October 27, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another fun Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: State of Radio, the Booster Rocket, Commandeer, Double Dip 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 sol fastion 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.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. Welcome into the podcast dojo. It
is a Friday, October twenty seventh. As we are doing
this in real time, Ben Mahler, and that would be
me talking to the third person and Danny G Radio. Hello, Danny,
(00:52):
yo yo, Yeah, Ben loves himself some Ben, Yes, exactly. Well,
we were just catching up. We had a great meeting
this week Danny about the State Radio and it was
really it was really fun. I had it was a
hearty it was a hearty conversation, a couple of radio
guys just breaking down the nuts and bolts, the meat
and potatoes, the guts of the radio business. And I
(01:15):
love I love conversations like that, Danny. I don't have
many of those conversations.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're losing another radio pro to a school district job.
I know there's pensions involved, but it just kind of
blows because how many of our friends been have said
peace out to radio and the broadcasting business and have
moved on to other jobs. I'm talking decades, yeah, three
(01:42):
now for us where we're on the third decade of
some of our friends saying later, see you on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, it's wild, And I gotta tell you, I have
not lost the passion. I still get excited when I
walk into the radio station. I do. But the problem
is a lot of these situations, it's family, it's ours,
or it's a combination of that. And also obviously money
is isn't a big factor, but it's you know, as
(02:11):
far as like doing the job, I don't know, man,
I don't know there's anything else I would want to
do that I would I mean other than just having
I mean obviously I didn't have. If nobody would hire me,
i'd have to get like a real job. But for
me to choose to leave this, I don't know, man,
that's a tough that's a tough road.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
My favorite thing is I've had family members and friends
ask me what network are you going to go to next,
and I like, is you really That's the weird part too,
of the state of broadcasting because obviously our business got
screwed up a couple of decades ago as Clinton was
on his way out of office. That's a whole other
(02:52):
story with consolidation and deregulation. Yeah, regulation and the whole
start of basically a monopoly in radio. But that's a
whole nother podcast episode. There were a lot of guys
who saw the writing on the wall at that point
in time and did a pivot and went to some
(03:13):
other business or industry to work in. But when you
do sports radio, what are you going to do? Ben
move to Connecticut and work for ESPN. No offense to them,
but their radio network has stunk for a little while now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's one of those things. Like when we started
Fox Sports Radio over twenty years ago, people kind of
poo pooed it. They were like, yeah, ESPN was the
king of sports radio. I mean they had the biggest,
the biggest names in sports radio all worked there.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, back in the day, what was it, Mike and Mike, Yeah,
Dan Patrick was there.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Tony Kornheiser did a show for a long time than
Cowherd replaced him. You know, there were this huge, huge
names and they were heard everywhere. And now that's you know,
there's still hurt a lot of places. But Fox Sports
Radio in the radio business is the number one radio network,
not even really close. I mean, I'm obviously biased. I
(04:12):
think we're both biased here, but the numbers speak for themselves, right,
I mean you can actually have we have data to
back it up. I mean it's not now. We do
have a lot of guys that used to work there,
you know, I even work People don't know this, but
when I was starting in San Diego, I was a
one of my first you know gigs. I was a
reporter and one of my clients was ESPN Radio. I
(04:32):
was a stringer and when ESPN Radio started, they only
had weekend programming. They had the Sports Babe during the
week and on the weekends they had a show with
Chuck Wilson, Tony Bruno, and Peter Brown. Peter Brown is
one of my favorite radio people, but I have Tony
two and so they did they did like a seven
hour show on Friday and Saturday, and I was one
(04:53):
of the people they used as a reporter in LA
Like I'd go to different games and give them back.
In those days, we'd call up and give scores and stuff.
So I did that and all.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But oh, you were a stringer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I was a stringer and I got paid doing that,
and I get paid to have get guests on and
things like that. But a long time ago. But now
it's like, you know, it's Fox Sports Radio is the
premier sports radio network and all that, but it's just
a wacky world. And outside of ESPN, I mean, you
look around, there's there's a small network and I think
(05:25):
it's in Houston. I think, uh, And I don't even
really know. Outside of that, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There's much like It's the equivalent to you being Patrick
Mahomes on the Chiefs and your friends saying, what's team
he going to play for? Next?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah. People, It's it's hard to explain to people that
are on the outside of the business what it's like,
because yeah, I always get the why don't you do
a show during the day, and I have to explain.
I'm like, listen, you know, you don't pick the time,
and there are negatives and positives to everything, and you
(06:04):
have to weigh everything. I'm more of a night person
than a day person, and you know, the money's a factor,
but you have to weigh Everything's all variables in life,
and you have to drop some knowledge on people and
explain here's how it works. And you know, you're actually
on more radio stations when you're on late at night
and you are during the day less people listening on
each station, but you're on more stations, so you got
(06:26):
to explain all that. But anyway, and it's all different
now too, because when we started there was no podcasting,
and now everything's recorded, so you get more than one
chance to hear I kind of liked the old days
when we did radio and if nobody heard it, they
could that was it. It was gone. You know, it
was like quitting time. Once we got done with the show,
that was it. You're done that.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
They called it appointment listening. Yeah, if you missed it, man,
you missed that appointment and you were in a doctor's
office with them telling you to buzz off, you suck,
you're late, You're out of here. No appointment for you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah exactly. You're like, yes, what you do with traffic
on the ones you had to tune in on one
just to hear the traffic and whether on the fives
or Sports on the fifteens or whatever whatever it might
have been. So I a couple things that we can
get into the booster rocket. We've got commandeered, and I
have a daily double for the word of the week,
(07:20):
and we'll see what else we have time for. But
shocking that it is already Week eight of the NFL
season that kicked off with a Thursday night game. I
would like to thank Baker Mayfield and the Bucks last night, Danny.
I don't know if you saw the game, but the
Buccaneers were down by two scores in the fourth quarter
and Baker Mayfield the Bucks took a They took seven minutes,
(07:43):
They had a seven and a half minutes. They had
a seventeen play drive methodically la la la la la
la la la la la la, lollygagging down the field.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh yeah, Gamblers across America had big smiles on their faces.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. I had the Bucks plus the points and I
got it. I think it was eight and a half
what I got if I remember correctly, it got it
went higher than that. And I'm watching I'm like, what
are they doing? Like are they trying to win the game,
and then they got bailed out by penalties from Buffalo
a couple of times on the drive. But the lack
(08:17):
of urgency is stunning, Like what is Todd Bowles doing
on the cyclises Like you have to kind of pick
up the base, you need to scores. And then they
still had a chance to win. If Chris Godwin had
turned around sooner, not to belabor the point, the Bucks
would have won the game out right by an extra point.
(08:39):
So anyway, but as far as get to the point,
because Week eight bunch of games. Obviously everyone's playing. It's weird.
We've had a bunch of bye weeks this week in
the NFL. Everyone's playing, and then they get back to
the bye weeks after this, so it's an I don't
know why they're doing that. No, they didn't ask me,
they didn't consult me. So anyway, this week we amazingly
(09:00):
not long is it week eight? I can alert all
of the podcast listeners, all of you, I'm talking to
you and the other person over there, that the show,
my TV show has still not been canceled, that it's
still on the air. And yesterday was hanging out at
Universal studios taping the show there. It is very cool.
You always cool, got there early, hung out for a
(09:22):
few hours.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Have you seen anybody surrounding your show yawning.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, that's the executives that that areying. But so we
do the show from this NBC like the LA News
Bureau for NBC's News Bureau for LA. We do it
out of that building. Yeah, the Brocosts Center. Yeah, and
CEE NBC's there and all that. So they do like
dateline and all that. But I would like to alert
you that we do have a change today on this Friday,
(09:50):
a booster rocket. I think this is great news for
the show. We were debating this, but I think it's
really good news, and I'll tell you why. Because NBA
season started this week, the long winding road of the
NBA regular season, and what that means is for the
TV show, we're getting moved around because of NBA programming.
(10:14):
Like in Boston, we're on the Celtic station. Chicago's got
the Bulls, Phillies got the Sixers. In the Bay Area,
they've got the Warriors, and we're on the Sacramento King station.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Left off a major one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, you know there's some team in LA. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think, yeah, that team where Lebron and ad tour
shit up. Last night, you're on the Lakers station. I watched.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They were down by twelve going to the fourth quarter.
I guess the team without two of their top three players.
I don't know that I would use that terminology to
describe what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
But are you really gonna talk smack when they're promoting
your show.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I don't know I would do that. I'm just just
saying I'm just merely pointing out that I don't know
the verbiage was anyway, Yeah, we are on in LA
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So well, the day before I heard Lebron was done.
So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, this is how little Darvin Ham not to do
a sporty podcast. But the coach of the Lakers came
out boldly said Lebron's on a minute cap at twenty
nine minutes. So this got reported everywhere. Everyone wrote this that,
everyone talked about this on radio and television. Lebron twenty
(11:20):
nine minutes, the twenty nine minute man. So Thursday night
they're playing the Sun's Lakers are trailing. Lebron's played twenty
nine minutes they played another six they just like just
left me in there.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like to be fair, that sounds like one of our podcasts.
We'll do twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We always plan on cutting it out
and then we end up going to like another extra
ten minutes, yea extra ten yeah, to get to the point.
So because of the NBA schedule, we are on different times.
For example, the Boston Celtics play the Heat today and
we are on after the game at after the postgame
at eleven o'clock Boston, and they play this they can
(12:01):
play show back to back. We're on in Philadelphia. There's
no Sixers game today, but we were on at six
thirty and eleven thirty in Philly. Chicago, we're on after
the Bulls play the Raptors, and we're on actually pre
game before the Golden State Warriors game, and actually Golden
State's playing Sacramento, but we're on different stations. Anyway, I'll
(12:24):
just check your local cable listings at all. And I
know in LA on Saturday because of the Lakers, believe
they're on the road in Orlando. I think I think
I saw that. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but anyway,
the show's got to air at six am and then
again at eleven pm on Spectrum Sports Net in LA.
(12:46):
In the other there's a bunch of other showings, but
you can that's on Saturday for the LA market and anyway,
check check it out. It would be really cool. My
picks have been absolutely horrible. They have been embarrassing. I've
been explaining to people at NBC Danny that I was
actually good at this, Like we have tape that is
(13:08):
available to prove that I am not incompetent. I have
not changed anything. It's not like I've changed anything. And
yet here were the Dodgers. Are you pressing too hard? Well,
there was that like we were going over the schedule
and we have to tape. There's a show that we
normally tape on Thursdays, and obviously Thanksgiving is coming up
(13:32):
in a few weeks, so we are like, well, nobody
wants to tape on Thanksgiving, so when do we When
do we do it? And then it's like do we
push it forward but it's got to air at certain times?
Do we do it earlier? And I think my response was, well, clearly,
more prep time isn't going to help me because I'm
spending endless amounts of time here and it's not quite
(13:54):
quite working out. So but anyway, the show, I mean,
they don't really hear it's actually actually better as we've
said for the show at the Penny Wins and all that.
But I just want to have one of those dynamite weekends, Danny,
like we had last year where I end up going
like eleven and four or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, I remember that you were on cloud nine.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah. Yeah, I want one of those. I haven't had
one of those. I mean, I've been a terrible week
last week. Anyway, Benny versus the Penny checked that out,
pressing on turning the page. If you will, commandeered, calm undeered,
that would be the Halloween holiday and we'll have a
lot of Halloween related content. I would imagine this weekend, Danny,
(14:36):
but commandeered, that would be the holiday of Halloween. This
is not something that is new, but it is continuing.
It is a trend in society that is continuing for
the Halloween holiday, which is coming up on Tuesday. But
this is a big weekend for Halloween parties right tonight
(14:56):
Saturday night, party, party, party, party, So you've got Halloween
and a survey was done of Hey, what are you
going to dress up? And what kind of costume are
you going to wear for Halloween? And so they servet
a bunch of adults all over the age of eighteen.
According to the poll of fifty eight percent of adults
(15:21):
are going to wear a sexy costume. No, of course, yeah,
sexy costume. There's also a show that women putting in
more work to look you know, like whatever, whatever, sexy blank,
and they want to look like but this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Is going to be the sluttiest Halloween of all time
according to the experts.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, seventy two percent. You can spin numbers anyway you want.
Seventy percent of women are likely to wear a sexy
outfit this year, compared to forty three percent of dudes.
And yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
There's oo's in this house. There's some os in this house.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah. Yeah, So you can turn anything into like a
slutty outfit. You can. It's just you put less less
clothing on, of course.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, slunt nurse, slutty police officer.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, just go for it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The funniest is when they do like the like the
ones that like the scarecrow, like how could you make
a scare scarecrow sexy. Well, you know, if they're creative,
they can come up with the way there. And the
service said fifty six percent of people are going full
throttle with their costumes, even if people can't recognize them.
I don't know, there's all kinds of weird things in this,
(16:45):
but they said thirty nine percent of people assume those
wearing sexy Halloween costumes are seeking a fling. They said,
it seems about that, seems about right right somewhere in there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm looking right now by the way, bloody angel, sludy cheerleader. Well,
here's the steady playboy buddy costume.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I would say, And I want to speak for all
heterosexual men, but I think most heterosexual men would agree.
The most female participants in this claim they're dressing the
sexy dressing outfit is catwoman. Okay, yeah, sixteen percent. That
cat suit hard to pass up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, I'm looking at a rhymestone cat suit right now.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Not bad. The Harley Queen, I don't know, is that
just like dressed up like a motorcycle checker? Oh, Harley Quinn,
Harley qual is there? I don't en know who that is?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Who is that comic book character?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh it's a sexy comic. Is it sexy?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, she's uh, she's got curves.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh, good for her, and a nurse nurse eleven nurse
can't go wrong with nurse No Maid, though disappointed No
Maid on the Maid did not make the top three.
That's upsetting, no mate. Uh men, they say the number
one outfit, Well, there's a three way tie, police officer,
(18:09):
gladiator and batman. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, And how many couples are gonna be Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, or Kenon Barbie from the movie Yeah from Yeah
I went too.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm gonna be one of Taylor Swift's truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, just don't be her security guard there that remember
the guy that the guy that left to go back
to Israel to fight in the in the battle and
one of the like her top.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh yeah I saw that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, guy was making tons of money too. That's ah,
it's quite the commitment. Uh. Anyway, so that was commandeered?
Which when do you think that started? Because we were kids, Danny,
I don't remember like going out seeing a lot of women.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You don't remember your mom wearing half of an outfit
saying later, honey, I'll be home in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
But it wasn't like this, Like it's just like the last.
I think the last. I think it's been a while.
It's like fifteen years or so, but.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think it's been a little bit longer than that.
I I hell, I remember hosting Halloween nights at a
club twenty years ago and all the girls.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Looked like a bunch of hookers and cocaine. Hello, hey, hey, yeah, yeah,
of course, of course. So we have the daily double,
daily dabble, daily dabble, daily daball, daily dabo phrase, word
of the week, phrase and word of the week?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
What phrase and word of the week.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, Now we'll start with the phrase of the week,
which I don't even know if this counts as a phrase.
Jack o lantern in honor of Halloween. I wanted to
go big. So jack o lantern. We all know, I
assume we all know what that is, right, the carved
up pumpkin and all that. But did you know the
rest of the story, the history of jack o' lanterns.
(20:03):
I looked it up because I was curious. It goes
back to the British Isles and people it wasn't pumpkins.
They would carve up turnips and something called a mangle wurzel,
which is I guess a beat like a vegetable, like
a beet thing. And they would carve these really disgusting
(20:24):
faces in these turnips and these beats, and they'd use
them as lanterns on Halloween. And the tradition came to
the United States by Irish immigrants. They brought it with
brought their traditions with them, and they switched to pumpkins. Now,
why did they go with pumpkins. Why didn't they just
keep going with turnips and beets or whatever, Because that
(20:46):
was the native fruit. That pumpkin is a native fruit
to this condent in North America. And so you break
it down even further down the rabbit hole. Here's my
favorite part of this. The name jack Oldland comes from
an Irish myth. This goes back hundreds of years about
a man named Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack is why we
(21:11):
call it the Jack O'Lantern. Who was Stingy Jack? Well,
it was a mythical character. But the story goes that
Stingy Jack tricked the devil and was doomed to wander
the earth with a lantern. And that's why people would
carve things up and put a little light in there,
and they would do it to honor Stingy Jack. So
(21:34):
the phrase, which I don't even know if it counts,
jack o lantern, the phrase of the week. Now for
the word of the week, the word of the week,
and here we go. The word is rather simple. Halloween. Halloween.
Now many people know the hallows, the all hallows and whatnot.
(21:58):
Back in the day, the Eve of all Saints, the
last night of October Halloween originally was spelled ha llow
space e and then kind of not an explanation point
one of those little lines, and then e n and
(22:18):
seventeen eighty one. That seems like a long time ago.
In Scotland, the Scottish shortened the term to all hollows.
And it goes back, I mean goes back even for
the going back to the Middle English thirteen hundreds. There's
(22:39):
a thing on the Celtic calendar the Old Year's Night,
which was a night where witches. It was a pagan holiday,
and so it goes way back. And then in this
is like a bonus here the trick or treat thing.
The origins of trick or treat go back. They don't
(23:01):
go back quite as far from what I was able
to uncover with some research that I did here and
again it goes back to Scotland. Parts of Scotland in
the about three almost three hundred years ago, give or take,
and a trick or treating originated in a Celtic celebration
(23:26):
Sam Hayne, I believe is how it's pronounced. And the
legend says that people dressed in costumes and they represented
the souls of the dead and were given offerings. Right
and you know, the souls of the dead, the deceased
were given offerings. And the phrase trick or treat is
a twentieth century invention. How about that. The actual act
(23:50):
of trick or treating goes back further than that. But
when kids say trick or treat, it is actually extortion.
It is a form of extortion because essentially what the
kid is saying, it's like, you know, give me all
of your candy. I'm gonna knock on your door, and
if you don't do that, I'm going to give you
(24:12):
a trick. I'm going to break break something. I'm gonna
break a window or you know, tore the paper your
house or something like that. So throw an egg at
your car exactly exactly, and so I'm.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Not speaking from experience, by the way.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh, you would never, you would never do No.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
My mom taught us not to aim at cars because
the egg was really bad for the paint. So she
taught us to aim for the door, the front door
of a house or apartment.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's nicer, that's very nice, she said.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's much easier to clean up.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, you want to do a little foodie fun. We
haven't done foodie fun.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Little foody fun for Yeah. Yeah, because we all got
to eat. We're still waiting for a foodie fun jingle
from Ohio al or O Buddy in Richmond or anybody.
You don't take. Anybody wants to send it a little
foodie fun jingle. So I'm going to try to save
you some money. There's a bunch of restaurants with Halloween
coming up that are offering deals. Chain restaurants Windy's is
(25:10):
offering free crispy chicken, sandwich and more. It's all part
of their Spooky Good Deals that starts today here on
the twenty seventh, through Halloween. What else do you There's
a bunch of other random somewhat discounted foods. Dominoes Avoid
the nooid. Remember that commercial. Avoid the noise. Dominoes is
(25:32):
offering you have free pizzas to anyone that has a
student loan payment. So that's their deal. Applebee's is offering
free boneless wings on Halloween. Okay, there you go. It's
got to be a catch on that, right and nothing
you got to buy something. I'm sure that is a
giving away. Sonic you can get a fifty cent corn
(25:53):
dog all day on Halloween. Who doesn't want a Sonic
corn dog to celebrate Halloween? Sign me up? Yes, yeah,
Taco Bell, this is not a deal. Taco Bell is
offering they've added new Blazing Scorpion chicken flavor with Tabasco
Scorpion sauce. Does that interesting call? Danny? Are you? Are
(26:14):
you a hot food guy?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Nah? I like to enjoy the food as it sits
in my stomach.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, all right, Oh that's Taco del Mar. I didn't
know what that is? I said, did I say, Taco Bell?
Taco del Mar? What is Taco del Mar? Have you
ever been to a Taco del Mar?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Never heard of it?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I was gonna say that didn't sound like Taco Bell. Yeah,
I don't know. Is it in Del Mar in San Diego?
Taco del Mar. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You go misleading us again on a radio broadcast.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We got bad information. Well, this one's legit. Chunky Campbell's
Chunky has introduced new turkey soup for the holidays, just
in time for the holiday season, Danny Turkey soup.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Nasty man. Our parents use so much canned goods when
we were kids, it turns my stomach just to even
go down that aisle of the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, when I was a kid, we had a lot
of boxed foods and a lot of frozen foods like chicken.
I'm trying to think you're like we Well, the fish sticks,
we had a lot of that. I didn't realize at
the time. I guess the family didn't have a lot
of money, but we had a lot of spaghetti and
a lot of mac and cheese. And as I've grown up,
(27:28):
I really, well, those are some of the cheapest foods
you can get. A box of mac and cheese doesn't
cost you that much, and little cheese powder and all that.
What else do we have on foodifunt we have new
chocolate lovers Twinkies have popped up at Walmart just in
time for Halloween. Danny, you were chocolate lover. You can
get one of those chocolate twinkies.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I've had cocoa.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I hear you. These. I mean they're not aesthetically please,
I'm not gonna. I mean it's chocolate. Lovers like chocolate
and chocolate, because you got the chocolate on the outside
and then the inside the cream filling is the chocolate
as well.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So that's overload.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Did you know how many Riese's peanut butter candies are
available on the market in time for Halloween? You want
to take a guess how many different products they have available.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Let's say they have eight different variations.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
According to what I uncovered here, twenty nine different versions
of Reese's candy in time for the holidays. They got
the big cup, they got the regular cup, they got
Teresa's Popcorn, They've got Teresa's miniature cups. They've got the
Reesa's Stick, the Teresa's Pieces, the Veresa's minis, Teresa's thins.
(28:40):
I mean, they put this in all kinds of confections. So,
but just stick to what you know when you started
in the nineteen twenties or whatever it was. The peanut
butter cup. That's the classic go to peanut butter cup.
You can't go wrong with the Reese's peanut butter cup.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
The solid Yeah, like we said last weekend, give us
the big Reese's pieces cup, but charges for the small one.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Speaking of food, foody fun, there's a food hack that
people are using to fall asleep faster. Do you see this?
Which food people are eating to fall asleep faster?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Alligator?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Alligator? That's a great answer, it's actually donkey eating. No,
the correct answer is pineapple. Pineapple's started on TikTok. Of course,
everything starts on TikTok, and it's one of the life
tricks that has popped up there. And the claim is
that this is a hack that will help you fall
(29:43):
asleep in mere minutes. I think this is likely bullshit,
but I don't know. I have trouble falling asleep. I
can't shut my mind off. They claim that pineapple before
bed fall helps you fall asleep. Eating pineapple before bed,
we'll get you to sleep much quicker. There's a little
(30:05):
bit of a trick here, and you trick yourself into
getting the best sleep ever. Pineapple after dinner, try it
with coconut whipped cream. Well, that sounds pretty good, And
I don't know, like they claimed, the science on this
backs it up. There was a study done years ago
(30:26):
that said certain fruits like pineapple, bananas, and oranges one
at a time would help like a wash out period,
transitioning between fruits until blah blah blah blah blah. But
they said that it boosted the the melatonin levels. Supposedly
(30:47):
the pineapple, it boosted the melatonin levels two hundred and
sixty six percent. I don't know. That seems like maybe
I should mix more pineapple. Might have to try it
because I do have trouble fall asleep. But I don't
eat that much. That's the problem, daty, I don't eat that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
There's that old story too that you know your wife
will ask you to eat a little more pineapple.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe that's how people go to sleep,
not from the fruit, but from what happens after dessert.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, they might get that pineapple flavor one way or another.
Here you well, McDonald's you're a fan of the mcflurry
spoon at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
The spoon is cool, the mcflurry is just okay, well
they're going away soccer. It's because they're hard plastic.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, well yeah they Originally it was the plastic straw.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It was like a straw spoon, right, it was a combo.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, well, the mcflurry because, as you mentioned, Danny, we
cannot have nice things. We cannot have nice things. But
the mcflurry and McDonald's people getting rid of the the
the current spoon and mcflury. I mean, there's a there's
(32:12):
a couple of nuggets here, but essentially it comes down
to a plastic issue, and so they're they're chopping. So
I guess you can't have the mcflury then if you
don't have the spoon. McDonald's says it's part of the
chain's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Because as long
as McDonald's reduces the emissions, I think we're all better,
(32:33):
right the fact that China, Russia, India are just pumping
out emissions, but McDonald's will make it better for the
whole world there. But yeah, it's it's the spoon, the
Talow doubles as like a spindle.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, I noticed some of the frozen yogurt shops
that used to give out the nice hard plastic spoons,
they're doing the same thing. They're ditching those. How are
we supposed to steer utensils from places now?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
It says mcflury going forward will now have a smaller
black spoon that uses much less plastic. Racist much less plastic.
So congratulations, you're you're helping fix the world with a
crappy spoon. Now, can you hoard the it's plastic so
(33:24):
it'll last forever. So could you just get a bunch
of mcflury spoons before they get rid of them, and
then you can keep them and I don't think they
would wash very well, but you know it'd last a
while if you get enough of them. Right.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh yeah, we have a drawer that's filled with yogurt
Land spoons.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Oh, very nice. That's very kind of yogurt Land to
give you some spoons. Panda Express is testing some new
dim some bites now at the past Sadina location here,
So there isn't it. Didn't Panda Express start in Pasadena?
(34:08):
I think they did. Actually, I think their first they've
got let's see here they're gonna have. The menu includes
lobster and shrimp dumplings, mini chicken wantans, apple pie roll
that sounds pretty good, fried crispy fried rolled pastry filled
with juicy apple and fall spices and dusted with sweet cinnamon.
(34:30):
I did that, and then they got a bunch of
other random, random things. There's being sold individually on the
location on Foothill Boulevard there in Pasadenas.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, and you're right, they're first of the restaurant chain
opened up at Panda Inn in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, because I actually went to the original location. I
just happened to be in Pasadena for something other than that.
We drove by it. I was like, Wow, that's like
a sit down nice Panda Express. Well that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, here's one of your favorite restaurants, Danny. I know
you'll be going to get this. Arby's announcing they are
getting into the fried mac and Cheese bites. New fried
mac and cheese bites from Arby's.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Oh boil. Those sound delicious unless they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Here's a we'll get out on this Trader Joe's Trader
Joe's apparently an item that is blowing up. People love it.
It is amazing, either for breakfast or as a dessert.
Trader Joe's devotees claiming that sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes
(35:40):
are the way to go. These look amazing. I guess
this must be a new item. I've never seen these
at Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That sounds good.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, they look really good. Chewy, flaky dough filled with
gooey cinnamon sugar filling. And they say the dough is
it's got the proper amount of chewiness.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
What are they called?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
They are called sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes. That's quite
the name. And yeah, they look they look good. They
look solid. You can prepare the pancakes coming to a
Comeford to a box according to this, and they have
all the obviously the ingredients and all that. I really
care about that. But it doesn't take long to cook
(36:26):
and looks pretty good. I could see that with a
nice scoop of vanilla ice cream as a dessert, and
I might. I might have to pick those up. My
wife loves breakfast foods. I don't eat breakfast because I'm
usually sleeping when breakfast is traditionally served, so I might
have to go with that. Anyway. It is Friday, We've
already gone longer than we played Danny yet again. Ye
(36:47):
that's late plans of mice men and podcasters. I have
a little going on, a little going on today. I'm
going to try to regroup from a very hectic week.
What are you up to Danny today? You got you're
doing the regular double header action. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
After I produce this podcast, I'll get in my car
drive to Sherman Oaks, California. What is the fancy place
right above us on the hill? Oh, bell Air, Well
Air bordering bell Air, California, where the Fresh Princes live.
We're going to be doing the Friday edition of The
Covino and Rich Show, having a lot of fun from
two to four pm on the West Side. That's five
(37:25):
to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
All right, and enjoy that, and please if you are
able to do it, if you have access to it,
you have Direct TV or Fubo TV, or you happen
to live in a market the show is on. I
would really love for you to watch the TV show
Benny Versus The Penny New Times this weekend because of
the NBA. So I am excited, Danny. I would rather
be on after the NBA games than before because I
(37:52):
know at sports bars all over Boston and Chicago tonight
they're going to be stuck looking at my ugly mug
when they just leave the TV on. And so we'll
have new people that experience the show, which I'm really
excited about.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
So, and the closed captioning will be on a lot
of the screens. Yeah, read your bad jokes with Looney.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, well it's mostly Looney's Looney's bad jokes. It's mostly
mostly Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Friday. We
got fresh podcast Saturday and Sunday, and we'll catch you
next time.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
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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 fastion 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.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. Welcome into the podcast dojo. It
is a Friday, October twenty seventh. As we are doing
this in real time, Ben Mahler, and that would be
me talking to the third person and Danny G Radio. Hello, Danny,
(00:52):
yo yo, Yeah, Ben loves himself some Ben, Yes, exactly. Well,
we were just catching up. We had a great meeting
this week Danny about the State Radio and it was
really it was really fun. I had it was a
hearty it was a hearty conversation, a couple of radio
guys just breaking down the nuts and bolts, the meat
and potatoes, the guts of the radio business. And I
(01:15):
love I love conversations like that, Danny. I don't have
many of those conversations.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're losing another radio pro to a school district job.
I know there's pensions involved, but it just kind of
blows because how many of our friends been have said
peace out to radio and the broadcasting business and have
moved on to other jobs. I'm talking decades, yeah, three
(01:42):
now for us where we're on the third decade of
some of our friends saying later, see you on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, it's wild, And I gotta tell you, I have
not lost the passion. I still get excited when I
walk into the radio station. I do. But the problem
is a lot of these situations, it's family, it's ours,
or it's a combination of that. And also obviously money
is isn't a big factor, but it's you know, as
(02:11):
far as like doing the job, I don't know, man,
I don't know there's anything else I would want to
do that I would I mean other than just having
I mean obviously I didn't have. If nobody would hire me,
i'd have to get like a real job. But for
me to choose to leave this, I don't know, man,
that's a tough that's a tough road.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
My favorite thing is I've had family members and friends
ask me what network are you going to go to next,
and I like, is you really That's the weird part too,
of the state of broadcasting because obviously our business got
screwed up a couple of decades ago as Clinton was
on his way out of office. That's a whole other
(02:52):
story with consolidation and deregulation. Yeah, regulation and the whole
start of basically a monopoly in radio. But that's a
whole nother podcast episode. There were a lot of guys
who saw the writing on the wall at that point
in time and did a pivot and went to some
(03:13):
other business or industry to work in. But when you
do sports radio, what are you going to do? Ben
move to Connecticut and work for ESPN. No offense to them,
but their radio network has stunk for a little while now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's one of those things. Like when we started
Fox Sports Radio over twenty years ago, people kind of
poo pooed it. They were like, yeah, ESPN was the
king of sports radio. I mean they had the biggest,
the biggest names in sports radio all worked there.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, back in the day, what was it, Mike and Mike, Yeah,
Dan Patrick was there.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Tony Kornheiser did a show for a long time than
Cowherd replaced him. You know, there were this huge, huge
names and they were heard everywhere. And now that's you know,
there's still hurt a lot of places. But Fox Sports
Radio in the radio business is the number one radio network,
not even really close. I mean, I'm obviously biased. I
(04:12):
think we're both biased here, but the numbers speak for themselves, right,
I mean you can actually have we have data to
back it up. I mean it's not now. We do
have a lot of guys that used to work there,
you know, I even work People don't know this, but
when I was starting in San Diego, I was a
one of my first you know gigs. I was a
reporter and one of my clients was ESPN Radio. I
(04:32):
was a stringer and when ESPN Radio started, they only
had weekend programming. They had the Sports Babe during the
week and on the weekends they had a show with
Chuck Wilson, Tony Bruno, and Peter Brown. Peter Brown is
one of my favorite radio people, but I have Tony
two and so they did they did like a seven
hour show on Friday and Saturday, and I was one
(04:53):
of the people they used as a reporter in LA
Like I'd go to different games and give them back.
In those days, we'd call up and give scores and stuff.
So I did that and all.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But oh, you were a stringer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I was a stringer and I got paid doing that,
and I get paid to have get guests on and
things like that. But a long time ago. But now
it's like, you know, it's Fox Sports Radio is the
premier sports radio network and all that, but it's just
a wacky world. And outside of ESPN, I mean, you
look around, there's there's a small network and I think
(05:25):
it's in Houston. I think, uh, And I don't even
really know. Outside of that, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There's much like It's the equivalent to you being Patrick
Mahomes on the Chiefs and your friends saying, what's team
he going to play for? Next?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah. People, It's it's hard to explain to people that
are on the outside of the business what it's like,
because yeah, I always get the why don't you do
a show during the day, and I have to explain.
I'm like, listen, you know, you don't pick the time,
and there are negatives and positives to everything, and you
(06:04):
have to weigh everything. I'm more of a night person
than a day person, and you know, the money's a factor,
but you have to weigh Everything's all variables in life,
and you have to drop some knowledge on people and
explain here's how it works. And you know, you're actually
on more radio stations when you're on late at night
and you are during the day less people listening on
each station, but you're on more stations, so you got
(06:26):
to explain all that. But anyway, and it's all different
now too, because when we started there was no podcasting,
and now everything's recorded, so you get more than one
chance to hear I kind of liked the old days
when we did radio and if nobody heard it, they
could that was it. It was gone. You know, it
was like quitting time. Once we got done with the show,
that was it. You're done that.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
They called it appointment listening. Yeah, if you missed it, man,
you missed that appointment and you were in a doctor's
office with them telling you to buzz off, you suck,
you're late, You're out of here. No appointment for you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah exactly. You're like, yes, what you do with traffic
on the ones you had to tune in on one
just to hear the traffic and whether on the fives
or Sports on the fifteens or whatever whatever it might
have been. So I a couple things that we can
get into the booster rocket. We've got commandeered, and I
have a daily double for the word of the week,
(07:20):
and we'll see what else we have time for. But
shocking that it is already Week eight of the NFL
season that kicked off with a Thursday night game. I
would like to thank Baker Mayfield and the Bucks last night, Danny.
I don't know if you saw the game, but the
Buccaneers were down by two scores in the fourth quarter
and Baker Mayfield the Bucks took a They took seven minutes,
(07:43):
They had a seven and a half minutes. They had
a seventeen play drive methodically la la la la la
la la la la la la, lollygagging down the field.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh yeah, Gamblers across America had big smiles on their faces.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. I had the Bucks plus the points and I
got it. I think it was eight and a half
what I got if I remember correctly, it got it
went higher than that. And I'm watching I'm like, what
are they doing? Like are they trying to win the game,
and then they got bailed out by penalties from Buffalo
a couple of times on the drive. But the lack
(08:17):
of urgency is stunning, Like what is Todd Bowles doing
on the cyclises Like you have to kind of pick
up the base, you need to scores. And then they
still had a chance to win. If Chris Godwin had
turned around sooner, not to belabor the point, the Bucks
would have won the game out right by an extra point.
(08:39):
So anyway, but as far as get to the point,
because Week eight bunch of games. Obviously everyone's playing. It's weird.
We've had a bunch of bye weeks this week in
the NFL. Everyone's playing, and then they get back to
the bye weeks after this, so it's an I don't
know why they're doing that. No, they didn't ask me,
they didn't consult me. So anyway, this week we amazingly
(09:00):
not long is it week eight? I can alert all
of the podcast listeners, all of you, I'm talking to
you and the other person over there, that the show,
my TV show has still not been canceled, that it's
still on the air. And yesterday was hanging out at
Universal studios taping the show there. It is very cool.
You always cool, got there early, hung out for a
(09:22):
few hours.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Have you seen anybody surrounding your show yawning.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, that's the executives that that areying. But so we
do the show from this NBC like the LA News
Bureau for NBC's News Bureau for LA. We do it
out of that building. Yeah, the Brocosts Center. Yeah, and
CEE NBC's there and all that. So they do like
dateline and all that. But I would like to alert
you that we do have a change today on this Friday,
(09:50):
a booster rocket. I think this is great news for
the show. We were debating this, but I think it's
really good news, and I'll tell you why. Because NBA
season started this week, the long winding road of the
NBA regular season, and what that means is for the
TV show, we're getting moved around because of NBA programming.
(10:14):
Like in Boston, we're on the Celtic station. Chicago's got
the Bulls, Phillies got the Sixers. In the Bay Area,
they've got the Warriors, and we're on the Sacramento King station.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Left off a major one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, you know there's some team in LA. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think, yeah, that team where Lebron and ad tour
shit up. Last night, you're on the Lakers station. I watched.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They were down by twelve going to the fourth quarter.
I guess the team without two of their top three players.
I don't know that I would use that terminology to
describe what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
But are you really gonna talk smack when they're promoting
your show.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I don't know I would do that. I'm just just
saying I'm just merely pointing out that I don't know
the verbiage was anyway, Yeah, we are on in LA
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So well, the day before I heard Lebron was done.
So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, this is how little Darvin Ham not to do
a sporty podcast. But the coach of the Lakers came
out boldly said Lebron's on a minute cap at twenty
nine minutes. So this got reported everywhere. Everyone wrote this that,
everyone talked about this on radio and television. Lebron twenty
(11:20):
nine minutes, the twenty nine minute man. So Thursday night
they're playing the Sun's Lakers are trailing. Lebron's played twenty
nine minutes they played another six they just like just
left me in there.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like to be fair, that sounds like one of our podcasts.
We'll do twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We always plan on cutting it out
and then we end up going to like another extra
ten minutes, yea extra ten yeah, to get to the point.
So because of the NBA schedule, we are on different times.
For example, the Boston Celtics play the Heat today and
we are on after the game at after the postgame
at eleven o'clock Boston, and they play this they can
(12:01):
play show back to back. We're on in Philadelphia. There's
no Sixers game today, but we were on at six
thirty and eleven thirty in Philly. Chicago, we're on after
the Bulls play the Raptors, and we're on actually pre
game before the Golden State Warriors game, and actually Golden
State's playing Sacramento, but we're on different stations. Anyway, I'll
(12:24):
just check your local cable listings at all. And I
know in LA on Saturday because of the Lakers, believe
they're on the road in Orlando. I think I think
I saw that. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but anyway,
the show's got to air at six am and then
again at eleven pm on Spectrum Sports Net in LA.
(12:46):
In the other there's a bunch of other showings, but
you can that's on Saturday for the LA market and anyway,
check check it out. It would be really cool. My
picks have been absolutely horrible. They have been embarrassing. I've
been explaining to people at NBC Danny that I was
actually good at this, Like we have tape that is
(13:08):
available to prove that I am not incompetent. I have
not changed anything. It's not like I've changed anything. And
yet here were the Dodgers. Are you pressing too hard? Well,
there was that like we were going over the schedule
and we have to tape. There's a show that we
normally tape on Thursdays, and obviously Thanksgiving is coming up
(13:32):
in a few weeks, so we are like, well, nobody
wants to tape on Thanksgiving, so when do we When
do we do it? And then it's like do we
push it forward but it's got to air at certain times?
Do we do it earlier? And I think my response was, well, clearly,
more prep time isn't going to help me because I'm
spending endless amounts of time here and it's not quite
(13:54):
quite working out. So but anyway, the show, I mean,
they don't really hear it's actually actually better as we've
said for the show at the Penny Wins and all that.
But I just want to have one of those dynamite weekends, Danny,
like we had last year where I end up going
like eleven and four or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, I remember that you were on cloud nine.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah. Yeah, I want one of those. I haven't had
one of those. I mean, I've been a terrible week
last week. Anyway, Benny versus the Penny checked that out,
pressing on turning the page. If you will, commandeered, calm undeered,
that would be the Halloween holiday and we'll have a
lot of Halloween related content. I would imagine this weekend, Danny,
(14:36):
but commandeered, that would be the holiday of Halloween. This
is not something that is new, but it is continuing.
It is a trend in society that is continuing for
the Halloween holiday, which is coming up on Tuesday. But
this is a big weekend for Halloween parties right tonight
(14:56):
Saturday night, party, party, party, party, So you've got Halloween
and a survey was done of Hey, what are you
going to dress up? And what kind of costume are
you going to wear for Halloween? And so they servet
a bunch of adults all over the age of eighteen.
According to the poll of fifty eight percent of adults
(15:21):
are going to wear a sexy costume. No, of course, yeah,
sexy costume. There's also a show that women putting in
more work to look you know, like whatever, whatever, sexy blank,
and they want to look like but this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Is going to be the sluttiest Halloween of all time
according to the experts.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, seventy two percent. You can spin numbers anyway you want.
Seventy percent of women are likely to wear a sexy
outfit this year, compared to forty three percent of dudes.
And yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
There's oo's in this house. There's some os in this house.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah. Yeah, So you can turn anything into like a
slutty outfit. You can. It's just you put less less
clothing on, of course.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, slunt nurse, slutty police officer.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, just go for it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The funniest is when they do like the like the
ones that like the scarecrow, like how could you make
a scare scarecrow sexy. Well, you know, if they're creative,
they can come up with the way there. And the
service said fifty six percent of people are going full
throttle with their costumes, even if people can't recognize them.
I don't know, there's all kinds of weird things in this,
(16:45):
but they said thirty nine percent of people assume those
wearing sexy Halloween costumes are seeking a fling. They said,
it seems about that, seems about right right somewhere in there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm looking right now by the way, bloody angel, sludy cheerleader. Well,
here's the steady playboy buddy costume.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I would say, And I want to speak for all
heterosexual men, but I think most heterosexual men would agree.
The most female participants in this claim they're dressing the
sexy dressing outfit is catwoman. Okay, yeah, sixteen percent. That
cat suit hard to pass up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, I'm looking at a rhymestone cat suit right now.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Not bad. The Harley Queen, I don't know, is that
just like dressed up like a motorcycle checker? Oh, Harley Quinn,
Harley qual is there? I don't en know who that is?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Who is that comic book character?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh it's a sexy comic. Is it sexy?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, she's uh, she's got curves.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh, good for her, and a nurse nurse eleven nurse
can't go wrong with nurse No Maid, though disappointed No
Maid on the Maid did not make the top three.
That's upsetting, no mate. Uh men, they say the number
one outfit, Well, there's a three way tie, police officer,
(18:09):
gladiator and batman. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, And how many couples are gonna be Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, or Kenon Barbie from the movie Yeah from Yeah
I went too.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm gonna be one of Taylor Swift's truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, just don't be her security guard there that remember
the guy that the guy that left to go back
to Israel to fight in the in the battle and
one of the like her top.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh yeah I saw that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, guy was making tons of money too. That's ah,
it's quite the commitment. Uh. Anyway, so that was commandeered?
Which when do you think that started? Because we were kids, Danny,
I don't remember like going out seeing a lot of women.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You don't remember your mom wearing half of an outfit
saying later, honey, I'll be home in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
But it wasn't like this, Like it's just like the last.
I think the last. I think it's been a while.
It's like fifteen years or so, but.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think it's been a little bit longer than that.
I I hell, I remember hosting Halloween nights at a
club twenty years ago and all the girls.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Looked like a bunch of hookers and cocaine. Hello, hey, hey, yeah, yeah,
of course, of course. So we have the daily double,
daily dabble, daily dabble, daily daball, daily dabo phrase, word
of the week, phrase and word of the week?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
What phrase and word of the week.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, Now we'll start with the phrase of the week,
which I don't even know if this counts as a phrase.
Jack o lantern in honor of Halloween. I wanted to
go big. So jack o lantern. We all know, I
assume we all know what that is, right, the carved
up pumpkin and all that. But did you know the
rest of the story, the history of jack o' lanterns.
(20:03):
I looked it up because I was curious. It goes
back to the British Isles and people it wasn't pumpkins.
They would carve up turnips and something called a mangle wurzel,
which is I guess a beat like a vegetable, like
a beet thing. And they would carve these really disgusting
(20:24):
faces in these turnips and these beats, and they'd use
them as lanterns on Halloween. And the tradition came to
the United States by Irish immigrants. They brought it with
brought their traditions with them, and they switched to pumpkins. Now,
why did they go with pumpkins. Why didn't they just
keep going with turnips and beets or whatever, Because that
(20:46):
was the native fruit. That pumpkin is a native fruit
to this condent in North America. And so you break
it down even further down the rabbit hole. Here's my
favorite part of this. The name jack Oldland comes from
an Irish myth. This goes back hundreds of years about
a man named Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack is why we
(21:11):
call it the Jack O'Lantern. Who was Stingy Jack? Well,
it was a mythical character. But the story goes that
Stingy Jack tricked the devil and was doomed to wander
the earth with a lantern. And that's why people would
carve things up and put a little light in there,
and they would do it to honor Stingy Jack. So
(21:34):
the phrase, which I don't even know if it counts,
jack o lantern, the phrase of the week. Now for
the word of the week, the word of the week,
and here we go. The word is rather simple. Halloween. Halloween.
Now many people know the hallows, the all hallows and whatnot.
(21:58):
Back in the day, the Eve of all Saints, the
last night of October Halloween originally was spelled ha llow
space e and then kind of not an explanation point
one of those little lines, and then e n and
(22:18):
seventeen eighty one. That seems like a long time ago.
In Scotland, the Scottish shortened the term to all hollows.
And it goes back, I mean goes back even for
the going back to the Middle English thirteen hundreds. There's
(22:39):
a thing on the Celtic calendar the Old Year's Night,
which was a night where witches. It was a pagan holiday,
and so it goes way back. And then in this
is like a bonus here the trick or treat thing.
The origins of trick or treat go back. They don't
(23:01):
go back quite as far from what I was able
to uncover with some research that I did here and
again it goes back to Scotland. Parts of Scotland in
the about three almost three hundred years ago, give or take,
and a trick or treating originated in a Celtic celebration
(23:26):
Sam Hayne, I believe is how it's pronounced. And the
legend says that people dressed in costumes and they represented
the souls of the dead and were given offerings. Right
and you know, the souls of the dead, the deceased
were given offerings. And the phrase trick or treat is
a twentieth century invention. How about that. The actual act
(23:50):
of trick or treating goes back further than that. But
when kids say trick or treat, it is actually extortion.
It is a form of extortion because essentially what the
kid is saying, it's like, you know, give me all
of your candy. I'm gonna knock on your door, and
if you don't do that, I'm going to give you
(24:12):
a trick. I'm going to break break something. I'm gonna
break a window or you know, tore the paper your
house or something like that. So throw an egg at
your car exactly exactly, and so I'm.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Not speaking from experience, by the way.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh, you would never, you would never do No.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
My mom taught us not to aim at cars because
the egg was really bad for the paint. So she
taught us to aim for the door, the front door
of a house or apartment.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's nicer, that's very nice, she said.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's much easier to clean up.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, you want to do a little foodie fun. We
haven't done foodie fun.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Little foody fun for Yeah. Yeah, because we all got
to eat. We're still waiting for a foodie fun jingle
from Ohio al or O Buddy in Richmond or anybody.
You don't take. Anybody wants to send it a little
foodie fun jingle. So I'm going to try to save
you some money. There's a bunch of restaurants with Halloween
coming up that are offering deals. Chain restaurants Windy's is
(25:10):
offering free crispy chicken, sandwich and more. It's all part
of their Spooky Good Deals that starts today here on
the twenty seventh, through Halloween. What else do you There's
a bunch of other random somewhat discounted foods. Dominoes Avoid
the nooid. Remember that commercial. Avoid the noise. Dominoes is
(25:32):
offering you have free pizzas to anyone that has a
student loan payment. So that's their deal. Applebee's is offering
free boneless wings on Halloween. Okay, there you go. It's
got to be a catch on that, right and nothing
you got to buy something. I'm sure that is a
giving away. Sonic you can get a fifty cent corn
(25:53):
dog all day on Halloween. Who doesn't want a Sonic
corn dog to celebrate Halloween? Sign me up? Yes, yeah,
Taco Bell, this is not a deal. Taco Bell is
offering they've added new Blazing Scorpion chicken flavor with Tabasco
Scorpion sauce. Does that interesting call? Danny? Are you? Are
(26:14):
you a hot food guy?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Nah? I like to enjoy the food as it sits
in my stomach.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, all right, Oh that's Taco del Mar. I didn't
know what that is? I said, did I say, Taco Bell?
Taco del Mar? What is Taco del Mar? Have you
ever been to a Taco del Mar?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Never heard of it?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I was gonna say that didn't sound like Taco Bell. Yeah,
I don't know. Is it in Del Mar in San Diego?
Taco del Mar. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You go misleading us again on a radio broadcast.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We got bad information. Well, this one's legit. Chunky Campbell's
Chunky has introduced new turkey soup for the holidays, just
in time for the holiday season, Danny Turkey soup.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Nasty man. Our parents use so much canned goods when
we were kids, it turns my stomach just to even
go down that aisle of the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, when I was a kid, we had a lot
of boxed foods and a lot of frozen foods like chicken.
I'm trying to think you're like we Well, the fish sticks,
we had a lot of that. I didn't realize at
the time. I guess the family didn't have a lot
of money, but we had a lot of spaghetti and
a lot of mac and cheese. And as I've grown up,
(27:28):
I really, well, those are some of the cheapest foods
you can get. A box of mac and cheese doesn't
cost you that much, and little cheese powder and all that.
What else do we have on foodifunt we have new
chocolate lovers Twinkies have popped up at Walmart just in
time for Halloween. Danny, you were chocolate lover. You can
get one of those chocolate twinkies.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I've had cocoa.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I hear you. These. I mean they're not aesthetically please,
I'm not gonna. I mean it's chocolate. Lovers like chocolate
and chocolate, because you got the chocolate on the outside
and then the inside the cream filling is the chocolate
as well.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So that's overload.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Did you know how many Riese's peanut butter candies are
available on the market in time for Halloween? You want
to take a guess how many different products they have available.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Let's say they have eight different variations.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
According to what I uncovered here, twenty nine different versions
of Reese's candy in time for the holidays. They got
the big cup, they got the regular cup, they got
Teresa's Popcorn, They've got Teresa's miniature cups. They've got the
Reesa's Stick, the Teresa's Pieces, the Veresa's minis, Teresa's thins.
(28:40):
I mean, they put this in all kinds of confections. So,
but just stick to what you know when you started
in the nineteen twenties or whatever it was. The peanut
butter cup. That's the classic go to peanut butter cup.
You can't go wrong with the Reese's peanut butter cup.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
The solid Yeah, like we said last weekend, give us
the big Reese's pieces cup, but charges for the small one.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Speaking of food, foody fun, there's a food hack that
people are using to fall asleep faster. Do you see this?
Which food people are eating to fall asleep faster?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Alligator?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Alligator? That's a great answer, it's actually donkey eating. No,
the correct answer is pineapple. Pineapple's started on TikTok. Of course,
everything starts on TikTok, and it's one of the life
tricks that has popped up there. And the claim is
that this is a hack that will help you fall
(29:43):
asleep in mere minutes. I think this is likely bullshit,
but I don't know. I have trouble falling asleep. I
can't shut my mind off. They claim that pineapple before
bed fall helps you fall asleep. Eating pineapple before bed,
we'll get you to sleep much quicker. There's a little
(30:05):
bit of a trick here, and you trick yourself into
getting the best sleep ever. Pineapple after dinner, try it
with coconut whipped cream. Well, that sounds pretty good, And
I don't know, like they claimed, the science on this
backs it up. There was a study done years ago
(30:26):
that said certain fruits like pineapple, bananas, and oranges one
at a time would help like a wash out period,
transitioning between fruits until blah blah blah blah blah. But
they said that it boosted the the melatonin levels. Supposedly
(30:47):
the pineapple, it boosted the melatonin levels two hundred and
sixty six percent. I don't know. That seems like maybe
I should mix more pineapple. Might have to try it
because I do have trouble fall asleep. But I don't
eat that much. That's the problem, daty, I don't eat that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
There's that old story too that you know your wife
will ask you to eat a little more pineapple.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe that's how people go to sleep,
not from the fruit, but from what happens after dessert.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, they might get that pineapple flavor one way or another.
Here you well, McDonald's you're a fan of the mcflurry
spoon at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
The spoon is cool, the mcflurry is just okay, well
they're going away soccer. It's because they're hard plastic.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, well yeah they Originally it was the plastic straw.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It was like a straw spoon, right, it was a combo.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, well, the mcflurry because, as you mentioned, Danny, we
cannot have nice things. We cannot have nice things. But
the mcflurry and McDonald's people getting rid of the the
the current spoon and mcflury. I mean, there's a there's
(32:12):
a couple of nuggets here, but essentially it comes down
to a plastic issue, and so they're they're chopping. So
I guess you can't have the mcflury then if you
don't have the spoon. McDonald's says it's part of the
chain's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Because as long
as McDonald's reduces the emissions, I think we're all better,
(32:33):
right the fact that China, Russia, India are just pumping
out emissions, but McDonald's will make it better for the
whole world there. But yeah, it's it's the spoon, the
Talow doubles as like a spindle.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, I noticed some of the frozen yogurt shops
that used to give out the nice hard plastic spoons,
they're doing the same thing. They're ditching those. How are
we supposed to steer utensils from places now?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
It says mcflury going forward will now have a smaller
black spoon that uses much less plastic. Racist much less plastic.
So congratulations, you're you're helping fix the world with a
crappy spoon. Now, can you hoard the it's plastic so
(33:24):
it'll last forever. So could you just get a bunch
of mcflury spoons before they get rid of them, and
then you can keep them and I don't think they
would wash very well, but you know it'd last a
while if you get enough of them. Right.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh yeah, we have a drawer that's filled with yogurt
Land spoons.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Oh, very nice. That's very kind of yogurt Land to
give you some spoons. Panda Express is testing some new
dim some bites now at the past Sadina location here,
So there isn't it. Didn't Panda Express start in Pasadena?
(34:08):
I think they did. Actually, I think their first they've
got let's see here they're gonna have. The menu includes
lobster and shrimp dumplings, mini chicken wantans, apple pie roll
that sounds pretty good, fried crispy fried rolled pastry filled
with juicy apple and fall spices and dusted with sweet cinnamon.
(34:30):
I did that, and then they got a bunch of
other random, random things. There's being sold individually on the
location on Foothill Boulevard there in Pasadenas.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, and you're right, they're first of the restaurant chain
opened up at Panda Inn in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, because I actually went to the original location. I
just happened to be in Pasadena for something other than that.
We drove by it. I was like, Wow, that's like
a sit down nice Panda Express. Well that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, here's one of your favorite restaurants, Danny. I know
you'll be going to get this. Arby's announcing they are
getting into the fried mac and Cheese bites. New fried
mac and cheese bites from Arby's.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Oh boil. Those sound delicious unless they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Here's a we'll get out on this Trader Joe's Trader
Joe's apparently an item that is blowing up. People love it.
It is amazing, either for breakfast or as a dessert.
Trader Joe's devotees claiming that sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes
(35:40):
are the way to go. These look amazing. I guess
this must be a new item. I've never seen these
at Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That sounds good.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, they look really good. Chewy, flaky dough filled with
gooey cinnamon sugar filling. And they say the dough is
it's got the proper amount of chewiness.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
What are they called?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
They are called sweet cinnamon filled Korean pancakes. That's quite
the name. And yeah, they look they look good. They
look solid. You can prepare the pancakes coming to a
Comeford to a box according to this, and they have
all the obviously the ingredients and all that. I really
care about that. But it doesn't take long to cook
(36:26):
and looks pretty good. I could see that with a
nice scoop of vanilla ice cream as a dessert, and
I might. I might have to pick those up. My
wife loves breakfast foods. I don't eat breakfast because I'm
usually sleeping when breakfast is traditionally served, so I might
have to go with that. Anyway. It is Friday, We've
already gone longer than we played Danny yet again. Ye
(36:47):
that's late plans of mice men and podcasters. I have
a little going on, a little going on today. I'm
going to try to regroup from a very hectic week.
What are you up to Danny today? You got you're
doing the regular double header action. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
After I produce this podcast, I'll get in my car
drive to Sherman Oaks, California. What is the fancy place
right above us on the hill? Oh, bell Air, Well
Air bordering bell Air, California, where the Fresh Princes live.
We're going to be doing the Friday edition of The
Covino and Rich Show, having a lot of fun from
two to four pm on the West Side. That's five
(37:25):
to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
All right, and enjoy that, and please if you are
able to do it, if you have access to it,
you have Direct TV or Fubo TV, or you happen
to live in a market the show is on. I
would really love for you to watch the TV show
Benny Versus The Penny New Times this weekend because of
the NBA. So I am excited, Danny. I would rather
be on after the NBA games than before because I
(37:52):
know at sports bars all over Boston and Chicago tonight
they're going to be stuck looking at my ugly mug
when they just leave the TV on. And so we'll
have new people that experience the show, which I'm really
excited about.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
So, and the closed captioning will be on a lot
of the screens. Yeah, read your bad jokes with Looney.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, well it's mostly Looney's Looney's bad jokes. It's mostly
mostly Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Friday. We
got fresh podcast Saturday and Sunday, and we'll catch you
next time.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
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