Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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 soul 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 to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G
Speaker 3: Radio and a Happy mail Bag kind of a Sunday
Speaker 3: as we hang out and celebrate one of the great
Speaker 3: days of the year. Today Danny G Radio is National
Speaker 3: Chicken Finger Day, a day celebrate one of my favorite
Speaker 3: culinary delights, those golden brown pieces of wonderful deliciousness, the
Speaker 3: chicken finger.
Speaker 1: How great is that, Danny.
Speaker 4: J I do have one bone to pick with our place.
Speaker 4: It's our spot. You turned me onto this place years
Speaker 4: ago and I've been going back ever since. Raising canes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that they should have even done a
Speaker 4: promotion if it was going to be this wimpy. You
Speaker 4: get one free chicken finger there today.
Speaker 3: Oh goody one.
Speaker 4: That's it one with a purchase of a box combo
Speaker 4: and as you know, those are upwards of thirteen dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a little much. That's that's a little
Speaker 3: too too light.
Speaker 4: How about if they said get three free fingers with
Speaker 4: a box condo purchase.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and then they did the math, they said, well,
Speaker 3: we'll lose too much money on that, so that'll be
Speaker 3: a I actually got an email from a publicist for
Speaker 3: Raising Canes about National Chicken Finger Day, and they wanted
Speaker 3: to do a promotion where they were going to come
Speaker 3: in studio and then they found out what time we
Speaker 3: were on, you know, and that was all.
Speaker 1: But they would have done anybody. It was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was like, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: I love raising Canes, we support them and all that.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I want to do a whole
Speaker 3: hour about raising canes.
Speaker 1: I don't think I want to do that.
Speaker 3: But it is National Chicken Figure today today, so I
Speaker 3: of course went down the old rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: I love chicken fingers. I've loved them since I was
Speaker 1: a kid.
Speaker 4: You love ranch the chicken finger. Just dip in for
Speaker 4: chicken fingers.
Speaker 3: They say, the first time ever the chicken finger was
Speaker 3: served was in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of my favorite
Speaker 3: cities to visit.
Speaker 1: I love Manchester.
Speaker 3: It's a little tourist town in between Boston and you
Speaker 3: drive up to Maine and right there on the coast
Speaker 3: in New Hampshire. It's just a beautiful little you know.
Speaker 3: Of course, I've only been there during the summer. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's probably a nightmare in the winter, but it
Speaker 3: was beautiful every time I've been there. And the first
Speaker 3: I don't know how they know this, but in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy four, so that predates me. The first chicken finger
Speaker 3: was made at this joint in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
Speaker 3: then in the nineteen eighties the chicken finger started becoming
Speaker 3: a popular item, a substitute for chicken nuggets and raising canes,
Speaker 3: which was my idea.
Speaker 4: By the way, I can back you up on that.
Speaker 4: Used to talk about it on the air, long before
Speaker 4: we got raising canes in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 3: My plan was, I'm going to become forget Burger King
Speaker 3: or McDonald's or Domino's, all these fast food places.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the king of the chicken finger.
Speaker 3: That was my plan, and then Todd Graves established raising
Speaker 3: Canes and Baton Rouge Louisiana. And then now we have
Speaker 3: National Chicken Finger Day, which is today.
Speaker 1: And then there you go. And in England.
Speaker 3: Terry can back this up. I'm told the chicken fingers
Speaker 3: are known as chicken Gujohn's I believe how you say
Speaker 3: g O U j o n s. They're also called
Speaker 3: chicken filets and chicken strips. And but here in the gold,
Speaker 3: good old Us of A, we love our chicken fingers
Speaker 3: and it is a staple of every kid's menu. Right,
Speaker 3: I'm sure CoA, when you take Coati, you got those
Speaker 3: mini corn dogs and you've got chicken fingers, and those
Speaker 3: are pretty much on every should be on every kids
Speaker 3: menu when you go out and about, right, I mean
Speaker 3: those that you must have.
Speaker 4: That he lives, he practically lives on those lightly breaded
Speaker 4: chicken nuggets from Tosco.
Speaker 3: Oh those are good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh they're they're wonderful and they're actually they're more
Speaker 4: like chicken fingers, but they're in the form of a nugget.
Speaker 3: Now, is that are you talking about? They come in
Speaker 3: like a white package with kind of green on them.
Speaker 3: Is that the one you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yes, those are.
Speaker 3: A ripoff of Chick fil A. Did you know that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And I feel like they're better than Chick fil a.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And you just put them in the air fryer or
Speaker 1: you put them in the other.
Speaker 4: Yep, air fryer every day. That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the air fryer food has gotten so much better.
Speaker 3: It's like I feel like they've really.
Speaker 1: Mastered the air frer food.
Speaker 3: Today is also National Scotch Day. So if you you
Speaker 3: a Scotch drink, I'm not a Scotch drinker. You a
Speaker 3: Scotch drinker, Danny.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like our older generator, me and me and
Speaker 3: you are in the same generation.
Speaker 1: I feel like the people older than us.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I just feel like
Speaker 3: I remember being at social events and relatives were drinking scotch.
Speaker 1: Maybe they were.
Speaker 4: I feel like it was our grandparents drink.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I feel like our grandparents were scotch drinkers.
Speaker 3: That they did that they had cart I remember our
Speaker 3: grandparents had car slide shows from vacation.
Speaker 4: They had always bring.
Speaker 3: Us kids over and show slide shows and where they
Speaker 3: want to vacation. And then they also had they would
Speaker 3: play weird card games. They It wasn't poker, I forget
Speaker 3: the name of There was a couple of card games
Speaker 3: my grandfather, one of my grandfather's a big card shark,
Speaker 3: and he'd have friends and family over to play cards.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't I forget the name of it.
Speaker 4: The whole slide show concept is strange too, when you
Speaker 4: think about it. That would be like if nowadays you
Speaker 4: trap people in your living room and force them to
Speaker 4: look at pictures from your iPhone from when you went
Speaker 4: out of town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is odd.
Speaker 3: It's one of those quirky things that you tell people
Speaker 3: who are younger, younger than us, like the next.
Speaker 1: Generation, like what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 3: My god? You had to sit in a room and
Speaker 3: pretend like you cared because your grandfather went to the
Speaker 3: Grand Canyon. You know. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, my grandfather,
Speaker 3: my dad's dad.
Speaker 1: He was the master man.
Speaker 3: He had all these cameras, so for him, like he
Speaker 3: would go on vacation. I'm pretty sure he just was
Speaker 3: on vacation just to take photos.
Speaker 4: Oh he was Antel Adams. He was just forcing people
Speaker 4: to see his artwork exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: As story with everything, and a little story about we
Speaker 3: met this.
Speaker 1: Gentleman and he's a friend of the family.
Speaker 3: You know, when you're a kid, you don't give a
Speaker 3: flying f you know, you know, I don't care the
Speaker 3: friend of the family man. Dude, I just want to
Speaker 3: get the f out of here, all right. I don't
Speaker 3: sit here and watch this crap. That's that is a
Speaker 3: world before the Internet.
Speaker 4: Both slide shows would have been better if they would
Speaker 4: have shared their scotch with us.
Speaker 3: Exactly, kiddos. Let's get hammered kids. Anyway, Let's get to
Speaker 3: the mailbag and a man who did very well in
Speaker 3: the mal or palooza. Let's give it up now for ohiou.
Speaker 3: It's all right, very good, thank you, ohio. A first
Speaker 3: up is our guy Reggie in Detroit, a regular fifth
Speaker 3: hour listener. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny, hope you
Speaker 3: guys are enjoying July. He then says, Ben, the NFL
Speaker 3: is beginning this week. There's exhibition football this week. I
Speaker 3: like that, Reggie said, exhibition, not preseason. Danny, he said, exhibition,
Speaker 3: because it is exhibition. And I will never forget the
Speaker 3: late great Dennis Green. I was hanging out with Dennis
Speaker 3: Green did an interview with him when he was coaching
Speaker 3: the Vikings, and I said, I was talking about the
Speaker 3: exhibition season and Danny Green, God rest his soul. He
Speaker 3: then Danny got on a soapbox and said, well, Ben,
Speaker 3: we don't call it the exhibition season.
Speaker 1: It's a preseason. The season ticket always get.
Speaker 3: They get the regular season, then they get the preseason,
Speaker 3: which is a very important part of how teams get
Speaker 3: ready for the season. But he was giving me all
Speaker 3: the talking points. I still remember it. It's been so
Speaker 3: long and I still remember Dennis Green trying to educate me.
Speaker 1: But I don't care. I still call it exhibition GEPs. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think they.
Speaker 4: Charged and you screwed that up, by the way, because
Speaker 4: he offered you free tickets and you didn't take them up.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: He didn't.
Speaker 1: He did offer me, and I didn't didn't use them.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Reggie says, what's going on is Benny versus the
Speaker 3: Penny been canceled. Reggie, I will give you an update
Speaker 3: as soon as I can. All I will tell you
Speaker 3: is we have not been canceled. The show has not
Speaker 3: been canceled. The show has not been picked up, though
Speaker 3: which is not good. I will admit that's not good.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Until you know, I have been
Speaker 3: in conversations with the people the network at NBC. They've
Speaker 3: been very good to me. They've been very kind. And
Speaker 3: the good thing is we've done the show for two
Speaker 3: years now, and I've worked with Tom Looney for almost
Speaker 3: thirty years. Me and Luney have done radio and television,
Speaker 3: so we work really, really smooth together. It's not it's
Speaker 3: not really an issue. So we're still waiting and I
Speaker 3: will let you know. And I'm optimistic, but I'm also
Speaker 3: realistic that it's it's not been picked up. And you
Speaker 3: are right, Reggie, this is not great this season. The
Speaker 3: practice games start this week, so we will find out.
Speaker 3: And as soon as I find out either way, we'll
Speaker 3: let you know. I mean, we will do Benny Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny. Whether it's on television or whether it's somewhere else,
Speaker 3: it'll be done.
Speaker 1: So I'll let you know.
Speaker 4: It's tough because it does cost a lot to produce
Speaker 4: that show. It's like the Colbert Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we uh, well, that's well, that's funny.
Speaker 3: I think as somebody justin and Cincinnati said, have you
Speaker 3: been given the Colbert you know that was That's how.
Speaker 4: We foolks using it as a verb.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm happy to report and I can say this,
Speaker 3: even if Benny Versus the Penny gets canceled, we did
Speaker 3: not call lost NBC forty million dollars a year. They
Speaker 3: did not lose forty million dollars a year on the
Speaker 3: TV show. I promise you that now. Ferd Dog and
Speaker 3: Fullig and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I'm still
Speaker 3: holding out hope, Ben, But if our worst fears come
Speaker 3: true and Benny Versus the Penny is not renewed for
Speaker 3: a third season, do you think the main reason why
Speaker 3: is because the Penny got lucky and beat you in
Speaker 3: the regular season last year? He said, no, nobody, that
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. In fact, I think that made for a
Speaker 3: better show. Not that I was trying to lose to
Speaker 3: the Penny, but that was the whole point of the show.
Speaker 3: The whole point of Benny Versus the Penny is, I
Speaker 3: actually do handicap the games, and I think I know
Speaker 3: a little bit about the NFL, and I go out,
Speaker 3: I picked the games, I do my due diligence and
Speaker 3: in an adamant object the penny, we flip it up
Speaker 3: and it ends up beating me, even though I have
Speaker 3: access to all all the numbers and all the stats,
Speaker 3: and and that's the whole point of show. Now. As
Speaker 3: as for the email, Uh, Fergnuck says, and Danny g
Speaker 3: I know you'll never admit it publicly, but would you
Speaker 3: take would you secretly take a little joy in Benny
Speaker 3: versus the penny getting canceled? Uh?
Speaker 1: And then he says, because of that schmuck Tom.
Speaker 3: Looney, Uh, Danny, would you would you do a victory
Speaker 3: lap if the show got canceled?
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't do a victory lap. I do remember
Speaker 4: all those early mornings toiling though to put all those
Speaker 4: penny sound effects and all that together for every Friday
Speaker 4: podcast that we used to do back in the day.
Speaker 4: But you don't ever do a you don't ever do
Speaker 4: a victory danced. I mean, what's the what's the saying
Speaker 4: that Clay always used to say, Uh, rising tide lifts
Speaker 4: all ships.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also you'll all the people you see on the
Speaker 3: way up, you'll see on the way down.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: If you start you to that whole yeah talking, we
Speaker 3: start shitting on people.
Speaker 1: The clippers coach.
Speaker 3: Whatever we talked about him yesterday, it does kind of
Speaker 3: come back and hit you a little bit. Scott, thank
Speaker 3: you for Doug, Scott writes in Scott says, Bend and
Speaker 3: Danny g I was born and raised in Clearwater, Floorida.
Speaker 3: My grandfather entertained all of my childhood fascinations and heroic figures.
Speaker 1: During my early years.
Speaker 3: Like most seventy nine ers, I loved hal Cogan and
Speaker 3: Rocky three.
Speaker 1: Was my favorite movie as a six year old.
Speaker 3: So when I moved back here in twenty twenty about
Speaker 3: a house one block from the Hulkster, but considerably cheaper
Speaker 3: and certainly more flood prone, I always thought my grandfather
Speaker 3: would cackle at the thought of us driving past each
Speaker 3: other on a regular basis. Every time I saw his,
Speaker 3: meaning hal Cogan's white goatee driving a hot rod, I
Speaker 3: thought of my grandpa. I never had the guts to
Speaker 3: introduce myself and to say hi. Scott says it was
Speaker 3: something I always was going to get around to doing
Speaker 3: and to personally thank him for providing some of the
Speaker 3: greatest childhood memories I still have about my grandfather. So
Speaker 3: my question to you is this, do you have any
Speaker 3: regrets about not approaching or thanking or even genuflecting at
Speaker 3: the altar of people that you have come across as
Speaker 3: an adult who you're up to as a child. I
Speaker 3: imagine in your line of work the opportunities have been funty,
Speaker 3: but the professional code and the awkwardness of adulthood must
Speaker 3: hold back in some instances. It sounds like you properly
Speaker 3: connected with Vin Scully, which must have been a dream
Speaker 3: come true.
Speaker 1: And then he says, I love Scott.
Speaker 3: He says, then, ps, By the way, Ben, when you die,
Speaker 3: my six year old son, Carter is going to be
Speaker 3: like my dad always listened to Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1: He is a regular.
Speaker 3: Podcast listener and talks about me or talks to me
Speaker 3: about your show.
Speaker 1: Well that's very sweet of Carter.
Speaker 4: But and you and I actually have a story about
Speaker 4: this very thing in the FSR building. Yeah, remember standing
Speaker 4: outside of that studio where you stole a pen. But
Speaker 4: we actually didn't get to meet the guy and shake
Speaker 4: his hand.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 3: Yesh, Yeah, we were supposed to meet Rush Limbaugh, the
Speaker 3: iconic Rush Limbaugh, greatest political talk shows in the history
Speaker 3: of radio and the biggest name and financially for the
Speaker 3: company we worked for. He made more money for them
Speaker 3: than anybody, and we were supposed to meet Rush. And
Speaker 3: I remember every year Rush would come to LA for man.
Speaker 3: I've worked at Premiere for twenty something years, and in
Speaker 3: those years, Rush would come to La usually a week
Speaker 3: or two sporadically he'd show up. And you always knew
Speaker 3: when Rush was coming to La because the whole company
Speaker 3: was Defcon one. Everybody had to be clean, everything had to.
Speaker 4: Be had carpet cleaner services in the week prior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was just Rush had his own studio,
Speaker 3: even though he only worked for like two weeks a
Speaker 3: year in La own studio.
Speaker 4: Way nicer than the one we worked in every day
Speaker 4: twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean he had the golden mic, the whole thing. And
Speaker 3: so our boss at the time was was like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna you know, he was every once in a while,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, I want to show you. I'm going
Speaker 3: to introduce you to Rush Rush Limbaugh. And so that
Speaker 3: that was the plan, and you know, you remember what happened,
Speaker 3: Danny did not.
Speaker 1: There was a there's a lot going on that.
Speaker 3: Day, and there was some meetings, as I remember, and
Speaker 3: some timing that was supposed to happen did not happen, and.
Speaker 4: It was just awkward anyways, Remember because there were a
Speaker 4: couple other people waiting around to meet him as well.
Speaker 4: One of those strange things where you want to meet
Speaker 4: him but then you don't and you don't pull the trigger.
Speaker 4: There were a couple of times where you and I
Speaker 4: could have walked up to him and we didn't. He
Speaker 4: was in the same room as us, and it's just
Speaker 4: so odd and awkward, and finally we just let it pass.
Speaker 4: And I remember though you sneaking into his Golden Mike's
Speaker 4: studio and grabbing his pen.
Speaker 3: I did I have a rush Limbaugh pen? I have
Speaker 3: guilty of that one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a great email, Scott, And I
Speaker 3: got to tell you this Hull Cogan thing really did
Speaker 3: touch a lot of middle aged guys like us in
Speaker 3: the fields, Danny, as the kids say, Uh, there were
Speaker 3: a lot of emotions and a lot of us. If
Speaker 3: you're around our age and you grew up with wrestling,
Speaker 3: like Hulk Hogan was the Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti.
Speaker 3: Uh for sure. But I'm trying to think some other people, Scott,
Speaker 3: you you did mention Vin Scully and yeah, I got
Speaker 3: to know Evan a little bit, which was awesome. And
Speaker 3: I was always someone that admired play by play people.
Speaker 3: And these are the people that when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: like I got to talk to Harry Carey, who was
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, was the voice of the
Speaker 3: Cubs on WGN the superstation, Skip Carrey, who was the
Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves. I used to watch TBS and all the
Speaker 3: Braves games were on there when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: and so I'd watched that. And I'm trying to think.
Speaker 3: Ralph Kiner was a Mets broadcaster when I was a
Speaker 3: kid on w w o R the superstation. Got to
Speaker 3: got to meet him, Harry, I meant Harry call I
Speaker 3: did meet Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL films,
Speaker 3: The Fighting.
Speaker 4: Phils, Nice Eagles, A.
Speaker 3: Really nice guy, Harry Callous. Could he I actually had him,
Speaker 3: Danny do liners? Remember we used to get people to
Speaker 3: do liners. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show, and
Speaker 3: this is Harry Callous.
Speaker 1: And so I got that.
Speaker 3: Ernie Harwell, these are legendary if you're broadcasting. Nerd these
Speaker 3: were legendary names when I was a kid. So I
Speaker 3: did get to meet a lot of those people and
Speaker 3: that was pretty cool. But you're right, you didn't really
Speaker 3: get to tell them like, hey, you meant a lot
Speaker 3: to me. And that's some of them. I did a
Speaker 3: lot of them that I didn't, so you know, that's
Speaker 3: part of that's part of it. And plug I did
Speaker 3: know a little bit from being around Vin Scully a
Speaker 3: little bit and doing some stuff with the Dodgers, Like
Speaker 3: people did come up to Vin a lot and say that,
Speaker 3: and so I think he kind of liked when people
Speaker 3: just treated them regularly, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I know, and talk about regular things. And I
Speaker 4: think that's part of dragging your feet a little bit,
Speaker 4: because you don't want to come off as some super fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I remember Fernando Venezuela who would always hang
Speaker 3: out in the back of the press box dining room
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, and he just loved that the other
Speaker 3: Mexican reporters and the other media people that would be
Speaker 3: at his table just treated him like a regular person.
Speaker 3: Because Fernando in the Mexican American community in Los Angeles
Speaker 3: is a god or was it god? Obviously passed away,
Speaker 3: but he just loved the vibey guy from a guy
Speaker 3: like that was like he just liked being one of
Speaker 3: the guys. And so you know, hey, it's it does
Speaker 3: suck when these people die. And like because Hahul Cogan,
Speaker 3: you figured out I probably had you know, at least
Speaker 3: seven eight years, maybe nine, I don't who knows, but
Speaker 3: seventy one man, that whole Cogan. Yeah, yeah, like we
Speaker 3: in the last year with George Foreman, the Foreman, Grille
Speaker 3: Boxing gone, Hull Cogan, the kid from the Cosby Show died.
Speaker 3: He drowned, and he's a little older than us.
Speaker 4: I'm Malcolm Jamal Warner. Really sad.
Speaker 3: Ozzy Osbourne, you know these man legends, these are legends.
Speaker 3: These are iconic people in our childhood, our youth.
Speaker 4: We're getting old. And that famous jazz musician who has
Speaker 4: one of the only instrumentals any of us know.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: So we just have eighties and nineties stars dropping like
Speaker 4: flies lately, and it is sad because it's definitely like
Speaker 4: a piece of your childhood going to the wayside. Yep.
Speaker 3: Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass right sin and he says, hey,
Speaker 3: Benny and Danny, I was on TikTok earlier. I saw
Speaker 3: this clip and someone asked this question, so I want
Speaker 3: to He thought it was a good question. So Ryan
Speaker 3: wants to ask us the question. He says, question, in
Speaker 3: a one versus one race between Usain Bolt and Joey
Speaker 3: chestnutt in a hundred meter dash.
Speaker 4: Who wins?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: He says, when the gun goes off to start the race,
Speaker 3: each runner has to down one full hot dog then
Speaker 3: run the one hundred meter dash?
Speaker 1: Who wins?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know the easy answer as well with
Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut because you know he'd need it in two
Speaker 3: seconds and it would take you sain Bolt a long time.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing, though, I would pick Usain Bolt anyway,
Speaker 3: because even if Usain Bolt took a long time, like
Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut, God love him, he's been on the podcast.
Speaker 3: He's just a middle aged guy. He's got a dad body.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be even Usain Bolt could take.
Speaker 4: I don't know, remember how he put that protester into
Speaker 4: a choke hold.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's a physical But I'm talking about running.
Speaker 4: Though, yeah, point And I bet what he could down
Speaker 4: those dogs so fast, Ben that even if he's jogging,
Speaker 4: he could still win.
Speaker 3: I interviewed Usain Bolt years ago. He was promoting something.
Speaker 3: They put him on the show, a show I was
Speaker 3: filling in for somebody, and he was very nice and
Speaker 3: very cool guy, Usain Bolt. And I remember about that
Speaker 3: interview is I, I don't know a lot about running.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this, Danny. I'm not
Speaker 3: an expert track and field.
Speaker 4: I implows my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was trying to think of some things
Speaker 3: to ask him because I didn't really know a lot.
Speaker 3: I watched him. I used to watch while he's not
Speaker 3: performing anymore in the Olympics, but I used to watch
Speaker 3: him in the Olympics. And so the only time I
Speaker 3: watched track and field like anyone else is the Olympics.
Speaker 3: And so I tun to He was like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: when I'm not running, I just want to sit around
Speaker 3: and eat and play video games like that.
Speaker 1: He was like that.
Speaker 3: He claimed that guy was his life. He just spent
Speaker 3: hours a day playing video games. So if he's doing that,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing he can probably put down a hot dog.
Speaker 1: And he runs so much. Isn't the rule of thumb, Danny?
Speaker 3: When you're running around that much and you're doing all
Speaker 3: that physical exercise, you gotta eat a lot. You gotta
Speaker 3: put it down because you're burning calories.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, the fuel that you need. What is it
Speaker 4: like we've seen some of those guys ten thousand callerie diets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the NFL, some of the NFL guys Kevin and Kansas.
Speaker 3: And it says, dear Ben and Danny g What is
Speaker 3: the ohass for me? He says, what has the status
Speaker 3: been of the laundry basket that you found on the
Speaker 3: side of the road a few years ago?
Speaker 4: Has it been I remember this story?
Speaker 3: Yes, I I think that was was that during the COVID?
Speaker 3: I think that might have been during COVID. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was driving around and I on the side of
Speaker 3: the road was a laundry cart, like a professional laundromat laundry.
Speaker 1: Cart on the side of the road you rescued it.
Speaker 1: I drove past it.
Speaker 3: A couple of times, and I, as I remember, I
Speaker 3: said to myself, next time I come down this road,
Speaker 3: if that thing's still there, I'm getting it. Because and
Speaker 3: next time, I, like the next day I drove down
Speaker 3: the road, the damn thing was still there. So I
Speaker 3: went and I took it. Uh and uh anyway, Kevin says,
Speaker 3: has it been in storage, is being used? Has it
Speaker 3: been repurposed? Inquiring minds want to know. So essentially, it's
Speaker 3: it's a bit of one in three. It is not
Speaker 3: being used for laundry. It is not being used for laundry.
Speaker 3: It is in storage, but it has been repurposed, Kevin,
Speaker 3: because we put other junk in it, Like there's other
Speaker 3: stuff in it, So we we have repurposed the laundry cart.
Speaker 3: It is not completely gone. I'm sure we're gonna get
Speaker 3: rid of it at some point because we don't use it,
Speaker 3: and it'll be a sad day, Danny when we get
Speaker 3: rid of that thing.
Speaker 1: But that's the.
Speaker 4: It's now holding all of your illegal fireworks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta get ready my Disneyland style fireworks I
Speaker 3: get from Tijuana. Racist Alex from Boston writes in he says, hey,
Speaker 3: bndon Danny Lebron James.
Speaker 1: He says, is trying.
Speaker 3: To stop AI. He says his lawyer sent a cease
Speaker 3: and assist letter and he wants to know. He says,
Speaker 3: you guys work in the media business. Is there any
Speaker 3: way AI can seriously be controlled. That's Alex in Boston.
Speaker 3: He's talking about this viral video Danny of Lebron pregnant Lebron. Yeah,
Speaker 3: pregnant Lebron. Me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. All right, I'll let you go first, Danny.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we talked a lot about this on the
Speaker 4: CNR show. Yeah. I don't know if you're aware of
Speaker 4: this or not, Benny, there's actually an AI version of
Speaker 4: the two of us. What. Yeah, really, just don't know
Speaker 4: if you want to listen to it because there are
Speaker 4: some curse words and it's not stuff we normally would say.
Speaker 4: But somebody actually took your voice and my voice and
Speaker 4: they have us interacting together doing a fake version of
Speaker 4: the podcast after this podcast. Oh my, I was unaware
Speaker 4: of this. I yeah, it's on YouTube.
Speaker 3: I am blown away though by AI Danny. It is wow.
Speaker 3: People have sent me emails like you can do a
Speaker 3: full Malar monologue. They will write it in like two seconds.
Speaker 3: They will write a Malard monologue in my voice, that
Speaker 3: my phrasing.
Speaker 4: With the voice stuff, you can tell that it's you know,
Speaker 4: a deep fake.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The problem with those videos right now, I guess if
Speaker 4: you look closely enough, you can tell because it almost
Speaker 4: the colors and things look like I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Lebron looked pregnant to me.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're doing but that. But look,
Speaker 4: here's the thing. The videos uh have tricked people. The
Speaker 4: voice stuff is not tricking people yet, but when it
Speaker 4: gets better and it starts to trick people just off
Speaker 4: of voices, then shit's gonna hit the fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no how do you verify anything if you're
Speaker 3: you know your voice verify What are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Like I, I'm sure there'll be some ways of someone
Speaker 3: will figure out, there will be a solution. It is
Speaker 3: just mind blowing though, So I don't really have a
Speaker 3: great answer, Alex, I mean you can. That seems like
Speaker 3: a game of whack a mole to me, Danny, where
Speaker 3: you're not gonna be able to win it. You know,
Speaker 3: you play whack a mole, you knock one of things down,
Speaker 3: another one pops up, So good luck. Bobby from Florida
Speaker 3: writes in on the Fifth Hour mail bag.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: A team went viral this week. According to Bobby, I
Speaker 3: don't think this is the key line, Pie, Bobby, I
Speaker 3: think this is a different Bobby. Apparently there's more than
Speaker 3: one Bobby lives in Florida, says Ben and Danny. A
Speaker 3: team went viral this week, saved one thousand dollars on
Speaker 3: driving lessons by watching YouTube videos, and he passed the
Speaker 3: driving test the first time. Thumbs upper thumbs down on
Speaker 3: this from Bobby in Florida. You know I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: thumbs up. I took I had a driving I went
Speaker 3: to driving school.
Speaker 1: Drive.
Speaker 3: My mom hired some guy to teach me how to
Speaker 3: drive when I was a kid because we didn't have YouTube.
Speaker 3: But the whole point, my take on this, Dany, is
Speaker 3: the whole point is to learn how to drive. So
Speaker 3: if you learn, you can learn multiple ways. Like some
Speaker 3: people learn from from writing things now and something I
Speaker 3: learned from watching. But if you learn YouTube, I've learned
Speaker 3: a million things from YouTube. So what's the problem.
Speaker 1: I don't do What the problem is?
Speaker 3: I don't?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm serious, Like once a month I'm learning
Speaker 4: how to do something from a YouTube video. Driving no different.
Speaker 4: The thing is, though, to get good at it, you
Speaker 4: do gotta be on the road. Because I remember when
Speaker 4: I taught myself how to drive, I would just keep
Speaker 4: getting on the five Freeway, and I would go a
Speaker 4: few exits and then get off. And it was so
Speaker 4: scary getting on the freeway and getting off the freeway.
Speaker 4: After I did it a few times, I started to
Speaker 4: get comfortable. But if you watch those videos, at least
Speaker 4: you are prepared to then get by the wheel.
Speaker 3: Now, if you really when CoA is old enough to drive,
Speaker 3: which will be many years from now. But if you
Speaker 3: really want to give CoA a real life lesson on driving,
Speaker 3: take him on the one ten freeway, Danny in the
Speaker 3: La between Dodger Stadium and Pasadena, and just let him
Speaker 3: go on and off those off ramps on the avenues
Speaker 3: in La Avenue twenty six, Avenue forty whatever. I used
Speaker 3: to live right there in Lincoln Heights. That is the
Speaker 3: original freeway in America. And that is designed for cars
Speaker 3: that were going what, Danny fifteen miles an hour or
Speaker 3: something like that. It is wild, it is next. These
Speaker 3: on ramps are literally how many.
Speaker 4: Feet you think they are, Danny, like fifty NASCAR drivers
Speaker 4: would have a problem on that road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like people talk about the autobaon.
Speaker 3: We we used to have a guy Autobon Butch who's
Speaker 3: now in modesto who calls h but like to me,
Speaker 3: that is so and people drive like complete.
Speaker 1: Assholes in l A terrible anyway, I just popped into
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's a that's a great idea. And then
Speaker 4: to give to a further lesson, I would have them
Speaker 4: parallel park in skid row there in downtown La.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just get out and you know, go eat
Speaker 3: some food and enjoy himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam right sent as big
Speaker 3: Man and Daddy g Radio. We know if it were
Speaker 3: up to Rob Parker, our friend Rob Parker, that NBA
Speaker 3: gms would shop for players like Ben Simmons at the
Speaker 3: discount rack at TJ Max.
Speaker 1: I need a cole shower, he says.
Speaker 3: In the context of TJ Max, did you know that
Speaker 3: the numbers one, two, and seven on price tags indicate
Speaker 3: the source of the item, And he says, one, when
Speaker 3: you go to TJ Max one item, the item with
Speaker 3: one are often manufactured by the brand for TJ Max,
Speaker 3: I guess maybe there'd be a slight difference. Quality is
Speaker 3: not quite the same. Number two there are genuine These
Speaker 3: are genuine name brand items that were also sold by
Speaker 3: the brand itself, making them a quality if I see
Speaker 3: you want that?
Speaker 1: And then number seven.
Speaker 3: These are last year's items that are still genuine name
Speaker 3: brand products, but they're just offered at a bargain. So
Speaker 3: do you ever go to TJ Max Danny shop there?
Speaker 4: No, really, I used to go.
Speaker 1: I don't go anymore.
Speaker 4: Once in a while. If you're looking for I think
Speaker 4: we used to go to the mar Marshalls. Yeah, we
Speaker 4: used to go to Marshalls for like, like if a
Speaker 4: phone case cracked, or you needed a charging cord or
Speaker 4: something like that, or a shaving kit or a bathroom bag,
Speaker 4: things like that. That's what those stores are good for. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we would Gods and Ends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ross dress for least.
Speaker 3: I think TJ Max if you need like a computer
Speaker 3: bag or a backpack.
Speaker 4: Like, yes, really good, really good? Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3: Tony in the Bay Area one of my favorite rights
Speaker 3: and says, please improve the bumper music by mentioning chronic
Speaker 3: and pussy in your monologues, Grossius and Danny, g are
Speaker 3: you part of the Covino and Rich after pod show?
Speaker 3: I heard the commercial bears that's Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 4: So there's Tony there.
Speaker 3: Check.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's talking about over promised. They do
Speaker 4: a podcast every Thursday. I am not part of that podcast.
Speaker 3: Stars attract other stars. Yeah, Barry from South Carolina rights
Speaker 3: in says Yo Yo mob, Benny and Danny g Who
Speaker 3: would you like to see from your regular ex contributors
Speaker 3: or people you have met at Mallard me and Greet's
Speaker 3: become callers to your live show. Uh? Yeah, Mar, We've
Speaker 3: We've had some people that I'm there's a lot of
Speaker 3: people that hide behind their X accounts. Like I don't
Speaker 3: know who mister nice guy, Like he's interacted with the
Speaker 3: show for years on on X, but I don't think
Speaker 3: he's ever called. Maybe he has, I don't remember. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think, like a lot of these guys have called.
Speaker 3: I met Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, very nice man, great guy. Uh.
Speaker 3: Some of the other guys in Minnesota that kind of
Speaker 3: hide behind their their phones, I've I've met them al
Speaker 3: in Minnesota. I've not met Ohio l. Hopefully if we
Speaker 3: do the Ohio Meet.
Speaker 4: And greet, Well, probably wish that weed Man Hippie was
Speaker 4: a Texter or a tweeter only.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when weed Man, Oh God, that's a good question, Barry.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: At the top of my head, I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not really nothing's really hitting other than mister nice
Speaker 3: guy and Ferd Dog calls in every once in a while.
Speaker 3: I don't think Alf does. I have not. I don't
Speaker 3: think I've spoken to Al.
Speaker 4: Who's the one long time listener where you would love
Speaker 4: to finally meet them at a malor meet and greet.
Speaker 3: Well, Dick and Dayton, Alf the Alien Opiner. Those are
Speaker 3: a couple of the guys for sure that I would
Speaker 3: like to be. I'd like to be weed Man, Hippie
Speaker 3: a weed Man's been calling the show for twenty years,
Speaker 3: fulllexus like these are. I met hollering James. That was
Speaker 3: an experience. I didn't say a good one.
Speaker 4: Now, Well, weed Man tried to open for you at
Speaker 4: a live show convention center and you blew that opportunity.
Speaker 3: It's ran out a casino in Vegas and would have
Speaker 3: all his money. There would have been seven people that
Speaker 3: showed up to that event, and five of them just
Speaker 3: to laugh at weed Man.
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that, Danny. It's Sunday.
Speaker 3: I'll be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box to
Speaker 3: break it all down.
Speaker 1: Should be a normal week for me on.
Speaker 3: The radio side and anything you want to share. Well,
Speaker 3: you did chair earlier this weekend that your wife will
Speaker 3: be going away, so you'll be running around buck naked
Speaker 3: in your house this week Danny. That'll be fun.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, I'll have the house to myself for a
Speaker 4: few days, and that'll lead into Thursday and Friday when
Speaker 4: CNR and myself are in for Colin Cowherd Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 4: as all the big time radio stars continue to take
Speaker 4: their final days off for vacation before the NFL season starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I am. I will be taking some time off.
Speaker 3: I have not talked to Mike.
Speaker 4: I said big radio stars.
Speaker 3: Well, well I'm big in size, not in Yeah. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll enjoy that, Danny.
Speaker 4: And enjoy your couple of days off with your brother.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Not this week, by the way, but he's the following week.
Speaker 3: My brother will be hanging out with us. I'll be
Speaker 3: hanging out with him anyway. Have a great rest of
Speaker 3: your day and we'll catch you. I'll catch you tonight,
Speaker 3: Dani'll catch you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder. I gotta go