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 soul 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 clearing house
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio in a happy Sunday and
Speaker 3: a happy Groundhog Day.
Speaker 1: That's right, Today is the day. Today is the day.
Speaker 3: In a little bit we will find out will there
Speaker 3: be six more weeks of winter or not?
Speaker 1: Only only today?
Speaker 4: Is this where Bill Murray he pulls his head out
Speaker 4: of the ground.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep, right, there would be hanging out with
Speaker 3: Punk Satani Phil and every Groundhog Day, everyone flocking over
Speaker 3: there to Gobbler's Knob in Punk Satani, Pennsylvania, awaiting to
Speaker 3: find out the most famous rodent in the weather predicting game.
Speaker 3: And this actually you know when this start. It started
Speaker 3: back in the seventeen hundreds German settlers who came to
Speaker 3: America and they settled in Pennsylvania, obviously, and they brought
Speaker 3: this superstition from Germany. And ever since then February second,
Speaker 3: the winter chill. Will it continue?
Speaker 4: Will it not? Now?
Speaker 3: There are other Groundhog Day celebrations, but because of the
Speaker 3: Bill Murray Groundhog Day movie, the one in punk Satani,
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania is by far the most famous.
Speaker 1: And I saw the one.
Speaker 3: In New York. Did you see the story the other
Speaker 3: day that they they've had to cancel it for the
Speaker 3: last four years. They can't find a groundhog this this town,
Speaker 3: in this town in New York that would always have
Speaker 3: done it. They've been unable to track down a groundhog.
Speaker 3: How hard is it to find a groundhog.
Speaker 4: Who knew they were extinct or nearing extinction? Are they?
Speaker 1: I don't have no, I have no.
Speaker 4: Idea, but I made that fun fact up there you.
Speaker 3: Go, fun fact?
Speaker 4: I U. Yeah, the dude there, what what's the name
Speaker 4: of that town? Uh?
Speaker 1: It's Gobblers not.
Speaker 4: Is that real? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it appears it is real? Uh it does?
Speaker 4: Is that the same groundhog? Are they related to dinosaurs
Speaker 4: or what?
Speaker 3: I'm not a historian on the groundhog.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast
Speaker 3: or not, but they had me doing liners for some
Speaker 3: local affiliates and that's throw those like hey, coming up,
Speaker 3: you know so and so whatever. And the station that
Speaker 3: I did liners for one of the stations this week
Speaker 3: that I did some liners for this is great. I'm
Speaker 3: want to find the name here. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I mentioned this Yesterda or not, but it was like, hey,
Speaker 3: it's pet malor there's only one way to start your
Speaker 3: day in the Chattahoochie Valley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how great is that? The Chado Valleys.
Speaker 4: Allen Jackson hid Chattahoochie.
Speaker 3: In that wonderful and that's that's in Georgia, Chada Hoochie Valley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there isn't that wonderful. By the way, it
Speaker 4: says in the wild, groundhogs can live up to six years,
Speaker 4: with two or three being average. In captivity, groundhogs reportedly
Speaker 4: live up to fourteen years.
Speaker 3: Oh is that right? All right? It says over two
Speaker 3: thirds of people surveyed are optimistic that Punk satani Field
Speaker 3: will see his shadow this year. Only one third of
Speaker 3: people surveyed bet on punks Atoni Phil to not see
Speaker 3: his shadow, okay.
Speaker 4: And of those people need a fucking life. It says.
Speaker 3: When it comes to people or asking people how accurate
Speaker 3: they think Punksatani Phil's predictions are, they said that they
Speaker 3: think he's correct thirty two percent of the time forty
Speaker 3: sixty percent. So thirty two percent said that, or thirty
Speaker 3: two percent said correct forty to sixty percent of the time.
Speaker 3: And see, I have some other who cares. What are
Speaker 3: we doing, Danny h I mean, what do we This
Speaker 3: is groundhog Day in Marmot, Marmont Days in Alaska. Serbia
Speaker 3: has their own version of this. Germany, Scotland, they have
Speaker 3: their own own own traditions.
Speaker 4: So there you go. You are by the way walking out,
Speaker 4: you're walking out into the groundhog pooh.
Speaker 3: At this point, say punks Towani percentage of punks Atoni
Speaker 3: phil predictions that are accurate, it's actually thirty nine percent.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not gonna win you money betting on sports.
Speaker 3: But if you're a baseball player, you'll be a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer at three you know, three ninety you're a
Speaker 3: hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: Right yeah?
Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, enough of that, we have actual letters
Speaker 3: from actual people.
Speaker 1: Are you ready let's get Ohio. Alen here, what do you.
Speaker 4: Say, Let's get this mail Kraken.
Speaker 3: It's all right, thank you very much, Ohio. First one
Speaker 3: is from Eddie, not that Eddie. Eddie from South Jersey
Speaker 3: writes and says, Hey, Bendon, Danny. I am a big
Speaker 3: fan of the radio show.
Speaker 4: Ben.
Speaker 3: I've listened to you off and on for the last
Speaker 3: fifteen years. I'm going to be in New Orleans this
Speaker 3: week for the Super Bowl. I'm there to watch my
Speaker 3: birds be the Chiefs. I would love to meet you.
Speaker 3: Are you going to be hosting a mall or meet
Speaker 3: and greet when you're in town with the f SR team. Well, Eddie,
Speaker 3: you clearly don't pay attention when you listen. If you
Speaker 3: think I'm going to be a New Orleans bill.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: There's the cool kids and then there's the overnight kids
Speaker 3: that don't get invited to this stuff.
Speaker 1: So no, I will not be in Norms.
Speaker 3: The company did not see me seem that I need
Speaker 3: to be there, Eddie, so I will not. I will
Speaker 3: be back in LA so I will not be able
Speaker 3: to meet you. I'm sorry, but I've never been to Norms.
Speaker 3: Maybe one year I'll go I'll have to pay my own.
Speaker 4: Way when I go.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately he offered to buy me some gumbo. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't really want to eat gumbo. So even if
Speaker 3: I win, I wouldn't want to eat your gumbo.
Speaker 1: But have fun, Eddie. Don't be upset when the Chiefs win. Okay, and.
Speaker 4: Which way you're betting, well, let's see.
Speaker 3: I mean Jersey guy, you know, South Jersey is essentially Philly.
Speaker 3: But have have fun, Eddie. I hope you have a
Speaker 3: great time.
Speaker 1: And it's it's it's a fun fun thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I paid my own way the last couple
Speaker 3: of years to go hang out and do stuff at
Speaker 3: the super Bowl and not actual like, I don't know
Speaker 3: if Eddie's going to the game or not.
Speaker 1: He didn't say whether he's going to the actual game.
Speaker 3: But you have a good time. So there's a massive
Speaker 3: store the NFL puts up where you can buy you know,
Speaker 3: eighty dollars T shirts and things like that. So Kevin
Speaker 3: from Kenosha writes in that's that is the home of
Speaker 3: the cheese Castle Danny right in Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: It's when you travel, that's right. Yeah, you've talked about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a Mars Cheese Castle and Kenosha stopped there
Speaker 3: when I was driving up from Chicago to visit my
Speaker 3: brother in Appleton. Anyway, Kevin writes, and he says, hey,
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny, you guys talked about Doug Gottlieb, oh
Speaker 3: boy coaching Green Bay a lot when he got the gig.
Speaker 3: Now that his team is the worst in college basketball,
Speaker 3: you have not mentioned his name much?
Speaker 1: Are you covering for your co worker? Says Kevin. No way.
Speaker 4: I hear jokes being thrown out here and there from
Speaker 4: different shows about Doug, Like nothing like super you know,
Speaker 4: obnoxious or anything, but yeah, like little funny shots here
Speaker 4: and there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I mean, no one's telling us not to
Speaker 3: talk about Doug Gottlieb coaching Cream Bay.
Speaker 1: I don't know how what is their record?
Speaker 3: They won like two games, right, They're like two and
Speaker 3: twenty something, and I don't know what their record is.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Kevin, this is not the deep State. I
Speaker 3: don't think our bosses care that much. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Rich Davis, he's coaching his little daughter's softball team. They're like,
Speaker 4: I think they're called the Pink Sparklers. He said it
Speaker 4: on the air the other day that he's Fox Sports
Speaker 4: Radio's number one coach.
Speaker 3: Well, all you have to do is win three games.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Doug wanted to do both jobs. I
Speaker 3: think you kind of need to do one. But hey,
Speaker 3: good luck.
Speaker 4: I hope it. I guess.
Speaker 3: I hope it gets better, but it really can't get
Speaker 3: much worse, right, I don't If you're the worst in
Speaker 3: college basketball, there's only one way to go. I'll be
Speaker 3: Benny Brightside here, there's only one way to go. But no, Kevin,
Speaker 3: I like your conspiratorial mind. I maybe they did send
Speaker 3: me an email in my work email, but I don't
Speaker 3: check my work email, So no, I just don't think
Speaker 3: it's all that compelling. I guess I could you think
Speaker 3: I should work some more jokes in taking shots at Gottlieb.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe I will.
Speaker 3: I have no no idea anyway. I thank you, Thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Everyone thinks it's a conspiracy Danny everything again.
Speaker 4: You know. The one thing I'd love is that Gottlieb
Speaker 4: is not allowed to tweet anymore, apparently, because any tweety
Speaker 4: puts out the first comment without a doubt, the first
Speaker 4: person that runs the comment always says the same thing.
Speaker 4: Why don't you focus on coaching basketball instead of being
Speaker 4: on Twitter? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well doesn't doesn't look great.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure it'll get even more awkward for Doug
Speaker 3: when he shows up to New Orleans later this week.
Speaker 1: And people will be like, what are you doing there?
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be coaching in the Green Bay?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? I don't understand why you're here?
Speaker 3: What do you should be with your team? But you know,
Speaker 3: he signed he knows what he signed up for. He's
Speaker 3: a big boy, right, he can handle it.
Speaker 4: I think, you know. Yeah, And he's not arriving until
Speaker 4: Wednesday because he is with the team, so he's not
Speaker 4: going to be there all week. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Well he'll be there more than I will be there.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Sarah in Minnesota?
Speaker 3: Right? Since she says I was talking with a friend
Speaker 3: about your show, Thank you, Sarah. Promoting the show, I
Speaker 3: used the expression blankety blank doesn't hold a candle to
Speaker 3: Ben Maler's show. Okay, so she said that our show
Speaker 3: is superior to someone else's show, so thank you. I
Speaker 3: went on to say, it may seem he has a
Speaker 3: silly overnight show. But his takes are well thought out
Speaker 3: and have depth to them. Well, thank you, Sarah. So
Speaker 3: if you can handle a compliment, please give me the
Speaker 3: hit on doesn't hold a candle? Well, Sarah, I will
Speaker 3: absolutely for you, only for you. I think she wants
Speaker 3: the phrase of the day, and we will do the
Speaker 3: phrase of the mail bag, phrase of the mail bag,
Speaker 3: phrase of the mailbag for Sarah in Minnesota. So the
Speaker 3: phrase doesn't hold the candle. That obviously comes from a
Speaker 3: different time when we didn't have power and at night
Speaker 3: you had to go to bed because there was no light.
Speaker 3: So used candles before electricity, before Thomas Edison and all
Speaker 3: those people.
Speaker 1: So the pre electricity.
Speaker 3: Era, and from what I have been able to find here, Sarah,
Speaker 3: there were these people called apprentices, but not the apprentice
Speaker 3: now's a TV show. But they would hold the candle
Speaker 3: to light. They would hold the candle to light the
Speaker 3: work of skilled crafts. And if someone couldn't hold a
Speaker 3: candle to another person, it meant they were not even
Speaker 3: qualified to be an assistant and stand there like a
Speaker 3: Putts and hold a candle. And they say that, they
Speaker 3: said the first time Danny that was recorded, and you,
Speaker 3: Sarah was sixteen forty one, Sir Edward Durings the four
Speaker 3: Cardinal Virtues, and that's from sixteen forty one.
Speaker 4: So been a minute, right, Wow, been a minute?
Speaker 3: Don't hold doesn't it's gonna know. Even back then they
Speaker 3: were mocking people that were bad at their job, right,
Speaker 3: even in the sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1: It's part of human nature. Yeah, gotta do.
Speaker 4: It right, yeh. And I bet that that first candle
Speaker 4: holder was related to somebody that owned the company and
Speaker 4: still got a promotion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably so, probably so, Like the person that wouldn't
Speaker 3: hold the candle was like, they're Doug Gottlieb. You know
Speaker 3: that was there? Is that how the joke goes?
Speaker 4: Is that all right?
Speaker 3: Mike in Fullerton right Sin says, Happy Groundhog Day, Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny g. As much as I love my winter Wonderland,
Speaker 3: I am ready for summer. I hope the damn groundhog
Speaker 3: does not see his shadow now. Mike in Fullerton says,
Speaker 3: are either of you planning to attend Corgy Race Day
Speaker 3: on Sunday, February sixteenth, sixteenth at Santa Anita Park to
Speaker 3: root for Brian Finley's dog Easy. I think she's got
Speaker 3: a real shot to win. With only one foosball game
Speaker 3: left to talk about, maybe you could fill some time
Speaker 3: on the next Benny versus the Penny breaking down her odds.
Speaker 3: That's from from Mike and Polton.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if every let me tell you some Mike, if
Speaker 3: every single television stop working, every single audio device stop working,
Speaker 3: and every piece of entertainment closed, and the only thing
Speaker 3: left was a corky race at Santa Anita Park, I
Speaker 3: would go to bed. That's what I would do. You,
Speaker 3: Danny not into it, Danny, You're not.
Speaker 4: I would definitely line up at In and.
Speaker 1: Out because that's what it was all about.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would definitely go to In and Out and
Speaker 4: not that race. Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, come on, how much does it cost?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I have questions, but I don't really want to answer
Speaker 1: those questions.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm good, my god, a Corgi raceff earf?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 1: If I know what it is? But why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 4: Why? Why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike. It's got to be tough. Mike lives
Speaker 3: in Fullerton, which is really right. It's just adjacent to Siberia.
Speaker 3: It's right next to Siberia. It's just so cold there.
Speaker 3: It's so terrible.
Speaker 4: It's the hood. Remember wasn't there a Mexican restaurant that
Speaker 4: Kobe loved there? Yes, but it was overtaken by gangbangers?
Speaker 1: Oh was it not?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, right, yeah, I remember that. When Kobe died,
Speaker 3: there was they revealed like his favorite Mexican restaurant was
Speaker 3: this little dive Mexican place in Fullerton that he would
Speaker 3: drive all the way from Newport, which is a pretty
Speaker 3: decent drive over to Fullerton to get some nice Mexican
Speaker 3: food with his with his wife and his.
Speaker 4: Kids and whatnot.
Speaker 1: That's where they hung out, and Kobe loved it because.
Speaker 3: They just treated him like a normal loser and not
Speaker 3: some celebrity basketball player and all that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's the reason he got his helicopter was
Speaker 4: to go get the Mexican food. Bulletin is to blame
Speaker 4: for his debt.
Speaker 3: So, Mike, your city killed Kobe Bryant. How do you
Speaker 3: feel your thoughts?
Speaker 4: No? All right?
Speaker 3: What else do we have anonymous rights in? There's a
Speaker 3: conspiracy theory that the whales we are all dying off
Speaker 3: the coast of Cape cod because of left wing politics.
Speaker 3: It's scary because this is a small town and we
Speaker 3: are not ready for these type of conspiracies.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 3: Home of Robert de Niro's father. Well that's important, Danny.
Speaker 3: You know, if it's Robert de Niro's father, you shouldn't
Speaker 3: do conspiracies if it's Robert de Niro's father, Like, really, come.
Speaker 4: On, is his father still alive because he's old?
Speaker 1: No chance, right, there's no chance.
Speaker 4: There's no chance. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've seen some of that stuff online about the whales,
Speaker 3: some of the some of the things the environmentalists were
Speaker 3: doing that supposedly we're gonna help the animals in the
Speaker 3: ocean have ended up killing them. And uh, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I think it was the wind turbines, right,
Speaker 3: they said the win. I think Trump actually said some
Speaker 3: of that stuff couple couple of years back, that the
Speaker 3: whales are dying because of the wind turbines.
Speaker 4: And I don't know. I'm not near a wind turbine.
Speaker 3: So I think they're ugly. And I see them in
Speaker 3: Palm Springs here in SoCal and there's a whole valley
Speaker 3: of wind turbines which are terrible.
Speaker 4: I'm more interested in d Naro's dad. He died in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety three. He was seventy one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's been gone for thirty plus years.
Speaker 4: So yep, he is laid to rest at Valhalla, New York.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, if you want to go see his grave,
Speaker 3: ne're in New York and Valhalla. Go knock yourself out.
Speaker 3: Alf from the Blue Tent rights and he says, you
Speaker 3: guys think it's possible to contact a contract rather contract
Speaker 3: an illness from a radio host by listening too close
Speaker 3: to every show and podcast? Could you please punch that
Speaker 3: TV Dennis in the mouth for getting us both sick.
Speaker 3: I would love love to punch the TV Dennis in
Speaker 3: the in the mouth. And don't forget by the way,
Speaker 3: I know it's Sunday here Benny versus the Penny. You
Speaker 3: can still check it out. And it's not a dated show.
Speaker 3: There is the Pro Bowls in there a little bit,
Speaker 3: but everything else.
Speaker 4: I think Pro Bowl you're gambling on flag football.
Speaker 3: Well, we we thought it would be fun to kind
Speaker 3: of goof around and bust balls about how bad the
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl is. But yeah, so we mentioned it, but
Speaker 3: it was like it was probably like one minute out
Speaker 3: of the thirty minute show. And do check that out
Speaker 3: and there's this is probably, I said yesterday, probably my
Speaker 3: favorite show that we've done, because there's a lot of
Speaker 3: bloopers and behind the scenes stuff, and we often forget,
Speaker 3: both I and Looney because we do the show and
Speaker 3: then the way it works, we go into the studio
Speaker 3: and we do the makeup and all that. We have
Speaker 3: to put the MIC's on, we have to test everything,
Speaker 3: make sure the IFP is working, and then we sit
Speaker 3: around for probably thirty minutes while the futz around in
Speaker 3: Boston with the graphics and get everything right and the
Speaker 3: video clips and all that stuff. So we're in studios
Speaker 3: sitting around and you know, as well, Danny, you worked
Speaker 3: with Looney too. He doesn't shut up. The guy just
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I do a three hour
Speaker 3: show with him. He just does not stop talking. And
Speaker 3: I'm just there. I want to get the show over
Speaker 3: with and get out of there. And he's bringing up
Speaker 3: people we used to work with. He's bringing up you know,
Speaker 3: FSR people where he works now at KBC in LA
Speaker 3: He's bringing up random He's always dropping names, even off
Speaker 3: the air, he's dropping names, and you know, we forget
Speaker 3: because we're in there so often that they're always recording
Speaker 3: everything we're saying, they're recording, and they played a bunch
Speaker 3: of that stuff back on. A lot of it was
Speaker 3: from the show itself, like the actual.
Speaker 1: It takes. Sometimes we do multiple takes for segments and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But uh, it was. It was pretty funny. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Looney just does not does not stop talking. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: I'm an introvert. I'm not an extra. You're an extrovert.
Speaker 3: I'm an introvert and you won't and that sometimes I
Speaker 3: won't even respond and you just keep going. It's like
Speaker 3: the Energizer Bunny, going and going and going and going
Speaker 3: and going and going. Anyway, Uh yeah, good luck. Alf
Speaker 3: a lot of garlic. I made the garlic onion pizza
Speaker 3: on Friday. I posted some photos on Saturday. So that's
Speaker 3: what I recommend. And you know, I feel I feel fine.
Speaker 3: The thing about it, Danny, and this is a problem
Speaker 3: we all have in radio, is if you.
Speaker 1: Have a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of a twinge in your throat and it's just a
Speaker 3: little off the by the time you rest your voice
Speaker 3: and get ready to do the show, you're fine. But
Speaker 3: then when you talk for four hours and it's even
Speaker 3: a lot more talking now since the company whacked Eddie,
Speaker 3: and I'm pretty much on my own there at night,
Speaker 3: so it's a lot more talking than I even did before.
Speaker 3: And so my voice is like shredded chicken my vocal
Speaker 3: chords by the end of every show, and then we
Speaker 3: come in here and do the podcast on the weekend.
Speaker 3: So it's like I, you don't really have a chance
Speaker 3: to just shut her down and not talk because as
Speaker 3: you know as well, Danny, maybe not you listening, but
Speaker 3: the way that we talk on a radio show or
Speaker 3: a podcast is different than just normal conversation. You know.
Speaker 3: I like to go up and down and all around.
Speaker 4: You have to project your voice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a musical instrument, and so that's what we do.
Speaker 3: And you use a musical instrument, and sometimes your musical
Speaker 3: instrument needs to go into the shop and that happens,
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 4: So sometimes you have to empty the spitvlve what.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, But thank you, alf I hope you feel better.
Speaker 3: Ryan Ryan c from Shrewsbury right sin. He lives in
Speaker 3: the Commonwealth there in Massachusetts. He says, Hey, bandon, Danny,
Speaker 3: I've been to Cali, been to Canada, and I've been
Speaker 3: to the Caribbean, so I have been coast to coast,
Speaker 3: border to border and beyond. Very cool the last two weeks.
Speaker 3: Last two weeks here, we've gotten snowstorms, so snow is
Speaker 3: in the air everywhere. Ryan points out, aside from radio
Speaker 3: and sports, what are some of the hobbies you guys
Speaker 3: have for me? Besides sports? I love working on cars.
Speaker 3: My wife's grandfather died in twenty nineteen and he left
Speaker 3: behind his nineteen thirty three Ford Model A in my garage.
Speaker 3: And there's a photo.
Speaker 4: Here, Danny.
Speaker 3: You can't see it, but there's a photo. And that's
Speaker 3: a beautiful looking car. It I like the Ryan says
Speaker 3: he likes to tinker with the car, get it back
Speaker 3: running again, loves the challenge. So that's from Ryan.
Speaker 4: Well, that's cool. I love that. That reminds me of
Speaker 4: my grandpa, William Rip served our country on World War Two,
Speaker 4: got home really jacked up from seeing what he saw
Speaker 4: and doing what he did over there, and what he
Speaker 4: did in the garage. Besides tip the bottle back was
Speaker 4: he restored it. He restored a couple of cars, did woodwork.
Speaker 4: He had everyone in his family by a Ford. Because
Speaker 4: he was a self proclaimed forward expert always tinkering with cars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool. I wish I had the car gene.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I love cars and I drive cars, but I probably
Speaker 3: could figure it out. I'm gonna send you a picture here, Danny,
Speaker 3: hal say, this is a good looking car.
Speaker 4: Hold on, let me get this. This is the right picture.
Speaker 3: That sent it right now to our live coverature in
Speaker 3: the fifth hour podcast, Danny to see.
Speaker 4: So then I'd like to alert all the affiliates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see the photo, Danny'm gonna click this and then.
Speaker 3: See the next thing. I clicked on that, and then
Speaker 3: I got to click on your name, so I type in.
Speaker 4: The Danny there, and then I click on that, and then.
Speaker 3: I clicked the blue button with the arrow. The arrow's
Speaker 3: pointing up, so I click on that, and then that
Speaker 3: goes right to you. And then you can see the
Speaker 3: car and it's in the Garageer's a pink bite.
Speaker 4: You know what's scary? This play by play is more
Speaker 4: exciting than the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mentioned in a monologue back on Friday
Speaker 3: Thursday night, these Pro Bowl games started, and it was
Speaker 3: like I was rubbernecking. I kept I was watching basketball.
Speaker 3: It was like TNT night. So I'm just mostly watching
Speaker 3: for Charles Barkley. But I kept flipping back and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, I couldn't believe what I
Speaker 3: was watching. I was like, who on the NFL signed
Speaker 3: off on that? Like what kind of toad venom were
Speaker 3: they drinking? And they were like, Oh, this is a
Speaker 3: good idea.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: We'll make it like The Malor Show and we're gonna
Speaker 3: do some sports trivia and we'll have a contest involving
Speaker 3: athletes sports trivia.
Speaker 1: That'll be a good idea.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's a cool picture. By the way,
Speaker 4: that is a classic Ford from way back in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I liked that they decided in those days they put
Speaker 3: the wheel on the side right there.
Speaker 4: They don't do that.
Speaker 3: You can't get a car with a wheel on the
Speaker 3: side like that. That looks like a fake car. A universal.
Speaker 3: On Friday, we were putting around or there, walking around
Speaker 3: on the set they were filming, either as a commercial
Speaker 3: or a TV show, and they had several classic cars.
Speaker 3: But that is that's really neat. But how do you
Speaker 3: get parts for that though? Right they don't make stuff
Speaker 3: for a car like that. You have to put new
Speaker 3: stuff in, right, you have to put the modern stuff.
Speaker 3: I would think, man.
Speaker 4: You have to go and pickers guys and get an
Speaker 4: expert to help you find parts for something that old.
Speaker 3: Do they have a backup camera in that? Probably not?
Speaker 4: Right? Probably not?
Speaker 3: Do they even have seatbelts in that? Do you think
Speaker 3: they have seat belts in it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Backup camera was your little son, and he said, hey,
Speaker 4: you little shit, turn around. Tell me if I'm gonna hit.
Speaker 1: Any hold my beer? Well, have I back up here?
Speaker 3: Let's see, Let's see if we can find how much
Speaker 3: do you think a nineteen thirty three Ford Model A
Speaker 3: goes for? I am I'm looking here, page down. I'm
Speaker 3: on a classic car website, and I see a lot
Speaker 3: of nineteen thirty ones. I do not see a nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty three, but nineteen thirty ones. So I'm trying to
Speaker 3: find the same exact car. What I think is the
Speaker 3: same exact car?
Speaker 4: Wow? With it be that rare Rick at the pawnshop
Speaker 4: would give you two samurai swords for it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and potato chips. There's a lot of these are
Speaker 3: being auctioned off. I think this is actually an auction website,
Speaker 3: but it says starting price like thirty thousand, but it's
Speaker 3: an auction, so yeah, I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know how many of those were made, and I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'd have to do more more research. But
Speaker 3: that is an icon, right, the Model A in automotive history,
Speaker 3: That's that's what kind of got everything going right, the
Speaker 3: Model A and Reford Model A.
Speaker 1: That's what sent everything down the path where we are today.
Speaker 4: Changed the transportation world.
Speaker 3: Random guy, right, Sandy says, Danny g brought this up
Speaker 3: on the air like eight years ago. He grew up
Speaker 3: in a Jehovah witness family. Can you talk about that
Speaker 3: on the air or is it not appropriate? All right,
Speaker 3: that's from random guy. That's that is random random. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is very random, very random that you brought that up.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, it's up to Danny he wants
Speaker 3: to discuss his his upbringing or not.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, so, yeah, it's a faith
Speaker 4: that my mom is very much into and still is
Speaker 4: and my whole life. Ben, I heard my mom curse
Speaker 4: only one time, the Big Bay Area earthquake.
Speaker 3: Oh nineteen eighty nine World Series Giants in As.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were little kids watching the World series about
Speaker 4: to start between the a's and the giants. The TV
Speaker 4: flickers goes out. You hear the announcers scared and scrambling,
Speaker 4: and then the earth started rolling underneath of us and
Speaker 4: my mom. I'll never forget she opened up the back door.
Speaker 4: She walked outside because she didn't know what else to do.
Speaker 4: She wanted to see if the ground was moving out
Speaker 4: in the backyard. And I remember her saying shit, shit, shit,
Speaker 4: shit shit, oh shit. And remember now, I'd never heard
Speaker 4: curse my whole life. Very strong, lady, awesome woman, very
Speaker 4: much in control of things all the time. That's what
Speaker 4: freaked me out. Instead of being scared of the actual earthquake,
Speaker 4: I was scared about how she was reacting to it.
Speaker 3: You're like your mom had transformed, undergone a metamorphosis. She
Speaker 3: was this evil woman.
Speaker 4: No, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Our nighttime security guard, James at the building, is a
Speaker 3: Jehovah's witness and I love James. He writes comic books
Speaker 3: and really happy guy. You know, you meet some people
Speaker 3: they always are complaining about their job or their relationships.
Speaker 3: James is always happy, and I don't know that he
Speaker 3: has the greatest job in the world. He doesn't have
Speaker 3: great hours I don't think they pay him that well.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's really cold and he's got to sit there
Speaker 3: and he's he's got this little space heater. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: really hot and he's just got this little dopey fan.
Speaker 1: But he's always happy.
Speaker 3: It's not because of being a Jehovah's witness or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's just because he's not always wired that way. But
Speaker 3: it's thought of him.
Speaker 4: You know. When I've been around my mom's church friends
Speaker 4: and her congregation and all that, they're very, very nice people.
Speaker 4: She's always walked the walk. I've admired that about her. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I may not live the same lifestyle or the same
Speaker 4: kind of life she does. Yeah, it was you know
Speaker 4: what was interesting was not celebrating a lot of the holidays.
Speaker 4: But I think as a kid you kind of just
Speaker 4: adjust to that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how old were you when you started to celebrate holidays?
Speaker 3: Were you out of your house by then?
Speaker 4: My dad Catholic, you know, he obviously celebrated. She didn't,
Speaker 4: So I was exposed to both sides of it. But
Speaker 4: growing up mostly with her my whole childhood, I just
Speaker 4: was the kid where the teacher was like, all right,
Speaker 4: we're doing a birthday party, Danny, you go to the library.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that sucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know what, Ben, Honestly, it didn't bother
Speaker 4: me all that much. I was like, eh, whatever, and
Speaker 4: I like sat there and read a book and a
Speaker 4: kid came in got me, and I went back into
Speaker 4: the class and kids had a cupcake, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: big fricking deal, you have a cupcake.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's one of those things that's all you knew
Speaker 3: when you're growing up, right, So mostly what you knew, right.
Speaker 4: That's yeah. It didn't bother me. And I think it
Speaker 4: gave me a unique perspective of not being afraid of
Speaker 4: kind of standing out and being your own person. And
Speaker 4: I think that helped me in radio a little bit.
Speaker 4: Right on, right on.
Speaker 1: Mike writes in from Arizona.
Speaker 3: He does not say where. I'm assuming Phoenix or Tucson.
Speaker 3: That's pretty much where everyone lives in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Or that area.
Speaker 3: He says, a guys, are you are you upset you
Speaker 3: missed out on this money making opportunity. He then sent
Speaker 3: me a story, Danny, of a man who invested over
Speaker 3: twelve thousand dollars in Ah. I think we talked about this.
Speaker 3: That realistic dog Costu. You remember we talked about that
Speaker 3: a few months back.
Speaker 4: Yes, I remember this.
Speaker 3: He's opening up a unique animal experience zoo. Oh boy,
Speaker 3: let me click this here. Gentleman from Arizona sent me
Speaker 3: the story. This comes out of one of the tabloids
Speaker 3: in London. That's from a I think it's a London tabloid.
Speaker 3: This guy became an Internet sensation claiming he wanted to
Speaker 3: live as a border collie. He is opening up his
Speaker 3: own Toko Toko Zoo in Japan and this is oh boy,
Speaker 3: this is where people can live out their fantasies of
Speaker 3: being an animal.
Speaker 1: No boy, I'm surprised. This is not in America. This
Speaker 1: is in Japan.
Speaker 3: So if your kink is to be an animal, you
Speaker 3: gotta go to Japan and.
Speaker 4: You can do it.
Speaker 3: This is the brainschild of a canine obsessed YouTuber Toko.
Speaker 3: The Togo Togo Zoo had its grand opening on January
Speaker 3: twenty sixth, So this week participants can book a morning
Speaker 3: or afternoon session and it'll cost you danny. If you
Speaker 3: want to have your kink as a dog, it'll cost
Speaker 3: you two hundred and fifty dollars per person.
Speaker 4: What for that price? There better be some doggy style involved.
Speaker 3: Heyah, i'll cost you a little extra. That's an add on.
Speaker 4: Yes, we call that a Justin Tucker. Hell, you can.
Speaker 3: Wear an Alaskan malmamut costume. Ultra realistic dog suit features
Speaker 3: a functioning mouth. Customers are warned that operating it may
Speaker 3: be challenging for those with stiff muscles. So you have
Speaker 3: good strong muscles that to do it. Oh God, what
Speaker 3: a racket. Two hundred and fifty bucks to dress like
Speaker 3: a dog. Well, hey, we have the furry conventions here
Speaker 3: in the States, so we got the furry crowd, we
Speaker 3: got the furries. In Japan they have the that's kind
Speaker 3: of a furry thing, right, But what's the point. You
Speaker 3: wear the costume and nobody knows they're actually in it
Speaker 3: because it just looks like a dog even from the photos.
Speaker 3: All right, hey, whatever floats your boat? I guess why not?
Speaker 3: Ultra realistic dog suit featuring a functioning mouth.
Speaker 4: Man, do you think they smell each other's butts?
Speaker 1: They lick everything, everything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything NonStop there right. I wond if you're gonna
Speaker 3: make any money on that though, you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's a big money maker. Are there enough
Speaker 3: people out there where that's their fetish. They want to travel.
Speaker 3: Enough people in Japan, enough people to travel to Japan.
Speaker 3: Let's see here. Steve writes in from Seattle. He says, Guys,
Speaker 3: I enjoy the podcast. What did you think of Mark
Speaker 3: Zuckerberg's quote this week? It reminded me of a story
Speaker 3: you used to tell on your show, Ben back in
Speaker 3: the day. Yeah, I think I know, Steve, what that
Speaker 3: Zuckerberg said everything I say leaks in a leaked meeting
Speaker 3: from that there's like leaked audio from a Facebook meeting
Speaker 3: and he said everything I say leaks, and it was
Speaker 3: leaked him saying everything I say leaks, And that reminds me, Steve.
Speaker 3: There was a story when I was doing local radio
Speaker 3: in La KTLA, Channel five. They had a weekend sports
Speaker 3: anchor that was horrible, horrific, And I was doing the
Speaker 3: midday show and she was so bad, she was so
Speaker 3: worse than everyone else on TV, and we were kind
Speaker 3: of busting her chops or whatever on the show. And
Speaker 3: I had a bunch of buddies at KTLA and they
Speaker 3: would listen to our show. The management was so pissed
Speaker 3: off because we knew what was going on. Behind the
Speaker 3: scenes because her co workers didn't like her, and they
Speaker 3: were like giving us information and one time they were
Speaker 3: having an emergency meeting on how to handle this this woman,
Speaker 3: and we got messages as this meeting was going on, Danny,
Speaker 3: we were talking about they're having a meeting right now
Speaker 3: over at the channel, channel five about Claudia Treels was
Speaker 3: her name.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think she married a billionaire or something like that.
Speaker 3: But they even hired Danny and Steve. They hired a
Speaker 3: comedy writer from one of the late night shows to
Speaker 3: write her jokes to try.
Speaker 4: To make a Yeah, was she pretty? Why did she
Speaker 4: get the job?
Speaker 1: I mean she was okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a beautiful woman on TV in la
Speaker 3: as you know, Danny, and that was. This is many
Speaker 3: years ago. This probably goes back thirty years. But I
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know how, I think, I don't
Speaker 3: know what. I don't remember what led to her getting
Speaker 3: the job, but she was not qualified for it. And
Speaker 3: let's just say we had a field day with that.
Speaker 3: So Steve, I'm glad you remember. I've only mentioned that
Speaker 3: story a few times though. Good listening by Steve. But
Speaker 3: that's funny Zuckerberg. Everything I say leaks, and that audio
Speaker 3: is leaked to the to the media.
Speaker 1: I will get out on that.
Speaker 3: Danny Safe travels to Louisiana for Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 3: I'll have a wonderful time. I'll give us a full
Speaker 3: freeloaders update there. Give as much free stuff you can please.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Yeah. After I produce this fine podcast, I
Speaker 4: am heading off to the airport.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, Safe travels there to the buy You
Speaker 3: and you guys have a wonderful you listening, have a
Speaker 3: wonderful rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the Flag Football Pro
Speaker 3: Bowl if that. If that's your thing, good luck on that.
Speaker 3: And I will be back tonight eleven o'clock in the West,
Speaker 3: two am on Monday morning in the East, and we'll
Speaker 3: talk your ear off all night long, and full shows
Speaker 3: every day and another TV show this week. So a
Speaker 3: lot going on, a lot of moving parts, and we'll
Speaker 3: talk to you next time.
Speaker 4: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.