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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in
Speaker 2: the a.
Speaker 1: Every Way The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: my guy Danny g As we hang out with you
Speaker 1: on an NFL Sunday. It is week number two and
Speaker 1: still time to watch Benny Versus the Penny on regional
Speaker 1: cable television and streaming over there on Peacock. But it's
Speaker 1: all about the Fifth Hour podcast and what a fun
Speaker 1: time it is here the fifteenth day of September, as
Speaker 1: it is Butterscotch cinnamon Pie Day to day. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that is. That it's National Cheese Toast Day.
Speaker 1: I've had cheese toast, but I don't know that we
Speaker 1: need that. And National Double Cheeseburger Day, I can go.
Speaker 1: I can go for that National double cheeseburger.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, double double it in and out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what a hamburger is all about. I remember
Speaker 1: the the jingle. We need to bring jingles back, Danny.
Speaker 1: I want to bring jingles back. Jingles are so effective
Speaker 1: in advertising. We've got to bring the jingle back. I
Speaker 1: need the jingle. I want the jingle. We'll get to
Speaker 1: the mailbag. I did want to mention the I saw
Speaker 1: this the other day. I was gonna mention this yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we ran out of time, so we'll do it.
Speaker 1: Do it today real quick. It blew me away, and
Speaker 1: it probably shouldn't have blown me away. But I was
Speaker 1: reading something about in one of the business one of
Speaker 1: the business websites. I was reading this thing about athletes
Speaker 1: and how they make money off the field, and then
Speaker 1: I saw this thing about Olympic athletes, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: how do you really make money as an Olympic athlete?
Speaker 1: Because the Olympics only happened once every few years, and
Speaker 1: if you're famous for like a few months, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know, you're not famous for that
Speaker 1: long usually unless you're like Jesse Owens or something like that. Right,
Speaker 1: And he made his money in that story. He was
Speaker 1: on Sportico he made his money in the laundry business.
Speaker 1: He had a dry cleaning company in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you meant he laundered money.
Speaker 1: Well, but I would have been more successful. And then
Speaker 1: then on his day he turned you know, obviously he
Speaker 1: got a study paycheck, but he actually ended up filing
Speaker 1: for bankruptcy in nineteen thirty nine. He'd opened the laundromat,
Speaker 1: apparently nobody wanted to use it, and then he ended
Speaker 1: up filing for vacracy. But if you look over the years,
Speaker 1: Olympic athletes have been able to make a lot of
Speaker 1: money and record to this what I read as I remember,
Speaker 1: the way they are able to make money is corporate speaking.
Speaker 1: That's where they make most of their money. Olympic athletes,
Speaker 1: the way they make money and maintain money is the
Speaker 1: corporate speaking circuit. And they went into all these details
Speaker 1: about major companies like Coca Cola, Google, Apple that regularly
Speaker 1: bring in famous people to motivate do motivational speaking for
Speaker 1: their employees, and they were like explaining how Olympic athletes
Speaker 1: it's a natural because of Instagram and social media, people
Speaker 1: want to take photos with the gold medal. So if
Speaker 1: you got a gold medal. You're in right, and the
Speaker 1: yeah they they said that the speaking engagements these Olympic
Speaker 1: athletes get range anywhere from teen hundred dollars to twenty thirty,
Speaker 1: forty fifty, sixty, seventy and beyond for a single speaking engagement. Damn,
Speaker 1: there's a whole How do we get in on this, dandy?
Speaker 1: I could do a motivational speech if you want, I
Speaker 1: could pretend I could do motivational speaking. I got to
Speaker 1: get in on that. We got to figure out how
Speaker 1: to do that, a motivational speaking. And there's companies that
Speaker 1: all they do you don't really know who they are,
Speaker 1: but all they do is they provide these major Fortune
Speaker 1: five hundred companies and even smaller companies like you know
Speaker 1: the the Nights of Columbus Chapter or whoever, you know,
Speaker 1: the Grand Poohba Lodge, they provide speakers. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was interesting.
Speaker 3: And there's a friend of mine who he lives in
Speaker 3: Colorado and he speaks around the country. He makes a
Speaker 3: pretty good living. I should hook him up with you
Speaker 3: and you could pick his brain.
Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. Yeah, I would. I would love to
Speaker 1: do that. Not too often, I remember Terry Bradshaw when
Speaker 1: I when I worked with him years ago, Terry would
Speaker 1: do that. He'd miss the radio show and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing, dude, And he said, well, I
Speaker 1: got a corporate gig in Dallas. I got to do
Speaker 1: it because I am in any He would mention Pat O'Brien,
Speaker 1: I think POB when he worked at our place. You know,
Speaker 1: Pat had the great thing about Pat. He's been on
Speaker 1: this podcast. No filter Pat, no filter, Pob. He would
Speaker 1: tell you everything. He'd tell you what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He would tell you how much he's making you know,
Speaker 1: which is which is great? I love I love Patt O'Brian.
Speaker 1: Whish you get him on again. Sometimes get him on
Speaker 1: the podcast. I haven't talked to him and forever. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the mail bag. What do you say? Mailbag?
Speaker 1: Mail bag? Mail bag, mail bag, let's effing go. It's bag.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ohio, aw a great Ohio al. Hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: meet Ohio l Win in Ohio at some point. That's
Speaker 1: the plan twenty twenty five. We're gonna make that happen
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. But these are actual letters by actual
Speaker 1: consumers of this podcast who have taken the time to
Speaker 1: become contest creators and for that we're grateful. For that,
Speaker 1: we're grateful. So the first one up is Mark in Providence.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, guys, I've never called the show the
Speaker 1: radio show, obviously can't call the podcast, but I love
Speaker 1: your overnight callers. My vote for call of the Year
Speaker 1: is Sean the Hood Guy, he says, as a loyal
Speaker 1: p one of both this show, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about the radio show but also this podcast. He says
Speaker 1: he watches all of the Benny Versus the Penny episodes
Speaker 1: on Boston's NBC Sports Channel, Channel fifty five. On his
Speaker 1: local cable, he says, he all day this cat is
Speaker 1: he watches Zolak, Scott Zolac Show, Felger and Maz and
Speaker 1: then at six pm Benny Versus the Penny. Those are
Speaker 1: all the shows they hit their radio show simulcast on
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Boston. And then Mark says he also watches
Speaker 1: the nine to thirty pm replay and the episodes on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Wow, thank you Mark, that's awesome, Hollie. Hell, he ticked
Speaker 3: your ratings up all by himself.
Speaker 1: Mark got You're my favorite person right now in this moment,
Speaker 1: and I have been to Providence. I have been to Providence.
Speaker 1: We were there a couple of years ago. Beautiful capital
Speaker 1: of Rhode Island. Just a typical, nice New England Northeast
Speaker 1: capitol building, massive grass lawn in front, beautiful palatial capital
Speaker 1: right there in Providence. So very cool. I'm glad. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you listen. Thank you, Mark, I appreciate. Canadian Kevin
Speaker 1: writes and says, hey, big Ben and Danny, I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you what happened on the radio show the
Speaker 1: other night when you're supposed to play the Malard Militia feud.
Speaker 1: You were about to play the game and then your
Speaker 1: show ended. Was this Coop's fault? Says Canadian can No,
Speaker 1: that was not actually Cooper Loop's fault. I'm going to
Speaker 1: blame and we talked about this yesterday. I think it
Speaker 1: was on the podcast It All Runs Together, Danny. This
Speaker 1: was wrecket Ralph whoever broke the microphone? Because I sat
Speaker 1: in the wrong chair, Canadian Kevin. I sat in the
Speaker 1: wrong chair. So my line of vision when I sit
Speaker 1: in the right chair, I'm looking at the clock. It's
Speaker 1: in my peripheral vision. I can see the clock and
Speaker 1: it's I don't always look at it, but I kind
Speaker 1: of can tell on my side eye. I can tell
Speaker 1: the clock right, but my vision was off because I
Speaker 1: wasn't facing the clock. I was facing away from the clock,
Speaker 1: and I had overestimated how much time we had. I
Speaker 1: started playing grab ass and then by the time I
Speaker 1: realized we didn't have any time, the thing the show
Speaker 1: so it ended. It was a disaster. It was a
Speaker 1: complete cluster. Yeah, that was bad, man. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was, really, I was pissed.
Speaker 3: Off all with the rapid radio people in there to
Speaker 3: see that.
Speaker 1: Fortunately not no they were, they were not there. But
Speaker 1: that was that A little tough. I was a little tough.
Speaker 1: Wasn't proud of that. I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1: Canadian Kevin, thank you for having me remember that moment.
Speaker 1: Very embarrassing. Next up on the mail bag is Quinn
Speaker 1: Listener Quinn and Colorado. He says, Hey, Ben, just check
Speaker 1: it in, saying hi to you and Danny g. I
Speaker 1: am still a p one list he says. I catch
Speaker 1: your radio show live, but do it live when I
Speaker 1: can't sleep or on the podcast. After Logna, he says,
Speaker 1: is a great edition of the show. Have you worn
Speaker 1: the Military? The marine hat. I have the hat. It's
Speaker 1: it's right here. I think I have worn it. I
Speaker 1: haven't won it one time. I have a million hats,
Speaker 1: but I do think it's very sweet of you, Quinn.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And Quinn also wants the world to
Speaker 1: know and we're here to be the megaphone that my guy.
Speaker 1: Quinn a proud military man. He has a new son,
Speaker 1: new to the world named Max, three weeks old.
Speaker 3: How cool, congratulations, welcome to the club.
Speaker 1: And he attached the picture here and he says I
Speaker 1: laughed and woke him up the other day when hollering
Speaker 1: James came on. Oh boy, Max, that's too young, Quinn
Speaker 1: for Max to hear hollering James. My god. Oh yeah, yea. Anyways,
Speaker 1: says continue kicking ass. I'll totally go to a meet
Speaker 1: and greet if it's near the Denver area anytime. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, and it is on my list to get
Speaker 1: to Denver. We do have a Mallard food dish in Denver,
Speaker 1: so I got to get to Denver at some point
Speaker 1: and enjoy. You've been. Actually, Dan, you were in Denver
Speaker 1: years ago, right, didn't you go?
Speaker 3: And yeah, I did go to Denver. It was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. I even got to go to a
Speaker 3: Rockies game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is good because you just drink a lot and.
Speaker 3: You watch the other team beat up the Rockies.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You see a lot of home runs and things
Speaker 1: like that, and doubles and triples and all that. So
Speaker 1: thank you, Quen. I hope you're doing well when I
Speaker 1: know you've had You've had a few things. You've had
Speaker 1: to fight through as we all do in life, and
Speaker 1: I hope things are going good for you. It sounds
Speaker 1: like they are. You got a three week old son.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Alf frights in on the mail bag from
Speaker 1: the Witness Protection Program. He says, well, this actually relates.
Speaker 1: He says, can you elaborate on the in season Malord
Speaker 1: meet and greet that you teased but never paid off? Yeah? So, Alf,
Speaker 1: there is something in the works. The wheels are turning.
Speaker 1: Nothing has been confirmed, but I have been contacted by
Speaker 1: some people that are like, they're big fans of the
Speaker 1: show and what we do here, and they're where they
Speaker 1: want me to come to their city and hang out
Speaker 1: and schmooze and possibly go to an NFL game. It
Speaker 1: is an NFL city. The problem I have and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to work out the logistics on this is I
Speaker 1: hate to miss time during the football season, Danny, as
Speaker 1: you know, and I've looked at the flights for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks and there is no scenario where
Speaker 1: I can attend said NFL game in this city and
Speaker 1: make it back in time for the show. And logistically,
Speaker 1: I don't believe I'll be able to do the show
Speaker 1: from that city. So I have to decide. Am I
Speaker 1: willing to take a night off during the football season
Speaker 1: in order to facilitate the meet and greet? But the
Speaker 1: wheels are in motion, oulf, and I'm hoping this will happen.
Speaker 1: I do not have it confirmed, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to announce anything until till it's confirmed.
Speaker 3: No days after in the NFL season. My man, I know.
Speaker 1: I really don't want to take any time off, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, I want to do this because
Speaker 1: it'd be a lot of fun. It's a place that
Speaker 1: I would like to hang out at, and it's a
Speaker 1: game I would like to go to. So like, those
Speaker 1: are all cool things, those are all things that I want.
Speaker 1: So I'll let you know it would not happen for
Speaker 1: another What are we in September. It'd be at least
Speaker 1: a couple of months before it happened, So I'm sure
Speaker 1: Alfie'll fly out from from Massachusetts, right, you know? All Right?
Speaker 1: Mike in Fullerton writes, and he says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny G. How did you guys deal with the recent
Speaker 1: triple digit heat wave in SoCal? Did you crank the
Speaker 1: AC blast the fans float around the pool or what
Speaker 1: I did? Cool off under one of the many trees
Speaker 1: in downtown Fullerton? Wow, He also says, our friend Mike
Speaker 1: and Fullerton. He says, I have to give props to
Speaker 1: Danny G's new coach, Antonio Pierce. That decision to punt
Speaker 1: on fourth and one in the fourth quarter was a
Speaker 1: real thing of beauty. As a Charger fan, I hope
Speaker 1: Pierce coaches the Raiders for a long time. And that
Speaker 1: was Yeah.
Speaker 3: Normally I like Antonio Pierce, but I had shades of
Speaker 3: Brandon Staley on that and some other decisions. I was like,
Speaker 3: are we the ones that have Staley now? And they
Speaker 3: suddenly have Harbaugh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was frustrating. I upsold the Raiders on the
Speaker 1: TV show, and in a very bizarre way, I actually
Speaker 1: thought the Raiders in many ways outplayed the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. It was a strange game because
Speaker 3: in the first half, all right, they're just feeling out
Speaker 3: their new quarterback, Minshew, and everything will be okay because
Speaker 3: the defense is good. But that defense was out on
Speaker 3: the field for so long. Chargers started getting those chunk
Speaker 3: plays in the fourth quarter and that's what won the
Speaker 3: game for them. And of course the turnovers from the
Speaker 3: Raiders is what killed them. Uncharacteristically, they had penalties and
Speaker 3: the couple of turnovers best in the NFL, and both
Speaker 3: those categories tied for best in the NFL last season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, today the Raiders have the Ravens and everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: if the JK. Dobbins ran for one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five yards and Lamar Jackson's gonna have two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards in that game, I'm like, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: exactly how it works now.
Speaker 3: Dobbins runs harder than Henry does. Henry's one of those
Speaker 3: guys where he's like two hundred and fifty pounds and
Speaker 3: he runs like he's two hundred pounds. Dobbin's like a
Speaker 3: buck eighty five and runs like he's two fifty.
Speaker 1: Well, he had that sixty plus yard run whatever it
Speaker 1: was in the in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that that second half just unraveled. But I
Speaker 3: want to be aggressive. Come on, man, you're in their territory.
Speaker 3: It's a one score game. Nobody had ever done a
Speaker 3: move like that since I think I read the Bills
Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen. You gotta be aggressive and go for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Don't coach safe coaches. The coach safe end
Speaker 1: up getting fired anyway. And like there's a balance to it.
Speaker 1: I get it. And the thing about this too, with
Speaker 1: the Raiders, you're projected to be one of the worst
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. If you're aggressive and you get it, okay,
Speaker 1: you win the game, right, You have a chance to
Speaker 1: win the game if you If you don't get it
Speaker 1: and you lose, well you're gonna lose anyway.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Your mentality needs to be we have nothing
Speaker 3: to lose. Let's prove everybody wrong.
Speaker 1: And all these schmucks ripping my guy Gardner, minshew, all right, minshew,
Speaker 1: he he af fed up with the fumble. But and
Speaker 1: people are like, well, he didn't throw the ball down
Speaker 1: field enough. Well, the Chargers have a pretty good defense too,
Speaker 1: and You're not gonna get much better production out of
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew than you got, so you can't. You gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball if you you can't expect Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 1: He had I think like two hundred fifty yards. He
Speaker 1: should have had a couple of touchdowns. He only had one,
Speaker 1: but he was efficient and he's averaged. That's an average
Speaker 1: other than the fumble, and that's a big that's a
Speaker 1: big cluster, right, I mean, that's a big no.
Speaker 3: Zamir White kept running into his blockers. The O line
Speaker 3: weren't exactly opening up big holes for him. Getsy was
Speaker 3: running some really vanilla plays there. You got to get
Speaker 3: a lot of motion going and that O line needs
Speaker 3: to bruise. And they do get that. Powers Johnson dude
Speaker 3: back for week two. So you're right, if they can
Speaker 3: get a run game going against the Ravens, that defense
Speaker 3: is good enough to win any game.
Speaker 1: Well, the biggest underdog on the board today. And then
Speaker 1: if you watch the TV show, I did take the
Speaker 1: Raiders plus the points, but I actually I'm not just
Speaker 1: doing that because I said before the year the Raiders
Speaker 1: are gonna be good. Lamar Jackson has he's had his issue.
Speaker 1: I don't want get too sporty here on the on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but Lamar's had his issues as a favorite
Speaker 1: covering the spread, he's played down to the competition. Now
Speaker 1: he does play up to the competition too, but he's
Speaker 1: often played down to it where the Ravens have. I
Speaker 1: had some issues at home, So we'll see what happens today,
Speaker 1: and thank you Mike for getting us down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: Barry from South Carolina. Yo, Yo, Ma, Benny, my guy Berry,
Speaker 1: who I met at the Charleston meet and greet, used
Speaker 1: to live in Nashville and he was in beautiful Charleston
Speaker 1: in South Carolina. He says, during Dick and Dayton's many
Speaker 1: phone calls, in veritably brings up some local radio names.
Speaker 1: He wants to know, how many of these guys do
Speaker 1: you actually know? My guess is when you say sure, sure,
Speaker 1: that means you have no idea who he is talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah so so Berry, Yeah, yeah, you've met me, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, when you know, you know the real ones know,
Speaker 1: and you know, Barry, Dick and Dayton just starts spewing
Speaker 1: all these random names, and I have no idea that is,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. There's a fume that I
Speaker 1: do know only because they've come through LA and I've
Speaker 1: talked to like Joe Tait, who I don't think is
Speaker 1: around anymore, the Calves broadcaster, I know him, the guy
Speaker 1: that does the Cleveland Indians like. I know the names,
Speaker 1: like some of them i've met, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the local talk shows I have no idea there. But
Speaker 1: the great thing about Dick and Dayton is he does
Speaker 1: actually drop my name on other shows also, which I
Speaker 1: find hilarious. He's like, oh, I was talking to Ben
Speaker 1: and Eddie. You know I've heard him. I was driving
Speaker 1: through god years ago. I told the story a few times,
Speaker 1: but this goes back long long time. It's probably I
Speaker 1: don't even know the year, but it was in the odts.
Speaker 1: I'm driving from Pittsburgh, No, I wasting from Philadelphia Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: So I'm driving through the middle of Pennsylvania. Beautiful country
Speaker 1: there in Pennsylvania, a lot of trees. I was driving
Speaker 1: at night, so I didn't see much. But I'm scanning
Speaker 1: the radio dial like a total nerd, just a radio
Speaker 1: nerd man old school scan into the dial, and we
Speaker 1: got some station out of Cincinnati that came in and
Speaker 1: it was like a if I remember correctly, it was
Speaker 1: like a coaches show, and Dick and Dayton calls into
Speaker 1: the show and he does the same shtick he does
Speaker 1: with me, and I was loving it. Is like the
Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world was it was awesome. It
Speaker 1: was awesome and I and the great thing about his
Speaker 1: cause is he does not watch any of these games. Well,
Speaker 1: he listens to some of them on the radio, but
Speaker 1: he really doesn't retain anything, which is which is wonderful. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you Berry. Next on the mailbag, we have Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Tommy on the mail bag. He says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g a bucket of Skyline Chili from the Queen City.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I'm not trying to be mean. Just
Speaker 1: a question. When you start out by saying I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to do something, what does that mean, Danny humph.
Speaker 1: It means you're trying to do it. It means you're
Speaker 1: trying to do it, is what it means, right, exactly,
Speaker 1: That's what it means. So anyway, well, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be mean. Blah blah blah blah blah, and uh yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: he says, why would Fox Sports Radio hire a technical producer,
Speaker 1: he says, a technical producer who knows zero about sports.
Speaker 1: It would be like a podcast about Calculus hiring you
Speaker 1: as a color man. I'll see, that's a cheap shot.
Speaker 1: That is a cheap shot. That is a low blow
Speaker 1: by you. How dare you? Lorena's job, Tommy Cincy, Tommy,
Speaker 1: Lorena's job is to hit the buttons and make sure
Speaker 1: that we get all the commercials in and add a
Speaker 1: little cotton candy to the show. And she's very good
Speaker 1: at her job. And trust me, many of the people
Speaker 1: that work behind the scenes do not have the sports gene.
Speaker 1: They're not like big time sports people, but they're good
Speaker 1: at their jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like Alex, who has filled in
Speaker 3: on this podcast. He's been on with the Odd Couple
Speaker 3: for six years and he doesn't know a lick about sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex is the same way. It's like one of
Speaker 1: those guys he couldn't tell you if the football's puffed
Speaker 1: or stuffed. He doesn't know, and he doesn't care, right,
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, you know, I'm here, I got a
Speaker 1: job to do, and that's it. And then every once
Speaker 1: in a while, when you take a weekend off, Danny
Speaker 1: Alex comes in here and all hell breaks loose, right,
Speaker 1: you know, It's just he's talking about all kinds of craziness,
Speaker 1: you name it, where all its like doing Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast on the weekends on the pod. But now Loraine
Speaker 1: does a good job, and I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny that she's on there and she's she's trying to
Speaker 1: become sporty Lorena. But to be a sports fan you
Speaker 1: got to remember a lot of stupid bull crap, likes
Speaker 1: of coaches and star players and things like that, and
Speaker 1: so she's got a lot lot going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when she did her picks against Poppy.
Speaker 1: Never heard of them. Yes, Poppy who? Actually I give
Speaker 1: Poppy credit because last time we tried to do that,
Speaker 1: Danny he attempted to do his own show where he
Speaker 1: spent thirty minutes talking about each game, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 3: I heard about that. But the condensed version sounded really
Speaker 3: good this past Friday.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think that bit will work as long
Speaker 1: as we can keep Poppy in line and not have
Speaker 1: him go off the rails. Lorena is fine with it,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes. Kevin and Kansas is
Speaker 1: near Ben and Danny G I recently helped someone get
Speaker 1: their first car. Guy got a twenty twenty three Dodge Charger.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, your first car is only a year old. Anyway,
Speaker 1: My first car was a seventy seven Caprice Classic. And
Speaker 1: then we get this question off and we don't answer it. All.
Speaker 1: We haven't answered this in a long time, so I
Speaker 1: guess we'll go quickly. Can you tell us about your
Speaker 1: first car? Danny, do you remember your first car?
Speaker 3: I do remember my first car. It was a Mitsubishi
Speaker 3: piece of shit. The model was like a boy. I
Speaker 3: can't even remember then because it was like off the radar,
Speaker 3: you know, like one of those mitsubishies where you see
Speaker 3: it and you're like, I never even heard of that car.
Speaker 1: It sucked.
Speaker 3: Color was silver, but it was beat up. It was
Speaker 3: pretty bad. But I did spend money as a kid
Speaker 3: to put a nice stereo system in it. Of course,
Speaker 3: I swear to God that stereo system was worth way
Speaker 3: more than the car.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I had my first car. I was
Speaker 1: a car they don't make anymore. A here's this is
Speaker 1: kind of weird, Kevin. I also had a ninth I
Speaker 1: think it was a nineteen seventy seven. I believe seventy seven.
Speaker 1: As I remember, my grandpa Jack, Jack maller Man was
Speaker 1: from Chicago. He ran a garment business in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, my dad's dad and
Speaker 1: Grandpa Jack, we'd go over to his house and he
Speaker 1: had it at his place. Here there's like golf hole
Speaker 1: thing in his backyard, so we pretend like we were golfers.
Speaker 1: And then we'd go down to his factory. And this
Speaker 1: is back before all the I'm so old, before they
Speaker 1: moved everything to China and they made the clothes there
Speaker 1: and we'd run around this massive warehouse in downtown. It
Speaker 1: was awesome, great memories. And then it's just like out
Speaker 1: of a movie. He had this corner office that was upstairs,
Speaker 1: like above the factory, you know, call it. They used
Speaker 1: toy called the carpet, and it would be the boss's
Speaker 1: office because that was the only part of the place
Speaker 1: they had covering. And that was my grandpa's business there.
Speaker 1: But I got his old car, which was a light
Speaker 1: brown two door nineteen seventy seven Plymouth Valari a V
Speaker 1: L A R E. You can look it up, and
Speaker 1: I love that car. It smelled like my grand parents.
Speaker 1: I didn't care. I just loved it. It was great,
Speaker 1: it was wonderful. So that was that was.
Speaker 3: So from that to now a Lamborghini pulling into your
Speaker 3: parking space at NBC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to decide do I do I do
Speaker 1: the Lambeau, Do I do the Beamer? Do I go
Speaker 1: with the Tesla? You know, it's the cyber truck. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of decisions. I have so many cars. I'm
Speaker 1: like Jay Leno. There's so many cars out there. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult. All right, last one. We'll get out on this.
Speaker 1: On the mailbag, Fred from Spring Texas right since, says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I came up with the
Speaker 1: names I would use if I went into professions like
Speaker 1: show business or if I was working undercover as a spy.
Speaker 1: Did either of you ever think of alternative names you
Speaker 1: might use in the future. If not, can you think
Speaker 1: of any? Now that's from Fred? Well, yeah, as a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to be on the radio, and
Speaker 1: so I thought maybe i'd be some DJ. You know,
Speaker 1: I have my DJ boy, you know, and I'd be
Speaker 1: like Benny rock It's Benny Rocky here, come on, you
Speaker 1: know something like that. I had a bunch of stupid
Speaker 1: names that we had. Danny, did you have the fake name?
Speaker 1: I have used the fake name on the radio. The
Speaker 1: fake name I used was Ben Waller. That's because back
Speaker 1: in the day, the La Times used to have a
Speaker 1: radio TV critic and everyone read The Times, and the
Speaker 1: guy wrote this review of saying I was a rising
Speaker 1: star and then misspelled my name, so he called me
Speaker 1: Ben Waller and so on the air, I called myself
Speaker 1: Ben Waller when I did I had to do updates
Speaker 1: on the show, so I said, I'm Ben Waller. I
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I was on NBC Sports Radio Network doing national updates,
Speaker 3: we had to also sometimes do Bloomberg reports, and you
Speaker 3: know Bloomberg News. They're very serious out of New York
Speaker 3: and San Francisco and some of the major cities in
Speaker 3: our country. That particular day I had to do Bloomberg
Speaker 3: San Francisco. Their program director told ours that I couldn't
Speaker 3: use Danny G on their news network, So I had
Speaker 3: to quickly think of what the G stood for. I
Speaker 3: went by Danny Grayson that day. If you don't know Grayson,
Speaker 3: look up Batman.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was the that was the one that was
Speaker 1: I am I am Batman's partner. All right, well look
Speaker 1: at that, all right Sunday, Danny, you will you'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'll be yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I know You're back
Speaker 3: tonight to react to week two of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll be in the the audio dojo. They're hanging
Speaker 1: out with you eleven o'clock in the West and then
Speaker 1: two am and the East will be on all night
Speaker 1: yapping about all things NFL. Enjoy the game today, see
Speaker 1: how I do against the Penny, and we will catch
Speaker 1: you next week on this podcast. I'll catch you in
Speaker 1: a few hours tonight, depending when we listen to this
Speaker 1: on the on the radio show. And don't forget at
Speaker 1: the last few hours to hear and watch Benny versus
Speaker 1: the Penny today. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3: Later.
Speaker 1: Skater gotta murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go.