WEBVTT - "Essential Mic" Mail Bag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.400 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.000 with Ben Maller starts right now, nine in the air 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:36.800 everywhere Sunday. That means the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:41.680 and Danny G Radio The Mailbag. It's mail back to 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.400 Are you ready for the mailback? In the Fifth Hour? 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:48.680 Podcast presented as bonus content eight days a week at 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.280 the radio show, The Restore Radio Show five days a week, 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.360 the podcast three days a week. You're saying, hey, stupid, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.840 there's only seven days a week. No, there's not. We 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.600 have more. We have more, We have an extra day 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.720 in our little world here Danny G and excited for 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.119 the mail bag. A great number of messages coming in here. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.360 So people have questions, questions, questions, questions, and some of 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.800 them will surprise us, surprise, motherfucker. Others of them will 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.840 roll their eyes out and say, why did we use 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.360 that question? So that's usually the way that's worse. Let's go, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.520 this is my second favorite day of the week. Yes, okay, alright, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.240 alright to it we go on the mail bag again. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.199 Actual listener letters sent in via the email Real fifth 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.800 Hour at gmail dot com. It's f I F T 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.080 H Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and also 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.920 on our show Facebook page, Ben Mathers Show. So here 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:53.280 we go, Thank you very much. The great Ohio Al 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.360 sent that in. First. One comes from Nick in Wisconsin. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.000 He says, I listen to all of the Ben Mallers 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.440 shows and listen to the Pat McAfee show. But when 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.320 I'm not listening to that in my commute, I listened 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.600 to audio books. What is your guilty pleasure to listen to? 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.760 Congrats Danny g and uh, he says, congrats on your 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:22.040 Benny so Nick and Wisconsin happy that you won. Thank you, Nick. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.760 I see you still have it there. You're holding it 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.040 up and your I've been carrying it around with me 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.919 all week. Yeah, it's very heavy, solid gold. Of course, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.080 can't wait to show it to Brian Finley. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.000 that's right. Well, that dope he was. He claimed he won. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.560 He said there was some kind of voter fraud, that dingling. Yeah, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.600 so what is our guilty pleasure to listen to? So 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.400 I do not listen to a lot of sports talk 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.720 radio because I want to do my own thing. And 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.679 you listen to other shows, you have a habit of 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.480 kind of what's the word, parroting, parroting some of the 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.280 stuff that other shows do. So I try not to 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.040 do that. Don't listen to much sports talk at all. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.680 And I have friends of mine. We we've been in 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.600 the business long enough. Uh Danny g Where will tune 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.639 in and listen? Uh? Tim Conway, I'll check him out 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.000 on KFI here in l A. Does a great job 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.240 on the on the night show. They have a lot 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.799 of news updates on that on that show and and whatnot. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.120 I'll listen to that. I have some some DJ friends. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.200 I'll tune in. The buddy of mine Striker used to 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.000 work at k Rock in l A. He's now at 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.360 ninety eight point seven, and so he's moved across the 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.200 radio that. There's a few other people around the country 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.400 that I will sample their show. My buddy Sports with Coleman, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.320 who does do a sports show, but he's in Baltimore 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.880 talking about the Orioles. Nothing. I want to nothing. I 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.240 want to pair it about the Orioles and all that. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.120 So there's that. What about you, Danny G Yeah, I'm 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.520 in the car for a short time on weekdays. In 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.040 the morning it's k l OS, which is the rock 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.400 station in southern California, Heidi and Frank in the morning, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.040 I hear them laughing for a few minutes. In the 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.960 afternoon it's Petros and Money. Now I don't have to 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.920 worry about parenting any of their takes been because like 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.880 this podcast, they're not really talking about sports. No, most 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.480 of the time they're just playing grab bass. So I'll 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.280 hear that. And our buddy Victor Brick, who you talked 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:32.159 to on Friday, feeling you yes. And then on the weekends, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.039 on my way into the studios at fs ARE, I 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.960 am listening to Power one oh six, usually on the freeway, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.320 just to get hyped up. So that's your rotation. Yeah, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.840 those three are in rotation. Got you all right? Well, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:50.600 thanks for the question, Nick, appreciate that. And the next 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.480 up come back attention. It's time from now I'll call 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.960 Murray in Saskatoon, right, that's a good word to say, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:08.599 Saskatoon Canadian lads. Hello, King Ben. I love your incredible 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.520 list of nicknames, but every time I hear the nickname 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.440 Marconi Maller, I realized that I've never heard the story 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.080 about the time that you won the Marconi Award. Can 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.919 you please grace us with the story and don't be 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 afraid to leave out all the details? Thank you. Well, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.800 I'm glad you asked Murray, and I know there's some 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.800 sarcasm in that, but I would never call myself Marconi 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.720 Maller unless there was some truth in it. And so 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.080 let me give you the backstory. A couple of years back, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.160 I was doing some satellite work before COVID. This is 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:46.640 twenty seventeen eighteen, so two years I was working at 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:52.039 w e I in Boston filling in on the night show. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.320 So that was my my extra on the side gig 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.760 before this podcast stuff started. So I was doing that 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:07.760 talking Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, occasionally the Bruins, and while 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.960 I was at w e I, filling in at night 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.919 around Red Sox games, even doing the Red Sox postgame 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.200 talk show from time to time, which was very bizarre. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.279 But w e I was named the Marconi Sports Talk 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.920 Radio Station of the Year, and since I was on 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.080 that station, Mary you schmuck. Since I was on the 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:32.800 station the year they won the award, by default, I 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.360 was part of the award because I was on the station. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.640 So I had a small role, a very small role, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.679 and that's how I picked up the nickname Marconi Mallard. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 Now i'd like to win a different Marconi at Fox 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.119 Sports Radio. That would be awesome, but I haven't and 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.880 you have to be nominated, and I've been nominated. I 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:00.159 know that Alf the Alien opiner a super fan end 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.960 of the show. Alf has been working on that, but 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.840 typically somebody in the business has to do it. And 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.800 the way this works, I am the low man on 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.800 the totem pole. So if you're gonna nominate someone for 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.760 a mar Coney road, it's gonna be somebody that's on 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:19.440 the radio between six am and six pm, not somebody 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.400 who's on the radio from six pm to six am. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.560 That's the dead zone. So I don't think you have 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.760 to worry about that. But I did have a small 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.760 role in the Marconey So put that your pipe and 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.880 smoke it, Murray in Saskatoon, because I know what you 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.920 were doing, Murray. I am onto you, Murray, I'm aware 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.160 of what you were doing. I got mail, Yeah, I 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.280 got mail. Yeah, all right, And he writes in next 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:51.160 he's still dodging the hobo insanity near Tommy's and Holly 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.560 Weird now and he's emailed a few times. I used 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.760 to hang out at that Tommy's right off the one 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.520 on one Freeway, Danny, when I was doing the weekend 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.760 over that shows early days in Fox Sports Radio before 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.560 I lost the weight. I'd go in there, cruise in 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.400 there about three thirty in the morning, and I'd load 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:13.720 up on double chili cheeseburgers and chili cheese fries, and 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.360 I'd sit there and people watch I eat the parking 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.800 lot because it was too scary to go out of 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.280 the out of my car. Right. You said your mom 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.400 would worry about you being in that part of town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.640 There was was a sunset strip and the people would 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.440 come off the Sunset Strip who had been boosting it up, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.080 having a great time, and then they'd come down there 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.640 for a little post game party at that Tommy's in 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.719 Hollywood anyway, and he says, glad to have Danny g 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.560 on the pod. He says, but still hurting that you 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.880 didn't use my little Benny co host idea from last year. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.559 Imagine the life of Mallard add ons. You have Hama 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:58.439 toshing cooking outfit, updated costco greener uniform and a Clipper 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:04.079 final four shirt. Well there you These people get so offended, 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.000 they're so triggered by the Clippers making the Final four. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.559 It's not my problem, it's your problem. It is the 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:19.479 Clippers were in the Final four. Deal with it, Okay, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.760 they were there. I didn't make it happen. They made 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.600 it happen. I had nothing to do with it. But 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.640 I did enjoy it. I did admit. What is still 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.480 wrong with the Clippers? And he says, question any big 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:38.840 ben hacks to counter the pain from the outrageous Biden inflation, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.920 any fruit frugality tips, ways to save money, shortcuts to 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.360 keep the wallet closed. Yeah, I'm feeling it. Andie, I 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.559 guess you can get a radio show and never leave 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.080 your house and not have to pay for gas. But 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.319 my wife drives a lot, so she has to pay 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.840 for gas. So that's the first thing that the no 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.360 gas thing, and the other thing that I've done, And 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.200 he is, I don't eat as much. I fast a lot. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.240 So if you only eat one meal a day, you're 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.120 saving money on two meals. Traditionally people eat three meals 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.200 a day. I only eat one meal a day. Sometimes 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.079 I skip meals all together. I'll go a couple of 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:18.360 days without you, which I'm told starting in there'll be 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.640 a food shortage, which we have. I was reading a 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.000 story online about that, Danny. They said that there's issues 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.800 with the food supply. Now we're going to be back 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.760 to where we you can't get bread or meat. It's 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.600 through what a what a world? Where in it's crazy 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.320 to me that the things are getting the opposite direction. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.360 Then you thought things always get better, like I've heard that, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.720 oh things get better things oh lately and that's so much. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.040 Growing up, we'd always hear stories about Hawaii, like, oh man, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.800 the milk is this much, and the peanut butter costs 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.040 this much and because obviously all the food it needs 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.120 to be shipped over. Yeah, now those prices we will 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.600 hear about Hawaii. That's what we're dealing with where we 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.000 live in California. My tender rony, she got a little 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.040 thing of peanut butter last week, eight dollars for the 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:15.600 small one jelly nine dollars for the little small jelly. Now, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.760 so it is a man it is a quandary if 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.840 I can use a five dollar word, somebody owes me 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.640 five bucks because what do you do? Do you go 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.520 out to eat? Because that is expensive drive to go 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.000 out to eat, and for four people that's easily fifty bucks. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.400 Even if you do fast going out food like a 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.560 Chipotle or something like that were placed over the Arby's. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.800 Unfortunately that in the fast food category. You know, some 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.120 people just won't eat fast food, and I get it, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.960 but right now we're trying to figure out the balance 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.840 between grocery shopping and eating out. Yeah, and there's a 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.640 sweet spot with the fast food, like there's a sweet 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.200 spot where not all fast food restaurants in the same 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.640 You've got your core four that are everywhere, like McDonald's 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.559 and what's on that list, Burger King. I'm trying to 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.840 think of some of the ones that are every everywhere 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:14.160 you go, everywhere. By's, Wendy's is a national operation. There's that, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.760 and then there's places that are a little different, like 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.080 people that don't like fast food but they love Chick 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.719 fil A. Right, I don't know if it's all over 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.800 the country. But like we have Alpoo Loco. Yeah, I 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.839 think I think here in the southwest. But yeah, that's 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:33.439 like drough but healthier than like McDonald's type food. Is 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.840 a place that serves like Asian bowls of meat. There's 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.200 a lot of meat. That is a lot of meat 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.719 and chicken. What's it called this and that? I think 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.080 it's a national change. Maybe it's just a Panda Express. No, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:51.560 not that uh orange. Yeah, it starts with a W. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.880 I'm having a mental block from it. But it's now 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.880 we do have Panda Express in our rotation, and that's 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.840 because my tender Ronie say, well, I get the veggie 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.600 bowl from them, I get the vegetables and the rest 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.640 of us eat all the orange chicken and get fat. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.120 But Ben for three people at Panda Expressed, the bill 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:18.319 was forts man. So it's just getting Yeah, the prices 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.720 have gone up everywhere around us. All I have to 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.079 say is, thank god. We've all been getting raises at 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:31.080 our jobs, especially in radio. They monthly we've been getting raises. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.520 In fact, the boss of calls up sometimes you know, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.880 I hate to do this to body again, another raise, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.720 another raise, and I know you're shocked. By that and surprised. Motherfucker. Yeah, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.880 there you go the best of luck, which means as 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.800 good luck as everyone else has. Andy. Uh, we'll see 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.080 what happens there, but I would advise not eating, uh, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.959 not driving anywhere. And other than that, I have a 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.079 quick one for him. Take the stra patty off your 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.680 burger at five guys, they put two nice patties in there. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.880 And what's great is they give you the burger in foil, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.080 so you already have the tin foil. So what I do. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.080 I take one of the patties out, eat the burger, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.760 wrap the extra patty up in the tin foil, bring 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.480 that home, and then with some bread at home, you 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.280 can make a second burger later. So I thought you 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.720 were gonna say, just eat the peanuts and eat one 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.160 patty and then don't do the second patty. And just 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.600 know that's something you would do. You're the go to 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.720 the store to get the leftover old Valentine's candy the 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.280 next day. That is a solid move for the frugal man. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.760 It has never failed. You say, I gotta work, and 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.720 I usually had to work on Valentine's Day. Anyway, Dandy, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.359 I go in there. I wasn't like doing it maliciously. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.280 I had to work anyway because I was like, I 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.520 couldn't see the person until after Valentine's They said, I'll 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.600 be like, all right, I go in there the day 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.240 after by a couple of those hard candy things and 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.320 some other stuffed animals stuff and then be good to go. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.680 And you were also single for twenty years longer than that. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:12.720 A radioactive Ryan in Salt Lake City, Utah rights and says, hey, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.600 fifth hour fellas, thanks for making my work days much 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.400 easier to tolerate. Ben. I was thinking about the time 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.080 you were pulled over, and if you had been the 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.200 officer's favorite Petro's Papa Vegas, you would have avoided getting 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.720 a tick. You remember that story, Danny. This time I 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.480 was on my way to work. I was running a 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.040 little late. And this is when I lived in Lincoln Heights. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.000 I was running late, and I am on the five 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.920 going to the one thirty four, and I get pulled over, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.800 and you guys like, you know, what do you do 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.440 where you're going? And I had the chance that that 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.840 was my opportunity to tell him finally I could say, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.320 without being a douche, well, I'm going to the radio station. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.200 And anytime you tell the police officer you're going to 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.320 radio station, Oh, which one that you know that's coming. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.520 So then you're like, oh I Fox Sports Trading. Oh 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.600 really yeah? And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's on in 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.680 l here it's a M five seventy and and then 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.360 he yes, who I was, and he saw my driver's license, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:12.440 had no idea, but loved Petros. Loved Petros, big fan 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.920 of Petros. Anyway, Radio actor Ryot says, another one of 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 your great stories was the KFC manager who mistook you 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.640 for a former high school student that defaced property in 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:30.040 his story. Yes, that was hilarious. That was so. I 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.000 grew up in Irvine, California, and this guy who was 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.920 living in Washington calls the show and he knew a 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.800 little bit about me. He says, you go too high school? Like, yeah, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:40.760 I went there for a little bit. I went to 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.680 a couple of different you know, yeah, I went to 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.800 And this guy was the manager at the Kentucky Fried 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.640 Chicken down the street from the high school where all 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.560 the punk high school kids would go. And he had 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:56.600 accused me of some vandalism at the KFC restaurant and 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.560 that was incorrect. I did not do that. I did 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.160 not take part in that elicted activity. I did eat 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.760 that KFC, but I did not take part in that activity. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.800 But he was convinced that I did. Did this involve 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.199 a spray can? Because I mean, you're tall, so you 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.680 could reach some spots where usually we'll look up see graffiti, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.879 We're like, how did somebody get to that spot right there? Yeah? Well, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.119 where I grew up, the big vandalism was food fights. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.400 There would be people throwing, chucking French fries and whatever 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.399 else at each other. That was the big vandalism when 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:28.960 I was a kid. But he also says I was 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.359 wondering if Danny g has any tales of brushes with 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.520 the law or cases of mistaken identity. He signs off 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.359 by saying, f out tube and screw Korea, blank my 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:47.800 blank and blank you radioactive? Ryan? Yeah? Well, former listeners 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.040 about kicked the coverage will remember this during the peak 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.120 of COVID, like when it was a ghost town out 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.240 on all the roads, including the freeway. The staff had 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.280 to have FEMA cards. Did they give us more money, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.879 Ben when we were government assistants? No, But I did 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.679 learn about the was it the marshal something something that 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.439 allows us to have access to the roads. That was 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.560 pretty cool. Actually, yeah, so we're driving around with these 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.520 FEMA cards like big shots, and if we got pulled over, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.439 our bosses told us, we'll take out your paperwork and 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.440 your FEMA card and you'll be good. Because nobody was 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.960 supposed to be out on the roads unless they had 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.640 to go to a job. That was what was it? 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.879 Oh yeah, well it was what was the word they used? Crap? 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.440 How how soon this leaves us like some jobs were 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.879 needed and others weren't. Remember, and we're like, well, who's 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.320 to say that that job is needed and that one's not. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.200 There was that big discussion at the start of COVID. Yeah, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.040 that your sports talk radio host needs a FEMA card, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.320 but the pression that works construction does not, or vice 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.879 versa or something like that. Anyways, I'm driving through the 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.920 ghost town that was Burbank at the time. There were 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.720 literally no cars on the road. I am driving to 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.040 get onto the freeway to go to the studios to 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:12.560 produce Clay Travis Talk. I see sirens and I'm like, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.439 here we go. I pull over. I'm right next to 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.760 a Chevron gas station, so I pull into the gas 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.080 station officer did not like the fact that I pulled 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.760 into the gas station, tears around really quickly and pulls 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.879 in front of me, puts their brights on me, and 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.600 I'm like, this doesn't look like this is gonna go well, 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.800 gets out start screaming at me about why did I 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.400 pull off the main road. I'm trying to explain I'm 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.680 on my way to work. This female officer wasn't having it. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.919 I'm looking for my female card, Ben, all of a sudden, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.159 I have no idea where the stupid card is. So 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.280 for days I had this thing available, and I'm looking 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.679 for this card. She puts her flashlight in my eyes, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.720 and she's like, I don't like the look of your eyes. 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.280 Surely you can't be serious like your eyes like my eyes. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:07.760 And I'm like, all right, well, I'm not trying to 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.600 date you, and don't call me. You didn't give her 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.640 the puppy dog eyes. You didn't give her those, No, 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:17.760 you didn't. Then my eyes look glossy. I just woke 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.280 up to get into the studio at two thirty am, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:26.359 so of course my fucking eyes look glossy. Man. But Ben, 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.159 she thought I was coming home from drinking somewhere, so 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:34.200 she thought I was a d U. I she had 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:38.920 other officers show up. I'm quickly trying to text Clay 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.280 because now I know I'm gonna be late for the show. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.520 And she yells at me for being on my phone. 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.040 She's like, drop your phone immediately immediately. What are you 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.560 doing here? And I and I get later I found 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.399 out that's because they're scared that maybe you're calling people 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.400 to come help you. Um, so she made me. She 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.200 took my phone after I told her what I did 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.800 for a living where I was going. She's like, let 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.640 me see your phone. Let me see this Clay Travis guy. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:12.480 You were texting. Who's there? So in the text, I 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.680 had told Clay, oh boy, no one's on the roads 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.400 obviously because of COVID. I'm getting pulled over right now. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:23.880 I'm gonna be late. Your first guest is at seven am, 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:28.840 and it's so and so she tells, me, h, seven am, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:33.040 you're not on your way to work. And I told 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.920 her time zone situation. Yeah. I told her, ma'am, we're 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:42.679 a network, we work on Eastern Yeah. And she just 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.359 had this look on her face like, oh, she thought 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.440 she had me. It wasn't it got your moment. Oh now. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.000 One of the male officers who showed up heard the 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.960 story from her, came up to me and asked me 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.719 if Clay Travis could give him a shout out. Sweet, sweet, 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.760 you're in now, you're in right, So they shipped me off. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.920 I got to tell the story on the air. Clay 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.080 had fun with it. Um, but yeah, that was but 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.600 as many officers that were there, there were five squad 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.959 cars there at the end, they had nothing to do 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.560 because no one was out, so everyone was sheltering in 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.800 place to stay at home, orders and all that nonsense exactly. Now. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.480 One good thing that came from that a buddy of 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:31.400 mine who is a sheriff in Los Angeles. He sent 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:36.480 me a family badge, family police badge for l A. 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.080 It's gotten me out of two tickets so far. I 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.680 got caught speeding through the desert last year. You open 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:46.880 up to get your I d it shows a real 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.719 badge and the officers like, are you off duty? And 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.760 I said, oh no, no, I have family. Okay, do 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:58.520 me a favorite slowdown? Wow? Yeah, boy, that's the move. 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.879 So thank you. Because of that story I got to 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:06.280 tell on Clay Travis show a fine officer in l 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.960 A sent me that in the mail and so I 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.920 have a badge, Baby, I am l A p D service. 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.360 If any officers would like to help me out, you're 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.119 more than welcome. I would be receptive to that. I 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.920 would not be against that at all. Uh. The only 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.080 time I get I can use that my wife, but 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.280 she's not a police officer, she's a what's it? Nine 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:28.160 one one? So occasionally that will work. But if I'm 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.160 on my own, I'm done, I'm getting a ticket. It's 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:32.800 gonna have. The word I think we were looking for 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.680 was essential, right, not a sential essential? That was the 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:44.639 big term, non essential or essential. Carlos in Houston is 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:49.080 next the great Carlos in Houston. As we continue the 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:54.359 mail bag, I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.560 Carlos and Houston says Ben, you mentioned that you knew 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.000 the Andrea in impersonator. Who is it? He says? Also, 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:06.320 will you have art though on your podcast to preview 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.880 the baseball season? Speaking of baseball, we need a wellness 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:15.200 check on where's my baseball guy? So a lot of questions, Carlos, 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.000 not a lot of answers. Now, I do know who 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:22.520 the Andrea impersonator is and I think we've said this 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.440 on there, so I'll go with it. It is Robin Vegas, 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.880 the Great Robin Vegas is called up and impersonated Andrea 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.919 in Berkeley and one of Benny for them. Yeah, that 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:38.160 is a great impersonation of her. Hello, Ben, how are 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:43.840 you doing? Uh? And Roberto, I don't know that Roberto's 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.800 booked for the podcast. We will do some baseball. I 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:50.000 love talking baseball. The season beginning. You know what should 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:51.720 get back on as a friend of the show. Lenny 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:55.760 Dike Stronikester wants to come back on the podcast, and 0:24:56.240 --> 0:25:00.600 Eddie Garcia is scared him. Lenny, Yeah, Eddie is afraid. 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.760 He would not allow Lenny wanted to come in studio 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.359 and hang out back before COVID and hang out and 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.359 just shoot the shoot the ship. And Eddie said no, no, 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.040 he did not want him in the studio. He thought 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:13.040 he had cooties or something. He probably does have cooties. 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:17.000 But Lenny's interested. Never boring with Lenny Dike's never boring 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:19.160 with Lenny. Friend of the show, so we might get 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:23.359 him on. And Rick Monday. Rick's a friend and he 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:25.520 said he would do it. I didn't want to bother 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:29.120 him in the off season. We get Rick on Dodger 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:32.200 broadcaster man saved the American flag back in the day 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.000 when the great moments in baseball history. He doesn't sound 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.520 like he'd be grouchy at all. No, No, Ricks. Ricky's great, 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.320 but rich got you know, tremendous stories from back and 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.760 then he was the first ever draft pick, first ever 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:47.119 pick in Major League Baseball's draft. You know, he was 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:52.639 the number one pick of the Kansas City Athletics, Rick Monday. Uh. 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:57.200 And as far as the speaking of baseball, we need 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:00.520 a Where's my Baseball Guy? Update? I believe he changed 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:02.919 to a day shift, but we have not heard from 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.040 the Where's my Baseball Guy? Have not heard that. And 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.760 the callers on the advice line change. It's not the 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.639 same people. We've had different waves over the years. So 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:19.640 that's just that's part of the deal. Very Nashville rights 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:22.240 in on the mail back. He said, Yo, yo, mom, Benny, 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:25.919 I love the Bennies this week, best one yet. See 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:30.160 again the term best pops up. The greatest one ever? Yeah, 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.120 the greatest, better than all the rest, he says. Tell 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:35.640 us when did you start the Bennies and how did 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:38.480 The idea come up with the Betty started a number 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:44.280 of years ago and we thought why not. Kind of 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.960 it started as a as I remember it, Danny, the 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:52.960 Bennies began as a way to mock award shows. The 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:58.320 Spis was one we thought was just ridiculous and yeah, 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:02.040 it's still could so we we like to coop on that. 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.960 And then the Academy Awards. And I've never been a 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:10.040 big fan of award shows. My mom used to love 0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:13.320 watching the Academy Awards every year, is you know, the 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:16.000 typical cliches. She want to see what people were wearing 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:18.520 and all that stuff. And I was always bored out 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:20.639 of my mind, like, who cares they're wearing a dress 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:22.679 or they're wearing a tuxedo. It's not a lot of 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:26.680 variety in this. But that's just my perspective on fashion. 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:29.680 And so that's kind of how that began. The idea 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:34.240 for it began that way, and over the years it's 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:37.360 taken a life of its own. I had a listener 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:42.080 who contributes content to the show whose mother emailed me 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:44.840 to say, and this is a grown ass human being 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.720 whose mom emailed me to say, Hey, I think my 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:50.960 son deserves a nomination for a bit doesn't have to win, 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:56.680 it just deserves a nomination, And like, really, you gotta 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.720 be kidding me, Okay, yeah, why not? What the heck? 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:02.080 I think that was actually kind of cool, man. I said, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:03.800 that's something like my mom would do, you know. But 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:05.560 it's at the same time part of me was like, yeah, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:07.320 that's great. The other part of me, I don't know. 0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:09.880 But I did get to hear some of the Bennies. 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:12.000 I didn't get to hear who One Drop of the 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:16.160 Year though, you were up for a couci. Yeah, well 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:21.320 Rachel and Monto Bello. Congratulations to Rachel. The boys enjoyed 0:28:22.080 --> 0:28:26.760 the Swallow drop. The swallows have returned and a big 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.760 fan of that. Of course. Barry also says, you spoke 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:33.439 about tornadoes on last week's fifth Hour. I'll give you 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:37.680 a firsthand account of an e F five tornado next week. 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:41.520 So Barry's promises content for next week. Then nice, like 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:45.400 a radio version of the movie Twister. He's teasing ahead 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:50.920 to next week. And living in Nashville. Wasn't there a 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:56.280 tornado that hit in the city of Nashville come long ago? Yeah? Yeah, 0:28:56.440 --> 0:29:00.080 not that long ago. It's crazy. I was reading a 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:04.360 story about tornadoes, and there's this myth about tornadoes they 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:09.400 don't hit big cities. But they say that that that bullshit, 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:13.760 because what really goes on is there's very few big 0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:18.600 cities in America. Most of America and tornado country is 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:23.840 either farmland or just open land. It's not cities, just 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:28.160 only a handful. So it's there were big cities there, 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:32.040 they would get hit exactly. It's it's like hitting the 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:34.680 middle of a bull's eye. To hit a city. To 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:38.440 hit the middle of the bulls eye doesn't normally happen. Anyway, 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:41.600 we'll hear what Barry has to say next week. Chris 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:47.320 from Falling Waters, West Virginia. It's a good name. Chris 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.959 is next. He says, what was the funniest moment on 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:53.720 the show that you remember? The biggest laugh I got 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:57.280 from your show was when Justin and Cincinnati said that 0:29:57.480 --> 0:30:03.680 marcel ate a yummy snack for food foot picks. Eddie 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:10.840 was dying laughing for over five minutes. There are some 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:14.320 great moments. Typically they involved things that don't make it 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.440 on the air. Yeah, yeah, there are things that get 0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:22.320 dumped out. I have a clip of us laughing hysterically 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:27.160 the very first time we ever heard Eddie Garcia sing that. 0:30:27.200 --> 0:30:29.960 I do remember that night now what it was his 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:32.640 real talk back when he was on the show. He 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:35.080 would make bets with some of us on the crew, 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:37.760 and if we lost that bet, we would have to 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:40.720 sing a duet with him. That's right, he did a 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:44.040 duet with Eddie Garcia. I have a clip of it 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:51.320 that I'll insert right here on the way. We were gentlemen, 0:30:53.560 --> 0:31:03.840 scattered pictures but smiles, we laugh and as you can hear, 0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:07.440 we were just dying laughing because we didn't know Eddie 0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:09.440 was gonna take it so serious, and we didn't know 0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:13.520 Eddie was a songbird. Yeah, yeah, you figured Eddie. You don't. 0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:15.840 You look at Eddie. You listen to Eddie, You're like, 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:17.720 this is not a guy that sinks at all. There's 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:24.840 no music at all in it, but sure enough, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. 0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:29.320 But to answer you crushing christa further, they give you 0:31:29.320 --> 0:31:31.560 some more examples of that. Just a couple of weeks ago, 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:35.280 Roberto tried to announce, he tried to pronounce he was 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:38.320 doing a cooking segment and he tried to pronounce black pepper, 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:42.520 but he didn't say black pepper, that's something else that 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:49.280 starts with the P. And it was just funny, like Roberto, 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:51.800 where do you get that ingredient? Roberto is that is that? 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:56.560 It was hilarious. It's fun to add to the funny content. 0:31:57.160 --> 0:31:59.440 But you blush and you feel so dumb when you 0:31:59.520 --> 0:32:02.800 say something thing like that. Because two weekends ago on 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:06.320 Cavino and Rich on Sunday Afternoon, I was trying to 0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:14.360 say Westwood one, and I said Westwood, Come, well, it 0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:16.680 does happen over in Westwood, but I understand, but I 0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:19.120 don't know how to live there, so I don't know. Uh. 0:32:19.160 --> 0:32:22.160 And it was like a moment in time that gets paused. 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:27.680 It was radio silence and then tons of laughter and 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.840 and me saying, dump that dump that dump that. There 0:32:31.920 --> 0:32:36.920 was one time, me and me and Looney we were 0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:39.520 doing the Blitz is like an eight hour show, right, 0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:45.600 So we're in a commercial period on the show, and 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:48.040 usually during the commercials, and we talked about all the 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:51.640 gossip at the radio station. So we're going back and 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:58.360 forth and we're going on and all the drama, and 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:04.440 our engineers, Steve still Well comes hustling back and he 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:07.400 turns the corner and he had forgotten to turn our 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:13.520 mics off, so everything we had been saying was broadcast. 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.360 But fortunately we were not on the microphone Danny's you know, 0:33:16.360 --> 0:33:18.800 those microphones are gonna be right on top. You gotta 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:22.280 spitting into the microphone, so it was in the background. 0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:24.920 But we were diing. We were we were upset initially, 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:27.240 and then we found out that it didn't Actually nobody 0:33:27.240 --> 0:33:31.640 can understand it. We started laughing. That was the funniest thing, 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:35.240 and uh, that was that was great? All right? What 0:33:35.440 --> 0:33:40.160 is next year? On the mail bag? Actual letters by 0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:43.280 actual listeners to the show. You can contribute one if 0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:45.719 you want in a future edition. We told you how 0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:48.000 at the beginning of this. And if you're saying, wait 0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:50.120 a minute, you're not that guy, trust me, you're not 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:53.600 that guy. Anybody can send a message. You don't have 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.520 to have special powers anything like that. All right, come back, 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:01.200 it's time from now call j C from Tennessee, writes 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:04.720 in says, dear Ben, as a fan of the Tennessee Titans, 0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:07.960 I was pleased to hear you say that Baker Mayfield 0:34:08.080 --> 0:34:10.919 should be traded to the Titans. When I first heard 0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:14.160 that Baker wanted to be traded I immediately thought that 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:16.400 I would like to have Baker on the Titans. But 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:20.120 I write you today not to talk about Baker Mayfield 0:34:20.200 --> 0:34:23.319 or the Tennessee Titans, but to inform you that you 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:27.480 called Nashville the birthplace of country music, and that, sir, 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:31.719 is incorrect. Nashville is the home of country music thanks 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:37.480 largely to the Rieman Auditorium, the mother Church and country 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:43.279 music and the mother Church of country music, while Bristol, Tennessee, 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:47.759 is the birthplace of country music so as so recognized 0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:50.600 by the United States Congress. He also says fun fact 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:53.520 Danny G came to visit Nashville once he and I 0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:57.319 went on a tour of the Rieman Auditorium. Is that true? 0:34:57.400 --> 0:35:03.319 Danny J c to me there that building, Ben when 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:07.280 they explained to you the history and how it started 0:35:07.320 --> 0:35:10.759 and where it's at today. Yeah. I want to get 0:35:10.800 --> 0:35:13.520 to Nashville. I have not been to Nashville. My wife 0:35:13.520 --> 0:35:16.239 actually has some relatives that live in that area. So 0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:18.480 I'd like to get down there and hang out and 0:35:18.560 --> 0:35:21.760 check out. There's a Johnny Cash museum I understand in Nashville, 0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:24.160 which fan of Johnny Cash. I'd like to see that. 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:27.280 The reason I said that j C. Though I'll pass 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:30.840 the buck. I watched this great documentary years ago on 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:35.600 PBS about country music, and I'm pretty sure that they 0:35:35.600 --> 0:35:38.080 had said that in the documentary. Maybe I'm wrong on that, 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:42.000 but Nashville the birthplace of country music. But the Grand 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:44.600 Old Opery and all that that took place there in Nashville, 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:49.480 the history of that tremendous. And so there you go. 0:35:49.640 --> 0:35:53.920 J C says, a proud Tennessee and a proud Tennessee 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.799 and he just wanted to set the record straight on that. Yeah. Man, 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:01.640 the food and the music in that city, it is 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:03.560 a place to visit, that's for sure. It's one of 0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:10.640 the boom towns. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, alright. 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:13.680 Next up is Adrian in the Mile Highest City, says 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.440 Ben and Danny Gy. Is it possible to drop the 0:36:16.480 --> 0:36:21.880 weekend podcast at six am Mountain time or earlier? That 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:25.680 would be what are we looking at here? Five am? Pacific? 0:36:26.040 --> 0:36:30.320 I enjoy listening to them during early morning workouts. Thank you. 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:33.239 It's been a while since I emailed the show. So 0:36:33.320 --> 0:36:36.320 do you guys dress up for Halloween? I usually don't, 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.520 but this past Halloween my wife found me this white 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:46.759 broncho head mask with white hooves to match. I was 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:50.919 broncho man in my bronco jersey walking my kids around 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.920 the neighborhood trick or treating that night. He actually sent 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:55.960 a photo of this Danny. You can't see it, but 0:36:56.080 --> 0:36:59.040 that's a good looking costume. He says. It didn't hurt 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:02.680 that they be the team formerly known as the Redskins. 0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:07.160 Earlier that afternoon, as soon as the Mr Unlimited press 0:37:07.200 --> 0:37:09.760 conference was over here in Denver, I ordered my orange 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:14.160 home number three Russell Wilson jersey. Unfortunately, it's not scheduled 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:18.319 to be delivered until the beginning of May. I'll keep 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:21.480 you posting on Wanted to Rise. It is wild. In 0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:24.680 the span of like a year and a half, two years, 0:37:25.719 --> 0:37:27.840 we had every. I know we've complained about this a 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:30.560 lot to any but it wasn't that long ago. We 0:37:30.600 --> 0:37:32.719 had too much. We had an abundance of everything, and 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:36.560 now you can't even get a jersey. He didn't even 0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:40.879 get a jersey without waiting a couple of months. It's 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:45.279 extra bothering people. Because we're such an on demand society 0:37:45.320 --> 0:37:50.240 now thanks to Amazon and on demand TV and movies 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:52.839 and everything like that. That We're used to getting things 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:55.799 the next day. If we order something, it better get 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:59.440 here within a week, where I'm gonna be pissed. Yeah. Absolutely. 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:03.360 Adrian also says do you have any favorite Costco Kirkland 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:06.680 brand items? My top three are Kirkland brand briefs, Kirkland 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:10.120 Brand coffee, and Kirkland Trail Mix. The trail Mix comes 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:13.759 in a box of twenty eight individual snack backs, which 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.600 I like because it limits me too how much I eat. 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:19.160 If I bought a giant bag of trail Mix, I 0:38:19.520 --> 0:38:22.240 might eat half the bag in one sitting. Amen on that, Adrian, 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:25.560 I'm right there with you. So Kirkland brand products that 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:29.839 I might go to Kirkland brand products. The batteries, they 0:38:29.880 --> 0:38:33.520 are the name brand batteries without the name brand. I 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.040 found out a couple of years ago that those are 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:38.239 energizer batteries. They just put the Kirkland brand on them, 0:38:38.480 --> 0:38:40.960 so I was going with the Kirkland brand batteries. There 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:44.440 are these Macadamian nut cluster things that I've been getting. 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:47.719 They're a little pricing now, the price of everything's gone up, 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:52.359 but those are delicious. Those are wonderful. Um all about that, 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:56.160 and I don't use the Kirkland brand toilet paper, although 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:58.680 I have been told it got it got better, but 0:38:58.760 --> 0:39:00.840 I generally stay away from that any items you go 0:39:00.880 --> 0:39:05.080 two items Danny at Costco Kirkland brand. One quick thought 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:07.520 on you. Talking about how the price of everything has 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:13.480 gone up. A Trader Joe's cashier said last week that normally, 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:17.239 before all this mess, they would have two to three 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:21.560 price increases per week at the store. Yeah, last week 0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:26.640 alone they had thirty six Wow. Why the hell is 0:39:26.680 --> 0:39:29.240 it a hundred and eighty three dollars for four bags 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:33.680 of groceries? That's why. And it's one of those things, Danny. 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:37.719 It doesn't go back once it goes up, that's it. 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:41.200 That's the price. It's not like it works the other way. 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:44.080 Let's say the price of fuel went down. Are they 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:46.480 gonna lower the prices of everything? Are they gonna go 0:39:46.600 --> 0:39:50.000 through the store Trader Joe's and these other stores and say, okay, 0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:52.760 we're gonna lower the price of the peanuts by twenty 0:39:52.840 --> 0:39:56.040 cents today? Yeah? I say no. I said, this is 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:58.160 the price. It's never gonna go back. The price of 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:01.680 gas will go down, maybe, who the heck knows, But 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.959 this other stuff is not gonna go down. Yeah, Well 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:08.239 the Kirkland brand gas gasoline. That's a good one. Sure. 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:12.520 And then I'll go with your Ugly Sweater Party Kirkland 0:40:12.520 --> 0:40:16.920 brand alcohol. Yes, that's the staple, the Ugly Sweater Party, 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:21.720 the vodka and other adult beverages on the Kirkland brand label. 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:24.799 There you go, right, I'm right there with you all right. 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:29.840 Next up on the mail bag, mal Mike in Fullerton 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:34.799 in Soko says, with the Will Smith slap being the 0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:38.440 talk of the town, when was your biggest slap in 0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:43.080 the face For me? It easily was the time that 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:45.279 I was nominated for an award by a big time 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:49.040 radio show that's on over four radio affiliates and they 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:52.160 only got two measily votes. Yeah. Well that's what happens 0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:55.600 for a dog. That was shocking for a dog. He 0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:59.000 was in the opening round of the Benny's online vote 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:02.440 for Social Media in Fluencer of the Year and for 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:05.160 the longest time he did not have a single vote. 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:10.120 It was wild. He needs to market himself better. The 0:41:10.120 --> 0:41:12.239 only time I've ever seen him pop up on our 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:15.360 FSR Twitter account is when he's complaining about one of 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:18.600 the hosts. Well, there's a lot to complain about. As 0:41:18.640 --> 0:41:22.600 you know, there's much to complain about, all right. Next up, 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:25.560 As far as my slapping face, by the way, I 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:29.160 don't know. I think doing doing the Ben Mather Show 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:31.840 and having the company update the website and misspelled my 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:34.279 name and then tell me they corrected it, and still 0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:36.080 having the name mess up. I think that would be 0:41:36.080 --> 0:41:39.240 the biggest slap in the face. But who cames Miller 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:43.359 I've made you were so excited to see your new 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:46.319 section of the website and you click on and it 0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:51.480 says Bill Miller, yes, yes, and then they switched to 0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:54.160 it was I think it was Ben Miller. I think 0:41:54.239 --> 0:41:56.080 after that, I have a screenshot of one of those 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:59.120 things somewhere around here on on the computer. I would 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:02.440 love to see that, all right now. Next up is 0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:06.840 Grandma from Salt Lake City. I enjoyed the Benny Awards. 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:09.560 I enjoyed the Benny Awards. Marcel should have won, So 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:13.640 some controversy from Grandma from Salt Lake listens every night, 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:17.040 Christie the Grandma and then we're very big with the 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:21.280 Grandma's And you thought, Danny and to this podcast as well. 0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:25.600 Listener Lorene chimed in and she responded she says, she's 0:42:25.640 --> 0:42:28.719 a granny from Lehigh, Utah. Think I'm saying that right, 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:34.040 And and she listens every night also, so listen. A 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:39.080 good grandma is a gift from the gods. A grandma 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.400 that spoils you. I mean I had some some. I 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:46.399 had one grandma from from Russia kind of. Actually, both 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:48.920 my grandma's were from from Russia, so now I think 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:53.000 I went from Chernobyl and she was both kind of 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:55.120 from the old country. Danny, so a little on the cold. 0:42:55.480 --> 0:42:58.440 But my my one grandma, she would always when we 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:01.000 go over, she give us books, but the books were 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:03.839 heading in the back of a closet and we had 0:43:03.840 --> 0:43:07.200 to like crawl through this little spot in their in 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:08.880 their bed. It was it was really cool. I remember 0:43:08.880 --> 0:43:12.239 it fondly. I lived in North Hollywood and we'd go 0:43:12.320 --> 0:43:13.840 there and hang out and it was a lot of 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:16.840 fun and all that stuff. But yeah, grandma's are wonderful. 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:19.520 How about the grandma that used to call our show 0:43:20.080 --> 0:43:22.960 and she would send us New Orleans style cake. Oh, 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:27.400 Barbara from New Orleans? Yes, Barbara from New Orleans. You 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:30.960 haven't heard from Barbara in a while? No, I think 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.399 some other radio shows stole her away. Well the day. 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:37.359 Hadn't heard from her in a long time either. Uh. Yeah, 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:39.279 I don't know. I don't know what happened. Barbara, very 0:43:39.360 --> 0:43:42.920 nice woman. That kink cake. Yeah, she sent us the 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:46.080 Marty Grass stuff. Yeah. And then you had to find 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:50.200 the little plastic guy in the cake. Yeah I got him. Yeah, Yeah, 0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:56.080 you got the little play you ate the little plastic guy. Yeah, 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.680 that was a really good cake. Have you been in 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:00.759 New Orleans? I have not been, the Norman. I have 0:44:00.920 --> 0:44:04.440 been to New Orleans two different times, both both times 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:08.840 I was in my twenties. So that's kind of got you, alright. 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:13.319 I next up on the mail bag, the mail bag, 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:18.239 I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Bill Billy 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:22.920 Mike writes in from Virginia. He says, at the time 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.160 of the auction is talking about this Tom Brady stories, 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:28.480 trying to figure something out. He says, who actually owned 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:32.280 the football that Leland's auctioned off as the last Brady 0:44:32.320 --> 0:44:35.480 touchdown past football? I remember they got the ball back 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:39.400 from the fan in the stands to give back to Brady. 0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:44.439 Auction houses don't generally own the merchandise. They just they're 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:47.560 just in the middle of the middleman taking the money, 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:51.280 So who was the owner? If Brady owned the ball 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:55.880 and had Leland auction and off, then turns around and announced, 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:59.880 as he's unretiring, he's got to be the biggest douche 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.799 tag in the world. He would make Eli Manning look 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:08.520 like a saint. Also, how about making some virgo sounds 0:45:08.560 --> 0:45:13.319 even better than Baba good news? Well Hill Billy Mike. 0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:15.840 As I remember it, Danny wasn't in one of the 0:45:15.840 --> 0:45:19.359 Bucks receivers that gave the ball away, not realizing that 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.319 that was gonna be Brady's last game. Yeah, it was 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:25.239 Mike Evans. Okay, So Mike Evans gave it to a 0:45:25.239 --> 0:45:28.440 fan and at that time the assumption was Brady was 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:30.600 gonna keep playing. It turns out that assumption was right, 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.120 but at somewhere along the way he said stopping. And 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:37.480 now we had the great bruce Arians conspiracy this week 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:41.879 that Brady came back, didn't like bruce Arians and said, hey, 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:44.000 you gotta get rid of this guy. So they said, okay, 0:45:44.040 --> 0:45:47.680 give us eighteen days, we'll make it happen. Give us 0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:52.000 a little time there and they're sure enough. One thing 0:45:52.080 --> 0:46:02.960 led to another, and I ye, I'm done with what 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:07.160 a scandal. All right. Next up, balls fan Jimmy from 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:10.759 Big Orange Country says, for both of you, gentlemen, what 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.000 is your favorite dish that your wife cooks and what 0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:17.640 is hers that you cook? Yeah, so I've really gotten 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:22.160 into cooking and mostly desserts and whatnot. My wife's does 0:46:22.239 --> 0:46:24.359 gluten freeze, so she's a neat most of that. Every 0:46:24.440 --> 0:46:27.959 once in a while I'll get her eat gluten. I've 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:31.200 been making burgers, like smash burgers. That's my my thing. 0:46:31.200 --> 0:46:34.000 I've been pretty good at that. My wife makes really 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:37.959 good tacos. She does a rip off recipe. She said, 0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:39.040 what kind of food do you like? I said, like 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:43.360 Tito's tacos. She has like a rip off of Tito's tacos, 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:46.000 which is really good. And she makes a lot of 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:51.320 good stuff, very very talented in that department. She she cleans. 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:54.279 She makes everything dirty and I cleaned it up. I 0:46:54.360 --> 0:46:56.360 do the dish. I'm a dish guy, but on the 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:59.400 weekends it's it's a hobby I've picked up. You know 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:01.800 you're getting all Danny when your hobbies cooking and bacon, 0:47:02.160 --> 0:47:05.400 you know you're getting old, old man, And that's a 0:47:05.480 --> 0:47:08.360 sign you're in middle age. A middle aged person. But 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:11.840 I am I love I really loved it. And dabbling. 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:13.640 My mom was very good in the kitchen. Start kind 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:16.520 of honoring her memory by dabbling in the kitchen and whatnot. 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:19.680 And what about you, Danny, you'll cook it all? Are 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:22.960 you all about going out fast food? All that? I 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:25.759 wish my tender Ronie was as easy as I'll take 0:47:25.800 --> 0:47:28.960 you to fast food. But she has a good palate, 0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:31.920 so I would say the best thing I've ever cooked 0:47:31.920 --> 0:47:36.840 for her is Q Sushi, expensive sushi place that I 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.160 bring her to from time to time. If I'm ever 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:45.640 in the doghouse, R take her to Q Sushi. That's 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:48.680 to go to. But you cannot walk in there without 0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:51.439 spending at least a hundred bucks. Now, if you spend 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:53.600 a hundred bucks, are you full after you've eaten it? 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:55.640 Because sushi I've never I'm not a sushi guy. Don't 0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:58.719 like seafood, but it's usually pretty small. Does it fill 0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:01.759 you up? If you go to their happy hour, you'll 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:04.280 get full and the bill will be about a hundred 0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:08.640 and ten bucks happy hour. That's happy hour. That doesn't 0:48:08.640 --> 0:48:13.960 seem happy to me. Now, my girl does cook. She 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:19.640 does a wonderful taco night, Leo, Leo, Leo, And it 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:21.960 reminds me of my mom's taco nights, which is why 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.480 I'm a huge fan of it. Do the turkey meet 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:27.799 with the great seasoning, all the sides you could ever 0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:31.360 dream of, and she lines them up across the kitchen counter, 0:48:31.880 --> 0:48:33.440 and then you go in and you can make the 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:38.719 hard shell or the soft shell vago and you put 0:48:38.760 --> 0:48:42.440 whatever ingredients your heart desires into the tacos. Ten out 0:48:42.440 --> 0:48:45.360 of ten. So what kind of taco do you go to? 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:47.520 My go to taco? I like the green goat taco. 0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:50.200 My buddy of Mexican get passed away years ago, Alex, 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:52.839 and he goes, that's the green goat taco. That's not 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:55.000 the real that's not the taco you get in Mexico. 0:48:55.120 --> 0:48:57.239 That's a fake taco. As I like it, I don't care. 0:48:57.280 --> 0:49:00.000 That's what I like. I like what I like. Yeah, 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:02.040 even in California, a lot of us grew up with 0:49:02.080 --> 0:49:05.280 the green goo tacos as well as the authentic ones. 0:49:05.800 --> 0:49:07.680 You know, Hey, you go out to get a street 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:10.440 taco from a taco truck here where we live, but 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:12.960 at home you get some of the green goo tacos. 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:15.719 But I'll do I'll do a soft taco, so I'll 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:19.279 do one flower and then I'll do one hard show. 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:20.920 So you get a little bit of the crunchy and 0:49:20.960 --> 0:49:25.000 a little bit of the soft taco. Little taste got 0:49:25.120 --> 0:49:29.200 you all right. And Jimmy also says, by the way, 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:32.080 Tennessee Balls baseball team at the time he sent this 0:49:32.680 --> 0:49:37.320 and one rank number one, number one in the nation, 0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:40.760 leading in almost every offensive category in the nation. So Jimmy, 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:42.799 Jimmy's pivoted over the years. He used to be all 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:46.400 about Tennessee volunteer football. Gave up on that for a while. 0:49:46.480 --> 0:49:49.399 He liked Tennessee basketball, gave up on that. Now he's 0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:54.000 pivoted to baseball. He's he's desperately trying to find a 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:57.879 Tennessee athletic team that doesn't stink. And he's like, I'll 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:00.960 go to baseball. Well, where are where we lived, Danny, 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:04.759 in southern California, there's some tremendous college baseball programs. U 0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:06.719 c l A has has some really good teams over 0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:12.319 the years, cal State Fullerton, Pepperdine, USC. Occasionally there's some 0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:16.920 really good baseball where we are. But congratulations to the balls, 0:50:17.600 --> 0:50:19.400 And I don't check out the College World sirs, the 0:50:19.440 --> 0:50:22.759 ping of the College World Series. I checked that out. 0:50:23.160 --> 0:50:26.680 Watch a couple of games now and again. Fred in Spring, 0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:30.440 Texas is next, He says, Hi, guys, what city or 0:50:30.520 --> 0:50:34.640 state have you not visited and would like to any 0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:40.640 special site or a vet you would like to experience. Oh, yes, Frank, yes, 0:50:40.719 --> 0:50:44.120 I've always been lucky enough, other than six months in 0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:47.520 twenty six days to be gamefully employed in the radio business, 0:50:47.520 --> 0:50:50.399 so I've never had enough time to travel. I think 0:50:50.440 --> 0:50:53.640 it would be great to just casually drive across the 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:57.520 country and see all the nooks and crannies and off 0:50:57.560 --> 0:50:59.440 the beaten path. I think that would be a ton 0:50:59.480 --> 0:51:02.000 of fun. I'd have a great time. But I want 0:51:02.040 --> 0:51:05.640 to see everything. And mostly been to the big cities 0:51:05.880 --> 0:51:09.760 in the Northeast, in the Midwest and on the West coast. 0:51:10.040 --> 0:51:12.839 And I'd like to explore a little more and go 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:16.920 off the beaten path and that bad lands you have 0:51:16.920 --> 0:51:19.280 you seen that? I'd be cool. There's places in Utah 0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:23.880 Zion National Park looks amazing. I've been there. That is amazing. 0:51:24.160 --> 0:51:28.440 Like to check that out, all of it. There's places 0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:31.960 in the South, some of the history of America, Civil 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:35.359 War I was in Gettysburg. I was at the Gettysburg 0:51:36.200 --> 0:51:39.520 site and that was really cool to see that the 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:42.719 history of America. But I'd like to do more of 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:44.719 that stuff for sure, and I go all kinds of 0:51:44.760 --> 0:51:46.759 places before we check out. We might as well see 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:48.279 as much as we can before the show is over, 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:51.600 before its lights out. Might as well do it, right. Yeah, 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:54.040 I've never been to the Virginia's I think that would 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:57.080 be a nice trip. And also Clay used to talk 0:51:57.120 --> 0:52:01.400 about summers in Michigan because that's where his wife is from, 0:52:01.440 --> 0:52:03.640 So I'd like to check out their legs there and 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:06.040 see that. Well. I am scheduled to go on a 0:52:06.080 --> 0:52:08.320 Mallard World tour and I believe I will be stopping 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:12.399 in the state of Michigan and in Virginia. I will 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:15.320 be going to I've been to kind of been the 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:18.319 Mission Detroit, Like I don't know, I'm going to like 0:52:18.320 --> 0:52:22.000 the real part of Mission where the people live outside Detroit. 0:52:22.360 --> 0:52:24.880 How about a major city. I've never been to Chicago. 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:28.000 Chicago's awe, I'll be in Chicago to actually, I would 0:52:28.040 --> 0:52:31.440 love I would love to go to Chicago and and 0:52:31.520 --> 0:52:35.480 also Philly. I've never been to Philadelphia. Philadelphia is cool, 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:37.840 although every time I've been to Philly it was nasty, 0:52:38.080 --> 0:52:40.840 rain and horrible and all that like, and I know 0:52:40.840 --> 0:52:42.239 it doesn't rain all the time there. I just had 0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:45.000 bad luck, I guess. I did go to a Phillies 0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:48.239 Dodgers game at Citizens Bank Park. That's a pretty cool 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:50.840 ball But that's a band box that ballpark. That's what 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:56.759 I should do. I should plan a trip for Dodgers. Yeah. Yeah, 0:52:57.280 --> 0:53:01.000 love seeing Yeah, I love seeing ballparks across the country. Yeah, 0:53:01.040 --> 0:53:04.080 I'm right there with you. I'm right there to go 0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:06.200 to Toronto, and it's not in the US, but right 0:53:06.200 --> 0:53:08.520 across the border there. Not now, I don't want to 0:53:08.520 --> 0:53:10.239 go to Canada, but maybe when they come to their 0:53:10.239 --> 0:53:12.920 senses in like seven or eight years, maybe then we 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:16.480 can go to Canada and check it out. Next up here, 0:53:16.640 --> 0:53:21.719 let's see page Dan page. I got mail, Yeah, I 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:26.480 got mail. Yeah, He'll says, who in the Mallard militia 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:33.960 do you want to go? Will Smith on Angry Bill 0:53:34.120 --> 0:53:36.160 is at the very top of the list, and occasionally 0:53:36.239 --> 0:53:40.520 christ and Houston. What about a nine year old girl? Okay, 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:42.920 But other that, most of it's just fun. We just 0:53:42.960 --> 0:53:47.040 have a good time. Why not next up on the 0:53:47.280 --> 0:53:54.000 mail bag Angelina right soon. And I don't know if 0:53:54.000 --> 0:53:55.400 she wants us to be read on the air now, 0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:59.120 but I do appreciate the sentiment. She praised me, Danny 0:53:59.160 --> 0:54:01.840 body attacking one of our colleagues. I don't know that 0:54:01.880 --> 0:54:05.080 we want to put that on the podcast, because, yeah, 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:07.880 trying to be professional here, and I like the people 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:10.480 I work. I could bleep out their name if you 0:54:10.560 --> 0:54:13.640 say it. Yeah you don't, you know, whatt me say it? Yeah? 0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:19.239 All right? She pretty much ship all over. Okay, yeah 0:54:19.360 --> 0:54:24.640 she attacked. Yeah, that's fine, but but anywaynyways, she's just 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:27.200 trying to support me because you know, some guy called 0:54:27.239 --> 0:54:29.160 up and said they liked that person more than me 0:54:29.239 --> 0:54:32.600 or whatever, so she was defending my honor. Calm down 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:36.120 on that Sunday morning, and Angelina says, I love the 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:39.560 show on the podcast. I just heard yesterday all the 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.960 Benny Award nominations blah blah. So she said a few 0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:45.919 days ago, uh, and she enjoys the program. So sting, 0:54:45.960 --> 0:54:48.840 thank you, Angelina, and we'll get out on one more, Danny, 0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:50.720 one more. I think we've made it through the entire 0:54:50.760 --> 0:54:55.360 mail bag hiro mail back. First time we've done this months. 0:54:55.480 --> 0:55:01.080 I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. YEA John in 0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:05.400 Kentucky says, why are most men, including you, on radio 0:55:05.440 --> 0:55:10.160 and television jealous of Deshaun Watson receiving so many rubbing 0:55:10.200 --> 0:55:14.840 tugs and continue to debase a man that is simply 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:18.719 being sued by a bunch of horrors who went to 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:22.520 the job under the cover of a professional masseus. I 0:55:22.800 --> 0:55:26.600 love the show. There you go usually spot on epic 0:55:26.680 --> 0:55:29.920 fail on this one. Well, I know you're being funny, John, 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:32.520 that's tongue in cheek, But if you actually did your 0:55:32.520 --> 0:55:35.440 homework on this, you would know these are not professional masseuses. 0:55:35.960 --> 0:55:38.279 I just hope this isn't all too good to be true. 0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:42.040 He he, These are just people DeShawn met on the 0:55:42.040 --> 0:55:44.840 internet on Instagram and wanted to stoop and did end 0:55:44.920 --> 0:55:49.239 up shooping many of them and brought a towel. That 0:55:49.239 --> 0:55:51.880 that clip that got online where he brought a towel 0:55:51.920 --> 0:55:55.319 and drove thirty miles out of town and made sure 0:55:55.320 --> 0:55:57.160 to bring his own towel not to leave any evidence 0:55:57.200 --> 0:56:01.799 behind someone incriminating. But hey, he's only gonna face civil lawsuits, 0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:04.600 which he's facing right now. We've all done that in 0:56:04.600 --> 0:56:08.759 our twenties in the NFL, doesn't did you do the 0:56:08.880 --> 0:56:11.520 volume though? I thought, if you're the quarterback, you don't 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:13.200 have to do that, dandy. I thought, if you're the 0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:15.640 star quarterback, doesn't everyone want to be the star quarterbacks, 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:18.000 So you don't have to be that guy. You're the quarterback, 0:56:18.040 --> 0:56:20.640 you don't have to worry about that. You're talking about, Ben. 0:56:20.760 --> 0:56:23.640 If you were on FM radio and you kind of were, 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:26.839 you worked right next door to Kiss FM, that's right, 0:56:26.920 --> 0:56:31.480 Rick D's in the morning, the D's lease. One of 0:56:31.480 --> 0:56:33.480 the funniest things about that. When I was working across 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:37.120 the all of them. Kiss FM, they had the living 0:56:37.239 --> 0:56:40.840 member of Millie Vanilly. They hired as a bit to 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:44.440 be a DJ during the day because that was one 0:56:44.480 --> 0:56:48.239 of the great music scandals. Just google it if you're 0:56:48.239 --> 0:56:50.480 too young to know what that is. But these guys 0:56:50.520 --> 0:56:54.680 became big stars in music and they were lip sinking. 0:56:54.000 --> 0:56:57.719 They didn't sing me and they didn't sing any of it. 0:56:57.760 --> 0:57:01.880 They were frauds. Which one died, Fab or Rob I 0:57:01.920 --> 0:57:06.319 don't remember, but whoever lived was a DJ Kiss FM. 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:09.040 They had a brief show during the day. Hey, we 0:57:09.239 --> 0:57:10.839 gotta get out of here, my god, we gotta wait too, 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:14.800 what what are we doing? Goodness any day coverage, baby 0:57:15.080 --> 0:57:18.680 bonus covered. That's right, An, let's see it is Sunday 0:57:18.720 --> 0:57:21.360 morning right now. I will get the podcast out as 0:57:21.400 --> 0:57:24.480 fast as I can after post production. Then I'll take 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.080 a little nap and then I will be on Covino 0:57:27.160 --> 0:57:30.360 and Rich this afternoon on FSR, and then your boy 0:57:30.480 --> 0:57:33.800 Arnie Spanier along with Chris Plank as the warm up 0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:36.000 to The Ben Mallor Show, the first one of the week, 0:57:36.160 --> 0:57:41.480 the pregame show show with Arnie. Oh, look, gerfas is 0:57:41.480 --> 0:57:44.080 he's still picking Arizona to win the championship? Is he 0:57:44.160 --> 0:57:51.000 sticking with the Wildcats as he says it's his only 0:57:51.080 --> 0:57:54.960 winning team. Yeah, it's going very well. It's going very 0:57:54.960 --> 0:57:58.400 well clearly for Arnie. And I'll be back on terrestrial 0:57:58.480 --> 0:58:00.880 radio tonight. We'll have a new week of The Ben 0:58:00.960 --> 0:58:06.240 Mallen Show. Original audio content Baseball beginning next weekend on 0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:11.440 Friday Friday, Friday opening night, some day games, but opening 0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:14.520 night in baseball. Looking forward to that getting settled in. 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:17.640 We have the championship game on Monday night in college basketball, 0:58:17.960 --> 0:58:20.240 so we have a lot to discuss and we'll get 0:58:20.280 --> 0:58:23.040 to that have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, and 0:58:23.080 --> 0:58:26.240 remember go and support the podcast, send us emails in 0:58:26.360 --> 0:58:30.240 future shows, questions and future shows, and be part of 0:58:30.240 --> 0:58:32.960 the content. And thank you. Have a have a have 0:58:33.000 --> 0:58:36.720 a really good day. Thank you later. Skater gott a murder. 0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:37.120 I gotta go.