Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred
Speaker 1: minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. It's a
Speaker 1: clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the
Speaker 1: air everywhere, back at it on the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. This is a special
Speaker 1: edition of The Fifth Hour, unlike every other edition. Danny, Gee,
Speaker 1: are you prepared? Are you ready for one of the
Speaker 1: biggest events? Yeah, the Oscars on Sunday night. I can't well. No,
Speaker 1: that isn't cuts a bad answer, That is a wrong answer. No.
Speaker 1: The single ratest night in overnight sports talk radio is
Speaker 1: just a couple of days away. And this is a
Speaker 1: global exclusive, Danny. The content we are providing today, no
Speaker 1: one else has it. ESPN doesn't have it, CBS doesn't
Speaker 1: have it, NBC nobody has it. We are the only podcast.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan doesn't have it, Adam Carolla doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: Nobody in the podcast game has the content we are
Speaker 1: about to provide. We paid for the rights, Danny. We
Speaker 1: own the naming rights. We are the show of record,
Speaker 1: the only pregame show that matters. For the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Benny's celebrating marginal overnight talk radio in the sports format.
Speaker 1: And I'm so excited. This is amazing, Danny. How lucky
Speaker 1: are we to be here? I know, I even have
Speaker 1: a sponsor card here in my email inby It's brought
Speaker 1: to you by Rhodo Router. Dude, Now, do you have
Speaker 1: your your gift bag of good east? Do you have
Speaker 1: your gift bag of goodies? We've got diapers in the bag.
Speaker 1: I look at that. What else is it in there?
Speaker 1: A bottle of whiskey? Look at that stick. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some chap stick in there. That's pretty good. There's a
Speaker 1: hair replacement product. Uh, there's a boner pills that's in
Speaker 1: there as well. So there's a bottle of urine in here. Well,
Speaker 1: Doc Mike made sure he wanted everyone to be welcomed
Speaker 1: with open arms. There's a mandolin from Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 1: Look at that, a mandolin, Dixter. That's a that's crazy.
Speaker 1: This is an amazing goodie bag. What a great goodie craft.
Speaker 1: This is a big one. Oh what is that? What
Speaker 1: is that? What do you guys? Is that? I think
Speaker 1: that is a I believe that's one of blind Scots canes.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of his jes right there? Why
Speaker 1: is that in there? I thought it was for stickball,
Speaker 1: h cow cowboy. And Winter's got some old newspapers he's donating,
Speaker 1: so that's exciting. In the goodie bag and what's hollering
Speaker 1: James is giving us some old pill bottles from as
Speaker 1: many medications that he takes. I'm a doctor. So this
Speaker 1: is the pregame for the main event. We've got proper palooza,
Speaker 1: the nominees please, and then whatever else we have time for.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get the pop quiz maybe well, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get the scientific goal. Maybe we won't. But it just depends, right,
Speaker 1: depends how much time we have. So we begin with
Speaker 1: this though the fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny
Speaker 1: g Radio. We are all dressed in the night. Danny,
Speaker 1: you've got your formal outfit on right there. You're looking
Speaker 1: at a solid People can't see you because it's a podcast,
Speaker 1: but trust us and we are just a couple of
Speaker 1: days away from I got to repeat this the greatest
Speaker 1: night in overnight sports talk radio, the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: Benny Awards, celebrating the contributions of men, women and children,
Speaker 1: well mostly men from around the globe who have helped
Speaker 1: cultivate content. And really these are people that are influences, Danny.
Speaker 1: The people that are nominated are influencers. It has been called,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, the single pinnacle event, the seminal event
Speaker 1: of the show. And we all come together, we pat
Speaker 1: each other on the ass, and we say how great
Speaker 1: we are and all that. It is a tradition unlike
Speaker 1: any other. As Jim Nance might say, a toe tapping
Speaker 1: good time. It's like a trip to the hooting nanny, Danny.
Speaker 1: It's like a trip to the hooting nanny. And so
Speaker 1: this is the pregame show. Consider this the red carpet galla,
Speaker 1: all the glits, all the glamor. You never know what
Speaker 1: Felexus is gonna wear, for example, or our friend Mark,
Speaker 1: the full name guy in Medford, Oregon. You just don't know.
Speaker 1: But we will be mixing, and we will be mingling.
Speaker 1: I've never seen Coop in a suit before. I know
Speaker 1: he's but look at that. He's got a b all
Speaker 1: in his pocket. Though even though he's warning the suit,
Speaker 1: he's still got the ball with him. I wish I
Speaker 1: could pull off those suits. So that's good to see.
Speaker 1: Roberto's wearing a chef's hat for cooking with Roberto, so
Speaker 1: he's got that on. Eddie's looking at some old hockey magazine.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he's doing that. He's in a
Speaker 1: walking boot like Kevin Durant. Though it's a bad job
Speaker 1: by him. Shame on him. How about shut up? So anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: get to the point. Please. We like gambling on this show.
Speaker 1: We knew Benny versus the Penny during football season, so
Speaker 1: I thought, why not a proper palooza. Danny and the
Speaker 1: Mallard sports Book is open for business. I have put
Speaker 1: together with help from consultant's connoisseurs of offshore sports books,
Speaker 1: we have put together some prop bets for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three Bennies. Are you prepared? I did cast my
Speaker 1: vote a couple of days ago. Oh really, would you
Speaker 1: like to share who you voted for? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: that's well, that was gonna be my next point. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have more than one Gmail address. Oh my next
Speaker 1: vote could be bought. I'm just saying. And you can
Speaker 1: send money. You can venmo the money. Is that what
Speaker 1: you'd like? You prefer Venmo yes? Yes? Or zell or cash,
Speaker 1: just straight cash. There's no paper trail. Great cash, that's right.
Speaker 1: So these are prop bets we've come up with for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three Bennis. Consider this your companion to
Speaker 1: the Benny Awards. We have this prop bet will there
Speaker 1: be a wardrobe malfunction at the Bennies? Will anyone have
Speaker 1: a wardrobe malfunction? Yes? Is plus five thousand, so there's
Speaker 1: a less than two percent chance. I think that's a
Speaker 1: value play, Danny, because you know, we have we have
Speaker 1: some people that are a little loose on the show
Speaker 1: that that might win a Benny, right, and and so
Speaker 1: be careful on that. And you know, we we could
Speaker 1: put together like a Nickelodeon style obstacle cours. Somebody could
Speaker 1: get covered in green slime and then they might take
Speaker 1: their clothes off. So that's always a possibility. Does seeing
Speaker 1: Flexus's toes count? Uh, it's fine because it's only seven toes.
Speaker 1: It's like seven and a half toes, So that's perfect.
Speaker 1: That that's you know, that's okay, missing two and a
Speaker 1: half toes. Here's another profet. How likely is a pie
Speaker 1: to be thrown into the face of a nominee yes
Speaker 1: is plus two fifty. That's a seventy percent chance or
Speaker 1: a thirty percent, But mainly because of furg Dog. Burg
Speaker 1: Dog's a clown. I wouldn't put it past furg Dog
Speaker 1: to throw a pie in his own face. That guy's
Speaker 1: That guy's a knucklehead. Here's a here's another prope that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Which hard luck loser is most likely to
Speaker 1: have a hissy fit? Brian bill Brian Billick, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Now, Marcel is a minus two eighty favorite,
Speaker 1: ourselves a minus two any favorite. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: you've been in this game for a long time. You
Speaker 1: know how this works, and it's a very emotional event.
Speaker 1: Motions run high. Yeah, people really put a lot into this.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal. It's a big deal to win
Speaker 1: a Benny. And if you get this close and you
Speaker 1: don't win, man, is that a kick to the nuts? No.
Speaker 1: And I saw a list of snubs on Bleacher Report yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was mentioned in the article because I think this
Speaker 1: is like doing taxes. Instead of thinking of the actual
Speaker 1: year that these Benny Awards are four people, think of
Speaker 1: what just happened right now prior to Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: who was Coop's fill in guy, the microphone throttler. It
Speaker 1: is a travesty, It is an injustice. It is one
Speaker 1: of the great miscarriages of justice in the Western world.
Speaker 1: Danny g that you were not included in that, and
Speaker 1: you are correct, you are. I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 1: There are not a lot of notes that are taken
Speaker 1: throughout the years, so people can go back and look
Speaker 1: at some of the great moments. But it just seems
Speaker 1: that if you've made more of an impact, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a cheat code for next year's Manies.
Speaker 1: If you've made an impact within the last like two
Speaker 1: and a half months prior to the Bennies, yea a
Speaker 1: competitive advantage. You have a leg up on everyone else.
Speaker 1: Like there's people that did great stuff, wonderful stuff on
Speaker 1: the show back in May of last year, June April,
Speaker 1: and it gets lost in the haze the battlefield, the
Speaker 1: fog not of war, Danny, because we're not doing war,
Speaker 1: but it's the fog of radio of sports talk radio, right,
Speaker 1: and people become prisoners of the moment, right, That's what
Speaker 1: always happens here, prisoners of the moment, and so that
Speaker 1: is also that's also part of So just back to
Speaker 1: that away. As we continue are in debt, team coverage
Speaker 1: and more recency bias on this. These are actual prop
Speaker 1: bets from the Mallow Sports Book. As we try not
Speaker 1: to jump the gun on this, we have I think
Speaker 1: one or two more. We have who is most likely
Speaker 1: to go woke at the acceptance speech for the winning
Speaker 1: the award? Now, this is always a tough one because
Speaker 1: we have a lot of hardcore, buttoned up guys. I
Speaker 1: would say that Justin and Cincinnati and Jed who fled
Speaker 1: obviously they are the long shots. But if Justin gets
Speaker 1: all liquored up or smokes too many joints, I could
Speaker 1: see that Jed who fled he's one injection away from
Speaker 1: going full woke. But I gotta put Plastered Paul from
Speaker 1: Rhode Island as the favorite if he were to win. Benny,
Speaker 1: because we've already he's like Archie Bunker, which is an
Speaker 1: outdated reference Danny, but let's just say he's aging, he's
Speaker 1: an old fogy and he has no there's no mute button,
Speaker 1: there's no filter. He's unfiltered. He's raw with his commentary.
Speaker 1: I also feel like though Justin and Cincinnati, he is
Speaker 1: an undercover w NBA fan. I know this about Justin.
Speaker 1: He loves the w NBA. Doesn't talk about it a lot,
Speaker 1: but he's a huge fan. So if and when he's
Speaker 1: on the stage accepting his award, he might say that
Speaker 1: the w NBA players deserve equal pay. Yeah. Well, the
Speaker 1: other thing about Justin and I don't know, he's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna like that. I'm giving this out into the
Speaker 1: cosmos here on the podcast. But for years, our man
Speaker 1: Justin and Cincinnati has been a huge Meghan Rapino fan
Speaker 1: who women's soccer. He actually told me when he was
Speaker 1: a kid he loved women's soccer and his entire life.
Speaker 1: He's just continued that he really likes the rainbow haircuts.
Speaker 1: He thinks that that really just pushed it over the top.
Speaker 1: So as we understand it, he's a huge fan of
Speaker 1: women's soccer. So that's a that's a great take in
Speaker 1: women's basketball too. And people think of Justin as being
Speaker 1: like a neanderthal and a caveman and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But no, no, he's a nuanced man that Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Very complex. Yeah, exactly, He's like a Rubric's cube. It's
Speaker 1: not easy to solve. Not easy to solve. So last
Speaker 1: prop bet, what will happen if Brian Finley does not win? Now?
Speaker 1: Favorite is and he's up for filling of the Year Daddy,
Speaker 1: and the I'm looking at the odds here from the
Speaker 1: Offshore book, what will happen if Brian Finley doesn't win?
Speaker 1: A crowbar attack is plus one fifty, So that's a
Speaker 1: forty percent chance that there'll be a crowbar attack dropping
Speaker 1: a piano on my head. That is a minus one
Speaker 1: seventy five favorite, So that is a sixty three percent chance,
Speaker 1: sixty three. So those are some of the odds on
Speaker 1: on the Benny some of the props. Now, how about
Speaker 1: the nominees. We should go point by point through the
Speaker 1: nominees one more time so you can hear all of
Speaker 1: the nominees if you have not voted yet, and I'm
Speaker 1: tweeting out this podcast, and I will make sure below
Speaker 1: the podcast link on my Twitter page and also the
Speaker 1: Facebook page, I'll make sure to include a link so
Speaker 1: you have another opportunity if you haven't voted yet, and
Speaker 1: if you've already voted, as Danny pointed out, just get
Speaker 1: another Gmail account. Boom, you can vote again. Now, is
Speaker 1: there a way to write in somebody on the ballot? Oh? God, no, no,
Speaker 1: come on the dopey, stupid Chiefs ball Award show. It's
Speaker 1: wrong with you, Danny? How dare you? There is prestige,
Speaker 1: There is absolutely prestige. There's a bit of a clout
Speaker 1: that comes with this. You get a street credit in
Speaker 1: the malle Militia, which is exciting and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's not like you win this and you all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're gonna become a captain of industry
Speaker 1: or an aristocrat or anything like that. But there is
Speaker 1: no write in ballot. What kind of radio show are
Speaker 1: you guys doing? So the nominees. Here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the point. It is the nominees and why
Speaker 1: they matter. Okay, why they matter? The nominees for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Bennies celebrating marginal overnight sports talk radio
Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty two. These are the ones
Speaker 1: that stood out and just to be nominated, My god,
Speaker 1: what an honor? What in honor. So few people in
Speaker 1: the world ever get nominated for the Bennies. And you
Speaker 1: think about all of the people that lived, all of
Speaker 1: the people that have been part of society and humanity,
Speaker 1: and never were they nominated for a Benny. It's just
Speaker 1: absolutely studying when you think about all the big name
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth never got nominated for a Benny. Lebron James
Speaker 1: has not been nominated for a Benny. Tom Brady never
Speaker 1: nominated for a Benny. It's craziness. Yeah, Abraham Lincoln never nominated,
Speaker 1: George Washington never nominated for a Benny. Vladimir Putin not
Speaker 1: nominated for a Benny. I can go on, Ben, congratulations
Speaker 1: the nominees please for Rookie Caller of the Year. The
Speaker 1: nominees are Andre in Massachusetts aka the Commonwealth, fer Dog
Speaker 1: in southern California, Poppy in San Diego, Alameter Lou from
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, and Andy the comic book guy in Pasadena.
Speaker 1: So I did notice on this category, Danny handicapping the category.
Speaker 1: It is very heavy towards California. Yeah, only one of
Speaker 1: the candidates on one of the nominees is not from
Speaker 1: the Golden State. Andrea and the Commonwealth is on an
Speaker 1: island by himself, and he's a polarizing caller too, Danny
Speaker 1: g because there's a lot of the guys who tweet
Speaker 1: the show are upset with Andre. They don't like him,
Speaker 1: they think he's a thief in the night. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. It just rubs people the wrong way, I guess.
Speaker 1: But you've got furg Dog. I would put furg Dog
Speaker 1: as a favorite just because he's so active. I gotta
Speaker 1: think Poppy in San Diego. Also because he's called a lot,
Speaker 1: he's been part of the show. So I think those
Speaker 1: also for worst caller of the year. Yes, yes, that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of the show. You can be not only
Speaker 1: the rookie of the year, but also the worst caller
Speaker 1: on the show. You can wait. Awards says a lot
Speaker 1: about your show. How dare you winner? Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: doing their awards show? Is that next week? That? All right?
Speaker 1: Best game show contestant, that's the Dan Patrick show that
Speaker 1: steals your content. I've heard that, but I had no comment.
Speaker 1: Best game show contestant, You've got Matt in Phoenix. Now,
Speaker 1: this guy's a phoenion, this guy's a prodigy. This mad
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. I learned this week on the show, Danny
Speaker 1: that Matt, who's twenty five years old, he's been listening
Speaker 1: to the show since he was thirteen years old, so
Speaker 1: he's been pretty much grown up with you when you
Speaker 1: were part of the show and with me, and now
Speaker 1: he's fifty seven years old. Now, oh no, no, I've
Speaker 1: only been doing radio for like five years, but he's
Speaker 1: been he's been listening before I was even on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and amazing run Mad in Phoenix. He was
Speaker 1: from Illinois. He lives in Phoenix now going to school.
Speaker 1: And this guy is up for Best Game Show Contestant.
Speaker 1: Also the man that was part of a cheating scandal,
Speaker 1: Justin in Cincinnati. And I gotta tell you, Danny, if
Speaker 1: Justin ends up winning, that would be very deflating because
Speaker 1: he was part of such a despicable thing on this
Speaker 1: show with Eddie Garcia on the Overnight show, to the
Speaker 1: idea that he would be rewarded, it would be the
Speaker 1: equivalent of the cheating as assholes getting credited with winning
Speaker 1: the World Series. But again, it's what have you done
Speaker 1: for me lately with these awards? This is not really
Speaker 1: the beginning of twenty twenty two that your listeners are
Speaker 1: thinking about right now. Yeah, no, is that is accurate,
Speaker 1: But that was six months. The suspension was six months.
Speaker 1: It carried most of the year. We have Uncle Mo.
Speaker 1: Uncle Mo is the sparky Anderson of the Overnight Show.
Speaker 1: He sounds like he's in his sixties or seventies, but
Speaker 1: he's only in his I believe twenties, and he's like
Speaker 1: a trivia savant guy. It's insane the amount of random,
Speaker 1: meaningless sports tribua that Uncle Mo has in that brain
Speaker 1: of his. It really is. He's one of the nammies.
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? We have Mitchell in Ohio
Speaker 1: as a gag and Mason the Millennial, So those are
Speaker 1: the other two that are there. Mitchell is one of
Speaker 1: the funniest people that play these games, but doesn't even
Speaker 1: realize that he's funny. Danny, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he says stuff where he's not trying to be funny,
Speaker 1: but everyone in the room cracks up and has a
Speaker 1: belly laugh at the expense of our friend Mitchell in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Those are the best kind of comedians. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a windfall. When he's on the air, it's an absolute windfall.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't even realize it. The next category, and
Speaker 1: in that category I do have Justin and Uncle mos
Speaker 1: Co favorites, but I'm pulling from Uncle Mo. I do
Speaker 1: not have a say in this, but I am from
Speaker 1: Uncle Mo. Best Instant AdviceLine Caller is the next category.
Speaker 1: And people have said the instant Advice line is like
Speaker 1: an audition. It's like a tryout for the main main show,
Speaker 1: a dummy run, if you will, which is perfect any
Speaker 1: because our show has a lot of dummies, right, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of dummies on the on the radio show.
Speaker 1: So the nominees for Best Instant Advice Line Caller, we
Speaker 1: have Whoopee Pie Blair's impersonator where he says it's too
Speaker 1: much masturbation the problem here. That's a good one. That's
Speaker 1: a solid one. We have. I know it's you, Roberto guy,
Speaker 1: yeah with his creepy serial killer voice, Fudgie Como from
Speaker 1: Boston who does the funny fudgie voice, Sean the Hood
Speaker 1: guy who's been very prolific at the Instant AdviceLine, and
Speaker 1: Angry Bill speaking of dummies, Well, he's just a nut
Speaker 1: from Nutley, New Jersey. What about a nine year old girl? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the guy. And in this category this is too
Speaker 1: tough to call. I I would give an edge to
Speaker 1: the Whoopie Pie impersonator, But Fudgie this is his this
Speaker 1: is his wheelhouse here, Fudgie, this is his special special thing.
Speaker 1: So I would say Whoopie Pie impersonator or Fudgie. And
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the number, so I don't know who's
Speaker 1: who's leading, and I don't I purposely did not look
Speaker 1: at the numbers because I want to go into this
Speaker 1: and to give my opinion as we go through this.
Speaker 1: Oh I did at thirty Now I'm just kidding, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up another very competitive category, Best Lame Joke Writer,
Speaker 1: Best Lame Joke Writer. Ooh, this is competitive. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a tough category. This is another difficult category because
Speaker 1: there's so many people that are just wonderful at sending
Speaker 1: jokes and they've improved the show. They've made the show
Speaker 1: more enjoyable, they've upgraded the content. So I do think
Speaker 1: everyone that sends jokes in, even the people that aren't
Speaker 1: funny who send the jokes in. But the nominees for
Speaker 1: Best Lame Joke Rider of the Year, we have Gordon
Speaker 1: in Tacoma, Gordon's been with the show a long time
Speaker 1: as a joke rider. Usually sends two jokes a week
Speaker 1: in and they're both pretty good. Normally they both make
Speaker 1: the air. Ozzy Momentum, who is a sporadic joke rider,
Speaker 1: but when he jokes very funny. Surfer Todd, the comedian
Speaker 1: he's been in studio. We love Surfer Todd and he's
Speaker 1: a volume joke guy. He normally sends four or five
Speaker 1: jokes a week to the show. Anthony and Anaheim, who
Speaker 1: is sporadic. He's one of the nominees. Gary from Youngstown,
Speaker 1: Ohio another prolific joke rider. Gary's sent a lot of
Speaker 1: jokes over the last year, although not recently. He got
Speaker 1: upset with me at the end of last year when
Speaker 1: I missed some joke days and so he stopped sending
Speaker 1: jokes in for now, but I'm sure he'll be back.
Speaker 1: Georgie and Rochester, Minnesota. George normally sends just one joke
Speaker 1: a week in and it typically does get on the air.
Speaker 1: Kurt from Earth is another volume joke sender, very funny guy. Normally,
Speaker 1: a lot of his stuff doesn't make the air because
Speaker 1: it's offensive and it goes right to Cooper Loop and
Speaker 1: then he ignores it. Justin in DC, Justin and Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. I, for my money, dollar for dollar is
Speaker 1: by far and away the very top of the line
Speaker 1: when you whittle these things down, He's at the very
Speaker 1: top of a prototypical joke rider. He is the quintessential
Speaker 1: joke rider at this point. This guy Danny, he will
Speaker 1: send in and I'm not exaggerating here, fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: jokes a week, fifteen to twenty jokes a week, and
Speaker 1: they're all great. He loves the show. He listens every
Speaker 1: night to the show and the podcast, and so he
Speaker 1: writes jokes about people that call. He's he facilitates comedy.
Speaker 1: Gold is what he does. Then we've got Mason and
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, another very funny man, and Chip in Maine.
Speaker 1: Chip in Maine as well. Also Chip usually sends one
Speaker 1: or two jokes in, just like Mason in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1: But those guys are very amusing, very funny, So we
Speaker 1: thank all of them for sending jokes. This category, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give a lean towards Surfer Todd the comedian because
Speaker 1: he's well known in this world, well known in this
Speaker 1: world and to me, Justin and DC is neck and
Speaker 1: neck with Surfer Todd and Gordon and Tacoma and Kurt
Speaker 1: from Earth. It's a it's really a bottleneck in this division.
Speaker 1: So there is that. And Danny, you have still been
Speaker 1: part of the jokes. People do still jokes about you
Speaker 1: from this podcast. You'll be happy to know. Nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope they're racist jokes racist. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that don't get on the air anymore, but they are.
Speaker 1: They're very offensive jokes. Roberto. It's funny bring up that
Speaker 1: because Roberto asked for racist jokes, you wanted to read
Speaker 1: them on the air, and we got a bunch of them,
Speaker 1: but they were so racist we couldn't read them on
Speaker 1: the air. Oh, those necros looking, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about that. I have no idea. Next category
Speaker 1: is the best Mallaris song, Best Mallor song. We have
Speaker 1: Hey Brittany from mister PC That is song number one.
Speaker 1: Number two is in the Name of Bean from Just
Speaker 1: Josh and Jay Scoop and song number three nominee number
Speaker 1: three from Ohio al comfortably ben of a tough category.
Speaker 1: They're all chart toppers. Yeah, they're all really good. They're
Speaker 1: all really good. I'm gonna give the gambling edge based
Speaker 1: on name brand values. You know, a lot of winning election,
Speaker 1: Danny is people being aware of who you are, right,
Speaker 1: you have to have a high Q score. So I
Speaker 1: want to go just Josh and Jay Scoop as the
Speaker 1: favorite on that with their YouTube parody, their YouTube parody.
Speaker 1: But you can't go wrong with mister pc Ohio. All
Speaker 1: these guys are all all great. Next category of the
Speaker 1: nominees for best crew fill in on the Bennies And
Speaker 1: I'm looking page down here. As you said that, Danny,
Speaker 1: I do not see you here. I see a bunch
Speaker 1: of deadbeats, but I don't see you here. Well, you
Speaker 1: got promoted though, you're a big time now, You're you're
Speaker 1: you're a big deal. You're a mucket band. I know
Speaker 1: my roots, and you gotta stay with your roots now.
Speaker 1: You don't want to stay with us parasites on the overnight.
Speaker 1: You've moved on. You're you're a big daytime guy, evening gay.
Speaker 1: But I moved on at the very end of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. That means all those other ten months I
Speaker 1: put in all those long overnight hours filling in for Coop.
Speaker 1: Anytime he had a hangnail. Yeah, so how about it,
Speaker 1: Why don't you and Coop you can flip we'll do
Speaker 1: like a reverso and like one day a month, you'll
Speaker 1: do the Overnight show and Coop will do Covino and
Speaker 1: rich Pool. Problem solved. There you go. They would love that.
Speaker 1: Would Coop be there though for their pre show meeting?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Let me tell you one thing Coop does
Speaker 1: as long as it's like sixty seconds before the show,
Speaker 1: he will be right there as long as it's it's
Speaker 1: just sixty seconds before they And he doesn't need a
Speaker 1: lot of meeting He's not a meeting guy. Dany I
Speaker 1: don't even know. Coop does not believe in a lot
Speaker 1: of meetings. He likes to let the show happen organically.
Speaker 1: It's what he likes to do, you know. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: have Brian no a long time fill in for me.
Speaker 1: I will Iowa Sam, who fills in for Roberto. Yep,
Speaker 1: we're all fans of Iowa Sam. Kevin Wyret, the new
Speaker 1: guy is a saddle bad guy. We called him. We
Speaker 1: call him Sparty. All I know is he did a
Speaker 1: paper on you when he was in school. Yes, yes, uh,
Speaker 1: we have Brian Finley. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: Bernie Fratto. We love Bernie, Bernie from Vegas. Yeah, Moncy
Speaker 1: Belanos and Brandon True. Brandon's the Padre Yankee fan who's
Speaker 1: got the high pitched voice and it is a good
Speaker 1: sport about it. Yeah. I like Brandon. Brandon's a good guy.
Speaker 1: So this category eny meany money, mo. I think this
Speaker 1: is pretty lopsided, Danny, because we got a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on the on the audience that
Speaker 1: vote for these things that might be thinking with some
Speaker 1: other things. Uh, I knew you were a Finley fanatic. Well,
Speaker 1: Brian is a sex symbol. I think he's got this
Speaker 1: in the bag. I would be shocked. This would be
Speaker 1: one of the great upsets of all time. This would
Speaker 1: be Team USA beating If that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good point because there are so many thirsty Mallord militia members. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you hear any female's voice all over me, they
Speaker 1: stand to attention immediately, as if they've never heard of
Speaker 1: female talk before in their entire life. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: a female that knows sports, Oh my god, that's daily
Speaker 1: double Danny. Well, she kind of knows sports well, she's learning,
Speaker 1: but no, I'm kidding. So congratulations to all those nominees.
Speaker 1: We have wasted Caller of the Year. Got Joey and Nashville.
Speaker 1: This guy's got a cartoon. Who's that cartoon dog? Huckleberry Hound?
Speaker 1: I think that was the name before My Time for
Speaker 1: my Time too. I watched the replace, But Joey and
Speaker 1: Nashville sounds like that guy. We've got Plastered Paul and
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, the black irishman from Omaha, Nebraska Racist and
Speaker 1: Jed who Fled And those are all the nominees for
Speaker 1: Wasting Call of the Year. Jed who Fled and Plastered
Speaker 1: Paul have to be the co favorites in this. Jed's
Speaker 1: been completely hammered for years and plastered Paul breakout star
Speaker 1: over the last year or so, a Drop of the Year,
Speaker 1: Drop of the Year. The nominees are Marcel and Brooklyn's
Speaker 1: Big Padaca Duke or whatever he said the coupe with
Speaker 1: Wow Wow, and I'm on there. I've got several nominees.
Speaker 1: I've got Booby Yeah. Also he blew me off at
Speaker 1: a hotel near lax that's on there. And that's my
Speaker 1: personal favorite. Oh that was taken out of context, and
Speaker 1: I personally happened to me, but it's my favorite. He
Speaker 1: blew me off at a hotel near La X. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the Taliban is also on there, which is
Speaker 1: again out of context. I was doing a news story
Speaker 1: and I'm coming out of the closet from hollering James.
Speaker 1: So that is a nominee. I got a great chance
Speaker 1: to win. If I do not win, I will be annoyed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have the Taliban on your side, you should win this. No,
Speaker 1: I got a fifty percent chance. There are the only
Speaker 1: other nominees other than me are Marcel Coop and hollering James.
Speaker 1: And I'm coming out of the closet one from hollering
Speaker 1: James is hilarious. It's absolutely hilarious, all right. Next up,
Speaker 1: Female Caller of the Year. The nominees are Andrea, the
Speaker 1: astrologer known as Virgo and Service or some people call
Speaker 1: her the witch Lady. We love her spin cycle, Regina
Speaker 1: Tammy in Montana and Rachel in Montabello. Are those are
Speaker 1: the nominees for Female call of the Year and all. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know I'm a I'm a woman, hear me raw? Right,
Speaker 1: So this is tough because Tammy is beloved in the
Speaker 1: Matta militia, but she doesn't call as much. She hasn't
Speaker 1: really been calling that much. Spin Pycho Regina also loved,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't call that much anymore. Nito's Rachel I
Speaker 1: would say Andrew has got an edge because she's put
Speaker 1: the work in. She's she's made the call, she stayed
Speaker 1: on hold, she's she's done what has to be done
Speaker 1: to get on the air. But again, it's not about
Speaker 1: the past three months, it's about the prior year. So
Speaker 1: we're any of them more active back then? Well, Spinsycho
Speaker 1: Regina was pretty active at the beginning of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: so she was there and we had the great bit
Speaker 1: where Doc Mike and her gig. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say they hooked up, but right, yeah, they got together
Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't know what happened. They don't
Speaker 1: kiss and tell. That was some good radio. It sounded
Speaker 1: like Regina was scared for her life. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two beer Drinking Brian worst caller of the year,
Speaker 1: the worst call year. It has been said Danny that
Speaker 1: this is the most competitive category that we have and
Speaker 1: all of these people super villains in the Mallard Militia.
Speaker 1: You could have put about one hundred contestants in this category.
Speaker 1: A lot of Dick Dastardly's in here right, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of that, a lot of blockheads. We
Speaker 1: love you, you're our blockheads, the Cobra commanders of the
Speaker 1: Mallar Militia, the bad guys. We've got Poppy in San Diego,
Speaker 1: O huge favorite, Andre in the Commonwealth from Massachusetts, hollering,
Speaker 1: James Sir scratch Off from Arkansas, Paul in Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: and Marcel in Brooklyn. What I have no idea which
Speaker 1: direction this is going to go. A lot of people
Speaker 1: rip Andre, so I would say he's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of hate. Marcel gets a lot of hate also, So
Speaker 1: do those guys end up winning or is it a
Speaker 1: poppy win? Like why this could go any direction? Thin
Speaker 1: line between love and hate with Marcel. Yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: really funny things that Marcel says, and then there's things
Speaker 1: we chastise him about and it's like hell fire and
Speaker 1: damnation from him. Yeah, so you are, you're right on
Speaker 1: that art last category we'll get out on this. The
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Genie and Medford memorial Caller of the
Speaker 1: Year Genie. We miss you, Genie all time great and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: once you left the show, Danny, a lot of those
Speaker 1: Genie drops kind of went away because Roberto was not
Speaker 1: around for when Gennie was in her heyday. So he
Speaker 1: lives on through the Fifth Hour because her voice and
Speaker 1: laugh is heard on just about every Fifth Hour podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Genie in Medford, if you did not have the good
Speaker 1: fortune of being around on the show when Genie would
Speaker 1: call up, Genie is an all time goat. There is
Speaker 1: no way you can besmirch her name. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite stories in radio the fact that she got arrested
Speaker 1: for calling nine one one. She was just she was
Speaker 1: just a lonely woman by herself. She wanted someone to
Speaker 1: talk to, and so she called the radio station, called
Speaker 1: the police station, rather got arrested, and the police felt
Speaker 1: pity on her, and they said, why don't you just
Speaker 1: find you listen to the radio, call a radio show.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll her up all night. And she did, and
Speaker 1: she happened to find our show and it was wonderful
Speaker 1: and we're so grateful. Genie in Medford, who is memorialized
Speaker 1: at a park in Los Angeles, right right near Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: There is a Swan Boat Park in Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: some of the money that listeners sent in to help
Speaker 1: pay for the cremation of Gene in Medford, her burial
Speaker 1: and whatnot, some of the money that was left over
Speaker 1: we were able to purchase a plaque on a bench
Speaker 1: in this beautiful park with the skyline of La on
Speaker 1: one side, and just a wonderful tribute to Genie and Medford,
Speaker 1: which I don't think has been vandalized yet. I don't.
Speaker 1: It's right near the playground at the park, at the
Speaker 1: Swan Boat Boat Park if you're ever in La. I
Speaker 1: visited it, Ben. It's beautiful, but there was a homeless
Speaker 1: encampment right next to it. Yeah yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: check it out once it was installed, and my wife
Speaker 1: was so afraid of the environment that she stayed in
Speaker 1: the car with the doors locked holding mace, that she
Speaker 1: was so concerned about what was going on. Come on,
Speaker 1: I know, come on you, yeah, I gotta live a
Speaker 1: little bit, right, Danny, Come on? Got a murder anyway,
Speaker 1: So Marcel and Brooklyn Jed who fled up for Call
Speaker 1: of the Year. Whoopee Pie Blair who's won this award
Speaker 1: in the past, Blind Scott from Boston. And you've got
Speaker 1: Cowboy and Windsor and Dick in Dayton Boy, all good choices.
Speaker 1: I've got Cowboy and Windsor and Dick and Dayton is
Speaker 1: co favorites, a couple of long time blue bloods, been
Speaker 1: around forever, They've not won this honor. So I've been
Speaker 1: Afetime Achievement Award. Well, we had Dick and Dayton who
Speaker 1: called up the other day. And Dick's really he's a
Speaker 1: wonderful caller because he doesn't even realize what he's saying
Speaker 1: when the calls he's made over the last couple of
Speaker 1: years were Dick and Dayton's Like, I'd asked him about it.
Speaker 1: What are the what are the Cleveland Indians have to do?
Speaker 1: That was what they used to be called. What are
Speaker 1: the Cleveland's that Indians have to do? He says, Well, Ben,
Speaker 1: I think if they get some pitching, some offense and
Speaker 1: some defense, they'll be all right. You know. It's just
Speaker 1: just just great. Anyway, Congratulations to all the nominees and
Speaker 1: good to all of you, and we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. It is must listen radio. If you
Speaker 1: do not get to hear it live, you can always
Speaker 1: go back and hear the podcast, but it's much better live.
Speaker 1: And thank you all all the nominees that we're part
Speaker 1: of this. And if you want to be part of
Speaker 1: the show going forward, you just gotta be active. You
Speaker 1: gotta be proactive. You gotta put the work in, you
Speaker 1: gotta put the effort in, and you two can win
Speaker 1: the most coveted honor in all of overnight sports talk radio,
Speaker 1: a Benny. I heard that the Oscars are so threatened
Speaker 1: by the Bennies that they sent a letter to our
Speaker 1: boss Scott and asked that you move it by a week.
Speaker 1: No cannot do it, No cannot do it. Screw them.
Speaker 1: This is much more popular. We are much bigger than
Speaker 1: the outdated and equated awards. Show that Hollywood is all right.
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that. Anything you want to promote
Speaker 1: Danny on this wonderful Friday. It is Friday morning right now.
Speaker 1: That means you're done on the air. I'm not. I'll
Speaker 1: be in there this afternoon at two pm with Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich. It's not Friday the thirteenth. Is Friday, the tenth,
Speaker 1: Today the tenth day of March. Have a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your day. We got another big podcast on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then wait a minute, Danny another one on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable three again three will be in the can soon.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is another day. Have a great rest of your
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