Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere you have stumbled upon The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben math that's me talking to the third
Speaker 1: person and Danny g Radio hanging out every day, no
Speaker 1: days off, no days off, and it is the most
Speaker 1: popular podcast of the weekend. The mail Bag Danny, it's
Speaker 1: the mail Bag podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mail mother sucker.
Speaker 1: Not yet, No, no, no, not yet, because we had
Speaker 1: asked to catch up. If you did not hear the
Speaker 1: Friday podcast, our first international Fifth Hour contributor, I think
Speaker 1: I don't believe we've had anyone on from across oceans
Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour. But if you didn't hear Friday's pike,
Speaker 1: because we caught up with Jay Scoop. You know Jay Scoop.
Speaker 1: If you listened to the overnight show The Maelor show
Speaker 1: during the week. Jay Scoop is a big part of that.
Speaker 1: He's written songs for us, he's contributed content and the
Speaker 1: talent shows, and he's just been a big supporter of
Speaker 1: what we do. And he has traveled to the Ukraine
Speaker 1: to help out in their battle with Russia, and we
Speaker 1: caught up with him from a war zone. Danny, he
Speaker 1: could have been bombed as he was talking to us
Speaker 1: and giving us the inside skinny as he was calling
Speaker 1: us from a this old it was a hotel room
Speaker 1: in the Ukraine, but he said it was an old
Speaker 1: communist building from communist Russians back in the day. So
Speaker 1: pretty wild. And that was on Friday, and then yesterday
Speaker 1: we had the normal nonsense from the Saturday podcast. But
Speaker 1: let's get into the Safari Kingdom, which is not anything
Speaker 1: like Animal Thunderdomes. I want to remind you a disclaimer.
Speaker 1: This is a really unique, original piece of audio content
Speaker 1: that was not hijacked from anything Danny G worked on
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 4: You know, it's been taking extra weeks here to get
Speaker 4: the final logo approved by Klay Travis. I think at
Speaker 4: this point, Ben that they are hand drawing this logo,
Speaker 4: so it's going to be one of the better podcast
Speaker 4: logos in the world.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, may I recommend that you go
Speaker 1: down to Santa Monica, which is where you were last weekend.
Speaker 1: You go down to Santa Monica and they have these
Speaker 1: guys that are cartoonists that will draw a logo for
Speaker 1: you for like twenty bucks. Maybe tip them an extra
Speaker 1: ten dollars, and then you take that, you scan it,
Speaker 1: send it to the iHeartMedia corporate people and say, here
Speaker 1: we go, I got my logo. We're good. O. No,
Speaker 1: we need ten layers of bureaucracy is what we need. God,
Speaker 1: that's what we need. As much red tape as we
Speaker 1: possibly can get. That's what we have to do. Let's
Speaker 1: speak of music. Let's go to ohio Al. Strike up
Speaker 1: the band, It's.
Speaker 4: Time for Ben Mallards.
Speaker 3: It's a furry kingdom with NYG Radio.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I wonder if those animal sounds were copywritten.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. That sounds completely original.
Speaker 1: That's ohio Al who went into his garage and was
Speaker 1: making those sounds. That's that came from, Well.
Speaker 4: You do a duck, that's my duck.
Speaker 1: But that was one of the great callers of all time.
Speaker 1: But that guy didn't call back. He called twice and
Speaker 1: that was it.
Speaker 4: I think that his duck is the only one I
Speaker 4: have in the library.
Speaker 1: No, he did a bunch, this farmer from Georgia. I
Speaker 1: remember the guy he called up. He has this big
Speaker 1: personality and he was fun and laughing and debonair and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: He made all these animal sounds. He said, I'm on
Speaker 1: my farm and I got, you know, I got your
Speaker 1: duck over here, quack quack, and he got you know this.
Speaker 3: But you're right.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the other animal sounds. I assume they
Speaker 1: would be like a cow move, you know, something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll have to search the main brain at the
Speaker 4: network and see if there's any more sound effects from him.
Speaker 4: I don't think there was, though, So whoever was running
Speaker 4: your controls back then only saved his duck. So it
Speaker 4: must have been maybe a stay awake with Jake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could have been Jake, warned, the great Jake Warner.
Speaker 1: It was either Jake or you. If it wasn't you, it.
Speaker 4: Wasn't it wasn't me, So it had to have been
Speaker 4: Jake or Art Martinez.
Speaker 1: That was an all time great call, all time great
Speaker 1: overnight sports radio call. So here in the Safari Kingdom,
Speaker 1: we start out with this. You have the long and
Speaker 1: the short of it. This would be the short of it.
Speaker 1: You see the world's shortest dog has no Yeah, the
Speaker 1: world's shortest dog. And what breed of dog do you
Speaker 1: think it is?
Speaker 4: Danny, Well, I think most people would guess that it
Speaker 4: was a Wiener dog.
Speaker 1: A Wiener dog. No, not a Winner dog. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is a Wiener dog. It's a Chihuahua. I
Speaker 1: like the extended wiener. That's not a Wiener dog.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: A Chihuahua is not a winner dog.
Speaker 4: No, Chihuahua's a circumcised Wiener dog.
Speaker 1: So there's a Chihuahua name Pearl that has the record
Speaker 1: as the smallest, shortest, tiniest, every gonna say it dog.
Speaker 1: It's at just three point five to nine inches tall.
Speaker 4: Well, how do they measure this? Do they stand the
Speaker 4: dog on a tind legs?
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some photographs. This is part of the
Speaker 1: Guinness World Record people. This dog was presented on the
Speaker 1: set of some TV show in Italy. It just happened
Speaker 1: over the weekend. It's a two year old Chihuahua and
Speaker 1: it's five inches long and weighs one point to two
Speaker 1: pounds ef ef Yeah, I'll send you a photo here.
Speaker 1: Let me click this here, just listening, just pay attention,
Speaker 1: just to entertain yourself for a second here, and it
Speaker 1: looks like a little like a little but it's I
Speaker 1: guess grown all the way I mean, it's Let me
Speaker 1: see I sent, I think I sent twice. Let me
Speaker 1: I get another image here. I'll send you. This is
Speaker 1: the great if you're listening to the pattis it is
Speaker 1: less standing up. It is less in height than a
Speaker 1: standard thirty two ounce drink, like a plastic cup. Did
Speaker 1: you get it? Did it come through? It did not?
Speaker 4: No, it didn't come through.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Do I have any music we can
Speaker 1: play while we're waiting for this thing to come through?
Speaker 1: I do not understand.
Speaker 4: I have that on hold music that I play whenever
Speaker 4: you try to do your nicknames.
Speaker 1: Oh you want my nicknames, Danny.
Speaker 4: Oh that's not what I said.
Speaker 1: You know what that's no, No, you secretly my my nicknames.
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying.
Speaker 4: And that is on hold music.
Speaker 1: Will I wait for the for the message to go through?
Speaker 1: And I don't know why it has a gone through.
Speaker 1: We can this is not killing time. But I have
Speaker 1: more nicknames than anyone in all of broadcasting. I have
Speaker 1: been called, among other things, the Baron of Balderdash, Cucci,
Speaker 1: Big gall Bladder, Benis, the Menace, Captain knee Jerk, the
Speaker 1: Duke of the north Woods, General of degenerates, Tycoon of Tea's,
Speaker 1: Master of Disaster, the hustler of filibuster, Master something Light
Speaker 1: of Nightlife, pal About home Off, Pummeler of producers. But
Speaker 1: I want to mount it. Benny Brightside manatee.
Speaker 4: Oh look at that, What a cute little dog.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Manitee of insanity. Marconi Maller, bunny Line Mallard,
Speaker 1: Emissary of embellishment, week Night windbag, slap me around a
Speaker 1: little bit, Wizard of Wacky, slayer of naysayers, Grand Goober Gab.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can suck on it and that'll make it better.
Speaker 1: Ola Ark of Dark, Tower of Babylon, Honest Adonis, nocturnal Colonel,
Speaker 1: I'm on drugs right now, man the underdog of monologue,
Speaker 1: and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope.
Speaker 4: And Boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 1: Those are only some of my nicknames. Has the picture
Speaker 1: come through yet, Danny g.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it came through a while ago, like on your
Speaker 4: second nickname.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I think you're making that up.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's come through yet. I don't think
Speaker 1: you've gotten it. I think you're still standing by for that.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand why this thing is not going through.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. It's very annoying. I think what
Speaker 1: they're waiting for is for me to give you the
Speaker 1: rest of my nicknames. No, and then it will come through.
Speaker 4: Then. I'm staring at the picture right now.
Speaker 1: Let me try it. Let me try this here, all right,
Speaker 1: so some of my other nicktives. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: the phone full manti while we wait for Danna to
Speaker 1: get this. I don't.
Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 1: All right, fine, saved by.
Speaker 4: It's wearing a diamond necklace. Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 1: That's the smallest dog in the world. According to the
Speaker 1: people over at Guinness, looks like.
Speaker 4: A long lost member of Run DMC.
Speaker 1: That's ah, it kind of looks like Bella. To be honest,
Speaker 1: if you cut Bella's hair, it would that's what Bella
Speaker 1: looks like. Man alive. Ohkay. That took a lot of effort.
Speaker 3: That was a lot.
Speaker 1: Did not expect that much effort for the first story
Speaker 1: of Safari Kingdom. Well here's a great story also from
Speaker 1: the animal world. Have you seen the video did you
Speaker 1: guys talk about this on Covino and Rich this last
Speaker 1: week of an elephant that has learned how to peel
Speaker 1: a banana? Do you see this one?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yes? So this is wild. You say, how the hell
Speaker 1: could an elephant they don't have hands, How could the
Speaker 1: elephant possibly do this? Well, they learned at the Berlin Zoo.
Speaker 1: We go to Germany, the Berlin Zoo, and an elephant
Speaker 1: there learned how to peel a banana after observing the
Speaker 1: zoo keepers eating the banana. Then most elephants are like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want a banana. I like the whole banana. I'll
Speaker 1: be like the quarterback Will Levis of Kentucky who's going
Speaker 1: to the NFL, who likes eating bananas with the skin
Speaker 1: on it, doesn't mind it, And most elephants are like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to remove the skin. But
Speaker 1: one elephant, the world's smartest elephant at the Berlin Zoo,
Speaker 1: according to a story this week, we came across here
Speaker 1: has somehow learned how to peel a banana, and scientists
Speaker 1: are they're freaking out on this danny because they say
Speaker 1: it shows that the elephant has a whole new level
Speaker 1: that they didn't think the elephant was capable of.
Speaker 4: How does the elephant get the balance to do that?
Speaker 4: Is it step on it with a foot and then
Speaker 4: use its trunk?
Speaker 1: Well, they they use their their tusk, you know, the
Speaker 1: big their tusk. What's the trunk, that's.
Speaker 4: What they use, just the trunk by itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the video, the zoo keeper hands the elephant
Speaker 1: the uh, the the banana, and then they toss it
Speaker 1: down and they're they're able with their their trunk there
Speaker 1: to to peel it back.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild. So that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: What else do we add? Well, if you're in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: I don't think this thing's been caught yet.
Speaker 4: One of our.
Speaker 1: Listeners in Tennessee, Cliff and Nashville. One of the other
Speaker 1: guys that listens in the Tennis state, Tennis. I know
Speaker 1: it's a big state. Did you see there's a kangaroo
Speaker 1: that escaped and is on the loose in Tennessee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a pet kangaroo is on the loose, how do you do?
Speaker 1: And they're asked they're asking for the public's help in
Speaker 1: trying to track down a nine month old kangaroo named
Speaker 1: Bo that escaped from a family home family home. It
Speaker 1: turns out that Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency does not require
Speaker 1: permits for residents in the state of Tennessee to have kangaroos.
Speaker 1: So your buddy Klayt Travis can have a kangaroo if
Speaker 1: he wants. Drum, dumb, drum, there you go, way did
Speaker 1: he go?
Speaker 4: So that means whoever finds it can adopt it.
Speaker 1: They say the kangaroo the what they call them, the
Speaker 1: marisopal is that what they call it marissopole or something
Speaker 1: like that. I think that's the clinical termite. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not a scientist, I can play one. On the podcast,
Speaker 1: they claim that the nine month old kangaroo has not
Speaker 1: been outside very much and it got out because somebody
Speaker 1: left the door open and somebody forgot to close the door,
Speaker 1: so the thing bolted. And uh, we need our guy
Speaker 1: from Australia, from Western Australia to help us out on
Speaker 1: this because he's he's the expert. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: his car was attacked. Remember his car got attacked by
Speaker 1: and he told us the whole story about how kangaroos
Speaker 1: when they see light, instead of freezing like a rabbit,
Speaker 1: they run towards it. They're attracted to it out in
Speaker 1: the backwoods of Australia. So would you want to have
Speaker 1: a pet kangaroo, Danny, If you were allowed to have
Speaker 1: a pet kangaroo, would you would you go down that road?
Speaker 4: I don't think so because all the YouTube videos that
Speaker 4: we've seen they look like they could be some mean
Speaker 4: son of bitches.
Speaker 1: I cannot get over that the photos that Ozzie was
Speaker 1: our buddy from Western Australia sent in because those were
Speaker 1: those were pretty pretty deep, pretty wid That's a lot.
Speaker 1: What else do we have on Safari Kingdom? How about
Speaker 1: this one from the bee world? The bee world, they
Speaker 1: say that male bees where perfume from different flowers to
Speaker 1: try to attract their mates. It's according to new research
Speaker 1: on obviously the bees buzzing around and all that. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you think that you think that
Speaker 1: they do this intentionally or whatever flowers or around them
Speaker 1: is where they go. I'm a little skeptical on this one.
Speaker 4: Well, we got a little bit of a battle because
Speaker 4: on yesterday's podcast to Get Scientifical, you had the report
Speaker 4: about the new perfume that's going to kill insects, perfume
Speaker 4: on perfume Crime right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big weekend for perfume. Are we not on the
Speaker 1: pulse of what the average podcast consumer wants to hear
Speaker 1: hot perfume talk. Yeah, that's just what you want. That's
Speaker 1: just what you want. And we'll do one more and
Speaker 1: then we'll get to the mailbag on the Safari Kingdom.
Speaker 1: So the other story here I wanted to get to.
Speaker 1: If you have a couple of extra bucks and you
Speaker 1: want to own rhinos, good news, Danny, good news. The
Speaker 1: world's largest rhino farm, which is in South Africa, is
Speaker 1: for sale. Minimum bid ten million dollars. With that, you
Speaker 1: get a bunch of rhinos. It requires a private army
Speaker 1: to protect two thousand white rhinos.
Speaker 4: Nice. Yeah, I've had hippos before in my life, but
Speaker 4: never a rhino.
Speaker 1: Well, I was a hungry, hungry hippo when I was
Speaker 1: younger and I was growing up.
Speaker 4: I was a hungry.
Speaker 1: But the rhino horn is, according to the story I
Speaker 1: was reading, is the most valuable thing you have not
Speaker 1: in the most part, but it's more valuable than like
Speaker 1: cocaine or gold.
Speaker 4: This has drug dealer all over it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this place started when the white rhino was
Speaker 1: becoming extinct, and so this is.
Speaker 4: A white rhino.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the white rhino racist. That sounds like a strip club.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I think that's a spearmit rhino. That's
Speaker 1: a different type of So anyway, this guy puts some
Speaker 1: a few rhinos together with his other rich friends, and
Speaker 1: then they kept having babies and little baby rhinos. And
Speaker 1: this is a generation ago and now this thing's gotten
Speaker 1: completely out of control. And the reason the rhinos are
Speaker 1: so valuable is because of the substance on their horns.
Speaker 1: Is it's the same stuff from like your fingernails and
Speaker 1: all that. But in certain cultures, in Asian cultures, it
Speaker 1: is believed that it has magical powers. For example, in Vietnam,
Speaker 1: they ground the herotine from the rhinos, so they grind
Speaker 1: it into a powder and they think it is a
Speaker 1: medicine to fight cancer. That's yeah, and that's that's not
Speaker 1: proven scientifically, but that's what they think. And if people
Speaker 1: think it.
Speaker 4: So they do they poach on them then because they're
Speaker 4: trying to get the medicine.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that was the problem. And so this guy
Speaker 1: who owned all the rhinos, he was like, well, I
Speaker 1: found a way to take the rhino horns off without
Speaker 1: hurting the rhino and then they'll grow back, So why
Speaker 1: don't we do that? But everyone outlawed him from doing it,
Speaker 1: so he couldn't make any money. So the guy's like,
Speaker 1: he's blown his entire fortune. One hundred and forty three
Speaker 1: million dollars. This guy has spent on these rhinos and
Speaker 1: he can't get the money back, and now he's going
Speaker 1: to sell He's in his eighties now, so he's like, ah,
Speaker 1: I'll sell it. I'll get ten million dollars and get
Speaker 1: out of here. In China, they wear the rhino horn
Speaker 1: as on like a bracelet or on certain other items
Speaker 1: to indicate their wealth. It's like a sign of great
Speaker 1: luxury if you have rhino on. How about the fact
Speaker 1: that you need you need an army of people, including helicopter.
Speaker 1: They have a helicopter that keeps track of possible poachers.
Speaker 1: They have all kinds of sensors and all that. Because
Speaker 1: people are wanting to attack the rhinos so often and
Speaker 1: that's nuts.
Speaker 4: Male a lit man. That's crazy. Leave the damn rhinos alone.
Speaker 1: He got ten million, Danny, you can move to South
Speaker 1: African and own two thousand white rhinos that are not
Speaker 1: worth but they're worth a lot, but you can't actually
Speaker 1: sell them.
Speaker 4: So I'm eoe man. I'd have some black rhinos too.
Speaker 3: I hear you.
Speaker 1: I hear you, you'd mixed. Well, what have you put
Speaker 1: a there's a there's a joke there. But I think
Speaker 1: we'll leave it. Let's get to the mail bag. Right now,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 3: It's this mail bag, and.
Speaker 1: Right to it. We start out on the mail bag
Speaker 1: with Neil from the Real Miami. Our buddy Neil. He says,
Speaker 1: not for long, though, guys, in a dramatic fashion. I
Speaker 1: just got an offer on the condo. This is a beautiful,
Speaker 1: picturesque condo. It's in one of those skyscrapers in Miami,
Speaker 1: overlooking the Miami Heat Arena's beautiful luxury. He says, just
Speaker 1: got an offer on this condo. And we are moving,
Speaker 1: changing the scene from the land of Cartoon of TNA
Speaker 1: and Bentley's to Ashville closing May seventeenth, So I have
Speaker 1: to cancel my plans. For the Malor Meet and Greet
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, which was a free trip for me as
Speaker 1: my headquarters are in Minneapolis. He says, that's a bummer. Well, technically,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying here, Neil, that if you close on
Speaker 1: the seventeen, it's conceivable that you could still make it
Speaker 1: on the nineteenth for the twentieth Malard Meet and greet.
Speaker 1: It's still an option. And sometimes these things get delayed
Speaker 1: or they end up closing earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good point. And I could see him
Speaker 4: pulling up with a big U haul truck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bring the family and bring all your crap. And
Speaker 1: I know that that's not exactly the direction you're planning
Speaker 1: on heading. I think when I hear Ashville, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of the Carolinas, Right, it's certainly conceivable. There's I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's more than one one of those locations with that name.
Speaker 4: Let me let me look it up here, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one I've heard of. I haven't heard
Speaker 1: of any other Ashville's, so, but good luck with your
Speaker 1: your movies. Moving is a great opportunity to catch up
Speaker 1: on all the Fifth Hour podcasts that I missed since
Speaker 1: the end of January. But he says, guys, this is
Speaker 1: your show, not mine, the real Neil or soon to
Speaker 1: be just Neil, not from the real Miami, Neil from Ashville.
Speaker 1: He says, here's my question for both of you.
Speaker 3: What is.
Speaker 1: The third place? Your third place? And he says, let
Speaker 1: me explain. Home is your first place. Work is your
Speaker 1: number two. Third place is a place you go to escape,
Speaker 1: and number three is different from everyone everyone else, like
Speaker 1: for example, Gascon would pick the gym casino for your
Speaker 1: crazy dude you interviewed once. Oh that's Scott Parrell. I
Speaker 1: think he's stopped yeah on the bench massage parlor for
Speaker 1: you know who? Well, what about for you? What about
Speaker 1: for you? So is this something you have to do
Speaker 1: a lot? That's my first question. This is something you
Speaker 1: have to regularly do, because my number three is not
Speaker 1: something I do all the time, but I've I enjoyed
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm a big fan. So I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: my number three is either sitting on a beach chair
Speaker 1: looking at the waves on the Mighty Pacific, or what
Speaker 1: I really love to do but I don't get to
Speaker 1: do it more than once a year is go to
Speaker 1: the sequoia A National Park and the giant forest and
Speaker 1: wander around and observe these three thousand year old trees
Speaker 1: and you feel like you're in Jurassic Park. I love it.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. What's your number three?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 4: From his examples, it sounds like something you do every week.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you don't have to spit at my answer,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like, you know, do you go sit
Speaker 4: at the park like you used to do when you
Speaker 4: fed the ducks back in the day, because that probably
Speaker 4: was your third place back then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my third And we're getting into the
Speaker 1: warmer time of the year, so we will be going
Speaker 1: to the beach quite a bit. So I if you
Speaker 1: pin me down for an answer, beach beach.
Speaker 4: Beach, Yeah, where I'm at. We're fifteen minutes away from
Speaker 4: the beach in the summer. Guess I would say that
Speaker 4: would be the third spot too.
Speaker 1: Okay, And Neil also says thank you for red killing
Speaker 1: me with roach Coach Reality on food Trucks, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Guy named Amish writes in he says, originally from the
Speaker 1: five one three, currently living in the six to one four,
Speaker 1: have you guys ever visited my hometown of Cincinnati? Or
Speaker 1: King's Island up north in Mason. That's where Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: grew up.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I've heard DP talk about that before.
Speaker 1: Dan Pew. If you have, did you try Skyline or
Speaker 1: gold Star? Chili Chile is a big deal in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I am pro Skyline over gold Star. So to answer
Speaker 1: your question, I'll go first the Amish. I have not
Speaker 1: technically been in Cincinnati. I have been to the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Kentucky Northern Kentucky NA International Airport, but that is actually
Speaker 1: in Kentucky, so I've changed flights in that airport a
Speaker 1: few times over the years, going to the Northeast when
Speaker 1: the people that were paying for the flight were too
Speaker 1: cheap to buy a direct flight, so I had to
Speaker 1: change flights. So I have stopped in Cincinnati, and it
Speaker 1: is on my list. I would love to do a
Speaker 1: show from Cincinnati, or maybe not do a show, do
Speaker 1: a mallor meet and greet from Cincinnati. We've got Minnesota
Speaker 1: coming up in May May twenty if hopefully going to
Speaker 1: get to Maine later this year, and I'd love to
Speaker 1: get to Cincinnati. The only problem with that, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now, the only problem is that my
Speaker 1: wife would like to go to Europe. She would rather
Speaker 1: go to Europe, and I want to go to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Who do you think is win?
Speaker 4: Danny? Who do you think your wife he's gonna win?
Speaker 1: Probably so? Probably?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Have you ever done any time in Cincinnati? Or excuse me,
Speaker 1: been to Cincinnati, Danny?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't. I would love to see a Reds
Speaker 4: game for whatever reason. My grandfather from San Jose before
Speaker 4: he passed away, when I would visit him in his garage,
Speaker 4: he had a whole bunch of Cincinnati Reds stickers and
Speaker 4: magnets on his refrigerator in his garage, and he told
Speaker 4: me that he was a fan of the Big Red Machine.
Speaker 4: And even though that wasn't his local team, he was
Speaker 4: a fan of that lineup. He loved those guys. So
Speaker 4: that would be cool. And we had Andy Furman or
Speaker 4: was it a listener who sent us Skyline chili in
Speaker 4: the mail?
Speaker 1: Remember Andy Furman?
Speaker 4: Was it Furman that sent it to us?
Speaker 1: He sent a nice gift pack. Two guys is enough.
Speaker 4: For me, that's right? And so we all went home
Speaker 4: and cooked it up. It was It was really good.
Speaker 4: I liked it.
Speaker 1: I did not end up cooking it up. I did
Speaker 1: not have these scyline Chili.
Speaker 4: What'd you do with it?
Speaker 1: I give it to Eddie. Oh, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if Eddie had it. I think he did. I don't
Speaker 1: think he.
Speaker 3: I don't think he liked it. Little taste.
Speaker 1: Lee in Phoenix Rights in thank You for that homish?
Speaker 1: Lee in Phoenix Rights Since says, did you know you're all?
Speaker 1: Do you know all your family's birthdays? Lee says, do
Speaker 1: you know all your family birthdays and anniversaries?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Well, well technically know, Lee. If I didn't have my phone,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know, But everything's in my phone, so I
Speaker 1: look at your phone. That's what we all did. Anyone
Speaker 1: memorize this stuff?
Speaker 4: I know, just like how most of us don't even
Speaker 4: know the phone numbers of our significant others and people
Speaker 4: around us. Like maybe we know one phone number, but
Speaker 4: remember when we were ben when when we were kids,
Speaker 4: we had a whole bunch of phone numbers and addresses
Speaker 4: in our heads all the time. And then once we
Speaker 4: got iPhones, no more, we don't have to memorize shit.
Speaker 1: Remember being a little boy and back in the day
Speaker 1: you just run amuck. And my mom before she let
Speaker 1: me run out, and the Orange Groves in Orange County.
Speaker 1: She's like, all right, you got to memorize my number.
Speaker 1: Repeat my number, repeat my number, repeat my number. And
Speaker 1: to this day the number does not exist anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: sure someone else has that number. They're all gone, my parents,
Speaker 1: but I can still repeat that home phone number, verbatim, verbatim.
Speaker 1: I know everything. That is the number I know, and
Speaker 1: it is tattooed in my brain. Danny, and you're probably
Speaker 1: the same way with the mom's number when you were
Speaker 1: growing up.
Speaker 4: And the whole thing, not just that. I remember the
Speaker 4: address for rialto California as a little kid because they
Speaker 4: made us recite the address. Let me hear the address,
Speaker 4: because they let us wander around the town back then,
Speaker 4: Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and be like, all right, get lost if it
Speaker 1: gets dark and you go to the store and tell
Speaker 1: the personal store your address, and they'll call the police
Speaker 1: and they'll take care and everything will be good there
Speaker 1: and all that. He'll Billy Mike rites into the mailbag.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, big Ben and Danny g we've all
Speaker 1: been forced to see a chick flick from time to time.
Speaker 1: Have either of you found that you really liked one?
Speaker 1: And if so, what was it? Mine was the my
Speaker 1: Big Fat Greek Wedding, which turned out to be pretty funny,
Speaker 1: so funny, we watched the second one, which turned out
Speaker 1: to be even funnier. He says, also, did you admit
Speaker 1: it to your wife or girlfriend at the time, or
Speaker 1: did you keep it to yourself? So most movies these
Speaker 1: days are either action films or chick flicks because Hollywood's
Speaker 1: determined that's the audience they're going for, and women are
Speaker 1: usually the ones that decide what movie people see, and they,
Speaker 1: as a general stereotype, women like chick flicks. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch of chick flicks. I did, like
Speaker 1: my Big Fat Greek wedding. The wind decks just spray
Speaker 1: wind de My wife would say that, I'm like that
Speaker 1: with garlic, Like you know how the guy would spray
Speaker 1: wind decks. Yeah, like, oh you gotta garlic, take garlic,
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. That's my wind decks and all that.
Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch I'm trying to think of off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. There's not one that really
Speaker 1: is popping into my head is like my all time favorite.
Speaker 1: But I can go back to the old days. Sleepless
Speaker 1: in Seattle. That was a chick flick there was. There
Speaker 1: have been a few sports movies that were actually chick
Speaker 1: flicks that were disguised as sports movies, which is a
Speaker 1: few baseball movies with Adam what Not, which is Kevin Coster,
Speaker 1: a few of the Any Danny, you look like you
Speaker 1: have something that you're dying to say. Here a chick flick.
Speaker 3: That you like.
Speaker 4: No, I was thinking about, Well, it's because I was
Speaker 4: thinking about her booty, first of all. But j Lo
Speaker 4: has been in some good chick flicks. I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's because I was attracted to her and so
Speaker 4: she made the movie awesome. She made the movie wonderful.
Speaker 4: But I think I think about that movie made in Manhattan.
Speaker 4: And then there's another movie she's in with Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 4: that I watched with my Wifey not too long ago.
Speaker 4: It's an older movie, but she's about to get hit
Speaker 4: by a dumpster and he saves her and he turns
Speaker 4: out to be a doctor and all this stuff. Now,
Speaker 4: if she's in the storyline, Ben, I can follow along
Speaker 4: with that storyline, even if it's cheesy.
Speaker 1: I got one pretty woman, right.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's a classic.
Speaker 1: That's a chick flick right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that movie made it okay to be a prostitute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Kim Kardashian made it okay to be
Speaker 1: a porn star, and that movie made it okay to
Speaker 1: be just an old fashioned prostitute. Next up on the mailbag,
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Okase, He says, Hey, guys, how's it going.
Speaker 1: My question is is there a word or adjective that
Speaker 1: your wife used is constantly or even you use constantly
Speaker 1: like my wife is used using that's wild in like
Speaker 1: every other sentence that drives me nuts. Kyrie says, I
Speaker 1: believe she got it from you. Big Ben oh As
Speaker 1: always thinks for everything you do. So anything that your
Speaker 1: wife says repeatedly that gets under your skin, there, Danny,
Speaker 1: that is a what do they call it? A what's
Speaker 1: the term? I forget the term. There's a there's a
Speaker 1: clinical term for it when you keep repeating certain things.
Speaker 1: We know from working in radio that in the old days,
Speaker 1: we used to meet with program directors and they would say,
Speaker 1: they would nitpick. You know, you're using that word too much.
Speaker 1: You got to come up with it.
Speaker 4: They called it. They called it your crutch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, crutch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, word crutches, and so we're very aware of our
Speaker 4: own crutches. But uh my girl, you know what I've noticed,
Speaker 4: and I try not to mimic it. I do my best.
Speaker 4: She'll say and like and like, just like your usual
Speaker 4: southern California girl who lives near the beach. And then
Speaker 4: he was like, and I was like, and I was
Speaker 4: all and.
Speaker 3: He was all.
Speaker 4: And when somebody says that a lot around you, you
Speaker 4: start saying it too. So I'm guilty of it as
Speaker 4: well to I try to knock it off when I
Speaker 4: notice it, though.
Speaker 1: I'm the same way, and typically at the end of
Speaker 1: the week, as I'm trying to forget everything that happened
Speaker 1: on the show, but I will go back and in
Speaker 1: my head, I'm going to try to process did I
Speaker 1: fall into certain traps where I say the same.
Speaker 3: Word over and over again?
Speaker 1: And there are certain transition words that I will end
Speaker 1: up using that I realized I use them way too much,
Speaker 1: and so I've tried to enhance my lexicon. It's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that I'm always attempting to add new
Speaker 1: words and unlock different parts of the language so I
Speaker 1: can keep it fresh, because I do not want to
Speaker 1: just have everything go stale, so I do attempt to
Speaker 1: add different words, and some of them stick, like hullabaloo,
Speaker 1: that's an example, or orange swaggle, things like that bya
Speaker 1: being by the boom, which I stole from Tony Soprano.
Speaker 1: Little things that you add to keep it fresh. But
Speaker 1: there are those difficult points where you realize that you
Speaker 1: have said the same word every show for the last
Speaker 1: week in a certain context. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: As far as my wife is concerned, she's been pretty
Speaker 1: good about changing up. Every once in a while, she'll
Speaker 1: fall into a trap. We all do, and sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: point it out, but often I won't because I do
Speaker 1: not want to start a fight. Danny and I try to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like how you never tell a woman during
Speaker 4: an argument to calm down.
Speaker 1: That is an escalator, that is pouring gasoline on a
Speaker 1: little ember, is what that is? That does not go well?
Speaker 1: Thanks Kyrie Terry in England, right since says, will you
Speaker 1: tell the story of why you had to stop attacking
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball? Did Scott call you during the day?
Speaker 1: Terry from England?
Speaker 4: Terry, I feel like bet is it because the Angels
Speaker 4: gave you a backstage pass and now you've made amends
Speaker 4: with Baseball.
Speaker 1: No, no, I can't tell the whole story until the
Speaker 1: company fires me again, and then I'll tell the whole story.
Speaker 1: So I will not do that right now. Here's what
Speaker 1: I will say, Terry. I got in the cross hairs
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. Some of the people at Baseball
Speaker 1: were monitoring our show, and they were a little upset
Speaker 1: with my constant barrage of attacks on the in Houston.
Speaker 1: They did not appreciate some of my commentary. They felt
Speaker 1: that I had crossed a line. They were in the process,
Speaker 1: major League Baseball of trying to run interference for the Astros,
Speaker 1: and I was someone in the media that was not
Speaker 1: playing along and I stepped on some toes there. And
Speaker 1: this is based on what I've heard. I don't know
Speaker 1: all the exact details, but it does appear that my
Speaker 1: commentary reached certain levels that it does not normally reach. Danny,
Speaker 1: and they decided to make some phone calls, and so
Speaker 1: I was called into the principal's office.
Speaker 4: Damn, you are enemy number one.
Speaker 1: Which to me tells me that I was on the
Speaker 1: right side of history that they were. If a multi
Speaker 1: billion dollar corporation is trying to stop the message from
Speaker 1: getting out. That tells me that message needs to get out.
Speaker 1: But no, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong on that, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: Maybe did you like the tweets from Evan Gaddis?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Those are They're so powerful. Now, this is such
Speaker 1: an easy thing for these people that were part of
Speaker 1: the Astros. They're so they don't even realize they're disgraceful, pathetic,
Speaker 1: and everyone thinks this is cringeworthy. They're just like openly
Speaker 1: talking about it. They're not even afraid of anything because
Speaker 1: they know the Asstros. They have a guardian angel at
Speaker 1: the league office, a bodyguard, and they'll protect them. They
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want. They will never drown. There's
Speaker 1: always a lifeguard on duty.
Speaker 4: Screw those dudes.
Speaker 1: Alf the Alien, Opina writes in from the parking lot
Speaker 1: of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Ben, have you or
Speaker 1: would you ever consider adding a fun fact segment to
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast, possibly devoting an entire episode to
Speaker 1: fun facts. You could broadcast nine days a week. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Danny and missus Mallard would be all for it,
Speaker 1: unless they're not, He says, fun fact, I have never
Speaker 1: been to any of the three incarnations of the Basketball
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame that have existed in my lifetime. The
Speaker 1: closest I've come was two weeks ago when I took
Speaker 1: my wife for her birthday with my kids to a
Speaker 1: restaurant in the building that houses the shrine the Muffett McGraw.
Speaker 1: And he then sends a photo here says, see below
Speaker 1: a thirty five dollars drink that his wife shows for
Speaker 1: herself that came in a mini bathtub with four straws.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So he lives right down the street from the Pro
Speaker 1: Basketball Fame. Never been there. I have only been to
Speaker 1: one of the big museums the Hall of Fames, and
Speaker 1: that was the Hall of Champions, the NCAA Hall of
Speaker 1: Champions in Indianapolis. And it was such a terrible museum.
Speaker 1: I no longer want to go to any other musicians.
Speaker 1: It was terrible. It was just they were trying to
Speaker 1: be politically correct, Danny. But I'm there to see the
Speaker 1: basketball in the football I'm not there to see the
Speaker 1: rowing people. I don't care about the softball team. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: not sorry.
Speaker 4: What about Canton? Would you want to go to the
Speaker 4: football Hall of Fame?
Speaker 1: I don't know, like if your team.
Speaker 4: Was playing in the Hall of Fame game, you could
Speaker 4: double dip.
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't even like the Hall I'm so jaded these days.
Speaker 1: I don't even like the Hall of Fame game anymore.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story though. Years ago, I was
Speaker 1: driving from Buffalo back down to New York City. So
Speaker 1: I was driving through the middle of New York with
Speaker 1: my brother on the expressway there in New York, and
Speaker 1: there was a trip that we could have made to Cooperstown.
Speaker 1: I love baseball Cooperstown, New York. But it would have
Speaker 1: added in extra a couple of hours to the trip.
Speaker 1: I said, no, uh, he should have did it.
Speaker 4: You only get one shot, Like Eminem says.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I do like the presidential museums. I've been to a
Speaker 1: few of those, and I've been to three presidential museums,
Speaker 1: and those are kind of cool because they're interactive and
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed I've enjoyed those. Next up, we have Mike
Speaker 1: and Fullerton, he says, Ben and Danny g with all
Speaker 1: the Laker fans realizing they have no hope in the
Speaker 1: playoffs after barely squeaking by the shorthanded Timberwolves in the
Speaker 1: dopey playing games. I would like to do Danny G
Speaker 1: a favor by inviting him to hop onto the bandwagon
Speaker 1: for a team set for a title run, the people's team,
Speaker 1: the Clippers. There's room on the bandwagon for now, but
Speaker 1: it is filling up fast. Don't get left behind, Danny
Speaker 1: G Radio.
Speaker 4: He makes a good point, because the Clippers have an
Speaker 4: extraordinary history in the playoffs. I'd be a fool not
Speaker 4: to join your bandwagon.
Speaker 1: The street tells you what has happened, not what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. What is still wrong with the Clippers. And
Speaker 1: if history was the indicator, the Lakers would not be
Speaker 1: in the playing tournament the.
Speaker 4: Player and if I listened to you, they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: in the playoffs or playing or anything near it.
Speaker 1: How was I supposed to realize that the NBA would
Speaker 1: put the officials on the test.
Speaker 4: So there's always an excuse and a reason if they
Speaker 4: win anything, it's never going to change. So I get it.
Speaker 4: I get your storyline.
Speaker 1: Number one, It's not an excuse of its reality.
Speaker 4: So if the Wolves had pulled off that game, they
Speaker 4: missed all those shots at the end of the game
Speaker 4: they needed to make to put the Lakers away. They
Speaker 4: couldn't hit their shots there at the end of the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, but if they had, then you still would
Speaker 4: be talking about how the refs were on the Lakers' payroll.
Speaker 1: Second point I would like to make here, dude, it officiating,
Speaker 1: and that the purpose of officiating is not to have
Speaker 1: lopsided games. You want, ultimately the game to be decided
Speaker 1: by the players on the field.
Speaker 4: Or the court.
Speaker 1: And if you sway it one way, and if you
Speaker 1: give a huge advantage to one team over the other,
Speaker 1: you then have taken that away from the players and
Speaker 1: you're now influencing the outcome of an event. And that's
Speaker 1: what's been going on in the NBA for years. And
Speaker 1: if I was a Laker historian, I would not admit.
Speaker 3: To it either.
Speaker 1: I would be like, oh, you're just a conspiracy guy
Speaker 1: and all that. I was texting a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: who's a historian, and he's like, well, you probably think
Speaker 1: that the Earth is flat. You're like Kyrie, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: of course you would say that, Because if I was
Speaker 1: the beneficiary of this kind of scam, I would not
Speaker 1: want anyone to out the scam. I get it, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 4: Enjoy. Kevin Durant enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I will enjoy when he gets hurt. Maybe he's already.
Speaker 4: Heard join Paul George on the bench.
Speaker 1: Mike said, please keep giving fun facts during Eddie's updates.
Speaker 1: The Bennetts might hate fun facts, but the listeners don't.
Speaker 1: It's my way of dressing up, touching up Eddie's work.
Speaker 1: That's my way, my homage to help Eddie out, because
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes Eddie just does the same exact update
Speaker 1: every hour, so I like to dress it up and
Speaker 1: add some fun facts. Clayton from Dodge City, Kansas rites
Speaker 1: in Clayton must be the reason when I do those
Speaker 1: Draftking commercials I have to give Kansas the casino in
Speaker 1: Kansas a plug. It's because of Clayton, must be. He says,
Speaker 1: have you ever hunted chinchillas? You ever hunted a chinchilla?
Speaker 1: That's I think a rodent. Isn't a chinchilla a rodent?
Speaker 4: I remember seeing a chininchilla coat on a movie. I've
Speaker 4: never actually seen a chinchilla in life, or even touched
Speaker 4: a chinchilla coat before of you.
Speaker 1: No, I have seen New York City subway rats, which
Speaker 1: I consider chinchillas the version of the chinchilla, because they're
Speaker 1: just rodents. They're part of the rodent family. You've seen one,
Speaker 1: you've seen them most.
Speaker 4: They have fancy fur, right.
Speaker 1: Supposedly, I've never hunted chinchillas. Are those big in Kansas?
Speaker 1: Or chinchilla is very popular in Kansas?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking. I'm looking at one right now. Wow,
Speaker 4: those are some. They're ugly and cute at the same time.
Speaker 4: That's that's impressive.
Speaker 1: So they've crossed the rubicon at some point. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: ugly you become cute.
Speaker 4: Well, they're no. The nice fur is what makes them
Speaker 4: look kind of like a like a fluffy cat. Let's say.
Speaker 4: They're slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels. And
Speaker 4: they're native to South America.
Speaker 1: Some chinchilla fun facts. They can live up to up
Speaker 1: to twenty years as pets, but they need special care supposedly,
Speaker 1: and and they have the densest fur, as you said,
Speaker 1: of any land mammal, eighty hairs per follicle. So that's exciting.
Speaker 4: The fur trade for them goes back to the sixteenth century.
Speaker 4: It's popular due to its extremely soft feel, which is
Speaker 4: caused by the sprouting of sixty hairs on average from
Speaker 4: each hair follicle. The color is usually very even, which
Speaker 4: makes it ideal for small garments or the lining of
Speaker 4: larger ones. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Do we own stuff or do our wives own stuff
Speaker 1: with chinchilla fur? Probably so?
Speaker 4: I thinks I don't know. My girl's wearing a hoodie
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, well she's the ultimate excuse. She's got the trump out.
Speaker 3: What do you want? What do you expect?
Speaker 1: Daring? A living being? These things? They live in colony,
Speaker 1: up to one hundred individuals communicating. They squeak, bark and grunt.
Speaker 1: Oh wasn't that nice? Interesting anymore? Chinchilla fun facts? You
Speaker 1: want to shore?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they clean their fur by taking dust bats o' fun.
Speaker 1: In fact, they're active at dawn and dusk. They like
Speaker 1: it cool and dark, So do I cool and dark?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: They can sleep for long periods of time. They must
Speaker 4: listen to your live show.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I think we're good on chinchilla fun facts. We will
Speaker 1: move on. Thank you for that. Clayton Nick and Wisconsin
Speaker 1: right senceays Moneyball Mallard and Daddy G. Besides Earth, which
Speaker 1: planet in our solar system do you think would be
Speaker 1: where you would want to live if all planets were inhabitable.
Speaker 1: So this is not a planet. But at night when
Speaker 1: I look up at the Moon, I'm like, why don't we.
Speaker 3: Just go there?
Speaker 1: Why don't we live on the moon. It'd be fun.
Speaker 1: We can live on the Moon and then every night
Speaker 1: people on Earth would look up and they'd look at us.
Speaker 1: Be fun.
Speaker 4: I mean, the coolest looking planet, of course, is Saturn.
Speaker 4: And my aunt, who worked for NASA for over forty years,
Speaker 4: she used to send me the coolest pictures that they
Speaker 4: took from space of Saturn, and I'm interested in that.
Speaker 4: I was always interested in that planet ben from the pictures.
Speaker 4: But that would be really cool to like look out
Speaker 4: and see the ring around your planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have read some stuff over the years, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is real or bullshit. That
Speaker 1: like on Jupiter, they think some of the moons on
Speaker 1: Jupiter may actually allow that at some point, they might
Speaker 1: have allowed people creatures to live on them. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jupiter is pretty far away though.
Speaker 4: It says Jupiter is the beast to Saturn's beauty.
Speaker 1: Beauty and the beast. What about Pluto's little pebble, Pluto's
Speaker 1: the one that was a planet then wasn't a planet
Speaker 1: and then became a planet again, and wasn't Who's somebody
Speaker 1: was it Clayton Kershaw's grandfather or something like that was
Speaker 1: involved with Pluto? Right, wasn't that the story helped name
Speaker 1: Pluto or something?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that rings a bell. Jupiter takes its role as
Speaker 4: a gas giant very seriously. The behemoth is the biggest
Speaker 4: planet in the Solar system. Did you know that about Jupiter?
Speaker 1: I did not know that girls go.
Speaker 4: To Jupiter to get more stupider.
Speaker 1: Here it is. I was not wrong fighting Kershaw. Dodger Pitcher,
Speaker 1: his uncle, not his father or grandfather. His uncle, Clyde Tombao,
Speaker 1: discovered Pluto in nineteen thirty. Fun fact, daring, that's not
Speaker 1: my favorite kush Off fun factor. We talked about my
Speaker 1: favorite kershoffre jingles. So from the Solar system to the
Speaker 1: radio system. Yeah, Clayton Kershaw his father who worked in
Speaker 1: radio as a jingle singer in Dallas at the Great
Speaker 1: Jingle House in Dallas where we love jingles and his
Speaker 1: father saying those jingles back back in the day. One
Speaker 1: of the more successful sons of a radio person.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I was the guy that used to be our morning
Speaker 1: guy at Fox before Mark Patrick Mark Patrick on Sports
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis. His son became a closer for the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: And that's a fun story we've talked about years ago
Speaker 1: when Mark was working. I was doing the Overnight show
Speaker 1: and Mark was doing the morning show and he was
Speaker 1: in Indiana. I was in LA But we would correspond
Speaker 1: via email and his kid was in high school and
Speaker 1: was debate whether he was kind of letting me he
Speaker 1: was sharing his kid's story. His kid is a guy
Speaker 1: named Drew Storin who was a closer for the Washington
Speaker 1: Nationals and pitched for a couple of other teams. But
Speaker 1: he shared it so he's like, well, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about going to college, but he might go to the
Speaker 1: Gun He's gonna get drafted. And then he ended up
Speaker 1: going to college and eventually it was it was really
Speaker 1: cool following his career and I got to meet Drew
Speaker 1: when he came into Dodger Stadium with the Nationals and
Speaker 1: he had some big years and kind of flamed out.
Speaker 1: But he's the son of a radio guy. And there
Speaker 1: was a player for the Padres. Remember there was a
Speaker 1: writer named Ross Newhan for the La Times. Baseball writer.
Speaker 1: His son, David Newhan was like a fringe utility major
Speaker 1: League baseball player.
Speaker 4: So there's that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, look at the clock here.
Speaker 4: Oh, because we did Animal Kingdom and then the mail bag,
Speaker 4: it was a bonus Sunday.
Speaker 1: Can we do rapid fire real quick? We're one thought
Speaker 1: on these Yeah, yes, rapid fire. Let's go er mailbag.
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin is moneyball Mallard Daddy G. Besides Earth,
Speaker 1: which planet? We already did that? One bad job by me?
Speaker 1: Fred in Spring Texas, he says, sounds so flustered. I
Speaker 1: was so taken back by this rapid fire exactly. FREDA,
Speaker 1: don't buck fredit, Spring Texas, says Ben. Does your wife
Speaker 1: have any funny stories from her job as a nine
Speaker 1: one one operator? Yes, yes, we have a lot in common, Fred, Well,
Speaker 1: nine one one operators deal with the worst, the worst
Speaker 1: that call up people are dying and stuff. A lot
Speaker 1: of their job is alcoholics and drunks that call up
Speaker 1: that just needs somebody to talk to, much like my job.
Speaker 1: So we have that in common. We have that in common.
Speaker 1: Scott from Maine says Ben and Danny G. Do you
Speaker 1: guys like baseball analytics? No, No, too much, too much,
Speaker 1: analytics that I do not. It was fine, It's fine
Speaker 1: in a little bit, little bits, but too much moderation
Speaker 1: is the key with analytics.
Speaker 4: I would like it to be thirty percent of the game.
Speaker 4: Seventy percent should be your gut in your brain.
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly exactly, and we'll just get out on this
Speaker 1: last one. From Mike in Minnesota, he says, Benny, any
Speaker 1: update if you haven't given it yet this weekend? Any
Speaker 1: update on the venue for the Minnesota meet and greet? Mike, No, No, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: no update. My friend Regina is working on that, along
Speaker 1: with a couple other listeners that have gone out looking
Speaker 1: at places. There is one local pub guy runs a
Speaker 1: bar in Minnesota who says that he's interested in hosting
Speaker 1: the event. So I've i gotta sell this, Danny. We're
Speaker 1: getting close to a month out, so I believe by April.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set to date April twenty fifth. If we
Speaker 1: don't have a venue by April twenty fifth, I will
Speaker 1: then take over the full pursuit and we will have
Speaker 1: a venue by May first, and otherwise we can't do it.
Speaker 1: So I will have a venue selected by May first,
Speaker 1: but we at this point sitting here in mid April.
Speaker 1: We do not have something yet lockdown on this podcast.
Speaker 4: Today we found out that a killer backup plan is
Speaker 4: the back of Neil's U haul truck.
Speaker 1: Yes, Neil from Miami who's leaving and moving to Asheville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, will be taking all of his family that
Speaker 1: live with him in Miami and will be taking them
Speaker 1: to Minnesota. They don't know this yet, and they'll be
Speaker 1: hanging out with hollering James and Hayes and all the
Speaker 1: other friends. Doc Mike's gonna be there. Quite the scene
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This is gonna be the party of the year,
Speaker 1: the social event of the year in Minnesota. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing. We'll get out. Thank you, Daddy, great job
Speaker 1: as we thank you for listening. Appreciate that. I'll be
Speaker 1: back on the radio tonight. I should be back unless
Speaker 1: unless something happens that will allow me not to be back.
Speaker 1: There is this possibility I might not beyond tonight.
Speaker 4: Uh uh oh, MLB getting in the way again.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, there's there's one thing I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for. It's a yellow light. Most likely I'll be
Speaker 1: on tonight, possibly from a different location than the normal location,
Speaker 1: but otherwise I'll be back tomorrow and anything you want
Speaker 1: to promote.
Speaker 4: Danny, no, nothing right now, support Covino and rich On Monday.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a rare and appropriate day off
Speaker 4: for me as I take care of the WiFi and
Speaker 4: a doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Have a great rest of what is your weekend?
Speaker 1: If you're listening to us on Sunday, and if not,
Speaker 1: whenever you listen, have a great day.
Speaker 4: Asta pasta, got a murder. I gotta go.