Friday Night Frolics: Ben Maynard's Easter Antics, Peep Challenges, and Heartfelt Rock Tributes

It's Ben Maynard here, cracking open a lively Friday night with a blend of Easter shenanigans and live entertainment designed to keep your spirits high and your laughter rolling. Picture this: every phone ring means I'm taking a shot of Malort, and let's just say, my listeners didn't hold back. Get ready for a mouth-stuffing spectacle as I go head-to-head with a battalion of marshmallow Peeps in our first annual Peep Pack challenge—can I conquer my own record? That's not all; we've got music trivia teed up, waiting for you to call in and test my rock knowledge. Will you be the one to stump me?

Let me tell you about my hour-long jam session with Pauly—weaving through internet snags to an insightful convo that's bound to resonate with music lovers. Pauly's gearing up for a heartfelt benefit concert with the David Z Foundation, and you're all invited to rock out for a good cause. Plus, I tip my hat to the iconic RATT album "Out of the Cellar" turning 40, celebrating their undying rock legacy. Get nostalgic with me as we look back on albums that shaped the era and the dedication artists like Stephen Pearcy have to keeping the beat alive.

Wrapping up our Easter escapade, I take you on a stroll down memory lane with family tales and a candy-coated laugh fest. Despite falling short in the Peep Eating Challenge, fun and frolics were in no short supply. We chat about Tess’s growing social media fame and her surprise call-in post-tennis, adding a dash of daughter-dad dynamic to the mix. We'll also reminisce about the sweets of our childhood, from Chips Ahoy to Twinkies, driven by our mom's love for tradition. So grab a handful of your favorite Easter candy, and let Katherine and me entertain you with a show that’s equal parts sweet and silly.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Thanks for watching. Hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard Program. Thanks for being here. Let's get business out of the way, because it's Friday night. As a reminder, this program is available on multiple podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, amazon Music and Spotify, or you can just simply search the Ben Maynard Program and you'll have several options to choose from. Just pick your option and go with it. Well, folks, if you can't resist this right here, and if you're watching tonight, on Friday night, you're on YouTube, and if you are, please subscribe to the channel, give me a thumbs up and leave a comment. Alright, last but not least, excuse me there. Last but not least, follow me on Instagram Ben Maynard program and, with that, plenty of ways to take in this show for your dancing and listening pleasure.

Speaker 1: 1:26

People, it's Friday night. We're back. Yes, yeah, sorry about that. I think I started that countdown way too soon. I have a 30-second countdown here on my laptop, here on my laptop, and I always start it to begin every episode, but I don't usually hit record, or even when we've gone live, I don't hit it till about 10 seconds, because you don't need to sit through 30 seconds of watching a countdown and listening to atmospheric music. Anyway, enough of that. It's Friday night and we're live. We're going to have some fun tonight. People, it is Good Friday, so happy Good Friday to you and yours.

Speaker 1: 2:14

Yes, so to start, well, let's put it this way, we're going to have all the regular stuff that we normally do on Friday Night Live. We've got the Malort Challenge. You see, right here, I've got my bottle of Malort, right here and I have my Mr Spock shot glass. This has been sitting over there on the desk since the last Friday Night Live. I think that was three weeks ago. So it's not washed out or anything. That's part of the deal. It's part of the punishment. Yeah, so it's. Whatever was in there is fermenting. Maybe there's even a little dust that's built up, who knows Anyhow. So we've got the Malort Challenge. Oh, let's do this really quick, otherwise you can't call in there. And that's part of the Mueller challenge. You call in and, unfortunately for me, I have to take a shot. I guess it's a double-edged sword, because I want people to be watching, I want people to engage and be active in this show, be it live or otherwise. But yeah, then the bad part is I have to take a shot of that nasty stuff over there.

Speaker 1: 3:37

So, whatever, it's a win for me and it's a win for you, I suppose, if you really want me to go through the punishment. So, yeah, we've got the Malort Challenge tonight. We're going to play a little Stump the Chump as long as you call in. You have to call in with your music trivia in order for us to play. And then, yeah, the real cool thing tonight right here. Let me ask you this Does everybody, everyone, remember Peeps?

Speaker 1: 4:13

I know you do, we're not. You know you're not that old and you're not that senile. Let me reach over here. I've got stuff all over the place tonight. Where are they here? They are here. They are here. They are. You guys remember Peeps, right? Yeah, peeps. Marshmallow Chickies Well, over the last I don't know however many years they've come up with all kinds of different flavors.

Speaker 1: 4:38

They used to just be one package of them I mean one color in the package. Now they've got all kinds of colors. They've got all different kind of flavors. I mean one color in the package, now they've got all kinds of colors. They've got all different kind of flavors. They even have bunny rabbits now, little tiny baby bunnies, yeah. So what's the point of all that? Well, tonight we're going to do our first annual Peep Pack, yeah, uh-huh. Well, I guess we aren't. I guess I am, since I'm sure most of you are not going to be participating. So what's a peep pack? Well, I'm going to see. I'm going to start with the little baby bunnies, yeah, and we're going. Gonna see how many I can cram into my pie hole and close my lips.

Speaker 1: 5:27

How's that? Pretty good stuff, huh. And unfortunately, if you're going to be listening to this and not watching, you'll miss the visual, and there's no one else here in studio with me, so there's not going to be a lot going on while I'm doing this, as far as the sound. So I apologize for that. I'll do the best I can. We'll see, anyway. So it's been what? Three weeks since we've done this? Yeah, I think so. I think the last one was March the 1st and we're already at the end of the month. Can you believe that? Wow, march 29th. So yeah, three weeks and that's.

Speaker 1: 6:05

You know, friday Night Live is just loose. It's not gonna be every week. We may do back-to-back weeks from time to time, but it's not gonna be every week, and I'm gonna let you know when it's coming. I'll try to let you know, give you advance notice. I certainly you'll see the postings on Facebook and Instagram, so you'll know it's coming that way as well. And when you do, just, of course, plan around it, cancel date night and spend your time with me. It's only an hour, maybe an hour and 10 minutes depends on how much I talk. So, yeah, just having some fun here on a Friday night.

Speaker 1: 6:50

So what's been going on? Well, let's see, I got this cool stuff in the mail. Well, I ordered it I don't know a week, 10 days ago, something like that Ordered it I don't know a week, 10 days ago, something like that, and I just thought I would share with everyone. But we have our own. There we go, we have our own coasters now. Uh-huh, ben Maynard Program coasters. Yes sir, why did I order these? I don't know. I'm not sure what am I going to do? Walk around and hand people a coaster? I don't know, I'm not sure what am I going to do Walk around and hand people a coaster? I don't know. Use them at parties here at the house? Maybe We'll see. We actually have a stout tasting coming up next month here at the house. We're hosting one. We'll probably have about I don't know, 15 to 20 people. So, yeah, maybe I'll break these out. Everybody will get a Ben Maynard program coaster. Uh-huh. But then I got these too. I think these are cool. I ordered these and I'm going to order some more.

Speaker 1: 8:00

These are these are stickers, but these are clear and my intention was for them to be window stickers, like you put on the back window of your car side window, whatever, wherever you might put a sticker on your vehicle. So I thought these were cool and I like it in black, but it's clear and you can put it on your window. If you put it on the window of your car, I know if I put it on my truck probably not going to see it, so I may have to order some more and get them in white and see how that goes. Kind of just like this here. That'll probably stand out a little bit more on the rear window of a car. So yeah, I just think that was really cool. I was jacked. I was jacked when they came in the mail and so I thought it was really cool. I thought I would share them with you, as I share everything with you guys. As transparent as what's transparent. Lots of things are transparent, anyway, whatever. So take a sip of water here real quick, coat the throat and get on with it.

Speaker 1: 9:18

It's Friday night and we're live. Yeah, how's everybody feeling tonight? How's everyone's week? How was your work week? Call in and let me know how your work week was. I'll tell you a little bit about mine.

Speaker 1: 9:29

I worked nights this week and, as you all know, I'm a delivery driver for Cisco Food Service and I pick my schedule as far as what I do throughout the year. So my schedule changes from week to week. Some weeks I'll work days, most weeks I do, and then there are some weeks where I'll work nights and do different things. I don't need to get into all the minutia of it. You'll quickly shut this off, that's for sure, or you'll just go to sleep. But I worked nights this week and I did that on purpose because of Thursday.

Speaker 1: 10:16

Yesterday I had returning to the show Pauly Z from ZO2, and he was only available in the morning. So it was great. I worked my schedule out that way. I think I was starting at like seven o'clock at night and I was getting home. I was getting off work, I don't know, four o'clock, I think. One night I was home, got off at five o'clock, so I would get home, take a nap for I don't know a couple three hours, four hours, and then get up for a couple hours and then go back and sleep for a few more. It worked out.

Speaker 1: 11:00

Yesterday I got home early. I got home about 4.20 and took a nap for a little bit. I got up at 9 o'clock. Pauly was scheduled for 11.30.

Speaker 1: 11:12

Excuse me there on my end and we were set and then about 1130, paulie sends me an email and he says I'm trying to connect. The internet in my neighborhood is down. I was like, oh no. So he said I'm going to try this on my phone. He did all the stuff through his phone, so he tried to stream in through his phone and it was coming through okay, but it was real choppy and and and he was freezing a lot. So I just said, hey, you know what, let's just do it on phone, over the phone, just call me, just call in, and and we'll just do it over the phone. And so he says, all fine, send me your phone number. So I did, and he called in and it was great. It was great, it really was. It worked out really well.

Speaker 1: 12:14

And if you haven't watched the episode yet and seen the interview, then check it out. He does make mention in there that it worked out better for him schedule wise, because we went for an hour and I don't know seven minutes, something like that, and he was saying he didn't have that much time had he not been on the phone, because at one point it's hard to hear I can hear it on my end. He gets in his vehicle and I don't know he was going to go run errands, whatever it was, but you hear the door chime, that kind of thing, or the seatbelt chime, whatever it was. So it was good stuff, good conversation, and he came back on the show to plug his benefit concert that's coming up on April the 11th. It's in Hollywood, so if you're on the East Coast, I'm sorry, unless you want to fly out, come on out. You can join Catherine and I at the show. It's going to be a good time. His Bohemian Queen tribute band is going to be featured in this show for the David Z Foundation, so it's a fundraiser and it's going to be a great time. We're so looking forward to it and I don't want to look.

Speaker 1: 13:39

I could rehash the whole entire show yesterday, but I don't want to do that. I want you to go and check it out. You can listen to it on Buzzsprout or just watch it right here on YouTube. Either way, just check it out because it's good and Pauly is so.

Speaker 1: 13:57

He's so entertaining. He's just such a great guy and it's kind of funny for two people who had never met before the last time he was on the show. We just get going and we just can't stop talking, and we'll talk about almost anything really, and so it's a lot of fun. And then, of course, meeting him in person he's just so, and so it's a lot of fun. And then, of course, meeting him in person he's just so, so cool. Just such a nice guy, and I look forward to the show and I look forward to seeing the rest of the guys in the band because those guys are just so man, they're just so down to earth, they're such nice guys and obviously great musicians, like we talked about yesterday, and great singers as well. Just great, great people all around. So I wanted to give another plug for that. Since we're live and let's hope we get a few more viewers out here, get the information out and, if you're in the area, check it out.

Speaker 1: 15:00

So the episode prior to that, that was albums turning 40.

Speaker 1: 15:08

Yeah, that was look.

Speaker 1: 15:12

I enjoy doing that, I enjoy putting it together.

Speaker 1: 15:15

Of course I only covered 15 albums and who knows, you know, you can do a search on that and there's probably 100, 200 albums that came out in the year 1984.

Speaker 1: 15:29

But I would probably still be here today doing that same show if I had gone over every single one of those albums and we want to keep it relevant to what we kind of talk about my wheelhouse is for sure, and then kind of what we do on this show and we kind of keep it in the classic rock, hard rock space and we can go outside that a little bit, which I did, good stuff, I did the show and I think it was I don't know was the next day. Yeah, it might have been the next day, because I did that one in the evening and I started to think to myself, wait a minute, I left out one fabulous album that I really, really like a lot and I couldn't believe it. I just, you know, and I thought, oh well, sorry, so somebody nobody has commented on that particular episode, so I haven't been busted yet, but a really really strong album is RAT's debut album Out of the Cellar Round and Round.

Speaker 1: 16:49

Lack of Communication, I think, is on that one trying to remember now see, I forgot about it and now I'm trying to remember what's what's on the album. I think lay it down as the other is was the other MTV big song on that one. But man, what a great album and a great band. Obviously, rat really doesn't exist anymore and this isn't going to be a music show tonight. But, yeah, rat really doesn't exist any longer. But if you want to see and hear Rat, you go see Steven Pearcy's solo band, because he's really the one that's still flying the Rat flag. Yes, I know there's a couple other factions out there at least one other faction out there starting up but yeah, I mean, if you want to hear those songs, you want to hear them performed by the guy who wrote most of that stuff but sang all of it. Then, yeah, you're going to want to go see Steven Piercy. But Rat, what a great band and it's just too bad that they couldn't keep it together because they have so many great songs and they really should be a lot bigger than they are, even to this day. I mean, honestly, I put that band on the level of like and I'm talking about bands from that era like a Motley Crue, and Motley Crue's huge and, yeah, I think Rats right up there, they should be every bit on the same level as Motley Crue. But okay, that's it All. Right said it wasn't gonna be a music show, so, yeah, nothing else really going on. I don't know why I'm moving my mouse around so much, but that's really kind of what's been happening.

Speaker 1: 18:45

Um, you know, I don't remember if I shared it with everyone, but Jim, my brother, since we did the stout tasting what was that back in December since we did that show, he's gone off the rails as far as barrel-aged stouts. He joined a beer makers club and he bought a whole bunch of equipment and so now he's getting into all this beer making stuff. He has actually made a batch or two of mead. For those who don't know what mead is, we all know that wine is made with grapes. Mead is on the same level, but it's made with honey, and so he's been making that. And he hasn't made any stouts yet, certainly not any barrel-aged stouts, because it's right there in the name age. But he calls Catherine all the time, or he texts her. He says, hey, I got this or.

Speaker 1: 20:01

I got that and you want me to come over and we'll try it. And I think everybody knows out there and if you don't, you will. Now, catherine works from home and Jim, he retired at the end of January, so he's now retired for two months, so he's just got all the free time in the world and I think he believes that everyone else does too. So he calls Catherine hey, you want to try this? You want to try that? I got this here. I got that here. I'll come home from work and they're sitting around the dining room table and they're drinking. It's like serious. And if you remember, a few weeks back I don't remember which one it was but on one of the Friday Night Lives, kim and Catherine busted in the studio on me and they're here try this, try that, and try this one here, try that one over there. And they're bringing me all these barrel-aged stouts to try.

Speaker 1: 21:00

And when we finished the show we went back downstairs and continued to sample more and they're good. And I've told you before but I'll tell those who are first timers here I'm not a big drinker, so it's not like, oh, I've got to get my drink on, or anything like that, because it's nothing like that at all, but these things are really good, and so we're just partaking. There's a little taste here, a little taste there. I don't drink to get drunk, that's not. No, no, no, no, that's not the thing at all. But he and one of our favorite places is a place near the house here in Placentia. It's called the Brewery and they're known for their barrel-aged stouts. And so Jim, being that he's not working, he goes down there during the week and he starts chatting up the guys there and then he makes his purchases and brings the stuff home and he wants to crack it open right away. And it's like wait, but Jim, I can't drink. I have to be at work in the morning and I start when I work days. I start at usually about three o'clock in the morning. So I tell him no, I can't be drinking before I go to work. But he just gets so excited about it and it makes me giggle. It's just fun stuff. So, still waiting on our first phone call, we've picked up a few more viewers. Yay, good for that. Don't know who it is, can't see who you are. But wait, where's the wait? Let me see if, oh, you know what I didn't do? Oh, there it is.

Speaker 1: 22:44

I didn't click over to the chat to see the comments, oh, and there's no comments yet. Somebody comment, and please don't be Catherine. Don't make the first comment be from my wife. All right, she does it because she feels sorry for me. I think that's what it is. But yeah, you don't need to feel sorry for me. Okay, this is my thing. It's all good.

Speaker 1: 23:09

We're not expecting a million people to be watching. It'd be nice if we had like maybe 10 or 12, that'd be awesome. That would be awesome. It really really would. I don't even I don't say that lightly For me, that would be awesome.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Because when I started this podcast back in what was it October, I said to myself, if really honest, if like a hundred people but really I didn't even say a hundred. I said a hundred would be fabulous. But I said, hey, there's Lauren. Hi, lauren. First comment Excellent, lauren is is my daughter. Tess is very good friend, yeah, and we're looking forward to seeing Lauren. She's going to visit here in May I think it's the end of May and I'm on vacation that week too, so it's good, we'll be able to get to spend some time with Lauren. That's our girl. So, yeah, when I started this thing in October I did. I said if I can get anyone interested in this 10, 15, 20 people that would be great, because nobody even knows who I am and I'm nobody special. So I started it and the audience and my following is small. It is, but it is slowly growing. We're picking up some people here and there and I love it, and now Lauren's sending a text.

Speaker 2: 24:56

No, leave it in the comments.

Speaker 1: 24:58

Oh, maybe she doesn't want everybody to see it. I don't even know what she said. What did she say? What did she say? Oh, I guess let's just put my glasses on. I think we lost all of our viewers right now.

Speaker 1: 25:15

So if we lost you, come on back oh yeah, she just says I do miss you guys, can't wait to see you both in May. Yep, that's true, See you in May. No need to call me out on the pod. Well, I already did. It's too late, that's all right. We love you, lauren, and you know that. We love you to pieces. You know that we love you to pieces and we can't wait. And you know what, lauren, tell your folks. Tell your folks that that we said hey and we miss them too.

Speaker 1: 25:43

So, yeah, I saw it. Like I said, I started this thing was just hoping to have a small following and it is growing a little bit and it's cool. I enjoy doing this. If nobody watches this and I don't mean live tonight but if no one watches my show or listens to my show, yeah, I suppose it's disappointing, but it really doesn't matter because I'm having fun doing it. And if I'm talking to no one, well then I'm at least talking to myself, and we all know that, even though I don't like the sound of my own voice, I do like to hear myself talk. There's a difference there. So I do enjoy hearing myself talk. So there, yeah, I'm good with it.

Speaker 1: 26:39

But I appreciate greatly everyone that tunes in to the regular podcast, the regular episodes, whether you're listening to them via whatever streaming service you listen or you watch here on YouTube. I appreciate everyone honestly, and I even appreciate the ones that may leave negative comments, because it's all good, it's fine, it doesn't bother me at all, and if you're going to do something like this and put yourself out there for people to possibly take shots and ridicule, you have to have a tough exterior, and I'm okay, I'm all right with that. But if you're going to make negative comments, it just has to make sense. That's all. It just has to make sense. But anyway, so that's a little bit of that. I don't know what are we looking forward to as far as the podcast, oh gosh, we really don't have any guests lined up. We have, we really don't have any guests lined up. Um, everybody that I've reached out to I haven't heard back from yet. So they probably see my, uh, they probably see my emails or uh, sometimes it's I uh make a phone call and leave a message. Um, I'm sure they probably just hit delete right there. When they see him, it's from me. Oh, ben Maynard. Yeah, we've seen him before. We've heard of this guy or it's who's this guy and they just hit delete.

Speaker 1: 28:27

And speaking of who's this guy, I almost called the podcast who's this Guy. That was my initial name for this show, because the whole thing was. I thought to myself, well, I'm really no one special, no one really knows me, and so I'll take hold of that and I'll own it. So I was going to call it who's this Guy. But when I had gone to see some there's some podcast coaches and I met with them and talked to them a little bit and we did some stuff and there is a video here on YouTube. We did like a short interview type thing, just so that I could get a feel for what it is. And Jason, who was the guy who actually interviewed me and was the one that gave me the most advice, he asked me about what the name of the show was going to be and I told him who's this guy and he says well, and I explained to him why. And then he says well, but why don't you just use your name? And I said you know, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you're right, just use your name.

Speaker 1: 29:57

And for those of you who are of my age or older, you'll remember Gary Marshall, the television and movie director producer you know he's Laverne and Shirley Happy Days. Joanie Loves Chachi so many other television shows and movies. Joanie Loves Chachi so many other television shows and movies. Gosh, was it Princess Diaries? I think? I don't know, because I'm too old for that stuff. I think that was some of it.

Speaker 1: 30:30

But he did so much and he used to say say your name, promote yourself. And when Jason said why don't you just use your name, I thought to myself yeah, just like Gary Marshall says say your name, promote yourself. Although he would say it in his New York accent Say your name, promote yourself. That kind of stuff. That was pretty bad, wasn't it? I am not an impressionist, I'm just not. I don't do a lot of stuff. That was pretty bad, wasn't it? I am not an impressionist, I'm just not. I don't do a lot of voices yeah, I'm not that good or accents either, anyway. So I'm still waiting for that first call to come in. Hey, lauren, you already sent a comment. You're more than welcome to call in.

Speaker 1: 31:10

You do count, and I was hoping to get a few more viewers tonight because I did some early promotion on this. It's tough when it's Friday night, but not everyone has to go out and party all the time, and you know. So I wanted to get some early promotion. I know I plugged it on I don't know one or two of the episodes, and then I got some early stuff out this morning when I had gotten home from work. I thought, well, not going to sleep yet, so let's just put it out on all the socials that were live tonight and see where it goes. So apparently nobody wants to punish me because the Malort is still there, the phone has not rang, haven't taken one phone call yet. So you know, I guess then.

Speaker 1: 32:05

Oh, of course, of course, I can't believe it. Hold on. This is you're talking to the. You're talking to Ben Maynard. How's it going, girl? You win sticks, tickets. All you have to do is say, all you have to do is call in and say Ben Maynard rocks my world, and then you get the tickets. So what are you doing? Where are you headed to? Oh, okay, okay, okay, all right. So everyone, if you can tell by the sound of the voice, you know. If not, this is my daughter, tess, and she's so nice to call in and talk, to talk to me and and force me to drink my first shot of the night, yeah, so, um now. Now, tess, I took a because, because you know, I always take one of those nasty beans out of Bean Boozled and I dropped it in the bottom of my shot glass and it stuck. So that means the Malort from about three weeks ago is still at the bottom of that glass. Okay, wait.

Speaker 2: 33:52

Wait, I don't see Malort. Okay, wait.

Speaker 1: 34:00

Well, the challenge is, you know, I mean, that's Friday Night Live. If anybody calls in, I have to take a shot of Malort. So it's a win, it's a, really it's kind of a. It's sort of a win-win, but it's not a win-win in the sense that you would think it's a win for me because I have somebody being active on the show, but it's a win for the audience who sees me drink this nasty stuff. It's really a win-lose for me.

Speaker 2: 34:34

Yes, is the Malort worse than the Teen Boozled flavor, or is the Teen Boozled?

Speaker 1: 34:45

flavor worse than the Malort? No, I don't think so. I think Malort is worse. I do Because I can stomach, I can stand. Well, I mean, I can stand the Malort too. I mean it's fine, it's nasty, but I can handle it. But even the nastiest bean, even though it tastes terrible, it's fine, I'm okay with it. I don't understand why everybody else gets so squeamish and oh, I don't want to do that, or I don't want to drink Malorba, you know that kind of stuff. Whatever, I'm horrible, I'm horrible, I'm horrible.

Speaker 2: 35:38

I'm horrible, I'm horrible, I'm horrible.

Speaker 1: 35:43

Well yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Barf and rotten fish, spoiled milk. I do think the worst ones might be. What is it like stink beetle or stink bug and skunk spray? Yeah, those are pretty bad.

Speaker 1: 36:08

But anyway, for those who are still with us now, tess was on the show two weeks ago. If you haven't seen that episode, then you're missing out. It is actually the biggest episode that we have out right now. It actually has the most views of all 38 episodes. Tonight is episode 39.

Speaker 1: 36:43

And I don't know what it is. You know, tess comes in studio, we talk a bit and I post it and it blows up. It just blows up. I don't know what it is. So it's good. I'm happy about that. But here's the thing, people, and leave it in the comments to bust her on it. I have asked her repeatedly for her to put this on her socials and she won't. Yeah, I'm calling you out right here, in front of everyone, because I wanted her to do it right away. And she says well, I don't know, am I right? You were hemming and hawing about it? And I don't understand why. She says well, I have so many followers and most of them are. You know, there's a lot of them. No, okay, okay. No, that's not what people think about. Oh, I haven't talked to her in forever. Oh my God, I got to go look at her. Oh, wow, ooh, yuck. No, it doesn't matter. Okay, all right. Hey, wait, wait, I got it. Oh my you're you're ridiculous.

Speaker 1: 38:48

Do you hear this, people? Do you hear this? Yeah, this is what I told you I would do. Well, even at that, she still hasn't. I have to say hi to somebody here real quick, tess, no, no, wait, wait a minute. I put you on blast. Wait, wait, you're still. Wait, you're still here.

Speaker 1: 39:23

I, while I have you on the phone, I have to take my shot. Okay, oh, whoa, whoa. Okay, I guess she's big time in me now, all right, well, listen, thanks for calling in, thanks for being the one responsible for my first shot of the night, and have a great evening. Okay, all right, we'll see. I love you. There she goes, there she goes. Ooh, ooh, oh. But I got a good bean. Yeah, it's a good bean. It's like, I don't know, like tutti frutti or something like that. So I have to recognize we have a new viewer Just left a comment, jacqueline Flexon.

Speaker 1: 40:09

Hi, jacqueline, so I did. She left a comment, so I said hello back. So, hi, I'm waving at you, all right. So look, peeps Again. Peeps. You guys know about peeps, especially if you're my age or our age, whatever, I don't know. Peep pack. We're going to see how many peeps I can cram in my pie hole here. All right, let's get this stuff out of the way. But peeps have really come a long way. In the last I don't know what 10, no, probably longer than that, 15 years or so. Hi, there, saw my ant post so I thought I would check it out. Well, I'm glad you're checking it out, jacqueline, stay with us. Okay, stay here. This is some fun stuff, all right, but peeps have come a long way.

Speaker 1: 41:13

They, like I said, different flavors Cotton candy, yeah, cotton candy. There's gosh, like I said, I have stuff all over the place here. There's the oh party cake instead of birthday cake, party cake, yeah, yeah. So all kinds of really cool flavors. And there's the regular yellow chicks, the OGs, and then they have just all the blue purple, I don't know. Chocolate pudding flavors, all kinds of stuff. So, oh and so these, these are really cool. So, these are really cool. These are the chicks, and they come packed in three. But what's awesome? They're dipped in chocolate. Yes, sir, dipped in chocolate. Love it. So good, in fact. No, I'm not going to eat one right now, I'll save it. They have some that are s'mores flavored dipped in chocolate, I think they. I don't, I don't. Candy cane, all kinds of stuff, craziness.

Speaker 1: 42:26

Peeps are huge and Tess loves Peeps. When she was living at home we would go and buy Peeps and we would just her and I would just get down with the Peeps Good stuff, and some of her favorite flavors were like cotton candy and party cake. So I cut a couple of these packages open so that I didn't have to open them on the air and make all that noise with the plastic wrapper. Now I'll say this before I start. I have done this before. I am a professional and for all those youngins out there, do not try this at home. Okay, not without parent supervision. So my record on and I've done the little raps on in. Come on, in, I'm getting busted in on by by katherine I'm gonna check, keep you honest oh, she's gonna keep me honest well, yeah

Speaker 1: 43:25

well, go ahead and have a seat and I, yeah, you don't have, you don't have a microphone, so to speak, but it'll, it should pick you up anyway. But my, uh, my record on the little baby bunnies, no, no, because I didn't get it like a multitude of colors, so, but my record on little baby bunnies, I think, is 14. So there's eight per pack and so I think I almost crammed in. See the comments, you can't read them from here. No, no, it's Jacqueline. She says hi auntie, but I think 14 is my record. I think I tried to get a 15th one in there. It's been some years and just I couldn't make it work. So we're going to do this and remember this is a stunt that is to only be performed by professionals, all right.

Speaker 2: 44:32

And just so everybody knows my husband's crazy, he loves a challenge.

Speaker 1: 44:37

This is my plate, so can you can you yeah, that's your split up plate. Well, I can eat them all, but it's going to be anyway, Okay, I don't know, I'm not going to throw these things up.

Speaker 2: 44:48

You're going to do what 14?.

Speaker 1: 44:51

We're going to see how many I get in here. I'm going to see if I can at least match my record.

Speaker 2: 44:55

All right, chloe's not watching this.

Speaker 1: 44:58

Oh, that's right. Our granddaughter Chloe, what was it? It was like two years ago or something. We had Easter here, and so we're doing our peep pack. And I want to do it too, grandpa. I think she was like seven at the time. I want to do it with you, grandpa. All right, that's fine. So let's go. So we're cramming them all in. She got like three and then she's like vomiting. Her mother, erin erin, was not happy with me, but it was like wait a minute, I had nothing to do with it, but it was oh no, it was great. She, no, it was great. She's just like throwing them up. It's awesome. By the way, I am the peep pack champ, at least in my family anyway.

Speaker 2: 45:46

Maybe someone can come out and challenge you.

Speaker 1: 45:48

That would be great. That would be great. Okay, so let's get this show on.

Speaker 2: 45:55

Do you want more open?

Speaker 1: 45:56

Well, I have this one and that one right now.

Speaker 2: 45:58

Oh, I didn't see that one yeah.

Speaker 1: 45:59

I'm going to do something here really quick, sorry.

Speaker 2: 46:03

Okay. Because, I don't.

Speaker 1: 46:06

That's going to get in the way.

Speaker 2: 46:07

Your retainer.

Speaker 1: 46:08

Yeah, my retainer, so okay, so here we go, ready.

Speaker 2: 46:14

All right.

Speaker 1: 46:18

That's one.

Speaker 2: 46:19

The whole process. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1: 46:21

It is.

Speaker 2: 46:24

Oh, I think I could only do four.

Speaker 1: 46:27

Why don't you just turn the microphone in your direction? There you go, you're good, it'll pick you up.

Speaker 2: 46:32

Okay, let's see. Does everyone want to guess how many he's going to do? What I can't see is there. What's that? Five, four okay four here's a towel. Can't shoot, Can't chew them. I bet no one's ever seen this done. Turn away by the camera. What's that?

Speaker 1: 47:42

eight Okay, oh, that's.

Speaker 2: 47:44

I can't tell what you're holding up.

Speaker 1: 47:46

Oh seven.

Speaker 2: 47:47

Okay, seven, so let's keep it going. Is anyone challenging him? Want to do a different color. Just let's see. Probably doesn't help me laughing. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1: 48:14

This is so gross.

Speaker 2: 48:16

The grossest thing he loves, like the Malort, the jelly beans, is that it? Oh, okay, that was seven.

Speaker 1: 48:28

Oh eight.

Speaker 2: 48:29

Eight Eight. I really think he did Well. We'll talk about that after.

Speaker 1: 48:41

See how he puts them on the side of his mouth cheeks.

Speaker 2: 48:44

Mm-hmm, nine, mm-hmm, mm, mm. Is anyone guessing how many? Let me see if I can see it. Oh, uh-oh, I think that's it. Hmm, hmm, cut, fred, don't show it here. Turn to the side, bring the table. Oh my gosh, this is one time where I could talk and he can't say anything. Oh, that's what he wants to show you. Gross People.

Speaker 1: 49:43

Oh, that was only 10. I am so disappointed in myself.

Speaker 2: 49:48

Maybe they made them larger.

Speaker 1: 49:52

I don't think they made them larger, I just think my mouth got smaller. I don't know, I got a big mouth. Oh, I'm them larger. I just think my mouth got smaller. I don't know, I got a big mouth oh. Oh, I'm so disappointed. I don't know, Maybe I didn't take the right approach. Maybe I should have uh, wait, let me get back here on my. Okay, there we go, that's all right. No, no, no, no. Hey, Grab those for me please.

Speaker 2: 50:15

That's my glasses. Yeah, there's my peeps right there.

Speaker 1: 50:20

I don't know if I want to see them. Hey, I might eat those.

Speaker 2: 50:23

Okay, so what was the guess?

Speaker 1: 50:25

Well, Jacqueline actually said well, first she said 17. Oh my God, Thanks for the confidence. And you know what, With a record of 14, I really thought I was going to at least be able to get that. But boy, I don't know what happened here Did you eat any of them. No, no, they're all right there. Yeah, no, I'm so disappointed in myself. Put my retainer back on, yeah, but yeah, so disappointed in myself. Oh well, geez, louise, yeah, that's terrible, yeah, that's sad.

Speaker 2: 51:06

Hmm.

Speaker 1: 51:08

Oh well, yeah.

Speaker 2: 51:09

Only 10.

Speaker 1: 51:10

God, that's like that's four. No, no, I got it. Yeah, yeah, that's four short of my, four short of my record. But yeah, can you hand me those?

Speaker 2: 51:18

oh, now you want to eat some for all well, these ones are chocolate dip.

Speaker 1: 51:22

You bet I want to eat these.

Speaker 2: 51:24

These are good the other thing he, he loves sweets, sweet, sweet sweets, and he's not diabetic oh no, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 1: 51:32

but you know what I I think what's what's really weird is is I think I got conditioned. Both Chuck and I got conditioned to sweets when we were little, because mom would always go to the grocery store when she went shopping. She would come home with Chips, ahoy cookies, oreo cookies, ding Dongs, twinkies, chocodiles, all that stuff, and that's what we had in our little. Yeah, you were a little off on that one, jacqueline.

Speaker 2: 52:07

No, and his mom, to this day, brings packs of these over every Easter. She does.

Speaker 1: 52:12

She does, but I haven't seen her yet, so she hasn't brought me any peeps. But yeah, no, these chocolate dip peeps are great. I don't know. I think that's where my love for sweets started was as a kid, because when our friends would come over, they would open up the junk not the junk drawer but the cookie drawer, I guess, is a better way to put it and they would oh my gosh, they would just go crazy, because we always had sweets in the house and no one else, none of our other friends had sweets like we did as kids. So it's just one of those things. But that is so good, that is so good. And the ones that they had, I had them earlier in the week. I told you they were dipped in chocolate, but the marshmallow, the little chick, it tasted like s'mores. Yeah, it was really good.

Speaker 2: 53:10

Oh, really really good. Party cake, yeah, purple one. Oh, cotton candy yeah, I told them that one's like Tess's favorite flavor is cotton candy.

Speaker 1: 53:16

Yeah, that looks like Purple one. I showed him the cotton candy. Yeah, I told him that that one's like.

Speaker 2: 53:19

Tess's favorite flavors Cotton candy. Yeah, that looks like a good one.

Speaker 1: 53:21

Tess called in, by the way. Oh she did yeah, yeah, she called in, she was to take more Lord or bean. She called in. She was going home from tennis Um her, her tennis lessons her and David oh. So she called in and-.

Speaker 2: 53:35

That was nice.

Speaker 1: 53:36

Yeah, and she still hasn't put it out on her socials.

Speaker 2: 53:38

Don't bring it up anymore.

Speaker 1: 53:42

Busted her on it. Here's another one Now.

Speaker 2: 53:46

he's just eating them for fun.

Speaker 1: 53:49

I'm eating them because they're good, so yeah.

Speaker 2: 53:52

your challenge should be how many packs can you eat?

Speaker 1: 53:54

Well, see, like on the little chicks, because the little bunny rabbits and the chicks, there's no difference in the weight of the package. They're both three ounces, but they broke down that three ounces. And the little bunnies they're a little tiny bit smaller than the chicks and the little bunnies, they're a little tiny bit smaller than the chicks. There's eight in the rabbits and there's, I think I don't know whatever it is, I don't know. Actually there's 10 in there. How could it still be three ounces? I don't know. Whatever it is, I thought the little bunny rabbits were smaller Apparently. They're not Apparently, they're bigger, but I've been able to get more bunny rabbits in my mouth than I have the chicks. I think I was only able to ever get.

Speaker 1: 54:43

Oh, did you get chicks too? No, not tonight I did, but in the past.

Speaker 2: 54:46

There's 10 in here.

Speaker 1: 54:47

No, that's, interesting.

Speaker 2: 54:51

Well, I'm sorry, they're about three ounces.

Speaker 1: 54:54

If anyone put money on this and you lost, I apologize. I apologize, I really do. And if I just disappointed you all around because I only was able to get 10 and close my lips and I thought I was going to heave those up and I've never, ever happened. That's never happened. I've never gagged on these things. Man, maybe I should have prepared for this. Maybe I should have done this over the week and stretched my mouth out a little bit, stretched out those cheeks.

Speaker 2: 55:30

Well, you could prepare for Sunday. Yeah, oh yeah, I got plenty to do Sunday?

Speaker 1: 55:35

we've got yeah, we got family gathering on Sunday for Easter, so I'll be busting out my peeps and and uh yeah, I'll be doing another peep back. Yeah, what was it a couple years ago, didn't, didn't Darren? I think Darren and I did one at Christmas? They had Christmas peeps oh did they. Yeah, yeah, we did, they were dipped in white chocolate or something like that, Anyway. But so, look people, good stuff. And oh, excuse me, it's coming up now. I'm so lucky.

Speaker 2: 56:08

I'm so lucky you are.

Speaker 1: 56:12

You are a lucky woman, I'm lucky. Look at us here, though, you are a lucky woman. Look at us here, though. You know what's funny Whenever you come in, or when I watched the episode with Tess, I did go back and watch it I look, I'm always like pink.

Speaker 2: 56:29

Oh well, compared to my color.

Speaker 1: 56:31

Your complexion. You're like all. You look like a China doll. You're all perfect, smooth and everything. And me I look pink. I do. I don't know, I don't understand what it is.

Speaker 2: 56:45

Well, you are a lot lighter than me.

Speaker 1: 56:48

I am a lot. I'm almost as white as they come. I'm like sheet white almost, and yeah.

Speaker 2: 56:54

I can hardly wait for summer to get tan. I'm just looking forward to that. I come out pink. I can hardly wait for summer to get tan.

Speaker 1: 56:58

I come out pink. I don't know what it is. Whatever, I don't care, I just don't care, it's alright.

Speaker 2: 57:05

Are you wrapping it up?

Speaker 1: 57:06

We are going to wrap it up. We're going to wrap it up. We're going to say goodbye to everyone. We're going to say thanks for tuning in, thanks for hanging out on Friday night, at least making this a little bit a part of your Friday evening having some fun. We'll do it again, who knows? But you will get the notification. Oh, I know, that's great. Maybe we have a maybe. See what I talked about earlier growing the audience a little bit, you know, a little bit at a time, a little bit, um, yeah, so thanks to Jacqueline for being a new viewer.

Speaker 2: 57:46

Uh, Lauren came on, I see.

Speaker 1: 57:48

Lauren was there and Lauren, I don't know if you're still out there watching or listening or anything else, but subscribe to this channel, jacqueline. Subscribe to this channel, jacqueline. Subscribe to this channel. Okay, there's good content. I put out good content. We don't goof around like this and do teenage stuff all the time. This stuff we say for Friday nights when we do Friday night live. So anyway, with that, people, this is going to be a wrap, and I'll remind everyone that this program is available on multiple podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, amazon Music and Spotify, or you can just simply search the Ben Maynard program and, boom, it'll pop right up. You'll have many options to choose from, but do me a favor and go to buzzsprout. Okay, and if you can't resist all this, like I say every week, and I've got, I've got Got real beauty in the studio tonight for the last few minutes of the show and you're watching on YouTube, then please subscribe to the channel, give me a thumbs up and leave a comment, all right.

Speaker 2: 59:01

Thanks for watching.

Speaker 1: 59:02

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