WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Scotch Fueled Slides" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:32.280 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.680 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.360 Radio and a Happy mail Bag kind of a Sunday 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.640 as we hang out and celebrate one of the great 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.960 days of the year. Today Danny G Radio is National 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.360 Chicken Finger Day, a day celebrate one of my favorite 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:02.400 culinary delights, those golden brown pieces of wonderful deliciousness, the 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:03.280 chicken finger. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.920 How great is that, Danny. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.399 J I do have one bone to pick with our place. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.080 It's our spot. You turned me onto this place years 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.920 ago and I've been going back ever since. Raising canes. Yeah, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.720 I'm not sure that they should have even done a 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.679 promotion if it was going to be this wimpy. You 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.000 get one free chicken finger there today. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.400 Oh goody one. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.759 That's it one with a purchase of a box combo 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.440 and as you know, those are upwards of thirteen dollars. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.480 Yeah, so that's a little much. That's that's a little 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:40.520 too too light. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.800 How about if they said get three free fingers with 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.319 a box condo purchase. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.520 Yeah, yeah, and then they did the math, they said, well, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.520 we'll lose too much money on that, so that'll be 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.480 a I actually got an email from a publicist for 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.640 Raising Canes about National Chicken Finger Day, and they wanted 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.200 to do a promotion where they were going to come 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.720 in studio and then they found out what time we 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.040 were on, you know, and that was all. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.760 But they would have done anybody. It was like, I 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.160 don't know. I was like, I don't know about that. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.320 I love raising Canes, we support them and all that. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.680 I don't know that I want to do a whole 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:15.960 hour about raising canes. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.840 I don't think I want to do that. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.840 But it is National Chicken Figure today today, so I 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.919 of course went down the old rabbit hole. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.960 I love chicken fingers. I've loved them since I was 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:25.320 a kid. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:31.880 You love ranch the chicken finger. Just dip in for 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:32.680 chicken fingers. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.680 They say, the first time ever the chicken finger was 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:41.520 served was in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of my favorite 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.440 cities to visit. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.600 I love Manchester. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.720 It's a little tourist town in between Boston and you 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.640 drive up to Maine and right there on the coast 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.560 in New Hampshire. It's just a beautiful little you know. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.120 Of course, I've only been there during the summer. I'm 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.080 sure it's probably a nightmare in the winter, but it 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.440 was beautiful every time I've been there. And the first 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.080 I don't know how they know this, but in nineteen 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.600 seventy four, so that predates me. The first chicken finger 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.280 was made at this joint in Manchester, New Hampshire. And 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.720 then in the nineteen eighties the chicken finger started becoming 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:25.079 a popular item, a substitute for chicken nuggets and raising canes, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.160 which was my idea. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.800 By the way, I can back you up on that. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.520 Used to talk about it on the air, long before 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.080 we got raising canes in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, No. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.360 My plan was, I'm going to become forget Burger King 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.480 or McDonald's or Domino's, all these fast food places. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.280 I'm going to be the king of the chicken finger. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.280 That was my plan, and then Todd Graves established raising 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.920 Canes and Baton Rouge Louisiana. And then now we have 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:59.400 National Chicken Finger Day, which is today. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.880 And then there you go. And in England. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.960 Terry can back this up. I'm told the chicken fingers 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.800 are known as chicken Gujohn's I believe how you say 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.440 g O U j o n s. They're also called 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.400 chicken filets and chicken strips. And but here in the gold, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.840 good old Us of A, we love our chicken fingers 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.360 and it is a staple of every kid's menu. Right, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.520 I'm sure CoA, when you take Coati, you got those 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.600 mini corn dogs and you've got chicken fingers, and those 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.279 are pretty much on every should be on every kids 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.040 menu when you go out and about, right, I mean 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.400 those that you must have. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.919 That he lives, he practically lives on those lightly breaded 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.120 chicken nuggets from Tosco. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.640 Oh those are good. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.880 Yeah, Oh they're they're wonderful and they're actually they're more 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.839 like chicken fingers, but they're in the form of a nugget. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.279 Now, is that are you talking about? They come in 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.680 like a white package with kind of green on them. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:01.800 Is that the one you're talking about. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.440 Yes, those are. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.160 A ripoff of Chick fil A. Did you know that? 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.599 Yeah? And I feel like they're better than Chick fil a. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:09.200 Wow. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.080 And you just put them in the air fryer or 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:11.840 you put them in the other. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.840 Yep, air fryer every day. That's great. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.360 Yeah, the air fryer food has gotten so much better. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.320 It's like I feel like they've really. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.599 Mastered the air frer food. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.560 Today is also National Scotch Day. So if you you 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.480 a Scotch drink, I'm not a Scotch drinker. You a 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:30.560 Scotch drinker, Danny. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.040 No. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.200 Yeah. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.600 I feel like our older generator, me and me and 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:37.680 you are in the same generation. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.520 I feel like the people older than us. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.200 Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I just feel like 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:47.120 I remember being at social events and relatives were drinking scotch. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:48.480 Maybe they were. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.479 I feel like it was our grandparents drink. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.480 Yes, yes, yes, I feel like our grandparents were scotch drinkers. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.120 That they did that they had cart I remember our 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.800 grandparents had car slide shows from vacation. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:01.679 They had always bring. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.520 Us kids over and show slide shows and where they 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.880 want to vacation. And then they also had they would 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.119 play weird card games. They It wasn't poker, I forget 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.480 the name of There was a couple of card games 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.599 my grandfather, one of my grandfather's a big card shark, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.800 and he'd have friends and family over to play cards. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.200 But it wasn't I forget the name of it. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.440 The whole slide show concept is strange too, when you 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.160 think about it. That would be like if nowadays you 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.880 trap people in your living room and force them to 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.000 look at pictures from your iPhone from when you went 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:37.559 out of town. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:39.559 Yeah, it is odd. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.839 It's one of those quirky things that you tell people 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.239 who are younger, younger than us, like the next. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.680 Generation, like what the f is wrong with you? 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.400 My god? You had to sit in a room and 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.440 pretend like you cared because your grandfather went to the 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:59.880 Grand Canyon. You know. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, my grandfather, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:01.640 my dad's dad. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.880 He was the master man. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.040 He had all these cameras, so for him, like he 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.960 would go on vacation. I'm pretty sure he just was 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.120 on vacation just to take photos. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.920 Oh he was Antel Adams. He was just forcing people 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.280 to see his artwork exactly exactly. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.800 As story with everything, and a little story about we 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:21.280 met this. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.960 Gentleman and he's a friend of the family. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:24.920 You know, when you're a kid, you don't give a 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.000 flying f you know, you know, I don't care the 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.200 friend of the family man. Dude, I just want to 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.560 get the f out of here, all right. I don't 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.320 sit here and watch this crap. That's that is a 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.440 world before the Internet. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.560 Both slide shows would have been better if they would 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.040 have shared their scotch with us. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:46.040 Exactly, kiddos. Let's get hammered kids. Anyway, Let's get to 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.160 the mailbag and a man who did very well in 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.720 the mal or palooza. Let's give it up now for ohiou. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:08:10.520 It's all right, very good, thank you, ohio. A first 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.080 up is our guy Reggie in Detroit, a regular fifth 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.800 hour listener. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny, hope you 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:22.760 guys are enjoying July. He then says, Ben, the NFL 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.000 is beginning this week. There's exhibition football this week. I 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.920 like that, Reggie said, exhibition, not preseason. Danny, he said, exhibition, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.400 because it is exhibition. And I will never forget the 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.480 late great Dennis Green. I was hanging out with Dennis 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.000 Green did an interview with him when he was coaching 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.880 the Vikings, and I said, I was talking about the 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.840 exhibition season and Danny Green, God rest his soul. He 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.360 then Danny got on a soapbox and said, well, Ben, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.360 we don't call it the exhibition season. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.920 It's a preseason. The season ticket always get. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.600 They get the regular season, then they get the preseason, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.319 which is a very important part of how teams get 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.200 ready for the season. But he was giving me all 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.000 the talking points. I still remember it. It's been so 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.240 long and I still remember Dennis Green trying to educate me. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.079 But I don't care. I still call it exhibition GEPs. Anyway, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:14.800 I think they. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.840 Charged and you screwed that up, by the way, because 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.000 he offered you free tickets and you didn't take them up. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.280 No, yeah, yeah, that's true. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:20.600 He didn't. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.720 He did offer me, and I didn't didn't use them. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.320 Anyway, Reggie says, what's going on is Benny versus the 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.720 Penny been canceled. Reggie, I will give you an update 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.240 as soon as I can. All I will tell you 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.160 is we have not been canceled. The show has not 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.240 been canceled. The show has not been picked up, though 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.560 which is not good. I will admit that's not good. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.120 But here's the thing. Until you know, I have been 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.320 in conversations with the people the network at NBC. They've 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.319 been very good to me. They've been very kind. And 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.760 the good thing is we've done the show for two 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.800 years now, and I've worked with Tom Looney for almost 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.280 thirty years. Me and Luney have done radio and television, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.280 so we work really, really smooth together. It's not it's 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.280 not really an issue. So we're still waiting and I 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.600 will let you know. And I'm optimistic, but I'm also 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.160 realistic that it's it's not been picked up. And you 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.200 are right, Reggie, this is not great this season. The 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.040 practice games start this week, so we will find out. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.079 And as soon as I find out either way, we'll 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.760 let you know. I mean, we will do Benny Versus 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.120 the Penny. Whether it's on television or whether it's somewhere else, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:32.760 it'll be done. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:34.480 So I'll let you know. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.760 It's tough because it does cost a lot to produce 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.680 that show. It's like the Colbert Show. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.680 Yeah, we uh, well, that's well, that's funny. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.120 I think as somebody justin and Cincinnati said, have you 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.880 been given the Colbert you know that was That's how. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.640 We foolks using it as a verb. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.600 Yeah, but I'm happy to report and I can say this, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.440 even if Benny Versus the Penny gets canceled, we did 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.600 not call lost NBC forty million dollars a year. They 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.200 did not lose forty million dollars a year on the 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.599 TV show. I promise you that now. Ferd Dog and 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.680 Fullig and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I'm still 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.679 holding out hope, Ben, But if our worst fears come 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.400 true and Benny Versus the Penny is not renewed for 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.600 a third season, do you think the main reason why 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.840 is because the Penny got lucky and beat you in 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.640 the regular season last year? He said, no, nobody, that 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.280 doesn't matter. In fact, I think that made for a 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.720 better show. Not that I was trying to lose to 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.000 the Penny, but that was the whole point of the show. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.559 The whole point of Benny Versus the Penny is, I 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.840 actually do handicap the games, and I think I know 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.520 a little bit about the NFL, and I go out, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.480 I picked the games, I do my due diligence and 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.040 in an adamant object the penny, we flip it up 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.160 and it ends up beating me, even though I have 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.720 access to all all the numbers and all the stats, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.000 and and that's the whole point of show. Now. As 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.760 as for the email, Uh, Fergnuck says, and Danny g 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.160 I know you'll never admit it publicly, but would you 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.920 take would you secretly take a little joy in Benny 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.880 versus the penny getting canceled? Uh? 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.400 And then he says, because of that schmuck Tom. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.480 Looney, Uh, Danny, would you would you do a victory 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.000 lap if the show got canceled? 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.120 No, I wouldn't do a victory lap. I do remember 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.800 all those early mornings toiling though to put all those 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.800 penny sound effects and all that together for every Friday 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.760 podcast that we used to do back in the day. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.440 But you don't ever do a you don't ever do 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.840 a victory danced. I mean, what's the what's the saying 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.439 that Clay always used to say, Uh, rising tide lifts 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:50.319 all ships. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:51.120 Yeah. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.760 And also you'll all the people you see on the 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.280 way up, you'll see on the way down. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:55.480 Right. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.720 If you start you to that whole yeah talking, we 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.800 start shitting on people. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.439 The clippers coach. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.040 Whatever we talked about him yesterday, it does kind of 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.520 come back and hit you a little bit. Scott, thank 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.120 you for Doug, Scott writes in Scott says, Bend and 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.240 Danny g I was born and raised in Clearwater, Floorida. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:22.640 My grandfather entertained all of my childhood fascinations and heroic figures. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:23.679 During my early years. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.800 Like most seventy nine ers, I loved hal Cogan and 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:29.800 Rocky three. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.920 Was my favorite movie as a six year old. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.079 So when I moved back here in twenty twenty about 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:41.840 a house one block from the Hulkster, but considerably cheaper 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.520 and certainly more flood prone, I always thought my grandfather 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.360 would cackle at the thought of us driving past each 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.319 other on a regular basis. Every time I saw his, 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.000 meaning hal Cogan's white goatee driving a hot rod, I 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.360 thought of my grandpa. I never had the guts to 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.080 introduce myself and to say hi. Scott says it was 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.160 something I always was going to get around to doing 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.880 and to personally thank him for providing some of the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.959 greatest childhood memories I still have about my grandfather. So 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.800 my question to you is this, do you have any 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.440 regrets about not approaching or thanking or even genuflecting at 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.080 the altar of people that you have come across as 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.440 an adult who you're up to as a child. I 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:38.360 imagine in your line of work the opportunities have been funty, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:43.040 but the professional code and the awkwardness of adulthood must 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.680 hold back in some instances. It sounds like you properly 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.000 connected with Vin Scully, which must have been a dream 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:50.480 come true. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.200 And then he says, I love Scott. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.440 He says, then, ps, By the way, Ben, when you die, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.760 my six year old son, Carter is going to be 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.040 like my dad always listened to Ben Mallor. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.840 He is a regular. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.360 Podcast listener and talks about me or talks to me 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:08.360 about your show. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.160 Well that's very sweet of Carter. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.680 But and you and I actually have a story about 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.240 this very thing in the FSR building. Yeah, remember standing 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.160 outside of that studio where you stole a pen. But 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.320 we actually didn't get to meet the guy and shake 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:24.720 his hand. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.280 Oh that's right, Rush Limbaugh. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.160 Yesh, Yeah, we were supposed to meet Rush Limbaugh, the 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:35.600 iconic Rush Limbaugh, greatest political talk shows in the history 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.760 of radio and the biggest name and financially for the 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.800 company we worked for. He made more money for them 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.760 than anybody, and we were supposed to meet Rush. And 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.480 I remember every year Rush would come to LA for man. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.440 I've worked at Premiere for twenty something years, and in 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.920 those years, Rush would come to La usually a week 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:01.680 or two sporadically he'd show up. And you always knew 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.920 when Rush was coming to La because the whole company 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.120 was Defcon one. Everybody had to be clean, everything had to. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.160 Be had carpet cleaner services in the week prior. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.080 Yeah, I mean it was just Rush had his own studio, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.440 even though he only worked for like two weeks a 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.000 year in La own studio. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.880 Way nicer than the one we worked in every day 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:24.920 twenty four to seven. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:25.800 Yeah, yeah, I. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.800 Mean he had the golden mic, the whole thing. And 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.920 so our boss at the time was was like, hey, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.320 we're gonna you know, he was every once in a while, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.080 I'd be like, I want to show you. I'm going 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:40.720 to introduce you to Rush Rush Limbaugh. And so that 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.800 that was the plan, and you know, you remember what happened, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:45.840 Danny did not. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:47.960 There was a there's a lot going on that. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.640 Day, and there was some meetings, as I remember, and 0:16:52.840 --> 0:17:00.040 some timing that was supposed to happen did not happen, and. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.960 It was just awkward anyways, Remember because there were a 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.520 couple other people waiting around to meet him as well. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.760 One of those strange things where you want to meet 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.439 him but then you don't and you don't pull the trigger. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.639 There were a couple of times where you and I 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.119 could have walked up to him and we didn't. He 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.159 was in the same room as us, and it's just 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:22.879 so odd and awkward, and finally we just let it pass. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.400 And I remember though you sneaking into his Golden Mike's 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.840 studio and grabbing his pen. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.240 I did I have a rush Limbaugh pen? I have 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.960 guilty of that one hundred percent. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:33.760 Uh. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.560 Yeah, I mean it's a great email, Scott, And I 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.040 got to tell you this Hull Cogan thing really did 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.199 touch a lot of middle aged guys like us in 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.639 the fields, Danny, as the kids say, Uh, there were 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.919 a lot of emotions and a lot of us. If 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.200 you're around our age and you grew up with wrestling, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.040 like Hulk Hogan was the Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.040 Uh for sure. But I'm trying to think some other people, Scott, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.800 you you did mention Vin Scully and yeah, I got 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.760 to know Evan a little bit, which was awesome. And 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.040 I was always someone that admired play by play people. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.760 And these are the people that when I was a kid, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.720 like I got to talk to Harry Carey, who was 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.280 when I was a kid, was the voice of the 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:19.680 Cubs on WGN the superstation, Skip Carrey, who was the 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.399 Atlanta Braves. I used to watch TBS and all the 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.160 Braves games were on there when I was a kid, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.520 and so I'd watched that. And I'm trying to think. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.800 Ralph Kiner was a Mets broadcaster when I was a 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.359 kid on w w o R the superstation. Got to 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.480 got to meet him, Harry, I meant Harry call I 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.320 did meet Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL films, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.159 The Fighting. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.159 Phils, Nice Eagles, A. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.920 Really nice guy, Harry Callous. Could he I actually had him, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.240 Danny do liners? Remember we used to get people to 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.919 do liners. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show, and 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.760 this is Harry Callous. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:00.879 And so I got that. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.320 Ernie Harwell, these are legendary if you're broadcasting. Nerd these 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.280 were legendary names when I was a kid. So I 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.879 did get to meet a lot of those people and 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.200 that was pretty cool. But you're right, you didn't really 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.320 get to tell them like, hey, you meant a lot 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.159 to me. And that's some of them. I did a 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:23.160 lot of them that I didn't, so you know, that's 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.080 part of that's part of it. And plug I did 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.680 know a little bit from being around Vin Scully a 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.919 little bit and doing some stuff with the Dodgers, Like 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.600 people did come up to Vin a lot and say that, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.160 and so I think he kind of liked when people 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.280 just treated them regularly, you. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.960 Know, I know, and talk about regular things. And I 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.680 think that's part of dragging your feet a little bit, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.240 because you don't want to come off as some super fan. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.560 Yeah, Like I remember Fernando Venezuela who would always hang 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.680 out in the back of the press box dining room 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.280 at Dodger Stadium, and he just loved that the other 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.720 Mexican reporters and the other media people that would be 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.960 at his table just treated him like a regular person. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:08.639 Because Fernando in the Mexican American community in Los Angeles 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.160 is a god or was it god? Obviously passed away, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.320 but he just loved the vibey guy from a guy 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.680 like that was like he just liked being one of 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.720 the guys. And so you know, hey, it's it does 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.639 suck when these people die. And like because Hahul Cogan, 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.600 you figured out I probably had you know, at least 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.919 seven eight years, maybe nine, I don't who knows, but 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.040