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Speaker 1: different than all other days original content today on the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour. Are you prepared?
Speaker 4: I am ready. This has been battling the NFL for
Speaker 4: network ratings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are getting better ratings than Dion Sanders if
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders did not exist. We're doing very well. So
Speaker 1: that's great, so thank you for that. But Ohio, Wow,
Speaker 1: you know what to do.
Speaker 3: It's oh okay, very nice.
Speaker 1: The first message comes from Alf. He says, fiddling with
Speaker 1: the dial on my transistor radio. Oh see, there you go,
Speaker 1: he said fiddling. He didn't say futzing. The word was
Speaker 1: fuzzing the other day. Anyway, were you guys radio nerds?
Speaker 1: Growing up? My father introduced me to AM radio at
Speaker 1: an early age. I recall the good old days of
Speaker 1: scanning the dial and battling the static to listen to
Speaker 1: the Penguins on KDKA, or random baseball games from Baltimore
Speaker 1: or Detroit way before streaming was a thing. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: talked about this a few times, Alf, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I'll go first. I loved scanning the radio dial. It
Speaker 1: seems so amazing to me in the era before the Internet,
Speaker 1: where everything you can get anything you want. You read
Speaker 1: any newspaper, you want, any kind of content from any place.
Speaker 1: You watch TV stations all over the world. But back then, right,
Speaker 1: you know, we were naive, and it was it was
Speaker 1: special and magical. It was something magical about it. But
Speaker 1: I am jealous, Alf, because you grew up on the
Speaker 1: East Coast and on the West coast, and I got
Speaker 1: a lot of sports. I was like a master of it.
Speaker 1: And I convinced my mom and dad kind of helped
Speaker 1: me get into radio because they loved the radio. They
Speaker 1: always had the radio on. It was a big deal.
Speaker 1: They were working, but they had the radio on and
Speaker 1: it was a big thing in our house. And my
Speaker 1: mom when I would follow her around when she was working,
Speaker 1: she always had the radio on. And sometimes she knew
Speaker 1: I liked sports, so she'd put like a sports show.
Speaker 1: And then I figured out how to how to get
Speaker 1: these far away broadcasts, and we even bought some. I
Speaker 1: forget which radio show might have been the old the
Speaker 1: original Art Bell Show. They sold this radio antenna that
Speaker 1: you could get and get far away radio station, and
Speaker 1: they had this really cool commercial like, oh that things.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of pricey, but you can get
Speaker 1: all these radio stations. So we got one of those,
Speaker 1: and I was able to hear Utah Jazz games on
Speaker 1: a radio station out of Saint George, Utah Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: games with Al McCoy, who just retired this year, I
Speaker 1: believe is the Sons play by play announcers. I think
Speaker 1: he's in his nineties now.
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 1: Met Al McCoy and I told him when I was
Speaker 1: a kid when I went to Phoenix to visit family,
Speaker 1: I wanted to eat it. What a Burger because that
Speaker 1: was a sponsor of the Suns, and he would say
Speaker 1: when when a Phoenix Suns player hit a three point shot,
Speaker 1: he'd say, what a shot? What a Burger? And that
Speaker 1: was that was his tagline, and al was he was
Speaker 1: very proud of that. He said that was one of
Speaker 1: the first product placements in the NBA. Was that particular
Speaker 1: commercial that the Sons did back back in there. And
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of other ones. I got Giants
Speaker 1: games off canby R in San Francisco, and at one
Speaker 1: point I was able to get like real grainy San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs games out of a station obviously in the
Speaker 1: Alamo City. And I got KOA out of Denver that
Speaker 1: was big one. And there was a station in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: This is so long ago. They didn't have Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: but they had the Phoenix Firebirds, and so I would
Speaker 1: listen to that and a bunch of stations out of Vegas.
Speaker 1: I used to call some of those stations when I
Speaker 1: was a kid get on the air. And one show
Speaker 1: that I remember that I got it wasn't a game.
Speaker 1: But it was a show on Saturday night, no Sunday night.
Speaker 1: It was Sunday night. There was this guy named Lee
Speaker 1: Pete and Lee was an old guy and I was
Speaker 1: a young guy, but he was an old guy been
Speaker 1: radio a long time. He hosted a Sunday night show
Speaker 1: from I remember it was ten to midnight. They called
Speaker 1: it the Stardust Line. And this is how archaic that
Speaker 1: show was. That show was so important because they released
Speaker 1: the opening NFL lines for the next week, and there
Speaker 1: was no internet at the time, so the way you
Speaker 1: could get the lines before everyone else was to listen
Speaker 1: to the Stardust Line and they would give out the
Speaker 1: gambling lines for the following week. Now, at that time,
Speaker 1: I was a kid. I didn't really know about gambling.
Speaker 4: Was Stardust Line brought to you by DraftKings?
Speaker 1: No, I think it was. Was it fandel Or? I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's so many of these places, but but anyway,
Speaker 1: so that was my experience. I love have great memories,
Speaker 1: great memories, and I now I look him like I
Speaker 1: can listen to any I go on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: and listen to twenty five thousand different audio shows and
Speaker 1: radio shows and it's insane, Danny, do you dabble in
Speaker 1: that world at all?
Speaker 4: I mean, when I was a little kid, I was
Speaker 4: fortunate enough to hear the original Kday Radio AM fifteen
Speaker 4: eighty where hip hop was on the air with Eze
Speaker 4: and Doctor Dre and all the og West Coast hip
Speaker 4: hop Greg Macattack. It was pretty cool to hear all
Speaker 4: that in its conception, you know, in the in the eighties.
Speaker 4: And then going to the Bay Area with my family
Speaker 4: after that, the college radio station in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: K POOH was great to see Pooh.
Speaker 4: And they had dudes on turntables playing unedited versions of
Speaker 4: rap songs, and of course they were in the San
Speaker 4: Francisco market, so nobody complained to the FCC. Gotta love
Speaker 4: that because right, a lot of people don't realize it's
Speaker 4: market to market as far as what people think is inappropriate.
Speaker 1: But all it takes is one a hole, true.
Speaker 4: But for whatever reason, they got away with it there
Speaker 4: on that college station. For a long time, we used
Speaker 4: to take our boombox with the play and record button
Speaker 4: and record cassette tapes of them and their live mixes,
Speaker 4: which was awesome and I got to hear some great
Speaker 4: play by play in both southern California and northern California.
Speaker 4: Of course, the legend the icon Vin Scully when we
Speaker 4: lived in LA and then when we moved up to
Speaker 4: the Bay later in my life, Ray Fosse, and of
Speaker 4: course the legendary Bill King Oh Meledo, Yeah, Holy Toledo
Speaker 4: Bill King calling all kinds of different sports. Both my
Speaker 4: older brother and I, we were locked in on anything
Speaker 4: hip hop and sports.
Speaker 1: Very very cool. Next up on the mailbag, Ron in
Speaker 1: the LBC rights in here in SoCal. He says, First off,
Speaker 1: I have been listening to your weeknight show since day one,
Speaker 1: usually just the eleven PM hour on the West Coast
Speaker 1: as I wind down and the missus is already asleep,
Speaker 1: So thanks for being there. My question, Ron says, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago you talked about freeway speed. I
Speaker 1: think you said it was seventy four. Seventy nine was
Speaker 1: the number to never exceed? Can you expand on that
Speaker 1: and maybe explain what the highway patrol officer said? And
Speaker 1: I think I remember a morning when I was up
Speaker 1: late that Danny g got pulled over on the way
Speaker 1: to the station. That is from from Ron, So I'll
Speaker 1: tell you my part of it. Ron. My wife is
Speaker 1: a nine to one one operator, So when we get
Speaker 1: pulled over, if I'm with my wife, I let her
Speaker 1: try to get me out of the ticket, which doesn't
Speaker 1: always work. By the way, it does not always work.
Speaker 1: But in this occasion, years ago, I was driving on
Speaker 1: one of the toll roads in southern California. We have
Speaker 1: a few of those. No one drives on them because
Speaker 1: people would rather sit in traffic. But I was on
Speaker 1: a toll road and got pulled over. Cherry tops driver's
Speaker 1: license registration, got pulled over and was able to get
Speaker 1: out of it. And the officer was kind of an
Speaker 1: older officer, and he said, listen. He said, just slow down,
Speaker 1: which all police officers is slow down. And he told me,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, if you drive seventy nine or less,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't give tikes. We don't give tickets.
Speaker 1: He said, it's not really worth our time to do that.
Speaker 1: It's and he said you probably could get away with
Speaker 1: it in the eighties, but you know, anything over like
Speaker 1: eighty five, that's a ticket, you know. But he specifically
Speaker 1: told to answer Ron's question, he told me seventy nine.
Speaker 1: So ever since then, and sometimes it annoys my wife
Speaker 1: because'm actually it seems like I'm driving slow when I'm
Speaker 1: going seventy nine because people are driving like the autobon,
Speaker 1: like butchering the autobon. But I will set my thing
Speaker 1: is seven. And I've not in California, I have not.
Speaker 1: This has been years. I've never gotten a ticket. I
Speaker 1: went to Minnesota this year. I drove seventy nine, just
Speaker 1: like the officer in California told me, got pulled over,
Speaker 1: got a ticket.
Speaker 4: So different set of rules over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm trying to remember the incident, Ron says,
Speaker 1: he remembers. Do you recall this.
Speaker 4: Danny g Oh, it was during COVID and you weren't
Speaker 4: supposed to be out on the roads. That's when they
Speaker 4: gave us those FEMA cards. Oh yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1: That was the coolest thing about the pandemic that I
Speaker 1: we had. Was it the Marshall Act? Was that roll? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The market?
Speaker 4: Yeah, official FEMA cards because we were important people and
Speaker 4: they gave us extra pay. Oh wait, no they didn't,
Speaker 4: but they gave us FEMA cards. And I was the
Speaker 4: only one on the road and I was going pretty
Speaker 4: fast on a frontage road in Burbank to get to
Speaker 4: the freeway. As soon as I passed the police officer
Speaker 4: going that fast on the frontage road. I knew that
Speaker 4: because I was the only car on the road too,
Speaker 4: I knew the cop was going to turn around and
Speaker 4: pull me over. Sure enough, pulls me over, flashing the
Speaker 4: light in my eyes, asking me how much I had
Speaker 4: to drink. You know, Clay's show here on the West
Speaker 4: Coast started at three in the morning, so we're talking
Speaker 4: it's too two, five, two ten am when this happened.
Speaker 4: And so the police officer thought for sure that I
Speaker 4: was a dui, so they had me get out of
Speaker 4: my car. They had me do all the stupid dui tests.
Speaker 4: The whole time I'm explaining to them I need to
Speaker 4: get to the network because I got to produce the show.
Speaker 4: The female officer would not believe me, Ben until I
Speaker 4: showed her the text messages from Clay as we were
Speaker 4: setting up the guests that we're going to be interviewed
Speaker 4: that day on the show. She thought she had me
Speaker 4: busted though, because she was like, aha, it says in
Speaker 4: the seven am hour, and I told her, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: East Coast time, and she was like, oh okay. So
Speaker 4: finally they let me go. But of course I had
Speaker 4: to tell Clay what happened, and yeah, it was pretty funny.
Speaker 4: One of the officers there told me that he wanted
Speaker 4: to shout out from Petros and it was. It was
Speaker 4: wound up being okay, but just a huge inconvenience. And
Speaker 4: you know, it's embarrassing when you're walking the line outside
Speaker 4: and you know, good thing, there weren't cars, a lot
Speaker 4: of cars on the road at that time, because I'm
Speaker 4: sure people who are innocent, but they have to do
Speaker 4: all those DUI sobriety tests. It's embarrassing to be outside
Speaker 4: your car doing all that with you know, people watching you.
Speaker 1: Oh it is. I have had that happen. I've had
Speaker 1: to do the walk of shame. I've had to do
Speaker 1: the walk and do the alphabet thing and all that.
Speaker 1: It's it's not good, not good good.
Speaker 4: By the way, who can do the alphabets backwards even
Speaker 4: when they're sober.
Speaker 1: I can't even do it frontwards. I can't do it normal.
Speaker 1: I'm screwed next up, I think. By the way, thanks Ron,
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you listening over the years. It does
Speaker 1: mean a lot, and I thank you. Josh in Seattle
Speaker 1: writes in. He says, Hey, Slim Mallard, just listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast of your FSR show, and you had made
Speaker 1: a comment about that'll be a show trivia question in
Speaker 1: regards to cardiacs. Then why don't you have a Ben
Speaker 1: Mahlor Show trivia game one of these nights questions from
Speaker 1: the past or recent past, because I know you get
Speaker 1: new listeners every hour. Let's see who's the ultimate caller
Speaker 1: of the Ben Malor Show. And for the brand new
Speaker 1: listeners that wouldn't partake, obviously, they could learn about the callers,
Speaker 1: famous show moments, he says, etc. Just an idea. You
Speaker 1: seriously are awesome and I'm happy for you. And there
Speaker 1: you go. Glad to get you back on TV. Danny
Speaker 1: g kick Gass there take care, guys, Josh in Seattle.
Speaker 1: I like it, Josh, but that would be pretty embarrassing
Speaker 1: for me if I do a whole trivia board of
Speaker 1: Ben Malor Show trivia and nobody gets any of them.
Speaker 1: Right now, I am not going to name this person,
Speaker 1: but there may or may not be somebody that works
Speaker 1: at the company Danny who may or may not have
Speaker 1: said they grew up listening to my show and may
Speaker 1: or may not have been asked a series of show
Speaker 1: trivia questions and may or may not have gotten any
Speaker 1: of them. Right, Yeah, it's a it's a it's a risky,
Speaker 1: risky deal. I'm all. I think it's a good idea. Josh,
Speaker 1: maybe we can do it kind of over the holidays.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I'll be taking any time off. I
Speaker 1: might take like one or two days off, but that
Speaker 1: TV show. We'll be recording a TV show for Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Speaker 1: New Year's so I ain't. It's not like years past
Speaker 1: where I used to just take December and pretty much
Speaker 1: not do any work. So I'll be here.
Speaker 4: So yeah, And I was going to say, man, rest
Speaker 4: well knowing that all those drops live on on this
Speaker 4: podcast right here, because in my computer, I have at
Speaker 4: least three hundred Ben Malors show drops, a lot of
Speaker 4: them from back in the day, all the famous callers.
Speaker 4: I use those as often as I can, so Cardiac
Speaker 4: Stan in his famous call pieces of that get used
Speaker 4: as drops on this podcast once a month probably I
Speaker 4: pull that clip. It's kind of cool, Ben, because for
Speaker 4: the longtime listeners, when they hear at the very end
Speaker 4: of each podcast or almost every podcast, I rotate the endings.
Speaker 4: But when you hear gott a murder, gotta go, gotta murder,
Speaker 4: gotta go, it puts a smile on my face every time,
Speaker 4: because I was there for that call when it happened
Speaker 4: with that police officer who embarrassed himself in one of
Speaker 4: the games, and so he famously said, gott a murder,
Speaker 4: gotta go.
Speaker 1: I remember it's from Boca in Florida.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so there's a little story, a funny story
Speaker 4: next to every drop or for every drop, and that's
Speaker 4: what makes those so special. So I'm happy that we
Speaker 4: are able to let those live on forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very cool. And we've had I mean, been
Speaker 1: doing this a long time. There have been some really
Speaker 1: ridiculous things that have happened on the show. I loved
Speaker 1: in the early days of the show, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: even really the early days. It was probably the it
Speaker 1: was the first decade of the two thousands. But we
Speaker 1: would get when we first went on Wei in Boston,
Speaker 1: and it was like some political story. This was not
Speaker 1: even when I'm not talking about a few years ago
Speaker 1: when Trump you know, and you know, everything's kind of
Speaker 1: become crazy since then, when he ran for President one,
Speaker 1: and you know, half the people just lost their mind.
Speaker 1: But this goes back probably ten years before that, and
Speaker 1: I was doing the weekend overnight show and for a
Speaker 1: couple of months, every couple of weeks that I would
Speaker 1: get a phone call from a like a grandma would
Speaker 1: stay on on hold and I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: there is like old woman here, Babushka, and they would
Speaker 1: get on the air and say I hate Fox News,
Speaker 1: you know something like that. I'm like, okay, that's great,
Speaker 1: but I work in Fox Sports Radio. And it was
Speaker 1: it was so funny because these women were like these
Speaker 1: old you know, Baboushkas, were like, oh you fired. It
Speaker 1: was just hilarious. Anyway, Mike wrights and says, Benny, how
Speaker 1: can we get access to Benny versus the penny out
Speaker 1: of market?
Speaker 4: Oh God, can people please stop sending this question in.
Speaker 1: I know, I wish I had an answer. I can
Speaker 1: tell you what I've heard. Trucker Joe said that he
Speaker 1: has YouTube TV and he was able to watch it.
Speaker 1: I went on YouTube TV. I don't see the show
Speaker 1: on YouTube TV. I don't I know they carried s
Speaker 1: and y. Part of the problem with this is these
Speaker 1: streaming services. They have different versions of their plan depending
Speaker 1: on the channel lineup, depending on where you leave where
Speaker 1: you live rather but like the big affiliates for Benny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny, or NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports Bay Area,
Speaker 1: all these channels, but they're not on the Peacock, which
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be on the Peacock. But there's
Speaker 1: some stuff that's above my pay grade. The only way
Speaker 1: I know for sure you can get it. There's I believe,
Speaker 1: two ways. There's a there's a Fubo TV which you
Speaker 1: can get, but it's kind of pricey. I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you it's cheap, but if you happen to have it
Speaker 1: or know somebody that has it.
Speaker 4: Go back to last weekend's podcasts, we explained how to
Speaker 4: do the free trial on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you knew a free trial and Fubo TV, I believe,
Speaker 1: and you have to double check. But if you you
Speaker 1: don't have to get direct TV. But they have a
Speaker 1: direct TV stream. They also offer I believe, a five
Speaker 1: day trial. I think you can watch it there or
Speaker 1: the other option, which I should tell you not to
Speaker 1: do because this is wrong, it's moral. You should not
Speaker 1: do this. But if you happen to know somebody that
Speaker 1: lives in Boston or New York and pays for cable.
Speaker 1: You can get their information and you can watch There
Speaker 1: is a stream for all of these channels. The problem is,
Speaker 1: and I've listen, I have the same issue. So I've
Speaker 1: gone I've gone to like the NBC Sports Boston page
Speaker 1: to log in, and it says you must sign in
Speaker 1: with your username or email address and password to use
Speaker 1: your you have to use your cable, satellite or telco
Speaker 1: TV provider. There is no additional charge, so you have
Speaker 1: to have that information.
Speaker 4: You know what, Ben, You've been really nice the past
Speaker 4: few weeks explaining how to watch it. But at this point,
Speaker 4: let's be honest. You're a big TV star, and when
Speaker 4: you see TV stars touring and promoting a new show,
Speaker 4: do they sit there and explain how you can watch
Speaker 4: it in every single market in the country and Canada. No,
Speaker 4: they say, check your local listings.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a second, I learn that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's it besides signing your headshots and wearing
Speaker 4: sunglasses indoors. Now just repeat after me, check your local listings.
Speaker 1: Now. I am on the NBC Sports Boston page though,
Speaker 1: and it does list it does list YouTube TV, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if that. You might have to just
Speaker 1: live in Boston to get that though, so I don't know. Listen,
Speaker 1: as Danny said, check your local listings. We now move
Speaker 1: ahead in the broadcast. Danny beat.
Speaker 4: You sounded like a d bag, saying that too perfect
Speaker 4: because you're a TV guy.
Speaker 1: No, but I'm honored that people want to see the show,
Speaker 1: and I'm annoyed that not everyone can get the show
Speaker 1: because I want everyone that wants to watch it. That's
Speaker 1: a big thing, like.
Speaker 4: Now, and it is annoying when you can't find the show,
Speaker 4: like the Week one issue here in LA I couldn't
Speaker 4: find it because I kept looking on the Dodgers channel
Speaker 4: because there's no way in hell Ben Mallard would be
Speaker 4: the channel. What's wrong with your Week one? I had
Speaker 4: the same issue. I get that it's frustrating, but I
Speaker 4: had to figure it out for myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on the show, and I've had to figure out. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm on the damn show, and I've had to figure
Speaker 1: out as the host of the show. Because there was
Speaker 1: some confusion about where it was going to be on
Speaker 1: and when it was going to be on and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Anyway, these are first world problems.
Speaker 4: Check your local listings.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Mike in Fullerton, Right, since it's happy fall y'all?
Speaker 1: Was last Saturday's college football malle monologue? Yes, that was
Speaker 1: a monologue? Was that a one off? Or will Dion
Speaker 1: watch be a permanent feature of the Fifth Hour moving forward? Well,
Speaker 1: as long as Dion's the hot to trot and he's
Speaker 1: the fashion easta and he's in vogue and all that, sure,
Speaker 1: he says. Also, as a SOCW resident, I am forced
Speaker 1: to watch Benny Versus the Penny. This is appropriate, Danny,
Speaker 1: he says. On the dreaded Lakers station, Mike says, can
Speaker 1: you please make it more bearable by wearing a clipper
Speaker 1: hat or a It's Hip the Clip pin during filming
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny? Well, that would that would
Speaker 1: go over well with the big big muckety MUCKs there
Speaker 1: that I have to deal with. But I can work in.
Speaker 1: I can work in like It's Hip the Clip And
Speaker 1: this weekend, Danny, if you have a chance to watch
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny. I did drop the name of
Speaker 1: one of our listeners, one of the radio listeners. I
Speaker 1: was able to work their name into the dialogue on
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. It was not planned, It just
Speaker 1: kind of it just I just spit it out.
Speaker 4: Of my mouth. Oh, and I'm still waiting. I'm waiting
Speaker 4: for the moment Looney gets on your last nerve. And
Speaker 4: remember I want you to say this phrase to Loony. Ah.
Speaker 4: Where's Danny G when I need him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, no, I will. I my goal. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of shows, we have twenty something shows. I will
Speaker 1: work in Danny G. I'm gonna at some point. I
Speaker 1: didn't do it this week, but I will work your
Speaker 1: name in. I promise. I promise. Jennifer and Richmond Virginia
Speaker 1: says I cannot wait to leave Richmond, Virginia, Ben, and
Speaker 1: Danny thanks for all the airtime. Here the last couple
Speaker 1: of mailbags, and she says, Hey, remember a while ago
Speaker 1: when I asked you guys about the light bulb situation
Speaker 1: and how long you wait to switch out the blinky ones?
Speaker 1: She says, since then, I have been holding out on
Speaker 1: replacing the major blinky light bulb, just being lazy. And
Speaker 1: would you believe it repaired itself or something like that?
Speaker 1: How's that for Scientifical from Jennifer, Huh, is it possible
Speaker 1: that you have a poltergeist that is hanging out with
Speaker 1: you in Richmond, Virginia, somebody from you know, two hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, three hundred years ago, or is it possible
Speaker 1: somebody else that maybe one of your kids was visiting.
Speaker 1: I think you still live with one of your kids
Speaker 1: there and they came in there and they changed. How
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 4: Or plausibly it regenerated itself.
Speaker 1: It's a self generating light bulb. That's like the hell.
Speaker 4: It goes off of douchebaggery in her area. It's powered
Speaker 4: by that, and as she mentioned, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: that in her area that she's trying to move out of. Boom.
Speaker 1: You think Jennifer's gonna become a Saint Louis Cardinal fan
Speaker 1: living and she moves to Saint.
Speaker 4: Louis, Let's hope not. Fuck you, Jack Clark, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: right there, man.
Speaker 1: The Redbirds, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 4: Like Pedro Guerrero throwing our gloves down on the ground.
Speaker 1: They were the original cheating Cardinals. We called them the
Speaker 1: cheating Cardinals, if you remember, and then the Astro thing happened.
Speaker 1: We completely forgot about the Cardinals. We just moved on.
Speaker 4: I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that guy Jeff Loo, now it's really it's
Speaker 1: the irony in this. But he accused there was a
Speaker 1: cardinal executive of stealing his data, and the guy actually
Speaker 1: went to jail, I think cardinal executive, and so I
Speaker 1: called him the cheating Cardinals for a while. But since
Speaker 1: the astros are like, hey, hold my beer, and so
Speaker 1: they're the kings of the cheating George and Uvaldi Texas
Speaker 1: rites and says, which is worse testing positive for COVID
Speaker 1: or Kardashian? Well that's well, I think there's more treatments
Speaker 1: for COVID than the Kardashians. I would say that. Now.
Speaker 1: Ozzie was is in Western Australia says, I do love
Speaker 1: me a good pizza, or a pizza pie as you
Speaker 1: call it. Ben, Yeah, Ozzi Was, I love pizza. I
Speaker 1: I made a meat pizza recently. I might have to
Speaker 1: send some photos out on that. Maybe I already did.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, and says I do know you
Speaker 1: will thumb your nose at my choice of toppings, which
Speaker 1: is pepperoni, onion, mushroom fresh tomato. Yeah, cap sitcom, which
Speaker 1: I think you you call uh, he says, I think
Speaker 1: you call peppers and a little garlic on top. He says,
Speaker 1: So what are your toppings or go to toppings for
Speaker 1: a good pizza pizza pie? So I do love onion,
Speaker 1: but it's gotta be thin. I love my pizza with
Speaker 1: thin cut sliced onion with a I use a mandolin
Speaker 1: to cut my onion, so I have a mandolin for
Speaker 1: the onion. I love as much garlic. I make a
Speaker 1: garlic butter that is next level. So I have garlic
Speaker 1: butter on their onion, bell pepper. You know, sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: mix in you know, some mi like like turkey pepperoni
Speaker 1: or something supposedly a little healthier. I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much it. What about you, Danny, what's your goo?
Speaker 1: Obviously you talked about this in a previous podcast that
Speaker 1: we did.
Speaker 4: This weekend Yesterdays. Pizza love pepperoni and black olive. Also
Speaker 4: pepperoni and pineapple is a go to sometimes in the
Speaker 4: mood for Canadian bacon and we'll do the og Hawaiian style.
Speaker 1: Pizza the pineapple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is Canadian bacon with pineapple. I like green
Speaker 4: peppers on pizza as well. I do not like onions
Speaker 4: on pizza. Bell pepper is good. I like the flavor
Speaker 4: of it, but I don't like it's got a weird texture.
Speaker 4: So I'll just pull them off the top of the pizza.
Speaker 4: But that bell pepper juice and flavor is still on
Speaker 4: the top of the pie.
Speaker 1: Question from the back of the room. Let's circle back
Speaker 1: to the onion thing here. So have you add onion
Speaker 1: that is done with a mandolin?
Speaker 4: No, I have it, and I want to try it
Speaker 4: because the reason I don't like chunks of onion is
Speaker 4: because it's so overpowering. I don't like the way that
Speaker 4: that's all you taste.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the way I do the pizza Maya, it's
Speaker 1: mya pizza Paia. It's so thin it kind of melts.
Speaker 1: It's not overpowering, So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I love it. And I never liked thick onion.
Speaker 1: I never ate it. And I was just here's the
Speaker 1: word Danny Futson around and I put the onion on there,
Speaker 1: and so there you go. Jbone from beautiful Portland, Maine.
Speaker 1: I like Portland mid a lot, he says, Ben and
Speaker 1: Daddy g you're at a breakfast place how are you
Speaker 1: ordering your eggs go bills from Jbone and Portland, Maine.
Speaker 1: I know that's close to home for you, Danny, because
Speaker 1: you got the Raiders and Steel.
Speaker 4: But you know, I also picked the Bills to go
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl before the season began, so it
Speaker 4: was still a win win for me and my prediction.
Speaker 4: God eggs. You know what, at a restaurant, you gotta
Speaker 4: go over medium because then you could dip your toast
Speaker 4: into the yolk.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I disagree here. It's a hard no for me.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big egg guy anyway, but when I
Speaker 1: did eat eggs back in the day, it was either
Speaker 1: an omelet like a cheese omelet with some gloring, or
Speaker 1: scrambled with cheese.
Speaker 4: That's how Granny Gradio used to order her eggs.
Speaker 1: Listen, great minds, think alike. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: tell you, and that's it.
Speaker 4: You're just like an eighty year old Sicilian woman.
Speaker 1: Damn right. Absolutely nothing wrong with that fred in Spring Texas.
Speaker 1: So you like your eggs runny, I don't.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no. Over medium is not runny. It's
Speaker 4: perfect because you still get that great yolk, but the
Speaker 4: egg is not watery at all. I'm good, Fred, you're
Speaker 4: talking easy side or sunny side up. You got to
Speaker 4: say over medium.
Speaker 1: Well, I like burned, I like well done. Is what
Speaker 1: I like with pepper and all that. Fred in Spring Texas.
Speaker 1: Right since its greetings, I am wondering how you decide
Speaker 1: how many commercials to insert in a podcast. Are there guidelines,
Speaker 1: regulations and such, or is it up to the podcast
Speaker 1: or the business manager? I says, I look forward to
Speaker 1: your Guys show every weekend. Thank you, Fred, You've been
Speaker 1: great filling up the content machine here. Yeah. So we
Speaker 1: just you know, Danny some weeks wants no commercials, other
Speaker 1: weeks he wants fifteen commercials. Isn't that how it works?
Speaker 1: You just decide on a whim, you just play it
Speaker 1: by year.
Speaker 4: Sure, unless that's not what we do at all. No,
Speaker 4: there is guidelines. So there's a set format. It's three
Speaker 4: to open the podcast, three about twelve thirteen minutes in,
Speaker 4: After about another twelve fifteen minutes goes by, put another three,
Speaker 4: and then three at the very end after we say goodbye.
Speaker 1: So it is a method to the madness. Next one
Speaker 1: is from the real Neal. Neil, the real Neal and
Speaker 1: in the real Greenville there if I could talk to
Speaker 1: would help me, says dear money Mallard and back from
Speaker 1: the land of Danny g says, I was in northern California,
Speaker 1: Davis Sacktown, Santa Cruz after two weeks for a work trip.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't spend a lot. I've not spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in Sack I've been to Sacramento a
Speaker 1: few times. But Santa Cruz beautiful. Love me Cruise, love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it, love it, love it. He says.
Speaker 1: A question, would you rather have a career you hate
Speaker 1: that gives you elon musk money, or to do the
Speaker 1: hobbies and all that stuff, or a hobby turned to
Speaker 1: a career where you were barely getting by. Curious to
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts after decades of being on the brink
Speaker 1: of poverty for you, and now you're making a big well,
Speaker 1: I listen, I'm doing the TV shows, certainly a great mitzvah.
Speaker 1: I'm not making Craig cart money. I'm not making Colin
Speaker 1: Coward money. It's kind of like a starter TV show.
Speaker 1: Whe if the show does well, then there could be
Speaker 1: some really big money. But we're very early on.
Speaker 4: When I bumped into you, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 4: you were all of a sudden rocking. Yeezis on your feet.
Speaker 4: You've upgraded in the shoe department, so you're on your way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's see where this leads. Maybe the lead nowhere.
Speaker 1: It might just be one year and that's it NBC
Speaker 1: pulls the plug, but they seem pretty happy with it
Speaker 1: right now. So who knows.
Speaker 4: If they do pull the plug, though, at least you'll
Speaker 4: get to have a farewell.
Speaker 1: Show that is true unlike radio. Yeah, I absolutely. Tony
Speaker 1: WRIGHTSID says, on a scale of one to ten, how
Speaker 1: much do you hate Wisconsin sports? He says, I'm on
Speaker 1: vacation this week, so I will replay later on on
Speaker 1: the podcast. So, Tony, there's this misnomer that I hate
Speaker 1: Wisconsin sports. I don't. My my younger brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I visited him a couple of years ago. We went
Speaker 1: to lambeau Field. It was awesome. I've fond memories of
Speaker 1: going to the old County Stadium when I was doing
Speaker 1: stuff with the Dodgers and the brew crew, and I
Speaker 1: was remembering back to the days when the Brewers had
Speaker 1: Gorman Thomas and are not Gorman Tumbs, they Rob Deer
Speaker 1: and like Cecil Cooper and Paul Molly for those games. Fingers, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Teddy Higera the starting pitcher. So yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't hate Wiscon. I don't. I don't talk a lot
Speaker 1: about Wisconsin sports per se unless you know something BIG's
Speaker 1: going on. Ghanis gets a lot of attention because he's
Speaker 1: in the in the Sporting News. All right, let's do
Speaker 1: a couple of quick ones. We'll get out, Kevin. Thank
Speaker 1: you Tony though for saying I hate Wisconsin sports.
Speaker 2: But I guess on a.
Speaker 1: Scale of one to ten, I would be like a
Speaker 1: thirty in your book, Kevin in Kansas, Right, since says
Speaker 1: dear band and Danny g if you were competing on
Speaker 1: family feud, which family members would you choose on your team?
Speaker 1: And then who would you choose to do fast money first?
Speaker 1: And then the closer to win it all? And when
Speaker 1: you want it all, would you put Steve Harvey in
Speaker 1: a celebrity bear hug? Well, me and Steve are contemporaries,
Speaker 1: as you know, Kevin, and so we've already had our moment.
Speaker 1: Steve liked the color of the old mouth and mobile.
Speaker 1: He told one of his gun carrying security guards that
Speaker 1: as he was walking out of the iHeart Building in
Speaker 1: LA when he very briefly hosted the show, I'm upset
Speaker 1: because Harvey, Steve Harvey moved out to LA and was
Speaker 1: doing the TV shows on the radio show, and then
Speaker 1: once COVID happened, he moved back to Atlanta. So we
Speaker 1: lost our connection with the great Steve Harvey, which was
Speaker 1: you know, that was great. He was right across the hall.
Speaker 1: Now we're in his old studio. We're in the old
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey studio. It was a combination of Russell Laba
Speaker 1: and Steve Harvey. But like family feud, Like my brothers
Speaker 1: are pretty good of that kind of like random factoid stuff.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of my relatives would be better
Speaker 1: at Jeopardy. I'd be better at family feud. I think
Speaker 1: they'd be better at Jeopardy and all that anything you
Speaker 1: got on that Danny Family Feud anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife would be good because we watched that
Speaker 4: a lot and we're always guessing the top three on
Speaker 4: the board. Now doing that at home and in person
Speaker 4: two different things, right, because I guess you freeze up
Speaker 4: when you're there on set.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she would be great.
Speaker 4: And then I would have Rich Davis as one of
Speaker 4: my family members because he talks super fast. He's kind
Speaker 4: of like a rain Man too, with different topics. Ben like,
Speaker 4: it's weird. You could ask him any super Bowl and
Speaker 4: he'll tell you where he was, what the score was,
Speaker 4: and what he was eating at that super Bowl party.
Speaker 4: So somebody with a brain whose brain works like that
Speaker 4: would be great on a TV show like that.
Speaker 1: And if I was doing a sports trivia thing, I
Speaker 1: would bring in Steve Hartman.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, that's yeah, a walking sports encyclopedia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows every date and all that. Chris and
Speaker 1: Merricca and Iowa says, Ben, do you get paid for
Speaker 1: the TV show every week? What day of the week
Speaker 1: is it on?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: You go, oh, he wants to know what day I
Speaker 1: get paid.
Speaker 4: Jesus does he want your routing number? Two?
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I just love the fact that
Speaker 1: I have an expense account, because I've never had that
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio or any other radio station I've
Speaker 1: ever worked at. So that's not really an expense account.
Speaker 1: But they'll they'll pay NBC will pay for like my
Speaker 1: my wardrobe or if we need to buy something like
Speaker 1: makeup and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So can you walk into Jersey Mike's order a sandwich
Speaker 4: and put it on your expense account?
Speaker 1: No, no, I can't. I can't do that, fortunately, but
Speaker 1: they do. They do have a program which there's a
Speaker 1: lot of AI involved there. I've had to fill out
Speaker 1: a few expense reports, like when they flew me. I
Speaker 1: flew myself back to Boston. They paid me back for
Speaker 1: it when I went back to the production stuff, and
Speaker 1: they have AI. So I fill out the expense report
Speaker 1: and then it reads it before it even gets the
Speaker 1: person that has to approve it, so it reads it
Speaker 1: over and so I've gotten it puked back to me.
Speaker 1: It's been bounced back to me saying, hey you put this,
Speaker 1: this is not allowed or whatever. So I had to
Speaker 1: change words and stuff. In fact, I actually have to
Speaker 1: do that this weekend today probably here's the end of
Speaker 1: the weekend on Sunday. All right, we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: I will be back tonight. Don't forget Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: If you're hearing this early in the day here, it
Speaker 1: will be on s n Y New York. I believe
Speaker 1: later today beyond in LA and rerun all over the place.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be on Chicago as well today, so
Speaker 1: check that out, Benny versus the Penny. It will not
Speaker 1: be on after the NFL games kickoff at one pm
Speaker 1: because it would be what would be the point of
Speaker 1: having it on after that, But anyway, I'll be doing
Speaker 1: that and get the TV thing this morning, and then
Speaker 1: on the radio breaking down all the NFL games. What
Speaker 1: a great time of the year to do sports talk radio, Danny,
Speaker 1: It's just wonderful. Come in Sunday night, got all the
Speaker 1: NFL games and the Sunday night game your Raiders and
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is gonna be a defensive struggle,
Speaker 1: but check that out. What do you got going on, Danny?
Speaker 4: I know, can somebody please help Max Crosby rush the quarterback?
Speaker 4: Damn it. Hopefully that'll be a little bit of a
Speaker 4: bounce back game there with Jacoby Meyers returning for Jimmy
Speaker 4: g Looking forward to that, Ben and all the NFL
Speaker 4: action today, and your Rams looking better than what people predicted.
Speaker 1: I gotta wait till tomorrow for the Rams though. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rams. This Puoka Nakua.
Speaker 4: Guy, I know, out of nowhere, Wow.
Speaker 1: Like Mana from Heaven. The guy dropped out of thin
Speaker 1: from thin air and he's been insane.
Speaker 4: Man ram It in the Puka, He's.
Speaker 1: Like the new Cooper Cup. I'm gonna predict right now,
Speaker 1: Danny hot Hot Ram take is Cooper Cup's on the
Speaker 1: injured reserve list or whatever. You know, he's out for
Speaker 1: the first four weeks of the season, so he's out
Speaker 1: for another game after this, but when he comes back,
Speaker 1: you got Pooka. You could trade Cooper Cup, right, You
Speaker 1: know that take's going to be tossed around. Well, the
Speaker 1: Rams should trade Cooper Cup because they don't need him
Speaker 1: anymore because Pooka Nakua is playing the Cooper Cup role
Speaker 1: in the Ram offense and he's playing it better than
Speaker 1: he did at least last year.
Speaker 4: So you're back on the radio late tonight and I'll
Speaker 4: be into the same studios, but tomorrow on Monday afternoon
Speaker 4: with Covino and Rich two to four pm on the
Speaker 4: West Coast, and that's five to seven pm in New
Speaker 4: York City. And on Mondays we have that game, Last
Speaker 4: One Standing, and that's where you can hear your voice
Speaker 4: been all over that game because in a podcast you
Speaker 4: said it you are like last one Standing. And after
Speaker 4: I named the game that, I was like, I think
Speaker 4: Ben said that one time, so I went back. I
Speaker 4: pulled that clip and it's the drop that I have
Speaker 4: decided to use for that game.
Speaker 1: Show love it, love it, love it? Don't It's like AI,
Speaker 1: Last one Standing. I'm all about it. Hey, have a
Speaker 1: great rest of your Sunday. Danny's been fun this weekend.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, and we'll do it again next weekend.
Speaker 1: What do you say? How about that?
Speaker 4: Later?
Speaker 1: Skater Go Raiders, go rams, ram it all day, ram
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 4: Night, ram it in your puka, watch your mouth.
Speaker 1: Hello, Joe Hi, I like the Saints got a murder.
Speaker 4: I gotta go.