Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: the podcast do Joe is open for business. The on
Speaker 1: air light is flashing. I'm actually on the live air.
Speaker 1: It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
Speaker 1: Radio who because listen, five hours a day not enough.
Speaker 1: That's actually four hours today, four hours. It seems like
Speaker 1: five hour, but it's four I don't even know how
Speaker 1: long I'm on the radio, Danny, it's four hours a night.
Speaker 1: It's not trigonometry. It seems like five hours, but it's
Speaker 1: four hours a night. With how late you run the
Speaker 1: clock at the network, it is five hours. Well, I
Speaker 1: use the clock as a tool. I don't believe in
Speaker 1: the clock being a hardline clock. Okay, Brandon Daley. It's
Speaker 1: like the spirit of the law or the letter of
Speaker 1: the law. I think the clock is a spirit of
Speaker 1: the law and not the letter of the law. You're
Speaker 1: like Nathaniel Hackett. You need a special advisor for the clock.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that I run the two
Speaker 1: minute drill better than anybody. I can jam more stuff
Speaker 1: in a two minute segment than anyone else. My right
Speaker 1: hand was getting a workout. That is true. I'll give
Speaker 1: you that. I'll be like, we did all that in
Speaker 1: two minutes now. Unfortunately, not everyone that I have worked
Speaker 1: with over the years enjoys the speed ray seeing through
Speaker 1: a segment. They do not like that, and that does
Speaker 1: become a problem. But anyway, let's get on with the show.
Speaker 1: We've got a big old mail bag here, so let's
Speaker 1: strike up the band. Ohio, al do your thing, Ohio all.
Speaker 1: It's bag alright, very nice and these are actual letters
Speaker 1: by actual listeners. Danny G I love the mail bag.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite things that I do during
Speaker 1: the week, answering listening questions. And this is a totally
Speaker 1: unique feature. There's nothing else quite like this. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so unique. You do it twice a week. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, that's incorrect. That is a terrestrial radio bit.
Speaker 1: That's podcasting is cool, Danny. We're cool doing the podcast
Speaker 1: anything on radio. I mean, come on, it's radio. But
Speaker 1: the podcasting, that's where all the hipsters are at right here, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't make movies about radio anymore, but they make
Speaker 1: movies about podcasting. Let me tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: They love their podcast all right. Anyway, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Here and the first email, I got mail, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got mail. Yea. This comes from Ulysses in parts unknown.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and or Danny, g please see the
Speaker 1: attached new proposal for the mail bag jingle. He says
Speaker 1: he wants us to play this on on the areas.
Speaker 1: I guess he's upset with Ohio. Al well, we got
Speaker 1: a battle. We have a jingle battle, Danny. Are you
Speaker 1: prepared to hear ulysses version of a jingle? He says here, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this last part after we play it.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear it. And then you're a
Speaker 1: professional DJ. You've been in radio for years, you know audio, Danny,
Speaker 1: so you're the perfect guy to judge. But here is
Speaker 1: Ulysses and his version of what he would like us
Speaker 1: to play the mail jingle mail back here It is
Speaker 1: what's in the back, what's in the back? Back back,
Speaker 1: Let's end the back, let's end your back, then back
Speaker 1: sil back. Yeah your thought? Uh, what's next? In the
Speaker 1: mail bag? Ulyss? He says it took heat, says it
Speaker 1: took a guy thirty minutes with no musical skills me
Speaker 1: to make maybe the chicken. Wait, that took three minutes
Speaker 1: or thirty minutes? He said, thirty minutes, he said, I'm
Speaker 1: reading the email right here. He says, he took a
Speaker 1: guy thirty minutes with no musical skills. What did he
Speaker 1: do with the other twenty seven minutes? Yeah, you didn't
Speaker 1: need to tell us you have no musical skills. I'm
Speaker 1: terrible at music, but I believe I could have done
Speaker 1: just as well. Thanks for the effort, Ulystens. You get
Speaker 1: a little gold star for the effort, and never do
Speaker 1: that again, Never ever do that again. It's so good
Speaker 1: that I want to use it next week and the
Speaker 1: week after that, the week after that. Oh man, oh man,
Speaker 1: oh man. All right, let's get to the real mail.
Speaker 1: Back here we go. Mike from Fullerton writes, and he says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: if Jeff Saturday decides to fill his staff with the
Speaker 1: Colts with a bunch of TV and radio personalities. Would
Speaker 1: either of you be interested in the job or would
Speaker 1: you hold out for a better team than the Colts
Speaker 1: that signed Mike from Fullerton? Danny, you're about to get married,
Speaker 1: you just get you got a big time show you're
Speaker 1: working on during the week year. Would you would you
Speaker 1: go to the Colts? Well? Yeah, because I think the
Speaker 1: Colts have decent ownership and a good general manager. They've
Speaker 1: had issues obviously with free agent signings and things like that,
Speaker 1: but overall, good fan base, good stadium. You can turn
Speaker 1: that sucker around and then you'd be a hero there
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. You go to the Colts even if they blow.
Speaker 1: You go to the Colts because life's all about the
Speaker 1: stories you pick up along the way. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the stories we would get Danny from being an assistant
Speaker 1: coach for Saturday with the Colts who play on Sunday,
Speaker 1: uh And how how crazy that would be? Absolutely? I
Speaker 1: did my radio hit in Kansas City this week and
Speaker 1: we were talking about Jeff Saturday, and I was like,
Speaker 1: he ought to just put a dream team of TV
Speaker 1: and radio people together, like hire Stephen as his defensive coinator.
Speaker 1: You don't want to make an enemy out of me,
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless. As an offensive coordinator. Colin Coward can coach
Speaker 1: the special teams. You just hire all these guys, like
Speaker 1: all these blowhards that are on TV and radio and
Speaker 1: just see what they can do. Why not? That would
Speaker 1: be awesome, be be so good. Florio could be picking coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Floria would be. He'd be in charge of
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, the punter and the none no, the person
Speaker 1: the long snapper. He's in charge of the long snapper
Speaker 1: or the person that runs out to take the t
Speaker 1: off the field. That guy, Uh, that's what he does
Speaker 1: there and he the crowd goes wild. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's diarrhea. All right. Next, this is the actual mail
Speaker 1: bag come back. It's from now Caol Barry in Nashville says,
Speaker 1: yo yo, mob Benny being a big time star that
Speaker 1: you guys are. Have you ever had folks come up
Speaker 1: to you when you were out in public and ask
Speaker 1: for a picture or an autograph? And if so, is
Speaker 1: this frightening or flattering? It has not happened that often.
Speaker 1: It does happen every once in a while. It happened
Speaker 1: in the days way before Twitter. It's happened a little
Speaker 1: bit more because people see what we look like now
Speaker 1: because of the videos the company makes and things like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it's it's never been frightening. I've never been frightened
Speaker 1: by it. I don't think I've always been flattered. I
Speaker 1: have had people come to me, usually it's like Staples
Speaker 1: I used to be Staples Center or Dodger Stadium, some
Speaker 1: sports venue, because that's you know, that's our meat and potatoes.
Speaker 1: Danny is sports and so. But I did have somebody
Speaker 1: come up to me Tito's Tacos, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: This this taco shop in Culver City, and they recognized
Speaker 1: me from the radio, and so that was that was
Speaker 1: kind of neat. But I've never it's never been where
Speaker 1: I've been like like scared. Some of the people have
Speaker 1: been very interesting and and I'll say that, but I
Speaker 1: don't like scared would be the way. I'm a pretty
Speaker 1: big guy. I think I can kind of protect myself
Speaker 1: for the most part. So I'm not really frightened by
Speaker 1: too much. And it's it's nice that someone thinks you're
Speaker 1: cool enough they want to get a picture with you,
Speaker 1: or the the autograph thing. What about you, Danny you've
Speaker 1: worked in radio a long time, have you been recognized?
Speaker 1: And about Uh, well, the late nineties to about two
Speaker 1: thousand three, I had that really nice run at k
Speaker 1: C a q SO doing morning drive, especially for that
Speaker 1: hip hop R and B radio station. I was like
Speaker 1: their version of Big Boy at Power one oh six.
Speaker 1: Back in the day. It was like, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of pictures and stuff like that, especially when you
Speaker 1: were out at remote. And the one thing that was
Speaker 1: embarrassing though, is we had like Body Solutions and m
Speaker 1: D Weight Control as sponsors that we had to read
Speaker 1: during morning drive. Right. So, I remember one time I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in port Waynini, California, at Carls Jr. And I'm
Speaker 1: about to take a huge bite out of a Western
Speaker 1: Bacon cheeseburger and I hear somebody from behind me say
Speaker 1: that m D Weight Controls coming in handy. Huh. So
Speaker 1: as many autographs and picture that occurred, I also had
Speaker 1: a lot of moments like that where people were watching
Speaker 1: you for all the wrong reasons. Yeah. Well, I did
Speaker 1: the Body Shaper Body Solutions commercials. We were number two
Speaker 1: in the market in l A. The only show that
Speaker 1: sold more of that was Howard Stern, who was the
Speaker 1: number one show in the market. We were not the
Speaker 1: number one show in the market, but we did very
Speaker 1: well with that. And I had the same thing Danny,
Speaker 1: and I was really I was like I was as fat.
Speaker 1: I was a double wide trailer when I was doing
Speaker 1: this and I was not losing weight. And people would
Speaker 1: come up to me at remote as well, you're doing
Speaker 1: the commercials, you said you're losing weight. You look as
Speaker 1: fat as ever. You know that kind of like it
Speaker 1: was so embarrassing. And that Body Solutions, you remember one
Speaker 1: teaspoon before bed and it does all the work. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah. But the gimmick and I can we
Speaker 1: say it now the statue of limitations is run out.
Speaker 1: I think we can say it. Sales staff made us
Speaker 1: do it. No, no, we didn't want to do it,
Speaker 1: but they told us to do it. And the whole
Speaker 1: gimmick was don't eat three hours before bed. And then
Speaker 1: it was essentially it caused you this ship. It gave
Speaker 1: you the Mona Zuma's revenge. And then so you first
Speaker 1: of all, if you don't eat three hours before bed,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose weight anyone, right, I mean that they
Speaker 1: tell you don't eat before bed your stomachs. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people eat right before better they'll get a snack.
Speaker 1: And that's just people like to eat whatever. And I
Speaker 1: was the same way up until a few years back
Speaker 1: when I stopped. But but if you don't eat three
Speaker 1: hours before bed, you're gonna lose weight. And then they
Speaker 1: whatever you ate, they'll have you shipped out. And so
Speaker 1: there you go. That's that's how that work. Remember, for
Speaker 1: a little while, they're fat blockers were all the rage,
Speaker 1: and that's what m D Wake Control did. I would
Speaker 1: take the fat blockers with with my meal and then
Speaker 1: based on what the meal was, all this orange oil
Speaker 1: would come out of your orifice is and it was
Speaker 1: so nasty that it made you not want to ever
Speaker 1: eat a slice of pizza because then you really had
Speaker 1: an orange oil spill. Yeah, I have that obstacle since
Speaker 1: my goal bladder went out. I guess I have my
Speaker 1: own natural fat blocker because I have what if I
Speaker 1: if I go too long with the fast and I
Speaker 1: because my gall bladder it does kind of look that
Speaker 1: that direction. But we're talking about ship Verry asked about
Speaker 1: about autographs and pictures. We're talking about taking a dump
Speaker 1: and the fat blockers and all this the beauty of
Speaker 1: the men an all connected. Yeah, it's the hip bones
Speaker 1: connected to Yeah, you know that whole thing, the bone song. Yeah, exactly, man,
Speaker 1: all right, Next up, Jet who fled? This is the
Speaker 1: real jet who fled, not to be confused with the
Speaker 1: fake jet who fled. This is the authentic jet who fled.
Speaker 1: And he writes, he says, guys, what percentage of people
Speaker 1: in in your life are you comfortable talking politics and
Speaker 1: religion with? Now that's a great question. I don't talk
Speaker 1: religion with pretty much anybody, uh In in in the
Speaker 1: circle politics I have. I have a group of people
Speaker 1: who are aligned with my beliefs politically, who we we
Speaker 1: text and things like that. Then I have a group
Speaker 1: of people who are on the extreme on the other side,
Speaker 1: and then I'll we'll go back and forth and bust
Speaker 1: each other's chops some of those people. But I but oh,
Speaker 1: that's your scientology group chat. Yeah exactly, uh so. But
Speaker 1: but no, I mean, for the most part, I don't
Speaker 1: just like with my regular friends. I mean, do we
Speaker 1: talk about politics. No, we don't talk about politics. We
Speaker 1: don't talk about religion because I learned not to talk
Speaker 1: about politics and not to talk about religion. Uh, and
Speaker 1: these are these are taboo subjects, and so yet I
Speaker 1: don't usually do that, um, just to avoid the because
Speaker 1: you don't know where people sit on that. And then
Speaker 1: if you if they if they're really hardcore into politics
Speaker 1: and I'm not like people think I'm hard I'm not hardcore,
Speaker 1: and apolitics, I'm interested. As I've gotten older, I've gotten
Speaker 1: more interested in politics, but I'm I think the whole
Speaker 1: world's fucked it politically, so I don't really spend that
Speaker 1: much time worried about it. Uh. And then the religious stuff, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll have thoughts, and so as you get older, you
Speaker 1: think more about that, you know, and you wonder what's
Speaker 1: going on and all that, But I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: obsess about any of that stuff. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would ever talk about any of
Speaker 1: that on the radio until I met this man named
Speaker 1: Clay Travis. And Clay could turn any conversation political talk,
Speaker 1: and there would be mornings where behind the scenes we'd
Speaker 1: be saying, please don't come to us, Please don't come
Speaker 1: to us, Please don't come to the crew, please please
Speaker 1: please don't ask the crew what we think about this,
Speaker 1: and then he would stop and he'd say, let me
Speaker 1: go to the crew. What say you guys boxing man boxing? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of the times I disagreed
Speaker 1: with him, which made for a good conversation. There were
Speaker 1: other times I agreed with them, you know, back and forth.
Speaker 1: But he liked that because he would always say, am
Speaker 1: I nuts? Am I nuts? Here? Yeah? Actually in this
Speaker 1: case you are nuts. But yeah, most of the time, Ben,
Speaker 1: You're right. In the world that we work in, you
Speaker 1: don't talk about religion, especially not on the air, and
Speaker 1: you don't talk about politics. Yeah, exactly, And people generally,
Speaker 1: I know, Clay did his thing and he worked out well.
Speaker 1: He got the Russia limbob job Russia's share, which is
Speaker 1: an amazing compliment to the Clay. But usually people tune in.
Speaker 1: They don't want to hear any of that, you know,
Speaker 1: to what we do. They want to hear us breakdown
Speaker 1: how fed up the astros are something like that, or
Speaker 1: talk football for the most part. Jed also says, do
Speaker 1: you think merging the machine emerging with machines, brain ships,
Speaker 1: et cetera is a why his idea, as well as
Speaker 1: the prolification of all things AI, Well, anything can be
Speaker 1: good or bad. Yeah, that's I think, like you look
Speaker 1: at like nuclear weapons. They were designed to be good
Speaker 1: right in theory, they were good. Now they can be
Speaker 1: used terribly wrong, and depends who's in charge of said
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. But I think it is amazing the technology
Speaker 1: that is right around the corner where there are people
Speaker 1: right now that are paralyzed, there are people that are blind,
Speaker 1: there are people that have all these these lifetime illnesses
Speaker 1: that with the proper micro chip will be able to
Speaker 1: see or be able to walk again. I think that
Speaker 1: is amazing. And how how are we to stop that
Speaker 1: from happening? How are we to say that can happen now?
Speaker 1: At the same time, that technology can be used for
Speaker 1: really bad But does the good outweigh the bad? And
Speaker 1: I think the good does outweigh the bad. And that
Speaker 1: and then we're all getting older, and the idea that
Speaker 1: certain things could cause us to live a better life,
Speaker 1: a better quality of life, have us live longer. I
Speaker 1: think that's a wonderful thing. And as far as the AI,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not spooked out by it. I think
Speaker 1: the balance has to be I'd much rather deal with
Speaker 1: the human being than than Ai. But I do know
Speaker 1: when I go to the grocery store, I like doing
Speaker 1: the self checkout thing or whatever. My side. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a I but I like doing my own
Speaker 1: thing and all that. Uh. And then he says, lastly,
Speaker 1: most importantly, will the Seminoles beat the Gators in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks? Yes, for you, I hope that that happens. Danny.
Speaker 1: What were you at on brain chips? You pro brain ship,
Speaker 1: anti brain chip? Yeah, I'm with you. If it helps
Speaker 1: people with ailments, that's awesome. Now, I can't think of
Speaker 1: the name of the show. I think it was a
Speaker 1: Netflix show where if you had an issue with your
Speaker 1: body or body part, they would turn that part of
Speaker 1: your body into a robot to keep you alive. So
Speaker 1: everybody walking around had certain degrees of electronics. Now I
Speaker 1: like that, Ben, because my lower back has been barking lately,
Speaker 1: and if they could just take out my lower back
Speaker 1: and put robotics there, dude, I'd be set. I'd go
Speaker 1: play nerve football again. So you've got your lower back,
Speaker 1: I've got my right knee, which is all screwed up.
Speaker 1: We're doing pretty well over here, Danny, doing good. Right,
Speaker 1: life's good. Well, the good thing if when you go
Speaker 1: to Hawaii here just stay in the water, you you
Speaker 1: won't feel any pain. Your back will feel great. And dude,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lay out on that warm sand, stretch out
Speaker 1: as far as I can stretch, and lay in that
Speaker 1: position for hours. Now, are you guys gonna unplug? What's
Speaker 1: the plan here? Are you gonna be locked in your phones?
Speaker 1: You're gonna leave those behind? Like? Are you gonna limit
Speaker 1: that a couple of hours a day or an hour
Speaker 1: a day? Like, what's the deal? Good question. We haven't
Speaker 1: talked about that yet. Suggestions, Well, my wife will laugh
Speaker 1: if she hears this, because she says, you're always on
Speaker 1: your phone, you know, and all that. But we had
Speaker 1: in part of Hawaii we had no cell reception, so
Speaker 1: we couldn't be on our phones, which was kind of cool,
Speaker 1: and I think would if you could limit it to
Speaker 1: you know, maybe at the end of the day you
Speaker 1: check your phone to see what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1: I think that would be the way to do it,
Speaker 1: because just you're laying in the beach, you're swimming with
Speaker 1: sea turtles, you're doing that kind of stuff. Do you
Speaker 1: really want to worry about what's some douche bag on
Speaker 1: on the internet talking about you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're gonna have to carry the
Speaker 1: phones with us to communicate with family members who are
Speaker 1: also there on the island, so kind of us Miswaukee talkies,
Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook and all that. I'm definitely gonna unplug
Speaker 1: from that sort of social media. I think, Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got to enjoy the place you live in the moment.
Speaker 1: You gotta live in the moment, all right. Next one
Speaker 1: from Joe and Darcy in Florida, and the email writes,
Speaker 1: Joe and Darcy right in, I only email you a
Speaker 1: few times a year, so I have to make this
Speaker 1: one count. This has been bothering me for a while,
Speaker 1: and I have had a theory for a while about
Speaker 1: one of America's most beloved game shows, and I can
Speaker 1: no longer keep my theory to myself. And Shoe and
Speaker 1: Darcy right, I believe Pat say Jack might be the
Speaker 1: original Marty Berg. It's an Ozark reference. Let me explain.
Speaker 1: He says, the average trip that they give away once
Speaker 1: a show almost always has a value of eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether the trip is skiing in Vermont
Speaker 1: or going to a place like Mexico or Costa Ric.
Speaker 1: Joe writes, I have been fortunate enough to to in life,
Speaker 1: he says, to have stayed in some of the very places,
Speaker 1: and the math makes no sense. Wheel of fortune flies
Speaker 1: people coach not first class. On the high end, the
Speaker 1: cost maybe his five dollars a ticket for two people
Speaker 1: thousand dollars total. That leaves seven thousand dollars for food
Speaker 1: and hotel. The hotels I've stayed in that are often
Speaker 1: featured have rooms that might approach three hundred dollars a night,
Speaker 1: but often they are less than that. Assuming the high
Speaker 1: end there, that leaves about fifty dollars after the hotel
Speaker 1: is dealt with. That got Joe went deep, man, He
Speaker 1: went deep, He says, Is it possible Joe and Darcy right?
Speaker 1: Is it possible that Vanna and Pat have been laundering
Speaker 1: money in plain site? This could explain why Chuck Woolerine
Speaker 1: had to be removed in the early eighties. I admit
Speaker 1: it might sound crazy, and I came up with this
Speaker 1: when drinking with Coda the Cat and everyone knows Coda sucks. Uh.
Speaker 1: This does not change that the This does not change that.
Speaker 1: The math, no matter how you work, it does not
Speaker 1: add up. You also have to assume that we all
Speaker 1: get some sort of corporate frequent user deal that makes
Speaker 1: the discrepancy in money even more glaring. What do you think?
Speaker 1: Have I blown the lid off a major scandal? The
Speaker 1: email rights from Joe and Darcy in Florida? Is it
Speaker 1: worthy of an investigation documentary? And will crime Lord say
Speaker 1: Jack seek vengeance on me? Please let me know again,
Speaker 1: Signed Joe and Darcy in Florida. Well, that is an
Speaker 1: unexpected email, Joe and Darcy. I've actually met pat Cy
Speaker 1: Jack a few times. He's got the greatest life, Danny
Speaker 1: pat Say Jack. He lives in the Washington, D c. Area.
Speaker 1: I think he lives in Maryland. He flies out to
Speaker 1: California like three or four times a year. And when
Speaker 1: he flies out, they film like fifty episodes a Wheel
Speaker 1: of Fortune in a week or something like that. It's
Speaker 1: a ridiculous number. And then he flies back and that's it,
Speaker 1: and and all that the game show prizes? Do they
Speaker 1: do the dollar amount for tax reasons? Is there a
Speaker 1: reason that it's always around eight thousand dollars? You think
Speaker 1: Danny's there's some kind of tax loophole. Could that be
Speaker 1: why the numbers always around the same for those prize packages.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would research something like this, but
Speaker 1: now he's piqued our interest to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna start googling this to find out what the
Speaker 1: hell is up with that. And I would like to
Speaker 1: tell that couple, Ben that yes they are hired as
Speaker 1: my next attorney, Joe and Darcy. I want to have
Speaker 1: some of what they're happy having, Danny, because they and
Speaker 1: Code of the Cat living their best life, that is
Speaker 1: for sure. Next up on the mailback Kevin in Kansas. Right.
Speaker 1: Since this, dear Ben and Danny, G I enjoy Ben's
Speaker 1: liberty valance reference about when the legend becomes the fact
Speaker 1: print the legend. I picture some of the classic westerns
Speaker 1: and think about people who saw those films in the
Speaker 1: original theater when it was released in the theater originally.
Speaker 1: What westerns do you wish you could have seen on
Speaker 1: the big screen back in their heyday that signed Kevin
Speaker 1: in Kansas, Well, a lot of those old spaghetti westerns.
Speaker 1: Danny would be kind of cool like and I I
Speaker 1: had a chance when Gene Autrey owned the Angels, the
Speaker 1: Singing Cowboy. I didn't know what that meant. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was a nickname. I didn't realize that he
Speaker 1: was a country music guy and he was in movies
Speaker 1: and things like that. And I only saw gene Autry
Speaker 1: when he was like, really freaking old. But I wonder
Speaker 1: what it was like to watch a gene Autry film
Speaker 1: when he was young. And my dad told me stories
Speaker 1: about John Wayne this and John Wayne that, and so
Speaker 1: any of those old westerns. You can go back to
Speaker 1: what the Red River I think was one of the
Speaker 1: classics right back in the day, or Stagecoach. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's tongue of those old western movies with John Wayne
Speaker 1: that was in them. And as Kevin pointed out, the
Speaker 1: line that we use all the time from the man
Speaker 1: who shot Liberty Valance, John Wayne was in that move
Speaker 1: with with James Stewart and bunch of other people who
Speaker 1: were big in that day. And any any Westerns Billy
Speaker 1: the Kid or anything, pop out the other Danny or
Speaker 1: you're not a Western guy. The modern westerns that they film,
Speaker 1: you know that they filmed in the past few decades.
Speaker 1: I like those like unforgiven that early nineties, right early nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman. Um, movies like that I really like. And
Speaker 1: also I love the Western TV shows. There's that Inspired
Speaker 1: TV channel, and sometimes on weekday mornings as I'm doing
Speaker 1: my computer work for Covino and Rich, I'll have on
Speaker 1: in the background shows like raw Hide, those old black
Speaker 1: and white or early color Western TV shows. They're pretty cool, man.
Speaker 1: The writing, some of the acting is a little corny,
Speaker 1: but the storylines and the use of rifles and guns
Speaker 1: and gunfights, I really liked that stuff. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: make those anymore. That's that that that age is passed, right,
Speaker 1: there's no more westerns. They're not making westerns any There's
Speaker 1: a lot of bank robbing, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Kitty and the Dolly and the girl who's all dressed
Speaker 1: up with the coke bottle curves. You know what I
Speaker 1: mean that. I read a story the other day that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Western hero Calamity Jane. Yeah, total bullshit
Speaker 1: that she was not. She just lied about everything, like everything,
Speaker 1: total bullshit, like one of the great liars of all time.
Speaker 1: But she's That's an example when the legend becomes the fact,
Speaker 1: you go with the legend like she made up like
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the stuff that was told about her,
Speaker 1: she just made up. She made up her own nickname,
Speaker 1: Calamity Jane. While Pierre from the lobby at the MGM, Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass not down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame or Muppet mcgras and Shrine, he says, following
Speaker 1: up from last weekend and your tale of your trip
Speaker 1: to visit your cousin in Arizona, any chance that during
Speaker 1: one of your upcoming visits that you pay off your
Speaker 1: bet and walk from Phoenix to Tucson. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: only been about seventeen and a half years, so no rush, Pierre.
Speaker 1: I have been through this with you before. The late
Speaker 1: Great Andrew Ashwood May he rest in peace. I told
Speaker 1: he was the boss of Fox Sports Radio at the time.
Speaker 1: I made that statement when Arizona blew a ridiculous lead
Speaker 1: to Luther Head and Darren Williams and in the fighting
Speaker 1: a line. I in an n c A tournament game,
Speaker 1: and I went to the boss at Fox Sports Trade
Speaker 1: of the big boss at the time, and I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I'm a man of my word.
Speaker 1: I want to do it. And Andrew looked at me,
Speaker 1: and he looked up and down he did the elevator
Speaker 1: rise and he said that I would not make it
Speaker 1: from our studios to Riverside without dropping dead. And uh
Speaker 1: said that there's no way I can allow you to
Speaker 1: do that. And I said, no, no, no, We'll get
Speaker 1: like an RV and you know, we'll have a daily
Speaker 1: updates and we'll get sponsors. And uh he said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. He said, So that's that said. There was
Speaker 1: no amount of Premier Networks insurance that could cover this
Speaker 1: stunt exactly exactly. But in my head I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: how bad could it be? And uh, I'll walk a
Speaker 1: little bit every day and eventually I'll get to where
Speaker 1: I need to go and yeah, uh and now man
Speaker 1: lu Olsen has gone a lot of those people from
Speaker 1: that game are long gone. All right. Next up, we
Speaker 1: have Adrian in the Mile High City, says Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny G. You're raising Arizona Saturday podcast brought back some
Speaker 1: old memories for me. When I was five years old,
Speaker 1: my dad moved our family from Colorado to Phoenix has
Speaker 1: he had a job opportunity at the Americopa County Jail.
Speaker 1: We lived in Phoenix from which, of course, were the
Speaker 1: glory days of Sir Charles and the Suns. The Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns were the first pro team I started following as
Speaker 1: a kid. And he says, Ben, you mentioned the Mad
Speaker 1: House on McDowell, the old home of the Sons, the
Speaker 1: Arizona Memorial Coliseum. I remember attending Sons games with my
Speaker 1: dad at that venue and what was then brand spanking
Speaker 1: new American West Arena. Adrian says, I'll never forget the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals between the Suns and Bulls, or the late
Speaker 1: great Paul westfall guaranteeing UH guarantee leading up to the finals,
Speaker 1: or how about shows am the legendary Al McCoy, the
Speaker 1: voice of the Suns. I was seven years old during
Speaker 1: those nineteen three finals, and I remember sitting next to
Speaker 1: my dad on the couch watching the games on TV,
Speaker 1: crying when John Packson made the three pointer in Game
Speaker 1: six to seal the championship. Uh. And he says, do
Speaker 1: you remember any of these names? Ben, Uh and Danny
Speaker 1: at Sir Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, thundered An Marley, Cedric Saballo's,
Speaker 1: Frank Johnson, Danny Age, Mark West, Tom Chambers, Richard Dumas
Speaker 1: and Oliver Miller. Absolutely absolutely, Adrian, I remember so many
Speaker 1: of those. Actually, I remember all those names go down
Speaker 1: the list. How about that famous kJ dunk He jumped
Speaker 1: about as high as you've ever seen a basketball player jump. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: Tom Chambers had one of the great dunks of all time,
Speaker 1: but he was with I think he was with the
Speaker 1: Sonics at the time, if I remember correctly, but he
Speaker 1: had a crazy dunk. And I have a great Oliver
Speaker 1: Miller's story that I've told a few times over the
Speaker 1: years of buddy of mine is a reporter from Germany
Speaker 1: and he covers international basketball, and Oliver Miller, at the
Speaker 1: end of his NBA career was playing in Europe. I
Speaker 1: think it might have been Germany, might have been Poland,
Speaker 1: but he was playing somewhere in Europe, and he didn't
Speaker 1: like the food, the local food, the local delicacy. Danny
Speaker 1: didn't think it was very good. So he stayed at
Speaker 1: a hotel that had like an American theme diner. And
Speaker 1: apparently he didn't like his hotel room either, because the
Speaker 1: legend is that Oliver Miller sat in the restaurant from
Speaker 1: morning to afternoon to evening until he had to go
Speaker 1: to the game and would eat like cheeseburgers, like all day.
Speaker 1: He was like cheeseburgers, just enjoying his life and exactly
Speaker 1: And Cedric Soballo's actually worked at Fox Sports Radio. We
Speaker 1: we had Cedric on our payroll for a brief amount
Speaker 1: of time. So he was he was. And how about
Speaker 1: thunder Dan Marley great love watching him it. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a good team. I I thought the Sons were
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Bulls that year. I thought they had
Speaker 1: had the ability to do it. He did have the ability.
Speaker 1: They ended up gagging, but so being anyways, said thanks
Speaker 1: for mentioning the Madhouse on McDowell and uh and Al
Speaker 1: McCoy I met him too. That was pretty cool and
Speaker 1: I I I told al A I when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, we we have family in Arizona, so I
Speaker 1: go to Arizona lot when I was a child, and
Speaker 1: I remember badgering my mom I have to eat at
Speaker 1: water Burger because we'd have water Burger in California. Like
Speaker 1: my mom was like, why the heck do you want
Speaker 1: to eat at what a burg? I said, because at
Speaker 1: late at night I would get the Sun's games on
Speaker 1: six twenty out of Phoenix k T A R at
Speaker 1: the station. I get it late at night, still remember
Speaker 1: the station, and I'd listened to Al McCoy called the
Speaker 1: Sun's Games, and he when somebody on the Suns would
Speaker 1: hit a three pointer, he'd say, what a shot? What
Speaker 1: a burger? You know, like that whole thing. That was it.
Speaker 1: And so I went up to all and I told
Speaker 1: him that he smiled and an old man, and this
Speaker 1: is several years back, and he told me he was
Speaker 1: very proud of the fact that was like one of
Speaker 1: the first product placements in an NBA broadcast at that
Speaker 1: commercial for water Burger. That that was. That was very
Speaker 1: unorthodox for the time. So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It was like their version of logos on a jersey. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: sponsor logos. Now everyone's doing it. Noah In Austin writes,
Speaker 1: and he says this question for Big Man and Danny
Speaker 1: ge what is your favorite curse word? And also what
Speaker 1: is one rule that you wish you could change at
Speaker 1: your job? All Right, I think the greatest curse word
Speaker 1: is the F word fuck, because you can use it
Speaker 1: in a positive context and a negative contest. It's really
Speaker 1: the Swiss Army knife of curse words. You can say, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so fucking happy, or go funk yourself, you fucking
Speaker 1: piece of ship. Like there's so many different ways you
Speaker 1: can say it, right, It's it's really inter changing. You
Speaker 1: could say, knock off this fucory. Yeah, man, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of bleeps in this danny. But that's
Speaker 1: that's where it's at for me. The F word. Ever
Speaker 1: since our meet and greet, Ben I stopped bleeping our
Speaker 1: curse words, Oh you did, okay, all right, yeah, let
Speaker 1: it rip. Let it rip. The guys like the bad words.
Speaker 1: They enjoy the bad words. It's true, and we we
Speaker 1: don't say I'm that often. But because this question is
Speaker 1: based in ship and fuck, Ben, I like ship, ship
Speaker 1: should be allowed on the radio. There's a bunch of
Speaker 1: on every day there's ship on the radio, and it's
Speaker 1: so stupid that we can't say that word. It is
Speaker 1: dumb because it's it doesn't belong. It doesn't have the
Speaker 1: same power as fuck or the sea. You know, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you know what I'm saying, like asshole, bitch,
Speaker 1: Like you're right, the F word, the C word, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to police those a little bit, so
Speaker 1: our little kids aren't walking around dropping those words constantly.
Speaker 1: I get it. But at school band in the mornings,
Speaker 1: the kids say ship all the time. They don't overuse it,
Speaker 1: but they use it in the right circumstances. Yea. And
Speaker 1: this has always been the funny thing about the way
Speaker 1: adults operate. And now I guess I'm an adult, which
Speaker 1: I hate saying, but I am. I mean, I talk
Speaker 1: about sports, but my entire life, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: my parents life. They always work to not have kids
Speaker 1: say bad words, right, not be exposed to bad words.
Speaker 1: But the filthiest place to hear bad words as a playground.
Speaker 1: So if society for eight hundred hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: has tried to keep kids from learning these bad words,
Speaker 1: and yet if you go to a playground, you hear
Speaker 1: every one of these words. Do they not understand it's
Speaker 1: not quite working out, their plans not quite working out?
Speaker 1: Do they get it? You know what I'm saying? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you feel me on that, you know, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm going you know. And by the way, that
Speaker 1: is the one rule that I would like to get
Speaker 1: rid of at work, the FCC rules. I feel like
Speaker 1: if we were able to talk freely. Then that would
Speaker 1: add that much more to our content and our fun. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I would if we didn't have to worry. But but
Speaker 1: then at the same time, you've got the the the
Speaker 1: people out there. They're just waiting for you to say
Speaker 1: the wrong thing. That at Oh you can't say that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, La la la la la. Get a life,
Speaker 1: That's what I tell those people. Get a freaking life,
Speaker 1: all right. Jeremy from Vermont writes in for both you've
Speaker 1: been and Danny g have either of you been to Vermont?
Speaker 1: And would you if you had the chance, and what
Speaker 1: would you look forward to that you have heard about Vermont?
Speaker 1: So there's there's Jeremy who's a big fan. It sounds
Speaker 1: like of his home state of Vermont. So yes, of
Speaker 1: course I've heard of Vermont. And when I when I
Speaker 1: worked remotely for w E I in Boston for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, some of the guys they lived in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire and some of the guys lived in Vermont.
Speaker 1: Doesn't our friend, the one and only Arnie Spanier, isn't
Speaker 1: he Mr Vermont? Not only is he Mr Vermont, Ben,
Speaker 1: but every year he sends those Christmas bags in huge
Speaker 1: boxes to the studios and in each bag he puts
Speaker 1: Vermont syrup, pancake mix, and beef jerky from Vermont, all
Speaker 1: really good products. So I would like to visit Vermont.
Speaker 1: But to me, that's all I think of is what
Speaker 1: I can go eat uh and pour on pancakes. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's beautiful. I know, you know, the geography
Speaker 1: is the same as Massachusetts, and you get outside the
Speaker 1: cities and it's just so so beautiful as long as
Speaker 1: you're not there in the winter when everything's dead. But
Speaker 1: a lot of outdoor stuff. I mean I think of Vermont,
Speaker 1: I think of hiking and looking at the forest and
Speaker 1: a scenic drive or something like that, or if you're
Speaker 1: into any kind of outdoor activities. Is a lot of
Speaker 1: like little lakes and things like that and streams in Vermont.
Speaker 1: But I would love to. I I hope, And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna work out here, Amy, but
Speaker 1: my I'm dating myself here. But my niece is going
Speaker 1: to graduate from high school in New York. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be back there in the summer. And my goal
Speaker 1: is if I time it right, if I get enough
Speaker 1: time off, I'm gonna drive up to Maine. So I'll
Speaker 1: drive through from New York to Maine and maybe i'll
Speaker 1: take the train back. I don't know. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes. But I want to stop along the way
Speaker 1: as much as I can and see a lot of
Speaker 1: places I haven't seen. I've driven from New York to Boston,
Speaker 1: so I've been through Connecticut and Rhode Island, and but
Speaker 1: I haven't been to Vermont, and I have not been
Speaker 1: to New Hampshire. That is not not happen. I think
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that, Danny, Yes, I think we're
Speaker 1: a late, but we'll get out on that. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Fred in Spring Texas, j Bone in Maine,
Speaker 1: and Bob from Parts Unknown who ripped Marcel John in
Speaker 1: northern California. There's at bot. I'm ready to bring the
Speaker 1: gas exactly. John's getting ready to go back to the ballet.
Speaker 1: He I think he wanted some advice on the ballet.
Speaker 1: But we'll get out there and listen. If you didn't
Speaker 1: get your email here, send it again next week. If
Speaker 1: you want to be part of this mail back, we'd
Speaker 1: love to have you great questions this week. Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Danny, Congratulations, you're you're getting close to to
Speaker 1: bailing out here and getting getting hit, so I'm happy
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, man, it's gonna be a fun trip
Speaker 1: to MAUI. I'm trying to get over this little cold.
Speaker 1: I think I headed it off at the past ben,
Speaker 1: but if in the next couple of days I don't
Speaker 1: feel I'm definitely gonna go the garlic route. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pull a bed mout Well, you'll keep the vampires away
Speaker 1: if nothing else. You might not keep the cold away,
Speaker 1: but you'll keep the vampires away. You get away from me,
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your day. I'll be back
Speaker 1: on the radio tonight at eleven o'clock in the West
Speaker 1: and of course two am in the East, and we'll
Speaker 1: do the same old song and dance breakdown all these
Speaker 1: NFL games and the good, the bed and the ugly
Speaker 1: and all that, and we'll talk to you then later.
Speaker 1: Skater gott a murder. I gotta go