Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio Happy Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. It
Speaker 1: is the thirtieth day of the month of March, and
Speaker 1: we're hanging out with you big old mail bag on
Speaker 1: this Sunday. Will be down to the final four right now, Danny,
Speaker 1: we're sitting at let's see, we went from the Sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen to the Dirty Dozer to the Elite eight, and
Speaker 1: now it's the six what is it? Sixes?
Speaker 3: Everywhere today we have Tennessee and Houston and Michigan State
Speaker 3: and Auburn.
Speaker 1: All right, so that's what's coming up today. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll have plenty of Mallard monologue reaction to all that
Speaker 1: tonight on the Overnight Show. And I know you and
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich and those guys on Monday will be
Speaker 1: breaking it all down. But let's get to the mail bag.
Speaker 4: It's bang.
Speaker 3: One thing Ben I like about Covino and Rich they
Speaker 3: don't pretend to be experts at sports they don't watch
Speaker 3: or know anything about. They both openly admit that they
Speaker 3: suck at college basketball.
Speaker 1: Well, based on the the picks on Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: dot com, everyone sucks at college Yeah. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things. The weird thing about the tournament it's really
Speaker 1: become more of an issue in recent years, is if
Speaker 1: you just pick chalk, people rip you. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing that. You know that anybody can pick chuck. You've
Speaker 1: got to pick upsets. Yet, if you just pick chalk,
Speaker 1: you'll end up feeling pretty good. You'll you'll be doing
Speaker 1: very well. You'll you'll end up with teams in the
Speaker 1: final four.
Speaker 3: A couple of the lowest seed we had was Arkansas. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they were the tenth seed and they didn't hang
Speaker 3: on to go any deeper.
Speaker 4: So of course you should pick chalk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not you don't get any credit for that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like before every season I have a theory that
Speaker 1: I've come up with over the years doing sports stock
Speaker 1: radio that the most outrageous prediction, the most wild prediction
Speaker 1: is it's a battle. It's like a pissing contest to
Speaker 1: have the most prediction before season because you get clout,
Speaker 1: you get attention for it, Like I'll give you any
Speaker 1: baseball just starting right, Dodgers are off to a really
Speaker 1: good start.
Speaker 4: And all that.
Speaker 1: And in the baseball season predicting, if you come out
Speaker 1: and say the Dodgers are gonna win one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen games and they're gonna win the World Series, yawn.
Speaker 1: Now if you come out and say, the Dodgers might
Speaker 1: not even win the National League West, so they're not
Speaker 1: gonna win the Nation League West and Dodgers won't win
Speaker 1: the World Series, and the Podres are gonna win the
Speaker 1: World Series or the Baltimore Orioles are gonna win the
Speaker 1: World Well, that gets attention. So you're better off picking
Speaker 1: some outrageous thing rather than going with the obvious, because
Speaker 1: nobody wants to hear the obvious and they just want
Speaker 1: they don't want that. So anyway, we have the mail
Speaker 1: bag here and Ohio Al, thank you for that. We've
Speaker 1: got first one from Reggie in Detroit. Reggie's a longtime
Speaker 1: supporter of this podcast.
Speaker 4: Reggie theas, uh, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't say now, we might just assume it's
Speaker 1: Reggie Theis, the former cal State Northwards christ Did he
Speaker 1: Is he the one that threw the punch or got punched?
Speaker 1: Remember that that Reggie Theis, Yeah, there was a punch.
Speaker 4: Did he remember if he was on the receiver. I
Speaker 4: know he was part of the incident.
Speaker 1: I don't remember great moments in cal State Northridge history
Speaker 1: right there? All right, So Reggie from Detroit, right, it says, Ben,
Speaker 1: would you please address the mal ord militia regarding these
Speaker 1: social media commentators this week who said that they think
Speaker 1: you are responsible for having Eddie fired and replaced on
Speaker 1: the show by Lorena. Thanks Reggie from Detroit. Yeah, Reggie,
Speaker 1: So I have been told this. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: see it. Apparently there is a popular theory by some
Speaker 1: that I went to management and I said, ick on
Speaker 1: the Eddie a and that's it. We've got to get
Speaker 1: rid of Eddie and Reggie. My response to the people
Speaker 1: that are saying that is there's a lot of stupid
Speaker 1: people out there. There's a lot of dummies.
Speaker 3: And still, well, it doesn't make any sense because Lorena
Speaker 3: doesn't do the same job Eddie does. She is a
Speaker 3: tech producer. Yeah, she doesn't even have the same boss
Speaker 3: that Eddie had, exact two different departments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the only reason Lorena talk is Coop won't talk.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like I've tried to use Coop for
Speaker 1: bits on the show. He just doesn't doesn't interact. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's not that's not his thing. He doesn't like to
Speaker 1: talk too much. And Lorena at least will respond every
Speaker 1: once in a while, and she's kind of into it,
Speaker 1: and so I like having her on the show. But
Speaker 1: I tried to use Coop, but Coop's just not he
Speaker 1: just doesn't engage unfortunately. So but no, I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do. I loved Eddie. I actually found out. I
Speaker 1: got back from Kansas City. It was early November, went
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City meet and greet flew back on
Speaker 1: I think it was that Monday morning. I got back
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, took a nap, woke up, and all hell
Speaker 1: had broken with this. But Reggie, Yeah, I me, there's always
Speaker 1: gonna be certain people that are just ignorant and dumb
Speaker 1: and whatever phrase you one. He was, But no, nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing like that is true. But you know, people can
Speaker 1: believe what they want. And I am honored though, in
Speaker 1: some way, that people believe that the overnight talk show
Speaker 1: host has the kind of an iron fist that can
Speaker 1: control those things. I just believe that it's a wonderful
Speaker 1: thing that you think that I have the kind of
Speaker 1: thing where I can move mountains and that I'm in
Speaker 1: control of the terrain. I think that's neat. There was
Speaker 1: a time maybe that was the case where you were
Speaker 1: the engine master and all that, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that in modern times that.
Speaker 4: You're being modest.
Speaker 3: In fact, I heard a rumor that the reason why
Speaker 3: our kitchen is blue is because that's your favorite color.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I am the benevolent overlord, right, I'm the dictator.
Speaker 1: I rotate nuts. My nickname in the building is at
Speaker 1: Till of the Hunt. That is my nickname in the building.
Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you Reggie for that, and thank you
Speaker 1: for all the idiots. I guess on social media that
Speaker 1: we're posting that ian from Australia. Right, so, and he says, hey, Bandon,
Speaker 1: Danny enjoyed the podcast. I wanted to ask you about this.
Speaker 1: Didn't they make a horror movie about this very topic?
Speaker 1: And then he sent me a story that says scientists
Speaker 1: want to grow human bodies for testing and the harvest
Speaker 1: for parts. This is from Ian in Australia. Ethically sourced
Speaker 1: human bodies. Yeah, scientists from Stanford University asked in a
Speaker 1: recent article. This is from MIT Technology Review. He says,
Speaker 1: why do we hear about medical breakthroughs and mice but
Speaker 1: rarely see them translate into cures from human disease? Why
Speaker 1: do so few drugs that inner clinical trials receive regulatory approval?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. And then they explain because
Speaker 1: they're not doing it on human bodies. And so this
Speaker 1: is the common root cause there's a shortage of ethically
Speaker 1: sourced human bodies.
Speaker 4: May too early in the morning for this.
Speaker 1: I know. So they say, with more than one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand patients currently waiting for a solid organ transplant in
Speaker 1: the US alone, it is the kind of an outside
Speaker 1: of the box thinking that could solve this organ shortage. Wow,
Speaker 1: So how exactly would this work?
Speaker 4: Jesus?
Speaker 1: You imagine it would be harvesting bodies. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: but I don't even want to. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what do you want me to say? Ian, I don't
Speaker 1: know that that is a horror movie. That's that to
Speaker 1: have been a horror movie at some point, right, that
Speaker 1: had to be. This is like some kind of April
Speaker 1: fool's joke. We're not quite into April yet. Ethical harvesting
Speaker 1: of human bodies I'm a doctor. Yeah, is determining whether
Speaker 1: we should make body ooids non human or human will
Speaker 1: require considerable thought, discussion and debate.
Speaker 3: Man, all right, you know what, it is too early
Speaker 3: for this, but I'm gonna be thinking about this all
Speaker 3: day now.
Speaker 1: Thank you Ian for that. Yeah, And don't you think
Speaker 1: they're probably already doing that somewhere maybe somewhere in like
Speaker 1: some well look at the maybe in Wuhan. You know
Speaker 1: the lab there in Wuhan where they give us COVID
Speaker 1: and all that, the fish market in in Wuhan, China,
Speaker 1: they can at harvesting bodies. Oh yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: who's next on the mail bag? And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to send a mail.
Speaker 3: Transition from that, I know, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 3: know what do you what are you doing speaking of
Speaker 3: dead bodies?
Speaker 1: You know, we're not coast to coast ian. I know
Speaker 1: you don't even know what that is, probably in Australia,
Speaker 1: but we're just just trying to get through it. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what this is. It's not really a
Speaker 1: sports podcast.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's just a podcast. It's just a couple of dude hybrid.
Speaker 4: It's a hybrid.
Speaker 1: It's a hybrid. We're just trying to get today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ask Ben in two point zero and a little
Speaker 3: bit of sports mixed in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, whatever caught our attention we talk about,
Speaker 1: it's not It's not that deep, dude, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's not that deep. Okay, Joe in New
Speaker 1: York writes and he says, hey, Ben, I saw that
Speaker 1: Logan Paul and Jake Paul this week had their own
Speaker 1: version of a malord meet and greet in Times Square,
Speaker 1: but no one showed up. Uh has this ever happened.
Speaker 4: Like a Doug Gottlieb remote.
Speaker 1: Or like a Doug Gottlieb coach basketball team? Oh no,
Speaker 1: all right, No, we love you, Doug. We're big fans
Speaker 1: of Green Bay. Maybe you'll win five games next year. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Joe writes.
Speaker 3: In nobody showed up because Doug's fans live in other states.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, no, but so Joe sent
Speaker 1: a link here. So Logan Paul, Jake Paul had a
Speaker 1: meet and greet in Times Square and nobody showed up. Uh.
Speaker 1: So the question was has this ever had me Fortunately, no,
Speaker 1: although we did have almost we only had a couple
Speaker 1: of people show up in Appleton, and Appleton, Wisconsin was
Speaker 1: very small. That was the smallest one we've had. I
Speaker 1: was worried no one was going to show up. We
Speaker 1: had a few people show up from Green Bay and
Speaker 1: one dude, I think they're like four four people showed
Speaker 1: up to that. That was the That was the one
Speaker 1: that came close to having no one show up. But
Speaker 1: other than that, we've done pretty well and we did
Speaker 1: very well in Boston. Vegas was great, Minnesota was wonderful,
Speaker 1: The la Ones have always been really good. We did
Speaker 1: pretty well in Charleston. So yeah, we have never I'm
Speaker 1: gonna jix myself now, I'm gonna jinx myself. But to
Speaker 1: this point we've never had no one show up, which
Speaker 1: would be very very unfortunate. And how did that happen.
Speaker 1: I thought Jake Paul and Logan Paul were like popular,
Speaker 1: are they not? I don't know, They're not popular to me,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm too old for there.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I would have I would have assumed
Speaker 3: that they would have a decent sized crowd. Maybe it
Speaker 3: wasn't promoted properly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Or it's all smoking mirrors, And it's like the
Speaker 1: matrix and what I always say about social media and
Speaker 1: and all that, that it's just algorithms and bots and
Speaker 1: this that and the other thing, and AI.
Speaker 3: Like all those supporters are not tangible in real life.
Speaker 1: A lot of what goes on on social media is
Speaker 1: not you can't monetize it. It's not like legit. It's like,
Speaker 1: aren't there more more people on Instagram that have a million?
Speaker 1: There's not what was the number, I gotta find the number,
Speaker 1: but there's like more people on Instagram that have a
Speaker 1: million followers or something like that that actual people on
Speaker 1: the planet, meaning the population. If you took all those
Speaker 1: millions of people, there's a lot of fakeness, is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, right, A lot of it's smoking mirrors.
Speaker 3: By the way, I saw Doug in our La studios
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 1: Is he recruiting? Is he trying to get some kid
Speaker 1: from Tustin to come joining?
Speaker 4: Well, I was telling him about cos skills.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, you can never start, you know, getting your
Speaker 3: son's film out there too soon. But he asked me
Speaker 3: how the Fifth Hour podcast was doing. And I talked
Speaker 3: to him for a couple of minutes, you know, him
Speaker 3: being a coach now too. I felt like he should
Speaker 3: have had lunch catered for our studios that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just charge it to green Bay, come on, man?
Speaker 1: Exactly was Doug surprise when he got to La he
Speaker 1: was greeted by this thing called the Sun? Was he like, whoa,
Speaker 1: what is that? There's a thing called the Sun? Where
Speaker 1: did that come from? I can't believe it. Did he
Speaker 1: wear the pullover Green Bay thing? You know, the pullover
Speaker 1: that says the Green Bay logo on it and all that.
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't see any I didn't see any slag on him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would wear it was incognito. He was in well
Speaker 3: you know, he was dressed as a broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you'd agreed, Danny, the way Green
Speaker 1: Bay performed this past year, you probably should go incognito. No,
Speaker 1: he should go definitely go incognito. Next up is Dave
Speaker 1: in Boise, Idaho. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I
Speaker 1: know you guys are not big fans of my state.
Speaker 1: You never talk about it, but I thought this would
Speaker 1: be interesting for the podcast. And he says that the
Speaker 1: governor of Idaho has signed a law this week that
Speaker 1: has made it illegal to have truck nuts. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: cannot have have the the truck nuts. I rotate nuts. Well,
Speaker 1: that's peanuts, you know, you know what, you know what
Speaker 1: truck nuts are, Danny, right, the little scrot them, the
Speaker 1: fake scrotum that attaches to the back of the back
Speaker 1: of the truck, and it says a common decency. Many
Speaker 1: years ago, Florida attempted to make truck nuts illegal with
Speaker 1: a law that proposed a sixty dollars fine, but it
Speaker 1: failed to pass. South Carolina had a legal battle after
Speaker 1: a woman got a four hundred and forty five dollars
Speaker 1: ticket for violating obscenity laws. But according to the story
Speaker 1: that was sent here by Dave from Boise, Idaho, he
Speaker 1: says House built two seventy recently went into effect and
Speaker 1: it updated pre existing indecent exposure law that now outlaws
Speaker 1: the public display of female breasts, male breast altered to
Speaker 1: look like female breasts, and toy products that resemble genitals.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Ido. Have you been to Idaho
Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich or anything, or just gone up
Speaker 1: fishing or anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been to Idaho. Been a hiking Yeah, on
Speaker 3: a hiking trip. Beautiful man rolling green hills on the
Speaker 3: way into Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Okay, there are huge, sprawling estates.
Speaker 3: You can build a retirement home on a ton of property.
Speaker 3: And my cousin and I we were blown away by
Speaker 3: all these homes we saw. And my cousin told me,
Speaker 3: He's like, man, this is the spot to retire right here.
Speaker 1: I've known a few people that at social events I've
Speaker 1: gone to with the wife. And a lot of cops
Speaker 1: retire in Idah. I think it's a big cop place.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of cops go up there, and like
Speaker 1: from La, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of Hollywood folks that have moved to
Speaker 3: Actors actresses that have moved out that way to get
Speaker 3: out of La.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, definitely often.
Speaker 3: I know Mario Lopez brought his family out there is
Speaker 3: that right?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they still have a residence here in southern California,
Speaker 3: but they built a house there in Idaho. My wife's
Speaker 3: uncle and aunt are building a big home in Idaho
Speaker 3: right now. So yeah, that is a spot where people
Speaker 3: on the West Coast especially look to retire.
Speaker 1: Cool. Are you planning to retire, Danny? Have you mapped
Speaker 1: out your retirement plans there?
Speaker 3: And dude, my retirement plan is in full effect once
Speaker 3: I turned ninety three.
Speaker 1: You're starting right now.
Speaker 4: You'll start saving seven good years left. Wrong.
Speaker 1: Once CoA goes number one in the NFL draft, you'll
Speaker 1: be you'll be ready to go.
Speaker 4: Uh, it is.
Speaker 1: The mail bag, And thank you, Dave. I don't know
Speaker 1: what do you want me to say, Dave. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really have a problem with with
Speaker 1: fake nuts on a truck.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the greatest look in the world,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's something that needs to be
Speaker 1: punished by the law.
Speaker 3: Oh, Ben, really quick, though, I don't know falls there
Speaker 3: were a ton of large people there. We stopped in
Speaker 3: a diner and oh my goodness, there were big people
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Well, that actually is perfect, Danny, are
Speaker 1: you looking at my notes here? Are you cheating?
Speaker 4: Nanny?
Speaker 3: No, No, we're just in sync because Billy rights in,
Speaker 3: I'm justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: Apparently, so Billy writes in he says, uh, I guess
Speaker 1: parts unknown. By the way, he did not. Billy did
Speaker 1: not say where he is actually residing, so part's unknown.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I heard you mentioned Desmond Watson this
Speaker 1: week on the Overnight Show, and I want to know,
Speaker 1: if you're a man of your word, will you actually
Speaker 1: get one of his jerseys. So, for those that didn't
Speaker 1: hear the Overnight Show, I did Billy mention that I
Speaker 1: am a big fan of Desmond Watson. I believe he
Speaker 1: is the kid's name, Desmond Watson. He is the humongous
Speaker 1: defensive tackle from the University of Florida that, if he
Speaker 1: is drafted, will be the heaviest player drafted in NFL
Speaker 1: history by almost one hundred pounds.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm looking him up right now. Desmond Watson four
Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine pounds.
Speaker 1: No, he's bigger than that. He's like forced safety. He
Speaker 1: weighed in on his pro day. He's projected as a
Speaker 1: Day three pick. He weighed in at four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four pounds. Oh yeah, he but he big boy.
Speaker 1: He benched two hundred and twenty five pounds thirty six times.
Speaker 1: That's the most of any player that he wasn't at
Speaker 1: the combine, but no players at the combine bench that much.
Speaker 1: He also completed the forty yard dash in five point
Speaker 1: thirty nine seconds and almost five hundred pounds.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: The dudes athletic. So yeah, I'm a big fan. Billy
Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown. I'm pulling for the kid. Well I
Speaker 1: actually buy a jersey? Probably not.
Speaker 4: What does he eat?
Speaker 1: Donuts and traduccin and.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do for the combine, get heavier.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat those three layer burritos is what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna eat. That's what I'm going for. Man, you talk
Speaker 1: about the great fat Hope Desmond Watts. I hope the
Speaker 1: Rams draft that guy. The Rams draft him. I'll have
Speaker 1: to buy a jersey. I do think I'm a little
Speaker 1: too old for that, but I don't know. I man,
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for the kid. I hope he makes it.
Speaker 1: That's every fat kid's hero right there. If he squashed it,
Speaker 1: literally squashes the record by eighty pounds. Currently the heaviest
Speaker 1: player ever drafted in the NFL, weighed in at three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds. There's a couple of offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: most recently was Trent Brown, who's actually had a decent career.
Speaker 1: But this guy Watson's again almost one hundred pounds heavier
Speaker 1: then that that is as wild. And he never missed
Speaker 1: a game at Florida.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 1: I watched him play defensive tackle, but he he had
Speaker 1: some decent stats and he moves very well. He moves
Speaker 1: like he's a normal sized player. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 1: If you're an NFL team, draft that guy in the
Speaker 1: sixth round. If you can get him to lose i
Speaker 1: don't know, seventy pounds or something like that, get under
Speaker 1: four hundred, man, that's it.
Speaker 4: I having him lose anything.
Speaker 3: I'm having him gain thirty more pounds and then I'm
Speaker 3: gonna just put him in whenever i have to do
Speaker 3: the push play.
Speaker 1: Well, No, he's a defensive second, so he could stop
Speaker 1: the toush push.
Speaker 4: No, I would put him in on offense. I'd use
Speaker 4: them like a refrigerator.
Speaker 1: Perry oh Man, that is that is a great story. Billy,
Speaker 1: but again unlikely to buy actually buy his jersey, but
Speaker 1: I will be a fan. I will support him and
Speaker 1: hope he does very well for sure, Mike. And Fullerton
Speaker 1: writes in on the mailback and says, hey, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: g do you think if the Dodgers stay healthy they
Speaker 1: have a legit shot at a perfect season this year?
Speaker 1: I know it's never been done before, but if anyone
Speaker 1: can do it, it's this year's Dodgers. On paper, they
Speaker 1: look unbeatable. Also, do you know if mercury being in
Speaker 1: retrograde is a good thing or a bad thing. I've
Speaker 1: listened to Andrea's calls for years and I still.
Speaker 4: Have no idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so pretty sure Mike that you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about the Dodgers being perfect. And as far as
Speaker 1: as far as the mercury and retrograde, I generally it's
Speaker 1: a bad thing unless it fits the narrati, it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. So it really it's wonderful. You can manipulate.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like playto Danny, mercury being in retro red.
Speaker 1: You can move it to whatever fits your agenda. It's
Speaker 1: like that after the fact reporting when people talk about
Speaker 1: this team didn't get along very well, and then they
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Well they didn't. They didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't get along. Well, that's what the reason was for
Speaker 1: them to win is because they didn't get along well.
Speaker 1: So it kind of drove them to win. And then
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, they didn't win because they
Speaker 1: didn't get along. So whatever fits the narrative, you just
Speaker 1: plug it in and you're good to go.
Speaker 3: Andrea, she has magical powers. It's true because every time
Speaker 3: I hear her on your show, she magically turns into
Speaker 3: Amy Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Oh how that's a low blow. That is a low blow.
Speaker 1: What was she's gonna do now? Amy Lawrence gave up
Speaker 1: the overnight show?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Gary in Pa, you know, I don't know ferk Dog.
Speaker 1: I'll ask her next time.
Speaker 4: Is very nice lady, by the way, he's a lovely lady.
Speaker 1: In my apologies to her. Gary and Pittsburgh writing.
Speaker 3: The phone calls and she would ask me about my
Speaker 3: family for about ten minutes, and then you'd leave her
Speaker 3: on hold for another hour.
Speaker 1: That's right, Gary, sometimes two hours. Gary and Pittsburgh write.
Speaker 1: Since has been as a person that listens to your
Speaker 1: show but hides behind their email as some gasbag once said,
Speaker 1: I came across a pretty good deal in the coupons
Speaker 1: that come from our grocery ads. Apparently Arby's money laundering
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I guess that's for you. Daddy in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: must be off the charts. They have a coupon deal
Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars six mozzarella sticks, two beef and cheddar,
Speaker 1: two medium fries, and two drinks and two apple turnovers. Man,
Speaker 1: in this day and age, I think that is as
Speaker 1: fair as it gets, and will probably do this. We'll
Speaker 1: probably do this, he says, your thoughts as this is
Speaker 1: what half of that offer would be in californ.
Speaker 3: We talked about the prices yesterday. This sounds like the cartel.
Speaker 1: Now you get six mazzarella sticks. That's a nice appetizer,
Speaker 1: two beef and cheddar, two medium fries, and two drinks
Speaker 1: and two apple turnovers. That would cost at least seventy dollars.
Speaker 4: In LA at least one visit to the er.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's worth it. He also says Gary's waiting
Speaker 1: for the dates for Columbus the Columbus Meet and greet.
Speaker 1: Brush up on your hockey knowledge, since that is the
Speaker 1: decor of that bar, Google Orums Donuts as I will
Speaker 1: be bringing you some of their famous cinnamon bunsh I
Speaker 1: like the sound of that. That are the size of Frisbees,
Speaker 1: says Gary in Pittsburgh. Wow, ah, man, cinnabuns cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 1: Is there anything better?
Speaker 3: When they give you a little sample? Yeah, at a
Speaker 3: cinnabon and in the mall, that's enough. Like I'll get
Speaker 3: two sand samples in that. That's gotta be sixty grams
Speaker 3: of sugar in the two little tiny samples. Who could
Speaker 3: sit there and eat a huge cinnamon roll?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, it obviously depends on how old you are, right,
Speaker 1: because you're you're at the age now, Danny where you're like,
Speaker 1: you know how many grams of sugar?
Speaker 4: But if but I couldn't eat that when I was twenty.
Speaker 1: Okay, I probably could have back in my big eating days.
Speaker 1: Well didn't you stop? Used to stop? What's that place?
Speaker 4: Is it in?
Speaker 1: Not Santa Cruz, Central California that's got the rolls?
Speaker 4: Pismo Beach, Pismo Beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Pismo Beach.
Speaker 3: We're a famous Yeah, there's a famous cinnamon role play.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful place, always packed there's people lined up
Speaker 1: out the out the door there.
Speaker 4: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: But those those are regular sized cinnamon rolls. Those are
Speaker 1: not the size of Frisbees. But but Gary, very kind.
Speaker 1: I look forward to meeting you, Gary. Continue to beat
Speaker 1: it behind your email all right, Marcus writes it from
Speaker 1: San Antonio. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g I
Speaker 1: have mentioned in previous mail bag questions that we were
Speaker 1: lucky enough to be read on the Real Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: My first experience at AM radio was listening to Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals games and follow up postgame shows, the fan shows.
Speaker 1: I remember watching WKRP and since a Naty as a kid,
Speaker 1: and Frasier on TV and thought, what a glamorous life
Speaker 1: it would be to work in a radio station, listening
Speaker 1: to several hosts cry about the demands of the job
Speaker 1: and former athletes that have basically ruined sports talk radio.
Speaker 1: There's one thing that still makes me wonder about to
Speaker 1: this day. Every once in a while, there seems to
Speaker 1: be an extended, I mean really long commercial break. I
Speaker 1: always thought the host was arguing with the producer or
Speaker 1: some kind of bathroom emergency. Can you explain why Sometimes
Speaker 1: these extends breaks just seem to come out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: It would be nice to get some closure on this.
Speaker 1: Truly appreciate you guys keeping me company on the weekends.
Speaker 1: That is from Marcus in San Antonio. So, Marcus, this
Speaker 1: must be a local radio issue because we have a
Speaker 1: formatted clock by the clock, all about the clock, living
Speaker 1: for the clock. It's all about the clock. But on
Speaker 1: local radio, I do know sometimes you move commercials around,
Speaker 1: and I know that occasionally you need to go a
Speaker 1: little bit long.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: We have had some hosts you may or may not
Speaker 1: have worked with, one who may or may not have
Speaker 1: gone on to sit in the most famous chair in radio,
Speaker 1: the Limbaugh chair, who would occasionally kind of fluts around
Speaker 1: with the clock, which would create some very tough situations
Speaker 1: as we go out. You know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: but generally speaking, we're not able to do that, right Dan,
Speaker 1: we can't really mess Oh.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I did one time have the heart
Speaker 3: out run into a heart out.
Speaker 4: You ever heard of that?
Speaker 3: So nobody knew what to do because it had never
Speaker 3: happened before.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so good, Oh man. The worst I've had
Speaker 1: I did. I came back at the top of the
Speaker 1: hour before the top of the hour, the final segment,
Speaker 1: and I think I had seventeen seconds, I believe. I
Speaker 1: said alone and gave the name of the show, and
Speaker 1: we went right back and that was that was that
Speaker 1: about seventeen seconds and the greatest.
Speaker 4: Sound my heart out hit in the middle of the
Speaker 4: top of the hour. Update.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were legendary stories about that show. And because
Speaker 1: if they were just rolling, they would just keep going,
Speaker 1: and which is great, and you can do that alone
Speaker 1: local radio. The problem with us is we're feeding all
Speaker 1: these other stations and so if you if you don't
Speaker 1: follow the clock, it creates what's it called danny a bottleneck, right, well, gridlock.
Speaker 3: Like a it's like a train wreck, but millions of
Speaker 3: people die in the train crash, and.
Speaker 1: There's no way around it. There's really no way around it.
Speaker 1: You're you're just doomed.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: There is a famous story markers in local radio. There
Speaker 1: was a talk show host in Los Angeles who had
Speaker 1: eaten lunch before his afternoon drive show, and the lunch
Speaker 1: did not agree with the host, and the host did
Speaker 1: the opening segment of his show and then realized he
Speaker 1: had to go to the powder room.
Speaker 4: And for what did you eat.
Speaker 1: It was not it was not me, but for forty minutes,
Speaker 1: that host was taking a bow movement and they had
Speaker 1: to play. They played forty minutes of commercial and music,
Speaker 1: which is not you're not supposed to play music on
Speaker 1: a sports station because this guy had to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and it was a classic.
Speaker 3: That happened one time on the Jay Moore Show, except
Speaker 3: he was doing something else.
Speaker 1: Well, he was probably looking up some laker information or
Speaker 1: something like that. Probably show sure. Marcus from Bruce phil Eddie,
Speaker 1: Texas right soon says, hey, you guys talked last week
Speaker 1: about when COVID had hit and still doing the radio station.
Speaker 1: I remember at one point there was nothing going on
Speaker 1: in the sports world. Everybody was scrambling for stories. My
Speaker 1: local station here in Waco had their host talk for
Speaker 1: an hour and a half about his daily routine from
Speaker 1: getting up, eating breakfast, showering, and going to bed. I
Speaker 1: thought that was hilarious. Did you guys have any moments
Speaker 1: like that? That's from Marcus, Yeah, we certainly did. Danny.
Speaker 1: The great thing is that the management was like, listen,
Speaker 1: there's not them that you normally do. That's going to
Speaker 1: be normal, So just do whatever you have to do,
Speaker 1: you know. I think one of the lines they said was,
Speaker 1: I know we're doing sports talk, but you're just doing talk.
Speaker 1: You know, you just just you know, get through it.
Speaker 1: You don't talk about it. Just that's it, you know.
Speaker 1: One of my fondest memories. Besides you doing the Marble coverage,
Speaker 1: we still had to get some guests on the air.
Speaker 1: And you know, since there were no games being played,
Speaker 1: there were a few, just a few sports.
Speaker 4: That were operating. One of them was MMA.
Speaker 3: So I got like the best writers and the dudes
Speaker 3: in that industry that were the most respected to hop
Speaker 3: on the phone with Clay Travis, and Clay was asking
Speaker 3: them all about MMA, and they were breaking down all
Speaker 3: the fights and the weight classes and everything, and it
Speaker 3: sounded cool on the air, just because the MMA never
Speaker 3: got primetime coverage like that before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure. Then they were the only game
Speaker 1: in town. That and as we mentioned Korean baseball, we
Speaker 1: were getting fed Korean baseball games, and that was the
Speaker 1: sport and the stadium being empty and and all that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean, those those turned out to
Speaker 1: be stories that we will tell. You know, we're old
Speaker 1: guys in a rocking chair drinking lemonade, puking, my day
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, and you know, tell those most stories,
Speaker 1: and that's our that's a big moment, that nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: Those are things that we'll we'll talk about for the
Speaker 1: rest of our lives and then we'll be done, and
Speaker 1: then they'll be on Wikipedia, and then they'll be that
Speaker 1: and we'll move on to the next great disasters of
Speaker 1: the world, which are who knows how far away right
Speaker 1: always those those defining moments. I know when I was
Speaker 1: first starting out. For the previous generation, it was like
Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, those were like the
Speaker 1: huge events. That was like the biggest. The Vietnam War
Speaker 1: was a big one in their lives. The Depression. I know,
Speaker 1: my grandparents, my mom also because of my grandparents and
Speaker 1: the Great Depression, my grandparents, I was living through it.
Speaker 1: My mom always had like fifty containers of toilet paper
Speaker 1: and Kleenex and all the supplies because she was worried
Speaker 1: about the depression. Of course, we ended up trying to
Speaker 1: hoard toilet paper because of COVID. But you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: When we were really little, one of those moments was
Speaker 3: the Space Shuttle exploding.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, what uh?
Speaker 3: That was one of the first time I ever saw
Speaker 3: grown adults crying all in their eyes about And then
Speaker 3: how gangster our generation is? They they had us remain
Speaker 3: in class and they the teachers blew their nose and
Speaker 3: got some tissue and started teaching math again. Do you
Speaker 3: imagine nowadays if something like that happened for a week.
Speaker 1: They were absolutely right. Yeah, to put into context, like,
Speaker 1: you know, lot most of our listeners are around our
Speaker 1: age or older, you know, maybe a little younger. But
Speaker 1: that Space shuttle with the teacher, every fucking kid, Danny,
Speaker 1: every school, yes, watching that Space shuttle cub boom.
Speaker 5: And we had it on a huge projector inside the
Speaker 5: school's big library splash auditorium thing, so and all the classes,
Speaker 5: all the teachers were in there watching it together.
Speaker 1: Every kid watched a teacher die and a bunch of
Speaker 1: other people and oh my god, it was such a debacle.
Speaker 1: And we were like, we're going to send the letters.
Speaker 1: Remember they ever gonna have every kid send a letter
Speaker 1: to the astronauts.
Speaker 3: And oh god, I still remember walking back to the classroom,
Speaker 3: my teacher blubbering she had to like rub some dirt
Speaker 3: on it and get back in the game.
Speaker 1: I remember my teacher tried to spin it. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's possible that maybe they survived and they're in the
Speaker 1: capsule and they'll get them out of the ocean.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: No, she was telling you, my teacher, she was trying
Speaker 1: to like, it's a chance. You know, you never know, maybe.
Speaker 4: They're out there. Saying there's a chance. I'm like, how
Speaker 4: do you think?
Speaker 1: Even as a little kid, I'm like, I was cynical.
Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta be I mean think exploded.
Speaker 1: There's no All right, we'll get out on that, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight on Sunday night into Monday. We'll
Speaker 1: recap the college basketball today and whatever else.
Speaker 4: Is going on.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some random NFL factoids and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and you'll be back with Covino and Rich tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, sir, our usual time in the afternoon, although
Speaker 3: coming up on Friday we're going to be filling in
Speaker 3: for Colin cowverd so tune in for that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll be on Monday afternoon. On the East coast, you know,
Speaker 3: that is five to seven and here on the West
Speaker 3: side that is two to four. PM in beautiful Chula Vista, California.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love it, just east of San Diego. I have
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful rest of your Sunday and we'll catch you.
Speaker 1: I'll catch you tonight on this podcast next weekend, and
Speaker 1: Danny tomorrow and we'll talk to you then.
Speaker 4: Austa pasta gotta murder. I gotta go