Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and welcome
Speaker 1: into the podcast Jojo for another additional The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio Ready to attack monster.
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do here, Danny Gee. And it's Sunday.
Speaker 1: We have made it to another Sunday. And you know
Speaker 1: what that means. Yeah, you get to play with sound effects.
Speaker 1: That's right, because every time we do this Sunday thing,
Speaker 1: it's let me tell you something, all right, it's it's
Speaker 1: like an old Benny Hill thing. It's well running all
Speaker 1: over the place. There as things that no, no, well,
Speaker 1: I will guarantee we will not be all right. And
Speaker 1: if we are, heads are going to roll. Heads will
Speaker 1: absolutely roll, damn right. So let's get into the ring.
Speaker 1: I think I've played enough sound bites now and Ohio. Aw,
Speaker 1: please get us started. Ohio. Aw. It's alright, wonderful. I
Speaker 1: loved Ohio al song and the talent show this week
Speaker 1: that we had the Mallard pelluza I mentioned Ohio. We
Speaker 1: play that song every week here on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: First letter, let's see here you've got mail? All right, Yes,
Speaker 1: we do have mail. The first message in on this
Speaker 1: edition to the Fifth Hour comes to us from Kevin
Speaker 1: in Rockford, Illinois. He says, it has finally been done.
Speaker 1: I hiked up Quandary Peak and planted a new flag
Speaker 1: made from a Buffalo Chicken pizza box Mount Mallard, and
Speaker 1: he sent a photo here. He posted it on the
Speaker 1: Facebook page Danny it's really cool. Let it be known
Speaker 1: that since July, Quandary Peak, that's q U A N
Speaker 1: d a r Y Peak right outside Breckon Ridge, Colorado,
Speaker 1: is now Mount Mallard. And he then he goes over
Speaker 1: the top. Here you're talking about giving me a big ego,
Speaker 1: he says, named after the greatest sports talk coast, the
Speaker 1: great Ben Well. Thank you, Kevin. Very nice of you
Speaker 1: to do that, that you would go out of your
Speaker 1: way there to litter on top of the mountain. In
Speaker 1: my name, so somebody else will climb up there and
Speaker 1: say who the F is that? But but thank you, Kevin. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: That's a great accomplishment. And I am jealous. I've never
Speaker 1: climbed up the top of a a mountain. I have
Speaker 1: not done that. I'm gonna send you this photo, Danny.
Speaker 1: I want you to want to you have arrived, by
Speaker 1: the way, in your next contract negotiations or negotiations as
Speaker 1: you would say with FSR, you need to show them
Speaker 1: that picture. Yeah, and look how professionally done the the
Speaker 1: the sign was. I mean that, that's like a sign
Speaker 1: company made that, Dan. I just sent the picture over
Speaker 1: to you. It's got the date there and it says
Speaker 1: says Mount Mallard m A L L E er. Uh.
Speaker 1: What's at the top there? I can't think that blue
Speaker 1: hiking shoes. Yeah, those that's a good color. Blue. Got
Speaker 1: some kind of yellow jacket. It looks like I can
Speaker 1: see the guy's hand, Kevin's hand right there did cross
Speaker 1: out something on the other half. But I'm not looking
Speaker 1: at that, Danny. I'm looking at Mount Mallard right there.
Speaker 1: Oh he crossed out Quandary peak. Oh see now it
Speaker 1: makes sense. See you look at that. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: sent that to you. I was like, I was looking.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the helf is that? And it
Speaker 1: says it's fourteen thousand, two hundred seventy two ft. Right
Speaker 1: is that? I believe that's what he looked down there?
Speaker 1: So beautiful photo. Holy cow, thousand, two hundred and seventy two.
Speaker 1: How long are you allowed to stay there? If I
Speaker 1: climbed a mountain, I would want to stay there for
Speaker 1: like a week. I wouldn't want to get down. I'll
Speaker 1: be like, I spent all my time comb up here
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand, two undred seventy two ft. I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: here for a while. I'm not going anywhere. I went
Speaker 1: up I think ten eleven thousand feet when I was
Speaker 1: in Wyoming in Montana, and I thought that was high
Speaker 1: up above sea level. Holy ship, Yeah, holy shit balls
Speaker 1: for sure. Well, thank you, Kevin. I look forward to
Speaker 1: your next hiking adventure. And where will he go next? Kevin?
Speaker 1: As he goes to all the big peaks, will he
Speaker 1: hit Mount Kilimanjaro? Will that be on the list? Who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll live our lives to Kevin. A big fan of
Speaker 1: the show from Rockford, Illinois. Next up on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, who do we have? I got mail? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got mail. Yeah. Until ow from Longwood, Florida via Newark,
Speaker 1: New Jersey rights in. He's got a sport. Oh question,
Speaker 1: he says. I look at how low the Yankee batting
Speaker 1: average is, and I wonder if they will quit hitting
Speaker 1: in the playoffs they will face better pitching. Do you
Speaker 1: think they will flounder again? So until I do have
Speaker 1: my doubts about the Yankees. I think their their record
Speaker 1: is inflated. But there's also the injury bug, which every
Speaker 1: team has to worry about. But Aaron Judge made out
Speaker 1: of glass, John Carlos Stanton also a guy that's injury prone.
Speaker 1: They have that in their d n A. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you on a positive note, I'll be Benny
Speaker 1: bright Side. If you look at the batting average of
Speaker 1: just about every team in baseball, it is embarrassing. They
Speaker 1: don't even try to hit. They don't even play the contact.
Speaker 1: And that's why if you have a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that played a contact, I believe you have an advantage.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I like the Dodgers this
Speaker 1: year is because trade Turner and Mookie Bets are guys
Speaker 1: that can hit for power, but they'll also put the
Speaker 1: ball in play, at least in Theory Braves last year, Danny,
Speaker 1: the Braves had a bunch of They had a lot
Speaker 1: of contact guys. He's hurt right now, but Chris Taylor
Speaker 1: is like that for the Dodgers as well. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Justin Turner has been playing much better the last month
Speaker 1: and a half. He's actually been a good player. He
Speaker 1: was not a good player the first month of the season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I know, I tell us probably saying, hey, dummy,
Speaker 1: I didn't ask about the Dodgers. I asked about the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Uh about Nasty Nestor's crew. Yeah, you like that glove
Speaker 1: that he had on there, solid solid. What do you
Speaker 1: think the average batting averages in baseball this season? Danny?
Speaker 1: I mean, let I got the numbers here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stake here a right to forty nine. It's can't be
Speaker 1: much higher than that, though, I'm trying to get it
Speaker 1: up right here and having problems. Yes, Uh, the phrasing
Speaker 1: on that was unfort Yes, all right, let's see here.
Speaker 1: The average batting batting average in the professional baseball the
Speaker 1: year two. I now have the right page up. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. The average team batting average is two forty two. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. The Yankees are slightly above average. They're hitting
Speaker 1: two six. The Dodgers are two fifty five. The top
Speaker 1: hitting team the Rockies and the Blue Jays. That's this
Speaker 1: is all these numbers at the All Star break, and
Speaker 1: there their team batting average to sixty two and they're
Speaker 1: leading baseball. The worst hitting team the Oakland Athletics, a
Speaker 1: robust two eleven batting average for the Oakland f's not
Speaker 1: a's fs. So good luck to the Yankees, a tillo,
Speaker 1: thank you for this thing. Next up on the mail bag,
Speaker 1: we say hello to Chris and Mary Cooke to Iowa.
Speaker 1: He says, what amount is an appropriate gift for weddings?
Speaker 1: Give a range from second cousin up to siblings, and
Speaker 1: include friends. Also the for funerals, same question, how much
Speaker 1: money is appropriate? So as far as weddings are concerned,
Speaker 1: it depends on how far you have to travel to
Speaker 1: the wedding. That's always the most important thing. If you're
Speaker 1: going from a long way away, the gift gets smaller
Speaker 1: and smaller and smaller and smaller because the gift is
Speaker 1: you attended exactly, you're the gift. Unfortunately, also, if you
Speaker 1: only talk to the person once a year or less,
Speaker 1: the gift is relatively small because they won't remember you anyway,
Speaker 1: you get something from your game room. Yeah, Usually what
Speaker 1: you do is you go on the gift registry. If
Speaker 1: they're like a second cousin, and you'll go on. If
Speaker 1: you're not close to him, you go like on targets,
Speaker 1: say all right, what's fifty bucks? Boom done? Maybe a hundred,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't go too crazy on that. What about you, Danny,
Speaker 1: do you have a pay scale on weddings and funerals? Funerals, um,
Speaker 1: you know, for weddings. I think you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's somebody close to you and you didn't travel
Speaker 1: a long ways, then I would spend a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: But somebody that you barely talked to, like for instance,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of a wedding I went to a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, and on their registry, I noticed that
Speaker 1: they were loading up on games and stuff like that
Speaker 1: for their game room. So I went to Barnes and
Speaker 1: Nobles and found like this really cool Stranger Things board
Speaker 1: game and I knew both of them loved that show,
Speaker 1: so I got that it was kind of unique to them.
Speaker 1: And so I think just put some thought into your gift. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure absolutely, Uh, thank you for that though,
Speaker 1: Chris and the funeral thing. Yeah, I've been to a
Speaker 1: bunch of funerals. I don't recall having to write a
Speaker 1: check at the funeral though? Did I miss that? And I?
Speaker 1: What am I a bad person? Was? I don't do gifts.
Speaker 1: I guess some people do flowers and will bring dishes
Speaker 1: for like a pot luck maybe afterwards. Yeah, it's usually
Speaker 1: been in lieu of flowers. You can donate money. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of the last funerals I attended, they
Speaker 1: they asked for to like buy books for kids that
Speaker 1: didn't have books. So we did some of that and
Speaker 1: bought some books and and whatnot. But I don't recall said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you cut a check? And all I don't I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. Next up, very morbid from Chris in Marraccata, Iowa.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the morbid. Take appreciate that. The next
Speaker 1: up on the mail bag come back it's sign for now,
Speaker 1: I'll call Jennifer and Richmond Virginia. Jennifer a very nice
Speaker 1: performance in the Talent Show. She was one of the
Speaker 1: early participants. She says, Hey, Ben in Danny G. In
Speaker 1: your driving experience, are you a believer in turning off
Speaker 1: the air conditioning in order to get better acceleration? I
Speaker 1: swear this makes a difference for me, or at least
Speaker 1: for my sturdy old nineties seven camera. That's impressive. You've
Speaker 1: got a twenty five year old car, You're still driving
Speaker 1: around and still getting it done. It's a good job
Speaker 1: by you. Uh. Jennifer also says, Danny G. Do you
Speaker 1: have any eligible bachelor friends that don't cook in the kitchen?
Speaker 1: But you know that thing you said last week? I
Speaker 1: got Jennifer's attention there, Danny, you pointed out that you
Speaker 1: do not have the cooking gene, but you do have
Speaker 1: a cooking gene in another room. Yeah. So she she
Speaker 1: apparently would like to go out with one of your friends, Danny.
Speaker 1: So if you have anybody available, Jennifer is willing to travel,
Speaker 1: I believe so who me? And as far as the
Speaker 1: air conditioning thing, I don't know. I guess it depends
Speaker 1: how old your car is. I think that's more of
Speaker 1: a myth. I don't know. I don't. I don't really
Speaker 1: pay much of David's hot I got the A C on.
Speaker 1: Supposedly it helps your gas mileage. I do, yeah that
Speaker 1: I've heard. She says, acceleration though the car. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I have not heard that,
Speaker 1: but I guess an older camera maybe it would make
Speaker 1: a difference. And I have heard that even the gas
Speaker 1: thing is not that. That's not even the case any nowadays,
Speaker 1: the way they make cars, it doesn't help you much
Speaker 1: with gas mileage. Yeah, you're you're screwed either way, and
Speaker 1: might as well get the cold air blown on you, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up is our body, Adrian in the
Speaker 1: Mile High City. You've got mail, Yes, Adrian, great family man.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that wanted the cruise. Remember last week
Speaker 1: he has the travel log part two. In the mail back,
Speaker 1: he says banded Danny G. Yes, Danny G is correct.
Speaker 1: We paid a hefty rate to book the cruise, including,
Speaker 1: or included, rather in the booking is all of the
Speaker 1: food options on the ship. Water, lemonade, iced tea, and
Speaker 1: coffee are included. There are separate drink packages for soda
Speaker 1: and alcoholic beverages. All right, fair enough, I'll be okay
Speaker 1: with lemonade and water tearing the camel's ass up. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Adrian says we had four ports of call during the
Speaker 1: eight day Caribbean cruise. Key West, Florida was the first
Speaker 1: part we arrived at, and Adrian giving the travelog updates
Speaker 1: to his family and I. His family and I ate
Speaker 1: at a local restaurant. They're called Pincher's Crab Shack, the
Speaker 1: Fresh Key Lime Pie, and my Peach Cobbler lives. He's
Speaker 1: sent me a picture here. It looks pretty good. I
Speaker 1: gotta have a piece or two. If you ever visit
Speaker 1: Key West. I would like to go to Key West.
Speaker 1: I've heard wonderful things about Key West, that it's just
Speaker 1: a cool place to hang out. People go there to
Speaker 1: get away from just kind of society, if you will.
Speaker 1: But it was it was that where Earnest Hemingway. Is
Speaker 1: that where he hung out in Key West? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy Johnson lives there. Isn't that where Jimmy
Speaker 1: they I'm talking about the football version of Jimmy Johnson,
Speaker 1: old cowboy coach. I think he lives there. And Mike
Speaker 1: Leach when he was between coaching jobs, the Pirate Mike Leach.
Speaker 1: I believe he lived there as well. So there's been
Speaker 1: some interesting cats that I've and not that I know them,
Speaker 1: but I've dealt with them off and on over the
Speaker 1: years that have have gone there. Here, and Adrian says, uh,
Speaker 1: did I mentioned they walked? They walked to the southern
Speaker 1: most point in the continental US marker. The other three
Speaker 1: ports of call where the Bahamas in the Bahamas, Freeport,
Speaker 1: half Moon Bay, and the capital city of Nassau. Now
Speaker 1: he said half half Moon K. But I think he
Speaker 1: meant half Moon Bay. I've never have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of half Moon K. Yeah, I've never heard of uh,
Speaker 1: says freeport and half moon Uh. He said half moon
Speaker 1: K again, so maybe that's maybe that's it. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be because half Moon Bay is California's Oh there you go.
Speaker 1: That's right. So I just think half moon half moon
Speaker 1: K C A Y. I think that's how you say it.
Speaker 1: Says they were beautiful and we enjoyed the white sand
Speaker 1: and clear blue water at the beaches. Absolutely. Why I've
Speaker 1: never been to Have you ever been to the Bahamas,
Speaker 1: I've never been there. I've been to the Bahamas one time?
Speaker 1: Is it worth the trip? Is it that much better
Speaker 1: than Hawaii? Or I just didn't care for the food
Speaker 1: there in the Bahamas? What's wrong with the food? That's
Speaker 1: wrong like a bunch of jerk chicken, and there wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of flavor. It was bland to me. Got you,
Speaker 1: Adrian continues to giving the review years is that those
Speaker 1: places were beautiful. We enjoyed the white sand and clear water,
Speaker 1: a blue water. The water was beautiful. Nasa, though, was
Speaker 1: dirtier than I expect. And when my family and I
Speaker 1: were browsing around the shops, Adrian points out, I was
Speaker 1: offered the booker sugar three different times by some of
Speaker 1: the locals outside the shops, bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: I respectfully declined and continued shopping with the family. As
Speaker 1: soon as that plane landed and we got out to
Speaker 1: the driver, the driver offered us every drug you could imagine.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like a buffet for drugs.
Speaker 1: Um and then and then as they drive you through
Speaker 1: their ship towns, you're starting to get a guilt trip.
Speaker 1: You're feeling really bad, like, man, I am coming here
Speaker 1: as a spoiled as American to vacation in their water. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: are driving buying realizing they don't have trash pickup in
Speaker 1: their towns. They's just trash all over the sides of
Speaker 1: the roads. Beautiful resort on the water and it's hidden
Speaker 1: away from the craft that's in town. Yeah, my brother
Speaker 1: went to Costa Rica and he had a similar experience
Speaker 1: to what you were talking about. Where they land You
Speaker 1: land at the airport. Airport's okay, they put you on
Speaker 1: a bus and you drive through poverty. Were the people
Speaker 1: that are serving you the all inclusive food and then
Speaker 1: and they they can't even afford to eat themselves, and
Speaker 1: then they drop you off at the resort and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So yeah, yeah, and they have the resort.
Speaker 1: I got this weird vibe from the people working there,
Speaker 1: like where they did it with a smile in good
Speaker 1: customer service, but it was like fuck you spoiled American.
Speaker 1: That kind of vibe interesting, all right, Adrian says. Carnival
Speaker 1: Cruise Lines was celebrating his fiftieth birthday, so they had
Speaker 1: all kinds of deals and giveaways on board the Carnival
Speaker 1: The Dream. Our family had a great time at the
Speaker 1: water park on Boarday says, the three kids love the
Speaker 1: water slides. Absolutely gotta love the water slide on that now. Lastly,
Speaker 1: Adrian says, some sort of medical emergency happened to someone
Speaker 1: on board the ship while we were somewhere off the
Speaker 1: Florida coast. A US Coastguard helicopter was sent out to
Speaker 1: meet our ship and transport the sick person to a
Speaker 1: Florida hospital. It's pretty wild to have a chopper hovering
Speaker 1: directly over the ship. He took a photo of it.
Speaker 1: Here Danny Geese, I'm looking at the photo of it,
Speaker 1: he says, I'm thinking of throwing down some money. Also
Speaker 1: on the Dodgers, Ben and Danny Geese Dodgers here to
Speaker 1: win the Fall Classic. They looked tough through the first half.
Speaker 1: It does make me a little nervous that I liked
Speaker 1: him in that spot. Put a guarantee on it though,
Speaker 1: And he says training camp is almost here and are
Speaker 1: we here in the Rocky Mountains? Cannot wait to see
Speaker 1: Mr Unlimited and company cool. Thank you Adrian for the
Speaker 1: detailed travel log, and I love the fact that you
Speaker 1: wore the Ben Maller shirt uh in the in the
Speaker 1: some a couple of photos there, and you're your son,
Speaker 1: one of your kids there has the old Bronco logo,
Speaker 1: which I like. I like the old logo more than
Speaker 1: the new logo. So I enjoyed that hat that he
Speaker 1: had on. Next up, Yes, Next up we go to
Speaker 1: Kevin in Kansas. On the mailbag. He says, Dear Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g Here in western Kansas, it's county fair time.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal in these parts. Is there anything
Speaker 1: like this and so cal if So? Did you ever participate?
Speaker 1: Maybe a favorite fair food? Well, yeah, Kevin, I talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit in the Saturday podcast. But
Speaker 1: we have the San Diego Fair, San Diego County Fair,
Speaker 1: the Orange County Fair, the Los Angeles County Fair, which
Speaker 1: are pretty much all the same. Really, right, isn't the
Speaker 1: same group that just moved from city to city. You're
Speaker 1: right about that. San Diego just looks prettier. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful there in San Diego. But yeah, we have
Speaker 1: this similar setup and the Carneys come to town. I
Speaker 1: was amazed. I was at the Orange County Fair last weekend.
Speaker 1: How how many people they have working they're considering it's
Speaker 1: so hard to get people to work like they must
Speaker 1: be paying them decent amounts of money because every one
Speaker 1: of those stands, and there were hundreds of them, serving food,
Speaker 1: every kind of food you could possibly want, and they
Speaker 1: had people working there doing their thing. People basically go
Speaker 1: to get fat. Yeah, and it's what kind of weird
Speaker 1: concoction there was this year? I saw a kool Aid
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich were they mixed kool aid like the powder
Speaker 1: on the on the you know, cool they can be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's saying they want that? By the way, Who's like,
Speaker 1: I need some cool aid with my fried chicken that'll
Speaker 1: complete me? I don't, but somebody came up with it.
Speaker 1: And yes, ken enjoy give us a report on the food.
Speaker 1: I want to know what it's like in your neck
Speaker 1: of the w I've heard amazing things about some of
Speaker 1: those Midwestern county fairs, like in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Supposedly
Speaker 1: they're just amazing. I'm gonna go out on a limb
Speaker 1: here that you've never actually gone on any of the
Speaker 1: rides at the fair and what what what do you
Speaker 1: what are you referencing, Danny, I'm saying, I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you went there at a graze on food
Speaker 1: and you just like thumbed your nose at the rides,
Speaker 1: like I'm not getting on these freaking makeshift rides. No,
Speaker 1: I do not get on rides at the fair. I occasionally,
Speaker 1: if I feel like being a sucker, I will play
Speaker 1: some of the Carney games that I know we're all rigged,
Speaker 1: you have no chance of winning, and so I will
Speaker 1: do that occasionally. But do you guys look at the exhibitions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something I never did until recently, now that I'm
Speaker 1: getting older and now I'm like, oh, I'm interested in
Speaker 1: the card editing expo. Yeah, the guard. I can get
Speaker 1: a hot top. Wait a minute, everyone needs a hot top.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't need a hot top? Come on? Please? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Next up? John in Northern Colorado, that's right, he says.
Speaker 1: Would you consider writing an e bike? Yes? Absolutely, John,
Speaker 1: I've looked into getting any bike, but the premise I'm
Speaker 1: a big guy. The ones they sell that are pretty
Speaker 1: cheap at costco I would not fit on. And the
Speaker 1: ones that I would fit on that go pretty far
Speaker 1: and I would use a lot are too expensive, so
Speaker 1: I need the price to come down. But I would
Speaker 1: absolutely do that. Would you be an e bike guy,
Speaker 1: Danny G I actually have one, are you do? Look
Speaker 1: at you are any bike guy who knew? Yeah, I mean, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: where I moved to on the border of San Fernando
Speaker 1: Valley in Ventura County, there's a ton of hills. It's
Speaker 1: pedal assist, so it's not like it's just gonna take
Speaker 1: you up the hill by itself. So that's the problem
Speaker 1: right now is I need a flatter surface. So what
Speaker 1: the Tinderoni and I have been looking into is a
Speaker 1: bike rack for one of the vehicles we have. That
Speaker 1: would be good. Yeah, we need one. They're expensive, but
Speaker 1: it's worth it. Yeah, So the the e bike thing,
Speaker 1: I'd be all about it, and I would likely use
Speaker 1: it a lot. It's cheating, but it's fun. Why not
Speaker 1: the one I got. It's cheating, but it's not total cheating.
Speaker 1: You still gotta you still got a pedal well to
Speaker 1: get it going. There's somewhere they're almost like motorized mopeds
Speaker 1: or something like almost like fast mopeds. Yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I'd be into that. I just like pretend people would like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's on a bike, but then they wouldn't really realize
Speaker 1: that he's not really on a bike, he's just driving.
Speaker 1: Like you might as well be on a moped or
Speaker 1: a motorcycle or whatever. Next up is a John John,
Speaker 1: one of our regular podcast contributors, and he's just mooining
Speaker 1: the army here Danny of guys complaining about the stream.
Speaker 1: He says, another thing, they run ads that aren't in
Speaker 1: sync where fs are. He says, uh, there's a two
Speaker 1: minute delay. So he listens to his home station, John's
Speaker 1: in St. Louis. So he listens to the fan five nine.
Speaker 1: He says, it's only about a five or ten second delay,
Speaker 1: and the ads run in line with yours, So I'm
Speaker 1: sticking with the five ninety stream over I Heart. Well, however,
Speaker 1: you get the show. John, We thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: And I have heard rumors that they are working on
Speaker 1: that to solve the I Heart Fox Sports Radio stream issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see if that actually happens or not. Hopefully does
Speaker 1: sooner than later and everyone can come back to the
Speaker 1: I Heart app and all those other people that left
Speaker 1: that don't come back, well, we'll just tell him to
Speaker 1: the funk up. Okay, shut the funk up exactly. Ulysses
Speaker 1: from Virginia right since, says Ben and Dannigy in reference
Speaker 1: to the tour de France and the fact that only
Speaker 1: a handful of Americans are in the race, but none
Speaker 1: in the top ranks. Don't you think it's time we
Speaker 1: embrace Lance Armstrong for the years he made us proud
Speaker 1: to be Americans and stop the nonsense with his cheating
Speaker 1: scandals when the fact is almost all the top ranked
Speaker 1: bikers of that era we're also caught in doping scandals themselves.
Speaker 1: I think I read somewhere that six of the top
Speaker 1: ten finishers during the early two thousands were also busted
Speaker 1: for using drugs, but no one wants to talk about that.
Speaker 1: I say, Lance had to compete against the best, which
Speaker 1: included being the best at juicing up, says Ulysses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is the defense that the cheating as strows
Speaker 1: have made that we also heard in the steroid erape
Speaker 1: back in Bonds and McGuire and so that erae baseball.
Speaker 1: It's the everybody's doing it defense doesn't work, And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why it doesn't work. You just explain why.
Speaker 1: If you get pulled over for speeding, there are probably
Speaker 1: what a thousand other cars going probably as fast as
Speaker 1: you were, if not faster, and you go to court,
Speaker 1: you said listen, judge. Yeah, I was speeding, but everyone
Speaker 1: else was speeding. Awesome, so I should not have to
Speaker 1: pay this Fine, what do you think the judge is
Speaker 1: gonna do exactly just because everyone else is doing If
Speaker 1: everyone else is committing murder, you I can committing murder
Speaker 1: everyone else is doing. What do you want me to do? Now,
Speaker 1: that's not how it works. Okay, come on, you are
Speaker 1: fake anyway. Next up Pierre in West Warren. He says, Narrowcasting,
Speaker 1: not far from East Brookfield. Also Narrowcasting, which was the
Speaker 1: birthplace of Connie Mac a new reference for you because
Speaker 1: fur dog is apparently triggered by Muffett McGraw, according to Pierre,
Speaker 1: who says again he's a real close to the birthplace
Speaker 1: of Connie Mac. He says, Ben, how long before fast
Speaker 1: food joints go to full carry out or vending machine
Speaker 1: style pick up? More and more places have apps or
Speaker 1: order kiosk, allowing people to skip the line unless people
Speaker 1: seem to want to work in general, especially at these
Speaker 1: type of jobs. Well, that's a that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to vending machines for a big mac.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see that happening. What do you
Speaker 1: think that do you think we're getting to that point
Speaker 1: with the fast food where it's just gonna be carry
Speaker 1: out only you can eat there. Hopefully not. I mean
Speaker 1: some of these fast food restaurants have stepped up their
Speaker 1: game in the past couple of years, like really raised
Speaker 1: that wage up, at least for their restaurant. I mean,
Speaker 1: we go into the Panda Express here where I live
Speaker 1: and they have a sign on the window where they're
Speaker 1: starting people at like seventeen fifty an hour for fast food.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. I mean when we were kids, you
Speaker 1: couldn't make that sort of money working in fast food.
Speaker 1: It was the Bronze Age, but it was like five
Speaker 1: bucks an hour or less back in the back in
Speaker 1: the day. Thank you, Pierre. He also sent a copy
Speaker 1: of a podcast. He said, here's a link to my
Speaker 1: favorite dead podcaster when he interviewed the also deceased Jay Thomas,
Speaker 1: and it's from Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. I'll have to check
Speaker 1: that out at some point. Mike from Fullerton also known
Speaker 1: as fer Dog Rights, and he says, I'd like to
Speaker 1: start by apologizing two Pierre in Springfield. I should not
Speaker 1: have told Pierre that I'm going to shoot myself if
Speaker 1: I have to hear this muppet McGraw intro again. Wow,
Speaker 1: fer Dog, is that what led to Pierre's reaction? I
Speaker 1: wondered what happened to Alfhai alien o Piner because it's
Speaker 1: very bizarre, Danny that all of a sudden He's like, listen,
Speaker 1: um from a different place. I'm not from from Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass And now we know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1: What a what a punk move by fur Dog if
Speaker 1: that's true? Man, he says. My question is do you
Speaker 1: guys hate TV shows featuring puppets as much as I do,
Speaker 1: Whether it's the ugly puppets on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood or
Speaker 1: that dumb alien alf I hate them all. How much
Speaker 1: chap here will you be when all these shows get canceled?
Speaker 1: All right? So Mike's just busting balls here fur Dog
Speaker 1: against Pierre slash Alpha Alien Miner. That's that's pretty funny, man.
Speaker 1: I I'm with him on the Mr. Rogers thing. When
Speaker 1: he did the puppets on that show, it creeped me
Speaker 1: the funk out. I hated those puppets on the Mr.
Speaker 1: Rogers show, and I'm gonna go against the grain here.
Speaker 1: I didn't like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. I just didn't like
Speaker 1: that show. Not even when I was a little little kid.
Speaker 1: I my mom would turn it on and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I don't like this. Was it the Daniel, the Striped Tiger, lady,
Speaker 1: weird voices, and even as a little kid, I thought
Speaker 1: this is low budget? It was pretty little budget. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't like Mr McFeeley, like kind of low budget shit,
Speaker 1: or they push it on. Did you you never went
Speaker 1: on the trolley that goes to make believe you didn't?
Speaker 1: At least I thought Big Bird was real and Stuffle
Speaker 1: Up Agains would come on screen, I was like stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was some kind of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: quality and value in the Sesame Streets set. But Mr
Speaker 1: Rogers it was like they weren't even trying. They're like, man,
Speaker 1: these little kids. Yeah, I watched Mr. Rogers Neighborhood because
Speaker 1: you know, there wasn't much on when I was growing up.
Speaker 1: Danny and so I remember I did not like the
Speaker 1: puppets much on that show. I did like when they
Speaker 1: they would go and let's see how they make chocolates,
Speaker 1: you know, or something stupid like that. That kind of
Speaker 1: stuff I was into, but they didn't do too much
Speaker 1: of that. But I have not watched an episode in
Speaker 1: a while. Last time I saw Mr. Rogers was on,
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of documentaries I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was one movie and then one documentary. Both were popular. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fer Dog also says he has a list, a Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour Interview wish list. Let's see how many these are
Speaker 1: actually possible. All Right, he says, Petro's Papadakis, that's possible.
Speaker 1: You can definitely make that happen. Matt money Smith, we
Speaker 1: could make that happen. Fred Rogan, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Me and Fred had a falling out years ago.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we made up, but I don't think we're
Speaker 1: like buddies or anything like that. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: fine if he wants to do it, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he'll do it, he says Rodney Pete. I don't
Speaker 1: really know Rodney. I don't know if Rodney would do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe though, Adam Scott, the golfer, he says, Roger Lodge, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Sports Lodge. We can get him one. Mr Anaheim, Gooby,
Speaker 1: Mark Goobaza. Well, sure, Google is part of the Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Alumni Association. Tim Salmon, he wants to see
Speaker 1: for Dog. I don't have a connection to Tim Salmon,
Speaker 1: he says. Adam Scott the Actor. I see what he
Speaker 1: did there. I'm sure Adam Scott the Actor is gonna
Speaker 1: come on podcast the day after Never Chris Rose, what
Speaker 1: you get, Chris, and Chris is part of the Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Alumni Association. And Arnie Spanning. We've already had
Speaker 1: Arnie on the podcast. So Arnie has been on the
Speaker 1: arenay on again at some point. But those are the
Speaker 1: guys that for Dog would like to have on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Very realistic. And then there were some names that were
Speaker 1: completely unrealistic. Alright, next up on the mail bag, let's
Speaker 1: see you Neil in the real Miami Rights. And he says,
Speaker 1: dear mad hatter of sports Chatter, given that we only
Speaker 1: retain of what we hear, it's always good to hear
Speaker 1: all your nicknames over and over again, at least once
Speaker 1: a month. Now. The well, the customer is always right there, Jesus. Well,
Speaker 1: no no no no, no, no no go Jesus. Jesus
Speaker 1: is not involved in this, but the customer is always right,
Speaker 1: and so if it is involved when you do this,
Speaker 1: because half the listeners scream and die. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: The listeners say, give me more, give me more, give
Speaker 1: me more. I love that content. So I am known,
Speaker 1: among other things, as the spin master of misinformation, the
Speaker 1: bannering broadcaster Beethoven, basic curmudgeon of commentary, Chasm of sarcasms,
Speaker 1: Are of Zany, the dark night of weeknights, sports radio,
Speaker 1: mogul of mischief, Benny, the brazen King of zing. You
Speaker 1: pay me five thousand dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine.
Speaker 1: No drops needed, Danny. People love the name Moneyball Mallard,
Speaker 1: Who Benny the Bopper, facetious Fox, No, no, that okay?
Speaker 1: Sulting of insulting, the shaman of schadenfreude, jumping Jack of wisecrack,
Speaker 1: insight of over night medicine. Man Mallard name Bob of negativity,
Speaker 1: Sage of outrage, the pinnacle of cynecal Prince of preposterous,
Speaker 1: professor of propaganda, his are of hyperbole, and the mad
Speaker 1: hatter of sports chatter. Now dumber for having listened to it.
Speaker 1: You like a baseball player with the positions and notes
Speaker 1: in your back pocket, Just pull out your nickname anytime
Speaker 1: you need them. Listen, it's a photograph your memory like
Speaker 1: Cowboy John Brand Unless I don't thank you to the
Speaker 1: real Neil. He then says, after demanding the nickname roll Call,
Speaker 1: he says, I am wondering the over under on. Uh,
Speaker 1: you have more nicknames or hats in your collection? He says,
Speaker 1: I've counted forty one of the via my social media.
Speaker 1: He then sends a ven diagram. Here Danny Neil from
Speaker 1: the Real Miami sends a diagram of every hat that
Speaker 1: he has seen me wear on those YouTube videos. Says, uh,
Speaker 1: he's got big blue m l A Dodger hat, be
Speaker 1: in cursive, Wrigley Field hat, orange black b for the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles. I do not have an Orioles at. That
Speaker 1: is a Baker's Field Blaze hat, So it's not an
Speaker 1: Oriols hat. People confuse that Kentucky Clippers, he says. A
Speaker 1: hat with a big A on it. That's the Arkansas
Speaker 1: hat that Blake and Arkansas sent very nice big P
Speaker 1: is that Patriots? Uh No, it's not pages Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: I don't have a Georgia Bulldogs hat. Big A Athletics.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have an a sat saddleback college
Speaker 1: and he goes through all of these things. I don't
Speaker 1: have time to read all of them. There's hats asked,
Speaker 1: how did Neil have the time to do this? I
Speaker 1: guess he just jotted it down every day. In the
Speaker 1: video popped up and he's like, Okay, he didn't notice
Speaker 1: the Flamingo Club hat. Where you can get the Mallard
Speaker 1: Fowler in Kansas that's available to you. UH university football hat,
Speaker 1: my old high school football hat that I occasionally wear.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. Meal and I have more hats than nicknames.
Speaker 1: To answer the question, I have more hast the nicknames,
Speaker 1: he says, I noticed, you may or may not wear
Speaker 1: some more other than others than that. He says, is
Speaker 1: there any rhyme or reason's tracking the rotation of the cops? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: he wants to know if there's any rhyme or reason
Speaker 1: to the selection for that day and not really football season.
Speaker 1: I usually wear the NFL shield cap when we do
Speaker 1: something football related at the end of the week or
Speaker 1: something like that. So I'll do that at or on
Speaker 1: Sunday in the Monday, and then it was like the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, I'll dust off the NBA logo hat or
Speaker 1: if it's a big day in baseball, where the MLB shield.
Speaker 1: But other than that, let's see what I haven't worn
Speaker 1: in a while. Let me change it up a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: Day to day, I wear the Brooklyn Dodger hat more
Speaker 1: than any hat. What's more interesting? Where do you keep
Speaker 1: all these damn hats? Oh? I've got like bags and
Speaker 1: bags as this hat. I wore this hat this week day.
Speaker 1: And you can see that that's uh oh yeah, Washington
Speaker 1: Lawn Service. Yeah, that's from our buddy ed in spoke Can.
Speaker 1: He gave me that hat when I met him in Seattle,
Speaker 1: So I wear that hat. It's kind of a cool logo,
Speaker 1: like it's just someways got the state outline of Washington
Speaker 1: and then the name of his business in there. So
Speaker 1: that's cool. Pretty neat. You do look like a lawnmower.
Speaker 1: How dare you? Cliff from Nashville rights, And he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g When driving and searching for an
Speaker 1: unfamiliar street or address, do you turn the radio down
Speaker 1: when you find when you think you're your clothes, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and when you need to concentrate to back up.
Speaker 1: And I don't do that. I don't do that. You
Speaker 1: don't the volume down so you can concentrate on the road. No,
Speaker 1: because I usually have my map thing on the audio
Speaker 1: in the car, so if I turn it down, I
Speaker 1: will not hear the final instruction. I don't have the
Speaker 1: slick backup camera okay, manual stick shift, so I have
Speaker 1: to back up like an O g old school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got you, Yeah, I have the backup came. Although
Speaker 1: it was broken. We got that fixed. So knock on
Speaker 1: thing that works in that car. Yes, the car has
Speaker 1: got some other issues. Our last one from balls fan
Speaker 1: Jimmy from Big Orange Country. Since for both of you,
Speaker 1: where did you take your wife on your first date?
Speaker 1: And how long did it take to get a second? Well,
Speaker 1: Danny's in the process of getting married. So I met
Speaker 1: my wife at a restaurant in Pasadena. Actually was a
Speaker 1: movie theater. I supposed to go see a movie. I
Speaker 1: didn't go see a movie, ended up eating some finger
Speaker 1: foods and drinking some cocktails at a bar. Ended up
Speaker 1: seeing her pretty quickly after, like it didn't didn't have
Speaker 1: to wait that long. We were both in into each other,
Speaker 1: so that worked out pretty well. What about your Dan
Speaker 1: was this where did we meet or where was our
Speaker 1: your first date? And how long did it take for
Speaker 1: your second date? Got you? So our first date was
Speaker 1: at my crib. Oh yeah, lah, yeah, I did a
Speaker 1: very bored okay on my dining table, and UH had
Speaker 1: a nice French liqueur and poured her shots. And at
Speaker 1: first she was like, hey, this is strong, and I
Speaker 1: called her a woofs and she looked at me and
Speaker 1: she was like, is that a challenge, And so she
Speaker 1: started drinking it and yeah, so I got her nice
Speaker 1: and French liquored up, and you you realize that she's competitive.
Speaker 1: She's super competitive, because she was like, don't call me
Speaker 1: a wos. And then the second date, we went to
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara to get some fish tacos there by the water.
Speaker 1: Oh cool. Yeah. And it was just a week later,
Speaker 1: all right, So you don't have to wait very long either,
Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, so that the rules of like
Speaker 1: you gotta wait like you. I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: still a thing in the dating game these days. You
Speaker 1: gotta wait, you gotta wait, you gotta wait a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of stupid. I think people have realized
Speaker 1: that if you like somebody, just tell him you like
Speaker 1: them and just go on the next day. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to hear that because I hated those games, Like you
Speaker 1: go on a date with somebody and they'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, I gotta wait. Make him seem
Speaker 1: like I'm not that interested in all that stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: if I think you're not interested, I think you're not interested.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Right after they leave the date,
Speaker 1: send them seven five text messages immediately. Well that's the
Speaker 1: way of the world, right, text messages for the roof.
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta get out of here on that.
Speaker 1: It is the end of another successful weekend. Text to
Speaker 1: Charles Davis again if you did not hear that on
Speaker 1: the Friday podcast, Our guy Charles always entertaining. We loved him.
Speaker 1: We worked at Fox for so long. Now he's at CBS,
Speaker 1: but he still was very gracious with his time and
Speaker 1: I love the conversation. Some great ideas talked about relegation
Speaker 1: in college football, which I thought was pretty interesting and
Speaker 1: the possibility that could actually happen. Uh, and then also
Speaker 1: just some NFL chatter and sounds like Charles has quite
Speaker 1: the story to tell about going from Fox to CBS.
Speaker 1: But he's not quite ready to tell the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the e A sports story he told too.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. Yeah, the voice of Madden. He
Speaker 1: went into detail how long does it take to bring
Speaker 1: the Madden Game to life? And he also mentioned over
Speaker 1: the years, and you heard this if you listen to
Speaker 1: the interview of doing the Madden Game, who's recognizing like
Speaker 1: the players that recognized, Hey, you're the guy from the
Speaker 1: Madden Game. His answer, I thought was pretty surprising what
Speaker 1: he said. So anyway you can hear all that. And
Speaker 1: what do you have going on here today, Danny? Before
Speaker 1: you say, before you said, I am on my way
Speaker 1: this afternoon and to have some fun with Covino and
Speaker 1: Rich at the FSR studios. And then right after that
Speaker 1: the show right before yours, Ben your boy Arnie Spaniard
Speaker 1: with Chris Plank. Oh like fans, right, Dolphins are gonna
Speaker 1: go seventeen Steve Kerr. I went to high school with
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr. I mean it's Steven super Ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, Arnie last weekend told me that the Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson news was gonna come out, So I am still
Speaker 1: waiting for that though, but he told me it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen, like a week ago. I'm waiting. Maybe it'll happen, maybe,
Speaker 1: maybe it Anyway, thank you, Danny, have a great rest
Speaker 1: of your Sunday. I'll be back tonight in the Magic
Speaker 1: Radio Box as well. Eleven pm in the West on Sunday,
Speaker 1: two am in the East on Monday morning. Either way,
Speaker 1: I'll be there for four hours blabbing away and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you then, Osta Pasta, I gotta murder, I gotta
Speaker 1: go