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In the air everywhere. Hey, you have found the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio. And boy do we thank you for that means a lot. This a spinoff of the Ben Mallor Show. That's the overnight show that I do with my name in it and only available. We're only here on the podcast, and we're here every single f and day, no days off. We're back at the audio salt mindes Danny. Of course you hear him during the week with Coveno and Rich and
he is not in southern California today. Now, Danny, you're living Lavina Loca, my man.
Oh, Ben, you should see the hotel suite right now.
A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
It has been a really good weekend, so far, and this is gonna be the first major fight I've ever attended. Ben, I've seen like amateur fights. Never have I seen the ilk of a Canelo. I'm jealous. I am absolutely jealous. Danny, Is this like a Scott Parrell? Remember we had Pharrell on the podcast and he was laying in a bed in New.
Jersey covered in money. He claimed he had won. I was wild, but the.
Only podcast guest you've ever interviewed where he had to keep ducking away from the interview to do a line and then come right back and answer your question.
Yeah, it was a very interesting conversation with Pharrell. He's a guy's a legend for a reason. But you can go back and hear that in the archive. Goulcha Man, I'd but the fight thing back in the nineties. I used to go to fights semi regularly nineties, in the early two thousands, and then it all of a sudden stopped and I haven't been since. It's probably it's been over twenty years since I've been to a fight. But I went to Mike Tyson fights, lenox Lewis who else
trying to That's the Golden boy. Oscar de la Hoya, a bunch of bunch of fights, I mean big time fighters of that era and had had a great time and the Tyson fights and the heavyweight fights. It was insane because Vegas it was pimps and hoes in the air everywhere. It was such an f and wild scene. Come on, Pippin'. It was an education, Danny And know times are different, but I bet you it's the same
similar situation. If you go around tonight before the fight and you just kind of soak in all of the this Vegas strip in that area, and I'm sure you're gonna see some very interesting cats.
It's crazy to think that's why Supac got after that Tyson fight way back in the day. And as you saw that breaking news yesterday, they finally arrested somebody in connection to his death all these years later.
Yeah, well him and Biggie right, he got murdered in La. They never I don't think they solved that one. Well, it's been almost a generation, so yeah, you know, we don't know how old the person was, but if the person was in their thirties at that time, then they're in their sixties now right or close to it. Maybe they were younger, but still I mean, it's a long and if they were into that kind of thing where
they're shooting people, who knows that they're even around anymore? Right, probably not on the Saturday Pot, which would be today's pot. I've got the Chicken Shag the third monologue, a new feature that I think we've we've we've messed around with this in the past, I don't think we've actually done it a full block. We're calling it footy Fun and we have Pop Goes, the Culture and possibly Backscratcher. So a lot to get to. We'll start with this The
Life of Malar, the Life of Danny GE's. So I love to futs around in the kitchen and play around. I've been Benny the Baker for a while. I haven't done that because I got too fat. I was getting fat again eating all the cookies and stuff that I've been baking. So I shifted over to you know, Pete. I did a lot of pizzas you know, some of my meals this latest weekend, I went with the ripoff raising canes chicken fingers. And if you follow the show,
follow me on Facebook. Ben Maller's Show. Make sure the show's in there. If you follow me, on instag gram, Ben Maller on Fox I put out some photos. So this is my ripoff raising canes recipe from scratch, and I think it came out pretty good. It's visually, I think I nailed it. And I have a future, Danny. When people realize I'm bad at radio and television, I can become a food photographer. That's my future. I don't know if you saw the photos I did.
But that that all can be staged. So my question is when you broke open those chicken fingers, was the chicken nice and juicy inside? Oh?
It was wonderful, No, it was really it was really good. I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, but it was the right crunch you know. Crime We put pinko in there, and we had corn starch, you know, every trick flour corn starch. I think we had pink If I remember, there's all the stuff that you can use to get crap really crunchy. And so that was
pretty good. Cut up the chicken myself there and the little bits, and the great thing about chicken strips is a little chicken goes a long way because most of it's just breading and all that, and so of course people are then busting my balls, right, they're giving me, they give me a hard time, and they're like, hey, wait a minute, here, where's the cane sauce?
Right?
Where where's the cane sauce? And I'm like, wait a minute here, I don't need cane sauce. If you make chicken, you know, as the guy, the connoisseur Danny of the chicken Shack, the Mallard chicken shack, if you make the chicken properly, you don't need stuff. Now, I'm not against sauce. I've not taken an anti sauce position. My only position is anti range. I am okay with sauce, and some of the chicken I did use honey mustard. I think honey mustard is great. I could have made rip off
canes dipping sauce. I chose not to. I chose not to. Now next time, just to shut up you idiots, maybe I will. Maybe I will make a ripoff cane sauce. But anyway, it made a ton of chicken, only, you know, one small pack of chicken from the grocery store which doesn't cost that much, and some flour. The ingredients by the way, I'm not going to do cooking with Roberto here and give out the whole recipe. But it's it was kind of a hybrid of chick not Chicki Popeyes canes.
It involved creating a marinade with butter milk and hot sauce and kosher salt and eggs, and there was all kinds of I had occasion seasoning in there to spice it up. A little paprika, cayenne, peppa.
Man, you're making me hungry.
Corn starch flour, as I said, and put all that together, and hey, it came out pretty pretty good. So who knows what I'll I'll make next. But so, yeah, you saw the photos. That's that's it. So we made a lot of chicken ate eight well, and then I fasted for three days this week, Danny. I made it seventy two hours without eating a bite of food because I ate fried chicken over the weekend. So I had to go three days to starve myself. Because I'm a loser. I am such a radio loser. I'm such a loser.
Maybe I could do a third monologue, Danny, Maybe I should do a third monologue. What do you think?
A few nights ago. We passed like two ships. In the middle of the night. I was in the production studio at Fox Sports Radio. You were getting ready to start your show. Now. I had been there since one o'clock in the afternoon. What happened is it was Covino and Riches one year anniversary doing afternoon Drive.
I love the Covino and rich Show.
I told my girl, I said, I've been setting this up for weeks, going through archives and working with Veto and Ricky and Bob the voice of the network, so that I could get all of the audio pieces in line to put together a huge audio collage of some of the greatest and funniest moments that they had on the air of the past twelve months, and even prior to that, some of the stuff they did on Sunday Night. To show how it all started.
Gabriel Davis, like.
You talk about an audio puzzle, fifty audio pieces in front of me on the Adobe audition computers at the network. And the hard part was I had to figure out how to put this audio puzzle together, put original music underneath each piece, put drops and bells and whistles, and really was exhausting, but in a fun way because as you know, Ben, when you get to look back on funny moments and drops and things like that, that's what
we live for because we're audio guys. Yeah, until you sold out and went to the television side.
Well that's true, and you do the same.
Thing I would. Oh, I definitely would.
So better money, less work, better money.
Yeah, you have to comb your hair and you have to wash your face, but it's way better money.
I was actually talking to Jonas about this. We're like anybody that does what we do in radio. Television is like the junior varsity in terms of work that you have to put Like, radio is so much more difficult to master. Yes, de vision and people don't understand that, but it's true, and I'm not just saying that as a blowhard. Radio is a much more difficult medium. It just is.
Longer, longer blocks of content to fill. You have to be able to entertain the masses through just your voice. You don't have a screen behind you, you don't have graphics, you don't have teleprompters, you don't have the big support staff that you have with television. So you're exactly right. There's guys that were big stars on TV and then they tried to do radio and they fell flat on their faces.
Yeah, did not go well. Did not go well. And but if you go the other way, go from radio to TV, you're you're in good shape. But I got I got carious, so you're you're in there. I was wondering, like, what the f is he doing here? Did he get lost? And then I thought, you know, I was. I had to run into the other studio and well, maybe you'll come by, and someone was going because I had to, you know, mo, move over.
I didn't get to say goodbye because when I left, and this was right before I got a text saying are you alive for my wife?
You don't like that, you don't want to get that tech. I get that text.
Right before I got that text. You were in the middle of your third monologue.
Really you were. You were there for the first three hours of the show, crazy.
I really was. It was like old times. I got to hear you opining on lots of different topics, and once you started your third monologue, I was like, shit, I got to get out of here. So it turned out really good. The guys loved it. The listeners really had fun listening to all those fun memories from the past couple of years, and so it was well worth it.
But like you, I started off my week really strange to where I only slept a couple of hours, you know, into the next work day, and then it's like you're behind the eight ball and you're trying to catch up for the rest of the week.
Yeah, it's a it's an iman and I would like to send a message. You can pass this on to your friend's Covino and Rich there from the Ben Mahler Show. The staff of the show, the Benettes would like to thank Covino and Rich because I walked into the studio and Coop is eating cake, Like, what the fuck are you doing eating cake? You know? I mean who brought the cake in? He's, oh, yeah, there's some cake over there in the in the kitchen, and then we talked about it on the air and I guess you guys,
Covino and Rich had a cake. You guys had a cake there to celebrate the one year anniversary, and even Eddie partaked in the cake and let them eat cake. Let there be cake, and uh yeah, so the guys enjoyed the cake. So thanks. I didn't need any because I'm a loser, but it looked really good and.
Cake by the ocean. It was a good one and it went fast. There's been times where there's a cake that'll stay in our break room. This one went in twenty four hours. They picked a good one.
Yeah, it was a When Coop went over there to get it, it was a cake walk. But I'm bumped. There you go. We'll be here all weekend.
You'll be here till Saturday. Oh shit, it's Saturday. You're fired. O.
Wait, we're gonna you know what we're doing. We're going to play Patty cake is what we're going to do. He cake and uh yeah, we'll go to the.
Just put the icing on that bad joke.
Oh, there you go. But I'm bump all right. Uh that's cool. Well, good job putting the work in there. I hope the boys appreciated your efforts and the marketing of you putting the audio together and all that. We have foody fun, foody fun for everyone, and I've determined that this might be a regular feature on the show. We like to rotate things. We have Safari Kingdom. We haven't done that in a while. Scientifically, we haven't done that very often. Pop goes the culture. Will do that
in a little bit. We'll do some pop goes to culture. We what other bits do we have? We have, oh, the quiz that we haven't done in.
A while, Word of the Week, Phrase of the Week.
Yeah. Yeah, so we've got some some different things. But anyway, the the pop quiz. But this is something we're gonna messing around. Let us know what you think in the comments section, or send me an email and say, hey, I like this, you should do this more often, or that was terrible. Didn't listen to a second You suck. So these are food stories because I figured we all have to eat. Not much, but we all have to eat. So this is something I've always wanted. I love onion rings, Dandy,
do you like onion rings? I do good onion rings. I love them, and a lot of places.
Especially in the middle of a burger like Carls Junior and Harty's. Yeah, what's that in that Western bacon cheeseburger, and it is magical.
I love burgers with onion rings also, and but I'll eat if they're well made. I'll just eat on your rings on the one ranch. Wash your mouth that with soap and water. There's no need for ranch anyway. So I was wonder I've always wanted, like, why the hell does McDonald's not have onion rings? You know, get the big mac at and onion ring to it, get the quarter powder with cheese. So I finally found the answer.
A former McDonald's corporate chef has revealed why McDonald's has never had onion rings on the menu.
Did you see this, Danny, because there are a bunch of losers.
Well no, Well the reason is they're they're cheap. They want to they want to make money. They have to keep the stockholders happy. So McDonald's they make the most of their profits, according to this guy who was a corporate chef, and I guess in Chicago where they're headquartered. There their most efficient, most profitable. They have a scale.
And so the reason they've not had onion rings, he said, think of how many less people would order the fries and would then order onion rings instead, he explained, And he said, because of how many fries McDonald sells, and because of how efficient they are. But here's the kicker, the most important part the profitability, meaning the write up, the markup on how much they charge for the fries and how much it costs for the potatoes. They mark it up so much they make such a profit margin
on that. They're so paranoid at McDonald's about adding onion rings and that would cut down on the sale of the fries. And but wouldn't they be able to mark up the onion rings, wouldn't that? How about it as a seasonal item like the McRib where you bring it back every so often. Wouldn't would that kill them that have the mc onion? Would that be such a bad thing?
Yeah, I guess the way they started when it was pretty much a simple menu, and I know it expanded later on. You've seen the movie about Ray Kroc. They just wanted to do burgers and fries and coke burgers and fries, and they did master those fries. I mean, there is nothing like hot McDonald's French fries that are fresh. I mean, we've all had bad batches, but when they're good, there is nothing like them. So I guess I can see why you wouldn't want to water that down if you're McDonald's.
It's the same thing. This guy named Harry Snyder, he was the founder of In and Out Burger, In and Out, In and out. That's what a hamburger is all about anyway. So his model and in and Out still follows this. It's do one thing and do it well. And they opened up first in and Out Baldwin Park, Baldwin Park other than San Gabriel. But I used to live not far from the original In and Out Burger, and they had three items on the menu when they started, burgers, fries, and shakes.
Do they have.
Anything else that in and Out other than burgers, fries and shakes today?
I mean they have their secret menu and you could get like a grilled cheese, but ingredients that would be used for some of the burgers. So no, I mean they've kept it simple and look out much it's paid off for them.
Yeah, it's a cult. It's like Taylor Swift has her cult. The Swifties and the in and Out people have their cult. Here's more foody fun. A McDonald's worker this week has revealed that the egg and hotcakes are not made fresh. They are not made fresh. Oh boy, Yeah, devastating news. This comes from the world of TikTok. I'll have to check with alf on this, but a content creator there McDonald's worker, I guess we're all content creators. That just
sounds cool, doesn't it. Content creator? And then you realize all you have to do is have an account on a social media platform. Anyway, this person let people know that McDonald's already they pre make. The items are pre made when they arrive at the restaurant. They're pre made. Items include folded eggs that McDonald's uses in the biscuit breakfast, sandwich and the mcgriddle. And this person should the sealed packages containing the pre cooked square shaped eggs in the video.
Oh my god, Danny, I'm looking at it right now.
Just recently on one of our podcasts, I complained about how much their breakfast costs nowadays, and you're telling me it's not even fresh those guys.
No it's not. I'm looking at the pancakes. They're in a plastic bag. And then the egg there's the uh, the egg thing that's in a plastic bag. Yeah, that's all. You know.
They need to get on in and outs level, because anyone who says it's overhyped, it wasn't that great For the price point and the quality of in and out, it is great.
What do we have more on foody fun? We've got McDonald's revealing a new sweet and Spicy Jam sauce and Mambo sauce coming out October ninth. So that's exciting.
What up into their big Mac sauce? That was like some big rollout. It lasted for a few weeks, it seemed like, and then it disappeared.
Yeah, I don't know. I have to look into that. Maybe for the next foodie fun I'll look into that. Here's one KFC, better known by its formal name Kentucky Fried Chicken, testing a new smashed potato bowl in Pittsburgh. So if you're in Pittsburgh, you can have at certain locations a smashed potato bowl.
What up, Pete, go get one when you're hungover.
Which is seven days a week. I think I believe seven days of me. I don't know what else do we have here. We've got Taco bell is adding vegan sauce to their nacho fries. I'm a nacho fried guy, but it makes little sense for Taco bell to use a vegan sauce. Here's why. The number of vegetarians not vegans vegetarians somewhere between five and six percent. The number of vegans is even less than that. So like, what are we doing here? You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of those taco bell fries.
What.
I just don't like him?
It's bad. Take Yeah, all right, now you're in Vegas, Danny. Here's a quickly the number one taco spot in America was just unveiled by yelp. H oh, and it is in Henderson, Nevada. Let's go, gotta go man, you you and Coveno Rich. It's called Aroma Latin American Cosina or Coachina c C I n A, I don't know.
Racist. That's a mouthful.
Yeah, Aroma Latin American. Uh coodeana. This is mostly the spot serving the top tacos in America, Cordy yelp. So you want hot tacos, Danny, you can go over there. All right, we'll move on from Foody. I also, oh we we we pitched a shutout, Danny, were short on times, we pitched a shutout on backscratching. We were doing so well and now we got none. We got none this week. That's the Apple podcast page will help us out. Means a lot if you haven't done it yet, or if
you haven't done it in a while. Go over to the Apple podcast page and it's been a couple of minutes. Right, a little review. It does help us out. Pop goes the culture That means ohio al jog jog, All right, a couple of pop goes the culture stories Danny. We start out with a classic story about a celebrity NBA fan. Most people know him more as a musician, Drake. Did you see what Drake had with him when he showed up to the ballet in Atlanta?
Two hotties, one on each side.
Oh no, no, no, you don't bring sand to the beach, dandy. He showed up holding a tupperware container. Hey, where are the white women at?
What?
Yeah? Was he giving meat loaf for? Was he giving mac and cheese to the to the dancers there? The ballet dancers. No, turns out Drake showed up with a tupperware container containing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars geez, that he was going to donate to the performers there, the struggling college students who are shaking what their mama gave him. They're doing their version of the tush push And so yeah, how about that?
Yeah? And I wonder how much money he's invested in tupperware.
How excited must those dancers at the ballet have been when he comes in there with that kind of dough.
Right, Oh, hallelujah, that's a pay day.
That is my rent, that is my my I'm going to buy a house with some of that money, all right. This one's wild man. This next story, Pop goes the culture a random man. This is not a US, not a US story, Danny, but they a man goes to the hospital complaining about having stomach pain. So they take the guy in, they do some x rays. They're like, what's going on here? We got to figure this out. This is in I believe it's in India. If I
have this story credit, I believe he's a India. So they use usual tests and whatnot, and the guy says he was suffering from stomach pain for like two years. Doctors look inside. This guy had ingested sixty household items that he had in his gut. Guy's thirty five years old, and he went to the hospital. He was concerned he had some kind of terminal cancer, a stomach cancer at
age thirty five. So they scanned him and they discovered chains, nuts, bolts, earphones, safety pins, magnets, shirt shirt buttons, zips, and I mean, you know I'm gonna send you this. I'm going to send you this.
Danny.
You got to see the photo of the crap that was in This seems like it's out of a.
Horror movie, a human dyce in What the hell?
Yeah, it says this guy suffers from a medical condition. He was diagnosed with a condition called pica picka I believe it is, or pika. It is a mental health condition where the sufferer compulsively swallows items that aren't food. Holy fuck. This is a cord of the Even when clinic says most common it's young children. Yeah, I think kids put crap in their mouth, says pregnant women. And
people with psychiatric disorders, Well we'll do this, they say, schizophrenia. Also, I didn't even know you could swallow some of those items.
Nothing like a juicy lego.
He just I don't know if you're looking at the photo. I said to Danny, but that there are some very large whoa, there's like a bottle opener, like one of those big metal bottle openers.
There's a everything is laid out on a table. This reminds me of that old Brady Bunch episode where Bobby had to empty out his pockets.
There you go, I remember, I do remember that. Yeah, that was that was good. That is How do you swallow some of that stuff? I can't imagine. It looks like there's a big pen, like a full size pen there. What about the thing in the upper left hand corner, Dan, it looks like it looks like a donut, but a metal donut, like a full sized metal donut.
This looks like the very bottom of a very busy toolbox. And somebody dumped the toolbox out and then got all the crap that was at the bottom of the toolbox and dumped it out on a sheet. That's what it looks like. And most of this stuff is sharp and jagged.
That is That is next level. That is next level, all right? Next up on pop goes the culture. You can look that up. Just google it, kids, just google it. Yeah, you can find that story. So a city, let's see if you can figure out which city. I wonder if you've seen this story. A city has become the first of the nation to recognize the legal rights of animals. You want to take a guess which state nanny this city is in the first city in America to recognize the legal rights of a non human animal.
God, it's got to be our state that we live in. That is that is correct, Danny, Okay, California Winter Chicken Dinner.
The People's Republic of California, the city of Ohi, ah oj oh j oh Hi. They adopted an ordinance introduced by a council member there named Leslie Rule who I don't know. That is District one developed with the Non Human Rights Project. The ordinance defines the projects elephants rights
to liberty. It says it's indisputable that elephants suffer when deprived of their freedom, and the animal welfare laws can't end their suffering, and so it says, for elephants in the non human animal rights movement, we are proud to support the first of its kind ordinance, and we command the Ohi City Council for standing up to what's necessary and just.
How many elephants do they have at Ohi?
Well, I don't want to talk about the women there, Danny, but if you want to, you can you can do that. No, I.
Have no on there's some hippie women over the mountains there, but I don't know about elephants.
I was enforced, Danny. You think they're going to go The elephants are going to self report they're not getting their liberty. What do you think they do? The elephants use their tusk and throw feces to alert the alert the people. Hey, I'm not getting my liberty over here. Help me out. Give me some peanuts or something. I need peanuts. Last one. We'll get out on this. And oh what a story it is. Elon Musk has taken this satellite thing to the next level. He pretty much
owns the heavens at this point. Now they have this Starlink satellite Internet thing. I was unaware of this, but there are almost not that. According to this there are almost five thousand Starlink satellites that are hovering over Earth. Keep in mind that there are only around nine thousand stars visible on Earth's sky, so they are convinced within a few years, at the rate Elon Musk is sending these satellites up, there will be more satellites in space.
From Elon Musk is Starlink Internet, then there are stars that we can see.
This guy's a monster. Someone needs to stop them. Is insane.
They're they're like talking about also the long term ramifications of space junk and what's gonna happen because these things don't last forever. It says that the Starlink satellite, each of these things is about the size of a dining room table, or a better comparison would be if you're a fan of the nineteen eighties professional wrestling, each one is about the size the weight of Andre the Giant. Yeah, it says space not is not overcrowded. We humans are
just really crap at understanding scale and numbers. Suppose I don't know, but it's pretty wild to think that space junk and space debris left by humans stuck in the orbit and all this stuff. The objects orbit travel about fifteen thousand miles per hour, fast enough that of a small piece collider with a satellite or spaceship to cast some serious damage. So how did they get rid of that stuff? Do they just stay in orbit forever? I don't know. I'm not that smart. I have no idea anyway.
All right, we'll get out here in Vegas, Danny, So we'll get the hell out here. Obviously, Covino and Rich anything live today? Is it just a podcast? You're doing there today. You're going to fight tonight.
Yeah, today, we have a special fight Day podcast that's gonna be available anywhere you get your podcasts from, just Google, Covino and Rich Fox Sports Radio podcast. Tonight, we will get to be there in the house to watch Canelo and this Charlo dude, Ben. He's got a twin brother. They're both really good fighters. The other Charlo brothers the stronger one. This is the one who's slicker in the ring, so he could give Canelo some problems. But most boxing experts think Canelo is gonna win tonight.
Well, Canelo's the bigger name, and you usually go with the bigger name. So if I wanted to watch said fight, is this a typical late night Was it eight o'clock West Coast time?
Yes, this is a showtime pay per view.
All right, very good, So enjoy that. If you check that out, maybe I'll check that out. I don't know what I'm doing, and today it's my day of rest. I need to decompress from my craziness with all the different nonsense. Don't forget Benny versus the Penny, Benny versus the Penny. Check your local TV listings. If you don't have it on your local TV, check out direct TV. It's available Fubo TV, and boy, that would really help us out. It will help me out a lot if
you watch the show. It means a lot to me. And it's a new show and I want to make sure that you know it does pretty well and get some people over there that say, hey, why don't we do another year of Benny Versus the Penny. Anyway, have a great day and we'll catch you next time.
I'll be watching your show from my Vegas hotel room.
Hey, Danny, by the way, if you're in a sports book, take a photo, because sometimes you know, they oh, that would be like the coolest bucket list if they accidentally put Benny Versus the Penny up in a sports book in Vegas. Man, would that be awesome. You gotta keep an eye on that when you walk through the.
Books, Danny, Okay, I definitely will.
We'll catch you next time.
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