WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: “Masshole Mickey” Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 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 fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:34.760 In the air eywhere the Fifth Hour with me, Ben 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:42.080 Mahler and Danny g Radio. And welcome to December, the 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.760 first day of the final month of the year, and 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.240 we are back at it again, slaving away over the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.559 red hot microphone with the on air light above us 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:58.240 on an NFL Sunday've already been four games played in 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.800 the NFL. But this is your unofficial early early pregame 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.199 show without Terry Bradshaw, without a lot of just canned 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.679 laughter and all that and my rams play out or 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.039 not a big game they play the Saints Raiders obviously 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.360 played back on on Friday. The biggest game by far today, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:26.160 not even close, is the Eagles and Ravens game. Right 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.560 there's nothing really even close to that on the card today. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.720 That's I know Sunday Night uses the biggest game forty 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.559 nine ers in Bills, But the Eagles Ravens game, that's 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.720 where it's at. That is the game day. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.959 The weather, the elements should be fun to watch for 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.920 Sunday Night football because they're expecting sleet and snow and 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.440 thirty mile per hour wins. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 Yes, snow globe game. It's supposed to be a snow 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.760 glow in Buffalo, which is always kind of kind of cool. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.840 I guess Brock Purdy, if I read correctly, this week, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:03.240 he's gonna play who knows if he's gonna finish the game. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.320 So there's some debate about that, his health and all that, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.200 but there should be some snow there. And as far 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.320 as the other try to look around here. There's a 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.880 slight chance of snow for the Washington Tennessee game and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:21.120 the DMV it's gonna be maybe in the second half, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.720 some snow for that game today. Slight chance of snow 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.480 in Baltimore for the Eagles and Ravens. But yeah, the 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.840 big one if you want to see a snow game 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.280 Buffalo and San Francisco, that's the big snow game today 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.359 on the NFL car so we have the mail bag. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.960 But before we get to the mail bag, I teased 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.639 this yesterday the word of the. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.440 Week, the word of the week, So. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.440 We're in the week, this weekend, this first day of 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.720 December is gremlin. Kremlin. Now, you know in the movie 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.679 Gremlin's Danny. We're around the same age, and that was 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.520 a big movie in our youth, right, Gremlins, And of 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:00.560 course that's. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.880 What I always think about when we're annihilating wings at 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.080 Buffalo Wild Wings. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.560 Yeah, I was. When I have to do the show 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.639 from the home studio and things get attacked, I think 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.440 of the Gremlins. So a gremlin, believe it or not, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.360 a mythical creature in the upper air who causes damage 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.320 to airplanes. And the term not that old. The term 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.800 it first appeared in the Royal Air Force. It's the 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.320 UK Air Force. It was Royal Air Force slang during 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.800 the interwar years of the nineteen twenties. Now there are 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.000 claims that gremlin was in use during the First World War, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.400 and while the people that study the history of words 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:47.360 say that's plausible, there is no evidence it, meaning it 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.680 wasn't written down somewhere earlier. Now, the origin of the 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.720 term is actually unknown, But what is known is that 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.560 gremlin as first recorded, originally had a much different meaning. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.000 That is, a a low ranking commissioned or non commissioned 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.800 Air Force officer. So you were called a gremlin if 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.600 you were a low ranking you know, a person in 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.800 the military, the Air Force in the UK, one who 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.040 performed the routine duties that were beneath the dignity of 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.040 the brass. So you were a low level hoi poloid 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.200 type person. And they say it was first used in 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.960 a poem. The first time I was written down. There 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.560 was a poem that appeared in April of nineteen twenty 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.720 nine in an issue of the journal Aeroplane, and that 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.839 was the first use of the term gremlin. So originally 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.400 gremlin meant some low level person in the Royal Air Force, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.000 and for us now it means a little creature, a 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.279 little weird creature thing. So all right, let's get to 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.720 the mail bag. What do you say you ready for 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.720 the mailbag? Let's go, hio. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.760 Al it's. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:18.360 Mail bag, all right. First one up is alf from 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.800 the Great Beyond. These are actual letters. If you want 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.600 to send a message in you can send it right now. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.800 Won't get on today's mail bag because this is a podcast, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.520 but you can send it in anyway and we might 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.000 use it for next week. Make sure we put your 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.719 name in there if you want credit, name and city 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.520 so we can give you a little love. So the 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.039 mail bag, these are questions sending Ben Mahlor show is 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.560 the uh, well, that's the Facebook page. We don't really 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.040 use Facebook for this anymore. It's real fifth hour at 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:48.279 gmail dot com. That's all laters, no numbers. Real spell 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.440 it out r E A L and then f I 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.480 F T H h o U R at gmail dot com. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.680 Music provided as we said by ohio Al first one 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.240 up Alf from the Great Beyond. He says, gentlemen, I'll 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.080 try not to be Debbie Downer this week. But Masshole 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.719 Mickey had asked me weeks ago whether or not I 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.720 thought that you'd be doing a mail bag this week, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.680 and he told me he had a great question for you, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:18.080 which you teased last week when you read his question. Also, Ben, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.320 I thought you were the king of the tees. But 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.919 masshole Mickey has outdone you, because now I have to 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.120 wait until I passed through the pearly gates to ask 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.440 him what his question was. Oh Man Yeah. So now 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.799 for my mediocre question, do your wives really get into Christmas? 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.200 I mean, like multiple trees and Christmas village pieces and 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.719 decorations everywhere, like the ones that my wife puts all 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.880 over the Alpha State. Before we get to that, I 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:51.360 did want to address Masshole Mickey major depression. Obviously, we're very, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.400 very sad. We did the mail bag last week. I 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.440 did not find out that Masshole Mickey had died until 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.280 we found out. I found out on Sunday during I 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.480 think it was Sunday during the day what I believe. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.000 I'm trying to think of the timeline. But at the 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.880 time we did the mailbag, we did not know that 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.680 he had had died. He died on his way to work. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.080 And my condolences to his family, obviously as his wife 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.840 and his kids there and his friends many and I 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.240 want to thank his friends. A lot of times Danny 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.640 and people pass away we don't know, and his buddies 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.960 who were also out delivering newspapers or whatever the stores. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.480 They all listened to the show. They're fans of the show, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.680 and they knew him from the show, and they listened 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.880 to the show and they wanted me to know that 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.120 he had passed away on his way to work and 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.200 just terrible. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.800 Super sad. We you and I were texting about it 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.080 to start the week, and not only was he a 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.680 big part of this Fifth Hour podcast, but he signed 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.080 up on Twitter just so he could communicate with us 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.640 on Twitter. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.280 Yeah. I know he loved the show. And I met 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.760 him when I was back in Boston. We were taking 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.280 some stuff for the TV show and I said, like, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.600 last minute, I a couple hours noticed. I was like, Hey, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.360 I'm gonna be outside Bova's Bakery on the North End. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.640 Anybody wants to meet me, come down. I give nobody 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.520 really heads up, and mass Ole Mickey's such a big 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.760 fan that he drove. He lives out near Worcester, and 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.200 he drove all the way in to see me and 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.800 hang out for like, you know, twenty thirty minutes or 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.280 whatever it was. And I talked to blind Scott a 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.760 little bit this week, and blind Scott had gotten there 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.040 a little bit earlier and was catching up with mass 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.719 Ole Mickey, and blind Scott was really emotional about it too. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.080 We were talking about you know, he had told me 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.840 how big a deal the show was for him and 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.760 how he loved it and it was such a big 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.480 part of his routine, mass O Mickey, and it was 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.839 just just sat all the way around, especially and he 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.120 almost died during the summer. He told me the story 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.800 about he had had major medical problems. He had a 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.720 big operation and a lot of health problems, and you know, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.240 he got over that and he went right back to 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.280 work because he had to provide food, you know, money 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.520 for the family and whatnot, and so he quickly went 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.400 back to work. And yeah, I don't know what happened. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.240 I know, I don't know all the details. I just 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.720 know he was in an accident eno if he had 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.480 a heart attack or there was the weather was bad, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.199 which I heard the weather was bad as he was 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.280 driving work. I don't know about all that, but just 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.320 just a sad deal. I mean, he was around our age, Danny, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.200 a little bit younger than us. And then that's it. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.720 Lights out. But rest in peace, mass While Mickey will 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.240 We'll miss you, and a lot of people were touched. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.360 I mean, it's I heard from a lot of folks. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.280 It's one of those things. They'd heard his name a 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.079 lot because he used a lot of it on Twitter. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.360 He only called in a few times, but a lot 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.240 of email questions for this podcast, and also he would 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.120 send us messages on Twitter all the time. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.719 So but he really was a nice dude, and he 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:59.240 had a great sense of humor obviously, good taste and radio. Yes, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.840 and I'm going to name the podcast today in tribute 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.000 to him, Masshole, Mickey mailbag no good. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.560 Yeah, I mean he was. He was great man. I 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.520 loved hearing about his life. And he had worked as 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.320 a chef, he had some health problems, you know that's 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.800 obviously couldn't do that anymore, and spent a little time 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:22.440 in California, had in San Diego, and it was good 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.559 to get to know him a little bit. And I'm 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.240 really happy I got to meet him. I obviously did 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.080 not think that would be the you know, the end 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.040 of it. I thought I'd see him every year, going back. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.080 Hopefully the TV show gets picked up and we go 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.760 back and hang out and catch up, you know, a 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.440 year after year and all that. But you never know. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.360 That's the craziness of life, right, You don't know when 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.160 that's it. And this is the second time that's happened 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.120 where I met a listener at an event and within 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.959 a couple months they died. There was a guy Rick 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.600 in Boston. This goes back probably fifteen sixteen years. I 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.079 was with Mikey Adams. We were bar hopping around Boston. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.480 Mikey Adams is a big nighttime guy wi and he 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.560 knew that guy was like the mayor of Boston, knew 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.880 every bartender complete you know, he loved drinking. So we 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.240 would bounce from bar to bar around Boston. And Rick, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.480 this guy, one of our callers, showed up and it 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.800 was really cool. And again, you know, died in a 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.959 car accident and I remember Rick, and that kind of 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.520 triggered that memory of Rick from Masshole. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:23.880 Mickey. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.360 As far as the question, alf, I yeah, I mean 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.800 my wife is obsessed with Christmas. I'm Jewish, so I 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.720 you know, I'm not. We celebrate the spirit of Christmas 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.000 at the house, but not the not really religious stuff. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.439 But I mean, yeah, there's lights, there's the tree, and 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:47.080 this already yesterday, Danny. On Saturday, we went out and 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.360 got the tree. Uh, and my wife's like, she's reading 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.959 these stories online. She's like, well, you know, you don't 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.480 want to get it too soon because you know you'll 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.800 dry out and it's a fire hazard. And then like 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.600 two days later, let's go get the tree, you know, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.000 so it's like, well, no, that's proba too soon. But yeah, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:07.240 there's lights everywhere, all kinds of decorations. It's pretty pretty crazy. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.360 What about you, Danny, your wife all over the Christmas. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.720 For me, my mom didn't like the origins of Christmas 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.400 and thought it had pagan roots and didn't want to 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.080 follow the crowd to be like a sheep. Okay, she 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.440 didn't do Christmas. She didn't say anything bad about it 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.280 to anybody, but she just didn't celebrate, which was fine. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.120 So growing up I wasn't accustomed to it. As an adult, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.720 it's been like whatever because I don't have any tradition 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.640 with it. But my Wifey loves it because she has 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.520 great memories of doing it with her kids and traditions 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.959 and so Black Friday, as I was preparing to watch 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.080 The Raiders, she was preparing the Christmas tree and decorations. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.320 She took everything out of the balcony closet with very 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.720 serious OCD put everything in the exact same spot it 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:04.080 was last Christmas, with some improvements from Amazon. So yeah, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.079 she's really really into it. And she's one of those 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.880 ladies where she wants to take pictures where the whole 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.959 family has matching pajamas. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.839 Oh boy, those are the things when your kids are old. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.280 They're like, holy fuck. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.360 I'm always going to be one of those kids. Because 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.680 she took a picture like that last year and I 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.360 was the only one not in the matching pajamas. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.640 You're like, I'm a Raider fan. I cannot do it. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.319 Yeah, not even for family. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.280 Yeah, I hear you, all right. Next up Jose from 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.640 Van Eyes Beautiful Van Eyes, right, sin He says, Yeah, guys, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.080 bet I like the videos you post on Instagram about 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.480 the TV show. I gotta know, though, Have you and 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:52.080 Tom gotten stopped by security while you wander around Universal Studios? No, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.960 not really, there was one. It was one time. Tom's 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.680 still embarrassed we did that. There was a security guard 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:02.000 that they're always driving by these little golf carts Universal Students. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:06.600 Now we have actual passes. Like it's very weird, Hojse 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.440 we're there. We feel like interlopers, like we don't really 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.640 belong there. We feel like we should be on one 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.400 of the trams that goes by every thirty minutes. But 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.400 we're allowed. I mean, we have a pass, we got 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.520 cleared by security. We are working, we do the TV 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.320 show from there, So it's very bizarre. It does feel 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.320 like you don't belong there. And we keep going further 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.640 and further back in Universal Studios, and the tram goes by, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.920 and this is again this week. We were filming the 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.320 video and the tram went by and. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:40.680 We yeah, I saw that, And because you were panning 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.240 your camera around a little bit, I recognized exactly where 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.960 you guys were standing from the tram tour when they 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.240 take you by and they show you different buildings that 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.440 writers work in across from the studio. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we were walking that's like 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.480 the main street on the back lot. You walk down 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.080 that street and there's like a little dining kitchen area, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.600 there's a writer's room, there's studios all across there. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:09.440 That's gotta feel cool. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.920 Oh, it feels awesome. It feels just amazing. It's it's all. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.600 It's so great to do it. But yeah, one time 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.240 we got stopped again, I don't want to say stop 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.560 by security, but a guy came by and asked us 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.760 if we needed to direct. He thought we were lost 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.800 or something like that. You know, he didn't know who 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:27.880 we were, and you. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.640 Know, Louis that's got to be because of the dumb 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:30.800 look on Looney's face. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.720 Looney, of course was hurt by that because Looney wants 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.120 everyone to know who Looney is. I of course want 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.000 no one to know who I am. But we're complete 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.960 opposites in that in that regard. But it's been been 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.960 great fun and I appreciate it. It does remind me of 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.360 the early days of Fox Sports Radio. I have so 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.680 many great memories. When Fox Sports Radio launched, we had 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.440 studios at the Fox Lot in West La on Pico 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.600 and this is amazing. We would go out, and I've 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.200 told stories before, my buddy and we would run around 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.160 the Fox Lot. I'd just go there sometimes and hang 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.320 out and then they didn't care. It was very laid back. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.360 There was hardly any security. Just go through the guard 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.400 gate going there and we would f around on the 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.560 New York set, the backdrop of New York. And then 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.320 nine to eleven happened and that was it. You know, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.480 they I couldn't get anyone in after nine to eleven, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.120 But before that it was cool. But this is a 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.880 lot of fun. So but yeah, security is not. They 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.680 really don't bother us. They just one time and Loony's 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.800 got all offended by that. Reggie from Detroit wright say, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.760 He says, Ben and Danny, I know you guys don't 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.760 do sporty on the podcast. I know your thoughts. Ben, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.680 I heard your monologue. How does Danny feel about Blake 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.680 Snell going to his Dodgers? 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.560 Oh, I'm glad this is a question this week. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.200 Yeah, so, I don't know if you have the same beef. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.640 I I don't like Blake Snell. I don't. I was 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.560 very clear about that. He's a good ballplayer, but I 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.200 don't like him. I don't think you have his much 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.040 hatred as I have for But where are you at 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:02.560 on that? Dan? 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.159 No, he doesn't bother me specifically, But what bothers me 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.200 and I still have a bad taste in my mouth 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.919 is the uh. It was Thanksgiving Day, actually Thanksgiving morning. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.399 Covino and Rich were filling in for Dan Patrick, and 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.520 one of their big topics that morning was the Dodgers 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.480 are the new evil Empire. I had a Yankees fan 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.520 and a Mets fan ganging up on me saying it 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.880 wasn't fair what the Dodgers are doing with contracts. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.280 Oh stop so stupid. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.240 You know, normally I get along really really well with 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.240 Coveno and Rich. They're good friends now, but I wanted 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.760 to punch both of them in the throat that morning 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.960 because I felt like that argument from them was beneath them, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:57.400 especially being ironically a die hard Yankees fan and Mets fan, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.439 because all baseball teams for money and try for the 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.560 big whale free agents, and the bottom line is these 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.439 players want to be Dodgers and chose the Dodgers, and 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.240 all the fans that are hating on the Dodgers right now, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.600 to me, it just screams jealousy. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.160 The other thing is, you understand, like people are debating 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.119 are they gonna get rid of deferred money. They're never 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:26.200 gonna get rid of deferred money, because what's gonna happen, Danny, 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.040 and I was talking to somebody who works in baseball, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.199 and they all kind of thought the same thing, Like 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.199 the Dodgers for the next ten or twelve years are 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.239 gonna be set, but after that they're screwed, like with 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.119 all this deferred money with the Otani contract, so they better. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:42.760 I mean, we're gonna be old, Danny. But by the 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.640 time we're old, they're gonna blow. I mean, they're gonna 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.840 have so much deferred money, it's highly unlikely. I think 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.280 the team will probably be sold by then, and then 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.359 whoever buys it is going to inherit all this debt 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.600 that they're gonna have to pay out but not it's gonna. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.240 Be like a huge radio company. 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.600 You ain't kid, oh man, what are you doing moment? 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.680 But Benny, what's funny is though, when the Dodgers fell 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.000 on their faces two postseasons in a row, we didn't 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:14.639 hear any of this. 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.160 Oh no, it was the Dodgers of failures. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.280 All these same people had all these jokes about the choker, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.440 the choking Dodgers. So come on, man, So you're switching 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:27.920 from that to now this. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.080 Yeah, and Will Smith the Catcher is a homegrown play 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:32.840 that's oh. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.760 I I brought him up more than once, and they 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.960 were making fun of me because I set his name 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.760 more than one time. They're like, you keep going back 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.199 to Will Smith, and I'm like, cause he's one of 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:43.800 our core players. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:45.880 Yeah, exactly, exactly. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.959 So yeah, it just bugs me because I didn't think 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.119 they would go down that road. They're usually above the 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.520 petty sports cry baby stuff. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.439 Well, you mark my words. When Juan Soto signs with 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.879 either the Yankees or the Mets. It'll be a lot 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.040 deferred money. I be shocked if it's not. And then 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.199 you can say, well, what about what about soda? What 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.119 about one soda you got? You know you signed soda 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:09.399 a deferred. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.440 Mondy I at this point, I am praying the Dodgers 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.320 get Sodo, because now I want them to fucking sign everybody. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.399 No no, no, no days off? All right, Mike and 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.200 Fullerton writes, and he says, Hi, Ben and g I'm 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.879 not exaggerating a bit when I say Friday's Talk with 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.000 Brian Finley his hands down the greatest fifth Hour episode 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:35.880 of all time. Did you know you were recording podcast 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.159 in the moment or did it hit you afterwards? And 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.359 when you say getting Finley on the show is your 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:46.320 biggest get since Brian Billick, that's from I put your 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.520 pants back on, Mike, put your pants back up? Bet 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:54.360 you that by you come on, daddy, Daddy. I told 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.879 numb nuts, I said, listen, I felt bad the company 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.480 laid them off, and so I said, well, I'll throw 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.240 your bone. And plus I think it was Mike and 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.439 Fullerton that ferg dog that paid twenty thousand dollars for 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.560 that appearance, So that was a paid appearance. Nick and 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.639 Wisconsin Right. Since its Ben and Danny. I've missed contributing 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.800 the last couple of months, always listening, but just purchased 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:19.159 my first house. Congratulations, dig Mazle. Getting to the question 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.000 with Thanksgiving just a couple of days removed? What is 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.639 the worst small talk that happens at your Thanksgiving family 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.520 get togethers? My very leftist grandparents loved talking politics. Oh, 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.360 can't stand it? Later, skater got a murder, gotta go? 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.399 Yeah? Were they comparing their best Trump dance. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.199 It's a tough one. You want to want to sit 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:46.720