Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, dred minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
Speaker 1: another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: Danny g Radio back in the podcast Ojo on an
Speaker 1: NFL Sunday with the Mailbag, the mail bag. Everyone loves
Speaker 1: the man. How can you not like the mailbag. This
Speaker 1: is like our tailgate party. Ah, this is great. I
Speaker 1: like the mailbag because you never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: You never know, you never know until we open up
Speaker 1: the mail bag. So without further Ado, let's strike up
Speaker 1: the band our man. O. Hi, oh oh, it's all right,
Speaker 1: very good. Are you buckled up? Danny? Are you prepared here?
Speaker 1: Do you have you taken your medication, all your vaccines
Speaker 1: and all that. I don't know about that, but I'm
Speaker 1: drinking a lot of water. After your Halloween party that
Speaker 1: Kirkland brand alcohol did the trick. The booze was a flowing,
Speaker 1: so we've added some new mail sound effects to dress
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. We figured why not keep
Speaker 1: it fresh and let's go to the mailbag. These are
Speaker 1: actual questions sent in by actual listeners. You do not
Speaker 1: have to wait. You do not have to wait for
Speaker 1: me to post something on Tuesday to send question is in.
Speaker 1: You can send these questions in whenever you want via
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, letters not numbers,
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and ask away,
Speaker 1: and we make sure to include your name and where
Speaker 1: you're listing from, and we may end up using your
Speaker 1: question on the next mail bag. Al right, first one
Speaker 1: comes from our man Neil from the Real Miami says,
Speaker 1: dear Big Ben and Danny g Radio. Good job by
Speaker 1: Big Ben, He says, for voting for the Marines over
Speaker 1: the other armed forces. There is a reason why the
Speaker 1: Marines guard the POTUS and Air Force one and all
Speaker 1: the US embassies around the world. S as I spent
Speaker 1: four years. I spent four years at Camp Pendleton, an
Speaker 1: hour south of your hometown back in the nineties. Fun times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've driven past Camp Pendleton many times coming from l A,
Speaker 1: Orange County to San Diego. He says, back to the show,
Speaker 1: I just realized the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller is
Speaker 1: three years old, So congratulations, I look forward to another
Speaker 1: three years. Wish you three times the downloads well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I had this thought as I recalled listening to the
Speaker 1: show on a business trip to northern Italy exactly three
Speaker 1: years ago, and I had some free time on the weekend,
Speaker 1: so I hiked the mountain around Lake Como, listening to
Speaker 1: the October en episode A Day with the Elites, when
Speaker 1: you talked about your golf outing with the Fox Sports bosses,
Speaker 1: happy Gilmore style, with your grandfather's old clubs. You are
Speaker 1: forever in my memories with lake Como and and Gascon thinks.
Speaker 1: Here's the question. He says, according to Apple Podcast, September six,
Speaker 1: nineteen was the maiden voyage of The Fifth Hour with you,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallor, what do you remember about that day and
Speaker 1: what did you envision for the future of this show
Speaker 1: at this time, says the real Neil from the real Miami.
Speaker 1: So Neil, thank you for rememory. I did not even
Speaker 1: remember how many I don't know how long we've been
Speaker 1: doing this podcast. I know Danny has been with us
Speaker 1: a while now. Gascon was at the start of the podcast,
Speaker 1: and so the way this worked, I had been doing
Speaker 1: some extra work. Can I give you the origins of
Speaker 1: the podcast. I had been doing some moonlighting. I was
Speaker 1: filling in at w e I in Boston remotely, and
Speaker 1: I've been doing a couple of shows a week and
Speaker 1: the overnight show that we do got picked up by
Speaker 1: w e IES competitor, the Sports Hub in Boston. And
Speaker 1: so the way this works, you cannot be on a
Speaker 1: competing radio station. It's not allowed. It's taboo and it's
Speaker 1: for boating. So I was not allowed to continue my
Speaker 1: extra work on the side making the extra money at
Speaker 1: e I would not allow me to do that. And
Speaker 1: I was presented with the opportunity from the company to
Speaker 1: make a little extra money on the side do the podcast,
Speaker 1: and we didn't really know what it would entail. They
Speaker 1: were looking for more content. I signed an agreement which
Speaker 1: was different than my radio agreement because podcast don't pay
Speaker 1: as much as radio, and so I agreed to it
Speaker 1: and we we launched and I was like, wow, it'll
Speaker 1: be a gambling thing at first, and then Originally it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be only about sports betting, and then
Speaker 1: it shifted. It's really morphed into what it is now
Speaker 1: over time. But that's how these things worked in you, Right,
Speaker 1: you start out with one idea and then you just
Speaker 1: kind of see where the thing takes you. Yeah, things
Speaker 1: settle on the best number on the board, and you
Speaker 1: don't know what that number is gonna be when you
Speaker 1: first started. Yeah, water seeks its own level. A podcast
Speaker 1: or a radio show seeks its own level, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna roll with the punches, all right. Next up, Kevin
Speaker 1: in Kansas. Hold on a second, and I have to
Speaker 1: give you the property. Oh and coming email Kevin in Kansas. Right,
Speaker 1: since this, dear Benn and Danny, g this November marks
Speaker 1: the final time we'll have to do the fallback, spring forward,
Speaker 1: clock changing nonsense. How do you envision this changing your lives?
Speaker 1: Moving forward? So, Kevin, I am excited. I'm a little
Speaker 1: melancholy because this is one of those big things that
Speaker 1: I talked to my dad about. My my we I
Speaker 1: used to get so no, my dad would get annoyed.
Speaker 1: He could plain every year about the time change, people
Speaker 1: getting more accidents after time Jade him and Clay Travis.
Speaker 1: Remember that was one of Clay's big gripes. Every Yes,
Speaker 1: I remember Clay with you ranting about that, and I agree.
Speaker 1: I think it's dumb. I think it's unnecessary. My dad
Speaker 1: would actually send emails to politicians, right, And I wish
Speaker 1: he had lived a little longer for many reasons, but
Speaker 1: one of the reasons he would have a Cheshire cat
Speaker 1: smile from ear to ear knowing that we can end
Speaker 1: the the ridiculousness of the clock moving forward and back.
Speaker 1: It's so arcake. It's amazing it took this long for
Speaker 1: that to change, and I say hallelujah, And especially doing
Speaker 1: the weekend over that show, which I did for years,
Speaker 1: because one part of the year, when we spring forward,
Speaker 1: I would lose an hour, and then when we fall back,
Speaker 1: I had to do an extra hour. And at one
Speaker 1: point I was doing five hours on the overnight, and
Speaker 1: they gave me an extra hour, so I do six hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so much, well much for me? You know, the show
Speaker 1: would have been the seventh hour, exactly would have been
Speaker 1: the seventh hour. But does anyone think this is a
Speaker 1: bad idea, not changing the clock anymore? Is there anyone
Speaker 1: in that camp Danny, have you ever met anyone it's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: there's a bad idea, we need to change the clock.
Speaker 1: I've never met anyone like no, which goes to the
Speaker 1: point they should have changed this fifty years ago. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: of course, And you know, the wheels of politics turned slowly,
Speaker 1: and it's it's so dumb. They had to have surveys
Speaker 1: and committees and all this bullshit just to figure things out.
Speaker 1: But I'm right there, Kevin. I love it. I think
Speaker 1: it's great, and I cannot wait to not have to
Speaker 1: worry about the clocks. It's a lot easier now. And
Speaker 1: then we're we're old, Danny. Right, we were kids. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of clocks that you had to manually adjust,
Speaker 1: which was not a pleasant experience. It's not a pleasant experience.
Speaker 1: All right, what is next year? Let's see? All right,
Speaker 1: Blake in Arkansas? Right? Since this Ben, I am normally
Speaker 1: a pretty positive guy and not much for bullying on people.
Speaker 1: But that being said, what the fuck is going on
Speaker 1: with your fill in producer's voice? Sounds like a dog
Speaker 1: whistle came down with laryngitis. For Christ's sake, On what
Speaker 1: planet blow? He goes on? He's ripping the guy. But
Speaker 1: but here's the thing, Um, he's got a very unique voice,
Speaker 1: this guy. And you know, I think that's either a
Speaker 1: good thing or a bad It could annoy you. It
Speaker 1: might you know, might not like it. Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But he definitely is memorable. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people sound the same on the radio. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk shows that sound the same. Their voice
Speaker 1: is similar to other people. You definitely know when he's
Speaker 1: cracking the mic that he's he's on an island. I
Speaker 1: definitely know when he's in the hallway charing for the
Speaker 1: stupid Padres with his padre's hat and jersey and shorts
Speaker 1: and padre socks and do do brown shoes? That's so
Speaker 1: many issue I have with him. No, I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. He's a little Yeah. The thing I
Speaker 1: would say about him is that some of the the
Speaker 1: normal sies the decorum, he is not mastered, which I
Speaker 1: actually am impressed by. Like, for example, there's a rule
Speaker 1: in radio, Danny and you know this. You never Actually
Speaker 1: one of my friends works at KBC in l A.
Speaker 1: We were he he mentioned this to me and reminded
Speaker 1: me of this is there's a ruling radio that the
Speaker 1: producer should never leave before the host. There's also a
Speaker 1: belief the producer should never get there after the host.
Speaker 1: Now I am surrounded by people that get there after
Speaker 1: me and also leave before me. But but this, this,
Speaker 1: this friend will call the Padre guy. The other night
Speaker 1: we did the show, and he sprints out of the
Speaker 1: building right. He runs out of the building. He gets
Speaker 1: to his car before me. By the time I get
Speaker 1: to my car, he's already driving out of the parking
Speaker 1: lot at the I Heart building there, the premier building.
Speaker 1: How is that even possible? I guess I'm way too
Speaker 1: much of a perfectionist band and spend too much time
Speaker 1: on your Guys podcast. How is that even possible to
Speaker 1: run out right at the end of the show. I
Speaker 1: got no idea. All I know is he did it.
Speaker 1: So he drives by me, which is uh taboo. And
Speaker 1: he's got a New York Yankee license plate frame on
Speaker 1: his carse wearing a Podre hat and like a Padre jersey,
Speaker 1: and he's got a Yankee thing. What yeah? And he's like,
Speaker 1: he explains that, well, my dad's a Yankee fan, my
Speaker 1: mom's a Padre fans. So I'm a fan of both.
Speaker 1: He said, he's a fan of both dating. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw a sports flag on him for that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fifteen yard offside penalty right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad, he grew up for most of his team
Speaker 1: until he was a teen in Chicago. That doesn't make
Speaker 1: me a Chicago Bears fan, no, exactly, exactly so. And
Speaker 1: and the other thing he did is he walked right
Speaker 1: through the on air studio to get to the other room.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a hallway and then you gotta go
Speaker 1: a little further. It's like ten more steps to go
Speaker 1: down the hall or the shortcut is right through the
Speaker 1: on air studio. That's funny. And he walked right through
Speaker 1: like a short cut, like you weren't even there. He
Speaker 1: reminded me of the great Canadian Mike who used to
Speaker 1: work at Fox Sports Radio back and then he did
Speaker 1: the same thing. Oh boy, And it was like, what
Speaker 1: do you? What are you? What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: And I have some great Canadian mic stories. We'll have
Speaker 1: to share those someday. I'm all about I love Canadian.
Speaker 1: We had some good times together and I hope he's
Speaker 1: doing okay. I don't know what happened, though, But he's
Speaker 1: doing drunk somewhere well, probably so. Blake in Arkansas writes
Speaker 1: in uh with Moore, He says, uh, on your way
Speaker 1: to being the king of the overnight, how much if any,
Speaker 1: did you work on practice? Worry about the tone of
Speaker 1: your radio voice? Ps? I get that guy a filter?
Speaker 1: He says, all right, wow. Uh so my voice has
Speaker 1: changed a lot since I started radio because I've gone
Speaker 1: through puberty. I found much different now than I did.
Speaker 1: Are on the road. Yeah, I know, royals are having
Speaker 1: their problems on the road. Royals having their problems on
Speaker 1: the road. I'm Ben Mallock. Yeah, so I signed a
Speaker 1: lot different now than I did back then. But in
Speaker 1: terms of my voice, no, I'm not smoking a pack
Speaker 1: of Marlboroughs. When I first got into radio, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys would smoke because it gives you a deeper voice,
Speaker 1: the tobacco and all. I didn't. I never did that.
Speaker 1: The main things I focus on are the technical aspects
Speaker 1: of like how did this show better? Like how to?
Speaker 1: How to how to phrase things better? How to mix
Speaker 1: in more not no, not more words. I don't want
Speaker 1: a word alphabet thing or a letter alphabet thing. I
Speaker 1: just want I want to say something that is I'm
Speaker 1: saying a lot of things are the same as other people,
Speaker 1: but I want to use different different words to say
Speaker 1: the same thing essentially. All right, So that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of stuff I focus in on that Danny g over
Speaker 1: there when you were born, when you came out of
Speaker 1: the womb, Danny, did you say, hey, mom like that
Speaker 1: you have the deep voice going? Or is that something
Speaker 1: you acquired later? I was like, where's my tricycle? Mom?
Speaker 1: I needed a lollipop. I mean, that's one thing that
Speaker 1: has changed over time in radio. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I had programmers tell me, oh, man, you're naturally blessed
Speaker 1: with those pipes. You gotta lean into that. You gotta
Speaker 1: lean into that deep voice. So when you get on
Speaker 1: the air, talk slow and used the role and so
Speaker 1: like an idiot. As a teenager, I listened to bad
Speaker 1: advice and I sat there on my microphone and leaned
Speaker 1: into it. You know what that changed because it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter necessarily about voice anymore. It's more about content. There
Speaker 1: used to be boss jocks where it was all about
Speaker 1: voice and delivery and Wolfman Jack and all that. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he was funny, and he had like his bits and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but a lot of it was about
Speaker 1: the voice and the tone and the delivery. That has
Speaker 1: changed now to to content and the programmers across the
Speaker 1: country they all cared about wit and humor and timing
Speaker 1: and um, you know, the different segments and features, and
Speaker 1: not so much about what guy's voices sounded like. Unless
Speaker 1: they had like, really really annoying voices, then that might
Speaker 1: be a problem. But other than that, you could just
Speaker 1: be a normal dude as long as you're funny and entertaining.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story that I got told
Speaker 1: by a program director when I first started out in
Speaker 1: as We're going in San Diego at the mighty six,
Speaker 1: and I was sending air checks out different radio stations
Speaker 1: trying to get my big break, and I got told
Speaker 1: by a program director that I was to f emy.
Speaker 1: I didn't sound like an AM sports guy. I sounded
Speaker 1: too much like an FM guy and it wouldn't work. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: how outdated is that take? By the way, I know
Speaker 1: times changed and all that, but super outdated. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: basically he was saying you should be on Kiss FM
Speaker 1: introducing banana rama back then or whatever. The group was
Speaker 1: in the Anson Brothers are exactly exactly on for the
Speaker 1: second time this hour. Oombo I was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: good on that. I think I think we're all right
Speaker 1: on that. I just want to point that out. I
Speaker 1: got mail, yea, I got mail yea. Our friend Jennifer
Speaker 1: in Richmond, Virginia. She's a six percenter. Ninety four percent
Speaker 1: of the audience is male, six percenter women. Jennifer is
Speaker 1: part of the six percent. You bumped up because you
Speaker 1: said you called her a four percenter. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: you know, I got that mixed up for excuse me,
Speaker 1: four percenter nineties, six and four. That's right. Anyway, she
Speaker 1: got a promotion. No, no, no, Benn and Danny ge guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for doing these podcasts. It's fun hearing about your
Speaker 1: lives off air, and the mail bag is always entertaining.
Speaker 1: She says, Ben, It's amazing to me how you never
Speaker 1: let yourself become complacent with the content on your daily show,
Speaker 1: and everything you do on air is done with gusto. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jennifers, so she she loves that. Well, the
Speaker 1: main reason I'm doing that, Jennifers have a lot of
Speaker 1: bills to pay, and I feel like if I do
Speaker 1: one bad show, it's all gonna come crashing down and
Speaker 1: I'll be living with weed man hippie eating roches. So
Speaker 1: I try to avoid that at all costs. I love
Speaker 1: you exactly. My philosophy has always been, they will get
Speaker 1: rid of me someday. They've already gotten rid of me once.
Speaker 1: But they're not going to get rid of me because
Speaker 1: of the content of the show. They'll get rid of
Speaker 1: me because I've been there too long, or they want
Speaker 1: somebody else or whatever. It's not big because the show
Speaker 1: is bad. And I've been around people, and you've been
Speaker 1: around people, Danny, that have lost their job because they
Speaker 1: got lazy. They just didn't do the prep. They read
Speaker 1: off ESPN dot com. They showed up five minutes before
Speaker 1: the show. And I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna be that guy. I've made a
Speaker 1: pact with myself and that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: She says, you and your crew even make baseball talk
Speaker 1: interesting less a shot, uh, in any way that no
Speaker 1: other shows do. Thanks, that's from Jennifer. Now, my quick question,
Speaker 1: did you see you and Danny see Snoop Dogg's new
Speaker 1: four D video in the vein of Larry David and
Speaker 1: Curb theme music and characteristics. I stumbled across it recently,
Speaker 1: but I don't understand the point. It was somewhat entertaining,
Speaker 1: but not really. She says, well, you look it up,
Speaker 1: watch it and tell us what you think. And she
Speaker 1: wants to know, Danny, are you a fan of Curb
Speaker 1: your enthusiasm? Yeah? I love Curb. My favorite episode was
Speaker 1: back in the day when Larry got the prostitute so
Speaker 1: that he could go on to Carpool Carpool Lane. Um oh.
Speaker 1: And also the shock episode where he tripped Shaquille O'Neil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one too. Was at Staples Center
Speaker 1: that night when he's called Staple Center. Then when they
Speaker 1: filmed that and everyone was all exciting, like Larry David
Speaker 1: there and they did several takes over and over in
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So yeah, and then flash forward
Speaker 1: to the more recent episodes. I loved his spiked cafe
Speaker 1: that he opened in the toilet he did with the
Speaker 1: bathroom Joe's or whatever. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this Snoop Dogg video? I've not seen
Speaker 1: this video. We'll have to do some investigative reporting on
Speaker 1: that video. Yeah, how much do they spend on these
Speaker 1: videos if they're not getting watched that much? But then
Speaker 1: on YouTube, I'm not sure how it works, but there's
Speaker 1: some of those songs on YouTube. They get so many
Speaker 1: views and downloads and then man, yeah, that's how the
Speaker 1: artists do their marketing nowadays, and so really the videos
Speaker 1: are made straight to YouTube and straight to you know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of outlets that just do videos. But
Speaker 1: other than that, Yeah, I mean, you don't even have
Speaker 1: to have a video nowadays to have a hit song
Speaker 1: on the radio. And you know, when we were kids,
Speaker 1: that's not the case. Yeah, the video was the key
Speaker 1: element to get people buzzing about your you're dealing all that,
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what's right. Let's go to Pierre
Speaker 1: from the leaf Peeping traffic Capital of the Northeast. He says,
Speaker 1: for both of you, do you buy your favorite Halloween
Speaker 1: candy to hand out in hopes of leftovers or do
Speaker 1: you purposely buy kinds that you don't like so you
Speaker 1: won't over indulge after the holidays. It's a good question.
Speaker 1: So normally what happens is me and the wife will
Speaker 1: be at Costco, and we'll get like two giant bags
Speaker 1: of whatever candy they have at Costco, and then usually
Speaker 1: there's a few things we like in there. We get
Speaker 1: one bag which is chocolate, and then we get one
Speaker 1: giant bag which is more like Mike and Ikes and
Speaker 1: gummy worms and that kind of crap. And so we
Speaker 1: got a little bit of each. And normally there's always
Speaker 1: leftover candy because there's never that many kids that come
Speaker 1: to your house. So that's that's my move back in
Speaker 1: the older is my mom. She she knew I love
Speaker 1: butterfinger in Baby Ruth. She'd buy me those. It was great,
Speaker 1: but I'd eat them all. Yeah, especially those many. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're double fisting those Hartist Hartists. I was more concerned
Speaker 1: about him giving me a double fish put those in
Speaker 1: the freezer band. Oh that is wonderful. What is your
Speaker 1: all time favorite Halloween candy? Yeah, so I've evolved over
Speaker 1: the years. The Reese's butter Peanut butter cups great, but
Speaker 1: butterfinger Baby Ruth, that was my go to for a
Speaker 1: long time. Uh so some some combination of that. What
Speaker 1: about you butter fingers right up there, sour candy? I
Speaker 1: love sour candy, and I love skittles too, hit and
Speaker 1: miss Right, if they've been around too long, they get
Speaker 1: really difficult to eat. But if they're soft and kind
Speaker 1: of you know what I mean, if they've sitting around
Speaker 1: for a long time, they turned into like little pebbles.
Speaker 1: A fresh packet of the little skittles, those are wonderful, man.
Speaker 1: So if you gave me a whole bunch of mini
Speaker 1: butter fingers and a whole bunch of mini Skittles, I'd
Speaker 1: be set to get fat. I gotta be careful because
Speaker 1: was it two halloweens ago? Maybe it was three. I've
Speaker 1: told the sorry I had so much Halloween candy. I
Speaker 1: thought I had diabetes because I was having headaches. I
Speaker 1: had eaten so much candy. And I went to the
Speaker 1: doctor and all these blood tests, all this blood work done,
Speaker 1: and the doctors like, well, we think what you did
Speaker 1: is you just your body wasn't used to eating that
Speaker 1: much sugar anymore, and you just overdosed on sugar and
Speaker 1: your body had this reaction. They didn't know, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to handle it. Wow. Wow, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that was a thing. I had no idea. But
Speaker 1: we gotta watch you over the next few days here closely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta be careful on that. Also, he says, who
Speaker 1: is your least favorite update person now that Wreckett Ralph
Speaker 1: is gone? And why is it Goldilocks? How I didn't
Speaker 1: say it was Goldilocks. He did pick up the nickname, though.
Speaker 1: Brian Finley's new nickname is Goldilocks. Did you hear about
Speaker 1: that name? You know you said his new nickname was
Speaker 1: love you. Well, yeah, that was his last new nickname, Lovey.
Speaker 1: Now he's known as Goldilocks. Jesus, his list is gonna
Speaker 1: get as long as yours. Well, here's why you got
Speaker 1: the nickname Goldilocks. So I come in there. I I
Speaker 1: get ready for the show. The other night Eddie was
Speaker 1: away doing a hockey game or whatever. So I come
Speaker 1: into the studio. I walked down the hall and make
Speaker 1: my turn. I go to the old Casey case in studio.
Speaker 1: I normally get ready for the show, and I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for years, and I go I turned the
Speaker 1: corner and then I see Ricky, producer Ricky standing in
Speaker 1: the hall. I'm like, what's that? What is Ricky doing here?
Speaker 1: And he's chatting with Brian Finley, who's sitting in my
Speaker 1: chair that I normally sit in to get ready for
Speaker 1: the show. He had moved in there and he had
Speaker 1: this this canister of it looked like peanut butter. I
Speaker 1: was like, what are you doing, what are you eating?
Speaker 1: He said, well, no, I've got some almond butter. He
Speaker 1: had like a spoon and he was eating almond butter.
Speaker 1: So then he got out of there, and I went
Speaker 1: to put my stuff down and the table was covered
Speaker 1: with gobs of almond butter. Oh man, yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: like Goldilocks. He had moved into my my territory there,
Speaker 1: and he he poured almond butter all over the damn table.
Speaker 1: It was terrible. Daddy that's his new nickname. Be a
Speaker 1: real man and eat some peanut butter. Go out a limb,
Speaker 1: come on. And Alf also sent some great photos of
Speaker 1: his humble abode in Massachusetts. There's beautiful, man, it's we
Speaker 1: don't get that. Danny's got pictures of the leaves turning
Speaker 1: and all of that. We don't We don't have that here.
Speaker 1: And there's also a lot of wild turkeys. Not the
Speaker 1: kind of wild turkey a lot of our listeners like,
Speaker 1: but the real wild turkeys that are running around. We
Speaker 1: have homeless people who changed color and turnover. That is true.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of that. If you want that,
Speaker 1: you want us to take some photos of that, alf
Speaker 1: we can, We'd be more than happy to send some
Speaker 1: photos of that. And boy, would you be happy. Man,
Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh, I can't but that's so impressive.
Speaker 1: Unless unless you don't do that, Unless you're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not You've got mail Mike from Fullerton rights in.
Speaker 1: He says, also living in Pierre's head rent free. While
Speaker 1: this will be my first and only warning to Pierre
Speaker 1: quit messing with the Fenley fanatics. We can make life
Speaker 1: very very difficult for you. Those are threatening words. And Ben,
Speaker 1: I hope your Halloween bash did go well. If it
Speaker 1: didn't go well, you'll only have yourself to blame for
Speaker 1: not inviting the party. King Goldilocks Brian Finland, He says,
Speaker 1: here's my question, which one of you has the most
Speaker 1: famous Twitter followers? I'd also like to know which one
Speaker 1: of you has the least famous followers. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: haven't done inventory on that. There's a few big verified
Speaker 1: accounts to follow me on Twitter. So that's cool and
Speaker 1: all that, but I don't I've really obsessed on it
Speaker 1: too much. Any any when you want to drop here, Danny,
Speaker 1: any big names you want to drop on the Twitter.
Speaker 1: I don't have that many famous people interacting with me
Speaker 1: on Twitter. The one that comes to mind though, Chuck
Speaker 1: d of Public Enemy. If you were a rap fan
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, that's a big deal. And
Speaker 1: he actually comments on some of my tweets from time
Speaker 1: to time, which is really cool. As a kid, I
Speaker 1: listened to every song he ever recorded. So if you
Speaker 1: would have told me later in life, as an adult,
Speaker 1: he'd be interacting with me on the Internet, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have believed you. Yeah, that's pretty cool. A lot of
Speaker 1: the people that follow me I've known since before they
Speaker 1: were a big deal. Uh you know, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like I knew Adam Schefter when he was just a
Speaker 1: beat writer in Denver before he got the ESPN and
Speaker 1: all that. So, and I used to help him out
Speaker 1: on my website. He follows me on there. Adam has
Speaker 1: always been good to me. Uh try I think who else?
Speaker 1: William Shatner does not follow me? It's not unfortunately he did.
Speaker 1: He still have you blocked? No he unblocked me because
Speaker 1: somebody spent thousands of dollars to have him locked me.
Speaker 1: Somebody actually gave him money for his charity. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately it was not one of my listeners, one of
Speaker 1: our fans here. It was this horse charity and it
Speaker 1: was actually a star trek guy who was annoyed at
Speaker 1: Trekky was annoyed because our our fans were harassing Shatner
Speaker 1: on Twitter, and so he's like, I just want peace.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay for this. I don't I want everyone
Speaker 1: to get along. And so I didn't know about that,
Speaker 1: shouts out to the horse guy. Yeah, well it was
Speaker 1: Chattner has a he's got like a bunch of horses
Speaker 1: in uh in Burbank, right, and so he's got a
Speaker 1: horse charity, and so he was raising money for that.
Speaker 1: And that's how all that went down back in the day.
Speaker 1: You don't help, Yeah, I'm sure Nick and was give
Speaker 1: him all the horse and let him right out of town.
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin has Ben and Danny. Would you rather
Speaker 1: would you rather? Is back He says, would you rather
Speaker 1: have a car that can also fly? Or a car
Speaker 1: that can also drive under the water? Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: idea of a flying car is wonderful, assuming it's somewhat
Speaker 1: safe obviously, so they're positives to both these things. But
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have a flying car because it is
Speaker 1: a pain in the ask to fly domestically the way
Speaker 1: airports are and airlines and all that. And if I
Speaker 1: gets to be like, all right, let's program the mallon
Speaker 1: will be all I'm gonna go to Vegas, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to Phoenix, I'm gonna go to Dallas, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to Chicago, whatever, boom, and you just fly the car.
Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. It would also be kind of cool,
Speaker 1: Danny to be on a car that goes underwater and
Speaker 1: see what's at the bottom of the Pacific and driving
Speaker 1: around right. Also, I would take my car international and
Speaker 1: finally unlock the mysteries of the lock Neest monster. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do that. Imagine what kind of critters are
Speaker 1: down at the bottom of the oceans that we don't
Speaker 1: even know about. These oceans are so vast and so deep,
Speaker 1: there's places that they can't go. Think about what you
Speaker 1: would see there. And also you were underwater, you could
Speaker 1: get some old gold booty on, some old gold coins
Speaker 1: from pirate ships. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the the way to do it for sure. Let's see
Speaker 1: who is next year booty pirates, Booty pirates, booty Is
Speaker 1: that the Yeah, that's some real pirate's booty back back there,
Speaker 1: all right, I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
Speaker 1: You got some quick ones here, Rich says, Ken Roberto
Speaker 1: make an omelet with platypus eggs? Sure, why not? Uh?
Speaker 1: Guy named Ben Wrights, and he says, how did the
Speaker 1: Astro fans cheer and root for a team that needed
Speaker 1: trash cans to win a World Series without remorse? It's
Speaker 1: a great question, but it happens a lot bend. But
Speaker 1: that had a funny call this this week, Danny that
Speaker 1: we only get on terrestrial radio. So my affiliate in
Speaker 1: Houston is seven ninety, which is the Astros station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we we're on after Astro Talk ended after the
Speaker 1: Yankees and the Astros game one. So some guy from
Speaker 1: Houston calls up. He's at He's at the game guy,
Speaker 1: you know, at the game. Guy at the game. Guy
Speaker 1: just wants to talk about the game. He doesn't know
Speaker 1: who the hell is on the radio. He just happened
Speaker 1: to know. The Astros were on seven ninety in Houston.
Speaker 1: So he turned on the station in his car and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I hear somebody giving out a number.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call up. I'm at the game guy. And
Speaker 1: he wanted to tell stories about being at the game,
Speaker 1: and so I put him on. After just destroying the Astros,
Speaker 1: they did a monologue ripping the ship out of the Astros,
Speaker 1: and this guy calls up, like, I didn't say any
Speaker 1: of that stuff, and he just starts talking about, well,
Speaker 1: I was at the game tonight and he's going through
Speaker 1: this whole thing. It was wild. He's at the game guy.
Speaker 1: That's the guy. He's at the game guy. Gave you
Speaker 1: flashbacks of Dodger Talk. Oh yeah, I had a lot
Speaker 1: of that Dodger Talk. Yeah, I was at the game tonight.
Speaker 1: I hate when callers start off with that. I don't
Speaker 1: give a ship if you were at the game or
Speaker 1: you watched on TV. Get to your point, please get
Speaker 1: to the point. Please. Well. Also on Dodger Talk, it
Speaker 1: was always the the experts that knew more than the
Speaker 1: team did and more than you did about the minor
Speaker 1: league guys. We used to have a guy Jeane and
Speaker 1: Redondo Beach, who would call up and he knew everyone
Speaker 1: in Triple A and Double A, and he'd he'd hear
Speaker 1: some or he'd see some stats on a relief pictures,
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers have to call this guy out. He's
Speaker 1: got a great all right at Albuquerque, you know, which
Speaker 1: was the Triple A affiliate the time, And it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, the guy's a career minor league here. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not calling him up. He's not even
Speaker 1: on the the big forty man roster. There's no more
Speaker 1: transistor radios inside the ballpark. Listening to Vince Scully, you
Speaker 1: could make the argument that the at the game guy
Speaker 1: knows less about the person that was watching and listening
Speaker 1: to the TV crew. It's a fair point. That is
Speaker 1: a fair point. Next up, as we continue the mail Bag,
Speaker 1: the extended dance remix of the mail Bag, These are
Speaker 1: actual questions from actual listeners, and we say a load too.
Speaker 1: What was that effect? Oh, that was a new one.
Speaker 1: That was that's mail blasting off? I see you send mail,
Speaker 1: you know any like that? Maybe you don't like that,
Speaker 1: maybe like I don't even know what that is. I
Speaker 1: don't have no idea. What that is? Uh? John and
Speaker 1: Colorado says, Hey, hey, guys, at what age do you
Speaker 1: stop saying gone too soon when someone croaks? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good question. Uh, And that age has gotten higher
Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, So I want you to know
Speaker 1: that age is gone higher and higher as I've aged.
Speaker 1: What is it? Well? I thought when the queen passed away,
Speaker 1: I thought she was You know, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can say gone too soon? What do you replace that with?
Speaker 1: Do you say appropriate time to die? Life well lived?
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not sure what would mean. Anytime you
Speaker 1: see that when celebrities or musicians die, you'll see a
Speaker 1: lot of gone too soon. We lost that person way
Speaker 1: too soon. They could have given us so much more memories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think life would be like if everyone
Speaker 1: just lived for three years? What do you think that
Speaker 1: would be like? You think it would be better or worse? Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I guess it would depend on
Speaker 1: the government and how things were going for us in
Speaker 1: our lives, because you think about our adult life been
Speaker 1: not to get political or anything like that, because we
Speaker 1: don't want our overall rating to go down to a
Speaker 1: four point seven. But what year. Do you recall where
Speaker 1: you and I were celebrating in the streets because of
Speaker 1: our paychecks and the state of the economy and the
Speaker 1: government and how everything was going. Have we ever really
Speaker 1: had a stretch in our adult lives where things were
Speaker 1: stacked in our favor? Absolutely not. I I make less
Speaker 1: now than I made when I started. Well, the first
Speaker 1: real job I got in radio because it was a
Speaker 1: union shop and I was making amazing money. And it's yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm right there with you on that same late
Speaker 1: nineties was real money for us. Yeah, big time. Be
Speaker 1: still living off that money right now, and I think
Speaker 1: it's all gone on my and unfortunately al right. Next up,
Speaker 1: Scott writes, and he says the comment regarding woke caller
Speaker 1: salsa salsa called up referred to as this. He says
Speaker 1: a century ago, black travelers were told to stay woke
Speaker 1: as a warning of clan activity in the area they
Speaker 1: were staying in. For that reason, Scott says, I will
Speaker 1: no longer use the term to describe hypersensitive folks, but
Speaker 1: go back to calling them what I always have, the
Speaker 1: perpetually professionally offended. Yeah, so I used the term woke. Uh,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a the modern definition of it, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't think is is that I I was asked
Speaker 1: by Salsa about this. My interpretation of term woke is
Speaker 1: is people that are overly politically correct and it also
Speaker 1: are offended by everything and are trying to change everything.
Speaker 1: I want to take down statues, want to cancel words,
Speaker 1: want to cancel entertainers like, to me, that's woke, like
Speaker 1: or or you preach like the NBA was preaching on
Speaker 1: on how people should act. The NFL has done a
Speaker 1: lot of that. Baseball all the leagues have done that.
Speaker 1: That's like, that's to me, that's woke. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the modern definition. Am I a bad person? Danny?
Speaker 1: For you modern interpretation of the world woke? I mean
Speaker 1: some people use that like lit or other words that
Speaker 1: are just overused because they think that they're being you know,
Speaker 1: with it or trendy, or that they're hip. But the
Speaker 1: one thing that caught my attention this past week, and
Speaker 1: actually uh Covino and Rich covered a couple of afternoons ago,
Speaker 1: there was a recent article about how gen z ears
Speaker 1: are rallying to get the thumbs up emoji can sold
Speaker 1: on the yes because they're triggered by the thumbs up.
Speaker 1: They think it's condescending. So, in other words, if you
Speaker 1: sent me a text message and I gave it a
Speaker 1: thumbs up, that's me kind of being a dick. That's
Speaker 1: how they feel. So their feelings are now getting hurt
Speaker 1: by certain emojis. Well, that's actually not I remember the
Speaker 1: big controversy at Wrigley Field a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: because somebody did the Okay song. That's right. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: now told that that is racist, that that's been hijacked
Speaker 1: by some group or something like that, so we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do the okay sign. It was so stupid.
Speaker 1: If the thumbs up thing is insulting, then people do
Speaker 1: that every day on Facebook when they like somebody's post.
Speaker 1: So if I like something, is that insulting you? It
Speaker 1: is dumb. Anyway, we we'll get out of here on that.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Anthony, Johnny and San Antonio, Mike and Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: Joe in in New York and all the other people
Speaker 1: here that we did not have time to get to
Speaker 1: the questions. But Danny anything to promote here, anything at all.
Speaker 1: I guess tonight, right, you told me you'll be in
Speaker 1: tonight that's right, two days in a row. I see
Speaker 1: your mug, yeah, Danny G. I saw you at at
Speaker 1: your Halloween party. Yeah. And then we're recovering today tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in there to kick off Sunday night
Speaker 1: into Monday morning with you and for Coop. All right,
Speaker 1: and remember, Danny, you're not that guy. I'll trust me
Speaker 1: You're not that guy. Don't be that guy. Don't don't
Speaker 1: be that That means I can't race to my car
Speaker 1: before you get to yours after the show. If if
Speaker 1: I see you burning rubber before I get out of
Speaker 1: the garage, we got heads are gonna roll. Danny, have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your day. I will be back
Speaker 1: with Danny G tonight on the radio show. I'll talk
Speaker 1: about all these big NFL games, the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: and the including that Pittsburgh Miami Sunday night game, see
Speaker 1: how I did against the Penny. And have a have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your weekend, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you on the radio next time. Go Raiders later Skater
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Hey, Hey, hey, I'm let you go check
Speaker 1: put by me.