WEBVTT - "Not Just Sports Guys" Mail Bag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.639 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.160 Ben Maller starts right now, nine in the air everywhere 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.879 back at it on a Sunday. Addition to the Fifth 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.360 Hour with Ben Maller, you have found Us and Danny 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.520 g Radio the Man, the Myth, the Legend. As we 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.000 go deep into the mail bag on the podcast, and 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.080 if you missed the Saturday podcast, not one, not too 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.240 but three quality reviews. We read those at the end 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:56.920 of the podcast. You gotta listen all the way through 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.520 the podcast. So it was it was pretty be cool. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.960 And again, if you want to help us out, that's 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.560 that would that would help a lot. And I'm excited 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.640 about the mail bag. I I kind of went through 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.880 some of the messages, some of the questions Danny, but 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.040 I did that and I think I've forgotten most of them, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.560 so it's gonna be completely new to me. Nice and 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.400 I don't go on Facebook very often because I don't 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.400 want to see family and friends bitching about things. Yeah, well, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.720 I really don't know what any of these questions are, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.920 so we're not We're not waste any time. We'll get 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.119 right into it. We wanna go as we usually run 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.319 out of time. We have a limited amount a finite 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.640 amount of time, as we all do in life. So 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.080 let's get into it. Here we go. We have to 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:50.720 start properly with our friend Ohio, w great Ohio. The 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.240 lead into the mail bag and right to the questions 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.120 we go, Yes, we do. First one comes from Kevin 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.840 in Kansas. 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But Ben Maller's show and on Tuesday normally 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.000 in the morning, I will post a link and you 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.440 can post right there. You're your question. So that Kevin 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.600 and Kansas wrote in he says, dear Ben, I cut 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.520 your gremlin glitch the other night. As a person who 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.720 likes to know how the sausage is made, can you 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.600 tell us what it's like at the main studio and 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.639 your place when you start trying to fix things, especially 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.840 with the pressure of millions of live listeners waiting. Thanks, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.840 I appreciate it, guys. That's Kevin. So yeah, Kevin, I'll 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.400 get into that a little bit. So we did have 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.280 a gremlin attack, the first time that's happened. I've been 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:14.000 in this new studio for almost six months now and 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.880 we've had really good quality audio. But every once in 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.200 a while, just to remind you that you're not in 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.560 Kansas anymore, Toto, that you you get the gremlins attack. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.880 So the other night I was doing the show and 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.320 all of a sudden everything stopped. I hear side. So 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.120 on my end, Kevin, what I hear is I normally 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.160 hear some ambient kind of a buzz or something, or 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.560 sound effects or music or something but in the background, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.920 depending on what's being played in the air. But I'm 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.120 talking and like, you know, all of a sudden, like 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:51.400 I hear nothing, I fell asleep. What I do is 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.560 I immediately turned. I look at my equipment, make sure 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.040 I didn't screw anything up. I'm like, is every button, 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.720 every knob where it's supposed to be, did anything become 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.560 plugged or any of that stuff? Uh? And then I, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.119 I uh, usually will text Coop or I'll call the 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.280 the warm line. I'll call the warm line to talk 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.800 to Roberto and it's an inside line and try to 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.600 figure out what the plan is. But what happened this 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.520 week was I knew right away the line went down 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.039 the internet special broadcast thing that we used to do 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.920 the show on, and it it was just down. So 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.880 at that point, and I'll let Danny handle the engineering 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.760 part of it, because you've been on that side of it, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.240 introducing the producing and all that, but I on on 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.200 my end. I just make sure I didn't screw up, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.880 covering my ass. And then once I established that it 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.520 was the connection, the broadcast line that gone down, I'm 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.599 at the mercy of the broadcast line. I just have 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.360 to make the most of it. So I'll usually call 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.400 in and goof around with Eddie on the phone, and 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.240 because that's all I can really do, I have no 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.960 other way of communicating. So I know at the studio 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.680 there's a a lot of running around, right Danny, and 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.080 trying to figure out also what's going on where the 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.679 issue is. First of all, please tell me Brian Finley 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.120 was filling in for Eddie the other night when this happened. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.440 Oh God, no, no, it was Eddie. It was Eddie. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.600 And I think about the great thing about Eddie Danny 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.120 is I used to when I when I first got 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.320 a radio, we had technically issues doing I did a 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.400 lot of remotes and I got read the Riot Act 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.800 by one of my program directors. If there's a mistake, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.359 you don't mention it on the air, I used to 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.920 yell at and God love Eddie, Eddie. Uh the line 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.200 goes down for the next two days. Eddie's bringing up 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.360 the fact that we had technical difficulties just in case, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.200 just in case. The other list of hundreds of thousands 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 of people that didn't hear about it know about it, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.680 which I always get a kick out of it. But 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.480 so it was so walk me through this, Danny. You're 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.000 you're in the mother ship. You're in the main headquarters 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.200 there where all the bells and whistles are, and what happened. Yeah, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.839 we'll hear the same thing, kind of like a digital 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.680 skip sound, and then you usually the host just cuts 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:08.960 off drops gone, it's gone, connection, gone, dead air. Roberto 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:14.040 gets big eyes, turns and looks at me. I turn 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.080 and look at Eddie, and we're like scrambling. At this point, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.600 I'm actually on the live air. We have a delay system, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.200 so we could hit the dump button to get rid 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.919 of the few seconds of dead air that just happened. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.160 But now it's my call in the producer's seat. I'm 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.080 gonna say, Okay, let's turn on Eddie's mike. Eddie, you 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.679 gotta cover while we get Ben reconnected. Not a fun 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.359 situation to be in, whatsoever, because you don't know is 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.440 it the Internet? Is it yours? Is it ours? To 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.520 the boxes that we use to connect to each other 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.839 need to be reset. Um. And now besides needing to 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.000 figure out that part of it, you also need to 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.840 entertain the list ners that are already there. Yeah, and 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.200 so that really is the balancing act. And back before 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.200 we used what's called a comrex connection. We had I 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.600 SDN connections which were more of a dial up situation. Well, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.600 it got to be a regular thing where we just 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.200 joked about it, kind of like in your old studio, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.400 where it would happen not every week, but happened enough 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.160 to where the listeners were in on it and new, Okay, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.680 he's having studio problems. Here comes the fireworks, and and 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.800 we just kind of laughed, and you know, we're lighthearted 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.400 about it. But I'm with you, dude. I was taught 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.000 by a really strict program director. If there's a mistake 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.280 on the air, you do not draw attention to send mistake. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.119 We were like Trill Sergeant's back when we were kids. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.000 In radio, you do not tell the listeners that there's 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.280 a problem. You just keep pushing forward. So in our 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.840 minds we're thinking that because that's how we were trained 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:04.160 to kids. But radio nowadays, because so many people have 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.640 recording studios in their garage, in their bedrooms, even now, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.960 when there's technical issues, it's handled in more of a 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.040 lighthearted manner nowadays. Yeah, it is true, but I do 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.800 have PTSD from that programmer. When I hear Eddie going 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.160 on and on about oh Mallard dropped again, you know, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.720 and well yeah, and then there's a whole another thing 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.360 where we have to explain what happened to our head 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:35.400 engineer at the network. And Carriss is a nice guy, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:40.400 but he's not the most easy going guy radio engineer. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.840 He's got a lot to deal with. I would have 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.640 to wake him up and tell him what was going on, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.320 because if he wasn't in the loop, I would get 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.800 more in trouble due to that than anything else that 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.800 went on on either side of these connections and these 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.720 satellite link ups or internet connections. There were times where 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.040 I would fix the problem. We kept it very entertaining 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.560 on the air, and we're giving each other high fives 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.000 in the studio and I leave and I go home, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.600 and I'm like, man, what a marathon that shift was. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.880 But it all worked out in the end. And then 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.600 I would get an email, Danny, why did you not 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.200 let me know what happened? You should have looped me 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.439 in on this, And I'm gonna write you up. I 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.040 got written up Ben working on your show more than 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:32.640 I've ever gotten written up on job in my life. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.680 I was written up three times management while I was 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.439 producing your program. I apologize there. I feel like I'm 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.040 responsible for that, and all three times it was because 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.240 I didn't inform for people. But in my mind, that's 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.160 ratting us out, like I'm not the kind of person 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.120 to broadcast it. So as long as we fixed the issue, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.080 I didn't want to broadcast it to anybody. No, I 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.400 hear you. But you know, one of the things and 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.840 the curses and working for the machine is there are 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.719 people monitoring everything that goes out over the air. We 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.840 have what's it called the Master Control where they're monitoring 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.959 everything up yeah, the brain upstairs, the brain like, oh, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.120 it's not just a Fox Sports radio but all the 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.800 premier networks programming. There's a bunch of guys in there 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.719 that are keeping you know, on women too, and the 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.000 dudes and women, just keeping track of everything and making 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.679 sure that all the affiliates are taken care of and 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.720 all see the knock the knock, knock it off. It 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.120 looks like an air traffic control center. There's all these 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.920 grids of the world and it shows where all the 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.680 affiliates are and it's very interesting to look at because 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.440 they're like in a fish bowl. And if we go 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.800 off the air, they get notified, then an email goes 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.840 out to all of the executives and all the bosses. Yeah, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.560 and everyone's like, wait a minute. Here was Well, that 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.160 was a very detailed answer. I hope you appreciated that, Kevin. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.720 We spent about ten minutes roughly answering that which is 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.880 good people love the behind the curtain stuff. All right, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.240 well we'll keep it going here. All right, come back, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.720 it's sign from now call all right, Helen and Stu 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.040 from Palmetto Bay, Florida. Very calm, nice loving people now 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.800 that you are here, Danny says, Ben and Danny gee, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.920 best to you boys. A comment and a question Ben 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:38.079 post big game. Congratulations to you and your rams in Stafford, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.800 Cup and Donald. Great to see great players rise to 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.680 the physical and mental challenge of the moment and not 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:50.520 quit like that loser, Simone Biles. Very well written there, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.880 Helen and Stuh. The question also says, I've been for 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.720 different reasons. Who is the biggest Oh, here we go, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.720 this is gonna get me in trouble day, she writes, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.320 And who is the biggest fame whore on the Ben 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:09.040 Mallor show, Tammy in Montana? Who will U? Well? Hook 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.359 up with people without knowing their name. Wow or Andrea 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.679 the fraud astrologer from Berkeley who wait for it, graduated 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:24.040 from the Mother Peace School of Healing Arts much love, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.760 Helen and still I was just saying, how nice they 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.920 were being, Danny and how how could you do me 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.040 like that? Helen? How dare you? And still Man, those 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.720 are fighting words that I cleaned that up a little bit. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.240 I cleaned that up a little bit. Danny g I mean, man, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.120 oh man, oh man. Uh no, all listen, people are 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.040 part of the show. You know how this works, Helen 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.000 and stud You guys don't call into the show. But 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.680 uh Tammy is a big part of the show. She 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.880 helps out a lot of people who beer drinking Brian. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.079 She's done a great job kind of communicating as a liaison, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.360 even though she's not officially part of the show. She's 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.280 communicated with beer dring and Bryant's family and all that. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.520 And uh Andrew is a fine woman. She means very well. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.160 She loves what she does, and it's you know, attention. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:16.559 Occasionally I'm intrigued by it. So, man, Helen, you know 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.880 you're coming out there this this Helen's coming out like 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.319 Mike Tyson back in the eighties, you know, fight everybody. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.160 Come on, we're all a bunch of clowns here. What 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.160 are we doing here? It's there, It's a radio show. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:33.480 It's so so simple, all right, all right. Next up, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.679 Pierre from Springfield, Mass says, Ben, tails of your frugality 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.200 are well known. I know that you're hesitant to break 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.959 off multiple C notes on a pricey outdoor pizza of it. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.400 My question to you both would be, do you guys 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.720 have air fryers? If so, I've found TikTok to be 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.880 a haven of fast food air friar hacks in general 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.800 overall cooking time servers. So I'm not on TikTok, but 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.600 i do have an air fryer. I do love the 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.520 air frier. The air fryer is great, wonderful. I don't 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.839 know who invented it, but great job by whoever came 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.040 up with that. And but I'm not really a TikTok guy. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.200 I'm not. Are you on TikTok, Danny? Are you You're not? No, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:20.360 not a TikToker. And my Tinderoni also has an air fryer. Yeah, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.680 he uses it on Sundays for football, which I love. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.200 Sometimes during the week to make things a little healthier. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.560 She'll use that. Some great dishes come out of that machine. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.200 And I've used it a few times. This is my 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.000 first time using an air fryer. Take some of that 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.000 grease away. I like it. I like it. Yeah. One 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.440 one dish I really like using it for are the 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.400 Takedo's ben from Costco. Oh. Yeah, absolutely, that's a go to. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.400 Oh it's great and they but any of that's like 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.840 frozen food that you could get at Costco or wal 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.560 Mart or wherever. It is just just wonderful that they 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.120 have those restaurant quality chicken strips you can get a 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.240 Costco and you put those in there and you don't 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.040 have to go pay twenty five bucks for a meal 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.560 at a restaurant. You can get it for still expensive, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.840 but it's a lot cheaper than I've been eating at 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.600 the restaurant. Pierre, send me some of those hacks, buddy, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.440 I know you you know how to get ahold of me, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.680 And send me some of those hacks. All I'll play 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.000 around with that. Why not? All right? Next up, he'll Billy, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:26.400 Mike writes in and he'll Billy works at the UPS 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.840 Hub in Virginia. And he says, Hey, Ben, like most, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.360 I despise tanking in the NFL and wanted to know 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.080 what you thought about this fix. So this is a 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.480 sporting question, he says. You take the bottom five teams 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.320 and flip the rewards to give the fifth team from 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.680 the bottom the best pick, the fourth the worst pick. Uh, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.400 you know, the fourth the worst next, and so on. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.400 So the worst team does not get the number one 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.640 pick anymore, and even the pond scum of the NFL 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.440 have to try and win some games. Of course, tweak 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.600 it if need be, he says, but teams would have 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.440 more incentive to win. What do you think that's from 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.720 hill Billy Mike. It's not the worst idea, but I 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.760 think they should just I'd get rid of the entire draft. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.920 I hate the draft. I'm down on the draft. I'm 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.680 glad the Rams don't have any draft picks. Uh. The 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.520 the way that they do it, they'll never do it here. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.600 We talked about this all the time is relegation. They 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.440 do that in Europe and they're never gonna do that here. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.400 But that's the way to solve the problem that have 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.960 legitimate punishment if your team blows for a few years 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.800 in a row and just do something about it. And 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.200 another thing that I pointed this out on the radio 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.040 show Danny. One of the things I like a lot 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.240 about the Clippers this year. They don't have a good 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.440 team because Kawhi Leonard and Paul George aren't playing. Just 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.840 as a reference for hill Billy Mike, but since they 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.000 don't have a first round pick and they really don't 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.880 have any picks till, they're not trying to lose games. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.680 They're actually trying to win games. Wish at someone who's 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.800 a fan, that's what I want, That's all I ask. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.240 I don't care about your freaking draft pick. I want 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.879 you to put an honest effort there and try to 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.640 win as many games as you can. And because I 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.639 want winners, all right, that's what I want. I want 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:23.560 to celebrate winning. Do you understand not losing winning. I 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.359 saw someone recently online propose that we take the two 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.280 worst NFL teams and have them face off against each 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.719 other annually, replacing the Pro Bowl. So it'll be the 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.480 battle of the worst two teams for the number one 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.080 draft pick. So the goal would be to win that game. Ok, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.760 to actually try to win that game, all right? Take 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.720 the two worst wherever the Pro Bowls being held or 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.760 in this case would be called the toilet Bowl, and 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.480 you would get you would win the number one draft pick. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.240 All right, hey, and you Winnesota as well. So yeah, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.199 I gotta sell you should do something. There's so many, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.480 so many teams. It is a huge issue. So many 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.440 teams just not trying to to put a good product 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.160 on the field and try to win. They think they 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.840 have the cheap code to getting these draft picks, which 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.160 is fools go most of the time. I got mail, Yeah, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:26.440 I got mail. Yeah, all right. A friend, Hajji from Roanoke, Virginia, 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.919 rights and he says a quick question. It sounds like 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.800 there are several Friday jokes you can't read on the radio. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.560 Could you read them on the Fifth Hour podcast instead? 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.720 Maybe in a special jokes only episode so sensitive people 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.359 could skip it. Just a thought, keep up the great work, 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.080 Bed and Danny. That's from Hajji in Roanoke. So the 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.159 way I'll answer that, I have tossed this around in 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.800 my head. We get some very offensive jokes. We and 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.760 they're very hilarious. Oh my god, are they funny. They're 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.120 the funniest jokes we get we don't read on the air. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.760 The problem with that, I've tossed it back and forth. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:12.119 But the issue here is that doing the podcast, it's 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.919 kind of like what happened to Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.240 back in the day had told a bunch of jokes 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.879 and he had said the N word. But at the 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.520 time that was allowed in comedy. At some point that 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.320 was no longer allowed, and so that got weaponized years 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.880 later against Joe Rogan. People tried to cancel Rogan, who's 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.200 the king of the podcast and all that, and so 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.639 I'm like, I could read those jokes on the podcast, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.480 but that will be out there forever and then eventually 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.240 that could come back and bite me in the ask Danny. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.639 So that's my concern for Hajji. We're doing that. Not 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.680 that I don't think it would be the great podcast. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.400 It would probably be the most popular podcast that we do, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.840 because it's comedy, it's good jokes. People like to laugh, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.560 and you know, guys like to have a good time. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.680 And you know, the women that listen to the show, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.760 they get it, they get the humor, so they love it. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.479 But you know, again, the problem is is wires are 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.200 flying all over this place. The problem is that stuff. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.960 You know, all it takes is the the Wokesters to 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.880 get ahold of that and then uh, you know it's 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.600 canceled Miller time and all that. So we're living in 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.160 a non Negros world. I don't know what you're talking 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.000 about talking about Ben's famous Negros drop last weekend on 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:36.800 the podcast Phil and Joe. They're brothers. They're dead and 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.080 well one of them, and I think both of them 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.680 are actually now I don't know. Alright, Uh, let's see 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.280 who do we have next? Any meany mighty mo. Get 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.760 a lot of questions coming in here on the mail bag. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.960 Email bag very popular. That's right, Yes we do have 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:56.320 mail al right. Next up is David in a Houston. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.000 He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, g I'm getting married 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.720 in March. What was the most memorable part of your wedding? 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.280 I guess this is for me because you haven't had 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.760 your your wedding yet. Uh. So I got married in 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:18.160 Hawaii and uh, I just remember being excited and nervous. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.280 We I loped. So it's just me and my wife 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.200 at that time, my future wife, and I just want 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.760 to make sure everything was good and because even though 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.600 we got married without family. We had a camera person 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.560 was there to take a photographer, and we had the 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.600 person that did the ceremony and all that. We had 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.000 to pick the spot in Hawaii. We had to find 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.240 the right place in Kauaie to get married, what part 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:41.840 of the beach you wanted, the whole thing. There's a 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.720 lot of that stuff. We had to go down to 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:47.040 the the court, not the court room, the city office 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.159 or where we fell out, the wedding papers, the marriage 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.159 license and all that. So just like dealing with all 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.439 that stuff. But I remember having a great time and uh, 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.960 wonderful time. You know, you don't remember the days. That's 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:57.960 what they say about life. You don't remember actually days. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.680 You remember moments. And that's a moment obviously. Remember I 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.399 don't know what kind of wedding you're gonna have, David, 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.160 if it's a small wedding, a big wedding, just soak 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.240 it all in. Uh, you know, it's simple stuff, right, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:12.119 He's it's amazing how fast it goes. And you know, 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.800 just I remember at my wedding how many people were 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.040 alive in my family that are no longer alive. And 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.679 I didn't get married that long ago, and Uh, you know, 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.679 these are people I loved and real close family, and 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:25.920 I don't I can't call him, I can't text them, 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:30.680 I can't email him, and so you just enjoy that stuff. So, uh, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.520 you know that that would be it said, Yeah, was 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.320 your family okay with not being there at the actual 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.520 physical wedding. Yeah, you know it's funny because my mom, 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.159 I'm pretty sure my mom mays she rested peace. She 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:45.840