Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
Speaker 1: welcome in a brand spanking new edition of The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. And I
Speaker 1: realized this is an NFL Sunday Well, listen, the show
Speaker 1: must go on, and there is a period of time
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this thing up. Hopefully it's up early
Speaker 1: here you'll be able to listen before the games, but
Speaker 1: if not, you can listen after the games. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned on yesterday's podcast that some schedules change during
Speaker 1: NFL season, and that applies to the Fifth Hour two.
Speaker 1: Because I will make my very best effort to get
Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast up as early as humanly possible. Alright,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be up early, and especially for our
Speaker 1: East Coast brothers and sisters, will get it up for you.
Speaker 1: I know you've complained and all that, so we've heard
Speaker 1: your compounds person all. By the way, yes, well we
Speaker 1: have a pill for that, so we'll help you get
Speaker 1: it up early there, and we want to keep doing it,
Speaker 1: so please help us out. Tell a friend continue to
Speaker 1: listen to the Sunday podcast. I'll be watching football too.
Speaker 1: I understand we'll all be watching football, but we can
Speaker 1: also multitask and do more than one thing. And so
Speaker 1: with that being said, Danny g let's strike up the band,
Speaker 1: our buddy Ohio al and let's get to the mail back.
Speaker 1: It's all right, very nice from our guy Ohio. Aut
Speaker 1: GE's played every week at this time. These are actual
Speaker 1: questions from actual listeners to the show from all over
Speaker 1: the United States, all over the world. Anyone that hears
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast obviously can contact us. You can
Speaker 1: send an email anytime right now. You can send it
Speaker 1: five minutes from now. You can send it tonight, tomorrow
Speaker 1: the next day. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Just make sure you put mail bag in the headline
Speaker 1: so I know it's for the mail bag. Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. Spell out fIF F I
Speaker 1: F T H Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: and we may use your question on the show and
Speaker 1: also on the Facebook page Ben Mallard Show. Every Tuesday,
Speaker 1: sometimes on Monday, depending on schedule, we will post on
Speaker 1: their asking for questions and we may use your question
Speaker 1: on the air. First up as we begin come back,
Speaker 1: pay attention. It's sign from me. I'll call okay, Alan
Speaker 1: and Akron right since says, do you have an adequate
Speaker 1: backup power supply at the Mallard mansion if you would
Speaker 1: experience a rolling blackout or do you need to go
Speaker 1: in studio whenever there is an energy emergency declared? Alan
Speaker 1: looking at the headlines this week with the rolling blackouts
Speaker 1: in California, So Alan, I do not have a backup
Speaker 1: power supply. We do have solar at the Mallard Mansion.
Speaker 1: I don't think that really matters when the power goes out.
Speaker 1: I think since it's still tied into the power grid,
Speaker 1: it's not like you because you have solar, you get
Speaker 1: a break. And because we've had power outages with the
Speaker 1: powers out in the whole neighborhood. So the one guardian
Speaker 1: angel that we have doing the overnight show is typically
Speaker 1: they won't have to shut the power off overnight, they
Speaker 1: would shut the power off. Between four o'clock and nine
Speaker 1: o'clock is prime usage because fortunately, uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a double edged sword, Danny doing the overnight show there,
Speaker 1: they don't shut the power off because most people aren't
Speaker 1: using power, they're sleeping, So it's we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about it. Yeah, when we've all been dealing with
Speaker 1: three eighty dollar electric bills, and the reason why is
Speaker 1: because you get home after work and you want to
Speaker 1: enjoy your electronics and your air conditioning during those four
Speaker 1: to six pm peak hours where California charges us ten
Speaker 1: times the rate in those two hours. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: wild to me that the planners, the engineers, the politicians,
Speaker 1: the people that are given the title to build the infrastructure,
Speaker 1: which is ultimately the most important thing. Where people get
Speaker 1: so concerned about so much bullshit that doesn't affect them,
Speaker 1: but the base needs of keeping people cool in the summer,
Speaker 1: warm in the winter, just the very basics, right, Shelter,
Speaker 1: human shelter, which is one of the prime things we
Speaker 1: all need. You need food, you need shelter, all right,
Speaker 1: you need to feel safe. Those these are the primal
Speaker 1: things that we all need, and yet these assholes who
Speaker 1: are in charge of all that stuff have excuse my
Speaker 1: French fucked it up so much that they tell people
Speaker 1: when it's blazing hot, don't use the air conditioner. What
Speaker 1: the fuck is that? Seriously, and I'm laughing at myself
Speaker 1: thinking about the video. Gavin Newsom put out, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was wearing a big sweater. Well that's actually that's
Speaker 1: actually let's get to that because I'll let you ran
Speaker 1: on that. But that's the next email. I got mail, yea,
Speaker 1: I got mail, yea. Clifford National says, Then I was
Speaker 1: watching your governor instructing California's turn their thervist that up
Speaker 1: to seventy eight the greeze, he was wearing a fleece
Speaker 1: jacket in his office. There was a heat wave. Is
Speaker 1: it that cold and Sacramento. That's Danny your thoughts. I
Speaker 1: think his air conditioning was blasting so much ben that
Speaker 1: he needed a blanket at his desk. See, I have
Speaker 1: an alternative theory on that, Danny. My theory is that
Speaker 1: the governor was he was so so desperate for money
Speaker 1: he figured somebody is marketing the apartments, like alright, Governor,
Speaker 1: where the Golden Bear logo on your hat and your jacket,
Speaker 1: and we'll sell some and then we'll be able to
Speaker 1: buy some more wind turbines to get some power in California.
Speaker 1: It's a marketing move. Was he at the French laundry
Speaker 1: when he when he had that little video? I don't
Speaker 1: such a dope. He's blow up all of the politics
Speaker 1: in California. Start over again. Listen. I live in California,
Speaker 1: and I have obviously my family and friends here, A
Speaker 1: lot of them have moved to other states in the
Speaker 1: Midwest and the East Coast and whatnot. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is when you deserve the people in California keep
Speaker 1: voting for these idiots. What do you mean you deserve this.
Speaker 1: I don't deserve I don't vote for this, Danny. I
Speaker 1: don't think you. I don't know you're apology. I don't
Speaker 1: think you vote for it. But they continue to vote
Speaker 1: for this nonsense. So what do you think. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's like fires. You know that if you have proper
Speaker 1: forest management in California, you will not They talk about
Speaker 1: global warming and all that, but proper forest management, which
Speaker 1: means occasionally burning back the overgrowth in the forest, will
Speaker 1: limit limit the fires. But do they do that, No,
Speaker 1: because there's people hugging trees that say you can't do it.
Speaker 1: So instead, people's homes burned down every year because they
Speaker 1: they're afraid of offending the tree huggers. Come on, there's
Speaker 1: gotta be balanced. I love treats, So my favorite place
Speaker 1: to go is the Sequoia Sequoia forest. Those giant sequoia
Speaker 1: trees there. I love it. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: they've almost burned down every year, like the last five years.
Speaker 1: It's it's three thousand year old trees because they won't
Speaker 1: take care of the forest. And well, your first mistake
Speaker 1: is you're bringing logic into this conversation exactly. That's a
Speaker 1: bad job. Bad job by me thinking that people would
Speaker 1: use common sense because common sense is not common We've
Speaker 1: known that for some time. Alright. But you like my
Speaker 1: theory though, Danny, that he was trying to sell some hats.
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to sell hats and jacketson
Speaker 1: the government. He was just trying to show off his
Speaker 1: air conditioning unit. Oh that could be too yeah, listen, Well,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like during the COVID stuff. You know
Speaker 1: that I can go out to the French laundry and
Speaker 1: have a nice meal with my friends and co workers.
Speaker 1: But you you better not. Are all gonna die. We're
Speaker 1: all going to die, alright. Next up Chris and marre cocaa.
Speaker 1: Iowa right, so he says, Dear Benny Brightside, I recently
Speaker 1: hired a self employed person to grind some stumps in
Speaker 1: my backyard. That sounds dirty. We had a handshake deal
Speaker 1: to get the job done. He picked a weekend, he
Speaker 1: said he would do it, and then I never heard
Speaker 1: from him again, despite repeated contact efforts from me. My
Speaker 1: question is, how do you feel with such unprofessional behavior.
Speaker 1: He's a younger guy, and I'm tempted to advise him
Speaker 1: that ignoring customers is very bad for business and it's
Speaker 1: very rude to waste people's time, but it would likely
Speaker 1: fall on deaf ears. But Chris says, I'm also tired
Speaker 1: of saying nothing like I usually do any advice. Well, Chris,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going through something similar the house I'm in.
Speaker 1: The the gardener, which you know has kind of been
Speaker 1: in the family. It's one of these things where this
Speaker 1: guy started as a gardener when he was like sixteen,
Speaker 1: and he's been associated with the family or like thirty
Speaker 1: five years. Like the guy has been doing it forever.
Speaker 1: He's and he does a really good job, but when
Speaker 1: he decides to do it, it's one of those things,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like sometimes he won't show up, he'll
Speaker 1: skip a week, or he won't do you know, certain
Speaker 1: things he's supposed to do and all that, and but
Speaker 1: we feel like we can't get rid of the guy
Speaker 1: because he's been connected to the family for so long.
Speaker 1: But you've got a different situation there, Chris, and that
Speaker 1: that is annoying, and it's one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's the rep you know. I know this is
Speaker 1: not a contractor, but we've all heard the term contractor time.
Speaker 1: And I know that because the Mallard Mansion got renovated
Speaker 1: and so we were dealing with a lot of contractors
Speaker 1: and sometimes they show up and sometimes they wouldn't show up. Um.
Speaker 1: But but I would agree with you that yelling at
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, you should say, hey, I really
Speaker 1: am you know, disappointed. But but now everyone's got the
Speaker 1: Trump excuse. I had the COVID, I got, I got
Speaker 1: the code. You had no symptoms. Well, yeah, that's the COVID,
Speaker 1: though I was asymptomatic, but COVID hours. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: the COVID the ultimate get out of jail free card.
Speaker 1: How how do you think this guy should handle it, Danny?
Speaker 1: Any advice to Chris? Kill him with kindness, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you gotta be firm with your stance.
Speaker 1: I would start the email nice, and then I would
Speaker 1: get to the point and be firm about you gotta
Speaker 1: be professional, dude, and please follow through with our promise,
Speaker 1: and then I would stay on top of it after that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, sometimes you don't want to be confrontational, do
Speaker 1: you know, Ben? In life, you gotta have your voice heard. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and as it goes back to what I have have
Speaker 1: talked about the code of the West and the lack
Speaker 1: of the quote. If you just follow the code of
Speaker 1: the West, that you take pride in your work to
Speaker 1: finish what you start, like those basic things what has
Speaker 1: to be done, then the world would be a lot better.
Speaker 1: I think, just simply, there's so many people that cut
Speaker 1: corners all the time. I don't want to put the
Speaker 1: effort in. And you know, who knows, maybe this guy
Speaker 1: had something happening family emergency, But even then you gotta
Speaker 1: still contact people say I wish I could make it.
Speaker 1: I didn't make it. I apologize. I'll be here at
Speaker 1: a different a different time. The very least. You have
Speaker 1: to communicate well with your clients. Yeah, and you don't.
Speaker 1: If you're an introvert like me, you don't have to
Speaker 1: talk to him. You can send a text. There's different
Speaker 1: ways to do it. Now you're not stuck. Next up,
Speaker 1: you've got mail. That would be Blake, our buddy Blake
Speaker 1: in Arkansas. This guy's got that crazy Amazon job where
Speaker 1: he buys old Amazon well not old but Amazon returned
Speaker 1: products and then sells them at a discount store in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Has done very well for himself, he says Ben. I
Speaker 1: agree that three, maybe four college football teams have a
Speaker 1: shot to win a national championship every year. However, Ever,
Speaker 1: when we moved into the new four team playoff, it
Speaker 1: is absolutely just killed the value of the bowl games.
Speaker 1: Who will be that is a letter or a word
Speaker 1: missing here or who it's gonna be every year October one?
Speaker 1: The same five or six schools. Se I guess he's
Speaker 1: complaining the same five or six schools all year. No
Speaker 1: one else matters. I truly believe changing the twelve. We're
Speaker 1: really amp up the sport like never before. You and
Speaker 1: I will always agree that you know, a twelve and
Speaker 1: a liberty team will have zero shot at beating Bama.
Speaker 1: But if those fan bases don't have any hope to
Speaker 1: ever make it, ever, what's the point? Alright? So Blake,
Speaker 1: my apologies, but I think there were some words or
Speaker 1: some letters missing. Uh, but I think we've got to
Speaker 1: just you support the twelve team playoff. I think I'm
Speaker 1: okay with the twelve team playoff, but I do think
Speaker 1: that there are only a handful of teams, as I said,
Speaker 1: three for teams any year that can win the national
Speaker 1: championship legitimately h the great equalizers injuries. The other thing
Speaker 1: that this will be good, Danny, is that in college football,
Speaker 1: this has been something that's happened last maybe ten years,
Speaker 1: where the great star players, if they don't have a
Speaker 1: chance at the national championship, they will rest for the
Speaker 1: NFL draft. So that should eliminate it for at least
Speaker 1: twelve schools where they started. Because we watch these bowl games,
Speaker 1: not that we watched that many of them, but the
Speaker 1: star players often don't even play anymore unless they have
Speaker 1: a shot at the national championship. You're exactly right. We'll
Speaker 1: get to see everybody play. You know, the top players
Speaker 1: for sure will be involved in that. And because of
Speaker 1: injuries also, you could, if you, if you, if this
Speaker 1: goes long enough, eventually Alabama will lose to somebody like
Speaker 1: Liberty and it will be the greatest upset in the
Speaker 1: history of college football. To make movies about it and
Speaker 1: write books about it, because Alabama will have two offensive
Speaker 1: linement out with injury, and they won't take Liberty a
Speaker 1: team like Liberty seriously. And next thing, you know, it's
Speaker 1: anyone's game in the fourth quarter and the ball bounces
Speaker 1: your way, you end up losing. The other teams were
Speaker 1: so al right. Next up on the mail bag, any
Speaker 1: meany mighty mo? Pick a message. Let's see here, let's
Speaker 1: go all right, come back touch It's son call Kevin
Speaker 1: in Kansas writes, and he says, Dear Bannon, Danny G.
Speaker 1: You both work in the high pressure field of live
Speaker 1: talk radio. Danny G also works in education. Mrs Mallard
Speaker 1: works as a nine on one operator. Based on your
Speaker 1: years of experience with those pressures, what advice do you
Speaker 1: have to make make it through the day? Yeah, Kevin,
Speaker 1: So I I will just follow the advice I learned
Speaker 1: from my parents, and I really learned also from following
Speaker 1: Lee Hamiltons around Hack Saw Hamilton's who was my mentor,
Speaker 1: one of my mentors in radio. I was an intern
Speaker 1: for him back many years ago in San Diego, and
Speaker 1: Lee was always there. He was the first one in,
Speaker 1: the last one out. He spent all day preparing for
Speaker 1: his afternoon drive show. And it's been said by people
Speaker 1: smarter than me that success is really of preparation. And
Speaker 1: you know, you know success it out of a preparation
Speaker 1: is perspiration. If you will that it's it's much better.
Speaker 1: I've felt for me how I'm wired. I would much
Speaker 1: rather over prepare and hope that it's all for nothing,
Speaker 1: that I don't need it. And oftentimes it is then
Speaker 1: trying to fly and and pretend that I I don't
Speaker 1: have I haven't done the work. Uh, you understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, I don't want to be the guy
Speaker 1: that shows up and they're playing. I've worked with guys,
Speaker 1: I've seen guys I've worked with, They've been some of
Speaker 1: them empic stars. Uh, And I guess they just a
Speaker 1: better at showing up and faking it. And there was
Speaker 1: one guy that used to work at our place that
Speaker 1: did no prep would show up and whatever was on
Speaker 1: back when ESPN dot com was the big website would
Speaker 1: just read those stories and that would be how he
Speaker 1: did his his show. And um, eventually it caught up
Speaker 1: with him and he lost He lost his gig, but
Speaker 1: he was able to pull it off for a while.
Speaker 1: He made a lot of money, made more money than me.
Speaker 1: But I think preparation is the key. Because Dan, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you feel the same way, but for me,
Speaker 1: to me, the easiest part of my day is actually
Speaker 1: doing the show because I know I'm fully prepared. Now,
Speaker 1: sometimes ship hits the fan and I'll be fully prepared,
Speaker 1: and then ten minutes before the show, some trade will happen,
Speaker 1: or you know, unfortunately doing the overnight show, somebody will
Speaker 1: have an accident and then everything gets out the window
Speaker 1: and you've got to do improv. And that's fine because
Speaker 1: the moment calls for that. But what do you have
Speaker 1: a piece of advice here for Kevin in Kansas. Well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned it just a few minutes ago on the
Speaker 1: podcast to have pride in your work. So no matter
Speaker 1: what industry, you're in. Man, what a great trait that
Speaker 1: is to go above and beyond to make sure whatever
Speaker 1: you're responsible for is not only completed, but completed to
Speaker 1: where your bosses would be proud. Some of that's lost
Speaker 1: in the past few years in several industries, but in radio,
Speaker 1: Ben you're completely right. Set Up is key because when
Speaker 1: I have the next segment prepared and in front of
Speaker 1: me and ready to go, we don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen once we turn those bikes on and we're live
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, but at least we have
Speaker 1: our notes in front of us and we know where
Speaker 1: we're headed and where we're going. And when you don't
Speaker 1: have that outline and you're not prepared, then you have
Speaker 1: no direction. So whatever industry you're in, preparations set up
Speaker 1: is key, and then you get confidence based on the
Speaker 1: fact you are ready for no matter what curveball comes
Speaker 1: your way. Yeah. And it's one of those things too
Speaker 1: where He's like, there's people that come up to me
Speaker 1: in an appearance or something. They'll be like, well, I
Speaker 1: know more sports, not about that. I'll say, you know
Speaker 1: what you probably do. You know, I probably wouldn't beat you,
Speaker 1: you know, head to head trivia contest. But the art
Speaker 1: radio can and the other thing we've seen it, Danny,
Speaker 1: when you bring people in who aren't trained in broadcasting
Speaker 1: and they could do two or three minutes, but can
Speaker 1: you do four hours? And can you do four hours
Speaker 1: where somebody actually wants to listen for more than a minute.
Speaker 1: That's the hard part. Like it's harder to people to listen,
Speaker 1: But once you get people that actually like the crap
Speaker 1: that you do to get them to listen even longer,
Speaker 1: that's the hard part. That's like the really hard people engaged.
Speaker 1: There was a study, the results were just released. The
Speaker 1: average American pays attention for twenty eight seconds. So whatever
Speaker 1: they're listening, who are watching you have their attention span
Speaker 1: for twenty eight seconds. Just think about that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's like you can keep a goldfish and gay
Speaker 1: engaged longer people and uh, but it does just whenever
Speaker 1: you happen, we're all helping each other, right, the communal
Speaker 1: way of life, whether you work in radio or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, my wife has a much more stressful job,
Speaker 1: but then you know, some times nothing happens and you know,
Speaker 1: the phones don't ring, and she's able to just to
Speaker 1: you know, sit around and wait for the phone to ring.
Speaker 1: She's prepared though. She knows what to do if somebody
Speaker 1: calls up having a heart attack, or someone's calling up
Speaker 1: and they've been shot, or the neighbor has been shot.
Speaker 1: She knows how to handle those. But she never knows
Speaker 1: who's gonna call, like, has no idea until she gets
Speaker 1: there and the people actually call in. So thank you
Speaker 1: for that. Good question by Kevin Always good. Kevin's always good.
Speaker 1: He's been with us a long time on the podcast
Speaker 1: and the show, and he does what you do. Dan.
Speaker 1: He's a teacher just like you, So he's he's out
Speaker 1: there doing his thing. Next up on the mail Bag,
Speaker 1: Mike in Fullerton rights in. On this edition of the
Speaker 1: mail Bag, he says, we all know Ben wants eight
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain oysters to pay off a bed. So with
Speaker 1: that in mind, what are the most disgusting things each
Speaker 1: of you have eaten? Uh? Well, Mike commit the Rocky
Speaker 1: Mountain oysters? Is that's right up there, Because I don't
Speaker 1: eat disgusting food because why would I. The only way
Speaker 1: I would is if I lost a bed or something
Speaker 1: like that. I eat things I like, I don't even
Speaker 1: need a lot anymore, as you know, Mike and your
Speaker 1: friend fer Dog, because I you know, I'm on this
Speaker 1: in a minute, fasting nonsense, that's my michigass, and so
Speaker 1: that's that's what I do. Danny, have you eaten any
Speaker 1: disgusting foods? Which is usually just the texture of the food, right,
Speaker 1: which is texture? And if there's I balls? Uh, what
Speaker 1: comes to mind? A friend of mine when I lived
Speaker 1: up in Pismo Beach and was doing radio up on
Speaker 1: the coast Filipino family, I go. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. We're drinking a little bit at the get together,
Speaker 1: and they had this layout the spread of food, which
Speaker 1: smelled amazing. So I make this big plate. I don't
Speaker 1: know what most of the dishes are, so I put
Speaker 1: a little bit of each dish on my plate and
Speaker 1: I'm eating away. Some of the textures were interesting. And
Speaker 1: after I got done sampling this plate, my buddy told
Speaker 1: me what the dishes were made out of. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: let's just say reveal answers, revealing. I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 1: I should have just tasted. Oh yeah, Well, well when
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one that I ate one bite of
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, Uh, and it's a it's
Speaker 1: a customary Jewish food. Give filter fish disgusting. I hate
Speaker 1: fish anyway, fermented fish, I say, I definitely do not
Speaker 1: need to eat it was it was horrible for dog.
Speaker 1: So uh that that's on the list. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: keep it going on the mail bag. Here, let's pick
Speaker 1: up the pace. We're running short on time, Pierre writes
Speaker 1: in not writing from the base of Muffett McGraw's plaque
Speaker 1: at the Basketball Hall of Fame. He says, hey, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny Gee, have you ever played fantasy sports with friends,
Speaker 1: co workers or listeners? And be Ben, you consider yourself
Speaker 1: a man of the people and have just doc you
Speaker 1: signed your multi year extension. So why do you refuse
Speaker 1: to join Coope, Roberto and the rest of the mouth
Speaker 1: of Militia and the DraftKings contest. It must be the
Speaker 1: five dollar entry fee that's holding you back, unless it isn't, alright,
Speaker 1: So Pierre, come then, alright, cool your nuts. Alright, So listen,
Speaker 1: I've played fantasy sports before. I'm so good at it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take all my listeners money. That
Speaker 1: would be rude and uh and and that would be wrong, wrong,
Speaker 1: and all that exactly. Uh, And it is not the
Speaker 1: five dollar entry fee that is holding me back at all,
Speaker 1: but it's it's more of a time thing. It's more
Speaker 1: of a time thing, and my focus is not on
Speaker 1: fantasy right now. My focus is on benny versus the penny,
Speaker 1: and so any football handy, any time I have is
Speaker 1: dedicated to haw I can become a better football prognosticator,
Speaker 1: which is not playing fantasy sports. It is playing gambling.
Speaker 1: So that's where my focus is. Listen, I'm glad Coop's
Speaker 1: doing it, and the fans, the super fans, seem to
Speaker 1: have a great idea, a great appreciation for They love
Speaker 1: it so good. So that's it, right, Danny. You play
Speaker 1: fantasy sports at all, Danny, or any of that. I have,
Speaker 1: And the last couple of seasons I haven't, and I've
Speaker 1: liked the season better, to be honest, because I all
Speaker 1: ready have enough stress involved rooting on my favorite football team.
Speaker 1: I don't also need to be stressed out about the
Speaker 1: performances of other random players on other teams. That's just
Speaker 1: too much stress. And I don't want any money attached
Speaker 1: to the outcomes. So I don't gamble on NFL and
Speaker 1: I don't want to play fantasy right now because I
Speaker 1: just want to enjoy it. As if I was a
Speaker 1: seven year old kid, what about a nine year old girl?
Speaker 1: There would be conflicting interest as a gambler. If you
Speaker 1: bet on let's say, for example, this weekend, if I
Speaker 1: bet on the Minnesota Vikings, but I had Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: in my fantasy team, Uh, it's like you need Rogers
Speaker 1: to play well, but you need the Vike used to
Speaker 1: win the game, and so he's like threading a needle.
Speaker 1: It's interesting being at a sports bar during the NFL
Speaker 1: season because you'll hear people randomly chairing for other things
Speaker 1: on other greens, and it's all because of their fantasy team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's really odd when they're wearing another jersey and
Speaker 1: they do it and you're like, wait a minute, that's
Speaker 1: what's wrong with this. Come on now, I got mail, yea,
Speaker 1: I got mail. Ya got I gotta meet this guy
Speaker 1: Adrians in the Mile High City. I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I gotta get to Denver at some point. Here have
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich in Denver at the sports
Speaker 1: book bar and grill. And he says, Big Ben, I
Speaker 1: was flipping back and forth between Florida State l s
Speaker 1: U and Sunday Night Baseball, the Dodgers and the Potterers.
Speaker 1: I saw a familiar face sitting down low with the
Speaker 1: one percentage. How was the game? He says, I doubled
Speaker 1: down on my wager I told you about earlier. What
Speaker 1: do you and Danny g think of the Dodgers World
Speaker 1: Series champions Now? It still bothers me that I liked
Speaker 1: him in that spot put a guarantee on it, But
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. When will you be in the
Speaker 1: Denver area for a meet? And Greedy says, I think
Speaker 1: I remember you saying you have a family here in Colorado.
Speaker 1: I do. I have a cousin that lives I believe
Speaker 1: over in Boulder, So not not that far away from
Speaker 1: from Denver. Uh So, he says, he's Benny versus the
Speaker 1: Penny coming. Oh yeah, yeah, Adrians, you said this before
Speaker 1: we made the announcement, But Benny versus the Penny on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Friday, and you can hear all the picks,
Speaker 1: including my pick on the Denver Seattle game, which you're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna like, but but absolutely and so as
Speaker 1: far as the Dodgers I'm I'm still pretty confident it's there.
Speaker 1: They're in the wrong league. The better teams this year
Speaker 1: are in the National League, with the Dodgers, the Mets,
Speaker 1: who've had a bad stretch in the Atlanta Braves that
Speaker 1: those teams are clearly better than everyone else. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals are gonna do much, even though they've
Speaker 1: had a good run here lately. Uh, But I trust
Speaker 1: the Dodger. I don't trust kimberl even though he's pitched
Speaker 1: better lately. But yeah, I would still. I'd still like
Speaker 1: the Dodgers chances to get the World Series, and I
Speaker 1: hope they played the Astros in the World Series. But
Speaker 1: I take the Yankees. What about you, Danny. This team,
Speaker 1: as you know, been one of the best Dodger win
Speaker 1: percentages in the history of the franchise, still on pace
Speaker 1: to win a hundred and thirteen games. Bullpen has been
Speaker 1: way better. Are hitting when it's clicking. Is the best
Speaker 1: lineup in all of baseball. I am never gonna bet
Speaker 1: against that. But a couple more quick ones. Leo rights
Speaker 1: and he says, is Marlon Marlin man a Marlin fan
Speaker 1: or a Dodger fan? He spends more time at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1: He has spent a lot of time at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 1: although he told me he's not coming back until the NLCS.
Speaker 1: He said, he said, he does not he's not playing.
Speaker 1: He thinks the Dodgers will be in the NLCS. He's
Speaker 1: gonna go see some other teams. He thinks that likely
Speaker 1: he will not advance in the playoffs, so he can
Speaker 1: go see some other cities. But he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: New York. I think he was in New York this weekend.
Speaker 1: He gave me his whole itinerary. So he's a fan
Speaker 1: of baseball, and he doesn't actually go to very many
Speaker 1: Marlin's games, even though he's called Marlins Man. Uh. And
Speaker 1: he has he spent a lot of time at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium because I've gotten phone calls several times this summer.
Speaker 1: And he's gone a bunch of games without me. He
Speaker 1: went to the All Star Games, some other games. He
Speaker 1: knows I can't go really during during the week. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last one Fred from Spring Texas Rights and he says, Hi, there.
Speaker 1: You mentioned in last week show that the transmitters for
Speaker 1: the San Diego radio stations were pointed towards the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: Do you know what the reasoning was for that decision?
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Well you have Fred. The
Speaker 1: Federal Communications Commission. It's a government agency that decides who
Speaker 1: who can put their transmitter where. And it's all a
Speaker 1: scientific project because there are there are radio stations that
Speaker 1: share the same frequency in many many cities, and there's
Speaker 1: only a few stations that are called clear channel stations
Speaker 1: that have the right to broadcast at full power, like
Speaker 1: all over the country. There's KFI in Los Angeles is
Speaker 1: one of those. They're all AM stations, kf I, Koa
Speaker 1: and Denver. Very few FM stations. One oh three point
Speaker 1: three FM along the California coast is one of the
Speaker 1: only FM stations that blasts through like five different counties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I learned this in radio school, although I've forgotten it,
Speaker 1: but the the you know, the as I remember it,
Speaker 1: it's the AM radio band, which is really going away
Speaker 1: in many places, but the A M band will bounce
Speaker 1: so it can go further where the FM band doesn't count.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's part of the Yeah, the skips
Speaker 1: off the earth exactly. So and uh and Fred, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's pretty much to protect the station in Arizona
Speaker 1: Phoenix that has the same frequency, and so it ends
Speaker 1: up where if you're in San Diego, the signals facing
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean, So if you're on a boat out
Speaker 1: of Pacific, you can hear the San Diego stations of
Speaker 1: the l A stations. But and even in l A, right,
Speaker 1: we have the problem with the mountains where a lot
Speaker 1: of times certain signals do not make it past the
Speaker 1: mountain range around l A. All right, we gotta get
Speaker 1: out of here, Danny. What do you have coming up
Speaker 1: for you in the Fox box that rocks this afternoon
Speaker 1: slash evening. I'm gonna be in the studios having fun
Speaker 1: with the Covino and Rich Show, and then after that
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard pre show, the tailgate party, Chris Plank
Speaker 1: and Arnie Spaniard leading into your first show of the week,
Speaker 1: and not just our first show, our first show after
Speaker 1: an NFL Sunday. Yeah, I hope. I'm celebrating a Raiders
Speaker 1: w as the Covino and Rich Show is starting. I
Speaker 1: the RAM game was on Thursday, So I will just
Speaker 1: be worried about my picks all day, is what I
Speaker 1: will be worried about. How do you think you're gonna
Speaker 1: do really quick? Yeah, I think I'll be over five.
Speaker 1: But the first week and the last week of the
Speaker 1: season are very difficult. So I think i'll be over
Speaker 1: five hundred. But I'm not gonna go I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna be way over five hundred. I think
Speaker 1: you'll be a couple of games over five hundreds. A
Speaker 1: winning week to start is what I am anticipating, but
Speaker 1: not in like one of the great weeks of all time.
Speaker 1: I like the card this week, I didn't love the car.
Speaker 1: I liked it, I didn't love it. Week two is
Speaker 1: a little bit better. So we'll see what happens next Friday.
Speaker 1: Have a great day and we will talk to you
Speaker 1: next time. Good luck to all your football teams. Osta Pasta, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I like to Saint