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The Fifth Hour: Benny Appleseed · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 3: In the air ev rewhere The Fifth Hour with Me,
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Speaker 3: Ben Maller and Danny G Radio A happy early Friday,
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Speaker 3: the last Friday of January, and we are back in
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Speaker 3: the remote studio hanging out.
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Speaker 1: On this edition of The Fifth Hour, just Me, no
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Speaker 1: Nanny G. But on this edition we've got Benny Appleseed
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Speaker 1: and Humbaby and Humbaby. However, we're gonna start with this.
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Speaker 1: So it is National Croissant Day today, National Croissant Day today.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not a huge croissant fan. I know you're
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Speaker 1: very concerned about that, but I'm not. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't hate the croissant. I don't know anyone that hates
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Speaker 1: the croissant. I just don't eat them very often. I
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Speaker 1: don't eat breakfast and croissant is normally a food that
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Speaker 1: you eat for breakfast. I did learn some fun facts
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Speaker 1: though about the croissant that I was unaware of. That
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Speaker 1: during the Ottoman Turk siege of Vienna back in sixteen
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Speaker 1: eighty three, a baker baked a pastry in the shape
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Speaker 1: of a crescent, like a crescent moon, to symbolize the
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Speaker 1: emblem of Turkey. That is why the traditional croissant looks
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Speaker 1: the way it does, like the crescent. Look, you can
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Speaker 1: blame that on the Ottoman Turk's siege of Vienna in
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Speaker 1: sixteen eighty three. And it is Austria. It's from Austria.
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Speaker 1: It's not from France. Marie Antonette, I think I put
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Speaker 1: your that, But anyways, yeah, you know who she is,
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Speaker 1: you know what I meant. And she first introduced the
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Speaker 1: pastry to France back in the day because she married
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Speaker 1: into the royal family and the rest is history. I
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Speaker 1: guess it has changed the French bakers from what I read,
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Speaker 1: fell down this rabbit hole. They made fancier versions of
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Speaker 1: what was the Austria version. They enhanced it, made it better,
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Speaker 1: more sophisticated, and more elitist and all that. And of course,
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Speaker 1: at the very basic level. It's just soft flour and
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Speaker 1: then yeast, butter, milk, salt. That's it. But there you go.
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Speaker 1: National croissante. Now, speaking of that, this somewhat relates. Somewhat relates,
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Speaker 1: so you can call me Benny apple Seed. Now let
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Speaker 1: me explain. So I'm going to blame the story I'm
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Speaker 1: going to tell you here from a previous edition of
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Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast. Let's go back, not that long ago.
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Speaker 1: And it's not about destiny, it's not about Wanderluster. It's
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Speaker 1: this podcast. So we go in the hot tub time machine.
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Speaker 1: I spent roughly fifteen minutes talking about National Pie Day.
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Speaker 1: Right here. I was in this studio, I was on
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Speaker 1: this microphone and it was National Pie Day last Friday,
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Speaker 1: and I started ranting about it. And I kept going
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Speaker 1: and going and going and going. And I didn't know
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Speaker 1: I could talk that much about pie. I did. And
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Speaker 1: then suddenly my wife and I were making decisions usually
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Speaker 1: reserved for retirees, which I neither of us are people
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Speaker 1: with nothing thing scheduled after lunch. Ever, and that's how
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Speaker 1: these things start, not with a plan, but with a shrug.
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Speaker 1: So Friday morning, last Friday, as a little punch drunk
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Speaker 1: from the radio wars and rambling into this microphone doing
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Speaker 1: the podcast about pie, a podcast about pie, and I
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Speaker 1: spent way too much time talking about it, and I
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Speaker 1: got crap from Terry and England and some other people.
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Speaker 1: He always gives me crap. He does not appreciate Benny's
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Speaker 1: big board, very controversial Benny's big board on pie. Alf
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Speaker 1: said he was thinking about leaving the show to go
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Speaker 1: work on the Jason Smith Show because as a paid contributor,
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Speaker 1: because of my commentary about cherry Pie. He's a big
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Speaker 1: fan of the cherry Pie anyway. So fast forward now,
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Speaker 1: So get done with a podcast, you know, sleep a
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Speaker 1: little bit, take a little bit of nap, and we decide,
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Speaker 1: you know, what the heck, you know, i'd pie on
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Speaker 1: the mind. Let's go somewhere. Let's let's go find pie,
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Speaker 1: and not just your generic pie that you get anywhere.
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Speaker 1: So after a brief nap, we did some improv We improvised.
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Speaker 1: We got in the malamobile and we drove and we
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Speaker 1: drove and we drove destination Julian, California. Say what chances
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Speaker 1: are you've never heard of Julian, California. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: of Julian, California. I worked in the region where that
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Speaker 1: town is, but I'd never been there. It's a town
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Speaker 1: that has turned apple pie into an economic model. No subplots,
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Speaker 1: no distractions. Pie is the headline. Everything else runs beneath
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Speaker 1: the pie. And if it's National Pie Day, you might
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Speaker 1: as well go there. So we left the Malor mansion
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Speaker 1: under a mug California. So Cow's son and it's the
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Speaker 1: reason people move here. It's the kind that convinces people
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Speaker 1: seasons are myth. In fact, just before I came into
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Speaker 1: the remote studio, my brother who lives in Manhattan, my
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Speaker 1: older brother, he is a fitness freak. He's out running
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Speaker 1: around the streets of Manhattan early in the morning. He's
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Speaker 1: run the New York Marathon a bunch of times. So
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Speaker 1: he's sending me photos of the Hudson River, the iconic
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Speaker 1: Hudson River with chunks of ice and uh, and he's
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Speaker 1: took this cool video and it was really it was
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Speaker 1: really wild, and I juxtapos where I am and like, okay, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know that's that's wild. It doesn't normally get like
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Speaker 1: that obviously in New York. So back to these stories.
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Speaker 1: So I left the Mallor Mansion with the wife. We
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Speaker 1: had sunny skies and we just took off. We headed south,
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Speaker 1: Go south, young man. We passed the power plant made
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Speaker 1: famous in the iconic Naked Gun movie starring OJ Simpson.
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Speaker 1: Then Camp Pendleton and then Oceanside, and at that point
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Speaker 1: we turned east, got down. There's a highway I think
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Speaker 1: it's Highway seventy eight or something like that goes to
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Speaker 1: goes by the community colleges in San Diego, Palomar and
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Speaker 1: some of those. When I was at Saddleback, we went
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Speaker 1: down there and I'd been in that area. And so
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Speaker 1: you turn east. That is where the mighty Blue Pacific
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Speaker 1: fades away and is replaced by something quieter and a
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Speaker 1: lot different. East County San Diego is the wild, wild
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Speaker 1: west of San Diego. It's his own world. Now you're
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Speaker 1: gonna drive for a while. You gotta drive about an
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Speaker 1: hour and you keep going, and that's just part of
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Speaker 1: the way. But you see vineyards that start appearing. Its
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Speaker 1: wine country, San Diego style. Hot air balloons floating lazily,
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Speaker 1: the Hutter balloon. I was on one, when I was
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Speaker 1: in one, when I was a kid. I remember the
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Speaker 1: military basis here. We had El Toro and Tustin, and
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Speaker 1: they would have open houses and they'd have a hot
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Speaker 1: air balloon. So I went in there at one point,
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Speaker 1: but we didn't it was tethered. I didn't go all
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Speaker 1: the way like float away or anything like that. But
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Speaker 1: the hotter balloon contributes nothing except proof that gravity occasionally
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Speaker 1: kind of takes a day off. So the roads were
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Speaker 1: still driving. The road shrink. Now we're on two lane
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Speaker 1: highways right, two lanes, one going north, one going south
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Speaker 1: and wrapping around mountains mountains, and unexpectedly something happened that
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Speaker 1: I didn't think was possible in San Diego. It rained.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking real rain in San Diego. We didn't even
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Speaker 1: bother checking the weather app because we left the Malor
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Speaker 1: mansion it was sunny. And why would you, As the
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Speaker 1: saying goes, you should be as reliable as the weather
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Speaker 1: in Sandan Diego. The easiest job in the world is
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Speaker 1: San Diego weather person. So it turns out the weather
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Speaker 1: still surprises occasionally if you drive far enough out into
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Speaker 1: the boondocks. And so Julian sits in a mountain range.
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Speaker 1: The kayamaka, I believe it is how you pronounce it. It's
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Speaker 1: my version, which is close enough, so the Kayamaca Mountains.
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Speaker 1: And it's a town Julian that outlived its original purpose.
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Speaker 1: So I started going down the old spider hole and
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Speaker 1: I was like looking around trying to I was like,
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Speaker 1: I heard about this. I'd seen some stuff online about
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Speaker 1: this town dedicated to apple pie, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: what's there. So when I say that Julian, California outlived
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Speaker 1: its original purpose, it was a Confederate veteran from Georgia
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Speaker 1: who named it after Mike Julian who had come out.
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Speaker 1: There was a former slave named Fred Coleman who found
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Speaker 1: the original gold that sparked San Diego's first and only
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Speaker 1: gold rush. When you think gold rush, you think northern California.
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Speaker 1: Thus the forty nine ers back in the day. But no,
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Speaker 1: it was. It was the gold rush of eighteen seventy.
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Speaker 1: So we're going back them in in eighteen seventy. It's
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Speaker 1: been a while, and it didn't last very long, as
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Speaker 1: Russias tend to do, people did stay, though not many.
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Speaker 1: Farming replaced the digging for gold, but the apple was
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Speaker 1: the star of the show. That was what replaced instant
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Speaker 1: wealth dreams. And that part is interesting because by the
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Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds, Julian apples were winning all kinds of
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Speaker 1: medals back East, that's where most people lived in the
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Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds. Twenty one varieties carefully selected praise for quality,
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Speaker 1: not the novelty of all that. So no one tried
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Speaker 1: to reinvent the apple. They just grew it. Well, the
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Speaker 1: soil was fertile for the apple. And it's a lost art.
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Speaker 1: And so National Pie Day, I was a little worried.
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Speaker 1: We were driving a long time. I was concerned. I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, where did we get shut out?
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Speaker 1: Because it's a big day for the pie and crowds
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Speaker 1: have a way of kicking these small weekend ghetaway towns
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Speaker 1: and the balls. There's a food holiday and the town
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Speaker 1: built around food. However, the good people at the Julian
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Speaker 1: Pie Company and I should send out some photos. I'll
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Speaker 1: send out some photos later today on Facebook and Instagram
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Speaker 1: so you can check it out. But the Julian Pie Company,
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Speaker 1: they still had a couple of slices of apple pie left,
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Speaker 1: and they have like four or five different versions of
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Speaker 1: apple pie. And so we had a a like a
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Speaker 1: raspberry not raspberry, it was boison berry apple pie and
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Speaker 1: there was another kind of apple pie, and so we
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Speaker 1: found it and we had it a la mode had
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Speaker 1: little ice cream on top. Apple pie with ice cream
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Speaker 1: arrived and immediately there was a separation. It separated itself
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Speaker 1: from the pack. This wasn't nostalgia bait. It was execution,
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Speaker 1: warm apples that still had structure, crust, that knew exactly
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Speaker 1: its role. It didn't overwhelm the pie. It was an
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Speaker 1: addition to the pie. The ice cream did what the
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Speaker 1: ice cream was supposed to do. It was a support item.
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Speaker 1: The ice cream, the scoop of vanel ice cream not
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Speaker 1: there to distract. So on the Malar report card for
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Speaker 1: the Julian Pie Company, the West Coast birthplace of apple pie,
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Speaker 1: still call it so one to ten, you know the rules.
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Speaker 1: One to ten Malor report card for the Julian apple
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Speaker 1: Pie small little town out in eastern San Diego County.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a twenty two out of ten.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two. Some things break the scale. This was one
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Speaker 1: of them. This was the greatest piece of pie, apple pie.
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Speaker 1: I've had better banana cream pie, but this was apple pie,
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Speaker 1: which is the everything pie. As we talked about last week,
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Speaker 1: it's the Swiss Army Knife of pie. There's something for
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Speaker 1: everyone there. So enjoyed it and it was great. We
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Speaker 1: also had a meal, not just just see pie. Later
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Speaker 1: on we ate at the Julian Beer Company. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even know what this thing was, but it had pizza, barbecue,
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Speaker 1: and beer. Honest food, very straightforward menu, nothing really healthy.
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Speaker 1: I didn't see the healthy. I had a barbecue sandwich
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Speaker 1: and a little thing of mac and cheese that went
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Speaker 1: into my belly. And on the Malard scale of barbecue
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Speaker 1: one to ten, it earned a six point five, which
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Speaker 1: is above average, but not the greatest thing. It was respectable, competent,
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Speaker 1: nothing to complain about, which is not the same thing
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Speaker 1: as memorable. The pie was memorable. No context is everything.
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Speaker 1: The problem I have is I've been to Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: the whole land of barbecue, where Kansas City Joe serves
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Speaker 1: the z Man sandwich, the Mona Lisa of the smoke
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Speaker 1: mets with the barbecue brisket and the onion ring on top,
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Speaker 1: and the bread is so delicious. Now, once you've had that,
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Speaker 1: your expectations recalibrate, whether you want them to or not.
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Speaker 1: Now I've had major disagreement with my wife. My wife
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Speaker 1: loves barbecue sauce, and having gone to kansasity, you don't
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Speaker 1: need the barbecue sauce if you barbecue the food properly. Now,
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Speaker 1: I will tell you, on a non Kansas city scale,
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Speaker 1: Julian Barbecue got bumped up to a seven point five
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Speaker 1: grading on a curve. It's not dishonest, it's just realism
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Speaker 1: can't compete. And the appeal of this Julian it's it
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Speaker 1: isn't just what you eat, it's what you escape. Right.
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Speaker 1: In this case, sunshine gave way to the rain, the
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Speaker 1: coast gave way to mountains, which gave way to one
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Speaker 1: two lane roads, and it was interesting. And in southern California,
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Speaker 1: which is a massive area of land, is not just
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Speaker 1: beaches and traffic. Julian is proof that the state is
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Speaker 1: so massive that it still has corners that don't shout.
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Speaker 1: And then we had to drive home six hours round
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Speaker 1: trip for pie and a barbecue brisket sandwich. And that
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Speaker 1: puts things in perspective, right, it does. It's not really
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Speaker 1: an errand I didn't need to do it. It was
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Speaker 1: more of an improv turned commitment for National Pie Day
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Speaker 1: and something that started out casual, and then we had
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Speaker 1: to get there, and it's one of those you save
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Speaker 1: it for a free weekend, a craving strong enough to
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Speaker 1: overpower common sense or in this case, a podcast induced
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Speaker 1: laps and judgment. Blame it on the fifth hour, and
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Speaker 1: that's fine. Listen, Julian. The town, it's not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be convenient. They have apple picking part of the year.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of these places, and if
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Speaker 1: you're in the Commonwealth, you guys have this all the time.
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Speaker 1: It's not a lot of these apple picking apple pie
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Speaker 1: type places, at least I know of, and so this
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Speaker 1: was this was one of them. And you know, it's
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Speaker 1: very specific. It does one thing extremely well and let's
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Speaker 1: the rest take care of itself. And so no rebrand,
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Speaker 1: no expansion plan, just Apple's grown carefully year after year.
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Speaker 1: National Pie Day is now done until next year. The
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Speaker 1: rain did stop once we got out of the mountains.
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Speaker 1: The slices obviously disappeared. The malamobile desperate for gas made
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Speaker 1: at home and up in the in the mountains. The kayamaccas,
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Speaker 1: I believe, but Kyamakas, yeah, I said. The apple tree
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Speaker 1: kept doing their thing and very reliable, and we'll be back,
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Speaker 1: I imagine we'ving back at some point. I do not
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Speaker 1: know when, but we'll be back at some point. So
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Speaker 1: I said, humbaby, I think we're going to skip that.
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Speaker 1: I'll get to that at some point over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about foody fun. Hooray for
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Speaker 1: food he fun. Hooray for food he fun. Yes, foody fun.
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Speaker 1: By request as I got an email from Mike. One
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Speaker 1: guy requested this one person. Mike lives in Texas, which
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Speaker 1: is also a massive state that could be anywhere from
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Speaker 1: Dallas to Houston to Austin, San Antonio or El Paso
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Speaker 1: or anywhere in between. I don't know where. Mike just
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Speaker 1: said he's in Texas, and he says he enjoys foody fun.
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Speaker 1: Why have you stopped doing it? And I said, I
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Speaker 1: wish I didn't write back, but I'll answer right now, Mike.
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Speaker 1: We just moved on to other things. But in honor
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Speaker 1: of foodie fun in ohioil getting me in the mood
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Speaker 1: and all that, So we'll start with this. The world's
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Speaker 1: largest McDonald's has popped up in the in the headlines
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Speaker 1: this week, and this is only good if you're in Orlando.
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Speaker 1: There's a McDonald's that costs sixteen million dollars and it
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Speaker 1: had renewed attention online. It was a viral video that
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Speaker 1: had millions of views that showcased this McDonald's. Now, what
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Speaker 1: do you get for sixteen million dollars? What do you
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Speaker 1: get for that? Well, for sixteen million dollars in Orlando,
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Speaker 1: you get an arcade, pizza ovens, and an ice cream
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Speaker 1: bar at this McDonald's. Because hey, it's right near disney World.
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Speaker 1: Why not. It's it's huge. Just known as the epic mcdee.
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Speaker 1: It's what it's known as. The site stands. I mean
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Speaker 1: it is. I'm looking at the building here. I try
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Speaker 1: to describe it for our blind listeners. It's nineteen thousand
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Speaker 1: square feet. It is ridonculous. They have collectible souvenir machines.
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Speaker 1: You can also it's like typical touristy stuff. You can
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Speaker 1: get pressed pennies and medallions. Because there's one thing I
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Speaker 1: want is McDonald's medallion. That's what I want. That's what
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Speaker 1: I need in my life. Absolutely, it's got futuristic touches
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Speaker 1: throughout the building. There's an automatic trash can themed decor.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. It's got all the McDonald's standard
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Speaker 1: McDonald's food. However, it also has build your own pizza.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to McDonald's pizza, go go to
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Speaker 1: Orlando Philly Cheese Steaks. Hey, sign me up for that
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Speaker 1: and there you go. So the world's largest McDonald's. What
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Speaker 1: do want a McDonald's cheese steak is like they have
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Speaker 1: pasta dishes. You can get McDonald's pasta Belgian waffles and
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Speaker 1: mentioned that ice cream bar, So that sounds sounds great.
20:12
Speaker 1: Absolute Vodka this is not really a food, but Tabasco
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Speaker 1: is and they're teaming up with Tabasco. They're gonna launch
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Speaker 1: a spicy chili flavor. So Absolute Vodka partner with Tabasco
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Speaker 1: to launch a brand new chili pepper flavored spirit called
20:29
Speaker 1: Absolute Tabasco. Let me know how that goes. Just in
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Speaker 1: time for that football game in Northern California which will
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Speaker 1: be played a week from Sunday, Dominoes is bringing back
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Speaker 1: the six nine nine large two topping pizza carry out deal.
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Speaker 1: And will you get off your fat ass and go
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Speaker 1: down to the Dominoes and get the pizza for the
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Speaker 1: seven dollars with the two toppings and all that. Were
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Speaker 1: you gonna make that move? No? I am shocked. I
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Speaker 1: guess I'm this is another one of those things that hey,
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Speaker 1: you're old. I don't mind going the store. I don't
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Speaker 1: mind picking up food like to me. And I realized
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of you guys that are in the
21:18
Speaker 1: food delivery business that listen to the show, and God
21:21
Speaker 1: bless you, and I'm glad you're making your money. And
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Speaker 1: some of you have told me that business is booming
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Speaker 1: and that it's it's just great. And I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much you make, it's none of
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Speaker 1: my business. But for me, I was like, we have
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Speaker 1: food delivery. It's you just drive there and there's a
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Speaker 1: drive through and they'll give it to you right in
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Speaker 1: your car at the fast food place. And I'm always like,
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Speaker 1: if I'm too lazy to go to Taco Bell, then
21:46
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be eating Taco Bell, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And I don't really eat late anymore because of I'm
21:53
Speaker 1: getting older or whatever. It's not good for you to
21:56
Speaker 1: eat late, so I don't really do it. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: the six ninety nine, that's that's a good deal. And
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Speaker 1: there's a store that I go to to get my
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Speaker 1: tortillas when I have crunchy taco days, have Taco Thursday,
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Speaker 1: not Taco Tuesday, but Taco Thursday. And I go to
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Speaker 1: the taco place. It's a it's a store. It's a
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Speaker 1: store in a Latin part of town, and so they
22:19
Speaker 1: make their own tortillas, which are just amazing. If you've
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Speaker 1: never had I've talked about this before, but these tortillas
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Speaker 1: are the greatest thing and just wonderful. So I go
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Speaker 1: there and next to it is a little Caesars Pizza pizza,
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Speaker 1: and uh, it is always packed. It's like every time
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Speaker 1: I've been there in the morning, I've been there in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon, I've been there at night. It's always packed.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's wild. Uh. I mean, it's just it's
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Speaker 1: not that because the price. Obviously, recently, I don't think
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Speaker 1: we mentioned this, Crispy Chicken nuggets, which I've heard are
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Speaker 1: really good. I've not had them. Crispy Chicken nuggets are
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Speaker 1: back at Taco bell is that their version of the
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Speaker 1: McRib alongside a all new Hidden Valley Diablo Ranch sauce.
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Speaker 1: I'm good on that. That's the Devil's blood. I don't
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Speaker 1: need that. McDonald's has also launched a Hot Honey lineup
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Speaker 1: featuring new Hot Honey Sauce. Okay, they have hot Honey sausage,
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Speaker 1: egg biscuit, seventeen grams of protein, a bacon, hot Honey
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Speaker 1: Crispy sandwich. They've got that Hot Honey Crispy sandwich, the
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Speaker 1: Hot Honey Snack Wrap, and not to be outdone, the
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Speaker 1: Hot Honey Sauce dip cup with or they have sweet
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Speaker 1: and spicy honey sauce with a light vinegar finish, a
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Speaker 1: delicious and wonderful dipping option. Okay, there you go. What
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Speaker 1: else do we have? Sonic has introduced chocolate new chocolate
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Speaker 1: Peanut butter Shake. It's made by It's it's partnership with Reese's,
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Speaker 1: so you can get that if you have a Sonic.
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Speaker 1: Papa John's has reintroduced the new and improved Pan Pizza.
24:12
Speaker 1: There you go, take that Pizza Hut, because when I
24:16
Speaker 1: want a pan pizza, I go to Papa John's. That shack, right,
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Speaker 1: that shack, that's that's his operation. He's mister Papa John's.
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Speaker 1: He's all about the Papa John's all about that Papa
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Speaker 1: John's boss. It was weird seeing inside the NBA back
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Speaker 1: this week. I was like, Wow, that's that's crazy. I
24:35
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't realize that they were they were still working.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were all over, that was it. They'd
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Speaker 1: only worked a few times. Yeah, how about that? All right?
24:43
Speaker 1: What else do we have? Dairy Queen has launched a
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Speaker 1: new dq Swicy menu. What is this here? Let me
24:56
Speaker 1: see you. I think the word is now it says spicy,
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Speaker 1: not spicy. I thought that I screwed that up, but no,
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Speaker 1: that's what it says at the Dairy Queen. It features us.
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Speaker 1: See the items here. They have the new flamethrower chicken strips,
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Speaker 1: all white meat tenderloin chicken seasoned and coated with a
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Speaker 1: blend of fiery peppers and smoky spices. They have the
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Speaker 1: Pineapple Lemonade cooler and it's got classic lemonade, real lemonade
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Speaker 1: juice mixed with pineapple flavor that sounds all right, and
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Speaker 1: then blended with some other soft serve stuff pineapple lemonade sparkler. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, I feel you on that. Okay, So there
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Speaker 1: there you go. Some of the new items. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I mentioned that. See Del there's a
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Speaker 1: Del Taco story, but Del Taco's not. It's a regional thing.
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Speaker 1: It's in the West, it's not in the East. So
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Speaker 1: if you're not here at Del taco I guess it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: The spicy Jack, cheese and chicken case ideas our back, baby,
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Speaker 1: they are back, thank god, hew lolujah, helllujah. Yeah. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Danny should join me at
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Speaker 1: which I know. Yeah, you're excited. No you're not. You're
26:37
Speaker 1: not excited about that. All right, Well, we will have
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Speaker 1: a new episode on Saturday, another one on Sunday, because
26:43
Speaker 1: that's how we do it in the Audiohizsie, have a
26:49
Speaker 1: great rest of your Friday and we will hit you up. Well,
26:54
Speaker 1: tom I'll beg for you to listen tomorrow. So there
26:56
Speaker 1: you go, and we may have an ask Ben tonight.
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27:02
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27:05
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Speaker 1: time we're normally maybe an hour before the time we're
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Speaker 1: normally under. It depends on my schedule. I might be
27:14
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