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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Maller and Danny g Radio Sunday Sunday, but not just
Speaker 3: any Sunday. It is on like Donkey Gong. By the
Speaker 3: end of the day to day, we are going to
Speaker 3: know who will be playing in the soup superbo Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm fired up.
Speaker 3: My ass is ready to hemorrhoids from sitting for what
Speaker 3: seven hours watching football today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your right hand is not going to be getting
Speaker 4: a work out today.
Speaker 1: No, no, I will not.
Speaker 3: And so three o'clock eastern noon our time here in
Speaker 3: La and the Commanders and the Eagles.
Speaker 4: Is this true? If Washington advances to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 4: we are allowed to call them the Redskins again.
Speaker 3: Hail to the Redskins, Hail to Big dory.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lately I've been hearing everybody say Redskins. It's okay again.
Speaker 3: Apparently Trump is the president, so you know Donald Trump
Speaker 3: is in the White House.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: But no, I you know, I loved watching right after
Speaker 3: the Commanders won their playoff game against Tampa and then
Speaker 3: in the lead into the Washington game against the Lions,
Speaker 3: they showed all these old highlights of the last time
Speaker 3: the franchise won a game, and it was all Redskins uniforms,
Speaker 3: but they didn't say Redskins. They didn't want to say
Speaker 3: it was. It was the tap dance. Was was crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Philadelphia is a six point favorite in that game. The
Speaker 3: money's pretty even, pretty even on that. The money is even,
Speaker 3: which is what you want if you're the bookmaker. The
Speaker 3: Bills and the Chiefs. The late game and that game
Speaker 3: open is a pick them. It is now Kansas City
Speaker 3: favored by a point and a half, and the vast
Speaker 3: majority of the public and the wise guys taking the
Speaker 3: road team, the Buffalo Bills. So they if you go
Speaker 3: buy where the money is, slight, lean to Washington, slight
Speaker 3: lean to Washington, a big lean to Buffalo. So based
Speaker 3: on that, we're gonna have Buffalo and Washington in the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. I don't think that's a great super Bowl,
Speaker 3: but that's what I believe. Kansas City is gonna win, and.
Speaker 4: I think Josh Allen and Jaden Daniel would be a
Speaker 4: good matchup. Though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd like to see the Commanders win. I think
Speaker 3: they'll lose by a field goal, but they'll cover the number.
Speaker 3: I'd love for them to win, but I think they'll
Speaker 3: They'll end up winning, you know, or losing by a
Speaker 3: field goal, or winning by a field goal. For I
Speaker 3: think has a fourth quarter game. I'd be surprised if
Speaker 3: they get killed. The only way to get killed is
Speaker 3: if if Jayden Daniels comes out either gets hurt like
Speaker 3: brock Purty remember a couple years ago brock Purty got
Speaker 3: hurt against Philadelphia, or Jayden Daniels just has flop sweat
Speaker 3: and the moments he doesn't seem like the moment's too
Speaker 3: big though he's played fun.
Speaker 4: No, the poise that that kid plays with is pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: He's so calm and collected in the biggest moments. It
Speaker 4: looks like he's just going through walkthroughs. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he's been He's been great and former Arizona State
Speaker 3: Sun devil Herm Edwards.
Speaker 1: But he's from LA. Right, is an LA guy from?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Was it from the Inland Umpire?
Speaker 4: Ah? Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with the games today.
Speaker 3: And if you want to get more on the games
Speaker 3: Penny versus the Penny, it's on Pete Cock and regional
Speaker 3: cable television on in b see Sports. So I checked
Speaker 3: that out before we get to the mail bag. A
Speaker 3: couple of things here on this Sunday, the heat is on.
Speaker 4: I hope your heaters on. It sounds like Tom Looney
Speaker 4: got you sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to get it.
Speaker 3: And then Tom Lookey, like a week ago, not this week,
Speaker 3: the week before Looney shows up and he's like he
Speaker 3: seems a little off. We're doing the TV show and
Speaker 3: Loony's like, oh yeah, I'm not contagious.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine.
Speaker 4: I'm good. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: We have our table read. We're right across from each other.
Speaker 3: He's breathing on me and no, no, everything's fine. I'm
Speaker 3: not contagious, and uh yeah uh.
Speaker 4: Like that line from Home Alone, You're such a disease
Speaker 4: Kevin pretty much. I mean it was.
Speaker 3: It was brutal anyway, So the heat is on Monday night,
Speaker 3: I show up to the hollowed hallways of Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Radio and I go into the show and it's fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, the building's fine and walking a normal night.
Speaker 3: But I get into the main studio and the heat
Speaker 3: is on. It's really hot. So I like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: turn the air conditioning down all the way down. The
Speaker 3: AC broke in the main main studio, the talk show studio,
Speaker 3: that side of the building. It got to eighty degrees
Speaker 3: in there on Monday night. Eighty degrees in the studio.
Speaker 4: Brutal.
Speaker 3: I don't do well in heat. I don't Nobody told
Speaker 3: me it was broken. I guess it had been broken
Speaker 3: like that earlier that day, but no nobody told me.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that was a tough night because I have
Speaker 3: all these bright lights on because they put the YouTube
Speaker 3: stuff up and so they put all these extra lights.
Speaker 4: In the studio.
Speaker 3: And normally it's not a problem because I have that
Speaker 3: thing like an igloo. I'm sitting in there like I'm
Speaker 3: an Eskimo or something like that, and or penguin or whatever.
Speaker 4: And it was so and.
Speaker 3: I turned all the lights off after the monologues, and
Speaker 3: I even walked out in the hallway because the air
Speaker 3: conditioning was on the other side of the building and
Speaker 3: it was like a sauna. And it was not sweating
Speaker 3: to the oldies. It was sweating to the sports takes.
Speaker 1: It is what it was.
Speaker 3: And I know you were in there all week too, Danny,
Speaker 3: and deal with that.
Speaker 4: It got so bad that Friday to do the podcast.
Speaker 4: Right after Covino and Rich, I walked over to the
Speaker 4: Cowherd studio and sat and used their computer because I
Speaker 4: just couldn't stand those studios on that side of the
Speaker 4: building any longer. What a shitty week of sweating and
Speaker 4: that you know, that clammy feeling you get where your
Speaker 4: skin can't breathe. It was fucking gross. And to do
Speaker 4: radio like that is so difficult, and it's bad for
Speaker 4: the equipment on top of everything else.
Speaker 3: Well then and that's people were like, well, wasn't so
Speaker 3: hot in there. It's not that hot in LA, But yeah,
Speaker 3: we're sitting around, you know, millions of dollars worth of
Speaker 3: equipment and it generates a lot of heat, a lot
Speaker 3: of heat, right, And yeah, it was a explosive situation.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for combustion. That is what I was
Speaker 1: waiting for.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: It was brutal.
Speaker 3: And they say they were waiting for a part. Waiting
Speaker 3: for a part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I heard it might arrive on Monday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well maybe I'll arrive when the part of how
Speaker 3: about that arrive? When the part arrives, that'll be my
Speaker 3: my plan.
Speaker 1: That'll be my plan there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So maybe maybe the dog people would like the heat.
Speaker 3: I'm a dog person.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. But there's other dog people that
Speaker 1: might like the heat.
Speaker 4: Danny. Actually, dog people would be okay in this scenario
Speaker 4: because a lot of dog people have to sit outside.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, right.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna feel me on this one because I
Speaker 4: know you just went through this. During the holidays, my
Speaker 4: family in San Jose, California, they're having a little get
Speaker 4: together when me, Brenda and the baby fly up that way.
Speaker 4: In February, a week after the Super Bowl, I circle
Speaker 4: a weekend to bring CoA up to see his grandma.
Speaker 4: My mom has only seen CoA once. She's really excited
Speaker 4: about this February visit. Found a park, a nice park
Speaker 4: in San Jose. A little worried about the weather. It's
Speaker 4: probably going to be I don't know, like sunny, but
Speaker 4: sixty degrees So not the kind of weather where you
Speaker 4: want to stay at the park all day long. No sure,
Speaker 4: Normally we would do a barbecue, play some whiffle ball,
Speaker 4: everybody comes out. What He and my cousin in the
Speaker 4: San Francisco Bay area. He's kind of planning things, and
Speaker 4: I told him, Hey, make sure it's a park with basketball.
Speaker 4: Make sure it's a park that's got the sports we need.
Speaker 4: I don't think we need to worry about the barbecue
Speaker 4: stuff though. Let's just find a restaurant that's easy going,
Speaker 4: like a pizza place whatever that we can all go
Speaker 4: to afterwards that will take a big party. So kind
Speaker 4: of like a hybrid day of park restaurant all right.
Speaker 4: My older brother finds out about this in the family
Speaker 4: group chat, texts me on the side and he says,
Speaker 4: what the hell I thought this was going to be
Speaker 4: a barbecue day at the park. And I explained the
Speaker 4: whole weather thing. This sucks, man. I have my dogs.
Speaker 4: I'm bringing my dogs with meff. I can't go to
Speaker 4: a restaurant with my dogs.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, where does he live? He lives?
Speaker 4: Does he live in San Jose, a in Vallejo. Oh okay,
Speaker 4: so it's a little bit of a drive to San Jose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're giving him plenty of times. It's a
Speaker 3: month away, right, thank you.
Speaker 4: Now, dog people hear me out because I love dogs,
Speaker 4: I love cats, but I also can leave my pets
Speaker 4: at home, especially on a day where family is getting together.
Speaker 4: Why are there some dog people, ben who just cannot
Speaker 4: leave their dogs at home? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It you know, your preacher to the choir, you know,
Speaker 3: as I told you my We talked about it on
Speaker 3: this podcast in a previous episode. The trip to San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and I had two of my in laws that brought
Speaker 3: their dog. It was raining and cold in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: the you know, the iconic Fishermen's Wharf with all the
Speaker 3: homeless people and the beautiful views, and we had to
Speaker 3: sit outside and die in Alfresco because they had their
Speaker 3: dogs with them, and everywhere we went had to be
Speaker 3: dog friendly. It was insane. I hated it.
Speaker 4: We called the restaurant by the way, yeah, my cousin
Speaker 4: and I to make sure they had outside tables and
Speaker 4: they have heaters. I shared this info with my older
Speaker 4: brother and he said, if it's too cold to be
Speaker 4: at the park and barbecue, why would I want to
Speaker 4: sit outside even with a heater. You know, I'll probably
Speaker 4: just bring my own lunch to the park. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: it just feels like he's being difficult because he thinks
Speaker 4: that we are conspiring against him or something.
Speaker 3: But is he your younger brother, older brother, older brother brother.
Speaker 3: He's like they're treating he's treating him like his kids.
Speaker 3: Is that what he's doing, because that's what I think
Speaker 3: he's like the practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these these two dogs in the family group chat
Speaker 4: a lot of us, are you know, sending pictures of
Speaker 4: our kid or whatever is going on with the family.
Speaker 4: He sends pictures of his two dogs. Oh boy, he's
Speaker 4: got kids. They're grown now, there their college. His youngest
Speaker 4: just graduated from high school. So these two dogs have
Speaker 4: replaced the kids at the house.
Speaker 3: Well, and the dog is a good replacement because it'll
Speaker 3: never leave you unless it's dead. That's it. That's the
Speaker 3: only way the dog leaves. The only exit for the dog,
Speaker 3: the only off ramp is death. That's pretty much pretty
Speaker 3: much it. All right, Well, why don't we get to
Speaker 3: the mail bag. What do you say, Danny g you
Speaker 3: want a mail bag, Ohio, Al.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: It's all right.
Speaker 3: These thank you, Ohio. These are actual questions by actual listeners.
Speaker 3: If you would like to send in an email for
Speaker 3: a future episode of The Fifth Hour podcast with myself
Speaker 3: and Danny G Radio, very easy to do that. Just
Speaker 3: send it care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 3: Real fifth Hour email dot com. First one is from
Speaker 3: Fred in Florida. Fred writes in and says, Hey, fellas,
Speaker 3: I know you're not big fans of the politics in California.
Speaker 3: Fred says, what did you guys think of Donald Trump
Speaker 3: sparring with some of your local politicians on Friday after noon?
Speaker 1: I liked it. I want to get your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch too much, but I saw people were
Speaker 3: sending me. I don't know about you, Danny, but people
Speaker 3: were sending me clips. And this is not a political podcast,
Speaker 3: but I just thought it was a lot of common
Speaker 3: sense stuff that I don't know. I know everything's partisan,
Speaker 3: and you know you're if you're on one team, you
Speaker 3: got a rip Trump no matter what. But the clip
Speaker 3: that I saw of him, and was it Karen Bass,
Speaker 3: the mayor who was in Africa while the city was
Speaker 3: burning down.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also my other really one of my all time
Speaker 3: favorite bloopers from any politician. Well, this week we had
Speaker 3: the Eagle chant, which is just absolutely wonderful. But Karen Bass,
Speaker 3: remember right after the fires, she did a news conference
Speaker 3: and she read word for word Ron Burgundy style off
Speaker 3: the teleprompter. The people of La who need help, you
Speaker 3: can help can be found at r L. She read
Speaker 3: off the prompter uur L, which was just.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: But No, I thought the part where he was saying,
Speaker 3: you have the power, mayor, you have a lot of power.
Speaker 3: You can let these people come back to their homes
Speaker 3: and you know, within twenty four hours. You don't have
Speaker 3: to make them wait a week or you know, months
Speaker 3: and all this and just expedite the permits. To me,
Speaker 3: that that's just maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Dandy.
Speaker 3: It just seems like that, yes, let these people get
Speaker 3: back in, let them, you know, don't give them ten
Speaker 3: million hoops, don't make it a steeplechase to rebuild their
Speaker 3: homes if they're able to do it. And there's a
Speaker 3: lot of those people that won't be able to do
Speaker 3: it because all their money was in the house and
Speaker 3: they even though they're living in Malibu or the Palisades,
Speaker 3: they don't have that kind of money. They inherited it,
Speaker 3: and all their money was in their house. So I
Speaker 3: don't know what they're going to do. You know, it's
Speaker 3: very expensive to build anything, but I agree with with
Speaker 3: Trump that they should just cut out the bureaucracy and
Speaker 3: let's get this thing going. This is an unprecedented situation.
Speaker 3: There has never been this kind of a fire that
Speaker 3: I guess, I don't know, never but in our modern times.
Speaker 3: What was the cow the Great Chicago fire, which I
Speaker 3: guess was a bullshit story that the cow started it? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've heard that this was probably some arsonists that started it.
Speaker 3: But either way, the whole city's not supposed to burn down.
Speaker 3: You know, you have a fire department, you have you're
Speaker 3: supposed to put guard rails up. The whole damn city
Speaker 3: should not burn down. But I just you know, again
Speaker 3: what I saw, I didn't see the whole thing, so
Speaker 3: maybe I missed part of it. But that exchange Danny
Speaker 3: I thought was outstanding. And I think that's that's why
Speaker 3: Trump won the election, because that's what the common person wants.
Speaker 3: You know, your house burns down. You want to get
Speaker 3: back to your house.
Speaker 4: You want it.
Speaker 3: You don't want to cut out the bullshit, and you
Speaker 3: want to be able to do you know, if you
Speaker 3: have the resource, you want to see what you've got
Speaker 3: and then you've got a place to live, get rebuild it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I read that if the red tape could be
Speaker 4: cut out of this, it would take around three years
Speaker 4: for some of these communities to get rebuilt. So how
Speaker 4: long is it really going to take. It's we will
Speaker 4: be ten years.
Speaker 3: Oh, by ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 4: That's that's just sad. And I was reading here. It
Speaker 4: says the briefing got tense after Bass brought up allowing
Speaker 4: residents to quickly rebuild from the damage after clearing hazardous
Speaker 4: waste from properties, prompting Trump to insist that residents were
Speaker 4: facing a delay of eighteen months to rebuild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a line in there, which was great,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have all these contractors that have to be
Speaker 3: approved come in. It's going to cost these these residents
Speaker 3: like twenty five thousand dollars to get their property cleared.
Speaker 3: When if you allow them to go in, they'll show
Speaker 3: up with I'm paraphrasing here, but He essentially said, they'll
Speaker 3: show up with a truck, you know, pickup truck and
Speaker 3: haul all the shit away themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll they'll.
Speaker 3: Take care of themselves and within a couple of days
Speaker 3: they'll be ready to start the next step of the
Speaker 3: rebuild of their their home. So anyway, and then there
Speaker 3: was also a clip that I saw where he got
Speaker 3: into it one of these Weasley politicians in California that's
Speaker 3: responsible for the fires because they didn't take care of
Speaker 3: the forests, and they didn't they didn't take care of
Speaker 3: the water situation, so they're culpable. I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 3: a class action lawsuit against them at some point here.
Speaker 3: But he went on a r ant about he you know, listen,
Speaker 3: you should do things so this doesn't happen again. And
Speaker 3: the guy wouldn't even of course, you never admit to it.
Speaker 3: So he said, well, don't punish us. Why would you
Speaker 3: not punish you. You caused the whole freaking.
Speaker 1: City to burn down. You're in competent. You should be
Speaker 1: in jail. I'm gonna get off my soapbox, dady.
Speaker 3: I just I saw those clips and it got me
Speaker 3: got me worked up, all right. Alf from the Hollywood
Speaker 3: Walk of Fame rights, and he says, I know that
Speaker 3: you guys are humble and would not brag about all
Speaker 3: the famous people that you've come across in your careers,
Speaker 3: like a certain TV dentist.
Speaker 1: We all know.
Speaker 3: So I asked the question, what is it like working
Speaker 3: with so many former and current pro athletes? By the way,
Speaker 3: unlike the aforementioned TV dentist, you don't see me bragging
Speaker 3: about the fact that former Celtic third string center Hank
Speaker 3: Finkel once asked me Alf says for the time of day,
Speaker 3: or that I've eaten at the Dairy Queen across the
Speaker 3: street from Patrick Chard's High School, or that I saw
Speaker 3: a Lenny Clark comedy show down the street from the
Speaker 3: house that Connie Mack was born in. Some people, I
Speaker 3: tell you, very funny, very very funny. How some of
Speaker 3: these it's a mixed bag, Danny Ready. The ex jocks
Speaker 3: that have worked at our place, you know, some are
Speaker 3: pretty good. There's a lot of them that, unfortunately or not,
Speaker 3: they don't put the work in, which is unfortunate. I've
Speaker 3: always enjoyed the coaches more than the players. That's just me,
Speaker 3: you know, just kind of as a general rule like
Speaker 3: the coaches. Jim Morrow was awesome. Denny Green he only
Speaker 3: worked there for like a couple of weeks and then
Speaker 3: he was out, but he was He was cool, So
Speaker 3: the coaches. I we I did a bunch of shows
Speaker 3: during the NCAA tournament with.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the gentleman's name.
Speaker 3: It's been so many years, but he was coach at LSU.
Speaker 3: He coached, He brought Shaquille O'Neal to LSU. I know
Speaker 3: who you're talking about, Brown, Dale Brown, very nice, love
Speaker 3: Dale Brown Dale. The thing about it, though, Dale didn't
Speaker 3: necessarily want to talk too much college basketball, but we
Speaker 3: brought him into talk college basketball was during.
Speaker 1: The NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: I was doing shows like a round robin show. But
Speaker 3: he could not have been a nicer guy. He called
Speaker 3: me up from his hotel all excited the night before
Speaker 3: we were going over the show, and then he got
Speaker 3: there and he and he talked about a little bit.
Speaker 3: But it's like, eh, yeah, what.
Speaker 4: About you, Danny. The guests on media row at the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl had been pretty cool. A lot of coaches
Speaker 4: and players former current. The coolest dude who I put
Speaker 4: the headset on to talk to Klay Travis. Was your boy,
Speaker 4: dak Prescott Dakota. Yeah, he was really nice, impersonable, and
Speaker 4: then talked about the Lakers with me after he got
Speaker 4: off the air. He was a cool dude. Well that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're not. I mean some of these guys.
Speaker 4: Some are nice guys, just regular dudes, and other guys
Speaker 4: spend like CJ. Stroud. They stood there with glasses on
Speaker 4: and chains and big timed the media. Why are you
Speaker 4: there at media row if you don't want to interact
Speaker 4: with any of the radio people or the TV people,
Speaker 4: Why are you there to pimp a product? Because I'm
Speaker 4: not sure why him and his posse were there, but
Speaker 4: I simply went up to him and said, hey man,
Speaker 4: we were rooting for you all season long on the
Speaker 4: Covino and Rich show. The stage was right there, and
Speaker 4: I said, I work right there for FSR. And he
Speaker 4: he's just like head nod but like was a dick
Speaker 4: about it, like wouldn't engage, wouldn't even have a little conversation.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just me. I saw another media person go
Speaker 4: up to him and he did the same shit. So
Speaker 4: he was either have a bad day or he's just
Speaker 4: not personable. So yeah, it's it's hit or miss. And
Speaker 4: sometimes you don't want to know because you look up
Speaker 4: to somebody on TV that's playing a game, and then
Speaker 4: if you meet him in person, they may not turn
Speaker 4: out to be a good person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to meet your your heroes, right,
Speaker 3: they say you want to meet your heroes and all that.
Speaker 4: It's like the time Colin Kaepernick before the controversial stuff.
Speaker 4: Rich Davis went up to Uh. He said he waited
Speaker 4: for a good time, and he went up to Colin
Speaker 4: Kaepernick and said, Hey, I work for Sirius XM. Can
Speaker 4: I get a quick picture with you? Colin Kaepernick looked
Speaker 4: at him and said, nah, Man, David, I'll think so,
Speaker 4: I'm good man.
Speaker 3: You remember my to story when Terrell Owens was with
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles, remember you had that meltdown. He was
Speaker 3: doing push ups.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, he was working out in his driveway.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so he was organized driveway and he was
Speaker 3: suspended from the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, he went out to
Speaker 3: LA and I was covering the Clippers. It was Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: This is over twenty years ago, I believe now, but
Speaker 3: it was Valentine's Day and Teo was at the game.
Speaker 3: They're playing the Atlanta Hawks. I still remember the game
Speaker 3: and I was like, wow, I was doing the show
Speaker 3: with Chris Myers at the time, and I said, well,
Speaker 3: Chris does these NFL games.
Speaker 1: He knows too.
Speaker 3: So I went up to Owens at halftime and in
Speaker 3: the tunnel there at the old Staples Center as it
Speaker 3: was called, and I said who I was, and I said,
Speaker 3: I'd like to, you know, get you on the show,
Speaker 3: you know, Monday or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: I think it was a weekend.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was during the week.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I asked him to come on the show, and right
Speaker 3: in front of me, so, yeah, I'd love to do it.
Speaker 3: Call my manager, you know, and I said, well, you're
Speaker 3: right here.
Speaker 1: I don't why would I need to, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was totally he was.
Speaker 3: Pulling me off. He blew me me off at a
Speaker 3: hotel near lax But he was trying to be I
Speaker 3: guess Corse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's trying to make the manager be the bad guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean, if you want to do it,
Speaker 3: is all right, here's my number.
Speaker 1: You know what time, you know, we'll do it, you
Speaker 1: know whatever.
Speaker 5: You need.
Speaker 3: Barry from South Carolina rights and says, yo, yo, Ma, Benny.
Speaker 3: I have listened to all your podcasts. I'm up to
Speaker 3: date as of this writing. What happened to the new
Speaker 3: game show? Are you smarter than an FSR tech Queen?
Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything about it in a while of Barry. Yeah, So, Barry,
Speaker 3: we were planning on doing it, and the night we
Speaker 3: were going to do it, the city of Los Angeles
Speaker 3: burned to the sea, and it just felt inappropriate to
Speaker 3: do it, and we were we've just kind of been
Speaker 3: dealing with that and I pushed it back, push it back,
Speaker 3: push it back now, and so that's why the night
Speaker 3: we were planning ondoing it, the city burned, and so
Speaker 3: that just felt like inappropriate, Like it was a bad,
Speaker 3: bad night to start a new game, and I'd set
Speaker 3: a bad taste in our mouth.
Speaker 1: So that's why we didn't do it.
Speaker 3: And there's toxic smoke in the air and all that
Speaker 3: email from unknown He says, Hey, you know, I'm a
Speaker 3: big fan of only fans and I like to send
Speaker 3: people money. How come we can't send you money on
Speaker 3: your social media? You guys should be able to have
Speaker 3: a subscription or a Venmo or a PayPal like other
Speaker 3: social media influencers. Know what's up with that? How much
Speaker 3: would you want me to pay you for a naked photo?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: Oh no, unknown, nobody wants to see maybe Danny naked,
Speaker 3: but me, I guarantee you you you end up seeing
Speaker 3: me naked. You'll be like blind Scott before you know it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, it is interesting that the original influencers, we're
Speaker 4: radio people. We got the packages in the mail to
Speaker 4: try products first, we got the spokesman jobs. Yeah, all
Speaker 4: the stuff you see the quote unquote influencers do now
Speaker 4: on TikTok and Instagram that used to go to radio people.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I get a kick out of it because
Speaker 3: so much of the Internet is fake that you know,
Speaker 3: you to me, you're not getting the most bang for
Speaker 3: your buck. But it's a it's a rigged I feel
Speaker 3: I'm obviously biased because you know, we do do radio stuff,
Speaker 3: but it does seem like a lot of that is
Speaker 3: the matrix, as we like to say. You know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of manipulation. You can what's around.
Speaker 1: You don't even know what's Yeah, not real you.
Speaker 4: Know, there's a lot of falsity in video editing doesn't
Speaker 4: have to be live, right, I mean you could kind
Speaker 4: of here through bullshit, if that makes sense when somebody's
Speaker 4: doing a live read like for instance, with iHeart, we're
Speaker 4: not allowed to promote a product unless we truly have
Speaker 4: used it. Is that the Is that the case for
Speaker 4: these influencers?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, And the algorithms and all that, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot there's so many ways you can manipulate downloads and
Speaker 3: views and things that really what I'm saying, Danny's I'm upset.
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to figure out.
Speaker 4: That the game is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, my god.
Speaker 4: I mean there's some Hey, there's some cool ones like
Speaker 4: mister Beast and the Costco family Boom.
Speaker 3: You know, there's some there's some I watch bald and
Speaker 3: Bankrupt that this guy goes to all over the place,
Speaker 3: YouTube travel vlogger very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say
Speaker 4: every single influencer is a piece of crap, but I
Speaker 4: would say half of the ones I see are crap.
Speaker 3: The other thing for this this person unknown. Did you
Speaker 3: remember that when TikTok went down for a few hours
Speaker 3: they shut TikTok down and there were a few people
Speaker 3: on TikTok. I read this in the Daily Mail, so
Speaker 3: it must be true that several prominent TikTokers, right, they
Speaker 3: thought TikTok was never coming back.
Speaker 1: And this was the end of their careers.
Speaker 3: And so they explained that how their most popular videos
Speaker 3: were not real, like the videos were manipulated.
Speaker 4: Oops.
Speaker 3: And then a few hours later TikTok was back. Oh
Speaker 3: it's so good, Danny, dude.
Speaker 4: That's like everybody thinking Fox Sports Radio was going to
Speaker 4: get shut down by the government, and you go and
Speaker 4: you go on social media and finally tell the truth
Speaker 4: about all your paid callers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And then the next day your overnight show comes back
Speaker 4: on the air.
Speaker 3: Wait till people find out that Marcel in Brooklyn and
Speaker 3: Blair in Maine are the same person.
Speaker 1: What their mind will explode?
Speaker 3: Danny and Doc Mike and Tamy and Montana the same
Speaker 3: voice actor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Genie and Medford. That's wife the whole time.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, laughing in the back room. It
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 3: She had to stop doing it because of you know,
Speaker 3: the Mary Mary Daddy. Ryan writes, since says, I know
Speaker 3: this isn't a sporty podcast, but I know how the
Speaker 3: saying goes. What is one crazy and mind boggling sports
Speaker 3: stat that doesn't seem real but is? He says, I'll
Speaker 3: start in his third Major League baseball game, in his
Speaker 3: tenth career at bat, newly inducted Hall of Famer Ichiro Single,
Speaker 3: bringing his lifetime batting average to three hundred. Since then,
Speaker 3: he's played two thousand, six hundred and fifty more games,
Speaker 3: ten seven hundred and twenty four more at bats, and
Speaker 3: never once did his batting average drop below three hundred.
Speaker 3: Ryan says, thanks again, boys, And the part of the
Speaker 3: he says, he Ryan Shrewsbury, and he wants the massholes
Speaker 3: that listen every day and watch Benny versus the penny,
Speaker 3: He wants them to know that this is Ryan, a
Speaker 3: star from Shrewsbury.
Speaker 1: So remember that name.
Speaker 3: And Ryan the stat the mother of all stats I
Speaker 3: will grong te guarantee will never ever be touched by anyone,
Speaker 3: not in our lifetimes, not in anyone's lifetime unless they
Speaker 3: change the rules of baseball. Is the fact that cy
Speaker 3: Young won five hundred and eleven games, five hundred and
Speaker 3: eleven it.
Speaker 4: I thought you were going to say that player that
Speaker 4: got a hit in the same day for two different teams.
Speaker 3: Oh, is that is that Joel Youngblood?
Speaker 1: Is that who that was?
Speaker 4: I think that's his name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, with the Giants and the Expos he
Speaker 3: got traded right, and then he went suited up for
Speaker 3: his new team and got a hit for them that
Speaker 3: same day. Yeah, I think, if I remember correctly, one
Speaker 3: of the games was with the Mets and one was
Speaker 3: the Phillies.
Speaker 4: So it's a short it's a short trip. I think
Speaker 4: your stat, You're right. Your stat's the mother of all stats.
Speaker 4: I do like that Tony gwyn stat you see floating
Speaker 4: around where it lists all those Hall of Fame pitchtures
Speaker 4: who faced him and he only struck out three times
Speaker 4: against all of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tony was of all the people I've been around
Speaker 3: in different sports, like he was the coolest, like just
Speaker 3: regular dude that was was really great, really great, but
Speaker 3: just carried himself like.
Speaker 1: A normal human being.
Speaker 4: It was Tony Gwynn.
Speaker 3: By far Kevin in Kansas Rights into the Mailbag, says
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g. Since I retired, I've decided to
Speaker 3: sort and organize my house. I've purged a lot rown
Speaker 3: away stuff donated to a thrift store. I cannot believe
Speaker 3: how much stuff I've accumulated. Y'all have been talking about
Speaker 3: doing the same, so I'm wondering how that's been going
Speaker 3: with your own households, especially since you've been switching residents recently. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I am absolutely thinking about doing this, Kevin, and
Speaker 3: I had this idea, Dan, I want to run.
Speaker 1: This by you, okay, And I haven't told anyone this.
Speaker 3: So I have a ton of old sports memorabilia, stuff
Speaker 3: I've picked up for my years in the business, and
Speaker 3: even stuff I had as a kid when I was
Speaker 3: collecting autographs in Anaheim. I used to stock baseball players
Speaker 3: that give me bats and crap like that. I have
Speaker 3: a really cool collection. So I was thinking about opening up.
Speaker 3: And I don't need all this stuff, you know, as
Speaker 3: I'm getting older. You know, not that I'm planning on
Speaker 3: leaving anytime soon, like dying, but you.
Speaker 1: Want you know, you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't hold onto everything, and somebody could appreciate this
Speaker 3: stuff more than me some of it, some of it
Speaker 3: I'll never get rid of.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking about.
Speaker 3: Starting like an eBay page and people can buy crap
Speaker 3: from my garage, and then the money I will use
Speaker 3: to pay for like a mallor meet and greet somewhere,
Speaker 3: I'll just use that to travel to a malor meet
Speaker 3: and greet, which I ended up spending my own money
Speaker 3: on the company doesn't pay for it. So I'm thinking
Speaker 3: about doing that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of cool, actually, I think that was you
Speaker 4: could you could even do a malor meet and greet
Speaker 4: in Canada.
Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: We've been doing well and we had Edmonton. We'd be
Speaker 3: getting calls from Edmonton. They're very active there, late at night,
Speaker 3: always in a good mood I've never had. I've never
Speaker 3: had a Canadian caller that's a dick.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Some have not been good callers. We picked up. We
Speaker 3: have a regular guy in Montreal now that calls the
Speaker 3: Overnight show Edmonton. We have some people in Toronto. We
Speaker 3: used to have a couple of guys in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: That were regular.
Speaker 3: But it'd be fun to go to I do want
Speaker 3: to get to Montreal at some point. I was so
Speaker 3: close when I visited Arnie this past last year, you know,
Speaker 3: last year, So who knows.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about doing it.
Speaker 4: Let me.
Speaker 3: Know what you think, would you want to buy some
Speaker 3: of my stuff that you know it's actually pretty? I
Speaker 3: say it's crap, but it's actually I was looking through
Speaker 3: some of it. There's some cool stuff in there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: sports cards and memorabilia I've gotten from games.
Speaker 4: Oh, and this is the time to do it because
Speaker 4: that whole card culture had a rebirth during COVID. And
Speaker 4: now you see the astronomical numbers that this stuff is
Speaker 4: auctioning off for. And how that eleven year old in
Speaker 4: La found that one of one Paul Skeen's card. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and the pirates offered a huge haul in that. That
Speaker 4: Ken Golden guy who has a show on Netflix, he's
Speaker 4: trying to get the kids baseball, and he says all
Speaker 4: the money will go to the LA fire victims. So
Speaker 4: everybody's after this baseball. It's people are saying millions of
Speaker 4: dollars or for this card. I'm sorry for this one,
Speaker 4: Paul Skeen's baseball card, millions of dollars. It's not even
Speaker 4: an old card. Ben It used to be like the
Speaker 4: Honus Wagner and the old cards. Now there's new cards
Speaker 4: that are still worth a shit ton of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's wild, U do a couple more Get
Speaker 3: out Mike and Fullerton right since says what's up Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny G. I've listened to a few old episodes
Speaker 3: of The Fifth Hour and this I'm a Pilot guy
Speaker 3: sounded like a big fan of the show. But he
Speaker 3: hasn't sent anything to the mail bag in years. Do
Speaker 3: you have any idea what happened to him? It seems
Speaker 3: like he stopped listening right around when Danny.
Speaker 1: G took over. That's from Mike, Yeah, that's yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know that that must have
Speaker 1: been a friend of gets.
Speaker 3: I gotta think that was a friend of Gascon because
Speaker 3: this I'm a Pilot guy would send these long emails
Speaker 3: during COVID, and I'm pretty sure I don't think we
Speaker 3: were getting catfished or anything like that, because he'd send
Speaker 3: photos from his travels to China, where during COVID, you
Speaker 3: showed up to the airport, you were immediately quarantined, and
Speaker 3: there were people in space suits that greeted you at
Speaker 3: the airport and took you to a hotel and it
Speaker 3: was like you were in jail in the hotel, And
Speaker 3: he said he sent photos to verify everything but yeah.
Speaker 4: You don't think he could have found those photos online?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure, I mean, listen, he could have, but there were
Speaker 3: a lot of detail in that in those emails.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe he's just a good writer and that's possible.
Speaker 4: Or maybe Gascon was a good writer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hey, I you never know, man, it's uh
Speaker 3: at the end of the mine.
Speaker 1: But I didn't. I have emails from that. I can
Speaker 1: go back.
Speaker 4: And David's kind of laid back though. I don't know
Speaker 4: if he would put that much effort into a bit
Speaker 4: oh shots fire, Oh you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 4: remember him kicking back in the update studio. Do you
Speaker 4: think he would jump through hoops to do.
Speaker 1: A bit, Yeah, probably not.
Speaker 4: He doesn't strike me as that sort of guy who's like, ah,
Speaker 4: like rubbing his hands together and doing all this sextra
Speaker 4: work so that he could.
Speaker 1: Get you, yeah, anonymous rights.
Speaker 3: And it says Danny G talked about on a previous
Speaker 3: episode how he met his wife in the supermarket. That's
Speaker 3: a really old time move. So do you guys realize
Speaker 3: when you're in the supermarket, people like the two of
Speaker 3: you should be looking around like Danny did on that
Speaker 3: day to help his wife grab something. But you should
Speaker 3: actually be looking at elderly people because their muscles aren't
Speaker 3: as strong and it's hard to get the stuff on
Speaker 3: the highest shelves.
Speaker 1: So here's the question why this is great, here's the.
Speaker 3: Question which supermarket has the most narrow shelves? And have
Speaker 3: you also noticed that they don't put stuff on the
Speaker 3: shelves away right right?
Speaker 1: Anymore? They don't put stuff back themselves.
Speaker 3: They leave it all over the floor the retail stock
Speaker 3: until they can put it away because they don't.
Speaker 1: Have the help.
Speaker 3: So when are robots going to put all the stuff away?
Speaker 4: There you go. There's a lot of layers to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you want to tackle that one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're a single person, always keep your eyes
Speaker 4: out at the grocery store. And also borrow somebody's dog.
Speaker 4: We talked about dogs to start this podcast. Borrow a
Speaker 4: buddy's dog if you don't have one, and take the
Speaker 4: dog to a dog park. Yeah, dog park is a
Speaker 4: grocery store. Dog park.
Speaker 1: Go jim in La. Women in La go to the
Speaker 1: gym all dulled up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't like to be approached at gym's.
Speaker 1: I don't know man and women at.
Speaker 4: Well, the skates like to be approached.
Speaker 3: The one that are wearing the makeup, And why would
Speaker 3: you wear makeup to go work out unless you wanted
Speaker 3: some guy to, you know, give you some attention, I
Speaker 3: would think, right, Oh.
Speaker 4: Insecurities is the reason why some of them wear makeup
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe, But here goes we like, why would you make
Speaker 1: up on the switch?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well okay, so let me say this. If they're not
Speaker 4: doing a real workout, if they're there just to walk
Speaker 4: around and chit chat with everybody, then yeah. But if
Speaker 4: they're they're really doing a workout most of the time,
Speaker 4: that's what they're focused on.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and they get the headphones in, you know,
Speaker 3: but every one of the gym's like a zombie. They
Speaker 3: all got the headphones in, you know, one's interacting really
Speaker 3: with anybody. They're all got their headphones. And as far
Speaker 3: as the market that, I don't know, what do you
Speaker 3: want me.
Speaker 4: To do with that? And what was the last part
Speaker 4: of his question there?
Speaker 3: He says, when are they going to bring in roll robots,
Speaker 3: dock the shelves and whatnot? Eh, I like that they
Speaker 3: have people doing that.
Speaker 1: And last one, I think this is the last one.
Speaker 3: Kevin and Tempe writes in he says, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 3: I know you guys talk about sports for a living.
Speaker 3: Any interest in becoming a professional sports owner? He says,
Speaker 3: the major Major league pickleball team in town, the Arizona Drive.
Speaker 3: They've decided that to sell the owners you can you
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny can buy a pickleball team. The franchise
Speaker 3: is valued at ten dollars.
Speaker 4: Uh, that's all right, that's doable. I'd have to sell
Speaker 4: my car, you'd have to sell your mansion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what we what do we crowdsource? To Danny, you
Speaker 3: think were crowdsourced?
Speaker 4: I think instead of your new eBay page funding a
Speaker 4: trip for a malor meet and greed, it should be
Speaker 4: to raise funds for our very own pickleball team.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea, it's a great let's do it.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what.
Speaker 3: I've watched like one pickleball thing and it was boring,
Speaker 3: so I stopped watching it, says Jake. I just looked
Speaker 3: at up up here, Kevin's team and Kevin and Tempe.
Speaker 1: Jake Plumber is one of the owners.
Speaker 3: Larry Fitzgerald, former NFL player, says Major League Pickleball MLP
Speaker 3: had fifty million dollars in revenue that does not include
Speaker 3: local revenue streams.
Speaker 1: For the teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm going to wait for the Dodgers
Speaker 3: to go for sale and then I'll buy the dot.
Speaker 1: Get out anything you want to.
Speaker 3: I'll be back tonight to break down the championship games
Speaker 3: in the AFC and the NFC will preview the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: our first look, our first thoughts on oh.
Speaker 4: Man amandos versus the Bills.
Speaker 1: So we're excited about all of that.
Speaker 4: And well, I'll be on.
Speaker 1: You'll be on with Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Covino and Rich. We'll be back in the Saddle
Speaker 4: Monday afternoon slash evening depending on where you live. On
Speaker 4: the West Side two to four pm, and that's five
Speaker 4: to seven pm in beautiful Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Speaker 3: Yes, been been there, been there, walk the board walk there.
Speaker 3: All right, have a wonderful rest of your day, enjoy
Speaker 3: the games. Remember Benny versus the Penny still available, and
Speaker 3: we'll have a new podcast next weekend.
Speaker 1: But we'll get you on the.
Speaker 3: Radio all week long later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder, I gotta go