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Speaker 1: In the air Eyway. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Dany g Radio. It is Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: as we hang out with you. More NFL playoff football
Speaker 1: coming up later today on National Popcorn Day. Today, the
Speaker 1: nineteenth of January, National Popcorn Day. And I believe we've
Speaker 1: there's more than one popcorn Day. I feel like we
Speaker 1: do this every so often. But the fun fact on popcorn, right,
Speaker 1: fun fact on popcorn. It goes back to fifteen nineteen
Speaker 1: the Astechs. The first sight of popcorn in Mexico was
Speaker 1: with the as Techs, So shout out ASEX. Didn't they
Speaker 1: do human sacrifices the as Tex the good and the bad?
Speaker 1: They cooked up the popcorn? Wow? Who do you think
Speaker 1: the first person that figured out that you heat up
Speaker 1: these corn seeds and you get the delicious popcorn.
Speaker 3: It had to be a really creative Indian.
Speaker 1: That must have been the most amazing mind bending moment.
Speaker 1: When they figure that out, you think, wow, that's wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then who's the first one to put butter
Speaker 3: on it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, butter? Sure.
Speaker 3: And then who's the first person to put nacho cheese
Speaker 3: or dip it into nacho cheese at the movie theater?
Speaker 1: Now you're just blowing my mind. Now you're just blow.
Speaker 3: By the way. Promotion today, all cinemak theaters are doing
Speaker 3: a popcorn special. You don't even have to get a
Speaker 3: movie ticket. You could walk into any cinemark with a bucket,
Speaker 3: any bucket as long as it's clean, it says, any
Speaker 3: clean bucket, and it's five dollars. Oh really, they'll fill
Speaker 3: up to I think it's set up top. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: check the gallons here. I forget how many.
Speaker 1: But the big tubs that people get for holiday parties,
Speaker 1: those big plastic tubs you.
Speaker 3: Mentioned going I'm bringing my hamper, why not? What the hell?
Speaker 1: There you go, your popcorn fun fact. So at fifteen nineteen,
Speaker 1: the Aztecs, I guess, came up with it. And then
Speaker 1: in sixteen fifty some dude from Peru was blown away
Speaker 1: by this and wrote about it. Maybe inca terror. Our
Speaker 1: friend wrote about it, but or his some of relatives,
Speaker 1: and he wrote this person wrote, they toast a certain
Speaker 1: kind of corn until it bursts. They call it pisson
Speaker 1: a colla. I believe I'm mispronouncing that. But anyway, that
Speaker 1: became became popular, and it wasn't until the nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1: Many theaters refused to sell popcorn. They thought it was
Speaker 1: too messy. In the nineteen twenties, those people called idiots,
Speaker 1: that's what they are. But wasn't that case Like in
Speaker 1: those days, Danny, people got dressed up to go see
Speaker 1: a show. Remember of the movies was a big deal.
Speaker 1: You get all dressed up, all dulled up to go
Speaker 1: out there and put on your church clothes and kind
Speaker 1: of like flying. Oh yeah, line, they would get all
Speaker 1: dressed up to fly. Now people look like absolute pigs.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, I found it here, it's up
Speaker 3: to three gallons any container tote or back.
Speaker 1: So you get like get a couple of you know,
Speaker 1: two or three, three, boom, you're good. Ninety two. According
Speaker 1: to a national survey over nine and ten Americans ninety
Speaker 1: two like popcorn and the others must be allergic to it.
Speaker 1: That must be it.
Speaker 3: That's good. Yeah. The only thing I don't like is
Speaker 3: how the kernels get stuck in your teeth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't mind it because my move is I
Speaker 1: mean what I do, Danny as I go out and
Speaker 1: I get the toothpick. That's my move. That annoys me
Speaker 1: the wife though, because I'm picking up my teeth and
Speaker 1: she gets annoyed by that.
Speaker 3: My wife, she does the same thing. She has those picks,
Speaker 3: the floss picks. Yeah, yeah yeah, and she sawing away
Speaker 3: and I'm like, how long are you going to do that?
Speaker 1: I'm a big toothpick person. I believe in the toothpick.
Speaker 1: I'm pro toothpick.
Speaker 3: I believe it. I could I could picture you with
Speaker 3: a toothpick behind your ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm not behind my ear.
Speaker 3: Wait, can you remove tarder at home? No?
Speaker 1: We got today in the end, if I got rams Eagles,
Speaker 1: that'll be kicking off just after noon our time, three
Speaker 1: o'clock in east and then the game everyone's been looking
Speaker 1: for to snow, snow, snow. The sports with Coleman Bowl
Speaker 1: as he takes on Bill's Mafia Ravens and Bills. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. That's not late late. That's three thirty
Speaker 1: our times, six thirty Eastern times, so it's not at
Speaker 1: night night.
Speaker 3: Was that a pick them when you gambled on it
Speaker 3: when we.
Speaker 1: Did the show Thursday after noon? And the Ravens were
Speaker 1: a point and a half favorite, I believe at that time.
Speaker 3: So, but we're looking forward to it. Who'd you take
Speaker 3: in that game?
Speaker 1: Well, you watch Benny versus the Penny find out. But
Speaker 1: I did take the I took the Bills. I took
Speaker 1: the Bills at home Snow game. I still don't trust
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Although this is a legacy as I said
Speaker 1: on the TV show, this is a legacy deal for
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, who's gonna win the MVP.
Speaker 3: And if you.
Speaker 1: Look at his career, he's already lost at home in
Speaker 1: the playoff to Mahome and Joe Burrow, and if he
Speaker 1: loses to Lamar Jackson, you start questioning things. They're like,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 3: This is you know, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You've lost your contemporaries and this is that this is
Speaker 1: this generation of great quarterbacks and so all four of them,
Speaker 1: they're judged against each other.
Speaker 3: Ah. I can't wait for this game. I feel like
Speaker 3: Derek Henry is going to be a big part of
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think the Bills their defense is average,
Speaker 1: but I still won't know about the Ravens defense. They
Speaker 1: played very well the last part of the year, and
Speaker 1: really it lasts like seven or so games, and I'm
Speaker 1: still a little skeptical. And the Bills and Ravens played
Speaker 1: early in the year and the Ravens just kicked the
Speaker 1: shit out of the Bills. But the Bills were without
Speaker 1: seven defensive starters, Amari Cooper, who's hit and miss as
Speaker 1: you know because he played for the Raiders. But Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper wasn't on the team at that time. And I
Speaker 1: don't know how much throwing is going to happen because
Speaker 1: of the snow. So well, I'll be locked in. We'll
Speaker 1: look forward to that game later today. We have we
Speaker 1: have actual mail. We have people that sent mail in
Speaker 1: they want us to answer their question.
Speaker 3: Oh it's about that time, mail, mother sucker, It's here
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 1: This is from Alf's neighbor Mike in Siberia aka Fullerton,
Speaker 1: And by the way, thanks to Ohio Al love the tune,
Speaker 1: appreciate that.
Speaker 3: The great Ohio Al.
Speaker 1: Says, Hi, Ben and Danny G not to get political,
Speaker 1: but you know what that means, Danny, that means everything
Speaker 1: about to get political, everything before the word but everything
Speaker 1: before the word but is a lie. And he says,
Speaker 1: are you aware that Donald Trump's inauguration is tomorrow? It's
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King the weekend, Donald Trump. Yeah, any G's
Speaker 1: buddy will be reinaugurated as the president. Do you think
Speaker 1: you'll watch more of that or the college football championship
Speaker 1: game on Monday night. I know you guys are more
Speaker 1: in the sports radio world than political, but I still
Speaker 1: think it's a good question. For all, I know Danny
Speaker 1: G might make a personal appearance at one of the
Speaker 1: presidential balls. He does have an inn with President Trump.
Speaker 1: And there's another question, So we'll do the other one
Speaker 1: in a second, but let's start with that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what time the inauguration is, believe it
Speaker 1: or not. I do like polics, whether it's Democrats or Republicans.
Speaker 1: I obviously lean more one way than the other. I
Speaker 1: think you kind of know that if you listen to
Speaker 1: the show or whatever, But I like watching that. Although
Speaker 1: this is an anniversary for me. It was January twentieth
Speaker 1: of nine when I got whacked. I was poll axed
Speaker 1: by the company the day that Barack Obama was sworn
Speaker 1: in as president. So this I have a little PTS
Speaker 1: post traumatic syndrome situation when they inauguration Day happens, because
Speaker 1: it brings back some tough memories. But I will check
Speaker 1: some of it out. I think it happens kind of
Speaker 1: later in the afternoon, maybe early afternoon our time, so
Speaker 1: I will I'll watch some of it, mainly to see
Speaker 1: how uncomfortable a lot of people probably will be, Danny,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people there that aren't big
Speaker 1: fans of mister Trump, and so they'll be upset, and
Speaker 1: so always get a kick out of that. People freak
Speaker 1: things that you don't need to freak out about that
Speaker 1: they freak out about. So it's pretty funny. So I
Speaker 1: don't know about you're gonna be watching any of that.
Speaker 1: You'll be working. I assume are you off, You're not awfun?
Speaker 3: No, we'll be working the Covino and Rich Show. I'll
Speaker 3: watch some of it same as you. I'll watch more
Speaker 3: of the football game obviously, but it doesn't matter Democrat
Speaker 3: or Republican is being sworn in. I'll always watch a
Speaker 3: little bit of it, And then you want to see
Speaker 3: some of the performances too, Like there was some controversy
Speaker 3: quote unquote controversy that Carrie Underwould is going to be performing.
Speaker 3: What I really want to see with her is how
Speaker 3: she can't make any emotional look on her face. She
Speaker 3: can't look happy, she can't look sad, She only looks
Speaker 3: surprised because of all the plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: She's spent a lot of her money she's put in
Speaker 1: where her mouth is and her nose.
Speaker 3: And her eyes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't it feel a little different though, you know,
Speaker 1: not that this is political, however, it does feel a
Speaker 1: little different like when the last time, it's like so
Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of like anger and upset,
Speaker 1: Like Trump won the popular vote this time, So it
Speaker 1: seems a little different. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just seems a little different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a little bit different because more
Speaker 3: people came out this time were open about who they
Speaker 3: voted for and weren't hesitanting about it at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the people the doom and gloomers on the
Speaker 1: world's going to end and all that stuff. If Trump
Speaker 1: becomes president, well, he was president for four years and
Speaker 1: things are actually better by the time time he left
Speaker 1: than when you know, he came in, and now things
Speaker 1: were worse when Biden left as opposed to Trump. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, good luck to Biden man. He's not
Speaker 1: in good health.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: Who knows how much time he's got left, So hopefully
Speaker 1: he enjoys his final final years as the former president.
Speaker 1: Let's see alf alf Mike and Fullerton also says, what
Speaker 1: is the longest shower you guys have ever taken? Do
Speaker 1: you think you could take a longer shower than the
Speaker 1: master of the two hour shower, Helmet Man if you tried. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard Danny, probably not. But
Speaker 1: Helmet Man called to show the other night and informed
Speaker 1: us that his showers are now down to half an
Speaker 1: hour before he would take two hour showers.
Speaker 3: I saw one of your listeners tweeting about this after
Speaker 3: it happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two hour showers half of the morning.
Speaker 3: That's insane, man, That's not a shower's that's sitting in
Speaker 3: a jacuzzi. I mean, yeah, you can't even you can't
Speaker 3: even sit in a jacuzzi for two hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your fingers turned to grapes and stuff after, you know,
Speaker 1: they get the all squiggly and the skin gets all
Speaker 1: So I think he must go in and out of
Speaker 1: the shower. Next time he calls, I forgot to ask
Speaker 1: him the other But next time he calls, I have
Speaker 1: to say, what's going on?
Speaker 3: How does he afford that water bill?
Speaker 1: Right, it's ridiculous, it's absolutely he's got to be at
Speaker 1: a hostel. Well, I know he's got an Obama phone.
Speaker 1: We're the number one show on Fox Sports Radio for
Speaker 1: people with Obama phones. So my show, the Overnight Show,
Speaker 1: Holy crap. So I'm not sure my showers about. I
Speaker 1: don't time it, but it's you know, it feels like
Speaker 1: seven to ten minutes at the most, and that's about it.
Speaker 1: Probably a little less than that in and out. That's
Speaker 1: what a shower is all about. Don't spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time in there and get done. And now my
Speaker 1: one thing that I go a little over the top
Speaker 1: on is I will I will before I take a bath.
Speaker 1: I shower before the bath, which is wrong, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to get in the bath all dirty, because
Speaker 1: then I'm just sitting in the dirt.
Speaker 3: Oh that's different. I've never heard of that move. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know what's really nice A long hotel shower. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And in the hotel, it's.
Speaker 3: Oh, hotel, you can double the time of your shower.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. No, I agree with you on that.
Speaker 1: I agree. And the water doesn't count in the hotel
Speaker 1: when you go the water, it's yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 1: Anonymous writes and says, I live next to a Senior
Speaker 1: citizen center and I am disabled, so I can go
Speaker 1: there to the food pantry. I realized that the grocery
Speaker 1: store down the street is giving the food to the pantry,
Speaker 1: so I went to the food pantry and then gave
Speaker 1: the items to my mom to return to the grocery store.
Speaker 1: I told my mom that, you know, at the grocery store,
Speaker 1: they got me the wrong items. Can you return these
Speaker 1: for me? It's been successful for about six months. Have
Speaker 1: you ever found a loophole in the system like this
Speaker 1: before you were Danny g that you were able to
Speaker 1: capitalize on like I am doing. And this is again
Speaker 1: from Anonymous, So this person Danny is claiming that they're rigging.
Speaker 1: They're taking money from the grocery store. The money, so
Speaker 1: how's the way. So the money, I assume that's a
Speaker 1: tax rite off for the grocery store. The food that
Speaker 1: they don't sell they give to the Senior Citizen Center
Speaker 1: and they get money back from the government. Right, I
Speaker 1: assume that's how that works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I would assume.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say be careful, anonymous. At some point
Speaker 1: someone's going to figure that out and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have some explaining to do. But I guess if you're disabled,
Speaker 1: you can play the disabled card. But your mom's not disabled,
Speaker 1: so that might be a problem. So good luck. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think any loophole, Danny. I. I really haven't
Speaker 1: done anything along those other than like media freeloading. Other
Speaker 1: than that, but.
Speaker 3: That's not and that's on the up and up. That's
Speaker 3: not freeloading.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that's what I say.
Speaker 3: You know, that's pretty I mean, they have official online
Speaker 3: forms for that, so there's nothing illegal about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they have. They invite you when you
Speaker 1: go to these bits, and they have certain foods that
Speaker 1: you can have and all that, and I mean that's
Speaker 1: all it's all good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, the only way we do all these
Speaker 3: iHeart training videos every year. The only way we could
Speaker 3: get into trouble is if we did like little Wink
Speaker 3: Wink commercials for companies on the air that weren't approved.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's called Paola. Yeah, you're get in trouble for that.
Speaker 3: By the way, this podcast is being brought to you
Speaker 3: by Puma. You know what you're laughing about. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It seems seems these brand new Puma X three's on
Speaker 3: right now. I gotta tell you, Ben, they're super comfortable.
Speaker 3: I wore them all all day yesterday while I was walking.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: What color are they?
Speaker 3: They're gray in the Puma logos black. We get them
Speaker 3: in all colors, though. Just go to Puma dot com
Speaker 3: check it out. That is not a real model of
Speaker 3: a shoe. That is a joke.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, Next up, let's see Alf from the TikTok.
Speaker 1: He says, Greetings, gentlemen, how will the TikTok band affect
Speaker 1: your daily lives? For millions of Americans who rely on
Speaker 1: the social media platform for their e commerce businesses, the
Speaker 1: ban will put many out of work personally for me,
Speaker 1: Alf says, as a conspiracy theorist, I rely on the
Speaker 1: app to keep me up to date on the latest events,
Speaker 1: from aliens in backyards to drones in the skies, Alf says,
Speaker 1: most recently videos from the streets of California detailing the
Speaker 1: devastation the fires continue to pour in. For example, I
Speaker 1: saw a video detailing the efforts of a gang of
Speaker 1: punks from Fullerton riding their electric scooters into la and
Speaker 1: attempting to burn Genie's bench. This app is essential provide
Speaker 1: the public with the unfiltered truth that the mainstream media
Speaker 1: is hiding. Yeah, I'm not very funny. Well, I was
Speaker 1: well written. That's why Alf sends us me mail every week.
Speaker 1: That was one of his better efforts. That was a
Speaker 1: solid job by Alf. Good job by you, Alf. Way
Speaker 1: to go, my man. Yeah, so I'm not as you know, Alf,
Speaker 1: you're my TikTok person. I'm not a TikTok guy. I
Speaker 1: made the determination I can only have so much social
Speaker 1: media in my life. I use it for work. I
Speaker 1: remember this week. Give me example, my guy Sports with
Speaker 1: Coleman was going to war with Bill's mafia. So he's
Speaker 1: sending me messages, right, He's you know, we're going back
Speaker 1: and for he's sending me messages and we're yapping whatever,
Speaker 1: and he's like, did you see this on X or
Speaker 1: Twitter or whatever. It's like, I'm not on I go
Speaker 1: on there at night and he's on there all day
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And I go on Facebook to promote stuff. I'll go
Speaker 1: on on Instagram because they got that, but that's about it.
Speaker 1: That's my limit. I'm not on TikTok. I heard it's
Speaker 1: really easy to have like tons of followers on this.
Speaker 1: I probably should be, but I don't mess around with
Speaker 1: it as far as I'm collecting stuff. And it's just
Speaker 1: because it's China, like they to me, I know, going in,
Speaker 1: if you're on Instagram and X and Facebook, they're collecting,
Speaker 1: you are the product, right that old line. If you're
Speaker 1: getting it for free, you are the product. So I
Speaker 1: totally understand that the government claiming it's worse with TikTok
Speaker 1: because China has everyone's information and all that, and they
Speaker 1: clearly have their reasons for it. Well see though, isn't
Speaker 1: the guy from TikTok's supposed to be at Trump's inauguration
Speaker 1: tomorrow Danny, I think so.
Speaker 3: So yeah, But I also heard that there are other
Speaker 3: heads of big corporations like that that are just autumnally
Speaker 3: invited to a big inauguration like that. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if that means anything special. But there's been rumors
Speaker 3: that there could be a wealthy billionaire out there who
Speaker 3: will buy TikTok and save it. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: This is good timing though, because for show prep, Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich will always send TikTok clips and I can't
Speaker 3: open them whenever they send it in the group chat
Speaker 3: because I don't have a TikTok account either. So it's
Speaker 3: frustrating because it'll be like a little sports reel or
Speaker 3: a certain sports story. Can't open it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll get sensed stuff and I'll click, maybe see
Speaker 1: it one time, and then that's.
Speaker 3: It doesn't even do that for me. It used to
Speaker 3: let me see it once, okay, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: the past few weeks, it won't even let me watch
Speaker 3: it one time. Well.
Speaker 1: Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact. You know who's in
Speaker 1: the lead. I read in one of the business papers
Speaker 1: this week to buy TikTok, mister wonderful, Yeah, mister wonderful.
Speaker 1: The guy that, Yeah, Frank McCourt, who I know. I
Speaker 1: knew him when he owned the Dodgers. I was in
Speaker 1: his office at Dodger Stadium, and just the guy that
Speaker 1: was born on third base and got the money and
Speaker 1: the family owned a bunch of parking lots in Boston
Speaker 1: and he's partner a billion. Every time you buy parking
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium, you're you're helping out Frank McCort.
Speaker 3: Boy, he pooped all over the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Well we're getting the benefit of that. Because he was
Speaker 1: so bad, they had to sell the team and that
Speaker 1: led to what we've got now, right.
Speaker 3: If Yeah, that's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to put up with the bad to
Speaker 1: get the good. Yeah. Absolutely. Anyway, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3: It's not true that he still owns a percentage of
Speaker 3: the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, no, he does, and he wants.
Speaker 1: I had some people from the Dodgers tell me last
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that McCourt wants to develop
Speaker 1: the parking lots at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: He wants to.
Speaker 1: Make a I guess in Atlanta at the Braves. I've
Speaker 1: not been to the bravest ballpark out in the suburbs.
Speaker 1: But they have like a hotel, they have an entertainment
Speaker 1: zone with restaurants. He wants to make Dodger Stadium like.
Speaker 3: That, like a city walk. He wants to do Dodger exactly.
Speaker 1: He wants to make it an entertainment thing with a
Speaker 1: hotel where he'd get revenue from that. And so that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they're they're talking about building that gondola.
Speaker 3: I think Ben means gondola.
Speaker 1: That'll come from from somewhere else in LA and take
Speaker 1: people like a people mover, So you'd have to park,
Speaker 1: and what a pain in the ass that would be, Danny,
Speaker 1: You imagine. You gotta imagine the line for the gondoldos
Speaker 1: after the game, fifty thousand people leaving at the same time.
Speaker 1: Because there's gonna being much parking. They build, they build
Speaker 1: parking structures or whatever, something like that, but a lot
Speaker 1: of the people would have to take the gondolas. They
Speaker 1: mainly want that so they can use that space year
Speaker 1: round and have people go up there at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: If you've never been to La, you know, we have
Speaker 1: a mix of people in LA. People not in La
Speaker 1: So you guy, it's on the top of a hill
Speaker 1: overlooking the skyline of Los Angeles, and you got it's
Speaker 1: up a hill.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure media people would get free limo rides
Speaker 3: to the front of the stadium.
Speaker 1: That would of course, that would happen, unless.
Speaker 3: It you don't even get to go.
Speaker 1: Now this is from the unknown. Listener says, can you
Speaker 1: talk about how the wealth that wealthy dude gave Stephen
Speaker 1: King money to save his rock and roll station in Maine.
Speaker 1: So I saw this. I don't know what you want
Speaker 1: me to add. Stephen King, member of the story into
Speaker 1: last year's rock and roll station was going to stop
Speaker 1: and they was going to go dark and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then I guess a couple of people ended up
Speaker 1: a couple of rich people ended up coming up with
Speaker 1: some money and they're keeping the the station on the air.
Speaker 1: They formed a radio group. I love the name of it,
Speaker 1: rock Lobster Radio Group.
Speaker 3: Is the name of it. Two.
Speaker 1: Some of the Stephen King's like seventy seven or something
Speaker 1: like it up there, and he thought it was time
Speaker 1: for him to get rid of the stations. But some
Speaker 1: of these stations, Danny and with the point now not
Speaker 1: that necessarily that's a great investment, but we could probably
Speaker 1: afford to buy some stations at this point, some of
Speaker 1: the stations with most of the stuff going to streaming
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So we'll see my dream, Danny and whoever
Speaker 1: this person that sent the question is, is radio actually
Speaker 1: invented or not invented? Invested in promoting radio? There could
Speaker 1: be an absolute renaissance in radio and radios. People listen
Speaker 1: to it and does very well, but the perception of
Speaker 1: radio could be so much better if they actually If
Speaker 1: the people that were in the business, the people at
Speaker 1: the very top of all the big companies, if they
Speaker 1: promoted the radio, there'd be an absolute renaissance in the
Speaker 1: perception of it.
Speaker 3: Don't let me get my hands on one of these
Speaker 3: FM radio stations. I'll do the first ever twenty four
Speaker 3: hour gangs to wrap radio station. You'd call k TUPAC
Speaker 3: is what no. I got the call letters. I would
Speaker 3: file for k f u Q hey f you Q.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: It's good to be a gangster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he f you r k F you rock Yeah.
Speaker 1: Kevin in rock Rockford, Illinois writes and he says, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to hear about the your friend Ben Brian Wheeler
Speaker 1: boom shackaca, Yeah, I talked about him. I was supposed to.
Speaker 1: I suppose I was invited to this memorial service last weekend.
Speaker 1: Could not make it. Boom shackaalaca.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wheels all time. One of my my, my.
Speaker 1: Greats, he says. Kevin from Rockford on the OI says,
Speaker 1: I looked him up after listening to the podcast, and
Speaker 1: according to Wikipedia, he found his birth mother here in Rockford, Illinois,
Speaker 1: where I live. I thought that was kind of neat.
Speaker 1: Did you know that the voice of the Little Mermaid
Speaker 1: was also from Rockford? I did not. That's That's a
Speaker 1: Rockford fun fact. I used to write into the podcast
Speaker 1: a few years ago. I was the guy who tried
Speaker 1: to get a mountain in Colorado named after you, Mount Mallor,
Speaker 1: but was unsuccessful.
Speaker 3: I remember that, you remember that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the effort, Kevin. The mountain was formerly
Speaker 1: known as Mount Evans, but for political reasons, the Wolkester's
Speaker 1: changed it to a generic name, Mount Blue Sky. Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, what do you think would be a good
Speaker 1: name for a fourteen thousand foot mountain in Colorado?
Speaker 3: Mount Stiffy?
Speaker 1: Mount Stiffy how about just Mount High, Mountain High. At
Speaker 1: Mountain High out here, I.
Speaker 3: Guess there is a Mountain High out here. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: where some people go skiing.
Speaker 1: I meant the other kind of high. Meant you meant
Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, Ritree, Mount Weed? How about that Mount Weed?
Speaker 1: Mount four to two. Oh, there you go, Mount cush
Speaker 1: Mount Cushy, Cushy. Yes, absolutely, thank you for listening, though.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you wrote in It's good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Kevin's people.
Speaker 3: It sounds like everybody finds their long life parents in
Speaker 3: his town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. Weeels was Wheels was adopted,
Speaker 1: and he told me the story about how he tracked
Speaker 1: there his mom and how emotional that was.
Speaker 3: And oh that is cool. I got to make it
Speaker 3: out there. Sometimes maybe I can meet my dad for
Speaker 3: the first times.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Here's another one from anonymous. He says, so,
Speaker 1: I live in South Boston, mass This is from anonymous,
Speaker 1: and they have the local bookie in the barroom here.
Speaker 1: It seems to be better to place a bet with
Speaker 1: the local bookie than it does to the state with
Speaker 1: draft Kings application or a fan duel or whatever, just
Speaker 1: because they take so many fees, the bookie pays out better.
Speaker 1: What are your what are your thoughts? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to make your own decision. I had back
Speaker 1: in the day the Statute of Limitations was run out,
Speaker 1: so I can talk about this, Danny.
Speaker 3: But I had.
Speaker 1: A bookie when I was younger. But you know the
Speaker 1: the Draft Kings that they're obviously a big advertiser.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and DraftKings doesn't break your legs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't have to worry like if you win.
Speaker 1: I was worried if I actually ever won big with
Speaker 1: the bookie, would he suddenly vanish or say I don't
Speaker 1: I can't come up with the money. You know, you
Speaker 1: always wonder about that. Yeah, you know DraftKings if they
Speaker 1: screw over then you know, I don't think they do,
Speaker 1: but if they did, you'd have legal recourse where the
Speaker 1: neighborhood bookie. It's pretty hard to go to the cops
Speaker 1: and say I got screwed over by my neighborhood bookie.
Speaker 3: Yeah. DraftKings is such a big company now, they couldn't
Speaker 3: get away with screwing a winner over. There's no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'd have to if you know, you have documentation
Speaker 1: that you want and then you could take care of that.
Speaker 1: Ryan from Shrewsbury rights in in the Commonwealth. Make sure
Speaker 1: to watch Benny Versus The Penny Ryan on NBC Sports Boston.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Ben and Danny. Last week, Ben, you
Speaker 1: talked about your friend who passed away and how great
Speaker 1: he was. And not a jab New York Jab is Danny.
Speaker 1: That's just a broadcaster, a jab you know. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you thought him in something else. Anyway, he says, that
Speaker 1: made me start to think, who is another great play
Speaker 1: by play guy? And I cannot think of any other
Speaker 1: than the goat Mike Doc Emerck, the guy. That guy
Speaker 1: can make a boring hockey game super fun. His voice
Speaker 1: and catchphrases are top notch, especially off the post. What
Speaker 1: are your guys thoughts on Doc Emrick? Yeah, Doc was great,
Speaker 1: he's he's retired now. He's a former play by play guy.
Speaker 1: And I remember going to Kings games back when I
Speaker 1: used to go out there a lot and Doc Emrick
Speaker 1: was in town to call a game. It was like
Speaker 1: a big deal, right like Doc Emrick. You know, this
Speaker 1: guy started in the nineteen seventies to him play by play,
Speaker 1: and he just he was the dean of the NHL
Speaker 1: and did the network stuff when I was at NBC
Speaker 1: Sports Network before that went belly up. Remember Eddie Oldchuk
Speaker 1: was there and he did some games with Doc Emrick.
Speaker 1: I think they were together quite a bit, so he
Speaker 1: was he was a legend. That's a tough sport to
Speaker 1: do play by play on.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, man, you are super talented if
Speaker 3: you could do that, and you're super patient if you
Speaker 3: can listen to it on the radio. I heard a
Speaker 3: King's game it was painful to try to listen to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't who's the is it Nick Nixon?
Speaker 3: Is he doing TV or is he I don't know
Speaker 3: the name of their crew. Like I said, they're very
Speaker 3: gifted because they can do that play by play. But
Speaker 3: I and also here in California, let's be honest, we
Speaker 3: didn't grow besides Wayne Gretzky, we don't know much about hockey.
Speaker 3: It's not a top three sport for us. But still, man,
Speaker 3: if you could listen to hockey regularly on the radio,
Speaker 3: then you are passionate about that sport.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing that makes it so difficult is a
Speaker 1: the speed of the game and be the line changes
Speaker 1: that they three different lines or whatever. And you've got situation,
Speaker 1: and then you have power play shorthanded groups and they
Speaker 1: have different groups for that. And I remember reading the
Speaker 1: story years ago. It's probably been over ten years, and
Speaker 1: they documented somebody sat down and listened to Doc Emrick
Speaker 1: call the game, and the he used over ninety different
Speaker 1: descriptors during one hockey game, like you know, blocked, bounced,
Speaker 1: came back, krene, chip, chopped, controlled, covered, deflecting all these
Speaker 1: different words, which is maestro of the language. Much respect.
Speaker 3: That's that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Listen, It's one of my pet peeves. Danny. I've told
Speaker 1: you about this off the area. Here's sometimes even like
Speaker 1: in our business, people doing sports updates or whatever, they
Speaker 1: used the same phrases. They don't change it. It's so
Speaker 1: easy to do. It makes it sound so much better.
Speaker 1: I say, you know, we redirected, ricocheted, rushed, whatever. You
Speaker 1: changed the words. It sounds much better to the ear.
Speaker 1: It's just a much better experience. But thank you, Ryan
Speaker 1: from Shrewsbury. The mail bag continues. This one's from Kyle
Speaker 1: in Denver. Says, Hey, it's Kyle from Denver. Long time listener,
Speaker 1: but I've fallen off over the last year with life
Speaker 1: and haven't been catching up on the podcast Bad Job
Speaker 1: at You Cop. I saw southern California was on fire
Speaker 1: and a lot of the cities that you talk about
Speaker 1: we're on fire. I just wanted to see how you
Speaker 1: guys are doing. Hepe Paul as, well, there you go,
Speaker 1: and yeah, well we're still doing the show. Do you
Speaker 1: were evacuated, right, Danny? Weren't you kicked out for a
Speaker 1: night or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about it last Sunday on the mail bag.
Speaker 3: We had to grab bags and close it and run
Speaker 3: ten minutes. We had to get out of here. So
Speaker 3: it was a scary situation, but obviously nothing compared to
Speaker 3: the people who lost houses and all of their material
Speaker 3: items that they had in the world.
Speaker 1: I've learned a few things over the last couple of
Speaker 1: days about wildfires and why houses burnt up and how
Speaker 1: you could protect your house a little more. And the
Speaker 1: two things I've learned are a they say, like over
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the time during wildfires houses catch
Speaker 1: on fire. Is the vent to the attic in a
Speaker 1: house is open and the embers come flying in and
Speaker 1: catch the attic on fire, and that lights the house
Speaker 1: on fire. So that's crazy over eighty percent. So if
Speaker 1: there's a way you can cover your vents, yeas the thing.
Speaker 1: The other thing is if the houses on fire around you,
Speaker 1: the gas gets caught on fire, and that blows the
Speaker 1: house up, like if the gas. A lot of people
Speaker 1: evacuated didn't turn the gas off a hurry to get
Speaker 1: out of there.
Speaker 3: Also, Ben, you're supposed to unplug everything before where you leave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there was a story this week that there
Speaker 1: was a firefighter who was out, you know, one of
Speaker 1: his friends asked to have somebody check on his house.
Speaker 1: This is early on in the firestorm, and so this
Speaker 1: this guy goes to the house and he notices there
Speaker 1: were a couple of houses that weren't on fire yet.
Speaker 1: And this is in the Eaton Canyon fire. And he
Speaker 1: went and he ended up breaking entry into the house
Speaker 1: that wasn't on fire yet. He needed to cool down
Speaker 1: the gas thing, and so he went to the refrigerator
Speaker 1: and all you could find was milk and beer. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the story or not, but
Speaker 1: it was in guy's like alta dina or whatever. And
Speaker 1: so he went in there and how he used the
Speaker 1: milk and beer, He used his training, and he was
Speaker 1: able to keep the house from from exploding. The surrounding
Speaker 1: homes were fully engulfed in flames, and he did not.
Speaker 1: There was no fire trucks around. He just was on
Speaker 1: his own. He wasn't working. They say, the gas meter,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You got to keep that cool because
Speaker 1: if the gas meter ends up getting too hot, the
Speaker 1: whole thing explodes.
Speaker 3: That is crazy. And then also I read that there
Speaker 3: were a couple of homes where the homeowners put their
Speaker 3: sprinklers on before they left. Yeah, and if you have
Speaker 3: a good enough sprinkler system that makes a difference. As
Speaker 3: you can imagine. It doesn't guarantee anything, obviously, but imagine
Speaker 3: you know, a really good sprinkler system outside of a
Speaker 3: house blasting, and at least she'd have some little force
Speaker 3: field around your house. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You wonder all these people in the Palasades and when
Speaker 1: they have the money, there's there's money all over. But
Speaker 1: if they can afford to rebuild their homes, are they
Speaker 1: going to rebuild their homes the same as they were before?
Speaker 3: No ire proof? Now not at all. Did you see
Speaker 3: the one guy in Pacific Palisades where his mansion stood
Speaker 3: alone and he had a modern roof. He had a
Speaker 3: modern roof, and he had he had a specially made
Speaker 3: brick wall surrounding his mansion. His house was built and
Speaker 3: it said a lot of it was for earthquake, for
Speaker 3: earthquake disaster, but it held up to the fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they say that if you want, you can do it.
Speaker 1: But from what I've been paying attention, I was because
Speaker 1: we know we're involved in it. It's all around us,
Speaker 1: you know. The I've know a couple of people have
Speaker 1: lost their homes. One of my I don't know if
Speaker 1: you were at Fox Sports Radio when he worked here,
Speaker 1: but Patrick O'Neil his home.
Speaker 3: In oh I know Patrick, I worked with him at
Speaker 3: NBC Sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Patrick's home burned up, and I feel fine.
Speaker 3: It was really sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my my sister in law's parents business burned up.
Speaker 1: Then they had a home kind of in the business
Speaker 1: thing and that burned up in this big nursery. So it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it sucks, but you learn about I mean, and the
Speaker 1: things they say. The fire department claims, you've got to
Speaker 1: do forest management. The electric companies should they need to
Speaker 1: put the power lines underground. The thing that blows me
Speaker 1: away about that is that these electric companies get absolutely punched.
Speaker 1: Like it looks like I don't know for sure, but
Speaker 1: it looks like the the Eaton Canyon fire started from
Speaker 1: an electrical wire that caught on fire. They have video
Speaker 1: of it. But it costs a ton of money to
Speaker 1: put those power lines in the ground. But doesn't it
Speaker 1: cost more money, Danny, when they're gonna get sued by
Speaker 1: everyone whose house burned down from the fire? Like is
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be easier just to put the lines underground
Speaker 1: and at least you're not at fault if there's another wildfire.
Speaker 3: You said it, man, I saw an aerial shot of Altadena,
Speaker 3: just just mind blowing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I at one point made an offer on a
Speaker 1: home years ago in Alta Dina. I loved it. I
Speaker 1: used to go to the gym, the twenty four hour
Speaker 1: Fitness and Alta Dina.
Speaker 3: I remember you telling me about that. I know you
Speaker 3: have some history in that part of La Yeah. I
Speaker 3: loved dan you. Yeah, boy, that was a smart move
Speaker 3: by you to go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: Well, I couldn't afford that.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me rephrase that. You being broadcasting.
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank the bosses for not paying me
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of money. Let's do one
Speaker 1: more and then we'll get out on this. Zach from
Speaker 1: Columbus on the mailback says, you still got to tell
Speaker 1: the fridge shitter story. I can break it up into
Speaker 1: two parts. I know it's long, sure, And Zach says
Speaker 1: he has a new bar store. He's the bartender. He
Speaker 1: wants to host a mallor meet and greet there in Columbus.
Speaker 1: He says, one night there was some asshole, unfortunately also
Speaker 1: named Zach, this little guy, bald guy. He came in
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend, Brittany, a huge girl, nice girl. There
Speaker 1: was an altercation. He followed her in the ladies room
Speaker 1: at the bar. My retired old boss, who was also
Speaker 1: an older man, the man who shoes I'm now filling,
Speaker 1: followed little Zach into the lady's room to remove him.
Speaker 1: I was counting drawers and I heard a very loud
Speaker 1: shattering of glass from said ladies room. Zack and Columbus says,
Speaker 1: I charge you. And I see my old boss wrestling
Speaker 1: with the little Zach after they'd already broken the full
Speaker 1: size mirror, while big girl Britney is still locked in
Speaker 1: the stall, bawling her eyes out this is very very
Speaker 1: cold night, late December twenty seventeen. By the way, so
Speaker 1: a few years back, Zach the bartender says, I restrained
Speaker 1: him easily, and I walked him to the exit in
Speaker 1: a comfortable headlock, gently shoved him out onto the street.
Speaker 1: As he was shoved out gently, he lost his footing,
Speaker 1: swung around, caught me in the chin with a punch
Speaker 1: much more gentle than his removal. But the funny part
Speaker 1: was in the three sixty degrees stumble. After his little
Speaker 1: tap on my face, his chants fell down, and his
Speaker 1: underwear also fell down, and his tiny uh the penis
Speaker 1: pop right out and he hit the ground hard. I
Speaker 1: did not hide my observation of the hilarity, so I
Speaker 1: guess he was laughing there.
Speaker 3: So there's our friend.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a fun memories acting you good to
Speaker 1: share with the class. So all right, we'll get out.
Speaker 1: It's sunny. I'll be back tonight to break down all
Speaker 1: these playoff games. You can ram it all day, you
Speaker 1: can ram it all night. Can you ram it in
Speaker 1: the snow? We're gonna find out this afternoon whether you
Speaker 1: can ram it in the snow and the Rams can
Speaker 1: punch their ticket to the NFC Championship Game. The final
Speaker 1: four of the NFL will be determined of the evening today.
Speaker 3: It's exciting, yeah, and then tomorrow I have a dream,
Speaker 3: new president, new college football champion, all in the same day.
Speaker 3: Who do you got in the College Football Championship Game?
Speaker 1: The buck guys of Ohio State, they want they will
Speaker 1: dot the Are you taking the Irish? You're going with
Speaker 1: the Catholics?
Speaker 3: No? I mean, I'm I know more Notre Dame fans
Speaker 3: than I do Ohio State fans, but I think the
Speaker 3: Buckeyes are just too powerful of a team.
Speaker 1: We are supposed to have a verbal octagon tonight on
Speaker 1: the show, assuming that both Batans in our two were
Speaker 1: supposed to have a verbal octagon to decide the Notre
Speaker 1: Dame Ohio State game. So we'll see see how that goes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Thank you think
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Speaker 3: Enjoy all the football. Asta pasta, gotta murder, I gotta
Speaker 3: go