Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. We are
Speaker 1: back at it. It is a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, another
Speaker 1: dish of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny G.
Speaker 1: Because five nights a week, four hours a night, clearly
Speaker 1: not enough bonus coverage. Bonus coverage here on the weekends
Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's all about all about us, not necessarily
Speaker 1: about anything. It's the podcast about nothing. And the great
Speaker 1: thing about podcasting is you can do it from anywhere,
Speaker 1: any place, anytime. We'll explain more about that coming up
Speaker 1: in a little bit. But Danny G, you survived another
Speaker 1: shift earlier in the week, hanging out on the overnight
Speaker 1: there and you've got a day job and then occasionally
Speaker 1: when Coop's away, we call you in to work overnight.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that was that was wonderful for your
Speaker 1: sleep pattern. Yes, sir, I in fact, I just got
Speaker 1: done with a little road trip and I slept most
Speaker 1: of the way to the destination because since I was
Speaker 1: on your show Tuesday into Wednesday, I've been trying to
Speaker 1: catch up on sleep ever since. Well worth it, as
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun when I pointed out
Speaker 1: before that doing the overnight hours takes a toll on
Speaker 1: the body and we should be paid more, not less
Speaker 1: because of the health ramifications. And let me point out,
Speaker 1: every time I brought that up to management, I get
Speaker 1: that response. They think that's very funny, and they pretty
Speaker 1: much tell That's what they pretty much tell me. But
Speaker 1: at the very least, those who work late night or
Speaker 1: first shifts should at least get premium healthcare. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there should be something. Yeah, there's something going
Speaker 1: on there, you know. I'm just I'm just saying. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So on this edition to the fifth, I think if
Speaker 1: you're a regular listener, you know how it ghost. But
Speaker 1: maybe not maybe maybe all of a sudden we got
Speaker 1: somebody new, you know, might be great to have a
Speaker 1: new listener to the podcast. Boy, that would be awesome. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so we've got Mellow Yellow, Mr Vegas, the
Speaker 1: Draconian Doggie, possibly mystery ingredient, and also we'll have the
Speaker 1: pop quiz. So we got a lot to get to.
Speaker 1: This is this is an amazing podcast. This could be
Speaker 1: the greatest podcast in the history of podcasting. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. There the amount of content that we
Speaker 1: are providing, and we might even have a fight, might
Speaker 1: even have a random fight, might break out, you never know.
Speaker 1: Let's get it on alright, So Mellow Yellow, We're gonna
Speaker 1: start with it. So I mentioned this in passing on
Speaker 1: the radio show. But it was an odd weekend this
Speaker 1: past weekend for me because I was very close to
Speaker 1: so Fi Stadium last week and now there was no
Speaker 1: game at so Far Stadium. I wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: my wife's grandfather, which means my grandfather in law had
Speaker 1: a moment. There was his memorial service last weekend, right,
Speaker 1: so I and the family all gathered together. Now here's
Speaker 1: the the odd part about it, Danny, is the my
Speaker 1: grandfather in law passed away in here we are in
Speaker 1: two having the funeral or the memorial for for him.
Speaker 1: Because of COVID at the time he passed away, California,
Speaker 1: there's so much red tipped they banned funerals in the
Speaker 1: state of California. Can I have a funeral? So, I
Speaker 1: mean can on this guy's life when he passed away,
Speaker 1: which normally within a recent a lot of time, that's
Speaker 1: what you normally do. And then it was scheduled at
Speaker 1: a later date, which was I think sometimes ine. But
Speaker 1: that was when COVID picked up again, and so they
Speaker 1: shut it down again. And so finally, uh and and
Speaker 1: some of the people in the family were a little
Speaker 1: freaked out by it. So anyway, finally it took place
Speaker 1: this past weekend and you know, schedule on and off again.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I mean it was it was cool, you know,
Speaker 1: honor the memory of someone who uh, actually I became
Speaker 1: pretty good friends with uh. You know, we saw him
Speaker 1: at all the family functions on all this. But it
Speaker 1: was like fifteen months after he passed away. I think
Speaker 1: they do record um. But attended the memorial service and
Speaker 1: included a trip to the dreaded four oh five And
Speaker 1: as you know that that's the point of d marketion
Speaker 1: the four or five freeway from me and I got
Speaker 1: off the the highway and uh, I became bug eyed
Speaker 1: Danny because it was shantytown, USA. Man, what I saw surreal.
Speaker 1: Now I've seen home was I've lived in I lived
Speaker 1: in Lincoln Heights in l A, which is the in
Speaker 1: the hood, the Avenue gangs there in Lincoln Heights. I
Speaker 1: lived there for several years, and so I've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen bad parts of town or whatever. Things go back.
Speaker 1: This is what I saw. Oh my god, it is
Speaker 1: worse than it's ever been. It's it's absolutely horrible. It's
Speaker 1: almost like everyone said, hey, we've got a problem. We
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. We just give up. All
Speaker 1: the politicians, all the people that could fix it, just
Speaker 1: who cares, you know, that's it. We don't have any answers.
Speaker 1: We'll just let them do whatever they want. And it
Speaker 1: was the revelation was the mellow yellow. The water bottles.
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of water bottles all over near
Speaker 1: the shanty town, which we're yellow. Yeah. And here's what
Speaker 1: I don't understand any like my experience with them. If
Speaker 1: you're homeless, one of the advantages is the planet is
Speaker 1: your toilet. You know, you can go any where. Why
Speaker 1: why would you I don't understand the whole water bottle thing.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to save it? You're going doc
Speaker 1: Mike on us and maybe you want to beverage later
Speaker 1: and maybe you're gonna drink it later. I don't understand
Speaker 1: that part of it. I don't get it. Guessing it's
Speaker 1: because in the early cold hours of the morning, maybe
Speaker 1: you want to stay in your half made tent. Maybe
Speaker 1: some some were saying, I don't know as you were.
Speaker 1: Somebody else said that it was because of Uber, like
Speaker 1: was Uber drivers, But it wasn't Uber. It was at
Speaker 1: it was at a homeless encampment, like right, So I
Speaker 1: don't think it was Uber drivers. You know, I've got
Speaker 1: some urine in the bottom, so let me drop it
Speaker 1: off at the shantytown as I'm driving through. I don't
Speaker 1: think that was going on. That wasn't me. That's gross.
Speaker 1: So somebody thinks Uber drivers all go to the bathroom
Speaker 1: and water bottles. Uh. Somebody, I forget who it was
Speaker 1: on the show said that that's like a thing now
Speaker 1: in the Uber community because you're so busy to make
Speaker 1: any you know, you got a hustle when you're doing Uber,
Speaker 1: and how do you go into water bottle? Not to
Speaker 1: brag or anything, ban here we go, I would need
Speaker 1: a big gulp cup to everything inside and not get
Speaker 1: urine all over the place. Yes, Uh, well, how do
Speaker 1: you be into the top of a water bottle? Well,
Speaker 1: I know the the logistics of how that would work.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you would probably miss a
Speaker 1: little bit and it might get on your hands and
Speaker 1: go all over the place and all that stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking even if you go hold a whole, you're
Speaker 1: still yeah, you're still gonna have a lot of splatter,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. Now, I do have a relative who
Speaker 1: is very lazy, who claims sometimes so get up in
Speaker 1: the middle. We all get up in the middle of night. Well,
Speaker 1: I get up in the middle of the day, go bathroom.
Speaker 1: And this guy claims he's he's it's too far to
Speaker 1: walk to the bathroom, which is probably about ten feet away.
Speaker 1: So he does keep a cup, not a water bottle,
Speaker 1: but a cup near his bed so he can if
Speaker 1: he has to go. He don't want to get out
Speaker 1: of bed, and so he just does a transferred situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's all a concern for that is always what happens
Speaker 1: if you end up late at night, you're grabbing your
Speaker 1: water and you grab the wrong the wrong thing, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're like, oh, you're screaming. You're like, I,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So anyway, I understand the the politicians though, Danny,
Speaker 1: this is interesting because the politicians in l A. I
Speaker 1: was there last weekend. On Monday, they started going Defcon
Speaker 1: one to try to clean all of that up just
Speaker 1: around the Sofi Stadium area. So when the aristocrats and
Speaker 1: the oligarchs show up, the top one percent of society
Speaker 1: who are there on their private planes and all that
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl, they don't want to
Speaker 1: have to see it. I don't know how you avoid it.
Speaker 1: Where are you putting the people? Where are you moving
Speaker 1: him to? I mean, I don't get that part of it.
Speaker 1: But it's it's like sweeping the problem under the rug,
Speaker 1: right is I haven't move him over here. It's like
Speaker 1: a shell game. You're like, I haven't move him over here,
Speaker 1: no problem. I didn't want to mention my my grandfather
Speaker 1: in law, Luigi, that was his name, Luigi. This guy
Speaker 1: is authentic Italian, by the way. Then he was born
Speaker 1: in Italy. He grew up and he told stories about
Speaker 1: you having a the family having a hide from the
Speaker 1: the you know, Germany and all that stuff that was
Speaker 1: going on back in those days. He wasn't lift to
Speaker 1: be eighties six. So he lived a long time, lived
Speaker 1: a good a good life, and it was very welcoming.
Speaker 1: He kind of he and his wife felt kind of
Speaker 1: raised my my wife. So but born in Italy, came
Speaker 1: to New Jersey like in a boat and that whole thing,
Speaker 1: and moved l A. And the coolest thing, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's the coolest thing, but this guy worked in a
Speaker 1: paint factory in l A. And all the fumes back
Speaker 1: in the day is when they didn't really care about
Speaker 1: the health of the employees. Uh. He ended up having
Speaker 1: some problems because of it near the end. But he
Speaker 1: lived a pretty healthy life until the end. But he
Speaker 1: breathed a lot of toxic fumes and raised six kids
Speaker 1: and all that. And so my plan is, I've I've
Speaker 1: used this word a few times. It's it's something that
Speaker 1: he used a lot, uh Grandpa Luigi, and it was
Speaker 1: I've added to my lexicon. It was capech like that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Italian phraseman understand. So I'll be using
Speaker 1: that more more and more. But so that wasn't my
Speaker 1: interesting and do you think he got a kick out
Speaker 1: of the fact that his funeral lasted for two years? Effectively?
Speaker 1: It was just wild day. I was sitting there. I
Speaker 1: was like, man, because I happened to the family, all
Speaker 1: got together, you know, he was he was not doing well.
Speaker 1: We're all there when he passed away, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. I mean, my dad passed away.
Speaker 1: We had we were able to have the funeral. I
Speaker 1: guess we pulled some strings and we had the funeral
Speaker 1: because you know, the Jewish religion, you're supposed to have
Speaker 1: it like boom right away, you put them in the
Speaker 1: grand boom, you don't wait, you know, and all that.
Speaker 1: But and we were able to get in. But it's
Speaker 1: pretty pretty crazy anyway for you gonna we'll move on
Speaker 1: happier things. We got Mr Vegas in in in the
Speaker 1: house here. What is this all about? Daddy? Fill me
Speaker 1: in on this because this podcast a little different than
Speaker 1: the normal parts. I don't know if it sounds any
Speaker 1: different anything like that, but this is a slightly slightly different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it may not sound any different because the way I
Speaker 1: record our podcast is through a zoom conference. But I'm
Speaker 1: in the second room of our two room sweet if
Speaker 1: you will in Las Vegas. Hopefully I'm not talking so
Speaker 1: loud that I'm waking up my party. But we jumped
Speaker 1: in the car on Friday and headed to Las Vegas, Baby, Vegas, Baby.
Speaker 1: It's not exactly for fun, although we're gonna try to
Speaker 1: find some of that. My tender rowning son is in
Speaker 1: a baseball tournament here thirty three miles off the strip
Speaker 1: at Shadow Ridge High School. There he goes. So if
Speaker 1: you want to say hello to Danny G today, if
Speaker 1: you're listening in Vegas and you're one of the early birds,
Speaker 1: you can go meet the legend Danny G at a
Speaker 1: random baseball field thirty three miles away from the strip.
Speaker 1: And the question is, Dan, it's a big weekend for football.
Speaker 1: I know your Raiders aren't, and they're sorry about that,
Speaker 1: but rams already gonna make your way to a sports book.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to go to the strip there.
Speaker 1: You can go anywhere, you know. And that's a great
Speaker 1: thing about a state that has legalized gambling, like Nevada
Speaker 1: that was the mecca, but not the mecca anymore. You're
Speaker 1: not in the mecca of gambling that is now New
Speaker 1: Jersey for sports waging that wild New Jersey because so
Speaker 1: many people, so many more people live and I think
Speaker 1: New York will probably pass them by. But but at
Speaker 1: last last year it was New Jersey. So that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: And eventually California will be a player in the game.
Speaker 1: Well here's another one, another one of those things that
Speaker 1: got delayed because of the COVID. The plan was if
Speaker 1: COVID hadn't happened, they would have already had. I believe
Speaker 1: twenty was supposed to be the year it was it was.
Speaker 1: I think that was the year. I think you're right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do remember reading that. I hope that we can
Speaker 1: find some trouble to get into after the baseball tournament.
Speaker 1: It's both Saturday and Sunday in the daytime. I'll maybe
Speaker 1: miss a little bit of Game one. I think I'll
Speaker 1: see most of Game two on Sunday. It sounds like
Speaker 1: all right, so maybe I'll watch most of Game two
Speaker 1: from a sports book. I've heard you mentioned this on
Speaker 1: the air before. There is no better place to watch
Speaker 1: a game futures writing on a win or a loss
Speaker 1: on that said game. Oh yeah, it's awesome, the in
Speaker 1: the energy, the emotion in the sports book, especially when
Speaker 1: it's like a full car. Now, I have not been
Speaker 1: there on Championships Sunday where there's two games but everything's
Speaker 1: tied together with all the prop bets and and all that.
Speaker 1: It's the what a great hustle they got at these
Speaker 1: casinos because even if they lose. My let's say, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone bets on the Chiefs, where everyone bets on the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals end up winning the game, and then
Speaker 1: you know, they have to pay out all this money,
Speaker 1: but then they make it back on the prop bets,
Speaker 1: a lot of it. They'll make back on the profits.
Speaker 1: So there's the multiple ways that they can win. But
Speaker 1: I recommend that there's some great restaurants in Vegas, a
Speaker 1: couple great barbecue place, there a few other Italian place.
Speaker 1: So the baseball games of the tournament start early, so
Speaker 1: that might mean that we could squeak into a slot
Speaker 1: for the Allegiance Stadium tour. Ah check put baby. I
Speaker 1: will give you an update on that next week. Now,
Speaker 1: I do recommend that I've not done it. I hear
Speaker 1: it is pretty expensive actually for a stadium tour. But
Speaker 1: I was told one of my my friends who lives
Speaker 1: in Vegas actually as a listener and he became a pal.
Speaker 1: He text me and he said it was awesome, Like
Speaker 1: they take you in the locker room in the press
Speaker 1: box and like behind the scenes and they show you
Speaker 1: everything and you can get a photo in there, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's really cool. So I want to see
Speaker 1: Mark Davis's personal barber shop. Yeah, well, well, what's the
Speaker 1: doesn't need to like PF Change every day. You probably
Speaker 1: go over to PF Change and you could convince him
Speaker 1: to hire whoever you want is to coach. You might
Speaker 1: even be the coach of the Raiders if you get
Speaker 1: Mark Davis at the right time. But hey, why not
Speaker 1: Congratulations buddy, congratulations Yeah, yeah, you are the new coach
Speaker 1: of the Raiders and you're going who Yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Hey and shouts out to Robin Vegas. When I was
Speaker 1: answering phones on your show the other night, I spoke
Speaker 1: with him. He gave me a nice invite. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I'm gonna have time to see him or not,
Speaker 1: but the Mallard militia is always very welcoming wherever we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's been great, and I was supposed to that's another
Speaker 1: thing that was knocked off the list. I was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to Vegas, uh in, and then the COVID struck,
Speaker 1: And I remember Queen Roxann was very upset in Colorado.
Speaker 1: She had planned, like to get to everyone together, everyone's
Speaker 1: gonn meet in Vegas and then we're all gonna sit
Speaker 1: around and watch the draft for the first pick in
Speaker 1: the NFL drafting. But he never got to do that,
Speaker 1: So damn you, Delta, and exactly all right, So now moving,
Speaker 1: I got the draconian doggie Danny. Everyone loves a good
Speaker 1: story about a dog. I think, I don't know. So
Speaker 1: my beloved dog Bella has become, according to my wife,
Speaker 1: a terrorist and we are the hostages at the at
Speaker 1: the Mallard Mansion. So ever since she had a near
Speaker 1: death experience bitten by a coyote a while back, she
Speaker 1: has turned the Mallard Mansion into her own personal porta potti.
Speaker 1: Now we've talked about that in previous episodes of The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour. Yeah, Bella bambs. Yeah, it's a poop fest
Speaker 1: around here, and everything is camouflaged by the color of
Speaker 1: the floor matches perfectly. Could not have picked a better
Speaker 1: color of the floor to match the the ship that
Speaker 1: comes out of Bella. So it's it's made it a
Speaker 1: bit of an obstacle course, as you might imagine. And
Speaker 1: so but lately Bella has added something new to the
Speaker 1: the recipe here and it's bark tastic and she she
Speaker 1: has been chirping up a story. Now. Bella is a
Speaker 1: small dog, a little lapdog, very weak. The bark is
Speaker 1: very weak and the sound is annoying. And she never
Speaker 1: used to that. We were all bragging I she never barked.
Speaker 1: It's like the most amazing dog. It's like a fake dog.
Speaker 1: It never barked. Well, she's making up for last time
Speaker 1: lost her uh. And it's sporadic and she'll bark it
Speaker 1: like nothing. That's the like we one thing. If there's
Speaker 1: like something legitimate to bark it, you'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta pass, you know, if there's something out there,
Speaker 1: there's the boogeyman. She's just like barking at the at
Speaker 1: the ceiling or like darkness. It's really bizarre. And so
Speaker 1: the other day I was trying to sleep after the
Speaker 1: show and you're going to bed a weird hours in
Speaker 1: hand the guy she was such a newisance barking. I
Speaker 1: finally reached my my boiling point of acts exasperation here
Speaker 1: and she became a full pain in the assid Danny.
Speaker 1: And so the barking was so loud. How loud was
Speaker 1: Let tell you, al right, this this barking just like that,
Speaker 1: I wish it sounded like that. That's a masculine bark
Speaker 1: right there. That's a good bark, right, gonna say, speed
Speaker 1: that up on a tape, Yeah, exactly. She has a
Speaker 1: high pitched voice, right, yeah, yeah, So it was so loud.
Speaker 1: I ended up that was what it sounds like, man,
Speaker 1: just like that? What is she an owl? But but
Speaker 1: she it's such a such a nightmare that she was
Speaker 1: barking consistently enough off and on that I ended up
Speaker 1: with a massive headache, like front of my forehead is
Speaker 1: just pulsating. Uh. And that lasted from the time I
Speaker 1: woke up all the way through the overnight show that night.
Speaker 1: And uh, it was such an inconvenience. I went online
Speaker 1: and I picked out a bark caller. You ever used
Speaker 1: a barque caller before? Never? I had never used this either.
Speaker 1: But we heard from somebody this is the way to
Speaker 1: do it. And so we are doing and going Draconian doggie.
Speaker 1: We're doing Draconian doggie and it's a special caller, well
Speaker 1: kind of. It's designed to train young dogs to not
Speaker 1: bark randomly. And so now there's two different features we got,
Speaker 1: like this is like the Mercedes Benz the BMW of
Speaker 1: these bark collars. So the one we got is rechargeable
Speaker 1: and it lasts for like ten days supposedly, and it's
Speaker 1: got a noise feature, and and then if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: as you say, Danny, it does have the buzz And
Speaker 1: so we started with the noise feature where when she barks,
Speaker 1: she hears a noise like like that kind of like
Speaker 1: a little beep thing going on. And and then if
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, the next layer is to go with
Speaker 1: the shock treatment, which would be death spot level and
Speaker 1: she would say what the doing? Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: we would actually say that. But so far it's only
Speaker 1: been a short amount of time. But so far Bella
Speaker 1: has been confused because she has tried to barking. He
Speaker 1: doesn't stop you from barking. It just makes a that sounds.
Speaker 1: So she's been running around confused and she has cut back.
Speaker 1: So it's a early small sample size, but she's cut
Speaker 1: back on the barking by I would say roughly, so
Speaker 1: I'll keep you posted. I know you're very concerned about this, Danny,
Speaker 1: but sounds pretty effective so far. So do you hear
Speaker 1: like little beginnings of barkings and then she stops? Well,
Speaker 1: actually I witnessed the moment she first barked, but I
Speaker 1: put it on. I was waiting for the bark and
Speaker 1: she didn't bark, and I was like, what the hell?
Speaker 1: You know, come on, we were all like watching like
Speaker 1: a science experiment. And then she finally started barking, and
Speaker 1: she's like what she heard the beep and it's like
Speaker 1: what is that? You know, like, why is that going?
Speaker 1: And she couldn't. She was like running, walking in circles,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. She was confused. She was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what, like, you know, that's just that's
Speaker 1: that's the collar because you wouldn't stop barking. This is
Speaker 1: your punishment. I'm sorry, No, no, you earned the punishment.
Speaker 1: Now do they make these callers and human sizes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll find out, Danny, we violate the rules in California.
Speaker 1: We might be getting these at some point. But anyway, uh, now,
Speaker 1: as far as the mystery INGREDI moving on from that,
Speaker 1: Mr Engred, So I have become Benny the baker again
Speaker 1: Danny as you know, one of my hobbies. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not as prolific in the kitchen as Danny as.
Speaker 1: What was it Bern Berno, Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Cooking
Speaker 1: with the Roberto he made a nice open face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very good, very good. He's very talented cook. But I'm
Speaker 1: more of a baker. I'm banning the bake and so
Speaker 1: mission And for some reason, I got this michig As
Speaker 1: to make Eminem cookies. Are you a fan of the
Speaker 1: Eminem cookie? Are you? Yeah? Actually feel like it's under
Speaker 1: rat It's that it's not a top three cookie. It's
Speaker 1: not a top but it's a top ten. The Eminem
Speaker 1: is a top ten. It's not top three, but it's
Speaker 1: not top ten cookie. Anyway. So I was scouring the
Speaker 1: dark web to find a new recipe to try, and
Speaker 1: I looked at a lot of recipes that just kind
Speaker 1: of look like dud recipes, and then I then I
Speaker 1: finally hit payter and I found these cookies are so
Speaker 1: they were so soft and gooey that I made a
Speaker 1: second batch. I made a second but I drove over
Speaker 1: some of the cookies to my cousin she with her
Speaker 1: for her kids. She's still recovering from she had an
Speaker 1: operation back back in December, I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was December. I don't remember time runs together. But anyway,
Speaker 1: she still were coming, so I I sent a batch
Speaker 1: over there, uh and she loved them. Asked for the recipe.
Speaker 1: The thing that blew me away though, the mystery and greedy.
Speaker 1: Now I I've baked for a few years now, and
Speaker 1: this is the secret ingredient that supposedly keeps the cookies
Speaker 1: soft and chewy. You want to take a guess what
Speaker 1: it is, Danny, What do you think it is? Close?
Speaker 1: You're not far off. Cream cheese, Yeah, cream cheese, thicker version.
Speaker 1: I've never made any cookies with cream cheese, but it's
Speaker 1: it's really good. I used to eat cream cheese when
Speaker 1: I was a kid because my parents would eat bagels
Speaker 1: with like salmon and you know, they call them locks
Speaker 1: and the you know, the cream cheese and all that.
Speaker 1: And I didn't really like the salmon, but I like
Speaker 1: the cream cheese and the bagel and that was my
Speaker 1: that was my move. But yeah, pretty pretty good. I
Speaker 1: think this weekend, I'm gonna I'm gonna try a different
Speaker 1: recipe for some other cookies. So I'm gonna maybe i'll
Speaker 1: make a I can't write a book. I had a
Speaker 1: I was talking to a guy about a book, but
Speaker 1: he kind of vanished on me. But maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: go to the cookie card. I'll start making cookies and
Speaker 1: I can do it like a cookbook. You said that's
Speaker 1: in your top ten? What would be Benny's number one cookie? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm a I'm a traditionalist with a cookie like
Speaker 1: a well made chocolate chip, but a Macadamian nut white
Speaker 1: chocolate not far behind a right, not far my snicker
Speaker 1: doodle out just standing a great cookie, the snicker doodle. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I know that's kind of become Make sure. What
Speaker 1: about you, Danny, what are your top your top cookie?
Speaker 1: Funny you should mention the snicker doodle because last weekend
Speaker 1: my girl made a batch of those, and she made
Speaker 1: them gluten free. Oh okay, Son stays away from the
Speaker 1: gluten and that's helped me actually, because she's gotten gluten
Speaker 1: free bread and pizza and it just goes in and
Speaker 1: out of your system way better than regular bread. So
Speaker 1: I was wondered about the cookies, though she caught me
Speaker 1: in the kitchen inspecting them. I didn't know anybody was
Speaker 1: watching me. I picked it up like a hockey puck
Speaker 1: and was smelling it to see if it was edible
Speaker 1: or not, because you know, you don't know when they
Speaker 1: say gluten free. Maybe it didn't rise the way it
Speaker 1: was supposed to baked properly. But it looked okay, it
Speaker 1: tasted good. It tasted way better than it looked. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: isn't that like the the meatless food that you know,
Speaker 1: you're like a lot of fast food places have the
Speaker 1: meatless burgers, and I saw a photo of the I
Speaker 1: think it was the KFC chicken or meatless chicken. Look disgusting.
Speaker 1: I think the meatless is way harder to pull off
Speaker 1: because you can use the the almond flour and you know,
Speaker 1: there's different replacements to the flower that aren't as noticeable
Speaker 1: as fake meat. Yeah, my wife is gluten free most
Speaker 1: of the time. Occasionally she'll cheat and have gluten but
Speaker 1: that they just bend you over the table for that.
Speaker 1: The really good flour, the gluten free flower, they just
Speaker 1: stick it to you, man. Yeah, that's the downside of
Speaker 1: doing anything gluten free, you are going to have even
Speaker 1: a bigger grocery bill than normal. And as we all
Speaker 1: know right now, grocery prices are through the roof, like
Speaker 1: a lot of other things in our country. A few
Speaker 1: gluten free items in your cart. I think we went
Speaker 1: to Trader Joe's a couple of weeks ago, maybe had
Speaker 1: like three or four bags of groceries, and it was
Speaker 1: easy a couple of hundred bucks. Wow, that's insane. The
Speaker 1: membrane man, sing the membrane and get a part time
Speaker 1: job for them groceries. Yeah, and they're never going down. Yea,
Speaker 1: they're never going They only go off, they don't go there.
Speaker 1: It's not like all of a sudden like Trader Dells
Speaker 1: will be like, let's lover the prices on everything. Never happens,
Speaker 1: like eight dollars for grapes. You you know what? I've
Speaker 1: noticed that last weekend we went went out to the
Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory. I love the cheese cake factor. I've eaten
Speaker 1: there for years, big portions, not anymore, though. I've gotten
Speaker 1: the Casian chicken littles for probably fifteen years. That's my
Speaker 1: go to it at at Cheesecake Factory and when I
Speaker 1: in the old days, Danny, they would stack the chicken.
Speaker 1: You'd get like fifteen pieces of chicken. I'm not kidding
Speaker 1: fifteen chickens. What I'm saying, I can't even my fattest
Speaker 1: I couldn't eat. Now they give you five. They've dropped
Speaker 1: the Now keep in mind, the price has gone up.
Speaker 1: The price did not go down on said Casian chicken.
Speaker 1: Little's the The quantity has gone down, the price has
Speaker 1: not conned down. So that I was like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: is this is why I could get the same amount
Speaker 1: of food at Raising Canes. So pretty much it's pretty wild, man,
Speaker 1: pretty well. And so I'm gonna go back to that
Speaker 1: fake meat thing. The thing that blows me away about
Speaker 1: fake meat if you're if you're someone who doesn't believe
Speaker 1: in eating meat whatever, Like, why would you want to
Speaker 1: pretend to eat me? Like I hate vegetables. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking someone to make meat that tastes like vegetables. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's very very odd. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: keep seeing those Chipotle ads for their fake Creiso, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want fake creisa. If I'm gonna
Speaker 1: eat that kind of food, I want the authentic thing.
Speaker 1: But you know some people, I guess they'll try the
Speaker 1: different meatless items. Um only tried one of those beyond
Speaker 1: burgers one time, and that was one time too many.
Speaker 1: I won't wind in my mouth and then I ate it?
Speaker 1: Can I have a new one? Wasn't Al Gore behind that,
Speaker 1: the old vice president? Wasn't he the one that was
Speaker 1: behind that beyond meat stuff? I think I read that
Speaker 1: somewhere that he was who invented the internet, the internet
Speaker 1: and you know fake chicken, you know, really double right there.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's one of the great innovators of
Speaker 1: our time right there. Unbelievable, the contributions that he has
Speaker 1: made to a polite society. It's it's it's craziness. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we have a few pop quiz ready for pop quiz, Danny,
Speaker 1: are you prepared here? I know you're in Vegas and
Speaker 1: all that, but we'll try anyway. We won't keep you
Speaker 1: much longer. I know you have things like our usual
Speaker 1: pop quiz. I'm just wearing less clothes. I'm wearing a
Speaker 1: bathrobe and I'm not even sick. You just wanting well,
Speaker 1: I'll try not to look all right, So, uh, here
Speaker 1: we go. These are actual things I found scouring the
Speaker 1: Worldwide Web. And I'll ask Danny and then you can
Speaker 1: play along in your head and see if if Danny
Speaker 1: gets it right, if you get it right, if nobody
Speaker 1: gets it right. So here we go. This is the
Speaker 1: the number one how to search on the Internet. This
Speaker 1: is the most how to search thing on the Internet,
Speaker 1: meaning how to do something? Do do do? Do? Do
Speaker 1: do do? How to do do do? Do? Do? Do Do?
Speaker 1: Do you know how to base the turkey? How to
Speaker 1: base the turkey? Well, maybe it thinks giving that would
Speaker 1: be the number one thing, but not not not number
Speaker 1: in general. Yeah, it is. How to tie a tie? Okay,
Speaker 1: how to tie a tie is the number one thing
Speaker 1: everybody's grandfather when you're little. They're supposed to show you
Speaker 1: how to do that, or they just give you a
Speaker 1: clip on and tell you to shut up. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I did TV. I had professional like they
Speaker 1: were called zip ties. You ever seen a zip tie? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they look great, they look perfect, and these were well
Speaker 1: made and I wore those when I was working at
Speaker 1: NBC back back in the day because I I could
Speaker 1: tie a tie, but it was really bad, you know.
Speaker 1: It was like the fat you know what I felt like,
Speaker 1: since I was on television, that I probably shouldn't look
Speaker 1: like a slob and that would not not be good.
Speaker 1: And my mom couldn't come with me to Connecticut and
Speaker 1: I didn't you know, I don't have a girlfriend at
Speaker 1: the time, so most of that time. So anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: one thing Grandpa Jarvis taught me how to do besides
Speaker 1: drink alcohol at an early age. Yeah, he taught me
Speaker 1: how to tie a tie. And I have this will
Speaker 1: surprise you, a raider's tie in my closet. Oh, very nice.
Speaker 1: I had when I was in high school. I had
Speaker 1: a tie that had all the team logos from the NFL.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. That was in Neat Neat swag item.
Speaker 1: I went for the NBA too, and I found it.
Speaker 1: I actually found the NBA one and it's got the
Speaker 1: Washington Bullets logo just because you know that's they got
Speaker 1: canceled a few years back before everyone else got canceled.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh more, Puck was in a new survey.
Speaker 1: People were asked what the most important invention was. Now
Speaker 1: the wheel top the list. What do you think came
Speaker 1: in second? Behind the wheel? Oh, it should be electricity. Well, no,
Speaker 1: but this is something that takes electricity. What do you
Speaker 1: think you it's something that made dildos on the bills stadium. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the tossing of dildos two. No. Uh, it is the refrigerator. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the refrigerator which needs power. I mean, but I guess
Speaker 1: the original refrigerator was just like ice the ice box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like on the Little House of the Prairie. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the refrigerator which made the consumption of food much much easier.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a documentary about that about how you
Speaker 1: know the food you had to eat it right away
Speaker 1: and it would go bad and it was a big
Speaker 1: pain in the ass. And I remember Mr Olsen was
Speaker 1: the only one who had a little ice shed. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd have to go in there and chip off some ice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now you don't have to do that anymore. And
Speaker 1: these big bulky refrigerators and and all that for a
Speaker 1: long time. Alright, of workers, Sir Bates said, they want
Speaker 1: this from their employer, they want this health insurance. Uh no,
Speaker 1: That's probably the answer is ability to set their own hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take the noon to three shifts. I'll be good.
Speaker 1: I'd like to work noon to three. The easiest shift
Speaker 1: in radio. You don't have to get up too early,
Speaker 1: you're not there too late. Perfect. I did that for
Speaker 1: I. I I had a midday show a while back, many
Speaker 1: years ago now, but it was great. Oh my god. Well,
Speaker 1: in our line of work, we probably have the least
Speaker 1: amount of control over the shift time, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: zero controls. Yeah, because it's radio lineups and different shows
Speaker 1: and day parts and things like that, whereas some other
Speaker 1: nine to five types they might give you a couple
Speaker 1: different options you can choose from. Yeah, and that's always
Speaker 1: we've we've talked about that. I don't know I talked
Speaker 1: about it with you. But when you go to parties
Speaker 1: and you run into people that don't understand how the
Speaker 1: business works, and you're like, oh yeah, they always say, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you just move your show to this time? Yes?
Speaker 1: I love that, I love that, But why did I
Speaker 1: think that? Yeah? Why why you I'm so late? I
Speaker 1: can't stay up that late. Why are you going a
Speaker 1: little earlier? You know more people will be able to
Speaker 1: hear yet you know, like, motherfucker, that's not how it works. Okay,
Speaker 1: please shop the fuck alright? Anyway, that's funny. U man,
Speaker 1: oh man, what else. We have a new survey found
Speaker 1: Americans are doing this a lot less frequently compared to
Speaker 1: the past thirty years. What is it? Rushing their teeth?
Speaker 1: But I hope that's not the kid. No, that's not
Speaker 1: the kid. Uh, it's reading books. Okay, you got the internet. Now.
Speaker 1: I read a ton, I scan a ton of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I don't read books. I rarely read a book.
Speaker 1: I read the internet. You get ready for the show.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm reading tons of stuff and it's like endless.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for sports news, I'm all over my phone
Speaker 1: and iPad. But an actual novel or book or autobiography.
Speaker 1: I like having the actual physical book in my hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean I've had I have books here
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of books, and I've kept you.
Speaker 1: I used to get sent books in the mail all
Speaker 1: the time, as you know, Danny, working in radio, publishers
Speaker 1: love to have their books promoted. We might even do
Speaker 1: some of that on this podcast. And I am friends
Speaker 1: with one of the publishing companies, so every once in
Speaker 1: a while they sent me these these pr pitches, you know,
Speaker 1: these elevator pitches to get so and so on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the people, I have no interest in talking to
Speaker 1: Over the years, you and other hosts have left those
Speaker 1: kind of books and pitches in the studios. And I
Speaker 1: have a nice collection of sports books. Oh good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most of them are reject books, but there's still sports books. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give you exam. But last year we had booked
Speaker 1: Keyshan Johnson on the show. Keishan wrote a book about
Speaker 1: the first it was the first black player in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he wrote it, but he put
Speaker 1: his name on it, you know, and somebody else wrote it,
Speaker 1: but he put his name on it. And so he
Speaker 1: was promoting the book and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: Keishan Johnson, you know, it's interesting NFL player first pick
Speaker 1: gas bag and blow hard these days, So I'll put
Speaker 1: him on. So at the eleventh hour I was getting
Speaker 1: ready to do the podcast, I get an email It
Speaker 1: was canceled by ESPN. They were afraid that if he
Speaker 1: came on, because I'm associated with Fox Sports Radio and
Speaker 1: all that, and I remember I was I asked the publicist.
Speaker 1: I was like, why would you even offer him to
Speaker 1: me if you you know this was the case. He said, well, no,
Speaker 1: we they they said originally they said it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a problem, and then it became a problem. So he
Speaker 1: who cares? You know, I was like, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: That's not even what you were going to talk about
Speaker 1: with him. No, not at all. I don't care about that.
Speaker 1: Who cares? Anyway? Let's see here fifty of people's sturve
Speaker 1: aid say that this has happened to them on social media.
Speaker 1: What is it? Uh, they've been catfished? No, but their
Speaker 1: account was hacked. I've never been hacked, thank god. Knock
Speaker 1: on whatever this is in the hotel room. But one
Speaker 1: guy that got hacked recently is our friend Brian. No,
Speaker 1: did he really got In fact, his Instagram account is
Speaker 1: still hacked right now. They've changed his handle and his password,
Speaker 1: so he really can't get back into the account. That sucks.
Speaker 1: Arnie Spanner had that happened. I got my email hacked
Speaker 1: one time using my work email that I had used.
Speaker 1: And uh, I used too easy a password. But even
Speaker 1: when you use a hard pass word, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I think the password doesn't matter. You know the way
Speaker 1: to do it is to do it on your phone,
Speaker 1: where you have to they have to text you the code,
Speaker 1: but that's a pain in the aask. But even that
Speaker 1: they can. Can't They match your phone if they really motivated, right,
Speaker 1: they can do that too. So a bunch of computer
Speaker 1: nerds slash Steve's exactly a bunch of dudes in like
Speaker 1: North Korea or the Ukraine, and they're just they're taking
Speaker 1: care of business. Now the last one here, Dan, I
Speaker 1: know what we're getting along here. You've got things to do.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent of men say they have gained weight
Speaker 1: recently because of this what is it? Yes, NFL season? Yes,
Speaker 1: look at that. You got that right, Danny. They're blaming
Speaker 1: watching football watching football, which is bullshit. Uh, it's not
Speaker 1: watching football, it's eating while watching football. If you sit
Speaker 1: there and watch football, you're not going to Ain't wait,
Speaker 1: if you're eating a plate of nachos and a Philly
Speaker 1: cheese steak and all the delicious foods which we're going
Speaker 1: to be eating watching football, then then it becomes a
Speaker 1: bit of an issue. Man. Yeah, as you know, Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday is not far off. As soon as we
Speaker 1: are done with the Super Bowl, I'm gonna go right
Speaker 1: back to my triathlon training every weekend. Yes, well, aren't
Speaker 1: you going? I think you'll be in the Olympics right
Speaker 1: after they had the cross over the Olympics and the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You're gonna be going to China. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating. Yea. Anyway, listen, thank you for hanging
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Speaker 1: Tell a friend five stars, give us a good review,
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Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday mail Bag. We'll talk to you that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll see you at the club tonight. Yeah,