Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:34 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are back. Oof. It's been a minute. It has been. It's been a minute. I've been working on a show with, uh, you're lovely. Oh, shit. She other, she showed up the other day. I got a message on Instagram. She's like, I'm gonna be in the show. And I was like, okay. I guess we'll put like a third mic on her or whatever. I thought you gonna be on the podcast. She shows up at work on Monday. I was like, oh, this show? Yes. Great to see you. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:01:00 Yo. So that text you sent me about the crepes, and I was like, Hey, you should let Shannon know mm-hmm. <affirmative> as I was texting you. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, she text me, look what Bennett just said. <laugh>. There's crepes. <laugh>. There was a, we had a, a surprise. Uh, what you're doing it, like if you're doing a TV show, uh, especially if it's going poorly, sometimes they throw a food truck at you to make you feel better. This is how they underpay you for <laugh> overworking you. And it works every fucking time. <laugh>. People always get excited. It was really good cramp. So they get sent us a crepe truck, and I, uh, literally just like immediately told Shannon <laugh>, I've been there. I've been a, I've been a part of the problem when Morale's been real low. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I've had, um, you know, we have our corporate liaison show up, and we're in the meeting and you have this generic response like, Hey, we want to thank everybody how they're doing?
Speaker 1 00:01:49 What should we do? And someone's like, let's get an in and out truck. And I remember sitting there on a show that we both worked on. I said, in-N-Out truck's dope. But maybe we get like a chicken truck or like the Bogie truck, something like super popular. They're like, oh no, let's get the Inn out. I'm like, but they don't have fries, <laugh>. They don't have fries. They just give you like Doritos and shit. Yeah. I'm like, no. They don't even give you do realization. They give you Lays potato lay plains. That's true. It's exactly true. It's the only option. And they, they went with the In-N-Out truck. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. It showed up. Everybody was stoked. They're like, this is the best show I've ever worked on. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And I'm like, you fucking fools. As I was taking down a double, double <laugh> at my desk, <laugh>, I mean, it is still free.
Speaker 1 00:02:32 It is free. I would have one with my, my chips. It is free, but I mean, a double double with that animal style of fries is not a double double. Nah. You need like, you need all of it. And a soda. Yeah. It's like, I sold that too. Imagine you went to Starbucks and you're like, all we have is coffee Black. That's a fucked up white <laugh>. I stole that joke, by the way. <laugh>. It's a Zach and Marie make a Oh, stole it. Yeah. Solid one. Yeah. It's a, it's a good joke. But how, like, I mean, besides the job mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I know that, uh, we had to, for a lot of you guys who tune in regularly, first of all, thank you very much. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, we didn't get to do our episode last week because of, uh, hurricane Hillary <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:03:10 That's right. We had a hurricane here in Southern California. Climate change is fake. It's, uh, tropical. It was a tropical, yeah. It, it was a hurricane, but it, uh, it downgraded a tropical storm. Yes. Like they ought to do. Yes. Or you know, out they're off to do Yes. Whatever the word is. Well, it didn't hit like it hit. So here's the issue. There's a lot of memes going around, like, people faking like, oh, this is such a letdown. It wasn't anything mm-hmm. <affirmative>. But if you lived in like South LA or West LA or East la, it was just a couple hot. It was just hot rain for a day. Yeah. But if you lived in the valley, or a place where water pools mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you were fucked. <laugh>. Yeah. It like, it like flood. We had flood warnings. Like school was canceled, but like, it ended up being a really sunny day.
Speaker 1 00:03:56 So <laugh>. Yeah. My, I, my school was canceled and I was so glad that my kid had to stay at his mom's <laugh> because it was like a beautiful day. It was gorgeous. It was the day that they had school canceled because it rained all the, the day before and the entire day. Yeah. Like, cleaned out all of Los Angeles. Yeah. And it was 90 degrees the whole time. So like, overnight, everything dried up. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it was blue skies all over again. Oh my God. I was at the park <laugh> without my kids. It was nice. <laugh>. It was great. So, for those of you who do not live in la, I wanna tell you what karma is while dealing with, um, tropical storm Hillary. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and everybody going, what the fuck is this? This isn't a fucking storm. Yeah. This is bullshit.
Speaker 1 00:04:47 While that was happening and everyone was sending their memes, tagging their friends, taking selfies and talking shit. We got hit with an earthquake. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, <laugh> it set a straight real rumbled around. Dude. Talk about getting shaked back into reality. Yeah. Like, I remember I was upstairs and I'm like, man, I don't know why we done. I'm like, oh God. Oh God. All right. We're staying inside <laugh>. I, uh, did you feel it? I did feel it. It was like I was doing like some, uh, some like, paperwork shit. And like, I have a lamp that's like hanging. And all of a sudden I was like, why is the lamp? Oh. And then like, I felt it. I was on a zoom when it happened. Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So I was, I was doing one of these where I was sitting there and I, I had my camera muted 'cause somebody else was talking. And then I noticed my, my, I'm like, why is that shaking? And then I started to shake mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And I was like, what the fuck? So I looked around and I did one of these things where you look around and I had that sinister face, and then the text started coming in. Obie, what are you doing? Yeah. Obie. What the fuck is that? Obie? What is, I'm like, just had an earthquake. <laugh>. <laugh>. Get your dumb face doing <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:05:54 Oh, man. So how did you, like, because you've been through an actual storm, like a, an actual hurricane, like a life altering hurricane. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. How were you preparing for this? Did you, were you looking at this going like, man, this ain't no shit. Or were you like, no, I heard hurricane. I'm buckling. I I am. I'm gonna try to see if I can make this funny. Okay. <laugh>, uh, like hurricanes as a kid, uh, up until Katrina were like afu. They could be a fun thing. Like, you get home from, you know, you get off of school a couple of days and usually it's like how the general attitude was the next day. It's like, oh, <laugh> ha so funny. It was so funny how everyone was worried and nothing happened. <laugh>. That was real fun. Uh, and then you don't go with power for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 00:06:39 Mm. You go through one of those hurricanes, or you go through one of those hurricanes where the sewage all backs up and you got raw shit in your street for a week or two with no power. Oh, shit. Or you go through one of those hurricanes where your city's knocked off the map <laugh>. Or you go through one of those hurricanes where Florida is destroyed. Like Andrew in the nineties. Yes. And then you start, it's like, okay, well it could be nothing. It was a category four, you know? Yes. That, that's a hurricane. Yeah. When it like, it, like, they told us it was coming. It was a category four, which is a hurricane. I stopped paying attention when they're like, category four. I was like, cool. Sandbags, <laugh>. So like, I, you know, I'm someone who has panic attacks. One of my first panic attacks happened right after Hurricane Katrina that I can remember.
Speaker 1 00:07:20 'cause Hurricane Rita was coming right afterwards. Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans. Hurricane Rita destroyed Biloxi and a lot of the other Gulf Coast. Yeah. You guys got hammered. So I remembered, uh, at the grocery store getting supplies. Uh, things were off the shelves. There were so many people around. I just remember having that feeling. It's like later would identify as that panic attack. So, uh, Friday was it Friday? Yeah, it was Friday. So Friday I am getting a couple of things. And like, I got like a big joke of water from work, and I'm not, I'm trying to be cool. I'm not worried about it. Like I'm not, I'm, I'm like, this is, Hey, I'm actively not worried about it. Yeah. <laugh>, this is me not being worried. <laugh>. Uh, so I was doing that like all day. Uh, but like in my head it's like, okay, if we, like worst case, might get flooded, might have power for like a day or two.
Speaker 1 00:08:03 Like, we just need this or this. Just trying to be super rational about it. Yeah. And then I get to target and it's fucking insane. Oh, you went to Target? Yes. During a hurricane warning. Right. So listen, listen to where, where we're going here. Oh, wow. So I, it was insane. Like, people everywhere. And I was like, oh fuck. Okay. Take a deep breath. Like, I, it's just okay. Like people are go doing what, get what they need to do. That is a get, get your shit. So I, you know, I got what I needed. I was like, okay, I'm gonna head out. And I was talking to the checkout guy and he was like, God, it's crazy. Huh? It's like, everyone's getting hurricane stuff. And he's like, no, not really. It's back to school week <laugh>. I was like, oh yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 1 00:08:37 It's <laugh>. He's like, no, I haven't really seen a lot of like perishable goods or anything. No. It's like all back to school stuff. I was like, yeah. Yeah. That makes a lot sense. It makes a lot more sense. Totally <laugh>. So, so I took, took my supplies back home. We had our sprinkle of rain. The kids had a fun time. We did like two rain walks, which was really nice. We had like, our, a cart when we put our, our wa you know, our little, little, uh, topper on it had an umbrella. They got their heads wet. It was fun. I, but yeah, that was definitely, it's like, oh yeah. Yeah. Probably should be taking it a little easier. I'll tell you right now. I know it's hard for the environment and I'm not endorsing it, but this is the first time I use the, the Flex Fit spray.
Speaker 1 00:09:16 Mm. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. You guys know that what I'm talking about from Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the infomercial. Yeah. So, uh, I had a crack in my window that sometimes leaks and I'm like, I better fix this if, because even regular rain, this fucks me. And it's right in my office. It's right next to my wires. I always stick a towel that I have to like, replace and wa. So I'm like, okay, I missed the window to fix this window. <laugh>. See what I did there? <laugh>, I missed the window to fix this window. And I realized it was coming. I'm like, let me get this flex fit. So when I went and sprayed it on the actual crack, I realized this is like, I have to kind of do some Mickey Mouse shit right here. 'cause I just, it just went right through this crack.
Speaker 1 00:10:00 And then I was like, this crack has gotten bigger. <laugh>. It's like, shut through the other side. It just like, and I was like, oh shit. I could see the drops, like skipping through. Does it work like venom? Like the venom suit and spider-man? How does it work? So this is how I fixed, uh, I fixed it. I took some clear packaging tape. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and I taped down the crack. Then I sprayed over on my window over this crack. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And now it's like nothing was ever there. It's literally like this, a cement patch. <laugh>. This shit is wild. There's no way. It's good for the environment. There's no way. Like what? I would like the fact that I was getting happier while fucking spraying it. I could tell I should not have been in the room. That's true. It's gotta say, you probably should have opened that window after you fixed it.
Speaker 1 00:10:45 I'll tell you right now. Like, thank God I got a bunch of Covid masks left over. Because like, I walked downstairs and I'm like, why am I in such a good mood? <laugh>, there's a hurricane afoot. And it was because I was high from the of the flex spray. Did your lungs grow? I was like, sealed. Sh <laugh>. Oh my God. Depriving oxygen in the brain. Who'd you do when I like, dude, I became an loompa. I was working for myself. It was not chill. Just you in a flex sealed field room. I was like, we spraying it. Ike, uh, wanna spray with somebody. I was just like, Shannon came home and she's like, what the, is that smell? I'm like, I was just fixing the window. I was just like, it smells chemically. And I'm like, okay. I I You're not ready to party. Guarantee it's not recycled. <laugh>. Like, you are not on my level. I'm going to the club. Another the, I got another window to fix <laugh>. Oh my God. All right. So, um, our main subject now we're talking about back to school and everything. We have so much to cover since we had a week down. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I'm not even gonna go through it. I'm just, we're gonna take a break and we're gonna come back. So ladies and gentlemen, just turn down your radios a little bit mm-hmm. <affirmative>, because we don't have ads. And we'll be right back. Ladies and gentlemen, this papa don't preach. <laugh>. We don't have any ads, right? No, not yet. <laugh>. Where yet? <laugh>.
Speaker 0 00:12:23 You're
Speaker 1 00:12:23 Fucking around. We are doing it live. Jesus <laugh>. And we're back. <laugh>. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I got a little surprise for Ben, but first mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I just subjected Ben Bennett to the first PragerU video you've ever seen it? Was that the first one? Uh, yeah. So, I mean, besides the ones that, uh, we all watch before bed every night with the kids. <laugh>. I'm just confused. So they're not a university. So they're not a university. For those of you at home who doesn't know what the Prager u is, Prager University is a, uh, basically a conservative digital propaganda channel. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> that puts out these little animated videos in their own version of history out with conservative values. They, and it, it sucks when I have to say conservative values, they just, these are just lies. No, it's like conservative propaganda. They history.
Speaker 1 00:13:09 It's just propaganda. Yeah. It's like basically a program. Like say like, Hey, we are proger you, we're not Proger University. We're proger you, which stands for university, but we're not a university. And we're just putting out this information to like get, Hey, we're just getting our word of Krause. A Kraus. The Kraus. We're gonna, our word a Krause, the nation to these young, white, white people. You gotta say it. Wyatt <laugh>. These young Wyatts <laugh>. But we're not a university. Not a university. The U stands for uni. You, the U stands for university. Yes. Not a university. Not a university. There are no academic accreditation. But nope. Two of our very fine states in this unit. I, I give you two guesses. <laugh>, and that's it. Which two states saying, Hey, you know, it'd be great. Let's show these videos to our youths. I know one is Florida.
Speaker 1 00:13:58 What is the other one? The other one is, you know, where the stars at night are big and bright. <laugh> back where, where my, uh, <laugh> where I go visit my family in Texas. Oh God. So Texas. Most school shootings in the last four. In the last four years, by the way. Anyway, go ahead. Home of the razor blade Buoys. <laugh>. Yes. Leading the NCAA W finals this year. Um, oh my God. <laugh>. It's the worst mascot. Sorry. All right. So ladies and gentlemen, um, we, I just subjected Bennett to watching just a 32nd clip. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> of a PragerU video. And a, uh, this is where Frederick Douglass was talking to what I think was like, it seemed like these two kids from the present day, one of 'em had pink hair. One of 'em had pink hair. So I think she was playing the part of a liberal.
Speaker 1 00:14:46 I mean, you know, she's probably gonna, she's getting a real haircut by the end of the video. I hope so. Find yourself a husband. Settle down. There's two things I got from it before Bennett. Uh, I wanna know what you got from it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So one of the first things I got about it is about how the founding fathers hated slavery. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but they were concentrating on uniting the 13 colonies before they abolished it. And they led the way to the world to get rid of slavery. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, they, yeah. Basically like Frederick Douglas, who, you know, look up the quote, I don't wanna misquote it, but it was basically like the 4th of July is not my holiday. Yeah. <laugh>. It's one of the speeches he gave <laugh>. Yeah. What is, Hey, what is the 4th of July to a slave? Yeah. Yes. And yes. The, what is the 4th of July to a slave is talking.
Speaker 1 00:15:35 It was basically like, Hey kids, by the way, he's talking to two white kids. These two, I mean, they're, they're, to be fair, they're pink. They're pink. All right. I thought they were like Simpson color, but Frederick Douglas is black. Yeah. Okay. He ain't blue. Whatever. He ain't Skeeter a Doug. Yeah. He's, he's black. So he's saying that like, whatever color he was talking to those kids were not black. No. So he was like, Hey, look, the founding fathers, they hated slavery. Especially Jefferson. Yep. Don't ask him too much about how much he hated slavery, <laugh> or his descendants that are still here today. Name a white dude named Jefferson. And I'll show you a lie <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:16:13 Okay. Anyway, stay on track, Bennett, be professional. Stop it. Stop derailing me. Yeah. Sorry. So he says that, Hey, we want the 13 colonies. They knew that slavery was bad there. You, they also knew that the south wasn't gonna go for it. So we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it the slow way. We're gonna do a long way. We're gonna do it in the system. Yes. We're not gonna burn stuff like my friend the other abolitionist and the pink haired kid's. Like, yeah. We got some people like that today. Yeah. She literally like breaks the fourth walls. Like we, yeah. We know about those burners that want, that want to end slavery now, by the way, I don't want say anything, but that girl in the video sounded like a little bit of a bitch. She definitely was. I mean, little bitch. She's in a p u video.
Speaker 1 00:16:55 <laugh>, come on now. She ain't cool. So, uh, you guys, the reason I saw to wanted to show Ben at this pr you videos, 'cause uh, we have a new game coming up. Um, a new game that I have for Bennett. Oh, geez. <laugh> getting sandbag. This new game, this new game that you're gonna get sandbag with, it's called sliced bread. Mm. The game of sliced bread is basically, I am going to give Bennett a politician, Uhhuh <affirmative>. And then I'm gonna name two things. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Bennett is gonna have to name what is older and what is younger than this politician. Ooh. Fun. If Bennett gets it correct, myself will take a drink. But if Bennett gets it wrong, he'll be slipping, slipping on some mango white crawl. Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, we worked a little bit longer than we thought today. 'cause it was gonna be vodka or tequila <laugh>. But at this time of night, I don't think it's a good idea. <laugh>? No. All we had was White Claw or water. Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:17:54 All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're ready to start our game called sliced bread. Lemme get one. Are you ready? Bennett? One down the, yeah, I gotta do a sample. Okay. So Bennett has never seen these questions before. He had no idea where we're playing this game, and I just wanted to catch off guard also, this is like the second white claw I've ever had in my life. Yeah, I know. I'm like a beer or a whiskey and that's like it kind of guy. See, I'm a whiskey guy, but we're a White Claw house. Hey, hey. We believe a few, we believe in science is true. <laugh>, we believe in white claws along in the fridge. <laugh>. Alright. Hey, I don't wanna delay you. Let's do this. All right, here we go. Ladies and gentlemen. The first one we go. Alright. So I have to say, you're gonna say a politician.
Speaker 1 00:18:31 I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say a politician right now. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Okay. Chuck Grassley. Okay. Iowa. Mm-hmm. <laugh> 89 years old. Oof. He's been serving since 1981. Well, he's, that's older than me. I'm gonna give you two items. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you tell me which one is older and which one is younger than Chuck Grassley 89 than Chuck Grassley. Chuck Grassley is 89. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. First thing I have for you, canned beer. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and the crossword puzzle. <laugh> canned beer and the crossword puzzle. I, I, he is older than canned beer for sure. Okay. And the crossword puzzle, I think. Mm, no, I think he's younger than the crossword puzzle. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:19:22 The crossword puzzle is invented in 1913 and canned beer was 1935, which makes Chuck Grassley younger. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> than canned beer. No, no, no. I was right. He's right in the middle. He's right in the middle. Dad. He is, he's in 19, he was born in 1933. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> canned beer is in 1935. Yeah. He's older than canned. He's older than canned beer. Older than canned beer. Younger than the crossword. Younger than the crossword. So I think you were, yeah. You drank drink all three. I drank. I drank. All right. So you guys, I I I don't win that first one.
Speaker 1 00:19:59 I have a feeling you can do really well at this game. I, uh, I think I might too. All right. I have a stupid brain that's gonna <laugh> <laugh> knows that canned beer has probably been in the thirties. <laugh>. Oh, we have our, our, our friend. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Diane, friend of the show friend of the show. Diane. Diane Fi. Is it Feinstein? Or Feinstein? I believe it's Diane. Okay. I, I, so I believe it's Diane Feinstein. <laugh>. Okay. I believe it's Diane Feinstein. I think it's <laugh>. I think it's Feinstein. It's think it's Feinstein Monster. I, I would love, love. I would love you to try to correct me on this, because I have somebody listening to the PO right now that is clutching their face's. Like, did he just say Feinstein? Feinstein. Just idiot. All right. So, Diane Feinstein, <laugh> <laugh>, California governor serving since 1992.
Speaker 1 00:20:49 Not governor. She is 90 years old. She's a what? What is she not a governor? No, she's not a governor. She's a Congress. She's a Congress person. Rep represent, uh, house representative. Sure. House rep serving since 1992. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. All right. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. How old is she again? She's 90 years old. That's the thing is you shouldn't tell me the age of the people I can. 'cause I don't think you'll get these ones. All right. Here we go. Lay it on me. All right. You ready? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, silly Putty, Uhhuh, <affirmative>, Polaroid, silly Putty and Polaroid. I think she's older than both of those. You think she's older than both of those? Yeah. He was trying to slip me. <laugh>. You were trying to, are you trying to, are you trying to joke a jokester? No, I think you thought you, you knew I was trying to trap you.
Speaker 1 00:21:40 Son of a bitch. No, I just know that the silly putty was probably in the, like the fifties and the, the Polaroid was definitely a product of the sixties and seventies. Silly Putty was invented in 1943, and Polaroid was invented in 1932. Diane Feinstein, I, I was wrong, but Right. Diane Feinstein was born in 1933. Oh, wow. Yes. She just turned 90 <laugh>. Cheers. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen. Ooh. Bennett took a drink. It does taste like mango alcohol. It's not, it's not very good. It's as advertised. You know what's funny? I think that they're the best of the seltzers. I, um, I've had a couple of them and they're terrible. I think people are stupid. There we go. I think people ran out of ideas and said, Ooh. I mean, I honestly, like, if you're in the sun, this is a fine beverage in the sun.
Speaker 1 00:22:32 Anything cold is fine. <laugh> No, it's not cold. Tequila's great. <laugh>. No, it's not. It's not. You get one of those if you get a buzz ball in the sun. Oh yeah. That's what I thought. Okay. All right. Well, I But a white call ass. Shut my ass a little bit white. Call 11 o'clock on a Sunday night. <laugh>. It's not the best in the cold darkness. <laugh>. We can't let 'em know. One time we filmed this <laugh>. Alright, moving on. Let's do it. We have Democrat from Vermont. Bernie Sanders. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Alright. Serving since 2007. Because you asked me not to do this. I'm not giving you the age. No, I think you could do it now. Nope. But I couldn't. Fair enough. Nope. <laugh>, this is what you wanted. No, I think it's, yeah. It's a All right. Yeah. It's a guess within the guess all I have.
Speaker 1 00:23:17 I don't know, a drive-in theater. Ooh. And Velcro. Well drive-in theater and Velcro. I know Velcro was a NASA creation. Again. I don't know that Bernie Sanders. It's in my head. I could be wrong. So it goes drive, it goes, uh, drive-in theater. Bernie Sanders was born. Velcro. Okay. So you think Drive-in is the oldest, then Bernie Sanders, and then Velcro. And then Velcro. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Bernie Sanders was born in 1941. You are absolutely correct. Yeah. Yeah. Velcro was in 1948. The drive-in 1933. Bennett wins this round. I'll take a sip. I think it's one of those things like, I'm right, but I'm wrong in my head. I like, oh, they did Velcro when they were going zero Gs. But like in 1948, they still had lots of Gs to continue. They had a lot of GSS to get with like so many Gs to get outta <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:24:10 They figured out one gene. And we're like, oh, bro. You got like six more. Yeah. They still, they're still Nazi fucking rocking scientists. Tooling away in Alabama then. Well, we stole all of 'em. <laugh>. We got, Hey, we got the good ones, right? All right. Jesus Christ. We are moving on. Project Paperclip. Look it up. <laugh> Mitt Romney outta Utah Republican. Here we go. Utah's favorite son. Here's our senator. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Mitt Romney. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> the rhino as Trump refers to him. <laugh>. Is that Republican in name only? There you go. I don't get a sound effect though. Okay. Here you go. My bad. <laugh>. Thank you. Alright. Alright. Here we go. Mitt Romney. I have the Frisbee and Teflon. I thought you were kidding. That was another nickname. Romney. The Frisbee. Romney. The Frisbee. Mitt. The Frisbee. Romney. Romney. Alright, RO. All right. So we got Romney, we got the Frisbee.
Speaker 1 00:25:06 And we got Teflon. Yes, sir. I think it goes the Frisbee. Romney. Teflon. Ooh. Frisbee's. Oldest. Oldest. Are you sure? Yeah. I'm gonna lock in my answer. Still is locking your answer. Teflon's the youngest. All right. Teflon was in 1938. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Mitt Romney's in 1947. And the Frisbee. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, 1940 eights. Mm. Looks like little Romney was one years old. One year old when he got to enjoy it, ladies and gentlemen. And it takes a drink. All right, we're reaching our last question of the game. Are you ready? No. This is, uh, I don't like it. I don't like how these old fucks are outta the country. <laugh>. And here we go. Mitch McConnell, Republican. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> out of Kentucky. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> serving since 1984. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Is he younger than the photocopier? Is he older than Alaska? Who knows. No, he is. It goes Alaska. Mitch Photocopier, ladies and gentlemen, Bennet loses the game. <laugh>. Oh no. How Alaska, 1959. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Then you go back in time to Mitt Romney at 1942. Uhhuh. Then you go back further in time to the first copier at 1937.
Speaker 1 00:26:33 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for playing sliced Bennett loses. I'm very, very sorry, but in theory, we all lose. Just so everyone knows. Every single person we mentioned just now was born and raised before the Civil Rights movement. That's right. <laugh>. When every single one of those senators I named, they didn't call me Obie. They called me Negro. That's right. So go back, read your history books. We're gonna be right back with more. Papa. Don't preach. Thank you so much. Ba That's fine. I lost. All right. You lost so bad. I thought I was gonna win. <laugh>. You lost so bad. I really had confidence,
Speaker 1 00:27:35 Ladies and gentlemen. <laugh>. See what I did there. I was at Black on the block all day today. And, uh, you were explained to me like you're, you weren't the block of this aspect. Yeah. <laugh>. I was the, and <laugh>, <laugh> Amp for sand. Nothing. This bitch. I was the, I was the ampersand. <laugh>, ladies and gentlemen. So thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We're about to wrap it up right now. Ben and I have been having an ongoing argument mm-hmm. With our producer. And we're gonna settle it right now. Probably not, but we're talking about the best burgers in Los Angeles, and I'm going from fast food to restaurant grade. I don't give a fuck. We are talking about some shit that needs to be addressed right now. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> right now. So first off, I'm gonna let you know how this fight started.
Speaker 1 00:28:21 I said, Wendy's is better than in and out. And, uh, you're, I mean, and I said, if this was 2002, you would be correct. Correct. You're wrong. Yes. Wendy's has taken a nosedive in the last three, you know, I think since pandemic. Pre pandemic, honestly. Hey, let's get real. Let's get real since Dave died. Okay. <laugh>. Okay. <laugh>. This is too real for me. All right. And we're too real. This is too real for me. And we're too real. Just like how Apple has gone downhill since, since, you know, what's his name? Jobber. Jabon. You're fucking up my whole childhood right now. <laugh>. That's how Wendy's, I mean, I, I, I, there was a Wendy's right next to my high school. I love Wendy's. Wendy's, I was my favorite when I moved to California. It was right by in Cal Art's. I used go there all the time. We drove by McDonald's to get to Wendy's. Yeah. Fuck Yeah. It was the shit. But now, hot trash. Now, I, I will agree with you's. They're like, Wendy has lost a sparkle in her eye. Now I will agree with you. Mm-hmm. That Wendy's has lost its sparkle. But we are talking about the best burgers in la mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So I challenge everyone here. Everyone here. Okay. There's two of us. <laugh>, I'll not let him pull my thunder down. Reign your thunder.
Speaker 1 00:29:42 There's a Wendy's mm-hmm. <affirmative> on Vermont. Okay. In East LA. There's one that's holding the torch. I just, I don't know why they give a shit so much about their jobs, bro. Yeah. There's, there's one manager. There's a Gus Free type manager. There's somebody there that has kept that fucking Wendy's on Vermont. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, like in just tip top condition. Yeah. And so, like, I've been to other Wendy's where I'm like, me, no. And then I go back to this one. I'm like, all right. There is something different in the, so listen. Anyway, all right. So this is, so this is the, you know, so I hear your argument about Inn Out. It's, it's a very, it's almost like I think Inn Out's going downhill. Here we go. You live, you live in LA for 10 minutes. You hear Ellen's a bitch. You hear In-N-Out.
Speaker 1 00:30:26 It's overrated. Yeah. Those are two things you hear. Yes. And the thing is, like, both of those aren't wrong. Inn Out can be overrated. But in-N-Out is exactly rated in this. It is 100% consistent. Not don't check that bag. 'cause you don't have to, you know, you got your order Right Every time it in and out. And it's gonna be good every single time. That's true. Are those fries gonna turn into a brick in 90 seconds? <laugh> maybe. Yes. Yes they will. You gotta eat the fries first. That's what people don't get about In and Out. You have to eat the fries first. You need to eat Inn Out The fries are the appetizer. You put a, you put a five minute timer on that bad boy. That's how good in-N-Out is. If you fucking order animal style fries and you pick up your burger first, you're fucking up already.
Speaker 1 00:31:07 No, you gotta eat those fast. You don't see motherfuckers ordering masella sticks and be like, oh, I'm gonna hand these for desserts. <laugh> your fucking french fries or your appetizer, your burger's gonna be your burger. Now, one thing I do hate about in-N-Out, which is no fault to in Inn Out, and I'm not gonna say the younger generation, I'm just gonna say motherfuckers. That's what I gonna kids these days. I'm gonna say these motherfuckers that go online and be like, oh my God, I have the Best in-N-Out hack. It's just onions as the bun. And it is super good. Now, what people don't know about In-N-Out is they are a family owned business with one policy. The customer is always right. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you can order anything you want. At In-N-Out. No, there's no fucking secret menu. No, I, that exists. I've never told Tale of like, you could get a four by four, six by six, an eight by eight, however many patties and cheeses you want, they'll grill 'em up for you long.
Speaker 1 00:32:00 You pay. They will. As long as you pay, they will fucking do it for you. So no matter what you come up with, well, it's 'cause they got that strong Mormon ethic. Yes. They'll fucking do it. Look on. But when these people on fucking Instagram supposed to goddamn fucking story on their fucking TikTok about how they invented this Flying Dutchman with two cheeseburgers, carb style, animal style. And they're like, I invented this hack. And be like, bro, fuck the fuck up. Anyway, moving on. My fa my favorite videos are when someone is watching a video of someone watch, like, making a video <laugh>. It's like, someone's like, this is my hack. And the person's like, all right. Inception Bennett over here. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I hate those videos the most. Someone's reacting live time to a video. I'm watching. Like, I don't care what you think about the video we're watching.
Speaker 1 00:32:50 I'm gonna watch the video myself. I don't need your facial expression to tell me how to feel. Oh man. I love what you get riled up. I, I, I, you know, I love it. I love it. Fuck it. I know. I'm yelling. Literally the old man yelling at the cloud. You're fucking shaking your fist in this podcast. <laugh>, your fist is shaking. I hate it's so goddamn arrogant to think. I wanna know what your opinion is on this video in real time. Know what you don't know is that the secret sauce could be ordered on the side, like, and subscribe. Fucking dis a script smash That like button. It's literally what we're doing. <laugh>. Yeah. I mean like seriously, like please keep watching <laugh>, but no. Yeah. I feel right. Still. Yeah. Okay, good. Alright. So this is America. I'm right. So what are some of the best burgers you've come across here in la?
Speaker 1 00:33:33 Alright, so I, like me, I, I dunno if you had, stout is a solid burger. Stout is stouts in Hollywood. Stout is a good burger. And Mommy was a good thing for a second until they spread themselves too thin. Yeah. That's that fucking, what was it, the truffle, uh, mushroom. That was, that was part of the brioche craze. Yeah. Burgers. You know, now, in my opinion, brioche does not belong like that. A brioche is a chicken sandwich bun. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. That's my opinion. I think it's a little too much too. I think it takes away from the, uh, your toppings and your meat. Thank you. The bun should be a, you know, the bun should be like a, a good sesame, like a background actor. There you go. <laugh>. You shouldn't pay attention to 'em. They shouldn't be distracting. You should be like, oh, I've seen that guy somewhere, but not be able to pinpoint him.
Speaker 1 00:34:18 No. I should be like, oh wow. Look, I see there's a crowd of people there helping my burger out, but I don't wanna know, I don't wanna look at their faces. Well, they still should be paid a goddamn livable wage. Yeah. We can't argue with that. The brioche bun, despite how gaudy it is, <laugh> should be paid a livable wage. It should be affordable. But yet staying its fucking lane. <laugh>. Yeah. I want to have a burger. I don't wanna have dessert. Brioche. Have you ever had Hawkins Burgers in Watts? No. I think it's worth the drive. Yeah. I, so there's like, LA has a, this whole culture of like neighborhood burger joints. Like, dude, the one I grew, like I didn't grow up with, I was fucking cop. The one that you moved, I grew up with in, uh, 2008 <laugh> <laugh>. Uh, we, uh, Nat and I moved to West Hollywood and we lived right behind, like on, on Santa Monica, Bullock Harvey.
Speaker 1 00:35:05 If I talking about Hamburger Mary's, I'm gonna lose my shit. No, we lived acro, honestly, we lived across the street from Hamburger Mary's. Okay. <laugh> on the corner was herbs, like the original herbs. Oh shit. Yes. Herbs. Like old school, like, you know, flat top griddle. Like, so we would go, you know, dirt poor, go her walking home from work and just smell burgers and just drive us fucking nuts. Yeah. We could ball her. Not Natalie, we get some herbs. <laugh>. Yes. It literally was like, I've got enough money to get a burger and fries and drink. And it was run by, I think she has, you know, herbs is still around in la Like there's a couple spots in town. There's is there two herbs or or three? There's two. Yeah, there's two. So, but, uh, it was originally run by Sonya and her mom and her brother.
Speaker 1 00:35:41 And it was just them like, you know, they were super sweet. She'd draw little drawings of your face, you know, she'd say like, oh, how's your mom doing? 'cause mom would, so by, you know, she'd always say hi. And I, I have a picture and she drew of me somewhere on one buy I kept. But it's such a good, like, home, like paper plate, greasy fries, smash burger. Just good old fashioned. That, that, that is the LA burger. My head is like the crispy bun that's been on a flat top, flat top burger that's kind of cooked, you know, crispy on the edges. Like that's an LA burger in my head. Okay. So I want you, 'cause because you live near me, I want you to try a spot. Okay. Uh, it's called a one Burger. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. It's right on Vernon. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. All right.
Speaker 1 00:36:19 A one burger. Now this is a burger spot I grew up with, so this is a place that my dad, like, it was like the, oh shit. The pizza. Like, I picked you up from soccer too late. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Pizza spot is closed. We're going to a one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was either that or Astros and Astros. There's only two Astros in la. There's one on La Brea. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And there's one in Hollywood. There's one in WeHo. Yeah. Yeah. There's, there's two fucking, there's uh, there's two of them. They have the same menu. And I remember as a kid, the first time I got an Astro Burger <laugh>, I was like, oh my God, how do I eat this? It was the size of my fucking head. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I like, I was like, oh my God. Like even it was the first time I ever had steak fries.
Speaker 1 00:37:01 So the steak fries were, I was like, this is for Giants <laugh>, this is Food for Giants. I obviously ate a cookie on a table that said Eat me because I'm ti I'm tiny and everything is large. What the fuck? I, uh, but I would say a one. So like, if, if you were to gimme my top three of LA burgers right now mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I would say Master's Burger on, uh, Slauss. I think it's on Slauson Master's Burger. I would say a one burger. And by the way, you get a double fucking Bacon cheeseburger. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. It's nine bucks. That, see, that's, that's what I like with surprise and a drink. That's what I like. That's what I need, need in my life with Surprise. Like they, they have not changed their prices since 90 fucking five. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. All right. And then number one is Hawkins Burgers and Watts.
Speaker 1 00:37:50 And I don't know what the fuck they do special. I don't know what they fucking do. So I don't dunno if they grind pork belly in their shit. I don't know what they do. I'm into it, man. I, um, it's another thing. This is, maybe I'm wrong. Like the staple of an LA burger is like the wax paper around it. Oh yeah. It's like there's no, you don't get clamshell burgers here. You get wax paper burgers. And I think it's that like, so I'm gonna tell you guys a little la secret about LA burgers. When you have that wax paper, the one that doesn't like absorb into that, you end up with this pool of grease. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. This is an in and out. That's what you eat your burger over your fries because you're gonna end up with animal style fries. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Now I know what you guys are saying.
Speaker 1 00:38:29 Man's fat. Yes. Yeah. Eat your greasy burger over your fries. 'cause all that grease and that condiment and that mustard and mayo meat grease and extra sesame seeds that fall off the bun end up on your french fries and it's fucking amazing. Yeah. There you go. This is, uh, Hawkins House of Burgers. That's the one. Blaine just pulled up the eater, uh, list of best burgers in LA in Hawkins. It's like literally everything's like up in like Hollywood shit. And then there's one in there's in South. Yeah. I'm telling you, they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. There's plenty of great burgers places. Uh, but yes, I'm telling you Hawkins stands elite. They've been there for a while. It's, I'm gonna, yeah, I'll do it. I have to do it. You know what, I wanna go with you. Alright, let's make it a, let's do a date.
Speaker 1 00:39:14 Little burger date. Little burger date. We're into it. Yeah. Herb's is on the list. Herb's, herb's, burgers really good. And I think that that would be some of the best burgers in there. Yeah. I think that's it. Now. Now my question, uhoh out of fast food burgers, Uhhuh <affirmative>. Gimme your top five. Um, I'm gonna go in and out. I'm gonna go Burger King. I'm gonna go McDonald's, uh, Wendy's Okay. By default. Okay. Oh, this is one. Justin in LA have you ever had a fucking Jimmy Dean's sausage burger? All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for, have you ever had a Jimmy Dean's drive-through? No. What the fuck? There's, there's one in Santa Clarita. No. No way in hell. Jimmy Dean's goddamn. Look up Jimmy Dean's all and look it up gentlemen. A big shout out goes out to Blaine Pierre. Our producer Aaron Mossel makes our music. D n a is also our music. I have my host, co-host here. I feel they're being cut off here. You okay? Alright. Off to the stage. Left off stage is getting awfully loud and my point's not been made. God damn Jimmy Dean <laugh>. Look, it's, that's, it's, thank you very much everyone.
