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 sol fashion of fairness. He
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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 Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you.
Speaker 1: It's week twelve in the NFL got kicked off back
Speaker 1: on Thursday night with the Texans taking down Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills. Are we now at the point,
Speaker 1: Danny where the Raiders are so bad? How bad are
Speaker 1: they that you don't even want to talk about? The Raiders?
Speaker 1: Can't they cannot lose to Shooter Sanders today? Right, you can't.
Speaker 1: There's no way to gonna lose to shoot her Sanders
Speaker 1: and in the Browns, right, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Remember that one time where Baker Mayfield got signed by
Speaker 4: your Rams. He came into the game and did what
Speaker 4: he did. It seems like players have some of their
Speaker 4: best games against the Raiders in the past decade. I
Speaker 4: don't know what to tell you. That O line is
Speaker 4: freaking horrendous. We've talked about it all season. The Chargers
Speaker 4: have the same problem. The Raiders do no depth at
Speaker 4: O line, and guys that are coming in as the
Speaker 4: backups like Meredith and Kappa, they man, they couldn't even
Speaker 4: be third stringers on other teams. And these guys are
Speaker 4: the backups for the Raiders O line. And then Gino Smith,
Speaker 4: as we've talked about, he sucks when he's under pressure.
Speaker 4: He holds onto the ball too long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I maintain, well, it is fun to goof
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I look at the Texans as
Speaker 1: a great example. Their offensive line horrific. Everyone said, my god,
Speaker 1: the Texans have no chance, and they felt bad for CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 1: And then Davis Mills goes in, who's not any good.
Speaker 1: All he does is get rid of the ball, right,
Speaker 1: He gets rid of the ball, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he had no sacks against Buffalo. And the Texans are
Speaker 1: not great offensively, but they don't have to be. The
Speaker 1: defense is pretty good and they're winning games with just
Speaker 1: by getting rid of the ball faster. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: much better your offensive line is now. Not to I
Speaker 1: don't want to open up any wounds, but you know
Speaker 1: that means I'm going to open up some wounds, Danny.
Speaker 1: When I say I don't want to open up any
Speaker 1: wounds and then immediately say, but that is a dead giveaway.
Speaker 1: That is a dead giveaway. I'm about to open up
Speaker 1: wounds in my lifetime. And I believe I'm right on this.
Speaker 1: The most embarrassing loss for the Raiders? How about the
Speaker 1: last generation because I have I have a game picked
Speaker 1: out that I believe is the most embarrassing loss for
Speaker 1: the Raiders in the last twenty five years for you,
Speaker 1: as I'm not a Raider fan obviously, Danny. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to the mail bag, I promised, But what do
Speaker 1: you think your most embarrassing loss last twenty five years
Speaker 1: with the Raiders?
Speaker 4: Probably if you remember back to that Monday night football
Speaker 4: game where Derek Carr and the Raiders were being touted
Speaker 4: as Super Bowl contenders because Carr had come off of
Speaker 4: a pretty decent year at that time, the Raiders had
Speaker 4: one of the best O lines in all of football.
Speaker 4: So I'll never forget it was a primetime game. The
Speaker 4: announcers were all over the Raiders junk juggling their ball, saying,
Speaker 4: this is a super Bowl caliber team, and it was
Speaker 4: during the whole Was it Black Lives Matter? I think
Speaker 4: it was because that's when the O line and Derek Carr,
Speaker 4: do you remember that where he didn't have their back?
Speaker 4: That's what they thought, and so they didn't have his
Speaker 4: back in the game, and the rumors were that they
Speaker 4: allowed him to get murdered in that game. I think
Speaker 4: he was sacked like seven times. Do you remember that well?
Speaker 1: I remember vaguely. I don't know if it was it
Speaker 1: because of Black Lives Matter. I don't remember what it was,
Speaker 1: because I do remember they they turned on Derek Carr
Speaker 1: and there were some stories out that, yeah, issues, I
Speaker 1: remember that part of it. I definitely remember that.
Speaker 4: That to me that I remember being so embarrassed because
Speaker 4: they were being so highly praised and then they shit
Speaker 4: Sandwich live on television and that was super embarrassing.
Speaker 1: All right. So, as a non Raider fan, I believe
Speaker 1: the most embarrassing loss for the Raiders in the last
Speaker 1: twenty five years was during the twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 1: The Raiders played was Week ten and they played the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts and that was the game coached by Jeff Saturday.
Speaker 1: That was the Oh yeah, that was the only win
Speaker 1: he ever got as a head coach. He went on
Speaker 1: one in seven or something like that. And the Colts
Speaker 1: I had lost ten. They lost ten of the last
Speaker 1: eleven games. The only win they got was against the
Speaker 1: Raiders and the game was in Vegas, and that was it.
Speaker 1: That was the only game Jeff Saturday one as an
Speaker 1: NFL head coach. That was against the Raiders, and that
Speaker 1: was what's his name, the guy, the Patriot guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was against McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Mc daniels. Yeah, yeah, that's say.
Speaker 4: He should have been fired right there on the spot.
Speaker 4: And I feel like, man, I feel like Pete Carroll
Speaker 4: and his son should have been fired on the spot
Speaker 4: last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wouldn't have a problem with that. I know,
Speaker 1: I like Pete, but it's not going very well. Put
Speaker 1: me in the hof at all. Well, I'll be at
Speaker 1: the Ram game tonight. By the way, Rams and Bucks.
Speaker 1: It's so funny.
Speaker 4: I'm jealous, man, I'm jealous. This Ram season has to
Speaker 4: surprise you a little bit.
Speaker 1: It does. I did not expect Stafford to be healthy.
Speaker 1: Put the wammy on him. We'll get hurt tonight. But
Speaker 1: I thought he'd be out by now. He's been healthy.
Speaker 1: He's playing as well as anyone in the NFL. He's
Speaker 1: not turning the ball over, something he's always done. Uh so,
Speaker 1: it's it's been it's been great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys actually know how to use Davante Adams.
Speaker 4: I'm super jealous.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Just throw it to him near the end zone.
Speaker 1: He'll get touchdowns. Yes, fascinating. All right, here we are,
Speaker 1: Ohio OL, get me in the mood, Ohio OL.
Speaker 5: It's mail bag, all right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Time now for the mail Bag, actual letters by actual listeners.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to send a correspondence in for a
Speaker 1: future edition of the mail Bag, then go ahead and
Speaker 1: do it email Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: That's all letters, no numbers, Real fifth hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. And let's get the party started. First up
Speaker 1: is Paul from Thomasville, Georgia. PAULA from Thomasville, Georgia. Welcome
Speaker 1: paul A. He says, man, I played high school golf
Speaker 1: and my golf clubs are longer than standard. I'm six four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I asked the question, I answered a question, or we
Speaker 1: were talking about this. I talked about last weekend about
Speaker 1: golf at Camball. I think it came up with the mailbag,
Speaker 1: which is probably why Paul sending this in. I forget
Speaker 1: we do daily podcasts, but I was like, I should
Speaker 1: pick up golf. And I gave away my golf clubs
Speaker 1: years ago, and I want to get golf clubs, but
Speaker 1: they're very expensive, and I want to get like long
Speaker 1: golf clubs because I'm a tall guy, he says. Paul
Speaker 1: from Thomasville, Georgia says, I suggest you see a golf
Speaker 1: pro at one of the clubs close to you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they have used clubs which they can modify to your specifications.
Speaker 1: If not, they can point you in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I previously contacted you about getting the Pope on the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. He says, I'm sure. I'm sure Mike
Speaker 1: North has tipped a few with the Pope over the years.
Speaker 1: Maybe he can help secure him for your show. Good
Speaker 1: luck on the golf club shirts. That's Paul from Thomasville, Georgia. Well,
Speaker 1: we love Mike North. He's a Hall of Famer and
Speaker 1: he is the most Chicago Chicago guy I've ever met. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no question, Mike North is a just an absolute
Speaker 1: bench loved the guy. He was a hot dog vendor
Speaker 1: in Chicago. He became the most powerful sports talk radio
Speaker 1: host in Chicago, made the most money of anyone in
Speaker 1: sports radio in the United States for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Love Mike North, just down the earth, the kind of
Speaker 1: guy you just want to have beers with and talk
Speaker 1: about life. And then I think Philadelphia. I think Tony Bruno.
Speaker 1: I think that's the most to me. Tony's the most
Speaker 1: authentic South Philly guy you could possibly have, and that
Speaker 1: my life has crossed paths with those guys is just great.
Speaker 1: I love that. And the Pope. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Pope and Mike North have hung out. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure though, that the man that became the Pope, and
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, was listening to the Overnight
Speaker 1: show we were on in Chicago when the White Sox
Speaker 1: won the World Series. We were on the Overnight at
Speaker 1: that time, and the show was being syndicated into Chicago.
Speaker 1: So I'm imagining in my head the man that became
Speaker 1: the Pope was at the World Series and then driving
Speaker 1: home after the game, he flipped on the sports radio
Speaker 1: and heard the show that it's probably bull crap, Danny,
Speaker 1: but I'm just going with it. And as far as
Speaker 1: the golf clubs.
Speaker 3: It's probably like Vin Scully turned classical music on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I famously asked Vin. I thought Vin listened
Speaker 1: to me doing Dodger talk.
Speaker 3: No he did not, did not.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag, Scott from Florida writes and says, hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, g I just read a news article
Speaker 1: that said the Simpsons killed some cast member off after
Speaker 1: thirty five years, and fans are very angry. Can we
Speaker 1: all agree at this stage that for the last fifteen
Speaker 1: years fifteen years, the Simpsons are the Rby's of television?
Speaker 1: He says, I literally, I literally don't know anybody that
Speaker 1: still watches the show, yet it somehow stays on the
Speaker 1: Are there any theories about how and why is this
Speaker 1: the bot algorithm? Ben? That's from Scott in Florida, Ur, Danny,
Speaker 1: last time you watched the Simpsons.
Speaker 3: Man twelve thirteen years? Probably?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet it's been longer for me. It's been
Speaker 1: longer for me. They are entering their thirty seventh season.
Speaker 3: That it is seve insanity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've been renewed all that, they're guaranteed to
Speaker 1: be on through forty forty years. They're contractually obligated for
Speaker 1: forty years. So I looked up the ratings here Scott
Speaker 1: and Danny g and Scott is spot on on the ratings.
Speaker 1: According to the Nielsen Ratings, which measures the percentage of
Speaker 1: US TV households watching total viewership, total viewership has hovered
Speaker 1: in the zero point one to zero point two range
Speaker 1: in all key demographics.
Speaker 3: Me, what the hell is?
Speaker 4: It just like grandfathered in for the network, and so
Speaker 4: it's like part of the identity, so they feel like
Speaker 4: they have to carry it.
Speaker 1: It says adults eighteen to fourteen I total viewers often
Speaker 1: under two million. Despite being on across the entire United States,
Speaker 1: the series has maintained a strong online presence. It ranks
Speaker 1: the top two hundred and fifty shows for thirty day
Speaker 1: Digital Buzz. That was as of earlier this month. But
Speaker 1: that is that is not the not the gule, the
Speaker 1: not that when you're on every in every market and
Speaker 1: you're getting a zero point one and a zero point
Speaker 1: two rating, that's that's wild. They must sell a lot
Speaker 1: of They must sell a lot of merch, Danny, right,
Speaker 1: a lot of merch.
Speaker 4: And I guess that was a great comparison to RB's
Speaker 4: By the way.
Speaker 1: Good job by Scott, way to go, and a great
Speaker 1: homage to you, Danny. That's a great tribute to Ryan
Speaker 1: writes in from Shrewsbury Man. He says, hey, man, Danny,
Speaker 1: me and my my wife there have been watching the
Speaker 1: Monster series on Netflix. Currently watching season three about ed
Speaker 1: Geen is am I saying that correctly, ge I n
Speaker 1: just go with it. Season two was about the Menendez brothers,
Speaker 1: and since you both grew up in southern California, do
Speaker 1: you guys have vivid memories of when it happened. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even born yet. Ryan says, See, that's that's Ryan
Speaker 1: poking a shot at us, Danny. You old boomers.
Speaker 4: We're not bloomers, were in the generation after that. We're
Speaker 4: gen X right, gen X right? I thinks we're yeah,
Speaker 4: we're gen X.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But for you guys who were alive, is there
Speaker 1: anything you guys remember? Thanks, boys and Ben, I'll see
Speaker 1: you in Worcesta next summer. Wat Chester. There you go,
Speaker 1: that's Ryan. Look forward to seeing you, Ryan, we'll do
Speaker 1: that either spring of the summer of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: will be in Woosta and be hanging out to be
Speaker 1: a big Mallard meet and greet. I remember Rember the
Speaker 1: media coverage about the Menendez brothers. It was a huge story.
Speaker 1: They have money, so much money. It was a wealthy
Speaker 1: to do family and all that, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it was wild and I don't remember much else. I
Speaker 1: remember that there was that basketball card of Mark Jackson.
Speaker 3: That's what I was going to bring up. I actually
Speaker 3: owned that card.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were at a Clipper game, right.
Speaker 4: I'm going to pass that down on the coah then
Speaker 4: and then he'll be asking the gen z s what
Speaker 4: is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why why do I have I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they'll have to pass their grandparents about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's it. I mean, it was a wild time.
Speaker 1: Menendez were at the games. Every once in a while,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would show up. He mostly stayed on the
Speaker 1: East Coast, but every once in a while the Knicks
Speaker 1: would be out or he'd be in LA for something,
Speaker 1: he'd show up. It was a wild time back back
Speaker 1: in the day. But the Minette is they were one
Speaker 1: of them was supposed to get out right and didn't
Speaker 1: get out? Is that what happened a couple of months ago?
Speaker 4: Right then one of them was going to do they didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that didn't work out as far as I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people assumed they were gonna get out and they didn't.
Speaker 1: You know what happens when you assume. Next up Lucky
Speaker 1: Tony on the mail bag, he writes, and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: Bend and Danny g Danny, do you sport any teams
Speaker 1: other than the Raiders, Dodgers and Lakers? And Ben he says,
Speaker 1: get a fucking bears at. That's Lucky Lucky Tony.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: You got to call in more Lucky Tony. You won't
Speaker 1: even doing Tony or he's a jolly gunfe Oh there's
Speaker 1: nobody can and I yeah, you're pretty solid with the Raiders, Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and Lakers.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I had some favorite players
Speaker 4: that were on other teams, like you know, jose Canseco
Speaker 4: and Mark Maguire were two of my favorite players. And
Speaker 4: my aunt lived right there in Oakland, so we would
Speaker 4: spend some summers there and bounce between LA and the
Speaker 4: Bay a lot. And so yeah, I mean We've talked
Speaker 4: about how I grew up seeing baseball games inside the
Speaker 4: Alameda County Poliseum. Awesome back then to watch baseball there,
Speaker 4: and then when we would return back to LA we'd
Speaker 4: get to watch baseball at Dodger Stadium. That's probably the
Speaker 4: only other team I've ever had a cap of when
Speaker 4: I was a kid was the A's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, I remember you telling stories about Sandy
Speaker 1: A's and Lucky Tony. There is a rumor Lucky Tony
Speaker 1: that I will be adding to my hat collection. I
Speaker 1: love be hats, and the Chicago Bears have a be hat,
Speaker 1: so there's there is some talk that I might be
Speaker 1: adding that be hat b Hotch to my be hat collection.
Speaker 1: I have the Brooklyn Dodgers, I have the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: I have the Bakersfield Blaze, a couple other bees of
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bison bee the Baker's Field. I think it's
Speaker 1: a Baker's a bunch of bee hats, but munch of beets.
Speaker 1: Gary from Pittsburgh writes, and Gary in Pittsburgh, he says,
Speaker 1: can you please have a minute long malor investigation on
Speaker 1: the origin of the phrase A penny for your thoughts?
Speaker 1: He said, he was talking about the penny going away.
Speaker 1: By the way, Benny Versus the Penny is still available
Speaker 1: on YouTube today. Watch it right now, watch it later.
Speaker 1: Watch Benny Versus the Penny. You watch it before the games.
Speaker 1: No more of these international games this year in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But if you watch it before, you can get all
Speaker 1: my picks. And if you want to watch it after,
Speaker 1: you can see how I did. So check it out,
Speaker 1: and he points out the penny is going away, he said,
Speaker 1: But the United States minted three point two billion pennies,
Speaker 1: he said, We minted three point two billion pennies in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And it's not like they wear out
Speaker 1: like paper currency or we dump them in the ocean
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and so those pennies
Speaker 1: should be around for a long time. That's Gary in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: As far as the phrase a penny for your thoughts, Gary,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, that phrase is one of the
Speaker 1: oldest in use in terms of common use in the world.
Speaker 1: The phrase penny for your thoughts first appeared in print
Speaker 1: in the fifteen hundreds someone named Sir Thomas Moore, and
Speaker 1: was used to invite someone lost in thought to share
Speaker 1: what was on their mind. The earliest recorded use was
Speaker 1: in a book called Four Last Things from fifteen twenty two,
Speaker 1: and it was written a penny for your thought, essentially
Speaker 1: encouraging someone to rejoin a conversation when they seemed distracted
Speaker 1: and whatnot. That means that a penny for your thought
Speaker 1: is one of the oldest idioms used, which is not
Speaker 1: biblical or a proverb, and it still dates back to
Speaker 1: the Tutor era, which seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 1: In the sixteenth century, a penny had real value, right, No,
Speaker 1: nothing symbolic or anything like that. It was a genuine
Speaker 1: thing that meant something. Obviously, now not so much.
Speaker 3: You could get candy for your penny. Back then, she.
Speaker 1: Gets something of value. So obviously, inflation the pennies has
Speaker 1: been deemed worthless by the United States. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: even bother making it. And so that's that, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Gary. In beautiful Pittsburgh, Pa, The Home of the.
Speaker 4: Insers, Really quick, Ben, do you think if you had
Speaker 4: a bag of pennies, could you get a prostitute?
Speaker 3: Back then a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: Well, my dad, my dear dad, when he passed away,
Speaker 1: one of the few things he left for us was
Speaker 1: he collected pennies. And I had said, I've said this
Speaker 1: a few times over the years, but when my dad
Speaker 1: checked out, I was like, Dad, couldn't you have collected quarters?
Speaker 1: That would have been much better the quarters. But he
Speaker 1: loved pennies just for some reason. That was his thing.
Speaker 1: And he kept lots and lots of pennies. And there's
Speaker 1: nothing more maddening when my dad passed and we took
Speaker 1: the pennies to turn them in and stuff and get money.
Speaker 1: And then you bring in boxes of pennies and you
Speaker 1: end up with like five dollars, you know, and you're
Speaker 1: like eight bucks. You're like, what are we doing? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Alf from a complaint Department Rights and he says, happy Thanksgiving, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: what's your worst customer service experience? For example, being quoted
Speaker 1: a price for cell service and four new phones, having
Speaker 1: to buy two extra phones because of employee error, screwing
Speaker 1: up trade ins, and having to complain to the FCC
Speaker 1: to finally fix your phone bill after being overcharged almost
Speaker 1: a grand after four months. Keep in mind having to
Speaker 1: wait a month for the government to reopen in order
Speaker 1: to file an FCC complaint. No, no, not that I'm bitter,
Speaker 1: says says Alf. Off the top of my head. I'd
Speaker 1: say the experience which pops in my head right now
Speaker 1: is I got a lemon the Malamobile. This goes back
Speaker 1: probably ten years or so of that got in a car.
Speaker 1: Are really liked it, and the thing just died and
Speaker 1: we took it to the repair shop. They said, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll fix it. We'll be able to fix it, no problem.
Speaker 1: And then a week went by and we checked in
Speaker 1: and said, well, we'll still working on it. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: we're going to get it fixed up and worry about
Speaker 1: We said, okay, good, that's good. And then we went
Speaker 1: another week and we called in and said, well we're
Speaker 1: still we're having a few issues, but we think we're
Speaker 1: going to be able to get it fixed. Give us
Speaker 1: another couple days. We'll get back to it, no problem.
Speaker 1: So then another week went by. We called up the
Speaker 1: repair shop. We said, okay, it's been been a while,
Speaker 1: can we get the car back. We said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we we haven't been able to solve what was wrong
Speaker 1: with it, and so we reached out the corporate but
Speaker 1: we think will be okay, give us another week Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: we'll give you another week. So then we waited another week.
Speaker 1: Then we contacted them again and they said, well, I
Speaker 1: don't think we can fix it. We haven't been able
Speaker 1: to fix it, so you're eligible to turn the car
Speaker 1: in as a lemon And we were like okay. And
Speaker 1: so we were okay, lemon. You know how much money
Speaker 1: we lost Danny on that car and we hardly owned it.
Speaker 1: It was we barely had the freaking thing. So the
Speaker 1: lemon law, which I think is a federal I know
Speaker 1: it's in California, but the lemon law, you think, oh great,
Speaker 1: get your money back, the depreciation of that car, and
Speaker 1: having to deal with the legal jump jump jumpy jump,
Speaker 1: the hula hoops.
Speaker 4: I mean it was no, no, no, It's like when
Speaker 4: a car gets quote unquote totaled, the insurance company gives
Speaker 4: you half the value.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was that exactly exactly. You said it better
Speaker 1: than me, and it was like, okay, So we we
Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong on our end. We just used
Speaker 1: the car normally and we lost thousands of dollars, Like,
Speaker 1: why how is that fair? Because I drove the car
Speaker 1: off the lot. It's like, was there is there like
Speaker 1: a magic line of a point of demarcation where all
Speaker 1: of a sudden the car loses eight thousand dollars in value.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's the That's the number one reason why people hate
Speaker 4: buying cars.
Speaker 1: I will never buy a new car again. I will
Speaker 1: buy a pre owned, certified car. And that's that's it.
Speaker 1: I will never Now I say never, unless I get
Speaker 1: a contract like a Colin Cowhard, then I would be
Speaker 1: willing to do it. Then I would be willing to
Speaker 1: do it. Other than that, forget about it. What about you, Dan,
Speaker 1: any bad customer service you want to share with the class?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think about car lots. Also, when we
Speaker 4: were looking for bar for Brenda a few years back,
Speaker 4: we went to let's say, I don't want to say
Speaker 4: the name of it, I'll change the letters around.
Speaker 3: It was a markax a lot.
Speaker 4: In Oxnard, California, and it was right after COVID, so
Speaker 4: everybody was still wearing masks.
Speaker 3: Things were still funny out there.
Speaker 4: Never forget we go and they pawn us off to
Speaker 4: some girl who was brand new at doing car sales.
Speaker 3: She was horrible.
Speaker 4: She had sitting around forever. She wasn't showing us the
Speaker 4: right car that We asked her nicely to show us
Speaker 4: and then Ben the power went out on their lot.
Speaker 4: She tells us, uh, sorry, I'm not going to be
Speaker 4: able to take the car out that you guys wanted
Speaker 4: to test drive. Not sure when the power is going
Speaker 4: to come back on. Yeah, I'm sorry. I guess I'll
Speaker 4: just text you guys later. But she never even followed
Speaker 4: up with us. It was the worst customer service we
Speaker 4: ever had in our entire life.
Speaker 3: It was so bad. It was almost like they didn't
Speaker 3: want to take our money.
Speaker 1: Well they at least there was no Hagwin, you know,
Speaker 1: at least there were Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Normally it's the other way around. At a car dealership,
Speaker 4: you want to get away from the piranhas. Yeah. With
Speaker 4: that experience, it was like they were so inept they
Speaker 4: didn't know how to take our money.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is that's unfortunate. We've all had bad ones.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that Alf too. That sucks. You had
Speaker 1: to contact the FCC to fix his phone bill and all.
Speaker 1: That's that's b Quang from Ho Chi Min Vietnam Rights
Speaker 1: And he says, hey, Big Ben and Daddy g Radio, Daddy,
Speaker 1: did you know that leaving dishes unwashed? Often signals emotional overload.
Speaker 1: When people feel mentally exhausted, simple task like cleaning seem monumental.
Speaker 1: This behavior is not laziness. It's the brain protecting itself
Speaker 1: from stress. According to Kwang, research has shown that during
Speaker 1: overwhelming times, even small chores drain mental energy. Ignoring dishes
Speaker 1: can be a way to preserve emotional resources. It's the
Speaker 1: mind's way of saying I need a break, and Quang
Speaker 1: says taking a step back from chores helps conserve energy
Speaker 1: for emotional healing and recovery. He says, PS, I know
Speaker 1: you are a cheating ass holes take guy on dishwashers
Speaker 1: in your make Housekeeping Olympics Great Again monologue that you
Speaker 1: did last week. However, don't sleep on the dishwasher stacking event.
Speaker 1: Quang says, who or what country can best stack an
Speaker 1: assortment of pots, pans, dishes and utensils. There's money in
Speaker 1: dishwasher advertising, says Quang. If you can get sponsorship from
Speaker 1: Samsung or one of the companies that makes dishwashers, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we could work the dishwasher angle. I just believe
Speaker 1: Danny and I'm a purist when it comes to the
Speaker 1: housekeeping Olympic games, and as a purist, I just think
Speaker 1: you should wash dishes by hand. And I think once
Speaker 1: you it's once you put the dishwasher into it, it
Speaker 1: just cheapens it. It's like saying Barry Bonds as the
Speaker 1: all time home run king. Well, he hit a lot
Speaker 1: of home runs, but he had he had some help,
Speaker 1: you know. On Washing dishes with a dishwasher is a
Speaker 1: competitive advantage. It's the steroids of the dishwashing world.
Speaker 3: You should never let them pile up. We wash our
Speaker 3: dishes as we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I am the same way. I cannot go to
Speaker 1: bed with a sink full of dishes. It drives me bananas.
Speaker 1: I go bonkers. I'm like, no, I want to that's
Speaker 1: something I want to do. I like to do it
Speaker 1: right before I go to bed. I usually do it
Speaker 1: in the morning because I work. I sleep during the day,
Speaker 1: and I'll do it during the morning. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's great. By the time I wake up, everything's done.
Speaker 1: I washed the dishes, I put them in the dish washer,
Speaker 1: and that's that and we're good to go. We had
Speaker 1: a full empty sinks, put the dishes away. We're on
Speaker 1: our way. Kevin in Kansas rights into the mailbag, says
Speaker 1: Dear Ben and Danny G. He says, yesterday November, you
Speaker 1: sent this last week, he said, I discovered there was
Speaker 1: National Clean Out your Refrigerator Day since it was also
Speaker 1: my birthday, no shout out necessary, Yes, Kevin, I will
Speaker 1: not do a shout out for your birthday.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: If you want to contact me on CAMEO, I'd be
Speaker 1: happy to do a Kevin in Kansas Mallard monologue, but
Speaker 1: I am not going to do a shout out. There's
Speaker 1: two things I don't do, and Terry in England knows this.
Speaker 1: I don't do lists, and I don't do shout outs.
Speaker 1: I'll do shout outs on Cameo, I will not do
Speaker 1: them on the podcast of the radio show. And I
Speaker 1: don't do list. I've never done list at all.
Speaker 3: Does Cameo take bags of pennies?
Speaker 1: Sure? Sure? Why not? I should raise my raid on
Speaker 1: Cameo too. By the way, what am I doing the
Speaker 1: greatest deal on Cameo right there? Anyway? Kevin says, I
Speaker 1: thought i'd look into the fridge because it was National
Speaker 1: Clean Out your Refrigerator Day last week, and there are
Speaker 1: fifteen total items. It's pretty empty. He says, However, I'm
Speaker 1: not a chef like you two guys are. How much
Speaker 1: of your fridge will you use and how much will
Speaker 1: you end up tossing out? All right, So first of all, Kevin,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of things in the fridge, mostly
Speaker 1: eat at the house. I cook. I talked about the
Speaker 1: chicken shwarma that I make Friday for the whole week.
Speaker 1: I do that on Saturday, but then on the weekends
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday will make some some of the
Speaker 1: unhealthy foods that I like at the house. So it's
Speaker 1: always full of stuff. If it was up to me,
Speaker 1: I would very rarely throw anything out. My wife goes
Speaker 1: through there once every two weeks and throws out there's
Speaker 1: so much food that we throw out that could be eaten.
Speaker 1: But she looks at some date, which is I think
Speaker 1: you'd agree. We've talked about this. Those used by dates
Speaker 1: are a rough estimate. They're not they're not exactly right.
Speaker 1: My wife uses really a suggestion exactly. My wife uses
Speaker 1: them as the gospel, and she'll immediately, out of an
Speaker 1: abundance of caution, she'll throw food away, and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: the food's still fine, I just ate it yesterday. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it shows be like the date's not right. Well, I
Speaker 1: know the date's not right, but do the old There's
Speaker 1: two tests, you do the eyeball test and the smell test.
Speaker 1: And if you do the eyeball test and the smell
Speaker 1: test and looks fine, it smells fine, it's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 1: That's it. And you can do the field test when
Speaker 1: you touch it and kind of like if it's cheese
Speaker 1: and it's soft still and it's no, you can't see
Speaker 1: any signs of mold and it smells fine, it's good.
Speaker 1: Now if you see something that looks a little moldy
Speaker 1: or it's it's rock hard. Because the cheese is no
Speaker 1: longer what it needs to be, you throw it away.
Speaker 1: And we have so much stuff on our fridge, keV Like,
Speaker 1: the refrigerator looks great. However, if it's overfilled with stuff,
Speaker 1: it starts beeping. So it beeps a lot because there's
Speaker 1: so much food in there.
Speaker 4: What about you, Danny, Right, that's Brenda's department. She is
Speaker 4: pretty psycho about cleaning the shelves in there and making
Speaker 4: sure everything is fresh. In the freezer, it's mostly stuff
Speaker 4: from Costco. In the refrigerator part, it is mostly stuff
Speaker 4: from Trader Joe's. She's still OCD with the refrigerator. She
Speaker 4: turns everything so that the labels are facing towards you
Speaker 4: when you open the fridge.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice. We don't do that.
Speaker 3: We I don't know if nice is the word.
Speaker 1: Well, if you need to look at something like that.
Speaker 3: So so her, you're like a like, I know, it's
Speaker 3: a thing of jelly. I don't need the label facing
Speaker 3: my face.
Speaker 1: So Brenda makes it like a sitcom, like a sitcom refrigerator,
Speaker 1: you know how you can see?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the nineties, everything would be perfect. And because it
Speaker 1: was product placements, so they'd have Oh, look, I wonder
Speaker 1: I wonder what a kind of jelly that is? Oh
Speaker 1: it's look at smucker Smucker's jelly because they have the logo.
Speaker 1: It's like so stupid.
Speaker 4: It teas her about this, you know, probably once a month.
Speaker 4: I'm going to use that on her.
Speaker 3: Next time.
Speaker 4: She's turning labels around and going to be like, what
Speaker 4: what is this? Seinfeld?
Speaker 1: Or it's like full house, look at that unbelievable. Oh
Speaker 1: my friends, you know Chip from Anchorage, Alaska? How about
Speaker 1: that this podcast blowing up in Alaska? He says Ben
Speaker 1: I don't live in this part of Alaska, but there's
Speaker 1: a small town in northern Alaska that this week saw
Speaker 1: the sun for the last time in sixty four days.
Speaker 1: Could you and Danny g handle living in a place
Speaker 1: where you go two months without the sun? That's from Chip.
Speaker 1: So I think I'll go first, Danny. I think I could.
Speaker 1: Here's why, this time of the year, I really don't
Speaker 1: see much of the sun. I don't. I can see
Speaker 1: it before I go to bed a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I'm mostly indoors during the day. I don't really go
Speaker 1: out and do anything during the week. I'm indoors and
Speaker 1: by the time I get up get my day going,
Speaker 1: I don't really spend any time in the sun. Now.
Speaker 1: Saying that is one thing, but at least I have
Speaker 1: the option if I wanted to go out and get
Speaker 1: some suntime I could. Isn't that And I don't know.
Speaker 1: Chip's obviously not here, Danny. But the place in Alaska,
Speaker 1: aren't there like two much where they get no darkness? Also,
Speaker 1: doesn't it even out? There's parts of year where they
Speaker 1: get nothing but sunlight, and then the other parts of
Speaker 1: the year they get nothing but darkness.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, so I guess it balance.
Speaker 3: But yeah, obviously the harder one for people. I think
Speaker 3: with the darkness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you'd feel claustrophobic, that's the thing. I think
Speaker 4: I could do it for a few weeks, but then
Speaker 4: it would start getting really hard, especially growing up in California.
Speaker 4: I mean, we have unlimited sunshine most of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it would be a super hard transition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be. Uh but thank you, Chip. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to know that you're you're listening. I've never been
Speaker 1: to Alaska. You everybody to Alaska, Dan, you've been up
Speaker 1: there and done the crew?
Speaker 4: No, but I would love to visit. And I watch
Speaker 4: a show. You should check this show out on Netflix.
Speaker 4: It's called out Last, Okay, and it's like fourteen. They
Speaker 4: start with four teams all set up in Alaska. Some
Speaker 4: guy to block you. They're given like basic supplies. They
Speaker 4: have to last the other teams. You have to be
Speaker 4: on a team to win the one million dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh cool. And so it's a survival show. It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I'll check it out. Kevin in Salem, Mass
Speaker 1: And my wife loves Salem, Mass loves it. Dan, if
Speaker 1: I ever you know. I was offered a job in
Speaker 1: Boston radio years ago and I did not take it.
Speaker 1: But if I ever moved to Boston, I think I'd
Speaker 1: live in Salem. My wife loves that town. The Salem
Speaker 1: Witch Trials. They have the police logo is the witch
Speaker 1: is a witch, which is anyway.
Speaker 3: Ken loves Halloween, then huh she does?
Speaker 1: She does, she loves Halloween. Kep says, listen on ninety
Speaker 1: five the sports up here. Locally, he says, this week
Speaker 1: the Celtics coach Joe Mozilla, Joe Mizula, excuse me. Kevin
Speaker 1: Joe Missoula says he took zero joy when the Celtics
Speaker 1: won the NBA title. He said he sucks at having fun.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, do you know anyone like this? Uh?
Speaker 1: And that's keV And uh well it's.
Speaker 3: Kind of an open being sarcastic. Does he know that
Speaker 3: you can suck the joy out of Disneyland?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I guess maybe Kevin's maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you're talking about me. I don't. Here's the thing like
Speaker 1: I as far as winning championships, it's one of those
Speaker 1: weird things. I've been lucky that all my teams have
Speaker 1: have had some success here. The Rams won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: the hardest super Bowl ever during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers have won multiple World Series. The Clippers got
Speaker 1: to the final four. So everyone, everyone, everyone's had success.
Speaker 3: All your teams except the Clippers.
Speaker 1: All my teams have had success. It's it's been great. Wrong,
Speaker 1: And it's a little deflating because you get there and
Speaker 1: it's it's awesome, you know, fantastic. Your team wins, it's wonderful. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you aren't like Joema's at least got a ring,
Speaker 1: you know, he got that out of it. As a fan,
Speaker 1: they want you to immediately buy a T shirt and
Speaker 1: a hat, which is overpriced and all that.
Speaker 4: But that's the thing Ben and I know on the
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers documentary he talked about this, it's the well
Speaker 4: what's next?
Speaker 3: What do I do now? It's the what do I
Speaker 3: do now? Syndrome?
Speaker 4: After your team wins it all you're kind of left
Speaker 4: not emptiness, I don't think that's.
Speaker 3: The word, but just this like what what now? You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like that's the pinnacle, so it's
Speaker 3: all downhill from there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. And keep in mind Joe Missoula is
Speaker 1: the guy. A couple of years ago, while the Celtics
Speaker 1: were running to win a championsped he was asked about
Speaker 1: the pressure and he said, there is no pressure. We'll
Speaker 1: all be dead soon. That was his rep fun guy
Speaker 1: at parties. Ferg Dog writes in and fullow him, Well
Speaker 1: get this. We got a few more and we'll get
Speaker 1: this done. In a first dog and fluorage and says
Speaker 1: gobble gobble Ben in Turkey g Ben, have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about intentionally giving a really bad take on the show?
Speaker 1: The problem is your takes are so thoroughly researched and
Speaker 1: fact based that you leave.
Speaker 3: This sounds like some ass kissing.
Speaker 1: All right, calm down, he says. You're your research, in fact,
Speaker 1: fact based that you leave very little room for any
Speaker 1: sane person to disagree or have a rebuttal. For example,
Speaker 1: your take on the twenty twenty World Series being the
Speaker 1: hardest in the twenty twenty NBA Finals being a Mickey
Speaker 1: Mouse production, absolutely flawless. He says. Also, with Thanksgiving coming up,
Speaker 1: do either of you guys have Thanksgiving family recipes going
Speaker 1: back multiple generations that you'd like to share with the class.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's from Fergdog, So Ferg Dock very kind
Speaker 1: of you. And the monologues are They call me Marconi
Speaker 1: maler for a reason.
Speaker 3: And his email wasn't sarcastic at all.
Speaker 1: No, No, no, Ferk dog is. He's truth, justice and
Speaker 1: the sports talk radio way. That's what he's all about.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? And I don't have any Thanksgiving recipes?
Speaker 1: What do you You don't do the cooking, Danny, right?
Speaker 1: You got nothing over?
Speaker 4: No, no, And you know I have some family recipes
Speaker 4: were handed down through email from my great aunt Joyce,
Speaker 4: and she unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: but she was nice enough to email me a couple
Speaker 4: of my grandmother's Italiano recipes. So I have some pastas,
Speaker 4: her famous rigatoni, her casseroles, and her famous lasagna. So
Speaker 4: nothing like Thanksgiving. It's all like authentic Italian food. She
Speaker 4: made all that stuff from scratch, and luckily she wrote
Speaker 4: her recipes down and gave them to my aunt.
Speaker 1: That's cool, my mom. When she passed away, we got
Speaker 1: obviously she left everything behind, you know, Danny, when you passed,
Speaker 1: you don't take anything with you. Anyway, she left everything
Speaker 1: and there were a bunch of recipes and she grew
Speaker 1: up and lived her life mostly without computers, so everything
Speaker 1: was written down. It was all chicken scratch. You're trying
Speaker 1: to read, what is that letter? I don't know what
Speaker 1: that what is that number?
Speaker 3: Is that a?
Speaker 1: Four? Is that? Is that an a? I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is? And so you're trying to figure that
Speaker 1: out real quick. Anthony and Boise. He says he's formally
Speaker 1: from so Calvibs and Boise Idaho says, gentlemen, they say
Speaker 1: that this Thanksgiving week will be the busiest in fifteen years. Again,
Speaker 1: have thirty six hundred, wait, three hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 1: rather three hundred sixty thousand flights? He says, you guys,
Speaker 1: do you guys normally travel for Thanksgiving? Fun fact, Danny,
Speaker 1: I've never traveled for Thanksgiving. In fact, I hate even
Speaker 1: driving the day before Thanksgiving, which is like the worst
Speaker 1: day at least in LA to be on the highways
Speaker 1: because the traffic is insane, so I will try to
Speaker 1: avoid driving at all. I've never traveled to go to
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving ever. I've always I've normally worked in radio and
Speaker 1: done radio because there's a lot of football and Thanksgivings.
Speaker 1: Big footba all day, so radio and I don't travel.
Speaker 1: I just low key. What about you, Danny? Oh same.
Speaker 4: I've always been a dude on the staff that could
Speaker 4: do a long shift on Thanksgiving and until this day,
Speaker 4: Covino and Rich they fill in for the Dan Patrick
Speaker 4: Show each Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: So now that's my routine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you. I'll be on radio. I'm just
Speaker 1: a normal week this week. No days off, so I
Speaker 1: will use those between Christmas and New Year's I'll take
Speaker 1: a little time recharge the old battery then. But I'm
Speaker 1: not taking any time off this week. We'll get out
Speaker 1: on that. We got football today, Danny g all day.
Speaker 1: If you're hearing this.
Speaker 4: Yes, put please, please Lord, don't make Shador Sanders look
Speaker 4: like a pro bowler today.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw three touchdowns in two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven yards past me.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna go strangle Pete Carroll and his
Speaker 4: staff myself if they let that happen.
Speaker 1: It's actually not Pete, it's Joe Biden. That's your he's
Speaker 1: your coach. I've seen that meme bouncing around. Anyway, Danny,
Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate good weekend. We'll be back at it.
Speaker 1: We'll figure out next weekend.
Speaker 3: Looks like sleepy Joe China.
Speaker 1: He does, he does, All right, have a great day.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight on the radio after that ram
Speaker 1: game with the Buccaneers, and I'll be there for the
Speaker 1: first half of that game, and we'll have full blow
Speaker 1: by blow coverage on the radio overnight all the big
Speaker 1: stories today in the NFL. And we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next week here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Hey, good luck to your team. Ram It all day,
Speaker 3: ram It all night.
Speaker 1: Yay, thank you.
Speaker 3: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.