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