1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere fraught with 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: danger in the podcast dojo. You never know what is 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: gonna pop up. It's lights, microphone, action, not camera because 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: we're on an audio platform as we try not to 11 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: rock the boat. But it's the Fifth Hour with Ben 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio. Yeah, Sunday is here. Both 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: of our teams played already, so we could just kind 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: to kick back and watch and you know, not feel 15 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: any pressure about our favorite team. Well, Danny, that might 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: be true, but I must expand your horizons as a gambler. 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: Every game matters. Every game that matters, Danny. So I'm 18 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: a nervous wreck on Sunday. Like it's the worst, man, 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: if you were around me on Sunday, Like, I'm like, okay, 20 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm winning that game. I'm losing that game, I'm like, 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: and then they flip around where I'm losing a game. 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: Then I end up winning a game, and it's it's 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: it's such a stressful day for me Sundays. And that 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: right there is exactly why I don't gamble on NFL football. 25 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: I do not need the nervous farts while I'm watching 26 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: my favorite sport. Yeah. The worst is when you bet 27 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: on a bad team and they're down twenty three right away, 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: and then you're like, okay, let me do the math 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: on how they can get back in the game and 30 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: cover the spread. Can I get a backdoor cover? But 31 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: every once in a while, Danny, like, on Thanksgiving you 32 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: were in Hawaii. I but but the New York Giants 33 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: in the Dallas Cowboys game with a couple of seconds 34 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: on the clock, the Giants scored a touchdown to cover 35 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: the spread, and I was roaring with approval. I was like, 36 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: all right, now that's good. See, that's a good thing. Now. 37 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: If they hadn't scored, I would have thrown something against 38 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: the wall. So it cuts both ways. It cuts both ways. 39 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: There would have been a Renaissance fair style turkey leg 40 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: stuck in your living room wall. Exactly, exactly exactly, a 41 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: plate of fajitas would have gone flying there. All right, 42 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: so let's get to the mail back. These are actual 43 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: questions by actual listeners. We want to thank our man, 44 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: Ohio all for giving us a proper musical introduction. It's alright, 45 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: good job by you, Ohio. I'm sure you're working on 46 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: that song that Danny mentioned yesterday in the podcast. Right, 47 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: so we'll get on that, and really quick, Ben, before 48 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: you read your first question, I have one for you. Okay, 49 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: here we go open the mail. Yeah, you see my 50 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: coffee mug here? Oh yeah, I see it, but I'm 51 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: not drinking coffee. I ran to the refrigerator and there 52 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,839 Speaker 1: was some wonderful eggnog from Trader Joe's. I gotta pour 53 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: some of this before we start the mail bag. Run 54 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: back down here to record with you. Take a little 55 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: drink of it, all excited. It sucks um before you 56 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: hit the record. But I ran back up there to 57 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: see what the hell it's dairy free eggnog? What? Yeah, 58 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: that's a final bull offense for my girl. Right? Why 59 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: did she? But did she see? Maybe she just bought 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: it by mistake. No, she doesn't like dairy Okay, don't 61 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: fuck up people over over what you don't like. Yeah, yeah, 62 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: you gotta double. Then you gotta to buy two. That's 63 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: the problem. You gotta buy the authentic egg No tastes 64 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: like some kind of weird chemicals in this egg nog. 65 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: But your your wife and my wife both have kind 66 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: of like odd diets right there, some weird stuff. And 67 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: she doesn't eat cheese. She doesn't eat a lot of meat. Um. Yeah, 68 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: so it's like gluten free most of the time, gluten free, 69 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: dairy free. There's a lot of oat and milk crap. 70 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: There's a lot of almond milk in the refrigerator. Every 71 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: time I hear almond milk, I think a Goldilocks. I 72 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to think about that. 73 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: Come on, how there you know. Unfortunately, now that has 74 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: affected the Christmas classic don't funk with people's egg nog 75 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: now and the cheap like rip off thing does not 76 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 1: taste the same. It's like they try to recreate meat. 77 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: We've talked about that on this pod. Yeah, now, it's 78 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: actually worse for you than eating meat. It doesn't taste 79 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: the same. If you want meat, just eat meat. If 80 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't want meat that don't eat 81 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: it anyway, let's get to the mat back. First up, 82 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: we have Pierre from my basement, he says, bunker down, 83 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: finishing up my five day quarantine. Yapp Pierre got the COVID, 84 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: So I hope you're doing all right there, Pierre. And 85 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: it's it's uh, well, it's I guess it's it for everybody. 86 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: I had it last It was a last year. I 87 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: don't know. I had it and it wasn't too bad. 88 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: But you know, some people get it worse than others, 89 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: Pierre says. First off, Ben, have you dotted the eyes 90 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: and crossed the teas on the guest list for the 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: mallord Ugly Sweater Party? Secondly, is there any chance that 92 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: you or one of the Bennetts will go on Facebook 93 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: Live or some other streaming platform during the party so 94 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: the militia can get a live look at the festivities. 95 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: I'd love to see the platter of raising canes chilling 96 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: to perfection in time for the elite is to eat 97 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: when he shows up two hours late. Well, to answer 98 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: your first question, I have sent out invitations a little 99 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: late this year, so who knows who who can make it? 100 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: But I invited a lot of people, some of my 101 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: my radio peeps who I work with now, some of 102 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: the old people I've worked at other radio stations. Some 103 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: people haven't seen in years, and so we'll see who's 104 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: able to show up or not. I have no idea. 105 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: I've gotten a few people that have said they're gonna 106 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: be at the event. Other people have said they've got 107 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: other things going on, So you never know. We would 108 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: like to have an idea how many people are gonna 109 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: be there, depending on how much food we need to 110 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: get and and as far as the live streaming, I'm 111 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: gonna go know on that, Danny, and much like we 112 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: talked about in a previous podcast, because people will micro 113 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: analyze literally everything in my house, it's frowned upon. And 114 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: that's the circle of trust. That's like Antonio Brown whipping 115 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: out his phone and pissing off Mike Tomlin, or Antonio 116 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: Brown taking out us and saying he was in he 117 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: was in bed. You see the photo this week he 118 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: was in bed with a woman said she was like 119 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: a reporter or something like that. I mean, what are 120 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: you doing, dude? Come on, you know ahead, now, who 121 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: do you think is more on the spectrum Antonio Brown 122 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: or Kanye West. And remember Antonio Brown was coming out 123 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: with those rap videos, especially during COVID. I think those 124 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: two should form a supergroup together. Yeah that's that jeez? 125 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: All right? Uh? What did I answer all those questions? 126 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: The Canes the elitist was invited. He responded by telling 127 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: me to buy him a plane ticket from Florida back 128 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: to l A. And I I explained to him what 129 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: he saves all the money on taxes. He can afford 130 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: his own plane ticket back to California because he's saving 131 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: so much money on taxes. But it's it's like that 132 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: that thing with the errand Judge contract. I don't know 133 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: if you saw the numbers bouncing around on how much 134 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: I mentioned this. It bears repeating because it's like, to me, 135 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: it's the most amazing stat of the week. So I 136 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: think we just repeated for those that might have missed 137 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: it on the radio show. And I don't know if 138 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: you saw the numb or not, Danny, but did you 139 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: see how much Aaron Judge is actually going to get 140 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: out of the three hundred sixty million dollar contract he 141 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: got from the Yankee It's not even half right? No, 142 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: so they broke it down. This is a rough estimate, 143 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: but his agent's gonna get five percent, So that's eighteen 144 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: million dollars. The agents are gonna get to hit. No 145 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: home runs for the Yankees. No one's gonna come watch 146 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: the agent play eighteen million. The federal tax, though, is 147 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: the one that just blows you away, thirty seven percent 148 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: federal tax rate. When you make that much money, Aaron 149 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: Judge will be paying over the next nine years the 150 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: US government a hundred and thirty three point two million 151 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: dollars in federal tax. That'll buy a lot of bombs, Danny. 152 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: That'll buy a lot of weapons and a lot of 153 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: plane flights for congress people and all that. Wait. One 154 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: and thirty three one three point two million is the 155 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: estimate on how much he's gonna have to pay on taxes. 156 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: That's insane, right, Yeah, then he's got to pay New 157 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: York State tax ten point nine percent, So that's another 158 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: thirty nine million to New York. Yeah, to New York State. 159 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: He's got to pay New York City tax, which is 160 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: about fourteen million. No, Yeah, he's gonna have to pay 161 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: tax million for them. Yeah, he's gonna have to pay 162 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: tax to the other states. Like when the Yankees go 163 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: on the road and play Oils or the A's or whoever, 164 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: you know, the red side when he travels from state 165 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: to state. So that's estimated it's gonna be like ten 166 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: million extra, which seems pretty low considering it's a nine 167 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: year deal. But ten million they estimate on that. So 168 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: you crunch all the NUN members on this, and his 169 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: actual net income is going to be right around a 170 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty little less than a hundred and fifty 171 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: million dollars. He's gonna end up paying taxes and fees 172 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 1: that are over two hundred million dollars. Two hundred four 173 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: million dollars is how much he's gonna have to pay 174 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: in taxes. And she's, she's it's a lot of anyway, 175 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: I thought that was amazing. Still a lot of money, 176 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: but it's not what people say. Yeah, I mean, you're 177 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: not gonna sneeze when you your actual net incomes a 178 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: hundred forty five million. That's still a wonderful thing, but 179 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: it's not three hundred sixty. Now, keep in mind there 180 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: are some some shenanigans you can pull, but I don't 181 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: know how you get out of paying the federal taxes. 182 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: You're done on that hundred thirty three million. Uncle Sam's 183 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: got that. Yeah, Danny, wasn't this country founded on like 184 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: low taxes? And wasn't that part of the reason that 185 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: people came from Britain and stormed America to to have 186 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: a more affordable way of life? Can we please go 187 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: back to that, because you know, if you looked at 188 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: the numbers for us, they'd be similar to this. It's 189 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: just our base salary is how many hundreds of times 190 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 1: lower than this? But same thing? Yeah. Well, because California 191 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: is a very high tax it might be even worse 192 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: than New York. But the federal The good thing is 193 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: we should thank our bosses, Danny, we don't make that 194 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: much money because we're not in the highest tax bracket. 195 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: When you make I think it's over Is it five 196 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year in California? Yeah? I think 197 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:45,959 Speaker 1: that's the federal Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. Thank god, 198 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: I've never had to worry about that. What I was 199 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: thinking about for California is that staff that came out 200 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: saying you are low class in California unless you make 201 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: five thousand a year. Oh is that right? Well? I 202 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: guess I'm same here. We are lower class buddy, all right, 203 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: balls fan Jimmy rights and he says, have you ever 204 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: had anyone come up to your house at the ugly 205 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: sweater party there? And and he says anything missing? So 206 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: he's asking if anyone stole anything. Uh, that's a good question, Jimmy. 207 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: We have a lot of people over. I usually know everybody, 208 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: and I don't invite people over who I think are thieves. 209 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: So I only invite people over who I I believe 210 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: are good people that would never do something like that. 211 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: So I've never had to really worry about that. And 212 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: if they have stolen anything, it's nothing that I've missed 213 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: because I haven't noticed it. So I'm gonna go know 214 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: on that memorabil Hey, screw you man. That Ralph Lawlor 215 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: bobble head doll and Chuck the Condor bobble head doll 216 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: are priceless, priceless, okay. And that Mike flag from the 217 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: mighty six ninety. No one else can get another one 218 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: of those Mic flags in the mighty six ninety. Okay, 219 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: that's a San Diego piece of radio history right there. 220 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser. Uh. Nick in Wisconsin 221 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: writes in on the mail bag. He says, Ben and 222 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: Danny g ten million dollars ten million dollars for the taking. 223 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: All all you have to do ten million dollars is yours. 224 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: All you have to do is have one of your 225 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: four limbs removed. Would you do it? If so? Which 226 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: limb the alright? So first of all, ill go. First, 227 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: Danny to me ten millions not enough. You gotta up 228 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: to the anti ten millions not enough because we just 229 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: talked about the taxes. Ten million after taxes, that's nothing. 230 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: So you gotta give me more, more and more and 231 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: more and more. Now, if it's if it's high enough, 232 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: I go. I'd go leg. I'd lose a leg, you know, 233 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: I've I've got some friends that have been an accidents 234 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: and they have those prosthetic legs and they're doing great. 235 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: They're moving around and I'm sure they have problems, but wow, 236 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: no kicking some mass on a leg. Yeah, I'd be like, 237 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: what was that guy the olympict It killed somebody, the 238 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: blade runner. I'd want a real looking leg though, I'd 239 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: want one that looks like a you know, a regular 240 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: leg and up that. I wouldn't do that, would you 241 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: do that Danny, would you chop a limb off? Now? No, 242 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: do that? I mean, it sucks bad enough that once 243 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: you get into your forties, every little ache and pain 244 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: there's a high probability that that's gonna be there forever. Now, Okay, 245 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: it's just true. And with the lower back and stuff 246 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: going on where I'm like, what the hell? Man like, 247 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: you could sneeze and throw your back out and it's 248 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: gone for a couple of weeks. You know, you hurt 249 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: your neck, you're you're back just just sleeping funny and 250 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: it lasts for a couple of weeks. We can't shake 251 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: things off the way we did in our twenties. It's horrible. 252 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to. So we're fighting through. That last 253 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: thing I need is half of a limb. Yeah, I 254 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: used to goof on comedians that was, oh what, I'm 255 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: in my forties. My body's falling apart. And I had 256 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: no problems up until my last birthday whatever I had 257 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: my last birthday, all of a sudden, I got my 258 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: my my tooth is all messed up, my knees fucked 259 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: up beyond belief. I got I got this hurt, and 260 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: I got that hurting. I'm like, what the funk happened? 261 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: I was perfectly fine up until a few months ago, 262 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like as you said, it's 263 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: two weeks here, it's two weeks there. It's like crap, 264 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: We're always on the injured reserve. That's what it feels like. 265 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: It's just a constant, nagging injury situation. And like my chick, 266 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: she's finishing her thirties right now, and I always tell her, 267 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: enjoy it because once you get over, as you say, 268 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: the rubicon, across the rubicon, Yeah, across the rubicon, you're 269 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: gonna feel it, and you're gonna feel it forever. That's 270 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: very depressing, Danny now, but I still I still have 271 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: some good days. I have been taking more hot baths though, 272 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, because that bones feel better. So 273 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: a lot of that Ozzy was, writes in. As we 274 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: continue the mailbag from Western Australia, says, hey, Big Ben 275 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: and Danny g This Ozzy was quite the character. His 276 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: lady friend, I think I mentioned this last week, contacted 277 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: me and they're gonna move to America because their accent 278 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: will make them big stars. He says. My question this 279 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: week is what is your most memorable sporting play that 280 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: you have seen, like the Steve Gleason blocked punt that 281 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: was returned for a touchdown against the Falcons in the 282 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: Return to the Dome, or maybe Danny G's favorite where 283 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: m J went up with his right hand hung in 284 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: the air and switched to his left against the Lakers. Yeah, 285 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: so I've been lucky. I've seen some pretty cool things 286 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: over the years. I was at the World Series in 287 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: I'll date myself, but it was a Marlin's cleave an Indians. 288 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: World Series went seven games, went extra innings in game seven. 289 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: I was there when Miami won. They were then called 290 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: the Florida Marlins. They won the World Series. I've witnessed 291 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: the cheating ass holes when the World Series and they 292 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: didn't really win, and the Boston Red Sox. I saw 293 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: them win the World Series against the Dodgers, So those 294 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: are pretty cool. I saw Kobe Bryant game winning shots 295 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: back back in the day when I covered the Lakers 296 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: and with shock and that, and I mean, it's it's 297 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: been I've been very lucky. I got I saw Jordan's play, 298 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: I saw Larry Bird, the Magic Charles Barkley, these legends 299 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: of the game back when I was a young guy 300 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: starting out. So what were the Kobe shots Like I 301 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: saw him against the I think it was the Sons 302 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: in a playoff series, big shot in that series and 303 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: against the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals. Yeah, I 304 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, those are some 305 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: of the members. What about you, Danny, is your favorite? 306 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: Any anything stand out here that you recall any? I mean, 307 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: as a little little kid, my grandmother took me to 308 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium with her son, umbrella and a transistor radio 309 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: so she could hear her crushed Vince Scully, great Vincent Scully. 310 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: But what stands out about it? It was during Fernando Mania. 311 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, so I got to have my 312 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: first experience at Dodger Stadium during all the Fernando craze. 313 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: I mean, that was huge in Southern California and it 314 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: took over the world. Single most influential athlete in the 315 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: history of North American sport, Fernando Valence. Word. Wow, he's 316 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: still broadcasting in Spanish for the team, so he's still 317 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: live around the team. But Fernando, how much money you 318 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: think Fernando made the Dodgers. There is generations in the uh, 319 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: you know, Mexican American community in Los Angeles, where it 320 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: is part of your heritage to be a Dodger fan. 321 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: A lot of it is because of Fernando and Fernandomania's 322 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: wild and then let me represent for Bill King and 323 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: the Oakland A's. Back in the day, my mom, she 324 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: uh spent half her childhood in San Jose, California. That's 325 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: where all her family is at to this day. We'd 326 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: go to the Oakland Coliseum. We got to see Reggie 327 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: Jackson play in his final game. So he gets up 328 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: to bat for the Oakland A's. My older brother and 329 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: I started a Reggie chant Reggie, Reggie, and the entire 330 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: stadium was chanting his name. Ben and my older brother, 331 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: little kid, he's like, I did this. I started this. 332 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: It was awesome. And what did Reggie do? Knocked one 333 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: over the wall. It was front page on all the 334 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: Bay area newspapers the next morning and my older brother 335 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: was running around with the paper. We started this. That 336 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: must have been like seven, right, yeah, something like that. Yeah, 337 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: because he played with the Angels and eighties six and 338 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: then he went to the I think the A and 339 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: eighties seven to finish his career out. That's that's pretty cool, 340 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: Terry in England writes in he says, do you have 341 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: any ongoing issues following your gall bladder removal? Ben big 342 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: goal bladder? Yeah, I had mine out a long time ago. 343 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: That's from Terry in England. So Terry, not really. I've 344 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: lived pretty much normally. Nothing not much has changed. They 345 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: said not much would change. They said certain foods. The 346 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: doctor was telling me what would funk up my stomach? 347 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's it's more of a fasting thing. 348 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: When I fast for a couple of days, it becomes 349 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: an issue where it goes right through me. The food 350 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: goes right through me. But other than that, I've not 351 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: had I had the famous walk at the park where 352 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: I was fasting and I didn't quite make it to 353 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: the it's the bathroom was like a crime. Oh man, dude. 354 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: But that's that's it. Other than that, I mean there's 355 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: been there have been some close calls, but not I'm 356 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: not I'm not surprisingly. I'm not really that that different 357 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: and nothing's really changed that much. I assume you've had 358 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: the same experienced, Terry. I know my my my wife's grandmother. 359 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: She passed away within the last year. But she had 360 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: her gall blower bladder out when she was a young, 361 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,959 Speaker 1: younger lady, and she lived long, full life and all 362 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't necessarily need your gallbladder. So there's that. 363 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: Matt in Dallas rights and he says, hey, Ben, the 364 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: last time I was chided for asking a sport oh 365 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: question to you guys, your sports guys. But moving on 366 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: from that emotional blow, Matt says, I will turn to 367 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: your favorite genre of chicken fingers. He says, what is 368 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: your favorite sauce for those assuming ranches up? Of course 369 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: ranch is not on the table. Ranches number one. That's 370 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: why you don't even got to talk about it. This 371 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: conversation should be what's number two? No, uh, he says, 372 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: My go to is honey mustard. That's a good choice, Matt. 373 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: I give you the thumbs up. I'm giving you the 374 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: thumbs up. Matt, good job by you. Yeah. The When 375 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: I was a kid, it was always barbecue. But as 376 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: a mature adult, honey mustard and honey mustard is always 377 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: my number one. I like the cane sauce. If you're 378 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: a raising canes fan, I like that Canny Act sauce. 379 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: They haven't raising canes, but honey mustard canny a sauce, 380 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: and then I also go with barbecue. Those are the 381 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: big three. There's nothing else you need. There's nothing else 382 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: that you need to put. Yeah, there's one more not 383 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: rated sauce. I'm talking about ranch because that's automatic. Okay, 384 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: I got one for you. I used this as a 385 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: sauce with my chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. I dip 386 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: it in there like it's a sauce. Okay, the I'll 387 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: give you the gravy. The gravy what I mean. I 388 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: I used the mashed potatoes and gravy like it's a 389 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: dipping sauce. Okay. Yeah. I used to eat KFC back 390 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: in the day, and I love the biscuits with the 391 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: mashed potatoes and the gravy like that. That was combining 392 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: all that together. Yeah, honey mustard is a good move, 393 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: but I gotta balance that out. It's like a symphony 394 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: holding the chicken fingers and you dip it in the ranch. 395 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: Then I go to the sweet, then I go back 396 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: to the ranch, and then hopefully there's some like uh, 397 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: let's see besides the honey mustard, like the sweet and sour, Yeah, 398 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: sweet and stars. Okay. I I sometimes will honor my 399 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: dad and just get regular honey at McDonald's. Said, yeah, 400 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: it's just a honey pack, which is pretty cool. That's 401 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: a good move. Speaking of KFC, my mom used to 402 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: put honey over the cave. That is solid. That makes 403 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: it a little it makes it kick a little bit 404 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: more kicking. Fred in Spring Texas rights and he says, hey, guys, 405 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: what's your chown to recent reports that some college athletic 406 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: departments are partnering with online gambling sites and brick and 407 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: mortar casinos to raise funds. Yeah, so I'm not surprised. Listen, 408 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: this is a total game of charades. I I heard 409 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: Doug Gottlieb's promo this week which I thought was hilarious, 410 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: And it was a promo talking about how how great 411 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: college athletes are, how they no longer get arrested, they 412 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: no longer fail any classes, like all of that, all 413 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: that stuff that we used to have to do with, 414 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: like none of that is reported anymore. It's like they 415 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: have perfect attendance. It's it's hilarious. It's semi professional football, 416 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: and as a semi professional football league, why not get 417 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: the gambling money. They want the gambling money. They want 418 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: as much money as they can get, and whether it's 419 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: a brick and mortar casino or whatever, they want to 420 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: get the funds to pay for the coaches and the equipment. 421 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: And I looked at the the Dion Sanders. Sorry, I'm 422 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: pulling for Dion, but Colorado has been a horseship football 423 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: team pretty much my entire life, with the exception of 424 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: like three years. And their facilities look like an Olympic 425 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: training center. Danny, have you seen the photos of the 426 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: Colorado gym and all that stuff? Holy Connoli, that's for 427 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: a team that blows and it got all the bells 428 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: and whistles. It's like the greatest jim you've ever seen. 429 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 1: It's wild. It's absolutely wild, man. I don't know. Uh. 430 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: Next up Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, have 431 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: either of you ever said something offensive or embarrassing? Not 432 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: knowing there was a hot Mike. He also says, Mike 433 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 1: that I looked up your Rex Huddler interview on the 434 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: fifth Hour, but I couldn't find it. Did you take 435 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: it down once you found out? He smokes weed? No, 436 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: I would have put it up. I don't I don't 437 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: know what happened. I remember the company changed hosting services 438 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: for the podcast, so maybe some stuff got lost in 439 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: translation when the company changed, But as far as I know, 440 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: it's all should still be there. I we had Rex 441 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: on before. Maybe it was before opening day. Rex did 442 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: a did a hit with us on the podcast. It 443 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago, so probably was. But 444 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: Rex was great and I I was around Rex when 445 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: he played for the Angels, and Rex was the coolest 446 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: guy Mike in Fullerton because I'd go out there and 447 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: the Angels were kind of mediocre or whatever. Joe Madden 448 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: was one of the coaches for the Angels. Rex Huddler 449 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: was on the team and Rex would be bouncing around 450 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: saying hello to everybody. Made you feel like a million bucks. 451 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: He made you feel like the most important person in 452 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: the world, and that was like, that's a special ability. 453 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: And a lot of the players were complete assholes, but 454 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: Rex was like the cool guy and I always respected 455 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: Rex and he actually had some good years with the Angels. 456 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: I know what player was like that for the Oakland Raiders, 457 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. All the players, Yeah, all the players were 458 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: stuck up in the locker room and didn't really want 459 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: to mess with media and Marson Lynch boy, he told 460 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: me stories. He was cursing at me. He was telling 461 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: dad jokes. Uh, he was. He tried to light up 462 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: a blunt. It was fun. It was so fun to 463 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: watch him work his magic in the locker room. Wasn't 464 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: there a video this week of Marshawn playing was a 465 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: basketball with some kids or something like that, and he 466 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: was messing around with him. Yeah. And then an old 467 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: photo from the Al Davis Memorial Torch in Oakland went 468 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: viral again and it was him at an Oakland Raiders 469 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: game right after he stopped playing for Oakland, and he 470 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: was holding a blunt up to the torch smoke weed. 471 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: Oh man, I missed watching that guy play. That's funny. 472 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: Is he on Amazon? He's doing stuff with Amazon? I 473 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: think yeah. Kevin writes in from Kansas. He says, Dear 474 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, g it's eggnog season. Are you fans? 475 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: I think you already gave the answer on that dandy. 476 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: If so, do you like it straight out of the 477 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 1: carton or with certain spirits? If not eggnog? Are there 478 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,719 Speaker 1: any other holiday liquids you recommend? So this is right 479 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 1: in your wheelhouse. Danny, you're the eggnog expert. You mentioned 480 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: your wife for some reason got rip off eggnog with 481 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: no animal being harmed or endangered or anything silent but deadly. 482 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,360 Speaker 1: If there's no dairy product in it, how the hell 483 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: is it even eggnog. That's false advertising, is what that is. 484 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: It's not right. So I didn't really grow up with eggnox. 485 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm not a big eggnog guy. I know people that 486 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: love it. I know people that hate it. So there's 487 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: all the it's all over the map when it comes 488 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: to the eggnog. It really depends on your childhood and 489 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: which you liked and all that stuff. But for me, 490 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: I grew up celebrittin honek and stuff, so uh and 491 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: now we celebrate every My wife's not Jewish, but uh 492 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: Hanukkah like laccas and jelly donuts and those those are 493 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: things that bring back great memories of my childhood and 494 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: going in with the mamu and made a lot of 495 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: like cookies and things like that for the holiday. So 496 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: that was always a fun, a fun thing. John. That's 497 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: the apple sauce, right, Yeah, Well it's potato. It's like 498 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: a fried potato and then the first time I ever 499 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: got to try that, I was in my thirties. Oh really, okay. 500 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: I was like, Man, this apple sauce and potato dishes. Dope, 501 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And the jelly donuts aren't bad either. 502 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with that. John in the Northern 503 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: Colorado right scene, he says, have you ever been thrown 504 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: out of a bar or club? I've been thrown out 505 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: of a bar or club back in the day, Danny. 506 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: I bet you had some incident. No, nothing thrown. Yeah, 507 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: I mean I I talked about it on our live 508 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: radio show and I worked with you. There was a 509 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: time where some guys, two guys stepped up to my 510 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,479 Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time and said the wrong words to her, 511 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: and I knocked one of them out cold before he 512 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: could even finish his sentence. At first, what was really 513 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: bad is they weren't going to let me out of 514 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: the club because I really needed to get out of 515 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: there with my small party. And then security finally let 516 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: me out, and then the fight ensued in the parking 517 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: lot where it was multiple dudes against me and I 518 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: was just swinging everywhere I could swing, trying to hit something, 519 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: and I was hitting heads and elbows and arms and legs. 520 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: It was a crazy fight. So I think that's the 521 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: only time, if you want to say kicked out of 522 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: a club. Although I was in trouble with security in 523 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: the club, which is why the door guy was holding 524 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: me because he's like, no, no, no, You're not going 525 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: anywhere after what you did. And I'm like, no, you 526 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: don't understand. You gotta let me out of here right 527 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: now because this is gonna get worse. That's pretty pretty 528 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: My problem John was getting in the club. They wouldn't 529 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: let me in, so I I had trouble getting thrown 530 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: out because they wouldn't I'd wait online and I wasn't 531 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: a hot girl, so they wouldn't let me in right away. 532 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: You know that That was a kind of ugly, dopey 533 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: looking dude, you know, and all that stuff, and so, uh, 534 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: never never kicked out. I've had friends. I'm the great 535 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: Art Martinez. We know Art the legendary bar fights. I 536 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: was with him at a bar I left, the famous story. 537 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: I left and then he got into a knockdown, drag 538 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: out brawl over a soccer match at a British pub 539 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. Getting up in the hospital. Craziness that 540 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: ten cups again. Next up is Marked. Now, how about 541 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: this guy, Mark, retired military. He listens to us at 542 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: A I don't know if we should give the exact location, 543 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: but a military institution in Spain. How cool is that? 544 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: That's kind of nice? Yeah, he says that after listening 545 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: to half Point's best imitation of actor Walter Brennan's dag 546 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: nabbit voice. This morning on American or Armed Forces Network 547 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: A F and Europe. I finally it finally donned on me, 548 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: Mark says, it finally donned on me. That she must 549 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: be the actress Jennifer lewis best known for voicing the 550 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: part of Mama Odie. Am I saying that? Right? I 551 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: think I am in Disney's Oh Nine, Princess and the Frog. 552 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: Did you ever see that Danny Princess that I uh? 553 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: He says, I bet she looks like Mama Odie. To 554 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: send her another heartwarming cartoon of Marlborough Red's Please Wow. 555 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: Shots fired by Mark. I'm gonna let half point next 556 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: time she calls Mark, I'm gonna try to file this away. 557 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: That half Point You've got people listening on the American 558 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: Armed Forces Network American Forces Network in Europe. Busting your chop, sorry, 559 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: busting your balls. Uh. And yeah, she's getting married half point, 560 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: which is wild because she beer drinking. Brian just passed 561 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: away earlier this year, and she's already planning to get 562 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: married in January. That's a quick turnaround, right. I didn't 563 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: think he was so replaceable. It's a legend beer drinking. 564 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: Wait wait wait we uh how do you replace a 565 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: Mallard militia legend so quickly? I know? And she met 566 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: him at a parole office? What a what a romance? 567 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: I'm believable. That's real romance. Barry writes in from the 568 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: Music City with do a few more barring Music City says, 569 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: yo yo, mob, Benny, let's get this Q and A 570 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: partis started. Had you ever heard of red breast before Plastered? 571 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: Paul mentioned it on your show. Have you ever had 572 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: red breast? What is your go to adult be ever? 573 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: So full disclosure. I did not know what red breast 574 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,959 Speaker 1: was until Paul started calling. Then I looked it up 575 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, I've seen that. Have I had it? No? Uh, 576 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: it's really expensive Irish whiskey. For some reason, they call 577 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: it redbreast. And so Barry says, I have to admit 578 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: I never heard of it, and I no idea what 579 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 1: it was what you guys were talking about. But this 580 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: Saturday I bought a bottle. It's a pricey drink, sixty dollars, 581 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: and Barry says it's a very smooth Irish whiskey. So 582 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: that's that's according to Well, Paul loves it. I mean, 583 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: Paul calls up and completely slashed. It's so funny, this guy, 584 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: Paul and Rhode Island. He calls from his car and 585 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 1: you can tell when it's raining because there's this clicking sound. 586 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. We called it's nuts. He called me 587 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 1: a couple of times in the afternoon. Oh it is 588 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: he okay, yeah, yeah, I haven't put him on the air. 589 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: I put him on hold. Maybe he's got on once 590 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: and the guys just laughed because he was so sloshed. 591 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's he's a function alcoholic that he's quite 592 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: the guy. And he's like Archie Bunker too. I've noticed 593 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,439 Speaker 1: he's like that old I'm dating myself, but he's he'll 594 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: say like really like offensive ship and he doesn't even 595 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 1: realize it because that's just I guess how he grew 596 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: up and that's that's his world and he doesn't realize 597 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: you can't really say a lot of that stuff anymore. 598 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: And that's just by the way. Who are the other 599 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,760 Speaker 1: two Mallard militia legends that you think call the studio 600 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: lines in the afternoon. I've put both of them on 601 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: hold multiple times. I think they just rocked themselves to 602 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,839 Speaker 1: sleep as Cowboy and windsor what is he? No? Uh, 603 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: let's see here, Well you gave a clue rock yourself 604 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 1: to sleep. So that be a guy from Minnesota? Would 605 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: that be? No, let's see, newly retired, probably has too 606 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: much time on his hands. Was kingpin in the lumber 607 00:35:53,040 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 1: industry hardware and uh oh okay, alright, plants and yeah yeah, 608 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: oh yeah, Nick and Dayton and then another guy who 609 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 1: has a certain therapy that would actually be tuned away 610 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: from the Ben Mallard Show from time to time. Oh 611 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 1: you got the dock, you got act loaded. He's like, hey, yeah, 612 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: you can put me on the air. I'm gonna talk 613 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,840 Speaker 1: about Chicago. Uh. And I'd be like, hang on, and 614 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: then I titled it on the screen, not for on air. 615 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: That's not right out there. Dick and Dayton though you 616 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: should put him on. That guy's a legend man. Yeah, 617 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: And Dick and Dayton like I love the ID like 618 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: to think that he'll call all the shows. And I 619 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 1: was on with Ben and then he'll call. I was 620 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: on with Covino and Rich and they put the down. Know. 621 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: Now with Dick, I put him up on the screen, Gigy, 622 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: But before the guys could get to him, he hung up. Well, 623 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: you better not put Dick on the screen because you 624 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: might get called in HR. I'm just saying you don't 625 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: want I don't know that you want to do that, 626 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 1: but you know whatever, that's all good, hey, heyo. Dave 627 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: writes in from Parts Are Known, he says, as a 628 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,359 Speaker 1: Cal Bear fan, why did coach Sonny Dike's not win 629 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: at Cal? But now has TCU and the football not 630 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,399 Speaker 1: not in the playoffs. I guess he said this before, 631 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,359 Speaker 1: but but they have no. I I think that's more 632 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: of a institutional thing. They prioritize football more TCU than 633 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: they do with Cal. And the facilities a little better 634 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 1: and the the infrastructure is better, and so that that 635 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: all goes into whether or not things go well or not. 636 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,840 Speaker 1: Let's see Noah from Austin says, greetings big Man and 637 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: Danny G. I've got one question for each of you. Ben, 638 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: how did you and Mrs Maller meet? And plus how 639 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: did you propose? Danny G, Please name your top five 640 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: fast food joints. All right, I feel like you've been 641 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: asked that before, but maybe your list has changed, Danny, 642 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 1: so think of your list. I met my wife actually 643 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: online dating of all places. Know that now everyone does 644 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,799 Speaker 1: that now, But when I did it, it wasn't quite 645 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: as cool. But I met her online and I proposed 646 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,920 Speaker 1: to her in downtown on Los Angeles, just outside the 647 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,280 Speaker 1: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion where they used to have big award shows. 648 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: And it's a beautiful location, the skyline in l As 649 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: behind you, there's some fountains and it's it's it's pretty cool. 650 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 1: And the street it's on his Hope Street. So you 651 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,840 Speaker 1: hope things work out. You hope things work out. So 652 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: that answers your question. And Danny G. Top five fast 653 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: food places. You better have one in there if you 654 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: don't have this one in there. But okay, so number five, 655 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 1: number five, Number five the famous Western bacon cheeseburger, and 656 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,760 Speaker 1: they used to have the best salads for fast food spots, 657 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: Carl's Jr. Or Hartys if you're parties in other parts 658 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,399 Speaker 1: of the country. Alright, so Carl's Jor number five, number four, 659 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: Number four, Benny Boys favorite, Raising Kane should be Ire. 660 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: But in the top five, I'll take it, Yes, be Ire, 661 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 1: top five, I'll take it. Number three. Number three grew 662 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,399 Speaker 1: up here. Quality used to be a little bit better, 663 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,359 Speaker 1: I will admit, but I still love to go get 664 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: a big mac once in a while from the legendary 665 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: Mickey D's. Mickey D's started in southern California. Mickey Mick McDonald's. All, 666 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: when you get their fries fresh and hot, there is 667 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: nothing more unhealthy or more delicious. Yeah, said one of 668 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 1: the great joys of being alive. You don't. You don't 669 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 1: get that when you're dead. And number two, number two, 670 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: another Southern California classic. In and Out, In and Out 671 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 1: not number one. Most people have been well, this is 672 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: a this a shocking list. You have Raising Kines at 673 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,440 Speaker 1: number four, you have In and Out at number two. 674 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: What could possibly be number one? But why number two 675 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,319 Speaker 1: for the in and out burger? Well, because they don't 676 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,239 Speaker 1: talk My number one. This used to be where we 677 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,880 Speaker 1: went when my mom was a single mother with me 678 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 1: and my older brother before she remarried. I remember she 679 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,600 Speaker 1: was hustling working two jobs. Ben. One of them was 680 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: for pac Bell. She was a telephone operator. She would 681 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: get her paycheck and where would she take me and 682 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,399 Speaker 1: my older brother for dinner? So this is the number one, 683 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:20,719 Speaker 1: number one, number number one. Wendy's is number because the 684 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: way she said it and the way we grew up 685 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 1: with it. Wow, I have some money right here, Let's 686 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: go to Wendy's. Wendy's was just a little fancier, a 687 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:36,800 Speaker 1: little more expensive. Square burgers, the square square burgers, you 688 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: would look up at the menu, more expensive than Burger King, 689 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 1: more expensive than McDonald's, more expensive than In and Out, 690 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: And it had that quality of the taste to Ben. 691 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,360 Speaker 1: It tasted. It tasted like expensive fast food. And we 692 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: would dip the fries into the frosty eat that delicious burger. 693 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,959 Speaker 1: The way the cheese was melted with that delicious bread 694 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,840 Speaker 1: they use. Wendy's is right up there forever with the 695 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 1: famous Dave double. Yeah, that's a good guy. Used to 696 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,800 Speaker 1: love Wendy's, and I did on my trips to Arizona. 697 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,759 Speaker 1: I've been going there a couple of times to see 698 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,319 Speaker 1: my cousin, and I did find the greatest Windy's meal 699 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: I've ever had at a truck stop. Just across on 700 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,319 Speaker 1: the Arizona side, there's blythe the next it's like right 701 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,760 Speaker 1: across the border there there's a truck stop gases ninety 702 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: cents cheaper than it is on the California side. And 703 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: that is where there's a Windy's. There. It's a Flying 704 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: Ja truck stop. And the greatest meal I have had 705 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: at a Wendy's was at that location. So I was 706 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: excited about that. Uh, let's do one more, one more. 707 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 1: Only Jarrett from Kansas, he says, being from Barbecue Country, 708 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,399 Speaker 1: I really don't have a true hometown observation in this matter, 709 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: but I believe as a true sandwich connoisseur, it's not 710 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,319 Speaker 1: a true Philly cheese steak without cheese whiz, all right, 711 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 1: So let's get into this dandy. Now. I've taken a 712 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,279 Speaker 1: lot of ship on social media because I made a 713 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: cheese steak sandwich with Provolone cheese, and these people coming 714 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: at me this cheese wheeze, this cheese whiz cult. Look 715 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,799 Speaker 1: bluck you. That's what I say. Okay, let me tell 716 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,360 Speaker 1: you something right in now, Danny, I work with I 717 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: what I believe is the most authentic Philadelphia person in radio, 718 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,840 Speaker 1: Tony Bruno South Philly. You cut him open broad Street 719 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 1: will fall out. This guy is Mr Philadelphia. That's a 720 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,439 Speaker 1: lot of hookers and uh. And Tony swore to me said, 721 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: the proper cheese steak is with pro bolone. It's the 722 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,480 Speaker 1: grilled onions, it's the pepper, the peppers and the pro bolone. 723 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: That's the proper cheese steak. And I take his word 724 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,680 Speaker 1: as the gospel Tony's and the o g I love. 725 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,040 Speaker 1: Tony's a radio guy, and so no, that's the movement. 726 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,120 Speaker 1: I've been to Philly and I've had cheese steak there 727 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: and it had provolone. There were places that had the 728 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 1: cheese whiz. But I know if I want cheese whiz 729 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: on my nachos, I don't want it on my cheese steak. 730 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that, I feel like the 731 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,280 Speaker 1: best nachos are the ones that have the melted cheese 732 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,360 Speaker 1: and that cheese whiz, the two together. But you're saying 733 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,800 Speaker 1: that that your sandwich doesn't have to be like that though. No, 734 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: I don't need no, no, I just need the probo 735 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,479 Speaker 1: alone to mix it in with the proper amount of onion, 736 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 1: proper amount of bell pepper. Chop it all up, put 737 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,719 Speaker 1: the ribbi in there, Chop that up. Boom done. Easy 738 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,759 Speaker 1: sandwich to me, Easy sandwich. We'll get out on that. 739 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,279 Speaker 1: Anything Danny to promote here, anything you want to to 740 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 1: pitch on this. And first of all, I'm coming over 741 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,680 Speaker 1: to do a blind taste test later because that's a 742 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: free meal for me, and I want to taste your 743 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,080 Speaker 1: filly cheese steak sandwich. Will make that happen. We're gonna 744 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,960 Speaker 1: make that. Have you, will have you in the bride 745 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,719 Speaker 1: over and we'll have cheese. I'll make some cheese steaks. Yes, 746 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 1: we'll bring the dairy free egg nog with us. Yeah. 747 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't think she'll eat the cheese steak because it's 748 00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,680 Speaker 1: meat and cheese, two things your wife does not like. 749 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,880 Speaker 1: Damn it, she'll I'm sure she'll go get some of 750 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,840 Speaker 1: your wife's gluten free crap out of the kitchen. She 751 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: can have as much of that as she wants. It 752 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,839 Speaker 1: is Sunday, um, so it's the one day off for me. Um, 753 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,640 Speaker 1: besides doing post production on our wonderful podcast right here. 754 00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: So thank you to everybody for downloading this even on 755 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,319 Speaker 1: an NFL Sunday, the numbers have stayed really high. I've 756 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,000 Speaker 1: gotten it up as well. I was just gonna say, 757 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,920 Speaker 1: I got it up as early as possible, Hey, Gy, 758 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,480 Speaker 1: depends when you wake up, Danny, and usually get it 759 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,800 Speaker 1: up right there whenever you wake up. So I always 760 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:40,640 Speaker 1: make sure that our Sunday podcast here is posted before 761 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: the first kickoff, so every weekend, Ben, it means a lot. 762 00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,000 Speaker 1: It does, and it's great to know that that people 763 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,200 Speaker 1: enjoy the content. And I know when you were away 764 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,520 Speaker 1: getting married. There was one hiccup where the mail Bag 765 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,359 Speaker 1: didn't get published until much later than it normally does, 766 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,279 Speaker 1: and there was a lot of scrutiny from members of 767 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: the Mallem Militia UH who were very upset and heads 768 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,560 Speaker 1: were rolling. They were offended that this podcast the Mailbag 769 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,759 Speaker 1: did not come up early in the day. So they 770 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 1: are making sure that we there's no speed bumps. They 771 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,720 Speaker 1: want no speed, you know, everything that would be smooth. 772 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: Oh and Alex is still affected by that blunderband. I 773 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,520 Speaker 1: saw him a few nights ago at our company party 774 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,000 Speaker 1: at California Adventure Park Disney. He was in the food 775 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:32,760 Speaker 1: court drinking heavily and he was trying to bury himself 776 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,040 Speaker 1: in the booze. And I think at all points back 777 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,960 Speaker 1: to that Sunday. Yeah, that's the beginning of a downfall 778 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,040 Speaker 1: right there. That's it, alright, have a great rest of 779 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 1: your Sunday. I'll be back on the radio tonight and 780 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,840 Speaker 1: I'll be yapping away blabbing about all the NFL. And 781 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 1: if you're at the Charger Dolphin game you listen to 782 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:53,960 Speaker 1: us in l A, are gonna be at the game, 783 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: I likely will be there, so maybe I can say hello. 784 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: I don't have access to all of Sophie Stadium though, 785 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 1: so I can only get to certain certain levels. But 786 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: if you're interested in that, if you're gonna be there, 787 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 1: you want to say hello, and you're a fan of 788 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,640 Speaker 1: the show, send me a message and if I see it, 789 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 1: I'll send you a message back. We can hang out. 790 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: Have a great day though. We'll catch you next time later. 791 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: Skater gotta murder, Gotta go