The Fifth Hour: Around the World, Helmet Blow

another one of those dopey holidays. The beer can fun fact. The beer can debuted in nineteen thirty five in New Jersey. A brewery in New Jersey released the first beer can, and there was a It was actually a delay in production because of World War two. Seemed that they needed to use the materials to make bombs and weapons, and so there was a delay because of World War Two. And then can beer became mainstream again in nineteen sixty two. So that's all the fun facts I have on beer cans.

When I was a kid. I don't remember exactly where it was, but I have one of those memories of going into someone's garage. I think it was one of my neighbors, and it was just like middle aged dude, probably the age i'm at now, and he had a whole wall of beer cans, and I can still close my eyes and kind of see it, because there was some really old beer cans that were brightly colored and looked pretty cool. And I was not old enough to drink at the time, but I still appreciated the different logos.

It was visually stimulating to see all the different colors and all that. I was like, that's pretty cool. It's Macintosh Computer Day today, that's right, Yeah, the same day every year, January twenty fourth, same day. Back in nineteen seventy nine, Macintosh the project began, and we know what it has turned out to be the first mac began

the project nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen eighty four Macintosh introduced with much fan for Ridley Scott was a big deal George Orwell inspired Ridley Scott TV commercial and that was entitled nineteen eighty four and actually during the Super Bowl, and that kick started in many ways, the Macintosh revolution. When I was a kid, my dad was very into computers and he, my old man, worked on computers when

they were the size of football fields. I might be exaggerating a little bit, but they took up these entire warehouses, and those are the kind of computers my dad worked on. And then you know, he loved it, and so we were futs around his kids. We had the latest. He liked the Apple computers. So we had the Macintosh and some of those kind of things, and we play around and I spent hours playing Apple Galaxians, which most people don't even know what the f that is, but it

was like a it was a shooter game. Well it was you were playing, you know, shooting aliens, going back and forth. But I loved that game. That game was so freaking cool and you get those little flags at the bottom. Man that I love that game. Man was that fun going back. It's also just do it day to day. That must be like some kind of Nike thing, right, just do it. That's the Nike the Nike slogan just do it. And yeah, yeah, that's not like it's a newer holiday. They just made it up, I guess. In

twenty fifteen. The slogan was first used, though here's a fun fact on this slogan was first used in nineteen eighty eight at an advertising meeting, and the slogan was inspired because of Gary Gilmore's twice convicted murder a murderer's last words, let's do it when he's I remember seeing that there was a Nike movie a couple of years ago, and I remember seeing that they had that in the movie. I do recall that. Let's get to the meat of the matter on this fifth hour. We've got around the

world in eighty days. Who is that masked man? We've got that Cordon barf. Cordon barf. You won't hear that on any other podcast. Joe Rogan doesn't have that, nobody else, Adam Carolla, they don't have that. So we'll have cordon barf. We also have foody fun and the idiom of the week, the idiom of the week. But we begin with this. It is the championship weekend in the National Football League. Cannes City and Philadelphia hosting championship games. The early game

Philadelphia and Washington. That's the undercard. The winner will head to the Bayou to go have amazing pull Boys and Beignet's and all the New Orleans food and come back a loser. Because the winner of the AFC should win the Super Bowl barring some kind of catastric catastrophe. Easy for the guy on the podcast to say, so, We've got those matchup Washington and Philadelphia, and then the late late game Kansas City and Buffalo, and by Sunday night we will know who is in Super Bowl fifty nine.

Cannot wait now if you want to get the inside skinny on that what I think, who I think is going to win. It is the latest episode. You knew I was going to bring this up, right, Come on, I do it every Friday. It's Benny versus the Penny. Check it out. The ratings have been really good, which kind of scares me because my picks have been horseshit. But the show people are watching the show, which is

great and so thank you, thank you, thank you. And as I point out, while we have listeners all over the country, people all over the world that downloads download this podcast, and from the boneyard where they're fixing up ships to Australia and to parts unknown, we have a bunch of people that who knows where they're actually listening from because they use VPNs to listen to this loudmouth podcast.

But either way, thank you all. So the TV show has been going very well, and the main affiliate, the hub, is in Boston. The show is produced out of NBC Sports Boston, and so we really need to do well on NBC Sports Boston very important. So if you're in the Boston market and you have access to cable TV, it really does help us out quite a bit if you'll watch the show and tonight, because the Celtics have been out where we are in LA on the last couple of nights, I've put the clips and the Lakers,

So no Celtic game tonight. They're on their West Coast trip. I think that one game left. I believe, maybe I made that up, I don't know. So the Celtics on the road, but they're not playing tonight. That means we will be on at the six pm window a little earlier than we had been the last couple of weeks because of Celtic games, So six pm on NBC Sports Boston, then on Core showings at seven thirty and nine pm, so every every hour and a half we'll be on

NBC Sports Boston. I'm very excited about that, so please please check it out. And we literally to promote this show have gone around the world in eighty days. We have gone around the world in eighty days. What do I mean? So, as you know, we have access the show's produced at NBC, it's produced out of Boston, but our studios at Universal Studios here in Hollywood, and we have access to walk wherever we want, just about assuming they're not working on the sets and when we tape

the show they're not normally working. So we've been wandering around the back lot at Universal Studios, Hollywood, and we made our way to Little Europe. So what yeah, Little Europe, which is awesome. Now I've never been to actual Europe. Maybe I'll get there some point. I'd like kind of like to go. I didn't want to go a few

years ago. I kind of want to go Now it's very expensive, as you know, it's a long plane flight, which I don't like, but I might as well check it out before I check out of this mortal coil. So at some point me and the wife will get there. But it's it's really cool. They have these these cobblestone streets, which I believe we're actually just press cement to look like cobblestone. They've got all the bells and whistles. You feel like you're in a little village in Europe. It's

just awesome. It's just really cool. There's several streets, there's a train station, and all of them can be redressed, as they say in Hollywood, they can dress it up, making it however they want. But it's awesome because we went back and looked at some of the films that have been made in that in that location, and it's just awesome. I mean, some of the biggest move movies in the history of Hollywood were filmed right there. We didn't know this at the time. We were flutching around,

walking around. We were just trying to find a place that looked kind of cool, and we stumbled down this cobblestone street and this little villa there was a fountain, little shops. It was awesome and the only thing missing was actually being in Europe, but in that location. And I'll put a video up. I'll put two different videos up, one beyond Instagram and Facebook, one all beyond on on acts. But some of the films in this set, we were on.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the original, the original movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame nineteen twenty three, that was filmed. They're all quiet on the Western Front. Also there are some of the other big films, the original all quiet on the Western Front. Dracula kind of a big deal, kind of a big deal with Bella Lagosi, a little bit right, a little bit. Frankenstein, the Original Frankenstein. Many of the exteriors of the village were actually filmed on

the little Europe set at Universal, So that's awesome. The Invisible Man, another iconic movie, the original. These are all original films that were filmed there. Nineteen thirty three, The Bride of Frankenstein. So he had Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein that was in the nineteen thirties around the world. In eighty days, I used that as the t's around the world in eighty days. Part of it was filmed on the back lot Little Europe. But wait, there's more.

I mean, these are all films. I'm not a big movie guy, but I know the legends and if I know. If I am aware of the name of some of these shows, that's kind of a big deal, I think, But maybe not. I've heard of them. Rich Man, poor Man, rich Man. That was a TV movie in the nineteen seventies that was filmed there, Buck Rogers. When I was a kid, I used to watch Buck Rogers. Some of that was filmed there. The A Team. I loved the A Team when I was a kid. Love it when

a plan comes together. Murder, she wrote. There were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine, ten episodes of Murder. She wrote, Well check that out a holo second, she's about twenty episodes of murder, she wrote, that were filmed in Little Europe, and they have the name. I don't know what the names are. I mean, I watched a few episodes of Murder. She wrote. It was very popular in the late eighties and up

until like the mid nineties. People would watch that. But I the names of the episodes don't really do too much, like Hooray for Homicide. I don't does that do anything for you? Is that Horay for ham aside? I don't know. Elm Street, Elm Street? Yeah, I mean it's crazy. Mcguiver loved mcguy for that was filmed part of it in little Europe. Who else do we have? Beverly Hills nine o two one oh that was filmed in Europe City Slickers.

movie is about twenty years old. That's wild. There have been some commercials West World on HBO, which was I think on up until a couple years ago, that was filmed in that and that set. So anyway, it was very awesome to watch it walk around and I loved it appbsolutely loved it, and so I wanted to share that with you and you can check out the video and see what I'm talking about and check that out. Who is that masked man on the radio? So I want to take back to the I want to take

you back to the beginning of the week. And I thought we had a really good week of overnight talk right well the greatest, but I thought was pretty solid. So good job by you and those of you that contribute to the show and those of you that listen to the show. I thought everything worked together pretty well. Now that being said, last night, I love when guys that don't call the show anymore called the show. And in the final hour of the show is actually this morning,

Lenny from Fort Lauderdale popped up on my board. His name flashed on my board and I said, wait a minute, could that possibly be Lenny the cripkeeper, solid old school New Yorker who's lived in Florida for a long time. And sure enough it was the original Lenny from Fort Lauderdale. And he played Jeopardy against for Gaze from Minnesota. So that was fun. We had Jay Dot call up the last hour from Salt Lake City. He's going to trial this week. He could be convicted and if he's convicted.

He's going to jail for a year. Who knows. So good luck to Jay dot on that we had Jason call up overnight, the truck driver from Tucson who took a German beer infused version of the malin Militia if it was great to hear from me. He's been listening for about ten years, going back to twenty sixteen, and this is the first time he called up and he's like, I gotta do the oath. I got you do the oath. He did the oath e dog again, becoming a regular on the show, and to me, the highlight of the night.

All that stuff was cool. Helmet Man dida da helmet Man did helmet Man, I'm actually on the live air. Yes, you're on the So helmet Man calls up an hour number one and he had an agenda. He didn't want to talk about the Ravens. Do you blame him? So he calls up and he goes right in to the recap of the episode on I think it's on Court

TV of the nineteen ninety five OJ Simpson trial. So my man helmet Man is going blow by blow on what he just watched in the OJ Simpson trial, which was awesome to hear because he reported on it like it was new, not that it was thirty years old, and really kind of gets the zeitgeist to the show. We had Marcel and Brooklyn break the fact that the Titanic hit an Iceberg. Nobody else has had that on radio as breaking news. We're the only show on radio

to have that. Andrea called up, it's great to hear from her. Fats in Philly, the man that lit himself on fire. If you want to see that video, it's on my ex page. He reached out to me. So the great Philadelphia Eagles fan fly Eagles Fly on the road to victory. Yeah, blah blah blah. So he was there. So all of that was good stuff. All of that was really cool stuff. And so it was great. But I want to take you back to who is the

Masked Man? So at the beginning of the week, we had the Octagon leading in to Ohio State and Notre Dame and this was inspired by Alameda Lou. Now, Alameda Lou had called us the previous week and we had the Octagon schedule. However, Buck Nuts did not call in at the proper time. Now he claims that Cooper Loop told him the wrong time zone, and he drives a truck. He's based in Columbus, Ohio, but he travels around all over that region, from Ohio to Tennessee and Kentucky and

Indiana and all the different states around there. So buck Nuts called up late. So we said, you know what, We're going to move the octagon to Monday morning, Sunday night and the Monday morning. So we worked with Alameda lou and Alameda Lou Is like, all right, I can't do a hour one. I work at the Kingfish here in Oakland, so I can't do it, So I'm going to go an hour two. We said, you know what,

we'll do hour two. But we got to do it in hour two because we're going to allot some time to the verbal octagon, and once we allot toime, we're gonna lock that in. And we had to do it because the game was that night. Otherwise there'd be no reason to do the octagon because the game would have already been played. Fine, so al of me to lose, I'm good to go. So we get to the time where the rubber meets the road Sunday night and the Monday morning. It was our two of the show, and

Coop lets me know. He's like, I don't think Lou's going to be able to make it. He said, something's going on with the bar, and so I was like, wait a minute, Alami to lose, not gonna He's not, he said, this hour we changed the guys. Hey, he said, something came up. So on the fly, this was not planned. We did not plan this. We did not have a contingency plan. But on the fly we had an Alameda Lou impersonator that came in with bloody knuckles. One of

the great dominant performances in the octagon. It was momentous, a world class beat down at the Disco Tech, it was a hold down at the Spit and Sawdust Bar, and it even did the Doci dough. Now you probably know by now you figure out by listening it was not Alamy Lou. It was an impersonator, Blind Scott from Boston as Alamy de Lou and Buck Nuts did not know how to handle that. He did not know how

to take care of his business. And Grantlin Rice, the iconic sports writer back in the nineteen thirties, wrote that styles make fights and a good boxer always beats a good puncher, right, those are some lines. Well, in this case, Blind Scott came out and was a swarmer. He just overwhelmed, absolutely overwhelmed buck Nuts. He had no chance, no chance,

and Buck Nuts was thunderstruck. And it wasn't about being a shrewd tactician or moving your feet or anything like that and being part of the sweet science of boxing, the noble art. It was none of those things. It was Blind Scott bringing a blow torch and it was body blow, body blow, body blow. And it wasn't even a slugfest because it was just one guy beating down the other guy. And that's how it went. No ducking and diving, no bobbing and weaving, none of that. And

it was just one after another, one after another. In my head, why, as I was listening to this, I'm like, wow, there's a there's a low blow, there's a you know punch, you know, right to the right to the junk. You know. It was the body blow body blow thing for Mike Tyson's punch out. It was It was insane how impressive that was. And it was like if it was Mike Tyson's punch out. You got no no, no disrespect for

buck Nuts because this is not his forte. And we thank him for being part of the show, and he loves the show and it's great. But on that event, I think he would agree. If it was Mike Tyson's punch out, he was Soda Popinske. He was Soda Popinske. And uh, the man that played the role of Alameda Lou was was Mike Tyson. You know, I think I said so, I think I meant class Joe, right, Class Joe is the one that's the weak. I'm retracting. So I got my Mike Tyson punch out characters mixed up, right,

I am doing this on the fly. But it's Class Joe, that's the one, right, that little you beat the guy and he had, you know, his eyes kind of rolled around his head. Yeah, that's got to be it. So that was it. And then and the other part, which was hilarious was to Lou, the real Alume to Lou, well, the real alim Me to Lou stand out, so stand up. The real ala alamde Lou calls up and he is furious and we put him on with the fake Alamda Lou. Blind Scott and it just made for Firecracker Radio, so good,

so outstanding. It was wonderful, so good job by those guys. Made for some fun moments on the show. Organic. It wasn't planned out. We didn't have this all all scripted and all that. It just kind of just kind of turned into a vertical suplex, if you will. Right, it was the old elevated hammerlock and solid, solid solid. Now turn you the page on that. We go into the kitchen for some not Cordon Blue, but Cordon Barf dateline Malor Mansion parts unknown, parts unknown. So in the the

Mala Mansion parts it's unknown. We have a little half a sleep cooking. Now. I don't get a lot of sleep, you know that, and I function pretty well. I think other people would have to be the judge of that. But I sleep maybe four to five hours. Unless I'm drugging myself, I'm not sleeping much, so I know going it, you know, unless I give myself a tranquilizer or something like that, I'm not sleeping much. And so that's just the way it is, and I'm fine with it. I'm like,

all right, that's just how I'm wired. And I can blame my parents, or you know, do some self reflection just whatever. So the other day we've been, as you know from listening to this podcast, we're going like an entire month. We'll probably go longer than that, just eating at home. We're not eating out, not because we're we can't afford eat out, but we just wanted to eat out for or eat at home because we like the stuff that we make, and we have a nice kitchen.

We want to use it and try different recipes and recreate the stuff that we we like when we go to restaurants, and we've eaten out a lot. So we're just futzing around with that. And so the other day I got about three hours of sleep because of the TV show taping and the radio show, and I didn't have insomnia. I just I could only sleep for a little bit of time, so i'd sleep deprivation, I believe is the term. So I was a little bit ditzy, shall you say, and I decided to fidget around in

the kitchen and make some garlish garlic mashed potatoes. Then you might remember last week I told you that I have fallen in love with my stinking rose rip off garlic mashed potato recipe which is easy to make, very easy to make, and in addition to being easy to make, you can make a lot of it and it'll last the week because it's mashed potatoes. So again without sleep, I wandered into the kitchen. I more like staggered into the kitchen. So I got the potatoes. I boiled some water,

I washed the potatoes. I put the potatoes in the boiling water. Then I took some garlic, fifty clothes of garlic, maybe even more than that, and I put those into a food processor and I ended up mincing it was pure. I hit the pure button. I don't even know what that means, but I hit the pure button on the food processor. So that made the garlic pure. So we put everything together. The potatoes boiled. I then took out the restaurant style smasher and smashed those potatoes into mash.

And then we added all the different ingredients into the mashed potatoes. Now I said Cordon Barf, not Cordon Blue, because there was a culinary crime. If this was a blimp, it would have been the Hindenburg. It was a hydrogen bomb, but it was hidden very flammable situation. So I was a little out of it. And while I was making the garlic mashed potatoes, I realized that, And this was after the fact, after we bit into the garlic mashed potatoes,

that I forgot to roast the garlic. A major party foul by yours, truly, A major party foul by yours, truly. So the way the recipe were pretty sim You take the garlic and you roast it and then you make it pure. I missed that step. I don't know how I missed that step. I've made it now three times. The first two times I was not disoriented. I did not have sleeplessness for some reason, and so so this

time it was at a little messed up. And so I bit into it, and even I, who love garlic, absolutely love garlic, the pungent taste of that was very unpleasant. It was very unpleasant. It smelled good, but when you bit into it, it was how can I? How can I? It was like smelling salts, is I guess what I would say like that kind of it was varnish remover is what it was. Wild. So I'm gonna make more garlic mash. But I threw that out. We threw it out.

That's not for human consumption. That's not for human consumption. So later today, probably Wall Benny versus the Pennies on and I will be making more garlic mashed potatoes, just the kind of thing you need to know. And they will be Cordon blue. They will not be Cordon barf at all unless I screw up. And then if I screw up, well then they're gonna be bad, bad, bad bad bad bad bad bad foody fun real quick foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it, so Taco Bell, not too

much going on. Taco Bell has launched a new steak cheesy Dipping burrito and slow roasted chicken cheesy Dipping burrito. Obviously multiple of those for a limited time, So make a run to Taco Bell if you're interested. That sounds pretty good. Again, I'm not eaty now, but it sounds good at least not now. PF Chain's is testing a fast casual concept restaurant called Pagoda Asian Grill. Somebody let Mark Davis. The Raider owners know no about that. Big

news out of Steak and Shake. I like Steak and Shake. They haven't really worked out in LA. They put one in Burbank and that close I don't know if they have any locations in La anymore. They tried, it didn't really work. I know there's at least one or two in Vegas. Last time I was in Vegas. But Steak and Shake they cooked their fries in beef tallow. They announced they're changing back to beef tallow, which is the authentic way to cook fries. Another Taco Bell, No Taco Bell,

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by Carl. I don't know where Carl lives. Carl did not say where he lives. So Carl from Parts unknown. But thank you Carl, he says, Ben. I've heard you use this phrase quite a bit on your show. I would like to know where the phrase move the needle comes from. Well, Carl, you are correct. I have used that phrase many times, many times on the show. I think I use it at least once a night, at least once a night. So there's a couple of theories on the origin of move the needle. Got to move

that needle, right, I gotta move that needle. Now, I do use it a lot to talk about an athlete somebody that does move the needle. So there's a couple of theories on this. One of them says it goes back to the industrial Revolution and that's where it began. But from what I understand, based on a minutes long Mallar investigation, move the needle comes from my business, comes

from radio. How cool is that? Comes from music and radio, And the expression moved the needle originated via radio and music. In every radio station has a board which you hit all the buttons and that plays the audio and the music and the commercials and all that. And they have a classic VU meter. It's an analog recorder where the needle measurement measures the audio levels and if the sound is too soft, if it's too low, the needle would

not move at all. So that is the phrase moved the needle, and it's been a pretty popular phrase since the nineteen eighties, so that's going back forty plus years that that has been a popular phrase, move the needle. And I do use it a lot. We all use it a lot in sports, and I'm proud to say that that originated from radio and from music radio. And I remember one of my mentors, the great Tony Bruno, who I love, and I'm seeing Tony some of the

Super Bowl I think it was last year. But Tony was great because he would say if you didn't have any to say some night, you'd be like I was just trying to keep the VU meter moving. That's all we're trying to do. Just keep that VU meter moving and get through the show. And we have just about gotten through this podcast. Don't forget to watch Benny Versus the Penny Man, versus coin Man Versus Copper and Today

again NBC Sports Boston. You missed it earlier. I don't know how you would have missed it because the podcast. But six pm, seven thirty and nine pm, we're all over the Bay Area. We'll be on in La on the Lakers cable channel on Saturday early morning showings, afternoon showings, so check all of that out, have a wonderful Friday, enjoy yourself, be safe, and Danny Gei joined me on the Saturday Podcast for new episodes tomorrow and on Sunday. And as Danny would say, later, skater now asta pasta

got a murder. I gotta go.