Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the end everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny G Radio, and it is a mail bag
Speaker 1: kind of a day. But before we get to the
Speaker 1: mail bag, Danny G we have some business to take
Speaker 1: care of and that involves op goes to the culture.
Speaker 1: So we've got a little time for that. And why
Speaker 1: don't we start out going right into the pop culture world.
Speaker 1: What do you say? Yes, John, John, thank you, Ohio.
Speaker 1: So these are some of the stories I most likely
Speaker 1: did not get mentioned at least on on my show.
Speaker 1: But these are things in the real world and we
Speaker 1: will react to them in real time. And here's a
Speaker 1: new fad that is going around. This comes out of
Speaker 1: New York, but apparently it's going on elsewhere. It's called
Speaker 1: master dating, not master the other thing, master master. Have
Speaker 1: you heard of master dating, Danny?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is a new phenomena, or at least
Speaker 1: so it says. So the Internet says it is the
Speaker 1: practice of lavishing ones with choice gifts, treats, and outings
Speaker 1: in an effort to establish a healthy sense of self
Speaker 1: sufficiency before entering into a serious relationship with someone else.
Speaker 1: So essentially, essentially what you're doing is you're taking yourself
Speaker 1: out on dates.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have seen a few different girls on Facebook
Speaker 4: and Instagram doing this, but they didn't have a title
Speaker 4: for it. Also, you probably have seen this on social
Speaker 4: media where it shows the guy or the girl and
Speaker 4: they have two slips of paper in their hand and
Speaker 4: they have their significant other choose one and like one
Speaker 4: says Taco bell and the other one says five star restaurant,
Speaker 4: And based on whichever hand they pick, that's where they
Speaker 4: lead them to on their date.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've seen.
Speaker 4: Girls doing this, but they're doing it for themselves. Well,
Speaker 4: I don't need a man. I'm gonna take myself to
Speaker 4: a five star meal.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, this is one of those
Speaker 1: things I was ahead of my time, Danny, and I
Speaker 1: would like to thank all the women that would not
Speaker 1: date me in my younger days. But I was a master,
Speaker 1: the master dating thing. I had that down because I
Speaker 1: had to lavish myself with gifts and food and outings
Speaker 1: because the opposite sex had pretty much boycotted me for
Speaker 1: a number of years. So I was ahead of the
Speaker 1: curb on this one. I was out in front of that.
Speaker 1: I mastered that back in.
Speaker 3: The day you were, Chris Jackson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was way out in front of that. Next up,
Speaker 1: the only fans. This blows me away. The only fan things.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't understand it, but I
Speaker 1: guess I'm in the minority on this only fans users.
Speaker 1: You see this story bouncing around this week. Only fans users.
Speaker 1: You see how much they spent on the platform last year.
Speaker 1: They have the finance, so those only Fans had to
Speaker 1: file their taxes, and so they have the amount of
Speaker 1: revenue they brought in in the year twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: And Only Fans is a It's a porn site. That's
Speaker 1: mostly what it is. Let's be honest here. It's a
Speaker 1: young one.
Speaker 4: No. When you click on it, it looks nothing like
Speaker 4: a porn site. It looks like a lifestyle site, and
Speaker 4: most of it looks like workout crap and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: where it's kind of like a video diary for a
Speaker 4: lot of the people that make content. But then buried
Speaker 4: underneath of that are couples and mostly singles, single ladies
Speaker 4: who have content where you wouldn't mind paying your ten
Speaker 4: dollars a month or whatever the subscription is because they
Speaker 4: have exclusive content. Wink wink, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of your click a link, it's
Speaker 1: got the naughty thing on it, and then you're off
Speaker 1: to the races. It's all right there. So anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: people love this. So you want to take you guess
Speaker 1: how much money they brought in OnlyFans in revenue? Oh,
Speaker 1: total total revenue last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean it's got to be a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: How about five point six billion?
Speaker 3: Only revenue?
Speaker 1: Five point six billion. They tell you that is the
Speaker 1: most valuable thing TNA people will pay for TNA. And
Speaker 1: then they were and the revenue increased by sixteen point
Speaker 1: six percent from the previous year. They made four point
Speaker 1: eight billion the previous year. And the business model of
Speaker 1: only fans, all the people that run Only Fans do
Speaker 1: is set up the platform and allow people to distribute
Speaker 1: their their naughty, their naughty videos, and they take a
Speaker 1: twenty percent cut right off the top from the creators.
Speaker 1: So that means that the people that run OnlyFans who
Speaker 1: did not have to make a porn movie, they just
Speaker 1: provided them and they went away with more than a
Speaker 1: billion dollars. A billion dollars from OnlyFans.
Speaker 3: What a creation.
Speaker 4: And especially during COVID, you know, there were a lot
Speaker 4: of different jobs that people were okay with at home,
Speaker 4: staying at home.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are like, well, what are these
Speaker 3: jobs where.
Speaker 4: People stay at home and they don't have to drive
Speaker 4: into any office anywhere.
Speaker 3: This is one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could, like, if you were one of these
Speaker 1: really beautiful women, you could do a couple videos in
Speaker 1: the morning and that's it. You're done, and you can
Speaker 1: record them whenever and then you're on your way.
Speaker 4: Well, remember there's no rule either about how much content
Speaker 4: you have to post. I read an article last week.
Speaker 4: It was about a couple and they post like one
Speaker 4: video a day and it was talking about how it's
Speaker 4: changed their lives. And if you're good at marketing, you
Speaker 4: can make it in this world nowadays, because.
Speaker 3: That's what a lot of that is.
Speaker 4: The article was pointing out that the ones who make
Speaker 4: actual decent money on OnlyFans are the ones who know
Speaker 4: how to promote themselves on other social media platforms.
Speaker 1: Well, it also helps if you have certain goodies that
Speaker 1: you won the genetic lottery, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh me Lebron won the Genetic Lottery, but some of
Speaker 1: these women won the genetic Lottery also. I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: I got it all over me. It's wild, man, it
Speaker 1: is wild. I saw this story on Popco's The Culture.
Speaker 1: I thought of you, Danny. The only reason I'm bringing
Speaker 1: this up is you work in education addition to radio.
Speaker 1: See a teacher in Oklahoma this week the first day
Speaker 1: of teaching at an elementary school and she got dinged
Speaker 1: for drunk. Teaching was hammered, and she was confronted at
Speaker 1: the end of the school day around three o'clock after
Speaker 1: the school had let out. People were I guess kids
Speaker 1: were complaining, and so they gave her the test and
Speaker 1: she was completely intoxicated. And so in Perkins, Oklahoma, she
Speaker 1: got thinks it's all been recorded on video, so she
Speaker 1: must have been drinking in her coffee cup, right, that
Speaker 1: would likely be what she was doing all day. Instead
Speaker 1: of drinking coffee, she had some Irish coffee, shall we say?
Speaker 3: I mean, think about it. You're doing a teaching job.
Speaker 3: And what's the name of.
Speaker 1: The town, Perkins, Oklahoma?
Speaker 3: Perkins, Oklahoma. You might want to look that up.
Speaker 4: But that sounds like a population of two thousand people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can leave it up. But Perkins is with
Speaker 1: a restaurant.
Speaker 4: You've heard of the restaurant that was.
Speaker 3: Wasn't that part of the famous type wod story He
Speaker 3: had a s Oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Perkins waitress. You're right, Yeah, well you're not wrong.
Speaker 1: Here I'm looking up Perkins, Oklahoma. Let's see here, Perkins, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: The population Wow, okay, the population in the twenty ten
Speaker 1: senses was two thy eight and thirty one.
Speaker 3: Oh wow. See that's the thing. Man.
Speaker 4: I don't know what grade she was teaching, but you know,
Speaker 4: she was having a bad week. She's probably like, F
Speaker 4: them kids, F the dean here at the school, f
Speaker 4: the principal, and you know, and then she's just tipping
Speaker 4: it back.
Speaker 1: Fun fact about Perkins, Oklahoma. Frank Frank Boardman, better known
Speaker 1: as pistol Pete is from the Frank Eaton. Frank Boardman
Speaker 1: Eaton known as pistol Pete, is from from there, and
Speaker 1: he was a cowboy and a sheriff back in the
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. So there you go. Fun fact. Pistol Pete.
Speaker 1: Is that the original pistol pet because I when I
Speaker 1: think of pistol Pete, I think of the basketball player
Speaker 1: Pistol Pete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like you're talking about the og one
Speaker 3: who had a load of guns.
Speaker 1: With the sources and here's more information about pistol Pete.
Speaker 1: There is a statue of this guy at a college
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, and you know the symbolic figures the American
Speaker 1: Old West and Oklahoma and whatnot, and there's a school
Speaker 1: well it says here Oklahoma State. The Cowboys became the nickname.
Speaker 1: But their mascot was based off a famous photo of
Speaker 1: Pistol Pete and that's what their mascot, I guess, is
Speaker 1: based on him.
Speaker 3: So wow, their version of Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When I visited Wyoming, I went to the Buffalo Bill
Speaker 4: Center of the West and it was a really cool museum,
Speaker 4: lots of guns.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 1: When I think of Buffalo Bill. I think of Prim,
Speaker 1: Nevada on the way to Vegas, Buffalo Bill's resort right
Speaker 1: there in Prim right on state line, losers. That's what
Speaker 1: I think of. All right, Next up, what do we have?
Speaker 1: A woman in Springfield, Missouri was arrested this week first
Speaker 1: degree arson. The fire department there claims she poured gasoline
Speaker 1: on some clothes. She then lit a spicy tortilla chip
Speaker 1: to start the fire. So, of all the ignition devices
Speaker 1: eight I liked that she didn't just use a regular
Speaker 1: tortilla chip. She used a spicy tortilla chip.
Speaker 3: Oh, so those chips are replacing bick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, you don't need matches or
Speaker 1: anything like that or a lighter. You're good to go.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely good to go. Well, here's a story
Speaker 1: that will warm your heart. Danny, I hate this now.
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium got of the regular straws. They have paper
Speaker 1: straws because take care of people. And I hate paper
Speaker 1: strap Oh it's terrible, and you got to have like
Speaker 1: seven of them. So now there's a new study out,
Speaker 1: but we're saving the environment. Well, now paper straws are
Speaker 1: being canceled. Scientists are saying that echo friendly utensils like
Speaker 1: straws contain potentially toxic chemicals and they claim they're just
Speaker 1: as bad for the environment as plastic versions. So now
Speaker 1: we have to cancel the paper straw Also.
Speaker 3: This is one time we're happy that something is getting canceled.
Speaker 1: Bring back the plastic, Bring back the plastic straws. And
Speaker 1: this is more mostly a California problem, I think, Danny,
Speaker 1: and maybe a California New York thing, because in a
Speaker 1: lot of other places they don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: this kind of nonsense. But it's one of the great
Speaker 1: things we have about living where we live. And good
Speaker 1: news or bad news. The good news is if you
Speaker 1: like radio act to waste, you'd be very happy with
Speaker 1: this story. The bad news is if you want to
Speaker 1: eat food, you're probably not gonna like it. The people
Speaker 1: over in Japan have dumped one point three million tons
Speaker 1: of radioactive waste from the famous nuclear power plant meltdown
Speaker 1: into the Pacific Ocean. They have dumped one point three
Speaker 1: million tons of radioactive waste, water and whatnot right out
Speaker 1: into the mighty Pacific Ocean. What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3: What is that like a five hundred dollars fine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly now. They claim, I love this. They claim
Speaker 1: that they've they've followed all the guidelines and all the rules,
Speaker 1: and everything's good here. There's nothing to see and everything
Speaker 1: will be all right. So they say, Danny, So they say,
Speaker 1: and my theory. And Brian Bilick mentioned this on the
Speaker 1: Friday podcast. You know, it's the theory of the world.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows anything. People think they know, and they can
Speaker 1: give a masterclass about what they think they know and
Speaker 1: give webinars and all that and give lectures, but ultimately
Speaker 1: nobody knows anything.
Speaker 3: So yeah, says a guy who spent two years dodging us.
Speaker 1: Two years. Let's get to the mail bag. What do
Speaker 1: you say? It's mail bag? Thank you, ohiol first one.
Speaker 1: And these are actual letters by actual listeners. If you
Speaker 1: want to send a message in just do it right now.
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait for me to post something.
Speaker 1: You do it right now, Real fifth hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. All letters know numbers, Real fifth hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And we may use your message on
Speaker 1: on the show. We may do that. Dan from Durham,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Right, since so Helo, Ben and Daddy G
Speaker 1: Daddy are people driving crazy fast on the interstate highways
Speaker 1: there on the West coast post pandemic. Here in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: if you're going less than ten miles over the speed limit,
Speaker 1: you better be in the slow lane, says Dan, as
Speaker 1: it's turning into the Autobahn. So Dan, I would like
Speaker 1: to file a formal complaint, Dan, because I was in
Speaker 1: North Carolina not that long ago, and the speed limits
Speaker 1: are way too low. So I side with the drivers
Speaker 1: going ten miles over the speed limit in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: In LA where we are, it is very difficult most
Speaker 1: of the time to drive over the speed limit because
Speaker 1: there's so much traffic. But when I go into work,
Speaker 1: I do the overnight show. So when I go into work,
Speaker 1: it is like people are in Fast and the Furious.
Speaker 1: It is a life movie. Everyone's trying to outdo each
Speaker 1: other and change lanes as fast as you can. It
Speaker 1: is the Autobahn is what it is in many respects Dan.
Speaker 1: It's it's craziness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna hate on driving fast because, as
Speaker 4: you know, Ben, I have a need for speed.
Speaker 1: I drive, I drive. You know my Michi gos Danny,
Speaker 1: I had a cop tell me one time seventy nine
Speaker 1: a under, I won't give you a ticket. The only
Speaker 1: time I've gotten a ticket since then is in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But in California I haven't gotten a ticket. And the
Speaker 1: other places I've been, I didn't get a ticket in
Speaker 1: Boston or you know, any of those New England states
Speaker 1: I drove through, so seventy nine another, but yeah, there
Speaker 1: are people I go seventy nine and I get past,
Speaker 1: like I'm going five miles an hour.
Speaker 4: Crazy these cars nowadays, they'll tattle on you. Because I
Speaker 4: was at Jiffy Loube a few days ago, and you know,
Speaker 4: after they change the oil, they reset your dashboard for you,
Speaker 4: the electronic dashboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as I was stepping.
Speaker 4: On the gas pedal and the guy was looking through
Speaker 4: my electronic dash it said highest speed recorded one hundred
Speaker 4: and ten miles per hour. Oh really, that's in there
Speaker 4: when I did that, or which day or night that was.
Speaker 4: But the guy kind of stopped and looked at it,
Speaker 4: and then he's like okay, and he kept moving up
Speaker 4: seeing him, Well, you.
Speaker 1: Were trying to get your your wife to the hospital
Speaker 1: for the baby. Wrong, clearly that was the move. Next
Speaker 1: up Alf the Alien Old Pineer from week one of
Speaker 1: the NFL season, says Ben you know me well enough.
Speaker 1: That's correct. I know al very well. Alf's been one
Speaker 1: of the great p ones of the show over the years,
Speaker 1: and I would say the most loyal. He listened while
Speaker 1: on a family vacation at a Disney resort in Orlando.
Speaker 1: He stayed up to listen to the live show. That's dedication.
Speaker 3: That is dedication.
Speaker 1: My evergreen question is what in the hell is going
Speaker 1: on with Benny versus the Penny? Spill the tea and
Speaker 1: he says, secondly, you know that I read between the
Speaker 1: lines and listen between the words. So the breadcrumbs you've
Speaker 1: been dropping about your Northeast barnstorming tour are killing me?
Speaker 1: Would you like to expand on the subject. So, Al,
Speaker 1: these are great questions. There is nothing to release at
Speaker 1: this moment. I will tell you that if everything goes
Speaker 1: the way it is going, there will be some kind
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny announcement, probably on the upcoming
Speaker 1: Friday podcast. Danny, I think that's next week's podcast.
Speaker 4: This sounds very similar to me teasing the Animal Thunderdome
Speaker 4: with Klay Traviss.
Speaker 1: Well, it feels like that, and you were, of course
Speaker 1: the Penny last year on this podcast. You did a
Speaker 1: great job representing the penny and we've done this bit
Speaker 1: for many, many years and there there may or may
Speaker 1: not be something brewing. I don't know for sure, and
Speaker 1: so we'll we'll see what happens. And as far as
Speaker 1: the Northeast Barnstorming Tour, I am not able to disclose
Speaker 1: exactly what that was about. But when the time is
Speaker 1: right and when I get the green light and everything
Speaker 1: is taking care of the way it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: taken care of it, if it needs to be taken
Speaker 1: care of, I will let you know. Alf of course
Speaker 1: I will. Why would I not like what am I?
Speaker 1: You know, I just can't. I can't talk about a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff right now, obviously because of there's
Speaker 1: certain reasons I can't.
Speaker 4: Boy after that explanation, we all need fifth Hour podcast
Speaker 4: to Cooder rings.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I know. Well. The problem too is I'm definitely in
Speaker 1: the closet. Yeah, I mean, there's a method the madness,
Speaker 1: that's all I'll say. There's a method of the madness.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing bad. It's not bad. It might be
Speaker 1: really good, or it might be the status quo. Maybe
Speaker 1: you'll hear Danny G and me back on the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast doing Benny versus the Penny or maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'll get some clarity on that,
Speaker 1: hopefully very soon. Alf So fingers crossed. Keep the fingers
Speaker 1: crossed on that. And next up, let's see who wrote
Speaker 1: this one in I didn't write the name now, I says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Ben and Daddy Og sorry to not oh oh this
Speaker 1: is this is Mike. No relation to ferg Cat, no
Speaker 1: relation Mike and Fulloton. He says, sorry. I did not
Speaker 1: make it to the meet and greet last week. Ben.
Speaker 1: I was convinced that crooked Hurricane Hillary would flood the
Speaker 1: entire state of California. So I spent the weekend building
Speaker 1: a boat out of tennis balls with my roommate. Well,
Speaker 1: very impressive, he says. Were you guys worried about the
Speaker 1: hurricane at all or did you know it was just
Speaker 1: going to be a little rain. Well, I was mildly
Speaker 1: concerned because Iowa Sam, Danny g the Great Iowa Sam
Speaker 1: was convinced that we were all going to die. So
Speaker 1: he was up selling the storm at work. And then
Speaker 1: I went on the internet and I saw some stories.
Speaker 1: I was like, worst story, worse storm, since nineteen thirty nine,
Speaker 1: and that that got me a little riled up. But
Speaker 1: the problem is the media. Danny and I guess we're
Speaker 1: part of the media, but the news media, their instincts
Speaker 1: are to scare the shit out of everyone, and then
Speaker 1: they're like their whole business models, Well they'll watch longer
Speaker 1: if they're scared, and then they just think there's no
Speaker 1: fallout for being completely wrong, Like people don't grasp the
Speaker 1: people in television news don't seem to grasp the fact
Speaker 1: when you're completely wrong, you lose credibility, and people don't
Speaker 1: pay attention the next time, and maybe the next time
Speaker 1: they actually need to pay attention.
Speaker 4: Yesterday's podcast on Saturday, make sure you download that. We
Speaker 4: went into detail about the really funny coverage of the
Speaker 4: local LATV news stations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your favorite TV news station? Are you a
Speaker 1: Channel five guy? Are you a Channel four? Channel two,
Speaker 1: Channel seven? Nine? Were you eleven?
Speaker 4: They're all kind of just vanilla to me. Honestly, there's
Speaker 4: not one channel where I'm like, oh, they do it
Speaker 4: so much better.
Speaker 3: It's all bullshit coverage to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I missed the big over the top ron Burgundy
Speaker 1: like anchor. We don't really have much of that anymore.
Speaker 1: That era of television is gone. But at one point
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles we had the greatest local television news.
Speaker 1: It was amazing with Hal Fishman at Channel five, and
Speaker 1: and Paul Moyer and all the other big names. Jerry
Speaker 1: Dumphy just just wonderful TV people that were were great.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't watch too much local TV
Speaker 1: news these days, but when I do watch it, it's lacking.
Speaker 1: Its lacking a little bit. But remember Jerry Dumphy. His
Speaker 1: famous line was, was it from from the desert to
Speaker 1: the sea to all of southern California? Now, when there's
Speaker 1: a car chase or something like that, I got one
Speaker 1: of my buddies, Jay sends me every time there's a
Speaker 1: car chase. I don't even need to watch he watched.
Speaker 1: He must watch local TV news all day because I'll
Speaker 1: get messages at one o'clock in the afternoon while I'm sleeping.
Speaker 1: I'll get messages at nine o'clock at night early in
Speaker 1: the morning. Hey, there's a chase on Channel nine. You
Speaker 1: gotta turn it around. I'm all right. Whatever.
Speaker 4: Best part is when a retired sheriff joins them on
Speaker 4: the phone to explain the pit maneuver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's they get those guys on retainer there.
Speaker 1: And well, it's like I mentioned Hal Fishman, who was
Speaker 1: an anchor at Channel five and he was a pilot,
Speaker 1: so he loved when there was any kind of aviation issue,
Speaker 1: there was a problem with the plane, you know there
Speaker 1: the landing gear wouldn't go down. So they remember one
Speaker 1: time I was watching the news, they had the camera
Speaker 1: on the plane and they had they Hal would tell everyone.
Speaker 1: Then he'd brings somebody else in who was also a pilot.
Speaker 1: They'd go back and forth. Mike also says, Danny G
Speaker 1: I'm a little disappointed you did not name your kid
Speaker 1: Michael after I suggested, but he says it made you
Speaker 1: made the right decision not naming him alf or even worse,
Speaker 1: Muffett McGraw truly terrible names. Well, that was your backup plan, right,
Speaker 1: Muffett was the backup plan, Danny. Either Bartholomew, well, that
Speaker 1: would have been great. Bartholomew. Another bart Ozzie was Western
Speaker 1: Australia Rights, and he said, my mates Big Ben and
Speaker 1: new Dad Daddy G. So he says, So the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: he says, is on at seven in the morning where
Speaker 1: I live, and we go to the casino about five
Speaker 1: thirty to get a table and we start to have
Speaker 1: a few beers and we continue throughout the day. So
Speaker 1: my question is what would be the earliest you would
Speaker 1: crack a beer for a major sporting event if you
Speaker 1: lived in our time zone. At the moment, we are
Speaker 1: twelve hours ahead of your East Coast, So twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that's middle of the night. NFL football
Speaker 1: game starts at one o'clock on the East Coast and
Speaker 1: it's one am in Western Australia. Yes, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big like morning. I don't know. I don't think I
Speaker 1: would be into that drinking in the morning. Maybe when
Speaker 1: I was younger, but I'm not a big drinker anyway, Danny,
Speaker 1: would you pop a few? If the Raiders play in London?
Speaker 1: Are you cracking all? And that's our equivalent of that
Speaker 1: on the West Coast because the games start at like
Speaker 1: six in the morning.
Speaker 4: You know, I've been wine tasting with my girl before
Speaker 4: and we had fun. We felt a little bit out
Speaker 4: of place, but once we got you know, a little
Speaker 4: buzz going, it was fun. Day drinking is underrated. I'd
Speaker 4: rather drink in the daytime, I think than at night
Speaker 4: because it just it ends your night too soon. I'll
Speaker 4: say that, because you feel tired when you have too
Speaker 4: much wine or booze in you. In the daytime, you
Speaker 4: get flow and you're not tired yet. With football. There
Speaker 4: used to be a place called Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 1: Remember that I've been. I used to go there back
Speaker 1: in then. That was a famous hangout spot in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I lived there in Woodland Hills for a
Speaker 4: decade before I moved to Burbank, and that was the
Speaker 4: go to spot for Sunday football. I would go there
Speaker 4: for the morning games at ten am and they would
Speaker 4: be serving breakfast and brew, so I would have a
Speaker 4: Guinness with my scrambled eggs.
Speaker 3: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: The good old is whatever happened that's place is gone,
Speaker 1: long gone. Yankee Doodles.
Speaker 4: There's both those that place and there are brand new
Speaker 4: restaurants and stores and it's an extension of the mall
Speaker 4: there now.
Speaker 1: No, All right, well that's no, I don't need that.
Speaker 1: I missed those old sports where we had the National
Speaker 1: Sports Bar. We used to do remotes at those places
Speaker 1: in Orange County that were great, and they were all
Speaker 1: over the place in southern California, these big, beautiful sports
Speaker 1: bars were great and they all went away too. Wah
Speaker 1: wan right say, he says, did you ever hook up
Speaker 1: with someone just because you hung around a team? Ben
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, So, you know, I did hang around.
Speaker 1: I was friends with a lot of the relief pitchers,
Speaker 1: and those guys like to booze it up, and you know,
Speaker 1: let's just say I did not pitch a toe shut
Speaker 1: out in that in that period of time because the guys,
Speaker 1: the guys felt pity on me. It was more than anything.
Speaker 1: There they would try to try to help grease things along.
Speaker 1: The problem with that, though, I noticed one is that
Speaker 1: a lot of the young ladies that you would come
Speaker 1: across on the road, they really were not interested in me.
Speaker 1: They just wanted to use me as a vehicle to
Speaker 1: get to whoever on the team they wanted to hook
Speaker 1: up with. So that became problematic. That was that was
Speaker 1: a bit of an issue that I had to deal with.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that was great, great memories on that
Speaker 1: and it was wonderful and you were just a young middleman.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, in a way, and I still get
Speaker 1: a kick out of the fact these guys who are
Speaker 1: major League baseball players, we'd go to on the road
Speaker 1: to different cities and to get in through the velvet
Speaker 1: you know, the behind the velvet ropes and all that,
Speaker 1: the red carpet, they would have to flash their baseball card.
Speaker 1: They keep their baseball card in their wallet to prove
Speaker 1: who they were, to show they were ballplayers, because these
Speaker 1: were not big names. These were mid relief pitchers and
Speaker 1: guys back into the bullpen, or the front end of
Speaker 1: the bullpen, rather.
Speaker 4: Moved back then would have been to convinced tops somehow
Speaker 4: to make your own card.
Speaker 1: That would have been cool, man. But they would say
Speaker 1: they would lie and say it was like the bullpen
Speaker 1: catcher and stuff like that, and not that that's any
Speaker 1: more an attractive thing, I guess. Robert writes and says,
Speaker 1: what happened tode Tammy in Montana. Tammy is fine, Robert.
Speaker 1: She still listens to the podcast from what I've heard,
Speaker 1: but she is working the dreaded day shift and she's
Speaker 1: working some odd hours, so she's been unable to call
Speaker 1: the show. We missed Tammy. It's been a tough couple
Speaker 1: of months. For regular callers, Tammy Felexus has been unable
Speaker 1: to call the show and also hollering James some big
Speaker 1: name callers, but that happens. We go through different eras
Speaker 1: on the show. We have some big name people leave us,
Speaker 1: and then we get new stars and just the EBB
Speaker 1: and flow doing the show all these years. People come
Speaker 1: and go, but we've had some people with us a
Speaker 1: long time, and we've still got a lot of people
Speaker 1: with us. But some of the regulars have stopped calling
Speaker 1: as often as they did back in the day because
Speaker 1: their life circumstances have changed. Felexis has a few medical
Speaker 1: issues and hollering James keeps breaking his phone, which is
Speaker 1: a problem. So it's a bit of an issue. Andy
Speaker 1: the Comic Book Guy writes, and he says, what is
Speaker 1: the What is one of the best pranks you guys
Speaker 1: pulled as kids? Andy says, I was great meeting you,
Speaker 1: Andy the Comic Book Guy, as I mentioned in a
Speaker 1: previous episode, really impressed with your comic book store. Anyway,
Speaker 1: to answer the question, there were a lot of pranks.
Speaker 1: The one that I would like to share as a
Speaker 1: radio prank that I pulled on my younger brother and
Speaker 1: you might actually know this. I don't know if I've
Speaker 1: told this story on this podcast with you, Danny, but
Speaker 1: years ago there was a guy in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: and Ralph Barbieri who was a sports talk show host
Speaker 1: in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: I know that name, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He was in the Barrier a long time. So now
Speaker 1: I didn't live in Northern California, but at night CANBR,
Speaker 1: I was a radio nerd, so I'd listened to faraway
Speaker 1: radio stations. This before the Internet. You can listen to
Speaker 1: any station you want on the iHeartRadio app. But back
Speaker 1: in those days, you wanted to hear a faraway station,
Speaker 1: you had to scan the dial and the furthest away
Speaker 1: we could get was like Northern California, Saint George, Utah, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Living in southern California, so I'd scan. In fact,
Speaker 1: even my mom even bought me this thing. Art Bell
Speaker 1: had an advertiser you could buy this antenna that would
Speaker 1: help you get far away radio stations. So I would
Speaker 1: listen sometimes to CANBR at night, and they had the
Speaker 1: Giants games, and I hear the postgame store. And Ralph
Speaker 1: Barbieria was a guy on that station, and he had
Speaker 1: a famous sign off to his broadcast that he used
Speaker 1: every single time he signed off, he had the same
Speaker 1: sentence that he used.
Speaker 2: So I was.
Speaker 1: We happen to be in northern California at a family
Speaker 1: function with my younger brother who now lives in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and so I, being the radio nerd that I was,
Speaker 1: I had the radio on, I was listening to the
Speaker 1: radio and it was just me and him. My parents
Speaker 1: were at doing something, and so I made a bet
Speaker 1: with my much younger brother and the bet was, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet you that this guy on the radio
Speaker 1: is going to say, Remember what was the line, Angels take,
Speaker 1: angels fly because they take themselves lightly? I think was
Speaker 1: the the line. And so my my brother, there's no way.
Speaker 1: It's a sports show, you know, and no one's gonna
Speaker 1: no one's gonna say that. You know, you're you're of course,
Speaker 1: So we made this bet. It was big bet, and
Speaker 1: and sure enough I was a little concerned because he
Speaker 1: didn't didn't say it when he normally did. But at
Speaker 1: the end he said angels fly because they take themselves lightly,
Speaker 1: and that that really pissed off my younger brother. That
Speaker 1: we upset him. We had to defuse the situation. He
Speaker 1: was very upset that he had a kind of a
Speaker 1: primal scream that he let out any good pranks you remember, Danny,
Speaker 1: that you'd like to share with the class.
Speaker 4: I remember my older brother and I in rialto California.
Speaker 3: We loved April Fool's Day.
Speaker 4: Didn't like the punishment after the prank we tried to
Speaker 4: pull on my mom, though. My older brother had a
Speaker 4: great idea. He's like, all right, you run inside and
Speaker 4: act like you're really scared and tell mom that I
Speaker 4: crashed my BMX bike. He brought some ketchup outside and
Speaker 4: poured it all over the sidewalk in a pool, and
Speaker 4: then he strategically placed his bike and his body to
Speaker 4: make it look like he cracked his head. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: So I go inside screaming about how he crashed his bike.
Speaker 4: My mom comes out to see him laying in a
Speaker 4: heat next to this pool of red, and she's freakingly
Speaker 4: f out. She gets up to him to see how
Speaker 4: he's doing, and he just starts busting up laughing. Well,
Speaker 4: let me just tell you, man, there's not a fun
Speaker 4: ending to this story. Because she brought both of us
Speaker 4: into the house and proceeded to whip the shit out
Speaker 4: of our behinds, as she should.
Speaker 3: Have with a spoon from the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how old were you when this happened, Danny?
Speaker 3: Hell?
Speaker 1: Are you seen you were? How old? Seventeen?
Speaker 4: I'm kidding we were You're probably like first, first and
Speaker 4: third grade.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just remember that you have a spawn, Danny,
Speaker 1: and so you know, you know, wait a few years
Speaker 1: here and then not that long before you know it,
Speaker 1: your son will be out there busting your balls and
Speaker 1: doing similar things. So you have that to look forward too.
Speaker 1: That's funny. That's a good story you should have. You
Speaker 1: should have had your like eat the ketchup, you know,
Speaker 1: just like go for it. Or you should have gone
Speaker 1: over and eaten the ketchup, you know, like hot dog
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, that would have been solid. Wild Man
Speaker 1: from Morgantown, West Virginia writes in he says, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, Ben and Danny G. I have been listening
Speaker 1: to your overnight show, Ben for several years, waking up
Speaker 1: to your show as my alarm on my Alexa. God
Speaker 1: bless you, wild Man and my cell phone. I even
Speaker 1: listened to the in the shower as I get ready
Speaker 1: for work all the way until I park my car
Speaker 1: at work and I cannot switch it off until the
Speaker 1: end at six am Eastern time. That's wonderful. And he says,
Speaker 1: when my day is done and I'm on my way home,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to Cavino and Rich with Danny g
Speaker 1: And he says, any who, I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. You make my day a lot easier.
Speaker 1: Keep it coming. That's the old man in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Speaker 4: Speaking of cross pollination. I will give you one guess
Speaker 4: of which regular Mallard caller got in on the Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich show a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now this is that person not from West Virginia.
Speaker 1: It's not Radio Rich. It's not him. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's still around, caller.
Speaker 4: And this is the first time he has appeared on
Speaker 4: the afternoon airwaves.
Speaker 1: This is a celebrity caller from the overnight show.
Speaker 4: Give you one clue. About five minutes, they wondered if
Speaker 4: the rambling was gonna stop.
Speaker 1: Oh, was it Cowboy John Bred? No, No, it's not
Speaker 1: cowboy John Bred. Good guests all right, and he rambles
Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: The topic.
Speaker 4: They were on was about being a bandwagon fan, sticking
Speaker 4: with your team even when they don't have any heart
Speaker 4: and they've quit on the season, all of the Mets,
Speaker 4: and this guy called up talking about how many years
Speaker 4: he dealt with a certain baseball team.
Speaker 1: Oh is this our friend from northern California?
Speaker 3: Oh no, who was it?
Speaker 4: Reveal answers think about a man who is newly retired.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, all right, wait wait from Ohio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Dixter. Oh yes, the Dickxter.
Speaker 4: Oh way, and instantly started making Dick jokes, laughing because
Speaker 4: after the segment was over, I walked into the main
Speaker 4: studio and I told Covino, I'm like, you know, you
Speaker 4: fell right in line there because that's normally what the
Speaker 4: crew does during the overnight.
Speaker 1: Oh you cannot help but embrace the Dixter. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a machine. He said.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid and I was watching the Indians,
Speaker 4: And Covino said, so you mean when you were a
Speaker 4: little Dick.
Speaker 1: That's great. I am a fan of Dick.
Speaker 4: He kept going and going, and they made some kind
Speaker 4: of joke about put him on hold and come back
Speaker 4: he'll still be talking. And then I told the guys, Hey,
Speaker 4: you don't know who you're addressing. That is Fox Sports
Speaker 4: Radio Royalty. I explained who he was and plugged your
Speaker 4: show for you.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. Well Dick and Dayton. I know
Speaker 1: everything about Dick and Dayton. He has the same birthday
Speaker 1: with Pete Rose. I famously years ago, I was driving
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, across the great state of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and being the radio nerd I am, I was listening
Speaker 1: to scanning the dial and I heard a station out
Speaker 1: of Ohio. I don't even know what station it was.
Speaker 1: And Dick and Dayton called in and I said, how
Speaker 1: lucky am I that the stars lined up? And I
Speaker 1: got to hear the wisdom of the dixter. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, what a gift, What a gift that was.
Speaker 1: And for guys like us, Danny, that are lifetime radio guys,
Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton's like the kind of the last of
Speaker 1: a generation of people that just worship radio. He didn't
Speaker 1: know what a podcast is. We can talk about him
Speaker 1: from now until you know, you know, time ends. He
Speaker 1: doesn't listen to podcasts. He listens to radio. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: radio AM FM radio mostly AM, and and he's Also
Speaker 1: I found out he's into politics. He calls political shows too.
Speaker 3: Congratulations. Oh, that must be a great phone call.
Speaker 1: It's got to be great. Yeah. And Ohio isn't Ohio
Speaker 1: kind of a swing state? Right? I mean it usually
Speaker 1: goes one way, but every once in a while goes
Speaker 1: the other. Am I right on that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not that in the political world. Last one we
Speaker 1: one more here our friend Angelina rights and she's a
Speaker 1: super fan. I love Angelina. It was great, meaner too.
Speaker 1: She was wonderful and lives outside Minneapolis there in that area.
Speaker 1: And she says, Hello, Ben and Daddy g Congratulations to
Speaker 1: Danny on the birth of his son, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to Ben from the East Coast trip. I love hearing
Speaker 1: about the adventures of your lives. And I am so
Speaker 1: glad that your voice is back to normal. Thank you, Angeline.
Speaker 1: I had a brief travel situation. It sounds like it's back,
Speaker 1: she says, using the garlic treatment. Yes, the garlic therapy worked,
Speaker 1: and Angelina says, I wish I was able to go
Speaker 1: to the meet and greet at the comic book store
Speaker 1: to see my new friend Regina, who alluded to the
Speaker 1: idea that she might be there and to meet Eddie
Speaker 1: and Coop and to try Ben's homemade cookies, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: I was not able to hope. It was great fun.
Speaker 1: We had a wonderful time. And she also says regarding
Speaker 1: the podcast, she likes the phrase or the word of
Speaker 1: the week. And Angelina, if you heard the Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: which I know you did because you're a superfan, it
Speaker 1: was punit Pundit was the word of the week. She said,
Speaker 1: it was always interesting. So she's fully on board Danny
Speaker 1: with the Fifth Hour podcast. She loves all that we do,
Speaker 1: So Angelina, anything you would like to promote, We should
Speaker 1: have done that yesterday. Bad job by me. But it's Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight, Danny, I.
Speaker 5: Got the live radio show from the broadcast Dojo eleven
Speaker 5: o'clock in the West and perfect hour to listen to
Speaker 5: the radio two am in the East.
Speaker 1: I'll be doing it live, doing it live.
Speaker 4: What do you got going on, Danny, Well, first, really quick,
Speaker 4: thank you for the well wishes about Tacoha arriving into
Speaker 4: the world, and also for the nice little gifts. In fact,
Speaker 4: besides Tammy, which I mentioned last weekend, another little gift
Speaker 4: derived from the Militia. I think it said from Karen,
Speaker 4: but then the note was signed Mallard Militia and it
Speaker 4: was a nice little necklace for Mama.
Speaker 1: G Oh. Very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you for that, Ben, after getting the big fish,
Speaker 4: bigger than Michael Jordan. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: radio shows where they say sports talk radio shows where
Speaker 4: they say the moment they book Michael Jordan, that's when
Speaker 4: they've hit the lottery.
Speaker 3: That's the big whale in our business.
Speaker 4: Well, for us, that big whale has been Brian Billick.
Speaker 3: Brian Billick, I'm not available.
Speaker 4: After booking him for you for the Friday podcast, I
Speaker 4: am formally announcing my retirement from broadcasting.
Speaker 1: It was a great run and Cole will replace you
Speaker 1: at some point, but you got to wait about, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty years or so, you know, give her a take.
Speaker 3: I actually need some diaper money right now.
Speaker 4: So now I'll be back in the studio Monday, Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich having a fun start to the NFL week.
Speaker 4: It's at two to four pm on the West Side
Speaker 4: and five to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your day. Thank you for
Speaker 1: supporting the podcast. We love you, We love you, we
Speaker 1: love you, we love you for supporting the podcast and
Speaker 1: the radio shows that we do and all that. And
Speaker 1: don't forget I'm also on cameo. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to send a you know, it's not free,
Speaker 1: but i'll personal shout out Mini Malla monologue, things like that, birthdays,
Speaker 1: bar mitzvahs, you name it, and we will promote it.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your day.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go.