WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Just Missed a Marconi" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.280 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.160 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:30.400 the air. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:38.800 Every it is a football Sunday. But forget those Network 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:44.080 TV pregame shows. No, no, no, A little little bit, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.000 just a little bit of the Fifth Hour with me, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.479 Big Ben and Danny g Radio. That is the perfect 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:57.200 warm up to your football Sunday. And I will be 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.000 at my first NFL game this year, Danny. Later today, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.440 I will be at SO five Stadium in the hood 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.920 in Inglewood. I am scheduled, barring some kind of last 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.880 minute snap who I am scheduled to attend a game that 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.960 should be over at halftime, which means I can get 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.000 out of there just after halftime. My Rams who are 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.360 actually taking resumes. If you want to play for the 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.199 Rams today, send your email with your resume of the Rams. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.039 They might put you in the line up the fifty 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.319 three man roster today as they are beaten, broken and 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:37.080 tattered and massive underdogs at home against the forty nine ers, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.880 and I'm imagining that there'll be a hostile takeover of 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.960 red forty nine fans. The thing about this, and I've 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.600 seen this a lot. I've been to forty nine ram 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.440 games for the last couple of years, and I was 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.640 at the NFC Championship game when the year they got 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.040 to the Super Bowl. It is amazing, Danny, how many 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:59.080 dudes our age are Dodger fans and forty nine er fans. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.280 You'd think those things would not go together, but there 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.520 was no team in LA for a good stretch of time, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.320 and so a lot of guys went to the Niners. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.800 I guess we also have, you know, a lot of 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.520 cross pollination between Northern California and southern California, just like 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.280 how my family went back and forth between the two regions. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.960 That's why you get a lot of Dodger fans up 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.480 in Northern California that invade the park there whenever the 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.799 Dodgers is at the Giants. But you're right, because there 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.560 was a void for a while, you'd get Cowboys fans 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.320 because of the training camp situation in California, it's a 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.800 lot of Rams, Cowboys, Raiders, forty nine ers. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.440 Yeah, the Dodgers though, at this point, everywhere the Dodgers go, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.480 it's like a mass migration. There's like a stampede of 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:51.480 Dodger fans. It's unbelievable, like how many. Like it just 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.320 blows me away, like a Dodge has always been somewhat popular, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.040 but when I was around the team, we'd go on 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.160 the road and some there would no Dodger. You can 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.960 see a couple Dodgers fans. It seems like everywhere they go. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:07.280 Now they have this massive bull rush at Dodger fans. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.080 It's wild. I know they have the fan group that 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.560 does that and schedule stuff. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.560 And yeah, I was just going to bring them up 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.360 based off the color of the Dodger blue. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.359 Okay, I forget the name of it, but yeah, those 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:19.880 guys are. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.480 Wild online to social media, inviting fellow Dodger fans on 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.000 these big trips that they do. They're very organized and 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.720 it's amazing how well Dodger fans travel. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.960 You wonder how much they're actually are they making money 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.760 on that because they're probably what they're doing is they're 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.520 like travel Your wife does that, right, she's in the 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:41.120 travel world. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.480 I think, huh yeah, they do travel packages for fans. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.000 Make a fee off of those packages. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.760 Yeah, all right, I wonder they must be making. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.760 It adds up when you have hundreds of people going 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:54.400 on a trip. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:55.760 Gotcha. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.800 Let's get to the men and o Tani. We got 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.040 to mention Otani. Really, we haven't mentioned him. We've got 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.960 till Sunday. We haven't mentioned till Oh, oh my goodness. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.200 Ben. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.920 Thursday on the radio show with Covino and Rich We're 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.400 live doing our show and the game was on while 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.800 we were on, so we got to react to the 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.239 forty ninth home run. We were taking a phone call 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.440 and I'm pumping my fist. I'm celebrating because in front 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.520 of me, he hits that monster moonshot to run Homer 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.919 to get to forty nine. They see me through the 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.280 glass celebrating. They thought I was reacting to something the 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.440 caller was talking about. And then they look up at 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.320 the monitors and they're like, oh, Tony hit another one. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.479 A game for the ages man. And talk about bad timing. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.520 You talked about it on the podcast in the live air. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.440 When there's a hard out on the network, there's nothing 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.200 we can do. It hits whether we're ready for it 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.039 or not, or we want it to hit or not. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.600 He's up to bat again. Right as we're signing off, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.120 Covino and Rich are saying goodbye, we'll see you tomorrow. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.000 Make sure you tune into this at bat and they 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.360 say later, boom we are. Fox Sports comes on and 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:16.200 literally ten seconds later, he rocks his fiftieth home run. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.280 Oh man, yeah, and we were jumping up and down 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.440 off the air. It was nice to celebrate with everybody 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.640 in the studios, the editors and you know, the odd 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.440 couple who were on next. Everybody was so excited. That 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.800 part of it was memorable. But what sucked is, as 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.560 you know, sometimes when a live sporting event is on 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.800 and you're also simultaneously doing a radio show, like back 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.640 when you were on Weekends with Looney, there would be 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.159 something memorable that would happen right right after the hard 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.000 out hit. So there was nothing you could do to 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:50.680 cover it. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.000 No, for sure, and I you know what, I had 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:57.000 the vibe and obviously I'm on at night. So unless 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.280 they play in like Japan, there's nothing going on when 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.200 I'm on. But it was like it reminded me when 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.600 I was doing local radio and before we knew about 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.200 the whole steroid thing, the whole country was captivated, at 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.400 least the sporting country with McGuire and Sosa. That home 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:15.040 run race. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.320 Oh yeah, they would cut into whatever was on the 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.880 big networks and go to each at bat. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.960 Yeah, it was insane how popular that was. That was 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.680 like one of the last hurrahs of baseball in the nineties. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.120 And we were doing local radio and we would give 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.760 like the we'd have the games on and I like, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.719 do the We're not You're not allowed to do it. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.280 I had a PD you shouldn't do that. We don't 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.320 have the rights, so, you know, kind of doing faux 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.039 play by play, and I remember I fell out. I 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.279 fell out of my chair one time when Sammy Sosa 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.960 hit a home run and it was a moonshot and 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.760 we were so so excited. But it did have that 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.960 kind of vibe and it was cool and I mean 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.320 nice of the Marlins to just keep pitch. I said 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.280 this on my show the other you know, back on 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.520 Thursday to Friday, the last show we did live show 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.719 of the Week, and I was like, you're the Marlins, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.119 so there's second worst team in baseball. Yes, you should 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.240 pitch to old Tani, like what are you worried about. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.440 You're not trying to make the playoffs or anything like that. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.480 Like that's the greatest moment in that franchise's history for 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.240 this year anyway, you know, they gave up the lot. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.880 I was like, I'm sure on the Marlins postgame show, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.200 I'm not in Miami, but I'm guessing that they featured 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.880 that and they went, you know, went over Otani's day 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.360 and that was the highlight because they don't have any 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:34.520 highlights on that team. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.960 So I was happy to see what their manager said 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.040 afterwards that you know, he wanted to do right by 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.760 baseball and challenge Jotani and not have bad karma come 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.120 his or the team's way. And I like that approach, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.800 you know, rather than intentionally walking a guy who's close 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:52.400 to history. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.640 Yeah, and that happens in all sports now where there's 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.040 this mindset we can allow can't be the team that 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.960 allows history. Like somebody's going for you know, ninety points 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.440 in a basketball game and they I pull Shenanigainst to 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.400 try to try to derail them from setting the record, right, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:12.760 I don't want to be the team that gives up, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.760 you know, the next player to score one hundred points 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.080 or whatever. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.120 Have you ever seen a stat line like that for 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.000 one baseball player in one game? 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.320 Why? I mean, I was trying to think. I was 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.120 like when I remember years ago there was a guy 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.440 named Mark Whitten who had a bunch of home runs, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.440 but he wasn't perfect for the Cardinals. He had twelve 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.440 RBIs or something like that. But yeah, I mean, see, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:38.000 according to the nerds, that was the greatest day in 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.760 if you can bind stolen bases, home runs, doubles total bases, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.720 it was like the greatest day since at least nineteen 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.920 oh one. So it's been one hundred and twenty something 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.840 years and they don't have anything, and they have all 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.760 the numbers. I mean, they go through every day. The 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.240 negro leagues are now included in the database they have 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.920 at like Baseball Reference, and at least unless I missed it, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:06.360 that was considered the greatest performance. And it's it's nuts. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.120 It's it reminds you of very Bonds. Mean, Aaron Judges 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.160 a similar type situation in the American League, but O'tani 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.160 playing for the Dodgers. I remember Bonds with the Giants 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.280 when he was on all the steroids. Man, that guy 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:19.120 was insane. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.760 What a whole new world for Otani too, from the 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:22.840 Angels to this. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.800 Slightly different neighborhood, slightly different fan. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.600 Base, the Anaheim Oh I'm sorry, the Los Angeles Angels 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:33.559 of Fullerton. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.600 Yeah, see that you're sucking up to for Let's get 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.079 to the let's get to this mail bag. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:54.440 It's dark guy. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.040 Thanks again, Ohio. Aw we thank you, Ohio. You're doing 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.320 God's work. So alf from the general manager's office right 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.320 since its Ben, I know you touched on this on 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.400 the radio, but on this format you can really let 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.079 it rip. How does it feel that all these years 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.719 of screaming into the dark and thinking that no one 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.560 can hear you, that you're reaching high ranking officials in 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.080 major sports organizations. Personally, I'd like to thank you for 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.720 providing my friends, to my friends and family that I 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.160 haven't wasted the last twenty plus years. And also thank 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.959 you for saving us these sportsmans from watching these teams 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:38.080 trot out big bags of suck week after week. And 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:44.079 then he quotes mister Hutton there when Ben speaks. People listen. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.840 I do get a kick out of it. Alf. It's 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.839 actually happened a lot more in the last I would say, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:56.520 fifteen years, with the power that social media has. And 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.280 as you know, Danny, there are camus all the time 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.800 in those studios. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.240 And yeah, that's what I was going to say. A 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.080 lot of video clips go viral. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.840 Yeah, like, so I'll say something on the radio and 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.880 it'll have a lifespan and then the video and the 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.120 stuff I do, the video pops up during the day 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.080 and so that then gets seen by other people. And 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.480 it is amusing, though, when you find out that people 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.040 that are in charge of multi billion dollars sports leagues 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:34.000 have contacted your boss to complain about a take you 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.800 had that broadcast at four in the morning. You know, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.560 it's it's just it's I find it hilarious. You know, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:45.040 it's like, really, you are that paranoid, you are that sensitive, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.760 You're that neurotic that the guy in the magic radio 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.840 box cannot give that take without some kind of retribution 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.199 from you, Like you you're not confident enough in your skin, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.360 or is the idiot on the radio, the blowhard on 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.280 the radio correct, And that's why you're upset because you 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.880 spoke the truth. I don't know, but I do get 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.640 a kick out of it. It's pretty crazy, pretty pretty crazy. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.959 So but thank you, thank you. I'm upset I didn't 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.520 get to meet Alf. I was hoping I cant that 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.240 big storm, the last minute thing. Hopefully next year, Alf, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.080 if you keep watching and get everyone you know to 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.000 watch Benny Versus the Penny, they'll pick up the show 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.280 for a third year, we hope, and then I'll be 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.520 back in Boston again and we'll make sure we'll schedule 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.119 something to meet. Got to meet Alf. I met Masshole 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.280 Mickey and then several other fans that should have blind Scott. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.120 I saw him again. So I want to want to 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.439 meet Alf. That's something we've got to make happen. So 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.080 hopefully we'll. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.720 Yeah, before he passes away, because that cast, that TV cast, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.040 the kid, the guy who played the little kid on 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.720 the show, just recently passed away. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:02.120 So no, no, Alf, Alf's an alien will live forever. What. Yeah, No, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.000 Alf is you know how we have like lizard people 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.840 to listen to show. But Alf's from another part of 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.800 the cosmos. Yeah, Iken Fullerton writes, and he says, hey, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.439 Ben in Danny g not to drag you guys down 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.480 another sports rabbit hole, but I owe Danny g an 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:22.840 apology for bragging on his guy Antonio Pierce last week. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.640 That was an impressive win over the ravens Now. I 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.240 hope that Pierce coaches the Raiders for a very short 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:36.160 time for my charger's sake, he says, And then he says, Ben, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.040 were you as disgusted as I was when Coop admitted 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.080 he accidentally stole a pack of gum as a kid. Sadly, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.800 I think his crime has long passed the statute of 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:52.360 limitations for any kind of legal punishment, but Mike says 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.240 that does not rule out show punishment. Maybe you could 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.000 dock his pay by the value of the gum or 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.560 make him talk to hollering James for an entire night. Well, yeah, 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.520 that would be tremendously horrible punishment to have to talk 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.120 to It's like corporal punishment. Well, he's gotten NARCOLEPSI, so 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.960 James would just randomly fall asleep anyway, He just like 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.000 starts start snoozing. And do you not have some Raider 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.520 fan porn there? For Antonio Pierce. Heading into today's game 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.160 with the Carolina Panthers. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:31.880 Day, Dunna. What a oh, what a victory last Sunday, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.760 and we covered it because, as he mentioned, we kind 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.120 of went down a little bit of a rabbit hole 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.440 based on the question we got about Antonio Pierce, and 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.760 we both were right. We called that game. Not only 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.600 did they cover, they won. Their defense obviously was good 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.120 enough to beat that team and any team if they're clicking, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.520 and that offense finally clicked in the second half. Favorite 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.400 moment of that game, Ben, is when Max Crosby got 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.920 up in in Minshu's face as he waddled off to 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.040 the sideline after throwing that second half interception and stuck 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.240 his finger in his chest and was like, come on, dude, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.720 stay in the game like I got you. I got 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.840 with the defense. Me and the defense have your back. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.000 Great thing about Crosby he just doesn't say shit. He 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.720 backs it up with his play on the field. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.720 Yeah, the Raiders. You know, I'm a Rams fan, but 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.760 I'm this year, I'm pulling for the Raiders. You know, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.560 there's some people behind the scenes I'm pulling for. But 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.200 my buddy I was watching the game with he came 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.080 over for a football palser there and so we were 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.280 focusing on the Raiders game. We're flipping around. I was like, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.480 I mean, they got the schedule, They're like, they're set 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.040 up if they just win the games they're supposed to win. Like, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.920 we could wake up here by week seven or eight, 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.920 assuming they don't have an implosion, and the Raiders could 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.360 be right there. I mean, he's play you play the 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.120 cold game. It's a weasel term. But if you look 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.640 at the upcoming schedule, assuming they don't many hiccups and 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.520 just do what they're supposed to do, the Raiders are 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.040 going to have a really good record. They're they're one 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.360 in one right now. They got Carolina, worst team in football. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.880 They got the Browns the following week they suck the 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.840 creepy quarterback. He got Denver, the the Broncos, who have 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.120 no quarterback. The Steelers don't have a quarterback. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.480 Wait a second, I was told Bo Knicks was the 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.360 next John Elway. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.720 Well he was, mister August. He looked great in August. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.320 Then you play the Rams. Raiders play the Rams in 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.280 la A week seven. So if you those are all 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.320 winnable getting out of Steeler game, man, you know Steelers defense, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.160 that's pretty good. So that'll be that'll be the toughest one. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:44.720 But assuming you beat Carolina, Cleveland, Denver, and La the Rams, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.240 you're sitting at five and two going into the game 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.320 against the Chiefs. Yeah. I hope you're right. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.360 You know, the pessimistic side of me says, uh oh. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.080 When the Raiders are favored, they play down to the 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.040 competition and they look kind of lazy sometimes in games 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.320 they're favored in. I hope that that leadership on the 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.359 field and now on the sideline with Antonio Pierce, I 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.880 hope that translates to them winning the games they're supposed 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:12.160 to win. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.920 Yeah, playing down to the competition. Oh, we'll see. But Antonio, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.880 they're not making penalties. This is unlike any Raider team 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:27.240 I can recall here. They've cut down tremendously on the mistakes. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.320 So thank god, thank you Antonio Pierce. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.480 All Right, Kevin in Minnesota. Right, So, he says, hey 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.080 Ben and Danny, Hey Ben, you probably don't remember I 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.120 met you at the Mermaid. It's been a while. Now. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.359 I hope you enjoyed visiting our state and wanted to 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.359 let you know that I have influenced He says, in 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.720 quotes five co workers and at least five of my 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:52.440 relatives to watch Benny Versus The Penny on Peacock. He says, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.440 I enjoy enjoy the show. Thank you. Keviny Elsa says, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.200 do you see yourself doing other TV work? Yes, if 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.520 anybody wants me, contact me. But I don't get to 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.840 make those decisions, Kevin. But I'm having I'm having fun. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.280 I love radio, that's my first love. But I've I've 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.920 gotten I don't want to say used to TV because 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.560 I don't think you ever get used to that world. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.480 It's a it's a foreign world to me, having no 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.200 word makeup and like nice clothes and crap like that. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.560 So it's weird. But I think I'm getting a little 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.440 better week by week and getting a little more comfortable. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.160 So who knows what the future holds, Kevin, But we're 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.879 having We're having a good time, and we're just gonna 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.280 ride this out and if it ends this year, that's it. 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.640 It was a great two years, and if we get 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.320 a third year, even better. And it's really going to 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.240 be determined by how many people watch it. So you're 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.760 helping us. I think, if my math is correct, you 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.760 said at least five relatives and five Coores. So that's 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.480 like ten people. That's like a massive, massive amount people. 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.600 If everyone does that, I think we'll be fine. Big 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.359 Wu from the LBC rights and he says, hey, in 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.920 the Long Beach area, Beny Versus the Penny has shown 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.159 on the Historians TV cable channel Spectrum Sportsnet. They have 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.359 two channels that play simultaneously. Because of this, Benny Versus 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.480 the Penny has shown twelve times a weekend. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.280 I have heard it's eleven times too many. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.080 I disagree. I think it should be showing more. And 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.600 he says, I if I watch and record each show, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.960 will you get ratings credit for one home or twelve homes? 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.399 I have no idea, Big Lou, but I don't know 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.639 how all that works. But here's what I would say. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.800 If you watch it on that and then you also 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.879 watch it on Peacock, that's all I can ask. I 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.119 can't ask you to watch it twelve times. I know 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.760 alf does that. You know that's my you know, my 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.280 guy in Massachusetts. But thank you, Big Lou. You know 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:49.440 what I did for you. Ben. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.679 Last weekend I was traveling, so I was only able 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.560 to load it and let the intro go because the 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.680 weekend was so busy. But I figured that that's still 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:01.520 was counting as a view. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.000 Uhhat, it doesn't. In fact, I mentioned yesterday. I think 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:07.560 it was yesterday. We talked about the party where I 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.240 made the brownies and stuff, and my mother in law 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.280 was there and she brought one of her friends. She 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.400 said old back in the day, she was a nurse. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.040 She's retired now. But another nurse was there, and so 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.240 she was introducing her friend to me, and she mentioned 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.439 the TV show and so you know how you size 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.840 up someone within like thirty seconds, you're like, you know, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.560 kind of right away, hey, this person's you know, didn't 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.919 seem like a sporty person. So I told the woman, 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:37.200 I said, listen, I know you're probably not a sports fan, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.000 and that's perfectly fine. Okay, I get it. I'm part 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.320 of a cult, but if you can a solid, I said, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.280 do you have Peacock? She said, I got Peacock. I said, wonderful. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:47.919 I said, here's what I want you to do. Okay, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:53.760 I want you on Friday afternoon or Saturday. I want 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.080 you when you get up to start the day. I 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.240 want you to turn on Peacock, start the show. I 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.000 then want you to go you know, do your morning routine, shower, 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.080 brush your teeth, do whatever you in the morning, and 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.200 then by the time you're done with all that, the 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.600 show will be over. I'll get credit for you watching 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.199 and then go on with your day. And she was 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.800 she was laughing, and she's like, oh, yeah, I'll actually 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:20.200 watch it you Okay, So that was pretty cool. So Jason, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.879 here's what. Oh this is right up your alley, Jason 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:27.440 from Oklahoma, right since, says you, guys, Ben and Dann, 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.560 you have any thoughts on our big local controversy. Oh boy, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:33.160 did you see this story? 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:33.560 Danny? 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.239 No, yeah, let me click it. This is actually the 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:43.040 Oklahoma State Fair scandal rocks Oklahoma State Fair. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.600 You were there, Yeah, it was there last Sunday. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.520