Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's a clearing house of hot takes. Break free for
Speaker 2: something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 3: Maller and Danny g Radio hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: On a Friday morning.
Speaker 3: Here we are together again because the overnight show not
Speaker 3: and off as we are in the air everywhere. This
Speaker 3: podcast heard every Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the entire
Speaker 3: bleeping year. That's right. I could have said the bad word.
Speaker 3: I want to try to avoid that. I'm in the
Speaker 3: podcast studio, I'm on a hot microphone. But the difference,
Speaker 3: of course we're not doing it a lot, so I
Speaker 3: could bleep the stuff out.
Speaker 1: But it's a bad habit.
Speaker 3: I've determined over the many years we've done the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour podcast that when I end up cursing on the podcast,
Speaker 3: I end up cursing on the radio show, and I
Speaker 3: almost actually cursed a couple of times in recent days.
Speaker 3: Was the word is delirious. The word is delirious, sleep deprived, delirious.
Speaker 3: These are first world problems to have, and I was
Speaker 3: able to avoid actually cursing up, but I came close
Speaker 3: enough where you knew what I was going to say.
Speaker 3: You knew what I was planning on saying with the
Speaker 3: bad word. And if you spend enough time on microphones,
Speaker 3: if you get one of these jobs, you're lucky enough
Speaker 3: to get one of these jobs. We're talking to microphones.
Speaker 3: At some point you're going to be doing so many
Speaker 3: different shows that you don't even know which way is up,
Speaker 3: which way is down. It's bizarro world, bizarre world. But
Speaker 3: today is the sixth day of December, Happy National Miner's Day.
Speaker 1: It's one of the.
Speaker 3: Most difficult and dangerous jobs possible. It takes a special
Speaker 3: breed to be a miner, and it's like the family business.
Speaker 3: I can make some good money doing that, but the
Speaker 3: health problems and just the issue of being underground and
Speaker 3: anything goes wrong, you know, it's lights out, which I
Speaker 3: guess is true. And a lot of jobs, but it's
Speaker 3: just more pronounced if you happen to be a miner,
Speaker 3: and I remember I was a kid, it seemed like
Speaker 3: every couple of months there was a mining catastrophe that
Speaker 3: happened somewhere. People are trying to be rescued out of
Speaker 3: a mine, and as many of those stories in recent years,
Speaker 3: I'm also too big to be a miner. You got
Speaker 3: to be of a certain height because it's not a
Speaker 3: lot of room there, and I think I'm too tall
Speaker 3: for that. It's National Pawnbroker's Day, so congratulations to all
Speaker 3: the pawnbrokers that they used to love. Pond Stars. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's still on. That was a thing
Speaker 3: in Vegas back, you know, years ago. I watched it
Speaker 3: was on for a long time. Is that Rick Harrison
Speaker 3: I think was the guy behind that. Yeah, so honeyway
Speaker 3: it was some of the days holidays. Today, on this Friday,
Speaker 3: as we wrapped up the week. On today's episode of
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour podcast, we've got blue Moon over the
Speaker 3: Malad Militia back lot, Benny, foody fun, and the phrase
Speaker 3: of the week.
Speaker 1: So we'll start with this.
Speaker 3: I had a fun week of shows, had a fun
Speaker 3: week of shows. On the overnight, I had a great
Speaker 3: time this week. It's been a bit of an adjustment
Speaker 3: period over the last couple of weeks since the company
Speaker 3: decided to pull axe Eddie. Eddie got whacked in that
Speaker 3: massive company wide layoff thing that they did. And obviously
Speaker 3: we've done the show together, me and Eddie for many,
Speaker 3: many years. We had Eddie on this podcast. We did
Speaker 3: very well. Eddie's people love Eddie. I love Eddie. We'd
Speaker 3: worked together for so long that we had everything like
Speaker 3: the back of our hand down like I had the
Speaker 3: rhythm of the show, the motion of the ocean, if
Speaker 3: you will here, That's not quite what I mean by that,
Speaker 3: but anyway, we did the show a certain way, and
Speaker 3: obviously things have changed dramatically. Eddie had been my sidekick.
Speaker 3: I didn't talk that much on the show.
Speaker 1: He didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean there were times he would talk more. Sometimes
Speaker 3: Eddie just didn't want to talk. I mean there were
Speaker 3: times Eddie was just busy working on his own podcast
Speaker 3: and wouldn't really.
Speaker 1: Be paying attention.
Speaker 3: But we played off each other and it was somebody
Speaker 3: to play off of for me. And it's much different now.
Speaker 3: Coop doesn't really talk that much. Loraina talks, but I
Speaker 3: love Lorraina, but she's not like a big sports person.
Speaker 3: So pretty much on my own now one man band,
Speaker 3: solo act, and you can call me the jamis Winston
Speaker 3: of the radio.
Speaker 1: And so I've tweaked with some different things. I've fetched
Speaker 1: around trying to get the right rhythm.
Speaker 3: On the show, and I think we found something this
Speaker 3: week that I'm going to play around with more as
Speaker 3: we go forward here to try to find that edge.
Speaker 3: And it does remind me in the early days when
Speaker 3: I did the weekend overnight show. If you were with me,
Speaker 3: I mean you're probably old now if you were listening
Speaker 3: then that was a long time ago. She's twenty over
Speaker 3: twenty years. But when I started out, I was by
Speaker 3: myself and it was just me and the board op.
Speaker 3: We didn't have live updates, and so it's kind of
Speaker 3: what that was in a way, and I have to
Speaker 3: kind of get back to that playbook in my head.
Speaker 3: And so I am using the callers a little more
Speaker 3: during the show. Certain callers. It's a double edged sword
Speaker 3: because on one hand, it's exciting to we have some
Speaker 3: new people that have called the show. It's also hit
Speaker 3: and miss. As you know, the consumer of all of this,
Speaker 3: some callers are bad to the bone, and some callers
Speaker 3: are so bad that they actually become good. Like Gunner's terrible.
Speaker 3: God does he suck as a caller, but he's so
Speaker 3: bad he's good from the Walmart in northern Minnesota. And
Speaker 3: then you've got hollering James who just screams and talks
Speaker 3: about how many pills he takes a day, and Tammy
Speaker 3: and Montana and then snores. That's his blueprint to a
Speaker 3: phone call. But there are some that are just so
Speaker 3: terrible they make your ears bleed. And so there's that
Speaker 3: balance there. It's like you don't really know what you're
Speaker 3: gonna get, and it's undependable. We had a really cool call.
Speaker 3: It actually happened just a few hours ago. Recording this
Speaker 3: early on Friday morning, but during the overnight hours the
Speaker 3: Overnight show, Dave. If you were listening to the show
Speaker 3: last night, Dave from the Commonwealth called up.
Speaker 1: I forget what hour it was. I think it was
Speaker 1: our three name it was our three.
Speaker 3: He had spotted former MLB insider Peter Gammons at a
Speaker 3: small liquor store in the Cape or on the Cape,
Speaker 3: as they say, and so he wanted to call and
Speaker 3: tell the story, and of course, you know, we were
Speaker 3: listening to the wonderful tales of a random guy named Dave,
Speaker 3: who was well spoken and said that Gammons was very nice.
Speaker 3: Gamons at one point, if you don't know who Peter
Speaker 3: Gammons is, like Lorraina. Peter Gammons like the man if
Speaker 3: you're of a certain age. He was the original insider
Speaker 3: guy for baseball. You got all your dirt from Peter Gammons,
Speaker 3: all your rumors from Peter Gammons. And now that's everywhere,
Speaker 3: but Peter was the beginning of that. He was the
Speaker 3: forefather of what became the baseball information gurus, which are everywhere.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so Gammons is old. Now he's semi retired.
Speaker 3: I guess he pops up on MLB network. I've been
Speaker 3: told some somewhat regularly, but he's he's not working.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So Dave regaled us with Gammons being at the
Speaker 3: liquor store, the small little liquor store on the Cape
Speaker 3: when he was there, and he wanted us to guess
Speaker 3: what alcohol Gammons was buying at the little liquor store,
Speaker 3: And so we all guessed, and Larana didn't know who
Speaker 3: Gammons was and all that. And it turned out that
Speaker 3: according to Dave, and we have no reason to believe
Speaker 3: or not believe Dave. He just said this, so we
Speaker 3: want to believe him that it was a case of
Speaker 3: blue moon. The game is very polite ordered the blue moon.
Speaker 3: So it was a blue moon over the Mallard militia.
Speaker 3: I love the call. I love the call. We need
Speaker 3: more of that. And I was thinking as I was
Speaker 3: getting ready for this podcast, I was kind of walking
Speaker 3: into the studio, walking around a little bit here in
Speaker 3: the studio, the podcast studio for the fifth hour, and
Speaker 3: I was like.
Speaker 1: Listen, this is what we need.
Speaker 3: That is the lifeblood of what this show should be.
Speaker 3: We got away from it for a while. I'd like
Speaker 3: to get back to that. The essence of what we
Speaker 3: have been in previous eras on this show, boots on
Speaker 3: the ground, boots on the ground. And I have said
Speaker 3: for years, and I know for a fact I've met
Speaker 3: many of the major insiders in all the sports world
Speaker 3: that I'm I'm not ragging. I've known them over the
Speaker 3: years because the website. That it mostly because of the website.
Speaker 3: Even Peter Gammons was a fan of my website, which
Speaker 3: is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: A lot of the dirt, it's a dirty little secret,
Speaker 3: does not come from executives or it doesn't come from agents.
Speaker 3: Now some of it does, but much of the stuff
Speaker 3: that blows you away comes from people that work at hotels,
Speaker 3: that are valets at hotels, people that end up working
Speaker 3: jobs like you know, driving used to be taxi cabs
Speaker 3: or limos still limos, but the ubers and bartenders and
Speaker 3: we had a good network at one point in the
Speaker 3: early days of dudes that were would give us some
Speaker 3: some intel and let me know what was going on.
Speaker 3: I had my website, I had people emailing me.
Speaker 1: We had.
Speaker 3: It was insane how many different sources I had that
Speaker 3: were just regular people but new stuff because they were
Speaker 3: living their life and work at a barbershop and some
Speaker 3: quarterback comes in the barber shop and starts telling you stories.
Speaker 1: You pass it on.
Speaker 3: I remember we had a paparazzi guy in the early
Speaker 3: days from LA and this actually goes back to local
Speaker 3: radio and.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bulls were the big star team.
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and the Bulls would come to
Speaker 3: LA twice a year to play the Clippers and the Lakers,
Speaker 3: and then occasionally they did play in the finals in
Speaker 3: that period of time, Lakers and Bulls. But the buddy
Speaker 3: a front of the show is a paparazzi guy, and
Speaker 3: he would give us updates about the Bulls players going
Speaker 3: out in the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. And Scottie Pippen
Speaker 3: was always every time they'd come to La. They had
Speaker 3: a reputation no tipping, pipping. It was like, well Pippen
Speaker 3: was at so and so the whiskey of Go Go
Speaker 3: or whatever it was and didn't hip, and.
Speaker 1: We'd get these stories. It was great.
Speaker 3: And Scotty lives in La now, which is even better.
Speaker 3: But we also had years ago, we had a guy
Speaker 3: from Raising Kings not that long ago, who told us
Speaker 3: that Kirk Cousins would go in there. He worked at
Speaker 3: a Raisin Kings right near the Vikings facility, and Cousins
Speaker 3: would going there and ended up ordering the chicken fingers
Speaker 3: on his way home, you know. And I remember we
Speaker 3: did a rant because Tom Brady eats avocado ice cream
Speaker 3: and this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1: We had Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: The juxtaposition of Kirk Cousins who's like the normal dude,
Speaker 3: just going in there after work, eating some chicken fingers
Speaker 3: on his way home. But these are the hemoglobin of
Speaker 3: the show. I mean it just keep them coming. We've
Speaker 3: had people at Super Bowls. Fortunately recently I've been allowed
Speaker 3: to go to Radio Row, but for years I was
Speaker 3: not allowed at Radio Row. But we would have people
Speaker 3: that were at the Super Bowl, boots on the ground
Speaker 3: who would.
Speaker 1: Give a story.
Speaker 3: So I have really enjoyed the blue mood over the
Speaker 3: mal of Militia thanks to Dave from the Commonwealth. And
Speaker 3: if you just see anything, you hear anything, let me know,
Speaker 3: call up or send me an email and we'll have
Speaker 3: some fun with that. Now, today is the beginning of
Speaker 3: week fourteen for our purposes Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: The season is.
Speaker 3: Zooming by and you'll find out how I did last
Speaker 3: weekend if you watched episode from week thirteen, the episode.
Speaker 1: From week thirteen.
Speaker 3: Things are turning around. Things are turning around. How much
Speaker 3: they're turning around. You will have to pay close attention
Speaker 3: as I attempt to beguile.
Speaker 1: The Penny.
Speaker 3: I attempt to take down the Penny, and with my
Speaker 3: charm and my trickery, I will swindle the Penny and I.
Speaker 1: Will end up winning. By the end of the year.
Speaker 3: There's only a few weeks to go in the regular season,
Speaker 3: so I better pick my act up. It's been a
Speaker 3: really pathetic year for the most part. But the great
Speaker 3: thing about this is it's a season long journey and
Speaker 3: there is still time. If I absolutely kill it these
Speaker 3: last few weeks of the season, by the time the
Speaker 3: season ends, my record will look amazing and I will
Speaker 3: be in really good shape, really good shape, and no
Speaker 3: one will remember how bad I was in.
Speaker 1: Week three or week four.
Speaker 3: So we do these videos and it'll be up here
Speaker 3: in a little bit this afternoon evening, depending on where
Speaker 3: you are in the country. We do these promo videos
Speaker 3: for Benny Versus the Penny, Whereas just after we tape
Speaker 3: the show, myself and Looney, we'll just wander around the
Speaker 3: back lot at Universal Studios, and it's one of those
Speaker 3: pinch yourself situations every week where you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: did we break in here? We don't belong here, And
Speaker 3: we just wander around, walk in different sound stages that
Speaker 3: are the doors are open, and we walk into different
Speaker 3: buildings and we have a past.
Speaker 1: We're allowed to be there, and this.
Speaker 3: Week was the coolest experience we've had yet. Now we've
Speaker 3: been in front of some famous from some famous sound
Speaker 3: stages at Universal Studios on the back lot where they've
Speaker 3: done some amazing shows that have been really important parts
Speaker 3: of American pop culture. But to me, this week, the
Speaker 3: video that's going to go up this afternoon, I want
Speaker 3: your feedback on this. You're getting kind of the inside
Speaker 3: skinny here because you're listening to the podcast, but.
Speaker 1: The video I'll put it up late in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: The video was so cool because we went in a
Speaker 3: part of Universal Studios that is my favorite part of
Speaker 3: every movie studio I've been lucky enough to work out.
Speaker 3: We worked at the Fox lot in the early days
Speaker 3: of Fox Sports Radio. We had studios over there in
Speaker 3: West LA on the Peakot lot, and that was awesome
Speaker 3: and I have so many fond memories.
Speaker 1: Some of the greatest memories in my years in the
Speaker 1: business were.
Speaker 3: On the Fox lot, and so year I had a
Speaker 3: similar experience at Universal.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to give too much away.
Speaker 3: I think when you see the video, you'll know, Man,
Speaker 3: that's like really cool, Like that's that's real Hollywood, right,
Speaker 3: That's that's what Hollywood, That's what movies are all about.
Speaker 3: So that that's today, that's backlot Benny and Looney. I
Speaker 3: realized I should be just promoting the TV show. That
Speaker 3: that's really what I should be promoting. And I'm promoting
Speaker 3: a video that will promote the TV show, so indirectly
Speaker 3: by getting you to watch said video, I am then
Speaker 3: getting you to watch.
Speaker 1: The TV show. You see what I'm You see what
Speaker 1: I'm doing there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would also like to point out that for our purposes,
Speaker 3: the most important affiliate is NBC Sports Boston. Now, the
Speaker 3: Celtics are playing. Unfortunately they play early. Celtics play early
Speaker 3: today and I think, well, I guess I played at
Speaker 3: seven thirty. But we're our first running of Benny Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny is not till tonight at eleven thirty tonight
Speaker 3: on NBC Sports Boston. So NBC Sports Boston will be
Speaker 3: on after the Celtics postgame show with Tom Giles, Chris Forsberg,
Speaker 3: and Brian Scalabrini eleven thirty on NBC Sports Boston tonight,
Speaker 3: So check that out.
Speaker 1: That would be that would be really cool. We'd be
Speaker 1: very happy if you watch that.
Speaker 3: The check out the video too, And if you miss
Speaker 3: that running of the show tonight in Boston, it will
Speaker 3: be on a bunch over the weekend, so you can
Speaker 3: check it out at a different time. And if you
Speaker 3: happen to be in phil Ladelphia, Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 3: will be on tonight at eleven o'clock and you can
Speaker 3: check that out on NBC Sports Philadelphia on after birds Huddle.
Speaker 3: After the birds Huddle, we'll be on and again all weekend.
Speaker 3: And we're on in La on the Lakers cable channel
Speaker 3: and that air is all day on Saturday and on Sunday.
Speaker 3: So the show's going well and hopefully you can continue
Speaker 3: to watch it and you'll be on Peacock. And if
Speaker 3: you watch the TV show on cable, that's great watching
Speaker 3: on Peacock.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend, even if they.
Speaker 3: Don't like me, if they if they have the Peacock
Speaker 3: thing and they they can turn it on and walk away.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care. All right, let's have
Speaker 1: some foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: These are some new food items that have popped up
Speaker 3: the good folks over Jack in the Box. Now, this
Speaker 3: is not a national chain, it's a regional chain. Jack
Speaker 3: in the Box. It's mostly in the West, but it's
Speaker 3: spread its tentacles further east. Jack in the Box testing
Speaker 3: a new burrito filled.
Speaker 1: With noodles, good or bad? Good or bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say bad because the noodle is a
Speaker 3: cousin of the rice and beans, which are great fillers.
Speaker 3: So if I read this right, eight bucks for a
Speaker 3: burrito at Jack in the Box filled with with noodles,
Speaker 3: which is I always get bothered.
Speaker 1: I don't eat too many burritos. I'm more of a
Speaker 1: crunchy taco guy.
Speaker 3: The green Goat taco taco's dorado, I believe is what
Speaker 3: they're called. But anyway, mostly mostly rice in burritos. But
Speaker 3: eight bucks for noodle, I mean the same concept. It's filler,
Speaker 3: get people to pay, throw a little meat in there,
Speaker 3: but mostly filler. You're good to go. So I don't
Speaker 3: think that's for me, but if you're into that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, you check it out. Miller High Life is
Speaker 3: selling a dive bar inspired cologne.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, we have talked about this in previous episodes of
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour podcast with myself, Ben and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: This is one of the.
Speaker 3: Great marketing money grabs stunts that you can possibly pull
Speaker 3: off and Miller highlight that they're selling, you know, the
Speaker 3: gimmick dive bar cologne which sells out right away. We
Speaker 3: talked about that story, I think it was last episode
Speaker 3: about the McDonald's company selling the McRib sauce, like gallons
Speaker 3: of McRib sauce that's sold out within seconds. KFC has
Speaker 3: done a bunch of these over the years, and they
Speaker 3: charge a lot. They make a limited edition, so they
Speaker 3: put a limited amount a product out there and they
Speaker 3: sell tons of them. They do an absolute killing the
Speaker 3: drink of water.
Speaker 1: But the people that are hardcore fans your product, they
Speaker 1: eat it up.
Speaker 3: I gotta get in this right, I gotta what could
Speaker 3: I do? I need some inspiration here because we have
Speaker 3: some super fans of this show who I get messages
Speaker 3: quite a bit. Hey, I need some malord merch and
Speaker 3: I need I want to support the show, and we
Speaker 3: occasionally we'll do a T shirt. We haven't done one
Speaker 3: of those since the Minnesota Mallard meet and greet. We
Speaker 3: did a limited run of shirts and we sold sold
Speaker 3: a bunch and it was great and people proudly will
Speaker 3: wear the shirts at set events and it's it's kind
Speaker 3: of neat and we had in Vegas we had some
Speaker 3: key chains and that had the show logo on.
Speaker 1: That was kind of cool. So if you have any ideas, shoot.
Speaker 3: Me an email, let me know what you're thinking of.
Speaker 3: You you want a certain item with the Malord, you
Speaker 3: show branding on it or whatever. Uh you know, I know,
Speaker 3: I know a few people. Plus there's other people if
Speaker 3: you're if you're in that line of work and you
Speaker 3: want to you have an idea, run it by me.
Speaker 3: We had a guy years ago that was a T
Speaker 3: shirt guy that loved the show. And there was a
Speaker 3: gentleman named Met the Mad Clown in Texas that was
Speaker 3: a super fan of the show. And he he is
Speaker 3: really cool artwork, these cartoon drawings of what he thought
Speaker 3: the callers to the show looked like.
Speaker 1: And I actually have.
Speaker 3: His art framed. When if you ever come over to
Speaker 3: the Malor mansion, when you walk into my on air studio,
Speaker 3: my home studio, right outside, there's a poster of his
Speaker 3: work and that was on a T shirt which was
Speaker 3: very popular.
Speaker 1: That goes back. Man, I think that was at least
Speaker 1: at least fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: It might have been even longer than that. I mean
Speaker 3: it was a long time. It was a long time.
Speaker 3: So anyway, what else foody fun? McDonald's they're bringing back
Speaker 3: the snack Wrap. They're bringing that for some of you.
Speaker 3: This is a very important event. But the snack Wrap
Speaker 3: is returning in twenty twenty five. So there's that. KFC
Speaker 3: has introduced a new Festive Feast deal and they've got
Speaker 3: new chicken and Tenders Feast for the holidays, limited time only. Culvers.
Speaker 3: I love Culvers, Man, that's the in and out of
Speaker 3: the Midwest. We don't have one where I am. I'm
Speaker 3: jealous of you that live near Culver's and they're in Florida.
Speaker 3: Two my friends Sports with Coleman points out they're also
Speaker 3: in Florida, so I'm like, they're in Florida.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 3: So Culvers is launching a new chocolate raspberry concrete mixer,
Speaker 3: so you can check check that out. I also read
Speaker 3: a story this week which which I thought was rather obvious.
Speaker 3: It's like Captain obvious stuff. But they made a big deal.
Speaker 3: They said that the there was a study done. This
Speaker 3: is a study done by Chowhound, which is a food blog,
Speaker 3: and the a study that online food delivery has become
Speaker 3: a trillion dollar business. Now, shout out to Femi from
Speaker 3: the Uber, each delivery driver and all the other fellas
Speaker 3: that do this for a living, that deliver food. Many
Speaker 3: of you while we are on the radio, people that
Speaker 3: have the munchies, the late night munchies, and you will
Speaker 3: help them out. However, how do you become a trillion
Speaker 3: dollar business? Well, with every order, there are all kinds
Speaker 3: of add on fees that take what should be rather
Speaker 3: affordable food and make them unaffordable. According to the aforementioned blog,
Speaker 3: Chowhound delivery services often include fees that are not immediately
Speaker 3: known to the consumer. They range from service fees, to
Speaker 3: small order fees, to even hire a menu prices compared
Speaker 3: to in store purchases, and they found like the cheapest
Speaker 3: fast food chains in the US under ten dollars, but
Speaker 3: it's rare to spend less than twenty dollars on a delivery.
Speaker 3: Once you add in all the tax, the tip, the fees,
Speaker 3: then all that supplied and there's all these.
Speaker 1: Hidden fees that are there.
Speaker 3: They have the standard delivery charge, there's also that varies
Speaker 3: based on distance, and there's a lot added on to
Speaker 3: the final bill. And they did a study also comparing
Speaker 3: the different delivery apps and the cost associated with all
Speaker 3: of them. The study found that Postmates had the highest
Speaker 3: markups the cost averaging ninety two percent higher than normal
Speaker 3: menu prices.
Speaker 1: So you've used Postmates, you're really your bougie.
Speaker 3: Door Dash and grub Hub they were close behind mark
Speaker 3: of eighty three and eighty percent, respectively, while Uber Eats
Speaker 3: they had the lowest markup. So of the major food
Speaker 3: delivery apps. Uber Eats their markup was sixty nine percent,
Speaker 3: so which is not good, but compared to ninety two
Speaker 3: percent by Postmates, you're you're getting out pretty good. According
Speaker 3: to the story here, a basic order from Chick fil
Speaker 3: A for nine dollars and eighty five cents can cost
Speaker 3: up to twenty three dollars and one cent on grub hub.
Speaker 3: And that's one hundred and thirty four percent markup. And
Speaker 3: they say even at restaurants with lower markups like you know, Chipotle, Jersey,
Speaker 3: Mike McDonald's delivery, they'll add forty four to seventy seven
Speaker 3: percent of the cost of the.
Speaker 1: Meal which I get.
Speaker 3: I I have a relative, if I will not even
Speaker 3: reveal what the branch of the family tree the relative
Speaker 3: is in laws who always is ordering food, fast food
Speaker 3: from delivery, and I don't say anything because I want
Speaker 3: to be polite and I want to be a dick
Speaker 3: in Dayton.
Speaker 1: But it's like, what are you doing? You know, you're
Speaker 1: just wasting your money.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're gonna get food delivery, you might
Speaker 3: as well go high end food. I like the fast food.
Speaker 3: I can go to a fast food restaurant. I in
Speaker 3: my car in the drive through, and I'm good to go.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't need any any you know, I
Speaker 3: need somebody to, you know, deliver it to me. I'm
Speaker 3: not that lazy, but you know that's your thing, that's
Speaker 3: your jam, and you got the money.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 3: And I certainly I don't want people to stop buying
Speaker 3: food late at night because I got to allow you
Speaker 3: boys that listen, who are delivering that food. And I
Speaker 3: know what a pain in the acid is because somebody
Speaker 3: orders an apple pie and order fries from McDonald's at
Speaker 3: ten o'clock or eleven o'clock or twelve ago, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and you got to get it to him and then
Speaker 3: they don't tipia and they're a holes.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a whole thing. I got you.
Speaker 3: I'm not walking in your shoes. But yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: Nick in Nebraska rights in. He actually sent this on
Speaker 3: the X machine, and this is going to.
Speaker 1: Be the phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week is not Nick in Nebraska.
Speaker 3: Nick says, So, I'm talking to my friend about Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes and how he keeps winning games. Nick says, Nick's
Speaker 3: in Nebraska a Chiefs fan. He was in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: I met Nick and his son at the mallor meet
Speaker 3: and greet. So Nick's a mailman, good dude. So Nick says, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know my friend Patrick, my friend, we're talking about
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes keeps winning games. And my boy, says Nick,
Speaker 3: Maholmes has ice water in his veins. And so he said,
Speaker 3: well kind of hinted with a question, maong, let's get
Speaker 3: into that. So the phrase ice water in your veins
Speaker 3: has been around for a while. Well, the original idiom,
Speaker 3: you know sense it means calm under pressure, things are tough,
Speaker 3: you're calm. The origin, you know, long ago. The origin
Speaker 3: was attributed to like reptiles, like snakes are cold blooded,
Speaker 3: other creatures that are cold blooded.
Speaker 1: Which means you're emotionless.
Speaker 3: You don't show, you don't let people see how you're
Speaker 3: really feeling. You're calculated, you're cunning, and you're decision making
Speaker 3: some even evil, some would say evil.
Speaker 1: Right, you're cold blooded and.
Speaker 3: Like a reptile, you know, like a snake or something
Speaker 3: like that, and you're lacking warmer emotions. If you're warm blooded,
Speaker 3: you have love, you have compassion, you have sympathy, concern,
Speaker 3: all those things.
Speaker 1: And so if you've got ice, water in your veins
Speaker 1: or not like that.
Speaker 3: Now, amazingly, the modern version of this, there's a kind
Speaker 3: of a CD story about it, ceedy story about it,
Speaker 3: and the phrase gained a lot of popularity with d
Speaker 3: Angelo Russell of all people say why yeah Nick in Nebraska,
Speaker 3: D'Angelo Russell NBA plush still plan.
Speaker 1: The first time he was on the Lakers. He's back
Speaker 1: on the Lakers now.
Speaker 3: He's credited with popularizing the modern current TikTok version of
Speaker 3: ice in the veins, and he would celebrate making a
Speaker 3: big shot. He didn't make many of them by pretending
Speaker 3: to shoot something into his veins. And he said that
Speaker 3: his father often told him you have ice in your
Speaker 3: veins when facing big moments, and that signified coolness underpression.
Speaker 3: Now there's another darker Internet conspiracy that D'Angelo Russell. That's
Speaker 3: partially true, but de' angelo Russell's father had a few
Speaker 3: issues with the run ins with the law.
Speaker 1: So there's there's an alternative reality.
Speaker 3: You can use your imagination on what other people think
Speaker 3: that actually means. But either way, that is the modern
Speaker 3: version is because of D'Angelo Russell who popularized the term,
Speaker 3: which is used on social media, and again it's been
Speaker 3: around for a while. Originally it meant you were like
Speaker 3: a cold blooded reptile and you didn't show any emotion.
Speaker 3: You might have been evil, right, had ice in your
Speaker 3: veins and.
Speaker 1: All that stuff.
Speaker 3: It was essentially sendonym the cold blooded or cold hearted
Speaker 3: or something along those lines. All right, So I think
Speaker 3: that's enough for today.
Speaker 1: Right, that's enough. We got things to do. It's a Friday,
Speaker 1: a big event coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you more about that on the Saturday podcast.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting this show.
Speaker 3: And I really do love you you boys that send
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Speaker 3: so thank you so many of you. Pete the Machinist
Speaker 3: and Daryl in the Ozarks, Guy in Houston. I mean,
Speaker 3: we've had several of you who have sent that out,
Speaker 3: and I do appreciate that.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: It means it means a lot that you guys are
Speaker 3: listening and you love it, and I am honored.
Speaker 1: I do not. I'm not being sarcastic or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I seriously it means a lot that you'd listen that
Speaker 3: much to us, really really cool stuff. Anyway, I have
Speaker 3: a wonderful rest of your Friday, and we'll get you
Speaker 3: well next time. Later, Skater, Did I do that right?
Speaker 3: Danny got a murder?
Speaker 1: I gotta go.