April 19, 2024 • 35 mins
Maller & Danny G. have another great Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: Garlic Day, Travel Log, Burned Gums, Way to San Jose, Great Outdoors, Gum Stains, Idiom of the Week, Foodie Fun, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g But you already knew that this is
not the original recipe. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra
Spicy Weekend Podcast. It's Friday, the nineteenth day of April.
We have survived another week. Well, you still have another
(00:50):
show to do today, Danny, but we have survived the
majority of a week. I am done with the radio
portion of my schedule and we have united here to
form Volta on the Fifth Hour podcast. Yeah, every Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, and big, big recap podcast, Big Recap podcast, Danny,
(01:11):
nothing more popular. We blow up the downloads malor travel
log malor those three words biggest words in podcasting.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Whenever you say that, it sounds like your friend Shatner.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Check mates. Yeah, so last weekend I was away, so
we'll have tails from the road. In fact, I think
we'll probably have tails from the road all weekend because
I had a lot packed into a few days.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah. I saw pictures of you standing in the middle
of the wilderness.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, the great outdoors. I enjoyed that a lot. Today
is a we usually hear these dopey holidays, and I
was planning when I came into the studio this morning. Danny,
I was like, well, you know, I'm not gonna, I'm
gonna I'm gonna not do that. I don't I don't
need to do the dopey hollidaything. It's fun. I like it.
I think it's kind of fun, but I don't need
to do it. And then I looked and I said,
(02:08):
wait a minute, I gotta do it because today is
Today's one of the most important days of the year.
I mean, it's I put it right up there with.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
New Year's in the NFL draft already.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
July fourth, Uh today, Danny, National Garlic Day. Today is
National Garlic Day. Hello, not just in your wheelhouse. You
were just there, Yes, I was in the Holy Land
of Garlic. Jesus, I made the stop. Every time I
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go to northern California, I know to go south from
the same from the Bay Area, you have to go buy.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Gilroy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So if you're going to go buy Gilroy, you might
as well go in Gilroy where it actually smells like garlic.
The air smells like garlic. What an amazing place. Everyone
should want to live in Gilroy. I don't think anyone dies.
They don't even have cemeteries in Gilroy because no one
will die because the garlic is there. It gives you strength.
(03:12):
Going back to the ancient Egyptians who worshiped garlic as
a god, Danny, they worship garlic as a god.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Have you had the chance yet to try the garlic
rolls at wood Ranch restaurants?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I do not believe I have. I did eat when
I was in I did go to Gilroy. I had
some like a garlic burger, but I've not had the
wood Ranch barbecue.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Those rolls gar They bring them out warm and you
dip them in the barbecue sauce. They just opened one
a couple of years ago in Burbank. In Burbanka, Yeah,
your old stomping grouse.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I used to hang out in Burbank. I actually wanted
to live in Burbank when I was working the local
station in LA and then I know what happened. Well,
I saw the price of you know, the houses and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah. Rich Rich Davis Rich tells the story that when
he moved out here I think it was like eight
nine years ago with his lovely wife, they started house
shopping in Burbank and they quickly moved on to other
parts of Los Ange.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No Burbanks. The area the radio station I worked at
was in I guess technically called Teluca Lake, which is
where Bob Hope was. But Burbank's just a wonderful little
enclave like a bubble.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But you pay for it, so it's uh yeah, it's
Disney money there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Studios, Yeah, they have about Disney's there, animation division of You've.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Got Disney on one side. Warner Brothers is there as well,
and then just over the hill you have Universal Studios.
They're all all the A lot of the big studios
are there. And then Channel Channel seven ABC has studios
over there, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right, And of course AM five seventy LA Sports and.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The iHeart LA building, right, I mean, and the premiere
buildings in sruman Oaks. If you're you're familiar with la.
But anyway, get back to the boy. So today's garlic day,
so celebrate. I will be celebrating, Danny. I will celebrate.
I will eat lots of lots of garth, which is
nature's antibiotic garlic. And we have some fun facts if
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you only want some garlic fun facts.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, if you would like to burn your throat for
three weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
My gums, yeah, yeah, yeah, I suck the garlic. When
I start getting sick, I sucked the garlic. Maybe you
can suck on it and that'll make it better, especially
if I laryngitis. It really is good with laryngitis because
it kills the infection and your throat. The problem is
it will burn through your gums, so you'll have a
hole on each side of your mouth, and that kind
of sucks. But the most popular garlicky foods, let's see,
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how many only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten out of the ten most popular garlicky foods, how
many can Danny g name? Dude?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Garlic bread?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
All right? That is clearly the number one, number one
most popular garlicy food is garlic bread. Thirty one percent
of Americans like garlic bread, and the other sixty nine
percent are losers, So that that is number one. I'll
give you. I'll give you a how about till you
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get three wrongs?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I keep going back in the day. I remember having
a really wonderful honey garlic chicken dish. Is that on there?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, well, not honey, but just garlic chicken. Yes, that is.
That was actually number two. So you're doing you're in order?
Are you cheating? Cheat?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He's not supposed to cheat at this dare I where
I'm sitting right now, there are no monitors open in
front of me. Oh really, it's a blank stare, just
like me looking at the wall, which is what I
do for the day.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I just keep I just keep tossing out words and
hoping they go together. That's pretty much what I do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Dora, are the explorers on my TV screen at home?
So I'm basically staring at a wall compelling. Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You want to write a children's book, Danny, because that
children's books really have like four or five words on
every page at the most, right, So anybody could write
a children's book.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's a good idea for a super Cat series. Yes,
starring Mac.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Don't do a Lost Cat magnet, you should do it. Yeah,
all right, let's see we got the top two.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
All right, will let's see what garlicy food? Oh okay,
got it. My mom she used to make a garlic
parmesan pasta, like a pasta. Yeah, the past Oh there
you got stumber three. Oh my god, you're in order.
This has never happened before. This is this is an
historical podcast. My weekend, the top three. My weekend can
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only go down from here.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That is amazing. R Well, who cares? Well, we'll stop.
You want to press your luck here, we'll stop right there.
Uh so you got the top three. Number four was
garlic shrimp. I don't eat the seafood. I think seafood
lives matter, and I don't want to. I don't want
to take their life. All right, I want my chicken,
fine love, I would love living and go. Garlic butter
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is on there, garlic fries. I thought that would be higher.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh yeah, that's a San Francisco Giants staple at their stadium.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now. Oh, the first time I ever experienced that was
at the Giants ballpark. And now it's a lot of
the stadiums garlic fries.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Those fans stink in more than one way. A roasted
garlic is that garlic hummus? Oh that's good, raw garlic,
and then pickled garlic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Which I think I've ever ever had. Twenty four percent
of Americans think garlic makes everything taste better. Good job
by them, and fifteen percent of Americans by pre minced garlic.
I think it's higher than that. I believe it's higher
than that because you see that. You see that at
all the stores they have that mouthwatering twelve percent of
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Americans say garlic breath doesn't bother them. All right, that's cool, man.
I want to hang out that twelve percent. That's what
I want to hang out. And I don't hang out
with the other.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Part of that. Well, we're in.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There are breath mints that we have and anyway, that's
enough about garlic. As far as the travel is concerned,
we had the pods up last week. How it was
a very hectic week because I took one night off
and then we were hitting the road and like I said,
did I take two nights? I don't even remember. Maybe
it was two nights. Yeah, I think it was two
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nights I took off. But anyway, some of the details
you can say, we know the way to San Jose.
So I started out typical gridlock traffic. I slept for
a few hours after the show, got in the car
and painful but expected. Now we went. When you go
to northern California, southern California, if you're not familiar, most
people listening to this podcast are in California. So when
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you drive from southern California northern California, there's two main
ways to go. There is the quick Way, which goes
through the bread Basket of America, which is really the
flatulence of America where it just smells like fart and manure.
Interstate five, Yeah, straight up the five. That's the quick Way.
Or you can go scenic on the one oh one
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Highway one up the coast and enjoy the beautiful views
of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Beautiful, but it tax on two hours and forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, at tax on. A lot of times went we
went scenic. We went scenic and stopped at the usual places.
Santa Barbara had lunch in Santa Barbara. Loved Santa Barbara,
so it's so nice there. So no billboards, beautiful, a
lot of rich people. I was going to say, it's
where all the movie stars live. Monacito. Yeah, Montecito is billionaires.
It's nothing Oprah lives, but it's like real billionaires, Like, yeah,
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it's crazy. I had a good Mexican meal there in
Santa Barbara, a lot of chips and salsa. Drove another
hour to the town, about an hour solving. We talked
about solving.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Danish village. Yeah, I had the able Skiver home of
the ostrich Berger.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, the ostrich farm there down the road, and charming village.
You just like you're in Denmark unless you're not.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But it's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And that able Skimer very good. That's the little fried,
puffy like doughnuts they put with ice cream. I guess
it's a Danish thing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I don't all.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
On our way back though to the highway, we stopped
off at the Starbucks in Buelton, which is just down
the road from Denmark, or actually not from Denmark that
would be amazing, but from Solving, and my wife went
to get I don't drink coffee, so she got me
what the Callie refresher, which is just.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like the biggest ripoff in the history ice drinks anywhere.
Our daughter, our thirteen year old, gets these and my
wife is always like, why do these cost so much?
And they cut up a little bit of fruit and
put it on top, and they're like eight dollars please.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, you can buy a whole, you know, three gallons
of the same juice at the store anyway. So I
get that. So I because it's you know, she wanted
to drink coffee by herself, so I have my pressure.
But while she was getting that, I went in that.
We stopped the parking lot. There's a tractor supply store,
which has been a big advertiser in recent months on
Fox Sports Radio. And I had never been to a
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tractor supply store. I've read the commercial hundreds of times.
I've never been to one.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's right. I saw your cock joke on Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah. There was a giant metal cock right out in
front of the store, and that got my attention. I
was attracted to the giant metal cock. And that's a
drop I forget like on the podcast it becomes a
d on the radio show, not so much anymore. But
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we went, we went, and I went in the store
and uh, I was it was impressed. I mean, I
guess I'm easily impressed. I was attracted to the giant
metal cock. I thought it was cool. Other people in
the comments were like, oh, just like any other store,
it's not that impressive. And then there were some guys
that loved tractor supply. They're like, oh, I can't believe it.
(12:58):
Have been there year, like a loser then ever been there,
But there's none near where I live, So that's why
I'd never been there. But it's it's either.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Every Oh, it's pretty much the same crowd who loves
the bass pro shops.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of animal supply stuff. You felt
very masculine. I would compare it to going into like
a Pep Boys or you know, some some car repair
place where you just smell tires and you feel like
you're more manly. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You go in there, you see the dog food, like
Tim Allen, the machetes over there.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I just see you feel pretty good about that.
So I went in there and I walked around for
a little bit, and it was kind of cool. Back
on the road as always. Now, I don't know about you, Dannyone,
I drive up the scenic Route in California. I always
stop in Santa Maria. That's like another hour outside of solving.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, they have a brand new raising canes there.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, they have that. They also have a what's that
cracker barrel? Which Dick and Dayton line you had that,
But I went to the Costco to get the gas
there at Costco had to fill up because it's got
a ways to go, you know. Then we stopped at
the Madonna in beautiful Madonna in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That place is creepy.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, it's an old mob hanging out back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And when you go to urinate there, you pee into
a waterfall that is.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Correct bath The bathroom underneath is a rock, a rock waterfall,
and you stand there and you're not sure where it
ends and where you're supposed to, you know, where you're
putting suppos put your feet.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's very off where shoes always wind up wet.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah. So my wife likes all the gatty stuff in
the gift shop. So I was able to finagle a
piece of the pink champagne cake, which is just amazing.
And that's the reason I keep going to that point.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Forty seven of sugar and fifty two dollars for one piece,
but I was it was very good.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And then back on the road with something more Bay
beautiful Moral Bay. As we went up the coast on
the Malar travelogue where we go camping every summer. Love Moralbay,
the rock which you can almost never see because there's fog.
And there's a like a nuclear power plant which I
don't think is active anymore, which is kind of funny,
right on the water there. And we had dinner and
then we had another almost two hundred miles to go.
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We were Our destination was Los Gatos, which is south
of San Jose. And by the time we got to
the hotel, from the time we left to the time
we got to the hotel, you want to take a
guess how long this trip took, good Danny, what do
you think here?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Nine hours?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
About ten hours? Close ten hours. It was a long
day's journey into the night. It was quite quite the
slap good times, good times. It was you know, it's
fun like doing that kind of thing. Had a good time.
But wait, there's more. So we stayed in Los Gatos.
Now what is you you're familiar with that? What is
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Los Gatos.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Famous for computer people?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah? Of course rich tech executives lived there, and I
believe that is the headquarters of Netflix is in that
it's the number one employer in that city.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My uncle has lived in that city forever and he's
always been a computer dude.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah. So, you know when you go to the Bay Area,
the two main professions in the Bay Area are tech
and petty crime breaking into cars. That's it. There's no
in between. So, but there's some big names. I was
looking it up on the internet. I was like, I
was want to go places I've never really spent much time.
I always wanted to know what what made it famous.
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You know, every town has at least a couple famous
people that came from it some line of work, And
so I looked up some of the names. Steve Wozniak,
one of the inventors of the Apple computer, is based
in Los Gatto's spent time there. John Steinbeck, the Grapes
of Wrath, guy that wrote Dad, Kyle Shanahan lives here.
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I didn't see him. Who else, Steve Mariucci. I guess
that's a big hotbed for former or at forty nine
er coaches, a bunch of athletes, past athletes, guys we'd
know like Jeff Blauser, remember him from the Atlanta Braves
back in the day we're old. We remember him. Kevin Euculus,
the Greek god of walks, for some odd reason, lives
in Los Gato's Tony, that's that's some I miss some
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other people there too, But Jeremy Ronick. I saw his jersey.
I went to the sports bar Double D's. Didn't see
a single set of Double D's, but I did. That
was the name of the place. But they had Jeremy Ronick.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
At the time they opened, they were competing with Hooters.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well they started out small, they were. They started out
as Double A's, but then they moved on there. But
I'm bump a lame jokes.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Actually on when they opened they were called a cup
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Uh So, as you mentioned earlier, Jeorde, the great outdoors,
Danny Benny by the bay, a lot of hiking and walking,
really cool. Spent my time as a tree hugger there.
I recommend highly if you ever find yourself in Los Gatto,
the Low Scatto's Creek trail on the mallor scale of
trails one to ten ten being amazed, this was a ten.
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It's probably like a twelve it's so you're it's right
in the middle of the town and you just there's
a you walk down a small hill and then you
turn either right or left and you're on the trail.
I turned from the town, I walked down, I turned left,
and I was just mesmerized. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was immediately I've seen that. Do you see all
the big homes and properties bordering that like one of
the hills.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, yeah, But I mean I walked and I was like,
this is this is awesome, Like this is so cool.
You're right away, You're you don't even you can't imagine
like just above you and down a block away as this,
oh yeah, little village.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Can you imagine that being in the middle of Resita, California.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know, but it was cool. We went to we
went out to the Redwoods, which are you know, short
drive from there, A giant, big, not as big as Sequoia,
but big redwood trees, giant old trees, and the little reservoir,
which we were disappointed. We thought you could like take
a boat out there, but it's a reservoir.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But it was cool. It was a it was a
fun time. And then well, I'll tell someone, I don't
want to spend the whole podcast talking about the trip,
so we'll tell some more tales over the course of
the weekend. We got plenty of time day and we
got a blank audio canvas for today, you know, Saturday,
and then on Sunday also, so uh, I was, I
was messing around on the internet, and for some reason,
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this is a non sequitor. I'm gonna call this a
gummy situation. So I for some reason I was, I
was looking at some old baseball cards and I was like,
you know, I used to love the bubble gum on
the cars. I was like, what the heck? Why they
stopped doing that? Why did they ever start doing it? Right,
we were kids, clicked baseball cards, they piece of bubble
gum in there. So I fell down this the spider hole,
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and I started digging and digging and digging, and you know,
you never know where you're gonna end up when you
go on a ride like that. So the bubble gum
in the baseball card thing. The tradition began in the
nineteen thirties by the Gouty Gum company, and they started
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inserting bubble gum in the packs of their baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It means their company gouty.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And anyway, the kids at the time in the nineteen Thursday,
this is amazing, this is this is the greatest thing ever.
We got the baseball cards and we get the gum.
And that was the beginning of a magical romance between
bubble gum companies and baseball cards, and it started spreading
(20:49):
to the other The other gum companies at the time
were like, we want it on that because we can
get kids hooked who want baseball cards hooked on gum.
And it's like the McDonald's, you know, the kids meal,
You get them hooked at a young age. And so
they were, and then the gum was like a bonus
item and it made them sell more packs of gum,
and there were more packs of baseball cards. And it
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was like a symbotic, symbiotic relationship until until the early
nineteen eighties. When the rubber met the road nineteen eighty one,
Long time ago nineteen eighty one, a dispute popped up
between the three major card companies at the time that
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was Tops, Donris, and Flear. Up until that point, Tops
had a monopoly on baseball card production for years they
had an exclusive licensing agreement with Baseball and the Players Association,
and TOPS is the only company allowed to use team
logos and the player images. However, that changed because Donris
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and Fleer challenged the monopoly in nineteen eighty one and
they said, you know, screw you, We're going to produce
our own baseball cards, and they got deals with the
Players Association, and that was the first time TOPS had
any real competition in you know, probably twenty thirty years
at least. But here's where the dispute about the gum
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came in. So the stipulation in the TOPS licensing agreement
required it mandated the inclusion of a little piece of
gum in each pack of cards they produced. And so
Donners and Fleer like, you know, wait a minute, and
we were trying to we don't want to include gum.
You know, it's going to ruin the cards. So Donerson
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Fleer said, it's going to reduce the value of the product,
and we don't want to do that. Screw you. So
they filed lawsuits against TOPS claiming that the gum was
an anti competitive situation. It was requirement, was anti competitive,
violated anti trustrial laws. Gum violating anti trust laws. And
this thing lasted for several years in the nineteen eighties,
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but by the time everything was done, Donnerus and Fleer
had become major players in the trading card industry. If
you're around my age, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
And then later on in the late eighties, Upper Deck
came around. They were very popular for a couple of years,
but because Donris and Flear challenged and I guess they won,
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ultimately Tops said, well, screw you, We're not if you
don't have to include gum, We're not including gum anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And did you see the recent story of the guy
who found the unopened baseball cards from nineteen fifty two?
Oh yeah, I think it happened in January. But people
are still talking about it because the price keeps going
up and up. They're saying fifteen to twenty thousand dollars
if he just sells the pack unopened, But there could
be a Mickey Mantle rookie in there which could be
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worth millions. So do you gamble and open it or
do you sell the pack as.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Is a was it bird in hand is worth two
or something like that? Is that what it is. I
forget the exact saying, but.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I think he never falls far from the app Well.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Whatever, but I you know what I meant. But here's
the thing. Here's the thing, Danny, I recall. Aren't there
YouTube videos of people chewing bubble gum from old packs
of gum from like thirty forty years ago? Yeah, they
just pop it into their mouth and start going for it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And was their gum in the Bowman pack from fifty two?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I have to you know what they probably was.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
If we collected money in a hat, I bet you
Coop would eat that seventy two year old gum.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Hey, Yeah, because it said the gum thing started in
the nineteen thirties and continued till the nineteen eighties, and
Bowman was that was a gum company. Bowman and Leaf
were gum Cat didn't. So yeah, so there had to
be the gum. There had to be the gum in
the packs of the baseball cards, so I had to
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be had to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you're right, I looked it up. It says Bowman
fifty two cards are sometimes stained from their gum.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Let's do the idiom of the week. Idiom of the week,
all right, now cut me off. If we use this
one before, I don't think we have. But I was
in a Hayes last week, so maybe we have. I
don't think we used this pearl of wisdom? Did we
use Uncle Charlie? Have we used Uncle Charlie?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No? Good?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, good, okay. I was getting concerned because I everything
kind of flows together, and you're not sure. So Uncle
Charlie is the idiom of the week. You know what
Uncle Charlie is? Now? Really that's a curveball, Uncle Charlie. Curveball,
baseball slaying. It's a colloquial term. I said, I don't
use it as much anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I was gonna say, must be here in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Even before that, Uncle Charlie. This is what I heard around.
I was good Bert Blylevin would be pitching, be like,
watch out for Uncle Charlie. But Burt Blabman known for
his curveball. So uncle Charles carly a colloquial baseball term
goes back till the nineteen thirties, and it was like
Uncle Charlie got him. He can't hit a curve. That
(26:10):
was a expression from a sports writer in the early
nineteen thirties but the Uncle Charlie, Where does that come from?
Supposedly it was a cheap shot at the president of
Harvard at the time, Charles William Elliott, who had been
against the curveball. He was aghast at the curveball, and
(26:35):
he had the quote at the time, was I understand
that a curveball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Surely this is not an ability we should want to
foster at Harvard. Guy thought they thought the curveball was
like the Astros banging on trash cans or something like that. Holy,
holy shooting.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You can't make a baseball do that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, it's gonna know, Harvard presidents have been assholes since
the beginning of time. So but anyway, so the baseball players,
as a way to mock the president of Harvard, decided
that they were just They nicknamed the curveball Uncle Charlie
in honor of the Harvard president Charles William Elliott, who
thought the curveball was He implied it was cheating, trying
(27:20):
to deceive the opposition. So so amazing, let's do a
little foodie fun as a couple of stories. I wanted
to get to and then we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah. I saw a lot of food stories this past week.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, it's been a big food thing because we're heading
into the good time for fast food where the weather's
getting better in the spring and then summer's going to
be here and you sell a lot more donuts and
cheeseburgers and stuff like that in the summer. So Popeyes
through tomorrow, I know it's a big Tomorrow is a
big holiday. Saturday is a big holiday for you. To Danny,
it's you know what dayly calendar.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Is, smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Every day, Popeye's offering a four dollars and twenty cent
chicken sandwich deal. I wonder how they came up with
that price point. I don't know how they did that.
Tim Hortons has launched pizza nationally to stretch the brand
and get people to eat in the affterd I've never
(28:16):
been to a Tim Horton's very popular in Canada. Have
you ever been to a Tim Hortons. I've never been there. People,
it's like a religious It's like the way people in
California look at In and Out Burger. A lot of
people in Canada look at at Tim Horton's so there's that.
A Jack in the Box is testing a new sour
dough scrambler in the Las Vegas area. So if you're
(28:38):
in Vegas anytime soon, Danny, you can go get yourself
a sour dough scrambler, which is that's a breakfast sandwich
you had scrambled eggs, sickory smoked bacon, and American cheese
toasted sour dough bread stop. And it's also available with
a sausage patty instead of the bacon, so you can
get that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No, I would go with the bacon extra crispy.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That'd be your remove. McDonald's in the UK has launched
a new menu with seven new items, so Mickey D's
changing it up. That just began on Wednesday of this week.
Among the new editions, they have a Cheese and Herb
melt Quick Snack, Chicken Big Mac, but Chicken Big Mac
(29:26):
that actually was around years ago. They brought it back.
The Deluxe Quarter Pounder will also be making a comeback.
The Galaxy Caramel Pie that is going to be there,
and the chocolate Galaxy Chocolate Thurry mcflurry.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
By the way, they're a sponsor of our podcast. I
heard them advertising last Weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Mickey D's we love well. They should all these these
fast food places we do a whole segment for these
people should pay for advertising. What's wrong with are Hooters?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It should pay us to eat there.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But that is true. Arby's, we should be great. If
it was like the fifth dollar presented by RB that
would be so perfect, right us. Let's see your top
fast food restaurant in the US, according to Foters Travel.
I don't know what that is f O d O
R folder. I believe Alice Pounce Folds Travel. What do
you think the best fast food restaurant in America?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, it is one of my favorite restaurants.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh your favorites.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, It's not available all over the country. It's a
regional delicacy.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Regional Oh what's the name of it. You've talked about
it on the podcast before. We don't have them here
in Cali though, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Culver's. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Culver's is in Midwest. There is one in Arizona, a
couple in Arizona, but they're mostly in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota,
place like that. But Culver's, it's it's not everywhere, and
it's just like in and out, it's not everywhere, Jack
in the boxes and everywhere? What a Burger's not everywhere?
Speaking of regional fast food restaurants, big news in the food,
(31:01):
foody fun department. I hope you're sitting down, Danny. We're
going to get in California next year. I believe bo Jangles.
We're gonna get bo Jangles. Bo Jangles is coming. And
when I was in Virginia and North Carolina a couple
of years ago for a wedding, I tasted all the
(31:22):
fast food places that I couldn't taste here, like Zaxby's
and bo Jangles and all those places, and bo Jangles
was at the very top for me. I enjoyed that
more than the other places I went to. So I'm
excited about Bojangles coming to southern California. I think that's
that's gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And I have a couple of quick ones here. Yeah,
what's your take on it too?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So Red Lobster, did you see how they are close
to filing bankruptcy?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
So yeah, they're gonna go the way of Toys r
us Right.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, and you know Fridays, they've closed almost forty locations recently.
But Applebee's was just announced as the official bar and
grill of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Tastes like a touchdown in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Brought up a big topic on Covino and Rich. The
prices at the grocery store and now twenty dollars an
hour for fast food workers, and the price is rising
rapidly at fast food restaurants, especially in California. Will there
be a resurgence for those mid level restaurants like Chili's
and Applebee's. Which one of those is your go to?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So this is mid level dining? Yeah, in this category
you got Friday's, Chili's, what else.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I guess on the East Coast they have like Bennegan's,
all those type of places. I guess Cracker Barrel would
fit in that mold. Yeah, I hop cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, I think, Yeah, I like Yeah, I like cheese
c Yeah. I mean the problem is they have to charge
more though, right don't they? With fast food?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is Fridays, if you're lucky enough to still have a
Friday's in your neighborhood, you could get a burger and
fries right now for nine ninety nine. What fast food
place right now? Can you really get a good burger
and fries for nine to ninety nine. Even at McDonald's,
A lot of those combos are over ten dollars now.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, and they never go down. It's not like they're
all right, we're going to lower the prices this year.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah. So the thinking is that this generation might start
sitting back down at Applebee's because you're paying the same
amount of money, if not less.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, and it's a better experience than going well as
much as I enjoy And.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
If some of them do like the five dollars apps
and stuff like that, where would you rather go eat?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah? Yeah, that's a fair point. And everything goes in cycles, right,
so we'll move back to the mid level restaurant and
then go back to fast food and bounce all over.
So that's interesting. Should we buy the Red Lobster just
for the biscuits? Those would buy the Red Lobster band brandley.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
In our cupboard at home right now? We have a
box of that mix, and why I want to buy
a whole bunch of I keep bugging my wife you
to make that one box, but can you make the
biscuits this weekend?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah? Sorry, those biscuits are to die. We had the
story on this podcast. You remember a couple of months
ago Red Lobster they had that all you can eat
thing with the was it the shrimp, and then they
were charging too little for it, and so they lost
a bunch of money on that because if they were
getting people to eat, but they weren't making any money
because they were eating all their profits.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, so shocking that they're going bankrupt.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, some good, good decisions there. Oh one other thing,
I saw Carls Junior out here in the West Carls
Junior testing a new avocado shake and Palm Springs. You know,
avocados today and tomorrow. If you're in Palm Springs and
Cali in the desert and you want the avocado shake,
you can get that. Who doesn't want that? I'm good,
(34:50):
I'm good? All right, Well get out on that Danny's Friday.
It's National Garlic Day. Celebrate appropriately and what do you
got going on? Yet? You don't rich today?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yep? That makes me want to fire up some garlic
bread later after I get done on the Friday edition
of Covino, in which we always have a lot of
fun on Fridays with hob Nobbin, and we'll do some
more giveaways for their swiggies, their stainless steel water bottles.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, those things are really cool. That's a high end item.
But it's not a cheap item. That's a high end item.
I might have finagled my way into some of those.
I might know somebody. Yeah, I guess we got some
money here. We have a great rest of your Friday.
We got new podcasts all week and long. That's two
more days tomorrow on Saturday, and then on Sunday we'll
(35:34):
talk to you then.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Asta Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g But you already knew that this is
not the original recipe. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra
Spicy Weekend Podcast. It's Friday, the nineteenth day of April.
We have survived another week. Well, you still have another
(00:50):
show to do today, Danny, but we have survived the
majority of a week. I am done with the radio
portion of my schedule and we have united here to
form Volta on the Fifth Hour podcast. Yeah, every Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, and big, big recap podcast, Big Recap podcast, Danny,
(01:11):
nothing more popular. We blow up the downloads malor travel
log malor those three words biggest words in podcasting.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Whenever you say that, it sounds like your friend Shatner.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Check mates. Yeah, so last weekend I was away, so
we'll have tails from the road. In fact, I think
we'll probably have tails from the road all weekend because
I had a lot packed into a few days.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah. I saw pictures of you standing in the middle
of the wilderness.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, the great outdoors. I enjoyed that a lot. Today
is a we usually hear these dopey holidays, and I
was planning when I came into the studio this morning. Danny,
I was like, well, you know, I'm not gonna, I'm
gonna I'm gonna not do that. I don't I don't
need to do the dopey hollidaything. It's fun. I like it.
I think it's kind of fun, but I don't need
to do it. And then I looked and I said,
(02:08):
wait a minute, I gotta do it because today is
Today's one of the most important days of the year.
I mean, it's I put it right up there with.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
New Year's in the NFL draft already.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
July fourth, Uh today, Danny, National Garlic Day. Today is
National Garlic Day. Hello, not just in your wheelhouse. You
were just there, Yes, I was in the Holy Land
of Garlic. Jesus, I made the stop. Every time I
(02:41):
go to northern California, I know to go south from
the same from the Bay Area, you have to go buy.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Gilroy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So if you're going to go buy Gilroy, you might
as well go in Gilroy where it actually smells like garlic.
The air smells like garlic. What an amazing place. Everyone
should want to live in Gilroy. I don't think anyone dies.
They don't even have cemeteries in Gilroy because no one
will die because the garlic is there. It gives you strength.
(03:12):
Going back to the ancient Egyptians who worshiped garlic as
a god, Danny, they worship garlic as a god.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Have you had the chance yet to try the garlic
rolls at wood Ranch restaurants?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I do not believe I have. I did eat when
I was in I did go to Gilroy. I had
some like a garlic burger, but I've not had the
wood Ranch barbecue.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Those rolls gar They bring them out warm and you
dip them in the barbecue sauce. They just opened one
a couple of years ago in Burbank. In Burbanka, Yeah,
your old stomping grouse.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I used to hang out in Burbank. I actually wanted
to live in Burbank when I was working the local
station in LA and then I know what happened. Well,
I saw the price of you know, the houses and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah. Rich Rich Davis Rich tells the story that when
he moved out here I think it was like eight
nine years ago with his lovely wife, they started house
shopping in Burbank and they quickly moved on to other
parts of Los Ange.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No Burbanks. The area the radio station I worked at
was in I guess technically called Teluca Lake, which is
where Bob Hope was. But Burbank's just a wonderful little
enclave like a bubble.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But you pay for it, so it's uh yeah, it's
Disney money there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Studios, Yeah, they have about Disney's there, animation division of You've.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Got Disney on one side. Warner Brothers is there as well,
and then just over the hill you have Universal Studios.
They're all all the A lot of the big studios
are there. And then Channel Channel seven ABC has studios
over there, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right, And of course AM five seventy LA Sports and.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The iHeart LA building, right, I mean, and the premiere
buildings in sruman Oaks. If you're you're familiar with la.
But anyway, get back to the boy. So today's garlic day,
so celebrate. I will be celebrating, Danny. I will celebrate.
I will eat lots of lots of garth, which is
nature's antibiotic garlic. And we have some fun facts if
(05:14):
you only want some garlic fun facts.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, if you would like to burn your throat for
three weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
My gums, yeah, yeah, yeah, I suck the garlic. When
I start getting sick, I sucked the garlic. Maybe you
can suck on it and that'll make it better, especially
if I laryngitis. It really is good with laryngitis because
it kills the infection and your throat. The problem is
it will burn through your gums, so you'll have a
hole on each side of your mouth, and that kind
of sucks. But the most popular garlicky foods, let's see,
(05:42):
how many only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten out of the ten most popular garlicky foods, how
many can Danny g name? Dude?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Garlic bread?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
All right? That is clearly the number one, number one
most popular garlicy food is garlic bread. Thirty one percent
of Americans like garlic bread, and the other sixty nine
percent are losers, So that that is number one. I'll
give you. I'll give you a how about till you
(06:19):
get three wrongs?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I keep going back in the day. I remember having
a really wonderful honey garlic chicken dish. Is that on there?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, well, not honey, but just garlic chicken. Yes, that is.
That was actually number two. So you're doing you're in order?
Are you cheating? Cheat?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He's not supposed to cheat at this dare I where
I'm sitting right now, there are no monitors open in
front of me. Oh really, it's a blank stare, just
like me looking at the wall, which is what I
do for the day.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I just keep I just keep tossing out words and
hoping they go together. That's pretty much what I do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Dora, are the explorers on my TV screen at home?
So I'm basically staring at a wall compelling. Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You want to write a children's book, Danny, because that
children's books really have like four or five words on
every page at the most, right, So anybody could write
a children's book.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's a good idea for a super Cat series. Yes,
starring Mac.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Don't do a Lost Cat magnet, you should do it. Yeah,
all right, let's see we got the top two.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
All right, will let's see what garlicy food? Oh okay,
got it. My mom she used to make a garlic
parmesan pasta, like a pasta. Yeah, the past Oh there
you got stumber three. Oh my god, you're in order.
This has never happened before. This is this is an
historical podcast. My weekend, the top three. My weekend can
(07:45):
only go down from here.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That is amazing. R Well, who cares? Well, we'll stop.
You want to press your luck here, we'll stop right there.
Uh so you got the top three. Number four was
garlic shrimp. I don't eat the seafood. I think seafood
lives matter, and I don't want to. I don't want
to take their life. All right, I want my chicken,
fine love, I would love living and go. Garlic butter
(08:08):
is on there, garlic fries. I thought that would be higher.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh yeah, that's a San Francisco Giants staple at their stadium.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now. Oh, the first time I ever experienced that was
at the Giants ballpark. And now it's a lot of
the stadiums garlic fries.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Those fans stink in more than one way. A roasted
garlic is that garlic hummus? Oh that's good, raw garlic,
and then pickled garlic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Which I think I've ever ever had. Twenty four percent
of Americans think garlic makes everything taste better. Good job
by them, and fifteen percent of Americans by pre minced garlic.
I think it's higher than that. I believe it's higher
than that because you see that. You see that at
all the stores they have that mouthwatering twelve percent of
(08:54):
Americans say garlic breath doesn't bother them. All right, that's cool, man.
I want to hang out that twelve percent. That's what
I want to hang out. And I don't hang out
with the other.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Part of that. Well, we're in.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There are breath mints that we have and anyway, that's
enough about garlic. As far as the travel is concerned,
we had the pods up last week. How it was
a very hectic week because I took one night off
and then we were hitting the road and like I said,
did I take two nights? I don't even remember. Maybe
it was two nights. Yeah, I think it was two
(09:29):
nights I took off. But anyway, some of the details
you can say, we know the way to San Jose.
So I started out typical gridlock traffic. I slept for
a few hours after the show, got in the car
and painful but expected. Now we went. When you go
to northern California, southern California, if you're not familiar, most
people listening to this podcast are in California. So when
(09:51):
you drive from southern California northern California, there's two main
ways to go. There is the quick Way, which goes
through the bread Basket of America, which is really the
flatulence of America where it just smells like fart and manure.
Interstate five, Yeah, straight up the five. That's the quick Way.
Or you can go scenic on the one oh one
(10:11):
Highway one up the coast and enjoy the beautiful views
of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Beautiful, but it tax on two hours and forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, at tax on. A lot of times went we
went scenic. We went scenic and stopped at the usual places.
Santa Barbara had lunch in Santa Barbara. Loved Santa Barbara,
so it's so nice there. So no billboards, beautiful, a
lot of rich people. I was going to say, it's
where all the movie stars live. Monacito. Yeah, Montecito is billionaires.
It's nothing Oprah lives, but it's like real billionaires, Like, yeah,
(10:42):
it's crazy. I had a good Mexican meal there in
Santa Barbara, a lot of chips and salsa. Drove another
hour to the town, about an hour solving. We talked
about solving.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Danish village. Yeah, I had the able Skiver home of
the ostrich Berger.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, the ostrich farm there down the road, and charming village.
You just like you're in Denmark unless you're not.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But it's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And that able Skimer very good. That's the little fried,
puffy like doughnuts they put with ice cream. I guess
it's a Danish thing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I don't all.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
On our way back though to the highway, we stopped
off at the Starbucks in Buelton, which is just down
the road from Denmark, or actually not from Denmark that
would be amazing, but from Solving, and my wife went
to get I don't drink coffee, so she got me
what the Callie refresher, which is just.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like the biggest ripoff in the history ice drinks anywhere.
Our daughter, our thirteen year old, gets these and my
wife is always like, why do these cost so much?
And they cut up a little bit of fruit and
put it on top, and they're like eight dollars please.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, you can buy a whole, you know, three gallons
of the same juice at the store anyway. So I
get that. So I because it's you know, she wanted
to drink coffee by herself, so I have my pressure.
But while she was getting that, I went in that.
We stopped the parking lot. There's a tractor supply store,
which has been a big advertiser in recent months on
Fox Sports Radio. And I had never been to a
(12:11):
tractor supply store. I've read the commercial hundreds of times.
I've never been to one.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's right. I saw your cock joke on Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah. There was a giant metal cock right out in
front of the store, and that got my attention. I
was attracted to the giant metal cock. And that's a
drop I forget like on the podcast it becomes a
d on the radio show, not so much anymore. But
(12:37):
we went, we went, and I went in the store
and uh, I was it was impressed. I mean, I
guess I'm easily impressed. I was attracted to the giant
metal cock. I thought it was cool. Other people in
the comments were like, oh, just like any other store,
it's not that impressive. And then there were some guys
that loved tractor supply. They're like, oh, I can't believe it.
(12:58):
Have been there year, like a loser then ever been there,
But there's none near where I live, So that's why
I'd never been there. But it's it's either.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Every Oh, it's pretty much the same crowd who loves
the bass pro shops.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of animal supply stuff. You felt
very masculine. I would compare it to going into like
a Pep Boys or you know, some some car repair
place where you just smell tires and you feel like
you're more manly. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You go in there, you see the dog food, like
Tim Allen, the machetes over there.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I just see you feel pretty good about that.
So I went in there and I walked around for
a little bit, and it was kind of cool. Back
on the road as always. Now, I don't know about you, Dannyone,
I drive up the scenic Route in California. I always
stop in Santa Maria. That's like another hour outside of solving.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, they have a brand new raising canes there.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, they have that. They also have a what's that
cracker barrel? Which Dick and Dayton line you had that,
But I went to the Costco to get the gas
there at Costco had to fill up because it's got
a ways to go, you know. Then we stopped at
the Madonna in beautiful Madonna in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That place is creepy.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, it's an old mob hanging out back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And when you go to urinate there, you pee into
a waterfall that is.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Correct bath The bathroom underneath is a rock, a rock waterfall,
and you stand there and you're not sure where it
ends and where you're supposed to, you know, where you're
putting suppos put your feet.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's very off where shoes always wind up wet.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah. So my wife likes all the gatty stuff in
the gift shop. So I was able to finagle a
piece of the pink champagne cake, which is just amazing.
And that's the reason I keep going to that point.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Forty seven of sugar and fifty two dollars for one piece,
but I was it was very good.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And then back on the road with something more Bay
beautiful Moral Bay. As we went up the coast on
the Malar travelogue where we go camping every summer. Love Moralbay,
the rock which you can almost never see because there's fog.
And there's a like a nuclear power plant which I
don't think is active anymore, which is kind of funny,
right on the water there. And we had dinner and
then we had another almost two hundred miles to go.
(15:10):
We were Our destination was Los Gatos, which is south
of San Jose. And by the time we got to
the hotel, from the time we left to the time
we got to the hotel, you want to take a
guess how long this trip took, good Danny, what do
you think here?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Nine hours?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
About ten hours? Close ten hours. It was a long
day's journey into the night. It was quite quite the
slap good times, good times. It was you know, it's
fun like doing that kind of thing. Had a good time.
But wait, there's more. So we stayed in Los Gatos.
Now what is you you're familiar with that? What is
(15:50):
Los Gatos.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Famous for computer people?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah? Of course rich tech executives lived there, and I
believe that is the headquarters of Netflix is in that
it's the number one employer in that city.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My uncle has lived in that city forever and he's
always been a computer dude.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah. So, you know when you go to the Bay Area,
the two main professions in the Bay Area are tech
and petty crime breaking into cars. That's it. There's no
in between. So, but there's some big names. I was
looking it up on the internet. I was like, I
was want to go places I've never really spent much time.
I always wanted to know what what made it famous.
(16:32):
You know, every town has at least a couple famous
people that came from it some line of work, And
so I looked up some of the names. Steve Wozniak,
one of the inventors of the Apple computer, is based
in Los Gatto's spent time there. John Steinbeck, the Grapes
of Wrath, guy that wrote Dad, Kyle Shanahan lives here.
(16:54):
I didn't see him. Who else, Steve Mariucci. I guess
that's a big hotbed for former or at forty nine
er coaches, a bunch of athletes, past athletes, guys we'd
know like Jeff Blauser, remember him from the Atlanta Braves
back in the day we're old. We remember him. Kevin Euculus,
the Greek god of walks, for some odd reason, lives
in Los Gato's Tony, that's that's some I miss some
(17:18):
other people there too, But Jeremy Ronick. I saw his jersey.
I went to the sports bar Double D's. Didn't see
a single set of Double D's, but I did. That
was the name of the place. But they had Jeremy Ronick.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
At the time they opened, they were competing with Hooters.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well they started out small, they were. They started out
as Double A's, but then they moved on there. But
I'm bump a lame jokes.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Actually on when they opened they were called a cup
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Uh So, as you mentioned earlier, Jeorde, the great outdoors,
Danny Benny by the bay, a lot of hiking and walking,
really cool. Spent my time as a tree hugger there.
I recommend highly if you ever find yourself in Los Gatto,
the Low Scatto's Creek trail on the mallor scale of
trails one to ten ten being amazed, this was a ten.
(18:09):
It's probably like a twelve it's so you're it's right
in the middle of the town and you just there's
a you walk down a small hill and then you
turn either right or left and you're on the trail.
I turned from the town, I walked down, I turned left,
and I was just mesmerized. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was immediately I've seen that. Do you see all
the big homes and properties bordering that like one of
the hills.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, yeah, But I mean I walked and I was like,
this is this is awesome, Like this is so cool.
You're right away, You're you don't even you can't imagine
like just above you and down a block away as this,
oh yeah, little village.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Can you imagine that being in the middle of Resita, California.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know, but it was cool. We went to we
went out to the Redwoods, which are you know, short
drive from there, A giant, big, not as big as Sequoia,
but big redwood trees, giant old trees, and the little reservoir,
which we were disappointed. We thought you could like take
a boat out there, but it's a reservoir.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But it was cool. It was a it was a
fun time. And then well, I'll tell someone, I don't
want to spend the whole podcast talking about the trip,
so we'll tell some more tales over the course of
the weekend. We got plenty of time day and we
got a blank audio canvas for today, you know, Saturday,
and then on Sunday also, so uh, I was, I
was messing around on the internet, and for some reason,
(19:33):
this is a non sequitor. I'm gonna call this a
gummy situation. So I for some reason I was, I
was looking at some old baseball cards and I was like,
you know, I used to love the bubble gum on
the cars. I was like, what the heck? Why they
stopped doing that? Why did they ever start doing it? Right,
we were kids, clicked baseball cards, they piece of bubble
gum in there. So I fell down this the spider hole,
(19:57):
and I started digging and digging and digging, and you know,
you never know where you're gonna end up when you
go on a ride like that. So the bubble gum
in the baseball card thing. The tradition began in the
nineteen thirties by the Gouty Gum company, and they started
(20:20):
inserting bubble gum in the packs of their baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It means their company gouty.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And anyway, the kids at the time in the nineteen Thursday,
this is amazing, this is this is the greatest thing ever.
We got the baseball cards and we get the gum.
And that was the beginning of a magical romance between
bubble gum companies and baseball cards, and it started spreading
(20:49):
to the other The other gum companies at the time
were like, we want it on that because we can
get kids hooked who want baseball cards hooked on gum.
And it's like the McDonald's, you know, the kids meal,
You get them hooked at a young age. And so
they were, and then the gum was like a bonus
item and it made them sell more packs of gum,
and there were more packs of baseball cards. And it
(21:11):
was like a symbotic, symbiotic relationship until until the early
nineteen eighties. When the rubber met the road nineteen eighty one,
Long time ago nineteen eighty one, a dispute popped up
between the three major card companies at the time that
(21:31):
was Tops, Donris, and Flear. Up until that point, Tops
had a monopoly on baseball card production for years they
had an exclusive licensing agreement with Baseball and the Players Association,
and TOPS is the only company allowed to use team
logos and the player images. However, that changed because Donris
(21:53):
and Fleer challenged the monopoly in nineteen eighty one and
they said, you know, screw you, We're going to produce
our own baseball cards, and they got deals with the
Players Association, and that was the first time TOPS had
any real competition in you know, probably twenty thirty years
at least. But here's where the dispute about the gum
(22:13):
came in. So the stipulation in the TOPS licensing agreement
required it mandated the inclusion of a little piece of
gum in each pack of cards they produced. And so
Donners and Fleer like, you know, wait a minute, and
we were trying to we don't want to include gum.
You know, it's going to ruin the cards. So Donerson
(22:35):
Fleer said, it's going to reduce the value of the product,
and we don't want to do that. Screw you. So
they filed lawsuits against TOPS claiming that the gum was
an anti competitive situation. It was requirement, was anti competitive,
violated anti trustrial laws. Gum violating anti trust laws. And
this thing lasted for several years in the nineteen eighties,
(22:56):
but by the time everything was done, Donnerus and Fleer
had become major players in the trading card industry. If
you're around my age, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
And then later on in the late eighties, Upper Deck
came around. They were very popular for a couple of years,
but because Donris and Flear challenged and I guess they won,
(23:18):
ultimately Tops said, well, screw you, We're not if you
don't have to include gum, We're not including gum anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And did you see the recent story of the guy
who found the unopened baseball cards from nineteen fifty two?
Oh yeah, I think it happened in January. But people
are still talking about it because the price keeps going
up and up. They're saying fifteen to twenty thousand dollars
if he just sells the pack unopened, But there could
be a Mickey Mantle rookie in there which could be
(23:45):
worth millions. So do you gamble and open it or
do you sell the pack as.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Is a was it bird in hand is worth two
or something like that? Is that what it is. I
forget the exact saying, but.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I think he never falls far from the app Well.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Whatever, but I you know what I meant. But here's
the thing. Here's the thing, Danny, I recall. Aren't there
YouTube videos of people chewing bubble gum from old packs
of gum from like thirty forty years ago? Yeah, they
just pop it into their mouth and start going for it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And was their gum in the Bowman pack from fifty two?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I have to you know what they probably was.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
If we collected money in a hat, I bet you
Coop would eat that seventy two year old gum.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Hey, Yeah, because it said the gum thing started in
the nineteen thirties and continued till the nineteen eighties, and
Bowman was that was a gum company. Bowman and Leaf
were gum Cat didn't. So yeah, so there had to
be the gum. There had to be the gum in
the packs of the baseball cards, so I had to
(24:54):
be had to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you're right, I looked it up. It says Bowman
fifty two cards are sometimes stained from their gum.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Let's do the idiom of the week. Idiom of the week,
all right, now cut me off. If we use this
one before, I don't think we have. But I was
in a Hayes last week, so maybe we have. I
don't think we used this pearl of wisdom? Did we
use Uncle Charlie? Have we used Uncle Charlie?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No? Good?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, good, okay. I was getting concerned because I everything
kind of flows together, and you're not sure. So Uncle
Charlie is the idiom of the week. You know what
Uncle Charlie is? Now? Really that's a curveball, Uncle Charlie. Curveball,
baseball slaying. It's a colloquial term. I said, I don't
use it as much anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I was gonna say, must be here in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Even before that, Uncle Charlie. This is what I heard around.
I was good Bert Blylevin would be pitching, be like,
watch out for Uncle Charlie. But Burt Blabman known for
his curveball. So uncle Charles carly a colloquial baseball term
goes back till the nineteen thirties, and it was like
Uncle Charlie got him. He can't hit a curve. That
(26:10):
was a expression from a sports writer in the early
nineteen thirties but the Uncle Charlie, Where does that come from?
Supposedly it was a cheap shot at the president of
Harvard at the time, Charles William Elliott, who had been
against the curveball. He was aghast at the curveball, and
(26:35):
he had the quote at the time, was I understand
that a curveball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Surely this is not an ability we should want to
foster at Harvard. Guy thought they thought the curveball was
like the Astros banging on trash cans or something like that. Holy,
holy shooting.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You can't make a baseball do that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, it's gonna know, Harvard presidents have been assholes since
the beginning of time. So but anyway, so the baseball players,
as a way to mock the president of Harvard, decided
that they were just They nicknamed the curveball Uncle Charlie
in honor of the Harvard president Charles William Elliott, who
thought the curveball was He implied it was cheating, trying
(27:20):
to deceive the opposition. So so amazing, let's do a
little foodie fun as a couple of stories. I wanted
to get to and then we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah. I saw a lot of food stories this past week.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, it's been a big food thing because we're heading
into the good time for fast food where the weather's
getting better in the spring and then summer's going to
be here and you sell a lot more donuts and
cheeseburgers and stuff like that in the summer. So Popeyes
through tomorrow, I know it's a big Tomorrow is a
big holiday. Saturday is a big holiday for you. To Danny,
it's you know what dayly calendar.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Is, smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Every day, Popeye's offering a four dollars and twenty cent
chicken sandwich deal. I wonder how they came up with
that price point. I don't know how they did that.
Tim Hortons has launched pizza nationally to stretch the brand
and get people to eat in the affterd I've never
(28:16):
been to a Tim Horton's very popular in Canada. Have
you ever been to a Tim Hortons. I've never been there. People,
it's like a religious It's like the way people in
California look at In and Out Burger. A lot of
people in Canada look at at Tim Horton's so there's that.
A Jack in the Box is testing a new sour
dough scrambler in the Las Vegas area. So if you're
(28:38):
in Vegas anytime soon, Danny, you can go get yourself
a sour dough scrambler, which is that's a breakfast sandwich
you had scrambled eggs, sickory smoked bacon, and American cheese
toasted sour dough bread stop. And it's also available with
a sausage patty instead of the bacon, so you can
get that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No, I would go with the bacon extra crispy.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That'd be your remove. McDonald's in the UK has launched
a new menu with seven new items, so Mickey D's
changing it up. That just began on Wednesday of this week.
Among the new editions, they have a Cheese and Herb
melt Quick Snack, Chicken Big Mac, but Chicken Big Mac
(29:26):
that actually was around years ago. They brought it back.
The Deluxe Quarter Pounder will also be making a comeback.
The Galaxy Caramel Pie that is going to be there,
and the chocolate Galaxy Chocolate Thurry mcflurry.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
By the way, they're a sponsor of our podcast. I
heard them advertising last Weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Mickey D's we love well. They should all these these
fast food places we do a whole segment for these
people should pay for advertising. What's wrong with are Hooters?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It should pay us to eat there.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But that is true. Arby's, we should be great. If
it was like the fifth dollar presented by RB that
would be so perfect, right us. Let's see your top
fast food restaurant in the US, according to Foters Travel.
I don't know what that is f O d O
R folder. I believe Alice Pounce Folds Travel. What do
you think the best fast food restaurant in America?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, it is one of my favorite restaurants.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh your favorites.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, It's not available all over the country. It's a
regional delicacy.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Regional Oh what's the name of it. You've talked about
it on the podcast before. We don't have them here
in Cali though, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Culver's. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Culver's is in Midwest. There is one in Arizona, a
couple in Arizona, but they're mostly in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota,
place like that. But Culver's, it's it's not everywhere, and
it's just like in and out, it's not everywhere, Jack
in the boxes and everywhere? What a Burger's not everywhere?
Speaking of regional fast food restaurants, big news in the food,
(31:01):
foody fun department. I hope you're sitting down, Danny. We're
going to get in California next year. I believe bo Jangles.
We're gonna get bo Jangles. Bo Jangles is coming. And
when I was in Virginia and North Carolina a couple
of years ago for a wedding, I tasted all the
(31:22):
fast food places that I couldn't taste here, like Zaxby's
and bo Jangles and all those places, and bo Jangles
was at the very top for me. I enjoyed that
more than the other places I went to. So I'm
excited about Bojangles coming to southern California. I think that's
that's gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And I have a couple of quick ones here. Yeah,
what's your take on it too?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So Red Lobster, did you see how they are close
to filing bankruptcy?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
So yeah, they're gonna go the way of Toys r
us Right.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, and you know Fridays, they've closed almost forty locations recently.
But Applebee's was just announced as the official bar and
grill of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Tastes like a touchdown in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Brought up a big topic on Covino and Rich. The
prices at the grocery store and now twenty dollars an
hour for fast food workers, and the price is rising
rapidly at fast food restaurants, especially in California. Will there
be a resurgence for those mid level restaurants like Chili's
and Applebee's. Which one of those is your go to?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So this is mid level dining? Yeah, in this category
you got Friday's, Chili's, what else.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I guess on the East Coast they have like Bennegan's,
all those type of places. I guess Cracker Barrel would
fit in that mold. Yeah, I hop cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, I think, Yeah, I like Yeah, I like cheese
c Yeah. I mean the problem is they have to charge
more though, right don't they? With fast food?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is Fridays, if you're lucky enough to still have a
Friday's in your neighborhood, you could get a burger and
fries right now for nine ninety nine. What fast food
place right now? Can you really get a good burger
and fries for nine to ninety nine. Even at McDonald's,
A lot of those combos are over ten dollars now.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, and they never go down. It's not like they're
all right, we're going to lower the prices this year.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah. So the thinking is that this generation might start
sitting back down at Applebee's because you're paying the same
amount of money, if not less.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, and it's a better experience than going well as
much as I enjoy And.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
If some of them do like the five dollars apps
and stuff like that, where would you rather go eat?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah? Yeah, that's a fair point. And everything goes in cycles, right,
so we'll move back to the mid level restaurant and
then go back to fast food and bounce all over.
So that's interesting. Should we buy the Red Lobster just
for the biscuits? Those would buy the Red Lobster band brandley.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
In our cupboard at home right now? We have a
box of that mix, and why I want to buy
a whole bunch of I keep bugging my wife you
to make that one box, but can you make the
biscuits this weekend?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah? Sorry, those biscuits are to die. We had the
story on this podcast. You remember a couple of months
ago Red Lobster they had that all you can eat
thing with the was it the shrimp, and then they
were charging too little for it, and so they lost
a bunch of money on that because if they were
getting people to eat, but they weren't making any money
because they were eating all their profits.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, so shocking that they're going bankrupt.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, some good, good decisions there. Oh one other thing,
I saw Carls Junior out here in the West Carls
Junior testing a new avocado shake and Palm Springs. You know,
avocados today and tomorrow. If you're in Palm Springs and
Cali in the desert and you want the avocado shake,
you can get that. Who doesn't want that? I'm good,
(34:50):
I'm good? All right, Well get out on that Danny's Friday.
It's National Garlic Day. Celebrate appropriately and what do you
got going on? Yet? You don't rich today?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yep? That makes me want to fire up some garlic
bread later after I get done on the Friday edition
of Covino, in which we always have a lot of
fun on Fridays with hob Nobbin, and we'll do some
more giveaways for their swiggies, their stainless steel water bottles.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, those things are really cool. That's a high end item.
But it's not a cheap item. That's a high end item.
I might have finagled my way into some of those.
I might know somebody. Yeah, I guess we got some
money here. We have a great rest of your Friday.
We got new podcasts all week and long. That's two
more days tomorrow on Saturday, and then on Sunday we'll
(35:34):
talk to you then.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Asta Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.
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