WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Sanders, Freddie, Ike & Auzzi 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 --> 0:00:19.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:30.720 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.640 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:41.120 Ben and Danny G Radio and a happy, Happy Saturday 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.479 to you the sixth day of July. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.720 As we are not in the air everywhere. This is 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.839 the Extra Crispy, extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast, even on 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.120 a holiday weekend. And as we like to point out 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.040 when we do these podcasts on the holiday Danny G Radio, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.400 that it is the for us to continue them on 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.280 people actually listening to them. So this is a test. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.440 This is a test of the Emergency Podcast Network, and 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.800 it is only a test, so we'll see, we'll see 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.320 how many downloads we get and what's the next big holiday? 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.480 Today is July. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:24.640 Fourth weekend September second Monday, September second Labor Day. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.160 Okay, so Labor Day. It is. Okay, Labor Day is 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.360 the next big holidays, so well, we have live podcast 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.240 on Labor Day weekend. Inquiry minds would like to know 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:35.919 stay tuned. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.160 You know, last year in twenty twenty three, the numbers 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.040 I remember were good on holidays, so I hope that 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:42.840 trend stays. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.320 Well, we're already deep into it. We're in the deep end. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.240 We have no choice, no return. We're all in on this. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.960 And today is one of those days which should be 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.200 a bigger holiday, but it's not. And I don't know 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.760 why it's not because it's an American thing. It's something 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.080 that we all indulge in, other than those evil vegans 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:09.040 cut that mead. But I don't get it. But it's 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:14.320 national fried chicken day to day Danny O. Yes, greasy, 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:20.000 delicious comfort food. Fried chicken something that I love but 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.600 rarely eat because I feel like the grease kind of 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.880 comes out of your pores right after you eat it. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:33.080 I love fried chicken, Okay. I have two sandwiches, actually 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.200 three sandwiches named after me that are fried chicken sandwiches 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.560 or fried chicken the Chicken Mallow Chicken Tenders in Kansas City, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.480 which is Liberty Missouri, and you can get that on 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.720 the menu there at the at that establishment which is 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:53.240 right near the Chiefs Stadium there in Liberty, Missouri, which 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.560 is which is great. And then we have the sandwich 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.960 in Denver at the sportsbook Bar and grill, a couple 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.080 locations in Denver, I mean in Kansas we have the 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.600 malar Fowler, which is on the menu. All chicken. I'm 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.240 the king of the chicken, Danny, all right, I want 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.639 my chicken. And here's a fun fact about chicken. You 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.240 want a fun factory about chicken. It's an American thing. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.320 It began where they combined the Scottish chicken frying method 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.360 with West African seasoning and they put those two things 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.799 together and it became te da what we have today, 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:37.000 American fried chicken. It was a very expensive delicacy up 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.320 until World War Two kind of figured out they could 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.240 make it ways to make it cheaper and all that, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.080 and American fried chicken is considered better. There are other 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.680 fried chicken around the world, but it Europeans had already 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.920 fried chicken in the Middle Ages, but it was the 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.320 Scottish immigrants in the US. Here we go, that's here 0:03:55.320 --> 0:04:00.400 for the Scots. Racist who brought with them that and 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.440 then they, as I said, they combined it with the 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:09.200 the African slaves of the immigrants. So they put those 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.560 two together and they gave the world what we have today, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.720 Southern fried chicken. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.760 You know what Grandma Mary used to do. She's the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.400 one that always wore a Mumo fry her chicken up. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.919 I'm gonna take these chicken wings to the neck. She 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:32.400 would roll them in corn flakes. Dummy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:37.960 greasy and crunchy and delicious. Well, I've made fried chicken 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.599 at the Malor Mansion a couple of times, and I 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.919 use Painco flour multi coat. Your hands get all dirty, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:53.520 and it's so freaking good. It is so amazing. It 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:59.279 is wonderful. Now, the biggest figure in the spreading of 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:05.040 fry chicken is none other than Harlan Sanders, better known 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.400 as Colonel Sanders. And he's the guy started that in 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:16.160 a gas station, started selling at a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.039 and did not succeed, did not. The famous thing about 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.279 Colonel Sanders, as we've learned over the years doing podcasts 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.880 like this, is that he was an overnight success at 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.080 age sixty five and It wasn't until he started hitting 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:38.279 the road selling his fried chicken, and that was when 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.520 it took off. So he was sixty five years old 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:46.600 and he had sold six hundred different fried chicken franchises 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.920 by the time that year had come around. So anyway, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.760 it's National Fried Chicken Day today. The first known recipe 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.359 for American fried chicken seventeen to seventy four. American style 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.760 Fried Chicken KFC came into the picture in the nineteen 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:10.520 fifties and took off after that. Sixteen percent of Americans 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.560 say they would marry fried chicken. Sixteen percent they would 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.240 like to marry fried chicken. How often do you eat 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.080 fried chicken? You don't need it very often to anything. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.040 It's too heavy for you. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.880 Too heavy once a year for me, once a year, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.960 once a year. As far as actual like bucket chicken, yeah, okay, yeah, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.760 I don't eat bucket chicken. I'll eat like a chicken 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.760 breast fried or something. Yeah, that's a little different, but 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.080 I'm talking KFC bucket. Yeah, that's like a once a 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:36.679 year treat. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.040 Well, they say how often you eat fried chicken? There 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.000 was a national survey done twenty two percent said once 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.320 every couple of weeks. That was the most popular answer. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.280 Six percent said they eat it every day, like chicken 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.480 fingers and stuff like that. Eighteen percent said they rarely 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.720 eat it or once every couple of months. Twenty one 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.960 percent said once a meat once a week. Let's see 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.840 what was your favorite fried chicken topping? The most popular 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.360 topping for free chicken Let's see, I look at you. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.960 I was barbecue sauce. But the actual number one answer 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.480 was no topic. They're purest they're fried chicken purists. They 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.680 do not want anything to mass. They don't want ketchup, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:24.320 hot sauce, honey mustard, honey, butter, ranch, dress and gravy, cheese, garlic, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.720 flavored it whatever. They don't want any of that o. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.240 The grease makes it delicious. You don't want to water 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.960 down the grease. Now, sixty percent of Americans think chicken 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.320 and waffles belong together. Holy Roscoes. Do you see that 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:42.600 Rosco's in Pasadena clothes? Yeah? Yeah, Famous Roscos in Pasadena. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.560 Rosco's Chicken and Waffles is an institution in southern California, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.080 and another one bites the dust. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.080 Too many stuck up people in the Pasadena area who 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.440 think they're better than chicken and waffles. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.240 And it appears so, although if you go up to Altadna, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.520 there's a very very interesting there's a point of demarcation, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.800 a lot of crime. I used to go to the 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.520 gym in Altadena above Pasadena and I have my car 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.960 broken into. There was a lot of crime there and 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.440 that was years ago. You can only imagine it's gotten 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.400 better unless it hasn't. So on this podcast we have 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.280 the Drive and a show, the coffee break, the Hogey 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.560 ho down, international mail of mystery, and whatever else we 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.680 have time for. Might even mix in a bonus fun 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.840 factoid and idiom of the week. We'll see if we 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.080 have time for that. But we begin with this in 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.840 fourth or July weekend, sliding into a Saturday here, but 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:41.040 always good time for a story. This past week followed 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:46.080 the guidance the mandate from corporate at iHeart made my 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.400 trip ind the long winding road to the mothership, the 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.680 Premiere Network's iHeart Building there in Sherman Oaks, where the 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.400 homeless sit outside, the cockroaches are inside, and we do 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:03.439 talk radio. And this week it was a special week. Now, 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:08.240 this being the weekend show, here we go back and 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.720 look at some of the events that took place during 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.880 the week and big holiday weekend. And normally when I 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.439 drive it's rather uneventful. There's not a lot going on. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.160 Just dodging some trucks, that's about it. Driving into the 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.640 Mothership from the north Woods. However, smashing your car, that 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.080 happens too. But this week tires flying. Ever, this week 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.480 providing special entertainment. It's not dinner in a show. It's 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.839 a drive in a show, a traveling pyrotechnic show. And 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.040 I'm not sure if it's like this everywhere. Maybe it is. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.760 I don't live everywhere. Let me know if it's like 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.800 this in the I'd say in the comments, but just 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.840 send me an email. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:50.280 Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. But this week, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.280 the fourth isly week, and now into the weekend, driving 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:59.560 in is majestic. Every couple of miles, driving in from 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.319 the north Woods, from the Malor Mansion to the Oaks, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.559 from the Woods to the Oaks and Shriman Oaks, where 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:12.320 the iHeart building is. I was given a fireworks show. Now, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.839 most of these were neighborhood fireworks shows at the local park. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:21.040 Some of them were illegal fireworks courtesy of Mexico, Tijuana, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.360 or places somewhere further into Mexico. Racist. So I'm making 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.040 my way. I'm driving, and a couple of nights this 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:35.200 past week, I'm driving on the one oh one, which 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:43.800 circumnavigates Hollywood, goes through, you go by the iconic Circle. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.720 Is it the Capitol Records Building? 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:47.079 Is that what it is? 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.240 I believe is what it is. Yeah, drive around that 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.840 and you see some of the neon signs of Hollywood, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.160 and you drive through there. So I'm driving and up 0:10:55.200 --> 0:11:01.160 ahead I witnessed the Mona Lisa of Pyrotech Nicks. I 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.400 was driving on the backside, right near the Barum Boulevard, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:09.880 the backside of the iconic Hollywood Bowl, and I slowed down. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.760 Everyone slowed down. We were all lookie loose. We were 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.679 all rubber necking. It was a rubber necker's paradise. And 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.760 I saw a good five minutes of the Hollywood Bowl 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.760 fireworks show. A couple of nights. Oh yeah, right there, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.240 just driving on on the one on one for you. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.480 So that was that was pretty cool. I didn't realize 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.760 they did it so many nights in a row. I 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.839 didn't realize it either. They did it at least a 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.680 couple of nights because I saw it and they had 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.840 what they usually do is they have the orchestra and 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.640 they have sung and then they have have patriotic songs 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.160 and red, white and blue, this, that and the other, 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.760 and then they have the fireworks going off. And so 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.360 I got to work and then I needed a coffee break, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.280 is what I needed. I needed a coffee break when 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:57.880 I got to work. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:03.000 Well, driving in on Wednesday morning for the Dan Patrick 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.880 fill in, they called it the Dan Slam. For a 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.200 Grand Slam four days, you need coffee at that time 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.079 of the morning. It was four point thirty four forty 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.199 five that I was leaving my hood to drive into 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.559 the Oaks, as you call it. I had a plan. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.679 I'm like, why, I can't afford time. I don't have 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.000 the time to find a Starbucks that opens up at five. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.920 Those are a special breed of Starbucks. As you know, 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.200 not every single Starbucks opens up at the butt crack 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:30.680 of dawn. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:36.959 Unfortunately that ended twenty twenty with COVID. Yeah, you're exactly right, yep. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.800 And so there is one Starbucks near the studios that 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.280 opens at five, crazy packed because the other ones open 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.440 at five thirty or six. I don't have time to 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.760 wait there and get my coffee with all the other 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.120 all the other losers like me that are awake this early. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:59.120 So getting off the exit for Ventura Boulevard. Here for 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.800 our building. There is a gas station right across the 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.680 freeway exit. And it's perfect because instead of turning left 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.880 on a Venturo Boulevard, I just go straight, turn in, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.440 park in front of a pump run in. It's not Starbucks, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.240 but it's not horrible either, so it'll save me time. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.800 Win win situation. Monday, I do this, Tuesday, I do 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.480 this Wednesday. I'm dragging butt a little bit. Oh man, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.560 it is five thirty six am right now. I should 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.480 already be at the pre show meeting with Coveno and Rich, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.720 but I know Coveno's dragging a little bit too, So 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.320 I'm like, I think I can pull this off. Run 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.560 to the doors of this gas station. They don't open. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.120 Almost run into the damn glass. These doors are locked. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.640 It's like a ghost town. Nobody's around. This guy saw 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.480 work in the past two mornings, not there, So I 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.160 have a decision to make. I'm like, should I go 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.400 down the street to the seven elevens. I don't think 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.240 I have time for that. I'm just gonna have to 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.800 go in with no coffee. I'm desperate. At this point, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.120 I'm looking around, knocking on the glass. I look in 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.040 deeper into you know, you could see the back area 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.199 of the gas station where they have some of their 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.880 stacks of pallettes and crap, and I don't see anybody. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.840 But then I look across the street. Right across the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.240 street from the gas station is the guy that's supposed 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.760 to be in there working. He's leaning on a car 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:27.400 talking to a girl. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.640 Oh, man, guy's got game. Come on, man, you guys 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.600 trying to pick up a lady. What's wrong with you? 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.480 Don't need to rupt the guy. Come on, man, he's 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:37.960 trying to get he's trying to have a good time. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.680 Yeah, he's parking lot pimping. It's now five forty am. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.520 Because I'm looking at my phone sweating. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.480 He's offering the worms, says, I can get any kind 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.360 of coffee you on, I get you got a hook 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:48.800 up here. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.240 Any kind of stale croissant inside that you want, baby girl? 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.000 Exactly. Man, that's the carrot on the stick that gets 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.120 the ladies. Okay, it does. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.360 Now I have to make a decision, an executive decision. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.160 Do I holler across the street and get this guy's 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.520 attention or do I just leave this alone and leave. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:08.520 Me? 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.400 I did Yeah, I said. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.840 Yo, And he turns and looks, and he gave me 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.440 the look of death, like, how dare you interrupt me 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.520 talking to this girl right here? 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.160 What? What are you thinking? He's going bava boom and 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.640 you're going bah bah Coffee is where you're going? Ben. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.120 She didn't look like Janet Jackson. She looked more like 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:37.400 Freddie Jackson. I don't think I was interrupting anything too important. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.280 Beggars can't be choosers, Okay, come on, you know not 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.800 that his nationality matters, but I have to share it 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.920 because if I impersonate him or you know, it'll make 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:49.400 more sense. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.040 I want to properly mock him. That's what you want 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.360 to say. Well, and you've seen this for years on 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:58.520 The Simpsons. It was an Indian gentleman, Hapoo who had 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.800 some game. Think of a young Hopoo but with game. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.800 Because he's leaning on this girl's it looked like a 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.760 Lexus and I'm like, man, well she's got money. He 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.200 comes across the street. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.120 He looks very annoyed, and I told him, I said, man, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.040 I got to get to work down the street. I 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.480 just want to get coffee really quick. He takes his keys, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:24.240 reluctantly opens the sliding doors. I go inside and I 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.960 get the coffee and he gets behind the register and 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:31.440 he mumbles something. I said, excuse me, and he wouldn't 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.880 repeat himself. Does he want to fight? 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:34.360 You know? 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.760 At now five I'm looking at my watch now five 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.560 point forty four am. He's making me late because he's 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.200 trying to mac on some girl outside. Obviously he's not 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.120 doing his job. So I finish, you know, getting the 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.840 coffee together. I put the lid on, go to the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.720 cash register, and he tells me just take it, just. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:17:01.040 Take it, just take it. He gave you for free. Yeah. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.080 Now I'm like, okay, well, thank you, Grozzi. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:05.600 Grozzi. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.840 Hey, you can lock the doors and go back to 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.080 your girl out there. And he's like, blah blah blah, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.760 but jump, bastard. It sounded like he said bastard. I'm 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.280 not sure if that's the word he said, but whatever, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.560 I'm in a hurry. I got freak coffee, got in 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.440 my car, got down the street to the studio's Ben 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.920 sat at the pre show table with my bastard coffee. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.320 I mean, thank y'all. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.919 Come again, now, were you concerned it all, Danny, that 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.480 this was a bait and switch situation, that he gave 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.359 you the coffee for free, then called the cops and said, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.560 this asshole stole the coffee and here's what his car 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:46.119 looks like. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.159 And I don't get it. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.520 I don't think he had time to do all that 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.959 with what he was in the middle of. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.560 Oh you have good the beginning, sir. Yeah. Now you 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.200 think he brought the late Jula Lizzo. You think he 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.920 brought her back to the to the stacks of pallettes, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.760 the palette room. Let me let me show you where 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.360 we keep the donuts. Let me show you. They don't 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.400 have a champagne room there. They have a pallette room. Wow, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.200 very very Now, you don't use the coffee machine at work. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.480 They have a horrible, horrible machine. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.320 It looks like expensive, it looks like yeah, it looks 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.679 like it should taste good, and it tastes like crape. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.400 I never see anyone using it, but it's been there 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.200 for a while. No one ever seems to. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.000 It's funny because Covino uses it every day, and every 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.440 day as he's drinking the coffee, he's complaining about how 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:33.000 it tastes. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.280 I'm such a rocking dude. Yeah there, all right, Well 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:42.920 the Hogy ho down, Hogy ho down. Uh, follow up, 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.879 follow up. This past weekend, I visited Ike's Sandwich Shop. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:49.600 You ever been to ike sandwich Shop? 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.520 No, I've driven past one before, so I know what 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.160 you're talking about. The logos like a genie head exactly. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:02.720 So backstory. I had a chance to meet Ike in Vegas. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.960 Yeah, a guy behind He actually looks like that in 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:08.960 the super Bowl in Vegas. When I was there, I 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.840 met Ike and he said hello to me. He was 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.560 a listener in the Bay Area to the Overnight Show. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.119 And you know sometimes people say they listen and you 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.359 know they're lying. But he seemed genuinely excited to beat me, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.280 and he was telling me about his business and stuff. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.199 And this is back in February, and I lived not 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.960 that far away from an Ike's Sandwich Shop, but I 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.560 had not been there, and he wanted me to go, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.040 and he wanted me to try it, and so I 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:46.240 of course waited through March April May and then I 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.280 waited till late chun so I went in four months 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.680 and decided, my, you know, we'll go have hogies. So 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.680 we went to Ike Sandwich Shop and went in. There 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.199 a nice looking restaurant. They have many locations. It's a 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.639 small chain. In fact, I'll tell you more about the 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.879 chain in a minute. But they have sandwiches named after people. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:13.000 There's a Jim Rome sandwich. There's a Damon Bruce sandwich. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:18.960 Damon Bruce longtime Northern California Bay area radio guy. I've 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.640 known him for years. He does his own thing now 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.480 because the company got rid of him, so he does 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.600 his own product now. I ended up actually eating the 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.640 Damon Bruce danny. I had the Damon Bruce. That's house 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:38.960 personal and I love the crunch bread delicious. And he 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.800 also has hogies named after old giants players like Madison Bumgardner, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:48.439 which is I guess only good on holidays Madison Bumgardner, right, 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.879 and then Hunter Pence. Hunter Pence, they had a sandwich 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.800 named after him. Some other giants is are Matt Cain sandwich. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.199 For example, does he have a pussy posy? Not all? 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.640 Maybe he does. I didn't remember that one, so that's 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.159 not at the top of my mind here. So this 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.520 guy was a listener and we took some photos together. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.440 He sent me the photo, so I had his number. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.959 I actually have Ike's number on my phone and so 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.400 I sent him. I sent him a text. I was like, hey, Ike, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:20.760 I'm eating your sandwich, you know, and he, you know, 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:22.960 here we go. And so he was very happy and 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.000 he was asking me, like what location I went to, 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.200 and he told me business is doing very well. He's 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.719 got a hundred locations. He just opened his one hundredth 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.840 location right across from the Giants Ballpark in that area, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:37.920 and they're planning on expanding. I don't know if he 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:39.320 wants me to say this or not, so I don't 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.399 know if I should. But he's very polite, very kind. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:49.320 It seemed genuinely excited and it was great and and 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.840 so I posted on social media. And who knows if 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.120 anything will come of that. Maybe maybe they can add 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:58.000 another sandwich. I don't know, maybe a Ben Maller sandwich. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.520 I'm just saying, Danny, you know, if Ike's listening to 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.879 this at all, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.119 would I would give my name, and I would bet 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.359 you that my sandwich will sell more than Jim Roman. 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.200 Dame Bruce that the Malor sandwich would be a bigger 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:16.000 sandwich and a better sandwich and would dominate the sandwich game. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.040 It should be called the moneyball Mallar like nothing green 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.040 will be in it. We don't want anything green. Green 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.280 is the side, like a pesto bread, a green pesto bread. 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:27.879 I do like the moneyball mallo though. That could be 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.280 a good name for a sandwich, or just the Mallor 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.639 because everyone will just mispronounce it, say the mauler. 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.879 If it is the moneyball Mallor, it should be the 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.679 most expensive sandwich on the menu. No, I'm looking for 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.399 I'm looking to sell product here. Okay, not the miser Mallard, 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.159 the moneyball mal dare you? 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:52.760 But that was the the hogi hodown hogy Hoda always 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.080 always cool when you try something, and I actually did 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.480 like the sandwich. I will be back there, and every 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.240 time I go, I will make sure to send Ike 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.440 a message to remind Ike, Hey, I'm eating your sandwich. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.920 I'm having I'm having a I'm having a sandwich snacks. 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:12.840 The International Mail of Mystery, so on this show we 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:18.880 do a mail bag wonderful, glorious mail bag on Sunday. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.800