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Speaker 4: first one this week comes from Joey in Boise. All right,
Speaker 4: I don't think we've ever gotten an email from Boise.
Speaker 4: I don't recall. Maybe we have, but I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: Do you know there that the locals pronounced the s
Speaker 1: so I did. Really a friend of mine who's lived
Speaker 1: there for the past twenty years she corrected me. She's like,
Speaker 1: it's not Boise with a Z, It's Boise.
Speaker 4: And I was like, Oh, are you busting my balls?
Speaker 1: No, No, not at all. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know that. We you know, we've all been I don't
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, we've all been conditioned to say Boise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was in Boise state, yeah, Boise, right, but the
Speaker 1: locals say it like that.
Speaker 4: Who knows se joe you inspired some conversation here. I
Speaker 4: know there's a lot of law enforcement that retired to
Speaker 4: Idaho from southern California.
Speaker 1: I know that some masters too build homes out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some beautiful land there, and I liked that Idaho.
Speaker 4: You've got that upper part of Idaho which is stuck
Speaker 4: between Washington and Montana.
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, yeah, really that dude. They're right outside of
Speaker 1: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in between there and Idaho the border.
Speaker 1: It is beautiful, rolling green hills with big, big properties built.
Speaker 1: The homes are just gorgeous and the properties are dope.
Speaker 4: That's cool. There was a guy that was the trainer
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers when I was doing Dodgers Talk named
Speaker 4: Stan Johnston and he was big in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Speaker 4: and loved it there. I think he's living there.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I lost contact with him, but just said amazing things
Speaker 4: about Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anyway, Joy and Boise says Ben
Speaker 4: and Daddy. I wanted to get your guys thoughts on this.
Speaker 4: A fell little podcaster is campaigning to get Red Panda
Speaker 4: into the Basketball Hall of Fame? Do you support uh
Speaker 4: those efforts?
Speaker 1: So? Do you?
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that doesn't ring it? Does that ring a
Speaker 4: Bell Danny Red Panda. Red Panda is that's the red moose. No,
Speaker 4: Red red Panda. When I tell you who this person is,
Speaker 4: you'll know right away. Red Panda is the woman who
Speaker 4: was originally from China who at halftime of NBA games
Speaker 4: rides a very oversized unicycle and tosses ceramic bulls on
Speaker 4: her head and she balances them on her head and
Speaker 4: her feet and all that. That's her name. Her stage
Speaker 4: name is Red Panda. I don't think that's her actual name.
Speaker 1: So so Joey, first of all, thanks, just looked it up. Margaret.
Speaker 4: That's her mom's name. But now, Joey, listen, thank you
Speaker 4: for listening. Number one, I appreciate that. Tell friends, we
Speaker 4: need more people from Idaho, So thank you for that.
Speaker 4: I know we're the show's on there and yeah number yeah,
Speaker 4: they have a nice affiliate for us there. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So but anyway, Joey, to answer your question, thank you.
Speaker 4: I do support Red Panda because Red Panda the first
Speaker 4: ever play she performed at an NBA game was.
Speaker 1: A Clipper game.
Speaker 4: Fun fact, Red Panda made her debut at a Clipper game.
Speaker 4: I think that was at the Sports Arena and explains
Speaker 4: why she's not in the Hall of Fame yet? How
Speaker 4: dare you so that's number two? They'll put anyone in
Speaker 4: the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, have you. I do
Speaker 4: the joke partly because of alf the Alien Opiner, who
Speaker 4: is in Springfield, mass just down the street from the
Speaker 4: Pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame. But Muffett McGraw, who
Speaker 4: is in the Pro Basketball of Fame. But it's not
Speaker 4: even the like. I'm not saying she shouldn't be in there.
Speaker 4: It's just a fun name to say. But they'll put
Speaker 4: European coaches in you've never heard of, like coach Day
Speaker 4: junior high school Russian basketball team to a championship and
Speaker 4: made some global impact, and they'll put them in. But
Speaker 4: in terms of fan enjoyment, you put sports riders and
Speaker 4: TV people and radio people in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: Red Panda is one of the great entertaining acts at
Speaker 4: halftime in the NBA, So why shouldn't she She's been
Speaker 4: doing that for twenty something years. Why shouldn't she be
Speaker 4: able to get in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: So I stand with Red Panda. I ride in my unicycle,
Speaker 4: my oversized cartoonish unicycle with Red Panda. I do, Danny,
Speaker 4: you want to disagreepe you want to play Devil's advocate?
Speaker 1: No, I was just gonna say. I mean, if she
Speaker 1: deserves to be in, then I want to put Rocky,
Speaker 1: the mascot for the Denver Nuggets, into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: Just that one night. Yeah, Yeah, came down.
Speaker 1: Yeah for the simple fact that he passed out it's costume,
Speaker 1: and they lowered his dead, lifeless corpse down to the court,
Speaker 1: and then the and then the Nugget dancers all danced
Speaker 1: to the around his dead body.
Speaker 4: So good, all these beautiful women shaking their behinds while
Speaker 4: uh dear, old Rockies corps is coming from.
Speaker 1: The Rocky mouth to mouth and they were shaking their asses.
Speaker 4: It was like the most uplifting semi funeral you've ever had.
Speaker 1: The Rocky uh dead bodies.
Speaker 4: Uh you know who else should be in the pro
Speaker 4: Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame. Here's another one I want
Speaker 4: to see If you remember this one, Dan, you might not.
Speaker 4: There was a guy that used to perform NBA halftime
Speaker 4: who was like a Michael Jackson. He's doing a Michael
Speaker 4: Jackson show, but he had four dummies on these metal bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do what I'm talking about. Remember that guy, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Guy was awesome. I don't remember his name.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just I saw him perform at Clipper games and
Speaker 4: I leave. I don't know they did a Laker game.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Lakers would allow someone to like
Speaker 4: that at their arena. But it must have been just
Speaker 4: the Clippers. But I saw him several times and he
Speaker 4: was really good, and it.
Speaker 1: Was it was.
Speaker 4: It was so crazy and silly that you had to
Speaker 4: stop and watch. So I'd put once Red Pandas in
Speaker 4: the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame, I'd put I'd
Speaker 4: put that guy if we can find it, I'd put
Speaker 4: him in.
Speaker 1: The Yeah Hall of See, let's see if somebody knows
Speaker 1: his name here? Yeah, Oh dang it. It comes up
Speaker 1: on Reddit, but it doesn't say his name. It's just
Speaker 1: people flashing back talking about him.
Speaker 4: Oh. I was iconic. Remember all the mannequins were on
Speaker 4: like sticks. Yeah, and they were all cool, intertwined and
Speaker 4: it was it was cool. It's like it wasn't the
Speaker 4: King of pop, he was the King of Annequin. But
Speaker 4: that's fine. Stephen Vermont writes in on the mail bag.
Speaker 4: He says, uh, it been, and Danny, I love of
Speaker 4: the Overnight Show, and Ben, I'm a fan of the
Speaker 4: wacky game shows that you guys do. Can you please explain, though,
Speaker 4: why you get consistently horrible game show contestants. You never
Speaker 4: seem to have anyone good. That's from Steve and Vermont. Well, Steve,
Speaker 4: that's an exaggeration. I would put Uncle Moe from Brooklyn
Speaker 4: against anyone. I would put Justin in Cincinnati before he
Speaker 4: became addicted to certain substances against anyone in terms of knowledge.
Speaker 4: Even occasionally a guy like Jed who fled when he's
Speaker 4: slowing down whatever pharmaceuticals he's taking very good. But when
Speaker 4: we have people that are not regulars, what often happens,
Speaker 4: I am convinced is stage fright, flop sweat. That these
Speaker 4: guys are all great. Every one of them is like, oh,
Speaker 4: I get all the questions right when I'm listening to
Speaker 4: the show, and then they get on the air and
Speaker 4: it's oh, they get all nervous, they get the willies
Speaker 4: and they can't handle it. So either that or it's
Speaker 4: an act of sabotage Danny from my producers.
Speaker 1: I wish I could pull off those suits. Oh, I
Speaker 1: found the guy ben He goes by the Amazing Christopher.
Speaker 4: No, I don't that's Amazing Christopher out there.
Speaker 1: That's it shows. It shows.
Speaker 4: Uh, yes, I thought that was I thought that was
Speaker 4: a magician. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1: Oh let me see on YouTube look at the Amazing
Speaker 1: Christopher as Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4: All right, you know it does say that is there
Speaker 4: a magician named the Amazing Christopher? Though I thought there was.
Speaker 1: I never heard of that guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe I made it up. Maybe it was just something.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it says dancing puppeteer, Amazing Christopher. Good internet
Speaker 4: research by you. Oh, he's got the village people there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's got his website, Amazing Christopher dot com. He says,
Speaker 4: welcome to the side of the legendary dancing puppet.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 4: Christophers reformed for two US presidents, British Royalty and Prince
Speaker 4: Raynier of Monaco.
Speaker 1: Wow, should say NBA Hall of Fame right there in
Speaker 1: his bio.
Speaker 4: He got to start as the opening act on the
Speaker 4: Eddie Murphy Raw tour in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is crazy.
Speaker 4: He also opened for Jay Leno, George Carlin, and Natalie
Speaker 4: Cole to name a few past thirty years, he's been
Speaker 4: delighting audiences at corporate events, NBA Baseball, et cetera. That's
Speaker 4: pretty cool. He got the village people got the Michael
Speaker 4: Jackson's the one I remember Bruno Mars dancing Darth he did.
Speaker 4: Oh that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Oh I see, Yeah, he's Darth Vader and he's got
Speaker 1: stormtroopers on each side.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 4: This guy's good. The one I recall though, I saw
Speaker 4: he used to only do the Michael Jackson that was
Speaker 4: his go to. I'm gonna I'm gonna click on this.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's more than one guy that does this.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had competition.
Speaker 4: As well. I thought it was a magician named the
Speaker 4: Amazing Christopher, but that, oh man, the Magic Johnson or
Speaker 4: the Michael Jackson Jackson five outstanding.
Speaker 1: Is he still doing it? He must be.
Speaker 4: Is this his website?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks like he's still active.
Speaker 4: Wow, this guy's worked with some big time people over
Speaker 4: the years. Too good for him. How much does it
Speaker 4: cost to book him? See, he's got always got a production.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing to have him at the next
Speaker 1: mallor meet and greet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be great, who's who's the entertainment there? Or hey,
Speaker 4: we could have the Ugly Sweater Party. We could have
Speaker 4: the amazing Christopher perform at the Ugly Sweater Party. Got
Speaker 4: a big time agency. Looks like he's in seven oh two.
Speaker 4: That's Vegas, right, and that the Vegas it sure is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so he's in Vegas. Does corporate appearances?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Good for him. Yeah, that's all the guy does. Well,
Speaker 4: you find you get a niche. You get a niche,
Speaker 4: and you can just ride that niche.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he has a podcast too.
Speaker 4: Of course I should get him on the podcast. You
Speaker 4: know what, I want to see if he's a I'm
Speaker 4: gonna contact him. I'm gonna see if we can get
Speaker 4: him on Boom.
Speaker 1: That would be good.
Speaker 4: I would love to talk to him, eh, I.
Speaker 1: Bet he's got some interesting stories to tell. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: did Michael Jackson ever see his performance when MJ was alive?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great, great question, Like he what was
Speaker 4: you know in the NBA player? I saw?
Speaker 1: I really liked it.
Speaker 4: Oh there's photos of him with presidents on here. Oh
Speaker 4: that's pretty, that's pretty Nilo. See if he wants to
Speaker 4: on the podcast, you know, the podcast will which you
Speaker 4: do low. If he turns us down, you owe me
Speaker 4: fifteen thousand dollars. Though, Man, did I think I answered
Speaker 4: Steven Vermont's question?
Speaker 1: Right? We got you did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We did all right?
Speaker 4: Kurt from Tucson writes in he says, guys, did you
Speaker 4: see that Jennifer Lopez was accused of not voicing Jenny
Speaker 4: from the Block? Okay, let's guess.
Speaker 1: Who then said that?
Speaker 4: One of the says another singer, a backup singer, came
Speaker 4: forward to claim she got paid to do the vocals,
Speaker 4: and then Kurt says, have you ever used a guest
Speaker 4: to voice one of your Malard monologues? Yes, Kurt, yes,
Speaker 4: I usually take Fridays and Mondays off. So we don't
Speaker 4: we do AI, right, Dan, we don't do. We used
Speaker 4: to do vocal We had an impersonator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we JT the Brick does a really good Mallard.
Speaker 1: So it used to be JT when we needed a
Speaker 1: fill in for you. But yeah, yeah, we had we had,
Speaker 1: we for real. But he doesn't sound no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he does too much cocaine too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, allegedly too horse of a voice to impersonate you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's funny. Frankie writes in from Parts Unknown, you'll
Speaker 4: put your name if you want credit, says, are you
Speaker 4: guys starting to buy toilet paper and water because of
Speaker 4: the bird flu pandemic that's coming? Uh no, Frankie, I'm
Speaker 4: not loading up. I'm not hoarding toilet paper and water.
Speaker 1: I'm good and uh yeah, I can't wait for the
Speaker 1: two senior hours. They're gonna let us have it grocery
Speaker 1: stores and Target every morning though, what was it? It
Speaker 1: was like seven to nine am. Remember when only seniors
Speaker 1: were allowed in the store. Yeah, you and I finally
Speaker 1: qualify now this time around.
Speaker 4: It's exciting where we finally reached our pinnacle. And my
Speaker 4: favorite is spending forty five minutes online at Costco to
Speaker 4: go in and spend money at Costco waiting online in
Speaker 4: the parking lot. That's my fondest memory of shopping that
Speaker 4: and going into the grocery store and there will being
Speaker 4: no meat at all, the whole frozen section completely empty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite part was how all the vitamins and
Speaker 1: supplements were untouched, but all the water and toilet paper
Speaker 1: was gone.
Speaker 4: And pop ups they were all gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah you popped up, but assholes couldn't take some vitamins
Speaker 1: to stay healthy.
Speaker 4: Miami Mike writes in on the mail bag. He says,
Speaker 4: there was a video this week of an alligator climbing
Speaker 4: up and over a chain link fence here in Florida.
Speaker 4: He says, is this impressive or is that a nightmare?
Speaker 1: Says? Can it be both? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go both on that. Right.
Speaker 4: Did you have you seen this video?
Speaker 1: I have not seen this.
Speaker 4: No. Yeah, So it's like a it's it's like a
Speaker 4: little alligator. It's not like a full size, but I
Speaker 4: guess it's it's like to me, it looks like a
Speaker 4: it's not an eight foot two thousand pound alligator.
Speaker 1: Oh this is not impressive then.
Speaker 4: But it's like a mid size. But it's still climbed
Speaker 4: a chainlink fence. It's cuss those little alligator arms, Danny,
Speaker 4: and he was able to climb the fence.
Speaker 1: That's you know. No, Well, could you guesstimate the size
Speaker 1: of this guy? Does he look like a teenager? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say teenagers are really good at jumping fences and
Speaker 1: you know, sneaking out of the house and things like that,
Speaker 1: So teen does it. It's like, eh, an old, big
Speaker 1: fat gator doing it, though, I'd be like, damn.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not a it's not a fat gator. It's
Speaker 4: let me see here. I'm gonna send you the video
Speaker 4: hole on mad Me find the link. I just entertain yourself.
Speaker 1: There as Yeah. I made the mistake one time on
Speaker 1: Animal Thunderdome way back in the day of there was
Speaker 1: a spider. Remember when Houston flooded. Yes, somebody took somebody
Speaker 1: took a very deceiving picture of a spider that was
Speaker 1: in one of the running lakes there, and the way
Speaker 1: they positioned the camera and the angle it made it
Speaker 1: look like the spider was like the size of a
Speaker 1: small puppy, and and it went viral. Everybody was like,
Speaker 1: look at this spider, it's the size of a cat.
Speaker 1: And so I get on the air and I talk
Speaker 1: about the picture of the spider, and I texted it
Speaker 1: to everybody, and wouldn't you know a listener wrote into
Speaker 1: the show and said, take a closer look at that
Speaker 1: big spider. It's it's the angle somebody used. It's actually
Speaker 1: just a regular kind of you know, maybe like the
Speaker 1: size of a tarantula, like like a big tarantula. But
Speaker 1: I was here, I was live on the air, describing
Speaker 1: it as the size of a Puppyferff Clay had a
Speaker 1: fetal day. He called me out on He tortured me
Speaker 1: for weeks about the puppy spider.
Speaker 4: By the way, I just looked at the video here
Speaker 4: that Mike sent and I sent it to you, Danny.
Speaker 4: But it's actually I guess, he says, Mike. It went
Speaker 4: viral this week, but it's actually an old video.
Speaker 1: This tricks people from time to time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so, Mike, I I mean it's still I
Speaker 4: had not seen it before, so for me, it's new,
Speaker 4: but it's actual the video, the link you sent is
Speaker 4: an old link, Mike.
Speaker 1: So but you got me.
Speaker 4: I already talked about it.
Speaker 1: So to answer the question, the gator is old.
Speaker 4: Now, that's right, that's that gate has probably been eaten
Speaker 4: by this point time, Alf from the Cheap Seat says, boys,
Speaker 4: is there any sound better than the crack of a
Speaker 4: wooden bat striking a baseball? And he says there, here's
Speaker 4: a cogestion for when the next pandemic hits. My brother
Speaker 4: told told me that there's such thing as professional pillow
Speaker 4: fighting on the four letter Yeah, the pillow fighting's fine.
Speaker 4: I want to do that slap league. I like that
Speaker 4: Dana White slope. That's pretty cool. Wouldn't bat greatest sounds
Speaker 4: of sports for one thousand? Danny the wooden bat, the
Speaker 4: sound of a ball going through a net, swishing through
Speaker 4: a net.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, in basketball, and remember the Lingerie Football League.
Speaker 4: How could you forget it?
Speaker 1: And that's what the pillow fighting thing sounds like. It
Speaker 1: should be women in nineties hitting each other in the
Speaker 1: face with pillows.
Speaker 4: Which would be mussy TV if they're attractive. If not,
Speaker 4: it would not be mussy TV. But that would be
Speaker 4: pretty good. Other sounds that would be the ball through
Speaker 4: the net you got in football, a bone crushing hit,
Speaker 4: which you don't really get that much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't hear that a lot, I guess, you know.
Speaker 1: I would say when I'm listening to Harlan on Westwood One,
Speaker 1: you know, and he calls a touchdown, that's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest sounds in sports to me. And you know, Harlan,
Speaker 1: he goes crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's a listener. That's crazy too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The big Super Bowl back there back in Vegas, that's.
Speaker 1: A sound of the game. I know it's not you
Speaker 1: know from equipment, but I guess from a microphone that
Speaker 1: counts for sure. How about Serena like grunting and hitting
Speaker 1: the ball? Yeah, that sound off a fast serve.
Speaker 4: When I covered basketball back in the day, I do
Speaker 4: some interviews sometimes before the game, and in the ambient
Speaker 4: background noise, you hear the screeching of the of the
Speaker 4: sneakers on the court. You hear the rhythmic dribbling dribbled, dribble, dribble,
Speaker 4: but there'd be a squeaking sneakers in the back.
Speaker 1: Do you know? That is one reason why my wife
Speaker 1: he does not like basketball on in the living room.
Speaker 1: She hates the sound of the squeaking shoes miss Aphonia. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she doesn't like it at all. She's like, can you
Speaker 1: just watch the fourth quarter? That's the squeaking shoes are
Speaker 1: getting on my nursery. She'll watch Laker games with me,
Speaker 1: and she likes basketball. But if I have the volume
Speaker 1: up too high, she's like, can you turn it down
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's the one weird thing she has
Speaker 1: with sports.
Speaker 4: Interesting, it's like the chewing thing my wife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Also I thought of one
Speaker 1: more sound really good. Tiger Woods golf swing off the tee.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. And then somebody yelling
Speaker 4: something in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get in the hole, Get in the hole for sure.
Speaker 4: Pierre writes in and says, can you Ben please elaborate
Speaker 4: about the great Oliver Miller story. Yeah, so real quick.
Speaker 4: I want to spend a lot of time on this,
Speaker 4: but this is the story I mentioned. I didn't have
Speaker 4: time to get to it on the radio show. So
Speaker 4: Oliver Miller was a large, urgent, in charge pro bouncy
Speaker 4: ball player back in the nineties in early two thousands,
Speaker 4: and his NBA career fizzled out. He had an eating problem,
Speaker 4: is overweight, and so he ended up playing for a
Speaker 4: team in Poland professional basketball in Poland, and a buddy
Speaker 4: of mine who was a influential German basketball writer racist,
Speaker 4: but he was very connected all over the place and
Speaker 4: he had some people over in Poland and he could
Speaker 4: not stop laughing. He came into the media dining room
Speaker 4: at Staples Center as it was called in and we
Speaker 4: were having a nice freeloader's meal and he was explaining
Speaker 4: how Oliver Miller signed to play with his team in Poland,
Speaker 4: but the team was having problems with him because he
Speaker 4: would not leave the hotel. He was homesick to America.
Speaker 4: But the main was he did not like the food
Speaker 4: in Poland. So he stayed at a hotel in Poland
Speaker 4: that had There was one restaurant in the hotel that
Speaker 4: served like cheeseburgers and pizza, and that was it like
Speaker 4: American food. It was like an American theme rest. So
Speaker 4: Oliver Miller the entire time he played for this team
Speaker 4: in Poland would only eat at that restaurant in the hotel,
Speaker 4: shrew move he would not go out and try the
Speaker 4: local delicacy. And my guy that was the reporter from Germany,
Speaker 4: they sat to the people in Poland were just like
Speaker 4: they could not believe that he was just like he was.
Speaker 4: He would not leave the hotel and that he just
Speaker 4: hated the food so much. And I think he only
Speaker 4: spent one year there and then he moved on to
Speaker 4: another team. But that was my Oliver Miller story, consuming
Speaker 4: massive amounts of only American food while in Poland. I'm
Speaker 4: sure the American food in Poland was authentic American food.
Speaker 4: At a hotel restaurant in Poland, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure the burger was really burger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Ryan writes in from Shrewsbury, mass He says,
Speaker 4: if you live in another state, if you could live
Speaker 4: in another state in the entire country, what state would
Speaker 4: that be? Or would you not change anything and stay
Speaker 4: in California? Says I always joke with my family saying
Speaker 4: I don't belong on the East Coast and that I
Speaker 4: belong on the West. Always wanted to live in La
Speaker 4: or Vegas. The West coast vibe just seems better in
Speaker 4: the East in my opinion. So that's from Ryan. So Ryan,
Speaker 4: if I were to leave California, I would want to
Speaker 4: go somewhere where the taxes are reasonable and they don't
Speaker 4: charge you ten dollars for a gallon of gas, things
Speaker 4: like that. But you have many of those same problems
Speaker 4: in Massachusetts as we have in California. So I don't
Speaker 4: know that that would be be better. But I think
Speaker 4: I'm in California for the long haul. I would be
Speaker 4: open to relocating.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: The wife would be interesting, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because you've got to think about family, their proximity to you.
Speaker 1: You know me, Ben, I'm such an animal lover that
Speaker 1: I would like to move to a state where they
Speaker 1: build overpasses for wildlife.
Speaker 4: It's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, they're doing that right.
Speaker 4: San Fernando is a great place.
Speaker 1: That where I'm at already. Yeah, I'm in the right place. Then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 4: You're you're out with nature.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go hiking over that overpass?
Speaker 4: What else do we have here?
Speaker 1: A couple more? Would it? Would it be awesome to
Speaker 1: put on like a I don't know, Grizzly bear costume
Speaker 1: and wave to people as they're going underneath the overpass? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What have you crossed over there in a bear costume?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You just walked across, you know.
Speaker 1: With a picanic basket. Yeah, I see a picanic past or.
Speaker 4: You should dress up as Smokey Bear and only you
Speaker 4: can prevent for us, but.
Speaker 1: Have like a Ghostbusters pack and a flamethrower. That'd be great.
Speaker 4: Mike and Fullerton writes and says, hello, Bed and Danny G.
Speaker 4: First of all, I have to congratulate Daddy G.
Speaker 1: Daddy.
Speaker 4: I saw the big anassment this week. Baby CoA was
Speaker 4: accepted to Oklahoma. You were not kidding when you said
Speaker 4: he was big for his age, says Mike and Fulleton.
Speaker 1: Okay, I told you he was going to be one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds in no time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's ready to go. He can get that scholarship,
Speaker 4: just like Lane Kiffin's kid got a scholarship in eighth
Speaker 4: grade CoA right after kindergarten scholarship.
Speaker 1: The youngest sooner in history.
Speaker 4: Boomer Sooner, sooner, sooner, bread, sooner born.
Speaker 1: And when I die, I'll be sooner dead. Yeah? What
Speaker 1: else do?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Mike also says, I know you guys always have a
Speaker 4: finger on the pulse of pop culture. On a scale
Speaker 4: of one to ten, is your interest in this weekends
Speaker 4: big WrestleMania event? Did you follow the build up at all?
Speaker 1: Brother?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I'm good. I'm pretty good on the whole
Speaker 4: WrestleMania thing.
Speaker 3: Like, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, I don't hate it, but it's not high
Speaker 4: on my list. How about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, as kids, we loved NFL and we
Speaker 1: loved NBA and Major League Baseball. There just wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of room left for wrestling. And my mom kind
Speaker 1: of ruined it too because she'd always point out see
Speaker 1: that he didn't really hit him there, that's fake, this
Speaker 1: is fake, that's fake. And she just had a big
Speaker 1: problem with it because it was all staged, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people I think feel that way. Not a lot,
Speaker 1: but some people feel that way. And so because of that,
Speaker 1: in the cheesy storylines, she'd be like, turn this crap off.
Speaker 1: She hated it because of that. We didn't have it
Speaker 1: on in my house, so I never really followed it.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I was convinced for the
Speaker 4: Age of Reason, when you think it's real. I used
Speaker 4: to us reference getting educated as a child that it
Speaker 4: wasn't real. But I thought when Andre the Giant and
Speaker 4: Hulk Hogan that matchup was set, I said, oh my god,
Speaker 4: Hulk's going to die. Andre the Giant's going to kill Hulk.
Speaker 4: I'm so worried about Hulk Hogan. I hope that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: If somebody needs to protect Hulk Hogan. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: a hulk of maniac and you know, you know say
Speaker 4: I I had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you were seventeen at the time.
Speaker 4: Just joined the military, yes, just got out of the Marines.
Speaker 1: You know. Thinking back on things, maybe my mom was
Speaker 1: the problem because she also ruined the Easter Buddy in
Speaker 1: uh in Santa early on, So maybe she just didn't
Speaker 1: like things that were staged.
Speaker 4: Mom just slaying childhood dreams.
Speaker 1: You know, you know who is it, Chris Rock keeping
Speaker 1: it real? My mom was the original Chris Rock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was ahead of her time, clearly.
Speaker 1: All R. We'll get out of Dave and Dave.
Speaker 4: That sounds like something Dick and Dayton would say. Dave
Speaker 4: and da Dave and Phoenix.
Speaker 1: And David, Dave and I go by Dave.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did not be We did not have time
Speaker 4: to get to your questions, but we thank you and
Speaker 4: we will press on. Maybe next week, you.
Speaker 1: Never know, or the week after or the week after that.
Speaker 4: I would be back tonight on the Overnight Show in
Speaker 4: depth team coverage. I'm just just me doing four hours
Speaker 4: of conversations. So we'll have that for you tonight. And Danny,
Speaker 4: you're back tomorrow, Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Two to four pm on the West Side,
Speaker 1: that's five to seven pm. And beautiful Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 4: I think beautiful that Newark is leaving Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 4: But have a wonderful day, dare you, and we'll catch
Speaker 4: you on the podcast. We'll catch you next week, but
Speaker 4: at the radio all week long, and we'll talk to you.
Speaker 1: Then later skater got a murder. I gotta go.