Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio in NFL Sunday. It's week
Speaker 1: number four, the full week. We had that appetizer the
Speaker 1: other night on Thursday. We actually was a good game,
Speaker 1: well relatively speaking for teams. You don't really care about
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the Cardinals. But we're back at it today.
Speaker 1: Danny Gee with us on the mail bag. He has
Speaker 1: sashayed his way into the Fifth Hour podcast remote studio,
Speaker 1: fingam a jig. That that's what we do is from
Speaker 1: early on a Sunday morning, Danny and we have NFL football.
Speaker 1: Very shortly. There's a game in Ireland today that'll be
Speaker 1: kicking off. Yeah, what is up with that? Vikings and Steelers?
Speaker 1: Do you see Aaron Rodgers complaining because the Steelers did
Speaker 1: not go to Ireland early in the week and he
Speaker 1: didn't have any to go out.
Speaker 3: Insert baby crying effects here.
Speaker 4: He said, it looks like a pretty country from the pictures.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that he can afford to go there
Speaker 1: on his own time, but I guess he wanted a
Speaker 1: work life balance situation. Is that where he wanted to
Speaker 1: go and enjoy the scenery and all that. And these
Speaker 1: guys are such coddle babies, these professional athletes. Did you
Speaker 1: see they were complaining because the Steelers did not fly
Speaker 1: first class to Ireland. The Vikings had a first class
Speaker 1: plane and the Steelers didn't have a first class plane.
Speaker 1: And it's, uh, I gotta tell you again, Danny, we're
Speaker 1: around the same age, Like this is one of those things, right,
Speaker 1: It's like we were growing up. It's like you wore
Speaker 1: that as a badge of honor, that you did it
Speaker 1: the heart away. Right now it's you go on social
Speaker 1: media and complain because you didn't have a nice enough
Speaker 1: plane to go to Ireland.
Speaker 4: Suck it, Steelers, because the immaculate reception actually hit the turf.
Speaker 1: There you go, not that you're still bitter and broken about.
Speaker 4: I wasn't around for it, but the video footage that
Speaker 4: doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Yes, conspiracies, do do do do do do do do
Speaker 3: do do do do do do.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen? Speaking of conspiracies, I saw this week
Speaker 1: that they're planning on going back to the.
Speaker 3: Moon Artemis two.
Speaker 1: Is that a private thing or is that a NASA thing?
Speaker 1: I think it's a NASA thing this time. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So there's people that believe this was fake when they
Speaker 1: went the first time. So are they going to say
Speaker 1: this fake?
Speaker 3: Also?
Speaker 1: Is it what if it looks a lot different this
Speaker 1: time because they have better cameras now than they did then, right?
Speaker 4: People who say that the flag on the Moon wouldn't
Speaker 4: have waved like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that, And then I think there was
Speaker 1: an engineer that said the reason was it was like
Speaker 1: that was because of the craft that landed on the
Speaker 1: on the Moon. I forget, I have to go back
Speaker 1: and check, but I heard an explanation why it was
Speaker 1: like that. And then I've also those people that are
Speaker 1: convinced it was filmed actually in southern California where we
Speaker 1: are in the high desert, that they went out and
Speaker 1: filmed it in the high desert in that So whatever, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear much more about that. When is
Speaker 1: that going to happen, like ten years from now or something.
Speaker 1: It always takes a long time for these things to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, way before they jumped homeless people off from Palmdale.
Speaker 1: Well they have more if they want to dump more
Speaker 1: people off of Palmdale, there's plenty. Look at it, says
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. That's not that far away. That's not
Speaker 1: that far away, says a crew should be on the
Speaker 1: lunar surface of the Moon in twenty twenty seven, and
Speaker 1: says the land is being developed by space X. It's
Speaker 1: not ready. It's not ready, and so okay, not worried
Speaker 1: about that. We have NFL football today. And have you
Speaker 1: given up on your Raiders yet? Danny one and two
Speaker 1: are used to get looking forward to seeing them take
Speaker 1: down the Bears today? Are you fired up for that?
Speaker 4: The Chicago defense stinks against the run, and the Raiders
Speaker 4: o line has been atrocious, as we mentioned last weekend
Speaker 4: on the pod. Hopefully gent doesn't get hit behind the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage every time he touches the ball. Hopefully
Speaker 4: Pete Carroll's son and dad stops being so damned stubborn
Speaker 4: about how they pieced together that line.
Speaker 1: That would be good. You have the highest paid offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator in the NFL, Chip Kelly, you might want to
Speaker 1: improve the offense and even the numbers of the Raiders
Speaker 1: who put up on offense. At that game in Washington
Speaker 1: that was there was some major garbage time stat stuffing.
Speaker 1: Danny g As you you watched that game because Gino
Speaker 1: had a couple of touchdowns on the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: a bunch of yards and he didn't really play all that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll be at the Ram game today. Rams are playing
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes in the Colts.
Speaker 4: Who are you don't say I'm gonna be at the
Speaker 4: Rams game later today too?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Look at you? Unbelievable, amazing. Where are
Speaker 1: you're gonna be? Maybe we'll catch up? Who knows?
Speaker 4: Our boss did a raffle back on Friday and Iowa
Speaker 4: Sam won a pair of the tickets and I want
Speaker 4: a pair of the tickets.
Speaker 1: Look at that? Unbelievable. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when you're doing your whole media schmooze fest.
Speaker 1: Well, if you want, I can bring you a little
Speaker 1: gift packet if you want, are you going with your wife?
Speaker 1: Who you're going with?
Speaker 4: I got a few hours here to figure that out.
Speaker 4: I have a couple of people fighting over the second
Speaker 4: ticket I have.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, all right, Well, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't know they had a raffle. I wasn't invited
Speaker 1: to the raffle. I had no idea. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: ever check your work emails. That's true, that is correct.
Speaker 1: I do not check the work email at all. But
Speaker 1: I will beat the game today, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to to seeing if the Rams can bounce back after
Speaker 1: they coughed up a fur a ball against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: What a terrible loss that was. And I'll be watching
Speaker 1: on my laptop. While I'm watching the Ram game, I'll
Speaker 1: be watching the Ravens and the Chiefs, which is the
Speaker 1: big game in the late television window today, and then
Speaker 1: tonight I will watch the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So this should be a good day. And so last
Speaker 1: day of the baseball season, last day of the regular
Speaker 1: season in baseball. So there's still still some stuff, not much,
Speaker 1: but still some stuff to be sorted out. Yay, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the well, we'll catch up to the ramby.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the mail bag. It's time for the
Speaker 1: mail bag. Here we go.
Speaker 3: It's this mail bag.
Speaker 1: All right, very exciting. Thank you, ohio al. These are
Speaker 1: actual letters by actual listeners. And if you'd like to
Speaker 1: send a letter into the mail bag, you can do that.
Speaker 1: Cara Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's Real
Speaker 1: fifth hour at gmail dot com. First up on the
Speaker 1: mail bag is Alf from Podcasts Gone By Alf Write
Speaker 1: Sin says, first and foremost, why are AirPods so hard
Speaker 1: to hang on to? I agree, I once dropped, Alf
Speaker 1: says my AirPods at work under a paper cutter. And
Speaker 1: by papercutter, I don't mean the kind you had in
Speaker 1: grammar school. I mean the kind that weighs thousands of
Speaker 1: pounds and has a forty five inch blade that weighs
Speaker 1: fifty pounds? Does out you think Alf works at it's
Speaker 1: like the office. He works at a paper mill. You
Speaker 1: think he works at a paper company. I don't know anyway.
Speaker 3: That's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, it says I like you. Ben was
Speaker 1: on my hands and knees fishing around for a loan earbud,
Speaker 1: only to move some machinery and find the missing earbud
Speaker 1: broken due to my movements of set machinery, he says,
Speaker 1: hashtag fun fact. Amazon sells individual buds that pair fine
Speaker 1: with working earbuds. I did not know that.
Speaker 3: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. So if you lose if you
Speaker 1: lose an AirPod, you can get If you lose one,
Speaker 1: you can get another one. That's pretty cool. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to remember that because I inevitably I'm
Speaker 1: a klutz. I will absolutely lose them at some point.
Speaker 1: I know it's going to happen. Although this week I
Speaker 1: am proud of myself, Dany. I went to the gym
Speaker 1: a couple time, and I made sure to not open
Speaker 1: the air pods until I got into the gym, and
Speaker 1: then when I got to the car after the gym,
Speaker 1: I didn't take them out of my ears until the
Speaker 1: door of the car was closed. Therefore they could not
Speaker 1: fall out of the car and on to the turf
Speaker 1: or the not the turf, the asphalt there and be lost.
Speaker 3: So good job by you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and Alf says, secondly, going back to
Speaker 1: Friday's pod, a little known fun fact about yours truly
Speaker 1: is that my grandfather on my mother's side was a
Speaker 1: lumberjack in ken Yet yesterday was lumberjack lumberjack Day, he says.
Speaker 1: A unfund fact is that he met his untimely demise
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty two, when my mother was only sixteen
Speaker 1: years old, due to a tree that he was cutting
Speaker 1: falling the wrong way. Hashtag be downer. Wow, he says,
Speaker 1: I thought these podcasts were supposed to be fun. At
Speaker 1: least the audio quality is top not signed your favorite
Speaker 1: audio snob. Yeah, no, Alf, you have high standards and
Speaker 1: that's good. God forbid. Someone listening to a radio show
Speaker 1: wants to actually hear the show. What's wrong with You?
Speaker 1: Reggie from Detroit writes, and he says, hey guys, hey Ben,
Speaker 1: what's going on with producer lead A Lap I listened
Speaker 1: to your show and the Joners Show after yours. He's
Speaker 1: been away for a while. Nobody's said anything from Reggie.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, right, that's not my show. I
Speaker 1: like Lee. I don't know what's going on with that,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he'll be back.
Speaker 3: But I was he just on vacation?
Speaker 1: Maybe No, I don't think he was on vacation.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Oh, so hopefully he'll be back again.
Speaker 3: That's that's not right now and wake him up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not not a good idea. Next up, we
Speaker 1: have what is this? Jose rights and it says mister
Speaker 1: has a high band and mister g Jose here originally
Speaker 1: from NorCal, now living somewhere in Massachusetts. As a kid
Speaker 1: growing up, I was the biggest San Francisco Giants fan.
Speaker 1: I never missed the game, even listening to games on
Speaker 1: the radio when they were not on TV. Analytics and
Speaker 1: the DH in the National League and interleague play ruined
Speaker 1: baseball for me. The pitchers are soft as baby poop.
Speaker 1: Oh lola. Now, I can't stand baseball. Jose says it
Speaker 1: is boring. He says, like soccer. Do you think you'll
Speaker 1: ever give up on the Dodgers. I know that's hard
Speaker 1: for you because of your job, but the Dodgers suck
Speaker 1: and are too soft. My daughter Marlene says, hi, she's
Speaker 1: nine and nine says here she's beieve It says she's
Speaker 1: nine and loves the podcast.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: Well, hello to Marlene, thank you for listening. And Jose,
Speaker 1: will I ever give up the Dodgers, though the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have kind of given up me though since they got Otani.
Speaker 1: It's not the same. So let's just say I don't
Speaker 1: have as much love for the Dodgers as I did
Speaker 1: a few years ago. When they do you dirty, yeah,
Speaker 1: you kind of move away from where you had been.
Speaker 1: But that, you know, everyone's got decisions to make in life,
Speaker 1: and what they make, you know, is in a decision
Speaker 1: that the Dodger PR staff made their decision. And let's
Speaker 1: just say, I'm not as engaged as I had been
Speaker 1: in the past.
Speaker 3: You missed that Angels type treatment that you was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, No, It's just it's been eye opening the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. That's all I'll say. That's all
Speaker 1: I'll say on that one. He also says, why don't
Speaker 1: you put the meat and greet events on YouTube? We
Speaker 1: love to see more of you guys. That is from
Speaker 1: jose and his daughter Marlene. So sure. The only issue
Speaker 1: with that is someone would have to record those things
Speaker 1: for YouTube. The YouTube channel is run by Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the IT department at Fox Sports Radio, and
Speaker 1: the company has chosen to not invest in the meet
Speaker 1: and greet. So these are things that we do on
Speaker 1: our own. They don't give us any kind of a
Speaker 1: budget because it's just our own event, so they'd have
Speaker 1: to send somebody out there that would cost them money.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that will not happen, Jose, but I would
Speaker 1: love for it. I've I've pitched for years that they
Speaker 1: spend a little money, get some advertisers, Let's do a
Speaker 1: bunch of meet and Greece. Let's do one every other
Speaker 1: month and just go around and promote them in the
Speaker 1: whole thing. But they've chosen to go a different direction
Speaker 1: on that, so I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog in Fullerton, writes and says evening, gentlemen, Evening.
Speaker 3: Says Fergie Ferg. Yeah, it's not the evening for us
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Good news, guys, I finally completed my Disney autograph book. Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations for a dog. I've got every single mask got
Speaker 1: in there. I had to put up with a lot
Speaker 1: of crying kids to get them, especially a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but I got them. He said, well, what do you
Speaker 1: think the hardest one to get out of the Disney characters?
Speaker 3: Wehl airly Goofy.
Speaker 4: That's what he's referring to if you're hear a podcast
Speaker 4: or I think three weekends again.
Speaker 1: To celebrate the occasion, I'd like to ask what your
Speaker 1: favorite Disney movie was growing up. Take as much time
Speaker 1: as you need to think it over. I've got all day,
Speaker 1: it says the Engaging fur Dog. When it comes to
Speaker 1: that favorite Disney movie, I all some all of them. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know the one I liked that's underrated, it's in
Speaker 1: my head right now is the cartoon version of Robin Hood.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That was a Disney movie, right, the cartoon one. Remember
Speaker 1: the original Robin Hood?
Speaker 3: Oh, the old school Robb the og.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I always liked that one. I thought that was
Speaker 1: a cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: My grandmother took us to the drive in to see
Speaker 4: that when I was a little kid. Oh man, that's
Speaker 4: old school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on multiple layers? Is that old school?
Speaker 3: She got us some Pioneered Chicken before we went to
Speaker 3: the theater.
Speaker 1: The Pioneer's a couple left, only a couple of Pioneered
Speaker 1: Chicken left. A classic location two locations in southern California.
Speaker 1: I believe there's two locations in southern California. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I saw all the Disney movies my parents. My
Speaker 1: mom loved Disney stuff. She had the whole Disney collection
Speaker 1: growing up, so we watched everything, everything, everything. You have
Speaker 1: a favorite Disney movie, Danny was? What was yours?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Disney household Man.
Speaker 4: Too many to list, but the one I'll I'll talk
Speaker 4: about the one CoA has been watching on repeat and
Speaker 4: I love it. Cars Oh, Cars Yeah, yeah, Lightning McQueen
Speaker 4: and mader. I saw Cars three for the first time
Speaker 4: a few nights back, and CoA has been collecting all
Speaker 4: the different characters from Cars.
Speaker 1: No, that's cool, cos still way too small to go
Speaker 1: on the actual Cars ride though.
Speaker 3: Right, you can't too small for that? Yeah, too small
Speaker 3: for that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We took him in cars Land inside California Adventure and
Speaker 4: he loved it.
Speaker 1: No, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: As a kid man, that must be like just your
Speaker 1: eyes popping out of your head, like this is unbelievable,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Scott from Florida writes in on the
Speaker 1: Mailbag the Fifth Hour podcast. If you'd like to send
Speaker 1: a message in for some reason, if you didn't listen
Speaker 1: at the beginning you fast forwarded through the mailbag, send
Speaker 1: us a question. It won't be used today, but it'll
Speaker 1: be used next week on the mailbag Real fifth Hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Scott says, hey, Ben and Danny, Ben, you joked about
Speaker 1: somebody drinking an Arnold Palmer by the pool the other
Speaker 1: day and your Marconi deserving Mallard monologues. If someone were
Speaker 1: to create a Ben Maler and or a Danny g
Speaker 1: what would the drink entail? A Scott from Florida would
Speaker 1: have some orange juice, of course, maybe a drop of
Speaker 1: salt water to ensure the crazy in Florida is represented,
Speaker 1: and a squeeze of waffle House syrup for a sweetener
Speaker 1: as an ode to the waffle House hurricane index. Finally,
Speaker 1: Florida being a vacation destination. I think it's got to
Speaker 1: be rum for the alcohol. What are your thoughts? That's
Speaker 1: Scott from Florida. So I'd love to have a drink.
Speaker 1: We've got the food dishes in Kansas City and in Denver,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to have the drink. That would be wonderful.
Speaker 1: Still want the malard pizza? Would like that malard pizza
Speaker 1: would be good. Mallard cheeseburger double cheeseburger would be solid
Speaker 1: as well. I don't know what jee I mean. I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge drinker. I'm guessing it would be a
Speaker 1: It would be a fruit based drink, like a cranberry,
Speaker 1: maybe some orange mixed together, and you know, I'm open.
Speaker 1: I'm open to it. We could get creative of that
Speaker 1: would be a good idea. Danny go into a bar.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of bartenders that listen to the show.
Speaker 1: Got a guy into Moine for example, going there and
Speaker 1: just like futs around with different combinations and see what
Speaker 1: you like and then boom at your drink.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 3: You know? I would go prune juice and rum. I'd
Speaker 3: call it the prum prune juice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you could get faded and clean out your
Speaker 4: system all at the same time.
Speaker 1: The two for one special, the daily double Danny's there,
Speaker 1: you go, even health nuts mixed with the party people
Speaker 1: and they'd be pushing up to the bar saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I want the Danny jeep.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So you're going away from the original
Speaker 1: Danny g which was was that the Roofies was at
Speaker 1: the original No, I'm.
Speaker 4: Kidding, I'm from the Garadelli family, not the Pudding Pop family.
Speaker 1: Hello, Eric is thank you by the way, Scott from Florida,
Speaker 1: you signed your name. Good job by you. Eric in
Speaker 1: Chula Vista, Eric from Just Sunday, I go away, beautiful
Speaker 1: Cheula Vista. Do I get Cardiff by the Sea? Can
Speaker 1: I get a Cardiff by the Sea? Get a East County,
Speaker 1: North County? Come on anyway? Eric and Cheula Vista rights
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I have been
Speaker 1: a secret non caller p one for years. Good job
Speaker 1: by you, Eric, He says. When the podcast first launched,
Speaker 1: you and Gagon begged us to help goose the numbers
Speaker 1: by downloading it on every device and site, grandparents' phones,
Speaker 1: smart toasters, you name it. That's right, and Eric says,
Speaker 1: So when I visited my mom, I sneakily subscribed her
Speaker 1: to your podcast. Fast forward five years. She calls me
Speaker 1: in a panic, saying her phone is super low on space.
Speaker 1: Story continues. Eric says, funny thing is since she he
Speaker 1: only knows how to make an answer calls and only
Speaker 1: knows how to read and not send text messages. I
Speaker 1: checked the storage and discovered her phone had become the
Speaker 1: Library of Congress for the fifth hour podcast. Every single episode,
Speaker 1: every single episode was still there. It turns out I
Speaker 1: never said it to auto delete, so she was basically
Speaker 1: carrying around the Smithsonian of your podcast. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: That is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for that. Eric, that's great. So
Speaker 1: it takes about according to this, it takes about five
Speaker 1: years to save up every podcast and then eventually you
Speaker 1: have to delete the podcast because you have no more
Speaker 1: space on your phone yet. And we still support that. Eric,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up because we haven't brought
Speaker 1: this issue to the podcast in a while. But when
Speaker 1: I did do it with Gagon, who retired to Florida
Speaker 1: years ago, and I've had a great time with Danny
Speaker 1: g But when we we used to beg people, Danny,
Speaker 1: because we figured out that a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of people have older parents and grandparents or whatever and
Speaker 1: obviously older and they have their phones and they can
Speaker 1: download the podcast, they can subscribe, so we can, as
Speaker 1: Eric said, here goose the numbers a little bit by
Speaker 1: having kids subscribe their parents to the podcast, and it does.
Speaker 3: Work pretty surest law, Wow.
Speaker 1: It's a law. It's podcasting. There are no laws, right,
Speaker 1: it's all it's the wild Wild West man, it's podcasting.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate your support, Eric, and you are in
Speaker 1: the silent majority, because trust me, if we only went
Speaker 1: by the people that participate in these radio shows and podcasts,
Speaker 1: we would not have very many people who are participating
Speaker 1: or who are listening. But we have many, many more
Speaker 1: people who are just silently listening and ease dropping in
Speaker 1: into whatever we're talking about. So thank you, Eric, andologize
Speaker 1: to you mom. I hope she's okay, And just delete
Speaker 1: a bunch of them and then don't delete the follow.
Speaker 1: Do not delete the follow. Lucky Tony writes in from
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g.
Speaker 1: I have been listening to the twenty seventeen podcast Here
Speaker 1: we Go Again, twenty seventeen podcast and Waiting Live show.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how many people go back and hear
Speaker 1: those old Why would you go back and hear an
Speaker 1: old podcast? I don't get it.
Speaker 4: The reason why, Ben, that's when you had your best
Speaker 4: roster on your overnight show.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, there you go, the old days,
Speaker 1: the salad days. It has changed a lot over the year, anyway,
Speaker 1: says Waiting for the live show to be downloaded to
Speaker 1: listen to have y' all played Terry's song? Did I
Speaker 1: miss it?
Speaker 3: Or will it be?
Speaker 1: On the podcast? He says, Raiders twenty three, Bears thirteen,
Speaker 1: Lock it in your thoughts Bears. So he's lucky to
Speaker 1: he's a Bears fan, but he's picking the Raiders to
Speaker 1: beat the Bears today.
Speaker 4: About that, you know, a Chicago fan called me on
Speaker 4: the studio lines a few days back and told me,
Speaker 4: here's what's up with my team. We look good one week,
Speaker 4: and we look like crap the next week. So you
Speaker 4: get us on a week where we're going to lose,
Speaker 4: and I hope he's right.
Speaker 3: He knows his team.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of chatter about the Bears have
Speaker 1: figured everything out because they beat up the Cowboys last week,
Speaker 1: and normally the team that is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: media shine does not live up to that shine the
Speaker 1: following game. So we'll see what happens. Kevin and Kansas
Speaker 1: writes in on the mail bag. He says, Dear Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g my sister in law sent some pictures
Speaker 1: of the progress of the BUCkies going up in Goodyear, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, it looks like it will be June as
Speaker 1: the new opening did.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Originally, Danny, this was supposed to be done by Christmas
Speaker 1: of this year, and now here we are. This is
Speaker 1: the last weekend in September and the last Sunday in September,
Speaker 1: and so they've already pushed that back, according to Kevin,
Speaker 1: until June of twenty twenty six. Ben, would you consider
Speaker 1: doing your show live from BUCkies in Arizona? And Danny
Speaker 1: G would you consider providing DJ services for the grand opening?
Speaker 1: Let me see here, is that a paying gig. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna speak for Danny G. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Danny, you would be willing to do that?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah yeah if they gave me some big BUCkies money.
Speaker 4: But usually those kind of gigs the assistant manager under
Speaker 4: the manager says, I got a buddy that'll do the
Speaker 4: gig for one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and that would absolutely. Kevin love to do
Speaker 1: the show from BUCkies. They would have to write a
Speaker 1: check though, to the company. They don't just send me
Speaker 1: out to those things unless they're getting some cash and
Speaker 1: all that. It would be fun. I do plan on
Speaker 1: going there. I guess you'd have to go in June though.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go to Arizona in July, right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go to Arizona July or August.
Speaker 3: Even in June.
Speaker 4: It's pretty Toasta pretty been there in July it felt
Speaker 4: like a furnace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brutal, brute taddled for sure. What are you
Speaker 1: wearing for the Ram game today, Danny? You're a Raider fan.
Speaker 1: You don't care about the colts of the Rams.
Speaker 3: Like what I'm gonna wear Dodger gear?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? A last one, last one on the
Speaker 1: mailbag from Ben H. Ben H writes in says, Hello, Ben,
Speaker 1: I have never seen a person hate a player on
Speaker 1: his own team like you despise Clayton Kershaw. His playoff
Speaker 1: struggles are way overblown. You, of all people, should remember
Speaker 1: the horrid Dodgers offense of the early to made twenty tens.
Speaker 1: These terrible offensive performances greatly.
Speaker 4: Effencd Ben, take that, Ben, take it.
Speaker 1: Take it greatly affected his win loss record, which is
Speaker 1: thirteen and thirteen, not under five hundred. Taically said, no
Speaker 1: bad job by you, Ben. What I said is in
Speaker 1: games started by Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers have a losing record,
Speaker 1: and that's the games he got a no decision in.
Speaker 1: It's the complete body of his work, playoff games started
Speaker 1: by Clayton Kershaw. If you go to his playoff game log,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have a losing record when he started in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they lost more times than they won, says
Speaker 1: the other great pitchers of his generation, Schuerzer and Verlander
Speaker 1: both have postseason in the areas over three. I like
Speaker 1: how Ben conveniently leaves off Madison Bumgardner, yet you never
Speaker 1: bring them up as playoff chokers. Even the great Pedro
Speaker 1: Martinez has a postseason in the ara of three point
Speaker 1: four to six. Hardly clutch, as you called him in
Speaker 1: your tie rade against Kershaw. If Dave Roberts pulled Kershaw
Speaker 1: when any other manager would have, instead of leaving him
Speaker 1: in to die, his EI would have been very good
Speaker 1: in the postseason. Since twenty fifteen, he has had two
Speaker 1: years worthy of criticism, twenty nineteen and twenty thirteen. One game.
Speaker 1: Do better Ben from Ben age? Listen, there's nothing to debate.
Speaker 1: I do like the Dodgers. I do not do hero worship.
Speaker 1: I just don't. It was the most ridiculous thing the
Speaker 1: Dodgers did.
Speaker 4: I was embarrassed you did in your thirties, though, Remember
Speaker 4: when you got that Judeo Nomo tattoo on your left
Speaker 4: ask cheek.
Speaker 1: Trying not to talk about that, Danny, Please, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get that removed. Nobody sees my ass,
Speaker 1: but no, but seriously, like listen, I felt sad for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Embarrassing what the Dodgers did when they dug
Speaker 1: up the rubber at Dodgers Stadium. It was so pathetic.
Speaker 1: So so just you tell me to do better, I say,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers need to do better. He's a freaking he's cleaners,
Speaker 1: a great regular season player, Hall of Fame, regular season pitcher,
Speaker 1: and the reason the Dodgers do not have two or
Speaker 1: three more World Series championships because of his competence. And
Speaker 1: you can spin it any way you want, and you know,
Speaker 1: knock yourself out. Clayton Kershaw did not elevate his performance
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He didn't remember this was it seven
Speaker 1: nothing Cardinals. Dodgers had a seven nothing lead against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Remember that that playoff game the Phillies in the early
Speaker 1: or late as.
Speaker 4: Man the number one thing I don't like about this
Speaker 4: topic or conversation is I buried those bat memories. I
Speaker 4: don't want them coming to the front of them.
Speaker 1: I understand, but it's just I just it's fair.
Speaker 3: Didn't happen. It didn't happen. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, I was at a lot of those games back
Speaker 1: in those days, and I witnessed. I saw it, and
Speaker 1: I was the one sing, next time is gonna be okay,
Speaker 1: Kershaw is going to be fine next time? And then
Speaker 1: he'd be out there and he'd be in the cockpit
Speaker 1: in the vomit comment, and I mean, like, what is
Speaker 1: he doing? He sucks again? I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: it's it was always.
Speaker 4: An ex But he would have, let's be honest, he
Speaker 4: would have got that one against the Strows if they
Speaker 4: weren't cheating. And he did finally shake it off the
Speaker 4: last two World series that we got. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: you can say that it's not enough redemption, but at
Speaker 4: least he's had some redemption.
Speaker 1: Not enough to have a state funeral. Okay, much God
Speaker 1: so stupid? Oh he crap? I mean, did they have
Speaker 1: any shame over there? It is so over the top
Speaker 1: at Dodger stadium. It's embarrassing. Okay, he's a human being. Stop,
Speaker 1: he's not a god. He's not a Demi god. It's
Speaker 1: like so stupid, it's so dumb. I said five years
Speaker 1: ago he should have retired, And finally he's gonna retire
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers will be fine. They're not gonna miss
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw because he's that's it. It's time for him
Speaker 1: to go do something else. And he'll still be out
Speaker 1: at all the games anyway. They're gonna they're gonna give
Speaker 1: him the Kofax package where they pay him a couple
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year to come out and take
Speaker 1: photos and kiss babies and shake hands and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So he's not going anywhere. That's it, though, Thank you, Ben.
Speaker 1: He doesna say he loves the show, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening. Ben. And I've gotten some email Danny from
Speaker 1: Dodger fish and they start, I used to like your show,
Speaker 1: but you know it's because of the Kershaw thing. They're
Speaker 1: so they're so bitter.
Speaker 4: In my response, I saw it in the comments. You
Speaker 4: had more than one person quit on you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and again, as we like to say, Danny,
Speaker 1: First of all, if you're going to stop listening to
Speaker 1: a show because you didn't like a take the person had,
Speaker 1: then you're not really a fan of the show. You're
Speaker 1: a fake fan, okay, because I ideal in a lot
Speaker 1: of takes, IM in the industrial concrete.
Speaker 3: Now you're pissing off the other half of our list.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just a real fan. Does not quit something
Speaker 1: because of one take that you don't agree with, that's
Speaker 1: a fake fan. And secondly, the Ben Mahler Show is
Speaker 1: a radio show. It is not an airport. You do
Speaker 1: not have to announce your departure. You don't have to
Speaker 1: say that the doors are closed. If you don't want
Speaker 1: to listen, do not like.
Speaker 3: It's fine.
Speaker 1: There are other things you can listen to, bad audio
Speaker 1: somewhere else or whatever. You don't have to listen. But
Speaker 1: it's like if I, as I point, I go to
Speaker 1: a restaurant and I don't like, I like I used
Speaker 1: to go to Canner's Deli in La I used to eat.
Speaker 1: I used to live right off near Fairfax there and
Speaker 1: used to go there quite a bit, and I haven't
Speaker 1: been there in years. I didn't I didn't call Canners
Speaker 1: up and say I'm not going there anymore. I just
Speaker 1: stop going. That's that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's this thing called Yelp, and there's some
Speaker 4: a holes on there that do do what you're describing.
Speaker 4: Let's let's just hope this podcast and your Overnight show,
Speaker 4: for the most part, are like a really good restaurant
Speaker 4: where we keep the client.
Speaker 1: Tell yeah, yeah, we want to keep everyone everyone around.
Speaker 1: Am I not entitled to have a grudge against Clayton Kershe?
Speaker 1: I think I am entitled.
Speaker 4: To have a great Oh that's fine. I think the
Speaker 4: one thing I would like on your Overnight show, and
Speaker 4: I don't know if it happened. I know Eddie's not
Speaker 4: there anymore. I know Coop maybe isn't as involved that
Speaker 4: much on the microphone, but in Lorena doesn't know sports
Speaker 4: all that much. Oh, this list keeps going.
Speaker 1: You want to keep going.
Speaker 4: It's going to be somebody there to keep you in line,
Speaker 4: to give you some pushback. You know, if I was
Speaker 4: still on your Overnight show, I would have been pushing
Speaker 4: back and we would have argued a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to push back on. I've reached.
Speaker 3: There's so much to push back on.
Speaker 1: Your takes every night is a Mallard masterpiece. There's no
Speaker 1: need to push it is. You know what I have done, Danny,
Speaker 1: I've reached the Goldilock zone. I have reached the Goldilock zone.
Speaker 1: That is where I am right now. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed. Maybe i'll see you today
Speaker 1: at the Ram game, Danny, let me know where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be. Send Simon.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're gonna see me with a big plate
Speaker 4: of food wrapped in paper towels.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're just going there to eat. You're pretty much
Speaker 1: just going there to eat gretty much.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be like that time I went to the
Speaker 4: La Kings hockey game, sat there, watched a few minutes,
Speaker 4: saw good fat a pretzel, and then left.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's about to move. That's about to move. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your son. I'll be back tonight in the studio the
Speaker 1: Mothership there for the overnight show, talking about all these
Speaker 1: NFL games. The Cowboys and the Packers will mention baby,
Speaker 1: the Rams will come up, all the big games will
Speaker 1: come up, and we'll talk to you.
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