Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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 clearing House 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.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g not
Speaker 3: the original recipe of the podcast. See the weekend podcast
Speaker 3: is extra crunchry. It's got a little extra crunch to
Speaker 3: it on the weekends. But we are here hanging out
Speaker 3: on a Saturday, the second day of March, as the
Speaker 3: we've already moved in to day two. It's azing that
Speaker 3: usually happens after day one, as we've got you covered
Speaker 3: all well, at least for the next half hour or
Speaker 3: so on the podcast celebrating National Banana Cream Pie Day,
Speaker 3: which is the king of the pie. That's the king
Speaker 3: of the pie.
Speaker 1: Nanny.
Speaker 3: I used to think I was naive as a child.
Speaker 3: I thought that the apple pie was the king of
Speaker 3: the pie. But a properly made banana cream pie is amazing.
Speaker 3: And there's the greatest banana cream pie has actually a
Speaker 3: little diner in Manhattan, which is a few blocks away
Speaker 3: from my brother's place. And it's not they're not even
Speaker 3: known for the banana cream pie. But it was amazing.
Speaker 3: It was the perfect amount of banana mixed with the crunch,
Speaker 3: and then you've got the of the what do you
Speaker 3: call the cross, and then you've got the cream on top.
Speaker 1: Perfect. Have you ever had it where they put the
Speaker 1: vanilla wafers around it as a crust almost, I've only
Speaker 1: had that a few times, but yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I would put that pie number two on my big board,
Speaker 1: behind a really nice homemade peach cobbler on my peach
Speaker 1: cobbler lists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, we can agree to disagree on that.
Speaker 3: I'm not against peach cobbler, but it's not in my
Speaker 3: top three pie. What banana cream pie is like a
Speaker 3: country miles like Secretariat ahead and then you got the
Speaker 3: like I like apple, but there's like there's different kinds
Speaker 3: of apple, right, there's the kind is kind of pluffy
Speaker 3: apple or puffed up apple.
Speaker 1: What is that called? The is that like there's two
Speaker 1: different versions of her three different versions.
Speaker 3: Of apple pie. But I like apple pie. That's my
Speaker 3: number two, and then number three rotates. I like a
Speaker 3: rotation for number three depends on my mood. What I
Speaker 3: want for number three. Sometimes I go a lemon merang,
Speaker 3: which is not I don't know if that accounts, but
Speaker 3: it's too light off.
Speaker 1: It's a problem there. I don't think that would be
Speaker 1: in many people's top five.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I've seen it. The number three rotates wrong.
Speaker 3: You know, strawberry I've had a strawberry pie. That's rare.
Speaker 1: That's not a popular pie. That's not mainstream.
Speaker 3: Peacan pie. I like pecan pie. Pretty good Peacan pie.
Speaker 1: It's so sweet. Yeah, it's a pie. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be sweet. It's not supposed to make you run to
Speaker 1: get a glass of milk after one bite.
Speaker 3: Well, some of us don't drink milk, you know. We
Speaker 3: just drink water or juice or something else, juice.
Speaker 1: With the big gone bite.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Why, now, I'm surprised you don't have diabetes.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't eat very often, so I I picked
Speaker 3: my swots, but I was headed down that road.
Speaker 1: I'm shit. But anyway, on.
Speaker 3: This podcast, we've got the BUCkies baller bad officiating, a
Speaker 3: hairy situation, and I know there'll be some other surprises
Speaker 3: along the way. We might even have the phrase of
Speaker 3: the week and whatnot and all that. But before we
Speaker 3: get into it, I did want to address something we
Speaker 3: talked about on the Friday podcast, Dan, and you brought
Speaker 3: this to my attention from earlier in the week, and
Speaker 3: I I've seen this thing going around.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of traction.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that the people over there at Windy's, the
Speaker 3: fast food establishment, Wendy's, have decided to gouge their customers
Speaker 3: with surge pricing, as you pointed out. And the reaction
Speaker 3: to this, Danny, I've been paying attention. You brought to
Speaker 3: my attention. So I started snooping around a little bit,
Speaker 3: and there is tremendous pushback, tremendous social media.
Speaker 1: It was like somebody shook up a social media ant farm.
Speaker 1: There's been lots of hashtag boycott Wendy's online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one thing if you're uber, and it's you
Speaker 3: got rush hour traffic and you say, all right, we're
Speaker 3: gonna charge.
Speaker 1: A little more. I don't like that.
Speaker 3: Usually what I'll do is if I go to I'll
Speaker 3: do uber and Lyft and whoever's cheaper.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's to me, it's the same. I
Speaker 1: don't care, So I'll just go to whoever's cheaper. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what most people do.
Speaker 3: And in the case of Wendy's, the backlash has just
Speaker 3: been tremendous.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It's like one thing, you know, the airline screw us over,
Speaker 3: the car services screw us over. But you cannot screw
Speaker 3: up the Frosty game. You can't do it. And we're
Speaker 3: out and I we'll see how Windy's response. We'll see
Speaker 3: what they end up doing here in the coming days
Speaker 3: and weeks, whether they put their tail between their legs
Speaker 3: and walk away. But Windy did attempt to clarify their intentions,
Speaker 3: which is a nice way of saying, well, it's not
Speaker 3: as bad as you think. It's a they're calling it
Speaker 3: dynamic pricing. Yeah, a bunch of losers. Yeah, call it greed.
Speaker 3: Call it what it is. There's nothing dynamic about it, right,
Speaker 3: You want more money from your customers because there's a
Speaker 3: line at the drive to So imagine if in and
Speaker 3: out Burger did this, they'd always have surge pricing. There
Speaker 3: is never like I go by Wendy's sometimes there's a Windy's.
Speaker 1: New where I live.
Speaker 3: There's never anybody there, right, There's like maybe once or
Speaker 3: twice a day. I go to In and Out Burger.
Speaker 3: They're lined up down the block and around the corner.
Speaker 3: So it's always surge pricing and in and Out Burger.
Speaker 1: And there was a little bit of confusion with this
Speaker 1: story too, because some people took to x Twitter and
Speaker 1: they said, oh, off hours, I'm gonna go get a
Speaker 1: frosty for thirty one cents. Lol. No, that's not how
Speaker 1: this is gonna work. They're not gonna reward us as
Speaker 1: customers for going during off hours. They're gonna stick it
Speaker 1: to us with the regular high menu price at normal times.
Speaker 1: Only when the restaurant traffic is busy is when they're
Speaker 1: gonna up the price to who knows what, So what
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for a twenty dollars burger during the
Speaker 1: lunch rush. No, you Wendy's.
Speaker 3: Well, they're claiming like they're well, they're using it's weasel terminology, right.
Speaker 3: They're not saying sir, they're saying, as we said, dynamic pricing.
Speaker 3: And they said that they've gone through both models and
Speaker 3: all that. I look, they put all those legal easy, Like, well,
Speaker 3: there's a range of factors that they're involved in the
Speaker 3: price of the food. What is that The manager of
Speaker 3: the Windy's looks out the window and there's like five
Speaker 3: cars in line instead of one or none, and they're like,
Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna raise the price of that shit
Speaker 3: and sandwich.
Speaker 1: One person tweeted, Oh wait, now for lunch, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to call ahead to Wendy's with a bomb threat
Speaker 1: in order to get my lunch.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. Really, well, you know, they said, I was
Speaker 3: reading one of the reviews on this. They said, well,
Speaker 3: you know, twelve dollars a regular combo meal, but it
Speaker 3: would be you know, it would be a little more.
Speaker 1: We attack on a little little extra here. Thirteen dollars
Speaker 1: is already too much. That Wendy's Burger has already shrunk
Speaker 1: in the past few years. The fry stink. Now, the
Speaker 1: frosty is still a good product, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go pay fifteen sixteen dollars for something that should be
Speaker 1: nine dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's a couple factors that are in our
Speaker 3: favor on this because I don't eat it Wendy's much.
Speaker 3: I've eaten there in years, to be honest with Yeah,
Speaker 3: but back in my big eating days, I was a
Speaker 3: regular at Wendy's.
Speaker 1: I was there two or three times a week.
Speaker 3: I got the chicken sandwich combo, and I got the nuggets,
Speaker 3: and then sometimes I get the frosty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're an unofficial taste tester. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 3: I never really got into the burgers at Wendy's, the
Speaker 3: square burgers.
Speaker 1: I always went with the chicken. I actually like Wendy's burgers.
Speaker 1: I like the way the bread, the meat and the
Speaker 1: cheese and their bacon all squished together. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just fell in love with the chicken sandwich Wendy's.
Speaker 3: And I remember a story. Somebody told me that Dave Thomas,
Speaker 3: the guy that founded Wendy's, had worked with the guy
Speaker 3: from KFC. So it was like the same quality of
Speaker 3: chicken or whatever. It was like they were known for
Speaker 3: their chick like Dave Thomas. Maybe I'm talking about my
Speaker 3: ass boy, speaking of Dave Thomas, what would he think
Speaker 3: of this? Oh, Dave Thomas is rolling rolling over in
Speaker 3: his grave right now. How dare them?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So you got the public backlash. There's a couple of
Speaker 3: other things here. You've got Wall Street, right, if this
Speaker 3: affects the sales of Wendy's food, then that you got
Speaker 3: the stock market people that will chime in and say, hey,
Speaker 3: wait a minute. You know you're a big court company.
Speaker 3: This is part of a big company. This is not good.
Speaker 3: But you also have I wouldn't be shocked if the
Speaker 3: FTC gets involved in this, the Federal Trade Commission, because
Speaker 3: I did read something somewhat recently about Amazon facing the FTC.
Speaker 3: There's a lawsuit accusing them of unfair practices and it
Speaker 3: involves Amazon has been doing this with their the price
Speaker 3: of products, which makes no sense to me, but they
Speaker 3: they've ended up raising prices apparently that's the accusation. Anyway,
Speaker 3: They've raised prices at certain times and overcharged sellers as well.
Speaker 3: They prevented them from lowering prices.
Speaker 1: So there's.
Speaker 3: There's a possibly the government, which you know, all we
Speaker 3: need is bureaucracy, to get involved in that. But I
Speaker 3: stand with the fast food and as we pointed out
Speaker 3: Danny in a previous episode of the show, the one
Speaker 3: thing about fast food restaurants you almost never find one
Speaker 3: fast food restaurant. You find a cluster of fast food restaurant,
Speaker 3: it's not going to find like a Windy's by itself
Speaker 3: on an island. You're going to find a Windy's, and
Speaker 3: then maybe they'll be like a Burger King, which you
Speaker 3: know I pick fans of. But Arby's your favorite.
Speaker 1: You love Arby's.
Speaker 3: You took the family there, did the famous Arby's review
Speaker 3: on the podcast and all that.
Speaker 1: So you say have some money laundering operation? Is that
Speaker 1: your theory? Yeah, because I still don't know anybody who
Speaker 1: eats at an Arby's. I mean I remember as a kid,
Speaker 1: we'd go in there and get those weird beef sandwiches
Speaker 1: or whatever they're no or with the with that weird
Speaker 1: melted cheese on the weird meat. But the Arby's I
Speaker 1: see around us here in this area of LA there's
Speaker 1: never anybody there. So I just figure it's a front
Speaker 1: for a drug lord. That's reasonable.
Speaker 3: I used to eat at Arby's a lot many years ago,
Speaker 3: and I would when I lived even as an adult.
Speaker 3: I lived in Hollywood and there was an Arby's on
Speaker 3: I think it was on Sunset, which is still there.
Speaker 3: I was, I was in Hollywood the other day, and
Speaker 3: there's an Arby's still there. And here's here's an interesting
Speaker 3: question and very difficult to answer. What is thinner, Danny
Speaker 3: the Rby's roast beef or the toilet paper at a
Speaker 3: truck stop?
Speaker 1: You know that? Really thin? Yeah, one ply toilet paper.
Speaker 1: It's really neck and neck. You mentioned government a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago, and to take a full star away from
Speaker 1: our podcast rating, let's get into that for a second.
Speaker 3: No, No, stay away from the politics, Ma Mana, that's
Speaker 3: a third rail.
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna get triggered through. I liked your show, but
Speaker 1: you mentioned Blake, Ma Maya. This is what happened to
Speaker 1: podcast when Gagon was doing it. Look, I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of big government controlling everything in our lives, but
Speaker 1: this is one instance where I would like a leader
Speaker 1: to step up and say, you know what, I have kids,
Speaker 1: just like most of Americans do you. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let this happen on my watch, shrinking the product and
Speaker 1: screwing the average American who does not get a cost
Speaker 1: of living rays each year. When's the last time any
Speaker 1: of us got raises from our jobs. This would be
Speaker 1: a different conversation if all of us got regular raises
Speaker 1: to amend things for the cost of living. That's not happening.
Speaker 1: Everything around us is shooting way up in price. Because
Speaker 1: the argument here could be like, well, don't go to
Speaker 1: fast food, just cook at home, all right, bastard, go
Speaker 1: to the grocery store and get two bags of groceries
Speaker 1: for your family. That's two hundred bucks. So there's no
Speaker 1: easy way out with this. We're not getting raises at
Speaker 1: our jobs. So one government official who's in a high
Speaker 1: spot needs to step up for all of us right
Speaker 1: now and put their foot down.
Speaker 3: Well, and what ends up happening is the politicians will
Speaker 3: say something. Joe Biden, if I'm not mistaken, he talked
Speaker 3: about how he was going to do something to end
Speaker 3: resort fees. Nice place, and they said, well, there's a
Speaker 3: resort fee and they tack that. Of of course they don't
Speaker 3: advertise that that's a tack on ad on fee, and
Speaker 3: he said he was going to take care of that.
Speaker 3: I've been to Vegas a bunch. I I'm I'm still
Speaker 3: paying resort fees. There's nothing has happened. Now, you say
Speaker 3: something to get votes, and then you get somebody sends
Speaker 3: you some money in.
Speaker 1: The mail and then you're like, Okay, I forget about that.
Speaker 1: I'll move on. Yeah, something else. But the big question
Speaker 1: is will we ever have a politician in our life
Speaker 1: who sticks to what they say and actually does something
Speaker 1: for a positive change in our lives, so that we
Speaker 1: could maybe, I don't know, live the American dream. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, Ben, but that's been far out
Speaker 1: of our reach for years and years, and it just
Speaker 1: seems like things are getting worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the way the establishment is, right, the establishment,
Speaker 3: you would say, if you came in as an outsider,
Speaker 3: I mean, look, we saw what happened with Trump. As
Speaker 3: an outsider, you got attacked by everybody, right, all the
Speaker 3: establishment and all that. And if you have somebody as
Speaker 3: an outside, it's gonna be after somebody young, I would think, right,
Speaker 3: that can captivate people, but most of the people that
Speaker 3: vote are old.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So well, we talked about this last weekend that
Speaker 1: it would either take a change in the way these
Speaker 1: parties all operate. I don't know, maybe an independent who
Speaker 1: could get both sides to kind of split the difference
Speaker 1: down the middle. I don't know what it's gonna take,
Speaker 1: but I'm just wondering for the sake of Koha my
Speaker 1: kid down the road, is he going to be able
Speaker 1: to get a job where he actually can afford to
Speaker 1: be middle class? Yeah? What what is that? What is
Speaker 1: middle class? Like?
Speaker 3: How much do you have to make? Do you have
Speaker 3: to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be considered?
Speaker 1: Dude? Nowadays where we live, it's three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to be middle class. Yeah, it's it's insane.
Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, does that end the political part of
Speaker 3: the podcast?
Speaker 1: We know, I don't think I don't think that's very political.
Speaker 1: Well we're Yeah, what we're talking about is more like
Speaker 1: full sense, Yeah, common sense and for the good of
Speaker 1: our country. I mean it would As sports fans, we
Speaker 1: all discussed and debated this when we got peacocked on
Speaker 1: that playoff game, and and this this is kind of
Speaker 1: in that same category, but worse because you know, it's
Speaker 1: a luxury to watch sports and stream all these different
Speaker 1: services that we have monthly. It shouldn't be a privilege
Speaker 1: just eat normal food throughout the month, and our grocery
Speaker 1: bills right now, Ben, with three kids, we're dying right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just don't know. It took us five
Speaker 1: months to save up for a one week trip, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why we can't save any
Speaker 1: money right now is because of our grocery bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's insane. Well, may I recommend Danny intermitute fasting.
Speaker 3: Just tell the kids to eat one meal every other
Speaker 3: day and you'll be back to where you were right
Speaker 3: And then when they raise prices again, just tell them
Speaker 3: never to eat again.
Speaker 1: Just fast all the time.
Speaker 3: And you'll be good to go. I wanted to turn
Speaker 3: the page. I did want to think there was a
Speaker 3: listener from Donna, Texas. I'd never heard of Donna, Texas.
Speaker 3: It's in the southern part of Texas, right near the
Speaker 3: Mexican border.
Speaker 1: It's a border town. Yeah, it's a little little small
Speaker 1: town in Texas. And uh, listener.
Speaker 3: And I apologize in advance if I'm getting this wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember. I don't have the package that
Speaker 3: is that was sent, but I think the guy's name
Speaker 3: was Jose from Donna, Texas. If not, I humbly apologize.
Speaker 3: You can email me and call me a jackass and.
Speaker 1: I will correct that.
Speaker 3: But he has he has made me this listener from Donna,
Speaker 3: Texas a Bucky baller. Now, have you ever been to BUCkies,
Speaker 3: the famous gas station truck stop in Texas and all
Speaker 3: over the South.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been there?
Speaker 3: No, but I know about it thanks to you. Yes,
Speaker 3: I have heard about BUCkies. I saw a documentary on
Speaker 3: I don't know YouTuber it was. There was a YouTuber
Speaker 3: influencers that were somehow I popped popped on my feed
Speaker 3: and they were at this BUCkies the world's biggest convenience
Speaker 3: store or whatever. It was the largest convenience store in
Speaker 3: the world. And whatnot, which I don't think is I
Speaker 3: think the new record is actually in Tennessee by a
Speaker 3: BUCkies location in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: The one in Texas now is not. They don't have
Speaker 1: the record anymore.
Speaker 3: What I saw, but this thing is like seventy four
Speaker 3: thousand square.
Speaker 1: Feet for a convenience store. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But so anyway, this guy call Jose from Donna, Texas.
Speaker 3: He sent in a Buckis gift package and very nice.
Speaker 3: I got a little shirt, I got a snack item
Speaker 3: from BUCkies. Now BUCkies it was started. I looked this up.
Speaker 3: I want to know more about BUCkies. That the nickname
Speaker 3: of the founder was arch Beaver Applin and because of that,
Speaker 3: BUCkies Beaver well, it was a form of his childhood
Speaker 3: name Beaver and the name of his labradors dog, Buck.
Speaker 1: So that's that's how that worked there. And these things
Speaker 1: are open all that's like, you know, we have seven.
Speaker 3: To eleven, which is national chain, BUCkies of regional chain,
Speaker 3: and they're open all all hours, all days and all
Speaker 3: that stuff, and mostly in Texas, but they have spread out.
Speaker 3: They're in Alabama, there's locations all over the South, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Speaker 3: and South Carolina. So I'm I'm gonna have to go
Speaker 3: to South Carolina. When I'm in South Carolina later this year,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna find a BUCkies. That's gonna be on my
Speaker 3: to do list. And the people I'm with will say,
Speaker 3: what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Why do you need to stop at a convenience store?
Speaker 3: And they also have the record for the world's longest car.
Speaker 1: Wash at BUCkies, they have.
Speaker 3: The the largest number of gas pumps to choose from.
Speaker 3: So there's there's that. The food's supposedly amazing. Now what
Speaker 3: I got in the mail from our friend in Donna, Texas,
Speaker 3: was beaver nuggets. That's that's what we got there, which
Speaker 3: is you know what it is. It's like, don't it's
Speaker 3: not what you think it's. It's it's like popcorn or no,
Speaker 3: it's not even it is like corn puffs with like
Speaker 3: caramel sugar on it. Oh okay, And that is according
Speaker 3: to the Internet, that is the number one product that
Speaker 3: that is the most popular snack item at BUCkies.
Speaker 1: So beavers. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have not eating them yet because I haven't been
Speaker 3: doing a lot of fast thing. I might eat them
Speaker 3: later today and I can report back. But BUCkies when
Speaker 3: they open, they were known for bathrooms, clean bathrooms, and
Speaker 3: cheap ice, which is really all you need to do
Speaker 3: if you're a truck stop, not a truck stop, but
Speaker 3: a comedian store. Clean bathrooms, ice, that's good to go.
Speaker 3: So anyway, that was my Bucky ballers. I like the
Speaker 3: shirt though it's got the beaver logo. So I during
Speaker 3: the day, you know, I slum around, I've got nothing
Speaker 3: going on, so I wear different shirts around the house,
Speaker 3: and the Buckies' shirt is in my rotation. I have
Speaker 3: a three shirt rotation. I have the now I have
Speaker 3: the added the Bucky shirt. I have a shirt that
Speaker 3: Rob Parker gave me from his podcast It's Time for
Speaker 3: Trash A great Rob Parker. And I also have from
Speaker 3: Moving Man Matt, our guy in Boston. He sent me
Speaker 3: which is my favorite shirt, is very comfortable, long sleeve
Speaker 3: moving Man Matt.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you listen to.
Speaker 3: The pod or not, but yeah, that's that is a
Speaker 3: solid shirt and it's got the name of his moving company.
Speaker 1: And all that.
Speaker 3: So I would like to call out bad officiating Danny
Speaker 3: as we flip the pod. Bad officiating. This bad officiating
Speaker 3: took place on the radio show. Okay, so I brought
Speaker 3: in I thought you to go sporting on us. No, God,
Speaker 3: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Come out. We did politics.
Speaker 3: You think I can do No, I can't do the sports.
Speaker 3: So the bad officiating was on the show. So I
Speaker 3: had made some cookies. I think we talked about this.
Speaker 3: I don't know in the previous episode. But last weekend
Speaker 3: I had a buddy of mine come in from Texas
Speaker 3: and it doesn't come out very often, and I've known
Speaker 3: this guy since elementary school. The only friend I have
Speaker 3: from elementary school, my longest standard you know, a statue friend.
Speaker 3: So we hung out in the playgrounds back in the
Speaker 3: day and I were both middle aged dudes. And and
Speaker 3: he lives in Dallas, and so he comes out to CA.
Speaker 3: He comes out to California a lot. Uh, well, I
Speaker 3: said a lot. You know, once a year maybe, but
Speaker 3: sometimes I don't see him because he's got other things
Speaker 3: going on. So he was gonna stay at the Mallard
Speaker 3: mansion for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: So I went in. I made some peanut brittle, I made.
Speaker 3: Some some cookies and then Eddie was like, hey, I
Speaker 3: I want one of those cookies.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, okay, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3: So I had a few left at three left right,
Speaker 3: so I brought I brought the cookies in peanut butter
Speaker 3: chocolate chip bakery style peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And
Speaker 3: these things came out pretty good. It's hard to f
Speaker 3: up a cookie. It is difficult to f one up.
Speaker 3: But I've been like an artisan. This is my hobby.
Speaker 3: On the weekends, I futz around in the kitchen and
Speaker 3: try to master the different recipes that I found and
Speaker 3: put together and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So I made the cookies. He's like, I want what
Speaker 1: So I find it.
Speaker 3: And the other night I brought them in, and I
Speaker 3: had three cookies that were left to bring in.
Speaker 1: So I brought the cookies in.
Speaker 3: You know, fun Storm, that's what you did, you bring
Speaker 3: And then I was like, well wait a minute. Lorena
Speaker 3: was training and she was in that night, so now
Speaker 3: we had a math problem.
Speaker 1: So now we.
Speaker 3: Had I brought three cookies because I assumed the regular
Speaker 3: crew was going to be there, Eddie, Coop and Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1: And Lorena might be skinny, but she eats like a
Speaker 1: truck driver. Yeah, she's got that good. Uh what's the
Speaker 1: term I'm looking for here? The metabolism. Metabolism, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the words she's got that. If I had that, oh
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, not be fast. She's one of those
Speaker 1: people where she keeps telling me I'm trying to gain
Speaker 1: ten pounds, it's really hard. I'm like, follow me around,
Speaker 1: I'll show you how to do that easily.
Speaker 3: I definitely know how to gain weight the massive anyway,
Speaker 3: So she was there training, So then I had three
Speaker 3: cookies for four people.
Speaker 1: Coop wasn't there.
Speaker 3: He got sick, I mean, so we had in his
Speaker 3: place we had lead a lap and he was sous.
Speaker 3: I don't mind giving the cookie to lead you Lee's there,
Speaker 3: and I was Sam, But what do I do with Loraina?
Speaker 3: So anyway, we figured it out, gave the cookies out, Iowa,
Speaker 3: Sam and Lorena split.
Speaker 1: The cookie and uh.
Speaker 3: Then we went to the judges' scorecards. And if you
Speaker 3: listen to the live overnight show this week, the radio show,
Speaker 3: they all said how great the cookie was, but nobody
Speaker 3: gave me a ten. Pissed off about that, Dan, that's
Speaker 3: bad officiating. That was a ten peanut butter chocolate chip
Speaker 3: cookie bakery style, thick and gooey and you know a
Speaker 3: little a little bit of not a crunch, but you know,
Speaker 3: thickness on the outside and chewy miss on the inside,
Speaker 3: chewy gooey ooeye fun.
Speaker 1: And I did not get a ten. It's a bad
Speaker 1: job by Eddie.
Speaker 3: That's a bad job by Iowa, Sam, Uh, Lorena and
Speaker 3: and also.
Speaker 1: Lead a lap Shame on them. So I just want
Speaker 1: to I just want to complain about that. Phil feel
Speaker 1: like there was a drop in there somewhere.
Speaker 3: Probably chewey gooey ooey fun. Well, speaking of Lorraina, though
Speaker 3: she made me very self conscious this week, so she's
Speaker 3: training to replace I was Sam and and so she's
Speaker 3: she's been there randomly and kind of learn how we
Speaker 3: do the Overnight show and stuff like that, which is fine,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's not brain surgery.
Speaker 1: And so she's in there and I don't really know her.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting to know her. I've seen her
Speaker 1: a few times in the hallways, but we don't really
Speaker 1: know each other.
Speaker 3: And saw the whole cookie thing and she brings up
Speaker 3: on the airs like do you have cats?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I don't have cats. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And then I looked down and I saw that the
Speaker 3: shirt I was wearing had I put two and two
Speaker 3: like a light bulb one on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the shirt I was wearing had I had
Speaker 3: this like like kind of fur on it.
Speaker 1: It was like some's in your throat right now? Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So my dog Luigi, the mix between a.
Speaker 1: Pug and a French bull dog.
Speaker 3: He's a shitter. I bet oh big time. And I've
Speaker 3: never had a dog that sheds ever. I mean, I
Speaker 3: just I don't let me take that back. I've had
Speaker 3: dogs that shed, but not nearly as much as Luigi.
Speaker 3: This dog is just spitting hair everywhere.
Speaker 1: The dog goes.
Speaker 3: But what had happened here, because I didn't even hang
Speaker 3: out with Luigi the day of this event the radio show.
Speaker 3: So I've determined it's very hairy situation here. That the laundry.
Speaker 3: My wife usually handles the laundry.
Speaker 1: I do the dishes.
Speaker 3: And so my wife had put some of the clothes
Speaker 3: down on one of the chairs in the living room,
Speaker 3: and before she could put them away, she kind of
Speaker 3: left them there for a little bit. Luigi decided he
Speaker 3: wanted to roll around in the clothes, and I guess
Speaker 3: she didn't notice it, but I, of course, I was
Speaker 3: in a hurry to get to have a long drive.
Speaker 1: Very long drive. The company wants me to come in.
Speaker 3: I thank them for that, and so I drive in
Speaker 3: and it takes a long time to get there, so
Speaker 3: I might kind.
Speaker 1: Of in a hurry, and I grabbed the shirt and
Speaker 1: I didn't really look at it.
Speaker 3: I figured it's it's hung up, it's probably clean, nothing
Speaker 3: to worry about there, and yeah, so then I was.
Speaker 1: Like kind of self conscious to the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, may you misthink.
Speaker 3: I'm like like a pig or something like that, right,
Speaker 3: But I mean it was an honest mistake, Daddy, It's
Speaker 3: an honest mistake. I mean, I didn't realize. Maybe I
Speaker 3: should have looked at it when I when I put
Speaker 3: it on.
Speaker 1: But I just like, h I gotta go get it
Speaker 1: out of here. There was a time, Big Ben where
Speaker 1: I had just started dating this fine young lady from
Speaker 1: Westlake Village and I went over to her house. She
Speaker 1: lived with a roommate in a nice house and they
Speaker 1: had pets. She had a dog, and a roommate had
Speaker 1: like a cat and a dog, so there are three
Speaker 1: pets running around this house. And I went over. They
Speaker 1: invited me over for a game night, and like that game.
Speaker 3: Night's a big night. That's a that's a step, that's
Speaker 3: a step, stepping stone.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. We hadn't even hooked up like that yet,
Speaker 1: maybe made out or something, but hadn't gone all the way.
Speaker 1: So what am I in junior high? So you know,
Speaker 1: game night ends and I'm like, thank god, man, I
Speaker 1: hate this stupid board game that they were playing. She's like,
Speaker 1: why don't you come into my bedroom and let's hang out.
Speaker 1: And I'm like yeah. I go into her bedroom and
Speaker 1: the first thing I see she had the stairs, the
Speaker 1: doggy stairs, next to her bed. Okay, and then she says, oh,
Speaker 1: sit down on the bed next to me. And I
Speaker 1: sat down ben and her dog was white. There was
Speaker 1: this white fur, like a coating on her comforter of
Speaker 1: white fur. Oh boy. I carefully maneuvered myself. And of course,
Speaker 1: as a Raiders fan, what color do you think I
Speaker 1: was wearing? Of course you had the black. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: had black jeans on. I had probably a Raider shirt
Speaker 1: and like a nice new Raider shirt on. It was
Speaker 1: during football season. I was representing. I was very careful though,
Speaker 1: and I like down next to her on her bed
Speaker 1: and we talked, and then I you know, we said
Speaker 1: our good night, our goodbye. I leave and I needed
Speaker 1: to stop at the gas station to get some gas.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. I get out of my car,
Speaker 1: grab the pump, start pumping gas, and I happened to
Speaker 1: look down from my ankle all the way up to
Speaker 1: my chest. I looked like a muppet I had. I
Speaker 1: was just covered in white fur.
Speaker 2: Ear.
Speaker 1: I mean you know those rollers, yeah yeah, oh no,
Speaker 1: five of those rollers wouldn't have been enough. Immediately, go home,
Speaker 1: take a hot shower, throw all those clothes into the
Speaker 1: washing machine. Right away and I never went to her
Speaker 1: house again. It was just gross. So yeah, I understand,
Speaker 1: I understand how you could feel some shame on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt like pig pin And I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 1: like you.
Speaker 3: I usually you know, I'm not. I'm not terrible. There
Speaker 3: were worse people when it comes to grooming than me.
Speaker 3: I'm not the king of grooming, but.
Speaker 1: A shower regularly. Bet you've never seen you walk around
Speaker 1: with fur on you before?
Speaker 3: No, No, that was of all the days to have
Speaker 3: Luigi to pick the one shirt covered in Luigi hair,
Speaker 3: that was the day. Why don't we get out on thee?
Speaker 3: Did the word of the week yesterday, So I think
Speaker 3: what we should do today is the do you think
Speaker 3: you're the idiom of the week or the phrase of
Speaker 3: the week.
Speaker 1: We should do here? Phrase of the week sounds good?
Speaker 1: Does that sound good? Yeah? The phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: The phrase of the week. All right.
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week is something that we all use.
Speaker 3: Kill time, right, kill time, right pastime? You know, I
Speaker 3: gotta kill some time. Man, I'm killing people. Listen to
Speaker 3: this podcast to kill time, right, they're bored.
Speaker 1: This is a great This is a great phrase. Covino
Speaker 1: talked about this the past couple of days on the
Speaker 1: Afternoon Show, how he needed to kill twelve hours because
Speaker 1: he's flying to Japan. Oh wow, yeah, he really needs
Speaker 1: to kill time.
Speaker 3: The phrase kill time it actually goes back to ancient
Speaker 3: times and in the olden times, people had a lot
Speaker 3: of leisure time between tasks that they had to do,
Speaker 3: between work assignments, and they would often do what we
Speaker 3: do today. They'd have different technology, obviously when they play games,
Speaker 3: and they'd have different recreational activities to pass the time.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that they used involved using
Speaker 3: small sticks to mark the actual passing minutes on the ground,
Speaker 3: and so they they would await the completion of task,
Speaker 3: the you know, or the arrival of some big event
Speaker 3: that they were having in ancient times, and they would
Speaker 3: playfully kill time by they'd arrange these sticks or markers
Speaker 3: into different patterns. They kind of play games, and that
Speaker 3: was the entertainment. And over time the practice evolved into
Speaker 3: the expression, the figurative expression of kill time, which is
Speaker 3: symbolizing the act of obviously engaging in activities to pass
Speaker 3: idle moments or periods where you're waiting for something to happen.
Speaker 3: The earliest recorded instance of the phrase time to kill
Speaker 3: dates back to fifteen ninety all the way back to
Speaker 3: fifteen nineties, so that phrase kill time has been around
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 1: It is Saturday. What do you got going on? I
Speaker 1: got nothing going on today. I'm just kind of hanging
Speaker 1: out today, not much going on. What are you got
Speaker 1: going on? I am packing my bags and just kind
Speaker 1: of doing a checklist of things because we are taking
Speaker 1: baby CoA on his first flight. We leave out tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I am right, And will you would tell us more
Speaker 3: about that?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna save that for later? I will save
Speaker 1: that for the Sunday Morning podcast.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll find out. You see, that's a that's
Speaker 3: a cliffhanger. You'll have to wait for the Sunday.
Speaker 1: Night is a professional radio teas look at that? All right?
Speaker 1: Very good, have a great rest of your day today.
Speaker 3: Thank you for following this podcast telling friends about it,
Speaker 3: and we'll catch you in next time later.
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