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He was so good, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.840 so talented with that, so happy we were able to 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.600 play that. So pop goes the culture. These are some 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.480 pop culture stories that popped up on our radar. There's 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.320 a theme every week. This week the theme is food Danny. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.840 There's a lot of food related stories. Is that because 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.920 it's summertime and restaurants and food places are tossing out 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:07.680 different items. I saw this bouncing around from Thailand. From 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.400 Thailand where Burger King has created a new cheeseburger, which 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.400 is two slices of bread and the buns of a 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.520 regular Burger King, you know, whopper, and then they put 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.120 twenty slices of cheese. Did you see this? 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.320 I saw this. Yeah, we talked about this. Yeah, this 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.920 is rich at the end of this past week. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.560 Yeah, that is a terrible, terrible looking grilled cheese. H 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.320 that could be so much better because the art of 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.520 the grilled cheese. My wife makes a great grilled cheese. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.360 You got to put grilled cheese on the outside of 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.000 the bun too. You got to really go deep into 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.400 the grilled cheese. This just looks like a slice of 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:52.359 American cheese. Of that's not a lot of effort. That's lazy. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.640 Who wants that? Nobody wants that, do they? 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.519 Covino is lactose intolerant. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.919 So he said, this looks like he would walk up 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.760 to the cashier and say, I'd like to order twenty 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:03.760 two farts. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.960 Well he should just order that and then go sit 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.760 on the toilet and eat it. No, you should have 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:12.399 the nervous heart. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.840 Oh, this does look like a bathroom break. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.720 This looks like something that would have you running to 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.600 the bathroom within fifteen minutes. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.200 Or it could go the other way. You eat that 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.440 much cheese, you might get a little clogged up, right, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.440 you know, clogged up? You know? No, no, no, no, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.160 it might work the other way. So I saw that 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.800 that was kind of crazy. Well, speaking of crazy foods 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.640 on pop goes the culture Dominoes in Japan. I guess 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.160 you gotta leave America to get these crazy food i'ms. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.840 But in Japan this thing started making the rounds again. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:51.560 What is it? It is a Dominoes pizza, but not 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.160 just any Dominoes pizza. No, no, no no, this is 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:01.800 a pizza filled with pickles, a pickle pizza and somewhere 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:06.560 in Springfield, mass alf the alien o piner is popa Woody. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.640 He is so excited. He loves pickles. I saw photos. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.040 This is to me a night. I do not like pickles. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.000 I like the smell of them, but this is Are 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.200 you a pickle guy, Danny? 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.279 I like pickles on burgers. Yeah? 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:21.240 What about pizza? 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.200 Never had it, but I let's see maybe maybe I've 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.159 had like you know how sometimes you'll see somebody create 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.400 like a Hamburger style pizza. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.080 Yep, well, I think I've had that. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.919 Before and there were like little slices of pickles on there. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.360 I've made Philly cheese steak pizza before, which is pretty good. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.480 That's not bad. I sent you a photo of it, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.039 and it should be in your in your messages there. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.560 My mom used to do this thing back in the 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.800 day where it sounds weird, but it tasted good. She'd 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:59.200 make her own refried beans and her own tortillas, and 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.440 she made this burrito where she would cut up little 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.200 slices of pickles and put those in the refried beans. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.800 And it sounds a little odd, but it tasted really 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.480 good when you added the sour cream and the lettuce 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:12.839 in there. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.400 Do you like sweet pickles or do you like the 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:17.440 traditional pickle? 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:18.560 The traditional? 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.159 Yeah, yeah, I like none of the book. So what 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.919 do you think of that photo that I sent you 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.440 the story there? 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.680 It looks like too many damn pickles. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.680 Right, that looks disgusting. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:31.719 Yeah, pickles. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.880 It's one of those things where they are a great addition, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.760 like a great window dressing, but you don't want it 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.920 to be the star of the dish. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:41.920 Yeah, that's that's a little much. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:42.360 Well. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.920 McDonald's announced this week that the miccafe bakery lineup na 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:58.479 na good bye. Yeah, it's dun skis Seilers. Most people 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.440 go to McDonald's I think they. I don't eat breakfast 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.560 because I'm a loser. I eat one meal a day. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.160 But for those people that do, I think you go. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.719 If you go to McDonald's for breakfast, you go in egg, McMuffin, sausage, mcgriddle, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.880 something like that, Right, that's what you're Oh, yeah that 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.799 mcgriddle is good. Yeah, you're doing something along those lines. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.680 But McDonald's has had this McCafe thing for a while 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.680 and they announced that, Hey, we're done at the apple fritter, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.800 the blueberry muffin, the cinnamon roll, the only permanent McCafe 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.400 bakery offerings will be phased out. So these things have 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.200 been around for I don't know, three four years something 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:39.560 like that. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.240 Man, that stuff all stunk anyways, Bring back your original 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:44.240 apple pie? 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.479 Oh you can guess. I think. Do we talk about that? 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:48.160 I think we did. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.839 Did we did? We've talked about that on the podcast before. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.960 We can still get it because of where we live. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.000 You got to go to where's the town. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.600 Oh, Downy, California. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.120 Downey, the original mc donald's or the second McDonald Yeah, 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.560 it's worth the trip out there. Yeah. I actually lived 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.039 right next to that McDonald's MYO. When we were moving, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.000 we stayed, we were in between houses and we stayed 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.240 for like a couple of months in Downey. I spent 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.920 some time in Downey's. Got no, I don't want to 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.840 say no, but they have very few zoning laws. It's 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.760 kind of like Houston where you can get a mansion 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:31.200 right next to like that like just a shithole. You 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.720 know it is. You know there's a school and then 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.440 there's a strip club. You know that kind of thing 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:36.200 is right. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.280 It's a great place to rent out somebody's back house, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.280 like their pool house because every single building there has 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.360 some sort of addition being added on to it. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.880 Yeah, and a lot of those big it's like the 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.760 White House. You know those things out in front of 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.440 the building. What they called those pillars. Yeah, a lot 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.600 of pillars. Yah in Downey, a lot of pillars. As 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.960 I remember, Pop goes the alt You next up, man? 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.720 This guy. I saw his restaurant last time I was 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:09.600 in Vegas. You ever seen Robert Irvine and his TV 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.840 show A restaurant Impossible? Yeah, Well you won't see it anymore. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:22.080 The Food Network has canceled Robert Irvine's makeover show. It 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.080 will be no more. This guy's like a kind of 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.680 a little older than us to anybody's completely ripped. He's 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.360 built like a Donnis. This guy works out all the time. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:36.079 And that show after twenty two seasons, twenty two years, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:41.079 this guy hosted that show and it's out. It's done, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.040 Dunski's According to the Hollywood Trades, the show has been 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:51.400 put out to pasture, so no one. Guy's probably got 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:52.960 a lot of cash. I would think he did that 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.440 show for a while. He's got restaurant deals. I think 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.360 Robert Irvine's gonna be okay. Yeah, And I think that 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.920 show peaked a while ago. Yeah, I have not watched 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.360 a lot of the Food Network, although the last time 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.240 I did, it was just all people doing competitions against 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.600 each other. Is that pretty much all they do now? 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.040 It's about seventy percent of it, I'd say. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.160 Yes, yeah. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.920 Well, other food stories are food related. This week, they're 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.400 making Hungry right Now is a story out of if 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.479 this came up on Covino and Rich. But the FTC 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.760 is fighting back against edibles because they claim that these 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.480 companies are making ripoff Doritos, nerd Ropes and a bunch 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:42.640 of products like that flaming hot Cheetos that look exactly 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.280 like the normal products, and they're apparently a bunch of 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:50.319 kids are getting the munchies and they're eating the marijuana 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.440 products rather than the regular one because their parents put 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.120 them side by side or whatever in the cabinet, and 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.280 so the kids are like, hey, I want some Doritos, 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.800 and they get and the special Doritos. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 God, what dopey parents are putting this in a cabinet 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.720 for their kids to be able to grab. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.079 He's apparently a fair amount of dumb dumbs. I don't 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.920 know what to tell you, but there you go. It's 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.400 good marketing though, right. I think if you're going to 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.560 make a cannabis like product, like a food product, you 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.679 want to make it look like the regular one. And 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.360 they've done it. I didn't know that was allowed. I 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.800 didn't think that was allowed, but apparently it is. Pop 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:35.240 goes the culture. Here's the world's ultimate swear word. A 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.240 mathematician has used an algorithm to create what they say 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.079 is the new number one offensive term. You want to 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:55.560 take a guess what it is? Redskins? No, the term. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:11:00.560 I've actually heard this listening overhearing conversations. I don't really 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.520 use it myself. Maybe I should? Would I sound cooler 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:08.800 if I use the word? This is according to King's College, London. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.280 The word is banger. That's a banger. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.520 That's a banger right there. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.400 You ever use that word? They say it's the world's 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.320 ultimate swear word. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.000 That's that's a swear word in America. That's what people 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.320 say when they like a song. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.120 Yeah, this is what they say. Research fed a list 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.000 of popular bad words. In this algorithm. The computer spit 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:39.240 out banger that that is. That's not a curse word though, like, nah, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.199 come on, that doesn't trump fuck? That's the king of 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:43.840 a bad well. Actually the sea word is. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.400 The ultimate one, right, that's the winner. Yeah, that's the 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.880 all time winner. I'm mom threatened us. She's like, you know, 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.480 say the F word, you're gonna get in trouble. You 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.000 say the C word, you're going to be eating a 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:55.760 bar of soap. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.200 Yeah, it's we'll see you next Tuesday, I think is 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.760 the way that way? Anyway? Another pop goes to the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:10.679 culture story from the food world. A London brewery has 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:16.680 created the world's first truly carbon negative pint. Does anyone 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.800 need this? These stories are such bullshit. This one says 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.600 the Gypsy Hill Brewery has created the world's first offset 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.959 free carbon negative beer. The beer removes more greenhouse gases 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.680 from the atmosphere than it produces. How many beer drinkers 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.280 are really concerned about the atmosphere? Danny? What do you think? 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.080 What percentage of beer drinkers are? Like, I really hope 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.760 my beer is carbon negative? 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.559 I really want that probably point zero zero zero five? 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.760 Yeah, Like know your audience, Okay, now, I know it's 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.480 some high full louting places, some of the wokesters and 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.960 all that they're into it. But the artsy fartsy types. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.559 But I'm thinking most people that want a beer, I 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.040 just want to have a beer and they don't want 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:11.439 any of that other other nonsense. So there's that Oh 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.720 I want to do this one too. This. I love 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.360 this video. I'm sure you probably talked about this in Cavino, Rich. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.439 Did you see the video of the guy that attempted 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:25.960 to rob the manicure place in Atlanta? Oh? This is 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.920 so good. So you didn't see this, I hope you did. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.319 It went viral. So the Atlanta Police Department is looking 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.440 trying to find this guy. This surveillance video from this 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:40.000 nail salon outside Atlanta is amazing. So this dude walks 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.480 in there and he walks into the nail salon. He's 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.240 wearing a blue hat, he's got sunglasses on, blue jeans, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:53.319 and right as he enters there, he demands that everyone 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.200 present get on the ground and hand over the money. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.160 He's like, he probably saw that in a movie. You know, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.920 I saw that in a movie, and I'm gonna I'm 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.480 gonna go for that. It worked in the movie, so 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.560 I'm gonna go for it. So the guy walks in, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.600 there's some a couple of women sitting down there the 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.840 guy walks in. I'm a little concerned though. I think 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.440 he might be warning a clipper hat that kind of 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.559 looks like a clipper. Yes, I think he's wearing a 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:18.200 damn clipper. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.640 I thought the same thing when I saw this. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.840 Oh it doesn't looks it is a clipper hat. Oh 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.760 this is making us look bad? Here, man, what are 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.960 you doing? What is still wrong with the Clippers? It's 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.160 so funny. No one pays any attention to the guy. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.560 It's as is he pretending like he's hiding a gun? 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.320 Is that what he's trying to do? Yes, and then 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:47.560 he gives something. He walks out, Oh, so so good. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.720 It was like he was coached by Doc Rivers. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.360 Screw you, oh man. You know what he looks like. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:03.080 He looks like a Laker player from when Kobe retired, Okay, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.880 right after Kobe retired for several years. That's what he 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:11.920 looks like, the D'Angelo Russell Alonzo ball version of the Lakers. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:29.120 Let's get to the mailbag. It's these are actual letters 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.040 by actual listeners on the mailbag. We thank you, thank you, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.240 thank you so much, and again, if you want to 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.440 send a message in real fifth hour at gmail dot com, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.960 all letters, no numbers, real fifth hour at gmail dot 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.920 com and name and city, name and city if you 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.080 want attention, Mark in Houston or at Houston. Adjasent says, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.440 dear Ben and Danny G How do you guys come 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.160 up with the topics? He says, on the show, my show, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:57.000 the opening show for four topics, five days a week, 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.080 four monologues, twenty monologues a week. In the adult jumps 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.040 of July, I when nothing is happening in the air 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.400 everywhere with Mark. That's an outdated take by you, Mark, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.120 because for years people were talking about the dead zone, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.200 there's nothing going on, But we have all done sports 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.640 radio during COVID, so that was the dead zone. This 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.640 is not the dead zone. There's always stuff going on. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.920 You gotta be able to work on the edges a 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.440 little bit. You got to work out in the suburbs. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.320 But there's always stuff going on. And it's really I 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.160 actually like this time of the year, which is kind 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.600 of ridiculous because I shouldn't like this time of the year, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.040 but it's a little more challenging, which I like. You know, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.920 you gotta kind of dig a little bit, and if 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.320 you don't do your your work. You don't do your diligence, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.440 then it becomes problematic and the show sucks. And I 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.360 feel like a lot of guys are exposed this time 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.800 of the year because they just depend on football, football, football, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.560 and there's not a lot of stuff going on and 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.720 so football wise, but there's stuff going on, it's just 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.480 a lot of gossip, a lot of speculation, a lot 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.600 of this guy said something, that guy said something. But 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.320 it actually has not been that hard. And in fact, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.080 some of the times I've done holiday shows, when you 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.640 think those would be easy shows, there's not a lot 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.760 going on because people shut it down for the holiday. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.600 So I've had issue. I've had more issues around like 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.320 certain big holidays, not Thanksgiving, because there's a ton of stuff, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.320 but sometimes it's a little slower on the holidays. So 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.560 what about Covino and Rich? Have you guys been able 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.520 to be fine with the topics of conversation here through this? 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.600 They have no problem filling their segments, especially with the 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:45.480 TMZ sports type stories. I'm also just looking at certain 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.919 stories like that and then having their own spin and 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.840 their own angle on it. The good thing about your 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:56.280 show and their show their entertainment driven. It's not just sports. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.800 It's a lot of entertainment and pop culture. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.280 It's not a hard sports show. But thank you, Mark, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.440 Pete and Pittsburgh wrote in the Great Pete and Pittsburgh 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:11.280 retired sports radio legend, Good Old Pete. He says, Ben, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.040 are you angry that people have said the show is 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:19.480 not as good because Roberto left? So Pete, I know 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.640 you're trying to rile me up here get a reaction 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.719 out of me. Very funny of you. No, I am 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.880 not surprised. Just like when Danny G left the show. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.960 People were upset when you left, Danny. They said the 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.840 show sucks, It's never going to be the same. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.720 He had a point back then. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.800 That was not a good point. But before before then, 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.040 we had Jake Warner stay awake Jake, and people loved 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.280 Jake and they were kind of like, who's this Danny 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.639 G guy? And then they lay they liked you, and 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.680 it just takes a while for people to get used 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.240 to it. We do not have a permanent engineer, so 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.560 that chair is a spinning chair, and we have three 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.960 people during the week, so I'm working with three different people. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.440 They're working with me. We're trying to feel each other out. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.160 Nobody wants to really take ownership of that because it's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.280 not their job yet. So eventually we'll hire someone permanently, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.000 not me, the company will, and then people will be 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.240 used to that, and i'd like some of the traditions 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.320 to continue that we've done over the years. A lot 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.960 of those have died in the last month or so 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.600 because we're just rotating too many people in. But we'll 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.639 get to that. We'll get to it at some point. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.800 I heard that Mark Dude talking with you on the air. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:35.000 He's super animated. He definitely would take your chair someday. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:40.720 Yes, he's a future talk showst or politician or yeah, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.240 Matt the Warrior Raider former. As Fan writes it, he's 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.800 his question for you Ben on the podcast when you 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.960 give the malor monologues, are you reading it from a 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.480 script just glancing at notes or are you speaking completely 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.200 off the top of your head? That is from Matt. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.199 So it's a little bit of everything, Matt. Most of 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.600 the time I have talking points that I have bullet 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.080 points that I have certain things I want to nail 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.600 that I think are important in the monologue. But when 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.679 something big happens, when there's a trade or somebody drops 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.720 dead in the middle of the night, or there's a 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.439 riot and we're talking about it. That's obviously all just 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.480 completely ad lib. There's no real notes. You just kind 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.560 of going in real time. So there's some of that, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.359 and then every once in a while there's something I 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.520 really want to nail it, I'll put a script together. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.720 But most of the time it's just it's just bullet points. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.399 And I can thank my mentor, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton with 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.399 the greatest fifteen minutes in radio, who kind of taught 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.560 me that style of radio. And I hope I've adjusted 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.560 it a little bit that I'm not doing exactly what 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.119 he did, and I've got my own polish on it. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.760 But that's kind of how that goes, and everyone's got 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:03.800 their own technique. So to eat David in winter Park, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.920 Florida with his friend Roscale the parents is what kind 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:10.280 of treats do you guys? Do you give your your pets? 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.760 Then he mentions Bella, do you you have pets too? Right, 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:15.040 Danny you have what do you have? 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:17.400 You have a dog? Get a cat too? 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.679 I only have a dog. Yeah, So I give Bella 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:25.120 we have these papparonis, and I'll do a little dance. Well, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:26.760 she'll do the dance. Well, she used to do the dance. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.280 She's too old now. But I'll say it's pop Baroni time, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.960 like that, like pop Baroni time, and she'd get excited. 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.560 She'd wag her tails, she'd jump up and down. Now 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.400 she kind of gives me the look like, just give 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.920 me the damn treat. Okay, I've done enough dancing. I'm retired. 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.199 Screw you. What treats do you give your cat and 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.200 your dog? Danny start with Daisy the dog. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.760 I actually I have these sitting right here because she 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.080 was over here begging for some treats earlier. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:22:00.320 Hold that up there, Oh, I'll twist dream bone. Looks 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:01.440 like candy cane. 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.399 Yeah, she's a little dog. She can't have raw hide. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.639 But they have these little twist sticks. And it's funny 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.399 because she'll bite them down so they're like the size 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.160 of a cigarette and she'll be running up and down 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.880 the stairs with what looks like a cigar in her mouth. 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.520 That's funny. You should take a video of that. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.000 That's really funny. It's really funny. Whenever she looks like, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:24.760 who is that? 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.240 Really? Old comedian George Burns. 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.320 Oh, yeah, George Burns. 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.439 Yeah, looks like George Burns running up and down the staircase. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:34.479 Any of those old comedians they all used to have, 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.280 like Milton Burrel is that his name, the guy with 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:43.400 the yeah you know? Okay? And what about the cat? 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.119 For a treat for him, He'll go take a couple 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:50.520 of her dog food pellets. We pour the crunchies in 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.080