Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. It's the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 3: You know that already with me Ben Maler and Danny
Speaker 3: g Radio in the audio dojo, don't you know?
Speaker 1: Brew crew?
Speaker 3: As the final four in Major League Baseball is set.
Speaker 1: Danny g and I.
Speaker 3: Mentioned this on the radio show the other night, but
Speaker 3: the Toronto Blue Jays announcers said, the blue Jays are
Speaker 3: into the final four. Now, you guys all busted my
Speaker 3: balls when the Clippers made the Final four. It is
Speaker 3: now becoming a colloquial.
Speaker 4: Term that, Oh, no, the final four is not an
Speaker 4: NBA thing whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Oh it is. It's a sports thing.
Speaker 3: You're in the five or it's well, how does college
Speaker 3: basketball have a choke hold on the final four? There
Speaker 3: are four teams left. You're in the final four. We
Speaker 3: now know the final four today tonight.
Speaker 4: That's a tournament thing. This is not a tournament thing.
Speaker 4: We play for championships in pro sports.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll have the first of the American League Championship
Speaker 3: Series the Seattle Mariners, who, based on what I've been
Speaker 3: reading here, Danny, have no chance because they used all
Speaker 3: these pitchers back on Friday night against the Tigers, and
Speaker 3: so why even bother showing up to Toronto and all that. So,
Speaker 3: but that'll be the game tonight, which it's NFL football,
Speaker 3: and which has got to be depressing for you, Danny,
Speaker 3: but for me it's not as depressing. I'm a little
Speaker 3: concerned though, because this game with the Rams play the
Speaker 3: Ravens today and it looks too easy. I always worry
Speaker 3: when those games look too easy, Like the Ravens don't
Speaker 3: have Lamar Jackson, they have no defense. The Rams have
Speaker 3: extra rest coming into this game today, and it's just
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: I actually took on Benny versus the pan which.
Speaker 3: You can still watch it on YouTube YouTube dot com
Speaker 3: slash at Bennyvspenny. But I took the Ravens plus the points,
Speaker 3: mainly because I think the Rams are gonna futz around.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play with their food.
Speaker 3: They'll turn the ball over a couple of times, they'll
Speaker 3: be a special teams blunder, and somehow, some way, against
Speaker 3: all logic, the game will be somewhat close in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, even if that means the Ravens get a
Speaker 3: backdoor cover.
Speaker 1: So that's my position.
Speaker 4: How about the clip that Uka Nakua is firing at
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's he's been.
Speaker 4: Oldie Nikes man. At this rate, he'll get close to
Speaker 4: two thousand yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Matthew Stafford, who I thought would be golfing by now,
Speaker 3: I did not believe he would even make it to
Speaker 3: the season. I was already planning on Jimmy Garoppolo being
Speaker 3: the Rams quarterback by week six. And here's Stafford leading.
Speaker 3: I believe he's leading the NFL in past.
Speaker 4: Remember that time the Raiders were trying to trade from Stafford.
Speaker 4: Instead they got Geno Smith. Damn it, you.
Speaker 1: Got the Booby Prize, You got the Booby Prize. Shit, shit, Well,
Speaker 1: the Raiders have a winnable game today, at least until Gino.
Speaker 4: Oh. If Pete Carroll can't beat the Titans, he should
Speaker 4: just hang it up.
Speaker 3: Now, I mentioned this on the radio show the other night.
Speaker 3: I want to get so you're the Raider guy, so
Speaker 3: I want to get your perspective on this. So my
Speaker 3: position on Pete Pete Carroll ripping Chip Kelly, it's more
Speaker 3: about him being upset because he gave Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. I'm I'm not. I don't have any inside
Speaker 1: information anything like that.
Speaker 3: It's just my it's using common sense that it's more
Speaker 3: likely than not tom Brady wanted Matthew Stafford. Stafford for
Speaker 3: whatever reason. They want to go to the Raiders, he
Speaker 3: want to stay with the Rams. Fine, so you got that,
Speaker 3: and so then they probably.
Speaker 1: Had a meeting.
Speaker 3: Imagining in my head in the cartoon bubble, tom Brady
Speaker 3: had a meeting with Pete Carroll said, you know who
Speaker 3: do you want? Pete said, hey, let's see we can
Speaker 3: get Geno Smith. I had him in Seattle.
Speaker 4: He knows me.
Speaker 3: We vibe well, I can win. I can at least
Speaker 3: be a competitive team with Gino Smith. And Tom Brady's like, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll call Seattle see if we.
Speaker 1: Can get Geno Smith. And so Pete put his name.
Speaker 3: He endorsed Geno Smith, and Geno Smith has been even
Speaker 3: worse than we all imagined he could possibly be.
Speaker 1: Like he's the.
Speaker 3: Only people worse than him are Joe Flacco who's been
Speaker 3: benched and traded, Jake Browning who's been benched, and cam
Speaker 3: Ward who they can't bench because he was the number
Speaker 3: one pick in the draft and they're just it's a
Speaker 3: developmental year for cam Ward.
Speaker 4: So Ashton Genty is starting to get a sliver of
Speaker 4: room to run. He's been looking like a beast the
Speaker 4: past few weeks at LEA East, if you have any
Speaker 4: glimmer of hope. But Carol and his son again efen
Speaker 4: up on how they put together that old line. Still
Speaker 4: they're stubborn with powers Johnson JPJ should be an elite
Speaker 4: center in the league, and they've been using them as
Speaker 4: a fricking guard and wasting him. And he's been proving
Speaker 4: them wrong week in and week out, and yet they're
Speaker 4: still staying stubborn with that black ass Meredith dude at
Speaker 4: center who can't push that line forward. I don't know, man.
Speaker 4: I thought that Carol, because of his age, I thought
Speaker 4: he would be in more of an urgency mode and
Speaker 4: make better decisions, not looking to win personal arguments and
Speaker 4: personal wins. You want your organization and your team to win.
Speaker 4: Your little spats and things you have with personnel and players.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, you don't have time for that, or
Speaker 4: you shouldn't have time for that.
Speaker 1: Remember when the Buffalo Bills hired Marv Levy as they're
Speaker 1: that gives like the and I remember I did a
Speaker 1: rant in a monologue. I was like, this is great.
Speaker 3: Every team should hire a GM and they're in like
Speaker 3: an old GM because they don't have time for a
Speaker 3: five year rebuilding plan.
Speaker 1: If you hire an old guy, you don't have You
Speaker 1: got to win right now, baby, you know five years
Speaker 1: so now you might be alive five years from now,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like your Rams a few seasons ago, when
Speaker 4: they were trading all their picks away, you would have
Speaker 4: thought that your general manager was ninety three years old.
Speaker 3: Oh well yeah, but and then but everyone told me
Speaker 3: the Rams, man, they went for it, they won the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be in the playoffs for years.
Speaker 1: They're going to be the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: The Rams had like one bad season after that, and
Speaker 3: they've been right back to playoffs pretty much every year.
Speaker 3: So it was total bullshit.
Speaker 4: It just proves that these prospects are mostly suspect.
Speaker 3: See now you're stealing my material. Let's get ohio Allen here.
Speaker 3: We've got the mail bag.
Speaker 4: There quoting you, not stealing. I was quoting you.
Speaker 3: Anytime I hear that line, I think because Looney steals
Speaker 3: that from me. So you know anyway, ohio Al, it's.
Speaker 4: Mail all right.
Speaker 3: The first message, thank you, ohio Al. I love the man.
Speaker 3: It's a great supporter of our show music tunes for
Speaker 3: all the bits that we do. So we have let's
Speaker 3: see first up on the mail bak. By the way,
Speaker 3: these are actual letters from actual listeners, and the Real
Speaker 3: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 3: gmail dot com is the email address for a future
Speaker 3: episode of this podcast every Sunday. And Danny just want
Speaker 3: to point out, for those of you that are new
Speaker 3: and I want to learn all the affiliates down the
Speaker 3: line here on the podcast that this is nothing like
Speaker 3: Ask Ben, nothing all like Ask Ben.
Speaker 1: This is a stamp.
Speaker 4: This is not ask Ben two point oh.
Speaker 1: Not at all. We would never repackage tired old.
Speaker 3: Bits from the radio show and put them here on
Speaker 3: the podcast. But nonetheless we'll begin here for dog yes
Speaker 3: or who else, but fer Dog and Fullerton. He says, Hello,
Speaker 3: Ben and Dodger G congrats on your Dodgers advancing to
Speaker 3: the NLCS. Making it back to back final fours is
Speaker 3: a tremendous accomplishment.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you've.
Speaker 3: Both been to games of every sport what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: Many times?
Speaker 1: So what's your favorite and least favorite sport to watch
Speaker 1: in person? All right, Danny, favorite and least favorite? My favorite?
Speaker 1: I'll go first.
Speaker 3: My favorite playoff Baseball, close game, late innings, every pitch
Speaker 3: is just nails.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that you.
Speaker 4: Told me you love fifteen inning games where the pitchers
Speaker 4: are probably.
Speaker 1: No, not when I have things to do. Danny, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: Is it all?
Speaker 1: In fact?
Speaker 3: I loathe those loas loathe those as like a.
Speaker 1: Man talk here. It's early on a Sunday.
Speaker 3: But no, the thing is, Danny, that like with that
Speaker 3: kind of like the worst the thing I hate, I
Speaker 3: would say regular season NBA. I just I have no
Speaker 3: time for it. The players don't care, the coaches don't care, so.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just can't. I used to love it.
Speaker 1: I used to go to every game I was assigned
Speaker 1: to cover basketball.
Speaker 4: And why are those games christ so damn high if
Speaker 4: nobody gives a shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got me.
Speaker 3: I just I'm over the NBA product. I like the
Speaker 3: playoffs in the NBA, now, that's ali. I'm in for that.
Speaker 3: I'm still a customer for the playoffs, but I just can't.
Speaker 3: I can't get into it, cannot.
Speaker 4: Get Yeah, the NBA really should start their season on
Speaker 4: Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, most they starting around Halloween. That's what
Speaker 1: they do. Expition's going on right now. It's craziness.
Speaker 4: So my favorite sport to see in person is NFL.
Speaker 4: I've been lucky enough to go to Allegiance three times.
Speaker 4: Now I'm three and zero, so I'm scared to go
Speaker 4: back there because I don't want to jinx that and
Speaker 4: it would be a good possibility of that if I
Speaker 4: went there this season. But yeah, there is nothing like
Speaker 4: watching your favorite NFL team, especially in a newer stadium.
Speaker 4: And then all those years I had season tickets in Oakland,
Speaker 4: and Oakland was just its own culture, its own thing.
Speaker 4: It was awesome, from the tailgating to the vibe inside
Speaker 4: that stadium, the walking out of the tunnel with everybody channing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I only went to the obviously didn't live in
Speaker 3: the Bay Area. I only went there a few times,
Speaker 3: and I actually went to the first I was a
Speaker 3: sign by the Mighty six ninety. They flew me up
Speaker 3: to Oakland for the first Raiders game back in Oakland
Speaker 3: when they left Los Angeles. Oh it was Rams, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I believe you right, they flew me up and so
Speaker 3: I was there at the coliseum.
Speaker 4: When they were Raider Raiders Rams and I was there
Speaker 4: at that game ocome.
Speaker 1: Well look at that.
Speaker 4: We didn't know each other, but I had no I
Speaker 4: had season tickets right behind the black hole. Oh, there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 1: That's cool, awesome.
Speaker 3: So and Firk Dog also says, Dandy G, you've burned
Speaker 3: all your remaining Geno Smith gear after last week's disaster.
Speaker 4: Correct from oh Lord, I pretty much was out on
Speaker 4: Geno Smith all the way back to that Chargers game
Speaker 4: where the defense kept giving the ball back to Geno
Speaker 4: Smith and he kept doing squat with that ball.
Speaker 3: Think about Genos He's You thought he would be okay,
Speaker 3: he'd be bad for five or six games, he'll be
Speaker 3: good for four games, he'll be average for the rest
Speaker 3: of the games.
Speaker 1: But it just seems he's been like.
Speaker 3: All of his bad games have happened already, and so hey,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm moving on.
Speaker 1: Let's see here.
Speaker 4: What do we have?
Speaker 3: Kwang from Ho Chi Men, Vietnam. That's what it says
Speaker 3: in the email Big Ben and Daddy G.
Speaker 1: Shot in Freuda is the experience of pleasure.
Speaker 3: Joy, or self satisfaction that comes from the first or
Speaker 3: secondhand learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation
Speaker 3: of another. He says, question number one to you Ben,
Speaker 3: whatever happened to that wonderful drop out? And then question
Speaker 3: two he says, for Danny or Daddy G Radio, what
Speaker 3: happened to the school job that you had?
Speaker 1: So I'll go first.
Speaker 3: We still, as far as I know, we still have
Speaker 3: the drop in and this is one of the things
Speaker 3: we've changed board ops a lot over the years. And
Speaker 3: Loraina is in charge of the drops. I don't have
Speaker 3: anything to do with that, and it's really her discretion.
Speaker 3: And some of you guys have complained that she uses
Speaker 3: certain drops too much. You can plain she doesn't use it, but.
Speaker 1: That's her artistic touch on the show.
Speaker 3: I have nothing to do with that. I would like
Speaker 3: more drops. I would like to have more rotation to
Speaker 3: the drops, but I don't control that. I stay in
Speaker 3: my lane. I worry about the monologue because I worry
Speaker 3: about the show.
Speaker 1: So as far as I know, you do.
Speaker 4: Pick the bumper music though, because you love bumper music
Speaker 4: so much.
Speaker 3: God, what about your daddy? Geo Quinn says, what happened
Speaker 3: to the school job? That's from quaint so daddy.
Speaker 4: I went from one before school program and after school
Speaker 4: program to my own before school and after school program.
Speaker 4: I had my own kid. Yeah, that's what happened to.
Speaker 4: That is now, when my better half is working from
Speaker 4: seven thirty or eight am until I leave for Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich at one pm, I am doing daddy daycare
Speaker 4: here at home.
Speaker 3: Now, when co is old enough to go to school,
Speaker 3: you get that gig back or try to.
Speaker 1: Get something similar where you're out, you know, at the school.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm at a crossroad right now because
Speaker 4: the past couple of weeks he's been at the Dragonfly Room,
Speaker 4: which I talked about last weekend. He's been there on Monday,
Speaker 4: Wednesdays and Friday. That's only been a couple weeks now,
Speaker 4: But it's strange because now I have those days to
Speaker 4: do something in the morning, I'm working on the Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich show production, prepping their show for that day.
Speaker 4: But I do have some hours where I could do
Speaker 4: something else. But you know, Ben, with what we do
Speaker 4: for a living, at the end of the week and
Speaker 4: we work, you know, seven days a week, you and I,
Speaker 4: it's mentally exhausting. We're not digging ditches by any means.
Speaker 4: It's long hours, it's a lot of screen time, it's
Speaker 4: a lot of mic time, and so at the end
Speaker 4: of the week it's draining.
Speaker 1: Would you just show up and work three hours a day,
Speaker 1: what's the big deal?
Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah, I wish that's how it was,
Speaker 4: but there's a lot involved that people don't see. They
Speaker 4: just hear the finished product.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've tried to explain to people it's not just
Speaker 3: roll into the rate. Not to be fair that we
Speaker 3: all know there are people in radio that are lazy
Speaker 3: and don't do any prep and show up literally right
Speaker 3: before the show with no preparation.
Speaker 1: But those people normally don't last because they're exposed and
Speaker 1: they don't generally get an audience.
Speaker 3: You got to put the work in. It does it
Speaker 3: isn't at least an eight hour day. It's often a
Speaker 3: lot longer than that, because of you have to do
Speaker 3: stuff before the show, and you have to do stuff
Speaker 3: after the show. Next up, Alf from a safe space,
Speaker 3: he says, greetings, gentlemen, Have either of you ever heard
Speaker 3: of such a thing as a cat parade?
Speaker 1: Yes, says I know right Well.
Speaker 3: Recently, some brazen individuals, Alf says, thought it would be
Speaker 3: a good idea to hold a cat parade in the
Speaker 3: town that I lived in for the first twenty plus
Speaker 3: years of my life. Now, not only did they hold
Speaker 3: said parade, they mocked me for having it in a
Speaker 3: park less than one hundred feet from the house I
Speaker 3: grew up in. What has this world come to where
Speaker 3: cats can roam freely without any fear of being eaten
Speaker 3: by an alien?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 3: No, I've not heard of a cat parade. I always
Speaker 3: thought cats. You can't walk a cat. A cat's going
Speaker 3: to do its own thing, right, that's the difference between
Speaker 3: cats and dogs.
Speaker 1: Women are cats, men are dogs. Right. You can walk
Speaker 1: a dog around, you can't walk a cat around. Isn't
Speaker 1: that normally how that goes?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I got to shout out the two O nine area
Speaker 4: code in northern California because my mom has lived there
Speaker 4: for years. She moved us from San Jose, from LA
Speaker 4: to San Jose and then to the Central Valley where
Speaker 4: housing was affordable when I was in high school and
Speaker 4: where she lives her neighborhood. The times I visited her,
Speaker 4: I have to do a double take, a triple take.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what in that f is that? It's like
Speaker 4: a herd of stray cats running the streets. I'm talking
Speaker 4: thirty forty fifty feral cats running in a pack. Definitely
Speaker 4: shit you don't see in southern California or in a
Speaker 4: city setting that we're used to. And I asked my
Speaker 4: mom about it. She said, oh, yeah, our town has
Speaker 4: had some problems with Farrell's.
Speaker 1: So not the ice cream place. Remember there was a
Speaker 1: Farrell's ice Cream.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the Farrells I'd rather go see.
Speaker 1: When I think of feral cats, I think of Disneyland.
Speaker 1: And here's why.
Speaker 3: Because at night, the legend of Disneyland is to keep
Speaker 3: the rat population down, they release a bunch of feral
Speaker 3: cats at Disneyland once they close the park down.
Speaker 4: To take care a true story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so they I wonder what they do with
Speaker 3: the cats during the day. But they're they're there at night,
Speaker 3: they work at night, they let them out and keep
Speaker 3: the rest.
Speaker 4: Remember yesterday you were talking about island games.
Speaker 1: Yes, the island life.
Speaker 4: There's this thing called island cats. Our oldest is doing
Speaker 4: college right now in Hawaii and where he's at in
Speaker 4: yiki Ki every night, every evening he sees island cats
Speaker 4: roaming around.
Speaker 1: So they just they live in the in the woods.
Speaker 4: They're they're just they don't live in the woods, but
Speaker 4: they're just you know, they're feral and they they find
Speaker 4: food and water and they just roam. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know in Kawhii they have chickens wandering around that
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to obviously, they're they're protected. They have
Speaker 3: feral chickens.
Speaker 1: Buck. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, yeah, ALF, that's that's quite the trolling. I
Speaker 3: hope your wife was not involved in that, ALF to
Speaker 3: control you like that anyway. Scott from Florida Rights and says, Hey,
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g a dad of one of my
Speaker 3: kids baseball teams, played one spring training game for the
Speaker 3: Colorado Rockies in the late nineties. When we were talking
Speaker 3: about it, he said, one of the things that stuck
Speaker 3: out from his experience is that he the belt for
Speaker 3: his uniform was real leather. He says, I guess when
Speaker 3: they were in the minor leagues they had some kind
Speaker 3: of cheap composite cotton or plastic or.
Speaker 1: Something like that. He says.
Speaker 3: Is there anything that sticks out? Scott says, when you
Speaker 3: did your first day of professional radio that made you
Speaker 3: think you were a pro and had arrived. I'm curious,
Speaker 3: and I says Danny, if there was anything on Clay
Speaker 3: Travis he talks about his program that took it to
Speaker 3: the next level, like a gold plated microphone or some
Speaker 3: over the top equipment. I think that's more Rush Rush
Speaker 3: Limbaugh did all that. So, but anyway, radio is a
Speaker 3: very weird world. I've been to a lot of radio stations.
Speaker 3: Some of them you feel really important. Some of them
Speaker 3: you feel like you're in a really big space and
Speaker 3: you're really just king of the world.
Speaker 4: You'll appreciate this one, Ben, because you're a radio nerd.
Speaker 4: The word processing, Oh, and I'll explain that. So there's
Speaker 4: equipment where in a professional radio studio they have processing
Speaker 4: hooked up to the microphones, which processes the voice. It
Speaker 4: makes the voice bold. We've been in plenty of studios
Speaker 4: you and I been where the processing either wasn't there
Speaker 4: or it sucked, and it sounded really thin and almost tinny.
Speaker 4: So when you're in a really good studio and it
Speaker 4: has good processing, you put your headphones on and you
Speaker 4: feel like Rush Limbaugh. You feel big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, I would say my time
Speaker 3: in radio. I worked out of the iHeart Building in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: That felt like a big deal. Although the Ieart I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's moved. But the iHeart Building in
Speaker 3: Manhattan was in Lower Manhattan, which is the original part
Speaker 3: of Manhattan where the.
Speaker 1: Streets don't line up. And I was doing the overnight
Speaker 1: show and I looked out the window, like I'm in
Speaker 1: New York City, the city that never sleeps, And all
Speaker 1: I saw was one trash truck. Everyone else was sleeping.
Speaker 4: And you saw a raccoon and You're like, oh no, that's.
Speaker 1: A rat, Like I'm in the Big Apple Baby.
Speaker 3: And then actually the iHeart Building in Vegas on Fremont Street,
Speaker 3: that felt like big time radio. But then when I
Speaker 3: did college football stuff years ago, we used to go out.
Speaker 3: I did a few road games for them, well every
Speaker 3: game was a road game, but they did a game
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, and I had to record a
Speaker 3: one hour college football was a syndicated college football show.
Speaker 3: We recorded it on Friday from a local radio station.
Speaker 3: So we went to the radio station in Norman, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: and it was like out of the Simpsons where they
Speaker 3: had the transmitter, the tower, and then the radio station
Speaker 3: was in like a like a double wide trailer next
Speaker 3: to the next to the and it had all this.
Speaker 3: It had the old equipment Danny with like cart machines
Speaker 3: and those twisty knobs.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I had the old We call that the Rick D's
Speaker 3: equipment because Des used that his entire career.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Anything with Clay before we move on here, Scott wants
Speaker 3: to know did he have any special bells and whistles
Speaker 3: that you want to share with the class play.
Speaker 4: First of all, knows nothing about technology. When he would
Speaker 4: have problems, say with his remote equipment, his idea of
Speaker 4: fixing a problem was just unplugging it from the outlet
Speaker 4: and plugging it back in. And he would always say
Speaker 4: the same thing, I unplugged it and plugged it back in,
Speaker 4: it should be fine. Now we're like, no, dude, you
Speaker 4: need to turn the knob on your microphone setting. Well,
Speaker 4: I unplugged it and plugged it back in. He's one
Speaker 4: of those dudes too, where he had a cheap laptop.
Speaker 4: He didn't care about cars, he didn't care about you know,
Speaker 4: equipment and things like that. But what Clay did care
Speaker 4: about trips and flights and vacation homes and things with
Speaker 4: his family. I give him props for being a good
Speaker 4: family guy. He was more into spending his money on
Speaker 4: those things instead of expensive equipment and cars and crap
Speaker 4: like that. Gotcha, gotcha, dude, We're like Clay get an
Speaker 4: Apple computer? You're he sees from the year twenty ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I was lucky enough when Limbaugh would come out,
Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh, who's been dead for years, But when he
Speaker 3: would come to LA they work out of our building
Speaker 3: and we weren't allowed to see Rush when he was working.
Speaker 3: But then they left the studio because he'd be in
Speaker 3: town for.
Speaker 4: Like a week or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I did walk into the studio and saw the
Speaker 3: gold microphone that Rush had. Yeah yeah, I think that's
Speaker 3: the time I got one. He left one of his pens.
Speaker 3: Remember I got a Rush Limbaugh pen.
Speaker 4: Of course, plastic moment Rush Limbaugh would carry a guitar
Speaker 4: case around. He wasn't a musician. He had his gold
Speaker 4: mic in there.
Speaker 1: Gotta be prepared.
Speaker 3: Lenny from Jersey Rights and it says, hey, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 3: g what is your take on the viral photo of
Speaker 3: the United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy working out
Speaker 3: in jeans? Lenny, I really thought about it. I did
Speaker 3: see the photo. I don't know how you could have
Speaker 3: missed it. It's very odd.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 3: First, well, I wouldn't do it because I'd be self
Speaker 3: conscious that everyone be looking at me like, who's that douchebag.
Speaker 3: But the fact that Kennedy RFK is in his seventies
Speaker 3: and can still leg press like seven hundred pounds, I
Speaker 3: think I'll give him a pass on that.
Speaker 1: Right. Damn, that's pretty good. You're in your seventies and
Speaker 1: you're still great, great shape.
Speaker 4: So this has actually been a topic on Cochino and
Speaker 4: Rich in the past because the guys go to that
Speaker 4: gym at the Galleria right across the street from our studios.
Speaker 3: Beautiful looking at people at that particular gym, Danny, Oh
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 4: That's what they say. And they always have a long
Speaker 4: wait for the equipment as well, because there's so many
Speaker 4: damn want to be actors and actresses in that gym
Speaker 4: in Florence, right, yes, right, So they're at the studios,
Speaker 4: they're working, and they have their gym clothes with them.
Speaker 4: But there's been times where both guys forget their gym
Speaker 4: clothes and then the question they pose is should I
Speaker 4: be that douche that goes in his regular clothes and
Speaker 4: works out right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a rule.
Speaker 3: I go to the gym afair amount not as much
Speaker 3: during foot all season because they got so much extra
Speaker 3: stuff to do. But the thing is like, when you
Speaker 3: get to a certain age, it's the I don't give
Speaker 3: an f age I call it where you just show
Speaker 3: up and you wear your Like there's old dudes in
Speaker 3: Hawaiian shirts on the treadmill, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying. I mean, they're just they don't care.
Speaker 4: They're just like, Oh, same ones blow drying their balls
Speaker 4: in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Oh god, that is the worst dude, old guy.
Speaker 3: It's and it's not a blow dryer, it's the dryer,
Speaker 3: you know, the ones the water, the dryer.
Speaker 4: The hand dryer.
Speaker 1: Yes, so they doesn't.
Speaker 3: Reach your balls, and so you got to pull your
Speaker 3: pants open and then you have to towel the old
Speaker 3: and it was looking at you and they want to dry.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you have experience with us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the worst was in Glendale.
Speaker 2: What up? Bro?
Speaker 3: The Glendale Jim the twenty four hour gym that I
Speaker 3: went to there? My god, that was something. Frankin Vancouver
Speaker 3: writes in he just wanted to complain about the rams
Speaker 3: Kyn Williams fumble.
Speaker 1: He sent me an email.
Speaker 3: I feel you're paying Frankie gambled lost some money on it,
Speaker 3: he says, although I should note that my observation has
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the load of cash that I
Speaker 3: lost in the game. I feel you, Frank the Rams
Speaker 3: they played around with the forty nine ers in that game.
Speaker 1: They lost. But that's a couple of weeks ago. Terrence
Speaker 1: in Virginia Beach writes, and he says, Hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g I love the songs that some of the
Speaker 1: Malard militia send in and have submitted over the many
Speaker 1: years you've been on.
Speaker 3: Is it possible for someone to upload the music somewhere
Speaker 3: so we could listen to it whenever we want? Well,
Speaker 3: I would have to be on this podcast, I would think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'd have to give you my venmos that
Speaker 4: you could pay for my time to upload all the songs.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of songs I feel like we
Speaker 1: did do years ago.
Speaker 4: We did do We did a Christmas special on this
Speaker 4: podcast back in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if you go through the archive, I bet
Speaker 3: Lucky Tony knows what year that was and what day
Speaker 3: that was. But we did put a lot of the
Speaker 3: holiday songs in and I would love to do that.
Speaker 1: I think that'd be great. And I guess we could.
Speaker 3: They call those bank shows, right Danny and podcasting those
Speaker 3: you put him in the bank, so we could do
Speaker 3: that too.
Speaker 4: Bad CDs are no longer a thing because you could
Speaker 4: have came out with Ben Maller's Greatest Hits CD.
Speaker 3: Remember those what was it called Sounds of the Ballpark
Speaker 3: or Stadium Rock or something?
Speaker 4: Oh, jock jams.
Speaker 1: Hock jams, that's right, jocka Yeah.
Speaker 4: Dan Patrick's voice was the first thing you heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, Mike from Nashville, right, since says
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny, did you guys see the jumbo baby
Speaker 3: born in my city?
Speaker 1: What's up with this?
Speaker 3: And then he sends a photo of a very fat
Speaker 3: baby nearly thirteen pounds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 1: It looks like Lemonhead of the Lemon or Stewie from
Speaker 1: Family Guy.
Speaker 4: Oh, the Chargers and Raiders could use this kid on
Speaker 4: their O lines.
Speaker 1: Have we done a wellness check on the mom? Is
Speaker 1: the mom?
Speaker 4: Okay? Holy crap? Oh that's a planned C section right there.
Speaker 1: Came out of a woman?
Speaker 3: Holy Canoley, my god, is she alive? Lucky Tony, since
Speaker 3: says Danny and Ben. Why is David Vessey a fan
Speaker 3: of Poppy the Leprechaun and a chicken?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Because Vassa loves the three cock salad? I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means? He says.
Speaker 3: My fellows enjoy the weekend. He says Redskins thirteen Bears nine.
Speaker 3: That's a Lucky Tony who's a Bears fans?
Speaker 4: He says the bearsss a going down? That Brewers slide again.
Speaker 3: No, I think Vassay though, was busy. Wasn't he a
Speaker 3: cuddling with Kershaw after his bad outing?
Speaker 1: They're trying to make a.
Speaker 3: Reggie from Detroit writes, and he says, I don't think
Speaker 3: Reggie wrote in last week?
Speaker 1: Where the hell where your Reggie, you schmuck.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to write it every anyway, He says, Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny, Are you guys jealous that a Taylor Swift
Speaker 3: look alike makes more than both?
Speaker 1: You do both, both of you guys? Okay, So he
Speaker 1: sent a link here.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift lookalike makes up to five hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Dollars per hour.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Because of the the popularity of Life of a Showgirl,
Speaker 3: people are paying her five hundred Wow.
Speaker 4: Let's set the record straight, man. You make that doing
Speaker 4: one tire reck read? Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I do my appearances, I was on New Zealand
Speaker 3: Radio on Friday. I did the which is weird because
Speaker 3: I was on the set. It was Saturday morning in
Speaker 3: New Zealand, but it was Friday evening in La Friday afternoon.
Speaker 1: But they're like, good morning, it's the morning show here.
Speaker 4: On New Zealand.
Speaker 1: So that was very odd.
Speaker 4: And when you do your appearances at SOFI Stadium, I
Speaker 4: heard they're going to give you even a bigger sum
Speaker 4: of letting you take a selfie.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think I start charging how that woman?
Speaker 4: What an angry?
Speaker 1: Just an angry?
Speaker 4: They're gonna let you take two selfies?
Speaker 1: Angry lady. Why God, your life is short? Chill out, dude,
Speaker 1: Quinn from Salt Lake. I don't think we've heard from
Speaker 1: Quinn before.
Speaker 4: That's an interesting Quinn.
Speaker 3: Says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I think I heard you,
Speaker 3: Ben say that you liked Long John Silvers.
Speaker 1: What do you think of their new logo? I did
Speaker 1: see this? Did you see this? This is wild to me.
Speaker 4: This is why I didn't I didn't see a new
Speaker 4: logo for them, the.
Speaker 3: Long John Silvers. Thank you for bringing this up, Quinn.
Speaker 3: I had jotted that down. I forgot about it this week,
Speaker 3: so thank you for reminding me. So they have gotten rid.
Speaker 3: They used to have a fishermen as their logo, then
Speaker 3: they had they had a fish their new logo.
Speaker 1: Danny, I'm not making this up.
Speaker 3: Long John Silver's new logo is a chicken, back back chicken,
Speaker 3: because fried chicken. They sell more fried chicken than fish.
Speaker 3: I guess it's more popular, so.
Speaker 4: They I'm looking at it right now. That looks so strange.
Speaker 3: It looks like it was a chat GPT thing or
Speaker 3: something like that. And this makes no sense to me. Quinn,
Speaker 3: and you Danny as well, because there are seven thousand
Speaker 3: fried chicken places. Right, there's only a few fish places
Speaker 3: that you have that space.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Trump needs to tweet about this immediately.
Speaker 1: We no no fish, no money from us. Uh. It
Speaker 1: would be like it would be like chick fil A saying,
Speaker 1: why don't we put up cheeseburger our logo? No ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to change your name, not just put
Speaker 4: a chicken in the logo.
Speaker 1: Sickly long John Silver? Was he out hunting chickens?
Speaker 4: Yeah, change your name to long neck chickens. All right?
Speaker 3: A last one, last one, Danny would like to alert
Speaker 3: all the affiliates. Last email Ace from the OC rights
Speaker 3: and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny, are you guys
Speaker 3: of Ruffles guys or Lays guys? He he sent me
Speaker 3: a story here that Lays has This is hilarious. Actually,
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true or not. This
Speaker 3: might be the onion, but he sent me a story
Speaker 3: that says Lays has read. They found out, according to
Speaker 3: market research that I'm gonna I'm gonna run this by
Speaker 3: forty two percent of the customers of Lays did not know.
Speaker 3: Blank did not What do you think the blank is?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 3: Lays has rebranded their packaging because market research indicated forty
Speaker 3: two percent of customers did not know blank dude.
Speaker 4: Did not know where babies came from.
Speaker 3: Pretty much forty two percent of customers Danny did not
Speaker 3: know lays were made with potatoes, that lays potato were
Speaker 3: made out of potatoes.
Speaker 4: Holy well, ruffles are way better. They're better for dipping,
Speaker 4: and they're just a better bite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm team ruffles. Yeah, I don't turn down lays.
Speaker 1: I don't turn down lays, but I like the ruffles.
Speaker 4: I guess lays are good like inside of sandwich, you know, frontship,
Speaker 4: inside of sandwich, but for just straight up chips on plate,
Speaker 4: ruffles for sure.
Speaker 3: Or if you're going to Hawaii and they give you
Speaker 3: a lay when you get or if the other kind
Speaker 3: of lay people like a lot too, Danny.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: So anyway, all right, now we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: We got football today, Baseball tonight, Dodgers Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: We'll get things started tomorrow. So we've got got some good,
Speaker 1: good things coming up here.
Speaker 4: It's exciting, yeah, man, exciting time of the sports calendar
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely right, have a great Sunday.
Speaker 3: If you haven't watched Benny Versus the Penny, you can
Speaker 3: watch it now before the games kick off. If you're
Speaker 3: listening to this podcast after the games have already kicked
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Speaker 3: see if I was smarter a complete jackass, and enjoy
Speaker 3: that YouTube dot com slash at Benny Vspenny Danny. I'll
Speaker 3: be on regular tonight and throughout the week. You got
Speaker 3: any special plans for Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a usual afternoon drive except for Wednesday. We're
Speaker 4: going to be in for the Dan Patrick Show on
Speaker 4: Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: All right, On that note, have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 3: your day, and we love you. We thank you for downloading.
Speaker 3: The numbers have been great. God bless you and we'll
Speaker 3: talk to you next time. Austa pasta later, skater, No
Speaker 4: No gotta murder, I gotta go