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 in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now here.
Speaker 3: We go in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 3: Ben Maller and Danny g Radio Happy Sunday. Sunday Sunday
Speaker 3: A big day.
Speaker 1: On my calendar.
Speaker 3: Now, it's always a big day for those us the
Speaker 3: like sports, right, Danny's a big day. It's the twenty
Speaker 3: second day here of October. But this needs to be
Speaker 3: the week, the turning point where I zoom in the
Speaker 3: fast lane right by the penny. I need a high
Speaker 3: note today. I need a high note today. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at the card. I feel pretty good about the card
Speaker 3: today in the NFL. So see, the big one is
Speaker 3: tonight the Dolphins and the Eagles. That's the big one. Like,
Speaker 3: that's the key marquee matchup.
Speaker 1: But who'd you take in that one?
Speaker 3: Well, if you watch the TV show. I sang Fly
Speaker 3: Eagles Fly on the road to Victrry.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, were you with me the famous night when Nick
Speaker 3: Foles took over for Carson Wentz. It was a Rams.
Speaker 3: It was a RAMS game at the Coliseum. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you were still with me at that time,
Speaker 3: or I mean, I think it might have been. I
Speaker 3: was at the game. Carson Wentz was playing like an
Speaker 3: MVP quarterback, so you know, it was bizarre world. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Wentz gets hurt. I'm outside the Eagle locker room. They
Speaker 3: are crying and ups.
Speaker 1: I remember that he was diving into the end zone, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and he got injured and he couldn't walk.
Speaker 3: He needed a golf cart to drive him up the
Speaker 3: ramp there at the Coliseum. And the Eagles, the way
Speaker 3: they reacted was like, we're totally cooked, We're done, We're screwed,
Speaker 3: We're not gonna And they end up winning the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl that year with Nick Foles. But I got on
Speaker 3: the radio that night and the Late Philly Rob I
Speaker 3: turned the Philly fight song around and I changed a
Speaker 3: few words there, and I sang the fight song and
Speaker 3: a less than flattering way, and many people in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: reminded me of that as the Eagles then went on
Speaker 3: and of course won the Super Bowl that year. But
Speaker 3: that's a game I'm looking forward to. Also. The Chargers
Speaker 3: and Chiefs not bad. That's late in the television window.
Speaker 3: Chargers aren't very good. But the Chiefs they've got some
Speaker 3: wide receiver issues. And I will be at the Rams
Speaker 3: Steelers game today, so I'll be down at so far
Speaker 3: in the hood in England.
Speaker 1: Why do you think, why do you think so many
Speaker 1: make excuses for the Chargers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't get it. I wish I
Speaker 3: could tell you.
Speaker 1: It's not just the Chargers.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of excuse making when quarterbacks don't play well,
Speaker 3: it's always somebody else's fault.
Speaker 1: It's never their fault.
Speaker 3: Now, are you going to actually force your son? This
Speaker 3: could be child abuse, Danny. If CoA watches Raider game,
Speaker 3: you might you might be taken by authorities. There, boy,
Speaker 3: what a match up here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we're gonna have to see game time?
Speaker 1: Is it a game time decision? With a quarterbacking?
Speaker 3: I was told Garoppolo is not playing? Is he gonna play?
Speaker 1: Well, Garoppolo's not playing, but is Hoyer starting or is
Speaker 1: aid and O'Connell starting because might get a glimpse of
Speaker 1: the future quarterback rather than a guy who's only good
Speaker 1: at coming in and filling in. That being Hoyer, he
Speaker 1: was good last week when he came in at halftime
Speaker 1: or for the second half rather, but he's not good
Speaker 1: when he starts. He's zero to twelve and his last
Speaker 1: twelve NFL starts.
Speaker 3: You'd like to think whoever plays quarterback for the Raiders
Speaker 3: will have success because the Bears are ranked twenty fifth
Speaker 3: in defense.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and the Raiders defense is actually ranked fourteenth overall.
Speaker 1: Right now, who would have thought?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Hopefully the Raiders defense can get after whatever is going
Speaker 1: on with the pathetic offense of Chicago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're starting a guy that went to Shepherd College
Speaker 3: or something like that. I don't even know, but Bennet
Speaker 3: or something. I don't even know his name. It's a mess.
Speaker 3: But people don't want to hear about that. That the
Speaker 3: listener wants the mailback. They need the mailback. It's in
Speaker 3: their bones. They're demanding the mailback. So let's give that.
Speaker 1: You could get to football after this. This is your
Speaker 1: official official pregame show.
Speaker 3: It's all right, thank you, ohio Al, the great ohio Al.
Speaker 3: And let's get right into the mail bag, and we
Speaker 3: have time. We will go to Pop Goes the Culture.
Speaker 3: But this is a very important mail bag. You might
Speaker 3: not think this is important, but if you didn't hear
Speaker 3: the very end of the Saturday show yesterday, Danny G
Speaker 3: pointed out that the downloads went bye bye on the
Speaker 3: mail bag last week on Sundays. So if that continues
Speaker 3: this week, that means this could be the final mail bag,
Speaker 3: at least for the rest of the football season.
Speaker 1: I relooked at the numbers this morning. When I first
Speaker 1: woke up, seventy percent of the usual downloads were there,
Speaker 1: So we were missing thirty percent of our normal Sunday audience. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's still a kick in the ass.
Speaker 3: As the CEO of the Fifth Hour podcast, along with
Speaker 3: my Brigadier General's alf the alien Opiner justin in Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: and all the knuckleheads that listen every week. All right,
Speaker 3: mister nice guy and the barrier. Here's the thing, all right,
Speaker 3: I can't be losing thirty percent of the downs, right, Danny.
Speaker 3: We're in this together. It's a partnership, like we do it.
Speaker 3: You listen it's an agreement. All right, Let's get to
Speaker 3: the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of the most downloaded shows that
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has, So if you don't download Sunday,
Speaker 1: the entire thing could unravel. Fox Sports Radio could actually
Speaker 1: go out of business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then all your favorite talk traw hosts will
Speaker 3: be down at the soup kitchen on the hard scrabble
Speaker 3: streets right in the Tenderloin district.
Speaker 1: And that's where we'll be, right in Lincoln Heights.
Speaker 3: Oh, I would never would I would never be caught
Speaker 3: living in Lincoln Heights. I mean, my god, unless I
Speaker 3: lived there for seven years. Mike and Fullerton is first up.
Speaker 3: Abra Cadabra, Ben and Danny g Halloween's coming up fast,
Speaker 3: So let's talk candy. A website put together a big board,
Speaker 3: not a list, a big board of the top ten
Speaker 3: best and worst Halloween candies using scientifical polls, and I'd
Speaker 3: like to get your thoughts on it. If there's any
Speaker 3: ranking you strongly disagree with.
Speaker 1: Please, he said, polls.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I know. Let's see. I'm gonna send you
Speaker 3: the list here, Danny, because otherwise I can look at it.
Speaker 3: And then there's a couple of things that stand out
Speaker 3: here that I'm like, you know, that's that's kind of bullshit.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But let's see here, all right, So we'll start the
Speaker 3: top ten. You want to do the best first with it,
Speaker 3: because the worst is the better story. Better stories in
Speaker 3: losing one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do the best first, all.
Speaker 3: Right, son Elmbird ten butterfinger and right off the top
Speaker 3: this controversy, right off the top of this country. Butter
Speaker 3: fingers higher than number ten.
Speaker 1: Ten is oh for the butter especially when you put
Speaker 1: it in the freezer to crisp for a little bit.
Speaker 3: The butter finger is fringe. Top five and anything less
Speaker 3: than that and you've done an injustice to the butterfinger.
Speaker 1: Some good analysis.
Speaker 3: Number nine Twigs.
Speaker 1: I took nine.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't hate the Twigs. I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't love it. I think it's a little too high.
Speaker 3: I would definitely move it back butterfinger ahead of the Twigs.
Speaker 3: But okay, number what's number eight?
Speaker 1: Day?
Speaker 3: What do we have a number? Number?
Speaker 1: Kit kat where you could either split it in half
Speaker 1: or you could be an animal like my older brother
Speaker 1: who would take a bite out of the whole thing. Babbage.
Speaker 3: You have a primal scream after he'd been into it.
Speaker 3: So the kit kat is it's a similar thing to twigs.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're cousins. Maybe not first cousins, but
Speaker 3: their cousins, don't you kitch.
Speaker 1: Cat should be higher than Twigs. So at least they
Speaker 1: got that part right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got that right, all right? What's the next?
Speaker 3: Number seven? Is the traditional Hershey's bar? Now? Is that
Speaker 3: just the regular milk chocolate or is that the one?
Speaker 3: I like the one with almonds.
Speaker 1: I like the Hershey's Bar with almonds. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: this is just a regular old Hershey bar.
Speaker 3: Not a fan. I need my almonds, not a fan.
Speaker 3: It's fine. I'm okay with it. If I'm eating buttered
Speaker 3: popcorn and a movie theater, I can have the Hershey Bar.
Speaker 1: And I like the Hershey Crisp if you're going to
Speaker 1: do any like kind of playing chocolate bar, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right? Number six?
Speaker 3: Number six is sour Patch kids. Now. I am not
Speaker 3: a big gummy candy guy, but when I do, my
Speaker 3: wife and the family here love gummy candy. They love
Speaker 3: the gummy candy, and they enjoy the sour Patch candy,
Speaker 3: especially the watermelon flavor. So I've always had a lot
Speaker 3: of that at the house, even though I don't eat
Speaker 3: too much of it, but when I do, I love
Speaker 3: the juicy flavors.
Speaker 1: Out Patch Kids are a staple here Audio household as well.
Speaker 1: And Ben they even have a bag right now in
Speaker 1: the kitchen of the oversized souper Patch Kids, the big
Speaker 1: ones that's more advanced.
Speaker 3: That's like your your Rhodes scholar when you get to
Speaker 3: that level. So yeah, I'm okay with number six. In fact,
Speaker 3: I think sour Patch Kids. I'm looking ahead here, I'm
Speaker 3: peeking ahead. I think sour Patch Kids is actually something
Speaker 3: they should be higher than.
Speaker 1: Number What's next?
Speaker 3: What's next?
Speaker 1: Number five?
Speaker 3: Number five is Skittles. Unpopular opinion, unpopular opinion. Not good,
Speaker 3: not good, because I've had Skittles where I've I've almost
Speaker 3: broken my teeth because they're too hard, go hard on
Speaker 3: a guy.
Speaker 1: It's an issue.
Speaker 3: It's a Skittles issue. Plus they're like, I think they're
Speaker 3: all covered in wax or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trying to ban these things in the state of California,
Speaker 1: of course, is if the colors of the coloring or something. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you eat enough of anything, you could probably get cancer.
Speaker 1: So from what I read, you'd have to eat like
Speaker 1: a million Skittles to really have a risk of cancer.
Speaker 3: California's gonna they're gonna raising the price of the candy
Speaker 3: for everybody, because they're not just gonna make a special
Speaker 3: blend for California like they do the gall the gas
Speaker 3: where they just that.
Speaker 1: Special seven dollars a gallon gas. We have here Number.
Speaker 3: Four, number four, all hot to trot hot.
Speaker 1: To that shit in before and no, I disagree with you,
Speaker 1: Danny G.
Speaker 3: I am a fan of the Hot Tamali. I love
Speaker 3: the Hot Tomali. It's got a little kick to it,
Speaker 3: it's delicious teeth. I support, well, all these things get stuck.
Speaker 3: I support the Hot Tamali.
Speaker 1: I don't hate the Hot Tomali. But number four is
Speaker 1: a bit high.
Speaker 3: I had, well, Skittles should be lower. I'd move Sour
Speaker 3: Patch Kids up, Butterfingers up. I'd knock back TwixT Kitkat's
Speaker 3: fine Sour Patch Kids, I said, I move up. Skittles
Speaker 3: goes completely off the list. I'd move Hershey Bar off
Speaker 3: the list. Allso what's next?
Speaker 1: Number three? Rich Davis. He was at the snack Machine
Speaker 1: at FSR and he was trying to hit F ten,
Speaker 1: but he did F one thinking he needed to type
Speaker 1: in the one in the zero and no, F one
Speaker 1: is a Snickers bar. The stickers came out. He was
Speaker 1: walking around trying to give away the Snickers bar and
Speaker 1: nobody wanted it. Oh my gosh, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Snickers, I don't I don't.
Speaker 1: Hate them like Rich.
Speaker 3: I'm not completely against the Snickers, but it's certainly not
Speaker 3: number three. And it's embarrassing on a big board of
Speaker 3: candy to have Snickers number three. Heads are going to roll.
Speaker 3: In fact, I would argue the Three Musketeers the soft
Speaker 3: nougat ew ew not bad head to head.
Speaker 1: I'll say this about Snickers. The little mini size Snickers
Speaker 1: are better than trying to eat a whole candy bar
Speaker 1: of that. But Snickers in a small dosage is good.
Speaker 3: But even the mini Snicker thing, here's the problem with that.
Speaker 3: When we were kids, those were legitimate middle It was
Speaker 3: like the size of your thumb. Now that the size
Speaker 3: of your pinky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotten small reverse inflation.
Speaker 3: What's next? What do we got that number two, number
Speaker 3: two out here on the big board? M and MS?
Speaker 3: But what does that encompass all M and ms. Is
Speaker 3: that peanut M and ms in addition to regular M
Speaker 3: and ms.
Speaker 1: Cause me, that's saying regular emin ms. And that's wrong
Speaker 1: because peanut m and ms should be number two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the peanut M and m's for the win all day.
Speaker 3: What's number one?
Speaker 1: Number one? Reese's peanut butter cups. Yes, or as some
Speaker 1: of our listeners say, in the middle of the country
Speaker 1: or on the east side of our country, reces. I
Speaker 1: have no idea why they say it like that, but
Speaker 1: Reces peanut butter cups.
Speaker 3: So here's my position on the Reese's Peanut butter cup.
Speaker 3: Love it wonderful, But from a quantity standpoint, do they
Speaker 3: give you enough?
Speaker 1: Are the cups big enough? Are you getting enough candy?
Speaker 3: Are you getting enough bang.
Speaker 1: For your buck? You need the king size when you
Speaker 1: buy these without the king size price. That's true. That,
Speaker 1: that is true? All right for the regular little ones,
Speaker 1: and give me the king size.
Speaker 3: What is the We have the bottom ten here? You're
Speaker 3: listening to the male bottom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bottom ten. I'll run through quickly and then we
Speaker 1: can hear your disputes. Okay, number ten a TUTSI rollin
Speaker 1: bit o honey, okay, eight licorice, seven Smarties, six Mary Jane's,
Speaker 1: five wax cola bottles, four peanut butter kisses, three necho wafers.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: By the way, that should be number one, number two
Speaker 1: candy corn, number one circus peanuts. So I need some
Speaker 1: help on these.
Speaker 3: What what are bit o? Honey? I don't even know
Speaker 3: what that is?
Speaker 1: What is that? Honey? They look like trident gum? But
Speaker 1: when you peel the individually wrapped thing, it's a honey candy.
Speaker 1: That sounds terrible.
Speaker 3: That's what is a Mary? I know what Mary Jane is,
Speaker 3: but what is Mary Mary? Change the game?
Speaker 1: Oh it says it's an old fashioned peanut butter and
Speaker 1: molasses flavored taffy type candy. Okay.
Speaker 3: And then I had to look up circus peanuts and
Speaker 3: those do look disgusting.
Speaker 1: Now I'll argue in favor of circus peanuts for just
Speaker 1: a moment. I don't know if you remember, but way
Speaker 1: back in the day, we would walk into a kmart
Speaker 1: and you'd smell the popcorn cooking, yeah, and you'd see
Speaker 1: the candy, the candied apples, and then another thing that
Speaker 1: they sold there was circus peanuts, and they look kind
Speaker 1: of gross, but they don't taste gross. They're good. Some
Speaker 1: people don't like the texture of those.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm not a licorice guy.
Speaker 1: I don't really like liquorice. I do like liquors for
Speaker 1: some reason.
Speaker 3: I the tutsie roll thing is nostalgia for me because
Speaker 3: my grandfather, my mom's dad, who was a plumber from Springfield, Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: love tutsi rolls. So when I was a little kid,
Speaker 3: he always had a like on the table at his house.
Speaker 3: He had that roll.
Speaker 1: So that's like the tutsi roll pop and those tutsi
Speaker 1: rolls been. The problem is they get stale and hard,
Speaker 1: so if you have a good batch, they're not that bad.
Speaker 1: And by the way, a circus peanut it's made out
Speaker 1: of marshmallow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good on that. I don't, I don't need,
Speaker 3: and everyone hates. I've never met anyone who likes candy corn.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I maybe I did meet so many
Speaker 3: years ago, but other than I, for the most part,
Speaker 3: it's universal anti candy corn.
Speaker 1: I don't in a small dosage. I don't mind it,
Speaker 1: and I bite it into three parts based on the
Speaker 1: three different colors.
Speaker 3: Now, the wax cola BA bottle thing. Those when you're
Speaker 3: a kid kind of cool, right, You're kind of like
Speaker 3: this seems kind of cool like that. I don't know
Speaker 3: that the taste.
Speaker 1: Is yeah, the taste is the problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the idea of that is pretty good. And they
Speaker 3: have other flavors as well that you can get.
Speaker 1: Really quick to end to wrap it up. It's not
Speaker 1: on any of these lists, but the individually wrapped sun
Speaker 1: kissed candies remember those?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's not bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah those were good.
Speaker 3: That's not bad. All right, Well, we've just eaten fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes of time we'll never get. Thank you Mike and
Speaker 3: Fullerton for bowguarding the podcast. On the mail bag, do.
Speaker 1: You feel ten pounds heavier right now?
Speaker 3: Marcus writes in from Bruceville, Eddie, Texas. He says, you
Speaker 3: guys talked about soups last weekend? What's the lot of foods?
Speaker 3: See we do a foody fun thing. Everyone wants to
Speaker 3: talk about food, he says, talk about soups last weekend?
Speaker 3: What's the two you guys thought about? I says, what's
Speaker 3: the two you guys thought about? Menudo at a Mexican
Speaker 3: restaurant with a little bit of lime onions? And cilantro
Speaker 3: Chef's kiss cannot go wrong. See the problem is Roberto,
Speaker 3: who I used to work with, told me what was
Speaker 3: in manudo the Mexico. So I'm good on manudo. I'll
Speaker 3: have the band manudo or whatever. I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: You have menudo?
Speaker 1: Guy, No, I know what's in that. And a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine growing up, he used to get that every
Speaker 1: Sunday from a local Mexican restaurant. And the reason why
Speaker 1: is because it soaks up all of the alcohol poisoning.
Speaker 3: Ah okay, well, if you throw enough animal parts in there,
Speaker 3: it'll it'll help you out.
Speaker 1: And if I grew up with it, I would probably
Speaker 1: love it, but I'd rather have pasole than Yeah.
Speaker 3: Next up, Joe and Darcy from Florida says, here is
Speaker 3: a different kind of question. I thought you would like.
Speaker 3: When you used to travel to Vero Beach back with
Speaker 3: the Dodgers the Doyers and they had spring training their
Speaker 3: spring training facility in zero, were there any bars or
Speaker 3: restaurants that you like the frequent I was just curious
Speaker 3: to see if any of them are still around. Code
Speaker 3: of the Cat still sucks, even though I didn't mention
Speaker 3: that in the last email. All right, well, thank you
Speaker 3: Joe and Darcy. So here's my memory of Vero Beach.
Speaker 3: It was so long ago. I don't remember the names.
Speaker 3: All I remember is the late great Tommy Hawkins, may
Speaker 3: he rest in peace, who played for the Lakers or
Speaker 3: the early days when they came from Minneapolis, and was
Speaker 3: a Dodger executive and one of the nicest people I've
Speaker 3: ever met in my life. Tommy Hawkins, who was a
Speaker 3: Dodger executive, and we were down there, had never been
Speaker 3: to Via Beach before. We were doing the night show
Speaker 3: back to La so we were on late and we
Speaker 3: were both single dudes, Me and this guy, Dave Smith.
Speaker 3: I did the show with the Ben and Dave Show,
Speaker 3: and we asked Tommy, where's the most happening bar? And
Speaker 3: he actually told us it was not even a place
Speaker 3: in Vero. It was in Port Saint Lucie, down the road.
Speaker 3: He told us that that's the spot. You know, you guys,
Speaker 3: you'll go in there and you know a.
Speaker 1: Lot of beautiful people whatever.
Speaker 3: So we go in there and I think the youngest
Speaker 3: now we're in our twenties.
Speaker 1: I'm in my twenties, right, The.
Speaker 3: Youngest woman that was in there was probably around sixty
Speaker 3: one years old.
Speaker 1: That was like so, in other words, you guys both
Speaker 1: got lucky that night. I was wow, my goodness, but
Speaker 1: it was finally easy pickings for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. But Joe and Darcy, what did they do
Speaker 3: with Dodger Town. You know, I don't want to say
Speaker 3: his name, but one of the people I know that
Speaker 3: work so the Dodger still actually lives in Vero in
Speaker 3: the off season. But I heard they were going to
Speaker 3: turn that facility, Dodger Town into like a youth sports complex.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if they ever did.
Speaker 1: Let us know.
Speaker 3: Fred in Spring, Texas right center the mailbag, he says, hello,
Speaker 3: hello there, like the second, Like the second the recommendation
Speaker 3: of last week's listener about getting your troublesome tone nails removed,
Speaker 3: and Fred said, I had mine done about ten years ago,
Speaker 3: with a clean up around three years ago. It really
Speaker 3: worked for me. It's an easy procedure and around two
Speaker 3: weeks of daily soaking, wearing sandals, and then permanent relief.
Speaker 3: It is a great solution to a real problem.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, you.
Speaker 3: Know what this means, Danny, We are the number one
Speaker 3: podcast Forget Screw Joe Rogan and all these other losers.
Speaker 3: We're number one with dudes that don't have toenails, with
Speaker 3: the King of podcasts for people that don't have toenails.
Speaker 3: That's wild. Well, Fred, I have not made a decision
Speaker 3: on what I will do with my disgusting toes, and
Speaker 3: I do like the idea of having them zapped off
Speaker 3: the toenail and seeing how that goes. Georgia and Uvalde,
Speaker 3: Texas Rights In says, would you rather? I love it?
Speaker 1: Would you rather?
Speaker 3: Would you rather go through the scare? He is haunted
Speaker 3: house exhibit for Halloween or see Brian Finley's face first
Speaker 3: thing in the morning when he is unshaven and disheveled. Daddy, Well, George,
Speaker 3: I'll go first day I listen. I've seen Brian Finley.
Speaker 3: I'm the one that took the photo of him when
Speaker 3: it looked like we had picked.
Speaker 1: Him up from the soup kitchen.
Speaker 3: Okay, when it looked like we had taken him from
Speaker 3: skid row and dropped him in the radio station and
Speaker 3: all that. So I've already seen that look, and I
Speaker 3: mean it was not pleasant, it was not enjoyable, but
Speaker 3: a really scary haunted house. If you're not sure it's
Speaker 3: a haunted house.
Speaker 1: Give you the he b gebis.
Speaker 3: You might think the demon spawn is going to eat
Speaker 3: you up? What about you?
Speaker 1: Did you know? I'm not like some sort of diva
Speaker 1: who has to have every hair in place and you know,
Speaker 1: have every single thing matching. Although I will not walk
Speaker 1: around with wrinkled clothes, that's a rule, and I do
Speaker 1: match my shoes with my hat. But other than that, Ben,
Speaker 1: I would never carry around like a man's bathroom bag
Speaker 1: like I've seen some of my coworkers do, where they'll
Speaker 1: go in the bathroom and they it's almost like they're
Speaker 1: getting ready to be on TV. You know about that
Speaker 1: because you wear TV makeup now I know, And I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: you're not on TV, though you're on radio. We could
Speaker 1: actually wear pajamas and just be comfortable. But Finley's one
Speaker 1: of those guys where I would recommend a bathroom bag.
Speaker 1: He should carry one around because he always looks like
Speaker 1: he just rolled out of bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's funny because he does TV stuff and he
Speaker 3: looks fine on television, but then with us, he's like
Speaker 3: schlep rock or so either like a cloud or no,
Speaker 3: not sh But what's the character. What's the one the
Speaker 3: character in the Peanuts that always had the cloud of
Speaker 3: dust follow him around Big Ben? Yeah, yeah, pig He's
Speaker 3: like pig pen that Brian Finley uh man. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 3: what is next? On the mail bag? Alf from the
Speaker 3: Ross dress for last right? So, and he says, any
Speaker 3: truth to the rumor that Tom Looney ate up the
Speaker 3: entire clothing budget? Can Tom Looney on Benny Versus the
Speaker 3: Penny only leaving you enough for one outfit? Well that's
Speaker 3: a bad take by you, Alf the Alien Opiner. Shame
Speaker 3: on you, and I hope you enjoyed this weekend's episode
Speaker 3: of Benny Versus the Penny more than all the other
Speaker 3: episodes combined. But that is my Benny Versus the Penny uniform.
Speaker 3: I am stylish.
Speaker 2: What the actual hell is wrong with this guy?
Speaker 3: Okay? I am stylish. Not in a drama queen way,
Speaker 3: no more of in a Debon airway. I'm definitely in
Speaker 3: the closet.
Speaker 1: You and Jonas you know, he's been on that Sunday
Speaker 1: night NFL show locally in LA and he's also been
Speaker 1: wearing the same outfit every week. You have a style,
Speaker 1: you have a trend. You're setting trends and why would
Speaker 1: you change your clothes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and really, what you're saying is, hey, you guys
Speaker 3: are in vogue.
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I just say it. You're in vogue, right, We're there,
Speaker 3: We're on the cusp of fashion. We're in demand, we're
Speaker 3: sought after. And that's when I get comments like this
Speaker 3: from people like alf. I'm like, I get it. I
Speaker 3: understand we're being singled out because we're marketable. Anyway, what's
Speaker 3: next year? Ozzie was from Western Australia, says, Hey, my
Speaker 3: mate's Big Ben and Danny g So I take it.
Speaker 3: I take it you line, you line of work? I
Speaker 3: think there's a word missing here misspelled? Are in your
Speaker 3: life work?
Speaker 1: I think he made there was an R missing.
Speaker 3: So in your line of work use headphones a lot?
Speaker 3: I know this is a super question. I use Beats,
Speaker 3: Studio Buds or the Power Beats and only using one
Speaker 3: in my ears. I need to hear the CB radio
Speaker 3: at all times from my line of work. So my
Speaker 3: question to you guys is what is your go to
Speaker 3: brand and style of.
Speaker 1: Headphones for different activities?
Speaker 3: All right, so Danny, you want to handle this one?
Speaker 3: You're a headphone guy.
Speaker 1: No, yes, No, I am a headphone guy. I have
Speaker 1: a really expensive pair of headphones that I use while
Speaker 1: I edit the podcast, the bows that I use to edit.
Speaker 1: Those are the seven hundred noise canceling headphones, the brand
Speaker 1: that I use for the daily radio show. Their Sony's
Speaker 1: been but there's Sony's from a few years back because
Speaker 1: they're discontinued. But I got so used to them as
Speaker 1: the professional headset, and they are the best head headphones.
Speaker 1: Sometimes though, these companies will stop making them. And you know,
Speaker 1: from being a rick DS guy back in the day,
Speaker 1: once you get used to something and it's quality electronics,
Speaker 1: you don't ever want to stop using that. So I
Speaker 1: actually found a pair of these on eBay and met
Speaker 1: some lady in Pasadena and picked them up.
Speaker 3: Met at a parking lot behind a liquor store in Pasadena,
Speaker 3: A I want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not eBay, it was Craig's list. Even better, it
Speaker 1: was a Craigslist transaction in the back of a parking
Speaker 1: lot for a grocery store in Pasadena. And those are
Speaker 1: the daily headphones that I use right now. Who v
Speaker 1: six hundred? I don't think you're as picky though, are
Speaker 1: you with your headphone?
Speaker 3: Well, no, but I do use And the reason I
Speaker 3: use these headphones because the first time I walked into
Speaker 3: a commercial radio station, the people were wearing these headphones.
Speaker 3: To me, this is the big leagues when.
Speaker 1: You wear these headphones.
Speaker 3: And I wear the Sony Professional headphones, and I've done
Speaker 3: it my entire career. Although I do have a listener,
Speaker 3: A very kind listener gave me some Beats headphones that
Speaker 3: I do use in the home studio, but for the
Speaker 3: podcast on this side the podcast equipment I have in
Speaker 3: the studio, and then when I go into the mothership,
Speaker 3: I do use the Sony Professional, which have to my knowledge,
Speaker 3: have not been discontinued. They were good. But you can
Speaker 3: actually go down to like five below if you have
Speaker 3: one in your area and get headphones like those wireless
Speaker 3: headphones that if you're just for the gym or whatever,
Speaker 3: probably pretty good, right, Probably pretty good?
Speaker 1: Wrong?
Speaker 3: What is next on the mail bag? Marcus in San
Speaker 3: Antonio says, So, my buddies and I were watching the
Speaker 3: Phillies and Diamondbacks Game three and couldn't help being distracted
Speaker 3: by the high paper little girl behind home plate. She
Speaker 3: couldn't sit still and watched everyone or everything but the game.
Speaker 3: We kept thinking someone was going to say something to
Speaker 3: the family, but nothing happened and made it hard to
Speaker 3: watch the game. You guys obviously attend a lot more
Speaker 3: sporting events than most, so my question is what are
Speaker 3: some of the most annoying or distracting fan experiences you
Speaker 3: guys have had, and do you think it's getting worse
Speaker 3: with social media continuing to grow.
Speaker 1: I'll take my answer off the air.
Speaker 3: There you go, He says, thank you as always for
Speaker 3: providing the great show. That's Marcus in San Antonio. So
Speaker 3: I have an unpopular opinion. I don't think it's worse.
Speaker 3: I think it's just being documented more because I remember
Speaker 3: going to games in the nineties and people were complete
Speaker 3: schmucks doing the same shit they're doing now choose my language,
Speaker 3: but it just wasn't recorded for posterity sake, and that
Speaker 3: there are to be fair. There are people that go
Speaker 3: that their agenda is to do something to get on TikTok.
Speaker 3: Do you see the guy that got trucked at the
Speaker 3: Phillies game. Yes, lost a couple of teeth.
Speaker 1: And I think it was last year's NBA playoffs. Remember
Speaker 1: that it was different games where that same lady was screaming.
Speaker 3: NonStop, no, no, no, no, remember they were there were
Speaker 3: people gluing themselves to the back of the court, remember
Speaker 3: the woman.
Speaker 1: So yeah, protest, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Some protests, Yeah, knuckleheads. I try to block a lot
Speaker 3: of that out. But it's you know, what do you
Speaker 3: do the kiss cam thing? I'm kind of I don't
Speaker 3: know the.
Speaker 1: Because they always have plants. They're just trying to make
Speaker 1: funny bits on their screen. The couple who act like
Speaker 1: they're not a couple, and then they wind up kissing
Speaker 1: because the camera comes to them so much that they're
Speaker 1: forced into it. That's hashtag me too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a little little funny business going on there.
Speaker 3: Let's see hear John in Northern Colorado on the mailbag.
Speaker 3: We'll do a couple more, get out on this, a
Speaker 3: couple more, We'll do two more. How about this John
Speaker 3: in Northern Colorado. I say it says most of us
Speaker 3: guys were jerks in our early mid teens. Were you
Speaker 3: ever the giver or receiver of a wedgie, swirly or
Speaker 3: purple nurple back in your younger days? So I I
Speaker 3: was the big guy, so people didn't really mess with
Speaker 3: me with that kind of stuff, and I didn't really,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't do the weggie. The only
Speaker 3: thing I did I tossed a kid in a trash can,
Speaker 3: which I don't think was on your list, Danny.
Speaker 1: No, I had an older brother who was a couple
Speaker 1: of years older. Kids knew that was my older brother.
Speaker 1: He liked to fight. I like to fight, so we
Speaker 1: both kind of had that reputation. Kids left us alone.
Speaker 1: There was one bully that I encountered my freshman year
Speaker 1: of school, and it did end well for him. We
Speaker 1: both got suspended for a week, but he took the
Speaker 1: brunt of the fight. We weren't bullies, but we weren't
Speaker 1: pushovers either. I think my brother and I had the
Speaker 1: perfect mix of that.
Speaker 3: Gotcha all right? Last one here? Last one comes from
Speaker 3: Kevin in Kansas, says dear fantastic duel Ben. Can you
Speaker 3: tell more details about playing pool with Bruce Bochie? If
Speaker 3: you need to embellish, feel free to do so.
Speaker 1: Danny G.
Speaker 3: Do you have any similar encounters with a celebrity, like
Speaker 3: throwing darts with Barry Bonds or karaoke with Rob Manford.
Speaker 3: All right, so I'll go first, so this goes back.
Speaker 3: I can't believe how far this goes back. Probably I
Speaker 3: would say like nineteen I want to say like nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety seven ish, maybe not exactly nineteen ninety seven, but
Speaker 3: somewhere in that some of that area, and the Padres
Speaker 3: had a middling team. Tony Gwynn was still there. I
Speaker 3: think they had Wall Joiner was playing for them, Greg Vaughn, Caminetti,
Speaker 3: those guys, And I was working in LA I had
Speaker 3: started in San Diego a few years before that, and
Speaker 3: so I did cover the Podres a little bit, kind
Speaker 3: of when I just got my feet wet at the
Speaker 3: mighty six ninety. I would go to those games, actually
Speaker 3: sit in the crowd a lot. But in those days
Speaker 3: we were covering games all the time, and I was
Speaker 3: good friends with one of the Podre reporters who was
Speaker 3: buddies with Tony Gwinn, So I kind of had an
Speaker 3: inn and we would go hang out. There was a
Speaker 3: great fraternal order back in those days, where we'd all
Speaker 3: a bunch of young radio guys and we'd all go
Speaker 3: across the street from the Big A and there was
Speaker 3: this place called the National Sports Grille, which was this
Speaker 3: really cool sports bar. They had restaurant on one side,
Speaker 3: they had pool tables and a bar on the other side,
Speaker 3: and it was a cool place. We had a good time.
Speaker 1: We had fun that whole thing.
Speaker 3: Uh. Anyway, so we would go over there and after
Speaker 3: the Padres had played the Angels and uh, I want
Speaker 3: to say around ninety seven, one of those, one of
Speaker 3: those years early and Potters weren't particularly good. The Angels
Speaker 3: were okay, uh, and we went over to the National
Speaker 3: Sports Gull and Bruce Bochi came in there to have
Speaker 3: a beer and Bochie sat. He sat kind of near
Speaker 3: us like we were, you know, because he knew one
Speaker 3: of the guys that we were with. And then we
Speaker 3: started playing pool and Bochie joined in, and you know,
Speaker 3: he didn't he didn't talk all that much. But I
Speaker 3: remember two things about Bochie. I remember he was very nice, quiet,
Speaker 3: and he had that eyebrow thing. I don't know what
Speaker 3: that is, but the the weird eyebrow that you know
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about, Danny.
Speaker 1: Of the Boche, Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I kept looking at that. I tried not to, but
Speaker 3: it was hard not to look at that.
Speaker 1: And but he it was very cool.
Speaker 3: It's just nice down to earth guy. But at that time,
Speaker 3: he wasn't Bruce Bochie right at that time, and the
Speaker 3: Padres had some good teams with Bochie. But he became
Speaker 3: a legend with the San Francisco Giants. I mean he did.
Speaker 3: They won one pennant with the Padres. They got they
Speaker 3: got the I think it was actually the year after that,
Speaker 3: ninety eight. I think they got to the World Series
Speaker 3: ninety seven. I think it was the year that we
Speaker 3: had a little rendezvous or whatever. But he became a
Speaker 3: legend with the Giants. Crazy how many years he's managed.
Speaker 3: He managed twelve years with the Padres, thirteen years with
Speaker 3: the Giants, and now he's with the Rangers.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So any wild celebrities with randoms, athletes throwing darts with bonds.
Speaker 1: Not an athlete, but somebody that you probably admired as
Speaker 1: a kid the same way I did. And it has
Speaker 1: to do with your friend shats I'm in command. Think
Speaker 1: back to TJ. Hooker, who is the beautiful blonde on
Speaker 1: that show.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm bad with.
Speaker 1: Name Heather Lockleier. Oh so let me take you to
Speaker 1: Cisco's Mexican Inn in Westlake Village, California, about fifteen years.
Speaker 3: Ago, beautiful Westlake Village couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, went out with some friends. There was a breakfast
Speaker 1: place in town where I was friends with the owners
Speaker 1: of the breakfast restaurant, and the two women who owned
Speaker 1: the place. They showed up that night to Cisco's with
Speaker 1: their friend, Heather Locklear. Now Cisco's opened up their dance floor,
Speaker 1: their DJ started playing music and we're all dancing together.
Speaker 1: I got a little grind on action from Heather Lockleier.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it was a childhood dream come true. The
Speaker 1: next morning, we were all blurry eyed and at their
Speaker 1: restaurant eating breakfast, and she showed up with her sunglasses on.
Speaker 1: She had been up way too late like the rest
Speaker 1: of us, and we all kind of ate our eggs
Speaker 1: and toast and laughed about what we did the night before.
Speaker 3: And what what year roughly was this when the Melrose
Speaker 3: Place era where we.
Speaker 1: Well, this is like two thousand and eight. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is yeah, so older Heather Locklear, but she was
Speaker 1: still very beautiful.
Speaker 3: Gigy. Yeah, no, for sure, I assume she probably still
Speaker 3: lives in the same same spot, right, and somewhere somewhere
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 1: Area she's raising our kid, right, now, all right.
Speaker 3: We'll get out. We got NFL games to check out.
Speaker 3: I'll be going to the Rams game today. I'm excited
Speaker 3: about that, feeling groovy, feeling groovy about that. Eddie will
Speaker 3: be there, so maybe I'll track down Eddie. He'll be
Speaker 3: in full Steeler merchandise and all that, watching his team
Speaker 3: lose to the Rams, who will ram it all day
Speaker 3: and ram it all night. And I'll be back on
Speaker 3: the radio tonight. Now, if you're listening very early and
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Speaker 3: there in the Big Apple, you can hear and watch
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Speaker 3: eleven o'clock in the West, and that is two am
Speaker 3: on the Eastern seaboard where most people live in the
Speaker 3: United States. What are you all going on.
Speaker 1: Danny, Well, besides this podcast, it's all about the Raiders today.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll take Chicago Ben and be one game over
Speaker 1: five hundred, which is a big deal for the Raiders
Speaker 1: this deep into a season and of course, tomorrow it'll
Speaker 1: be the Monday edition with that trivia game that your
Speaker 1: voice is featured on. Last One Standing with Covino and
Speaker 1: Rich in the afternoon Slash Evening. That's two to four
Speaker 1: pm on the West Coast and five to seven pm
Speaker 1: in New York City.
Speaker 3: Out Stanny Heavy. Great week. We'll see how the downloads go.
Speaker 3: This could be the final Sunday podcast for a while,
Speaker 3: but hopefully not. Hopefully not. We like the Mailbag. That's
Speaker 3: my favorite podcast is the Mailbag. I love the random questions.
Speaker 3: You don't know what you're gonna get. It like a
Speaker 3: box of chocolates, as they said in the famous movie
Speaker 3: with Tom Hanks back in the day. All Right, we'll
Speaker 3: catch you next time. Have a wonderful Sunday. May all
Speaker 3: your bets be winning ones Later Skater, Hello Joe Hi,
Speaker 3: I like the Saints got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go