Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio
Speaker 3: Live on tape. You're listening live on audio tape from
Speaker 3: Radio Row in Lost Wages, Nevada, where people come and
Speaker 3: they leave with less money. The greatest thing and I
Speaker 3: always says a boy gambling, it's a what a business Danny,
Speaker 3: You know, going in when people walk into casinos, they
Speaker 3: know they're going to lose, and they still gladly walk
Speaker 3: into casinos and give their money to people knowing maybe
Speaker 3: I'll win, maybe I'll be the one in a million
Speaker 3: that actually wins some money.
Speaker 4: And did you see the billions of dollars being placed
Speaker 4: on these two teams that play today? This is the
Speaker 4: Sunday Pods, right. We have made it to Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 3: Someone will have the joy of victory and the agony
Speaker 3: of defeat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and millions of fans will have the agony of
Speaker 4: losing money trying to explain that to their significant other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's why this week I had a crazy night
Speaker 3: on the radio show.
Speaker 1: I was telling a story about Billy Walters.
Speaker 3: I don't know you know, are you from Billy the
Speaker 3: greatest gambler of all time, the babe Ruth of gambling.
Speaker 3: I've actually heard you tell the story. Yeah, so I
Speaker 3: read a story about him. There was a book written
Speaker 3: about Billy Walters when I was like in high school,
Speaker 3: and it was like the most amazing thing, Like this guy.
Speaker 3: Nobody consistently wins betting on sports. This guy does. He's
Speaker 3: in like the one percent, so much so that he's
Speaker 3: been banned from casinos from betting a lot of money
Speaker 3: because he actually wins.
Speaker 1: You know, the ugly truth is they don't if you win.
Speaker 1: They don't want you. They want you. They want losers,
Speaker 1: they don't want winners.
Speaker 3: And so Billy Walters would hire people to go out
Speaker 3: and as surrogates for him.
Speaker 1: He would give them money, but they.
Speaker 3: Couldn't say that they were working for Billy Walters and
Speaker 3: they would put bets on So I was like, this
Speaker 3: is like the greatest thing in the world I measured
Speaker 3: being your young guy. They'll fly you to Vegas every
Speaker 3: weekend to put bets in on the games. So I'm
Speaker 3: telling the story and this guy calls up from Cleveland.
Speaker 3: I think he was in Cleveland, might have been somewhere
Speaker 3: in northern Ohio. He's like, hey, you were talking about
Speaker 3: Billy Walters. I did that. I was a surrogate for
Speaker 3: Billy Walters when I was when I was younger.
Speaker 1: How he did the thing that I wanted to do.
Speaker 4: You were a runner for the Dodger and so many
Speaker 4: other teams. I figured you would have did that for
Speaker 4: him too. I would have.
Speaker 1: I would have loved that job. It would have been
Speaker 1: like perfect, would have been like a movie, right, because.
Speaker 3: The way the story is I understand it, like Billy
Speaker 3: Walters would hire college kids, but they would pretend like
Speaker 3: they were like trust fund babies and they had all
Speaker 3: this money because otherwise to get cleared to bet a
Speaker 3: lot of money, you have to if you bet a
Speaker 3: certain amount, you have to show bank receipts and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. So it's uh, it was wild so an
Speaker 3: it was this crazy you never know who's listening to
Speaker 3: live radio, and this guy called up and he told
Speaker 3: his story, and I was like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a neat thing. But it is Sunday's
Speaker 3: Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, a lot of time to kill
Speaker 3: before the game. That's why we're here, Danny. We are
Speaker 3: the pregame show.
Speaker 5: The pre game to the pregame to the official pregame.
Speaker 1: Of the big Game.
Speaker 3: But I'm told like, as long as you don't do
Speaker 3: it for commercial reasons, you can say super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Now if I said, Ben, I'm here on behalf of
Speaker 4: Coca Cola, Oh yeah, for the big Game. See, they
Speaker 4: can't say they put a guillotine over here exactly put
Speaker 4: super Bowl in there. Yeah, you just did. You're in trouble.
Speaker 1: That would be it. Yeah. But uh, well, enough of that.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the mail bag that you know what
Speaker 3: that means, Ohio al So we have to strike up.
Speaker 1: The band for the great Ohio al. It's b.
Speaker 3: All right, a lot of mail this weekend, Danny. That's
Speaker 3: a that's a good thing. We we believe that means
Speaker 3: the podcast is doing well. It's healthy. H When no
Speaker 3: one sends mail in, that's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: That is. We don't like that. We we say, oh,
Speaker 1: holy crap, what have we done? What have we done?
Speaker 1: But it's been good this this year.
Speaker 3: I don't know what has changed here, but we've gotten
Speaker 3: some different people that have been emailing.
Speaker 1: And I love the regulars.
Speaker 3: It's not like I don't like the regulars and and
Speaker 3: our guys off the air, well.
Speaker 1: You know, some of them. Some of the called the
Speaker 1: radio show annoying.
Speaker 3: But but the podcast people are great and they're they're
Speaker 3: they're just wonderful. Uh So thanks Ohio again. First, what
Speaker 3: comes from Mike from Wisconsin? Uh says guys. I love
Speaker 3: the pod. Have encouraged my boys at work to listen
Speaker 3: as well as your your overnight show, Ben, but we
Speaker 3: listened during the day because.
Speaker 1: Of the hours we work.
Speaker 3: A question for Ben, for you and Danny, what is
Speaker 3: the coolest freebie that you've gotten this week on Radio Row.
Speaker 3: This is probably more of a question for you, Danny.
Speaker 3: I I haven't been here that long. I think the
Speaker 3: only thing I've gotten is chicken wings and I'm on
Speaker 3: a fast, so I didn't even eat them. They were
Speaker 3: handing out boxes of chicken wings and paper towels across
Speaker 3: as fasting.
Speaker 4: Yeah I should eat, I don't really should. This is
Speaker 4: a bad weekend for you to be fasting. So what's
Speaker 4: the coolest freebie that you've gotten?
Speaker 1: Danny? Can you've been here all week?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Monday was media Night or opening night they call it
Speaker 4: as you know, yeah, or Allegiance Stadium. That was really cool.
Speaker 4: I wish I was on the actual grass though we
Speaker 4: were on the UNLV turf.
Speaker 1: I was painted with the logo.
Speaker 4: I know they spent all the time painting that turf,
Speaker 4: but I wanted their grass.
Speaker 1: To be rolled in then would be able to play
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 5: What I wanted to roll around on the real grad.
Speaker 4: But up on level three of Allegiance they had NFL
Speaker 4: Media Dinner. Now this consisted of teketos, one of your
Speaker 4: favorite I'm a teketo guy, several different trays of different meats,
Speaker 4: from pork to chicken.
Speaker 1: We've got the meat.
Speaker 4: It's like Arby's, except Arby's is a cover for drug lords. Hello,
Speaker 4: but also ben. They had every Gatorade water and Gatorade
Speaker 4: beverage and soda. You could imagine the downside of this
Speaker 4: was I was in a little bit of a hurry
Speaker 4: getting something to eat, and then I had to run
Speaker 4: back down and find Covino and Rich who were recording
Speaker 4: little video clips to put on social media.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm up there.
Speaker 4: I had a couple of taketos and I grabbed a
Speaker 4: couple of drinks.
Speaker 5: But I didn't have a bag.
Speaker 4: It's not like I was carrying a backpack or a
Speaker 4: Duffel bag. And I noticed the media guys directly in
Speaker 4: front of me at a table. They were all shoving
Speaker 4: all this free stuff into their Duffel bags and their backs.
Speaker 3: In fact, yeah, that's see, that's the better remove. I
Speaker 3: had a buddy of mine, one of my good friends,
Speaker 3: who used to work in the newspaper business, and he's
Speaker 3: got friends that go to all these big events. And
Speaker 3: this guy has one of his buddies, has made thousands
Speaker 3: of dollars he covers like college in pro basketball or
Speaker 3: college basketball, like championship events, but college football. After a
Speaker 3: team wins, they shoot the confetti down, and he does
Speaker 3: this for the Super Bowl too, and he'll collect it
Speaker 3: and sell it on eBay and people will pay like
Speaker 3: hundreds of dollars for a little painful of CONFETI so
Speaker 3: the guy brings an extra backpack and fills it up
Speaker 3: with confetti and then sells it, you know, from the
Speaker 3: actual National Championship game.
Speaker 5: A odd thing to want to buy.
Speaker 4: Like, we talked with our very own Dan Bayer about
Speaker 4: this on the air a couple of weeks ago. He's
Speaker 4: been on the field for some of the championship games
Speaker 4: and Super Bowls and he'll put confetti and ziploc bags.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he still hasn't.
Speaker 4: Even if my Raiders were able to go and win
Speaker 4: another Super Bowl, wouldn't want a little bag of Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I understand, like, if you're a diehard fan,
Speaker 3: you're like, this is a little piece. I wasn't there.
Speaker 3: If you were there, I think just the memory would
Speaker 3: be enough. But I've been you know, I've been to
Speaker 3: World series that have ended. I've seen teams win world series.
Speaker 3: I'm not I've never been to a Super Bowl. I've
Speaker 3: been to the Pro Bowl, I've been NBA Finals. I've
Speaker 3: seen team win team. I saw the Lakers back God
Speaker 3: Forbid and the Kobe days when they were winning.
Speaker 1: Anybody on the Clippers is half of what Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 3: Is and with Shaq and then the Kings, the La
Speaker 3: Kings when they when they they won. But it's like
Speaker 3: the memory to me, that's more important, like the actual memory,
Speaker 3: but if you want a little little piece of it.
Speaker 4: But you're going to these things now more than the reason.
Speaker 4: I wanted the real grass out on the field at Allegiance.
Speaker 4: I wanted to dive in the end zone and pretend
Speaker 4: like I was Davante Adams.
Speaker 5: I wanted to see what it feels like.
Speaker 3: But you could still get that. You could see like
Speaker 3: the stands, you you could take advantage of that opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's that's one of the cool things about this job.
Speaker 3: I've been able to like get on the field that
Speaker 3: like fin Way and yet old Yankee Stadium and kind
Speaker 3: of get the vibe like what it's like for the
Speaker 3: players when you look around. And it's pretty cool. Oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, speaking thank you for the question, Mike.
Speaker 3: Last year in Phoenix, when I came to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: they had like a big like free M and m'sh pallets.
Speaker 4: They had pallettes and pallets of freebies behind some of
Speaker 4: the states.
Speaker 1: Great I scored.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they didn't do that this year.
Speaker 3: I have space in my bag. I was like, I
Speaker 3: was going to get some free candy. I know, I
Speaker 3: thought I actually eat it very much.
Speaker 5: To paint a picture.
Speaker 4: You know the huge bags that hikers have on their
Speaker 4: backs on the trails. Ben has one of those on
Speaker 4: his back, but it's empty. Yes, And they saw you
Speaker 4: load this thing up last Super Bowl and they're like,
Speaker 4: we're not putting these pallettes back here any longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready to climb like Mount Kilimanjaro. I'm ready
Speaker 3: to go up there, all right, Steve from Dallas? Right,
Speaker 3: since is Ben and Ben now that your TV show
Speaker 3: has been canceled, what are you going to do with
Speaker 3: all your freet death? Hey, jackass, He wasn't canceled.
Speaker 1: I signed. I signed a deal with NBC.
Speaker 3: It was only for the NFL season, which is now over.
Speaker 3: Dummy story. But no, it hasn't been canceled. We don't know,
Speaker 3: I mean I I don't know whether the show will
Speaker 3: be back next year. We think it'll be back, but
Speaker 3: as you know, Danny, it ain't up to me. It's
Speaker 3: up to people that have higher pay grades than me.
Speaker 3: But we hope the show is back, and we think
Speaker 3: we were optimistic it'll be back, but I'm been canceling.
Speaker 1: I am planning to make my return to the gym.
Speaker 3: I have not been going to the gym because I've
Speaker 3: been focusing on the TV show. So I'm going to
Speaker 3: get back to my gym routine, and which is good.
Speaker 3: So I think I can fast a little less if
Speaker 3: I'm working out a little more.
Speaker 1: I guess it's like a trading situation. Right.
Speaker 3: This week, I had a seventy two hour fast which was.
Speaker 1: Which was a little bonkers, little bonkers, So we had
Speaker 1: that going on. I am such a radio loser. What
Speaker 1: is next?
Speaker 3: Jay in Kansas writes in he says, Oh, this is
Speaker 3: for you, Danny. He says, did baby CoA come with
Speaker 3: you for the first Super Bowl or did you keep
Speaker 3: him home because you didn't want him to become a
Speaker 3: Chiefs fan after if they win? It's from yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: well he wouldn't remember this anyway.
Speaker 4: Right, We've had this discussion before about how you still
Speaker 4: want to put the best possible memories into your little
Speaker 4: baby's head. Although I couldn't bring him to this city.
Speaker 4: And here's the reason why Las Vegas as fun as
Speaker 4: it can be, it is one of the dirtiest cities
Speaker 4: in our country with germs. This is they call this
Speaker 4: the unofficial COVID capital of the world. Now, my parents,
Speaker 4: my dad and stepma, they came here probably about six
Speaker 4: months after the pandemic. Yeah, and they hadn't had COVID
Speaker 4: until they visited Las Vegas. They left with COVID and
Speaker 4: then another family member came to Vegas about three four
Speaker 4: months after that.
Speaker 1: They left Vegas with COVID.
Speaker 4: It made me scared to come here for some of
Speaker 4: the boxing matches that we cover with Covino and Rich
Speaker 4: because I'm like, damn, I don't want COVID right now.
Speaker 3: Well, you don't want to really run it, buddy, if
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: What places to stay away from, because you might get
Speaker 4: COVID going there. This is definitely there's because there's a
Speaker 4: lot of people from everywhere all over the world come
Speaker 4: here to Las Vegas to have a good time. They
Speaker 4: smoke right in your face, they get right in your face,
Speaker 4: and there's tons of people elbow to elbow, and I
Speaker 4: think that's one of the reasons why people get so
Speaker 4: sick sometimes when they yeah.
Speaker 3: For me, though, I come to Vegas a lot because
Speaker 3: it's so close and in fact, I'll be back in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks for my wife's got some friends.
Speaker 3: We're having a like a birthday celebration and stuff. And
Speaker 3: I was just here a couple of weeks ago. It's
Speaker 3: like so close. It's like, you know, it's like a kid.
Speaker 3: It's a suburb of LA It's just essentially part of
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. But to me, the dirtiest places I've been
Speaker 3: are the Tenderloin district in San Francisco, which is like
Speaker 3: an apocalypse film. And parts of New York City in
Speaker 3: the afternoon in the summer when they put the trash
Speaker 3: out to get picked up, and you can smell the
Speaker 3: rotting food and you can see the rats running around
Speaker 3: eating the food out of the trash. It's disgusting. I
Speaker 3: haven't been to New Orleans. I've heard mixed things about
Speaker 3: New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So people love it.
Speaker 4: Other people say there's some dirty streets there. I've been
Speaker 4: there a couple of times. It's going to be interesting
Speaker 4: for the Super Bowl there next season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, mass Old Mickey Wright's in on the
Speaker 3: mail bag here. It's a super Bowl Sunday says, we
Speaker 3: all know the best thing on Sunday will be the.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show with Usher just Cai.
Speaker 3: If you were to charge or change, make a change
Speaker 3: or in charge of the halftime show, which artist would you?
Speaker 3: He wants to know who we would have perform at halftime.
Speaker 3: He says he would go with Metallica. That's a good choice.
Speaker 3: I would like since you gave me the power mass
Speaker 3: w Mickey, I would go and reincarnate Elvis Presley and
Speaker 3: I would have Elvis or Johnny Cash perform.
Speaker 1: That would be the bottom. I don't watch the halftime show.
Speaker 1: I'm not a halftime show guy. It's not for me.
Speaker 4: I would have programmed fifty years celebrating hip Hop with
Speaker 4: run DMC as the headline.
Speaker 1: There you go old School.
Speaker 5: That would have been fun. Yeah, that would have been
Speaker 5: really fun.
Speaker 1: That would have been cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should bring back Remember the first Super Bowl
Speaker 3: to Coliseum, didn't they have like the high school band
Speaker 3: from some high school in Anaheim, and they had somebody
Speaker 3: flipping that's a thing, you flip up the metal thing.
Speaker 1: I forget what? Oh no, yeah exactly, yeah, something like.
Speaker 5: You don't care.
Speaker 4: Carl Channing was the very first singer at a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl halftime show, and prior to that, there was just
Speaker 4: a couple of marching bands that would perform, and Carol
Speaker 4: Channing as she was an actress and singer and all that,
Speaker 4: and she sang when the Saints come marching in because
Speaker 4: it was the halftime there in New Orleans. And after
Speaker 4: that they were like, let's just have a singer every year.
Speaker 4: And it's obviously we've come a long way since that.
Speaker 4: It would be cool to have Carol Channing commemorate that moment.
Speaker 1: But she died a couple years ago. She's unavailable.
Speaker 3: But if she did show up now, that would be
Speaker 3: a story, right, you know, it would be great.
Speaker 5: Maybe wheel her coffin shell.
Speaker 1: Dig her up. She's back, everybody, she is back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: why not?
Speaker 3: Or this would be cool? Now, this would make headlines.
Speaker 3: At halftime you have the first interaction with extraterrestrials and
Speaker 3: they perform at halftime, right they get You get a
Speaker 3: band of like aliens and they just go out there
Speaker 3: and perform.
Speaker 1: Now, that would be amazing, Right.
Speaker 4: Next time the Super bowls in Vegas, they should do
Speaker 4: that because there's always so many alien sightings in Nevada
Speaker 4: and Las Vegas that this would be the perfect place
Speaker 4: to host.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alien themed super.
Speaker 1: Not far away from Area fifty one.
Speaker 3: That's I mean I listened to I grew up on
Speaker 3: art Bell and art used to talk about any art
Speaker 3: was up in Perump which is not that far away.
Speaker 4: Remember the aliens were spotted in that family's.
Speaker 1: Backyard right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ten feet tall, big eyes.
Speaker 1: That's great, have big eyes?
Speaker 3: Should play for the clippers, that'd be the way to go.
Speaker 3: RJ insane Antonio. He says, Ben, with you having a
Speaker 3: new addition to the family, if you had to be
Speaker 3: a dog, Ben and Danny, what breed of dog would
Speaker 3: you want to be? Well, I feel like my life
Speaker 3: right now, I just got a bulldog and we have
Speaker 3: that's Moxie. I have not put any photo. Maybe I
Speaker 3: will put some photos up here.
Speaker 1: I gotta do that.
Speaker 3: Keep getting my other dog, Luigi, who's a what do
Speaker 3: I call her a FuG?
Speaker 1: Is that it's frog? A frog FuG would be something else.
Speaker 3: But yeah, she's she's a mix with a couple of things.
Speaker 3: But I like the Moxie because I feel like my
Speaker 3: life's like she just lays around, slobbers a lot, farts
Speaker 3: a lot, eats a lot of food. Lazy, you know,
Speaker 3: it just plays a lot. It seems like it's the
Speaker 3: way to go. I would say, Oh, man, unbelievable freebies.
Speaker 3: The wife picked up some freebies here. Yeah, it would appear.
Speaker 3: See a big Las Vegas chain headed our way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, outstanding? Oh there is Viva Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Look, I already have a chain and you could match me. Now, Ben,
Speaker 4: you could be blinged out.
Speaker 3: I like yours. Man, That's that's solid. That's a good
Speaker 3: looking Shane. Who's the what what breeded dog?
Speaker 1: Would you? You would want to do like a pit bull?
Speaker 3: Probably you want to be a big gas pit bull
Speaker 3: or a great Dane, Great Dane, great Dane, because then
Speaker 3: you could.
Speaker 4: Like lift your big leg and piss all over people
Speaker 4: and they would just still be like.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's good, all right. Ed Wright's in next from
Speaker 3: Parts Unknown. He does not say where he is writing from.
Speaker 1: Uh. He says on the.
Speaker 3: Facebook pitch, how does someone get through on the phone
Speaker 3: during the last forty minutes of show?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I get this complain a lot.
Speaker 3: I've tried to encourage my producer to actually answer the phones.
Speaker 1: He often doesn't. I don't know, and I have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that.
Speaker 3: I just do the show, and I really don't over
Speaker 3: the years, and when I first start, everyone gets into radio,
Speaker 3: they do a call in show. You obsess over who's
Speaker 3: calling in. But I am proud of myself that I
Speaker 3: have enough content. I don't worry about who's calling it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I like to mix a call in because I feel
Speaker 3: like it breaks things up and it keeps the show moving.
Speaker 3: And we've got people that are characters on the show.
Speaker 3: But I don't give out the number, mainly because I
Speaker 3: don't want the extra drunk guys to call in. But
Speaker 3: I don't really care if people call in or it's
Speaker 3: cool if we get good callers.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't still be accessible though.
Speaker 4: No, here's what you do when that last hour is
Speaker 4: just starting. Tweet at a Bronco fan on Twitter that's
Speaker 4: a Bronco fan. Uh, in front there a Bronco fan
Speaker 4: and tell him, hey, answer the phone line.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I get these everyone so long, get these really
Speaker 3: angry people that will write me.
Speaker 1: I've listened to your show for twenty years. You are
Speaker 1: such as schmucking asshole. You will not.
Speaker 3: Take my phone call. And I'm like, I have not
Speaker 3: in my head. I'm like I have nothing to do
Speaker 3: with it. Yeah, yeah, I would like to see that happen.
Speaker 3: I will again for you, Ed, I would love to
Speaker 3: talk to you. I would recommend on a newbie night.
Speaker 3: I also know when I'm you know, we do the
Speaker 3: show remotely some of the time, and then I'm in
Speaker 3: studio some of the time. When I'm in studio, I
Speaker 3: do see more of what goes on and all that.
Speaker 3: And so with that, I mean as that is part
Speaker 3: of it. When I'm there, I definitely I make sure
Speaker 3: I make sure that I keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: You're you're hanging out with us. By the way, you
Speaker 3: want to email in and be part of a future
Speaker 3: Fifth Hour mailbag. We have had more people, but we
Speaker 3: want to keep that going. You can do it several ways.
Speaker 3: I post on Facebook usually Wednesday, sometimes Tuesdays. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: forget and I don't time. Yes, so I have come
Speaker 3: weeks without doing it, which is really bad. But you
Speaker 3: can always email in. You don't have to wait for
Speaker 3: that real fifth hour, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Any question.
Speaker 3: We obviously don't do a lot of sporty stuff on
Speaker 3: this podcast. It's we do some and we get sporty questions,
Speaker 3: but it's mostly about just life and things like you know,
Speaker 3: behind the scenes. Danny's with Covino and Rich during the
Speaker 3: week and I'm doing my own thing overnight.
Speaker 1: And so we come together because we used to work together.
Speaker 1: We like each other, so we hang out together, as
Speaker 1: I think you know by now, on the weekends.
Speaker 3: Mister Luciano writes in he says, this question is for Ben,
Speaker 3: and Danny says, out of all your favorite teams, which
Speaker 3: one was the first that you ever saw win a
Speaker 3: championship in any sport?
Speaker 5: Okay, Danny, Oh, that's easy for me.
Speaker 4: The Lakers with Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and
Speaker 4: then shortly after the Marcus Allen La Raider era began
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. So it was the Lakers and then
Speaker 4: the Raiders for me.
Speaker 1: So I did not have that. I had the Dodgers
Speaker 1: when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: I was young, and I remember the Dodgers won the
Speaker 3: World Series in the eighties. But then I didn't count
Speaker 3: the Saint Louis Rams because I stopped being a Ram
Speaker 3: fan when they were in Saint Louis because I was
Speaker 3: a fan of the La Rams, So I said, who
Speaker 3: cares about that? So then I but the Dodgers were
Speaker 3: the one, and then I saw them or the La
Speaker 3: Rams actually win here just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: I was too little to what was it eighty one
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I was too for the Yankees, right,
Speaker 4: and so I would have been like kindergarten. So that's
Speaker 4: why a few years later when the Lakers won, I
Speaker 4: remember that so distinctly. But I wish I remember those
Speaker 4: early Dodger championships. The first one I saw as a
Speaker 4: kid was eighty eight with Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember watching the Gibson home run with my
Speaker 3: My mom was My dad was not a big baseball
Speaker 3: but my mom loved the Dodgers and Sandy Kofax and
Speaker 3: all that, so she kind of like programmed me to
Speaker 3: watch the Dodger And I remember we were watching that
Speaker 3: night and we're like, they're gonna lose you because the athletics,
Speaker 3: you know, not to recreate the idiot World Series.
Speaker 1: But they were like seen as this Juggerhault.
Speaker 5: No one was the best brothers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had all the swagger and all that.
Speaker 3: I tell you the other other thing, mister, the most
Speaker 3: important championship will be this summer the Clippers with James
Speaker 3: Harden when they win the championship. What a what an
Speaker 3: event that's going to be. And they're gonna go to
Speaker 3: the end to it Dome when they're gonna have a
Speaker 3: little trophy there.
Speaker 5: Watch out for James Harden.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to be MVP Playoff. He's the system,
Speaker 1: all right. He is the system. You can't you can't
Speaker 1: stop it.
Speaker 5: He just is on a whole other level in the postseason.
Speaker 3: What in the actual hell is wrong with this guy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Matt from Dallas writes in he says, Banking, you share
Speaker 3: some of your picks for the prop bets for the
Speaker 3: super Bowl for those of us. Yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 3: you go back to the Saturday Pod. We covered some
Speaker 3: of that on the Saturday Podcast. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: give that a lot of that stuff out because I
Speaker 3: actually want people to watch the show. I'm sorry, Scott,
Speaker 3: you can't get it in Dallas. You just have to
Speaker 3: work a little harder. Marcus, and you have that nine
Speaker 3: hundred number, Yeah one nine hundred. Bening buys you a boat.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, give me all your money, and you
Speaker 1: know it's broke.
Speaker 3: It's broke Marcus and san Antonio, Right, So he says,
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny. I've enjoyed listening to the breakdown of
Speaker 3: games and the predictions over the years, well before you
Speaker 3: went Hollywood on us and good old Danny g played
Speaker 3: the role of the penny. What I find most intriguing
Speaker 3: is when Ben states the betting odds, followed by a
Speaker 3: brief moment of malor math and the percentages. For people
Speaker 3: like me who can't understand how to make the calculation, Ben,
Speaker 3: can you please explain how you come up with the
Speaker 3: percentage based on the betting odds when making your predictions.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to what you're cooking up for the super
Speaker 3: Bowl feast this week and enjoy the Super bowls Marcus
Speaker 3: in San Antonio. So so, yeah, the way the odds
Speaker 3: work there, there is a little bit of math. I
Speaker 3: learned this years ago. It's basically, it's the gambling. I
Speaker 3: was either like minus or plus so and you do
Speaker 3: it like if it's if it's plus two hundred, that
Speaker 3: would mean there's like a thirty something percent chance I'm lost.
Speaker 3: It's it's based on the percentages. And I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: I do use a calculator, so it's not like I
Speaker 3: I you know, I could lie and say, it's all
Speaker 3: on my head.
Speaker 1: But that's that is not.
Speaker 5: One of the reasons you still wear a calculator watch.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a big, giant calculator for sure, al Cassio,
Speaker 3: But thank you, Marcus. I appreciate that, and I do
Speaker 3: enjoy the odds. You know what I like the most
Speaker 3: is looking where people are betting, trying to find where
Speaker 3: the sharp money is because that's where the professional gamblers are.
Speaker 5: That why I thought you mean you followed strangers around
Speaker 5: those sports.
Speaker 1: But name it's named Sharp. Name named Sharp there for sure.
Speaker 3: Next up on the mail bag our buddy Alf from
Speaker 3: the Chamber of Commerce located in Springfield, mass where the
Speaker 3: Pro Basketball Hall of Fame is and Muffett McGraw is enshrined.
Speaker 3: Alf says, is beautiful downtown Burbank as beautiful as Gerry
Speaker 3: Owens describe it, and how his FSRS moved to Burbank going,
Speaker 3: He says, which happens first, Fox Sports Radio moving to
Speaker 3: Burbank or the Animal Thunderdome. How dare you that's a
Speaker 3: shot by Alf?
Speaker 1: That is a cheap shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been told for the past fifteen years we're
Speaker 3: moving to Burbank.
Speaker 1: We have changed studios in that time.
Speaker 4: You mean they put a band aid on a quote
Speaker 4: unquote news studio. Yeah, but it is nice the new studio.
Speaker 1: I like it better.
Speaker 4: I like it, and I don't want to drive the
Speaker 4: extra thirty minutes in traffic to go to Burbank, to
Speaker 4: be honest.
Speaker 1: With it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, either way.
Speaker 4: You're coming from the other direction, Yeah, I'm screwed. It
Speaker 4: actually might be closer for you, probably eight minutes closer,
Speaker 4: ten minutes.
Speaker 3: No, I just have to go a different way though.
Speaker 3: That's oh okay, So I don't know if that I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm not sure that would be a better
Speaker 3: way or not.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why we haven't done yet. They haven't The
Speaker 4: bosses haven't cleared it with you yet. Yes, they have
Speaker 4: to make sure that it fits with your driving pattern.
Speaker 3: Well, you're considering the tenure with the exception of six
Speaker 3: months and twenty six days since the year two thousand,
Speaker 3: the end of two thousand.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but who was counting?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, all right. Next up Blake in Arkansas. This
Speaker 1: is a mattress guy.
Speaker 5: Ah, what up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blake's a big fan, He's a mattress king. He says,
Speaker 3: tell Danny that those Sam's mattresses you at at Costco.
Speaker 1: He says, those Sam's mattresses.
Speaker 3: Are our stores two ninety nine King Specialty, nine Kings Special. However,
Speaker 3: they do seem to be pretty good ones. If he
Speaker 3: was to take it back, it will end up in
Speaker 3: a store like mine, seventy to seventy five percent off retail,
Speaker 3: he says.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like the Amazon products and like that.
Speaker 4: You mention, yeah, that's what this. This guy's a hustler.
Speaker 4: This guy's a hustler. Blake in Arkansas. So I sleep
Speaker 4: on the new mattress with Wifey. We do really dirty
Speaker 4: things on the mattress, like change diapers for baby call
Speaker 4: and then we're like, yeah, we don't like this, going.
Speaker 5: To take it back to Costco. And then he gets it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he gets it. And he told me he's
Speaker 3: making it. He's doing very well, Blake. We should have
Speaker 3: him on the podcast. I want to hear out he's
Speaker 3: making all his money. He was trying to get me
Speaker 3: to get one of those amy. He told me he
Speaker 3: could hook me up with the Amazon place, but you
Speaker 3: got to get a warehouse, brick and mortar warehouse. You
Speaker 3: had to invest the decent amount, but he said in
Speaker 3: Arkansas he's making a.
Speaker 4: Sell a couple of the cars from your car collection.
Speaker 4: Your garage is big enough.
Speaker 1: At the mansion, yeah, it's completely full though. Contact the
Speaker 1: wife there. You can't. I can't even walk in there.
Speaker 3: I can't. I gotta have like the lights on. Are
Speaker 3: you gonna kill yourself? It's like a trapdoor underneath the garage.
Speaker 3: You'll fall in there and be eaten by a pit
Speaker 3: of vipers. Bill writes in he does not say parts
Speaker 3: on known will do. This will be probably the last one.
Speaker 3: Actually will do one more for this. Bill says, I've
Speaker 3: been a Danny he had been. I've been a big
Speaker 3: fan since around two thousand and seven. I still think
Speaker 3: about Dale and how he got people's resume on flash drives.
Speaker 3: They played a PSA commercial, That PSA commercial ad nauseum. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember that. The Housecat one was the big one
Speaker 3: before that. Don't do a Lost Cat?
Speaker 1: Magnet is the Blitz?
Speaker 3: When You and Looney was the greatest show to ever
Speaker 3: Bless the radio. I turned off the volume on TV
Speaker 3: while I watched the games and listen to you guys,
Speaker 3: Banter and the Witty rep art my question for the
Speaker 3: podcast medication. Yeah, well, thanks to the blitz me and
Speaker 3: Looney that the TV show has been pretty smooth because
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 1: Anyway, says h Do I have issues?
Speaker 3: He says, I was driving in the car with my
Speaker 3: wife the other day and it was a long trip
Speaker 3: and we turned off the radio. I started thinking about
Speaker 3: the mail Bag, and I started singing out loud ohio
Speaker 3: Al's song Ben's mail Bag, belting it out over and
Speaker 3: over again like a thirteen year old girl at a
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift concert. Mail Wife that my wife was not happy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he said, all right, well let's accept Alcin sing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll see how's got the talent. Al's got
Speaker 1: the talent for sure.
Speaker 3: And Big Lou rode In who He's upset that I
Speaker 3: goof on the NBA. He was annoyed by that, but Lois, Yeah, listen,
Speaker 3: he says, now that you are all better, a better person.
Speaker 3: You said TV people are better people. Can you break
Speaker 3: down TV ratings when it comes to sports specific the NFL?
Speaker 3: How do they know exactly how many people tune in
Speaker 3: all that stuff or at a sports bar. Yeah, it's guestimation,
Speaker 3: it's not exact. They know the cable numbers, and that
Speaker 3: the streaming numbers they really know because they can track.
Speaker 4: I heard a rumor that there's these little chips that
Speaker 4: are in all of our real IDs now and they're
Speaker 4: tracking all of us.
Speaker 1: How about coming in here face recognition when you walk in.
Speaker 1: That's a little scary behavior.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I can't wait to get the chip in my head.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And my photo is from my big eating days there
Speaker 3: and they still recognize me.
Speaker 1: I still recognize me.
Speaker 3: So all right, we'll get out on that. Enjoy the
Speaker 3: super Bowl today. Chiefs are going to win. I'll be
Speaker 3: on tonight to break it all down.
Speaker 5: And that's Bill Waller.
Speaker 3: We'll be spending more time, Danny about the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers and why they lost the Super Bowl to the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: because we spend more time talking about losers.
Speaker 4: The better Super Bowl story is in the losing locker
Speaker 4: room in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: The agony, the agony.
Speaker 5: It's been a fun weekend here. It has been good. Definitely,
Speaker 5: it's been good. Travel back to Lo Lowlands.
Speaker 3: All right, sounds good and uh, we'll be back tonight.
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful, glorious rest of your Super Bowl study.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you next.
Speaker 5: Time later skater enjoy the game. Gotta murder, I, gotta
Speaker 5: go