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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour

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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.

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Speaker 3: In the air ev rewhere The Fifth Hour with Me,

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Speaker 3: Ben Maller and Danny G Radio A happy early Friday,

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Speaker 3: the last Friday of January, and we are back in

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Speaker 3: the remote studio hanging out.

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Speaker 1: On this edition of The Fifth Hour, just Me, no

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Speaker 1: Nanny G. But on this edition we've got Benny Appleseed

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Speaker 1: and Humbaby and Humbaby. However, we're gonna start with this.

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Speaker 1: So it is National Croissant Day today, National Croissant Day today.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not a huge croissant fan. I know you're

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Speaker 1: very concerned about that, but I'm not. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't hate the croissant. I don't know anyone that hates

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Speaker 1: don't eat breakfast and croissant is normally a food that

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Speaker 1: during the Ottoman Turk siege of Vienna back in sixteen

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Speaker 1: eighty three, a baker baked a pastry in the shape

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Speaker 1: emblem of Turkey. That is why the traditional croissant looks

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Speaker 1: sixteen eighty three. And it is Austria. It's from Austria.

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Speaker 1: It's not from France. Marie Antonette, I think I put

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Speaker 1: your that, But anyways, yeah, you know who she is,

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Speaker 1: you know what I meant. And she first introduced the

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Speaker 1: into the royal family and the rest is history. I

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Speaker 1: guess it has changed the French bakers from what I read,

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Speaker 1: at the very basic level. It's just soft flour and

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Speaker 1: then yeast, butter, milk, salt. That's it. But there you go.

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Speaker 1: National croissante. Now, speaking of that, this somewhat relates. Somewhat relates,

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Speaker 1: so you can call me Benny apple Seed. Now let

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Speaker 1: me explain. So I'm going to blame the story I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell you here from a previous edition of

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Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast. Let's go back, not that long ago.

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Speaker 1: And it's not about destiny, it's not about Wanderluster. It's

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Speaker 1: this podcast. So we go in the hot tub time machine.

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Speaker 1: I spent roughly fifteen minutes talking about National Pie Day.

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Speaker 1: Right here. I was in this studio, I was on

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Speaker 1: this microphone and it was National Pie Day last Friday,

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Speaker 1: and I started ranting about it. And I kept going

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Speaker 1: and going and going and going. And I didn't know

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Speaker 1: with nothing thing scheduled after lunch. Ever, and that's how

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Speaker 1: So Friday morning, last Friday, as a little punch drunk

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Speaker 1: He always gives me crap. He does not appreciate Benny's

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Speaker 1: big board, very controversial Benny's big board on pie. Alf

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Speaker 1: And it's a town Julian that outlived its original purpose.

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Speaker 1: what's there. So when I say that Julian, California outlived

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Speaker 1: its original purpose, it was a Confederate veteran from Georgia

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Speaker 1: the original gold that sparked San Diego's first and only

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Speaker 1: Farming replaced the digging for gold, but the apple was

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Speaker 1: The ice cream, the scoop of vanel ice cream not

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Speaker 1: One to ten Malor report card for the Julian apple

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a twenty two out of ten.

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Speaker 1: Twenty two. Some things break the scale. This was one

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Speaker 1: of them. This was the greatest piece of pie, apple pie.

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Speaker 1: I've had better banana cream pie, but this was apple pie,

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Speaker 1: which is the everything pie. As we talked about last week,

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Speaker 1: on we ate at the Julian Beer Company. I didn't

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Speaker 1: even know what this thing was, but it had pizza, barbecue,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see the healthy. I had a barbecue sandwich

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