WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Watching from the Ground" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cut booms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.640 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:34.240 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.120 Maller and Danny G Radio, and a happy Sunday to 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.880 you as we are hanging out on this third day 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.319 of the month of August and celebrating one of the 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:54.920 final Sundays before football. I don't really count these exhibition games. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.360 I don't know about you, Danny G Radio, but I 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.880 watched more of the Hall of Fame game on Thursday 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.200 than I have in years, but only because I wanted 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.240 to hear Brent Musburger and I wasn't sure when Musburger 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.520 was going to come on. You know that, and he 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.160 didn't show up. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.800 Well, he was the highlight. And then I know once 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.880 you got on the radio. Probably one of your monologues 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.919 was about how Trey Lance is now a top ten quarterback. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.480 Well, the rumor, and I don't know, I don't know 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.160 if I'm allowed to say this on the podcast, but 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:37.319 that Kansas City's offered Mahomes and Kelsey for Trey Lance. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.240 That that, and that's what Schefter had. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.400 Now, No, I think the Chargers could get more. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.240 Yeah, no, I agree. When you think of the greatest 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.000 Charger quarterbacks, you think of Philip Rivers, you think of 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.160 Dan Fouts, you think of Drew Brees. But all of them, 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:57.200 all of them pale in comparison to July Trey Lance. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.000 Nothing match July Trey Lance. He's the greatest jobs. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.040 And do you know after the game, an NFL reporter 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.480 posted the final score and said, oh boy, the Lions 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.280 sure are going to miss Ben Johnson. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.120 Oh yeah, yeah. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.360 You can make a lot of nothing like overreacting to 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.160 a Hall of Fame game, the first preseason game of 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 the year where no actual starters are on the field. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I do realize before you said, well, Ben, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.160 you overreact all the time? Are your stupid radio show? Yeah, listen, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:33.359 I understand we're in the reaction business, but even for me, Danny, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:34.839 that is a bridge too far. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.000 You know what I'm saying, And you overreact to starters 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:38.680 I do. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.120 I do overreact to QB one's and all that stuff. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:48.200 And I I have learned my lesson over the years 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:54.280 on not getting burned by exhibition quarterbacks. What was the guy? 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.400 There was a quarterback the Saints had. Was it Jake Hayner? 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.800 I think that was. Remember last year there was a 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.040 guy that played really well if I remember in the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.000 exhibition games who people were getting all horny, They're like, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.360 oh man, this guy's amazing. Didn't quite work out that way. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.840 I think it was Jake, And there was Every year 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:22.480 there's one quarterback at least that just dominates exhibition football, right, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.960 just is amazing. I think it was Jake Haner the 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.400 Saints last year. I might be wrong on that, but 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:33.120 either way it doesn't matter. Yeah. So anyway, today's Sunday, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.120 and we'll have plenty there will be exhibition football. There 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.000 was only one not to I don't think today. But 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:43.240 next week that's when the real card begins in exhibition football. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.280 Now we have the word of the week, dany are 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.280 you ready for the word of the week. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.560 You're gonna do Word of the week on a mail 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:52.720 bag Sunday. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.520 And then we'll get to the mail bag. I just 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.600 wonder a mail bag edition of word of the week. Ok, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.520 this is the word of the week. Is usurped? Now? 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.640 This was by request from the aforementioned alf the alien opiner. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.880 He said, Ben, I heard you mentioned the word usurped 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.680 twice in monologues this week or something like that. I'm 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.520 trying to I'm membering this off the top of my 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.000 head anyway. So the word usurped, which goes all the 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.000 way back, it was first recorded in the twelve hundreds, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.320 somewhere between twelve seventy five and the early thirteen hundreds. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.839 The word usurped has a lineage that goes way back. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.920 It goes like so many of our words, it goes 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.760 back to Latin roots. There's also some Old French influence 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:42.720 in there. The original meaning in Old the French was 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.680 to wrongfully appropriate. That was the original and by the 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.839 early fourteenth century in Middle English. According to the linguistic 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.440 people where I got this from, they claim that it 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.600 was used to describe falsely claiming rights or seizing power. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.720 That I was normally used in political dialogue. So when 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:10.760 someone usurps a throne or a title, they're essentially seasoning 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:16.960 for use without rightful claim, all right, without rightful claim. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.560 So if you want to, if you want to use 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.680 the word usurp, you could say that Danny, if I 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.000 were away and we had I don't know who would 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.560 be in here doing the podcast. If we brought somebody 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.000 else in third person into the podcast and they did well, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.800 they would usurp the podcast from me. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.080 So the word of the week is it was like 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.080 when I was a little kid at the dinner table 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.040 and my mom would say stop it, and I looked, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.960 I'm like what she's like, you surp it and I 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.160 had my soup in front of me. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.799 Or if you go out to a Malibu or Santa Monica, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:06:01.080 you could surp a right cowibump. Let's get to the mailbag. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.360 Here we go, mail back time, mailback, mailbag. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:11.200 Mail bag, it's mail bag. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.160 Thank you very much. The great Ohio. What a talented 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.840 guy Ohio al is and he had a great song 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.640 in the mallet PLA. No, he's good. We don't have 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:27.760 a lot of good I need. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.200 To sell that. At least you got his name right 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:31.360 few All. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.040 Right, ah, let's go. Let's go. First up, Frank from Michigan. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.400 Oh this is good, Frank says. I don't normally don't 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.719 normally right into your show, but you inspired me this week, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.560 he says, Ben and Danny. I live near three dairy 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.039 queens in my town, and I want you guys to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.200 know that I was able to hit all three after 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.880 hearing your overnight show, and I got blizzards at each. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.240 So I'm both very charitable, Frank says, and I'm now fat. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:01.719 Thank you. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:03.800 Well. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.400 I don't know if you guys on Covino and Rich 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.480 I had to do this, but we had every segment 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.680 was sponsored by dairy Queen, every segment on the Overnight show, So. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.440 Oh no, we didn't have that on our show. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:19.200 Okay, yeah, it was a national I don't know, it 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.440 was some It was a charitable thing where they were 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.960 giving kids. They were donating like a dollar from every blizzard. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:31.280 So so every segment I had to do a liner 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.640 for dairy Queen everyone. And so that inspired this guy 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.800 Frank to go, I guess and get get three blizzards. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.360 Of course, also possible, Danny. I don't want to rip 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.880 Frank that he's a big, fat guy and he just 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.200 likes eating, you know, blizzards. I mean something wrong with that. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.200 You don't have to you know, you can blame me 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.920 as your guy and say, but just my fault anyway, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.000 Thank you, Frank. Alf from the ledge of the tallest 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.400 building I could find says it is with a heavy 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.040 heart that I am writing this message. Do you do 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.600 you think that the rumors that I cut the cord 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.880 reached the suits over at NBC Sports Boston and had 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.239 any influence on the decision to poll acts the TV show? 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.400 Do you hold me responsible in any way for cutting 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.240 said cord at the end of June? Does this mean 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.120 that you won't be returning to the Bay State? What 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.320 am I even doing here? 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:25.640 Alf? 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.840 Well, here's the deal. Yes, you are responsible. If you 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.520 had only kept cable television, the show would have been 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.360 brought back, and unfortunately it does not look like I 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.599 will be returning to Boston. I love those trips to 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.079 Boston were great, and to tape stuff for the TV 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.040 show and multitask and have Mallard meet and greets and 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.400 all that was a lot of fun. I'm bummed out. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.520 I was actually supposed to meet Alf last year, but 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.839 he couldn't make it because of the weather. I was 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.800 able to meet Mass whole Mickey before he unfortunately died 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.679 shortly after that and some of the other listeners that 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.760 came on. There is a chance alv the the Leprechaun 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.120 and Mike in New Hampshire have offered to roll out 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.080 the red carpet for a special Mallor meet and greet 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.960 in Worcester and in Boston. I need to know more information. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.320 I want to make sure that's a legitimate offer before 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.520 I accept. I'm not sure the details on that. I 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.120 got to make sure to read the fine print. So 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.000 it is possible that I will be back there just 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.839 for a Malor meet greet, just for a mal of 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:33.360 meat and greet. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.560 So we'll seanks for the warning. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.920 Yeah no, and and alphas is ps. I blame that 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.480 camera hog, Tom Looney. He's dead to me, public enemy 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.839 number one. He says, Wow, all right, thank you for 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:48.240 that dub. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.320 That's what you get for going with the wrinkled up 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:50.960 bold penny. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.839 There you go, Ryan Ryan C. From Shrewsbury, Mass writes 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.120 in He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g As you 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.240 guys know, I've been emailing the pod for a while now, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.600 and I started by telling you guys about me and 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.920 all that, But I want to start asking the questions 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.080 we will want answers to. I said, this guy Ryan, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.440 let me tell you some danme. This guy Ryan is 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.240 on the pulse of the people. He says. I was 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.040 the guy that asked about softer hardshell tacos and who 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.600 wins a race between you, sain Bolt and joy Chestnut. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.920 But she had to down one hot dog. I had 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.760 to start the race. So for this week's question, if 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.920 you got offered five thousand dollars a week for the 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.720 rest of your life, but you had to have Taco 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:45.400 Bell for one meal a day for the next ten years, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.800 would you do it? Ryan says? He says, personally, I 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.600 am a wimp and a pussy willow when it comes 0:10:54.640 --> 0:11:00.679 to fast foods, so I would do it immediately. He says, thanks, Pois, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.400 that's from Ryan. Well, is there any reason to say no? 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:04.680 Like? 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.000 Who would say no to five brand a week? 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:08.480 Danny? 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.000 And all you had to do is eat Taco Bell 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.320 one meal a day, Like. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.360 I mean, that's a noe brainer if you think about it. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.920 The other two meals would be up to you, so 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.800 you could make those the healthy meals. The Taco Bell 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.800 once a day, could just clean your system out. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.440 Yeah, you eat it at night before you go to bed. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.480 And now my problem, My problem is I can go 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.120 in there and eat some burritos and tacos and all 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.440 the different weird items they have at Taco Bell and 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.520 all that during the week. I usually only eat one 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.120 meal a day, so that would be my one meal 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.280 would be Taco Bell. They have enough items on there, 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.679 like you could try the canteena burrito and you can. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.040 Yeah, they have enough different items to where you could. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.199 I mean, it would still get old if you had 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.640 to do it for that many years, but there's enough 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.000 items now at least to rotate through. Yeah. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.040 Is it true they charged twenty cents per pack of 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:06.320 like hot sauce and stuff. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.960 Is that true or is that No? Not at not 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.240 at our Taco bells here in California at least. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:18.000 Okay, that's good. That's good. Next up is Barry, my guy, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.480 Barry from South Carolina. Still sadly yo yo, Ma, Benny 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.440 and Danny g Okay. I can't be the only one 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.120 thinking this, but I am calling bs on Willis. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:29.280 Now. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.360 Willis is the dog of Andrea. So Barry says the 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.400 first few months, Willis is not hurt at all. Now, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.320 every time Andre is on the phone, Willis is barking 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.280 up a storm, Barry says after a minute long Barry 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.440 in South Carolina Investigation, I added that part he said, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.600 this is a fake dog. This is some. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.800 Gizmo he had, Oh no, which. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.280 Is a button when he wants Willis is totally made up? 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.679 Says they're onto us. Ben, Willis is part of our 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.200 payroll that we're not supposed to talk about. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.480 Willis is AI. I think Willis is an AI dog. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.280 I agree. Berry. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.440 Here's the thing, though, Danny. People were originally saying that 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.640 the dog Willis was was not a real dog, meaning 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.160 there was no dog there. Because Andre and the Commonwealth. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.200 Andre would say I've got my dog, Willis. I'm walking 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.679 my dog. The dog would not make any noise. Yeah, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.720 some people said it was not a real dog. Then 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.920 there was a period of time where Andre would call 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.280 up from the Commonwealth and the dog would bark a 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.959 little bit. And the last couple of weeks, every time 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:50.400 Andrea starts talking, bark bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark. Oh, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.920 I mean it's not stop, Danny, It's not stop. It's insane. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:59.000 So I don't know he sent he sent photos. Now, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.040 if I do end up back in Boston, hopefully i'll 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.480 meet Andre and i'll meet the I'll meet the dog, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:08.560 and I will make a determination at that point. But yeah, God, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.040 so work burk burk bark, bark, bark, bark bark. How 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.960 dare you all right? Next up on the mailbag, Joe 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.680 from New York. Right, since says Ben and Danny, where 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.040 can I find Benny Versus the Penny in twenty twenty five? 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.280 You did not say on your Friday podcast where the 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:27.920 show will be? 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.920 Oh no, please don't tell me you're gonna have me 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:32.880 produce it again. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.800 Well, we don't. We do not know the correct answer 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.800 at this point, Danny. I mean there's a possibility it 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.239 does return to the podcast. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.720 No, that we're gonna have Looney produce that. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.440 Then, well, I don't know what's gonna happen. There's all 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.560 and there's all kinds of things. That is my intellectual 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.920 property at this point, so believe it or not, there 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.200 are other people that are interested in Benny Versus the 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.840 Penny on other platforms. So the answer at this point 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.560 is to be determined. So all right, we have not 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.480 made a formal decision. There are some conversations that are 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.760 underway with people that actually want unlike NBC that didn't 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.040 want to show anymore, people that actually want the show. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.160 So we'll see if the problem is we're late in 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.760 the game. You know how this stuff works. These deals 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.120 are normally done months in advance. They're normally done way 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.440 in advance. We got a poll axe by NBC at 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.880 the very final minute, which gave us really no time 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:29.680 to get a new deal. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.560 If the Penny has the season off, you know the 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.920 old pip hop saying, keep them eager to listen, Eric 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.840 being rock chem style, so people will be clamoring for 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.800 the Penny Show for next season. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.640 Well, there's that. I mean's certainly that. So at this point, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.160 as we sit here on August third, there is no 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.400 answer yet. But one thing's for sure, Danny, I'm not 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.720 afraid of promoting the hell out of crap. I'm not 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.640 afraid of promoting the hell out of stuff. So I 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.600 will let people know, just like people were upset with me, Danny, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.240 because I did not say what the future was it 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.800 Benny versus the Penny I said, you got to listen 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.360 to the Friday fifth Hour podcast to find out, right, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.760 So I tossed that out and people they assumed that 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.480 I was the show was coming back. So people were 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.920 sending me congratulatory letters. I'm so glad the TV show 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.840 is coming back. You know, they're all fired up. And 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.800 I was like, no, you know what happens we assume Nanny? Yeah, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.680 yeahs Blind Scott is really shaken by this, really upset 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.080 by this, threatening to quit the show. Blind Scott all right, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:44.840 Reggie from Detroit writes in says, hey, Ben and Danny. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.360 He says, Ben, why don't you and Tom do a 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.720 show for NBC that's not about gambling. You said that 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.920 the problem was you couldn't get a sponsor because it 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.040 was a gambling show. So just do a regular show 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:03.120 without gambling. That's a great idea, Reggie. I'm sure. I'm 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.520 sure they'll just give us a TV show? Why not? 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:07.080 Is that how that works? 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:07.399 Danny? 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.320 You just say, hey, why not just give us a 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.440 TV show? Yeah? 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.760 Yeah, you guys can replace Colbert? 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.480 Oh my god, yeah, well we got the Colbert, but 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.080 he gets to do his show till what may. He's 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.920 not gonna make it till May. Right, they're gonna take 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:24.919 him off the year before May, Colbert right. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:26.960 You would think you would think. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:33.480 So, I'm gonna predict the holiday season starts around Thanksgiving, 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.480 I'll bet you somewhere, because those shows usually go pretty 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.680 dark around there, don't they. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.160 You don't think he's gonna make it to Black Friday? 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.800 Well, I think they'll just be like he's gonna take 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:49.760 vacation and then never come back. That's my that's my guess. Boy, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:50.240 do I know? 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:51.080 All right? 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.800 Next up, Steve from Seattle writes in on. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:56.240 The mail Bag. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.920 Here, he says, Ben and Danny, Ben, I'm sorry about 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.080 your TV show being executed by NBC, he says, on 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.560 a positive note, uh, he said, did you see the 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:14.240 controversy with Sydney Sweeney? He says. He says, the actress 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.800 seems to be everywhere fronting dozens of ad campaigns. Is 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:24.520 she over exposed? So Danny explained, I saw this hullabaloo. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.040 I saw this controversy this week. I don't. I did 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.320 not really follow the story, so I'm not. I'm sorry, Steve. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.560 My plate is full, my head was spinning. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.800 Yeah. I also just saw it in passing and so 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.679 I don't know the details either. I'm looking right now, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:49.600 It says, backlash against Sidney Sweeney jeans slash jeens g 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.919 E n E s ad gets mocked by the White House. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.320 Americans are tired of this bullshit. A top White House 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:03.400 communications official responded to critics of American Eagles ads starring 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:08.320 Sidney Sweeney, calling their critiques of the campaign warped and moronic. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.880 In a post on social media this week, White House 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.119 Communications director Stephen Chang wrote on x that claims that 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.080 the ad contains armful racial subtext are a sign of 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.520 cancel culture run amuck and an example of why voters 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.320 chose to re elect President Trump in last year's election. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.680 What started out as a buzzy commercial starring one of 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.679 Hollywood's most in demand actresses has quickly spiraled into a 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:39.560 sprawling debate over sex, race, politics, and American culture. It 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.640 says the ad, or more accurately, series of ads, are 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.879 built around the tagline Sidney Sweeney has great genes, a 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.280 play on the word genes that conflates American eagle denim 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.720 with the genetic traits her famously voluptuous figure. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.520 Oh okay, so there are well that seems like a 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.440 Danny that seems to me like a rather large stretch. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.439 Like you know how there's certain people that are always 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.080 looking for something to be offended by, called the Internet. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.960 You know what I mean, Come on, what are you doing? 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.640 There are beautiful people from all backgrounds and all. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:19.399 You know. 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:19.840 I don't. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:20.520 I don't. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:21.879 I'm not wired that. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.440 People should be allowed to have their type. And that 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.600 doesn't mean that other types aren't beautiful. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.879 Exactly. They're beautiful people from all genetic backgrounds and mixed 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.239 together and all that, and it's wonderful and glorious, and 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.960 you don't need to be offended by every effing thing, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.359 you morons. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.600 Yeah, it says. In general, the primary complaint is that 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.520 the ad celebrates the genes slash genes of a white, blonde, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:50.879 blue eyed actress. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.680 Oh my god, hey, where are the white women at? 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:57.879 What this is? To me? 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.119 It sounds like not to get political, Danny's read me. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.879 Yeah for sure, I'm not that guy, So I'm not. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:06.240 You know, I don't know what to add to that. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.000 Thank you, though, Steve for bringing that to my I'm 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:10.840 glad you brought that up. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.080 Danny. Let's get Klay Travis on the phone. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:18.119 Oh god c China. Well, I'll do two shows on 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:26.000 that to a tag o volli ya. Next up is 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.679 James in Vancouver. He says, Dear Ben, now that you 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.840 have have his phone number, could you please let Angry 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.320 Bill know that the battery for his smoke detector needs 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.480 to be replaced. It has been chirping in the background 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:44.200 of his calls since at least may best regards James 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:49.240 and Vancouver. Well, James, thank you first of all for emailing. Secondly, A, 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.520 even though I told Coop to give it to have 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.000 Angry Bill give his number, Coop never gave me Angry 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.720 Bill's numbers, so I still don't have Angry Bill's number. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.760 And B I am slightly can concerned that Angry Bill 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.359 that beep you heard in the background was not a 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.560 smoke detector. That he's in a hospital. That's what I'm 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.240 worried about. Bill's got some health problems, so I'm concerned 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.000 he was calling us from a hospital. You know how 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.480 when you're I remember when I would visit my relatives 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:18.879 in the hospital I was younger, and sometimes, depending on 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:22.800 how fed up they were, there'd be that in the background, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.520 you know, like some machine. So I don't know for 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.640 sure that's it, James, but I'm concerned that that might 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.000 be what you were hearing in the background because Bill 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:33.760 stopped calling for a while. He said he had a 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.760 medical problem, and so, uh yeah, I am a little 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:41.080