WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Roll Russell to His Left" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 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 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.600 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Welcome into 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:41.480 the podcast Dojo, No days off, No days off as 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.280 it is a brand spanking new edition of the Fifth 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:49.800 Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. And it's 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.280 all about the mail Danny, It's all about what a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.120 fantastic weekend so far. We start with a penny and 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.880 then we had a top five guests in George Nori, who, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.880 by the way, Ben is the very first guest that 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:09.880 I've had asked me for questions in advance because he's 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.319 so old school. He's like you, he'll prepare an interview 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.840 even you gotta admire that. Yeah, I love George. It 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.240 was great to talk to him. It was It was 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.880 really surreal because I'm a fan and I've I've run 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.959 into him. We don't really know each other. I've run 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.760 into him a few times over the years at the 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:33.360 Premier Networks building, but his show starts before mine and 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.240 my show ends after his, and so we don't normally 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.920 run into each other. I actually end up parking near 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.280 George's car quite a bit in the in the lot, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.920 and so I I see more of his car than 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:46.840 I see of him. But a few times we've run 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.560 into each other. I've done shows from across from the 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.800 Coast to Coast studio. In fact, when Fox Sports Radio 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.520 started years ago, the studio, the original studio we had, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.720 which was a temporary studio, was right across the hall 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.280 from uh we had Jim Rome on one side and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.960 Coast to Coast was on the other, and so back 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.400 back then Art Bell hosted Coast to Coast, but George 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.440 took over shortly after, and it was it was really 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.919 cool to talk to him. It's like it felt like 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.560 I was talking to the radio and the radio was 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.520 talking back to me. That was That was pretty neat. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.800 And it's interesting because me and the other employees at FSR, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.600 we know when you parked next to Nori because it 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.519 looks like a Bentley dealership. Uh no, no, no, it's 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.760 what doesn't belong here? It's uh, there's a nice car 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.480 and then uh, both do it overnights. But one well 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.920 one thing stands out like a sore thumb. Which one 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.440 would that be? Anyway, let's get to Ohio. Here's the 0:02:44.520 --> 0:03:00.960 mail back. Here we go. It's right, very good, right 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.440 to it we go, ch come back. Pay attention. It's 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.520 Son from Call first up as Pat from Medina, Ohio. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.760 He says, Ben, I have been a super fan for years. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.440 Let me stop right there at Mazelto. Thank you, he says, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.880 I tweeted you from hadden Field. I have seen that, He's. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.200 My question for the mail bag is that since you 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.440 announced your new new contract with FSR, I have noticed 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.040 an uptick in promotion for your show on the I 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.400 heart feed of Fox Sports Radio. Is that part of 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.560 the negotiations with management. If so, it was a brilliant move. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.400 I never heard any promotion before, and now you are 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.480 all over the place. Thank you. Keep up the great work. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:50.320 That's from Pat in Medina, Ohio. Well, I was negotiating 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.640 with these suits at Fox, had several meetings, email correspondence, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.640 phone calls by my own agent. So I'm like Lamar 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.600 Jackson Danny. I don't I want my mom. She passed 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.400 away years ago, so it's only me. Um and uh, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.240 I was I was talking to those guys, and so 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.400 we did bring up multiple things. I'd not per se, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.760 you know. I didn't say, hey, the I heart feet, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.520 you gotta put more promos than anything like that. But 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.960 I I just wanted to make sure that the Overnight 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.520 show was not ignored, and I wanted to make sure 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.599 that we got the proper credit because we we have 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.920 four hours of real estate and we're all one big, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.400 happy family, and let's be honest about it, Ben, They 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.359 weren't sure if they were gonna whack you or not. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.160 They were on the fence, and then once they decided, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.080 all right, let's resign this guy, then then they could 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.080 like put your promos in place. Well that could actually 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.760 you could be honest something because they were all, you know, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.640 there was a chance I wasn't gonna stay. I mean, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.480 there were other people that were interested in me. So 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.640 I didn't want to leave. I never really want to leave. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.080 But it's one of those things where, yeah, you don't know, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.679 maybe maybe it goes somewhere else, and whatever the case, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.520 I'm glad you've been listening all these years. Pat, thank you, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.880 thank for supporting show, feeding the content machine, which is 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.960 so important as we attempt to find gold day after 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.960 day after day, and so we do appreciate it. If 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.280 only their organization had enough coin, you could have been 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:21.880 bar stool Benny. Yes, yes, well, and there's a lot 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.960 of gambling money passing around these days, Danny g two, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.920 there's a lot of that money, al right. Next up here, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.880 where do we have let's see al right? Next up 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.440 is Pierre from a stone's throwaway of the birthplace of 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.240 Connie mack not in Springfield, mass right near Muffett McGraw 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.119 and the Pro Basketball of Fame. Unless he is, Pierre 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.200 writes in, Ben, with the recent game show cheating scandal 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.640 of two and the horrid performances of some of the newbies, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.200 is there any chance you bring back the word of 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:56.640 the week or even coach player entertainer? Secondly, what the 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:02.680 hell happened to Helen and Stu? Spectively, Pierre, who writes in, Well, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.799 that's a great question. I hope they're okay. I genuinely 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:11.080 hope Helen and Stewart okay. These two emailed every week 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.000 for many, many months. Maybe even like a year. We 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.800 heard from them every so off and then all of 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:25.200 a sudden, boom goes to dynamite is exited stage right. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.760 And I have noticed on this podcast we have had 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.320 people who have been big fans of the podcast listen 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:42.039 every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then they like vanish right, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.800 They just like they move away. Like for example, here's 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.760 another one. I don't know if you remember this, Pierre. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.520 Before Danny g was part of the podcast, we had 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.719 Kentucky Tay and Jay. This this really cool couple. They 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:59.880 sent me a Hilltoppers hat from from Kentucky that's in 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:03.280 my had collection fans of the show. They had had 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.640 a young family and they would email questions every week, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:13.200 and I don't think I've heard from them since the 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.280 end of and we're we're getting, you know, closer and 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.080 closer to the end of two. Like they just they 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.560 went away. I'm a Pilot also another one who was 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.480 regular in the mail bag. Yeah, I think it was Guest. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.000 It was one of his burner accounts. Yeah. Is it 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.000 just a coincidence that I'm a Pilot stopped emailing as 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.720 soon as Guest Gone left the show? Things that make 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.360 you go um. But as far as to answer your question, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.280 I do not see coach player entertainment coming back, although 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.400 because I like the Mallard Militia feud, it's more fun 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.040 when we get good contestants, which is rare. Uh. I 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.160 could see the word of the week on the podcast, though. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:58.520 We could bring the word of the week to the 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.400 podcast where I word or phrase of the week, where 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.040 I explained the origins. I love the origins of words 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.960 and phrases, and so I can certainly see that on 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.200 the podcast on Saturday at some point down the line. Uh. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.520 Doing that, things are kind of jumbled right now with 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.560 Benny versus the penny being on the podcast. We'll see 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.720 if it stays on the podcast for the long haul. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.920 Who knows what's gonna happen with that. It might move 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.960 somewhere else. All right, Let's keep going on the mail. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:30.960 Mail Mail. These are actual letters by actual listeners, and 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:36.400 it's like a boxing match. We're boxing the mail. Unless 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.680 we are not boxing the mail. But let's see, I 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:45.560 got mail, yea, I got mail yea very from Nashville. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.560 Right soon, he says, yo yo, Mom. Benny and Danny 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.960 g when you do trivia on terrestrial radio. You say 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.800 I cannot read that on the radio. Have you ever 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.480 thought about taking those responses you can't read on radio 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.680 and bringing them over to a segment on the Real 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.600 fifth Hour. It would be awesome to hear some of 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.160 those responses, Barry. I've been asked this a lot of 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.920 Lane jokes, the really offensive Lane jokes people have been 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.239 saying to them on the podcast, to him on the podcast. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.000 I think we've talked about this, Danny though. The problem 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.720 with the podcast it's a blessing and a curse. We 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.640 are allowed to do X rated content and taboo stuff 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.160 on the podcast. He blew me off at a hotel 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:35.920 near l a X. Okay, come down. It also is 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:41.600 out there forever, and it's like somebody, some wokesters could 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.400 go down the line, could listen to a podcast where 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:49.280 we say stuff that's tremendously offensive and then use that 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.160 against us. You know what I'm saying, Nanny, Well, I 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.680 would like to say those wokesters right now they would 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.800 have to find this and be like, oh my god, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.280 seventeen minutes and that podcast, did you hear what he 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.040 said about me? You're exactly right, though, you have to 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.600 be careful what you leave out there for the world 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.520 to consume. Yeah, and I have heard stories where people 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.040 have gotten in trouble, like lost jobs for stuff they 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.079 said they were just goofing around the podcast. And the 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.360 the people who have something shoved up where the sun 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.720 don't shine heard it and got all bent out of 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.760 shape and all that, and so some of some of 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.839 the stuff I would put on. But we gotta pick 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.640 our spots, Danny, right, I gotta pick our spots. Yeah, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.880 and I and I it's not like we hold back 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.839 a whole bunch on this podcast. We we speak our 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.960 minds from time to time. Brian bill Brian Billick. Plus 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.360 the other thing is a lot of that, the the answers. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.640 It's really funny in the mall out of context. I 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.079 don't think it would be funny like people are reacting 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.520 the stuff that I said or question and well, you'd 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.880 have to take a screenshot too, and then yeah, you'd 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.679 be going back to like twenty different screenshots and you're right, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.520 you'd have to set everything up. It would take way 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.079 too long. Yeah, Opinony behind you've got mail Mike from 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.080 Fullerton Rights, and he says, I assume this is just 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.040 about the easiest time of the year to come up 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.120 with topics for your Malard monologues. So when is the 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.960 hardest time of the year? And for Danny G when 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.560 is the easiest and hardest part of the school year? Uh? 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.720 For you? So I'll go first here, Mike, Really, no 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.360 hard time, and I don't think there will ever be 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:39.240 a hard time again. There were points in my career 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.800 back in the Stone Age when I started long ago, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.240 before the internet really got going, where there were some 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.040 days where we were really scratching and clawn and trying 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.160 to find things to talk about. But in the age 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.880 of the Internet, in the age of the twenty four 0:11:54.880 --> 0:12:01.600 hours sports television, sports radio formats, there's billions of dollars 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.320 on the line. There's TV shows and radio shows looking 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.760 for content every day. And so it's kind of like 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.439 the way I look at meat, cut that meat. You know, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.079 there's different grades of meat you can get, uh know, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.400 different cuts of meat, different qualities of meat. And there 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:25.280 are times, usually I would say June July, where it 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.400 can can be a little slow, can be a little slow, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.080 and you you have to be more creative. But those 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.079 are often the most fun times of the year, Danny, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.800 because then we have the artistic freedom. Anybody can do 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.480 sports radio when there's a million NFL stories, and but 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.360 where you really earn your money is when there's not 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.480 a lot going on, if you can hold the audience, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.720 and so that I like the challenge of that, although 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.920 I wouldn't like to do that year round, but it's 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.920 good for a few months of the year. It keeps 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.720 you on your toes. And as far as the teaching game, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.959 Danny was it easier, harder? How does that work as 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.040 at the same year round? I would say the kids 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:11.320 are at their worst right before the Christmas break because 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.000 they smell some freedom coming up. At that point, they've 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.600 been in school long enough to be really sick of it. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.840 I'm thinking back to last school year, and I remember 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.439 the week leading up to the Christmas break principle and 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.480 the dean, we're just doing that face palm and rubbing 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.360 their eyes a lot, and there were there was a 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.319 line of kids in the office waiting to go into 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.560 their offices to have little pow wows because there was 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.640 a lot of misbehaving going on. And I remember one 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.640 of the gym teachers telling me, these fucking kids can't 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.439 wait to get out of here. They should have just 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.520 let them go a week ago. So that's that's probably 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.000 the most difficult part of the school year, right there. Yeah, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.880 And that must be some kind of primal thing that 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.880 we all are wired with, because even as a dull, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.440 it's like right before you go on a vacation or 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.360 you have a long weekend, let's just say not a 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.080 lot of stuff gets done in a timely manner, usually 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.160 the last day, or in the office, or you're in 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.000 the radio station. You know things. You got one foot 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.319 out the door, right you're you're you're you're thinking about 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:20.600 something else. All right, Now, next up on the mail bag. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:26.040 As we bounce around and around and around, all come back, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.680 it's time for call. Nick in Wisconsin writes, and he says, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.480 Ben and Danny g going back to last week. Next 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.080 time Danny gets flowers from Trader Joe's, he should tell 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.560 the cash year they are for someone special and say himself, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.200 because no one ever buys him flowers. There you go, there, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.120 you can say that, just to see the reaction, He says. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.960 The question is how often do both of you guys 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:58.400 by your significant other flowers or a gift randomly? That's 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:04.040 from Nick in Wisconsin. So yeah, everyone, So I don't 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.680 do it enough, and yeah, I've been married for a 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.600 while now, so I should. Uh. But we we try 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.400 to take care of each other as much as we can. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.440 My wife's very good about that and I I make 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 the effort in different ways. But I and I used 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.480 to get flowers quite a bit. You know what turned 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.480 me off to the flower thing. I've never been a 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.760 big fan of buying flowers because you're buying something that 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.880 you know is going to be bad within a couple 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.760 of days. And that always bothers me. It's like a 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.280 total waste of money. But I know, you know your 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.880 your lady likes the flowers, so you get the flowers. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.360 But when we were selling the old Mallard mansion, we 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.960 were showing the house. We had people coming over, potential 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.120 buyers and real estate agents, and my wife was very 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.200 good at staging the house. But one way you stage 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.640 the house is you get flowers, fresh flowers. People who 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.240 buy houses love the smell of the flowers. Not so 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.120 we were buying flowers for the house was on the 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.920 market for a couple of months. Every week we were 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.960 buying flowers. I was I was a traitor Joe's buying 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.280 flowers every week, and I was like, oh man, what 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.760 a pain. So we kind of got all the flowers 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.360 we needed in that period of time a couple of 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.560 years ago. And that's that. But what about you, Danny, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.080 I will give you a tender n e tip instead 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:21.720 of flowers that die off, get your girl some succulents, gigy. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.280 That is the way to go, because the ice plants 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.480 or the desert plants come in cool little vases usually, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.320 and nowadays there's some creativity. Like the last one I 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.360 brought home to my girl was a nice color blue 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.400 and it was a ceramic shark had a cool succulent 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 in it. And so that's the way to go, because 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.040 you know, yeah, my my chick, like all others, like flowers. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.360 But then you know, they wind up wilting, and unless 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.640 the girl is first with you, she's not going to 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.760 dry out the flowers and save them. You give them 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.240 the succulents though, and they can have them in their 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.440 apartment or their house for years. That is the way 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.040 to go, right there. Yeah, that's a good move. And 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.600 you know my move when I was dating, and it's 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.440 probably the reason I was single for so long. As 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.960 I've told this before, but on Valentine's Day I always 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.040 had to work through radio, and so I'd be like, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.160 all right, let's meet like a day after two days 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.320 after Valentine's Day. Everything was half off, the flowers, the candies, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.080 all that stuff. So I buy flowers. That's why I 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:25.800 buy flowers, because they were half off. I was like, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.800 all right, that's half off. They're gonna die anyway, That's 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:34.359 all right, that's the move. I am such a radio loser, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:43.960 all right, next time I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yeah. Rights, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.240 And he says, big Ben, have you ever thought about 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.280 putting a best of the Bits fifth hour? I know 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.560 it would be hard to narrow it down, but I 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.720 would love to hear the famous hollering James game show 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.879 while sleeping. But that was an amazing, amazing night a 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:06.399 radio and some Marcel and Blair in the octagon and 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:11.560 even that that feeling guy singing karaoke. My name is Luca. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.440 There are so many good ones the show on the show. 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.600 Thanks us from Jay. Uh. Yeah, well, we we have 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.880 done some. They call them bank shows or evergreen shows. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.720 You you did a great job, Danny. When I was 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.840 I think it was was a traveling was that when 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.359 I was in North Carolina on the family trip for 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.800 the wedding, and you did a wonderful job on that. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.400 And we do have a lot of material. It takes 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.680 a long time though to go through all that stuff. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.119 But we could have a couple of of shows I 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.639 guess ready to go, just in case, right, and have 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:50.720 those ready to go. But that that hollering James game show, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.480 I would like to hear again myself. That was one 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.719 of the craziest it's got to be the craziest moments 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.480 happened in the history of the show. The guy was 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.240 fast asleep Danny, and we were acing his answers based 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.359 on whether he snored or not. If he snored, it 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.560 was too much. If he didn't store, it was not enough. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.679 He handed God, he won the game. We didn't doctor it, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.040 We didn't play with it at all. He won the game. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.240 Do you know what months that was? What month? What 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:21.480 year that was? No? I think that was I want 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.320 to say that was during the COVID time. Um it was. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.400 It wasn't a year end show. Um. If you talked 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.320 to Coop he might know kind of the rough, rough 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.560 point of time, but it was it was crazy, man. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.680 It was one of the zaniest things that I've had 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.959 since I've been here, and there's been some crazy stuff, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.400 crazy stuff. When Genie and Medford started rapping, doing gangster 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.040 rap all of a sudden, that was one of the 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:52.600 craziest nights. Uh. When she started yelling at Pete and 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.919 Pittsburgh and sounded like a different person, it was. It was, Yeah, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.080 she was speaking in tons. And then of course when 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.639 she was having the part again Medford and You're like, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.159 there's a party in Medford. Oh. Yeah, she's passed the 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.600 phone to her. She had a boyfriend there, Yeah, you 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.040 had a raggedy boyfriend there. She passes the phone to him, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.520 and Cooper's in the background going, that's Joe, and he says, Hi, 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.439 I like to saint. Yes, yes, that was funny. It 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.680 was your viral version. Is your version of that viral 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.600 kid who said I like totals? Yes, yes, that famous 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:33.080 TV moment, that's funny totals. Well, Jane, we will consider that, 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.719 and you never know, we may surprise it coming up. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:37.800 It will be the holiday season before you know it. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:43.160 Here we go, all right. Next up is Kevin in Kansas. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.840 He says, dear Big Bend and Danny G. Danny G. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.719 I remember a Clay Travis show where Jason Martin couldn't 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.240 get to work because of an ice storm and Clay 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.960 busted him for the next three hours. Have either of 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.840 you had to drive to work in treacherous conditions? To 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.159 you ever get ribbed for missing work for a legitimate reason? 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.600 All right, so I'll go first. Now, being in l A, 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.400 we have not had really bad when we get really 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.119 nasty rainstorms every once in a while, but they're not 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:19.600 like Northeastern rainstorms or Midwestern rainstorms or Southern rainstorms. So 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.960 it's a different animal. In California, with once in a 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.439 blue moon, they'll get some really bad weather. Uh, that 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:32.160 will be legitimately bad weather. I've been late a few 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.399 times over the years. I had a flat tire. I 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.879 got a ticket one time when I was doing local radio. 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.600 This is really embarrassing. We had studios in Burbank, I 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.840 was living in Orange County, and I had a set, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.400 had a Friday night show, got off at like one 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.520 in the morning, had a quick turnaround, had to come back. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.600 The show started like seven or eight in the morning, 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.720 and so as I was telling my mom, I'm like 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.440 I don't and I don't sleep well, I'm concerned. She's 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.679 I'll just get a hotel room. So I got a 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:08.560 hotel room, cheap hotel in Burbank, and I went to 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:10.200 you know, went to bed, and I was all excited, 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.679 You're gonna do the show. And I slept. I overslept 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.600 by an hour and I showed up late and all 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.840 I freaking out. I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna, you know, 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.119 lose my job. And I was doing the Ben and 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.600 Dave show and I parked in a lot right near 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.000 Warner Brothers and I get out of the car and 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.760 I'm like hustling into the in the studio, into the station, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:31.880 and right next to me is the guy I did 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.840 the show with, Dave Smith, who was also late, who 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.240 was also late by an hour. So I was like, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.280 all right, there you go. I don't feel bad anymore. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.439 I don't feel bad anymore. And one time that the 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:46.440 station Fox Sports Radio actually got me a hotel room 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.359 right near the studios in Sherman Oaks where Jay Scoop 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:55.000 stayed because of Karma Geddon. Remember Karma Geddon. Yeah, they 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.440 were very concerned that I wouldn't be able to make 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.320 it to work, and so all the people it had 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.199 shows on the weekends when the freeway was closed, they 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:08.160 got us hotel rooms. And I was I was sitting 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:09.640 in my hotel room. I was looking at the four 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:12.520 or five freeway being shut you shut down, but there 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.320 was no traffic. It was like there was no traffic anywhere. 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.040 I could have easily just stayed home. But anyway, what 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:22.879