Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in
Speaker 2: the air.
Speaker 1: Every it is a football Sunday. But forget those Network
Speaker 1: TV pregame shows. No, no, no, A little little bit,
Speaker 1: just a little bit of the Fifth Hour with me,
Speaker 1: Big Ben and Danny g Radio. That is the perfect
Speaker 1: warm up to your football Sunday. And I will be
Speaker 1: at my first NFL game this year, Danny. Later today,
Speaker 1: I will be at SO five Stadium in the hood
Speaker 1: in Inglewood. I am scheduled, barring some kind of last
Speaker 1: minute snap who I am scheduled to attend a game that
Speaker 1: should be over at halftime, which means I can get
Speaker 1: out of there just after halftime. My Rams who are
Speaker 1: actually taking resumes. If you want to play for the
Speaker 1: Rams today, send your email with your resume of the Rams.
Speaker 1: They might put you in the line up the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster today as they are beaten, broken and
Speaker 1: tattered and massive underdogs at home against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and I'm imagining that there'll be a hostile takeover of
Speaker 1: red forty nine fans. The thing about this, and I've
Speaker 1: seen this a lot. I've been to forty nine ram
Speaker 1: games for the last couple of years, and I was
Speaker 1: at the NFC Championship game when the year they got
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. It is amazing, Danny, how many
Speaker 1: dudes our age are Dodger fans and forty nine er fans.
Speaker 1: You'd think those things would not go together, but there
Speaker 1: was no team in LA for a good stretch of time,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of guys went to the Niners.
Speaker 3: I guess we also have, you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: cross pollination between Northern California and southern California, just like
Speaker 3: how my family went back and forth between the two regions.
Speaker 3: That's why you get a lot of Dodger fans up
Speaker 3: in Northern California that invade the park there whenever the
Speaker 3: Dodgers is at the Giants. But you're right, because there
Speaker 3: was a void for a while, you'd get Cowboys fans
Speaker 3: because of the training camp situation in California, it's a
Speaker 3: lot of Rams, Cowboys, Raiders, forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dodgers though, at this point, everywhere the Dodgers go,
Speaker 1: it's like a mass migration. There's like a stampede of
Speaker 1: Dodger fans. It's unbelievable, like how many. Like it just
Speaker 1: blows me away, like a Dodge has always been somewhat popular,
Speaker 1: but when I was around the team, we'd go on
Speaker 1: the road and some there would no Dodger. You can
Speaker 1: see a couple Dodgers fans. It seems like everywhere they go.
Speaker 1: Now they have this massive bull rush at Dodger fans.
Speaker 1: It's wild. I know they have the fan group that
Speaker 1: does that and schedule stuff.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I was just going to bring them up
Speaker 3: based off the color of the Dodger blue.
Speaker 1: Okay, I forget the name of it, but yeah, those
Speaker 1: guys are.
Speaker 3: Wild online to social media, inviting fellow Dodger fans on
Speaker 3: these big trips that they do. They're very organized and
Speaker 3: it's amazing how well Dodger fans travel.
Speaker 1: You wonder how much they're actually are they making money
Speaker 1: on that because they're probably what they're doing is they're
Speaker 1: like travel Your wife does that, right, she's in the
Speaker 1: travel world.
Speaker 3: I think, huh yeah, they do travel packages for fans.
Speaker 3: Make a fee off of those packages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I wonder they must be making.
Speaker 3: It adds up when you have hundreds of people going
Speaker 3: on a trip.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the men and o Tani. We got
Speaker 4: to mention Otani. Really, we haven't mentioned him. We've got
Speaker 4: till Sunday. We haven't mentioned till Oh, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: Thursday on the radio show with Covino and Rich We're
Speaker 3: live doing our show and the game was on while
Speaker 3: we were on, so we got to react to the
Speaker 3: forty ninth home run. We were taking a phone call
Speaker 3: and I'm pumping my fist. I'm celebrating because in front
Speaker 3: of me, he hits that monster moonshot to run Homer
Speaker 3: to get to forty nine. They see me through the
Speaker 3: glass celebrating. They thought I was reacting to something the
Speaker 3: caller was talking about. And then they look up at
Speaker 3: the monitors and they're like, oh, Tony hit another one.
Speaker 3: A game for the ages man. And talk about bad timing.
Speaker 3: You talked about it on the podcast in the live air.
Speaker 3: When there's a hard out on the network, there's nothing
Speaker 3: we can do. It hits whether we're ready for it
Speaker 3: or not, or we want it to hit or not.
Speaker 3: He's up to bat again. Right as we're signing off,
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich are saying goodbye, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Make sure you tune into this at bat and they
Speaker 3: say later, boom we are. Fox Sports comes on and
Speaker 3: literally ten seconds later, he rocks his fiftieth home run.
Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, and we were jumping up and down
Speaker 3: off the air. It was nice to celebrate with everybody
Speaker 3: in the studios, the editors and you know, the odd
Speaker 3: couple who were on next. Everybody was so excited. That
Speaker 3: part of it was memorable. But what sucked is, as
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes when a live sporting event is on
Speaker 3: and you're also simultaneously doing a radio show, like back
Speaker 3: when you were on Weekends with Looney, there would be
Speaker 3: something memorable that would happen right right after the hard
Speaker 3: out hit. So there was nothing you could do to
Speaker 3: cover it.
Speaker 1: No, for sure, and I you know what, I had
Speaker 1: the vibe and obviously I'm on at night. So unless
Speaker 1: they play in like Japan, there's nothing going on when
Speaker 1: I'm on. But it was like it reminded me when
Speaker 1: I was doing local radio and before we knew about
Speaker 1: the whole steroid thing, the whole country was captivated, at
Speaker 1: least the sporting country with McGuire and Sosa. That home
Speaker 1: run race.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they would cut into whatever was on the
Speaker 3: big networks and go to each at bat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was insane how popular that was. That was
Speaker 1: like one of the last hurrahs of baseball in the nineties.
Speaker 1: And we were doing local radio and we would give
Speaker 1: like the we'd have the games on and I like,
Speaker 1: do the We're not You're not allowed to do it.
Speaker 1: I had a PD you shouldn't do that. We don't
Speaker 1: have the rights, so, you know, kind of doing faux
Speaker 1: play by play, and I remember I fell out. I
Speaker 1: fell out of my chair one time when Sammy Sosa
Speaker 1: hit a home run and it was a moonshot and
Speaker 1: we were so so excited. But it did have that
Speaker 1: kind of vibe and it was cool and I mean
Speaker 1: nice of the Marlins to just keep pitch. I said
Speaker 1: this on my show the other you know, back on
Speaker 1: Thursday to Friday, the last show we did live show
Speaker 1: of the Week, and I was like, you're the Marlins,
Speaker 1: so there's second worst team in baseball. Yes, you should
Speaker 1: pitch to old Tani, like what are you worried about.
Speaker 1: You're not trying to make the playoffs or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Like that's the greatest moment in that franchise's history for
Speaker 1: this year anyway, you know, they gave up the lot.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sure on the Marlins postgame show,
Speaker 1: I'm not in Miami, but I'm guessing that they featured
Speaker 1: that and they went, you know, went over Otani's day
Speaker 1: and that was the highlight because they don't have any
Speaker 1: highlights on that team.
Speaker 3: So I was happy to see what their manager said
Speaker 3: afterwards that you know, he wanted to do right by
Speaker 3: baseball and challenge Jotani and not have bad karma come
Speaker 3: his or the team's way. And I like that approach,
Speaker 3: you know, rather than intentionally walking a guy who's close
Speaker 3: to history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that happens in all sports now where there's
Speaker 1: this mindset we can allow can't be the team that
Speaker 1: allows history. Like somebody's going for you know, ninety points
Speaker 1: in a basketball game and they I pull Shenanigainst to
Speaker 1: try to try to derail them from setting the record, right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the team that gives up,
Speaker 1: you know, the next player to score one hundred points
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a stat line like that for
Speaker 3: one baseball player in one game?
Speaker 1: Why? I mean, I was trying to think. I was
Speaker 1: like when I remember years ago there was a guy
Speaker 1: named Mark Whitten who had a bunch of home runs,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't perfect for the Cardinals. He had twelve
Speaker 1: RBIs or something like that. But yeah, I mean, see,
Speaker 1: according to the nerds, that was the greatest day in
Speaker 1: if you can bind stolen bases, home runs, doubles total bases,
Speaker 1: it was like the greatest day since at least nineteen
Speaker 1: oh one. So it's been one hundred and twenty something
Speaker 1: years and they don't have anything, and they have all
Speaker 1: the numbers. I mean, they go through every day. The
Speaker 1: negro leagues are now included in the database they have
Speaker 1: at like Baseball Reference, and at least unless I missed it,
Speaker 1: that was considered the greatest performance. And it's it's nuts.
Speaker 1: It's it reminds you of very Bonds. Mean, Aaron Judges
Speaker 1: a similar type situation in the American League, but O'tani
Speaker 1: playing for the Dodgers. I remember Bonds with the Giants
Speaker 1: when he was on all the steroids. Man, that guy
Speaker 1: was insane.
Speaker 3: What a whole new world for Otani too, from the
Speaker 3: Angels to this.
Speaker 1: Slightly different neighborhood, slightly different fan.
Speaker 3: Base, the Anaheim Oh I'm sorry, the Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 3: of Fullerton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see that you're sucking up to for Let's get
Speaker 1: to the let's get to this mail bag.
Speaker 5: It's dark guy.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Ohio. Aw we thank you, Ohio. You're doing
Speaker 1: God's work. So alf from the general manager's office right
Speaker 1: since its Ben, I know you touched on this on
Speaker 1: the radio, but on this format you can really let
Speaker 1: it rip. How does it feel that all these years
Speaker 1: of screaming into the dark and thinking that no one
Speaker 1: can hear you, that you're reaching high ranking officials in
Speaker 1: major sports organizations. Personally, I'd like to thank you for
Speaker 1: providing my friends, to my friends and family that I
Speaker 1: haven't wasted the last twenty plus years. And also thank
Speaker 1: you for saving us these sportsmans from watching these teams
Speaker 1: trot out big bags of suck week after week. And
Speaker 1: then he quotes mister Hutton there when Ben speaks. People listen.
Speaker 1: I do get a kick out of it. Alf. It's
Speaker 1: actually happened a lot more in the last I would say,
Speaker 1: fifteen years, with the power that social media has. And
Speaker 1: as you know, Danny, there are camus all the time
Speaker 1: in those studios.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's what I was going to say. A
Speaker 3: lot of video clips go viral.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, so I'll say something on the radio and
Speaker 1: it'll have a lifespan and then the video and the
Speaker 1: stuff I do, the video pops up during the day
Speaker 1: and so that then gets seen by other people. And
Speaker 1: it is amusing, though, when you find out that people
Speaker 1: that are in charge of multi billion dollars sports leagues
Speaker 1: have contacted your boss to complain about a take you
Speaker 1: had that broadcast at four in the morning. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's I find it hilarious. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, really, you are that paranoid, you are that sensitive,
Speaker 1: You're that neurotic that the guy in the magic radio
Speaker 1: box cannot give that take without some kind of retribution
Speaker 1: from you, Like you you're not confident enough in your skin,
Speaker 1: or is the idiot on the radio, the blowhard on
Speaker 1: the radio correct, And that's why you're upset because you
Speaker 1: spoke the truth. I don't know, but I do get
Speaker 1: a kick out of it. It's pretty crazy, pretty pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: So but thank you, thank you. I'm upset I didn't
Speaker 1: get to meet Alf. I was hoping I cant that
Speaker 1: big storm, the last minute thing. Hopefully next year, Alf,
Speaker 1: if you keep watching and get everyone you know to
Speaker 1: watch Benny Versus the Penny, they'll pick up the show
Speaker 1: for a third year, we hope, and then I'll be
Speaker 1: back in Boston again and we'll make sure we'll schedule
Speaker 1: something to meet. Got to meet Alf. I met Masshole
Speaker 1: Mickey and then several other fans that should have blind Scott.
Speaker 1: I saw him again. So I want to want to
Speaker 1: meet Alf. That's something we've got to make happen. So
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before he passes away, because that cast, that TV cast,
Speaker 3: the kid, the guy who played the little kid on
Speaker 3: the show, just recently passed away.
Speaker 1: So no, no, Alf, Alf's an alien will live forever. What. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: Alf is you know how we have like lizard people
Speaker 1: to listen to show. But Alf's from another part of
Speaker 1: the cosmos. Yeah, Iken Fullerton writes, and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: Ben in Danny g not to drag you guys down
Speaker 1: another sports rabbit hole, but I owe Danny g an
Speaker 1: apology for bragging on his guy Antonio Pierce last week.
Speaker 1: That was an impressive win over the ravens Now. I
Speaker 1: hope that Pierce coaches the Raiders for a very short
Speaker 1: time for my charger's sake, he says, And then he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: were you as disgusted as I was when Coop admitted
Speaker 1: he accidentally stole a pack of gum as a kid. Sadly,
Speaker 1: I think his crime has long passed the statute of
Speaker 1: limitations for any kind of legal punishment, but Mike says
Speaker 1: that does not rule out show punishment. Maybe you could
Speaker 1: dock his pay by the value of the gum or
Speaker 1: make him talk to hollering James for an entire night. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be tremendously horrible punishment to have to talk
Speaker 1: to It's like corporal punishment. Well, he's gotten NARCOLEPSI, so
Speaker 1: James would just randomly fall asleep anyway, He just like
Speaker 1: starts start snoozing. And do you not have some Raider
Speaker 1: fan porn there? For Antonio Pierce. Heading into today's game
Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: Day, Dunna. What a oh, what a victory last Sunday,
Speaker 3: and we covered it because, as he mentioned, we kind
Speaker 3: of went down a little bit of a rabbit hole
Speaker 3: based on the question we got about Antonio Pierce, and
Speaker 3: we both were right. We called that game. Not only
Speaker 3: did they cover, they won. Their defense obviously was good
Speaker 3: enough to beat that team and any team if they're clicking,
Speaker 3: and that offense finally clicked in the second half. Favorite
Speaker 3: moment of that game, Ben, is when Max Crosby got
Speaker 3: up in in Minshu's face as he waddled off to
Speaker 3: the sideline after throwing that second half interception and stuck
Speaker 3: his finger in his chest and was like, come on, dude,
Speaker 3: stay in the game like I got you. I got
Speaker 3: with the defense. Me and the defense have your back.
Speaker 3: Great thing about Crosby he just doesn't say shit. He
Speaker 3: backs it up with his play on the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Raiders. You know, I'm a Rams fan, but
Speaker 1: I'm this year, I'm pulling for the Raiders. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some people behind the scenes I'm pulling for. But
Speaker 1: my buddy I was watching the game with he came
Speaker 1: over for a football palser there and so we were
Speaker 1: focusing on the Raiders game. We're flipping around. I was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, they got the schedule, They're like, they're set
Speaker 1: up if they just win the games they're supposed to win. Like,
Speaker 1: we could wake up here by week seven or eight,
Speaker 1: assuming they don't have an implosion, and the Raiders could
Speaker 1: be right there. I mean, he's play you play the
Speaker 1: cold game. It's a weasel term. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the upcoming schedule, assuming they don't many hiccups and
Speaker 1: just do what they're supposed to do, the Raiders are
Speaker 1: going to have a really good record. They're they're one
Speaker 1: in one right now. They got Carolina, worst team in football.
Speaker 1: They got the Browns the following week they suck the
Speaker 1: creepy quarterback. He got Denver, the the Broncos, who have
Speaker 1: no quarterback. The Steelers don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, I was told Bo Knicks was the
Speaker 3: next John Elway.
Speaker 1: Well he was, mister August. He looked great in August.
Speaker 1: Then you play the Rams. Raiders play the Rams in
Speaker 1: la A week seven. So if you those are all
Speaker 1: winnable getting out of Steeler game, man, you know Steelers defense,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. So that'll be that'll be the toughest one.
Speaker 1: But assuming you beat Carolina, Cleveland, Denver, and La the Rams,
Speaker 1: you're sitting at five and two going into the game
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Yeah. I hope you're right.
Speaker 3: You know, the pessimistic side of me says, uh oh.
Speaker 3: When the Raiders are favored, they play down to the
Speaker 3: competition and they look kind of lazy sometimes in games
Speaker 3: they're favored in. I hope that that leadership on the
Speaker 3: field and now on the sideline with Antonio Pierce, I
Speaker 3: hope that translates to them winning the games they're supposed
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, playing down to the competition. Oh, we'll see. But Antonio,
Speaker 1: they're not making penalties. This is unlike any Raider team
Speaker 1: I can recall here. They've cut down tremendously on the mistakes.
Speaker 3: So thank god, thank you Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1: All Right, Kevin in Minnesota. Right, So, he says, hey
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, Hey Ben, you probably don't remember I
Speaker 1: met you at the Mermaid. It's been a while. Now.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed visiting our state and wanted to
Speaker 1: let you know that I have influenced He says, in
Speaker 1: quotes five co workers and at least five of my
Speaker 1: relatives to watch Benny Versus The Penny on Peacock. He says,
Speaker 1: I enjoy enjoy the show. Thank you. Keviny Elsa says,
Speaker 1: do you see yourself doing other TV work? Yes, if
Speaker 1: anybody wants me, contact me. But I don't get to
Speaker 1: make those decisions, Kevin. But I'm having I'm having fun.
Speaker 1: I love radio, that's my first love. But I've I've
Speaker 1: gotten I don't want to say used to TV because
Speaker 1: I don't think you ever get used to that world.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a foreign world to me, having no
Speaker 1: word makeup and like nice clothes and crap like that.
Speaker 1: So it's weird. But I think I'm getting a little
Speaker 1: better week by week and getting a little more comfortable.
Speaker 1: So who knows what the future holds, Kevin, But we're
Speaker 1: having We're having a good time, and we're just gonna
Speaker 1: ride this out and if it ends this year, that's it.
Speaker 1: It was a great two years, and if we get
Speaker 1: a third year, even better. And it's really going to
Speaker 1: be determined by how many people watch it. So you're
Speaker 1: helping us. I think, if my math is correct, you
Speaker 1: said at least five relatives and five Coores. So that's
Speaker 1: like ten people. That's like a massive, massive amount people.
Speaker 1: If everyone does that, I think we'll be fine. Big
Speaker 1: Wu from the LBC rights and he says, hey, in
Speaker 1: the Long Beach area, Beny Versus the Penny has shown
Speaker 1: on the Historians TV cable channel Spectrum Sportsnet. They have
Speaker 1: two channels that play simultaneously. Because of this, Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny has shown twelve times a weekend.
Speaker 3: I have heard it's eleven times too many.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think it should be showing more. And
Speaker 1: he says, I if I watch and record each show,
Speaker 1: will you get ratings credit for one home or twelve homes?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, Big Lou, but I don't know
Speaker 1: how all that works. But here's what I would say.
Speaker 1: If you watch it on that and then you also
Speaker 1: watch it on Peacock, that's all I can ask. I
Speaker 1: can't ask you to watch it twelve times. I know
Speaker 1: alf does that. You know that's my you know, my
Speaker 1: guy in Massachusetts. But thank you, Big Lou. You know
Speaker 1: what I did for you. Ben.
Speaker 3: Last weekend I was traveling, so I was only able
Speaker 3: to load it and let the intro go because the
Speaker 3: weekend was so busy. But I figured that that's still
Speaker 3: was counting as a view.
Speaker 1: Uhhat, it doesn't. In fact, I mentioned yesterday. I think
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. We talked about the party where I
Speaker 1: made the brownies and stuff, and my mother in law
Speaker 1: was there and she brought one of her friends. She
Speaker 1: said old back in the day, she was a nurse.
Speaker 1: She's retired now. But another nurse was there, and so
Speaker 1: she was introducing her friend to me, and she mentioned
Speaker 1: the TV show and so you know how you size
Speaker 1: up someone within like thirty seconds, you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of right away, hey, this person's you know, didn't
Speaker 1: seem like a sporty person. So I told the woman,
Speaker 1: I said, listen, I know you're probably not a sports fan,
Speaker 1: and that's perfectly fine. Okay, I get it. I'm part
Speaker 1: of a cult, but if you can a solid, I said,
Speaker 1: do you have Peacock? She said, I got Peacock. I said, wonderful.
Speaker 1: I said, here's what I want you to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want you on Friday afternoon or Saturday. I want
Speaker 1: you when you get up to start the day. I
Speaker 1: want you to turn on Peacock, start the show. I
Speaker 1: then want you to go you know, do your morning routine, shower,
Speaker 1: brush your teeth, do whatever you in the morning, and
Speaker 1: then by the time you're done with all that, the
Speaker 1: show will be over. I'll get credit for you watching
Speaker 1: and then go on with your day. And she was
Speaker 1: she was laughing, and she's like, oh, yeah, I'll actually
Speaker 1: watch it you Okay, So that was pretty cool. So Jason,
Speaker 1: here's what. Oh this is right up your alley, Jason
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma, right since, says you, guys, Ben and Dann,
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on our big local controversy. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: did you see this story?
Speaker 5: Danny?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, let me click it. This is actually the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State Fair scandal rocks Oklahoma State Fair.
Speaker 3: You were there, Yeah, it was there last Sunday.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is a good one. Thank you, Jason. This
Speaker 1: is awesome. So the Oklahoma State Fair and then they
Speaker 1: this is a news story that I have. According to
Speaker 1: Kate Coo, there was a contest where a bunch of
Speaker 1: people signed up for a Battle of Endurance. They got
Speaker 1: into a twenty twenty four Nissan CenTra at eleven am
Speaker 1: on Thursday, knowing that they would be disqualified if they
Speaker 1: left for any reason. So this is the bit we
Speaker 1: radio stations used to do this back in the day.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, until somebody died. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they had to stay in the guarden. So
Speaker 1: they were allowed to take a bathroom break every three hours,
Speaker 1: but that was the only time they were allowed to
Speaker 1: get out, and any remnants of any food that was
Speaker 1: consumed also needed to remain in the vehicle. So this guy, Brian,
Speaker 1: according to the news story, he clinched the victory when
Speaker 1: the other guy, who was from Arkansas, this guy named Chris,
Speaker 1: gave up. However, things took a turn to the wild
Speaker 1: side when the runner up filed a formal complaint with
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma State Fair claiming that the person that won
Speaker 1: used illegal means to win the event.
Speaker 5: And uh.
Speaker 1: Like coca No, no, no, it's even worse than that.
Speaker 1: So the guy claims he posted a video or a
Speaker 1: rant on social media. So the guy says, before he
Speaker 1: tapped out, the other guy came back to the car
Speaker 1: after it was with his final bathroom break, and he
Speaker 1: came back with a cup of shit. He had he
Speaker 1: had like shit that he This is so disgusting. So
Speaker 1: this guy's claiming the guy had gone to the bathroom
Speaker 1: and you know how you're in the porta potti and
Speaker 1: stuff piles up, and he filled his cup with the
Speaker 1: feces and then came back to the car and put
Speaker 1: the cup of poo in the car. And so these
Speaker 1: are the guys like, hey, this is disgusting. This guy's
Speaker 1: an animal, right goblin. And so so the guy, the
Speaker 1: other guy, the guy he told the organizers says, that's
Speaker 1: violating the rules. You can't bring things into the car.
Speaker 3: So he did he did that to force the other
Speaker 3: guy out.
Speaker 1: Yes, and the guy did quit. The guy said out
Speaker 1: of self respect. He he gave up. And so the
Speaker 1: guy won because of a cup of shit. Uh, that
Speaker 1: is so nasty. It's gamesmanship on the next level, Danny.
Speaker 1: It's gamesmanship.
Speaker 3: Ship is a really shitty way to win a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the car. So like you got to get
Speaker 1: it detailed right away because it's probably smells. Boy, those
Speaker 1: porta potties, oh man, And with what you were saying
Speaker 1: about the weather in Oklahoma, the smell that wow. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Jason Greg writes in from the UK. Think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like the runner up should win that car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Greg writes in from the ukses, Does this
Speaker 1: guy does this story ring about you? Guys? He says
Speaker 1: he's he's an ex pat. He says he's from from
Speaker 1: the States, but he's living abroad, and then he sends
Speaker 1: a story here. Did you see the former Arsenal player
Speaker 1: arrested for smuggling eight hundred thousand dollars of weed from
Speaker 1: Thailand to England? So I didn't see this story, but
Speaker 1: it does ring about you. You know the famous you
Speaker 1: remember the famous NFL player Danny that briefly worked at
Speaker 1: our place. Well, I think before you were there, worked
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio who also got ding for smuggling
Speaker 1: the weed. I know who you're talking about. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be the Dallas cowboy legend, Nate Newton. Nate Nate Newton.
Speaker 1: We had James Washington who was part of those great
Speaker 1: cowboy teams, and James was friends with eight and so
Speaker 1: Nate came to our place. But he got dinged. I
Speaker 1: think it was around that amount of money of weed
Speaker 1: he got dinged with, and he was facing like twenty
Speaker 1: years in jail. But he's a cowboy. It happened I
Speaker 1: think it happened in Texas, so he didn't get too
Speaker 1: much jail time, but it was like one hundred and
Speaker 1: something pounds might have been even more than that of
Speaker 1: weed that he had in his car and he got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he served. Newton served just over two years in jail.
Speaker 1: Which is bad, but when you're facing twenty years, is good, right,
Speaker 1: He's like, well, like in two years, I can treat
Speaker 1: it like a nice all.
Speaker 3: And it was federal prison. Is that a little better?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I'm sure either.
Speaker 3: I'm glad neither of us have experience in that federal
Speaker 3: You have to.
Speaker 1: Serve eighty is it eighty or eighty five percent? Do
Speaker 1: you know the I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: on that, and we hope to never find out. But
Speaker 1: I think it's eighty to eighty five percent in the
Speaker 1: federal federal pen. So if my let's see the math here.
Speaker 1: So if it's eighty percent.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, it says federal prisons are known for their
Speaker 3: higher security measures and that translates to a safer environment. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I guess you're just a little safer in federal prison.
Speaker 3: But the math, so if he was sentenced the eighty
Speaker 3: was it eighty months, he says, or thirty thirty months,
Speaker 3: but eighty percent of thirty months, that's he had to
Speaker 3: serve twenty Oh yeah, so you're right, two years, so
Speaker 3: that's twenty it's obvious you already said it twenty four months,
Speaker 3: but year and a half.
Speaker 1: So okay, I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They said
Speaker 1: there would be no math Mark and Providence right sin
Speaker 1: He says he's a latrine technician, which is a wonderful
Speaker 1: way to say you clean toilets. I love that. And
Speaker 1: this guy Mark his boots on the ground, Danny. He
Speaker 1: has been watching NBC Sports Boston religiously on Fridays, Saturdays
Speaker 1: and Sundays, but he watches it like apparently all the time.
Speaker 1: It's his favorite channel. Mark in Providence, the latrine Technician,
Speaker 1: and he's been giving me daily email updates for the promos,
Speaker 1: which I don't even know about. We taped a bunch
Speaker 1: of promos. They flew us back to Boston. We had
Speaker 1: a whole recording session all day and it was a
Speaker 1: hole to do. It took forever and we were like
Speaker 1: watching the Olympics and then recording crap and they sliced
Speaker 1: it all up and so apparently they made promos that
Speaker 1: are airing on NBC Sports Boston, and Mark has been
Speaker 1: documenting like the different shows Scott Zolak, the old Patriots quarterback.
Speaker 1: He has a radio show Felger and Maz big radio
Speaker 1: show in Boston. So I did want to say tip
Speaker 1: of the headphones to Mark in Providence. Good job by you.
Speaker 1: Jason from Toledo, right tannl on the mailbag, He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: do you have a problem with Eddie taking time off
Speaker 1: from work during the NFL season. I know he's in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh this weekend. I remember you used to say not
Speaker 1: to miss any time this part of the year. Do
Speaker 1: you think Eddie feels guilty? No, I mean I listen,
Speaker 1: it's Eddie's life. He gets time off. You can do
Speaker 1: what you want. I mean, that's not something I try
Speaker 1: to do, but that's Eddie and Eddie definitely. Eddie does
Speaker 1: not believe in following the old school teachings that we
Speaker 1: were taught not to take time off during football season.
Speaker 1: Most of the nicknames Eddie's gotten are because he takes
Speaker 1: time off Jason to go to events like there are
Speaker 1: certain events that are kind of big in sports radio,
Speaker 1: and Eddie's missed a lot of them because he's just
Speaker 1: gone to random stuff like the NFL. He attended the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, but it wasn't the draft. He was like
Speaker 1: a draft party at Disneyland. And so that's how he
Speaker 1: got the new named steamboat Willie because of that. But
Speaker 1: but no, I mean it's to take time off. It's
Speaker 1: not something I would choose to do. Like I'm still
Speaker 1: I think we talked about it last weekend, Danny. But
Speaker 1: like there's a Malor meet and greet that is in
Speaker 1: the works, and I would have to travel, and because
Speaker 1: of the travel, I would have to miss a night
Speaker 1: of the show and it would be a Sunday night
Speaker 1: into a Monday, and that's a very important day and
Speaker 1: I don't really want to do that, but I want
Speaker 1: to go to the event. And so I'm like juggling,
Speaker 1: like and i'd rush back, like I'd be I gotta
Speaker 1: get back to do the show and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So and I don't think I'll be able to do
Speaker 1: the show from the city because of the logistics of it.
Speaker 1: So but no, I mean, you'll have a fine time.
Speaker 1: But I was raised, I'm I'm actually younger than Eddie.
Speaker 1: But I guess I took this stuff more seriously because
Speaker 1: when I was coming up in radio, I had bosses
Speaker 1: that were like, listen, you take vacation between February and
Speaker 1: September because we can take a couple days around Christmas
Speaker 1: and New Year's. But this is where we make our profit.
Speaker 1: This is where we have the biggest audiences during football season,
Speaker 1: and that's the most people listening. And so I've always
Speaker 1: kind of followed that. And people have time off, they
Speaker 1: take time off when they want, it's not as important
Speaker 1: to them. Then you do your thing.
Speaker 3: And the NFL season is like Christmas for us or
Speaker 3: huge NFL fans. Why would you want to miss radio
Speaker 3: shows during Christmas?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the heavy lifting is in like May
Speaker 1: and June. That's the heavy lifting, right, That's that's where
Speaker 1: things things get a little a little dicey. But anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you Jason for that. What else do we have
Speaker 1: see here? Jason and Phoenix says, hey, guys, enjoy the
Speaker 1: radio show. On the podcast is Hollering James real? Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you think this is an act? And then he
Speaker 1: made the Yeah, the other night, Danny James called up
Speaker 1: and had a vintage Hollering James call. He was snowing,
Speaker 1: but we think he snored and fargate at the same time.
Speaker 1: We're pretty sure that he had a special which and
Speaker 1: then Jason says, not even possible. Well, first thing, Jason,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long you've been listening, but I
Speaker 1: actually have met hollering James. It seems like he's not real.
Speaker 1: I met him, and yeah, he's He's quite quite the character.
Speaker 3: Who was more impressive when you met them in person?
Speaker 3: Hollering James or helmet Man.
Speaker 1: Huh uh, Well they're both cut out of the same cloth.
Speaker 1: How about that whatever wing we come from as human beings,
Speaker 1: Hollering James and helmet Man very similar, very similar. Back,
Speaker 1: I think weed Man hippies in that same category. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they just make life more interesting. Surfer Todd, the comedian,
Speaker 1: great character and his wife Ben.
Speaker 3: After we make our millions, like we signed million, multimillion
Speaker 3: dollar contracts, it would be so cool to start a
Speaker 3: radio network where we only employ dudes like that, Like
Speaker 3: we give helmet Man his own daily show.
Speaker 1: I'm actually on the live air, Yes, you're on the.
Speaker 3: And after Helmet Man it's Surfer Todd and after weed
Speaker 3: Man comes on the air. Can you imagine that lineup?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I mean, I know Stern tried that with
Speaker 1: his but we we are people. Come on, man, you
Speaker 1: imagine an hour the Doc Mike Medical Hour.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't know if i'd include him
Speaker 3: on the lineup.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't hear more than five minute phone call from
Speaker 3: that dude. When I'd answer his calls behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: he was really nice. But when he gets on the
Speaker 3: air with you, I don't know. There's something about his cadence,
Speaker 3: his voice, something that irritates me a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm going to decapitate a goat. How many legal disclaimers
Speaker 1: would we have to have for the Doc Mike Medical Hour?
Speaker 1: Doc Bobs? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Can you imagine who's the one caller that you have
Speaker 3: right now that you think would have a hit radio show?
Speaker 1: Well, James Snoring if you could just get James Snoring
Speaker 1: with the Great Game. But it's like, listen, there's guys
Speaker 1: the call up that have a tremendous shtick of like
Speaker 1: Jed who fled, could do a five hour show in
Speaker 1: thirty minutes because he talks so fast. Because of all
Speaker 1: the drugs you could have. I don't know, Like.
Speaker 3: I think I think that you missed out a little
Speaker 3: bit because you have Poppy picking against Lorraine right now,
Speaker 3: But imagine Poppy picking against Holler and James. Like one
Speaker 3: snore you know, is this team two snores is the
Speaker 3: home team. Yeah, that's what you do. Two snores the
Speaker 3: home team, one snore the away team.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Well, that was the single greatest
Speaker 1: thing that we have done in any game show is
Speaker 1: the night that James played the game too much, not enough, fastest.
Speaker 1: All that was hilarious. Should have been a national story.
Speaker 1: Bad job that we didn't get enough promotion out of that.
Speaker 3: That honestly was your Mark Coney opportunity.
Speaker 1: That was the greatest night right there that we will
Speaker 1: never and people have said, I've gotten emails Danny from
Speaker 1: fans of the show They're like, why don't you do
Speaker 1: that again? You can't recreate it. You can't recreate it.
Speaker 1: It's a one time thing. If you were there, you
Speaker 1: heard it, you'll remember it. But if you weren't there,
Speaker 1: I mean trust this. I don't know what day that was.
Speaker 1: Some fans could go back and find the podcast, but
Speaker 1: it was unread.
Speaker 3: It's like the Holy Roller only happened once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't you can't bring it back, cannot do it.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get out on that anything, Danny. It's sunny.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously get the You watch the Raiders Panthers
Speaker 1: game here and then you better not lose to we
Speaker 1: just here you, I know, for what it's worth, Danny.
Speaker 1: On the TV show, which is still airing, it'll end today,
Speaker 1: stop runn I guess I'll see it on Peacock. But
Speaker 1: I did take Carolina to get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a bump. I took them plus the points. I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll win the game, but as you were saying earlier,
Speaker 1: the Raiders do have a tendency of playing down to
Speaker 1: the opponent, and they're coming off a major win against
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender, and the Ravens on the road
Speaker 1: against the two time MVP.
Speaker 3: They It is the home opener, and how many Carolina
Speaker 3: fans are going to be in attendance. That is going
Speaker 3: to be probably the most Raider fans you see there
Speaker 3: for one game at Allegiant this season.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a Carolina fan and there's
Speaker 1: one game to go to.
Speaker 3: True, that's what's shitty about having a stadium in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: No matter who you're playing against. The opposing fans are
Speaker 3: going to travel just because of your locale.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll be at the ram game, but I'll
Speaker 1: be watching all these other games. Just ram it. Yes,
Speaker 1: a greatness of the autumn wind is a raider. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, yeah that's what's going I'll be back
Speaker 1: tonight on the radio, on the radio, back on the
Speaker 1: radio tonight, yapping about all the things that happened today
Speaker 1: and all the NFL news fit to converse about on
Speaker 1: the radio. So we'll catch you then have a wonderful
Speaker 1: rest of your Sunday. Thank you for watching Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny this weekend on the TV side, And we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time. Austa Basta got a murder. I
Speaker 1: gotta go.