WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "I'm at Your House" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:20.240 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.519 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere on a 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:39.400 championship Sunday in the National Football League. Think of this 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.720 as your pregame show without the x former NFL guys 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.720 and without the chuckles. Well we'll laugh, ha ha ha. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:51.960 We're gonna laugh a little bit. But it is the 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.040 mail bag The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.560 g Radio. You've got your formal raider gear on today. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:04.000 You're all dressed up without the unnecessary field reports on 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.920 dumb ship that we already know. Is that the most 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.400 annoying thing when the announcers are like, yeah, it's a 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.760 right ankle injury. So let's go down to the sideline 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.759 with so and so and then go down. Yes, it's 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.840 a right ankle injury. He's in the tent. Yeah, we 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.440 know it's a right ankle injury. Don't go to the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.200 sideline reporters, Ben, unless it's some ship we have not 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.120 heard yet. Now I love the sideline. I got a 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.000 buddy of mine that is a news, old newspaper guy 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.920 like journalists, like real journalism, back in the old days 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.720 before newspapers became you know, ghost ships, and he will 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.640 text me after the NFL game. Because almost every these 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.760 NFL games, almost every one of the first recorders, first 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.320 question from the reporters how does it feel? How does 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.920 it feel? That's like the number one questioned it. It 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.840 drives him, It drives him insane. What was going through 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.480 your mind on that final drive? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.680 yeah yeah. It's like, well, I was trying to score. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.720 We were trying to score because we were down and 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.680 we had to score or else we were lost the game. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.920 So I was trying to score. But it's like, you 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.040 don't have to go to some high falutin journalism school 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.320 if your first question is going to be how did 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.880 it feel? You know, you don't know, I could get 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.560 any schmow out of the crowd asked that question. And 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.760 the most fascinating thing is a lot of these sideline 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.359 reporters think that they're gonna win the Pulitzer Prize for 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.760 Journalism with this line of questioning. It's fascinating to me. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.959 They've convinced themselves that their job is essential and these 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.680 questions are very important and we as football fans would 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.079 not be able to survive without them. And I'm like, wow, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.720 whatever floats your boat. But I hate to hate to 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.040 be the bear of bad news. But spoiler alert, yeah, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.760 we were the first fifth hour interview after the football 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:59.040 is on hiatus, Shannon Spake, that'll be you, Danny. I'll 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.320 be taking that weekend off. You'll have to handle that. No, no, no, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.480 I know some of these people and they're fine, but 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.359 it's just you're not You're not moving mountains here, neither 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.160 or I'm gonna do a sports radio show in the 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.160 middle of the night. I'm not moving mountains. But at 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.480 least I don't. I don't pretend, Danny. I don't pretend 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.800 like I am moving mountains. I don't sit there and 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.000 think somehow that these are amazing questions. And a lot 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.240 of these sideline reporters they're like they're like hugging the 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.799 players and stuff. They're like, buddy, buddy, it's like the 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:29.080 it's like the the w w ET or something. It's crazy. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.480 I'm friends with Shannon. I'd like to say she does 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:36.120 a fine job, but there's just sometimes where the reporting 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.160 is just brainless to me. Yeah, well the thing that 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.640 me and when I when I used to get up 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.480 early on Sunday with Looney and we did the Football 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.160 Show for years. It's like seven or eight years we 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.320 did that show. But with Looney we would watch the 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.120 pregame shows and they actually on Fox Sports Radio. They 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.880 carry the Fox Pregame Show. And the amount of laughter, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.760 like and I don't mind a good belly laugh, but 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.480 on everything's funny, you don't have to laugh at everything. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.600 And these guys would laugh at everything. It was like chuckles. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.160 Its wild, It's like can studio laughter. It was insane. Anyway, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.160 we've got mail enough of that. Now that we've bashed 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:19.960 the NFL television, I think we can move on. Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.520 we'll change it up a little bit. We'll get right 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.120 to the mail bag. These are actual listener questions from 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.719 actual listeners like yourself, and we love when we get 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.760 questions from people that aren't regulars. We like, we enjoy 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.360 our regulars, but it's always nice to hear some new 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.920 names pop up on our radar or some people that 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.520 only email occasionally from time to time. Life keeps you 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.920 busy and you can't send questions in all the time. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.920 So the way you can contact us very simple. It's 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:51.080 Ben Mallard Show at Gmail. I don't know that's not 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.800 It's Ben mallow Show on Facebook. I was screwed it 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.440 up so easy. I screwed it up. It's Ben Mallard 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.200 Show on the Facebook page and then real fifth we're 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.440 at gmail dot com. I wanted to mention we didn't 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.640 get to this. We ran out of time yesterday on 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.200 the Saturday podcast. But we did actually get a great 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:13.560 review from on Backscratcher. We got one review on the 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.159 Apple podcast page, which is what we're really gunning for 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.520 and a couple of weeks would be great, and this 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.920 one said it gave us five stars, a must listen 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.880 on the weekends. It says the Ben Mallard Podcast. Though 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.520 we misspelled my name, but that's auto correctly when you 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.120 when you put my name in it auto corrects the 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.880 Ben Mallett. I don't know why, but the they my name. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:44.880 According to the algorithm is mallet anyway, so he says. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.719 Ben Mallett podcast is a great podcast listen to. Danny 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.320 G is the perfect co host with great relatable stories 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.040 as well as old school radio DJ stories. I really 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.600 enjoy the stories about when Ben started as a radio 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.240 stringer and his eventual rise. I like what he says 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.320 in quotes rise to now hosting a nationally syndicated overnight 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.120 radio show. Danny G brings his own sauce with awesome 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.120 stories about his daily life, his other career, and awesome 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.599 stories about the beginnings as a radio DJ. Love the 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.080 mail bag and the new pop goes the culture segment. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:25.160 Highly recommend this podcast. Dominican Mike, our guy, Dominican Mike. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:31.080 That's one of the nicest reviews we've gotten. It's very kind. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.400 Dominican Mike is one of the great characters, and I'm 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.200 bummed out he has a day job. But I love 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.040 that guy, and I love when he was in our 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.640 rotation of callers because he lived in Arizona part of 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.479 the time, lived in Tampa, Florida. I think he's in 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.400 Florida now full time, but he's working the dreaded day 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.800 shift and we had a great time. I remember when 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.960 Dominican Mike tried to take the oath, but he was 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.400 either tired or in debriated, or maybe a little bit 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.360 of both, and he really struggled. He was bouncing off 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.960 the walls there. Did not go well, but it made 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.920 for hilarious audio that we still play to this day. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.200 And it's been several years and we still play that 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.480 audio from Dominican Mike. It's tremendous. When some listeners asked 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.480 the question what happened to this regular or that regular. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.640 A lot of the times, day jobs get in the way, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.160 but the beauty of podcasting is they're still listening, just 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.120 at a different time. Yeah, it is really cool because 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.160 very rarely will someone listen to like Cowherd and be 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.119 loyal to him and then go to the overnight shift. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.160 Normally that doesn't happen. It's it's usually the other way. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.680 People work overnight for a little bit, then they'll go 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.400 to the day shift, and so it's it's cool. We've 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.239 got a lot I got people have emailed me Danny 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:47.360 that listen ten twelve years ago, I guess longer now. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.120 Years keep adding up, and but they're still that they've 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.000 worked during the day. They got normally, got married and 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.160 had kids. Used to they were in their twenties working overnight, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.120 trying to make money at the grocery store. And then 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.160 now they're they're all grown up and they got there 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.880 their families, but they still listen. That's kind of cool. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.000 I liked it. I love that. So alright, what do 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.840 we have in the mail bag? First up on the mailbag? 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.360 Oh wait, Ohio? Aw'm so Ohio. All hit that button there? Ohio, Aw, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:29.520 it's all right, thank you, Ohio. All. First one is 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:35.560 from Pierre down the road from minute Chog Regional High School. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.080 Where As Tombodett would say, we'll leave the light on 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.440 for you. Just a couple of fun facts before my question. Uh. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:49.040 He says that Wilbraham, Massachusetts, is the former home of 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.720 the Friendly's ice Cream corporate headquarters. Ooh, that's a fun fact. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:58.400 Most notable sports related to alumni the minute Chog Regional 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:03.600 High School for our our former MLB picture Mike Trombley. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.760 I remember him. He was like the middle of the 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.440 rotation starting pitcher if I remember correctly. Yeah, I remember 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.880 that guy. Yeah. ESPN, Mike Trombley, do you play for 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:18.120 the Twins Orioles? Something along those lines. I for some reason, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.720 I'm thinking Twins and Orioles. He probably played for somebody else, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.920 but those are the teams that I associate in my 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:32.160 head with. Mike Trombley. Whoa when I typed in Trombley, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.880 uh said, Trombley sausage. Oh well, I don't need to 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.160 see the man sausage. I'm good on that. I don't 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.560 need to let me put in Trombley baseball. Okay, Mike 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.680 Trombiley t R O m L. First picture that pops 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.760 up as him and the Twins. Yeah, I still got it, Danny, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.880 I still got it. I still got it Danny. Probably 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.080 Orioles and the Dodgers. Oh there, I must if I 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.679 forgot to dot years. When did he pitched for the Dodgers. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.760 What year? Let's take a look, and yeah, that's that's 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.760 why I know his name is because of the Dodgers. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.360 Two thousand one. Okay, so that was a little I 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.480 was here. I was working in Fox Sports Radio two 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.480 thousand one. Um. I still went to the to the 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.400 Dodging games all the time. But I remember my favorite 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.040 X Minnesota twinter I became really good friends with when 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.760 he pitched for the Dodgers. There was a relief pitcher 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.959 named Mark Guthrie. Oh yeah, pretty had a couple of 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.240 good years in the big least. Wonderful dude, one of 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.200 the nicest people. And I became I was a young guy, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.480 he was a young guy, and we were you know, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.839 you know, buddy buddy a little bit. That was cool. Uh. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.200 There was a picture for the Twins named Kevin Tappani, 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.000 who was a pretty good starting pitcher in the nineties 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.440 and he got he ended up on the Dodgers, and uh, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.520 you know, he didn't do nearly as good as with 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.640 the Dodgers as I remember as he did with the Twins. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.880 But uh, some random names. But Mike Trombley says, from 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.800 this high school, Uh, this is a Pierre, He says 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.000 in minnocha got really quick. I was gonna tell you. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.560 Close to our heart is the town he was born in, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.000 because we both have relatives born there, Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.080 that's right, Yeah, there you go, beautiful all right, And 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.440 that's where this right next to Springfield and this high 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.199 school is. Uh. And Pierre also says that the ESPN 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.880 co founder Scott Rasmussen from that high school and current 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.640 Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatsy is awesome from that 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.120 high school, says. My question to you is do you 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:36.480 feel ripped off by SNL for stealing the minute chog 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:41.160 light story for their weekend update segment or flattered that 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.600 the writers are fans of The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.079 Mallory and Danny g. I'll take my answer off the year, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.679 So I didn't see Saturday Night Lavel last week. I 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.880 love the fact that they they had that story. That's 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.920 a great story that the high school had the lights 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.319 on for years and these these idiots could not in academia, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.240 could not figure out how to turn the lights off. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.600 And I mean, that's just wonderful. It's a ten out 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.719 of ten. But I didn't you watch Saturday Night Live. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.560 I don't usually. I don't know anybody that watches that 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.720 program any longer. Last time I watched it, I watched 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.679 it because I'm a big Larry David fan and he 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.960 was hosting, and so I checked it out to see him. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.760 But that was about it. Next up on the mail bag, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.240 Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia rights in the Lovely Jennifer says, Hey, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.160 Benn and Danny Ge. Last week, my oldest son and 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.960 I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Minneapolis, and while passing 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.800 through Wisconsin, I remember your trip last year to see 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.400 your relatives in Appleton. Did you know that the highway 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:45.920 rest stops have vending machines with cheese kurds. We got 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.880 a bag, of course, since it is the cheese state. Yummy. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.960 In Marcel's voice, she says, that's some. Jennifer, Now, Jennifer, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.680 the big the big question is did you take your 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:02.840 son to Kenosha where the cheese Castle is? Because that's 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.800 that's next level. That's ultimate Wisconsin, which is just across 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.520 it's not far from the Illinois border. When you make 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.800 the trip from Chicago up the road there into Castle. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.440 Well it it is actually a castle, but it's not 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.880 made out of cheese. But you've never heard of the 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.760 chee Castle. No. I got excited. I thought like the 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.080 moat was gonna be melted nacho cheese. No, dude, this 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.400 is like the first spot I've not been to Wisconsin. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.200 I had not been to Wisconsin since I was doing 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.040 stuff with the Dodgers like twenty years ago, and I 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.080 you know, then you're with the team and you don't 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.040 really go out exploring. You kind of go to the 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.000 hotel and you go to the stadium and all that ship. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.199 But this thing is insane. I'm gonna send you a 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.520 link right now, let's sake you. I want you to 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.360 check this out. Um, and I do recommend it. It It 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.960 was really cool. Becuse the ultimate like Wisconsin kind of 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.440 touristy trap thing. When you're you're driving through on your 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.600 way to Milwaukee or Chicago and you stop by the 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.480 Mars Cheese Castle, which is I just sent you a 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.040 link there, and they've got all kinds of Wisconsin products. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.319 They've got a gift shop. You can get your packer, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:14.319 your your Buccaneers stuff, you're not your stuff, any kind 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.959 of cheese you could possibly want. Yeah, it is pretty neat. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.160 They got a restaurant there, they got old They got 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:27.520 cheese curds up the wazoo. Um, so yeah, it's pretty 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.720 pretty neat. But those cheese curds are man man solid. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.400 I gotta every couple of years, I gotta visit my brothers, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.760 so I get my my cheese fixed when I'm in Wisconsin. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.400 But I hope you had safe shovel's. Jennifer, is your 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 son going to school in Minneapolis. Is that what that's 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.800 all about? All right? Next up, Barry in Nashville rights 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.400 and he says, yo yo mo, Benny, you talk a 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.720 lot about in a minute fasting. Have you hit your 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:55.280 weight goal or are you still trying to lose more weight? Yeah, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.320 so I don't really wit myself. I I know when 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.840 my clothes get a little tight that I've gained too 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.920 much weight. Um. Pretty happy with where I am right now. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.400 I probably like to lose a little more weight, and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.680 doctors will tell you to lose weight. But I did 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.600 have a bunch of blood tests done about a year 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.800 and a half ago, and surprisingly I was doing pretty 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.400 well for my age and all that. Um, so it's 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.880 it's more about my michigasp berry where I'm afraid if 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.160 I eat three meals in a day that I'm gonna 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.040 gain all the weight back in like two days, you know, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.160 and all that. So it's really more about my neurosis 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.680 than anything else. And on the weekends, I'll eat a 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.640 couple of meals, but during the week I'm pretty religious. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.400 Like at the time we're doing this podcast, I have 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:48.520 not eaten in over forty hours, so you know, what 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.200 the hell? Next up, Fred from Spring Texas Rights, and 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.520 he says, hey, there, guys, how has the rise of 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:01.400 advertising revenue through sports gambling businesses affected the radio business? 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.120 Has it changed the way you cover sports? So that's 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.440 a that's a pretty good question from our guy, Fred. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.880 It's been wonderful for for what we do, it's been great. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.440 It's influx of cash and these gambling companies like we're 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.440 associated on on our show with DraftKings and they're a 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.320 big sponsor and they spend a lot of a lot 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.280 of advertising dollars on Fox Sports Radio. We're very grateful 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.040 that for that. And yeah, I heard Coop do a 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.720 live read for them on your show. Well, Koop knows 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.400 how to make the advertiser very happy. As you know, Danny, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.200 I wish I could pull off those suits. Uh but 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.000 but no, And in all in all seriousness, it's been wonderful. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.960 It's I'm trying to think, what's the comparison, and we've 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.000 both been in the business a long time, Danny, is 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.640 there's something else that can match what we've got right 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.760 now because it's just this big influx of cash. Yeah, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:05.200 I guess some money here. I would think maybe when 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.199 the dot com things started and people were advertising, was 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.080 it pets dot com and some of those early websites 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.359 where they were trying to get people to go to 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.520 them and they'd buy radio spots. The other one, Ben, 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.479 and you can attest to this because I'm sure you 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:27.240 did your share of live remotes at cell phone stores. Yes, yes, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:32.240 oh my god. Yeah, when the smartphone face came around. Yes, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.040 all these little cell phone stores were battling with each other, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.879 all had their run times on radio stations. I remember 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.159 there would be certain saturdays where we would be at 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.480 two different cell phone stores broadcasting live. Yeah. I totally 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.320 forgot about you. That's a great call by you. Yeah, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.000 I remember we were. We used to go when I 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.800 was doing local radio because it was the nineties when 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.159 these things kind of came on the scene, and we 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.600 we were like a T and T store in Santa 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.119 Monica on his Saturday morning. But then we do a 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.879 remote from uh what was the other I'm trying to 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.320 I'm having a blank on the other phone. But it 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.200 was another one of the big phone companies, and we would, 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.320 uh yeah, just show up, get people to come down 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.600 and buy a phone. And it was brilliant because once 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.360 you get locked in with a type of phone. It's 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.000 very difficult to cross old like on the smartphone thing. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.600 If you're an iPhone person, you're an iPhone person, and 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.000 if you're an Android person, they're an Android person. And 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.280 those were back in the days when people had blackberries, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.200 remember the black thing. That was big for business people. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.840 And there were still mon pop shops at the time 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.880 who carried all the different kinds of phones. Obviously they 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.840 just had agreements and licensing with all the different carriers. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:52.200 So we had big stores, little ones, mob pop, corporate. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.920 It didn't matter. They were all trying to sling these phones. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.720 So I remember hot dogs, three hot dogs for an 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.480 hour with with the DJ table out right in front 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.680 of the cell phone store, and of course they were 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.560 giving away a free phone by the end of the 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:13.200 broadcast and big sale that day on on service and 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.679 you know you can trade your phone in or whatever. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.760 Do we spend hours and hours at those dumb stores, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.760 Yeah I did. I totally forgot about that, But that 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.640 was a huge thing for radio, and the phone thing 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:32.040 came around, and um, you know, the sports radio business model. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.920 As far as covering sports, I've always been into gambling, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.560 but there is a fine line it's really like threatened 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.520 a needle, because if you do too much gambling, it's 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.359 a nightmare. Nobody wants to listen to it, so you 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.879 really have to. And people tune in for the sports 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.760 that that you know Dud's been on games I get 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.080 I do we do this podcast. We have Benny Versus 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.880 the Penny. But the way I've always approached it, even 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.080 on Benny Versus the Penny, it's more about the matchup 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.560 and the you know, the mental part of it. When 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.640 you some of these gambling shows and I have friends 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.040 of mine to do these things, Danny, it's like you 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.800 do a hard oh sports gambling show. To me, that's 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.960 a heartless. To me, that's a tough list. So you 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.000 got you gotta balance it. It is. There's those paid 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.320 one phone number shows we've all heard on local radio 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.960 stations screaming about do you like boats, because I'm gonna 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.840 put a boat in the driveway? Yeah? Are you tired 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.800 a bit a loser? Do you want your wife to 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.359 leave you alone? I'll get you a boat. You'll be 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.240 listening to this on a boat. The first five picks 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.119 are free, and their locks let me tell you their locks, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.680 And there for free the first five are free, call 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.120 my number right now, operatives are standing by absolutely free. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.560 And then you call up, it's like twenty seven minutes 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.439 of commercials to buy their product. And then at the 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.840 very end, by the way, I like the Chiefs minus two, 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.159 you know, and then and then they call you back 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.560 and they get your number, and it's a whole ship show. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.720 So that's crazy. That's how it used to be. Now 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.040 it's an app in your phone and you can bet 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.919 on whatever your heart desires, unless you're in a state 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.359 like ours. Yeah, well another is it two more years? 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.760 We have to wait for one more year and then 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:15.560 the Native American groups, the the Indian casinos will control 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.720 the gambling market. I don't want to mess with those people. Man, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.600 they got they I'll tell you what they own the 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:26.320 gambling market in California. They are all they beat big gambling. 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.400 That's insane that they were able to push out these 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.679 huge gambling companies all hailed at That tells you how 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.680 much money those gambling operations, these casinos around California make 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.240 on Native American land. Uh. Next up on the mail 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.160 bag we go to Drew, who says, Big Ben love 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.760 the show. Keep up the arguing, Uh, yeah, we did 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.720 a little back and Eddie annoys me sometimes and I 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.560 have to sell at him. And then then usually what 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.919 happens is Coop will then take eighties side and then 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.639 Roberto will chime in, and so then I have to 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.240 I have to talk these guys away. And he says 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.359 it reminds me of Howard Stern, what he would do 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.840 with the stuttering John or Bob a booie. Uh. He 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.280 enjoyed that play the Mona song Blair, he says, in Maine, 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:16.520 reminds me of Jeff the drunk from the Howard Stern Show. 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.040 He says, Mr Jed who fled cost you the game, 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:24.360 Yes he did. Jed was completely inebriated the other night. 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.560 Should stay off the drugs. Can't stand that, guy says. Anyway, 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:32.000 cheers brother. And to the cry babies that can't handle 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:36.240 the arguing, he says, they can go listen to Dan Patrick, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.920 he says, and then he says some rather unflattering things 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:42.600 about Dan, so I probably will leave those out. Um, 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:47.080 but thank you Drew in southern California. I appreciate that 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.960 great kind of you. It is a tremendous compliment because 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.800