September 6, 2024 • 33 mins
Ben Maller has fun Friday behind-the-scenes stories from Benny Vs. the Penny! He reacts to the Ravens/Chiefs barn burner. Ben also talks National Day, Burger Fun Facts, Phrase of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere. Welcome to another Pipe and Hot edition
of the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Fifth Hour with me,
Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, and a very happy
Friday to you. The first full weekend in the month
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of September, and more importantly, we are now heading in
to a full football season. We had last night compelling
theater as the Baltimore Ravens tried to pull out a tie.
Actually we're gonna go for the win at the end
on that Thursday night game last night. We talked about
it on the Overnight Show, and I don't want to
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rehash that here because we already discussed it. But if
you missed the original recipe podcast, the Non Extra Country Podcast,
it was a humdinger, a Barnburner of a finish as
Lamar Jackson made multiple mistakes at the end of that game.
And Lamar is a polarizing figure, as we know, because
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he does things that nobody else does in the NFL. Right,
there are some things that Lamar Jackson does that nobody
else can do in the NFL, and there's also basic
things that other quarterbacks are able to do that Lamar
messes up all the time. And that game was the
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persona ocasion, was the epitome of the Lamar Jackson experience.
And the Ravens didn't play all that well. There were
some defensive breakdowns. They have a new defensive coordinator, several
new coaches on the staff, and they still had a
chance to tie. And if they had scored the touchdown,
the lively was out of bounds. If they had scored,
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they would have gone for two. But enough about that.
We have another game tonight and that is in Brazil.
The Eagles and the Packers will duke it out as
there is military security protecting our NFL players in Brazil
today and that game will be on Peacock later today.
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More on that coming up on this the Friday edition.
This sixth day of September edition of the podcast here
will have the wardrobe change or was it the flapping
your feathers like you just own care, cheeseburger in Paradise,
and the phrase of the week. So there's a lot
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of stuff to get to. Today's National Read a Book Day.
Who me and you can read a book while listening
to the fifth Hour podcast, so you know that, Yes,
you can multitest. You can read the book and listen
to this podcast in the back. And while we want
you to focus on everything that we say, we get
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credit as long as you play the podcast. They have
ways to track you. As you know, Big Brothers always
watching or listening, so they can track you and how
many people are listening. And when you listen to like
you download the podcast, you listen for like five minutes,
we get credit, but we get extra credit if you
listen for ten minutes. I don't even know how it
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all works. I just know we need a minimum of
like five good minutes. We get a little credit for
two or three, but we'd like to have more. We'd
like to have more than that. So that's the deal
on that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It is also Fight Procrastination Day, and I am proud
to say that this is not an issue that I have.
I wish it was a problem. I just don't in
terms of work stuff. Now there's other stuff, like the
day to day monotony of adulting that I do procrastinate
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on it. But in terms of work, I'm very surgical
with the way I approach things. I have my routine.
But today is fight procrastination day, and opportunity for you
and maybe me when it comes to the adulting stuff
but not work stuff, to face your procrastination issue head on.
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And they are of course saying this is a mental
health related and all that stuff, and yeah, well, it
does actually lead to hoarding. I know that from having
listeners who have gotten in some trouble Cowboy and Windsor
and some other guys that have gotten to hoarding. And
it actually originates. Procrastination originates from a Greek poet who
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was among the first people to speak against procrastination. In
a poem titled Works and Days. The Greek poet spoke
to his brother who had mismanaged his inheritance, asking him
not to abandon his duties. And so it goes all
the way back to Greek times. So it is fight
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procrastination day. Now for us, we take you behind the
scenes on Benny Versus the Penny. This is our second episode.
It has already aired in some markets, for example in Philadelphia.
It has already been broadcast in Philly and a couple
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of other cities. Now the the main hub of this
every station matters. But in Boston where the show is produced,
my guy Vinnie and the production team Kevin and those
guys put the show together. And our first showing on
NBC Sports Boston will be tonight at six o'clock. We're
in a great slot. We're on right after Felger and
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Maz So that's the very popular afternoon drive from the
sports of Michael Felger and Tony Maserati. It is simulcast.
It's such a popular show that it is simulcast all
I think all four hours are on NBC Sports Boston
and then we come on after that. So that's a
great slot. And Benny Versus the Penny not only if
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you miss it at six o'clock, it airs again at
eight point thirty and nine to thirty, so there are
three showings tonight of that program. There's no reason to
miss in the Boston market on NBC Sports Boston Benny
versus the Penny. So check that out. Now, I did
have a bit of a wardrobe issue, not a snaff foo.
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It wasn't a wardrobe malfunction by any means. It was
a wardrobe change. It certainly was that. So I'll take
you behind the scenes. Last week, the episode was boomed
out to the masses, and we get feedback like any
job to the radio show, and from time to time
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the bosses will say, hey, like this, I don't like this,
you know, and then it's up to you to figure
out how you want to approach things. And we have
a great team that follows the TV show very closely.
As you might imagine, there's a lot of people involved,
much more than a radio show where I have pretty
much total editorial control over the radio show that I do.
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It's not exactly the same. I have a lot of leeway,
a lot of leeway on the TV show, but I
do not have complete and total control, nor would you
expect me to, nor would you expect me to. There's
a lot of care that goes into it, right, It's
very surgical the way to put the show together and
all that stuff. So in terms of the picks, those
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are obviously my picks. And sometimes I might say something
that is allowed on the radio and not allowed on
television and for whatever reason, for whatever reason, and so
we make sure not to do that again, make sure
to clean that up. But as far as the wardrobe
is concerned, I did get one comment from one of
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the big bosses at NBC is like, hey, you know,
I like the show this, that, and the other thing. However, however,
and then they'll point something out. And if you've known
me at all from the Overnight Show, you know, in
terms of that show, I am the fashionista. I just
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am I Eddie. Come on, Eddie wears the same thing
all the time. Coop no, and Lorena has been away.
But I'm the snappy dresser. I'm the snappy dresser on
the show. I'm on camera there, I'm just on the
YouTube channel for the show, and it's like I'm walking
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down the catwalk all time. So it was odd when
somebody from NBC contacted me and said, hey, you know,
I like the show, however, I'd like to update this
little wrinkle. So it caught my attention. It was hat related.
It was hat related. So one of the big bosses
at NBC's like, hey, I would like you to have
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a different hat, and he even went on the interweb
and found the style of hat that he wanted me
to have. The look and all that. I said, Okay,
you're the boss. I mean, you gave me a damn
TV show. Whatever you want. I'm there, man, I don't know.
I'm in radio, you know, fashion, even though I'm the
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fashion Nissa on the show. It's like, okay, this is
a different world from me. I thought, like a wardrobe
and worry about my appearance and stuff. I can't be
a disheveled slob and I mean, man, So he sent
something to me and we immediately bought it. Bought this
this hat from hand crafted from Ireland to where so
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we got the hat doing the show normal week. In
terms of prep, you know, sent the stuff where it
needed to go to Vinnie. I do most of the
prep for the show. Send it to Vinnie. He then
puts everything together, the rich tapestry of information. He has
to sew that together into a rundown where we have
the A block, the B block, and the C block.
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Because it's half hour show, so you get the beginning,
the middle, and then the end. Boom boom boom, and
that's it. Shows over. So I send him the stuff.
He then sends me back at the end of the day,
he sends me the rundow. So then at that point
I have to compile my talking points and I don't
use it tele a prompter. That's Tom Looney. Tom Looney's prompter. Tom,
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He's Tom the prompter. Don't use a prompter. Probably should
use a prompter. Don't use a prompter. So it's all
pretty much muscle memory where I go over my notes
and I'm trying to remember like key points I want
to make. But the show is my end is improvised
what I'm going to say. I have an idea of
what I want to say, and I way too much
much information on every game. The show is only half
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an hour, and because of that, as we've talked about
in previous episodes of this podcast, the fifth hour, a
lot of stuff does not end up on the show,
and the same thing happens in radio. It's even more
exasperated on the television show because there's so many moving
parts and you're on camera, then you're off camera and
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you're paranoid about how you're looking, and the whole thing.
And so there's all that involved. There's all that involved,
but the wardrobe thing. So you get to the point, please, Okay,
I'll get to the point. So I show up to
the Universal studios and I'm the first one there because
what I do is my move is I do the
radio show and boom, I'm getting off the radio. I
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scoot right over to Universal students. I'm like, hey man,
I'm at Universe. This is great. But there's no one
there when I get there, there's no one there, like
the security guard. There's somebody in the CNBC newsroom, in
the MSNBC newsroom, because it's kind of where we have
our studio. It's in the the NBC Tom Brokaw building
over there, and so we have our own little little
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cubby hole there, and there's a room right across the hall.
You go out of the studio. We record Benny versus
the Penny, and it was a big green screen and
cameras and the lights and all stuff. So you go
out of there, you make a right turn. There's a
whole hallway, but you go you don't look at the hallway,
you just turn right. Then as you're walking down you
take a few steps down to the right, and then
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to the left there's a door. There's a couple of
tables in there, and that's where I spend most of
my time on the Universal Lot. I go in there.
There's power, there's a whatever you need there. They got
everything you need. There's a great commissary there down the
hall where they have all the usual nonsense with water
and coffee which I don't drink. And there's downstairs there's
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snacks you can you can get you have to buy them,
I fast, so I don't. I don't buy them. But anyway, well,
so I go in that room and it's the middle
of the night. There's no one there whatever, and I'm
just trying to compile and put together how I want
the show to go. I and it's like some things
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that I want to make sure I get in. There's
some things that you know, whether that gets in or not,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So I do that,
and I guess some other stuff I have to take
care of. So I'm in there a while and kind
of doing my thing and all that, and then eventually
Looney strolls in. Now the great thing about when Looney
shows up to record the show. He's there right before
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we have this call time. They send a sheet down.
You have a call time, have to be there, and
I get there real early because I got nothing else
to do. Looney strolls in. You always hear Looney before
you see him. You always hee him. He'd be a
terrible spot. He's the antithesis of a ninja. Okay, So
you hear him chit chatting, playing grab ass with pretty
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much everybody who's wandering around. And by that time there's
people that are showing up, and you know, Looney's saying
hello and he's remembering everyone's name, and you know it's
Pop Pop Phizz fizz. Oh, what a relief it is.
Tom Looney's here. So I hear him before I see him.
He shows up, and then we go over everything. He's
got a couple of wardrobe options. We do a table
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You think we're kidding, but we don't. We actually do
a table read, and we go over every segment of
the show. And what often happens during the table read
if we haven't mentioned this in previous episodes. So we
go over things, but there's things that we don't want
the other person to know, like Looney will drop stuff
on me when we're actually doing the show that wasn't
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in the table read, and vice versa, and vice versa.
So well, well, it's you know what it's like. It's
like exhibition football where you don't want to show the
other team your playbook, but you want to play the game,
but you don't want to show what you're going to
do in the real game. And so that's what it's like.
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But it gives you a sense of what's going to happen,
but there's always surprises. So we do all that, and this,
to me is a very important part of the making
of the show because unlike the radio show, you go
in there you want to get it done. It's on
television at lasts for several days, it's everywhere people can
you want to it's your product. You are putting your
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product out there, so it's important we go over that.
So fine, we do that, and then it's time to
put the final pieces to the wardrobe together. And I
mentioned that one of the big executives at NBC had said, hey,
we want you to get this hat. So I bought
the hat, pretty expensive hat, pretty expensive hat, and so
I put the hat on, I put the sweater on,
changed up the sweater this week. I got permission from
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the big bosses at NBC to change the wardrobe. So fine,
So I go into the studio. I sit down, new
hat on, and there's a lot of conversation going on
back in Boston. People are going back. I know they're
talking about the hat. I know, the hat's the point
of emphasis. And then they're trying to adjust the lighting.
So I've got people running around behind me and in
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front of me trying to adjust the lighting in there,
Like what's going on. It's like okay, And I had
a feeling the hat something was a little off, but
again it wasn't my decision. This was somebody that wanted
me to wear the hat. So I don't wear it whatever,
you know, they want it, whatever they want, I'll wear
clown makeup if they want, they you know, keep me
a TV show. I mean, come on, some would argue
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I am wearing clown makeup. So I went in there,
we sit down, I test the microphones, and we have
to test the earpiece and all that stuff. And so
I'm pretty normal minimal things, nominal, nominal stuff. And we
go through all the trivial stuff and and then I
get the message, Hey is do you have the hat
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from last week in your in your bag? Why? Yes,
I do. I absolutely have the hat from last week.
So I had to go out of this to take
my mic off and my IFB go out of the studio,
go make a right turn, go into the room I
normally hang out at and fiddle with my hat. And
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so fiddle with my hat I did. And so it
turns out that I will be returning the very expensive
hat hand crafted from Ireland. It just I have a
very large head. And you can say because I've got
a lot of empty space or I have a big brain.
Either way, and so the bit of a problem to
find hats that fit right on the big head not easy,
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not easy. So then we use the old hat. You
can see that today, later today and tomorrow and then
Sunday morning on this week's edition of Benny Versus the Pennys.
We like to call it BBP BBP Betty versus Penny.
So we turned the page on that and I got
a lot of great feedback, and we're going to do
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the mail bag on Sunday and we'll read your questions
and go over the quiz of the week from you guys.
And we got a lot of email this week, which
is great, and I'm sure we'll get more between now
and Sunday. You can email Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Fine,
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so people are emailing me be like, hey, I want
to watch the show. I have Peacock and where's the show?
So I point out where the show is. I go
over here, the show's shows right there, boom, I'll watch
watch the show. So fine, and then, uh, I guess
it was yesterday on Thursday, maybe even Wednesday, might have
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been on Wednesday. I think I think it was actually
started on Wednesday. I'm getting these messages that are are
trickling in and people are are annoyed. They're getting progressively
more upset and know what did what did I do here?
And I don't think I did. I didn't. I don't
think I did any anyway. The the tenor of the
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messages where hey, I heard you mentioned on the radio
show that your TV show is on pot On on
Peacock on Peacock, uh, and uh, but I couldn't find it.
Did you lie? Did you make that up? You know
that whole thing? And one guy even went as far
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as to say. They contacted customer service. They were that
annoyed they could not find the show on Peacock. So
then that sparked a minutes long Mallor investigation. As I
started to freak out what happened to the show, I
became a bit abrasive, bit abrasive, as they were right.
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The people that were contacting me were there. They were annoyed,
they were upset, which is I'm honored that you're upset
because you can't find a TV show that's a week old. Anyway,
now I know the rest of the story, the rest
of the story. So it turns out the TV show
has a rather quick expiration date because we're picking games
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that are played mostly on Sunday and then the Monday
night game. There's no reason to keep the show up
other than to make us look like jackasses, you know,
jack wagons or whatever. So what they do, it's just
like the TV show, the TV show which is on Peacock.
It's the same show, but on cable they stop airing
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it at one o'clock Eastern on Sunday because that's when
they kick off that big television window. So somewhere and
this is way over my pay grade. Somebody that is
involved in the Peacock process not only took the show
off Peacock, which I'm fine with. I get it. Even
though last week's episode, the week one episode preseason is
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pretty much evergreen in terms of the picks are going
to last all year. We did win totals, we did
some player I did some player props. Those bets will
have a lifespan that will go all the way through
the regular season. The show this week, which you'll start
start today, that in the pecking order of television, and
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it's going to be dated on on Sunday. Okay, so fine.
But the only problem I had I did let the
people at NBC know is they took the entire beny
versus the penny page down and one guy contacted their
customer service and the person wasn't real helpful and that
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you know, they kind of got upset and all that.
So I just want you to know I do care
about your feedback, and I have contacted through the proper channels.
I do know the social order, I know where I
fall on the food chain, so I feel like I
was diplomatic and we'll see where the road takes us here, hopefully,
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we'll get this straight now early. This is the first
year we've been on Peacock and it was really cool.
They had a great page. My ugly photo was on there,
and from what I understand, don't hold me to this,
that page will be back up this afternoon. By this
afternoon and you'll be able to watch Benny Versus the
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Penny week two week two week. It's week one of
the NFL season, but week two for the show, episode two,
and so you'll be able to watch that later today.
And you know, one thing I have no problem with
being bashful is is promoting the show, and so I'll
send that out on all the appropriate social media channels
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and this podcast companion your next level P one if
you're in here, So that's how I classify you that
you're even listening to the podcast on the weekends, and
hopefully you listen to the overnight show. So thank you
for flapping your feathers about the Peacock. We'll get that
sorted out again today. It should be back up and
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then remember though, it's only going to be up for
a few days, so if you're planning on we were
just talking about this earlier a few minutes ago, procrastinating, well,
fight procrast nation. If you're planning on pushing back the
TV show, you have until Sunday morning and then the
thing vanishes into the into the into the outer space area.
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So who knows. Moving on from that, it is a
cheeseburger in Paradise. And this is one of those fun
facts that I had heard years ago and I had forgotten.
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Do you ever have that happen When you hear something
then you kind of forget about it and then it's back.
And that's what happened this week. So I fell down
this rabbit hole. I was reading a story about about
some some fast food restaurants and how they're price gouging
people and then they and then I clicked on another
story and it was about the shake Shack, the burger
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joined from New York. That's a national chain and they're
closing some location in Los Angeles. So then I checked
that out, and then I clicked on another story and
it was about the genesis of the cheeseburger. Now, the hamburger,
we know the hamburger where it comes from, We've done
that on the show. But the cheeseburger, this blows me away.
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The cheeseburger only dates back to the early nineteen hundred.
In fact, this is the one hundredth anniversary of the
cheeseburger nineteen twenty four. And the cheeseburger where do you
think it was in? You think it was like New York, Boston, Philly,
one of those early US towns. Or do you think
it came from Germany? Hamburg, Germany? What if I told
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you that the cheeseburger came from Pasadena, home of the
Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade, And in nineteen twenty
four it was the first time the original hamburger in
cheese appeared on a menu. Now, the actual term cheeseburger
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was invented somewhere else, I think in Louisiana. I'll have
to double check that, But the process of putting cheese
on a burger, the first place that popped up on
a menu was in Pasadena. The legend is that it
happened on Colorado Boulevard that was then known as Root
sixty six. Get your kicks on Root sixty six. They've
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had songs, many songs written about that over the years.
It was where the right spot that's a restaurant once
stood and that is where the cheeseburger was born. It
cost all of fifteen cents. And as the legend goes,
is it true that a gentleman named hs Sternberger great name,
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and his two sons who happened to be twins, Van
and Lionel. They were in Pasadena in nineteen sixteen from
San Diego. The sixteen year old Lionel Sternberger was working
in the kitchen at his dad's restaurant. There the original
hamburger and cheese would pop up on the menu there
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at the right spot. So this kid's sixteen, he's working,
he's in high school. He's working at the restaurant southwest
corner of Colorado Boulevard on an Avenue sixty four. I
used to live on Avenue twenty six. It's one of
my old old homes, so Avenue sixty four in Colorado Boulevard.
And this this kid's working as a short order cook.
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And one random day in nineteen twenty four, a sixteen
year old kid introduced cheese to a patty of beef. Now,
how exactly he decided to do this is a bit
of a mystery. There are two theories that food historians
have come up with, but we do know he called
it not a cheeseburger. He called it the Aristocrat burger.
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The original hamburger with cheese is what they called it.
So version number one is the story that I like better.
That I like better. This story is the kids screwed
up and it was a cover up. Now, often you
hear the cover up is worse than the crime. This
time the cover up was better than the crime. So
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Lionel Sternberger, at age sixteen's working his dad's restaurant, short
order cook. He's behind the counter there flipping burgers and
uh uh, he accidentally burnt a patty. Now for me,
that's not an accident. For me, that's what I want.
When I go to get a burger, I want it burned.
I cook burgers usually on Fridays. It's burger Day. Today's
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burger day, so I'll have Bobby on the griddle. I
might make a cheese steak, but so cheat day, cheat meal.
So I love it burned. I love it well done.
Most people know. So back in nineteen twenty four, you
don't even want to burn hamburger patty, but you don't
want to throw it away because stuff's pricey. I mean,
fifteen cents that's very expensive for a burger. So this
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kid's like, hey, I got an idea, and a good
old Lionel Sternberger says, I fed up. So when you
f up, you got to cover up. And that's exactly
what he did. He made a mistake and in order
to hide the mistake, can't put makeup on a burger
that's burned, so he slapped a slice of cheese to
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conceal the charcoal on the burger. And the rest is
his story, or is it. Another theory is that this
kid had nothing to do with the idea and he
was just following orders that the customer came in. There's
some random customer and said, hey, I'd like you to
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put a piece of cheese on my burger. And the
kids say, ah, right, whatever you want. I'm just the
short order cook dude, and here you go. Knock yourself out.
And that's how it started. Either way, though, I like
the first version of the story better. You can decide
for yourself. We've got the phrase of the way, all right.
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Phrase of the week this week is back to the
drawing board. This was requested by a listener named Michael,
who is from Indiana, So thank you Michael for emailing.
Appreciate your listenership. Michael lives in Indianapolis. He says he's
a Colts fan, does not like baseball, and likes the
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Indiana Pacers. So pretty standard. Pretty standard, I would say,
as far as the teams that you like, he wants
us to break down back to the drawing board. So
this actually is credited to an artist, a cartoonist. Peter
Arnault is the name, and it goes back to nineteen
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forty one, so the phrase back to the drawing board
not that old. It was a New Yorker cartoon New
Yorker magazine. The cartoon depicted a dude in a suit
walking away from this crashed plane while carrying rolled up.
And the way the cartoon was drawn was it was
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a mechanical drawing of an aircraft and there was a
little cartoon bubble over the head, and the cartoon bubble
over the head read well, back to the drawing board.
And supposedly the phrase originated actually during World War Two
and then made its way into some military dudes, we're
talking and the cartoon has heard it and put it
(31:26):
in the New Yorker, and the phrase if you don't
understand what it means, Kin Bobby's here, it's you screwed
up something. It was not a success, and you got
to get a fresh start, you know, begin again, you know,
make a new beginning. However you want to say it,
start from scratch. There's so many other ways to say it.
But back to the drawing board a phrase that originated
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in the New Yorker magazine cartoon in nineteen forty one.
And now you know the rest of the story. And
if you want to recommend a phrase or a word
you'd like us to look up, please do so. We
love words, love looking up words and trying to dig
down rabbit holes and find out where things come from.
(32:11):
But that should do it for us today. Danny will
be back tomorrow with me Danny G for the Saturday podcast,
and we'll also have a fresh pod on Sunday. We'll
have the mail Bag on Sunday. Joy the NFL tonight,
don't forget Benny versus the Penny again, should be back
up on Peacock later today, so we're excited about that.
(32:32):
And watch that NFL game Eagles and Packers, which will
also be on the Peacock Boy. They should run like
a promo for the t R show Benny Versus The
Penny on Peacock Boy. That would be awesome during the game.
Don't think that's gonna happen. But you can dream, you know, dream,
Why not dream? But all weekend NBC Sports Boston tonight
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six o'clock obviously in Boston three o'clock in the West.
If you have a satellite and you can watch it,
It'll air all weekend and over and over again, several
showings tonight in Boston, We're on. In Philadelphia, we are
on in the morning today. Phillies are playing tonight and
we'll be on again on Saturday morning in Philly and
in the Bay Area. You're gonna be overwhelmed with Benny
Versus the Penny. So Andrea and mister nice Guy and
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Matt all you guys, thank you for watching. We'll have
new episodes up. Even Inka Terror who's blind, loves watching
Benny Versus the Penny. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
We will catch you tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow later, Skater, Is
that what Danny says? I think that's what he says, right, Yes,
(33:41):
got a murder. I gotta go
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere. Welcome to another Pipe and Hot edition
of the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Fifth Hour with me,
Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, and a very happy
Friday to you. The first full weekend in the month
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of September, and more importantly, we are now heading in
to a full football season. We had last night compelling
theater as the Baltimore Ravens tried to pull out a tie.
Actually we're gonna go for the win at the end
on that Thursday night game last night. We talked about
it on the Overnight Show, and I don't want to
(01:13):
rehash that here because we already discussed it. But if
you missed the original recipe podcast, the Non Extra Country Podcast,
it was a humdinger, a Barnburner of a finish as
Lamar Jackson made multiple mistakes at the end of that game.
And Lamar is a polarizing figure, as we know, because
(01:38):
he does things that nobody else does in the NFL. Right,
there are some things that Lamar Jackson does that nobody
else can do in the NFL, and there's also basic
things that other quarterbacks are able to do that Lamar
messes up all the time. And that game was the
(01:59):
persona ocasion, was the epitome of the Lamar Jackson experience.
And the Ravens didn't play all that well. There were
some defensive breakdowns. They have a new defensive coordinator, several
new coaches on the staff, and they still had a
chance to tie. And if they had scored the touchdown,
the lively was out of bounds. If they had scored,
(02:21):
they would have gone for two. But enough about that.
We have another game tonight and that is in Brazil.
The Eagles and the Packers will duke it out as
there is military security protecting our NFL players in Brazil
today and that game will be on Peacock later today.
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More on that coming up on this the Friday edition.
This sixth day of September edition of the podcast here
will have the wardrobe change or was it the flapping
your feathers like you just own care, cheeseburger in Paradise,
and the phrase of the week. So there's a lot
(03:05):
of stuff to get to. Today's National Read a Book Day.
Who me and you can read a book while listening
to the fifth Hour podcast, so you know that, Yes,
you can multitest. You can read the book and listen
to this podcast in the back. And while we want
you to focus on everything that we say, we get
(03:28):
credit as long as you play the podcast. They have
ways to track you. As you know, Big Brothers always
watching or listening, so they can track you and how
many people are listening. And when you listen to like
you download the podcast, you listen for like five minutes,
we get credit, but we get extra credit if you
listen for ten minutes. I don't even know how it
(03:48):
all works. I just know we need a minimum of
like five good minutes. We get a little credit for
two or three, but we'd like to have more. We'd
like to have more than that. So that's the deal
on that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It is also Fight Procrastination Day, and I am proud
to say that this is not an issue that I have.
I wish it was a problem. I just don't in
terms of work stuff. Now there's other stuff, like the
day to day monotony of adulting that I do procrastinate
(04:26):
on it. But in terms of work, I'm very surgical
with the way I approach things. I have my routine.
But today is fight procrastination day, and opportunity for you
and maybe me when it comes to the adulting stuff
but not work stuff, to face your procrastination issue head on.
(04:50):
And they are of course saying this is a mental
health related and all that stuff, and yeah, well, it
does actually lead to hoarding. I know that from having
listeners who have gotten in some trouble Cowboy and Windsor
and some other guys that have gotten to hoarding. And
it actually originates. Procrastination originates from a Greek poet who
(05:13):
was among the first people to speak against procrastination. In
a poem titled Works and Days. The Greek poet spoke
to his brother who had mismanaged his inheritance, asking him
not to abandon his duties. And so it goes all
the way back to Greek times. So it is fight
(05:35):
procrastination day. Now for us, we take you behind the
scenes on Benny Versus the Penny. This is our second episode.
It has already aired in some markets, for example in Philadelphia.
It has already been broadcast in Philly and a couple
(05:57):
of other cities. Now the the main hub of this
every station matters. But in Boston where the show is produced,
my guy Vinnie and the production team Kevin and those
guys put the show together. And our first showing on
NBC Sports Boston will be tonight at six o'clock. We're
in a great slot. We're on right after Felger and
(06:21):
Maz So that's the very popular afternoon drive from the
sports of Michael Felger and Tony Maserati. It is simulcast.
It's such a popular show that it is simulcast all
I think all four hours are on NBC Sports Boston
and then we come on after that. So that's a
great slot. And Benny Versus the Penny not only if
(06:42):
you miss it at six o'clock, it airs again at
eight point thirty and nine to thirty, so there are
three showings tonight of that program. There's no reason to
miss in the Boston market on NBC Sports Boston Benny
versus the Penny. So check that out. Now, I did
have a bit of a wardrobe issue, not a snaff foo.
(07:06):
It wasn't a wardrobe malfunction by any means. It was
a wardrobe change. It certainly was that. So I'll take
you behind the scenes. Last week, the episode was boomed
out to the masses, and we get feedback like any
job to the radio show, and from time to time
(07:28):
the bosses will say, hey, like this, I don't like this,
you know, and then it's up to you to figure
out how you want to approach things. And we have
a great team that follows the TV show very closely.
As you might imagine, there's a lot of people involved,
much more than a radio show where I have pretty
much total editorial control over the radio show that I do.
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It's not exactly the same. I have a lot of leeway,
a lot of leeway on the TV show, but I
do not have complete and total control, nor would you
expect me to, nor would you expect me to. There's
a lot of care that goes into it, right, It's
very surgical the way to put the show together and
all that stuff. So in terms of the picks, those
(08:13):
are obviously my picks. And sometimes I might say something
that is allowed on the radio and not allowed on
television and for whatever reason, for whatever reason, and so
we make sure not to do that again, make sure
to clean that up. But as far as the wardrobe
is concerned, I did get one comment from one of
(08:35):
the big bosses at NBC is like, hey, you know,
I like the show this, that, and the other thing. However, however,
and then they'll point something out. And if you've known
me at all from the Overnight Show, you know, in
terms of that show, I am the fashionista. I just
(09:00):
am I Eddie. Come on, Eddie wears the same thing
all the time. Coop no, and Lorena has been away.
But I'm the snappy dresser. I'm the snappy dresser on
the show. I'm on camera there, I'm just on the
YouTube channel for the show, and it's like I'm walking
(09:22):
down the catwalk all time. So it was odd when
somebody from NBC contacted me and said, hey, you know,
I like the show, however, I'd like to update this
little wrinkle. So it caught my attention. It was hat related.
It was hat related. So one of the big bosses
at NBC's like, hey, I would like you to have
(09:42):
a different hat, and he even went on the interweb
and found the style of hat that he wanted me
to have. The look and all that. I said, Okay,
you're the boss. I mean, you gave me a damn
TV show. Whatever you want. I'm there, man, I don't know.
I'm in radio, you know, fashion, even though I'm the
(10:04):
fashion Nissa on the show. It's like, okay, this is
a different world from me. I thought, like a wardrobe
and worry about my appearance and stuff. I can't be
a disheveled slob and I mean, man, So he sent
something to me and we immediately bought it. Bought this
this hat from hand crafted from Ireland to where so
(10:25):
we got the hat doing the show normal week. In
terms of prep, you know, sent the stuff where it
needed to go to Vinnie. I do most of the
prep for the show. Send it to Vinnie. He then
puts everything together, the rich tapestry of information. He has
to sew that together into a rundown where we have
the A block, the B block, and the C block.
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Because it's half hour show, so you get the beginning,
the middle, and then the end. Boom boom boom, and
that's it. Shows over. So I send him the stuff.
He then sends me back at the end of the day,
he sends me the rundow. So then at that point
I have to compile my talking points and I don't
use it tele a prompter. That's Tom Looney. Tom Looney's prompter. Tom,
(11:11):
He's Tom the prompter. Don't use a prompter. Probably should
use a prompter. Don't use a prompter. So it's all
pretty much muscle memory where I go over my notes
and I'm trying to remember like key points I want
to make. But the show is my end is improvised
what I'm going to say. I have an idea of
what I want to say, and I way too much
much information on every game. The show is only half
(11:34):
an hour, and because of that, as we've talked about
in previous episodes of this podcast, the fifth hour, a
lot of stuff does not end up on the show,
and the same thing happens in radio. It's even more
exasperated on the television show because there's so many moving
parts and you're on camera, then you're off camera and
(11:58):
you're paranoid about how you're looking, and the whole thing.
And so there's all that involved. There's all that involved,
but the wardrobe thing. So you get to the point, please, Okay,
I'll get to the point. So I show up to
the Universal studios and I'm the first one there because
what I do is my move is I do the
radio show and boom, I'm getting off the radio. I
(12:22):
scoot right over to Universal students. I'm like, hey man,
I'm at Universe. This is great. But there's no one
there when I get there, there's no one there, like
the security guard. There's somebody in the CNBC newsroom, in
the MSNBC newsroom, because it's kind of where we have
our studio. It's in the the NBC Tom Brokaw building
over there, and so we have our own little little
(12:45):
cubby hole there, and there's a room right across the hall.
You go out of the studio. We record Benny versus
the Penny, and it was a big green screen and
cameras and the lights and all stuff. So you go
out of there, you make a right turn. There's a
whole hallway, but you go you don't look at the hallway,
you just turn right. Then as you're walking down you
take a few steps down to the right, and then
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to the left there's a door. There's a couple of
tables in there, and that's where I spend most of
my time on the Universal Lot. I go in there.
There's power, there's a whatever you need there. They got
everything you need. There's a great commissary there down the
hall where they have all the usual nonsense with water
and coffee which I don't drink. And there's downstairs there's
(13:26):
snacks you can you can get you have to buy them,
I fast, so I don't. I don't buy them. But anyway, well,
so I go in that room and it's the middle
of the night. There's no one there whatever, and I'm
just trying to compile and put together how I want
the show to go. I and it's like some things
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that I want to make sure I get in. There's
some things that you know, whether that gets in or not,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So I do that,
and I guess some other stuff I have to take
care of. So I'm in there a while and kind
of doing my thing and all that, and then eventually
Looney strolls in. Now the great thing about when Looney
shows up to record the show. He's there right before
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we have this call time. They send a sheet down.
You have a call time, have to be there, and
I get there real early because I got nothing else
to do. Looney strolls in. You always hear Looney before
you see him. You always hee him. He'd be a
terrible spot. He's the antithesis of a ninja. Okay, So
you hear him chit chatting, playing grab ass with pretty
(14:36):
much everybody who's wandering around. And by that time there's
people that are showing up, and you know, Looney's saying
hello and he's remembering everyone's name, and you know it's
Pop Pop Phizz fizz. Oh, what a relief it is.
Tom Looney's here. So I hear him before I see him.
He shows up, and then we go over everything. He's
got a couple of wardrobe options. We do a table
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You think we're kidding, but we don't. We actually do
a table read, and we go over every segment of
the show. And what often happens during the table read
if we haven't mentioned this in previous episodes. So we
go over things, but there's things that we don't want
the other person to know, like Looney will drop stuff
on me when we're actually doing the show that wasn't
(15:21):
in the table read, and vice versa, and vice versa.
So well, well, it's you know what it's like. It's
like exhibition football where you don't want to show the
other team your playbook, but you want to play the game,
but you don't want to show what you're going to
do in the real game. And so that's what it's like.
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But it gives you a sense of what's going to happen,
but there's always surprises. So we do all that, and this,
to me is a very important part of the making
of the show because unlike the radio show, you go
in there you want to get it done. It's on
television at lasts for several days, it's everywhere people can
you want to it's your product. You are putting your
(16:03):
product out there, so it's important we go over that.
So fine, we do that, and then it's time to
put the final pieces to the wardrobe together. And I
mentioned that one of the big executives at NBC had said, hey,
we want you to get this hat. So I bought
the hat, pretty expensive hat, pretty expensive hat, and so
I put the hat on, I put the sweater on,
changed up the sweater this week. I got permission from
(16:23):
the big bosses at NBC to change the wardrobe. So fine,
So I go into the studio. I sit down, new
hat on, and there's a lot of conversation going on
back in Boston. People are going back. I know they're
talking about the hat. I know, the hat's the point
of emphasis. And then they're trying to adjust the lighting.
So I've got people running around behind me and in
(16:44):
front of me trying to adjust the lighting in there,
Like what's going on. It's like okay, And I had
a feeling the hat something was a little off, but
again it wasn't my decision. This was somebody that wanted
me to wear the hat. So I don't wear it whatever,
you know, they want it, whatever they want, I'll wear
clown makeup if they want, they you know, keep me
a TV show. I mean, come on, some would argue
(17:05):
I am wearing clown makeup. So I went in there,
we sit down, I test the microphones, and we have
to test the earpiece and all that stuff. And so
I'm pretty normal minimal things, nominal, nominal stuff. And we
go through all the trivial stuff and and then I
get the message, Hey is do you have the hat
(17:28):
from last week in your in your bag? Why? Yes,
I do. I absolutely have the hat from last week.
So I had to go out of this to take
my mic off and my IFB go out of the studio,
go make a right turn, go into the room I
normally hang out at and fiddle with my hat. And
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so fiddle with my hat I did. And so it
turns out that I will be returning the very expensive
hat hand crafted from Ireland. It just I have a
very large head. And you can say because I've got
a lot of empty space or I have a big brain.
Either way, and so the bit of a problem to
find hats that fit right on the big head not easy,
(18:10):
not easy. So then we use the old hat. You
can see that today, later today and tomorrow and then
Sunday morning on this week's edition of Benny Versus the Pennys.
We like to call it BBP BBP Betty versus Penny.
So we turned the page on that and I got
a lot of great feedback, and we're going to do
(18:31):
the mail bag on Sunday and we'll read your questions
and go over the quiz of the week from you guys.
And we got a lot of email this week, which
is great, and I'm sure we'll get more between now
and Sunday. You can email Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Fine,
(18:54):
so people are emailing me be like, hey, I want
to watch the show. I have Peacock and where's the show?
So I point out where the show is. I go
over here, the show's shows right there, boom, I'll watch
watch the show. So fine, and then, uh, I guess
it was yesterday on Thursday, maybe even Wednesday, might have
(19:15):
been on Wednesday. I think I think it was actually
started on Wednesday. I'm getting these messages that are are
trickling in and people are are annoyed. They're getting progressively
more upset and know what did what did I do here?
And I don't think I did. I didn't. I don't
think I did any anyway. The the tenor of the
(19:38):
messages where hey, I heard you mentioned on the radio
show that your TV show is on pot On on
Peacock on Peacock, uh, and uh, but I couldn't find it.
Did you lie? Did you make that up? You know
that whole thing? And one guy even went as far
(20:01):
as to say. They contacted customer service. They were that
annoyed they could not find the show on Peacock. So
then that sparked a minutes long Mallor investigation. As I
started to freak out what happened to the show, I
became a bit abrasive, bit abrasive, as they were right.
(20:25):
The people that were contacting me were there. They were annoyed,
they were upset, which is I'm honored that you're upset
because you can't find a TV show that's a week old. Anyway,
now I know the rest of the story, the rest
of the story. So it turns out the TV show
has a rather quick expiration date because we're picking games
(20:51):
that are played mostly on Sunday and then the Monday
night game. There's no reason to keep the show up
other than to make us look like jackasses, you know,
jack wagons or whatever. So what they do, it's just
like the TV show, the TV show which is on Peacock.
It's the same show, but on cable they stop airing
(21:12):
it at one o'clock Eastern on Sunday because that's when
they kick off that big television window. So somewhere and
this is way over my pay grade. Somebody that is
involved in the Peacock process not only took the show
off Peacock, which I'm fine with. I get it. Even
though last week's episode, the week one episode preseason is
(21:38):
pretty much evergreen in terms of the picks are going
to last all year. We did win totals, we did
some player I did some player props. Those bets will
have a lifespan that will go all the way through
the regular season. The show this week, which you'll start
start today, that in the pecking order of television, and
(22:01):
it's going to be dated on on Sunday. Okay, so fine.
But the only problem I had I did let the
people at NBC know is they took the entire beny
versus the penny page down and one guy contacted their
customer service and the person wasn't real helpful and that
(22:22):
you know, they kind of got upset and all that.
So I just want you to know I do care
about your feedback, and I have contacted through the proper channels.
I do know the social order, I know where I
fall on the food chain, so I feel like I
was diplomatic and we'll see where the road takes us here, hopefully,
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we'll get this straight now early. This is the first
year we've been on Peacock and it was really cool.
They had a great page. My ugly photo was on there,
and from what I understand, don't hold me to this,
that page will be back up this afternoon. By this
afternoon and you'll be able to watch Benny Versus the
(23:03):
Penny week two week two week. It's week one of
the NFL season, but week two for the show, episode two,
and so you'll be able to watch that later today.
And you know, one thing I have no problem with
being bashful is is promoting the show, and so I'll
send that out on all the appropriate social media channels
(23:24):
and this podcast companion your next level P one if
you're in here, So that's how I classify you that
you're even listening to the podcast on the weekends, and
hopefully you listen to the overnight show. So thank you
for flapping your feathers about the Peacock. We'll get that
sorted out again today. It should be back up and
(23:48):
then remember though, it's only going to be up for
a few days, so if you're planning on we were
just talking about this earlier a few minutes ago, procrastinating, well,
fight procrast nation. If you're planning on pushing back the
TV show, you have until Sunday morning and then the
thing vanishes into the into the into the outer space area.
(24:11):
So who knows. Moving on from that, it is a
cheeseburger in Paradise. And this is one of those fun
facts that I had heard years ago and I had forgotten.
(24:33):
Do you ever have that happen When you hear something
then you kind of forget about it and then it's back.
And that's what happened this week. So I fell down
this rabbit hole. I was reading a story about about
some some fast food restaurants and how they're price gouging
people and then they and then I clicked on another
story and it was about the shake Shack, the burger
(24:55):
joined from New York. That's a national chain and they're
closing some location in Los Angeles. So then I checked
that out, and then I clicked on another story and
it was about the genesis of the cheeseburger. Now, the hamburger,
we know the hamburger where it comes from, We've done
that on the show. But the cheeseburger, this blows me away.
(25:17):
The cheeseburger only dates back to the early nineteen hundred.
In fact, this is the one hundredth anniversary of the
cheeseburger nineteen twenty four. And the cheeseburger where do you
think it was in? You think it was like New York, Boston, Philly,
one of those early US towns. Or do you think
it came from Germany? Hamburg, Germany? What if I told
(25:41):
you that the cheeseburger came from Pasadena, home of the
Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade, And in nineteen twenty
four it was the first time the original hamburger in
cheese appeared on a menu. Now, the actual term cheeseburger
(26:01):
was invented somewhere else, I think in Louisiana. I'll have
to double check that, But the process of putting cheese
on a burger, the first place that popped up on
a menu was in Pasadena. The legend is that it
happened on Colorado Boulevard that was then known as Root
sixty six. Get your kicks on Root sixty six. They've
(26:21):
had songs, many songs written about that over the years.
It was where the right spot that's a restaurant once
stood and that is where the cheeseburger was born. It
cost all of fifteen cents. And as the legend goes,
is it true that a gentleman named hs Sternberger great name,
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and his two sons who happened to be twins, Van
and Lionel. They were in Pasadena in nineteen sixteen from
San Diego. The sixteen year old Lionel Sternberger was working
in the kitchen at his dad's restaurant. There the original
hamburger and cheese would pop up on the menu there
(27:05):
at the right spot. So this kid's sixteen, he's working,
he's in high school. He's working at the restaurant southwest
corner of Colorado Boulevard on an Avenue sixty four. I
used to live on Avenue twenty six. It's one of
my old old homes, so Avenue sixty four in Colorado Boulevard.
And this this kid's working as a short order cook.
(27:26):
And one random day in nineteen twenty four, a sixteen
year old kid introduced cheese to a patty of beef. Now,
how exactly he decided to do this is a bit
of a mystery. There are two theories that food historians
have come up with, but we do know he called
it not a cheeseburger. He called it the Aristocrat burger.
(27:49):
The original hamburger with cheese is what they called it.
So version number one is the story that I like better.
That I like better. This story is the kids screwed
up and it was a cover up. Now, often you
hear the cover up is worse than the crime. This
time the cover up was better than the crime. So
(28:12):
Lionel Sternberger, at age sixteen's working his dad's restaurant, short
order cook. He's behind the counter there flipping burgers and
uh uh, he accidentally burnt a patty. Now for me,
that's not an accident. For me, that's what I want.
When I go to get a burger, I want it burned.
I cook burgers usually on Fridays. It's burger Day. Today's
(28:32):
burger day, so I'll have Bobby on the griddle. I
might make a cheese steak, but so cheat day, cheat meal.
So I love it burned. I love it well done.
Most people know. So back in nineteen twenty four, you
don't even want to burn hamburger patty, but you don't
want to throw it away because stuff's pricey. I mean,
fifteen cents that's very expensive for a burger. So this
(28:54):
kid's like, hey, I got an idea, and a good
old Lionel Sternberger says, I fed up. So when you
f up, you got to cover up. And that's exactly
what he did. He made a mistake and in order
to hide the mistake, can't put makeup on a burger
that's burned, so he slapped a slice of cheese to
(29:18):
conceal the charcoal on the burger. And the rest is
his story, or is it. Another theory is that this
kid had nothing to do with the idea and he
was just following orders that the customer came in. There's
some random customer and said, hey, I'd like you to
(29:40):
put a piece of cheese on my burger. And the
kids say, ah, right, whatever you want. I'm just the
short order cook dude, and here you go. Knock yourself out.
And that's how it started. Either way, though, I like
the first version of the story better. You can decide
for yourself. We've got the phrase of the way, all right.
(30:01):
Phrase of the week this week is back to the
drawing board. This was requested by a listener named Michael,
who is from Indiana, So thank you Michael for emailing.
Appreciate your listenership. Michael lives in Indianapolis. He says he's
a Colts fan, does not like baseball, and likes the
(30:21):
Indiana Pacers. So pretty standard. Pretty standard, I would say,
as far as the teams that you like, he wants
us to break down back to the drawing board. So
this actually is credited to an artist, a cartoonist. Peter
Arnault is the name, and it goes back to nineteen
(30:44):
forty one, so the phrase back to the drawing board
not that old. It was a New Yorker cartoon New
Yorker magazine. The cartoon depicted a dude in a suit
walking away from this crashed plane while carrying rolled up.
And the way the cartoon was drawn was it was
(31:05):
a mechanical drawing of an aircraft and there was a
little cartoon bubble over the head, and the cartoon bubble
over the head read well, back to the drawing board.
And supposedly the phrase originated actually during World War Two
and then made its way into some military dudes, we're
talking and the cartoon has heard it and put it
(31:26):
in the New Yorker, and the phrase if you don't
understand what it means, Kin Bobby's here, it's you screwed
up something. It was not a success, and you got
to get a fresh start, you know, begin again, you know,
make a new beginning. However you want to say it,
start from scratch. There's so many other ways to say it.
But back to the drawing board a phrase that originated
(31:48):
in the New Yorker magazine cartoon in nineteen forty one.
And now you know the rest of the story. And
if you want to recommend a phrase or a word
you'd like us to look up, please do so. We
love words, love looking up words and trying to dig
down rabbit holes and find out where things come from.
(32:11):
But that should do it for us today. Danny will
be back tomorrow with me Danny G for the Saturday podcast,
and we'll also have a fresh pod on Sunday. We'll
have the mail Bag on Sunday. Joy the NFL tonight,
don't forget Benny versus the Penny again, should be back
up on Peacock later today, so we're excited about that.
(32:32):
And watch that NFL game Eagles and Packers, which will
also be on the Peacock Boy. They should run like
a promo for the t R show Benny Versus The
Penny on Peacock Boy. That would be awesome during the game.
Don't think that's gonna happen. But you can dream, you know, dream,
Why not dream? But all weekend NBC Sports Boston tonight
(32:54):
six o'clock obviously in Boston three o'clock in the West.
If you have a satellite and you can watch it,
It'll air all weekend and over and over again, several
showings tonight in Boston, We're on. In Philadelphia, we are
on in the morning today. Phillies are playing tonight and
we'll be on again on Saturday morning in Philly and
in the Bay Area. You're gonna be overwhelmed with Benny
Versus the Penny. So Andrea and mister nice Guy and
(33:18):
Matt all you guys, thank you for watching. We'll have
new episodes up. Even Inka Terror who's blind, loves watching
Benny Versus the Penny. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
We will catch you tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow later, Skater, Is
that what Danny says? I think that's what he says, right, Yes,
(33:41):
got a murder. I gotta go
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