WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: This is Not Lamar Odom 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.360 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.600 In the end everywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.479 and Danny G Radio, Thank you you have stumbled in 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:45.240 to the podcast dojo. As we do this every single day, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.040 you can hear this podcast. This is a spinoff of 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.920 the Overnight Show. You hear Danny G during the week 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.560 on Covino and Rich and both The Ben Mahler Show 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.880 and Covino and Vich proudly heard on the iHeart Network 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.120 sports radio of course, but the iHeart Podcast network where 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.960 you hear this show available wherever you get your podcasts. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.800 A global audience, so they tell me, a global audience. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.360 We did have a good night of global calls. I 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.480 think it was Thursday. We had the first hour. We 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.360 had a call from Jerusalem and a call from the 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.000 Auto Bonn in Germany, so that was kind of cool. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.600 Well a little bit of this, a little bit of that, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.800 so that was neat. And then of course we went 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.080 from those calls to a guy in West Covina, so 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.000 you know, what the heck, what the heck? 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.839 I would love to drive on the Autobond sometime. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.959 This guy, Butch, he's from the States, but he lives 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.200 he's a contractor. He lives overseas with his family, and 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.160 he loves to call the show from the Autobhn. He 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.120 gets like a big kick out of it. He thinks 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.600 it's like the coolest thing in the world. And I 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.040 don't disagree. I don't disagree. It's kind of cool that 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.880 he calls up and tell stories and he goes to 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.640 all these different European countries, so he likes to to 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.960 check in and it's like his own taskport when he 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.640 calls in from these different places. Oh, before I forget, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:11.800 By the way, this is the final Saturday before the 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.120 Mauther meet and greet is one week from today. Today 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.959 is the thirteenth of May, May twentieth, so a week 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.800 from today five pm to nine pm, it'll be on 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.320 like Donkey Kong at the Mermaid Inn. And Events Center 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:34.160 in Moundsview, Minnesota. I have never been to Mounds Yew, Minnesota. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.919 I have no idea what I'm getting myself into, but 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.480 this place looks really cool and they've got all kinds 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.280 of entertainment. They get an arcade, bowling, axe throwing, and 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.160 my fat ass will be there. Doc Mike's driving in 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.280 from Chicago. We've got the Minnesota contingent. We've got listeners 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.000 that have rsvp'ed from Iowa, from Wisconsin. There's rumors we've 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.720 got possibly from Maryland, Florida, California. It's gonna be crazy, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.720 Dan and I cannot wait to get there and hang 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.760 out with everybody and then travel around and see Minnesota 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.359 and the sites and sounds and all. It's gonna be 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.880 a fun weekend. But a week from today I will 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.080 be hanging out there again. Mermaid's in an event Center, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.120 Mermaid in No S Mermaid and Event Center, twenty two 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:23.880 hundred Mounds View Boulevard in beautiful Mounds View, Minnesota. I 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.240 don't know that anyone famous came from Moundsview, Minnesota, but 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.080 that's where it is. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.920 This is even going to have a family reunion barbecue 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.080 feel because there's T shirts involved. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.720 Yes, yes, there are not available anymore. If you missed 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.800 out on that, you snooze, you'll lose. Unfortunately, there was 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:47.800 a limited edition shirt which should arrive just before the 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.280 meet and greet. They have not been sent out yet, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.640 I understand, but they are going to be sent out 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.200 and assuming the United States Postal Service does their job 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.600 and depending on where you are, you should get the 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.560 shirt if you ordered one in time for the meet 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:08.560 and greet. Knock on wood and we might do another 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.680 shirt people want. I'll talk to the people see if 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 they like that. We might do something else malard themed 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.400 for the summer. So who knew that? 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.440 No, I gotta do some Fifth Hour podcast shirts. 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.960 That's a great idea. I think we should do that. Also, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.080 we can do a Daddy g radio shirt. Would you 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.279 wear a shirt with your name on it? That's the question. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:30.320 It's an awkward thing. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.839 Yeah, maybe your name, not your face, not your photo, 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:36.520 that would be awkward. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.039 That's definitely a no. No, you cannot wear your photo. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.840 That's a party foul. That's like naming, giving yourself a nickname, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.599 which the only person that successfully gave themselves a nickname? 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.599 You know it is right? No, Tobi Tobi brought it. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.359 Kobe called himself the Black Mamba. He came up with 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.640 a nickname. Gotcha is nobody? You can't come up with 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.680 your own nickname, Kobe could anybody on the Clippers is 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.440 half of what Kobe Bryant is edited audios? What that is? 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:07.839 You know? 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.279 I have all these nicknames, Danny g. But I didn't 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.080 come up with them. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.400 Yeah, you molded a lot of them, though I. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.640 Did not know. I did not These came from different 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.440 people who happened to be fans of the show that said, hey, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.280 you know what you are. Most of them came from 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.920 this guy, Richard the racehorse from Detroit, who I don't 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.000 even know if he's still around, but he hasn't called 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.400 the show in a while. But I didn't give myself 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:34.160 the nickname the spinmaster of misinformation or the bannering Broadcaster. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.200 I didn't say you know what you are? You're the 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.599 Beethoven of bs so the curmudget commentary. I didn't do 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.440 any of those things, dany Gy. I didn't say, hey, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.800 you're the Chasm of Sarka. Let's move on, the Czar 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.360 of Zanny, the dark Knight of weak Night sports Radio, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:52.200 the Mogul of mischief, Benny the Brazen, the King of Zing, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:57.440 money Ball Mallor, Benny the Bopper, the Facetious Fox. They 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.200 didn't say, you know what you are? The Sultan of insulting, No, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.880 the Shaman of shot in freude. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.800 I'm gonna eat my peanut butter toast right. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:12.400 Now, Jumping Jack of Wisecrack, Insight of Overnight Medicine, Man Mallard, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.960 I'm getting choked up. This is so great. Nay Bob 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:21.679 of Negativity, Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle of cynical, no Prince 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:27.000 and Preposterous, Professor Propaganda, his arf hy probably and the 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.839 mad Hatter of sports chatter. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.800 That's some good jelly. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.480 That's only half of my my nicknames. I could do 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.400 the other half if you want, but I'm not. You 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.560 know I'm not. I'll save you from that. I'll save 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:46.640 you from that. Oh yes. On this podcast, the one 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.480 you are listening to right now, we've got cash Back, Benny, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:58.280 life Hack of the Week, Bone Booth, Box Office, blast Off, Backscratcher, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.560 and Scientifical. That is a lot of stuff. That is 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.080 a lot of different stuff. So we'll start with a 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.719 life hack. We're gonna call it cash back Benny. So 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:13.120 in a previous episode of this podcast, which may or 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.880 may not have been the previous podcast that we did, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.480 I told the story of how the Malor mansion needed 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:24.400 new insurance and that cost me my all of my 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.360 liquid money, all of my travel fun money gone zero, zippo, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.920 it's all, none of it's left. And because I had 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.440 to spend it, seventy five hundred dollars on electrical work 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.720 for the house, so I can't go to Maine, can't 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.360 go see my brother in New York, you know, the 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.200 whole thing. But my wife's like, hey, I need to 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.880 get I want to get a new like an air conditioner. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.480 We don't have really the money. I want to get 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:50.960 an air conditioner for the house for the summer it's 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.920 gonna get hot. We have kind of an older air conditioner, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.320 like we use the We use the room air conditioners 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.800 because it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.000 actual air conditioner for the house. Because that's a nightmare. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.600 So whatever room you're in, you just turned the air 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.760 conditioner on. But the main room which we sleep in, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.760 the air conditions kind of it's a little so, so 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.000 we need another one. This is a room missing it, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.960 so whatever, But we didn't have the money. So I 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.280 remember and my wife reminded me of a life hack. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.320 It called me cash back Benny. So she wants this 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.840 big air room air conditioner. We got no money, so 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.280 what do we do? We dipped in Danny g to 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:35.160 the rainy day fund and I was able to come 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.840 up with enough money by doing something that I would 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.559 have done anyway, and paid me and I had forgotten 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.400 about it. But it was adding money by the day. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.400 And the answer is Bing, Danny, do you know what 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.920 that means? Bing is the answer. Do you realize what 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:56.280 that is? 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:57.800 No? All right? 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.920 So you know how everyone uses Google? Mm hmm, that's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.240 like the premium search engine. I don't use Google. I 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:09.320 don't google things. I use Bing. So I'll tell you why. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.720 So my older brother told me about this. So Bing. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.560 If you sign up for a Bing account and you 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.680 just log in and then you forget about it, they 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:26.160 will pay you for like when you search on Bing, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.520 they will give you credit and then after a certain 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.520 amount of time, you get these points and you can 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.079 then cash them in for Amazon gift cards. There's a 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.880 bunch of other things you can cash them in for. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.079 So the way, I didn't know that. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.960 Yeah, yeah, and you, Danny, because you work in our business. Here. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.000 The main reason I use search insines a lot. I'm 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.720 looking for different things to kind of enhance monologues or 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.000 enhance the show. I'm always searching for crap. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.440 Yeah. Plus one of your main addictions, how about. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:05.559 Yeah? So so anyways hello, yeah. So whether it's naughty 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.560 or nice, it doesn't matter. And so over the last 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.000 couple of years, I'd forgotten about It's one of these things. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.080 You said it and forget it. And I had, and 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:21.679 I'm not exaggerating hundreds and hundreds of dollars in Amazon 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.839 money that was just sitting there that I didn't even know. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.640 And I did nothing other than what I normally would 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.440 have done for my job. And the reason I don't 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.000 have a problem with this is so whether they're tracking 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.959 where you search. Don't you think all of the search 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.560 engines track, So it's not like if you go on Google, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.280 they're not tracking what you're doing. Of course, they're tracking 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.520 what you're doing. That's what they all these internet companies. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.320 It's like you are the product. The only as that 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.680 old line goes, the only companies that call their customers 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.520 users are drugs and the Internet. That's it. You're right 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.120 user of the Internet, you are the product. And so 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.280 I have no problem with it, and I do recommend 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.920 it Danny, because it's especially now Bing's got that AI 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.200 thing on it. They're ahead of Google and the AI 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.959 for now. But this paid You know how expensive air 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.200 conditioners are. This thing paid for like eighty five percent 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.000 of the air conditioners. So and I don't I'm not 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.240 getting money from being I don't work for Bing. I 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.319 don't even really think Bing's all that great. But I 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.160 don't think it's much different than Google. And if you've 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.840 got to search the internet, if you have a job, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.440 you have to search for stuff a lot like I 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.760 have or Danny has. I mean, why not Danny's free money? 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.640 What You've got to sign up for an account? 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.360 Yeah, so I got a I got a bogus well 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.520 not bogus, I just got a dummy email which I 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.440 don't check. And then I that's that's where, and I 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.320 completely forgot about it. And it just adds up. You 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.640 get points every single day you can you can log 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.400 in on your phone and you can get some more 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.560 more points and all that. So it's a it's an 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.800 easy thing to do. And it's called Microsoft Awards. When 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.840 you log into to bing and there's all kinds and 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.560 again I don't know, I'm not getting paid. It's not 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:12.720 a commercial. Sounds like a commercial. I just I really, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.400 I think it's a great thing because you can, you know, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.640 you can get free money out of stuff. And when 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.240 you when you spend seven grand on electrical work and 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.600 then you're run an out of money and you want 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.760 to buy something, you can get cash back essentially, So 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.240 it's a it's a good thing to do. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.720 So I like it. I like it. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.520 You know, I have one small virus in this laptop 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.440 and it automatically makes me go to bing because of it, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.720 So it's already directing me that way thanks to a virus. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.920 So you're dealing with a company that puts viruses in computers. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:47.959 But at least they pay you. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.520 Yeah, there you go, and they have like they have 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.920 like I used Amazon, but they have Starbucks money, you 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:59.920 can get gift cards, you can get Burger King, Domino's, Walmart, Target, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.360 the Dunkin Donut. I mean, there's all big companies are 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.440 on there. So it's uh. I chose Amazon because I 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.280 needed what I needed, but there's a bunch of other 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.000 stuff on there anyway, So if you want to do it, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.959 it's a life hack. Free money might as well. I 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.560 always love free money. What the heck, And into the 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.480 phone booth we go, Danny, We got to go to 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:19.760 the phone booth. That's what we do. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:21.120 Well. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:26.240 As you know firsthand, the new studios have had some 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.880 ups and downs. They look very beautiful, but technically there's 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.760 still some smaller issues that they've. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:34.400 Been ironing out. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.480 As we like to say, and we said on that 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.680 special podcast where we were reminiscing about all the greatest 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:46.440 moments in the old Fox Sports Radio Network studios. One 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.920 thing that your old producer, wrong Button Bob constantly has 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.839 been bothering the engineers about is he needs a hotline number. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.400 Where's the hot line? I need hotline numbers. I need 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.520 a warm line, and I need a hotline because every 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.560 hour on the odd couple he has a guest that 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.120 will call him on the hot line or he calls 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.199 them on that number. When we first moved into Rush 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.640 Limbaugh's old studio, the phone system did not have a 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.360 warm line or a hot line, so we were having 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.200 to call guests off the regular phone number off of 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.560 one of the regular lines, and you know that could 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.680 be a little hairy, let's say, And here's proof of that. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.640 So after Covino and Rich is over, I'm doing post production. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.920 I'm also in the kitchen heating something up in the 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.160 microwave for a snack, and I walk into the main 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.160 studio to grab my backpack. Ron Button Bob actually wasn't 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.960 there that day. I don't want to say the producer's 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.440 name because I don't want to bust his chops because 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.040 this experience looked like it scarred him. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.400 Let's say his name. It rhymes with Reathan. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.720 He was filling in for wrong Button Bob, and he 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:08.240 dialed up NBA great Gilbert Arenas as the guest. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.080 Okay, there's another edit. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.840 Bay guy in the studio and he tells Reathan and 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:19.920 he tells Alex the engineer on that shift, Oh, man, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.160 I loved Gilbert Arenas when he was playing. They're having 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.960 like this little small talk about Gilbert Arenas, and he's like, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.440 did he bring a gun into the locker room? And 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.280 there they were kind of like, you know, they were 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:37.120 going down memory lane. As Chris Brussard and Rob Parker 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.520 on the air are introing Gilbert Arenas. So he's got 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.800 him punched up on the phone, and Chris gives him 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:50.960 this big introduction. As Chris is rambling off Gilbert's resume, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.040 you hear him on the phone and he's getting ready 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:59.840 to talk, and Chris Broussard says, Gilbert Arenas, welcome into 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:04.840 the couple. And there's a pause one beat, and then 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:12.640 the voice says, this is not Gilbert Arenas. Uh oh, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:17.480 and Chris Phersard says, it is not. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.920 Always the Optimist, always the Optimist. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:31.440 It was one of their regular callers who was on 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:36.120 hold on one of the regular lines, and so poor 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:41.080 Reathan punched up the wrong line. Because you know, those 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.000 studio lines are all black buttons. They all kind of 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.160 look the same right now. They weren't even labeled last week. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.640 So he just hit the one above the one he 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.800 was supposed to push. A listener who was hearing in 0:16:54.840 --> 0:17:00.200 his handset this big introduction and then he says this 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:10.040 is not Gilbert, and we're dying laughing and producer filling 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.520 in for wrong button Bob. He looked pale. He did 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.600 not he wasn't amused. He didn't think it was a 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.240 funny moment the way we did. Alex immediately turned it 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.440 into a drop. Not on the air, but off the air. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.480 During commercial breaks, you'll hear Alex playing this is not 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:28.760 Gilbert Renus. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.480 That is great. That is not the first time that 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.280 has happened. We were in the early days of Fox 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:46.240 Sports Radio, the very very early days. We were Steve Mason, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.680 who's at the ESPN station in La Mason and Ireland. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:55.320 But Mason was doing a show on a Saturday night 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.920 and he thought he was talking to Jim Bowden, who 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.800 was the general manager of the Cincinnati Reds at the time. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.240 This goes way back, like this is like a million 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.960 years ago, and Jim Boden Bowden rather was the GM 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.560 of the Reds. But Jim Boden, you know, Jim Boden 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.879 was much much different, much different story. He was the 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.359 guy from I think it was called Ball four, you 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:31.960 know it. It was the book about remember the wife swapping. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.119 Oh I know what you're talking about. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:40.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so the producer put him 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:46.600 on and Mason thought he was interviewing the Reds general manager, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:52.040 and he was not. He was interviewing the guy Jim 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.560 Boughten from Baalton. But Jim Bowten realized that he the 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.480 guy interviewing him, didn't realize who he was talking to. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.680 So when Mason was asking Bouten about, you know, Ken 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.200 Griffy Junior and what's going on because he wasn't playing 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.520 well for the Reds, and Jim Bound's like, oh, yeah, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.920 we're gonna trade him. He's not, He's not doing that. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.840 It was hilarious. It was so it was so great 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.840 and we were all I was in the studio, We're like, whoa, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:28.720 that was breaking news. The wildest, wildest crazy thing. I 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.119 think Jim Boughten actually died a few years ago, but 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.159 he had a great sense of humor. Man, he just 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.680 went with it and he's like, Okay, this guy does 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.520 not know who he's talking to, so I am just 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.360 going to get the craziest dans. And he was so 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.920 smart about it. As I remember it, maybe I got 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.920 it wrong, but as I remember it in the time 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.480 looking back, like he started out kind of like serious, 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.320 like he was, they weren't outrageous, and then when when 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.320 he kept getting asked questions, he just kept giving more 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.080 outrageous answers, like he's getting he got more crazier and 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.840 crazier and crazier, and it was It was just wonderful. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:08.960 And Jim Boughten also created something Danny the real Gym, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.320 not Jim Bowden, who else? He did actually end up 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.640 working at Fox Sports Radio, which is which is kind 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.959 of crazy. Later on he was one of our baseball 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.160 and analysts. I did some shows with him. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:18.760 Is a good dude. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.959 But but Jim Boughten, Uh, he he created something that 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.840 was a big part of little league and youth baseball. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.840 If you're around my age when you wanted to mimic 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:36.040 baseball players, Danny, did you ever have and maybe you 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:37.720 didn't have this, but it was a big part of 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.080 my life Big League two? Did you ever? 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:41.840 Of course? 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:42.560 Right? 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.439 Yeah, it was so good and for all of us 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.560 who are around that age are heroes in baseball. You 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.040 could not watch a baseball game without a giant golf 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.760 ball in the in the in the mouth and uh, 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.080 tobacco being spit all over the field. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.200 Yes, it looked like a tobacco pouch. The gum inside 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.320 was in strands and you would just take a big 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.880 handful of it and chuck it in your mouth, and yeah, man, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.679 it it was. It was a big part of our 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.000 childhood with baseball. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.720 Yeah, you thought you thought you were like the boss man. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.560 You were like, you know, this is like a starter 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.320 kit to chewing tobacco. You're ready to go. Nowadays, of 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.159 course people would get very up Sode. You should not 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.800 be showing that to children. What's wrong with your Shame 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.280 on you. But it was a pretty pretty smart, pretty 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.400 smart idea a bunch of people. There were like three 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.000 or four people, but Jim Boughten was part of that. Anyway. 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.720 I did not expect to go down Jim bouton highway 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.640 when we talked about Gilbert Arenas. But are they going 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.680 to put a hot line in or two hot lines? 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:47.359 Yeah? 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.720 So I want to say this past Wednesday or Thursday, 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:53.960 the hot line and warm line numbers were added to 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:54.880 the phone system. 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.480 Oh so, so the same numbers we had in the 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.520 other place are wrong. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:21:59.800 Button. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:01.920 I was trying to figure that out the other day. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.200 But I do know that two numbers were installed to 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.320 that new phone system. But it's funny. It would be 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.200 like it. It would be the equivalent to you doing 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.840 this huge build up to welcome in lamar odom onto 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:20.080 your show. Former Clipper, former laker lamar otum and then 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.240 Dick and Dayton's voice comes on and this isn't lamar. 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:31.159 Well what I was doing local radio years ago. We 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:33.840 had a caller this and I don't even know who 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.200 it was, and I don't know We had this Lee Clein, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.159 who we've had on you you know, your Battle Royale 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.520 there would lead back in the day. But Lee did 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:46.720 a show after me and Dave Smith, and we had 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:48.840 a caller that called up and we were promoting like 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.480 Lee Clein's coming up when we get done, and this 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.800 guy in this like thick you know Mexican accent, says, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:23:00.200 who the hell is Lee Kleine. It was the funniest 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.040 that as a drop. It was so funny, the timing 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.399