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. Wow to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: and Danny g And a Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 1: As we are chilling with you, we thank you for
Speaker 1: following the podcast, enjoying the podcast where you're listening to it, so,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're enjoying it or not, but
Speaker 1: we're celebrating Good Deeds Day today, Danny and National Dolphin Day.
Speaker 1: Not about the Miami Dolphins, not about the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but it's National Dolphin Day today, so very important day.
Speaker 4: Unless have you ever swam with dolphins before?
Speaker 1: I have never swam with dolphins. I have watched dolphins
Speaker 1: from boats many times. I've not done that. Have you
Speaker 1: swam with dolphins before?
Speaker 4: No, But I've swam with goldfish.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. Yeah, they're they're they're both in
Speaker 1: the in the water. I bet you could probably do
Speaker 1: that in Hawaii. You get swim with dolphins. There's probably
Speaker 1: ways you can do it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think there's places in Florida where you
Speaker 4: can do that as well.
Speaker 1: Are they caged dolphins though? Is it like is it
Speaker 1: called sea World? Is that what it's called or is
Speaker 1: it called something like.
Speaker 4: I think it's like canned tuna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same thing, same thing. I get swim in
Speaker 1: Hawaii with sea turtles. That was pretty cool. Massive fish
Speaker 1: that were just everywhere, and they a seal next thing,
Speaker 1: I know, I just saw this white thing flying at
Speaker 1: my face. There was a there was a seal that
Speaker 1: I swam.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, if you ever get to have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to travel to Hawaii, make sure you take one of
Speaker 4: the boats out for some snorkeling because it is so
Speaker 4: cool to see all those turtles.
Speaker 1: That's and these things are like a couple hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: These are not little baby turtles. These things they're massive.
Speaker 1: Although we in we were in Kawaii at one of
Speaker 1: the beaches on the southern part of Kawaii, and they
Speaker 1: were like swimming in the waves. They were just like chilling,
Speaker 1: hanging out a bunch of people on the water. They
Speaker 1: didn't give a shit, you know, like whatever, doing my thing,
Speaker 1: having a fine time on this pod. We've got We've
Speaker 1: got the meats, little pop quiz, and the mail bag.
Speaker 1: The mail bag. But Danny, it turns out a little
Speaker 1: Birdie tells me that people that run a major fast
Speaker 1: food operation are listening to this podcast, and they're listening
Speaker 1: to what you have said for a couple of years
Speaker 1: on this. Is that an accurate portrayal of what is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 4: Danny? You know, Ben, we have more fun on this
Speaker 4: podcast pointing out when we're wrong about things, but we
Speaker 4: are actually ahead of the curve on one thing that
Speaker 4: we speak about from time to time. This is from
Speaker 4: KTLA five News, Los Angeles, and it's in quotations who
Speaker 4: actually eats at Arby's? Who the fast food chain is
Speaker 4: giving away free sandwiches in the month of April to
Speaker 4: finally end the debate.
Speaker 1: Wow, So they're even saying, like who's eating?
Speaker 4: Yeah, actual restaurant is admitting that it's a drug front
Speaker 4: and nobody eats there, says Arby's is giving away free
Speaker 4: sandwiches throughout the month of April to challenge skeptics. Hey
Speaker 4: that's me, that's right. The fast food chain is offering
Speaker 4: free food all month long to squash the question who
Speaker 4: actually eats at Arby's, According to a press.
Speaker 1: Release, Now, the first question is are you going to
Speaker 1: take them up on that? And is it a free
Speaker 1: sandwich or do you have to buy something to get
Speaker 1: the free sandwich. I'm guessing you have to buy something
Speaker 1: or you have to download the app.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ding ding ding the app, Yeah says it's through
Speaker 4: the app. I'm definitely going to take them up on
Speaker 4: this because I feel like I can leave with a
Speaker 4: sandwich and some drugs. It.
Speaker 1: Well, it depends what neighborhood you're in, but yeah, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: why not? Speaking of fast food, did you see that
Speaker 1: Chick fil A is now the third largest fast food
Speaker 1: chain in America, which is fascinating because they're not even
Speaker 1: open on Sunday. Yeah, it's crazy, like to dominate. Imagine
Speaker 1: how much chicken they got to sell. They started at
Speaker 1: a mall as a mall restaurant in the late nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties and now they have over three thousand locations. But
Speaker 1: they have surpassed like KFC. They're bigger than KFC, They're
Speaker 1: bigger than Popeyes and whatnot. But they're the third largest
Speaker 1: fast food chain chickil a. Where's Arby's on that list,
Speaker 1: by the way, they sell chicken? Where's Rby's on the list?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: Page down, page down, page down. They must make money
Speaker 1: because people, they're franchises, right, Those ARBs are franchises, and
Speaker 1: so you is a franchise owner. You have to put
Speaker 1: a bunch of money out to get one of the franchises.
Speaker 1: You're not in it to lose money. They must have
Speaker 1: the data that they somehow make money.
Speaker 4: Do you know how much I just looked it up.
Speaker 4: Guess how much it costs to own an Arby's franchise?
Speaker 1: Well, I know for McDonald's's, Like you got to have
Speaker 1: either half a million or a million dollars SAR to
Speaker 1: assume Arby's is somewhere in that neighborhood like half a money?
Speaker 4: Oh ok, good, that was a good one. Yeah, anywhere
Speaker 4: between six hundred and forty five thousand and two million,
Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1: What and what kind of profit are you getting on that?
Speaker 1: Like for an Arby's sandwich with the little cheese on top.
Speaker 1: What are you getting for that of the curly fries?
Speaker 4: This's got to be a front for a major drug operation.
Speaker 4: And it says Arby's is franchised through the Arby's Restaurant
Speaker 4: Group and has nearly four billion dollars in total revenue.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's wild. I know the grocery store they have
Speaker 1: in the frozen food section, they have the Rby's curly
Speaker 1: fries that you can get if you want the the
Speaker 1: Rby's experience at home, and they sell they sell a
Speaker 1: fair amount of those. I wonder if they're just making
Speaker 1: money off that. They're like basically just selling frozen curly fries.
Speaker 1: And that's it wrong. All right, we haven't done pop
Speaker 1: the pop quiz in a long time. I think we
Speaker 1: should do that.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put you on the spot here. Are you
Speaker 1: ready for the pop quiz? Are you prepared for the
Speaker 1: pop quiz?
Speaker 4: I've never been more unprepared?
Speaker 1: All right, perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect au Ry. These are
Speaker 1: random questions we have found from the interweb, kind of
Speaker 1: like you know, who knew or whatever, mind bending type questions.
Speaker 1: So well, quiz Danny, and the way this works in theory,
Speaker 1: we will run some of these past Danny, and then
Speaker 1: you can play along as you listen to the pod
Speaker 1: and see if you can do better than Danny. So
Speaker 1: the average person will have nearly twenty five of these
Speaker 1: in their lifetime, Danny, twenty five of these in their lifetime. Mistresses, mistresses,
Speaker 1: All right, let's see page Dad. No, that's incorrect. The
Speaker 1: correct answer, Danny is hets.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, if one dies and people get sad and
Speaker 4: then the next week they replace them.
Speaker 1: Let's do the math, though, that can't be dogs, right
Speaker 1: because the average lifespan. Let's do some mather math here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, they said there would.
Speaker 4: Be you're right, that's gotta be a total of goldfish,
Speaker 4: which we just previously mentioned.
Speaker 1: A dog lives about let's say eleven years on average.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's about right, so eleven, and then you do
Speaker 1: that times twenty five. That would mean you would be
Speaker 1: living the two hundred and seventy five years of age
Speaker 1: to have twenty five dogs.
Speaker 4: No, no, this is you're right. This has got to
Speaker 4: be like hamsters and all the crap that kids ask.
Speaker 1: For the goldfish and the counting that pick that fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, a little lizard in a tank, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's see what's next on pop quiz.
Speaker 1: This household item first appeared in ancient Egypt and still
Speaker 1: to this day is regularly seen in houses around the world.
Speaker 1: And when it appeared in ancient Egypt, it was game changing.
Speaker 1: It was, oh, that's easy. The vibrator, yes, they had
Speaker 1: the it was the plug in one. They didn't have
Speaker 1: the batteries back then. But no. The correct answer, Danny
Speaker 1: is scissors. Oh, scissors. Imagine when scissors came around. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can cut things. This is amazing.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's the opposite of pleasure. This is what women
Speaker 4: run and chase you with and they're mad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the scissors thing, it's one of those deals.
Speaker 1: It's like, was that like deadly forced with the scissors?
Speaker 1: People trying to ban the scissors because you could die
Speaker 1: from scissors.
Speaker 4: You think that was going on back then? Were these
Speaker 4: okay to take through TSA great.
Speaker 1: Question like when you went on the ancient Egyptian wagon?
Speaker 1: And was that a lot? I don't know. All right,
Speaker 1: Forty of adult surveyed say they have gone at least
Speaker 1: three days without doing this, at least three days without
Speaker 1: doing this, And I bet you're tired than that. I
Speaker 1: bet you're tireder than that. What do you think? Forty
Speaker 1: percent of adult surveyed say they have gone at least
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 4: Without snorting cocaine.
Speaker 1: Snorting cocaine, well, come on, you're not in La Danny.
Speaker 1: Yeah that you can't go more than twelve hours without that.
Speaker 1: But they they say forty percent of adults surveyed said
Speaker 1: they had gone at least three days without a face
Speaker 1: to face conversation. Loser, but that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your computer doesn't count.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, zoom the doom, doom doom.
Speaker 4: Apparently the screen I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess that does not unfortunately does not count. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I could get that. I go in now. So it's
Speaker 1: like I have to see people and have face to face, brief,
Speaker 1: face to face conversation. So on the weekends, I no,
Speaker 1: I don't think I go. I don't think I go
Speaker 1: a day without having a face to face conversation. I know,
Speaker 1: by myself, maybe that would be the case, but that's
Speaker 1: not the case, all right, A study says. A recent
Speaker 1: study says a construct on a construction site. Women are
Speaker 1: better at doing this than men.
Speaker 4: Better at getting cat calls, You.
Speaker 1: Better get me that good stuff and better at cat
Speaker 1: calls getting oodled. No, that is incorrect hammering nails. They're
Speaker 1: more accurate at hammering.
Speaker 4: Neil want proof on this.
Speaker 1: Don't you just use a nail gun if you're out
Speaker 1: there on the site, the job site, those giant nail guns.
Speaker 4: There's probably some spaces where those nail guns don't fit.
Speaker 1: H all right, let's see what else do we have
Speaker 1: a page that? All Right, nearly half of American adults
Speaker 1: over the age of fifty admit they do this at
Speaker 1: least once a month over the age of fifty. Nearly
Speaker 1: half of American adults over the age of fifty do
Speaker 1: this at least once a month.
Speaker 4: Uh, run over a cat.
Speaker 1: Well, that's clearly more than that. No, the answer is
Speaker 1: to play video games. Don't you think that numbers higher
Speaker 1: because everyone's got almost everyone's got smartphone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it depends what you consider a video game.
Speaker 4: Like you play scrabble? Does that count?
Speaker 1: I think it does count. I do play a lot
Speaker 1: of scrabble. I'm very good at scrabble. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: I had a big scrabble win this week. Thanks for
Speaker 1: bringing it up, Nanny. This guy I played a random
Speaker 1: scrabble game.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about our brackets from last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what people want here. And so this guy,
Speaker 1: he got a seventy eight on the first word. So
Speaker 1: I'm down seventy eight to nothing before I make my
Speaker 1: first move on scrabble, and I beat the guy by
Speaker 1: one hundred. I beat the guy by I kicked his ass. Okay,
Speaker 1: I dominated this schmuck who thought he was going to
Speaker 1: win because he jumped out to a big seventy eight
Speaker 1: to nothing lead. And I came back and I squished
Speaker 1: the guy. I delivered the haymaker, is what I did
Speaker 1: to that loser. How dare him think that he was
Speaker 1: going to get on top of me? Not going to happen,
Speaker 1: all right, I what's next on pop quiz, let's a
Speaker 1: year I go page down here. Eighty percent of people
Speaker 1: say it upsets them to hear this.
Speaker 4: When you take a call from Marcel.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, don't worry,
Speaker 1: it's just pay the tot.
Speaker 4: Who's the gambling guy? Poppy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he hadn't called. He was banned for a week.
Speaker 1: Stop calling again.
Speaker 4: So I was gonna say when people hear Poppy's voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that annoys people. I think we chased them away,
Speaker 1: though again, who knows he might be back. But eighty
Speaker 1: percent of people say it upsets them. Do hear their
Speaker 1: own voice? Their own voice? So yeah, I'm in that category.
Speaker 4: It's weird. It's like how actors are uncomfortable sometimes watching
Speaker 4: their work back on the big screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and on Benny versus the Penny, it was a
Speaker 1: little cringe worthy to watch that. Although the person I
Speaker 1: forget the person's name that I did the show with,
Speaker 1: they had no problem watching themselves on television.
Speaker 4: Here's time looney.
Speaker 1: It loved to watch themselves on television. They could not
Speaker 1: wait to watch themselves on television.
Speaker 4: Penny loved him some Penny.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I was like, oh boy, I
Speaker 1: look disgusting. Why would anyone watch it so bad? My god,
Speaker 1: it's horrible.
Speaker 4: That whole thing.
Speaker 1: Though a little different perspective, a little different perspective, But
Speaker 1: what happened? What else do we have? Let's see, over
Speaker 1: fifty eight million Americans did this in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: spending over fifty two billion in the process. Fifty eight
Speaker 1: million Americans twenty twenty two spent over fifty two billion
Speaker 1: in the process.
Speaker 4: This was when we were all ordering food. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say used a like a door dash app door
Speaker 4: dash app.
Speaker 1: That is incorrect. This is we were the answer we
Speaker 1: were looking for on pop quiz. Camping. We're looking at
Speaker 1: camping was the answer, Danny, didn't you and the wife
Speaker 1: you told the story you went? Not total camping was?
Speaker 1: What was it called? Was the term?
Speaker 4: It was fugasey camping. There was like, oh, lamping, lamping?
Speaker 1: Clamping?
Speaker 4: Was it? It's like half camping and half real roof
Speaker 4: over your head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like being a vegetarian and wanting to
Speaker 1: eat meat. You know, if you want a camp don't
Speaker 1: just go out there and camp. Although that place you
Speaker 1: sent me the link, it did look pretty cool.
Speaker 4: That place was cool. It was in Avala Beach, California.
Speaker 1: Will you be going back there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we will head back there. It's on a hill
Speaker 4: overlooking the ocean. It's pretty beautiful.
Speaker 1: Love driving up the California coast beautiful. It's a there's
Speaker 1: very few drives as cool as that up the coast.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll do one more and then we'll get
Speaker 1: to the mail bag. And over half of the sales
Speaker 1: of this item are at a convenience store. Over half
Speaker 1: the sales of this item are at a convenience store.
Speaker 1: And the person most associated with this item back in
Speaker 1: the day was a was a wrestler.
Speaker 4: Snip into a slim gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at you. You got that one right, Daddy.
Speaker 1: I set you up for that one, but you got
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 4: Slim gym. Well, I was actually gonna guess that before
Speaker 4: you said wrestler, because are you Yeah, because when I
Speaker 4: think snack at the gas station, I always ask my
Speaker 4: girl for a slim gym.
Speaker 1: You want to step into a slim gym?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is the correct answer. So reminds
Speaker 1: me of a guy I worked with. I've told the
Speaker 1: story a few times over the years, but this guy Wei,
Speaker 1: and when I was filling in doing for like two years,
Speaker 1: I did some shows for EI in Boston and this
Speaker 1: guy was a nighttime host, but he he had another job.
Speaker 1: He was a candy salesman. He was a lollipop salesman.
Speaker 1: And he talked to me one time off the air.
Speaker 1: We were talking about how the lollipop business works and
Speaker 1: that there's so much negotiation with these big stores like
Speaker 1: Target and Walmart. On product placement because so many people
Speaker 1: don't go to a store to buy a lollipop, but
Speaker 1: when they're waiting online to check out and they see
Speaker 1: a nice lollipop, they'll buy the lollipop. So it's a
Speaker 1: huge thing for these lollipop companies to get product placement
Speaker 1: right there where your checking out those last minute impulse purchases.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can suck on it and that'll make it better.
Speaker 1: That was I was clearly edited. I never never said
Speaker 1: what is what you're playing here? I never said that,
Speaker 1: let's get to the mail bag. Ready for the mailberg it's.
Speaker 4: Bag?
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Ohio. Our first one from Tommy
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati says Hey, Ben, Bennie the Brazen and Danny
Speaker 1: G a longtime listener here, a huge fan.
Speaker 4: Ben.
Speaker 1: I listened to the podcast working the dreaded day shift.
Speaker 1: It is convenience. I can hit the volume quick when
Speaker 1: you scream and yell, which is quite often. What do
Speaker 1: I do, Tommy? Number one? Like that?
Speaker 4: Turn that down for the listeners?
Speaker 1: All right? Tommy from since he says, my question when
Speaker 1: you are on the mic from the north Woods says,
Speaker 1: your lovely wife ever complain about your volume as she
Speaker 1: is trying to sleep. Keep up the amazing work. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Tommy. So yeah, I don't do the show
Speaker 1: from the home studio as often as I used to.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. And when we have house guests, I
Speaker 1: don't do it at all because I'll keep them up
Speaker 1: all night. But we have a pretty good system. My
Speaker 1: studio is away from most people. There's a guest room
Speaker 1: that we have, like an extra bedroom that is right
Speaker 1: next to the guest studio. So if we have a
Speaker 1: guest staying at the house, I'm screwed. I'm porked, not
Speaker 1: gonna work. But other than that, like everyone's far away
Speaker 1: and they can my wife can sleep, and she's usually
Speaker 1: the key is she goes to bed early enough where
Speaker 1: my scream and howling Tommy do not wake her up
Speaker 1: because she's already sleeping, and once you get to a
Speaker 1: certain point in sleep, she's a pretty good sleeper. I'm
Speaker 1: not a great sleeper, so it'd be more of a
Speaker 1: problem for me. But thank you for asking, Tommy, and
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to the podcast. And go have
Speaker 1: some skyline Chile with Andy Furman and Justin in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and just Josh if he's still around. He didn't really
Speaker 1: listen live anymore? All right, Ah, let's see would you rather? Will?
Speaker 1: From Dallas rights? And he's yet he's got three he
Speaker 1: says his shikola here is would you rather questions? I
Speaker 1: think he stole that from Nick and Wisconsin, so I
Speaker 1: don't think that's original.
Speaker 4: Will.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for would you rather questions? From Will?
Speaker 1: In Dallas?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 1: Let's do it all right? Would you rather have the
Speaker 1: ability to see ten minutes into the future or one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years into the future?
Speaker 4: Well, ten minutes, because what the hell good is one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty years is going to do for us?
Speaker 4: We're dead, exactly?
Speaker 1: You could one hundred and fifty years you could help out.
Speaker 1: You could help some people out in your family by
Speaker 1: investing in certain products, and the family would make a
Speaker 1: lot of money and maybe you'll be a hero, assuming
Speaker 1: they don't sell the stock when you're dead. But the
Speaker 1: ten minute thing you can make some money at because
Speaker 1: with in game betting, if you knew what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: ten minutes from now, you could freaking kill it. And
Speaker 1: think about just in the casino in general, playing roulette,
Speaker 1: playing poker. Perhaps if you knew for the text next
Speaker 1: ten minutes. How the dice we're going to roll in craps?
Speaker 4: Are you me on live radio shows? You could ruin
Speaker 4: everybody's punchlines?
Speaker 1: Oh well, well that's what Eddie does that anyway, he
Speaker 1: does not need me. How about shut up? What else
Speaker 1: do we have? Well will from Dallas, he says, would
Speaker 1: you rather have telekinesis? That's the ability of Danny to
Speaker 1: move things with your mind, or the ability to read minds,
Speaker 1: to have the ability to readmind so to move things
Speaker 1: or read mine. Uh, but if I think you start
Speaker 1: reading people's minds, you're not gonna like what you're reading.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Might go ahead, I'd go
Speaker 1: to a very people.
Speaker 4: To move things, though, Like, what are you gonna do
Speaker 4: with that skill.
Speaker 1: As a magician? Think if you were a magician, you
Speaker 1: could actually Like magic's all fake, but if you could
Speaker 1: actually move shit as a magician, Oh my god, you'd
Speaker 1: be the biggest show in Vegas. You'd have a Broadway show.
Speaker 1: You'd be huge, You'd you'd be a superhero. If you
Speaker 1: could move, actual move things, not not fake with strings
Speaker 1: and smoking mirrors, but to actually move things would be like.
Speaker 4: The Roy hobbes of magicians, though, suddenly show up with
Speaker 4: his major skill, and everybody in the magician world would
Speaker 4: be like, where the hell have you been your whole life?
Speaker 1: But the ability to read minds though, Danny Again, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get a lot of stuff you
Speaker 1: don't you don't want to know, although it could help
Speaker 1: you in certain areas if you're you're unsure you're a relationship,
Speaker 1: you're unsure if the other person kind of likes you
Speaker 1: or not for real, you can kind of get that answer.
Speaker 1: But is that really worth that much? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is our last one from Will would you rather?
Speaker 1: Will from Dallas says, would you rather give up air
Speaker 1: conditioning and heating for the rest of your life or
Speaker 1: give up the Internet for the rest.
Speaker 4: Of your life?
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one, actually, So I feel like
Speaker 1: the internet has all the answers and is also the
Speaker 1: creation of all the problems. But it takes up so
Speaker 1: much of our time, and it's almost impossible to do
Speaker 1: what we do now without the internet. So I'd have
Speaker 1: to give up my beloved air conditioning, and I would
Speaker 1: have to give up my heating. I just have to
Speaker 1: get fans that doesn't. That's not really air conditioning, right,
Speaker 1: fans and air conditioning, it's a fan.
Speaker 4: I am a monkey saying so I just.
Speaker 1: Have to get some fans.
Speaker 4: Well, when it's like one hundred and ten degrees in
Speaker 4: southern California, all the fan does is blow the hot
Speaker 4: air into your face. They're the vine.
Speaker 1: This is true. But with the Internet I could find
Speaker 1: a way to futs around with the fan. You know
Speaker 1: they have those old.
Speaker 4: Too, could hire topless maids to fan you.
Speaker 1: Well, there's that, but you could also you have those
Speaker 1: those like hokey fans, the original fans where they just
Speaker 1: put like a block of ice behind the fan and
Speaker 1: then the ice would melt and then the cold air
Speaker 1: from the ice would lead, you know, cool you down.
Speaker 1: That might be violating it. But would you give up
Speaker 1: the Internet for air conditioning, Danny? I?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I could make it through a
Speaker 4: Los Angeles summer without air conditioning. And how often you
Speaker 4: and I both visit our suburb of La which is
Speaker 4: Las Vegas. Gotta have it there, so I can't imagine
Speaker 4: not having AC.
Speaker 1: So you would give up the Internet? Danny G is
Speaker 1: willing to say goodbye to the micro blogging world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good rentance Steve in southern California. Right, so says Hey,
Speaker 1: I grew up watching the Dodgers in the nineties. I
Speaker 1: was a huge Mike Piazza fan. Does he still have
Speaker 1: a grudge with the team? Well, I'm Steve. I'm not
Speaker 1: his mother or his father. I don't think you are
Speaker 1: Danny either, So I'll tell you what I know. Piazza.
Speaker 1: I was there. I was covering the team when he
Speaker 1: was with the Dodgers, and he was the biggest stars
Speaker 1: in Sandy Kofax. Everyone loved Mike Piazza. People find this
Speaker 1: hard to believe, but he was a bigger deal than
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. At one point, he was the rock star
Speaker 1: of LA.
Speaker 4: There was a mural of him on the side of
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was bigger than life. Piazza. And then they
Speaker 1: traded him to the Marlins. Piazza thought he was going
Speaker 1: to get a contract. He was convinced he was going
Speaker 1: to spend his whole career with the Dodgers. He loved La,
Speaker 1: lived in the South Bay. He enjoyed all of the
Speaker 1: perks of LA you name it, all the debauchery you
Speaker 1: can get into in Los Ange.
Speaker 4: Angelas got several superstars from the Marlins, though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wonderful Charles Johnson who never made an error
Speaker 1: with the Marlins. And then we figured out the reason
Speaker 1: he never made an arrow because the official scorer was
Speaker 1: in the tank. He was catching in Miami anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Piazza got so upset that the Dodgers did not give
Speaker 1: him a the contract that he thought he was going
Speaker 1: to get and then be traded him did the unimaginable.
Speaker 1: It was May fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight, I believe was
Speaker 1: the day. It was sports radio night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1: Was our radio station was doing a promotion giving away
Speaker 1: these really cool radios. Never heard of them, imagine doing
Speaker 1: that these days, but they did. And that was the
Speaker 1: night the Dodgers were playing I believe Montreal, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, Piazza showed up with a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey
Speaker 1: and was traded. But the trade was held up because
Speaker 1: Gary Sheffield had a no trade clause and demanded more money.
Speaker 1: Otherwise he wasn't going to be part of the trade.
Speaker 1: Remember that Todd zeal was included in that. He went
Speaker 1: to the Marlins that's right. Was Jim Eisenwright, Gary Sheffield,
Speaker 1: Charles Johnson, and there was like some other like minor
Speaker 1: league player or something like that. So scrubs, Yeah didn't.
Speaker 1: We got Sheffield put up some good numbers, but they
Speaker 1: didn't never embraced the whole Dodger thing. It was just
Speaker 1: a phago. Mond Kevin from the Bay rights and he says, guys,
Speaker 1: with the A's leaving town soon, what are the chances
Speaker 1: that Oakland ends up getting another big league team in
Speaker 1: my lifetime?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know how old Kevin is.
Speaker 1: How old are you planning on living, Kevin, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be at least twenty five years, right, Danny, at least
Speaker 1: twenty five years minimum.
Speaker 4: Tucked about it on our podcast before. Crime and everything
Speaker 4: else has gotten so bad there in that area that
Speaker 4: people aren't trying to move in there. They're trying to
Speaker 4: get out of that area. It needs a big time cleanup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that does change. I mean politics change. California
Speaker 1: used to be conservative Ronald Rager.
Speaker 4: Right, But Ben, I've been waiting two decades for somebody
Speaker 4: to step in and help that city out.
Speaker 1: No, I hear you, But it's not going to last forever.
Speaker 1: I mean things, people of all people change. People get
Speaker 1: tired of the bullshit, get tired of having to close
Speaker 1: restaurants because of crime and all that, And at some
Speaker 1: point there'll be a sea change, but it's going to
Speaker 1: have to happen for a fair amount of time. But
Speaker 1: then the other thing is, you just need somebody who's
Speaker 1: really wealthy from Oakland that wants to bring back a
Speaker 1: baseball team to that area. But then you also have
Speaker 1: the Giants, who are a roebuck. You think the Giants
Speaker 1: are going to want to allow another team to come
Speaker 1: into their area, they can be like, no way, we're
Speaker 1: not going to do that. We now own all of
Speaker 1: northern California.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe if Sacramento has a good run here with
Speaker 4: the temporary A's, maybe potentially they can become a new
Speaker 4: MLB city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that. But you have the money people.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of tech people with money, tons of it.
Speaker 1: There's tons of rich people in northern California that could
Speaker 1: any one of them could buy the A's fifteen times
Speaker 1: over or buy a baseball team and put it in
Speaker 1: that area. But as you said, Danny, with the crime
Speaker 1: and the you know the the It's like Sodom and
Speaker 1: Gomara in parts of Oakland. Why would you put a
Speaker 1: team there? It makes no sense. At this point, Mike
Speaker 1: from Vegas resident says, this is for you. Danny said,
Speaker 1: I heard your story last week about Murphy's Law. I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you will count the bets that you
Speaker 1: don't make as wins with Covino and Rich you go?
Speaker 1: Are you now? I guess he's trying to He wants
Speaker 1: to know a if you don't bet, is that count
Speaker 1: as a win. And he wants to know if you're
Speaker 1: going to bet again going forward with those guests.
Speaker 4: What do you think like if you stay out of
Speaker 4: a bet that you wish you made.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna You're gonna do it? You're gonna put
Speaker 1: your money and I bet.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I That's what it boils down to is when
Speaker 4: I saw him in that four hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 4: in cold cast money in his hands, it ruined the
Speaker 4: rest of that night. So you're damn right, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do it next time, all right.
Speaker 1: Last one on the mailbag, JJ from Orlando, the home
Speaker 1: of Mickey Mouse rights in this as Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: I just found your overnight show recently, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to know how the heck have you found all these
Speaker 1: people that call your show, all the crazy people that
Speaker 1: call your show?
Speaker 4: Are they real?
Speaker 1: No, they're all fake. I'm like Phil Henry, No, no, JJ.
Speaker 1: This is one of the things we talked about this
Speaker 1: a little bit on the Friday podcast where I did
Speaker 1: the deep dive on the Henri documentary as I gave
Speaker 1: a Malor film review, and you can check that out
Speaker 1: when you're done listening to this podcast, which is almost over.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, JJ. My special skill is the zany
Speaker 1: people that call talk radio. It's like a moth to
Speaker 1: a flame. They find the show, they find me out.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we've always been able to pull
Speaker 1: this off over the years. Yes, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: they are all real people. There are some that I
Speaker 1: thought were fake, like Genie and Medford that turned out
Speaker 1: to be real people. Oh that isn't funny. These are
Speaker 1: people living amongst us, JJ. These are your neighbors, these
Speaker 1: are your relatives, these are your fellow human beings out there.
Speaker 1: So anyway we'll get out on that. I'll be back.
Speaker 1: I should be back tonight all assuming everything goes well.
Speaker 1: With the travel today should be back and we'll recap
Speaker 1: all that happened over the last couple of days in
Speaker 1: the sporting world. Danny, anything you want to promote here
Speaker 1: on this Sunday.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I have a show for you. I have
Speaker 4: a little homework assignment for you. All right. Earlier on
Speaker 4: the podcast, we talked about magicians. Yeah, there's a cool
Speaker 4: new show on Netflix. Justin Willman is a pretty well
Speaker 4: known magician. He's got a new show called The Magic
Speaker 4: Prank Show. Really good. You should check that out. Justin Willman,
Speaker 4: The Magic Prank.
Speaker 1: Show and this on Netflix.
Speaker 4: You said, yeah, it's on Netflix, all right, I'll check
Speaker 4: it out. I thought of you. But he was doing
Speaker 4: little tricks getting ready for the pranks. I'm like, I
Speaker 4: bet you Ben would like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm into magic. I like the whole magic thing.
Speaker 1: I would have been a great magician. When I went
Speaker 1: to Disneyland, my parents probably thought I was a little
Speaker 1: on the spectrum because I would just want to go
Speaker 1: to the magic Shop at Disneyland. I love the Magic Shop.
Speaker 1: I loved all the gags at the Magic Shop. That
Speaker 1: was where I wanted to be. Wreck there on Main Street, USA.
Speaker 4: Little did they know you were going to turn out
Speaker 4: to be the next Steve Martin.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely all right, have a great rest all of
Speaker 1: your day. We will catch you next weekend on the pot.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight eleven o'clock in the West, two
Speaker 1: am Monday morning in the East with a fresh week
Speaker 1: of the original recipe Ben Mathers Show, And we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you then later.
Speaker 4: Skater got a murder. I gotta go.