Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio A Happy Championship Sunday Conference Championship.
Speaker 1: But what is the name?
Speaker 3: Dan?
Speaker 1: Do we have an official name for today? I just
Speaker 1: know it's the Final Four. I call it the Final Four.
Speaker 3: I think they're calling it the Super Championship round weekend
Speaker 3: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So just watch and we'll get massive ratings.
Speaker 3: It's a little wordy.
Speaker 1: We'll send out a press release on Tuesday, how great
Speaker 1: there were and how everyone watches the NFL because you're
Speaker 1: all addicted, and that's it. That's what you're all addicted.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 3: So besides the Seahawks and Rams, your Rams, the other
Speaker 3: game is underwhelming.
Speaker 1: Let's say if the Patriots don't win that game today,
Speaker 1: there there are some issues. How do you you can't
Speaker 1: back up quarterback? And everyone brings up Nick Foles and
Speaker 1: Jeff Hostel, but how many other backup quarterbacks have played
Speaker 1: in our lifetime Danny and sucked the odds? Is it
Speaker 1: possible one day you know that the Broncos. Everything goes
Speaker 1: right in my mind and you watch Benny versus the
Speaker 1: Penny on YouTube, there's picks for both games today. But
Speaker 1: in my mind, I mean I did pick the Broncos
Speaker 1: in the game. I did take them plus the points.
Speaker 1: I think the points are too big. The Patriots should
Speaker 1: win the game is come on, now should win?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did the same thing. I think the Patriots
Speaker 3: are going to win the game by four points, and
Speaker 3: so Vegas is trying to lure people in. And I
Speaker 3: think it opened at five and a half and it's
Speaker 3: sitting at four and a half on DraftKings. But I
Speaker 3: told this to CNR on the air a few days ago.
Speaker 3: Imagine if Davis Mills had gotten into that game instead
Speaker 3: of CJ. Stroud riding the vomit comment as you would say,
Speaker 3: that's right, and the Texans got past the Patriots, we
Speaker 3: would have had Davis Mills versus Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Well, the NFL, the NFL will say, and
Speaker 1: it is true that it doesn't really matter who's in
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. In our lifetime, we've seen the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals get to the Super Bowl. We've seen the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers get a couple times get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So it has happened. Although like of the possible matchups,
Speaker 1: a Sam Darnold Jared Stidham matchup in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is really lacking a lot of That's not like the
Speaker 1: match I mean, the made for TV matchup would be
Speaker 1: Stafford versus Drake May. The top two MVP guys, one
Speaker 1: of them is going to win the MVP And you
Speaker 1: know how they do this super Bowl week they have
Speaker 1: the Gallo Award ceremony, So a couple of days a
Speaker 1: Friday before I think it's the Friday before or the
Speaker 1: Thursday before the Super Bowl, they have the big.
Speaker 3: Award show, NFL Honors.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so one of them will win the MVP
Speaker 1: Award and to have that matchup would be pretty good.
Speaker 1: That would be night Patriots back, different coach, different quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's something there. And the Rams with the prodigy, Sean McVay,
Speaker 1: and then Stafford the magical season, storybook season. That shocks
Speaker 1: me that they're in this final four. I was doing monologues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I talked about this on the show the other night.
Speaker 1: I was doing monologues before the season about Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: being the quarterback because it seemed like Stafford wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play. He couldn't practice, his back was
Speaker 1: all messed up. They brought in this truck special like
Speaker 1: Boodoo Doc Mike, like doctor Guy to come Stafford and
Speaker 1: here we are, one good day away from getting back to.
Speaker 3: The super Bowl. Let's keep it real. And you're from
Speaker 3: the Jackiees later days. Yes, yeah, that's been amazing with him.
Speaker 3: Slater used to miss preseasons and he told somebody in
Speaker 3: an interview that I saw or read that the more
Speaker 3: preseasons he missed, the more the more training camps he missed,
Speaker 3: the more seasons he got to play. And so they
Speaker 3: just need to keep Stafford out for the next two
Speaker 3: training camps so he can extend his career even longer.
Speaker 1: I know, well the quote Jackie slid what in the web?
Speaker 3: Yeah didn't, wasn't Jackie The one who got disconnected.
Speaker 1: I think Jackie had a TV. He had a more
Speaker 1: important interview, so he cut me off.
Speaker 3: And that's that's what it was. He rushed you off
Speaker 3: the phone.
Speaker 1: He had TV waiting for him, so podcast TV. He
Speaker 1: ran away. But I did get to tell Jackie my
Speaker 1: memory of going to RAMS training camp as a kid.
Speaker 1: My mom would drop me off in a different time
Speaker 1: and I just there was like hardly any security. There
Speaker 1: was like one rent a cop with a folding chair
Speaker 1: and us, you know, I just I want. I hung
Speaker 1: out with the offensive lineman and they were farting and
Speaker 1: cursing and talking wild and I, every second of his
Speaker 1: little kid thought that was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: So here we are. Championship in the NFL today. A
Speaker 1: final two will be set Super Bowl a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks away. Let's get to the mailbag. What do you say,
Speaker 1: Danny G mailbag time? Here we go.
Speaker 3: It's this mail.
Speaker 1: Bag, ohio al getting me in the mood and first
Speaker 1: up on the mailbag. These are actual letters by actual
Speaker 1: listeners to the show. We thank you. When we first
Speaker 1: started this podcast, I started with Gascon long ago. We
Speaker 1: had to beg people, we had to I was posting
Speaker 1: on Facebook to get questions. It was like it was pathetic.
Speaker 1: But fortunately the podcast is picked up and with Danny
Speaker 1: here and whatnot, we we've done very well. So thank
Speaker 1: you guys for sending questions. And I never have to
Speaker 1: beg I have not had to beg in sometimes, so
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that. First up is uh Danny in Nashville,
Speaker 1: who writes in. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: real life work is a biach and my girlfriend is
Speaker 1: eight months pregnant, so I am not able to call
Speaker 1: into the show, but I still listen to your guys shows,
Speaker 1: podcast all that stuff. What are your thoughts? Danny and
Speaker 1: Nashville says on the trend of colleges like Alabama and
Speaker 1: Baylor signing G League professionals and they're immediately eligible, the
Speaker 1: NCAA explicitly said the Alabama G League guy was not eligible,
Speaker 1: but a Tuscaloosa Circuit judge, who is a six figure
Speaker 1: donor to the program, gave him a restraining order against
Speaker 1: the NCAA. He is now allowed to play against Tennessee,
Speaker 1: he said, And I guess I guess this already happened.
Speaker 1: What the f is going on? With college sports at
Speaker 1: this point. It's semi pro God bless, that's Danny. So
Speaker 1: first of all, Danny and Nashville, where have you been.
Speaker 1: It's been this way for a number of years. This
Speaker 1: is not all of a sudden a new revelation from
Speaker 1: college basketball nation. It's been this way for some time.
Speaker 1: It is bizarre that they're letting G League guys play
Speaker 1: college basketball, although it's a logical step because what's the difference.
Speaker 1: You're still paying them whether they went to the G
Speaker 1: League or not. Uh, And this is the way it is.
Speaker 1: I hate Danny. The government meddling in this stuff. I
Speaker 1: know that's where this is headed, and it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: suck because there's gonna be it's bad now. But then
Speaker 1: they're gonna put a bunch of rules in that, you know,
Speaker 1: be government oversight, and that's not gonna be any good either.
Speaker 1: So there's really not a great show.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear Trump talk about this. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to fix this with all this nil stuff,
Speaker 3: especially with college football kind of I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be honest. I kind of liked it better when the
Speaker 3: deals were made in the shadows in the back alleys
Speaker 3: with bags of cash.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, Well I always felt guilty watching because it
Speaker 1: was so ridiculous when they that bull crab student athlete,
Speaker 1: which was never really the case. It was all a
Speaker 1: bull crap. Uh. And then this is like the other extreme.
Speaker 1: It's like you go from one wing of the plane
Speaker 1: to the other wing of the plane. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be in the middle of the plane.
Speaker 1: I want to be on the right or the left wing.
Speaker 1: I want to be in the middle. You can't be
Speaker 1: in the middle. It does. It just feels dirty. Like
Speaker 1: the guys that are transferring while they're on teams that
Speaker 1: are playing for the championship. There are guys in entering
Speaker 1: the portal. It just seems very odd. But here we
Speaker 1: are so the guys that play, like the Mississippi old
Speaker 1: miss quarterback who's played six years tried to get a
Speaker 1: seventh year of eligibility. I don't know if he got it.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, Ben. The portal shouldn't be well that
Speaker 3: school has ten million for me and you only have
Speaker 3: five million for me. The portal should be for guys
Speaker 3: who are backing up a star player and they get
Speaker 3: lost a little bit on the bench can have an
Speaker 3: opportunity to start for another team. I think that that's
Speaker 3: why it was put into place.
Speaker 1: Well whatever they whatever they decided it was for, is
Speaker 1: not being used for that, and they should have a
Speaker 1: clear window. Like to me, this is one thing I
Speaker 1: would be on board. If you're a football player and
Speaker 1: you're going to transfer, make sure it's after the National
Speaker 1: Championship game. It's kind of you know how that we
Speaker 1: were kids in the World Series and then like the
Speaker 1: day after the World Series, one of the players would
Speaker 1: get not released, but kind of put on like they
Speaker 1: would announce certain players We're not gonna be on the
Speaker 1: team because you have it within seven days of the
Speaker 1: World after the World Series. But it's after the World
Speaker 1: Series or after the like after the Super Bowl. Let's
Speaker 1: say the Rams when and when they go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Well yeah, some of those guys will end
Speaker 1: up getting put on what waivers or whatever after the game,
Speaker 1: but not prior to the game. It just seems seems odd.
Speaker 1: So there will be government oversight. Danny and Nashville and
Speaker 1: I like that you're all grown up. Danny used to
Speaker 1: call the show back in the day, and he was
Speaker 1: a kid. Now he's all grown up, he's got the girlfriends,
Speaker 1: about to pop out a kid, he's got a job
Speaker 1: that he hates. So life is good. Danny in Nashville,
Speaker 1: you're living on adault life.
Speaker 3: May the Lord be with you. I remember what it
Speaker 3: was like when Brenda was eight months breaknant.
Speaker 1: I'm good luck, Danny, good luck.
Speaker 3: You know it's a blessing now, man, I love having
Speaker 3: CoA in my life. But at the time and going
Speaker 3: through a pregnancy with somebody, there were several times I
Speaker 3: wanted to go for a pack of cigarettes. If you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying here, I hear you.
Speaker 1: Ryan C from Shrewsbury, mass Writes and he said, hello boys,
Speaker 1: It's been a while since I emailed you, but I
Speaker 1: still listen to every episode and at least the last
Speaker 1: half hour of the Overnight Show. My question this week
Speaker 1: for both of you guys, first, been any updates on
Speaker 1: coming to Worcester. I plan on making myself available whenever
Speaker 1: that is. I would love to finally meet you and
Speaker 1: everyone else as well. And Danny, you haven't been on
Speaker 1: the pod lately. What's new and is everything all right
Speaker 1: with you? Love hearing your stories Danny and noticed an
Speaker 1: apologies in advance of some me personal that's Ryan and Shrewsbury.
Speaker 1: I'll go first, right, So I am going to be
Speaker 1: coming to Worcester at some point this year, according to
Speaker 1: the Leprechaun and our friend in New Hampshire, and we
Speaker 1: haven't picked a date yet. The plan was to try
Speaker 1: to get to a WU Socks game and throw out
Speaker 1: the first pitch. That was something that was big for
Speaker 1: Masshole Mickey or Mikey rather, who passed away a couple
Speaker 1: of years. I guess it's been a couple of years now.
Speaker 1: I don't have time fly, so we're looking at most
Speaker 1: likely after maybe late April, early May, something along those lines.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it'll be sometime in May. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It might not be then, it could be later on.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting to hear back from the Leprechaun with some
Speaker 1: possible dates. So that's that's the plan. We'll keep you
Speaker 1: posting on that. Ryan and Dan here here you're juggling
Speaker 1: a lot of things right with the kid and Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich and all that, So it's a lot going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my schedule has been as you know, well, this
Speaker 3: has been an ongoing thing where not only am I
Speaker 3: juggling Coveno and Rich and having a new kid and
Speaker 3: all that, but also I think during the mailbag somebody
Speaker 3: asks a couple months back if I was going to
Speaker 3: work for the school district again. The answer is yes.
Speaker 3: I've been waking my ass up early every morning doing
Speaker 3: a morning job, then going to the network doing that job,
Speaker 3: and then doing podcasting on the weekend. So my schedule's
Speaker 3: been you know, hey, it's radio, right, we have to
Speaker 3: have like three or four bustles to survive in broadcasting.
Speaker 3: If you want to live in southern California and you
Speaker 3: want to live well, you have to have at least
Speaker 3: three jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot going on, And for me, I
Speaker 1: do the overnight show and then I'll usually go out
Speaker 1: and bang my head against the wall for about an hour,
Speaker 1: and then I'll come back and record the podcast, like
Speaker 1: on Fridays. That's usually how that goes. I'll just come
Speaker 1: back and just start yapping away. But it's yeah, with
Speaker 1: your schedule working in the morning, we usually record this
Speaker 1: in the morning, so it's a logistical logistical issue there.
Speaker 1: But you'll be as much as you can, right. We
Speaker 1: che to get you on as much as as we
Speaker 1: can get you on there, Yes.
Speaker 3: Sir, And I'm going to be live from the super
Speaker 3: Bowl again, just like last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be. We'll be doing some podcasts from Radio
Speaker 1: Row again. The Fifth Hour podcast will be live on
Speaker 1: tape from Radio Row. I cannot wait. We had Emmett
Speaker 1: Smith on, we had Adrian Peak on the path, we
Speaker 1: had some big names just hanging out at Radio Row.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Asking me be fun to.
Speaker 3: Dude and Ben. With other parts of the country giving
Speaker 3: like eleven feet of snow in two days, How lucky
Speaker 3: are we this year that the Super bowls in California. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's great.
Speaker 1: It would have been nice though, if one of these
Speaker 1: games played today was played in like a bank of snow,
Speaker 1: that would have been awesome to watch, just not to
Speaker 1: go to, but to watch. But yeah, I've already heard
Speaker 1: from my friends in Boston that the Boston guys are
Speaker 1: complaining about the Super Bowl being in San Francisco because
Speaker 1: the logistics Radio Row is in downtown San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: then the game and the festivities are at the stadium,
Speaker 1: which is like an hour drive. So they're already complaining
Speaker 1: Danny about that. They haven't even gotten there and they're
Speaker 1: already complaining about the logistics of that.
Speaker 3: You'll love this because you have the cheap skate moves
Speaker 3: for Valentine's Day and celebrate after the holidays.
Speaker 1: Are a way to do it. Yeah, that's absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 3: You get your candy half off and all that. You're
Speaker 3: gonna love this. Next year super Bowl it's on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Okay? Where is next year's super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Is it in La or.
Speaker 3: Is it at so far now Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I'll definitely bet that one. All right, all right, well,
Speaker 1: not at.
Speaker 3: The game maybe maybe this year. This year for you, girl,
Speaker 3: I got the super Bowl party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going. We're gonna watch the gay Yeah. Scott
Speaker 1: from Florida writes in he says, Hey, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: you had a game show caller named Scott on the
Speaker 1: Wednesday show. You kept saying Scott obviously, and it hurt
Speaker 1: my my hearing. I hurt my ears to hear the
Speaker 1: name because he was such a bad caller. It made
Speaker 1: me wonder, who is the worst Ben or Danny in
Speaker 1: the world. You know, the type of person with whom
Speaker 1: you are just disappointed that you share a name with
Speaker 1: them that is Scott So. Yeah. I don't really thought
Speaker 1: about it. There's not too many people named Ben, so
Speaker 1: I don't have that many options. There's many more people
Speaker 1: named Dan or Danny.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm trying to think off the top of my head.
Speaker 3: Do there's some classics like Daniel Bonnatducci.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah he is?
Speaker 3: He still video celebrity boxing. I think he did mornings
Speaker 3: for years in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. He did show in l A too,
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 3: He did. Yeah, for the old classics.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to like famous Ben's Ben.
Speaker 3: Stiller, Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, O g Ben, one of our founding fathers.
Speaker 3: Come on, John Miller, That's that's Benjamin Franklin. Right.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like he doesn't look like any how
Speaker 1: many other bends. I can't really think of many bends.
Speaker 1: There's not it's not a popular name.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 1: There's not Ben Kingsley that he's old. Is he still alive?
Speaker 1: He's he was old.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, I got one. I got one. I got one.
Speaker 1: I just it just hit me, It just hit me.
Speaker 1: Most embarrassing Ben Ben Simmons, the NBA player Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: that guy given gifts, talented basketball player who the pro fisherman? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: guy's a bum the guy that that is the most embarrassing.
Speaker 1: But I mean with all, there's probably some YouTube or
Speaker 1: TikTok or something like that, but I don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 3: So who cares?
Speaker 1: Those people aren't They don't. They don't exist in my world.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Ben Simmons embarrassing that number one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft, tremendous gifts as a basketball player, and just
Speaker 1: hates basketball, doesn't give a shit. So that's it. That's
Speaker 1: the one for me. Have you settled, Well, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't paying.
Speaker 3: Were you settling on your most annoying Dan? A lot
Speaker 3: of Dan's in sports when you think about it, Dan Levittar,
Speaker 3: Dan Patrick, Dan Byer, Dan Byer coach of line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Dan Byer makes jokes. Buyer makes jokes all the time
Speaker 3: that he's going to start an only Dan's page.
Speaker 1: I have a Satin Knight John On. Yeah, oh, there
Speaker 1: are tons of dance. That's a Remember Dan Quayle, your
Speaker 1: old Dan Quayle, the Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 3: Sure really smart. He was known for being a high
Speaker 3: iq politician, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's the most embarrassing Dan? Though, I don't there's
Speaker 1: some Dan Marino was awesome back in the day.
Speaker 3: He's old, but he was great. Now.
Speaker 1: That's not embarrassing. The greatest cartoon voiceover guy Dan Castellanata
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson, that's a Dan. I don't think of any
Speaker 1: bad dance.
Speaker 3: Any embarrassing ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. All right, thank you, Scott. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: created some podcast conversation for that.
Speaker 3: We're great. Shouts out to Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Legend Alf from the bomb cyclone hitting
Speaker 1: the eastern Seaboards has greetings from the snowy Bay State Chairman.
Speaker 1: If you live in an area of the country that
Speaker 1: had a snowy winter, would you shovel your property yourself
Speaker 1: or would you hire someone to take care of it?
Speaker 1: That's from Alf. What I would do is hire. I
Speaker 1: would buy one of those really nice snowblowers, and I
Speaker 1: think that would be fun. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: want to hold a shovel like it's seventeen thirty seven,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If I could get a
Speaker 1: nice snow I would I would do that. In fact,
Speaker 1: that could be a good hustle, Danny during the snow
Speaker 1: time you were, and we have guys that call the
Speaker 1: overnight show that are seasonal workers that drive the snowplow
Speaker 1: trucks and they're out there hustling. But I'm saying, just
Speaker 1: cleaning people's property of snow, that would be a nice
Speaker 1: little extra hustle for you. I mean, paid a decent
Speaker 1: amount of money for doing that, I would think. But
Speaker 1: I would not use a shovel, alf. I would buy
Speaker 1: one of those cool snowblower things at home, deeper or
Speaker 1: lows or whatever, and that would be my move. So
Speaker 1: what about you, Danny.
Speaker 3: I would hire some dumb kid from down the street.
Speaker 1: Some dumb dumb dumb dumdumb dumb dumb.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I probably wouldn't be that dumb because me and
Speaker 3: ten other neighbors. It's a hustle right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Fer Dog in Fullerton rights and he says,
Speaker 1: happy Conference championsh Sunday, Ben and Danny g Just like
Speaker 1: nine years ago when the Clippers were on top of
Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Bus family were a mess, all
Speaker 1: is right in the world once again. You love to
Speaker 1: see it. As a fan of the people's team, Who
Speaker 1: do you think got more of a raw deal. Roberto
Speaker 1: the bus driver who paid a king's ransom for Dodgers
Speaker 1: World Series tickets to watch the Astros, or poor a
Speaker 1: little Justin Cooper who flew halfway across the country to
Speaker 1: watch the Broncos win just to learn his starting quarterback
Speaker 1: is out for the rest of the playoffs immediately after
Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, that stuff. Can I get a copy,
Speaker 1: he says, of Lucky Tony's rendition of It's a hard
Speaker 1: Knock Life. It's the best thing I've heard in my life,
Speaker 1: says Fergdug. So Ferg's a big fan of that. I
Speaker 1: like Lucky Tony singing the other song, which is much shorter,
Speaker 1: for he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, shorter is better with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so uh, I don't know who got it was.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for Roberto because that was that was
Speaker 1: just the Astros cheated and it was bull crap and
Speaker 1: they baseball has no balls and they didn't take the
Speaker 1: thing away, So I that one. I know he didn't
Speaker 1: travel across by the way, is Denver halfway across the country, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't think it is right. No, here's I looked
Speaker 1: it up just because for I was curious, what's halfway
Speaker 1: across the country. So halfway between LA where we do
Speaker 1: the show from in Boston. The halfway point, Danny is Lincoln,
Speaker 1: Lancaster County, Nebraska. So wow, Lincoln, Nebraska where the Cornhuskers plays.
Speaker 1: Halfway between LA and Boston, it would it's fourteen one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four miles, so one thousand, four hundred
Speaker 1: ninety four miles from LA, and it's one thousand, four
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two miles from Boston. So that's there's
Speaker 1: a fun that's a fun fact, Danny. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a fun.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good bar trivia.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right?
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Lucky Tony, speaking of the Devil as email shall appear, says,
Speaker 1: hey been in Danny g for five years. I've been
Speaker 1: hearing Tom Looney being reverenced as a schmuck, and then
Speaker 1: I see him on Benny Versus the Penny. He seems
Speaker 1: all right, what am I missing? And is another Mike
Speaker 1: North appearance coming soon? I would love to hear his
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Bears season bars signed, Lucky Tony, I
Speaker 1: do another appealing Looney's an asshole. Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I mean Looney, Uh, Loudey's a character,
Speaker 1: Luonny's Loudy's I've always got a well, I've known Looney
Speaker 1: for a long time. He goes way back uh Loony
Speaker 1: Tunes and he's uh, he's a big personality guy, big talker,
Speaker 1: that whole thing. You know, he's got that going for him.
Speaker 3: So Looney, he's a he's a very nice guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I also worked with him. And when I worked
Speaker 3: with him, I found out really quick that he was
Speaker 3: always the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 1: Well, he has the answer to everything. It's great. You
Speaker 1: should never take real estate advice from Tom Looney ever.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 1: Ever, I am still dealing with the fallout from that
Speaker 1: that goes back now eighteen years, a decision that I
Speaker 1: still regret to this day. And also personnel moves he'll
Speaker 1: recommend certain people. The thing about Looney is he's your
Speaker 1: typical LA guy, lucky Tony. He loves celebrity. I don't
Speaker 1: really get that worked up by famous people. I don't
Speaker 1: hate them, I just don't really. It doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: for me because they're just normal people. When you pull
Speaker 1: back all that stuff. But Looney loves celebrity.
Speaker 3: You are more excited by costco samples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited about meeting the people that are
Speaker 1: like famous in our show or whatever. But Looney, he
Speaker 1: loves celebrities. He would go to the Whole Foods down
Speaker 1: the street from the radio station in Sherman Oaks because
Speaker 1: that's where all the celebrities would shop. They live up
Speaker 1: in bel Air and they'd come down and shop for
Speaker 1: their tomatoes or whatever. And Looney, oh yeah, I ran
Speaker 1: into this back when Keith Jackson, the voice of college football,
Speaker 1: was alive. I ran it to Keith Jackson. He was
Speaker 1: buying tomatoes, and then Looney would tell some story about
Speaker 1: how you like, pretended like he was Keith Jackson doing
Speaker 1: play by play as Keith as Keith was picking tomatoes
Speaker 1: out stuff like that. He's not a bad guy. He's
Speaker 1: an interesting character. That's all character.
Speaker 3: And he was very talented at doing updates and playing
Speaker 3: drops and sound effects and all that. I miss his updates.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's updates. We you know, he's great. He
Speaker 1: was great. I mean, there's a lot of people this
Speaker 1: kind of coast. It's unfortunate they don't really put a
Speaker 1: lot of work into it. They treat it like they're
Speaker 1: working at the DMV, which is disappointing, you know, because
Speaker 1: I think we're a couple of old radio guys, right, Danny,
Speaker 1: I think you should take advantage that.
Speaker 3: You should.
Speaker 1: You should try.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, I always appreciated his creativity on the air.
Speaker 1: It does blow me away the amount of people that
Speaker 1: just don't value that, like Looney always made it his
Speaker 1: masterpiece and you should. And the people not naming any
Speaker 1: there's some people who just don't give a crap and
Speaker 1: you can tell by their work. It sucks. Kwang writes
Speaker 1: in from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, A regular, he says,
Speaker 1: guaranteed human Big Ben and Daddy G Radio a future
Speaker 1: topic of Baby Coa's Animal Thunderdome. A bloodhound can smell
Speaker 1: a human from two hundred yards, a wolf from one mile,
Speaker 1: a bear from three miles, and a polar bear from
Speaker 1: nine miles. Then he says, how far a head start
Speaker 1: would you need to get to safety? That's from Quang
Speaker 1: so I guess, Danny here, you're the Animal Thunderdome guy,
Speaker 1: So how far would you have to be to get
Speaker 1: to safety? If a bloodhound can smell a human from
Speaker 1: two hundred yards, a wolf from one mile, and a
Speaker 1: bear from three miles, and a polar bear from nine miles.
Speaker 1: What would the answer be, Danny, what do you think?
Speaker 3: And I wish I could tell you. Since I don't
Speaker 3: do this Animal Thunderdome podcast, I have no answer. As
Speaker 3: soon as that podcast begins, though, I will. I'll be
Speaker 3: like Looney and have the answers to everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, cour well, Cole.
Speaker 3: Is going to be doing it.
Speaker 1: You'll be too old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's his department. Bro. In fact, lay Travis has
Speaker 3: sent me three animal Thunderdome stories in the past two weeks.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that'll solve it. Why are you sending me
Speaker 3: these stories? I have no idea, but I am currently
Speaker 3: archiving them for CoA.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good, will be classic stories. Well, he can
Speaker 1: do a classic Thunderdome. You can go back.
Speaker 3: It's throw Back Thursday. I'm a Thunderdome. Let's go to
Speaker 3: one of my dad's computer files.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's a computer.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't use it, so we download them to our
Speaker 1: heads as what we did, Kwang and I would say
Speaker 1: ten miles because you said the longest distance is nine miles,
Speaker 1: so then if you're ten miles away, you could get
Speaker 1: to safety. I guess I don't know. I'll do a
Speaker 1: couple more and get out. We have Reggie from Detroit.
Speaker 1: Good to see Reggie's name in the email bag. He says,
Speaker 1: there's a new study that says kids are trying to
Speaker 1: use books like phones in class. And then he says, guys,
Speaker 1: how could this possibly be true? That's Reggie from Detroit
Speaker 1: and he sent me a story here Dan. It says
Speaker 1: nearly a third of children our starting school unable to
Speaker 1: use books properly, with some trying to swipe pages as
Speaker 1: if they were smartphones or tablets.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, hey, Ben, I believe this. I totally
Speaker 3: totally believe this because working at the middle school in
Speaker 3: the morning, I am around these kids every day. Now,
Speaker 3: the girls lately have been wearing ed Hardy sweats hold
Speaker 3: down on their butts. No, no, And you remember that
Speaker 3: ed Hardy brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah. These kids don't know anything about the past. You
Speaker 3: don't know anything about the future.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is that's how far back is that? That's
Speaker 1: like twenty years at least, right.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, it says
Speaker 3: is when ed Hardy reached its peak. So I was
Speaker 3: early wearing it before then, but two thousand and six
Speaker 3: it reached its peak, so exactly twenty years Bam ben mallar.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, I didn't didn't wear it, so I just guessed.
Speaker 1: I blindly guessed and I got it right.
Speaker 3: No, no shit, you didn't wear that. They don't sell
Speaker 3: that at Costco.
Speaker 1: I'll sell my size easither. I think this guy's in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He didn't give a city because he's an idiot. He
Speaker 1: sent me this story. I sent this to Rob Parker
Speaker 1: right away. There's Georgia. Lawmakers have introduced a bill that
Speaker 1: will make lemon pepper the official chicken wing flavor in
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia. And of course Rob Parker legendary
Speaker 1: for going to the was it Magic City? Oh yeah, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: this famous strip club, and remember Lou Williams, Sweet Lou
Speaker 1: left the bubble to go get a chicken wings at
Speaker 1: Magic City, the lemon pepper chicken wings. So it's appropriate
Speaker 1: that that would be the flavor. Now, my wife claims
Speaker 1: that that's just the most popular chicken wing flavor anyway,
Speaker 1: not just in Georgia. Do you think that's true, Danny,
Speaker 1: you think that's an accurate statement?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: In my house, it's honey barbecue.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think honey barbecue's more nationally more popular than
Speaker 1: lemon pepper.
Speaker 3: I would agree. I think lemon pepper maybe is third
Speaker 3: after traditional buffalo. Yeah. I would go honey barbecue, traditional buffalo,
Speaker 3: and then Lou Sweet Lou.
Speaker 1: I did send that story to our friend Rob Parker,
Speaker 1: and he did. He said he would approve that, so
Speaker 1: he gave the old fun You gotta have the bones, dude.
Speaker 3: He loves Magic City so much that every Monday on
Speaker 3: their show The Odd Couple, they call it Magic City Monday.
Speaker 1: Oh, free advertising for.
Speaker 3: And they play stripper music as they're bumps.
Speaker 1: What is the number one stripper song?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 1: What do you think of the number one song?
Speaker 3: I'm in Love with a stripper? He pain?
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, we'll get out on that.
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Speaker 1: on the radio. We did not talk about the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers hiring a new coach. I will have a mini
Speaker 1: Mallard monologue on that tonight. The Steelers so proud, Danny
Speaker 1: so happy, hired a new coach, Mike McCarthy. They did
Speaker 1: it on a Saturday news dump when most people are
Speaker 1: not really paying attention and locked in on that, which
Speaker 1: tells you the Steelers, No, that's not a popular hire.
Speaker 1: That's why on a Saturday.
Speaker 3: So and have you ever seen the meme of the
Speaker 3: old guy that gets a shirt as a Christmas gift
Speaker 3: and he's holding it up and it's the same exact
Speaker 3: shirt as the one he's wearing.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that the new guys the same as
Speaker 1: the old guys that you're referencing here, Danny the That's.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, I hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it seems seems difficult to believe that's gonna
Speaker 1: gonna work out, But we'll see.
Speaker 3: What is it even, Ben? Ben? Is it even a
Speaker 3: sideways move though? It seems like a move down the ladder?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like Mike Tomlin without the personality. I mean,
Speaker 1: so it's like, so, what are you doing? At least
Speaker 1: Tomlin is a good sound. McCarthy's not even it's just
Speaker 1: a goofball. He must be one hell of an interviewer.
Speaker 1: He has gotten the three great jobs, the Green Bay job,
Speaker 1: the Dallas job, These are these are iconic.
Speaker 3: You're not You're not kidding. Jerry Jones let him sleep
Speaker 3: over and made a Mickey Mouse pancakes the next morning.
Speaker 1: It's it's bananas, it is. Anyway, we'll get out, Danny'll
Speaker 1: be on with Comino Rich. I assume a regular week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday through yep, Monday through Friday, two to four
Speaker 3: pm on the West Side, that means five seven pm.
Speaker 3: And beautiful Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia, PA, the birthplace of our Freedomorrow, have a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful day. Talk to you next time.
Speaker 3: Later, skater gotta murder, I gotta go