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. Wow to the Clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air every way. It's the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. And we know that
Speaker 1: there are eight gazillion podcasts, but we do thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to this podcast and not some other crappy podcasts.
Speaker 1: So we do thank you for that, Dany Gye. It
Speaker 1: is Saturday, a glorious day here, a great opportunity to
Speaker 1: enjoy collegiate football and bet On college football and all that,
Speaker 1: and also watch Benny Versus the Penny, which is airing
Speaker 1: all over the place. And so we've got a lot
Speaker 1: a lot going on here. Dan, There's a lot of
Speaker 1: things going on.
Speaker 3: And I feel like you and some other listeners who
Speaker 3: have gambled for a long time, because I have the
Speaker 3: itch now I wish I was in Vegas, not just
Speaker 3: for the Raiders and Patriots, but so that I could
Speaker 3: go to one of the kiosks and make some NFL bets.
Speaker 1: Well, eventually in California you'll be able to bet. That's
Speaker 1: when it gets dangerous, right when you can just bet
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And the other thing too, about
Speaker 1: the whole gambling. My buddies in Vegas, they don't even
Speaker 1: go to the casino kiosk. They just do it on
Speaker 1: their phone. Yeah, it's like and they bet on they
Speaker 1: bet on games in Uh, this actually inspired. You just
Speaker 1: inspired a story. You just inspired, You just facilitated, Danny
Speaker 1: g a story that I was told this past week
Speaker 1: actually about in game betting. Okay, so you know in
Speaker 1: game betting. He was not a self explanatory. If you're
Speaker 1: not a gambler, maybe you don't know. But you can
Speaker 1: literally bet on like everything that happens. You can bet
Speaker 1: on whether the next pitch is going to be a
Speaker 1: strike or a ball. You can like, there's endless possibilities
Speaker 1: of what you bet. I bring that up because a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, who I will not name because he
Speaker 1: works for corporate Major League Baseball, but I've known this
Speaker 1: guy for a long time. And he was showing me
Speaker 1: around before the Dodger Diamondback playoff game, and he took
Speaker 1: me into a booth that I had never been in,
Speaker 1: and he explained, I said, well, that's where I sit,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple other people and and you know,
Speaker 1: like and then there's this person over here off to
Speaker 1: the side, and their job. Their job is to relay
Speaker 1: what's going on on back to the bookmakers and what happened.
Speaker 1: And this is what we talk about a great job
Speaker 1: because they had this in game betting, but with the
Speaker 1: delay to get a TV broadcast to the satellite, up
Speaker 1: to the satellite and back down, or even if it's online,
Speaker 1: there's a delay, right, there's some lag time.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you this very question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what they have done to circumvent to cut
Speaker 1: off those, let's say, I don't know, unethical or gamesmanship
Speaker 1: type fans. I guess they were concerned about people having
Speaker 1: somebody at the game relaying, hey, this pitch is a strike,
Speaker 1: quickly bet it's going to be a strike, and then
Speaker 1: just bankrupting the casino. They're not in the business of
Speaker 1: losing money. So Major League Baseball employees someone to relay
Speaker 1: in real time on the phone and the internet, real
Speaker 1: time what's going on. So their only job is every
Speaker 1: pitch or if it's a foul ball, where does it go?
Speaker 1: Or all that that is their that's their gig to
Speaker 1: be ahead of the TV broadcast.
Speaker 4: That is a cool job.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I was told that every sport has someone
Speaker 1: because gambling is so popular now, every professional sport that
Speaker 1: you can bet on, which is all of them, the
Speaker 1: NFL has it, the NHL, NBA, they all employ someone
Speaker 1: in house in the arena at these games to make
Speaker 1: sure there's no funny business and nothing gets pickled, as
Speaker 1: Alf the Alien opineer would say. And so I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. I was not planning on
Speaker 1: telling that story, but you just you mentioned the kiosk
Speaker 1: of the gambling, and that popped in my head randomly.
Speaker 1: So there you go. On this podcast we have it's
Speaker 1: not trigonometry, it's not trigonometry to the gun rack. I
Speaker 1: believe that's also on this podcast, A fly I over
Speaker 1: footy fun And I think, well, I think we'll save
Speaker 1: other stuff that we were going to do yesterday to
Speaker 1: the Mailbag podcast on Sunday, so we'll have some pop
Speaker 1: culture on a Sunday, but today is Saturday, and we'll
Speaker 1: start with this back to the Tales of the Life
Speaker 1: of Mahler and Danny g So another story related about
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Yesterday we talked about how randomly Fernando Valezuela
Speaker 1: happened to sit down at a table I was sitting
Speaker 1: at to eat some spaghetti, which which was interesting and random.
Speaker 1: And I would like to point out that's that's in
Speaker 1: my top five random people to sit down at my
Speaker 1: table in the Other ones on that list include Tommy Heinzen,
Speaker 1: the late Celtics broadcaster on Celtics legend who happened to
Speaker 1: sit down at my table randomly, Billy Crystal at a
Speaker 1: at a Clipper game. He's on that short list of
Speaker 1: people that sat down there, John Cena years ago at
Speaker 1: a Laker game, and there's a couple others that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I sound like Pat O'Brien dropping it. So I had
Speaker 1: to use some mall of math. Now, you know, I
Speaker 1: use Malard math on the radar. I love Malon math.
Speaker 1: I use malarmth all the time. Malamoth is great. I'm
Speaker 1: not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so headline Los Angeles one thousand, Vin Scully Way Media
Speaker 1: Freeloaders update mentioned things a little different in the playoffs
Speaker 1: Baseball playoffs. So they provide snacks for the media freeloaders
Speaker 1: for free. That means you can get like a bag
Speaker 1: of Cheetos or a candy bar or something like that
Speaker 1: for free. But there is no hot lunch. They don't
Speaker 1: serve a hot lunch. They used to serve like a
Speaker 1: box lunch. But baseball there's so many media people, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like a beehive in there, so many media people
Speaker 1: that they stopped doing that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they give you the working
Speaker 1: media in air quotes a meal voucher. It's like weed
Speaker 1: man hippie in Miami gets food stamps. The media gets
Speaker 1: a voucher. And so you used to get this lunch,
Speaker 1: this box lunch. They don't do that anymore. So they
Speaker 1: hand out this meal ticket. Now the meal ticket is
Speaker 1: good for twenty dollars. That's it, no more, no less.
Speaker 1: So it seems like a lot of money, right, twenty
Speaker 1: bucks whatever, But you got to read the fine print.
Speaker 1: Can't buy alcohol with it. You know, there's just like
Speaker 1: there's restrictions on food stamps. You can't buy alcohol with it.
Speaker 1: You can, you have to use it at the concession
Speaker 1: stands in the ballpark. And so it's kind of self explanatory.
Speaker 1: But you have twenty dollars to spend, and you you
Speaker 1: have to spend it all. If you go over the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. If the item you're ordering, let's say it's
Speaker 1: like twenty five dollars, you've got to pay five dollars.
Speaker 1: You've got to pay the difference. Now, should you go under,
Speaker 1: should you buy something that is not twenty dollars, they
Speaker 1: don't give you change, You don't get the pocket the difference.
Speaker 1: That money goes back to them. You leave money on
Speaker 1: the table.
Speaker 4: Can you use this card more than once?
Speaker 1: No, that thing you can only use it once. I
Speaker 1: am such a radio loser. I'm a man on a mission.
Speaker 1: I was methodical. I was neurotic about this, Danny, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, you know, I don't want to leave
Speaker 1: money on the table.
Speaker 3: I I You're like a price is right contestant trying
Speaker 3: to get to nineteen dollars and ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Cents exactly exactly. So I'm out there. I got my
Speaker 1: calculator at I'm crunching the numbers, right, I'm circumventing Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: the concession stands there. I'm going going around crunching all
Speaker 1: the stats and it's not trigonometry, but it's pretty close.
Speaker 1: So I didn't realize, because you know, I don't hang
Speaker 1: out with the unwashed just I knew the prices were
Speaker 1: outrageous at Dodger Stadium, but I did not realize the
Speaker 1: levels they go to gouge the hardcore Dodger fans that
Speaker 1: go out to the ballpark. I was blown away. I
Speaker 1: guess the Putin price hack. I didn't realize it had
Speaker 1: gone to that level. I remember you told the famous
Speaker 1: story about Opening Day. Was that last year, Danny or
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 4: Two seasons ago?
Speaker 3: I believe in it was Opening Night where we spent
Speaker 3: almost one thousand dollars for our family to.
Speaker 1: Go thousand bucks to go to a freaking baseball game. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So I'm walking around, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what do I want to eat? That's the first thing,
Speaker 1: But what's in my budget? So I saw, well, there's
Speaker 1: a beef nacho helmet that looks kind of good, but
Speaker 1: that's twenty. That's twenty dollars and fifty cents. I don't
Speaker 1: want to have to pop. I don't have to spend
Speaker 1: fifty cents. Then I saw there's a cheese steak stand
Speaker 1: at dig Your.
Speaker 3: Goal really was to not go over twenty, not even
Speaker 3: by a quarter exactly.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm not kidding, Danny.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: I was dissecting this. I was like, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: then I looked at this, this giant cheese steak that
Speaker 1: was twenty five bucks, twenty four to ninety nine for
Speaker 1: a giant cheese steak.
Speaker 4: Oh, so you're not spending five dollars of your own money.
Speaker 1: No chance. So then my friend Steve Futterman, who used
Speaker 1: to work at CBS, the great news reporter, Steve Futterman,
Speaker 1: who I've known for years. So Futterman's there and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to go get some food. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: get a pizza. So he went to the California Pizza
Speaker 1: Kitchen at Dodger Stadium where they have the barbecue chicken pizza.
Speaker 1: You can get that for sixteen dollars and fifty cents
Speaker 1: plus tax. But I did the math on that, and
Speaker 1: I would have been leaving like a dollar and some
Speaker 1: change on the on the on the MLB's dime, I
Speaker 1: would have been giving back some money. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. So then I saw they had
Speaker 1: cotton candy, but it was five fifty and I don't
Speaker 1: like cotton candy anyway, I'm not nine years old. So
Speaker 1: it was five point fifty for sugar that is spun
Speaker 1: five fifty for that. I couldn't get past that. So
Speaker 1: then I'm like, all right, well, what about a bag
Speaker 1: of peanuts. That can't be that much seven bucks for
Speaker 1: a bag of peanuts. So I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: could do I could do two bags of peanuts, but
Speaker 1: I can't do three because three would go over. So
Speaker 1: I can only do two bags of peanuts. That's it.
Speaker 1: So I'm scrutinizing this. And then it got to the
Speaker 1: point where I was like, well, maybe if I I
Speaker 1: was so desperate to get exactly twenty dollars that they
Speaker 1: had a pickle for four ninety nine, so I thought
Speaker 1: I could get four. I don't even like pickles. I
Speaker 1: hate pickles. Alfie alien O Piner likes pickles. I don't
Speaker 1: like pickles. So but I was like, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: fir for a moment, Danny in my head, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can get four pickles, that's twenty bucks. But then
Speaker 1: they add the tax, so the tax would have bumped
Speaker 1: me over the twenty dollars. So I can't do that.
Speaker 1: So I'm moving around right, I'm bobbing and weaving like
Speaker 1: I do on benny versus a penny, and I'm breaking
Speaker 1: things down. I'm analyzed everything and I'm getting into it.
Speaker 1: I'm very surgical, very surgical when i'm doing this, and
Speaker 1: you know i'm doing my thing. I'm using precision. So
Speaker 1: then I realized, you know what I really like, but
Speaker 1: I haven't had in a while a soft pretzel. So
Speaker 1: then I was like, how much is a soft pretzel?
Speaker 1: And there it was, the King sized soft pretzel. Hey
Speaker 1: you Jesus, five ninety nine, five ninety nine.
Speaker 4: What about the melted nacho cheese?
Speaker 1: Well, I could not afford that. That was out of
Speaker 1: my budget. They were charging this blew me away. I
Speaker 1: thought this was the most outrageously, most offensive thing I
Speaker 1: could comprehend or I witnessed at Dodger Stadium two twenty
Speaker 1: five for a cup of nacho cheese Dawn. Now two
Speaker 1: twenty five that's a side item twenty five for a
Speaker 1: little small cup.
Speaker 4: That's a seventy five per cent them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what I did, Danny, is I realized I have
Speaker 1: I have a hack that I can get the cheese cup.
Speaker 1: I can circumvent the two twenty five for the cheese cup,
Speaker 1: but I need the pretzels, and there's no way to
Speaker 1: get the pretzels other than the here. So I made
Speaker 1: an executive decision, and I punched the numbers into my
Speaker 1: calculator using Malormath. I purchased three five ninety nine king
Speaker 1: size soft pretzels at Dodger Stadium. They added the tax, Danny.
Speaker 1: So I got a little nervous because I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if I knew the tax. I thought maybe the tax
Speaker 1: I was off on the tax. The total, Danny, the
Speaker 1: total on the showcase showdown three king size pretzels. Remember,
Speaker 1: I only had twenty dollars to spend. If I go over,
Speaker 1: I got to pay the difference. If I go under,
Speaker 1: they get the money. My total with tax nineteen dollars
Speaker 1: and sixty eight cents, I was only thirty two cents
Speaker 1: away from the perfect twenty dollars, but I'll take that
Speaker 1: thirty two cents. You're gonna win the showcase showdown at
Speaker 1: thirty two cents away most of the time.
Speaker 4: Wow, what did you do with three pretzels?
Speaker 1: Though, well, here's the here's the cheap code. I went
Speaker 1: back to the press box and I went to where
Speaker 1: the table. I sat next to Fernando at he wasn't there.
Speaker 1: There were some other people there, so I put the
Speaker 1: pretzels down and I walked over and they had some
Speaker 1: Dodger dogs, and they had like chili, and they had
Speaker 1: cheese for the Dodger dogs as topics. I then took
Speaker 1: a cup and got but I felt like I was
Speaker 1: robbing a bank. A cup of cheese, nacho cheese that
Speaker 1: was for the Dodger dogs. That is a two twenty
Speaker 1: five value. I then got two of them. So now
Speaker 1: I'm at four point fifty in bol this money. So
Speaker 1: I'm ahead Danny my head by over four dollars.
Speaker 4: You are ruthless.
Speaker 1: I am sticking it to the man. Okay, I am
Speaker 1: sticking it to rob Man for the Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was It's not trigonometry, and I'm very
Speaker 1: proud that I was able to do now as far
Speaker 1: as eating the pretzels. I ate two pretzels and then
Speaker 1: I got immediately tired. I could not eat the third one.
Speaker 1: But what I did is I waited, and they had
Speaker 1: a microwave em and I put the third one in
Speaker 1: a microwave and I warmed it up for twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1: I nuked it and it came back to life. And
Speaker 1: so then I ate the third one a little bit later.
Speaker 4: Got your second wind.
Speaker 1: I did. I did get my my second win. But
Speaker 1: I felt like I was very efficient. It took a
Speaker 1: long time, but I came within thirty two cents of
Speaker 1: a perfect score.
Speaker 4: And then that he knows that nothing like a good
Speaker 4: soft pretzel light least salted, dipped in nacho cheese. Agree,
Speaker 4: especially when that nacho cheese is hot. Yeah, oh man,
Speaker 4: that is. I had that at the Canelo fight. Best
Speaker 4: meal I had in Vegas that entire weekend, and we
Speaker 4: went to a stinking steakhouse.
Speaker 1: So good, yeah, so so wonderful.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at these other people, like my friends
Speaker 1: in the media, and they're spending like twelve dollars for
Speaker 1: something and then they're giving eight dollars. What are you
Speaker 1: giving back eight bucks? What are you a loser throwing
Speaker 1: a couple of cheese cups? At least so at least
Speaker 1: you're you're getting closer. That's a ripple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get a side of ranch or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you can put a gun rack or something
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know, you can mess around with that, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to transition from your funny story
Speaker 3: to this story, which is slightly serious.
Speaker 4: But it is. Yeah, it's but it's one of those.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my grown up hat on. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be my I'm not gonna be goofy, goofy guy. All yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be very mature here. All right.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's funny what the kid said, but
Speaker 3: it's just through the eyes of a youngster, the damn
Speaker 3: things that kids say. Right, Yeah, So I haven't gotten
Speaker 3: to tell a story about the school campus in a
Speaker 3: little while.
Speaker 4: I'm in there. Thursday morning, I open up the campus.
Speaker 3: I'm in my classroom and there's a kid, let's see,
Speaker 3: I'll change his name to protect the innocent and the guilty,
Speaker 3: so let's call him Joseph. All right, Joseph walks in.
Speaker 3: I check him in for the early morning program. He's
Speaker 3: sitting there, he's doing some math homework. He's telling me
Speaker 3: all about algebra and how hard it is, and he's like,
Speaker 3: when am I going to use this in real life?
Speaker 3: And I said, heah, you're telling me, kid, I had
Speaker 3: to take algebra as well and suffer through it. He's
Speaker 3: talking about algebra and everything, and then he tells me,
Speaker 3: have you heard about what's going on with Israel and everything?
Speaker 3: He said, my dad told me I am not allowed
Speaker 3: to go to school on Friday because of the threats.
Speaker 3: He said, I need to stay home right next to
Speaker 3: the gun rack.
Speaker 1: What how old is the kid?
Speaker 4: He's an eighth grader.
Speaker 3: Wow, Now, Ben, A lot of people have this opinion
Speaker 3: of California that we are all anti guns, and you know,
Speaker 3: we're all a bunch of hippies here next to the ocean.
Speaker 3: Yeah No, there are a bunch of gun lovers that
Speaker 3: we all know here where we live.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got a bunch of friends that are like
Speaker 1: drive trucks and have shotgun racks.
Speaker 4: And we have that crowd here as well mixed in.
Speaker 3: And I just got a kick out of it, because
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't know what to say how many
Speaker 3: guns do you have at your house? And I was like,
Speaker 3: this took a turn from algebra to gun talk.
Speaker 1: Through the eyes of the I actually had. And this
Speaker 1: is enough yet again, Danny, you are facilitating marginal conversation.
Speaker 1: But you're see, I'm so muddled, I'm forgettingthing. So the
Speaker 1: other day, this is actually you'll get a kick out
Speaker 1: of this. And it's not a long story. It's just
Speaker 1: like an antidote to your story, because it's about a kid.
Speaker 1: So I went to Target to I had to pick
Speaker 1: up something at Target. So I'm walking and it was
Speaker 1: in the grocery store part of Target, right, So I
Speaker 1: went to Target. I usually don't go.
Speaker 4: I like a.
Speaker 1: Costco and I'm not a Target guy with my wife
Speaker 1: likes to. But I had to get some So I
Speaker 1: go into Target and I'm looking for the item I need.
Speaker 1: It's a food item, and I'm walking through the grocery
Speaker 1: store and this woman's she's pushing a cart with her son.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure how old the kid is, maybe
Speaker 1: like six or seven. I'm not really good at all
Speaker 1: with ages. And then she's got her daughter with her
Speaker 1: and they're walking through the store and they walked past
Speaker 1: me on the aisle and I'm looking for the thing,
Speaker 1: and this little kid, in this little cute voice says,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Becky, look at her butt. And he's
Speaker 1: like he keeps saying. He says it like four or
Speaker 1: five times in this cute little boy voice, right, and
Speaker 1: he's he's singing. I guess he had heard for the
Speaker 1: first time the sir mix a lot baby Baby got
Speaker 1: back and he kept repeating that, and the mom is like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's like totally embarrassed, and she's like freaking out.
Speaker 1: She's like, you can't say that, you know. It was
Speaker 1: so funny though. You had this cute little kid voice
Speaker 1: because he was a little kid and he's, oh my god, Becky,
Speaker 1: look at her butt, and it was hilarious. It was
Speaker 1: so it was so funny. I was like, it was
Speaker 1: laughing and and you get to experience that, Danny soon
Speaker 1: enough with Coha get wait a little bit, but soon enough,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to experience that.
Speaker 3: He watched the Raiders game with me again last weekend
Speaker 3: last Monday night, and he heard a lot of f
Speaker 3: bombs as the Raiders were in the red zone. They
Speaker 3: did score two touchdowns two of the three times so
Speaker 3: there were probably a few less f bombs than the
Speaker 3: week prior. But yeah, I'm a little scared that his
Speaker 3: first word is going to be ye by blank and blank.
Speaker 1: You he's learning by osmosis. He's learning by osmosis. So
Speaker 1: the flyover thing, let's get that real quick. So on Saturday,
Speaker 1: this actually kind of relates to Cole because I at
Speaker 1: Game one Dodgers and Diamondbacks last Saturday week ago. So
Speaker 1: I'm at the game, but I really was there because
Speaker 1: I had to pick up my pass. But it was
Speaker 1: my day off, and you know, I was planning on
Speaker 1: watching the game on TV. But I went there and
Speaker 1: I was just schmoozing. I was, I was hanging out
Speaker 1: with people cod you know, just chatting whatever. So I'm
Speaker 1: doing that and then I believe you had sent me
Speaker 1: a message, Danny. You were like, hey, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kind of be in the area you're at, you know,
Speaker 1: in the north Woods area, so maybe we can hang out.
Speaker 1: You can meet CoA. So I was like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I want to meet Cole. I've not met CoA. I'd
Speaker 1: like to meet the little guy. I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about him, and he's new to the world, so I'd
Speaker 1: like to welcome him into the world and all that.
Speaker 1: So I thought that would be cool, and I felt
Speaker 1: that was much more important than watching Clayton Kershaw go
Speaker 1: out and barf on the mount. So I had this
Speaker 1: all planned out. Now, I did have to schmooze with
Speaker 1: some of the corporate muckety MUCKs. But on my way out,
Speaker 1: I walked down the hill. I was watching the Dodger
Speaker 1: pregame stuff. The game was about to start, so I'm
Speaker 1: watching the game coverage on my phone as I'm walking
Speaker 1: down the hills around Dodger Stadium. Because the I am
Speaker 1: so low, I'm such a little man for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: meeting people, they put me in a lot literally outside
Speaker 1: the stadium. So if you're not familiar with the geography
Speaker 1: of La or Dodger Stadium, Dodger Stadium is surrounded by
Speaker 1: my it seems like miles of parking lots. And then
Speaker 1: there's even parking lots outside the stadium that are only
Speaker 1: used for playoff games, and this was a playoff. So
Speaker 1: I'm walking down from the stadium down the hill through
Speaker 1: the main gate on Vin Scully Way.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: I'm walking down and I have to get to a
Speaker 1: lot fourteen. Do you know where a lot fourteen is? Dan,
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with a lot fourteen?
Speaker 4: I am familiar with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. So I go down the hill. I then
Speaker 1: I turn the corner. There are three people who are
Speaker 1: trying to get me to buy a bacon wrapped hot dog.
Speaker 1: They are tapping. They do the you know how to
Speaker 1: do the tap thing, Danny when they want to get
Speaker 1: their attention.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they're all tapping because they see me, like, well,
Speaker 1: this guy's a fat ass, he'll probably buy all my
Speaker 1: hot talks. So I just kept looking at my phone.
Speaker 1: I was walking. I had to kind of jump around.
Speaker 1: It was an obstacle course because you know those rent
Speaker 1: of scooters. Yeah, yeah, a bunch of people. I just thought,
Speaker 1: we'll save money I'm parking. I'll park somewhere far away.
Speaker 1: I'll use one of these scooters and then I'll get
Speaker 1: up to the top of the hill at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: and I'll just walk up the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: So there was a bunch of scooters right down where
Speaker 1: I was walking. So I turned the corner. I then
Speaker 1: make a left turn. I make a left turn. I
Speaker 1: walked down a little bit further there's the LA Fire
Speaker 1: Department Training Center YEP, which is right where a Lot
Speaker 1: fourteen is. This is where Will Ferrell film Semipro. Did
Speaker 1: you know that. I think we've talked about that before.
Speaker 4: I think we talked about we have. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Flint Tropics Arena is actually right near Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: behind a fire training facility, where, by the way, there
Speaker 1: are pieces of the World Trade Center from nine to
Speaker 1: eleven that are there as a memorial to the tragic
Speaker 1: events on September eleventh, many many years back, and so
Speaker 1: those are there as well. An whatever, I get to
Speaker 1: the As I'm getting in my car, I hear this
Speaker 1: loud noise off in the distance, and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: what is that. It's getting getting closer, it's getting louder,
Speaker 1: and then I'm feeling we're under siege. And there were
Speaker 1: not one, but two F thirty five fighter jets from
Speaker 1: the Black Nights of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron, that Squadron
Speaker 1: three fourteen, by the way, Dan, if you're keeping score,
Speaker 1: stationed at the Marine Corps air Station Miramar, that performed
Speaker 1: a flyover. It was a flyover, but this is something
Speaker 1: that I did not realize happens during a military flyout.
Speaker 1: So I'm in the parking lot, surrounded by thousands of cars,
Speaker 1: trying to find the malamobile, and I look up and
Speaker 1: I see two F thirty five jets flying over, making
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of noise. And then I am given
Speaker 1: a symphony. I am given a medley of what sounded like.
Speaker 1: And I didn't count them, but it sounded like hundreds
Speaker 1: hundreds of car al arms. It was at least one
Speaker 1: hundred that simultaneously went off. They were triggered by the
Speaker 1: two F thirty five fighter jets from the Black Knights
Speaker 1: of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron three to fourteen station at
Speaker 1: Marine Corps Air Station Mira mar performed the flyover and
Speaker 1: they I didn't realize this thing happened. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what happened like that.
Speaker 4: They had no idea, No I saw it on TV.
Speaker 3: The last thing that came to my mind is, oh,
Speaker 3: wonder what happens to all those thousands of park cars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it blew me away. And there was this old
Speaker 1: guy that was sitting there kind of as a parking
Speaker 1: lot of tenant, and he was just shaking his head,
Speaker 1: you know, he was just he's probably seen that one
Speaker 1: hundred times, but I hadn't seen it before, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is nuts. This is crazy. A lot
Speaker 1: of the newer cars because if like the Tesla's and
Speaker 1: cars like that, if anything, they have such such high sensors,
Speaker 1: uh such, Yeah, it's I don't know what the right
Speaker 1: term is, but anyway, they have the thing of a
Speaker 1: jigs and they start going going off the car alarms.
Speaker 4: Some soft ass sissy cars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those California, the People's Republic at California. My good.
Speaker 1: But it was wonderful to meet Cole. It was so cool.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, no offense to your wife.
Speaker 4: Danny.
Speaker 1: Look, guy, he's your doppelganger. He is. I can see
Speaker 1: the Dandy G. He's got the Danny G looks he's
Speaker 1: got the matinee idol looks there from Danny, he does.
Speaker 4: The microphone throttler.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, he's a handsome little sucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he didn't come out looking like an alien, which
Speaker 3: is amazing. Talked about that on the podcast back when
Speaker 3: she was pregnant, that a lot of babies come out
Speaker 3: looking like an alien and then maybe later down the
Speaker 3: lot and they get some good looks or they start
Speaker 3: out really really good looking and then they might turn.
Speaker 4: Let's hope that he stays handsome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I looking kid, And I was blown
Speaker 1: away because it was was I love with little kids,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen too many little kids recently, but
Speaker 1: when I got to hold them a little bit. But
Speaker 1: when my I think it was my wife was holding
Speaker 1: him and then I put my finger out and he
Speaker 1: kind of grabbed a hold of my finger and he
Speaker 1: had like all his whole hand was wrapped around my finger.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, I can't believe
Speaker 1: we all start out like that. That's insane to me.
Speaker 3: That's just it was really cool. He was holding your
Speaker 3: pointer finger like it was a microphone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was really neat. It
Speaker 1: was It was great seeing him, and I'm glad he
Speaker 1: woke up because he was kind of like sleepy, right,
Speaker 1: he was kind of sleep was past his bedtime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was later in the evening and so he
Speaker 3: was about a half hour past bedtime.
Speaker 1: Wake me up before you go go. Yeah, So so
Speaker 1: that was pretty That was pretty cool. Foody fun. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll do a couple foody stories because we all got
Speaker 1: to eat this actually done pretty well, Danny. People seem
Speaker 1: to like this crap, so we'll.
Speaker 4: Keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, well, Raising Canes. You see this out
Speaker 1: of Dallas. I wonder if this came up on Covido
Speaker 1: and Rich Raising Canes has yet again teamed up with
Speaker 1: post Malone. They opened up their first ever Dallas cowboy
Speaker 1: themed Raising Canes incahoots with post Malone. This thing looks
Speaker 1: actually really cool. So I guess if I end up
Speaker 1: in Dallas visiting one of my friends that live in
Speaker 1: the Dallas area, I'll have to go to this Raisin Canes.
Speaker 1: But they have the giant star logo, the drive through,
Speaker 1: you drive through the star logo.
Speaker 4: That's cool. Now.
Speaker 3: I wonder if that'll start a trend to where they
Speaker 3: personalize each city's team.
Speaker 1: They should. It's a great idea. It's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1: And I'll actually send you this you can see what
Speaker 1: it looks like because it's to me, it kind of
Speaker 1: looked a little bit when I first saw it, I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was the cowboys thing. It kind of
Speaker 1: looked to me like maybe it was a Carls junior
Speaker 1: off the side, like, well, why would they it says Canes,
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't be a Carl's Jr. But I'll send
Speaker 1: you the photo here and you can see if you
Speaker 1: click on that, you can see the drive through you
Speaker 1: drive through the star, which is the Cowboys logo. There's
Speaker 1: a bunch of other photos here. It's in Cahoot's post Malone.
Speaker 1: I guess designed it or something like that. I bet
Speaker 1: he probably just had somebody else to sign it.
Speaker 4: This is cool. I like this now.
Speaker 3: The only problem is when you go to take a
Speaker 3: bite of your chicken finger, do you get demolished by
Speaker 3: Fred Warner?
Speaker 2: Hell?
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no. The food is wonderful there at
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys raising Canes, but if you take a
Speaker 1: date there you might choke like Dak Prescott. Hey, we'll
Speaker 1: be here until Thursday, lame jokes. On Friday. That's yesterday,
Speaker 1: not today. Today is Saturday, so don't worry about that. Well,
Speaker 1: this is always important with fast food restaurants. They're so
Speaker 1: concerned about what are the kids like? Right? What are
Speaker 1: the kids like? Because if you eat fast food as
Speaker 1: a kid, you're likely going to eat that when you're
Speaker 1: forty five or fifty years old because it brings you
Speaker 1: back to what you remember. And according to a semi
Speaker 1: annual Taking Stock with Teens survey, the two fast food
Speaker 1: restaurants that have gained traction with the kiddies with the
Speaker 1: teeny boppers and they are what they are, McDonald's which
Speaker 1: gained three percent and Raising Canes, the aforementioned Raising Canes,
Speaker 1: which is now in the top five for the kids.
Speaker 4: That's our daughter wasn't a fan of it the first
Speaker 4: time we brought her, but then the second time she
Speaker 4: went there, she kind of took a liking to it,
Speaker 4: and now she requests it. So it's a slow burn
Speaker 4: on the little ones. It seems like, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: It's I don't need a lot of fast food canes.
Speaker 1: That's probably it. I don't need a lot, period. And
Speaker 1: the story here that goes into the detail and it
Speaker 1: really it's perfect. This is from the Nation's Restaurant News.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the hell that is, but
Speaker 1: that's where I.
Speaker 4: Got the story.
Speaker 1: So they they in the story they talked about the
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, the famous one of the famous Wayne Gretzky quotes,
Speaker 1: and they say it applies to the quick service fast
Speaker 1: food restaurant business because the Gretzky quote was to skate
Speaker 1: to where the puck is going to be, not where
Speaker 1: it has been. And that's the theory. Right, you get
Speaker 1: as I said, you get the gen Z and Jen Alpha.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the other is that the youngest generation
Speaker 1: Jen Alpha?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you get those Jen Alpha kids hooked on
Speaker 1: on your product, and then as they age, they then
Speaker 1: continue to eat there, and then they get their kids.
Speaker 1: It's like you and CoA, right, your what's your favorite
Speaker 1: fast food place, Danny? What's your go to?
Speaker 4: I would say probably Wendy's.
Speaker 1: Wendy's. So chances are when Coa's you know, not not
Speaker 1: eating the baby food from the mom and all on
Speaker 1: the formula and all that, Cola's gonna end up like
Speaker 1: with you, You'll take them to Wendy's, right, get them
Speaker 1: like chicken nuggets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll get a Dave's double and a baked potato.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go? Uh, this is foody fun?
Speaker 1: How about this? This is odd to me. I don't
Speaker 1: know how I feel about this, Danny, because I always
Speaker 1: believe you got to stay in your lane. A story
Speaker 1: that Taco Bell, Taco Bell is trying out chicken nuggets. No, yep,
Speaker 1: they are tests running. They're doing a test run in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: So those of you, you know who you are that
Speaker 1: live in the Twin Cities, they are they're they're focused
Speaker 1: on more chicken chicken and they're like, hey, we can
Speaker 1: serve crispy chicken nuggets. So they're testing those out in
Speaker 1: the mini apples market.
Speaker 4: How about make them soft because most places make the
Speaker 4: mistake of overfrying their nuggets.
Speaker 1: Well that's because many of the people that work at
Speaker 1: the fast food restaurants just kind of what they're like robots,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. They do it as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible. But the nuggets are available in two sizes
Speaker 1: nanty five piece with one sauce three to four ninety
Speaker 1: nine depending on location. Ten piece, Oh my god, a
Speaker 1: six ninety nine to eight ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Not a deal.
Speaker 1: That's not a deal at all. Right, that's a terrible thing.
Speaker 1: Now is this the deal? I mean, I don't know Arby's. Now,
Speaker 1: you've talked about Arby's on the show. You famously went
Speaker 1: to Arby's and talked about that with your family.
Speaker 3: I did a test run there and then a week
Speaker 3: later that same Rby shut down.
Speaker 1: The Health Department shut it down, right. Yeah, So Arby's
Speaker 1: is now offering thirty boneless wings for seventeen dollars. Is
Speaker 1: that a good deal?
Speaker 3: This is not even real. I don't even know anybody
Speaker 3: who eats at Arby's. Again, I think it's a front
Speaker 3: for a drug operation.
Speaker 1: You might be right. I told you last time we
Speaker 1: talked about Arby's. When I lived in Hollywood, there was
Speaker 1: an Arby's on Sunset. He's a Sunset or Hollywood, I
Speaker 1: think it was Sunset, and it was like an old
Speaker 1: school Arby's. And sometimes would I would go there to
Speaker 1: get the Big Montana, which is a roast beef, but
Speaker 1: no beef was harmed in the making of the Big Montana,
Speaker 1: and I would go there for that, but very rarely,
Speaker 1: very rarely did I go to.
Speaker 4: The I'm pretty sure it's a money laundering operation.
Speaker 1: And you know, you might be right. That's a hot take.
Speaker 1: You might be right. Burger King, We'll get out on this.
Speaker 1: So Burger King is unveiling a new proto type a
Speaker 1: cool burger King called Sizzle. What they're testing this in Miami,
Speaker 1: which I believe is where Burger King is headquartered. And
Speaker 1: so they're trying to trying to futs around with that
Speaker 1: and get that, get that going. I looked at it,
Speaker 1: it just looks like a designer, high end Burger King.
Speaker 3: Lame has any fast food restaurant falling off harder from
Speaker 3: when we were kids until now than Burger King.
Speaker 4: Back when we were kids.
Speaker 1: The wopera, Oh yeah, the flame grilled, the flame broiled.
Speaker 3: Flame broiled, that flame broiled burger. When we were kids,
Speaker 3: it was really good. The bun was good, the quality
Speaker 3: was awesome. And then they changed owners a couple of times,
Speaker 3: I think, and the quality now is crud. It is crap.
Speaker 3: I've tried to eat it and it stays in your
Speaker 3: stomach like a rock. It doesn't taste very good. The
Speaker 3: fries went to shit. It just went downhill. And it's
Speaker 3: sad because we have good memories of eating there as kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to go there with my grandfather. My
Speaker 1: grandfather loved it, and he would go there and tell
Speaker 1: the person he liked his food well done, like I do.
Speaker 1: And he would tell the person put the whopper through
Speaker 1: the flame broiler twice so he'd have a twice cook
Speaker 1: the whopper. And I was the line. I was going
Speaker 1: to use Danny at is because Burger King's futsing around
Speaker 1: with this the sizzle concept. The problem with that it
Speaker 1: looks really good. The problem is when you get the food.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. Like the restaurant looks good, but the
Speaker 1: other thing. At least they have onion rings at Burger Kings,
Speaker 1: so that's a positive because it's hard to get rings
Speaker 1: a lot of places. McDonald's doesn't have onion rings. I
Speaker 1: don't believe Wendy's has onion rings. So that is a
Speaker 1: a good thing. It is Saturday, Danny, what yet going
Speaker 1: on today? We got college football? We're checking that out.
Speaker 1: Some of the big matchups on the collegiate football schedule
Speaker 1: this day. And what else.
Speaker 4: You got going on? Anything going on besides working on
Speaker 4: this podcast.
Speaker 3: It is going to be a day of rest, a
Speaker 3: little bit of college football, and just hanging out with CoA, hanging.
Speaker 1: Out with the little fella, hanging out. What's is the
Speaker 1: biggest game Washington, Oregon? Is that the biggest game today.
Speaker 3: For us out here closest to the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: That's a big game. We'll see, we'll see what happened
Speaker 1: that's in Seattle, I believe I think that game is in.
Speaker 4: Where is Caleb Williams playing today?
Speaker 1: Oh though, Oh that's a big game too, es he's
Speaker 1: playing Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's going to be a good one.
Speaker 1: And did you see the funny video of the punt
Speaker 1: returner for SC this week at practice? It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be rainy and.
Speaker 4: I did see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spraying water on this guy, Like that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid, Like, I don't they will just spray water.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting ready for you know, when it's raining
Speaker 1: in Indiana and you know, Dob, it's like, oh boy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, have a great Saturday. We've got the mail
Speaker 1: bag and Pop goes the Culture and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that on the Sunday podcast. We'll talk to you and
Speaker 1: watch Penny versus the Penny. We'll talk to you
Speaker 4: Then Asta pasta viopulation