Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio. A happy, happy, happy Sunday
Speaker 1: to you as we have made it to the fifteenth
Speaker 1: day of June. Hanging out side by side here and Danny.
Speaker 1: It is a big male edition of the show as
Speaker 1: in letters and messages, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Father's Day edition.
Speaker 1: That's right, and Father's Day. Shout out to all the
Speaker 1: dads we get shipped on. It's a Father's Day, right, Dandy.
Speaker 1: That's what happens here.
Speaker 3: Mother Day. I think Brian Finley says it best.
Speaker 1: Daddy, Yes, that's right, I'm Brian's dad. But no, the
Speaker 1: Father's Day of all the you know, the dopey holidays,
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, Father's Day, all that stuff, by far the
Speaker 1: crappiest Father's Day, right, the Mother's Day? Oh man, you
Speaker 1: got you cannot screw up Mother's Day. Father's Day, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Father's Day is an afterthought to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure your son's going to spoil you with
Speaker 1: all kinds of all kinds of fun.
Speaker 3: Yes, he'll scribble on a piece of paper and Brenda
Speaker 3: will give it to me and be like, here's your
Speaker 3: Father's Day, current, your dirty animal.
Speaker 1: And the way it goes. That's the way it goes,
Speaker 1: all right. So we have the mail bag. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of letters. Happy Father's Day if you're into
Speaker 1: that kind of thing and all that stuff. But why
Speaker 1: not celebrate whatever you got? Here we go, let's Ohio
Speaker 1: get a starter here, Ohio. It's all right, very good.
Speaker 1: First one is from Fergdog, who says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny G. I think I stupidly missed the window for
Speaker 1: last week's mailbag, so I'm sending the question in again.
Speaker 1: I loved all the classic clips and drops two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You did a great job, Danny G. You deserve a raise,
Speaker 1: just like Donald Trump said. Now, I've got a question
Speaker 1: about one of the clips, in particular, what the hell
Speaker 1: happened during the Brian Billick interview? Was Ben saying hello
Speaker 1: over and over again unedited audio. Brian Billick's the greatest
Speaker 1: get in the history of the Fifth Hour podcast. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to be very disappointed if I find out
Speaker 1: he cut Ben's time short. That is from ferg Dog
Speaker 1: in Fullerton.
Speaker 3: That was classic. Now, there are times where you'll be
Speaker 3: doing an interview and the guests will cut out and
Speaker 3: then there's a long pause in the recording because you
Speaker 3: have to work to get them back on the phone.
Speaker 3: How ironic was it that Brian did this to you?
Speaker 3: It's you going Hello, Hello, and then redial to see
Speaker 3: what happened to this guy? And then you hear Billick's voicemail.
Speaker 1: Come on, Brian, Billy, I'm not available, so you save
Speaker 1: the message.
Speaker 3: So it's just classic. Nobody ever heard it in its
Speaker 3: raw form, because obviously I fixed it so that his
Speaker 3: interview was all one piece and you didn't even know
Speaker 3: that that happened. But on that best of I thought
Speaker 3: it would be really funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah Billick, I think he called us from like northern Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the start of the interview. Is you
Speaker 3: guys talking about Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember, remember that. There have been
Speaker 1: some crazy things. The late great Jerry Tarkanian had Tarkanian
Speaker 1: on I was doing an interview with Tarkanian at Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: Rated was on the radio and Tarkanian was in the
Speaker 1: back of a van playing with his grandkids. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why he agreed to do the interview, Like,
Speaker 1: I get it, you're with your grandkids, but you agreed
Speaker 1: to do the interview. And he was totally totally distracted
Speaker 1: the whole time, like he was like happened. We interviewed
Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbarmi and Looney one time and Kareem was
Speaker 1: eating a sandwich the entire interview and he was chewing
Speaker 1: very loudly during the interview and it was very annoying.
Speaker 1: Jackie Slater, we had Jackie Slater on this podcast. I
Speaker 1: love Jackie. What in the world?
Speaker 3: And Jackie, do you think Kareem was scratching his cheek
Speaker 3: with his middle finger the whole time he was talking
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can just tell when guys are disengaged.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know when people are into it and
Speaker 1: who are not into it, and sometimes they're acting.
Speaker 3: Why did kareem need to be on the phone with
Speaker 3: you if he didn't want.
Speaker 1: To be there, Well, he was doing a tour promoting
Speaker 1: a documentary, so he had agreed to do you know
Speaker 1: those those car washed things where you go around and
Speaker 1: do a bunch of interviews. So we were probably number
Speaker 1: six or seven and he had like seven more to go,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't into it, and he's just kind of
Speaker 1: half asked it. Then you get the other people that
Speaker 1: are like robotic, unus you were white. He didn't like
Speaker 1: that hello allegedly, yeah, exactly. The other thing we had
Speaker 1: I forget was it Tim Donnie. I think it might
Speaker 1: have been Tim Donnie. We had on and he was
Speaker 1: very very robotic, like he had all his answers and
Speaker 1: he was just like reading off a teleprompter, which was
Speaker 1: very very I you know, one's got their own their
Speaker 1: own deal. And that's why ferk Dog, you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to see how we make the hot dogs. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to see how we make the hot dogs. Next
Speaker 1: up is Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. He says,
Speaker 1: writes us. Every week, he says Big Man and Daddy
Speaker 1: G Radio. There are rumors and speculations surrounding the possibility
Speaker 1: of a new Voltron project, especially with the continued success
Speaker 1: of reboots and adaptations of classic animated series. Question, how
Speaker 1: likely is it that the two of you could be
Speaker 1: cast and a live action adaptation of that project? So
Speaker 1: he would like us the new Voltron, Danny, would you be?
Speaker 1: I'd be willing if the price is right to be
Speaker 1: part of that, right, if the check is big enough?
Speaker 3: What kind of money you're talking?
Speaker 1: Well, Kwang's already put our photos into AI, it appears,
Speaker 1: and he has already put our bodies or our faces
Speaker 1: on the bodies of the characters in the in the film,
Speaker 1: So he's already done the legwork. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can send this to you now.
Speaker 3: Let me see if I can.
Speaker 1: Well say, I click this, you listen to our live coverage.
Speaker 1: It is the fifth our. It won't even open. It's
Speaker 1: loading right now. I got to click on this.
Speaker 3: Just give your phone a virus.
Speaker 1: I probably did um just finking copy this. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is some Let me click over here. Bear with me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is how you watch big boxing matches. Yes,
Speaker 1: pretty much. I have to click the ads. Get get
Speaker 1: her of the ads, all right? So I sent you.
Speaker 1: You should have that on your phone. Here, Danny and
Speaker 1: I look like a stormtrooper and you are the lion.
Speaker 1: So you're a lion, and you've got your glasses on,
Speaker 1: you got the hat.
Speaker 3: This is well done, but it also looks like somebody
Speaker 3: who has way too much free time on their hands.
Speaker 1: Are you saying there's not much going on in Quang's world?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3: You are you claiming said?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm honored that he loves us so
Speaker 1: much he wants us to be part of the live
Speaker 1: action adaptation. And as we always say, Danny, we are
Speaker 1: our ears are open. If somebody wants to throw it,
Speaker 1: throw an offer our way, we are We're willing to listen.
Speaker 1: We are more than willing to listen to any any offers.
Speaker 1: Shane from Leesburg, Alabama, Amma, rites into the fifth hour
Speaker 1: podcast Sane, thank You. He says, have either one of
Speaker 1: you ever actually paid for something with a two dollar bill?
Speaker 1: And then he says backstory and a true story. He says,
Speaker 1: I heard your podcast years ago when you said your
Speaker 1: dad had an infatuation with the two dollar bill. My
Speaker 1: dad had the same thing. Look at that we have
Speaker 1: somebody in common, Shane, and he was always passing out
Speaker 1: two dollar bills until he passed away in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: He always said, keep one in your wallet just in
Speaker 1: case you need it. Well, in nineteen eighty six, I
Speaker 1: just turned sixteen and I stopped to get gas when
Speaker 1: you could actually pump your gas before you went to
Speaker 1: the store to pay for it. And I started pumping gas,
Speaker 1: Shane says, when I realized the only money I had
Speaker 1: was a single two dollar bill, hid it in my wallet.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what I pumped, and I went inside paid.
Speaker 3: For You was gas like thirty cents a gallon back then, well, he.
Speaker 1: Says, here gas was around seventy nine cents a gallon
Speaker 1: in eighty six, can you imagine? And then so I
Speaker 1: had more than enough to get me where I needed
Speaker 1: to go. And he says, Happy Father's Day. All the
Speaker 1: days I have not, I've not paid for anything with
Speaker 1: a two dollar bill my dad did. He would have
Speaker 1: the biggest smile telling the story, Oh yeah, I gave
Speaker 1: this to this young lady and I gave her the
Speaker 1: two dollar bill. She thought it was fake. You know,
Speaker 1: you get the whole story. My dad wud be oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: she thought it was counterfeit. There's no such thing as
Speaker 1: a two dollar bill. And then I had to expinb
Speaker 1: my dad would like pump his chest out. I had
Speaker 1: to explain to that young lady there were two dollar bills.
Speaker 1: It was the funniest thing. And then when my dad passed,
Speaker 1: I think you're referring to the story Shane, that he
Speaker 1: we had a stack of like two dollar bills and
Speaker 1: there that was your inheritance pretty much, pretty much. And pennies.
Speaker 1: My dad collected pennies, which I wish he had collected quarters,
Speaker 1: not pennies. Quarters would have been much better than pennies.
Speaker 1: But dad, which is ironic because I did the TV
Speaker 1: show Benny Versus the Penny, and then my dad collected pennies.
Speaker 1: And the problem with pennies is you have these giant
Speaker 1: gallon containers of pennies and it gets you like, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks or something. You know, somebody take you some
Speaker 1: small amount of money. But that's a great story, Shane,
Speaker 1: about your dad and the two dollars bill and you
Speaker 1: and the gas station. Very cool alf from a peaceful protest, right,
Speaker 1: So he says, gentlemen, do me a favor and please
Speaker 1: put on your tinfoil hats for my question. Do you
Speaker 1: think that the weed Man West contingent figured out that
Speaker 1: Ice is conspiring with the Olympic Committee to clean up
Speaker 1: LA for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games and decided
Speaker 1: to protest peacefully? So that's that's alf. Do you have
Speaker 1: your tinfoil hat on there, Danny? That the operations here
Speaker 1: to clean up well LA will be very clean by
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, right summer games. It'll be sparkling and
Speaker 1: everything would be wonderful, and it's gonna take them about
Speaker 1: two and a half years to clean up all the
Speaker 1: the mess that has happened here recently, so they've they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to start working on that right away, Danny,
Speaker 1: clean up LA, all the graffiti and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Did you see the video somebody sent me a video. God,
Speaker 1: so funny one of these these dopes that was tagging,
Speaker 1: you know, going around these kids, they're all teenagers going
Speaker 1: around tagging buildings, and one kid was trying to write,
Speaker 1: you know, f Ice, spell it out. He misspelled the
Speaker 1: F word. He didn't know how to spell the F word,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, he spelled it f U E and
Speaker 1: then and then realized. And then there was some girl,
Speaker 1: this other young girl, I don't know, she's probably around
Speaker 1: his age, and she was laughing at him. So the
Speaker 1: guy was probably this guy's probably like tagging buildings thing.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get chicks, right, you know, women into it?
Speaker 1: Your bad boy and all that. And the guy didn't
Speaker 1: even not spell the F word, Like, what are you doing, dude?
Speaker 1: I mean, now you dumb?
Speaker 3: You want better tinfoil hat content. I went down a
Speaker 3: rabbit hole last weekend. There's like this nostalgia page on Facebook.
Speaker 3: It's like a Facebook group, and somebody wrote what's a
Speaker 3: conspiracy that you actually believe? And I clicked on the
Speaker 3: comments and it was gold hundreds of alex tysherts talking
Speaker 3: to each other.
Speaker 1: Were they at work or at home? They must have
Speaker 1: been at home.
Speaker 3: This one says that they believe not teaching handwriting cursive
Speaker 3: in school is intentional so that we all will have
Speaker 3: an entire population that cannot read the US Constitution or
Speaker 3: the Declaration of Independence. No generations after the early millennials
Speaker 3: have been taught. If you're unable to read your rights,
Speaker 3: you're able to be manipulated in control. Do do do
Speaker 3: do do do do? That's yeah, yeah, that's why Cursive's
Speaker 3: not being taught anymore.
Speaker 1: That explains it right there.
Speaker 3: According to Amy Surr on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Well my conspiracy and I will I will die on
Speaker 1: this mountain is that the night the lights went out
Speaker 1: at Camden Yards in Baltimore, when cal Ripken was supposed
Speaker 1: to play in a game against the Seattle Mariners, they
Speaker 1: turned the lights out because cal Ripken got into a
Speaker 1: situation with Kevin Costner. I believe that to be true.
Speaker 3: I've heard that story.
Speaker 1: I don't care what Sports with Coleman says in Baltimore
Speaker 1: or not. In fact, Kevin Costner called in to Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. There was a guy shownamed Kylie and Booms
Speaker 1: that talked about that, and Costner called in to say
Speaker 1: it wasn't true, which tells me it means it probably
Speaker 1: is true exactly. And the reason I really believe that
Speaker 1: to be true is I was on the Dodger beat
Speaker 1: at that that night, and a buddy of mine who
Speaker 1: may or may not been connected to the Orioles, came
Speaker 1: up to me and said, hey, you're not going to
Speaker 1: believe this. They canceled the Orioles game. And here's why
Speaker 1: Now he didn't get in all the details. He just
Speaker 1: said that Ripkin there was something. There was a domestic
Speaker 1: situation at Ripkin's house. I didn't find out about the
Speaker 1: Coster thing until later, so that part I didn't know about.
Speaker 1: But they said there was a domestic thing, and he
Speaker 1: was he was so upset. Costner he didn't want to
Speaker 1: play in the game that night or and he said
Speaker 1: he couldn't do it. And so they said, we need
Speaker 1: you know, We're going to cancel the game, give you
Speaker 1: a day to kind of clear your mind and then
Speaker 1: come back and play. And uh, where there's smoke, there's fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that one.
Speaker 3: By the way, really quick. Dan Delano on Facebook, this
Speaker 3: sounds like something you would have wrote in this group.
Speaker 3: He says, there's a secret society underneath the Denver International Airport.
Speaker 1: That's good. Now, some of our listeners live in Denver
Speaker 1: and some of them work at the airport there. We
Speaker 1: should have to ask them.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: My theory, Danny member, My theory is there are sub
Speaker 1: under the ocean. Under the sea, there are different species,
Speaker 1: different creatures that live under the ocean, and they come
Speaker 1: out and they study us. You know how we study
Speaker 1: animals in the wild. Were there animals and they study
Speaker 1: us and they're like, look at these weird creatures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my tinfoil hat thing. Tony in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: right said, Tony's one of my favorite callers. I just
Speaker 1: love this guy. He's such a such a character. Tony says.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to plug nothing except Alexa at Riddell.
Speaker 1: But I heard the Covino and Rich podcast and it
Speaker 1: sounds good and cool that Danny g gets on the mic.
Speaker 1: How long have you been on there, Danny says Tony.
Speaker 1: I guess Tony doesn't listen to this pocket. You've been
Speaker 1: on there for forever, right, Dannyman that show since it started, right,
Speaker 1: You've been with those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I've been doing the shows with the guys
Speaker 3: for four years now, one year on Sunday nights and
Speaker 3: three years now on PM Drive.
Speaker 1: Has it been three years since they went to the weekday.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they're about to celebrate their third birthday in
Speaker 3: that time slot.
Speaker 1: I liked that Covino Rich celebrate anniversaries. I don't celebrate anniversaries.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't pay attention to it. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've been at Fox Sports Radio with the
Speaker 1: exception of six months and twenty six days. I'm coming
Speaker 1: up on like twenty five years. I don't pay any
Speaker 1: attention to that though, like I've missed. I could have
Speaker 1: done like a tenth anniversary, a fifteenth anniversary, twenty I don't.
Speaker 3: I know, that's probably why you're a grown up at three.
Speaker 3: You're still an infant, right, But he did just that joke,
Speaker 3: where after your twenty first birthday, why even you know,
Speaker 3: why even pay attention to the ones that come after that?
Speaker 1: Well, somebody had mentioned and I didn't use this in
Speaker 1: the mailbag, but somebody said, hey, you know, Covino rich
Speaker 1: are having this thing. Why didn't you do something? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, you know. The guy was like, I
Speaker 1: heard Covin or Richard doing something for their anniversary, like
Speaker 1: twenty years or whatever they've been together on the radio,
Speaker 1: and so the guys, I, why didn't you do that?
Speaker 1: I was like, that's actually a good point. I probably
Speaker 1: should have done something, but I you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: think of it, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you turn twenty obviously, you know a lot
Speaker 3: of the years they were together was on Sirius XM.
Speaker 3: But as far as their time on FSR, their babies,
Speaker 3: their infants, and you're like a grandpappy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a seasoned veteran. I stopped aging about year ten,
Speaker 1: So that's.
Speaker 3: Also you started on the network when you were like
Speaker 3: seventeen and a half.
Speaker 1: That is true. There was no one listening and it
Speaker 1: was great and it was cowboy jobs.
Speaker 3: Voice hadn't changed yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. There, Royals having
Speaker 1: their problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick. The Royals
Speaker 1: are having their problems. Yeah, we haven't heard that in
Speaker 1: a while. Loraina doesn't know any of those.
Speaker 3: He has no idea what that is.
Speaker 1: Completely clueless about a lot. Kevin and Kansas right, since
Speaker 1: says near Ben and Danny g So. I attended two
Speaker 1: concerts in Denver this past week. Kevin says, I made
Speaker 1: it a goal to try the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich
Speaker 1: at the Sportsbook Bar and Grill. Oh yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was egg dip, that sucker and ranch. Watch your mouth.
Speaker 1: It was every bit as tasty as you've announced. A
Speaker 1: shout out to my server Anna. She even picked out
Speaker 1: the salad dressing of vinaigrette and ranch. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Uh, there you go.
Speaker 1: You have to ask for this item, but it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Danny g what food item would you like
Speaker 1: named after you?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 1: If they if the sportsbook Bar and Grill wants to
Speaker 1: add a Danny g themed dish there in the greater
Speaker 1: Denver area, what would you like to have named after you?
Speaker 3: Well, being part of the Gara Delli Empire, it would
Speaker 3: have to be a.
Speaker 1: Dessert, some kind of desert. You know, what's your foot?
Speaker 1: Definitely a dessert dish. Favorite dessert rembrew lay. I think
Speaker 1: I was like in my twenties the first time I
Speaker 1: tried it. I really love this rich people dessert. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever had krimble.
Speaker 3: What isn't had crim brewlay. They torch and they crystallize
Speaker 3: the top and it's like it's like a really fancy cuss.
Speaker 3: What can I compare it to? Have you ever had flawn?
Speaker 1: Yes? I have had flun like the Mexican's like a.
Speaker 3: Very fancy flawn with like a caramelized top to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I've ever had that? What you
Speaker 1: high falutin, Danny g.
Speaker 3: Man, I would do a flawn. I'd do Danny G's flawn.
Speaker 1: Now it's got to be rhythmic though. That doesn't that
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You gotta do something data.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, but we'd have to figure out a way
Speaker 3: to pimp down at the title.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll work on it. But thank you, Kevin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really need to promote the the bed Mallard chicken
Speaker 1: sandwich at the Sportsbook Bar and grill more because we
Speaker 1: promote the hell out of the chicken fingers at the
Speaker 1: Landing in Kansas City. And I've been very lucky. I
Speaker 1: don't win any rewards. You know, nobody the company knows
Speaker 1: who the hell I am. And the one thing I
Speaker 1: have been rewarded with is food items named after me,
Speaker 1: like in Kansas City and in Denver and in Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Kansas at the bird Really cool. And then there's still space.
Speaker 1: By the way, Danny, I'd love a Mallard pizza. We
Speaker 1: had that briefly in Vancouver. We had that in Michigan
Speaker 1: in the town the town Floyd Mayweather's from I forget,
Speaker 1: but it was Grand Rapids. I think Grand Rapids. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we had we had the pizza named after me, A
Speaker 1: Mallardy surprisingly on top of it fake news and Mallard Burger.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested, if you're I really want to
Speaker 1: support mom and pop businesses. I'm kind of proud of
Speaker 1: it because the Landing's owned by a couple of buddies
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and you know, the sportsbook bar in
Speaker 1: Grill is a family run operation in Denver, and so
Speaker 1: I really want to support a good local restaurant. If
Speaker 1: you're interested in that, I don't. I can't guarantee I'll
Speaker 1: get many people to come in, but I will do
Speaker 1: my best. You know, I'm not getting paid for this
Speaker 1: to promote, but you know, I'll just store that out
Speaker 1: there if you're interested, and you can reach out to me.
Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Put food in the headline there,
Speaker 1: so I know I know you're into it. And the
Speaker 1: rule is Danny, as I've said, the name has to
Speaker 1: be on the menu. You can't just say hey, if
Speaker 1: somebody asks for it, because then it's to me, it's
Speaker 1: not real, you know what I mean. Danny's got to
Speaker 1: be on the he's gotta be legit. And then if
Speaker 1: once it's on the menu, then we can you know,
Speaker 1: promote it and get moving. Man Matt and Alf and
Speaker 1: fird Dog and the gang to go and Blind Scott
Speaker 1: and all them to go. Next up is Paul from Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Paul says, last Weekend on the Fifth Hour, I don't
Speaker 1: think Paul's reached out, he says, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: from Paul before. He's a newbie. He says, last Weekend
Speaker 1: on the fifth Hour, you talked about the VCR for
Speaker 1: a bit. Now, that brought to mind a quick story.
Speaker 1: In the late nineteen eighties, my wife and I took
Speaker 1: a trip to from Cleveland down to Tennessee for a short,
Speaker 1: short vacation. And Paul says, first we went to Nashville
Speaker 1: and while there we visited the Hermitage. Is that how
Speaker 1: you say it? I think I'm saying that right. It
Speaker 1: was the seventh President, Andrew Jackson's estate. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: was his estate. He was born in seventeen sixty seven.
Speaker 1: While we walked around, we kept saying, man, this stuff
Speaker 1: is old. How can you survive like this? It was
Speaker 1: an eye opening experience. We left Nashville, Paul says, went
Speaker 1: to Memphis to visit Graceland, and he says, now, mind you,
Speaker 1: we are a couple of snot know's twenty somethings walking
Speaker 1: around the untouched original Elvis mansion. We arrived in his
Speaker 1: entertainment room and we see his TV and his VCR.
Speaker 1: Our first reaction is what the and he Paul goes on.
Speaker 1: He says, our stereo and VCR are are better than
Speaker 1: this his crap, And you know he's ranting about that
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. He says, we thought old Hickory
Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson stuff was more modern than the King Elvis.
Speaker 1: But then while driving home, we realized that VCR Elvis,
Speaker 1: the VCR Elvis had back in the nineteen sixties, no
Speaker 1: one had that his stereo TV. The he goes through
Speaker 1: all this stuff here, all years ahead of the time.
Speaker 1: That guy truly had the coolest stuff and lived better
Speaker 1: than old Andrew Jackson. I guess it's all about perspective. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my question, Paul says, get to the point.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: He says, I just finished buying tickets to the Wednesday
Speaker 1: afternoon Guardians game, and I filled out an all Star
Speaker 1: ballot times five, the daily allowance for voting, which triggered
Speaker 1: the memory of going to the Indians games. I can
Speaker 1: call the team the Indians, right, Yes, you can. Going
Speaker 1: to the Indians games with my dad and brothers in
Speaker 1: getting snacks, stacks of paper ballots and punching like crazy
Speaker 1: for the horrible players the Indians had back then.
Speaker 3: I just I remember the paper ballots when we were kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just checked and it's ten years since
Speaker 1: the last paper ballot. The question is, did you guys
Speaker 1: used to vote like a madman when you were young
Speaker 1: and went to a game. Do you have any cool
Speaker 1: memories of punching those old ballots? Now that I'm going
Speaker 1: to the game this week, I guess I kind of
Speaker 1: miss it. Nostalgia, Augia of it. There you go. He's
Speaker 1: a fan of the show.
Speaker 3: I was like in first grade in one of my
Speaker 3: first Dodger Stadium memories, Pedro Guerrero, Patro Guerrero, Pedro Guerrero,
Speaker 3: over and over.
Speaker 1: And Paul's hoping to see us at the Malor meet
Speaker 1: Great in Ohio. We're still waiting, Paul. I'm waiting to
Speaker 1: hear back from NBC. I cannot make any travel plans
Speaker 1: until I know what's going to happen with the TV show.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll bring the show back and then I can
Speaker 1: kind of plan my my trip and hopefully visit Ohio.
Speaker 1: But I'm at the mercy of them and they're they're
Speaker 1: taking their time. So but no, Dan I have. I
Speaker 1: had a buddy of mine I used to go. I
Speaker 1: lived near the Big A and Anaheim when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, so I'd go to those games a lot
Speaker 1: more than Dodgery games, and we would hang out get autographs.
Speaker 1: We we were like a gang, an autograph gang, and
Speaker 1: we'd sneak into the Big A. We knew how to
Speaker 1: sneak into the stadium sometimes and uh in these days
Speaker 1: before security cameras and all that. But one of my
Speaker 1: buddies was such a degenerate. With the All Star ballots,
Speaker 1: he got a piece of wood, just like regular piece
Speaker 1: of wood, and he had hammered nails. You know those
Speaker 1: long nails. I think the wood the wood nails.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: He had hammered them in to line up with the
Speaker 1: All Star ballot.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So he'd take a stack, Paul, you'll appreciate this too.
Speaker 1: He'd take us stag of ballots. He'd open them up
Speaker 1: and put them over the nails for the players that
Speaker 1: he wanted they weren't all angel players, by the way.
Speaker 1: He liked other players, but he put the ballot over
Speaker 1: a stack of them. So he was doing twenty five
Speaker 1: ballots at a time, and it was we were.
Speaker 3: You bet we couldn't do that with arbitron ratings diaries.
Speaker 1: I know, right, yeah, yeah, but I still remember that guy.
Speaker 1: I don't happened to him. I haven't seen him, probably
Speaker 1: in thirty five, forty years or whatever, maybe longer than that.
Speaker 1: But this dude was the master.
Speaker 3: And oh, I'm sure he's in prison right now, probably
Speaker 3: probably if he was masterminding things like that at that age,
Speaker 3: can you imagine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so creative, Like I couldn't. We were
Speaker 1: all like, wow, dude, because we were up there, we
Speaker 1: were doing the and we had to remember the chad,
Speaker 1: the hanging chads, which were famous during the presidential election
Speaker 1: between was that Bush and uh yeah, yeah, well whoever?
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was my all star story. But that's great,
Speaker 1: Paul appreciate that. Barry in South Carolina, right said, well,
Speaker 1: do a couple more quickly, says heard the podcast of
Speaker 1: The Normal Show honored I got a shout out, Barry.
Speaker 1: That was not a shout out That was a mention,
Speaker 1: not a shout out. It was a mention. What else
Speaker 1: do we have here? Reggie from Detroit says, Ben, what
Speaker 1: do you upset with? Reggie? This is Ben and Danny g.
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on the story that
Speaker 1: was reporter this week that said that Area fifty one
Speaker 1: the US government was sending out fake stories about UFOs
Speaker 1: because they were trying to hide classified weapon programs that
Speaker 1: they were testing in the Nevada Desert. That's from Reggie.
Speaker 3: He wants to know.
Speaker 1: He says the Pentagon was behind that. Here's why I
Speaker 1: think there's a combination of things. I'm sure the government
Speaker 1: has like ridiculous stuff. I tend to think a lot
Speaker 1: of it came from alien technology. That's my tinfoil hat thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so do you think Elvis had early alien technology?
Speaker 1: Well, clearly, come on, man, he sang a song about
Speaker 1: Vegas right back in the day.
Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, and he had a VCR in
Speaker 3: the sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, George Washington actually had Wi Fi? Did you
Speaker 1: know that? In Wi Fi?
Speaker 3: How about have you seen that picture of somebody at
Speaker 3: a boxing match? This is way back in the day,
Speaker 3: but it looks like they're holding an iPhone. Oh I have.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a boxing match, but
Speaker 1: I have seen photos they claim people are holding iPhones.
Speaker 3: Its time travel is real?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3: That's proof?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, if you saw a photo on the internet,
Speaker 1: it's obviously obviously proof. Oh here, this is a good
Speaker 1: one from Is it Carl? I think it's Carl from
Speaker 1: Orange from the O season Tustin. He says science Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g has proven that Americans have the filthiest
Speaker 1: mouse online, and he sent me this story from some science.
Speaker 1: A science website says Americans used Vulgo language online more
Speaker 1: than any other English speaking country, at a rate that
Speaker 1: is roughly one in every two eight hundred words. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised it's not fewer one in every two hundred words.
Speaker 1: Says Countries where English is the native language show much
Speaker 1: more creativity and variety in their profanity compared to places
Speaker 1: where English is a second language. And then they list
Speaker 1: Danny regional preferences for bad words. In Ireland they favor
Speaker 1: the word feck is the word they like.
Speaker 3: This is one of your superpowers, because when I was
Speaker 3: on the Overnight Show with you during break well, the
Speaker 3: show never breaks, but during commercials, yeah, you would be
Speaker 3: cursing like a sailor. Then it was time to get
Speaker 3: back on the air, and it was like like a
Speaker 3: light switch. You don't curse at all on the air obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well you can't curse on the air, but
Speaker 1: you can't do it twice. Yeah, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, like once and then that's it.
Speaker 3: But the dump button allows for like four curses in
Speaker 3: a row.
Speaker 1: Is that right the thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should try it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good idea. The favorite bad word in Britain Danny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: starts with a C and ends with a T. You
Speaker 1: want to take a guest, boy, Yeah, oh boy, that's
Speaker 1: a big one. Can see you next Tuesday. And Americans,
Speaker 1: Americans favorite curse word is asshole. So there you go,
Speaker 1: and they avoid British terms like bloody, So there you go.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Carl really quick on the asshole thing. When
Speaker 3: when you're like at a drive through, or maybe you
Speaker 3: walk up to the counter at raising canes, if the
Speaker 3: guy waiting on you at the cash register calls you
Speaker 3: boss a whole bunch of times, is that code for asshole? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a sure thing. You got it, boss, mocking you.
Speaker 3: It's mocking you. It's but literally right right. We talked
Speaker 3: about that on cn in R last week because some
Speaker 3: guy called Covino boss and big dog is not like
Speaker 3: a term of endearment, I agree with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's unless or chief, you got it, chief, not
Speaker 1: your chief? Yeah, I agree. I think that's like mocking you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It's like at Disneyland when you know someone
Speaker 1: someone vomits at at Disneyland, you know, they have like
Speaker 1: the code there. They don't. They don't say, I say
Speaker 1: vomit comment. That's what I do when somebody, when somebody
Speaker 1: throws up, I say, you know, the vomit comment. At Disneyland,
Speaker 1: they call it a protein spill. And somebody had a
Speaker 1: protein spill and that's that's how they've never heard that before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the code when they get on the walkie talkie,
Speaker 1: you know the people that walk around with the brooms,
Speaker 1: and they got a protein spill over here and then
Speaker 1: Tomorrowland protein spill.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm going to use that whenever we have a
Speaker 3: bad segment on the air or on the podcast and
Speaker 3: you're like, damn, that was a protein spill.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should why not?
Speaker 3: Man? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get people, Danny at this point. I use
Speaker 1: the vomit comment so much. If I don't mention it
Speaker 1: in a monologue, people get upset. They're like, dude, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to say the vomit comet, Like why didn't you
Speaker 1: say that?
Speaker 3: Just one of your staples.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, And I'm like, I don't have to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can I mix it up. I try
Speaker 1: to mix it up myself. Sometimes I'll say like the
Speaker 1: Duke of Puke or something like that, and then they
Speaker 1: but they want the vomit comment. They love it, you know.
Speaker 1: That's what's all about. Hey, we'll get out of that
Speaker 1: Danny fagus so much. I know. There's the schedules tight,
Speaker 1: you know, today and all that stuff, and you got
Speaker 1: to get back tomorrow with Covino and Rich and uh, yes,
Speaker 1: you'll be hanging out with them. I'll be back on
Speaker 1: the radio tonight. I will be away from my post
Speaker 1: a couple of days this week. I have some family
Speaker 1: stuff I have to take care of. How dare you?
Speaker 1: But I'll be in tonight. I'll be in tonight and
Speaker 1: then I'll be away for a couple of days and
Speaker 1: i'll be back. But I'll let you boys know on
Speaker 1: the podcast. So I'm in the night and then a
Speaker 1: couple of nights away and then I'll be back. And
Speaker 1: it's nothing bad, nothing, It's actually a good thing. And
Speaker 1: I'll probably let you know more about it next weekend,
Speaker 1: but I just want to give you the heads up
Speaker 1: on that. So I'll be in tonight and then away
Speaker 1: a couple of days and then back to end the
Speaker 1: week the right way.
Speaker 3: So and for those of you who still have your
Speaker 3: dads around, make sure you call them today. Yeah, give
Speaker 3: them a better gift than ties or whatever stupid crap
Speaker 3: usually comes the way of this holiday, if you can
Speaker 3: even call it a holiday, right, because it's very secondary
Speaker 3: compared to Mother's Day, But for those of us that
Speaker 3: have had kids too, like this is going to be
Speaker 3: only my second Father's Day now that Cole is about
Speaker 3: to turn two, this actually is a day I pay
Speaker 3: attention to now. So just want to shout out everybody
Speaker 3: that has kids and you know it is going to
Speaker 3: celebrate today. Have a really good Father's Day, even though
Speaker 3: most of the country he ignores us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And as I've heard on the on the show,
Speaker 1: Danny from the doing the overnight thing here, like a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys just want to just gime a call. Well,
Speaker 1: they just want to hear from their kids, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's nice too. But Covino's dad, he always
Speaker 3: used to tell him, it's a it's Father's Day. Don't
Speaker 3: bust my chops today. Leave me alone. Just leave me alone,
Speaker 3: that's all I ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad would always enjoy the free meal.
Speaker 1: He loved that. He knew he was getting a good meal.
Speaker 3: You know, I'd come down nice, yeah, even though he
Speaker 3: had to wait for a half hour hour just to
Speaker 3: be seated. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well sometimes I take him out before, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of days before or whatever. But his Father's
Speaker 1: Day weekend, you know.
Speaker 3: That same move you do for Valentine.
Speaker 1: Damn right, all right, have a great day. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening. You've been great. The numbers are wonderful.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend, I just love all you. And well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tonight on the radio, and Dany'll
Speaker 1: be with Covino Rich. We'll talk to you then later.
Speaker 3: Skater Folation