Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G Radio. It is early on a
Speaker 1: Sunday when we are recording this. I hope you're you're
Speaker 1: doing well to the final day of the Masters, myself,
Speaker 1: Ben and the great Danny G. Radio. You hear us
Speaker 1: during the week on the mighty powerful airwaves of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio on the overnight show, The Ben Maler Show
Speaker 1: with Me and Danny's on with Covino and Rich during
Speaker 1: the pending on what time you're in, either afternoons or evenings,
Speaker 1: something along those lines, depending on your time zone, unless
Speaker 1: you're in Hawaii and then it's a morning show. So
Speaker 1: we do have the mail bag today. We're excited about that.
Speaker 1: It is the final round of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: So that's going on. They don't have fans all.
Speaker 3: Do you know that Dan Bayer from the Network, he
Speaker 3: is such a fan of golf and the Masters, especially
Speaker 3: that he took two days off last Thursday and Friday
Speaker 3: so that he could sit at home and enjoy it
Speaker 3: uninterrupted and Spotty from Covino and Richie made a funny joke.
Speaker 3: He said he pictured Buyer's wife dressed up with him
Speaker 3: in cosplay, like he said, probably dressed her up as
Speaker 3: a caddie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he wear a green jacket while he's watching in.
Speaker 3: Just a green jacket? Time for the ball washing.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he doesn't go to the Masters.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if he's ever been. I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to ask him when he returns to work next week.
Speaker 1: Remember we got asked to go. We had a place
Speaker 1: to stay in everything. Yeah, the guy's a fan of
Speaker 1: this podcast and he's, hey, I got some You know,
Speaker 1: we never did it, but one of my radio friends,
Speaker 1: Ted Ted sobol you know Ted, he he actually covered.
Speaker 1: He's covered the Master a few Masters. A few times.
Speaker 1: They have I don't know if they still do, but
Speaker 1: they had a a media raffle where certain members of
Speaker 1: the media got to play around at the Masters. If
Speaker 1: you won this raffle, you got to play around. So
Speaker 1: like that's mind blowing for a guy like Dan Byer,
Speaker 1: like who works at our Spot, our Spots. So I'm
Speaker 1: surprised Dan hasn't done that because you could win the
Speaker 1: lottery and then you get to play around at the
Speaker 1: iconic course there and you can go pee and Ray's Creek.
Speaker 1: Like did you see you see the viral video the
Speaker 1: somebody was interviewing people coming out of the Master's golf shop.
Speaker 1: This was on TikTok. I saw this the other day
Speaker 1: on how much people were spending on souvenirs at the Masters,
Speaker 1: and they the average amount was like fifteen hundred, two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per person just going in there casually dropping
Speaker 1: two grand on what do you get for two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars at the Masters? That one person said they spent
Speaker 1: like it was like five thousand, but it was the
Speaker 1: in the video, and who knows, I mean, this may
Speaker 1: have been they might have been leaving out the people
Speaker 1: didn't spend any money, but it was all like fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred two thousand. There was like a five thousand wild
Speaker 1: you buy out like a Master's bobblehead or something like that,
Speaker 1: Like what how how much does the hoodie cost the Masters? I? Hey,
Speaker 1: good for you. I give you got the money to burn? Right,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming the client tell there at the Master's, Danny,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of extra money. If you're going
Speaker 1: to the Master's, chances are you got a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of extra cash.
Speaker 3: Oh you have, yeah, you have money to burn if
Speaker 3: you are at the Masters. Do you know what you
Speaker 3: think Coachella is bad for paying for somewhere to stay?
Speaker 3: What it's four or five times the normal rate for
Speaker 3: Airbnb's there during the Masters?
Speaker 1: Oh it's yeah, it's insane. Okay, speaking of Kachella, did
Speaker 1: you see the other day there was a twelve hour
Speaker 1: traffic delay? Oh yeah, I get out to Kachella and
Speaker 1: they said people it was much like the Masters. People
Speaker 1: were getting out and they were pulling out the snake
Speaker 1: to pee on the side of the road out there
Speaker 1: in the desert, trying to get because there was nowhere
Speaker 1: to go. They had to go to the bathrooms, so
Speaker 1: they would just let it rip right out there waiting
Speaker 1: to try to get into Kachella. Man now has that
Speaker 1: been hijacked. I we had you with us, remember the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were this or not, but
Speaker 1: there was a guy that said he was going to
Speaker 1: get his passes to Kachella one year.
Speaker 3: I was with you when that happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the guy's like, oh, yeah, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna get everyone. They gots a big fan of the
Speaker 1: show and get you all pass it. And Coop was excited.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Coop was fired up. This is like the
Speaker 1: coolest in the world. And it was very kind. It
Speaker 1: was what we were excited about it. I was not
Speaker 1: as excited because it's not really my jam, but I
Speaker 1: would have gone and to just experience it. And then
Speaker 1: like it was like a week before, right, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like the guy started kind of ghosting
Speaker 1: us a little bit, right remember, And.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, and then he gave me the bad news
Speaker 3: that his connection fell through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has Cella been hijacked? Like comic con has? Like
Speaker 1: the old school comic book people are bothered because the
Speaker 1: movie studios discovered that comic con was really popular and
Speaker 1: they can monetize it. So then they started moving into
Speaker 1: comic con and putting all their big corporate displays when
Speaker 1: that was not the ethos of what Comic con was
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Right, Comic Coon was supposed to be
Speaker 1: just this nerd convention where none of the mainstream people
Speaker 1: were there. Well, Coachella wasn't it the same thing for music? Right?
Speaker 1: It was just kind of you know, that was the
Speaker 1: jam and the vibe and all that. You just go
Speaker 1: out there, do a lot of you know, the do
Speaker 1: the drugs, have a good time, drink a little bit
Speaker 1: with some music.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And but now having the big record companies moved in
Speaker 1: to Coachella is at the same situation. Am I right
Speaker 1: on that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Popularity wise, that shouldn't be an issue, But there's all
Speaker 3: this price gouging going on. And you look at this
Speaker 3: generation right now, a lot of them go because it's
Speaker 3: a photo op. It's like the cool place to be. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I think of Comic On You're right, it was
Speaker 3: solely for the nerds and your very own Justin Cooper
Speaker 3: could have a table there signing liar liar headshots.
Speaker 4: Heckers driving Cooper.
Speaker 1: When I was in when when I worked in San Diego,
Speaker 1: my early I was a kid at the mighty six
Speaker 1: ninety and I remember Comic Con like it was it
Speaker 1: was going on whatever, but it wasn't like that big
Speaker 1: a thing. It was just in the nerd community. And
Speaker 1: then over the years obviously getting older and it's just
Speaker 1: just wild and crazy and wacky and all that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the mail bag, though, we have actual letters
Speaker 1: by actual listeners. Want to thank Ohio well in advance
Speaker 1: for this little nitty it's bag. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is the first one is from Mike and Fullerton.
Speaker 1: These are actual letters by actual listeners. If you'd like
Speaker 1: to send a letter in for a future episode of
Speaker 1: the mail Bag, you can do that and send that
Speaker 1: care of Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. And you're coming
Speaker 1: can and we'll be used against you in the court
Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour Podcast. Mike and Fullerton wrights and says, Hey, Bendon,
Speaker 1: Danny g. I know we're not supposed to ask sporty
Speaker 1: questions in the mail bag, but I've got two of
Speaker 1: them for you this week. First, I don't think I
Speaker 1: need to remind you guys that wrestle Mania is next weekend.
Speaker 1: What match are you most looking forward to? For me?
Speaker 1: It's gotta be John Cena versus Cody Rhodes. I used
Speaker 1: to like Sena when he was a good guy, but
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy now. And I hope Cody wins,
Speaker 1: and second they do either of You see any team
Speaker 1: in the West slowing down the Clippers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They are on an absolute bernerd Yeah, I'm having trouble
Speaker 1: coming up with any threats to them. Thanks A's Mike
Speaker 1: and Fullerton. Well, I'll let Danny handle the WWE stuff,
Speaker 1: but I the Clippers. Yeah, it is hip, the clip wrong.
Speaker 3: The bottom falls out underneath of them for some reason.
Speaker 1: Why are you so negative the Clippers?
Speaker 3: It's what's always happened, unfortunately for you.
Speaker 1: They're on a heater and the key to the Clippers
Speaker 1: their new glue.
Speaker 3: Guys, guy, I remember what you Yeah, I remember what
Speaker 3: you used to say about him when he was a Laker.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I never talked about him. But the Lakers
Speaker 1: were irrelevant when Blossom. Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 3: But what do you think is going to happen as
Speaker 3: far as uh the rest of the West. Here we're
Speaker 3: waiting on all the dominoes to fall in place for.
Speaker 1: This final day. The NBA regular season today. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so the Clippers have out performed what I thought they
Speaker 1: would do. But uh, you know, we always in the
Speaker 1: back of our mind and not really in the back
Speaker 1: of our mind, in the front of our mind. We're
Speaker 1: just trying to guess. I was thinking. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about bringing back an old bit on the show this week,
Speaker 1: Danny NBA injury Bingo.
Speaker 3: Where oh boy, uh that is just like book I
Speaker 3: remember Fielding the complaint calls what we how dare he
Speaker 3: wished for injury on these four points?
Speaker 1: Well, no, we don't want anyone to get hurt, but
Speaker 1: if they do get hurt, wink, we want to we
Speaker 1: want to take advantage of that. So I would think,
Speaker 1: like Kawhi Leonard would be the top pick in injury
Speaker 1: NBA injury Bingo. I would think Kawhi would be the.
Speaker 3: He's right up there, he'd be top three for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, brother, I I'm pretty I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: we're going to bring back in NBA injury bingo. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like eighty five percent. So as far as
Speaker 1: the wrestling, the only wrestler I care about is Ruthef So.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, did he retire?
Speaker 1: No, he's back. He's actually just signed with WWE again.
Speaker 1: He went russef went over and changed his name. He
Speaker 1: went to the other outfit, and he just re signed
Speaker 1: with the WWE. So he's going to be back as Russeph,
Speaker 1: which is exciting. So I don't know exactly when and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area right says, case.
Speaker 3: Don't interrupt Old Cogan. I'm a real American.
Speaker 1: I need those Viamins. I need the Hulk beer. Tony
Speaker 1: Bay says, can you talk about your radio show calling days? Well,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot to talk about, Tony. I wasn't
Speaker 1: as famous as you. Tony calls up and says like
Speaker 1: he says bad words on the show, and I love
Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay He's such a good, good caller.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm the only one that likes
Speaker 1: Tony's work, but I always laugh when Tony. Tony's on
Speaker 1: the air, he doesn't stay on long. He's got a
Speaker 1: point and then he usually says a bad word and
Speaker 1: I just laugh. I laugh. He's one of the guys.
Speaker 1: Almost every time Tony calls, he says something that kind
Speaker 1: of makes me smile.
Speaker 3: Here's a clip of one of his calls blank my
Speaker 3: blank and blank you.
Speaker 1: Pretty much that's the way it goes. Well. We had
Speaker 1: a really funny moment the other night with Angry Bill. Also,
Speaker 1: when Angry Bill he calls up, and no matter when
Speaker 1: I take Anger Bill's call, he always bitches about whoever
Speaker 1: was on just before him, you gotta put why'd you
Speaker 1: gotta put me on? After? You know? Call her x?
Speaker 4: And then he complains yes, And I would have MLB
Speaker 4: put Angry Bill in his sheat right behind home plate
Speaker 4: and have a ball hit him square in the eye
Speaker 4: and say you help on yourself at.
Speaker 1: Mal Oh that is outstanding. That is great audio. I
Speaker 1: love it. So anyway before I was preemptive this time,
Speaker 1: so I'd put Angry Bill on. I think it was
Speaker 1: the end of hour three, and so he's complaining, so
Speaker 1: I put him back on hold. So then an hour
Speaker 1: four I'm like, all, we'll take We'll take Angry Bill.
Speaker 1: So preemptively I said, oh, let's go to Angry Bill.
Speaker 1: I can tell you what he's gonna say. I'm paraphrazy,
Speaker 1: but he'll be, oh, well, are you gonna put me on?
Speaker 1: After hollering James and all. So I put him on,
Speaker 1: and Angry Bill says, Ben Mallard go and then like
Speaker 1: f yourself and he said the full thing right there,
Speaker 1: and it was. It was very funny, very good, but
Speaker 1: no Tony. When I was a kid, I called radio shows,
Speaker 1: believe or not. I called Lee Hamilton, who I would
Speaker 1: intern for. He was a mentor of mine in San Diego,
Speaker 1: Hacksaw Hamilton the high speed sports wire. Every once in
Speaker 1: a while, it was a big deal. When I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I would be the first caller to Lee Hamilton,
Speaker 1: and he said, break the ice. Let's break the ice
Speaker 1: was his line, and I always remember I was very excited.
Speaker 1: I was an honor. To be the first caller meant
Speaker 1: a lot. But my fondest members were actually calling late
Speaker 1: night radio, which I guess was an omen of things
Speaker 1: to come in my life because I would listen late
Speaker 1: at night and scan around the radio dial and I
Speaker 1: used to listen to all these far away NBA broadcasts
Speaker 1: and baseball broadcasts from different cities in the West, and
Speaker 1: I would call into late night radio shows. I remember,
Speaker 1: here's a story I don't think I've told. There was
Speaker 1: a radio show that came out of the Boston area,
Speaker 1: and it was they did like sports trivia at night overnight,
Speaker 1: and I called in to play a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and one of the hosts, Dandy, was a guy named
Speaker 1: Tim Neverett who is now a Dodger radio broadcaster.
Speaker 3: Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's a small world, after all, it's a small, small world.
Speaker 1: I called into that. My favorite memories were this little
Speaker 1: radio show in Vegas that I got boomed into la
Speaker 1: and they were on the weekend overnight. These two like
Speaker 1: lifelong radio guys, and I don't remember their names, but
Speaker 1: I called it into that show pretty much every Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturday night and they would leave me on for
Speaker 1: like seven eight minutes, and it was like crazy. Their
Speaker 1: theme song was after Midnight. That was their theme song.
Speaker 1: Very original, I know. I thought I must be the
Speaker 1: greatest caller to their show because they leave me on
Speaker 1: for so long, and every other show would get me
Speaker 1: on and get me off the air quickly, right, So
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, I must be killing it.
Speaker 1: And then I realized after I asked the call screener
Speaker 1: one time, I said, what's what's going on? And I
Speaker 1: was the only one calling. No one else. No one
Speaker 1: else was called, so they had no one else to
Speaker 1: talk to. So that's why they left me on. And
Speaker 1: I used to listen to this show called the start
Speaker 1: Us Line out of Vegas. This is how archaic the
Speaker 1: world was, Nanny. It was Sunday night from ten o'clock
Speaker 1: till midnight on Sunday in the days before the internet.
Speaker 1: And this guy Lee Pete, who was a famous radio
Speaker 1: guy in Vegas. He hosted the start Us Line and
Speaker 1: they got I think it was like eleven o'clock at
Speaker 1: night on Sunday. They released the next week NFL lines.
Speaker 1: And this is in the days before the internet. This
Speaker 1: is the first place to get the NFL lines. Nobody
Speaker 1: else had the lines for the following week in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But I didn't call that show, so it doesn't really count.
Speaker 1: But I just remember, just remember that next show it.
Speaker 3: That's what it sounded like. I'm checked up about it.
Speaker 1: That's right, man, that's whole morning. Guy Alf from the
Speaker 1: Penalty Box writes in he says, Ben, any truth to
Speaker 1: the rumor that Lorraine uh was absent from her post
Speaker 1: because she was serving a one show suspension of being
Speaker 1: caught cheating at Are you smarter than an FSR tech producer? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Lorena did get caught red handed
Speaker 1: cheating at the game we cooked up because of this
Speaker 1: podcast for her, and I have a feeling she's also
Speaker 1: going to be suspended this week for another day, so
Speaker 1: I think it's a multi show suspension. ALF stay tuned
Speaker 1: developing hot dot dot dot. And ALF also says, since
Speaker 1: Dannig is the gatekeeper of the drop archive, can I
Speaker 1: get a long distance dedication for felexis in Medina? I
Speaker 1: like to wrestle with men or Jeff Garcia's I didn't
Speaker 1: feel real crisp? That is from ALF. Those are two
Speaker 1: classic soundbites on the show. So Danny, you are the gatekeeper.
Speaker 1: You have you're sitting at Fort Knox when it comes
Speaker 1: to the drops and the history of the show and
Speaker 1: all that. So that's what ALF would like to hear.
Speaker 3: I see some felexus here. Let's see all right, let's see.
Speaker 3: Let's see what this Let's see what this one is.
Speaker 3: I'd like to alert all the affiliates down the line
Speaker 3: that some felexus classic clip is about to play.
Speaker 1: All right, put on some good pantyhose here we go.
Speaker 4: All right, a good one.
Speaker 5: Yes, this is perfect number number nine.
Speaker 1: That proves it prooves you jackass. Okay, this proves it.
Speaker 1: All of this is just tom it. Just get with it,
Speaker 1: all right, Relax, I'm trying. I'm trying to if I
Speaker 1: get it all right here, all right, all right, here
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 3: I'll go.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get what I want to the angle
Speaker 1: i'd like to go. I will go. I'll just throw
Speaker 1: this out fruit banana.
Speaker 3: You got it right, of course he got banana, correct.
Speaker 1: I think you would get that right away. That's that
Speaker 1: Jeff Garcia drop the crisp one that got more airplay
Speaker 1: on Sports rate that played for about ten years on
Speaker 1: sports radio. The Jeff Garcia when he was with the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and he had such a high pitched voice.
Speaker 3: Oh, I found it. I found it's right here.
Speaker 1: I just didn't feel real crisp.
Speaker 3: He sounds like flexus.
Speaker 1: There athletes that have high pitched voices that don't seem
Speaker 1: like they should have high pitched boy like a quarterback
Speaker 1: Jeff Garcia.
Speaker 3: Dave Stewart of the A's wore his hat brim down
Speaker 3: low above his eyes. He was very intimidating. But then
Speaker 3: when he spoke to the media after ten strikeouts, he.
Speaker 1: Talked like this, I know Dave Stewart, that's the go to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had the very high pitched voice the Mets. Who
Speaker 1: is that third baseman the Mets had? Right, it was
Speaker 1: David Right. I forget, but he had a very high
Speaker 1: pitched yeah, David right. Good. Right, there you go. There's
Speaker 1: another one added to the big board. What's next? On
Speaker 1: the mailbag? AJ from jay Z not sure whether he's
Speaker 1: from Northern Jersey or southern New Jersey. He said, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I know it's the Masters this weekend. Jim Nance said
Speaker 1: that it's refreshing that the Masters broadcast is not allowed
Speaker 1: to reference money. Do you and Danny agree that this
Speaker 1: is refreshing or disagree that this is refreshing? That is
Speaker 1: from AJ in Jersey. I haven't really thought much about it. Aja.
Speaker 1: That being said, I don't like censorship, and money is
Speaker 1: part of sports. This is big business, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you can completely ignore it. You shouldn't make it
Speaker 1: the only thing you talk about. But to say that
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to reference money when money is like,
Speaker 1: that's one of the driving forces of winning the Masters.
Speaker 1: It's not just the green jacket and all that. And
Speaker 1: you get to pick out the menu for next Year's dinner.
Speaker 1: It's that you win a big pile of money, and
Speaker 1: everyone that talks about later today when the Masters is over,
Speaker 1: assuming there's no weather issues and it continues into Monday.
Speaker 1: But if it's over today, it'll be like so and
Speaker 1: so won the Masters and they won blank, and we'll
Speaker 1: say how much money they want? So tell them to
Speaker 1: bring me my money. The other thing, too, Danny, is
Speaker 1: does anyone like, does this guy aj or anyone else
Speaker 1: think jim Nantz is going to say anything to criticize
Speaker 1: the Masters. That is his baby. That is his baby.
Speaker 1: He is as known as mister Masters as anybody. So
Speaker 1: he's not going to do anything. He's a partner with
Speaker 1: the Masters. Nance isn't gonna come out. So I don't
Speaker 1: want you know, I disagree with this. We should talk
Speaker 1: about money. He's never gonna say that, all right. Next
Speaker 1: up is Kevin in Kansas, he says, Dear Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g As, I am visiting family in Fargo. I
Speaker 1: stopped at the Roger Merris Museum, the Native Son, of course,
Speaker 1: the great state of North Dakota. He says. Here's a picture.
Speaker 1: He sent along, a picture of a baseball game he
Speaker 1: endorsed it's old school, but I'll bet it's fun at
Speaker 1: the time. What old school sports games do you remember playing?
Speaker 1: That is from Kevin in Kansas.
Speaker 3: Any old Oh yeah, is he talking like pick? We're
Speaker 3: in the backyard. We'd put two old gloves down on
Speaker 3: the ground as the bases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, that was good. And remember we played
Speaker 1: it was called smear the something I forget.
Speaker 3: The uh smear the felexus.
Speaker 1: That was. That was an enjoyable game on the player.
Speaker 1: They you know we did some of the games we did.
Speaker 1: They still did it, like the dodgeball. I think they're
Speaker 1: not even allowed to do dodgeball anymore. Right, kids could
Speaker 1: get hurt you kind of play dodgeball? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: How about butts up? Did you ever play that?
Speaker 4: Ga?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, butts up? And we played with that heavy racquetball,
Speaker 3: the blue purpleish racquetball, and you had to run and
Speaker 3: touch the you know, it would be like either a
Speaker 3: handball wall or just a concrete wall. You had to
Speaker 3: run up touch the wall if you mishandled the ball,
Speaker 3: and if someone else picked it up and their throat
Speaker 3: to the wall, beat you before your hand touched the wall.
Speaker 3: You to stand up there face first against the wall
Speaker 3: and they got a free fastball pitch at the back
Speaker 3: of you, supposedly trying to get your ass, but we
Speaker 3: would get beaned in the kidney, in the back of
Speaker 3: the neck. Ahead there was kids. They would play this
Speaker 3: at the bus stop ben here in La when I
Speaker 3: was a little kid, and I remember kids blubbering on
Speaker 3: the bus because when the bus would arrive, the kid
Speaker 3: that got being the hardest in the back, would still
Speaker 3: be crying. Oh that's great. It was super violent.
Speaker 1: I remember the playgrounds that we had as kids, Danny
Speaker 1: with all the metal and in the summer, how hot,
Speaker 1: you know, the playground stuff would get and some of
Speaker 1: the there was a slide in the neighborhood I grew
Speaker 1: up in that had like chain link and it was
Speaker 1: a very hot metal slide. Like they didn't even give
Speaker 1: a shit about trying to keep the kids safe at all.
Speaker 1: It was just like whatever, just go out there and
Speaker 1: have fun. And it was a wild.
Speaker 3: Half that stuff was rusty too, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, rusty. And I remember this slide which
Speaker 1: was really cool. So you climb up it was pretty
Speaker 1: high up and you had to crawl through this little
Speaker 1: tiny hole to get in there and then I could
Speaker 1: do it a little. We'd get in there and it
Speaker 1: smelled like urine because the teenagers at night would go
Speaker 1: in there and piss or whatever, and it was disgusting
Speaker 1: and as you said, a little rusty and whatever. But
Speaker 1: you know, fond memories as an adult. Kwang rites in
Speaker 1: from Vietnam. He says, Ho Chim in Vietnam. That's what
Speaker 1: he says in the email. Anyway, big Man and Danny
Speaker 1: g Yeah, did you see that LeVar Ball opened up
Speaker 1: about his condition that led to his amputation. He sends
Speaker 1: the link sent a link here from the USA Today.
Speaker 1: He says, you guys should try to get him on
Speaker 1: the pod. I would love to talk to LeVar Ball
Speaker 1: if he's available. You think we can track down LeVar Ball?
Speaker 1: You think you do it? Or we have to pay
Speaker 1: him like ten grand to do the podcast.
Speaker 3: I remember how it depends if he's pushing something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. If he's got some to remote will
Speaker 1: probably we'll probably get him to do that for sure. Ball.
Speaker 1: Stay in your lane, Dan, you got to stay in
Speaker 1: your lane. It's not a referee. I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: my guy's paying hard.
Speaker 2: It ain't cheat I don't think that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get on out of here, take some
Speaker 1: photos with my folks. Though. Man, there you go, great
Speaker 1: LeVar Ball. What a character. For about two months he
Speaker 1: was a big star. Marcus in San Antonio rights into
Speaker 1: the mail bag. He says, changed jobs about a year ago,
Speaker 1: stayed with my within my current profession, and was slightly recruited,
Speaker 1: so it was a fairly easy transition my new place
Speaker 1: of employment as a lot of younger people working there,
Speaker 1: it's more of a clinical setting. I recently had a
Speaker 1: conversation with my supervisor because I had made a comment
Speaker 1: to another coworker. The comment was nice boots. I was
Speaker 1: told it sounded too much like nice boobs that he
Speaker 1: The meeting was fairly casual and pretty sure my boss
Speaker 1: understood people were being hyper sensitive. My question is, and
Speaker 1: Danny G might be more suited to answer this, have
Speaker 1: you guys experienced anything like this over the years. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Danny G because only because this history of FM
Speaker 1: radio and all the possible hijinks that can ensue from
Speaker 1: working in the genre. Much appreciation for the read, and
Speaker 1: he says the most entertaining podcast A bit. We're very
Speaker 1: kind from Marcus, so I think what he's asking is,
Speaker 1: have you gotten in trouble with HR? Have you gotten
Speaker 1: in trouble with HR at all?
Speaker 3: I've been spoken to, and it wasn't just me. There
Speaker 3: was this DJ who did mid Days on one of
Speaker 3: my FM radio stations, and I won't say her name, Jackie,
Speaker 3: but she was very sensitive and I said I made
Speaker 3: some sort of comment about girls' asses, and I got
Speaker 3: called into the HR. We don't have those anymore. Remember
Speaker 3: when we had an HR department.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the live human beings. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got called into the HR director's office at this
Speaker 3: radio station and she explained to me why I could
Speaker 3: not talk about girls' asses inside the workplace.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's quite the you.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. I'll tell you one from one of
Speaker 3: the I won't say which sports network because I've worked
Speaker 3: for a couple. One of them, though, there was a
Speaker 3: female employee and a lot of things we would say
Speaker 3: on the show. She would come running into the main
Speaker 3: studio afterwards and explain to me, you're not in safe harbor.
Speaker 3: You're not in safe harbor. You guys think you could
Speaker 3: say anything? And it oh Man Ben. When she left
Speaker 3: the company, it was such a relief hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hallelujah situas. And we had one of the places
Speaker 1: I worked, I will protect the guilty. So one of
Speaker 1: the places we worked, we had a major staff meeting
Speaker 1: for sexual harassment. And there were some former NFL players
Speaker 1: that were working at the place I was working at
Speaker 1: the time, and one of them, one of them, sat
Speaker 1: in the back of the meeting and was mocking the
Speaker 1: person that was teaching the class. And because they did
Speaker 1: this whole thing about elevator eyes, about how you're not
Speaker 1: supposed like that's sexual harassment if you look at a
Speaker 1: like if you're a dude and you look at a
Speaker 1: woman like up and down, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh lord. And by the way, Ben I could relate
Speaker 3: to his incident because yeah, I was mentioning female's asses.
Speaker 3: We were talking about a rap video. We were playing
Speaker 3: a certain song and then we were commenting on the
Speaker 3: video give me a f and Break. It's not like
Speaker 3: I looked at her and said something about her ass.
Speaker 3: She was just mad because she didn't have one exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm right there, I'm right there with you,
Speaker 1: but I remember that particular and then there's see, like
Speaker 1: the problem with the harassment there's a legitimate harassment. And then,
Speaker 1: like anything, there's people that are just out trying to
Speaker 1: make some money and get you know, ruffle feathers, and
Speaker 1: then they complain about everything and it's like, yeah, pain
Speaker 1: in the pain in the behind.
Speaker 3: But thank you Marcus for your no you could say,
Speaker 3: ask there's no HR department.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good on that. What else do we have?
Speaker 1: Let see page down here on the mail bag? Do
Speaker 1: a couple more we have. Nick in Wisconsin says, as
Speaker 1: I write this email, I'm currently listening to our number
Speaker 1: two of the Wednesday Original Recipe podcast. I forgot my
Speaker 1: earbuds this morning, and I realized this halfway into my commute.
Speaker 1: So I get to ask the question here, what is
Speaker 1: the worst item that you have realized that you forgot
Speaker 1: on your way to work? Laptop, headphones excluded, always listening,
Speaker 1: just no good questions lately? So thing you forgot that
Speaker 1: you needed that? What are you doing? One time I
Speaker 1: went to the store and I got there and I
Speaker 1: got all my groceries and then I realized I had
Speaker 1: left my wallet at home. That was that was awkward.
Speaker 1: Oh I was at the I'd put everything on the
Speaker 1: thing at the grocery store to pay for it, and
Speaker 1: then I reached into my pocket to grab my wallet
Speaker 1: to pay. I didn't have my wallet. Ben.
Speaker 3: I once walked a date all the way up to
Speaker 3: the entrance of the Oakland Coliseum for a Raiders Jets
Speaker 3: Monday night football game, and we waited forever for security.
Speaker 3: We finally get to you know where I needed to
Speaker 3: show my tickets. You know that swell the massive cattle
Speaker 3: that used to be there near security and the entrance.
Speaker 3: So we're in all that mess. And I realized as
Speaker 3: I pulled my season tickets out, I grabbed the wrong
Speaker 3: season tickets. I grabbed the tickets that were for the
Speaker 3: next home game from my stack. Luckily they were in
Speaker 3: my car, but as you can imagine, my car was
Speaker 3: probably a mile away and some you know, off the
Speaker 3: beaten path parking lot that and that's a mess all
Speaker 3: around that Oakland Coliseum if you know anything about it. Ben,
Speaker 3: I left her there at the entrance because I didn't
Speaker 3: want her to have to huff and puff back to
Speaker 3: the car. I ran, like Carl Lewis, all the way
Speaker 3: to my car, got the right tickets, ran all the
Speaker 3: way back. I was drenched in sweat by the time
Speaker 3: we entered that Monday night football game.
Speaker 1: By the time he got in the stadium, the Raiders
Speaker 1: were down twenty one nine.
Speaker 3: No, that's back when they were good. That's back when
Speaker 3: Rich Gannon was the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a long time ago. All right. How dare
Speaker 1: you Scott from Northern Kentucky, right, sin says Ben and
Speaker 1: Dan G Ben and Danny g as always, I love
Speaker 1: the show every single night and the weekends. What if
Speaker 1: any is your biggest fear or phobia? Your fear of phobia?
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a good question. What's his?
Speaker 1: He says his his heights, He's scared the death of them.
Speaker 1: And then he says, thoughts on the Renaissance Fair and
Speaker 1: the weirdos that go to it. I worked at a
Speaker 1: venue that was right next to it for years. A
Speaker 1: bunch of dirty weirdos, is what I remember. I was
Speaker 1: surprised with you that Loreno works there. Yuck. I hope
Speaker 1: to get to meet you at the Ohio Meet and Greet,
Speaker 1: hopefully in Cincinnati. That's Scott from Northern Kentucky. So biggest
Speaker 1: fear of phobia? What do you got, Danny?
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely it is claustrophobia. Yeah, I do not like
Speaker 3: being in a tight squeeze. When I was talking about
Speaker 3: all those cattle at the entrance, I hate that feeling
Speaker 3: when people are shoulder to shoulder with you. I was
Speaker 3: inside the Old House of Blues in LA before they
Speaker 3: bulldozed it, and they had famous R and B and
Speaker 3: hip hop concerts there upstairs. They called it the what
Speaker 3: was the name for it. It was like the industry Room,
Speaker 3: industry level or some bullshit. They called it like that.
Speaker 3: So all the muckety MUCKs were up there, all the
Speaker 3: celebrities were up there, and back then radio people were
Speaker 3: looked at as celebrities, believe it or not, up there,
Speaker 3: And there was an eminem concert Ben when he had
Speaker 3: just blown up. And I'm up there and it was
Speaker 3: talk about wall to wall. No, I couldn't move. The
Speaker 3: flow of the room was not even moving because they
Speaker 3: broke fire code. And next to me was the actress.
Speaker 3: Oh shoot, she dated fifty cent back in the day.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna come to me right now, but famous
Speaker 3: actress next to me and her bodyguard was squished next
Speaker 3: to her, and I'll never forget because the side of
Speaker 3: her was touching me. She probably hated that. She looked
Speaker 3: at her bodyguard and she said, get me the fuck
Speaker 3: out of here now, dude. I almost had a panic
Speaker 3: attack because and you see movie scenes sometimes where like
Speaker 3: somebody is trapped alive inside a box or locked in
Speaker 3: a closet or a trunk. That freaks me the f
Speaker 3: out When I see that, imagine you'd claw your fingernails off.
Speaker 3: I just I can't even watch those scenes. I have
Speaker 3: to turn the channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beat I it's one of those weird things
Speaker 1: like I've had an MRI or two in my life
Speaker 1: where people say the MRI is a nightmare because the
Speaker 1: thing you're like stuck in that little thing. But that
Speaker 1: didn't really mess me up. But yet, if I'm in
Speaker 1: a place where I don't, I don't see a path
Speaker 1: to get out of it. Because even on the MRI,
Speaker 1: I always thought, well, I could just slide up and
Speaker 1: kind of get out of this thing. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in a in a room where I don't. There's
Speaker 1: no real path to get out. That's terrible. The height
Speaker 1: thing is is pretty pretty, you know, solid as well.
Speaker 1: I just you know, the idea that you make one
Speaker 1: mistake and then that and then you're done. That's that's it.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty good. And Scott, I have no firm
Speaker 1: plans on the Ohio meet and greet, yet I am
Speaker 1: efforting that and I'm going back and forth. But even
Speaker 1: if it's not in Cincinnati, I hope you'll make it.
Speaker 1: And even if it's in Cincinnati, it doesn't guarantee you're
Speaker 1: going to make it. Remember I went to Charleston and Jerome,
Speaker 1: and Charleston did not come to see me because that
Speaker 1: was a couple of blocks away. And I offered to
Speaker 1: buy him a meal and he still said, I I'm
Speaker 1: not doing that, Jake, and Toledo writes in on the back,
Speaker 1: wet a couple more get out of here. On this Sunday,
Speaker 1: final day of the Masters, he says, guys, did you
Speaker 1: see that d P one member the Malam Militia russef
Speaker 1: Re signed. Yes, we talked about that earlier. You were
Speaker 1: not listening. Russef made my kids that in my day
Speaker 1: when he pointed at our Ben Mahler loves Russef signed
Speaker 1: a few years ago. And you get him on the podcast.
Speaker 1: That is awesome.
Speaker 3: Oh here here he is right here.
Speaker 1: Listen, bet friends, we're best friends. You see that.
Speaker 3: Wait, we're pretty impressed. I gotta say it. Usually Ben's
Speaker 3: lying about who he's friends with.
Speaker 1: I was wrong, I bet I remember right now.
Speaker 4: I remember the story of giving you his shoes because
Speaker 4: you were so much step back in the day.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Yes, exactly, see that.
Speaker 3: Wait, he gave you shoes.
Speaker 1: That's so good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that. You really were friends with him?
Speaker 3: We doubted you.
Speaker 1: No. It's one of my favorite stories from this dopey
Speaker 1: run I've had in radio is that Russef was a
Speaker 1: penpal when he was going to he was going to
Speaker 1: wrestling school in Florida, and he was homesick, and he's
Speaker 1: from southern California. Is a big Clipper fan, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, Danny, and so he used to listen to
Speaker 1: the show and he started emailing me. And at first
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about like his story or anything
Speaker 1: like that. And he eventually told me like, Hey, I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to school to become a wrestler.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, and then I looked it
Speaker 1: up and the WWE had a school in Tampa, and
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about him. He stopped, we stopped corresponding,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I see him on
Speaker 1: TV and I'm like, WHOA, what the f And then
Speaker 1: he came into WrestleMania and a tank, like an old
Speaker 1: German tank or something like that. It was craziness.
Speaker 4: What's wrong with your Clippers?
Speaker 1: Nothing's wrong with the Clippers that day, all right? But yeah, Jay,
Speaker 1: we should try to get Russeph on. I can see
Speaker 1: if I can get in touch with him. He was
Speaker 1: know as or Murrow Muro. I believe it was when
Speaker 1: he was known as when he went to the other place,
Speaker 1: but he's back to being Russeph. Last one, Gary in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh rights and says Ben, I was going to use
Speaker 1: this question to break my cherry on the weeknight show,
Speaker 1: but since you put up the bat signal for Sunday content,
Speaker 1: we'll do it here instead. I was scanning my TV
Speaker 1: guide for something to watch and I came across the channel.
Speaker 1: This channel on the fledgling cable network in the North Woods.
Speaker 1: It was the news channel, but there were some some
Speaker 1: of the programs they had on this Saturday morning. They
Speaker 1: had lane golf, they had I had to google what
Speaker 1: that was. Wiffleball All Star Game twenty twenty Tetris Championship
Speaker 1: and a kickball a tourney, among others made up made
Speaker 1: up sports, other made up sports, So says the email
Speaker 1: here from Gary says, I know you and Danny are
Speaker 1: both playing the world's too smallest violins for them. But
Speaker 1: if things are so bad they moved their operation from
Speaker 1: LA back to Bristol, Connecticut, why not just get rid
Speaker 1: of this channel and save a ton of money? Or
Speaker 1: is it once you get a piece of real estate
Speaker 1: on the dial, you don't give it back. Seems all
Speaker 1: the programming costs would outweigh any franchise fees the cable
Speaker 1: companies give them. Am I off on this? Or is
Speaker 1: there really a robust market for the air guitar playoffs?
Speaker 1: That's from Gary Pittsburgh. Yeah, the whole ESPN thing. They're
Speaker 1: under the Disney umbrella. And you've always got to please
Speaker 1: the taxpayers and not the taxpayers, the stockholders, right, the
Speaker 1: people that invest in the company. And see, you've always
Speaker 1: got to keep turning profits. And I think Gary knows
Speaker 1: how that works. We all know how that works. And
Speaker 1: it's a tough thing. There was a point where everyone
Speaker 1: watched Sports Center. It was a very important show and
Speaker 1: people loved it, and unfortunately ESPN just lost their way
Speaker 1: over the years. They sold out to the Wolkesters and
Speaker 1: they're not doing that great, but there's still there's still
Speaker 1: people watching it. I don't know if there's any real
Speaker 1: need for the news channel though, I can't remember the
Speaker 1: last time. We used to watch that all the time.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of things we used to do
Speaker 1: that we don't do anymore. So, but you definitely don't
Speaker 1: give up a channel. Very rarely does a channel just
Speaker 1: go out of business. Normally they get rebranded, like you'd say, right, well,
Speaker 1: we have this, and all those deals are brokered with
Speaker 1: the cable companies and the satellite providers and all that,
Speaker 1: so you don't get rid of it. You just change name.
Speaker 1: For example, I worked at a channel called Versus, which
Speaker 1: became NBC Sports Channel NBC Sports Network, and then change
Speaker 1: names again and became I don't know what it is now.
Speaker 1: I think it's like some outdoor channels or something like that.
Speaker 1: But when I worked there, originally it was called Versus
Speaker 1: and then they switched the name of it, but they
Speaker 1: didn't get rid of it, you know, just doesn't disappear.
Speaker 1: So on that note, Danny, I will get out of here.
Speaker 1: It is a the end of the day here and said,
Speaker 1: watch the end of the Masters later today, this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and then tonight be back in the Magic Audio Box
Speaker 1: to break it all down and start out a new
Speaker 1: week of programming here and coach you'd like to share with? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, in fact, guess who has more time off?
Speaker 1: Who's that?
Speaker 3: Dan Patrick?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: No way? So tomorrow morning nine to noon Eastern Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich myself in Spot and Iowa Sam are going
Speaker 3: to be filling in on the Dan Patrick Show Monday
Speaker 3: through Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We're doing the hat trick Monday through Wednesday. Very cool,
Speaker 1: and I will be doing the overnight show all week.
Speaker 1: No days off. Maybe a little rain old get suspended
Speaker 1: for another show later this week, but no days off.
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Speaker 3: Just give me a pile of meat. Astapasta, got a murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go.