WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Tuna Fish, Damn It! 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.240 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:30.720 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.760 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.560 Mahler and Danny G Radio A Happy Saturday to you. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:42.520 It's college football Saturday today, on this twentieth day of September. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.080 And let's see what am I planning on Washington today, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.479 Nanny G. I've got well tonight I will see at 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.240 least part of Michigan State and USC. Are they calling 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:55.959 it Big ten after dark? I don't if they're calling 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.720 it Big ten after dark, but that's the late game. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.760 I did see Michigan State complaining about that. I'll be 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.759 checking that game out. I think Belichick in North Carolina. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.880 If I can find that game, they play you UCF, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.840 which is like a halfway decent opponent. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.840 So the whole country is going to be tuned into 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.279 that one. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.200 I think that's the game, and then not really yeah yeah, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.160 and then what's the big one? Well, I guess Auburn 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:22.440 Oklahoma's the biggest. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.200 The huge game is Boise and air Force. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.840 Yeah, well that's all when you throw out the records. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.200 When they get together, Danny, they get together, you throw 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.280 out the records. But anyway, we'll be be flipping around here. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.560 And then if you're an old time nostalgic college football fan, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:42.560 you've got Michigan and Nebraska. Who Nebraska thirty years ago 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.240 was the juggernaut of college football. Michigan's had their moments. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.840 So anyway, some of the games today in college football. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.960 But on this podcast, Danny, we have tuna fish sandwiches, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.920 damn it, and the Suburban Explorer. But we're gonna start 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.040 with this. So I checked the mail bag last night 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.280 and based on events that have taken place the last 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.080 couple of days, so I got some feedback on Clayton Kershaw. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.200 People very upset with my Clayton Kershaw take offended by 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.000 my position on Clayton Kersher, which was the accurate position, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.400 by the way, the accurate take on Clayton Kershaw. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.880 When I heard this promo run on FSR Friday during 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.640 Covino and Rich, I just shook my head. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.720 Well, you can shake your head all you want, it's reality. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.519 Clayton Kershaw has cost the Dodgers multiple World Series championships 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.000 because he comes up tiny in big games. You gotta think, Danny, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.840 this era of Dodger baseball, they would have at least three, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.720 probably four more World championships if Clayton Kershaw actually lived 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.360 up to the way he is in the regular season. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.720 So I don't have any regrets on that. He should 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.040 have retired five years ago. So fine. I did a 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.200 monologue on that, and then a lot of people have 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.680 been complaining. They say, what about the Komodo dragon in 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.760 the room? Several cents some version Danny of Hey, big Ben, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.720 I love your show, but you know what that means. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.000 Why didn't you dressed the Jimmy Kimmel story on the show. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.120 So I didn't mention the Jimmy Kimmel story on the show. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.760 I would like to put out though, Danny, this is 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.600 kind of thing that annoys me because I've mentioned this 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.320 many times that we don't normally go down those roads. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.880 ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air because of pressure 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.320 from the Federal Communications. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.760 Commission be careful about this. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.160 Well, the stories everywhere right, and the person running the 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:32.520 FCC was upset that Kimmel made some partisan talking point 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.800 crap about what's. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.200 The guy's name that Charlie Kirk. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.720 Charlie Kirk, Yeah, that was killed, And so kim O 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.560 regurgitated some stuff on TV and everyone's kind of an agreement. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.880 No one's watching late night TV, but everyone up in 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.160 arms over this, and so now it's one of those 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.280 bizarre things. Jimmy Kimmel. Back in the day we crossed 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.960 pass I and Jimmy Kimmel in what I considered Danny 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.880 the glory days, glory days of LA Radio, back when 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.680 Jimmy was doing Carl Malone impersonations on k Rock in 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.080 the morning, the old Utah jazz player, and I was 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.000 doing afternoon gas baggery, and Ryan Seacrest was over at 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.599 Star ninety eight point seven playing boy band records, and 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.839 all of us climbing the media ladder Danny and somehow 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.160 two of these guys became megastars, and I ended up 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.159 singing cheeseburgers at three in the morning. But aside from that, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.080 it is bizarre. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.320 You're talking about you're an international TV star. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.680 Yeah, but it is bizarre. Oh, don't forget to watch 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.440 Benny Versus Penny. It is bizarre. It's on YouTube YouTube 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.640 dot com slash at Benny Vspenny. It is bizarre when 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.240 you see a national story, like someone international story, and 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.400 you cross paths with them at some point in your life. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.320 It's like when Lauren Sanchez married Jeff Bezos and I 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.000 used to see Lauren a lot at the Laker games 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.160 back in there. It's very wacky. But the Jimmy Kimmel thing, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.600 regardless of that, we generally don't go down this way. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.760 I'll give you my ten cent take on this, and 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.960 this is my position. Jimmy Kimmel was hired years ago 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.240 as a comedian, and you're supposed to sell laughs, not 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.919 political lectures and all that stuff. He is paid to 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.039 be the court gesture, not the court justice. And it's 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.360 it's always a dangerous game when you confuse those things. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.839 It's like if you worked at in and out Burger 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.920 and all of a sudden, I said, you know what, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.720 I don't want to hand out cheeseburgers. I want to 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.200 hand out tuna fish sandwiches. Well, nobody wants tuna fish sandwiches. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.920 They go there for the cheeseburger. Well, no, I want 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.200 I think people need tuna fish sandwiches. Well, they don't 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.560 want tuna fish sandwiches. Well some people might want them. Yes, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.279 some people might want them, but they're going to go 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.360 to a restaurant that service tuna fish sandwiches. They're not 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.479 going to go to an out burger, you know, And 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.880 they'll say I didn't order that. And now I will 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.120 tell you, Danny, and to tow the line here, the 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.039 FCC sniffing around to me, that's the thing that gets 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.440 your attention. And I believe they should stay out of 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.520 it because when it's it's like one of those ping 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.200 pong games, Danny, that you know, you don't want to 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.320 go down that road because then whoever's in control of 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.479 the politics will mute the other side. So I think 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.680 you just don't want to go down that road. You're 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.240 not going to win. It's a problem exactly. FCC is 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.520 not supposed to be about picking sides. It's supposed to 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.719 be about, like us, talking about bodily functions and things 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.279 like that. Yes, yes, little Johnny, can't hear us do 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:28.000 a poopy joke. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.599 They can't hear us say, shit, that's supposed to be 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.760 what the FCC is for. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.560 Yeah, exactly. So it's just it's one of those things. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.520 And obviously a lot of you know where I am politically, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.440 but it doesn't matter, like I'm not a very political person. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.080 You're whoever you like, whatever team you root for, whether 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.520 it's the Red team or the Blue team, is not 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.040 going to be in power forever, and then the other 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.600 team's going to get control and then they're going to 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.960 do the same thing. And it's just it's just a 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.640 bad not the kind of precedent you want to say, exactly. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.200 And I don't think I'm concerned, Danny that anyone who's 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.880 in the White House will be worried about me saying 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.080 the dolphins rode the vomit commet or they're not gonna 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.000 knock on the mallor mansion at well in the morning. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.840 You are the captain of the safe harbor. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.640 Yeah, they're not gonna say you said, Dak Prescott is 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.000 what Charlie checked out. Oh my god. But it is 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.760 the slippery slope, and that's that's the point one of 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.360 my I don't know, honestly, Hero but when I was 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.120 a kid, my parents used to watch Johnny Carson, the 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.120 King of late night television. I went back and I looked, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:34.360 and Johnny Carson averaged in the seventies and the eighties, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.160 he averaged six to eight million people a night watching. Now, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.840 there weren't many channels, there was no internet, so you 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.480 can make all these statements about that, but he averaged 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.760 six to eight million people a night. If he had 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.560 a big, big star guest on their big name, he'd 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.840 get nine or ten million. Major League Baseball on average, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.400 a Major League Baseball game on Fox gets one point 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.200 eight million. An NBA game on ESPN gets about one 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.960 point five million. They average, Johnny Carson was getting three 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.160 four times that a night. One on the Tonight Show. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.000 That is nuts. And Carson said this quote. I'm sure 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.840 you saw it, Danny. He said this back and I 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.480 think the seventies or the eighties, but it made its 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.920 way back and somebody, I think it was on sixty 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.560 Minutes and said that. One of the people asked him said, 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.920 why don't you talk about politics on the Tonight Show? 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.520 And Johnny said, well, why do Why do they think 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.680 that just because you have a Tonight Show that you 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.720 must deal in serious issues. He warned that the danger, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.360 and it's a real danger once you start that, you 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.840 start to get that self important feeling is a quote 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.280 by the way, that what you say has great import 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.120 and you know, strangely enough, you could use that show 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.400 as a forum, Carson said, back then, you could stay 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.360 way people. You sway people, and I don't think you 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.720 should as an entertainer. And then some people say, wow, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.560 he's old. You know he's dead now. But I would 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.120 argue that Carson knew his role. He told jokes. Here's 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.400 what Carson did. He told jokes. He played tennis in Malibu, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.719 and he cashed massive checks. Most of that money went 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.320 to his many ex wives. But he did all of 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.760 those things, and he rarely wandered into into the political 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.440 world and all that because he knew that once you 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.679 take that detour, your toast and if you start believing 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.000 you're the pope of pop culture, that whatever you're doing, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.600 your monologue or whatever, is the state of the Union address, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.240 it's it's it just doesn't work out for you. So 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.880 but I don't understand. It's like Jimmy Kimmel, if he's 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.240 really that into it. Again, I don't think he should 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.480 have been taken off. There would my position, if he's 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.319 that political, why didn't he go to like CNN or 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.960 in MSNBC or something to do a political show, And 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.439 then nobody would care because he's doing like a political show. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.520 But it's it's wild. Any within the next year, there 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.960 will be no late night TV. Kimmel's out, Colbert's going out. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.760 You and I talked about this during COVID. Remember nobody 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.320 really noticed that the late night shows were on old reruns. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.120 Nobody cared. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.160 Yeah, and during the writers strike, same thing, nobody gave 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:22.520 us shit. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.280 Yeah, that's true. And then and their argument is that 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.480 those shows are mostly just for the clips online. But 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.960 Jimmy Fallons his days are hope he saved money because 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.080 he's next the three stooges who were the last three 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.240 on what for our childhood named Late Night TV. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.839 He was, Oh, and I read that Saturday Night Live 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:44.959 is also in the firing line. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 Really yeah, so and that was. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.160 Just rumors, but you know that's that was making the 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.480 rounds on a couple of articles I saw last week. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.080 So again, just to put the ball on this in 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.200 these parts on the radio show and usually here as well, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.640 as I like to say, we also are in the 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.920 cheeseburger business. I run a little cheeseburger stand. It's Benny's Burgers. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.439 I sell Benny's burgers. I have fries, maybe a milkshake, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.680 and that's it. You will not get a kill salad. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.640 I do not sell a kill salad. You do not 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:16.520 get a fruit smoothie. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.400 I don't sell no lettuce raps either. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.200 I don't definitely don't have any lettuce. Yeah, hashtag Benny's buns. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.040 I generally avoid politics and whatnot. And if you want 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.640 a caesar salad, you can go somewhere else. If you 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:34.120 want burger, right here and get the burger. And so 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.520 we'll see. Jimmy Kible's made a ton of money. I'm 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.800 assuming he's financially financially set. And you know what'll end 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.960 up doing, Danny if the TV show is completely put, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.200 he'll do what everyone else does. He'll do a podcast. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.680 That's what he's gonna do, right, Yeah, why not? There 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.360 you go, get a podcast. Everyone loves audio content. Get 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.720 a podcast, damn it, Get a podcast. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.240 Did you see that clip of him being whisked away 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.120 from the network in that black navigate And oh It's 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.040 funny you say that, because I'm like, I bet they're 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.080 taking him to a podcast studio right now. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.000 Oh well, either that or I think they went to 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.679 like lawyers, like some Beverly Hill lawyers or something like that. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.760 They're so so so they will not get away with us. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.679 You know, I feel bad for is that guy Guillermo 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:18.400 on the show? 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.040 Oh yeah, we know Guillermo on Covino and Rich. Yeah, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.600 I told you he was at the airport with us 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.320 while we were waiting for our flights to the super 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.120 Bowl last year. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.080 Yeah. Yeah. They used to have him go out to 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.079 the Dodgy games, and I remember one time during the playoffs, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.480 this is probably ten fifteen years ago, and they made 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.480 him wear like a diaper type thing, and it was 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.840 so funny watching because they would record stuff and he'd 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:44.760 be the clown, you know. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:45.920 Yeah, And you could. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.960 Tell when they stopped recording how pissed off he was 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.480 that they made him wear this thing and walk around. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.959 He was really annoyed. But you know, I don't know 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.480 what that guy's gonna do. You know, that's that's a 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.120 very specific job, Danny being the sidekick on a eight 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:00.920 night TV show. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.080 Yeah, you're you're gonna be typecast. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.200 Yeah, there's not a lot of bounce back on something 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:08.640 like that. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:14.000 I believe, you know what, he can do a podcast exactly. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.080 Like just everyone everyone will do a podcast. There's more 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.640 podcasts than there are people on the planet. Look at this, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.160 even this the fifth Hour podcast. So anyway, that's those 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.920 are my thoughts on the on the Kimmel the aftermath 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:35.199 with Gimo exactly the FCC with become an anti culture musician, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.680 you know, come up with songs. But we'll wait for 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.760 Guirmo's podcast to come out. Damn it, Danny, I just 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.679 damn it, all right, We'll wait for it. Yeah. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.560 If I was a QB and I was calling an 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.360 audible at the line, I wouldn't say omaha, omaha, I'd 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.920 say damn it, damn it. And that's how I was 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.240 feeling when Covino and Rich's show on Friday ended, because 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.480 I put two weeks of work into a new on 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.080 air game. Now, maybe you could shed some light on 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.800 this process bending because I know you've been in the 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.040 same boat. What's it like when you get an idea 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.839 in your p brain and you think to yourself, you 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.160 know what this is going to take some tweaking here 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.160 and there, but this game with the Mallard Militia, this 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.200 could actually work. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.200 Yeah yeah, yeah for sure. And I'll get an idea 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.400 sometimes driving around or something like that. I'll get an 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.200 idea in my head and then I'll immediately what I 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.680 do is I pull my phone out, I go to 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.760 the notes app on my phone, and then I'll type 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.600 a few things like whatever, because I don't want to 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.040 I want to lose type some thoughts in right. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.480 It's kind of like when a song comes to a musician. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.560 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So I'll jot down a few 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.440 random thoughts and then after that I will kind of 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.200 workshop it, like I'll go back to it like Frankenstein's 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.000 lab and try to, you know, jot down some other stuff. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.320 And you got to kind of map it out. Right. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:52.880 There's a lot. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.240 There's a lot to it. And I had to type 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.280 and find drops and set it all up and write 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.440 the script to send into Bob our big voice guy 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.840 of FSR. And then I work closely with Ricky, who's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.080 Vito's assistant for the past i don't know, seven eight 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.520 days to get this thing ready to go. Then I 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.480 spent two hours on Thursday night sitting in a Wendy's. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.720 It was National Cheeseburger Day. So I had a junior 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.280 bacon cheeseburger in my left hand, my pen in my 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.120 right hand, and I was writing down how the rules 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.320 of the game would be. So I get to Friday, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:32.560 I'm calling this synonymous city. Synonymous city, say the name 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.920 of the game, slow, play it fast. This came out 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.040 organically in conversation on the show a couple of weeks 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.600 ago with Dan Byer. He was laughing because we were like, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.680 who's the face of the city for Minneapolis for sports? 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.640 And they were like, Bayer told the guys, He's like, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.920 on the count of three, one, two three, you know 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.680 who would you say, by the way, for Minneapolis sports, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:56.200 are we doing? 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:57.240 Are we doing all time? 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:57.800 Or right? 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:58.120 Yeah? 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.400 Yeah, So like the most revered sorts figure in Minneapolis 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:07.400 sports one two three, Herbie Puckett. See thank you, All 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.160 of us except one crew member shouted out Kirby Pucket. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.200 And it was funny because I think Rich said Gary 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.000 Anderson and we're laughing. He was trying to be funny, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.800 but we're laughing. And then Rich mentioned on the air, Hey, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.720 you know what we could do something like this for 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.640 a game on the air someday, and I thought about 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.240 it and I'm like, yeah, this is cool. I'll do like, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.680 you know, the most synonymous sports figure or the most 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.480 famous music artist or band of a city. So get 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.520 the contestant right. Explain to the contestant that the two 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.760 categories are going to be rotated. I'll tell you the category, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.000 then i'll say the city. Give you a few seconds 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.800 to think about your answer, and then on the count 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.760 of three, the crew member and the caller are going 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.320 to shout out their answers. The caller has to match 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.000 with two of the five seeing our crew members in 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.920 order to win a prize. Covino's up first, All right, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.120 let's start with the most revered sports figure for the 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.639 city of Saint Louis. All right, think about it for 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.160 a second. On the count of three, one, two, three, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.119 Stan mus stand the man, thank you, Ben, you know what? 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.720 The contestant said, Oh god, I don't what. First of all, 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.320 he didn't say anything at first. It was dead air 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.640 one dead air, two dead air, three dead or four, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.440 And then he shouted damn it. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.520 And I'm like, first name, first name, damn last name it. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.840 First name, damn last name it. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.320 So I'm like, Okay, we're not off to a good 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.040 start here, but maybe it'll get better. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.080 With he led to the Spirit of Saint Louis and 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:44.480 the ABA. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.920 Yeah, I'm like, maybe it'll get better. Okay, let's stick 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.560 to sports. The most revered sports figure for the city 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:50.560 of San Diego. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.440 Okay, this is all right, get your answers ready. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.480 On the count of three, one, two, three, Tony Winn 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:00.600 thank you. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.760 All right, what do I win? What do I win? 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.920 Well, the problem is the contestant again didn't give an answer, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.920 and when we're like, dude, are you there, he was like, oh, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:21.240 damn it. The problem was, I unfortunately got a contestant 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.359 on the debut of the new game who wasn't really 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.840 with it late to the party, and because of that, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.840 now Rich is over there like, well, we got to 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.040 redo how the rules are and we should change it 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.159 to where we all write down an answer and maybe 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.800 if enough of us match, then he gets a point. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.879 And now instead of this being a successful game that 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.199 I spent two weeks of my life investing in, because 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.960 of one damit contestant, I have to rework the entire game. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.720 Well, the lesson on that Danny is to never underestimate 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.040 the power of dumb people that call radio shows. You 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.720 can never underestimate the power of the listener. I tried. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.280 I don't know if you were with me at the 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.280 time or not, but I tried to do a spelling 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.879 bee on the show. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.640 I wasn't with you, but I was listening to that mess. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.960 Yeah yeah, And because in my head, I was like, well, 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.600 most of the names are pretty easy to spell, like 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.600 all right, you know, like George Brett or something like that. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.520 You would think, and then you start doing it, and 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:24.360 I I cannot understate how bad people are at spelling. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.760 I can't, you know. I thought, well, this was in 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.720 the ear when like the hardest name was like Mark 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.400 Grizzlanic or something like that. You say, okay, fine, Grizzlnik's 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.320 a tough name. He was a big baseball player years ago. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.120 But the normal names and people just didn't know how 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.760 to spell, and it would drive me. It drive me nuts. 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.199 And also a lot of the people, and I get it, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.000 this is not their life, right, Danny, were invested in 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:50.480 this because we do this for a living. But if 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.760 you're a sports fan, you're kind of casual. Most people 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.440 are and it's entertainment. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.359 I feel like most of our listeners though, would have 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.080 shouted out Tony Gwyn. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.040 I would like to think, yeah, and how it depends 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.200 how old you are, though, I guess. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.080 And so with some games we empower the contestant the caller, 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:08.920 and in other games like this, I think I'm gonna 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.679 have to take the power out of their hands. In 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.000 other words, I'm gonna have to have like Covino and 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.080 Rich be the team and then give them the city 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.119 and count to three for them, and beforehand ask the 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.679 contestant whether or not they think Coveno and ritual match 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.840 and if they if they get that answer right, then 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.879 they get the point. So I think I'm gonna have 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.760