Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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 fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny G Radio Happy Week eight. I know he
Speaker 1: actually started back on Thursday with the Buccaneers getting that
Speaker 1: cover even though the Bills won the game. But Danny,
Speaker 1: we got football action all day to day. My la
Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Dallas Cowboys, and the schedule. It's
Speaker 1: a decent, decent card today. Your Raiders though not playing.
Speaker 1: Of course, you could argue they haven't played all year,
Speaker 1: but they're not. They're not playing. They play tomorrow day,
Speaker 1: so you don't.
Speaker 3: They played in Week one with some heart and attitude
Speaker 3: and kind of unraveled from there. But hopefully that extra
Speaker 3: day will give Jimmy G some time to fix his back.
Speaker 1: Anytime for Josh McDaniels to fix how he coaches the team.
Speaker 1: Is that possible.
Speaker 3: No, He's never gonna fix how he coaches. The team
Speaker 3: is going to have to win in spite of having
Speaker 3: Josh McDaniels as their coach. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the three games that I am most interested in today,
Speaker 1: and I know this is the kind of content that
Speaker 1: people want, but the three games that everyone needs to
Speaker 1: know I'm going to be locked in on.
Speaker 3: This is my official pregame show, Ben, So do your best,
Speaker 3: Jimmy the Greek.
Speaker 1: All right, So the gambling stuff, by the way, the
Speaker 1: TV show we go, oh in the Big Apple today.
Speaker 1: This is our Sunday Big Apple slot. We have locked
Speaker 1: down the coveted eleven thirty am New York City time
Speaker 1: slot on SNY. So I just wanted to get that
Speaker 1: out of the way early. And that's all football, all picks,
Speaker 1: all the time, Benny versus the Penny. But I've got
Speaker 1: three games that I'm dying to watch. Jacksonville and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: I saw Pittsburgh. I was at the Steelers game last week.
Speaker 1: Here they were in LA which was like an extra
Speaker 1: home game for the Steelers against the Rams. So the
Speaker 1: Steelers play Jacksonville. It's supposed to be a rainy day
Speaker 1: in western Pennsylvania. I'm looking forward to watching that game
Speaker 1: Bengals and forty nine Ers, although it would appear that
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation is going to be in complete upheaval
Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold, who sucks playing quarterback for the Niners,
Speaker 1: but Beginner's lucking out against Joe Burrow. So that's the
Speaker 1: second game that I'm jones in on. And the third
Speaker 1: game that I am looking forward to watching today is
Speaker 1: the Dolphin Patriot game because these teams played. Now, the
Speaker 1: Patriots sucked their two and five, but they played the
Speaker 1: Dolphins pretty tough back in Week two. They were only
Speaker 1: down by a touchdown with about eight or nine minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the game, so they were right there.
Speaker 1: They were right there, and I want to see if
Speaker 1: they can They won last week, so did they have
Speaker 1: the hangover from that or and the Dolphins got clocked
Speaker 1: by Philadelphia. They've got a bunch of injury problems, so
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see what happens with that. And then
Speaker 1: those are the three and then a little bit Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Seattle. But I can't get too excited about Geno
Speaker 1: Smith versus PJ. Walker. I can't get two worked up
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: So did we miss out?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right before. That's why we mustered. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we complained. We pointed out the podcast download numbers were
Speaker 1: not great last week, that they went down. It's a problem,
Speaker 1: it's a bit of an issue. So we went over
Speaker 1: all that and let's see, did they go up. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say they went off.
Speaker 3: They did go up. Instead of missing thirty percent of
Speaker 3: our normal Sunday audience, we lost fifteen percent.
Speaker 1: So we gain fifteen percent, but we lost from what
Speaker 1: we had been doing fifteen percent. So that's not good.
Speaker 1: That's not so maybe we'll stop the mailbag.
Speaker 3: No, no, I don't know, you know, because for the
Speaker 3: eighty five percenters, that's you listening right now. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: we salute you. It's worth getting up early to entertain you.
Speaker 3: And this is your official NFL Sunday pregame or postgame.
Speaker 3: So we'll keep doing it, all right, Well, very kind
Speaker 3: of you, Unlus, it's in our contract and we have to.
Speaker 1: Do it unless we're contractually obligated to do the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I read the fine print on the contract. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say how long the podcast has to be. We
Speaker 1: always do about a half an hour, because that's how
Speaker 1: long people generally work out for if they're on the
Speaker 1: treadmill or something like that, it's about a half an hour,
Speaker 1: so we usually go with that. But this is our
Speaker 1: Sunday podcast, so you know what that means, Danny. It's
Speaker 1: first email comes from Dave listening in Boston. He says,
Speaker 1: congratulations guys on the Sports Hub winning the Marconi Award, Bend.
Speaker 1: Do you get a ring with that? Yes, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're gonna hook us up with a ring. Did you
Speaker 1: see this, Danny? This week the sports Hub in Boston
Speaker 1: was named the Marconi winning sports radio station, and the
Speaker 1: overnight show all four hours are carried on the sport
Speaker 1: It's up ninety eight point five in Boston. So as
Speaker 1: Dave knows about this, but I pointed out on the
Speaker 1: show that since all four hours are carried by the station,
Speaker 1: that we actually get sixteen point six percent of the
Speaker 1: Marconi Award because I'm covering sixteen point six percent of
Speaker 1: the talk radio time that is available on that station.
Speaker 3: So that'll be your portion of the trophy.
Speaker 1: Anything. If they want to send me like a little
Speaker 1: miniature trophy, I can put that on my shelf here
Speaker 1: in the studio. I'd be cool with that. But to
Speaker 1: answer the question, Dave, I'm pretty sure the management at
Speaker 1: the Sports Hub in Boston have no idea who I am,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about that. Next up
Speaker 1: is Mike listening to us in Minneapolis. This has been
Speaker 1: and Danny g Which are your old school callers do
Speaker 1: you think would still be popular today? That's kind of
Speaker 1: a generic question, Mike. You Oh, it's got to be Genie,
Speaker 1: Genie's timeless Genies. Yeah, Genie's like the Bambino. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's all time greatest caller on my Peach Cobbler list.
Speaker 3: I miss her breaking news calls. She would call in
Speaker 3: to tell us the big news that she was in
Speaker 3: the liquor store.
Speaker 1: You'd better give me that good stuff. Yeah, it was big.
Speaker 1: And then she had like her neighbor who was her
Speaker 1: drinking buddy, would come over and then every once in
Speaker 1: a while she'd hand the phone to him. They'd be
Speaker 1: drinking on the porch. Hello, Joe, Hi, I like the Saints.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Mike, if you're ever in La
Speaker 1: Genie and Medford, there is a park bench. Unless it's
Speaker 1: been vandalized, it is La after all. But there's a
Speaker 1: park bench at Swan Boat Swan Lake Boat Park, or
Speaker 1: I think that's what's called. I don't know, right near
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium off the one oh one Freeway in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and there is a plaque that is a memorial to
Speaker 1: Genie and Medford. So anybody who can make it there,
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to check it out. And Jeannie
Speaker 1: was a big part of the show for many, many years.
Speaker 1: I would also say though that Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ray, Jimmy Ray was like the male version of
Speaker 1: Genie and Medford and love Jimmy Ray, and he got sick.
Speaker 1: He also he's dead too, uh, and then some like
Speaker 1: the Boston Hitter. I think we've lost him recently.
Speaker 3: And I missed the pencil neck guy.
Speaker 1: Pencil neck Ray. Yeah, pencil necks.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We used to have the bell and we would
Speaker 3: keep track of how many times he said pencil neck
Speaker 3: in one rant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, damn, pencil neck was good. There's there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of other ones. Spin Max used to call me
Speaker 1: back in the old days. He was great from Ohio
Speaker 1: and we had MotorCity Mike from Detroit Troy, the gaming
Speaker 1: man from Nashville was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Lance the bus driver used to be a regular caller.
Speaker 1: He was nuts and we had a good time with Lance.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's others that I am. I am
Speaker 1: forgetting bad job by me, but there were many. I
Speaker 1: think these callers would I think that most of them
Speaker 1: would cross over because they never talked about sports. It's
Speaker 1: none of these people. They all they all talked about
Speaker 1: random nonsense, random other stuff. So next up is Steve.
Speaker 1: It's the mail back Steven Philly writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g love the podcast. I started watching
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny, and that's how I found the podcast.
Speaker 1: He says, you guys should come to Philadelphia do a show. Sure?
Speaker 1: Why not, Dan, Why don't we just go to Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: You want to go to Philly for a weekend, We'll
Speaker 1: do the show from there. It doesn't cost any money
Speaker 1: to go to Philadelphia. And I'm sure we have tons
Speaker 1: of listeners. I know we have Fats, I know from
Speaker 1: the radio show Fats in Philly, although he didn't call
Speaker 1: much anymore. And we've got a few other people that
Speaker 1: interact with us. Anyway, Steve says, question is where you
Speaker 1: guys have both been in radio a long time. Where
Speaker 1: do you see the business going fifteen years from now
Speaker 1: with podcasting crossing over? Well, podcasting has already crossed over,
Speaker 1: but radio for now, I guess I'll go first date.
Speaker 1: But radio for now has more people listening. So here's
Speaker 1: the way I look at I mean, I can't believe
Speaker 1: fifteen years from the holy crap, we're old now, Danny, wait,
Speaker 1: fifteen years, my god. But to answer the question from Steve,
Speaker 1: it's really a question of the delivery. I've always said that,
Speaker 1: like the delivery vehicle, how you get it's audio content
Speaker 1: human beings, like hearing other human beings talk. It's we
Speaker 1: do we just we want to hear from stories. We
Speaker 1: learn from stories. And so whether traditional radio as it
Speaker 1: is conceived right now, I think fifteen years it'll be here.
Speaker 1: But whatever device, Like television, a lot of people watch
Speaker 1: TV on the internet. They're not watching it on an
Speaker 1: old tube TV. They don't even have those anymore. But
Speaker 1: they're still television. It's just in a different form. So
Speaker 1: radio I'll still call it radio. People in the business
Speaker 1: don't like that term. It'll just be the delivery vehicle.
Speaker 1: And the problem with podcasting is it's not live. Like
Speaker 1: the great thing about radio, it's live, there's someone there.
Speaker 1: You've got a shitty job and you're working and there's
Speaker 1: no one around. You're working by yourself, and you hear
Speaker 1: someone talking and you can like eavesdrop in into conversation.
Speaker 1: Or if you go through a breakup and you're alone
Speaker 1: and you know you know family, you can cuddle up
Speaker 1: with the radio. But it's actually a live person there
Speaker 1: that's talking while you're listening. So I think that there
Speaker 1: always will be that. What that delivery vehicle. I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough for that. What about you, Dany
Speaker 1: What do you think fifteen years from now that would
Speaker 1: be twenty thirty eight?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's crazy. I mean, we're still going to have
Speaker 3: really good content. I think everything will hold steady as
Speaker 3: far as the hosts go. As far as the production teams,
Speaker 3: that's another question, because we're losing producers and board operators
Speaker 3: by the dozens every year. I wish there was a
Speaker 3: union ben for the production side of radio.
Speaker 1: And now there is Danny and New York because I've
Speaker 1: worked out of fan and New York and the iHeart
Speaker 1: Building in Manhattan, and that is a union shop, so
Speaker 1: they pay good money there.
Speaker 3: Nice and see that's got to spread to some other
Speaker 3: major markets in major cities. Now. Granted, there are some
Speaker 3: lazy shits that got into radio somehow and don't deserve
Speaker 3: pay raiss, But for the passionate people in radio to
Speaker 3: bust their asses every day to put out a really,
Speaker 3: really good product, they deserve to be paid better. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I hope that that changes with radio in the next
Speaker 3: fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna have to change, and the people that
Speaker 1: run the radio business are gonna have to realize this.
Speaker 1: You're competing. You should never be in a position where
Speaker 1: you're losing people to People should want to leave their
Speaker 1: jobs to come to your job, not you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, not the other way around. So you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of your people. I mean, that's just the
Speaker 1: basic thing, right I would think, thank you Steve, George
Speaker 1: and Uvaldi Texas rites. And he says, since you are
Speaker 1: using the three studios, Yeah, I posted a thing on
Speaker 1: Facebook with the three stooges on the Ben Maler Show
Speaker 1: Facebook page to try to lure people into post questions.
Speaker 1: George says, who do you like better the Stooges, the
Speaker 1: Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello. So I'm a Stooges guy.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, they would TV sew but
Speaker 1: one of the shows that got a lot of airplay,
Speaker 1: especially on holidays, they would do three Stooges marathons. And
Speaker 1: I liked the Stooges. They were able to take pancake
Speaker 1: batter and make amazing things with the pancake batter, right,
Speaker 1: it was just nuts. My dad was more of a
Speaker 1: it was more of a like a Marx Brothers Abbot Costello.
Speaker 1: It is cool though, as we pointed out on this podcast.
Speaker 1: At Universal Studios, the parking garage I park at to
Speaker 1: do the TV show is the Abbot and Costello parking garage.
Speaker 1: And at the very bottom floor at Universal, I got
Speaker 1: out and there's a there's a tribute. There's a sign
Speaker 1: right inside the little court area courtyard area when you
Speaker 1: walk out from the elevator, and it is a great
Speaker 1: tribute to Abbot and Costello. It's pretty cool. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: So like the history of them as a comedy duo
Speaker 1: and where they had been and all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: so that was kind of cool. What about you, Danny,
Speaker 1: of those three, only those three where you at?
Speaker 3: I have really good memories of my grandfather, Bill, who
Speaker 3: was a World War two vet, came home with some
Speaker 3: issues after the war, stayed locked in his garage with
Speaker 3: bottles of whiskey, and what would be on his little
Speaker 3: colored TV. It was either Baseball or the Three Stooges.
Speaker 3: Nothing else. His programming on his little TV in his garage.
Speaker 3: Three Stooges or Baseball. You know. I would sit in
Speaker 3: the garage with him for a little bit and he'd
Speaker 3: be laughing at the Three Stooges. Then he'd take another
Speaker 3: swig of his whiskey. That was his jam. So later
Speaker 3: in life I would watch Three Stooges and think of
Speaker 3: that guy. Nice.
Speaker 1: So it helps them out, give him something, smile at
Speaker 1: it going well, and you see somebody doing the ipoke.
Speaker 1: Ina got something right, We got something.
Speaker 3: Nothing like having to move a baby grand piano. You
Speaker 3: know that's a job for the Three Stooges. Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 3: The hilarious slapstick antics. And those guys didn't make like
Speaker 3: big money.
Speaker 1: Larry Mow and Curl Man.
Speaker 3: I read recently that for their pictures they were signed
Speaker 3: up for eight a year and they had to split
Speaker 3: sixty thousand dollars three ways.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: For each picture. That's nothing.
Speaker 1: They were a vaudvillian comedy show right before they got
Speaker 1: picked up by Hollywood and early early days of Hollywood.
Speaker 1: But think how we talk about football players and all
Speaker 1: these all these people complaining about the violence in football,
Speaker 1: and how banged up these people's bodies. Are the Three
Speaker 1: Stooges though they those they were not doing like stunt
Speaker 1: double stuff. I don't think they were actually like slapping
Speaker 1: and smacking and bonking each other on the head.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah they had injuries from their from their
Speaker 3: shows and their movies.
Speaker 1: Yeh, for hardly any money. And even now they've been
Speaker 1: dead for how many years, but we still see their image.
Speaker 1: It's crazy anyway. Mike in Spookerton writes in he says,
Speaker 1: trick or treat Ben and Danny g I think I
Speaker 1: know two possible reasons why the Sunday Mailbag downloads were
Speaker 1: lowered two weeks ago. Somehow that episode was uploaded out
Speaker 1: of order. According to Mike, if you check the podcast page,
Speaker 1: it comes before that week's Saturday episode when it should
Speaker 1: come after. I don't want to accuse either of you
Speaker 1: of making a mistake, Mike says, so I'll just assume
Speaker 1: that this was Coop's fault.
Speaker 3: Clearly, yes, But what it was is I uploaded it
Speaker 3: so early that it showed us Saturday. But the Saturday
Speaker 3: show obviously was posted does of hours prior to that
Speaker 3: Sunday show. You know what that teaches me? Don't pumps
Speaker 3: to show at two thirty in the morning on the
Speaker 3: West coast.
Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know, Well.
Speaker 3: That's a good goof though. Everybody wants things now, now
Speaker 3: give it to me now, Amazon, Amazon, Now. Well, you
Speaker 3: know I let that bother me too much sometimes to
Speaker 3: where my wife gets pissed at me because instead of breakfast,
Speaker 3: I'm editing a podcast. So I guess I got to
Speaker 3: learn how to have some balance in my life now.
Speaker 1: Mike also says the other possible reason is you guys
Speaker 1: make fun of Brian Finley too much. It might be
Speaker 1: chasing all the diehard fans away. I'll give you a
Speaker 1: chance to win them back right now, though, who do
Speaker 1: either of you have anything nice to say about the
Speaker 1: commentary of the old miss versus Mississippi State Women's volleyball
Speaker 1: game last Sunday. Remember to watch it, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the ticket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. There's one thing I
Speaker 1: never miss. It's Old Miss Mississippi State women's volleyball. That
Speaker 1: is must see TV. Absolutely, uh no, don't they usually
Speaker 1: play in football Old Miss and Mississippi State. It's the
Speaker 1: Egg Bowl? Is that what it's called? Yes, I remember
Speaker 1: watching it on Halloween. There was some controversy a few
Speaker 1: years back.
Speaker 3: Yep, Mississippi State and Ole Miss football.
Speaker 1: Rivalry battle for the Golden Egg the Egg Bowl.
Speaker 3: And and by the way, I have one nice thing
Speaker 3: to add about Brian's.
Speaker 1: One nice thing. That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he reminds me of my grandmother. He was there
Speaker 3: filling in for a shift after Monsei the other day,
Speaker 3: and he had one of those personalized cups on the
Speaker 3: counter and it was of his Corgie, his dog Wow.
Speaker 3: And my grandmother used to do stuff like that before
Speaker 3: she passed on. She had personalized cups and mugs with
Speaker 3: pictures of her dog.
Speaker 1: Wow. Does he realize that he's not a seventy year
Speaker 1: old grandmother. Not that there's anything wrong with a seventy
Speaker 1: year old grandmother. Grandmothers are great, but like he's a dude.
Speaker 1: He's like he's younger than us.
Speaker 3: And yes, he looked like he just rolled out of bed. Wow.
Speaker 1: He always looks. He doesn't look like that on TV,
Speaker 1: but he you see him and it's like wow, Like
Speaker 1: this guy's a couple steps away from being at the shelter.
Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty wild. What is next year? Hillbilly
Speaker 1: Mike from Din Witty Virginia, Right sin, He says on
Speaker 1: the mail bag, what is one thing y'all miss that
Speaker 1: has been discontinued and you'd like back, whether it's a product,
Speaker 1: a restaurant menu item, or maybe an event. I'll name
Speaker 1: a place when I was younger, my younger days in radio,
Speaker 1: when I first got a gig in La worked in
Speaker 1: Burbank Burbank as some people say, and there was this
Speaker 1: place called Dults. I've talked about on the podcast before,
Speaker 1: but it was like my cheers. It was amazing. I
Speaker 1: did a night show and I'd go in there for
Speaker 1: happy hour and hang out.
Speaker 3: And they had.
Speaker 1: The greatest chicken fingers of any restaurant I'd ever been to.
Speaker 1: And you get a basket of chicken fingers and fries,
Speaker 1: you get a nice drink. They had TVs to watch
Speaker 1: the games, and it was an amazing place in nineteen
Speaker 1: nineties entertainment and in those days, the popular shows. The
Speaker 1: Drew Carey Show was popular, Seinfeld was popular, and there
Speaker 1: were a couple other shows that would come into Dults
Speaker 1: after they taped their show to have The food was
Speaker 1: that good. It was a restaurant bar and you'd see
Speaker 1: like random and I'm not really into that world, the
Speaker 1: celebrity thing, but they would all come in. It was
Speaker 1: everyone loved it and then randomly and they always had
Speaker 1: people in there. It's not like nobody went there. They
Speaker 1: always people in there. And then that's where I first
Speaker 1: met Pat O'Brien. That was back when Pat was still
Speaker 1: drinking the star of Access Hollywood and all those entertainment shows.
Speaker 1: And he had a wine glass that was the size
Speaker 1: of like a bowl of soup, like not the serving bowl,
Speaker 1: the actual pot of soup was his wine glass that
Speaker 1: Pat had, as I remember. But I love that place,
Speaker 1: so I could bring that place back. Or I used
Speaker 1: to hang out in Pasadena sometimes there's a place called
Speaker 1: Moose mcgilly Cuddies. That was a very cool bar that
Speaker 1: also closed.
Speaker 3: So either one of those.
Speaker 1: What about you dan anything you want to bring back
Speaker 1: product restaurant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we talked about headphones last weekend. I WoT
Speaker 3: my sony V six hundred's resurrected so that I don't
Speaker 3: have to chase them down in a back alley on Craigslist.
Speaker 3: And then food wise, back in the workout days, when
Speaker 3: I was running ninety five point seven the beat, I
Speaker 3: had a trainer. He ran the gym. He was like
Speaker 3: part owner. They bought advertising on the radio, and part
Speaker 3: of that was they wanted me to talk about their
Speaker 3: gym in the morning on my morning show. I was
Speaker 3: forced to be trained by this meathead. But I was
Speaker 3: in the best shape of my life.
Speaker 1: Good shit.
Speaker 3: You know where he sent me every day to get food?
Speaker 3: Where is that McDonald's. Okay, but you're thinking a big mac? No, no,
Speaker 3: no no. They used to have salads at McDonald's, and
Speaker 3: the salads actually were really good. There was a grilled
Speaker 3: chicken salad that had like the shredded the thin carrots
Speaker 3: and the ranch. He would allow me one dressing and
Speaker 3: sometimes I would just get the chicken breast, put a
Speaker 3: little bit of sweet and sour on that, and that
Speaker 3: was my meal. And so I lived at this McDonald's
Speaker 3: down the street from my place by the water there,
Speaker 3: because that's the only thing my trainer would let me eat.
Speaker 3: And it was awesome. And then guess what what McDonald said,
Speaker 3: You and your salads, anybody that wants to eat healthy,
Speaker 3: you're no friend of mine. Don't even bother coming to
Speaker 3: our place anymore because McDonald's discontinued all of their salads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and made more money than you can possibly imagine
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 3: You want chicken, mother sucker, You're gonna eat some fried
Speaker 3: chicken and die.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I love the story that we had on
Speaker 1: one of the food segments on this podcast, where we
Speaker 1: learned the reason McDonald's does not serve onion rings is
Speaker 1: not that they couldn't have mc onions, but they don't.
Speaker 1: They make so much money from the fries they don't
Speaker 1: want to take away. They don't want to do anything
Speaker 1: to the golden goose, so the golden arches, they don't
Speaker 1: want to water it down.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That would be like you doing three podcasts a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would point exactly. Yeah, and a TV
Speaker 1: show and five radio shows, but not that uncomplaining. It's
Speaker 1: first world props. But I will say this with McDonald's.
Speaker 1: And I think I mentioned this on the TV show
Speaker 1: this week, Like when I go to Starbucks because my
Speaker 1: wife likes coffee, I don't drink. I drink like those
Speaker 1: fruity drinks at Starbucks because I gotta get something. But
Speaker 1: we go to Starbucks or we go to McDonald's, I
Speaker 1: don't care where I've been all across the country. I've
Speaker 1: been traveling from the northeast to the midwest, to the
Speaker 1: west coast to the northwest, southwest, southeast, all over the country.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you go to a Starbucks or McDonald's,
Speaker 1: the consistency of the product. The NFL officiating, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's Sunday, you never know. You never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get. It's like it was like made in some
Speaker 1: sweatshop in China, and one game the officiating will be fine,
Speaker 1: you won't even know they're there. The next game, all
Speaker 1: hell's gonna break loose, and the thing, my jig's not
Speaker 1: gonna work right, it's gonna go bonkers. And then Kurfluey
Speaker 1: and it's just crazy Fred from Spring Texas right sin
Speaker 1: he says hello again, guys. Danny g are drops added
Speaker 1: in post production m Now we do it live. We
Speaker 1: do it live, right, Danny.
Speaker 3: Well, you know we're not really supposed to pull the
Speaker 3: curtain back and let you know how the hot dog
Speaker 3: is made. Ben reacts to a lot of the drops,
Speaker 3: and yeah, if you're wondering how that radio magic happens,
Speaker 3: just keep wondering.
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout. Now, don't play that, Danny.
Speaker 3: What was your famous one on the live show that
Speaker 3: is clearly edited?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's obviously. Listen, it's obvious. I have noticed this.
Speaker 1: We've gone through the different board ops over the years.
Speaker 1: Many of the classics ops like you were very good
Speaker 1: about keeping some of the classic drops, but some of
Speaker 1: the like Iowa, Sam's kind of let a lout of
Speaker 1: those guys those die, which I'm fine with, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3: I'm not okay with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's only been one drop that got canceled
Speaker 1: in the history of the show.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your brother.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the only one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your necro brothers.
Speaker 1: I had so many people.
Speaker 3: Those were pictures.
Speaker 1: By the way, in twenty twenty, in the middle of
Speaker 1: the world falling apart right Global pandemic Race Wars, it
Speaker 1: was unbelievable twenty twenty. What was going on there in
Speaker 1: all of that? It was a drop of me talking
Speaker 1: about some knuckleball pictures that I had. We had to
Speaker 1: stop playing it because every time we played it inemically,
Speaker 1: I would get we would get phone calls, I would
Speaker 1: get emails. I used to like your show, but I
Speaker 1: can't believe you would use that kind of language. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize you were a racist.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that and how you blew somebody off at
Speaker 3: an Lax Airport parking lot.
Speaker 1: He blew me off at a hotel near Lax. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. That was I was
Speaker 1: clearly edited. I never never said what is what you're
Speaker 1: playing here? I never said that. I did not at all.
Speaker 3: Do I have your permission to play the negro drop
Speaker 3: right here?
Speaker 1: Well, how about if you bleep it? Maybe you could
Speaker 1: put a bleep in there and add a little.
Speaker 3: Lame No, I've used it before on this podcast, but
Speaker 3: I've gone in and I said, quick producer's note, that's
Speaker 3: necros as in the pictures in baseball. I did a disclaimer.
Speaker 1: But all those negroes look the same. Yeah, see, I
Speaker 1: call them Joe and Phil. Now I don't call them
Speaker 1: by their people, saying hello, you know Joe and Phil.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag. Barry in South Carolina writes
Speaker 1: in and he says, Yo yo Ma, Benny, formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 1: How long would the Iowa minute last if Jed, who fled,
Speaker 1: were to read Iowa Sam's script. I'm putting the over
Speaker 1: under it about ninety seconds. Yeah, that's about right, Barry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jed packs ten minutes of content into a ninety second
Speaker 1: phone call, depending on what pharmaceuticals he's partaking in that day.
Speaker 1: Joan Richmond writes in Oh, Danny, he's upset interesting reaction
Speaker 1: to the song parody. Thanks for playing my Mallard monologue
Speaker 1: song on the Friday podcast. I was perplexed by Danny
Speaker 1: G's reaction to the song and his existence that it
Speaker 1: not be played in its entirety. Danny, if you would
Speaker 1: let me know what the concern was, I can make
Speaker 1: sure to address it going forward. Makes no sense to
Speaker 1: come up with these parodies if they can't be played,
Speaker 1: he says. Also, I didn't realize this, he said, I
Speaker 1: only sent that to the real Fifth Hour podcast. He
Speaker 1: said he had sent it to the other email address
Speaker 1: a couple months ago, but did not get a response.
Speaker 1: I apologize, Joe, it's.
Speaker 3: Just time constraints. In fact, I'll play a piece of
Speaker 3: it right here at the world trade is best at
Speaker 3: both play. I just signed the multi billion dollar contract.
Speaker 3: Now went too great to have to play every game,
Speaker 3: so I plenty every third game or so.
Speaker 2: Now the fans are mad at me, but that's not
Speaker 2: the worst of it.
Speaker 3: The owner to rupt my brand new contract. I asked
Speaker 3: him why.
Speaker 1: He said, you'll see. All right, there you go, Joe,
Speaker 1: he says. Anyway, Joe says he's a big fan of yours,
Speaker 1: Danny and mine, and not just for the entertainment value.
Speaker 1: But he does like us, he says, on a personal level.
Speaker 3: That's right, kind, that's nice. We like you just as much,
Speaker 3: if not more, and especially for putting the time and
Speaker 3: effort into something like that. And I asked that he
Speaker 3: do the Foodie Fund open, so he's up for it.
Speaker 3: That's twenty seconds where we can play your music every weekend.
Speaker 3: So send that to us. If you can think of
Speaker 3: something for Foodie Fund.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and make it like hooray for food He fun,
Speaker 1: food he fun, you know, something like I.
Speaker 3: Don't tell him how to do his craft.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, he says, he appreciates Danny g for
Speaker 1: your commitment to the youth, Ben for your long standing
Speaker 1: care and concern for all of the there you go
Speaker 1: from the pill poppers and the penthouse to the crackheads
Speaker 1: in the ghetto gutter. That's right. That was That was
Speaker 1: our slogan on the on the show and the open
Speaker 1: and all.
Speaker 3: That every show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Marcus from Bruceville, Eddie, Texas rights in. He says. If
Speaker 1: the two of you never worked in radio, I says,
Speaker 1: I know you guys have had this question quite a bit,
Speaker 1: but I mean a different trade job, and you had
Speaker 1: to pick from electrician, plumber, hvac, et cetera. What profession
Speaker 1: would you guys see yourself working in. And then he says,
Speaker 1: I am in the hvacfield, So choose carefully, he says,
Speaker 1: And I'm going to need a shout out for your
Speaker 1: Texas listeners. My family owns an HVAC company in Central Texas.
Speaker 1: Spread the word, my man, he says. Climate control, heating,
Speaker 1: cooling and refrigeration, Well, you have to pay for commercial markets,
Speaker 1: so I cannot promote climate goal heating, cooling and refrigeration
Speaker 1: then I can't say it, Danny so I because if
Speaker 1: I say climate control, heating, cooling, and refrigeration in Central Texas,
Speaker 1: then that becomes problematic because you have to pay a
Speaker 1: ridiculous amount of money to be an advertiser on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Thank you for staying true to the business and not
Speaker 3: saying it.
Speaker 1: I would know. I'm ethically inclined, and I do go
Speaker 1: to training every year. That's it. Craigster writes, since has
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g I heard you talking about the maladmobile.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, you didn't answer the question which trade would
Speaker 3: you do? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, it didn't matter. I would be bad at any
Speaker 1: of them. All I would be doing is going and
Speaker 1: looking at YouTube videos.
Speaker 3: Ben, you'd be good holding a snake in a toilet.
Speaker 1: I have done that. I've done that. I have done
Speaker 1: the snake in the sink. I come in. My DNA
Speaker 1: is plumbing DNA because my grandfather was a plumber. He
Speaker 1: owned a bunch of plumbing trucks and was a very
Speaker 1: successful plumber and tradesman and made a good amount of money.
Speaker 3: Nice. Yeah, in that same grandpa I referenced earlier on
Speaker 3: the podcast, who was drinking whiskey and watching The Three Stooges.
Speaker 3: He was a woodsmith. He was a badass with his tools.
Speaker 3: So I would do something in the wood trade, like
Speaker 3: maybe make cabinets or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, that would be cool. I did do
Speaker 1: woodworking in high school, but I was a little skittish
Speaker 1: because my mom kept telling me I was going to
Speaker 1: cut my fingers off. I saw, so you're coming home
Speaker 1: with one last finger. You know it's okay? All right?
Speaker 1: Are going to kill you? Yeah? Exactly. But anyway, this guy,
Speaker 1: Craigster says, I heard you talking about the Malamobile, but
Speaker 1: you did not disclose what kind of card is. So
Speaker 1: after a minute long investigation I've heard that before, I've
Speaker 1: determined it is either A I think he's he meant Bentley, Bugatti,
Speaker 1: ben Taigi.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 1: B E N T A Y G A. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's got a play on my name and
Speaker 1: a Chevy or a Chevy Malibu or something in between. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's closer to a Chevy Malibu than some kind of Bentley.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Craigster. I think we'll get Michael in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Jonathan in Parts Unknown. They had questions about the assholes
Speaker 1: being all dated and all. But we're good on that.
Speaker 1: We're okay on that, Danny. I will be back on
Speaker 1: real Radio, Real Radio. That was a format, right, Real Radio.
Speaker 1: I'll be on tonight eleven o'clock in the West and
Speaker 1: two am on Monday morning in the East. Will take
Speaker 1: you all the way up till six am Eastern Time
Speaker 1: with live sports talk reacting to all of the NFL
Speaker 1: also the World Series games that have been played this week.
Speaker 1: Is the scene is gonna shift day off on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna shift it over to the Valley of
Speaker 1: the Sun for some more activities. So we've got that
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Danny, what are you up to today?
Speaker 3: Well, first, I sure hope you beat the penny this weekend.
Speaker 1: All right from your listen God's Ears please.
Speaker 3: And second it'll be the Monday edition of Coveno and
Speaker 3: Rich having a lot of fun with our game Last
Speaker 3: One Standing that features Ben Maller's voice. That is on
Speaker 3: the West side two to four pm in the afternoon
Speaker 3: and on the East side five to seven in New
Speaker 3: York City.
Speaker 1: Out Stanny, thank you for listening. The eight I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call the audience on Sunday. Here the eighty five percenters,
Speaker 1: You're an eighty five percenter, And to the other fifteen
Speaker 1: percent at art listening, guess which finger I'm holding up
Speaker 1: right now? You want to take a guess? Yeah? That finger? Okay, anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go.