WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Freaking Nightmare" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:35.040 In the a Everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.839 and Danny G a global reach available you found it 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:44.320 wherever podcasts are available. You can find this podcast on demand. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.839 A spinoff of The Overnight Show, The Ben Mahlercher heard 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:54.680 Monday through Friday, eastn Standard time two in the morning, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.160 two in the morning till six in the morning, but 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.600 on the West Coast eleven pm until three am. And 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.840 if you're in Hawaii, it's just a night show. And 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.600 if you're in Europe, it's on during the day and 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.640 you can hear me there. Danny G, who used to 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.560 work with me on the Overnight Show, you can hear 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.000 him on with Covino and Rich Monday through Friday. Fox 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.160 Sports Radio. When can people hear you exactly Danny. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.480 G on the West coast two to four pm and 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.520 on the East coast five. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.640 To seven, five to seven. Check that out from our 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.200 new studio. A couple weeks into the new studio and 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.520 it's not been trashed completely yet. I was upset because 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.960 they changed the air conditioning the wall and the main 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.080 studio like it's still fine, it works, but they had 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.000 this really nice box on the wall for the air 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.720 conditioning that was like high end, and they took it 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.600 off and put this like crappy one on. I don't 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.080 know why they did. That's a downgrade. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:57.280 I wonder why they did that. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.880 I don't know. I have no idea, but I noticed 0:01:59.920 --> 0:02:03.480 that at and the people have been asking what's the 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.520 old what's going on in the old studio? Nothing, it's there. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.920 They didn't change anything, they didn't get rid of it. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.919 I've actually gone in there. I've gotten to work because 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.400 I've had to drive in a little bit more from 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.680 way out in the north Woods. I'm really happy about that. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.800 I like that drive. It's a good make sure my 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.040 car works, and good to support the oil industry with 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.560 the gas. So I got out there and I've gotten 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.680 it early and sat in that room and watched some 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.960 of the NBA playoff games in my old seat, so 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.760 that was kind of neat nice. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.120 Yeah, in the daytime, they record some podcasts in there. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.040 Oh really, but just recording podcasts. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.160 Got Leave does podcasts and so does Rob Parker. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:53.000 Okay, so that's the new podcast studio. Yeah, okay, there 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.280 you go. So who knew. Well, we we do our 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.720 podcast differently and we don't want to use that. We 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:00.680 don't use that studio. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.519 So you don't use that stinking studio, man. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.120 And that studio. We're done with that studio. Absolutely. We 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.799 are not done with the mail bag. And that means ohio, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.320 al it's. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:30.480 This bag. Yeah, just getting started with a mail bag. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:31.000 Let's go. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.320 Yeah, let's get started here, deep into the mail bag. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.000 If you'd like to send a question in, you do 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.800 not have to wait for me to post something on Facebook. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.000 You can email me right now. Email Danny Greel fifth 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.520 hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour at gmail 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.960 dot com. I cannot guarantee that we will put your 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.280 question on the air, but the odds improved dramatically if 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.040 you actually send one in as opposed to not sending 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.920 one in. I will guarantee if you don't send a 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.480 question in we will not be able to read your 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.960 question on the air. So with that said, the first 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.360 mail bag question comes from Pete the Machinist, who is 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:12.440 listening to this podcast in Albany, Oregon. He says, Guys, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.920 when it's the weekend or maybe a day off, are 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.560 you still somewhat like nocturnal? He says? Or do you 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.680 adjust your sleep schedule for the weekends and then go 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.520 back to sleep regularly or back to sleep the same 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.320 sleep schedule for the weekdays. I guess you're talking to 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.280 me here. When you do the overnight show, does your 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:41.880 overnight shift conflict with your wife's schedule? So, Pete, here's 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.039 the problem. I like to keep the schedule as close 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:49.080 as I can to the weekday schedule, but that would 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.760 mean that I would not see any friends or family, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.920 and I like to see some people from time to time. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.599 So I do attempt to tweak my schedule a little 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:04.240 bit on the weekends. It's not easy. My wife does 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.240 work similar hours, but she's got a superpower. I'm married. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:17.600 My wife wants to dress up. She how dare you? 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.600 It's very hard for me to get quality sleep. She's 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.080 able to sleep whenever she wants. I don't have that, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.880 so I hope that answers your question. Danny. I know 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.560 you did the overnight show for a while, so you 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.200 had to battle sleep and all that. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.400 It was one problem dating during that time working on 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.200 your show, because I'd have to flip my schedule around 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.080 every weekend to be a normal person and keep up 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.039 with the girl that I was dating at the time. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.960 It was not easy because I would feel lethargic. I 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.560 would feel run down, and this girl is like, you know, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.840 a block ahead of me on her mountain bike if 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.479 we were riding bikes that weekend or whatever, and I 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.080 just didn't feel like myself. It sucked, and everyone in 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.039 your life just expected you to flip a switch with 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.960 regular hours on the weekend and then transition back to 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.800 the graveyard on Sunday night, super super hard. I have 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.680 a lot of respect for everybody that does the third shift. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.120 Yeah, it's not easy. The worst was when I did 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.960 the weekend overnights Friday and Saturday. And after I did 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.800 weekend overnights probably for six, seven, eight years something like 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.919 that pretty consistently, and people stop inviting you to parties. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.599 They no longer because they know you won't go because 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.000 most Friday parties are on Friday or Saturday, like, well, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.640 he's working, so we won't even invite him. Not that 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.320 I would probably go anyway, but they stopped inviting. You 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.400 had dating the Nightmare because of that schedule. And then 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.800 I had a website where I was working during the week. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.800 So I was doing my website, my gossip site, aggregating 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.280 gossip during the week, and then on the weekends doing 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.040 the radio stuff. And I was filling in all over 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.680 the place. There's a big Nightmare next up on the 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.000 But thank you Pete the Machine, it's next up alf 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:14.000 the unofficial official show historian. He says, Ben, I don't 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.280 know what the ocean waters are like in California, but 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.640 you know what you're into. But do you know what 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.560 you're into when you hit the main coast this summer, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.280 he says, be prepared to have some blue balls. Oh, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.520 it was a lot. I was holding ball, touching balls, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.920 you name it. I had a lot of balls. And 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.760 here's a fun fact for your privates. And he's got 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.040 a graph here, Danny, you can't see. It's got the 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.000 water temperature off the coast different places in Maine. So 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.760 First of all, Alf, we are tentatively planning on Maine. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.120 That is not confirmed, though you know, the water in 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:57.400 California is probably right now, it's about in the low sixties. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.480 I would say off the coast of californ which is 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.560 what it is in the summer, the hottest part of 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.480 the main. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.680 But then again, Ben, if you were traveling to Maine, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.960 I don't think your number one thing on your agenda 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.520 would be to go run into the water. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.160 You don't think I would do a cannon ball from 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.680 the pier or into the water in the Atlantic, No, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:17.160 I would not. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.280 I don't see that. No, you're the dude on the 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.160 beach with the tent. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 I am in the tent. Yeah, not pitching a tent. Well, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.200 I think to get the tent. Yeah. But anyway, here's 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.839 the other problem. An unpopular opinion. Danny having spent time 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.280 on the beach on the East Coast of America and 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.760 the West coast West Coast all day, the beaches on 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.760 the West coast much better than the beaches on the 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.040 East coast, And some people say, well what about Florida. Yeah, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.120 but I just like to hole the sunset on the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.959 West coast. Awesome, It's right over the water. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.120 You're looking really cool. It's just a beautiful it's. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.480 Just wonderful, marvelous, marvelous, marvel marvelous, marvelous marvels. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.040 The sun sinks into the ocean. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.679 Yeah, it's really cool. But thank you Alf for that 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:12.080 uplifting message. I appreciate it, and I'll keep you guys posted. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.679 As of now, there is no plane ticket purchase, there 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.200 is no hotel booked, and we'll see what happens with that, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.320 with the old finances the Mala Mansion, Mike in Fullerton writes, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.800 and he says, how to Ben and Danny g it's 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.760 birthday season. So I'm going to ask what you did? 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.480 What was your favorite birthday party? Right? What you guys 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.160 do with your kids. My favorite as a kid was 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.320 me and a bunch of friends at the long since 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.920 bankrupt Discovery Zone. My favorite as an adult was at 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:48.920 a similar place that is still around, according to Mike 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.840 in Fullerton, and he of course included as Alf did, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.880 he had a graph and there's also a photo here 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.480 that Mike included, which is it's good to know that 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.000 you love whether there's the Discovery Zone there, there's is 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.800 that you and the photos Mike. I don't know if 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.600 that's you in there Discovery Zone. There is a Discovery 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.800 Music Science Center, which I don't think is the same thing, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.960 but that's that's a thing in Orange County. I think 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:23.240 it's one in La also, but thank you think you might. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.000 I love Chuck E Cheese. I was a kid that 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.680 was not that old. When I was a kid, Chuck 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.920 E Cheese that was like a big that was a 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.080 big deal. There was a ripoff of Chuck E Cheese 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.160 called Bullwinkles, which I thought was kind of cool. That 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.480 was fun like that. I'm of the age when we 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.680 were little kids. McDonald started the playgrounds. Just going there 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.600 you felt like you were like a big shot because 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.520 you were hanging out with Ronald McDonald and you had 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:53.439 the ball pit, which was always disgusting. Any great birthday locations, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.960 Danny from back in the day. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.040 No, I mean, I don't want anybody sympathy, but you 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.559 know this from you know, because we've known each other 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.240 for a long time. I for a portion of my 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.559 childhood my mom was single, bouncing around. We didn't have 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.920 a place to stay for a while. It was not 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.960 good times as a little kid. For a lot of 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.520 the years. So like Biggie rapped, birthdays was the worst days. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:23.720 Now we sip champagne when we Thursday. So yeah, birthdays 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.839 weren't really a thing, Ben, You. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.760 Did not celebrate the birthdays. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.800 Yeah, I mean, just like Biggie. And you know, my 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.800 very first official birthday party was when I was in 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.079 my early twenties and a radio station held it. They 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:45.280 did a surprise birthday party and it turned out this 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.520 is in Ventura, California, but this should have been an Oxnard, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.240 California because it was like a cholo party. Every single 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.199 gift I unwrapped was something Raiders, al Raighties. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:03.280 And you have a very similar closet to Roberto, where 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.560 in my head there's one side that is Raiders. It's 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.240 it's like a triangle. You've got one side Raiders, one 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.400 side Lakers, and then the Dodgers. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.800 There's also the Hawaii section though, Okay, like I got 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:23.000 Hawaii hats, I have not Hawaiian shirts, but shirts from Hawaii. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.800 Yeah, so I don't have that. I have like a 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.480 fair amount of a Clipper random shirts, but most I 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.800 don't have too many teams, teams, a lot, a lot 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.080 of hats, a lot of hats I've got that. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.280 You do have some Dodgers. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.040 I do have a fair amount of Dodger I have 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.680 like every Dodger hat possible. I've got that. A few 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.480 Dodger shirts, a couple of Clipper shirts, a couple of 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.079 Ram shirts, but not not too much. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.800 Well, good news for you, Ben. I was at Target 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.480 the other day Clipper shirts half off again. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.040 Oh look at you. Very funny there, what is still 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.040 wrong with the Clippers? Very funny. Another class Laker historian. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.560 I saw my man, Ralph Lawler, who's retired. I was 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.520 friends with Ralph when he was a Clipper broadcaster, and 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.200 I used to listen to him when I was a kid, which. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.000 Is very weird. I like that guy. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.959 So Ralph is retired. So he he was living part 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.040 of the year in Florida, part of the year in Oregon. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.200 I guess he sold his house in Florida and moved 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:25.200 to Oregon full time. So whatever, he's an Oregon And 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.320 he said he was consolidating items in his house and 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.920 he found all these old T shirts. Ironically enough, we 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.360 were just talking about T shirts, and they are all 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.920 these old Clipper shirts, you know, and they're they're cool things, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:39.000 vintage shirts. From back in the eighties and the nineties 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.679 and all the way up to Lob City and the 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.160 Blake Griffin and all that, and so it's just a 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:50.520 harmless post and he's doing his thing whatever. And then 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:55.920 some guy posts, I don't see any NBA championship shirts. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.079 What do you think that was, Danny? You think that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.800 was a Clipper fan or a Laker history orient Who 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:01.679 do you think that was? 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.720 I don't know. I know some bitter Clipper fans. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:12.200 That a classless, scumbag, loser, Laker historian. And another reason 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.720 all the NBA cheers against the Lakers the most in 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.760 the NBA. And Ralph Wahler came back and buried this guy. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.320 He said, what's your point? He said, I would not 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.280 look back at my career anymore fondly if my collection 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.840 of shirts included multiple championship shirts. I loved the game 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.800 and I enjoy it. I enjoyed every second of my 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.080 forty years with the Clippers. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.920 That's why he's lying to himself. If he says a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.200 title during his career wouldn't have mattered, Come on. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.120 Doesn't matter, it doesn't I don't think it doesn't matter. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.480 It doesn't matter unless you're making money off it or 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:55.240 something like that. Doesn't matter, all right, Moving on, David 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.600 writes in from Jersey. I thought I think he's in 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.800 Israel now, he says, mal or Danny g I have 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.640 heard you mentioned in the past that you have some 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.320 really valuable sports trading cards, specifically Michael Jordan rookie cards 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.680 that you have had over the years. I have also 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.600 heard you say that you're in the process, or say 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.680 you said the process of authentication. Often what's the word? 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.120 I even said so early in the morning here, what 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.720 is awesome to get verified, valid whatever? You know what 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.640 I mean, it's quite pricey. So I was wondering whatever 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.480 happened to them? Did you sell them? I would love 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.440 to know how much? If you don't mind saying, so, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.720 did you authenticate? I can't say the word, did you verify, 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.240 validate them? Whatever? Or do you still have them? Anyway? 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:48.920 I still enjoy authenticate, authenticate. There you go get authenticate, authentic, authentic, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.600 authenticate to infinity and beyond authenticate. Do you do I 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.960 really enjoy he says, enjoys the show? And well, thank 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.000 you David, and I not heard from you in a while, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.560 so thank you. I know you and your brother Both 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.360 were callers at one point to the show. So A, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.360 I still have the collection. B it is collecting dust 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.040 in the garage at the Malor Mansion. And see, I 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.840 still have on my list a plan to get rid 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.360 of them. I'm actually talking to my colleague Mike Harmon 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.520 on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith. Mike is very 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.160 into the sports memorabilia world. He knows some people, he's 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.080 got some ideas. He knows what to keep and what 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.200 to get rid of. So I might have to bring 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.080 mister Harmon to the Malor Mansion to get him like cheese, 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.680 steak and burgers and things like that and uh and 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.480 kind of play it that way and kind of have 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.920 him as my my advisor, my think tank. So they're 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.920 all still there. I haven't touched I haven't touched any 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:50.240 of them. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.320 Yeah, Harmon is a card show nerd. No, he is. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.840 He's totally into it, like that's it. That's his world, man. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.760 He's all all about it, like he's buying stuff, stuff, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.240 like he's really invested. Next up on the mail bag, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.800 who do we have here, Big Greg in Iowa? Right, 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.440 So he says, dear Ben and Danny g Since it 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:16.159 has been over a week after your new studio has opened. Truthfully, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.840 how many of the chairs in the main studio have 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:24.120 you sat in? Taking off everything except you're tidy white? 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.600 He's been, he says the answer. What do you think, 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.399 Danny seven eight nine chairs? How many do you think 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:33.200 I've sat in there? 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:34.720 One? 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.040 Yeah, one, exactly one. That's it. I don't have to please, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.840 and I would sit elsewhere, but I was told I 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.960 have to sit in a certain place because they record 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.840 for the internet channels. They record the monologue, so I 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.120 was not allowed to sit in random places. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:57.160 And they told you to stop sweating profusely like Patrick 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.280 ewing hat trick. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.239 Well, I did the first monologue I did in there, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.520 I had the flop sweat going. We told the story 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.639 on the podcast, but that's because some a hole, I 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.359 think Jason Smith had turned the heater up and it 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.200 was like eighty degrees in there, and I'm in there 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.879 doing the show and I'm sweating because all these lights 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.320 are on and I'm like, what are we doing? This 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.719 is terrible, he says Danny G. Also, this is from 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.200 Big Greg. Danny G. Have you caught your breath from 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:32.000 having to run a marathon? Taking notes to Covino and Rich. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.359 Serious question, and I'm not sure if it has been asked, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:41.080 but what's your favorite thing to make on the Blackstone? 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.680 That is from Big Greg? There you go, well, Big Greg, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.880 I actually said this a few seconds ago. But the 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.760 quality of the cheese steak sandwich. I've been to Philadelphia, 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.480 I've had authentic cheese steak. I will put my cheese 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.639 steaks in against any of the cheese steak sandwiches that 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.240 I've had in Philadelphia. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.680 Oh, those are some strong words. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.840 I'm telling you, man, these things are amazing and the 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.320 only the main reason I've been able to do it. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:17.320 I would not be possible without the Blackstone griddle, which 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.479 I love. It's one of the coolest things. I'm sounding 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.080 like a total middle aged human being here. If you 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.040 had flashed back and gone in the hot tup time 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.400 machine to when I was a kid, and you had 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.040 told me, Ben, someday you'll be you know, X number 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.320 of years old and you'll be celebrating a griddle, I 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.119 would have told you to go pound sand is what 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:44.320 I would have told you. But here we are, and that, Danny, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.000 I believe, is called life. That right there is life, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.040 and I wish my mom had lived a little longer 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.359 because I didn't really get into cooking until she had 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.919 unfortunately checked out. But she was wonderful in the kitchen, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.880 and so maybe some weird genetic thing passed on where 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.440 I've kind of picked it up. They My wife's taught 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.120 me a lot of stuff too, so she's very good 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.800 cooking and whatnot. So but I love the griddles, wonderful. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.480 And Danny, now that you've got a bun in the 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.280 oven there, and you know, you might need to buy 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:17.640 a blackstone and learn how to cook. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.000 No, you're not wrong. We have a balcony and I've 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:26.000 been talking to my girl about buying a nice barbecue 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.600 grill for the summer because it's about time to fire 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.280 up some steaks and hot dogs. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:34.560 Now, what kind of what are we looking at? Here? 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.200 Are you? Are you gonna do like charcoal? You're gonna 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.960 do gas? Like? What's the plan? 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.800 See? I gotta figure that out. I don't know. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:47.600 Now. I like cooking with gas because it's it's more efficient, 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.200 but that some people love the taste. If you're barbecuing 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.840 a lot of stuff, you might like the charcoal. It 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.159 really it's about preference, and there are charcoal snobs that 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.639 spat Loogi's at you. If you say you like cooking 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:02.280 with gas? 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.159 What about the woodchip snobs? 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.960 Oh yeah, yeah, you could do that. So that's another I. 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.840 Got some woodchips, love eh, I. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.080 Got a smoker. Well you should get a smoker like 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:18.360 I have. Okay, you none need a brag. Fred in Spring, Texas, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.040 Right so, and says hi, guys, Ben, you always talk 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.639 about the overnight shift is the bottom of the barrel? 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.639 Is that really true? In what do you aspire to be? 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.119 I love what I do for a living, Fred, But 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.320 in the radio business there's the halves and the have nots, 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.760 and it's pretty much divided up in radio. Between six 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:43.080 am and six pm, you're really cool, You're important, you matter. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.000 You get to go to the Super Bowl every year 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:51.040 and different events and boxing matches and NBA finals and 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.479 World Series and things like that. You're important. And then 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.320 if you're on from six pm to six am, you 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:01.639 are like mushrooms that grow at the bottom of the sewer. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:03.640 And that's just the way it is. I mean, you're 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.480 just treated that way. You're a second class citizen. I 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:08.520 get it. I've done it a long time. I've done 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.600 overnight's my entire career. I just wish the shift was 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.760 respected more because we're actually on more affiliates than the 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.240 daytime shows are. Obviously the audience is a little smaller 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.639 because most people are sleeping and all that. But no, 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.080 I've always wanted to be in radio. My dream was 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:26.960 a little kid to be in radio. So I'm very 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:30.640 happy to do what I do. I love doing the podcast. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.080 I'm sure at some point we'll just do the podcast, 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.679 we won't do the radio anymore, and we'll just focus 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.200 on the podcast. But there's all the things I'd like 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.720 to do. I'd like to get back and try television again. 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:45.080 That would be fun. Maybe start my website up again 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:50.520