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 soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
Speaker 3: In the penthouse.
Speaker 2: Wow to the Clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for
Speaker 2: something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, back at it on a mail
Speaker 1: bag kind of day. It's the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio and we're gonna have the
Speaker 1: mail bag Danny. But we did not get the pop
Speaker 1: culture yesterday, so we have to get to some of
Speaker 1: the pop goes the culture stories of the day. So
Speaker 1: let's start with that. And that means Ohio Alojobojob all right,
Speaker 1: the great Ohio out there with his magic doing it
Speaker 1: yet again. So pop goes to culture. These are some
Speaker 1: random stories we found that did not come up at
Speaker 1: least on the show that I do, possibly Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1: But let's get to it and here we go. So
Speaker 1: British Airways making some headlines this week as they had
Speaker 1: a catering issue on a flight, so they improvised. Do
Speaker 1: you see this story bouncing around here? This is in
Speaker 1: Australia and passengers on a British Airlines flight from was
Speaker 1: it Turks and the what is it the other caicos?
Speaker 1: Turks and caicos there from a flight from there to London.
Speaker 1: The catering people left some food out the twelve hour flight.
Speaker 1: Twelve hour flight British Airways. They landed in the Bahamas
Speaker 1: for a stopover and they were supposed to put some
Speaker 1: food on the plane and the food was messed up.
Speaker 1: And so the people that worked at British Airways they
Speaker 1: realized this is a long flight. The people need something
Speaker 1: to eat. So they went out to a Kentucky Fried
Speaker 1: Chicken and bought several buckets of fried chicken and served
Speaker 1: the travelers pieces of chicken. You get a chicken leg,
Speaker 1: you get a breast, you get a wing. Good luck,
Speaker 1: knock yourself out nice. I like the breast, well, I
Speaker 1: think we all do. But there's a there's a video
Speaker 1: that's gone viral of the employees there, the cabin crew
Speaker 1: holding buckets of KFC And if that does not turn
Speaker 1: into a KFC commercial or a British Airways commercial. That's cool.
Speaker 1: The people somebody screwed up. The food was all messed
Speaker 1: up and the flight attendance and the people that work
Speaker 1: in British Airways went out and got some chickens.
Speaker 3: But we were kids.
Speaker 4: Do you remember OJ Simpson on the TV commercials for
Speaker 4: Pioneer Chicken.
Speaker 1: Yes, Pioneer was the rival of KFC did not make
Speaker 1: it though they lost.
Speaker 4: My grandmother's go to move for the weekend. She would
Speaker 4: load us up in her station wagon with folding chairs.
Speaker 4: She would sit in the drive through at Pioneered Chicken
Speaker 4: and get two buckets of magical fried chicken, take us
Speaker 4: to the drive in movie theater, take out folding chairs,
Speaker 4: and then with some napkins and paper plates, throw the
Speaker 4: fried chicken on the plates, hand it out and there
Speaker 4: was dinner in a movie.
Speaker 1: So all you need. It's the key to life right there.
Speaker 1: My parents also, when I was a kid, we eat
Speaker 1: more Pioneered Chicken than Kentucky Fried Chicken. And then it
Speaker 1: was before it was KFC, it was they just call
Speaker 1: it in it called KFC, they called Kentucky. Ver we
Speaker 1: ate more Pioneer. There was one right near the house,
Speaker 1: and then eventually we shifted over whatever was cheaper. Mom
Speaker 1: My mom would go to Pioneer was cheaper than KFC,
Speaker 1: had some special or some coupon, so we would go there.
Speaker 3: I believe that there's one Pioneer left in LA.
Speaker 1: Only one last one standing, the last like the last
Speaker 1: Blockbuster video, the last one standing. Well, a new disaster
Speaker 1: from Hollywood. And even though everyone's on strike right now,
Speaker 1: they're not making new projects, but Disney putting together a
Speaker 1: remake of snow White. We talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: this a while ago. This thing is going to be
Speaker 1: worse than that female all female Ghostbusters movie.
Speaker 3: That is quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is next level there. So some
Speaker 1: video popped up recently and it has Rachel Zegler. She's
Speaker 1: in this as a key role as the star of
Speaker 1: the live action remake of Snow White. And some video
Speaker 1: popped up here. She was some expo with the woman
Speaker 1: that plays Wonder Woman, the Israeli actress, and so they
Speaker 1: were chatting about Snow White, and she said they are
Speaker 1: reimaging Snow White and they would shift. The plan is
Speaker 1: in this movie and nobody's seen it because I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it's done yet, but it's the values
Speaker 1: of a Disney princess and the dreams and all that,
Speaker 1: and so, when asked specifically what was going to happen,
Speaker 1: she said that snow White would bring a more modern
Speaker 1: edge to the character and it's not nineteen thirty seven
Speaker 1: and all that, and then pointed out that the snow
Speaker 1: White movie will not have the star snow White there
Speaker 1: be saved by the prince. She will not be dreaming
Speaker 1: about true love Danny. She'll be dreaming about becoming the
Speaker 1: leader she knows she can be, and the leader that
Speaker 1: her late father told her.
Speaker 3: There you go, gal Gado, you were talking about wonder Woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, gal Gado. So but anyway, they're changing. If
Speaker 1: this is right, snow White, but why not just make
Speaker 1: a new movie, go hard on a guy, mess around
Speaker 1: with snow White. Just make a new movie where the
Speaker 1: lead female character is not trying to be saved by
Speaker 1: the prince. It's like, what are you doing? You're just
Speaker 1: annoying people with that. People can get suckered in to
Speaker 1: seeing snow White because of the snow White brand. They're like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I know snow White, and I see it, and I
Speaker 1: was a fan of snow white. My family liked it
Speaker 1: when I was a kid and all that. So this
Speaker 1: thing's going to be a hot, hot, hot, hot mess,
Speaker 1: is what that's going to be. Next up on Pop
Speaker 1: Goes the cultureal I saw Megan Kelly got body slammed
Speaker 1: this week. She was asking people to donate to a
Speaker 1: friend's charity. That friend was trying to raise thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars was a GoFundMe, and she is worth eight million
Speaker 1: dollars and she was asking people to donate to a
Speaker 1: gofund me. So people were getting pissed off.
Speaker 4: Singers and athletes whenever they do this, they get crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one, you know. That's like you're
Speaker 1: asking the peons, the peasants to donate money, and you
Speaker 1: could what's thirty if you're worth eight million, what is
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars? Nothing? Right? Yes? Yeah, man, I'll do
Speaker 1: a couple more and then we'll get to the mailbag.
Speaker 1: On Pop Goes the Culture, Well, a young lady went viral.
Speaker 1: She posted a bunch of folks you see this Danny
Speaker 1: on I think it was on Instagram, and she had
Speaker 1: all her different mugshots and eleven of them rested eleven times.
Speaker 3: Damn Genie and Medford run for her money.
Speaker 1: Oh that isn't honey. She's only twenty three years old.
Speaker 1: She went to the University of Eastern Kentucky or Easton
Speaker 1: Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University. She should have gone to
Speaker 1: Northern and Southern Kentucky as well, complete all of them.
Speaker 1: But anyway, she's was arrested at least eleven times. And
Speaker 1: she posted a bunch of mugshots for a different rest
Speaker 1: and she was very excited about it there and it's
Speaker 1: gone viral. And of course if she was ugly, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it would not have gone viral.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a correlation between perceived beauty and the amount
Speaker 1: of people that click on a certain story like this? Right?
Speaker 1: It's yeah. Anyway, she's somewhat attracted depending on your type,
Speaker 1: and called the Queen of Chaos. It's wonder you can
Speaker 1: get famous, and this has been the way for a while,
Speaker 1: but you can get famous just from from this. Remember
Speaker 1: the guy a couple of years back, there was a
Speaker 1: guy that had a mug shot that was like a model.
Speaker 3: I think tattoos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he got a modeling deal. Because like
Speaker 1: women were all, you know, all excited.
Speaker 4: Did he started hanging out with celebrities like B C
Speaker 4: listers at first, and then he was spotted with some
Speaker 4: A listers even got a murder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Let's get to the mailbag. What
Speaker 1: do you say, time for the mailbag. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Here we go. These are actual letters, some actual people,
Speaker 1: and we even have a song for this. Right, Ohio,
Speaker 1: I'll do your thing. It's very good. First up, we
Speaker 1: have j from Saint Louis. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny. Ben,
Speaker 1: you said this week on the show that you had
Speaker 1: a story about a former baseball player named Dave Hanson.
Speaker 1: You said you didn't have time to tell it. Can
Speaker 1: you enlighten us here on the podcast? Yes, Jay, I,
Speaker 1: and thank you for emailing. I don't think we've had
Speaker 1: Jay email us before, so thank you Jay for that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Always good to hear or see new
Speaker 1: names that submit content. So, yes, Jay, I've told this
Speaker 1: story a few times over the years, but there's always
Speaker 1: new people listening, right, Danny, The audience is always growing.
Speaker 1: We hope. If not, we're doing something wrong. So years
Speaker 1: ago I did a local show in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: we had a big budget. They had a lot of
Speaker 1: money to throw around, and they this is so long ago.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers had this guy named Davey Johnson who was
Speaker 1: managing the team. Davey had had great success. He managed
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty six Mets, one of the great iconic
Speaker 1: teams in baseball history, and he had then I think
Speaker 1: he went to Baltimore. Anyway, it might have been Cincinnati
Speaker 1: then Baltimore, but he ended up with the Dodgers. And
Speaker 1: it's a long time ago, and I'm doing the midday show.
Speaker 1: The afternoon drive show paid Davy Johnson a ton of
Speaker 1: money and they had a weekly radio show, the Davy
Speaker 1: Show with Davy Johnson. Now I'm not here to besmirch
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 3: Of Davy Johnson.
Speaker 1: He's still alive. But let's just say Davey was not
Speaker 1: that into the radio show.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: Snooze inducing.
Speaker 3: They paid hostage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it was really agony more than anything. So
Speaker 1: we were kind of pissed off because the radio station
Speaker 1: had spent all this money in the afternoon show. And
Speaker 1: you know how competitive people are and radio in any business,
Speaker 1: but we were kind of pissed off. We were the
Speaker 1: midday show. We got nothing at that time, we had
Speaker 1: no budget. They spent all the money on the morning
Speaker 1: show in the afternoon. So I was covering the team
Speaker 1: and I I said, you know what we got to do.
Speaker 1: Let's mock the Davy Show. The Dodgers have this guy
Speaker 1: named Dave Hanson who's a backup infield, plays third base,
Speaker 1: pinch hitter, really good pinch hitter. Why don't we have
Speaker 1: our own version of the Davy Show and we'll have
Speaker 1: Dave Hanson on. And Dave's a socow guy. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what ever happened to him after he left
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He played with the Cubs, I believe after that.
Speaker 1: But I was somewhat friendly with Dave, and so he
Speaker 1: played with the Dodgers. We asked him, kind of kiddingly,
Speaker 1: would you come on every week and do a show?
Speaker 1: And he said, sure, why not? You know, he gives
Speaker 1: a call it did it. We didn't pay him. He
Speaker 1: just like loved it, you know, a lot of stories.
Speaker 1: So we had him on and this thing killed Dandy.
Speaker 1: He was telling stories about surfing and life and it
Speaker 1: was entertaining and wonderful and great and all that, and
Speaker 1: so so What ended up happening is the following season,
Speaker 1: the Afternoon Show hired Dave Hanson and paid him to
Speaker 1: go on their show.
Speaker 3: Oh come on, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We lost Dave Hanson to the other show. And so
Speaker 1: that's my Dave Hanson story that he came on. He
Speaker 1: was great, he upstaged Davy Johnson, and we lost him
Speaker 1: to the Afternoons. I don't blame him because they paid
Speaker 1: and it's just really annoying. I said, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You know that's our guy, and we did it at
Speaker 1: first to mock their show and then it ended up
Speaker 1: working out well.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Next up, doctor Alf from the delivery room. Will Daddy
Speaker 1: G be recording the podcast from the hospital when the
Speaker 1: missus G goes into labor and will you Ben be
Speaker 1: there to deliver the baby? And opportunity to add another
Speaker 1: nickname to the Hopper. Yes, I have not been invited,
Speaker 1: nor do I want to be invited to that. That's
Speaker 1: all Danny. You're right there. You can take care of that. Danny.
Speaker 1: You've had the training. You're good to go, are you now?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna look or you're not gonna look? Daddy?
Speaker 1: What's the move going to be?
Speaker 4: I don't know yet I'm going to fill out the situation.
Speaker 4: Game time decision, game time decision. Yeah, I've heard it
Speaker 4: both ways.
Speaker 1: I've heard some people have said, I've had got you know,
Speaker 1: buddies of mine over the years that have said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing, you want to see it. It's the beginning
Speaker 1: of life, you know, the real life, you know, and
Speaker 1: all that. And then I've heard other people say no,
Speaker 1: because there's certain things you will never want to do again.
Speaker 1: If you watch that show, that that show, you'd think
Speaker 1: it's from another planet and you just want no part
Speaker 1: of that. So it really depends on how you're wired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and also how much trouble you'll be in if you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 4: I guess right, you know how the Barbie movie is
Speaker 4: the rage right now? Yeah, I wish it was the
Speaker 4: nineteen fifties because then I could just be in the
Speaker 4: cigar room.
Speaker 1: Passing out stogies. Yeah, here we go, boys, I got
Speaker 1: a kid, all right, Mike, Mike and fulletin right, since
Speaker 1: says hello, Ben and Danny g. When Dan Patrick's time
Speaker 1: slot opens up in four years, will both of your
Speaker 1: respective shows be throwing their hat into the ring to
Speaker 1: take it over. I hope things don't get ugly between
Speaker 1: you two. I'd hate to see a fifth hour civil war.
Speaker 1: Can't wait, says Mike. Yeah, well of course. Well it'll
Speaker 1: be like that scene from Anchorman, and we'll just it'll
Speaker 1: be me Eddie and Coop and Iowa Sam. We'll take
Speaker 1: on Danny g Covino and Rich and all you guys,
Speaker 1: and then we'll just go at it and we'll have
Speaker 1: like machetes and all kinds of muskets and all kinds
Speaker 1: of random things. Go after yourself, san Diego.
Speaker 4: So yeah, be careful. We have Ramos on our team.
Speaker 4: He bites ankles.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's an ankle biter, that John Ramos for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like Jeff van Gundy. He hangs on to the
Speaker 1: ankles of people. He says. Also, if you have time
Speaker 1: for more, one more question, Mike says, what's your guy's
Speaker 1: opinion on fabric softener?
Speaker 3: Yay or nay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, Mike, I think you should talk to Brian Finley.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a kirky dad. Did you know that, daddy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Man, he have not paid too much attention to his
Speaker 4: social media.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't. I don't. I'm really not on social
Speaker 1: media much. But I saw him in the hallways this
Speaker 1: week and he looked a little disheve. He always looks
Speaker 1: a little disheved.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like he just rolled out of bed
Speaker 4: literally ten minutes before airtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little flustered. He had a shirt saying a
Speaker 1: corky dad on it in a picture of a corky
Speaker 1: and then it said dad under and I said, wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's impressive. But yeah, Brian's really good that fabric
Speaker 1: softener stuff.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, you need to use some on
Speaker 4: his hair because half of his hair is like sticking up,
Speaker 4: like yeah, yeah, he's like like a.
Speaker 1: Nineties movie character from some kind of like comedy, like
Speaker 1: a nineties comedy. It is odd look, an odd od look.
Speaker 1: But I just can't answer that. It's an offensive question
Speaker 1: to be about fabric softener. I don't know, Danny. Do
Speaker 1: you do the laundry at the house over there, Danny
Speaker 1: or you're the laundry person.
Speaker 4: I do the heavy lifting, so I'll take laundry baskets down,
Speaker 4: I'll carry them up. But yeah, I'm not the one
Speaker 4: in charge of making sure the fabric comes out soft.
Speaker 4: I know that we do use some though, and then
Speaker 4: when you dry the clothes, make sure that you throw
Speaker 4: a couple of bounce strips in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I've refused to answer the question, so I will
Speaker 1: not answer the question. But if I were to answer
Speaker 1: the question, Danny, I would point out that I used
Speaker 1: to use fabric softener. My wife allergic to it, so
Speaker 1: do not use fabric softener anymore. But I can't answer
Speaker 1: the question, so I'm sorry. I hope you understand, Mike.
Speaker 1: I did not answer the question. Kevin in Kansas Rights
Speaker 1: and he says, dear Ben and Danny, g you both
Speaker 1: live hectic lives with all the schedules. Do you have
Speaker 1: any advice for creating quality downtime in your daily life
Speaker 1: to keep your sanity. That's from our buddy Kevin. He's
Speaker 1: a teacher. I can tell Kevin's having a good summer
Speaker 1: because the questions have slowed down a little bit. Kevin's
Speaker 1: enjoying himself before he gets back to the grind. So
Speaker 1: I am really bad at downtime. I don't do downtime. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll go first. The only thing I do during the
Speaker 1: week is after I get done doing a little prep
Speaker 1: for the show, and I take a shower, and then
Speaker 1: before I go to bed, I play on I play
Speaker 1: games on my phone. I play Solitaire, and there's like
Speaker 1: an alien shooting game that I play, like a ripoff
Speaker 1: of Galaxians from back in the day. So I play that.
Speaker 1: That's about it. And then on weekends when I have
Speaker 1: a little downtime, I'll I love going to the beach
Speaker 1: during the summer, and then in the winter not so much.
Speaker 1: But that's about it. What about you, Danny downtime? How
Speaker 1: do you keep your sanity?
Speaker 4: I have one book that I've been trying to read.
Speaker 4: In that book, I'm probably on like chapter twenty.
Speaker 1: I thought you would be like the bron and say
Speaker 1: I'm on page two.
Speaker 5: I have a huge basketball too, But no, but chapter
Speaker 5: twenty is not good because I've been reading this book
Speaker 5: supposedly for I don't know, three or four months, so
Speaker 5: I should be finished with this book music books.
Speaker 4: And then if life gets too hectic and kids are
Speaker 4: causing too much of a stir, I go down to
Speaker 4: the garage.
Speaker 1: That's good. You should get like a punching bag in there.
Speaker 3: I actually do have a stand up punching bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be perfect. Just unload on that and curse
Speaker 1: and you can do both at the same time.
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson style.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Next, Barry from South Carolina says, yo yo ma Benny.
Speaker 1: He used to be in Nashville, but now he says,
Speaker 1: he's in South Carolina. Yo yo ma Benny. And Danny
Speaker 1: g still drives me crazy. People call you and everyone
Speaker 1: asks how are you doing? Just say yo yo ma Benny,
Speaker 1: which means love the show and get to what you're
Speaker 1: calling about and stop wasting precious broadcast time. He says.
Speaker 1: My question this week is would you entertain having an
Speaker 1: A and A segment where you would have Andrea and
Speaker 1: andre as back to back callers. This way, those listeners
Speaker 1: who don't care for these two callers can go about
Speaker 1: other things for fifteen minutes while these two are on
Speaker 1: the air. Wow, I think that's a splendid idea. That's
Speaker 1: from Barry from South Carolina.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just not every caller is a masterpiece, and
Speaker 1: there are people that love andre Andre is very polarizing
Speaker 1: because some people love his calls from the Commonwealth, other
Speaker 1: people hate him, and the same with Andrew. There's certain
Speaker 1: people that love looking at star charts and figuring things
Speaker 1: out and all that, and there's other people that think
Speaker 1: that's quackery and they want nothing to do it. As
Speaker 1: far as the delay, though, you are absolutely right, Barry,
Speaker 1: I brought this up before. It's fascinates me doing this
Speaker 1: a long time. I listened to radio before I got
Speaker 1: into radio, So my entire life I've loved radio and
Speaker 1: broadcasting and audio content. And to think the first radio
Speaker 1: station which used to be a Fox Sports radio affiliate,
Speaker 1: I think it plays oldies music now WKAP in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: was the first radio station that ever had a tape
Speaker 1: delay or a delay like a small delay for broadcast.
Speaker 1: And it goes back to nineteen fifty two. Nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: two was the first year that this radio station did
Speaker 1: their thing. It was a show called open Mic and
Speaker 1: that is the first time a television call in show
Speaker 1: slash Radio was broadcast with a television conversation live on
Speaker 1: the air. The FCC had rules that prohibited the broadcast
Speaker 1: of live television, you know, conversation like from phones and on.
Speaker 1: But they put a new rule in prohibiting the playback
Speaker 1: unless you provided a beap. That was heard every fifteen seconds,
Speaker 1: so that was the workaround on that. But that WKP
Speaker 1: in Allentown Pierre was the first nineteen fifty two. So
Speaker 1: you get through the fifties, the sixties, the seventies, the eighties,
Speaker 1: the nineties, the odds, the last decade. We are talking
Speaker 1: about over seventy years of delay on radio and still
Speaker 1: people say how you doing? OZZIEZ writes in from how
Speaker 1: you doing? By the way, Western Ostex from Western Australia,
Speaker 1: says my mates Big Ben and Danny G. Last week
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to go to an underground operational mine,
Speaker 1: as normally I only operate at an open pit mine.
Speaker 1: So my question, have either of you guys ever been
Speaker 1: to or seen any sort of mining operation. You did
Speaker 1: send some photos here Danny, and it looks pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: This thing looks like I guess the comparison in America
Speaker 1: be the Grand Canyon. It looks massive there in Western Australia.
Speaker 1: So the only mining I've been to is at Kotsberry Farm.
Speaker 1: They have some mining there, a little gold panhandling you
Speaker 1: can do and not panhandling, but you can pan for
Speaker 1: gold at Knottsbury Farm and do a little mining that way.
Speaker 1: It's an amusement park. And then there was a ghost
Speaker 1: town on the way to Vegas, I believe where they
Speaker 1: have like an old mine. That's about it, Danny. Any
Speaker 1: mining that you've done, any kind of mining operation you've
Speaker 1: been part of back in your days when you were
Speaker 1: a coal miner in West Virginia.
Speaker 3: No mining.
Speaker 4: I have been underground before though, at Oregon Caves.
Speaker 3: It's a national monument.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: That was really cool. Little claustrophobic being underneath the ground
Speaker 4: there in tight spaces, you know. Oh, in the in
Speaker 4: northern California, Columbia is one of the little towns, tons
Speaker 4: of like little gold mines set up where you can
Speaker 4: take the family and pan for gold. It's Twollamee County
Speaker 4: in California. So if you ever want to visit the
Speaker 4: old California gold rush scene, very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure Ozzie Oz wants to fly from Western
Speaker 1: Australia to come hang out.
Speaker 3: He would love that part of California. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Oreo Cookie writes in says my conspiracy theory of the week,
Speaker 1: Benny the Bopper and Danny g is there really a Lisa?
Speaker 1: Why would she call weed man? So early in the morning.
Speaker 1: What would they talk about. I think it's been I
Speaker 1: think it's him being crazy and doing the voice of Lisa.
Speaker 1: I've never heard them talking at the same time. Can
Speaker 1: you bust him? By the way? I love weed Man Man,
Speaker 1: I love you so Orio Cookie. I will certainly bring
Speaker 1: that up with weed Man in one of these conversations
Speaker 1: we have here with Lisa. It is an odd thing because,
Speaker 1: according to weed Man he told me the story a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's our caller from Miami who calls up
Speaker 1: for lame jokes. We actually end up calling him to
Speaker 1: wake him up. He used to call on his own.
Speaker 1: But weed Man told me that he and Lisa were
Speaker 1: like a thing back in New York before weed Man
Speaker 1: lost the family money on Wall Street when the market crashed,
Speaker 1: and so because of Lisa's father, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should air all of the laundry on the air.
Speaker 1: But Lisa's dad apparently hated weed Man because he lost
Speaker 1: all the money and would not allow them to get married.
Speaker 1: But they're still very close and weed Man has her
Speaker 1: on the phone. It's it's kind of sad and romantic
Speaker 1: at the same time, Like they stay on the phone
Speaker 1: all night, because I don't know that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they talk about. Weed Man doesn't do anything very
Speaker 1: odd and she lives on Long Island or something like that.
Speaker 1: She's got a fair amount of money or I don't
Speaker 1: know the other more than that. But I will bring
Speaker 1: it up orio Cookie.
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 1: I'll try to remember to bring that up to weed Man,
Speaker 1: Nick and Wisconsin. Right, since says Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: I am coming back this week after my three week
Speaker 1: protest of you Ben slandering my name Nixon's as I was.
Speaker 1: I was not not the person who posted the axe video.
Speaker 1: That was Kyle in Denver. I called in to support
Speaker 1: you Ben. I guess you forgot that's a bad job
Speaker 1: by me being from the North. I'm going down to
Speaker 1: sand Antonio at the end of August with my wife. Yay, yay.
Speaker 1: So question, would you rather deal with one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty degrees or zero degrees for three months? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: I would go with the hot. I would go with
Speaker 1: the hot, Danny, because just get a good air condition.
Speaker 1: I've lived in hot places, and where I used to
Speaker 1: live before I moved, it was really hot, and that's
Speaker 1: fine as long you get a fan and an air condition.
Speaker 1: You're fine. I feel like it's easier to cool down
Speaker 1: than it is to warm up, surely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you wouldn't want to make a fire.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't want firewood chopped up ahead of time and
Speaker 4: could just burn a fire for yourself in the cold weather. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I liked the feeling of going out of one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen degrees and going into seventy degrees. You know,
Speaker 1: that's I enjoy that.
Speaker 3: That Vegas casino feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're overwhelmed by the air conditioning, and not that
Speaker 1: it's not great to walk into a heated room, but
Speaker 1: you freeze your nuts off like you did, Danny the
Speaker 1: other day. With the weather and all that and the
Speaker 1: power going out.
Speaker 3: It's like about that.
Speaker 1: But what would you you sound like you would pick
Speaker 1: the cold, Danny.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm right in the middle on that one.
Speaker 4: Like I do not enjoy the day.
Speaker 1: Get out of the middle of the road, Danny, Get
Speaker 1: off the fence, Danny, Danny, come on.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's here's the here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Then I wouldn't enjoy having to go to your car
Speaker 4: a half hour ahead of time, chipping away the ice
Speaker 4: and the walkway.
Speaker 3: What do they do they shovel the snow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah you get Oh, if you're rich, you got
Speaker 1: a snowblower.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you gotta here you go because obviously.
Speaker 1: The black ice you could slip on and break your back.
Speaker 3: Racist because of ice.
Speaker 4: I probably would choose the one and twenty degree weather,
Speaker 4: but if there was no eye, I wouldn't mind the cold.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough? Next up, Thank you, Nick, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're back. You've ended your protest. Was it successful? Well,
Speaker 1: it was more successful than the NFL running back protest.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 1: Next up, Mickey d in Central Texas rites in. He says,
Speaker 1: what is the last thing you eat before going to bed?
Speaker 1: For me, it is a piece of fruit. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the last thing I eat, Mickey, The last thing I
Speaker 1: eat is whatever I had for my meal that day,
Speaker 1: because I eat once a day during the week and
Speaker 1: whatever that. Maybe it's a piece of rice, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a piece of chicken. I don't know. That's it. I
Speaker 1: don't do more than that, but that's my answer. You
Speaker 1: have any special routine, Danny, before you go to bed,
Speaker 1: you eat some cookies or I don't know, ice cream.
Speaker 4: Or not anything heavy, but usually a small treat after dinner,
Speaker 4: because now it's been what a couple hours after dinner,
Speaker 4: we have a little bit of a sweet tooth while
Speaker 4: we're watching like ninety Day Fiance or Match Me Abroad
Speaker 4: or whatever ridiculous show, and like my girl will take
Speaker 4: out a thing of red vines and we'll just each
Speaker 4: take a couple of red vines. So normally when I'm
Speaker 4: brushing my teeth, about a half hour later, the color
Speaker 4: red is coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 3: Wonderful, it looked like a vampire.
Speaker 1: Well, ask and you shall receive Nick. And Nick in
Speaker 1: Nebraska that we had Nick and was concernedo. This is
Speaker 1: a different Nick we are. It's like not Nick at night,
Speaker 1: it's Nick on the weekends. It's wild. Nick in Nebraska says,
Speaker 1: have you or Danny g had any encounters with sharks, jellyfish,
Speaker 1: or any other ocean creatures since you both were born
Speaker 1: and raised in California. Yes, yes, I love snorkeling in
Speaker 1: Catalina with all kinds of exotic fish. And when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid there were I was playing with
Speaker 1: jellyfish back in the day and never never run into
Speaker 1: a shark. Don't have that swam when I was in
Speaker 1: Hawaii with a sea turtle that was awesome, nice and
Speaker 1: a seal. And it was only after we got out
Speaker 1: of the water that we found out when you see
Speaker 1: a seal in the water, the local decorum in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get out of the water. We didn't
Speaker 1: know that. We swam towards the The authorities there do
Speaker 1: not look kindly to you going that close to their
Speaker 1: sea life. Yeah, but the swimming with the sea hurtle
Speaker 1: sea turtle, this was like three four hundred pounds, amazing, awesome,
Speaker 1: like the coolest thing. You think you're like next to
Speaker 1: a teenage mutant ninja turtle. They're so big, they're massive,
Speaker 1: a couple hundred pounds. It's not said any ocean incidents, Danny,
Speaker 1: you want to share with the class.
Speaker 4: I mean, Snorkeling has been a big thing on the
Speaker 4: Hawaii trips. I never thought that I would feel comfortable
Speaker 4: being in the middle of the huge ocean like that.
Speaker 4: That's been cool to see the fish and we saw
Speaker 4: some baby sharks the last time we were in Hawaii,
Speaker 4: which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Isn't that a song baby shark? I feel like that was.
Speaker 4: In California, we go to Moro Bay sometimes love Bay.
Speaker 4: My girl and her family they meet up there once
Speaker 4: a year and they do camping right next to the water,
Speaker 4: and they'll go into the ocean with some wetsuits because
Speaker 4: the water is super cold. A couple. This was like
Speaker 4: two summers ago. My girl got faded. She was drinking
Speaker 4: too many white claws. Yeah, and she's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: there's a there's a sea otter in the water and
Speaker 4: he's got two shells that he's hitting together. And she
Speaker 4: she kept going into the ocean because she thought the
Speaker 4: sea otter was her new best friend.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 4: I swear to god it was the alcohol. But according
Speaker 4: to her, she swam with the sea otter.
Speaker 1: Ah, they were a year round. Every time I've been
Speaker 1: to Morrow. But that big rock right next to the rock,
Speaker 1: they're always there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, chilling.
Speaker 1: I've never been there, and I've been there a bunch
Speaker 1: of times over years. I've never been there and not
Speaker 1: seen the otters. That's the that's their spot. Now, this
Speaker 1: this just triggered a memory in my head that I
Speaker 1: had forgotten about from this past weekend. Is that this
Speaker 1: guy Nick's question. So I'm at the beach, I can't
Speaker 1: go in the water. I'm sitting in my chair. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: this sucks. You know, I don't go in the water.
Speaker 1: I usually my feet in the water. I couldn't do
Speaker 1: that because my my samurai sword accident. So this dude
Speaker 1: who was around our age, Danny, he's got his kids there.
Speaker 1: He walks into the ocean, stands, he throws, He doesn't
Speaker 1: have a fishing rod. He throws like something like a line.
Speaker 1: He catches a fish that is like massive, right in
Speaker 1: the waves, and and everyone in the beach is like,
Speaker 1: what the hell did this guy do? Is he is
Speaker 1: he some kind of samurai himself? Is he a ninja?
Speaker 1: What is he? So it turns out the guy said
Speaker 1: what he does is called hobo fishing. Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of that?
Speaker 3: Never heard of that.
Speaker 1: I never heard of that either. Does anyone know what
Speaker 1: hobo fishing is? Because I think I could do that.
Speaker 1: All the guy did was standing in the waves. And
Speaker 1: my wife was like she was a little freaked out.
Speaker 1: And a bunch of people on the beach were like,
Speaker 1: what the heck, Like there were kids swimming in the
Speaker 1: waves and there are these massive fish that are are
Speaker 1: there nuts? But he called it hobo fishing, where he
Speaker 1: just stood in the water, and.
Speaker 4: It's almost like I looked it up right now, and
Speaker 4: the way you hold it, it's like the handle of
Speaker 4: a lightsaber.
Speaker 3: It's fishing without the rod.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had no rod walking out of the water
Speaker 1: and this one of the fish was the size of
Speaker 1: his leg, his lower leg.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, this this actually works. I was like,
Speaker 1: I could probably do that. I think I'd be all right.
Speaker 1: I could be a hobo fisherman.
Speaker 3: Wonder what he was using.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea. I'd never seen anything like
Speaker 1: that before. And I'm sure there's somebody listening right now
Speaker 1: who's gonna email and say, hey, dummies, this is the
Speaker 1: original fishing. You're all a bunch of morons. Shame on you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so thank you. A couple more quick ones. Jay Bone
Speaker 1: from Beautiful Portland, Maine says, hey, Ben, did you ever
Speaker 1: find your Amazon gift card in your email? So this
Speaker 1: did come up on the show last? Was it last week?
Speaker 1: I think it was? It all runs together, but yeah,
Speaker 1: So we were talking about holiday gifts and how the
Speaker 1: company used to give holiday gifts and then and they
Speaker 1: stopped giving holiday I said they stopped giving holiday gifts
Speaker 1: last year, and then some of the guys said, oh, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they sent Amazon gift cards.
Speaker 3: Hey, you didn't know about it?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, so I said, I didn't know about it.
Speaker 1: And because I don't check the company email.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then people were asking me if I had found
Speaker 1: my my gift card and JB and I have not.
Speaker 1: I haven't even really looked for it because I don't
Speaker 1: know my email password. I got to it's a whole
Speaker 1: in the ass, man. You got to reset the password.
Speaker 1: And I don't check the company email. I don't wan't
Speaker 1: do it at all. Last one, did you get a
Speaker 1: gift card?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 3: I sure did.
Speaker 1: Oh and see now now does it? Do you think
Speaker 1: it's still good?
Speaker 3: That's not going to expire?
Speaker 4: All right, I'll check it is definitely sitting there in
Speaker 4: your inbox. Oh man, you have missed out on so
Speaker 4: much over the years by not being in tune with
Speaker 4: your work email.
Speaker 1: Well, you're my guy. Remember we have a deal, Danny.
Speaker 1: When they when the company gives the giveaways to certain
Speaker 1: promotional nights, you got to let me know because you're
Speaker 1: my guy, because you get all those emails and stuff
Speaker 1: because you're working to day.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: My wife always gets upset because I tell her, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Danny got yeah, he got free tickets to this thing
Speaker 1: and that thing from them. What don't we ever go?
Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't check my company email. Well
Speaker 1: why don't you check your company email? I have to explain, Well,
Speaker 1: because I when I got whacked from the company, the
Speaker 1: first thing they do before you can even collect your
Speaker 1: email is delete the email. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: have that problem again. So anyway, loser. Last one from Burrow,
Speaker 1: Guido rights and he says, if the Astros played the
Speaker 1: Podres in the World Series, who are you rooting for? Bush?
Speaker 1: Is not an answer? Well, that's easy. Do you think
Speaker 1: that's a hard question. You think that's a brain bender?
Speaker 1: That's not a brain bender. The answer is the Podres,
Speaker 1: that's the answer. I used to work in San Diego
Speaker 1: when I worked as an intern I started out in radio.
Speaker 1: I used to go to Padre games and I'd buy
Speaker 1: the cheapest ticket at Jack Murphy Stadium, and by the
Speaker 1: second inning on those businessman specials every Thursday, they'd have
Speaker 1: a day game and I would be sitting wherever I wanted,
Speaker 1: behind the visitors. Doug As usually where I went. Because
Speaker 1: the Padres had bad team but sometimes I sit near
Speaker 1: the Padres Dug guy and see Tony Gwynn and Bip
Speaker 1: Roberts and Ken Caminetti and those kind of guys, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, it would easily be the Padres. In fact,
Speaker 1: the Astros could play a team from Afghanistan and I'd
Speaker 1: pull for the team from Afghanistan. So yes, anybody the
Speaker 1: Astros play, just about I'm gonna pull for.
Speaker 4: So now, which habit do you blame on those old
Speaker 4: Padres chew or steroids?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Are you're talking about the untimely demise of certain Padres?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Ken Kammanedti was drugs? Right? He died in Brooklyn, right?
Speaker 1: I think I don't know what happened to Tony Gwynn. Man,
Speaker 1: he was such a nice guy.
Speaker 3: God oh man, that sucks.
Speaker 1: He was such a good dude. Of all the people
Speaker 1: I've been around when I was doing that, when I
Speaker 1: was a radio stringer, Tony Gwynn was the most grounded,
Speaker 1: down to earth person. He was from the LBC and
Speaker 1: the Padres played the Dodgers in LA and all his friends,
Speaker 1: and he just like didn't want to deal with any
Speaker 1: of the hullabaloo and all that. Tony Gwinn, good guy
Speaker 1: and really cool. I'd have one of my radio friends
Speaker 1: in San Diego stayed in San Diego, did radio, became
Speaker 1: really good friends with Tony and all that. All right,
Speaker 1: it is a Sunday. We are done. That is it.
Speaker 1: We have closed the mail bag. If you would like
Speaker 1: to send a question in for a future mail bag,
Speaker 1: you can do that care of Ben Malors show on
Speaker 1: the Facebook page or Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: You can send an email in anytime you want for
Speaker 1: the mailbag Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Anything
Speaker 1: you want to promote Danny. I will be back in
Speaker 1: the Magic radio box tonight doing the radio thing from
Speaker 1: eleven pm Sunday night into Monday morning at three am.
Speaker 1: But if you're on the East Coast two am to
Speaker 1: six am and you have a day of rest today
Speaker 1: on baby watch Danny.
Speaker 4: As long as the water doesn't break, I will be
Speaker 4: in there producing and having fun with Covino and Rich
Speaker 4: on the Monday afternoon show two to four pm on
Speaker 4: the West Coast, that's five to seven pm in New
Speaker 4: York City.
Speaker 1: I have a wonderful rest of thank you for listening
Speaker 1: to all these podcasts. Man, we really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And originally we started this, we did one podcast a week,
Speaker 1: and then we morphed into three. And we'll leave it
Speaker 1: at three, but to have a wonderful day and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time later.
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