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. Wow, the Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a everywhere, even on New Year's Eve, as
Speaker 1: we say bye bye to twenty twenty three. It is
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: Because five nights a week for me on the overnight,
Speaker 1: five days a week for Danny with his buddy's Cavino
Speaker 1: and Rich clearly not enough. So we unite together form
Speaker 1: Voltron on the weekends. And this is our third pod
Speaker 1: of the weekend. We had the podcast which was very
Speaker 1: sporty back on Friday, very sporty podcast on Friday, Danny
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of been our new thing, Like Fridays
Speaker 3: is sports related, and the rest of the weekend we
Speaker 3: play grab ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just know o nuts. It is the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, and I don't know that I
Speaker 1: need to do my normal rant that I do not make.
Speaker 1: I do not make New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 4: Neither do I. That stuff is so stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at it like as Bill Belichick back
Speaker 1: when he was a respected member of the coaching fraternity.
Speaker 1: Belichick would say, like the halftime adjustment thing, and other
Speaker 1: people have said Peyton Manning has said this as well.
Speaker 1: I don't really I'm not very fond of Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: but the halftime adjustments is bullshoy. It's nonsense, right. It's
Speaker 1: like you go to halftime, you take a whiz, maybe
Speaker 1: you put a new jersey on, and you have some
Speaker 1: orange slices, some gatorade, and you run back out in
Speaker 1: the field. You're not making halftime adjustments. And as Belichick
Speaker 1: likes to say, if you see a problem in the
Speaker 1: middle of the first quarter, you fix the problem. You
Speaker 1: don't wait till halftime, you know, So, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play the entire rest of the first quarter, the
Speaker 1: entire second quarter, but then at halftime we're going to
Speaker 1: make adjustments. It's one of those things that in sports
Speaker 1: just gets repeated and people people just mindlessly repeat it,
Speaker 1: like right.
Speaker 3: Like stay away from the gym. How many weeks in
Speaker 3: ben do most people last when they go there?
Speaker 1: This week today's obviously New Year's Eve, so tomorrow the
Speaker 1: gyms are closed, but starting January second, the gym will
Speaker 1: be back, and then by February first, it'll be half empty.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it goes. But it's it's a
Speaker 1: halftime adjustment. It's one of those things Peyton Manning famously
Speaker 1: said a couple of years ago. It's just a myth.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute myth. And I put it in that
Speaker 1: same category as like momentum, right, I don't need to
Speaker 1: get started on that ran again, there is no such
Speaker 1: thing as momentum in sports. I do not believe in that.
Speaker 1: But I don't need to go down that road. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I just want to. I don't do the New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4: It feels like it's for suckers.
Speaker 3: And also, you know, not to rain on anybody's New
Speaker 3: Year's parade, but going out on New Year's Eve is
Speaker 3: kind of a sucker's bet also because you way overpay
Speaker 3: for everything, and usually it's elbow to elbow with other people,
Speaker 3: and it's hard to have a fun time like that
Speaker 3: with spending so much money for you know, lots of
Speaker 3: germs around you.
Speaker 1: I read this week and it's on the internet, So
Speaker 1: who knows if it's true or not that it is
Speaker 1: the most expensive night to go out in America, that
Speaker 1: people spend the most money all year on just as
Speaker 1: a night out on New Year's Eve, Because as you said,
Speaker 1: it's price gouging. It's like it's like getting a hotel
Speaker 1: room after a hurricane or getting gasoline after a flood.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like a fifteen dollars water bottle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I saw somebody sent me a link
Speaker 1: to some hotel in Miami where a guy ordered a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee and a couple of waters, and it
Speaker 1: was like sixty seven dollars. What the hell's in the water?
Speaker 4: It was in the coffee, vodka in that water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we don't do the list thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know believe in the list. But as far as
Speaker 1: Big Ben's Big Board, much different, much different, right, as
Speaker 1: you know, right, we're not moving mountains here, we're not
Speaker 1: shifting the balance of power. We're just doing a little podcast.
Speaker 1: But as far as the year, looking back at the
Speaker 1: things that stood out, is there any any one thing,
Speaker 1: Like the Rangers winning the World Series was pretty wonky
Speaker 1: in baseball. The Dodgers meekly going out and just sucker.
Speaker 4: But then they redeemed themselves getting Otani.
Speaker 1: Oh, they did win the offseason championship, so the balance
Speaker 1: of power. They continue to have the greatest roster in baseball,
Speaker 1: and they are certainly traveling down the Dodgers the yellow
Speaker 1: brick road.
Speaker 3: For me, the highlight of twenty twenty three was the
Speaker 3: firing of one Josh McDaniels.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling, you're gonna say that, Yeah, I buy.
Speaker 3: Josh hello twenty twenty four because Antonio Pierce imagined Ben
Speaker 3: had he been hired or at least interim hired, three
Speaker 3: games earlier, the Raiders wouldn't be trying to squeak into
Speaker 3: the playoffs. I think AP would have had them already
Speaker 3: squarely lined up for the wild card.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's well, you know he's done well, but that's
Speaker 1: also a miss. I want to be no gloomy gus here, Danny.
Speaker 1: But they did also lose a three nothing game to
Speaker 1: the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Competitive game with both defenses. Both offenses sucked.
Speaker 1: Compared to Josh McDaniels, he is a mastermind, Antonio.
Speaker 4: Piers, Yes, you said it.
Speaker 3: And how long was I going to have to sit
Speaker 3: there on Sundays and look at the camera go on
Speaker 3: Josh McDaniel's constipated looking face.
Speaker 4: It was hard. It was hard sledding.
Speaker 3: Raider fans wanted that guy gone a year before that,
Speaker 3: and he had barely been there then, I mean didn't
Speaker 3: want him hired in the first place.
Speaker 4: So when that happened, man, it was like an early Christmas.
Speaker 3: And then Antonio Pierce doing what he did and the
Speaker 3: Raiders scoring sixty three points was another Christmas. And then
Speaker 3: the final Christmas gift was trouncing the Chiefs, the defense
Speaker 3: scoring two touchdowns in seven secs and watching Kelsey throw
Speaker 3: his helmet, Patrick Mahomes crying to his O line on
Speaker 3: the sideline. Then it was a beautiful thing because the
Speaker 3: Chiefs have rubbed it in with their victories against the
Speaker 3: Raiders often and so to see those merry go round
Speaker 3: Chiefs lose to the Raiders on Christmas Day, that was
Speaker 3: a beautiful twenty twenty three happening.
Speaker 1: And Antonio Peers is in the Dan Campbell, I guess
Speaker 1: I don't think quilt's the right word but because like
Speaker 1: when I remember Antonio Pierce took over and the Raiders,
Speaker 1: remember they won the first game. I think they played
Speaker 1: the Giants. If I remember the Jets in one of
Speaker 1: the New York teams and they won, and they were
Speaker 1: smoking cigars in the locker room.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, Max Crosby, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I had a team attendant go out and get cigars
Speaker 3: and put one in each locker prior to the game
Speaker 3: that confident that ap would lead them to a victory
Speaker 3: over for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the kind of stuff. If it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, this guy's a clown. Dan Campbell, people
Speaker 1: goofed on him because the kneecap thing with the Lions
Speaker 1: one of the visions, So that's something, it's not nothing.
Speaker 1: And the other things that stand out on Big Ben's
Speaker 1: big board the downfall, the trap door opening up for
Speaker 1: the Patriots as they have fallen in to an over
Speaker 1: abundance of bad bacteria. They've played like smelly farts all year.
Speaker 1: My Rams, who were supposed to be a total dumpster
Speaker 1: fire with a roster filled with a couple of star players,
Speaker 1: surrounded by flotsam and jetsam, a bunch of bits and
Speaker 1: odd ends and handy downs and second hand players mostly useless.
Speaker 1: And yet the Rams are for the moment. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens today. But the Rams at the moment we're talking,
Speaker 1: they put the Giants today, so they should win that game.
Speaker 1: But you'd think with Tommy Cutt it's benched for Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: But either way, the Rams have found a couple of
Speaker 1: ball plays. And so I expected this to be a
Speaker 1: miserable team that was just going to suck, and they
Speaker 1: don't suck like they're not. You know, they played pretty
Speaker 1: well the last couple of months. Last month and a half,
Speaker 1: they played very well.
Speaker 4: So you can ram it into the New Year all night.
Speaker 1: You can ram it all night, and many people apparently will.
Speaker 1: I'm told here on New Year's Eve you can ram
Speaker 1: it all k me and ram it all night. But
Speaker 1: that's a different topic of conversation. We have the mail bag.
Speaker 1: You want to get into that right now? Are you
Speaker 1: ready for the mail bag?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go. Last one of the year.
Speaker 1: It's bag. I said, we will not do another mail
Speaker 1: bag on this show all year till next week and
Speaker 1: then we'll do a new week. But anyway, here yeah,
Speaker 1: first one off, Freigster writes in from Parts Unknown, didn't
Speaker 1: not say where he's from. He says, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: how long does how low? How low? How low does
Speaker 1: the temperature have to go in Socow for you to
Speaker 1: put on a sweater or a coat? He says, thank
Speaker 1: you for doing the show here over the holidays. It
Speaker 1: is much appreciated. Well, thank you, Craigster. So we have
Speaker 1: this thin California blood Danny, right, is that what we
Speaker 1: have here because we're used to the not it's not
Speaker 1: like Miami weather, but it's you know, usually it's around
Speaker 1: seventy five degrees give or take. It's hotter in the summer,
Speaker 1: closer to ninety five degrees most days, but mostly it's
Speaker 1: in the seventies.
Speaker 3: I was only really put on big jackets when it's
Speaker 3: raining a lot. When it's cold and raining, that's when
Speaker 3: we'll take out a real jacket because I don't know
Speaker 3: about you, but really I have like wind breakers and
Speaker 3: really thin jackets.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of winter coats because of my
Speaker 1: travels and over the years where I've had to go
Speaker 1: to the East Coast in the winter, but that I
Speaker 1: don't they're like in the back of a closet. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like they're buried, like I'd have to search for
Speaker 1: them to find them.
Speaker 4: It's that kind of And it's what it gets to
Speaker 4: be around what forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say in anything under forty five. And
Speaker 1: it does actually get down into the thirties occasionally at night,
Speaker 1: depending on the January February, it'll get get pretty cold.
Speaker 1: So it was very foggy this week in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night. Most people probably didn't notice it because
Speaker 1: they were sleeping, but I was driving and.
Speaker 3: It was Oh I drove in that to the Dan
Speaker 3: Patrick show. There there was a little bit of pea
Speaker 3: soup fog going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the greatest to drive it. That's a
Speaker 1: little tough. That's a little or thank you craigster Mike
Speaker 1: in North Hollerton, right, since that has a happy Kwanza,
Speaker 1: Ben and Dan and g and the guys. I hope
Speaker 1: Santa paid you both a visit back on Christmas, because
Speaker 1: the Big Guy sure came through for me this year.
Speaker 1: Well I'm g I'm glad the Big Guy too. Curious
Speaker 1: Is there any point is there?
Speaker 4: He gave me a baby?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Hello, Hello? Is there any point in going, well,
Speaker 1: he didn't have the baby, but my wife I would
Speaker 1: hope not. Is there any point that in going all
Speaker 1: out on presents for a baby's first Christmas? Or should
Speaker 1: you wait until they're a little older? Can a zero
Speaker 1: equal even appreciate presence?
Speaker 3: I like this, Ben, because there are experts who point
Speaker 3: out that baby's mind start collecting happy or sad memories immediately.
Speaker 3: So this whole myth of oh, you should wait until
Speaker 3: till the kid is old enough to remember this before
Speaker 3: you do this, that or the other, that's a bunch
Speaker 3: of bullshit. You're supposed to put a baby, an infant,
Speaker 3: or a toddler in really good, happy situations and travels
Speaker 3: as soon as you can. You know, you hear that
Speaker 3: a lot like I'm not going to do this or
Speaker 3: that until the kid is old enough to remember.
Speaker 1: So I have read a little bit about this, and
Speaker 1: as I understand it, I think you're referencing what many
Speaker 1: of us have referenced, the Sigmund Freud term childhood amnesia. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember things before I think my first
Speaker 1: memory was I was around five or six. I don't
Speaker 1: really remember anything before that. But it's one of those
Speaker 1: weird things where it's like your brain resets. For some
Speaker 1: people it might be at three years old. For some
Speaker 1: people it might be like me five or six, or
Speaker 1: maybe it's even later than that. But all that crap
Speaker 1: gets filed away, even it's in your subconscience. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're the.
Speaker 3: Earliest file folder in your brain, even though you can't
Speaker 3: go back and necessarily access it when you want to.
Speaker 3: For me, it's crazy because I have memories of things
Speaker 3: that happened when I was like two, two and a
Speaker 3: half years old, and my mom is like, how in
Speaker 3: the world do you remember that? And I tell my
Speaker 3: older brother things were like, I'm like, you don't remember this.
Speaker 3: You don't remember that. He's like, how the hell do
Speaker 3: you remember that? He's like you his first memories are
Speaker 3: from like preschool and kindergarten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't remember anything before that. I've
Speaker 1: seen photos, so I kind of like I could.
Speaker 4: Throw I was there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I obviously was there, but I don't really remember.
Speaker 1: So so those infant ears.
Speaker 3: Well, also, when I was two, my mom stabbed my dad,
Speaker 3: so it was hard to forget traumatic incidents like that.
Speaker 1: It's quite the Thanksgiving dinner. Mike also says, Ben, I
Speaker 1: hear Brian Only's choice for best man has been narrowed
Speaker 1: down to you and me. Good luck and may the
Speaker 1: best man get chosen. Well, I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be you, Fergy. Somebody sent me a message that I
Speaker 1: thought that was an April fool's.
Speaker 3: Joke that not Fergie, did you mean Corgy. I'm sure
Speaker 3: the Corgi is going to be the best man.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a wedding that will be. What
Speaker 1: a wedding that is.
Speaker 4: Going to be like dog day at the ballpark.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, are they going to be in his
Speaker 1: and hers UCLA year at that event?
Speaker 4: Like gotta be a whole lot of dogs humping at
Speaker 4: that wedding reception?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag, Jeff in Maine rights and
Speaker 1: he says, Hey, guys, thank you for entertaining me. Ben,
Speaker 1: I've been listening for all of your twenty plus years.
Speaker 1: Way back to you doing weekend overnights entertaining me delivering
Speaker 1: newspapers here in central Maine. Thanks guy, he's still doing it?
Speaker 4: Is that str twenty years of you?
Speaker 1: I dare you well Jeff, thank you very much. I
Speaker 1: was in your fine state, although I'm told I wasn't
Speaker 1: really in your state because I was only in Portland, Maine,
Speaker 1: but I bubbed out. I did not get a chance
Speaker 1: to meet you when I was there. But hopefully, if
Speaker 1: things go well we get another season of Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny, I might make my way back to the
Speaker 1: great state of Maine, and maybe this time I will
Speaker 1: drive up a little further to get to the heart
Speaker 1: and soul where the real people live in the state
Speaker 1: of Maine and experience the moose and the wild bears
Speaker 1: and all that to get the full experience. But Jeff,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. I do I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: hope you have a great celebration. Here is this is
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, James writes in from so Kelly says,
Speaker 1: what player hit? Oh see this is like this is
Speaker 1: a sports nerd question, Danny, He says, what player hit
Speaker 1: the second most home runs during the nineteen fifties and
Speaker 1: hit at least twenty each season from nineteen fifty to
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine. From James, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you know that I had his baseball card my
Speaker 4: uncle gave it to me. It was an old one, rusty.
Speaker 1: Rusty, rusty knots Is that what you.
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Willie Mays, who the hell knows?
Speaker 1: I have no I I had to be Willy May's
Speaker 1: I would think. Actually, right, Willie Mays played. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he played all of the fifties, though I
Speaker 1: think he missed the year.
Speaker 3: Pretty sure it was Bob Horner Horny, good old horny
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 1: So James bat job by you Fred in Spring Texas? Right,
Speaker 1: since says greeting guys, can you share with the class
Speaker 1: any presence that you either gave or received over the holidays? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I'm of the age don't get don't get presents
Speaker 1: really anymore, not not really presents. I just I need stuff.
Speaker 4: I buy it.
Speaker 1: I have money, not much, but I have some. So
Speaker 1: if I need something during the it's much like halftime
Speaker 1: adjustments we talked about. I don't wait till the holiday
Speaker 1: to get something. But a lot of people were kind
Speaker 1: of a family gave like they want to get me
Speaker 1: fat again, so they gave candy and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: which I already make.
Speaker 4: So I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really need it. There are some holiday gifts
Speaker 1: which I still have not I'm very late, Dandy. I
Speaker 1: have a little something for you, and I have not
Speaker 1: been able to give it to you because I keep forgetting.
Speaker 1: I worked only a couple days last week and did
Speaker 1: not bring the goods.
Speaker 4: But I will.
Speaker 1: I will make sure I do that, but not too much.
Speaker 1: I think I'm past Fred the age. I get a
Speaker 1: lot of cool stuff. Anything great for you, Danny, anything
Speaker 1: wonderful there?
Speaker 4: Well, for Christmas we did the trip to Disneyland.
Speaker 3: We did do stockings for the kids, and I gave
Speaker 3: one to my better half in there was. I gave
Speaker 3: her a gift that made her cry. That's when you
Speaker 3: know you're doing good. There's this jewelry company. You upload
Speaker 3: a digital photo and they cut it out with sterling silver.
Speaker 3: Looks just like the picture. So I sent in a
Speaker 3: picture of baby CoA and the jewelry came back to me.
Speaker 3: It's dependent on a necklace in it's Coa's face.
Speaker 1: Wow, there's a face there a fan.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Well, thank you, Fred, you're there every week.
Speaker 1: We appreciate that. Alf from the Witness Protection Program right
Speaker 1: since says Ben, do you have a good relationship with
Speaker 1: these suits over there at NBC and are they very litigious?
Speaker 1: The reason I ask is that my wife just got
Speaker 1: me the greatest gift ever, second only to the birthday
Speaker 1: cameo that my daughter got me from a radio gas
Speaker 1: bag a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: Howard stern On cameo, I dare you.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid that someone in the knoll over there at
Speaker 1: NBC may have my address now because of said gift
Speaker 1: and might want to put the kebash on the whole
Speaker 1: ALF the Alien Opiner bit due to legal reasons. If
Speaker 1: you don't hear from me again, you'll know why. Peace
Speaker 1: and love possibly the Alien Opiner formerly known as ALF.
Speaker 1: It's funny you bring that up out because I have
Speaker 1: been wandering the hallways of the NBC studios there the
Speaker 1: place we do Betty versus the Penny from there, the
Speaker 1: West Coast Hub, and I've yet to find an ALF poster.
Speaker 1: I was trying to find one because I thought I'll
Speaker 1: take a picture for at He Loves Out, and I've
Speaker 1: not found. What I found there's like a Cheers poster.
Speaker 1: All these old NBA NBC shows from back in the
Speaker 1: day is Howard Stern on cameo. God, No, there's no
Speaker 1: way he doesn't. He barely shows up to his satellite show.
Speaker 4: Why would he do?
Speaker 1: No chance?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how much would he charge for a cameo if
Speaker 4: he was on there?
Speaker 2: You know who?
Speaker 1: I bet you who's on there is like the whack
Speaker 1: pack guys from the Stern Show are on there.
Speaker 4: They're the ones that like, yeah, the rest of the crew, yeah.
Speaker 1: And the old guys like I bet Stuttering John's on
Speaker 1: there probably. I bet you can get a stuttering John.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good call. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or I bet you even Baba Booie's not on there,
Speaker 1: Gary Dellabody, he's made a ton of money.
Speaker 4: I bet you he's It was a good deal. I
Speaker 4: saw you on there. Yours is reasonably priced, and I
Speaker 4: know you put your all your effort into it.
Speaker 1: I got in trouble. I got in trouble with Cameo
Speaker 1: because I was doing like mini monologues. I was doing
Speaker 1: like five or six seven minute monologues, and the people
Speaker 1: of Cameo sent me a message like, what the what
Speaker 1: the fuck are you doing? These are supposed to be
Speaker 1: one minute video messages. We don't have the bandwidth for
Speaker 1: you to do ten.
Speaker 4: Minutes for one lap dances and.
Speaker 1: I was like, I felt guilty because like people were paying,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, I feel bad these people paying.
Speaker 1: I want to get when their money's worth. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser. Barry from South Carolina
Speaker 1: rights in. He says, yo yo Ma, Benny and Danny
Speaker 1: G can you tell me the origins? He says, how
Speaker 1: you guys came up with the term golden ticket for
Speaker 1: a prize on your games where you've you've you've asked
Speaker 1: the pigage? Because I believe there was a guy and
Speaker 1: I don't remember his name. I think he works with
Speaker 1: Colvino and rich Now and does a weekend podcast. It's
Speaker 1: pretty popular that may or may not have been the
Speaker 1: one that originated that, but I forget, you know, my
Speaker 1: memory is not that good at this point, Danny.
Speaker 3: So the way it came about was one night off
Speaker 3: the air, I was talking to Real Talk and he
Speaker 3: told me, you know what would be cool? He said, uh,
Speaker 3: if there was like a way to get to the
Speaker 3: front of the line because I'm sick of being on hold.
Speaker 3: And I thought about it, and I'm like, man, that's
Speaker 3: a good idea, maybe we can do like an incentive
Speaker 3: program to get to the front of the line. And
Speaker 3: I thought about, you know, Willie Wanka and the Golden Ticket,
Speaker 3: and I was like, that is the ticket.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember typing it out, a one page explanation of
Speaker 3: how it would work, and I remember giving it to
Speaker 3: you and Coop, and Coop was kind of like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 3: and you thought it was a good idea. And I
Speaker 3: found that little jingle from the movie and the rest
Speaker 3: is history.
Speaker 1: No, I've never go yeah, well most things I give
Speaker 1: coopies like whatever, you know, but that's just you know,
Speaker 1: just how he's why. So it's yeah, so Barry Danny
Speaker 1: g is the one that came up with the Golden Ticket,
Speaker 1: which we still use today. This next one did they
Speaker 1: did not sign their name. I did not sign their name.
Speaker 1: So from unknown lists automous, yes, anonymous, right, since it
Speaker 1: is Ben and Danny G. I would I have been slacking?
Speaker 1: Oh this, I think there's our buddy from Wisconsin. I
Speaker 1: think Nick and Wisconscious. I have been slacking the last
Speaker 1: few months. So I think twenty twenty four I will
Speaker 1: be I will have to do better. So I have
Speaker 1: a would you rather would you rather have your tooth
Speaker 1: accidentally knocked out or you your fingernail accidentally ripped off.
Speaker 4: Oh, well, you've had a toenail ripped off.
Speaker 1: I have had multiple toenails ripped off. I have had
Speaker 1: a tooth randomly disappear. I gotta tell you, as bad
Speaker 1: as it as bad as it feels to lose a
Speaker 1: fingernail or a toenail, I would rather have that than
Speaker 1: the teeth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because anybody who's had toothaches or emergencies with their
Speaker 3: teeth knows that pain because it.
Speaker 4: Is part of your nervous system.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's terrible. I had emergency medical I had emergency
Speaker 1: medical surgery.
Speaker 4: Was it this year?
Speaker 1: I guess was last year? And yeah, I remember it
Speaker 1: was a nightmare. And I've lost toenails and it hurts
Speaker 1: like an m effort. But they will go back, and
Speaker 1: there's stuff you can put on it so it doesn't.
Speaker 4: Hurt that much like a lizard's tail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tooth thing, I'm told they don't grow back.
Speaker 1: I'm told they don't grow back. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we're in agreement on that fingernail. All right, last one,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on this. Kevin in Kansas, Yes, right, sin,
Speaker 1: he says. Dear Ben and Danny G says, First, thanks
Speaker 1: for making twenty twenty three the year of the best
Speaker 1: podcast duo out there. Well, thank you, Kevin. Kevin's no
Speaker 1: longer teaching, He's retired, right, he still listens to the podcast,
Speaker 1: good friend, he says. Secondly, what do you consider more
Speaker 1: interesting artwork? Dogs playing poker or the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 3: Come on, you know, dogs playing poker is the shit
Speaker 3: my very first bedroom, my mom was a single parent
Speaker 3: at the time, with me and my older brother, and
Speaker 3: on our bedroom wall she had dogs playing cards, all right,
Speaker 3: and I will never forget that picture that was hanging
Speaker 3: up in our BEDROOMFF.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I reference the Mona Lisa because people know
Speaker 1: of the Mona Lisa. If I talk about a great performance,
Speaker 1: I'll say, Hey, the Mona Lisa and all that. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a dog explain poker? Or The one that still
Speaker 1: fascinates me to this day is the photo. It's I
Speaker 1: consider it art. Have you seen I'm sure I think
Speaker 1: we've talked about it that the photo of the the
Speaker 1: people eating lunch on a on a skyscraper on like
Speaker 1: a beam. Hey for Manhattan.
Speaker 4: I actually have a framed copy of that.
Speaker 1: I love that photo.
Speaker 4: I saw that framed and I'm like, I gotta have that.
Speaker 3: And you know those purchases where you're like, it's a lot,
Speaker 3: but I kind of grabbed that. I gotta get it
Speaker 3: because I don't think I'm gonna see that again. That's
Speaker 3: that's one of the pieces of art that I own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that photo is almost one hundred years olds from
Speaker 1: the nineteen early nineteen thirties. I read somewhere that it
Speaker 1: was for like a marketing campaign or something like that,
Speaker 1: that that's they were posing. Yeah, yeah, I did know that.
Speaker 4: I thought it was catching them randomly while they were
Speaker 4: on their lunch break.
Speaker 1: No, no, I think it was to promote something that
Speaker 1: it was not. They didn't just go.
Speaker 4: But still, yeah, it's still a cool ass picture.
Speaker 1: It is unreal, like they're just hanging out. One guy's smoking, Yeah,
Speaker 1: guys of smoking. They don't have a couple guys don't
Speaker 1: have their shirts on. You know, they weren't old.
Speaker 4: They got those old school lunch boxes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's great, man, that is just a wonderful.
Speaker 1: That is amazing to me. I know you didn't ask
Speaker 1: about that, Kevin, but so what listen have a wonderful, safe,
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. I will be not in the audio
Speaker 1: dojo the next couple of nights, but we will be
Speaker 1: back loud and proud on January. I believe January first
Speaker 1: into the second, January first into the second.
Speaker 5: I believe Tuesday. Yes, FSR staff returns. Yeah, Tuesday night,
Speaker 5: I'll be back, and we'll be back for the long haul.
Speaker 5: And I don't think I have any more days away planned.
Speaker 5: You never know what's gonna pop up, but that's that's
Speaker 5: what we have. And I assume you'll be back on
Speaker 5: Tuesday as well, Danny, Is that is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tuesday afternoon, we'll be back Kevin on Rich in
Speaker 3: our usual five to seven pm East Coast time spot.
Speaker 1: Now it's dandy, all right, listen, have a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Thank you for supporting the show and
Speaker 1: following the show all year and all the years that
Speaker 1: we've been doing this. And we'll have brand new shows
Speaker 1: starting soon here as we flipped the calendar. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you next time.
Speaker 4: Thank you for such an amazing year. There's no question
Speaker 4: Asta pasta got a murder.
Speaker 6: I gotta go, Hey, hey, hey, let you go everything
Speaker 6: Eddie touches turns to ash. You need to put them
Speaker 6: in this place. I'll tell you another thing then, and
Speaker 6: you can put I'll put this on my mama, and
Speaker 6: you can. You can make a note of this and
Speaker 6: write it down. This may be my last call I'll
Speaker 6: ever make it to Eddie dropped the gin, and I'll
Speaker 6: tell you what I am floor. All Patriots, fans, all
Speaker 6: New English fans, all fans of the NFL, to rise
Speaker 6: against Eddie Garcia and stand with real talk against this issue.
Speaker 1: How about shut up, go to hell, King Eddie.
Speaker 4: Boo boo boo boo boo.
Speaker 6: Back up, back up, get jack up, check up,