Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
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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 and a happy Sunday to
Speaker 3: you early on on this Sunday as we celebrate what
Speaker 3: is it today? It's August tenth and Danny G is
Speaker 3: with me on the mailbag, and that means Danny G
Speaker 3: that the big holiday today is a day that we
Speaker 3: can all embrace. It is National Lazy Day today, a
Speaker 3: day to celebrate laziness.
Speaker 1: Do we need a day for that? Is that something
Speaker 1: that we need?
Speaker 4: Some people don't need a day for that, They need
Speaker 4: a week, an entire seven day week for that. You
Speaker 4: and I have no lazy days.
Speaker 1: We avoid lazy days.
Speaker 3: But couch potatoes, Big day for your couch potato, your
Speaker 3: lazy bomb. If you're a slacker. You can celebrate today.
Speaker 3: It's one of those dopey holidays that's only been around
Speaker 3: for a few years. And of course you'd argue that
Speaker 3: lazy days have been around for more than a few years.
Speaker 4: You don't want to end up like doctor Emmitt Brown,
Speaker 4: a slacker, was it.
Speaker 3: The argument is in the Bible, right It says after
Speaker 3: creating everything in six days, even God needed a day
Speaker 3: to rest, Right, Dan, even the creator of the universe
Speaker 3: needed a day, a lazy day.
Speaker 1: Wow, celebrate appropriately.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of questions in the mailbag, so
Speaker 3: let's not waste any time.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Danny G.
Speaker 3: That means my man a multi time celebrity in the Malorpalooza.
Speaker 1: The Great Ohio Al. It's all right, very nice.
Speaker 3: So these are actual questions by actual listeners, Real fifth
Speaker 3: Hour at gmail dot com. If you want to send
Speaker 3: a correspondence in name and city, name and city before
Speaker 3: your correspondence, very very important. First up is d d
Speaker 3: from Vegas, writes in says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I
Speaker 3: know you both enjoy going to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: You talk about it on the podcast.
Speaker 3: There's a story out that the tipping here in Vegas
Speaker 3: has dropped a lot recently, people complaining about the service
Speaker 3: they get here in Las Vegas. Have you guys noticed
Speaker 3: the quality going down? That's from d I did see
Speaker 3: something about this, Danny, that because of all the I think,
Speaker 3: if I read it right, and as I understand it,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of it has to do more with
Speaker 3: all the fees, all the extra add on the nickel
Speaker 3: and dime taxes that the Vegas people have been putting
Speaker 3: on those that visit. So I think that's more to
Speaker 3: do it. Maybe I read it wrong, but I think
Speaker 3: that's that's the case more than anything else. I haven't
Speaker 3: noticed when I've gone out in Vegas. It seems pretty
Speaker 3: much the same.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed anything, Danny.
Speaker 4: Not anything that I could put my finger on as
Speaker 4: far as being in Vegas, But the service industry overall
Speaker 4: has been slacking, and it's because of a lot of
Speaker 4: this generation just don't want to do those jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's still the after effect. We're what
Speaker 3: are we five years out or four years out from
Speaker 3: the COVID stuff, And like a lot of the hours
Speaker 3: of restaurants and stores, you can't find places open late.
Speaker 3: And then also, as you said, because people don't want
Speaker 3: to do those jobs, or they just they can't consistently
Speaker 3: keep people employed.
Speaker 1: That's also a problem.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Next up, Marco, back to back in Vegas. We're
Speaker 3: blown up in lost wages nobody and we will have
Speaker 3: a Mallard meet and greet coming up on August twenty third,
Speaker 3: so a couple of weeks away, malor meet and greet
Speaker 3: in Vegas. Want some more details on that on the
Speaker 3: Overnight show early this week, tonight or tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We should have some more information on that.
Speaker 3: But Marco from Vegas right sin It says Ben and
Speaker 3: Danny G. Do you believe that there is now? This
Speaker 3: is I got several emails. I condensed it to just
Speaker 3: Marco's email, Danny, because this is a very popular topic
Speaker 3: that fans of the podcast and listeners want us to discuss.
Speaker 1: Sins.
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny G, do you believe there is a
Speaker 3: dildo conspiracy involving the WNBA. That is from Marco and
Speaker 3: several other people who I did not write your names down.
Speaker 3: I apologize, but they were generally about the WNBA story.
Speaker 3: So I guess there is a conspiracy Danny that, according
Speaker 3: to some investigative journalism you talk about great investigative journalism.
Speaker 1: This is you're gonna win an.
Speaker 3: Award Edward Our Murow Journalism Award investigating the sex toys
Speaker 3: being tossed.
Speaker 1: On the court at WNBA games. I guess there's a.
Speaker 3: Cryptocurrency group that's taking credit for this. It's like planning
Speaker 3: bomb somewhere. They've they've planted the flying falluses at w
Speaker 3: NBA games.
Speaker 1: So way to go.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, this is the the I believe, Danny,
Speaker 3: the WNBA should lean into this. I think they should
Speaker 3: fully get involved in this and just go with it.
Speaker 1: But it's some mean coin or something.
Speaker 3: I guess they investigated and found that it's they've been
Speaker 3: encouraging people to throw the green giant oversized fallus.
Speaker 1: There on the court. So any any more.
Speaker 3: To add to that, Danny, any any other inside I
Speaker 3: might have missed?
Speaker 4: I No, I don't think so. I did see a
Speaker 4: clip our very owned Dan Byer and Monsey, who were
Speaker 4: filling in for Cavino and Rich last week, Okay, and
Speaker 4: it said Fox Sports radio hosts calling for it to stop.
Speaker 4: The WNBA needs to really find out who's behind this
Speaker 4: and get it to stop. The first comment underneath said
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio is turning into ESPN.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't see that.
Speaker 4: So I laughed when I saw that, because I said,
Speaker 4: this person is just reacting to this one clip. Clearly
Speaker 4: they're not listening to the Ben Mallor show. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: Ovino and Rich, the Odd Couple. There's plenty of shows
Speaker 4: on our network that sound nothing like ESPN.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: If I was the w n B A, I would
Speaker 3: like have a mascot. I'd have a giant Fallis macot.
Speaker 3: I would know. I would put the w NBA logo
Speaker 3: on the I mean, I would go all in. I
Speaker 3: would be like, this is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd have dill Weed the dildo as your mascot.
Speaker 3: I'd have instead. You know how they have those cannons
Speaker 3: that shoot the t shirts out. How about a cannon
Speaker 3: fill those out, shoot those into the crowd.
Speaker 4: Why not some of the players could have their own
Speaker 4: dildo's molded.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go, there you go, Dandy h it's
Speaker 3: Brittany Grinder night.
Speaker 1: Oh my helloo.
Speaker 3: Anyway, thank you, Marco and all the other I'm glad
Speaker 3: you boys are so fascinated with the great dildo toss
Speaker 3: scandal of twenty twenty five. Will that be remembered longer
Speaker 3: than remember the torpedo bat Danny the first week of
Speaker 3: the baseball season, where there were people convinced, I know
Speaker 3: that every home run record in Major League Baseball was
Speaker 3: going to be broken because the Yankees had one weekend
Speaker 3: where they teed off on the Brewers with their torp
Speaker 3: go back, and it was all here we go, all
Speaker 3: the records are going to be broken.
Speaker 4: Were there were headlines even we had one here locally,
Speaker 4: Max Munsey to debut his torpedo bat tonight, Like we
Speaker 4: knew exactly which players were going to try them out.
Speaker 4: We have no freaking idea if there's even one of
Speaker 4: those bats left right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It lasted for a week and it was a great story.
Speaker 3: I got a couple of monologues out of it. I
Speaker 3: got it in and then that was that and we
Speaker 3: moved on and it's like nothing happened, and you just
Speaker 3: that's it all right. Next up is Eenie Meenie Mineymo
Speaker 3: Jay from Parts Unknown. He says, hey man, congratulations on
Speaker 3: the extension with Fox Sports Radio. Were you surprised, Jay says,
Speaker 3: were you surprised by anyone that reached out either to
Speaker 3: congratulate you? Or didn't bother to contact you. That's from
Speaker 3: Jay in the parts unknown. No, I mean most of
Speaker 3: the people I'm friendly with, who I have a good
Speaker 3: standing with, who I've worked with over the years, they
Speaker 3: reached out and.
Speaker 1: It was cool. I mean, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I usually want to hear people more when I don't
Speaker 3: get a gig than when I get a gig. So
Speaker 3: but no unusual suspect. There were a few people I
Speaker 3: do work with closely that did not reach out, which
Speaker 3: is not surprising because they're not really fans of mine.
Speaker 1: So that's fine. But other than that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, let's do my thing.
Speaker 4: Jay.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: But thank you, Al from the hot Tub time Machine says,
Speaker 3: first and foremost, he says, mega dittos, congratulations or mega
Speaker 3: dildos if we're talking WNBA on the contract your future
Speaker 3: leads me to my question and are past do you
Speaker 3: have access or could you point me in the direction
Speaker 3: of information pertaining to affiliates in regards to when they
Speaker 3: picked up your show.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to determine, Ol says, is when.
Speaker 3: Wei's Springfield affiliate first started to air your show. Because
Speaker 3: that's how far we go back. I believe prior to FSR,
Speaker 3: they were simulcasting Sporting News Radio with Peter Burn, who
Speaker 3: I've had on this podcast. He says, yes, that's a
Speaker 3: question because I'm not sure. I do remember you on
Speaker 3: weekend overnights and then the Third Shift with Ben Malor.
Speaker 3: I also recall people like Tim Ryan, Bruce Jacobs, Jorge Sadano,
Speaker 3: but my memory is fleeting, says Alf. So originally we
Speaker 3: had Dan Cilio very early on was the overnight guy.
Speaker 3: Cilio did the overnights who period of time, Yeah, played
Speaker 3: in Miami back a million years ago, and Cilio good dude,
Speaker 3: meadhead guy. We had him on and then we went
Speaker 3: from him. I think that might have been a couple
Speaker 3: of people. Tim Ryan did it. Bruce Jacobs did not
Speaker 3: do overnights. He did do a show with he hit
Speaker 3: a female I forget who was like his co host,
Speaker 3: and then they did that show together for a while.
Speaker 1: So Dono did it briefly. JT. The Brick did it
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 4: I remember the j T Brick here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did it.
Speaker 3: For several years, and then I have done it since well,
Speaker 3: I had it at No. Nine. Then I got I
Speaker 3: got it eight, it got whacked, and then I had
Speaker 3: it backed in twenty fourteen and I've had it since
Speaker 3: since then. At Sporting News Radio, Peter Brown did not
Speaker 3: do overnights.
Speaker 1: I think it was Alf.
Speaker 3: Bob Kemp, I believe, not the baseball player, like a
Speaker 3: kind of surly, angry talk show host guy at Sporting
Speaker 3: News Radio. And our guy, the Sporting Peter Brown was
Speaker 3: on the weekends. He did a weekday show. Papa Joe Chevalier,
Speaker 3: the late Papa Joe Savalie worked over there. And our
Speaker 3: guy Arnie Spanier, the stinking genius back in the day,
Speaker 3: back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: That was his early nineties Sporting News Radio.
Speaker 4: So which, by the way, well, I don't know who
Speaker 4: did it, but the art looks good. But for some reason,
Speaker 4: the who did the character like the cartoon character of you?
Speaker 1: Oh that was sent by a listeners it was something wrong.
Speaker 1: Did it look weird?
Speaker 4: It looks like Arnie's Spaniard a little bit. Really. Oh no,
Speaker 4: I think it's in the chin. It doesn't look like
Speaker 4: your chin. It looks like Arnie's.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, now that you bring that up,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at I just put it on my phone here,
Speaker 3: it's on the Instagram and the Facebook page.
Speaker 4: Then I saw the picture it was based off of,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, okay, I can see it now.
Speaker 4: But at first glance it looked like Arnie to me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, now that you bring it up, I'm just
Speaker 3: staring at the chin. Now, I keep staring at the
Speaker 3: cartoon chin right there, like what's up with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh boy, I know, and we know you have
Speaker 4: more game than Arnie together, of course with a famous
Speaker 4: whirlpool story.
Speaker 3: But it's a hot tub in Indianapolis, and we would
Speaker 3: have been fine if Arnie hadn't started talking. He started talking,
Speaker 3: and then that was it. He chased all the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the women fled for their lives.
Speaker 3: They ran for the hills, and there are no hills
Speaker 3: in Indiana, So I can you imagine where they were running.
Speaker 1: They were running to another state? Is where they were running.
Speaker 3: As far Alfa answer your question, I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I know when the network started. When I first got hired,
Speaker 3: we were on in Binghamton, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 3: a couple of other small markets. We went on Wei,
Speaker 3: we went off Wei, then we went back on. It
Speaker 3: is odd though, because WEI is in Boston, but then
Speaker 3: they have all these other affiliates around New England and
Speaker 3: like the show is not on the overnight show is
Speaker 3: on the Sports sub which is their arrival, the WE rival,
Speaker 3: but on the affiliates on the network. All the other
Speaker 3: stations in like Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and
Speaker 3: in Springfield they carry Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: So it's an odd I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser.
Speaker 4: Being a longtime radio guy, and be honest, because back
Speaker 4: then it must have seemed like it was a big
Speaker 4: time uphill battle. Yeah, because ESPN Radio was the big dog.
Speaker 4: You just starting out with the network and the network
Speaker 4: just starting out, it must have seemed like you were
Speaker 4: never going to get up to the level of ESPN Radio.
Speaker 4: And then somewhere along the way the tables turned and
Speaker 4: now they're like the small fry in our network just
Speaker 4: completely took a coch Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's wild, Danny.
Speaker 3: It is crazy to think about when Fox Sports Radio started,
Speaker 3: you had at the time, sports fan radio was still around,
Speaker 3: you had Sporting News, you had ESPN. Then CBS got
Speaker 3: into the game. They had for a while CBS Sports
Speaker 3: Radio that they did coming out of New York, so
Speaker 3: you had all these other competitors and all that, and
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't even know when it happened,
Speaker 3: but at some point, yeah, Fox Sports Radio just took over.
Speaker 3: And then it seems like ESPN's kind of given up
Speaker 3: on radio, Like I don't know it's going. I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe they'll get back into it, but it seems like
Speaker 3: they're just not. They're bringing like our our leftover guys,
Speaker 3: Like isn't I think Richard rich Eisen used to work.
Speaker 1: At our place.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, it's no, it's it's awesome they've the
Speaker 3: network is in terms of audience. I think you'd agreed, Danny, like,
Speaker 3: we've never had a bigger reach and power for Fox
Speaker 3: Sports Radio.
Speaker 4: And I think you can clearly point to the Mallard militia.
Speaker 4: The domination situation was all started by the Mallard militia.
Speaker 3: Obviously it trickle down from the overnight to the daytime hours.
Speaker 3: Ryan in Shrewsbury, mass Right Since says, first off, he says,
Speaker 3: hey boys, Benny, congrats on the new contract to stay
Speaker 3: on the overnights. I never call the show, but I
Speaker 3: work in DPW in a small town here in mass
Speaker 3: So I listen, I said, Department of Water and Powered Inn.
Speaker 3: I listen from five thirty to six, when Toucher and
Speaker 3: Hardy come on ninety eight to five the sportsop One
Speaker 3: of the big stories in my neck of the woods
Speaker 3: is that a five foot water monitor lizard was on
Speaker 3: the loose. Lizard's name is Goose. Danny, your first episode
Speaker 3: of Animal Thunderdome should be about these freak things.
Speaker 1: You sent me a link here. What should we try
Speaker 1: to open this year? I click on this and then.
Speaker 4: H There's been some good animal stories out there lately, man,
Speaker 4: I've been saving all of them. Although when we get
Speaker 4: to talk about it on the podcast is a different story.
Speaker 4: But did you see the one where at Denmark Zoo
Speaker 4: is asking people for their donations of any unwonted small
Speaker 4: dog or horse to feed their predators that they have captive.
Speaker 1: I did not see that. That seems rather.
Speaker 3: Shocking that they would they would be There you go.
Speaker 3: I sent you to link, Danny, Goose is no longer
Speaker 3: on the loose.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Those those are like those look like creatures you might
Speaker 3: have seen back if you had been around when the
Speaker 3: dinosaurs were oam The planet right, you might.
Speaker 1: Have seen something like that.
Speaker 4: Is there ugly?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not not the most attractive thing. But are
Speaker 3: they They're not deadly?
Speaker 4: Are they?
Speaker 1: They're not?
Speaker 3: Like I think so though the person's holding it looks
Speaker 3: like it's it's okay. I like that, seri, He says, well,
Speaker 3: experts are still working to determine whether Goose is.
Speaker 1: A boy or a girl.
Speaker 3: They believe the four foot lizard is between ages five
Speaker 3: and eight. Isn't there an easy way to find out
Speaker 3: if it's a boy or a girl? Danny, I think
Speaker 3: there's a you know, kind of obvious.
Speaker 4: You stick your hand down there and find out.
Speaker 3: Ryan from Shrewsbury, Mass Thank you, Ryan, and you worked
Speaker 3: the dreaded day shift there at the dp w RT.
Speaker 3: Next up, Reggie from Detroit says Ben, you mentioned a
Speaker 3: hometown discount in your tweet. What kind of hometown discount
Speaker 3: did you give Fox Sports Radio? Reggie, I'm going to
Speaker 3: choose to abstain from answering that question.
Speaker 1: Let's listen.
Speaker 3: They got a very good deal. The companies. They're really
Speaker 3: doing really good. On my end, I'm giving back to
Speaker 3: the company, so I hope they give Cowhard more money
Speaker 3: because I'm I'm certainly not getting rich doing this. Did
Speaker 3: they really need a discount? I don't know, Reggie, You'll
Speaker 3: have to talk to them. There you go, he's Dan.
Speaker 3: He's peppering me with questions. This a hole, Reggie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, I was getting peppered with questions. Last Wednesday,
Speaker 4: after Covino and Rich was over, Rich Davis comes into
Speaker 4: my production studio and he was like, Hey, congratulations to
Speaker 4: your boy, mallor so. How many years was it for?
Speaker 4: It had all these questions as if I was sitting
Speaker 4: in and then to go shading meetings with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was not a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: back and forth. I mean there was a little bit
Speaker 3: of conversation.
Speaker 4: But it Yeah, it was not I felt like a
Speaker 4: proud dad, but I had nothing to do with any
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I just like I waited the deal. We
Speaker 1: went back and forth a little bit.
Speaker 3: And then got the thing done and I happened. It
Speaker 3: just happened to coincide with a scheduled Danny scheduled well
Speaker 3: in advance brief gap as I took a couple of days.
Speaker 3: I had some family in town. I'll talk more about
Speaker 3: that at another time. Some people I mentioned on Friday.
Speaker 3: I recorded the podcast late because I had people my nieces.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm being Uncle Benny. My nieces were like
Speaker 3: right next door, and I couldn't. As much as I
Speaker 3: wanted to get up at the crack of dawn and
Speaker 3: record the podcast, I felt like that would have been
Speaker 3: a complete asshole move, so I chose not to do
Speaker 3: that and waited until later.
Speaker 4: It was a good cover story. I think we all
Speaker 4: know you went on a five day bender after signing
Speaker 4: the contract.
Speaker 3: Well, clearly celebrating why not at an open bar for everyone.
Speaker 3: Ferg Dog and Fullerton Wrights and says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 3: Danny g He says, congrats, Ben, Alf and I had
Speaker 3: to stay up all night negotiating it, so you better
Speaker 3: be grateful absolutely for Dog. Absolutely you and Alf and
Speaker 3: my lawyer Bill from Korea Town wonderful.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: We weren't able to get them to lower the vending
Speaker 3: machines back to the original crisis. Though We're sorry, all right,
Speaker 3: he says.
Speaker 1: Is it just me?
Speaker 3: Or is bumper music obsession getting out of control? People
Speaker 3: are waiting on hold for an hour just to recommend
Speaker 3: a song. Ferg Dog says, do these people not have
Speaker 3: an FM dial or something. Is this a problem on
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich as well. I hope Danny G doesn't
Speaker 3: get bombarded by people trying to use him as their
Speaker 3: personal jukebox. That's from Ferg Dog Danny's There a lot
Speaker 3: of bumper music conversation with Covino and Rich. We have
Speaker 3: people who have been very consistently calling up and emailing
Speaker 3: about bumper music, which, as you know, Danny is one
Speaker 3: of my pet peeves. It's talk radio, it's not music radio.
Speaker 3: And I always say, does anyone call up the DJ
Speaker 3: and say, hey, can we really really like that stop
Speaker 3: set you did between songs? I don't think they do that,
Speaker 3: But anyway, that's just me. I realize I'm on an
Speaker 3: island by myself. Danny, the bumper music conversation.
Speaker 4: We've had this on the podcast even recently, so you
Speaker 4: know that I'm on the other side of the fence
Speaker 4: than you are. But I will say on Covino and Rich,
Speaker 4: I stay out of the bumper music conversation because iowa
Speaker 4: Sam who got to be on your show for what
Speaker 4: was it two years he worked on your show.
Speaker 1: I think it was about two months, maybe maybe two days.
Speaker 4: I don't know like that, He, like a lot of
Speaker 4: the other technical producers, very annoyed when anybody suggests songs
Speaker 4: to them, because one of their only treats, I guess
Speaker 4: is that they get to pick out the music. Yeah,
Speaker 4: most of the time. I guess that RJ and Vegas
Speaker 4: Guy and some other hosts back in the day used
Speaker 4: to yell and scream about which songs they had to
Speaker 4: have coming back. But Sam, he gets like very overwhelmed it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes the guys will come in and ask him to
Speaker 4: play a certain song and he gets kind of like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I had a song already. Oh I
Speaker 4: just yeah, I stay away from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just Lorraina plays the music on the show,
Speaker 3: and my beef is Danny. I get a lot of
Speaker 3: complaints from middle aged guys. Why is she playing pop
Speaker 3: chick music?
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 1: They complain about that, and I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't even pay attention to it, you know, But
Speaker 3: these guys get so upset if.
Speaker 1: They hear I'm trying to think, like, you know, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: Or that, right, I mean, most of these guys don't
Speaker 4: listen to the same music as she does. She would
Speaker 4: be well served to just basically play classic rock and
Speaker 4: that would hit your target audience. I'm sure she's not
Speaker 4: bumping a lot of classic rock in her car now.
Speaker 3: We did have back in the old days, there was
Speaker 3: a host I will not name the host, and the
Speaker 3: music became an issue because they played a lot of
Speaker 3: I don't know, rap music or whatever. People were literally
Speaker 3: complaining about that. They were like, oh my god, this
Speaker 3: is the worst thing in the orlands. So I stay
Speaker 3: out of that. I just do the talk part. And
Speaker 3: you know you, Danny, you love music and I respect
Speaker 3: you for that. You were great in music radio. That's
Speaker 3: not my thing, So I just worry about the talking part.
Speaker 4: When I played the music on your show, not only
Speaker 4: did I play listeners gingles and songs about the show
Speaker 4: a lot, but I rotated all the different formats. I
Speaker 4: didn't stick to just one thing. I played rock, hip hop,
Speaker 4: old school rock, modern rock and stuff like that. So
Speaker 4: I tried to mix it up a lot so that,
Speaker 4: you know, because the goal is to make all the
Speaker 4: listeners happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, for sure, for sure, it's absolutely we're
Speaker 3: everyone's got there one thing about music. Man, You like
Speaker 3: what you like and you don't like the other crap.
Speaker 3: And you get annoyed when you hear other stuff. And
Speaker 3: that's just the way. Very few people have a wide
Speaker 3: palette when it comes to music. You like what you like,
Speaker 3: and you don't got to have some ball. You got
Speaker 3: to have some balls with it.
Speaker 4: Though. It's the it's the intro into you coming on
Speaker 4: your mic, so it needs to set the scene.
Speaker 3: We need Diddy to get out of all trouble so
Speaker 3: we can bring back the Benjamin's you know brown, Kevin
Speaker 3: writes in from Kansas, Dear Ben and Danny g I
Speaker 3: dumped cable television a few months ago, but I haven't
Speaker 3: replaced it with any streaming services yet. I was thinking
Speaker 3: about getting Peacock for Benny versus the Penny, but since
Speaker 3: that's not a go this year, Kevin says, I'm still
Speaker 3: not sure what to do. How do you decide which
Speaker 3: streaming services to use in your households? That's from Kevin,
Speaker 3: so Kevin, not for me. I think you should try
Speaker 3: to find a magic box. That's what you should try
Speaker 3: to find. But my wife is the one that decides
Speaker 3: what to watch. I watch mostly stuff on the YouTube,
Speaker 3: other than the sports stuff which I have access to.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't really pay much attention, but my wife's always like,
Speaker 3: what's coming up this month, and we try to she
Speaker 3: tries to rotate. It's like Netflix is the big one,
Speaker 3: and then she'll rotate like one other one.
Speaker 1: Whether it's HBO or Peacock.
Speaker 3: Occasionally we obviously had Peacock benny versus the penny.
Speaker 1: Don't have it anymore, no need to get it.
Speaker 3: What about you, Danny, how's the streaming rotation working at
Speaker 3: the Danny G Radio household?
Speaker 4: We have a lot of monthly bills now with these
Speaker 4: services where we always used to daydream, man, someday if
Speaker 4: we could just have all these TV channels all a kart,
Speaker 4: it'll be perfect. Then all these you know, streaming services,
Speaker 4: they started raising their monthly raising, raising raising, So now
Speaker 4: it feels like our bill at the end of the
Speaker 4: month is more than what it used to be for table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 3: In a lot of a lot of instances, there have
Speaker 3: been stories that I've read that said that what started
Speaker 3: out great, it always starts out great, right, like America,
Speaker 3: low tech nation. Right, everything's going to be better here,
Speaker 3: and then after a couple hundred years, all of a sudden.
Speaker 4: You can had to go and ruin it by raising
Speaker 4: all their monthly rates exactly.
Speaker 1: So good luck with that, Kevin.
Speaker 3: And it's NFL season, so you got to look back
Speaker 3: to that in also.
Speaker 4: Oh, I was going to mention that Ben, I have
Speaker 4: YouTube TV during the NFL season because you have to
Speaker 4: have that in order to have your NFL Sunday ticket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can pick and choose, but good luck, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Giants fan Mike from Vicealia that's out near Fresno, right,
Speaker 3: that's I believe Vice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a true country big job.
Speaker 1: I love I love the Giant Forest.
Speaker 3: Giant fan Mike says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I know
Speaker 3: you guys are both Dodger apologist. Where do you fall
Speaker 3: on the Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame debate?
Speaker 1: It was going around social media this week. Are you
Speaker 1: yay or nay?
Speaker 3: That is a sporty question from Giants fan Mike. We
Speaker 3: normally don't do sporty questions, Danny, but I will attempt
Speaker 3: in one minute or less to answer this question a
Speaker 3: Giant fan Mike. I was anti Barry Bonds on the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, not because I am a Dodger fan,
Speaker 3: because he's a cheat. B Having covered Major League Baseball
Speaker 3: daily in the nineties when all that was going on,
Speaker 3: and witnessing what I am relatively confident is multiple steroid
Speaker 3: users in the Hall of Fame, I have come to
Speaker 3: the conclusion, which is ce let Barry Bonds in, Let
Speaker 3: Roger Clemens in, let Rafael palmerrow and let them all in,
Speaker 3: Sosa maguire, all those guys, because I know almost ninety
Speaker 3: nine point nine percent there are multiple players that were
Speaker 3: doing steroids in the nineties that were in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame. So why are you gonna let not the
Speaker 3: You're gonna let them in and not Bonds.
Speaker 1: All right, your turn, Danny.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, boom. I approved this message. You took the
Speaker 4: words right out of my mouth. The Hall of Fame
Speaker 4: is already kind of a joke, so just put them
Speaker 4: in already, all right.
Speaker 1: You did it less than you took, less time than
Speaker 1: I took. All right.
Speaker 3: Fred from Florida writes in says, hey, guys, you see
Speaker 3: a woman went viral on TikTok for bragging about her
Speaker 3: uncontrollable diarrhea. She said she austin a United Airlines plane
Speaker 3: to get a flight from Indianapolis to get canceled because
Speaker 3: she had had such issues.
Speaker 1: It was a hazmat situation.
Speaker 3: And Ben and Danny, I know I'm old school, but
Speaker 3: when did women start acting like this?
Speaker 1: That's from Fred in Florida. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's been around anything to go viral, right to any
Speaker 3: anything for the followers on social media. You know, women
Speaker 3: have no shame in their game either. Now it's all
Speaker 3: about trying to get those followers right.
Speaker 4: And I guess so some stuff needs to stay personal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does that make this?
Speaker 3: Are more guys interested in her if she like has
Speaker 3: a really impressive uncontrollable diarrhea.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Let's see here.
Speaker 3: Andy writes and says, quick question, should I be worried
Speaker 3: about real gambling never being available in my longtime home
Speaker 3: state of California, especially with a the DFS rollback? I
Speaker 3: can't wait for benny versus the penny whatever format it
Speaker 3: is reborn.
Speaker 1: That's from Andy. Thank you Andy.
Speaker 3: It is concerning Andy and as somebody that needs gambling advertising.
Speaker 3: That is the next great frontier in American sports gambling
Speaker 3: in California. And I'm still bitter and broken that the
Speaker 3: Native American slash. Indian casinos were able to block DraftKings
Speaker 3: and FanDuel from entering. California was on the ballot a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago, and I was told by someone
Speaker 3: that works in that world that the assumption was they
Speaker 3: were going to have sports gambling legal here in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five in California, but the casinos, the Native American casinos,
Speaker 3: were going to run it.
Speaker 1: They were going to control the sports betting part of it.
Speaker 3: That is obviously not happened, Andy and I have not
Speaker 3: followed up on that. I do know that that'll be
Speaker 3: the next gold rush.
Speaker 1: Danny.
Speaker 3: That is fertile ground, as I learned from my sojourn
Speaker 3: with NBC and Benny versus the penny. The gambling business.
Speaker 3: Advertising wise, we're in the advertising business. Once a market
Speaker 3: is new, there's a lot of money that comes in,
Speaker 3: and then once it matures, once they feel like they've
Speaker 3: got a good grasp of the market, they roll back
Speaker 3: their advertising. So California will be insane. The amount of
Speaker 3: people that live in California and the possible gambling audience
Speaker 3: will be huge.
Speaker 4: Danny.
Speaker 3: That and also Texas is the other the bigot, as
Speaker 3: I've been told, But California. So I'm right there, Andy,
Speaker 3: and I have no idea. I will check into that.
Speaker 3: I will ask around, and I will report back to
Speaker 3: this podcast what I learned. I will I'll ask a
Speaker 3: few people that would know the answer to that whether
Speaker 3: or not we're going to get that anytime soon. But
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Danny, the amount of money that will be,
Speaker 3: it'll be insane wild wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking forward to what you find out too.
Speaker 4: You have homeworks.
Speaker 3: I will I will look at that last one Marcus
Speaker 3: in San Antonio, and I saw other emails, but we'll
Speaker 3: just close it out on this.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of the show Pond Stars on the
Speaker 3: History Channel, and here in San Antonio, there was no
Speaker 3: shortage of Pond shops in just about every time. It
Speaker 3: seems like there aren't as many as when I was
Speaker 3: growing up, and over the years, I have both purchased
Speaker 3: and sold many items. Back in my younger days, I
Speaker 3: was always on the hunt for a nice guitar, amp,
Speaker 3: speaker box for the trunk of my car, or to
Speaker 3: sell something to make a quick couple of bucks. He says,
Speaker 3: with things like Facebook Marketplace that Danny G used to
Speaker 3: sell his e bike and other online options. It seems
Speaker 3: like pond shops are becoming a thing of the past.
Speaker 3: My question is, have either of you guys bought or
Speaker 3: sold anything at a a pawn shop and if so,
Speaker 3: what was your best and worst deal? Or Steele as always,
Speaker 3: thank you for the hard work on the weekends, he says,
Speaker 3: if anyone has earned some well deserved time off, you
Speaker 3: guys have look at that, Danny, this would be a
Speaker 3: great time to put the podcast on hold for a
Speaker 3: weekend or two before football starts. This guy's like our
Speaker 3: program director at least.
Speaker 1: Big Ben.
Speaker 3: We'll get to sleep a little bit this season. The
Speaker 3: Penny makes a comeback and soon. That's from Marcus and
Speaker 3: san Antonio. Yeah, Marks, First of all, before we get
Speaker 3: into the pond thing, Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Will be on.
Speaker 3: Now, what format that takes, what avenue that takes, I'll
Speaker 3: let you guys know. It's all obviously a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks away from the NFL, so we got a little
Speaker 3: bit of time to play with. But we will have
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny and I will promote it once
Speaker 3: we get that lockdown, and there may be a surprise there,
Speaker 3: you know. Some things in the works behind the scenes
Speaker 3: that could be very, very nice, So we'll leave that alone. Danny,
Speaker 3: I have never bought anything from a pawn shop. When
Speaker 3: I used to live in Lincoln Heights, I took the
Speaker 3: what was called the gold Line. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's still called that the train. I took it up
Speaker 3: to Pasadena a lot, and there was a great pawn
Speaker 3: shop in Pasadena, and so I used to go around
Speaker 3: there and I'd window shop.
Speaker 1: I'd walk in the pawn shop and window shop.
Speaker 3: Now we have done a lot on Facebook, Marketplace, offer up.
Speaker 1: Roberto, my old board op. The bus driver Roberto loved
Speaker 1: offer up.
Speaker 3: He would go to Dodgery Games, buy extra tickets, and
Speaker 3: sell bobbleheads extra bobbleheads on offer Up.
Speaker 1: And then remember.
Speaker 3: Craigslist used to be like that same thing. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's still around, but those were all places
Speaker 3: that I've used, but not really the pawn shop.
Speaker 1: Have you sold anything? I think you didn't you tell us.
Speaker 1: I thought you told some story about a punch. Am
Speaker 1: I wrong on that? Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 4: No, you know, like you, I only have seen even
Speaker 4: one pawn shop when I was younger, I want to
Speaker 4: say it was like my first or second year grewing
Speaker 4: full time radio. So as you could imagine, I was
Speaker 4: broke youngster and I sold like a gold bracelet on
Speaker 4: a pawn shop. They checked my criminal record. I didn't
Speaker 4: know that that was part of the process, because the
Speaker 4: guy was like, yep, let me check your record just
Speaker 4: to make sure this isn't stolen. I was like, geez,
Speaker 4: is that the underbelly world going on here? So I
Speaker 4: after that, I stayed away from pond shops.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if you you want to get rid of something,
Speaker 3: you know, that's a legend, you know. But that's why
Speaker 3: one of the things about the Internet too, which has
Speaker 3: actually made it a little bit easier to track down
Speaker 3: stolen stuff, because a lot of people will steal crap,
Speaker 3: they'll burgie burglarize someone, and then they'll immediately try to
Speaker 3: sell it on an offer up for pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 3: So the cops are always searching like Facebook, marketplace offer
Speaker 3: up for stolen property.
Speaker 4: Because yeah, yeah, well I know that now. Yeah, of
Speaker 4: course TV shows and movies and everything that we've seen
Speaker 4: as adults, but as a kid, I didn't really know
Speaker 4: about any of that. But I mean I here and
Speaker 4: there would buy things from kids at high school. Looking back, now,
Speaker 4: some of that stuff was probably hot and I didn't
Speaker 4: know it, but I didn't know. You had to go, no,
Speaker 4: you had to go through this whole process to sell
Speaker 4: something to the local pawnshop.
Speaker 3: So remember the guys that would come up to you
Speaker 3: at the gas station, Hey, you got some speakers?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Oh? They would drive around in vans in shopping centers, yes, yes, yeah, oh,
Speaker 4: and they had this whole story about how they ordered
Speaker 4: an extra set. Yeah yeah, right, Ah, what a scam. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so many scammers out there. It is funny, though, how
Speaker 4: the Internet changed sales for so much of our lives.
Speaker 4: The touch of a button. Now we could just buy
Speaker 4: or sell things. And thinking about it, you're right, man,
Speaker 4: And a lot of the times, even on offer up
Speaker 4: it says in the box never opened. Well, if they
Speaker 4: have five or six of those same items in the
Speaker 4: box never opened, where where did that come from?
Speaker 3: Yeah you can imagine where they may have gotten that from,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that. Danny Thagu.
Speaker 3: It's been an interesting weekend here, and uh, unfortunately I
Speaker 3: did not injure like Mariano Rovera yesterday. I did not
Speaker 3: injure my achilles playing in an Oldheimer's game.
Speaker 4: Nor did you get a twelve foot statue outside of
Speaker 4: FSR after signing a new contract?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might have to rant about that.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady's statues and I didn't that look like something
Speaker 3: you'd see in Pyongyang or something like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the head looks his head looks.
Speaker 1: Too small, but the thing is just like massive though.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing, dude? Like, at least have.
Speaker 4: You seen the memes from yesterday that show an even
Speaker 4: bigger Eli Manning statue right behind him? Oh?
Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it says that they're so nice there they They've
Speaker 4: even added a second statue right behind Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's that's great. Well, anyway, we'll get out
Speaker 3: of that, Danny. I'll be back tonight.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I am doing most of this week.
Speaker 3: I will take one more long weekend, one more long
Speaker 3: weekend before football season starts, so that'll be I'll be
Speaker 3: doing four nights this week and then off on Thursday
Speaker 3: into Friday. So that's for Alf and for Dog and
Speaker 3: mister nice guy.
Speaker 1: It is great.
Speaker 3: I love only announcing my schedule on this podcast because
Speaker 3: it really exposes the frauds that don't listen, like Justin
Speaker 3: and Cincinnati, for example, who was bitching about me taking
Speaker 3: some time off even though I announced well in advance
Speaker 3: that that was the schedule. That's that self incrimination. Danny
Speaker 3: g admission that he did not pay attention, does not listen,
Speaker 3: batch out by him. But so that's my schedule. Covino,
Speaker 3: Rich and you Danny. What you guys got going on
Speaker 3: this week?
Speaker 4: We are in for Dan Patrick's last week days off
Speaker 4: before the football season, So going to be w taking
Speaker 4: up early on Monday morning to fill in for the
Speaker 4: great Dan Patrick outstanding.
Speaker 1: I have a great rest of your Sunday here. We'll
Speaker 1: be back.
Speaker 3: I'll be back tonight eleven o'clock in the West, two
Speaker 3: am early Monday, two am early Monday in the East.
Speaker 3: Four hours of original content all night long. So I've
Speaker 3: got that for you and we'll talk to you then later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder, I gotta go