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 3: In the air everywhere, Well, come in to the fifth
Speaker 3: Hour jump on the bandwagon, out of Control me Ben Mahler.
Speaker 1: Along with the great Danny g Radio. You hear us
Speaker 1: during the week on Fox Sports Radio. I'm on late
Speaker 1: night as you know, the Ben Mahler Show. This show
Speaker 1: a spin off of that show. Danny is on during
Speaker 1: the week in the afternoon with Coveno and Rich and
Speaker 1: we form Voltron here on the week kends. Every single
Speaker 1: day there's audio content and today being Sunday, so we
Speaker 1: do have on the agenda the mail Bag, but we're
Speaker 1: not going to start with the mail bag, Danny, because
Speaker 1: there's some stuff we didn't get to yesterday that we
Speaker 1: need to get to today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lots of interesting stories. We call it. Pop goes
Speaker 4: the culture.
Speaker 1: That's right, and we have a special musical open. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. It really is, Ohio al.
Speaker 4: John John.
Speaker 1: All right, and this is important. This is our first
Speaker 1: full NFL Sunday, which means a couple of things. It
Speaker 1: means that we really need you to focus on us
Speaker 1: before the games or after the games, probably not during
Speaker 1: the game. And it also means that Benny versus the
Speaker 1: Penny will stop airing once these games kick off. So
Speaker 1: if you're listening early in the morning here on this Sunday,
Speaker 1: there are supposed to be some viewings. I don't have
Speaker 1: the complete schedule, but I was told by the people
Speaker 1: in NBC that this thing will air right up until
Speaker 1: about kickoff, because why would you put the show on.
Speaker 1: It's dated, It's not an evergreen show once the games begin.
Speaker 1: Although I did tell one of the people, Danny, that
Speaker 1: it is probably more entertaining after the games have been
Speaker 1: played and you can look at how wrong I was
Speaker 1: or how ridiculous the penny was. But they don't agree
Speaker 1: with that. Cooler heads prevailed, and so it will stop
Speaker 1: airing at the end of well, I guess one o'clock
Speaker 1: Eastern time, when the games kick off. So there is that.
Speaker 1: But this is pop goes the culture, and these are
Speaker 1: random pop culture stories and we give our brief thoughts
Speaker 1: on them. That's the way this is supposed to work.
Speaker 1: First one is from television's Jimmy Fallon, a scathing rebuke
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Fallon in Rolling Stone, chronicling what it's like
Speaker 1: to be an employee under Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show and you know, claiming it's very toxic. It's this
Speaker 1: is a I guess you would call it a hatchet job.
Speaker 4: It's a hit piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the way it read to me.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, maybe people read it differently, but it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon's a bad dude. I didn't have a good
Speaker 1: experience with Jimmy Fallon, and we need to cancel Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 4: I have heard stories about this guy, and I probably
Speaker 4: bought into some of them because I just don't think
Speaker 4: he's that funny. He laughs at his own jokes constantly,
Speaker 4: and he mumbles a lot. I can't make out half
Speaker 4: the stuff he's mumbling.
Speaker 1: A buddy of mine who works in the business sent
Speaker 1: me a text the other day, Danny, and he said,
Speaker 1: how unimportant are late night TV hosts. They've all been
Speaker 1: off the air for seven months or something like that.
Speaker 1: Now has anyone missed them? Has missed Jimmy Kimmel or
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon or any of these other guys.
Speaker 4: What a great point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't matter. They used to matter. They were
Speaker 1: like Johnny Carson and Jay.
Speaker 4: Leno and Letterman. Letterman was off the air for that
Speaker 4: many months, people would riot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there'd be upheople. Jimmy Fallon's off the air. Nobody
Speaker 1: even notices. I wouldn't even thought about Jimmy Fallon if
Speaker 1: it was not for this Rolling Stone story. But I'll summarize, Danny.
Speaker 1: I assume you guys talked about this on Covino and
Speaker 1: Rich or whatever this week, but I didn't talk about
Speaker 1: my show. And so they just talked about him being
Speaker 1: a phony, like you know, he's the goodie two shoes
Speaker 1: guy on television and it's a total sham and all that,
Speaker 1: and he's they claimed he was erratic, intimidating, rude, they said.
Speaker 1: And they said, there you know, they're good and bad days.
Speaker 1: Good Jimmy days, Bad Jimmy days. And according to two
Speaker 1: current and fourteen former employees, the hosts of the show.
Speaker 1: There had a toxic workplace for years outside the boundaries,
Speaker 1: and you know, I talked about it radic behavior, as
Speaker 1: I said, I said, it was just a huge, huge
Speaker 1: issue there and probably.
Speaker 4: Got to take some of it with a grain of
Speaker 4: salt because I used to work on your live radio show.
Speaker 4: There were there were good Ben Mallard days. There were
Speaker 4: bad Ben Mallard days.
Speaker 1: Isn't that everyone? I thought, that's how human beings operate, like,
Speaker 1: is that not how they operate? Other people that never
Speaker 1: have bad days, never have good days?
Speaker 4: They Yeah, but you can microphones at people like fifty cent.
Speaker 1: Oh they deserved it, you know, they deserve And so
Speaker 1: the Stone story says that employees would make jokes about
Speaker 1: killing themselves, oh God forbid. They'd refer to the guest
Speaker 1: dressing rooms as crying rooms, as that's where they would
Speaker 1: go to deal with their emotions.
Speaker 4: Last week, I bought a dog and I named an emotion.
Speaker 1: Is it possible, Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Jimmy Fallon. I
Speaker 1: got my Jimmy's mixed up. You see what Jimmy, You've
Speaker 1: seen them all, But Jimmy Fallon is it possible he's
Speaker 1: the a hole or the people that work on his
Speaker 1: show are so soft and so mentally weak that they
Speaker 1: can't handle. You know, they can't handle. But you know
Speaker 1: who's the bad guys? Is it the people that are grumbling?
Speaker 1: Or is Jimmy Fallon? Although I remember, is it Ellen DeGeneres.
Speaker 1: He sounds like the male Ellen degenerous. People used to
Speaker 1: google on Ellen.
Speaker 4: Her staff had the same exact complaints.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Stephen King, Stephen King, legendary writer Stephen King. It
Speaker 1: was revealed that his favorite song when he writes, he
Speaker 1: plays one song. He said he had to stop recently
Speaker 1: because his wife got upset. But this is also from
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. I guess all our news today is from
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. This is the horror writer. You know. We
Speaker 1: want a thriller, you want to sci fi? That's your guy.
Speaker 1: He revealed that back in the day, he used to
Speaker 1: listen to one song and one song only on repeat
Speaker 1: when he was writing, and the only reason he stopped
Speaker 1: is because his wife was so pissed off she threatened
Speaker 1: to divorce him because he kept listening that song. Let's
Speaker 1: see if you remember Danny, Let's go back nineteen nineties
Speaker 1: mambo number five. Remember that song?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, but why would he have that on repeat?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense, I know, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: that's that. He said, I had to dance mix, and
Speaker 1: I played that thing until my wife said, yeah, one
Speaker 1: more time, I'm going to f and leave. So he
Speaker 1: liked the dance mix, and who knew that just resonated
Speaker 1: with him. He's a big fan a little bit of
Speaker 1: Erica exactly.
Speaker 4: I would call myself after hearing that four times in
Speaker 4: a row.
Speaker 1: Well, here's a story that some people are saying is
Speaker 1: a bombshell report. I don't think this is a bombshell report.
Speaker 1: I need to let my wife know about this. So
Speaker 1: there's a report that claims a Hollywood PR firm has
Speaker 1: purchased high scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: story indicated this is an industry wide problem. Hello. So
Speaker 1: this is what I've always said. My wife runs to
Speaker 1: the reviews for restaurants and movies and entertainment. She is
Speaker 1: a huge fan of these views, and I've always said
Speaker 1: they're bullshit, that it's people manipulating it, it's the matrix.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's real what's not real. And then
Speaker 1: she'll be like well, the restaurants, they're not going to
Speaker 1: spend they don't have the budget to buy reviews. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well maybe maybe not. But a report from something called
Speaker 1: Vulture says that a PR firm obscure often self published
Speaker 1: critics who were part of a pool that they conspired together,
Speaker 1: this network for Rotten Tomatoes. They paid them each fifty
Speaker 1: dollars or more for a review of the film, a
Speaker 1: positive review of the film. So and they got enough
Speaker 1: people that they were able to manipulate Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why. Just go see it yourself. If you
Speaker 4: really want to see it, watch the trailer, watch multiple
Speaker 4: trailers of movies, and just decide for yourself.
Speaker 1: So fifty bucks, that's actually not that much fifty bucks
Speaker 1: for I don't know how many people they had to
Speaker 1: get to write a review, but probably a lot. But
Speaker 1: still that's not for a big Hollywood PR company. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it's that that big a deal. What
Speaker 1: is next done? Pop goes the culture? Well, I'm sure
Speaker 1: the people in the music business love this story. An
Speaker 1: AI song has been submitted for a Grammy Award. How
Speaker 1: great is that?
Speaker 3: Boo?
Speaker 1: That's just what we need. The box taking over ghostwriters.
Speaker 1: Heart on My Sleeve, the AI generated song mimicking Drake
Speaker 1: and the Weekend has been submitted for a Grammy barbiton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good on that. I don't know. I'm fine. Let's
Speaker 1: see what is next year. Well, here's a story. I've
Speaker 1: heard this in the past and it has happen again.
Speaker 1: There's a guy named Herb Alpert spent his entire life
Speaker 1: in the music business and eighty years in the music business.
Speaker 1: And this guy talked about you know what it's like.
Speaker 1: He was the co founder of A and M Records,
Speaker 1: so he's a big time guy. And he got into
Speaker 1: some detail about you know what it's like to be
Speaker 1: in the music business and all that and the money.
Speaker 1: Quote in this is the follow He talked about Mozart
Speaker 1: and he named a bunch of other artists. He said,
Speaker 1: all of us have only the same twelve notes. That's
Speaker 1: it all. All the music is just combining together the
Speaker 1: perfect mix of ingredients. But you're using the same the
Speaker 1: same twelve notes. Yeah, it's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they country music even less. They say three chords
Speaker 4: and a good story.
Speaker 1: A good that story, right, you're supposed to do that.
Speaker 4: Now nowadays They have all different kinds of stories in
Speaker 4: that music, and they even have some hip hop beats
Speaker 4: in country.
Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, it makes those together. But the key is
Speaker 1: like moving. You have to move this stuff around. It's
Speaker 1: kind it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. So this wise always
Speaker 1: blows me away when these these big lawsuits happen and
Speaker 1: people get sued for stealing intellectual property, and it's like
Speaker 1: you only have like twelve notes and how not that
Speaker 1: people don't steal. I realize people steal.
Speaker 4: I get it well. I think a lot of it too,
Speaker 4: is subconsciously done.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: That's why you and I we have the same routine
Speaker 4: when you go into the studios. I bet you're not
Speaker 4: listening to sports talk radio. I don't do it either,
Speaker 4: because when we get there, we want to kind of
Speaker 4: be a clean slate. If you have voices in your
Speaker 4: head of takes that you just heard, some of that
Speaker 4: may come out of your mouth, even if you didn't
Speaker 4: mean for it to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you end up parroting what you hear. That's absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: I do not listen to sports radio. And there's people
Speaker 1: I love that I work with, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: try not to listen because I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: just be the same, do the same thing they're doing.
Speaker 1: I gotta do my own thing otherwise, Yeah, what's the point.
Speaker 1: And if you're just gonna copy other people, that's new. Good.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the mail bag. Why don't we do that?
Speaker 1: What do you say, mail bag?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, this isn't a copy of something on your
Speaker 4: live show.
Speaker 1: Not at all. This is original content. These are actual
Speaker 1: letters from actual listener to the show. It's this bag.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go rapid fire so we can get as
Speaker 1: many of these emails on the air. We got a
Speaker 1: big mail bag. I don't know if you know this, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a big deals Tom Lady would say
Speaker 1: on television. So no, my ass feels so good right
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 4: Oh that means that you can pay me and your
Speaker 4: staff double what you're paying at.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, yeah wrong, Yeah, I've used all of
Speaker 1: Looney's old Looney would say, oh, we do the radio
Speaker 1: shays oh yo. We'd interview the Fox TV people, and
Speaker 1: Looney'd be like, well, you know TV people, they're better
Speaker 1: people because they're on television anyway. First one is from
Speaker 1: Alf from the State Fair, says Ben. It's that time
Speaker 1: of the year, at least here in New England county
Speaker 1: fair time. Do you guys ever hit county or state farris?
Speaker 1: And if so, what's your favorite food at these events?
Speaker 1: That's question number one, so we'll get that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love I love going. I love the idea of
Speaker 1: the county Fair. I'm a big fan. My wife hates them,
Speaker 1: she says, I hate them. That's it's too hot, there's
Speaker 1: too many people there, you know, you know, everything's expensive
Speaker 1: now and all of those things, all of those points
Speaker 1: standing my wife has said, are absolutely true. Yet I
Speaker 1: still romanticize going to the fair when I was a
Speaker 1: kid and the excitement of seeing new stuff and new
Speaker 1: foods and getting a corn dog the size of your
Speaker 1: forearm and a pretzel the size of your head, deep
Speaker 1: fried twinkies and all that. I love the idea of
Speaker 1: all that, but yeah, the cost is insane, it's dirty,
Speaker 1: that stuff's a pain in the ass. But overall, in
Speaker 1: my head, I love the county Fair. I love the
Speaker 1: County Fair. What about you did?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and working for radio stations my whole life, there
Speaker 4: would be some pretty good acts performing on the main stage,
Speaker 4: first come, first served seating as long as you bought
Speaker 4: a ticket that evening to get into the county Fair.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget the great Eddy Money performing at the
Speaker 4: California Strawberry Festival. It's kind of like a county fair,
Speaker 4: but it's all strawberry stuff and he's on the main stage.
Speaker 4: And Beny wanted to show off that he was a local, right,
Speaker 4: So he said, everybody out there supporting me tonight, you're
Speaker 4: not fans, you're friends. In fact, I live in the area.
Speaker 4: He lived in Westlake Village, but he said, you're all
Speaker 4: friends of mine here in Camarillo.
Speaker 1: Oh no, well, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: The name of the city was Camillo. So we had
Speaker 4: a great laugh about that. Lots of good live performances
Speaker 4: over the years that I got to see. As far
Speaker 4: as the food, you said it, man, the corn dog
Speaker 4: has to be on top of the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big, big fan. So I saw a billboard for
Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran performing at Yah Bah Bah. Is that the casino?
Speaker 4: That is the casino?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But isn't he's still in the prime of his
Speaker 1: career or is he washed up now? I always thought
Speaker 1: to be Maybe I'm wrong in this, but I always
Speaker 1: thought the people performing at casinos you know, have already
Speaker 1: had their time and they're just trying to make a
Speaker 1: little more money. And just you know, it's an easy
Speaker 1: racket to go to the different casinos.
Speaker 4: Tribes that have billions of dollars. That's why they're able
Speaker 4: to get superstar performers to play their music at some
Speaker 4: of the casinos because they are filthy rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then I stand corrected. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I just assumed it because it used to be all
Speaker 1: like washed up celebrities that would be in the casinos
Speaker 1: around La, the tribal casinos around La. It would be
Speaker 1: all those those steps. Question number two from Alfie says,
Speaker 1: does Danny even listen to all these dopey questions or
Speaker 1: does he tune out like the Bennettes. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Bennettes do not. They do not. The paying attention part
Speaker 1: of that is often a problem for the Bennettes. But no,
Speaker 1: you seem to pay attention.
Speaker 4: You seem to pay Yeah, I'm engaged half the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Big Lou, he's on number two from the LBC.
Speaker 1: I want to get that as a drop Danny from
Speaker 1: that commercial. I love that anyway, Big Lou says on
Speaker 1: the TV show with looney, Will the Penny be tested
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen and will social distancing be implemented in
Speaker 1: any hashtag in an abundance of caution? Yeah, well, the
Speaker 1: Penny has refused to get the vaccine and refuse to
Speaker 1: do any of those countermeasures, So I'm not sure what's
Speaker 1: going to happen, Big Lou. Yeah, that would be a
Speaker 1: nightmare if they bring back the mask mandate, Danny, I
Speaker 1: don't want.
Speaker 4: Let's really go back to the COVID days. What if
Speaker 4: the Penny starts kneeling?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would be Yeah, that would be a nightmare.
Speaker 4: Holy crap, Front page news.
Speaker 1: You imagine on the TV show? You know? Oh God, Holrizing, Holarizing,
Speaker 1: wild Man of Morgan Town back again. I guess he
Speaker 1: liked the last time he sent an email. He's is
Speaker 1: with college football getting going the NFL here as well,
Speaker 1: very excited. But I'd like to ask you guys, do
Speaker 1: you follow high school football? I follow it more closely
Speaker 1: than college in the NFL. Also, I was wondering, did
Speaker 1: you guys follow your high school teams when you were
Speaker 1: in high school? And what was your school mascot? So
Speaker 1: his mascot was the Indians Ooh, that's taboo, but maybe
Speaker 1: not in Morgantown. So that's from wild Man Fantas show.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I played football in high school, so I
Speaker 1: clearly followed the high school team. When I was playing.
Speaker 1: I went to a couple of high schools because I
Speaker 1: had some issues, but I went to one that was
Speaker 1: the Vakeros and then another one that was the Trojans,
Speaker 1: So that was my high school mascot. Fun, I don't
Speaker 1: really follow high school football, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I could lie and say I do, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe occasionally end up in a high school
Speaker 1: football game, but that's not really my jam. And I
Speaker 1: know in some parts of the country though, it's massive,
Speaker 1: like it's a bigfor deal, Like you see these stadiums
Speaker 1: in Texas and you're like, man, that's not a million dollar,
Speaker 1: multimillion dollars stadiums for a high school football teams. Isn't
Speaker 1: crazy to me? But that's my response. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4: The continuation school that I went to, I think our
Speaker 4: mascot was the Spliff smoke weed every day. Prior to that,
Speaker 4: before the high school I was kicked out of, Bulldog
Speaker 4: was our mascot. And the bulldog was on a leash.
Speaker 4: Certain cheerleaders would walk him to the middle of the field,
Speaker 4: and one of the games he started biting on the
Speaker 4: ankles of one of the cheerleadersferf.
Speaker 1: That seems like a reasonable thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was gnawing on her little skinny leg.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great. Well. Yeah, my continuation school did not
Speaker 1: actually have a mascot, so they said, you're such losers.
Speaker 1: You don't even get a mask at You're such a waste.
Speaker 1: Nothing for you.
Speaker 4: By the way, across the street from me here there's
Speaker 4: a high school field. Go there sometimes to watch the
Speaker 4: kids play, and Agora High is where our middle kid
Speaker 4: played football in the field last season and was great
Speaker 4: on special teams and defense. He laid some players out.
Speaker 4: He was like a missile. He would lift himself off
Speaker 4: the ground and rocket himself into the offensive player with
Speaker 4: the football.
Speaker 1: Steve Atwater the Broncos or Chuck Cecil of the Tennessee Oilers,
Speaker 1: Ronnie Lot like that kind of guy. Smash smash mouth.
Speaker 1: Was it was it his senior year last year or
Speaker 1: is he back?
Speaker 4: It was, yeah, it was it was his one year.
Speaker 4: He's a baseball player, but the football coaches convinced him
Speaker 4: to play his senior year for football.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he had a great, great experience, and that
Speaker 4: was really my first experience going to every single high
Speaker 4: school football game, you know, as an adult, because unless
Speaker 4: you got some skin in the game, why would you
Speaker 4: be going over there unless you're a creep.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's some people though, like you have to support,
Speaker 1: you know, the neighborhood and all that and the community.
Speaker 4: In other parts of the country, I guess where there's
Speaker 4: psycho about high school football, It's not exactly like that
Speaker 4: in California though.
Speaker 1: Now. The only time you get that vibe is if
Speaker 1: like Lebron's kids are playing basketball, or there's some former
Speaker 1: NFL players kid that happens to be playing high school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, there's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that want to show up because it's a celebrity and
Speaker 1: the kid of a celebrity. Next up, well from let's
Speaker 1: go Marcus from Bruceville in Eddie, Texas. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the two of you guys think about each other,
Speaker 1: but he says, when you and Rob Parker Ben got
Speaker 1: together for an episode, we get to get it for
Speaker 1: an episode of anything. It's all great. Listen this past
Speaker 1: or a recent I heard you on the Herd and
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl radio row guy. You got to show
Speaker 1: you guys crushed it. Thanks for taking time to I
Speaker 1: love working with Rob. Rob's great. See. The thing about
Speaker 1: Rob Marcus is me and Rob have the same principles
Speaker 1: of doing sports radio, and not everyone has that perspective
Speaker 1: like me. And we like sports, but.
Speaker 4: We like trolling fan bases.
Speaker 1: We like holding people accountable. We like holding people accountable,
Speaker 1: and it's become a dying art. And you know, when
Speaker 1: me and Rob are gone from radio, I don't know
Speaker 1: that anyone will be like that. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: cotton candy that's out there and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of criticism. And part of the problem is that many
Speaker 1: people today have been programmed to avoid complaining and the
Speaker 1: belly aching and the denouncing and the disapproval and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and so they kind of look for pure
Speaker 1: sugar and chocolate and all that. But Rob and I
Speaker 1: and you're around our age, Danny, we were raised media
Speaker 1: was you know the tee you play. You played well,
Speaker 1: they would say good things about you, but you didn't
Speaker 1: play well. That was the better story. And that's how
Speaker 1: I was taught, and Rob was a sports writer for
Speaker 1: a million years, and that's you know, the mantra that
Speaker 1: the better stories in the losing locker room is a
Speaker 1: sports writer's mantra, because that's where the emotion is. You
Speaker 1: want to go where the emotion is. And when you win,
Speaker 1: everyone kisses your ass, but when you lose, not so much.
Speaker 4: Although you were really easy on the Chiefs Kadarius Tony
Speaker 4: the other day, Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. My whole opening monologue saying that
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell should have come out and given him a
Speaker 1: game ball. That's what I would have done if I
Speaker 1: was coaching the Lions, all right, boys, So we practiced
Speaker 1: all off season and here we went through training camp
Speaker 1: and the first game and Detroit Lions game ball go
Speaker 1: to Kadarius Tony, Can someone run that over to the
Speaker 1: Chief's locker room. Don't worry, he'll probably drop it anyway,
Speaker 1: so there's no no need to worry about it. But
Speaker 1: I'm bumped, all right. Next up is Fred in Spring Texas.
Speaker 1: Fred's a regular man, this guy. He is every week
Speaker 1: he's got a question. God bless him. He says, congratulations
Speaker 1: on the NBC gig. Ben I'm sure it will be
Speaker 1: successful NBC. I know it's wild. I told one of
Speaker 1: the executives at NBC. I said, you know, you guys
Speaker 1: had Johnny Carson, you had Leno, you had Bob Costas,
Speaker 1: and now me, who doesn't belong in. That's who's in.
Speaker 1: And then Tom Looney also.
Speaker 4: Man Bob Costas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly, so, Fred writes, and he says, will this
Speaker 1: new show result in any change to your current work
Speaker 1: schedule or the overnight show the fifth hour? I can't
Speaker 1: believe you have any open spots on your schedule.
Speaker 4: Go back to yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is how you're going to fit that in. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we went through it. Yeah, Danny enjoyed my you know,
Speaker 1: thirty minute rant about my schedule and my crackhead hours
Speaker 1: that I now have. Oh it's a little crazy.
Speaker 4: Wow, oh my.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a good problem to have. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like paving roads. I always get
Speaker 1: a kick out of people Danny that send us messages
Speaker 1: and they're like, man, you guys, you know you work
Speaker 1: so hard, and I'm like, these people are paving roads,
Speaker 1: are doing construction, they're doing like heavy lifting. I mean,
Speaker 1: our job The problem with our job is very mentally draining,
Speaker 1: not physically draining. But for me, at the end of
Speaker 1: the week, I don't want to hear myself talk. I
Speaker 1: don't want to think about a sports take. I don't
Speaker 1: want you know what I mean. I just want to
Speaker 1: zone out. I go to the beach during the summer
Speaker 1: and I just sit there. There's no cell phone reception.
Speaker 1: I look at the water and I just kind of
Speaker 1: can press and I say, for the next hour and
Speaker 1: a half, I got nothing, and I'm good, And I'll
Speaker 1: reset the old engine and the battery and all that.
Speaker 1: I'll be good to go.
Speaker 4: Just give me some drugs and a TV remote.
Speaker 1: Hookers and cocaine. That's all you need, right, A bunch
Speaker 1: of hookers and cocaine, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Speaker 1: I guess that would be the Mike and Fullerton writes
Speaker 1: in on the mailbag. We do a few more. Mike
Speaker 1: and Fullerton says, season greetings, Ben and Danny, is it season?
Speaker 4: Greed?
Speaker 1: Costco does have Christmas stuff up.
Speaker 4: So maybe I've seen some pumpkin crap sitting outside of
Speaker 4: stores the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, my wife's she loves Halloween. We had the
Speaker 1: Halloween party last year. We're not doing it this year
Speaker 1: because because it kind of took away from the Christmas party.
Speaker 1: Because people that went to the Halloween party are like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't need to go to the Christmas party. You're
Speaker 1: Halloween party. So we want to just do one big party.
Speaker 1: So probably do a Christmas party.
Speaker 4: All the witches come out right now, they post online.
Speaker 4: I wish it was Halloween all year long. Witch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well my wife was Halloween. So much like every
Speaker 1: time we go to Boston, she has to go to Salem,
Speaker 1: right the whole Witch's trial thing. The whole town is
Speaker 1: based on the witches. The police cars have witches on them,
Speaker 1: and Salem it's it's Salem mass That's great. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Mike says Ben, how worried are you that the Penny
Speaker 1: brings its a game this year? Do you think it
Speaker 1: would help or hurt? The ratings of the Penny dominated
Speaker 1: the season. So I thought about that, Mike, because I
Speaker 1: have some skin in the game on this and the
Speaker 1: way I look at this one, if the Penny crushes it,
Speaker 1: that's a great story because then we can point out, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got this TV show and an adamant object is
Speaker 1: hitting at sixty percent, winners in the NFL be great.
Speaker 1: So I have no problem with that. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get crushed. I don't want to get killed
Speaker 1: on this. And then he says, Danny, g have you
Speaker 1: you've seen the penny? Right? Can you confirm or deny
Speaker 1: if it is or even has been a quarter? I've
Speaker 1: heard rumors. I just want to know the truth. He's
Speaker 1: in pursuit of the truth, Mike and Fullerton. Danny, he
Speaker 1: needs the truth.
Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you that I still have the
Speaker 4: penny that we used all last season, and remember I
Speaker 4: even used it for a flip to see if we
Speaker 4: were going to do Popko's Culture or not last Saturday.
Speaker 4: I have that penny right here on my home desk.
Speaker 4: And this is the og penny that came out of
Speaker 4: the FSR studios. Kooper Loop gave me this penny. Hey,
Speaker 4: so Ben, this has been following you around the past
Speaker 4: couple of years. Everybody else who says that they're a
Speaker 4: penny or they have a penny, I think is bullshit.
Speaker 1: And that's because Danny, you're a Mitch right, You're a
Speaker 1: person of integrity, You're a person of honor, and there's
Speaker 1: some there's some sham artist people out there, but you're
Speaker 1: not like that. You're not some foolish person.
Speaker 4: And I say this in the kindest way, but Looney
Speaker 4: is a fraud.
Speaker 1: Wow. And that penny, Danny, if this show becomes a hit,
Speaker 1: Benny versus the penny that is the final penny before
Speaker 1: the TV show. Yeah, you know how much you could
Speaker 1: sell that for when.
Speaker 4: You guys get canceled halfway through the season. This penny
Speaker 4: is going to make a comeback. It's going to be
Speaker 4: sought after.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by week nine, we'll be all listen. I never
Speaker 1: did the TV show. It was all a lie. I
Speaker 1: have made the whole whole thing up. It was all
Speaker 1: a gag. Never broadcast on television. But it's back on
Speaker 1: the podcast every Friday. There you go, votified. Goodness.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna have to rework my contract like
Speaker 4: Chris Jones in order to return ever to the penny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess got some money here. Ron. Next up,
Speaker 1: Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. But she's moving. She's heading to
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Misserve. She loves that toasted Ravioli so much.
Speaker 1: He's going to Saint Louis. But I hope that's for good,
Speaker 1: good things, Jennifer. I hope you're moving because of a
Speaker 1: cool job or family or something.
Speaker 4: Like that, Saint Louis, or to be closer to her kid.
Speaker 1: Well kids in Minnesota, it is closer to the kid.
Speaker 1: Maybe she loves the arch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to live near the arch and move
Speaker 4: closer to a McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Here you go. Eh, that's a good point, she says.
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g holy moly, congratulations on the new
Speaker 1: side gig. Ben, did you feel like you were an
Speaker 1: episode of Curb your Enthusiasm when you had those meetings
Speaker 1: with the NBC executives? And, as she says, Danny, congratulations
Speaker 1: on the baby boy. What's something that surprised you so
Speaker 1: far about being a new dad to a new born?
Speaker 1: So what you think about that, Danny? That is a
Speaker 1: great point by Jennifer. And I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and pretend like I did not, for a stretch think
Speaker 1: that I had. They call it impostor syndrome where you're
Speaker 1: like I don't belong here, you know that whole thing.
Speaker 1: I think we've all had that at some point in
Speaker 1: our lives. But I definitely had the imposter syndrome and
Speaker 1: just like driving into Universal Studios to do a TV shows,
Speaker 1: but it's ridiculous to me, It's so stupid. I don't
Speaker 1: belong there, but it's it's crazy. So, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great question by you, Jennifer. And let us know why
Speaker 1: you're going to Saint Louis. I'm curious why you move
Speaker 1: from Virginia to Saint Louis. I'm sure there's a great reason.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 4: It better not be for a dude, because you can't
Speaker 4: be cheating on us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Jennifer, you're not. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: we're podcasts. You can't, right, Danny, And then we'll all
Speaker 1: get along here. Yeah, So answer her question if she
Speaker 1: wants to know, Like, what's really blown you away here
Speaker 1: by being a father?
Speaker 4: Now, as I was listening to your answer, it's kind
Speaker 4: of the same thing. Can you have imposter syndrome when
Speaker 4: you have a little baby for the first time? Because
Speaker 4: it still doesn't seem real. It's weird. I was shaving
Speaker 4: the other day before getting on the road to go
Speaker 4: to Coveno and Rich and I forgot that there was
Speaker 4: a baby sleeping in our bed. You know, I thought
Speaker 4: the baby was downstairs. I guess my wife had put
Speaker 4: him up in the big bed. He was like a
Speaker 4: prince in the middle of the big, king size bed,
Speaker 4: and I had no idea. So I'm shaving and I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about stuff for the radio show, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, I hear some grunting and a noise and
Speaker 4: it scared me. And I look over and there's a
Speaker 4: baby in the bed, and I was like, holy shit.
Speaker 4: For a few minutes, I forgot I had a baby.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta be man, I would be so
Speaker 1: fricking paranoid. Yeah, because because the other and you hear
Speaker 1: these stories and you feel bad for these people that
Speaker 1: people like forget their kids are in the car, you know,
Speaker 1: the new kids, because and then it gets hot and
Speaker 1: bad crap happens and all that. So yeah, how.
Speaker 4: About people who roll over on their kid, well, in
Speaker 4: their bed. I'm terrified of things like that. So now
Speaker 4: I'm sleeping with one eye open.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well there's that and the ex girlfriend from back
Speaker 1: in the day. Also, it's like a double double whammy
Speaker 1: situation on that. Ozziewah was right saying from what kid
Speaker 1: with me? Yeah, from from Western Australia, says hot my
Speaker 1: mates Big Ben and Danny g congratulations on the new
Speaker 1: gig Benny versus the Penny Band. But I am going
Speaker 1: to be selfish as I do put some money on
Speaker 1: games during the season, and there was a podcast that
Speaker 1: I would listen to to gauge some of picks. Some
Speaker 1: of my picks on uh, some I liked and some
Speaker 1: I did not. So my question is how do I
Speaker 1: now get to see the show. I have to find
Speaker 1: some back for a channel I guess backwards channel to
Speaker 1: be able to watch it in Australia.
Speaker 4: I have no idea he wants a Russian website to
Speaker 4: see the show.
Speaker 1: That would be wrong, you know. I don't do that, Danny.
Speaker 1: I know that was a gag on the show, but
Speaker 1: I don't know it's on Roku tv. Is Roku TV
Speaker 1: on internationally? I don't know that it is probably not.
Speaker 1: I think it's an American product. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: you would watch it. That's a great question. I could
Speaker 1: ask some of the people at the network if they know.
Speaker 4: Do you know if any of the episodes after they're old,
Speaker 4: will they be on YouTube?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the plan is the meetings I had,
Speaker 1: they had mentioned the Peacock, which is the streaming service,
Speaker 1: which I don't think is available. Why would it be.
Speaker 1: He's the National Broadcasting Company, it's not the Australian Broadcasting Company,
Speaker 1: so I'm not positive. I would hope certain people would
Speaker 1: record it and you know, to put it on YouTube.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking, because people outside of our area
Speaker 4: might be able to go to YouTube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, YouTube for sure. If somebody puts it up there.
Speaker 4: He's not going to help him as he needs to
Speaker 4: study for gambling money though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you surfer around. There are and I cannot
Speaker 1: endorse you so now that I work at that other company.
Speaker 1: But there are certain websites that may or may not
Speaker 1: be ethical, that may or may not have all cable
Speaker 1: channels streaming, and you may or may not be able
Speaker 1: to watch those channels whenever you want. So take around
Speaker 1: a little bit. You'll find it if you really want,
Speaker 1: If you spend enough time on the Google, you'll find
Speaker 1: it out in the outback.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1: He just said, I see nothing. I hear nothing, I
Speaker 1: know nothing. A quick question from Amish from Columbus. He says,
Speaker 1: what NFL stadium do you want to visit that you
Speaker 1: haven't visited? And yeah, he says, hit for him is
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. I have not seen a game at Lambeofield,
Speaker 1: but I did. My brother lives near Green Bay, so
Speaker 1: I went to lambeau Field for the first time. Last year.
Speaker 1: Was last year amazing. I'm just I didn't even go
Speaker 1: to games. The whole fact that you're in this small
Speaker 1: little town in northern Wisconsin with it's just like a
Speaker 1: regular suburban neighborhood in a small town, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's this monstrosity, lambeau Field, the iconic Lambeaufield,
Speaker 1: and you just imagine how fricking cold it is and
Speaker 1: how nasty and all that. So it's that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Any stadium you want to go to, Daanty.
Speaker 4: I would love to go to the Polo Grounds.
Speaker 1: Let me know how that goes.
Speaker 4: Seattle. Every time they show The Twelfth Man in that
Speaker 4: big old stadium there with the roof mostly open, I
Speaker 4: guess it is open, but it's got like the wings.
Speaker 1: So they have no I of course. Famously, in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: flew to Seattle for a Mala meat greet. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: were playing the forty nine ers. The Seahawks would not
Speaker 1: allow me in the stadium, so very kind of them.
Speaker 1: But I need to stand outside the stadium and they
Speaker 1: heart organization. Yeah. So what they have, Danny, is they
Speaker 1: have over this the crowd. Since it rains all the
Speaker 1: time in Seattle, they have the crowd is covered, but
Speaker 1: the field is open. So what happens is it's like
Speaker 1: the echo chamber. The noise of the fans bounces around
Speaker 1: and then comes back out onto the field. So it's
Speaker 1: it's actually louder there than it is in dome stadiums
Speaker 1: because of the echo effect.
Speaker 4: See that's really cool. I would like to go see
Speaker 4: my Raiders beat the Seahawks like they did with that
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs walk off run last year.
Speaker 1: Well you can do that, Danny. It's called the video game,
Speaker 1: and that's how the Raiders are going to beat the
Speaker 1: Seahawks on a video game.
Speaker 4: So well off to wait until they get back on
Speaker 4: their schedule together again.
Speaker 1: Robin Lincoln, Nebraska says been and Danny, g do you
Speaker 1: guys like the Costco street taco kit other night? We
Speaker 1: had it? Not enough for a family of four. No,
Speaker 1: I have not had the Costco street tacer kit because
Speaker 1: I only like gringo tacos. Rob I like the crunchy taco.
Speaker 1: My Mexican friends tell me my friends from South America say,
Speaker 1: that's the gringo talker taco. My old friend Alex, he
Speaker 1: passed away a couple years ago, but he always used
Speaker 1: to He used to bust my chops about that. Danny,
Speaker 1: have you attempted the fate with the Costco street taco kit?
Speaker 4: We have? It's pretty good. There's a nice green sauce
Speaker 4: in there and yellow corn tortillas. Put those on the
Speaker 4: grill for a little bit and heat them up on
Speaker 4: both sides.
Speaker 1: Delicious. Last one, Nick in Wisconsin says Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: hope you're all doing well. Ben, I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: support the new show. Well, thank you, God, bless you. Sorry, Danny,
Speaker 1: you're no longer the penny question. Please would you rather
Speaker 1: I guess you, Danny, would you rather lose all your
Speaker 1: teeth like weed Man or all of your hair like Ben?
Speaker 1: That's not very nice.
Speaker 4: Look at head wraps hats. You could be fashionable, no teeth.
Speaker 4: You could sound like the late great Genie in Medford.
Speaker 1: Oh that isn't funny.
Speaker 4: So I think you know the answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I do have hair, just not in
Speaker 1: certain spots, you know, like on the top there it's
Speaker 1: a little little gun I've I guess called to sack,
Speaker 1: but I've cut my hair so short now it I
Speaker 1: don't think you can tell. It just looks like I
Speaker 1: shaved my my dome.
Speaker 4: Are you going to do hats all year on the
Speaker 4: TV show?
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, yeah, I'm a hat guy.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna do dress hats all year?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because I think there's an issue with logos and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to deal with the bull crap.
Speaker 1: You know, if you wear certain hats, they get upset
Speaker 1: and there's all you know, how it is like a
Speaker 1: legal department and stuff, you know, And so I swear and.
Speaker 4: They have to put like tape over the logo.
Speaker 1: And just to be clear here, I mean, they pick
Speaker 1: out what I wear. I don't have. I told them
Speaker 1: I said, I don't. I just want to wear a hat.
Speaker 1: Get a little self conscious on that, and then they said, sure,
Speaker 1: no problem whatever. And so there's a certain outfit they
Speaker 1: want me to wear, and so I'm gonna wear it,
Speaker 1: and you know, fine, So it's crazy data to work
Speaker 1: at a place that has like a wardrobe budget and
Speaker 1: expense budget. These are things I don't get in radio. Think.
Speaker 1: I bet, I think one time I've I've filled something
Speaker 1: out and when I filled it out, I got a
Speaker 1: guilt trip for filling out the expense report. Like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You should just spend your own money
Speaker 1: on that? You know, Well, no, you're a big company.
Speaker 1: You can afford that. And we'll get out. It's NFL,
Speaker 1: you know, I know what you're doing. I know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing. I might go to the Charger game. Possibly,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It depends on some things that have
Speaker 1: to break the right way. So we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: But either I'll be watching football sitting on my couch,
Speaker 1: or I'll be going to a game, and then I'll
Speaker 1: still be watching on my laptop.
Speaker 4: Danny, Let's see how your memory is. Did you pick
Speaker 4: the Raiders or the Broncos And what did the penny say?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so in that game, I took the Raiders in
Speaker 1: the game. I do not remember what the penny picked
Speaker 1: in that game, but I took the Raiders. That's not
Speaker 1: a popular pick, Danny, because they people seem convinced that
Speaker 1: Sean Payton is. Yeah, I'm like, I don't know about
Speaker 1: that football. God just ask him and he will tell you.
Speaker 1: But don't kiss any babies. I kiss any babies. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the Raiders game. I'll I'm not gonna I think the
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna be terrible. I'll check the Rams game out.
Speaker 1: I hope they don't lose by thirty points. I actually
Speaker 1: think they'll be better because they won't even try in
Speaker 1: the exhibition season. We'll get out, enjoy the football.
Speaker 4: Your Rams, and then take a nap man ram it
Speaker 4: ram ram it all night and then sleep it.
Speaker 1: And I'll be on tonight on the radio show all
Speaker 1: night long, and Danny will be on Monday with your fellas,
Speaker 1: right Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Covino on Rich two to four pm on the West.
Speaker 4: That's five to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: And I'm on tonight eleven o'clock in the West. But
Speaker 1: that's two am on Monday morning. And we'll go all
Speaker 1: night long. It's a four hour red eye flight until
Speaker 1: six in the morning in the East, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you then have a great Sunday. May all your
Speaker 1: bets be winning ones later, skater gotta murder.
Speaker 4: I gotta go,