WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny Appleseed 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 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 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.720 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.120 In the air ev rewhere The Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.199 Ben Maller and Danny G Radio A happy early Friday, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.839 the last Friday of January, and we are back in 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.960 the remote studio hanging out. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.479 On this edition of The Fifth Hour, just Me, no 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.320 Nanny G. But on this edition we've got Benny Appleseed 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.960 and Humbaby and Humbaby. However, we're gonna start with this. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:04.720 So it is National Croissant Day today, National Croissant Day today. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.039 So I'm not a huge croissant fan. I know you're 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.039 very concerned about that, but I'm not. I mean, I 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.600 don't hate the croissant. I don't know anyone that hates 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.600 the croissant. I just don't eat them very often. I 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.800 don't eat breakfast and croissant is normally a food that 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.280 you eat for breakfast. I did learn some fun facts 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.560 though about the croissant that I was unaware of. That 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:35.479 during the Ottoman Turk siege of Vienna back in sixteen 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.800 eighty three, a baker baked a pastry in the shape 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.520 of a crescent, like a crescent moon, to symbolize the 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:50.919 emblem of Turkey. That is why the traditional croissant looks 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.240 the way it does, like the crescent. Look, you can 0:01:53.240 --> 0:02:00.480 blame that on the Ottoman Turk's siege of Vienna in 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.320 sixteen eighty three. And it is Austria. It's from Austria. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:10.359 It's not from France. Marie Antonette, I think I put 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:11.840 your that, But anyways, yeah, you know who she is, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.720 you know what I meant. And she first introduced the 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.440 pastry to France back in the day because she married 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:23.680 into the royal family and the rest is history. I 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.520 guess it has changed the French bakers from what I read, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.119 fell down this rabbit hole. They made fancier versions of 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.960 what was the Austria version. They enhanced it, made it better, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:41.200 more sophisticated, and more elitist and all that. And of course, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:47.600 at the very basic level. It's just soft flour and 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.080 then yeast, butter, milk, salt. That's it. But there you go. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:59.880 National croissante. Now, speaking of that, this somewhat relates. Somewhat relates, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.079 so you can call me Benny apple Seed. Now let 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:08.600 me explain. So I'm going to blame the story I'm 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.160 going to tell you here from a previous edition of 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.920 the Fifth Hour podcast. Let's go back, not that long ago. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.920 And it's not about destiny, it's not about Wanderluster. It's 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.600 this podcast. So we go in the hot tub time machine. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:31.359 I spent roughly fifteen minutes talking about National Pie Day. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.120 Right here. I was in this studio, I was on 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.119 this microphone and it was National Pie Day last Friday, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.800 and I started ranting about it. And I kept going 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.360 and going and going and going. And I didn't know 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.960 I could talk that much about pie. I did. And 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.200 then suddenly my wife and I were making decisions usually 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.560 reserved for retirees, which I neither of us are people 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.880 with nothing thing scheduled after lunch. Ever, and that's how 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.880 these things start, not with a plan, but with a shrug. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.440 So Friday morning, last Friday, as a little punch drunk 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.760 from the radio wars and rambling into this microphone doing 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:22.359 the podcast about pie, a podcast about pie, and I 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.440 spent way too much time talking about it, and I 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.920 got crap from Terry and England and some other people. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.320 He always gives me crap. He does not appreciate Benny's 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:37.240 big board, very controversial Benny's big board on pie. Alf 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.040 said he was thinking about leaving the show to go 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.720 work on the Jason Smith Show because as a paid contributor, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.520 because of my commentary about cherry Pie. He's a big 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.960 fan of the cherry Pie anyway. So fast forward now, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.280 So get done with a podcast, you know, sleep a 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.880 little bit, take a little bit of nap, and we decide, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.800 you know, what the heck, you know, i'd pie on 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.159 the mind. Let's go somewhere. Let's let's go find pie, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.680 and not just your generic pie that you get anywhere. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.920 So after a brief nap, we did some improv We improvised. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.240 We got in the malamobile and we drove and we 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:31.320 drove and we drove destination Julian, California. Say what chances 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.280 are you've never heard of Julian, California. I didn't know 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.880 of Julian, California. I worked in the region where that 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.799 town is, but I'd never been there. It's a town 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:48.720 that has turned apple pie into an economic model. No subplots, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:54.120 no distractions. Pie is the headline. Everything else runs beneath 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.200 the pie. And if it's National Pie Day, you might 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.280 as well go there. So we left the Malor mansion 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.440 under a mug California. So Cow's son and it's the 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.640 reason people move here. It's the kind that convinces people 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.200 seasons are myth. In fact, just before I came into 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.400 the remote studio, my brother who lives in Manhattan, my 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.560 older brother, he is a fitness freak. He's out running 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.840 around the streets of Manhattan early in the morning. He's 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.080 run the New York Marathon a bunch of times. So 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:30.119 he's sending me photos of the Hudson River, the iconic 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.719 Hudson River with chunks of ice and uh, and he's 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.599 took this cool video and it was really it was 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:45.239 really wild, and I juxtapos where I am and like, okay, uh, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.560 you know that's that's wild. It doesn't normally get like 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.119 that obviously in New York. So back to these stories. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.840 So I left the Mallor Mansion with the wife. We 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.799 had sunny skies and we just took off. We headed south, 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.920 Go south, young man. We passed the power plant made 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.080 famous in the iconic Naked Gun movie starring OJ Simpson. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:12.440 Then Camp Pendleton and then Oceanside, and at that point 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.560 we turned east, got down. There's a highway I think 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.480 it's Highway seventy eight or something like that goes to 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.640 goes by the community colleges in San Diego, Palomar and 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.440 some of those. When I was at Saddleback, we went 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.360 down there and I'd been in that area. And so 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.600 you turn east. That is where the mighty Blue Pacific 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.240 fades away and is replaced by something quieter and a 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.800 lot different. East County San Diego is the wild, wild 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.200 west of San Diego. It's his own world. Now you're 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.120 gonna drive for a while. You gotta drive about an 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.840 hour and you keep going, and that's just part of 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.080 the way. But you see vineyards that start appearing. Its 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.880 wine country, San Diego style. Hot air balloons floating lazily, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.200 the Hutter balloon. I was on one, when I was 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.920 in one, when I was a kid. I remember the 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.640 military basis here. We had El Toro and Tustin, and 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.400 they would have open houses and they'd have a hot 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.120 air balloon. So I went in there at one point, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.080 but we didn't it was tethered. I didn't go all 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.200 the way like float away or anything like that. But 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:24.560 the hotter balloon contributes nothing except proof that gravity occasionally 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.840 kind of takes a day off. So the roads were 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.119 still driving. The road shrink. Now we're on two lane 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.120 highways right, two lanes, one going north, one going south 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:43.200 and wrapping around mountains mountains, and unexpectedly something happened that 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.280 I didn't think was possible in San Diego. It rained. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.560 I'm talking real rain in San Diego. We didn't even 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.959 bother checking the weather app because we left the Malor 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.360 mansion it was sunny. And why would you, As the 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.640 saying goes, you should be as reliable as the weather 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.480 in Sandan Diego. The easiest job in the world is 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.480 San Diego weather person. So it turns out the weather 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.600 still surprises occasionally if you drive far enough out into 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.680 the boondocks. And so Julian sits in a mountain range. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.679 The kayamaka, I believe it is how you pronounce it. It's 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.560 my version, which is close enough, so the Kayamaca Mountains. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:25.640 And it's a town Julian that outlived its original purpose. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.840 So I started going down the old spider hole and 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.120 I was like looking around trying to I was like, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.240 I heard about this. I'd seen some stuff online about 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.640 this town dedicated to apple pie, and I was like, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.839 what's there. So when I say that Julian, California outlived 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:50.880 its original purpose, it was a Confederate veteran from Georgia 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.800 who named it after Mike Julian who had come out. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.360 There was a former slave named Fred Coleman who found 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.560 the original gold that sparked San Diego's first and only 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.920 gold rush. When you think gold rush, you think northern California. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.480 Thus the forty nine ers back in the day. But no, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.520 it was. It was the gold rush of eighteen seventy. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.600 So we're going back them in in eighteen seventy. It's 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.320 been a while, and it didn't last very long, as 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.400 Russias tend to do, people did stay, though not many. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.480 Farming replaced the digging for gold, but the apple was 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.640 the star of the show. That was what replaced instant 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.680 wealth dreams. And that part is interesting because by the 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.880 early nineteen hundreds, Julian apples were winning all kinds of 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.800 medals back East, that's where most people lived in the 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:53.959 early nineteen hundreds. Twenty one varieties carefully selected praise for quality, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.120 not the novelty of all that. So no one tried 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.600 to reinvent the apple. They just grew it. Well, the 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:06.880 soil was fertile for the apple. And it's a lost art. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.200 And so National Pie Day, I was a little worried. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.680 We were driving a long time. I was concerned. I 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.160 was like, oh, man, where did we get shut out? 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.280 Because it's a big day for the pie and crowds 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.880 have a way of kicking these small weekend ghetaway towns 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.959 and the balls. There's a food holiday and the town 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.360 built around food. However, the good people at the Julian 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.360 Pie Company and I should send out some photos. I'll 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.000 send out some photos later today on Facebook and Instagram 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.920 so you can check it out. But the Julian Pie Company, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.000 they still had a couple of slices of apple pie left, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.679 and they have like four or five different versions of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:49.080 apple pie. And so we had a a like a 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.160 raspberry not raspberry, it was boison berry apple pie and 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.199 there was another kind of apple pie, and so we 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.520 found it and we had it a la mode had 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.720 little ice cream on top. Apple pie with ice cream 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.600 arrived and immediately there was a separation. It separated itself 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:10.840 from the pack. This wasn't nostalgia bait. It was execution, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:16.880 warm apples that still had structure, crust, that knew exactly 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.079 its role. It didn't overwhelm the pie. It was an 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.760 addition to the pie. The ice cream did what the 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.200 ice cream was supposed to do. It was a support item. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.240 The ice cream, the scoop of vanel ice cream not 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.920 there to distract. So on the Malar report card for 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:40.200 the Julian Pie Company, the West Coast birthplace of apple pie, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.000 still call it so one to ten, you know the rules. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.880 One to ten Malor report card for the Julian apple 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.120 Pie small little town out in eastern San Diego County. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.200 I'm gonna give it a twenty two out of ten. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.160 Twenty two. Some things break the scale. This was one 0:12:55.200 --> 0:13:00.000 of them. This was the greatest piece of pie, apple pie. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.240 I've had better banana cream pie, but this was apple pie, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.320 which is the everything pie. As we talked about last week, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.440 it's the Swiss Army Knife of pie. There's something for 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.880 everyone there. So enjoyed it and it was great. We 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.400 also had a meal, not just just see pie. Later 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.760 on we ate at the Julian Beer Company. I didn't 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.560 even know what this thing was, but it had pizza, barbecue, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:31.600 and beer. Honest food, very straightforward menu, nothing really healthy. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.000 I didn't see the healthy. I had a barbecue sandwich 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.080 and a little thing of mac and cheese that went 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.800 into my belly. And on the Malard scale of barbecue 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.760 one to ten, it earned a six point five, which 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.959 is above average, but not the greatest thing. It was respectable, competent, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.439 nothing to complain about, which is not the same thing 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.040 as memorable. The pie was memorable. No context is everything. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.600 The problem I have is I've been to Kansas City, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.800 the whole land of barbecue, where Kansas City Joe serves 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.640 the z Man sandwich, the Mona Lisa of the smoke 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.320 mets with the barbecue brisket and the onion ring on top, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.400 and the bread is so delicious. Now, once you've had that, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.640 your expectations recalibrate, whether you want them to or not. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.200 Now I've had major disagreement with my wife. My wife 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.000 loves barbecue sauce, and having gone to kansasity, you don't 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.080 need the barbecue sauce if you barbecue the food properly. Now, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.080 I will tell you, on a non Kansas city scale, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.760 Julian Barbecue got bumped up to a seven point five 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:43.000 grading on a curve. It's not dishonest, it's just realism 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:49.640 can't compete. And the appeal of this Julian it's it 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.680 isn't just what you eat, it's what you escape. Right. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.760 In this case, sunshine gave way to the rain, the 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.040 coast gave way to mountains, which gave way to one 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:07.440 two lane roads, and it was interesting. And in southern California, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.720 which is a massive area of land, is not just 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.880 beaches and traffic. Julian is proof that the state is 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.160 so massive that it still has corners that don't shout. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.080 And then we had to drive home six hours round 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:27.440 trip for pie and a barbecue brisket sandwich. And that 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.680 puts things in perspective, right, it does. It's not really 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.200 an errand I didn't need to do it. It was 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.080 more of an improv turned commitment for National Pie Day 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.880 and something that started out casual, and then we had 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.120 to get there, and it's one of those you save 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.120 it for a free weekend, a craving strong enough to 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:53.920 overpower common sense or in this case, a podcast induced 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.920 laps and judgment. Blame it on the fifth hour, and 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:02.440 that's fine. Listen, Julian. The town, it's not supposed to 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.120 be convenient. They have apple picking part of the year. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.600 You know, there's a lot of these places, and if 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.720 you're in the Commonwealth, you guys have this all the time. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.520 It's not a lot of these apple picking apple pie 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.320 type places, at least I know of, and so this 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.760 was this was one of them. And you know, it's 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:23.240 very specific. It does one thing extremely well and let's 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.680 the rest take care of itself. And so no rebrand, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.120 no expansion plan, just Apple's grown carefully year after year. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:35.280 National Pie Day is now done until next year. The 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.400 rain did stop once we got out of the mountains. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:43.760 The slices obviously disappeared. The malamobile desperate for gas made 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.600 at home and up in the in the mountains. The kayamaccas, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.560 I believe, but Kyamakas, yeah, I said. The apple tree 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.360 kept doing their thing and very reliable, and we'll be back, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.320 I imagine we'ving back at some point. I do not 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.040 know when, but we'll be back at some point. So 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.520 I said, humbaby, I think we're going to skip that. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.879 I'll get to that at some point over the weekend. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.480 I didn't want to talk about foody fun. Hooray for 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.840 food he fun. Hooray for food he fun. Yes, foody fun. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.640 By request as I got an email from Mike. One 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:26.359 guy requested this one person. Mike lives in Texas, which 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.360 is also a massive state that could be anywhere from 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:35.320 Dallas to Houston to Austin, San Antonio or El Paso 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.280 or anywhere in between. I don't know where. Mike just 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.320 said he's in Texas, and he says he enjoys foody fun. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.119 Why have you stopped doing it? And I said, I 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.000 wish I didn't write back, but I'll answer right now, Mike. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.760 We just moved on to other things. But in honor 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.280 of foodie fun in ohioil getting me in the mood 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:59.800 and all that, So we'll start with this. The world's 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:04.720 largest McDonald's has popped up in the in the headlines 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.400 this week, and this is only good if you're in Orlando. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:14.960 There's a McDonald's that costs sixteen million dollars and it 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:20.760 had renewed attention online. It was a viral video that 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:26.600 had millions of views that showcased this McDonald's. Now, what 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.760 do you get for sixteen million dollars? What do you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.480 get for that? Well, for sixteen million dollars in Orlando, 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:40.080 you get an arcade, pizza ovens, and an ice cream 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.240 bar at this McDonald's. Because hey, it's right near disney World. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:50.200 Why not. It's it's huge. Just known as the epic mcdee. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:56.320 It's what it's known as. The site stands. I mean 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.520 it is. I'm looking at the building here. I try 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.360 to describe it for our blind listeners. It's nineteen thousand 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:07.600 square feet. It is ridonculous. They have collectible souvenir machines. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.160 You can also it's like typical touristy stuff. You can 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.080 get pressed pennies and medallions. Because there's one thing I 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.439 want is McDonald's medallion. That's what I want. That's what 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:27.000 I need in my life. Absolutely, it's got futuristic touches 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:32.200 throughout the building. There's an automatic trash can themed decor. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.679 So there you go. It's got all the McDonald's standard 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:43.560 McDonald's food. However, it also has build your own pizza. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.680 So if you want to McDonald's pizza, go go to 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.240 Orlando Philly Cheese Steaks. Hey, sign me up for that 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:56.199 and there you go. So the world's largest McDonald's. What 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.400 do want a McDonald's cheese steak is like they have 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:06.720 pasta dishes. You can get McDonald's pasta Belgian waffles and 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.400 mentioned that ice cream bar, So that sounds sounds great. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.960 Absolute Vodka this is not really a food, but Tabasco 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.560 is and they're teaming up with Tabasco. They're gonna launch 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:25.320 a spicy chili flavor. So Absolute Vodka partner with Tabasco 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.240 to launch a brand new chili pepper flavored spirit called 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:34.760 Absolute Tabasco. Let me know how that goes. Just in 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:39.199 time for that football game in Northern California which will 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.120 be played a week from Sunday, Dominoes is bringing back 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.480 the six nine nine large two topping pizza carry out deal. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.840 And will you get off your fat ass and go 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.560 down to the Dominoes and get the pizza for the 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.159 seven dollars with the two toppings and all that. Were 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:03.080 you gonna make that move? No? I am shocked. I 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.760 guess I'm this is another one of those things that hey, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.439 you're old. I don't mind going the store. I don't 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:16.399 mind picking up food like to me. And I realized 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.760 there's a lot of you guys that are in the 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.040 food delivery business that listen to the show, and God 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.520 bless you, and I'm glad you're making your money. And 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.880 some of you have told me that business is booming 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.400 and that it's it's just great. And I'm like, Okay, 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.199 I don't know how much you make, it's none of 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.880 my business. But for me, I was like, we have 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.320 food delivery. It's you just drive there and there's a 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.040 drive through and they'll give it to you right in 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.600 your car at the fast food place. And I'm always like, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.800 if I'm too lazy to go to Taco Bell, then 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.920 I shouldn't be eating Taco Bell, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.760 And I don't really eat late anymore because of I'm 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.040 getting older or whatever. It's not good for you to 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.920 eat late, so I don't really do it. But anyway, 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.119 the six ninety nine, that's that's a good deal. And 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.760 there's a store that I go to to get my 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.680 tortillas when I have crunchy taco days, have Taco Thursday, 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.000 not Taco Tuesday, but Taco Thursday. And I go to 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:15.479 the taco place. It's a it's a store. It's a 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.920 store in a Latin part of town, and so they 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.160 make their own tortillas, which are just amazing. If you've 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.880 never had I've talked about this before, but these tortillas 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.520 are the greatest thing and just wonderful. So I go 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:32.919 there and next to it is a little Caesars Pizza pizza, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:40.040 and uh, it is always packed. It's like every time 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:41.280 I've been there in the morning, I've been there in 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.040 the afternoon, I've been there at night. It's always packed. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:49.439 It's it's it's wild. Uh. I mean, it's just it's 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:53.320 not that because the price. Obviously, recently, I don't think 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.400 we mentioned this, Crispy Chicken nuggets, which I've heard are 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.959 really good. I've not had them. Crispy Chicken nuggets are 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.800 back at Taco bell is that their version of the 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:08.320 McRib alongside a all new Hidden Valley Diablo Ranch sauce. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.520 I'm good on that. That's the Devil's blood. I don't 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:15.359 need that. McDonald's has also launched a Hot Honey lineup 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:23.359 featuring new Hot Honey Sauce. Okay, they have hot Honey sausage, 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:29.840 egg biscuit, seventeen grams of protein, a bacon, hot Honey 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:34.880 Crispy sandwich. They've got that Hot Honey Crispy sandwich, the 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.479 Hot Honey Snack Wrap, and not to be outdone, the 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:43.520 Hot Honey Sauce dip cup with or they have sweet 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:49.040 and spicy honey sauce with a light vinegar finish, a 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:55.240 delicious and wonderful dipping option. Okay, there you go. What 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:59.879 else do we have? Sonic has introduced chocolate new chocolate 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:04.040 Peanut butter Shake. It's made by It's it's partnership with Reese's, 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:05.879 so you can get that if you have a Sonic. 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:11.440 Papa John's has reintroduced the new and improved Pan Pizza. 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.040 There you go, take that Pizza Hut, because when I 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:19.720 want a pan pizza, I go to Papa John's. That shack, right, 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.439 that shack, that's that's his operation. He's mister Papa John's. 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.639 He's all about the Papa John's all about that Papa 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:32.240 John's boss. It was weird seeing inside the NBA back 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:35.320 this week. I was like, Wow, that's that's crazy. I 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:37.680 didn't I didn't realize that they were they were still working. 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:39.520 I thought they were all over, that was it. They'd 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:43.640 only worked a few times. Yeah, how about that? All right? 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:48.400 What else do we have? Dairy Queen has launched a 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:56.720 new dq Swicy menu. What is this here? Let me 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:00.520 see you. I think the word is now it says spicy, 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.399 not spicy. I thought that I screwed that up, but no, 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:08.439 that's what it says at the Dairy Queen. It features us. 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:12.400 See the items here. They have the new flamethrower chicken strips, 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:17.239 all white meat tenderloin chicken seasoned and coated with a 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:21.560 blend of fiery peppers and smoky spices. They have the 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:27.080 Pineapple Lemonade cooler and it's got classic lemonade, real lemonade 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:31.359 juice mixed with pineapple flavor that sounds all right, and 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:40.480 then blended with some other soft serve stuff pineapple lemonade sparkler. Okay, 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:45.359 all right, I feel you on that. Okay, So there 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:49.879 there you go. Some of the new items. And I 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:53.119 don't know if I mentioned that. See Del there's a 0:25:53.160 --> 0:25:56.200 Del Taco story, but Del Taco's not. It's a regional thing. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:58.320 It's in the West, it's not in the East. So 0:25:58.359 --> 0:25:59.960 if you're not here at Del taco I guess it doesn't. 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:04.560 The spicy Jack, cheese and chicken case ideas our back, baby, 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:12.520 they are back, thank god, hew lolujah, helllujah. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:15.320 we'll get out on that. Danny should join me at 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:19.320 some point this weekend. You can email the mail bag 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:23.159 if you would like. It's available to you Real fifth 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:27.239 Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:33.440 gmail dot com. You can be part of the podcast, 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:37.240 which I know. Yeah, you're excited. No you're not. You're 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:39.000 not excited about that. All right, Well, we will have 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:43.639 a new episode on Saturday, another one on Sunday, because 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:49.040 that's how we do it in the Audiohizsie, have a 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:54.400 great rest of your Friday and we will hit you up. Well, 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:56.840