Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's a 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, and a happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: It is on like Donkey Kong, just hours from now.
Speaker 1: It is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mallor and
Speaker 1: Danny g on location, on location, from a very secret
Speaker 1: location in the bowels of a hotel in downtown Kansas City.
Speaker 1: It is the Fifth Hour, and Danny, you are not
Speaker 1: not here, but in spirit you are here. As today
Speaker 1: it is green Light Go. We talked about a lot
Speaker 1: yesterday on the podcast, and I've been trying to promote
Speaker 1: the heck out of this. The Maelor Meet and Greet
Speaker 1: at the Landing. I guess you could say I have
Speaker 1: landed at the landing. Well not yet. I'll be there
Speaker 1: later today at two o'clock local time here in Kansas City. Obviously,
Speaker 1: what doesn't matter if it's three o'clock in the east.
Speaker 1: But we're in Kansas City. So fired up, Danny, big Malar,
Speaker 1: meet and greet today. A lot of schmooze time, good
Speaker 1: schmoozing on the horizon today, So I'm excited about that
Speaker 1: and really fired. I'm gonna have the Ben Maller chicken fingers.
Speaker 1: Had a little barbecue last night. We'll have the chicken
Speaker 1: fingers today and then probably just fall asleep right after
Speaker 1: because I can get up ridiculously early for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: game tomorrow against the Broncos. But I'm looking forward. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be just a whirlwind weekend here, Danny Whirlwind.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing for you that Mahomes has very
Speaker 3: flexible ankles and hips, because otherwise you would have been
Speaker 3: walking right into a funeral.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I realized that. And if you could have
Speaker 1: heard the amount of profanity on Monday night that I
Speaker 1: was saying when Mahomes was getting helped off the field
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, I'm like, oh, come on, you got
Speaker 1: to be joking, right, I mean, here I am. You
Speaker 1: know it's my one trip to Arrowhead. You know, I
Speaker 1: know you're a Raiders fan Danny and this is enemy
Speaker 1: territory and I get that and I respect that, But
Speaker 1: for me, it's like, hey, I'm excited to go to
Speaker 1: Kansas City experience. I've heard the tailgating is amazing at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead and all that has to offer. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to see Mahomes. This is the new dynasty in the NFL. Right,
Speaker 1: you had Brady and the Patriots. Now you got Mahomes
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. I'm like, ah, here's my chance, here's
Speaker 1: my shot. And I see him hobbling off the field
Speaker 1: on Monday night, I'm like, if this f that, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I mean, I'm going nuts. And then
Speaker 1: it turns out he was fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we've seen people in the past with pictures
Speaker 3: of Patrick with his shirt off and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and people have put that picture out there on social
Speaker 3: media making fun of his quote unquote dad Bod. But
Speaker 3: that was very much dad Bod power, because you ain't
Speaker 3: flexible if you're DK Metcalf and you're all cut up,
Speaker 3: like you had an allergic reaction to something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I mean it was it was nuts
Speaker 1: because I watching him was like, Wow, he's I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch Carson Wentz. I'm flying to Kansas City to watch
Speaker 1: Carson Chiefs And I was like, I don't who wants that.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants that. I saw him with the Rams last year.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a backup, That's what he is. He's
Speaker 1: a backup at this point. So anyway, he will be playing,
Speaker 1: and as far as I know, everyone will be there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If you know my friend Tabo Swift,
Speaker 1: you know we're friends unless we're not. Ah, you are
Speaker 1: a sexy lady. I don't know if she'll be Who knows,
Speaker 1: who cares. I'm gonna have a good time and I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to meeting everyone today again two o'clock till
Speaker 1: four o'clock over at the Landing in Liberty. I'll be
Speaker 1: heading over there. My friend Bob Fesco from ninety six
Speaker 1: point five to the Fan will be there and exciting news.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: Unlike every other Malard meet and greet. To my knowledge,
Speaker 1: I don't remember ever giving anything away, but I am
Speaker 1: told from sources close to the situation that the promotions
Speaker 1: department at ninety six point five the Fan here in
Speaker 1: Kansas City has provided a handful of merch some t
Speaker 1: shirts and way, wow, let's go. We will have some
Speaker 1: merch from the station here in Kansas City. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that and hopefully j T will make it.
Speaker 1: JT the Wingman's said he'll be here. I've had RSVPs.
Speaker 1: I said this yesterday, and I always repeat this caveat
Speaker 1: people say hey, I'm going to be there, and then
Speaker 1: like life gets in the way, right, life gets in
Speaker 1: the way, they don't end up doing it. But I've
Speaker 1: had people from Iowa, from Texas, all over parts of
Speaker 1: Missouri and Kansas, which is right across the way here,
Speaker 1: who have said their planning and coming out. So we'll
Speaker 1: see who shows up. But either way, as always is
Speaker 1: to be great. The people at the landing have been
Speaker 1: so wonderful over the years. And this is two different
Speaker 1: restaurants this family has owned in Kansas City, and they've
Speaker 1: had the Mallard chicken fingers on the menu at both establishments,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's pretty cool. So that's what's going
Speaker 1: on today, and then you know, at some point, I
Speaker 1: do think I have to sleep, Danny. I didn't sleep
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I didn't sleep on Friday because I did
Speaker 1: the overnight show. I did the podcast and then I
Speaker 1: had to run to the airport to fly here. Not
Speaker 1: that I'm complaining. It just sounds like I'm complaining. It
Speaker 1: just sounds like, but I'm not really complaining. These are
Speaker 1: good problems to have, right, There were much worse problems,
Speaker 1: and we had a rough week, Danny, Right with some
Speaker 1: friends of ours, you know, unfortunately lost their job or
Speaker 1: whatnot this week, and so that that was always tough.
Speaker 1: So it's a good problem to have. I'm not complaining.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I'm going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were a lot of November layoffs, unfortunately in
Speaker 3: our business, and it posed the question I saw on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked because they work for one of the major
Speaker 3: broadcast companies, and they said, would you rather be laid
Speaker 3: off before Christmas or after Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've actually thought about this because I got laid off
Speaker 1: after Christmas. I got laid off on January twentieth of nine,
Speaker 1: was when I met my maker in radio the last time.
Speaker 1: The last time I met my maker, which is has
Speaker 1: been fifteen years almost. But I've determined after a minutes
Speaker 1: long mallor investigation, Danny, there is no good time to
Speaker 1: get let go. No, no, there's no I mean, whether
Speaker 1: it's before Christmas or after Christmas. If you love your
Speaker 1: job and you think you're doing a good job and
Speaker 1: you're helping the company out and you're earning your money,
Speaker 1: there is no good time to be like, oh, and
Speaker 1: I you know, it was a weird week because, as
Speaker 1: you said, a lot of people in our industry lost
Speaker 1: their job this week. And I sleep during the day
Speaker 1: as you know, you know, you work the shift, and
Speaker 1: so I wake up too, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: did somebody in my family die or something like that.
Speaker 1: It was my phone was just filled with with text
Speaker 1: messages from from my friends in radio, like hey, did
Speaker 1: you hear this guy lost their job? Or that you
Speaker 1: know that woman over there he's gone, And so it was, uh,
Speaker 1: is not what you want to wake up to. But
Speaker 1: it's nobody died. As far as I know, nobody died.
Speaker 1: They let's you know, work somewhere else, or we get
Speaker 1: podcast jobs, which is normally what happens right when you
Speaker 1: leave radio, you just move into the podcast space, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you do. But we're doing both, right.
Speaker 1: We got the podcast and the radio, so we've got
Speaker 1: the best of both worlds right here. Yeah, So when
Speaker 1: we get whacked. They'll say, but you're still going to
Speaker 1: be on your podcast. Yeah, I say, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: as long as you're paying the full amount, I will
Speaker 1: be more than happy to the podcast. No, no questions asked,
Speaker 1: no questions asked. So this past week, you know, we're
Speaker 1: hanging out. We're excited about to meet and read. But
Speaker 1: this past week hanging out. On Saturday, I had a
Speaker 1: very full day, a very full day, a lot lot
Speaker 1: going on. I had to do some things with the
Speaker 1: wife in the morning. We're driving all over the place,
Speaker 1: and then we were going to go play miniature golf.
Speaker 1: On Saturday. I had not seen my cousin. She's been
Speaker 1: sick for a while. She had some medical stuff, but
Speaker 1: she's feeling better now. She was like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: she lives in one of the few cousins I have
Speaker 1: in the area. Pretty Much everyone in my family, my
Speaker 1: side of the family, has just relocated, either they've died
Speaker 1: or they've relocated far away from California. So my cousin,
Speaker 1: she said, she was feeling better. She's got two little
Speaker 1: kids who even though we're cousins, the little kids call
Speaker 1: me Uncle Benny, which is I get a kick out
Speaker 1: I'm uncle Benny, even though I'm not not their uncle,
Speaker 1: but when you're a little kid, everyone is older is
Speaker 1: like an uncle. So we were going to go play
Speaker 1: miniature golf and we had a very very rare and
Speaker 1: inappropriate spat of rain. It wasn't really rain, it was
Speaker 1: more like it was like a drizzle type situation. You know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't much, but it was enough where of course
Speaker 1: the people didn't want to go miniature golfing because that's
Speaker 1: outside and God forbid you standing in a little moisture.
Speaker 1: And so we decided to change it up and we
Speaker 1: went to the place right next door to the fund Zone,
Speaker 1: which was a bowling alley. I have not been bowling
Speaker 1: in at least ten years, and it was on. It
Speaker 1: was on Benny the bowler returned and I used to
Speaker 1: love bowling back in the desk. Number one participation sport
Speaker 1: in America, and I had not been in a bowling alley,
Speaker 1: Danny you forever. And I walked into place was packed
Speaker 1: people having a great time drinking beer and you know,
Speaker 1: eating nachos and just wonderful, great energy in the bowling alley,
Speaker 1: and it's like, this is the perfect sport. You sit
Speaker 1: around most of the time. You eat, you drink, and
Speaker 1: then every once in a while you go and your
Speaker 1: fut's around with the ball and you and you roll
Speaker 1: the ball down. But it was so embarrassing. So I
Speaker 1: had my my my sister in law was there, my cousin,
Speaker 1: and all the little kids that are in my circle, right,
Speaker 1: all the little kids and talking like from age like
Speaker 1: four or five to like nine tennish in that area.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of kids. Actually there's one a couple
Speaker 1: of years older, like twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 3: Orders.
Speaker 1: So we're all there and I come out, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm mister sports guy. You know, I'm you know, a
Speaker 1: sports radio guy, and I grab that bowling ball and
Speaker 1: I go down there and right in the gutter. Uh
Speaker 1: and uh So then I get, you know, the ball
Speaker 1: comes back and I'm I go and right in the
Speaker 1: gutter again, and the kids are mocking me. The kids
Speaker 1: are like, oh yeah, what happened? You know, everyone's mocking me.
Speaker 1: Uh and so. But eventually it was about halfway through
Speaker 1: the round that I figured out I remembered just muscle memory, Danny,
Speaker 1: it's muscle memory with this, like you I didn't bold
Speaker 1: and so long it was a disaster at first. It
Speaker 1: was so embarrassing.
Speaker 3: I thought I was going to ask you at first,
Speaker 3: because that's a really bad game to be cold with,
Speaker 3: to have not practiced in a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was embarrassing. And it was even more embarrassing when,
Speaker 1: like the little kids now, they did cheat. They use
Speaker 1: they had the bumpers, which I'm not gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. At one point it was
Speaker 1: so bad, they the people I was with, mocked me
Speaker 1: and turned on the bumper. They turned on the little
Speaker 1: bumpers so the ball wouldn't go in the gutter. I
Speaker 1: am such a radio loser. Yeah. The kids were actually
Speaker 1: doing better than I was, and they were like kind
Speaker 1: of giving me the side eye. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: You know, you're old, You're an old, old loser, and
Speaker 1: uh you know, look at us, you know we're little kids,
Speaker 1: and uh so it was so funny. I love I
Speaker 1: love the little ones, little munchkins, because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting with the adults and you know they're boring, So
Speaker 1: I go hang out with the kiddos. Right, and my
Speaker 1: my niece, she says, you're not allowed to be over here. Uncle, Benny,
Speaker 1: you're old, you know you gotta go hang up. So
Speaker 1: she kicked me out, and I'm like, crap. So I
Speaker 1: had to do the walk across to the other side.
Speaker 1: And but it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I had a great time. And I plan on. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm I'm really getting old now, Danny. I plan
Speaker 1: on bowling semi regularly. That's that's the goal. It's not
Speaker 1: that expensive. It's fun. And it's not that you get
Speaker 1: any exercise, because you don't. There's no exercise. You just
Speaker 1: take a couple of steps and fling the ball. But
Speaker 1: it's it's great. And maybe I'll just like buy a
Speaker 1: bowling shirt. That's like the next thing after you get
Speaker 1: into bowling. You have to have like a bowling shirt
Speaker 1: and buy your own bowling shoes and all that and
Speaker 1: that how that works.
Speaker 3: I think, Wow, I just pictured you as Uncle Buck
Speaker 3: pretty much.
Speaker 1: I'm head in that direction at this point in my life.
Speaker 1: I am absolutely hitting that direction. So I I had
Speaker 1: a great time. It's now my concern. I was saying
Speaker 1: about this as I was I was coming into the
Speaker 1: studio the other night. When I when I went in,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about my weekend you know. And I
Speaker 1: was trying to process what I wanted to share with
Speaker 1: you the listener here on the podcast, and and I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: is that just because I hadn't been bowling a long
Speaker 1: time that I liked the bowling, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Or is it do I did I genuinely like the bowling?
Speaker 1: Or was it just a product of the fact that
Speaker 1: I hadn't done it? So it was kind of different,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: One of those things, Now, are you better at ax
Speaker 3: throwing or bowling?
Speaker 1: How dare you listen? That was? That was bull crap
Speaker 1: video that you saw of the act throwing and the
Speaker 1: real ones that were there that they did not try
Speaker 1: to sabotage me. No, that by the end of that
Speaker 1: night at the Mermaid, I was pretty good. I was
Speaker 1: pretty good at throwing axes. And I'm like a Paul
Speaker 1: Bunyan type axe thrower at this particular point, I am.
Speaker 1: And if that ever, you know, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen today, Dan, we're here in Kansas City for
Speaker 1: the Mala meat greed. I don't think they have axe
Speaker 1: throwing at the landing, and I don't know, maybe they do,
Speaker 1: probably not but if there's any kind of nonsense here,
Speaker 1: there will be anarchy, Danny, but not that kind of anarchy,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you better take everybody's cell phones away, like Derek Cheeter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'll have a little with your basket when
Speaker 1: you come into the landing today, Like put your phone
Speaker 1: right there and zip it. It'll be like a like
Speaker 1: a Diddy party, right, No party, like a Diddy parties.
Speaker 1: Lebron said, there.
Speaker 3: No campus, no campus, Yeah, Ben, this is obviously a
Speaker 3: political podcast. Wrong, third Rail, my man. So you were
Speaker 3: on the air when Trump gave his speech, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we were on the air. Now. I didn't
Speaker 1: really bring it up, but we were on when he
Speaker 1: announced that he was going to return to the White House.
Speaker 1: He's coming back.
Speaker 3: I was live on the radio with you the first
Speaker 3: time Trump was elected. Do you remember that, and we
Speaker 3: simulcasted his speech.
Speaker 1: I vaguely remember that. I just remember from that time
Speaker 1: the craziness of people freaking out that they never thought
Speaker 1: he would win the first time, and it was kind
Speaker 1: of similar. I felt like this time then, politics, my man,
Speaker 1: Third Rail, my man.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well, you know, some people were scared that
Speaker 3: there would be problems out there on these streets, and
Speaker 3: I think all of us were like, hey, we can
Speaker 3: be adults here. If your candidate didn't win, hopefully you
Speaker 3: could act like an adult, not go out and burn
Speaker 3: a bus and push a car over with some help
Speaker 3: from friends, riot, loot and pollute. I'm not panicked, but
Speaker 3: I was confused because the morning after, I'm scrolling through
Speaker 3: the news on my phone and I'm reading different articles
Speaker 3: about the numbers and how everything happened late.
Speaker 1: At night, and I smelled smoke outside. Jerk yourself away, what.
Speaker 3: Is going on? So I open up my patio door.
Speaker 3: It smelled like the mountain next to us was on fire. Well,
Speaker 3: now you just can't leave crap. I go to the
Speaker 3: Ventura County Star online, and sure enough, there is a
Speaker 3: huge mountain fire. That's even what they're calling it, the
Speaker 3: mountain fire. But turns out, I don't think this has
Speaker 3: anything to do with what happened in politics. Huge fire though,
Speaker 3: ben And in fact, early on this Saturday morning, I'm
Speaker 3: inside a taco bell in my area that's open early
Speaker 3: for breakfast. Last weekend, I'm at some nice hotel in
Speaker 3: Seattle doing this podcast with you, right, yeah, yeah, not
Speaker 3: so much this week. It's kind of our life in
Speaker 3: radio one week or five Star in the next week.
Speaker 3: We're PBJ.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, this reminds me when I was doing
Speaker 1: local radio. They sent us to the World Series. We're
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, me and the great Jeff Biggs. So I've
Speaker 1: had on a podcast and we didn't make it to
Speaker 1: the broadcast location. So this is so long ago, Dan,
Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this. We broadcast from this like skid Row Hotel.
Speaker 1: There were two payphones next to each other, and we
Speaker 1: called up on we were each on a different payphone.
Speaker 1: We called up and did our show from payphones in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And it was October, it was cold, it was fall,
Speaker 1: you know that that old thing. And uh yeah, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: that's the great thing about audio content, right, you have
Speaker 1: to the show must go on. You have to do
Speaker 1: the show. We have to do the show, and so
Speaker 1: you have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Speaker 3: These winds have been whipping around so crazy. Our power
Speaker 3: has been off here and there, and internet definitely is
Speaker 3: a problem. In fact, the Starbucks they've been closed two
Speaker 3: days in a row with a handwritten sign that says
Speaker 3: closed because of fires.
Speaker 1: Wonderful. Wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, real professional sign on their front door. So y,
Speaker 3: so I'm broadcasting bright and early from this taco bell
Speaker 3: about to get me a scrambled egg burrito here. Ben,
Speaker 3: you know, the podcast goes on no matter what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the show must go on. The show must go on.
Speaker 1: And with that, Danny, I present to you one of
Speaker 1: the great quotes of our time. Marie Antoinette must be proud,
Speaker 1: the famous quote she supposedly said when she heard that
Speaker 1: the commoners had no bread, she said, famously, let them
Speaker 1: eat cake. And I feel like that's what the listeners
Speaker 1: of the Overnight Show have said to me. Let them
Speaker 1: eat cake on the Ben Malor Show. So we ate
Speaker 1: very well.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We have had a problem getting our mail. It has
Speaker 1: been well documented. I don't know where the mail goes
Speaker 1: when you send it to Fox Sports Radio. We have
Speaker 1: a mail room, but oftentimes we never actually get the
Speaker 1: mail in the mail room. I don't know. It must
Speaker 1: be like a second hidden mail room. So people have
Speaker 1: been saying, hey, we sent you some stuff and then
Speaker 1: we never got it, and we were kind of annoyed
Speaker 1: by that, and we're like, oh, what is that all about?
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, I think it was Monday
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. This week we got the mother load of
Speaker 1: mail and we did eat a lot of cake, and
Speaker 1: not just cake, all kinds of desserts. Some of it
Speaker 1: was hand delivered. My right hand was getting a workout.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Darren. We call him Donut Darren
Speaker 1: on the show, a big fan, lives in the OC
Speaker 1: and he works out at the Port of la And
Speaker 1: even though he's a Giants fan, I like the guy.
Speaker 1: Seems like a nice guy, and he stopped by. He
Speaker 1: knows from listening to this podcast on the radio show
Speaker 1: that I've been dying to get my hands on an
Speaker 1: apple fritter donut. I've tried for about a month. Every
Speaker 1: time I've gone to the donut shop, they're out of
Speaker 1: apple fritters. It's been very upsetting to me. And so
Speaker 1: Donut Darren's like, Hey, I know a place it's open
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I'll go buy a dozen donuts and
Speaker 1: I'll drive him and deliver them. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: Darren did. He'd stop by and it was great to
Speaker 1: you know. He told some stories about his life and
Speaker 1: he's growing up. He's probably around our age, Danny, give
Speaker 1: her take. And he would go to games at Candlestick
Speaker 1: Park than in the frozen Tundra where the Giants played
Speaker 1: for so many years and the forty nine ers s.
Speaker 1: We're telling stories about that. And he hung out with us,
Speaker 1: and so I got my apple fritter. I had a
Speaker 1: bare claw. Just just wonderful, just great. Love the donuts,
Speaker 1: in fact, that donut shop, which I thought he worked for,
Speaker 1: but he does, and he works. He works at the
Speaker 1: Port of La is so good. I'm probably gonna go
Speaker 1: back there. It's in Huntington Beach and I'll probably go
Speaker 1: back at some point. Then I really want to thank
Speaker 1: as well Michael from Providence, who's a super fan of
Speaker 1: the show, super p one of the show better known
Speaker 1: though as The Dawn of Little Debbie and every four
Speaker 1: months or so. I'm not sure exactly what Michael does.
Speaker 1: I assume he works as a distributor for Little Debbie,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, maybe not, Maybe he's just he
Speaker 1: knows people, but he hooks us up with whatever the
Speaker 1: seasonal treats are from Little Debbie. For example, he sent
Speaker 1: a box which was about the size of the state
Speaker 1: of Rhode Island where he's from. Well, you know, he said,
Speaker 1: it's a small box, but if it's the size of
Speaker 1: the road, it's pretty big, right compared to us. So
Speaker 1: he sent and it was filled with all the Halloween
Speaker 1: Little Debbie treats with the pumpkins on them and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And he also sent a couple of cool
Speaker 1: T shirts. His son is on the offensive line at
Speaker 1: the high school there in his town in Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: and so he sent me a high school T shirt.
Speaker 1: Was was kind of cool, and you know, I looked it up.
Speaker 1: I was always curious with these high schools because every
Speaker 1: high school, if you've been around as a high school
Speaker 1: for like forty or more years, chances are somebody went
Speaker 1: to that high school that ended up doing something of note,
Speaker 1: whether they are a politician or entertainer or athlete, musician.
Speaker 1: Chances are, over two generations at least one or two
Speaker 1: people made it. You know, you go to places like
Speaker 1: town's in Rhode Island where they've been around forever and
Speaker 1: ever compared to the West Coast. So this high school
Speaker 1: in Rhode Island turns out to be the one that
Speaker 1: our friend, Michael's son is playing football at is the
Speaker 1: same high school that produced Joe Missoula, the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Celtics, and Rocco bal Delhi, the Minneso Twins managers.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of cool, like, wow, there's been
Speaker 1: some interesting cats, some other NFL people, baseball people went
Speaker 1: to this high school, this random high school in Rhode Islands,
Speaker 1: a small town in Rhode Island, and very cool. He
Speaker 1: also sent me a T shirt from there's this ren restaurant.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of business it was, but it was named Benny's. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was a restaurant and it was it was named Benny's,
Speaker 1: and somebody had sent I think it was Alf had
Speaker 1: sent the logo. He sent a photo months ago, and
Speaker 1: Michael's like, Hey, I think I can get you a
Speaker 1: shirt that has the logo from this place called Benny's
Speaker 1: on it, which is no longer in business. And I said, boy,
Speaker 1: that would be pretty cool. I'd add that to my
Speaker 1: shirt collection. Now have a lot of shirts I wear
Speaker 1: when I'm getting ready for the show, kind of during
Speaker 1: the day, my lounge around the house shirts. And so
Speaker 1: he tracked this thing down and he sent it to me.
Speaker 1: So I added a couple of a couple of T shirts.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. Wait there's more, Danny, Because I
Speaker 1: would like to think, and I wish I knew who
Speaker 1: to think. Some cops from New York, upstate New York
Speaker 1: sent a box. Now this box was the size of
Speaker 1: like Lake Erie. But it was not to me. It
Speaker 1: was not to me, Danny, it was to Lorraina. So
Speaker 1: it's the one that had duct tape on it. I
Speaker 1: think that, Yeah, I think that's the one you saw.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of boxes, but I think that's
Speaker 1: the way tip right, massive right. I'm not gonna lie, Danny.
Speaker 1: That was a big cock. Dare you the uh she
Speaker 1: opens about and and they they they guess they're police officers.
Speaker 1: I guess one of them is no longer a police officer,
Speaker 1: and he he works in the snack industry, the snack
Speaker 1: food industry. So this box was filled with chips and cookies,
Speaker 1: and I mean they were all kinds of things in there,
Speaker 1: and Loraina shared with everybody, so we all got a
Speaker 1: bunch of chips and cookies and snacks and uh whatnot.
Speaker 1: And so I want to thank them. I I don't
Speaker 1: know your names. I don't remember, so I can't you
Speaker 1: didn't send it to me, so I can't give you
Speaker 1: the old fifth hour shout out that we don't can't
Speaker 1: do anyway because it's not a morning podcast or not
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, we can't do shout outs like those those
Speaker 1: people do. But so thank you, and I uh, I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting. By the way, I remember during COVID we
Speaker 1: were yapping away and I had a couple of couple
Speaker 1: of police officers that were like, I'm going to send
Speaker 1: you a hat from my station and then because they
Speaker 1: wanted me to wear it on the YouTube videos. But
Speaker 1: I never I don't think I ever got those hats.
Speaker 1: Maybe they were lost in the mail or something. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's it. But it was great. So we had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun this week. Good food. We had Manuel
Speaker 1: from Guardina came by and he had delicious sandwiches. So
Speaker 1: we had sandwiches, we had donuts, we had cookies, we
Speaker 1: had chips. I mean, we had a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: and it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Manuel dude is a famous AM five seventy caller.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's a Jim Rome guy and he goes
Speaker 1: way back and he mean, we're dating ourselves. But he
Speaker 1: listened to me when I was starting out as a
Speaker 1: young whipper snapper, when I was doing the old original
Speaker 1: Ben and Dave Show in the late nineties. So that's
Speaker 1: almost thirty years that he's been listening. And yeah, he
Speaker 1: came by. He also is a long shortman, and he
Speaker 1: brought his buddy with him, who is also and works
Speaker 1: at the works at the Port of LA. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling we do. We do very well at the
Speaker 1: Port of LA. We should just do a remote like
Speaker 1: at one in the morning from the Port of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: We would kill it in terms of listenership because those guys,
Speaker 1: I mean the apparently nothing else on and they listen
Speaker 1: to us as they're moving commerce from from Asia. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that, Danny. Today is a big
Speaker 1: day for me. Two till four, Malard, Meet and greet.
Speaker 1: If you're here in Kansas City or within reasonable driving distance,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to meeting you. Come on down say hello.
Speaker 1: We'll be there for a couple hours at least, and
Speaker 1: don't forget T shirts from our local affiliate here in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Ninety six point five to the fan, and
Speaker 1: I'll be there. My friend Bob Fesco, the big morning
Speaker 1: radio guy here, he'll be there as well, so really
Speaker 1: excited to see. Hopefully you can come out and hang
Speaker 1: out with us and we can catch up and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And Danny, godspeed with your WiFi, and hopefully everything will
Speaker 1: come back to normal soon enough. But thank you for
Speaker 1: going above and beyond the call of duty and making
Speaker 1: a run to the border for some taco bell.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm sure pretty soon I'll be making a
Speaker 3: run to the bathroom on this fine Saturday.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, just make sure you flush and use the proper
Speaker 1: amount of toilet paper on that. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time later. Skater by Flat