January 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! Ben talks: Late Night Munchies & Aliens, W.C. Fields, Foodie Fun, Word of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
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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.
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 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, who is on assignment but
will rejoin us for the Saturday and the Sunday podcast.
I know you're very excited about that. But here on
this Friday, our first podcast. You always remember your first
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of twenty twenty five. What does the year hold? We'll
find out it is National fruit Cake Toss today on
this January third. I'm not sure what that is, but
aparently that's a thing. There's a lot of Fugazy Holidays,
which is appropriate. We actually had a guy call up
the Friday Morning original Recipe show, the Overnight Show, named
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Fugazy was on his way to the airport there in
Minnesota at this Festival of Sleep Day. I don't know
a lot about that. The only way I get any
real sleep is if I take a Kirkland brand sleep aid.
Other than that, not so good, not so good. But
on this edition of the podcast, we've got six points
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of greatness. Six points of greatness. Also the hoedown at
the hooton Nanny and late night Monchies as well, and
we'll probably have some foodie fun of the whole thing
before we get into all that. Though I didn't talk
about this this week, I was only on a couple
of nights as I returned from holiday. As my friends
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in New Zealand say, but there are continuing to be
stories out of New Jersey. They're not getting a lot
of media attention on the mainstream media of drones. They're saying,
the size of buses are still hovering around Jersey. And
yet the story seems to have died down. It's mostly
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gone silent, silent. It does not get the attention it
got a couple of weeks ago. And there's all kinds
of stories that are on the tabloids, not the mainstream media,
but the tabloids about this. There's people from the FAA.
They're still investigating all across the tri state area. They're
trying to figure out what's going on. There's a former
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chief of the FBI Counter Drone unit who I saw
quoted in one of the London tabloids, and right away
people roll their eyes. Well, he's a former FBI, so
he's part of big government. You can't take this guy seriously.
But he's like, well, most of the sightings were errors
and hysteria. I was actually talking to a buddy of
mine is a big Coast to Coast fan and doesn't
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even like sports, but we're friends and old ice love
Art Bell, and I still, you know, I don't get
to listen to George Norrie because we work at the
same time, but I like the content on Coast to
Coast anyway. This guy listens all the time. He's like, listen,
He's all, this is the most amazing thing this guy's
telling me. He's like, we are being invaded. He's convinced.
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He's listening to Coast to Coast since like the in
the mid nineties. He's convinced that it's an alien invasion.
And because of all the technology that has been tossed
out there, we are being told it's drones, but it's
actually aliens. And they're investigating us, and people are being
captured and they're being treated like lab rats, and he's
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got this like this whole thing, and I'm like, okay,
you know, I get it. You know, it sounds like
like a movie or something like that. I remember Art
Bell used to do shows back in the day about
animal animals being mutilated that were taking up the spaceships
and tossed back down their guts were on one side
and all that. Who knows it is a fascinating story.
And the fact that it's supposedly still going on and
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you have to search the tabloids. It's not getting a
lot of attention in the old school mainstream or even
social media, and people are saying, well, there's fatigue now
the story. People's attention spans aren't that great, and so
the mystery drone fever has broken. Even though it's still
going on, people are like dealing with it and all that. Now,
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as far as the show at hand, the fifth hour here,
I did want to mention that I cannot think of
a better way to start twenty twenty five than watching
good television. And for me, it's really a good flipping
time or a flipping good time Benny versus the Penny.
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We have made it to week eighteen. No NFL on
Thursday night. We had that rivening Notre Dame win over
Georgia in the afternoon, but no NFL game on Thursday night.
It will be a couple of games tomorrow on Saturday
and then full Gauntlet on Sunday. But this is a
Week eighteen, Last Chance, Last Rites, the Last Supper. During
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the regular season, the show will continue. I've been asked
we'll continue in the playoffs. Yes, the show will continue
the playoffs. So it's aired in the Bay Area, it's
aired in several other markets, and later today we point
this out for our listeners in the Commonwealth that it
will go back on TV live on tape after Felger
and Mass. Now, if you're not in Boston, you don't
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know who Felger and Mass are. But they're like the
number one or sports radio show in Boston and their
show is simulcast. There's such big high falutin people that
their show is simulcast on NBC Sports Boston. So when
they get done, we are wedged between their show, which
does very well, and then that's at six o'clock their
show goes off TV at six o'clock, we go on
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with this episode of Benny Versus depending live on tape,
and then we'll have encore showings after Celtics basketball. The
Celtics will be I think they're in Texas, I believe.
Don't hold me to that. I looked at the schedule
yesterday and I don't recall it exactly, but I do
know we're supposed to air the show depending on how
long the Celtics coverage goes at midnight in Boston and
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then again at one am on NBC Sports Boston and
there all weekend airs a ton in the Bay Area.
I'll actually have some funny story about that at some point.
Maybe I'll save that for tomorrow. I have some other
things to get to today. But it'll be on all
the NBC regional cable channels. It's on stations I don't
even know about. I've done these mallor meet and greets.
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I've gone to different places, like, hey, this show's on here.
I didn't know the show was on there. I had
no idea shows on there. It's on like Spectrum in
some places and whatnot. It's on in LA on the
Lakers station. So check it out. Would be cool now
for me, I love doing the show. It's a lot
of fun. I still pinch myself every time I walk
into the studio and have a TV show. It's crazy.
And I've done radio for so long it's like nuts
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to me, right. But one of the things that we've
started to do recently, I would have done this last year,
but I will not name the person who is guilty
of this would not allow me to walk to this part.
Some guy I forget his name, he's he's like a
cartoon character. I would not allow me to walk to
this back part of Universal. So now we were meandering
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around the back lot at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and
this week I found my way to Six Points, Texas.
I believe is what it's called. It's an old Western set.
Now there's debate about actually how old it is. Part
of it was used in the silent film era. That's
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been a minute, that's been a minute, and it's it's
called six Points. I actually learned this from the tram
that kept going by every ten minutes. There was a tram,
so I was learning fun facts, which is very surreal,
very surreal when you're actually allowed to be there. And
the train with all these tourists are coming in there
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and they stop and they're like, well, this is where
so and so was film blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But I picked up some nuggets. So it's called six
Points because it consists of six Western streets, all leading
to one point. Right, So thus that the name six points.
But it all leads to one point. And it's from
the early days of Universal. It was actually in a
different part of the lot. It's now kind of further back,
closer to the amusement park. And this is where they
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would have crowds gather on these various Western streets. They
have a live crowd watching them film up to six
films being shot simultaneously. Say why, yeah, so the way
this works, apparently he has I understand it. Since this
was back in the silent film era, it didn't matter
if people were making noise and farting and burping and
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all that and clapping and your kids crying, and so
the crowd was able to applaud the good guys and
they were able to boo the bad guys. Now, there
are two sets, two sets of doorways at the six
points part of Universal and some are larger than life, right,
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to make the damsels in distress seem like they've got
you know, they're very vulnerable. Doors are massive, you know,
these little women, and some are a little smaller, and
those were used to make the hero the cowboys seem
more impressive, more machismo, more imposing. Right, So these little
tricks that they made in the silent film era, and
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the thing that I didn't know at the time. I
did the little vignette which will be up later today
on my Facebook page and the Instagram page for the show,
and hopefully you're following so you can can see this stuff.
Otherwise it's rather pointless that I'm bringing this up. You're like,
lod are you brother? I have social media? Is the
way you bring that up. But anyway, let me let
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me give the point. So I was there wandering around
and then went by a bunch of cool buildings, you know,
just a bunch of cool, cool things, and I was
trying to visualize like the movies that were filmed there,
and I'm wandering around and there's some legends of Hollywood.
James Stewart been dead for a while, John Wayne, John
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Wayne regular film movies there, Andy Devine, all the way
up to Clint Eastwood and a few others. We're all regular.
You know. Clint Eastwood known, he's like a hundred order
I think still around. But he would make a lot
of Westerns, and so that's where they filmed a lot
of them. You didn't have to go far away right
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there by a bing bout a boom, you're ready to go.
You're ready to go. So that's that's pretty neat. So
there's that. So I'm wandering around and then when I
was walking back to the garage to get out of there,
and then I stumbled on something. I was like, wait
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a minute, here, by the way, if you want to
follow this show, I should probably point out Instagram, Ben
Maller on Fox Facebook show page, Ben Mahllor Show, Ben
Malors Show, and you can check that out. So I'm
wandering to my car and I stumbled on this gold
mine that the set that I was on was a
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set used by one of my favorite people in old
school Hollywood. Someone my favorite quote and I've used if
you hear the show a lot. You know this. I
know Alf right now is rolling his eyes. I don't
know what true about to say, and Ferg Dog's like, yeah, yeah,
I just spin it out. But in the early days
of Hollywood, there was a comedian actor who was very
popular and a raging alcoholic named W. C. Fields. And
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in that set, part of that set May West, another
legendary name in the golden era of Hollywood. May West
save W C. Fields life in my Little Chickapee and
that was filmed in that area. And the quote from W. C. Fields,
which to me sums up what our show is about,
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which you're a part of. If you listen to the Overnight,
the quote is, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
baffle them with bullshit. And that just sums up what
we do. Right. I try to show you I'm smart.
Oftentimes I'm an idiot and my efforts are just to
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baffle you with ridiculousness. But W. C. Fields, that's my
favorite quote. But he had some brilliant lines as a comedian.
He said, start every day off with a smile, get
that thing over with and you can pool some of
the people some of the time and that's enough to
make a decent living, which is a play on the
Abraham Lincoln famous quote from back in the day. Yeah,
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I can give you all cuts. I have studied W. C. Fields.
There's a street I've talked about when you drive into
Universal that is named for W. C. Fields. So that's
why I'm driving on. Yeah. He probably was long gone
by the time they named that, but it's it's still great.
One of his other quotes, he said, remember a dead fish,
W C. Field said, can float downstream, but it takes
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a live one to swim upstream upstream, so there's that.
He said children should neither be seen nor heard from
ever again was one of his quotes. And he also said,
this is a line that I had heard that has
been repacked. He's one of my buddies. It was a
was a basketball reporter from Germany and became an agent.
I don't know what happened to him. It was a
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good dude. We used to hang out back in the day.
And this is a W. C. Field line. He said,
I never drink water. He says, that's that's the stuff
that Russ pipes, right, And then he also said I
don't drink water because that's where fish you know, screw yeah,
want that. Yeah. So I mean there were a bunch
of those things and from w C. Field. So it
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was cool. You know. I as I was leaving, I'd
already left the studio, the set, but I'm walking through
there and and I'm like, wow, that's like, that's really neat.
I mean, that's a guy. It's like going to when
I was a young reporter. I walked into the press
box at Dodger Stadium. Was like last whe Vin Scully
does the games. And I watched Vin on TV and
I eventually got to know him a little bit, which
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was really cool. But w C. Fields it was a
big deal, and it's kind of neat. You know, he's
been gone for a while, but that's where he worked.
That's where all these big stars back in the day
in Hollywood got her done. I didn't want to address
I wasn't planning on talking about this, but here we are.
So last night on the show, I think it was
Our three, late in hour three, if I'm right, and
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I'm a little foggy, little foggy this morning here on
the Friday, But as I remember, it was, it was
Our three near the end of our three, we took
a call from Angry Bill. Now, Angry Bill has been
calling the show for many, many years, and normally what
happens is he gets on the air, he says something offensive,
he rips me, he takes a shot at me, and
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then hangs up and we end up having to dump
him because he says something naughty and it ends up
on the podcast. And this happens. I mean, there was
a period for a while it was a roller coaster, right,
every time Angry Bill would call up, he would just
not even say anything. He just ripped me, and then
we'd dump him. And that ended a while ago, and
so he was really taken aback by Lorena. We were
(15:19):
talking about something. I forget exactly what it was, but oh,
you know what, you know what it was Marcel's West
Coast rival from Baltimore, helmet Man, the Great helmet Man.
So helmet Man. All right, he's watching the OJ trial.
He's been watching this for months, and so I had
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him turn it up. I was like, I was just
goofing around. I was like, I turn that up. I
want to hear what they're saying. Right, you don't see
what's going on with the OJ trial. Maybe the outcome
will be different. So he turns it up. Right, We're like, well,
that guy's dead. This guy's dead, all these lawyers are dead.
And then we got to Robert Shift I believe was
the guy we were talking about. And then we looked
him up, still alive, and he was like seventy six
years old, and said Lorena started talking and she's, you know,
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her father was a lot older when she was when
she was born, and an older father, and so her
father is in his mid seventies, I think she said,
seventy five. So Angry Bill calls up and it's on
the podcast. You can hear it. I don't need to
do the whole play by play on it, but it
blew me away. I mean, this is a different side
of angry Bill. Like he was very emotional. I know
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he's had had trauma and unless a lot of people
that call the show life can be fed up and
people don't treat you right, you're not happy with your job,
or you've got family issues, and that really comes out
at the end of the year. Now we're into the
new year and you look back and Angry Bill's he said,
he's seventy seventy five I believe Lorraina's dad's like seventy six,
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but he said seventy five. So he starts talking and
initially I'm like, Oh, he's going to say something creepy.
You know, he's going to say something creepy. And he didn't.
Much to my dazzlement, he did not say anything creepy.
He's like telling the story about how I know. He's like, listen,
call your dad, send him a message every once in
a while, tell some old story when you were a
little kid and what it was like and what it meant.
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And he kept talking like that, and he's study getting
very emotional and started started crying. Now, my bullshit detector,
I think is pretty good. And unless Angry Bill is
gonna win an Oscar for that, that just felt real
to me. That felt like a guy that heard that story,
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and Angry Bill's told us a little bit about him.
I don't know everything. It's not my business. If he
wants to bring it up, he can bring it up.
I'm not a trained therapist. I talk about balls on
the radio, right, I talk about overpaid athletes that are ungrateful.
That's what I do for a living anyway. But Bill
was piecing the puzzle pieces. Yeah, this is just what
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I surmise. I could be completely wrong. What do I know.
I just do the overnight show, But putting the clues
together from what he had talked about in the past
would appear. The reason that resonated for Angrybill is because
he's got some kids, some family that have cut him off.
And I don't know whether that's true. And that's just
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my interpretation of putting the puzzle pieces together. And so
I've heard this a lot over over the years. I mean,
there's a lot of a lot of our listeners that
are a little older, you know, because they can't sleep
and they love radio. And you know, some shows don't
put older callers on, and I put everyone on. I think,
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you know, I want to be lucky enough to live
old to my old age, and I would hope somebody
would allow me to speak on the radio if they're
still calling radio shows. And people have a lot of
great story to me. The older you get, the greater
stories you have. You know, you've lived your life, You've
got great stories. You can tell us things, give us wisdom.
So I think that's cool. I admire you know, I
was kind of raised that way. You admire people who've
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lived the life and can share that information with youth
that will make your life better. And so I've done
that and I've always I've had a lot of people
that have sent me very heartful of emails. A lot
of them don't even call in the hide behind the
X machine, and they've had issues with their kids where
they raised their kids. And you know, people think of
fathers and they ah, there's some brash dad, you know
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who cares about his kids. But these guys really do.
They get really upset, you know. They you know, they
get to their sixties and their seventies and the kids
are assholes and don't call them, don't text them, they
don't spend time with them over the holidays. They cut
them out, and it's it's just terrible. And it's not
it's not even a message of I know I'm getting
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getting seriously, I don't want to get too serious. But
because it's a it's a dopey weekend podcast, but it's
one of those things like you're not These guys have
told me, yeah, maybe they're lying. I don't know, I
don't know what's going on, but they're like, well, I
raised my kid this way and this kid. You know,
I did everything I thought was right, and the kid
ran away and wanted nothing to do. And it drives
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them nuts, especially over the Holliday. And I totally get it.
I mean to me, you know, I know, I just
think you're an asshole if you do that I do.
And it's not that hard. You know, you don't have
to live with your parents, and you know, and again,
I was raised. That's just how I was raised. That's
my experience. Everyone's different. Maybe some of these guys were
beating their kids. I don't know, But all I know
is I was raised in a loving home. I was
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lucky I did. I'm lucky. And my mom raised me,
you know Jewish mother that you know. I always she
would take care of me, but she wanted to hear
what was going on in my life. And she would
listen to every show that I did, no matter how
terrible the hours were. I would call her up after
every show. She would tell me what she liked. She
would tell me what she didn't like, whether it was
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Pete and Pittsburgh or Blind Scott or Spoke and Gary
or trying to think of some of the other callers
back in the day, angel Fan Michelle, some of the
some of the great kid callers we had back then,
and she her break down what she liked, what she
didn't like, and she had a lot of health problems,
but she always answered the phone when I called, and
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and she you know, I always made sure, even up
until the day she passed, I made sure to talk
to her. She couldn't talk back at the end there.
But so for me, it's so foreign that so many
people are like this. It's very upsetting. And hopefully, if
maybe you're in a situation like that where you've fallen
out of contact with your parents who are older, you
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don't have to become buddy buddy with them. Just I
agree with angry Bill. Every once in a while, check
in how you doing, and I remember going to that
ball game with you or watching the game, and yeah,
because that's the little stuff. You don't have to send
them anything. But that's the stuff that really resonates with me.
But I just wanted to get that off my off
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my chest. I did, And I think I'm gonna pivot
here because I was gonna tell a story about the
hoe down at the Hoot and Nanny, But I think
I'm gonna save that for tomorrow. Danny G's supposed to
be back with us the Saturday pot, so I think
I'll say that for tomorrow. I didn't want to get
the foody fun, foody fun, let's do it so KFC.
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This caught my attention. KFC has opened a new restaurant
recently and it's all about sauce. It's Saucy, Yeah, I know,
very popular on social media. It's gone viral. It's named Saucy.
I'm not kidding. It's a new concept restaurant. It opened
up in late December. They cut one of those big
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cartoon red ribbons late December called Saucy. Described as a
new concept store for Kentucky Fried Chicken. And it's a
very small, narrow focus for the KFC dining experience and
the very limited menu. The focus is on yes, you
guessed it, chicken tenders. And there's a total of eleven
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distinct sauces to match up with the eleven herbs and spices.
So why not go with more than stop at eleven?
How about eleven plus a few more? Could they do that?
So I looked at this. They have everything from sweet
teriaki yum yum to a smoky bacon ranch. I don't
know about that. And this is in the Orlando area,
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so if you're in Orlando, I got some listeners there
to this podcast. Let me know. It looks like, based
on what I've seen online, this is their way to
try to take down Raising canes. Like this is we
can take some of the market share from raising canes
because when these people have our creole honey mustard or
the sweet, Sweet and Saucy barbecue, they're going to go
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to our store and they're not going to go to
Raising canes. That's a direct shot at raising canes. So
and I like CAFs. I used to at KFC a lot.
I have not eaten kfsin use. Once I found raising
canes game over right, that's it. And I still go
to chick fil I'm not a I'm not as obsessed
with Chick fil As at a lot of people in
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my circle are. I don't hate it, but if I
have a choice between Raising canes a Chick fil A,
I'm going to Raising knes and twice on Sunday because listen,
Raising Canes is open and the other one isn't. Duncan
for only known as dunkin donuts. They have revealed they
knew Sabrina Carpenter shaking espresso drink a collab with the
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pop star Sabrina Carpenter, who my wife listens to a lot,
her very own espresso drinking. You think there's any chance
that she actually had anything to do with this and
it wasn't just a bunch of people that are in
her circle that put this together. I'm skeptical. I mean,
it's possible, possible, but methinks there might be something else
going on there. But I don't know. I'm not a
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coffee drinker, so I have nothing to do with that.
Try it on your own there. I'm a donut guy.
I like the donuts. I'm all about the donuts. How
about this on Foody Fun. How much McDonald's do McDonald's
franchise owners really make per year? You're curious. Yeah, when
I was in school, when I was in high school,
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one of the kids in school, their parents owned like
three or four McDonald's. The family owned a bunch of
restaurants and they managed them, but they didn't really operate
them at meaning they did the business, but they obviously
I had other people to take care everything. And I
remember how interesting that was, and I said, wow, this
guy like he worked at McDonald's but his parents like
owned it. It was like the whole thing that was
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a long time ago. But the average McDonald's restaurant, let's
do some malord math on this. Based on a minutes
long mallor of investigation, the average McDonald's restaurant takes in
around two point seven million per year in sales. That's
on average. Now, some make a lot more, some make
a lot less, but two point seven on average and
not quite as high as like Chick fil a or Panera,
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So you're not making as much. But the McDonald's franchise
owner because of all the marketing and the McDonald's is
a legacy restaurant and all that. Most franchise owners at
the end of everything, when you spend all the money
on the food and you have to give money to
corporate McDonald's, you've got to pay everybody and bounce the books.
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It's estimated yearly profit for each McDonald's restaurant is one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the owner. Now, one
hundred and five thousand dollars is a lot, but when
you own a restaurant, you said, I'm going to make
more than that. Right, I'm here. You're the owner. You
can manage a McDonald's and make ninety one hundred thousand
dollars or more. But they astidate one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars of profit after the two point seven million
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in sales. That is not even six percent because of
the cost of food supplies. You got to pay the
payroll and all the other corporate costs that have to
be sent on to big golden arches, big golden arches.
But still so, and this is something I was so
I actually thought about getting into this years ago. I
had a little bit of money saved up, and I
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was like, do I buy a house, or maybe I'll
spend this money and buy I'll invest in a fast
food restaurant. At that time, you could get in for
a reasonable amount of money, at least what I thought
was a reasonable amount of money. And so I investigated it,
and then I determined that to really make any real money,
you have to own I think the number at that time,
and don't hold me to this, do not hold me this,
(27:22):
but I think the number was like three. You had
at least three restaurants, which makes sense because if you
do the math on that, if it's McDonald's, you make
one hundred and thirty thousand, three of them, you're making
almost half a million. I'm not a numbers guy, but
that doesn't seem to add up. You two of them.
I think you're doing pretty well. I have three hundred thousand.
I think you're doing pretty well. So there is that.
Alf normally sends questions in on the mailbag, but Alf
(27:44):
sent me a couple of food stories. For food. He
fun our friend Alf the Alien of Pineter. He sent
this from a nearby Wooster, Mass and he says that
Chaney's Kosher Deli during Hallow, not Jerry Halloween, during during Hankkah,
not Alomy Hankah, it's early. What do you want? So
during during Honkkah, this kosher deli was selling pastrami donuts. Yeah,
(28:12):
on day one of Honukkah. Honka is now over. And
I think this is legit. I don't. I don't think
this is ai. I don't think this is fake. I
think this as far as I didn't really go deep
dive on this, and I looked at it and I
was like, oh, I gotta tell you that actually doesn't
look bad. My original thought when I saw the headline
from from alf I saw the story, I'm like, oh,
(28:33):
this is gonna be uh be terrible, right, But then
I was thinking about it, and I've talked about this
in the past on Foody Fund. But the whole key
to eating is there's three big food goops. You've heard
there's more than three food goops, but the big three
are salt, sugar, and fat. And these major food companies
(28:54):
spend millions in research in labs to try to find
out what they call well, the bliss point. If you've
heard this before, just fast forward in the podcast. But
the bliss point for each food it's this they call
it again, the bliss point. But there's this ratio of
just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat, and
(29:16):
when you get there, food is irresistible. Now I've been
told by many that I have the palette of an
eight year old, and so that's my issue. But the
amount of salt, sugar and fat that optimizes everything. And
you've got the salt, and you've got a little pepper,
and you've got the fat from the pastrami, and then
(29:38):
you wrap that in a doughnut to change to change
a chain that sounds like a winner. Alf also sent
me a simple recipe that I am debating whether or
not to make. I mentioned my love of cinnamon, and
I said on the show, I believe my line was
and I believe this to be true that if you
do not like cinnamon rolls, freshly baked cinnamon rolls out
of the oven, you likely are a lizard person, a
(30:00):
lizard person. So he sent me this recipe. It's very
simple for heavenly cinnamon roll bread twists. And I'm I'm
debating whether I'm AMaGA I actually plan I was planning
on my next the michig As. I was gonna make
those are they called? What are they called? They have?
It's half chocolate chip cookie and half brownie. I knew
(30:21):
the name. I forgot. I have not made those. I
made brownies. I made cookies, but combine them together. So
I think I'm gonna I'm gonna do that. I think
I'm not, you know, I'm not sure debating it. And uh, anyway,
that's that's enough of that. Let's get before we get
out of here, let's get to the word all the wink.
Are you ready for the word all the week. The
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word of the week is a word that we use
from time to time. Many sports fans believe in this
word jinx. Yeah, you're a jinx. I've been told over
the years that the curse of the Benbino is a
tremendous jinx, which might explain my picks being so bad
on the TV show, which is a bit all over
the place this weekend Benny versus Penny. But according to
(31:03):
the Dictionary, jinks is obviously for someone that brings bad luck.
The term can also be used as a verb describing
an act that brings bad luck, like a hex in
that case, and the noun jinks also refers to the
state or spell of bad luck brought on by said
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said jinks. So they traced the word back, and it
appeared in print as early as the beginning of the
twentieth century. The Chicago Daily News in nineteen eleven used
the slang version of the word jinks for unlucky baseball players. Yeah, baseball,
it was a baseball term, But the word goes back
(31:46):
much further than baseball experts believe. The word evolved from
ryneck wrynck that evolved into jinks in the seventeenth century.
Around the time, the word also came to mean a
charm or a spell, putting a charm or a spell
on you, And the definition of that word far goes further,
(32:12):
much further back in time, meaning an unlucky, unlucky person.
And we go back to the nineteenth century. There are
a couple of characters, one name named Jinx that was
part of American culture, and that is believed to be
the character that helps solidify today's modern version. All us
you know, back in the nineteenth century, here we are
(32:32):
all these years later, and it's still used that way.
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines was a popular vaudvillian
a tune that described a bumbling and stumbling soldier who
was kicked out of the army. And so they used
that word then. So the word of the week, the
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word of the week is Jinx. You on that note,
have yourself a wonderful Friday. I'll have Danny, she will
be back. He's producing this podcast. But Danny will be
back tomorrow and we'll have him talk into the microphone.
And I have to remember, I'm gonna make a little
note here, okay, when I come back into the podcast
studio tomorrow. The hoe down at the hooton Nanny, the
(33:15):
hoe down at the hooton Nanny. And there's some other
stuff that I didn't get to, but I got carried
away giving my thoughts on the Angry Bill story. Anyway,
have a wonderful arrest of your day. And as Danny
would say, it was a lader skater something like that. Yeah, no,
all right, anyway, whatever he says, all right, how about
bye bye, be a fire, got a murder. I gotta go.
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, who is on assignment but
will rejoin us for the Saturday and the Sunday podcast.
I know you're very excited about that. But here on
this Friday, our first podcast. You always remember your first
(00:50):
of twenty twenty five. What does the year hold? We'll
find out it is National fruit Cake Toss today on
this January third. I'm not sure what that is, but
aparently that's a thing. There's a lot of Fugazy Holidays,
which is appropriate. We actually had a guy call up
the Friday Morning original Recipe show, the Overnight Show, named
(01:12):
Fugazy was on his way to the airport there in
Minnesota at this Festival of Sleep Day. I don't know
a lot about that. The only way I get any
real sleep is if I take a Kirkland brand sleep aid.
Other than that, not so good, not so good. But
on this edition of the podcast, we've got six points
(01:33):
of greatness. Six points of greatness. Also the hoedown at
the hooton Nanny and late night Monchies as well, and
we'll probably have some foodie fun of the whole thing
before we get into all that. Though I didn't talk
about this this week, I was only on a couple
of nights as I returned from holiday. As my friends
(01:55):
in New Zealand say, but there are continuing to be
stories out of New Jersey. They're not getting a lot
of media attention on the mainstream media of drones. They're saying,
the size of buses are still hovering around Jersey. And
yet the story seems to have died down. It's mostly
(02:15):
gone silent, silent. It does not get the attention it
got a couple of weeks ago. And there's all kinds
of stories that are on the tabloids, not the mainstream media,
but the tabloids about this. There's people from the FAA.
They're still investigating all across the tri state area. They're
trying to figure out what's going on. There's a former
(02:37):
chief of the FBI Counter Drone unit who I saw
quoted in one of the London tabloids, and right away
people roll their eyes. Well, he's a former FBI, so
he's part of big government. You can't take this guy seriously.
But he's like, well, most of the sightings were errors
and hysteria. I was actually talking to a buddy of
mine is a big Coast to Coast fan and doesn't
(02:59):
even like sports, but we're friends and old ice love
Art Bell, and I still, you know, I don't get
to listen to George Norrie because we work at the
same time, but I like the content on Coast to
Coast anyway. This guy listens all the time. He's like, listen,
He's all, this is the most amazing thing this guy's
telling me. He's like, we are being invaded. He's convinced.
(03:19):
He's listening to Coast to Coast since like the in
the mid nineties. He's convinced that it's an alien invasion.
And because of all the technology that has been tossed
out there, we are being told it's drones, but it's
actually aliens. And they're investigating us, and people are being
captured and they're being treated like lab rats, and he's
(03:40):
got this like this whole thing, and I'm like, okay,
you know, I get it. You know, it sounds like
like a movie or something like that. I remember Art
Bell used to do shows back in the day about
animal animals being mutilated that were taking up the spaceships
and tossed back down their guts were on one side
and all that. Who knows it is a fascinating story.
And the fact that it's supposedly still going on and
(04:02):
you have to search the tabloids. It's not getting a
lot of attention in the old school mainstream or even
social media, and people are saying, well, there's fatigue now
the story. People's attention spans aren't that great, and so
the mystery drone fever has broken. Even though it's still
going on, people are like dealing with it and all that. Now,
(04:23):
as far as the show at hand, the fifth hour here,
I did want to mention that I cannot think of
a better way to start twenty twenty five than watching
good television. And for me, it's really a good flipping
time or a flipping good time Benny versus the Penny.
(04:45):
We have made it to week eighteen. No NFL on
Thursday night. We had that rivening Notre Dame win over
Georgia in the afternoon, but no NFL game on Thursday night.
It will be a couple of games tomorrow on Saturday
and then full Gauntlet on Sunday. But this is a
Week eighteen, Last Chance, Last Rites, the Last Supper. During
(05:06):
the regular season, the show will continue. I've been asked
we'll continue in the playoffs. Yes, the show will continue
the playoffs. So it's aired in the Bay Area, it's
aired in several other markets, and later today we point
this out for our listeners in the Commonwealth that it
will go back on TV live on tape after Felger
and Mass. Now, if you're not in Boston, you don't
(05:28):
know who Felger and Mass are. But they're like the
number one or sports radio show in Boston and their
show is simulcast. There's such big high falutin people that
their show is simulcast on NBC Sports Boston. So when
they get done, we are wedged between their show, which
does very well, and then that's at six o'clock their
show goes off TV at six o'clock, we go on
(05:51):
with this episode of Benny Versus depending live on tape,
and then we'll have encore showings after Celtics basketball. The
Celtics will be I think they're in Texas, I believe.
Don't hold me to that. I looked at the schedule
yesterday and I don't recall it exactly, but I do
know we're supposed to air the show depending on how
long the Celtics coverage goes at midnight in Boston and
(06:14):
then again at one am on NBC Sports Boston and
there all weekend airs a ton in the Bay Area.
I'll actually have some funny story about that at some point.
Maybe I'll save that for tomorrow. I have some other
things to get to today. But it'll be on all
the NBC regional cable channels. It's on stations I don't
even know about. I've done these mallor meet and greets.
(06:35):
I've gone to different places, like, hey, this show's on here.
I didn't know the show was on there. I had
no idea shows on there. It's on like Spectrum in
some places and whatnot. It's on in LA on the
Lakers station. So check it out. Would be cool now
for me, I love doing the show. It's a lot
of fun. I still pinch myself every time I walk
into the studio and have a TV show. It's crazy.
And I've done radio for so long it's like nuts
(06:56):
to me, right. But one of the things that we've
started to do recently, I would have done this last year,
but I will not name the person who is guilty
of this would not allow me to walk to this part.
Some guy I forget his name, he's he's like a
cartoon character. I would not allow me to walk to
this back part of Universal. So now we were meandering
(07:16):
around the back lot at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and
this week I found my way to Six Points, Texas.
I believe is what it's called. It's an old Western set.
Now there's debate about actually how old it is. Part
of it was used in the silent film era. That's
(07:41):
been a minute, that's been a minute, and it's it's
called six Points. I actually learned this from the tram
that kept going by every ten minutes. There was a tram,
so I was learning fun facts, which is very surreal,
very surreal when you're actually allowed to be there. And
the train with all these tourists are coming in there
(08:02):
and they stop and they're like, well, this is where
so and so was film blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But I picked up some nuggets. So it's called six
Points because it consists of six Western streets, all leading
to one point. Right, So thus that the name six points.
But it all leads to one point. And it's from
the early days of Universal. It was actually in a
different part of the lot. It's now kind of further back,
closer to the amusement park. And this is where they
(08:32):
would have crowds gather on these various Western streets. They
have a live crowd watching them film up to six
films being shot simultaneously. Say why, yeah, so the way
this works, apparently he has I understand it. Since this
was back in the silent film era, it didn't matter
if people were making noise and farting and burping and
(08:54):
all that and clapping and your kids crying, and so
the crowd was able to applaud the good guys and
they were able to boo the bad guys. Now, there
are two sets, two sets of doorways at the six
points part of Universal and some are larger than life, right,
(09:14):
to make the damsels in distress seem like they've got
you know, they're very vulnerable. Doors are massive, you know,
these little women, and some are a little smaller, and
those were used to make the hero the cowboys seem
more impressive, more machismo, more imposing. Right, So these little
tricks that they made in the silent film era, and
(09:36):
the thing that I didn't know at the time. I
did the little vignette which will be up later today
on my Facebook page and the Instagram page for the show,
and hopefully you're following so you can can see this stuff.
Otherwise it's rather pointless that I'm bringing this up. You're like,
lod are you brother? I have social media? Is the
way you bring that up. But anyway, let me let
(09:57):
me give the point. So I was there wandering around
and then went by a bunch of cool buildings, you know,
just a bunch of cool, cool things, and I was
trying to visualize like the movies that were filmed there,
and I'm wandering around and there's some legends of Hollywood.
James Stewart been dead for a while, John Wayne, John
(10:20):
Wayne regular film movies there, Andy Devine, all the way
up to Clint Eastwood and a few others. We're all regular.
You know. Clint Eastwood known, he's like a hundred order
I think still around. But he would make a lot
of Westerns, and so that's where they filmed a lot
of them. You didn't have to go far away right
(10:40):
there by a bing bout a boom, you're ready to go.
You're ready to go. So that's that's pretty neat. So
there's that. So I'm wandering around and then when I
was walking back to the garage to get out of there,
and then I stumbled on something. I was like, wait
(11:01):
a minute, here, by the way, if you want to
follow this show, I should probably point out Instagram, Ben
Maller on Fox Facebook show page, Ben Mahllor Show, Ben
Malors Show, and you can check that out. So I'm
wandering to my car and I stumbled on this gold
mine that the set that I was on was a
(11:22):
set used by one of my favorite people in old
school Hollywood. Someone my favorite quote and I've used if
you hear the show a lot. You know this. I
know Alf right now is rolling his eyes. I don't
know what true about to say, and Ferg Dog's like, yeah, yeah,
I just spin it out. But in the early days
of Hollywood, there was a comedian actor who was very
popular and a raging alcoholic named W. C. Fields. And
(11:48):
in that set, part of that set May West, another
legendary name in the golden era of Hollywood. May West
save W C. Fields life in my Little Chickapee and
that was filmed in that area. And the quote from W. C. Fields,
which to me sums up what our show is about,
(12:08):
which you're a part of. If you listen to the Overnight,
the quote is, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
baffle them with bullshit. And that just sums up what
we do. Right. I try to show you I'm smart.
Oftentimes I'm an idiot and my efforts are just to
(12:28):
baffle you with ridiculousness. But W. C. Fields, that's my
favorite quote. But he had some brilliant lines as a comedian.
He said, start every day off with a smile, get
that thing over with and you can pool some of
the people some of the time and that's enough to
make a decent living, which is a play on the
Abraham Lincoln famous quote from back in the day. Yeah,
(12:50):
I can give you all cuts. I have studied W. C. Fields.
There's a street I've talked about when you drive into
Universal that is named for W. C. Fields. So that's
why I'm driving on. Yeah. He probably was long gone
by the time they named that, but it's it's still great.
One of his other quotes, he said, remember a dead fish,
W C. Field said, can float downstream, but it takes
(13:10):
a live one to swim upstream upstream, so there's that.
He said children should neither be seen nor heard from
ever again was one of his quotes. And he also said,
this is a line that I had heard that has
been repacked. He's one of my buddies. It was a
was a basketball reporter from Germany and became an agent.
I don't know what happened to him. It was a
(13:31):
good dude. We used to hang out back in the day.
And this is a W. C. Field line. He said,
I never drink water. He says, that's that's the stuff
that Russ pipes, right, And then he also said I
don't drink water because that's where fish you know, screw yeah,
want that. Yeah. So I mean there were a bunch
of those things and from w C. Field. So it
(13:53):
was cool. You know. I as I was leaving, I'd
already left the studio, the set, but I'm walking through
there and and I'm like, wow, that's like, that's really neat.
I mean, that's a guy. It's like going to when
I was a young reporter. I walked into the press
box at Dodger Stadium. Was like last whe Vin Scully
does the games. And I watched Vin on TV and
I eventually got to know him a little bit, which
(14:13):
was really cool. But w C. Fields it was a
big deal, and it's kind of neat. You know, he's
been gone for a while, but that's where he worked.
That's where all these big stars back in the day
in Hollywood got her done. I didn't want to address
I wasn't planning on talking about this, but here we are.
So last night on the show, I think it was
Our three, late in hour three, if I'm right, and
(14:39):
I'm a little foggy, little foggy this morning here on
the Friday, But as I remember, it was, it was
Our three near the end of our three, we took
a call from Angry Bill. Now, Angry Bill has been
calling the show for many, many years, and normally what
happens is he gets on the air, he says something offensive,
he rips me, he takes a shot at me, and
(14:59):
then hangs up and we end up having to dump
him because he says something naughty and it ends up
on the podcast. And this happens. I mean, there was
a period for a while it was a roller coaster, right,
every time Angry Bill would call up, he would just
not even say anything. He just ripped me, and then
we'd dump him. And that ended a while ago, and
so he was really taken aback by Lorena. We were
(15:19):
talking about something. I forget exactly what it was, but oh,
you know what, you know what it was Marcel's West
Coast rival from Baltimore, helmet Man, the Great helmet Man.
So helmet Man. All right, he's watching the OJ trial.
He's been watching this for months, and so I had
(15:41):
him turn it up. I was like, I was just
goofing around. I was like, I turn that up. I
want to hear what they're saying. Right, you don't see
what's going on with the OJ trial. Maybe the outcome
will be different. So he turns it up. Right, We're like, well,
that guy's dead. This guy's dead, all these lawyers are dead.
And then we got to Robert Shift I believe was
the guy we were talking about. And then we looked
him up, still alive, and he was like seventy six
years old, and said Lorena started talking and she's, you know,
(16:03):
her father was a lot older when she was when
she was born, and an older father, and so her
father is in his mid seventies, I think she said,
seventy five. So Angry Bill calls up and it's on
the podcast. You can hear it. I don't need to
do the whole play by play on it, but it
blew me away. I mean, this is a different side
of angry Bill. Like he was very emotional. I know
(16:26):
he's had had trauma and unless a lot of people
that call the show life can be fed up and
people don't treat you right, you're not happy with your job,
or you've got family issues, and that really comes out
at the end of the year. Now we're into the
new year and you look back and Angry Bill's he said,
he's seventy seventy five I believe Lorraina's dad's like seventy six,
(16:50):
but he said seventy five. So he starts talking and
initially I'm like, Oh, he's going to say something creepy.
You know, he's going to say something creepy. And he didn't.
Much to my dazzlement, he did not say anything creepy.
He's like telling the story about how I know. He's like, listen,
call your dad, send him a message every once in
a while, tell some old story when you were a
little kid and what it was like and what it meant.
(17:12):
And he kept talking like that, and he's study getting
very emotional and started started crying. Now, my bullshit detector,
I think is pretty good. And unless Angry Bill is
gonna win an Oscar for that, that just felt real
to me. That felt like a guy that heard that story,
(17:33):
and Angry Bill's told us a little bit about him.
I don't know everything. It's not my business. If he
wants to bring it up, he can bring it up.
I'm not a trained therapist. I talk about balls on
the radio, right, I talk about overpaid athletes that are ungrateful.
That's what I do for a living anyway. But Bill
was piecing the puzzle pieces. Yeah, this is just what
(17:53):
I surmise. I could be completely wrong. What do I know.
I just do the overnight show, But putting the clues
together from what he had talked about in the past
would appear. The reason that resonated for Angrybill is because
he's got some kids, some family that have cut him off.
And I don't know whether that's true. And that's just
(18:14):
my interpretation of putting the puzzle pieces together. And so
I've heard this a lot over over the years. I mean,
there's a lot of a lot of our listeners that
are a little older, you know, because they can't sleep
and they love radio. And you know, some shows don't
put older callers on, and I put everyone on. I think,
(18:34):
you know, I want to be lucky enough to live
old to my old age, and I would hope somebody
would allow me to speak on the radio if they're
still calling radio shows. And people have a lot of
great story to me. The older you get, the greater
stories you have. You know, you've lived your life, You've
got great stories. You can tell us things, give us wisdom.
So I think that's cool. I admire you know, I
was kind of raised that way. You admire people who've
(18:55):
lived the life and can share that information with youth
that will make your life better. And so I've done
that and I've always I've had a lot of people
that have sent me very heartful of emails. A lot
of them don't even call in the hide behind the
X machine, and they've had issues with their kids where
they raised their kids. And you know, people think of
fathers and they ah, there's some brash dad, you know
(19:18):
who cares about his kids. But these guys really do.
They get really upset, you know. They you know, they
get to their sixties and their seventies and the kids
are assholes and don't call them, don't text them, they
don't spend time with them over the holidays. They cut
them out, and it's it's just terrible. And it's not
it's not even a message of I know I'm getting
(19:41):
getting seriously, I don't want to get too serious. But
because it's a it's a dopey weekend podcast, but it's
one of those things like you're not These guys have
told me, yeah, maybe they're lying. I don't know, I
don't know what's going on, but they're like, well, I
raised my kid this way and this kid. You know,
I did everything I thought was right, and the kid
ran away and wanted nothing to do. And it drives
(20:01):
them nuts, especially over the Holliday. And I totally get it.
I mean to me, you know, I know, I just
think you're an asshole if you do that I do.
And it's not that hard. You know, you don't have
to live with your parents, and you know, and again,
I was raised. That's just how I was raised. That's
my experience. Everyone's different. Maybe some of these guys were
beating their kids. I don't know, But all I know
is I was raised in a loving home. I was
(20:23):
lucky I did. I'm lucky. And my mom raised me,
you know Jewish mother that you know. I always she
would take care of me, but she wanted to hear
what was going on in my life. And she would
listen to every show that I did, no matter how
terrible the hours were. I would call her up after
every show. She would tell me what she liked. She
would tell me what she didn't like, whether it was
(20:46):
Pete and Pittsburgh or Blind Scott or Spoke and Gary
or trying to think of some of the other callers
back in the day, angel Fan Michelle, some of the
some of the great kid callers we had back then,
and she her break down what she liked, what she
didn't like, and she had a lot of health problems,
but she always answered the phone when I called, and
(21:07):
and she you know, I always made sure, even up
until the day she passed, I made sure to talk
to her. She couldn't talk back at the end there.
But so for me, it's so foreign that so many
people are like this. It's very upsetting. And hopefully, if
maybe you're in a situation like that where you've fallen
out of contact with your parents who are older, you
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don't have to become buddy buddy with them. Just I
agree with angry Bill. Every once in a while, check
in how you doing, and I remember going to that
ball game with you or watching the game, and yeah,
because that's the little stuff. You don't have to send
them anything. But that's the stuff that really resonates with me.
But I just wanted to get that off my off
(21:48):
my chest. I did, And I think I'm gonna pivot
here because I was gonna tell a story about the
hoe down at the Hoot and Nanny, But I think
I'm gonna save that for tomorrow. Danny G's supposed to
be back with us the Saturday pot, so I think
I'll say that for tomorrow. I didn't want to get
the foody fun, foody fun, let's do it so KFC.
(22:12):
This caught my attention. KFC has opened a new restaurant
recently and it's all about sauce. It's Saucy, Yeah, I know,
very popular on social media. It's gone viral. It's named Saucy.
I'm not kidding. It's a new concept restaurant. It opened
up in late December. They cut one of those big
(22:35):
cartoon red ribbons late December called Saucy. Described as a
new concept store for Kentucky Fried Chicken. And it's a
very small, narrow focus for the KFC dining experience and
the very limited menu. The focus is on yes, you
guessed it, chicken tenders. And there's a total of eleven
(22:57):
distinct sauces to match up with the eleven herbs and spices.
So why not go with more than stop at eleven?
How about eleven plus a few more? Could they do that?
So I looked at this. They have everything from sweet
teriaki yum yum to a smoky bacon ranch. I don't
know about that. And this is in the Orlando area,
(23:20):
so if you're in Orlando, I got some listeners there
to this podcast. Let me know. It looks like, based
on what I've seen online, this is their way to
try to take down Raising canes. Like this is we
can take some of the market share from raising canes
because when these people have our creole honey mustard or
the sweet, Sweet and Saucy barbecue, they're going to go
(23:44):
to our store and they're not going to go to
Raising canes. That's a direct shot at raising canes. So
and I like CAFs. I used to at KFC a lot.
I have not eaten kfsin use. Once I found raising
canes game over right, that's it. And I still go
to chick fil I'm not a I'm not as obsessed
with Chick fil As at a lot of people in
(24:04):
my circle are. I don't hate it, but if I
have a choice between Raising canes a Chick fil A,
I'm going to Raising knes and twice on Sunday because listen,
Raising Canes is open and the other one isn't. Duncan
for only known as dunkin donuts. They have revealed they
knew Sabrina Carpenter shaking espresso drink a collab with the
(24:28):
pop star Sabrina Carpenter, who my wife listens to a lot,
her very own espresso drinking. You think there's any chance
that she actually had anything to do with this and
it wasn't just a bunch of people that are in
her circle that put this together. I'm skeptical. I mean,
it's possible, possible, but methinks there might be something else
going on there. But I don't know. I'm not a
(24:50):
coffee drinker, so I have nothing to do with that.
Try it on your own there. I'm a donut guy.
I like the donuts. I'm all about the donuts. How
about this on Foody Fun. How much McDonald's do McDonald's
franchise owners really make per year? You're curious. Yeah, when
I was in school, when I was in high school,
(25:11):
one of the kids in school, their parents owned like
three or four McDonald's. The family owned a bunch of
restaurants and they managed them, but they didn't really operate
them at meaning they did the business, but they obviously
I had other people to take care everything. And I
remember how interesting that was, and I said, wow, this
guy like he worked at McDonald's but his parents like
owned it. It was like the whole thing that was
(25:32):
a long time ago. But the average McDonald's restaurant, let's
do some malord math on this. Based on a minutes
long mallor of investigation, the average McDonald's restaurant takes in
around two point seven million per year in sales. That's
on average. Now, some make a lot more, some make
a lot less, but two point seven on average and
not quite as high as like Chick fil a or Panera,
(25:55):
So you're not making as much. But the McDonald's franchise
owner because of all the marketing and the McDonald's is
a legacy restaurant and all that. Most franchise owners at
the end of everything, when you spend all the money
on the food and you have to give money to
corporate McDonald's, you've got to pay everybody and bounce the books.
(26:18):
It's estimated yearly profit for each McDonald's restaurant is one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the owner. Now, one
hundred and five thousand dollars is a lot, but when
you own a restaurant, you said, I'm going to make
more than that. Right, I'm here. You're the owner. You
can manage a McDonald's and make ninety one hundred thousand
dollars or more. But they astidate one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars of profit after the two point seven million
(26:41):
in sales. That is not even six percent because of
the cost of food supplies. You got to pay the
payroll and all the other corporate costs that have to
be sent on to big golden arches, big golden arches.
But still so, and this is something I was so
I actually thought about getting into this years ago. I
had a little bit of money saved up, and I
(27:01):
was like, do I buy a house, or maybe I'll
spend this money and buy I'll invest in a fast
food restaurant. At that time, you could get in for
a reasonable amount of money, at least what I thought
was a reasonable amount of money. And so I investigated it,
and then I determined that to really make any real money,
you have to own I think the number at that time,
and don't hold me to this, do not hold me this,
(27:22):
but I think the number was like three. You had
at least three restaurants, which makes sense because if you
do the math on that, if it's McDonald's, you make
one hundred and thirty thousand, three of them, you're making
almost half a million. I'm not a numbers guy, but
that doesn't seem to add up. You two of them.
I think you're doing pretty well. I have three hundred thousand.
I think you're doing pretty well. So there is that.
Alf normally sends questions in on the mailbag, but Alf
(27:44):
sent me a couple of food stories. For food. He
fun our friend Alf the Alien of Pineter. He sent
this from a nearby Wooster, Mass and he says that
Chaney's Kosher Deli during Hallow, not Jerry Halloween, during during Hankkah,
not Alomy Hankah, it's early. What do you want? So
during during Honkkah, this kosher deli was selling pastrami donuts. Yeah,
(28:12):
on day one of Honukkah. Honka is now over. And
I think this is legit. I don't. I don't think
this is ai. I don't think this is fake. I
think this as far as I didn't really go deep
dive on this, and I looked at it and I
was like, oh, I gotta tell you that actually doesn't
look bad. My original thought when I saw the headline
from from alf I saw the story, I'm like, oh,
(28:33):
this is gonna be uh be terrible, right, But then
I was thinking about it, and I've talked about this
in the past on Foody Fund. But the whole key
to eating is there's three big food goops. You've heard
there's more than three food goops, but the big three
are salt, sugar, and fat. And these major food companies
(28:54):
spend millions in research in labs to try to find
out what they call well, the bliss point. If you've
heard this before, just fast forward in the podcast. But
the bliss point for each food it's this they call
it again, the bliss point. But there's this ratio of
just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat, and
(29:16):
when you get there, food is irresistible. Now I've been
told by many that I have the palette of an
eight year old, and so that's my issue. But the
amount of salt, sugar and fat that optimizes everything. And
you've got the salt, and you've got a little pepper,
and you've got the fat from the pastrami, and then
(29:38):
you wrap that in a doughnut to change to change
a chain that sounds like a winner. Alf also sent
me a simple recipe that I am debating whether or
not to make. I mentioned my love of cinnamon, and
I said on the show, I believe my line was
and I believe this to be true that if you
do not like cinnamon rolls, freshly baked cinnamon rolls out
of the oven, you likely are a lizard person, a
(30:00):
lizard person. So he sent me this recipe. It's very
simple for heavenly cinnamon roll bread twists. And I'm I'm
debating whether I'm AMaGA I actually plan I was planning
on my next the michig As. I was gonna make
those are they called? What are they called? They have?
It's half chocolate chip cookie and half brownie. I knew
(30:21):
the name. I forgot. I have not made those. I
made brownies. I made cookies, but combine them together. So
I think I'm gonna I'm gonna do that. I think
I'm not, you know, I'm not sure debating it. And uh, anyway,
that's that's enough of that. Let's get before we get
out of here, let's get to the word all the wink.
Are you ready for the word all the week. The
(30:42):
word of the week is a word that we use
from time to time. Many sports fans believe in this
word jinx. Yeah, you're a jinx. I've been told over
the years that the curse of the Benbino is a
tremendous jinx, which might explain my picks being so bad
on the TV show, which is a bit all over
the place this weekend Benny versus Penny. But according to
(31:03):
the Dictionary, jinks is obviously for someone that brings bad luck.
The term can also be used as a verb describing
an act that brings bad luck, like a hex in
that case, and the noun jinks also refers to the
state or spell of bad luck brought on by said
(31:26):
said jinks. So they traced the word back, and it
appeared in print as early as the beginning of the
twentieth century. The Chicago Daily News in nineteen eleven used
the slang version of the word jinks for unlucky baseball players. Yeah, baseball,
it was a baseball term, But the word goes back
(31:46):
much further than baseball experts believe. The word evolved from
ryneck wrynck that evolved into jinks in the seventeenth century.
Around the time, the word also came to mean a
charm or a spell, putting a charm or a spell
on you, And the definition of that word far goes further,
(32:12):
much further back in time, meaning an unlucky, unlucky person.
And we go back to the nineteenth century. There are
a couple of characters, one name named Jinx that was
part of American culture, and that is believed to be
the character that helps solidify today's modern version. All us
you know, back in the nineteenth century, here we are
(32:32):
all these years later, and it's still used that way.
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines was a popular vaudvillian
a tune that described a bumbling and stumbling soldier who
was kicked out of the army. And so they used
that word then. So the word of the week, the
(32:52):
word of the week is Jinx. You on that note,
have yourself a wonderful Friday. I'll have Danny, she will
be back. He's producing this podcast. But Danny will be
back tomorrow and we'll have him talk into the microphone.
And I have to remember, I'm gonna make a little
note here, okay, when I come back into the podcast
studio tomorrow. The hoe down at the hooton Nanny, the
(33:15):
hoe down at the hooton Nanny. And there's some other
stuff that I didn't get to, but I got carried
away giving my thoughts on the Angry Bill story. Anyway,
have a wonderful arrest of your day. And as Danny
would say, it was a lader skater something like that. Yeah, no,
all right, anyway, whatever he says, all right, how about
bye bye, be a fire, got a murder. I gotta go.
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