Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, the Clearinghouse of hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the a every Way back
Speaker 1: at It, the podcast do Joe, No day is off? Well,
Speaker 1: that's actually not true. There were some days off. I'll
Speaker 1: explain what that's all about. You'll hear that here. You
Speaker 1: didn't hear that anywhere else, But here we are because
Speaker 1: four hours a night are not enough. It's the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio, the secret
Speaker 1: star of Covino and Rich and he hangs out with
Speaker 1: us on the weekends here eight days a week, eight
Speaker 1: days a week. No, you should have the nervous hearts.
Speaker 1: And he's not He's not really Danny G anymore. He's
Speaker 1: he's soon to be Daddy G Radio, his new radio Lodikerdy.
Speaker 1: Everything good with that? I mean now, every time I
Speaker 1: open up Twitter, I see Daddy G all over the place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your new thing. People love it. Man, that's the way
Speaker 1: to go. It's like when Snoop Dogg changed his name
Speaker 1: Rosy Snoop Lyon or something like that. Yeah, that lasted
Speaker 1: about as long as his Steelers fandom. Yeah, we'll just
Speaker 1: make sure it doesn't go the way of Kanye when
Speaker 1: he became yee and became like a Nazi. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go down that road. You don't.
Speaker 1: You want to try to avoid that as much as
Speaker 1: you can, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think any of us have anything to worry about in
Speaker 1: regards to having that sort of meltdown. Highly unlikely. You
Speaker 1: most likely have to do a lot of things up
Speaker 1: in those Hollywood Hills, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: pharmaceuticals up in those Hollywood Hills for that to be
Speaker 1: the case. So before we get into the nonsense on
Speaker 1: the podcast, I would like to point out that I
Speaker 1: was not on my watch post on Thursday. I know
Speaker 1: we had Thursday into Friday. I know we had Benny
Speaker 1: Versus depending on that um, but just a programing. No,
Speaker 1: as you know, I hate missing time, and but this
Speaker 1: was scheduled in advance there's a family situation where is
Speaker 1: no no, it's an it's a tribute to my father
Speaker 1: who passed away a couple of years ago. And uh,
Speaker 1: in the Jewish faith, you're supposed to have an unveiling
Speaker 1: after a year. Well, actually, because of COVID, we couldn't
Speaker 1: get everything all the ducks lined up in a row.
Speaker 1: And plus there's some logistical issues with my my relatives,
Speaker 1: my my brothers who lived outside the area in the
Speaker 1: Midwest and the East coast, so everything everyone's in town.
Speaker 1: And I felt like I would be a douche bag
Speaker 1: if I didn't take some time off and spend time
Speaker 1: with people who traveled from far away, and so that's
Speaker 1: that's the reason. But after this weekend, I'll be back
Speaker 1: to the normal nonsense and all that. So I just
Speaker 1: want to get out of that out of the way,
Speaker 1: and it's, you know, nothing bad. It's a tribute, and
Speaker 1: I get to see some relatives I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: long time. I've got people flying in from three time
Speaker 1: zones I believe three or four time zones, so it's
Speaker 1: pretty pretty neat to see people haven't seen in sometime.
Speaker 1: With that being said, on this podcast, wait wait, don't
Speaker 1: bury the lead. What's that? What's that? Relatives who dissed
Speaker 1: you at Disneyland last time? Are they part of this? No,
Speaker 1: they somehow did not make it out. They did not
Speaker 1: did not make the trip. But there are others that
Speaker 1: didn't diss me that have decided to make the sojourn
Speaker 1: to the winter wonderland of southern California. So we've got
Speaker 1: what a dinghy sea world he Man hop goes the
Speaker 1: culture and back scratchers. So we got a lot of
Speaker 1: content for you and you always have to listen to
Speaker 1: And people were emailing me, Danny that we we dropped
Speaker 1: a few bombshells at the end of the Saturday podcast
Speaker 1: that they had to listen all the way through and
Speaker 1: if they hadn't, if they hadn't listened to the very end,
Speaker 1: they would have missed it. Yeah. Yeah, we really do
Speaker 1: save the best for last. Yeah. Sometimes we screw up
Speaker 1: and save that. We bury, don't bury the leave Mama
Speaker 1: hand and everyone in a while, we bury lead. So
Speaker 1: we begin this podcast with a trip back in time
Speaker 1: the week that was this being Saturday, as we are
Speaker 1: dropping the podcast on Saturday. You can listen whenever you want,
Speaker 1: but this is the life of Mallard and the Life
Speaker 1: of Danny g And I gotta tell you we are
Speaker 1: really international men of mystery, Danny being big time radio personalities.
Speaker 1: We're living the dream. We really are living the dream.
Speaker 1: Actually it's kind of scary, but that was my dream.
Speaker 1: The lesson is to dream bigger, right Danny. When you're
Speaker 1: a kid, you know, dream of being a hedge fund
Speaker 1: titan or something like that. But it was a wild week.
Speaker 1: Everyone I've run across he lives in this southern California area,
Speaker 1: has all had amazing stories. It started on a rain
Speaker 1: soaked a night on Sunday, but it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: There was some drizzle, it wasn't really that bad. There
Speaker 1: was there was another storm that came in on Monday.
Speaker 1: Now I did not pay close attention to the television weather.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the weather. I did see that there
Speaker 1: was rain on my smartphone app and so in you know,
Speaker 1: as I looked at it was like, you know, it
Speaker 1: was probably light rain. It's no big deal. I can
Speaker 1: handle that. And also, in fairness, my wife her car
Speaker 1: broke down again. We had another mallarmobile meltdown on the
Speaker 1: way to work. So I did need to get out
Speaker 1: of the house. I had to pick her up from
Speaker 1: work after I got done with work, So that was
Speaker 1: part of my motivation to leave the Mallard mansion. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: as you know, Danny, and you'll teach your son as
Speaker 1: you are now, Daddy g Radio, you teach your son
Speaker 1: when your son's older there that life is just a
Speaker 1: series of choices, right. The ones you make now will
Speaker 1: affect the next choices that you make. And if you
Speaker 1: make bad choices and then you make more bad choices,
Speaker 1: you end up in a bad situation. So I made
Speaker 1: a really dumb decision, a tactical era, a strategic mistake,
Speaker 1: as sun Zoo would say. And I learned a valuable
Speaker 1: lesson that they say that rising tide raises all boats. Well,
Speaker 1: rising water on the highway raises all cars. I learned
Speaker 1: that very valuable lesson. It was like and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've got some stories on this, it was like demolition Derby, Danny.
Speaker 1: It was a slipping slide and I'm coming all the
Speaker 1: way from the north Woods. I got a long commute,
Speaker 1: a very long commute, a lot of miles, a lot
Speaker 1: of time in in l A and circumventing the highways
Speaker 1: and byways of the l A Freeway system, which fortunately
Speaker 1: at night when I come in, it's not too bad usually,
Speaker 1: but you add a little rain on top and watch out.
Speaker 1: So I'm on the If you're familiar with southern California,
Speaker 1: those of you that most of our listeners are not
Speaker 1: in l A, but on the one oh one Freeway,
Speaker 1: which goes through downtown Los Angeles and slices through Hollywood
Speaker 1: on its way to the San Fernando Valley. I was
Speaker 1: on that part of it, which goes right through the
Speaker 1: heart of downtown l A. And it's a very old freeway.
Speaker 1: That part of it in l A is really old
Speaker 1: and not designed for the modern automobile. And this was
Speaker 1: one of the most terrible experiences I've ember had in
Speaker 1: my life. I was convinced a couple of times I
Speaker 1: was going to end up in a fiery crash, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know whether I'd live or not. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it was so bad. And here's how
Speaker 1: bad it was, Danny, so right around. You're familiar with this,
Speaker 1: so I'm in. I made it through downtown LA It
Speaker 1: was not good, but it got even progressively. Versus I
Speaker 1: got around Melrose sunset Hollywood like that area. I'm driving
Speaker 1: in the middle lane. It's twenty miles an hour. Maybe
Speaker 1: I think it's like fifteen twenty miles an hour. Everyone's
Speaker 1: got their emergency flashers on. I had not seen that
Speaker 1: level of rain in l A. I got've seen bad rain.
Speaker 1: I've traveled to Buffalo and Wisconsin and Chicago and some
Speaker 1: other places. I've seen some terrible in Boston, but I
Speaker 1: never that's not normal in l A. I have not
Speaker 1: seen that since elnno Eleno back in the in the nineties,
Speaker 1: a long time ago. This is call it what you want,
Speaker 1: bomb cyclone atmosphereic River was a lot of fucking rain,
Speaker 1: is what it was. That's all I know. It was
Speaker 1: a monsoon, typhoon whatever names don't matter. And so that
Speaker 1: was really a dumb MOVI. I wear the shame the
Speaker 1: bell of the shame bell on that that that was
Speaker 1: a bad I'm driving through this deluge and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what a dinghy. I should have brought my dinghy. I
Speaker 1: would have been better off than in my car. And
Speaker 1: and it's like years ago, I would have had no options.
Speaker 1: But now ever since COVID and and since some other
Speaker 1: stuff that I've done. I have a home studio. Now
Speaker 1: I don't have to drive in the bad weather. I
Speaker 1: feel bad for for the guys like you know you,
Speaker 1: Danny and some of the other guys have no choice.
Speaker 1: You have to be in the way like I have
Speaker 1: an option and not driving in anyway. I will. I
Speaker 1: will let everyone know. I want to let all the
Speaker 1: affiliates and all the listeners know. From now on, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look at my weather app Danny. If I see
Speaker 1: heavy rain, I am bunkering in place. I am not
Speaker 1: leaving the Mallar mansion. I have officially become a pansy.
Speaker 1: I I have officially come a whuss. And that's it.
Speaker 1: I guess I've become old Danny. I'm now that guy.
Speaker 1: I'm now turning into my father who would never leave
Speaker 1: the house when there was a drop of rain. And
Speaker 1: I'm now becoming that guy. Yeah, you you really need
Speaker 1: to just stay home and use your home studio when
Speaker 1: there's a monsoon. You're on this podcast before, I mentioned
Speaker 1: that one lady in my neighborhood who attacks any mailman,
Speaker 1: any ups driver, DHL ups, FedEx, it doesn't matter the
Speaker 1: driver's company. She hounds these guys because she's lonely, so
Speaker 1: as soon as she sees a mail carrier, poor guy
Speaker 1: gets trapped in a conversation with her. And we have
Speaker 1: overheard her glorious conversations and they all start like this,
Speaker 1: can you believe this weather we're having? And my wife
Speaker 1: he always shakes her head like that poor guy. She
Speaker 1: she's like Jesus, I would just drive away and like
Speaker 1: leeve her standing there because she's never shuts up. It
Speaker 1: was awesome, Ben, because one of the days where the
Speaker 1: rain was coming down so heavy, she was out there
Speaker 1: with a raincoat, still trying to talk to one of
Speaker 1: the mail carriers. Relentless, relentless, beyond yeah the word to
Speaker 1: describe it. She's like to wahwa, she's in a puddle
Speaker 1: up to her the top of her socks. That's some persvent.
Speaker 1: She's not on social media, like there's ways you can
Speaker 1: talk to people. You don't have to be that tenacious
Speaker 1: to talk to the mailman. And she must like that
Speaker 1: face to face conversation. She must be a fan of that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah. So the day after, on Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: my school district opened back up. All right, But now
Speaker 1: you know from Ben's story and from hearing about her
Speaker 1: in the puddle, still attacking the mail carriers. That we
Speaker 1: did have a flood here in southern California. So we're
Speaker 1: back at it for school. Tuesday morning, I get in,
Speaker 1: I opened the campus. The janitor had worked over time,
Speaker 1: because there was yellow tape all over the campus blocking
Speaker 1: off this puddle and that puddle, and this walkway and
Speaker 1: that staircase. And you looked around but and it looked
Speaker 1: like Spidy had been there shooting yellow yellow take webs.
Speaker 1: And my first thought was, holy sh it, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a day that lives in infamy. A thousand
Speaker 1: kids are about to show up and there are puddles
Speaker 1: literally up to your thighs. This is not gonna be
Speaker 1: an easy day or it's gonna be a fun day
Speaker 1: for the kids. Yeah. Yeah, this is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those days where the adults are screaming their heads off.
Speaker 1: As my mom would like to say, don't make me
Speaker 1: scream my head off. You remember, I'm sure you remember
Speaker 1: when you were a kid. I I'm sure you did
Speaker 1: the same thing I did. Like, we didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of rainy days in California where I grew up.
Speaker 1: We're in a lot of rainy days and something California.
Speaker 1: But I remember faun only a few times it did
Speaker 1: get rainy, and on recess, just fucking going for it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, looking for the deepest puddle possible. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then all of us kids would do the long jump. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was so good, so good, especially when your mom
Speaker 1: had those cheap rubber boots she would put over your shoes.
Speaker 1: When you had those rubber boots on, you were untouchable.
Speaker 1: When you had those rubber boots on, your iron Man,
Speaker 1: you had your suit, You had your suit on, You're
Speaker 1: ready to go, right. My mom would always tell us, you, guys,
Speaker 1: the water can still get in through the top of
Speaker 1: the boots. You're still ruining your shoes and socks. Care
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, all right, well, I got middle schoolers,
Speaker 1: So chances that a sixth grader is going to break
Speaker 1: these rules and get inside these yellow tape taped off areas.
Speaker 1: I don't know what about the seventh graders. Eighth graders
Speaker 1: probably think are too cool. It's the first day back,
Speaker 1: so everybody is late. I was actually early because I
Speaker 1: knew some ship was gonna go down the first couple
Speaker 1: of kids arrive. Now I will change the name of
Speaker 1: the kids here to protect the innocent and the guilty.
Speaker 1: David and Sam are the first to arrive. Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: one of them is reading a book, the other one
Speaker 1: fires up the Nintendo system that's in the classroom. Everything
Speaker 1: is chill, but now I get a call to open
Speaker 1: up the front gate for another kid that arrives, because
Speaker 1: they don't open up the front gate for everybody until
Speaker 1: seven thirty am. So I make the walk through all
Speaker 1: these puddles. Ben It's you know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where in California we can always dip and dodge,
Speaker 1: like there's a puddle there, to the right, to the left,
Speaker 1: you can always walk around the puddles. Rain came down
Speaker 1: so crazy here. Everything was a huge puddle, so you
Speaker 1: felt like you're in Minnesota, the Land of ten thousand Lakes.
Speaker 1: They were like, there was no way to keep your
Speaker 1: shoes and socks dry. So at this point, this is
Speaker 1: my third walk to the front gate, my shoes and
Speaker 1: socks are soaked, and I just gave up. At that point,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, it's a lost cause I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to change that stuff when I get home later. Get
Speaker 1: to the front gate, let the third kid in and
Speaker 1: we make the walk back to my classroom. Now, usually
Speaker 1: I could leave David and Sam in there on their
Speaker 1: own and it wouldn't be a problem on a normal day.
Speaker 1: But as me and the third student walk up, what
Speaker 1: do we see? These two are out in front of
Speaker 1: the classroom and they are both meat deep and one
Speaker 1: of the puddles that has the yellow tape around it, yes,
Speaker 1: and they are jumping up and down like little hooligans.
Speaker 1: Ben it looked like a scene from Dances with Wolves
Speaker 1: with outstanding, So what's your move here? You start yelling
Speaker 1: at him, like what's the I mean, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be that guy, you know, because obviously that's a
Speaker 1: fun thing for kids to see puddles that deep. I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, they're probably never gonna see this again,
Speaker 1: or maybe in one or what two times if they
Speaker 1: stay here in southern California. I mean, I probably have
Speaker 1: only seen that one other time here, and I've lived
Speaker 1: in this area for a long time, So I didn't
Speaker 1: want to take that joy away. You guys, First of all,
Speaker 1: you need to stay in the classroom. Second, Sam, how
Speaker 1: in the world are you gonna go to your first
Speaker 1: class when you are that. So because I mean, he's
Speaker 1: his jeans they looked like cutoffs now because they were
Speaker 1: two colors, blue jeans and black from the knees down.
Speaker 1: So did he have to do the call of shame
Speaker 1: to his mom? And said, yeah, ding ding ding. So
Speaker 1: I told him, I'm like, I'm not gonna make the call.
Speaker 1: You're gonna make the call. So I let him use
Speaker 1: the phone at my desk. He had to call his
Speaker 1: parents to bring him a change of clothes. And he's
Speaker 1: a seventh grader by the way. Yeah, so this seventh
Speaker 1: grader went for it. He had to, uh have his
Speaker 1: dad bring him a change of clothes. His dad must
Speaker 1: have loved that coming back to the school and uh
Speaker 1: And luckily David had on some rubber boots that his
Speaker 1: mom gave him and his pants weren't as wet as Sam's,
Speaker 1: so he avoided the call of shame. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: to watch those kids jumping up and down in that
Speaker 1: huge puddle something I'm never gonna forget. So it was
Speaker 1: like SeaWorld basically, right. It was like it was it
Speaker 1: was like two whales in the water. Wow, that's outstanding
Speaker 1: down by the schoolyard. I wanted to go back. After
Speaker 1: my adventure on Noah's Ark, Danny and we talked about
Speaker 1: you had a similar experience with hydroplaning, right you were
Speaker 1: driving in You're telling me that off the off the air,
Speaker 1: but the torrential rain. So I don't work complaining about
Speaker 1: the weather like total you know, you know what, losers.
Speaker 1: But when I did get to the studio, I had
Speaker 1: a couple of hiccups, and I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: my hiccups affected you, Danny, all right, and and Cavino
Speaker 1: and Rich and I'm gonna come clean here. This is
Speaker 1: like a confessional, is what this is? All right? So
Speaker 1: I had a pretty interesting night. I don't think of
Speaker 1: myself as the strongest guy in the world now. As always,
Speaker 1: when I show up on a Sunday night into a
Speaker 1: Monday morning, I am greeted, And you know this because
Speaker 1: used to work that shift, greeted by the rich aroma
Speaker 1: of rotting flesh, rotting trash. It is the smell that
Speaker 1: I associate with those studios, the smell of raw, h
Speaker 1: random food from the weekend. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: these people are eating on the weekends. I don't know
Speaker 1: you're there during the weekends. Sometimes but it's it's some
Speaker 1: combination of chicken, beef, fish and spices and vegetables rotting
Speaker 1: by the time I get in, and it's just fascinating cans.
Speaker 1: So I am so used to that smell. I feel
Speaker 1: like I worked for the sanitation department. I mean, I hear,
Speaker 1: I get that smell every week. So needless to say,
Speaker 1: pee you you know that what stinks and and all that.
Speaker 1: So I cruise in and I start the weekday line
Speaker 1: up after Chris Plank and and Arnie Spanish a couple
Speaker 1: of my guys, uh the wonderful job on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: And after they get done, a stinking genius turns off
Speaker 1: the mic. I flipped the lights. I try to flip
Speaker 1: the lights on to set the mood prior to the
Speaker 1: top of the hour when I start the show eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock in the west. Who I am in the east?
Speaker 1: So I noticed the light next to my chair are
Speaker 1: where I normally sit on the far end of the studio,
Speaker 1: is not on, and I'm flipping the switch back and
Speaker 1: forth and it's not turned on. So I'm I'm looking
Speaker 1: around the room and I'm processing everything, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm tall enough. This is one of my advantages. Use
Speaker 1: your strengths. So I'm like, I'll just stand up straight
Speaker 1: and I'll reach up and I'll twist the light because
Speaker 1: it's probably just a little loose, and I'll twist the
Speaker 1: light and that'll fix it. So I get over to
Speaker 1: where I need to go. I stand up, I stretched
Speaker 1: my arm out, I grabbed the light. These are very
Speaker 1: hot lights. But it wasn't working. So I was like,
Speaker 1: who cares? So I grabbed the light and I twisted
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then I go back to turn
Speaker 1: it on and it doesn't work. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to twist it the other way. So
Speaker 1: I go back and I attempt to twist it the
Speaker 1: other way. At this point, Danny, I grabbed, I twisted,
Speaker 1: and boom, the thing falls off in my hands from
Speaker 1: the sea. I've not I've now ripped the damn light
Speaker 1: off the ceiling and um, and so you know, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: this is wonderful, right, And so this is like a
Speaker 1: minute before the show starts. I'm like, oh boy, I
Speaker 1: tried to get it back. I would not go back on.
Speaker 1: So now we get to the show and I do
Speaker 1: the show that's fine, the show works whatever. And then
Speaker 1: we get to the end of the show and I'm
Speaker 1: cleaning up my notes and my papers and my my
Speaker 1: headphones and my mic condom and all this crap, the
Speaker 1: random ship that I bring as we curse on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm closing out my computer. I'm closing out all the windows.
Speaker 1: I'm getting things ready for Jonas, Knox, LaVar Arrington, and
Speaker 1: Brady Quit. Brady was actually intent. He usually does the
Speaker 1: show from Florida, but he was in town, so as
Speaker 1: I am, I'm pushing the microphone back where it needs
Speaker 1: to be for Jonas, and it's a little crooked, so
Speaker 1: I had to twist the microphone. I think. Know what happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. You didn't though, So I had to
Speaker 1: twist the microphone. Right, So I twist the microphone, and
Speaker 1: somehow I I turned into either he Man or Quasi
Speaker 1: Modo or the abominable snow Man. I was the YETI
Speaker 1: I was Goliath. I was all of these things. Suddenly
Speaker 1: I find myself holding the thousand dollar microphone in my
Speaker 1: hand as it is falling off the mic arm. So
Speaker 1: then I'm thinking. Initially, Danny, I'm thinking, well, that's fine,
Speaker 1: I'll just put it back on the mine. But then
Speaker 1: the plastic, it's cheap, shitty plastic from God only knows
Speaker 1: where the plastic had snapped, So no idea. I did
Speaker 1: not use that much force. I know. I like to
Speaker 1: brag about how, you know, I'm the size of a
Speaker 1: mack truck and all that, but I literally just used
Speaker 1: a little force the thing comes falling off. So I
Speaker 1: guess I, like he Man, I had super human strength
Speaker 1: and the endurance and all that, and I didn't have
Speaker 1: to hoist the gray skull castle or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But this was some kind of interdimensional portal, Danny, because
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell happened in the span
Speaker 1: of four hours. I too, I took down a light
Speaker 1: and the microphone and so. But but you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: this is like two minutes before Jonas is about to start,
Speaker 1: and there's no chance to switch out to mic arm
Speaker 1: So poor Jonas I felt like such an asshole. He
Speaker 1: had to spend his entire show holding the mic because
Speaker 1: there was no way to do it. So let me
Speaker 1: interject for a second, because now we're on the air
Speaker 1: for Coveno and Rich Rich is having a microphone issue.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure he is having a microphone and Ramos,
Speaker 1: you know, wantsome He didn't know it was you, but
Speaker 1: he tells, yes, some idiot broke mike too, so Rich
Speaker 1: sounded what we call in the industry crunchy. Anything he
Speaker 1: said was distorted. Now now hold, I did not the
Speaker 1: mic was fine. It was the mic arm. I don't
Speaker 1: did they tape it back together something? Something also went
Speaker 1: bad with the microphone, okay, because Carris was called in
Speaker 1: and you know that's bad news. When the uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know his title, but one of the
Speaker 1: one of the guys there when it comes to uh
Speaker 1: remote and the head engineers, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he coordinates
Speaker 1: the engineering there at our network. Whenever you call him
Speaker 1: early in the morning, he wants you to call him
Speaker 1: immediately if something goes wrong. But the moment you call him,
Speaker 1: he breathes really heavy into the phone. He's like, did
Speaker 1: you do it? Was it like that? When you got there?
Speaker 1: That's what he says. A really fun guy to call.
Speaker 1: And situations like this, Ramos is explaining to me the
Speaker 1: mic arm problem and now there's an actual microphone problem
Speaker 1: because Karas switched it out and he had to do
Speaker 1: this and do that, but now Rich's voice was distorted.
Speaker 1: Ramo says, well, I'll talk to him tomorrow. They finally
Speaker 1: got to it Ben For two shows in a row,
Speaker 1: Rich Davis's voice sounded crunchy and just started. And Harris
Speaker 1: was in there on our show trying to fix the
Speaker 1: armed thing again and switch off the microphone, and he
Speaker 1: was shaking his head and sighing and breathing really heavy,
Speaker 1: and all of this it happened because of you, and
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Well, in my defense that that
Speaker 1: was not an intentional act that was that was called
Speaker 1: it an accident. Uh And but yeah, it was that feeling,
Speaker 1: that moment, Danny, when I went to adjusting, like I'm
Speaker 1: doing a good mitzvah for Jonas, I'm I'm cleaning up
Speaker 1: the studio, I'm fixing the mic and I twist the
Speaker 1: mic and the thing comes off in my hand. I'm
Speaker 1: like I'm holding and I'm like, you gotta be joking, man,
Speaker 1: There's no way I'm not Hercules here. What is going on?
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to commission one more nickname for you,
Speaker 1: something like the studio Destroyer. I guess, I guess, But man,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I have a six pack abs or something
Speaker 1: like that now, and I'm I'm like a beefcake. Wrong.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll move on from that. But that was
Speaker 1: the interesting studios. Maybe they'll just ask me to stay
Speaker 1: home because I break too much shit. Curious will be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, don't come in here anymore. Just keep it
Speaker 1: your home studio. You know you're you're Austin is too
Speaker 1: much money. When they open our brand new studio in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, will probably not allow you in it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's probably better that way. It's probably better
Speaker 1: that way. So pop goes the culture. That means ohio,
Speaker 1: aw strike up the band for our guy, ohioowojoojo. Alright, wonderful.
Speaker 1: So we'll do a few of these. We don't we
Speaker 1: don't have too much time left. We'll do a few
Speaker 1: of these things. These are pop culture stories that caught
Speaker 1: my attention during the week. Brian Cranston, you've heard of him, right,
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal in Hollywood at of course,
Speaker 1: breaking bad, Breaking Bad. So he did the Conan O'Brien podcast.
Speaker 1: I guess he's got a poke because I think he
Speaker 1: does a little better than us. But Brian Cranston was
Speaker 1: on the Conan O'Brian podcast and randomly, out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: told the story about how he lost his virginity to
Speaker 1: an austri In prostitute at a whore house in Austria.
Speaker 1: That was interesting. His family was proud to hear that story. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no he was. He told like in great detail about
Speaker 1: how he didn't have enough money chicken out, and then
Speaker 1: I guess the woman felt pity on him and just
Speaker 1: took a deal and it took his took his money.
Speaker 1: You had this weird Rod Stewart story that popped back up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that one this week
Speaker 1: where I guess it's an old story but I didn't
Speaker 1: hear about it, and popped back up on the radar
Speaker 1: where he back in the day in the eighties and
Speaker 1: he would do the cocaine. But of course it's actually
Speaker 1: Elon Musk kind of activated this because he sent out
Speaker 1: a tweet about it. Rod Stewart he he had a
Speaker 1: cocaine habit, but he was worried about his voice and
Speaker 1: he knew that he did a lot of cocaine it
Speaker 1: would mess up his nose and his voice, and so
Speaker 1: instead of using it the old fashioned way, through the nose. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess he did use it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1: What's the other way, Danny, that one can consume coke sane?
Speaker 1: Some people smoke it. No, No, how about the through
Speaker 1: the back door? Danny? How about I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how else you can use cocaine.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't either until I read this story. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Rod Stewart, he loved the cocaine in the eighties as
Speaker 1: a rock star. But he did it. He would put
Speaker 1: it in Oh no, yeah, we put in a little
Speaker 1: capsules and then right up the kista, right up the
Speaker 1: poop shoot right there in the h Yeah. As little kids,
Speaker 1: we knew from Crocodile Johnde that you could put it
Speaker 1: into hot water and stir it up to help the
Speaker 1: guy's cold. Remember, Yeah, yeah, sure, But man, Rod Stewart,
Speaker 1: man back in the eighties, how that? Man? What else today?
Speaker 1: Do you need the cocaine that badly? If you're gonna
Speaker 1: go to that level? I mean, I'm just saying, I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, that's a that's no longer your number
Speaker 1: one drug choice, that's your number two drug choice. Yeah. Hello, uh,
Speaker 1: here's what that that famous mean of the it's the
Speaker 1: little kid, a little black kid who's he's holding a
Speaker 1: Popeye's cup. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the kid in the
Speaker 1: orange shirt. Yeah yeah, did you see this kid? He's
Speaker 1: a college football players, an offensive lineman. And he sent
Speaker 1: out he sent out a comment on on Instagram and
Speaker 1: Twitter and about how he's all grown up now and
Speaker 1: he's in college and all that, and he got an
Speaker 1: n I L deal from Popeye's because of it. That's perfect, right,
Speaker 1: they kind of a check they should crazy. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: kid looks as he's probably early maybe late teens, early twenties.
Speaker 1: He looks just like you would imagine, like he's grown up.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a you know, he's a cute fat kid.
Speaker 1: Now he's you know, he looks like he's been offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's a big guy. This ruins it. Though. I like
Speaker 1: it when TV kids stay as TV kids forever. I
Speaker 1: don't like that where are they now? I don't want
Speaker 1: to see what they look like now. Like remember that
Speaker 1: liar liar thing we saw from that online magazine, oh
Speaker 1: the tabloids in London and yeah, yeah, yeah that was
Speaker 1: yeah that kid that was liar liar. He he looks
Speaker 1: like a Canadian football player. Now, yeah, it's odd how
Speaker 1: that works. I wish I could pull off those suits.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty wild. Yeah, so the meme guy grew up
Speaker 1: in cashed in Chiching to Ching to Ching. I saw
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks did an interview this week. He was complaining
Speaker 1: he was upset with people who accuse his family of
Speaker 1: nepotism and uh. But his argument was, it's the family business,
Speaker 1: right that That's what you know, Like if you have
Speaker 1: a you've got your kid in the oven there, Danny,
Speaker 1: and when your kid gets out, if your kid wants
Speaker 1: to be in radio or podcasting, that would be the
Speaker 1: family business and you could like lead him on the way.
Speaker 1: And I I don't know about that with Hanks now,
Speaker 1: but because the way the way I understand Hollywood, it's like,
Speaker 1: once you're associated with Tom Hanks, doors are open for
Speaker 1: you that would not be open for Joe Blow. You
Speaker 1: still got to do the work though, and you still
Speaker 1: need to be talented on screen, Like his son is
Speaker 1: very talented. Now if he sucked, then you could say,
Speaker 1: well it's because he's Tom Hanks's son. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: like the difference in sports, if you're Michael Jordan's kid.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's kid didn't make the NBA, Magic Johnson's kids.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you now, there aren't. Scottie Pippen's
Speaker 1: kid is a fringe NBA player. But it's not like
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. I feel like it's easier with acting. And
Speaker 1: it's possibly because I think saying, anybody could be a
Speaker 1: good actor. Yeah that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I'm saying. It's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: that difficult, Like I don't. I mean, because the way
Speaker 1: acting has done. These did Now there are some roles
Speaker 1: that are over the top and all that, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think that it's that are playing in
Speaker 1: the NBA and scoring thirty points a game. I think
Speaker 1: it's easier to be an actor. But what do I know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just do Weekend the Oscar nominee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last one on the pop goes the culture. Did you
Speaker 1: see the excitement, the pandemonium in the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 1: The governor announced that Blank would be opening up. It's
Speaker 1: a restaurant. Did you see this restaurant? Will be I
Speaker 1: saw a couple of my friends who live in that
Speaker 1: state hosting this on Facebook. Yeah, they are bringing the
Speaker 1: first in and out burger, a staple of California, La,
Speaker 1: La Land, and it is heading to the Eastern time zone.
Speaker 1: That is the first we are told in and out
Speaker 1: burger on the eastern part of the United States. And
Speaker 1: can you imagine, Danny, Like we live in l A
Speaker 1: every in and out Burger I go around, there's a
Speaker 1: line any time of the day. Imagine that the ex
Speaker 1: Californians that left the People's Republic of California that live
Speaker 1: in the South or within somewhat reasonable driving distance, can
Speaker 1: you think about how long the line is going to
Speaker 1: be at that in and out burger? And quite a
Speaker 1: few ex Californians moved to the state of Tennessee. Like
Speaker 1: even personally, we know friends and I'm some extended family
Speaker 1: who all moved to Nashville during COVID. Oh yeah we
Speaker 1: I I know so many people that live in now
Speaker 1: in the South Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Texas is another big one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have lots of Like if I go on a
Speaker 1: road trip to the South, I know a bunch of
Speaker 1: people now, Like people I used to work with in
Speaker 1: radio friends of mine from different jobs I've had over
Speaker 1: the years. So and it's like when a lion s
Speaker 1: has a taste for human blood, all still eat ben
Speaker 1: So you know those people, they crave in and out.
Speaker 1: They were freaking out on Facebook and social media. So
Speaker 1: you talk about lines, it's not just a regular line
Speaker 1: of cars. It's a line around the block and it
Speaker 1: goes into the main street. Can you imagine what that
Speaker 1: line is gonna be, Like, it's gonna be the size
Speaker 1: of a whale. It's gonna blue whale. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: astronomically massive. Ridunculus is what it's gonna be. And it's
Speaker 1: not the same. Like I know the comparison, the comp
Speaker 1: would be can California. We have five guys, but I've
Speaker 1: never been to a five guys that has a line
Speaker 1: at the door. I have not seen it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is pricey. And they took the peanuts away once COVID started.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're back. It took the peanuts away.
Speaker 1: I'd go in there and eat peanuts for ten minutes
Speaker 1: and I'd fill myself up and eat a small burger.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that you get COVID from peanuts clearly, although
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna die from the yeah. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: the other one is Calvers, which I love. Calver's is
Speaker 1: not where I am. It's a Midwestern like in and
Speaker 1: out Wisconsin place. They have the cheese kurds. But I
Speaker 1: get my fixed when I go to Arizona. So in fact,
Speaker 1: I text my my cousin I said, I said this week,
Speaker 1: I said, I'll probably come visiting you around the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and I'll uh, I'll see you and I'll go
Speaker 1: get some some cheese curds. That's what I will. I
Speaker 1: will beginning there. All right, we have backscratcher real quick.
Speaker 1: We'll get down on back scratcher. Did we have Danny
Speaker 1: no reviews, one review, two reviews, or none of the above.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one review this week, Danny g You
Speaker 1: are incorrect. We had three three reviews this week. We're
Speaker 1: blowing up, all right. First one from and these are
Speaker 1: actual reviews by actual consumers of the podcast. You know
Speaker 1: how you read Amazon. There's bullshit on there that's not real.
Speaker 1: These are real human beings. These are people that have jobs,
Speaker 1: that have families, that have pets that get out of bed.
Speaker 1: Put one sock on at the time. The whole thing
Speaker 1: p and poop. Also, I believe they ship and they piss. Also,
Speaker 1: James in Arkansas writes in and he give us five stars,
Speaker 1: Danny five stars. He says, it seems to me it
Speaker 1: is poor management if your bosses depend on podcast reviews
Speaker 1: to decide if you have a good show. It's a
Speaker 1: five star podcast, asked suits, what a bunch of overpromoted morons. Wait,
Speaker 1: you can't say that in the reviews they read those,
Speaker 1: You're fired. How about James taking a cheap shot at
Speaker 1: our bosses? That's outstanding. Good job by you, James. We
Speaker 1: did not tell you to do that, right, Danny, We
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with James, absolutely nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that. Uh. Speaking of bosses, I should have probably
Speaker 1: used this earlier in the show. I got the weird
Speaker 1: phone call, that awkward phone called Danny from our bosses
Speaker 1: cousin who's a big fan of Fox Sports Radio in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: who the show she's lists. She listens from time to time,
Speaker 1: and she called into the show. And so, as always,
Speaker 1: if the cousin of the boss calls in, what happens Danny?
Speaker 1: They get as much air time as they want. We
Speaker 1: we blow out the clock and they can talk and
Speaker 1: talk and talk. And I saw some Twitter traffic about this,
Speaker 1: and I wondered what everybody was tweeting about. Now I know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I blew past the break about seven minutes and we
Speaker 1: just let her talk about random stuff. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I'll keep my job for another year. Uh. J D writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, great show, Ben and Danny, you brighten
Speaker 1: up the weekend. How great is that we brighten up
Speaker 1: this guy's weekend. It's nuts and meat, That's what it is. Wonderful,
Speaker 1: all right, last one we'll get out on this, mom man.
Speaker 1: Jason and Rocky Mountain Virginia headline on this says, the
Speaker 1: best guys. As you know, I am a long time
Speaker 1: listener and have taken the Militia oath. The fifth hour
Speaker 1: is simply the best. I look forward to it all
Speaker 1: week and you kill it every time. Definitely ten stars.
Speaker 1: If they had the option, uh five stars, uh plus
Speaker 1: two or what I got five for me and five
Speaker 1: for you? There you go. He says, they don't have
Speaker 1: the option for day, but anyway, I get what you're
Speaker 1: saying there, Jason, thank you for that. Jason, A hat
Speaker 1: benefactor he sent me the one of the Red Sox
Speaker 1: minor League affiliates there in Virginia, so I have that
Speaker 1: in my in my rotation. Anything your momode here, Danny.
Speaker 1: We've got NFL playoff Action playoffs. Yeah, yeah, it is Saturday.
Speaker 1: That means I'm go to go in have some fun
Speaker 1: on the air with Jonas Knox from eleven am to
Speaker 1: one pm West Coast time, and then right after that
Speaker 1: Steve Hartman and I from saloon. Make sure those guys
Speaker 1: don't leave any rotting food in the trash, and don't
Speaker 1: break the microphones. I know they're all swollen over there,
Speaker 1: and they're all buffed and all that, and they're built
Speaker 1: like me, like a tank, so try not. There's a
Speaker 1: sign on the second mic arm that was put in
Speaker 1: its place that you broke. It says do not touch.
Speaker 1: Stay away from Calamity Mallard. Please stay away, stay was
Speaker 1: stay was stay away. And Danny, you, of course you're
Speaker 1: not gonna tell management. You're not gonna wrap me out, right.
Speaker 1: This is our little secret, and I know they all
Speaker 1: listen to this. This is our little secret right there.
Speaker 1: I would never tell a soul until he gets in
Speaker 1: on Monday. Yeah, you're not gonna get on with Cavino,
Speaker 1: and Rich said, wait, you guys are gonna believe this one.
Speaker 1: Wait till you hear what I found out. Alright, anyway,
Speaker 1: have a great day today. Thank you for supporting the podcast.
Speaker 1: You guys are the greatest and when we will catch
Speaker 1: you on Sunday with the mail bag. Asta pasta, I
Speaker 1: gotta murder, Gotta go.