WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Double Fisting Butterfinger" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.360 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, dred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.919 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.640 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:33.279 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.040 another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.960 Danny g Radio back in the podcast Ojo on an 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:50.680 NFL Sunday with the Mailbag, the mail bag. Everyone loves 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.800 the man. How can you not like the mailbag. This 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.040 is like our tailgate party. Ah, this is great. I 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.560 like the mailbag because you never know what you're gonna get. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.080 You never know, you never know until we open up 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.240 the mail bag. So without further Ado, let's strike up 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:25.840 the band our man. O. Hi, oh oh, it's all right, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.840 very good. Are you buckled up? Danny? Are you prepared here? 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.399 Do you have you taken your medication, all your vaccines 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.640 and all that. I don't know about that, but I'm 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.120 drinking a lot of water. After your Halloween party that 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:44.280 Kirkland brand alcohol did the trick. The booze was a flowing, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.240 so we've added some new mail sound effects to dress 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.000 it up a little bit. We figured why not keep 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.720 it fresh and let's go to the mailbag. These are 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.200 actual questions sent in by actual listeners. You do not 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.840 have to wait. You do not have to wait for 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.200 me to post something on Tuesday to send question is in. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.920 You can send these questions in whenever you want via 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.200 Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, letters not numbers, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.280 Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and ask away, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.639 and we make sure to include your name and where 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.680 you're listing from, and we may end up using your 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:22.399 question on the next mail bag. Al right, first one 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:27.680 comes from our man Neil from the Real Miami says, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:33.480 dear Big Ben and Danny g Radio. Good job by 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.240 Big Ben, He says, for voting for the Marines over 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.360 the other armed forces. There is a reason why the 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.720 Marines guard the POTUS and Air Force one and all 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.160 the US embassies around the world. S as I spent 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.320 four years. I spent four years at Camp Pendleton, an 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:55.880 hour south of your hometown back in the nineties. Fun times. Yeah, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.800 I've driven past Camp Pendleton many times coming from l A, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.839 Orange County to San Diego. He says, back to the show, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.320 I just realized the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller is 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.040 three years old, So congratulations, I look forward to another 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.760 three years. Wish you three times the downloads well, thank you. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.079 I had this thought as I recalled listening to the 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.520 show on a business trip to northern Italy exactly three 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.680 years ago, and I had some free time on the weekend, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.040 so I hiked the mountain around Lake Como, listening to 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:35.160 the October en episode A Day with the Elites, when 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.680 you talked about your golf outing with the Fox Sports bosses, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.960 happy Gilmore style, with your grandfather's old clubs. You are 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.560 forever in my memories with lake Como and and Gascon thinks. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:53.240 Here's the question. He says, according to Apple Podcast, September six, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:04:00.280 nineteen was the maiden voyage of The Fifth Hour with you, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.920 Ben Mallor, what do you remember about that day and 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.960 what did you envision for the future of this show 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:12.000 at this time, says the real Neil from the real Miami. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.840 So Neil, thank you for rememory. I did not even 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.920 remember how many I don't know how long we've been 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.000 doing this podcast. I know Danny has been with us 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.440 a while now. Gascon was at the start of the podcast, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.040 and so the way this worked, I had been doing 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.920 some extra work. Can I give you the origins of 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.600 the podcast. I had been doing some moonlighting. I was 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.080 filling in at w e I in Boston remotely, and 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.440 I've been doing a couple of shows a week and 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.800 the overnight show that we do got picked up by 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.159 w e IES competitor, the Sports Hub in Boston. And 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.760 so the way this works, you cannot be on a 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:57.120 competing radio station. It's not allowed. It's taboo and it's 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.880 for boating. So I was not allowed to continue my 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.400 extra work on the side making the extra money at 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.280 e I would not allow me to do that. And 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.880 I was presented with the opportunity from the company to 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.240 make a little extra money on the side do the podcast, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.640 and we didn't really know what it would entail. They 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.240 were looking for more content. I signed an agreement which 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.280 was different than my radio agreement because podcast don't pay 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.520 as much as radio, and so I agreed to it 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.640 and we we launched and I was like, wow, it'll 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.880 be a gambling thing at first, and then Originally it 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.360 was supposed to be only about sports betting, and then 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.000 it shifted. It's really morphed into what it is now 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.280 over time. But that's how these things worked in you, Right, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:41.880 you start out with one idea and then you just 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.560 kind of see where the thing takes you. Yeah, things 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.080 settle on the best number on the board, and you 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.800 don't know what that number is gonna be when you 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.400 first started. Yeah, water seeks its own level. A podcast 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.600 or a radio show seeks its own level, and it's 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.960 gonna roll with the punches, all right. Next up, Kevin 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.640 in Kansas. Hold on a second, and I have to 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.320 give you the property. Oh and coming email Kevin in Kansas. Right, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.760 since this, dear Benn and Danny, g this November marks 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.920 the final time we'll have to do the fallback, spring forward, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.760 clock changing nonsense. How do you envision this changing your lives? 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.520 Moving forward? So, Kevin, I am excited. I'm a little 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.960 melancholy because this is one of those big things that 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.080 I talked to my dad about. My my we I 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.920 used to get so no, my dad would get annoyed. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.599 He could plain every year about the time change, people 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:38.480 getting more accidents after time Jade him and Clay Travis. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.160 Remember that was one of Clay's big gripes. Every Yes, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.000 I remember Clay with you ranting about that, and I agree. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.200 I think it's dumb. I think it's unnecessary. My dad 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.120 would actually send emails to politicians, right, And I wish 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.039 he had lived a little longer for many reasons, but 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.839 one of the reasons he would have a Cheshire cat 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.039 smile from ear to ear knowing that we can end 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:04.679 the the ridiculousness of the clock moving forward and back. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.480 It's so arcake. It's amazing it took this long for 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:13.200 that to change, and I say hallelujah, And especially doing 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.440 the weekend over that show, which I did for years, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.480 because one part of the year, when we spring forward, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.480 I would lose an hour, and then when we fall back, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.120 I had to do an extra hour. And at one 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.200 point I was doing five hours on the overnight, and 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.440 they gave me an extra hour, so I do six hours. Yeah, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.080 so much, well much for me? You know, the show 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.760 would have been the seventh hour, exactly would have been 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.960 the seventh hour. But does anyone think this is a 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.960 bad idea, not changing the clock anymore? Is there anyone 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.720 in that camp Danny, have you ever met anyone it's like, oh, no, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.760 there's a bad idea, we need to change the clock. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.720 I've never met anyone like no, which goes to the 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.400 point they should have changed this fifty years ago. Yeah, no, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.120 of course, And you know, the wheels of politics turned slowly, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.640 and it's it's so dumb. They had to have surveys 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.600 and committees and all this bullshit just to figure things out. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.760 But I'm right there, Kevin. I love it. I think 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.520 it's great, and I cannot wait to not have to 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.520 worry about the clocks. It's a lot easier now. And 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.840 then we're we're old, Danny. Right, we were kids. There 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.480 were a lot of clocks that you had to manually adjust, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.720 which was not a pleasant experience. It's not a pleasant experience. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.080 All right, what is next year? Let's see? All right, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.560 Blake in Arkansas? Right? Since this Ben, I am normally 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.160 a pretty positive guy and not much for bullying on people. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.400 But that being said, what the fuck is going on 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:41.040 with your fill in producer's voice? Sounds like a dog 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.680 whistle came down with laryngitis. For Christ's sake, On what 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.600 planet blow? He goes on? He's ripping the guy. But 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:54.160 but here's the thing, Um, he's got a very unique voice, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.920 this guy. And you know, I think that's either a 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.640 good thing or a bad It could annoy you. It 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.760 might you know, might not like it. Blah blah blah 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.560 blah blah. But he definitely is memorable. And a lot 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.640 of people sound the same on the radio. There's a 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.959 lot of talk shows that sound the same. Their voice 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.000 is similar to other people. You definitely know when he's 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.880 cracking the mic that he's he's on an island. I 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.400 definitely know when he's in the hallway charing for the 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:28.360 stupid Padres with his padre's hat and jersey and shorts 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:33.559 and padre socks and do do brown shoes? That's so 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.320 many issue I have with him. No, I like it. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.240 I like it. He's a little Yeah. The thing I 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:45.440 would say about him is that some of the the 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.640 normal sies the decorum, he is not mastered, which I 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.080 actually am impressed by. Like, for example, there's a rule 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.800 in radio, Danny and you know this. You never Actually 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.280 one of my friends works at KBC in l A. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.480 We were he he mentioned this to me and reminded 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.640 me of this is there's a ruling radio that the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.960 producer should never leave before the host. There's also a 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.480 belief the producer should never get there after the host. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.920 Now I am surrounded by people that get there after 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.839 me and also leave before me. But but this, this, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.280 this friend will call the Padre guy. The other night 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.440 we did the show, and he sprints out of the 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.199 building right. He runs out of the building. He gets 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.160 to his car before me. By the time I get 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.679 to my car, he's already driving out of the parking 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.760 lot at the I Heart building there, the premier building. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.559 How is that even possible? I guess I'm way too 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.880 much of a perfectionist band and spend too much time 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.240 on your Guys podcast. How is that even possible to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.000 run out right at the end of the show. I 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.839 got no idea. All I know is he did it. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.280 So he drives by me, which is uh taboo. And 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.440 he's got a New York Yankee license plate frame on 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.480 his carse wearing a Podre hat and like a Padre jersey, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.520 and he's got a Yankee thing. What yeah? And he's like, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.440 he explains that, well, my dad's a Yankee fan, my 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.800 mom's a Padre fans. So I'm a fan of both. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.040 He said, he's a fan of both dating. I'm gonna 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.200 throw a sports flag on him for that. Yeah, that's 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.920 a that's a fifteen yard offside penalty right there. Yeah, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.800 my dad, he grew up for most of his team 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.920 until he was a teen in Chicago. That doesn't make 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.360 me a Chicago Bears fan, no, exactly, exactly so. And 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.280 and the other thing he did is he walked right 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.280 through the on air studio to get to the other room. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:46.800 You know, that's a hallway and then you gotta go 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.880 a little further. It's like ten more steps to go 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.200 down the hall or the shortcut is right through the 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.480 on air studio. That's funny. And he walked right through 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.000 like a short cut, like you weren't even there. He 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.640 reminded me of the great Canadian Mike who used to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.360 work at Fox Sports Radio back and then he did 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.960 the same thing. Oh boy, And it was like, what 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.280 do you? What are you? What are you doing here? 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.840 And I have some great Canadian mic stories. We'll have 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.520 to share those someday. I'm all about I love Canadian. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.040 We had some good times together and I hope he's 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.840 doing okay. I don't know what happened, though, But he's 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.320 doing drunk somewhere well, probably so. Blake in Arkansas writes 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.880 in uh with Moore, He says, uh, on your way 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.920 to being the king of the overnight, how much if any, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.760 did you work on practice? Worry about the tone of 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.680 your radio voice? Ps? I get that guy a filter? 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.559 He says, all right, wow. Uh so my voice has 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.040 changed a lot since I started radio because I've gone 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.880 through puberty. I found much different now than I did. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.720 Are on the road. Yeah, I know, royals are having 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.600 their problems on the road. Royals having their problems on 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:58.480 the road. I'm Ben Mallock. Yeah, so I signed a 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.200 lot different now than I did back then. But in 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.640 terms of my voice, no, I'm not smoking a pack 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.840 of Marlboroughs. When I first got into radio, a lot 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.280 of guys would smoke because it gives you a deeper voice, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.360 the tobacco and all. I didn't. I never did that. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.920 The main things I focus on are the technical aspects 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.880 of like how did this show better? Like how to? 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.120 How to how to phrase things better? How to mix 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.000 in more not no, not more words. I don't want 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.240 a word alphabet thing or a letter alphabet thing. I 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.880 just want I want to say something that is I'm 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.480 saying a lot of things are the same as other people, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.720 but I want to use different different words to say 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.720 the same thing essentially. All right, So that's that's kind 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.040 of stuff I focus in on that Danny g over 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.880 there when you were born, when you came out of 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.560 the womb, Danny, did you say, hey, mom like that 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.600 you have the deep voice going? Or is that something 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.000 you acquired later? I was like, where's my tricycle? Mom? 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.640 I needed a lollipop. I mean, that's one thing that 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.240 has changed over time in radio. When I was a kid, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.120 I had programmers tell me, oh, man, you're naturally blessed 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.800 with those pipes. You gotta lean into that. You gotta 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.240 lean into that deep voice. So when you get on 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.320 the air, talk slow and used the role and so 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.640 like an idiot. As a teenager, I listened to bad 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.920 advice and I sat there on my microphone and leaned 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.280 into it. You know what that changed because it doesn't 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:37.960 matter necessarily about voice anymore. It's more about content. There 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.800 used to be boss jocks where it was all about 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.640 voice and delivery and Wolfman Jack and all that. And yeah, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.560 he was funny, and he had like his bits and 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.240 stuff like that, but a lot of it was about 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.200 the voice and the tone and the delivery. That has 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.200 changed now to to content and the programmers across the 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.160 country they all cared about wit and humor and timing 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.400 and um, you know, the different segments and features, and 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.960 not so much about what guy's voices sounded like. Unless 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.560 they had like, really really annoying voices, then that might 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.240 be a problem. But other than that, you could just 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.760 be a normal dude as long as you're funny and entertaining. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.800 I'll tell you a funny story that I got told 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.000 by a program director when I first started out in 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.000 as We're going in San Diego at the mighty six, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.600 and I was sending air checks out different radio stations 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.360 trying to get my big break, and I got told 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.360 by a program director that I was to f emy. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.080 I didn't sound like an AM sports guy. I sounded 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:45.440 too much like an FM guy and it wouldn't work. Yeah. Now, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.760 how outdated is that take? By the way, I know 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.360 times changed and all that, but super outdated. Yeah, because 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.920 basically he was saying you should be on Kiss FM 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.560 introducing banana rama back then or whatever. The group was 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:06.960 in the Anson Brothers are exactly exactly on for the 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.320 second time this hour. Oombo I was like, Okay, we're 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.560 good on that. I think I think we're all right 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.600 on that. I just want to point that out. I 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:22.240 got mail, yea, I got mail yea. Our friend Jennifer 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.880 in Richmond, Virginia. She's a six percenter. Ninety four percent 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.120 of the audience is male, six percenter women. Jennifer is 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.600 part of the six percent. You bumped up because you 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.920 said you called her a four percenter. Oh that's right, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.000 you know, I got that mixed up for excuse me, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:42.040 four percenter nineties, six and four. That's right. Anyway, she 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.240 got a promotion. No, no, no, Benn and Danny ge guys, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.280 thanks for doing these podcasts. It's fun hearing about your 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.040 lives off air, and the mail bag is always entertaining. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.520 She says, Ben, It's amazing to me how you never 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.400 let yourself become complacent with the content on your daily show, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.640 and everything you do on air is done with gusto. Well, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.800 thank you, Jennifers, so she she loves that. Well, the 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.480 main reason I'm doing that, Jennifers have a lot of 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.800 bills to pay, and I feel like if I do 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.919 one bad show, it's all gonna come crashing down and 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.919 I'll be living with weed man hippie eating roches. So 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.720 I try to avoid that at all costs. I love 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.960 you exactly. My philosophy has always been, they will get 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.960 rid of me someday. They've already gotten rid of me once. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.359 But they're not going to get rid of me because 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.399 of the content of the show. They'll get rid of 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.320 me because I've been there too long, or they want 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.600 somebody else or whatever. It's not big because the show 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.760 is bad. And I've been around people, and you've been 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.800 around people, Danny, that have lost their job because they 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.000 got lazy. They just didn't do the prep. They read 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.760 off ESPN dot com. They showed up five minutes before 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.320 the show. And I don't want to be that guy. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.919 So I'm not gonna be that guy. I've made a 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.679 pact with myself and that's just the way it is. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.760 She says, you and your crew even make baseball talk 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.680 interesting less a shot, uh, in any way that no 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.719 other shows do. Thanks, that's from Jennifer. Now, my quick question, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.880 did you see you and Danny see Snoop Dogg's new 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.679 four D video in the vein of Larry David and 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.000 Curb theme music and characteristics. I stumbled across it recently, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.879 but I don't understand the point. It was somewhat entertaining, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.800 but not really. She says, well, you look it up, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.560 watch it and tell us what you think. And she 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.600 wants to know, Danny, are you a fan of Curb 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:33.359 your enthusiasm? Yeah? I love Curb. My favorite episode was 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.239 back in the day when Larry got the prostitute so 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:42.640 that he could go on to Carpool Carpool Lane. Um oh. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:47.800 And also the shock episode where he tripped Shaquille O'Neil. Yeah, 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.159 that was a good one too. Was at Staples Center 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.800 that night when he's called Staple Center. Then when they 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.440 filmed that and everyone was all exciting, like Larry David 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.080 there and they did several takes over and over in 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.920 and all that stuff. So yeah, and then flash forward 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.240 to the more recent episodes. I loved his spiked cafe 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.000 that he opened in the toilet he did with the 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:14.720 bathroom Joe's or whatever. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.280 Have you seen this Snoop Dogg video? I've not seen 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.119 this video. We'll have to do some investigative reporting on 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.320 that video. Yeah, how much do they spend on these 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.520 videos if they're not getting watched that much? But then 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.840 on YouTube, I'm not sure how it works, but there's 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.960 some of those songs on YouTube. They get so many 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.600 views and downloads and then man, yeah, that's how the 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:43.240 artists do their marketing nowadays, and so really the videos 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.679 are made straight to YouTube and straight to you know, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.080 there's a couple of outlets that just do videos. But 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.040 other than that, Yeah, I mean, you don't even have 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.040 to have a video nowadays to have a hit song 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.320 on the radio. And you know, when we were kids, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.040 that's not the case. Yeah, the video was the key 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.960 element to get people buzzing about your you're dealing all that, 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.120 All right, let's see what's right. Let's go to Pierre 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:14.160 from the leaf Peeping traffic Capital of the Northeast. He says, 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.880 for both of you, do you buy your favorite Halloween 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.879 candy to hand out in hopes of leftovers or do 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.760 you purposely buy kinds that you don't like so you 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.760 won't over indulge after the holidays. It's a good question. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.560 So normally what happens is me and the wife will 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:37.440 be at Costco, and we'll get like two giant bags 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.920 of whatever candy they have at Costco, and then usually 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.640 there's a few things we like in there. We get 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.000 one bag which is chocolate, and then we get one 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.440 giant bag which is more like Mike and Ikes and 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.879 gummy worms and that kind of crap. And so we 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.040 got a little bit of each. And normally there's always 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.160 leftover candy because there's never that many kids that come 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.040 to your house. So that's that's my move back in 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.879 the older is my mom. She she knew I love 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.720 butterfinger in Baby Ruth. She'd buy me those. It was great, 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.720 but I'd eat them all. Yeah, especially those many. But yeah, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:18.560 you're double fisting those Hartist Hartists. I was more concerned 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.879 about him giving me a double fish put those in 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.440 the freezer band. Oh that is wonderful. What is your 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.320 all time favorite Halloween candy? Yeah, so I've evolved over 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:34.760 the years. The Reese's butter Peanut butter cups great, but 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.679 butterfinger Baby Ruth, that was my go to for a 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:42.240 long time. Uh so some some combination of that. What 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:47.080 about you butter fingers right up there, sour candy? I 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.480 love sour candy, and I love skittles too, hit and 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.200 miss Right, if they've been around too long, they get 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.840 really difficult to eat. But if they're soft and kind 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.600 of you know what I mean, if they've sitting around 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.840 for a long time, they turned into like little pebbles. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.520 A fresh packet of the little skittles, those are wonderful, man. 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:04.840 So if you gave me a whole bunch of mini 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.760 butter fingers and a whole bunch of mini Skittles, I'd 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:12.040 be set to get fat. I gotta be careful because 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:16.240 was it two halloweens ago? Maybe it was three. I've 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.879 told the sorry I had so much Halloween candy. I 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.359 thought I had diabetes because I was having headaches. I 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.000 had eaten so much candy. And I went to the 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.400 doctor and all these blood tests, all this blood work done, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.160 and the doctors like, well, we think what you did 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.119 is you just your body wasn't used to eating that 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.639 much sugar anymore, and you just overdosed on sugar and 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:35.720 your body had this reaction. They didn't know, but I 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.720 didn't know how to handle it. Wow. Wow, I didn't 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:40.520 know that was a thing. I had no idea. But 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:44.160 we gotta watch you over the next few days here closely. Yeah, 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.040 I gotta be careful on that. Also, he says, who 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.600 is your least favorite update person now that Wreckett Ralph 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.680 is gone? And why is it Goldilocks? How I didn't 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.280 say it was Goldilocks. He did pick up the nickname, though. 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:57.600 Brian Finley's new nickname is Goldilocks. Did you hear about 0:22:57.600 --> 0:22:59.960 that name? You know you said his new nickname was 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.840 love you. Well, yeah, that was his last new nickname, Lovey. 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.760 Now he's known as Goldilocks. Jesus, his list is gonna 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:08.560