Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: Welcome into another Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
Speaker 1: g Radio Toda. Just the last Sunday of the regular
Speaker 1: NFL season. Don't say that day. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that. Danny. Well, you never know. Maybe they'll add
Speaker 1: more games or something like that. But it is the
Speaker 1: last scheduled Sunday for the National Football League, which is
Speaker 1: not terrible news because Danny, you know what happens when
Speaker 1: we get to the playoffs. That's always fun. And then
Speaker 1: after the playoffs the silly season. We love the silly season.
Speaker 1: Every day there's a new crop of bullshit, there's a bottom.
Speaker 1: I ready to bring the gas that the insiders make
Speaker 1: up because they make their living making up bullshit and
Speaker 1: we love it and we get to break down the
Speaker 1: bullshit whether we believe it or not. It's so much fun,
Speaker 1: so much fun, and we have that to look forward
Speaker 1: to after the playoffs are done. Who won the NFL
Speaker 1: book up last year? I believe Eddie. I think Eddie
Speaker 1: one last year. Yeah. Yeah, well, and we have that's
Speaker 1: right with the book them to look forward to as well.
Speaker 1: But right now we have a bunch bunch of random
Speaker 1: emails that are between hay and grass, not easily categorized,
Speaker 1: and they're all over the map. That's the one of
Speaker 1: the things we love about the the mail Bag. You
Speaker 1: know ever know what you're gonna get. And if you're
Speaker 1: new to the podcast, and based on the numbers, there
Speaker 1: are actually some new people listening. God bless you. Thank
Speaker 1: God for that. And if you want to join the
Speaker 1: mail bag, we have a lot of the same people
Speaker 1: that email us every week, but we also have new
Speaker 1: people and we'd love to hear new voices. If you'd
Speaker 1: like to be part of the fun, we'd also love
Speaker 1: to hear old voices. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Some of
Speaker 1: the people that used to email us all the time.
Speaker 1: You never know what happened. You wonder like some of
Speaker 1: these people would emails every week and then they stopped
Speaker 1: emailing us. Are they okay? Did they did we say
Speaker 1: something to offend them? Did they have a medical condition?
Speaker 1: Like you never know. It's it's the weird thing about that.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, we we were. We're ready to go
Speaker 1: here with the podcast. You want to email me, you
Speaker 1: can do it right now. You don't have to wait,
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait. Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Are
Speaker 1: you ready for this? Danny? You're prepared? Yeah? Strike up
Speaker 1: the band for asked bend two point Oh, it's our guy,
Speaker 1: ohio All. I feel like this whole show musically, we
Speaker 1: we need a tip of the cap to our buddy
Speaker 1: ohio All. He's provided us not only the mail bag,
Speaker 1: but he's added you heard it yesterday. Pop goes the
Speaker 1: culture all right? The first once from Barry in Nashville.
Speaker 1: He says, Yo yo mo, Benny and Danny, help enlighten
Speaker 1: all of us. Why do callers, after waiting for hours
Speaker 1: on hold, they finally get on the air and they
Speaker 1: speak with you, and then they asked to go back
Speaker 1: on hold. This makes no sense to me. Barry says,
Speaker 1: There are many ways to listen to the show, doing
Speaker 1: it on hold seems the least attractive. Why are these
Speaker 1: numbscles asking to go back on hold? So there's a
Speaker 1: few reasons for that, Barry. First of all, I disagree
Speaker 1: with your statement that being on hold is the least
Speaker 1: attractive way to listen. I would say no, because you
Speaker 1: actually get to hear the un filtered addition to the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that don't get broadcast, that
Speaker 1: get dump because people have potty mouths and we can't
Speaker 1: broadcast and unto rest to radio, and some stuff doesn't
Speaker 1: even make the podcast because we have to cut it
Speaker 1: out of the podcast. You get to hear the in
Speaker 1: its raw state here on Fax Sports Radio, God Radio College.
Speaker 1: So there's that. As far as why people would ask
Speaker 1: to go back and hold, sometimes it's because they're out
Speaker 1: of radio reception. The only way they can hear the
Speaker 1: show is on the phone. Other times I don't know,
Speaker 1: like Jet who fled, I don't know what's on with
Speaker 1: that guy. But there's reasons for it, like sometimes maybe
Speaker 1: they can't talk at that moment, they think they'll be
Speaker 1: able to talk a little bit later. There's things like that, right,
Speaker 1: Danny Huny. I also think some listeners like to listen
Speaker 1: in real time because there's obviously a delay on affiliates
Speaker 1: as well as the Fox Sports Radio app. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, there's a very long delay, not quite as
Speaker 1: long as there used to be. But I was there
Speaker 1: when the big delay came, and we always had a delay.
Speaker 1: But we freaked out. Everyone in radio freaked out years ago.
Speaker 1: Has it been twenty years since Janet Jackson showed her
Speaker 1: boobies or is it only been like fifteen years. I
Speaker 1: don't know. My ass feels so good right now. We
Speaker 1: just keep adding years on. But that Super Bowl in Houston,
Speaker 1: justin timber Lake and Janet Jackson, when you saw a
Speaker 1: little nipple and apparently no one had ever seen a
Speaker 1: nipple before and up close and personal, and that led
Speaker 1: to all kinds of systems being put in and it
Speaker 1: was like a big, big ship show for every radio
Speaker 1: broadcaster and television broadcasting. Although it's impossible, I've tried to
Speaker 1: do it, Danny, you can show a nipple on the radio. Possible.
Speaker 1: There's no nip slippage on the radio. It's never happened before.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Genie and Medford did it. I have
Speaker 1: a statin night. John on Well, Jeannie gave you everything.
Speaker 1: She gave you the full Monty. But anyway, Uh so
Speaker 1: that's the answer to that. Next up is on the mailback.
Speaker 1: Steve in Philadelphia says, hey, guys, Ben, I heard heard
Speaker 1: your meltdown the other day during one of your award
Speaker 1: winning Mallard monologues. Uh, you seemed genuinely upset. How did
Speaker 1: you continue and finished the monologue? Well, Steve, I think
Speaker 1: you're referencing if I'm correct on this, Um, there was
Speaker 1: a bit of a walking disaster. This happens every once
Speaker 1: in a while, Danny on the on the show, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of moving parts and it's on the
Speaker 1: the overnight. We do a lot of different features and
Speaker 1: bits and whatnot. And sometimes we have new people that
Speaker 1: come on the show. Roberto was under the weather one
Speaker 1: night and so we had the new guy. And I
Speaker 1: don't play a lot of the top of things. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's quite the guy. He's been a radio for
Speaker 1: a while. And um, but you know, we all we
Speaker 1: all have hiccups. You know, we all fart five times
Speaker 1: a day or whatever. So anyway, I don't usually play
Speaker 1: a lot of sound in the monologues. Now, the way
Speaker 1: this works, I produced the monologues that produced that part
Speaker 1: of the show, So I get all the audio. Any
Speaker 1: audio that we play I have to track down. I
Speaker 1: have to log it. It's a big pain in the
Speaker 1: s and I spent a lot of time getting ready
Speaker 1: for the show, and it's just another thing I have
Speaker 1: to do. And so but I I I logged the audio,
Speaker 1: and then I will send it and then the editors
Speaker 1: will actually cut it up. But I'll be the one
Speaker 1: that says I need this fifteen second sound bite or
Speaker 1: I need a seventeen second sound bite. So every once
Speaker 1: in a while they'll be something already in the system,
Speaker 1: but most of the time it's stuff I tracked that, right,
Speaker 1: So that's how that works, just inside inside radio. So
Speaker 1: I for some reason, I was feeling frisky on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and I decided, you know, there's a lot of good
Speaker 1: sound bites from different people in the NFL. I would
Speaker 1: like to incorporate those into my monologues rather than me
Speaker 1: just pretend to be them and read the quote. So
Speaker 1: I did. And now, in fairness, in my defense, Danny,
Speaker 1: at the time I did it, I was on the
Speaker 1: assumption Roberto was going to be on the show. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I didn't get the message until after I had
Speaker 1: sent the the audio in to be cut up for
Speaker 1: the show that Roberto was under the weather and he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be able to come in. But I figured
Speaker 1: I'd wasted all this time. I'm some dimwitted idiot. I
Speaker 1: wasted all this time. I might as well use the
Speaker 1: audio anyway. I mean, how hard could it be? And
Speaker 1: uh and obviously as you if you listen, and I
Speaker 1: guess this guy in Philly, Steve did it did it
Speaker 1: was very awkward. Uh, there's no other way around it.
Speaker 1: It was not kumbaya. Uh, it was not a Kuna matata.
Speaker 1: It was what was the disconnect? Did he not know
Speaker 1: where the audio? Well, no, I'm not sure exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: I was, you know, everyone saw I blow my gasket
Speaker 1: and uh, and I'm human talk And I got a
Speaker 1: little upset because I tossed to the sound bite and
Speaker 1: then there's like a like a ten second pause, which
Speaker 1: you don't want that that's a bad sign. That's dead air.
Speaker 1: But I figured if I start talking, maybe he'll play it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to start talking because I'll talk over it.
Speaker 1: So then he he finally played it, but it was
Speaker 1: the wrong bite. It was not the bite I had
Speaker 1: sent in that I had spent all this time logging.
Speaker 1: It was a different bite. It was a shorter bite.
Speaker 1: So then I thought, Okay, that must be a mistake,
Speaker 1: so why don't we throw to it again. Let's play
Speaker 1: a full bite. So so then I'm like, well, let's
Speaker 1: play the full bite. That was a mistake, Dade. That
Speaker 1: was a tactical era on my part because there was
Speaker 1: another like five second delay, and I'm bracing myself. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm I'm starting to get worked up like
Speaker 1: a volcano, right and I'm getting I'm getting piste off.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm the one. Nobody knows what's going
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. They just know I'm the one
Speaker 1: on the air. And uh so five seconds go by,
Speaker 1: which seemed like ten minutes, and then the sound bite
Speaker 1: plays and it's the same exacts out bite that we
Speaker 1: just played that I just complained about. So at that point,
Speaker 1: I I I just I lost it. But but then
Speaker 1: I composed myself and and I was able to finish it. Steve, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: there there have been many more screw ups than that,
Speaker 1: We've had some. I mean the most famous one of
Speaker 1: them all is when I was doing the update and
Speaker 1: the Royals are having their problems on the road, and
Speaker 1: then we played I was sabotaged on that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was an Art Martinez, special Artie Martinez, the great
Speaker 1: Art Martinez, who who's to this day, said what my fault?
Speaker 1: You know, I just played the sound bite. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's what happened on that was in there and
Speaker 1: he fixed everything. Right, Let's move on, Let's see what
Speaker 1: are we happier? Pierre from the Hot Stove counting all
Speaker 1: the zeros on Rafael Dever's contract, you congratulations. You can
Speaker 1: watch Rafael Devers in the Red Sox finishing around five
Speaker 1: hundred every year for the next eleven. Uh and uh,
Speaker 1: Pierre says Ben. How surprised were you and the misses
Speaker 1: when Daddy g and Mrs TINDERRONI asked you to be
Speaker 1: the godparents of the future Little Rader. Very funny, very funny, Pierre.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of jockeying, right, Danny for
Speaker 1: that title for those kind of things, right, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of movement going on behind the scenes, and family
Speaker 1: trying to to sway you and and the wife there
Speaker 1: am I correct on that? Well, you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: you should ask about that because when I first broke
Speaker 1: this news on our podcast, you mentioned you being a godfather.
Speaker 1: I talked to my tender Rowni about that, and she said,
Speaker 1: we don't we have to be Catholic for that. Nah, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not Catholic either. What are you doing? Come on? No?
Speaker 1: And I told her, I'm like benn Is, benn Is
Speaker 1: every religion exactly. I represent all people, all sects of religion.
Speaker 1: Born Jewish of course. But you know that's whatever. You know, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's a ceremonial thing anyway, right, what else? I don't
Speaker 1: even know what else goes into that. It's actual stuff
Speaker 1: that if you're the Godfather, I think it would be
Speaker 1: funny though, I say, you know, the Godfather my nicknames,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'd be like, I'd be a legitimate
Speaker 1: godfather because I'd be like like the godfather of you know,
Speaker 1: the future, you know, whatever, you know, Jimmy G Radio
Speaker 1: or whatever is. Yeah, whatever we decide on his name,
Speaker 1: I christen you as the Godfather. There you go say, there,
Speaker 1: you're right, You're absolutely right, Pierre, good job by you,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up Mike from Fullerton on the mail bag,
Speaker 1: He says, I have to second that guy Pete in
Speaker 1: Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week. You really should quit bullying Bobby,
Speaker 1: he says, How dare you? What's the quickest you you've
Speaker 1: seen someone give up on a New Year's resolution, assuming
Speaker 1: anyone you have you know, actually tries dumb New Year's resolutions,
Speaker 1: he says. And also, go ahead and give us the
Speaker 1: second half of the nicknames. We're all dying to hear them, says,
Speaker 1: says our friend from Fullerton, Mike from Fullerton. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't make New Year's resolutions. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: Nothing really pops in my head. I guess it would
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I'm not gonna drink, and then you
Speaker 1: start drinking right at like twelve oh one you start
Speaker 1: taking a shot or something like that. But any anything
Speaker 1: pop in your head there, Danny when it comes to
Speaker 1: failed New Year's resolutions, Well, yeah, it's something that was
Speaker 1: talked about on Coveno and Rich a couple of afternoons ago.
Speaker 1: Did you hear about the story about Equinox? No? What
Speaker 1: they're like a luxury Jim. Yeah, okay, Dave decided to
Speaker 1: not accept new members hip applications on New Year's Day.
Speaker 1: They do not want people who are making it their
Speaker 1: New Year's resolution to work out, I'll come right now.
Speaker 1: This is either to get publicity and to you know,
Speaker 1: this is it's either a marketing strategy, or they really
Speaker 1: are pissed about people that just come in and then
Speaker 1: quit immediately and muck it up for their regulars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the dumbest thing. This is like McDonald saying
Speaker 1: we've decided we don't want to sell Big Max right now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a couple of months off from selling
Speaker 1: the Big Max. This. If I own no, it would
Speaker 1: be like them saying, if you're only coming for the
Speaker 1: mic ribb, oh yeah, yeah, because you're a seasonal customer, bastard.
Speaker 1: If you're only coming to get in the way of
Speaker 1: our drive through for our big Mac customer, because you're
Speaker 1: only in it for the mcribb, we're not gonna sell
Speaker 1: you a mic ribb. No, but think about if we
Speaker 1: if we owned a gym like you know, Benny and
Speaker 1: Danny G's world class, you know, twenty four hour a day, Jim,
Speaker 1: some some bullshit, Jim. This is every year is a
Speaker 1: mitzvah because all these dumbasses sign up for the gym,
Speaker 1: and I know, I go to the jy. I'm a loser.
Speaker 1: I go to the gym since my treadmill died up
Speaker 1: a painful death when I moved into the north Woods
Speaker 1: and still has not come back from the dead. So
Speaker 1: I have to go to the gym. And I know
Speaker 1: every January I see a bunch of new faces, and
Speaker 1: by usually early February, they're all gone. They're all coming
Speaker 1: that maybe one or two stick around past mid February
Speaker 1: by the time the Super Bowls played. And you know,
Speaker 1: because they don't have they have they either don't know
Speaker 1: what to wear. They have the new gym clothes with
Speaker 1: the tag on it. The women are all dolled up
Speaker 1: with the makeup on, like what are you doing? Come on,
Speaker 1: you hit the damn gym and that whold thing. So
Speaker 1: do you want to hear their statement they put out
Speaker 1: on social media. Sure, we don't speak January. The company
Speaker 1: posted January is a language we don't understand. The statement
Speaker 1: read a fantasy delivered to your door in a pastel
Speaker 1: colored box. It talks about change. It wants you to
Speaker 1: start something when you should be in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: It thinks time is on its side, it's new, It
Speaker 1: needs a new outfit before it can begin stalling, shortcutting,
Speaker 1: giving up. So let me ask you this, Danny. What
Speaker 1: happens when the marketing department gets a call from the
Speaker 1: accounting department saying, you know how much money we just
Speaker 1: lost because because of this promotion. Now, there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a debate between C and R because
Speaker 1: I think it was Cavino who said, maybe they're just
Speaker 1: trying to make it seem like they're so exclusive that
Speaker 1: that would actually drive more attention and more customers their
Speaker 1: way after this little January stunt is over, because if
Speaker 1: it's exclusive, then more Layman's wanted. Yeah, I know that's
Speaker 1: a flaw and human niches. It's like if you charge more,
Speaker 1: people think you're getting a better deal or something like that. Right,
Speaker 1: My argument would be the counter argument would be by
Speaker 1: the time February comes, people are like, I'll just do
Speaker 1: it next year. I'll just go I'll sign up for
Speaker 1: the gym next year. This whole concept of time is
Speaker 1: a human invention, Like it's it's just come on, all right, Uh, so,
Speaker 1: and as far as the nicknameth you know, Mike, I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, people get upset when I do
Speaker 1: the nickname. God did this last week? I will I
Speaker 1: only did half last week, so it was more than enough.
Speaker 1: So I will not tell you that I am known
Speaker 1: as the Baron of balderdash, big gall bladder. You did
Speaker 1: that one last week. Hold on, of second, let me
Speaker 1: give you the other I did this. I really, I've
Speaker 1: already forgotten. That's a bad that's a bad sign. Danny,
Speaker 1: all right, the other half of my nicktives. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Nobody will hear that I am known as everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: hear that? Really? Oh you'll edit that out. It's a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's not live. It's a podcast. I am known as
Speaker 1: the spin Master of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster, the Beethoven
Speaker 1: of BS. I'm an idiot, I don't know how much,
Speaker 1: Kermudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasm. He blew me
Speaker 1: off at a hotel near l a x Dare you
Speaker 1: the Tsar of zany dark night of week night sports radio,
Speaker 1: Pucci mogul of mischief? Please make it stop. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna stop. Benny the brazen King of zing
Speaker 1: Moneyball Mallard, I pity the fool that doesn't give me
Speaker 1: my burto Benny the Bopper. Oh yeah, back in my
Speaker 1: baseball days, facetious fox like Sultan of Insulting, the Shaman
Speaker 1: of schaden freude, jumping Jack of wisecrack, insight of overnight medicine.
Speaker 1: Man Mallard, I'm a doctor name Bob of Negativity, the
Speaker 1: Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle of cynical, Prince of preposterous, Professor
Speaker 1: of propaganda, Hussar of hi perbole No no no, and
Speaker 1: the mad Hatter of sports chatter, and soon to be
Speaker 1: the godfather like Benny. We gotta come up if you
Speaker 1: guys want to suggest that an official you would be
Speaker 1: the Gradio Godfather. The Gradio Godfather we could come up with.
Speaker 1: And if you guys have an idea, and we've got
Speaker 1: some very creative people, and Mike and Fullerton, Pierre are
Speaker 1: our guy, Barry and Nashville and so many other people
Speaker 1: that are very creative, you want to come up with
Speaker 1: an idea for that the honorary Godfather. We've self self
Speaker 1: given myself that title, and Danny's given me his blessing,
Speaker 1: So we're good. Yeah, alright, h next up on the
Speaker 1: mail back Kevin in Kansas. Right, so he says, are
Speaker 1: you used to buy music on singles and albums? I
Speaker 1: even had a few eight tracks, and then cam cassettes,
Speaker 1: the c d s and now downloads. Do you guys
Speaker 1: have a favorite form of listening to music through the years.
Speaker 1: So I don't really have the music team that much.
Speaker 1: I love listening to music. I don't have a big
Speaker 1: music collection, Kevin, although I do have fun memories of
Speaker 1: going to Tower Records. That was like the coolest thing. Man.
Speaker 1: You felt like, really, I'm like, I'm not cool at all,
Speaker 1: but I walked into Tower Records back in the day
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was cool because that's where
Speaker 1: the cool people hung out of Tower Records, especially that
Speaker 1: one about that Tower Records in Hollywood, that location, Remember
Speaker 1: that's the one I'm talking about. Yeah, I lived there,
Speaker 1: and I lived in Hollywood. I used to go up
Speaker 1: to Sunset and that was like the legendary spot, like
Speaker 1: where they're like the big time musicians. He heard stories
Speaker 1: about like Elton John would go in there to buy
Speaker 1: his music, you know, and all this ship. Um, I
Speaker 1: had a friend who met Tupac in there, and I
Speaker 1: actually bought Tupac I get around Maxie cassette single inside
Speaker 1: that very tower record store. Yeah that's pretty cool, man,
Speaker 1: but we're dating ourselves. But yeah, that's my my the
Speaker 1: thing that popped in my head Kevin, when you brought
Speaker 1: that up music in the past and buying music Tower records,
Speaker 1: that was the spot. And then they died because of
Speaker 1: what the internet, right, people just downloading music and that
Speaker 1: was it. That was the death. Yeah, Napster started it all.
Speaker 1: That was the downfall any other music file sharing and
Speaker 1: uh boy, I met We did a live broadcast there
Speaker 1: um in the late nineties with Mariah Carey. Good yeah,
Speaker 1: good fond memories of that location right there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I love listening to music on vinyl still, and
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why vintage vinyl has made
Speaker 1: such a comeback because instead of that high digital audio
Speaker 1: sound with a lot of highs and mids, you get
Speaker 1: that warm, m analog based low end feel from vinyl
Speaker 1: and the crackling, the popping, that sound that we heard
Speaker 1: when we were little kids when our grandparents would be
Speaker 1: playing their vinyl records. Yeah, it's it's it's all coo.
Speaker 1: Remember when I, you know, as a little kid, my
Speaker 1: mom had a record player and she played she bought
Speaker 1: like kid music seat, you know, a disc and we'd
Speaker 1: play that anyway. Jeff from Virginia Rights and he says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: who do you think gave Joe Buck the word on
Speaker 1: the five minute warm up? Does that come from a producer?
Speaker 1: That's a that's a kind of a sportive question. It's
Speaker 1: a great controversy this. Yeah, you'd be screaming about it
Speaker 1: on the air if it did come from a producer.
Speaker 1: I would be throwing the producer under the bush, creating
Speaker 1: a monster. Of course. Uh no, my theory on that,
Speaker 1: And I did a monologue about it. Jeff, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard it, but it's it's really a good,
Speaker 1: good story. It's the whole thing is a dark story
Speaker 1: by what happened. It is a terrible thing that this
Speaker 1: guy has his heart stopped twice on the field. They
Speaker 1: had to give him CPR and resuscitate him. And I'm
Speaker 1: just terrible. But that part of the story, that Joe
Speaker 1: Buck part, is fascinating to me because the NFL, this guy,
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent is sweat he swears right, He's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I would never, I would never. We would never as
Speaker 1: an NFL tell him five minutes to warm up. But
Speaker 1: watching that Monday night game, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: got the same vibe I did, Danny, But the vibe
Speaker 1: I got was Joe Buck was not in his element.
Speaker 1: He was very uncomfortable, as I would be, and he
Speaker 1: was really kind of going down in flames. He didn't
Speaker 1: say a lot, and when he spoke, he sounded like
Speaker 1: really shook up, as you would imagine. So my theory
Speaker 1: was he was waiting for someone to tell him what
Speaker 1: was going on, and then once they did that, he
Speaker 1: just kept repeating it. And so that's he claimed. Buck.
Speaker 1: He did an interview with the New York Post, and
Speaker 1: from what I read, he said that that rule expert
Speaker 1: on the broadcast is the guy that got the five
Speaker 1: minute thing from the NFL that they were given five
Speaker 1: minutes to warm up, and that came directly from the
Speaker 1: NFL rules expert who used to work for the league.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe the NFL at all, because the
Speaker 1: NFL monitors these life that they monitored these broadcasts in
Speaker 1: real time, and it's all about name image and likeness.
Speaker 1: They want to protect the brand and Joe Buck. The
Speaker 1: first time Joe Bucks had the five minute thing, if
Speaker 1: that was bullshoy or bullpucky, as our friend Jay Scoop
Speaker 1: likes to say, then the NFL would have corrected him
Speaker 1: and said, you can't say that, you take that back.
Speaker 1: He repeated it three other times in the hour and
Speaker 1: a half they were on the air, and as a
Speaker 1: result of that, I'm and also they showed Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: warming up. Yeah, like, why can't the NFL just say,
Speaker 1: you know what? It was a fluid situation. We were
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out as it was going on.
Speaker 1: I don't think it of things ever gonna be perfect
Speaker 1: in a situation like that. Yeah, they can't admit that
Speaker 1: they screwed up. They can't admit that they left it up.
Speaker 1: There can't do can't I do it. What was more
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for me watching was Susie kolberg Uh with her
Speaker 1: boys Chef Dy and who you know and bugger. Those
Speaker 1: two guys wanted to just shut it down. She was
Speaker 1: trying to move the conversation forward, and so Twitter attacked
Speaker 1: her as being cold. Yeah, and there's no there's no
Speaker 1: good situation in that time, because no matter what you say,
Speaker 1: it's not caring enough. It's not you know, people are
Speaker 1: so sensitive about that. I'll give you a great example, Dan,
Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this. So I had mapped the show out
Speaker 1: the other night when this happened, you know, and these
Speaker 1: are radio problems. Who the funk cares? But the way
Speaker 1: I you the show, I tossed a bunch of stuff out.
Speaker 1: I try to come up with ideas. I'm spitballing different
Speaker 1: things I might want to talk about for that night,
Speaker 1: and you're you're just jotting down some notes on what
Speaker 1: you want to talk about. And so some nights it
Speaker 1: goes by really quick. Other nights it takes forever and
Speaker 1: there's just nothing really that you seem all that interested in.
Speaker 1: On this night, it was like, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that I really wanted to talk about. I was like,
Speaker 1: it was exciting. And then I'll do an hour on
Speaker 1: the NFL game, and I got these other stories I
Speaker 1: want to I want to rant about let it rip.
Speaker 1: And then I'm watching the Bengals and the Bills game
Speaker 1: and living happily ever after there and boom, this this
Speaker 1: play happens and then I knew at that moment. Once
Speaker 1: I saw the guy stand up and it was like
Speaker 1: he fell over, I said, well, that's it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be four hours on that. That's the story. Don't don't
Speaker 1: bury the lead, my man, and and so I shifted.
Speaker 1: But we're doing the show, and we're doing serious you know,
Speaker 1: we're doing updates throughout the overnight on what happened in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: If you're listening and p pull are getting piste off
Speaker 1: at me, Danny, They're like, what the funk are you doing?
Speaker 1: We tune in for the jokes, we tune in for
Speaker 1: the laughs. You're you're not supposed to be the serious guy.
Speaker 1: What's wrong? I'm getting these messages right, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute here, because I've done a few of
Speaker 1: these shows over the years, and sad stuff happens and
Speaker 1: things that are depressing and and so you know, so
Speaker 1: far as we're talking here, and nobody died in this incident,
Speaker 1: but somebody in the past has died. We've been on
Speaker 1: the air after accidents, and I was on after the
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, for example, which was a devastating thing.
Speaker 1: And you can't accommodate everyone, but you try to do
Speaker 1: it professionally as a broadcaster, and people are ripping me.
Speaker 1: So here's the payoff on the story. So people are
Speaker 1: busting my balls. So I for one minute roughly on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, I told that. I said, Eddie, do you
Speaker 1: have any heart attack jokes for the people that want
Speaker 1: to hear the jokes? Right? Totally sarcastic. Oh no, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: So now I got you piece of ship. This guy's
Speaker 1: in the fucking hospital and you motherfucker's are are doing
Speaker 1: a heart attack jokes. And it was like, I was
Speaker 1: totally like tongue in cheek. I was totally tongue in cheek.
Speaker 1: It was like one minute and immediately I'm getting assault.
Speaker 1: You can't win, you can't you cannot win. Next up,
Speaker 1: Angelina writes, and she says, Hi, Ben and Daddy g
Speaker 1: I like that name for him now, Daddy Angelina says,
Speaker 1: I heard on last Saturday's podcast the couple's re gift
Speaker 1: controversy that's right, in which Ben did not show more
Speaker 1: excitement when it was presented to them. I am absolutely
Speaker 1: on the side with with Ben. The re gift, which
Speaker 1: was said to be a couple's gift was an espresso
Speaker 1: machine and clearly for his wife. That's right, Angelie, and
Speaker 1: should have been given to her. She says. I understand
Speaker 1: angel and I understand Danny G's point that maybe there
Speaker 1: will be fewer Starbucks charges if it's used, but I
Speaker 1: totally agree with Ben that she will definitely still go there.
Speaker 1: I speak from personal experience and buying one of those
Speaker 1: machines myself. I had expected to cut the bank charges,
Speaker 1: but I didn't end up using it once. Angelina says,
Speaker 1: I I don't know why the people who gave the
Speaker 1: gifts said it was a couple's gift, especially if they
Speaker 1: knew that Ben did not drink coffee. Says love listening
Speaker 1: to you guys, Happy New Year. Will thank you, Angelina
Speaker 1: and I can't update the story here as this is
Speaker 1: a podcast exclusive. No one else has this content. Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have Marcel tweet this out. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a global exclusive, in depth team coverage. I can confirm
Speaker 1: despite that nice shiny three espresso maker, my wife has
Speaker 1: gone back to Starbucks multiple times, so she still still
Speaker 1: enjoying Starbucks. There's that, Angelina says. Ps Pert Nanni's comment,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. I will happily, Angelina says, babysit,
Speaker 1: baby G when you all make the pilgrimage to uh Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go, Jim hanging out there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Next up on the middle back, Ozzy was rights in
Speaker 1: from Western Australia. I was just watching a show about
Speaker 1: Australia and they did they mentioned the population and how little,
Speaker 1: how few people live in Western Australia, and I thought
Speaker 1: of Ozzy was when I was watching this. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember what it was. It was something on the internet,
Speaker 1: YouTube or something like that. Anyway, my mates Benny the
Speaker 1: Bopper and Daddy G and yes that nickname is staying
Speaker 1: a couple more and you can catch Moneyball Mallard. I
Speaker 1: played football on the gridiron for ten years, Ozzy was,
Speaker 1: says here in what Western Australia, And I will date
Speaker 1: myself here. I've been following the NFL for over thirty years.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, thirty years? What are you a dinosaur?
Speaker 1: Ozzy Wazma uh So anyway, says here we go. My
Speaker 1: favorite positions to play we're tight end, fullback, offense, outside
Speaker 1: linebacker and strong safety. Never cared for the glory positions
Speaker 1: like quarterback or wide receiver. What was your favorite position
Speaker 1: to play and or you wanted to play well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to play tight end. I played offensive line.
Speaker 1: I played nose guards. I loved the things I love most.
Speaker 1: I was the fat guy on the team. I loved
Speaker 1: being on the goal line defense on what right in
Speaker 1: the middle, when your jobs to clog up the middle.
Speaker 1: I always thought that was fun. And I loved on
Speaker 1: on offenses, the bell rings there. I loved on offense
Speaker 1: when they would run behind you and you were the
Speaker 1: tackle and when and it happened a lot when I
Speaker 1: was a freshman. I went downhill after that. But if
Speaker 1: my freshman year, I would open up a whole because
Speaker 1: I was so much bigger than these little small kids
Speaker 1: on the defense, and I would block somebody and then
Speaker 1: I turned around and I'd see the running back, this
Speaker 1: guy Scott Seal, and he would run straight through and
Speaker 1: there's nothing but daylight between him and the end zone.
Speaker 1: That's like the greatest feeling when you're playing on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. What about you, Danny, I was definitely a
Speaker 1: bowling ball of a running back. Low center of gravity,
Speaker 1: big thick legs, not very tall, but definitely tough and
Speaker 1: could take a hit like Josh Jacobs. Early on, when
Speaker 1: we were playing street football at Brown Elementary School, we
Speaker 1: would get into some drag out tackle football street games
Speaker 1: with kids in the neighborhood and I would love it. Man.
Speaker 1: When we would line up and we would have seven
Speaker 1: kids on one side, seven on the other, and my
Speaker 1: older brother played quarterback. He would hand me the ball
Speaker 1: and I would get that little opening that like you said,
Speaker 1: you see the daylight and when you step through that
Speaker 1: east you catch some elbows, but you gotta keep your
Speaker 1: balance and I would run straight into the end zone
Speaker 1: that we had some old baseball gloves set up sixty
Speaker 1: yards down the field on one side and the other
Speaker 1: as the end zones. And dude, that was the best
Speaker 1: feeling though, breaking away on a long run. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: for sure. It's that's I didn't. I wasn't the one running,
Speaker 1: which is probably better, but watching it seeing it all
Speaker 1: unfold as you're you make the as an alignment, you
Speaker 1: make the block, and then you see everything. It was
Speaker 1: just it was awesome, awesome at the time. All right,
Speaker 1: we got time for one more here, Danny on the
Speaker 1: mail bag. Noah from Austin writes, and he says, big
Speaker 1: Ben in, Danny, g what game show do you think
Speaker 1: you'd be most and least successful at? Ben? Hoping you're
Speaker 1: enjoying your new espresso maker. Yes, great, there you haven't
Speaker 1: called yet? No have you? Is a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: Aren't you supposed to call? You said you were gonna
Speaker 1: starting on said he was going to be one of
Speaker 1: your New Years callers? What the what the fuck? He
Speaker 1: hasn't called anyway? Game shows? What would you do? Well?
Speaker 1: I I remember the old well password we played password.
Speaker 1: I think I do okay in that the word Game
Speaker 1: of the Stars dominate Eddie at that game that beat down?
Speaker 1: You mean that I gave you last night? Um the
Speaker 1: sixty four thousand dollar pyramid, which is not on anymore.
Speaker 1: I think I do okay at that. Um. Remember let's
Speaker 1: make a deal. I could do okay. Price is right.
Speaker 1: I think i'd do a kid at that one. I
Speaker 1: don't know that i'd be very good at at Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's my my wheelhouse on that And
Speaker 1: nothing like any of those realities that game shows we
Speaker 1: have to do physical ship, I don't do that. What
Speaker 1: about you, Danny Well? My tender rowning might not like
Speaker 1: this answer, Ben, but I think blind date the rico suave. No.
Speaker 1: I mean, because I would go on the show Dominate.
Speaker 1: I could tell the chick right off the bat, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want anything serious. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: And then when they would be doing the interview portion
Speaker 1: with her the cutaway, she'd be like, I really like
Speaker 1: his honesty, and you know, just smack that booty around
Speaker 1: a little bit and not have any strings attached. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That never worked for me when I was you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want anything seriously. I think you've gotta be like,
Speaker 1: really good looking to pull that off. I think you do,
Speaker 1: because if you're average looking or ugly, women are like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want any to do with you, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about. But if you're you're attractive and they're okay,
Speaker 1: you know, it's reasonable. There. He just brings up a
Speaker 1: good point, you know, casual. Yeah, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that note, Danny, thank you again. I will
Speaker 1: be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box, laying down
Speaker 1: quarter hours one at a time, hopefully no audio glitches.
Speaker 1: So we've got that to look forward to. Anything going
Speaker 1: on in your world. This final Sunday of the NFL
Speaker 1: regular season. This is my one day off of the week,
Speaker 1: watch some NFL football, eat some nachos, and then like
Speaker 1: have some grapes or something like that, so I can
Speaker 1: offset all the junk food with some healthy food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you gotta keep us posted, Danny. And because I
Speaker 1: was your stories, my wife, it would tell stories, and
Speaker 1: and friends over the years have told stories like when
Speaker 1: women are pregnant, there's like certain odd foods they often crave, right,
Speaker 1: So what will the little bug in the oven there
Speaker 1: for Danny g what will his his son to be
Speaker 1: named later? What? What? What kind of food do you
Speaker 1: think your son's gonna crave there in the in the world.
Speaker 1: In and Out she keeps saying, God, I want to
Speaker 1: in and out burger, right, And she doesn't eat burgers,
Speaker 1: but she's been craving iron so she's like, I want
Speaker 1: a burger and I don't even like burgers. So we've
Speaker 1: found ourselves at the in and out drive through a
Speaker 1: few times already, so it's really strange to watch her
Speaker 1: eat a hamburger on the in and out Burger. She's like,
Speaker 1: extra pickles, Oh, I go, no pickles, I'm not nothing
Speaker 1: to sorry, sorry, Ernie and alfae Elien Pointer. I want
Speaker 1: nothing to do with those. No, no, no, She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not craving sweets. I'm craving savory and sour. So
Speaker 1: she wants burgers, pickles, raspberries, grapes, stuff like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well there you go. We'll find out. Maybe
Speaker 1: the kid will be coming out with it. He's got
Speaker 1: the raider hat on and a double double in his hand,
Speaker 1: has some fries animal style. All right, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: get out of you. Have a great day. Thank you
Speaker 1: for supporting the podcast. Tell a friend, Tell a friend,
Speaker 1: and we will catch you next time later. Skater gotta murder,
Speaker 1: Gotta go.