Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio on a wild Card Sunday
Speaker 1: as it goes all weekend long. A couple of games yesterday,
Speaker 1: two more was it? Two more games today. I don't
Speaker 1: even have the schedule for me. There's a bunch of
Speaker 1: games today and then there's one last game, one last
Speaker 1: game tomorrow, Danny NFL Wild Card Weekend continues. On today's
Speaker 1: today's card. You have the early game, the Broncos and
Speaker 1: the Bills. There's three games it Packers Eagles. That's the
Speaker 1: middle game, and then the Commanders and the Bucks tonight,
Speaker 1: and then tomorrow the Vikings and the Rams in Arizone.
Speaker 1: Because all these fires, Nanny and you, I know, we
Speaker 1: were texting each other during the week. You've been busy
Speaker 1: here on assignment the last couple of a couple of days.
Speaker 1: You couldn't join us. You produce the podcast, but you
Speaker 1: couldn't join us because you've been running all over the place.
Speaker 1: Here you were in a zone where the fires did
Speaker 1: cause you some problems.
Speaker 3: Double doozy here where I live. Not only are we
Speaker 3: on the north end of the Palisades fire, we were
Speaker 3: straight in line for the Kenneth fire as well, And
Speaker 3: that one is the one that really scared my town.
Speaker 3: In fact, if they hadn't been able to do the
Speaker 3: water drops and get that fire controlled as well as
Speaker 3: they did, the town I stay in would have been
Speaker 3: to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked a little bit yesterday on the On
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast about the fact they think now that the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire was started by arsonists, that they were there
Speaker 1: were a couple of men caught on camera lighting using
Speaker 1: gasoline to light the fire moments before in Palisades, and
Speaker 1: it you know, I talked about a little bit yesterday
Speaker 1: the podcast, But it does seem that if not all
Speaker 1: of these fires, many of them, that the big ones
Speaker 1: were started by individuals.
Speaker 3: Did you see citizens on patrol who in Woodland Hills
Speaker 3: held down that guy, oh they believe started the Kenneth fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's crazy. As I mentioned this yesterday, I
Speaker 1: don't know your thoughts on it, but it's one of
Speaker 1: those weird catch twenty two situations because the people that
Speaker 1: provide news, whether it's online or old school media, anytime
Speaker 1: there's a big wind event around here, they make sure
Speaker 1: to let everyone a home high wind red flag warning
Speaker 1: all this stuff fire danger, And it's I think I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, it's like a dog whistled Danny to people
Speaker 1: that love, you know, they have that love of fire
Speaker 1: and anarchy and all that, Like, well, well, it's like
Speaker 1: they're telling them to go out and start trouble. It's
Speaker 1: uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Or I wonder too, Ben where it was started in
Speaker 3: Pacific Palisades. As you know, there is a good amount
Speaker 3: of money. There are some of these arsonists, at least
Speaker 3: for that fire, the ones that were waiting in.
Speaker 4: The wings to loot.
Speaker 1: This is shame.
Speaker 3: Your wife does this for a living. They were getting
Speaker 3: nine to one one calls from homeowners saying that they
Speaker 3: saw people going into the neighborhoods to loot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I mean I know those conspiracies out there.
Speaker 1: As I have said, you know, who knows what's actual
Speaker 1: truth and not. And during COVID. During COVID, there were
Speaker 1: people telling us, Oh, that's a conspiracy, and then now
Speaker 1: years later we found out no, actually did happen that way.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, I saw some of the stuff online
Speaker 1: about that that they're you know, some of the South
Speaker 1: American gangs had started the fire, but I don't know
Speaker 1: that seems like even for them, like what would they
Speaker 1: rent U haul trucks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also hard to think you would want those
Speaker 3: sort of working conditions, even if you were a criminal,
Speaker 3: like to that degree, would you want to be in
Speaker 3: the middle of a burning, out of control blaze like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know the whole thing. I think
Speaker 1: the scene where the people left their cars, they just
Speaker 1: left their cars and the palisades and then walked down
Speaker 1: because they couldn't get out, and then the cars they
Speaker 1: used the bulldozer and then the fire burned the cars anyway,
Speaker 1: so it didn't really matter.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: That was the scariest part of the apocalyptical scene is
Speaker 3: that the.
Speaker 1: Word just go with it if you say it, like
Speaker 1: people did.
Speaker 4: I make that word up? You O be five dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a great word. It sounds like I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about?
Speaker 3: You put up yeah, yeah, the apocalyptical scene getting onto
Speaker 3: the one oh one freeway, which from where we live
Speaker 3: back in this canyon. It's usually I don't know about
Speaker 3: a five to ten minute drive to get to the freeway.
Speaker 3: It took Brenda and she calls me while I was
Speaker 3: on Covino and Rich and says, you got to get here.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: They are evacuating our street. And when you hear those
Speaker 3: words on the phone, you.
Speaker 1: Know, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Rich Davis same thing. He had to drop his headphones
Speaker 3: and run to his car. We're both running to the
Speaker 3: parking garage. Brenda's on the phone asking me, well, what
Speaker 3: do you want of yours thrown in the back of
Speaker 3: the car. Honestly, I didn't know what to tell her. Well,
Speaker 3: I take that back, I said, grab my Marcus Allen
Speaker 3: Rookie card, the graded one, the ten out.
Speaker 1: Of ten that's going to get the kid to college
Speaker 1: right there, That's the one.
Speaker 4: I told her.
Speaker 3: I don't know my birth certificate, my Social Security card.
Speaker 4: I honestly wasn't sure.
Speaker 3: And then I now am having trouble on the one
Speaker 3: on one freeway getting here to get even towards my town.
Speaker 3: As you know, later we found out that the Kenneth
Speaker 3: fire triggered an alarm in a lot of LA residents
Speaker 3: who weren't supposed to get the alarm that.
Speaker 4: Weren't in this area.
Speaker 3: The one on one all of a sudden was flooded
Speaker 3: with people doing the same thing I was doing, except
Speaker 3: I was actually going to a neighborhood that was evacuated.
Speaker 3: There were people trapped on the one on one who
Speaker 3: got a false alarm and were stuck on the freeway
Speaker 3: trying to turn around. So it was the biggest mess
Speaker 3: you could imagine. I had a hell of a time
Speaker 3: getting here, meeting her somewhere north, and then it took
Speaker 3: us two hours just to get to a town two
Speaker 3: cities above us. And then every exit we were trying
Speaker 3: to get to to eat and have a screaming baby
Speaker 3: and a dog and a cat have a breakout of
Speaker 3: the car. It was a nightmare because everything was pitch black.
Speaker 3: All the power and turned off all the power in
Speaker 3: these towns. Finally found a shopping center that was alive
Speaker 3: with power on, and as you can imagine. It was
Speaker 3: flooded with people. Even some people just camped out, staying
Speaker 3: in the parking lot. There were a couple of fire
Speaker 3: crews inside the restaurant we were at. They were stopping
Speaker 3: to grab a bite on their way to fight fires
Speaker 3: in Calabasas.
Speaker 4: Surreal.
Speaker 3: It was one of the strangest moments for me ever
Speaker 3: in southern California. And as you know, we've been through
Speaker 3: earthquakes and a lot of crazy shit where we live,
Speaker 3: but nothing ever like this.
Speaker 1: It's been a wild week. Man, It's just crazy. So
Speaker 1: I said, there is a silver lining. I will be
Speaker 1: Benny Brightside without a shadow of doubt. Danny. We have
Speaker 1: learned the mayor of Los Angeles is completely incompetent, and
Speaker 1: we have also learned that the governor of the state
Speaker 1: of California just can't stop lying. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that a random mom took down I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know who that woman is. That the viral video. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: Oh it was so good. He's such a little snake.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, of California, and for
Speaker 1: him to be pantsed that was that was actually worse
Speaker 1: than the during COVID when he was eating at the
Speaker 1: French laundry. Uh, he's such. I'm on the foe with
Speaker 1: the president right now. Can I hear the conversation? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't actually have cell reception. H such a good Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Not not to get into politics. But not only did
Speaker 3: more people in our state vote the other direction, more
Speaker 3: people now are pushing for new leadership and to get
Speaker 3: some of the slimy weasels out of our state here.
Speaker 3: And really, politics shouldn't matter when a catastrophe happens in
Speaker 3: our country. Any good Americans should get behind the other
Speaker 3: Americans that are going through It should not matter about
Speaker 3: anything else, including politics.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: I understand a lot of people have some hate towards
Speaker 3: our state of California, but not all of us are haterable.
Speaker 4: Not all of us are the problem.
Speaker 3: And I think, Ben, we are going to have a
Speaker 3: cleaning of the house.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the first thing we need to do is hire
Speaker 1: competent people and stop with you know, filling quotas and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Get people that can actually do the job.
Speaker 1: The fact that you ran out of water, I mean
Speaker 1: they ran out of water.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: How do you run out of water. If you're a
Speaker 1: well run city, it's insanity and that right there. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't you know all the backshop, I've read a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Again, you don't know what's real what's not.
Speaker 1: Some of the people that are in charge were hired
Speaker 1: because of the the DEI stuff or whatever. It's just
Speaker 1: it's insane. But the mayor Karen bass in la that
Speaker 1: that will be the video that gets her removed as mayor.
Speaker 1: The video for at the airport confronted by I guess
Speaker 1: it was a British reporter who kept asking her questions
Speaker 1: and she didn't say anything. She reminds me of Mitch McConnell. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's she's not that old. I guess she's old.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old she is. She's how old
Speaker 1: she is, she's she's You know, you're the mayor of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You should be able to roll with the
Speaker 1: punches right.
Speaker 4: And really quick.
Speaker 3: Then to the firefighters and the pilots doing the water drops,
Speaker 3: we salute.
Speaker 1: You God bless truly. Yeah. Now, the fire firefighters are great,
Speaker 1: all the first responders, the people that work for the
Speaker 1: different cities, I mean just just great. There was a
Speaker 1: video that went viral from the one I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't keep track of all the names of the fires.
Speaker 1: The one in the Hollywood Hills, I don't even I
Speaker 1: don't know which one that was. Think about where we are, Danny.
Speaker 1: There have been so many fires this week we don't
Speaker 1: even know, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was that the sunset fire?
Speaker 1: Okay, the sunset fire. So there's that video of the fire,
Speaker 1: the drop the plane drop water.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, like Curry hitting a turnaround three.
Speaker 1: Oh, it just nailed it right, just perfect release and
Speaker 1: put out the fire. Shot, shot is shot and it
Speaker 1: was just awesome, all right.
Speaker 3: It was just Rich Davis said that pilot was probably
Speaker 3: chewing on a mouthpiece like Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: That was It was great, man, that was That was awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the kind of stuff that fires
Speaker 1: you up. Have you heard from I've heard from people
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from in a long time.
Speaker 3: In the last couple of days. I met my dad
Speaker 3: for the first time two days ago. I'm glad to
Speaker 3: get to the mail bag here for some normalcy. And
Speaker 3: the games have helped a little bit a little bit
Speaker 3: of a distraction.
Speaker 4: So nice to have the wild Card games going to.
Speaker 1: Absolutely let's get to the Sunday mail bag in Ohio.
Speaker 1: It's all right, thank you, OHI. These are actual letters
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Speaker 1: for the mail bag and that's the way that goes.
Speaker 1: But the first one is from Ryan C. From Shrewsbury
Speaker 1: and he writes and he says, Ben and Danny as
Speaker 1: an Avid dedicated listener for over two years. How about
Speaker 1: that two years this guy's been with us? He says,
Speaker 1: I must know something. My right hand was getting a workout. Drop,
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? And what's the backstory to
Speaker 1: that my right hand was getting a workout.
Speaker 3: I remember you explaining this years ago.
Speaker 4: It has to do with a TV remote, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I was watching there were a couple of
Speaker 1: NFL I think it was the NFL. I had to
Speaker 1: be the NFL. There were a couple of NFL games
Speaker 1: that were going on, and I was trying to watch
Speaker 1: both games at the same time on one television. So
Speaker 1: I kept flipping back and forth, and I said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I not realize everything is being saved for
Speaker 1: posterious but I said, hey, my right hand is getting
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout. Was because I
Speaker 1: kept going back and forth between these two stupid freaking
Speaker 1: NFL games. I said that probably, you know, fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: it's still to this day. One of the more popular
Speaker 1: drops on.
Speaker 3: Now your famous metal cock drop that actually came from
Speaker 3: a workout at the gym, right.
Speaker 1: I was attracted to the giant metal cock. Well it
Speaker 1: was actually I was at a nightclub. No, yeah, geez,
Speaker 1: some of the you know.
Speaker 4: Do the drops? What makes those drops so great? Though?
Speaker 4: Did you say it with authority with your chest out?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you you know, it's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of like for a while, Lorrainer wasn't putting any drops,
Speaker 1: and she's putting drops in now. But I often forget,
Speaker 1: as you know, Danny, we've done this a long time.
Speaker 1: We both started we were kids in radio, and so
Speaker 1: you get so used, so comfortable with a microphone, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not sure, like am I on the air?
Speaker 1: Am I not on the air? You know? You know?
Speaker 1: And sometimes because you're so comfortable, you just start yapping
Speaker 1: and I do it. Sometimes I'll put a little extra
Speaker 1: sauce on it, you know what I mean, They and
Speaker 1: a little extra sauce. Yeah, you're on the radio. And
Speaker 1: then it comes back to haunt me and for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life, I have to hear these stupid
Speaker 1: soundbites that get played.
Speaker 3: You also know that it's an oldie, but goodie drop
Speaker 3: when your voice is in the high register, because you
Speaker 3: are like sixteen years old.
Speaker 4: I know when it was recorded.
Speaker 3: For instance, a few days ago on Covino and Richie,
Speaker 3: we were talking about dippings. They were saying, what dips
Speaker 3: are the best? Somebody was ranting about Chick fil A
Speaker 3: sauces and they were talking about different sauces, and suddenly
Speaker 3: I hear Iowa, Sam, play a drop. That's your voice,
Speaker 3: and it's you saying something about a snack snacks, and
Speaker 3: your voice it sounded like you weren't even twenty years
Speaker 3: old yet. That's when I know it's vintage. Ben Maller.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's some some drops in there. I was
Speaker 1: telling the story the other day. It came up on
Speaker 1: the show. Somebody brought it up. I forget how about
Speaker 1: I think this was a Roberto. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was you that put this in, but it was when
Speaker 1: I told the story of I was at Lax.
Speaker 4: Roberto did the original work.
Speaker 3: I cleaned the drop up to make it sound smoother,
Speaker 3: and I used that drop often here on the fifth hour.
Speaker 1: He blew me off at a hotel near Lax. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was a reporter for six ninety. They sent
Speaker 1: me to an airport hotel at Lax. Wayne Gretzky had
Speaker 1: been traded from the Kings to the Saint Luke Cruise.
Speaker 1: So they state the radio station in San Diego's like, hey,
Speaker 1: get out there, we're the flagship of the Kings. Gretzkild
Speaker 1: You just listened to him tall and then on his
Speaker 1: way out, just grab him, get him to call in
Speaker 1: and say goodbye to the Kings fans. I said, no problem,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. So I went out there, and this
Speaker 1: was hastily arranged. I remember the night it was hastily arranged.
Speaker 1: I was, you know, single dude. I had no life,
Speaker 1: So I was like what they all go out there?
Speaker 1: So I park at the hotel near Lax. I go
Speaker 1: into the the conference hall. They had thrown some chairs
Speaker 1: in there and a table and a backdrop for this
Speaker 1: news commerce. So I go in there and Gretzky's talking
Speaker 1: and the you know, some executives from the Kings were
Speaker 1: talking and all that, and they were saying how emotional
Speaker 1: it was and all this bull bullpucky, and so then
Speaker 1: the interviews over the news commers is over. So I
Speaker 1: go over to Wayne Gretzky and his you know, his brutes,
Speaker 1: his bullies, whatever goons. And and I'm of course expecting
Speaker 1: this to go very smooth because I drove all the
Speaker 1: way out here to hear, you know, the nonsense, and
Speaker 1: to get Gretzky on. I had my phone dialed up
Speaker 1: on the hotline, the warm line to six ninety in
Speaker 1: San Diego, and I explained who I am. I very
Speaker 1: confidently say Wayne, you want to say goodbye to the
Speaker 1: Kings fans and was completely blown off, completely blown off by.
Speaker 4: I believe he said he blew me off, But it was,
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: It was because I still remember that he had to
Speaker 1: catch like a flight to Saint Louis or wherever the
Speaker 1: Blues were playing, I don't know, and he uh, and
Speaker 1: they had a whole entourage of people that were with
Speaker 1: him to Saint Louis or wherever.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was really was that the most memorable
Speaker 3: place you've ever been blown off?
Speaker 1: It was not the most enjoyable, enjoyable.
Speaker 4: I love your stories.
Speaker 3: Behind the drops, it's like behind the music, it's the
Speaker 3: radio version behind the drop.
Speaker 1: Oh no, well, there's a bunch. I mean, anybody wants
Speaker 1: to hear any stories about any drops just email the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour mail bag Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Alf in Fullerton writes, and this must you think this
Speaker 1: is the real alf I don't know, he says. I
Speaker 1: know I took he says, rather, I know. I look
Speaker 1: like a huge hypocrite for asking if you guys plan
Speaker 1: to move out of California in the future and then
Speaker 1: move in. But in my defense, I am sick and
Speaker 1: tired of paying for parking. I'd rather risk my house
Speaker 1: burning down than ever pay for parking again. And Fullerton
Speaker 1: really is a beautiful, magical as Mayor Mike said it is.
Speaker 1: I'm loving the downtown overrun by trees. None of the
Speaker 1: trees catching on fire so far is a nice bonus.
Speaker 1: There's one other big reason why I moved to sow
Speaker 1: cal from Springfield, Mass. I can now proudly say I
Speaker 1: live three thousand miles away from the totally disgraced name
Speaker 1: iss Nate Smith, basketball Hall of Fame who enshrined that
Speaker 1: fraud Muffett McGraw. I've been sleeping better ever since. Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a lot there. There's a lot there. But I
Speaker 1: don't think there was a question there though, right I
Speaker 1: don't think there was a question.
Speaker 4: It was just a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Manny writes in from Parts Unknown to not Manny,
Speaker 1: you got to put your city there, pal if you
Speaker 1: want us to give you credit, but just say, Manny says, Hey, bandon, Danny,
Speaker 1: I want to know what you guys thought about this.
Speaker 1: I think this ties into something you talked about on
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour. A couple months back. He sent a
Speaker 1: news story here of scientists baffled. Do you see this
Speaker 1: sunken worlds under the sea. Massive structures have been found
Speaker 1: deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that scientists say should not exist.
Speaker 4: I totally believe this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's like an.
Speaker 4: Apol person beside it and another one inside, and it
Speaker 4: has big guys that're looking at us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of my sp I think we did talk
Speaker 1: about this a couple of months ago with the aliens.
Speaker 1: I thought one of my theories is that it's not
Speaker 1: actually UFOs from another place in the galaxy, that there's
Speaker 1: actually another species that lives in the ocean, like under
Speaker 1: the ocean. Yeah, they fly out and they examine us
Speaker 1: the way that we examine cattle or whatever wild animals
Speaker 1: like for them.
Speaker 3: Or the way we put submarines down in their world
Speaker 3: exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So I I believe I kind of believe that. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. You just sent me this story, Manny,
Speaker 1: I haven't really examined it. I'm looking at it here and.
Speaker 3: Well, you're not the only one that thinks this. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure who directed it. But do you remember that
Speaker 3: great movie from back in the day called The Abyss.
Speaker 1: I vaguely remember It's it's been a minute, Danny, It's
Speaker 1: been a minute.
Speaker 3: That was about alien life way deep down in the sea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the oceans are so I mean, you fly
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. We both been to Hawaii many times, and
Speaker 1: you just think, like, there's so much freaking ocean. It's
Speaker 1: the planet's mostly ocean. It's not land, it's mostly ocean.
Speaker 1: And you're like, we don't really know what's under there.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, human beings have been above the water all
Speaker 1: over the oceans, but they haven't been below the water
Speaker 1: very bottom.
Speaker 3: So oh, by the way, do I should have known
Speaker 3: it was a James Cameron movie.
Speaker 4: Oh, James Cameron so early.
Speaker 3: He's known for all of his you know, he loves
Speaker 3: things happening in the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin writes in from Florida, he says, hello from
Speaker 1: the Free State of Florida. All right, well, thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your guys take on this. He
Speaker 1: then sent me a news story Danny's scientists blame a
Speaker 1: new weather phenomena dubbed hydro climate whiplash for California's wildfires. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what that is? Bullshit? Is what that is? Kevin? I?
Speaker 1: I mean haven't we we talked you about this, Danny,
Speaker 1: Like a few minutes ago. There there are people on
Speaker 1: videos starting the fires.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: At first we kept hearing the two words climate change,
Speaker 3: and quickly those words were replaced by people's names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like gasoline and matches and yeah, yeah, is that
Speaker 1: climate change? I guess that is climate change? Right, that's
Speaker 1: climate change? Why not? So yeah, that story, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure see the opportunistic That is the word opportunistic.
Speaker 1: People that know in the science community, they can they
Speaker 1: can raise money and people will be like, oh, we
Speaker 1: got to stop these fires. How do we stop these fires? Well,
Speaker 1: rather than punish the people that are starting the fires
Speaker 1: and try to, you know, send a message to future idiots,
Speaker 1: let's say it's climate change, and then we'll raise money
Speaker 1: and that'll fix the world and we'll be good. Alf
Speaker 1: from as seen on TV rights and he says, have
Speaker 1: either of you ever owned a any pulpe or k
Speaker 1: Tel products. Me and my friends had the Pocket Fishermen
Speaker 1: and the mini skis and the snow block Maker. Did
Speaker 1: you ever buy any infomercial products standing back in the.
Speaker 3: Day, Yeah, body By Jake, Oh yeah, body By I have.
Speaker 3: It's still in my garage somewhere. It's like you sit
Speaker 3: down on the contraption and then you pull the two
Speaker 3: handles forward and it's for your abs. It's it's it's
Speaker 3: I think it was called the ab scissor.
Speaker 1: Nice. I had one of the great rompol Peel products,
Speaker 1: mister microphone. When I was a kid, I had a
Speaker 1: mister Micah.
Speaker 4: Oh dude, classic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the remember the infomercial the guy trying to pick
Speaker 1: up on the chicks there and the I can't think
Speaker 1: of a thing that turns women on more than a
Speaker 1: mister microphone.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about being rico suave with the ladies.
Speaker 4: Man, you just.
Speaker 1: You're good to go.
Speaker 3: Hey baby, I'm broadcasting live from your bedroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on down. I had that. I bought some.
Speaker 1: Me and my brother, we were teenagers and we bought
Speaker 1: some of that. I guess it was wax or polish
Speaker 1: where you put it on the car and then you
Speaker 1: could light the car on fire and it wouldn't burn
Speaker 1: the car. Like. We were so mesmerized we bought it.
Speaker 1: And the famous story and Alf knows the story this is.
Speaker 1: I think this predates you, Danny. On the podcast, we
Speaker 1: were going to have Ron Poupeel on. I had booked
Speaker 1: Ron Popel. I reached out to his people. Ron Popeel
Speaker 1: was a multi millionaire from those infomercials and I reached
Speaker 1: out to him. The man behind the showtime Metisseriy set it,
Speaker 1: get it, and he was down to do the interview.
Speaker 1: He was all booked and then at the very last
Speaker 1: minute he like he was over in Malibu playing with
Speaker 1: his his grandkids and he's like, mister, I got an emails,
Speaker 1: mister will be unable to do your interview. So then
Speaker 1: I was like, reschedule and then no, he's not.
Speaker 4: He passed away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's dead. So he will definitely be doing the interview.
Speaker 1: And if he does do the interview, that would be
Speaker 1: big news, that would be massive news. If he doesn't, great,
Speaker 1: you killed it. Yeah, we absolutely killed it. And Ron
Speaker 1: Papeel and his family the products they came up with,
Speaker 1: the Chappomatic, the Vegematic, the Dialogmatic, Aneomatic Outstanding, the Showtime
Speaker 1: of vertiseary thing, and these were all Ron pop Peel products.
Speaker 1: The uh what was the inside the shell eggs scrambler
Speaker 1: which made a list of the one hundred top gadgets
Speaker 1: of all time?
Speaker 4: Nice that was for that was.
Speaker 1: An infomercial and product inside the shell egg Scrambler. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were all kinds of things that I loved.
Speaker 1: The infomercials, the late night infomercials were just just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: You know, act now Supplies Limited. There was a book
Speaker 1: written about infomercials for years back, and I read it.
Speaker 1: I've quoted it many times. Some of the tricks of
Speaker 1: the infomercial world which are used in advertising to this day.
Speaker 1: Danny like the infomercial crowd. They it's really a study
Speaker 1: of human nature and if you're in the business of
Speaker 1: selling stuff the infomercials. But wait, there's more operators standing
Speaker 1: by all these phrases that started from infomercials. You know
Speaker 1: supplies limited, Act now supplies run out offer bonus like
Speaker 1: the whole way they did. It was absolutely brilliant. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, they found out human nature, how people are competitive,
Speaker 1: and they they would say, you know, have a clock
Speaker 1: fane scarcity. Feign scarcity gets people to buy stuff. And
Speaker 1: I often tell my wife when she's she'll come up
Speaker 1: to me and say, oh, I've got to buy that
Speaker 1: today because they're gonna run out, the sale is gonna
Speaker 1: end or whatever, and I just roll my eyes. I'm like,
Speaker 1: But then she gets upset when I bring this up
Speaker 1: because she thinks, I know, I think I know everything.
Speaker 1: But I did learn this in the book about infomercials
Speaker 1: that I read, the classic classic countdown technique where you
Speaker 1: systematically lower the price as you near the end of
Speaker 1: the pitch and you're not supposed to sell the last batch.
Speaker 1: At that point, the eager customers are waiting, right and
Speaker 1: you know they want to buy it, and you leave them.
Speaker 1: It's much like our iHeart training, you know, leave and
Speaker 1: went in doubt, leave it out, you know, you know
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But anyway, I mean, it's there's
Speaker 1: so many great infomercial but remember Billy Mays, are you
Speaker 1: the guy with the beard? Are you tired of so
Speaker 1: and so? Affecting your life. Do you wish that this
Speaker 1: would be better? Hi, Billy mays here with so easiest
Speaker 1: way guaranteed order right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was always the same formula.
Speaker 1: It worked. Hey, they make the big Mac the same way.
Speaker 1: Two all beef patties, you know, and all that. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Ben, my stepdad was a little bit
Speaker 3: of an inventor. Oh yeah, he had this contraption called
Speaker 3: the bathroom buddy. Oh and in one Christmas he brought
Speaker 3: home a mug.
Speaker 4: Why for me.
Speaker 1: The formula? Dang, the formula is here. It is. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you a formula, okay, right now, the fifth hour.
Speaker 1: It is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Speaker 1: You create a problem, you then sell the solution or
Speaker 1: you really what you're doing is you're creating the appearance
Speaker 1: of a problem, right, You're creating the appearance of a
Speaker 1: problem and then you're coming up with the solution. And
Speaker 1: it really works in all works of life, no even
Speaker 1: go down. Look like people will say, a lot of
Speaker 1: religion is based on you know, we're creating the problem
Speaker 1: as you're a sinner and you need to find salvation.
Speaker 1: But anything you know, it's part of the human condition.
Speaker 3: Oh now, the sinning over here was very real for
Speaker 3: a decade or so.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my kidding. But thank you alf JJ from
Speaker 1: Maryland Rights and a Ben and Danny and enjoy Joe
Speaker 1: the Pot. I hope you guys had a good New year.
Speaker 1: It's what are we in? January twelfth? Now I think we're.
Speaker 4: Past Jesus Man. This past week felt like a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you We'll always remember this week. Well,
Speaker 1: we're talking about this year from now here at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Any yeah, he says, JJ, I know this is not
Speaker 1: a political podcast, but you know it's coming. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1: a lot when he says this is not a political
Speaker 1: podcast because he said, but he says, what's your take
Speaker 1: on the video of Donald Trump and Obama laughing with
Speaker 1: each other at Jimmy Carter's funeral? Uh? Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: this video. I don't know if you saw, Dan, you've
Speaker 1: been dealing with the fire stuff and all that, But
Speaker 1: there was a video from Jimmy Carter, President Carter's funeral,
Speaker 1: and Obama and Trump were sitting side by side and
Speaker 1: it seemed like they were buddies.
Speaker 3: Oh I saw this clip. To me, it looked like
Speaker 3: they were telling dad jokes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they were, they were doing that.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminded me of the great Jesse Ventura who
Speaker 1: was in our building many many years ago. I've told
Speaker 1: this story, but Jesse Ventura was the governor of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And Jesse was having a conversation with one of the
Speaker 1: producers in the building and explained that politics and this
Speaker 1: remember years ago, that politics is very similar to professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: where the good guys and the bad guys have a
Speaker 1: common bond. It's all for show that behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: they all love each other and they hang out with
Speaker 1: each other. They're all friends, and it's you know, they
Speaker 1: break the fourth wall and all that. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what it looked like. And it did remind me that
Speaker 1: as much I know Trump just you know, he's going
Speaker 1: to take over here in what eight days, but that
Speaker 1: people loved him like he was friends with everybody before
Speaker 1: he got into politics.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, and he was also the name that
Speaker 3: was referenced by rappers and songs whenever they talked about
Speaker 3: being rich someday and having money.
Speaker 1: We love big men. Yeah, So it's like the I
Speaker 1: think the term is kfab I believe is that what
Speaker 1: it's called where you know, the portrayal of stage events
Speaker 1: within professional wrestling, you know, is real.
Speaker 3: Or could have been as simple as Obama nudging Trump
Speaker 3: and saying, how'd you like that weekend at Burning's Act,
Speaker 3: We pulled on you?
Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah. Well Trump was going around saying like Obama
Speaker 1: was not he was born in Kenya or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been they've been attacking each other, like Obama compared
Speaker 1: Trump to Hitler, like you look at the history and
Speaker 1: they're just, you know, buddy, couple of dudes, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think the funniest part of that was was
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. I don't know who did the seating chart
Speaker 1: at that thing, but they had a sense of humor.
Speaker 1: So Kamala Harris comes in with her husband and she
Speaker 1: made sure her husband sat closest to Trump, and I
Speaker 1: think that they might have been telling a joke about that.
Speaker 1: I think they might have been joking about that, but
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I did. I did enjoy the video.
Speaker 1: It was pretty funny. And there are some people that
Speaker 1: get so into politics, Danny that that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: they just they blows their mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like for some people it's like the crips
Speaker 3: and the bloods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know, it's like it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, how you know, we've over the years we
Speaker 1: love our sports. I think, over the years, since we've
Speaker 1: been in it for so long, while we love our sports, Danny,
Speaker 1: it's not as you know, cutthroat as it used to
Speaker 1: be for us. We're grown up now and all that,
Speaker 1: but when you're younger, you're like, you know, this is
Speaker 1: us against the world, and.
Speaker 4: I some people never grow up exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: All right. Next one from Anonymous, I'm blind and I
Speaker 1: can't read a restaurant menu. Anonymous says, yeah, one of
Speaker 1: your blind listeners, I found the show.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought he meant like he was getting to
Speaker 3: the age where he needed his iPhone light on the menu.
Speaker 1: No, I think he's Actually I found the show because
Speaker 1: I heard a blind person talking about some ridiculous thing
Speaker 1: on there once and someone I know it said it
Speaker 1: was the best blind show out there. Well, yeah, we
Speaker 1: are number one. I don't know about the best, because
Speaker 1: the best means as good as all the rest.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of theatrics on your show,
Speaker 3: and think about it. If you're blind and your sense
Speaker 3: of hearing is super good, your show would be number one.
Speaker 1: Well think number one.
Speaker 4: Our show is really good in braille because it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's theater. It's not real. All your callers
Speaker 4: are paid.
Speaker 1: What Yes, no one would actually call the show. Who
Speaker 1: else listening at that hour? Anyway? Says if you were blind,
Speaker 1: how would you all read a restaurant menu? What I
Speaker 1: do is I usually prepare before I go to the
Speaker 1: restaurant and memorize the menu online, says Anonymous. H If
Speaker 1: I was blind, I would have to find a friend
Speaker 1: who would read the menu to me. Right, wodn't that
Speaker 1: be the way it would go?
Speaker 3: Well, I would take the waitress and first feel her wrist,
Speaker 3: I don't know, have you ever seen the Ray Charles movie?
Speaker 3: And then I would have her tell me the entire menu.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all about the risk. That's all you got
Speaker 1: to do. Anonymous also says, I noticed that your mother
Speaker 1: in law lives on the West Coast and your father
Speaker 1: in law lives on the East Coast. You said this
Speaker 1: much on the podcast. Well, my father in law spends
Speaker 1: most of the year. Well, he alternates from California to
Speaker 1: North Carolina. So he spends you know, every every other
Speaker 1: month in North Carolina in kind of like the Wilmington,
Speaker 1: North Carolina area, and then where Michael Jordan grew up.
Speaker 1: And then he lives in California part of the year.
Speaker 1: My mother in law does live in California year round. Anyway,
Speaker 1: says you said this much on the podcast. Boy, this
Speaker 1: guy's a stalker, Danny. That this guy's pandiation anyway, So
Speaker 1: this is imaginary, obviously, But imagine that your mother in
Speaker 1: law was dating a fan of the show. How would
Speaker 1: that make you feel? And if your mother in law
Speaker 1: got married to the fan, would that make your the fan?
Speaker 1: Your dad?
Speaker 4: Who is this guy trying to be your daddy?
Speaker 1: That's a little odd. It's a little odd, Daddy.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I did have one flex moment years ago, I think
Speaker 1: we talked about on the podcast, where I heard from
Speaker 1: an ex girlfriend that I had not heard from in years.
Speaker 1: It was one of those deals, Danny, where I was
Speaker 1: into her and she wasn't really into me. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. We've all been there, and I
Speaker 1: was kind of into her and she didn't really feel
Speaker 1: the same way about me. So it didn't last and
Speaker 1: I and I, you know, she lived, you know, in
Speaker 1: another state, and I hadn't really kept in contact with her.
Speaker 1: Why would I?
Speaker 4: You hadn't stopped her in years to say?
Speaker 1: And she went on a date with a guy and
Speaker 1: they one of the questions was what podcast? What shows
Speaker 1: do you listen to? They were trying to make small
Speaker 1: talk and the guy said my name and she freaked out,
Speaker 1: and so that was kind of cool. But do I
Speaker 1: want my mother in law to know? I think I
Speaker 1: think we're good on that. Barry in South Carolina rights
Speaker 1: then says yo yo Ma, Benny and Danny g Is
Speaker 1: it just me? Or does it seem like all these
Speaker 1: football announcers are yelling at me? And if it isn't
Speaker 1: just me, why do these guys see the need to
Speaker 1: do it? He says? Gus Johnson is the worst. But
Speaker 1: seems like they're all screaming. You're yelling drives me crazy.
Speaker 1: A far cry from Pat Summer All, Am I dating myself?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, a little bit, Berry, But Danny isn't the
Speaker 1: thing now. Now it's all about that viral moment. It's
Speaker 1: hard to go viral if you're understated, like Pat summer
Speaker 1: Ale was. You got to be over the top for
Speaker 1: the kids, for the for the TikTok, Right, Danny, you
Speaker 1: gotta be over the top.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And this is also the reason why there's criticism on
Speaker 3: al Michaels recently, because it takes a lot to get
Speaker 3: that guy excited. You don't want to announcer that's going
Speaker 3: to overdo it for just a regular sort of play.
Speaker 3: But you also don't want an announcer who sounds like
Speaker 3: he's hitting the snooze button when it is a game
Speaker 3: changing play that just happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Al's Al's in his eighties now. He've been pretty mellow,
Speaker 1: pretty mellow when he's doing the game right. He's modest, understated,
Speaker 1: and for Al for one of these events, for al
Speaker 1: Michaels to be a really big deal, Al's called the
Speaker 1: biggest sporting events in the world. What's he going to
Speaker 1: take for something to rise to the level? Not some
Speaker 1: random Thursday night game on Amazon between two dog food teams.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Who's the announcer who listens to our show? Oh?
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan, Oh dude.
Speaker 4: Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 3: I love because even though he gets loud at times,
Speaker 3: he's so excitable that he could make a boring game
Speaker 3: sound interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, for sure, Kevin's he's got a sense of humor.
Speaker 1: He'll call, he'll do play by play when guys went
Speaker 1: on the field. That was one of the coolest things
Speaker 1: about it. Oh yeah, the Super Bowl the last couple
Speaker 1: of years being able to go. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to make it this year because it's in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: That's a little out of the geographically desiral. But I
Speaker 1: should go the following year, assuming we're all here in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, so I should be able to get to
Speaker 1: that one radio row.
Speaker 3: That should be fun. We'll get some hotel rooms right
Speaker 3: on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we don't even need hotel rooms san Francisco.
Speaker 1: You just sleep on the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, the company will be we want you to
Speaker 1: live the Rustics, just go lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Do you think they'll give us some iHeart blankets?
Speaker 1: No, No, they're going to give us FSR branded tense And
Speaker 1: they don't even have to get us toilets. You just
Speaker 1: shit on the streets in San francisc all you need
Speaker 1: to do. All right, we'll get out on that day.
Speaker 1: We got football today and the ram My rams in
Speaker 1: Arizona tomorrow on Monday. Hopefully these fires will completely go
Speaker 1: away because I know the wind's supposed to pick up
Speaker 1: on I think Tuesday, so hopefully it'll be a calmer
Speaker 1: week here. Anything you want to promote, Dan, I'll be
Speaker 1: back tonight eleven o'clock in the West, two am in
Speaker 1: the East with more marginal overnight sports talk radio.
Speaker 3: Now just again a shout out to the firefighters and
Speaker 3: first responders. Thank you all around the country, and if
Speaker 3: any of our Southern California listeners to this podcast are
Speaker 3: tuned in, stay safe, stay off the freeways unless.
Speaker 4: You really need to get on the freeway with a
Speaker 4: go bag.
Speaker 3: And the numbers have been really, really good, so we
Speaker 3: appreciate your listenership every single weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a point, Danny where I had to
Speaker 1: beg people to send questions into the mailbag. I have
Speaker 1: not had to do that in months. We have so
Speaker 1: many people listening. We got new names on the mail
Speaker 1: bag every week, which is great. I love hearing from
Speaker 1: new people. We got our regulars, which are our base,
Speaker 1: and then we have new people who every once in
Speaker 1: a while get off their ass and become contact creators
Speaker 1: like this week we heard from was it Manny? There
Speaker 1: were some new names on the mail bag, Kevin and Florida.
Speaker 1: I haven't. I don't think I've gotten a mail from Manny.
Speaker 1: So that was great. That was awesome. So we've got
Speaker 1: our regulars like Alf and Ferg Dog and the guys
Speaker 1: at Barry that have been with us for a long time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I have a wonderful rest of your day, and George
Speaker 1: the football and the fifth hour we turn next weekend.
Speaker 1: I got you know, Danny's on Covino and Rich all
Speaker 1: week and I'll be on my own at night and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you on the radio later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder, I gotta go