February 20, 2026 • 35 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Friday for you! Ben talks: Muffin Day, Gleaming Like a Faberge Egg, & Foodie Fun!
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The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Friday to you.
It is February twentieth, twenty twenty six. I have just
walked back into the remote studio. I know you're very
excited about that for this episode of the Fifth Hour
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podcast me and Danny g And it is just me
today celebrating National Muffin Day. That's right, National muffin Day. Congratulations,
Go eat a muffin, the muffin, the English style muffy.
Here's a fun fact for Alf thealon opiner and for
you as well. English style muffins originated in Wales and
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they contained yeast and were crooked in a pan that's
in the tenth century. Do you realize that we are
in the line of generation after generation that enjoyed the muffin. Now,
in seventeen o three, the first found printed reference to
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a muffin was spelled not muff i n. It was
spelled moofn muffin, which became muffin. And then in the
nineteenth century muffin mania. The world became in. It became
one with the muffin. The muffin became very popular in Britain.
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There were muffin factories set up all over England. I'm
sure Terry and England knows the history of the muffin.
Being a proud Englishman, I'm sure he knows all all
about that. So there you go. Celebrate National Muffin Day.
On this edition of The Fifth Hour Podcast, we have
gleaming like a Faberge egg and foody fun. Those two
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things not related, not related, however, we will combine them
together on this the Fifth Hour Podcast. Pretty good week
on the radio, had some fun, unique callers, some fun moments,
great snoring, and just a good time had by all.
So I wanted to begin though a little ditty, a
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little story, and you know in your own journey. I've
got my journey, You've got your journey. There are certain
defeats that happen in life, that arrive and they make
headlines and and they get a lot of attention. And
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then there are those day to day quiet humiliations that
you don't anticipate. They sneak up on you, and sometimes
even in your own kitchen. Now, this is not a
tale of Benny the Baker. It is not about that.
But the other day, after a long drive back from
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Sherman Oaks to the north Woods at a secret location
off the grid, which in southern California parlance counts as
a rugged frontier country unless it doesn't, I return to
what I affectionately have called for years the Malar Mansion.
It's the place I live. I've lived in a few
Malar mansions. This I believe will be the final Malar
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mansion that I live in, But who knows. You never know,
I might end up somewhere else. Now, if you ever visit,
know that you're not invited. Number One, it's my private home.
You're not invited. Two Two, it is less the taj
Mahal or some have called it the taj Mamalar and
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more practical suburban enclave. It's got a dishwasher, and in
modern America, that makes me a duke, Benny the Duke.
I have a dishwasher. Now I wash the dishes. The
dishwasher is the final step. I've explained that my backup
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plan for years was to get a job at Costco,
and somebody who works in management here the radio show
and told me to get a real job. I've given
up the Costco dreams for now. I've decided that I
will be a professional dishwasher. That's my new gig. I
might go back to Costco at some point, but I
enjoy washing dishes. And then the final step is to
put the dishwasher into use. I wash the dishes. I
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then put them in the dishwasher. That's the final step
to desanitize or to sanitize the dishes. And in the
way this works. On this particular day, I parked the
malamobile and I trudged inside from the audio sweatshop, disheveled, frazzled.
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I shuffled some papers like I was Rush Limbaugh or
some low rent bookkeeper. And I followed the ancient rituals
of my people. When I say my people gas bags,
I filled up the water jug. I wrote down some
chicken scratch. I say, wrote it down. I actually typed
it in my phone. Some notes the Malther radio database
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update update. Now more importantly, I let my beloved dog,
my companion, my cuddle buddy while my wife's working, Moxie.
Moxie had to go potty. It was potty time. But
she's also my patrol dog, which means she goes out
and lays down and watches the rabbits and the squirrels
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and all the other critters run by, and doesn't give
a crap, doesn't care, just wants to take a nap.
Any kind of animal can be out there, don't matter. Now,
if you toss a ball out there, turn on a vacuum,
she will become the most ravenous beast you've ever seen.
Other than that, he just chills out. That's Moxie's game,
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That's how she operates. She's a cool dog. Now. We
all love being creatures of habit. I think we're all
creatures of habit. I don't know anyone that's not. And
mine are so fixed that you could set your sun
dial by them. So I place my wallet and my
keys in their appointed spot every day, same spot. I
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started doing this when I used to lose my wallet
and my keys, and I thought, well, that's like five
or ten minutes a day where I am searching around
for my wallet my keys. That's a waste of time.
It was ten minutes a day. That's it adds up. Yeah,
that's that's all for an hour a week that you're
just wasting your time trying to find your keys. So
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I figured out a spot, and that's what a grown
up does. I put my keys and my wallet down there,
and it's as reliable as a postman in a Norman
Rockwell painting when I was a kid, and those were big.
And so later I decided that I needed to retrieve
something from the car, and I went to this sacred
altar of leather and metal and I grabbed my wallet
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it was present and accounted for, and then reached over
to grab my keys where I always put my keys
squad douche, as a tillo would say in Florida, squad doushe.
Now I thought I must have just put them a
little off to the right. So I moved my hand
a little the right, and then I started making a circle.
I'm I'm widening my hand and I'm making circles like
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I'm making circles and crops back in the day, and
or like a hunter trying to find trying to find gold.
I'm searching like the gold rush, trying to find my gold.
So nothing like, oh, man, okay, they must have dropped,
no problem, I'll check the floor. I went down, I
checked the floor. Nothing. I said, well, they must have
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just dropped on the counter, that I probably should check
that first. What a dumb dumb So then I checked
the counter, and I checked the counter again, because hope
spring's eternal when you're foolish, bupkis. So then I thought, well,
maybe there's not enough light. You know, it's dark, it's
come back. It's like four in the morning, you know whatever,
five in the morning. So I turned the lights on.
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And at this point a lesser man might just shrug.
And I am not a lesser man. I want you
to know. I am not a lesser man. I am
a practitioner of malor math. I do the arithmetic, and
I retraced my steps with the determination of a hound
dog or a detective wearing a trench coat like movies
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back in the day, and I mapped the crime scene.
I had it all taped off, the crime scene, the foyer,
the kitchen, the remote studio, the back patio, the dog root.
And I even went outside scanning the driveway as if
I thought, well, maybe maybe I just dropped the keys
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in some shrubbery and they're they're having a sip of
lemonade off to the side or something like that. It felt,
and I'm sure this has happened to you. I think
it's happened everybody. But it felt like a how do
I describe it, Like a demon portal that opened the
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same vortex that devours socks, remote controls, and on some
level your dignity. And at this point the narrating voice
in my head became Rod Serling. I could hear Rod
narrating my plight with his iconic pipes, and you might
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not know who Rod Serling is. That's a turn of reference, Boomer.
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of
sight and sound, but of mind, a journey into a
wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That signposts
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up ahead your next stop, the twilight zone. Do do
do do do do do do do do Yeah. Of course,
this would be the middle aged radio blowhard who believes
in routine, now undone by the disappearance of a small
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electronic keyfob. Now I retrace my steps. I know I
did that. I retrace my steps again, indoors, outdoors, in
and out lifestyle, under the cushions behind the doors. Now
I know, I know I did not go to that sofa.
I know I didn't go there. Yet for some reason,
I was like, well, maybe somehow I ended up here abercadaver.
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So at this point I had decided I had lost
the race. I was ready to give a concession speech,
and that was now the voice. I went from Rod
Sterling to failed presidential candidate. And you know, I just
realized the electoral map is a cruel mistress. And I
conceded defeat to the invisible key syndicate. I'd given up.
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So I mentioned this to my wife as she was
She's working the day shift now, so we're ships passing
in the early morning hours. And my wife woke up
and I said, I got bad news. What's the bad news.
I said, well, I apologize, I've let the family down,
I've lost the key. And she's very optimistic, cock eyed optimist.
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She said, don't worry, it's gonna turn off, so I
explained gently because my wife had just woken up, but
very firmly, I said, listen, I have done the mouth
or Maath again. And the probability, based on the percentage
chance that we find it, the probability is roughly the
equivalent of discovering go in the backyard, getting a shovel
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and you know, moving away the kiddie pool and discovering
buried pirate gold bouyon. Under that, I said, the key's going.
That's it. It's vanished. I don't know what happened. Vaporize.
And then she went to work and I went to bed,
and I'm envisioning the walk of shame to the hardware store,
hat in hand, asking for a replacement key that could
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cost roughly the GDP of a small republic. So I
went to bed, but for me it was morning. So
I woke up, which was actually afternoon for most mortal people.
And I wandered the same blueprint of my previous day,
like a treasure hunter with a a faulty map. And
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I wandered around and zippo, zippo. So now I crank
things up a couple of notches. I opened drawers, I
started to stare at things I shouldn't stare at, just countertops.
I then went back to the room with the sofa.
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I now accused the furniture, the sofa, and the side
table of malfeasance. And then that's it. I started then
doing some work, and then later that day, while engaged
in the noble pursuit of dishwashing my backup jobs. Even
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though you're a duke for having a dishwasher, you still
have to you have to rinse the plates, as I said,
and all that. So I did that. I opened up
the dishwasher to insert a couple of items and wai
la prestow. There it was ding ding ding ning ning,
nestled among the plates and the bowls like ex caliber,
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and the stone was the key to the malormobile. And
I stopped. I did it seemed like I stopped for
ten minutes. I probably stopped for about five seconds, but
I stood there, frozen for five seconds, and I stared
at it. And at this point I was like, well,
maybe they'll talk to me. I feel like I've gone
out of my way. I've spent pretty much a day
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of my life trying to find this and that demon
portal from another dimension had not swallowed the keys. I
had dumb, dumb numb nuts, or more precisely, I had
dropped them into the dishwasher. And then this is the
cruel detail the rest of the story. As Paul Harvey
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would say, I turned it on to the maximum Dante's
Inferno setting while tracing my steps. I had failed in
this search to inspect the one place no sane man
would look for a car key, the whirlpool. There it
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was freshly laundered, gleaming like a Faberge egg. And I
am now the proud owner of the cleanest car key
west of the Mississippi. If the people are at the
Smithsonian in DC, if they are listening, I will consider
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loaning this. You can't have it, it's mine, but I
will loan it out for the SMITHSONI if they want
to look at this key fob So. Then the joy
gave way to absolute dread as I realized while I
had found the key, that's the good news. The bad
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news is, yeah, the modern car key is not simply
a piece of metal like Rob Manford would call the
championship trophy in baseball. They are miniature computers. They have
the buttons, the chips. There's this sorcery to them, this
mysterious sorcery. So then I realized that even though I
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had won, I had still lost. Surely a couple of
hours boiling in the steamy dish cauldron would reduce this
to a useless item, that it would just be electronic confetti.
It looked good. So this is what I assumed, again,
was a furic victory where you had won the battle,
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but you'd lost the war, and so the key had reappeared,
and you know, like a night returning from battle, it
would be mortally wounded. That would be it. So I'd
still had to make the walk of shame and go
to the hardware store, and that would be there terrible.
So to move ahead in the story, I walked outside.
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I was very tented. If you don't even make that walk,
you're like, oh, this is not gonna go well. And
I was like I was approaching some kind of wild
beast out in the serengetti. And I got kind of
close to my car. I held the key at arm's length,
like many people these days would hold the phone up
like they're doing the Statue of Liberty, and I slowly
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pressed the button convinced I'm getting porked. So I pressed
the button. Click the car unlocked. Sweet baby Jesus, the
car unlocked. I press it again, click the car locked.
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At that moment, at that moment, one of the great
miracles of the modern world took place, and very few
people know about it. And I'm sharing this story with you,
and not many people know about this. The key worked perfectly, perfectly,
not a hiccup, not a wheeze. It had endured a
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mechanical purgatory, and it appears it emerged stronger, cleaner, like
a prize fighter with the perfect bill of health. Now
I'm not gonna sit here behind these microphones and pretend
to understand the science. I don't get it. There's no
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reason it should have worked. Perhaps these keys are forged
with the laboratory, the science that they use in submarines.
Perhaps the engineers who make these keys had anticipated the
folly of being human. They'd built them to withstand a dishwasher,
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a monsoon, or a clumsy radio host. All I know
is this. I had written the oh bit, I had
written the obituary for the keys. I had prepared for
the fiscal hit that I was going to take and
yet there it was sanitized, operational, good to go. So
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there's some kind of lesson here, I would think, right,
there's a lesson like the watch your thing, the what
you mccally. So I will attempt to deliver it with
all the gravitas of a man who has stared into
the abitiness of his own absent mindedness. Yet again. And
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just to repeat for those of you in the back
of the room, we're all creatures of habit. We put
things in the same place. We do that every day.
We convince ourselves that we are in control of our
own world, our own universe, and all that stuff. And
when things don't line up, we of course have issues.
We assume the worst. We draft the concession speech, We
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prepare for the humiliation, or a costly humiliation. However, sometimes
for no rhyme or reason, the solution is hiding in
plain sight, tucked among the dinner plates, the knife, the forks,
the bowls, through a cycle we never even considered. The
key to victory, as it were, is this, When in doubt,
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clean out the dishwasher. That's it. When in doubt clean
out the dishwasher. Is it elegant?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Is it profound? No? It will not appear in any
of those self help books or videos you watch on YouTube,
but in the grand scheme of the Malar Mansion, it
counts as a win. And in a world that we
all share here that really delights in gobbling up things, gobble, gobble,
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whether it's our socks or our sanity, I will take
the small victory of a sparkling, fully functional keyfob as
a triumph of old fashioned good fortune, even if it
did require a trip through the rent cycle to get there.
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Let's get to We have food E fun, all right,
for food e fun, get me the mood food e fun.
Some by request, I got a couple of emails. All
it takes is one or two emails, and I'll do
whatever you want. I don't care. I mean, I don't
care what the f you want. Just request something, I'll
do it. I used to do this every week. I
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stopped doing foody Fun and we brought it back and
some of you liked it, and then I'd stopped it,
and now you're saying, why didn't you bring it back?
So these are actual food stories that we all got
to eat. And that's the mantra of FOODI Fun. There's
always new items to try to convince you to spend
your money at various fast food restaurants. It's not cheap
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anymore to eat fast food. When I back in my day,
when I was a killed, it was very inexpensive. First off,
we'll go to Popeyes. Now. When I think of Popeyes,
I think of fried chicken. I think of those chicken
sandwiches and Popeyes. I think of the biscuits of Popeyes.
You know what, I don't think seafood. However, Popeyes bringing
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back I know they have. There was a viral video
about the Popeye shrimp and all that. Remember the yeah, yeah, anyway,
Popeyes is getting back into the fish, the fish game. Yeah,
I know you're excited. Try not to try. Yeah, the
butterfly shrimp. Remember that viral clip that was big right
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where the guy reviewed the Cheddar bay biscuit. It was
with the Cheddar biscuit butterfly shrimp thing and he said,
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Okay, anyway,
popular sea food items for all new dry rub options
to kick your a la carte shrimp order, and a
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tackle box. So they got that at Popeye's Windy's Hello,
they're closing a bunch of restaurants, but they are introducing
the new thin Mint Frosty Fusion for Girl Scout Cookie season.
So that's exciting. A return to the fan favorite. They
have the thin Minty Frosty Fusion. It doesn't sound bad.
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I gotta tell you, it doesn't sound bad, but there
you go. They've got that available at participating locations. It
is available right now. Thin Mint Frosty Fusion. Thin Mint
Frosty Swirl the other option there, so check that out.
Burger King, they've got the Maple Bourbon Barbecue Whopper was
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introduced to the Million Dollar Whopper Contest a couple of
years ago, and Burger King has announced that it's back,
is it. They're mic rib participating locations. You can get
your hands on the Maple Bourbon Barbecue Whopper, and the
price points may vary. The sweet smoky burger expected to
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cost around eight dollars and fifty cents. Eight dollars and
fifty cents. It's got the They debut this the Barbecue
Brisket Whopper and the Crispy Onion Whopper. Those were fan
creations in their series and so this one is coming back.
So it doesn't sound bad. Substitute the bacon. What else
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do we have another Wendy's Out of Wendy's unveiling the
new cheesy Bacon cheeseburger and chicken tender ranch Wrap. I'm
good on that. Available participating locations, So you can go
to Wendy's, get your cheesy bacon cheeseburger, get a side
of chicken tender ranch wrap if you're into that kind
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of thing, and then a thin mint frosty fusion. So
there is that's been available for a couple of days.
And they say that the cheesy bacon cheeseburger features a fresh,
never frozen, quarter pound beef patty topped with melti American cheese,
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three strips of applewood smoked bacon, and cheddar cheese sauce,
all served on a premium lightly toasted bun. Sounds all right,
I think I'm hungry. Well this one blew me away.
This one blew me away Costco with no fanfare, no
announcement from Costco. They just quietly dropped a new item. Hello,
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the food court at Costco just dropped a new item. Yes, yes, yes,
what is it? Well, it is the double chocolate mint Sunday. Yeah.
It's a mint soft serve layered with chocolate cookie crumble
and chocolate sauce gently swirled into a mint green and
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brown tie dyed delight. It has a two to ninety
nine price tag. That is the suggested retail price. And
we're told, I guess this is not widely available. Some
locations have soft launched it. I guess they did some
free samples at some locations. But from what we're told, now,
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boots on the ground, boots on the ground. It is
good to go. Now, if you're on a diet, this
is a slight problem. This thing has seven one hundred
and ninety calories. Seven one hundred and ninety calories for
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this thing, so good now, just for comparison's sake, that's great. Uh.
You want to take a guess how many calories? I
don't know. Let's pick a popular a popular item. I
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about a big mac? How many calories in a big mac?
Let's see here, take a you got a number. Okay,
there are approximately five hundred and forty calories in a
big mac. So you could eat a big mac and
a half and you'd just be slightly over the cal
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rey count. Yeah, listen, if you're going into Costco, it's
an impulse purchase. You gotta live a little bit. Why
not just get your fat ass on the treadmill. You'll
be good to go. Go out for a walk, go
see the great outdoors. What else do we have? Well,
this is I wish I lived in Canada. I gotta
get my Canadian brothers and sisters here. I gotta go
see Canada again. I gotta go back to Vancouver or
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Toronto or something because McDonald's Canada just launched a collab
with Drake and his brand featuring a night sprite. It's
called The Afters Meal and it's again a partnership with
with Drake. And what is this all about? Oh like
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let me explain, all right, So the and again this
is we need this in America. We we we definitely,
we definitely need this in America. I have to check
with my guy Nico on this. He'll have to beat
my boots on the ground and taste it. So McDonald's Canada,
this is it was mostly recently, I guess said in Toronto.
I think it's all over Canada now based on what
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I'm I'm reading. Night sprite, Uh, it's sprite mixed with
blueberry raspberry syrup, served in a black paper cup stamp
with the Drake brand and his owl low Go and
the rollout apparently low key, much like Costco popped up
around Toronto, so I might not be available in Vancouver.
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There's also a meal that just kind of popped up,
also quietly out of nowhere, out of left field. There
wasn't a big marketing campaign. Drake didn't do a cameo.
Who so let's see here the cups were already being
sold for forty dollars. For forty dollars, they were being sold.
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But that's to me, that's not the story here. To me,
it's the poutine. They have the Junior Chicken or mcdouble,
and that's the meal. So you got to drink the
Night's sprite the poutine. Does McDonald's Canada send me an email, Nico,
or send me a text or something. Did they have
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poutine at McDonald's. I should have gone of McDonald's when
I was there. Assays available now participate many locations across Canada,
so it is all over Canada. After meals that you
choose between the Junior Chicken sandwich and the mcdouble paired
with a regular sized poutine that is solid. We gotta
make poutine more mainstream in America. I'm gonna die on
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that mountain. Well. Frosted Flakes has decided that they need
to change their iconic hey Tony jingle, So they did
what any business would do. They brought in a rapper. Yeah,
they're trying to get kids to enjoy frosted flakes, and
what better way to get kids to enjoy frosted flakes
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than a rapper? I am not familiar with this gentleman's work.
J I D. People at Kellogg's announced their first ever
culture collab. Is this something that we need? Is this? Yeah? Anyway,
apparently this guy was big in the nineties. I don't
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I don't remember. And hey Tony jingle fresh dose of coolness.
There in the press release they say fresh cos fresh
freshness and all that. So they are reuniting with the
brand to recreate the Haye Tony jingle. So we'll we'll
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see how that goes well. This sounds like a terrible
idea and early results are it is not going well.
Walmart is testing a new food item in Jacksonville, Florida.
The newest Walmart supercenter. And this is a trial store,
so if you're in Jacksonville, check this thing out and
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see if it's It's their new adventure. They are testing
fresh sushi bars. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Walmart superstent of location.
The company's plan is to build or convert more than
one hundred and fifty stores over the next couple of
years in a tempt they're going to modernize the retail experience.
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According to one of the business websites they conducted the
American Customer Satisfaction Index. Based on all these surveys, Walmart
was seventeen out of nineteen in the supermarket category. The
quality and freshness of the meat and the produce was
one of the metrics and all this so they are
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trying to modernize their stores and they have upgraded the
grocery section and they do have the first ever fresh
sushi bar, and it is not going well. They're not
getting good reviews. It's not a good idea. We're gonna die.
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The next pandemic will be because of sushi at Walmart.
Those kinds of things should come with a care package
of toilet paper, that kind of stuff. Who knows what
else do we have on FOODI phone. We'll do a
couple more. Costco has finally changed to the digital world.
They're letting customers now order cakes in their Costco app.
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Before you had to fill out the paper, which was ridiculous.
And we'll leave you on this one. The CEO of
Chipotle is public enemy number one. This douche nozzle, if
this story is accurate, on an earnings call, decided to
brag they keep raising the prices at Chipotle. That stopped
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going there a couple of years ago because it was ridiculous.
I'm like, dude, it's not that good. It was very
popular for a while, but all these companies they get
so big and eventually they destroy themselves with the price
of the food and all that. So we learned that
sixty This is according to a conference call with franchisese
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the CEO said, we learned that sixty percent of our
core users are over a hundred thousand dollars a year
in income, in average household income. That gives us confidence
that we can lean into that group in a more
meaningful way, whether it's a solo occasion or a group occasion,
to really drive meaningful transaction performance in the year, which
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is let me decode that we are going to continue
to stick it to our customers and we only really
care about the people that have a lot of money.
That's it. And we're gonna keep raising prices up, up
and away, and that's how we're gonna do it. That's it.
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So screw everyone else, screw everyone else. That's what we're
gonna do. All right, got good luck on that. Let
me know when your prices go down, or let me
know when you get a new CEO. Then maybe I'll
be back on that note. Have a great rest of
your Friday. We've got two more episodes this weekend original content. Yes,
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I think I did about twenty minutes on a key,
but it doesn't matter. I had to tell that story,
and you know that's it. So we will have the
mail bag on Sunday. You can send a letter in
via email obviously for the mail bag Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. If you'd like to be part of the
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mail bag, and we'll see about Danny possibly being with
me on the Saturday one. I don't know about that.
We'll find out. But have a great day today and
we will catch you next time. Later skater asta pasta
is that the line? Is the mic working? Danny is?
I don't it's working? Yes, I am such a radio loser.
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It this freakin thing better be working. I was impressed
by the size, but I'm not gonna lie, Danny. That
was a big cock. What got a murder? I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
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It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Friday to you.
It is February twentieth, twenty twenty six. I have just
walked back into the remote studio. I know you're very
excited about that for this episode of the Fifth Hour
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podcast me and Danny g And it is just me
today celebrating National Muffin Day. That's right, National muffin Day. Congratulations,
Go eat a muffin, the muffin, the English style muffy.
Here's a fun fact for Alf thealon opiner and for
you as well. English style muffins originated in Wales and
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they contained yeast and were crooked in a pan that's
in the tenth century. Do you realize that we are
in the line of generation after generation that enjoyed the muffin. Now,
in seventeen o three, the first found printed reference to
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a muffin was spelled not muff i n. It was
spelled moofn muffin, which became muffin. And then in the
nineteenth century muffin mania. The world became in. It became
one with the muffin. The muffin became very popular in Britain.
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There were muffin factories set up all over England. I'm
sure Terry and England knows the history of the muffin.
Being a proud Englishman, I'm sure he knows all all
about that. So there you go. Celebrate National Muffin Day.
On this edition of The Fifth Hour Podcast, we have
gleaming like a Faberge egg and foody fun. Those two
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things not related, not related, however, we will combine them
together on this the Fifth Hour Podcast. Pretty good week
on the radio, had some fun, unique callers, some fun moments,
great snoring, and just a good time had by all.
So I wanted to begin though a little ditty, a
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little story, and you know in your own journey. I've
got my journey, You've got your journey. There are certain
defeats that happen in life, that arrive and they make
headlines and and they get a lot of attention. And
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then there are those day to day quiet humiliations that
you don't anticipate. They sneak up on you, and sometimes
even in your own kitchen. Now, this is not a
tale of Benny the Baker. It is not about that.
But the other day, after a long drive back from
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Sherman Oaks to the north Woods at a secret location
off the grid, which in southern California parlance counts as
a rugged frontier country unless it doesn't, I return to
what I affectionately have called for years the Malar Mansion.
It's the place I live. I've lived in a few
Malar mansions. This I believe will be the final Malar
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mansion that I live in, But who knows. You never know,
I might end up somewhere else. Now, if you ever visit,
know that you're not invited. Number One, it's my private home.
You're not invited. Two Two, it is less the taj
Mahal or some have called it the taj Mamalar and
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more practical suburban enclave. It's got a dishwasher, and in
modern America, that makes me a duke, Benny the Duke.
I have a dishwasher. Now I wash the dishes. The
dishwasher is the final step. I've explained that my backup
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plan for years was to get a job at Costco,
and somebody who works in management here the radio show
and told me to get a real job. I've given
up the Costco dreams for now. I've decided that I
will be a professional dishwasher. That's my new gig. I
might go back to Costco at some point, but I
enjoy washing dishes. And then the final step is to
put the dishwasher into use. I wash the dishes. I
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then put them in the dishwasher. That's the final step
to desanitize or to sanitize the dishes. And in the
way this works. On this particular day, I parked the
malamobile and I trudged inside from the audio sweatshop, disheveled, frazzled.
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I shuffled some papers like I was Rush Limbaugh or
some low rent bookkeeper. And I followed the ancient rituals
of my people. When I say my people gas bags,
I filled up the water jug. I wrote down some
chicken scratch. I say, wrote it down. I actually typed
it in my phone. Some notes the Malther radio database
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update update. Now more importantly, I let my beloved dog,
my companion, my cuddle buddy while my wife's working, Moxie.
Moxie had to go potty. It was potty time. But
she's also my patrol dog, which means she goes out
and lays down and watches the rabbits and the squirrels
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and all the other critters run by, and doesn't give
a crap, doesn't care, just wants to take a nap.
Any kind of animal can be out there, don't matter. Now,
if you toss a ball out there, turn on a vacuum,
she will become the most ravenous beast you've ever seen.
Other than that, he just chills out. That's Moxie's game,
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That's how she operates. She's a cool dog. Now. We
all love being creatures of habit. I think we're all
creatures of habit. I don't know anyone that's not. And
mine are so fixed that you could set your sun
dial by them. So I place my wallet and my
keys in their appointed spot every day, same spot. I
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started doing this when I used to lose my wallet
and my keys, and I thought, well, that's like five
or ten minutes a day where I am searching around
for my wallet my keys. That's a waste of time.
It was ten minutes a day. That's it adds up. Yeah,
that's that's all for an hour a week that you're
just wasting your time trying to find your keys. So
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I figured out a spot, and that's what a grown
up does. I put my keys and my wallet down there,
and it's as reliable as a postman in a Norman
Rockwell painting when I was a kid, and those were big.
And so later I decided that I needed to retrieve
something from the car, and I went to this sacred
altar of leather and metal and I grabbed my wallet
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it was present and accounted for, and then reached over
to grab my keys where I always put my keys
squad douche, as a tillo would say in Florida, squad doushe.
Now I thought I must have just put them a
little off to the right. So I moved my hand
a little the right, and then I started making a circle.
I'm I'm widening my hand and I'm making circles like
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I'm making circles and crops back in the day, and
or like a hunter trying to find trying to find gold.
I'm searching like the gold rush, trying to find my gold.
So nothing like, oh, man, okay, they must have dropped,
no problem, I'll check the floor. I went down, I
checked the floor. Nothing. I said, well, they must have
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just dropped on the counter, that I probably should check
that first. What a dumb dumb So then I checked
the counter, and I checked the counter again, because hope
spring's eternal when you're foolish, bupkis. So then I thought, well,
maybe there's not enough light. You know, it's dark, it's
come back. It's like four in the morning, you know whatever,
five in the morning. So I turned the lights on.
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And at this point a lesser man might just shrug.
And I am not a lesser man. I want you
to know. I am not a lesser man. I am
a practitioner of malor math. I do the arithmetic, and
I retraced my steps with the determination of a hound
dog or a detective wearing a trench coat like movies
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back in the day, and I mapped the crime scene.
I had it all taped off, the crime scene, the foyer,
the kitchen, the remote studio, the back patio, the dog root.
And I even went outside scanning the driveway as if
I thought, well, maybe maybe I just dropped the keys
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in some shrubbery and they're they're having a sip of
lemonade off to the side or something like that. It felt,
and I'm sure this has happened to you. I think
it's happened everybody. But it felt like a how do
I describe it, Like a demon portal that opened the
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same vortex that devours socks, remote controls, and on some
level your dignity. And at this point the narrating voice
in my head became Rod Serling. I could hear Rod
narrating my plight with his iconic pipes, and you might
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not know who Rod Serling is. That's a turn of reference, Boomer.
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of
sight and sound, but of mind, a journey into a
wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That signposts
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up ahead your next stop, the twilight zone. Do do
do do do do do do do do Yeah. Of course,
this would be the middle aged radio blowhard who believes
in routine, now undone by the disappearance of a small
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electronic keyfob. Now I retrace my steps. I know I
did that. I retrace my steps again, indoors, outdoors, in
and out lifestyle, under the cushions behind the doors. Now
I know, I know I did not go to that sofa.
I know I didn't go there. Yet for some reason,
I was like, well, maybe somehow I ended up here abercadaver.
(11:09):
So at this point I had decided I had lost
the race. I was ready to give a concession speech,
and that was now the voice. I went from Rod
Sterling to failed presidential candidate. And you know, I just
realized the electoral map is a cruel mistress. And I
conceded defeat to the invisible key syndicate. I'd given up.
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So I mentioned this to my wife as she was
She's working the day shift now, so we're ships passing
in the early morning hours. And my wife woke up
and I said, I got bad news. What's the bad news.
I said, well, I apologize, I've let the family down,
I've lost the key. And she's very optimistic, cock eyed optimist.
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She said, don't worry, it's gonna turn off, so I
explained gently because my wife had just woken up, but
very firmly, I said, listen, I have done the mouth
or Maath again. And the probability, based on the percentage
chance that we find it, the probability is roughly the
equivalent of discovering go in the backyard, getting a shovel
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and you know, moving away the kiddie pool and discovering
buried pirate gold bouyon. Under that, I said, the key's going.
That's it. It's vanished. I don't know what happened. Vaporize.
And then she went to work and I went to bed,
and I'm envisioning the walk of shame to the hardware store,
hat in hand, asking for a replacement key that could
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cost roughly the GDP of a small republic. So I
went to bed, but for me it was morning. So
I woke up, which was actually afternoon for most mortal people.
And I wandered the same blueprint of my previous day,
like a treasure hunter with a a faulty map. And
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I wandered around and zippo, zippo. So now I crank
things up a couple of notches. I opened drawers, I
started to stare at things I shouldn't stare at, just countertops.
I then went back to the room with the sofa.
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I now accused the furniture, the sofa, and the side
table of malfeasance. And then that's it. I started then
doing some work, and then later that day, while engaged
in the noble pursuit of dishwashing my backup jobs. Even
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though you're a duke for having a dishwasher, you still
have to you have to rinse the plates, as I said,
and all that. So I did that. I opened up
the dishwasher to insert a couple of items and wai
la prestow. There it was ding ding ding ning ning,
nestled among the plates and the bowls like ex caliber,
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and the stone was the key to the malormobile. And
I stopped. I did it seemed like I stopped for
ten minutes. I probably stopped for about five seconds, but
I stood there, frozen for five seconds, and I stared
at it. And at this point I was like, well,
maybe they'll talk to me. I feel like I've gone
out of my way. I've spent pretty much a day
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of my life trying to find this and that demon
portal from another dimension had not swallowed the keys. I
had dumb, dumb numb nuts, or more precisely, I had
dropped them into the dishwasher. And then this is the
cruel detail the rest of the story. As Paul Harvey
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would say, I turned it on to the maximum Dante's
Inferno setting while tracing my steps. I had failed in
this search to inspect the one place no sane man
would look for a car key, the whirlpool. There it
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was freshly laundered, gleaming like a Faberge egg. And I
am now the proud owner of the cleanest car key
west of the Mississippi. If the people are at the
Smithsonian in DC, if they are listening, I will consider
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loaning this. You can't have it, it's mine, but I
will loan it out for the SMITHSONI if they want
to look at this key fob So. Then the joy
gave way to absolute dread as I realized while I
had found the key, that's the good news. The bad
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news is, yeah, the modern car key is not simply
a piece of metal like Rob Manford would call the
championship trophy in baseball. They are miniature computers. They have
the buttons, the chips. There's this sorcery to them, this
mysterious sorcery. So then I realized that even though I
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had won, I had still lost. Surely a couple of
hours boiling in the steamy dish cauldron would reduce this
to a useless item, that it would just be electronic confetti.
It looked good. So this is what I assumed, again,
was a furic victory where you had won the battle,
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but you'd lost the war, and so the key had reappeared,
and you know, like a night returning from battle, it
would be mortally wounded. That would be it. So I'd
still had to make the walk of shame and go
to the hardware store, and that would be there terrible.
So to move ahead in the story, I walked outside.
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I was very tented. If you don't even make that walk,
you're like, oh, this is not gonna go well. And
I was like I was approaching some kind of wild
beast out in the serengetti. And I got kind of
close to my car. I held the key at arm's length,
like many people these days would hold the phone up
like they're doing the Statue of Liberty, and I slowly
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pressed the button convinced I'm getting porked. So I pressed
the button. Click the car unlocked. Sweet baby Jesus, the
car unlocked. I press it again, click the car locked.
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At that moment, at that moment, one of the great
miracles of the modern world took place, and very few
people know about it. And I'm sharing this story with you,
and not many people know about this. The key worked perfectly, perfectly,
not a hiccup, not a wheeze. It had endured a
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mechanical purgatory, and it appears it emerged stronger, cleaner, like
a prize fighter with the perfect bill of health. Now
I'm not gonna sit here behind these microphones and pretend
to understand the science. I don't get it. There's no
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reason it should have worked. Perhaps these keys are forged
with the laboratory, the science that they use in submarines.
Perhaps the engineers who make these keys had anticipated the
folly of being human. They'd built them to withstand a dishwasher,
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a monsoon, or a clumsy radio host. All I know
is this. I had written the oh bit, I had
written the obituary for the keys. I had prepared for
the fiscal hit that I was going to take and
yet there it was sanitized, operational, good to go. So
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there's some kind of lesson here, I would think, right,
there's a lesson like the watch your thing, the what
you mccally. So I will attempt to deliver it with
all the gravitas of a man who has stared into
the abitiness of his own absent mindedness. Yet again. And
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just to repeat for those of you in the back
of the room, we're all creatures of habit. We put
things in the same place. We do that every day.
We convince ourselves that we are in control of our
own world, our own universe, and all that stuff. And
when things don't line up, we of course have issues.
We assume the worst. We draft the concession speech, We
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prepare for the humiliation, or a costly humiliation. However, sometimes
for no rhyme or reason, the solution is hiding in
plain sight, tucked among the dinner plates, the knife, the forks,
the bowls, through a cycle we never even considered. The
key to victory, as it were, is this, When in doubt,
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clean out the dishwasher. That's it. When in doubt clean
out the dishwasher. Is it elegant?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Is it profound? No? It will not appear in any
of those self help books or videos you watch on YouTube,
but in the grand scheme of the Malar Mansion, it
counts as a win. And in a world that we
all share here that really delights in gobbling up things, gobble, gobble,
(20:54):
whether it's our socks or our sanity, I will take
the small victory of a sparkling, fully functional keyfob as
a triumph of old fashioned good fortune, even if it
did require a trip through the rent cycle to get there.
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Let's get to We have food E fun, all right,
for food e fun, get me the mood food e fun.
Some by request, I got a couple of emails. All
it takes is one or two emails, and I'll do
whatever you want. I don't care. I mean, I don't
care what the f you want. Just request something, I'll
do it. I used to do this every week. I
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stopped doing foody Fun and we brought it back and
some of you liked it, and then I'd stopped it,
and now you're saying, why didn't you bring it back?
So these are actual food stories that we all got
to eat. And that's the mantra of FOODI Fun. There's
always new items to try to convince you to spend
your money at various fast food restaurants. It's not cheap
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anymore to eat fast food. When I back in my day,
when I was a killed, it was very inexpensive. First off,
we'll go to Popeyes. Now. When I think of Popeyes,
I think of fried chicken. I think of those chicken
sandwiches and Popeyes. I think of the biscuits of Popeyes.
You know what, I don't think seafood. However, Popeyes bringing
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back I know they have. There was a viral video
about the Popeye shrimp and all that. Remember the yeah, yeah, anyway,
Popeyes is getting back into the fish, the fish game. Yeah,
I know you're excited. Try not to try. Yeah, the
butterfly shrimp. Remember that viral clip that was big right
(22:46):
where the guy reviewed the Cheddar bay biscuit. It was
with the Cheddar biscuit butterfly shrimp thing and he said,
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Okay, anyway,
popular sea food items for all new dry rub options
to kick your a la carte shrimp order, and a
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tackle box. So they got that at Popeye's Windy's Hello,
they're closing a bunch of restaurants, but they are introducing
the new thin Mint Frosty Fusion for Girl Scout Cookie season.
So that's exciting. A return to the fan favorite. They
have the thin Minty Frosty Fusion. It doesn't sound bad.
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I gotta tell you, it doesn't sound bad, but there
you go. They've got that available at participating locations. It
is available right now. Thin Mint Frosty Fusion. Thin Mint
Frosty Swirl the other option there, so check that out.
Burger King, they've got the Maple Bourbon Barbecue Whopper was
(24:00):
introduced to the Million Dollar Whopper Contest a couple of
years ago, and Burger King has announced that it's back,
is it. They're mic rib participating locations. You can get
your hands on the Maple Bourbon Barbecue Whopper, and the
price points may vary. The sweet smoky burger expected to
(24:22):
cost around eight dollars and fifty cents. Eight dollars and
fifty cents. It's got the They debut this the Barbecue
Brisket Whopper and the Crispy Onion Whopper. Those were fan
creations in their series and so this one is coming back.
So it doesn't sound bad. Substitute the bacon. What else
(24:46):
do we have another Wendy's Out of Wendy's unveiling the
new cheesy Bacon cheeseburger and chicken tender ranch Wrap. I'm
good on that. Available participating locations, So you can go
to Wendy's, get your cheesy bacon cheeseburger, get a side
of chicken tender ranch wrap if you're into that kind
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of thing, and then a thin mint frosty fusion. So
there is that's been available for a couple of days.
And they say that the cheesy bacon cheeseburger features a fresh,
never frozen, quarter pound beef patty topped with melti American cheese,
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three strips of applewood smoked bacon, and cheddar cheese sauce,
all served on a premium lightly toasted bun. Sounds all right,
I think I'm hungry. Well this one blew me away.
This one blew me away Costco with no fanfare, no
announcement from Costco. They just quietly dropped a new item. Hello,
(25:55):
the food court at Costco just dropped a new item. Yes, yes, yes,
what is it? Well, it is the double chocolate mint Sunday. Yeah.
It's a mint soft serve layered with chocolate cookie crumble
and chocolate sauce gently swirled into a mint green and
(26:17):
brown tie dyed delight. It has a two to ninety
nine price tag. That is the suggested retail price. And
we're told, I guess this is not widely available. Some
locations have soft launched it. I guess they did some
free samples at some locations. But from what we're told, now,
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boots on the ground, boots on the ground. It is
good to go. Now, if you're on a diet, this
is a slight problem. This thing has seven one hundred
and ninety calories. Seven one hundred and ninety calories for
(26:59):
this thing, so good now, just for comparison's sake, that's great. Uh.
You want to take a guess how many calories? I
don't know. Let's pick a popular a popular item. I
(27:20):
about a big mac? How many calories in a big mac?
Let's see here, take a you got a number. Okay,
there are approximately five hundred and forty calories in a
big mac. So you could eat a big mac and
a half and you'd just be slightly over the cal
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rey count. Yeah, listen, if you're going into Costco, it's
an impulse purchase. You gotta live a little bit. Why
not just get your fat ass on the treadmill. You'll
be good to go. Go out for a walk, go
see the great outdoors. What else do we have? Well,
this is I wish I lived in Canada. I gotta
get my Canadian brothers and sisters here. I gotta go
see Canada again. I gotta go back to Vancouver or
(28:04):
Toronto or something because McDonald's Canada just launched a collab
with Drake and his brand featuring a night sprite. It's
called The Afters Meal and it's again a partnership with
with Drake. And what is this all about? Oh like
(28:27):
let me explain, all right, So the and again this
is we need this in America. We we we definitely,
we definitely need this in America. I have to check
with my guy Nico on this. He'll have to beat
my boots on the ground and taste it. So McDonald's Canada,
this is it was mostly recently, I guess said in Toronto.
I think it's all over Canada now based on what
(28:48):
I'm I'm reading. Night sprite, Uh, it's sprite mixed with
blueberry raspberry syrup, served in a black paper cup stamp
with the Drake brand and his owl low Go and
the rollout apparently low key, much like Costco popped up
around Toronto, so I might not be available in Vancouver.
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There's also a meal that just kind of popped up,
also quietly out of nowhere, out of left field. There
wasn't a big marketing campaign. Drake didn't do a cameo.
Who so let's see here the cups were already being
sold for forty dollars. For forty dollars, they were being sold.
(29:32):
But that's to me, that's not the story here. To me,
it's the poutine. They have the Junior Chicken or mcdouble,
and that's the meal. So you got to drink the
Night's sprite the poutine. Does McDonald's Canada send me an email, Nico,
or send me a text or something. Did they have
(29:54):
poutine at McDonald's. I should have gone of McDonald's when
I was there. Assays available now participate many locations across Canada,
so it is all over Canada. After meals that you
choose between the Junior Chicken sandwich and the mcdouble paired
with a regular sized poutine that is solid. We gotta
make poutine more mainstream in America. I'm gonna die on
(30:14):
that mountain. Well. Frosted Flakes has decided that they need
to change their iconic hey Tony jingle, So they did
what any business would do. They brought in a rapper. Yeah,
they're trying to get kids to enjoy frosted flakes, and
what better way to get kids to enjoy frosted flakes
(30:35):
than a rapper? I am not familiar with this gentleman's work.
J I D. People at Kellogg's announced their first ever
culture collab. Is this something that we need? Is this? Yeah? Anyway,
apparently this guy was big in the nineties. I don't
(30:57):
I don't remember. And hey Tony jingle fresh dose of coolness.
There in the press release they say fresh cos fresh
freshness and all that. So they are reuniting with the
brand to recreate the Haye Tony jingle. So we'll we'll
(31:19):
see how that goes well. This sounds like a terrible
idea and early results are it is not going well.
Walmart is testing a new food item in Jacksonville, Florida.
The newest Walmart supercenter. And this is a trial store,
so if you're in Jacksonville, check this thing out and
(31:39):
see if it's It's their new adventure. They are testing
fresh sushi bars. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Walmart superstent of location.
The company's plan is to build or convert more than
one hundred and fifty stores over the next couple of
years in a tempt they're going to modernize the retail experience.
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According to one of the business websites they conducted the
American Customer Satisfaction Index. Based on all these surveys, Walmart
was seventeen out of nineteen in the supermarket category. The
quality and freshness of the meat and the produce was
one of the metrics and all this so they are
(32:27):
trying to modernize their stores and they have upgraded the
grocery section and they do have the first ever fresh
sushi bar, and it is not going well. They're not
getting good reviews. It's not a good idea. We're gonna die.
(32:49):
The next pandemic will be because of sushi at Walmart.
Those kinds of things should come with a care package
of toilet paper, that kind of stuff. Who knows what
else do we have on FOODI phone. We'll do a
couple more. Costco has finally changed to the digital world.
They're letting customers now order cakes in their Costco app.
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Before you had to fill out the paper, which was ridiculous.
And we'll leave you on this one. The CEO of
Chipotle is public enemy number one. This douche nozzle, if
this story is accurate, on an earnings call, decided to
brag they keep raising the prices at Chipotle. That stopped
(33:32):
going there a couple of years ago because it was ridiculous.
I'm like, dude, it's not that good. It was very
popular for a while, but all these companies they get
so big and eventually they destroy themselves with the price
of the food and all that. So we learned that
sixty This is according to a conference call with franchisese
(33:56):
the CEO said, we learned that sixty percent of our
core users are over a hundred thousand dollars a year
in income, in average household income. That gives us confidence
that we can lean into that group in a more
meaningful way, whether it's a solo occasion or a group occasion,
to really drive meaningful transaction performance in the year, which
(34:17):
is let me decode that we are going to continue
to stick it to our customers and we only really
care about the people that have a lot of money.
That's it. And we're gonna keep raising prices up, up
and away, and that's how we're gonna do it. That's it.
(34:38):
So screw everyone else, screw everyone else. That's what we're
gonna do. All right, got good luck on that. Let
me know when your prices go down, or let me
know when you get a new CEO. Then maybe I'll
be back on that note. Have a great rest of
your Friday. We've got two more episodes this weekend original content. Yes,
(34:58):
I think I did about twenty minutes on a key,
but it doesn't matter. I had to tell that story,
and you know that's it. So we will have the
mail bag on Sunday. You can send a letter in
via email obviously for the mail bag Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. If you'd like to be part of the
(35:18):
mail bag, and we'll see about Danny possibly being with
me on the Saturday one. I don't know about that.
We'll find out. But have a great day today and
we will catch you next time. Later skater asta pasta
is that the line? Is the mic working? Danny is?
I don't it's working? Yes, I am such a radio loser.
(35:43):
It this freakin thing better be working. I was impressed
by the size, but I'm not gonna lie, Danny. That
was a big cock. What got a murder? I gotta go.
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