WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Instant Lemon" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.640 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.800 Maller and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.080 It's week twelve in the NFL got kicked off back 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.440 on Thursday night with the Texans taking down Josh Allen 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.400 and the Buffalo Bills. Are we now at the point, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.279 Danny where the Raiders are so bad? How bad are 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.480 they that you don't even want to talk about? The Raiders? 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.000 Can't they cannot lose to Shooter Sanders today? Right, you can't. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.560 There's no way to gonna lose to shoot her Sanders 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.360 and in the Browns, right, I don't know. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.959 Remember that one time where Baker Mayfield got signed by 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.320 your Rams. He came into the game and did what 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.040 he did. It seems like players have some of their 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.560 best games against the Raiders in the past decade. I 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.680 don't know what to tell you. That O line is 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.760 freaking horrendous. We've talked about it all season. The Chargers 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.040 have the same problem. The Raiders do no depth at 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.959 O line, and guys that are coming in as the 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:35.480 backups like Meredith and Kappa, they man, they couldn't even 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.760 be third stringers on other teams. And these guys are 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.920 the backups for the Raiders O line. And then Gino Smith, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.920 as we've talked about, he sucks when he's under pressure. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.119 He holds onto the ball too long. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.600 Yeah, And I maintain, well, it is fun to goof 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.720 on the offensive line. I look at the Texans as 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.120 a great example. Their offensive line horrific. Everyone said, my god, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.640 the Texans have no chance, and they felt bad for CJ. Stroud, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.920 And then Davis Mills goes in, who's not any good. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.639 All he does is get rid of the ball, right, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.080 He gets rid of the ball, and all of a sudden, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.680 he had no sacks against Buffalo. And the Texans are 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.600 not great offensively, but they don't have to be. The 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.280 defense is pretty good and they're winning games with just 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.520 by getting rid of the ball faster. It's amazing how 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.640 much better your offensive line is now. Not to I 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.519 don't want to open up any wounds, but you know 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.160 that means I'm going to open up some wounds, Danny. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.639 When I say I don't want to open up any 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.840 wounds and then immediately say, but that is a dead giveaway. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.720 That is a dead giveaway. I'm about to open up 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.800 wounds in my lifetime. And I believe I'm right on this. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.800 The most embarrassing loss for the Raiders? How about the 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.240 last generation because I have I have a game picked 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.320 out that I believe is the most embarrassing loss for 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.280 the Raiders in the last twenty five years for you, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.720 as I'm not a Raider fan obviously, Danny. And we'll 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.960 get to the mail bag, I promised, But what do 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.480 you think your most embarrassing loss last twenty five years 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.320 with the Raiders? 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.480 Probably if you remember back to that Monday night football 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.760 game where Derek Carr and the Raiders were being touted 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.200 as Super Bowl contenders because Carr had come off of 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.200 a pretty decent year at that time, the Raiders had 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.720 one of the best O lines in all of football. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.720 So I'll never forget it was a primetime game. The 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.320 announcers were all over the Raiders junk juggling their ball, saying, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.480 this is a super Bowl caliber team, and it was 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.720 during the whole Was it Black Lives Matter? I think 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.440 it was because that's when the O line and Derek Carr, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.200 do you remember that where he didn't have their back? 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.080 That's what they thought, and so they didn't have his 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.240 back in the game, and the rumors were that they 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.000 allowed him to get murdered in that game. I think 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.800 he was sacked like seven times. Do you remember that well? 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.400 I remember vaguely. I don't know if it was it 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.200 because of Black Lives Matter. I don't remember what it was, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.520 because I do remember they they turned on Derek Carr 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.240 and there were some stories out that, yeah, issues, I 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.360 remember that part of it. I definitely remember that. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.480 That to me that I remember being so embarrassed because 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.799 they were being so highly praised and then they shit 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.520 Sandwich live on television and that was super embarrassing. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.000 All right. So, as a non Raider fan, I believe 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.119 the most embarrassing loss for the Raiders in the last 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.040 twenty five years was during the twenty twenty two season. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:45.240 The Raiders played was Week ten and they played the 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:50.080 Indianapolis Colts and that was the game coached by Jeff Saturday. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.200 That was the Oh yeah, that was the only win 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.200 he ever got as a head coach. He went on 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.000 one in seven or something like that. And the Colts 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.240 I had lost ten. They lost ten of the last 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.240 eleven games. The only win they got was against the 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.240 Raiders and the game was in Vegas, and that was it. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.560 That was the only game Jeff Saturday one as an 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.000 NFL head coach. That was against the Raiders, and that 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.560 was what's his name, the guy, the Patriot guy. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.240 Yeah, it was against McDaniels. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.680 Mc daniels. Yeah, yeah, that's say. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.200 He should have been fired right there on the spot. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.720 And I feel like, man, I feel like Pete Carroll 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.559 and his son should have been fired on the spot 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:29.359 last week. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.320 Yeah. I wouldn't have a problem with that. I know, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.320 I like Pete, but it's not going very well. Put 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.840 me in the hof at all. Well, I'll be at 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.039 the Ram game tonight. By the way, Rams and Bucks. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:42.719 It's so funny. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.960 I'm jealous, man, I'm jealous. This Ram season has to 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.280 surprise you a little bit. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.039 It does. I did not expect Stafford to be healthy. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.640 Put the wammy on him. We'll get hurt tonight. But 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.520 I thought he'd be out by now. He's been healthy. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.600 He's playing as well as anyone in the NFL. He's 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.760 not turning the ball over, something he's always done. Uh so, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.560 it's it's been it's been great. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.760 Yeah, you guys actually know how to use Davante Adams. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:07.960 I'm super jealous. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:09.800 Yeah. Just throw it to him near the end zone. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.680 He'll get touchdowns. Yes, fascinating. All right, here we are, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.039 Ohio OL, get me in the mood, Ohio OL. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:31.120 It's mail bag, all right, let's get to it. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.240 Time now for the mail Bag, actual letters by actual listeners. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.320 If you'd like to send a correspondence in for a 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.479 future edition of the mail Bag, then go ahead and 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.120 do it email Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.760 That's all letters, no numbers, Real fifth hour at gmail 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.200 dot com. And let's get the party started. First up 0:06:53.560 --> 0:07:01.480 is Paul from Thomasville, Georgia. PAULA from Thomasville, Georgia. Welcome 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.279 paul A. He says, man, I played high school golf 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:10.160 and my golf clubs are longer than standard. I'm six four. Yeah, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.840 I asked the question, I answered a question, or we 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.720 were talking about this. I talked about last weekend about 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.840 golf at Camball. I think it came up with the mailbag, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.640 which is probably why Paul sending this in. I forget 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.760 we do daily podcasts, but I was like, I should 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.440 pick up golf. And I gave away my golf clubs 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.160 years ago, and I want to get golf clubs, but 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.080 they're very expensive, and I want to get like long 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.280 golf clubs because I'm a tall guy, he says. Paul 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.320 from Thomasville, Georgia says, I suggest you see a golf 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.520 pro at one of the clubs close to you. Sometimes 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.840 they have used clubs which they can modify to your specifications. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.280 If not, they can point you in the right direction. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.000 I previously contacted you about getting the Pope on the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.160 Fifth Hour podcast. He says, I'm sure. I'm sure Mike 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.760 North has tipped a few with the Pope over the years. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.240 Maybe he can help secure him for your show. Good 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.200 luck on the golf club shirts. That's Paul from Thomasville, Georgia. Well, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.640 we love Mike North. He's a Hall of Famer and 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:12.280 he is the most Chicago Chicago guy I've ever met. Oh, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.640 there's no question, Mike North is a just an absolute 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.559 bench loved the guy. He was a hot dog vendor 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.480 in Chicago. He became the most powerful sports talk radio 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.640 host in Chicago, made the most money of anyone in 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.920 sports radio in the United States for a couple of years. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.840 Love Mike North, just down the earth, the kind of 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.480 guy you just want to have beers with and talk 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.720 about life. And then I think Philadelphia. I think Tony Bruno. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.880 I think that's the most to me. Tony's the most 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.880 authentic South Philly guy you could possibly have, and that 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.800 my life has crossed paths with those guys is just great. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.719 I love that. And the Pope. I don't know if 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.040 the Pope and Mike North have hung out. I'm pretty 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.680 sure though, that the man that became the Pope, and 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.160 I've talked about this before, was listening to the Overnight 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.480 show we were on in Chicago when the White Sox 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.120 won the World Series. We were on the Overnight at 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.680 that time, and the show was being syndicated into Chicago. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.560 So I'm imagining in my head the man that became 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.520 the Pope was at the World Series and then driving 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.800 home after the game, he flipped on the sports radio 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.679 and heard the show that it's probably bull crap, Danny, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.160 but I'm just going with it. And as far as 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.880 the golf clubs. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.600 It's probably like Vin Scully turned classical music on. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.120 Yeah, exactly, I famously asked Vin. I thought Vin listened 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.120 to me doing Dodger talk. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.559 No he did not, did not. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.040 Next up on the mailbag, Scott from Florida writes and says, hey, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.840 Ben and Danny, g I just read a news article 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.760 that said the Simpsons killed some cast member off after 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.800 thirty five years, and fans are very angry. Can we 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.160 all agree at this stage that for the last fifteen 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:53.280 years fifteen years, the Simpsons are the Rby's of television? 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.439 He says, I literally, I literally don't know anybody that 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.079 still watches the show, yet it somehow stays on the 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.040 Are there any theories about how and why is this 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:09.040 the bot algorithm? Ben? That's from Scott in Florida, Ur, Danny, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.240 last time you watched the Simpsons. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.320 Man twelve thirteen years? Probably? 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.559 Yeah, I bet it's been longer for me. It's been 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:24.800 longer for me. They are entering their thirty seventh season. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.400 That it is seve insanity. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.320 Yeah, and they've been renewed all that, they're guaranteed to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.840 be on through forty forty years. They're contractually obligated for 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.520 forty years. So I looked up the ratings here Scott 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:44.199 and Danny g and Scott is spot on on the ratings. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.480 According to the Nielsen Ratings, which measures the percentage of 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:53.160 US TV households watching total viewership, total viewership has hovered 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.520 in the zero point one to zero point two range 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.480 in all key demographics. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.000 Me, what the hell is? 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.480 It just like grandfathered in for the network, and so 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.400 it's like part of the identity, so they feel like 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.120 they have to carry it. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.199 It says adults eighteen to fourteen I total viewers often 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.920 under two million. Despite being on across the entire United States, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.800 the series has maintained a strong online presence. It ranks 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.520 the top two hundred and fifty shows for thirty day 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.280 Digital Buzz. That was as of earlier this month. But 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.400 that is that is not the not the gule, the 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.640 not that when you're on every in every market and 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.840 you're getting a zero point one and a zero point 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.360 two rating, that's that's wild. They must sell a lot 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.560 of They must sell a lot of merch, Danny, right, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.120 a lot of merch. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.680 And I guess that was a great comparison to RB's 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:48.680 By the way. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.120 Good job by Scott, way to go, and a great 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.600 homage to you, Danny. That's a great tribute to Ryan 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:59.560 writes in from Shrewsbury Man. He says, hey, man, Danny, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.840 me and my my wife there have been watching the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.000 Monster series on Netflix. Currently watching season three about ed 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.719 Geen is am I saying that correctly, ge I n 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.480 just go with it. Season two was about the Menendez brothers, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.599 and since you both grew up in southern California, do 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.440 you guys have vivid memories of when it happened. I 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.040 wasn't even born yet. Ryan says, See, that's that's Ryan 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.680 poking a shot at us, Danny. You old boomers. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.720 We're not bloomers, were in the generation after that. We're 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.800 gen X right, gen X right? I thinks we're yeah, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:34.520 we're gen X. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.880 Yeah. But for you guys who were alive, is there 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.600 anything you guys remember? Thanks, boys and Ben, I'll see 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:49.040 you in Worcesta next summer. Wat Chester. There you go, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.240 that's Ryan. Look forward to seeing you, Ryan, we'll do 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.560 that either spring of the summer of twenty twenty six, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.920 will be in Woosta and be hanging out to be 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.280 a big Mallard meet and greet. I remember Rember the 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.760 media coverage about the Menendez brothers. It was a huge story. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.200 They have money, so much money. It was a wealthy 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.360 to do family and all that, and I was like, well, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.080 it was wild and I don't remember much else. I 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.280 remember that there was that basketball card of Mark Jackson. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.079 That's what I was going to bring up. I actually 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.079 owned that card. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.480 Yeah, they were at a Clipper game, right. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.880 I'm going to pass that down on the coah then 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.400 and then he'll be asking the gen z s what 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:29.160 is this? 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.960 Yeah, why why do I have I don't understand. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.600 Yeah, and then they'll have to pass their grandparents about it. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.520 Yeah, so that's it. I mean, it was a wild time. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.840 Menendez were at the games. Every once in a while, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.599 Donald Trump would show up. He mostly stayed on the 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.680 East Coast, but every once in a while the Knicks 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.640 would be out or he'd be in LA for something, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.280 he'd show up. It was a wild time back back 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.440 in the day. But the Minette is they were one 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.200 of them was supposed to get out right and didn't 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.840 get out? Is that what happened a couple of months ago? 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.800 Right then one of them was going to do they didn't. Yeah, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.480 that didn't work out as far as I know. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.079 Yeah, people assumed they were gonna get out and they didn't. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.000 You know what happens when you assume. Next up Lucky 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.520 Tony on the mail bag, he writes, and he says, hey, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.760 Bend and Danny g Danny, do you sport any teams 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.480 other than the Raiders, Dodgers and Lakers? And Ben he says, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.920 get a fucking bears at. That's Lucky Lucky Tony. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.040 I love. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.040 You got to call in more Lucky Tony. You won't 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.200 even doing Tony or he's a jolly gunfe Oh there's 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:36.640 nobody can and I yeah, you're pretty solid with the Raiders, Dodgers, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.080 and Lakers. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.680 When I was a kid, I had some favorite players 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.040 that were on other teams, like you know, jose Canseco 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.640 and Mark Maguire were two of my favorite players. And 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.400 my aunt lived right there in Oakland, so we would 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.520 spend some summers there and bounce between LA and the 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.960 Bay a lot. And so yeah, I mean We've talked 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.960 about how I grew up seeing baseball games inside the 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:04.120 Alameda County Poliseum. Awesome back then to watch baseball there, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.760 and then when we would return back to LA we'd 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.840 get to watch baseball at Dodger Stadium. That's probably the 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.160 only other team I've ever had a cap of when 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.360 I was a kid was the A's. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.480 Yeah, no, no, I remember you telling stories about Sandy 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.960 A's and Lucky Tony. There is a rumor Lucky Tony 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.880 that I will be adding to my hat collection. I 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.680 love be hats, and the Chicago Bears have a be hat, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.960 so there's there is some talk that I might be 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:36.120 adding that be hat b Hotch to my be hat collection. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.040 I have the Brooklyn Dodgers, I have the Boston Red Sox. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.440 I have the Bakersfield Blaze, a couple other bees of 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.040 the Buffalo Bison bee the Baker's Field. I think it's 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.600 a Baker's a bunch of bee hats, but munch of beets. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.760 Gary from Pittsburgh writes, and Gary in Pittsburgh, he says, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.280 can you please have a minute long malor investigation on 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.160 the origin of the phrase A penny for your thoughts? 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.280 He said, he was talking about the penny going away. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.120 By the way, Benny Versus the Penny is still available 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.920 on YouTube today. Watch it right now, watch it later. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.840 Watch Benny Versus the Penny. You watch it before the games. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.720 No more of these international games this year in the NFL. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:16.840 But if you watch it before, you can get all 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.880 my picks. And if you want to watch it after, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.760 you can see how I did. So check it out, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.000 and he points out the penny is going away, he said, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.480 But the United States minted three point two billion pennies, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.960 he said, We minted three point two billion pennies in 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.800 twenty twenty four. And it's not like they wear out 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.880 like paper currency or we dump them in the ocean 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.240 at the end of the year, and so those pennies 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.840 should be around for a long time. That's Gary in Pittsburgh. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.520 As far as the phrase a penny for your thoughts, Gary, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.360 believe it or not, that phrase is one of the 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:57.440 oldest in use in terms of common use in the world. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.320 The phrase penny for your thoughts first appeared in print 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:07.840 in the fifteen hundreds someone named Sir Thomas Moore, and 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.480 was used to invite someone lost in thought to share 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.320 what was on their mind. The earliest recorded use was 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.440 in a book called Four Last Things from fifteen twenty two, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.400 and it was written a penny for your thought, essentially 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.440 encouraging someone to rejoin a conversation when they seemed distracted 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.240 and whatnot. That means that a penny for your thought 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.359 is one of the oldest idioms used, which is not 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.879 biblical or a proverb, and it still dates back to 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.240 the Tutor era, which seems like a long time ago. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.959 In the sixteenth century, a penny had real value, right, No, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.800 nothing symbolic or anything like that. It was a genuine 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:59.440 thing that meant something. Obviously, now not so much. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.960 You could get candy for your penny. Back then, she. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:08.040 Gets something of value. So obviously, inflation the pennies has 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.520 been deemed worthless by the United States. They're not gonna 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.040 even bother making it. And so that's that, Thank you 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:18.160 very much. Gary. In beautiful Pittsburgh, Pa, The Home of the. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.719 Insers, Really quick, Ben, do you think if you had 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.760 a bag of pennies, could you get a prostitute? 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.320 Back then a bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.600 Well, my dad, my dear dad, when he passed away, 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.439 one of the few things he left for us was 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.480 he collected pennies. And I had said, I've said this 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.520 a few times over the years, but when my dad 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.399 checked out, I was like, Dad, couldn't you have collected quarters? 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.320 That would have been much better the quarters. But he 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.600 loved pennies just for some reason. That was his thing. 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.160 And he kept lots and lots of pennies. And there's 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.040 nothing more maddening when my dad passed and we took 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.480 the pennies to turn them in and stuff and get money. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.199 And then you bring in boxes of pennies and you 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.280 end up with like five dollars, you know, and you're 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.240 like eight bucks. You're like, what are we doing? Anyway? 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:08.159 Alf from a complaint Department Rights and he says, happy Thanksgiving, gentlemen, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:14.120 what's your worst customer service experience? For example, being quoted 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.640 a price for cell service and four new phones, having 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.919 to buy two extra phones because of employee error, screwing 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.560 up trade ins, and having to complain to the FCC 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.800 to finally fix your phone bill after being overcharged almost 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.879 a grand after four months. Keep in mind having to 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.640 wait a month for the government to reopen in order 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.800 to file an FCC complaint. No, no, not that I'm bitter, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.240 says says Alf. Off the top of my head. I'd 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.920 say the experience which pops in my head right now 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.360 is I got a lemon the Malamobile. This goes back 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.000 probably ten years or so of that got in a car. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.800 Are really liked it, and the thing just died and 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.840 we took it to the repair shop. They said, okay, 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.760 we'll fix it. We'll be able to fix it, no problem. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.639 And then a week went by and we checked in 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.440 and said, well, we'll still working on it. Don't worry, 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:15.800 we're going to get it fixed up and worry about 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.040 We said, okay, good, that's good. And then we went 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:19.840 another week and we called in and said, well we're 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.480 still we're having a few issues, but we think we're 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.000 going to be able to get it fixed. Give us 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.320 another couple days. We'll get back to it, no problem. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.080 So then another week went by. We called up the 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.960 repair shop. We said, okay, it's been been a while, 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.280 can we get the car back. We said, well, you know, 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.119 we we haven't been able to solve what was wrong 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.800 with it, and so we reached out the corporate but 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.320 we think will be okay, give us another week Okay, sure, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.439 we'll give you another week. So then we waited another week. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.879 Then we contacted them again and they said, well, I 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.200 don't think we can fix it. We haven't been able 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.880 to fix it, so you're eligible to turn the car 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.399 in as a lemon And we were like okay. And 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.200 so we were okay, lemon. You know how much money 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.400 we lost Danny on that car and we hardly owned it. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.199 It was we barely had the freaking thing. So the 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.200 lemon law, which I think is a federal I know 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.240 it's in California, but the lemon law, you think, oh great, 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.639 get your money back, the depreciation of that car, and 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.880 having to deal with the legal jump jump jumpy jump, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:23.080 the hula hoops. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.600 I mean it was no, no, no, It's like when 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.200 a car gets quote unquote totaled, the insurance company gives 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:30.240 you half the value. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.800 Yeah, it was that exactly exactly. You said it better 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.760 than me, and it was like, okay, So we we 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.399 didn't do anything wrong on our end. We just used 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.800