Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everyway, the Fifth Hour with Me big
Speaker 1: Man and Danny G Radio. And it is like a
Speaker 1: religious revival today. Not because it's the eighth day of September, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it is a Sunday, and not just any kind of Sunday, Nanny,
Speaker 1: what is today.
Speaker 3: The very first NFL Sunday that counts?
Speaker 1: That's right home, baby hum. But what a great day today.
Speaker 1: We got NFL actions starting for those of us who
Speaker 1: are on the West coast like me and Danny G
Speaker 1: starting from Nam all the way through that late game,
Speaker 1: my Rams and the Lions that'll be ending roughly probably
Speaker 1: eight thirty or nine o'clock. I would say, our time.
Speaker 3: This is the pre game to the pre game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're here early on a Sunday for your
Speaker 1: mail bag needs and so excited. A lot of pressure
Speaker 1: now Benny versus the Penny Season two. Barely beat the
Speaker 1: Penny last year, barely beat the Penny last year. We're
Speaker 1: off to a decent start this weekend. But now a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts, a lot of moving parts on
Speaker 1: this food ball kind of a Sunday. So we look
Speaker 1: forward to all of that today and we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the mailbag. But there were some things I didn't
Speaker 1: get to yesterday, as I remember Danny, and one of
Speaker 1: them is the International Man of Mystery.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yes, yeah, yesterday you said you were
Speaker 3: going to try to remember this.
Speaker 1: Yes. So I'm a pretty jaded, cynical guy at this
Speaker 1: point when it comes to a lot of stuff we
Speaker 1: talk about. No, yeah, it's unfortunate, but every once in
Speaker 1: a while, Danny I become Benny Brightside, and that happened
Speaker 1: this past week on the Overnight Show. I meant to
Speaker 1: talk about this yesterday, but we ran out of time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely warned my cold heart to hear the voice of
Speaker 1: the Great Jay Scoop. Now, if you're new to the show,
Speaker 1: Jay Scoop, his real name is Jesse. We call him
Speaker 1: Jay Scoop. He is a very talented musician. He's done
Speaker 1: a number of song parodies that he's sent into the
Speaker 1: show over the years. He's a multi platinum time Benny
Speaker 1: Palooza winner. The Malard Palooza, he's won that, you know,
Speaker 1: a ton of times. He's been the judge in the
Speaker 1: Malard Palooza before. He's done it all in the show.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's even the hostess with the mostess as
Speaker 1: he set up the Seattle Meet and Greet back in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, which was right before the whole world shut
Speaker 1: down with COVID the end of twenty nineteen, we had
Speaker 1: a great celebration at the Malor Meet and Greet there
Speaker 1: in Seattle. And he's been a great supporter of the show.
Speaker 1: He was with the show when you were on the show, Danny,
Speaker 1: back in the day. He's been around a long time
Speaker 1: and he's now living in the Ukraine. He's now a caller,
Speaker 1: Hey Ukraine Online one. And if you don't know the backstory,
Speaker 1: Jayscoop was in the US military and he got out
Speaker 1: and living his life and all that and working like
Speaker 1: everyone else that gets out of the military, you have
Speaker 1: to live your life. Got bills to pay and whatnot
Speaker 1: and working as a struggling musician. And he told us
Speaker 1: he heard a calling that he needed to go and
Speaker 1: help out his family. His blood comes from Ukraine family roots,
Speaker 1: and so he relocated because he has military training and
Speaker 1: background and he wanted to help, so he relocated over
Speaker 1: a year ago to Ukraine. There's a war going on,
Speaker 1: that's why he went there. But it's pretty wild that
Speaker 1: he's he's not fighting on the front lines, but he
Speaker 1: does end up near the front lines because, without giving
Speaker 1: too much away, he helps bring the supplies that the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian military is using against the Russians. I don't even
Speaker 1: know all the details and all that, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: told me everything because he can't tell me everything. He
Speaker 1: did tell me that they can't use Wi Fi because
Speaker 1: of the Russian drones. They monitor that and then if
Speaker 1: they find you using the Wi Fi, kaboom, it's over.
Speaker 1: So they can't use that, can't use the internet out
Speaker 1: in the battlefield. So there's a lot going on with
Speaker 1: that logistically. And he hasn't called the show in a while,
Speaker 1: and he still listens to the podcast. He's not he's
Speaker 1: not doing it every day. I'm not sure exactly how
Speaker 1: often when he's doing it several days a week at
Speaker 1: least he's helping out their military and then the rest
Speaker 1: of the time he's got downtime. And so he called
Speaker 1: up the other day, Jay Scoop called up on a
Speaker 1: static filled line with beeping every so often, you know
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and he gave us a snapshot
Speaker 1: of what life is like living in a major city
Speaker 1: in Ukraine during a war and the phone beeping and
Speaker 1: being static. He is one problem. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: he had to make a lot of a lot of effort,
Speaker 1: a lot of energy was expended for him to even
Speaker 1: call the show because he had to. He had to call.
Speaker 1: I think his father was involved. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of steps to it. So he
Speaker 1: calls up and he give us a snapshot. And the
Speaker 1: power grid in the Ukraine is so messed up because
Speaker 1: of all the military activity that they they get power
Speaker 1: if they're lucky four to six hours a day, that's it.
Speaker 1: The rest of the time they have power. Now they
Speaker 1: get really nasty winters in the Ukraine. So what's going
Speaker 1: to happen there? Can't turn your heater on.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen with that, there'll be no power,
Speaker 1: talked about the sound of military bombs and whatnot off
Speaker 1: in the distance, constant tension and whatnot. And he also
Speaker 1: pointed out that since he's been in Ukraine for over
Speaker 1: a year, he now has a girlfriend who is Ukrainian
Speaker 1: and he actually wants to come back to the States.
Speaker 1: He'd like to bring his girlfriend. I want to leave
Speaker 1: her in a war zone, which is a noble thing
Speaker 1: to do. However, he talked about how difficult it is
Speaker 1: with the visa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the visa. Yeah, it's like ninety day fiance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're dealing with a war zone and the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and you know, it's a big mess. But
Speaker 1: it was great to hear him, and I'm so happy
Speaker 1: he was able to call in. Hopefully he'll check in
Speaker 1: more often. I also didn't get to the idiom of
Speaker 1: the week yesterday, which is actually a follow up and
Speaker 1: kind of ties into the mailbag. So why don't we
Speaker 1: start the mailbag with Ohio out It's remember last week
Speaker 1: Sarah in Minnesota. I forget which day it all runs together,
Speaker 1: but Sarah and Minnesota a big fan of the show.
Speaker 1: She asked about the origin of push it back, meaning
Speaker 1: to delay something. Yeah, I couldn't find it. However, the
Speaker 1: great power of the bully pulpit here Danny, one of
Speaker 1: our other listeners was able to find it. Did a
Speaker 1: better job than me. I guess I did a half
Speaker 1: assed job. Bad job by me, And he emailed me.
Speaker 1: This is Hank in Tokyo, who is a p one,
Speaker 1: listens to the Overnight Show and this podcast and clearly
Speaker 1: an og of the linguistic ninja powers as he saved today.
Speaker 1: He sent me the following correspondence. He says, I cannot
Speaker 1: find a meaningful origin story, and I would guess that
Speaker 1: there almost certainly is an earlier usage. But given the
Speaker 1: speaker qualifies the meaning of the idiom by explicitly clarifying
Speaker 1: with the word postpone, there's a lot of verbiage in this.
Speaker 1: But he says, now the rest of the story, which
Speaker 1: I love. I quote Paul Harvey all the time, and
Speaker 1: now for the rest of the story. The origin he
Speaker 1: found for the use of push it back meaning to
Speaker 1: deny something, he credited with President Ronald Reagan in the
Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties. He said the earliest usage of push
Speaker 1: it back with the intended meaning of postpone or delay.
Speaker 1: I hope you're listening, Sarah. This is from Hank in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: He says that he could find was President Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: wall in office during an interview in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: on the twentieth of January nineteenth eighty two. Is that
Speaker 1: what he got sworn in? Yeah, it probably was right,
Speaker 1: because January twentieth is when they swear in the new president. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the quote from Reagan was, now these people, these other
Speaker 1: economics economists, and as I say, I myself believe that
Speaker 1: was we had to compromise. Very possibly we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had this recession, and if we had had, it would
Speaker 1: not be as severe as it is. And now to
Speaker 1: the money part of the quote. So rather than push
Speaker 1: it back or postpone, no, President Reagan said in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two, the thing that I would yield to, if
Speaker 1: it could practically be done, would be to move it forward.
Speaker 1: So he used push it back and.
Speaker 3: Move it on. I looked it up for you. Reagan
Speaker 3: was sworn in on Tuesday, January twentieth, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we had already been the president for a year. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so very good. Yeah, that makes sense. So
Speaker 1: eighty one and then yeah, there was an election in
Speaker 1: he got re elected in eighty four. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: that was it. He two terms and that was that.
Speaker 1: So that was from nineteen eighty two. So thank you
Speaker 1: Hank in Tokyo. And that's that's a long that's over
Speaker 1: forty years ago, so that's a good amount of time.
Speaker 1: I hope that helped Sarah out. That's all we could find.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything. Hank found that and we appreciate.
Speaker 1: If you want to have any questions for a future
Speaker 1: idiom of the Week or looking up word origins, contact me,
Speaker 1: you know, send me a message and we'll see if
Speaker 1: we can help you out. We'll see if we can
Speaker 1: help you out. We had we had on the Friday podcast.
Speaker 1: We had Back to the Drawing Board Back on Friday,
Speaker 1: which is attributed to a cartoonist from The New Yorker
Speaker 1: where that came from. More of the mail bag. These
Speaker 1: are actual letters by actual lists to the show, and
Speaker 1: the first one up this week is from Masshole Mickey
Speaker 1: from the Commonwealth. Although he lives in the Boston area,
Speaker 1: he is outside Boston proper mass Whole Mickey writes in
Speaker 1: from the Commonwealth. He says, happy foosball Sunday. I hope
Speaker 1: you both enjoy the games today and delicious food that
Speaker 1: you may or may not be eating. I haven't determined.
Speaker 1: It's it's the first Sunday. I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to eat something. It's a holiday.
Speaker 3: Gotta do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll make a pizza or something. I haven't done
Speaker 1: that in a while.
Speaker 3: Gotta be some melted cheese involved today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, you got to have a cheat day on
Speaker 1: a football Sunday and enjoy the day. So mass Ole
Speaker 1: Mickey says, my question is for Ben, however, could apply
Speaker 1: to you as well, Danny G. Ben, how nervous scared
Speaker 1: were you to the possibility of Mike the Irish Leprechaun
Speaker 1: meeting you in the North and a month ago when
Speaker 1: we met And have you ever been nervous or scared
Speaker 1: to meet someone that is a fan of your show?
Speaker 1: Either you go, Ben or Covino and Rich Danny G.
Speaker 1: That's from Masshole Mickey. I don't know what it's scared
Speaker 1: is the right word. I don't know. There's only been
Speaker 1: one time where I was a little freaked out. That
Speaker 1: was with Doc Mike on a dark street in Kansas
Speaker 1: City with a screwdriver. That freaked me out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Other than that, and most people are nice. I mean,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna take the time to come out to a
Speaker 1: meet and greet. They're probably because they like you and
Speaker 1: they want to meet you and stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: there are some people that have shown up that are
Speaker 1: dishevel that. We had a guy the one we did
Speaker 1: in Vegas, Mike from Vegas, was drinking. He was drinking
Speaker 1: mouth washed out of the bottle as his beverage. That
Speaker 1: was a little odd. It's depressing, upsetting, I know, somewhat
Speaker 1: heartbreaking that he's so down on his luck that he's
Speaker 1: doing that. And there was some people that I don't
Speaker 1: think took a shower in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: that showed up, which was a little odd. There was
Speaker 1: one guy that showed up I was baffled by because
Speaker 1: he was walking around he had toilet paper that was
Speaker 1: on his shoe that he didn't notice. I was flabbergasted
Speaker 1: by that at a meet that was years ago. I
Speaker 1: was like, what is this guy doing? What about you, Danny,
Speaker 1: You've done a lot of listener events in your radio career.
Speaker 3: I don't think scared of any listener events, but definitely
Speaker 3: when I was a teenager in radio, I was scared
Speaker 3: of meeting girls that we met on the studio lines.
Speaker 3: My name man coworker of mine at the radio station,
Speaker 3: his name was Brett Conley. Brett Conley on the air,
Speaker 3: and Brett was famous for setting up these listener meetups
Speaker 3: with the opposite sex girl who would call our radio
Speaker 3: station and Brett would tell me, Hey, Danny, we're going
Speaker 3: to go to Danny's. I'm going to get us a table.
Speaker 3: You meet me there. That Anna girl, she's she's going
Speaker 3: to come meet me. Yeah, dude, I think she's hot.
Speaker 3: I could tell from her voice.
Speaker 1: Oh that's always risky. Yeah, always a risky proposition there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The old joke and broadcasting is if the girl sounds sexy,
Speaker 3: she's probably a really big mama. If she sounds like
Speaker 3: to me Moore, she's probably actually good looking.
Speaker 1: It's a hit and miss, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the voice, the voice could be very deceiving, deceiving.
Speaker 3: And this guy, Brett was famous for this and would
Speaker 3: pull this move where I told him, I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: the program director is going to find out you're going
Speaker 3: to get fired because, first of all, the general manager
Speaker 3: and program director would always lecture the staff on not
Speaker 3: doing this sort of thing. Brett did not listen and
Speaker 3: met as many girls as he could. If he walked
Speaker 3: into a Denny's and the girl was already there and
Speaker 3: he saw her, or she walked in and he didn't
Speaker 3: like the way she looked, he would just walk out.
Speaker 1: It's cold blooded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that girl then would you know, hate
Speaker 3: his guts.
Speaker 1: He was a selective. A selective. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: be selective.
Speaker 3: It's not like he was some awesome prize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he wasn't. Yeah, exactly, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's it. I used to go to Denny's when
Speaker 1: I had my board hop at the time, Julio, a
Speaker 1: single living in Hollywood, did the weekend overnight show, and
Speaker 1: we would cruise into Denny's on a Saturday morning at
Speaker 1: like four in the morning, and we would sit in
Speaker 1: there and the it was the Denny's down the street
Speaker 1: from the studio where they have the hotel wrapped around
Speaker 1: the Denny's. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that at the time. I'm sure they've cleaned it
Speaker 1: up now. I'm sure it's not like this anymore. This
Speaker 1: was many, many years ago. This was over twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: It was a hooker hotel. There were pimps and hose
Speaker 1: in the air everywhere. I mean, it was over the time,
Speaker 1: and it was like going to I like going down
Speaker 1: sometimes too. Here in LA We can go down to
Speaker 1: Santa Monica or Venice Beach. Probably Venice Beach is a
Speaker 1: better example. It's like a human zoo, and you see
Speaker 1: what's going on there. Times Square used to be like that.
Speaker 1: Not so much anymore. South Beach in Miami, New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I've not been to New Orleans, but my friends have
Speaker 1: told me it's very similar to that Vegas Fremont Street
Speaker 1: in Vegas. So okay, fine, all right, so we you know,
Speaker 1: we go there and it's just unbelievable. The hookers are
Speaker 1: coming in there to eat their eggs. Over Miami.
Speaker 3: Well, I know that hotel. I got locked out of
Speaker 3: my apartment in Burbank one day and I had need
Speaker 3: of a hotel that was near our studio, and that's
Speaker 3: the hotel I got a room at. What an experience
Speaker 3: man and two doses of penicillin later able to return
Speaker 3: to normal.
Speaker 1: So tell the best case scenario. What that hotels. It's
Speaker 1: only bed bugs, that's the best case scenario.
Speaker 3: Bugs.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: Bed bugs or the clap your choice.
Speaker 1: I mean the ladies there. I do not know how
Speaker 1: many customers they had that particular night, but it looked
Speaker 1: like they were really hard working women.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was the end of the night and they
Speaker 1: had their I guess their pimps or whatever they're hanging
Speaker 1: out and just looked looked like they had had some
Speaker 1: pharmaceuticals going. It was quite the quite the scene. We
Speaker 1: saw some fights in there. People fighting with each other,
Speaker 1: women fighting with the other women. It was it was
Speaker 1: quite the story, all right, Thank you masshole Mickey. Next
Speaker 1: up is Todd, my buddy Todd. He says, hey, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, I have decided to try the fasting diet
Speaker 1: in Aimant and fasting. I have been at it for
Speaker 1: almost a month. Now, well good for you time, he says.
Speaker 1: I first fasted for two days a week, and now
Speaker 1: I'm trying three. I experimented in the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks with eating a little a few times a day,
Speaker 1: but found that my cravings were stronger that way rather
Speaker 1: than not having anything other than liquids. I think I'm
Speaker 1: finally getting there and have found that drinking plenty of
Speaker 1: water and electrolyte drinks has been crucial help as well.
Speaker 1: Any tips, Yeah, so the electrolytes is the key thing.
Speaker 1: You also want to be careful on what you drink.
Speaker 1: Just water with electrotes, but some electrolytes have calories. There
Speaker 1: is this great debate in the cult of interminute fasting
Speaker 1: whether or not just having electrolytes that have cawries is
Speaker 1: going to end your fasting routine. I've gone back and
Speaker 1: forth on that. When I did my five and a
Speaker 1: half day fast before the TV show when we had
Speaker 1: to go back to Boston and tape some stuff. When
Speaker 1: I did that, I did not use anything other than
Speaker 1: salt because there's no calories in salt.
Speaker 3: And you look super thin on those opens and close outs.
Speaker 3: By the way, Oh well, thank you. You look like
Speaker 3: you need a hamburger. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I looked a little anemic. I think I lost too much,
Speaker 1: like too much weight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need some of Looney's steroids. Here's time, Loony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go down to Tijuan and get some.
Speaker 3: Goa good though for the camera, right, because you didn't
Speaker 3: want to get that extra ten pounds they always talk
Speaker 3: about from the camera.
Speaker 1: Lend Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, I made sure. That's
Speaker 1: why I didn't eat for like a month. I ate
Speaker 1: like once a week for a month, just to try
Speaker 1: to make that magic. So Todd, Yeah, I just recommend
Speaker 1: a little salt in the water enough enough so you
Speaker 1: get it avoid the headaches fast for a while. Usually
Speaker 1: by the two day mark you start getting headaches, and
Speaker 1: it's a problem.
Speaker 3: Probably harder for people coming off of caffeine, right, because
Speaker 3: you're not a coffee drinker or a soda drinker. But
Speaker 3: somebody that's coming off of that trying to fast, it's
Speaker 3: probably a harder transition.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I take like a caffeine supplement sometimes, but yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're a coffee drinker, it's probably not for you.
Speaker 1: Sarah in Minnesota writes, and that she made me smile.
Speaker 1: We talked about Sarah earlier because she had asked that
Speaker 1: question about the idiom and the origin of it. She said,
Speaker 1: I wanted to say some video and photos from the
Speaker 1: Peacock debut of Benny Versus the Penny, and sure if
Speaker 1: you like, and so she sent a bunch of photos
Speaker 1: here she's at her cabin and it's really cool. So
Speaker 1: she's in this rustic, old school cabin that looks amazing.
Speaker 1: By the way, Sarah, I'm jealous. I don't have a
Speaker 1: cabin that's awesome. Probably on a lake right in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: one of the ten thousand lakes there, actually there's eleven
Speaker 1: thousand whatever. Beautiful fire and show off. Yeah, so pretty
Speaker 1: cool as we're in one hundred and fifteen degree heat.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Thank you, Sarah. And you have a beautiful
Speaker 1: cabin there. I'm jealous. It's awesome. I did enjoy Minnesota
Speaker 1: a time, but I didn't go when the mosquitoes were out.
Speaker 1: I didn't go when it was freezing. I went when
Speaker 1: the weather was perfect, and it was just an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing time at that Malor Meet and Greet Jonathan and Delaware.
Speaker 1: Reacting to a call we had this week from Fats
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, he says, Hey, please do a Delaware Valley
Speaker 1: meet up. Just give us some advanced notice here. He says,
Speaker 1: I've been following you around since I was in high school.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jonathan, damn, how time flies.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: He enjoys the show. He says, happy football season, which
Speaker 1: begins today, and FATS in Philadelphia invited invited us to
Speaker 1: come to Philadelphia. Of course, we have to pay our
Speaker 1: own way. I'd like to go back to Philly. I
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the Overnight Show. But when I was
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia the last time, the weather was terrible. It
Speaker 1: was rainy and gloomy. The whole time I was there,
Speaker 1: food was amazing. I was walking around like a boss
Speaker 1: South Philly. I was like, oh man, this is like
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno's old stomping grounds and all that. Had a
Speaker 1: great time even with the bad weather. But I'd like
Speaker 1: to go when the weather's good, which I think I've
Speaker 1: already missed the window, Danny. I think I've already missed
Speaker 1: the window. Although we are heading into the fall season
Speaker 1: and then before you know it's Halloween. Stuff's already up
Speaker 1: at Costco. Have you seen that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the pumpkin spice latte crap is big at
Speaker 3: Starbucks and all that. Like all the fall crap is
Speaker 3: upon us. But it doesn't make sense for our current
Speaker 3: weather because this is the hottest it's been for us
Speaker 3: all summer long.
Speaker 1: Those are corporate decisions, Danny. Those are corporate it is
Speaker 1: it's ridiculously hot. It was a pretty mild July, and
Speaker 1: even August was relatively mild.
Speaker 3: But September, yeah, over one hundred degree temperatures coming up
Speaker 3: for the next few days, and then a big drop off.
Speaker 3: Suddenly it goes to like eighty six degrees and then
Speaker 3: to like eighty degrees in a week from now. So
Speaker 3: it's weird. We had one hundred we had like phoenix
Speaker 3: weather for two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's like we moved to Scottsdale. Next up, Ryan from
Speaker 1: Shrewsbury in the Commonwealth says, hello, gentlemen, I am so
Speaker 1: happy that season number two Benny versus The Penny's Bed. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Ryan, I'm happy to now feels like football season.
Speaker 1: Speaking of TV, what was your guys favorite show growing up?
Speaker 1: And what is your favorite show your go to show today?
Speaker 1: I also took a screenshot. Oh yeah, well that there
Speaker 1: it is. That's beautiful. Although Ryan, you're not in a
Speaker 1: cabin like my friend Sarah, but that thank you for that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That does that fires me up. The boys
Speaker 1: that are sending photos, James the pool guy, send some photos,
Speaker 1: mister nice guy in the Bay Area, keep them coming in.
Speaker 1: Keep all season, Keep them coming in. Favorite TV show
Speaker 1: as a kid depends how old, depends how old Ryan
Speaker 1: we look. Kid, it was Saturday Morning cartoons. Loved them.
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning Cartoons, all about it. And then as I
Speaker 1: got a little older, I used to love game shows.
Speaker 1: I loved watching Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall
Speaker 1: because I'm old, I liked that was another one. Uh
Speaker 1: pressure luck, big money, big money, no way me stop.
Speaker 1: And then they had the Yeah like jet I watched
Speaker 1: Prices right with Bob Barker and that that needle dick
Speaker 1: microphone that he had. Uh that was you know, there
Speaker 1: were some great sitcoms back in the day. They I
Speaker 1: thought they were great. So, I mean I was a
Speaker 1: little kid, I watched Mash and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: What about you, Danny, Well, let's see, as a little kid,
Speaker 3: I loved Tom and Jerry cartoons and Loon Meet tunes
Speaker 3: and Woody Woodpecker stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Then Stone's and the Jetsons that was big too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those cartoons kind of creeped me out a little bit.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why, I look back. Maybe it was
Speaker 3: that little alien that you to fly around with Red Flintstone.
Speaker 1: Great Kazoo is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The Great Kazoo. I couldn't figure out why there
Speaker 3: was an alien with the flintstones.
Speaker 1: The people that wrote those cartoons must have been so
Speaker 1: like the Hannah Barbera people.
Speaker 3: And all that. Oh yeah, they were smoking.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean the nay with like woody woodpeckers the
Speaker 1: name of a character, right, they just like this stuff.
Speaker 1: The names of the characters had these double entendres. As
Speaker 1: an adult, you look back at it, You're like, whoa
Speaker 1: wait a minute, right, yeah, yeah, the pink panther. You know,
Speaker 1: you all at It's like it's going on here.
Speaker 3: There's some wacky storylines and characters in those old school cartoons.
Speaker 3: That's why some of them are outlawed now they are
Speaker 3: far from PC. Yeah. As a teenager, I had a
Speaker 3: collection of VHS tapes. I taped the pilot episode on
Speaker 3: through the first few seasons of The Fresh Prince of
Speaker 3: bel Air. We were so excited when hip hop collided
Speaker 3: with television, and of course the famous soap in for
Speaker 3: that show, and Will Smith went on to be a
Speaker 3: movie star. But you know, now, this is a story
Speaker 3: all about how my life got flipped turned upside down,
Speaker 3: and I'd like to take a minute just sit right there.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you how became the prince of a town
Speaker 3: called bell Air.
Speaker 1: Solid you remember that off the top of your head.
Speaker 3: Heymen, working right next to bell Air as adults.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're down the hill from bell Air. Yes, hell,
Speaker 1: that's where all the rich people live. We're down here
Speaker 1: with the commoners in the oaks. But keep my wife's
Speaker 1: name out of your mouth and all that is he
Speaker 1: is he still toxic? Will Smith? Has he still been candling?
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's been out of the spotlight
Speaker 3: for long enough because he was trying to lay low.
Speaker 3: That's the game plan. You try to let enough time
Speaker 3: go by so that you know you can have the comeback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ozzie was from Western Australia, says, my mate's big
Speaker 1: and the microphone throttler.
Speaker 3: The microphone throttler.
Speaker 1: So the missus has had a mishap, rolled her ankle
Speaker 1: and broke it in two places. Ozzie Wah says he
Speaker 1: just had to drive over an hour to the hospital.
Speaker 1: That must have been a pleasant drive, he says, that's life.
Speaker 1: So my question for you gents, how many bones have
Speaker 1: you broken?
Speaker 3: If any? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The only thing I've broken some fingers and toes. But
Speaker 1: I've never never broken like a leg or an arm
Speaker 1: or anything like that, or a wrist. My right hand
Speaker 1: was getting a workout, damn you. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3: And the only thing I've ever broke is my nose.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a big that's a big one though, you
Speaker 1: break it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was boxing as a kid.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's not probably the answer you won,
Speaker 1: Ozzie was by the way, we were waiting for you.
Speaker 1: You have you have an alibi. We'll give you an hour.
Speaker 1: But we were gonna have you use one of your
Speaker 1: pigs with Poppy. Instead, we're using Lorraina Picks of the
Speaker 1: Week with Loraina and Poppy.
Speaker 3: How did Poppy's first pick do?
Speaker 1: Well, we don't know. The game is tonight. We want tokay,
Speaker 1: we we're gonna we're gonna change this, gonna morphe a round.
Speaker 1: So tonight he picked on fold.
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought maybe he picked the Friday game.
Speaker 1: No, no, it was it was a Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: I think we're going and it's gonna change it. We'll
Speaker 1: each have them picked three games. They can pick whatever
Speaker 1: three games they want. One game is not enough. The
Speaker 1: problem is Poppy wants to do his own TV show. He's,
Speaker 1: as you know, very modest, and he's like, and we
Speaker 1: don't want we just want the picks. We don't need
Speaker 1: all the repartee, we don't need that. So we're still
Speaker 1: messing with that. But we were gonna have Ozzie wazuse
Speaker 1: to one of his picks instead we we were going
Speaker 1: with Larraina. And I love Lorena and I just want
Speaker 1: to point out that quote. I used this on the
Speaker 1: air the other night from Bill Parcells, and he had
Speaker 1: this line about he saw his wife and his wife
Speaker 1: said how great she was, but she didn't really know
Speaker 1: football right, and it was something like his wife couldn't
Speaker 1: tell if the ball was puffed or stuffed right. And
Speaker 1: in many ways, that's that's our friend Loraina, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that about her, that she's great at what
Speaker 1: she does, but she's not like yeah whatever.
Speaker 3: So we teased her constantly because last season with that
Speaker 3: FSR prediction sheet that's in the studio every year for
Speaker 3: her NFC champ, she wrote an AFC team in there
Speaker 3: and we tried to explain it to her and she's like,
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well we and Super Marcus Steve can back
Speaker 1: me up. And so she says she's a cowboy fan, right,
Speaker 1: so you're a cowboy fan. So I asked her a
Speaker 1: bunch of cowboy questions and it was like, yeah, who's
Speaker 1: the coach of the cowboys? You know, who is the
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cowboy I forget exactly what I asked,
Speaker 1: but it was all stuff from from back in the day,
Speaker 1: back in the and she got none, none of them.
Speaker 1: We love her, he's wonderful. And yeah she's on. She's
Speaker 1: out for a few more days. She'll be back later
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 3: Be it's like the people who do really good in
Speaker 3: March madness. Because when she was board operating the Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich Show before she went to you, we would
Speaker 3: do picks every Friday, and she would win a lot
Speaker 3: of the picks, just because when you don't know about it,
Speaker 3: you just go with what your gut tells you at
Speaker 3: the moment. She based it on logos and colors and
Speaker 3: things like that in the city, and she would get
Speaker 3: a lot of the picks, right because she's not sitting
Speaker 3: there dissecting stats and overthinking everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And that was quite the stray
Speaker 1: we traded. If you didn't hear about this. Back in
Speaker 1: the day, we traded Iowa Sam and we got the
Speaker 1: rights to Loreina.
Speaker 3: We got a cash consideration at least, well, what we.
Speaker 1: Got as an added bonus is we got a new
Speaker 1: water machine in the Smurf kitchen, so we upgraded the
Speaker 1: water machine. That was part of the trade. You didn't
Speaker 1: want to throw that in, by the way, Danny, you
Speaker 1: were like, we're not gonna Coveno and Rich are not
Speaker 1: going to put a water machine in there. You're on
Speaker 1: your own. I said no, Iowa Sam's got a little
Speaker 1: more experienced than Lorena, and we were taking a shot
Speaker 1: with Lorena. And so you have to throw in a prospect,
Speaker 1: which is a suspect.
Speaker 3: Well, and of course you didn't mention we got your
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five first pick. So yeah, they're all suspects
Speaker 3: right until they pan out.
Speaker 1: The water is great and the little Loraina giving out
Speaker 1: love advice.
Speaker 3: I'm the doctor next level. What could go wrong with that?
Speaker 3: She's a single mom who guys run away from exactly Jim,
Speaker 3: and she's awesome. By the way, you, as Chris Myers
Speaker 3: would say, you kid because you care. So Jim writes
Speaker 3: in from Parts So Known, he says, Hey, Ben, what
Speaker 3: do you think of Andrew Siciliano, the new broadcaster for
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Rest Yeah, with built in satellites.
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the Overnight Show. You must
Speaker 1: have missed the Jim, But I'm very excited for Andrew.
Speaker 1: I've known him for many, many years. He hosted the
Speaker 1: Red Zone channel on Direct TV, and he worked at
Speaker 1: NFL Network for years and stuff. So he's a guy.
Speaker 1: You always feel good for people that you know who
Speaker 1: weren't assholes, and that would be him. Very nice, very
Speaker 1: kind person. I sent him some text that actually after
Speaker 1: we recorded Benny Versus the Penny on Thursday, this episode
Speaker 1: this Weekend which still airs today, and a few more
Speaker 1: runnings before the football kicks off. As we're doing this
Speaker 1: in real time, and I was reached out to Andrew
Speaker 1: and he got back to me, and I'm excited for him.
Speaker 1: He grew up a Cleveland Browns fan. We used to
Speaker 1: bust his balls Danny in the early days of Foxman.
Speaker 1: Why the fuck are you a Cleveland Browns fan. He's
Speaker 1: from Virginia, that's from like the DC area, the DMV area,
Speaker 1: and it's like the family was Cleveland Brown On fans
Speaker 1: and stuff, and so he's the freaking It's like it
Speaker 1: would be like if you became the radio voice of
Speaker 1: the Raiders or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I was just gonna I was just gonna
Speaker 3: say that that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm very happy for him. It's it's great.
Speaker 1: And as much as I've had a love hate relationship
Speaker 1: with the Browns fans, they are a passionate bunch, the
Speaker 1: Cleveland brown fan base.
Speaker 3: See, it would be like the equivalent of you becoming
Speaker 3: the Rams mascot, that big rambant guy, Ramon all me
Speaker 3: and Ramming all knight.
Speaker 1: That's not the name of the mascot.
Speaker 3: It's not that he thought he was Rammitt.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that's the name I thought
Speaker 1: taking that up. That's the song is Rammitt all Day,
Speaker 1: ram It all night? Yeah? All right, Mike and the
Speaker 1: OCI will do a few more Mike and the ocum.
Speaker 3: Why is Rammitt walking? Funny?
Speaker 1: Rammitt needs some ice on his growing Mike in the
Speaker 1: oc or, he says, OC's fourth oldest c Fullerton. He says,
Speaker 1: Hey Ben and Danny g. Ben. After the constant barrage
Speaker 1: of WNBA and tennis propaganda.
Speaker 3: On your show lately.
Speaker 1: I have to ask if you were forced to watch
Speaker 1: either the WNBA finals or the US Open finals, which
Speaker 1: one would you watch. Basically, I'm asking you to choose
Speaker 1: between Eddie Garcia and Brian Finley. I'd like your answer
Speaker 1: as well, Danny G. Also, do you guys consider peanut
Speaker 1: butter a liquid or a solid? TSA says it's a liquid.
Speaker 1: H that's interesting. Is that true? They think that peanut butter,
Speaker 1: a chunky peanut butter, is a liquid. That's not. It's oil.
Speaker 1: It's oil and peanut, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was gonna say, well, what happens if it's
Speaker 3: in the sun. That's true, it melts and yeah. So
Speaker 3: the answer to your question, it's a great question, Mike.
Speaker 3: It's one of those Sophie's Choice questions.
Speaker 1: There's no good answer WNBA finals or US Open finals.
Speaker 1: So I tried to figure out the US Open tennis.
Speaker 1: How long does a tennis match last?
Speaker 3: Dude? I got the answer too long?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'll go WNBA. Then I'm gonna go w
Speaker 1: because whatever is quicker and gets me out of there,
Speaker 1: I'm in. I don't want to spend too much time
Speaker 1: and I have been to New York during the US
Speaker 1: Open when I was doing stuff for the Dodgers. They
Speaker 1: used to play the Mets every August and the US
Speaker 1: Open would be going on, and it was actually at
Speaker 1: the hotel we stayed at. We stayed at the Grand
Speaker 1: Hyatt in New York, and they they would have all
Speaker 1: these tennis players who would be staying there. So we'd
Speaker 1: see them in the lobby. We're going out to get
Speaker 1: wait for the bus, and they'd be all with their
Speaker 1: their rackets, their managers and all that stuff. So I
Speaker 1: didn't know who any of them were, but they were
Speaker 1: they were staying there.
Speaker 3: I know that the Williams sisters kind of changed the
Speaker 3: narrative a little bit, But as kids, we always kind
Speaker 3: of looked at tennis as sort of an elitist sport.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tennis and golf one percent. Now, I'm right
Speaker 1: there right there with you and I. As a kid,
Speaker 1: you were around the same age. We had like these
Speaker 1: fames like Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, these legends of
Speaker 1: tennis that would would go at it.
Speaker 3: But if McEnroe like went on a tirade and broke
Speaker 3: a couple of rackets, you could see that on the
Speaker 3: sports machine, the George Michael Sports Machine. Yeah, or maybe
Speaker 3: did see highlights. He didn't have to watch the whole
Speaker 3: damn tennis match.
Speaker 1: Well in LA he could have been one of Rogan's
Speaker 1: heroes if he had done that. Possibly we had Mac
Speaker 1: and Roll on the show. I don't need to get
Speaker 1: into that story. Al from the air show, says Ben
Speaker 1: as someone who also grew up twenty minutes from two
Speaker 1: different air bases. I was wondering what happened to the
Speaker 1: two that were decommissioned by the original Malor mansion. Have
Speaker 1: they been repurposed? Yes, you look it up. There's a
Speaker 1: thing called the Great Park which is in Irvine, the
Speaker 1: OC Gray Park, I think it's called, and it's a
Speaker 1: they made. It's not even all the military, but some
Speaker 1: of the military bases housing. They built houses, and then
Speaker 1: the other part of it is this giant park where
Speaker 1: they have an outdoor auditorium and a bunch of cool
Speaker 1: stuff soccer fields, baseball.
Speaker 3: Did they leave any warheads for the kids to play with?
Speaker 1: Well, if you did, you can find some moreheads. The
Speaker 1: other one is more interesting. There was a Tustin Marine Airbase.
Speaker 1: They had these giant wooden hangers. We talked about it
Speaker 1: alf and oh that's right, and they were they couldn't
Speaker 1: tear them down. They were from World War Two. They
Speaker 1: built these giant blimps and they would they would fix
Speaker 1: planes in there because they didn't want someone to see
Speaker 1: from you know, spy planes or whatever it is seeing.
Speaker 1: They were so paranoid. So they had these giant wooden
Speaker 1: hangars and one of them burned down a few months back,
Speaker 1: and it was very sad.
Speaker 3: That was all over the news, especially here in southern California.
Speaker 1: Also because if you happen to be downwind, you got
Speaker 1: a cloud of poison that came to your city.
Speaker 3: Some ambulance chaser TV commercials pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Yes, were you down win when the hangar at the
Speaker 1: Tustin Airbase back in the day burnt down you So
Speaker 1: that was a mess. But they built housing there and
Speaker 1: they built some shopping and whatnot, which is really crazy.
Speaker 1: And I go back to that area every once in
Speaker 1: a while, and as a child, I remember going having
Speaker 1: the chance to have the open house and walk through
Speaker 1: tanks and fighter jets and see all the crap. And
Speaker 1: now it's like a Costco or a Walmart or whatever,
Speaker 1: like what the heck's going on there?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: What's up with that? Gary from Pittsburgh resident says Ben,
Speaker 1: I've listened to the Mailbag podcast recently. You mentioned you
Speaker 1: didn't like salads unless they're Canadian salads. I thought, what
Speaker 1: is a Canadian salad? So I used your sage advice
Speaker 1: and I just googled it. The recipes I saw were repulsive,
Speaker 1: with barley and chickapeas and cranberries, so I thought maybe
Speaker 1: that was a p one inside reference. So then I
Speaker 1: went to Google's Evil Twin Urban Dictionary and I typed
Speaker 1: that in and OMG, if that's what you like, your
Speaker 1: mama Mahler finds out, it will be benny versus the halfpenny,
Speaker 1: he says. Please tell me what I'm missing, He says,
Speaker 1: regarding my last post about steak cooking, I expected a
Speaker 1: how dare you? But not a double I consider it
Speaker 1: a badge of honor. Well you should, Gary, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I guess I have to spell it out for Gary.
Speaker 1: The Canadian salad is a witty way of saying the poutine,
Speaker 1: which is from Quebec oh Corda. The fries top with
Speaker 1: cheddar cheese curds doused in beef gravy and did you know, Gary,
Speaker 1: I looked this up for you. This is only for you.
Speaker 1: It's a fun fact about Quebec. The word poutine comes
Speaker 1: from the Quebecian slang for mess. They say it's a
Speaker 1: combination of the word mess and the word for pudding.
Speaker 1: And the legend is that boutine is not that old.
Speaker 1: It is not that old. Supposedly it started out at
Speaker 1: a in the nineteen fifties, nineteen fifty seven. I think
Speaker 1: it's a long time ago, but in the big picture,
Speaker 1: is not that long. The dish first appeared in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven in a Quebec dairy town of Warwick in Quebec,
Speaker 1: and a customer asked the restauranteur, this French dude, hey,
Speaker 1: can you put some cheese, curds and fries together in
Speaker 1: a brown paper bag? Because the guy was in a hurry,
Speaker 1: and the chef, the French chef said oh yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: do whatever he did, and then on his way out
Speaker 1: he supposedly said in French the equivalent of that, that'll
Speaker 1: make a damn mess. And that combination grew, and you know,
Speaker 1: there you go, and they started adding gravy to it.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties. So that's way too much information
Speaker 1: about Poutinea.
Speaker 3: You made me hungry for some game day eats right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it is an NFL Sunday Week number one
Speaker 1: continues today and then tomorrow. That's it for us, Danny,
Speaker 1: anything you want to promote. I got Benny Versus the
Speaker 1: Penny till about one o'clock today Random Cable Television, also
Speaker 1: on Peacock, and then that's it for that. They'll kill
Speaker 1: the show for another week, and then we'll have another
Speaker 1: show starting next Friday, and I'll be back on the
Speaker 1: radio breaking down all the NFL games tonight. The Magic
Speaker 1: Radio Box. Can't wait for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tomorrow, Monday, we will react to all of the
Speaker 3: NFL action on Covino and Rich from two to four
Speaker 3: pm on the West side, and that's five to seven
Speaker 3: pm in beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Harrisburg, PA. I have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'll be on tonight eleven o'clock in the west, two
Speaker 1: am in the East. If you miss any of the show,
Speaker 1: it's all up on the podcast. We call that the
Speaker 1: Original Recipe Podcast, this of course the Extra Chris Me Pod,
Speaker 1: and we will catch.
Speaker 3: You then minshew Mania, Let's go Raiders, the Raiders and
Speaker 3: hopefully your rams show up for you.
Speaker 1: Well, you definitely ram it all night tonight Later Skater
Speaker 1: got a murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go.