Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny g Ready. But you already knew that, as
Speaker 1: we bloviate eight days a week, a spin off of
Speaker 1: the overnight show, The Ben Mahler Show, And of course
Speaker 1: this is obviously only available in the podcast format. Danny
Speaker 1: g You hear him on with Covino and Rich during
Speaker 1: the week on Fox, and he used to work on
Speaker 1: the show. If you're new to the show, because it's
Speaker 1: been a while, Danny since you worked with me on
Speaker 1: the the actual radio show like every day and so
Speaker 1: the audience always turns over. But Danny was with us
Speaker 1: for a number of years and he went off worked
Speaker 1: with Klay Travis for a while on his show, and
Speaker 1: now he's with Covino and rich and we do this
Speaker 1: podcast on the weekends and this is Sunday, and that
Speaker 1: means it's the mail bag. What is going on? Rather
Speaker 1: than we? Rather than us? Just go on, I think
Speaker 1: we should talk to Ohio al and I have n't played
Speaker 1: some music here.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, let's go. Let's celebrate my ten years at
Speaker 3: the network with Ohio au.
Speaker 1: It's's mail bag? Is that right? Ten years?
Speaker 3: Gonna be ten years when we get to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: So closing in on my tenth year at the network.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Mazotov. Ten years, Oh man.
Speaker 3: When we get to December, what do they give you.
Speaker 1: For ten years? What I forget?
Speaker 3: They didn't a run? DMC wrote gold chain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave me a pink slip.
Speaker 3: Actually, I think they hired me.
Speaker 1: On my tenth Anniverse but then they brought me back
Speaker 1: six months and twenty six days later. Well, congratulations. These
Speaker 1: jobs are hard to get and they're hard to keep,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it's a good, good deal, very nice.
Speaker 1: And yeah, once you cross certain thresholds, like we went
Speaker 1: past twenty years a couple of years ago, me and Eddie,
Speaker 1: so we just kind of don't talk about it. We're
Speaker 1: just like past past twenty.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, it's like once you get into your mid
Speaker 3: twenties with birthdays, you don't pay attention to them anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, No, No, I'm shocked as old as I am.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't believe I'm that old? How did
Speaker 1: that happen? Who fucked up? How did that happen? That's
Speaker 1: not supposed to I'm not supposed to be that old.
Speaker 3: Come on, isn't it weird when you think about the
Speaker 3: age we're at right now and think about what was
Speaker 3: going on in your family when your parents were this
Speaker 3: same age?
Speaker 1: Mind blowing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really weird to think about.
Speaker 1: Can't wrap my head around it. I can't. I know,
Speaker 1: it just blows my mind. And it really snuck up
Speaker 1: on you, you know, it sneaks up on you. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: You just like live your life. And I was saying, like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, you know, don't stop and smell the flowers
Speaker 1: very often. All right. So with that said, on that
Speaker 1: positive note, we have the mail bag.
Speaker 3: Go kill yourself after this podcast. Make sure to listen
Speaker 3: to at least five minutes before you kill yourself.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's all good.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I know, anyway, as long as they come up with
Speaker 1: the AI that will cause us to live an extra
Speaker 1: fifty years anyway. So first one from Fred in Spring, Texas.
Speaker 1: He says, Oh, gentlemen, guys, when you are off vacations,
Speaker 1: et cetera, do you handpick your fill in or does
Speaker 1: it Fox Sports Radio assign a substitute. Do you have
Speaker 1: any input? Well, of course, tread. I have a spreadsheet out,
Speaker 1: I look at the economics on how much money the
Speaker 1: company has. I then go through my roll the decks
Speaker 1: and try to choose the person that's best fit to
Speaker 1: fill in. Unless that is not true, and I merely
Speaker 1: contact my boss and say I'm not working that day,
Speaker 1: and they say, go to hell. We're going to hire
Speaker 1: whoever the hell we want to do the show, and
Speaker 1: we'll probably find somebody who's better than you, who will
Speaker 1: work cheaper than you, enjoy your time off.
Speaker 3: What wasn't this made famous by the great Jim Rome,
Speaker 3: to hire a fill in host who is not as
Speaker 3: good as you so that the audience misses you and
Speaker 3: you come back and they're like, thank god you're back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You never want to be upstaged by the person that
Speaker 1: fills in for you. You know, and I got in trouble
Speaker 1: for that when I used to fill in for people
Speaker 1: the network guys. I heard from some of the other
Speaker 1: hosts they were bothered because I had a little cult
Speaker 1: following and it would annoy them because they got upset
Speaker 1: with me that people liked me sometimes more than them
Speaker 1: and that troubled them and they didn't want me filling
Speaker 1: in for them on some of the shows because of that,
Speaker 1: which is I don't even you know, I want good
Speaker 1: people because I get credit when somebody listens to the
Speaker 1: show when I'm when I'm not there, I still get
Speaker 1: credit for it. So I have the people here, but
Speaker 1: I have we have nothing to do. Jim Rome did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did pick the worst possibly, which is unfortunate because
Speaker 1: I knew several of the people that would fill in
Speaker 1: for Jim Rome and they were terrible, but they were
Speaker 1: good people, but they were just terrible talk show hosts
Speaker 1: and they would would sit in and it was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, It's like, wow, is this like an
Speaker 1: open mic at the at the comedy club and you
Speaker 1: just put anyone in there like a sports radio club
Speaker 1: or you want to talk sports, you want to fill
Speaker 1: in for Jim Rome? Grab a vine. Here you are anyway?
Speaker 1: Next next up on the mailbag Barry from Music City, USA.
Speaker 1: He says, Yo yo oh, Mob, Benny and Danny g
Speaker 1: So the Gremlins bend struck last week, and I must
Speaker 1: admit when there is silence, it perks up my ears.
Speaker 1: He says. My question is when the Gremlins strike during
Speaker 1: your mala monologue, how long do you go before you
Speaker 1: realize you are not broadcasting.
Speaker 3: I feel like we've had this question before.
Speaker 1: It's a popular question. The Gremlins are very popular, and
Speaker 1: we've had a version of this question. But we'll address
Speaker 1: this anyway. Why not? So I love the fact that
Speaker 1: you perk up and you listen closely when I stop
Speaker 1: talking and you hear silence. And that's really why we
Speaker 1: do it. People think that this is all Gremlins and
Speaker 1: things like that, but no, we just want more audience engagement.
Speaker 1: So we decided that from time to time, just to
Speaker 1: make sure you're paying attention as a listener, we would
Speaker 1: just turn my microphone completely off and have technical issues
Speaker 1: because that would be good for listener engagement. Danny understand.
Speaker 1: So that's why we're doing it, Barry. We could conduct
Speaker 1: a perfect show it's very straightforward. We could announce that
Speaker 1: we're going to do a perfect show. We could do
Speaker 1: the perfect show and have no issues at all, but
Speaker 1: we have decided from time to time to keep you
Speaker 1: on your toes. That brings up a thing we've talked
Speaker 1: about in the past here that even though right now
Speaker 1: you're listening to audio on the podcast, on whatever device
Speaker 1: you're listening to, the reality is that most people don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to what we're saying, like the percentage of
Speaker 1: people that actually pay attention, Like studies have shown when
Speaker 1: you listen to a radio show or podcast you only
Speaker 1: remember like less than twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: Well, so it's more like comfort like comforting voices. I
Speaker 3: don't get it because when I listen to different podcasts,
Speaker 3: I listen to what's being said. Most of the time,
Speaker 3: you don't remember everything busy, I know, you could get interrupted,
Speaker 3: like when you're driving and listening or something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, it's actually even worse for television, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, But but yeah, but just listening to audio,
Speaker 1: it's like the studies have said, it's between seventeen and
Speaker 1: twenty five percent where you will actually tangibly remember from listening,
Speaker 1: which is great. So I both of us, Danny, we
Speaker 1: could do a show that for seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: the show is just absolutely horseshit. But as long as
Speaker 1: the twenty five percent that people remember passes the ear test, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's an ecotomy of wonderful sounds and all that, then
Speaker 1: we're good.
Speaker 3: And also we pay close attention to not repeating similar
Speaker 3: questions and telling the same stories too close to each
Speaker 3: other in a timeline. In any so, I guess we
Speaker 3: don't even need to pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: Really, if you buy that study research that was done
Speaker 1: several years back, I would think it's even worse now though,
Speaker 1: because not only are you listening, you're on your futson
Speaker 1: around with your phone, you've got your laptop, you're watching
Speaker 1: a movie on Netflix on your TV. You got a
Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that. The
Speaker 1: cool thing about this podcast, though, from the feedback we've
Speaker 1: gotten from the market research we've gotten here, is that
Speaker 1: a lot of people seem to have this on while
Speaker 1: they're doing their yard work, yea honeydo list, they're grooming,
Speaker 1: doing the self grooming, whatever it might be. So anyway,
Speaker 1: next up on the mailbag, al from HR, says Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g He says, Ben, what is going on
Speaker 1: over there at FSR? It seems like the Bennetts are
Speaker 1: off work more than they're there. You're such a mench
Speaker 1: that I can only assume that you are forwarding all
Speaker 1: your vacation time to them so you can man your
Speaker 1: watch post for your loyal minions. What say you, Well,
Speaker 1: of course, souf. I mean, I do not believe in
Speaker 1: taking time off and at all, and I will not
Speaker 1: be going to New York, like I said, unless I
Speaker 1: actually found a way to go to New York later
Speaker 1: this month in June. But yeah, it has been a
Speaker 1: rocky road for the Benett's. I actually have some information
Speaker 1: on that I am not allowed to reveal it, but
Speaker 1: I have a feeling in a future podcast, Danny, we
Speaker 1: will have much more on that. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1: My lips are sealed. But yeah, there's some things going on,
Speaker 1: but I'm not at liberty to talk about those things
Speaker 1: right now. And maybe I'll never be allowed to talk
Speaker 1: about this things, those things. Maybe I will be told
Speaker 1: never to speak of those things, but I have I
Speaker 1: have a pretty good vibration that I will be allowed
Speaker 1: to talk about some of those things. But we would
Speaker 1: like to have some consistency, and we have not had
Speaker 1: much consistency lately. But that happens. That happens sometime to time.
Speaker 1: And the great thing is whether any of those people
Speaker 1: are there. I'm there, I'll do the show, so the
Speaker 1: show will go on, and but we'd like to have
Speaker 1: the same people there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Poor Patrick, he's so new to radio that I
Speaker 3: heard him the other night on your live show doing
Speaker 3: like an announcer voice. Yeah, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: poor kid. Reminded me of when we first broke into broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta figure it out, you gotta figure it out.
Speaker 1: And yeah, well exactly, but trial and error. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like Patrick Patty he had good energy.
Speaker 3: I like it, so he did. He's a good kid. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really know him. I didn't really know him.
Speaker 1: I'd seen him a couple of times in the building
Speaker 1: and I got a call saying he was filling in
Speaker 1: for Coop on was it Memorial Day? Was that the all? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The more they all? Anyway? John in Colorado writes in
Speaker 1: he says, Hey, back when you were a kid, you
Speaker 1: guys running around on your bikes, riding around the neighborhood
Speaker 1: and going to the convenience store with a little bit
Speaker 1: of money in your pocket, what was your go to purchase?
Speaker 1: I was partial to the Hostess fruit pie.
Speaker 3: Those are like six hundred calories.
Speaker 1: Oh they're so good though, the apple pie with the
Speaker 1: frosting caked on the outside, so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you just explained why you were an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that really is the answer here to the
Speaker 1: question from John, our buddy in northern California. So I
Speaker 1: would go through the entire Hostess lineup, the twin, the
Speaker 1: ding Dong, the cream pie, ggy, uh, the what was
Speaker 1: the it was, I'm having a bud.
Speaker 3: There was something magical about the way Hostess was able
Speaker 3: to like the shell, the chocolate shell with a soft inside. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 3: that's really what you grabbed first at the convenience store though.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, that I mean listen, I was
Speaker 1: a fat kid. I loved everything, and I went through
Speaker 1: all kinds.
Speaker 3: Of I was going to tell you had a lot
Speaker 3: of pocket change too, because we would ride down the
Speaker 3: Stater Brothers and we've got a pack of Hubba Bubba.
Speaker 3: Oh that was the starter, and we you know, if
Speaker 3: you had you know, what was it, forty five fifty
Speaker 3: cents you could get a pack of Hubba Bubba gum.
Speaker 3: And you remember the old commercials, the Wild Wild West
Speaker 3: guy they had Battle with the bubbles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's a I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think I was one. My mom, May she rest in peace.
Speaker 1: She took us when we were kids. We I've talked
Speaker 1: about this in the past, but it's been a while.
Speaker 1: We went to a host this factory outlet store, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Santa Ana and they had, you know, endless amounts
Speaker 1: of ding dongs and cupcakes and all that. But they
Speaker 1: had I forget what it's called. Maybe you know it's
Speaker 1: the it's like a twinkie, but it was red. You
Speaker 1: know what those were?
Speaker 3: Oh singer?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And that was like that was like an
Speaker 1: exotic item when I was a kid because I didn't
Speaker 1: see the zinger that much, so I felt like I
Speaker 1: was winning big. But it's far to get back to
Speaker 1: the question. Yeah, I wroteated. You know what was a
Speaker 1: big thing when I was a kid the fun dips?
Speaker 1: Remember the fun dips where you got a little sugar
Speaker 1: stick and then you dip it into the other sugar.
Speaker 3: Great sugar sugar on top of sugar on more sugar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was always that was always a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: But then again, Jolly Ranchers Ben Jolly Ranchers and now
Speaker 3: and Laters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we were big eminem fans. But there were
Speaker 1: a couple of years after ET came out that we
Speaker 1: didn't go for M and M's anymore, Danny. We moved
Speaker 1: on from Eminem's because Pieces the Reese's Pieces was cool man,
Speaker 1: because that's what ET, That's what he liked. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so anything any other snacks here, d Any of you
Speaker 1: have flashing in your mind there that stand out?
Speaker 3: The fruit roll up?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I got so fat on fruit roll ups
Speaker 1: because my mom. The marketing were those are like kind
Speaker 1: of healthy and they were marketing that they had when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, they had these granola bars, but
Speaker 1: they were really just candy bars marketed as granola bars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And my mom, you know, she also had some issues
Speaker 1: with her weight and whatever. But you know, she got
Speaker 1: issues and health problems, that's why she had that, But
Speaker 1: she would buy these granola bars because they market them
Speaker 1: that they were healthy, but they were just like eating
Speaker 1: a Snickers bar. But they were just marketing. They were
Speaker 1: on the granola aisle and I ate so many of
Speaker 1: those things too, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah. In the produce section there was the healthy version
Speaker 3: of the fruit roll up. Do you remember that? They
Speaker 3: were bigger and supposedly they were made out of more
Speaker 3: natural fruit, and so my mom would say, if you're
Speaker 3: gonna get a fruit roll up, you're gonna get one
Speaker 3: of those. But they're too expensive, so you're not getting
Speaker 3: any fruit roll up. Yeah. Thanks, joy killer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, suck the joy out of my childhood. How
Speaker 1: dare you what's wrong with? Man? Next up on the
Speaker 1: mailbag Mike in Fullerton. He says Born Giorno, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g Are either of you big fans of salads?
Speaker 1: Or do you think they're just boring waste of time
Speaker 1: for the main course?
Speaker 3: Like me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have run my life on a anti salad
Speaker 1: platform and I have been very successful at dodging salads.
Speaker 1: The only salad items I will eat are croutons that
Speaker 1: my wife will give me, and I will eat them
Speaker 1: as long as they are covered in thousand Island dressing
Speaker 1: and not ranch. I will eat them. Sometimes. My mom,
Speaker 1: when she would eat salads when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: she'd give me the if they put cheese on top
Speaker 1: of the salad, I'd have that. But that's about it. Yeah, Danny,
Speaker 1: are you a big salad guy? You love the salads?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, speaking to my mom, she made a
Speaker 3: really good salad when I was a kid, and ranch,
Speaker 3: the Hidden Valley Ranch that you had to stir and
Speaker 3: make with a sour cream bend. The best ranch in
Speaker 3: the world. Yeah, so good. And now as an adult,
Speaker 3: I love a good cob salad where there's some nice
Speaker 3: crispy bacon in there, the egg and it. Dude, if
Speaker 3: you get a good cob salad or a good caesar salad, great,
Speaker 3: that's a great addition to any meal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See the thing about those salads when you start
Speaker 1: mixing in the food that the chicken and the other stuff,
Speaker 1: you might as well just eat chicken or eat a burger.
Speaker 1: You're mixing in the other crab. You have a desire
Speaker 1: to eat that other food. And remember the salads. I
Speaker 1: forget what restaurant this is probably ten fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: they had the calories on a salad were more than
Speaker 1: a big mac. Hey, what are you doing? You know,
Speaker 1: you might as well just eat a big mac. It
Speaker 1: tastes better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I wasn't eating a cob salad at there's
Speaker 3: a place here called Lazy Dog Cafe. I wasn't eating. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I wasn't eating the cob salad there at Lazy Dog
Speaker 3: because I thought it was healthy. It just tastes damn
Speaker 3: good the way they combine all the elements of the salad.
Speaker 3: So it's got to be a top not salad to
Speaker 3: go there, because I understand what he's saying. I'd rather
Speaker 3: order a nice entree and if anything, you get the
Speaker 3: little tiny side salad with ranch prior to your entree.
Speaker 1: I have been to the Lazy Dog Diner. I liked
Speaker 1: it more before they changed their menu.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 1: They are open up relatively late so that you can
Speaker 1: go there and get a late night bite to eat
Speaker 1: where we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they COVID changed their menu, which sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the menu blow. They used to be just traditional burgers,
Speaker 1: chicken fingers, like really hearty food.
Speaker 3: And they did breakfast pizza back in the day, which
Speaker 3: was really good. That's off the menu now, and.
Speaker 1: Some asshole over there changed the menu and they get
Speaker 1: all this fru fru crap on there, and all this
Speaker 1: elite is bullshit, And I don't know. You're trying too hard.
Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. Keep it simple, exactly,
Speaker 1: give the people what they want. How many items does
Speaker 1: in and Out have? Hardly any items. But they're really
Speaker 1: good at it. What they have, they're really good at it. Right,
Speaker 1: They've mastered it. I don't need to have every exotic
Speaker 1: meat from some foreign land or whatever. It just stop stop, stop,
Speaker 1: stop stop stop. Next up, Jennifer. Oh wait, there's one
Speaker 1: more for Mike. I'm sorry. We'll get to Jennifer in
Speaker 1: a minute, says Mike. Says, also, I'm curious if Danny
Speaker 1: G's life flashed before his eyes or not when he
Speaker 1: almost got run over in that police chase.
Speaker 3: No, it had all happened so fast. But I will
Speaker 3: tell you this though, that weird feeling you get, kind
Speaker 3: of like that feeling after you get stopped for speeding,
Speaker 3: which happened to you recently, takes you probably like an
Speaker 3: hour to feel like yourself again, because you just you're
Speaker 3: amped up. I guess it's that feeling right before a
Speaker 3: big game, you know you could run through a wall.
Speaker 3: You're adrenaline is pumping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure, And then when you have
Speaker 1: to drive once you get the ticket, and then you
Speaker 1: have to do the the shame maneuver of trying to
Speaker 1: get back on the highway and everyone knows you've just
Speaker 1: been pulled over. But I think people should let you
Speaker 1: in because you took one for the team, because by
Speaker 1: me getting the ticket, all those hundreds of cars that
Speaker 1: went by in Minneapolis on that highway did not get
Speaker 1: a ticket.
Speaker 3: So wonderful, and we threw a man of the people exactly.
Speaker 1: I took one for the team. Anyway, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Jennifer the lovely and talented Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, a
Speaker 1: big supporter, part of the very small female contingent of
Speaker 1: fans of the show. She says, Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: welcome back. I love hearing all the stories from your
Speaker 1: trip to Minnesota recently. Had I was rather I was,
Speaker 1: Jennifer says, at Bush Gardens with two of my kids
Speaker 1: and was very sad to find that none of the
Speaker 1: funnel cake shops were open. That's not if you go
Speaker 1: to a place like Bush Gardens, you got to get
Speaker 1: a little funnel take action. I agree with you on that,
Speaker 1: she says. She took a picture here. The question is
Speaker 1: would you make these at home if you could. Are
Speaker 1: you a funnel cake guy? When you go to an
Speaker 1: amusement park or a fun zone.
Speaker 3: Danny used to be the one thing we would not
Speaker 3: only want, but have to get at Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, Like,
Speaker 3: you could not leave that park without getting a funnel cake.
Speaker 3: I like it, but in small doses, so like the
Speaker 3: girl I would be dating at the time and be
Speaker 3: at the park with she would get one. I would
Speaker 3: take a bite or two, and then I was good.
Speaker 3: I would let her have the rest. It's not something
Speaker 3: you could sit down and eat all by yourself unless
Speaker 3: you're a fat ass ye super rich.
Speaker 1: I probably could make that, but it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of work. I'm looking at a recipe here. By the way,
Speaker 1: Jennifer sent me a photo of the place at Busch Gardens.
Speaker 1: Big Benz funnel cakes.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: I gotta see if I tried to find them online
Speaker 1: to see if they have hats or shirts or something
Speaker 1: like that. But I could not find a website selling
Speaker 1: Big Benz funnel cakes. That's like something I get.
Speaker 3: The best ones have all that strawberry sauce on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the gooey, bright red strawberry sauce. Absolutely, So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a recipe here I can make it, but
Speaker 1: it's much easier to just go to the county fair
Speaker 1: and get it. So you need oil, milk, eggs, flour,
Speaker 1: baking powder, cinnamon, salt, sugar, so not that many ingredients.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think I'm good on that, but I
Speaker 1: did love funnel cakes back back in the day. Next
Speaker 1: up is our buddy George from Uvaldi, Texas as a
Speaker 1: Georgia a teacher there, big fan. He listens to the
Speaker 1: show prior to starting his day, gets to school early
Speaker 1: and listens to the show in the classroom. He's getting
Speaker 1: the day ready and whatnot there and Uvalde, Texas, and
Speaker 1: he I wonder what he's going to do during the summer,
Speaker 1: because it's almost here, right, this is the time the
Speaker 1: kids are done with the school and all that, depending
Speaker 1: on where you are, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, all districts obviously are a little bit different
Speaker 3: earlier or later. But this is the general time for
Speaker 3: graduation classes right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although I think on the East coast where they
Speaker 1: get really bad weather, places like Midwest whatever, they might
Speaker 1: wait another month or so. But because of snow days,
Speaker 1: like my niece is graduating from high school. That's why
Speaker 1: I have to go to New York. And she's not
Speaker 1: graduating for like another three weeks or something like that,
Speaker 1: so they've got almost a bunch.
Speaker 3: Doesn't stop Major League Baseball from starting their schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Baseball, if they could would start, I think in February,
Speaker 1: they would right after the Super Bowl start. They kind
Speaker 1: of do its spring training anyway. Next up is Walt
Speaker 1: in the Valley of the Sun. He says, is there
Speaker 1: a meal your spouse loves making that you are not
Speaker 1: a fan of, but happily eat to maintain marital bliss?
Speaker 1: The Walt points out that his wife makes her grandmother's
Speaker 1: noodle Google recipe. You know what that is. That's like
Speaker 1: a Jewish dish. It's noodles and like cheese and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like a casserole kind of pudding type thing, mostly
Speaker 1: just noodles in it. And I don't mind it. But
Speaker 1: apparently Walt does not find it very appetizing, he says.
Speaker 1: He says, we all pretend to like it. He says
Speaker 1: his wife does not seem to notice that there are
Speaker 1: always plenty of leftovers when she makes the dish. Well,
Speaker 1: she might like it, though, maybe your wife's like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's more for me, you losers, I'll all you got
Speaker 1: to eat the leftovers. My wife is very good about this.
Speaker 1: She generally only makes things I like, which I think
Speaker 1: she realizes that we'll be married forever if that's the case.
Speaker 1: But she she does go out of the way in
Speaker 1: that department. I'm trying to think, is there anything she
Speaker 1: makes that I don't? I don't like because usually on
Speaker 1: the weekends I cook most of the meals on the weekends,
Speaker 1: or it's a joint effort. It's like we both cook
Speaker 1: her or I'm or I'm cooking. So yes, really nothing
Speaker 1: anything you're you're in this, You're in the hunting moon
Speaker 1: face though, right, Danny.
Speaker 3: So anything she I mean, I've known her now for
Speaker 3: three years and everything she cooks is wonderful. But there
Speaker 3: I've been a couple of times where she'll take a
Speaker 3: crock pot out and make vegetable soup. And I've never
Speaker 3: been a fan of vegetable soup ever since my grandma
Speaker 3: tried to torture me and my siblings by force feeding
Speaker 3: us these gross, soggy vegetables. No, I'm not interested. I
Speaker 3: don't want anybody's vegetable soup. I don't care who's making it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I agree with you. I don't need
Speaker 1: that's that's good. That's a pass. Don't need that action, boss,
Speaker 1: don't need that action. Al from mean Minnesota rites in
Speaker 1: every buddy Al Al recommended that great deli that I
Speaker 1: went to in Minnesota. So thank you for that with
Speaker 1: the number one Ruben in the Twin Cities. And Al
Speaker 1: was at the mall of meet and greet. He says,
Speaker 1: did you enjoy the north Shore bed? Where did you eat?
Speaker 1: He says, thanks again for all the lass during the
Speaker 1: wee hours of the morning. So to answer your question, Ol,
Speaker 1: we went to Figures brew House, Brewery and Grill, which
Speaker 1: is that's the place I sent you to the photo Danny.
Speaker 1: It's like there's some stores and there's a brew house,
Speaker 1: and there's a brewery, and there's like a hotel. But
Speaker 1: it's literally right on the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah lake. It looks like it looks like
Speaker 3: you're standing in the in the lake there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild. The food was really good. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: That's where I got my poutine burger. I had beer
Speaker 1: battered cheese curds and a poutine burger. So yeah, I've
Speaker 1: never seen a poutine burger anywhere. So I don't live
Speaker 1: in Canada. I'm sure you have that there, but I
Speaker 1: I was just south of Canada there in Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: loved it. It was great, it was wonderful, glorious. Col
Speaker 1: In Grand Junction rights in formally from the Twin Cities.
Speaker 1: He says, are you a morning or evening shower person?
Speaker 1: He says, so, yes, I am a I am a
Speaker 1: fan of the evening shower, which is actually in the
Speaker 1: morning shower. I normally take a shower when I go
Speaker 1: to bed. I want to go to bed fresh and
Speaker 1: clean and wonderful. And since my bed is clean, I
Speaker 1: feel like I get up and everything's good to go
Speaker 1: on that. What about you, Danny? Are you a multi
Speaker 1: shower guy? Morning shower, night shower. Where you at on that?
Speaker 3: It depends on what's going on in my weird schedule.
Speaker 3: But I always shower before I get ready for work.
Speaker 1: That's your the big shower before we Yeah? Yeah, did we?
Speaker 1: By the way, did I skip over? George? And you
Speaker 1: have all these actual questions?
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 1: It was about burritos? I don't think I even read it.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, no, you didn't read this burrito question.
Speaker 1: That job by me, George, how I was talking about you.
Speaker 1: I got sidetracked. You're fired all anyway, George, and you
Speaker 1: have all these questions. We go back to George, George, George, George, George, George, George,
Speaker 1: and then I'll get back to Ketch George George of
Speaker 1: the Jungle. I think that I think we answered Cal's
Speaker 1: question because I take showers before bed. You take showers
Speaker 1: right before work or whatever. And George's questions, do you
Speaker 1: prefer a breakfast burrito or a burrito for lunch or dinner?
Speaker 1: So I'll go first. I love I love tacos. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite Mexican food. But burritos are from time to time.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I really like the chimmy chonga
Speaker 1: because the chimmy chonga is the burrito. But it's a
Speaker 1: fried burrito and I can have that for lunch or dinner.
Speaker 1: Love it with a basket of chips. Can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with that wonderful food. And I'm not a big breakfast guy,
Speaker 1: so I don't really do the breakfast burrito. My wife
Speaker 1: loves breakfast burritos, not a big fan. And with the
Speaker 1: breakfast burrito thing like, I don't like my breakfast. I
Speaker 1: don't eat breakfast a lot. I'll eat it a few
Speaker 1: times a year. I go with the pancakes, corn beef
Speaker 1: hash that's my move. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 3: I have a classic drop of you saying in mister
Speaker 3: T's voice, I'm bitting the fool who give me a burrito.
Speaker 1: That's right, I remember that ranting.
Speaker 3: Don't note where did that drop come from. I have
Speaker 3: no idea why you were saying.
Speaker 1: That must have come from ask Ben.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it must have nothing like this, nothing like this,
Speaker 3: all original programming.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know.
Speaker 3: The only, honestly, the only burrito I like is the
Speaker 3: American burrito, which comes from one Taco Bell. They're classic
Speaker 3: bean and cheese burrito. I love that red sauce they
Speaker 3: put in there and the way it all melts together.
Speaker 3: Something about that classic bean and cheese burrito from Taco
Speaker 3: Bell will have me going back there for the rest
Speaker 3: of my life. There's been times where I go through
Speaker 3: that drive through once in a while, maybe once every
Speaker 3: other week, and that's all all orders, just one bean
Speaker 3: and cheese burrito and maybe a little drink, and I'm
Speaker 3: out of there.
Speaker 1: How upset are the people at Taco Bell when you
Speaker 1: come in there and order just one? Was that two bucks?
Speaker 3: There's something real like it's yeah, two dollars in change now,
Speaker 3: But then you get a drink and they jack you
Speaker 3: a couple dollars unless it's that happier hour from two
Speaker 3: to five, which is a life hack. Don't get a
Speaker 3: drink from them unless it's two to five pm.
Speaker 1: I've not been to Taco Bell in what what's the
Speaker 1: two to five hack? What is it?
Speaker 3: It's like a reduced price for their drinks and their
Speaker 3: slushies from two to five pm. So that's the only
Speaker 3: time I'll get a drink. If it's not around that time, bend,
Speaker 3: then I'll add a crunchy taco onto the order. That way,
Speaker 3: I don't seem like some cheap ass only getting one burrito.
Speaker 1: So how much of this is nostalgia and how much
Speaker 1: of this is I like.
Speaker 3: The burrito When you're craving beans, that classic bean and
Speaker 3: cheese burrito is the way to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the burrito menu here the lineup
Speaker 1: at Taco Bell. They've got the grilled cheese burrito that
Speaker 1: actually looks pretty good. The beefy five layer burrito.
Speaker 3: There's too much going on.
Speaker 1: There'll be cheese that'll send you to the what burrito Supreme?
Speaker 1: They got the Chipotle Ranch grilled chicken burrito. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on with that one.
Speaker 3: The beefy burrito, the beef what.
Speaker 1: It says, beefy Milt. It kind of looks like what
Speaker 1: Bella did the other day. Some of these, the most
Speaker 1: what's the most expensive beer? The grilled cheese burrito, that's
Speaker 1: that's a luxury item, Danny it is. That's four seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I tried the beef version of that. It was
Speaker 3: pretty good. But the sauce they put on it has
Speaker 3: a little kick, it's a little spicy.
Speaker 1: That's seven and twenty calories.
Speaker 3: For that sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be careful and that's why crap like that.
Speaker 3: It's a treat.
Speaker 1: Rare and appropriate.
Speaker 3: Rare, Yeah, rare and appropriate, exactly.
Speaker 1: Last one from John in Omaha will get out on this.
Speaker 1: John says, do you think you could survive you guys
Speaker 1: in a post New Clear bombing world? Where as all
Speaker 1: of today's conveniences, we're all of these the conveniences of
Speaker 1: the modern world taking away like cell phones and whatnot. No,
Speaker 1: I would I would be dead. I mean I would try.
Speaker 1: I would try. I'm not a hunter, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to hunt. I am trying to grow grass
Speaker 1: in my backyard. I'll let you know how that goes.
Speaker 1: But my idea of hunting is to go to the
Speaker 1: meat aisle at the butcher shop there at the grocery store.
Speaker 1: That's my idea of hunting. So yeah, I think if
Speaker 1: armageddon happens, that's a good time to check out. That's that.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny, You think you'd be able to
Speaker 1: survive off the grid with nothing but the shirt on
Speaker 1: your back and like a pocket knife and some duct
Speaker 1: tape like mcguiver back in the day.
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, I've been to the Bath Lake Derby,
Speaker 3: the fishing Derby, three years in a row. I'd like
Speaker 3: to think of myself as a survivalist, even though I
Speaker 3: didn't catch any fish. But if I had to ben
Speaker 3: that would be my form of hunting would be fishing.
Speaker 3: And if it came down, if push came to shove,
Speaker 3: I think I could catch enough fish to live. But
Speaker 3: sounds like those fish would probably be radioactive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a little bit. They'd be light up, they'd
Speaker 1: be green like neon green. But that's all right, right.
Speaker 3: If we were because he said it would be a
Speaker 3: post nuclear world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, post nuclear bombing, so kabooms.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh even if you caught fish, could you eat them?
Speaker 3: I mean, you're right, you should just be dead, because
Speaker 3: I think you'd be screwed. There'd be no way to eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even the people that and I'm sure we have
Speaker 1: listeners that are that have like bomb shelters and things
Speaker 1: like that. But the amount of food, the rations you
Speaker 1: would have to have. How many years of food would
Speaker 1: you have to have to survive and water before you
Speaker 1: could come out of your little bunker and see the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to be like an Encino man or
Speaker 3: in one of those movies, this is the Brendan Fraser movie,
Speaker 3: he and his family are down in that bunker because
Speaker 3: they thought there was a nuclear war. It would have
Speaker 3: to be like that, because that bunker was pimped out
Speaker 3: and they had supplies for years. So you'd literally have
Speaker 3: to be set up like that.
Speaker 1: So just get a Hollywood movie studio to put the
Speaker 1: bunker together and you're good.
Speaker 3: All you have to do.
Speaker 1: And on that note, we will get out. We have
Speaker 1: an NBA Finals game today. Also, I'll be back in
Speaker 1: the radio dojo hanging out blowb eating talking about all
Speaker 1: the baseball Yankees and Dodgers series this weekend and.
Speaker 3: The whoser picked by the way for the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: Oh, I picked the Denver Nuggets the Nuggies in six games.
Speaker 1: I went with a chalk What about you, Danny, what
Speaker 1: was your pick? I didn't hear your pick.
Speaker 3: My heart is with the heat. My head says the
Speaker 3: Nuggets are just too powerful of a team offensively to beat.
Speaker 3: But I really I've always liked Jimmy Butler. I've always
Speaker 3: rooted for him, So I would like to see Jimmy
Speaker 3: Butler raise the trophy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm a huge Jimmy Butler fan. And I
Speaker 1: went on a rant. Some guy got all upset with me.
Speaker 1: I did a monologue this week, and in the monologue,
Speaker 1: I pointed out that it's embarrassing for all the players
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Jimmy Butler should not stand out because
Speaker 1: he just plays hard. He stands out because he makes
Speaker 1: the other players look bad with the tenacity and the
Speaker 1: way that he plays the game. Because so many of
Speaker 1: these other guys are just kind of.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like, come on, no, you're right. He
Speaker 3: does not walk up and down the floor, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a wonderful Sunday. Thank you you are
Speaker 1: my favorite. Lison for downloading this podcast, subscribing to this podcast,
Speaker 1: telling a friend about the podcast, and Danny, you're off
Speaker 1: today from work as well, you're back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right back with Covino and Rich tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 3: two to five pm in the West, five to seven
Speaker 3: pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: And I'll be on tonight eleven o'clock in the West,
Speaker 1: but that is, oh my god, two in the morning
Speaker 1: where most people live on the Eastern seaboard. And we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time later.
Speaker 3: Skater gotta murder. I gotta go.