The Fifth Hour: Tram it All Day

National Cinnamon Roll Day. If you regularly listen to the Overnight Show, then you know that we have had many great arguments by the anti cinnamon role establishment, the donut people that look down upon the cinnamon roll, saying it is a lesser item than the actual donut, but a warm, buttery bun covered in sugar and cinnamon. What is not to like? What is not to like? Now? In honor of National cinemon roll Day, on this podcast, I decided

to provide you with fun facts. That's right, fun facts about the cinnam role now number one, number one fun fact. By the way, Daniel'll be back tomorrow, he's away on assignment on this Friday podcast. But the cinnamon role, there is evidence in recorded human history that goes back two thousand BC before Christ where these delicious early cinnamon rolls

were shipped from Egypt to China. There's evidence that shows that cinnamon roles were imported from Egypt to China for monarchs and royalty, and you know, the commoners were unable to get them, right, the unwashed, the hoy PELOI couldn't get them. Imagine what that trip must have been like. And is there any way that those cinnamon rolls were

actually edible? Anything about from Egypt to China? Good luck? Now, in terms of more recent times, the Philadelphia style cineamrole, which is not my favorite cineamroll, the Philadelphia cinemon role is it goes back to the seventeen hundreds. That's honey, sugar, cinnamon, and raisins. Now, my my mom, May she rest in peace. She loved the raisins. I'm anti raisin, I'm no, I'm team no Raisin. That's my position. But wait, there's more. The first cinnabun store in America. If you're old, you

know the cinnabun thing. Now it's just at airports, but the first cinnabun store opened in Federal Way, Washington, and immediately that thing took off within a couple of years. So some fun facts about the cinnamon role. I might have to go out today and get a cinnamon roll. I was actually thinking about just getting a bear claw, you know, getting nice apple bear claw, but you know, apple turnover whatever. I have to add a semin roll on top of that. I think that would be outstanding.

What other holidays is it today? What do we got today? Well, cinema roll is the big one. It's National Taco Day, but I think that's bull crap because I thought we just had Taco Day on Tuesday. So it's National Vakta Day. If you're an alcoholic, knock yourself out, no vadkya. We always have it at the house. Nice huge vodka guy, don't don't hate it. But anyway, enough of that. Oh what fun it is, Oh what fun it is. This

is the Companion podcast. This part of it where I blatantly attempt to convince you via the Spengali effect, to be part of our fund part of the TV show sweeping the nation one week at a time. As we hatched our show a few weeks back, and what time is flying? By Time is Flying? It's week five, episode six of Versus the Penny. We hit the air later today this afternoon. Depending on when you're listening to this podcast, you can listen whenever. You can listen early in the day,

late in the day. The first showing in Boston is this evening, and that is our flagship affiliate. The show is produced out of NBC Sports Boston, so it's very important that we do well there, otherwise we're in trouble. So I especially need my guys that are in the Boston area that have access to a cable television or satellite TV and NBC Sports Boston. We're on fine time. We are on a great slot six PM, right after Felger and Maz get off the air and we need

to beat the crap out of Nessen. There's a show on there from this little like punk guy. I'm not going to say his name against us in that six pm hour. It's an evergreen show. It's probably tap months ago. We need to win that. And ferdgol I pointed out on the Overnight Show a few hours ago that in the LA market we start broadcasting on Saturday and that's on the Lakers station early in the day and we're going against like the Weather Channel, some rerun weather programs,

so we should do pretty well on that. And if you don't have access to cable television or satellite TV and you can't get your hands on one of these NBC sports affiliates, well good news. The show is now nationally broadcast on Peacock. Just type in Benny versus the Penny on Peacock and you can watch anywhere from Seattle to Miami, from the shores of Maine all the way down to San Diego and everywhere in between. You can check out Benny Versus the Penny. Now, as far as

this week is concerned, we had a few grimlings. O The Gremlins this week did not attack the green screen. They attacked the microphone my microphone. Now, Fortunately, the difference between radio and television. When you do radio, it's one person that has to solve the problem and a bunch of other people standing around if you're lucky, and then you have the head engineer who you're not supposed to call because they're sleeping, and they'll fix whatever's broken in

the morning. That's normally how that has worked in my career in radio. But in television it's much different. Right, there's people on the phone immediately and they're like fact finding that they've got this whole master outline. What's broken? How can we figure it out? You know? And it's not like we'll wait on it. It's hey, we've got a game plan and we have to get this done as soon as possible, which which makes you feel somewhat important.

Makes you feel somewhat important. So once they exterminated the little monsters, which just means they changed out my microphone, it was smooth. The apping ahead. Now we actually had a really cool Hollywood moment this week on Benny Versus the Penn. I wanted to share this with you because you're a super p one. You are, I mean, you're listening to this podcast, which means you're like a higher level if you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast in

addition to the overnight show. So we use I'm not gonna lie, we use a very small studio for Benny versus the Penny. I'm just happy we have a studio, right, That's all I need. So we have this little studio at Universal Studios that we use, which is in the Brocaw Building Media Center, which is where the West Coast hub of CNBC and NBC News National are and Telemoundo. There's a bunch of different channels that are in this building. I'll have various studios whatever. Fine. I think MSNBC has

a small, small studio there as well. So we're we're doing our show. And the thing about it is even our studios very small. We have full access to the mammoth sized Universal Studios and it is a pinch yourself moment when you drive past the guard gate and move into the Abbott and Costello parking garage, and week after week it hasn't worn off yet. So after this week's show, we had little time and rather than sit in rush hour LA traffic, we started exploring Universal Studios and it

is awesome to wander around. I had access to the Fox lot when Fox Sports Rados started Got twenty almost twenty five years ago. We had access to the Fox lot and it was really neat and it was fun. And I walked all over that place, the back lot there in West La and it was so much fun. I used to It was so laid back in those days that I'd have buddies of mine that had moved from California, like Texas or New York, and when they can't come back, say hey, do you want to come

on the Fox lot. We'll walk around the New York City scene and we just like wandered around. It's like kids playing around, you know. I was much younger, but we had a great time. It was awesome. I have fund memories of that. And then nine to eleven happened. I happened to be at the Fox lot that day and all of a sudden, it was like Fallojah. There was a military compound there. It was just an absolute change immediately, and so I could no longer take people there.

And so I really haven't spent much time since then on any of these movie lots other than now. The last couple of years, and most of it's just to do my job and get out of there. But we were wandering around after this week's episode, and the thing that you feel is the energy, the vibe, the aura. There's a level of excitement from the people. A lot of them ride bicycles and golf carts. At the movie studio,

there are very few cars. The cars that are there are usually like the trams or the buses or whatever. So but everyone seems like genuinely happy. They're excited, like they're living their dreams. And it is the antithesis of you know, looking at Eddie's mug, you know, or anybody in radio who's crusty and gloomy and nah bah humbug, you know, that old thing which you normally get in radio. You don't really get that. But nothing like that complete opposite in this world. And so we taped a little

social media thing. We try to do this every week, and if you're listening early on, it might not be up. I'm gonna put it up this after noon when I wait when I wake up, and it's just a little video to say, hey, come see the show. But in this one, we filmed the video on the back lot. You can call us a lot lizards, not the urban

dictionary binocular of a lot lizard. But as we're recording in front of this iconic stage where so many amazing shows have been recorded over the years, we're doing our thing. And a shuttle that's not a shuttle, it's the tourist group, you know, Universal Studios, Hollywood, the Amusement Park. A tram. That's the tram. I just said it, and I forgot it. A tram comes zooming by, and you'll see it if you look at the videos soon to be on I'll

put it on all the social media today. I'm gonna put it on the X. I usually put these only on Instagram, or I'll put them on Facebook, usually both, usually both of those. And yeah, it's just a little video like a so saying, hey, watch Benny versus the Benny blah blah blah blah blah uh. And but at the end of it, you'll see the tram like zoom by. And we were like, both me and Looney were like, that's like, that's kind of another one of those pinch yourself moments. It's like, I feel like I have in

poster syndrome. So what are we doing are we really here? Is this? Is this actually happening? And it does appear by all accounts. It is not a figment of my imagination. Now, if you want to follow me on Instagram, it's Ben Mahllor on Fox. It's Ben Maller on Fox. The Facebook page is Ben Maller's show. I know a lot of you follow me on X which is just my name, but Ben Mahller on Fox, on Instagram ben Mahler's show

on the Facebook page. So, uh, just to put a ball on this, you know, it's just it's just really cool. It's really really cool. And it was one of those like awkward moments, was like, wait a minute. There's people that paid money to go to Universal Studios on the tram and they're like excited to be on the back lot here where they film all the movies and the TV shows and they're looking at my fat ass and Looney wearing a stupid shirt. You know, it's like, what

are we doing here? But that's what we did, and so how do you like them? Apples? Not bad right now as far as honest and integrity, I do not do lists. I know Terry in England and Mark in the Bay Area, a fan of the Warriors, the Raiders, the A's, the Tom Brady roast, and also the new SoundBite we got from JD. Martinez on the show. So anyway, this is not a list. It's Big Ben's Big Board Honest and

Integrity America's most trusted professions. It's going to Gallop a Gallup Survey Honesty and Ethics Gallup Poll, and she's I give you the top. Let me give you the top. I'll give you the top five. Number five. Number five would be the police officer forty five percent. Trust police forty five percent. That means fifty five percent either don't or are skeptical. Doctors only fifty six percent trust doctors. A lot of shady doctors. Shout out Doc Mike in Chicago.

The dentist at fifty nine percent. Now the dennist is a doctor, but a different kind of doctor. They're at fifty nine percent. Engineers at number two on the Big Board at sixty percent. And do you know without cheating, do not cheat? Do you know who is not the number one trusted professionalty in America? According to Gallup, that would be none other than the nurse. Seventy eight percent of Americans trust their nurse. Yeah, my mother in law a nurse. Mother in law nurse. I've had other nurses

in the family. Here's the thing about nurses though, And I tell nurse anybody, I have to go to the hospital or the doctors. Like the doctors have such a rack. They're the ones that get paid the most. But it seems to me the nurse does eighty five to ninety percent of the work. Am I wrong on that? Is

that an unpopular opinion? Every time I've gone to the doctor or the dentist, it's the dental assistant or it's the nurse that does a lot of the heavy lifting, and then you're sitting around, you're waiting for the doctor to bless you with their appearance. And I know we have some doctors that listen to this podcasts. I've met some of you when we've gone out and done these

malord meeting greets. But it does seem like it's it's like, well, we'll just have them them do most of the work and then we'll slide in there and then we'll do we'll do the main stuff. But it's only ten percent. Yeah, it's you know, ninety percent the nurse thing. So there you go as far as the opposite end of the spectrum, the three at the very bottom. I did not see talk radio host on here, So I guess we are trusted where it's somewhere in the middle. We must be

somewhere in the middle. I saw car salespeople, the trope of the used car salesperson that was at number three at the bottom here eight percent. Only eight percent of Americans trust people selling them cars. But that's pretty much ended, hasn't it. Like there's not even a lot of haggling. Most car dealers now won't not even allow you to haggle. They just don't like. You get what you get, and you're gonna like what you get, and that's what you get,

and that's all. That's it, like a lot of these places. But they say eight percent at number two on the bottom list, second from the worst, senators eight percent, same as car salesmen, and number last would be members of Congress just six percent, six percent. That cuts across party lines. That's a bipartisan issue that both Team Blue and Team Red hate members of Commress, at least in terms of judging them in terms of integrity, ethics, honesty, things like that.

Just six percent which I'm told is not good. I'm told, I'm told that's not good. The brain fog, which is another way of saying just a fun fact, but the brain fog for today, on this fifth hours, we turned the page. I read this the other day and it's one of those fascinating things that you're like, wow, this is so crazy, and you think, well, in my lifetime, I've seen things somewhat similar to this. But George Washington.

George Washington died in seventeen ninety nine. The first dinosaur fossil that she humans had discovered did not happen until eighteen twenty four. So if you do the math, that means that George Washington one of the most important figures in American history. A founding father. George Washington lived his entire life never realizing that dinosaurs had also lived on the planet. But then you thought, well, Washington also never knew it. But the Internet did not exist, the automobile

did not exist. I mean, there's so many things that didn't exist. And even in my lifetime. I remember when I was a kid, my grandparents and we visit them. You know, one set of grandparents lived real close. When I was a kid, another one lived about an hour away, and we'd see them. We'd see them once a month. The other ones we saw pretty much all the time. But when they died, and I was much younger and there was no internet, social media obviously did not exist AI.

What is AI anything? But I knew them. They lived their life fine, they got through life. And it's just one of those weird things you think about and you're like, well, we're all going to be gone too, and then what's what's going to happen when we're gone? But you don't need to worry about it because you're not there. It's not your problem, someone else's problem to worry about. You don't have to worry about that. They've got to worry about that. And that's how the pecking order of life works,

the social structure. You worry about the crap you have to worry about, Well, you're in the pyramid, and then when you're kicked out of the pyramid and you're no longer there, then that's not your problem anymore, someone else's problem. And that's that, And that's the same footpath that we all take. Babe Ruth, the bambino Babe Ruth and what he was what he was around. When he was around, it was all newspaper writers and the radio didn't start

till nineteen twenty, nineteen twenties. There was no television at the beginning of his time. The TV did come in, but it was nothing like it. You know, it's today and there's no obviously no social imagine Babe Ruth on social media. Holy crap, foody, what do you say? Let's go to foody fun, foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it all right for food e fun da da da food e fun. Okay, I've been told to never do that again. I can't guarantee I will never do that again.

I know you like that fer dog. I know, I know. All right, here we go foody fun. These are actual food stories because we all got to eat. Experts have revealed why McDonald's tastes better outside the US. Why do you think that is? Could it be better ingredients? Could it be possibly? Yeah, But they say, hey, if you go to a McDonald's outside of the US, you have the big Mac, you have the McChicken like you go

to Europe and it just tastes better. And so people have wondered, is it real beefas it just taste better. What is going on? Well, scientists have said the differences in flavor are part of Part of it is the different sugars used in the US compared to Europe. Americans change use high bructose corn syrup, which is more sweet than chain sugar, which is predominantly used in the UK and all over Europe. So that is supposedly the thing

that's the different sugar. It's not the meat. So they use the same animal meat, but they just dress it up with the sugar. And they're the thing when you look at the ingredients and they add like artificial dyes and food coloring, and you know, you can leave a big macout in January and come back in like October where we are right now, and it will look almost exactly the same. That ain't good. But they you leave

some foods out, like the bag of garlic. You leave that out, and then all of a sudden that thing turns even after a little while, that thing will turn nasty. They'll be moled on it, or potatoes or any of that. Well, if you live in an area where Del Taco is a preferred Mexican restaurant over over the other alternatives in the fast food, but not available everywhere. It's mostly in the West. Deltaco releasing a new Dell's Mucho Meal starting at four What do you get for four forty nine?

You get four forty nine. You have the the snack Taco Moncho Meal, Mutro meal, two snack tacos, a mini cinnamon Churo Truro, but it's mini small crinkle cut fries, and a sixteen ounce drink. They have higher prices. They have the seven to forty nine Chickens Lover Moucho Meal, which is a grilled chicken taco, a chicken and chedder roller whatever that is with your choice of Ranch no thank you, Chipotle or green sauce. And then there's all kinds of other stuff thrown in there. But I think

I'm I think I'm good on that. Back to McDonald's, we talked about this in a previous episode of The Fifth Hour. McDonald's has officially announced the launch of the I Love the headline on this highly anticipated Chicken Big Mac highly anticipated, the fan favorite since nineteen sixty eight, So give me the details. Well, today is October fourth.

McDonald's announced this last week that a limited time offering will be available in the US starting October tenth, So this coming week, the Chicken Big Mac features two tempura battered chicken patties in place of the iconic all beef patty, layered with milty American cheese, lettuce, pickles, and two special or a ton of special sauce served on that sesame seed bun. And so you can pick that up. They say rices will vary, which means in California it'll probably

cost you thirty bucks. But if you happen to live in Mississippi, or you live in Louisiana or Arkansas or Kentucky, it'll be much cheaper. You lucky devil, You lucky lucky devil. Well, if you like free things with a catch, you're probably gonna need to go to Buffalo Wild Wings On Monday. They have one of these promotions to get people to come in and watch Monday Night Football. Actually, not Buffalo Wi, I say Buffalo Who Wings? I meant Applebee's bat job

by me. Every Monday after a Sunday NFL pick six at Applebee's. You get not one, not two, not three, not four, nine five about six free boneless wings. But you have to spend ten bucks so they'll toss in, they'll throw your bone and you'll get an extra six boneless wings to knock yourself out and have a wonderful time. There was a new study done the fastest and most satisfying fast food chains. Does that interest you it all? Should we look at that on foody fund? You're shaking

your head? Yes? All right? Well even if you're not, I'm gonna pretend you are. I'm not looking at you. I'm not stocking you. I'm just pretending you're you're shaking your head. Yes, all right, at least you meanies, all right. So a new survey from next Star whatever that is, and this year they conducted over sixteen hundred drive through

visits at ten chains nationwide. Those ten chains were Arby's which Danny g loves, Burger King which nobody loves, Carl's Junior Parties that combination, Chick fil A, Duncan only known as Duncan, Donu's, KFC, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Windy's, and new this year raising chains. So they went through and they tested all of these and what did they find? What

did they find? Well, based on total fastest time in the car, they said that no chain was faster than Chick fil A time of one hundred and thirty nine point three seven seconds, but close behind raising canes upstart Raising Chains, which was the only other company with the total time below two hundred seconds, so less than four minutes. Good job raising cans. Chick fil A was not as

successful in other speed categories. Taco Bell again regained the top spot for total time from entering the drive through through exiting with the food they claim a corn to this study, and sours who didn't do that well? Who did not do that well? The weight time, total time in terms of wait time, and the whole thing record to this. I'm trying to read this right. The satisfaction score the lowest was Duncan eighty nine percent. Wendy's was

next lowest in satisfaction at ninety percent. Order accuracy Chick fil A was at ninety three percent. They were number one, tied with McDonald's. So some of the numbers there from that survey time. Now we'll get out on this the phrase of the week, the phrase of the week, and the phrase of the week in honor of those of us that work crazy hours. As soon as I get done with this podcast, I am going to go lay down and go to sleep, and the phrase of the week is sleep tight. I hope to sleep tight. So

where does this one come from? Mike, who listens religiously in North Carolina, where my father in law lives most of the year. Mike writes and he says, Hey, Ben, I've heard this for years, since I was a little kid, and I'm too lazy to look it up. Can you please tell me as I do my honeydo list. I guess he's going to listen on Saturday, but he says he wanted me to do this, but I'm doing I realize I'm doing it Mike on Friday, so hopefully you'll hear this. I probably should have looked at that part

of the email. Anyway. He says he's heard this for a long time. He does this honey do list on Saturday and he catches up on the podcast, So maybe you'll listen to this one a Friday on a Saturday.

So sleep tight now. According to my minutes long malor research, the classical explanation behind the phrase sleep tight goes all the way back to medieval times and the archaic beds and people slept on ben that were made with rope strong in medieval times, and so they didn't have springs, So instead of springs, they used ropes that needed to be tied tightly under the mattress to keep it securely in place. Hence the phrase sleep tight, which was a

figurative term in medieval times. Now, the other scenario, the other origin story that is out there, which is not as believable, is that in olden times, people believed that goblins and spirits, evil spirits were lurking in the dark and could cause harm if they were not dealt with appropriately. So when someone said sleep tight, they were actually wishing their loved one, their relative, their friend, a sleep free

of harm. You know, anything bad to happen. All right there It is the edition of the Fifth Hour again Benny versus the Penny. Thank you for listening to this podcast, and don't forget we had the Overnight Show, the Original Recipe podcast, the Ben Maler Show, four hours of original content breaking down that wild game last night between the Falcons and the Buccaneers. That was a bad beat for me. Tampa should have could have won that game. They gagged

it away, choking choking dogs. Even with the terrible defense they had the game in the bag the Buccaneers and they fumbled it away put the bug on the rug. Bad job by them. And also the baseball game where the Metropolitans did something they don't normally do. They came up clutch Pete Alonzo with the dramatic home run and the Mets coming back to sting the Brew Crew and move on to Philadelphia and all the baseball continues tomorrow,

have a wonderful day. Danny'll be back with me tomorrow on the fifth hour for our Saturday Extravaganza and we'll talk to you then later. Skater gotta murder, I gotta go