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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The a every way. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g on this Mother's Day, Sunday, the
Speaker 1: twelfth day of May, hanging out side by side, schmoozing
Speaker 1: on a Sunday. As we are back at it, Danny
Speaker 1: from a secret location deep in the Carolinas, deep in
Speaker 1: the South Racist, as my long trip away continues. This
Speaker 1: is the last day, though, Danny, of my extended absence
Speaker 1: from my watchtower at the radio station. So I'll be
Speaker 1: back not tonight, but more on that later. But we've
Speaker 1: got a lot to get to, a lot to get to.
Speaker 3: Us live from your hurricane shelter.
Speaker 1: That's right. I am protected. I might need a scuba suit,
Speaker 1: but I am absolutely protected. On Mother's Day, one of
Speaker 1: those holidays, Danny, that we used to goof on back
Speaker 1: in the day, one of those Hallmark made up holidays.
Speaker 1: But now compared to a lot of the other bugazy
Speaker 1: holidays that we have, it's like, that's not that bad,
Speaker 1: it's it actually goes back. I was reading about this
Speaker 1: because I'm a loser and I like weird factoids that
Speaker 1: in ancient times, with Greeks enrollments, they held festivals honoring
Speaker 1: mother goddesses who but the modern the modern Mother's Day
Speaker 1: as it stands now goes back to a Christian festival
Speaker 1: known as Mothering Sunday. That's the precursor to what we
Speaker 1: have have today. And I think American Mother's Day it
Speaker 1: goes back only about one hundred years the way that
Speaker 1: we celebrated today, so it's actually not been around all
Speaker 1: that long. But they have so many other holidays that
Speaker 1: just come out of nowhere. Like moms are kind of
Speaker 1: a big deal, right, but you should honor your mom
Speaker 1: every day. You shouldn't honor you just wait for Mother's
Speaker 1: Day to take care of your mom, right, You got
Speaker 1: to take care of your mom all the time.
Speaker 3: Exactly. It's like Thanksgiving, not once a year, be thankful
Speaker 3: every day of the year.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and you've got a bad mammagama, maybe not
Speaker 3: just your mom, but the woman who had a kid
Speaker 3: for you. Make sure you spoiler. And it also reminds
Speaker 3: me of the classic movie Pulp Fiction. Remember when he
Speaker 3: says his wallet is the one that says just the
Speaker 3: one that said bad motherfucker.
Speaker 1: That right, that's right. This Actually, here's a couple of factoids,
Speaker 1: because I'm all about the factoids. There was an official
Speaker 1: declaration that was made by President Woodrow Wilson. It was
Speaker 1: passed into law to make Mother's Day a national holiday
Speaker 1: in nineteen fourteen. So it's been a little over one
Speaker 1: hundred years it's been that way. And now there are
Speaker 1: over twenty billion dollars I think closer to thirty billions
Speaker 1: spent on gifts and dinners and all kinds of other
Speaker 1: crap for mom. So it has become a massive business
Speaker 1: making opportunity for if you're in the flower business or
Speaker 1: the chocolate business or massage. It's a big deal, twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty billion business every year just on Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: Chi ching, cha ching, chi ching. So good for them.
Speaker 1: And there are I always gotta kick that. There's other
Speaker 1: holidays when there's like one big holiday. Today is National
Speaker 1: Limerick Day as well, so help you celebrate that.
Speaker 3: It is. What else do we have a competition for
Speaker 3: Mother's Day? There?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's National Anthony Day. That is America's fort forty
Speaker 1: ninth most common name. Anthony Tony. Yeah, the great Tony
Speaker 1: Bruno and Anthony Bruno Tony Tony Bruns. National Nutty Fudge Day,
Speaker 1: so enjoy that. Him giving you a double fish. National
Speaker 1: Odometer Day, very important.
Speaker 3: There, there's something you broke on one of your road trips.
Speaker 1: Here's a joke that I think writes itself, Danny. It
Speaker 1: is also National tampon Day today, So that's a rather
Speaker 1: odd coincidence.
Speaker 3: That food goofed.
Speaker 1: We gotta know that's yikes. All right on that one.
Speaker 1: We do have the mailbag. But since we are in
Speaker 1: and I'm broadcasting from South Carolina in a secret location
Speaker 1: in the bowels of a building somewhere far far away
Speaker 1: off the beaten path. But I do have a couple
Speaker 1: of words of the day, not words of the weekday.
Speaker 1: And we did the word of the week on Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the Friday pot. But today's Sunday, so we have
Speaker 1: double your pleasure double your fun. Two words of the day,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with the word of the week.
Speaker 3: So multiple words of the day, that is correct, multiple
Speaker 3: words of the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so the first one is Palmeadow State. That
Speaker 1: is where I am hanging out with you from South
Speaker 1: Carolina and the South Carolina called the Palmetto State for
Speaker 1: rather obvious reasons. The official tree is the sable palmetto,
Speaker 1: also known as the cabbage palm tree, the palmetto palm.
Speaker 1: It grows in the sand filled flatlands here in South Carolina,
Speaker 1: and it has a history that is said to be
Speaker 1: very important, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War,
Speaker 1: way back. The tree was added to the national flag
Speaker 1: all the way back in eighteen sixty one South Carolina
Speaker 1: after it seceded from the Union. So it's been on
Speaker 1: the flag. You can do the math on that. One
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty something years there, it's been on the flag.
Speaker 1: So Palmetto State. The other word is I thought this
Speaker 1: would be appropriate. Game Cock is the other word. The
Speaker 1: game Cocks. He blew me off a hotel near lax Go.
Speaker 1: Cock Go the nickname of the football team over at
Speaker 1: the University of South Carolina, and that originally originated in
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred, so that nickname has been around going back
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty four years. The nickname here's where
Speaker 1: it gets a little dicey. The nickname a reference to
Speaker 1: the fighting tactics of General Thomas Sumter, the Revolutionary war hero.
Speaker 1: In these parts, he was known by his nickname the
Speaker 1: Fighting game Cock. That was his nickname. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that was for the bird or for something else. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I wasn't there, but I do know the
Speaker 1: football team at the University of South Carolina they used
Speaker 1: the nickname on Christmas Eve in Charleston here in Charleston
Speaker 1: where I'm broadcasting from in eighteen ninety two against the
Speaker 1: Andy Furman team. They now just go by the name Furman,
Speaker 1: but for years they were the Andy Furman team. And
Speaker 1: General Thomas Sumpter, the guy that was nicknamed the Fighting
Speaker 1: game Cock, was nicknamed that for his fierce combatant of
Speaker 1: nature in the American Revolution. So there you go. That's
Speaker 1: the other word. We have palmetto state and gamecock the
Speaker 1: two words of the day, not words of the week,
Speaker 1: but words of the day. And that leads us into
Speaker 1: backscratcher Danny Dummy backscratcher. You scratch our back, will scratch
Speaker 1: your back. The drought has ended, Danny, The drought has ended.
Speaker 3: I told you it was going to end barely.
Speaker 1: But it has ended. So I want to thank Dale,
Speaker 1: who has broken the slump that we were in. He's
Speaker 1: like our slumpbuster, this guy Dale. It had been since
Speaker 1: February since we last had one of these reviews, but
Speaker 1: here we are in and Dale has stepped up. He
Speaker 1: writes five stars. Who are these guys? Well, they are
Speaker 1: the best podcasters out there. Get your weekend Malard fixed
Speaker 1: here and learn more interesting facts then you can store
Speaker 1: in your brain. Danny g adds to the fun with
Speaker 1: his point on drops banter and production excellence.
Speaker 3: The microphone throttler, And.
Speaker 1: That's from Dale. So thank you Dale. A tip of
Speaker 1: the headphones to you, Dale. Good job by you. Dale,
Speaker 1: say it so thank you, and you too can add
Speaker 1: a review. It's very saf If Dale can do it,
Speaker 1: you can do it. It's very simple to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Dale, your name comes up a lot in
Speaker 3: my household because right now CoA has two fangs that
Speaker 3: have come in on the top. He looks like the
Speaker 3: cartoon character for Disney Dale from Chip and Dale.
Speaker 1: Oh good, I thought you were gonna say something else
Speaker 1: about the Chippendale dancers. I thought you might be going
Speaker 1: that direction.
Speaker 3: But remember that was last weekend outside the shitty hotel
Speaker 3: in president.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so thank you Dale, and again you you
Speaker 1: scratch our back. We will take care of you as well.
Speaker 1: That leads us right in to the mail bag. You
Speaker 1: know what that means.
Speaker 3: Oh my, wow, it's this bag.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much our friend. Ohio wow. These are
Speaker 1: actual letters sending by actual listeners. And another week where
Speaker 1: I did not post anything about this mail bag on
Speaker 1: social media. I just let the the p ones, the
Speaker 1: hardcore listeners send the mail in care of Real fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: no numbers, all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: You can send those questions in anytime, just put mail
Speaker 1: put mail bag in the headliner mail so I know
Speaker 1: that you want your question read on the air. And
Speaker 1: let's get right to the questions. The first one is
Speaker 1: from Ryan C. From Shrewsbury, mass. He says, Hey, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, I'm trying to write in every week, but
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of finishing up my last couple
Speaker 1: of college classes. I'm a sports management major. I know
Speaker 1: this isn't a sporty podcast, but what advice do you
Speaker 1: guys have that I can use as I get closer
Speaker 1: to graduation? Also? When is the next Malar meet and
Speaker 1: greet in beautiful Massachusetts? Thanks again, Ryan from Shrewsbury. We
Speaker 1: have nothing planned. Ryan. Hopefully the TV show gets picked
Speaker 1: up again by NBC, and if that's the case, I
Speaker 1: will most likely be making my way back to Boston.
Speaker 1: So if I do go back, we'll definitely do what
Speaker 1: Malar Meat greed somewhere in the Northeast the we did
Speaker 1: Maine last year. If we can find a venue in
Speaker 1: Boston that would like to have us, we'll do Boston.
Speaker 1: A restaurant or bar that would be willing to host
Speaker 1: us for a couple hours on a Friday or a Saturday.
Speaker 1: But at this point, we have nothing planned Ryan. As
Speaker 1: far as the advice, my advice, it's very very competitive,
Speaker 1: not impossible, very competitive to make your way in that profession.
Speaker 1: But with anything to me, whether you're working in radio
Speaker 1: or sports, it's it's not about what you know, it's
Speaker 1: about who you know. It's about networking, getting your foot
Speaker 1: in and being able to connect with you. People you
Speaker 1: go to school with right now are going to rise up.
Speaker 1: You've got to find a way to get your foot
Speaker 1: in the door somewhere and just network the hell out
Speaker 1: of everything. Just go to every cocktail party, every you know,
Speaker 1: every opportunity you have to get faced toime with other
Speaker 1: people because normally what my experience is you hire people
Speaker 1: you kind of know, and that's the most important thing
Speaker 1: is just to get in front of as many people
Speaker 1: as you possibly can. You first have to get your
Speaker 1: foot in the door, but then after that it's just
Speaker 1: you got to network your way up. You could also
Speaker 1: do I know some people have done podcasts, Danny Will
Speaker 1: they'll interview people in places they want to work and
Speaker 1: kind of network that way. It's kind of a backdoor
Speaker 1: way to do it. Ryan, you can try that. That's
Speaker 1: a little trick that you can use. A lot of
Speaker 1: people will give you their time and then you kind
Speaker 1: of get to know them and maybe they'll help you
Speaker 1: out down the line, So that works as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, networking is a big part of it. Our Middle
Speaker 3: Sun was recently accepted into Oklahoma, even though it's going
Speaker 3: to cost a lot of money. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a big student loan to pay for everything. We told
Speaker 3: them it is worth it because of all the connections,
Speaker 3: you wind up making a boost that maybe you couldn't
Speaker 3: get otherwise, So take advantage.
Speaker 1: It is a great point, Danny. That guy told me
Speaker 1: years ago, early on in my career. He said, the
Speaker 1: hardest part of getting into a school like Harvard, or
Speaker 1: the hardest part of Harvard or any of the ivy
Speaker 1: of the schools is getting in. He's like, once you
Speaker 1: get in, they don't want to fail people because it
Speaker 1: makes them look bad if kids fail out of those schools.
Speaker 1: And then once you're in, you're pretty much a made man.
Speaker 1: Even people that have dropped out of Harvard have made
Speaker 1: Like the guy Zuckerberg who stole Facebook from those twins, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that the legend? As I understand it, he stole
Speaker 1: the idea for Facebook from a couple other guys, but
Speaker 1: he went to Harvard. I mean, even when you drop
Speaker 1: out of certain schools, being part of it, just having gone.
Speaker 1: I know, for me, Danny, I wouldn't have the Overnight
Speaker 1: Show if I hadn't gone to saddle Back College. The
Speaker 1: mac of the Syracuse of the West coast where you
Speaker 1: just say that name and it just resonates with directors
Speaker 1: and people that are in high power in sports media
Speaker 1: when they find out you went to sadd go Back
Speaker 1: fucking College. You are set up, Danny, You're a made man.
Speaker 3: It carries it's oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: It's it's not easy. It's not easy when you tell
Speaker 1: people you went to Saddleback College. Now next up on
Speaker 1: the mailbag, good luck to you, Ryan, keep us posted. Uh,
Speaker 1: go on and do amazing things and then forget about
Speaker 1: us unless you don't rege from zero Beach or as
Speaker 1: we used to say when we went to Dodger spring
Speaker 1: training back in the day, zero beach, he says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny. I love the pod. He says, Ben. I
Speaker 1: go through withdrawls when you're not on the weekday show.
Speaker 1: Do you also go through the same withdrawals knowing you're
Speaker 1: not able to entertain me? Uh signed reg In Uh
Speaker 1: uh no, Ray, Reg. I think I think I'm okay, Rege,
Speaker 1: but it's very kind of you to say that. I
Speaker 1: think I think, I think I'm okay. I think. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We talked about this a little bit earlier in the weekend,
Speaker 3: that you're a routine guy. Plus it's your life's so
Speaker 3: I know you shake a little bit like a gremlin
Speaker 3: who ate some chicken wings after midnight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing that really pisses me off is when there's
Speaker 1: a day where there's a lot of really good stuff
Speaker 1: that I know would make great talk radio, great sports radio,
Speaker 1: and stuff that is right in my wheelhouse, and when
Speaker 1: I'm not there, I get pissed off because I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, because I know there'll be a bunch of
Speaker 1: days where it's kind of you know, you're throwing spaghetti
Speaker 1: against the wall hoping something sticks. There's a lot more
Speaker 1: of those days. But then when there's like a day
Speaker 1: where there's nothing but red meat and you're like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's right in my wheelhouse. That's batting practice, fastball. I
Speaker 1: could hit that thing out of the park. And you're
Speaker 1: not there, and you're like sitting in a swamp in
Speaker 1: South Carolina. You're like, what am I doing here?
Speaker 3: You know? I mean, my god, Oh, don't worry. You
Speaker 3: can still talk about the Clippers when you get back.
Speaker 3: What is still wrong with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: To have the Lakers doing? By the way, how's that going?
Speaker 3: Non secuitar? All right?
Speaker 1: Thank you reg Henry in Denver, right, so he says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, Well, here's actually a sporty email, he says.
Speaker 1: Nicole Jokic of my Nuggets won another MVP award this week,
Speaker 1: but a number of big names around the NBA seem
Speaker 1: upset by that. Why won't they give the joker his flowers,
Speaker 1: says Henry.
Speaker 3: Limited all over his shoelaces in the first two games
Speaker 3: against the Tea Wolves.
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, but it's a regular season award and
Speaker 1: so there's that. But yeah, I mean, listen, Henry, I
Speaker 1: can't you know, I guess I can't speak for Shack.
Speaker 1: I get paid to speak for these people even though
Speaker 1: they don't ask my opinion. But Shaq, I did see Shack.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many other people. I haven't been
Speaker 1: paying that close attention because I haven't had to talk
Speaker 1: about it. But there's two things that go against NIKOLEA. Jokic.
Speaker 1: The first thing is a lot of the American players
Speaker 1: do not like the international players winning awards. There's also
Speaker 1: a bit of fatigue because Nicola Jokic has already won
Speaker 1: a couple of MVP awards. Words, so you got that.
Speaker 1: And then the third part of this sentary, I think
Speaker 1: you know the answer, and I think you'll agree with me.
Speaker 1: Danny is now that Nikola Jokich is a three time
Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player. He is now one of the all
Speaker 1: time greats in NBA history based on that alone, and
Speaker 1: so that annoys people like, wait a minute, now, we
Speaker 1: have to include Jokic in the conversation with all these
Speaker 1: other all time greats, and that pisses people off because
Speaker 1: they don't want to give They don't think he's that
Speaker 1: dynamic a talent, even though if you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers he puts up and how he affects the nuggets,
Speaker 1: and most of the time he is affecting wins and losses.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot of I guess the green
Speaker 1: Eyed Monster is the way I would describe it. People
Speaker 1: get annoyed, they're jealous. So he wins another mvpople he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be too worked up by any of this.
Speaker 1: By the way, It's like he just wants to go
Speaker 1: to the track and bet the ponies.
Speaker 3: You know, nothing against the guy, but he's boring to watch.
Speaker 3: He reminds me of Tim Duncan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's dunking without the Dad Jeans. He's dunking
Speaker 1: at the Dad Jeans. Next up, we have Steve from
Speaker 1: the Valley says, hey, Ben and Danny, I enjoyed your
Speaker 1: monologue at the beginning of the week on the Tom
Speaker 1: Brady Tomedy roussewad. Let me stop you right there, Steve,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of shit from some people I
Speaker 1: did the I did the Brady Comedy monologue. I thought
Speaker 1: that thing was so good. I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got you. Why not I started with that. People got
Speaker 1: upset with me on that the Sunday and the Monday Show. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Steve says, what do you guys think of this? And
Speaker 1: he sent me he said, I guess this is TMZ
Speaker 1: had to report Danny that the video of Kim Kardashian
Speaker 1: being booed off not off stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they cut it out.
Speaker 1: Now, what what did you? I didn't. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't do that, right, Danny.
Speaker 3: I edit for a living, Okay. Do you condense things
Speaker 3: for time? Yeah? Do you cut things out and change
Speaker 3: the context? No? Never, that's bullshit. You're changing history. Rich
Speaker 3: Davis pointed out on Fox Sports Radio a few days
Speaker 3: ago that that's like what they did when Alicia Keys
Speaker 3: sang at the Super Bowl and she hit a note
Speaker 3: really weird, like it sounded really bad when it was replayed.
Speaker 3: They fixed it. It got auto tuned, it was fixed.
Speaker 3: That's not how it happened in real life. That's not cool.
Speaker 3: She got booed. What's the problem with that? This reeks
Speaker 3: of her being buddies with somebody at Netflix and them
Speaker 3: doing her a solid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's ridiculous to think you could get away
Speaker 1: with that because it was broadcast live. Hello. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: saw it, and you know a certain percentage of people
Speaker 1: go back and watch it again. I know I watched
Speaker 1: a little bit of it again on the plane and
Speaker 1: my in laws the other night I walked in. I
Speaker 1: was in the other room. I walked and they were
Speaker 1: watching Man.
Speaker 3: Monday, the booing was still there. It disappeared on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: So not only did people see it live, but they
Speaker 3: also saw it the next day. So, yeah, you're not
Speaker 3: going to get away with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not going to get away with that. It's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It's ridiculous, the whole thing. And you wonder, though, Danny,
Speaker 1: at what point did Kim contact her manager and say,
Speaker 1: you got to call Netflix up like, and how many people? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how many people that did they have to talk to
Speaker 1: before they finally got the thing.
Speaker 3: You're spot on, which is why it took until Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's craziness. Craziness. You can't you can't be doing that, Kevin,
Speaker 1: Thank you though, Steve Kenny Kevin rather from Salt Lake Rights,
Speaker 1: and he says, dear Ben and Danny, we're very excited
Speaker 1: here to have the NHL coming to town next season.
Speaker 1: We've got a contest going on which name would you
Speaker 1: vote for for the name of the new team, he says,
Speaker 1: the options provider to choose. He has a list you,
Speaker 1: I guess this is the twenty the finalist, the twenty
Speaker 1: finalists for the Utah Hockey team. Danny, we have Frost, Ice, Powder, Mountaineers, Breeze, Mammoth,
Speaker 1: Black Diamonds, Blast racist black diamonds. I know that's the racist.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Blue diamond is a big Almond coman. We have a.
Speaker 4: Blizzard, Swarm, Hive, Outlaws, Yetti, Squall, Fury, Glaciers, Canyons, Venom,
Speaker 4: and HC which stands for a hockey club just called
Speaker 4: the Hockey Canyons.
Speaker 3: That sounds very boue delicious.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a porn star back in the eighties.
Speaker 1: I love the yetti. I know Lorraine uh that was
Speaker 1: she wanted the yetti. I think the YETI would be great.
Speaker 1: I kind of like venom because I think of people
Speaker 1: from Utah. I think of a lot of venom. How
Speaker 1: about ice? You can just go to the Utah ice.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. Touch the bun and it's it's
Speaker 1: rock hard. They had to get these all vetted through lawyers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: names out there. Imagine the jokes. If they go with powder,
Speaker 1: how many drug jumps get powder? Frost? They could be
Speaker 1: like the Frosty if they're called the Frost. I like
Speaker 1: I like venom.
Speaker 3: I like YETI Utah frost. That's kind of I mean,
Speaker 3: there could be some cool imagery with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't know. The swarm that could be Okay,
Speaker 1: the Blizzard's like a dessert at a fast food restaurant.
Speaker 1: So I don't know they want to do that. That's
Speaker 1: that's kind of lame. There's they're known for their bees
Speaker 1: in Utah, so hive swarm something like that. But I
Speaker 1: like YETI I think Yeti's that to me, that's the winner.
Speaker 1: Kevin or I go Venom or YETI I like al Laws,
Speaker 1: but Outlaws seems like it should be more like Arizona.
Speaker 1: Isn't that also an old arena Football League team? I
Speaker 1: feel like there was a team called the Outlaws back
Speaker 1: back in the day. Yeah, so I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll keep it going on the mailbag. Well,
Speaker 1: there you go, multiple wives wives. Mason the millennial rights
Speaker 1: into the mailbag. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, the
Speaker 1: train talk from a recent podcast got me a little inspired.
Speaker 1: I once had a chance to take a train from
Speaker 1: where I live in the Bay Area to LA. They
Speaker 1: have a couple of routes you can take, one of
Speaker 1: them being the Pacific Coast Highway, much like the PCH crews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you guys are fond of. It is much similar.
Speaker 1: That train trip was so amazing and seeing the sea
Speaker 1: cliffs and the sunset over the ocean. I highly recommend
Speaker 1: he attached an image here for you guys to see.
Speaker 1: But that leads to my question. Mason says, how far
Speaker 1: would you be willing to travel in a train or
Speaker 1: cruise or any other vessel you can think of continuously?
Speaker 1: Of course, you would be accommodated with living necessity. So
Speaker 1: I've never been on a cruise Mason. I think we
Speaker 1: talked about that in a previous episode. If I had
Speaker 1: the time, it's always a time thing because we have
Speaker 1: a job where you had to kind of be there,
Speaker 1: and I've only missed a few days and I'm getting
Speaker 1: a lot of crap for it for not being there.
Speaker 1: So you can't. You need a lot of time to
Speaker 1: go on a cruise or to take a train across
Speaker 1: the country. But I think it'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I'd love to drive across the country. I've taken the
Speaker 1: train between Boston and New York, and I've taken the
Speaker 1: train between New York and Philly, Chicago and Milwaukee, LA
Speaker 1: and San Diego. That's that's about it. But yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would take a train from LA to Chicago or
Speaker 1: something like that. I think that would be cool. But
Speaker 1: it takes forever, a long commitment, and you're stuck, and
Speaker 1: you know you can't really do much about it. You're
Speaker 1: at the mercy of the train. If there's anything goes wrong,
Speaker 1: you're screwed. So there's a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 1: But if I had the time, yeah, I answer a question, Mason,
Speaker 1: I would do it. And the boat thing, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're designed for people my size, so I think
Speaker 1: that would be a problem. Tall people, people that are
Speaker 1: of a large girth would be a problem. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that would be an issue. What about you, Danny, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm same there. My nickname is Gurth Brooks. That was
Speaker 1: your poor name back.
Speaker 3: I love that. Our buddy uncle Frank used to say
Speaker 3: that all the time. Rest in peace. But you would
Speaker 3: need a balcony if you're on a cruise ship, and
Speaker 3: those rooms are more expensive. So to do it right
Speaker 3: you need to be money bags. There are some Disney
Speaker 3: cruises that my wife has been trying to convince me
Speaker 3: to go on to the house. That's in my future,
Speaker 3: me and Coha's future.
Speaker 2: I am that.
Speaker 3: A train. I'd rather rob a train, you know, a
Speaker 3: Utah outlaw. Yes, I'd rather be a Utah outlaw. But
Speaker 3: a short train ride from here to San Diego, I
Speaker 3: think it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. The surf Liner you could stop and
Speaker 1: San Clemente and the trains go right through the beach there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went there last week. I think it was last week.
Speaker 1: I got to know it all runs together. Mike in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin rights in. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I
Speaker 1: want to know your take on the big controversy with
Speaker 1: Austin Rivers, he said, and then Randy Moss, I guess
Speaker 1: apparently Austin Rivers. I don't know if this came up
Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich earlier this week.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a big topic.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was not in my post. Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: Mike sent the question. But I guess Austin Rivers said
Speaker 1: a bunch of NBA players could go to the NFL
Speaker 1: and play, but no NFL players could go to the NBA,
Speaker 1: or something along those lines.
Speaker 3: In the Yeah, he said, I could put thirty NBA
Speaker 3: players into the NFL right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I didn't hear exactly what Austin Rivers said,
Speaker 1: But if it came from Austin Rivers who rode his
Speaker 1: daddy's coat tails to the NBA and really sucked in
Speaker 1: the NBA, I go to the other side. Yeah. My
Speaker 1: My position is that NBA players up today are tremendously
Speaker 1: soft and they could not handle practice, not a game,
Speaker 1: not a game in the NFL, and these guys are
Speaker 1: about a soft This can be with load management, and
Speaker 1: they can't handle playing in the NBA. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: them playing regularly in the NFL with the amount of
Speaker 1: hits that they would have to take. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not realistic at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. We're not talking about the
Speaker 3: nineties New York Knicks. It's not Anthony Mason and Charles
Speaker 3: Oakley out there anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about Oh my god, I have to
Speaker 1: play four games in five nights. Oh my, Oh, my
Speaker 1: body's gonna fall apart. Oh my, Oh, get me in
Speaker 1: a hospital bed right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And a basketball player takes an elbow and then
Speaker 3: they're dramatic. You think they're trying out to be on
Speaker 3: a daytime soap opera.
Speaker 1: Oh me, yeah, good, good luck with that type of
Speaker 1: athlete playing in the NBA physically. Do they have the
Speaker 1: skill set that, you know, if they could handle that. Sure,
Speaker 1: But that's a big part of being an NFL player
Speaker 1: is handling the fact that you are a crash test
Speaker 1: dummy and it's demolition derby. It ain't the demolition derby
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Nick the quick from Indy. I don't
Speaker 1: think we've got an email from Nick the quick, he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny. Tom Brady received a forty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: ring for appearing on the Netflix comedy Roast this week.
Speaker 1: Why does tom Brady need a forty thousand dollar ring? Well,
Speaker 1: I would say tom Brady does not need a forty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars ring. How about that, Nick? I I am
Speaker 1: looking at this though. I guess TMZ had the story. Danny,
Speaker 1: it's got four hundred diamonds, rubies and sapphires on it.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it was worth that much. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, why what is he gonna do with that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be display. Is he gonna put it next
Speaker 1: to his other rings?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Hey, look at me?
Speaker 3: On? Other question is and if there's any Netflix executives
Speaker 3: who listen to our podcast, give us a fucking show.
Speaker 3: Got got money like that to wipe your ass with?
Speaker 3: Why don't you do a show about radio dudes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do it. We'll take forty thousand dollars right
Speaker 1: now at the starting point. We'll be in good shape
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, call it behind the mic and you can follow
Speaker 3: us around and look at our lives.
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser and I had people
Speaker 1: complaining also that when I was doing the live show
Speaker 1: back on Monday, they were like, well, you know, Drew
Speaker 1: Brees got paid to be there, and these other guys
Speaker 1: got of course they got paid. Yeah, I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you think these guys showed up. It's like people
Speaker 1: get paid. That's how it works.
Speaker 3: Huge business. They had millions of viewers. It's still number
Speaker 3: one days and days later now it's still number one
Speaker 3: on Netflix lineup. Imagine the money that they break in
Speaker 3: every month at that company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's a and it was a great show.
Speaker 1: I'll give them credit. I hate everything. I laughed, it
Speaker 1: was well done.
Speaker 3: They didn't name me and my wife watched it and
Speaker 3: we laughed our asses off.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like a throwback to the way
Speaker 1: that they used to do comedy. It was a breath
Speaker 1: of fresh air.
Speaker 3: It wasn't it nice to see a little shift Yeah,
Speaker 3: kind of comedy.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is like, hey, people actually loved it,
Speaker 1: Like this is how you can do it and you'll
Speaker 1: get the audience. Is there there is an audience. You'll
Speaker 1: get massive viewership if you do it the way that
Speaker 1: people want it, not the woke bullshit and just you
Speaker 1: know anyway, I don't get carried on that tash it
Speaker 1: JJ writes in from the Motor City, says Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: if you died, here we go. If you died and
Speaker 1: I had to choose one place to haunt for the
Speaker 1: rest of eternity, where would you choose to haunt?
Speaker 3: This is too easy.
Speaker 1: Where where you go? Ahead, Danny? Where we Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm going to join the roaches at Sherman Oaks Studio,
Speaker 3: the Fox Sports Radio and Premiere Networks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then we'll spook.
Speaker 3: Motherfuckers up and down the hallways and in all the studios.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe maybe our old buddy Frank is haunting us
Speaker 1: with the as a cockroach running around with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, George Dory will really have something to talk about
Speaker 3: on Coast to Coast.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wait till ghost the ghosts at Halloween.
Speaker 3: But I would go.
Speaker 1: I would go ballpark like Dodger Stadium or Fenway, because
Speaker 1: you every year, Dodger Stadium is like three million people.
Speaker 1: So you can haunt three million people a year just
Speaker 1: hanging out of Dodger Stadium. And you only have to
Speaker 1: work as a ghost from April or late March until October,
Speaker 1: and so they get the rest of the time. You know,
Speaker 1: to yourself, you don't have to worry about it, So
Speaker 1: that would be a lot of fun. Thank you, JJ.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers fixed their bullpend by then, and then you
Speaker 3: could haunt through October.
Speaker 1: Hey, they had a good home stand. They won every
Speaker 1: game they did.
Speaker 3: They're playing really good right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they something snapped, They snapped out of it on
Speaker 1: that East Coast trip.
Speaker 3: To one offense is clicking. And then once Sotawi's former
Speaker 3: translator got his arraignment. Yeah, then then O'tawani like the
Speaker 3: weight was lifted off his shoulders. Now he's mashing that ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Blind Jake right saying, I guess he
Speaker 1: said this wasn't necessarily for the mail bag, but he says, uh,
Speaker 1: I know you guys love documentaries. Have you checked out
Speaker 1: these Saints of Second Chances? Yes?
Speaker 3: I saw that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that in fact, Blind Jake, I
Speaker 1: believe I referenced this a couple of times. But one
Speaker 1: of my favorite factoids which I have kept from that
Speaker 1: particular show, and I will use this from time to
Speaker 1: time as a who am I game question? Is I
Speaker 1: learned from that show that we got luxury boxes because
Speaker 1: of chet Lemon that Mike Mike Veck came up with
Speaker 1: the idea in the early eighties. In this documentary they
Speaker 1: talked about it. The White Sox needed some money to
Speaker 1: sign chet Lemon. He need seventy thousand dollars and he
Speaker 1: had an epiphany to sell to put ribs. I think
Speaker 1: it was like ribs and beer or something like that
Speaker 1: in the old football press box at Comiski Park. And
Speaker 1: that was the birth of what has become luxury seeding.
Speaker 3: He found a way to get the money.
Speaker 1: And they said in that documentary, you remember Bill Veck
Speaker 1: said that, according to his son, that no, you think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be mom and pop restaurants. No, this
Speaker 1: is going to be major corporations because it's elitist. And
Speaker 1: boy was he right right. I mean, you go to
Speaker 1: these sporting events and right behind home playing recorded it
Speaker 1: at an It is all elitist. It is all elitist.
Speaker 3: Dude was a fortune teller because he was so right
Speaker 3: on with what he thought was gonna happen. What's the
Speaker 3: one thing all these companies have in common. They love
Speaker 3: to show off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I love to it. I will get out
Speaker 1: on that. It is mother's day. Now, I'm traveling back
Speaker 1: later today they I have to make my way to
Speaker 1: the airport in Myrtle Beach. I will fly to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I will then have a nice layover. Maybe I'll need
Speaker 1: some more Chinese food at the airport there in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I will then be making my way back to Southern California.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, due to the travel schedule and the amount
Speaker 1: of hours I will be traveling and when I land,
Speaker 1: I will not make it back in time. I will
Speaker 1: still be in the plane when the show My show
Speaker 1: begins tonight, so I will be off tonight, but I
Speaker 1: will be back on the Monday into Tuesday show Live
Speaker 1: Show returns with me, I will be back, So this
Speaker 1: will be my last night away. I try to get
Speaker 1: a flight that would make it in time. You can
Speaker 1: blame the airlines for that. Nothing worked out that was
Speaker 1: available for me to take. But I will be back
Speaker 1: on Monday into Tuesday, and no days off for the
Speaker 1: foreseeable future, barring some kind of a medical ailment or
Speaker 1: something like that. But that's that. And Danny, what do
Speaker 1: you have going on today on this Mother's Day?
Speaker 3: Man? Just taking it easy, probably vacuuming for the mom
Speaker 3: here at my house nap and taking care of big
Speaker 3: baby coat. And we're staying away from the restaurants because
Speaker 3: it's a trap on Mother's Day. It's a tourist trap. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna go to David Busch's this evening.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Are you gonna gamble on some different ski
Speaker 1: ball game? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I saw that story. My wife, he's always, like I said,
Speaker 3: she's always saying she could kick my ass at air hockey.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'll bet you forty bucks.
Speaker 1: Beyont there you go. Well, I look forward to hearing
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: Happy Mother's Day, dear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm taking forty bucks of you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was having Mother's Day the mom. Mom's the greatest.
Speaker 1: We love mom. Mom's rock. I'm big. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: a total mama's boy back in the day and all that.
Speaker 1: So enjoy the day. And I'll have I promise I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get behind a good microphone Friday. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: a lot of these stories from the meet and greet
Speaker 1: back on this past Friday to this upcoming Friday, and
Speaker 1: we'll get it. I'll make sure I take notes, and
Speaker 1: I have some notes already, and we'll recap everything that
Speaker 1: happened at the Malor Meet and Greet in beautiful Charleston,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. And have a wonderful rest of your day.
Speaker 1: And I'll catch you on the radio tomorrow night, Danny.
Speaker 1: You'll be on with Covino and Rich tomorrow right correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday afternoon two to four pm on the West Side,
Speaker 3: and that's five to seven pm, and beautiful Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 3: We'll catch you then later Skater and Mama's You need
Speaker 3: to be nice to mommy cause mommy is nice to you.
Speaker 3: You got a murder. I gotta go.