WEBVTT - "Joke Goes Wrong" Mail Bag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.639 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.519 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.960 Sunday Sunday edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.720 and Day and h G Radio because hey, the overnight 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.800 show during the week not enough bonus bonus covers. I 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.760 think this is the eighth day of a week actually 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:52.879 for the show on Sunday and the last NFL regular 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.960 season Sunday Nanny. Now most people seem to listen to 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.280 this in the morning, but I mean there are people 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.720 that go back and listen later. But this is it. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.880 This is the playoffs start next week and you you 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.880 have a raided playoff game today the night the Raiders 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.840 and the and the Chargers. So that's right, flex to 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.840 the Sunday night football game on NBC. Cannot wait for 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.080 the Raiders and Chargers. Man, I got screwed a couple 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.160 of years ago, I I was in Seattle and the 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.240 Seahawk forty Niner game that that year. It was it 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.200 was week I think it was Week seventeen, and it 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.600 got flexed to the Sunday night game and it was 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.119 like I couldn't get in, And when all I went 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.200 to Seattle and hung out outside the stadium, I was 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.400 banned from going to STA. Have you been to a 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.600 Raider game in Vegas yet? I have not been yet. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.480 I was tempted to trade shifts with somebody at the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.880 network and try to get out there for tonight's game. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.960 I think that this is gonna be the first game 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.000 in Vegas where the home field advantage really makes a different. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.320 The tickets are insane, though. I was talking to Eddie 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.480 about this during the week, and Eddie was, you know, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.600 his wife's a big Charger fan, and they were thinking 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.680 about going, and they said, even on the second, you know, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.920 the cheapest ticket they get get Yeah, it was like 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.040 six hundred bucks or something like that. I think it 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 might even be more than that, but it was ridiculous. Yeah. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.240 It's funny because when you look at the schedule to 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.280 the right down the side of all the games, it 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.360 says tickets as low as and you're supposed to click 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.720 on if you want tickets, and teams said like twenty dollars. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.840 One team where said forty eight dollars. Then you get 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.320 to Las Vegas and it said four hundred and eight 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.400 dollars as low as four hundred and eight dollars. Yeah, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.840 we probably talked about this in the past on the 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.440 terrestrial radio show what is the most you would spend 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.200 on an NFL ticket? Yeah, we've talked about this recently 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.360 on the air. Um, you're right at Fox Sports Radio Network. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.560 This has come up couple of times. And I think 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.959 that I said six hundred for me, like six hundred 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.280 dollars because I could see paying twelve hundred for a 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:14.639 pair of a really really crucial important playoff game. Maybe 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.360 if that gets you into a Super Bowl. I cannot 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:22.800 see paying more your rent or mortgage though on tickets. Yeah, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.440 that's that's a tough one. I have. Roberto, I remember 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.920 bought a ticket to the seen World Series, the Dodgers game, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.960 I think it was Game two, and I believe he's 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.560 still paying it off right now. And and that was 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.960 of course the cheating as strows. He used Klarna where 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.320 they let him pay monthly. Oh my god, what a nightmare. Anyway, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.160 let's get to the mail bag. What do you say? 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:59.040 Here we go right now, let's do it. Big tip 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.880 of the microphone to our buddy Ohio Owl who made 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.320 that song in a brilliant rendition, because we're still playing 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.680 it and we'll probably play it for a long time 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.120 to come, but thanks to Ohio Aw. So these are 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:18.080 actual letters send in via email or posted on the 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.320 show facebook page, which is Ben mall or show. That's 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.600 the Facebook And every Tuesday I post on the Facebook page, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.159 usually in the morning, but by by the afternoon. Normally 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.839 I post I say, hey, help us out. We need 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.720 some questions. And we have a very good, loyal group 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.279 of big fans. I'd love to get some new people 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.080 involved and to mix it up and get some new voices. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.919 There's no pressure. Maybe you only want to ask a 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.880 question one time, UM, and that's fine, but you know 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.200 it's great. I really, I really appreciate the people that 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.520 take time out, shake things up and send questions in. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.560 So the first one uh and you can also email 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.080 the questions by the way, Real fifth hour at gmail 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:15.200 dot com. First once from Jennifer and Richmond, Virginia. She says, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.479 great to have your back. Sorry to hear you weren't 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.800 feeling well. My question this week is did you know 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.520 the most recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was the 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.760 season finale? She says, I had no idea until days after. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.880 I don't have cable. I use a quote secret unquote 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:41.240 streaming service, so I had no clue. I thought there 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:46.320 would be at least two more episodes. Uh, yeah, I 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.600 I was aware. Um My brother in law works on 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.320 Curb Your Enthusiasm as one of the crew guys, and 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.880 so he told stories. I actually watched, and hopefully you 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.520 can get this, Jennifer. You know Bob Einstein, better known 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.600 as Super Dave Osborne. You're around my age, don't you 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.479 remember Super Dave back? Right? The guy was a legend. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.160 I love that he passed away. Wow back And they 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:20.000 made this really cool documentary on HBO. And if if 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.039 you're around our age and you remember super Dave, it 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.680 was awesome. You know, I was flashing back. I loved 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.600 him on The Letterman Show and all the dumb stupid 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:35.240 Uh he was doing a parody of Evil Kinevil. You know, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.880 Super Dave, And they did a really nice retrospective on 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:45.880 his life in Hollywood, Bob Einstein and that's his legal name, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.160 Bob Einstein, but better known as Super Dave of Osborne. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.320 And that was pretty cool. And Jennifer also says that 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.159 you get the squirrel video that I said, and I 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.520 did not. Jennifer's in Richmond and Danny. She has trained 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.800 the squirrels in her backyard. She feeds them peanuts and 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.680 it was really it was really funny. I mean, this 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.680 one squirrel was trying to hoard all the all the peanuts. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.160 It was I think Lenny was the name of the squirrel. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.520 She named the squirrel Lenny, and it was It was 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.120 really good. Have you ever fed squirrels chip monks roasting 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:28.200 on an open fire? Exactly? Exactly. No. I know from 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.280 the time I was a little kid, I remember family 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.680 members always saying those things have brabies, don't get near it. Oh. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.120 I know, of course they all sell that. But I 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:43.080 actually in central California, uh, near the Hearst Castle, which 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.960 I love that area. Uh. The I've told this story before, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.280 but we were me and my wife will go there 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.600 quite a bit. You were trying to go once a year, Yeah, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.080 San Simmon where they you can feed the seals, Yes, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:59.920 I can't feed them, but you can watch them far 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.040 and lose their skin. And the lions is it lions seals? 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.520 Is that where they are anyway? Whatever they are, it's 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.880 it's it's right across from the Hearst Castle and the 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.680 beach there is pretty cool. By the way, have you 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.720 been to that beach right across from the hers Castle. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.080 I have, Yeah, they have a pier. It's always foggy. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.880 It's uh, it's pretty neat. Yeah, that area is nice. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.200 If you ever get to California, go to San simeon 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.720 E Bay is not bad rock. They have the big 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.040 giant rock there. Beautiful. I love that area. It's unsullied 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.320 because William Howard Hurst or William Randolph Howard Hurst, right 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.000 he uh he when he died, his family just left 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:46.880 all the land, so all of central California. Yeah, you'll 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.880 imagine if somebody else owned that, there'd be big cities there. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.760 And yeah, somebody from Oregon told me that that reminded 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:59.520 them their beaches. Like you said, it's not developed, Yeah, no, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.719 it beautiful. It is uh wonderful. All right, what's next year? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:09.040 Let's see alright, Kevin and Kansas says dear Ben and 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.800 Danny g thanks for soldiering through Ben with the voice issues. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.400 Where you're You're welcome given. Uh. He says, you were 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.560 missed blah blah blah blah blah during the end of 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.160 the year. Were you able to be a normal person 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.600 on your sleep schedule for a while? Uh? If so, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.520 how do you adjust back to your regular daytime, uh 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.880 sleep schedule? Well, it was pretty easy, Kevin, because I 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.200 couldn't go anywhere. As we talked about in the Saturday podcast, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.559 when you have COVID, you are an ogre. Uh, you 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.800 have cooties. You are not allowed to be seen in 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.680 a polite society. And um so we just stayed home 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.280 and it was very boring and just stayed in bed 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.680 and watched TV, and I watched YouTube videos and and whatever, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.839 played video games and uh pretty much just tried to 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.760 pass the time. Um So, but we did. I did 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.360 change my schedule a little bit. I went to bed 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.920 probably six five or six hours earlier than I normally do, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.000 which is still late at night. But I can't completely 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.480 turn my schedule all the way around. I can't do 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.960 it because I'm just a night person. I'm just wired 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.160 that way. But you know, I don't know, did Danny 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.680 did you? You were working radio, so you couldn't really 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.200 change your schedule at all. Huh. Through Christmas and New 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.600 Year's Eve, I was working some shifts at the network, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.400 so I had to be honest, a tight schedule. But 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.959 then once New Year's Eve happened and I stayed up, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.160 I got home like at eleven thirty pm, so I 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.600 made it by a half hour to have a toast 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.640 with my TINDERRONI. But we stayed up. Like for us, 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.480 we laugh, we're like partying hard if we stay up 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:02.040 till eleven pm. We actually stayed until to thirty am. Wow, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.840 my schedule has been thrown off ever since then. I've 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.800 been staying up way too late at night lately, so 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.920 I'm gonna have to flip it back around before school 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.880 starts Monday. So you have a few a few more 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.240 hours tomorrow, I should say, yeah, right, a few more 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:24.280 hours and then back to it. Alright, who is next here? 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.760 Let's see any meny miny mo come back. It's from 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:35.360 call that's right, Pierre from Springfield, the Massachusetts some of 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.000 the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:43.160 muffin McGraw and tried uh and Pierce. Has been any 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.760 truth to the rumor that I Heart is in negotiations 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.080 to add Antonio Brown to the Fifth Hour Mixed Mimic, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.280 two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Of course a 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:59.080 b doesn't have your athletic resume, but he'd just be 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.560 the third man in anyway, Does Danny g know that 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.360 Benning the Bopper once hit a ball that, if using 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.640 an aluminum bat, would have cleared the fence at Dodgers Well, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.760 that is true, by the way, Danny. That is verified 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.120 Derrick call who is the CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.360 but he was working for the Dodgers at the times 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.200 of Buddy of Mine. He was on this podcast. Confirmed 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:30.240 confirmed Benning the Bopper home run with if I used 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.560 a metal bat, I used to Corey Snyder, wouldn't bat. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.400 Bad job by me, man, somebody served you up a 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.000 real meat ball that day. I was very large, Dan, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.680 I was very large and in charge. I've heard this story. Yeah, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.839 you were very much Bob Horner. No I I I 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.400 just got my weight behind it. My eyeballs turned into saucers. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.680 I cashed in on that one. Man that is like, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.800 oh my god, we looked like Dave Parker up there. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.160 It was awesome. How pathetic is it? That's my athletic 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.559 highlight right there at almost hitting a ball out of 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.520 Dodger Stadium is the athletic highlight. And by the way, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.160 I heard that story once every six months while I 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.920 was working with Big because in the anniversary of the story, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.480 we have to tell the story. Yeah, and then people 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.040 ask me about It's a fun story. People love to 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.559 hear about that. So how did you do in the outfield? 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.640 You know, well, no, I played. I actually played first base. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.200 It was a mistake because a lot of these guys 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.800 at groundballs and then I had to go cover first 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.880 I even played second base at Dodger Stadium a little 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.720 bit in the media game, what a bad move by 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:47.360 the manager. Imagine uh, an infielder with no lateral range 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.640 to the right or the left as your second baseman. Anyway, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.200 they the guy the managers like, He's like, well, no, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.000 they don't hit it to second base. They either pull 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.920 it and they up hitting it down because most of 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.800 the guys are right handed, so they try to pull 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.920 the ball hit to the left side. When the shortstop 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.480 third base whatever. That had to have felt great though. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.520 Hitting a bomb there in that game. Oh it was awesome. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.160 Oh man, it was great. I was a lot younger then, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.240 but uh yeah, anyway, I also got injured in the 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.240 media game. A couple of years later. I ended up 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:27.840 on the Channel eleven news in Los Angeles. Uh no, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.800 I was actually you'll get a kick at us. I 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.160 was running to first base and I hit the bag wrong, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.120 and it was like my knee exploded. Man. And I 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.440 remember looking up and you'll remember this woman. She was 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:48.840 the sideline reporter for Monday Night Football. Yes, Lisa Berrero 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.200 was playing in the game and she, uh she looked 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.160 at me like, are you okay? I I thought I 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.840 was dead or something like that. It was. It was 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:03.920 very bizarre, very bizarre. Right, what is next year? Let's see, Uh, Kevin, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:11.480 I got mail? Yeah, I got Kevin from Rockford writes 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.040 and he says, so I wasn't able to hike Mallard 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.840 Mountain yet. I remember this is the guy that told 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.160 us he was going to climb up and put the 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:23.000 Mallard sign. Yeah. He said his son tested positive for 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.840 COVID the weekend he was supposed to go. So he 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.600 changed his plans two over New Year's Kevin said, but 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:35.200 then the Rockies were hit with a big winter storm. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.600 He says he will eventually get there to plant the flag. Well, Kevin, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.520 make sure, as I told you before, it takes lots 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.600 of photos, and I will promote that on Instagram and 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.680 Facebook and Twitter and all that stuff. Um, that'll be awesome, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.400 he says. Living in California, have you are Danny G 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.280 been to the Mount Whitney area. Mount Whitney is the 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:05.760 tallest mountain in the Lower only fourteen feet shorter than 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.920 Mount Open, the tallest in Colorado, which I which I 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.640 have hiked. Once I'm done with my hiking in Colorado, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.600 Kevin and Rockford says, uh he would like to live 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.480 or at least get out to California and conquer Mount Whitney. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.160 He says he's hiked Mount Jacinto in the Palm Springs 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.480 area a few times. He says he cheated. He took 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.360 the tram. I do the same thing, but he took 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.920 the tram down. I would. I would do the same 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.480 thing since California's beautiful. I'd lived there if it wasn't 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.360 for the high cost of living and weird people. Well, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.800 I agree with you on that, but no, I have 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.640 you ever been to Mount Whitney, You ever climbed Mount Whitney? 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.240 Ever seen Mount Whitney? Where is Mount Whitney? Where is it? 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.000 I don't know exactly where since I've never been there, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.080 but maybe close to that level. As a kid, I 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.560 must have been eighteen at the time I did the 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.399 half Dome hike at Yosemite. Oh really yeah, and round trip. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.920 I think it's like sixteen miles. But going up, Oh 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.679 my god, that killed me. And I was I was 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.560 young at the time. I couldn't even do half that hike. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.040 Now I would die. Yeah. Whatever are Yeah, if you're 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.760 ever planning a Yosemite trip and you are a hiker, definitely, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.280 um do the half Dome hike. That's awesome. According to 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.719 the Internet, And Kevin's probably like rolling his eyes right 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.879 now because I told you should have been. Mount Whitney 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.359 is the highest mountain the continuous United States, as he 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:42.639 said here in Nevada. It's actually kind of near Fresno. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.680 According to this bad Water America's lowest point bad Water 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.680 Basin in Death Valley National Park. It's in too Layer. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.960 Oh to Larry to Larry, there you go. That's a 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.240 good looking mountain. I die on that, though, I would 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.280 make it up that you kidding me? Alright, what is next? 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.080 Alright to Skip the Zip in Akron, Ohio writes and 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.600 skipsmen with the show a long time Danny. He was 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:17.800 the original roastmaster general before we did the weekly radio 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.720 roast that we we used to have a few celebrity 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:25.480 radio roast, like with Tim Tebow, and I think that 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.680 was the first one. I remember a lot, but we've 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.040 done some other random ones over the years. Anyway, Skip 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:34.800 writes in uh, he went on a rant about Baker 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:39.760 Mayfield and being in Ohio. He says, Uh, certain haters 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.320 are already running out of their fifty five gallon drums 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.520 of k y jelly thinking about how Baker Mayfield won't 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.040 be under center for the Browns, and uh, you know anymore, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.199 this is the final game whatever after this year. The 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.840 focus of my ire, Skip the Zip says, is on 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.479 Kevin Steffan Ski says, I've tried to give him the 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.600 benefit of the doubt because I truly like him as 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.840 a human, but is blatant misuse of the offensive weapons 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.760 he was blessed with. Uh, that to have an abhorrent way. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:21.040 He failed to protect Baker. Mayfield achieved critical mass recently, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.639 Baker looked like absolute crap due to his numerous injuries 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.520 and harness, and his inabilitating is his ability to move around. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.719 Blah blah blah blah blah. Uh, and so he's ripping. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:39.320 Stefanski says all that said primarily because I feel I 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.720 can talk to you. Well, thank you, Skip, I appreciate it. Uh, 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.400 he says Ben. I must now end my long winded 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:52.720 diet tribe with this question. Would you fire Kevin Stefanski 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.160 at the end of the season, and if so, who 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.080 the hell would you choose to replace him? To me, 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.760 Kevin Stefanski's no, I don't watch the Browns as close 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:06.199 to as you do. I know. Baker went on a 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.359 rant we talked about it on the radio show this week, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:15.320 where he was ripping the play, calling that he didn't 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:16.960 put his name on it, but he told the writer 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:21.679 in Cleveland and and all that. But the problem is, 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.359 I think Mayfield's done, so then you're gonna have to 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.520 start over with the coach again. I don't know, I 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.040 don't know, but I thought Stefanski's offense was fine. He 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.959 he clearly didn't trust Baker Mayfield. That's why they ran 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.600 the ball, right. If he trusted the quarterback, wouldn't he 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.280 have thrown the ball more. I hate to say it, 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:46.680 but Baker Mayfield reminds me of a young Carson Wentz. Yeah, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.760 just just inaccurate. And it's weird though, because it seemed 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.600 like he was more accurate passing the football last season. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.840 And maybe you can attribute that to injuries or maybe 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.240 that's an excuse. I don't I don't know, but I 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.560 mean to blame Stefanski doesn't make a lot of sense 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:07.960 because didn't he have a successful semi successful season last year? Yeah? Yeah, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.679 well they well they made the playoffs. They won a 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.520 playoff game. But that was a gift from the Steelers though, right, 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.920 I mean that was the Steve Ben Roethlisberger maybe threw 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.760 all those interceptions on the game and set Cleveland up. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.159 And what a mess that the year ago, the Browns 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.040 were like the team on the come in the end. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:29.680 I remember all the people betting team preseason. I remember, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.880 on two pros and a cup of Joe. I remember 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:37.160 half of those guys picking the Browns to win that division, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.000 thinking to myself, Wow, this is the team that you're 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.520 right that a lot of people thought we're gonna make 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.439 another leap forward this year, and they looked pretty decent 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:52.200 at the start of this season, but they fell apart fast. Yeah. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.240 It was like right around the game they played the 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.800 Chargers out here and their defense completely imploded. I was 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.280 that game and it was like ridiculous. It was like 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:08.320 nobody played any defense the entire day. Anyway, all right, 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:12.119 what is next year? It's all right, calm down. Lord 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:18.040 Goofa from Hooversville, USA says, for you, Ben and Danny 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:22.960 g what is the best worst practical joke that you 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.680 played on someone or that was played on you. Well, 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.199 we've we've kind of been asked this before, Lord Goofa. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.200 The one that I used to do before the internet 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:39.600 became big around the baseball trade deadline. I would take 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:44.720 an old AP story that had, you know, somebody being traded, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.600 and I would put the most I re package it 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.159 and I put the most outrageous trade of the day 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.760 into an email and make it look like an AP 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:59.119 wire story, and then I would send it to my 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.680 buddies in the in the radio business. You know, back 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.000 in email, we didn't you know, social media wasn't the thing, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.760 and and they would fall for it, or I'd send 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.000 a text that I just got I'm at the radio station. 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.520 There just massive trade down on the wire. You know, 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:18.440 I drought ridiculous names and they fall for it. Now 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.359 you can't do that anymore, right? Did I ever tell 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:25.800 you how? When I was hosting a popular morning show 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:30.520 in southern California, I did a bit for April Fools, 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.560 But I started it a couple of days before April one, 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.760 just to warm the audience up so that they wouldn't 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.320 know it was a trick on just that one day. 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:45.639 So what I did is a rumor started on the 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:49.000 morning show that I hooked up with my ex and 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:53.119 she got pregnant. Even the staff in my building thought 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:56.800 it was real. I kept it going. It turned out 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.760 to be this whole big thing on the air. People 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:04.800 were calling me off the air, ben giving me warm embraces, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.280 giving me advice on how to deal with the situation, 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.800 confiding in me, telling me, you know what, I had 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.880 something similar happened. It was an unplanned pregnancy. I mean, 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.680 opening up and pouring their guts out to me. I 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:23.159 felt so bad because I knew when I said April 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:25.800 fools that a lot of people were gonna be pissed. 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:31.000 I got in way over my head. Oh by the way, 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.480 before I said April fools, the general manager of my 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:38.159 radio station at the time came in and asked me 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:40.320 to come to the hallway and gave me a hug. 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.119 So I fooled the general manager of the radio station 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:50.080 I was. I thought for sure I was either going 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:53.879 to get fired or suspended. I know, did he after 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:56.800 the after the bit was revealed, He's like, wait a 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.600 minute here, Well it was a she and she had yeah, 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.200 great general manager. But I felt so bad when I 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:08.040 said April fools on the air. It wasn't the payoff 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:12.840 that I was hoping for. I didn't realize it was 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:16.480 gonna tug at people, uh in their heart strings the 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:19.280 way it did, and the way people thought they were 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:21.360 gonna like come to my aid and help me through 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:24.680