WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Chad the Producer" Mail Bag 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 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of Hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.400 Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.560 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.800 Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:44.920 It's an NFL Sunday, Week ten in the NFL, and 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:51.519 we got early action from Berlin. Berlin as the Colts. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.840 They're getting saucy there, Colts with Sauce Gardener taking on 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.680 the Atlanta Falcons. Although you listened to this podcast when 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.840 you want, and so that might be over by the 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.360 time you're actually hearing this podcast. You listen whenever you want. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.360 It's not like you have to listen first. We don't 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.800 put out live anyway. But Big Gay, Big Day today. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.640 I am looking forward to it. I should be at 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.080 the Charger game God willing tonight, Chargers and Steelers, and 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.039 I will likely run into my old comrade, Eddie Garcia. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.479 I don't know if Eddie's gonna be wearing a jersey 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.039 that's half Steelers half Chargers. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.839 Yeah, he's gonna ask how does that work for him? 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.080 I don't know. I'll find out tonight. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.840 He is at the one time of the year he 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.640 actually wears the pants in the family. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.000 I don't care. I'm leaving goodbye. Yeah, I don't. It's 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.160 weird because Eddie he usually goes in tailgates with the 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.559 Chargers super fans, like his wife's like the lead super 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.240 fan for the Chargers. So are you allowed to party 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.560 with the Charger people if you're wearing an old Steelers jersey? 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.160 I don't know. I don't know the rules. And I 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.120 got my rams play the forty nine Ers today. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:54.040 We got that. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.280 I'm the game I'm most looking for. I guess the 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:02.800 Patriots Bucks. To see the Bucks. They're all dinged up, though. Yeah, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.760 it's a tougher opponent for the Picts. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.880 I think that's still going to be the best game 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:08.320 of that time slot though. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.799 Yeah, the Ravens Vikings should be good to Ravens have 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.160 to win the Vikings. I don't know what to make 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.960 of the Vikings. They looked terrible against the Chargers. They 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.840 came back last week they beat the Lions. JJ McCarthy's 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.240 who work in progress and all that. And then tomorrow though, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.480 on Monday, that'll be a good one, the Eagles and 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.280 the Packers. But that's not the day. That's tomorrow we 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.720 celebrate go to an art museum Day. Could you have 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:39.280 a worse day to have a holiday thing? Sunday? NFL Sunday? Well, 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.400 I guess football fans don't go to art museums very much, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:42.080 so it's likely not. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.520 Yeah, yeah, I don't think that national day applies to us. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.640 Yeah, probably not. Well, we have the mail bag and Ohio, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.440 al can you get me in the mood? Ohio, please 0:02:52.480 --> 0:03:09.480 help me out a little bit. It's all right, thank 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.440 you for that. These are actual questions by actual listeners 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.720 like yourself, who are loyal minions to the Fifth Hour podcast. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.160 And I do see some new names here, which is good. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.800 We want new people, we love the old people. I 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.000 see an old favorite back this week that we have 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.000 not heard from in maybe a month or so, so 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.360 that's exciting as well. But right to the mailbag we go. First. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.840 One is from Manny from La. He says, this is 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.240 for Danny g He says, Danny, are the Raiders okay? 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.040 Now that they've fired their special teams coach? That seems 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.920 like a cheap shot from Manny Danny. I don't know, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.000 I did. I guess the Raiders did get rid of 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.800 one of their coaches after the game on Thursday against 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.400 the Broncos. So was that going to fix the Raiders? 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.920 You know, I think we all kind of have the 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.520 feeling that Gino Smith is a placeholder. Pete Carroll is 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.360 a placeholder. Most of the coaching staff that he brought 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.200 in are placeholders. They don't seem like they're there for 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.520 the long term. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.280 They paid Chip Kelly a ton of money. He's one 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.920 of the highest paid offensives they did. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.840 But you know what they didn't do in the last 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.880 two drafts get enough O line help. And that's something 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.840 the Chargers have been dealing with this season as well, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.120 as you know, with injuries on your line. And then 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.920 once jpj hurt his ankle in Thursday night's game, it 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.280 was done. Once that happened, I'm like, well, Ashton, gents, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:29.800 he's not gonna have any more good runs. They're not 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.000 going to get in the end zone again. And Gino 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.400 Smith is not good when he is pressured. You know 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.400 this a lot of people, a lot of football fans 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.280 know this from his time with the Jets and the Seahawks. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.840 If you could pressure Geno Smith, you're gonna win the game. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.679 And the Raiders O line is hurt. It wasn't great 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.960 to begin with, but then Colton Miller out, a couple 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.880 other guys out. You got Kappa in there, who was 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.599 a cast off from the Bengals, and the Bengals have 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.880 one of the worst o lines. So yeah, just a 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:04.280 horrible situation with that offensive line. Stinky offensive Yeah. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.760 Well the thing too though, This always annoys me because 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.800 it's always anytime a quarter quarterback gets sacked, it's always 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.680 well to blame the offensive line. Like Gino's problem is 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.839 not the Raiders' offensive line. The problem is he doesn't 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.040 make quick decisions and he doesn't avoid sacks. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:21.560 That is a. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.040 Superpower if you have a quarterback that can avoid sacks. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.560 But you can adjust the offense if the offensive line 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.679 is not blocking that well. And it obviously that happened. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.599 I mean, I'm a sitting I obviously people say every 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.120 time I make this argument, Danny. People say, well, you 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.279 just defend the fat guys. No. No, I've heard this 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.320 from coaches that have been in our building who have 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.360 have said the quiet part out loud. Most of the time, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.760 sacks are not the result of bad offensive line. It's 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.960 the result of the quarterback. It's the It's a quarterback stat, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.040 not a stat about the offensive line. Right. And I 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.600 had a coach laid this out to me years ago 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.400 about how if you're getting pressured adjust the offense, you 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.280 make quick throws and you have layered like the root 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.080 tree where it's layered, and you can neutralize pressure if 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.359 you can make quick decisions. Gino Smith has not ever 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.560 been able to make quick decisions. They have the same 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.920 problem in Chicago, even though the Bears are winning. But 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.080 we're doing way too much sports Stuffdanny. But Caleb Williams, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.280 I blame Manny. It's your fault, Manny schmuck. I'm sorry, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.440 I'm kidding, but no, you gotta get rid of the 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.000 ball quickly. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.120 That's why I said, if you can pressure Gino Smith, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.360 you're gonna win. Because he plays scared. He's not the 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.359 type of quarterback who steps up confidently in the pocket. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.640 He's the kind of quarterback that leans back and throws 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.480 a pick. And so, yeah, you're right, it's not all 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.159 on the O line, but it is a combination of 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.680 having too many holes and you know, a quarterback who 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.320 can't adjust to the rush being on his heels. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.960 Well, the thing too about the game, not to go 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.560 back to Thursday, because I know it's Sunday, we got 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.520 games today and all that stuff, but the game on 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.599 Thursday too. The Broncos tried to give you the game 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.640 like they know the Raiders defense. I don't know the 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.400 good the Broncos I here, we don't want to win 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:07.640 the game. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.640 Ye a. After all that and a couple of roughing 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.520 the quarterback calls that were not called. You saw what 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.480 the Broncos were doing to Gino Smith there in the 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.680 fourth quarter and getting away with and yet Carlson still 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.560 had a chance to kick that field goal and tie 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.320 the game up late in the fourth quarter, misses the 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.480 kick wide. He's usually a dependable kicker. He has not 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.240 been this year. The special teams has been horrible. For 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.120 whatever reason, this year, special teams has stunk to high heavens, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.720 and that's why that special teams coach got fired. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.480 Fired yeah, you know he's he's gone. And I do 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.320 like the strategy. It's really a bold move. But by 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.760 the Raiders to use brock Bauers as a decoy, I 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:47.600 thought that was true. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.600 Yeah, and remember I said that Gino's the kind of 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.440 guy who panics. Proof of that is anytime he did 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.520 actually throw. He was throwing to Locket, who's been on 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.120 the team for what eight days? Bro you got one 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.320 of the best receiver in the entire league and you're 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.680 throwing the ball to Locket. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.120 He's like, I remember him from Seattle. He used to 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.640 be good. He's my safety net. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.520 I know this guy. I've seen enough. Geno Smith. Please 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:12.520 give him the hook. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.680 All right? Give him you give him the bag. Fer 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.520 dog in Fullerton says, Happy Turkey Month, Ben and Danny, Yes, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.040 Ben and Dang, Happy Turkey Month, he says. Are you 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.440 tired of all the winning yet? Between the Dodgers, multiple 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.200 World Series, the Rams, Super Bowl, the King Stanley Cup 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.280 and the Clippers' final four appearances, LA has had like fifty. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 Victory what's wrong with your Clippers? 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.800 Have either of you gone to any of these parades? 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.840 I have not. I last time I went to a 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.640 parade I've been to two championship parades in my lifetime. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.160 It was during the Kobe Shack years. And the only 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.160 reason I was there is because I was a roving reporter. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.960 Hand to God, Danny at AM eleven to fifty one, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.400 we had live parade coverage of the Laker Championship parade 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.440 and they put me down to interview. Imagine how bad 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.960 this must have been for people listening. They had me 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.080 down interviewing fans. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:18.880 It was you were, well, this is so long ago, Danny. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.439 We before they built what is now I guess called 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.760 La Live across the street from from what used to 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.240 be called Staples Center. You know that the movie theater. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.319 They have a theater. They're at the restaurant's bowling alley, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.320 like this big monstrosity. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.360 Used to just be ghetto streets. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.840 What was it used to be parking lots when they 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.680 opened the arena. So this is like a staging area 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.880 and they were gonna have a They had a rally. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.439 This was the rally where Mark Mattson danced like a 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.760 like a nerdy, like white dude guy you know he is. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.840 And then so anyway, the crowd was all assembled at 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.040 in the parking lots, which is now where La live 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.640 is in LA and I remember it was so hot. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.920 They didn't have enough water, they didn't have enough bad 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.120 bath rooms, so people were defecating in the back. People 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.920 were passing out from the heat. It was wild. It 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.440 was in the summer. They won a championship in late June, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.880 and so the parade parade was around there. That's that's 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.319 the last time, Daddy. Did you take off from work 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.880 to attend the Dodger championship parade? 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.400 No, I don't go to parades. I have a job. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.240 Oh yeah. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.400 People that go to No, I mean, look, they must 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.280 have flexible schedules and jobs and bosses that understand that 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.280 they're a fanatic and they're not going to go to 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.480 work that day. But I mean, it's our job to 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.760 cover sports, so we go to our jobs, so we 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:36.720 don't go to parades. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.720 Yes, I completely agree in any people. When I see 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.480 people protesting, I don't think, boy, they're doing their due 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.200 diligence here, they're fighting against the man. I see. These 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.920 people don't have jobs. That's what I see when I 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.640 see people at parades. So I'm like, well, these people 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.760 have job. Ude, I don't know, Hey, if that's your thing. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.440 I hear from people that have been to those parades. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.600 It's great. There's a lot of if you're a single guy, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.760 a lot of women down there. You know, you can 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.280 flirt with them, and there's a lot of alcohol or whatever. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.000 So I have a good time. We need a lot 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.160 of weed. You have a great time. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.080 I watched some of it on Spectrum and it's kind 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.160 of like viewing the game from your couch. It's a 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.880 much better see at home before I leave to go 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:17.520 to my job. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.800 Yeah. Uh. Dex is also how often do you guys 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.760 consult AI on a daily basis? I say, I barely 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.079 know a ferkdexs. I barely know how to get out 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.079 of bed without the help of AI. Uh. Nowadays, I 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.360 do use AI as a tool. I do use chat 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.640 Beat what is it? Chat GPT and. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.480 Rock and your Friend Chat GPT. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.000 Yeah. I don't even know the names of them well, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.480 but I I use them. I don't. I've been burned 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.480 a few times. I use them more for research stuff 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.520 to cut down on the time it takes to prepare 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.120 for the show, but it I got it. I often 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.199 have to double check stuff. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.160 Nanny, you do you do? I still triple check. I 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.920 got burned doing an AI over review on a topic 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.720 that I gave to Covino and Rich and the AI 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.560 overview said, yeah, that story is legitimate, and so I 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.440 give it to the guys, and then we find out 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.960 that the picture was two years old, and AI's overview 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.959 did not know that. So even with AI, I still 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:17.600 double check. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.560 Yeah, It's it's bad. I've been burned. I've been you know, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.400 some of the instant trivia questions, I'll double check them 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.040 and they'll give me the wrong answer and then I'll 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.960 get eight million. You know, I like your show, but 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.000 you know it's always you screwed that up. I'm like, yes, well, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.000 I so my fault, my my producer chat GPT screwed 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:43.559 it up or whatever. Your producer Chad who, Yeah, exactly, exactly, dude. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.040 I'm Chad, I'm Ben's producer. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.480 Exactly get a producing credit. Lucky Tony writes in and 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.280 he says, hey, Ben and Danny g shoeless, Joe ain't 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.840 got s on me. Any foods you fellas try That 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.520 sounded odd, were great. I've seen pretzel pieces, ice cream. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.400 What the f that's from? Tone That actually sounds good 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:14.960 because pretzel piece ice cream would combine the most delicious 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.800 elements you got, sugar and salt and all that, right, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.720 Wouldn't that be great? I think that would be wonderful. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.920 I think. I don't you know. I'm pretty set in 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.959 my ways, like most people my age. I try to 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.360 hit the big three food groups salt, sugar, and fat 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.760 and mix those in. But there is that bliss point. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.640 And I've ranted about this. I don't need to do 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.280 that here, but there's this point where they spend millions 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.240 and millions of dollars all these fast food restaurants trying 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.800 to find They call it the bliss point. And I 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.000 remember this from doing a rant about it on this 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.400 podcast a couple of years back when we were doing 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.960 the Foody fun thing and all that stuff. But there's 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.760 this point where if they combine the right amount of salt, sugar, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:59.160 and fat that it is addictive. You cannot get. It's 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.360 kind of like how potato chips have that right mix 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.720 of oil and salt and the potato and everything, and 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.760 they put a little sugar in there and then you 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.760 got you can't just eat a couple of potato chips. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.520 You have to eat the whole thing. But food manufacturers 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.840 spend tons of money to try to find that that 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.479 right spot. And if you just it sounds odd pretzels 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.360 and ice cream, But I bet you that's pretty good. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.800 But I don't eat a lot of weird crap. I 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.120 just it's not my that that does sound good. You 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.040 know what's good? Have you ever had chocolate covered bacon? 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:34.760 I'm not no, people love that, but any cover, any 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.280 fried and covered in chocolate cannot be bad. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.240 Like I would would eat a roach covered in chocolate. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.680 Bobby would if I don't know it's in there, I 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.160 probably have. Don't We eat on average tons of cockroaches 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.400 and different bugs every year that are allowed to be 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.240 in our food. Just the right Yeah, just their legs. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.920 All right, Reggie, here's a Remember Reggie from Detroit. Reggie 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.200 has been gone. I don't know where you went. I 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:02.160 can see went away from Welcome back, Reggie, he says, Hey, Benedani, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.040 he says, do you think President Trump is still buddies 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.200 with all of his old friends from the nineteen eighties? 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.600 And he sent me a story here. I guess Trump 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.239 pardoned Darryl Strawberry. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.600 Yeah, I saw that last week. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:20.360 Yeah, Reggie, I know you're being sarcastic here, and here's it. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.080 I'm assuming at one point, I remember when I would 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.880 go to NBA games. I covered NBA games in the nineties, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.320 and every once in a while Trump very rarely left 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.600 New York. Maybe once in a while he'd come to 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.440 LA and he was the life of the Everyone wanted 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.880 a party with Trump, like he was buddies with everybody. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.400 He was like the life of that. Must have been 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.120 an amazing party guy. And so that was a wild time. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.200 That was the last actually the eighties and the nineties 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.880 and the first part of the two thousands. But ever since, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.440 like oh, seven o eight, everything is on social media. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.960 But back then, if you were a star in the eighties, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.680 like you didn't have to worry about social media. You 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.520 could really get into it. So I don't know who knows, right, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.360 he's probably friends with everybody. I know he's friends with 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.800 Don King and all these old Mike Tyson and all 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.920 those are all the guys he hang out who would 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.160 hang out with in New York when he ran Atlantic 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.000 City and New York City and all that stuff. So 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.120 I'm sure he's still friends with all of them. Why not. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:19.800 Let's see what's next, you and friends with Danny G. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.160 Danny's talked to Trump on the phone, President Trump. You 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.840 and President Trump are buddies, right twice twice? 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:26.360 Is nice? 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.680 I have many friends. Didn't he say it was gonna 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:30.720 get your raised or something like that? 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.800 Yeah, still waiting on it. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.520 All right, once he gets the government back on track, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.360 he'll he'll do that, Big Ben and. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.520 Danny G Radio right, He's gonna get my snap gun. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.760 Yeah, snap go to Carls Junior. You get a one 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.120 dollar burger? All right? Well see Quang Quang from Ho 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.560 Chi Min Vietnam rights. And he says, hey, Ben, what 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:57.080 ever happened to the phrase of the week? Uh? Yeah? 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.680 So the phrase of the week is a staple of 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.560 the Fifth Ar Pockets. I'm trying to evolve the podcast, Danny. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.000 I'm I'm using this as like a test kitchen. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.040 Where I like Taco Bell. You went to their test 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.200 kitchen when you were a kid. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.800 You kiddle Taco Bell. Yeah, Like I try new things. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.160 I try to tell different tales of my life. I've tried, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.360 as I've talked about earlier here this weekend, I try 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.280 to pay more attention when I'm out on about. I 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.240 saw the soccer game with all the guys wearing Amazon 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.120 jerseys and all that, and the trucks parked all lined 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.919 up in a row. So I've kind of leaned more 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.200 into that. I love words and phrases and normally quang. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.399 If somebody sends me a phrase or something says, can 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.520 you do a deep dive on this, I'm more than 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.080 happy to do a deep dive on it. I do 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.800 love the origins of words and how things become part 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.440 of our lexicon. I think it's great and wonderful. And 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.760 some people have been complaining also because I haven't done 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.320 foody fun where I give fast food deals and all that. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.120 I can bring that stuff back if you want, maybe 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.160 next Friday, I'll bring ye back. But he also says, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.320 did you know? Marching and Chowder society refers to a 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.760 historical and contemporary concept with roots in the nineteenth century 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:17.359 maritime communities and modern instances at universities and other organizations. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.879 These groups combine communal meals. This sounds like it's off 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.040 AI by the way communal meals offer feature they feature chowder. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.920 They often feature chowder and marching bands or parades to 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:35.080 foster community, social connection, and school or local Pride. Examples 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.440 include historical societies in New England, a group called the 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.840 University of Rhode Island, and a formal club of executives 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:48.480 that met annually for a meal. I did not know 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.240 the specifics of that. I did know about it starting 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.960 in Rhode Island. When we did the TV show and 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.600 we went back to Boston and did the show, we 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.160 go down to prop it it's Rhode Island and I'd 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.080 make the same joke about, well, I wonder where the 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.000 marching and Chowder society is and all that. But yeah, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.639 they did not roll out the welcome bag. And when 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.000 I arrived in Rhode Island, I thought I used that 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.639 phrase all the time, but they did not. I do 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.000 use that phrase marching in shadow society quite a bit. So, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.800 but thank you for doing that. Quang, you brought back 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.480 the phrase of the week. You brought it back. J 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.320 Dot from Utah Rights and he says, Hey, Ben, that 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:32.560 Antonio Brown monologue was absolutely fn masterpiece. That was a 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:37.280 five Mike classic, probably top five, no scratch. He says, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.720 that's what the kids say, that's top three. He says, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.080 he says, his top three monologues that I've done. And 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.720 when Kobe Bryant passed away. And when you rip the 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.720 Dallas Cowboys, he says, those are those are well, you 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.960 get miss them. Enjoy the cowboys stuff, Jay dot I 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.960 do that all the time. He says. The ab monologue 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.480 was absolute one of the grist. At work, he says, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.200 he's working the day shift now. He said he listened 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.399 to it four or five times in a row. My 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.920 God burns his boomans, his booman man. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:08.600 Business is booming. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.480 Business is absolutely booming, no question about it. That Antonio 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.440 Brown his life. It's gonna be the Charlie Sheen documentary. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.400 It'll be the Antonio Brown version of the Charlie Sheen 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.640 documentary when they make it. The things that that guy 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.040 has been involved in. You look at his resume, holy crap, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.440 I mean, holy crap. I still my favorite. When he 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.560 was with the Raiders, he froze his feet. I think 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:37.960