February 27, 2026 • 37 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Friday for you! Ben talks: State of the Maller Union, & by popular demand, Foodie Fun!
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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.
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The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
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The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maler
and Danny g Radio our last Friday podcast for the
month of February. Now, how do I know it is
the last Friday podcast for the month of February Because
this is the last Friday in the month of February. Hello, Hello,
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only one more day after today to get through.
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Wow.
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Fired up, fired up as we walked in to the
remote studio here after doing the overnight show, surviving the
audio battlefield, exploring every avenue through the overnight, then taking
a brief hiatus and wandering around clearing my head to
walk back in to the remote studio to provide you
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this podcast. Now on the Friday edition of The Fifth Hour,
which you are currently locked in on, we have the
state of the Malor Union by request, the state of
the Malor Union by request. Also food e Fun. Hooray
for food e Fun and it is a jam packed
foodie fun by demand, by demand, what the people want,
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the people get. Brian Billick. Brian Billick. Now, I always
trying to start with some kind of dopey holiday, and
I didn't see anything that really stood out. There's a
lot of really lame holidays. There was one that not
only is that lame, but it's just something that's it's
not legit. And you know most of these are not legit.
No Brainer Day, which apparently is celebrated. I didn't know this.
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It's a no brainer celebrated annually on February twenty seventh,
and it is it's known as International No Brainer Day. Okay,
what is the point of this? The holiday was founded
way back in the nineties to encourage people to keep
things simple, to resolve situations calmly without stress. So I
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started digging around. I was like, oh, that doesn't seem
all that interesting. Fine, So then I started looking up
fun facts about the brain. Now that is fun fun
facts about the brain. Did you know? Did you know
that going back to one hundred and seventy BC, there
was a Roman physician, Gallan, who said, hey, you know
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that brain thing, this is the thing that is involved
in problem solving. That's it right there. And so this
Roman physician came up with the concept that the brain
is involved in problem solving. That was one hundred and
seventy BC, like just after the cavemen, for God's sake.
And then in the sixteenth century, so you got to
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go back, you know, go forward many many years. There
was a different doctor, doctor Andres, who created a map
of the nervous system. The first sketch of the nervous
system that must have been just amazing, was not on
the internet. By the way, they did not put that
on the internet. And you know why they didn't put
that on the internet. That's right, there was no Internet,
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that's correct. Then in the eighteen hundreds, in the eighteen hundreds,
a couple of doctors in eighteen forty eight showed that
specific parts of the brain perform specific functions, that there's
certain things in there, and there's other parts that you know,
the frontal lobe and all that that stuff. And then
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in nineteen twenty nine, nineteen twenty, almost one hundred years ago,
ninety seven years ago. There was a piece of medical research,
a study that confirmed in nineteen twenty nine that your
brain and my brain never rest even when you sleep.
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Even what we're kind of like the fish. You know,
you ever go out and see the fish. They can
turn off part of their brain, but they go into
sleep mode like your computer. However, they don't turn the
whole thing off. And might I point out this is
a probably people say, well, turn your brain off, and
I have I always have a million things. I'm worried
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about the next show. I forget about the last show,
but then I got to think about this other thing
I gotta do, and so it's always rolling. My brain
is always rolling around there. It's very hard to just
calm down. Despite all the supplements, all that stuff, it's
hard to calm down. So that was in nineteen twenty nine.
They figured out the brain never stopped. It was always
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moving even when you were thinking of things, and the
brain never rested. And that was in nineteen twenty nine.
And then in the nineteen sixties that was the boom
time for neuroscience and the study of the brain called neuroscience.
That really took off in the nineteen sixties and then
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now we have no Brainer Day. Now we have no
Brainer Day, which is just wonderful, which has been around,
I guess since ninety five. So over thirty years of
no Brainer Day, over thirty years of No Brainer Day,
just absolutely great. So moving on from that, I don't
write back to a lot of people. I'm bad about that.
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On the email, I apologize in advance. If you send
me an email, you probably won't not get a response.
I need to work on that. I just don't have
enough time allotted for that bad job by me. So
I do check. And I got a couple of messages
this week from fans of the show, super fans of
the show. And I'm not going to call this an
inbox revolt. You can call it that. You can call
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an uprising if you want. I'm not going to do that.
So these messages, I knew they were coming. I knew
they were going to be in my inbox. It's happened
the last couple of years, and so I thought, well,
why would this be any different. So I checked the
inbox and there were a handful of listeners, and I
want to stress just a few amounts, A very small
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amount of people who were aggrieved, wounded, even that their
beloved Overnight gas Bag declined to dissect President Donald Trump's
State of the Union address Say what yeah, so ap
penalty Back on Wednesday, the President gave the State of
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the Union addressed. Now, this was not negligent. This was
not and I will address this. I felt the podcast
is the perfect format. I will explain the mythology behind this.
It was brand management and the modern era that we
live in. In my world, in the media world, everything
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is bait. Now, we do live in a society where
you get paid for clickbait. But this is not even
so much clickbait. This is just bait. The State of
the Union is not merely a speech. Whoever the president is.
It is in that world. And I have friends of
mine that have gone into politics, and we went our
separate ways. We both got into the radio world as
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sports people. They went to politics. And a couple of
my friends are very powerful people. In fact, I happen
to have a good friend who's a very powerful person
on the Democratic side. I know a few people on
the Republican side, and so I talk to him everyone.
I don't talk to them often. I don't, you know,
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sometimes I'll fire off a text, so we'll go back
and forth. But the State of the Union is not
just a random speech. It's kind of a big deal
in that world. And I've had people that they've told
me is that Listen, you know we worked in sports together.
I'm politics now. It is the political super Bowl week.
They might as well have Radio Row and influencer Row
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and all that stuff. The panels convene, graphics explode, analysts perspire,
They have roundtable discussions under studio lights, as if the
democracy depends on this, and the event is sold as
destiny in prime time. It is sports radio is not
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obviously C SPAN, Thank god, I jump off a bridge.
It's not C SPAN with better bumper music. You know
it's not. There is an old school logic at play here.
Now I'm going to quote Harry Snyder. Do you know
who Harry Snyder? Do you think a Harry Snyder is
some kind of political pundit be Harry Snyder as a
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talk show host from the nineteen eighties, or ce Harry
Snyder is none of the above. Well, it turns out
that if you went with C you're right. Harry Snyder
is the person that co founded in and Out Burger,
the In and Out Burger, the number one burger place
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on the West coast, and it's spreading. I think they're
moving to Tennessee because of California politics and all that. So,
you know, good luck. So Harry Snyder co founded In
and Out Burger. Grab some water here. So he co
founded an out burger back in the day. And they
had a very simple motto, do one thing and do
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it well. That's it. That's all. Do one thing and
do it well. When Snyder opened up the first In
and Out Burger in Baldwin Park, California. Still live right
near there or a couple miles away in nineteen forty eight,
the menu was minimalist poetry, burgers, fries, and shakes. If
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you want cheese on the burger, they call it a cheeseburger.
You got the fries, you got the shake, and you
got the obviously the soft drinks. No swordfish, no swordfish surprise,
there was no seasonal quin wah bowle didn't get it.
I didn't get it. Seventy plus years later is my
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math on? Yeah, my math is I'm almost going to eighty.
We're almost at eighty. The line still when you go
to an inn out burger, there's a line of cars.
It's like that movie Field of Dreams back in the day.
You build it will come or they will come. And
so that philosophy of this guy, Harry Stender, that is
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not stubbornness. That is clarity sports radio my world. Drifting
into partisan debate would be like me walking into an
in and out burger and say, I need sushi. Well
we don't have sushi, but I want sushi, but we
don't serve any kind of seafoods or I don't care.
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I want my sushi. So you can be all righteous
and all that, and a lot of people love being righteous.
We live in the age of being the victim. It's
not fair. I need my society. The chef remains unmoved
because they know the rules. And over the past decade,
we have witnessed what happens when people who do entertainment
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platforms or whatever you wanna call it, dip a toe
into the political jacuzzi. The water bubbles, the temperature spikes, Suddenly,
the audience fractures into factions. It's like a if you've
ever seen what happens to a windshield when they get
into an accident and it breaks, and a bunch of pieces,
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thousands of little pieces, and so everything fractures, and then
people start getting armed with spreadsheets and grudges and all
that stuff. It's a big mess. The comment section transforms
into Thanksgiving dinner with no cranberry sauce, no stuffing, and
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a lot of sharp objects, a lot of sharp objects. Like,
it's a big mess. So yeah. Occasionally, occasionally there's a
moment from the State of the Union that bleeds into sports, right,
it bleeds into sports. A presidential quip about a sports
team winning a championship. We had that this week. We
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had that this week. There was a shout out every
once in a while that would go to whatever team
you know won the championship or something like that, And
those are always fair game. Those are always fair game. However,
a full autopsy of applause lines and legislative wish list
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this is for another aisle, entirely picture the State of
the Union through the television lens it deserves and consuming
on social media. I've always said that it's HGTV for governance,
like the set immaculate right, the history of the State
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of the Union. The pacing is all rehearsed. It's like
love it or listed. One side of the chamber, which
by the way, happens to be the side in power,
springs to its feet as if confetti cannons might deploy
and they could get a free T shirt as wells.
Scott's going to come out the other side that is
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not in power. They sit there with stoicism. Some pretend
to sleep, but they're they're very calm, and then they're
they're not happy, though you can tell from the body
language whatever is being said they don't like it. It's
kind of like an airline passenger who just learns, by
the way, the flight has been delayed, the airport's about
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to close, so you're gonna have to go go to
get a hotel room. We're not taking off till tomorrow morning.
The other team could literally come up with a cure
for cancer, provide everyone a billion dollars, and they want
to list it. Not love it. They'd want to list
it because there are guy's not in power. The camera.
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I always get a kick out of us. They've got
these these props, the camera pans to hand pick citizens
in the galley or the gallery. I guess it's but
each story is calibrated for maximum heart tug it's heartstrings
tugging at the heartstrings. It's civic pageantry with advanced sound
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and graphics and all that. And every year, men and women,
I don't think many children watching this, but every year
men and women, adults and some teenagers and some kids
will a few kids will watch. But the viewers are
told that this episode, well, this changes everything. This is
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a game changer. Our democracy, Our democracy depends on you watching.
And every year the sequel arrives on schedule, and they
say the same thing. They say the same thing at
the State of the Union every single year. See, the
political industrial complex thrives on engagement.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Outrage. Outrage is what it is, and whatever the president
it does is wrong. They could recommend something, if the
president does that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It would still be wrong. It's just that that's the
way it is. That's the way it's set up. Outrage
is currency and indignation is renewable energy. Right, the chiron
at the bottom of whatever channel you're watching on the
screen pulses with just apocalyptic vocabulary, all those big words, right, Oh,
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crisis on Capitol Hill, chaos, a day of reckoning, and
the world hates America and all this stuff. So the
Republic is always one monologue away from collapse if you
believe that. If you believe that, and somehow it's been
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able to continue on and on and on and on.
So again, I don't deal in that world. That's not
my world. That's someone else's world. Ideal in the sports
radio world, ideal in a different kind of melodrama, ideal
in missed field goals, blown leads, dumb coaching decisions, quarterbacks
who throw hospital balls for no apparent reason. Now, the
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stakes feel enormous in the mall Man, in the malment,
they feel enormous, but they are contained, compartmentalized, if you will,
pigeonholed within hash marks and the hardwood and all that. Now,
over the years, I've done a lot of these Mallard
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meet and greets. We're planning, We're in the planning stages
right now. I'm trying to find out logistically when we
want to go to Boston, when we want to go
to Ohio, and those are the two that we have.
Hopefully we'll get Vegas in. I want to go to
the Bay Area, do one in the northern California. We
should do one in La I know mad Jack had
a place, but we didn't end up doing it. Bad
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job by us. That was back in December. But meeting
a number of my friends who listen to the show, right,
people like you and I that are just trying to
enjoy life. So I've determined that about twenty percent of
society is hard oh political guy, hard, oh political guy
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or gal to try to get it in every conversation right,
the discourse has to be about this, And half of
that faction is prepared to send a strongly worded email
to a sports radio host at two in the morning,
why have you not talked about this? The remaining eighty percent?
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And I'm you know, I'm in the eighty percent, just
trying to get through the week, just trying to get
through the day without needing some meds for their blood
pressure and just trying to pay the bills they want
and tune into too the over. You want to hear
some hot takes. You want to hear hollering James snore.
You want to hear the redneck Riviera's biggest star, you know,
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the Jed who fled wandering around saying eight hundred words
in ten seconds. You want to hear the latest comments
on the on the X machine from Malard, prop Guy
or fer Dog or Alf. You want to hear what
they have to say. That's what you tune in for.
So to me, silence in this case is not avoidance.
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It's knowing that you are a specialist. It's like back
in the in the old days before baseball changed the rules.
And if you're around my age, there was a baseball
term for a very specialized relief pitcher. And what was it. Well,
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if you were a left handed a left handed reliever,
and you would come in and you'd face one batter right,
one batter, one batter, one batter, one batter only, and
they called you a loogie. Yeah, a loogie. That was
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that was your that was your name. Uh. And and
and not hock, not hawk alugie, No, no, no, wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I know, am I going inside baseball? I think most
people around my age know that. But maybe you're not
around my age and you're like, oh, there's no crying
in baseball. I don't don't yet get it. Uh yeah,
So I know the baseball seasons underway. I know it's
been hijacked by the computer guys for years, but it's
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it's underway. Yeah, so there you go. Uh, but that
that's it. So I'm a specialist, you know that. That's
the that's the deal. That's that's what I do. I am.
I'm a lea, A relief pitcher, is what I am.
That's it. Yeah, pop pop fizz fizz. Oh what a
relief it is? Well not exactly, but you get the point, right,
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you get the point. So anyway back to it. So
this does not mean that we obviously we obviously deal
in bombastic conversation. That is a world that we are
involved in. The show features much like politics filibusters. Some
would say this Malar podcast here, the fifth Hour podcast
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is a filibuster. The Marathon Mallard monologues dissecting the footwork
of Lamar Jackson, or what he orders at a food truck,
or the trade value of Alligator arms Kyler Murray. I've
been labeled Benny Blowhard for hot takes on players like
Sam Darnold or Fernando Mendozo, the Indiana Hoosias quarterback. The
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difference is consequence. If a sports talk opinion detonates cub Boom,
the fallout is limited to some barroom chatter a few
social media comments, and that's it. When politics detonates, family
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members stop talking to other family members, Like you know,
you've got a problem if you will not talk to
someone because of their politics. Just you know, eat your
own knock yourself out, and I can think you're a knucklehead,
but I can still be your friend. Presidents, now you
think about the president, they change every few years, like
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whether President Trump or his eventual successor whoever that ends
up being. You know, they rotate through the White House
like head coaches. It's like a rebuilding franchise, always rebuilding,
was rebuilding, always problems, speaking in cliches, political cliches. The
choreography of the State of the Union remains unchanged, though
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I remember watching it with my parents as a kid,
and I didn't think it was the most interesting in
the world, well the most interesting thing in the world.
My parents were really into it, and so I'd paid
attention to it as I got older. And it's the
same show all these years later. Applause on Q, scowls
on Q, the same script. Obviously the names have changed,
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although some of them are still there from when I
was a kid, which is crazy because I'm not getting
any younger, and the TV news people treat this as Shakespeare,
and often it plays more like professional wrestling. The great
Jesse Ventura was in the iHeart Building years ago and
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he told the story about how it was very much
like professional wrestling, that everyone played a role. And then
they all went to the same cocktail parties in DC
and they hung out together. And yet you know, people
you know in Toledo, Ohio would get upset because they
don't like so and so's politics, and yet these people
were going out and having long island ized teas together.
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You know, after they would just mf each other. The
ringmaster knows the crowd. You got to give the customer
what they want. The people that come into the open
night show, they want to hear about football, occasional basketball.
Everything stacked neatly on Aisle fourteen, not for a you know,
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tune in for a seminar on fiscal policy. You're not
tuning in for that. And in an era obsessed with engagement, engagement,
you must be engaged all that. Choosing not to chase
the loudest topic of the room is a quiet, active discipline.
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Not every platform needs to opine on every spectacle. I
have a group of my radio friends and we text
about certain people that have to give opinions on every right,
and we all roll oririzes people in sports radio that
think they're going to solve the world's problems giving a
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take on every issue politically. And it's fascinating that these
people think so much of themselves that they believe that
the people need to hear their opinion on a variety
of issues that have nothing to do with the job
they're hired to do. And I don't have the bandwidth
to get involved in that. I just don't. I don't
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ignore it. I watch some of that stuff, but I
don't obsess about it. And I'm pretty sure that the
United States, as it heads into the two hundred and
fiftieth birthday, will survive an overnight sports show that mostly
sticks to sports takes. It's again in and out, Burger Burgers,
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fries and shakes. No swordfish, there is no swordfish. Cannot
get it. Cannot get it. Meanwhile, let's get to some food.
He fun, get me in the mood, Little food, he fun,
all right, foody fun. Taco Bell, Taco Bell, Late night
Taco Bell. They have taken things to the next level.
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They are bringing back the Live Moss Live and this year.
This year it is going to be essentially a star
studded award show. So what Yeah, Yeah, the people over
there at Taco Bell a March tenth. March tenth, Taco
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Bell will host Live Moss or Live Moss Live, A
Night at the Palladium, a one night only variety special
taped at the legendary Hollywood Palladium, streaming exclusively on Peacock.
They got a deal on Peacock rapper Vince Staples. I
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have no idea who that is. We'll be hosting this.
Celebrity appearances from Doja Cat. I've heard of that, somebody
named Benson Boone. Have no idea who that is. Ariano Maddox,
nothing on that. Anderson Pack, I believe Paak as DJ Peewee.
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There's a couple other people I've never heard of. I
don't think this is for me and my age people.
I guess obviously, Taco Bell, you don't want my people eating,
you want younger people eating. Taco Bell announced twenty twenty
six menu. It's gonna be like a like again award
show and they're going to have different food items come
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out and announce some and all that stuff. So that'll
be coming up March tenth. It's at noon Eastern time,
nine am Pacific time on the Peacock, So enjoy that. KFC.
We move on foody fun. Kentucky Fried Chicken has decided
they need to bring back an item from the past.
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It is officially back to Twister. You Gotta Do the Twist,
a fan favorite, thee the Wrap has returned two Crispy
Chicken original recipe chicken tenders, lettuce, tomato, and pepper mayo
inside a warm totilla tortilla. This time around, it's less
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like a sidekick and more like a full meal. Full meal.
And then there's the new twenty dollars build a bucket. Okay,
so that's the build a bucket for twenty bucks. You
can choose between eight pieces of bone in chicken or
eight original recipe tenders plus four individual sides, four biscuits,
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four sauces. If you go the tender way. It's structured
for sharing. However, they say that is like a Swiss
army knife, and it's flexible enough that no one has
to settle for the side they don't want. So there
you go. For twenty twenty bucks. It doesn't seem outrageous.
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I don't know that that's going to feed for people,
not people my size, but maybe little people can enjoy that. McDonald's,
Mickey D's. They're expanding their McCafe lineup with drinks. They're
putting drinks out from the failed cosmic concept. So there's
that that's exciting. Yeah, McDonald's. Remember they tried this. We
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talked about it in a long ago episode of the
fifth Hour McDonald's Beverage Focus. They were trying to compete
with Starbucks and just take down Starbucks and that was
the plan, and it was a horrific failure. Horrific failure.
And so now they've mixed some of the stuff that
did work there with the cosmics that Beverage Focused offshoot
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did not do the job. So they've combined this together
and the McCafe label some of the items five hundred locations,
five hundred locations between Wisconsin and Colorado. So that's it.
The Red Bull infused popping tropic and strawberry watermelon refresher.
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That sounds pretty good. I like the strawberry, the watermelon,
creamy vanilla cold brew. I'm good on that, toasted vanilla whatever,
coffee thing, and then Kraft soda called sprite Berry Blast.
So all of that is there. And this comes from
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a big shot at McDonald's who said it a recent
Ernie's call that there obviously they learned a lot through
the cosmic test and they're using that. They're applying that
now to the McCafe brand. So all right, enjoy that
a former SpaceX engineer has walked away from rockets to do.
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What what do you think, Well, it's obviously foody fun,
so it's something to do with food. This genius former
SpaceX engineer has decided his life's mission is to make
a coffee maker. But not because we need a new
coffee maker. No, no, no, no, no, there's a catch. What
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is the catch? His plan is to make a plastic
free coffee brewer that regular people can actually afford. Yeah.
So it started as a personal frustration and has turned
into a full on proper mission. And so he went
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looking for a coffee machine made entirely without plastic. Couldn't
find one. The high end options were thousands of dollars.
The affordable ones all had plastic hidden somewhere in there,
whether it was valves, tubing, whatever, and even machines marketed
as stainless steel relied on other parts to get heated daily.
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So he built. He built the one that he wanted.
It took him three months. The guy quit his job
and he built an affordable, convenient, plastic free coffee maker
made out of metal and made out of glass. The
coffee pot is glass. I don't see any I do
not see any plastic in the photo. I'm looking at
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here and it says the twelve cup brewer. It swapped
out all the plastic components for medical grades, stainless steel
and glass to eliminate plastic contact with the hot water flows.
And the goal is durability. And it looks looks fine,
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look bad at all. So I'm not sure what the
plan is to sell that, But there you go. Can
either make rockets to go to the moon or make
a coffee machine, and if you get that sold, you'll
make a lot of money. Flaming Hot, the people that
Flameing Hot have taken their brand and they're expanding it
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into the ready to eat meals category with the launch
of boneless chicken wings. So you'll be able to get
those at the the grocery store. Yeah, about that, A
boneless chicken with bold heat and I believe they are
available through now through June. Flaming hot boneless chicken wings
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available at Kroger only, So only at Kroger, which is
the largest grocery chain in the country based in Cincinnati.
Jack in the Box is testing loaded onion rings. That
sounds that sounds pretty good. Jack in the Box testing
how far you are willing to take your onion ring
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eating experience. And right now it's in San Antonio only,
So my buddies in San Antonio, you guys go out
and eat these things. Let me know. Email me at
real fifth hour at gmail dot com, give me a
scouting report. Chain's rolling out sauce and loaded onion rings
a new test item that turns its classic Pinko breaded
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rings into a snack situation. You get eight crispy onion
rings stacked that's it, eight crispy onion rings stacked with
MELTI cheese, sauce, ranch I'm out, bacon crumbles. Or there's
the hot mess version that swaps in pepper jack how
to pe for extra heat. So those are it. Price
(35:04):
starts at four dollars and fifty cents, and again it's
a test run in San Antonio. So go see the
Alamo and get some hot mess sauced loaded onion rings.
Do the math on that, So eight fifty and then
(35:26):
there or no, it's not if it's foy, I already
screwed it up. I already screwed it up. So it's
four point fifty and then divided by eight rings. So
that's about fifty six cents per onion ring. And then
that does not include the topic, that does not include
the topping on foody fund. What else do we have?
(35:47):
We do a couple more here. Let's see Oreo has
just dropped a doctor Doom cookie and they've teamed up
with Marvel so the Stuff of Legends campaign. Now this
cookie the reason I bring it up. When you lick it,
(36:08):
it turns green. Yeah, yeah, it turns green. Imagine how
many chemicals must be used to get that to happen
that kind of chemical reaction. Okay, what else? Uncrustables is
adding blueberry to its PB and J lineup the JM.
Smucker Company they previewed recently the coming brands in twenty
(36:34):
twenty six, and sure enough, on Crustables adding blueberry option.
Doctor Pepper's gone whack a doodle. They're all in. Doctor
Pepper flavored tic TACs are now a thing. I don't
know why they're a thing, but they're a thing in
Johnsonville has just announced recently a Doctor Pepper flavored sausage,
(36:59):
so you can get your you can have your Johnsonville
sausage Dr Pepper flavor, and then you can, after the
meal enjoy some tick tacks with Dr Pepper and you'll
be a doctor, unless you won't. On that note, we
will get out of here. Have a wonderful rest of
your Friday. We'll have new podcasts on Saturday and Sunday,
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as we do every single weekend right here. Cannot wait
for the weekend as we Danny Gio. Hopefully you joined
me at some point here. Anyway, have a wonderful rest
of your Friday and we will chat with you next time.
Asta pasta aloha, got a murder. I gotta go,
Cutbooms.
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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.
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Wow.
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The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
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The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maler
and Danny g Radio our last Friday podcast for the
month of February. Now, how do I know it is
the last Friday podcast for the month of February Because
this is the last Friday in the month of February. Hello, Hello,
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only one more day after today to get through.
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Fired up, fired up as we walked in to the
remote studio here after doing the overnight show, surviving the
audio battlefield, exploring every avenue through the overnight, then taking
a brief hiatus and wandering around clearing my head to
walk back in to the remote studio to provide you
(01:19):
this podcast. Now on the Friday edition of The Fifth Hour,
which you are currently locked in on, we have the
state of the Malor Union by request, the state of
the Malor Union by request. Also food e Fun. Hooray
for food e Fun and it is a jam packed
foodie fun by demand, by demand, what the people want,
(01:43):
the people get. Brian Billick. Brian Billick. Now, I always
trying to start with some kind of dopey holiday, and
I didn't see anything that really stood out. There's a
lot of really lame holidays. There was one that not
only is that lame, but it's just something that's it's
not legit. And you know most of these are not legit.
No Brainer Day, which apparently is celebrated. I didn't know this.
(02:06):
It's a no brainer celebrated annually on February twenty seventh,
and it is it's known as International No Brainer Day. Okay,
what is the point of this? The holiday was founded
way back in the nineties to encourage people to keep
things simple, to resolve situations calmly without stress. So I
(02:31):
started digging around. I was like, oh, that doesn't seem
all that interesting. Fine, So then I started looking up
fun facts about the brain. Now that is fun fun
facts about the brain. Did you know? Did you know
that going back to one hundred and seventy BC, there
was a Roman physician, Gallan, who said, hey, you know
(02:55):
that brain thing, this is the thing that is involved
in problem solving. That's it right there. And so this
Roman physician came up with the concept that the brain
is involved in problem solving. That was one hundred and
seventy BC, like just after the cavemen, for God's sake.
And then in the sixteenth century, so you got to
(03:17):
go back, you know, go forward many many years. There
was a different doctor, doctor Andres, who created a map
of the nervous system. The first sketch of the nervous
system that must have been just amazing, was not on
the internet. By the way, they did not put that
on the internet. And you know why they didn't put
that on the internet. That's right, there was no Internet,
(03:39):
that's correct. Then in the eighteen hundreds, in the eighteen hundreds,
a couple of doctors in eighteen forty eight showed that
specific parts of the brain perform specific functions, that there's
certain things in there, and there's other parts that you know,
the frontal lobe and all that that stuff. And then
(04:01):
in nineteen twenty nine, nineteen twenty, almost one hundred years ago,
ninety seven years ago. There was a piece of medical research,
a study that confirmed in nineteen twenty nine that your
brain and my brain never rest even when you sleep.
(04:23):
Even what we're kind of like the fish. You know,
you ever go out and see the fish. They can
turn off part of their brain, but they go into
sleep mode like your computer. However, they don't turn the
whole thing off. And might I point out this is
a probably people say, well, turn your brain off, and
I have I always have a million things. I'm worried
(04:44):
about the next show. I forget about the last show,
but then I got to think about this other thing
I gotta do, and so it's always rolling. My brain
is always rolling around there. It's very hard to just
calm down. Despite all the supplements, all that stuff, it's
hard to calm down. So that was in nineteen twenty nine.
They figured out the brain never stopped. It was always
(05:08):
moving even when you were thinking of things, and the
brain never rested. And that was in nineteen twenty nine.
And then in the nineteen sixties that was the boom
time for neuroscience and the study of the brain called neuroscience.
That really took off in the nineteen sixties and then
(05:29):
now we have no Brainer Day. Now we have no
Brainer Day, which is just wonderful, which has been around,
I guess since ninety five. So over thirty years of
no Brainer Day, over thirty years of No Brainer Day,
just absolutely great. So moving on from that, I don't
write back to a lot of people. I'm bad about that.
(05:51):
On the email, I apologize in advance. If you send
me an email, you probably won't not get a response.
I need to work on that. I just don't have
enough time allotted for that bad job by me. So
I do check. And I got a couple of messages
this week from fans of the show, super fans of
the show. And I'm not going to call this an
inbox revolt. You can call it that. You can call
(06:12):
an uprising if you want. I'm not going to do that.
So these messages, I knew they were coming. I knew
they were going to be in my inbox. It's happened
the last couple of years, and so I thought, well,
why would this be any different. So I checked the
inbox and there were a handful of listeners, and I
want to stress just a few amounts, A very small
(06:33):
amount of people who were aggrieved, wounded, even that their
beloved Overnight gas Bag declined to dissect President Donald Trump's
State of the Union address Say what yeah, so ap
penalty Back on Wednesday, the President gave the State of
(06:56):
the Union addressed. Now, this was not negligent. This was
not and I will address this. I felt the podcast
is the perfect format. I will explain the mythology behind this.
It was brand management and the modern era that we
live in. In my world, in the media world, everything
(07:20):
is bait. Now, we do live in a society where
you get paid for clickbait. But this is not even
so much clickbait. This is just bait. The State of
the Union is not merely a speech. Whoever the president is.
It is in that world. And I have friends of
mine that have gone into politics, and we went our
separate ways. We both got into the radio world as
(07:40):
sports people. They went to politics. And a couple of
my friends are very powerful people. In fact, I happen
to have a good friend who's a very powerful person
on the Democratic side. I know a few people on
the Republican side, and so I talk to him everyone.
I don't talk to them often. I don't, you know,
(08:01):
sometimes I'll fire off a text, so we'll go back
and forth. But the State of the Union is not
just a random speech. It's kind of a big deal
in that world. And I've had people that they've told
me is that Listen, you know we worked in sports together.
I'm politics now. It is the political super Bowl week.
They might as well have Radio Row and influencer Row
(08:22):
and all that stuff. The panels convene, graphics explode, analysts perspire,
They have roundtable discussions under studio lights, as if the
democracy depends on this, and the event is sold as
destiny in prime time. It is sports radio is not
(08:45):
obviously C SPAN, Thank god, I jump off a bridge.
It's not C SPAN with better bumper music. You know
it's not. There is an old school logic at play here.
Now I'm going to quote Harry Snyder. Do you know
who Harry Snyder? Do you think a Harry Snyder is
some kind of political pundit be Harry Snyder as a
(09:09):
talk show host from the nineteen eighties, or ce Harry
Snyder is none of the above. Well, it turns out
that if you went with C you're right. Harry Snyder
is the person that co founded in and Out Burger,
the In and Out Burger, the number one burger place
(09:30):
on the West coast, and it's spreading. I think they're
moving to Tennessee because of California politics and all that. So,
you know, good luck. So Harry Snyder co founded In
and Out Burger. Grab some water here. So he co
founded an out burger back in the day. And they
had a very simple motto, do one thing and do
(09:54):
it well. That's it. That's all. Do one thing and
do it well. When Snyder opened up the first In
and Out Burger in Baldwin Park, California. Still live right
near there or a couple miles away in nineteen forty eight,
the menu was minimalist poetry, burgers, fries, and shakes. If
(10:18):
you want cheese on the burger, they call it a cheeseburger.
You got the fries, you got the shake, and you
got the obviously the soft drinks. No swordfish, no swordfish surprise,
there was no seasonal quin wah bowle didn't get it.
I didn't get it. Seventy plus years later is my
(10:43):
math on? Yeah, my math is I'm almost going to eighty.
We're almost at eighty. The line still when you go
to an inn out burger, there's a line of cars.
It's like that movie Field of Dreams back in the day.
You build it will come or they will come. And
so that philosophy of this guy, Harry Stender, that is
(11:05):
not stubbornness. That is clarity sports radio my world. Drifting
into partisan debate would be like me walking into an
in and out burger and say, I need sushi. Well
we don't have sushi, but I want sushi, but we
don't serve any kind of seafoods or I don't care.
(11:28):
I want my sushi. So you can be all righteous
and all that, and a lot of people love being righteous.
We live in the age of being the victim. It's
not fair. I need my society. The chef remains unmoved
because they know the rules. And over the past decade,
we have witnessed what happens when people who do entertainment
(11:53):
platforms or whatever you wanna call it, dip a toe
into the political jacuzzi. The water bubbles, the temperature spikes, Suddenly,
the audience fractures into factions. It's like a if you've
ever seen what happens to a windshield when they get
into an accident and it breaks, and a bunch of pieces,
(12:13):
thousands of little pieces, and so everything fractures, and then
people start getting armed with spreadsheets and grudges and all
that stuff. It's a big mess. The comment section transforms
into Thanksgiving dinner with no cranberry sauce, no stuffing, and
(12:34):
a lot of sharp objects, a lot of sharp objects. Like,
it's a big mess. So yeah. Occasionally, occasionally there's a
moment from the State of the Union that bleeds into sports, right,
it bleeds into sports. A presidential quip about a sports
team winning a championship. We had that this week. We
(12:57):
had that this week. There was a shout out every
once in a while that would go to whatever team
you know won the championship or something like that, And
those are always fair game. Those are always fair game. However,
a full autopsy of applause lines and legislative wish list
(13:19):
this is for another aisle, entirely picture the State of
the Union through the television lens it deserves and consuming
on social media. I've always said that it's HGTV for governance,
like the set immaculate right, the history of the State
(13:40):
of the Union. The pacing is all rehearsed. It's like
love it or listed. One side of the chamber, which
by the way, happens to be the side in power,
springs to its feet as if confetti cannons might deploy
and they could get a free T shirt as wells.
Scott's going to come out the other side that is
(14:03):
not in power. They sit there with stoicism. Some pretend
to sleep, but they're they're very calm, and then they're
they're not happy, though you can tell from the body
language whatever is being said they don't like it. It's
kind of like an airline passenger who just learns, by
the way, the flight has been delayed, the airport's about
(14:25):
to close, so you're gonna have to go go to
get a hotel room. We're not taking off till tomorrow morning.
The other team could literally come up with a cure
for cancer, provide everyone a billion dollars, and they want
to list it. Not love it. They'd want to list
it because there are guy's not in power. The camera.
(14:46):
I always get a kick out of us. They've got
these these props, the camera pans to hand pick citizens
in the galley or the gallery. I guess it's but
each story is calibrated for maximum heart tug it's heartstrings
tugging at the heartstrings. It's civic pageantry with advanced sound
(15:08):
and graphics and all that. And every year, men and women,
I don't think many children watching this, but every year
men and women, adults and some teenagers and some kids
will a few kids will watch. But the viewers are
told that this episode, well, this changes everything. This is
(15:28):
a game changer. Our democracy, Our democracy depends on you watching.
And every year the sequel arrives on schedule, and they
say the same thing. They say the same thing at
the State of the Union every single year. See, the
political industrial complex thrives on engagement.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Outrage. Outrage is what it is, and whatever the president
it does is wrong. They could recommend something, if the
president does that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It would still be wrong. It's just that that's the
way it is. That's the way it's set up. Outrage
is currency and indignation is renewable energy. Right, the chiron
at the bottom of whatever channel you're watching on the
screen pulses with just apocalyptic vocabulary, all those big words, right, Oh,
(16:30):
crisis on Capitol Hill, chaos, a day of reckoning, and
the world hates America and all this stuff. So the
Republic is always one monologue away from collapse if you
believe that. If you believe that, and somehow it's been
(16:51):
able to continue on and on and on and on.
So again, I don't deal in that world. That's not
my world. That's someone else's world. Ideal in the sports
radio world, ideal in a different kind of melodrama, ideal
in missed field goals, blown leads, dumb coaching decisions, quarterbacks
who throw hospital balls for no apparent reason. Now, the
(17:15):
stakes feel enormous in the mall Man, in the malment,
they feel enormous, but they are contained, compartmentalized, if you will,
pigeonholed within hash marks and the hardwood and all that. Now,
over the years, I've done a lot of these Mallard
(17:36):
meet and greets. We're planning, We're in the planning stages
right now. I'm trying to find out logistically when we
want to go to Boston, when we want to go
to Ohio, and those are the two that we have.
Hopefully we'll get Vegas in. I want to go to
the Bay Area, do one in the northern California. We
should do one in La I know mad Jack had
a place, but we didn't end up doing it. Bad
(17:56):
job by us. That was back in December. But meeting
a number of my friends who listen to the show, right,
people like you and I that are just trying to
enjoy life. So I've determined that about twenty percent of
society is hard oh political guy, hard, oh political guy
(18:23):
or gal to try to get it in every conversation right,
the discourse has to be about this, And half of
that faction is prepared to send a strongly worded email
to a sports radio host at two in the morning,
why have you not talked about this? The remaining eighty percent?
(18:45):
And I'm you know, I'm in the eighty percent, just
trying to get through the week, just trying to get
through the day without needing some meds for their blood
pressure and just trying to pay the bills they want
and tune into too the over. You want to hear
some hot takes. You want to hear hollering James snore.
You want to hear the redneck Riviera's biggest star, you know,
(19:08):
the Jed who fled wandering around saying eight hundred words
in ten seconds. You want to hear the latest comments
on the on the X machine from Malard, prop Guy
or fer Dog or Alf. You want to hear what
they have to say. That's what you tune in for.
So to me, silence in this case is not avoidance.
(19:30):
It's knowing that you are a specialist. It's like back
in the in the old days before baseball changed the rules.
And if you're around my age, there was a baseball
term for a very specialized relief pitcher. And what was it. Well,
(19:56):
if you were a left handed a left handed reliever,
and you would come in and you'd face one batter right,
one batter, one batter, one batter, one batter only, and
they called you a loogie. Yeah, a loogie. That was
(20:18):
that was your that was your name. Uh. And and
and not hock, not hawk alugie, No, no, no, wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I know, am I going inside baseball? I think most
people around my age know that. But maybe you're not
around my age and you're like, oh, there's no crying
in baseball. I don't don't yet get it. Uh yeah,
So I know the baseball seasons underway. I know it's
been hijacked by the computer guys for years, but it's
(20:46):
it's underway. Yeah, so there you go. Uh, but that
that's it. So I'm a specialist, you know that. That's
the that's the deal. That's that's what I do. I am.
I'm a lea, A relief pitcher, is what I am.
That's it. Yeah, pop pop fizz fizz. Oh what a
relief it is? Well not exactly, but you get the point, right,
(21:09):
you get the point. So anyway back to it. So
this does not mean that we obviously we obviously deal
in bombastic conversation. That is a world that we are
involved in. The show features much like politics filibusters. Some
would say this Malar podcast here, the fifth Hour podcast
(21:30):
is a filibuster. The Marathon Mallard monologues dissecting the footwork
of Lamar Jackson, or what he orders at a food truck,
or the trade value of Alligator arms Kyler Murray. I've
been labeled Benny Blowhard for hot takes on players like
Sam Darnold or Fernando Mendozo, the Indiana Hoosias quarterback. The
(21:52):
difference is consequence. If a sports talk opinion detonates cub Boom,
the fallout is limited to some barroom chatter a few
social media comments, and that's it. When politics detonates, family
(22:13):
members stop talking to other family members, Like you know,
you've got a problem if you will not talk to
someone because of their politics. Just you know, eat your
own knock yourself out, and I can think you're a knucklehead,
but I can still be your friend. Presidents, now you
think about the president, they change every few years, like
(22:34):
whether President Trump or his eventual successor whoever that ends
up being. You know, they rotate through the White House
like head coaches. It's like a rebuilding franchise, always rebuilding,
was rebuilding, always problems, speaking in cliches, political cliches. The
choreography of the State of the Union remains unchanged, though
(22:54):
I remember watching it with my parents as a kid,
and I didn't think it was the most interesting in
the world, well the most interesting thing in the world.
My parents were really into it, and so I'd paid
attention to it as I got older. And it's the
same show all these years later. Applause on Q, scowls
on Q, the same script. Obviously the names have changed,
(23:17):
although some of them are still there from when I
was a kid, which is crazy because I'm not getting
any younger, and the TV news people treat this as Shakespeare,
and often it plays more like professional wrestling. The great
Jesse Ventura was in the iHeart Building years ago and
(23:39):
he told the story about how it was very much
like professional wrestling, that everyone played a role. And then
they all went to the same cocktail parties in DC
and they hung out together. And yet you know, people
you know in Toledo, Ohio would get upset because they
don't like so and so's politics, and yet these people
were going out and having long island ized teas together.
(24:04):
You know, after they would just mf each other. The
ringmaster knows the crowd. You got to give the customer
what they want. The people that come into the open
night show, they want to hear about football, occasional basketball.
Everything stacked neatly on Aisle fourteen, not for a you know,
(24:25):
tune in for a seminar on fiscal policy. You're not
tuning in for that. And in an era obsessed with engagement, engagement,
you must be engaged all that. Choosing not to chase
the loudest topic of the room is a quiet, active discipline.
(24:46):
Not every platform needs to opine on every spectacle. I
have a group of my radio friends and we text
about certain people that have to give opinions on every right,
and we all roll oririzes people in sports radio that
think they're going to solve the world's problems giving a
(25:07):
take on every issue politically. And it's fascinating that these
people think so much of themselves that they believe that
the people need to hear their opinion on a variety
of issues that have nothing to do with the job
they're hired to do. And I don't have the bandwidth
to get involved in that. I just don't. I don't
(25:30):
ignore it. I watch some of that stuff, but I
don't obsess about it. And I'm pretty sure that the
United States, as it heads into the two hundred and
fiftieth birthday, will survive an overnight sports show that mostly
sticks to sports takes. It's again in and out, Burger Burgers,
(25:52):
fries and shakes. No swordfish, there is no swordfish. Cannot
get it. Cannot get it. Meanwhile, let's get to some food.
He fun, get me in the mood, Little food, he fun,
all right, foody fun. Taco Bell, Taco Bell, Late night
Taco Bell. They have taken things to the next level.
(26:15):
They are bringing back the Live Moss Live and this year.
This year it is going to be essentially a star
studded award show. So what Yeah, Yeah, the people over
there at Taco Bell a March tenth. March tenth, Taco
(26:36):
Bell will host Live Moss or Live Moss Live, A
Night at the Palladium, a one night only variety special
taped at the legendary Hollywood Palladium, streaming exclusively on Peacock.
They got a deal on Peacock rapper Vince Staples. I
(26:58):
have no idea who that is. We'll be hosting this.
Celebrity appearances from Doja Cat. I've heard of that, somebody
named Benson Boone. Have no idea who that is. Ariano Maddox,
nothing on that. Anderson Pack, I believe Paak as DJ Peewee.
(27:21):
There's a couple other people I've never heard of. I
don't think this is for me and my age people.
I guess obviously, Taco Bell, you don't want my people eating,
you want younger people eating. Taco Bell announced twenty twenty
six menu. It's gonna be like a like again award
show and they're going to have different food items come
(27:42):
out and announce some and all that stuff. So that'll
be coming up March tenth. It's at noon Eastern time,
nine am Pacific time on the Peacock, So enjoy that. KFC.
We move on foody fun. Kentucky Fried Chicken has decided
they need to bring back an item from the past.
(28:03):
It is officially back to Twister. You Gotta Do the Twist,
a fan favorite, thee the Wrap has returned two Crispy
Chicken original recipe chicken tenders, lettuce, tomato, and pepper mayo
inside a warm totilla tortilla. This time around, it's less
(28:25):
like a sidekick and more like a full meal. Full meal.
And then there's the new twenty dollars build a bucket. Okay,
so that's the build a bucket for twenty bucks. You
can choose between eight pieces of bone in chicken or
eight original recipe tenders plus four individual sides, four biscuits,
(28:49):
four sauces. If you go the tender way. It's structured
for sharing. However, they say that is like a Swiss
army knife, and it's flexible enough that no one has
to settle for the side they don't want. So there
you go. For twenty twenty bucks. It doesn't seem outrageous.
(29:13):
I don't know that that's going to feed for people,
not people my size, but maybe little people can enjoy that. McDonald's,
Mickey D's. They're expanding their McCafe lineup with drinks. They're
putting drinks out from the failed cosmic concept. So there's
that that's exciting. Yeah, McDonald's. Remember they tried this. We
(29:38):
talked about it in a long ago episode of the
fifth Hour McDonald's Beverage Focus. They were trying to compete
with Starbucks and just take down Starbucks and that was
the plan, and it was a horrific failure. Horrific failure.
And so now they've mixed some of the stuff that
did work there with the cosmics that Beverage Focused offshoot
(30:07):
did not do the job. So they've combined this together
and the McCafe label some of the items five hundred locations,
five hundred locations between Wisconsin and Colorado. So that's it.
The Red Bull infused popping tropic and strawberry watermelon refresher.
(30:30):
That sounds pretty good. I like the strawberry, the watermelon,
creamy vanilla cold brew. I'm good on that, toasted vanilla whatever,
coffee thing, and then Kraft soda called sprite Berry Blast.
So all of that is there. And this comes from
(30:51):
a big shot at McDonald's who said it a recent
Ernie's call that there obviously they learned a lot through
the cosmic test and they're using that. They're applying that
now to the McCafe brand. So all right, enjoy that
a former SpaceX engineer has walked away from rockets to do.
(31:16):
What what do you think, Well, it's obviously foody fun,
so it's something to do with food. This genius former
SpaceX engineer has decided his life's mission is to make
a coffee maker. But not because we need a new
coffee maker. No, no, no, no, no, there's a catch. What
(31:41):
is the catch? His plan is to make a plastic
free coffee brewer that regular people can actually afford. Yeah.
So it started as a personal frustration and has turned
into a full on proper mission. And so he went
(32:02):
looking for a coffee machine made entirely without plastic. Couldn't
find one. The high end options were thousands of dollars.
The affordable ones all had plastic hidden somewhere in there,
whether it was valves, tubing, whatever, and even machines marketed
as stainless steel relied on other parts to get heated daily.
(32:24):
So he built. He built the one that he wanted.
It took him three months. The guy quit his job
and he built an affordable, convenient, plastic free coffee maker
made out of metal and made out of glass. The
coffee pot is glass. I don't see any I do
not see any plastic in the photo. I'm looking at
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here and it says the twelve cup brewer. It swapped
out all the plastic components for medical grades, stainless steel
and glass to eliminate plastic contact with the hot water flows.
And the goal is durability. And it looks looks fine,
(33:10):
look bad at all. So I'm not sure what the
plan is to sell that, But there you go. Can
either make rockets to go to the moon or make
a coffee machine, and if you get that sold, you'll
make a lot of money. Flaming Hot, the people that
Flameing Hot have taken their brand and they're expanding it
(33:32):
into the ready to eat meals category with the launch
of boneless chicken wings. So you'll be able to get
those at the the grocery store. Yeah, about that, A
boneless chicken with bold heat and I believe they are
available through now through June. Flaming hot boneless chicken wings
(33:57):
available at Kroger only, So only at Kroger, which is
the largest grocery chain in the country based in Cincinnati.
Jack in the Box is testing loaded onion rings. That
sounds that sounds pretty good. Jack in the Box testing
how far you are willing to take your onion ring
(34:19):
eating experience. And right now it's in San Antonio only,
So my buddies in San Antonio, you guys go out
and eat these things. Let me know. Email me at
real fifth hour at gmail dot com, give me a
scouting report. Chain's rolling out sauce and loaded onion rings
a new test item that turns its classic Pinko breaded
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rings into a snack situation. You get eight crispy onion
rings stacked that's it, eight crispy onion rings stacked with
MELTI cheese, sauce, ranch I'm out, bacon crumbles. Or there's
the hot mess version that swaps in pepper jack how
to pe for extra heat. So those are it. Price
(35:04):
starts at four dollars and fifty cents, and again it's
a test run in San Antonio. So go see the
Alamo and get some hot mess sauced loaded onion rings.
Do the math on that, So eight fifty and then
(35:26):
there or no, it's not if it's foy, I already
screwed it up. I already screwed it up. So it's
four point fifty and then divided by eight rings. So
that's about fifty six cents per onion ring. And then
that does not include the topic, that does not include
the topping on foody fund. What else do we have?
(35:47):
We do a couple more here. Let's see Oreo has
just dropped a doctor Doom cookie and they've teamed up
with Marvel so the Stuff of Legends campaign. Now this
cookie the reason I bring it up. When you lick it,
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it turns green. Yeah, yeah, it turns green. Imagine how
many chemicals must be used to get that to happen
that kind of chemical reaction. Okay, what else? Uncrustables is
adding blueberry to its PB and J lineup the JM.
Smucker Company they previewed recently the coming brands in twenty
(36:34):
twenty six, and sure enough, on Crustables adding blueberry option.
Doctor Pepper's gone whack a doodle. They're all in. Doctor
Pepper flavored tic TACs are now a thing. I don't
know why they're a thing, but they're a thing in
Johnsonville has just announced recently a Doctor Pepper flavored sausage,
(36:59):
so you can get your you can have your Johnsonville
sausage Dr Pepper flavor, and then you can, after the
meal enjoy some tick tacks with Dr Pepper and you'll
be a doctor, unless you won't. On that note, we
will get out of here. Have a wonderful rest of
your Friday. We'll have new podcasts on Saturday and Sunday,
(37:21):
as we do every single weekend right here. Cannot wait
for the weekend as we Danny Gio. Hopefully you joined
me at some point here. Anyway, have a wonderful rest
of your Friday and we will chat with you next time.
Asta pasta aloha, got a murder. I gotta go,
Host
Ben Maller
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