WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Ooey Gooey" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:29.360 with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:35.080 The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.040 and Danny g Radio A happy Sunday to you when 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:44.320 the final Sunday's the next to last Sunday before the 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:49.040 National Football League takes over. And Danny g this the 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.960 morning after the twenty twenty five Malor Meet and greet. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:58.080 We did it Vegas style, Baby Lost Wages, Nevada. There 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.240 last night, well last afternoon, from three o'clock till five o'clock. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.360 And it went longer though it always does. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.479 I have so many stories I want to share, and 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.920 I've actually been advised by Terry in England. He says, Ben, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:17.480 don't use the stories. Now, wait until next weekend to 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:18.280 tell the stories. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:18.760 Yeah. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.720 Well it makes a lot of sense because we still 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.520 need to catch up on stories from last weekend. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.160 That's right, that's right. In fact, that's a great segue. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.920 That's a good jumping off point, Danny, because I do 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.480 have a story, and we have the mail bag. Ohio 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.120 Al is standing by, Ohio Al is standing by. But 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.240 we must begin with this. So traveling on the blind side. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.600 Did any g traveling on the blind side? So my 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.000 wife and I went on. We talked about this yesterday 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.880 a little bit, the wild adventure, although all I pretty 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.640 much talked about was the fact that we ran into 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.720 the Dallas Cowboys caravan on the way up the coast. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.880 So we go on this wild adventure up the California 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.600 coast the other other day. We had no plan, there 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.760 was no itinerary's, we didn't use a pin on Google Maps. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:11.560 We followed the zen master, Phil Jackson, and Phil always 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.080 had these witty zen like quotes when he was coaching 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.240 the Lakers, and I was out there a lot, believe 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 it or not, the Laker hater, I was out there, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.200 and I love Phil though Phil was unlike just about 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.839 anyone else I've ever come across in this job, where 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.840 he actually gave you an answer and just didn't give 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.960 you a cliches, and so at least that's the way 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.960 he made you feel. And so one of the things 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.119 Phil used to talk about during the NBA season, which 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.560 seemed like it went on forever, and that was back 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.480 when players actually had to play in the regular season, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.840 and Phil talked about, you know, the way to live 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.200 your life. He's enjoyed the journey in that context of 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.280 the NBA. Enjoy that Wednesday night in Sacramento just as 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.280 much as you would enjoy Game one of the NBA 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.840 Finals against the Celtics. So enjoy the journey, not just 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.639 the destination. So of course that's easier to do when 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.600 you don't have a destination. Danny, we didn't have a destination. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.680 That's the whole point. The great thing about not having 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.080 a destination is you cannot be late. If you don't 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.040 know where you're going, there's no way to be late. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:07.919 You can't be late. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.760 We didn't have a hotel, room booked, we didn't have anything. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.840 And along the way we passed the Dallas Cowboy Caravan. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.640 Then we got out of La Proper. We went past 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.360 the Fox Sports Radio compound and then came face to 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.520 face one of the great monuments to human arrogance, and 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.280 this is something close to your heart, Danny G. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.040 You have talked about. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.360 This on these airwaves, on this podcast, but I can 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.680 now say that I have seen it with my own eyes. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.600 The I think it's the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.680 It's got some name on it now, but it says 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.920 Annenberg on it. Now, all right, whatever, who cares whatever, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.160 that's the person who donated half the money. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.560 Yeah, whatever, It's called privately funded. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:54.920 Fine. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.800 This is the overpass that you've brought up, Danny, and 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.080 we talked about here. It's in a gory. It goes 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.040 right across the freeway there, Ventura Freeway, and it's like 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.840 a sim City cheat code type thing. And they claim 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.160 you said this is the largest wildlife crossing in the world, right, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.000 isn't that what you've said. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.800 Daniel right now? Yeah, Colorado is building one that's even bigger. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.760 As of now. This is the biggest and baddest and 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.200 most expensive. Yeah. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.680 So I saw I heard you talk about it, and 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.080 you set me stories from the news in LA and 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.160 I was like, well, this is the opposite direction of 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.560 where I live. We live on like the opposite ends 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.120 of the world here, and so it connects. It's like 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.039 the Semi Valley Hills or whatever in the Santa Monica Mountain. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.040 I think that I know the Santa Monica Mountains on 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:39.880 one side. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.160 And there's some other hills on the other way. I 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.560 don't know it connects a gora in Calabasas. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.680 Okay, all right, that's fine, so I can report boots 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.800 on the ground Danny as an eyewitness. I did not 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.360 see a mountain lion. I did not see a bobcat. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.320 I guess they can now, you know they can the 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.120 freeway without jaywalking. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.080 So that's good. Again. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.320 I didn't see, though, any bobcasts, no lions, no bears. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.000 I didn't see a raccoon, any squirrels, I didn't know. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:09.359 I didn't see that. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.279 I didn't see a coyote with an uber eats bag. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:17.239 I didn't see anything. Uh, and I had the same vibe. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.159 I was like, I realized you said this was like 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:21.880 mostly privately financeered. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.840 Yes, right, And so my question. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.760 Is to people really think that the animals are standing 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.400 around there like it's a Disney movie? Do they do 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.560 they think that like that's like Bambie's mom and Simba 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.960 or planning a meet up there? Right on the bridge, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.400 you know, right across the one on one freeway there, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.320 and you know, I don't know, I just there had. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.880 To be some sort of research done where there were 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.440 a lot of animal deaths in that area, crossing, trying 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.080 to cross the freeway. That's all I can think of. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.200 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's like we're building highways overpasses 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.240 for animals. And again I'm like, they don't really no, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.680 like they don't know that's just for them. They don't 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.839 even know like highways exist. They just are out and about. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.120 You know, it's you know, it's like some kind of 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.159 Pixar fan fiction fiction the endnet. I'm not, Oh, you're 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.559 against animals, but no, you hate an animal? 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:16.320 No, they're delicious. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:16.600 I love it. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.760 Oh No. And now you can see, you know about 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.760 the big fires that were here, yes, less than a 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.839 year ago, and that's a solid piece of foundation now 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.800 from one side to the other, crossing eight lanes whatever. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.880 That is total. So that could be disastrous in the 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.600 future and not to be you know, Debbie Downer or 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.360 Benny Downer. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.880 It did look danny like those hills were pretty dry, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.080 like it looked like I remember I was talking to 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.000 the wife and we're like, man, they got to get 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.360 some rain out here or something, because these hills are 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.880 starting the ground starting to crack a little bit. And 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.800 that's not good. That's that's a bad sign. Man, that's 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.800 a bad sign. But any and it's like just a 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.359 year ago they had the fires and all ready the 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.160 hills were back ready to be ready to. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.039 Burn, unfortunately. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.400 But anyway, we kept going up there and went through Ventura, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.520 which was an absolute asshole of vent I thought Ventura. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.360 Last time I was Ventura, I thought it was nice. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.320 But I guess we went in the wrong part of Ventura. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.360 Holy where did you go in Ventura Main Street? 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.040 We I don't know. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.080 We got off the freeway. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.680 We were like, we were. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.040 Driving down one of the big streets in Ventura, and 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.240 I guess we went to the wrong part of Ventura. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.000 Oh you were somewhere on Ventura Road. Yeah, dude. They 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.440 were like like crackheads. And I saw, oh, yeah, you 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.000 were in East Ventura. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.680 Sent in all fold you know you saw that. I 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.200 was like, whoa, wow that is I thought I was 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.760 back on skid row. I was like, dude, this is beautiful, right, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:45.320 maybe the ocean. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.120 What are we doing here? 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.880 And then we kept going and went up through Santa 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.520 Barbara and all that stuff, and we we ended up 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:56.120 getting to Pismo Beach. Now, Pismo Beach is famous for clams, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.720 for monarch butterflies, and that's what they they'll tell. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.440 You right there at Grover Beach. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.440 I would like to report, Danny, that one of those 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.360 beautiful monarch butterflies kama Kazi deed itself will kamakazi mission 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.280 right into my windshield, oh, much to the dismay of 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:18.120 my wife, who was devastated that this beautiful, bright orange 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:24.160 monarch butterfly had decided to commit butterfly suicide. One of 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.600 the great wonders of nature. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.160 And now you know why they are building animal crossings. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.280 Can we do something for the butterfly? Can we put 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.920 a net over the highway or something like that. So anyway, listen, Pismo. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.240 To me, those are all cool things. They have a 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.200 really nice peer in Pismo. It's beautiful Central California, really cool. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.600 But for me, Pismo is known for one thing and 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.600 one thing only, and that one thing, Danny, is the 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.880 cinnamon roll Old West cinnamon rolls. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:51.400 That's it. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.320 That's the whole town. That's it. You can have everything else. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.640 You can have the clams, you can have the butterflies 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.720 can flutter off. I don't care. This place is the 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.080 in and out of the OUI gooey cinnamon roll. There's 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.520 a line out the door. There's people buzzing around there 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.880 like that beehive, Like a beehive, Danny. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.760 I would drink a cup of that frosting. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.200 Holy crap. And they really only sell one thing, now 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.840 that I know, they have a few other items on 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.199 the on the menu, but it's pretty much just five 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.040 different ways to get a cinnamon roll. It's finger I 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.400 don't care if it's KFC slogan or not. Finger licking, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:30.559 good napkin soaking. You talk about that sugar topping, Holy crap. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.840 Just awesome slice a heaven, you know, one of the 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.480 things that you're just happy to be alive and and 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.840 right there. And so we stopped on the way up, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.360 and we then doubled back on the way down because 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.440 self controls overrated. Danny tastes like a touchdown in your mouth. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.360 And I actually sold my this is fun. I sold 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.880 my wife because she was on the phone with the 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.599 cistern in law and she was telling the cistern in 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.240 law we stopped in Pismo again sinmin roles, and so 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.760 my sister in law was like, oh man, I wish 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.559 we had some. So I in my head, right, this 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.880 is how I worked, how wired, Danny. I said, you 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.920 know how I can get another cinnamon role. I'm gonna 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.280 tell the wife, let's do a good mitzvah. Let's buy 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.480 some on the way back to give to your sister. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.280 And so she was on board with that. So I 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.800 was able to squeeze out another cinnamon roll on the 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.560 way back down. Yeah, right, come on. But and it 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.120 was it was disguised. It was camouflaghed. It's a veteran 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.480 married man move. It was camouflaged as an act of kindness. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.680 But really I just wanted another cinnamon roll on my 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.560 belly on the way back down. Tell me I'm down, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.040 marcell I don't even think Marcella knows what a cinnamon 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.160 role is. So somewhere we were somewhere north, we went 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.079 to hurst Castle. We love the beach at hurst Castle 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.240 because there's no one ever there. There's a little pier, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.720 beautiful and it's like you know, lording over the Pacific. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.360 San Simeon, Yes, San Simeon, like the Gatsby Mansion right there. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.880 It's like, it's wild that this guy owned all that land. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.319 That the story of the newspaper empire, the Hurst Empire, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.000 and how he he bought all of that land. He 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.160 anything you could see from that Hurst Mansion was was his. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:12.760 And uh. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.920 And we drove up to the seals, you know, the 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.720 sunbathing seals up there. Have you taken cold to see 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:18.440 the seals by the. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.520 Way, have you not yet? No? Oh, yeah, they're great. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.199 They lay around and fart and uh and throw sand 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:25.800 on each other. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.000 And then we we. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.839 Drove for as far as we could drive, as far 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.559 as we could drive. We drove up Highway one, and 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.640 it disappeared literally into the ocean. It was reclaimed by 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.400 mother nature near Big Sur, so we could not go past. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.040 We couldn't even really get the Big Sur because I've 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.000 learned that mother Nature does not do eminent domain. She 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.320 just swallows up whatever she wants. And this was the 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.280 entire road I guess Highway one there. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.679 Yeah, that Highway one has been jacked up. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.040 Yeah, so we we turned around, you know, muttering like 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.120 you know, okay, that sucks. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.160 What are we gonna do? Well? 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.079 Highway one? I guess they had fixed it, and then 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.880 within a couple of months it was back down and so. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.280 That was that. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.120 We went back on our way down I mentioned, we 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.440 picked up the cinnamon rolls and we sashi ate our 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.200 way across California, went all the way up to Santa 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.720 Santa Cruz, well not Santa c San Luis Obispo. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.199 Slow that's what they call it, right, slow. I think 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.680 they call it slow sand Loo's Abysins. So that was 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.120 my trip. But I was so you guys stopped in 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.640 San Luis Obispo. We did. We stopped there a little bit, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.200 and the Madonna In we did. We stuffed. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.120 Of course, my wife loves the Madonna so we stopped by 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.080 the Madonna In and we wandered around there. Had a 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.320 slice of cake at the Bandanna In, because why not 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.120 they have this amazing cake there, and I went through 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.320 the gift shop and it was sold out. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.439 Sounds like you guys did a food tour, did a 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:55.959 lot of eating. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.719 You know, why not, don't eat much during the week, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.240 might as well enjoy yourself on the on the road. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.760 We have mailed Danny. We have actual mail, and that 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.040 means you know what that means. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:06.320 Ohio. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:30.040 Aw, it's. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.200 All right, let's get into this. These are actual letters. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:23.360 Eno. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.880 If you want to send a corresponds in you can 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:32.000 email the show right now. You can do it later, tonight, tomorrow. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.120 You'll forget if you don't do it by later today 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.560 or tomorrow. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.120 fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Name and city please, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.160 otherwise we will not know who you are or where 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.000 you're from. If you want credit. If you don't want 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.120 any credit, just send a blind email and then we'll 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.040 just make it up. A Real fifth Hour at gmail 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.520 dot com. First question up from Reggie in Motown. Reggie 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.840 from Detroit says, Hey, Ben and Danny, it was great 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.920 hearing Eddie call into the show this week. However, I 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.280 did notice a number of the fans were triggered yet again. Ben, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.320 on social media, they are still blaming you for Eddie 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.520 leaving the show. What do you think of this? That 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:17.240 is from Eddie? From Reggie about Eddie. Yeah, Reggie, so 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.520 my position has not changed. I will tell you it 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.400 is flattering. I love the fact that there are people 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.080 that have this passion, and I love the fact that 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.240 there are people that think that I have that kind 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.120 of power. I am flattered that you think that doing 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.360 the overnight show at Fox Sports Radio, I am in 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.800 control of the show, that I picked the people I 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.120 work with that is outstanding. I am very flattered that 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.480 you believe that. And I will be consistent though with 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.960 this whole like this outrage over Eddie. Me and Eddie 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.440 are friends. We love working together. I did not make 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.040 that decision. Who was up to me Eddie would be 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.000 back on the show. He did call in, he had 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.040 met Sherwin, a listener to the show, And so I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.800 look at it like the way I look at sports. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.880 One thing I was told this by a Dodger executive 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.720 thirty five years ago at a meet and greet with 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.600 a Dodger executive. He said, listen, we don't care if 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.240 you rip the Dodgers. We don't care if the fans 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.240 rip the Dodgers. We don't care if they praise the Dodgers. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.920 We don't care about it. You can do whatever you 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.120 want as long as you care. The one thing that 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:26.440 we cannot have is apathy. And I go by that mantra. Reggie, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:31.080 like these people that are still upset blaming me, you're upset. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.120 I get it that means you care. It's not apathy. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.240 This is important to you. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:37.600 And so you're. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.600 Uneducated on what happened and you're misguided. But those are 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.640 separate issues, and so I'm fine. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.600 Yeah, it just shows passion. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.040 Exactly, and that's all. I just want to get passion, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:50.960 and I get it. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:51.160 Listen. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.320 I feel like when I was listening to radio and 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.600 there somebody would leave a radio show or someone get 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:58.560 whacked at a radio show. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:15:59.200 I hated it too. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:15:59.800 It sucked. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:05.080 It sucks at some corporate weasels at different places that 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.520 make these decisions, and there a lot of them are 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.560 just based on financial situations. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:10.080 I don't get. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.360 That's not my department. So before I get in trouble, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.120 Scott from Clearwater, Florida rights and says, hey, Ben and Danny. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.560 Back in two thousand, he says, uh, this guy, Scott. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.760 I did my broadcast journalism internship at WKYT and Lexington, Kentucky, 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.160 and while there I shot some Bengals games on the sidelines. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.440 I also had to drive the Louisville a number of times. Now, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.200 back when they existed, I read newspapers every day while 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.360 I ate lunch in Louisville. The newspaper was evenly split 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.160 between Big ten and the SEC. For sports. Lexington is 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.840 all SEC. I would propose to you then, that the 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.440 college town of Louisville is the line, the point of 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:58.720 demarcation between the Midwest and the south Cincinnati. That's two ends. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:06.639 One is north of Louisville, therefore it's in the Midwest. Also, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.080 I think when you sound out Cincinnati, it should be 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.680 one N and two T's any thoughts there. I think 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.720 that's the bigger injustice here. So it sounds to me 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.720 Danny like Scott does not like the way I say Cincinnati, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.080 just not like that. But that's my tribute. Remember the 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.160 show w k RP and Cincinnati. That's why I say 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.440 it like that Cincinnati, because they used to say on 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.000 the show like that. We've had this long standing debate. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.879 Is Cincinnati a southern city or is it a Midwestern 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.240 city a northern city? And the people of Cincinnati get 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.879 very offended when you say that they're a southern city. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.440 Yet when I've flown into Cincinnati's airport to change planes, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.719 it's in Kentucky, which I consider a southern state, the 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.600 state of Kentucky, So. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:17:59.800 That's it. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:01.960 I don't know that you really answer the questions got 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.639 to you. Louisville so like the South the North South 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.639 line cuts through through Louisville, Kentucky. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.040 So fine. I feel like I'm more confused now. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.160 I know, right, Alf from the Q Rights and he says, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.000 what's your favorite podcast Ben and Danny that you're not 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:26.960 personally involved in? From Alf Danny, do you have a 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.399 favorite pod that you listen to? We both work in 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.639 audio content, so is there something that you listen to 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:33.480 on your downtime? 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.600 No, To be honest, I have my hands full with 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.840 the podcasts I'm involved with. I'm usually listening to those 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.439 to make sure that technically everything is sound. I don't 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.720 have free time to listen to other podcasts. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.840 Yeah, so I try not to listen to too much 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.119 stuff because I've talked about this Danny. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.520 You know, we work together for a long time. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.640 I don't want to take someone else's stick, and I'm 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.879 always concerned if I listen to someone else in like 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.720 sports radio or something like that, Well. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.480 It could be a non sports podcast. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.879 Yeah, like what normally will happen. I have a pretty 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.679 long drive in from the north Woods when I go 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.320 to the Mothership, which is more times than I used 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.119 to go to the Mothership. And so I'm in the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.040 car a lot to and from and I do have 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.440 some time where i could consume audio content, but I'm 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.439 normally trying to, Like on the way there, on the 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:30.840 way into the studio, I'm trying to think about the show. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.560 So I'm like thinking about what I'm going to talk about. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.560 And then on the way home, I don't want to 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.040 think about anything. You know, you want to unplug. You 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.359 just want to My voice is always shredded at the 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.840 end of the show these days since Eddie left, and 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.560 so I just want quiet. I'm like a Buddhist monk 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.880 sitting there on the There's no traffic when I'm driving home, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.080 but I'm just sitting there and I want. 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:51.800 I want to talk. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.560 And normally what happens alf is I will have someone 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.760 will send me something like I'll have people like my 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.800 radio buddies. Hey, you got to hear with you this 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.120 guy was on like Joe. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.160