Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air.
Speaker 1: Everywhere. The Fifth Hour the Extra Spicy, extra crunchy edition
Speaker 1: of the podcast, not to be confused with the original
Speaker 1: Recipe podcast, which is the Overnight Show. But we are
Speaker 1: here hanging out Happy Friday is the twenty sixth day
Speaker 1: of the month of April, the final weekend of the
Speaker 1: month of April, and Danny g hanging out with me
Speaker 1: as we are in NFL Draft. What's the phrase for this, Danny,
Speaker 1: It's it's a long weekend. It used to be when
Speaker 1: we were kids, it was just one day, but now
Speaker 1: it's like a whole. It's been this way for a while.
Speaker 1: It just goes all all weekend, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, a
Speaker 1: football palooza.
Speaker 3: How awkward was Roger Goodell with Eminem Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, he had Eminem as a human shield. How much
Speaker 1: do you think the NFL paid Eminem Do you think
Speaker 1: they gave him free tickets to the lines. He probably
Speaker 1: got free tickets anyway to the Lions.
Speaker 3: He didn't even deserve his paycheck if that's the case,
Speaker 3: because I mean he should have freestyled or something. He
Speaker 3: just said, what up Detroit? Anybody could have did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could have blown me, and I would have
Speaker 1: done a better job. I would have thrown in MotorCity.
Speaker 1: I would have thrown in you know, you know the
Speaker 1: some of the other things. Is it the three one three?
Speaker 1: I believe Detroit is the three one threes like stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Come on, Pippin, get your tims on. Had
Speaker 1: some fun with it. But yeah, it was the other
Speaker 1: thing too, about the draft. I mean, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of the subplot stuff other than just the meat
Speaker 1: and potatoes of who to pick and all that. But
Speaker 1: the thing about the draft the crowd. There was a
Speaker 1: massive amount of people there. They said there were two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand people. Detroit as a city
Speaker 1: has a population of about six hundred and forty thousand people.
Speaker 1: The math on these crowd estimates I said it on
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show a few hours ago, and it's like
Speaker 1: they just throw numbers out and just gets repeated. Nobody
Speaker 1: like questions any of the numbers. It's wild.
Speaker 3: I like the fact though, that you would have went
Speaker 3: be rabbit. You would have had everybody put their hands up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, sure man. I would have served Detroit pizza,
Speaker 1: which I didn't even know there was a thing until
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, when I think it was
Speaker 1: was it Pizza Hut? Somebody started doing commercials Detroit style pizza,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what the f is that? I
Speaker 1: know about New York style peace, I know about Chicago pizza.
Speaker 1: I'd never even heard of Detroit style pizza until a
Speaker 1: few years ago. And I'm like a middle aged guy,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where did that come from? Detroit? Did
Speaker 1: they just make that up to sell pizza at Pizza
Speaker 1: or something? I was like, where did that come?
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I was talking to Alex, the vegan.
Speaker 1: Who and I didn't realize he was still working there.
Speaker 3: I had no idea, right, he takes more days off
Speaker 3: than anyone I've ever met in my life. But he
Speaker 3: was telling me he agrees with me Whenever our job
Speaker 3: gets pizza, they go down the street to that New
Speaker 3: York style place and they get that really thin, not
Speaker 3: crispy pizza and it.
Speaker 1: Flocks very expensive. And the biggest part is they're big pieces,
Speaker 1: but a large pie is very expensive and you get
Speaker 1: about seven or eight pieces or something. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get hardly any pizza.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mulberry I think is the name of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. Yeah, I mean it's good if
Speaker 1: you're into that kind of pizza, it's good. But it's
Speaker 1: not for a radio station. It doesn't really work.
Speaker 3: He looked at me the other day because there were
Speaker 3: some of those sloppy floppies on the counter in the
Speaker 3: Blue kitchen, and he said, why don't they ever get
Speaker 3: a good Chicago pie? Why don't always get this flimsy pizza?
Speaker 1: And there is a deep dish place that opened not
Speaker 1: far away from our studio, like a Chicago deep dish
Speaker 1: pizza place is in that area in the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 1: So they don't they don't go there, you know, you
Speaker 1: know why they go to Mulberry Street. Danny. When Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio opened the Great Annie Z, she would buy
Speaker 1: pizza and that's where she bought it from because it
Speaker 1: was the closest pizza place. And even though she's not
Speaker 1: part of Fox Sports Radiomore, the people still buy the
Speaker 1: pizza from the same damn place. Wild nobody changes.
Speaker 3: Not the only thing I take credit for Ben.
Speaker 1: By the way, today is National Pretzel Day, one of
Speaker 1: the most important days on the calendar. National Pretzel Day. Amazing.
Speaker 3: Go to boxing, food and sporting an event, food pretzel,
Speaker 3: and Disneyland Mickey Mouse pretzel, hot melted cheddar cheese.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when I back in the old days, we
Speaker 1: used to go to the mall. They have these things
Speaker 1: called the malls of them. Even now there's some outdoor malls,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking of the old school like malls where
Speaker 1: they were all closed off. You'd walk around. It's like
Speaker 1: you got to get a soft pretzel, right, you got
Speaker 1: to get a pretzel or if you travel, pretzel solid meal.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun fact on the pretzel, because I'm all
Speaker 1: about the fun facts. If I don't give a fun fact,
Speaker 1: alf the alien opiner will get very upset. The origin
Speaker 1: of the pretzel dates back to the seventh century, and
Speaker 1: we can thank the Catholic churches for the pretzel. The
Speaker 1: rule of abstinence and fasting during Lent were much stricter,
Speaker 1: hard to believe in the seventh century, and they forbid
Speaker 1: the Catholics from consuming dairy eggs or meat. Couldn't eat
Speaker 1: any at and that led to the creation of the pretzel,
Speaker 1: which was the perfect food to eat. You weren't violating
Speaker 1: any of the draconian rules of the Catholic Church and
Speaker 1: you could do what you want. So and there you go.
Speaker 1: You can thank them.
Speaker 3: That also where the mustard packets came from, because you
Speaker 3: couldn't dip it in melted cheese in that case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was how we can pack. The Germans, right,
Speaker 1: the Germans, the hard pretzel, the German thing, and they
Speaker 1: said the k nodded. Here's another fun fact about the pretzel.
Speaker 1: The knodded shape of the pretzel became a symbol of
Speaker 1: union in Switzerland in the sixteen hundreds. With weddings royal
Speaker 1: couples featured pretzels to represent the bond in matrimony, tying
Speaker 1: the knot. According to legend, that is where the phrase
Speaker 1: tying the knot came from. About that, but that you
Speaker 1: can smoke it. Tying the knot, you're saluting the pretzel.
Speaker 1: Take that for data. Stupid, but I read it on
Speaker 1: the internet. It must be true. But the heart pretzel,
Speaker 1: that's actually a somewhat new Now. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: heart pretzel guy, although occasionally I do enjoy the pretzel
Speaker 1: stick with peanut butter. Solid combination, solid combination.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. And you know what's good, those flat hard pretzels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those are good. Two. And the
Speaker 1: historians of the pretzel, you imagine you grow up and
Speaker 1: you want to be a firefighter or a police officer
Speaker 1: or a soldier, and you become a historian of the pretzel.
Speaker 1: They claim that the first hard pretzel is a relatively
Speaker 1: new invention, and it was first created in Pennsylvania by
Speaker 1: German immigrants, and Pennsylvania is the holy land in America
Speaker 1: of the pretzel that we've had. Fats in Philadelphia sent
Speaker 1: us a bunch of soft pretzels a while back and
Speaker 1: they were amazing, just and we had to cook them
Speaker 1: because they were not cooked otherwise terrible. But yeah, So
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty million dollars the annual worth of
Speaker 1: the pretzel industry here in the United States. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of yeah, a lot of pretzels, so I'm out
Speaker 1: of fun facts on pretzels. On this podcast, We've got
Speaker 1: a little Southern charm one take Mallor, and I guess
Speaker 1: some other stuff. We'll see if we have time to
Speaker 1: get to all that. But I wanted to start with
Speaker 1: this and this is a big announcement. I saved it
Speaker 1: for the podcast. I teased it a little bit on
Speaker 1: the radio show last night, but we have a major,
Speaker 1: major development, major development. Call to arms for all Malor Militia.
Speaker 1: I'm going to drop this right here on the podcast
Speaker 1: because if you listen to this podcast, you are not
Speaker 1: a poop ed. You are a VIP in the Malard Militia.
Speaker 1: And for the first time this year, and for the
Speaker 1: first time in the history of the radio show, almost
Speaker 1: twenty five years of broadcasting on Fox. I can't believe
Speaker 1: it's been that long. We're not that far away from
Speaker 1: that magical number. But the problem is I miss six
Speaker 1: months in twenty six days because the company got rid
Speaker 1: of me. But it's been a while, so we are
Speaker 1: holding here's the announcement. Do you have a drum roll, Danny?
Speaker 1: Can you get me in the mood with a drum roll?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Let me beat on my chest, here we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, drum, dumb, drum.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: For the first time in the history of the show,
Speaker 1: and the first time this year, we will have a
Speaker 1: Malor meet and greet below the Mason Dixon line. What
Speaker 1: that's right? We are headed to Dixie for a Malor
Speaker 1: meet and greet. Why, Danny, I'll tell you why because
Speaker 1: I have to go there because my niece is graduating
Speaker 1: from college in South Carolina. I've never been to South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would go to South Carolina. But
Speaker 1: here we are. I'm gonna go, and it's a place
Speaker 1: I've never been. I don't know much about it. If
Speaker 1: you know anything about it, let me know. I've done
Speaker 1: a little research. But here's the deal. So I am
Speaker 1: Uncle Benny, and I will be in the state of
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Actually gonna be driving all over North Carolina
Speaker 1: and South Carolina, but I'm gonna be in town for
Speaker 1: a hoot and nanny of a party. My brother both
Speaker 1: my brothers are gonna be there. I'll be in town
Speaker 1: and I always try to meet the people when I'm
Speaker 1: in a place I don't normally go, and I would
Speaker 1: love to meet you. I'm going to be in Charleston,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. I'm gonna give you the details on this.
Speaker 1: I do want to tip the headphones to a big
Speaker 1: p one, a guy that listens to this podcast and
Speaker 1: actually admits it, at least to me, Dale from Charleston.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Dale, I appreciate. I have course finded
Speaker 1: with Dale a couple of times I had mentioned on
Speaker 1: this podcast, Danny, I was going to be in South
Speaker 1: Carolina and I was looking for a place in Charleston.
Speaker 1: Dale answered the call. There were a couple other people
Speaker 1: that answered as well. But Dale, he's my guy in
Speaker 1: Charleston because he knows people. He's my boots on the
Speaker 1: ground and as a made man, he knows where I
Speaker 1: needed to go, and he knew somebody. Dale actually is
Speaker 1: from our neck of the woods. Dan, he's from California's
Speaker 1: from Orange County and Brea and he moved to Charleston
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: So nice, Nice. My car got broken into it in
Speaker 3: Brea one time.
Speaker 1: There's a cheesecake factory in Brea, if I remember. But
Speaker 1: he used to listen to the first hour of the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show on his way home from work. He used
Speaker 1: to work at a bar. Now he listens to the
Speaker 1: last half hour of the radio show live because he's
Speaker 1: driving to work doing the early commute, and he says
Speaker 1: he does listen up. This is the podcast for the
Speaker 1: rest of the show. But here are the details. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Malard meet and Green. I have no idea if
Speaker 1: anyone's going to show up. I have no concept to
Speaker 1: how many people we have listening in South Carolina and
Speaker 1: that part of North Carolina, so there might be nobody there.
Speaker 1: It might just mean me and Dale hanging out, which
Speaker 1: I'm fine with. Dale seems like a cool guy. We'll
Speaker 1: have a good time. I hope there's some others that
Speaker 1: show up. I know Jerome and Charleston has been calling
Speaker 1: the show, and we've had a few other callers from there.
Speaker 1: So the way this is going to work, we will
Speaker 1: be there the when. The when is on Friday, May tenth,
Speaker 1: so we're still a couple weeks away from this Friday
Speaker 1: May tenth. It'll be from three o'clock to five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Obviously Eastern time, because we'll be on Eastern time. And
Speaker 1: where this is going to happen. Pay close attention. My
Speaker 1: father's mustache.
Speaker 3: What's the name of the place.
Speaker 1: Well, No, that's the place. See, that's that's the magic.
Speaker 1: Does that not sound like a great place? I already
Speaker 1: looked at the menu. I scattered what I want, so
Speaker 1: I'm happy it's my father's mustache. But it's the James
Speaker 1: Island location. Now Dale boots on the ground. Dale tells
Speaker 1: me that there's another location out on the peninsula, but
Speaker 1: that is or on Mount Pleasant rather Mount Pleasant. That's
Speaker 1: not the one. This is a different one. The one
Speaker 1: we're doing the event at is on James Island. It's
Speaker 1: one seven three nine Maybank Highway in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: And I'm told it's about three miles west of downtown Charleston.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what I'm told. And there's again another location.
Speaker 1: I know it can be a little confusing, so just
Speaker 1: the one we're at will be on James Island. Why
Speaker 1: are we doing this because I'm I'm a glutton for punishment. No,
Speaker 1: I want to meet people. I've alway tried to do
Speaker 1: this over the years. I've had a lot of these
Speaker 1: things in random cities. We've done several in Boston, did
Speaker 1: one in Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Appleton, Wisconsin because my brother lives
Speaker 1: in that area of Wisconsin. Did Seattle. We've done a
Speaker 1: bunch in La Bakersfield, we did that. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think where else. I know I'm missing some that we
Speaker 1: did Anyway, in Chicago. I met some listeners in Chicago
Speaker 1: Kansas City, so we've done a few. Man that these
Speaker 1: have added up over the years. But anyway, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to South Carolina. And if you've been listening or
Speaker 1: you're you know somebody else who might live there that's
Speaker 1: a fan of the show, maybe the podcast. They don't
Speaker 1: hear this whatever, who I saw They have French onion soup.
Speaker 1: Danny a big French onion soups. Guy looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: I don't usually eat fish and chips. It appears they
Speaker 1: have good fish and chips. They've got bangers and mash
Speaker 1: and that that. I don't know about that. That sounds
Speaker 1: like like an English show. Maybe it's an English restaurant,
Speaker 1: like you're a.
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: It looks good. It is my kind of food. It's
Speaker 1: like bar food mostly, and there's a couple of different locations,
Speaker 1: but we'll beat the Mount Pleasant ones. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Thanks again to Dale. We'll promote a
Speaker 1: lot of this on the radio show this week. I'll
Speaker 1: mention it, and I see they have chicken fingers, fried
Speaker 1: mots around. These are all my favorite foods. These are
Speaker 1: all my favorite foods. So it's really.
Speaker 3: Mystically what nine year olds like to order from the
Speaker 3: kids menu.
Speaker 1: You could be jealous. You know you're jealous. You eat
Speaker 1: your adult food. They have a deluxe grilled cheese. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the tomato on there. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need that Shepherd's pie, not a big Shepherd's pie.
Speaker 1: Too many vegetables, not big shepherd pie. Guy, they got
Speaker 1: a Guinness stew. Let's see here, what else do they
Speaker 1: have a lot of beer, a lot of good beer.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's that's the deal. We'll be we'll be schmoozing,
Speaker 1: hanging out again May tenth. You're getting this information before
Speaker 1: anybody else here on the Fifth Hour podcast. Maybe Alfo
Speaker 1: will drive down from Springfield and hang out with us,
Speaker 1: and who knows our friend, what's the what's the numb
Speaker 1: nuts name? I forget the guys. I'm trying to think. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want him there. No, I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's tech tech savvy enough to hear
Speaker 1: the podcast. We're good. We're good on that, So that's
Speaker 1: the event. Now, moving on from that, we mentioned in
Speaker 1: a previous episode of this podcast, Danny that I know
Speaker 1: the way to San Jose. We learned a thing or
Speaker 1: two about adulting this past week. You might remember we
Speaker 1: talked about the rental car. I picked up the rental
Speaker 1: car and realized my driver's license was days away from expiring.
Speaker 1: So I hopped on the DMV website. That's what an
Speaker 1: adult do. I tried to pretend like I was my mom,
Speaker 1: the grown up. You know. I hopped on the DMV website.
Speaker 1: I attempted to renew my license. You'd think this would
Speaker 1: be a rather easy concept, because really, all the government
Speaker 1: wants is your money. They don't really care whether you
Speaker 1: know how to drive or not. They just want the money.
Speaker 1: Much to my surprise, Much to my surprise, the California
Speaker 1: Department of Motor Vehicles decided, you know what, let's bust
Speaker 1: mallows balls. Let's make this a steeplechase. Rather than just
Speaker 1: click a button, put your credit card in, get your
Speaker 1: driver's license extended, No no, no no. I had to jump
Speaker 1: through a bunch of Hulu hoops. It started out simple enough.
Speaker 1: Once upon a time, a long long time ago. They
Speaker 1: said I clicked on the website. I typed my information
Speaker 1: and they said I needed to take a written test
Speaker 1: to get my license rent it, and they said there
Speaker 1: was an online option. You can click on the button
Speaker 1: and you can take the test online. I said, great,
Speaker 1: this is one wonderful this is what I would like.
Speaker 1: I would like to take the test. I don't have
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. I could sit in my underwear and
Speaker 1: I could take the test. Outstanding. So I clicked on it,
Speaker 1: and it said, uh, you're not eligible for the test.
Speaker 1: You can't take the test online. You have to make
Speaker 1: an appointment and go in person. But then they said
Speaker 1: there's this option. You can go to a DMV kiosk.
Speaker 1: And they made it seem the way it was written, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can take the test and a DMV kiosk. I
Speaker 1: thought that's kind of odd. Why would they have you
Speaker 1: take a test at a DMV kiosk. But I found
Speaker 1: what I went to it didn't work. So I went
Speaker 1: back home. I went on the computer and said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll schedule an appointment. So I picked a time that
Speaker 1: worked for me. I then typed my driver's license number in.
Speaker 1: I typed my a few ditches, my social security in.
Speaker 1: I was then informed by the website that they couldn't
Speaker 1: find me. I didn't exist. They said they didn't recognize
Speaker 1: me having a California driver's license. I was rejected, even
Speaker 1: though they allowed me to log in to the website
Speaker 1: to get to that point. At this point, they said
Speaker 1: I no longer existed. So then I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: I tried the next day, didn't work, same thing. So
Speaker 1: I was okay, there's a phone number on the website.
Speaker 1: I'll call the phone number. I'm sure there'll be a
Speaker 1: nice personal answer. We all know people that work at
Speaker 1: the DMV are very nice, and so they will. Then
Speaker 1: they will then direct me. So I called the number.
Speaker 1: I called the DMV number. I then got stuck in
Speaker 1: an AI automated phone tree for about ten minutes until
Speaker 1: I finally said screw this and I hung up. So
Speaker 1: my license is going to be rotten soon, so I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, screw it. I'll just show up. I'll
Speaker 1: take the bullet, I'll go to the DMV. I have
Speaker 1: no appointment at the DMV, but I'm going to show up.
Speaker 1: Oh no, what could go wrong exactly? But here's what
Speaker 1: I did, Danny. I did do the adult thing. I
Speaker 1: did opposition research. I studied all of the DMVs. I
Speaker 1: had two different plans. Plan A was to just go
Speaker 1: to the closest DMV because why not it's closed whatever.
Speaker 1: Plan B was to go far away if the line
Speaker 1: was short, because they had the wait times listed the
Speaker 1: average weight time if you don't have an appointment. So
Speaker 1: I went on there and I started clicking, there's a
Speaker 1: million DMBs where we are, and they listed the wait
Speaker 1: times and so I went through all these and I
Speaker 1: found one which wasn't too far away, but wasn't the
Speaker 1: closest DMB. I picked that one and they had the
Speaker 1: lowest average weight times. So I grabbed my headphones and
Speaker 1: I charged my phone, make sure I was ready to go,
Speaker 1: and I just like went into the DMV jungle. I
Speaker 1: was treated rudely by a very large woman that was
Speaker 1: at the front desk. It took me a long time
Speaker 1: to get to the front desk. There were three different
Speaker 1: stations had to go to, so she was kind of rude.
Speaker 1: She was I hold, I describe it dismissive. I just
Speaker 1: did it didn't get a good vibe from her. Pain
Speaker 1: in the ass. She said, well, you you got to
Speaker 1: go fill out this form, but you got to walk
Speaker 1: past where they're taking the photos and then you can
Speaker 1: fill out this form and then you can take the test.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna call your number, so you can't just
Speaker 1: walk over there. Now you got away for them to
Speaker 1: call your number, even though I'd already been online for
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. So I was like whatever, So I
Speaker 1: go sit down and then they called my number, so
Speaker 1: I then have to walk over. But after there's two
Speaker 1: different lines. I had to go to the right line,
Speaker 1: not the left line. I went to the right line.
Speaker 1: I then got the piece of paper. Then they said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you got to go to this other window, window three.
Speaker 1: So then I walked all the way around the DMB
Speaker 1: in front of a bunch of people that hadn't showered
Speaker 1: and smelled like ass, and I walked over to window three.
Speaker 1: Then I was informed that not only would I have
Speaker 1: to take a test, I had to do a eye
Speaker 1: exam and take a phone This was not listed on
Speaker 1: the DMV website. I was dressed like a schlub. I
Speaker 1: was not told I was going to need my photo.
Speaker 1: I just had my photo retaken a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Why would I need my photo? She said, no, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta ed your phone. I'm like, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I was like, what, fine, So I
Speaker 1: did the eye test. I passed that.
Speaker 3: This is like when Eddie takes pictures of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. So I did the eye test.
Speaker 1: Then I had to walk all the way around from
Speaker 1: window three. I had to walk back around the DMB
Speaker 1: all the way around to where they were doing the photo.
Speaker 1: So then I had to get my photo take. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I did, but I still have to take the test.
Speaker 1: If I don't pass the test, I don't get my
Speaker 1: license renewed. And then I'm told you know, I was
Speaker 1: in line and then they were like, well I overheard
Speaker 1: because I felt really bad. There was this really sweet
Speaker 1: old man who had a Vietnam hat, which tells me
Speaker 1: he was probably in Vietnam and he was there trying
Speaker 1: to get his license renew I guess he had failed
Speaker 1: his test a couple of times. He only had one
Speaker 1: more test to take. Then he had to start the
Speaker 1: process over again. You get three tries. If you fail
Speaker 1: all three, they make you re pay the fee to
Speaker 1: take three more attempts, and so this guy apparently failed
Speaker 1: at a bunch and I felt bad for the guy.
Speaker 1: And there were a bunch of old people in there
Speaker 1: that apparently had no ability to take the test. Now
Speaker 1: keep in mind, Danny, I had not studied for the test.
Speaker 1: I just figured I knew how to drive. What's the
Speaker 1: big deal, right I kind of know the rules, and
Speaker 1: my ass feels so good right now. So I go
Speaker 1: into the go in there and they're like, no phones,
Speaker 1: put your phone down. If you're there's cameras. If you're
Speaker 1: on your phone, you're you know you're going to fail.
Speaker 1: You basically, don't be an asshole from Houston, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those baseball players. So I was like, fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: So I walked over there and a little little nervous,
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, oh, wait a minute. You
Speaker 1: know this is not something I studied for. So I
Speaker 1: start going through the questions. I'm like, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: I like, I'll screw it. I'll just do it. And
Speaker 1: there were tons of questions I got. I only got
Speaker 1: three wrong, and I passed the test. One take Mallard, Danny,
Speaker 1: I passed the test, yay, and the one I got.
Speaker 1: One of the ones I got wrong, I should have
Speaker 1: gotten right. It was about they showed you the sign.
Speaker 1: There was a sign that I thought meant hazardous waste,
Speaker 1: but it meant something else, and that kind of pissed
Speaker 1: me off. But overall, you know, it took a long time.
Speaker 1: It didn't take as long as I thought, and I
Speaker 1: got my license. The only problem with this is I
Speaker 1: don't know whether or not I'm going to get my
Speaker 1: license before I have to go to the airport to
Speaker 1: fly to Dixie to fly to South Carolina. So that's
Speaker 1: a problem. I don't know if they'll even let me
Speaker 1: on the plane if I don't have a photo driver's lest.
Speaker 1: I have a temporary driver's license I've never tried to
Speaker 1: fly with Have you ever tried to fly with a
Speaker 1: temporary driver's license without a photo.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to find something that has your photo
Speaker 3: on it to go along with that temporary license.
Speaker 1: I could probably take my expired license it had my photo, right,
Speaker 1: that would probably work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that plus the new paper one probably would work.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, Well, I'm hoping it'll show up. A couple
Speaker 1: of things that happened this week. I do have the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week, Danny, not to be confused with
Speaker 1: the idiom of the week or the word of the week,
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week. Are you ready for the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week?
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Now, I am doing this phrase of the week in
Speaker 1: honor of the late Genie in Medford.
Speaker 2: I got it all over me.
Speaker 1: She said, I'm a doctor, right, but she was actually
Speaker 1: quoting the phrase I'm not a doctor, but I play
Speaker 1: one on TV. I'm a doctor. Yeah, she changed it up,
Speaker 1: but the actual phrase that she was referencing was I'm
Speaker 1: not a doctor, but I played one on TV and
Speaker 1: I fell down a rabbit hole and I ended up
Speaker 1: coming across this. So that phrase actually started. That catch
Speaker 1: phrase started on television when we were kids in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and it's I'm not a doctor, I play
Speaker 1: one on TV. What if I told you that came from?
Speaker 1: What do you think that came from?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 1: Before I pay this off? What do you think it
Speaker 1: came from? Nineteen eighty four?
Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor. I just played one on TV
Speaker 3: from a TV commercial? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yes, it was a commercial for Vic's Formula forty four.
Speaker 1: Cough suroupe boom. Yeah. A guy named Chris Robinson was
Speaker 1: the actor and the commercial. So why why did this
Speaker 1: jackass say I'm not a doctor, but I played one
Speaker 1: on TV? Because back in that period of time, he
Speaker 1: played doctor Rick Weber on the soap opera General Hospital,
Speaker 1: which is a big deal. People loved that show back
Speaker 1: in the day. The ad continued, Now, the actor actually
Speaker 1: was fired because I guess he had tax issues. He
Speaker 1: was fired, so they hired another TV doctor from the
Speaker 1: soap opera All My Children, and they kept the catchphrase.
Speaker 1: But that catchphrase is from a cough Syrup commercial in
Speaker 1: the eighties. But nobody remembers that, right, Who the hell
Speaker 1: remembers that? They don't remember that. They just know the
Speaker 1: catchphrase I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.
Speaker 1: And that is also something that was stolen for a
Speaker 1: hotel commercial, the Holiday in Express. Right. I mocked that
Speaker 1: one all the time. I'm not a pilot, but I
Speaker 1: did stay at a holiday in Express last night. I did.
Speaker 3: That's right. And the flashback when we got that famous
Speaker 3: drop from Jeanie, you were saying on the air to her,
Speaker 3: you know, Genie, I'm not a doctor, but I played
Speaker 3: one on the radio, and she retorted, I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of Genie and Medford. We have a
Speaker 1: little foodie fun. We'll get out on a little foody fun.
Speaker 1: We have some food stories here to give back to
Speaker 1: the people. Let's see, I got Popeyes in Canada, Danny.
Speaker 1: These are actual food stories from random restaurants. Popeyes Canada
Speaker 1: has added new buffalo crispy chicken wrap with Here's the
Speaker 1: key part. Here's the reason I'm doing the story with
Speaker 1: loaded buffalo poutine. Loaded buffalo poutine. But it's only in Canada.
Speaker 1: Why can't we get poutine more widespread here in America?
Speaker 1: What's up with that?
Speaker 3: Doesn't taste that good?
Speaker 1: What? What'sh your mouth out with soap and water? Dominoes
Speaker 1: is offering six ninety nine large two topping pizza carry
Speaker 1: out deal. It goes through Sunday, so you have to
Speaker 1: get that through Sunday if you want that deal. See
Speaker 1: what else? Carls Junior waunching a new L Diablo hand
Speaker 1: breaded chicken tender wrap. That's a lot loaded. Oh here
Speaker 1: we go L diablow loaded fries.
Speaker 3: Also everything is loaded now, Yes.
Speaker 1: Even we are loaded. I think Hooters launching a new
Speaker 1: sizzling menu featuring new mango habanero.
Speaker 3: Wet sauce, and new loaded waitresses.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What else do we have? The habit bringing back
Speaker 1: cinnamon toast crunch shake. That sounds all right, it's not bad.
Speaker 1: That's here. Domino's launches a U Tip we Tip promotion
Speaker 1: that rewards customers who tip their delivery drivers. Aren't you
Speaker 1: supposed to do that anyway? Though? Do you need to
Speaker 1: be rewarded for that?
Speaker 3: Like? What? What's But the problem is they keep upting
Speaker 3: the delivery fees that they charge. I want to know
Speaker 3: if that delivery fee doesn't go to the driver, who
Speaker 3: does it go to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how that works. Maybe somebody can
Speaker 1: help us out. That's that does that? America's most loved
Speaker 1: chain in twenty twenty four. This is a new research
Speaker 1: used Google search data to pinpoint America's favorite restaurant chains.
Speaker 1: What is America's most love chain? Last week we had
Speaker 1: one of these things. They said, Culver's. It is not Culver's.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? This is a different.
Speaker 3: Group Shane Restaurants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a national brand, largest a larger chain, larger.
Speaker 3: Chain, larger chain. Fast food though, Uh, yeah, it's fast food. Wendy's.
Speaker 1: No, this says McDonald's. I don't know you, big McDon
Speaker 1: I don't hate McDonald's, but I don't need a lot
Speaker 1: of fast food.
Speaker 3: No. You know, recently I had a Wendy's junior bacon cheeseburger. Hell,
Speaker 3: it was good. It tasted the same quality as when
Speaker 3: I had it as a kid. I like the fact
Speaker 3: that Wendy's hasn't really changed a lot of things on
Speaker 3: their menu.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good that you ordered that at noon, because
Speaker 1: if you'd ordered it it four o'clock, it would have
Speaker 1: cost you twenty seven dollars. So it's good that you
Speaker 1: ordered it at noon. Speaking of that, I saw that
Speaker 1: Burger King and McDonald's. The claim is that Burger King
Speaker 1: and McDonald's they do what Windy's is going to do,
Speaker 1: but they do it in a different way. Taco Bell
Speaker 1: also where they have the you know the Windy story
Speaker 1: a couple weeks back, where they were going to raise
Speaker 1: prices in the certain rush hour times. But I was
Speaker 1: reading the story how they do this, and they were claiming, like,
Speaker 1: I'll use Starbucks, because they used Starbucks as an example.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from the story here. They said sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: offer an afternoon buy one, get one free promotion on
Speaker 1: some drinks, right, random drinks. They do that because that's
Speaker 1: a time when they're not selling a lot of rappuccinos
Speaker 1: or whatever, so they're trying to drive traffic when things
Speaker 1: are slow, and they've got loyalty point offers and things
Speaker 1: like that are on certain items. They claim though, that
Speaker 1: the most expensive price you'll pay for any item at
Speaker 1: Burger King, McDonald's or Starbucks or Taco Bell is actually
Speaker 1: on the menu board that that's the most expensed. But
Speaker 1: what Wendy's was doing was they were talking about raising.
Speaker 3: Prices, surging prices like Hubert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the other places actually have they have like
Speaker 1: reverse surge pricing to try to get people in the
Speaker 1: business when people normally aren't in the business, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's the deal. All right, we'll get out on that. Danny,
Speaker 1: it is Friday. Anything you would like to promote today
Speaker 1: here you'll be hanging out with Covino and Rich. I
Speaker 1: would assume NFL Draft around the clock coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we had a lot of fun yesterday's
Speaker 3: Cavino on Rich. We did an official CEE in our
Speaker 3: movie Draft in honor of Al Pacino's eighty fourth birthday
Speaker 3: was pretty cool. Did imaging and everything, and a lot
Speaker 3: of silliness with that. So that was a fun show.
Speaker 3: Today Friday weekend hob Nobin and the usual antics from
Speaker 3: two to five pm on the West Side and that
Speaker 3: is five to seven pm and beautiful South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's beautiful or not. I've not
Speaker 1: been there, so it looks nice.
Speaker 3: Looks like to find out from your meet and greet
Speaker 3: when you go to your mother's mustache.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, se you screwed that up. See that's
Speaker 1: a bad job you. This is a famous location, my
Speaker 1: father's mustache, the James Island location. It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have like seven people show up. It'll be awesome.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be so much fun. I can't wait
Speaker 1: any We have a great day today, and we got
Speaker 1: pods all weekend long. I will explain how I became
Speaker 1: a magician. I'll save that for tomorrow's podcast. Have a
Speaker 1: great day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go