WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Zingers & Roll-Ups" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.480 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.560 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.160 and Danny g Ready. But you already knew that, as 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:43.519 we bloviate eight days a week, a spin off of 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.600 the overnight show, The Ben Mahler Show, And of course 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.200 this is obviously only available in the podcast format. Danny 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.200 g You hear him on with Covino and Rich during 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.920 the week on Fox, and he used to work on 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.800 the show. If you're new to the show, because it's 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.800 been a while, Danny since you worked with me on 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.880 the the actual radio show like every day and so 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.640 the audience always turns over. But Danny was with us 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.319 for a number of years and he went off worked 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.200 with Klay Travis for a while on his show, and 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.600 now he's with Covino and rich and we do this 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.959 podcast on the weekends and this is Sunday, and that 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.080 means it's the mail bag. What is going on? Rather 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.560 than we? Rather than us? Just go on, I think 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.640 we should talk to Ohio al and I have n't played 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.360 some music here. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.640 Yes, yeah, let's go. Let's celebrate my ten years at 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.240 the network with Ohio au. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:49.560 It's's mail bag? Is that right? Ten years? 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.200 Gonna be ten years when we get to twenty twenty four, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.680 So closing in on my tenth year at the network. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.280 Congratulations Mazotov. Ten years, Oh man. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.520 When we get to December, what do they give you. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:03.800 For ten years? What I forget? 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.000 They didn't a run? DMC wrote gold chain. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.639 Yeah, they gave me a pink slip. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.080 Actually, I think they hired me. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.440 On my tenth Anniverse but then they brought me back 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.040 six months and twenty six days later. Well, congratulations. These 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.040 jobs are hard to get and they're hard to keep, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.839 and so yeah, it's a good, good deal, very nice. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.000 And yeah, once you cross certain thresholds, like we went 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.200 past twenty years a couple of years ago, me and Eddie, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.720 so we just kind of don't talk about it. We're 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.480 just like past past twenty. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.359 That's yeah, it's like once you get into your mid 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.560 twenties with birthdays, you don't pay attention to them anymore. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.960 Right, No, No, I'm shocked as old as I am. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.680 I'm like, I can't believe I'm that old? How did 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.560 that happen? Who fucked up? How did that happen? That's 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.079 not supposed to I'm not supposed to be that old. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.720 Come on, isn't it weird when you think about the 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.600 age we're at right now and think about what was 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.560 going on in your family when your parents were this 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:02.400 same age? 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:03.519 Mind blowing? 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.359 Yeah, it's really weird to think about. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.400 Can't wrap my head around it. I can't. I know, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.760 it just blows my mind. And it really snuck up 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.960 on you, you know, it sneaks up on you. That's the thing. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.519 You just like live your life. And I was saying, like, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.320 holy crap, you know, don't stop and smell the flowers 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.640 very often. All right. So with that said, on that 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.320 positive note, we have the mail bag. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.440 Go kill yourself after this podcast. Make sure to listen 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.840 to at least five minutes before you kill yourself. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.480 No, no, it's all good. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:37.480 I'm just kidding. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.360 I know, anyway, as long as they come up with 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.560 the AI that will cause us to live an extra 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.840 fifty years anyway. So first one from Fred in Spring, Texas. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:52.200 He says, Oh, gentlemen, guys, when you are off vacations, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.360 et cetera, do you handpick your fill in or does 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.520 it Fox Sports Radio assign a substitute. Do you have 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.839 any input? Well, of course, tread. I have a spreadsheet out, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.920 I look at the economics on how much money the 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.960 company has. I then go through my roll the decks 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.560 and try to choose the person that's best fit to 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.640 fill in. Unless that is not true, and I merely 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.479 contact my boss and say I'm not working that day, 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.599 and they say, go to hell. We're going to hire 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.760 whoever the hell we want to do the show, and 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.840 we'll probably find somebody who's better than you, who will 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.599 work cheaper than you, enjoy your time off. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.360 What wasn't this made famous by the great Jim Rome, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.120 to hire a fill in host who is not as 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.760 good as you so that the audience misses you and 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.560 you come back and they're like, thank god you're back. Yeah. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.040 You never want to be upstaged by the person that 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.599 fills in for you. You know, and I got in trouble 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.320 for that when I used to fill in for people 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.760 the network guys. I heard from some of the other 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.799 hosts they were bothered because I had a little cult 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.560 following and it would annoy them because they got upset 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.760 with me that people liked me sometimes more than them 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.000 and that troubled them and they didn't want me filling 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.440 in for them on some of the shows because of that, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.520 which is I don't even you know, I want good 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.720 people because I get credit when somebody listens to the 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.880 show when I'm when I'm not there, I still get 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.719 credit for it. So I have the people here, but 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.279 I have we have nothing to do. Jim Rome did. Yeah, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.200 he did pick the worst possibly, which is unfortunate because 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:29.680 I knew several of the people that would fill in 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.400 for Jim Rome and they were terrible, but they were 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.720 good people, but they were just terrible talk show hosts 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.200 and they would would sit in and it was like, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.120 oh my god, It's like, wow, is this like an 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.320 open mic at the at the comedy club and you 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.440 just put anyone in there like a sports radio club 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.560 or you want to talk sports, you want to fill 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:52.920 in for Jim Rome? Grab a vine. Here you are anyway? 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.560 Next next up on the mailbag Barry from Music City, USA. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.640 He says, Yo yo oh, Mob, Benny and Danny g 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:06.040 So the Gremlins bend struck last week, and I must 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.400 admit when there is silence, it perks up my ears. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.320 He says. My question is when the Gremlins strike during 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 your mala monologue, how long do you go before you 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.880 realize you are not broadcasting. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.080 I feel like we've had this question before. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.960 It's a popular question. The Gremlins are very popular, and 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.120 we've had a version of this question. But we'll address 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.920 this anyway. Why not? So I love the fact that 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.200 you perk up and you listen closely when I stop 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.800 talking and you hear silence. And that's really why we 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.160 do it. People think that this is all Gremlins and 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.680 things like that, but no, we just want more audience engagement. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.479 So we decided that from time to time, just to 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.000 make sure you're paying attention as a listener, we would 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:58.200 just turn my microphone completely off and have technical issues 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.560 because that would be good for listener engagement. Danny understand. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.839 So that's why we're doing it, Barry. We could conduct 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.240 a perfect show it's very straightforward. We could announce that 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.760 we're going to do a perfect show. We could do 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:17.320 the perfect show and have no issues at all, but 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.120 we have decided from time to time to keep you 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.880 on your toes. That brings up a thing we've talked 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.120 about in the past here that even though right now 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.080 you're listening to audio on the podcast, on whatever device 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.800 you're listening to, the reality is that most people don't 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.920 pay attention to what we're saying, like the percentage of 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.240 people that actually pay attention, Like studies have shown when 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.800 you listen to a radio show or podcast you only 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:52.120 remember like less than twenty five percent. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.800 Well, so it's more like comfort like comforting voices. I 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.680 don't get it because when I listen to different podcasts, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.400 I listen to what's being said. Most of the time, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.480 you don't remember everything busy, I know, you could get interrupted, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.280 like when you're driving and listening or something like that. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.120 But yeah, no, it's actually even worse for television, believe 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.240 it or not, But but yeah, but just listening to audio, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.720 it's like the studies have said, it's between seventeen and 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.840 twenty five percent where you will actually tangibly remember from listening, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.000 which is great. So I both of us, Danny, we 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.760 could do a show that for seventy five percent of 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:36.600 the show is just absolutely horseshit. But as long as 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:42.920 the twenty five percent that people remember passes the ear test, yeah, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.760 there's an ecotomy of wonderful sounds and all that, then 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:47.559 we're good. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.760 And also we pay close attention to not repeating similar 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.280 questions and telling the same stories too close to each 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.760 other in a timeline. In any so, I guess we 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.320 don't even need to pay attention to that. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.000 Really, if you buy that study research that was done 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.200 several years back, I would think it's even worse now though, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.040 because not only are you listening, you're on your futson 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.679 around with your phone, you've got your laptop, you're watching 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.760 a movie on Netflix on your TV. You got a 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.800 little bit of this, a little bit of that. The 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.800 cool thing about this podcast, though, from the feedback we've 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.280 gotten from the market research we've gotten here, is that 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.360 a lot of people seem to have this on while 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:40.640 they're doing their yard work, yea honeydo list, they're grooming, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.040 doing the self grooming, whatever it might be. So anyway, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.440 next up on the mailbag, al from HR, says Ben 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.840 and Danny g He says, Ben, what is going on 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.360 over there at FSR? It seems like the Bennetts are 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.800 off work more than they're there. You're such a mench 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.000 that I can only assume that you are forwarding all 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.520 your vacation time to them so you can man your 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:10.360 watch post for your loyal minions. What say you, Well, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.840 of course, souf. I mean, I do not believe in 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.880 taking time off and at all, and I will not 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.959 be going to New York, like I said, unless I 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.560 actually found a way to go to New York later 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.040 this month in June. But yeah, it has been a 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.920 rocky road for the Benett's. I actually have some information 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.160 on that I am not allowed to reveal it, but 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.040 I have a feeling in a future podcast, Danny, we 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.080 will have much more on that. That's all I can say. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:42.880 My lips are sealed. But yeah, there's some things going on, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.199 but I'm not at liberty to talk about those things 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.680 right now. And maybe I'll never be allowed to talk 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.000 about this things, those things. Maybe I will be told 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.280 never to speak of those things, but I have I 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.079 have a pretty good vibration that I will be allowed 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.400 to talk about some of those things. But we would 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.400 like to have some consistency, and we have not had 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.360 much consistency lately. But that happens. That happens sometime to time. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.920 And the great thing is whether any of those people 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.520 are there. I'm there, I'll do the show, so the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.880 show will go on, and but we'd like to have 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:13.720 the same people there. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.439 Yeah. Poor Patrick, he's so new to radio that I 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.680 heard him the other night on your live show doing 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.040 like an announcer voice. Yeah, and I was like, oh, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.000 poor kid. Reminded me of when we first broke into broadcasting. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.200 Yeah, you gotta figure it out, you gotta figure it out. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.680 And yeah, well exactly, but trial and error. Yeah. I 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.400 like Patrick Patty he had good energy. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.800 I like it, so he did. He's a good kid. Yeah. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.760 I don't really know him. I didn't really know him. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.679 I'd seen him a couple of times in the building 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.520 and I got a call saying he was filling in 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.680 for Coop on was it Memorial Day? Was that the all? Yeah? 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:59.600 The more they all? Anyway? John in Colorado writes in 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.320 he says, Hey, back when you were a kid, you 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.079 guys running around on your bikes, riding around the neighborhood 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.839 and going to the convenience store with a little bit 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.880 of money in your pocket, what was your go to purchase? 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.400 I was partial to the Hostess fruit pie. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.960 Those are like six hundred calories. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.120 Oh they're so good though, the apple pie with the 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:30.400 frosting caked on the outside, so good. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.760 Yeah, and you just explained why you were an offensive lineman. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.679 Yes, well that really is the answer here to the 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.160 question from John, our buddy in northern California. So I 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:47.320 would go through the entire Hostess lineup, the twin, the 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:52.800 ding Dong, the cream pie, ggy, uh, the what was 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.600 the it was, I'm having a bud. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.040 There was something magical about the way Hostess was able 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:06.520 to like the shell, the chocolate shell with a soft inside. Yeah, boy, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.400 that's really what you grabbed first at the convenience store though. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.000 Oh no, no, no, no, that I mean listen, I was 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.800 a fat kid. I loved everything, and I went through 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:16.760 all kinds. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.439 Of I was going to tell you had a lot 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.719 of pocket change too, because we would ride down the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.200 Stater Brothers and we've got a pack of Hubba Bubba. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.480 Oh that was the starter, and we you know, if 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.480 you had you know, what was it, forty five fifty 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.240 cents you could get a pack of Hubba Bubba gum. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.199 And you remember the old commercials, the Wild Wild West 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.040 guy they had Battle with the bubbles. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.280 Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's a I'm trying to 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.800 think I was one. My mom, May she rest in peace. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.000 She took us when we were kids. We I've talked 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.480 about this in the past, but it's been a while. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:14:00.680 We went to a host this factory outlet store, oh yeah, yeah, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.520 and Santa Ana and they had, you know, endless amounts 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.959 of ding dongs and cupcakes and all that. But they 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.760 had I forget what it's called. Maybe you know it's 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.160 the it's like a twinkie, but it was red. You 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:12.839 know what those were? 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.520 Oh singer? 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.480 Yeah yeah, And that was like that was like an 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.360 exotic item when I was a kid because I didn't 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.440 see the zinger that much, so I felt like I 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.240 was winning big. But it's far to get back to 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.800 the question. Yeah, I wroteated. You know what was a 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.000 big thing when I was a kid the fun dips? 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.120 Remember the fun dips where you got a little sugar 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.120 stick and then you dip it into the other sugar. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:39.240 Great sugar sugar on top of sugar on more sugar. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.080 Yeah, that was always that was always a lot of fun. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.920 But then again, Jolly Ranchers Ben Jolly Ranchers and now 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:45.800 and Laters. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.440 Yeah, and we were big eminem fans. But there were 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.160 a couple of years after ET came out that we 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.480 didn't go for M and M's anymore, Danny. We moved 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:59.440 on from Eminem's because Pieces the Reese's Pieces was cool man, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.760 because that's what ET, That's what he liked. And uh yeah, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.600 so anything any other snacks here, d Any of you 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.000 have flashing in your mind there that stand out? 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.320 The fruit roll up? 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.640 Oh yes, I got so fat on fruit roll ups 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.440 because my mom. The marketing were those are like kind 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.480 of healthy and they were marketing that they had when 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.200 I was a kid, they had these granola bars, but 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.400 they were really just candy bars marketed as granola bars. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:32.680 Yeah, oh yeah. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.360 And my mom, you know, she also had some issues 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.280 with her weight and whatever. But you know, she got 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.560 issues and health problems, that's why she had that, But 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.080 she would buy these granola bars because they market them 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.960 that they were healthy, but they were just like eating 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.120 a Snickers bar. But they were just marketing. They were 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.720 on the granola aisle and I ate so many of 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:50.680 those things too, man. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.320 Yeah. In the produce section there was the healthy version 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.640 of the fruit roll up. Do you remember that? They 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.400 were bigger and supposedly they were made out of more 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.720 natural fruit, and so my mom would say, if you're 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.480 gonna get a fruit roll up, you're gonna get one 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.440 of those. But they're too expensive, so you're not getting 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.480 any fruit roll up. Yeah. Thanks, joy killer? 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.280 Yeah, yes, suck the joy out of my childhood. How 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:21.360 dare you what's wrong with? Man? Next up on the 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.440 mailbag Mike in Fullerton. He says Born Giorno, Ben and 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.440 Danny g Are either of you big fans of salads? 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.680 Or do you think they're just boring waste of time 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:36.880 for the main course? 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:37.280 Like me? 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.360 Yeah, I have run my life on a anti salad 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:48.040 platform and I have been very successful at dodging salads. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.280 The only salad items I will eat are croutons that 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.680 my wife will give me, and I will eat them 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.160 as long as they are covered in thousand Island dressing 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.119 and not ranch. I will eat them. Sometimes. My mom, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.800 when she would eat salads when I was a kid, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.960 she'd give me the if they put cheese on top 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.680 of the salad, I'd have that. But that's about it. Yeah, Danny, 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.640 are you a big salad guy? You love the salads? 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.000 Well, you know, speaking to my mom, she made a 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.000 really good salad when I was a kid, and ranch, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.959 the Hidden Valley Ranch that you had to stir and 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.560 make with a sour cream bend. The best ranch in 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.880 the world. Yeah, so good. And now as an adult, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.160 I love a good cob salad where there's some nice 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.800 crispy bacon in there, the egg and it. Dude, if 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.560 you get a good cob salad or a good caesar salad, great, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.280 that's a great addition to any meal. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.280 Yeah. See the thing about those salads when you start 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.480 mixing in the food that the chicken and the other stuff, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.800 you might as well just eat chicken or eat a burger. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.440 You're mixing in the other crab. You have a desire 0:17:55.520 --> 0:18:00.280 to eat that other food. And remember the salads. I 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.000 forget what restaurant this is probably ten fifteen years ago, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.640 they had the calories on a salad were more than 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.080 a big mac. Hey, what are you doing? You know, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.600 you might as well just eat a big mac. It 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:12.200 tastes better. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.160 Yeah, Well, I wasn't eating a cob salad at there's 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.920 a place here called Lazy Dog Cafe. I wasn't eating. Yeah, 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.160 I wasn't eating the cob salad there at Lazy Dog 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.359 because I thought it was healthy. It just tastes damn 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.240 good the way they combine all the elements of the salad. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.080 So it's got to be a top not salad to 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.200 go there, because I understand what he's saying. I'd rather 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.080 order a nice entree and if anything, you get the 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.080 little tiny side salad with ranch prior to your entree. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.119 I have been to the Lazy Dog Diner. I liked 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.040 it more before they changed their menu. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:49.320 Though. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.399 They are open up relatively late so that you can 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.840 go there and get a late night bite to eat 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:55.360 where we are. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.720 Yeah, but they COVID changed their menu, which sucks. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.560 Yeah, the menu blow. They used to be just traditional burgers, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.840 chicken fingers, like really hearty food. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.000 And they did breakfast pizza back in the day, which 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.120 was really good. That's off the menu now, and. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.040 Some asshole over there changed the menu and they get 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.560 all this fru fru crap on there, and all this 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:23.320 elite is bullshit, And I don't know. You're trying too hard. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.840 It's a bad job by you. Keep it simple, exactly, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.680 give the people what they want. How many items does 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.840 in and Out have? Hardly any items. But they're really 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.360 good at it. What they have, they're really good at it. Right, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:40.280 They've mastered it. I don't need to have every exotic 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.680 meat from some foreign land or whatever. It just stop stop, stop, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.600 stop stop stop. Next up, Jennifer. Oh wait, there's one 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.200 more for Mike. I'm sorry. We'll get to Jennifer in 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.600 a minute, says Mike. Says, also, I'm curious if Danny 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.240 G's life flashed before his eyes or not when he 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.800 almost got run over in that police chase. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.160 No, it had all happened so fast. But I will 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.000 tell you this though, that weird feeling you get, kind 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.160 of like that feeling after you get stopped for speeding, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.640 which happened to you recently, takes you probably like an 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.200 hour to feel like yourself again, because you just you're 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.800 amped up. I guess it's that feeling right before a 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.280 big game, you know you could run through a wall. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.080 You're adrenaline is pumping. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.840 Yeah, for sure, for sure, And then when you have 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.840 to drive once you get the ticket, and then you 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.200 have to do the the shame maneuver of trying to 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.000 get back on the highway and everyone knows you've just 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.320 been pulled over. But I think people should let you 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.160 in because you took one for the team, because by 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.679 me getting the ticket, all those hundreds of cars that 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.840 went by in Minneapolis on that highway did not get 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:51.360 a ticket. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:57.000 So wonderful, and we threw a man of the people exactly. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.520 I took one for the team. Anyway, Thank you, Mike. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.800 Jennifer the lovely and talented Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, a 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.520 big supporter, part of the very small female contingent of 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.399 fans of the show. She says, Ben and Danny g 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.760 welcome back. I love hearing all the stories from your 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.879 trip to Minnesota recently. Had I was rather I was, 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.000 Jennifer says, at Bush Gardens with two of my kids 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.600 and was very sad to find that none of the 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.280 funnel cake shops were open. That's not if you go 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.080 to a place like Bush Gardens, you got to get 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.200 a little funnel take action. I agree with you on that, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.800 she says. She took a picture here. The question is 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.719 would you make these at home if you could. Are 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:43.679 you a funnel cake guy? When you go to an 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:45.480