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Speaker 1: got more and more people who have been emailing questions
Speaker 1: in so that takes a little pressure off the Facebook
Speaker 1: Army Danny, which is which is always nice. Uh. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it. And again these are actual questions
Speaker 1: sent in by actual fans of the show. God Love You,
Speaker 1: Thank you all right. First up is Neil and Jasper Deanna,
Speaker 1: formerly known as Can't Close the Deal. Neil one of
Speaker 1: the great callers on the show, and uh famous famous
Speaker 1: phone call was that woman in Kentucky, right, wasn't it
Speaker 1: There was a listener in Kentucky. Yes, I forget her name,
Speaker 1: was it like Jennifer in Kentucky. Was Jennifer in Kentucky? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jennifer and Kentucky. Very nice woman. And uh she went
Speaker 1: on a date. Neil and her went on a date
Speaker 1: and the sparks did not fly, apparently, so the guys
Speaker 1: gave him the nickname Can't Close the Deal. Neil. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says, although I did really close the deal. He
Speaker 1: now he's claiming. Neil's claiming after the fact that he
Speaker 1: closed the deal. Danny, g what do you think you
Speaker 1: think he's just history? You think that's some of that
Speaker 1: hoo's your state politeness there that he's that he had.
Speaker 1: But now after the statue of limitations has run out,
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I did it. I did it. I
Speaker 1: like Neil. I'm not sure about that statement though a
Speaker 1: little skeptical of that. Neil. Anyway, I can't close the
Speaker 1: Deal'neil says, can you give me some must things to
Speaker 1: do or must do things if I visit southern California.
Speaker 1: I've always had been a dream of mine, He says,
Speaker 1: always been a dream of might have visited California. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you have plenty of advice for me. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about doing it within the next year. Uh. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: it depends on what kind of experience you want in California, Neil.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to do. Uh, spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in traffic. You gotta plan out when to drive,
Speaker 1: when not to drive. That would be the most important thing.
Speaker 1: It's pretty tough to do, uber if you want to
Speaker 1: get a good, good grasp of California or southern California,
Speaker 1: because it's so spread out. That's one of the problems.
Speaker 1: But you can do the Hollywood. The studio tours are
Speaker 1: pretty cool. If you you're into the movies. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: You can see a live taping that's free. Uh if
Speaker 1: you've never done that before. They tape sitcoms and I
Speaker 1: think that's stuff back open now after the COVID, right, Danny,
Speaker 1: I think it is. Um So if you're in the
Speaker 1: Hollywood stuff, that would be great. Uh, Universal Studios, Disneyland,
Speaker 1: Nottsberry Farm. There's a lot of amusement parks around here,
Speaker 1: the beaches. But it's like there's all these different beach
Speaker 1: experiences because you've got Malibu Maliboo boo as my phone
Speaker 1: starts talking to me, but you've got Malibu Boo. I
Speaker 1: always my favorite place to take people from out of
Speaker 1: town as Venice Beach. I love going to people watch
Speaker 1: at Venice Beach. It's a freak show. Smoke weed. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Santa Barbara, you and I've talked about
Speaker 1: the Central Coast many times on the podcast. From Danna
Speaker 1: Barbara e Pismo Beach to Passo. If your girl likes
Speaker 1: to wine taste, there's tons of good wineries where you
Speaker 1: can get your girl nice and liquored up. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that area around the Hearst Castle is am it's hard
Speaker 1: to imagine you go to the Hearst Castle on all
Speaker 1: that land as far as you can see, was owned
Speaker 1: by a newspaper magnet And it's just and he and
Speaker 1: he died, his family donated the land of the state
Speaker 1: of California. Otherwise there would be massive cities. There'd probably
Speaker 1: be big cities now with professional sports teams. And it
Speaker 1: is an amazing geographical location, central California. I love it.
Speaker 1: I have a big fan, just like you. And and
Speaker 1: then Yosemite. People don't realize that beautiful national park that
Speaker 1: we have here. When you are in Yosemite, it doesn't
Speaker 1: exactly feel like California. No, no, no, absolutely. And and
Speaker 1: I love Sequoia. The Sequoia trees are amazing, the giant forest.
Speaker 1: It's kind of near Fresno a little bit. It's in
Speaker 1: between Fresno and Baker's Field. It's off the map a bit,
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty cool. So it's you know what
Speaker 1: you want, what expends what you want? You can't do.
Speaker 1: You can't do everything, so you gotta pick and choose. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's also I love the beach in Corona del Mar.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful Newport beach. That's awesome. Don't forget. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't forget beautiful northern California like Point Reyes. You can
Speaker 1: go to San Francisco and on the well, you can
Speaker 1: do that in l A. Also, you can do that
Speaker 1: in l A skid Row. And Neil said he's gonna
Speaker 1: visit Southern California's skid Row. Neil, do they still have
Speaker 1: the ghost Busters Firehouse? It's in skid Row in l A.
Speaker 1: The not in New York. The outside firehouse is actually
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles where they feel the original Ghostbusters back
Speaker 1: in the day. Or you could pull a coop. You
Speaker 1: could go to Chico. You can go to Humboldt County.
Speaker 1: I would like to work with Seth Rogan. I think
Speaker 1: that'd be really fun. I wonder why, Yeah, you could.
Speaker 1: The possibilities are endless, are endless, So good luck. Let
Speaker 1: us know, Neil, what you end up doing, and good luck,
Speaker 1: safe travels. You'll have a fun time. It's pretty expensive,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you've never been, so there's that's
Speaker 1: why so many people want to live in this area
Speaker 1: and deal with the crazy taxes and the traffic and
Speaker 1: the earthquakes and the fires. And we didn't even mentioned
Speaker 1: San Diego. This state is huge. Literally could spend two
Speaker 1: weeks on vacation here and not even scratch the surface.
Speaker 1: It's like a kinned on the east coast. If you
Speaker 1: combine Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and parts of Virginia,
Speaker 1: that would be California. Yeah. Yeah, Berry in Nashville is next,
Speaker 1: he says, Yo yo Ma Benny. Danny G has talked
Speaker 1: about his tattoos. Do you have any tattoos? If so,
Speaker 1: what and where? No tattoos by me, he says. Also,
Speaker 1: does Danny g regret any of his ninety nine tattoos?
Speaker 1: Danny and he regrets on the tattoos. Uh, you have
Speaker 1: anything that you wish you didn't get? No? No, I
Speaker 1: think that I mentioned that I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: last year doing some cover ups, and it wasn't because
Speaker 1: of regret. It was because of old ink. You know,
Speaker 1: when you have a tattoo that's fifteen years old, the
Speaker 1: ink is not what it's should be in the art
Speaker 1: isn't up to modern standards of a tattoo. Like you
Speaker 1: look at tattoos nowadays compared to tattoos even twenty just
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, huge difference. You could even see that
Speaker 1: in an NBA game. There might be a veteran off
Speaker 1: the bench and his tattoos just look kind of beat up.
Speaker 1: And then you see a young kid just out of
Speaker 1: college and he's got some badass tattoos on him. That
Speaker 1: is the difference. Back in the day, the art in
Speaker 1: the tattoo machines that ink. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: advancement in technology for tattooing, So it's come a long
Speaker 1: way in just twenty years. You go to a good
Speaker 1: tattoo artist now and you could get a masterpiece on
Speaker 1: your arm. Back in the day, not so much. So
Speaker 1: I spent a good year doing cover ups. So now
Speaker 1: I look like I'm an NBA player straight out of college.
Speaker 1: Right now you look like Birdman. There's one of those
Speaker 1: birds going have a lot of colored tattoodes. I have
Speaker 1: black and gray. Yeah. I spent one night the Birdman.
Speaker 1: Chris Anderson was playing for the Denver Nuggets and they
Speaker 1: were playing the Clippers, and I was out there and
Speaker 1: I was riveted. He was shooting jumpers before the game
Speaker 1: and he had his whole neck like up until the
Speaker 1: back of his hand was covered in tattoos. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: A lot of the rappers nowadays have all the face
Speaker 1: tattoos and everything. See, there's areas I would never tat.
Speaker 1: I would never go on my neck. I would never
Speaker 1: do anywhere near the face. I don't even have full
Speaker 1: sleeves because I can cover my tattoos up with a longer,
Speaker 1: short sleeve shirt. And I want to keep it that
Speaker 1: way because if my mom saw my tattoos, she would faint. Wait,
Speaker 1: just she doesn't know the really, oh, because when I
Speaker 1: visit my mom, they're covered up. So yeah, you've been
Speaker 1: able to keep this from your mom. Yeah, don't tell her,
Speaker 1: all right, big fan of the podcast, your mom, I'm
Speaker 1: sure she Yeah, she'll listen in to FSR Live sometimes
Speaker 1: the live show, but no, she's not a podcast listener.
Speaker 1: I got you interesting. That's crazy. How old were you
Speaker 1: when you got your first tattoo? Seven? I got my
Speaker 1: first tattoo when I was when I was all right,
Speaker 1: that's still a long time. Not not to date you, dandy,
Speaker 1: but that's a long run to not be around your
Speaker 1: mom and then not Yeah, well, you know, she lives
Speaker 1: in northern California. I'm lucky to see her twice a year.
Speaker 1: With COVID, I saw her zero times a year. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a little easier to hide something from a parent
Speaker 1: when you're not around them very often. That is a
Speaker 1: fair point. And so your mom has not seen your
Speaker 1: arms since you were twenty three. That's while the raider
Speaker 1: tattoo I got when I was twenty three was up
Speaker 1: on my shoulder. Okay, obviously I'm not gonna be rocking
Speaker 1: a tank top around my mom. I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you, all right, moving on here. I got mail yea,
Speaker 1: I got mail ya. Ravvy and Madison, also known as
Speaker 1: your feem me on Twitter, says, hey, Ben, if you
Speaker 1: guys have some extra budget, it would be cool to
Speaker 1: make animated shorts with audio clips from the show Funniest
Speaker 1: Moments an animated form. Also, what is your current favorite drop?
Speaker 1: I gotta go with the fart drop for me. There
Speaker 1: are two variations, I believe. Finally, a shout out to
Speaker 1: my friend Glenn for putting me onto the show. That's
Speaker 1: from Ravvy. Well, Revvy, that's that's funny. I I always
Speaker 1: get a kick out of we both like Danny g
Speaker 1: I think the racist drop when you play it for everything,
Speaker 1: I get a kick out of that the most. The
Speaker 1: most non racist things in the world. You put the
Speaker 1: racist drop on there, always think that's hilarious. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: read the letter last week about a black hole and
Speaker 1: their racist drop. After that, anything where you say white
Speaker 1: or black, I play that. There are certain drops that
Speaker 1: just if you fit them in at the right time,
Speaker 1: they really hit. And I know what he's talking about
Speaker 1: with that fart joke, Ben, because there's been times on
Speaker 1: the podcast where all I need to do to end
Speaker 1: our thought about the topic is just play the fart. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns the page. Yeah, And as far as my favorite,
Speaker 1: it really changes by the day. Rabbit depends what kind
Speaker 1: of mood I'm in. I always laugh at the funky
Speaker 1: chicken are said in Cleveland did this little chicken song thing,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious. Hey Mona is another one of my
Speaker 1: favorites because it's Madison Wisconsin, Kathleen and Madison who was
Speaker 1: so excited to sing a song for us and has
Speaker 1: been immortalized on the show because of that that line,
Speaker 1: hay Mona, the way she said it. Also, Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 1: There's a little clip of Dick and Dayton who's in
Speaker 1: two bands in Dayton, Ohio, and he sung on the
Speaker 1: show a little bit of a song and he was
Speaker 1: it was the most uninterested. He could not have put
Speaker 1: less effort in to the song. If I always laugh
Speaker 1: at that, I think that's that's hilarious. And there's also
Speaker 1: a lot of hollering James stuff from him snoring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have a good one of him saying bring
Speaker 1: back the white women. Yeah, that's a that's another good
Speaker 1: one white women. There's so there's so many blind Scott
Speaker 1: talking about his plunger uh and uh, there's there's a ton.
Speaker 1: So it really depends on my mood some some weeks.
Speaker 1: There's different things. I like like when somebody asked you,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite Michael Bolton song? Yeah, we think drops,
Speaker 1: you think, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's just I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the entire catalogue. Yeah, so thank you, Rabby.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you like the fart drop, which is
Speaker 1: just about as generica drop as you can get. But
Speaker 1: what's so be it? I was like the out of
Speaker 1: context ones like the Rob Manford, Uh, Dave Roberts, I
Speaker 1: really liked him in that spot, the kerk Shaw We
Speaker 1: don't play those enough. The Kershaw one we goofed on
Speaker 1: Walker Bueler because he pitched a complete game this week
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and like a hundred eight pitches I
Speaker 1: think it was. And we we were like, how selfish
Speaker 1: that is of of Walker Bueller to want to pitch
Speaker 1: a complete game, and I was more concerned about him
Speaker 1: giving me a double fish. That kind of stuff is
Speaker 1: pretty funny, all right. Next up on the mail back, Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, Carlos in Houston Byang Byang, Texas says, long time,
Speaker 1: no talk, Ben. I'm always listening, even when I don't
Speaker 1: send in questions. Thank you for explaining the Mendoza line.
Speaker 1: I thought it was named after the broadcaster Jessica Mendoza.
Speaker 1: Uh my question for you this week is will Real
Speaker 1: Talk ever come back to the show? I need some
Speaker 1: Ben in the people the game show. Uh well, let
Speaker 1: me let me stop right there. So I have. I've
Speaker 1: lifted the band on Real Talk. Back up, back up,
Speaker 1: up up. As many know, I came back after my
Speaker 1: father passed away. It was very emotional. I had, uh
Speaker 1: my dad. I did not think was gonna check out
Speaker 1: when he checked out. Unfortunately, you never know when you're
Speaker 1: gonna check out. He had not been sick up until
Speaker 1: a couple of days before he passed away, So it
Speaker 1: was very shocking, uh, and I had a tough time
Speaker 1: dealing with that. So when I came back, Real Talk
Speaker 1: kind of goofed on me a little bit, and we
Speaker 1: thought that was inappropriate, so we we didn't ban him
Speaker 1: from the show. We just put him on time out
Speaker 1: for like six months and then said he could come back.
Speaker 1: But he's he has not come back to the show,
Speaker 1: and so it's been been being a year in a
Speaker 1: few months since my father passed away. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know they'll ever come back. At this particular point,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure was if he was telling the truth,
Speaker 1: he was getting married, so maybe he's married now he's
Speaker 1: got kids. I don't know what's going on with him.
Speaker 1: And Carlos also says, I'm surprised you didn't do a
Speaker 1: Mallard monologue on the comments made by Adam Schefter and
Speaker 1: Gil Brandt about the Dwayne Haskins passing. Yeah, I debated
Speaker 1: doing that. I try to stay away from the death
Speaker 1: stuff as much as I can, just it's so sad
Speaker 1: and I hate talking about that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't put enough of that during lame jokes. Pretty
Speaker 1: much but but Gil brand that definitely crossed the line.
Speaker 1: Gil But I didn't think the Adam Am I wrong, Dan.
Speaker 1: I didn't think what Adam Schefter did was like egregious.
Speaker 1: I think it was just people in the in the
Speaker 1: moment getting upset by anything. It's not praising of Dwayne Haskins.
Speaker 1: But what Gil brand did you just can't do. But
Speaker 1: Schefter was just stating a fact thought about the guy's career.
Speaker 1: Brandt obviously sounded like an old Kajer shaking his fist
Speaker 1: at the clouds. When I read Schefter's thing, I was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: Like maybe he didn't really think it through all the way,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't horrible. Yeah, I had the same vibe,
Speaker 1: and I like Adam, so I don't know. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But Gil Brandt definitely, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Like when our grandparents say things that are racist or insensitive,
Speaker 1: it's sad that I say, we're used to it, but
Speaker 1: you kind of are because that's the way they talked
Speaker 1: back in the day, and a lot of them are
Speaker 1: stubborn and don't want to change the way they talk.
Speaker 1: But I also think at some point we're all going
Speaker 1: to be like that even now you live in politically
Speaker 1: correct times, Danny. But I think even we we get
Speaker 1: to a certain age, I believe the human body one
Speaker 1: of the things when you start to get a little older,
Speaker 1: the what's the filter? You lose the filter, You become
Speaker 1: more raw. You don't want to put up with the
Speaker 1: bullshit of life, and you just want to just let
Speaker 1: it rip. And so I just think people when they
Speaker 1: get older, they're like, I don't need to put up,
Speaker 1: I don't need to impress you. I'm gonna turn into
Speaker 1: a full time New Yorker. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much?
Speaker 1: All right? Next up on the mail bag, Tammy and Montana. Right,
Speaker 1: since it's Benn Danisy, you are correct. I am a
Speaker 1: nice person, but when someone attacks me or people I
Speaker 1: care about, then that changes. When hideous Helen stock Gascon's
Speaker 1: family and verbally attacked Coop Eddie, et cetera. On top
Speaker 1: of her bragging that crossed the tolerance line for me,
Speaker 1: Tammy says, hideous Helen, this is the war that's been
Speaker 1: going on here. She says, Hideous Helen always makes negative
Speaker 1: comments about sexual pleasure and arousal. She obviously isn't capable
Speaker 1: of arousing a man probably why she was fired as
Speaker 1: a fluffer. Wow. Uh, there's another meaning for the Mendoza
Speaker 1: line that Helen definitely fits. It's where a woman's stomach
Speaker 1: protrudes further than her breast. Wow. That's you Ever heard that? Danny?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that one. Uh. Sorry, Danny. There
Speaker 1: will be no uh kombayya songs with Helen. Question though,
Speaker 1: Tammy has for Danny fifty seven tattoos and counting. Would
Speaker 1: you get a tattoo honoring band? Wow? Wow? Maybe maybe,
Speaker 1: she says, maybe a Clipper banner for their Final four appearance?
Speaker 1: What is still wrong with the Clippers? She's going to
Speaker 1: play in tournament? Well, you know, I do have a
Speaker 1: Kobe tattoo. The Raider tattoo, now Ben is just updated.
Speaker 1: It's just uh. I have a sword that has a
Speaker 1: R and the sword and a Dodger logo. The D
Speaker 1: in cursive is the handle to the sword. Oh nice,
Speaker 1: it's my tip of the cap to both the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and the Raiders. As far as a radio tattoo, I
Speaker 1: learned my lesson on that because when I was a youngster,
Speaker 1: I got a girl's name tattooed on me because of
Speaker 1: a super bowl bet that I it live on the air,
Speaker 1: and it caused trouble throughout my adult life because whenever
Speaker 1: I would date somebody knew, they'd be like, who's this
Speaker 1: Trina bitch? And so I would have to tell the
Speaker 1: whole story, and that the girl would just not be
Speaker 1: impressed and like, yeah, sure, so yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: a little awkward. If you're a woman and you're making
Speaker 1: making with the dude and she's and he's got some
Speaker 1: some other woman's name on the tattoo, that'd be a
Speaker 1: little tough. I would think, Well, how about the chicks
Speaker 1: who got guys names on their back? Well, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it works the same way on the back to which
Speaker 1: is when you get a tattoo in your back, you're
Speaker 1: really I believe you're doing it for the main reason is, uh,
Speaker 1: certain activities Danny did so people can enjoy the view
Speaker 1: were not wrong in that. Girls like why are you
Speaker 1: slapping me right there? I want to show you where
Speaker 1: you need an updated tattoo. There was a guy when
Speaker 1: I was around the Dodgers, the guy the Dodges traded
Speaker 1: for from the Minnesota Twins, and I'd say the name.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of pictures. It's one of two
Speaker 1: guys and he had it was a journeyman relief picture,
Speaker 1: and he had he had a tattoo from every team
Speaker 1: he had played on. And it was kind of cool
Speaker 1: because it looked he had colored tattoos of the Twins logo,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers logo. I think he had the red sox
Speaker 1: on there. It was really neat and he had all
Speaker 1: the different teams and it looked it reminded me of
Speaker 1: the I used to get every year, because I'm old
Speaker 1: before the Internet, the Red and Green books would come
Speaker 1: out every year. They with the National League was I think,
Speaker 1: I think was the Green book, and the American League
Speaker 1: was the Red book, and it had all the logos
Speaker 1: on the back. And for some reason I just thought
Speaker 1: of that he looked like a NASCAR. Yeah, pretty much,
Speaker 1: pretty much, pretty much, all right, what is next year?
Speaker 1: We do? And Helen and Stu write in how about that?
Speaker 1: From palmetto Bay, Florida, says Ben and Danny ge We
Speaker 1: always enjoy your witty fifth hour commentary and hootspun. I
Speaker 1: love the word hudspos great word, Benjamin. Time for a
Speaker 1: long letter today. You need to grab your flat cap
Speaker 1: and catch a flight, we go right to the spicy
Speaker 1: question from Stu and his golf buddies. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: is Helen asking a question for ste the power couple
Speaker 1: from palmetto Bay Floor. And Helen says, Ben, what will
Speaker 1: you and your wife's romantic strategy be while staying at
Speaker 1: your brother's house in ultra conservative Appleton, Wisconsin, middle of
Speaker 1: the night, loud and proud relations and deal with the
Speaker 1: consequences at breakfast or quiet on the down low? Just
Speaker 1: ram it? Well, we actually have an update. Hell, that's
Speaker 1: quite the way to describe it. Uh. And you know
Speaker 1: how I am Helen from listening to this podcast. Uh,
Speaker 1: never loud and never proud when it comes to that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Only when it comes to me making
Speaker 1: a prediction on the radio show A my loud and proud.
Speaker 1: But when it's making whoopee, it's h was it slow
Speaker 1: and study wins the race? Quiet? You're in the library.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I actually am not. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be staying with my brother. I have an update. Now,
Speaker 1: I had assumed that you know what happens when you
Speaker 1: assumed Danny had assumed the position that I was gonna
Speaker 1: be staying at my brother's place in Appleton. I called
Speaker 1: my brother up this week to double confirm he and
Speaker 1: my other brother from New York who's meeting us. It's
Speaker 1: a big Mouther get together there in Appleton. I have
Speaker 1: not seen either one of my brothers in a long time,
Speaker 1: so we're all getting together to debor reunion. And my
Speaker 1: my older brother says, uh, well, he didn't tell me.
Speaker 1: I'm a younger brother told me my older brother had
Speaker 1: already booked up the guest room at the house, so
Speaker 1: that meant we had to scramble to find other other
Speaker 1: places to stay. But the good news is in Appleton,
Speaker 1: it's not a vacation destination. It's not Disney World, it's
Speaker 1: not Manhattan. Not a lot of people going to Appleton,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin on vacation. So I'm in. I'm in pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. There. You've got bro blocked. I did.
Speaker 1: I was. I was shocked. Ait man, Let's get an
Speaker 1: airmashers so I'll sleep on the floor. What's the big deal?
Speaker 1: But no, I gotta stay somewhere else, all right? Next
Speaker 1: up here, what do we have all come back? It's
Speaker 1: sim Pierre from Springfield says, been your tales of frugality
Speaker 1: or legend there, would you and Danny g care to
Speaker 1: share some of your life hacks or fast food hacks
Speaker 1: with some of us in the back of the class.
Speaker 1: He says, also, any chance of getting Rob Parker back
Speaker 1: on to talk some early season baseball, Trevor Bauer and
Speaker 1: some more of his bargain basement hacks. I love Rob
Speaker 1: well absolutely, when I get back, we'll have Rob will
Speaker 1: be in our rotation, assuming he'll do it. I think
Speaker 1: he will. I love talking ball with Rob, and he's
Speaker 1: got great stories and all that, and his days as
Speaker 1: a beat writer, and he's the one that inspired He
Speaker 1: told the story the famous if you're an old school
Speaker 1: baseball fan, the famous incident in Cincinnati between Lupinella and
Speaker 1: Rob Dibble was a Rob Parker creation, so to get
Speaker 1: him on. As far as frugality at fast food restaurants,
Speaker 1: I don't eat too much fast food these days. I'm
Speaker 1: not beyond beyond some of the hats you got any
Speaker 1: hacks right now? I have a lot of old tricks
Speaker 1: that wouldn't work anymore. Any tricks at fast food restaurants, Danny,
Speaker 1: that you want to share with the class, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give you one for Starbucks. So I don't go there daily,
Speaker 1: but I go there once in a while as a treat,
Speaker 1: maybe once a week. Get a frappuccino, some sort of
Speaker 1: sweet drink that also has caffeine in it, maybe like
Speaker 1: an iced latte caramel I like. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you tell them I'd like some caramel drizzle in that,
Speaker 1: which is the best part of their sugary drinks, they'll
Speaker 1: charge you an extra sixty six cents for that caramel.
Speaker 1: So what you do is order the drink the way
Speaker 1: it's supposed to come, and then when they're handing it
Speaker 1: to you, you just say, hey, whould you mind putting
Speaker 1: some caramel drizzle on that? In nine out of ten
Speaker 1: times they say, oh, no problem and take the top off,
Speaker 1: pour all that seventy cents of caramel in there, even
Speaker 1: though it really cost seventy cents. You're off to the races.
Speaker 1: I do that every time, Ben, and so I save
Speaker 1: a good sixty five cents every time I'm at Starbucks.
Speaker 1: All right, So you do the math and you go
Speaker 1: every week once a week. Is that right? Let me
Speaker 1: pull out the calculator. Hold on a secre. Pull out
Speaker 1: the calculator. To the math on this and you go
Speaker 1: every week during the course of the years that it
Speaker 1: might correct on that there's fifty do the math here
Speaker 1: and see you click on that. So there's fifty two
Speaker 1: weeks so and then sixty five cents, so you end
Speaker 1: up saving at the end of the fifty two weeks.
Speaker 1: But this is off. This is this math is off.
Speaker 1: So it's is it like, uh, it can't be that much?
Speaker 1: How much is that? Do the math? And my math
Speaker 1: is not thought there'd be no math on this show.
Speaker 1: Three hundred is that three? That would be thirty four
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Oh, I was way off. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: still pretty good for you know, coffee, thirty four bucks.
Speaker 1: That'll buy a quarter of a tank of gas. All right,
Speaker 1: But is next I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yea.
Speaker 1: Next up is Mike in Fullerton, he says, ben I was.
Speaker 1: It was not surprised to find out that you're afraid
Speaker 1: of alligators. It explains why you just like Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and his tiny alligator like arms so much. What would
Speaker 1: be a harder pill for you to swallow? Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: being the Rams quarterback in the future, or jose Albouve
Speaker 1: playing for the Dodgers at some point. Well, come on,
Speaker 1: this is very straightforward here. It's as much as I
Speaker 1: love the goof on Kyler Murray, it is albu Vey
Speaker 1: by a country month because at that point in time,
Speaker 1: I was at Game seven of the World Series. I
Speaker 1: was at I was very fortunately was able to go
Speaker 1: to the Dodger World Series games in twenty seventeen, Games
Speaker 1: one and two, and then the final couple of home
Speaker 1: games they had at Dodger Stadium, and so I was there.
Speaker 1: I was a waiting as I saw it, I with
Speaker 1: my own eyes, and I was like, I get to
Speaker 1: be there when they win the World Series. Now they
Speaker 1: did finally win the World Series in twenty I wasn't there,
Speaker 1: though they wanted in Arlington during COVID, I didn't get
Speaker 1: to go. So Jose Albouve deprived me of a great
Speaker 1: life moment and experience that could have had if they
Speaker 1: hadn't been cheating. We all know the Astros were much
Speaker 1: worse than the Dodgers as a result. They were cheating,
Speaker 1: and they scored the same number of runs in that
Speaker 1: World Series as the Dodgers. So capeche Alright, let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Doug in Chicago, right, So I'll be in Chicago a
Speaker 1: couple of days since you're leaving us behind. And UH,
Speaker 1: this coming week, what is your worst travel experience? Uh,
Speaker 1: and he says, this is for both you guys. Well, Doug,
Speaker 1: there's many stories I've had over the years, back when
Speaker 1: I used to travel a lot, and one of them
Speaker 1: actually does involve Chicago. I was stopping in Chicago on
Speaker 1: my way to New York, but I was flying into LaGuardia.
Speaker 1: There's no direct flights from the West coast to the
Speaker 1: east coast of LaGuardia, so you have to stop. So
Speaker 1: I stopped in Chicago and Uh and I changed planes,
Speaker 1: had a layover in Chicago, got on the plane, we left,
Speaker 1: We rolled away from the gate. This is in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties. We rolled away from the gate, and as
Speaker 1: we are waiting to take off, there is a lightning
Speaker 1: storm that hits the Chicago area and we sat on
Speaker 1: that plane. It's like an hour and a half two
Speaker 1: hour flight to New York from Chicago. It's not that
Speaker 1: long a flight. We sat on that plane for four hours,
Speaker 1: four hours in a lightning storm. Oh my, it was horrible.
Speaker 1: They changed, they changed the rule and they're not had
Speaker 1: to do that anymore, I believe. I don't think they
Speaker 1: could do that, but in those days they could. So
Speaker 1: that was that was ter. I got stuck in an
Speaker 1: elevator in l a X. That was that was interesting.
Speaker 1: What about you? Any travel nightmare stories, Danny G. You
Speaker 1: want to share with the class here? Yeah? I DJ
Speaker 1: had a gig in my early twenties in Mexico for
Speaker 1: somebody's wedding reception, and it was beautiful, ocean was beautiful.
Speaker 1: I didn't drink the water. I took everyone's advice. I
Speaker 1: drank bottled water, but it was hot, and during the party,
Speaker 1: I kept going into the restroom at the resort splashing
Speaker 1: cold water on my face. Well, I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that water could get in your plores and
Speaker 1: get you sick. Oh no, Montezuma's revenge. Don't they call
Speaker 1: that Montezuma's revenge? I think that's for it. It was horrible.
Speaker 1: I wound up in the e r when I got
Speaker 1: back to the States. So you were you had dysentery,
Speaker 1: it was bad. I had e cole. I wow, you
Speaker 1: were fighting the water supply in Mexico. When people come
Speaker 1: from Mexico to California or America and the water is normal.
Speaker 1: Do they have a weird reaction to it because it's
Speaker 1: normal or we think is normal? Or are they just fine?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. But yeah, I had a two
Speaker 1: days stay at the hospital through on the IVY. The
Speaker 1: medicine gave me was heavy duty, and they finally were
Speaker 1: able to get it out of my system, but it
Speaker 1: was something that affected me for like a month after
Speaker 1: the trip. Man, all right, uh, let's keep it going here.
Speaker 1: Who is next? Do we have a couple of quick questions.
Speaker 1: We'll get those on right now. Next we know to
Speaker 1: play a sound bite. John and Northern Colorado says he
Speaker 1: says original chips Ahoy, nutter butter, or Oreo cookies. As
Speaker 1: an old school stoner, I go with chips ahoy. Well,
Speaker 1: as a recovering fat man, John in Colorado, I go
Speaker 1: with chips ahoy. Also, although the nutterer butter not bad.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny, that's the big three right there.
Speaker 1: You gotta make a choice. Go ahead, they're all good choices,
Speaker 1: but I would go Oreo cookie here and then a
Speaker 1: slight remix. This is in the kitchen right now. The
Speaker 1: lemon Oreo cookie all those are the ones with a
Speaker 1: yellow on top. Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough. I
Speaker 1: love those chips ahoy though that chocolate and oh man,
Speaker 1: they're good, although I make a better home cookie now,
Speaker 1: but back in the day. For convenience, you go in there,
Speaker 1: you can eat a whole sleeve of those chips ahoy.
Speaker 1: And and now they have the bags. They've had the
Speaker 1: bags for a while, so that's good. Also, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll do a couple more quick ones here. Blind Emmett,
Speaker 1: the Seahawk fan. Blind Emmett says in Olympias, how excited
Speaker 1: were you been this week to know that the person
Speaker 1: filling in for Garcia a Clipper. Fanny yah Mancy, the
Speaker 1: the Clipper fan. Yeah, it's it's always interesting when new
Speaker 1: people come to Fox Sports Radio and you have to
Speaker 1: there's a feeling out process. Danny have to figure out
Speaker 1: how that it's all going to work. Um, but it's
Speaker 1: the first time in like forever. It's not numb nuts.
Speaker 1: Brian Finley, who's nor only the one that comes in
Speaker 1: and fills in so and this one. If you feel
Speaker 1: are out, it goes to hr department. The good news
Speaker 1: about the home studio, I do not have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. I do not have to worry about that
Speaker 1: kind of activity at all. We're good, We're good, We're good.
Speaker 1: John in Relief, Kentucky sent this weird email. He was
Speaker 1: very upset with people goofing on uh. Deshaun watsy. It
Speaker 1: sounds like John loves massages uh and he's defending the massage.
Speaker 1: Matt in Rhode Island says that he's not related to
Speaker 1: Paula Joan Rhode Island. He says, Alfie, anal pineer, posted something,
Speaker 1: so that's why he's writing in. He says, how would
Speaker 1: you guys prepare for the zombie apocalypse, which, the way
Speaker 1: things are going, might have already happened. Well, that's easy, Matt.
Speaker 1: I now know how to prepare for these zombie apocalypse
Speaker 1: You ready, Danny, here's what you do. Buy a lot
Speaker 1: of toilet paper, water and hand sanitizer, bam, the big three.
Speaker 1: That's all you need. That's all you need. That is
Speaker 1: my final answer. Yeah, what about you anything anything there? Now? Ye?
Speaker 1: That in some Trito's alright, Heather and Houston says, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's not an astro. Fancie does live in Houston, though.
Speaker 1: What's the weirdest internet rabbit hole that you've been down.
Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of time to do that.
Speaker 1: Marble racing. I've done that recently. Since I'm going to Appleton, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: the home of Harry Houdini, I've been watching Harry Houdini documentaries. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love this weekend baseball like weird crap like. I
Speaker 1: spent several hours watching little clips on w C Fields uh.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I did is I he has
Speaker 1: one of my favorite quotes of all time w C Fields.
Speaker 1: He's the guy Danny that said, if you can't dazzle
Speaker 1: them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. And that is
Speaker 1: the mantra of my career right there. Any rabbit holes
Speaker 1: real quick, Danny that you want to yeah for me?
Speaker 1: On YouTube, I'll watch a lot of classic music videos
Speaker 1: and then, like, for instance, I was watching LLL cool
Speaker 1: J live performances last week, and then there's a band
Speaker 1: that I love, Incubus, and I probably watched every live
Speaker 1: performance that that band has ever done, including all their
Speaker 1: famous appearances on The Letterman Show. That's cool old school
Speaker 1: you you go back, you flash back to Are you
Speaker 1: like me? When I'm watching this Weekend Baseball. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, how old was I? I probably watched this
Speaker 1: when I was like twelve years old, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what was my life like? What did I think my
Speaker 1: life was going to be like the rest of my life?
Speaker 1: What would twelve year old me think of what I'm
Speaker 1: doing now? Like, the whole thing, All those thoughts go
Speaker 1: through my head. We got so excited when we were
Speaker 1: up early on those mornings watching that show and Tommy
Speaker 1: Losorda would come out with the Genie hat thing that
Speaker 1: he wore. Yeah. Also whenever Pete Rose would be on there.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys were larger than life to us
Speaker 1: as little kids. They were baseball gods. So to see
Speaker 1: them on TV when we were little kids like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's something you can't really describe it or explain it.
Speaker 1: You just had to be there at that time in
Speaker 1: the eighties, Yeah, for sure. And the whole thing with
Speaker 1: the fact we didn't have games on every night, you
Speaker 1: only saw the local teams, and so the only time
Speaker 1: as a kid I saw the Toronto Blue Jays was
Speaker 1: on this Weekend Baseball. There was this this thing of mystery,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I remember Mike Schmidt coming on an episode
Speaker 1: and teaching us how to hit the ball the right way.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, there was a guy. There was a
Speaker 1: guy for the Minnesota Twins named Frank Viola. This picture
Speaker 1: for the Twins in Twin notes. He gave how to
Speaker 1: throw the circle change, like how to hold the ball.
Speaker 1: So then I threw the circle change in Little League.
Speaker 1: I learned it. I probably could have blown my arm
Speaker 1: out doing it. But that the split figured fastball. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was great. That's how every kid on
Speaker 1: the block was getting a leg up on the baseball competition. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta get out of here and again
Speaker 1: next weekend, original podcast, amazing content. What do you got
Speaker 1: going on today? Danny? How can people follow you along?
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons meaning the Covino and Rich Show. A lot
Speaker 1: of fun on FSR with that show and then right
Speaker 1: after that the warm up for the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 1: Chris Plankin, Arnie Spaniard out standing and be safe. Have
Speaker 1: a great week this week. Don't forget about me. I'll
Speaker 1: be back. I'll be back. Listen to the show. You
Speaker 1: know who's going in for you tonight? Do not know
Speaker 1: who's filling in, but I'm sure it'll be an amazingly
Speaker 1: talented talktra host. We will do a fine job. Support
Speaker 1: the Times Long exactly because I still get some credit
Speaker 1: for the time slot even though I'm not there. So
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden people stop listening to the show,
Speaker 1: that will help my ego, but it won't help the company,
Speaker 1: so I I gotta look out for that and so
Speaker 1: support the show. Have a great day, I have a
Speaker 1: wonderful week, as I said, and we'll catch you next
Speaker 1: time on the podcast. Have a great trip. Eat a
Speaker 1: lot of pork grinds. Yeah right, deep dish Pazza, Danny g.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna be eating. Ranch No, never,