Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you.
Speaker 1: It's an NFL Sunday, Week ten in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: we got early action from Berlin. Berlin as the Colts.
Speaker 1: They're getting saucy there, Colts with Sauce Gardener taking on
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Although you listened to this podcast when
Speaker 1: you want, and so that might be over by the
Speaker 1: time you're actually hearing this podcast. You listen whenever you want.
Speaker 1: It's not like you have to listen first. We don't
Speaker 1: put out live anyway. But Big Gay, Big Day today.
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to it. I should be at
Speaker 1: the Charger game God willing tonight, Chargers and Steelers, and
Speaker 1: I will likely run into my old comrade, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Eddie's gonna be wearing a jersey
Speaker 1: that's half Steelers half Chargers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna ask how does that work for him?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll find out tonight.
Speaker 3: He is at the one time of the year he
Speaker 3: actually wears the pants in the family.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm leaving goodbye. Yeah, I don't. It's
Speaker 1: weird because Eddie he usually goes in tailgates with the
Speaker 1: Chargers super fans, like his wife's like the lead super
Speaker 1: fan for the Chargers. So are you allowed to party
Speaker 1: with the Charger people if you're wearing an old Steelers jersey?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the rules. And I
Speaker 1: got my rams play the forty nine Ers today.
Speaker 3: We got that.
Speaker 1: I'm the game I'm most looking for. I guess the
Speaker 1: Patriots Bucks. To see the Bucks. They're all dinged up, though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tougher opponent for the Picts.
Speaker 3: I think that's still going to be the best game
Speaker 3: of that time slot though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Ravens Vikings should be good to Ravens have
Speaker 1: to win the Vikings. I don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of the Vikings. They looked terrible against the Chargers. They
Speaker 1: came back last week they beat the Lions. JJ McCarthy's
Speaker 1: who work in progress and all that. And then tomorrow though,
Speaker 1: on Monday, that'll be a good one, the Eagles and
Speaker 1: the Packers. But that's not the day. That's tomorrow we
Speaker 1: celebrate go to an art museum Day. Could you have
Speaker 1: a worse day to have a holiday thing? Sunday? NFL Sunday? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess football fans don't go to art museums very much,
Speaker 1: so it's likely not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that national day applies to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not. Well, we have the mail bag and Ohio,
Speaker 1: al can you get me in the mood? Ohio, please
Speaker 1: help me out a little bit. It's all right, thank
Speaker 1: you for that. These are actual questions by actual listeners
Speaker 1: like yourself, who are loyal minions to the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: And I do see some new names here, which is good.
Speaker 1: We want new people, we love the old people. I
Speaker 1: see an old favorite back this week that we have
Speaker 1: not heard from in maybe a month or so, so
Speaker 1: that's exciting as well. But right to the mailbag we go. First.
Speaker 1: One is from Manny from La. He says, this is
Speaker 1: for Danny g He says, Danny, are the Raiders okay?
Speaker 1: Now that they've fired their special teams coach? That seems
Speaker 1: like a cheap shot from Manny Danny. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I did. I guess the Raiders did get rid of
Speaker 1: one of their coaches after the game on Thursday against
Speaker 1: the Broncos. So was that going to fix the Raiders?
Speaker 3: You know, I think we all kind of have the
Speaker 3: feeling that Gino Smith is a placeholder. Pete Carroll is
Speaker 3: a placeholder. Most of the coaching staff that he brought
Speaker 3: in are placeholders. They don't seem like they're there for
Speaker 3: the long term.
Speaker 1: They paid Chip Kelly a ton of money. He's one
Speaker 1: of the highest paid offensives they did.
Speaker 3: But you know what they didn't do in the last
Speaker 3: two drafts get enough O line help. And that's something
Speaker 3: the Chargers have been dealing with this season as well,
Speaker 3: as you know, with injuries on your line. And then
Speaker 3: once jpj hurt his ankle in Thursday night's game, it
Speaker 3: was done. Once that happened, I'm like, well, Ashton, gents,
Speaker 3: he's not gonna have any more good runs. They're not
Speaker 3: going to get in the end zone again. And Gino
Speaker 3: Smith is not good when he is pressured. You know
Speaker 3: this a lot of people, a lot of football fans
Speaker 3: know this from his time with the Jets and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: If you could pressure Geno Smith, you're gonna win the game.
Speaker 3: And the Raiders O line is hurt. It wasn't great
Speaker 3: to begin with, but then Colton Miller out, a couple
Speaker 3: other guys out. You got Kappa in there, who was
Speaker 3: a cast off from the Bengals, and the Bengals have
Speaker 3: one of the worst o lines. So yeah, just a
Speaker 3: horrible situation with that offensive line. Stinky offensive Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well the thing too though, This always annoys me because
Speaker 1: it's always anytime a quarter quarterback gets sacked, it's always
Speaker 1: well to blame the offensive line. Like Gino's problem is
Speaker 1: not the Raiders' offensive line. The problem is he doesn't
Speaker 1: make quick decisions and he doesn't avoid sacks.
Speaker 3: That is a.
Speaker 1: Superpower if you have a quarterback that can avoid sacks.
Speaker 1: But you can adjust the offense if the offensive line
Speaker 1: is not blocking that well. And it obviously that happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a sitting I obviously people say every
Speaker 1: time I make this argument, Danny. People say, well, you
Speaker 1: just defend the fat guys. No. No, I've heard this
Speaker 1: from coaches that have been in our building who have
Speaker 1: have said the quiet part out loud. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: sacks are not the result of bad offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: the result of the quarterback. It's the It's a quarterback stat,
Speaker 1: not a stat about the offensive line. Right. And I
Speaker 1: had a coach laid this out to me years ago
Speaker 1: about how if you're getting pressured adjust the offense, you
Speaker 1: make quick throws and you have layered like the root
Speaker 1: tree where it's layered, and you can neutralize pressure if
Speaker 1: you can make quick decisions. Gino Smith has not ever
Speaker 1: been able to make quick decisions. They have the same
Speaker 1: problem in Chicago, even though the Bears are winning. But
Speaker 1: we're doing way too much sports Stuffdanny. But Caleb Williams,
Speaker 1: I blame Manny. It's your fault, Manny schmuck. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, but no, you gotta get rid of the
Speaker 1: ball quickly.
Speaker 3: That's why I said, if you can pressure Gino Smith,
Speaker 3: you're gonna win. Because he plays scared. He's not the
Speaker 3: type of quarterback who steps up confidently in the pocket.
Speaker 3: He's the kind of quarterback that leans back and throws
Speaker 3: a pick. And so, yeah, you're right, it's not all
Speaker 3: on the O line, but it is a combination of
Speaker 3: having too many holes and you know, a quarterback who
Speaker 3: can't adjust to the rush being on his heels.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing too about the game, not to go
Speaker 1: back to Thursday, because I know it's Sunday, we got
Speaker 1: games today and all that stuff, but the game on
Speaker 1: Thursday too. The Broncos tried to give you the game
Speaker 1: like they know the Raiders defense. I don't know the
Speaker 1: good the Broncos I here, we don't want to win
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: Ye a. After all that and a couple of roughing
Speaker 3: the quarterback calls that were not called. You saw what
Speaker 3: the Broncos were doing to Gino Smith there in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter and getting away with and yet Carlson still
Speaker 3: had a chance to kick that field goal and tie
Speaker 3: the game up late in the fourth quarter, misses the
Speaker 3: kick wide. He's usually a dependable kicker. He has not
Speaker 3: been this year. The special teams has been horrible. For
Speaker 3: whatever reason, this year, special teams has stunk to high heavens,
Speaker 3: and that's why that special teams coach got fired.
Speaker 1: Fired yeah, you know he's he's gone. And I do
Speaker 1: like the strategy. It's really a bold move. But by
Speaker 1: the Raiders to use brock Bauers as a decoy, I
Speaker 1: thought that was true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and remember I said that Gino's the kind of
Speaker 3: guy who panics. Proof of that is anytime he did
Speaker 3: actually throw. He was throwing to Locket, who's been on
Speaker 3: the team for what eight days? Bro you got one
Speaker 3: of the best receiver in the entire league and you're
Speaker 3: throwing the ball to Locket.
Speaker 1: He's like, I remember him from Seattle. He used to
Speaker 1: be good. He's my safety net.
Speaker 3: I know this guy. I've seen enough. Geno Smith. Please
Speaker 3: give him the hook.
Speaker 1: All right? Give him you give him the bag. Fer
Speaker 1: dog in Fullerton says, Happy Turkey Month, Ben and Danny, Yes,
Speaker 1: Ben and Dang, Happy Turkey Month, he says. Are you
Speaker 1: tired of all the winning yet? Between the Dodgers, multiple
Speaker 1: World Series, the Rams, Super Bowl, the King Stanley Cup
Speaker 1: and the Clippers' final four appearances, LA has had like fifty.
Speaker 3: Victory what's wrong with your Clippers?
Speaker 1: Have either of you gone to any of these parades?
Speaker 1: I have not. I last time I went to a
Speaker 1: parade I've been to two championship parades in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: It was during the Kobe Shack years. And the only
Speaker 1: reason I was there is because I was a roving reporter.
Speaker 1: Hand to God, Danny at AM eleven to fifty one,
Speaker 1: we had live parade coverage of the Laker Championship parade
Speaker 1: and they put me down to interview. Imagine how bad
Speaker 1: this must have been for people listening. They had me
Speaker 1: down interviewing fans.
Speaker 3: It was you were, well, this is so long ago, Danny.
Speaker 1: We before they built what is now I guess called
Speaker 1: La Live across the street from from what used to
Speaker 1: be called Staples Center. You know that the movie theater.
Speaker 1: They have a theater. They're at the restaurant's bowling alley,
Speaker 1: like this big monstrosity.
Speaker 3: Used to just be ghetto streets.
Speaker 1: What was it used to be parking lots when they
Speaker 1: opened the arena. So this is like a staging area
Speaker 1: and they were gonna have a They had a rally.
Speaker 1: This was the rally where Mark Mattson danced like a
Speaker 1: like a nerdy, like white dude guy you know he is.
Speaker 1: And then so anyway, the crowd was all assembled at
Speaker 1: in the parking lots, which is now where La live
Speaker 1: is in LA and I remember it was so hot.
Speaker 1: They didn't have enough water, they didn't have enough bad
Speaker 1: bath rooms, so people were defecating in the back. People
Speaker 1: were passing out from the heat. It was wild. It
Speaker 1: was in the summer. They won a championship in late June,
Speaker 1: and so the parade parade was around there. That's that's
Speaker 1: the last time, Daddy. Did you take off from work
Speaker 1: to attend the Dodger championship parade?
Speaker 3: No, I don't go to parades. I have a job.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: People that go to No, I mean, look, they must
Speaker 3: have flexible schedules and jobs and bosses that understand that
Speaker 3: they're a fanatic and they're not going to go to
Speaker 3: work that day. But I mean, it's our job to
Speaker 3: cover sports, so we go to our jobs, so we
Speaker 3: don't go to parades.
Speaker 1: Yes, I completely agree in any people. When I see
Speaker 1: people protesting, I don't think, boy, they're doing their due
Speaker 1: diligence here, they're fighting against the man. I see. These
Speaker 1: people don't have jobs. That's what I see when I
Speaker 1: see people at parades. So I'm like, well, these people
Speaker 1: have job. Ude, I don't know, Hey, if that's your thing.
Speaker 1: I hear from people that have been to those parades.
Speaker 1: It's great. There's a lot of if you're a single guy,
Speaker 1: a lot of women down there. You know, you can
Speaker 1: flirt with them, and there's a lot of alcohol or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I have a good time. We need a lot
Speaker 1: of weed. You have a great time.
Speaker 3: I watched some of it on Spectrum and it's kind
Speaker 3: of like viewing the game from your couch. It's a
Speaker 3: much better see at home before I leave to go
Speaker 3: to my job.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Dex is also how often do you guys
Speaker 1: consult AI on a daily basis? I say, I barely
Speaker 1: know a ferkdexs. I barely know how to get out
Speaker 1: of bed without the help of AI. Uh. Nowadays, I
Speaker 1: do use AI as a tool. I do use chat
Speaker 1: Beat what is it? Chat GPT and.
Speaker 3: Rock and your Friend Chat GPT.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't even know the names of them well,
Speaker 1: but I I use them. I don't. I've been burned
Speaker 1: a few times. I use them more for research stuff
Speaker 1: to cut down on the time it takes to prepare
Speaker 1: for the show, but it I got it. I often
Speaker 1: have to double check stuff.
Speaker 3: Nanny, you do you do? I still triple check. I
Speaker 3: got burned doing an AI over review on a topic
Speaker 3: that I gave to Covino and Rich and the AI
Speaker 3: overview said, yeah, that story is legitimate, and so I
Speaker 3: give it to the guys, and then we find out
Speaker 3: that the picture was two years old, and AI's overview
Speaker 3: did not know that. So even with AI, I still
Speaker 3: double check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's it's bad. I've been burned. I've been you know,
Speaker 1: some of the instant trivia questions, I'll double check them
Speaker 1: and they'll give me the wrong answer and then I'll
Speaker 1: get eight million. You know, I like your show, but
Speaker 1: you know it's always you screwed that up. I'm like, yes, well,
Speaker 1: I so my fault, my my producer chat GPT screwed
Speaker 1: it up or whatever. Your producer Chad who, Yeah, exactly, exactly, dude.
Speaker 3: I'm Chad, I'm Ben's producer.
Speaker 1: Exactly get a producing credit. Lucky Tony writes in and
Speaker 1: he says, hey, Ben and Danny g shoeless, Joe ain't
Speaker 1: got s on me. Any foods you fellas try That
Speaker 1: sounded odd, were great. I've seen pretzel pieces, ice cream.
Speaker 1: What the f that's from? Tone That actually sounds good
Speaker 1: because pretzel piece ice cream would combine the most delicious
Speaker 1: elements you got, sugar and salt and all that, right,
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? I think that would be wonderful.
Speaker 1: I think. I don't you know. I'm pretty set in
Speaker 1: my ways, like most people my age. I try to
Speaker 1: hit the big three food groups salt, sugar, and fat
Speaker 1: and mix those in. But there is that bliss point.
Speaker 1: And I've ranted about this. I don't need to do
Speaker 1: that here, but there's this point where they spend millions
Speaker 1: and millions of dollars all these fast food restaurants trying
Speaker 1: to find They call it the bliss point. And I
Speaker 1: remember this from doing a rant about it on this
Speaker 1: podcast a couple of years back when we were doing
Speaker 1: the Foody fun thing and all that stuff. But there's
Speaker 1: this point where if they combine the right amount of salt, sugar,
Speaker 1: and fat that it is addictive. You cannot get. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like how potato chips have that right mix
Speaker 1: of oil and salt and the potato and everything, and
Speaker 1: they put a little sugar in there and then you
Speaker 1: got you can't just eat a couple of potato chips.
Speaker 1: You have to eat the whole thing. But food manufacturers
Speaker 1: spend tons of money to try to find that that
Speaker 1: right spot. And if you just it sounds odd pretzels
Speaker 1: and ice cream, But I bet you that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But I don't eat a lot of weird crap. I
Speaker 1: just it's not my that that does sound good. You
Speaker 1: know what's good? Have you ever had chocolate covered bacon?
Speaker 1: I'm not no, people love that, but any cover, any
Speaker 1: fried and covered in chocolate cannot be bad.
Speaker 3: Like I would would eat a roach covered in chocolate.
Speaker 1: Bobby would if I don't know it's in there, I
Speaker 1: probably have. Don't We eat on average tons of cockroaches
Speaker 1: and different bugs every year that are allowed to be
Speaker 1: in our food. Just the right Yeah, just their legs.
Speaker 1: All right, Reggie, here's a Remember Reggie from Detroit. Reggie
Speaker 1: has been gone. I don't know where you went. I
Speaker 1: can see went away from Welcome back, Reggie, he says, Hey, Benedani,
Speaker 1: he says, do you think President Trump is still buddies
Speaker 1: with all of his old friends from the nineteen eighties?
Speaker 1: And he sent me a story here. I guess Trump
Speaker 1: pardoned Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Reggie, I know you're being sarcastic here, and here's it.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming at one point, I remember when I would
Speaker 1: go to NBA games. I covered NBA games in the nineties,
Speaker 1: and every once in a while Trump very rarely left
Speaker 1: New York. Maybe once in a while he'd come to
Speaker 1: LA and he was the life of the Everyone wanted
Speaker 1: a party with Trump, like he was buddies with everybody.
Speaker 1: He was like the life of that. Must have been
Speaker 1: an amazing party guy. And so that was a wild time.
Speaker 1: That was the last actually the eighties and the nineties
Speaker 1: and the first part of the two thousands. But ever since,
Speaker 1: like oh, seven o eight, everything is on social media.
Speaker 1: But back then, if you were a star in the eighties,
Speaker 1: like you didn't have to worry about social media. You
Speaker 1: could really get into it. So I don't know who knows, right,
Speaker 1: he's probably friends with everybody. I know he's friends with
Speaker 1: Don King and all these old Mike Tyson and all
Speaker 1: those are all the guys he hang out who would
Speaker 1: hang out with in New York when he ran Atlantic
Speaker 1: City and New York City and all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's still friends with all of them. Why not.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's next, you and friends with Danny G.
Speaker 1: Danny's talked to Trump on the phone, President Trump. You
Speaker 1: and President Trump are buddies, right twice twice?
Speaker 3: Is nice?
Speaker 1: I have many friends. Didn't he say it was gonna
Speaker 1: get your raised or something like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, still waiting on it.
Speaker 1: All right, once he gets the government back on track,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll do that, Big Ben and.
Speaker 3: Danny G Radio right, He's gonna get my snap gun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, snap go to Carls Junior. You get a one
Speaker 1: dollar burger? All right? Well see Quang Quang from Ho
Speaker 1: Chi Min Vietnam rights. And he says, hey, Ben, what
Speaker 1: ever happened to the phrase of the week? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So the phrase of the week is a staple of
Speaker 1: the Fifth Ar Pockets. I'm trying to evolve the podcast, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm using this as like a test kitchen.
Speaker 3: Where I like Taco Bell. You went to their test
Speaker 3: kitchen when you were a kid.
Speaker 1: You kiddle Taco Bell. Yeah, Like I try new things.
Speaker 1: I try to tell different tales of my life. I've tried,
Speaker 1: as I've talked about earlier here this weekend, I try
Speaker 1: to pay more attention when I'm out on about. I
Speaker 1: saw the soccer game with all the guys wearing Amazon
Speaker 1: jerseys and all that, and the trucks parked all lined
Speaker 1: up in a row. So I've kind of leaned more
Speaker 1: into that. I love words and phrases and normally quang.
Speaker 1: If somebody sends me a phrase or something says, can
Speaker 1: you do a deep dive on this, I'm more than
Speaker 1: happy to do a deep dive on it. I do
Speaker 1: love the origins of words and how things become part
Speaker 1: of our lexicon. I think it's great and wonderful. And
Speaker 1: some people have been complaining also because I haven't done
Speaker 1: foody fun where I give fast food deals and all that.
Speaker 1: I can bring that stuff back if you want, maybe
Speaker 1: next Friday, I'll bring ye back. But he also says,
Speaker 1: did you know? Marching and Chowder society refers to a
Speaker 1: historical and contemporary concept with roots in the nineteenth century
Speaker 1: maritime communities and modern instances at universities and other organizations.
Speaker 1: These groups combine communal meals. This sounds like it's off
Speaker 1: AI by the way communal meals offer feature they feature chowder.
Speaker 1: They often feature chowder and marching bands or parades to
Speaker 1: foster community, social connection, and school or local Pride. Examples
Speaker 1: include historical societies in New England, a group called the
Speaker 1: University of Rhode Island, and a formal club of executives
Speaker 1: that met annually for a meal. I did not know
Speaker 1: the specifics of that. I did know about it starting
Speaker 1: in Rhode Island. When we did the TV show and
Speaker 1: we went back to Boston and did the show, we
Speaker 1: go down to prop it it's Rhode Island and I'd
Speaker 1: make the same joke about, well, I wonder where the
Speaker 1: marching and Chowder society is and all that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they did not roll out the welcome bag. And when
Speaker 1: I arrived in Rhode Island, I thought I used that
Speaker 1: phrase all the time, but they did not. I do
Speaker 1: use that phrase marching in shadow society quite a bit. So,
Speaker 1: but thank you for doing that. Quang, you brought back
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week. You brought it back. J
Speaker 1: Dot from Utah Rights and he says, Hey, Ben, that
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown monologue was absolutely fn masterpiece. That was a
Speaker 1: five Mike classic, probably top five, no scratch. He says,
Speaker 1: that's what the kids say, that's top three. He says,
Speaker 1: he says, his top three monologues that I've done. And
Speaker 1: when Kobe Bryant passed away. And when you rip the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, he says, those are those are well, you
Speaker 1: get miss them. Enjoy the cowboys stuff, Jay dot I
Speaker 1: do that all the time. He says. The ab monologue
Speaker 1: was absolute one of the grist. At work, he says,
Speaker 1: he's working the day shift now. He said he listened
Speaker 1: to it four or five times in a row. My
Speaker 1: God burns his boomans, his booman man.
Speaker 3: Business is booming.
Speaker 1: Business is absolutely booming, no question about it. That Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown his life. It's gonna be the Charlie Sheen documentary.
Speaker 1: It'll be the Antonio Brown version of the Charlie Sheen
Speaker 1: documentary when they make it. The things that that guy
Speaker 1: has been involved in. You look at his resume, holy crap,
Speaker 1: I mean, holy crap. I still my favorite. When he
Speaker 1: was with the Raiders, he froze his feet. I think
Speaker 1: that's just it, just absolutely golden. But the gummy Dix
Speaker 1: that he was throwing, the whole thing better than winning.
Speaker 1: Left the field naked. Yeah, well when did he leave
Speaker 1: the About the jumping jack thing, that was good, the
Speaker 1: jumping jack.
Speaker 3: Thing, he took his shirt off and all all that.
Speaker 3: Basically disrobed. He disrobed on his way to the locker room.
Speaker 3: I rotate nuts. His social media account, ben is it.
Speaker 3: His Instagram has been so fun to follow because he
Speaker 3: does like Cracker of the Week and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Racist that's so good. So how did they get Don't
Speaker 1: you have to go through a lot of loopholes and
Speaker 1: to get somebody out of Dubai.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. I feel like we're gonna
Speaker 3: find out about this because he'll turn it into like
Speaker 3: a thirty for thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know, there'll definitely be a Netflix document series
Speaker 1: or something like that. I mean, he's done so many
Speaker 1: ridiculous things. I told the story in the monologue the
Speaker 1: other day that one of the great stories, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's true or not. I want to
Speaker 1: believe it. It's been passed to me by multiple people
Speaker 1: that Antonio Brown refused to pay a chef that was
Speaker 1: working at his house because he thought the chef had
Speaker 1: threatened him. Do you remember what the chef did, Danny?
Speaker 1: Do you remember what the chef did threaten it? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the chef had put a fishhead in the freezer because
Speaker 1: he was going to make some soup with the fishead
Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown thought it was like the Godfather movie.
Speaker 1: And I guess he's fish head, horsehead, same thing.
Speaker 3: What a dunce, What a dunce.
Speaker 1: But he's a hell of a wide receiver. Hell not
Speaker 1: for your Raiders, but a hell of a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Remember the helmet thing too, Oh my god, the helmet stuff.
Speaker 1: I didn't even mention the helmet stuff in. The helmet
Speaker 1: stuff was amazing, absolutely amazing. He held out he refused
Speaker 1: to show up. That was with the Raiders, right, refused
Speaker 1: to show up to the training camp. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: NFL would not allow him to wear his helmet because
Speaker 1: it was too old, it wasn't safe. And so then
Speaker 1: he tried to paint over his helmet hoping no one
Speaker 1: would notice.
Speaker 3: And it's weird because if you want to talk brain health,
Speaker 3: I mean, he's the poster boy for that. He's never
Speaker 3: had a concussion his entire career.
Speaker 1: People say the Vontez Perfect kid, You remember that one
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 3: The bro people Ben people literally say that he completely
Speaker 3: turned into this character he is now that we know
Speaker 3: him as after that one hit from Perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a shame, man, Is it entertaining? Throwing stuff off
Speaker 1: buildings and just just wild, just absolutely wild, all right,
Speaker 1: JT the Wingman, our buddy from the Knoxville area. Right so,
Speaker 1: and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny g I have
Speaker 1: waited all year for the Ohio meet and greet and
Speaker 1: it did not happen this year. He said, Dick in
Speaker 1: Dayton is likely unlimited time. I hope you can get
Speaker 1: out there soon.
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing that. It is on my to do list.
Speaker 1: Once we get past the holidays and all that the
Speaker 1: weather gets a little better, JT. I plan on resuming
Speaker 1: my travels and likely after football season, will make our
Speaker 1: way to Ohio. I told my presence will be needed
Speaker 1: back in North Carolina, so maybe we'll do another North
Speaker 1: Carolina meet and greet. We'll figure that one out, he says.
Speaker 1: As for the mailbag, since I am about to move
Speaker 1: to a new place here in Tennessee, that checks off
Speaker 1: many things on my checklist of wants for a home.
Speaker 1: What was the most important thing on the checklist when
Speaker 1: you chose your current residence, he says, for me, it
Speaker 1: was two things, a fireplace and a mountain view. Just wondering.
Speaker 1: That's from JT the Wingman. So Danny, When you're looking
Speaker 1: for a humble abode, what are you looking for? I
Speaker 1: genuinely don't care very much about the view. And the
Speaker 1: reason I don't care about the view is because once
Speaker 1: you live in a place for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 1: you stop looking. It just becomes background and stuff. Like
Speaker 1: when you first move into a place where the great
Speaker 1: view it's amazing. It's kind of like when I go
Speaker 1: to Vegas times and I'll get the Presidential suite because
Speaker 1: they'll upgrade me very rarely, and you have that view
Speaker 1: of the strip of Las Vegas and all the lights,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, that's awesome. But if you
Speaker 1: were there every day, you know, it's it's like part
Speaker 1: part of the blinds. You don't you don't even notice it.
Speaker 3: The number one thing I look for is a neighbor
Speaker 3: close by that has barking dogs. Yeah, it's almost like
Speaker 3: comfortable white noise. You never get peace of mind. It's
Speaker 3: just really comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like that sounds like Luigi, my old dog, Luigi.
Speaker 1: That arking non stop. It was just a nightmare. No,
Speaker 1: what do I look for? I look you spend most
Speaker 1: of your time inside, so I look for like a
Speaker 1: nice bath tub. I take a bath at least once
Speaker 1: a week. I should do it more, but I don't
Speaker 1: have left time. So I like that and just want
Speaker 1: to have enough space where everything kind of flows together.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's any specific thing. I
Speaker 1: don't really You know, California, you don't need a fireplace.
Speaker 1: We have a fireplace. We don't really use it much.
Speaker 1: You want have a little bit of an outside space,
Speaker 1: but not too much of an outside space. So there's
Speaker 1: that that sweet spot. But congratulations, Jat. I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing you at the next smell of meat and
Speaker 1: green whenever, that is, if it is geographically desirable for you,
Speaker 1: as you have traveled all over to different meet and
Speaker 1: greets over the last couple of years. Scott from Florida writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Ben, former North Carolina State basketball
Speaker 1: player Charles Shackelford said he was amphibious. Amphibious because he
Speaker 1: could shoot both right and left handed. What is the
Speaker 1: dumbest thing you or your producers have ever said on
Speaker 1: your show. I don't believe microwaving tinfoil requires audible words,
Speaker 1: so that cannot be the answer. Scott. Normally, what happens
Speaker 1: is these things are fun stories for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: and then we we forget about them and move on.
Speaker 1: I've had I don't know if there are actual words.
Speaker 1: The things that have been amazing to me are the
Speaker 1: user error on the show. I've had board ops that
Speaker 1: have gone to break and left our mics on, not
Speaker 1: telling us our mics were on, and then we conversation
Speaker 1: was getting on the air. I've had I had on
Speaker 1: one engineer that didn't know how to play the commercials,
Speaker 1: so we had to do an hour of network radio
Speaker 1: commercial free. But I mean, those aren't really stupid things
Speaker 1: being said. That's like this just user error, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff I just off the top of
Speaker 1: my head, anything Danny, that you remember any stupid stuff
Speaker 1: you would like to share with the class.
Speaker 3: I remember you telling me on the air that the
Speaker 3: Clippers would get to and win an NBA Finals before
Speaker 3: Lebron ever even sniffed the playoff series with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's I'm glad you brought that up. I'm validated.
Speaker 1: The Lakers haven't won a championship, so that's it all right.
Speaker 1: You know that you and you're done with done with
Speaker 1: Lebron're done.
Speaker 3: With Wait wait, wait, so you say that the MLB
Speaker 3: title the year of COVID is the hardest one in
Speaker 3: baseball history, but the NBA one is the easiest. That
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Do I have to repeat this again again? It was
Speaker 1: fundamentally harder and baaseball and fundamentally easier in basketball. Why
Speaker 1: is this hard for people to understand?
Speaker 3: Because it just fits your narrative. That's why it's not
Speaker 3: about my narrative. Yes it is.
Speaker 1: It's not about if.
Speaker 3: The Clips not so you'd be saying the same thing
Speaker 3: if the Clippers had finally made it past the first
Speaker 3: round of the playoffs and got to the finals and
Speaker 3: won and had a trophy in their case, you would
Speaker 3: say the same thing you're about to say right now.
Speaker 1: Now, listen, it's not my opinion. It's other people who
Speaker 1: are in the business that agree. It's a mickey mouse situation.
Speaker 1: That's when do you pay attention to what others? Since
Speaker 1: when do you care what other people in the business say?
Speaker 1: And they agree with me, I pay attention to them.
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. When somebody agrees with me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we're good to go. That that whole
Speaker 1: COVID championship thing was bogus. In basketball during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: every man, woman and child knows that baseball was harder.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this seriously. Do you think the
Speaker 3: Lakers and Lebron would have to agree to it because
Speaker 3: he's got the no trade clause? Do you think they
Speaker 3: should move on because the team they have in place
Speaker 3: seems to be having great chemistry?
Speaker 1: I would I would get if I owned the Lake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would get rid of Lebron. I would. I'd send
Speaker 1: him to the Knicks or somewhere else and let him.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to play for the Necks.
Speaker 1: Just don't send him the Clippers. As long as you
Speaker 1: don't send him the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that would be that. I would title
Speaker 3: that monologue beautiful karma.
Speaker 1: No, no, we have enough old guys that don't want
Speaker 1: to play basketball. We don't need any more old guys
Speaker 1: that don't want to play basketball. My god, the Clippers
Speaker 1: are they trying? What is Steve Balmer doing?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are they tanking? They don't have a first round pick?
Speaker 1: What exactly are they trying to do? Here? My god?
Speaker 3: I feel like you guys put all these pinball parts
Speaker 3: together and shake them up and hope that, you know,
Speaker 3: it builds a beautiful pinball machine. But I don't know, dude,
Speaker 3: you have like bug parts on your team right now.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched too much, but when I tried to
Speaker 1: watch like five minutes of the game they played the
Speaker 1: Suns this week, I was at a standalone NB Island
Speaker 1: game on NBC.
Speaker 3: Oh, I watched it.
Speaker 1: God, was that bad. Third They just didn't show. I
Speaker 1: wonder they did at halftime. They must have gone out
Speaker 1: for snacks or something like that. All right, last for
Speaker 1: their all right, you picked? I got two. I got
Speaker 1: one about social media and then one about a book.
Speaker 1: Which one do you want? Danny? You picked?
Speaker 3: You know books are underrated? On the Fifth Hour podcast,
Speaker 3: right this one from Eric?
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and Danny, are you guys going to
Speaker 1: pour one out for the Farmer's Almanac this weekend? It
Speaker 1: turns out, Danny that the Farmers this is called Eric
Speaker 1: the first Farmer's Almanac, which was published in eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 1: They will stop publishing after the twenty twenty sixth edition
Speaker 1: after more than two centuries. The Farmers Almanac, which has
Speaker 1: given people weather long term weather forecast predictions and farming
Speaker 1: tips and American folklore. Very folks. The advice they are
Speaker 1: going out of business. Yeah. The organization behind it, Eric Simpton,
Speaker 1: store here out of Maine, said it was a very
Speaker 1: tough decision, said that the publishing industry has led to
Speaker 1: insurmountable financial challenges.
Speaker 3: Man, this is like radio. Back in the day. There
Speaker 3: used to be two things, like syndicated things that ran
Speaker 3: on our FM radio station. The Paul Harvey Minute was
Speaker 3: it called it was something good day? Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: like the Paul Harvey Special and then you.
Speaker 1: You don't know what the news is and now you're
Speaker 1: about to hear the rest of the story.
Speaker 3: The other being the farm Report. It was like a
Speaker 3: weather update, but it was like updating all things farming.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because this was a radio station in Stockton, California
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, and so of course they
Speaker 3: had to update everything. Calmneure.
Speaker 1: So the question is will the Farmers Almanac continue online
Speaker 1: or are they just gonna it's gotta continue online. That
Speaker 1: didn't cost much money, right, compared to the book thing.
Speaker 1: You just get it all online. You don't make any
Speaker 1: money doing that though, right, that's the problem. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to buy the last Farmer's Almanac. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be like a rock band, Danny, where they say, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, psych, we're coming back, you know, that
Speaker 1: last tour, and.
Speaker 3: Then they come back and you know here, I thought
Speaker 3: Yamamoto's one of one trading card from Tops was the
Speaker 3: big story that. Little did I know it's the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 3: I need to get ahold of.
Speaker 1: I know, right, good stocking stuff. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out of that. Enjoy the football today. I will be back,
Speaker 1: God willing behind the microphones of Fox Sports Radio tonight
Speaker 1: to bloviate the night away, talk about all the big
Speaker 1: storylines in the NFL. And you'll be back, I assumed,
Speaker 1: Danny Covino and Rich Yes.
Speaker 3: Monday afternoon, Yeah, yeay, Monday through Friday two to four
Speaker 3: pm on the West side. That's five to seven pm
Speaker 3: in beautiful Springfield, old Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: All right, well, where my grandfather lived years ago. I
Speaker 1: have a great wonderful Sunday later, Skater gotta murder, I
Speaker 1: gotta go