The Fifth Hour: Smash Kitchen More Than Burger

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2:02On paper the three hosts of the Nick dick and pole show are geniuses We can explain how AI works data centers, but there are certain things that we don't necessarily understand Better version of play stupid games when stupid prizes. Yes, which by the way wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time I actually I thought it was I got that wrong But hey no one's perfect. We're pretty close though. Listen to the Nick dick and pole show on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Hi, I'm Bob Pittman chairman and CEO of iHeart Media and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast Math and magic stories from the frontiers of marketing Math and magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in marketing Coming up this seasonal math and magic CEO of liquid death Mike Cesareo people think that creative ideas are like these light bulb moments that happen when you're in the shower Or it's really like a stone sculpture. You're constantly just chipping away and refining take to interactive CEO

3:03Strauss Selnik and our own chief business officer Lisa coffee listen to math and magic on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast Kabooms if you thought four hours a day 1200 minutes a week was enough Think again. He's the last remnants of the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse Wow the clearinghouse of hot ticks break free for something special the fifth hour with Ben Mallor starts right now in the air Everywhere the fifth hour with me Ben Mallor and Danny G radio a happy Saturday to you We survived Friday the 13th. It is now the 14th day of March a day closer To the start of the real baseball season With apologies to the world baseball classic on this podcast though on this Saturday we have a toddler's flip flop

4:11Living room of doom and we'll see if we have time for anything else, but I wanted to start with this Now I We always we always start with the life of Mallor so I am not a mountain man I am not a mountain man. I think you know that I am a creature of the city And so we'll just get that out of the way early on if you're new to the podcast welcome And we do the show from LA people that live in Los Angeles like to pretend that they are rugged Outdoors, but a regular grizzly atoms and People do that because they drive a couple hours into the mountains They rent a cabin that has Wi-Fi and That of course is not wilderness. That is an Airbnb with pine trees is what that is So last weekend apparently I was big bear Benny Big bear Benny my wife announced that we were going to the mountains not maybe

5:14Not hey, let's think about it This was presented as a Fader Complex that the the way that a despot announces or you know the dictator that there's a new infrastructure project It needs to be done by this date. We're going to big bear so when your wife says We What she means is I think you know this if you're married. I have already made plans and you are part of them Period stop. That's it. So the Mallor mobile the station wagon was packed like We were evacuating some kind of coastal fire situation. Maybe there was a hurricane. I don't know um My wife does not believe in traveling light God bless her. She does not believe in traveling light Which is weird. I watch a lot of these travel You know shows whatever on YouTube, but they're well traveled like a professional traveler. No We bring everything we bring our entire house wherever we go

6:15Coolers grocery bags jackets Fans you name it gloves the this obviously snow snow stuff. We had our boots We had enough food to feed a minor league baseball team So we left we drove through traffic rush hour traffic mountain roads winding around the hills of southern California climbing through the fog The big trees until suddenly It looked like a harm mark movie That ran out of a plot. We arrived At the cabin. I've been lucky enough in my time to travel some beautiful mountain places the most beautiful trees and mountain combo that I Have seen Are in the Sequoia forest of California, but traveling around Vermont when I went to see Arnie in Vermont. It was awesome. It was made. I was nothing but trees and I and a lot of the New England States are like that. I just happened to drive up the main road

7:16in In Vermont and it was it was amazing That's where they filmed the hallmark movies. So we arrived here. It was beautiful. It's truly just breathtaking Big trees got out of the concrete jungles. There was snow on the ground There was a lake we got this place right in front of a lake That was sitting there like it was posing for some kind of tourism brochure or you know some feature on a documentary or something Temperatures were in the 30s. It looked exactly like the kind of place people from Wisconsin or New England call a Tuesday A Tuesday right now in Los Angeles or in Southern California It this counts. I can't stress this enough. This is an expedition The fascinating thing about SoCal is that you can experience winter For a couple of hours here or there in this case, you know a couple of days A lot of people just do six hours and then return Down the hill around the winding mountain roads

8:19And return to palm trees and iced coffee You could theoretically and there have been many people that have done this over the years You could surf in the morning get up early go surf in when the sun rises and then by Late afternoon you're in the sled And you're in snow and That just seems unnatural Like the climate itself is confused and now I should mention This is somewhat important. I believe it is something important when I say we rented the cabin What I actually mean is that my wife and my sister-in-law They rented the cabin they went on they searched a bunch of places to rent And I was what you might call an invited contributor not an invited guest and invited contributor Which I discovered shortly after arriving You see because there was a schedule. This was not just

9:22Chill out hang out. No, no, there was a schedule not a vacation schedule a work schedule Friday was Benny makes burgers Okay, Saturday my brother-in-law Chris He makes pizza We had lunch on Saturday with the pizza was dinner Pizza was dinner saturday lunch deli sandwiches cold cuts Breakfast something involving eggs which I was not party to I do not eat breakfast unless it's corn beef hash and it's rare and appropriate This was not rare or appropriate. I was too close to home. So I was assigned burgers as I mentioned Now you've heard over the years that I am a A fan of the burger. I like flutsing around in the kitchen and Being a bit of a mushroom and I've fallen down rabbit holes watching a bunch of YouTube videos trying to master the burger and

10:23I've talked about Benny's burgers Betty's burgers are smash burgers This is not a casual passing fancy. I've been doing this for several years now. There's technique involved There's timing there's surface area that the crisp edges of the smash burger the melted cheese cascading over the sides like a like a volcano of Cheese the lava is the cheese and it's just great. So I walk into the kitchen expecting to begin a Mallor masterpiece a culinary masterpiece and I was excited. I was like listen up. This is I'm ready for this This is the big leagues here. This is it. I'm Got my my family. I've got the way my in-laws everyone's there, but it's great. It's gonna be wonderful I'm ready to go and then I met my mortal enemy The kitchen now not just a kitchen

11:25If you could imagine and and this is theater of the imagination, but if you could imagine a kitchen Designed by someone who had heard about cooking, but really never had seen how that works You would be close I walked in and I wanted to do that Homer or grandpa Simpson thing where you walk right back out It was essentially a shoebox with a stove It would have been fine if I was Kyler Murray sized There was no griddle There was no prep space. There was like one half of one thing that was counter space There was technically a cutting board, but it was roughly the size of a toddler's flip flop It was small small swat the refrigerator was like judging me as I was in there What are you doing here loser? The stove made a noise that suggested It was not emotionally prepared To be used that this assignment was too much and who are you? Why are you here? This is not for you

12:33Paul Harvey used to say and Now the rest of the story so let's get to the rest of the story the rest of the story Is that smash burgers require smashing Video at 11 they require smashing you need space you need obviously heat There's a power dynamic involved in this and instead I had a burner that looked like it had survived the Nixon administration Tricky dick and a pan that seemed offended it was it was resentment that it was being awoken From its retirement in the mountains And still in show business as in cooking the rule is the same the show must go on seven people were hungry And that was the mission to feed the seven people I had already rolled the meat in the little meatballs for the burgers the way I normally do for the smash burgers

13:36The buns were buttered the toppings were lined up A cheese and all that stuff the onions and then the math Stop mathing Seven burgers one tiny pan everyone wanted to eat at the same time This ain't gonna work the kitchen was roughly the size of a broom closet And even though it was in the thirties outside I was sweating I was sweating like I was being interrogated under hot lights The stove was weasin The spatula seemed like it really didn't want to be there either it was really nervous the burgers themselves were confused They had been promised smash burgers Instead their final act before they go into your belly Instead they were slowly turning into regular burgers not good regular burgers very small once petite burgers If burgers could sigh These burgers would have sighed instead of crispy smash burgers with again the glorious cheese and oh my god

14:42It's so good. It's so delicious Everyone received What can only be described as a diet hamburger Now they were fine. They tasted fine. The meat was good. The seasoning was on point and People claimed they liked them However, I knew you know when people have been polite I've done that dance. I've done that dance. Yeah, you can't give an honest opinion. It's just a little white lie It's a little white lie and I knew the truth somewhere deep in my culinary soul I had this voice That was whispering this is not good You can do better Hi, I'm Bob Pittman chairman and CEO of iHeart Media and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast Math and Magic stories from the frontiers of marketing Math and Magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in market I'm talking to leaders from the entertainment industry to finance and everywhere in between

15:44This seasonal math and magic. I'm talking to CEO of liquid death mike cesareo financier and public health advocate mike milkin take two interactive CEO strouse sell name If you're unable to take meaningful creative risk and therefore run the risk of making horrible creative mistakes Then you can't play in this business Sesame Street CEO Sherry Weston and her own cheap business officer Lisa coffee Making consumers see the value of the human voice and to how that guaranteed human promise behind it Millie makes it vice to the top Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers and marketing on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast When you listen to podcasts about AI and tech and the future of humanity The hosts always act like they know what they're talking about and they are experts at everything here The Nick Dick and Paul show we're not afraid to make mistakes What Googler did that i think was so unique which he he's the writer director who do you think he is i don't know

16:46You meet the like the president you think it was the president the candidate has a president You think china as a president let's walk through that Got i love that thing i use it all the time look how i wrap it in a blanket and sing to it like It's like the old polish saying not my monkey's not my circus. Yep. There's a good one I like that. It's an actual polish saying. Yeah, it is an actual polish. Yeah, better version of play stupid games when stupid prizes Yes, which by the way wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time I actually I thought it was. I got that wrong Listen to the Nick Dick and Paul show on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts What's up i'm milestone and i'm Brianna Stewart and our podcast game recognize game has never been done before Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think on and off the court Nothing's off lift we talk tray requests What's the vibe of that when it's like your star players like well

17:47I want to leave and then actually now i'm gonna stick We talk tanking I mean honestly like i'm not gonna trouble for this answer But i think it's like definitely happening in the wba And yeah, we talked about our mistakes too They pulled me to the side and was like, hey man, we got a call last night And you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight for games. No, you know doing this doing whatever And of course family stories It'll be like mommy. Why did you miss that? Mon Do you play basketball? Check out game recognize game with stewie and miles on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Hey, I'm woman of all the rama and this is Freddy Rodriguez welcome back to those amigos Those are me go season two babies this time We're going even deeper into our careers our lives our art and everything in between Each episode emanates from our very own speak easy where we swap stories about the moments that really shaped us on and off camera

18:48What do we invest in right now? What is the immediate advice you give people right now? It's to value time to be cognizant of time and now important time is because once the time is up It's up and then that's it in the relationships collaborations and even the failures that push test to grow and the common denominator is that we have the same people with a since like 30 40 years ago, right? Like we have a lot of the same homies that stuck around plus the door Always stays open for a third amigo to pull up a chair Listen to dose amigos as part of the Michael Duda podcast network available on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Come check this i heard and tiktok have come together to create something new. I love it We're the world of tiktok meets your playlist three words that will change your life iHeart tiktok radio the biggest hits across iHeart radio What's trending for you on tiktok tell me a sound that's better than this tiktok radio

19:49Plus tiktok's most influential creators all in one place search for iHeart tiktok radio make it a preset and stay connected all day Rest of the trip thankfully improved after my burger humiliation the family dragged me outside to play in the snow With monies and the nephew and everyone else there now. I'm a middle-aged man I don't like to say that because it feels well. I don't feel like i'm that Every once in a while it pops up my my back on this day was was already barking The mattress felt like it was filled with concrete. I don't think that was a sleep number mattress And it's so that you know the children want to go sledding so whatever they want they get which means I became Benny the Bob's letter Obviously come on you do that We pulled over in the mall and mobile on just on the side of the road. That's how you do it small country road You know in the hills there mountain road Grab this lead and launch ourselves down a hill like amateurs

20:50In a low-budget version of NBC's winter Olympics Mike Toreco was not doing commentary at the end of the day. Now it was fun It was cold. We had jackets on and all that we were prepared with a couple layers of clothing. It was fun I had not been to Big Bear since I was a kid in the cub scouts and the boy scouts and all that It's been bit a minute bit a minute. I look kid. I'm old now and the place still had the same slightly ram shackle mountain town Charm What you might call it? So we drove around a little bit after we got done playing the snow me and the wife the everyone else wanted to stay at the cabin And we drove around exploring there was a general store that it appeared to sell Every item humans forgot when they came up to the mountains Flashlights batteries can goods some kind of weird mystery snack that I wouldn't eat And I'll eat pretty much anything and they were open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m

21:53Otherwise known as the easiest radio shift of all time mid days Four hours. That's it. If you need milk at 205 You're out of luck plan better plan better We also visited Lake arrowhead, which felt like it was Manhattan Compared compared to where we were staying arrowhead had things Not just Santa's village. It had a McDonald's. I think I saw five guys. There was an actually there's an actual grocery store Right there Civilization was going on now meanwhile our cabin which was deep In what I can only describe as po-dunk pines You know that was where we were but here we were visiting arrowhead There was this windstorm blowing across the lake Which created this dramatic wave there was Arctic style gust of wind a lot of ducks my my relatives the mallards

22:54The mudhands I love mudhands not to lead on mudhands these were just regular mudhands And they were all floating along merrily merrily merrily merrily down the stream or in this case the lake Very happy in the chaos they didn't mind the cast are they're in the water They were being fed by not us, but there were some random tourists and there was this shop That sold all kind it had like tours your typical touristy shop It offered tours of the lake and you could buy different souvenirs and all that so They also sold bags of food for the ducks So the ducks aren't idiots the mallard ducks the smartest duck of them all the the geese The all the waterfowl they were just hanging out waiting because they knew That Random people were gonna buy those bags of food and they were gonna get fed and that's all they cared about And they were delighted the the wind was not the wind was very angry And I was standing there and I realized something remarkable that I kind of know and you've done it every once all you forget because I hadn't done this in a long time

23:59In soak out within a few hours we had gone from 36 degrees in the mountains with snow capped on the hills and the Sheds in the stores and and everything 36 degrees in the mountains We got back to the mallard mansion. It was 85 degrees Down the hill two days later it was 99 not 99 the store in Boston 99 that's not whether that's a mood swing Despite the burger disaster the cramped kitchen the sledding induced spinal complaints The trip was good the trip was good because sometimes the things that happen on these vacations It's not about luxury those small inconveniences those are the things That turn into pretty good stories the shoe box kitchen the Kyler Murray sized cutting board the toddler size cutting board The burgers that don't quite smash the way they're supposed to despite The efforts and the quiet realization that even when the cooking goes bad

25:07The view outside the window spectacular spectacular and that's my favorite time to go to the snow It's kind of the end of the snowy season. There's still snow. It hasn't melted. You get to enjoy it However, it's not an active crime scene where snow is falling down And even if the stove is judging you like it was me is fine So turning the page on that It's the Saturday but a lot happened this week a lot happened this week So I wanted to share it with you on the podcast So in a small village on the ragged edge of the enchanted forest known locally is the north woods although Those of you that are not from the north woods might simply call it suburbia We'd like to call the north woods in southern california and otherwise ordinary Ritual that we do every man and woman in the united states does it Well, I don't know about women, but dudes do it just ordinary ritual was underway supper

26:08Chow and televised sports That was the plan on this day The wife was at work and I had my thing so that the stage was set for a sort of modest event That in this case would lead to high drama Disguised as a domestic routine Now the star of the evening was not team USA. It was the world baseball classic Right No, actually it wasn't it wasn't mexico None of that was the star, right? They were the opponent this day the real The real I don't know not villain, but Protagonist I'll use the word protagonist the real protagonist in this was a burrito now the burrito had been assembled in the kitchen and admirable craft I just mentioned how I effed up the burgers now the burrito I I'm happy to tell you for years. I did not know how to properly wrap a burrito

27:11Thank god for youtube and a old babushka I don't think it's what's the spanish word or the for the old grandma. I watch this babushka I'll just use the word babushka. It's fun word. So the babushka showed you how to properly like in a real authentic like in mexico city how to wrap up a burrito It's like okay. I'm into it. So I know how to wrap a burrito. So the origins of this traceback Make a lot of food on the weekends just to eat a little bit every day during the week So we made a surplus of chicken We had a stockpile of Bach Bach chicken one of those culinary windfall windfalls The chicken is unseason you can do whatever you want with it. You can manipulate it How you see fit And so whatever inspires you that day as the home cook So I Imagine myself when I'm in the kitchen. I'm like well, you know, I'm only The phone call away from someone who loves the overnight show

28:12Who happens to work and entertain? It's like hey, let's get the overnight sports radio guy on the iron chef We'll give those influencers a break and we'll get mallar on the iron chef now the the kitchen Unlike the one in the mountains around big bear the kitchen that the mallar matches. I mean, that's pretty good Good good good spot and the chicken was reheated It was fortified. I added my own spice on this day. It was cayenne pepper chili powder black pepper Few other things they'll garlic and then I I tucked it into the tortilla and I had some cheese layer of cheese put the meat on top Had some grilled onions and some bell pepper And then I did the burrito wrapping maneuver and I am now prepared if I lose the radio show I can work at Taco Bell I'm coming for your job if you work at Taco Bell Now not Nick the Wendy's guy. He's got his own thing. They don't have burritos at Wendy's

29:13But I'm talking about Taco Bell now the plate was accompanied by air fried fries That is the add-on item off the secret menu and accessory item that shows you both health Consciousness and somewhat optimism culinary optimism. So there there was also a drink sort of a middle-aged elixir if you will Enjoy the crystal light the strawberry and the grape are my favorite. If you want to send me some feel free Has like 10 or 20 calories depending on what you're drinking. Some have five calories The mathematics of aging done one packet of time now if you have any suggestions Sure, I'm not I'm not being full of crap. If you have any suggestions. I've I've stabbled with the crystal light if you have any other I saw there's like a welcher's product grape that I haven't tried I haven't seen that at the store if there's any of those other things that you can just mix in Let me know. Let me know. I like to try some others But I want you to tell me it's good first because I've tried a lot of the the crystal light stuff

30:17Which is just a little package you add to the water and it's taste mixed the water taste the better I only do that when I'm eating my meal. I only do that when I'm eating my meal otherwise I just drink water So let me know if any of those other ones are good email me real fifth-hour at gmail.com So again back to the story So I dinner and baseball Which is the American utopia? Is it not the American utopia? I think it is I think it is that the sort of quiet cultural image that Norman Rockwell Would have painted if he owned an air fire unfortunately he never did he never owned an air fire and then as the The the diner Was yeah, I was in the you know Benny's diner as I call it like the whole thing and the uh the dinner Was was prepared was ready to go I then transferred to where I wanted to I settled into the to the sofa. I was prepared to watch Team USA do whatever team USA does in the world baseball classic on that day is the Fugaisi tournament that

31:23Baseball cooked up because the Olympics kicked them out And this this was not a dramatic moment. There was nothing cinematic about it Just a flicker in the peripheral vision the way a shadow might slip across a wall right in a suspense movie horror movie just before the violins begin shrieking So my companion who doesn't do well with pumpkin in Moxie She was not responsible for this movement. You said well, that's probably moxie No, no, no moxie was in what might be described as canine solitary confinement, which is just indoor outdoor living She had been placed outside some say the bark jail. I say the outdoor sofa, which I have not even sat on that We bought this outdoor sofa years ago and I have never even sat on it and that's moxie's outdoor abode She's all about comfort So anyway that that evening burrito ritual

32:27Proceeded because moxie was outside without interruption Again, I'd seen something was it a ghost? Right the mystery deepened was it a rat rat a tat tat rat a to eat was it a cat? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no those things The intruder turned out to be something far more appropriate for Southern California's ecological environment the theater the The animals the critters a lizard Not a gargantuan creature not the sort of reptile that might cause a news helicopter to hover overhead And make national news However, it was not insignificant either roughly the size of a human hand Which is large enough to provoke the kind of adrenaline normally reserved for the seventh inning of a seventh eighth or ninth inning of a playoff baseball game now following a minutes long malor investigation The reptilian trespasser has been identified as a person of interest a western

33:33fence lizard Which I did not know was a thing until the minutes long malor investigation Now this particular species has the delightful quirk of possessing bright blue I bring bright blue underside a color so vivid that Looking at this you could liken it to dandruff blue. It's time for dandruff baseball Now if LA ever decides to expand its brand identity talking about the Dodgers here Into the reptile kingdom the western fence lizard is ready for A Shohei Otani level endorsement deal now the lizard No doubt completely unaware that it had wandered in To a random home which happens to host a sports radio guy in the living room during an international baseball competition Now lizard had apparently slipped inside the door when we let moxie go out for the

34:38Potty time potty time no you might imagine the Creature I was thinking of this. I was like let's get in the head of the creature the lizard The thought process to lizard Hi, I'm Bob Pittman chairman and CEO of iHarmedia and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast Math and magic stories from the frontiers of marketing Math and magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds and marketing I'm talking to leaders from the entertainment industry to finance in everywhere in between This seasonal math and magic. I'm talking to CEO of liquid death Mike Cesareo Finance here in public health advocate Mike Milken take two interactive CEO Strausel named if you're unable to take Meaningful creative risk and therefore run the risk of making horrible creative mistakes Then you can't play in this business Sesame Street CEO Sherry Weston and her own cheap business officer Lisa coffee Making consumers see the value of the human voice and to how that guaranteed human promise behind it

35:41Millie makes it vice to the top Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of marketing on the iHarmedia app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast When you listen to podcasts about AI and tech and the future of humanity The hosts always act like they know what they're talking about and they are experts at everything here The Nick Dick and Paul show we're not afraid to make mistakes What Googler did that I think was so unique. I think he's the writer director. Who do you think he is? I don't know You meet the like the president you think it was the president. The candidate has a president You think China as a president. Let's walk through that God, I love that thing. I use it all the time. Look how I wrap it in a blanket and sing to it like It's like the old Polish saying not my monkey's not my circus. Yeah, there's a good one. I like that It's an actual Polish saying. Yeah, it is an actual Polish. Yeah, better version of play stupid games when stupid prizes Yes, which by the way wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time

36:42I actually I thought it was. I got that wrong Listen to the Nick Dick and Paul show on the iHeart Radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts What's up I'm Austin and I'm Brianna Stewart and our podcast game recognize game has never been done before two active players Giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think on and off the court nothing's off lift. We talk trade requests What's the vibe of that when it's like your star players like well, I want to leave and then actually now I'm gonna stick We talk tanking I mean honestly like I might get in trouble for this answer But I think it's like definitely happening in the wba and yeah, we talked about our mistakes too They pulled me to the side and was like, hey man We got a call last night and you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight for games. No, you know doing this doing whatever And of course family stories It'll be like mommy. Why did you miss that? I'm do you play basketball?

37:44Check out game recognize game with stewie and miles on the iHeart Radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Hey, I'm woman of all the Rama and this is Freddy Rodriguez. Welcome back to those amigos Those are me go season two babies this time We're going even deeper into our careers our lives our art and everything in between Each episode emanates from our very own speak easy where we swap stories about the moments that really shaped us on and off camera What do we invest in right now? What is the immediate advice you give people right now is to value time To be cognizant of time and now important time is because once the time is up It's up and then that's it in the relationships collaborations and even the failures that push test to grow and the common denominator is that we have the same people with us since like 40 years ago, right? Like we have a lot of the same homies that stuck around plus the door always stays open for a third Amigo to pull up a chair listen to dose of me goes as part of the Michael Duda podcast network

38:46Available on the iHeart Radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts You can't take this iHeart and tiktok have come together to create something new. I love it We're the world of tiktok meets your playlist three words that will change your life. I heart tiktok radio the biggest hits across iHeart radio What's trending for you on tiktok Tonya sound that's better than this Plus tiktok's most influential creators all in one place search for iHeart tiktok radio make it a preset And stay connected all day Did the lizard realize where it was to to a lizard a human is a monster a monster mash to a lizard a human is a deadly thing You know in a human home must resemble a climate controlled paradise Warm floors interesting smells of buffet of possible insects that are going undetected. It's an Airbnb for reptiles

39:53Now eventually with the assistance of the kid every great American domestic crisis requires one the back door was opened The lizard was gently encouraged to return to the wilderness There was no violence loser did not die was not harmed in any way There was no mellow drama Just a brief cameo appearance by mother nature in the middle of a baseball broadcast and the episode raised questions That Philosopher should consider for one thing. I will give you one What else has slipped through the doors of the modern American household Now the north woods like many suburban environments suburbia Exist in this delicate truce between civilization and the natural world Right you stole these patios you get the wi-fi router or router the animal installs

40:54itself wherever it pleases Fence lizards today King cobras tomorrow All right granite Spiny lizard things perhaps a coast all horned lizard Maybe something more ambitious a coyote if coyotes around here can wander through the neighborhood The casual entitlement I'd like to see the parrots we have parrots that fly around they escaped from the jail years ago And they just have been breeding and travel around and they live a great time a great life and all that stuff So nature it turns out Well, it turns out an excellent gate crusher excellent. They do not believe in laws They like for them. It's a Joe Biden's president and just do whatever you want and that's it You know knock yourself out. That's where that's where they're at and so there's there's also this curious

41:57Overlay go into rock and roll. I remember when I when I heard Years ago kid and Jim Morrison and Jim Morrison was dead before I was alive But I remember hearing the doors very popular People are strange when the all-time great songs Which does apply to overnight radio so I remember the reptilian You know mind of Jim Morrison I will you so we had visit visitors that were reptilian or one So for some reason I was saying of Jim Morrison the the doors frontman who famously dubbed himself the lizard king And according to legend believed he could communicate with reptiles thus Well the nickname the lizard king now history suggests that What likely happened is Jim Morrison His reptilian diplomacy was fueled by a cocktail That was a little less Little less wholesome than my crystal light pack

42:58And still the thought I was there was lingering here like what if one could Converse with reptiles. I just went down to the San Diego Zoo And I said let me have a deep thoughtful conversation with the Komodo dragon No, and what would the Komodo dragon say if given the chance to watch a baseball game Would the dragon say, well, that's boring or I want to watch other sports. I don't know Would a helium monster offer a scouting report And about team USA's lack of buy-in factor And perhaps the deeper question would reptiles enjoy sports radio because I need more listeners I need more listeners would they be podcast listeners or would they be all nightlisters? I don't know now one suspects they might appreciate It's elemental quality the the raised voices of sports radio The territorial arguments of sports talk radio the ritualistic

43:58Debates over who's a winner and who's a loser and who's good and bad who should retire? Who's the go team at goat in many ways sports talk already resembles the animal kingdom a chorus of random callers And echoing through the night and all that so as for the stock market As for the stock market reptiles might have the right temperament to go to Wall Street They might right they might cold-blooded patient unmoved by emotional swings Wall Street could probably learn a few things from a lizard now in the end the western fence lizard return to the backyard Benny's burrito was consumed and the world baseball classic continued its march to the television schedule However the evening left behind another memorable moment life's all about the stories you pick up along the way a memorable event happened a man on a sofa a

45:00Burrito in hand a baseball game on television talking baseball and for a moment just a little flicker And a flicker in the corner of the eye the ancient wilderness reminding the modern world that it still exists Well, we don't have time for a full foodie fun. I did have a couple of stories. I wanted to share with you from foodie fun hooray for foodie fun hooray for foodie fun. Yeah Foodie fun. All right. Thank you for that So iHOP is offering free bottomless pancakes with purchase of select breakfast combos that is Through today is the 14th and that'll take you all the way through march 30th bottomless pancake promotion Everyone can enjoy endless amounts of pancakes with the purchase of selects the combos the combos that you need to buy are the breakfast sampler

46:02sirloin tips and eggs split decision breakfast chicken and pancakes t-bone steak and eggs And the country fried steak and eggs prices for the qualifying breakfast combos range from $18 to $25 so if you spend $18 You're getting a couple of meals out of it Getting a couple meals out of it. The buttermilk pancakes are Are they're pretty good? Yeah, it's hard to screw up pancakes So those are the things you have to buy to get that. What else do we have pizza at launch date $10 any pizza deal Nationwide So if you're jones in for some peanut for some pizza There's that and it's Now to be clear the $10 any pizza deal includes up to five toppings on pizza huts Medium or large hand tossed original pan thin and crispy or Chicago tavern style pizzas It's valid for carry-out orders placed online or via the pizza hut mobile app

47:07Okay Thank you for that now. What do we have Chick-fil-A debuting the new jalapeno Ranch club chicken sandwich nationwide And they test marketed it in Salt Lake City Well, how did that happen? For years it was always peoria. We've talked about that in previous episodes of the fifth hour I know lucky Tony and Fergdog went back and listened to those. I don't know about alf I don't know about alf or malar prop guy however the The Chick-fil-A jalapeno ranch club chicken sandwich. We've tested in Salt Lake Always used to be peoria the line if it plays in peoria it'll play anywhere Does that apply to Salt Lake City Utah? Okay Who goofed I've got to know Well, uncrustables That's something that didn't exist when I was a kid oh we had those we just didn't know that would be a major money maker and all that stuff So the burst in blueberry flavor we talked about that in a previous episode

48:10Well, it turns out now the big news from uncrustables the latest news coming down the the pipeline here is that this summer This summer crustless sandwiches You know having to having to wait for them to thaw Will be a thing of the past because uncrustables are being upgraded to fridge friendly Fridge friendly status while you're still able to freeze the new uncrustables You'll now be able to store them in the fridge for up to five days. Oh my god What kind of chemicals did they put in there, but that is from the VP of marketing at the J.M. Smucker company There you go. All right very excited. What else do we have on food? He fun? A rave for food. He fun Uh, yeah, I don't know. It's Taco Bell revealed its whole menu. I don't think we want to go there That'll take too long. We'll get out of that have a wonderful Saturday I know this podcast went a little longer than normal. I think we're thank you for staying to the very end

49:14We'll have the mail bag on Sunday Hopefully Danny G will join me on that Have a wonderful Saturday population Aloha This is Chelsea handler from deer Chelsea after the big game like most people I kept thinking about the commercials and there was one that stayed with me It was from the blue square alliance against hate and it wasn't loud or flashy It showed a Jewish kid being targeted at school and another student who chose not to ignore it As someone who was Jewish that moment felt very real to me not dramatic just familiar and what struck me was how clearly It showed that hate doesn't always announce itself But the impact is still huge if you saw the blue square spot during the big game It's worth thinking about and if you want to show support sharing the blue square is one small way to do that Beats of the planet. Shall I mean to God here and listen? We are back The black effect podcast festival is back in Atlanta on April 25th at Pullman y'all And the full lineup is nuts. We got the grit tonight's podcast beyond take-out and big ice cup cat

50:18We got club five 20 with Jeff Teague in the gang. Yeah, yeah, don't call me white girl Modern will be there keep it positive sweetie with crypto. We're nay. We got reality with the king with Carlos King And yes drink champ will be in the building Plus you know, we're gonna have a lot of guests. So you need to join us And we got the black effect marketplace to pitch your podcast and everything you expect from the black effect podcast festival Tickets are on sale right now. Go get yours at blackaffect.com slash podcast festival. Don't play yourself. Okay, pull up This woman's history month the podcast keep it positive sweetie Celebrates the power of women choosing healing Purpose and faith even when life gets messy love. It's not a destination. You have to work on it every day Keep it positive sweetie create space for honest conversations on sell who worth love Growth and navigating life with grace and grit led by women who have left inspire and tell the truth out loud I have several conversations with God and I know why it took the 20 years

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