Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts.
Speaker 3: Right now in the air, evering ware The Fifth Hour
Speaker 3: with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: He will return to this podcast on Saturday, but you're
Speaker 1: stuck with me alone today. Hopefully had a great week.
Speaker 1: We were very successful with the radio show. But this podcast,
Speaker 1: the Friday Podcast. We'll get to the meat of the
Speaker 1: matter here in a minute. It is all about the
Speaker 1: TV show. As again, this is a companion podcast. But
Speaker 1: today is the twentieth day of September. Very important day
Speaker 1: as today is National fried Rice Day. You probably didn't
Speaker 1: think there was a day dedicated to fried rice, but
Speaker 1: it is. This is a big holiday. Who doesn't like
Speaker 1: fried rice? I've never met anyone that doesn't like fred rice.
Speaker 1: Fried Rice goes all the way back to like five
Speaker 1: eighty nine, a d Chinese culture came up with fried rice,
Speaker 1: but it really wasn't until Benny Hanna came around in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties that the modern Western world of America
Speaker 1: fried rice took off. So it's it's one of those
Speaker 1: made up holidays. But it's also National Concussion Day. Now,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid playing football and you had
Speaker 1: a concussion, they said you had a headache. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: you got a headache, you know, put some rip, some
Speaker 1: dirt on it, that kind of thing. So you've got that.
Speaker 1: Also National string Cheese Day. Now. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: I don't know how old you are and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But in my world when I was a kid, the
Speaker 1: guys at lunch that had the string cheese were cool
Speaker 1: and I very rarely got access to that. It was
Speaker 1: like contraband. And there were two things I remember on
Speaker 1: the elementary school lunch circuit. String cheese, and then they
Speaker 1: had these little crackers that were like orange crackers with
Speaker 1: peanut butter, and those were big, Like he had those,
Speaker 1: you were next level. Also, chocolate milk, not just regular milk,
Speaker 1: chocolate milk. My lunch is when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: were a lot of tuna fish sandwich. I had peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly. Now the tuna fish sandwich is related
Speaker 1: to me not liking seafood. I ate so much. To
Speaker 1: my mom loved tunafish sandwiches up Turkey and tunafish sandwiches.
Speaker 1: But she's, oh, yeah, it's healthy, it's fish. God only
Speaker 1: knows what kind of iron and other crap was in
Speaker 1: that fish, but in the tune it back in those days,
Speaker 1: but eating them, the sandwiches growing up, and you know,
Speaker 1: I had this little crappy metal lunch box. We had
Speaker 1: like one little thing of ice. But it did not last.
Speaker 1: The amount of time I showed up at school like
Speaker 1: eight in the morning, lunch was like twelve thirty And somehow,
Speaker 1: in the span of those four four and a half hours,
Speaker 1: the tuna fish sandwich during the warm parts of the
Speaker 1: school year would turn to a kind of warm, mushy,
Speaker 1: disgusting thing, and I ate it for a while, but
Speaker 1: it was like, I'm at the point now, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I eat seafood once a year. I will have beer
Speaker 1: battered fish sticks and fries once a year. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't even go once a year. Sometimes I go two
Speaker 1: years without eating the fish. So there is that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it's National string Cheese Day. Celebrate appropriately. I think we
Speaker 1: know what to do to celebrate National string Cheese. I
Speaker 1: just eat some cheese. I just eat go out, eat
Speaker 1: some cheese. Knock yourself out. Now on today's podcast, we've
Speaker 1: got calm Waters, propter rapt keys please, and a Banksy ripoff.
Speaker 1: A Banksy ripoff. We'll get to that as well, and
Speaker 1: we also we have time, we'll get to some foodie
Speaker 1: fun and I also have a phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: But let's start with this. It is now week three
Speaker 1: of the NFL season, and another episode of the TV
Speaker 1: show will be up today. Depending on where you live
Speaker 1: and how you access the show, it might already be
Speaker 1: available by the time you hear this podcast. We put
Speaker 1: this podcast up in the morning hours on the West Coast,
Speaker 1: but it's likely midday on the East Coast by the
Speaker 1: time this podcast gets up here on Friday, because I
Speaker 1: did the overnight show last night, and hopefully you heard that,
Speaker 1: or you'll go back and hear the podcast. And then
Speaker 1: then I just kind of hang out for a few hours,
Speaker 1: have some downtime, and take care of some stuff, some
Speaker 1: notes in the studio, and then eventually go back into
Speaker 1: the studio and here we are Abracadabra hocus Pocus, the
Speaker 1: fifth hour Friday Podcast. As Mike Tomlin would say, you
Speaker 1: probably don't want to know how we make the hot Talks,
Speaker 1: but the comm waters let's start with that. So this
Speaker 1: week no real hiccups. Mentioned last week on this podcast
Speaker 1: the after Show. I guess this case it would be
Speaker 1: the before show podcast. I said last week the after Show,
Speaker 1: But this podcast goes up before the show The Betty
Speaker 1: Versus the Petty Show starts running. So it's a different
Speaker 1: kind of subgenre. But we do break down every episode
Speaker 1: and we have an exclusive behind the scenes peak at
Speaker 1: what's going on with the making of the TV show
Speaker 1: shaking up the Idiot Box the boob Tube television. So
Speaker 1: it's week three of the NFL as mentioned, and the
Speaker 1: way we start getting the show ready now it's pretty
Speaker 1: much every day there's something for the show leading into
Speaker 1: the recording of the show. Now the game's always played,
Speaker 1: most of them on Sunday, and then there's a Monday
Speaker 1: night game and just kind of let you behind the
Speaker 1: scenes here and show you what I'm doing to get
Speaker 1: ready for the following week. By the way, all of
Speaker 1: this work has not exactly paid off yet. All of
Speaker 1: this work has not paid off, just so we reach
Speaker 1: an understanding here. Despite the amount of time that goes
Speaker 1: into this, yet still some issues with the picks and
Speaker 1: so you'll hear about that on the TV show today.
Speaker 1: The good news is the Penny is also writing the
Speaker 1: Vomit comet. So Sunday you're actually watching the games. I'll
Speaker 1: be at a game this weekend. I'll beat the RAM
Speaker 1: forty nine er game, so I'll be hanging out there,
Speaker 1: but I'll be watching in the press box. I'll be
Speaker 1: watching some other West Coast games, and I'll get there
Speaker 1: early and watch the East Coast game. So I'll be
Speaker 1: busy and not that it matters, but I'll be busy
Speaker 1: and so watching all the games. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So the way the preparation goes, they have the look aheadline,
Speaker 1: which is a big tool that if you're not using
Speaker 1: in your own handicapping, you should be using. Like if
Speaker 1: you're kind of new at this and you're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, is that I don't have no idea. It's
Speaker 1: really a simple concept. So the sports books, they already
Speaker 1: have the numbers out for week four, it's called the
Speaker 1: look aheadline, and the way it works the there's certain
Speaker 1: websites you can find it on the internet, but for example,
Speaker 1: not this week, but next week. The week kicks off
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys and the Giants. That's the Thursday game.
Speaker 1: So you can look up the point spread as of
Speaker 1: before Week three and all the other matchups. For example,
Speaker 1: in week four, the primetime game on Sunday Night is
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Baltimore. You also have two Monday night games
Speaker 1: in Week four Titans and Dolphins, Lions and Seahawks. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be another busy, busy week in the mL.
Speaker 1: But there are lines out on all these games, and
Speaker 1: so what you look for is some kind of overreaction.
Speaker 1: You look at the lines, you file them away, and
Speaker 1: then we play the games on Sunday and Monday, and
Speaker 1: then they update the lines. So you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and you're like, you just look for abnormalities, is
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. You're like, for example, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of something that would stand out here in
Speaker 1: Week three, there is one that really stands out, the
Speaker 1: Saints Eagles game. The Eagles on the look aheadline were
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorites on the road in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and then they went out and they had
Speaker 1: a clunker lost late against the team from Atlanta with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, so they adjusted the line. Plus the Saints
Speaker 1: kicked the snot out of the Dallas Cowboys, so the
Speaker 1: look aheadline was Philly minus two and a half. But
Speaker 1: they have adjusted the line five points. As of this
Speaker 1: recording of the Fifth Hour podcast, the updated line I
Speaker 1: have is New Orleans favored by two and a half
Speaker 1: at home. So that is a major line shift of
Speaker 1: five points. Like a lot of these games will move
Speaker 1: half a point or a point, but to move that,
Speaker 1: that's a rather drastic, rather drastic turn of events. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing else on the board this weekend that is
Speaker 1: that dramatic. We've had some one point moves. We've had
Speaker 1: some other games like the Lions was a two point move.
Speaker 1: The Lions got beat by Tampa Bay at home. They
Speaker 1: can't stop the passing game. They have a very weird
Speaker 1: defense because Aiden Hutchinson is an absolute monster up front,
Speaker 1: and yet the secondary for the Lions has been absolutely gouged.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on today's episode of Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny and so the Cardinals, who don't have a
Speaker 1: particularly great team, but they can move the ball through
Speaker 1: the air with Marvin Harrison Junior the stud wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So that game moved a couple of points. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't see any anything major. I did see a
Speaker 1: look ahead line where the Raiders were going to be
Speaker 1: favored by a fair amount over the Panthers. That line
Speaker 1: opened at four and a half, but that was after
Speaker 1: the news that came down that they were changing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Is they didn't have a quarterback. They were the headless
Speaker 1: Panthers of Carolina. So those are some of the things
Speaker 1: we look for. The way it works during the week,
Speaker 1: usually Sunday night, I kind of go over the matchup
Speaker 1: card for the following week, and I don't write in
Speaker 1: pen I pencil in what I like, and generally I'm
Speaker 1: always with the underdogs. But then I'm looking to where
Speaker 1: the value is the projected value with the teams that
Speaker 1: are favored, Like I'm missing something, is this something that
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing? And then in addition to that, you're
Speaker 1: monitoring where the money is coming in on you're monitoring
Speaker 1: the public money, which is the tickets that are bet
Speaker 1: the volume. And then you're looking at the amount of money,
Speaker 1: which is often referred to as the sharp money because
Speaker 1: the money is the sharp thing, and you're looking for
Speaker 1: abnormalities in that where the wise guys are on one
Speaker 1: team and the public is on another. And one of
Speaker 1: those examples would be this weekend, the Bears and the Colts.
Speaker 1: So the wise guys it's pretty even, but there's a
Speaker 1: slight edge with the Sharps taking the Chicago Bears, and
Speaker 1: the Bears are a one point dog at Indianapolis. The public, though,
Speaker 1: it's over sixty percent in favor of the Colts, so
Speaker 1: the public is in favor of Indianapolis, who cannot stop
Speaker 1: cannot stop the run at all, and Anthony Richardson is
Speaker 1: struggling to complete He's under fifty percent of his passes
Speaker 1: at this particular point. Anything else where, it's really obvious
Speaker 1: a lot of the games the public and the wise
Speaker 1: gamblers agree, so there's not a lot of those. Usually
Speaker 1: there's a couple a week. Then you also look for
Speaker 1: the lopsided game where it's just completely upsided. For example,
Speaker 1: the game that is totally out of sorts this weekend
Speaker 1: is not until Monday, and there's two games on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: but the Commanders and the Bengals on that Monday Night game,
Speaker 1: Monday Night card. Here in week three, the Bengals coming
Speaker 1: off a close loss against Kansas City, and you look
Speaker 1: at that as a ninety over ninety percent the information
Speaker 1: that we have here, over ninety percent of the sharp
Speaker 1: money and then the tickets is in favor of the
Speaker 1: Bengals at seven and a half, that's a big number.
Speaker 1: Washington is a terrible football team, but they can move
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit. The problem is they have
Speaker 1: very long, time consuming drives and is that a letdown
Speaker 1: spot for the Bengals. And a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: we're going to cover on Benny Versus depending. We don't
Speaker 1: get to every game. It's only a half hour TV show.
Speaker 1: It's only a half hour TV show, so we can't
Speaker 1: get to everything. But that's how it works. And so
Speaker 1: I look at all that stuff, and then Tuesday is
Speaker 1: really a day where I spend a lot of my
Speaker 1: time looking at trends and angles. Then Wednesday the injury report.
Speaker 1: First injury report comes out, but you're also monitoring the
Speaker 1: reports from the different news sites, the reporters who are
Speaker 1: reporting on guys missing practice or guys that are dinged
Speaker 1: up that are not expected to play because a lot
Speaker 1: of coaches news conferences are Monday, and then you know,
Speaker 1: Tuesday usually a day off, Monday, Tuesday, whatever one of
Speaker 1: those days is off, and so for the players. But
Speaker 1: usually Wednesday the injury report comes out and you kind
Speaker 1: of look at that, and then Wednesday is the day
Speaker 1: that the show is put together with Viny the producer
Speaker 1: in Boston, and John and the guys, and so I
Speaker 1: spend a good amount of the morning after the show.
Speaker 1: I put everything together and mostly email correspondence these days
Speaker 1: and text messaging and things like that, and so we'll
Speaker 1: I'll send over everything that I have, I'll send over
Speaker 1: my picks, and then I don't know what the penny's picking.
Speaker 1: I go into it blind and then we find out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we do the show on Thursday and we find out
Speaker 1: what's going on. So we had a relatively calm week,
Speaker 1: calm waters on the show, which was good and it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It was a flipping good time. We had
Speaker 1: Tom Looney. There were a couple of incidents with the prompter.
Speaker 1: We call Looney the prompter rompter cause Looney kind of
Speaker 1: like Resident Trump from back in the day where you
Speaker 1: heard stories where President Trump would be when he was
Speaker 1: doing speeches, he would have everything written out in the
Speaker 1: prompter and then just let it rip right, just improv
Speaker 1: and add the stuff. And Looney does the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like Looney will do the same same deal, or like
Speaker 1: he has copy written for him, but then he'll add on.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll try to touch up his own work.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. I would
Speaker 1: say the person that has it the most difficult is
Speaker 1: the guy at NBC Sports Boston who has to keep
Speaker 1: the prompter going and know when to pose it because
Speaker 1: of cause of Looney. Yeah, that's not an easy job.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a prompter on my side.
Speaker 1: I am ownnatural, which is a lot of memory, trying
Speaker 1: to remember everything, and I often forget a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that I wanted to get on the show.
Speaker 1: And you know that going it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: radio show, and most of the stuff that you prepared
Speaker 1: doesn't actually ever make the show, whether it's radio or TV,
Speaker 1: especially the TV show, because it's only half an hour
Speaker 1: and we have to move. We have to keep the
Speaker 1: show moving, the train must keep moving and all that
Speaker 1: and so that's part of the deal as well. But
Speaker 1: Looney is the prompter rapter, and it reminds me of
Speaker 1: absolutely not going to compare it to this, but one
Speaker 1: of the great stories I ever heard about someone who
Speaker 1: just ad libbed it and Looney does not add libit,
Speaker 1: but had a speech was Martin Luther King. One of
Speaker 1: the great speeches in American history, the I have a
Speaker 1: Dream speech, which I think most of that now has tried.
Speaker 1: The new wave is to try to debunk all of
Speaker 1: those things that Martin Luther King had said. Right, we're
Speaker 1: in a period of time. That's a third rile on mine,
Speaker 1: that's a third riyal, what are you doing? But it
Speaker 1: seems like a lot of stuff that's been going on
Speaker 1: in the last couple years kind of goes against that speech.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he gave the speech in Washington, DC, and
Speaker 1: famous speech, you know, I have a dream and all
Speaker 1: that and legendary, and supposedly he did not he had
Speaker 1: the speech copied, but he just he had lived it.
Speaker 1: And then the famous story was he was walking off
Speaker 1: the stage and he gave the I have a Dream
Speaker 1: speech to this young guy who was working security at
Speaker 1: this big event in Washington, d C. And it was
Speaker 1: somebody that turned out to be a college basketball player
Speaker 1: and a coach, and George Raveling was the guy's name,
Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, he was a coach
Speaker 1: and had successful career in basketball, and he happened to
Speaker 1: have a copy. Last I checked, I haven't heard anything new.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he sold it. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if he's still around. He was old years ago.
Speaker 1: But George Rattling, I think he's still around. Last I heard,
Speaker 1: he was still around. But he had a copy of that.
Speaker 1: But Martin Luther King did not actually use the speech,
Speaker 1: like just he just let it rip and gave it
Speaker 1: to the security guys here. I don't need that. So
Speaker 1: that's the way that went. I mentioned Calm Waters on
Speaker 1: the TV show. There was one incident that took place
Speaker 1: post TV show where we had keys please, and so
Speaker 1: we're packing up our stuff. We have that moment where
Speaker 1: you feel like, man, this is really cool. Another show,
Speaker 1: The Baby's to Bed. We finished the show. Now it's
Speaker 1: the time for them to edit it and they've got
Speaker 1: to put it together and send it out on satellites
Speaker 1: or whatever they use to send the show out. Probably
Speaker 1: all internet base now, so like, oh man, this is awesome,
Speaker 1: right the show, the show is done, our work for
Speaker 1: the week is done. I'm then like okay. So then
Speaker 1: I'm processing everything. I'm like okay. So I got a
Speaker 1: long drive in traffic, rush hour traffic to get back
Speaker 1: to the Malor mansion. I've been up for a very
Speaker 1: long time, so I have to sleep. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get maybe three hours of sleep if I'm lucky. And
Speaker 1: then I got to get up because I got to
Speaker 1: get some stuff done for the radio show. And then
Speaker 1: I got to watch the game Thursday night NFL game
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I got to try to probably
Speaker 1: eat something somewhere in there too, So I got all that.
Speaker 1: But on our way out when I'm I'm not taking
Speaker 1: off my church my temple clothes, but I'm on our
Speaker 1: way out. What we did is, you know, we say
Speaker 1: goodbye to everybody and all that. We have a little
Speaker 1: post me and Looney have We have the table read
Speaker 1: before the show, and then we have a post show
Speaker 1: kind of wrap up. We bull show each other and
Speaker 1: talk about what we liked or we didn't like, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So you know, we're doing that, and
Speaker 1: then we're getting ready to leave the studio there at
Speaker 1: Universal Studios and to go to the park. I think
Speaker 1: it's the appen in Costello Parking Lot. I believe, heyway whatever.
Speaker 1: So we're getting ready to walk out of there, and
Speaker 1: Looney's in a tizzy and he's like, keys place, he
Speaker 1: can't find his keys? So how do you lose your key?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing? So he's scrambling around,
Speaker 1: he's running around like a banshee, trying to find find
Speaker 1: his keys, like the Tasmanian devil. And eventually he retraced
Speaker 1: the steps and he did find the keys. And as
Speaker 1: always we always like to say, the keys in the
Speaker 1: last place he looked, the keys in the last place
Speaker 1: he looks, because they're always in the last place you look.
Speaker 1: Because he stopped looking after that, right all right now,
Speaker 1: the horror Man's or the blind Man's Banksy when you
Speaker 1: watch today's episode of the TV show, and even our
Speaker 1: blind listeners will be able to see this, So blind
Speaker 1: Emmied blind Scott in Boston, all you guys, you'll be
Speaker 1: able to see this. So the shirt that Looney wore,
Speaker 1: he had a different shirt that he was gonna wear,
Speaker 1: but it didn't show up on the camera because we're
Speaker 1: really shot from the waist up, and not even the
Speaker 1: waist up, it's really like the middle of our chest up.
Speaker 1: That's all you see on camera. So Looney, he brought
Speaker 1: the shirt and he didn't like it because it didn't
Speaker 1: show enough of the shirt on camera. So he had
Speaker 1: a backup shirt. But the backup shirt looked like it
Speaker 1: was a rip off Banksy shirt, like street art, like
Speaker 1: somebody had taken a can of spray paint and sprayed
Speaker 1: Looney shirt with like different random colors. It was very bizarre,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you got to see it to believe it,
Speaker 1: but trust me, it's like it's like a white shirt,
Speaker 1: but it looks and I don't know if it will
Speaker 1: show up on camera like this, but seeing Looney on
Speaker 1: a table read and then seeing him, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: on camera on my end in the in the box
Speaker 1: that they have the feed, it was like, dude, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? I mean, my good now I'm starving
Speaker 1: this week. I am the man in black. I am
Speaker 1: the man in black this week at least shirt wise.
Speaker 1: So there is that. So again, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1: You guys have been great. I really means the world
Speaker 1: to me. That you guys who have and you know
Speaker 1: who you are listening to this podcast and you've you've
Speaker 1: gone out of your way. I've gotten emails from people saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I didn't have Peacock. You know, it wasn't one of
Speaker 1: the streaming services I have. I have it now because
Speaker 1: of the show. And that means a lot to me,
Speaker 1: because I mean, that's awesome. So I mean you're spending money,
Speaker 1: which you don't probably have a lot of, right, so
Speaker 1: I thank you. Nobody has enough money unless you're like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk or something. So and I'm pretty sure he's
Speaker 1: not a fan. Pretty sure he's not a fan. So anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you, and we'll see how it goes today and
Speaker 1: again it's all over the NBC regional cable networks. Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny. It's Week three, episode four of our
Speaker 1: TV show picking every game against the spread, and on Peacock.
Speaker 1: We're on the peacock. I was attracted to the giant
Speaker 1: metal cock. It's one of those birds going little foody
Speaker 1: fun for you, foody fun. Let's do it by request.
Speaker 1: We haven't done this in a couple of weeks. Some
Speaker 1: food items. I'll give you a few of them are
Speaker 1: not going to give you all these taco bell The
Speaker 1: big cheese It is back and exciting news. This actually
Speaker 1: starts today. It's September twenty, so it starts today. You
Speaker 1: can buy it a la carte for one dollar, one dollar,
Speaker 1: one dollar. Yes, now what is this? It is a
Speaker 1: supersized cracker sixteen times the normal cheese it size and
Speaker 1: it is back. There you go, So a gigantic, enormous
Speaker 1: cheese it on steroids can be yours, can be yours
Speaker 1: solo one dollar, and they say that you can make
Speaker 1: your own cheesy inventions with the item. So there is that.
Speaker 1: McDonald's debuting new breakfast wraps for our friends in Canada.
Speaker 1: Oh coda. And the reason we bring this up for
Speaker 1: obvious an obvious reason is these items, if they sell
Speaker 1: well in Canada, will be coming to a mickey D's
Speaker 1: near you. They have new items. The sausage, bacon and
Speaker 1: egg breakfast rap, the chicken breast wrap, the spicy egg
Speaker 1: and hash brown breakfast rap can also be yours at
Speaker 1: mickey D's in Canada. So those three items, knew the man.
Speaker 1: And what else stood out? I'm trying to see anything
Speaker 1: that really pops here there's a lot of Halloween items
Speaker 1: themed stuff that's popped up here, a lot of pumpkin
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice stuff. It's who's buying. Is it mostly like
Speaker 1: chicks that are bout? Like women? Are men into the
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice stuff? I don't know. I know Krispy Kreme
Speaker 1: is bringing back pumpkin spice original glazed donuts that is
Speaker 1: this weekend, by the way, today through Sunday. So if
Speaker 1: you're into that, you better get to your favorite restaurant there,
Speaker 1: your favorite location and shout down it looks all right.
Speaker 1: Not not really leaving my seat to go there. Burger
Speaker 1: King they're still around. They are launching a week of
Speaker 1: freebies and deals, a bunch of perks returning available for
Speaker 1: Royal Perk members on the bk app. Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: part of that, so that I'm out on that. They
Speaker 1: also had a Adams Family menu that includes includes a
Speaker 1: bright purple burger. Yeah, you can get a bright purple burger.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. Now you can look at
Speaker 1: it that way, or you can say that's how the
Speaker 1: burgers actually look before they docted them up. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can go there as well. Domino's adding macaroni and cheese
Speaker 1: bowls Hello to the menu for the first time. That's
Speaker 1: a big step at Dominoes. Big step Arby's, I know
Speaker 1: Danny g loves Arby's. Arby's has launched a new tailgate
Speaker 1: meal with new tailgate turnover for football season. That's a
Speaker 1: limited time item at Rby's. Way to go. All right,
Speaker 1: So that's enough for the Foodie Fund and so stop
Speaker 1: your complaining. Time now for the phrase of the week,
Speaker 1: and to phrase the week. On this Friday, the twentieth
Speaker 1: of September is Luck of the Irish. Now it's say
Speaker 1: college football weekend and tomorrow, tomorrow, I will be watching
Speaker 1: college football. Now I am accused by some of not
Speaker 1: being into the college football game because we don't talk
Speaker 1: about it much on the radio show. But that's because
Speaker 1: of when we're on. That's because of when we're on.
Speaker 1: So I do watch a fair amount on Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and I really skim the games. I skim the games. Now.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame will be playing tomorrow at three point thirty
Speaker 1: eastern on and B see. They will be taking on Miami,
Speaker 1: but not that Miami, Miami of Ohio, which I think
Speaker 1: is where Ben Roethlisberger went, if I remember anyway, Notre
Speaker 1: Dame is a twenty eight point favorite in that game.
Speaker 1: They open at twenty six, twenty eight point favorite, which
Speaker 1: is rather shocking now, I considering that they lost to
Speaker 1: a school that they normally Northern Illinois, that you just
Speaker 1: assumed they would win by a gazillion. So would you
Speaker 1: take Notre Dame and the points or would you go
Speaker 1: the other direction? I'm looking at the money here. The
Speaker 1: public is loading up on Notre Dame. The wise guys,
Speaker 1: it's a little more even a little more even on
Speaker 1: that if you look at the gambling numbers, and also
Speaker 1: the other game I want to keep an eye on,
Speaker 1: which is I think at the same time UCLA and LSU,
Speaker 1: just because UCLA will likely lose this game by four
Speaker 1: or five touchdowns, and then Brian Finley numbnuts has to
Speaker 1: do the postgame talk show and say it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: So I look forward to that. Now, as far as
Speaker 1: the Notre Dame things concerned, that ties into the phrames
Speaker 1: of the week, which is luck of the Irish. Now
Speaker 1: is the phrase luck of the Irish about Notre Dame? No, No,
Speaker 1: it is not. Does it originate in Ireland. Well not really,
Speaker 1: not really, does it come from sports? No, what if
Speaker 1: I told you that it comes from gambling, that luck
Speaker 1: of the Irish comes from gambling. But it was also
Speaker 1: a derogatory term that was used in the early days.
Speaker 1: I say early days for me, it's the early days
Speaker 1: of America, nineteenth century mining, going down the Oregon Trail
Speaker 1: heading to the West. The phrase is believed to have
Speaker 1: originated during the American gold Rush, the runout to California,
Speaker 1: where things like Denhim Jeans and the one Armed bandit
Speaker 1: the slot machine were invented because of the gold rush.
Speaker 1: But the American gold Rush, many of the most successful
Speaker 1: miners were Irishmen or Irish Americans that had found their
Speaker 1: wealth and they just knew where to look for gold,
Speaker 1: and they found a lot of it. And the phrase
Speaker 1: was used to describe the miners' success as being due
Speaker 1: to a lack of skill. But and it didn't work hard, No, No,
Speaker 1: they just had the luck of the Irish. Right, there
Speaker 1: was the luck of the Irish, and the implication rather obvious,
Speaker 1: even for those of you in the back of the room,
Speaker 1: that the Irish were only able to succeed through luck.
Speaker 1: Now there is a tie in if you go all
Speaker 1: the way back to like Celtic mythology, the tie into
Speaker 1: the Leprechaun, the Irish leprechaun, the small green man who
Speaker 1: lives in Boston and is known as Lucky little Leprechaun
Speaker 1: and calls our radio show and would supposedly guard a
Speaker 1: pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And
Speaker 1: so the leprechaun is considered lucky. But the phrase luck
Speaker 1: of the Irish goes back again to the gold rush.
Speaker 1: That is the phrase of the week, and that'll put
Speaker 1: the end of this podcast. Remember Benny versus the Penny
Speaker 1: all day to day. It's every other hour somewhere it's wild.
Speaker 1: It's wild and crazy on in LA on Saturday, New York, Boston, Philly,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, many other stations. I don't even know where
Speaker 1: it's airing. I don't have all the affiliates. And also
Speaker 1: we do know nationally streaming on Peacock. Help us out, please,
Speaker 1: we need all the help. Every You might think, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, I don't Matt, trust me your matter And
Speaker 1: if you can convince people in your no one lives alone,
Speaker 1: no one's a hermit, right, you have people that you're
Speaker 1: around at some point, relatives, co workers, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: And if you can encourage them to watch The show Man,
Speaker 1: that would be cool. May and that would be awesome
Speaker 1: and on the on peacock or cable, and that would
Speaker 1: help us out. Anyway, I have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your Friday. Don't forget Danny g should be back with
Speaker 1: me on Saturday, and then on Sunday he'll be with
Speaker 1: me again. He's scheduled to be with me for the
Speaker 1: mail bag. So we'll talk to you next time. And
Speaker 1: as Danny would say, later, skater asta pasta. Did I
Speaker 1: do it right? I gotta murder. I gotta go