browns defense not that impressive, not 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.240 that impressive. Rams won going away. It was close for 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.960 a while, like most NFL games. But I go to 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:03.160 these games and it is a freeloaders paradise at these games. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.680 Oh my god, insane and media freeloaders is my mentor 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.800 Jim Healy used to say back in the day. So 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:16.480 what I have done here is I have dissected the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:22.120 different food options that are available now this game, the 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.200 Ram Browns game, they began they have two meals day, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.520 so pregame they had among the food items that were available, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:36.200 seasonal fruit platter, chicken and waffles which was just chicken 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:42.600 tenders and Belgian waffles covered in sugar, very good biscuits, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:48.360 and gravy, sausage, gravy scrambled eggs with chives. Cheese tots, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.160 not to be confused with the other kind of tots. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.920 These were cheese tots that were available, and so you 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.440 could get that as well, And that was just the pregame. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.320 Then they also had like a dessert bar where they 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.880 just had a bunch of candy bars and all that. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.640 So they had that going for you. All kinds of 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:12.760 carbonated beverages that was available pregame at the Ram Browns game. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.520 Then as the game progressed, as we got later in 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.520 the game, at halftime, because you've already eaten once, you've 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.520 got to eat again a couple hours later at halftime, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.720 they had fried chicken sliders. Unfortunately, they did have pickles, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:33.440 curly fries, mac and cheese bites. They had that at 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.640 the RAM game. Build your own chili dog and that 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:44.000 includes beef, chili, cheddar cheese, and onion. So that was 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.920 just some of the food that was available. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.800 Don't tell me you were fasting during all of this. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:54.080 Well, I did fast during the breakfast portion because I 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.920 don't use I like breakfast. But then I at like halftime, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.600 I went for it. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.360 I went big. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.400 The cheesy not bad, the mac and cheese bites, solid 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.080 curly fries. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.640 Were they lightly fried? 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.560 Uh? No, I mean they were fried. Yeah. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.680 I don't like when those things are two fried. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.000 No, no, I mean they were mass produced foods. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.760 So yeah, hard to find the right oil. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.400 You get what you get. But I am told the 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:25.920 Belgian waffle was outstanding, that the sugar encased in that 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.520 was a win. So I'll have to try that at 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.880 a future event. Now, foody fun, because we all got 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.600 to eat, some of us have to shop to Costco. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.440 Big news, big news on foody fun from Costco. They're 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.440 rolling out new and improved shopping carts, new and approved 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.720 Costco shopping carts that that is coming here. I thought 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.960 the Costco shopping cart is fine. I don't think they 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:59.400 needed to upgrade the shopping cart. But according to someone 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.600 who has all way too much free time on their hands, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:08.000 Costco and a location in Wisconsin debuted a new shopping 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.720 cart which doesn't look any different than the old shopping cart. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.680 This does make a difference to shoppers, though, Ben, because 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.720 I told my wife, I said, let's just stop at 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.320 this grocery store right here, because she's really picky about 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.320 what grocery store we're going to stop at. And I'm like, no, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.560 and let's just say this one that I was trying 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.240 to get her to go to. It's the same first 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.560 name as that Irvin guy we used to work. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.760 With, Burger all alone in first place after the third round. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.760 He oh sure, sure, yeah, never heard of. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.960 Like, I don't like that one. It's kind of ghetto 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.000 and the cart suck there. They all the carts have 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.200 bad wheels there. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.360 Yeah, like they need to clean inside that grocery store. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.120 Oh like, no, I'm trying to get the best deals. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.560 They have good deals in there. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.160 Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm see. I'm the same way. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.800 I'll go to any grocery store I like. I like 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.960 going to like kind of seedy neighborhoods because you know, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.480 the food's a little cheaper in there, and you get 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.520 some interesting things that I don't normally see at my 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.480 grocery store in the north Woods. So and I'll go all. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.000 Over as long as it's not the grocery outlet where 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.040 I was scarred for life as a kid because my 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.240 mom would go in there and throw cans on the 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.280 ground to dent them even more to get a bigger discount. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.840 Oh that's funny. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.080 I've had like. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.919 Adam Sandler and Big Daddy. If it's not grocery outlet, 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.160 I'm okay. But I am not walking inside a grocery. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.879 Outlet, okay. So that that's off the board. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.360 But that's where I draw the line. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.160 And I've told the story before. Like I love good 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.359 Mexican food. I like to make food at home. So 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.480 but I'll go to like you know, and we live 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.879 in LA and there's some great. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.040 Oh you go to the Latino markets. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.639 Yeah, I'll go to the Mexican markets. Racist. And I 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.879 used to live in Lincoln Heights, which is like, you know, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.880 Mecca for Mexico. That's where I started doing it. When 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.919 I lived in Lincoln Heights. There was a great market 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.080 and it was a Mexican theme, you know, obviously market, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.119 and I was the gringo walking in there and I 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.159 loved it and food was wonderful. It's like amazing. I 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.160 was like, this is this is the way to go. Yeah, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.680 So Costco apparently getting new shopping carts look exactly like 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.120 their old shopping cars. A lot of McDonald's news here 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.720 this week on Foody Fun. McDonald's announced their opening their 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:35.520 their first cosmic location in Boiling Brook, Illinois, which is 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.720 in Chicago, and so this I was reading about this, 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.680 and as I understand, I think this is their way 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.440 of taking market share away from Starbucks. I believe that's 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.000 what this is all about. This mc cosmic is just 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.600 a way to attack Starbucks. The menu has mostly drink items, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.680 the coffee. They have other new items. There's something called 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:05.040 a sour cherry slow bush, a spicy Queso sandwich, savory 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.440 hash brown bites, and more. But it's not a McDonald 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.600 it's more like a coffee drink shop. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.119 That's what it's said, somewhere you'd stop like on a 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:15.800 road trip. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.960 Yeah, and that goes in with another news nugget from McDonald's. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.440 They are doubling down on chicken and coffee. They're going 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.359 big on the cold brew at Mickey De's. And I 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.000 think we mentioned this in a few weeks a few 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.840 weeks back, but they are going all in on AI. Also. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:38.159 They have a plan to use AI loser. They claim 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:43.879 it will produce hotter, fresher food for customers. Eh. I 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.400 don't know about that, but that's what they say. They 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:52.280 partnered with Google Cloud and they're bringing AI to the kitchen. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.000 They claim it will be used to simplify the way 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.119 that they make the food and all that we could 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.359 possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong with that? 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.120 And while we're at it, we told the story last 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.840 week on Foodie Fun about McDonald's and the big Mac 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:14.080 the smaller patties which guess got even smaller. Well, McDonald's 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:18.360 heard the pushback and they have determined, well, we probably 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.119 need to fix that. We probably need to fix that. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:28.639 So McDonald's is going to introduce bigger hamburgers. They've decided, 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.360 you know what, these people complaining, I guess there's something 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.480 to it. They claim the pushback from customers who want 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.399 larger they say high quality burgers. I don't know that 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.960 you're going to get that. But a McDonald's executive announcing 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.879 two investors this week that the company plans to launch 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.040 a larger burger campaign. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.120 You're going to charge me nine dollars for a burger, 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.320 It better fill me up? Yeah? 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.360 Now is it going to be actual meat? Are they 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.280 going to mix it in just more byproducts and meat 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:05.240 substitute's who knows. I don't know. They haven't, they haven't 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.280 done it yet, but yeah, you should you charge that 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.240 much for fast food, Like, come on, you gotta you 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.600 gotta do better, You gotta do better. 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:14.440 Now. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.120 They're making all kinds of of upgrades allegedly. We talked 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.440 about that as well, But the size of the burger 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:25.280 not particularly a great I think that's all. Well, there's 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:32.200 one other McDonald's story that McDonald's has done very well 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:37.240 with gen Z because they brought Grimace back and that's 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:37.960 all that took. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.760 They had that you like adult Grimace shake. Remember, Oh yeah, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:42.280 that that. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:47.200 Too, but they it's like a grown up kids. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.560 Mew you know you see that? Yeah? 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:56.000 Yeah, So, but grim is very popular and they claim 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.960 they have the numbers there and it helped the bottom 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:04.240 line for McDonald's. They scored very well, very well with 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:11.960 the Q score right right right. Well, Subway is launching 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:14.960 three new foot long items soon. Wasn't that exciting? None 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.280 of them are sandwiches though, So I didn't they get 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.600 sued because the foot long wasn't actually a foot long? 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.280 Yeah, I talked about it last weekend. That place stinks. 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.320 Subway not a fan, not a not a fan either. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.399 Oh, Jersey Mike's is so much better. 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.120 Yeah, last time I ate Subway. We were going out 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.159 to the forest and we needed sandwiches and it was 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.119 like the only sandwich shop that was around. So we 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.720