Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Welcome into
Speaker 1: the podcast Dojo, No days off, No days off as
Speaker 1: it is a brand spanking new edition of the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. And it's
Speaker 1: all about the mail Danny, It's all about what a
Speaker 1: fantastic weekend so far. We start with a penny and
Speaker 1: then we had a top five guests in George Nori, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, Ben is the very first guest that
Speaker 1: I've had asked me for questions in advance because he's
Speaker 1: so old school. He's like you, he'll prepare an interview
Speaker 1: even you gotta admire that. Yeah, I love George. It
Speaker 1: was great to talk to him. It was It was
Speaker 1: really surreal because I'm a fan and I've I've run
Speaker 1: into him. We don't really know each other. I've run
Speaker 1: into him a few times over the years at the
Speaker 1: Premier Networks building, but his show starts before mine and
Speaker 1: my show ends after his, and so we don't normally
Speaker 1: run into each other. I actually end up parking near
Speaker 1: George's car quite a bit in the in the lot,
Speaker 1: and so I I see more of his car than
Speaker 1: I see of him. But a few times we've run
Speaker 1: into each other. I've done shows from across from the
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast studio. In fact, when Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: started years ago, the studio, the original studio we had,
Speaker 1: which was a temporary studio, was right across the hall
Speaker 1: from uh we had Jim Rome on one side and
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast was on the other, and so back
Speaker 1: back then Art Bell hosted Coast to Coast, but George
Speaker 1: took over shortly after, and it was it was really
Speaker 1: cool to talk to him. It's like it felt like
Speaker 1: I was talking to the radio and the radio was
Speaker 1: talking back to me. That was That was pretty neat.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because me and the other employees at FSR,
Speaker 1: we know when you parked next to Nori because it
Speaker 1: looks like a Bentley dealership. Uh no, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: what doesn't belong here? It's uh, there's a nice car
Speaker 1: and then uh, both do it overnights. But one well
Speaker 1: one thing stands out like a sore thumb. Which one
Speaker 1: would that be? Anyway, let's get to Ohio. Here's the
Speaker 1: mail back. Here we go. It's right, very good, right
Speaker 1: to it we go, ch come back. Pay attention. It's
Speaker 1: Son from Call first up as Pat from Medina, Ohio.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I have been a super fan for years.
Speaker 1: Let me stop right there at Mazelto. Thank you, he says,
Speaker 1: I tweeted you from hadden Field. I have seen that, He's.
Speaker 1: My question for the mail bag is that since you
Speaker 1: announced your new new contract with FSR, I have noticed
Speaker 1: an uptick in promotion for your show on the I
Speaker 1: heart feed of Fox Sports Radio. Is that part of
Speaker 1: the negotiations with management. If so, it was a brilliant move.
Speaker 1: I never heard any promotion before, and now you are
Speaker 1: all over the place. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: That's from Pat in Medina, Ohio. Well, I was negotiating
Speaker 1: with these suits at Fox, had several meetings, email correspondence,
Speaker 1: phone calls by my own agent. So I'm like Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson Danny. I don't I want my mom. She passed
Speaker 1: away years ago, so it's only me. Um and uh,
Speaker 1: I was I was talking to those guys, and so
Speaker 1: we did bring up multiple things. I'd not per se,
Speaker 1: you know. I didn't say, hey, the I heart feet,
Speaker 1: you gotta put more promos than anything like that. But
Speaker 1: I I just wanted to make sure that the Overnight
Speaker 1: show was not ignored, and I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that we got the proper credit because we we have
Speaker 1: four hours of real estate and we're all one big,
Speaker 1: happy family, and let's be honest about it, Ben, They
Speaker 1: weren't sure if they were gonna whack you or not.
Speaker 1: They were on the fence, and then once they decided,
Speaker 1: all right, let's resign this guy, then then they could
Speaker 1: like put your promos in place. Well that could actually
Speaker 1: you could be honest something because they were all, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a chance I wasn't gonna stay. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were other people that were interested in me. So
Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave. I never really want to leave.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where, yeah, you don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it goes somewhere else, and whatever the case,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you've been listening all these years. Pat, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank for supporting show, feeding the content machine, which is
Speaker 1: so important as we attempt to find gold day after
Speaker 1: day after day, and so we do appreciate it. If
Speaker 1: only their organization had enough coin, you could have been
Speaker 1: bar stool Benny. Yes, yes, well, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of gambling money passing around these days, Danny g two,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that money, al right. Next up here,
Speaker 1: where do we have let's see al right? Next up
Speaker 1: is Pierre from a stone's throwaway of the birthplace of
Speaker 1: Connie mack not in Springfield, mass right near Muffett McGraw
Speaker 1: and the Pro Basketball of Fame. Unless he is, Pierre
Speaker 1: writes in, Ben, with the recent game show cheating scandal
Speaker 1: of two and the horrid performances of some of the newbies,
Speaker 1: is there any chance you bring back the word of
Speaker 1: the week or even coach player entertainer? Secondly, what the
Speaker 1: hell happened to Helen and Stu? Spectively, Pierre, who writes in, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I hope they're okay. I genuinely
Speaker 1: hope Helen and Stewart okay. These two emailed every week
Speaker 1: for many, many months. Maybe even like a year. We
Speaker 1: heard from them every so off and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, boom goes to dynamite is exited stage right.
Speaker 1: And I have noticed on this podcast we have had
Speaker 1: people who have been big fans of the podcast listen
Speaker 1: every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then they like vanish right,
Speaker 1: They just like they move away. Like for example, here's
Speaker 1: another one. I don't know if you remember this, Pierre.
Speaker 1: Before Danny g was part of the podcast, we had
Speaker 1: Kentucky Tay and Jay. This this really cool couple. They
Speaker 1: sent me a Hilltoppers hat from from Kentucky that's in
Speaker 1: my had collection fans of the show. They had had
Speaker 1: a young family and they would email questions every week,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I've heard from them since the
Speaker 1: end of and we're we're getting, you know, closer and
Speaker 1: closer to the end of two. Like they just they
Speaker 1: went away. I'm a Pilot also another one who was
Speaker 1: regular in the mail bag. Yeah, I think it was Guest.
Speaker 1: It was one of his burner accounts. Yeah. Is it
Speaker 1: just a coincidence that I'm a Pilot stopped emailing as
Speaker 1: soon as Guest Gone left the show? Things that make
Speaker 1: you go um. But as far as to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I do not see coach player entertainment coming back, although
Speaker 1: because I like the Mallard Militia feud, it's more fun
Speaker 1: when we get good contestants, which is rare. Uh. I
Speaker 1: could see the word of the week on the podcast, though.
Speaker 1: We could bring the word of the week to the
Speaker 1: podcast where I word or phrase of the week, where
Speaker 1: I explained the origins. I love the origins of words
Speaker 1: and phrases, and so I can certainly see that on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Saturday at some point down the line. Uh.
Speaker 1: Doing that, things are kind of jumbled right now with
Speaker 1: Benny versus the penny being on the podcast. We'll see
Speaker 1: if it stays on the podcast for the long haul.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen with that. It might move
Speaker 1: somewhere else. All right, Let's keep going on the mail.
Speaker 1: Mail Mail. These are actual letters by actual listeners, and
Speaker 1: it's like a boxing match. We're boxing the mail. Unless
Speaker 1: we are not boxing the mail. But let's see, I
Speaker 1: got mail, yea, I got mail yea very from Nashville.
Speaker 1: Right soon, he says, yo yo, Mom. Benny and Danny
Speaker 1: g when you do trivia on terrestrial radio. You say
Speaker 1: I cannot read that on the radio. Have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about taking those responses you can't read on radio
Speaker 1: and bringing them over to a segment on the Real
Speaker 1: fifth Hour. It would be awesome to hear some of
Speaker 1: those responses, Barry. I've been asked this a lot of
Speaker 1: Lane jokes, the really offensive Lane jokes people have been
Speaker 1: saying to them on the podcast, to him on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about this, Danny though. The problem
Speaker 1: with the podcast it's a blessing and a curse. We
Speaker 1: are allowed to do X rated content and taboo stuff
Speaker 1: on the podcast. He blew me off at a hotel
Speaker 1: near l a X. Okay, come down. It also is
Speaker 1: out there forever, and it's like somebody, some wokesters could
Speaker 1: go down the line, could listen to a podcast where
Speaker 1: we say stuff that's tremendously offensive and then use that
Speaker 1: against us. You know what I'm saying, Nanny, Well, I
Speaker 1: would like to say those wokesters right now they would
Speaker 1: have to find this and be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: seventeen minutes and that podcast, did you hear what he
Speaker 1: said about me? You're exactly right, though, you have to
Speaker 1: be careful what you leave out there for the world
Speaker 1: to consume. Yeah, and I have heard stories where people
Speaker 1: have gotten in trouble, like lost jobs for stuff they
Speaker 1: said they were just goofing around the podcast. And the
Speaker 1: the people who have something shoved up where the sun
Speaker 1: don't shine heard it and got all bent out of
Speaker 1: shape and all that, and so some of some of
Speaker 1: the stuff I would put on. But we gotta pick
Speaker 1: our spots, Danny, right, I gotta pick our spots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I and I it's not like we hold back
Speaker 1: a whole bunch on this podcast. We we speak our
Speaker 1: minds from time to time. Brian bill Brian Billick. Plus
Speaker 1: the other thing is a lot of that, the the answers.
Speaker 1: It's really funny in the mall out of context. I
Speaker 1: don't think it would be funny like people are reacting
Speaker 1: the stuff that I said or question and well, you'd
Speaker 1: have to take a screenshot too, and then yeah, you'd
Speaker 1: be going back to like twenty different screenshots and you're right,
Speaker 1: you'd have to set everything up. It would take way
Speaker 1: too long. Yeah, Opinony behind you've got mail Mike from
Speaker 1: Fullerton Rights, and he says, I assume this is just
Speaker 1: about the easiest time of the year to come up
Speaker 1: with topics for your Malard monologues. So when is the
Speaker 1: hardest time of the year? And for Danny G when
Speaker 1: is the easiest and hardest part of the school year? Uh?
Speaker 1: For you? So I'll go first here, Mike, Really, no
Speaker 1: hard time, and I don't think there will ever be
Speaker 1: a hard time again. There were points in my career
Speaker 1: back in the Stone Age when I started long ago,
Speaker 1: before the internet really got going, where there were some
Speaker 1: days where we were really scratching and clawn and trying
Speaker 1: to find things to talk about. But in the age
Speaker 1: of the Internet, in the age of the twenty four
Speaker 1: hours sports television, sports radio formats, there's billions of dollars
Speaker 1: on the line. There's TV shows and radio shows looking
Speaker 1: for content every day. And so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the way I look at meat, cut that meat. You know,
Speaker 1: there's different grades of meat you can get, uh know,
Speaker 1: different cuts of meat, different qualities of meat. And there
Speaker 1: are times, usually I would say June July, where it
Speaker 1: can can be a little slow, can be a little slow,
Speaker 1: and you you have to be more creative. But those
Speaker 1: are often the most fun times of the year, Danny,
Speaker 1: because then we have the artistic freedom. Anybody can do
Speaker 1: sports radio when there's a million NFL stories, and but
Speaker 1: where you really earn your money is when there's not
Speaker 1: a lot going on, if you can hold the audience,
Speaker 1: and so that I like the challenge of that, although
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like to do that year round, but it's
Speaker 1: good for a few months of the year. It keeps
Speaker 1: you on your toes. And as far as the teaching game,
Speaker 1: Danny was it easier, harder? How does that work as
Speaker 1: at the same year round? I would say the kids
Speaker 1: are at their worst right before the Christmas break because
Speaker 1: they smell some freedom coming up. At that point, they've
Speaker 1: been in school long enough to be really sick of it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking back to last school year, and I remember
Speaker 1: the week leading up to the Christmas break principle and
Speaker 1: the dean, we're just doing that face palm and rubbing
Speaker 1: their eyes a lot, and there were there was a
Speaker 1: line of kids in the office waiting to go into
Speaker 1: their offices to have little pow wows because there was
Speaker 1: a lot of misbehaving going on. And I remember one
Speaker 1: of the gym teachers telling me, these fucking kids can't
Speaker 1: wait to get out of here. They should have just
Speaker 1: let them go a week ago. So that's that's probably
Speaker 1: the most difficult part of the school year, right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that must be some kind of primal thing that
Speaker 1: we all are wired with, because even as a dull,
Speaker 1: it's like right before you go on a vacation or
Speaker 1: you have a long weekend, let's just say not a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff gets done in a timely manner, usually
Speaker 1: the last day, or in the office, or you're in
Speaker 1: the radio station. You know things. You got one foot
Speaker 1: out the door, right you're you're you're you're thinking about
Speaker 1: something else. All right, Now, next up on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: As we bounce around and around and around, all come back,
Speaker 1: it's time for call. Nick in Wisconsin writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g going back to last week. Next
Speaker 1: time Danny gets flowers from Trader Joe's, he should tell
Speaker 1: the cash year they are for someone special and say himself,
Speaker 1: because no one ever buys him flowers. There you go, there,
Speaker 1: you can say that, just to see the reaction, He says.
Speaker 1: The question is how often do both of you guys
Speaker 1: by your significant other flowers or a gift randomly? That's
Speaker 1: from Nick in Wisconsin. So yeah, everyone, So I don't
Speaker 1: do it enough, and yeah, I've been married for a
Speaker 1: while now, so I should. Uh. But we we try
Speaker 1: to take care of each other as much as we can.
Speaker 1: My wife's very good about that and I I make
Speaker 1: the effort in different ways. But I and I used
Speaker 1: to get flowers quite a bit. You know what turned
Speaker 1: me off to the flower thing. I've never been a
Speaker 1: big fan of buying flowers because you're buying something that
Speaker 1: you know is going to be bad within a couple
Speaker 1: of days. And that always bothers me. It's like a
Speaker 1: total waste of money. But I know, you know your
Speaker 1: your lady likes the flowers, so you get the flowers.
Speaker 1: But when we were selling the old Mallard mansion, we
Speaker 1: were showing the house. We had people coming over, potential
Speaker 1: buyers and real estate agents, and my wife was very
Speaker 1: good at staging the house. But one way you stage
Speaker 1: the house is you get flowers, fresh flowers. People who
Speaker 1: buy houses love the smell of the flowers. Not so
Speaker 1: we were buying flowers for the house was on the
Speaker 1: market for a couple of months. Every week we were
Speaker 1: buying flowers. I was I was a traitor Joe's buying
Speaker 1: flowers every week, and I was like, oh man, what
Speaker 1: a pain. So we kind of got all the flowers
Speaker 1: we needed in that period of time a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. And that's that. But what about you, Danny,
Speaker 1: I will give you a tender n e tip instead
Speaker 1: of flowers that die off, get your girl some succulents, gigy.
Speaker 1: That is the way to go, because the ice plants
Speaker 1: or the desert plants come in cool little vases usually,
Speaker 1: and nowadays there's some creativity. Like the last one I
Speaker 1: brought home to my girl was a nice color blue
Speaker 1: and it was a ceramic shark had a cool succulent
Speaker 1: in it. And so that's the way to go, because
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, my my chick, like all others, like flowers.
Speaker 1: But then you know, they wind up wilting, and unless
Speaker 1: the girl is first with you, she's not going to
Speaker 1: dry out the flowers and save them. You give them
Speaker 1: the succulents though, and they can have them in their
Speaker 1: apartment or their house for years. That is the way
Speaker 1: to go, right there. Yeah, that's a good move. And
Speaker 1: you know my move when I was dating, and it's
Speaker 1: probably the reason I was single for so long. As
Speaker 1: I've told this before, but on Valentine's Day I always
Speaker 1: had to work through radio, and so I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's meet like a day after two days
Speaker 1: after Valentine's Day. Everything was half off, the flowers, the candies,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So I buy flowers. That's why I
Speaker 1: buy flowers, because they were half off. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's half off. They're gonna die anyway, That's
Speaker 1: all right, that's the move. I am such a radio loser,
Speaker 1: all right, next time I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yeah. Rights,
Speaker 1: And he says, big Ben, have you ever thought about
Speaker 1: putting a best of the Bits fifth hour? I know
Speaker 1: it would be hard to narrow it down, but I
Speaker 1: would love to hear the famous hollering James game show
Speaker 1: while sleeping. But that was an amazing, amazing night a
Speaker 1: radio and some Marcel and Blair in the octagon and
Speaker 1: even that that feeling guy singing karaoke. My name is Luca.
Speaker 1: There are so many good ones the show on the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks us from Jay. Uh. Yeah, well, we we have
Speaker 1: done some. They call them bank shows or evergreen shows.
Speaker 1: You you did a great job, Danny. When I was
Speaker 1: I think it was was a traveling was that when
Speaker 1: I was in North Carolina on the family trip for
Speaker 1: the wedding, and you did a wonderful job on that.
Speaker 1: And we do have a lot of material. It takes
Speaker 1: a long time though to go through all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But we could have a couple of of shows I
Speaker 1: guess ready to go, just in case, right, and have
Speaker 1: those ready to go. But that that hollering James game show,
Speaker 1: I would like to hear again myself. That was one
Speaker 1: of the craziest it's got to be the craziest moments
Speaker 1: happened in the history of the show. The guy was
Speaker 1: fast asleep Danny, and we were acing his answers based
Speaker 1: on whether he snored or not. If he snored, it
Speaker 1: was too much. If he didn't store, it was not enough.
Speaker 1: He handed God, he won the game. We didn't doctor it,
Speaker 1: We didn't play with it at all. He won the game.
Speaker 1: Do you know what months that was? What month? What
Speaker 1: year that was? No? I think that was I want
Speaker 1: to say that was during the COVID time. Um it was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a year end show. Um. If you talked
Speaker 1: to Coop he might know kind of the rough, rough
Speaker 1: point of time, but it was it was crazy, man.
Speaker 1: It was one of the zaniest things that I've had
Speaker 1: since I've been here, and there's been some crazy stuff,
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. When Genie and Medford started rapping, doing gangster
Speaker 1: rap all of a sudden, that was one of the
Speaker 1: craziest nights. Uh. When she started yelling at Pete and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and sounded like a different person, it was. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was speaking in tons. And then of course when
Speaker 1: she was having the part again Medford and You're like,
Speaker 1: there's a party in Medford. Oh. Yeah, she's passed the
Speaker 1: phone to her. She had a boyfriend there, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: had a raggedy boyfriend there. She passes the phone to him,
Speaker 1: and Cooper's in the background going, that's Joe, and he says, Hi,
Speaker 1: I like to saint. Yes, yes, that was funny. It
Speaker 1: was your viral version. Is your version of that viral
Speaker 1: kid who said I like totals? Yes, yes, that famous
Speaker 1: TV moment, that's funny totals. Well, Jane, we will consider that,
Speaker 1: and you never know, we may surprise it coming up.
Speaker 1: It will be the holiday season before you know it.
Speaker 1: Here we go, all right. Next up is Kevin in Kansas.
Speaker 1: He says, dear Big Bend and Danny G. Danny G.
Speaker 1: I remember a Clay Travis show where Jason Martin couldn't
Speaker 1: get to work because of an ice storm and Clay
Speaker 1: busted him for the next three hours. Have either of
Speaker 1: you had to drive to work in treacherous conditions? To
Speaker 1: you ever get ribbed for missing work for a legitimate reason?
Speaker 1: All right, so I'll go first. Now, being in l A,
Speaker 1: we have not had really bad when we get really
Speaker 1: nasty rainstorms every once in a while, but they're not
Speaker 1: like Northeastern rainstorms or Midwestern rainstorms or Southern rainstorms. So
Speaker 1: it's a different animal. In California, with once in a
Speaker 1: blue moon, they'll get some really bad weather. Uh, that
Speaker 1: will be legitimately bad weather. I've been late a few
Speaker 1: times over the years. I had a flat tire. I
Speaker 1: got a ticket one time when I was doing local radio.
Speaker 1: This is really embarrassing. We had studios in Burbank, I
Speaker 1: was living in Orange County, and I had a set,
Speaker 1: had a Friday night show, got off at like one
Speaker 1: in the morning, had a quick turnaround, had to come back.
Speaker 1: The show started like seven or eight in the morning,
Speaker 1: and so as I was telling my mom, I'm like
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't sleep well, I'm concerned. She's
Speaker 1: I'll just get a hotel room. So I got a
Speaker 1: hotel room, cheap hotel in Burbank, and I went to
Speaker 1: you know, went to bed, and I was all excited,
Speaker 1: You're gonna do the show. And I slept. I overslept
Speaker 1: by an hour and I showed up late and all
Speaker 1: I freaking out. I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: lose my job. And I was doing the Ben and
Speaker 1: Dave show and I parked in a lot right near
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers and I get out of the car and
Speaker 1: I'm like hustling into the in the studio, into the station,
Speaker 1: and right next to me is the guy I did
Speaker 1: the show with, Dave Smith, who was also late, who
Speaker 1: was also late by an hour. So I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. I don't feel bad anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad anymore. And one time that the
Speaker 1: station Fox Sports Radio actually got me a hotel room
Speaker 1: right near the studios in Sherman Oaks where Jay Scoop
Speaker 1: stayed because of Karma Geddon. Remember Karma Geddon. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were very concerned that I wouldn't be able to make
Speaker 1: it to work, and so all the people it had
Speaker 1: shows on the weekends when the freeway was closed, they
Speaker 1: got us hotel rooms. And I was I was sitting
Speaker 1: in my hotel room. I was looking at the four
Speaker 1: or five freeway being shut you shut down, but there
Speaker 1: was no traffic. It was like there was no traffic anywhere.
Speaker 1: I could have easily just stayed home. But anyway, what
Speaker 1: about you, Danny, any traffic related. That's a beautiful part
Speaker 1: of Sherman Oaks. So that's probably the last time you
Speaker 1: had hookers in cocaine anything you want on Ventura Boulevard.
Speaker 1: There's a reason there's a lot of songs mentioned in
Speaker 1: vent Thor Boulevard. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff happening over there. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention about Jason Martin. That was a memorable
Speaker 1: episode about Kick because he couldn't drive in because snow
Speaker 1: was coming down there in Nashville. The reason he told
Speaker 1: Clay he couldn't see out his windshield was because it
Speaker 1: was an opaque color. What he got the best laugh
Speaker 1: out of that, So Clay dubbed it opaque Gate. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So listeners still will mention that to this day. Hey man,
Speaker 1: I remember opaque Gate and we still bust Jason's balls
Speaker 1: about that. Um, you know the only thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind, And I've talked about it before briefly on
Speaker 1: this podcast. During the COVID Lockdown, I got pulled over
Speaker 1: by Burbank p D. And they thought I was a
Speaker 1: drunk driver for sure, And the female cop who first
Speaker 1: pulled me over said she didn't like the look in
Speaker 1: my eyes. Wow, did you have to do the walk?
Speaker 1: The the and do the alphabet and all that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to do the walk. They didn't make me
Speaker 1: do the alphabet, but I had to do the walk.
Speaker 1: A couple of backup officers showed up. One was a
Speaker 1: fan of petros and money, so he understood why I
Speaker 1: was in a hurry to get to the studios. Clay
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun with it on the air talk.
Speaker 1: And then the last officer who showed up was a
Speaker 1: female and she asked for my phone number before I left.
Speaker 1: Really took my digits. Wow, look at that. Did she
Speaker 1: call you? Uh? No, never got a call from her.
Speaker 1: But she was a really pretty Latina officer and she
Speaker 1: was like standing there talking with me like we were
Speaker 1: at a nightclub before I left, So the first officer
Speaker 1: basically told me I had a lazy eye, and then
Speaker 1: the second female wanted my number. It was very hit
Speaker 1: and missed that night man. But that wonder why she
Speaker 1: didn't call you. I don't know. She's worried she getting
Speaker 1: trouble at work or something like that. It is probably
Speaker 1: not good I did. One of the other officers probably
Speaker 1: caught her doing that on their on their cam. Yes,
Speaker 1: you've gotta be careful on that. You want to lose
Speaker 1: your job over trying to get a date, all right?
Speaker 1: Next up on the mail bag, come back, it's side
Speaker 1: from call our friend Jennifer from Richmond, Virginia. Right, and
Speaker 1: she says, hello, Ben and Dany. By the way, you know,
Speaker 1: Virginia's for lovers, he says it on the license plate
Speaker 1: when you've never heard that before, Benn and Danny, gy Ben,
Speaker 1: would you please do me a favor and accidentally delete
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson and Sierra SoundBite Go Hawks and go
Speaker 1: to Sleep from the entire Fox Studio soundboard. My ears
Speaker 1: bleed and my spirit cringes every single time I'm forced
Speaker 1: to listen to it, even after Wilson's trade. It still
Speaker 1: gets played. Please Benn and Danny g make it stop.
Speaker 1: Our friend Jennifer says, we don't use that drop on
Speaker 1: this podcast. She says, I love I love you even
Speaker 1: more Ben if you do what very kind of Jennifer. Uh,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember that was an important night of radio
Speaker 1: Jennifer and Danny. That was the night I was doing
Speaker 1: a monologue phrasing the Seahawks for not extending Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: because the deadline was at midnight on the West Coast
Speaker 1: my show at the beginning of the show's at eleven o'clock,
Speaker 1: and by the end of the monologue it had been
Speaker 1: announced by Adam Schefter that Russell Wilson had a contract.
Speaker 1: And then we saw we saw what he said on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I was like, crap, he's unlimited, man, is it true?
Speaker 1: Do you agree with this statement? Russell Wilson is the
Speaker 1: corny ist quarterback in all of sports, or the I
Speaker 1: should say, the corny ist athlete in all of sports.
Speaker 1: He's just a big nerd. But it's like he's trying
Speaker 1: too hard. Yeah, he is like Carlton from Fresh Prince
Speaker 1: of bel Air, trying to be easy. Hey, speaking of
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. So let me play this audio. This is
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll after the Monday night game. He's talking on
Speaker 1: Seattle radio to the media. And listen to him explain
Speaker 1: to the Raiders, the Chargers and the Chiefs and anyone
Speaker 1: else that plays the Broncos what you need to do
Speaker 1: if you want to own Russell Wilson. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the audio tape. Yeah, really, the we really were focused
Speaker 1: in on on Russ's play with our pass rush and
Speaker 1: and that's really the way to play him. You can
Speaker 1: move him and you can make him go. I think
Speaker 1: he moved ten times and he completed two passes on
Speaker 1: the times we moved him out of the pocket and
Speaker 1: moved moved him around like we were trying to. It's
Speaker 1: really hard. It's it's a hard dynamic to so many
Speaker 1: factors in there, but we're trying to push them in directions.
Speaker 1: And when you do, it's hard for me to hear.
Speaker 1: When I think of Russell Wilson, I think one of
Speaker 1: the great passers on the run, and you're saying the
Speaker 1: key is to get him to run alot. Yeah, we moves,
Speaker 1: we moves to his left. It's it's hard for him,
Speaker 1: you know, and in numbers wise and all that. So
Speaker 1: we we just we were able to do some stuff
Speaker 1: and and uh it wasn't perfect at all, but it
Speaker 1: was but it was effective and we felt like we
Speaker 1: were controlling it. And so, uh, it wasn't always just
Speaker 1: getting clean to get the sack, was to try and
Speaker 1: make him go where we wanted to go. And guys
Speaker 1: did a good job. We could do better. I'd like
Speaker 1: another shot at that that game pign you know, to
Speaker 1: see if we can just just clean it up. But
Speaker 1: it was a really really good job by by Clinton
Speaker 1: in his guys, and uh, just a thrilling effort by
Speaker 1: the guys too to do what they did. Done with
Speaker 1: the in the red zone and done with the goal,
Speaker 1: and it was incredible. Isn't that a crazy sound bite?
Speaker 1: That's wild. He doesn't he doesn't throw well, moving him
Speaker 1: go to his left. That's like an NBA player Danny,
Speaker 1: who can only go to his right right. If you
Speaker 1: make him dribble the other way, he's gonna turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, throw it away. That's wild to me that
Speaker 1: he said that crazy dog vomit if you push him
Speaker 1: to the left. Wow. Anyway, so Jennifer I don't think
Speaker 1: we'll be able to delete the audio, but I will
Speaker 1: make an effort. I'll tell Roberto and Danny if you
Speaker 1: wanted to, that's good audio though, right, I mean we
Speaker 1: we can play it every once, So how about we playing?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Roberto, it's who she's worried about. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to hear his voice on this podcast unless
Speaker 1: it was something funny where we were busting his balls.
Speaker 1: But as far as a drop sounding cool, that's not
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. No, not cool is not in his game,
Speaker 1: all right? Next up is Big Greg in Iowa. Says Hey,
Speaker 1: dear Ben and Danny G. Ben, since you have the
Speaker 1: game shows mixed into your show throughout the week, if
Speaker 1: Danny G and yourself were to each make a three
Speaker 1: person team to do a trivia competition and could only
Speaker 1: choose four for members of the Mallard Militia, the trivia
Speaker 1: would involve twelve questions of random categories from pop culture,
Speaker 1: the history to sports. Who would each of you choose
Speaker 1: from your team and why? He also says Ben, if
Speaker 1: you were to choose Justin in Cincinnati, you would lift
Speaker 1: the band from the game shows. It's Big Greg in Iowa.
Speaker 1: Thank for your time, he says, we're applied of you,
Speaker 1: Big Greg. So I would not pick Justin in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Justin lost his trivia mojo and he also lost credibility
Speaker 1: on the game. The first pick would have to be
Speaker 1: Uncle Mo from Brooklyn who Uncle Mo is a machine
Speaker 1: at sports trivia of him. This guy's like rain Man,
Speaker 1: unbelievable with the sports trivia. So he'd be the first pick.
Speaker 1: My buddy in Maine would be the second pick. The
Speaker 1: third pick, there's like four or five different ways I
Speaker 1: can go on the third pick. I might take a
Speaker 1: pop culture person, might go off the grid, not a
Speaker 1: normal type person on the on the game. Anybody popping
Speaker 1: your head there, Danny G I think a few people.
Speaker 1: Who would you pick? Who is our friend from Fremont?
Speaker 1: Oh Andrew from Free, California. To block for Andrew, I
Speaker 1: would have Doc, Mike and Dick and Dayton as his
Speaker 1: old lineman just for the imidation factor, and then I
Speaker 1: would let Andrew in Fremont run the ball to the
Speaker 1: goal line. Oh man, Andrew's really good. It's he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of like Russell Wilson and that he's great
Speaker 1: when you're talking baseball. But if you make him go
Speaker 1: left and talk about football or certain NBA people, he
Speaker 1: has nothing. He's got nothing. What's wonderful? And I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm sharing a secret I shouldn't, but Jonas
Speaker 1: Knocks used to call into our show a lot and
Speaker 1: he would impersonate Andrew in Fremont. In fact that I
Speaker 1: think I have a drop of him doing that right here,
Speaker 1: syndosing that, and we would die laughing because it was
Speaker 1: spot on and a lot of people thought it was
Speaker 1: Andrew when in fact it was Jonas. Yeah. And the
Speaker 1: funniest was we we had Andrew. I think you were
Speaker 1: there when Andrew came in the studio and he was
Speaker 1: with his parents, you know, and all that. Normally, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not bragging, but normally, when people coming to
Speaker 1: the radio station is a special thing. Not everyone gets
Speaker 1: to do it, and we're not really supposed to have
Speaker 1: a lot of people visit us, and so there's only
Speaker 1: a select few group of people that get to go
Speaker 1: to the radio station. And so, yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: fill out a fat cells info form. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: have to have credit and all that. But normally what
Speaker 1: happens is people are are very polite and kind and
Speaker 1: and really thrilled to be there. Andrew was like, I've
Speaker 1: been at the station in the Bay Area and it's better,
Speaker 1: you know, It's like they had better microphones. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. You gotta be joking. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you what? What? What hutzpuff for? Andrew? You
Speaker 1: guys call yourself the l a market. That's great. What
Speaker 1: kind of control board is that they were knowing the
Speaker 1: monitor might burn up? You never never know, never never know.
Speaker 1: All right, we have time for a few more. It
Speaker 1: is the mail bag. These are actual questions by actual
Speaker 1: listeners who have sent them in. If you would like
Speaker 1: to fill up the mail bag. And some weeks we
Speaker 1: get a lot of questions. Some weeks it's kind of slow.
Speaker 1: And we're doing this during football season. We need all
Speaker 1: the questions we can get and we'd love for you
Speaker 1: to be a part of this. And if you want
Speaker 1: to recommend something you want to hear on the podcast,
Speaker 1: if you want to tell us you like something something
Speaker 1: you don't like about the podcast, it is all fair game.
Speaker 1: Just make sure you put your name and sitting in there.
Speaker 1: You can send a message to Real Fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com real fifth hour at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: and spell that all out. Spell the word fifth out,
Speaker 1: and we may we may use your comment or your
Speaker 1: question on the end. We also have the Facebook page
Speaker 1: which Jennifer and some other people have taken advance a
Speaker 1: job and so you can be part of the show
Speaker 1: many many different ways. And thank you to the thousands
Speaker 1: of listeners who downloaded the mail bag last weekend, last
Speaker 1: Sunday before the first game kicked off. So it'll be
Speaker 1: up early enough for you to do that. Your job,
Speaker 1: by you, Danny, getting that thing up early in the morning, gig. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we said, I as long as the downloads are good,
Speaker 1: it's worth our time to come in here. And the
Speaker 1: most valuable currency we all have is our time, Danny,
Speaker 1: and we're dedicating our time to this and so we'll
Speaker 1: keep it going. And next up, all right, listener Joe
Speaker 1: in New York writes, and he says, Benn and Danny,
Speaker 1: g what is a huge hit in our society that
Speaker 1: really annoys you? Uh, that's get kind of an open
Speaker 1: ended generic question, Joe. But I guess the thing that
Speaker 1: pops into my head here and I'll let Danny go
Speaker 1: after me, is the thing that has changed a lot
Speaker 1: in recent is that seems to be very popular. It
Speaker 1: really bothers me, is celebrating victimhood. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I was not raised that way. I was not, you know,
Speaker 1: raised with that approach to life. And it seems like
Speaker 1: so many people want to be the victim, loved to
Speaker 1: play the victim card and love they get clout that
Speaker 1: way on social media, and that just that's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: That's a flaw that I would like to see flip
Speaker 1: back around. But it is a hit in society. It's
Speaker 1: very popular, so many people are doing it. Seems like
Speaker 1: younger and younger people love to be the victim and
Speaker 1: and get all that attention and all that. So that
Speaker 1: really annoys me. Anything in society is that's popular or
Speaker 1: a hit. As Joe says here, that you're you're not
Speaker 1: happy with that. It bothers you. Did you see the
Speaker 1: news story recently about the inmate who claimed he was
Speaker 1: chained up and forced to listen to that Baby Shark song.
Speaker 1: I don't think I saw that one. Now. I guess
Speaker 1: he was trying to drop some lawsuit and it turns
Speaker 1: out he was actually killed and Jaiy died in jail.
Speaker 1: I should say. And so now there's some conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: out there. Can you imagine being forced to listen to
Speaker 1: that baby shark crap for an hour on a loop?
Speaker 1: I think it would drive you mental. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: not be because every few years there's a song like that.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's played in the ground. Remember was it
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld the last like ten days that was complaining.
Speaker 1: He was upset with Timmy trumpet and he's he compared
Speaker 1: it to when the Mets were in the World Series,
Speaker 1: and I think it was who let the Dogs Out?
Speaker 1: Was that the song that was? It was some kind
Speaker 1: of weird thing the ground screw was doing back like
Speaker 1: in two thousands, so twenty two years ago. Whatever the
Speaker 1: I forget what the song wasn't. I'm sure someone will
Speaker 1: email us and let us know. But it was some
Speaker 1: viral song like that, and seinfeldt was all upset. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Let's do the Dogs out? That was the Mets theme
Speaker 1: song throughout the two thousand postseason. Yeah, that was. Seinfeld
Speaker 1: was triggered by that, and that was you know, it
Speaker 1: was the last time you hear that song? You well,
Speaker 1: they still play it at stadiums. It's interesting because there's
Speaker 1: those ESPN jock jams that still get played thirty years later,
Speaker 1: and that no matter how brand new the stadium is,
Speaker 1: sometimes they just refused to switch up the music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep up with the times, right, you gotta
Speaker 1: keep up with the times. And yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some classics that will never die. But there's also some
Speaker 1: songs that were just good in the moment back then,
Speaker 1: and we should let some of them rest. There are
Speaker 1: some old songs I hear and I can close my
Speaker 1: eyes and imagine watching the Clippers or Lakers run out
Speaker 1: to warm up before the game, because they would play
Speaker 1: it as their their warm up music when I was
Speaker 1: covering basketball all the time. And I or I can
Speaker 1: envision cheerleaders dancing to that particular song, which hasn't been
Speaker 1: played in years. All right, we got time for like
Speaker 1: two more quick ones. Jr. From Arkansas Rights and he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g why does the American media obsessed
Speaker 1: over the queen's death. It's on every cable news channel. Um, well, Jr.
Speaker 1: You're probably watching too much cable news. That's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two. I don't know, Danny, I'm not that interested
Speaker 1: in it. No, disrespect of the queen. It's it's it
Speaker 1: really has kind of become like weekend at Bernie's at
Speaker 1: this point, with all the ceremonies and all that. I
Speaker 1: get it. It's tradition and that's part of their culture,
Speaker 1: but it's not part of our culture. And it does
Speaker 1: seem odd to me that the American media is obsessed
Speaker 1: with it. It must get ratings. I guess that that's
Speaker 1: gotta be it, Danny. We we don't do things in
Speaker 1: media companies unless it gets ratings. That has to be
Speaker 1: the reason, right, I guess I'll admit I'll admit it
Speaker 1: on the podcast I Killed the Queen, Danny. They're gonna
Speaker 1: come and get you about the coast are coming. About
Speaker 1: two weeks prior to her death, we had a Spectrum
Speaker 1: news channel on in the background and some random story
Speaker 1: about the queen and the family came on the TV
Speaker 1: screen and I turned and looked at my girl and
Speaker 1: I said, she's still alive. I didn't know. And if
Speaker 1: we're not into that here in our country, most of
Speaker 1: us don't give a shit about that stuff over there
Speaker 1: with royalty and all that. That's not how we roll.
Speaker 1: So then when the news broke that she really did die.
Speaker 1: My TINDERRONI looked at me and she was like, you
Speaker 1: know you killed her? Right? You talked it into Yeah,
Speaker 1: well not a lot of points if you do a
Speaker 1: Google pool a death pool. Only four points, right, because
Speaker 1: she was ninety. How about Marcel when he called up
Speaker 1: and started crying, he was a ball of tears. Here. Wow,
Speaker 1: the queen's passing and that was odd. Alright, last one
Speaker 1: we'll get out on this j from l a Van Eyes,
Speaker 1: not far away from where we do the shows from.
Speaker 1: He says, if an alien spacecraft landed here from another planet, Oh,
Speaker 1: George Nor, question, this sounds like a Nori quote. You
Speaker 1: should have sent this to George Nor, you idiot? What's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? Jay? Anyway, but thanks for downloing the podcast.
Speaker 1: He says, if an alien craft landed here from another
Speaker 1: planet on Earth and they laid out a feast of
Speaker 1: their food and their beverage, would you eat it? And
Speaker 1: how do you imagine it might taste? All? Right? So
Speaker 1: fuck no, I'm not eating it, Okay, I'll let I'll
Speaker 1: let somebody else eat it. And I can't imagine. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it tast I mean, I would hope
Speaker 1: it would taste like stuff on this planet. I kind
Speaker 1: of think everything in the universe is it's all made
Speaker 1: up of the same stuff, right, I mean, like, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's probably. In fact, we talked to George Norri
Speaker 1: about this and how vast spaces and all that and
Speaker 1: the math on that that. You know, people think this
Speaker 1: is just like an Earth is an accident. There's probably
Speaker 1: a lot of other accidents that are just like Earth.
Speaker 1: So if that's true, their food would be just like
Speaker 1: our food, I would think are close to What about you, Danny?
Speaker 1: Would you eat alien food if they visited and offered
Speaker 1: as a an olive branch between civilizations? Would you eat it?
Speaker 1: I might try it if it looked tasty. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm reading the Hunger Games books. I know they're old now,
Speaker 1: but I never read those. I want my chicken, So
Speaker 1: I picked up a Hunger Games book. I'm on the
Speaker 1: second one now, and it's not an alien thing. But
Speaker 1: it's way in the future where the story is set,
Speaker 1: and she keeps describing the food like futuristic dishes, and
Speaker 1: it sounds pretty good, like I would feast on it.
Speaker 1: It look good, Ben, and it smelled good. Why not
Speaker 1: try it. You only live once. Yeah. Well, George Nori
Speaker 1: also pointed out, and if you hadn't heard the Nori interview,
Speaker 1: I recommend listening to it. But he pointed out that
Speaker 1: you know how how old the universe it is, and
Speaker 1: you know, we were a relatively new civilization they believe
Speaker 1: based on what science has figured out. So if there's
Speaker 1: civilizations that are that are older than us, have been
Speaker 1: around longer than us, Like, think how much better food
Speaker 1: is today than what people were eating two hundred years
Speaker 1: ago or three years ago, like with all the spices,
Speaker 1: Like there was a time when salt, the use of
Speaker 1: salt changed the way people ate because they were able
Speaker 1: to keep things longer. And that term you're worth your
Speaker 1: weight in salt is because salt was so valuable pepper.
Speaker 1: When pepper became used by mainstream society, that became a
Speaker 1: big deal. They can think about how where we came
Speaker 1: from that to now we we have YouTube channels on
Speaker 1: cooking and we can make all this crazy, crazy can
Speaker 1: auctions in our kitchen that would have blown people. And
Speaker 1: just imagine what that's gonna be like if people are
Speaker 1: hundreds of years ahead of us, thousands of years ahead
Speaker 1: of so yeah, what is that place in Orange County?
Speaker 1: Is it medieval nights? Is that what it's times? I
Speaker 1: think medieval times. I've been there before for a birthday.
Speaker 1: And that platter of food they said in front of you.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. It's cool to watch the horses and
Speaker 1: the joustick and all that, but to give you this
Speaker 1: bland turkey leg it's nasty. I'm like, man, thank god
Speaker 1: for the food we have today. Oh yeah, the food
Speaker 1: is great. But if that's all you knew back in
Speaker 1: the day, that's all you know, what do you do?
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that, as we said, So Danny,
Speaker 1: anything remote. It is a Sunday in NFL. Sunday week
Speaker 1: to the full Card Week two in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: if you missed Benny Versus the Penny, still time to
Speaker 1: hear it. Friday podcast downloaded. Don't miss it. But back
Speaker 1: in the radio studio today, Danny, Come on, Derek, wipe
Speaker 1: that rust off yourself, Homie. Um, I hope I have
Speaker 1: a smile as I go into the studios for the
Speaker 1: Coveno and Rich show and then the warm up the
Speaker 1: show right before yours with Chris Plank and Arnie Spaniard,
Speaker 1: and then of course you'll kick off the Ben Mallor
Speaker 1: show weeks. Yes, we've got a new week and we
Speaker 1: will not be taking any calls from He will not
Speaker 1: be calling you, but we will take your phone calls
Speaker 1: in the overnight show recapping everything going on in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for supporting the podcast. I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you next time. Later, Skater gott
Speaker 1: a murder. I gotta go.