WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Fathers Need More Shine" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:34.879 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a Sunday 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.800 mail bag edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:45.159 and Danny g Radio eight days a week, even on 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:49.120 a holiday weekend. It is a holiday weekend. Just this 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.080 counts as a holiday weekend, right, Danny? It does. But 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.560 Father's Day gets no shine the way Mother's Day gets. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.880 It's like kind of half forgotten. A lot of dad 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.600 just get overlooked. I think, yeah, well, moms are more important. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.959 That true, very true. I love my mom more. I 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:08.640 love my dad too, but I love my mom more. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.960 See what I'm saying exactly. But but anyway, so listen 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.080 the deal on this. It's the mail bag. You know 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.360 how this works. And it's also this is June teenth, right? 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.040 Is this today? Is that? I think that's today? Right? Yeah? 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.160 I think that is yes. Is that federal holiday radio 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.039 is like seven elevens were always open exactly. That's what 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.360 I always say. I don't know holiday smaalilay, I don't 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.480 know any holiday. Come on, man, I'm working and those holidays. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.080 As you know, Danny doing the holiday doing the holiday stuff. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.800 There's new people to tune in right as you can 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.680 give an audience there, you create new fans that way. Boy. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.600 It was a phenomenon during COVID when it first started 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.560 and the lockdown happened. Oh god, radio is gonna go 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.760 out of business. Instead, all of the ratings doubled. Yeah. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.800 That is one of the more fascinating things in my 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.160 life and and your life as well. Doing sports talk 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:12.320 radio without sports, doing sports talk radio for oh a 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.360 half a year, well, I guess it was a third 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.720 of a year. Uh. We went a hundred and thirty 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.240 four days without any lives sports. The industrial complex of 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:28.120 sports shutdown in America. I remember that. I'm March eleventh. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.840 We were all remember that March eleventh. They played some 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.560 NBA and NHL games and then that was a Wednesday, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:46.920 and then they didn't play again, no sports until Thursday, July. Yeah. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.760 Keeping in our business talk show host complain when there's 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.040 no games around the baseball All Star break. What am 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.080 I gonna talk about? I don't know what I'm gonna 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.480 talk about, so just put a socket us socking it. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.919 But without further let's get right to the mail bag. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.040 Here we go, strike up the band. Here it is 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.880 thanks to our guy Ohio all yet again sending in 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.520 that amazing tune. Good job by you, so mail bag. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.040 These are actual listener questions by listeners just like yourself. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.560 We took time out of their busy schedules to send 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.440 questions in, and you too can send a question and 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.200 care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Spell 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.200 it all out with letters, not numbers, Real fifth Hour 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.640 at gmail dot com. Or you can wait for Tuesday, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.760 sometimes Monday, but usually Tuesday. On the show Facebook page 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.320 Ben Maller Show, I will post a link for you 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.680 to fill up the mail bag and you can provide content. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.920 We have a lot of regulars, but we always love 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.680 new names and people can tell their story and learning 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.800 about new fans of the show. So I'd love to 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.880 have you part of the program. So with that said, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.440 we begin with this first email from Mason the Millennial 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.360 in the Bay Area. He says, I was just riding 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.400 in because I really enjoyed your trip to Chicago conversation 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.880 with Danny G. I will be traveling there this weekend, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.880 and in fact i'm here right now. By the time 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.960 that this podcast, the Sunday podcast gets released, I will 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.120 re listen to the podcast of you talking about it. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:33.359 But what was some hidden jams perhaps we could check 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.159 out in the downtown area on our last day. I 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:41.039 figure the Willis Tower and the Bean Thing. Love the 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.640 podcast from Mason. Well, I recommend Mason, since you're a 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.039 tourist and you're doing the tourist things in Chicago. They 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.000 have a great architectural boat tour. There's a couple of 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.480 different companies that do it, and they take you right 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.080 down the Chicago River and you can see all the 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.080 beautiful architecture in Chicago's one of the great visual cities 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.520 in America. To you know, for our blind listeners just 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.680 imagine some really big skyscrapers. Is beautiful and it's it's 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.880 really neat, uh. And so it takes you down. They 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.400 tell you the history of Chicago, what's happened there, some 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.480 of the old buildings, and I learned some interesting fun 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.359 facts on that I enjoyed a lot. I don't know 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.160 if you're into that kind of thing. Mason, I did 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.840 not go to the We don't call up the Willis Tower, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.240 the Sears Tower. Did not do that. Did go to 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.800 the Bean. And if you want Mason, about a block 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.360 away from the Bean is the Mallard Building. It's about 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.120 a block away from the famous Bean in Chicago. And 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.560 they have like a tourist there that you can go 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.120 down a soldier field and check that out. It looks 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.640 like a spaceship these days. I did goof on Wrigley 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.479 Field because it's all corporate now, but if you've never 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.719 been there, it's pretty pretty neat to walk around and 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.200 think that that team has played on that field for 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.240 a hundred years or something like that. At so and 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.120 even in Chicago, Danny any Chicago, No, No, Chicago. No, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.200 it's one of the great cities. I haven't got to visit. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.320 I've been there on a layover quick airplane. It wasn't quick, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.040 but it was an airplane change. But other than that, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.560 I haven't got to go as a tourist all right. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:18.960 And and by the way, Masson, if you want to 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.840 visit my cousin. She lives in the kind of a 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.720 North Burbs outside Chicago, so you can come over there 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.919 and eat a brisket or something like that. You have 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.440 a grand old time, right, what what could possibly possibly 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.839 go wrong with that? But now Chicago, I think the 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.440 crime is obviously an issue in Chicago, but that's an 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.040 issue in a lot of places. And I was there 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.800 not that long ago, and I survived to tell about it. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.560 So he's gotta like anywhere any big city, you gotta 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.200 be careful and try to avoid certain parts. Uh. You know, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.479 south side is not particularly great in Chicago, for example, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.200 but you gotta picture spot. Maybe while you were there, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.599 you heard some stories about the history of the city, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.120 like San Francisco that was the early nineteen hundreds where 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.200 they had to rebuild after the great earthquake there in Chicago. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.720 My dad was born there, so remember him and telling 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.360 me a story about the late eighteen hundreds where a 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.680 fire ran through Chicago for a day and left like 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.800 a third of the city homeless. They had to rebuild 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:27.600 the whole city the great fire. Mrs o'larry's cow that 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.679 it was from a farm. Yeah, yeah, Well, of those days, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.000 the Chicago is not. It wasn't a big city. It 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.080 was a farm, you know, farming area. Yeah, they said 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.200 that that story is bullshit about the cow. They said 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.480 that on the boat tour. I remember I told us 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.280 on the podcast that Chicago actually the name, the Indian 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.679 name for Chicago is like smelly onion is what Chicago means, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.840 which I think is hilarious. And they talked about on 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.320 that boat tour if Mason the Millennial takes the boat tour, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.560 they talked about the fact they called it the I'm 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.480 talking trying to trying to remember the term here that 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.520 they used, the balconation of Chicago. They called it the 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.640 balconation of Chicago because they had all these old buildings 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.240 with no balconies, a lot of these old warehouses, and 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.800 they turned them into these marvelous apartment buildings, but in 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.480 order to guss them up a little bit, they put 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.000 these balconies. They just hung the balconies, these metal balconies, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.520 off the side of the buildings in Chicago. So they 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:32.360 called it the Balkanization of Chicago, which I thought was interesting. Yeah. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.360 Next up, Blind Scott in Boston, the North End of Boston, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.000 says Ben, are you worried about the wild fires this 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.320 summer at your new home in the North Woods. Well, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.960 you're always cognizant. You're always cognizant of the wildfires. But 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.360 am I worried? No, I'm not. I'm not worried, mainly 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.800 because about uh many many other houses would have to 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.800 burn to get to my house to burn. So, but 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.800 that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There have been fires 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:05.559 where I'm living now, and this is an issue. But really, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.320 fire seasons year round in California. It's not just during 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.079 the summer. Right. People usually think, well July August is 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.200 the big fire season, but it's year round. Now, have 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.040 they gotten rid of the shrub around your guys homes 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.760 in your area? Oh? No, Now we got cactus. Remember 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.319 we talked about it. We probably plenty cactus. So you 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.240 gotta burn through the cactus, is what you gotta do. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.360 So I did say your wife has a black thumb. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.480 Yes that is true. Yes, alright, come back, pay attention. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.680 It's sign from now call balls fan Jimmy rites in 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.319 from big Orange Country. He says, for both of you, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.360 with the cost of living so high in California, if 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.360 you could move, where would it be? We can ask 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:54.040 this question semi regularly balls fan Jimmy, and is there 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.839 anywhere that she Wisconsin, North Carolina places I went where 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.160 a lot of cheap Chicago was not, but as she 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.520 was compared to California l A. I don't know. I 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.240 had opportunities to do radio in Boston, but that seems 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.520 like it's just as expensive as l A. If I 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.439 was just going based on cost of living, I would 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.079 likely go below the Mason Dixon line, somewhere in the South. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.840 I would think, I'm not sure where, somewhere in Florida. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.800 What about you, Danny, where would you go if you 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.480 wanted to save a couple of nickels? I mean, I 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.120 guess I would go somewhere near Sodona in Arizona. Maybe 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.320 that area was was pretty like Flagstaff because it's more 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:44.080 like mountains and forests. It's not desert. Uh huh, you're right. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.920 I mean I will go to Hawaii. It's not it's 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.000 not it's cheap. That's expensive. But if I was gonna 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.079 pay the same thing i'm paying now or close to it, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.440 I'd rather be there. In Maui, there are not a 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.640 lot of affordable places, and I'm a West Coast guy 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.360 like you. So yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing too, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.360 is I've heard this has been a thing. We talked 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.480 about this sending on the show that a number of 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.640 people are moving to Tijuana from l a in San Diego, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:18.560 moving to Tijuana, moving to Mexico save money. The pace 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.679 so goes the dollar to the pace, so it goes 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.640 a long way. In Mexico, you can live like a 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.000 king there. We have a janitor who's retired and he 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.800 comes to the campus to visit sometimes. He lives half 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.280 the time in Mexico, and he tells these big stories 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.240 about how he's living like a king in Mexico. Yeah, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.880 like he's got all these girlfriends and he's got this 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.840 big mansion. And I mean, and here in the United 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.280 States he makes average money, or he did make average money, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:54.280 but in Mexico he is royalty. Yeah. And I know 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.360 if I was from Mexico, I come to come to 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.880 the States. He worked for a few years and it's 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.560 hard labor, and then you can end up owning a 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.800 bunch of apartment buildings in Mexico and you're geez, you're 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.719 not kidding. He went on to tell us that he 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.200 just bought his daughter a condo down there, talk about 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.280 stretching your dollars and we have no idea what that's 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.360 like here where we live. No, no, but we couldn't 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.520 own anything in Mexico, right because we're not from Mexico. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.800 The even though you buy stuff there as an American. Yeah, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.920 you're renting the land basically. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.559 really get to own owning of that stuff. But a 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.800 good question from Balls fan Jimmy. All right, Next up 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.480 Big Ben and Danny ge Neil from the Real Miami Here. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.760 The beef between the retired couple and the fake Miami 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:52.119 Palm Bay, Uh, Miami Palm Bay and Queen of Gascon 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.319 team started when for some reason, the retirees dug up 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.439 some private info and on Gascon's family, specifically his sister, 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.520 and we're not nice about it to Gascon and David. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:10.040 She called her the count and then it was on 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.120 like donkey Kong, Neil says, So, I guess that sounds 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.400 about right. On the Origin stories topic, Ben, what was 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.720 your impetus for the fasting? Did you hear the Joe 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.520 Rogan podcast or something? I don't recall you talking in 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.800 detail on when, why, how you got started on fasting 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.840 guy was not because of Joe Rogan. I don't remember 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.920 exactly what led me down this pad. I think my 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.960 wife had something to do with it. She had mentioned 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.760 that some people were doing this at her work, and 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.480 and even before I was officially fasting with an app 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.840 on my phone, when I did lose a lot of 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.760 the weight originally and I gained some back, and I've 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.640 lost it again, I was doing it. I was intermittent 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.560 fast againning. I was trying to go because there's there's 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.559 a couple of there's million million different ways to diet. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.400 A lot of people eat like birds. I don't want 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.920 to eat like a bird. So I was like, if 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.319 I eat once a day, I can eat a good meal, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.120 and then if I just don't think about it, I 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.280 can then look forward to my next big meal. And 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.559 then I read some stuff online. My wife had mentioned 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.360 some stuff, and I read some stuff online about how 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:27.080 for hundreds and thousands of years before the mass grocery 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.480 stores and things that we have, and this this time 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.480 to be alive, that people who had to go out 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.480 and hunt for their food often didn't find anything, that 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.280 their percentage of success was like less than twenty. They'd 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.120 go out hunting for something to eat, and they wouldn't 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.280 always find something, and so a lot of the time 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.120 they would just have to fast. They wouldn't have the 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.200 proper food. They've beaten twigs and berries and things like that. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.720 So so that was like, Okay, that makes sense, and 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.120 I fell in love with it. And then Neil says, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.000 for Danny g I may have missed this, but how, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.800 when and why why did you start the school gig 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.680 in general? So he wants to know your teaching move. Yeah, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.200 it's something that I started with. Fifteen years ago, I 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.160 walked away from a program director job at a big 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.320 radio station. I just had kind of had it with 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.600 the corporate way they were running. They were starting to 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.400 run things. There was a change in upper management and 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.120 I was like, yeah, I think I'm done with this 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.000 for right now and started working out of school. Once 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.920 you have the radio bug, they always say this about broadcasters. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.520 Even when you take a break, that's all it is. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.640 It's a break, You're gonna go back. I started working 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.480 for NBC Sports Radio Friday Saturday Sunday, and I was 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.000 on the school campus Monday through Friday. So I was 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.720 working seven day weeks for four or five years, and 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.960 then when Fox hired me full time to do your 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.080 show and the Jason Smith Show. Originally I was able 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.520 to drop the school gig and go back to broadcasting 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.840 full time time. When the company moved Clay Travis to 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.520 Rush Limbaugh's chair, suddenly my week was open again. They're like, hey, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.520 give you a good salary whatever, just to do some 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.480 three day a week stuff for the company. So I 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.400 had days open during the week, and I'm like, well, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.000 let me go fill it with the education field work 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.600 a kid. There you go, and the rest is history. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.480 Now he's the coolest summer school teacher around. Every kid 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.080 loves him. He's a hero. You're an inspiration. Everyone wants 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.840 to follow in your footsteps. Uh for that fatass, miss Norton. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.840 That's right, that Karen. All right, let's see here when 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.640 we're get next up, some Kevin in Kansas is his 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.320 dear Ben and Danny g You guys are pretty wise. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.680 What are some of the worst team names in any 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:49.320 pro sport that teams? What teams need to change? You 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.720 should have changed upon relocating. I believe it's what he's 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.760 saying here. I know the Minnesota Lakers made perfect sense 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.480 at one time, but Los Angeles. What would be better 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.720 names instead of the one for those teams that never changed? 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.600 Kevin says, well, the l A River. This is something 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.800 that the early settlers of Los Angeles totally left up 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.240 Los Angeles. The l A River at one time was 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:18.760 an actual river, and they enclosed it in concrete. There 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.439 if they had done it differently, think about how much different, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.919 how much better I think l A would have been. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.600 They had an actual river running through Los Angeles and 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.080 they filled it in with concrete. Terrible, really stupid, same 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.720 dumb decision to take the trains and trolleys out of 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.040 the city back in the day. Oh that's right, Yeah, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.280 for the oil companies and all that they had public 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:46.199 great public transportation was the envy supposedly of many many cities. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.040 You can learn more about that in Roger Rabbit. If 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:50.359 you want to learn more about that in the movie 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:55.440 Roger Rabbit. It's a documentary on the the evil oil companies. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.159 We could say the same thing for your Clippers, right, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.600 they were the San Diego Clippers. What is still wrong 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.920 with the Clippers? Well, I think about bad team names 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:11.399 Charlotte has had, but the Bobcats, the Hornets, Yeah, the 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.080 Hornets is kind of cool, like goofy teal logo, you 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.359 get that. The one that always people bring up the 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.320 Utah Jazz when you think of jazz, when you think 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.879 of authentic jazz, you think as Salt Lake City. Unless 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.119 you don't, that team could be called the Utah Salt 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.600 the Zions saying, any of you can come up with 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.960 a local name. I'm a big advocate of locally. The 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.960 one that's really lame is the Las Vegas Golden Knights. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.400 Of the Vegas Golden Knights and the NHL so paranoid 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.679 they to stick up there took us. They would not 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:49.840 allow any gambling theme nicknames. You're in Vegas. Think of 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.080 all the different possibilities for a team in Vegas with 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.840 a gambling theme name. The Blackjacks, the Ones, the One 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.240 Armed Bandits, any of those things would have been a 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.359 great nickname, But no. Golden Knights. Come on. The Devil 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.760 Rays also stunk from the start. Yeah that was that 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.960 was never good. But there could have been a way 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.160 better nickname for that team from the beginning. But Raise 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.879 is stupid too. It's like a pizza place in Manhattan. 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.320 Let's go to Raise and have a pie. Is what 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.720 it sounds like to me, is a dumb name. I 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.560 don't like Marlins either. They I think they whipped on 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.600 both baseball teams there. But at least the Miami Marlins flows. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.680 It flows off the toll. But it didn't start as 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.960 the Miami Marlins. No, it was a Florida Marlins. For 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.320 many many years it was the Florida Marlins. Um. And 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.640 then let me think about teams. Now, would you ever 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.960 name a team after like a sock, like the Red 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.359 Sox and the White Side? Like? Who thought that was 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.920 the way to go? Who said, you know what, we 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.439 got a baseball team here and we don't know what 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.080 to call them, so they're wearing white sox, so we'll 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:00.920 call them the White Sox. The that went into that 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.520 fascinating to me. Yeah, the same with our Dodgers. I mean, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:12.280 ain't nobody dodging trolleys nowadays? No, No, it's it's absolutely correct. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:17.960 And l A King's that's the original. I was a 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.920 team in l A the hockey team. But there's other 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.040 teams named the King's. I I'm a big believer in 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.080 having your own name. I don't like the teams that 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.320 share the names. I had never the New York Giants 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.199 the San Francisco Jans. I know why they did it 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.360 because they were both in New York, but I like unique. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.000 And what did you think of Washington's choice, Oh, the 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.840 the Commanders of the Nationals. I hate both those names, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.119 and I actually hate every nickname of a Washington, d C. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.520 Sports franchise. They had the Washington Bullets. I know you 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.119 can't use that name, but that was like that that 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.960 was a cool name. That was a cool logo. Yes 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:01.920 it was. And you know, I'm doing nostalgia, but when 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:03.840 I was a kid, one of the first NBA games 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.800 I went to the it was actually a Laker game. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.440 They were playing the Washington Bullets, and I kept that 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:12.879 ticket stub for a long time. I had a ticket 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:14.600 stub and I was like, the coolest thing. I know, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.480 the Bullets logo, and it's like, oh, that's pretty neat. 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.000 And then they of course get rid of that, and 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:24.560 uh yeah, it's like the name that was great. That 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.600 moved to Dallas. The north Stars and hockey perfect Minnesota 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.520 north Star they go to Dowas now they're just the Stars. 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.399 We're getting carried away on this, but a good question. 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.280 Kevin and Kansas. We can go on and on and 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:42.200 on and on and on with that. For sure, You've 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.879 got mail Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, I 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.520 have a similar question for both of the ben Have 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.560 you ever quickly hung up on a caller for having 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:55.119 a very annoying voice? And for Danny g Wall screening calls, 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.240 have you ever hung up on people for the same 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.320 reason or do you write something down to warned the 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.040 host about the caller's voice. So I'll go first on this, 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:09.480 Mike uh No. I generally speaking, if I hear an 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.280 odd voice, I get excited. I think this is gonna 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.680 be good. This is something again unique. I go back 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:19.440 to the word unique, and that draws me to that 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:23.800 particular person, and I want to hear their story. So 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.280 I take the opposite nas I when I hear a 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:31.359 really goofy sounding caller, I think this has a tremendous 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.040 amountability to be good radio and I want to learn 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.639 more about how this person, assuming they're not doing a 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.400 fake voice and it's just a real voice. Hey man, 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:44.399 you might not notice, but I'm black. Yeah, I want it. Now? 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.800 What about you, Danny? What? What what's your technique there? Yeah? 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.080 I mean producing your show, and your show is super busy. 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.560 You're spinning eight plates at once, so there's no time 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.040 to sit there and type, Hey Ben, this dude's got 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.760 a strange voice, and I would lean more like what 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.880 you're saying. If it is a voice that really stands out, 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.359 then that's really good for a radio show. Because you 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.080 don't want all the voices to sound similar. No you don't, 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.680 you know, and all the guys to be Hello, it's Tim, 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.439 It's Trim from Manhattan. No, you don't want that. You 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.160 want a drag queen. You want a guy named Cowboy 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.960 and windsor right, you need that. You need a hollering 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:23.360 James in Minnesota. You gotta spice it up a little bit. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.040