WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Blue & Red Together" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.320 Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.840 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.480 Ben Maller starts right now in the A and rWAR 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.600 in the podcast Ojo, welcome in. You have made it 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.080 to the mail bag, the most interesting, most fascinating, most 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.280 ribbon ng podcast that we do all weekend. We put 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.920 our money on the table. You pay me five thousand dollars, 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:55.240 I'll endorse a game magazine. We leave the dungeon and 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.480 we go into the audio wonderland and we welcome in 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.040 as always on Benny versus the Not Betty versus Me 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.840 on the Fifth Hour, I can't even talk Dandy g Radio, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.559 So I'm wearing a smile, Danny, because we were telling 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.240 in our production meeting, we were telling some classic radio stories. 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.640 Anybody who's not a radio nerd would not appreciate. But 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:22.120 those of us being radio nerds, oh wonderful. Let's just 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.000 say there was some fuccory that went on over the holidays. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.399 Yeah yeah, which is an all time great story that 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.080 will not be told here and probably never on this podcast, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.920 but you never know, Well there was there wasn't great 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.160 behind the scene story that was told on yesterday's podcast. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.000 Make sure you download Saturdays as well as obviously you're 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.919 listening to Sunday. Right now, we are in the middle 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.760 of a super wild card weekend until Monday. Yeah, that last, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:57.880 the big one. That's the big one. Tastes like a 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.400 touchdown in your mouth. How dare you Anyway, Well, we'll 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.560 get to the mail bag, and that means Ohio, all right, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.720 Now that's not dili down. We've got a lot of questions. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:24.200 So let's get to that mail bag. It's all right, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.359 thank you, Ohio, A good job by you. You live 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.480 another week here and so the key to success, if 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.880 you want to be part of the mail bag, you 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.080 actually have to send a question in. So get on 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:41.160 your soapbox, do whatever you have to do. Uh say hello, shalom, bonjoora? 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.800 What is it? What are the other knichiwa? That's Japanese? 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.400 I believe bonejor no? Is that Italian? I think that's 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.120 a time that's for hello, right bonjor no that that 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.239 means hello. I believe I'm correct on that. Helloha. Oh 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.400 that's the great Hawaiian uhha. Back home, we just said howdy, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.920 you know what's happened? You know? Uh cowabunga dude like 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.040 I love that when you're there and they say, that's 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.840 pretty cool man, the island life, the island life. Yeah, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.320 since you just went to Hawaii and you left with 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.280 an extra member of your family in the oven? Uh 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.640 do you do you want the mrs? Do you watch 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.600 that Hawaiian HD DV like real estate show Hawaiian Life 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.320 where they it's it's right when you've been there and 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.200 you've seen what it's like and well you can kind 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.480 of peek and see you kind of having a better idea, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.440 better grasp of what's going on there. I've watched that 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.880 show for a long time, way before this relationship, and 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.560 every time I watched that show, I was like, damn it, man, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.080 I want to be on that show because I definitely 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.680 want to retire there. That'd be pretty cool, man, be 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.480 pretty nice. Start saving those pennies. If you eat one 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.560 meal a week, you could probably save that money. And 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:56.880 by the time you get done, you can buy the 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.560 house in Hawaii. Yeah, I'm gonna bring my son there 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.360 someday and have them look over the land and I'll say, son, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.880 this is where I left it in. That's where you were. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.040 The we we we created you right here. You get 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:19.000 away from me there the magic happened, all right. 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We generally avoid sport equ questions, Danny. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.200 We triaually avoid the sporting questions, but every once in 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.000 a while when we do that all week so the 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.840 weekends for fun exactly, but every once in a while, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.560 we will allow an interloper to get their question on. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.320 So on this mailbag, we start out with Barry in 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.039 Nashville via the Bahamas this week. How about that he's 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.320 hanging out the beautiful Bahamas, he says, Yo Yo, Bob, Benny, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.560 and Danny G Have either of you been zip lining? 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:32.039 If not, would you ever do it? So I'll go first. Danny, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.480 I have never been zip lining. I've only thought about 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.960 it really once or twice in my life. I know 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.240 on in Vegas at the Fremont Street Experience, they have 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.320 a zip line that goes right down Fremont Street. Um, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.359 but I think I'm too big and I'd probably break 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.160 it like I broke the microphone, so I'd probably tried 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.920 to avoid that. Well, what about you, Danny. The only 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.479 zip lining I've ever done? I guess you could call 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.320 it get zip lining. On the east side of San 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.520 Jose in the eighties, my cousin brother and I used 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.640 to take an old wheelchair and push it down with 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.960 one of us in it. The other two would push 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.440 the other person down what we called the ditch it 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.040 was behind. Actually it was the alley of the Evergreen 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.039 Town homes there, and this ditch was super steep into 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.320 all these It was like a brush hill. And when 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:31.160 you got momentum, I remember my cousin flipping over multiple 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.320 times in the wheelchair. It was awesome. That was our 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:40.479 version of zip lining. Wow, how many broken bones ended 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.640 up out of that? How many over under on broken bones? 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.240 So are we looking at there? Let's not tell our 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.600 moms how we got hurt. They thought it was football. Okay, well, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.480 you know football sush football tells you not to play 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.680 tackle football. And meanwhile we're pushing each other down a 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.680 hill in an old wheelchair. Those great times. But real 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.800 zip lining have never done it. Um, I guess I'd 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.720 be down for it. Well, in Hawaii, we're just talking 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.840 about Hawaii. You can go on. There's a zip line 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.320 over the forest you can do in Kawaii. I know 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.559 that that's one of the tourist attractions. If you're into 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.880 such things and you have a lot of money, disposable money, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.400 liquid assets, liquid money that you want to spend on that. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.440 So uh, next up on the map back Kevin in 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.080 Kansas Rights and he says, hey, guys, Ben and Danny 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.800 g I have noticed in my high school a zombie 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.280 like atmosphere. Students walk down the hall with this thing 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.680 in their hands and they're staring at it as they walk. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.080 The bell rings for class to start, and they continue 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.120 to stare at this device. Can either of you explain 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.800 this weird phenomena? Have you noticed it at your workplace? 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:56.240 Kevin in Kansas? Well, Danny, you're at a school part 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.520 of the week, right, So you see the kids that 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.720 they all have their phones. Are they are they phones 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.560 for boating? Are they are they banned from the school 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.520 at the middle school level the moment they walk on 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.560 the campus, their phone has to be put away. If 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.800 the phone is seeing the phone is taken. Oh, that 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.440 is a problem. That is a problem. But yeah, yeah, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.680 like the thing I would say, Kevin, Yeah, I'm like, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.880 I'm looking at my phone right now, like I'm like 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.760 everyone else, you know, I'm checking it out and all 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.880 that stuff. But the thing about it is, I've noticed 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.000 that sporting events, Danny, Like, people spend a lot of 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.280 money to go to these games. I don't go to 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.160 a lot of games anymore. I used to go every night. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.559 But you go to these games and that people aren't 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.240 even really paying attention that you were just at a 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.440 Raider game and everyone's on their phone. And the other 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.400 thing I love is what I call the statue of Liberty, 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.000 the thousands of statue of Liberty. If there's like a 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.280 big moment in a baseball game or a basketball and 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.080 football game, everyone's like this with their arm like fully 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.520 extended like a torch, with the statue of Liberty, and 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.720 they're and I'm convinced no one ever watches those fucking videos, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.679 but everyone's taken them. Everyone wants to be the one 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.079 to capture the dramatic moment and sell at the Harvey 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.080 Leven at TMZ. And that's the thing. I was at 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.640 Disneyland last weekend because we were supposed to go on Christmas, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.160 but we're sick, so we took the kids on Sunday. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.920 When the fireworks go off, Why do you need to 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.160 record the entire fireworks display at Disneyland. We've joked about 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.640 this on Covino and Rich before. Do you have a 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:31.000 box of tapes from back in the day, let's say Disneyland, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:37.200 Oh six fireworks? You collect fireworks videos and now it's 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.120 all digital. But I mean, we never watched these things back, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.360 so why not live in the moment? Why are you 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.480 recording this entire stupid fireworks show. Yeah, Like, there's some 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.679 things that are wonderful, like you know, your your kids 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.280 first time speaking or walking. You might actually go back 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.840 and watch that fucking thing. But you're not gonna watch 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.560 a fireworks show, no, sid when you I'm fit, Like 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.040 you have family over right now from out of town. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.839 I don't have them staying right down yelling. I'm they're 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.040 upset with me because I'm yelling. I'm doing a podcast 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.360 right now. But yeah, can you imagine pulling down? Uh like, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.920 what did that used to be? Our grandparents had him. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.800 It was like a shade they pulled down for the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.800 projector oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah the slide. Yeah, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.439 here's Benny with his fireworks slide show. Everyone gathered around. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:32.559 You want to see the fireworks. We saw Disneyland. It's 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:36.080 so it never happened, So why waste your time? Yeah, 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.560 I can I completely agree with you on that, but 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.200 thank you. Kevin has always a great question by our guy, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.280 Kevin and kids. Next up on the mailback, Joe and 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:50.520 Darcy in Florida. Right in the dynamic duo Benn and 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.320 Danny g. I usually keep my questions light, but I 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.120 do have a serious sports related question Joe and Darcy 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.920 right in, he says, are members of the sports media, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.120 specifically the NBA media members afraid to ask people like 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.679 the woke James real questions? Most media members will never 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.319 get the chance to interview someone one on one like 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.920 l Woke, So what would they stand to lose by 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.680 asking real questions as opposed to the fluff questions that 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:25.640 he gets. I'm singling out this since I feel he 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.599 has done more harm than good in his time in 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:33.000 the NBA from a sports popularity standpoint. Joe and Darcy 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.920 say here and he was over over the course of 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.800 the of he's talking about some of the events here. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.280 I think there's a few words missing, But the the 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.800 original Jesse Smolette with his bogus race crime in his 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.400 house that never happened, He says, Uh, Joe and Darcy, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.920 and the fact that most people would not even get 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.640 the references approves my point. Would the NBA go as 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.200 far as stripping a press member of one's credential if 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.400 they dared ask him real questions? I would assume a 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.560 press member would stand to gain more by being a 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.560 rebel and dare asking real questions, Am I missing something? 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.680 Code of the Cats still sucks signed to Joe and Darcy, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.199 So yeah, it is an interesting dynamic. I've been out 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.600 there a lot in media events over the years. I've 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.720 actually been at some media events with Lebron, ironically not 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.440 since he came to the Lakers, more when he was 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.120 with Cleveland back in the day. And there's a term 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.920 in wrestling. The way I would describe it, it's called 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.280 a k K fab. I believe it's how you say it, right, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:46.559 that's the in professional wrestling. It's the portrayal of staged 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:53.240 events as real but the people involved. No, it's it's 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.200 not like I don't know if that's the right way 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.719 to describe this. But the the reason Joe that a 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.880 lot of the NBA media do not ask tough questions 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.160 is because it is access. But the other people snicker. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.280 There's so many fan boys and girls in the media 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.199 that love, truly worship people like Lebron James and they 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.640 don't want to be the awkward person that asked the 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.800 tough question. And as far as the dumb questions that 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.160 get asked, there's a lot of hard ohs in the 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.800 sports media that really want to get into the xs 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.400 and os. They think their coaches and they want to 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.680 get into the xs and ohs and and things like that. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.439 So they so that you've got several variables in play. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.959 But I think the biggest one is peer pressure, Danny, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.400 that you don't want to be the one that asked 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.920 the awkward question because then Lebron gives a weird answer, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.319 he might end the interview, and then he doesn't answer 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.480 any more questions, and so it's all those things playing together. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.280 What do you think, Danny? Let me ask you because 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.800 I used to ask Clay Travis this, why do you care? Look? 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.240 When I watched sports? I watched sports. Do I watch 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.560 the postgame interviews? No? I really could give a ship. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.199 Unless it's like a major game, like a National championship 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.000 game with an award, a Super Bowl with an award, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.800 something like that, then we'll watch the post game, right, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.760 But other than that, I don't care what these dudes 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.800 are saying their street clothes. I might or might not agree. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.600 It doesn't do anything for me in my life, right. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.920 They're not gonna make gats cheaper for me. They're not 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.880 gonna help me with my health insurance. Multimillionaires some of 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.560 these guys almost billionaires. Now I think Lebron might be 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.800 a billionaire. I think you're right. Yeah, these dudes are 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.840 so filthy rich. And I hate that part of it 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.280 where reporters run to them Ben and they're like, what 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.080 do you think about the NFL canceling the game when 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.400 Hamlin was hurt and Lebron's commenting on it, And then 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.240 you realize Lebron doesn't even a player he's talking about, 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.880 because he's like that kid he didn't even know him 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.720 Lynn's name, but he shouldn't. He's not an NFL analyst, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.520 he doesn't even play in the NFL, So why do 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.760 these reporters all run to him and ask him about 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.600 the flavor of the hour is? Yeah, I mean, but 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.360 that's the I totally understand. I think, like where Joe 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.240 and Darcy are coming from, and if you're really into 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.240 this and we're into it, but if you're watching it 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:25.000 and these guys like Lebron's put on a pedestal, and 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.600 I think you kind of agree. Like He's like, why 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.600 it's this worship, the celebrity worship, this obsession with guys 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.120 like Lebron James and and what they say matters and 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.800 it's an odd thing about human issue because I'm kind 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.080 of like you. I'm over as a talk shows. I'm 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.240 not over it. But is it just a fan I'm 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.040 over it that part of it. I don't really give 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.880 a crap. You know. I'm an adult. I've made my 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.880 own decisions. I have my own view on life. I 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.920 don't need someone else to tell me. But there's so 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.440 many people that are just like they're the robots. They 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.440 need these celebrities that they have to follow, thee everybody's 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.240 and all that stuff, and it's a it's a it's 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.040 a ridiculous set up. But that's just human nature. A 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.280 lot of people are like, oh, I need celebrities, are 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.840 more they're better people than me because they're famous. No, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.600 they're not. Stop being cheap. Be your own man, be 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.360 your own woman. Yeah, it does take a while for 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.960 people to kind of cross that that rubicon, I believe, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.480 and then they figure at some point you figure it 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.840 out and all that. But it's a self fulfilling prophecy 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.680 though as far as because you need clickbait, and so 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.000 lebron is more than happy to give it to guys 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.720 like that and then boom you go, all right, Next 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.560 up on the mail bag Jeff from Milton, Washington. Good Country, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.120 God's Country, writes in Jeff, he says, do any of 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.840 you ever feel like you might need security? He's starting 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.600 to you know, you and me Danny with with you 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.360 when you go out and about a couple of your callers. Waa. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:01.080 He says, Oh, that isn't funny. Also, any of you 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:06.639 ever complete a half or full marathon? I love the show. Thanks. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.680 That's from Jeff in Milton, Washington. Well, thank you Jeff 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:16.240 for listening. Number one, uh, number two, uh day to day. No, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.600 don't don't need security, although I'm a little concerned. Blind 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.000 Scott seems to be trying to track down my address. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.400 That seems somewhat troubling. And then we we go out 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.399 and do Mallard meat and greets. We have the proper 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.600 amount of security there, Danny. We don't like to talk 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.600 about that. It's secret. Well, you have people out there 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.960 to keep an eye on us. We're not going there blind. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.480 You know. We have street gangs that protect us, so 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.119 we're we're good on We have the crips and the bloods. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.399 They work together and they keep an eye on us. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.040 The Avenue gangs in l A. So it explains that 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.640 Montre all expose hat you're wearing right now. I don't 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.480 know what you're talking about, Danny, I have no idea 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.040 read together. Oh yeah, I got a combined. That's a 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.439 good point. There you go. Next up on the mailbag, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.359 we have Terry from England with a sport Oh question, 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.359 he says, it's Sean McVeigh. Is Sean McVey running away 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.840 from a complete rebuild like this idea of the Rams. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.440 It's like a long term rebuild. If the Rams all 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.120 you people that are all horny for draft picks, If 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.320 the Rams wanted to, they could get a boatload of 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.199 draft picks right away. Trade Sean mcveigho the Cowboys for 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.720 two first round picks and a couple of second round picks. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.600 Trade Aaron Donald to the Patriots for three first round picks. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.560 Send Jalen Ramsey to whoever for a couple of the 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.560 first round picks. You all of a sudden, you end 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.040 up with like five or six first round picks and 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.320 second round picks and all that, if that's what you 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.160 want to do. So now you don't have Aaron Donald 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.840 and you don't have these guys on your team. And 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.719 these are pillars of the Rams currently. But if you 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.400 really want to get the draft picks, you can make 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.760 the draft picks happen. You can work it out. There 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.880 are ways to do it. Cooper Cup can be traded. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.800 You can make yourself like an expansion team and get 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.840 rid of every headline player. I don't recommend that being 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.960 in Los Angeles because the RAM fans a lot of 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.400 them do like the star players, so I don't recommend 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.679 getting rid of everybody. But if that's your mission, you 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.800 can absolutely do it. I think fans need to stop 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:18.360 being overemotional when things don't go your way. It's okay, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.800 the world's not gonna end. You don't need to blow 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.800 everything up. You don't need to fire everybody. You don't 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.600 need to start over from scratch. You just need to 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.520 make some adjustments, hopefully get the right free agents, and 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.080 hopefully get a good chemistry going with the guys you 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.920 have on your squad. This whole with the Dodgers, they 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.760 didn't even win the World Series with the best offense 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.520 in the leading blow it all up. You don't need 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.760 to blow everything up. We talked about this a lot 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.920 last week. In the afternoon, there's a lot of fans 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.240 on a M five seventy you you used to do 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.919 Dodger talk, and a lot of those fans are on 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.919 their screaming about how we haven't seen the results. You 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.679 still have some key players and you still have an 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.560 organization that is rich, so Ben, you don't need to 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.280 start over. Yeah, but it's it's the black and white world, right, 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.040 It's either you're you're with us or you're against us. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.040 And it's like, I agree with, I think this is 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.639 the thing is a term that's been lost over the 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:25.679 generations called fine tuning, right slight improvement, not blowing the 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:30.760 whole thing up from and going back to bedrock, updating it, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.639 you know, adding a little bit. It's like it's kind 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:34.240 of like when you get an app on your phone. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.080 You don't delete the app and and you know, download 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.560 seven other apps. You go to the app store, they 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.760 update the app, they find tune the app, they add, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.200 they reorganized, recalibrate, whatever they have to do, whatever word 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.840 did you verbage you want to use and then you 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.320 can still use the app and they make it a 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.680 little bit better, but they don't destroy the whole thing. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.919 And uh, and I agree with, Like I look at 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.720 the Rams. I'm like, okay, if if you know, they 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.800 sign the right free agents and they get a couple 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.520 of guys likely not in the draft, but in free agency, 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.640 meaning college free agents who aren't drafted that turned out 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.080 to be decent. Oh, we're fine, you got something. And 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.399 and it's like, what happened to here's the term that 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.280 we don't use enough. I think Danny coaching up, coaching up, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.240 getting more out of talent and and and doing it 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.080 that way, like to me, a great coach you take 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.439 a guy who's a C level player and make him 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.560 a B player, and you take a B player, make 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.280 him an A player and an A player, making a 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.159 plus player instead. It's like, well, if this guy is 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.399 a C player, you're not gonna win because you just said, well, 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.080 how about he get better? How about they they improve? 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.280 Why are they just stuck you know, their pigeonholes as 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.200 as this player? I am annoyed by that. I don't 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:54.359 like that. Danny alright, Kyrie in okay, see rights in 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.720 our guy, Kyrie, the Kyrie we love, not the other 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.320 Kyrie Kyrie And okay, see rights. And he said, hey, 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.440 big homie, big ben Ak the goat. Danny g my guy. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.159 He was the first producer when I began listening to 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.119 your show, like seven, eight or nine years ago now 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.120 the microphone throttler, I've been listening about as long as 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.720 my oldest daughter, who is nine. So somewhere Kyrie writes 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:22.440 around there. Anyway, how much or how come? Rather how come? 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.920 Too much or not enough? Is the only game show 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:29.680 where you can win two golden tickets? What made that 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:34.040 game have that one and only perk? Like? What is it? 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.639 The origin story of that game show? Which I love 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.119 all the game shows, the trivia of the jokes, etcetera. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.800 Listen to you guys eight days a week so much. 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:50.800 My wife hates you anyway much love to you and 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.800 and Danny g Well, I think your wife, I would say, 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:55.439 for putting up with us, but it sounds like she 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.520