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 cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: Independence Weekend continues Danny on location, but he is with
Speaker 1: us here remotely from Sun Diego.
Speaker 3: In the Puke Padre colorland. That puke color that the
Speaker 3: Padre's rock. I've seen it too much here, Ben, And
Speaker 3: it all came to a head when I was inside
Speaker 3: the pch market, right. It was almost looked like when
Speaker 3: you're at the airport and they have like that city's teams,
Speaker 3: but it's generic gear, yeah, and it's overpriced, and it
Speaker 3: was all this put colored padre stuff. I walked over
Speaker 3: and made the whole family laugh because I knocked some
Speaker 3: of it on the floor and there was a machato
Speaker 3: baby jersey for like a toddler. Switched it into the
Speaker 3: ground with my foot.
Speaker 1: But Shato often acts like a toddler, so maybe that's
Speaker 1: his actual jersey. That could be his actual Yeah. Oh man,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get to the mail bag in a minute,
Speaker 1: but I did want to want to start with the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week. Are you ready for the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week?
Speaker 3: A special mail bag edition of phrase.
Speaker 1: Of the Week. The phrase of the week this week
Speaker 1: is I've got it in the bag. It's in the bag.
Speaker 1: What's in the back? I got it in the bag. Now,
Speaker 1: most of us I would think, no, that if you
Speaker 1: say I've got it in the bag, you mean that
Speaker 1: you've got it. You won. This is in you controlled it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win, right, and that's it. You've nailed it
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and it's going to be successful, whether
Speaker 1: you've got a job, interview or you're doing a podcast
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get a bunch of down loads. I've
Speaker 1: got it in the bag. So the origin of this,
Speaker 1: it is interesting to note, actually has baseball, believe it
Speaker 1: or not. Baseball. The reason I thought this was interesting
Speaker 1: I stumbled upon this the other day and I thought
Speaker 1: I wanted to share it with you, and here I
Speaker 1: am on the podcast. So the origin of I've got
Speaker 1: it in the bag. Now, there are other examples, but
Speaker 1: the one that I think the one that stands out
Speaker 1: most in my opinion of this idiom in this phrase,
Speaker 1: and it's widely accepted as the modern usage of it.
Speaker 1: You can thank the Evil Giants now not the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants. They're now the San Francisco Giants. But this
Speaker 1: was so far back, over one hundred years ago. They
Speaker 1: were the New York Giants, the baseball team, and it
Speaker 1: began as a superstition. So let's take the hot tub
Speaker 1: time machine all the way back to the year nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: My god, what a what a different world that is.
Speaker 1: So nineteen sixteen, the Giants had a run of twenty
Speaker 1: six consecutive wins almost an entire month. They won every
Speaker 1: efing game, the New York Baseball Giants, and so a bag.
Speaker 1: They had a bag filled with seventy two extra baseballs
Speaker 1: and they would put that on the playing field at
Speaker 1: the beginning of each game. This is back one hundred
Speaker 1: something years ago, and these balls were used to replace
Speaker 1: any that were hit into the seats or any that
Speaker 1: became too dirty to use and all stuff. So the
Speaker 1: Giants during this crazy winning stream, they were under the
Speaker 1: impression that if they were in the lead during the
Speaker 1: ninth the last inning, carrying the ball bag off the
Speaker 1: field would ensure their win because, according to the team,
Speaker 1: they had captured the game in the bag. So the
Speaker 1: phrase I've got it in the bag was picked up
Speaker 1: by some sports writers in New York. It was repeated
Speaker 1: in newspaper articles back when people read newspapers before the internet,
Speaker 1: and the legend was formed at that point. And so
Speaker 1: here we are we still use that phrase. Are we
Speaker 1: allowed to use it as Dodger fans? Because it is
Speaker 1: a giant phrase in the bag? It goes back to
Speaker 1: the New York Giants? But did involved?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I feel like you ruined that phrase for me.
Speaker 3: Now can't say it anymore. It's taboo. How about that
Speaker 3: they only had seventy two baseballs? We've seen games they don't.
Speaker 3: They use many more baseballs now than seventy two. What
Speaker 3: would happen if they ran out of baseball's? Did they
Speaker 3: just ask people to throw the balls back?
Speaker 1: Because you could have certain guys foul balls off All
Speaker 1: the time I was watching, I forget what game backed
Speaker 1: on Friday. I was watching the game during the afternoon
Speaker 1: and there was one at bat the guy fouled off
Speaker 1: like seven or eight pitches, just one guy. So and
Speaker 1: then then you throw the ball out when it's scuffed up,
Speaker 1: and so you're talking about one player one at back
Speaker 1: could be nine to ten baseballs. So but back then,
Speaker 1: that's it. Maybe they didn't foul balls off as much
Speaker 1: back in the day. So let's get to the mail bag.
Speaker 1: And that means, ohio al.
Speaker 3: It's.
Speaker 1: Mail bag, all right, thank you very much, ohio al.
Speaker 1: And these are actual letters by actual listeners of the
Speaker 1: show Danny that have taken time out to send to
Speaker 1: send a messages correspondence via email Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: and put name and city, name and city or else
Speaker 1: you will get nothing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: For example, Max wrote in from Parts unknown because you
Speaker 1: didn't say what city he's in, you dumb ass. Sorry Max,
Speaker 1: But Max and I got a few other emails about
Speaker 1: this that everyone's been asking me, what's going on with
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny the TV show? Will it be
Speaker 1: picked up by the network for a third season? And
Speaker 1: the answer I can give you the answer right now.
Speaker 1: The answer is, I don't know. We've passed one of
Speaker 1: the deadlines. We've passed one of the deadlines where they
Speaker 1: were supposed to decide whether or not to pick up
Speaker 1: the show or not, and they have. They have not
Speaker 1: picked up the show. However, the good news is, as
Speaker 1: I was told, I was talking to Looney this week.
Speaker 1: We were going back and forth and Looney pointed out
Speaker 1: to me, they haven't canceled the show either, So we're
Speaker 1: still waiting. We're hopeful, So think some good thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a no. And I did recall I
Speaker 1: forgot Looney pointed this out last year they picked up
Speaker 1: the show. It was past the deadline. It was past
Speaker 1: the deadline and they picked up the show. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. I never thought we'd get
Speaker 1: a second season. I would love to do a third season,
Speaker 1: and we're waiting to hear back. I know the NFL
Speaker 1: season begins in about sixty days or so, right around
Speaker 1: sixty days from now opening weekend of the NFL. In fact,
Speaker 1: teams will start reporting your training camp in like the
Speaker 1: next week. Danny the Chargers, I believe are the first
Speaker 1: team in training camp. So this is gonna happen like
Speaker 1: real soon the NFL is gonna happen. But as far
Speaker 1: as Max and the other people, I promise you I
Speaker 1: will not hide this information. I know that Mike de Leprechaun,
Speaker 1: for example, who was just in studio, he's already got
Speaker 1: a venue you planned for a meet and greet in
Speaker 1: New England in Massachusetts. So we'll see what happens. I'm hopeful.
Speaker 1: I'm on standby. I've kind of put everything on hold
Speaker 1: as far as some travel plans for the summer, hoping
Speaker 1: to do the TV show. So we'll see. But one
Speaker 1: way or another, I will either they'll pick it up
Speaker 1: and I'll be able to make plans, or they won't
Speaker 1: pick it up and then I'll still be able to
Speaker 1: make plans. So once they decide what they're going to do,
Speaker 1: I will let you know. And that'll that'll be that
Speaker 1: Tony the Bay area, right so, and says hey, bandon,
Speaker 1: Danny g by the way, Now, Danny, Tony is the
Speaker 1: guy that calls up does David vass jokes, And Vassay
Speaker 1: actually was listening while I Tony called up to do
Speaker 1: a two balls joke about Vassay two balls to the face,
Speaker 1: I rotate nuts. How dare you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: He did that joke and Vassay heard it on the
Speaker 1: air anyway, Tony, yeah, he was listening. Tony says, I
Speaker 1: have a weekly segment idea for the podcast. You take
Speaker 1: a caller and you both do a pick and break
Speaker 1: the line down and no WNBA because schmucks like Steve
Speaker 1: will call in. He says. Now, one option on DraftKings
Speaker 1: was the Chicago Bears under six and a half wins
Speaker 1: at plus two hundred. He said, lock it in. Fuck
Speaker 1: it Tony the Bear says, where do you have the
Speaker 1: Raiders and Rams finishing? And then he says Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears.
Speaker 1: He says, but it sounded like Tony said, Bears under
Speaker 1: six and a half wins, like you would bet under
Speaker 1: six and a half at plus two hundred. I think
Speaker 1: what I know of Tony. He loves the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: He hates the fact that the Broncos have the same
Speaker 1: colors as the Bears, for example, So I think he
Speaker 1: would bet on the Bears over six and a half.
Speaker 1: But let's go now to the number one member of
Speaker 1: the Raiding Nation, the Man, the myth legend. Danny g
Speaker 1: You've got Tom Brady in ownership. You've got the oldest
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL, Pete Carroll, very positive guy, Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: You've got Gino Smith at quarterback. So what's say you, Danny,
Speaker 1: two months out?
Speaker 3: Leave out Ashton Genty?
Speaker 1: All right, Ashton genty? So two months out? How optimistic
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 3: Cautiously optimistic? Because I've seen this song and dance before
Speaker 3: with coach Pierce, which was just last season and a
Speaker 3: few games remaining in the season. Prior to that one,
Speaker 3: players and everybody loved him and he was revered and
Speaker 3: he was a locker room guy and a players coach
Speaker 3: and all that. I've heard this before. I've seen this before.
Speaker 3: I've seen this movie before. So I'm sorry if I
Speaker 3: need to see it on the field. I need to
Speaker 3: see real production on the field. I think the offense
Speaker 3: will be okay. The defense, I'm worried because they lost
Speaker 3: a lot of their good defensive pieces to free agency,
Speaker 3: like Nate Hobbs. They lost a couple of key defensive players.
Speaker 3: I am worried about that pick.
Speaker 1: Then, Yeah, So as far as the wins, I I'm
Speaker 1: not obviously a Raider fan. I would say, I want
Speaker 1: to get your thought, Danny. I think if you have Genos,
Speaker 1: he's average. And you know I was optimistic, you know,
Speaker 1: I like Gardner Minshew. I really thought Gardner could do
Speaker 1: a good job. He unfortunately didn't play that well. Then
Speaker 1: he got benched and and all that. Like Gino, I
Speaker 1: he get you somewhere in that seven, eight or nine
Speaker 1: win area.
Speaker 3: I could see them getting to nine because he is
Speaker 3: throwing to You could consider brock Bauers top three tight
Speaker 3: end in the league already. He loves his outlet guys
Speaker 3: and he likes play action. He plays his best when
Speaker 3: he has a good running back. The Seahawks couldn't keep
Speaker 3: their running backs healthy. That affected him somewhat. On that team,
Speaker 3: I could see Geno Smith having just an above average
Speaker 3: type season because of those weapons around him. And they
Speaker 3: have filled a couple of holes on that O line.
Speaker 3: The new center that they plugged in last year from Oregon.
Speaker 3: That dude's a beast. I could see the O line
Speaker 3: being just good enough to get Geno Smith to a
Speaker 3: wild card game. But then it wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 3: they fell on their face in a game like that
Speaker 3: because they don't have much depth whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing that kills you. It wears you
Speaker 1: down right. I mean that's the war of Attritionia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, any big injury to any of your starters when
Speaker 3: you're a team like that that lacks depth and you
Speaker 3: are dead in the water.
Speaker 1: Well, it's one of those things. Yeah, It's one of
Speaker 1: my pet piece is all we stay healthy. No one
Speaker 1: stays healthy in any sport, daty, right, is there any
Speaker 1: sport where has there ever been a team that went
Speaker 1: to training camp and then made it through the season
Speaker 1: without any major injuries. It doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: This is where I give your team, the Rams and
Speaker 3: teams like them credit where they are great in the draft,
Speaker 3: they're great in free agency, and it seems like you
Speaker 3: always have another guy who steps up. You could have
Speaker 3: some no names on defense and they still all play
Speaker 3: as one and get the job done. I am jealous
Speaker 3: of that because the Raiders haven't had depth like that
Speaker 3: in years.
Speaker 1: Well, Tony, the Bay Area. As far as the Rams
Speaker 1: and my outlook for the Rams, I am. I guess
Speaker 1: I share Danny's cautious optimism for the Rams. I do
Speaker 1: go back to last year, which is obviously a different team,
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Rams were the only team
Speaker 1: that really gave the Eagles a game in the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: they gave up some big runs to Barkley, but they
Speaker 1: had a shot. They Rams had the ball, matriculating the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, late fourth quarter, bad weather game
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, cold and all that, and they had a shot.
Speaker 1: They had a shot to win that game at the
Speaker 1: very end. And so that gives you some optimism. And
Speaker 1: it's it's the pendulum shifting for the Rams this year,
Speaker 1: where now it is really all about not Sean mcvay's offense.
Speaker 1: It's about Jared Vers, that stud linebacker, and the Ram
Speaker 1: defense they had like this coming of age the second
Speaker 1: half of last year for the Rams. They've added a
Speaker 1: couple of guys to the defense. They got a defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: a noseguard from the Chargers. They got a linebacker from
Speaker 1: Atlanta who they sprinkled into the defense. And you know,
Speaker 1: the reason I'm not completely all in is because you've
Speaker 1: got Matthew Stafford, who is as old as dirt and
Speaker 1: he made it mostly through the season last year. I
Speaker 1: just I don't trust Stafford to stay healthy they still
Speaker 1: have Jimmy Garoppolo, which is not the worst thing in
Speaker 1: the world. And I know when Stafford leaves the Rams, Danny,
Speaker 1: They're just going to be like the Steelers. Whoever the
Speaker 1: old quarterback that's a free agent at the end of
Speaker 1: their careers, they're going to pick up and add that guy.
Speaker 1: Rogers ends up playing for the Rams after his one
Speaker 1: year in Pittsburgh. But anyway, listen, the Rams, they'll win.
Speaker 1: To me, the baseline is ten. They'll win at least
Speaker 1: ten games. The big sexy pickup was Devonte Adams late
Speaker 1: of your Raiders. I'm not a huge DeVante Adams guy,
Speaker 1: but as a number two receiver, Puka Nakoula the clear
Speaker 1: number one receiver. I think Davante Adams is a number
Speaker 1: two receiver. Has he ever been a number two receiver anywhere?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, right, and this is the first
Speaker 1: time he'll have been a number two receivers, so he
Speaker 1: should have some opportunities to make some big plays and
Speaker 1: all that. I think the Rams will win. At least
Speaker 1: they'll be worst is ten and seven. They should win eleven.
Speaker 1: Eleven and six should be the Rams record, and they
Speaker 1: should rule the roost. In the NFC West nine Ers
Speaker 1: will bounce back a little bit, but I expect the
Speaker 1: Rams to win the division. That was way too much sports,
Speaker 1: by the way, Danny, I mean, I blame this is
Speaker 1: not a sport.
Speaker 3: He doesn't happen too often on the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Alf, from the line at dairy Queen writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, greetings and salutations, gentlemen. Now that we
Speaker 1: are smack dab in the middle of summer and the
Speaker 1: baseball season, Alf writes, I couldn't help but harken back
Speaker 1: to the days of my youth for my question. Is
Speaker 1: there anything better than a baseball helmet Sunday? None of
Speaker 1: this hipster avocado asparagus ice cream, just some vanilla soft
Speaker 1: served hot fudge and whip cream served in a random
Speaker 1: baseball team's mini helmet. It's so, yeah, well whatever, but
Speaker 1: this is Alf. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Alf.
Speaker 1: I remember getting that helmet, and I couldn't wait to
Speaker 1: eat the ice cream, and then I went to the
Speaker 1: I remember going to the drinking fountain and washing it off.
Speaker 1: Danny getting all done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that part was cool. And I remember looking under
Speaker 3: seats because you hoped that people in the roads near
Speaker 3: you like just discarded their helmets and then I remember
Speaker 3: we stood at the water fountain at Dodger Stadium and
Speaker 3: washed them all off and took them all home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's awesome, cool memory. But the ice cream was too plain.
Speaker 3: I wanted toppings.
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, this was back years ago. They didn't have topings.
Speaker 1: Toppings had not been invented, Danny. Back then, they didn't
Speaker 1: have it.
Speaker 3: That's a travesty.
Speaker 1: It's not right, man. I had Speaking of ice cream,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this on the air briefly, but I me
Speaker 1: and the wife, we went out to get some ice cream,
Speaker 1: actually with the kid Patrick before he went back. He
Speaker 1: is leave is over. He's back at Camp Pendleton learning.
Speaker 1: As I told him, he's at military college now. He
Speaker 1: graduated boot camp. He had like ten days of leave
Speaker 1: and now he's back learning his craft for the United
Speaker 1: States Marines and we're happy for him and he seems
Speaker 1: to be enjoying it, which is cool. But we took
Speaker 1: him out for ice cream and I had We went
Speaker 1: to Handle's ice have been Handles ice cream around?
Speaker 3: I have been there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good. Uh, And we had this is a.
Speaker 3: My uncle sent me there because they're the competition.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, well, of course, of course, yeah, yeah, Giredelly,
Speaker 1: which is still Danny. Just for the record, the Gara
Speaker 1: Deelli Sunday when I was at Disneyland, that was my
Speaker 1: that was my treat. That was my birthday treat was
Speaker 1: the Garedelly cookie Sunday at the California Adventure Gharriedelli right
Speaker 1: there in the middle of California. And that you do
Speaker 1: pretty good business over there your family, right, Danny.
Speaker 3: That's store forty seven.
Speaker 1: So anyway, what the handles ice cream got? I knew.
Speaker 1: I normally eat the same thing. I eat cookie dough, strawberry,
Speaker 1: chocolate chip or mint chip. Those are normally my go to,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple others, but those are my main
Speaker 1: you know, Mount Rushmore of ice cream, Mount Rushmore of
Speaker 1: ice cream, as Terry, Terry would love that. That's not
Speaker 1: a list, Terry, that's a Mount Rushmore, not a list.
Speaker 1: I tried the lemon No, No, it was a key
Speaker 1: key lime ice cream. Amazing. It's a new item. I
Speaker 1: think it's a limited item for the summer key Lime
Speaker 1: and granola or a gram Cracker key Lime and Graham Cracker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, amazing, amazing ice cream. One of the greatest scoops.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was just hot and I just hadn't had
Speaker 1: ice cream in oil. It was one of the greatest
Speaker 1: culling in.
Speaker 3: No, no, see that's what I'm talking about. When we
Speaker 3: were kids at the ballpark. How come they didn't offer
Speaker 3: M and ms as a topping thummy bears? Was there sprinkles?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if sprinkles were available at the time.
Speaker 3: It was just flat out vanilla in a helmet.
Speaker 1: The hardship we had, Danny, now that we're middle aged people.
Speaker 1: The hardship we had growing up, you know, that was
Speaker 1: our walking up to school in the snow. That was
Speaker 1: we had no sprinkles, no chocolate sauce, no caramel sauce.
Speaker 1: We didn't have any of that stuff. None of it.
Speaker 3: Oh, our kids don't know the half of it. Benny.
Speaker 3: We checked into this hotel for Saturday night going into Sunday,
Speaker 3: and our daughter said, there's no valet at this hotel.
Speaker 1: See I'm the opposite. I was like, you little shit,
Speaker 1: I get upset. Tell your daughter. When I go to
Speaker 1: the hotel with the wife and I see valet. I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, well I don't want to what are
Speaker 1: we doing? I don't want to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have any cash on me. I have
Speaker 3: credit cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other thing is I pointed out before
Speaker 1: Denny and the valet, it's the equivalent of running the
Speaker 1: Boston Marathon, going you've gone twenty six miles, and then
Speaker 1: when you get to the point two part, you hand
Speaker 1: the baton off to someone else to go through the
Speaker 1: line and finish the race. I mean, what's the point
Speaker 1: of that. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: I think, by the way, really quick, I think she
Speaker 3: was referring to having a bell man because she likes
Speaker 3: when they wheel the cart out and put all the
Speaker 3: crap on the cart for you so that it doesn't
Speaker 3: take an extra half hour to get into your room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Can you say spoiled? Exactly? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Kevin and Kansas rites in. Kevin's been listening to the
Speaker 1: show before. He's retired. Now he's living the good life,
Speaker 1: he says. Ben I recently was made aware of the
Speaker 1: word to Toyer. I think that's how I said, t
Speaker 1: U t O y E R? Is that? Am I
Speaker 1: pronouncing it right? Danny? Just go with it.
Speaker 3: I just say yes, yeah, you always pronounce everything right.
Speaker 3: Mister Vanilla that's right, baby. I can't even mispronounce vanilla
Speaker 3: the way you do vanilla.
Speaker 1: I know what I meant anyway, So this this, Kevin
Speaker 1: says the word to Toyer. He found the word. But
Speaker 1: while playing Scrabble go, Kevin, have you played against me
Speaker 1: and Scrabble Goo? I'm on Scrabble Go, bad job by
Speaker 1: you come on, Kevin. So Kevin says, it means to
Speaker 1: address someone in a familiar manner. I saw this happening
Speaker 1: in school, where students would call their teachers by their
Speaker 1: nicknames or just by last names. Have you noticed this
Speaker 1: in our culture more than ever? Or is it just me?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah. We were not allowed to do that. I was
Speaker 1: not allowed to Danny like if you call, if you
Speaker 1: didn't call the teacher like miss Cleman or mister Smith, like,
Speaker 1: you would be in trouble. Like. I didn't have any
Speaker 1: teachers that would allow me, as I remember, to call
Speaker 1: them by their nicknames or anything like that. The other
Speaker 1: thing that blows me away when when the kid Patrick
Speaker 1: was in school and I would I would take him
Speaker 1: to school in like junior high and high school. The
Speaker 1: kids that would show up in their pajamas like that
Speaker 1: bleway like that I would have loved school of my pajamas.
Speaker 1: I was they were We were not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1: You couldn't show up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one day, one day, man, it was
Speaker 3: a spirit day called Pajama Day. It was once every
Speaker 3: school year. These kids have fucking pajama day every day
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember. I was like, man, everyone's walking to
Speaker 1: school in their pajama bottom says wild to me. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I was like, Wow, that's not that bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hated getting up. I was not a
Speaker 1: morning person. I'm still not a morning person. But like
Speaker 1: the idea that you would get up and you have
Speaker 1: to get shower, get dressed and your school clothes and
Speaker 1: all that. And now you just some of these kids,
Speaker 1: I don't think they shower, Dan, They show up in
Speaker 1: their pajamas.
Speaker 3: They roll out of bed and they walk in there.
Speaker 3: It's like, wow, it's a good thing. You don't have
Speaker 3: morning show hours.
Speaker 1: No, No, that would that would be sun. But the
Speaker 1: money would not. The money would not. Klang writs in
Speaker 1: from Ho Chi Minh. He's fames being Vietnam. He says
Speaker 1: big Man and Danny G Daddy G Resorts World, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas waiving all resort fees for hotel guests through September eleventh.
Speaker 1: According to the casino website, this includes the three Hilton
Speaker 1: hotels he named on the property. The resort fees, which
Speaker 1: previously range from fifty to fifty dollars five dollars per night,
Speaker 1: will not be charged for bookings made directly with Resorts
Speaker 1: World through the date. This makes them the only major
Speaker 1: Las Vegas strip casino hotel without resort fees during this period.
Speaker 1: What's your all's opinion on this? According to Quaying, well,
Speaker 1: how could anyone be against this?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is there anyone's like, Oh, I want my resort fees.
Speaker 1: I'm upset that they're not allowing me to pay an
Speaker 1: extra fifty dollars tax on top of my my already
Speaker 1: taxed room. Come on now right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's a cool spot. I stayed there one time.
Speaker 3: Solvino and Rich had to choose between that location or
Speaker 3: Circa for their convention that they had a couple of
Speaker 3: weekends back. They went with Circa because they thought it
Speaker 3: was more action packed for the listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Circa because of the sports book and the
Speaker 1: pool situation at Circa ex Yeah, next level I've actually
Speaker 1: only been viven't been in resorts where we have some
Speaker 1: of the listeners on the Overnight show that work at
Speaker 1: resort World. I did see that some of the hotels,
Speaker 1: or at least one of the hotels is taken away
Speaker 1: paid parking again on the strip, which is great.
Speaker 3: Their rooms are nice, by the way, resort resort work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you have not been there. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: the idea of Vegas. I was there a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I'll probably be back a couple of times this summer.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't want to stay on the strip.
Speaker 1: I told the story when I tried to go to
Speaker 1: your family restaurant, Danny Giri Deli and get some of
Speaker 1: that delicious ice cream and the chocolate, and they to
Speaker 1: charge me thirty four dollars for parking. And I was
Speaker 1: only going to be there for like a half an hour.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm done, I'm not going. I didn't go back.
Speaker 1: That's it. So they could have gotten some of my money.
Speaker 1: The scam. And I didn't agree with most things Joe
Speaker 1: Biden did, but he tried to get rid of this,
Speaker 1: or I didn't. Biden claim he was going to get
Speaker 1: rid of the uh this fee, so hey by Speaking
Speaker 1: of Vegas, did you see the hotel on Friday? At
Speaker 1: the Cromwell Hotel in Las Vegas, right across from Caesar's Palace,
Speaker 1: was on fire on Friday morning.
Speaker 3: I didn't see that, but I did see the headline
Speaker 3: saying that the parent company of the hotel in the
Speaker 3: casino in Prim.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Buffalo Bills right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're officially gonna close that down.
Speaker 1: Well, I see.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna roller coaster and all bye bye.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the roller coast. I go to Vegas
Speaker 1: a few times year. I've not seen the roller coaster
Speaker 1: since I think nineteen working. But as I understand, they're
Speaker 1: only going to be open for holidays and for like
Speaker 1: the weekends. I think, so, I think they'll be closed
Speaker 1: during the week But then from what I read Danny,
Speaker 1: they're gonna move everyone over to There's, There's. There were
Speaker 1: three hotels in Prim. If you're not familiar, if you're
Speaker 1: not from the West coast, Prim is right on the
Speaker 1: Nevada California border. It's the first city when you drive
Speaker 1: from La on your way to Vegas. It's about forty
Speaker 1: five minutes outside of Vegas from the state line. But
Speaker 1: it's the first place you can legally bet on sports.
Speaker 1: So when I would go to Vegas, I would often
Speaker 1: time it so I could get there. I get three
Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon because the games on the West
Speaker 1: Coast the East Coast game start at four o'clock our time,
Speaker 1: so I would try to get in there around three
Speaker 1: thirty to get my bets in for the East Coast games. Loser,
Speaker 1: I would stop, go to the bathroom, and then get
Speaker 1: back in the car and drive another forty five minutes
Speaker 1: into in Vegas. But they're they're moving it to this
Speaker 1: There's one other hotel and I forget the name of it.
Speaker 1: I guess that was closed and now they're reopening that hotel.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they renovated it or not. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that sucks. Prim That's one of those things in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: Danny and your lifetime, that's becoming a ghost town. That
Speaker 1: was a virus, that was a vibrant gambling town in
Speaker 1: the den, there coming a ghost crazy.
Speaker 3: We've talked on the podcast before about how we both
Speaker 3: used to stop at the outlet there.
Speaker 1: I love the outlet, Love the outlet.
Speaker 3: And back to Fremont Street for a second. That was
Speaker 3: my first time since I was a kid walking down
Speaker 3: Fremont Street. What a freak show. And you described it
Speaker 3: so well with all the zombies.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got a little depressed, Danny I did.
Speaker 1: It was like a little I guess I'm getting.
Speaker 3: So I got a little depressed. I got a little crack.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you can get fentanyl. They have like a
Speaker 1: fentanyl a crackstand, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh there was a crack pipe shop.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: After I got the crack from a whore. It was dude,
Speaker 3: everything one stop shopping.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They even have a booth there where you can
Speaker 1: snort the coke off off of hooker's ass right there,
Speaker 1: right right there, a bunch of hookers and cocaine. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Gary in the Berg rights and says, hey, Ben, I
Speaker 1: wanted to let you know these zip Code Guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about this guy. Zip Code Guy is a
Speaker 1: magician named Justin Willman. He has a special on Netflix
Speaker 1: called Magic Lover. You should check it out, very entertaining,
Speaker 1: especially in the last twenty minutes. Don't put this on
Speaker 1: the mail bag. There you go. I liked that. He
Speaker 1: says that at the end, don't put this in the
Speaker 1: mail bag. There you go, all right, I says, don't
Speaker 1: put this part in the mail bag. There you go?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Oops, well Gary, you should probably next time, Gary put
Speaker 1: that at the beginning.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: All right. I will try to watch that at some
Speaker 1: point in the free time that I normally don't have. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this yesterday. Was it yesterday? I think it
Speaker 1: was yesterday. I will be filling in on Thursday of
Speaker 1: this week doing local radio in La so day night
Speaker 1: doubleheader on Thursday on AM five seventy on the iHeart
Speaker 1: Radio app the Dodger station and Thursday afternoon from noon
Speaker 1: till three. And I believe I will not be working
Speaker 1: with Fred Rogan that day. I think Jonas Knox and
Speaker 1: I hostile Fox Sports Radio takeover of AM five seventy
Speaker 1: on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll be doing two Laker haters two. Uh. Well,
Speaker 3: at least you're not a Dodger hater. I've heard Jonas
Speaker 3: hate on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a yikes.
Speaker 3: Oh, Jonas loves to hate on LA teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's one of his sticks, just like yours.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with his Laker stuff. I'm okay with that I.
Speaker 3: Bet you are. You guys are butt buddies anti Laker programming,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Don, Don from Parts Unknown says please no, blind Scott.
Speaker 1: He says the sub host let him hijack an entire segment.
Speaker 1: Do better the show got turned off. Don. First of all, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not responsible for the substitute teacher that come in.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Take it up with them when I'm
Speaker 1: away every once in a while, taking a rare and
Speaker 1: appropriate night away from the talk show. And I try
Speaker 1: to get all of my days off. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I try to get everything all the time off for
Speaker 1: the entire year. I try to take in July and August,
Speaker 1: so when football starts in September, I don't take any
Speaker 1: time off. I'm here from all the way from September
Speaker 1: until usually May. I don't take any time. I don't
Speaker 1: take any other any Yeah.
Speaker 3: I petition this because you deserve the time off that
Speaker 3: you've accrued. But what we should do is we should
Speaker 3: have Edmund Dallas Garcia on standby for whenever you take
Speaker 3: time off. He should at least be part time with
Speaker 3: our company to then fill in for you.
Speaker 1: How about shut up? Well, I agree, they should bring
Speaker 1: any back. I never wanted any to go. I hope
Speaker 1: they'll bring him back. I'd love to see that.
Speaker 3: It would be cool to have him as your fill
Speaker 3: in guy. That's what I if I was programming the network,
Speaker 3: That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: They had said, hey, we don't have budget for him
Speaker 3: to be full time, I'd say, okay, well he's going
Speaker 3: to be part time. He's Ben's main fill in guy.
Speaker 1: Listen. There's a lot of things I would change, Danny,
Speaker 1: but I'm not the boss. I don't make those decisions.
Speaker 1: If I was in charge, things will be Things will
Speaker 1: be a lot different Danny. If I was in charge,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Danny, and we'd be.
Speaker 3: In fifth place of the ratings, not number one.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll do a couple more. We're getting late here.
Speaker 1: It's Sunday. We got stuff to do. Reggie in Detroit
Speaker 1: writes and big fan of the show. He usually emails
Speaker 1: us for the podcast. He says, hey Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g Hey Ben, you've been rotating producers and engineers for
Speaker 1: a while now. How difficult has it been with all
Speaker 1: the different people? Reggie, It's been fine. The good thing
Speaker 1: is I do like ninety nine percent of the prep
Speaker 1: for the show anyway, So it doesn't really I mean,
Speaker 1: I love working with you know, whoever wants to show
Speaker 1: up to work and all that. And so fortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: the people that are normally on the show don't really
Speaker 1: do much day to day in terms of the prep
Speaker 1: and all that. So you know, it's it's weird, like
Speaker 1: it's cool, Danny, and when people fill in, they're like
Speaker 1: really motivated, they're fired up. Breees. I love Breece. She's
Speaker 1: been great, and Ian did a really good job as
Speaker 1: well producing the show, and you know call you know,
Speaker 1: screening the calls and all that. So, uh no, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't change my my daily routine. I I go
Speaker 1: in there and I sit in the same chair in
Speaker 1: the studio, and you know, whoever's make as long as
Speaker 1: my MIC's on and and I talk and Bill Miller's
Speaker 1: there and and that's that. So that's just the.
Speaker 3: Who it fills in for Larno when she travels.
Speaker 1: Well, we had we had Mary Mary the Boardop, and
Speaker 1: we've had Marky Mark, the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 3: Guy, Mark, Oh, the Man of many words.
Speaker 1: Mark. Mark's a radio pro though he just wants to
Speaker 1: hit the buttons right and get out of the way.
Speaker 1: I'm a hit the buttons and that's it. Don't mess.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I just boom, hit the
Speaker 1: button and I'm okay with that. I'm okay, all right,
Speaker 1: We'll get out Dan. I'll be back full week. I
Speaker 1: have no days off from the Overnight show. I'll be
Speaker 1: on tonight and all week, and then on Thursday, I
Speaker 1: will be doing a doubleheader. And what about you, Danny
Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich any any scheduling quirks we need
Speaker 1: to know about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually there is tomorrow. On Monday morning, we're gonna
Speaker 3: be in for Dan Patrick and we're gonna do the
Speaker 3: same thing on Tuesday. So Monday and Tuesday this week
Speaker 3: in for the DP show.
Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday,
Speaker 1: enjoy the first full week of the month of July,
Speaker 1: and we will chat with you. I'll be with you tonight,
Speaker 1: Danny tomorrow, and then we'll reunite and form Voltron on
Speaker 1: Friday for a new weekend of the fifth Hour. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, suck it, Padres fans bost to Boston. Yeah, gotta
Speaker 3: murder I Gotta go