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Speaker 1: Here week ago. Welcome, It's the Fifth Hour with me,
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. Because listen, five days
Speaker 1: a week not enough, five nights a week not enough,
Speaker 1: and I'm on every night late night. Danny G, who
Speaker 1: used to be with me, is with Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: during the afternoon hours, and we form Voltron here on
Speaker 1: the weekends. We thank you for being part of the
Speaker 1: pod and spinoff off of all those terrestrial radio shows,
Speaker 1: but only available here in the podcast format. This is
Speaker 1: the final NFL Sunday, the last one, the swan song
Speaker 1: for the regular season. And then it gets real. It's
Speaker 1: on like Donkey Kong starting next week in wildcard round.
Speaker 1: Excited about all that, but we've got the met back
Speaker 1: Before we get to the mailbag. I did want to
Speaker 1: mention here it's the fifth day of January. I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention more plumbing issues of the Malord Mansion. More
Speaker 1: plumbing issues.
Speaker 3: I mentioned this is the reason I tune in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you love to hear, you know, shit stories.
Speaker 1: So we had mentioned in a previous episode there was
Speaker 1: a clogged toilet. Someone stayed at the house cloged toilet.
Speaker 1: So we had someone I will not name the guilty
Speaker 1: watching our dog Moxie while we were in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: house sitting and with a big giant gun in case
Speaker 1: anyone tried to come to the house anyway. So they
Speaker 1: were in the house for a few days. Got back
Speaker 1: all right, got back kind of late, little groggy. When
Speaker 1: I got back to town, the person that was house
Speaker 1: sitting was gone. And I'm gonna tell this story because
Speaker 1: it's important to the story. So I go into the
Speaker 1: lower bathroom here the Malor Mansion, downstairs bathroom. So I
Speaker 1: go in there, and I had to take care of business.
Speaker 1: I'd been in the car all day driving back from
Speaker 1: from Northern California. So I'm I'm on the throne, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm doing my doing my thing with my squatty potty
Speaker 1: and all that. And I go to flush, and I
Speaker 1: hear the water filling into the bowl, but I don't
Speaker 1: hear the water going down the bowl. And then I
Speaker 1: as I'm sitting on the throne, I am, I'm feeling
Speaker 1: some some water kind of coming up near the Tukas
Speaker 1: turns out Danny that the person that was watching the
Speaker 1: house had clogged the toilet and did not did not
Speaker 1: let us know. Again it's a second time. Now, this
Speaker 1: was not a number number one. This was the number two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that means it was brown town, if you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right. But I'm like, okay, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not a big stuff. I'm just gonna.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a plunger. I am, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'll cover my eyes and my nose and I'll do it.
Speaker 1: So I take the plunger out and it's not a
Speaker 1: great plunger. My wife got these plungers that look good.
Speaker 1: They're not really effective plungers, but they look good, so
Speaker 1: that whatever. So I go to plunge the toilet and
Speaker 1: a couple of thrusts. Nothing.
Speaker 3: It's just the water is not going down.
Speaker 1: So so let me give you a little time, so
Speaker 1: I know, because maybe the water pressure will put you know,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes just without doing anything, the toilet water
Speaker 1: will go down, the clog will take care of itself.
Speaker 1: So I waited about forty minutes. I come back. It's
Speaker 1: exactly the same. It's I go to the plunger, I
Speaker 1: grab the plunge and I start trying to fus around
Speaker 1: with the plunger and try to get the thing on stuffed.
Speaker 1: And I'm really aggressive at this point. I'm really going
Speaker 1: for it. I'm like a lumberjack with the plunger. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing it and nothing. So now I'm starting to
Speaker 1: freak out a little bit because it's like New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve or like it was like the day before news
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know how much it costs
Speaker 1: for a plumber over the holiday? Like they charge you extra, right,
Speaker 1: it's like surge pricing. So I'm gonna take care of
Speaker 1: this myself. I am hellbat. So I start going online.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are some tricks to get a toilet
Speaker 1: unclogged without a plumber? The Internet's a wonderful place. It's
Speaker 1: also a very dangerous place. So I I read all
Speaker 1: these home remedies involving boiling hot water. That boiling hot
Speaker 1: water will loosen everything up. So I went and boiled
Speaker 1: the pot of water. Now I'm standing over the brown
Speaker 1: poop water and I'm pouring boiling hot water. The poop
Speaker 1: is splashing around.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like you're making coffee.
Speaker 1: So they said, the Internet said, just put the water
Speaker 1: in there and leave it. And then they said, also
Speaker 1: before you leave it, leave some some soap, some dish
Speaker 1: soap in there as well. So I'm like, okay, boiling
Speaker 1: hot water.
Speaker 3: And then somebody was punking you.
Speaker 1: Then I put dish soap over the boiling hot water.
Speaker 1: So now just brown soup with bubbles soap bubbles is
Speaker 1: what I have. Right, So it's like this is literally
Speaker 1: a shit show. And so but it said again, it said, listen,
Speaker 1: just do this, it'll take care of itself, you know,
Speaker 1: give it an hour. Okay, I'll give it an hour.
Speaker 1: So I went away and I came back about an
Speaker 1: hour later, and it was exactly the same, exactly same.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, I'm giving up. I'm
Speaker 1: giving up. I've tried the internet thing. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to home depot. I'm gonna buy you know those plumbing
Speaker 1: tools you can buy at home depot to unclog a toilet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll do that. So I get up the next
Speaker 1: morning and I go down and look at the toilet
Speaker 1: and the water had gone down, like overnight. The water
Speaker 1: had gone down. So I'm like, all right, we're good.
Speaker 1: And the poop was gone and it was like it
Speaker 1: was low. So I went to flush the toilet and
Speaker 1: it got clogged again. It was it was not unclogged somehow.
Speaker 1: I don't know this like a magic trick, like a
Speaker 1: Houdini trick. The water had gone away, but yet I
Speaker 1: flushed it and it filled back up in the water.
Speaker 1: It wasn't draining. So I was like, oh, screw it.
Speaker 1: So I went to home depot. I went to the
Speaker 1: plumbing aisle on home Depot and I'm looking around my Now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, my grandfather was a very successful plumber,
Speaker 1: and so I feel like it should be in my
Speaker 1: DNA second generation, you know, third generation whatever. He ran
Speaker 1: up a plumbing company in LA and I feel like
Speaker 1: I should be able to pull this off. So I
Speaker 1: go and go to the plumbing aisle. I get the
Speaker 1: I forget what it's called, but you it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a snake for a toilet. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big metal thing you twisted, it goes all
Speaker 1: the way down the toy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, call that a snake.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I get that. Now there's three different options.
Speaker 1: There's the professional grade plumbing option, which is like one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. There's the middle option, which is like forty
Speaker 1: or fifty bucks, and then there's the basic option, which
Speaker 1: is like twenty. So I, of course A bought the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars one. I'm not gonna spend one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to unclog a thought. So I bought the twenty dollars
Speaker 1: and I came back and I watched a YouTube video
Speaker 1: on how to do this thing, and I'd go in
Speaker 1: the bathroom and very frustrated, and I used this thing
Speaker 1: and I put it all the way to the very
Speaker 1: bottom of the toilet. I pull it back up to
Speaker 1: get everything out of there. And I do this like
Speaker 1: three or four times, and nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. And
Speaker 1: so had we ended up having to call a plumber,
Speaker 1: wasted the money on that, called the plumber, came out,
Speaker 1: and we've determined now the plumber was here for like
Speaker 1: ten minutes and fix the thing right away because he
Speaker 1: had the professional one. So I could have spent one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars Danny and gotten it fixed, but I chose
Speaker 1: to spend twenty, which meant I had to spend another
Speaker 1: you know whatever it was for the plumber. So that
Speaker 1: was that was my plumbing situation. But we've determined a
Speaker 1: minute long mall of investigation that what has happened here
Speaker 1: is that we have high end toilet the toilet paper.
Speaker 1: The one thing I do not go cheap on is
Speaker 1: toilet paper. I don't I go big on toilet paper.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's something you don't go cheap on.
Speaker 1: And what we've re term is when people come to
Speaker 1: have my wife has a lot of parties at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, and so we have see septic
Speaker 1: issues here because of the fact that people are not
Speaker 1: used to high end toilet paper. It's a bougie item.
Speaker 1: So we made a decision in the future, when we
Speaker 1: have people stay at the house, we are going to
Speaker 1: get commercial grade toilet paper one ply toilet paper, and
Speaker 1: that is the toilet paper we're going to use for
Speaker 1: when people come to the house because if you cannot stuff.
Speaker 1: I think it's called marathon toilet paper. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the really cheap.
Speaker 3: Toilet paper because you buy the fancy stuff, it's thicker
Speaker 3: and so, yeah, you just use too much of it.
Speaker 1: The Charman ultrasoft I believe is what it's or something
Speaker 1: like that, and it's it's great, but you don't need
Speaker 1: to use a lot of it because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's really good, right, mego roll and all that and
Speaker 1: people touch, and we think that's the the issue there.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna find commercial grade. We'll go to like uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Smart and Final or something like that.
Speaker 1: They probably sell it there, and we'll get the cheapest
Speaker 1: toilet paper that everyone hates, sloppy, the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: then we'll just.
Speaker 3: Borrow something from our studio's bathroom.
Speaker 1: Well I could do it. Yeah, we have a horrible
Speaker 1: toilet paper. It's just freaking horrible. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to the actual mail bag. It's I had to tell
Speaker 1: my poopy story. But let's say the mail bag. Anonymous
Speaker 1: rights in, Anonymous rites and says, So Jonas Knox comes
Speaker 1: in before your show ends, Ben, did you do you
Speaker 1: talk to him between breaks when he's preparing for the show,
Speaker 1: and then when your show is over and the other
Speaker 1: are coming in, like LaVar Arrington, do you talk to
Speaker 1: those guys before they go on the air or out
Speaker 1: of respect? Do you not bother them because you have
Speaker 1: to prepare for a radio show and you have thoughts
Speaker 1: in your head and you might understand that if you
Speaker 1: talk to them, they might find it annoying because they
Speaker 1: just really want to do their show and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: What's the etiquette asking for a friend? Yeah, so the guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't really have anywhere to get ready
Speaker 1: for the I get there early. I go to the
Speaker 1: very back. I go to the old Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Updates studio, which is empty, and I go in there
Speaker 1: and I finish up getting ready for the show. But
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone else shows up at the very last minute,
Speaker 1: I mean very last minute. And so it's not like
Speaker 1: Jonas and LeVar are there an hour before the show.
Speaker 3: Well, Ben, to be fair, I think that's because Coop
Speaker 3: gets there so early. He's asleep back in one of
Speaker 3: the other rooms.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. I'man Coop is the model of preparation,
Speaker 1: so he's really the personification of dedication. So he's there,
Speaker 1: but the other people's you know, get there late and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So but I do I say hello
Speaker 1: to Jonas. I've known Jonas for many years. I love Jonas.
Speaker 1: He's a friend of mine, and so we'll know the
Speaker 1: quick hello, the small talk. LeVar is a great dude.
Speaker 1: Talk to LeVar with Penn State in the playoff LaVar.
Speaker 1: I saw him on TV the other day when I
Speaker 1: was watching the Penn State Boise State game. There was
Speaker 1: a play on the sidelines and LeVar is like a
Speaker 1: big you know, he's big royalty at Penn State. So
Speaker 1: he was on the sidelines there and and we were
Speaker 1: chatting with you know, just small talk, chat with him
Speaker 1: about whatever's going on and normally nothing to do with sports.
Speaker 1: I'll say, hey, what's going on with the family or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then we're done. You know, We'll make some sarcastic
Speaker 1: radio comments and then we'll move on and that's it.
Speaker 1: But there's there's no long, long conversation. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: once a year we'll socialize somewhere. There'll be an event
Speaker 1: we have to go to and we'll socialize, but oh quick, quick,
Speaker 1: Kello and I just like with Jason, Jason Smith and
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. I talked to Harmon more than I talked
Speaker 1: to Smith, but I.
Speaker 3: I see it.
Speaker 1: Catch up, how's the kids, how's the wife, that thing
Speaker 1: or the you know or whatever, and then we're done.
Speaker 1: So all right. Next up, Mike from Shrewsbury, Mass Writes
Speaker 1: in on the mail bag. He says, we we got
Speaker 1: to get you the Central Mass here for a Mallard
Speaker 1: meet and greet. Longtime listener, all the way back to
Speaker 1: twenty five, back when Spokekane Gary was around. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember that great Spokane he spoke kan Gary and Pete
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh arrivals, updates with Turk Stevens. You had another
Speaker 1: two people, one from Philly and a guy with a
Speaker 1: fake name. Anyway, a longtime huge fan. I'm curious as
Speaker 1: to why you are so secretive of what town you
Speaker 1: live in. No big deal, and I understand privacy, but
Speaker 1: I'm always wondering the whereabouts of the Mallard mansion. Not
Speaker 1: a stalker, just a curious question. I keep up all
Speaker 1: the great shows. And then says he wants Eddie to
Speaker 1: come back and all that, and it's any good vibrations.
Speaker 1: So Mike yeah. So here's the deal. I I I
Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of people on the Internet
Speaker 1: that are fake tough guys, but over the years, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm abrasive in any way. I think
Speaker 1: I'm pretty mellow and all that. I just have sports takes.
Speaker 1: But I've had people send me some threatening things and
Speaker 1: previous homes I've lived in. I had somebody got my
Speaker 1: address at one of the houses I used to live in,
Speaker 1: and they'd send me things with no return address on them,
Speaker 1: kind of ominous things, and I know it's it's likely nothing,
Speaker 1: but just out of what do they say to any
Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution, I just I don't
Speaker 1: toss out where I where I reside. Now, I'm sure
Speaker 1: if you want to find out where I live, you
Speaker 1: can find out with the Internet. It's probably not that
Speaker 1: hard to find out, but you might get it wrong.
Speaker 1: I've moved several times in recent years, so you're probably
Speaker 1: not going to find out exactly where I am. But
Speaker 1: that's generally that's generally right. I was, I was on
Speaker 1: a list. Some lunatic was sending weird snail mail to me,
Speaker 1: and Adam Carolla with me and Adam Carole. It was
Speaker 1: very odd. I've only met Adam Carolla a few times
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't really know him. He didn't
Speaker 1: really know me. You know, we're not friends. But it
Speaker 1: was very bizarre.
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy is when you view the Malord
Speaker 3: mansion from Google Earth, you have the nicest pool. It's
Speaker 3: in the shape of dollar.
Speaker 1: Signs Da da dalla. That's what I say. That's I said.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. Come on, Pippin, get your tims on.
Speaker 3: You say dollar dollar bill, y'all.
Speaker 1: Zach from Columbus right sat in the mailbag, he says, Mary,
Speaker 1: Christmas happy hanikah blah blah blah. Did you ever tell
Speaker 1: the story about the horrible thing that happened? Or did
Speaker 1: I ever tell you the story? Says the horrible thing
Speaker 1: that happened to me in college involving human excrement and
Speaker 1: a fridge full of beer. Yes, Sack, I think you
Speaker 1: did tell us that stor if I remember correctly. A
Speaker 1: while back, he said he's been busy with all the events.
Speaker 1: He still listens, but usually weeks later, so Danny, he'll
Speaker 1: hear this sometime in like February. Loves the show.
Speaker 3: He says, let me know that Super Bowl is gonna
Speaker 3: be awesome.
Speaker 1: He says, let me know if you're if we're still
Speaker 1: in play to drag your ass to Ah. Yes, Zach,
Speaker 1: I don't know when, probably the spring, and you have
Speaker 1: offered your establishment there Zach and Columbus and I actually
Speaker 1: sent out an email this past week Danny to try
Speaker 1: to try to figure that out. And one of the
Speaker 1: scenarios would be to do a live podcast from that
Speaker 1: bar in Columbus. So we'll see if that that happens,
Speaker 1: but whether whether I do it or not. Normally on
Speaker 1: these mallor meet and greets, I'm not doing that. But
Speaker 1: if we happen to work it out logistically, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do it. But so I will, God willing, I will
Speaker 1: be there once I start after football season. Usually wait
Speaker 1: till March or April. And you really don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Ohio in February or January, so Alf from
Speaker 1: Realtor dot com writes, and so he says, as beautiful
Speaker 1: and magical of a place that Fullerton sounds. Have either
Speaker 1: of you too gotten as far as scouting future locations
Speaker 1: to call home and get the hell out of the
Speaker 1: People's Republic of California, says Alf from the Commonwealth. Danny,
Speaker 1: have you have you thought about you're getting a little
Speaker 1: older there done with radio? Where you're gonna end up? Oh?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 3: You know, I really liked Wyoming and Montana when I
Speaker 3: went there, oh maybe a decade ago on a little
Speaker 3: hiking trip. I could potentially see myself pulling a Phil
Speaker 3: Jackson just going out in Montea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see you, like, well, we have the
Speaker 1: budget in Montana, we could live like the Unibomber, you know,
Speaker 1: a little shack in Montana right now. God's I've never been.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Montana. Looks beautiful, though, so it
Speaker 1: looks amazing.
Speaker 3: Really pretty.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Air is so crisp and so clean that if you're
Speaker 3: a city boy like us, it hurts your lungs to
Speaker 3: breathe the oxygen there. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty neat. I don't know. I do, look,
Speaker 1: alf sometimes I look at real estate and say, you know,
Speaker 1: what would this be like? And but you know, my
Speaker 1: wife loves California, so she's not leaving her job anytime soon,
Speaker 1: So you know, I do. I do criick on the
Speaker 1: real estate websites every once in a while and think
Speaker 1: like if I bought a little place in New Hampshire
Speaker 1: right on the ocean there, like near Portsmouth, I could
Speaker 1: do that right the low taxes, I could kind of
Speaker 1: handle that, Mike and Fullerton, right, since it is that
Speaker 1: be New Year, guys. During The Ben Maller Show's extended
Speaker 1: holiday break, I took Tony in the Bay Area's advice
Speaker 1: and listened to a couple of show podcasts from early
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. The crew at the time was Eddie Garcia,
Speaker 1: Justin Cooper, and some guy named Danny g. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of him before. I really enjoyed your breakdown of
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen NBA trade deadline. Anyone who hasn't heard
Speaker 1: it yet should check that out as soon as possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's classic. Now, Mike says, I have a couple of
Speaker 1: questions from that show. You bet Eddie Garcia that Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick would not start five more games in his career,
Speaker 1: and Eddie was stupid enough to take it. Did he
Speaker 1: ever pay off the bet or did he try to
Speaker 1: weasel out of it? I know, Mike and Fuller and says,
Speaker 1: I know if things turned out differently, you definitely would
Speaker 1: have paid off your bet. Rocky Mountain Oysters anyone. That's right,
Speaker 1: Mike ear high five. And my other question is you
Speaker 1: were concerned at the time that your male was getting
Speaker 1: jacked off by someone. Did you ever find the culprint
Speaker 1: very funny, very very funny?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember that bet. But when you make long term bets,
Speaker 1: Danny on radio, no one actually remembers them.
Speaker 3: A good thing for you because you also bet me
Speaker 3: and Coope that the Lakers and Lebron when they first
Speaker 3: signed it, that they wouldn't even sniff the NBA playoffs,
Speaker 3: let alone a final. And you said the Clippers. You
Speaker 3: said the Clippers would win a championship before the Lakers
Speaker 3: even got to one.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with your Clippers? Hold on buckeroo, hold on buckeroo.
Speaker 1: Number one, the Lakers did not win a championship with
Speaker 1: Lebron James wrong and number two the clip Here we
Speaker 1: go the final four. That's okay. Go Kawhi Leonard, you
Speaker 1: know right, Kawhi back? Come on?
Speaker 3: Oh did you see that? Did you see the recent
Speaker 3: lawsuit I did?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clippers are dealing with a former Clippers employee spilling
Speaker 3: the dirt.
Speaker 1: It's one of Kawhi's buddies, who was like, wants a
Speaker 1: big check and good luck. Maybe you know, maybe he'll win.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The way the story was written did not paint him
Speaker 1: in the in the greatest picture. But yet early on
Speaker 1: that Kaepernick story twenty seventeen, that was every day, it
Speaker 1: was a new revelation.
Speaker 3: If I had to hear Clay talk about Kaepernick one
Speaker 3: more time talk, he was great on the radio, But
Speaker 3: I had to hear Kaepernick talk every single morning, without
Speaker 3: a doubt, Kaepernick was going to come up in the conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was gold.
Speaker 1: There was low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit.
Speaker 1: And we'd never seen anything like this in modern NFL.
Speaker 1: And then the people were boycotting the NFL. They were
Speaker 1: very upset and it was patriotism and stuff, and then
Speaker 1: you had everything was just Nutso in the mid that
Speaker 1: mid decade, that from like twenty fifteen the election and
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Trump.
Speaker 3: Some people predicted that the NFL would fold and go
Speaker 3: out of business.
Speaker 1: Remember, yeah, Mark Cuban, didn't Mark Cuban say the NFL
Speaker 1: was going to go they were going to kill themselves
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you had. So you had all
Speaker 1: that in with this span of a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and then you topped it off. The cherry on top
Speaker 1: of this was the COVID in twenty twenty, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one into twenty twenty two in California. Of course, I
Speaker 1: still see people. I still see people wearing masks, so
Speaker 1: I think it's still going on in parts of California.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, thank you Mike for listening to
Speaker 1: old podcasts. Do we get credit, Danny? Does the company
Speaker 1: still say, hey, people are listening to your podcast even
Speaker 1: if it was eight years old, we still get credit?
Speaker 3: I know. That's what sucks is if this was a
Speaker 3: TV show, you and I would see a payment, even
Speaker 3: if it was thirty cents or thirty dollars, we'd get
Speaker 3: something in our mailbox. But when you do radio, as
Speaker 3: you've talked about before, in one air out the other
Speaker 3: literally because there are no residuals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucks. It sucks. It's like music. You make
Speaker 1: a song. How many bands, how many musicians, they're nineteen
Speaker 1: or twenty years old, they do a song, it's a hit,
Speaker 1: and they're still doing that song when they're fifty and sixties,
Speaker 1: you know, sixty in their fifties and sixties, they're still
Speaker 1: doing the same song they did when they were nineteen,
Speaker 1: and they're making money off it. And you imagine you
Speaker 1: doing what if?
Speaker 3: Like you, I remember you did this really great Lob
Speaker 3: City monologue one night, and what if For years people
Speaker 3: called in requests and said, Ben, do your Lob City
Speaker 3: monologue again.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would. I would nail it every time,
Speaker 1: would get better, it would be better, it would be amazing,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, but no, it's a disposable form of
Speaker 1: entertainment unfortunately. All right, thank you, Mike, Kevin and Ohio. Right,
Speaker 1: so we're not sure where. It's kind of a big state,
Speaker 1: he says. Ben and Danny. I wanted to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on this new wrinkle in fraud and I did
Speaker 1: not say. Did you see the story this week that
Speaker 1: the the new there's a surge in cryptocurrency fraud led
Speaker 1: by young Nigerian men, that they've found a way to
Speaker 1: rip people off with cryptocurrency.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought this was going to be that stupid
Speaker 3: fast track thing. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know how these pirates are doing it, But
Speaker 3: when you drive anywhere near those fast track lanes. There's
Speaker 3: some in Orange County. So when we were going through
Speaker 3: Orange County to go to the San Diego Zoo, there
Speaker 3: was an option, you know, to get in those fast
Speaker 3: track lanes. Didn't get in there, but I did go
Speaker 3: into like a carpool lane. And then later I get
Speaker 3: a text saying that I went into the fast track
Speaker 3: lane and I owed six dollars in ninety nine cents.
Speaker 3: Maybe it wasn't a carpool lane. I click on the
Speaker 3: stupid thing and it goes to the California fast Track page.
Speaker 3: Whatever I put in my card to pay the six
Speaker 3: ninety nine, it just spins and spins and it says
Speaker 3: it couldn't process my card. The very next day, I
Speaker 3: find out that my card has been flagged by my
Speaker 3: bank for fraud.
Speaker 1: You're an ass hat. It's a fake.
Speaker 3: Fast track thing. They have put in your information so
Speaker 3: they could rip off your info and then they try
Speaker 3: to add you to their Apple Wallet to use your card.
Speaker 1: Uh you know. I Actually it's funny you bring that up,
Speaker 1: because I had when I was in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: we had the option of taking the Bay Bridge, which
Speaker 1: they had to use. You have to use the like
Speaker 1: the Northern California fast track thing, or you could go
Speaker 1: the long way into San Francisco. So we went the
Speaker 1: long way because I wanted we didn't have the fast track.
Speaker 1: And I did get a text. Actually, now that you
Speaker 1: bring it up, I got a text. But I text
Speaker 1: my wife. I said did She drove part of the
Speaker 1: way and I drove most of the way, and I say,
Speaker 1: I know I didn't go in the carpol in. Did
Speaker 1: you go in the carpool in? Because I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't remember you doing that. She said, Oh, no, it's
Speaker 1: a scam.
Speaker 3: Because yeah, there's been reports of this all over the country. Now,
Speaker 3: first of all, they won't text you. I read that,
Speaker 3: and if you look closely at it, it's fast track.
Speaker 3: The tea is missing, so it's fas track. So just
Speaker 3: be aware of that and hit the report spam button
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: All right? So were they like, how do they get
Speaker 1: your number? They're just they're fishing.
Speaker 3: That's the part where Brenda was saying, that really creeps
Speaker 3: me out that they were able to find out that
Speaker 3: we were going through that area. How do they do that?
Speaker 3: How do they scan the phone? Is it through Apple Someway?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Here it is It says, please pay fast track
Speaker 1: lane on December thirty first, in order to avoid excessive
Speaker 1: late fees and potential legal action on the bill, Please
Speaker 1: pay the fee in time, thank you for your cooperation,
Speaker 1: and wish you a happy holiday. And then has a load.
Speaker 1: It has a link. Please reply Yet why then exit
Speaker 1: the text message and open it again? Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Uh yep, got that. I got the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see, and I felt so stupid. The reason that
Speaker 3: I didn't even think twice about it was because, like
Speaker 3: I said, I knew I had just passed one of
Speaker 3: those lanes. So that's how they got me.
Speaker 1: Well, everyone who drives goes through one of those lanes
Speaker 1: at one point or another, even if you don't go
Speaker 1: in the lane you're.
Speaker 3: I don't have any of those around where I lived.
Speaker 3: I just happened to drive past one in Orange County
Speaker 3: that day. Yeah, how the hell did they know where
Speaker 3: I was?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's craziness, man, That is uh not so uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see Mike in Sacramento rites and says Benny and
Speaker 1: Danny guh, he said, I heard you talk about your
Speaker 1: trip to northern California on the show. I only mentioned
Speaker 1: it once, Mike, I didn't mention the whole thing. He says,
Speaker 1: a self driving Waymo cab, did you take one? And
Speaker 1: then he sent me a video of a cab smashing
Speaker 1: into a delivery like robot, like a Wayne. I guess
Speaker 1: there's a you. It's not YouTube. It's like a TikTok
Speaker 1: of Waymo's gone wild. Have you seen this?
Speaker 3: I have seen this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like Waymo's that are that break and keep
Speaker 1: driving in circles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's one that drives in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty wild. No, I did not take a
Speaker 1: way Moo. I brought my car, I drove my car.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. And I heard they're the same. But
Speaker 1: my brother in law I was like, oh yeah, they're
Speaker 1: like he takes them all the time. He's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're pretty much the same price as taking Uber. So
Speaker 1: really want to take an uber? Help a dude out,
Speaker 1: you know, doing Uber help them out a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's why we see things a little bit different because
Speaker 3: so many truck drivers and paper boys and remember those
Speaker 3: things called newspapers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God bless truly the paper boys, security guards.
Speaker 3: And truck drivers we support because we appreciate all of
Speaker 3: those men and women that do those jobs, because there
Speaker 3: are a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. I mean when I started the Overnight Show,
Speaker 1: most of our live listeners were delivering the newspaper. Now
Speaker 1: it's like maybe three percent, But at one point it
Speaker 1: was like sixty percent of the people were delivering the newspaper.
Speaker 1: They were going to get the papers, they had to
Speaker 1: wrap them, the whole thing. And now it's hardly anybody.
Speaker 1: Now it's mostly uber truck drivers, people working in bakeries, factories.
Speaker 1: Those are normally the people. Good guys, I said, good
Speaker 1: guys in bads, got cops and bad guys who are
Speaker 1: out coming to crime and all that. So they're hey, listen.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think that's so. Now we have some
Speaker 1: other ones, but I think we're good on that. We
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for football, Danny. It's the last time
Speaker 1: when the entire playoff bracket will be set. By the
Speaker 1: end of the day today everything will be locked up
Speaker 1: and then tonight our grand body of them all mina
Speaker 1: Sota in Detroit for all the marbles. The number on
Speaker 1: the NFC it is.
Speaker 3: Who did you take in that game on Benny versus
Speaker 3: the penny I actually.
Speaker 1: Took, believe it or not, the Minnesota Vikings took the bikes.
Speaker 3: Okay, So as.
Speaker 1: The number one seat in the entire NFC, do.
Speaker 3: You know on our prediction sheet inside the studio, we
Speaker 3: all fill it out before the season begins. I picked
Speaker 3: the Vikings to make the playoffs as my out on
Speaker 3: a limb.
Speaker 1: Well, you're guaranteed of that appen.
Speaker 3: Do you think when they give Sam Darnold big pay day,
Speaker 3: do you think JJ McCarthy will be available to quarterback
Speaker 3: needy teams?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're gonna pay Donald, why not. It's not
Speaker 1: like mccow old's. McCarthy ain't McCarthy's. He's not a young lad.
Speaker 1: He was at Michigan for several years. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not trade him to somewhere like Seattle or there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of teams Tennessee that they need a quarterback
Speaker 1: and Donald's young enough if you believe in him. I skeptical.
Speaker 1: I just in my head, Donald's gonna go out there
Speaker 1: and ride the vomitcommet in the playoffs and then it'll
Speaker 1: be like, well should we should we pay him? And
Speaker 1: uh uh?
Speaker 3: Do you think Lamar is gonna fold in the playoffs again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has not had any success in the plus,
Speaker 1: why would this year be any different? He hasn't. Now
Speaker 1: they could win in spite of him, like because Henry
Speaker 1: and the defense played better.
Speaker 3: But yeah, by the way, McCarthy's not that old. He's
Speaker 3: twenty one.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought he was a little than that. But
Speaker 1: Donald's is late twenties.
Speaker 3: Twenty yeah, Donald's twenty seven.
Speaker 1: And all right, we will be back next weekend with
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Speaker 1: or you want to recommend a guest, we don't do
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Speaker 3: So I'd like Brian Billick to be on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Brian Billich, Brian Billick, what we need Brian Brian Billick.
Speaker 1: All right, Dann, you have any wonderful day, enjoy the football,
Speaker 1: and I'll be back on the live Radio tonight tonight,
Speaker 1: back at it Sunday night into Monday, eleven o'clock in
Speaker 1: the West and two am in the East, all night
Speaker 1: long and we'll talk to you man.
Speaker 3: Have a booty full week later, Skater, I heard that Danny.
Speaker 1: Brian Billy I'm not available, so please a message.
Speaker 3: I got a murder. I gotta go.