March 2, 2024 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-skillet Danny G. have a fun Saturday for you! They're talking: Wendy's Backlash, Buc-ee's Baller, Bad Officiating, Hairy Situation, Phrase of the Week, & more! Buc-ee's
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House 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.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g not
the original recipe of the podcast. See the weekend podcast
is extra crunchry. It's got a little extra crunch to
it on the weekends. But we are here hanging out
on a Saturday, the second day of March, as the
we've already moved in to day two. It's azing that
(00:54):
usually happens after day one, as we've got you covered
all well, at least for the next half hour or
so on the podcast celebrating National Banana Cream Pie Day,
which is the king of the pie. That's the king
of the pie.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Nanny.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I used to think I was naive as a child.
I thought that the apple pie was the king of
the pie. But a properly made banana cream pie is amazing.
And there's the greatest banana cream pie has actually a
little diner in Manhattan, which is a few blocks away
from my brother's place. And it's not they're not even
known for the banana cream pie. But it was amazing.
It was the perfect amount of banana mixed with the crunch,
(01:31):
and then you've got the of the what do you
call the cross, and then you've got the cream on top.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Perfect. Have you ever had it where they put the
vanilla wafers around it as a crust almost, I've only
had that a few times, but yeah, that's pretty good.
I would put that pie number two on my big board,
behind a really nice homemade peach cobbler on my peach
cobbler lists.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, well, yeah, we can agree to disagree on that.
I'm not against peach cobbler, but it's not in my
top three pie. What banana cream pie is like a
country miles like Secretariat ahead and then you got the
like I like apple, but there's like there's different kinds
of apple, right, there's the kind is kind of pluffy
apple or puffed up apple.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
What is that called? The is that like there's two
different versions of her three different versions.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Of apple pie. But I like apple pie. That's my
number two, and then number three rotates. I like a
rotation for number three depends on my mood. What I
want for number three. Sometimes I go a lemon merang,
which is not I don't know if that accounts, but
it's too light off.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's a problem there. I don't think that would be
in many people's top five.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, no, I've seen it. The number three rotates wrong.
You know, strawberry I've had a strawberry pie. That's rare.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's not a popular pie. That's not mainstream.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Peacan pie. I like pecan pie. Pretty good Peacan pie.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's so sweet. Yeah, it's a pie. It's supposed to
be sweet. It's not supposed to make you run to
get a glass of milk after one bite.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, some of us don't drink milk, you know. We
just drink water or juice or something else, juice.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
With the big gone bite.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Why, now, I'm surprised you don't have diabetes.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, I don't eat very often, so I I picked
my swots, but I was headed down that road.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm shit. But anyway, on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This podcast, we've got the BUCkies baller bad officiating, a
hairy situation, and I know there'll be some other surprises
along the way. We might even have the phrase of
the week and whatnot and all that. But before we
get into it, I did want to address something we
talked about on the Friday podcast, Dan, and you brought
this to my attention from earlier in the week, and
(03:40):
I I've seen this thing going around.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's got a lot of traction.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh yeah, that the people over there at Windy's, the
fast food establishment, Wendy's, have decided to gouge their customers
with surge pricing, as you pointed out. And the reaction
to this, Danny, I've been paying attention. You brought to
my attention. So I started snooping around a little bit,
(04:04):
and there is tremendous pushback, tremendous social media.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was like somebody shook up a social media ant farm.
There's been lots of hashtag boycott Wendy's online.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, it's one thing if you're uber, and it's you
got rush hour traffic and you say, all right, we're
gonna charge.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
A little more. I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Usually what I'll do is if I go to I'll
do uber and Lyft and whoever's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't know. It's to me, it's the same. I
don't care, So I'll just go to whoever's cheaper. I mean,
that's what most people do.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And in the case of Wendy's, the backlash has just
been tremendous.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It's like one thing, you know, the airline screw us over,
the car services screw us over. But you cannot screw
up the Frosty game. You can't do it. And we're
out and I we'll see how Windy's response. We'll see
what they end up doing here in the coming days
and weeks, whether they put their tail between their legs
(05:07):
and walk away. But Windy did attempt to clarify their intentions,
which is a nice way of saying, well, it's not
as bad as you think. It's a they're calling it
dynamic pricing. Yeah, a bunch of losers. Yeah, call it greed.
Call it what it is. There's nothing dynamic about it, right,
You want more money from your customers because there's a
(05:30):
line at the drive to So imagine if in and
out Burger did this, they'd always have surge pricing. There
is never like I go by Wendy's sometimes there's a Windy's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
New where I live.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There's never anybody there, right, There's like maybe once or
twice a day. I go to In and Out Burger.
They're lined up down the block and around the corner.
So it's always surge pricing and in and Out Burger.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And there was a little bit of confusion with this
story too, because some people took to x Twitter and
they said, oh, off hours, I'm gonna go get a
frosty for thirty one cents. Lol. No, that's not how
this is gonna work. They're not gonna reward us as
customers for going during off hours. They're gonna stick it
(06:12):
to us with the regular high menu price at normal times.
Only when the restaurant traffic is busy is when they're
gonna up the price to who knows what, So what
you're gonna pay for a twenty dollars burger during the
lunch rush. No, you Wendy's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, they're claiming like they're well, they're using it's weasel terminology, right.
They're not saying sir, they're saying, as we said, dynamic pricing.
And they said that they've gone through both models and
all that. I look, they put all those legal easy, Like, well,
there's a range of factors that they're involved in the
price of the food. What is that The manager of
(06:50):
the Windy's looks out the window and there's like five
cars in line instead of one or none, and they're like,
all right, we're gonna raise the price of that shit
and sandwich.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
One person tweeted, Oh wait, now for lunch, I'm gonna
have to call ahead to Wendy's with a bomb threat
in order to get my lunch.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's ridiculous. Really, well, you know, they said, I was
reading one of the reviews on this. They said, well,
you know, twelve dollars a regular combo meal, but it
would be you know, it would be a little more.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We attack on a little little extra here. Thirteen dollars
is already too much. That Wendy's Burger has already shrunk
in the past few years. The fry stink. Now, the
frosty is still a good product, but I'm not gonna
go pay fifteen sixteen dollars for something that should be
nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, and there's a couple factors that are in our
favor on this because I don't eat it Wendy's much.
I've eaten there in years, to be honest with Yeah,
but back in my big eating days, I was a
regular at Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I was there two or three times a week.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I got the chicken sandwich combo, and I got the nuggets,
and then sometimes I get the frosty.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, you're an unofficial taste tester. Yeah, I mean I
love that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I never really got into the burgers at Wendy's, the
square burgers.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I always went with the chicken. I actually like Wendy's burgers.
I like the way the bread, the meat and the
cheese and their bacon all squished together. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I just fell in love with the chicken sandwich Wendy's.
And I remember a story. Somebody told me that Dave Thomas,
the guy that founded Wendy's, had worked with the guy
from KFC. So it was like the same quality of
chicken or whatever. It was like they were known for
their chick like Dave Thomas. Maybe I'm talking about my
ass boy, speaking of Dave Thomas, what would he think
(08:33):
of this? Oh, Dave Thomas is rolling rolling over in
his grave right now. How dare them?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So you got the public backlash. There's a couple of
other things here. You've got Wall Street, right, if this
affects the sales of Wendy's food, then that you got
the stock market people that will chime in and say, hey,
wait a minute. You know you're a big court company.
This is part of a big company. This is not good.
But you also have I wouldn't be shocked if the
FTC gets involved in this, the Federal Trade Commission, because
(09:01):
I did read something somewhat recently about Amazon facing the FTC.
There's a lawsuit accusing them of unfair practices and it
involves Amazon has been doing this with their the price
of products, which makes no sense to me, but they
they've ended up raising prices apparently that's the accusation. Anyway,
(09:23):
They've raised prices at certain times and overcharged sellers as well.
They prevented them from lowering prices.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So there's.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
There's a possibly the government, which you know, all we
need is bureaucracy, to get involved in that. But I
stand with the fast food and as we pointed out
Danny in a previous episode of the show, the one
thing about fast food restaurants you almost never find one
fast food restaurant. You find a cluster of fast food restaurant,
it's not going to find like a Windy's by itself
(09:55):
on an island. You're going to find a Windy's, and
then maybe they'll be like a Burger King, which you
know I pick fans of. But Arby's your favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You love Arby's.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You took the family there, did the famous Arby's review
on the podcast and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So you say have some money laundering operation? Is that
your theory? Yeah, because I still don't know anybody who
eats at an Arby's. I mean I remember as a kid,
we'd go in there and get those weird beef sandwiches
or whatever they're no or with the with that weird
melted cheese on the weird meat. But the Arby's I
see around us here in this area of LA there's
(10:33):
never anybody there. So I just figure it's a front
for a drug lord. That's reasonable.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I used to eat at Arby's a lot many years ago,
and I would when I lived even as an adult.
I lived in Hollywood and there was an Arby's on
I think it was on Sunset, which is still there.
I was, I was in Hollywood the other day, and
there's an Arby's still there. And here's here's an interesting
question and very difficult to answer. What is thinner, Danny
(11:00):
the Rby's roast beef or the toilet paper at a
truck stop?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know that? Really thin? Yeah, one ply toilet paper.
It's really neck and neck. You mentioned government a few
minutes ago, and to take a full star away from
our podcast rating, let's get into that for a second.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No, No, stay away from the politics, Ma Mana, that's
a third rail.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Someone's gonna get triggered through. I liked your show, but
you mentioned Blake, Ma Maya. This is what happened to
podcast when Gagon was doing it. Look, I'm not a
fan of big government controlling everything in our lives, but
this is one instance where I would like a leader
to step up and say, you know what, I have kids,
(11:46):
just like most of Americans do you. I'm not gonna
let this happen on my watch, shrinking the product and
screwing the average American who does not get a cost
of living rays each year. When's the last time any
of us got raises from our jobs. This would be
a different conversation if all of us got regular raises
(12:09):
to amend things for the cost of living. That's not happening.
Everything around us is shooting way up in price. Because
the argument here could be like, well, don't go to
fast food, just cook at home, all right, bastard, go
to the grocery store and get two bags of groceries
for your family. That's two hundred bucks. So there's no
easy way out with this. We're not getting raises at
(12:30):
our jobs. So one government official who's in a high
spot needs to step up for all of us right
now and put their foot down.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Well, and what ends up happening is the politicians will
say something. Joe Biden, if I'm not mistaken, he talked
about how he was going to do something to end
resort fees. Nice place, and they said, well, there's a
resort fee and they tack that. Of of course they don't
advertise that that's a tack on ad on fee, and
he said he was going to take care of that.
(12:57):
I've been to Vegas a bunch. I I'm I'm still
paying resort fees. There's nothing has happened. Now, you say
something to get votes, and then you get somebody sends
you some money in.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The mail and then you're like, Okay, I forget about that.
I'll move on. Yeah, something else. But the big question
is will we ever have a politician in our life
who sticks to what they say and actually does something
for a positive change in our lives, so that we
could maybe, I don't know, live the American dream. I
don't know about you, Ben, but that's been far out
(13:28):
of our reach for years and years, and it just
seems like things are getting worse.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, and the way the establishment is, right, the establishment,
you would say, if you came in as an outsider,
I mean, look, we saw what happened with Trump. As
an outsider, you got attacked by everybody, right, all the
establishment and all that. And if you have somebody as
an outside, it's gonna be after somebody young, I would think, right,
that can captivate people, but most of the people that
(13:54):
vote are old.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah. So well, we talked about this last weekend that
it would either take a change in the way these
parties all operate. I don't know, maybe an independent who
could get both sides to kind of split the difference
down the middle. I don't know what it's gonna take,
but I'm just wondering for the sake of Koha my
kid down the road, is he going to be able
(14:15):
to get a job where he actually can afford to
be middle class? Yeah? What what is that? What is
middle class? Like?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
How much do you have to make? Do you have
to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be considered?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Dude? Nowadays where we live, it's three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to be middle class. Yeah, it's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Anyway, all right, does that end the political part of
the podcast?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We know, I don't think I don't think that's very political.
Well we're Yeah, what we're talking about is more like
full sense, Yeah, common sense and for the good of
our country. I mean it would As sports fans, we
all discussed and debated this when we got peacocked on
that playoff game, and and this this is kind of
(15:00):
in that same category, but worse because you know, it's
a luxury to watch sports and stream all these different
services that we have monthly. It shouldn't be a privilege
just eat normal food throughout the month, and our grocery
bills right now, Ben, with three kids, we're dying right now.
(15:20):
I mean, we just don't know. It took us five
months to save up for a one week trip, and
a lot of the reason why we can't save any
money right now is because of our grocery bills.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, it's insane. Well, may I recommend Danny intermitute fasting.
Just tell the kids to eat one meal every other
day and you'll be back to where you were right
And then when they raise prices again, just tell them
never to eat again.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Just fast all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And you'll be good to go. I wanted to turn
the page. I did want to think there was a
listener from Donna, Texas. I'd never heard of Donna, Texas.
It's in the southern part of Texas, right near the
Mexican border.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's a border town. Yeah, it's a little little small
town in Texas. And uh, listener.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And I apologize in advance if I'm getting this wrong.
I'm trying to remember. I don't have the package that
is that was sent, but I think the guy's name
was Jose from Donna, Texas. If not, I humbly apologize.
You can email me and call me a jackass and.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I will correct that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
But he has he has made me this listener from Donna,
Texas a Bucky baller. Now, have you ever been to BUCkies,
the famous gas station truck stop in Texas and all
over the South.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Have you ever been there?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, but I know about it thanks to you. Yes,
I have heard about BUCkies. I saw a documentary on
I don't know YouTuber it was. There was a YouTuber
influencers that were somehow I popped popped on my feed
and they were at this BUCkies the world's biggest convenience
store or whatever. It was the largest convenience store in
the world. And whatnot, which I don't think is I
(16:59):
think the new record is actually in Tennessee by a
BUCkies location in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The one in Texas now is not. They don't have
the record anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What I saw, but this thing is like seventy four
thousand square.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Feet for a convenience store. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But so anyway, this guy call Jose from Donna, Texas.
He sent in a Buckis gift package and very nice.
I got a little shirt, I got a snack item
from BUCkies. Now BUCkies it was started. I looked this up.
I want to know more about BUCkies. That the nickname
(17:37):
of the founder was arch Beaver Applin and because of that,
BUCkies Beaver well, it was a form of his childhood
name Beaver and the name of his labradors dog, Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So that's that's how that worked there. And these things
are open all that's like, you know, we have seven.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
To eleven, which is national chain, BUCkies of regional chain,
and they're open all all hours, all days and all
that stuff, and mostly in Texas, but they have spread out.
They're in Alabama, there's locations all over the South, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky,
and South Carolina. So I'm I'm gonna have to go
to South Carolina. When I'm in South Carolina later this year,
(18:22):
I'm gonna find a BUCkies. That's gonna be on my
to do list. And the people I'm with will say,
what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Why?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Why do you need to stop at a convenience store?
And they also have the record for the world's longest car.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wash at BUCkies, they have.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
The the largest number of gas pumps to choose from.
So there's there's that. The food's supposedly amazing. Now what
I got in the mail from our friend in Donna, Texas,
was beaver nuggets. That's that's what we got there, which
is you know what it is. It's like, don't it's
(19:00):
not what you think it's. It's it's like popcorn or no,
it's not even it is like corn puffs with like
caramel sugar on it. Oh okay, And that is according
to the Internet, that is the number one product that
that is the most popular snack item at BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So beavers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I have not eating them yet because I haven't been
doing a lot of fast thing. I might eat them
later today and I can report back. But BUCkies when
they open, they were known for bathrooms, clean bathrooms, and
cheap ice, which is really all you need to do
if you're a truck stop, not a truck stop, but
a comedian store. Clean bathrooms, ice, that's good to go.
So anyway, that was my Bucky ballers. I like the
(19:39):
shirt though it's got the beaver logo. So I during
the day, you know, I slum around, I've got nothing
going on, so I wear different shirts around the house,
and the Buckies' shirt is in my rotation. I have
a three shirt rotation. I have the now I have
the added the Bucky shirt. I have a shirt that
Rob Parker gave me from his podcast It's Time for
(20:01):
Trash A great Rob Parker. And I also have from
Moving Man Matt, our guy in Boston. He sent me
which is my favorite shirt, is very comfortable, long sleeve
moving Man Matt.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I don't know if you listen to.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
The pod or not, but yeah, that's that is a
solid shirt and it's got the name of his moving company.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So I would like to call out bad officiating Danny
as we flip the pod. Bad officiating. This bad officiating
took place on the radio show. Okay, so I brought
in I thought you to go sporting on us. No, God,
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Come out. We did politics.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You think I can do No, I can't do the sports.
So the bad officiating was on the show. So I
had made some cookies. I think we talked about this.
I don't know in the previous episode. But last weekend
I had a buddy of mine come in from Texas
and it doesn't come out very often, and I've known
this guy since elementary school. The only friend I have
(20:56):
from elementary school, my longest standard you know, a statue friend.
So we hung out in the playgrounds back in the
day and I were both middle aged dudes. And and
he lives in Dallas, and so he comes out to CA.
He comes out to California a lot. Uh, well, I
said a lot. You know, once a year maybe, but
sometimes I don't see him because he's got other things
going on. So he was gonna stay at the Mallard
(21:16):
mansion for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So I went in. I made some peanut brittle, I made.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Some some cookies and then Eddie was like, hey, I
I want one of those cookies.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And I said, well, okay, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So I had a few left at three left right,
so I brought I brought the cookies in peanut butter
chocolate chip bakery style peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And
these things came out pretty good. It's hard to f
up a cookie. It is difficult to f one up.
But I've been like an artisan. This is my hobby.
On the weekends, I futz around in the kitchen and
(21:52):
try to master the different recipes that I found and
put together and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I made the cookies. He's like, I want what
So I find it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And the other night I brought them in, and I
had three cookies that were left to bring in.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So I brought the cookies in.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You know, fun Storm, that's what you did, you bring
And then I was like, well wait a minute. Lorena
was training and she was in that night, so now
we had a math problem.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So now we.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Had I brought three cookies because I assumed the regular
crew was going to be there, Eddie, Coop and Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And Lorena might be skinny, but she eats like a
truck driver. Yeah, she's got that good. Uh what's the
term I'm looking for here? The metabolism. Metabolism, Yes, that's
the words she's got that. If I had that, oh
my god. Yeah, not be fast. She's one of those
people where she keeps telling me I'm trying to gain
ten pounds, it's really hard. I'm like, follow me around,
(22:49):
I'll show you how to do that easily.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I definitely know how to gain weight the massive anyway,
So she was there training, So then I had three
cookies for four people.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Coop wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
He got sick, I mean, so we had in his
place we had lead a lap and he was sous.
I don't mind giving the cookie to lead you Lee's there,
and I was Sam, But what do I do with Loraina?
So anyway, we figured it out, gave the cookies out, Iowa,
Sam and Lorena split.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The cookie and uh.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then we went to the judges' scorecards. And if you
listen to the live overnight show this week, the radio show,
they all said how great the cookie was, but nobody
gave me a ten. Pissed off about that, Dan, that's
bad officiating. That was a ten peanut butter chocolate chip
cookie bakery style, thick and gooey and you know a
(23:39):
little a little bit of not a crunch, but you know,
thickness on the outside and chewy miss on the inside,
chewy gooey ooeye fun.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And I did not get a ten. It's a bad
job by Eddie.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's a bad job by Iowa, Sam, Uh, Lorena and
and also.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Lead a lap Shame on them. So I just want
to I just want to complain about that. Phil feel
like there was a drop in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Probably chewey gooey ooey fun. Well, speaking of Lorraina, though
she made me very self conscious this week, so she's
training to replace I was Sam and and so she's
she's been there randomly and kind of learn how we
do the Overnight show and stuff like that, which is fine,
you know, it's it's not brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And so she's in there and I don't really know her.
I'm kind of getting to know her. I've seen her
a few times in the hallways, but we don't really
know each other.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And saw the whole cookie thing and she brings up
on the airs like do you have cats?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I'm like, no, I don't have cats. I mean
I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And then I looked down and I saw that the
shirt I was wearing had I put two and two
like a light bulb one on them.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, so the shirt I was wearing had I had
this like like kind of fur on it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It was like some's in your throat right now? Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
So my dog Luigi, the mix between a.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Pug and a French bull dog.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He's a shitter. I bet oh big time. And I've
never had a dog that sheds ever. I mean, I
just I don't let me take that back. I've had
dogs that shed, but not nearly as much as Luigi.
This dog is just spitting hair everywhere.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
The dog goes.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But what had happened here, because I didn't even hang
out with Luigi the day of this event the radio show.
So I've determined it's very hairy situation here. That the laundry.
My wife usually handles the laundry.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I do the dishes.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And so my wife had put some of the clothes
down on one of the chairs in the living room,
and before she could put them away, she kind of
left them there for a little bit. Luigi decided he
wanted to roll around in the clothes, and I guess
she didn't notice it, but I, of course, I was
in a hurry to get to have a long drive.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Very long drive. The company wants me to come in.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I thank them for that, and so I drive in
and it takes a long time to get there, so
I might kind.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Of in a hurry, and I grabbed the shirt and
I didn't really look at it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I figured it's it's hung up, it's probably clean, nothing
to worry about there, and yeah, so then I was.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Like kind of self conscious to the rest of the night.
I was like, man, may you misthink.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm like like a pig or something like that, right,
But I mean it was an honest mistake, Daddy, It's
an honest mistake. I mean, I didn't realize. Maybe I
should have looked at it when I when I put
it on.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But I just like, h I gotta go get it
out of here. There was a time, Big Ben where
I had just started dating this fine young lady from
Westlake Village and I went over to her house. She
lived with a roommate in a nice house and they
had pets. She had a dog, and a roommate had
like a cat and a dog, so there are three
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pets running around this house. And I went over. They
invited me over for a game night, and like that game.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Night's a big night. That's a that's a step, that's
a step, stepping stone.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah right. We hadn't even hooked up like that yet,
maybe made out or something, but hadn't gone all the way.
So what am I in junior high? So you know,
game night ends and I'm like, thank god, man, I
hate this stupid board game that they were playing. She's like,
why don't you come into my bedroom and let's hang out.
(27:18):
And I'm like yeah. I go into her bedroom and
the first thing I see she had the stairs, the
doggy stairs, next to her bed. Okay, and then she says, oh,
sit down on the bed next to me. And I
sat down ben and her dog was white. There was
this white fur, like a coating on her comforter of
(27:40):
white fur. Oh boy. I carefully maneuvered myself. And of course,
as a Raiders fan, what color do you think I
was wearing? Of course you had the black. Yeah. I
had black jeans on. I had probably a Raider shirt
and like a nice new Raider shirt on. It was
during football season. I was representing. I was very careful though,
and I like down next to her on her bed
(28:01):
and we talked, and then I you know, we said
our good night, our goodbye. I leave and I needed
to stop at the gas station to get some gas.
I'll never forget this. I get out of my car,
grab the pump, start pumping gas, and I happened to
look down from my ankle all the way up to
my chest. I looked like a muppet I had. I
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was just covered in white fur.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Ear.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean you know those rollers, yeah yeah, oh no,
five of those rollers wouldn't have been enough. Immediately, go home,
take a hot shower, throw all those clothes into the
washing machine. Right away and I never went to her
house again. It was just gross. So yeah, I understand,
I understand how you could feel some shame on that. Yeah,
(28:51):
I felt like pig pin And I'm like, I'm not
like you.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I usually you know, I'm not. I'm not terrible. There
were worse people when it comes to grooming than me.
I'm not the king of grooming, but.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
A shower regularly. Bet you've never seen you walk around
with fur on you before?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
No, No, that was of all the days to have
Luigi to pick the one shirt covered in Luigi hair,
that was the day. Why don't we get out on thee?
Did the word of the week yesterday, So I think
what we should do today is the do you think
you're the idiom of the week or the phrase of
(29:26):
the week.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We should do here? Phrase of the week sounds good?
Does that sound good? Yeah? The phrase of the week.
The phrase of the week. All right.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The phrase of the week is something that we all use.
Kill time, right, kill time, right pastime? You know, I
gotta kill some time. Man, I'm killing people. Listen to
this podcast to kill time, right, they're bored.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
This is a great This is a great phrase. Covino
talked about this the past couple of days on the
Afternoon Show, how he needed to kill twelve hours because
he's flying to Japan. Oh wow, yeah, he really needs
to kill time.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
The phrase kill time it actually goes back to ancient
times and in the olden times, people had a lot
of leisure time between tasks that they had to do,
between work assignments, and they would often do what we
do today. They'd have different technology, obviously when they play games,
and they'd have different recreational activities to pass the time.
(30:29):
But one of the things that they used involved using
small sticks to mark the actual passing minutes on the ground,
and so they they would await the completion of task,
the you know, or the arrival of some big event
that they were having in ancient times, and they would
playfully kill time by they'd arrange these sticks or markers
(30:53):
into different patterns. They kind of play games, and that
was the entertainment. And over time the practice evolved into
the expression, the figurative expression of kill time, which is
symbolizing the act of obviously engaging in activities to pass
idle moments or periods where you're waiting for something to happen.
The earliest recorded instance of the phrase time to kill
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dates back to fifteen ninety all the way back to
fifteen nineties, so that phrase kill time has been around
for a while.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is Saturday. What do you got going on? I
got nothing going on today. I'm just kind of hanging
out today, not much going on. What are you got
going on? I am packing my bags and just kind
of doing a checklist of things because we are taking
baby CoA on his first flight. We leave out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I am right, And will you would tell us more
about that?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Are you gonna save that for later? I will save
that for the Sunday Morning podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
All right, we'll find out. You see, that's a that's
a cliffhanger. You'll have to wait for the Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Night is a professional radio teas look at that? All right?
Very good, have a great rest of your day today.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Thank you for following this podcast telling friends about it,
and we'll catch you in next time later.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Skater bo Fulation
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House 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.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g not
the original recipe of the podcast. See the weekend podcast
is extra crunchry. It's got a little extra crunch to
it on the weekends. But we are here hanging out
on a Saturday, the second day of March, as the
we've already moved in to day two. It's azing that
(00:54):
usually happens after day one, as we've got you covered
all well, at least for the next half hour or
so on the podcast celebrating National Banana Cream Pie Day,
which is the king of the pie. That's the king
of the pie.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Nanny.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I used to think I was naive as a child.
I thought that the apple pie was the king of
the pie. But a properly made banana cream pie is amazing.
And there's the greatest banana cream pie has actually a
little diner in Manhattan, which is a few blocks away
from my brother's place. And it's not they're not even
known for the banana cream pie. But it was amazing.
It was the perfect amount of banana mixed with the crunch,
(01:31):
and then you've got the of the what do you
call the cross, and then you've got the cream on top.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Perfect. Have you ever had it where they put the
vanilla wafers around it as a crust almost, I've only
had that a few times, but yeah, that's pretty good.
I would put that pie number two on my big board,
behind a really nice homemade peach cobbler on my peach
cobbler lists.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, well, yeah, we can agree to disagree on that.
I'm not against peach cobbler, but it's not in my
top three pie. What banana cream pie is like a
country miles like Secretariat ahead and then you got the
like I like apple, but there's like there's different kinds
of apple, right, there's the kind is kind of pluffy
apple or puffed up apple.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
What is that called? The is that like there's two
different versions of her three different versions.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Of apple pie. But I like apple pie. That's my
number two, and then number three rotates. I like a
rotation for number three depends on my mood. What I
want for number three. Sometimes I go a lemon merang,
which is not I don't know if that accounts, but
it's too light off.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's a problem there. I don't think that would be
in many people's top five.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, no, I've seen it. The number three rotates wrong.
You know, strawberry I've had a strawberry pie. That's rare.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's not a popular pie. That's not mainstream.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Peacan pie. I like pecan pie. Pretty good Peacan pie.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's so sweet. Yeah, it's a pie. It's supposed to
be sweet. It's not supposed to make you run to
get a glass of milk after one bite.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, some of us don't drink milk, you know. We
just drink water or juice or something else, juice.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
With the big gone bite.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Why, now, I'm surprised you don't have diabetes.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, I don't eat very often, so I I picked
my swots, but I was headed down that road.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm shit. But anyway, on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This podcast, we've got the BUCkies baller bad officiating, a
hairy situation, and I know there'll be some other surprises
along the way. We might even have the phrase of
the week and whatnot and all that. But before we
get into it, I did want to address something we
talked about on the Friday podcast, Dan, and you brought
this to my attention from earlier in the week, and
(03:40):
I I've seen this thing going around.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's got a lot of traction.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh yeah, that the people over there at Windy's, the
fast food establishment, Wendy's, have decided to gouge their customers
with surge pricing, as you pointed out. And the reaction
to this, Danny, I've been paying attention. You brought to
my attention. So I started snooping around a little bit,
(04:04):
and there is tremendous pushback, tremendous social media.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was like somebody shook up a social media ant farm.
There's been lots of hashtag boycott Wendy's online.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, it's one thing if you're uber, and it's you
got rush hour traffic and you say, all right, we're
gonna charge.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
A little more. I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Usually what I'll do is if I go to I'll
do uber and Lyft and whoever's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't know. It's to me, it's the same. I
don't care, So I'll just go to whoever's cheaper. I mean,
that's what most people do.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And in the case of Wendy's, the backlash has just
been tremendous.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It's like one thing, you know, the airline screw us over,
the car services screw us over. But you cannot screw
up the Frosty game. You can't do it. And we're
out and I we'll see how Windy's response. We'll see
what they end up doing here in the coming days
and weeks, whether they put their tail between their legs
(05:07):
and walk away. But Windy did attempt to clarify their intentions,
which is a nice way of saying, well, it's not
as bad as you think. It's a they're calling it
dynamic pricing. Yeah, a bunch of losers. Yeah, call it greed.
Call it what it is. There's nothing dynamic about it, right,
You want more money from your customers because there's a
(05:30):
line at the drive to So imagine if in and
out Burger did this, they'd always have surge pricing. There
is never like I go by Wendy's sometimes there's a Windy's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
New where I live.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There's never anybody there, right, There's like maybe once or
twice a day. I go to In and Out Burger.
They're lined up down the block and around the corner.
So it's always surge pricing and in and Out Burger.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And there was a little bit of confusion with this
story too, because some people took to x Twitter and
they said, oh, off hours, I'm gonna go get a
frosty for thirty one cents. Lol. No, that's not how
this is gonna work. They're not gonna reward us as
customers for going during off hours. They're gonna stick it
(06:12):
to us with the regular high menu price at normal times.
Only when the restaurant traffic is busy is when they're
gonna up the price to who knows what, So what
you're gonna pay for a twenty dollars burger during the
lunch rush. No, you Wendy's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, they're claiming like they're well, they're using it's weasel terminology, right.
They're not saying sir, they're saying, as we said, dynamic pricing.
And they said that they've gone through both models and
all that. I look, they put all those legal easy, Like, well,
there's a range of factors that they're involved in the
price of the food. What is that The manager of
(06:50):
the Windy's looks out the window and there's like five
cars in line instead of one or none, and they're like,
all right, we're gonna raise the price of that shit
and sandwich.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
One person tweeted, Oh wait, now for lunch, I'm gonna
have to call ahead to Wendy's with a bomb threat
in order to get my lunch.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's ridiculous. Really, well, you know, they said, I was
reading one of the reviews on this. They said, well,
you know, twelve dollars a regular combo meal, but it
would be you know, it would be a little more.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We attack on a little little extra here. Thirteen dollars
is already too much. That Wendy's Burger has already shrunk
in the past few years. The fry stink. Now, the
frosty is still a good product, but I'm not gonna
go pay fifteen sixteen dollars for something that should be
nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, and there's a couple factors that are in our
favor on this because I don't eat it Wendy's much.
I've eaten there in years, to be honest with Yeah,
but back in my big eating days, I was a
regular at Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I was there two or three times a week.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I got the chicken sandwich combo, and I got the nuggets,
and then sometimes I get the frosty.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, you're an unofficial taste tester. Yeah, I mean I
love that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I never really got into the burgers at Wendy's, the
square burgers.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I always went with the chicken. I actually like Wendy's burgers.
I like the way the bread, the meat and the
cheese and their bacon all squished together. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I just fell in love with the chicken sandwich Wendy's.
And I remember a story. Somebody told me that Dave Thomas,
the guy that founded Wendy's, had worked with the guy
from KFC. So it was like the same quality of
chicken or whatever. It was like they were known for
their chick like Dave Thomas. Maybe I'm talking about my
ass boy, speaking of Dave Thomas, what would he think
(08:33):
of this? Oh, Dave Thomas is rolling rolling over in
his grave right now. How dare them?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So you got the public backlash. There's a couple of
other things here. You've got Wall Street, right, if this
affects the sales of Wendy's food, then that you got
the stock market people that will chime in and say, hey,
wait a minute. You know you're a big court company.
This is part of a big company. This is not good.
But you also have I wouldn't be shocked if the
FTC gets involved in this, the Federal Trade Commission, because
(09:01):
I did read something somewhat recently about Amazon facing the FTC.
There's a lawsuit accusing them of unfair practices and it
involves Amazon has been doing this with their the price
of products, which makes no sense to me, but they
they've ended up raising prices apparently that's the accusation. Anyway,
(09:23):
They've raised prices at certain times and overcharged sellers as well.
They prevented them from lowering prices.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So there's.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
There's a possibly the government, which you know, all we
need is bureaucracy, to get involved in that. But I
stand with the fast food and as we pointed out
Danny in a previous episode of the show, the one
thing about fast food restaurants you almost never find one
fast food restaurant. You find a cluster of fast food restaurant,
it's not going to find like a Windy's by itself
(09:55):
on an island. You're going to find a Windy's, and
then maybe they'll be like a Burger King, which you
know I pick fans of. But Arby's your favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You love Arby's.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You took the family there, did the famous Arby's review
on the podcast and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So you say have some money laundering operation? Is that
your theory? Yeah, because I still don't know anybody who
eats at an Arby's. I mean I remember as a kid,
we'd go in there and get those weird beef sandwiches
or whatever they're no or with the with that weird
melted cheese on the weird meat. But the Arby's I
see around us here in this area of LA there's
(10:33):
never anybody there. So I just figure it's a front
for a drug lord. That's reasonable.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I used to eat at Arby's a lot many years ago,
and I would when I lived even as an adult.
I lived in Hollywood and there was an Arby's on
I think it was on Sunset, which is still there.
I was, I was in Hollywood the other day, and
there's an Arby's still there. And here's here's an interesting
question and very difficult to answer. What is thinner, Danny
(11:00):
the Rby's roast beef or the toilet paper at a
truck stop?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know that? Really thin? Yeah, one ply toilet paper.
It's really neck and neck. You mentioned government a few
minutes ago, and to take a full star away from
our podcast rating, let's get into that for a second.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No, No, stay away from the politics, Ma Mana, that's
a third rail.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Someone's gonna get triggered through. I liked your show, but
you mentioned Blake, Ma Maya. This is what happened to
podcast when Gagon was doing it. Look, I'm not a
fan of big government controlling everything in our lives, but
this is one instance where I would like a leader
to step up and say, you know what, I have kids,
(11:46):
just like most of Americans do you. I'm not gonna
let this happen on my watch, shrinking the product and
screwing the average American who does not get a cost
of living rays each year. When's the last time any
of us got raises from our jobs. This would be
a different conversation if all of us got regular raises
(12:09):
to amend things for the cost of living. That's not happening.
Everything around us is shooting way up in price. Because
the argument here could be like, well, don't go to
fast food, just cook at home, all right, bastard, go
to the grocery store and get two bags of groceries
for your family. That's two hundred bucks. So there's no
easy way out with this. We're not getting raises at
(12:30):
our jobs. So one government official who's in a high
spot needs to step up for all of us right
now and put their foot down.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Well, and what ends up happening is the politicians will
say something. Joe Biden, if I'm not mistaken, he talked
about how he was going to do something to end
resort fees. Nice place, and they said, well, there's a
resort fee and they tack that. Of of course they don't
advertise that that's a tack on ad on fee, and
he said he was going to take care of that.
(12:57):
I've been to Vegas a bunch. I I'm I'm still
paying resort fees. There's nothing has happened. Now, you say
something to get votes, and then you get somebody sends
you some money in.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The mail and then you're like, Okay, I forget about that.
I'll move on. Yeah, something else. But the big question
is will we ever have a politician in our life
who sticks to what they say and actually does something
for a positive change in our lives, so that we
could maybe, I don't know, live the American dream. I
don't know about you, Ben, but that's been far out
(13:28):
of our reach for years and years, and it just
seems like things are getting worse.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, and the way the establishment is, right, the establishment,
you would say, if you came in as an outsider,
I mean, look, we saw what happened with Trump. As
an outsider, you got attacked by everybody, right, all the
establishment and all that. And if you have somebody as
an outside, it's gonna be after somebody young, I would think, right,
that can captivate people, but most of the people that
(13:54):
vote are old.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah. So well, we talked about this last weekend that
it would either take a change in the way these
parties all operate. I don't know, maybe an independent who
could get both sides to kind of split the difference
down the middle. I don't know what it's gonna take,
but I'm just wondering for the sake of Koha my
kid down the road, is he going to be able
(14:15):
to get a job where he actually can afford to
be middle class? Yeah? What what is that? What is
middle class? Like?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
How much do you have to make? Do you have
to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be considered?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Dude? Nowadays where we live, it's three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to be middle class. Yeah, it's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Anyway, all right, does that end the political part of
the podcast?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We know, I don't think I don't think that's very political.
Well we're Yeah, what we're talking about is more like
full sense, Yeah, common sense and for the good of
our country. I mean it would As sports fans, we
all discussed and debated this when we got peacocked on
that playoff game, and and this this is kind of
(15:00):
in that same category, but worse because you know, it's
a luxury to watch sports and stream all these different
services that we have monthly. It shouldn't be a privilege
just eat normal food throughout the month, and our grocery
bills right now, Ben, with three kids, we're dying right now.
(15:20):
I mean, we just don't know. It took us five
months to save up for a one week trip, and
a lot of the reason why we can't save any
money right now is because of our grocery bills.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, it's insane. Well, may I recommend Danny intermitute fasting.
Just tell the kids to eat one meal every other
day and you'll be back to where you were right
And then when they raise prices again, just tell them
never to eat again.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Just fast all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And you'll be good to go. I wanted to turn
the page. I did want to think there was a
listener from Donna, Texas. I'd never heard of Donna, Texas.
It's in the southern part of Texas, right near the
Mexican border.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's a border town. Yeah, it's a little little small
town in Texas. And uh, listener.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And I apologize in advance if I'm getting this wrong.
I'm trying to remember. I don't have the package that
is that was sent, but I think the guy's name
was Jose from Donna, Texas. If not, I humbly apologize.
You can email me and call me a jackass and.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I will correct that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
But he has he has made me this listener from Donna,
Texas a Bucky baller. Now, have you ever been to BUCkies,
the famous gas station truck stop in Texas and all
over the South.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Have you ever been there?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, but I know about it thanks to you. Yes,
I have heard about BUCkies. I saw a documentary on
I don't know YouTuber it was. There was a YouTuber
influencers that were somehow I popped popped on my feed
and they were at this BUCkies the world's biggest convenience
store or whatever. It was the largest convenience store in
the world. And whatnot, which I don't think is I
(16:59):
think the new record is actually in Tennessee by a
BUCkies location in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The one in Texas now is not. They don't have
the record anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What I saw, but this thing is like seventy four
thousand square.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Feet for a convenience store. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But so anyway, this guy call Jose from Donna, Texas.
He sent in a Buckis gift package and very nice.
I got a little shirt, I got a snack item
from BUCkies. Now BUCkies it was started. I looked this up.
I want to know more about BUCkies. That the nickname
(17:37):
of the founder was arch Beaver Applin and because of that,
BUCkies Beaver well, it was a form of his childhood
name Beaver and the name of his labradors dog, Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So that's that's how that worked there. And these things
are open all that's like, you know, we have seven.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
To eleven, which is national chain, BUCkies of regional chain,
and they're open all all hours, all days and all
that stuff, and mostly in Texas, but they have spread out.
They're in Alabama, there's locations all over the South, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky,
and South Carolina. So I'm I'm gonna have to go
to South Carolina. When I'm in South Carolina later this year,
(18:22):
I'm gonna find a BUCkies. That's gonna be on my
to do list. And the people I'm with will say,
what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Why?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Why do you need to stop at a convenience store?
And they also have the record for the world's longest car.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wash at BUCkies, they have.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
The the largest number of gas pumps to choose from.
So there's there's that. The food's supposedly amazing. Now what
I got in the mail from our friend in Donna, Texas,
was beaver nuggets. That's that's what we got there, which
is you know what it is. It's like, don't it's
(19:00):
not what you think it's. It's it's like popcorn or no,
it's not even it is like corn puffs with like
caramel sugar on it. Oh okay, And that is according
to the Internet, that is the number one product that
that is the most popular snack item at BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So beavers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I have not eating them yet because I haven't been
doing a lot of fast thing. I might eat them
later today and I can report back. But BUCkies when
they open, they were known for bathrooms, clean bathrooms, and
cheap ice, which is really all you need to do
if you're a truck stop, not a truck stop, but
a comedian store. Clean bathrooms, ice, that's good to go.
So anyway, that was my Bucky ballers. I like the
(19:39):
shirt though it's got the beaver logo. So I during
the day, you know, I slum around, I've got nothing
going on, so I wear different shirts around the house,
and the Buckies' shirt is in my rotation. I have
a three shirt rotation. I have the now I have
the added the Bucky shirt. I have a shirt that
Rob Parker gave me from his podcast It's Time for
(20:01):
Trash A great Rob Parker. And I also have from
Moving Man Matt, our guy in Boston. He sent me
which is my favorite shirt, is very comfortable, long sleeve
moving Man Matt.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I don't know if you listen to.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
The pod or not, but yeah, that's that is a
solid shirt and it's got the name of his moving company.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So I would like to call out bad officiating Danny
as we flip the pod. Bad officiating. This bad officiating
took place on the radio show. Okay, so I brought
in I thought you to go sporting on us. No, God,
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Come out. We did politics.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You think I can do No, I can't do the sports.
So the bad officiating was on the show. So I
had made some cookies. I think we talked about this.
I don't know in the previous episode. But last weekend
I had a buddy of mine come in from Texas
and it doesn't come out very often, and I've known
this guy since elementary school. The only friend I have
(20:56):
from elementary school, my longest standard you know, a statue friend.
So we hung out in the playgrounds back in the
day and I were both middle aged dudes. And and
he lives in Dallas, and so he comes out to CA.
He comes out to California a lot. Uh, well, I
said a lot. You know, once a year maybe, but
sometimes I don't see him because he's got other things
going on. So he was gonna stay at the Mallard
(21:16):
mansion for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So I went in. I made some peanut brittle, I made.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Some some cookies and then Eddie was like, hey, I
I want one of those cookies.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And I said, well, okay, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So I had a few left at three left right,
so I brought I brought the cookies in peanut butter
chocolate chip bakery style peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And
these things came out pretty good. It's hard to f
up a cookie. It is difficult to f one up.
But I've been like an artisan. This is my hobby.
On the weekends, I futz around in the kitchen and
(21:52):
try to master the different recipes that I found and
put together and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I made the cookies. He's like, I want what
So I find it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And the other night I brought them in, and I
had three cookies that were left to bring in.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So I brought the cookies in.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You know, fun Storm, that's what you did, you bring
And then I was like, well wait a minute. Lorena
was training and she was in that night, so now
we had a math problem.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So now we.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Had I brought three cookies because I assumed the regular
crew was going to be there, Eddie, Coop and Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And Lorena might be skinny, but she eats like a
truck driver. Yeah, she's got that good. Uh what's the
term I'm looking for here? The metabolism. Metabolism, Yes, that's
the words she's got that. If I had that, oh
my god. Yeah, not be fast. She's one of those
people where she keeps telling me I'm trying to gain
ten pounds, it's really hard. I'm like, follow me around,
(22:49):
I'll show you how to do that easily.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I definitely know how to gain weight the massive anyway,
So she was there training, So then I had three
cookies for four people.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Coop wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
He got sick, I mean, so we had in his
place we had lead a lap and he was sous.
I don't mind giving the cookie to lead you Lee's there,
and I was Sam, But what do I do with Loraina?
So anyway, we figured it out, gave the cookies out, Iowa,
Sam and Lorena split.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The cookie and uh.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then we went to the judges' scorecards. And if you
listen to the live overnight show this week, the radio show,
they all said how great the cookie was, but nobody
gave me a ten. Pissed off about that, Dan, that's
bad officiating. That was a ten peanut butter chocolate chip
cookie bakery style, thick and gooey and you know a
(23:39):
little a little bit of not a crunch, but you know,
thickness on the outside and chewy miss on the inside,
chewy gooey ooeye fun.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And I did not get a ten. It's a bad
job by Eddie.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's a bad job by Iowa, Sam, Uh, Lorena and
and also.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Lead a lap Shame on them. So I just want
to I just want to complain about that. Phil feel
like there was a drop in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Probably chewey gooey ooey fun. Well, speaking of Lorraina, though
she made me very self conscious this week, so she's
training to replace I was Sam and and so she's
she's been there randomly and kind of learn how we
do the Overnight show and stuff like that, which is fine,
you know, it's it's not brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And so she's in there and I don't really know her.
I'm kind of getting to know her. I've seen her
a few times in the hallways, but we don't really
know each other.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And saw the whole cookie thing and she brings up
on the airs like do you have cats?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I'm like, no, I don't have cats. I mean
I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And then I looked down and I saw that the
shirt I was wearing had I put two and two
like a light bulb one on them.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, so the shirt I was wearing had I had
this like like kind of fur on it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It was like some's in your throat right now? Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
So my dog Luigi, the mix between a.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Pug and a French bull dog.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He's a shitter. I bet oh big time. And I've
never had a dog that sheds ever. I mean, I
just I don't let me take that back. I've had
dogs that shed, but not nearly as much as Luigi.
This dog is just spitting hair everywhere.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
The dog goes.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But what had happened here, because I didn't even hang
out with Luigi the day of this event the radio show.
So I've determined it's very hairy situation here. That the laundry.
My wife usually handles the laundry.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I do the dishes.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And so my wife had put some of the clothes
down on one of the chairs in the living room,
and before she could put them away, she kind of
left them there for a little bit. Luigi decided he
wanted to roll around in the clothes, and I guess
she didn't notice it, but I, of course, I was
in a hurry to get to have a long drive.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Very long drive. The company wants me to come in.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I thank them for that, and so I drive in
and it takes a long time to get there, so
I might kind.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Of in a hurry, and I grabbed the shirt and
I didn't really look at it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I figured it's it's hung up, it's probably clean, nothing
to worry about there, and yeah, so then I was.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Like kind of self conscious to the rest of the night.
I was like, man, may you misthink.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm like like a pig or something like that, right,
But I mean it was an honest mistake, Daddy, It's
an honest mistake. I mean, I didn't realize. Maybe I
should have looked at it when I when I put
it on.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But I just like, h I gotta go get it
out of here. There was a time, Big Ben where
I had just started dating this fine young lady from
Westlake Village and I went over to her house. She
lived with a roommate in a nice house and they
had pets. She had a dog, and a roommate had
like a cat and a dog, so there are three
(26:49):
pets running around this house. And I went over. They
invited me over for a game night, and like that game.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Night's a big night. That's a that's a step, that's
a step, stepping stone.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah right. We hadn't even hooked up like that yet,
maybe made out or something, but hadn't gone all the way.
So what am I in junior high? So you know,
game night ends and I'm like, thank god, man, I
hate this stupid board game that they were playing. She's like,
why don't you come into my bedroom and let's hang out.
(27:18):
And I'm like yeah. I go into her bedroom and
the first thing I see she had the stairs, the
doggy stairs, next to her bed. Okay, and then she says, oh,
sit down on the bed next to me. And I
sat down ben and her dog was white. There was
this white fur, like a coating on her comforter of
(27:40):
white fur. Oh boy. I carefully maneuvered myself. And of course,
as a Raiders fan, what color do you think I
was wearing? Of course you had the black. Yeah. I
had black jeans on. I had probably a Raider shirt
and like a nice new Raider shirt on. It was
during football season. I was representing. I was very careful though,
and I like down next to her on her bed
(28:01):
and we talked, and then I you know, we said
our good night, our goodbye. I leave and I needed
to stop at the gas station to get some gas.
I'll never forget this. I get out of my car,
grab the pump, start pumping gas, and I happened to
look down from my ankle all the way up to
my chest. I looked like a muppet I had. I
(28:26):
was just covered in white fur.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Ear.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean you know those rollers, yeah yeah, oh no,
five of those rollers wouldn't have been enough. Immediately, go home,
take a hot shower, throw all those clothes into the
washing machine. Right away and I never went to her
house again. It was just gross. So yeah, I understand,
I understand how you could feel some shame on that. Yeah,
(28:51):
I felt like pig pin And I'm like, I'm not
like you.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I usually you know, I'm not. I'm not terrible. There
were worse people when it comes to grooming than me.
I'm not the king of grooming, but.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
A shower regularly. Bet you've never seen you walk around
with fur on you before?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
No, No, that was of all the days to have
Luigi to pick the one shirt covered in Luigi hair,
that was the day. Why don't we get out on thee?
Did the word of the week yesterday, So I think
what we should do today is the do you think
you're the idiom of the week or the phrase of
(29:26):
the week.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We should do here? Phrase of the week sounds good?
Does that sound good? Yeah? The phrase of the week.
The phrase of the week. All right.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The phrase of the week is something that we all use.
Kill time, right, kill time, right pastime? You know, I
gotta kill some time. Man, I'm killing people. Listen to
this podcast to kill time, right, they're bored.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
This is a great This is a great phrase. Covino
talked about this the past couple of days on the
Afternoon Show, how he needed to kill twelve hours because
he's flying to Japan. Oh wow, yeah, he really needs
to kill time.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
The phrase kill time it actually goes back to ancient
times and in the olden times, people had a lot
of leisure time between tasks that they had to do,
between work assignments, and they would often do what we
do today. They'd have different technology, obviously when they play games,
and they'd have different recreational activities to pass the time.
(30:29):
But one of the things that they used involved using
small sticks to mark the actual passing minutes on the ground,
and so they they would await the completion of task,
the you know, or the arrival of some big event
that they were having in ancient times, and they would
playfully kill time by they'd arrange these sticks or markers
(30:53):
into different patterns. They kind of play games, and that
was the entertainment. And over time the practice evolved into
the expression, the figurative expression of kill time, which is
symbolizing the act of obviously engaging in activities to pass
idle moments or periods where you're waiting for something to happen.
The earliest recorded instance of the phrase time to kill
(31:18):
dates back to fifteen ninety all the way back to
fifteen nineties, so that phrase kill time has been around
for a while.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is Saturday. What do you got going on? I
got nothing going on today. I'm just kind of hanging
out today, not much going on. What are you got
going on? I am packing my bags and just kind
of doing a checklist of things because we are taking
baby CoA on his first flight. We leave out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I am right, And will you would tell us more
about that?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Are you gonna save that for later? I will save
that for the Sunday Morning podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
All right, we'll find out. You see, that's a that's
a cliffhanger. You'll have to wait for the Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Night is a professional radio teas look at that? All right?
Very good, have a great rest of your day today.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Thank you for following this podcast telling friends about it,
and we'll catch you in next time later.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
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