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 soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
Speaker 1: In the penthouse.
Speaker 2: Wow to clearing House of hot takes, break free for
Speaker 2: something Special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maher and Danny G Radio. He joins us here on
Speaker 1: this Sunday, the sixteenth day of February, Fresh Pod every Day.
Speaker 1: Are some people, Danny G accuse us of recording these
Speaker 1: podcasts on Thursday or Friday and not actually doing them
Speaker 1: every single day, which, as you know, is bullshoy.
Speaker 3: Danny, You've done some podcast like two weeks in advance.
Speaker 1: That's a lie in fact, to prove, to verify to
Speaker 1: that schmuck Terry in England, that dope okay, that this
Speaker 1: is a legitimate podcast and not something that was done
Speaker 1: days ago. We are here early at an ungodly hour
Speaker 1: on Sunday here to do this podcast. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to point out that while I did not watch it
Speaker 1: live last night because I actually have a life. I
Speaker 1: did see the clips of the Shenanigans at the All
Speaker 1: Star Game in San Francisco on All Star Saturday Night,
Speaker 1: when to my knowledge, this is the first known cheating
Speaker 1: scandal at the All Star Saturday Night fast. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did famously have the story of the dunk contest
Speaker 1: that was already given out before it was over to
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin of the People's Team years ago.
Speaker 4: But this is next level.
Speaker 1: A former Clipper, part of the Lob City vintage of
Speaker 1: the Clippers, Chris Paul and Victim when by Yama, these
Speaker 1: two dopes ended up getting disqualified for cheating at the
Speaker 1: skills coop. But like I get, like, what are you doing, Danny.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to wrap my head around this.
Speaker 1: They were trying to save time in the skills challenge,
Speaker 1: and so instead of actually attempting to shoot the ball,
Speaker 1: they just tossed.
Speaker 4: It blindly to the rim.
Speaker 1: And it's like this weird fugacy thing where you had
Speaker 1: to shoot three pointers from the wing, you had to
Speaker 1: shoot a jumper from the elbow, and there's like a
Speaker 1: there was like a spinning windmill thing, like a miniature
Speaker 1: golf course, and they just they didn't bother with that
Speaker 1: because they just trying to get through the thing.
Speaker 4: I guess to save time. But I mean it's the
Speaker 4: hood spot.
Speaker 1: That's the word I will use, Danny, that these guys stop, well,
Speaker 1: let me just lf around and nobody cares.
Speaker 4: I just want to win this thing. I'm like God
Speaker 4: at his next level. And the integrity I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, All Star Weekend for the NBA had hundreds of
Speaker 3: millions of viewers.
Speaker 4: I'm sure. Yeah, no, this is one of those things. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Danny, but I used to
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I love the pomp and circumstance of the
Speaker 1: three point contest and really what sold me originally was
Speaker 1: the dunk contest, and I really I was all about it.
Speaker 1: These are great events, This is wonderful and how great
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 1: The NBA and I talked about this on yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 1: They they had meetings with the players to try to
Speaker 1: convince them to actually take it seriously, to take their
Speaker 1: job seriously, because they futs around so much at the
Speaker 1: All Star break that like it's kind of important for
Speaker 1: the business to have the All Star Weekend and they
Speaker 1: get a cheating scandal in the main event. Well not,
Speaker 1: it was not even the main event to me. The
Speaker 1: three point contest, which I guess Tyler Hero won. I
Speaker 1: saw some clips of that. He won.
Speaker 4: People were hoping that Damian Lillard would win, and he
Speaker 4: did not.
Speaker 1: I did not get the three pete so much like
Speaker 1: Kansas City, he came up blamed. But the dunk contest,
Speaker 1: I got nothing against Mac McClung.
Speaker 4: But that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do, racist, I come on, And plus they're
Speaker 1: saying it. People were sending me. I got two people.
Speaker 1: I say people too, that's more than one person's people.
Speaker 1: Two people sent me the link to the dunk and
Speaker 1: he jumped over a car, and They're like, it's an
Speaker 1: historic dunk, And I'm like, didn't Blake Griffin do the
Speaker 1: same thing in a Kia commercial back in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blake Griffin cheated. That was the first All Star
Speaker 3: weekend scandal back in the day. Well, that was not
Speaker 3: a legitimate leap over a car when Griffin did it.
Speaker 3: It took a different white guy in McClung to do
Speaker 3: it the right way.
Speaker 1: He didn't did the same thing. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not the same dunk. Go back and look at Blake
Speaker 3: Griffin's dunk. It was over the front of the hood,
Speaker 3: not over the car. I say, basic bull crap.
Speaker 1: The problem is this, you had You're the NBA All
Speaker 1: Star Game. You had a G League player G League.
Speaker 1: The raining MVP of the G League won your dun coin.
Speaker 3: Well, the best twenty twenty four player drafted is Brownie James,
Speaker 3: and you know he's a G League guy, so come on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three consecutive slam dunk contest wins for Mac McClung
Speaker 1: and he can't get like.
Speaker 4: Actual NBA minutes there.
Speaker 1: I mean, god, oh man, oh I did see he
Speaker 1: donated the car he used to to a home in
Speaker 1: Virginia's I don't know whatever.
Speaker 3: One big takeaway, Kia has come a long way when
Speaker 3: Blake Griffin did it, that car was ugly and Carl
Speaker 3: McClung jumped over legitimately looked a lot nicer, sweeter riot.
Speaker 4: You're looking to go buy a car something you were. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I still think k is kind of cheap. They look better.
Speaker 4: They're one of those brands where they've improved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there anything that is cheap in automobiles at
Speaker 1: this point?
Speaker 3: I know nothing except maybe those seeing those little tiny cars.
Speaker 3: There's one parked outside Costco. They were advertising it. It
Speaker 3: looks like a Santa Anna wind could push it over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looks like if you get into a fender bender,
Speaker 1: you're dead, is what it looks like. I've seen those cars.
Speaker 1: It's that's it game over all. Right, Well, we have
Speaker 1: a mail to get to. I I you know, I
Speaker 1: did want to mention Valentine's weekend. I ranted, I guys
Speaker 1: were busting my balls.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 1: I made a heart shaped pizza. We had pizza night
Speaker 1: on Friday. I talked about that. I saw the pictures.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did I lose my man card? Danny? Is that it?
Speaker 4: Is it done? I now officially a wood. No. You
Speaker 4: always say rare and appropriate.
Speaker 3: And this is one of those weekends where you got
Speaker 3: to let romance lead the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not like I went out and bought
Speaker 1: ten million bouquets of flowers. And I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I was making a pizza and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the great thing when you were in the kitchen, the
Speaker 1: culinary arts, which are I've become a fan of in
Speaker 1: recent years, and you can do whatever you want. You're
Speaker 1: the one making the pie, so we like, Hey, I
Speaker 1: thought it'd be a nice little touch. My wife's come
Speaker 1: under the weather this weekend, so cheer up a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think we'll probably end up really celebrating Valentine's
Speaker 1: weekend more next weekend. Now, I mean, obviously this weekend's over.
Speaker 1: Now it's Sunday, so I don't think I got back
Speaker 1: to work tonight, exactly it. For years you've admitted that
Speaker 1: you wait to get the half off, Candy. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: there are advantages to being someone that is selective and
Speaker 1: waits for the property. But this was not my idea, Danny.
Speaker 1: This was my wife's Like, well, I'm not feeling great
Speaker 1: this weekend. You know, I always want to I want to.
Speaker 4: Be in a good frame of mind, and all, you
Speaker 4: know how people are.
Speaker 1: I'm generally just kind of drudge on, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't like complain.
Speaker 4: Like I've had this phlem situation.
Speaker 1: Tom Looney got me sick, that schmuck on the TV show,
Speaker 1: the only one I've been around who's sick the last
Speaker 1: like two months and that, and it's I'm not contagious.
Speaker 1: So I sit in that studio near him, and of
Speaker 1: course he gets me sick. So but I've been fighting
Speaker 1: this thing, I mean, sucking on garlic and doing that.
Speaker 1: But I might just whatever, just do the show and
Speaker 1: that's it. But your weekend, Danny, and you were very busy.
Speaker 1: I know that it's some odd odd scheduling this weekend, but
Speaker 1: you productive Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I think I've seen the inside of enough
Speaker 3: airplanes to last a couple of months. Where would you
Speaker 3: take your girm log Valentine's weekend? It took her to
Speaker 3: San Jose, California.
Speaker 1: Wow. Man, you know your way to San Jose. You
Speaker 1: know your way to San Jose. But you think of romance,
Speaker 1: you think of love, you think of San Jose.
Speaker 4: You think you really do.
Speaker 3: And in fact, I'm sitting in the lobby right now
Speaker 3: of this nice hotel in sunny Vale, California. It was
Speaker 3: sunny yesterday. We had a little family get together on
Speaker 3: my mom's side, and so I got to see my
Speaker 3: mom and a couple of aunts and uncles and cousins
Speaker 3: and their little baby's kids running around the park and
Speaker 3: CoA was running laps. He knocked out like a sack
Speaker 3: of bricks. He was so tired from running around at
Speaker 3: the park. All afternoon and then we ate. You would
Speaker 3: love this. We ate out of Chicago pizzeria.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you think Chicago pizza, You think sunny Vale, California.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of people don't know this, dandy,
Speaker 1: but the Chicago style pizza actually came from a guy
Speaker 1: from sunny Vale. Wrong.
Speaker 3: You know what we do when the family gets together, though,
Speaker 3: we do like a whiffle ball game. And my brother
Speaker 3: he's into my older brother, he's into this. I think
Speaker 3: I told the story the last time we did a
Speaker 3: family barbecue. He was arguing balls and strikes. He was
Speaker 3: bitching and complaining about foul balls because he put a
Speaker 3: jacket on both sides for the foul lines. And today
Speaker 3: he took it next level. Imagine me pitching the whiffle ball.
Speaker 3: I was throwing a mean curveball with it. He was
Speaker 3: on his second strike. I threw the third one bend
Speaker 3: right down the pike. He hits it back to the pitcher,
Speaker 3: which is me. I corral this whiffleball, toss it to
Speaker 3: first base. He is sprinting the first base like his
Speaker 3: life depends on it, because he is way too competitive,
Speaker 3: even with a stupid family wiffleball game. Where he should
Speaker 3: really be going half speed. This dude, it was like
Speaker 3: he was trying out for the LA Dodgers. So he
Speaker 3: sprints the first base, steps on the bag really hard
Speaker 3: and bites it rans on his shoulder. Stayed down and
Speaker 3: at first I thought he was being dramatic. Turns out
Speaker 3: after a trip to the er broken clavicle.
Speaker 1: What in a family whiffle ball game?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, they had to help him up. Well, he
Speaker 3: was in pain. It looked like he wanted to cry.
Speaker 3: Is he younger or older than us?
Speaker 4: He is, He's about four years older than us.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Ah, dude, is this what we have to
Speaker 1: look forward to in the next few years? He follows
Speaker 1: the Medello marketing campaign. He's got that fighting.
Speaker 4: Spirit, which is this.
Speaker 1: Is not good at a freaking WI football game.
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a painful history. I've talked to
Speaker 1: some athletes that have had that over the years. That's
Speaker 1: a mother blankety blankety blankety blankety situation. Wow.
Speaker 3: My sister in law sent a picture of the X
Speaker 3: ray says it is a broken clavicle. He's going to
Speaker 3: be sent to an orthopedic surgeon. We won't know more
Speaker 3: until he sees them and everybody's commenting on him being
Speaker 3: a weekend Warrior, and they say, Ty goes to the
Speaker 3: runner Ben because man, I got that ball over the
Speaker 3: first base quick and right as his foot hit the
Speaker 3: bag way too hard.
Speaker 4: It was bam bam. We needed review.
Speaker 3: And the way he was running, the way he's so
Speaker 3: competitive in a dumb wiffleball game, you would have thought
Speaker 3: he was in a major league game that had review.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is next level.
Speaker 4: I'm in.
Speaker 1: And does that end now the Danny g family tradition
Speaker 1: of the whiffleball game. With that, you believe that will
Speaker 1: be the final whiffleball game.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, because his left arm is what's
Speaker 3: in a sling right now.
Speaker 4: He sent a picture.
Speaker 3: He said that he told his wife he could still
Speaker 3: pitch with his right arm tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so at least he still wants to go back
Speaker 1: in that. He's not like an NBA player, which would
Speaker 1: be that's it.
Speaker 4: I'm done, I'm out, exactly.
Speaker 3: No, this game is going to continue as soon as
Speaker 3: the side of the family gets together again.
Speaker 4: Wow, you have.
Speaker 1: Got to be kidding me on that note. We must
Speaker 1: bring in that's that's wild now, let's bring in Ohio
Speaker 1: and it'll be even more wild. It's all right, thank you, Ohio.
Speaker 1: All these are actual questions by actual listeners. And if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of this podcast and you've never ever
Speaker 1: sent content in, I get it. I look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: and based on how many people are listening to the
Speaker 1: podcast and whatnot, we thank you, and we know that
Speaker 1: most of you listen and do not much like Radio Davy.
Speaker 1: Most people listen, they don't actually interact with the show.
Speaker 1: That's generally how that goes. And so the same thing
Speaker 1: here in the podcast world, Mike. But if you want
Speaker 1: to email in a question, you can do it right
Speaker 1: now for next week or maybe like you wake up
Speaker 1: with a bug up you're a keyster on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: you want to send a question in or Tuesday, whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter when you send it, and just getting
Speaker 1: in by the weekend generally. So I kind of compile
Speaker 1: these things. I know we're doing this early here on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I usually on Thursday or Friday. Put everything together, now, Mike,
Speaker 1: and Fullerton writes in and he says, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g now that season two of Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 1: is in the books. It's still time to see it, though.
Speaker 1: Mike gets on Peacock. It'll be on there probably for
Speaker 1: the next couple of days, and then that's it, he says,
Speaker 1: I gotta know what your favorite episode the season is.
Speaker 4: For me, it has to be Week seven's.
Speaker 1: It maye me laugh, it made me cry, it made
Speaker 1: me think, it made me feel things I've never felt before.
Speaker 4: Truly a master piece. Now, Mike, I think you're bullshitting me.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's nothing I remember about Week seven
Speaker 1: that was particularly all that good. Anyways, thanks for another
Speaker 1: wonderful season. County down the days until season three. My
Speaker 1: favorite episode was actually an episode we had no games.
Speaker 1: My favorite episode was the week before the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: when there was that dead week and we went in
Speaker 1: there and just hamming it out, and they played some
Speaker 1: bluep tapes that I laughed at. The Danny DeVito one
Speaker 1: I thought was pretty cool, and uh, some of the
Speaker 1: other blooper stuff, like I liked that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was getting my ass kicked by the freaking Penny. During
Speaker 1: the course of the regular season, I did win the preseason,
Speaker 1: so I won that. I won the postseason head ahead,
Speaker 1: but the regular season just everything I was doing. It
Speaker 1: didn't It didn't work out my way, But you know,
Speaker 1: generally speaking, I thought, to answer your question, I thought
Speaker 1: the week before the super Bowl was was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Even this past episode, the final, the season finale,
Speaker 1: I thought we had we had, yeah, a good.
Speaker 4: Time with I think your guys Zoom episode was the best. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had to do it from home because the freaking fires. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the damn TV show from my house.
Speaker 3: Wait till NBC finds out they don't even need a
Speaker 3: set for you guys.
Speaker 1: Trust me, we were thinking we were wandering around. We
Speaker 1: walked in the rain at Universal the other day and
Speaker 1: we're like, well, we don't know. I mean, we might
Speaker 1: end up just doing the show from the house. Knows
Speaker 1: maybe you know, buy bigger, brighter lights or whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Alf wrights in, He says, Ben, we know you don't
Speaker 1: do shout outs on the radio and other morning you
Speaker 1: do type things, but this podcast is anything but predictable,
Speaker 1: and you've been known to go off a book from
Speaker 1: time to time. So in that spirit, Alf writes in,
Speaker 1: I'd like to send a long distance dedication word of
Speaker 1: the week to another listener on this podcast. Loray, the
Speaker 1: word I'd like you to do a deeper dive on
Speaker 1: is officionato because we all know it's not really what
Speaker 1: she initially thought.
Speaker 4: It was the official person who.
Speaker 1: Gives the nod that's from your loyal million now, so
Speaker 1: this is We did a bit on the show this
Speaker 1: week and Alf has another question.
Speaker 4: We'll save that for a second, but Alf heard the bit.
Speaker 4: We had a sound.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys played this on Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich, but there was some audio from the NBA.
Speaker 1: I think it was Austin Reeves had a big game
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, and then one of the reporters Minimon mcminnon.
Speaker 1: I know the guy actually, yeah, something like that. So
Speaker 1: he asked the question and he used the word aficionado,
Speaker 1: and Austin Reeves was dumbfounded. I had never heard that word,
Speaker 1: didn't know that word. Loved the word, and so that
Speaker 1: I asked Lorena and she didn't know what the word
Speaker 1: was either, So I was like, aficionado.
Speaker 4: Was an odd word for her.
Speaker 1: So I looked it up in the able to do
Speaker 1: this as the bonus word all the week, Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: Word of the Week and also goes out to Loraina
Speaker 1: says late It originated Davis's Latin a late fourteenth century
Speaker 1: early fifteenth century for mental state, disposition, mood, state of mind,
Speaker 1: or body, and so it comes from that, and then
Speaker 1: over the years.
Speaker 4: It got twisted.
Speaker 1: Around year by year, and in eighteen forty five the
Speaker 1: Spanish word aficionato meaning amateur, but it was really for
Speaker 1: a devotee of bullfighting. So in it started in the
Speaker 1: first recorded use of the word written was in Spanish
Speaker 1: in nothing before fifteen fifty five. They say it comes
Speaker 1: from late fourteenth century, but they didn't write a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff down there. They didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: paper and pens and things like that, and so in
Speaker 1: eighteen forty five it was switched over to aficionato, meaning
Speaker 1: a fan of bullfighting and all that. Obviously it's been
Speaker 1: twisted over the years even more since then, and it
Speaker 1: means expert a you know, the modern modern definition.
Speaker 4: So there it is the word of the week, which.
Speaker 1: Originally comes from Latin, and then in Spain was bullfighting
Speaker 1: in eighteen forty five, and now just means like an expert,
Speaker 1: a insider, a know it all, et cetera. Alf also said,
Speaker 1: having you two gentlemen, have you recovered from your food
Speaker 1: comas from all the half price candy you bought this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm not missing you. I'm still working on a bag
Speaker 1: of Reese's peanut butter trees that I got from Bjy's
Speaker 1: that is a Costco competitor the day after Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I did not have a chance to really buy it.
Speaker 1: I might go out later today, alf or tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: think the big discount will likely be on Monday tomorrow
Speaker 1: because it's Valentine's weekend, Danny.
Speaker 4: I mean some people celebrate, you know.
Speaker 1: I know Valentine's Day was back on Friday, but some
Speaker 1: people started to They started celebrating late.
Speaker 4: Maybe they didn't buy stuff until Saturday. So I went.
Speaker 4: I bought a card, but.
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty slammed when I went out,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Anyway, let's your conspiracy theory, Bobby
Speaker 1: writes in from Parts Unknown. He says, hey, Bandon, Danny,
Speaker 1: there is now there's no way, no way the Chiefs games.
Speaker 4: Have been rigged this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really don't think that they think we're
Speaker 1: the that's stupid anymore, he says. The camp with cameras everywhere,
Speaker 1: social media, all of that at least. I hope the
Speaker 1: NFL doesn't believe were that naive? I think that all
Speaker 1: went away with sports after the jfk assassination. Bobby writes
Speaker 1: in from Parts Unknown, says, or did it overthinking?
Speaker 3: Sorry, you have to admit that the Chiefs did receive
Speaker 3: some timely calls. I think that's the key word, timely.
Speaker 3: And so was it overblown?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the numbers indicated there was nothing really going on.
Speaker 4: There are a.
Speaker 3: Lot of bags except the postseason. Man, there were numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's true this year. We had
Speaker 1: the numbers before the Super Bowl. It wasn't like it
Speaker 1: wasn't any outrageous or anything.
Speaker 4: It wasn't ungodly, but there was a difference. Really, what's
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 1: And this is going to be a problem forever, Bobby
Speaker 1: is it's engagement farming.
Speaker 4: You get people people want to believe that it's right now.
Speaker 4: I'm not naive to think that there aren't things.
Speaker 1: I think from a fixed standpoint, we just saw the
Speaker 1: the NBA's investigating, or the FBI is investigating because that
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors guy that was fixing props and got dinged.
Speaker 1: And then there's other NBA players that are being investigated
Speaker 1: and all that. Like that kind of stuff I think
Speaker 1: is widespread, But like as a whole fixing and the
Speaker 1: outcome of a game and a league being involved in it,
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 4: Like it's impossible. I believe that. Again, the NBA.
Speaker 1: We had Tim Donnie on this podcast years ago and
Speaker 1: he's talked about some shenanigans in basketball. There's there's definitely
Speaker 1: I'm not naive to think it couldn't happen, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be that many people.
Speaker 4: The problem is if one.
Speaker 1: Person spills the beans, you know, the whole thing, the
Speaker 1: thing goes sideways. But it just the Chiefs conspiracy stuff
Speaker 1: didn't It didn't really resonate with me. I love Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I've been to Kansas City many times, well many times,
Speaker 1: been a few times over there, I three times, and
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed my visits to Kansas City, the good people.
Speaker 1: I have friends there, obviously, the male chickens. I just
Speaker 1: all the places. You got to think, financially, for the NFL,
Speaker 1: where does it make the most sense to rig something.
Speaker 1: It would be, if anything, for the giants of the
Speaker 1: Jets and the amount of people that live in the
Speaker 1: New York Tri State area. The fan base is there.
Speaker 1: Kansas City is just not a big enough location. I
Speaker 1: don't care that you throw Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: In there and all that.
Speaker 1: It's just a it's a numbers game with the amount
Speaker 1: of people that live there in that market compared to
Speaker 1: other places. If you're going to go that far and
Speaker 1: try to rig something, you would do it for LA
Speaker 1: or New York or Chicago. That would be the one
Speaker 1: you would go for because that's where you get the
Speaker 1: most bang for your buck. Not Kansas City. It's just
Speaker 1: not a big enough location. I don't I don't.
Speaker 4: Think I hear you on that.
Speaker 3: I think the conspiracy theorists were like, well, look, how
Speaker 3: many over one hundred million dollars is what they're saying
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift brought to the NFL, and so I think
Speaker 3: outs where people's heads were out, like, oh, they want
Speaker 3: her to be on the screen, you know, in her
Speaker 3: suite for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Then they only show her like twice or once during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there wasn't much for her to celebrate
Speaker 3: in the last time they showed her, she looked like
Speaker 3: a sad puppy dog.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, yeah, I get you.
Speaker 1: Know you went all that money spent like six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to runt a home in New Orleans to
Speaker 1: watch the game was over at halftime. Anyway, who else
Speaker 1: do we have? Let's see page down and you want
Speaker 1: to read here, Let's see here's one mail bag. Marcus
Speaker 1: from Bruceville, Eddie, Texas says, question for Danny, with him
Speaker 1: being a hip hop DJ in the past, what did
Speaker 1: he think of the Kendrick Lamar halftime show? Does it
Speaker 1: seem a little corny to use a national stage to
Speaker 1: perform the disc track towards Drake when he, meaning Kendrick
Speaker 1: has been a well established rapper for multiple years with
Speaker 1: huge I would think he would take that platform to
Speaker 1: promote his billboard hits rather than a disc track that
Speaker 1: just gives more fame and notoriety towards Drake, even if
Speaker 1: he's taking shots at him. Well, this is any publicity
Speaker 1: is good publicity. From Marcus, your thoughts dating I liked
Speaker 1: the halftime shown.
Speaker 3: Was it the best thing possible for a Super Bowl
Speaker 3: with that wide range of an audience?
Speaker 4: Maybe not.
Speaker 3: There were a lot of metaphors and deeper meanings to
Speaker 3: things going on during that performance, so that part of it.
Speaker 3: If you didn't know the background, if you didn't know
Speaker 3: what was going on with Kendrick Lamar, then you're kind
Speaker 3: of left out. It's almost like when you listen to
Speaker 3: a radio show and they have inside jokes and you
Speaker 3: feel like you're not part of it. With that said,
Speaker 3: I think maybe it needs to be a bit of
Speaker 3: a simpler show for that large of an audience.
Speaker 4: But as a hip hop fan, I liked it. You
Speaker 4: enjoyed it very good.
Speaker 1: Just some more. It's the mail bag here On the Sunday,
Speaker 1: Kevin writes in from Kansas. He says, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g I enjoy hearing about your school days of yesteryear.
Speaker 1: What subject that you worked hard to understand but you
Speaker 1: never never clicked for you? For me, it was calculus.
Speaker 1: I tried, but it just never never clicked us. From Kevin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was kind of similar to you, Kevin, math like
Speaker 1: basic math. I learned math from baseball stats. I'm such
Speaker 1: a loser, That's how I learned math.
Speaker 4: I also learned.
Speaker 1: Geography from sports, like different cities around them. I'm very
Speaker 1: good with American geography because I I knew like where
Speaker 1: everyone's minor league baseball teams were when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and I was like.
Speaker 4: That was I was that guy.
Speaker 1: But math, higher level math, No, like I'd go to
Speaker 1: do basic math. I call it malormath, which is a
Speaker 1: version of math. Kevin and I can do like baseball stats, percentages,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with. But yeah, the higher levels of math.
Speaker 1: My dad was a mathematician. My dad was a math
Speaker 1: major in college. So it was very disappointing to the
Speaker 1: family that I just could not master the higher levels
Speaker 1: of math. But that was not my that was not
Speaker 1: my thing.
Speaker 4: What about you, Danny, Yeah, I mean, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I was really great with reading and writing if it
Speaker 3: was anything to do with that, it was pretty much
Speaker 3: an easy a for me when it came to math.
Speaker 3: Once I got to algebra, which was in seventh grade. Man,
Speaker 3: I had this teacher. I wish I could remember his name,
Speaker 3: but he was a dick and you had to show
Speaker 3: all your work and that was hard, you know, because
Speaker 3: sometimes you could get to the answer without having to
Speaker 3: show every little way you got there. But he wanted
Speaker 3: to see every problem written out from start to finish.
Speaker 3: And I'll never forget he always told the class I'm
Speaker 3: like Missouri to show me state you have to show
Speaker 3: me your work.
Speaker 4: Hey, I use that line too, that's a good line. Now.
Speaker 3: He was one of the guys that said, are you
Speaker 3: going to carry a calculator around with you your entire life?
Speaker 4: Well, what do we all have in our hand now? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well we're around the same age. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I remember that.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not going to be able to just
Speaker 1: have a calculator wherever you go. But they were big,
Speaker 1: massive calculator. They were huge calculators.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean there were Cassio calculator watches, and there
Speaker 3: were smaller calculators. But math teachers back then, at that time,
Speaker 3: in the early nineties, we're trying to tell us things like, well,
Speaker 3: you can't always have a calculator in your pocket. Little
Speaker 3: did they know we'd all have an iPhone in our
Speaker 3: hands right now at all times.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the only thing that they got right was
Speaker 1: clean up after yourself. Your mom's not going to be
Speaker 1: following you around your entire life. Your mom's not here,
Speaker 1: Like that's true. You know, that's ack. That is an
Speaker 1: accurate statement for sure.
Speaker 4: That one. And don't pass svenreal diseases. Yeah, I try
Speaker 4: not to share that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ryan writes in from the Commonwealth. He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Hey Bandondanny, you mentioned the last couple of
Speaker 1: pot episodes. You've been into cooking as someone who got
Speaker 1: just got into cooking. I've mastered these seasoning and cooking
Speaker 1: of salmon.
Speaker 4: What is your favorite thing to cook?
Speaker 1: And if you have any recipes, please send them my
Speaker 1: way find other things to try. Always interested in what
Speaker 1: people like to cook.
Speaker 4: That's from Ryan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ryan, I don't have any off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. Pretty much. My palate is pretty simple. I
Speaker 1: like to make things that cost a lot of money
Speaker 1: when I go out and try to save money by
Speaker 1: making them at home. I did a lot of baking
Speaker 1: for years, and then I've kind of shifted over more
Speaker 1: because that stuff gets you fat, so shifted over to
Speaker 1: cooking meals. And so it's a lot of burgers, smash burgers,
Speaker 1: which are pretty easy to make. You don't really need
Speaker 1: a recipe on that, a lot of smash burgers, a
Speaker 1: lot of cheese, steak, chicken, fingers, pizza, those are the things.
Speaker 1: Chicken during the week, I do a lot of grilled
Speaker 1: chicken because I think that's somewhat healthy. I've fetched around
Speaker 1: with potatoes I'm trying to master an alf actually sent
Speaker 1: me a recipe for fries and that's way too complicated.
Speaker 1: Alf the one that you sent me, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I found I found this cheat code which I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about messing around with Danny. Supposedly, it's the type of
Speaker 1: potato I've used, rust rusted. I think that's how you
Speaker 1: said rusted potatoes. I've used those for a while, and
Speaker 1: that's what you get in the grocery store. But there's
Speaker 1: a type of potato which is like a cousin of
Speaker 1: the rusted potato, and you use that. I guess McDonald's
Speaker 1: and some of the big companies use that. It's commercially
Speaker 1: produced potato. Because of the Internet, you can get it now.
Speaker 1: And so I'm thinking about buying some of those they're
Speaker 1: a little pricey for like a pound, and getting some
Speaker 1: of those potatoes and then seeing if that's the difference.
Speaker 1: Because I've done everything these recipes say I want crunchy
Speaker 1: fried potatoes like French fries or freedom fries as we
Speaker 1: call because we're Americans. But I try to get my
Speaker 1: hands on it, and they don't quite come out the.
Speaker 4: Way they should.
Speaker 1: They just a little off and I've followed. I'm very
Speaker 1: meticulous when i'm cooking, and I've followed everything. I've done,
Speaker 1: the temperature the way it's supposed to be. I've tried
Speaker 1: everything with the tow with the paper towel, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to get the water off the potatoes, and and so
Speaker 1: I've been unable to master that. I think it's a
Speaker 1: potato issue. So I'm going to try these other potatoes,
Speaker 1: hopefully this week. So you know, I'm a loser if
Speaker 1: I'm buying special potatoes that are only available in the
Speaker 1: commercial world that you can't buy at the grocery store.
Speaker 4: Because I want to have the next level fries. So
Speaker 4: that's why. Have you ever been to a fancy restaurant
Speaker 4: and ordered roasted fingerling potatoes? I have had those.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was at a fancy restaurant,
Speaker 1: but that long is that your Is that your favorite?
Speaker 1: Is that your?
Speaker 4: Those are good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Those?
Speaker 3: They're crisp on the outside and still soft in the middle,
Speaker 3: and then all the seasoning. And I had some in
Speaker 3: New Orleans during Super Bowl weekend. They were preparing so well, butter, garlic, powder,
Speaker 3: ground paprika, battalion seasoning, salt, and pepper.
Speaker 1: No, that sounds great, but my issue is the is
Speaker 1: and the preparation. Like there's one recipe high end potatoes.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this was when Alf sent me.
Speaker 1: I've seen so manyse frickin' recipes on the YouTube or whatever,
Speaker 1: and everyone's got their own cheat code. But this one
Speaker 1: involves like cutting the potatoes, air sealing them in a
Speaker 1: plastic bag, cooking them in the plastic bag in water
Speaker 1: for like twenty minute or ten minutes, and then putting
Speaker 1: them in a freezer.
Speaker 4: Just way too complicated, Like, dude, I just want some potatoes.
Speaker 3: I don't want to it sounds like an episode of Dexter,
Speaker 3: like you're disposing of a body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I'm like, I guess
Speaker 1: that's a French way to cook, where you make everything
Speaker 1: in bulk and then you but you have to put
Speaker 1: it in a sealed plastic bag air tight. And no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing.
Speaker 4: That all right.
Speaker 1: Next up is a branding from Wisconsin. He says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: he said I can read this on the on the podcast.
Speaker 1: He's looking for some input. So I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a question about the business. I thought we'd get
Speaker 1: into that. Brandon says, I love radio. My brother, who
Speaker 1: played in the NFL, has been a reoccurring guest on
Speaker 1: a Wisconsin media company which broadcasts statewide. Just recently they
Speaker 1: asked if I would join the spot with my brother
Speaker 1: to talk about live sports growing up in a small
Speaker 1: town in Wisconsin. It went well, and he says Brandon,
Speaker 1: to the point where we are going to be recording
Speaker 1: a pilot for a proposed Saturday show on the network.
Speaker 1: It will be centered around similar topics mentioned previously, Live
Speaker 1: sports business.
Speaker 4: Well are both rookies, but.
Speaker 1: Driven to put out good, entertaining relevant content. He says,
Speaker 1: I love your show. I haven't missed an episode in
Speaker 1: more than ten years.
Speaker 4: How about that? Thank God bless you that brand.
Speaker 1: I know it won't be a totally sports centric show,
Speaker 1: but would appreciate your thoughts on how to sell the soap.
Speaker 1: And that is from Brandon, So it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a radio show, and I guess that'll also
Speaker 1: be a podcast. And the advice is if you always
Speaker 1: start out when you're starting something new, if you know somebody,
Speaker 1: if you know somebody that runs a business that has
Speaker 1: advertising money to get started, but there are these things
Speaker 1: called salespeople that you can hire.
Speaker 4: I'll take a commission.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that network I don't know the name of
Speaker 1: the network, you didn't say it here, but they I'm
Speaker 1: assuming they have a sales department. Unless you have to
Speaker 1: buy time, then that's a different animal. If you buy time,
Speaker 1: then you got to you gotta come up with the
Speaker 1: money for the time, which I don't even know how
Speaker 1: much that goes on these days.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you obviously have to find your dish.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like it be on a radio
Speaker 1: network and then a podcast outside of that. Did you know,
Speaker 1: Danny that in the world right now there are four million,
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety six thousand total podcasts registered in
Speaker 1: the in the world. How about that? God is ridiculous?
Speaker 1: Now on Apple podcast It's not that they're not all
Speaker 1: on Apple. As of last month, there are two million,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty eight thousand podcasts registered just on
Speaker 1: the Apple platform. So, I mean, there's this insane the amount,
Speaker 1: and most of them nobody's listening to. But today it's
Speaker 1: a brand question. Get to the point.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 1: You can do the old door to door thing, which
Speaker 1: is cold call businesses and say hey, I got this
Speaker 1: show we want to You know, you really just got
Speaker 1: to deliver an audience. You got to find a way
Speaker 1: branding to connect with people and whatever.
Speaker 4: Works, whatever works for you.
Speaker 1: There's a million different ways, as we like to say
Speaker 1: to you know, you can make a bed more than
Speaker 1: one way. You can bake a cake more than one way.
Speaker 1: But you got to find things. You have to be
Speaker 1: consistent as far as the content. To me, I think
Speaker 1: I was always thought like the content part of it.
Speaker 1: I'll take it from that old movie. If you build it,
Speaker 1: he will come. The listener will show up, and they
Speaker 1: will be there and give them a reason to be there.
Speaker 1: If it's the show's boring, and then no one's gonna listen.
Speaker 1: So you just want to do an entertaining show. And
Speaker 1: as we'd like to say on this podcast, Dany, if
Speaker 1: you can get people engaged and then they get other
Speaker 1: people to listen, you've doubled your audience. And you keep
Speaker 1: doing that and then before you know it, you're laying
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan those other big time people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need your podcast to spread like covid did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like they say, ben opinions are like buttholes
Speaker 3: and podcasts and everybody has one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they all they all all stink. But Brandon,
Speaker 1: if it is from what you've told me, and you
Speaker 1: can be somewhat vague, and I get it, I understand,
Speaker 1: but you should start out with the network.
Speaker 4: And I don't know the setup you have.
Speaker 1: They they said there's a pilot show for Saturday, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what time it's going to air, but
Speaker 1: you should say listen. You get obviously advertising, if you
Speaker 1: have to sell it, then that's a tough thing. But
Speaker 1: you have to figure out what your niche is. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's like kind of like our place, Danny.
Speaker 1: We've I've been approached by people that want to advertise
Speaker 1: on our podcast, and and I would take everyone's money. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the company that I work for, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: money that has to be spent on a show like
Speaker 1: this to get advertising, which is even mind blowing to me, Danny.
Speaker 1: The minimum buy in to advertise on the on the
Speaker 1: fifth Hour and Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4: Is a lot of money, a lot of money.
Speaker 1: So hopefully you don't have those restrictions, Brandon, and you
Speaker 1: can work with those smaller businesses and give them a
Speaker 1: little pop, give them a little help. There so, but
Speaker 1: good luck. Keep us posted in if there's anything specific.
Speaker 1: But yeah, selling the soap, as John Sterling famously explained
Speaker 1: to me the Yankee broadcaster from back in the day,
Speaker 1: is the most important thing.
Speaker 4: You gotta do the commercials.
Speaker 1: You gotta support the advertisers, like right now, Dan, I'm
Speaker 1: supporting advertisers right now.
Speaker 4: Let's see, we'll do a couple more.
Speaker 1: Steven Peoria rights in and says the He says, a
Speaker 1: guy for I wor his grandparents' death certificate to get
Speaker 1: time off from work. I guess this is in Singapore. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says, what's the craziest thing you guys have done
Speaker 1: to get time off from work? Well, I've never forged
Speaker 1: a death certificate, Steve. Now, I don't I like working.
Speaker 1: I hate missing the show. It bothers me. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: I've been sick and been under I even work when
Speaker 1: I'm sick. Usually I don't think I've done. I mean
Speaker 1: to get out now to get out of school. I
Speaker 1: hated going to school. I was a terrible student. I
Speaker 1: hated the whole getting up early to go to school things.
Speaker 1: So that was a different animal. But like work, No,
Speaker 1: I just love that we have a listener in Peoria.
Speaker 1: That emailed in Danny because that line will it play
Speaker 1: in Peoria, which I don't think is used anymore. That
Speaker 1: was the great testing ground in America where if you
Speaker 1: had a I guess that goes back to the vaudevillian days,
Speaker 1: but if you had a product, or if you were
Speaker 1: an entertainer, because there was such a diverse audience in Peoria,
Speaker 1: Illinois demographics wise, that even I think even now in
Speaker 1: politics they still go to Peoria as one of the
Speaker 1: testing locations in America, but that it might be dating now.
Speaker 1: That was more like in the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do that these days.
Speaker 1: But anyway, then we'll get out. I think we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that, Danny. I'll be back tonight. Boy do
Speaker 1: I have to watch the All Star Game tonight?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 3: Ye oh, man, let's predict the score though, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say it's gonna be two hundred. Well they do what
Speaker 3: are they doing? Stupid brackets?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know, as I said yesterday, if
Speaker 1: you have to explain to your customers what your product
Speaker 1: is after they've engauged, like there's I think there's like
Speaker 1: multiple teams, and there's like a tournament like a round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's some euro crap, just like the in season tournament.
Speaker 3: But the final game, I'll predict the score two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty one to two hundred and twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I predicted they'll only play because of load management,
Speaker 1: they'll probably play like four minute quarters, so it'll be
Speaker 1: like forty two to you know, thirty seven.
Speaker 4: Or something like that.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 4: It is so short.
Speaker 1: They don't want the embarrassment of having the games in
Speaker 1: the two hundreds.
Speaker 3: And by the way, really quick, I texted you a
Speaker 3: picture of my older brother. Oh my god. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: back in the er this morning. They just gave him
Speaker 3: a pain shot last night and sent him home and
Speaker 3: said he had to come back. So yeah, they're going
Speaker 3: to see if they need to get in there. And wow,
Speaker 3: and well you guys set that shoulder right.
Speaker 1: You look nothing alike unless you look almost exactly the same.
Speaker 1: My god, wow, I mean I.
Speaker 3: Forgot to tell you at the start of this pod,
Speaker 3: before he got his not glory, it's the opposite of glory.
Speaker 4: Before he had his unfortunate accident at back.
Speaker 3: Yes, when we were up to bat to leave off
Speaker 3: the game, I drove two runs in with a triple.
Speaker 1: Oh nice.
Speaker 4: So even though the game.
Speaker 3: Was canceled because of an old person's injury, I was
Speaker 3: the MVP of the game. But the better story is
Speaker 3: in the losing wiffleball locker room exactly.
Speaker 1: See the story. That's the way to go, right there.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get on that and have a wonderful
Speaker 1: rest of your Sunday again.
Speaker 4: We'll be back.
Speaker 1: And this is a week a lot of people are
Speaker 1: dreading Nanny, you know.
Speaker 4: And the business.
Speaker 1: What are we going to talk about? Everyone will be fine.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to worry about. I have friends of my
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's no NBA talked about.
Speaker 4: NBA games anyway.
Speaker 1: There'll be plenty of ridiculous stories to discuss and crazy
Speaker 1: things that will happen, and there'll be all kinds of
Speaker 1: chatter of NFL players going here, there and everywhere. There's
Speaker 1: already a lot of noise about Aaron Rodgers where he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up.
Speaker 4: Dabo getting cut exactly.
Speaker 1: Deebo where he's gonna go, Cooper Cup, Matt Stafford, trade rumors,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and we'll yap about.
Speaker 4: All of it because it's competing sports talk radio.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful day, and we got new pods next weekend.
Speaker 4: Cannot wait.
Speaker 1: We'll be there and I'll be on the radio all weekend.
Speaker 4: Danny, You'll be on.
Speaker 1: With Cobino and Rich as well during the week and
Speaker 1: you can listen to Danny there with those guys and
Speaker 1: listen to me at night.
Speaker 3: Yep, Monday through Wednesday, we are in for the Dan
Speaker 3: Patrick Show.
Speaker 4: There you go, So.
Speaker 1: Check that out and we'll talk to you whatever.
Speaker 4: Asta pasta later, skater, Did I do that right? Hey,
Speaker 4: that's my line. Got a murder? I gotta go