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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: and Danny g But you already knew that this is
Speaker 1: not the original recipe. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra
Speaker 1: Spicy Weekend Podcast. It's Friday, the nineteenth day of April.
Speaker 1: We have survived another week. Well, you still have another
Speaker 1: show to do today, Danny, but we have survived the
Speaker 1: majority of a week. I am done with the radio
Speaker 1: portion of my schedule and we have united here to
Speaker 1: form Volta on the Fifth Hour podcast. Yeah, every Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, and big, big recap podcast, Big Recap podcast, Danny,
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Speaker 1: log malor those three words biggest words in podcasting.
Speaker 3: Whenever you say that, it sounds like your friend Shatner.
Speaker 1: Check mates. Yeah, so last weekend I was away, so
Speaker 1: we'll have tails from the road. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: we'll probably have tails from the road all weekend because
Speaker 1: I had a lot packed into a few days.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw pictures of you standing in the middle
Speaker 3: of the wilderness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the great outdoors. I enjoyed that a lot. Today
Speaker 1: is a we usually hear these dopey holidays, and I
Speaker 1: was planning when I came into the studio this morning. Danny,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you know, I'm not gonna, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna not do that. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: need to do the dopey hollidaything. It's fun. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of fun, but I don't need
Speaker 1: to do it. And then I looked and I said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I gotta do it because today is
Speaker 1: Today's one of the most important days of the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I put it right up there with.
Speaker 3: New Year's in the NFL draft already.
Speaker 1: July fourth, Uh today, Danny, National Garlic Day. Today is
Speaker 1: National Garlic Day. Hello, not just in your wheelhouse. You
Speaker 1: were just there, Yes, I was in the Holy Land
Speaker 1: of Garlic. Jesus, I made the stop. Every time I
Speaker 1: go to northern California, I know to go south from
Speaker 1: the same from the Bay Area, you have to go buy.
Speaker 3: Gilroy.
Speaker 1: So if you're going to go buy Gilroy, you might
Speaker 1: as well go in Gilroy where it actually smells like garlic.
Speaker 1: The air smells like garlic. What an amazing place. Everyone
Speaker 1: should want to live in Gilroy. I don't think anyone dies.
Speaker 1: They don't even have cemeteries in Gilroy because no one
Speaker 1: will die because the garlic is there. It gives you strength.
Speaker 1: Going back to the ancient Egyptians who worshiped garlic as
Speaker 1: a god, Danny, they worship garlic as a god.
Speaker 3: Have you had the chance yet to try the garlic
Speaker 3: rolls at wood Ranch restaurants?
Speaker 1: I do not believe I have. I did eat when
Speaker 1: I was in I did go to Gilroy. I had
Speaker 1: some like a garlic burger, but I've not had the
Speaker 1: wood Ranch barbecue.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: Those rolls gar They bring them out warm and you
Speaker 3: dip them in the barbecue sauce. They just opened one
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago in Burbank. In Burbanka, Yeah,
Speaker 3: your old stomping grouse.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to hang out in Burbank. I actually wanted
Speaker 1: to live in Burbank when I was working the local
Speaker 1: station in LA and then I know what happened. Well,
Speaker 1: I saw the price of you know, the houses and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Rich Rich Davis Rich tells the story that when
Speaker 3: he moved out here I think it was like eight
Speaker 3: nine years ago with his lovely wife, they started house
Speaker 3: shopping in Burbank and they quickly moved on to other
Speaker 3: parts of Los Ange.
Speaker 1: No Burbanks. The area the radio station I worked at
Speaker 1: was in I guess technically called Teluca Lake, which is
Speaker 1: where Bob Hope was. But Burbank's just a wonderful little
Speaker 1: enclave like a bubble.
Speaker 3: But you pay for it, so it's uh yeah, it's
Speaker 3: Disney money there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Studios, Yeah, they have about Disney's there, animation division of You've.
Speaker 1: Got Disney on one side. Warner Brothers is there as well,
Speaker 1: and then just over the hill you have Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: They're all all the A lot of the big studios
Speaker 1: are there. And then Channel Channel seven ABC has studios
Speaker 1: over there, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, And of course AM five seventy LA Sports and.
Speaker 1: The iHeart LA building, right, I mean, and the premiere
Speaker 1: buildings in sruman Oaks. If you're you're familiar with la.
Speaker 1: But anyway, get back to the boy. So today's garlic day,
Speaker 1: so celebrate. I will be celebrating, Danny. I will celebrate.
Speaker 1: I will eat lots of lots of garth, which is
Speaker 1: nature's antibiotic garlic. And we have some fun facts if
Speaker 1: you only want some garlic fun facts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you would like to burn your throat for
Speaker 3: three weeks.
Speaker 1: My gums, yeah, yeah, yeah, I suck the garlic. When
Speaker 1: I start getting sick, I sucked the garlic. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can suck on it and that'll make it better, especially
Speaker 1: if I laryngitis. It really is good with laryngitis because
Speaker 1: it kills the infection and your throat. The problem is
Speaker 1: it will burn through your gums, so you'll have a
Speaker 1: hole on each side of your mouth, and that kind
Speaker 1: of sucks. But the most popular garlicky foods, let's see,
Speaker 1: how many only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten out of the ten most popular garlicky foods, how
Speaker 1: many can Danny g name? Dude?
Speaker 3: Garlic bread?
Speaker 1: All right? That is clearly the number one, number one
Speaker 1: most popular garlicy food is garlic bread. Thirty one percent
Speaker 1: of Americans like garlic bread, and the other sixty nine
Speaker 1: percent are losers, So that that is number one. I'll
Speaker 1: give you. I'll give you a how about till you
Speaker 1: get three wrongs?
Speaker 3: I keep going back in the day. I remember having
Speaker 3: a really wonderful honey garlic chicken dish. Is that on there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, not honey, but just garlic chicken. Yes, that is.
Speaker 1: That was actually number two. So you're doing you're in order?
Speaker 1: Are you cheating? Cheat?
Speaker 3: He's not supposed to cheat at this dare I where
Speaker 3: I'm sitting right now, there are no monitors open in
Speaker 3: front of me. Oh really, it's a blank stare, just
Speaker 3: like me looking at the wall, which is what I
Speaker 3: do for the day.
Speaker 1: I just keep I just keep tossing out words and
Speaker 1: hoping they go together. That's pretty much what I do.
Speaker 3: Dora, are the explorers on my TV screen at home?
Speaker 3: So I'm basically staring at a wall compelling. Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1: You want to write a children's book, Danny, because that
Speaker 1: children's books really have like four or five words on
Speaker 1: every page at the most, right, So anybody could write
Speaker 1: a children's book.
Speaker 3: It's a good idea for a super Cat series. Yes,
Speaker 3: starring Mac.
Speaker 1: Don't do a Lost Cat magnet, you should do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see we got the top two.
Speaker 3: All right, will let's see what garlicy food? Oh okay,
Speaker 3: got it. My mom she used to make a garlic
Speaker 3: parmesan pasta, like a pasta. Yeah, the past Oh there
Speaker 3: you got stumber three. Oh my god, you're in order.
Speaker 3: This has never happened before. This is this is an
Speaker 3: historical podcast. My weekend, the top three. My weekend can
Speaker 3: only go down from here.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. R Well, who cares? Well, we'll stop.
Speaker 1: You want to press your luck here, we'll stop right there.
Speaker 1: Uh so you got the top three. Number four was
Speaker 1: garlic shrimp. I don't eat the seafood. I think seafood
Speaker 1: lives matter, and I don't want to. I don't want
Speaker 1: to take their life. All right, I want my chicken,
Speaker 1: fine love, I would love living and go. Garlic butter
Speaker 1: is on there, garlic fries. I thought that would be higher.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a San Francisco Giants staple at their stadium.
Speaker 1: Now. Oh, the first time I ever experienced that was
Speaker 1: at the Giants ballpark. And now it's a lot of
Speaker 1: the stadiums garlic fries.
Speaker 3: Those fans stink in more than one way. A roasted
Speaker 3: garlic is that garlic hummus? Oh that's good, raw garlic,
Speaker 3: and then pickled garlic.
Speaker 1: Which I think I've ever ever had. Twenty four percent
Speaker 1: of Americans think garlic makes everything taste better. Good job
Speaker 1: by them, and fifteen percent of Americans by pre minced garlic.
Speaker 1: I think it's higher than that. I believe it's higher
Speaker 1: than that because you see that. You see that at
Speaker 1: all the stores they have that mouthwatering twelve percent of
Speaker 1: Americans say garlic breath doesn't bother them. All right, that's cool, man.
Speaker 1: I want to hang out that twelve percent. That's what
Speaker 1: I want to hang out. And I don't hang out
Speaker 1: with the other.
Speaker 3: Part of that. Well, we're in.
Speaker 1: There are breath mints that we have and anyway, that's
Speaker 1: enough about garlic. As far as the travel is concerned,
Speaker 1: we had the pods up last week. How it was
Speaker 1: a very hectic week because I took one night off
Speaker 1: and then we were hitting the road and like I said,
Speaker 1: did I take two nights? I don't even remember. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was two nights. Yeah, I think it was two
Speaker 1: nights I took off. But anyway, some of the details
Speaker 1: you can say, we know the way to San Jose.
Speaker 1: So I started out typical gridlock traffic. I slept for
Speaker 1: a few hours after the show, got in the car
Speaker 1: and painful but expected. Now we went. When you go
Speaker 1: to northern California, southern California, if you're not familiar, most
Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast are in California. So when
Speaker 1: you drive from southern California northern California, there's two main
Speaker 1: ways to go. There is the quick Way, which goes
Speaker 1: through the bread Basket of America, which is really the
Speaker 1: flatulence of America where it just smells like fart and manure.
Speaker 1: Interstate five, Yeah, straight up the five. That's the quick Way.
Speaker 1: Or you can go scenic on the one oh one
Speaker 1: Highway one up the coast and enjoy the beautiful views
Speaker 1: of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3: Beautiful, but it tax on two hours and forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at tax on. A lot of times went we
Speaker 1: went scenic. We went scenic and stopped at the usual places.
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara had lunch in Santa Barbara. Loved Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: so it's so nice there. So no billboards, beautiful, a
Speaker 1: lot of rich people. I was going to say, it's
Speaker 1: where all the movie stars live. Monacito. Yeah, Montecito is billionaires.
Speaker 1: It's nothing Oprah lives, but it's like real billionaires, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I had a good Mexican meal there in
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara, a lot of chips and salsa. Drove another
Speaker 1: hour to the town, about an hour solving. We talked
Speaker 1: about solving.
Speaker 3: Danish village. Yeah, I had the able Skiver home of
Speaker 3: the ostrich Berger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ostrich farm there down the road, and charming village.
Speaker 1: You just like you're in Denmark unless you're not.
Speaker 3: But it's cool.
Speaker 1: And that able Skimer very good. That's the little fried,
Speaker 1: puffy like doughnuts they put with ice cream. I guess
Speaker 1: it's a Danish thing.
Speaker 3: I don't all.
Speaker 1: On our way back though to the highway, we stopped
Speaker 1: off at the Starbucks in Buelton, which is just down
Speaker 1: the road from Denmark, or actually not from Denmark that
Speaker 1: would be amazing, but from Solving, and my wife went
Speaker 1: to get I don't drink coffee, so she got me
Speaker 1: what the Callie refresher, which is just.
Speaker 3: Like the biggest ripoff in the history ice drinks anywhere.
Speaker 3: Our daughter, our thirteen year old, gets these and my
Speaker 3: wife is always like, why do these cost so much?
Speaker 3: And they cut up a little bit of fruit and
Speaker 3: put it on top, and they're like eight dollars please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can buy a whole, you know, three gallons
Speaker 1: of the same juice at the store anyway. So I
Speaker 1: get that. So I because it's you know, she wanted
Speaker 1: to drink coffee by herself, so I have my pressure.
Speaker 1: But while she was getting that, I went in that.
Speaker 1: We stopped the parking lot. There's a tractor supply store,
Speaker 1: which has been a big advertiser in recent months on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. And I had never been to a
Speaker 1: tractor supply store. I've read the commercial hundreds of times.
Speaker 1: I've never been to one.
Speaker 3: That's right. I saw your cock joke on Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There was a giant metal cock right out in
Speaker 1: front of the store, and that got my attention. I
Speaker 1: was attracted to the giant metal cock. And that's a
Speaker 1: drop I forget like on the podcast it becomes a
Speaker 1: d on the radio show, not so much anymore. But
Speaker 1: we went, we went, and I went in the store
Speaker 1: and uh, I was it was impressed. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm easily impressed. I was attracted to the giant
Speaker 1: metal cock. I thought it was cool. Other people in
Speaker 1: the comments were like, oh, just like any other store,
Speaker 1: it's not that impressive. And then there were some guys
Speaker 1: that loved tractor supply. They're like, oh, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Have been there year, like a loser then ever been there,
Speaker 1: But there's none near where I live, So that's why
Speaker 1: I'd never been there. But it's it's either.
Speaker 3: Every Oh, it's pretty much the same crowd who loves
Speaker 3: the bass pro shops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of animal supply stuff. You felt
Speaker 1: very masculine. I would compare it to going into like
Speaker 1: a Pep Boys or you know, some some car repair
Speaker 1: place where you just smell tires and you feel like
Speaker 1: you're more manly. You know.
Speaker 3: You go in there, you see the dog food, like
Speaker 3: Tim Allen, the machetes over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just see you feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1: So I went in there and I walked around for
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it was kind of cool. Back
Speaker 1: on the road as always. Now, I don't know about you, Dannyone,
Speaker 1: I drive up the scenic Route in California. I always
Speaker 1: stop in Santa Maria. That's like another hour outside of solving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a brand new raising canes there.
Speaker 1: Well, they have that. They also have a what's that
Speaker 1: cracker barrel? Which Dick and Dayton line you had that,
Speaker 1: But I went to the Costco to get the gas
Speaker 1: there at Costco had to fill up because it's got
Speaker 1: a ways to go, you know. Then we stopped at
Speaker 1: the Madonna in beautiful Madonna in Yeah.
Speaker 3: That place is creepy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an old mob hanging out back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And when you go to urinate there, you pee into
Speaker 3: a waterfall that is.
Speaker 1: Correct bath The bathroom underneath is a rock, a rock waterfall,
Speaker 1: and you stand there and you're not sure where it
Speaker 1: ends and where you're supposed to, you know, where you're
Speaker 1: putting suppos put your feet.
Speaker 3: It's very off where shoes always wind up wet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So my wife likes all the gatty stuff in
Speaker 1: the gift shop. So I was able to finagle a
Speaker 1: piece of the pink champagne cake, which is just amazing.
Speaker 1: And that's the reason I keep going to that point.
Speaker 3: Forty seven of sugar and fifty two dollars for one piece,
Speaker 3: but I was it was very good.
Speaker 1: And then back on the road with something more Bay
Speaker 1: beautiful Moral Bay. As we went up the coast on
Speaker 1: the Malar travelogue where we go camping every summer. Love Moralbay,
Speaker 1: the rock which you can almost never see because there's fog.
Speaker 1: And there's a like a nuclear power plant which I
Speaker 1: don't think is active anymore, which is kind of funny,
Speaker 1: right on the water there. And we had dinner and
Speaker 1: then we had another almost two hundred miles to go.
Speaker 1: We were Our destination was Los Gatos, which is south
Speaker 1: of San Jose. And by the time we got to
Speaker 1: the hotel, from the time we left to the time
Speaker 1: we got to the hotel, you want to take a
Speaker 1: guess how long this trip took, good Danny, what do
Speaker 1: you think here?
Speaker 3: Nine hours?
Speaker 1: About ten hours? Close ten hours. It was a long
Speaker 1: day's journey into the night. It was quite quite the
Speaker 1: slap good times, good times. It was you know, it's
Speaker 1: fun like doing that kind of thing. Had a good time.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. So we stayed in Los Gatos.
Speaker 1: Now what is you you're familiar with that? What is
Speaker 1: Los Gatos.
Speaker 3: Famous for computer people?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course rich tech executives lived there, and I
Speaker 1: believe that is the headquarters of Netflix is in that
Speaker 1: it's the number one employer in that city.
Speaker 3: My uncle has lived in that city forever and he's
Speaker 3: always been a computer dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, you know when you go to the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: the two main professions in the Bay Area are tech
Speaker 1: and petty crime breaking into cars. That's it. There's no
Speaker 1: in between. So, but there's some big names. I was
Speaker 1: looking it up on the internet. I was like, I
Speaker 1: was want to go places I've never really spent much time.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to know what what made it famous.
Speaker 1: You know, every town has at least a couple famous
Speaker 1: people that came from it some line of work, And
Speaker 1: so I looked up some of the names. Steve Wozniak,
Speaker 1: one of the inventors of the Apple computer, is based
Speaker 1: in Los Gatto's spent time there. John Steinbeck, the Grapes
Speaker 1: of Wrath, guy that wrote Dad, Kyle Shanahan lives here.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him. Who else, Steve Mariucci. I guess
Speaker 1: that's a big hotbed for former or at forty nine
Speaker 1: er coaches, a bunch of athletes, past athletes, guys we'd
Speaker 1: know like Jeff Blauser, remember him from the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 1: back in the day we're old. We remember him. Kevin Euculus,
Speaker 1: the Greek god of walks, for some odd reason, lives
Speaker 1: in Los Gato's Tony, that's that's some I miss some
Speaker 1: other people there too, But Jeremy Ronick. I saw his jersey.
Speaker 1: I went to the sports bar Double D's. Didn't see
Speaker 1: a single set of Double D's, but I did. That
Speaker 1: was the name of the place. But they had Jeremy Ronick.
Speaker 3: At the time they opened, they were competing with Hooters.
Speaker 1: Well they started out small, they were. They started out
Speaker 1: as Double A's, but then they moved on there. But
Speaker 1: I'm bump a lame jokes.
Speaker 3: Actually on when they opened they were called a cup
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Uh So, as you mentioned earlier, Jeorde, the great outdoors,
Speaker 1: Danny Benny by the bay, a lot of hiking and walking,
Speaker 1: really cool. Spent my time as a tree hugger there.
Speaker 1: I recommend highly if you ever find yourself in Los Gatto,
Speaker 1: the Low Scatto's Creek trail on the mallor scale of
Speaker 1: trails one to ten ten being amazed, this was a ten.
Speaker 1: It's probably like a twelve it's so you're it's right
Speaker 1: in the middle of the town and you just there's
Speaker 1: a you walk down a small hill and then you
Speaker 1: turn either right or left and you're on the trail.
Speaker 1: I turned from the town, I walked down, I turned left,
Speaker 1: and I was just mesmerized. It was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was immediately I've seen that. Do you see all
Speaker 3: the big homes and properties bordering that like one of
Speaker 3: the hills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But I mean I walked and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is this is awesome, Like this is so cool.
Speaker 1: You're right away, You're you don't even you can't imagine
Speaker 1: like just above you and down a block away as this,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, little village.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine that being in the middle of Resita, California.
Speaker 1: I know, but it was cool. We went to we
Speaker 1: went out to the Redwoods, which are you know, short
Speaker 1: drive from there, A giant, big, not as big as Sequoia,
Speaker 1: but big redwood trees, giant old trees, and the little reservoir,
Speaker 1: which we were disappointed. We thought you could like take
Speaker 1: a boat out there, but it's a reservoir.
Speaker 3: So I can't do that.
Speaker 1: But it was cool. It was a it was a
Speaker 1: fun time. And then well, I'll tell someone, I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend the whole podcast talking about the trip,
Speaker 1: so we'll tell some more tales over the course of
Speaker 1: the weekend. We got plenty of time day and we
Speaker 1: got a blank audio canvas for today, you know, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then on Sunday also, so uh, I was, I
Speaker 1: was messing around on the internet, and for some reason,
Speaker 1: this is a non sequitor. I'm gonna call this a
Speaker 1: gummy situation. So I for some reason I was, I
Speaker 1: was looking at some old baseball cards and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I used to love the bubble gum on
Speaker 1: the cars. I was like, what the heck? Why they
Speaker 1: stopped doing that? Why did they ever start doing it? Right,
Speaker 1: we were kids, clicked baseball cards, they piece of bubble
Speaker 1: gum in there. So I fell down this the spider hole,
Speaker 1: and I started digging and digging and digging, and you know,
Speaker 1: you never know where you're gonna end up when you
Speaker 1: go on a ride like that. So the bubble gum
Speaker 1: in the baseball card thing. The tradition began in the
Speaker 1: nineteen thirties by the Gouty Gum company, and they started
Speaker 1: inserting bubble gum in the packs of their baseball cards.
Speaker 3: It means their company gouty.
Speaker 1: And anyway, the kids at the time in the nineteen Thursday,
Speaker 1: this is amazing, this is this is the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1: We got the baseball cards and we get the gum.
Speaker 1: And that was the beginning of a magical romance between
Speaker 1: bubble gum companies and baseball cards, and it started spreading
Speaker 1: to the other The other gum companies at the time
Speaker 1: were like, we want it on that because we can
Speaker 1: get kids hooked who want baseball cards hooked on gum.
Speaker 1: And it's like the McDonald's, you know, the kids meal,
Speaker 1: You get them hooked at a young age. And so
Speaker 1: they were, and then the gum was like a bonus
Speaker 1: item and it made them sell more packs of gum,
Speaker 1: and there were more packs of baseball cards. And it
Speaker 1: was like a symbotic, symbiotic relationship until until the early
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. When the rubber met the road nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: Long time ago nineteen eighty one, a dispute popped up
Speaker 1: between the three major card companies at the time that
Speaker 1: was Tops, Donris, and Flear. Up until that point, Tops
Speaker 1: had a monopoly on baseball card production for years they
Speaker 1: had an exclusive licensing agreement with Baseball and the Players Association,
Speaker 1: and TOPS is the only company allowed to use team
Speaker 1: logos and the player images. However, that changed because Donris
Speaker 1: and Fleer challenged the monopoly in nineteen eighty one and
Speaker 1: they said, you know, screw you, We're going to produce
Speaker 1: our own baseball cards, and they got deals with the
Speaker 1: Players Association, and that was the first time TOPS had
Speaker 1: any real competition in you know, probably twenty thirty years
Speaker 1: at least. But here's where the dispute about the gum
Speaker 1: came in. So the stipulation in the TOPS licensing agreement
Speaker 1: required it mandated the inclusion of a little piece of
Speaker 1: gum in each pack of cards they produced. And so
Speaker 1: Donners and Fleer like, you know, wait a minute, and
Speaker 1: we were trying to we don't want to include gum.
Speaker 1: You know, it's going to ruin the cards. So Donerson
Speaker 1: Fleer said, it's going to reduce the value of the product,
Speaker 1: and we don't want to do that. Screw you. So
Speaker 1: they filed lawsuits against TOPS claiming that the gum was
Speaker 1: an anti competitive situation. It was requirement, was anti competitive,
Speaker 1: violated anti trustrial laws. Gum violating anti trust laws. And
Speaker 1: this thing lasted for several years in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: but by the time everything was done, Donnerus and Fleer
Speaker 1: had become major players in the trading card industry. If
Speaker 1: you're around my age, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And then later on in the late eighties, Upper Deck
Speaker 1: came around. They were very popular for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: but because Donris and Flear challenged and I guess they won,
Speaker 1: ultimately Tops said, well, screw you, We're not if you
Speaker 1: don't have to include gum, We're not including gum anymore.
Speaker 3: And did you see the recent story of the guy
Speaker 3: who found the unopened baseball cards from nineteen fifty two?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think it happened in January. But people
Speaker 3: are still talking about it because the price keeps going
Speaker 3: up and up. They're saying fifteen to twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: if he just sells the pack unopened, But there could
Speaker 3: be a Mickey Mantle rookie in there which could be
Speaker 3: worth millions. So do you gamble and open it or
Speaker 3: do you sell the pack as.
Speaker 1: Is a was it bird in hand is worth two
Speaker 1: or something like that? Is that what it is. I
Speaker 1: forget the exact saying, but.
Speaker 3: I think he never falls far from the app Well.
Speaker 1: Whatever, but I you know what I meant. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Here's the thing, Danny, I recall. Aren't there
Speaker 1: YouTube videos of people chewing bubble gum from old packs
Speaker 1: of gum from like thirty forty years ago? Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just pop it into their mouth and start going for it.
Speaker 3: And was their gum in the Bowman pack from fifty two?
Speaker 1: I have to you know what they probably was.
Speaker 3: If we collected money in a hat, I bet you
Speaker 3: Coop would eat that seventy two year old gum.
Speaker 1: Hey, Yeah, because it said the gum thing started in
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties and continued till the nineteen eighties, and
Speaker 1: Bowman was that was a gum company. Bowman and Leaf
Speaker 1: were gum Cat didn't. So yeah, so there had to
Speaker 1: be the gum. There had to be the gum in
Speaker 1: the packs of the baseball cards, so I had to
Speaker 1: be had to be part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, I looked it up. It says Bowman
Speaker 3: fifty two cards are sometimes stained from their gum.
Speaker 1: Let's do the idiom of the week. Idiom of the week,
Speaker 1: all right, now cut me off. If we use this
Speaker 1: one before, I don't think we have. But I was
Speaker 1: in a Hayes last week, so maybe we have. I
Speaker 1: don't think we used this pearl of wisdom? Did we
Speaker 1: use Uncle Charlie? Have we used Uncle Charlie?
Speaker 3: No? Good?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, okay. I was getting concerned because I everything
Speaker 1: kind of flows together, and you're not sure. So Uncle
Speaker 1: Charlie is the idiom of the week. You know what
Speaker 1: Uncle Charlie is? Now? Really that's a curveball, Uncle Charlie. Curveball,
Speaker 1: baseball slaying. It's a colloquial term. I said, I don't
Speaker 1: use it as much anymore.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, must be here in the fifties.
Speaker 1: Even before that, Uncle Charlie. This is what I heard around.
Speaker 1: I was good Bert Blylevin would be pitching, be like,
Speaker 1: watch out for Uncle Charlie. But Burt Blabman known for
Speaker 1: his curveball. So uncle Charles carly a colloquial baseball term
Speaker 1: goes back till the nineteen thirties, and it was like
Speaker 1: Uncle Charlie got him. He can't hit a curve. That
Speaker 1: was a expression from a sports writer in the early
Speaker 1: nineteen thirties but the Uncle Charlie, Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: Supposedly it was a cheap shot at the president of
Speaker 1: Harvard at the time, Charles William Elliott, who had been
Speaker 1: against the curveball. He was aghast at the curveball, and
Speaker 1: he had the quote at the time, was I understand
Speaker 1: that a curveball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Speaker 1: Surely this is not an ability we should want to
Speaker 1: foster at Harvard. Guy thought they thought the curveball was
Speaker 1: like the Astros banging on trash cans or something like that. Holy,
Speaker 1: holy shooting.
Speaker 3: You can't make a baseball do that.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna know, Harvard presidents have been assholes since
Speaker 1: the beginning of time. So but anyway, so the baseball players,
Speaker 1: as a way to mock the president of Harvard, decided
Speaker 1: that they were just They nicknamed the curveball Uncle Charlie
Speaker 1: in honor of the Harvard president Charles William Elliott, who
Speaker 1: thought the curveball was He implied it was cheating, trying
Speaker 1: to deceive the opposition. So so amazing, let's do a
Speaker 1: little foodie fun as a couple of stories. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get to and then we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw a lot of food stories this past week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a big food thing because we're heading
Speaker 1: into the good time for fast food where the weather's
Speaker 1: getting better in the spring and then summer's going to
Speaker 1: be here and you sell a lot more donuts and
Speaker 1: cheeseburgers and stuff like that in the summer. So Popeyes
Speaker 1: through tomorrow, I know it's a big Tomorrow is a
Speaker 1: big holiday. Saturday is a big holiday for you. To Danny,
Speaker 1: it's you know what dayly calendar.
Speaker 3: Is, smoke weed.
Speaker 1: Every day, Popeye's offering a four dollars and twenty cent
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich deal. I wonder how they came up with
Speaker 1: that price point. I don't know how they did that.
Speaker 1: Tim Hortons has launched pizza nationally to stretch the brand
Speaker 1: and get people to eat in the affterd I've never
Speaker 1: been to a Tim Horton's very popular in Canada. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been to a Tim Hortons. I've never been there. People,
Speaker 1: it's like a religious It's like the way people in
Speaker 1: California look at In and Out Burger. A lot of
Speaker 1: people in Canada look at at Tim Horton's so there's that.
Speaker 1: A Jack in the Box is testing a new sour
Speaker 1: dough scrambler in the Las Vegas area. So if you're
Speaker 1: in Vegas anytime soon, Danny, you can go get yourself
Speaker 1: a sour dough scrambler, which is that's a breakfast sandwich
Speaker 1: you had scrambled eggs, sickory smoked bacon, and American cheese
Speaker 1: toasted sour dough bread stop. And it's also available with
Speaker 1: a sausage patty instead of the bacon, so you can
Speaker 1: get that.
Speaker 3: No, I would go with the bacon extra crispy.
Speaker 1: That'd be your remove. McDonald's in the UK has launched
Speaker 1: a new menu with seven new items, so Mickey D's
Speaker 1: changing it up. That just began on Wednesday of this week.
Speaker 1: Among the new editions, they have a Cheese and Herb
Speaker 1: melt Quick Snack, Chicken Big Mac, but Chicken Big Mac
Speaker 1: that actually was around years ago. They brought it back.
Speaker 1: The Deluxe Quarter Pounder will also be making a comeback.
Speaker 1: The Galaxy Caramel Pie that is going to be there,
Speaker 1: and the chocolate Galaxy Chocolate Thurry mcflurry.
Speaker 3: By the way, they're a sponsor of our podcast. I
Speaker 3: heard them advertising last Weekend.
Speaker 1: Mickey D's we love well. They should all these these
Speaker 1: fast food places we do a whole segment for these
Speaker 1: people should pay for advertising. What's wrong with are Hooters?
Speaker 3: It should pay us to eat there.
Speaker 1: But that is true. Arby's, we should be great. If
Speaker 1: it was like the fifth dollar presented by RB that
Speaker 1: would be so perfect, right us. Let's see your top
Speaker 1: fast food restaurant in the US, according to Foters Travel.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is f O d O
Speaker 1: R folder. I believe Alice Pounce Folds Travel. What do
Speaker 1: you think the best fast food restaurant in America?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: No, it is one of my favorite restaurants.
Speaker 3: Oh your favorites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's not available all over the country. It's a
Speaker 1: regional delicacy.
Speaker 3: Regional Oh what's the name of it. You've talked about
Speaker 3: it on the podcast before. We don't have them here
Speaker 3: in Cali though, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Culver's. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Culver's is in Midwest. There is one in Arizona, a
Speaker 1: couple in Arizona, but they're mostly in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: place like that. But Culver's, it's it's not everywhere, and
Speaker 1: it's just like in and out, it's not everywhere, Jack
Speaker 1: in the boxes and everywhere? What a Burger's not everywhere?
Speaker 1: Speaking of regional fast food restaurants, big news in the food,
Speaker 1: foody fun department. I hope you're sitting down, Danny. We're
Speaker 1: going to get in California next year. I believe bo Jangles.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get bo Jangles. Bo Jangles is coming. And
Speaker 1: when I was in Virginia and North Carolina a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago for a wedding, I tasted all the
Speaker 1: fast food places that I couldn't taste here, like Zaxby's
Speaker 1: and bo Jangles and all those places, and bo Jangles
Speaker 1: was at the very top for me. I enjoyed that
Speaker 1: more than the other places I went to. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Bojangles coming to southern California. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: And I have a couple of quick ones here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's your take on it too?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: So Red Lobster, did you see how they are close
Speaker 3: to filing bankruptcy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're gonna go the way of Toys r
Speaker 1: us Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know Fridays, they've closed almost forty locations recently.
Speaker 3: But Applebee's was just announced as the official bar and
Speaker 3: grill of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Tastes like a touchdown in your mouth.
Speaker 3: Brought up a big topic on Covino and Rich. The
Speaker 3: prices at the grocery store and now twenty dollars an
Speaker 3: hour for fast food workers, and the price is rising
Speaker 3: rapidly at fast food restaurants, especially in California. Will there
Speaker 3: be a resurgence for those mid level restaurants like Chili's
Speaker 3: and Applebee's. Which one of those is your go to?
Speaker 1: So this is mid level dining? Yeah, in this category
Speaker 1: you got Friday's, Chili's, what else.
Speaker 3: I guess on the East Coast they have like Bennegan's,
Speaker 3: all those type of places. I guess Cracker Barrel would
Speaker 3: fit in that mold. Yeah, I hop cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, Yeah, I like Yeah, I like cheese
Speaker 1: c Yeah. I mean the problem is they have to charge
Speaker 1: more though, right don't they? With fast food?
Speaker 3: Is Fridays, if you're lucky enough to still have a
Speaker 3: Friday's in your neighborhood, you could get a burger and
Speaker 3: fries right now for nine ninety nine. What fast food
Speaker 3: place right now? Can you really get a good burger
Speaker 3: and fries for nine to ninety nine. Even at McDonald's,
Speaker 3: A lot of those combos are over ten dollars now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they never go down. It's not like they're
Speaker 1: all right, we're going to lower the prices this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the thinking is that this generation might start
Speaker 3: sitting back down at Applebee's because you're paying the same
Speaker 3: amount of money, if not less.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a better experience than going well as
Speaker 1: much as I enjoy And.
Speaker 3: If some of them do like the five dollars apps
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, where would you rather go eat?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, that's a fair point. And everything goes in cycles, right,
Speaker 1: so we'll move back to the mid level restaurant and
Speaker 1: then go back to fast food and bounce all over.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting. Should we buy the Red Lobster just
Speaker 1: for the biscuits? Those would buy the Red Lobster band brandley.
Speaker 3: In our cupboard at home right now? We have a
Speaker 3: box of that mix, and why I want to buy
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of I keep bugging my wife you
Speaker 3: to make that one box, but can you make the
Speaker 3: biscuits this weekend?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sorry, those biscuits are to die. We had the
Speaker 1: story on this podcast. You remember a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago Red Lobster they had that all you can eat
Speaker 1: thing with the was it the shrimp, and then they
Speaker 1: were charging too little for it, and so they lost
Speaker 1: a bunch of money on that because if they were
Speaker 1: getting people to eat, but they weren't making any money
Speaker 1: because they were eating all their profits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so shocking that they're going bankrupt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some good, good decisions there. Oh one other thing,
Speaker 1: I saw Carls Junior out here in the West Carls
Speaker 1: Junior testing a new avocado shake and Palm Springs. You know,
Speaker 1: avocados today and tomorrow. If you're in Palm Springs and
Speaker 1: Cali in the desert and you want the avocado shake,
Speaker 1: you can get that. Who doesn't want that? I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm good? All right, Well get out on that Danny's Friday.
Speaker 1: It's National Garlic Day. Celebrate appropriately and what do you
Speaker 1: got going on? Yet? You don't rich today?
Speaker 3: Yep? That makes me want to fire up some garlic
Speaker 3: bread later after I get done on the Friday edition
Speaker 3: of Covino, in which we always have a lot of
Speaker 3: fun on Fridays with hob Nobbin, and we'll do some
Speaker 3: more giveaways for their swiggies, their stainless steel water bottles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those things are really cool. That's a high end item.
Speaker 1: But it's not a cheap item. That's a high end item.
Speaker 1: I might have finagled my way into some of those.
Speaker 1: I might know somebody. Yeah, I guess we got some
Speaker 1: money here. We have a great rest of your Friday.
Speaker 1: We got new podcasts all week and long. That's two
Speaker 1: more days tomorrow on Saturday, and then on Sunday we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you then.
Speaker 3: Asta Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.