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Speaker 1: In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio As we settle in to
Speaker 1: the first podcast we have ever done. In February of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, we are a week away, one week
Speaker 1: from today. It is odd like Donkey Kong, Danny, the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, the host team. They're not in the game,
Speaker 1: but the game will be in their stadium, and the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Patriots, who will I think later today?
Speaker 1: I know the Patriots are having a big going away party.
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun is going to be there. He's our
Speaker 1: boots on the ground in Foxboro. And I don't know
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks, but I assume they'll be on their
Speaker 1: way today. Maybe the Seahawks are going tomorrow, but they'll
Speaker 1: be in northern California for the big game, and so
Speaker 1: that'll be what everyone's yapping about this week. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'll be eight million other controversies, Danny, but exciting times.
Speaker 1: Look at this, We're a week away from a new
Speaker 1: champion in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as we are doing this, I'm packing my bags,
Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to squish everything into maybe
Speaker 3: two carry ons. Can I get away with not doing
Speaker 3: a checked bag, that's the question.
Speaker 1: Well, the company, I'm sure will pay for it, so
Speaker 1: you don't need to worry about that.
Speaker 3: You're that's true, but they don't pay you until much later,
Speaker 3: so the money still has to come out of your
Speaker 3: pocket initially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I knowing we're I've stayed in the past.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you Are you staying in the Tenderloin district?
Speaker 1: Is that where you're being put up? That's the case.
Speaker 1: I would not bring anything. I would just leave everything,
Speaker 1: just bring one pair of clothes and then and then
Speaker 1: that's it. But yeah, you'll be You'll be there. I'll
Speaker 1: even be in San Francisco later later this week for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. At the end of the week,
Speaker 1: I'll be there. We'll be doing this podcast from Radio Row.
Speaker 1: I know they changed the name of it, but to me, forever,
Speaker 1: as long as I'm alive, the term, the colloquial term
Speaker 1: will be Radio Row. That's what it was. Just like
Speaker 1: I will still call the Washington Commanders the Washington Redskins,
Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Guardians will be the Cleveland Indians, because
Speaker 1: that's the name that I had for most of my life,
Speaker 1: and Radio Row was the name. I know. They're trying
Speaker 1: to become cool with the influencer, crowd nanny. They're really
Speaker 1: all about that now. They want those those influencers involved.
Speaker 1: They even hired a guy with a with a with
Speaker 1: a record, a rap sheet. They hired a guy to
Speaker 1: be their their director of kindness and all that.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you were talking about Stukets. Oh yeah, record.
Speaker 1: He might he might have made a record at some point.
Speaker 1: Steve Gott I guess to meet him this week. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: How about that he does the show from Miami, So
Speaker 1: we have actual letters. So we just get to the
Speaker 1: right to the mail bag, Daniel, what do you say,
Speaker 1: get ohio Al, my guy, ohio Al can get us
Speaker 1: in the mood? Yes, it's all right there. It is
Speaker 1: thank you, ohiol. First, these are actual letters, by the way,
Speaker 1: from actual listeners. You can send a correspondence in via
Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers,
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That is how
Speaker 1: you can contact us. We thank you. A lot of
Speaker 1: people lately, I do like this, have been sending stories
Speaker 1: that they think are interesting. It's become a new thing
Speaker 1: on the mailbag. I don't mind that. I'm cool with that.
Speaker 1: I like that. That's fun. We can play around with
Speaker 1: these different stories. For example, I'm sure this is just
Speaker 1: a coincidence. A Kuinky dink Danny. The first one's from
Speaker 1: Peter in Chicago, and he sends a story out of Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And he says, Ben, can we get some tinderny tips
Speaker 1: about that? That's og from Danny g on whether this
Speaker 1: is money well spent or not. So Danny, he sends
Speaker 1: a story here. The Louisville Nature Center is running a
Speaker 1: promotion for Valentine's Day. They will let you name a
Speaker 1: roach a cockroach after your ex for Valentine's Day, and
Speaker 1: then they will feed it to a turtle. So that
Speaker 1: is the deal. And this guy Peter wants to know,
Speaker 1: do you think it's money well spent or not? And
Speaker 1: by the way, for the record, according to this what
Speaker 1: Peter sent me, it's going to cost you twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty dollars to have a cockroach eaten by a turtle.
Speaker 3: I think the most interesting thing out of all this
Speaker 3: is how you say Louisville, because I said that when
Speaker 3: I worked on NBC Sports Radio back in the day
Speaker 3: a couple of years before Tinderony Tips and Brian Weber
Speaker 3: from the NFL network ripped my head off on the
Speaker 3: air and he said, Danny, shit it with me, Louisville.
Speaker 1: Well, I know Weber, he used to fill in for me,
Speaker 1: and screw him. No, that's what I said. You know,
Speaker 1: it's people know what we're getting at, right, You got
Speaker 1: to just kind of be in the area, and uh
Speaker 1: yeah no. But as far as this.
Speaker 3: Though, Louisville, Louisville, Louisville.
Speaker 1: You're right there at church Churchill Now is not far
Speaker 1: away from there, And you're at that right there at
Speaker 1: Churchill Now. He's got a guy, big fan of the
Speaker 1: Overnight show. He works at the stables at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 3: Ben if this was tinderony tips. I'd say, let the
Speaker 3: past go. You don't even pay attention to what's going
Speaker 3: on with your cockreach. You've got to move forward with
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 1: Well that's nice and all. But Danny, here's my thing
Speaker 1: to me, the angle and Peter the angle on this is,
Speaker 1: how can we do something similar, Danny, What a great hustle,
Speaker 1: what a great of course, they say, it's all for charity,
Speaker 1: and it goes to keep the Louis Louv Louv Nature
Speaker 1: Center going. But twenty to thirty bucks, how much? How
Speaker 1: can we find cockroaches there?
Speaker 3: Everywhere?
Speaker 1: Right, there's cockroaches all over the place. So we'd hoard
Speaker 1: up some cockroaches and then you see me you send
Speaker 1: them a little video. I guess it's thirty dollars if
Speaker 1: you want a video of the Oh yeah, just go
Speaker 1: in the ceiling at work, Danny. There's a bunch of cockroachs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, where we work. It used to be at Denny's.
Speaker 3: Way back in the day when I was a little kid,
Speaker 3: I ate at that Denny's.
Speaker 1: Ben Oh, I never ate at that Denny's, although I
Speaker 1: did eat the Denny's down the street. There's a Denny's
Speaker 1: down the street down Ventura No Paulvitter down to Pulvtter.
Speaker 1: There's a Denny's and that's the Denny's where it's wrapped
Speaker 1: around a hotel. Yeah, is really cool because that's where
Speaker 1: all hookers hang out in between on their break. They
Speaker 1: go in there to have a deal.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor and it's connected to that hotel, that
Speaker 3: shady hotel. Remember that there was something where the power
Speaker 3: was out right and I had to stay there. I
Speaker 3: think you stayed there one time as well for work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've stayed a few times. The last last time
Speaker 1: I didn't stay at that hotel. I was there for Karmageddon.
Speaker 1: Remember Karmageddon. Here's They were worried that we wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to get to work, so they got us hotel rooms.
Speaker 1: And they were probably so upset Danny because there was
Speaker 1: no traffic for Carmageddon and they wasted all that money.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like those if you if you live
Speaker 1: in a city like and it rained or not rains
Speaker 1: but snows, they'll give. Like my guys, I was friends
Speaker 1: with the morning guys at w E I and Jerry
Speaker 1: Callahan and those guys, and when they had a snow storm,
Speaker 1: they'd get them a hotel room right next to the
Speaker 1: radio station and they pay for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I heard Dan Patrick doing this last week
Speaker 3: with the dan Etts, going into the weekend where there
Speaker 3: was going to be eleven feet of snow in Connecticut.
Speaker 3: He offered to get hotel rooms for the crew next
Speaker 3: to the studio.
Speaker 1: Well that he's got like seventy five sidekicks, so that's expensive.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to rent a higher hotel.
Speaker 3: Dan, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Cost you some money. Mike in Fullerton writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: Happy February. First, Ben and Danny g I've got two
Speaker 1: heavy hitting questions. First, do you guys hold drinks in
Speaker 1: your left or right hand? I'm right handed, but I
Speaker 1: mainly use my left. Let's do that one first. I
Speaker 1: usually use my left hand too. I believe I do
Speaker 1: use my left hand. It's weird though, because I use
Speaker 1: my now that I think about it, I use my
Speaker 1: left hand to hold it, and then when I drink it,
Speaker 1: I'll usually put in my right hand.
Speaker 3: Don't you use your left hand to hold it and
Speaker 3: your right hand to mix the drink up with your straw?
Speaker 1: No, but I like what I'll do is I'll hold
Speaker 1: it with my left hand and then when I want
Speaker 1: to drink it, I'll transfer it to the right hand.
Speaker 3: You know what, But with you with your right hand,
Speaker 3: you're holding straw? Am I I don't know, No, that's
Speaker 3: Rich Davis.
Speaker 1: Hey, it's Rich Davis.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We tease him in Las Vegas because he always
Speaker 3: has that name, all straw and all his drinks. Well, like,
Speaker 3: you know, you look like a big time pussy with
Speaker 3: that right.
Speaker 1: Well, now, in Vegas, that'll cost you like eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars that drink. And you know, a walk with the straw,
Speaker 1: the loop d loop straw, that'll cost you a lot, yeah,
Speaker 1: he says Danny. G are you as excited for this
Speaker 1: year's NFL draft as you were for the one nine
Speaker 1: years ago? Ben was flabbergasted by you being a fan
Speaker 1: of the draft. So I'm wondering if anything changed for
Speaker 1: your sake. I hope Fernando Mendoza will be better as
Speaker 1: a first round pick than the one the Raiders took
Speaker 1: nine years ago. Garn Conley, I don't even remember that.
Speaker 3: Oh Gary Conley, Yeah from Ohio State.
Speaker 1: How'd that work?
Speaker 3: He had flashes of brilliance, and those flashes were very
Speaker 3: small and he's out of the league. I got to
Speaker 3: cover one Raiders game before they left Oakland and it
Speaker 3: happened to be against the Cleveland Browns. Gary on Conley
Speaker 3: made the play of the game and ran it back
Speaker 3: for a pick six, the big highlight of the game
Speaker 3: for the Raiders. The Raiders actually pulled out the victory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is nice though that the Raiders, since they
Speaker 1: don't win that often. You remember the wins. The wins
Speaker 1: stand out. They don't win very much, so when they.
Speaker 3: Were Yeah, oh, and I'm excited about the draft. I
Speaker 3: don't think there's a high probability that Fernando Mendoza is
Speaker 3: going to get lost in the Purple train.
Speaker 1: No, he might leave the Raiders to go on a
Speaker 1: mission somewhere or something like that. Right, there's a chance
Speaker 1: that he might leave the team for other reasons. But
Speaker 1: not that Connley, the guy that was posted photos with guns.
Speaker 1: There was some Raider draft picked.
Speaker 3: That was no. No, I know you're talking about. That
Speaker 3: wasn't in Conley. Binley never got into trouble. Okay, he
Speaker 3: was a good dude on and off the field. He
Speaker 3: just his play was very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: Was it defensive back, I remember, I.
Speaker 3: Think it was Yeah, it was a corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy they drafted, I think in the same
Speaker 1: draft with with the wide receiver. I think anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: Alf from the kitchen rights in, He says, Ben, now
Speaker 1: that you're on the YouTube with Benny versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: have you fallen off the wagon and gone full Benny
Speaker 1: Crocker and gotten back to your cookie roots. He also says,
Speaker 1: what's in the box in the mail room? Well, Alf,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. You did send something, Alf, and it's
Speaker 1: it's still in the mail room. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I didn't make a trip to
Speaker 1: the mail room, which is right next to the Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast studio where George Norri does his show. Well
Speaker 1: not right next to it, but it's on that floor
Speaker 1: in the building, and I didn't see it. And we
Speaker 1: our mail service is it's it's the opposite of the
Speaker 1: Pony Express, Danny. It's it's very odd. It's I feel
Speaker 1: like we're in prison and they dropped the mail off
Speaker 1: once a month or something like that. It's very bizarre.
Speaker 1: But I did not get the mail out. And as
Speaker 1: far as the Benny the Baker stuff. I have started
Speaker 1: baking a little bit. In fact, I just made this
Speaker 1: weekend white chocolate Macadamian the cookies, which I love. It's very,
Speaker 1: very bad racist. I used to when I covered the
Speaker 1: Clippers back when they played at the sports arena, the
Speaker 1: Mausoleum as we called it. Back of the day when
Speaker 1: no one went to their games. One of the perks
Speaker 1: of being in the media. There was this local cookie
Speaker 1: place called Snookies Cookies, which I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: still around or not. They're in a southern California cookie
Speaker 1: shop and they would drop off cookies for the media
Speaker 1: and there was no media. The Clippers had no media
Speaker 1: because they were the Clippers. So we would leave with
Speaker 1: boxes of their cookies and they were amazing because no
Speaker 1: media ate them because there was no media. They were
Speaker 1: free and I got so fat on those, but they
Speaker 1: my favorite. One of those Snooky cookies was the macadamia
Speaker 1: nut chalk white chocolate macadamianus. I've made a ripoff version
Speaker 1: at home, so but I'm trying trying to be good.
Speaker 1: Danny and and for.
Speaker 3: We must have been laying in bed with those back then,
Speaker 3: and you're big eating you were like cookie monster.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I boxes them and they were so
Speaker 1: covered in grease that you know, the paper was covered
Speaker 1: in grease because they've been sitting around for a little
Speaker 1: bit and I didn't care. They're good, so so great,
Speaker 1: and miss well.
Speaker 3: By the way, really quick to circle all the way
Speaker 3: back around. That was cornerback damon our net.
Speaker 1: Okay, I apologize to whoever else I claimed.
Speaker 3: Yeah you were. You were trying to indict Gary on Conley.
Speaker 1: I just you know, you think raider defensive back. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's all one giant purple or silver and
Speaker 1: black ball of.
Speaker 3: Whatever name, one big NFL book on exactly.
Speaker 1: JT the Wingman rights in from Knoxville, Tennessee adjacent. He says,
Speaker 1: dear Ben and Danny g Is, I wonder what to
Speaker 1: do on a weekend with no NFL football. I am
Speaker 1: quickly reminded that it's going to snow here in eastern Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I thought I left this stuff behind in Wisconsin, says JT. Now,
Speaker 1: since Ben and ferg Dog is in the snow capital
Speaker 1: of the America in Fullerton and you are close, I
Speaker 1: figured I could get advice on what to do with
Speaker 1: all this snow that has fallen as I have quickly
Speaker 1: forgotten from my Wisconsin is thanks your beloved fan JT.
Speaker 1: The wingman who's likely on the treadmill right now. He
Speaker 1: also says he asked, Danny needs to introduce little CoA
Speaker 1: to snow at a young age. Have you taken CoA
Speaker 1: to the snow yet?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 1: No, you gotta do it. Man, gotta have a snowball
Speaker 1: fight with the little fella. That's the movie.
Speaker 3: Man. This kid wiles out like a psychopath around puddles.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine him with snow.
Speaker 1: Get him a snow sled. Come on, you gotta do it, Danny,
Speaker 1: You got you got. The next couple of months we
Speaker 1: got snow in the mountains and here in.
Speaker 3: La get up there, hold him a sweet jump.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, he's gonna that'd be so much fun. He's
Speaker 1: at a great age. I mean, you love it. That's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't even really go to the snow when I
Speaker 1: was really little. I think the first time I went
Speaker 1: to the snow was in the cub Scouts. We had
Speaker 1: a field trip up into a thick Big Bear. I
Speaker 1: think we went to Big Bear and we had a
Speaker 1: cabin and it was snow and I was like, the
Speaker 1: most amazing thing. I was like, Wow, this is just
Speaker 1: like the movies. It is wild and crazy and all that.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned I think I mentioned this over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't know all these all these podcasts are the same, Danny,
Speaker 1: and all them podcasts are the same. My brother who
Speaker 1: lives in I don't know what you're talking about. But
Speaker 1: my older brother, who's a nut job, he goes out
Speaker 1: running every morning around the streets of Manhattan, right, so
Speaker 1: he's running along, and he sent me a bunch of
Speaker 1: photos from the Hudson River which was covered in chunks
Speaker 1: of ice. It was so cold in Manhattan this week,
Speaker 1: and he was sending me this. And then my other
Speaker 1: brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is just south of
Speaker 1: Green Bay, the frozen tundra. And these guys grew up
Speaker 1: in the same environment I grew up in. We all
Speaker 1: grew up in the same house. And these two knuckleheads
Speaker 1: live in New York's not as cold as Wisconsin, but
Speaker 1: it's like this time of the year. The other day, Nanny.
Speaker 1: In fact, I text my brothers. I said, we really
Speaker 1: had it got really cold here. I had to turn
Speaker 1: the air on. It got down into the sixties with
Speaker 1: the air condition because it was in the eighties. Outside
Speaker 1: it's like two degrees or something like that. The other
Speaker 1: day it was insane, wacky, wacky wacky. As far as
Speaker 1: snow removal though, JT. I've seen those videos online. Have
Speaker 1: you seen this nanny where they take the blow torch
Speaker 1: really effect not safe, but really effective for snow The
Speaker 1: blow torch really good.
Speaker 3: They see the trick, the viral trick that was going
Speaker 3: around where people lay the big blue tarp down and
Speaker 3: then just pull the tarp that way they don't have
Speaker 3: to clear their you know, they're stooped.
Speaker 1: No I'm not good. I like that go down.
Speaker 3: You don't have to shovel the walkway if you haven't
Speaker 3: tarp down. You know, the snow gets heavy enough on
Speaker 3: there and then you just pull the whole tarp and
Speaker 3: just drag it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. I did see somebody had a robotic
Speaker 1: like the way Mow of snow removal that will go
Speaker 1: up and down your driveway and it's automatic. You just
Speaker 1: say it's like, set it and forget it. Imagine how
Speaker 1: much that must cost though, that can't.
Speaker 3: Be cheap, no way.
Speaker 1: George from the Bay writes in and he says, hello, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I hope your weekend is going well. I wanted to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on the influencer and he sends a
Speaker 1: story here. George says an influencer who weighs four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty pounds called the police on a gym in
Speaker 1: Brazil after he allegedly was refused membership for being too fat.
Speaker 1: The guy is thirty five in Sal Paulo, and the
Speaker 1: gym said he cannot participate. He was in a swimming class,
Speaker 1: a trial swimming class, and they said it was a
Speaker 1: safety risk. So sounds fattist to me, h, Danny, I was.
Speaker 1: I was fatter than four to sixty at my biggest
Speaker 1: and I would certainly not call the cops. You know,
Speaker 1: is that a crime the gym's claiming from what this guy,
Speaker 1: George said, the gym's claiming a safety risk, which kind
Speaker 1: of it kind of makes some sense, I don't. I
Speaker 1: guess the only reason you'd call the cops is because
Speaker 1: you're an influencer, right, Dan, If you're gonna you're an influencer,
Speaker 1: the cops, right if you're not. I wasn't an influencer.
Speaker 1: I was just the person.
Speaker 3: Is he going to shed the weight though, you know,
Speaker 3: doesn't have a starting point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, according to this, he's actually lost he's lost
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds, so he must have been like seven
Speaker 1: hundred pounds or something close to say.
Speaker 3: Damn. He was like and it's like when the late
Speaker 3: great rapper Big Pun came to do an interview at
Speaker 3: my radio station. Yeah, they lifted him up in a
Speaker 3: crane to get him up the stairs to our building. No,
Speaker 3: they didn't crane. The record company rented a like one
Speaker 3: of those little crane things to pick them up.
Speaker 1: Yikes. How do you end up in that spot? How
Speaker 1: do you whatever happens? Is he still he's not alive anymore?
Speaker 1: Is he?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately he went to a camp and I won't say
Speaker 3: the F word, he lost a lot of weight, but
Speaker 3: he lost it to rap and so it hurt his
Speaker 3: vital organs and he passed away.
Speaker 1: Ah that sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember there was a place, yeah, the umpire Eric
Speaker 1: Greg remember Eric Greg?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, there's a place at Duke. I think
Speaker 1: Duke was known for that that they had the big
Speaker 1: Like if you you needed to go to the fat farm,
Speaker 1: you you'd go. Oh, I said, it, I said, fat
Speaker 1: farm me. Did you go down there? You and I
Speaker 1: just that was the that was the movement. That's wild.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: You think losing the weight's great, but then if you
Speaker 1: do lose it too fast, I know you're you're you
Speaker 1: have all kinds of problem, not just your organs, but
Speaker 1: your hair. If you lose weight, that's your hair will
Speaker 1: fall out.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's way too much stress on your whole
Speaker 3: system if you do it too quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty pretty wacky, all right. Brian from Minneapolis writes
Speaker 1: into the mail bag, says, hey, bandon, Danny uh oh,
Speaker 1: he wants to talk about the Bella check thing. He says,
Speaker 1: we can all agree that those who voted for Belichick
Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of Fame believe that even
Speaker 1: though he got caught twice for cheating, that he served
Speaker 1: his punishment should get in. Those who didn't believe that
Speaker 1: he should have gotten a harsher punishment. If not an
Speaker 1: outright Ben, he says.
Speaker 3: Big Ben, I told you about this on the Odd Couple.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty. He says, in either way, shouldn't
Speaker 1: be real questions? Shouldn't the real questions rather be about
Speaker 1: the man up top of all of it, and he's
Speaker 1: talking about Roger Goodell, foresaw both scandals, handed down the punishments.
Speaker 1: Deep down, the voters hate Goodell and in a way,
Speaker 1: they think Belichick is his boy. Should the questions that
Speaker 1: are asked of those who didn't vote Belichick in b
Speaker 1: do you have confidence that the commissioner would render the
Speaker 1: right decision in both cases? If not, do you have
Speaker 1: confidence that he should still be the commissioner? Also? Do
Speaker 1: you believe that the commissioner's inconsistency regarding punishments, players, coaches,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Would leave you to believe that he did
Speaker 1: more damage to the integrity of the sport than what
Speaker 1: Belichick did. That's from Brian.
Speaker 3: That is way too well written for this show.
Speaker 1: Brian obviously educated something that we're not used to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's I think you're going too deep on this, Brian.
Speaker 1: I do based on what I have seen from the
Speaker 1: people that have voted, and I know the names. I
Speaker 1: actually know some of these people. I've worked alongside them
Speaker 1: in press boxes over my years in the in the
Speaker 1: media business, so I know some of them casually. These
Speaker 1: are not the brightest people in the world either. I mean,
Speaker 1: I neither am I, But they're not thinking like that.
Speaker 1: They got swayed. It was a zoom call. I don't
Speaker 1: think it cuts that deep. And some of it is
Speaker 1: personal because Belichick was a total dick in Dayton. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a schmuck and he treated people poorly, and
Speaker 1: so I think there are some of that. But even if, like,
Speaker 1: even if you thought he was an a hole guy,
Speaker 1: he's voting him into the Hall of Fame. It's not
Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame, even the Baseball Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: as I ranted about in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: this week, allowing you cheating asshole to do that here Carlos,
Speaker 1: the Carls Belt trying to get in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: so and Belichick will get in and all that and
Speaker 1: then you know, so, anyway, you guys spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time on that this week, Danny ranting about Belichick.
Speaker 1: It seemed to be the story. Everyone was yapping about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thankfully, the guys really only talked about it the
Speaker 3: day that the news broke during our show. They talked
Speaker 3: about it that day in a little bit the next day,
Speaker 3: and then they dropped it after that, which was good.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to hear about it any longer.
Speaker 1: I like the voters that are announcing slowly. It's like
Speaker 1: a leaking fossil announcement. Why didn't vote for Belichick? And
Speaker 1: here's why? My favorite Yes, the.
Speaker 3: Essay I wrote on why I made my decision the
Speaker 3: way I.
Speaker 1: Did to pay wall at a newspaper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make sure you I don't care and I don't
Speaker 3: want to read your explanation.
Speaker 1: All right, Reggie from Detroit, Reggie, I hope you were
Speaker 1: listening to the radio show this week. You got a
Speaker 1: shout out from Shane and the Moye. Shane in the
Speaker 1: Moyne a fan of Reggie from Detroit. He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: that's a big time Ben, and Danny are you? And
Speaker 1: he says, Ben, are you? And Joe Rogan related. I
Speaker 1: saw this and I thought it's something that you would do.
Speaker 1: And apparently Joe Rogan was to be nominated for the
Speaker 1: Golden Globe's Best Podcast Award. According to this what Reggie sent,
Speaker 1: except he refused to pay the five hundred dollars fee
Speaker 1: to be not me. No, all right, Reggie, A I
Speaker 1: didn't know about this. Be that is absolutely something that
Speaker 1: I would do. That is I will. I am. I.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna give me an award, that's great, but
Speaker 1: I'm not going.
Speaker 3: To This is like back in the day when you
Speaker 3: found out about Guinness Records.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, that's right, the Guinness World Records.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do a bit for the show where
Speaker 1: we were going to have a Guinness World Record. I
Speaker 1: thought it was great. I can't remember Danny. I came
Speaker 1: up with all these different ideas.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you had a whole list.
Speaker 1: I had a whole bunch of things that we're gonna
Speaker 1: do to said a Guinness Records. So I reached out
Speaker 1: to the good people at Guinness. I said, listen, I
Speaker 1: do a national radio show. I'm big fans of your company,
Speaker 1: and I think this is great. We could do some
Speaker 1: cross promotion here and I've got all these ideas. I
Speaker 1: grew up with your book, yeah, the whole thing. And
Speaker 1: they said sure, and then they I forget how much,
Speaker 1: but they said, yeah, just there's a fee, and then
Speaker 1: you have to be approved and what are you doing.
Speaker 3: And you have to pay for their judges to fly
Speaker 3: and watch break the records exactly now.
Speaker 1: The only one I would consider, Danny, because I think
Speaker 1: it would be like, you know, at some point we're
Speaker 1: all going to kick the bucket, and that's it would
Speaker 1: be the Hollywood start, like the Walk of Fame, which
Speaker 1: you can get. But that's like I think it's like
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars now it used to be ten thousand,
Speaker 1: and that was twenty thousand. But I look at that
Speaker 1: like a cemetery kind of thing, like people most people
Speaker 1: don't even know the names when they walk by, but
Speaker 1: it's like your name is there and all that. But
Speaker 1: you have to pay for that too. So to me,
Speaker 1: anything you got to pay for that's a good hustle. Though,
Speaker 1: because there are people we know in our business, Danny
Speaker 1: and Radio and Reggie. There are people that work at
Speaker 1: radio companies that certain magazines that I think only exist
Speaker 1: Dandy to give out awards because they know that these
Speaker 1: companies will pay big money to have their talent win awards.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a rig deal in some of
Speaker 1: these things. And yeah, but that's good. I would definitely.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like Joe Rogan. I don't have as
Speaker 1: much money as Joe Rogan, but I would not pay
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars to be nominated for some gazy golden
Speaker 1: gloamed podcast. The word please my God.
Speaker 3: Both titewads. That's where the similarities end.
Speaker 1: Yeah slightly, yes. Next up Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Speaker 1: He has two questions. He says, Big Ben and Daddy
Speaker 1: G Radio. He says, question number one, were you ever
Speaker 1: employee of the month? That's question number one? Danny? Did
Speaker 1: you ever win an award from the company free cupcakes?
Speaker 1: Anything along those lines?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? I'm thinking about the last FM
Speaker 3: radio station I worked at. I was suspended with pay,
Speaker 3: but I was suspended tully me because of something I
Speaker 3: did on the air that they didn't like. But you know, hey, Ben,
Speaker 3: that's how you get ratings, right, You toe the line.
Speaker 3: You put your toe right on the line. And that's
Speaker 3: what I did at that FM radio station. And it's
Speaker 3: funny because the guy they had doing my afternoon show
Speaker 3: while I was at home licking my wounds, he left
Speaker 3: for another job at some Arizona radio station and they
Speaker 3: called me back in and they put me back on
Speaker 3: the air, and they gave me a bit of a
Speaker 3: bump and pay because they needed my services again. So
Speaker 3: they're like, hey, we got a little dip in the rating.
Speaker 3: We need you to do your thing again. Nice I
Speaker 3: had to last laugh. But yeah, I got the opposite
Speaker 3: of employee of the month.
Speaker 1: I have never ever sniffed employee of the month. That does.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the daytime thing. They don't give
Speaker 1: it to people at night and they give you cupcakes or.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, the employee of the month, we're going
Speaker 1: to know, cupcakes in the break room or something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't have anything like that. Also, Quwang writes, and
Speaker 1: he says, what happened to the phrase of the week
Speaker 1: and backscratcher, And he points out he has not heard
Speaker 1: these on the podcast in a while. That's Kwang in
Speaker 1: Ho Chi Minh Vietnam guaranteed humans. So we did stop backscratcher.
Speaker 1: It wasn't intentional, Danny, I don't think any Yeah.
Speaker 3: It just ran its course. Like a lot of things,
Speaker 3: you know, shows evolved. You can't just stay doing the
Speaker 3: same thing for years. There are staples like the mail bag,
Speaker 3: but other than that, all the features change.
Speaker 1: Well, and even the mail bag is you know, it
Speaker 1: flips around a little bit like if you want, Qwang,
Speaker 1: we haven't. I haven't checked this in a while, but
Speaker 1: we'll check backscratcher and we did.
Speaker 3: It's probably the last one. It's probably twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: No, we actually got we got a couple. We one
Speaker 1: in October, Landscaper Shorty wrote five stars Big Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g are ten out of ten.
Speaker 3: But that.
Speaker 1: Then a white Connor, Danny white Connor wrote in this was.
Speaker 3: It's got to be racist, got to be racist.
Speaker 1: That's on twelve twenty two of last year, so just
Speaker 1: not that. Well, I guess it's been a month. Wow
Speaker 1: over a month. He says, if you need sports takes,
Speaker 1: you have not heard or hear about a man who
Speaker 1: takes ninety minute showers and misses the bus to a
Speaker 1: professional sports event. This is your show. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: great tribute to Helmet Man, who does talk about his
Speaker 1: ninety minute showers, his Obama phone and everything else. He's
Speaker 1: such a character. Helmetman's calling daytime shows. He called the.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Am I on the live daytime air.
Speaker 1: He's so great. I'm actually on the live air. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're on the He's quite the character. But to thank
Speaker 1: you white Connor and thank you Landscaper Shorty, And if
Speaker 1: you do want to review the podcast the Apple podcast
Speaker 1: page podcast dot Apple dot com and then type in
Speaker 1: fifth hour and write a little review on that and
Speaker 1: it does help.
Speaker 3: And with a name like Connor, we already know you're white.
Speaker 1: Hello this podcast. I did not know this until I
Speaker 1: looked at the podcast page. I've been doing this thing
Speaker 1: with you for a while. I was with Guess Khan.
Speaker 1: I started this in twenty nineteen, seven years now of podcasting.
Speaker 1: Seven years of podcasting. Danny, WHOA, that's wild.
Speaker 3: And I mean you and I have done almost nine
Speaker 3: hundred episodes. It is in insane.
Speaker 1: I guess you just keep your head down and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden the numbers go up, up and away.
Speaker 1: Scotty from Florida rights inder the mailbag. He says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny. With the Super Bowl coming up next week,
Speaker 1: I am once again reminded that Janet Jackson is a
Speaker 1: national hero who got a raw deal. Would Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: spontaneously combust if that t bow moment happened in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, or would he immediately start monetizing the viral
Speaker 1: moment because that's what the NFL does. Yeah, Well, at
Speaker 1: the time, Danny, I was on the air during that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and we didn't even realize why right away.
Speaker 1: You got understand twenty was it twenty years ago? Right?
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty years ago. Like people weren't
Speaker 1: on social media. Twitter did not exist. Social media was
Speaker 1: much different, so it was it. It was like a
Speaker 1: little bit laid reaction before people realized what had gone on.
Speaker 3: And that's when you were dropping your mixtape on MySpace.
Speaker 1: My Space is huge. Yeah, well, times are different. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to see that stuff, it's ever. You
Speaker 1: can see boobies wherever you want. You don't need to
Speaker 1: go on on an NFL halftime. I guess we might
Speaker 1: see some from Bad Bunny at halftime. I don't know
Speaker 1: the halftime show stuff. I don't get. I've never cared
Speaker 1: about the halftime show. I just it's I don't I'm getting.
Speaker 3: Well, you're the same guy that doesn't like bumper music,
Speaker 3: so it's not exactly like, yeah, it's not surprising.
Speaker 1: If I want to see music, Danny, I'll go see music.
Speaker 1: If I want to see football, see football. I don't,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like it's like I don't for me,
Speaker 1: it's everyone that gets worked up into a ladder. I
Speaker 1: don't bad Bunny could come out buck naked and swing
Speaker 1: a sausage around. I don't care. I'm not watching. I'm
Speaker 1: not watching that. I'm going to eat some snacks.
Speaker 3: I hope you don't care about that. It's well, no, but.
Speaker 1: I've said I'll get my snacks, and then I know,
Speaker 1: halftime at the super Bowl is always longer. It's always longer, right,
Speaker 1: so you got extra time and then you know, plan it,
Speaker 1: come back and you're you're on your way. Scott, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Scott, appreciate that and enjoy Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be as big a deal now. I feel
Speaker 1: like everything so's zany now. I don't think it would
Speaker 1: be that big a deal. Kevin from Hawaii writes in
Speaker 1: Aloha Kevin, he says Ben and Danny as a Ben
Speaker 1: as a YouTuber. Now, does this story about YouTube deleting
Speaker 1: AI slop channels make you feel good? He says, yeah,
Speaker 1: So there's a story. YouTube this week announced they are
Speaker 1: deleting they claim major AI slap slop channels with billions
Speaker 1: of views. Billions of views, So a couple thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: First of all, Kevin, I'm jealous that you're in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: That's that's number one. Number two. This is a game
Speaker 1: of whack a mole, and it can be won because
Speaker 1: it's you're using AI. YouTube's using AI to fight AI.
Speaker 1: The problem, as I have decoded over the years, Danny,
Speaker 1: is that these AI content social media accounts. They make
Speaker 1: the content, they then have the bot farm to view
Speaker 1: the content, so it's a one stop shop. They do everything.
Speaker 1: They make the content, they then have the botfarms from
Speaker 1: Moldova downloaded or view it, and then the company ends
Speaker 1: up paying money for something that's total as they say,
Speaker 1: slop here, so good good luck. It's like those there's
Speaker 1: dudes making money with AI fake girl friend in the counts,
Speaker 1: and there's like there's accounts of what appears to be
Speaker 1: women that are not women there. I mean, it looks
Speaker 1: like a woman, but it's not a real person, and
Speaker 1: they're making money because horny dudes are watching the videos.
Speaker 3: And this explains Iheart's new slogan guaranteed human.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly guaranteed. It is nice though that it seems
Speaker 1: people still value the human connection for now, for a
Speaker 1: now I.
Speaker 3: Have because this would spin out of control. It's already
Speaker 3: we don't know what is fake, and we don't know
Speaker 3: what's real and you have to triple check things. You
Speaker 3: still get burned when you do live radio shows and
Speaker 3: you look something up you don't know if it's real
Speaker 3: or fake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not through that for sure. All right, last one,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on this, Shane writes, and he says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Daddy g I live close to Peoria, Illinois.
Speaker 1: I've heard you talk about it over the years. Ben,
Speaker 1: It's not that exciting, he says. I've always loved Phil.
Speaker 1: Shane says, I wish I lived where you guys do,
Speaker 1: in near Hollywood, and I'm worried that in the future
Speaker 1: that films will be going away because people can't sit
Speaker 1: through him. And then he sent this link Danny that
Speaker 1: says film students are having trouble sitting through movies because
Speaker 1: they don't have the attention span to sit and watch
Speaker 1: these long.
Speaker 3: You know when he first said film, I rubbed my
Speaker 3: tongue on my teeth about film, like who it was?
Speaker 3: You think he's better than us? Does he also back
Speaker 3: into his parking spaces? Is he talking about movies?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's talking about movies.
Speaker 3: Film is such a eyebrow thing when you're talking about
Speaker 3: movies but yeah, I film school, that's one thing. And
Speaker 3: when I had a break between radio jobs, actually looked
Speaker 3: into like the New York Film Academy and I think
Speaker 3: that was the name of the school, and there's one
Speaker 3: here in Los Angeles. Because I was really interested in
Speaker 3: maybe having, you know, behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Job with the props and all that, so the crew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or like a cameraman or yeah, if you got
Speaker 3: to go to movie sets and you know, help create
Speaker 3: the manager, that's cool.
Speaker 1: My brother in law does that. He works behind the
Speaker 1: scenes on TV shows and movies and he loves it.
Speaker 3: And I didn't. I didn't know them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's part of the union. And unfortunately they
Speaker 1: don't make as much stuff. There's not much being made
Speaker 1: in Hollywood like there used to be. So it's you
Speaker 1: go a long time on unemployment between gigs. We'll get
Speaker 1: out on that is the probol.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get out on the unemployment.
Speaker 1: Yes, on unemployment, I don't. All right, have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your Sunday. I'll be back tonight in the
Speaker 1: main studio, be doing the show from the main studio
Speaker 1: the first few days of the week, and then be
Speaker 1: in San Francisco with Danny at the end of the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, broadcasting live to tape.
Speaker 1: That's right. Nothing doesn't get any fresher than that. Danny
Speaker 1: does not get any fresher than that. Make sure you
Speaker 1: track down before I get there, Danny, find out where
Speaker 1: all the freebies are. So when I get there, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta bring bags in.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, Yeah yeah, get one of those thin Duffel
Speaker 3: bags and fold it into a square and put it
Speaker 3: in your in your jacket pocket.
Speaker 1: Done. Done, We're gonna make it happen. All right, have
Speaker 1: a great sunny. We'll catch you well. The podcast next
Speaker 1: weekend from Radio Row and Radio All week later.
Speaker 3: Skater Gotta Murder. I gotta go