Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air every you Where.
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallord and Danny g Radio
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, because listen, five nights a week,
Speaker 1: clearly not and off. As we are hanging out in
Speaker 1: the podcast, do Joe and Danny, I am looking forward
Speaker 1: to the mail bag. We had an interesting weekend so far.
Speaker 1: We had Benny versus the Penny on Friday, which we
Speaker 1: always do, and gave all my NFL picks, and then
Speaker 1: we had a dueling Banjo's thing with spilled drinks and
Speaker 1: driving long distances and other random things that popped up
Speaker 1: on the podcast on Saturday. Yeah, man, you're officially a
Speaker 1: Phoenix sun right now. Man, oh man, what a what
Speaker 1: a drive? What a long drive? Well we'll be making
Speaker 1: that drive, Danny. Yeah, super Bowl, super Bowl Baby, Maybe
Speaker 1: we can stay at Turk's house. We'll we'll, we'll harass
Speaker 1: Turk and make him put us up in his house
Speaker 1: for a night or something like that. We'll see. Or
Speaker 1: we can just drive back. Who knows, we go for
Speaker 1: a day and drive outs a long long way to haul.
Speaker 1: But why not with that? Oh yeah, yeah, that's diarrhea?
Speaker 1: All right. These are actual questions by actual listeners on
Speaker 1: the mailback. Before we get started, we must queue up
Speaker 1: the band and our man, Ohio, al it's all right,
Speaker 1: great job as always, Ohio all what a smart man
Speaker 1: he knew by making that little ditty that that thing
Speaker 1: would get airplay every weekend on this podcast. Genius genius
Speaker 1: move by Ohio. A good job by him, and we
Speaker 1: start out. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: start out with Mike from Fullerton. These these messages sent
Speaker 1: either via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: no numbers, all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: or the Facebook page which is Ben Mallard's show, our
Speaker 1: show Facebook page. So Mike from Fullerton rights and he says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I have a hard old radio question for you this week.
Speaker 1: Generally our national sports radio guys supposed to be welcoming
Speaker 1: the fans of every franchise, even if it's the cheating
Speaker 1: as rows. The fact that you actually give strong opinions,
Speaker 1: including the negative ones, on My Angels, is a big
Speaker 1: reason why I'm a fan of the show. But I'm
Speaker 1: curious if trashing a franchise, no matter how well deserved,
Speaker 1: breaks some kind of national radio handbook or something. All right,
Speaker 1: So so, Mike, there there's really no handbook that I
Speaker 1: know of. Maybe I didn't get the talking points from
Speaker 1: from management, but it's really how I got into to radio,
Speaker 1: and it has changed. I will agree with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: that the business has changed. It's a lot more cheerleaders
Speaker 1: and there's people that are in the tank for the
Speaker 1: hometown team and all that, and that wasn't how it
Speaker 1: was when I got in to radio. And I guess
Speaker 1: I'm becoming one of the last and the Mohicans these days.
Speaker 1: But there are a bunch of people in certain cities
Speaker 1: that do it. It really goes by market, and I
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to work in the Boston market a
Speaker 1: little bit remotely, and that's a town where they trash
Speaker 1: the Red Sox if they play poorly. The patriots of
Speaker 1: the Celtics. Philadelphia is a town like that New York,
Speaker 1: although even that's changed a little bit. But as far
Speaker 1: as the national stuff now, all we get told by
Speaker 1: management unless I miss something here, Danny is do a
Speaker 1: good show, do an engaging show, doing entertaining show, keep
Speaker 1: people listening as long as you can possibly keep people listening.
Speaker 1: And however you do that, whatever you do to create
Speaker 1: an audience and to captivate an audience is what you
Speaker 1: have to do. And just don't get us in trouble.
Speaker 1: Am I correct? Danny? Isn't that pretty much the mantra
Speaker 1: from from management? Well, Hollywood, my man, that radio handbook
Speaker 1: you spoke of is in your company email, in your inbox. Well, man,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about man. We're gonna make you famous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no there's no hand book. It's just supposed to
Speaker 1: be glued to your radio type programming. In other words,
Speaker 1: if I'm driving home Ben late at night and you're
Speaker 1: on the radio and I pull into my driveway, you're
Speaker 1: so compelling that I don't want to get out of
Speaker 1: my car. Yeah, or whoever the guy is on the radio,
Speaker 1: whether it's me or Danny g or whoever, Like, if
Speaker 1: something happens and your thought is, I wonder what numb
Speaker 1: nuts thinks about this, you know, And I happen to
Speaker 1: be the numb nuts. Like that's a good thing, right
Speaker 1: if you're And unfortunately, we do have a number of
Speaker 1: people that do look forward to it. And and and
Speaker 1: in the same people Danny like to bust my balls
Speaker 1: when I when I give something out and give an
Speaker 1: opinion out and all that stuff. And but that's fine
Speaker 1: as long as you're as long as you're listening. But
Speaker 1: I do think the business has shifted, the pendulum has
Speaker 1: shifted away from being critical. And there's a lot a
Speaker 1: lot more people that are doing this now that are
Speaker 1: not not holding people accountable, and they're they're making excuses,
Speaker 1: and I find that as dull as dishwater. Other people,
Speaker 1: I guess like it. I don't know, to each their own.
Speaker 1: It's an acquired taste. I didn't grow up listening to
Speaker 1: sports radio like that, so I'm not used to it,
Speaker 1: and I don't really enjoy it, but there's clearly an
Speaker 1: audience for it. But I like throwing haymakers. Well, the
Speaker 1: great Petros and money say that there's only one thing
Speaker 1: that gets more ratings than sports. And that's fun. So
Speaker 1: when you have shows that have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: games and content and fun callers and things like that,
Speaker 1: to me, that's the best radio that's on the radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like making uh, spaghetti or something. There's different spices
Speaker 1: you can put in there, and different seasoning you can
Speaker 1: add and changes the taste and the flavor of the
Speaker 1: the meal. And so that's how that goes. But thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Next up Hill Billy, Mike writes in and he says,
Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin Danny Gee, I've been hearing about raising
Speaker 1: canes off and on. You've talked about it over the years,
Speaker 1: and your go to for substituting one thing for something else.
Speaker 1: I never paid much attention to it, he'll bully, Mike says,
Speaker 1: because we didn't have them here, but they're building one
Speaker 1: right down the road from him in Chester, Virginia. And
Speaker 1: I wanted your go to, all right, So so he'll
Speaker 1: be with Mike. My go to it raising canes. I
Speaker 1: go Keniak combo, no cole Slaw, no veggies, no cole Slaw,
Speaker 1: extra fries. There's also if you like the bread they
Speaker 1: toasted on one side. But if you ask for it
Speaker 1: toasted on both sides. They'll give you a fresh piece
Speaker 1: of bread, get it toasted on both sides, and then
Speaker 1: I normally get lemonade easy ice, and then when I
Speaker 1: drink the lemonade, I then fill it up with one
Speaker 1: of the uh, the regular beverages that they have there.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my go to. I love raising cane
Speaker 1: better than any other chicken joint that's out there, including
Speaker 1: the big one that doesn't open on Sundays there, so
Speaker 1: Chick fil A I like raising canes more. But that's
Speaker 1: my my go to. I'm all about it. But like
Speaker 1: everything else, the price has gone up up in a way,
Speaker 1: Danny right. It used to be fast food with cheap food.
Speaker 1: Now not so much. Yeah, And unfortunately where I live now,
Speaker 1: there's no raising canes in my backyard, but if there was,
Speaker 1: I would have to go on a solo mission there.
Speaker 1: I have to deduct points from Mike Cleopatra because I
Speaker 1: took her to raising keynes when we were visiting San
Speaker 1: Diego or Temecula. Rather we were in Temecula. I took
Speaker 1: her to a raising canes ben. She turned her nose up.
Speaker 1: She thought it was overfried. She didn't like it. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what all the hype in the fuss
Speaker 1: was about. And right then I had to really do
Speaker 1: some deep introspection. Yes, that's the exact word I was
Speaker 1: looking for, because at that point I just wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if I was with the right woman. Yeah, that can
Speaker 1: that can end a relationship. You know, people think we're
Speaker 1: kidding here, but no, I mean that's a that's a
Speaker 1: deal breaker for a lot of people. You gotta think
Speaker 1: how many meals you eat today, how many times you
Speaker 1: would like to go get that nice fried chicken from
Speaker 1: Raising Kines. They had to buy a commercial on this
Speaker 1: show we're giving away. But it's you're right, and I
Speaker 1: mean I have similar issues with my my bride. She
Speaker 1: she has like a gluten free diet that she's on
Speaker 1: most of the time, so she doesn't need a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of bread. I like bread, but I
Speaker 1: only eat once a day. So when I eat, I
Speaker 1: go big. I go big and I go home is
Speaker 1: what I do. And so we go back and forth.
Speaker 1: But the cool thing is she doesn't really care. I
Speaker 1: can eat, we can eat separate things as long as
Speaker 1: we're kind of in the same area. So it's all
Speaker 1: it's all good there, all right. Next up on the
Speaker 1: mail bag, Berry from Music City USA, right saying yo
Speaker 1: yo mob Benny. He says, uh, the sound bite of
Speaker 1: no Barrowe is awesome, and I know it took Jake
Speaker 1: Warner a long time to find that sound bite and
Speaker 1: you loved it. Was there ever sound bites for number
Speaker 1: two through number nine by the same artist? Would you
Speaker 1: take a new drop of number one to ten? But
Speaker 1: a talented artist, I would love to have drops for
Speaker 1: number two through nine. Alex Tisher actually knows one of
Speaker 1: our engineers. He he knew where some of those bites were,
Speaker 1: but they're not the same voice. Guy, He says, I
Speaker 1: think you should send out a call to the Mallam
Speaker 1: Militia to make those for you. Well, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea, Barry, if somebody wants to send
Speaker 1: in now. They gotta sound good though, right there, and
Speaker 1: they can't be cheesy. You know the nineties band you
Speaker 1: had it, You had one on KRT as well, your
Speaker 1: name Jingle. Yes, I still have a cart somewhere. I
Speaker 1: still have the cart. I love that, by all. I
Speaker 1: have that cart some where in my collection here as
Speaker 1: well for my name, And there used to be donuts
Speaker 1: that we played on the radio station. And then right
Speaker 1: in the middle of that quote unquote donut, you would
Speaker 1: play your name jingle, so it would be like back
Speaker 1: to back fresh jams. Danny G. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I have a nerd when it comes
Speaker 1: to jingles. There's a great jingle place in Dallas that
Speaker 1: makes most of those professional radio jingles. And the famous
Speaker 1: story is that Clayton Kershaw's father worked at that place
Speaker 1: in the in Dallas. So yeah, dad was a radio
Speaker 1: helped make radio jingles. Do you know if that place
Speaker 1: is still around? Uh, yeah it is. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I'm having a mental block, but yeah, they'll make you
Speaker 1: jingle for They have singers that go in and sing
Speaker 1: the jingles and stuff. That's awesome. I want one for
Speaker 1: the fifth hour. I know. I would love to get
Speaker 1: one for the fifth I don't know how much they
Speaker 1: would charge us, probably a lot because we're associated with
Speaker 1: the big corporation. They don't realize that this is mostly
Speaker 1: a mom and pop shop. But it's uh big time.
Speaker 1: Uh what is it? It's I'm trying to thank you.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can I know the gist
Speaker 1: of it. Let me see. It's in Dallas, and let
Speaker 1: me see. I give them a plug here because they're
Speaker 1: really they're really good here. Jam Yeah, Jam Creative Productions,
Speaker 1: Jam Create. It's called it jingles dot com. What a
Speaker 1: perfect website. What a perfect website, jingles dot com. And
Speaker 1: they make radio jingle station I d s like Danny
Speaker 1: was referencing and all that, and they also do it
Speaker 1: for I guess they'll do it for anybody. So if
Speaker 1: you have your podcast like this, they'll they'll do it.
Speaker 1: And it's pretty cool, pretty cool. It was called JAM.
Speaker 1: It was called JAM Productions before, but now it's called
Speaker 1: just al right, it's just still called Jam Production. It's
Speaker 1: called JAM. I thought it was called something else before.
Speaker 1: But anyway, jingles dot com is the website. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send an email to Scott to see if he'll
Speaker 1: allocate some budget for some jingles. That would be awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love that. I would love a new fresh
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard jingle and uh, and then one for this
Speaker 1: show for you, and then you could do it for
Speaker 1: for for your other show, right for for Cavino and
Speaker 1: Rich you could have a jingle made for them. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they would love jingles. Oh they're radio guys, they
Speaker 1: would love that. Come on, it would be all about it.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, yeah, it's so exciting. Oh, it's so good. Alright,
Speaker 1: Next up, Pierre. Let's see we have Pierre from sixth
Speaker 1: place in the Mallard Militia Fantasy football contest on DraftKings.
Speaker 1: He says, Man, I believe that you sleep less than
Speaker 1: I do. That is, unless you are not, in fact,
Speaker 1: actually posting on so social media and are allowing your
Speaker 1: vast social media team to handle such petty duties. I
Speaker 1: guess my question is how many people does Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio employed to maintain the social media empire of the
Speaker 1: media giants such as yourself. Well, Pierre, we're never supposed
Speaker 1: to talk about how we make the hot dogs, isn't
Speaker 1: that what we say? Danny, You can't talk about how
Speaker 1: you make the hot dogs and ruin the magic of
Speaker 1: how this is all made. But there is an army
Speaker 1: of people behind the scenes. It's a small army. It's
Speaker 1: the size of the Vatican's army. But it's a small,
Speaker 1: small group that defends the social media channels. And if
Speaker 1: you only take turns, if you only knew who was
Speaker 1: in the watch tower. It would amaze you if you
Speaker 1: had that kind of intel. Are you gonna pay the
Speaker 1: eight dollars a month for Twitter or are you gonna
Speaker 1: build that to the company? Oh I am not. I
Speaker 1: am not paying. If the company wants me to be verified,
Speaker 1: they have I hear they have the money to afford that. Um,
Speaker 1: but are you gonna pay eight dollars a month to
Speaker 1: get verified? Any Are you gonna go down that road?
Speaker 1: It doesn't affect me, so I don't care. Now it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a badge of honor now to not
Speaker 1: have the blue check mark. Yeah, I see. Like the
Speaker 1: whole point of it was it was special because you
Speaker 1: had to earn it. You didn't pay for it something,
Speaker 1: they had to give it to you. But now it's
Speaker 1: if you just buy it, it's not really that special
Speaker 1: because anyone can get it. You know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, when I looked into getting my my page verified,
Speaker 1: they got back to me and they said, cool, you're
Speaker 1: in line to get the check mark. All you need
Speaker 1: to do is have a website now so we can
Speaker 1: verify you. I did the website and then I heard
Speaker 1: back saying we're pausing all verifications at the moment, so
Speaker 1: it was just for me. It was a black hole
Speaker 1: and not at the Oakland Coliseum. Well that sucks. I
Speaker 1: had to jump through a bunch of hoops. I've told
Speaker 1: the story before. I just send my driver's license in
Speaker 1: and they had to get all my personal information. They own.
Speaker 1: Twitter has all my information. You see all the athletes
Speaker 1: and celebrities that have been tweeting saying if you don't
Speaker 1: know who I am, if I haven't earned this, screw you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pay. Yeah, well, we'll see how this
Speaker 1: plays out. And people are upset because you know, when
Speaker 1: something's free and then you charge for it, Why would
Speaker 1: you pay for something you were getting for free? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like it's like the old line
Speaker 1: about the why buy the cow if you're getting the
Speaker 1: milk for free? You know, the the dating line we
Speaker 1: heard back in the day with me you get me
Speaker 1: that good stuff got mail. Next up is Adrian in
Speaker 1: the Mile High City. He says, Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: are buddy, Adrian. I've been singing the Dodger blues the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. The Dodgers always have great regular
Speaker 1: seasons and then suck at a time they cannot suck
Speaker 1: during the playoffs. I don't know why I thought this
Speaker 1: season would be different. The Big Blue Choking Crew cost
Speaker 1: me my Dodger World Series Championship wager. Sorry about that, Adrian,
Speaker 1: He says, go Phillies, and then he points out he's
Speaker 1: who's writing this and who knows. Now it's Sunday. Maybe
Speaker 1: the World Series is over by now, but things were
Speaker 1: looking good for the Phillies at the time he sent
Speaker 1: this in. He says, speaking of the cheaters, Big Ben
Speaker 1: had me. You had me laughing my ass off and
Speaker 1: the meter reader car when you were saying that you
Speaker 1: would no longer be a Dodger fan if they signed
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa this offseason. F albub. Now, I was not kidding, Adrian.
Speaker 1: A lot of people thought I was exaggerating. No, no
Speaker 1: I am. I am so far on the side of
Speaker 1: the aisle, which is anti assholes that if the Dodgers
Speaker 1: signed an asshole Carlos Correa, I'm out. I'm out. I'll
Speaker 1: still watch baseball, I'll bet on baseball like Pete Rose,
Speaker 1: but I am not going to invest myself in a
Speaker 1: franchise that law lost a World Series to a team cheating,
Speaker 1: and he was one of the key cheaters, and then
Speaker 1: you sign that guy down the line. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a party of that. And if they signed
Speaker 1: Korey and I don't believe they will, But if the
Speaker 1: Dodgers do, I'm out. I'm out. As long as he's
Speaker 1: wearing Dodger blue, I'm not. And so that's the way
Speaker 1: it is. That's how strongly I feel. And that is
Speaker 1: a That is a deal breaker for me. That is
Speaker 1: a deal breaker. And I don't think they'll do it.
Speaker 1: I think they'll sign Dan's by Swanson or bring back
Speaker 1: Trade Turner, or signs Andrew Bogart's, any of those guys,
Speaker 1: not Carlos Carey, Dan's by route, that's better. And you
Speaker 1: know what, man, it would be like if Machado returned
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers. He has such a punchable face, so
Speaker 1: does Correa. I can't imagine those guys wearing Dodger blue
Speaker 1: right now. You'd want to punch your TV screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Krea is just a dick. I don't want the guy
Speaker 1: on the team, and they shouldn't want him either. He's
Speaker 1: bad news. He's bed news Bears is what he is,
Speaker 1: just like Eddie's Halloween costume. Bad news Bears all right,
Speaker 1: next up? Actually, well there's more from Adrian. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. He says, As you fellas know, I listened
Speaker 1: to podcast while driving around and reading water meters. Well,
Speaker 1: of course I have to make pitch stops here and
Speaker 1: there to use the restroom, which means I stop at
Speaker 1: a lot of porta potties or outhouses. Oh boy along
Speaker 1: the way. Why is it that some of the most
Speaker 1: foul things someone can think to say are written in
Speaker 1: black sharpie on the walls of the outhouse or the
Speaker 1: porta pisser? Also, whose idea was it to start that?
Speaker 1: Most of the time those things are disgusting, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to piss and get the hell out of there
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible, not stick around in there and
Speaker 1: scribble out a nasty racist message your thoughts get Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's always been that way every in the old
Speaker 1: bathroom writing. So I guess the because the theory would
Speaker 1: be that assholes are attracted to ship, and so there's
Speaker 1: shipped in there, and so the assholes that they get
Speaker 1: excited by that, the schmucks and the mama Lukes, so like, hey,
Speaker 1: I can they can write nasty stuff and nobody will
Speaker 1: know it's me, and I'll get away with it because
Speaker 1: there's no cameras in here. And why are there so
Speaker 1: many accidents inside there? Though? People suddenly lose their aim
Speaker 1: as soon as they step into a border potty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and also there's a lot of weird things that people
Speaker 1: put in the bowl, which is actually a bowl that
Speaker 1: you would never put in your toilet at home. They
Speaker 1: use it as a trash can. Oh, it's so disgusting, nasty.
Speaker 1: He gives gives me the willie's just even hearing his
Speaker 1: email about those things. I mean, that's last resort town
Speaker 1: right there. Man. I was at a high school football
Speaker 1: game a couple of Fridays ago, and of course when
Speaker 1: I went to look for the restroom, they had porta
Speaker 1: potties lined up, and I was like, oh God, I
Speaker 1: gotta piss so bad though, So I went in there,
Speaker 1: Ben and I did the old T shirt over the nose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still didn't help. Now, well, we have a competitive advanch
Speaker 1: over the women, but it's still still not great. I
Speaker 1: was using hand sanitizer for ten fifteen minutes NonStop after
Speaker 1: that you'd rather go out in the woods and go
Speaker 1: behind a tree or something like that. The lastly, Adrian
Speaker 1: says that Phil in cat Brandon from a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he says he sounds like Pinocchio from the
Speaker 1: Shrek movies. If he ever fills in again, you should
Speaker 1: have him say I'm a real boy like Pinocchio did
Speaker 1: in the movie. He goes, wow. All right. Anyway, says
Speaker 1: the Broncos get the w against the Jags in London.
Speaker 1: Those high knees on the plane paid off. He says,
Speaker 1: Broncos country, Let's ride. Quoting Russell Wilson. He says, I'll
Speaker 1: be listening to the Friday Penny podcast to see who
Speaker 1: Ben takes in the Denver UH and Tennessee a game.
Speaker 1: He points out here. So anyway, Adrian, that's Adrian of
Speaker 1: the Mile said he sent in some photos of Halloween,
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you doing some good costumes here.
Speaker 1: But the one that I was most impressed with your
Speaker 1: son dressed up as an in and out employee. That's
Speaker 1: really good. That is a So I don't think you
Speaker 1: bought all that. I think some of that you just made.
Speaker 1: And that's that's really cool. They're so good job. I
Speaker 1: saw it in and out costume in my neighborhood on Halloween.
Speaker 1: It made me so hungry. That's good look, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you that's a good look, so solid job.
Speaker 1: And I love that you and your wife at the
Speaker 1: Bronco game. They lost the game, but you both had
Speaker 1: the nice You had the old school Bronco logo, which
Speaker 1: I love. I love that old Bronco logo because it
Speaker 1: makes me flashback to when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: I used to the Broncos would always be in prime
Speaker 1: time because Pat Bowl and the old owner right didn't
Speaker 1: he he was on the television committee. So the Broncos always,
Speaker 1: even when they weren't that good, would always end up
Speaker 1: on a lot of Monday night football games. Cool by
Speaker 1: Loo Broncos. Last, we'll keep it going here. Who is
Speaker 1: who is next? On the old the mail bag? I
Speaker 1: got mail? Yea, I got mail ya all right? Kevin
Speaker 1: and Kansas says, do either of you have a fond
Speaker 1: memory of some earlier sitcoms? I'm thinking the Turkeys Can't
Speaker 1: Fly episode of w k RP and sent to Nati
Speaker 1: or the finale of mash You both see him up
Speaker 1: on pop culture, so I figured i'd I tap your
Speaker 1: your memories. Oh yeah, I loved sitcoms back in the day,
Speaker 1: and when I was a kid, there wasn't the Internet,
Speaker 1: so we watched a lot of TV at the house.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched everything from uh the what was
Speaker 1: the the Well? The Jefferson's, watched that moving on up
Speaker 1: to a was a penthouse on the west side or
Speaker 1: something like that. Whatever it was, Three's coming up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Three's coming to the east side. There there there, Uh
Speaker 1: Bosom Buddies, we went with Tom Hanks that was on.
Speaker 1: Of course, Uh Mork and Mindy you go down the list, man.
Speaker 1: We were big TV people. We were big TV people
Speaker 1: in the day, and we loved being offs of spinoffs
Speaker 1: of spinoffs. Yeah, watch Cheers, Mash, all those, all those.
Speaker 1: You didn't watch Mash. When that would come on, that
Speaker 1: would be a signal to turn the TV channel or
Speaker 1: turn it off. Remember my older brother getting up when
Speaker 1: the old Master reruns would come on, and he always grumbled,
Speaker 1: this show sucks. We were too young. We didn't understand
Speaker 1: anything going on in that show. So yeah, I we
Speaker 1: had it on. I didn't like the bloody stuff either,
Speaker 1: but I loved Hawkeye and I actually or or Clinger
Speaker 1: believe we'll see what had? You see what had? I'm wearing, Danny,
Speaker 1: this was this is an homage. A listener sent me this,
Speaker 1: but in a homage to mash it looks kind of blurry.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a death row hat. No, I'm
Speaker 1: wearing a Toledo mud Hans hat. I have a Toledo
Speaker 1: mud hands hat which was warm dog sent you that. No, No,
Speaker 1: he sent me some weed, not that, not this smoke weed.
Speaker 1: But on any specific moments, I mean I watched tons
Speaker 1: of stuff. I don't know if any anything. I remember
Speaker 1: the last episode of Cheers when everyone went on Jay
Speaker 1: Leno and they were all hammered. Oh, speaking of that,
Speaker 1: how about Johnny Carson's very last show. That was big
Speaker 1: tonight we had that on. It was always I hated
Speaker 1: the music acts. I wanted more comedy. I hated the interviews.
Speaker 1: I loved the monologue of Carson. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love when they did some funny bits, stick his bits.
Speaker 1: Those were good. The headlines thing you know here. I
Speaker 1: remember everybody gathering around the TV the night of his
Speaker 1: final show. It was a big deal. Yeah, David Letterman
Speaker 1: was was big also Letterman early days before he became
Speaker 1: the main eleven o'clock where he talked about his NBC
Speaker 1: bosses all the jib. Yeah, he talked NBC and ge
Speaker 1: Right was in the Electric that owned owned the company,
Speaker 1: and he'd mocked them and he just do crazy stuff
Speaker 1: that It was wonderful because we didn't have the inn.
Speaker 1: Now people do that crap all the time on TikTok,
Speaker 1: but in our day back in the Stone Age, Danny,
Speaker 1: that's that was amazing. That was like, this is the
Speaker 1: greatest thing ever. Yeah, and he actually had good music acts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: him and well Paul Schaeffer and they brought they brought
Speaker 1: random people, but he I loved the Biff Biff Henderson
Speaker 1: actually met him. It was the funniest thing. When I
Speaker 1: covered the NBA Finals in two thousand, Biff Henderson was
Speaker 1: at the finals there and it was not an act.
Speaker 1: He really did not want to be there. It was
Speaker 1: so funny because you think of that as kind of
Speaker 1: a stick and all that he did not want to
Speaker 1: be there. We saw him at the hotel in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: and he was really bummed out that he was. It
Speaker 1: was hilarious. I thought that was an act. But there
Speaker 1: were no cameras. He was just like literally depressed. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's just how we always looked. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: have no idea, but it was. I have fun memories
Speaker 1: of the Letterman show. Moving on, we got time for
Speaker 1: a couple more quick ones here as we blast off
Speaker 1: and says greetings Bob, Ross, Benny and King Danny. G
Speaker 1: cool recap of the house party on the show, and
Speaker 1: happy halfway on Benny versus the Penny. Neil, This is
Speaker 1: from Neil from the Real Miami. But this week I
Speaker 1: have downloaded your podcast from pick the Picturesque West Coast
Speaker 1: of Ireland. And interestingly the commercials actually have Irish advertisements
Speaker 1: along with some promos for other I Heart shows. So
Speaker 1: Mallard Militia members. Neil rights in don't blame Ben for
Speaker 1: commercial you get. Apparently they are custom made by location.
Speaker 1: Had a chance to hear your show in rainy Galway, Ireland,
Speaker 1: and this is pretty neat Dan. He sent a photo
Speaker 1: here and in the photo he's on a boat and
Speaker 1: he's holding up he's got his phone, he's holding it
Speaker 1: up and you can see the the logo for the
Speaker 1: podcast right there and then behind him to paint the
Speaker 1: picture because it's it's an audio thing here it's not.
Speaker 1: But the faint picture he's on it appears to be
Speaker 1: on a boat, and or maybe he's just on land,
Speaker 1: but he's he's near a body of water, and then
Speaker 1: behind him is a row of houses. So is this pretty? Uh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty neat. It's one place that's on my list
Speaker 1: too to travel to someday. Yeah. I actually wrote back
Speaker 1: to Neil and I said, my my wife's the same way.
Speaker 1: She wants to go to take me to Ireland and
Speaker 1: in that part of the world. And so I wrote
Speaker 1: back and said, Hey, you gotta let me know the
Speaker 1: good places to go and and all that. He says.
Speaker 1: For the question, Neil rights and he says, it's clear
Speaker 1: you are traumatized by calls email from the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: radio bosses. That is true. But have you ever avoided
Speaker 1: a call from the boss and only found out that
Speaker 1: he wanted to give you a huge compliments about your
Speaker 1: monologue that day or any others? It's that like your
Speaker 1: talent or shows. If so. No, I've worked at this
Speaker 1: company for twenty years. I don't think I've ever gotten
Speaker 1: a you're really good call? Uh? And no, no disrespect
Speaker 1: to management or anything like that. I just don't think
Speaker 1: i've maybe have you gotten it, Danny, I've never gotten
Speaker 1: that phone call. I've never got you know, I just
Speaker 1: want to say how good you are. I've never gotten that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've gotten calls where there was a compliment
Speaker 1: to start the call, but that's not why the call
Speaker 1: was going on. Well, it's the compliments, sand which all
Speaker 1: bosses do. You are with a compliment, you then get
Speaker 1: to the point you actually want to make, which is
Speaker 1: the person's socks and they're terrible at their job, and
Speaker 1: then you finish with a compliment. Yeah, your show yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was laughing my ass off. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I need you to work on extra seven hours this Saturday. Yes,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. It's And when I get a call from
Speaker 1: management and it starts with a compliment, I am then
Speaker 1: waiting for the other shooter drop. I'm like, Okay, they
Speaker 1: don't really believe that. What are they really getting at?
Speaker 1: What what is the gist of this phone call here?
Speaker 1: And so I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it. And the suspense of what they're
Speaker 1: gonna say, Ben sucks. How dare you so? But I'd
Speaker 1: love for them to check in every once in a
Speaker 1: while and say, hey, this is I have heard from
Speaker 1: some people in sales that have had like clients that
Speaker 1: are fans of the show, and they're the funniest thing
Speaker 1: about that, though, Danny is they're always surprised. They're always surprised,
Speaker 1: like you're doing the Overnight Show. I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why the clarent likes you, but whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like kind of like that backhanded compliment thing.
Speaker 1: But I digress. A couple of quick ones, Nick and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin says banning Danny g I enjoyed the would you
Speaker 1: rather questions, so I'm going to going back to the well,
Speaker 1: would you rather give up your favorite food forever? Or
Speaker 1: give up sex? That is from from Nick and So.
Speaker 1: So I do love chicken fingers my favorite food, but
Speaker 1: guess what, I also loved Philly cheese steak, and I
Speaker 1: love Chinese food, and I love Mexican food. I love
Speaker 1: crunchy tacos. So I am gonna I'll give up the
Speaker 1: chicken fingers. What about you, Danny g Oh, I'm a
Speaker 1: smoothie drinking pool. At that point, I'll just live on smoothies.
Speaker 1: If you're taking all my favorite foot away. No, no,
Speaker 1: he said, just one. He said your favorite dish. That's it.
Speaker 1: Whatever your favorite. He needs to come correct with those.
Speaker 1: Would you rather that's an easy answer. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: no brainer. Come on, you gotta do better, Nick, I
Speaker 1: know you've got more talent in there. Calm down on
Speaker 1: that Sunday morning. All liquid diet or you know, lose
Speaker 1: sex forever. I had a buddy of mine, a radio friend,
Speaker 1: who did a liquid diet years ago, and he lost
Speaker 1: a lot of weight and then he started eating food
Speaker 1: again and gained it all back. So what's the point?
Speaker 1: You know, what's the point? You know, it's because it
Speaker 1: to to maintain you have to continue on the liquid diet.
Speaker 1: I that's what I've heard my friend. That was his experience.
Speaker 1: Daniel Daniel in Ohio. Last one, he says sports are
Speaker 1: never going to go away because I guess the sporting question.
Speaker 1: They're never gonna go away because sports are just games,
Speaker 1: competition and distractions. Well, really, a lot of things in
Speaker 1: life are just distractions. Right. There's a lot of important
Speaker 1: stuff and then everything else is a distraction. But he says,
Speaker 1: but what do you think would need to happen to
Speaker 1: bring our interest or the salaries of players, coaches, et
Speaker 1: cetera back down to reality. That is from Daniel in Ohio. Well,
Speaker 1: I would have said a global pandemic would have on that,
Speaker 1: but we just had one and it didn't do ship
Speaker 1: to the amount of money that people in sports are making.
Speaker 1: So the thing that will kill the golden goose is
Speaker 1: if television no longer pays the bills. Television is the
Speaker 1: sugar daddy. I know it's moving to the Internet. And
Speaker 1: if we get to the point where TV no longer
Speaker 1: can draw the numbers to it's all. It all trickles
Speaker 1: down from television. These sports leagues are just TV networks there.
Speaker 1: They just provide programming to TV networks. So if the
Speaker 1: audience isn't there and they can't monetize it and then
Speaker 1: give the money to the sports leagues, they don't make
Speaker 1: enough to maintain the books, right Danny, with it just
Speaker 1: ticket sales is not enough to pay forty five billion
Speaker 1: dollars to your quarterback or your left field or you're
Speaker 1: starting pitchers. So that's the thing. Outside of that, it's
Speaker 1: essentially bulletproof. But television that's the thing or whatever television
Speaker 1: becomes TV meals yeah, for sure, for sure, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Anything to promote here, Danny,
Speaker 1: anything at all. It is Sunday. I will be back.
Speaker 1: I can tell you. I'll be back in the Magic
Speaker 1: Radio Box God Willing tonight at eleven PM in the
Speaker 1: West after the NFL hopefully after Game seven of the
Speaker 1: World Series. And I'll be on until three am Pacific
Speaker 1: six am, so that's two am to six am Eastern
Speaker 1: time where most people live. So I'll be that and
Speaker 1: it's my one day off of the week. So hopefully
Speaker 1: the Raiders can bounce back against the Jags. Maybe their
Speaker 1: offense will show up this week they get off the
Speaker 1: bus and uh. And then tomorrow in the afternoon from
Speaker 1: two to four pm Pacific time, I'll be on with
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich. I'll give you a high fives, alright,
Speaker 1: my hero outstanding. Thanks for supporting the podcast. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Remember five stars, Tell a friend, Tell a friend, tell
Speaker 1: a friend, two stars and five ten stars, because it's
Speaker 1: only give ten stars. One star for you, one star
Speaker 1: for me. That's two stars. Hen Sorry, I joined the
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Speaker 1: a great rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the games today
Speaker 1: and we will chat with you in just a few hours.
Speaker 1: Shockingly later, skater gotta murder, I gotta go