Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Sunday to you.
Speaker 1: It is the eleventh day of May.
Speaker 3: We are recording this podcast live on tape, Live on tape.
Speaker 4: I told you Madison Square Garden was going to be
Speaker 4: rocking yesterday. The Knicks probably wanted a better outcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well you spend that kind of money,
Speaker 3: I guess you got. You know, I go out and
Speaker 3: have a good.
Speaker 1: Time, loser. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing about the New York Nick fan, Danny.
Speaker 3: People talk about the cowboy fan, and they talk about
Speaker 3: how the cowboy fan has an elitism and all that
Speaker 3: the New York Nick fan to be in Midtown Manhattan,
Speaker 3: the Mecca, and that Nick franchise now.
Speaker 1: Maybe this will be the year.
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll end up figuring things out against the Celtics
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 1: That's a maybe I've been I'm getting old, Danny.
Speaker 3: The Knicks have not won a championship while I've been alive, Okay,
Speaker 3: and I've been around for a while, they have been.
Speaker 4: Now you're to the age where you're limping around like
Speaker 4: Willis Reid.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm having my Willis Reid moll But but
Speaker 3: but it's it's wild the new and not listen, we
Speaker 3: have I have family from New York. I'm one of
Speaker 3: my cousins we had on here is a Knicks fan
Speaker 3: a few weeks back. And I have other cousins that
Speaker 3: are Knicks fans and whatnot. But the arrogance of the
Speaker 3: Knick fan is wild, considering all the resources they have
Speaker 3: in New York, and they are just so blah so often,
Speaker 3: and but hey.
Speaker 1: You know, here we are. They're they're feeling good about
Speaker 1: themselves and they're celebrating having a great time. And we'll
Speaker 1: see if they actually end up beating the Celtics here
Speaker 1: early they end up screwing this thing up.
Speaker 4: I mean, this feels like probably their best chance since
Speaker 4: Carmelo Anthony, who that was sarcasm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember when they got mellow.
Speaker 3: I was on the air when the trade happened, when
Speaker 3: the Nicks got mellow from the Nuggets, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people forget they actually had a ticker tape parade
Speaker 3: through the Hero of Canyons before he had even played
Speaker 3: a game.
Speaker 1: He got he was.
Speaker 3: It was like he was in the popemobile going down
Speaker 3: there midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh and just having a great time.
Speaker 3: So we have the mail bag, Ohio, Al, we'll get
Speaker 3: it started properly.
Speaker 1: So Ohioow, you know what to do.
Speaker 5: It's all right, all right, let's get into it here.
Speaker 3: These are actual questions by actual listeners. If you'd like
Speaker 3: to send a message to the mail bag for next week,
Speaker 3: send it care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3: The first letter of the weekend comes from Dave in
Speaker 3: New Hampshire. Dave does not say where he is from
Speaker 3: in New Hampshire, but one of my favorite cities to
Speaker 3: visit is in New Hampshire. Portsmith, New Hampshire, which is
Speaker 3: a small pretty much just a tourist town between Maine
Speaker 3: and Boston. And it is awesome because I've only been
Speaker 3: there when the weather's good. I'm sure it probably sucks
Speaker 3: most of the year when the weather's bad, but it
Speaker 3: is amazing in the summertime. One of the great places
Speaker 3: I've been to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. So, Dave, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're from there. Obviously not. You didn't say
Speaker 3: you just said from New Hampshire. There's only a couple
Speaker 3: of cities in New Hampshire, so maybe you are. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Dave says, this is the pod on I semi regular basis.
Speaker 3: He said, Ben, I heard you talk about this in
Speaker 3: a show a while back. Did you know this was coming?
Speaker 3: How do you feel about it? He then sent a
Speaker 3: link Danny to a story from and we see. NBC
Speaker 3: Sports announced with the return of the NBA, they will
Speaker 3: be having Jim Fagan beat the voiceover guy.
Speaker 4: I saw this.
Speaker 3: He died in twenty seventeen, AI generated voice announcer. They
Speaker 3: say it's because of nostalgia. So he died at age
Speaker 3: seventy two and twenty seventeen, which means he would have
Speaker 3: been what like eighty I guess this year. And he's
Speaker 3: going to be part of the coach he was the
Speaker 3: guy that did the voiceover stuff back in the in
Speaker 3: the nineties for NBC.
Speaker 1: Dave.
Speaker 3: I did not know about this. I nobody told me
Speaker 3: about this particular story. I think I can say what
Speaker 3: I mean. I know I have the TV show We
Speaker 3: Hope Comes Back, which is on NBC Sports, But.
Speaker 4: I don't wait say it right Ben your keV, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Don't like it.
Speaker 4: How about that your TV shows on wa an NBC yes, WC.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I listen, this guy had a
Speaker 1: great run.
Speaker 3: And I know they're claiming nostalgia and all that, and
Speaker 3: it's fun and cool.
Speaker 4: Now does his family get paid?
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I mean, this guy did that.
Speaker 3: He did it from ninety nineteen ninety to twenty oh
Speaker 3: two for twelve years. He was the voice of the
Speaker 3: NBA for the Jordan years and.
Speaker 1: All that. I mean.
Speaker 3: I know they're bringing back round Ball Rock from John Tesh,
Speaker 3: so that that'll be back, but John Tesh is still
Speaker 3: still alive, so the way the story goes here Jim.
Speaker 1: Jim's daughters provided a statement.
Speaker 3: They said, we're deeply grateful that NBC Sports had the
Speaker 3: vision to honor our father's legacy and such a meetingful.
Speaker 3: It took great pride in his work, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't see where he where the family's getting any
Speaker 3: money out of it. But but here's my but, whether
Speaker 3: you're getting paid or not, Danny, I think the whole
Speaker 3: point is we all have our time. Somebody else should
Speaker 3: become the next Jim, you know, Jim Fagan.
Speaker 1: Somebody else should have the opportunity to have that job.
Speaker 4: And so that's their voice blocking, their voice blocking the
Speaker 4: next voiceover generation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's the next wave. You know.
Speaker 3: We all have our time, and you know, hopefully it
Speaker 3: goes on for a long time, but at some point
Speaker 3: we need to have a different distinguished voiceover.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Malord militia is gonna agree with you, though,
Speaker 4: if Heaven forbid anything happened to you down the road,
Speaker 4: I think the militia is gonna scream and and call
Speaker 4: our bosses. Scott Chaparro will probably still be running things,
Speaker 4: and he'll throw a big party when he replaces you.
Speaker 4: But then he'll then record scratch moment because he's gonna
Speaker 4: have to do Ben mallor Ai and he'll have to
Speaker 4: type it out in program it to where or maybe Coop,
Speaker 4: because Coop does a lot of your writing now, so.
Speaker 1: Yes, many of the monologues.
Speaker 4: Yes, so I'm sure Coop could just write out what
Speaker 4: he wants your voice to say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because I Coople. He'll write the monologues
Speaker 3: and I'll just have like dinner and watch movies and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I'll roll into the studio. Sometimes they even show
Speaker 3: up after the show starts and he'll just hand me
Speaker 3: the copy because he's been working all day on the
Speaker 3: show writing the monologues.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, that's great, Coop, thanks for putting
Speaker 1: the work in there.
Speaker 4: Through the heck is justin Cooper?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I.
Speaker 4: Want to mount it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I technically have been replaced by AI. I
Speaker 1: got let going nine.
Speaker 3: God that's a long time ago now, but got let
Speaker 3: go and was replaced by a can of.
Speaker 1: Soup, the Fox Sports soup replace me.
Speaker 4: So I'm on a steamer.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, yeah, I think there's websites you can get that.
Speaker 3: Smitty Smitty writes in from Hartford to we are dominating.
Speaker 3: The first two emails from New Hampshire and Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: We dominate the northeast anyway. Smitty from Hartford writes, is
Speaker 3: Ben Danny, I listen as much as I can.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: I heard lead a Lap producing your show this week.
Speaker 3: It sounded like you and him were having some issues
Speaker 3: with the call screening. Can you let us pe ones
Speaker 3: know what happened? Thank you, Smitty from Hartford. Well, no,
Speaker 3: there were no there were no issues. The only thing,
Speaker 3: which is a rather small thing, is the spelling is
Speaker 3: not the greatest, and so it becomes a bit of
Speaker 3: an issue. And we had some funny moments. We had
Speaker 3: some funny moments because I just read off the call
Speaker 3: screen who the next caller is, and sometimes we were
Speaker 3: completely off. Sometimes it wasn't even close. There was one
Speaker 3: caller who said on the call screen that said Pete
Speaker 3: oh on the call screen, so I was like, all right,
Speaker 3: let's go to Pete O. Pete, what's going on? You're
Speaker 3: on the Ben Mather Show. And the guy it was,
Speaker 3: his name was Tito, so you know, but hey, that's fine.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that was any It's not it's
Speaker 3: not anything to get all worked up all that.
Speaker 4: It's crazy though. I didn't realize that Lee to Lap
Speaker 4: graduated from saddleback.
Speaker 3: No, I actually think he went to cal State Northridge
Speaker 3: or something like that. I don't know which is which
Speaker 3: is lower than Saddleback. I think where did he Where
Speaker 3: did he go to school?
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I have no idea. I think
Speaker 1: he's a valley guy.
Speaker 3: Reggie from Detroit writes and says, Ben and Danny you
Speaker 3: mentioned Ben you had a visitor to the show who
Speaker 3: threatened you over a photo? Can you give us more
Speaker 3: information on that? Says Reggie love the show, thank you
Speaker 3: on the podcast. Boo, Yeah, there's really nothing to that.
Speaker 3: There was a visitor that we had add to the studio,
Speaker 3: was very cordial, very nice visit, and there was a
Speaker 3: photo taken. There's a saying that no good deed goes unpunished.
Speaker 3: So I attempted to spread some goodwill. I attempted to
Speaker 3: be Benny brightside Reggie and was sent several threatening messages
Speaker 3: demanding that the photo be deleted. There was threats of
Speaker 3: government intervention that were mentioned. It was really ridiculous, but
Speaker 3: it was just an overreaction and all of that has
Speaker 3: been worked out.
Speaker 1: That person is not invited back to the studio ever.
Speaker 4: Again, these are the actions you should have taken. Back
Speaker 4: in the day when Eddie Garcia took that really horrible
Speaker 4: photo of you upstairs where the bright light was shining
Speaker 4: on top of your dome.
Speaker 3: No one will ever compare Eddie Garcia to Ansel Adams ever,
Speaker 3: my God. But yeah, so that was it, Reggie mean,
Speaker 3: there was just a little incident and got really blown
Speaker 3: out of proportion. Is very just disappointing that that happened.
Speaker 3: I was very upset by that. But we move on,
Speaker 3: and I, you know, lesson learned, lesson learned, and that's that.
Speaker 3: Kevin and Kansas, right, since thisys dinner Ben and Danny
Speaker 3: g one of the one of radio's best segments is
Speaker 3: Math of the Third Degree, which Ben should win every
Speaker 3: time if I were judging, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Kevin.
Speaker 3: Does your prowess at responding under pressure come from your
Speaker 3: parents grilling you when you were younger?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: And as adults, have you had any head to resort
Speaker 3: to being the third degree interrogator very often?
Speaker 1: Any?
Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry I was going to say,
Speaker 4: I thought we already established Coop writes the questions and
Speaker 4: the answers.
Speaker 3: Yes, and everything is done by Coop, And I just
Speaker 3: smoke a lot of weed, eat a lot of food,
Speaker 3: and watch movies and then just show up when I want.
Speaker 3: That's usually the dynamic of the show. But he was
Speaker 3: asking you, Danny, Now, you're your child, your your son,
Speaker 3: very still a young man, you know, baby, so you
Speaker 3: don't really have to beat He doesn't look like a baby.
Speaker 3: He's the size of a man. But you know, it's
Speaker 3: like Roger Rabbit or whatever, the kid.
Speaker 1: Remember we get the cigar in his mouth, but there's
Speaker 1: an old movie anyway.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Yeah, Kevin's asking if you have to interrogate your
Speaker 3: kid there at all, but probably not yet. What's the
Speaker 3: worst thing Co is into at this point, probably, you know,
Speaker 3: taking extra cookies or something.
Speaker 4: He's a pretty well behaved kid. He he's at the
Speaker 4: age though, where when he can't grab something that catches
Speaker 4: his eye because he'll just see something random on a counter,
Speaker 4: Like yesterday, there were a pair of scissors on the
Speaker 4: counter and he looked at him and he said mine, mine, mine,
Speaker 4: reaching his arm out and I said no, no, no,
Speaker 4: those aren't yours. And he's like, yeah, dad, mine. I'm like, no, bro,
Speaker 4: you're not gonna hold scissors. They're not yours. So that's
Speaker 4: really it. At this age. He wants what he wants,
Speaker 4: and if I don't give it to him immediately, he's
Speaker 4: gonna let me hear about it. But I put my
Speaker 4: foot down because obviously I'm not gonna let this kid
Speaker 4: run around with scissors until he's at least three years.
Speaker 1: Old, maybe three and a half. You might even have
Speaker 1: to wait till three and a half on that for sure.
Speaker 3: As he is the incredible hulk, Boat rides in and says, Hey,
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny, what do you guys have planned for
Speaker 3: Mother's Day? Which is, by the way, today, Today's right,
Speaker 3: Today's Mother's Day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're reminding me and a lot of people right now,
Speaker 4: because it's not the first thing I thought of when
Speaker 4: I woke up either. But as as soon as Brenda
Speaker 4: wakes up, I'm gonna be like, oh, yeah, it's Mother's Day.
Speaker 4: I better go to the garage and get her gift out.
Speaker 1: Oh you have it hidden? Is it embargaining?
Speaker 4: I always hide my gifts downstairs in the garage, and
Speaker 4: I put like a blanket on top of the gifts,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, hey, nobody's gonna go through my garage stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a smart move, But you've just announced too.
Speaker 3: If she happens to stumble onto this, you've just announced
Speaker 3: where you're hiding place is so thus ruining the situation.
Speaker 3: But my gift to my wife is that I will be.
Speaker 3: I was going to a wedding life last night. That
Speaker 3: was its wedding weekend. So that's that's the gift. My
Speaker 3: presence at a family wedding for her.
Speaker 4: Family is the gift. How was the conga line? Did
Speaker 4: you take my advice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hit the.
Speaker 3: Open bar, That's what I as soon as the open
Speaker 3: bar ended the timer. Now you know my position on this, Danny.
Speaker 3: What do I always say at social events? I say
Speaker 3: social events are like Broadway shows or Vegas shows, ninety minutes,
Speaker 3: ninety minutes.
Speaker 4: That is the time.
Speaker 3: You go to a Vegas show, they're all ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: You go to a Broadway show ninety minutes, it's forty
Speaker 3: five minutes or so, maybe a fifteen minute intermission and
Speaker 3: then another forty five so it's the total time, say
Speaker 3: two hours, but the actual show is ninety minutes.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Ninety minutes of content. And I feel like these appearances.
Speaker 3: You go to a wedding, bar, mits, for birthday party,
Speaker 3: any kind of party ninety minutes.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: In say hello, don't even say goodbye, dode the Irish goodbye.
Speaker 1: Just where did Ben go? I don't know where did
Speaker 1: Danny g go? I don't know where Danny g is.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: Well, when we go over our lifelogs next Saturday, I'm
Speaker 4: sure you'll have a couple of stories to tell us.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, definitely, definitely will. What's next year?
Speaker 4: Yo yo ma?
Speaker 3: Ben is some Barry in South Carolina. Met Barry at
Speaker 3: the Charleston Meet and greet.
Speaker 4: Hey, yo Berry, living in the life.
Speaker 3: He says, hey, hey, yo yo ma, Benny. I love
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour with Mike North. That guy is just
Speaker 3: so upfront and uncensored.
Speaker 1: I loved it. Oh, there's no question.
Speaker 3: I used to listen to North and Furman during the
Speaker 3: early morning weekdays.
Speaker 1: One day I woke up.
Speaker 4: I used to produce that show, remember I do.
Speaker 3: One day I woke up early, turned on the radio
Speaker 3: in preparation for their show, and I heard this guy
Speaker 3: that was on the radio before their show, Ben Maller,
Speaker 3: and I said, this is a guy I need to
Speaker 3: listen to regularly. Been downloading your podcasts ever since. So
Speaker 3: this goes back seven or eight years from Barry, so
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Very much, Barry.
Speaker 3: It is an odd deal on the overnight show because
Speaker 3: that last hour, the five am hour, is early morning
Speaker 3: drive on the East Coast. There's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that get to jump on the traffic and they'll get
Speaker 3: up ridiculously early, get in the car about like five thirty,
Speaker 3: so they'll hear the end of the show and picked
Speaker 3: up a lot of listeners because of that. And we've
Speaker 3: also done very well in Boston recently because of blind Scott. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's just blind Scott, but we've
Speaker 3: become a talking point Danny on the Morning show in Boston,
Speaker 3: which is the number one morning show in all of
Speaker 3: Boston radio.
Speaker 4: Is it like a gag? It's like a Is it
Speaker 4: like a bit?
Speaker 3: Well, it started because blind Scott kept mentioning Fred Toucher,
Speaker 3: who's the host. It's Toucher and Hardy in the morning,
Speaker 3: and so Scott would mentioned Fred Toucher, and it got
Speaker 3: to the point where I ended up. I ended up
Speaker 3: being a guest on there in the Morning Show in Boston,
Speaker 3: and we've been picking up a pretty good numbers in Boston.
Speaker 3: We always have done pretty well there, but it's gotten
Speaker 3: even better now because people are like, hey, what's what
Speaker 3: is this show? Everyone's why are they talking about this
Speaker 3: stupid overnight show? And then some people have gone over
Speaker 3: to listen to it, so it's it's actually worked out
Speaker 3: pretty well. But thanks Berry for listening, and uh look
Speaker 3: at that. And Mike North. I love when when I
Speaker 3: brought up Jonas Knox with Mike North on the Pie,
Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, Jones does a good show. We
Speaker 3: had a better show.
Speaker 4: I did yeah with Douber stay no, no disrespect, but
Speaker 4: our show was better, much better, And he was jacked
Speaker 4: up about it.
Speaker 1: I'm jacked up about it. I know, I know. And
Speaker 1: remember North also was upset.
Speaker 3: He was still bitter because there was a battle we
Speaker 3: had the company had with the satellite radio people where
Speaker 3: the shows were off satellite radio for a couple of
Speaker 3: years because of a dispute.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know all the details, but it was it
Speaker 3: was corporate bull crap app and we ended up getting
Speaker 3: caught in the middle of it, and North still remembers
Speaker 3: he's still.
Speaker 1: Upset about it.
Speaker 4: Do you know that there was one morning where Andy
Speaker 4: Furman couldn't make it to the show. So it was
Speaker 4: Mike North by himself. Oh boy, now Mike with a
Speaker 4: co host or you know, a team of people on
Speaker 4: the air, amazing radio. Mike North by himself, he didn't
Speaker 4: know what to do. He was reading baseball box scores
Speaker 4: on the air. It was it was, it was awkward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's a playoff.
Speaker 4: Other people got exactly That's what I was saying. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he needs somebody to interject with him. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of kind of like you. Ever since Eddie
Speaker 4: got whacked, you've been on your own and your ratings
Speaker 4: have been cutting half.
Speaker 1: That's clearly what thing that.
Speaker 3: This just triggered a memory and it's it's hilarious. And
Speaker 3: only a few of us know about this. But Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith was a columnist in Philadelphia when I first became
Speaker 3: aware of him, and one of his first jobs in
Speaker 3: radio was on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: Steven A.
Speaker 3: Smith hosted a Saturday morning show with John Ireland, who
Speaker 3: is now the play by play voice of the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did a show together in the early days
Speaker 3: of Fox Sports Radio, and so I was doing updates
Speaker 3: at that time. This is in the early early days
Speaker 3: and I was doing like an overnight show on the weekend,
Speaker 3: studied updates, and so John was the at that time,
Speaker 3: John was the TV sideline reporter for the Lakers, and
Speaker 3: so the Lakers often play on Friday.
Speaker 1: There's certain days.
Speaker 3: Of the week that these NBA teams play, and the
Speaker 3: Lakers often play on Friday night, and John would do
Speaker 3: the sidelines and they were I don't even remember where
Speaker 3: they were. However, John's could not the plane did not
Speaker 3: make it back in time. He could not do the show.
Speaker 3: There was a travel delay late the team plane and
Speaker 3: there was something wrong with it for another plane anyway,
Speaker 3: So Steven A had to do the show by himself.
Speaker 3: And if you ever wanted to know what it sounds
Speaker 3: like when a man is drowning on radio, Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith attempting to do a radio show by himself in
Speaker 3: probably two thousand five, two thousand and six, wow.
Speaker 1: Something lines, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: They Well he learned from it because then later he
Speaker 4: would go on to do his own what midday show
Speaker 4: for ESPN Radio where mostly he had guests on the phone,
Speaker 4: but he mostly spoke by himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that show's highly produced and all that.
Speaker 4: But it's very true. But this was him like not
Speaker 4: being ready for that.
Speaker 3: I guess this is him kind of like the North Store,
Speaker 3: he went in a dooming John was going to be
Speaker 3: with him, like he went in there, assuming John was
Speaker 3: going to be his co host and he was going
Speaker 3: to play off John. John would be the facilitator and
Speaker 3: then he would Steve and A would just have to
Speaker 3: hammer dunket and the point guard wasn't.
Speaker 1: There, and it was.
Speaker 3: You just triggered that memory because it's it's I still
Speaker 3: flash back to that considering where we are today and
Speaker 3: Stephen A is making tons of money and doing very well.
Speaker 4: Good for him, And oh wait till Steve and A
Speaker 4: finds out you were talking about him.
Speaker 1: You don't want to make an enemy out of me.
Speaker 4: You do not want to make an enemy.
Speaker 3: Out of me. He'll become the president and then I'll
Speaker 3: end up in the in the Who's Galon'll be It'll
Speaker 3: be all over.
Speaker 1: Mike, and Fullerton writes in on the mail bag.
Speaker 3: He says, hey, Ben and Danny Gay, I want you
Speaker 3: to answer the question that has been taking the Internet
Speaker 3: by storm. Who do you think would win a fight
Speaker 3: a hundred gorillas or one? Ben maller Ike says Ben Mallord.
Speaker 3: But I'd like to hear what you guys think. I'll
Speaker 3: take your comment off the year, all right.
Speaker 4: My variation of this thing that's been going around social
Speaker 4: media for a couple of weeks. Could one hundred Robin
Speaker 4: Venturas beat one Nolan Ryan?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 4: Could one hundred Don Zimmers beat Pedro?
Speaker 3: Mmmm?
Speaker 1: No, I don't like pop By the Sailor man.
Speaker 4: He was his bald head was kind of like a
Speaker 4: rhino though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they Don's been gone for a while. But don Zimmer,
Speaker 3: can you ever imagine being like a young guy? Like no,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like there shouldn't people in our lives
Speaker 3: you look at you always think of them as old guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like George Burns was old our entire life. That lady,
Speaker 4: the one that played Maud on Golden Girls, she was
Speaker 4: always old. You're right. There's certain actors and actresses where
Speaker 4: we knew him as little kids as being old, and
Speaker 4: then they were old the entire time we saw them
Speaker 4: on TV. It was really weird because obviously back in
Speaker 4: the eighties in early nineties, premature agent because these ladies
Speaker 4: would do like you know, Grandma here, not color not
Speaker 4: take care of and men too didn't take care of
Speaker 4: themselves the way they do now, So you could look
Speaker 4: seventy and fly. Nowadays you look seventy and close to
Speaker 4: your grave. Back in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are photos of athletes that have gone viral
Speaker 3: recently of people as like the college football players that
Speaker 3: looked like they were in their fifties and they were
Speaker 3: playing at Penn State.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, it was so weird. And John Travolta was
Speaker 4: like thirty and he played a high school student. Do
Speaker 4: you watch a college football game on YouTube and those
Speaker 4: guys look like they were forty years old?
Speaker 1: It's so odd, it is it is?
Speaker 4: Oh, George Foreman another one, like he looked old even
Speaker 4: when he was young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure, for sure, but there are some advantages,
Speaker 3: like I use a baseball Analogye, Sparky Anderson as a guy,
Speaker 3: and he's been dead for a while too, But Sparky
Speaker 3: looked old when he was we were kids, and these
Speaker 3: you know, he obviously state, but you look.
Speaker 1: Old only Yeah, people think he stopped aging.
Speaker 3: Let's see Mike from Pittsburgh, right, since says hey, Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny h is there any team in all of
Speaker 3: sports more embarrassing than my Pittsburgh Pirates. I want to
Speaker 3: get your thoughts on what has happened and.
Speaker 4: Uh with that security guard?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and in knowing that, let's go through the
Speaker 3: hits of the Pirates this year. We actually I mentioned
Speaker 3: this on the monologue the other the day, but the
Speaker 3: Pirates since opening day, they had the Roberto Clemente sign.
Speaker 3: Remember the Clemente sign that they took down to put
Speaker 3: an alcohol advertisement up that that was not good. It
Speaker 3: was supposed to be forever tribute. Clemente's family ripped the team.
Speaker 3: They had the ceremonial bricks that were sent to a
Speaker 3: recycling center. Remember the fans had paid like fifty bucks
Speaker 3: or whatever to have the family name, you know, their
Speaker 3: dead parents on the brick.
Speaker 4: I didn't even hear about that one. Then then the
Speaker 4: guy fall and or jump and fall and break his neck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the security guard that took the belt off.
Speaker 3: Oh, they had come over here for your whooping. It's
Speaker 3: hard to top the Pirates. The team blows on the field.
Speaker 3: It's really fire their manager this week. That's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 3: The teams one one halfway decent player on the teammate
Speaker 3: like one and a half players. You got Paul Skins
Speaker 3: one other guy, and the other other players are terrible.
Speaker 3: That's a that's not good. I don't know who would
Speaker 3: be second. Yeah, I have to do some research on that.
Speaker 1: I don't off the top of my head.
Speaker 4: And this all started last season when the Pirates made
Speaker 4: that generous offer to whoever pulled that special Paul Skiings
Speaker 4: baseball card. Oh yeah, and it happened to be an
Speaker 4: eleven year old from Los Angeles who's a Dodgers fan.
Speaker 4: Are the little kids like I don't want your damn
Speaker 4: season tickets?
Speaker 1: Who goofed?
Speaker 3: I've got to know I will give you a Dodger
Speaker 3: tickets maybe, all right? Kwang rights in from Ho Chi, Min, Vietnam.
Speaker 3: He says, Benandanny G. Holmes dot com marketing campaign uses
Speaker 3: the slogan Holmes dot com is the best in various
Speaker 3: creative ways, even though I couldn't legally say it directly,
Speaker 3: Please explain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a play on words.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do it kind of tongue in cheek.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, I've studied this. You can do your own
Speaker 3: research and you can come back and throw it at me.
Speaker 1: All you want.
Speaker 3: But I've over the years study the verbiage and the
Speaker 3: term best is often considered puffery, and if you make
Speaker 3: a very specific claim, if you say something's better or
Speaker 3: the greatest, that becomes problematic. Generally speaking, there have been
Speaker 3: some exceptions, I want to clarify. There have been some
Speaker 3: exceptions where things have gone to court. But for the
Speaker 3: most part, if you say I've got the world's greatest
Speaker 3: HOGI or I've got the world's greatest pizza, are not greatest,
Speaker 3: I mean world's best pizzaorld's best HOGI, then you're okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I got to mention when I write descriptions for
Speaker 4: Covino and Riches podcast in our podcast on the weekend,
Speaker 4: you have affected me for years because I would say, oh,
Speaker 4: it's you know, whatever, best, even best of. I feel
Speaker 4: weird typing that as a title because I write instead
Speaker 4: the greatest moments from this past week. I take the
Speaker 4: word best and I usually replace it with greatest. Because
Speaker 4: of Ben Maller.
Speaker 3: Honored that I'm in the back of your head somewhere
Speaker 3: somewhere like how the Lakers live in your head.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about now. They don't
Speaker 1: live in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I know that Rod from Arizona rights and says, hey,
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny, is this why we have not had
Speaker 3: many calls from Jed who fled recently? And he says
Speaker 3: a Florida man became the first person this year to
Speaker 3: be gored by a bison at Yellowstone. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think that was Jed. But how
Speaker 3: do you end up getting gored by a bison? By
Speaker 3: the way, aren't you supposed to stand in your car?
Speaker 4: Yeah? But I've been to Yellowstone a couple of times,
Speaker 4: and the tourists do not follow directions very well.
Speaker 1: There, you have been to Yellowstone? Is it worth the trip?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 4: It really is? Yeah, it's very beautiful, but it's monkey
Speaker 4: see monkey do. You'll see one tourist get out of
Speaker 4: their vehicle, and then cars will all pull off the
Speaker 4: side of the road, thinking, oh, why are they out
Speaker 4: there with their camera? There must be a grizzly or
Speaker 4: something worth taking a photo of, and they all follow
Speaker 4: what they think is some exciting action from the car
Speaker 4: in front of them.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Next up, Jeff in Indianapolis. I didn't get to Yellowstone
Speaker 3: at some point. I would like to go there. Jeff
Speaker 3: from Indianapolis, right, since says they've been And Danny a
Speaker 3: woman here in Ohio.
Speaker 1: He's in Indiana. Don't see here in Ohio.
Speaker 3: A woman from Ohio was arrested after a raccoon was
Speaker 3: found with a medpipe.
Speaker 1: Police stop.
Speaker 3: How many of your listeners do you think have raccoons
Speaker 3: as pets as Jeff? How the hell would I know?
Speaker 3: I don't think raccoons are legal in moosth states. I
Speaker 3: guess in Ohio you're allowed to have raccoons as pets.
Speaker 3: How did that get through, by the way, that you
Speaker 3: can have a raccoon as a pet?
Speaker 1: How did they?
Speaker 3: How did the guardians of Ohio decide that's a good idea,
Speaker 3: let's have that raccoons?
Speaker 1: Why not? I did see the clip.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys fight talked about it on Cavino
Speaker 3: and Rich. But it's not every day you see a
Speaker 3: raccoon with a crackpipe that is not a normal or
Speaker 3: a meth pipe or whatever.
Speaker 4: It's not not every day that you see I think
Speaker 4: you're forgetting that. I did radio in Stockton, California for
Speaker 4: five years.
Speaker 3: Hello, birthplace of meth All right, late night drug tester? Right,
Speaker 3: since says Ben, just wondering will Danny G be using
Speaker 3: fifth hour advertiser fishingbooker dot com for his yearly fishing
Speaker 3: derby trip.
Speaker 1: Danny big advertiser.
Speaker 3: We love Fishingbooker dot com a great advertiser.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, you guys, can you.
Speaker 3: Can bust our balls about fishingbooker dot com Late night
Speaker 3: drug tester. But if you're in the fish business, okay,
Speaker 3: if you go out on the weekends, you don't a
Speaker 3: fishing that is a crucial tool to have in your
Speaker 3: back pocket.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? I don't believe I am No.
Speaker 4: I heard you do that, read live on your overnight show.
Speaker 4: And I smile when you read that, because I think
Speaker 4: to myself, you know, even if I used that service,
Speaker 4: I still would catch zero fish at Bass Lake. That's
Speaker 4: just been the trend there for whatever reason. I've told
Speaker 4: you my theory. I think they only have a couple
Speaker 4: of fish in there, and they have some paid actors
Speaker 4: with an igloo filled with ice and fish, and then they,
Speaker 4: you know, go around the lake an opportunity to fake
Speaker 4: out the customers. They pull the fish up the spade
Speaker 4: person and they show you that they caught a fish,
Speaker 4: but they didn't really catch that fish there, Ben, I'm
Speaker 4: telling you right now. So because of that, I boycotted
Speaker 4: the derby last weekend.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh you did? You just did? Stayed away.
Speaker 4: I stayed away because what's the point. There's no fish
Speaker 4: in there. The real people on the lake we've spoken to.
Speaker 4: We talked to a guy last year who said he
Speaker 4: went to ten straight derbies never even got a nibble.
Speaker 1: That's not right.
Speaker 4: And he said at other lakes he would catch four
Speaker 4: to five fish in one trip. So it wasn't like
Speaker 4: he was some bum who couldn't just fish. No, this
Speaker 4: is a guy. He had all the gear. You could
Speaker 4: tell he was a veteran fisherman, and he told us
Speaker 4: ten years in a row he didn't catch anything. So
Speaker 4: I'm not the only one with this theory.
Speaker 1: You always turned to cheating. That's been done.
Speaker 3: As you said, you'd always go there, Alf writesin says,
Speaker 3: once again from the ask Ben recycle, Ben, have you
Speaker 3: guys ever had birch beer?
Speaker 1: If so, what's your opinion?
Speaker 3: If not, I'm looking forward to introducing Ben to it
Speaker 3: on his next trip to the Bay State. I'm not
Speaker 3: very well traveled, so I'm not sure if it's a
Speaker 3: regional thing or not, says I've never heard of birch beer, Danny,
Speaker 3: have you ever had birch beer?
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that? I've never heard of it. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3: So i'll ALF everything fingers crossed. Everything goes well, the
Speaker 3: TV show will be back. I'll meet Alf and I'll
Speaker 3: meet Mike the Leprechaun and all those characters at the.
Speaker 1: Big meet and greet, which we're planning tenantively.
Speaker 3: Again, it's depending on the TV show coming back, but
Speaker 3: I'll be in the TV show comes back. I'll be
Speaker 3: in in Boston and drive up to Worcester to a
Speaker 3: wo Socks game, and we'll make that happen really quick.
Speaker 4: What is your drink? What is your alcohol of choice?
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't drink too much, but I love the
Speaker 3: root beer beer because there's high alcohol content and taste
Speaker 3: like root beer, and you can get completely schnockered on
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 4: So you are a party animal. You're like, man, let's
Speaker 4: split a picture of root beer at not your father's
Speaker 4: root beer. They should be an advertiser of the show.
Speaker 4: All right, I think we'll get out on that, Danny.
Speaker 3: I'll be back I will be back tonight intomorrow eleven
Speaker 3: o'clock in the west here on Sunday on this Mother's Day,
Speaker 3: and then two am in the East on Monday morning.
Speaker 3: But again, you know, I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of moms that are listening to the show. But we
Speaker 3: take care of your mom.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well you have your mom.
Speaker 1: Because moms don't last forever, So take care of.
Speaker 4: And your wife if she had a kid for you.
Speaker 4: That's my mission today, once I get done producing this
Speaker 4: fine podcast. In fact, I got these in the mail
Speaker 4: the other day Shutterfly, because so many of our pictures
Speaker 4: are digital in our phones. You know, yeah, there's the
Speaker 4: cloud and everything, but what if something happened to your phone,
Speaker 4: what if not everything was backed up in the cloud,
Speaker 4: you lose those photos. So we don't have physical pictures anymore,
Speaker 4: the way physical music copies of music are missing nowadays.
Speaker 4: So Ben I had two hundred and thirty pictures printed
Speaker 4: out of big baby Koa and family events and trips
Speaker 4: and things like that, and then I got a baby,
Speaker 4: a nice leather bound baby book and a family picture book.
Speaker 1: Nice solid.
Speaker 3: I actually did think about if the Internet vanished, like
Speaker 3: if something happened somehow, and all the social media went away,
Speaker 3: and the World Wide Web ceased to exist, and we
Speaker 3: had to go back to the market to get the
Speaker 3: encyclopedias every month. Remember that, Danny, oh at the grocery
Speaker 3: store and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Now you just go on the internet.
Speaker 3: But if all that went away, like so many people
Speaker 3: do not have copies of anything, like, so much of
Speaker 3: society would fall back thirty years just in the blink
Speaker 3: of an eye. And it it does make you make
Speaker 3: you think. So that's a that's a solid move to
Speaker 3: have physical copies made.
Speaker 4: And we'd have to start memorizing people's phone numbers again.
Speaker 3: I forbid no God to bring back information.
Speaker 1: You'd have to have to bring back the time.
Speaker 4: The time at the tone will be popcorn and movie phone.
Speaker 4: We'd have to call movie phone again. If you know the.
Speaker 1: Name of the movie, you'd like to press one. Hoobifodday.
Speaker 1: Here the movie eaes today at the Edwards Theaters. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out. I have a wonderful Sunday. And hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for sporting the podcast. Well, Danny, you'll be on
Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Monday through Friday, usual hours, So that is on
Speaker 4: the West side two to four pm and on the
Speaker 4: East coast in beautiful Philadelphia five to seven pm.
Speaker 3: All right, and we'll all talk to you on the radio,
Speaker 3: and then we'll form Voltron next weekend with new pods.
Speaker 1: How about that, unbelievable. We'll talk to you then.
Speaker 4: Can't wait. Austa pasta, got a murder. I gotta go.