Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a 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.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot.
Speaker 3: Takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a everywhere. It's the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Er Radio hanging out. We survived
Speaker 1: our trip to the track. It's going on again today
Speaker 1: though the Breeders cop the main event later today, Danny,
Speaker 1: but I had a wonderful time. It was great to
Speaker 1: see all the pretty people and also the ugly people
Speaker 1: mixed together. But it was a lot of fun. What
Speaker 1: a beautiful place, Santa ne it is. It's just awesome.
Speaker 1: It's we're so lucky that we live here and it's
Speaker 1: that's the local track. It's just awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was my first time there, and I would
Speaker 4: like to go back just to watch the horses run
Speaker 4: sometime and bring the family there, especially Little CoA. Got
Speaker 4: to start them early on betting on the horses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta have them bet the trifecta and all that,
Speaker 1: the find the daily double and and get the racing form,
Speaker 1: the whole, the full, all inclusive racing experience, which means
Speaker 1: you got to get up at the Kraka daon, you
Speaker 1: got to go to the track when the horses are
Speaker 1: like working out, they're exercising in the morning. There's the
Speaker 1: smell of horse shit at manure and there's like really
Speaker 1: wealthy billionaires on one side, and then there's people you
Speaker 1: know making a peasants salary on the other. But they're
Speaker 1: all there for the same the same mission, you know,
Speaker 1: the same goal and all that. It's it's just an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing experience. And horse racing it's it's still a niche sport,
Speaker 1: if you will, but I think it's designed. It's weird
Speaker 1: how society has changed, but it's almost like it's becoming
Speaker 1: more relevant because we have such short attention spans and
Speaker 1: the way horse racing is designed, it's you know, sit around,
Speaker 1: have some drinks, have some food, get a bed in,
Speaker 1: and then the actual event itself is only a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I watch I watch all the major runs, and you're right,
Speaker 4: what's great about it is after it's over, you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: look I got the entire rest of my day left.
Speaker 1: You know what I used to do back in the day,
Speaker 1: because years ago Premiere Networks, when we started Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: Premier Networks, which just runs Fox Sports Radio, iHeartMedia, they
Speaker 1: had rights to the to the Kentucky Derby. Right, they
Speaker 1: were the broadcaster and so they were the syndicator of
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby. So I used to do this bit
Speaker 1: of a year, we are going to play the entire
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby unedited right now. Wait, it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: a minute forty eight seconds or something, you know, some
Speaker 1: ridiculous short amount of time, a couple of minutes at
Speaker 1: the most, And it was always always a funny bit.
Speaker 1: So on this the Saturday Pod, and don't forget Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny, we're on in La today and all
Speaker 1: over the place reairings. But the LA Show probably already
Speaker 1: happened depending on when you're downloading this. Six am the
Speaker 1: first showing, and then the Lakers are playing the Orlando Magic,
Speaker 1: so that means we're bumped to late night in La.
Speaker 1: So eleven PM.
Speaker 3: That's when I watch it every week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we on eleven AM after or eleven pm.
Speaker 1: Rather if the Lakers weren't playing, we'd have like probably
Speaker 1: four other showings. But that's fine.
Speaker 4: You're going to be the Laker post game party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Anyway, on this the it we have
Speaker 1: Rudolph the Red Nose gas bag, timber Danny, you have
Speaker 1: a tale to tell?
Speaker 4: Yes, as Eminem once saying, say goodbye, say goodbye to Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, say goodbye the Hollywood, the glitz and glamour, show
Speaker 1: business no more. But we start with this, So this
Speaker 1: is a pod exclusive headline, Panic City. Is it true
Speaker 1: that this week's episode of Benny Versus the Penny, still
Speaker 1: airing today on regional cable distributed by NBC, was an
Speaker 1: absolute roller coaster ride, white knuckle racist? How dare you.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: As Paul Harvey used to say, you've heard the news,
Speaker 1: but in a minute, you're about to hear the rest
Speaker 1: of the story. So there once was a man named
Speaker 1: Ben or Benny, wasn't Isn't that how most fairytale start?
Speaker 1: Once there once was a man, or once upon a
Speaker 1: time or something like that. Yeah, So I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to the third person. But they doing the
Speaker 1: overnight show and trying to juggle everything. It's been very hectic,
Speaker 1: very hectic. I love it. It's great. I like to work.
Speaker 1: I'm working a lot, maybe more than I want to work.
Speaker 1: But anyway, So a few hours before the taping of
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny, I made the mistake of looking
Speaker 1: in the mirror, which is never a good idea because
Speaker 1: I'm ugly, it's never a good idea. What did I see?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: This was different mirror, mirror on the wall. You are
Speaker 1: the fairest of them all? What happened? So I look
Speaker 1: at my reflection and then I looked away, and I
Speaker 1: looked back, and there was something staring back at me
Speaker 1: that I thought it was like out of a Christmas
Speaker 1: movie or something like that. That was not Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 1: It was not. It was rude ofph The red nose
Speaker 1: gas bag you see, the right side of my schnozola
Speaker 1: was bright red. I am talking gigantic right like bright.
Speaker 1: Oh my, I unbelievable. And so I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm seeing things, you know, But there was a
Speaker 1: gigantic pimple that had popped up and I guess. I
Speaker 1: was like kind of like, uh, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just like kind of rubbing the side of it by.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize I was doing it. You ever
Speaker 1: done that where you're like.
Speaker 3: Oh, in high school, we called that a runaway z it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. So I'm like worth doctor pimple Popper,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm freaking out.
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I got a TV show and a
Speaker 4: few the grossest TV shows in the history of TV.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's the same that still honor. Did
Speaker 1: they get rid of that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I hope they canceled it.
Speaker 1: So I'm freaking out right. I looked to describe, because
Speaker 1: we're on an audio platform, I look like Vaudevillian's star
Speaker 1: actor W. SEA Fields near the end of his life,
Speaker 1: if you know what he looks like. I thought, for
Speaker 1: a second, I had rhino fema, which is like when
Speaker 1: your nose like literally the growth of the nose where
Speaker 1: it gets enlarged and red and there's like thick bumps
Speaker 1: on it, you know, in my head, in my head, Nanny,
Speaker 1: I was W. C. Fields. I had rhino fema. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you dazzle, if you can't dazzle them
Speaker 1: with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit or in this case,
Speaker 1: a bright red nose. I'm like, well, it's not Christmas yet.
Speaker 1: We were done with Halloween. Like, how am I going
Speaker 1: to spin this? And so I'm on the internet. What
Speaker 1: do I do?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 1: The first thing I do? I go on the web
Speaker 1: how to cover up you know, a ZiT pimple thing
Speaker 1: on your nose. I'm like, I'm looking at all this, like,
Speaker 1: will it go down? Do I first thing? Of course,
Speaker 1: I had to stop touching said nose. That was the
Speaker 1: first thing. Fortunately I had purchased for the TV show
Speaker 1: a bunch of makeup, so it did. The inflammation did
Speaker 1: go down, and it was still slightly read by the
Speaker 1: time I showed up to Universal Studios, so I was
Speaker 1: still a little red. But I did apply makeup in
Speaker 1: said bathroom, so hopefully, hopefully that did the trick. But
Speaker 1: you'll have to tell if you've seen the show, let
Speaker 1: me know if it looked like I had. Rudolph.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, now that I pointed it out, you'll.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all we're going to be looking at now.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be like, Babe, look look at the TV.
Speaker 3: Look at Ben's nose, Look.
Speaker 1: At how ugly Malari is today. Man, what the hell?
Speaker 1: And I was like, what am I going to tell
Speaker 1: the people at NBC. I'm like, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. I wonder what they would have
Speaker 1: done if I couldn't cover it up.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: This is like when ball players get hurt at home
Speaker 4: and they have to admit to their team that they
Speaker 4: got hurt at home, did something stupid.
Speaker 1: Very embarrassing, very very embrassing. Problems you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about when you do the radio or podcasting. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that at all. And I
Speaker 1: almost almost had I thought my head, Nanny, when I
Speaker 1: saw my nose, I said, I gotta say goodbye to Hollywood.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this past week was really weird because as long
Speaker 4: as I've been at the network, which is nine years now,
Speaker 4: Ramos has always been a steady force. He's calm, he's
Speaker 4: cool under pressure, He's always smiling.
Speaker 3: Whenever I would work with him on the weekends.
Speaker 4: He would fill in on the weekends sometimes, and it
Speaker 4: was nice. It was refreshing to work with him, and
Speaker 4: I would think to myself, Man, that would be cool
Speaker 4: to work with him daily.
Speaker 3: Rewind to a.
Speaker 4: Little bit over a year ago, and when Covino and
Speaker 4: rich and I got promoted to afternoons, we knew, Oh,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be Dan Bayer, it's gonna be Dan Byer,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be John Ramos. And that was really
Speaker 4: exciting for me because back in the day talk about
Speaker 4: full circle when I was working on a campus myself,
Speaker 4: because that's where Ramos is going. He's going to go
Speaker 4: work at the high school full time and coach girls
Speaker 4: softball for South Pasadena High. I was doing sports, I
Speaker 4: was coaching. I was teaching in a second grade classroom,
Speaker 4: and then I would get out in the afternoon and
Speaker 4: I would go make a food run before I would
Speaker 4: have to come back to the campus to finish my work.
Speaker 3: And what did I have in my car?
Speaker 4: Am five seventy It was the J Moore Show, and
Speaker 4: I got to hear Ramos play one hundred Drops in
Speaker 4: an Hour and his really funny radio laugh. It was
Speaker 4: a really good ensemble. It was fun to listen to
Speaker 4: a lot of it didn't have to do with anything
Speaker 4: with sports. But I liked that even back then it
Speaker 4: was pop culture. It was Jay Moore just telling bad
Speaker 4: jokes and just funny routines, funny callers and drops. I
Speaker 4: love the show. I would listen to it almost every afternoon.
Speaker 4: Fast forward get to Fox Sports Radio and the very
Speaker 4: first shift that I got to train on in December
Speaker 4: of twenty fourteen was the Jay Moore Show. Besides Jay's
Speaker 4: little dogs running around the studio, the one thing that
Speaker 4: stood out to me was how nice Ramos was.
Speaker 3: So he trained me on the board. Uh, he trained
Speaker 3: me how to do.
Speaker 4: The drops for Fox the way Fox liked him because
Speaker 4: I was coming from NBC Sports Radio and it was
Speaker 4: a really cool experience. And then of course I was
Speaker 4: on your show to kick off my career here at FSR.
Speaker 4: Bobo trained me on your show. Well, so go on
Speaker 4: the radioeah. So that's how it all started for me
Speaker 4: here at Fox Sports Radio. And so Ramos holds a
Speaker 4: special place in my heart. They did a going away
Speaker 4: party for him on Thursday night, and and it was
Speaker 4: hard Ben Like I guess I saved my words for
Speaker 4: on air. Several of our coworkers got up and made
Speaker 4: little speeches but I couldn't help but think to myself.
Speaker 3: As these speeches.
Speaker 4: Were going and thousands of dollars of Buffalo wild wings
Speaker 4: were being eaten, I was thinking to myself, why not
Speaker 4: take all this money from all these drinks and wings,
Speaker 4: give that to Ramos and say you're not going anywhere, dude.
Speaker 3: Here's a little bonus. I'm gonna give you a little raise.
Speaker 4: It's not how radio works, unfortunately, but if I was
Speaker 4: in charge of things, if I ran broadcasting all across America,
Speaker 4: I would give all broadcasters a big fat raise, and
Speaker 4: I wouldn't let any of them go to any other
Speaker 4: sideways jobs. So it bothers me personally because now I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to go through what you just went through,
Speaker 4: which is a revolving door of technical producers, and no
Speaker 4: one's really going to be able to replace Ramos. And
Speaker 4: I've had some insomnia over it. Man, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I think I might go on to Workmen's com Well.
Speaker 1: Get the long term, get the long term. That's s
Speaker 1: grit your teeth long term. But I love John. I've
Speaker 1: known John many years. I knew him before Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and so we were very excited when John came to
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio because it has proven guy in the
Speaker 1: LA market, and it's hard to find people it is
Speaker 1: you reference Danny that are positive. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of grumpy people just general. But in radio, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of woe is meism? You know, why am
Speaker 1: I not getting this? That and the other thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a bunch of moaning and groaning, as my grandpa
Speaker 4: used to say, Yeah, and they're damned winding in your
Speaker 4: moaning and groaning exactly.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, I was like that when I
Speaker 1: was younger. But there's just a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are just like, oh, this sucks.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's there are much worse problems to have, much worse
Speaker 1: problems to have. We have one of the great jobs.
Speaker 1: Even if you're not happy with what time you're working
Speaker 1: or how much money you're making. Could always be worse,
Speaker 1: could always be worse. But I you know, I'm disappointed
Speaker 1: John's leaving. I feel, you know, he's a old school
Speaker 1: radio guy from the old countries. I sent out on
Speaker 1: on social media this week. He's an artistan and just
Speaker 1: a positive guy. And as we talked about Danny, there's
Speaker 1: not many of that those type of people left in
Speaker 1: the business. Unfortunately, it's changed a lot. The old timers
Speaker 1: are either leaving for other jobs or dying off, and
Speaker 1: so it's just not Yeah, it's a tough one. And
Speaker 1: also a lot of people don't want to, as you said,
Speaker 1: pay the dues, work on holidays and all that. They don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want you want me to work on a holiday.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? But he was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the shops open twenty four hours a day. We
Speaker 1: don't close. The business is open. There's customers that will
Speaker 1: be in the store. There's actually a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are lonely over the holidays. I always try to
Speaker 1: work most of the holidays because there's people lonely. They
Speaker 1: want to want to I have a friend, somebody to
Speaker 1: hang out with on the radio, you know, and know
Speaker 1: that some other person's alive and talking and jop in
Speaker 1: and all that. But you know, so good luck to John.
Speaker 3: Screw that guy.
Speaker 4: When everybody was saying congratulations, I was like, fuck you.
Speaker 1: Good luck. I'm sure it'll only take about eight or
Speaker 1: nine months for you to figure out who's replacing John.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that will be a very get here.
Speaker 4: So you're saying it will be resolved shortly and I'll
Speaker 4: know who my technical producer is within the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. But every night I would go in
Speaker 1: after Roberto left, there was somebody different running the running
Speaker 1: the equipment, so I was like, who's in tonight? I
Speaker 1: don't know third base the deal on this, and I
Speaker 1: deal with it all the time. I had people. I
Speaker 1: had a guy I won't say his name, but there
Speaker 1: was a guy that said he used to listen growing
Speaker 1: up to the show, and then I asked him five
Speaker 1: questions about the show, like trivia. I went for fun
Speaker 1: low for five A big fan of the show, listened
Speaker 1: all the time, all the time.
Speaker 3: He didn't even get one right, not one.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to like, if you're gonna lie,
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to back up the lie. Yeah
Speaker 1: you can even back the lie. I mean, what was that?
Speaker 3: How can you back up the lie if you're lying?
Speaker 1: It's a fair point. That's a fair point. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to be able at least to kind of
Speaker 1: ance around a little bit. It's not good. So timber O,
Speaker 1: our headline now comes from the holiday hodown. Did you
Speaker 1: attend any Halloween parties?
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 1: Da, Well, you got a young young child's probably not right,
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 4: Halloween's not really my jam. Anyways, I got you so well.
Speaker 1: The wife loves Halloween and it's a big holiday for her.
Speaker 1: She's she likes to plan parties. We didn't have a
Speaker 1: party this year for Halloween at our our Mallard mansion.
Speaker 1: The hostess with the mostest spent weeks though planning with
Speaker 1: a couple of her friends from work, this big gala
Speaker 1: Halloween celebration. And of course we had to get couples costumes,
Speaker 1: very important. A lot of time invested on how to
Speaker 1: get a couples costumes and what to be, and so
Speaker 1: we did some cosplay. I got to play a role
Speaker 1: that I'll probably end up playing at some point. Costco
Speaker 1: sample server.
Speaker 3: I saw this picture, so.
Speaker 1: I just I had the full Costco merch. I had
Speaker 1: the hat Costco. I had the red hat Costco, I
Speaker 1: had the apron, and I even had a red tray.
Speaker 1: We went all out. We got a red tray and
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm like, here we go. I even made
Speaker 1: I'm giving out the samples at the party. So I
Speaker 1: made bakery style chocolate chip cookies, homemade piping hot fresh
Speaker 1: out of the oven, and I made them. I was cooking.
Speaker 1: I was baking them a couple hours before the party
Speaker 1: because I wanted them, you know, fresh and just wonderful.
Speaker 1: So we're getting ready, we're all getting geared up. I
Speaker 1: then and I decided I need to take a nap
Speaker 1: because it's a party and I want to be able
Speaker 1: to stay up. And I was tired and all that,
Speaker 1: and I was ready for the samplehors at the party.
Speaker 1: Then right at the eleventh hour and the fifty ninth
Speaker 1: minute and the fifty ninth second, chaoed body blow, body blow, timber,
Speaker 1: all dressed up with nowhere to go. You see, the
Speaker 1: wife got a phone call from the person whose house
Speaker 1: was the home to the party, and her husband had
Speaker 1: been standing on a ladder and timber, poor gentleman fell down.
Speaker 1: Oh no, needed an ambulance. He had hit his head.
Speaker 1: He also broke his wrist, and he went to the
Speaker 1: emergency room and was in the concussion protocol.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so you're saying that's Halloween. He went as
Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, yeah, that was. He was in the emergency
Speaker 1: room till three in the morning, good afternoon, good evening,
Speaker 1: and good night. So we felt awkward having a party
Speaker 1: because we didn't know at the time whether or not
Speaker 1: he was going to be all right and what was
Speaker 1: going on, and it was his house and so checkmate,
Speaker 1: the wife does love Halloween, but we had no party.
Speaker 1: We were all dressed up. She was really bummed out.
Speaker 1: So what do you think I did, Danny to make
Speaker 1: her feel better?
Speaker 3: You took her to a local disco tech.
Speaker 1: Kind of. I dusted off the cobwebs from my wallet,
Speaker 1: and uh had I knew that was going to cost
Speaker 1: me a lot for like a nice meal, so we
Speaker 1: had to go to like a like a really nice restaurant.
Speaker 1: So it cost me half load of bundy. But that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's all right. But she wasn't a better mood after
Speaker 1: after that.
Speaker 3: So that's good.
Speaker 1: Is it bad that I feel like I can get
Speaker 1: really good food at like a like a mom and
Speaker 1: pop dive place as opposed to like the high end places.
Speaker 1: Does that make me a bad person?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm usually hungry after we leave an upscale or fancy
Speaker 4: or type restaurant. The flavors are really good, but you
Speaker 4: usually leave hungry, especially when it's tushi or something like that.
Speaker 4: And then you wind up wanting to go through a
Speaker 4: drive through or something. A few hours later.
Speaker 1: Making a late night munchie, running Jack in a box
Speaker 1: or something. You're like, I need a MUNCHI box? Can
Speaker 1: I get that?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 1: So that was That was the Halloween festivities and we
Speaker 1: had trick or treaters, not many, not many. I was
Speaker 1: on Halloween duty. That was a pain in the behind
Speaker 1: because I was putting the monologues together and I like
Speaker 1: to have laser like focus and no distractions, you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to lock in on what I think
Speaker 1: is interesting, what I want to talk about, and you know,
Speaker 1: every five to ten minutes. We didn't get that many
Speaker 1: tricker treaters, but they were sporadic and they were like
Speaker 1: every five or ten minutes for like a couple hours.
Speaker 3: So did you have any neighborhood hooligans throwing?
Speaker 1: No? I don't not that I noticed that. I don't think.
Speaker 1: So did you did you have that? Uh? No, that's good.
Speaker 3: No, we're not an exciting neighborhood. What the hell? It's not? Well?
Speaker 4: Really quick though, bit I had somebody that said they
Speaker 4: were going to call the police on our daughter.
Speaker 1: What did she do?
Speaker 4: She and her friend went trick or treating my wife.
Speaker 4: He drops them off in a nice neighborhood up the
Speaker 4: hill where they give the better sized candy at.
Speaker 3: One of the homes.
Speaker 4: They went up and they were giving away like full
Speaker 4: sized candy bars. They walked the rest of the neighborhood
Speaker 4: and then of course their kids, so they're like, let's
Speaker 4: go back to the house that has the full sized
Speaker 4: candy bars.
Speaker 1: Smart move. Wrong.
Speaker 4: These people realized they were double dipping though, and they
Speaker 4: actually told my daughter and her friend that they were
Speaker 4: going to call the police.
Speaker 1: Your daughter should have should call the cops. What are
Speaker 1: they gonna do?
Speaker 3: Two butterfingers?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the people. Did they realize these people
Speaker 1: that in California, you can like rob Macy's and they
Speaker 1: don't do anything. You know, you can go to Bloomingdale's
Speaker 1: and then rob these stores and they don't care. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be Yeah, we're not gonna arrest those people. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Okay, you take those freaking
Speaker 1: candy bars. We're going away. Okay, pokey pokey pokey time
Speaker 1: you're going to jail. It's all over for you.
Speaker 3: It's my god, And.
Speaker 4: Of course our daughter's logic. She was like, well, I
Speaker 4: didn't take the same candy bar twice. I took a
Speaker 4: baby Ruth, and I took a butterfinger.
Speaker 1: Now the move there, and you've got to teach to
Speaker 1: your daughter this in future editions of Halloween is have
Speaker 1: a second costume, have like a backup just in case.
Speaker 1: But the backup's got to have a full mass covering
Speaker 1: your face. If you original, if you're like you know
Speaker 1: some outfit where you just have your regular face showing,
Speaker 1: the other one has to be full coverage, full coverage,
Speaker 1: and then you're good. It's like, I know this because
Speaker 1: I used to when I had a family member, we
Speaker 1: used to go to Costco sample runs, and so I
Speaker 1: know how that works on the Costco sample runs. But
Speaker 1: even at Costco, they don't really care. They just kind
Speaker 1: of give you a snarky look. If you're going double
Speaker 1: dipping and all that.
Speaker 4: You would have been so proud. Last Saturday, my wife
Speaker 4: dragged me to Costco. I don't think i'd been to
Speaker 4: a Costco on a weekend in years. I had no
Speaker 4: idea that there were that many samples out on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's prime real estate.
Speaker 3: Holy shit.
Speaker 4: And when I told her she said, yeah, why do
Speaker 4: you think Ben goes on the weekend. I had a
Speaker 4: full belly when I left Ben, I was stuffed.
Speaker 1: I would hit three. Or where I used to live,
Speaker 1: we had three costcos real close, so I'd hit three.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm Robin Banks. I'm going to different costcos
Speaker 1: to see if they have different samples and like what they.
Speaker 3: Have, and you you would have been in hog Heaven.
Speaker 4: They had a pop up tent in the middle of
Speaker 4: the Costco and some brand that makes rice and different
Speaker 4: dishes to go along with their yellow rice. They were
Speaker 4: putting constantly these big cups of their samples out. They
Speaker 4: were actually saying, don't be shy, there's four different samples,
Speaker 4: try one of each. And so all these piggies were
Speaker 4: going back and back and back. I'm telling you, I
Speaker 4: had no idea that there was that much free food
Speaker 4: at Costco.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go at the right time here, you're
Speaker 1: set up. I mean, it's you made mass the goldielocks on.
Speaker 1: We call it that Saturday and Sunday afternoon, sometimes Friday
Speaker 1: in the late afternoon because people getting off work early
Speaker 1: and all that. But that's prime. Yeah, that's that's big.
Speaker 3: Well, we need milk. I might go back there this afternoon.
Speaker 1: The back Scratcher. Backscratcher, you scratch our back, which you
Speaker 1: haven't done in a long time. We scratch your back.
Speaker 1: So do we have any reviews? We have not had
Speaker 1: a review in over a month, Danny, do you think
Speaker 1: it changed this last week.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say somebody felt bad when they heard
Speaker 4: you say that last weekend, so there's probably one new review.
Speaker 1: Well, you're partially correct that people did feel pity. How
Speaker 1: pathetic we are that we couldn't get any reviews. So
Speaker 1: we ended up getting free reviews, Danny, Free different reviews
Speaker 1: on Backscratcher. Now this is the Apple podcast page. There's
Speaker 1: a link in the description on this podcast, and we
Speaker 1: would love to have you write a review. Now, we
Speaker 1: don't really care whether you do or not. The problem
Speaker 1: is that people that oversee all of these podcasts for iHeart,
Speaker 1: they think that's a big deal. We don't, but they do,
Speaker 1: and so for us, you know, we need reviews because
Speaker 1: they think it's important. We don't care, but it does
Speaker 1: help the show out and it's free to do. So
Speaker 1: just help us out. Listen to these real quick. So
Speaker 1: Dub writes in big Ben Danny g When I was
Speaker 1: trying to figure stuff out in life, I found myself
Speaker 1: homeless at one point. Listening to your week Lee show
Speaker 1: gave me hope every single night. I've since turned things around.
Speaker 1: How about this, I want to thank you for your
Speaker 1: weedy way and passion for sports. Congratulations on Benny versus
Speaker 1: the Penny. I guess William Shatner wasn't too happy to
Speaker 1: hear about the big Ben for President hashtag. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: I love hearing that. That's wonderful. And I do understand
Speaker 1: working the Overnight show that oftentimes people find the show
Speaker 1: when they're down on their lock having, whether it be
Speaker 1: relationship problems, medical problems, financial problem, all of the above.
Speaker 1: So it's great when I hear that. And remember me
Speaker 1: when you go on to much bigger and better things,
Speaker 1: dub and you know.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, thank you for that review. That's really nice.
Speaker 1: Joe and Darcy and Florida right in quite the couple,
Speaker 1: not the power couple because they don't call the show,
Speaker 1: but Joe and Darcy they are big podcast listeners and
Speaker 1: says reviewing again, I usually listen to my podcast on
Speaker 1: the Overcast app, but I re downloaded the Apple podcast
Speaker 1: app just to write this review. This is the most
Speaker 1: underappreciated talent at Fox Sports Radio. The addition of Danny
Speaker 1: G has only made things better. I have been listening
Speaker 1: to Ben pretty much since the beginning, since I go
Speaker 1: back to when Tony Bruno was the late shift back
Speaker 1: in the day. One of the only podcasts Darcy and
Speaker 1: I listened to that is from Joe and Darcy. Thank
Speaker 1: you both, and that's great. Tony Bruno, the legend, the
Speaker 1: guy that created Fox Sports Radio back in the day,
Speaker 1: and the last one on Backscratcher. We'll get out on
Speaker 1: this Cliff in Nashville, right since says I've listened to
Speaker 1: the Real Fifth Hour for the last few years. The
Speaker 1: content and conversations with Ben and Danny G are always
Speaker 1: interesting and entertaining about that their pop culture features and
Speaker 1: form of it, and usually pretty funny phrase or word
Speaker 1: of today brings the historical background of words and phrases
Speaker 1: to light love the podcast. Thank you guys. That is
Speaker 1: from Cliff in Nashville, he says to Ben and Danny G.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, that's very cool.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All three of you appreciate the reviews. All four of
Speaker 4: you ost see one's a couple, so that's four people.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem to add up. Help us out, Help
Speaker 1: us out, and we would love to have you writer
Speaker 1: you and we'll read them. We promise you scratched our back.
Speaker 1: We'll scratch your back here on the Saturday podcast. We'll
Speaker 1: get out on that. It is the fourth of November.
Speaker 1: I got the Breeders Cup later on today, the actual
Speaker 1: main event at the Breeders Cup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my horse is going to win.
Speaker 1: Mine is going to win. Day.
Speaker 3: My horse is gonna win.
Speaker 1: I watched Mister Ed when I was a kid. I
Speaker 1: cannot screw this up. I cannot possibly screw this up.
Speaker 1: So have a great day anything yet, especially going on today.
Speaker 1: I'll be watching the Breeders Cup absolutely today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll definitely watch the big race, and then I'm
Speaker 4: gonna make a little Costco run nice.
Speaker 1: All right. I don't know what I'm up to today.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm just gonna roll with the punches.
Speaker 1: I just know I don't have to do any mala monologues.
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about anything other than just
Speaker 1: sitting on my ass and trying to deprogram from the
Speaker 1: last few days. But have a wonderful, wonderful Saturday. Don't
Speaker 1: forget the mailbag, very important. You listen on Sunday, go
Speaker 1: into the mailbag and I don't even know what's in there.
Speaker 1: We'll find out together.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And let me say this for you. Don't
Speaker 3: miss Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see like me. I watch it at eleven pm
Speaker 4: on Saturday nights on the Great Lakers Spectrum channel. And
Speaker 4: that is here in southern California. If you're in the
Speaker 4: Greater Los Angeles area. That is the perfect way to
Speaker 4: finish off a Laker w Ben's post party.
Speaker 1: You're just relishing. It's very, very annoying. I have a
Speaker 1: great day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Austa Pasta Hey, Hey, hey, where I let you go?
Speaker 1: I like the Saints.