Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy podcast
Speaker 1: that's here every single freaking day. As we head into
Speaker 1: what will be a glorious second day of the month
Speaker 1: of June. Where's the time gone? June was almost over?
Speaker 1: Already second day, unless it's not almost over. We got
Speaker 1: a long way to go. But this is fun. The
Speaker 1: next month, next couple months. Weather, it's great, right, whether
Speaker 1: it's solid, get to go out, great outdoors. Sports radio.
Speaker 1: This is what separates the children from the adults, those
Speaker 1: that can still produce. They you'repelling sports talk radio show.
Speaker 2: This doesn't have the number one station anymore.
Speaker 3: It's let's hope Ben, that gas does not hit seven
Speaker 3: dollars a gallon here in California because they know that
Speaker 3: we're driving to you know, see family and vacation a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's uh, it's guaranteed. As we talked about.
Speaker 1: I think we talk about this podcast. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but the gas tax, which is going to go up
Speaker 1: fifty cents next year and then fifty cent can.
Speaker 3: To talk about that on the podcast?
Speaker 1: I guess we didn't talk about it all right, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a story that there's a it's written into the
Speaker 1: law unless they change it. In California in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: the gas tax is going to go up fifty cents
Speaker 1: a gallon, and then the following year it's going to
Speaker 1: go up another fifty cents. So that means without even
Speaker 1: the oil companies, you know, the Saudi government raising the
Speaker 1: price of oil opek, it's guaranteed to go up one dollar.
Speaker 1: It's already we're already paying over two dollars, like two
Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents more than the rest of the country.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be three point fifty in California more per gallon.
Speaker 3: Come on, two years and bullshit. On Friday's podcast, I
Speaker 3: made a moped joke about Lorena. I'm gonna be buying
Speaker 3: a moped. I'm gonna get one of those little ninjas
Speaker 3: that New Addition used to ride in their music video
Speaker 3: Gas Yourself Up Man Gassed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know already. Get those electric bikes. They
Speaker 1: go up to like eighty miles an hour. Now, just
Speaker 1: get an electric bike.
Speaker 3: I have an e bike. I don't think it's okay
Speaker 3: for the freeway though.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, I'll get an ee bike. I'll be the
Speaker 1: fat guy on a knee bike. I mean, it's so stupid.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take these chicken wings to the neck. Yeah,
Speaker 3: fat guy on a knee bike.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're gonna wait and neverly. Every year or so,
Speaker 1: the oil companies decide they need more money the OPEQ folks,
Speaker 1: and they gouge the price of gas. And at that
Speaker 1: point that well, we should do something about this. Will
Speaker 1: you be proactive? They're never proactive. Politicians always reactive, right,
Speaker 1: always reactive, never proactive.
Speaker 3: It's a well, maybe when our next president is sitting
Speaker 3: in prison, he can he can help us with a
Speaker 3: bill to end this madness. We didn't do.
Speaker 2: Anything wrong, very innocent man.
Speaker 1: That'll be the ultimate who am I game? Who am
Speaker 1: I I am the first president to pardon myself while
Speaker 1: while being my first day as president. What a what
Speaker 1: a word?
Speaker 3: I got a letter from the government the other day.
Speaker 3: I opened and read it. It said they were suckers.
Speaker 3: I want them to do a music video like Tupac
Speaker 3: from behind Bars. That would be awesome.
Speaker 1: H so so good, so good. All, let's get to
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Are you ready for the bag? What's
Speaker 1: in the bag?
Speaker 3: The mag? Mag mag, the mail bag?
Speaker 1: What's in the box. It's all right, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: ohio al. And these are actual letters send in by
Speaker 1: actual listeners like yourself. If you would like to send
Speaker 1: a letter in and you're not AI, you're a real person,
Speaker 1: we'd love to have that. And I stop putting this
Speaker 1: on Facebook. Maybe I should put this on Facebook again.
Speaker 1: I stopped. I said, you know, people, we have enough
Speaker 1: people now listening to this podcast. We don't really need
Speaker 1: to horror sell about on Facebook. Maybe I'll do that
Speaker 1: every once in a while. But write this down. Put
Speaker 1: this in your phone. I probably don't have a pen
Speaker 1: who writes, you know, stuff down. Real fifth hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: is the way to approach this. Real fifth hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and we will said right now, you
Speaker 1: will use your question. If it's somewhat decent, if we
Speaker 1: have time to get to it, we will use it.
Speaker 1: We would love to have you be part of this.
Speaker 1: We've had some new names recently in the mail bag,
Speaker 1: which is great. We love our regulars, we love the base,
Speaker 1: the core base, but we also like hearing new people
Speaker 1: contact the show. First one up is someone that we
Speaker 1: are not I'm not familiar with this person. Maybe they
Speaker 1: were at the event they're in Tempede, Danny g Mike
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. On the mail bag, he says, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: do you guys see the story this week that Chipotle
Speaker 1: customers are filming the food being made. Yes, they think
Speaker 1: they can get didn't you you sent me the story?
Speaker 2: Did?
Speaker 3: Yes? I did. We didn't do.
Speaker 1: Foody fun this weekend. But Mike said, the people have
Speaker 1: been filming their food being prepared, trying to get more
Speaker 1: bigger portions of.
Speaker 3: Food because the influencers have been going in and filming
Speaker 3: their bulls or burritos being made, and whenever the employees
Speaker 3: are on camera, they stack they pile the ingredients high.
Speaker 3: So now random people are going in pretending like they're
Speaker 3: filming or just filming for fun to put pressure on
Speaker 3: the Chipotle employees. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Mike's question is Ben and Dandy, do you think
Speaker 1: this actually works? Is I you want to go first?
Speaker 1: I go for it. I think yes, yes, yes, it
Speaker 1: does work. I do watch those foodie things on Instagram.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 1: The only things on Instagram are food bloggers, travel bloggers,
Speaker 1: and women shoving their ass in the camera. That's about it, right,
Speaker 1: Is there anything else on Instagram? And I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with any of those, and some I like
Speaker 1: more than others. But anyway, yeah, I totally when I
Speaker 1: see food of bloggers, and it's not just Chipotle. There's
Speaker 1: a guy that I follow and he goes to order
Speaker 1: pastrami at the hat and they pile like two pounds
Speaker 1: of pastrami on this guy's sandwich because he's recording it exactly.
Speaker 3: There's evidence and they don't want to look chinzy in
Speaker 3: front of the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there's a thing that I've talked about a few
Speaker 1: times every year is called the hawthorn effect. Are you
Speaker 1: familiar with the hawthorn effect? No, it's this goes way back.
Speaker 1: There was a study done with factory workers about productivity.
Speaker 1: And they determined that productivity increased when people were being recorded,
Speaker 1: when they were being observed, that it manifested. You know,
Speaker 1: people were motivated to uh to actually work, and when
Speaker 1: they weren't being recorded, they didn't work as hard. It
Speaker 1: was a behavioral study and all that they called the
Speaker 1: Hawthorn effect, where people they know they're being recorded, they're
Speaker 1: they're going to clean up their acts. They're going to
Speaker 1: present a better, better, better effort whatever. You're not going
Speaker 1: to steal as much. People gonna act nicer.
Speaker 3: But my question, Ben really quick, the employee, your last
Speaker 3: name's not Chipotle, You're not mister or missus Chipoltle. So
Speaker 3: why are you being such a tight ass, a tightwad
Speaker 3: with the servings until you get on camera. Why can't
Speaker 3: you hook people up with their money's worth so that
Speaker 3: they'll come back to your restaurant again and again.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with you, and I have not. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I should admit this, but I have
Speaker 1: stopped going to restaurants. When I go in there and
Speaker 1: it's a restaurant where you can see them preparing your food,
Speaker 1: it's like and there's like a scoop of rice, and
Speaker 1: if there's one more grain of rice in there, they
Speaker 1: take it out, you know, because it's too much.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then like they do this at Panda Express sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when they weigh that really pisses me off.
Speaker 1: When they like they weigh each portion of the meal.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, come on, are you that hard up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you struggling that much?
Speaker 3: You got it subway started doing that, remember, And people
Speaker 3: are like, I'm out. I don't like the taste of
Speaker 3: this place anyways.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little much to me. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're that, if the margins are that thing, you might
Speaker 1: want to just close your business down. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: Just move on. But I'm glad, thank you, Mike. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to mention that we didn't do Foody Fun.
Speaker 1: I was gonna mention it in Foody Fun. We didn't
Speaker 1: have time to get to it over the weekend. So
Speaker 1: you did send me that, Danny, And so I'm glad Mike.
Speaker 1: Mike mentioned that. Next one up on the mailbag, he'll
Speaker 1: Mike writes, and he says, hey, big Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make you Ben feel old, but
Speaker 1: now you know, Danny, when you hear the word butt
Speaker 1: is what is my rule? The rule of rules here right.
Speaker 1: Everything a person says before the word butt is a lie.
Speaker 3: Yep, or with all due respect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lie, lie, lie lie. Everything a person says before
Speaker 1: the word butt is a lie. So when you say,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make you feel old, but you
Speaker 1: know what's coming next, He'll billy. Mike writes, When I
Speaker 1: went from loading trucks at ups to being a tractor
Speaker 1: trailer driver class of two thousand in Richmond, Virginia, I
Speaker 1: discovered you on AM radio Stames. I quickly made a
Speaker 1: list of AM stations up and down the East Coast
Speaker 1: so I could try to keep up with you as
Speaker 1: each station died off. Praise the Lord for iHeart and podcast.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey you Jesus. He'll billy Mike continues Saturday,
Speaker 1: June first, he says, so yesterday, today's a second is
Speaker 1: my official retirement date, and I wanted to thank you
Speaker 1: and the different iterations of your late night crew for
Speaker 1: getting me through twenty four years in feeders from start
Speaker 1: to finish. He says, no promises, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: try not to drop off of the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: Love you guys signed, He'll Billy Mike. Wow, Well, Dravo.
Speaker 1: We don't do shout outs on the radio show, but
Speaker 1: that it is awesome, tremendous honor and I love He'll
Speaker 1: Billy Mike. That really fires me up that you were
Speaker 1: able to listen all these years. I'm flattered. I will
Speaker 1: brag to my wife about you. I will brag at
Speaker 1: when I have to do small talk. You know, he'll
Speaker 1: Billy Mike. I don't like doing small talk, but I
Speaker 1: will bring this up. That is outstanding in a major
Speaker 1: pump of the ego. That's why I got into radio.
Speaker 1: We're old, Danny, but I used to love listening the
Speaker 1: far away radio stations and trying to I pulled the story.
Speaker 1: I would listen to Phoenix. I grew up in southern California.
Speaker 1: I would listen to Phoenix Suns broadcast.
Speaker 3: YEP with Al McCoy.
Speaker 1: Late at night, I would get Utah right, Utah Jazz
Speaker 1: out of Saint George, Utah with hot Rod Huntley. I
Speaker 1: got the Golden State Warrior Games on KNBR. I got
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings Games.
Speaker 3: Did you ever hear those bums broadcasting Giants games?
Speaker 1: I did? I did hear the Giants broadcast. I even
Speaker 1: heard I'm so old. I heard the Phoenix Firebirds, the
Speaker 1: Triple A team in Phoenix, the Triple A baseball team
Speaker 1: music when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Do you ever hear Bill King doing Oakland.
Speaker 1: A's Oh yes, the legend, Oh Bill King? And I
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to meet him. What a cool dude,
Speaker 1: Bill King. I love that that guy.
Speaker 3: Man, dude. I got to hear two of the best
Speaker 3: baseball guys growing up. Half my family in La the
Speaker 3: other half in the Bay. So I grew up with
Speaker 3: Vin Skull and of course broadcasting Oakland A's games Bill
Speaker 3: King and Raiders games for that matter.
Speaker 1: Bill King was awesome and I did do the Coca
Speaker 1: Cola road befoort for the Oakland Athletics in my early
Speaker 1: days in radio, and when the A's would come to Anaheim.
Speaker 1: They didn't play Dodger Stadium in those days, there was
Speaker 1: no inn League play, but when they'd come to Anaheim
Speaker 1: they did several times a year. I got to hang
Speaker 1: out in the broadcast booth with the A's broadcasters, and
Speaker 1: they were not great at that time. It was kind
Speaker 1: of in between. Remember they had the eighties early nineties,
Speaker 1: they had some really good teams and then there was
Speaker 1: like a dark period in the mid nineties where they
Speaker 1: weren't very good. And that was kind of the period
Speaker 1: where I was around the A's a little bit, but
Speaker 1: Bill King was the play by play and Ken Korak
Speaker 1: was just starting and I just I ran into Ken
Speaker 1: last year and it looks like he's you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna how many more years he's
Speaker 1: gonna do this, Probably gonna retire, but they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a Sacramento exy.
Speaker 3: I say, you've been around for his entire career.
Speaker 1: But he'll Billy Mike Man big big things.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, that was awesome to hear that. So shouts
Speaker 3: out to you hill Billy Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I will tell you hill Billy Mike from
Speaker 1: doing these Malla meet and greets. And a lot of
Speaker 1: the boys that listen are kind of they're tired. They
Speaker 1: can stay up all night and listen and they can
Speaker 1: do whatever they want, and so we don't want you
Speaker 1: to stop. I mean, you can listen whatever you want
Speaker 1: with the podcast. You don't have to stay up all night,
Speaker 1: but you got nothing else to do. Fred from Florida
Speaker 1: writes and says, hey, Ben, Danny, I heard your story
Speaker 1: Ben this past Monday night. He's I was actually Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: He says, your story about the intersection takeover, It was
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Which one of you guys would be better
Speaker 1: at doing donuts in an intersection? My vote goes to.
Speaker 3: Danny say, well, you don't even know how to drive
Speaker 3: a stick.
Speaker 1: I know how to eat donuts. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to I don't know. I don't. No, that's not yet,
Speaker 1: but I'll let you know if I changed my team
Speaker 1: on that. But but no, I don't. I would be paranoid.
Speaker 1: I was going to crash into a signal or kill someone,
Speaker 1: So I would not be good at that. Have you
Speaker 1: ever done donuts, Dandy back when you learn how to drive?
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: In an empty parking lot. But I've never done it
Speaker 3: around other cars or people because I would take two
Speaker 3: or three out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Liability, lie, Lie, I don't have.
Speaker 3: That kind of insurance. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My other thing, Fred, you know, I'm I'm a tight wad,
Speaker 1: So I'd be like, I'm screwing up my tires. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go on you know, tire rack and
Speaker 1: get more tires. You know, I can't burn the rubber here.
Speaker 1: That's not good for the tires, not good at all.
Speaker 1: Ted writes in from Kansas City, says, they've been how
Speaker 1: come Eddie doesn't give the Royal score but he gives
Speaker 1: w NBA scores. Your show is on the Royals home
Speaker 1: six ' ten sports in Kansas City?
Speaker 3: Who Goofed?
Speaker 1: I gotta know, all right, so this is actually funny, Ted,
Speaker 1: my friend Bob Fesco. I go on with Bob on
Speaker 1: his show every Thursday morning. I do a spot like
Speaker 1: ten minutes on Fesco in the morning and Bob tells
Speaker 1: me that they have a text line. You'll get a
Speaker 1: kick out of this, Danny. So Bob tells me they
Speaker 1: have a text line. We're called you know like we
Speaker 1: used to have remember the Fox text line back in
Speaker 1: the day. So they have a text line. They still
Speaker 1: have it, and he says almost every morning they will
Speaker 1: have a text when they come in to do their
Speaker 1: morning show someone complaining that Eddie didn't give the Royal score.
Speaker 1: And so now we are this guy Ted. Ready, I've
Speaker 1: tried to explain to Eddie. I'm like, Eddie, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you do games of note, but we're on
Speaker 1: you know, certain cities, and the Royals actually do not suck, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they're actually they were supposed to suck.
Speaker 3: What else do you think they see on this text line? Though?
Speaker 3: After your show, Andrea, make it stop fifteen minutes? What's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 1: That's only justin in Cincinnati. But but yeah, no, so
Speaker 1: it's it's I've told Eddie. I get the sense, though,
Speaker 1: when I complain to Eddie about something, I think he
Speaker 1: believes that I'm just kidding around. I don't think he
Speaker 1: thinks I'm being serious. That's probably a me problem, not
Speaker 1: a him problem. I just have over the years. My
Speaker 1: sarcasm is so powerful that Eddie he doesn't believe anything
Speaker 1: I say. But the Royals are right there. I mean
Speaker 1: there are a few games behind the Cleveland Guardians if
Speaker 1: you look at your American League standings, and the Royals
Speaker 1: are a wild card team.
Speaker 3: All right, I have an assignment. I have an assignment
Speaker 3: for your Big Bob starting tonight, going into the Monday
Speaker 3: Morning show. After Eddie does his update and leaves the
Speaker 3: Royals out, I want you to jump on and before
Speaker 3: you say thanks, Eddie, I want you to give the
Speaker 3: Royals score yourself every time. It's a great idea.
Speaker 1: That is a brilliant idea. And then I will increase
Speaker 1: my market share in Kansas City, which is the home
Speaker 1: of the Ben Mallor chicken figure.
Speaker 3: Exactly, Hello, Kansas City, you owe that city?
Speaker 1: Exactly? That's my town, all right? At the landing in
Speaker 1: Kansas City in Liberty, Missouri, Greater Kansas City area, just
Speaker 1: down the road from the Royals play and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: play that great sports complex. But in Liberty, Missouri, at
Speaker 1: the Landing they have the Mallard chicken fingers on the menu.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna start doing that. I'm gonna start,
Speaker 1: in fact, i'll start tonight. It'll be my fun fact.
Speaker 1: Can I do a bottom of the hour fun fact?
Speaker 1: That my fun fact will.
Speaker 3: Be the Royal Square. The text line is gonna be like,
Speaker 3: did you hear him giving the fun.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea, all right, Mike In the hometown
Speaker 1: of Kobe's favorite Mexican restaurant, Fullerton, right sin, he says, Hello, bandon, Danny.
Speaker 1: When you buy a dozen donuts, Mike Rights, how do
Speaker 1: you fill out your order? I tend to go with
Speaker 1: some glazed and chocolate East Donuts. A few Long John's,
Speaker 1: several cake donuts, one or two twists, and then I
Speaker 1: finish it off with a couple of cinnamon rolls. That
Speaker 1: says Mike, Well, this was actually the great debate cinnamon roll.
Speaker 1: This is the great debate that we had during the
Speaker 1: week because I pointed out, yeah, I merely pointed out,
Speaker 1: I'm right that the cinnamon roll is a donut. Every
Speaker 1: time I've gotten a Sina roll, it's at a donut okay,
Speaker 1: And so no it's not, you know yet again pushing back.
Speaker 3: So this is the perfect time to ask this. Then
Speaker 3: Alf the alien o Piner sent me a direct message
Speaker 3: and said Ben might interpret my question differently than you
Speaker 3: for the mail bag, So I want you to ask
Speaker 3: this question unbiased. Is a cinnamon roll a donut? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well yes, the answer is yes, it's you buy it
Speaker 1: at a donut shop.
Speaker 3: But it's a roll though.
Speaker 1: It's a donut roll, is what it is. It's a
Speaker 1: cinnamon donut roll, That's what it is.
Speaker 3: But like the cinnamon roll place that I go to
Speaker 3: in Pismo Beach, which, man, if you ever get to
Speaker 3: go to Piss Beach, California, oh man, you've been.
Speaker 1: There before, right, I have been there. I love having yea.
Speaker 3: So they have this cinnamon donut place, as you would
Speaker 3: call it, but it doesn't say donut. It says cinnamon's.
Speaker 1: That's their problem, not a meat problem.
Speaker 3: Down the street there's a donut shop and it says donuts.
Speaker 3: Here it says cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 2: Pillowy, soft, buttery, melt in your mouth, wonders.
Speaker 1: I will settle this once and for all. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will settle this once and for all. I had a
Speaker 1: conversation with a cinnamon roll before I ate it. I
Speaker 1: had a conversation the cinnamon roll informed me it identifies
Speaker 1: as a donut. It's that's what it's used to. It
Speaker 1: uses the donut bathroom. So the cinnamon roll is a donut. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is a donut. In fact, I have this. How
Speaker 1: about Berry in South Carol. I met Berry Yo Yo
Speaker 1: Ma Benny previously in Nashville. He says, okay uh. He says,
Speaker 1: if these other guys say it has to be a hole,
Speaker 1: have a hole to be a donut, how can they
Speaker 1: explain the parlor donuts? He says, this is a donut
Speaker 1: place with many locations, and most of the donuts they
Speaker 1: sell don't have a hole. And these donuts are amazing,
Speaker 1: but they call them donuts. And these are just a
Speaker 1: few of the awesome donut flavors. He said, a picture
Speaker 1: here of the different flavored don't wait exactly and very
Speaker 1: air high five to my guy Barry. All right, my guy,
Speaker 1: because you also he showed me a photo from food Line,
Speaker 1: which is a big grocery store chain in the South,
Speaker 1: bigger than Pigley Wiggly in the Carolinas, and they sell
Speaker 1: in their baked goods. They have food Lion Bakery. Cinnamon
Speaker 1: rolled donuts is what they have.
Speaker 3: Aha, I just found this online. The cinnamon roll is
Speaker 3: a variation of a donut. So that's not a donut,
Speaker 3: it's a variation of one.
Speaker 1: Well, it's got donut DNA h. And that's good enough
Speaker 1: for me. That that is more than good enough for me.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. Outstanding, out f and standing, okay.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what Google says. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: need Google.
Speaker 3: You care about every other thing it says.
Speaker 1: Well, I am selective. I pick and choose what I
Speaker 1: choose to believe. And I'm on the right side of history.
Speaker 1: And I'll enjoy my cinnamon rolls. And you, you evil people.
Speaker 1: Next time you eat a cinnamon roll, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: heartburned because of the evil anti cinnamon role position that
Speaker 1: you have taken. Okay, I stand, I stand with the
Speaker 1: cinnamon roll.
Speaker 3: But thank you, Bill, you just called it a role.
Speaker 1: Anyway, al Fright's in the aforementioned nowf he says, from
Speaker 1: the death dedication mail bag with Snuggles, the dog that
Speaker 1: is still that is so so wonderful. Snuggle is also
Speaker 1: the mascot for a certain cleaning product.
Speaker 4: But he was a little dog named Snuggles. But he
Speaker 4: was most certainly a prior. That's gonna start again him
Speaker 4: coming out of the record. See when you come out
Speaker 4: of those up tempo numbers, man, it's impossible to make
Speaker 4: those transitions.
Speaker 3: And then you got to.
Speaker 4: Go into somebody dying. Okay, I want a concerted effort
Speaker 4: to come out of a record that isn't a tempo record.
Speaker 4: Every time I do a death dedication.
Speaker 1: So good casey casem sick and tired of doing having
Speaker 1: an upbeat song, and I gotta do a death dedication
Speaker 1: upbeat record. Oh yeah, so so wonderful. Anyway, Alpha says,
Speaker 1: have either of you ever requested a song on the radio. Also,
Speaker 1: have you ever taped music off the radio? He says, yes,
Speaker 1: I am that old. No, I never. I never did that.
Speaker 1: I did call I was a kid caller to radio.
Speaker 1: I used to call radio shows when as a kid,
Speaker 1: I did get tapes of people. My friends would record
Speaker 1: music they wanted me to hear because they thought it
Speaker 1: was really cool. But I never did the actual record.
Speaker 1: I did record the Jim Healy Show, which was a
Speaker 1: huge fan of when I was a kid, on cassette
Speaker 1: tape because that's all we had before podcasting, so I had.
Speaker 1: I did that, but that that was about it. Did
Speaker 1: you ever call up a radio station, Danny, before you
Speaker 1: started radio when you were about nine?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I called my coworkers. They're like, you little shit kid,
Speaker 3: it's bad enough you're already in our studios here as
Speaker 3: a I don't know. I guess I was in junior
Speaker 3: high school at the time. But we did it in
Speaker 3: elementary school, my older brother and I. We would tape
Speaker 3: radio segments every day, songs every day, and what you
Speaker 3: would look for is the moment they would play your
Speaker 3: favorite song at the time without talking over the intro.
Speaker 3: That was how you got a copy of the song
Speaker 3: without paying for it, or before it maybe it was
Speaker 3: not even available yet at the warehouse Music or wherever
Speaker 3: Sam Goodies, wherever you bought your music from. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we would record play and record the buttons down at
Speaker 3: the same time every single day on our boombox. It
Speaker 3: was majestic, and then calling in. I remember one time
Speaker 3: calling one six km el in the Bay Area asking
Speaker 3: for Skilo I Wish and the DJ said, man, I
Speaker 3: like your voice, I like your vibe. I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: you on the radio. And he hangs up and I'm like,
Speaker 3: am I gonna be on the radio next? And sure
Speaker 3: enough he played our phone conversation back and it was
Speaker 3: the overnight guy Ben So I was on there are
Speaker 3: sixty thousand watts of power, like at one in the morning.
Speaker 3: And I remember bragging to everyone the next day, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was on camel last night, come.
Speaker 1: On awesome, right it was. I used to call up
Speaker 1: so many radios. I called the show in Vegas. I've
Speaker 1: told this story a few times over the years, but
Speaker 1: I was a regular on this this radio show in
Speaker 1: Vegas that was on overnight, and I knew I wasn't
Speaker 1: very good as a caller, like I just knew it.
Speaker 1: You know, I was a kid and I'm talking to
Speaker 1: grown ups here, and this one show would keep me
Speaker 1: on the air for a very long time.
Speaker 3: You're like the kid caller we used to have call
Speaker 3: in on the Ben Mallard Show.
Speaker 1: Antonio, you're talking about it, yes, yeah, and TONI is
Speaker 1: probably in college now. But anyway, geez, time does fly,
Speaker 1: my god. Nonetheless, So I used to call up and
Speaker 1: then one time I was like, I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: are so cool. I mean, I really think I know
Speaker 1: you got other callers and you put me on.
Speaker 3: No, we don't.
Speaker 1: You're the only You're the only call we have. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much why why they kept me on the air,
Speaker 1: because they had no one else. Yeah, it happens, Kwang,
Speaker 1: he says in Vietnam. In Vietnam writes, and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, Daddy g He says, Daddy, I tend
Speaker 1: to favor blue bottle caps subconsciously when purchasing water. What
Speaker 1: is your all favorite? And then he says, and I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. The different colors of water bottle caps
Speaker 1: often indicate different types of water. Did you know that?
Speaker 3: Danny had no idea?
Speaker 1: I had no idea either what is your favorite type
Speaker 1: of cap of a water bottle or favorite color?
Speaker 3: Well, smart water is my favorite water to drink. I've
Speaker 3: never paid attention to the bottle cap color though. Well.
Speaker 1: According to Kwang, who says he's in Vietnam, he says
Speaker 1: white or clear caps usually used for regular or purified
Speaker 1: drinking water. If it has a blue cap, that often
Speaker 1: is used for spring or mineral water. A green cap
Speaker 1: often indicates that the water is flavored or infused with
Speaker 1: natural flavors like lime, cucumber, or mint. I don't know
Speaker 1: that's true, though. Isn't aquafina green? And that's not They
Speaker 1: don't have lime.
Speaker 3: The actual water is green. The cap I'm like, is
Speaker 3: green inside? Is it?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the sign? Maybe maybe that's cheap one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they don't. It's not flavored with lime. Quang says
Speaker 1: red in most cases. In some cases, rather red caps
Speaker 1: signify sparkling or carbonated water, and black occasionally used for
Speaker 1: alkaline or premium water products. Racist A couple of thoughts. A.
Speaker 1: This is really cool. B. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is true or not. Maybe you made it up. I
Speaker 1: don't know it's I want to believe it so there's that.
Speaker 1: And see, much like you, Danny, I've never paid that
Speaker 1: close attention. I usually get Kirkling brand water bottles, which
Speaker 1: are just clear or white, so I guess that's just
Speaker 1: regular purified drinking water, nothing special.
Speaker 3: Regular old white.
Speaker 1: I just go to South Carolina, all right, anyway's Reggie writes.
Speaker 1: In next she says, hey Ben and Danny, hey Ben,
Speaker 1: I loved your monologue about Jorye Lopez mound meltdown with
Speaker 1: the Mets this week. If either of you guys won
Speaker 1: the lottery, would you storm off the radio in dramatic
Speaker 1: fashion A Laho Lopez. But but Reggie, hory Lopez didn't
Speaker 1: storm off because he won the lottery. He had a
Speaker 1: bad day. That's why he stormed off, not because things
Speaker 1: were going well. So that's not a great, great question.
Speaker 1: But Danny, if you want it, you want it big.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of money, Maybe you inherited money
Speaker 1: from a relative you didn't know existed and they died
Speaker 1: and gave you all their money.
Speaker 3: Would you No, I would dramatically purchase the radio network,
Speaker 3: not make any changes, but have a staff meeting and
Speaker 3: announce to the staff that no changes are going to
Speaker 3: be made. Yeah. Would you give everyone more money though,
Speaker 3: that would be part of the change. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be a change. That would be a change.
Speaker 3: So I would give everybody a raise, but I would
Speaker 3: close the gap between the hosts and the production crew.
Speaker 3: Way back in the day, whoever set that up set
Speaker 3: it up really poorly.
Speaker 1: This is probably not gonna make you feel very good,
Speaker 1: but when Fox Sports Radio started, they paid producers a
Speaker 1: whole lot of money. At some point along the way,
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we got to cook caf so we'll
Speaker 1: just cut back and pay the.
Speaker 3: Producer, the ones who we sit on the shoulders of
Speaker 3: the most. Let's cut their pay.
Speaker 1: No, but I remember they hired when the network started,
Speaker 1: they had hired some big producers from ESPN, gotcha, brought
Speaker 1: them here, and they paid them a lot of money,
Speaker 1: like they were making, probably.
Speaker 3: Probably hoping they could book some really good guests and
Speaker 3: do all that, right.
Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know what their motivation was, but
Speaker 1: they paid them a lot of money. And you know, slowly,
Speaker 1: I know, and not really slowly. Over the years, it's
Speaker 1: gone down, down, down, down, down, down, down down down,
Speaker 1: unfortunately mass high.
Speaker 3: I mean, not for me. I'm rich, but of course
Speaker 3: the other producers. I want to look out for them.
Speaker 1: Yes, me too, as I do podcasts or radio shows
Speaker 1: every day of the week. Masshole Matt right since says
Speaker 1: he's no relation to masshole Mickey. He says, I love
Speaker 1: hearing your show. Driving my trash truck around Boston. I
Speaker 1: listened on the sports that well, thank you, because without
Speaker 1: the trash truck everything starts smelling.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Do you have an update on your TV show? Has
Speaker 1: it been canceled or picked.
Speaker 3: Up before we talked yesterday?
Speaker 1: We talked about this yesterday, but I don't know. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll be back. I haven't heard anything. Probably will know,
Speaker 1: you know the way this works from last year next.
Speaker 1: I would say by the end of this month, probably
Speaker 1: closer to the middle of this month, I'll know whether
Speaker 1: it's gonna be picked up or not. But I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything. I'm optimistic. I've heard, you know, I've rumors
Speaker 1: that things are going in the right direction, but uh, Danny,
Speaker 1: as you know, until you actually get things presented, it's uh.
Speaker 3: You could follow.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: I heard rumors that they may want the original penny.
Speaker 1: Oh well, hey, listen, you never know. If you know
Speaker 1: Looney I asked for too much money or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if he wore one too many green shirts
Speaker 3: on set.
Speaker 1: With the green screen behind him, just outstanding, that'll be
Speaker 1: in my book. All Right, have a wonderful I'll get
Speaker 1: out on that, have a wonderful Sunday, enjoy the rest
Speaker 1: of your weekend. I'll be back tonight though, And I
Speaker 1: got remember to give those royal scores.
Speaker 3: To get Yeah, please make a note set an alarm
Speaker 3: on your phone right now. That way it reminds you.
Speaker 1: All Right, very good, Danny. You'll be back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we'll have a fun Monday show with the
Speaker 3: game Last One Standing, which features Ben Maller's voice in
Speaker 3: the open I love and that is That is of
Speaker 3: course two hours two to four pm on the West
Speaker 3: Coast and five to seven pm in Stanford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: There you go where NBC is headquarteredt Stanford, Connedickut. Yeah
Speaker 1: the peacock. All right, pete good. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 3: Austa pasta got a murder. I gotta go,