WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: D on the Sand! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, 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 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.040 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.920 Maller and Danny g Radio. We're hanging out with you 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.720 on an NFL Saturday. A couple of games later today 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.400 as we are doing this here early in the morning, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:50.720 but the NFL will be back the final weekend of 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.000 the NFL for the regular season, and so the last 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.080 chance to watch terrible teams play football today though we've 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.440 got the Brownies and the Ravens. That is a massive 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.400 point spread. The Ravens huge favorites in that game against Cleveland, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.360 and then later on at Bailey Zappi Zappie Mania for 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.160 the Browns. Great, great for them, unless it's not. And 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.560 then the Bengals and the Steelers, and that game is 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.479 the late game, and I am planning a malor friend 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.760 hangout to watch the games. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.360 Oh, the Ravens. That point spread has moved up to 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.240 twenty one and a half points. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.520 Yeah, which is good because when we did the show 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.440 and everything stops, when we did the Betty versus the Penny, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.360 it was like seventeen and a half was the point spread. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.880 So and I took I actually laid the points with 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.560 the Ravens. This is one of those games the Ravens 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.920 should win, like forty one to ten or something like that. Right, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.080 the only question is, well, you know, somebody gets hurt 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.080 that obviously screws things up or something. This is the Browns. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.400 They're three and thirteen for obvious reasons. And some of 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:00.920 the key guys are going to be playing I don't know. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.680 And then the Bengals and Stuards, as we mentioned now 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.000 on this podcast, and we will celebrate National Trivia Day, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:14.320 and I still do trivia on the show. And I 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.760 found some fun facts about National Trivia Day that the 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.000 first book of Trivia is only about one hundred years old, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.000 little over one hundred years old, nineteen twenty. The book 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:33.480 Trivialities Bits of Information of Little Consequence. What. Yeah, it 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.760 was a one hundred and five years ago. That was 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.640 the first one, and the ones that we remember probably 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.960 damn we were little those bathroom reader remember the bathroom readers. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.200 Oh, of course, all our grandparents had those. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.160 You sit on there. And I remember when when I was, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.160 you know, dating myself, but when Trivial Pursuit came out, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.119 I was like, oh my god, this is mind boy. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.200 But that was back when people actually played board games 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.519 and it became really really popular. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.160 Yeah, we have this tradition at the g House where 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.280 every holiday, my wife he takes out a whole bunch 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.840 of board games and none of them get used. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.560 Yeah, well that's about right, that's about right. I do 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.440 recall because we didn't have no on TV, so Hollis 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.640 we would play. We would play board games, and some 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.120 of them, my memories of them are romantic and great. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.400 But I also I know there are memories that I 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.600 have buried of playing Monopoly. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:29.480 In the game. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.720 You know, it was just a shit show. I know that. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:34.720 I know that. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.080 Oh yeah, there's certain board games where there was always 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.840 a family member screaming and crying and running out of 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:41.320 the room. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.200 Yeah, we are planning this week and this is a 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.640 podcast exclusive, a Fifth Hour. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.320 Exclusive, but watch out now. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.360 I was going to just a couple weeks ago, and 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.120 it was actually the recommendation of an emailer to this podcast, 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.600 so I was like, ah, you know what, I think 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.440 we'll do it. And so this is supposed to be 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.920 the week. We're still working out some of the kinks here, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:09.880 but the plan is Tommy, since he Tommy, and we're 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.640 gonna play the game, are you smarter than the FSR 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.200 Tech Queen? And we will we will ask These are 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.680 not sports questions, Danny, but there'll be questions much like 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.359 the TV show Basic first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade questions, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.880 And who do you think is smarter the random callers 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.640 to overnight talk radio or Lorraine Uh. Now, we're not 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.840 gonna give her the answers. She's gonna have to come 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.680 up with the answers on her own. But who will 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.400 do better? That's the question we'll find out. I'm not 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.800 sure what night we'll play at one of these nights, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.159 so this is gonna be good, probably early. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.360 In the week. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.919 I'm thinking early in the week. So I saved some 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.600 things yesterday we're here. I was here barking away and 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.320 you were you were on assignment, So there were some 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.800 things I didn't get to I was away for a 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.839 few days. I think I took a total like five 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.960 days over the two, you know, three weeks I think 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.400 I was. I was here for most of the most 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.039 of the shows. I'm not a numbers guy, but that 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:12.479 doesn't seem to add up. We got family business, the 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:18.279 Pink Eye, pal Anti Yankees, and Late Night Munchies with 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.080 a surprise Late Night MUNCHI is a surprise that we'll 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.200 get a lot of lots of stuff to get you. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.760 We'll start with this though. So where did I go 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.240 on my time away? I was debating, do I go 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.640 out of town? Do I stay in town? Had I 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.479 couldn't really go that far because we're still doing the 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.400 TV shows, so I only had a couple of days 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.680 to play with. But we ended up making the drive 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.240 from LA. We left LA at six point thirty at 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:51.040 night on I think it was a Thursday, and drove 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:56.640 to San Francisco from from LA and we got there. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.640 We stopped a few times. I think we got three 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.080 in the more on day driving through it was raining, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.760 it was raining in central California. But we went to 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.800 San Francisco. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.960 Washed away all the homeless that's there. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.680 Oh, no, no, they were still of course I did 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.040 not stand the Tenderloin district, but it wasn't much better 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.560 over in Fisherman's Wharf where we were staying. I told 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.960 my wife, so listen, and I actually like San Francisco. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.920 It's cool city to visit. Beautiful city, the skyline, the bridges, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.080 I mean, it's really beautiful, but it's it's also a shithole. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.840 And so like I'm like, why don't we stay outside 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:40.200 the city, And then it's probably cheaper, it's safer, we 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.359 don't have to worry much about as much about our 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.280 car getting broken into, and then we can drive into 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.920 the city and take our chances and all that. And 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.919 but my father in law actually drove up separately and 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.760 he wanted to stay in the Fisherman's Wharf area. Uh 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.240 so that's where we stayed. And the reason we went 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.279 there is my brother in law bought a new house, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.080 makes a lot of money, works for the big internet company, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.000 one of the big internet companies up there, and he's, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.680 you know, he's obviously doing very well because, as you know, Danny, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:17.760 real estate in the Bay Area very very cheap, right, very. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.480 Yeah, And if you work for one of those big 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.360 tech companies similar to radio money. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:23.800 Oh yeah, very. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.640 Similar and unless it's not. And yeah, he's telling me, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.040 I don't know if I should say which internet company 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.480 works for it's not you know, I don't know if 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.320 he wants that out there. You don't know who he is, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.520 but it doesn't really matter. But he's like, oh, yeah, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.040 they like provide us free food. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.440 What is it rhyme with? 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.360 Oh, it rhymes with Google is what it rhymes with. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.240 But yeah, so and those those Waymo things all over 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 the Bay Area that that took a little getting used to. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.920 They have the those are creepy, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.760 those things were all over the place. Those self driving cars, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.400 the automated cars, the way Mos. I think they're Google. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.720 I think that's a Google product. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:02.720 I believe, I think so. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.200 Yeah, they were all over the place, and so we 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.680 spent a couple of days there. I did have an 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.880 opportunity in Nanny to go somewhere I had wanted to go. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.280 I watch a lot of these YouTube travel vlogs because 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.800 I'm a loser and that's what I do. And I 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.640 think we talked about it on this podcast a while back. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:28.120 There's a taco bell on the beach. I think we 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.000 talked about this. I feel like we did. Maybe we didn't. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.880 Maybe I'm just imagining that we talked about this. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.920 And no, no, we've referenced it on the podcast before 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:36.160 in Pacifica. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.680 Yes, all right, So now my brother in law lives 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.760 in He just bought a house, not in Pacifica. However, 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.560 I had this serendipitous moment. So we were at his 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.240 house and we went out like a little diner. More 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.800 on that in a minute. And we went out to 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.880 the diner and for some reason, I said, I think 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.640 this is within a few miles of that taco bell 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.079 that looked very similar to the videos that I had seen, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.520 and so I brought it up in first day. Immediately, Yes, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.559 right down the road theready come on. Everyone knows where 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.920 that taco bell is. So we we went there. I 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.160 went to the taco bell on the beach in Pacifica 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.360 and walked around. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:18.200 And uh, it was. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.280 It was really awesome. It was cool. I mean as 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.640 cool as a taco bell can beat. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.560 Andy. I don't want to get to taco bell with 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:24.240 a view. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.319 But I did look at the prices. I was like, well, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.560 this is on the beach and they must be charging like, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.760 you know, eight dollars a taco or something as the 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.640 same prices as every other taco. Bell just happened to 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.800 be that you walk outside, they have like a little deck, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.880 and then there's the Pacific Ocean. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.240 Diarrhea on the sand. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.679 Yeah, just go, you just go in the ocean and uh, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.200 you know, God God's toilet right there in the ocean, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.080 and knock yourself out. So I was only in San 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.480 Francisco for a couple of days. We then we I 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:58.000 think it was Saturday afternoon. We had you know, we'll 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.440 get together Saturday afternoon and then hit the road and 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.560 traveled well. We stopped in Los Gato's briefly because my 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.240 mother in law wanted to stop at a bakery of 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.560 all things. And then we drove down to San Louis Obispo, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.880 which is a three hour drive three and a half whatever. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.960 So we drove to San Luis Obispo to meet some 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.160 other family that were driving up from La or like, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.040 spend the day with them. So we hung out. Now 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.080 this whole trip, Danny, there was one thing. I can 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.400 say this because none of these people listen to this podcast. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.720 So I feel like I'm safe. I'm in the Safe Harbor. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.600 My brother in law and my father in law both 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:48.480 took their dogs with themf earf So that meant every 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.600 restaurant we went to we had to sit outside. It's 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:59.120 late December in the Bay Area. It was kind of rainy. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.280 I was like, what they got some bone chilling and 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:03.840 cold too. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.000 People don't realize it. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.160 Yeah, it's it's it's not so col It gets chili. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.400 And so we're sitting outside. I'm like, oh, what are 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:10.760 we doing? 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:11.480 You know? 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.440 I mean, you know, Danny, I think we both look 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.720 at restaurants. We like them, but when we look at 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.839 the prices, we get a little a little crazy, right, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.880 So and my whole thing is that we're going to 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.320 spend that money on food. I want a good experience 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.600 and I want I want to not freeze my ass 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.280 off while I'm eating my potatoes. And anyway, it was, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.280 it was interesting. So we had to find restaurants, and 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.480 a lot of restaurants didn't have outdoor seating or you know, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.280 is this that and the other thing? The restaurants we 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.560 wanted to go to, So it was a bit of 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.160 a yeah. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.400 And then I had this other yeah at that price point, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.960 A waitress should come out, sit on your lap to 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:46.640 keep you warm. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.559 Lap dance. So and at that point we're in San 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 Luis Obispo and this gets very awkward. So my niece 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.960 and nephew kids say the darness things. So my niece 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.880 and nephew drove up from LA to me. All right, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.240 this is my sister in law. So everyone's together, right, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.880 everyone's together. We're in the hotel, we're sitting there. They 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.439 come in to say hello. I say hello to uncle Benny. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.560 And the TV was on and we're trying to find 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.360 something to watch and couldn't really find it on TV. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.560 And then my niece, God bless her, she did something 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.400 that made me very uncomfortable. Danny, very very uncomfortable. She's reading, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.120 She's like eight years old. She's reading the screen, right, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.439 and she's like, hey, uncle Benny, that's your TV show. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:42.840 Let's watch it. Danny. The last thing I want to do, okay, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.000 the last thing I want to do is sit in 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.199 a room with my in laws and watch the TV show. Hey. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.520 I love them. They don't know anything about sports. They're 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:57.400 not sports people, right, that's number one. Number two. You 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.400 know they're going to watch that and it's going to 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.800 be very awkward. We're uncomfortable because they're going to ask 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.640 more questions. And that's exactly what happened. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.600 Oh no turned into a Q and a oh yeah, so. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.560 Are you beating the penny? No, I'm not beating the pen? 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.120 How are you not beating the penny? It's do you 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.920 wear that same hat every week? Exactly? 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:16.360 Well? 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.839 Why why are you wearing a pull over? You don't 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.000 usually wear that? What's up with that one? 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:22.840 You know? 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:23.160 Do you? 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.120 How's a professional? Do your makeup? 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.480 How much? Exactly? How much do you get paid for 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:27.960 that show? 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:28.319 Really? 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:28.880 Oh? 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:29.360 You feel me? 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.160 Universal? Can I go with you? You know that whole? 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.280 So that was and I love my niece and nephew. Really, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:43.720 my nephew had pink eye and was barfing five years old. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.360 He's so sick, but he had a great attitude. You know, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.520 puke can get up and just start start rolling along 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.240 there and doing his thing. But I took my niece 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.719 to the famous you've been there, I know, Danny Bubblegum 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.959 Alley in San Luis Obispo. People it's a landmark. You 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.920 just put their used bubblegum all over the place. And 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.600 I think I must spend more time in Saint Louibiths, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.480 but it's cool. I've been there many times. We stop 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.440 by the Madonna in the famous hotel there, very Gautti 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.440 Hotel and all that. And I didn't see too many 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.439 giants hats when I was in northern California. I don't 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.200 blame them. I don't blame them. Although there are some 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.120 people that I think are anti Yankees in the Bay, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.560 which is good, right, because we're anti Yankees because we're 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:26.080 Dodger peak. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.479 Yeah, you know, I might want to call this anti Dodgers. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:31.560 I'll explain. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.760 So Covino and Rich were filling in for the Colin 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.440 Cowherd Show this past Friday. I say, morning, it's noon 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.560 to three pm on the East Coast, so our time 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.360 it's nine to noon. But to get in front of 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.640 the traffic, I'm like, well, I got to get on 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.640 the road early, right, So I got on the road 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.440 at seven am and it was okay. Get to the 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.760 studios in Sherman Oaks, California early, hop on the computer, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.520 and I got all excited because the day before I 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.600 had sent an email to the PR director of the Yankees. Hey, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.680 I introduced myself and I said, I produce Covino and 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.160 Rich and we are filling in for the Great Colin 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.240 Cowherd on Friday. We would love to have Aaron Judge 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.040 on the show for ten minutes. And yeah, Ben, I 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.040 send these emails out. As you know, I chased down 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.040 Mike Tyson and the President. As you know from the 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.960 Tyson story, sometimes it takes many, many, many, many emails 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:31.200 a billion. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.920 It's deep sea fishing. You're fishing. You're going on a 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.360 fishing condition hoping that you catch the white whale. Right, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:38.920 you want to catch the white whale, That's what you're 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:39.240 trying to. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:40.160 Do for sure. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.120 But the Herd, which is heard on so many affiliates 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.200 and obviously has the TV show and all of that. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.600 I see this email back early in the morning, and 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.920 I'm excited because before I open it, I'm thinking to myself, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.800 Aaron Judge on the show. So I open up the 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.480 email and it says, Hi, Danny, Happy New Year. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.000 Let me guess the off season. We're not doing interne 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.440 interviews or something like that. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.880 Close it says happy new Year. Thanks for reaching out, 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:18.240 but we are going to respectfully decline for Friday. Maybe 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.720 we can set something up on one of your future programs. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:27.680 By the way, nice profile picture. Oh and then in 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.560 the what is that called underneath the name where they 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.640 have the signature, the digital signature. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:34.520 Yeah, I know what you're talking about. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.400 I don't Yeah, I know that's called either because I 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.040 don't even have that on my email. I'm so old school. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:46.000 But their Twitter handle is there. So that made me think, oh, well, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.280 this person looked me up on Twitter and ben, what 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.520 has been my long standing picture on my Twitter? 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.240 Oh? Of course you haven't changed your your avatar and like, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.320 how long Danny it? 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 Well, I've had it up since the Dodgers had cutouts. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.720 Yeah, I mean that's. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.760 My Dodger cutout that was at the stadium. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:11.600 You think, oh, is this anti Dodger because why the 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.080 smart ass comment about my Dodger profile picture? 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.400 Uhhh I looked you up the investigation. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.400 Yeah, so hey, I'm not going to change my profile 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:24.440 picture for anybody. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.399 Last question, good question. Are you going to try to 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.639 get Trump on again? You got him on as you 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.879 mentioned with Clay Travis. I see that's on your you 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.920 have that pin to the top of your You're yeah, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:40.920 are you going to try to get Trump on again? 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.520 Now he's back as the president. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:43.879 In Uh, what is it? 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.639 The sixteen days right, the sixteen days away from that? 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.359 Unless they put him in jail, he'll be back. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.520 I mean, he obviously fit on Clay Travis's show, And 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.879 I think anybody on our network would like to have 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:59.040 a sitting president on the air. But I'm not exactly sure. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.280 Covino and Rich would have fun talking to him, but 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:07.720 they don't talk any politics on their show. Yeah, it 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.560 would definitely be out of left field on their program. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.600 I got you, Yeah, I would. I would love to 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.159 have a have a president. Yeah, I even put Biden on. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:18.960 I don't care. I mean, he wouldn't know he was on, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:19.760 but I'd put him on. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:20.080 You know. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.960 Oh man, that poor guy, that speech he recently gave. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.240 What a mess. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.439 Yeah, So I look, I'm. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.359 Gonna play the long game here like I did with 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.520 the Tyson team. But I'm not sure what to say 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.320 back to this lady. I didn't say anything back yet, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.159 So any advice on the reply? 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.720 Uh? Yes, well, why don't we Why don't we get 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.520 back when he gets back to spring training? You know, 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.600 why don't we? Yeah, well, well the next month in 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.480 spring training, will we'll pursue this? You know, how about. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.639 That and ps, sorry my Dodgers kicked your sorry ass Uh. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.320 Well, here's the thing too, like like a lot of 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.399 those pr people heate doing in the heat, requesting players 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.679 in the off season doing any interviews. So that's just 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.000 like a no non starter. But then I've learned also 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:06.840 in spring training, well it was very busy in the 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.280 spring training, which is by the way, Bullshoy Danny. I. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.119 I've been to spring training with baseball teams over the years. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.320 Normally what happens in the morning, Yeah, they're a little 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.320 busy and all that for a few hours they work out, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.639 but even when the spring training games are going on, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.000 they get one or two at batch and they're out 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:23.760 of there by an hour into the game and they're 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.480 on the golf course. So it's not the most grueling life. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.000 But yeah, I'm not sure by that, but you will 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.960 if you This is the next one I met on 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.280 this show. Remember we wanted Brian Billick and we finally 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.960 our standard was Brian Billick and we got Blick on. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.520 You know this, this reminds me the story of I 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.240 worked with the great Chris Meyer. So I need to 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.639 get on this podcast. And Chris, because he hosted that show. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.920 Was it called up Close or something like that? 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:51.600 Yes, I remember that show. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.840 Chris had the most ridiculous we call it roll the 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.120 decks of anyone. Like I did a show with him. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.760 I was like with him for a few months, and 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.160 we had like Coach k on, he has his number, 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.919 Charles Barkley, IDT Barkley on, like all these amazing and 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.800 they all knew Chris and they love Chris and they 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.320 were like buddy buddy with him. And he's like, something 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.359 would happen with some big name in sports and he'd 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.080 be like, Hey, let's get that guy on. I have 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.399