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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Maller and Danny g Radio on Sunday, Sunday, as we
Speaker 3: are back at it on this what is it now?
Speaker 1: The fourth day of May? All right, we're already were there.
Speaker 4: Hello day, Hello, May the fourth be with you? Benjamin.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: I have noticed that Star Wars a number of promotions.
Speaker 3: They must have a deal with Major League Baseball. The
Speaker 3: Angels had one, the Giants have one. Like a bunch
Speaker 3: of different teams all partnered up randomly with Star Wars
Speaker 3: related giveaways. There's got to be some kind of corporate
Speaker 3: deal between Major League Baseball and Star Wars. I swear
Speaker 3: every time I watch one of these random games, there's
Speaker 3: a Star Wars promotion. Before we get to the mailbag.
Speaker 3: You're a music guy, so I thought this would be
Speaker 3: perfect for you. I got sent this press release. It's
Speaker 3: like a pr release.
Speaker 1: Who sent me this? Let me check down. This is
Speaker 1: from Sports Millions. I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 3: It said, please attribute to Sports Millions. So I've attributed
Speaker 3: to Sports Millions. And so these are the top five
Speaker 3: anthems that are played after a win.
Speaker 1: After a win.
Speaker 3: So the science behind it, they say, there's a science
Speaker 3: behind it, not just a feel good story. There's actually
Speaker 3: a science behind it. There's new research out from again
Speaker 3: this place called Sports Millions that certain songs appear up
Speaker 3: to three times more often during stadium victories than losses.
Speaker 3: And they claim they the tracks don't just excite the crowd,
Speaker 3: they psychologically prime both players and fans. Yes, that's this
Speaker 3: sounds like some bull crap. Sounds like some bull crap
Speaker 3: to me. But you want to give it a shout?
Speaker 3: Or should I just go through the songs here, Danny?
Speaker 3: I mean there's a million songs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm sure I could name a couple right
Speaker 4: off the bat here. So I'm thinking Queen made the list.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Queen is number two on the little list.
Speaker 1: We we are the champions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: By that song is that from the seventies of the eighties,
Speaker 3: that song, that's a that's an old tune.
Speaker 4: Right man. That's got to be late seventies, I want
Speaker 4: to say, late seventies.
Speaker 3: Al right, So that's been around a long time. That
Speaker 3: was number two. Just if Terry's listening, Terry, this is
Speaker 3: not a list. This is a big board. And it's
Speaker 3: not even my big it's some PR people sent me this,
Speaker 3: so it's not my big board.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: So we've got you've gotten and that's very good, Danny one.
Speaker 3: I would not have gotten one. Probably you've gotten one
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 4: All right, let me try to get a second one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna say cool in the gang made
Speaker 4: the list. Would celebrate good time, clebrate good times, come home.
Speaker 1: A I like that song.
Speaker 3: B Unfortunately not on the topo, the top five. Not
Speaker 3: on the top five. All right, so let me give you.
Speaker 3: I'll start with number you already got number two.
Speaker 1: But number five.
Speaker 4: I have the tiger.
Speaker 1: I have the tiger is that is number four?
Speaker 3: Okay, number four, so it is on here. I have
Speaker 3: a Tiger survivor and that is that is the number four.
Speaker 3: So you got number two, number four. Number five is
Speaker 3: from Journey.
Speaker 1: From Journey. Number five is stop Believing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you remember the Dodgers even used to do that
Speaker 4: for every even thinning stretch and a few years back
Speaker 4: they stopped doing that.
Speaker 3: Well, they stopped doing it because people complained about the lyrics.
Speaker 4: Is that why?
Speaker 3: That's what I had heard of. Somebody told me that
Speaker 3: people got offended.
Speaker 4: By the give Me a Break.
Speaker 1: Well, I think there was one.
Speaker 3: I think once people people like singing along and then
Speaker 3: there were people complaining, like, you know, I'm bringing my
Speaker 3: kids to the game. I don't know that we should
Speaker 3: be singing singing that song. I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: And you know, all it takes is one person to complain.
Speaker 3: Isn't it about like picking up hookers or something like that?
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 3: So anyway, who cares? So number five is don't Stop Believing?
Speaker 1: By Journey. Number four I of the Tiger. You got
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 3: Number three. When I think of this song, I think
Speaker 3: of the Boston Red Sox. That's the song I think
Speaker 3: of at Finway Park. That would be week Carolina re
Speaker 3: Old diamond.
Speaker 4: But that's not really an anthem for after a win.
Speaker 4: That's like an anthem that people sing along with when
Speaker 4: they're drunk at a bar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, it's from from Finway to Wembley in
Speaker 3: across in the UK.
Speaker 1: There they play Sweet Caroline. So that was number three.
Speaker 3: You got number two, we are the champions and number one.
Speaker 3: Number one answer, number one one the White Stripes, Seven
Speaker 3: Nation Army.
Speaker 1: Yeah, number one.
Speaker 4: Hear that a lot at sporting events.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they say that this became the the go go
Speaker 3: to thing in six at the World Cup and that
Speaker 3: ever since then. You know, it's almost twenty years later.
Speaker 3: It is synonymous the seven Nation Army. You know what
Speaker 3: I like the one the Mets closer a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago Timmy trumpet song. I don't even know it's called.
Speaker 3: I forget the name of it, not that that's played.
Speaker 3: I just randomly popped into my head, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. When the closer for the Mets comes in,
Speaker 3: they'll play the oh.
Speaker 4: Of course, yeah, d d yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: What is the name of that? Now it's gonna cald
Speaker 3: I'm gonna check. Hold on, I'm checking. I know I
Speaker 3: know the name I'm gonna find it here. Uh Paige,
Speaker 3: damn page. Now let me see if we can find it.
Speaker 3: Here's gonna piss me off. I can't keep doing the
Speaker 3: I know the name of it.
Speaker 4: That's when Edwin Diaz takes the mound. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's I want to say, Narco.
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, Narco yes, Narco Okay. Now we can move
Speaker 3: on with the podcast.
Speaker 1: To move on.
Speaker 4: What did the Nuggets play in the arena after they
Speaker 4: beat the Clippers in Game seven?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I turned the game off, so who cares.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Speaker 1: All right? So anyway, there you go.
Speaker 3: That's that's it again, not unless that's a big board.
Speaker 3: And they went into all this psychology and all this
Speaker 3: nonsense about this, that and the other thing, and it
Speaker 3: says a little much.
Speaker 4: Of course. The one song you and I want to
Speaker 4: hear after a baseball game in LA is I Love
Speaker 4: La from Randy Newman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the classic Absolutely look at that bum over there. Anyway,
Speaker 3: all right, Morio, we have the mail bag, the actual mailbag,
Speaker 3: actual letters by actual listeners. If you'd like to be
Speaker 3: part of this, Ohio, we'll get us started here in
Speaker 3: a second. But if you want to send a letter in,
Speaker 3: we've been doing very well recently, got some new people
Speaker 3: who are checking in and saying hello, and some of
Speaker 3: the old favorites.
Speaker 1: Are still there, which is so cool, so so cool.
Speaker 3: But email us Real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 3: all letters, no numbers, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 3: and put your name and city if you want credit,
Speaker 3: otherwise you'll be from parts unknown. And if you don't
Speaker 3: say your name, we won't even say that. So just
Speaker 3: make sure to do that. But Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 3: gmail dot com. Try get that in by Friday if possible.
Speaker 1: That would help us out a lot. Let's get to
Speaker 1: OHIOO it's.
Speaker 3: Fail. Thank you very much the great Ohio who hopefully
Speaker 3: I will meet at some point here if we get
Speaker 3: to the Buckeye state. First email up is from Vinnie
Speaker 3: the book Breaker from Atlantic City. You want to bet,
Speaker 3: I'll bet your dollar. Vinnie has it doesn't actually win
Speaker 3: money betting on sports. You want to bet that anyway, Vinnie.
Speaker 1: Says, bet.
Speaker 3: I want to get your thoughts on the biggest betting
Speaker 3: story of twenty twenty five, and he says it's picking
Speaker 3: who the next pope is. Going to be he said,
Speaker 3: you can. You can bet on this on the crypto platforms.
Speaker 3: You can bet on whether or not you can. You know,
Speaker 3: you can figure out the I guess there's favorites. Obviously,
Speaker 3: there's lines posted on this. The current front runner, according
Speaker 3: to Vinnie as of this email, is a Cardinal Pietro Proloone.
Speaker 1: I believe I'm probably butchering his name.
Speaker 3: The Secretary of State of the Vatican, with a twenty
Speaker 3: three percent chance of winning. According to poly Market, which
Speaker 3: is where you can bet on this, the second place
Speaker 3: is the cardinal from the Philippines, dubbed the Asian Francis.
Speaker 1: Oh, that guy's got a nickname.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the guy with a nickname, Danny,
Speaker 3: the Asian Francis.
Speaker 1: That's a good nickname.
Speaker 4: Why does this sound like you're picking horses again like
Speaker 4: you did on your overnight show The.
Speaker 1: H No, it does sound like that.
Speaker 3: Nineteen nineteen percent. Another favorite among the betters is a
Speaker 3: Cardinal Peter Turks of Ghana.
Speaker 4: So this I went to the clinic for that one time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So, Vinny, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: want me to listen. I have no idea who any
Speaker 1: of these people are no clue. I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: somebody you know, I'm sure somebody really old.
Speaker 3: My entire life, the pope's always been really, you can't
Speaker 3: have a young pope, right, Danny, You've got to have
Speaker 3: an old pope. You can't be a young spry. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like you can't have a young president.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think we've had one president born after nineteen forty five.
Speaker 3: I believe in the history, you know, it's been a minute,
Speaker 3: and it's always like older people or president. My life,
Speaker 3: I don't I can't recall a young pope, can you not?
Speaker 3: That I can track these things, but they're always like
Speaker 3: old men that are the pope?
Speaker 4: Do you really quick? Do you believe in a pope?
Speaker 4: Mobile scrambler Rich Davis tells this story that he and
Speaker 4: his wife on their honeymoon. They were overseas and they
Speaker 4: randomly happened to be in the same town that the
Speaker 4: popemobile was driving through. So Rich thought, oh, what an
Speaker 4: awesome selfie moment this is, and he ran over and
Speaker 4: as the popemobile was going behind him, he took all
Speaker 4: these selfies with his cell phone, and he's like, I
Speaker 4: can't wait to post. This opens up his phone. None
Speaker 4: of the pictures were there. They were all scrambled.
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And so he he swears, he swears that they
Speaker 4: have a scrambler so that people can't take pictures of
Speaker 4: it up close.
Speaker 3: Why would they wouldn't they want people to take pictures
Speaker 3: of the pope to spread the gospel that outbreak the
Speaker 3: pope is I want to round the Pope.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 4: Covino jokes and told him it's user error, that he
Speaker 4: just was a nickum poop and didn't use his phone
Speaker 4: the right way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 3: You have a favorite day any you want to pick
Speaker 3: your favorite for the pope?
Speaker 1: You want to help Vinnie out.
Speaker 4: My favorite pope Leonard, Pope of the Arizona Cardinals. You're
Speaker 4: a big fan of Leonard Pope?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotcha, all right, anyway, there it is, thank
Speaker 3: you for.
Speaker 1: That, Vinnie. Good luck. We were no help to you.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. You'll get to pick wrong probably anyway,
Speaker 1: and then there'll.
Speaker 3: Be a puff of white smoke from the chimney of
Speaker 3: the Sistine Chapel and the crowd will go wild and
Speaker 3: all that. Do you think they like order pizza like
Speaker 3: Uber eats at the conclave. You think they've got or
Speaker 3: do they just not eat? I don't have no idea,
Speaker 3: all right, Clay rights in not Clay. Travis Clay from Austin, Texas,
Speaker 3: says little Ben Danny. I hope you're doing well. Happy birthday, Ben.
Speaker 3: He says, it looks like your UFO theory has been proven. Correct, Ben,
Speaker 3: do you work for the CIA? Clay says.
Speaker 1: No, I do not work.
Speaker 3: As far as I know, I do not work for
Speaker 3: the CIA. Clay sent a story that says is secret.
Speaker 3: Did you see this any secret? CIA documents have claimed
Speaker 3: that aliens are operating hidden bases on Earth, including deep
Speaker 3: under the sea and inside remote mountain ranges.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one of your theories.
Speaker 3: Yes, this has been a long standing malor theory that
Speaker 3: deep under the oceans there are a there's like portals underneath,
Speaker 3: and alien life forms are living and they might not
Speaker 3: even be from other planet.
Speaker 1: They might just be part of this planet. We just
Speaker 1: don't know, oh what.
Speaker 3: Species they are and they live under the ocean. Let
Speaker 3: me give you some more on this.
Speaker 1: Clay, and thank you. Clay. He says.
Speaker 3: He sent me a link to a story in one
Speaker 3: of the tabloids in London, says a declassified from the
Speaker 3: US Freedom and Information Act. They do suggest that they
Speaker 3: are from space but already living living amongst us at
Speaker 3: secret locations. Be It says. Among the locations are the
Speaker 3: Mount Hayes in Alaska, Mount Perdido in Spain, and various
Speaker 3: underwater sites off the coast of Puerto Rico and near
Speaker 3: the Bahamas. I think they're out here in the Pacific too,
Speaker 3: out where we are.
Speaker 1: I think they're on the Pacific, so here on Fact
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, God Radio College.
Speaker 3: G exactly, Gollig. I had a weird thought the other day.
Speaker 3: Did you see the thanks Clay. By the way, we'll
Speaker 3: move on from that.
Speaker 4: Did you see the both Clay? That was Clay Travis.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Did you see that President Trump was on a TV
Speaker 3: show this week and he said he supported stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith running for president.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 3: So how amazing would it be, Danny if we had
Speaker 3: if Clay ran for president and Stephen A ends up
Speaker 3: running for president and then like Steven A is the
Speaker 3: Democratic guy and plays the Republican.
Speaker 1: Guy and they're both former Fox.
Speaker 3: Sports Radio morning guys to become the president of the
Speaker 3: United States.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be awesome? That'd be that'd be great.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, I'd be moving to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3: That would Hey, I might even get some cheesy advisor role.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's enough of those jobs. How many jobs
Speaker 3: of the to the does the president have where you
Speaker 3: just given out money? Basically you can become the ambassador
Speaker 3: of you know whatever, Zimbabwe or something like that, and
Speaker 3: it's a it's a great gig, but that would be wild.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen, but it's for a minute to
Speaker 3: think about.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 3: Paul a proud saddleback guy writes in on the mail
Speaker 3: bag and he says, the proof isn't in the pudding, bend.
Speaker 3: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. So okay,
Speaker 3: thank you, Paul. I don't know what you want me
Speaker 3: to do. We've done the proof is in the pudding
Speaker 3: many times over the years on this podcast for the
Speaker 3: phrase of the week. That phrase goes all the way
Speaker 3: back to the sixteen hundreds, and the proof of the
Speaker 3: pudding is in the eating was the original phrase. It
Speaker 3: was popularized in like sixteen fifteen. And the pudding, by
Speaker 3: the way, is not like putting. You'd get at the
Speaker 3: grocery store. It was like a sausage. So putting back
Speaker 3: then in the sixteen hundreds of men sausage and the
Speaker 3: only way you confirm it was good was by eating it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, Michael, Michael from Georgia.
Speaker 1: That's a big state. I'm assuming Atlanta, but who knows.
Speaker 3: Michael writes and says Ben and Danny, is this a
Speaker 3: horror movie or is this real?
Speaker 1: And then he sends a he sent a story Danny.
Speaker 3: Of super bedbugs on the rampage. It says, the scientists
Speaker 3: believe that they are now immune to pesticides, immune to pestage. Okay,
Speaker 3: what are we supposed to do with that? You're all
Speaker 3: going to die from bedbugs? Is that what's going to happen?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is something you would have to worry about
Speaker 4: with the sort of hotels you like to book.
Speaker 1: Listen, I check the bed, it's not if anything's hopping
Speaker 1: on the bed. I don't sleep on the bed.
Speaker 3: And most of the time you can get bed bugs
Speaker 3: at a five star hotel.
Speaker 1: People get bed bugs everywhere. Oh, come on, see this
Speaker 1: is one of those fouls.
Speaker 4: Well, I but your odds are a lot higher. Let's
Speaker 4: be honest, your odds are a lot higher when you're
Speaker 4: at a one star.
Speaker 1: I don't stay at one stars, I stay at two stars.
Speaker 1: Go to one stars.
Speaker 3: This is one of those things where people think if
Speaker 3: you spend more, you're guaranteed to get a better product,
Speaker 3: and it's not always the case. It's not necessarily the
Speaker 3: case here. Kevin in Toledo rights in on the fifth
Speaker 3: hour mail bag. He says, Ben and Danny enjoying the
Speaker 3: weekend here and Ben, I need an update on the
Speaker 3: Ohio meet and greet so I can make plans. You've
Speaker 3: been teasing us. When are you visiting the Buckeye State?
Speaker 3: Kevin t B D two B determined. I still don't
Speaker 3: have a date. We were trying to do something in June.
Speaker 3: It appears that is not going to happen, as we
Speaker 3: are already in May, so that would mean we're going
Speaker 3: to push it back to.
Speaker 1: July and we'll go from there.
Speaker 3: So we're looking at probably sometime in July. I do
Speaker 3: not have a confirmed date, and my plan is to
Speaker 3: do it. Some other things have popped up here that
Speaker 3: have delayed it, So I'll let you know, Kevin. Obviously
Speaker 3: I'll promote the hell out of it. We will be
Speaker 3: in Vancouver at the end of this month doing the
Speaker 3: Mallor Meet and Green on.
Speaker 1: That Thursday, last Thursday here.
Speaker 3: In the month of May, will be in Vancouver having
Speaker 3: a great time. And we talked about that last week
Speaker 3: on the podcast. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Reggie in Detroit.
Speaker 3: Right, since it's been and Danny and Aloud hearing Mike
Speaker 3: North on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's no question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, North was fun. I love Mike Northeast. Oh, I
Speaker 4: love producing that. The whole thing was anytime he speaks,
Speaker 4: you stop what you're doing and listen because his voice
Speaker 4: is so distinct and you have He's almost like comfort
Speaker 4: food because you have good memories of listening to him,
Speaker 4: you know, blab blab away on the radio.
Speaker 1: Hey told Stool, Uh he sees fun.
Speaker 3: Man, He's just just oozes Chicago. Just you think, just
Speaker 3: you feel like you're eating deep dish pizza in Chicago,
Speaker 3: watching a Cup game or a Bears game when you
Speaker 3: hear him. And I flashed back about it, that famous
Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live skit Danny member with the Bears. The
Speaker 3: Bears like, to me, that's Mike North, Right, That's just
Speaker 3: the whole the whole rigamoor.
Speaker 1: Is what that is, so uh, it was fun.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Reggie says, do you see yourself someday ending up
Speaker 3: in a Hall of Fame like or winning a Lifetime
Speaker 3: Achievement award? You have my vote. That's from Reggie in Detroit.
Speaker 3: Very kind, Reggie, thank you. The answer to both is
Speaker 3: those is no, because I'm not I don't really smooth
Speaker 3: with I'm not an ass kisser with the executives like
Speaker 3: normally the people that win it. I'm not saying Mike
Speaker 3: north is, but my experience, the people that win those
Speaker 3: Lifetime Achievement awards and the people that get into the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fames and stuff normally the daytime people.
Speaker 1: Number one, I'm not a night person.
Speaker 3: I don't work during the day, so my odds go
Speaker 3: down with that, and they normally kiss a lot of ass.
Speaker 3: And my whole goal is to do a good show
Speaker 3: A and B not have any interaction with management.
Speaker 1: So I mean those are my goals. So probably not.
Speaker 3: But you know, if it comes down to like the
Speaker 3: vote of the people, I know Alf has been trying
Speaker 3: to move the needle on some of that.
Speaker 1: Stuff out the finer and all that.
Speaker 3: I mean, if it happens, that would be wonderful and
Speaker 3: great and cool. But I do not expect any of those.
Speaker 1: Things to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, at the end of last year,
Speaker 4: I spent the hour of filling out the proper paperwork
Speaker 4: and sending in the samples of the show and all
Speaker 4: the statistics about the show to iHeart for the iHeart
Speaker 4: Podcast Awards, and we didn't get nominated, unfortunately, because.
Speaker 1: We didn't know. You gotta kiss ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1: I don't kiss ass.
Speaker 4: But I did get a nice email from the guy
Speaker 4: at iHeart who was putting the what do you call
Speaker 4: it the ballot together, and he said that he loved
Speaker 4: the samples, So I think we got a fan out
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. Well, I mean I appreciate you
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 3: And we can submit every year and then they can
Speaker 3: reject us every year or whatever, but we can do
Speaker 3: it and maybe maybe one year we'll sneak one past
Speaker 3: the goaltender or something like that, and if we can
Speaker 3: get on a ballot and get people to vote' that'd
Speaker 3: be cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't expect.
Speaker 4: So you're saying there's a chance, Yeah, yeah, but thank you.
Speaker 3: Reggie I know you listen all the time to the
Speaker 3: to the boat shows. George in cam City rights in
Speaker 3: on the mail bag here on this Sunday, and he says, Ben,
Speaker 3: I thought of you when I saw this story about
Speaker 3: Shadur Sanders this week and his guy getting into it
Speaker 3: with the sports talk radio host in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Did you see it, George?
Speaker 3: I did see it, and I agree with the sports
Speaker 3: radio guy in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I assume you has probably touched on this on
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich. But for those who didn't see the story,
Speaker 3: I get Shudhur Sanders, fifth round draft pick of the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. He made an impromptu visit to a local
Speaker 3: high school. The video clips were posted online and essentially
Speaker 3: the radio guy was pointing out how kind of uncomfortable
Speaker 3: it was that he went to talk to the kids,
Speaker 3: and then five seconds later posted it on social media.
Speaker 3: And so one of Sudr Sanders underlings, one of his
Speaker 3: coat writers, was very upset and complained about it and
Speaker 3: responded and it's like, well, he didn't ask me or
Speaker 3: anyone else to post anything, the guy said, nor did
Speaker 3: he ask for one hundred cameras to be on him.
Speaker 1: Upon his interests and all this stuff this is just spewed. Hey, no,
Speaker 1: it's not okay.
Speaker 3: And again, this is one of my points at a
Speaker 3: very controversial point that I have preached on for some time.
Speaker 1: On the Overnight Show.
Speaker 3: We used to do this a lot with Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: and JJ Watt. We used to goof on them all
Speaker 3: the time because any thing that they would do of
Speaker 3: a charity nature, they would have a camera crew. The
Speaker 3: famous story about Russell Wilson. He would go to children's hospital,
Speaker 3: he'd have a makeup guy, he'd have a camera guy,
Speaker 3: he'd have a sound guy, a lighting guy.
Speaker 4: It was like a.
Speaker 3: Whole production, you know, And it was like just just cheapens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all they and I totally get.
Speaker 4: We got a deal.
Speaker 1: That pisces me up.
Speaker 3: That happened while I was doing a monologue praising the
Speaker 3: Seahawks for not signing Russell Wilson to an extension, right
Speaker 3: before midnight.
Speaker 1: It happened.
Speaker 3: But George, you know my position, George and Kansas City,
Speaker 3: that charity should be seen, not heard, meaning that it
Speaker 3: should happen, but you shouldn't be out there to promote it,
Speaker 3: and it should be anonymous if possible. And my belief
Speaker 3: is and this is the way I was raised.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. It's just my
Speaker 1: position that charity it has.
Speaker 3: Reduced the value of it if you're doing it to
Speaker 3: receive praise, and that certainly appears what based on what
Speaker 3: I read about the Shader Sanders thing.
Speaker 1: Going to the school, you know you don't need to.
Speaker 3: It is possible, even in this modern world, to show
Speaker 3: up to a hospital or to a school and not
Speaker 3: have a camera crew. Kobe Bryant, we found out after
Speaker 3: he was dead that he was a regular children's hospitals
Speaker 3: around LA and Orange County. But he didn't bring a
Speaker 3: camera crew, and he didn't post about it on social media,
Speaker 3: and he was able to stay somewhat modest when it
Speaker 3: came to that kind of thing in low key, and
Speaker 3: he did it and we only found it out about
Speaker 3: it after he was dead. And yet these other guys,
Speaker 3: they have to show up with the makeup cro and
Speaker 3: the camera and the lighting and the audio person whole thing.
Speaker 1: So, mister.
Speaker 5: Unlimited ove Russell Wilson, you're a New York Giants quarterback,
Speaker 5: Tony in Bakersfield rights into the mailbag, he says, is
Speaker 5: this the end?
Speaker 3: Of US truckers Ben and Danny worried in Bakersfield, says Tony,
Speaker 3: and he sent a story here. The first driverless Semi
Speaker 3: has started running long haul routes between Dallas and Houston.
Speaker 1: Started this week.
Speaker 3: The AI trucking firm out of Aurora I announced commercial
Speaker 3: service in Texas Uber Freight, some.
Speaker 1: Other company I've never heard of. Yeah, so thiss got
Speaker 1: to be considered. You're a truck driver. It's got to
Speaker 1: be a worry.
Speaker 3: Do you really want, though, Danny, truck drivers who are driving, Like,
Speaker 3: let's say you're driving something that's explosive or very dangerous,
Speaker 3: do you want would you rather have a human doing
Speaker 3: that or would you rather have AI? A driver was semi?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me think about this. And did you see
Speaker 4: recently it was just a few days ago. In fact,
Speaker 4: there was an AI radio station when it was like
Speaker 4: a new station that was put on the air, and
Speaker 4: they tried to have an AI do the midday show
Speaker 4: as the first DJ. And do you think it was
Speaker 4: successful or do you think it flopped?
Speaker 1: Well? As a radio guy, I don't know. I would
Speaker 1: hope it flopped.
Speaker 4: It flopped. They had to hire their first live DJ
Speaker 4: because the AI thing was such a smashing piece of crap.
Speaker 3: Good oh good, you know, but AI is going to
Speaker 3: get better and stuff. I just think that part of
Speaker 3: the human experience. It's like, would you know NASCAR if
Speaker 3: they had driverless cars?
Speaker 1: Would people what? The whole part of it is the
Speaker 1: human experience.
Speaker 3: You want humans out there, You're not watching bots and
Speaker 3: like the radio thing, it's to me, it's the it's
Speaker 3: you just need it.
Speaker 1: You need a human being to be part of it.
Speaker 4: Loser, let me ask you really quick to do you
Speaker 4: do you personally know anybody who's freaked out by the tariffs?
Speaker 4: Tariffs and I hate that word. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: saying it with an accent. My mom's from Massachusetts. But
Speaker 4: in my family's group chat and there's some aunts in there,
Speaker 4: my mom's in there, so you can imagine what's in
Speaker 4: that group chat. It's kind of like Facebook on steroids.
Speaker 4: But somebody wrote in there one of my family members said,
Speaker 4: have any of the rest of you got some water
Speaker 4: and supplies from the store in case these tariffs go sideways?
Speaker 4: Oh come on, yeah, I know right, And there's some
Speaker 4: family members comparing notes about the things they're stocking up
Speaker 4: in their garage.
Speaker 3: No, I don't, and maybe I've missed it. I've been
Speaker 3: kind of locked in on the show, but I haven't
Speaker 3: heard anyone. Well, that's not true. I did get somebody
Speaker 3: sent and it wasn't a family member. Somebody sent me
Speaker 3: a text of receipt that went I guess it went
Speaker 3: viral on social media from Timu or something like that
Speaker 3: where it had the tariff on there. But I think
Speaker 3: didn't Timu shut down like the other day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I read conflicting headlines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say I didn't know what was
Speaker 4: real about that because I saw stories going in both directions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody sent me that and they were like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I can't buy stuff on team. I was like,
Speaker 3: I think I bought one thing on Tiamo. I just
Speaker 3: kid around about buying something on Timu.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: It's so hard to order anything from them because a
Speaker 4: stupid spinning keeps coming up saying you've won all this
Speaker 4: free crap and you really don't win anything. They just
Speaker 4: want you adding more and more items into your cart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a psyop. It's a it's a psych thing.
Speaker 3: They're trying to get you to buy more. It's like
Speaker 3: this stuff when you go to the grocery store and
Speaker 3: you're checking out and they have the candy bars there
Speaker 3: and crap, you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that looks pretty good. I'm want a candy bar.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan on getting a candy bar. I want
Speaker 1: a candy bar.
Speaker 3: Mike from Fullerton, Right, Since says Ben and Danny, I've
Speaker 3: got a couple of hard hitting questions for you guys
Speaker 3: this week. First of all, and this is incursive. Can
Speaker 3: you read cursive? I was surprised to find out a
Speaker 3: lot of younger people cannot. I doubt Lorraina can for example.
Speaker 3: And second, what's your favorite ice cream flavor? And to
Speaker 3: increase the difficulty, you can't say chocolate, vanilla or strawberry.
Speaker 3: That is from Mike, I can read cursive. I assume
Speaker 3: you can Danny as well, because we both had to
Speaker 3: learn cursive.
Speaker 1: We had to read cursive when we were in school.
Speaker 4: We're yeah, twenty ten, by the way, is the year
Speaker 4: that most schools dropped it.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so most people who are adults can can.
Speaker 3: But that's that's been a minute, right, twenty fifteen, twenty ten,
Speaker 3: that's fifteen years ago, so That means kids that were
Speaker 3: learning how to write, they were like maybe eight to
Speaker 3: ten or whatever.
Speaker 1: Now they're wow in their mid twenties. Crazy.
Speaker 4: Which when they have to sign like paperwork, what do
Speaker 4: they do? They put an X.
Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 3: I don't know a favorite ice cream, not strawberry, vanilla
Speaker 3: or chalkerboy, that's.
Speaker 1: A really hard question. Mike, you are so good at
Speaker 1: these questions. I'm gonna go mint chip or cookie dough.
Speaker 4: Okay, cookie does all right? Mint chip nasty. I used
Speaker 4: to hate. I used to hate when my mom would
Speaker 4: bring that home, Like, really, Mom, you couldn't bring some
Speaker 4: Rocky Road home.
Speaker 1: That's a bad take by you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, Rocky Road is delicious.
Speaker 1: What's the one with the three flavors?
Speaker 6: But you could Sherbert? Yeah, but that's got chocolate and vanilla.
Speaker 6: How about just Sherbert? Yeah, there's some Sherbert that's okay.
Speaker 6: But I don't know, like I think, for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: if I get just a sugar cone with one scoop
Speaker 6: of Rocky Road, you like.
Speaker 3: The marshmallows, You like the nuts in there? Like, yeah, crap,
Speaker 3: I rotate nuts? How dare you do a few more?
Speaker 1: It's the mailbag.
Speaker 3: Kevin and Kansas, right, since it's dear Ben and Danny
Speaker 3: g When you guys go to the grocery store, do
Speaker 3: you go with a plan or do just wander until
Speaker 3: you get everything? Do you bring big Ben's big grocery boards? No, Kevin,
Speaker 3: that would be the wife's big board. Normally I do
Speaker 3: the grocery shopping for the malor mansion. But typically I
Speaker 3: actually like going to the store. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 3: doing radio, we're pretty cooped up, whether it's product promoting
Speaker 3: or preparing, prepping for the show, and then doing the show.
Speaker 3: So I don't really get out of the house very
Speaker 3: much other than to go to the studio and do
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 1: And so on the weekend I go shopping. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm getting out of.
Speaker 3: The house and I'm seeing not that I like necessarily dissocialized,
Speaker 3: but I'm getting out and I'm wandering around.
Speaker 4: So I actually you're seeing the inside of stores.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I like for some reason, I don't mind
Speaker 3: grocery shopping. My wife hates it, so I do the
Speaker 3: grocery shopping. But normally she'll send me a text, and
Speaker 3: then what I do is I take the text, I
Speaker 3: copy the text, yes, and then I open the notes thing,
Speaker 3: and then I'll put in my notes and then I'll
Speaker 3: check off every item that I get in the on
Speaker 3: the on the groceery.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of us do this, because I
Speaker 4: was going to say. What my wife does is she
Speaker 4: texts me the list and she says, add on to
Speaker 4: this list with anything I forgot. We go back and
Speaker 4: forth a few times, and then we have the master list.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of back and forth. It's like
Speaker 3: a war room on this. So yeah, I got you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's like an NFL draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I'll say, hey, I need something, you know, and
Speaker 3: she'll put that on the list. And then sometimes I'll
Speaker 3: be at the store and be like, they don't have this,
Speaker 3: and then she'll say, all right, well we'll add lib.
Speaker 3: We'll call an audible and then you can get the
Speaker 3: other item. And so I'll get the other items. But that,
Speaker 3: you know, that's it. And I will occasionally throw some
Speaker 3: other goodies in there that I didn't plan on getting.
Speaker 3: You know, those are add ons. Those are add ons,
Speaker 3: those are bonuses.
Speaker 1: What else do we have?
Speaker 3: Kwang from Vietnam again, big fan, you think he's actually
Speaker 3: in Vietnam or you think he's just making that up.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, says Hey, Ben, I saw this
Speaker 3: serve about Casey. Case would have been his birthday this week,
Speaker 3: April twenty seventh, and I did not know about Battle
Speaker 3: of the Planet's good thing you.
Speaker 1: Didn't kill him, yea.
Speaker 3: The most amazing thing about the same is that time
Speaker 3: is so wild that Casey case has been gone since
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. It's been over a decade since Casey left
Speaker 3: this mortal coil, and he was real sick the last
Speaker 3: couple of years with life. But that's crazy to me,
Speaker 3: Like I have vivid memories of seeing Casey in the
Speaker 3: iHeart Premiere Networks building there during the day recording his
Speaker 3: Top forty Countdown show and his voiceover stuff that he did.
Speaker 4: He was such a legend to us when we were
Speaker 4: growing up that I still get a kick out of
Speaker 4: the fact that I work in his studio five days
Speaker 4: a week.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's awesome. And they still left in the Yes
Speaker 3: our podcast. Are you off to the right there?
Speaker 1: You can see if you're in that room the Top
Speaker 1: forty or Top twenty.
Speaker 4: Sign Yeah, the Top twenty, the Casey case Irom Top twenty.
Speaker 4: It says American Top twenty and people will pose in
Speaker 4: front of that sign all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little piece of radio history and left
Speaker 3: behind by the great Casey case So thank you. Kwang
Speaker 3: And yeah, he was in everything. I knew him as
Speaker 3: Shaggy from Scooby Doobe Doo and all that stuff, but
Speaker 3: he was in a bunch of other movies.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he was in Transformers the movie. I
Speaker 1: did not know that bunch.
Speaker 3: Of ponder ponder it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's get out on this last one.
Speaker 3: Joe from New York, right, since says Ben and Danny,
Speaker 3: do you guys have your tickets yet?
Speaker 1: If not, you're out of luck.
Speaker 3: Luigi the musical about the accused CEO killer set to
Speaker 3: debut in San Francisco. Luigi Mangioni musical It's gonna premiere
Speaker 3: next month. Every show is already sold out, according to
Speaker 3: Joe New York.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I I think we know how that ends, right,
Speaker 1: do we know how that ends?
Speaker 4: Gotta go?
Speaker 1: Ye, gotta murder, I got exactly gotta murder. I gotta go.
Speaker 3: From the Killer Barber of Sweeney Todd to Assassin's, musicals
Speaker 3: have long dealt with morbid subject matter. They say it's
Speaker 3: a musical comedy based on the guy that killed the
Speaker 3: healthcare CEO.
Speaker 1: Got a murder, Yeah, a story of love, murder and
Speaker 1: hash browns. Oh because he went to McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Oh Man, final meal before you get caught is McDonald's
Speaker 3: hash brown What a way to go down with the
Speaker 3: McDonald's ashburns. All right, we'll get I mean, what do
Speaker 3: you want to say, Joe, No, I do not have tickets.
Speaker 3: How many seats are in the theater? How many seats
Speaker 3: did they actually sell? Okay, anyway, Danny, I'll be back tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but about all these NBA playoff games. We got a
Speaker 3: game seven today the Warriors and the Rockets. So we've
Speaker 3: got that and then be back tomorrow or tonight. And
Speaker 3: you've got I assume normal week for you.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, no, it's actually a normal week for Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich. That's two to four pm on the West
Speaker 4: side and five to seven pm in beautiful Let's see,
Speaker 4: let's go somewhere on the east coast. What's the east
Speaker 4: coast city you would love to visit.
Speaker 3: I was there last year. Charleston, South Carolina. Beautiful city.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Man, My cousin bought a house there.
Speaker 3: He's been redoing the home the past two years, like
Speaker 3: fixing it up himself. It looks beautiful, man, and.
Speaker 4: It was not. As you know, you couldn't even buy
Speaker 4: a condo in California for what he spent on that house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and prices are going up there too. It's a
Speaker 1: little gym though.
Speaker 3: Charleston, beautiful Charleston stuff. My niece, she's lived there. She
Speaker 3: went to college there and she stayed there after college.
Speaker 3: She loves, loves Charleston. Anyway, have a wonderful rescue to day.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening. Thank you that we did very
Speaker 3: well right last time.
Speaker 1: I think last weekend.
Speaker 4: Downloads were amazing last weekend, and so we think all
Speaker 4: the regulars and all the new listeners, it means a
Speaker 4: lot to.
Speaker 1: Us, it does.
Speaker 3: It makes it seem like it's actually worth us getting
Speaker 3: in here on the weekends and doing this.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great day.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you. Austa pasta got a murder. I
Speaker 4: gotta go.