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, it's the clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere and a happy Sunday, the final
Speaker 1: day of the NFL regular season at a couple of
Speaker 1: NFL games on Saturday. But today, this the seventh day
Speaker 1: of the great month of January twenty twenty four. Hanging
Speaker 1: out Ben Mallard Danny G Radio as we schmooze every
Speaker 1: single day. You hear me on the Ben Mahler Show
Speaker 1: overnights on Fox Sports Radio, and on the weekend, I
Speaker 1: come in here and hang out with Danny G, who
Speaker 1: you hear on with Covino and Rich during the week
Speaker 1: during the day on Fox Sports Radio. And so we
Speaker 1: co mingle here on the weekends. And we mentioned yesterday
Speaker 1: how there's like dopey Holidays every day, and I saw
Speaker 1: today's dopey holidays, Danny are Harlem Globetrotter's Day. Do you
Speaker 1: ever see the Harlem Globetrotters? Have you ever seen a
Speaker 1: show for the for the.
Speaker 3: Trotters only on TV? When I was a kid, Yeah.
Speaker 1: My parents took me to one at the Anaheim Convention
Speaker 1: Center and I thought these guys were magicians. I was
Speaker 1: a child. I had no I these are the most
Speaker 1: amazing play Why are these guys not in the NBA.
Speaker 1: These guys are amazing? He is metal lark Lemon, and
Speaker 1: I was like, these are.
Speaker 3: The beginnings of a sports ned.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, every trick shot. It was wild
Speaker 1: National bobblehead day. See we're old. We remember when bobbleheads
Speaker 1: all had the same body and they mostly had the
Speaker 1: same heads. But you'd have like the Atlanta Braves mascot
Speaker 1: or the Cleveland Indians mascot had the really but now
Speaker 1: the wolkesters would say offensive head.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And there were only two nationalities back in
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's all. That's all they had.
Speaker 3: Well that was available per bobblehead.
Speaker 1: I remember the Rangers bobblehead. The old Rangers bibble head
Speaker 1: had like a cowboy hat on. I remember that, but
Speaker 1: most of them were pretty much the same, pretty much
Speaker 1: the same, those old old bobbleheads. All right, enough of
Speaker 1: those dopey holiday So on this the Sunday Pop, we
Speaker 1: will get to the mailbag. We're gonna work our way
Speaker 1: to the mailbag. We've got open the door. Open the door,
Speaker 1: you're a hack and a little pop goes to the
Speaker 1: culture and we'll get to the mail bag as well.
Speaker 1: But open the door. So they follow up a podcast exclusive,
Speaker 1: podcast exclusive follow up to a story that we had
Speaker 1: mentioned on the Overnight Show the other night. You heard
Speaker 1: this play out live all on radio, but now you
Speaker 1: are about to hear, as Paul Harvey would say, the
Speaker 1: rest of the story. So I try to have an
Speaker 1: open door policy. We went several years where we weren't
Speaker 1: allowed to have anyone in studio. I wasn't even studio.
Speaker 1: I was doing the show from a remote location. So
Speaker 1: now that things are back to normal, in biting listeners back,
Speaker 1: we've had Sean the Hood Guy in CA, Terror, Sean
Speaker 1: from Arizona, from Phoenix to stop by, Hi Eddie, all
Speaker 1: those guys. So I got an email this week from
Speaker 1: a guy named Chris and he's like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. He was all excited because he had
Speaker 1: driven past a street sign on Interstate five that had
Speaker 1: said Saddleback College and he's like, that's cool, that's where
Speaker 1: you went to school.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, he's a big fan of the show.
Speaker 1: And let me give you the backstory. So the this
Speaker 1: is Global Exclusives. I said, So Chris lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: He works on it. He's from Wisconsin, from the Milwaukee area,
Speaker 1: and he has been a fan for about ten years.
Speaker 1: But he's not a call. Not a call. He's on
Speaker 1: social media, but he's not like on there all the time.
Speaker 1: He does it stuff. So he's got a regular day
Speaker 1: job and he listens to the podcast and he'll email
Speaker 1: me every once in a while and usually try to bust
Speaker 1: my balls and annoy me. But he's emailed me off
Speaker 1: and on for years, and he's post stuff about the
Speaker 1: show on social media. So he's a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show. And I sup. I was like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: guy's in town, he's in the area. Why not have
Speaker 1: him stop by and hang out? And so, I said,
Speaker 1: he emailed me to say that he had seen the
Speaker 1: sense I was like, let's just email Coop let him
Speaker 1: know you're going to be there, and I told him
Speaker 1: when to show up. I gave him the address. I said,
Speaker 1: that's it. But I didn't realize the guy was staying
Speaker 1: in La Joya. He wasn't even staying in La is
Speaker 1: in San Diego. But he's like, oh, yeah, I love
Speaker 1: to be there. I'll drive up, you know, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: love to meet everybody. And so, okay, we're on. So
Speaker 1: he emails Coop. I like, okay, he'll come by, and
Speaker 1: then we get to the studio. I'm doing the show
Speaker 1: and it was around the time and then he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be there and I didn't see him, and
Speaker 1: so I went out. I looked in the courtyard. I
Speaker 1: didn't see him.
Speaker 3: So I go back.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, maybe he canceled. Just a long drive.
Speaker 1: I thought, well that maybe he just canceled. So then
Speaker 1: Coop comes in about thirty minutes later. He says, I
Speaker 1: keep getting this email from this guy and he wants
Speaker 1: to come in, and I'm like, uh, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: let him in. There there's no I know, I know
Speaker 1: who they got and uh. And Coop was a little
Speaker 1: concerned because he didn't know. The guy is not a caller, right,
Speaker 1: so he didn't interact with Coop. He interacted with me,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, open the door, right, and
Speaker 1: Coop didn't want to let him in. So then I
Speaker 1: went out. I tried to find him again, so this
Speaker 1: is not my second time outside. I couldn't find so
Speaker 1: then I have to I go my email. I emailed him.
Speaker 1: I said, listen, here's where you need to go. Is
Speaker 1: the exact door. I'll let you in it. So then
Speaker 1: we had this conversation.
Speaker 3: On the air.
Speaker 1: We're going back and forth and Eddie. Eddie's like kind
Speaker 1: of an agreement. And then I explained the guy had
Speaker 1: driven from far away and he's a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show. And then so we convinced Eddie to kind
Speaker 1: of go out and check him out to make sure
Speaker 1: he was all right because I was on the air.
Speaker 1: And so eventually it worked out the guy's name is Chris,
Speaker 1: good guy, and we were able to work out and
Speaker 1: eventually opened the door. It did happen. And not only that,
Speaker 1: this is how quickly Coop and Iowa Sam changed.
Speaker 3: Danny g Oh.
Speaker 1: He must have brought food, Yeah, brought donuts and not
Speaker 1: just donuts. Chris went to like this really cool famous.
Speaker 3: Oh I saw the leftover. There were a couple leftover
Speaker 3: when I got there on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so he had gone to this bougie donut
Speaker 1: shop in LA that is he looked. He did research
Speaker 1: on the internet. He's like, this is like one of
Speaker 1: the top donut shops. And so he brought those in
Speaker 1: and yeah, they.
Speaker 3: Put like fruit loops on top of donuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like bacon fruit loops, all kinds of interesting things
Speaker 1: you would not normally see.
Speaker 3: On a donut.
Speaker 1: And it was, you know, it was great. I didn't
Speaker 1: eat any I took a couple home to eat later,
Speaker 1: which I did eat. They were really good, not as
Speaker 1: good as if I eating them fresh. So that was
Speaker 1: open the door.
Speaker 3: Funny because when I got to work Thursday afternoon for
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich, Jason Stewart, the producer of Doug Gottlieb,
Speaker 3: showed me the box and offered me a donut. I
Speaker 3: thought they were from him.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Well, I didn't realize there were
Speaker 1: that many left because because Eddie was eating a bunch
Speaker 1: and Coop and Sam were eating them, and I took
Speaker 1: a couple. So there must have. He must have brought
Speaker 1: a ton of donuts then.
Speaker 3: And this was right before I had broken my streak
Speaker 3: with your peanut brittle because I told Jay Stew I said, noah, man,
Speaker 3: I haven't had the dessert in like thirteen weeks. And
Speaker 3: He's like, you're kidding me. Donuts don't even look good
Speaker 3: to me. Aka, I'm gonna walk back to my backpack
Speaker 3: and eat more of the peanut brittle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, you know what, if you're gonna eat a donut,
Speaker 1: you gotta eat pretty quick. Olthoughise Like it's the same
Speaker 1: thing with fast food, Like every minute that goes by
Speaker 1: with fast food against worse. Some donuts, there's like a
Speaker 1: sweet spot within an hour and a half, you can
Speaker 1: eat it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they were stale. Loraina said, oh my god,
Speaker 3: the one I ate was stale and I still ate it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because it's a donut.
Speaker 1: And it's free. And she's in radio and yeah, and
Speaker 1: how that works. Uh so you are a hack the
Speaker 1: other day and Benny Versus the Penny is airing more today,
Speaker 1: so check that out on regional cable television distributed by NBC.
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny the TV Show, but after the
Speaker 1: taping of the TV show with Looney Tunes. So I
Speaker 1: get a message on my phone and it's like, it's
Speaker 1: this weird direct message from a fellow Fox Sports radio
Speaker 1: show's account, which is out of context and make makes
Speaker 1: no sense. So I was like whatever, and I ignore it.
Speaker 1: I mostly look at Instagram. I look at like different
Speaker 1: recipes because I'm like a middle aged woman. I guess
Speaker 1: I look at recipes. So it did make a sense,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I forgot about it. So then I went
Speaker 1: and before I got ready for bed, I was like,
Speaker 1: I checked. I always checked the email one last time
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. So I checked the email
Speaker 1: and I'm looking around and uh, I get this message
Speaker 1: from from Instagram. It says you have to you have
Speaker 1: to verify your kind of there's a new log in
Speaker 1: uh from a city that I don't live in and
Speaker 1: nobody I know lives in. And I'm like, okay, so
Speaker 1: this is you need a secure your account. So I
Speaker 1: clicked a button to secure the Instagram account and then
Speaker 1: it has a number. It's gonna say, all right, there's
Speaker 1: a text message. You know how these things worky, they
Speaker 1: send a text message. I am fine, whatever, And then
Speaker 1: I look at the number, and I'm like, that's not
Speaker 1: my number, Like, wait a minute, that's not my phone number.
Speaker 1: And then I realized that account had been set up
Speaker 1: by Elijah and the it guys at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: So okay, So.
Speaker 1: Then I have to text Elijah and I have to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, what's uh you know, what's what's going
Speaker 1: on with this?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And and then I didn't know if he was busy
Speaker 1: doing stuff with some of the other shows and whatnot,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not sure, and but anyway, he
Speaker 1: did did eventually respond, did eventually respond, and then I
Speaker 1: was only texting him. Uh but uh uh Seeger is
Speaker 1: it Seager? Am I saying that right? Am I saying
Speaker 1: his name right?
Speaker 3: Sager? Saga? Sager? Sager? Yeah? When he first got hired,
Speaker 3: they're like, think of soccer when you say his name Sager.
Speaker 1: I mispronounced his name.
Speaker 3: Of him, fellow Raiders fan, He's a very cool dude.
Speaker 1: Oh I love Sager.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He In fact, he was at the holiday party. That's
Speaker 1: how much I love him. He was at the ugly
Speaker 1: sweater party.
Speaker 3: Oh nice.
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't even know how to pronounce his name,
Speaker 1: but he didn't correct me soccer all right? Anyway, so
Speaker 1: I I messaged him. Eventually it was a I'd stayed
Speaker 1: up for like an extra hour. We were going back
Speaker 1: and forth. I had to do this like facial recognition
Speaker 1: video to Instagram, and then that didn't work, and then
Speaker 1: so then I was like texting Elijah to text me
Speaker 1: the code so I could type the code in and
Speaker 1: we eventually got it settled. Settled. So you're a hack
Speaker 1: and maybe you're listening to this podcast right now, and
Speaker 1: if you are the person that hacked into the Instagram account,
Speaker 1: you're not a good hacker because you didn't change anything
Speaker 1: and you're a schmuck. Hop goes the culture and strike
Speaker 1: up the band? Is Ohio al ready to go? Is
Speaker 1: he there?
Speaker 3: Boom boom boom.
Speaker 2: Boo?
Speaker 3: Jog John?
Speaker 1: What's on popca?
Speaker 3: What do a few of these?
Speaker 1: I don't want to go too long on popcos the
Speaker 1: culture because we got the mail bags. Study has revealed
Speaker 1: the most expensive and the least expensive states for fast
Speaker 1: food fast food. You see this. It's a good story,
Speaker 1: a decent story. It's happened recently. What do you think
Speaker 1: the most expensive in the United States? All fifty states?
Speaker 1: What is the most expensive location for fast food, which
Speaker 1: is based on these numbers. They are eighteen percent eighteen
Speaker 1: point twenty nine percent more expensive than the average price
Speaker 1: of fast food.
Speaker 3: It's got to be New York, right.
Speaker 1: No, believe it. It is not. It is Anchorage, Alaska.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, Anchorage, Alaska is the most expensive for
Speaker 1: fast food. And Honolulu, Hawaii.
Speaker 3: I should have known Hawaii because I've eaten at a
Speaker 3: fat food place there. We're like, holy crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ridiculous. The top three are Anchors, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawaii, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Speaker 1: What do you think Number four is all this?
Speaker 3: I mean California.
Speaker 1: It is in California. Which city in California?
Speaker 3: Westlake Village?
Speaker 1: Kind I'll give it to you. Los Angeles, Okay, Los
Speaker 1: Angeles has done yeah, fourth most expensive fast food in
Speaker 1: the entire United States, going to this recent study that
Speaker 1: was done followed by for some reason, Edmund, Oklahoma. Why
Speaker 1: would Edmund, Oklahoma have expensive fast food?
Speaker 3: That's weird. And New York didn't even make the top five.
Speaker 1: It is not in the top five. New York is
Speaker 1: number nine, though they are in the top ten. Oklahoma
Speaker 1: is the outlier. All the other ones are either in Hawaii, Alaska, California.
Speaker 1: There's a lot in Washington state, Tacoma Bellevue, which is
Speaker 1: not far from Seattle.
Speaker 3: That must be like the wealthy neighborhood in Oklahoma. Yes,
Speaker 3: like the mansions are there in the state.
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 1: like a big stop on the way in between Texas
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City or something. Maybe like they could charge
Speaker 1: a lot, but it seems rather somebody from that area
Speaker 1: needs to let us know. Yeah, us, if you're in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: We've got Kyrie who's in Oklahoma City who listens to
Speaker 1: the podcast. He's emailed us every once in a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give us a heads up on that. Because you're more
Speaker 1: expensive than New York City for fast food. That makes
Speaker 1: no sense. Now the least expensive what do you think
Speaker 1: the least expensive fast food? Same?
Speaker 3: Oh, let's say Paris, Texas.
Speaker 1: Paris, Texas. No, Dallas is pretty cheap. They're number four.
Speaker 1: He's number five on the cheap category. The cheapest fast food.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the top three, number three, harker Burg,
Speaker 1: West Virginia. They're about eleven percent, eleven percent little more
Speaker 1: than that, cheaper than everyone else. Wheeling West Virginia.
Speaker 3: Oh, Wheeling. Who was our regular caller from Wheeling?
Speaker 1: Oh? What was it?
Speaker 3: Radio Rich?
Speaker 1: Radio Rich? That's right, Radio Rich from Wheeling, West Virginia.
Speaker 3: What happened to Radio Rich?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I hope he's still around. If
Speaker 1: anybody's heard Radio Rich call the show, let us know.
Speaker 1: But he was in kind of poor health. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anything happened, but he used to call in. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the cheapest how does Burg, Mississippi? How does Burg, Mississippi?
Speaker 1: They are twelve point one percent cheaper and everyone else
Speaker 1: everyone else.
Speaker 3: In there's Isssi S SIDEPPI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the cheap. The cheapest state overall is Texas,
Speaker 1: but it's all in the South, Like the cheap food
Speaker 1: is in the South, and then the Upper Midwest. That's
Speaker 1: pretty reasonable, but not you know, like Wisconsin's pretty much
Speaker 1: on average, and a lot of the more expensive places
Speaker 1: are on the coast. They can and Alaska and Hawaii
Speaker 1: are by far the most overall. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Fun fact. Fun fact about the most and least expensive
Speaker 1: fast food. Well, I'm not a chess guy. Maybe we
Speaker 1: should talk more chess on the podcast and on radio,
Speaker 1: because yet again, there has been a second chess scandal
Speaker 1: involving a sex toy. It has happened. Remember the story
Speaker 1: a couple years ago Danny, the guy that was accused
Speaker 1: of having a certain device, shoved up a certain part
Speaker 1: of his body to indicate what was going on.
Speaker 3: I wish I didn't remember that story.
Speaker 1: It has happened again, this time in China. The Chinese
Speaker 1: Chess Association announced this week that it has banned Yan
Speaker 1: cheng Long from He had recently won the national I
Speaker 1: give him some title in Chinese tennis. But yeah, Yan
Speaker 1: allegedly clenched and unclenched rhythmically to communicate this. This is great.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this right outside of news story. Okay, so
Speaker 1: he rhythmically communicate information by clenching and unclenching. You can
Speaker 1: use your imagination about the chessboard via code to a computer,
Speaker 1: which then sent back instructions on what moves to make
Speaker 1: in the form of vibrations back in the you know what,
Speaker 1: the tushy pushy?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, you think that you have to practice with
Speaker 3: those butt muscles ahead of time?
Speaker 1: What are you do? You buy it on Amazon. I
Speaker 1: need some anal beads, some vibrating anal beads is what
Speaker 1: I need to win a chess tournament. God, unreal, man,
Speaker 1: I had no idea that was competitive in chess. I
Speaker 1: had no no concept that it was that competitive. That's
Speaker 1: that's wild to me. That's absolutely two.
Speaker 3: Stand for the Queen's Gambit too.
Speaker 1: What else is on pop goes the culture? Well, this
Speaker 1: is a totally different competition. A thirteen year old child
Speaker 1: has become the first person to beat Tetris on nes
Speaker 1: more than thirty years after its release, no one had
Speaker 1: been able to win Tetris, and a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: kid was able to crack the code.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool, right, crazy? Yeah, I just got a
Speaker 3: switch recently, and so I've been playing some old school
Speaker 3: Nintendo games.
Speaker 1: According to tech Spot, I'm not sure what that is,
Speaker 1: but apparently they know all about this out the guy
Speaker 1: the kid named Willis Gibson, thirteen year old Tetris pro
Speaker 1: became the first person to achieve what the community considered
Speaker 1: a true skill screen after making it all the way
Speaker 1: to level one fifty seven before causing the game to crash,
Speaker 1: a feat that no one else before him had ever
Speaker 1: managed to achieve.
Speaker 3: That is insane. I downloaded ninety six Tetriss nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: six is famous version, and I swear to god, I
Speaker 3: sucks so bad. I probably got like three or four
Speaker 3: levels in How did he What did he do one
Speaker 3: fifty seven.
Speaker 1: On level one fifty seven that caused the game the
Speaker 1: game crash that he got all the way to the
Speaker 1: end of it crash.
Speaker 3: What the Yeah? Those are like those kids we knew
Speaker 3: or saw doing the Rubik's Cube when we were little kids,
Speaker 3: and they could yeah, yeah, solve that thing in a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes. Like how what the I swear that
Speaker 3: you're like grain man if you can do stuff like that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of as Cat Williamson,
Speaker 1: did you guys talk about it on Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: He did an interview with Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit because of the back and forth
Speaker 3: with Cedric the entertainer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like he was after everybody, right, he was just
Speaker 1: really yeah, oh he had a he had a hit list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he also went after Diddy, right, Joe Rogan, Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: I think was also mentioned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Steve Harvey was the other one who made headlines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kat Williams, I mean he was equal opportunity. He
Speaker 1: wasn't just like white guys or black guys. He was
Speaker 1: after everybody. He you said he had a hit.
Speaker 3: List, right, Yeah, it makes for great radio. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean it reminded me of like Musburger talking about
Speaker 1: what happened to Gruden, Like cat he went in there
Speaker 1: with that. It was like a professional hit job. He
Speaker 1: was like a paid assassin. Yeah, he he. He had
Speaker 1: an agenda anyway for it. I just get to the
Speaker 1: male bag, male bag, male bag, Here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go. Oh it's I think so Ohio or the tunes.
Speaker 1: And these are actual letters by actual listeners. I didn't
Speaker 1: post this week on instag I didn't post on Facebook,
Speaker 1: Danny and I just like, I want to see if
Speaker 1: people would still send stuff in.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 1: We got tons of mail, so maybe I don't even
Speaker 1: have to post, but I'll still probably post most of
Speaker 1: the time. But this week I was like, eh, I
Speaker 1: was like, let's just do a test. Either that or
Speaker 1: I forgot to post.
Speaker 3: Oh no, hell Bill Miller.
Speaker 1: One of those two things. Either one. Barry from South
Speaker 1: Carolina writes and says yo yo ma, Banny and Danny
Speaker 1: g on one of the first mailbag shows you did
Speaker 1: like five years ago. I asked a question about your
Speaker 1: least favorite game you played. You said Coach Player Entertainer,
Speaker 1: and that that has now been replaced by the Malard
Speaker 1: Militia feud. You also said if anyone had an idea
Speaker 1: for a game, to suggest one. Well, it has taken
Speaker 1: only five years, but Barry has emailed back with an idea.
Speaker 1: He says. The idea for the new Mallard game show
Speaker 1: is a sports version of the one hundred thousand dollars pyramid.
Speaker 1: So I think factor fiction would be a good choice
Speaker 1: for being replaced by this. But you can just give
Speaker 1: this a test run in a segment as a special
Speaker 1: game in a side If it works, I think it
Speaker 1: would be hilarious as a game for your show. What
Speaker 1: do you What do you think? He says. Michael Strahan
Speaker 1: hosts that show now. Apparently, Yeah, I've watched it. I
Speaker 1: haven't watched it in a while, though, Barry to be so,
Speaker 1: I'll have to go back and check out an episode
Speaker 1: and try to think in my head how we would
Speaker 1: do that logistically and how many how much work would
Speaker 1: be involved. That's always the big thing, right Danny, how
Speaker 1: much work you know, we have a very hard work
Speaker 1: on staff of producers.
Speaker 3: There's time constraints. There's only so much time. Coop couldn't
Speaker 3: prepare that night's game during that shows.
Speaker 1: It's very hard, you know, It's very hard burry.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 1: So as long as you can do it rather quickly,
Speaker 1: that might be the way to do it. So I
Speaker 1: will check that out. One hundred thousand dollars period. We'd
Speaker 1: have to, we'd have to come up with a Mallard
Speaker 1: name for it. But thank you for that, Nick, and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin rights in uh, he says Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: Back to the would you rather game? Would you rather
Speaker 1: have a wet sock or a rock in your shoe
Speaker 1: while wearing your shoes? Neither one of these is good.
Speaker 1: I've had. We've all had both, right, but there are few.
Speaker 1: I would take the wet sock because a pebble in
Speaker 1: the shit, No I would, No, No I would, I would.
Speaker 3: The sock is where your body's power and heat comes from.
Speaker 3: That's why people who don't wear socks to bed in
Speaker 3: the winter are robots, moron. There's no way you're not
Speaker 3: getting sick if your lounge around with no socks on
Speaker 3: in the middle of the freezing winter. Well, I do not.
Speaker 1: I'm a robot. I don't wear socks in the in
Speaker 1: the winter, right though. But here's the famous quote. This
Speaker 1: is one of the all time great Muhammad Ali quotes.
Speaker 1: And he said, it's the mountain ahead, the climb that
Speaker 1: wears you out, But it's the pebble is I always say,
Speaker 1: it's not the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's
Speaker 1: the pebble in your shoe.
Speaker 3: I think you just made that up. No, I look
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 1: That's a famous I'll give you the exact quote. It
Speaker 1: isn't the mountains ahead, the climb that wear you out.
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali said, it's the pebble in your shoe, the
Speaker 1: pebble in your shoe. And I agree because I have
Speaker 1: had like a little rock, a little piece of a
Speaker 1: rock Nick in Wisconsin and Danny, I've had that in
Speaker 1: my shoe and is so freaking annoying and every step
Speaker 1: you take, like the wet sox thing sucks and it's
Speaker 1: not comfortable. But it's the lesser to me. It's the
Speaker 1: lesser of two evils, my list, not yours. It's my
Speaker 1: answer to the would you rather gain from Nick so
Speaker 1: I'm going to wet sock. You're going with the rock. Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's nothing worse than a wet sock. And it
Speaker 3: starts to stink within what a half hour, starts to
Speaker 3: smell like mildew on the foot.
Speaker 1: But but will eventually dry out.
Speaker 3: Right, it's gonna smell even worse when it dries out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: wet shoes no good. Wet sock is Yeah. We've all
Speaker 3: had that day in school, in elementary school where you
Speaker 3: stepped in a puddle. Maybe you did it on purpose.
Speaker 3: When the water bleeds into the sock from your shoe,
Speaker 3: You're like, oh shit, what did I do? Because then
Speaker 3: you got to walk around in that squishy feeling.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's frrimal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good at all.
Speaker 1: All right, what's next? On the mailbagh'll Billy Mike writes
Speaker 1: in says he Ben and Danny g I'm a huge
Speaker 1: Clemson fan and because they're Clemson guys, I hate to
Speaker 1: see Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence turned out to be mediocre,
Speaker 1: big disappointments to me. What sports figures did you guys
Speaker 1: really have high hopes for only to turn out to
Speaker 1: be big letdowns? From Hillbilly Mike. Oh, there have been many.
Speaker 1: There have been so many over the years players. And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I hate the draft is because
Speaker 1: as a kid, I was told by Ralph Lawler, the
Speaker 1: Clipper play by play guy, that every guy the Clippers
Speaker 1: drafted the lottery was going to be an All Star
Speaker 1: for about fifteen years, and they were all stiffs. Every
Speaker 1: one of them couldn't play. And so that really turned
Speaker 1: me off to the pro basketball draft. But I had
Speaker 1: the same thing happened in the NFL, where there'd be
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that were drafted high and everyone
Speaker 1: looks like an All Pro and then they stink. But
Speaker 1: there's some big free agents. You probably agree with me
Speaker 1: on this as a Dodger fan. When Darryl Strawberry, we're old.
Speaker 1: But when Darryl Strawberry left the Mets had been a
Speaker 1: big star with the Mets and went to the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: did we not think, my god, this is amazing. This
Speaker 1: guy's going to be a great Dodger. And then he
Speaker 1: was snorting cocaine off a hooker's ass. Within like a
Speaker 1: couple of months, a bunch of hookers and cocaine wild.
Speaker 3: I will take your Darryl Strawberry and one up you
Speaker 3: with Todd Morenovich.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: His dad famously, his father fed him nothing but superfoods.
Speaker 3: Todd had never even had a cheeseburger until he got
Speaker 3: to USC And so he comes to the La Raiders
Speaker 3: as their savior, their new franchise quarterback. And I'll never
Speaker 3: forget this, Ben, I was a little kid. I was
Speaker 3: there at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for his debut
Speaker 3: NFL game, and a guy was holding up a big
Speaker 3: sign that said, Todd, you are our future. Didn't it
Speaker 3: didn't work. Didn't quite work out that way, speaking of
Speaker 3: snorting cocaine, that.
Speaker 1: Was a tough one.
Speaker 3: Well, now Todd is a well known artist.
Speaker 1: Now what about Jermarcus Russell? Did you buy into the
Speaker 1: hype for JaMarcus Russell?
Speaker 3: Another ground? Not really, to be honest with you, No,
Speaker 3: because he looked like a slug the moment he got
Speaker 3: on the field in Oakland. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, I didn't think Jared Goff would be very good
Speaker 1: when the Rams drafted him, and I was right, And
Speaker 1: then he had When McVeigh came in, he played pretty well,
Speaker 1: but then he went back to kind of stinking.
Speaker 3: After after a while, we wanted JaMarcus Russell to be
Speaker 3: good because of all that money he got. That was
Speaker 3: obviously before the rookie salaries changed, so he was handed
Speaker 3: a boatload of money, if you remember. I mean, I
Speaker 3: wanted him to be good. But you could tell once
Speaker 3: he got into games and he threw interceptions left and right.
Speaker 3: Then he ran off the field with his head down
Speaker 3: like Theapoleon dynamite, and every game he looked chunkier and
Speaker 3: chunk Here he was sipping on that lean.
Speaker 1: I'm on drugs right now, man. Yeah, you know, Brady's
Speaker 1: eating avocado ice cream. He's got the therapeutic pajamas. He's
Speaker 1: got the protein bars and the water with electrolytes. And
Speaker 1: then your guys got the purple drink. That's your guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dating dongs and purple kool aid?
Speaker 1: All right, what's next? Al from hr Rights and he says,
Speaker 1: any chance you gentlemen are looking for a side hustle
Speaker 1: to make a little cash. I hear there's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for you to possibly pick up an extra shift to
Speaker 1: I can't imagine why the network is having a hard
Speaker 1: time keeping people around. And then he posted I guess
Speaker 1: there's a job opening for you going to be an
Speaker 1: engineer at Fox Sports Radio, and he.
Speaker 3: Said part time board operator.
Speaker 1: Sign me up, he says, interested in working at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, question Mark, We are currently hiring a part
Speaker 1: time board operator for our live shows. There's a photo
Speaker 1: of al Tyshirt running the Jason Smith Mike Harmon show.
Speaker 1: He looks standing up. He's got good posture.
Speaker 3: I know, I've never seen Ty Shirt stand like that.
Speaker 3: At the controls.
Speaker 1: He's normally sitting with his feet up on the table,
Speaker 1: but he's standing there looking all professional like he's he's
Speaker 1: misting intently there and there's TVs on in the background.
Speaker 3: Oh, normally he's holding this huge shake with forty seven
Speaker 3: natural ingredients.
Speaker 1: As somebody planted. It looks like a two liter bottle
Speaker 1: of sprite or mountain dew next to Ty Shirt, which
Speaker 1: I don't think is his. And then I see in
Speaker 1: the background I didn't notice this is that. I believe
Speaker 1: that's Jason Smith's producer walking through the door in the photo.
Speaker 3: Oh, Prosburg, Prosburg.
Speaker 1: With a mask. Yeah he's got a mask. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he looks like he's about to he's a rob.
Speaker 1: He's gonna rob the place? Is what he looks like.
Speaker 3: Prosberg just celebrated his fifth year of COVID.
Speaker 1: Yes, Frostburg believes the mask is now a musk, no
Speaker 1: matter what, no matter what.
Speaker 3: And also he was at home for four of the
Speaker 3: five years, which is amazing.
Speaker 1: So is he the last fully masked guy that we
Speaker 1: have at our place? But which is fun?
Speaker 3: Oh no, he's not. Really?
Speaker 1: Who else is there.
Speaker 3: In the early mornings. Joel wears a mask, but it's
Speaker 3: weird because he doesn't wear it all the time, which
Speaker 3: makes me scratch my head a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need to go down that road. I've
Speaker 1: had many conversations why my wife. My wife's like, I'll
Speaker 1: just let him wear a mask. Who cares? I'm like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. You know, I go through that whole.
Speaker 3: You are the same guys that drive in their car
Speaker 3: wearing the mask and no one else is in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh that drives me nuts, man, I can't I cannot
Speaker 1: help but take photos. And my wife's like, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: take photos of those people. They're driving with their windows
Speaker 1: up and they're wearing a ma I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: that deadly, we're all.
Speaker 3: Doing everybody knows the four h five Freeway has given
Speaker 3: thousands of people COVID.
Speaker 1: I know whatever. Anyway, thank you for that, Alf the
Speaker 1: alien o Piner. Next one on the mailbag, we do
Speaker 1: a couple more. Get out of here, Mike, and Fullerton says,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Ben and Danny g twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: was a banner year for the Fifth Hour, but I
Speaker 1: am confident that twenty twenty four will be even better.
Speaker 1: Don't let me down, guys, he says. Is it okay
Speaker 1: for West Coasters to celebrate the New Year's at nine
Speaker 1: pm by watching an East Coast feed of the ball
Speaker 1: dropping in Times Square? Or is that cheating? No, that's
Speaker 1: a great West Coast advantage, I think for if you
Speaker 1: want to not have to stay up till midnight and
Speaker 1: all that, you can do a little cheat. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that. I never used to be okay with that,
Speaker 1: but recently I'm like, yeah, sure, because my wife's been
Speaker 1: working the day shift. So like, we went out on
Speaker 1: New I don't know, you probably didn't because you got CoA,
Speaker 1: but we went out this club. She likes this ballroom
Speaker 1: dancing thing, so we did that. Whatever, happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 1: So I went and all dressed up and all that.
Speaker 1: But we actual New Year's Eve. Yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. I watched the East Coast thing and then
Speaker 1: that's that's it. I went to you know, she went
Speaker 1: to bed, and I don't know. I was writing liners
Speaker 1: actually for Eddie. That's when I wrote the liners on
Speaker 1: New Year's Apathetic is my life writing liners?
Speaker 3: You know. I remember my aunt checking in on the
Speaker 3: East Coast feed of like Dick Clark or whatever it
Speaker 3: was at the time, and she'd always say the same thing.
Speaker 3: She'd be like, Oh, the world didn't end, We're going
Speaker 3: to have another year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I was my brother, who's actually this is funny.
Speaker 1: He's flying back from from Type AI and he was
Speaker 1: he was in Vietnam over New Year's and so they're
Speaker 1: a day ahead, like seventeen hours ahead or something like that.
Speaker 1: So he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's already New Year.
Speaker 1: And the trip back from typey fine, all the way
Speaker 1: back over the top of the of the unit of
Speaker 1: the of the planet to New York. And he said,
Speaker 1: the trip, even though it's seventeen hour trip, it'll only
Speaker 1: be forty five minutes later than when they left because
Speaker 1: of the time difference. How crazy is that? Like, you
Speaker 1: spend a whole day in the plane. I've never done.
Speaker 1: Have you done international travel? I've not done.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: No, it's eight thousand miles from LA But he lives
Speaker 1: in New York, so he's he's going to New York.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Next one, last one, Marcus from Bruceville, Eddie, Texas says,
Speaker 1: what's what are the two of you guys thoughts on
Speaker 1: X not giving? Oh the he's talking about the Moncei
Speaker 1: thing with Lamar Jackson. Yeah, I mean that's just internet bullshit.
Speaker 1: You know, Moncey's job as a talk shows just to
Speaker 1: have opinions, and she had an original opinion and people
Speaker 1: got all upset. People get so anal about these these
Speaker 1: so stupid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been an inside joke, and I know Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich do this thing where they impersonate Colin where
Speaker 3: he says stars attract stars and I like my quarterbacks
Speaker 3: to be quarterbacking.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, there's a promo.
Speaker 3: There's a promo that runs and runs a lot on
Speaker 3: our network. Now most of the affiliates probably don't hear
Speaker 3: it because they're playing commercials right there. But in our
Speaker 3: studios we hear this promo saying quarterback in now what
Speaker 3: Howard's referring to. As you know for years of him
Speaker 3: on the air, he doesn't like quarterbacks to wear their
Speaker 3: hat backwards.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeh yeah, to be you.
Speaker 3: Know, like young and want to be hip or whatever.
Speaker 3: He's saying, Your quarterback is your CEO, the face of
Speaker 3: your company, Be a leader, be professional. That's always been
Speaker 3: his take on quarterbacks. So in that promo, that's what
Speaker 3: he's talking about. So when she was on the air
Speaker 3: with Dan Byer, she was saying stars attract stars and
Speaker 3: although her point how she didn't believe he was a
Speaker 3: pocket passer and all that, that he was just a
Speaker 3: really really good athlete playing that position. Now, obviously people
Speaker 3: ran with it as oh code word, racist code word.
Speaker 1: I know, it's a it's a dog whistle. I love that. No,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just take stupid. It's it's it's a
Speaker 1: take uh and uh. And yes, I've had a few
Speaker 1: of these things over the years. Dan, Even these things happen.
Speaker 1: This is I think Moncey's first test, or not first test,
Speaker 1: first taste of this kind of thing, right doing since
Speaker 1: yead Fox Sports Radio and so It's usually the problem
Speaker 1: for Monzi is the timing on this because the way
Speaker 1: these things work normally, in a normal sports news cycle,
Speaker 1: these things last a day. But this thing lasted a
Speaker 1: couple of days because it was over the holidays and
Speaker 1: there wasn't too much going on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It seemed like it.
Speaker 3: Well, and then, of course the bad timing was Lamar
Speaker 3: Jackson then lit it up and had a perfect passer rating.
Speaker 1: Well that and the Ravens, like social media team pointed,
Speaker 1: I think they tweeted out quarterback.
Speaker 3: Ye, they did as well as former Ravens. And then
Speaker 3: Lebron got in on it.
Speaker 1: Oh me, Now, what Monsie needs to do is when
Speaker 1: Lamar goes out and rides the vomit comment in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: which is inevitable, she should tweet out, I look pretty quarterback,
Speaker 1: you lead or whatever to me. You know, I just
Speaker 1: have have fun with it.
Speaker 3: He saw. Yeah, now that's something definitely I could see
Speaker 3: you doing.
Speaker 1: Oh I would absolutely, I would definitely do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you don't think the Ravens are gonna make
Speaker 3: it to the super.
Speaker 1: Bowl, No, No, I don't. Lamar has been a terrible
Speaker 1: playoff quarterback, and.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't a lot of that injuries, and then
Speaker 3: the they had the layoff and they looked out of saying.
Speaker 1: Lost of the Tennessee Titans. He's gonna have a He's
Speaker 1: have another layoff, though, he's got to build.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a better team around him this
Speaker 3: season now.
Speaker 1: I thought the twenty nineteen Ravens were better than this team.
Speaker 1: This team lost to the Cleveland Browns at home and
Speaker 1: are that. I know the Browns are a playoff team,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think the bouncer.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I've always I've always said pretty nice
Speaker 3: things about Lamar Jackson. I remember on out kick the
Speaker 3: Coverage Your very Own Eddie Garcia ganged up on me
Speaker 3: along with Clay Travis because they said I was a
Speaker 3: prisoner of the moment with Lamar. That was when he
Speaker 3: had his MVP season. Play made the assumption that Lamar
Speaker 3: would never win a super Bowl, and I argued with
Speaker 3: him about that and Eddie said, he's all flash and
Speaker 3: no substance. I don't know about that. He looks like
Speaker 3: a pretty good quarterback. To me.
Speaker 1: I was wraw. I didn't think he would be good.
Speaker 1: He's He's played better than I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL. But the super Bowl thing
Speaker 1: is always a great take that Clay had because most
Speaker 1: of these guys will never win a super Bowl. Even
Speaker 1: if you're good, you're not going to win a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Most of these guys will pass through the NFL and
Speaker 1: never win anything because they only.
Speaker 3: Give out one. I think what he said was he
Speaker 3: would never sniff a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I think he'll sniff a super Bowl. He'll
Speaker 1: definitely do that. But it's one of these guys until
Speaker 1: I see him play well in the play Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: was a terrible playoff quarterback. His brother was a better pole.
Speaker 3: You buy into that. People say, if you're a one
Speaker 3: man band, that doesn't work in the big game. You
Speaker 3: can't beat a team by yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem in the playoffs is you play better teams.
Speaker 1: And they, even though they don't like to talk about
Speaker 1: this part out loud, they they game plan a little
Speaker 1: differently in the playoffs. And lamar as good as he is,
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone's got weakness, is right, everyone's got kryptonite,
Speaker 1: and so far in the playoffs, teams have really been
Speaker 1: able to expose his kryptonite. Now, who the Ravens are
Speaker 1: going to play and all that. We don't know until
Speaker 1: what happens today, but you know, we'll see. And I
Speaker 1: know if he does not win, I will advise when
Speaker 1: I run into MANSI I will let her know to
Speaker 1: have some fun. But that that was pretty good viral
Speaker 1: on That was right up there.
Speaker 3: It gets you out there in the public eye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then she's got it's weird like with and
Speaker 1: I don't know, obviously not speaking for women, but I've
Speaker 1: worked with women in the business over the years, and
Speaker 1: it seems like they get a lot of love. But
Speaker 1: if they say an opinion that guys don't like, they
Speaker 1: get the extra level of oh you're a woman, you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of crap that they owe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of that of the comments what football
Speaker 3: team did she start for in high school? At college?
Speaker 1: Exactly? That's a douche douche. Canoe checks in that one
Speaker 1: from his cave the ne Anderthal. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that. Thank you, Marcus and everyone else that
Speaker 1: we didn't get your email. I was really impressed. I
Speaker 1: was concerned because I did not did not promote the email,
Speaker 1: but Mike and Steve and all you other guys will
Speaker 1: send another email for next week if you want to
Speaker 1: write an in a Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Enjoy the football today, Danny.
Speaker 1: I will be at the Kieve's Chargers game because my
Speaker 1: buddy works with the Chiefs and to meet I want
Speaker 1: to see him. I've met him before, I want to
Speaker 1: see him again. And then I'll be back on the
Speaker 1: radio tonight. You'll be back tomorrow, yes, So is that right?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir? Monday afternoon with Covino and Rich from two
Speaker 3: to four pm on the West Side, and that is
Speaker 3: five to seven pm in Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Newark, New Jersey, where it smells like chemicals. Have
Speaker 1: a wonderful day, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater gotta murder, I gotta go