Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a Everywhere and a Happy Football Sunday. It
Speaker 1: is week eleven of the NFL. It actually started the
Speaker 1: other day on Thursday with Joe Burrow's wrist getting all
Speaker 1: clunky and all that with that Ravens and Bengals game.
Speaker 1: But we had a full slate of football action. The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g were here
Speaker 1: every single weekend. You hear me late at night recording
Speaker 1: my podcast in the middle of the night, the Ben
Speaker 1: Maler Show on radio, and then Danny G's on during
Speaker 1: the day with Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: And we joined forces and we go together like mac
Speaker 1: and cheese on the weekends and all that. And you
Speaker 1: might be eating mac and cheese this week. Thanksgiving. Neal
Speaker 1: who knows. But today on this Sunday podcast, you were correct, Danny.
Speaker 1: I was so flustered by you bringing up animal thunderdome
Speaker 1: possibly coming back that I failed the listener. I did
Speaker 1: not get to the phrase of the week. I did
Speaker 1: not get to the phrase of the week. Does a
Speaker 1: bad job by me? Bad job by me? Danny G
Speaker 1: I knew it.
Speaker 3: I called it as sure as I was of that,
Speaker 3: and CoA not being afraid of the water. He was
Speaker 3: like a little fish yesterday afternoon, Ben.
Speaker 1: A little fishy. That's good. So we have a phrase
Speaker 1: of the week, scientifical. We're gonna get scientifical and mailbag
Speaker 1: mailbag as well. So here we go, phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the phrase of the week?
Speaker 4: Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Here is the phrase, which is not to be confused.
Speaker 1: Phrase of the week. Not to be confused with the
Speaker 1: idiom of the week, which we did back on Friday.
Speaker 1: But the phrase of the week. Hit the panic button. Now,
Speaker 1: I use this phrase all the time, Danny. I use
Speaker 1: this probably once every other day for an athlete choking yeah,
Speaker 1: or for a team or a coach. Oh, they hit
Speaker 1: the panic button.
Speaker 3: I heard you use this when you were talking about
Speaker 3: James Harden recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I have. I used it with Harden. So
Speaker 1: it's obviously reacting poorly to a situation. You hit the
Speaker 1: panic button, being caught off guard, uh, doing something without
Speaker 1: really thinking it through, making bad decisions in a situation
Speaker 1: that's hit the panic button. I think most of us
Speaker 1: know what that means. But the origin I was fascinated
Speaker 1: by the origin of this word, so that's why, or
Speaker 1: this phrase rather so, that's why it is the phrase
Speaker 1: of Louis. So the origin of the of the phrase
Speaker 1: hit the panic button goes back to World War Two,
Speaker 1: so it's not that old a phrase. This ain't going
Speaker 1: back to ancient times like we had the Idiom of
Speaker 1: the Week that went back to ancient Greece. This only
Speaker 1: goes back to World War Two, and it is a
Speaker 1: reference to the B seventeen and the B twenty four bombers.
Speaker 1: Now the B seventeen much more famous than the B
Speaker 1: twenty four. Am I correct on that. I'm not a
Speaker 1: military guy, but it seems like the B seventeen to
Speaker 1: B twenty four you don't hear a lot about anyway. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure there's someone listening that's really
Speaker 1: up on their military history. Par I could tell us
Speaker 1: the way this phrase originated. It hit the panic Button.
Speaker 1: World War two B seventeen B twenty four bombers, they
Speaker 1: had bell systems, actual bells that would ring in the
Speaker 1: cockpit in the event of a catastrophe about to happen, right,
Speaker 1: meaning that there's damage or whatever. And we assigned they'd
Speaker 1: ring bells to signal to the crew to jump ship.
Speaker 1: So they would literally be like bells ringing. And you know,
Speaker 1: people are, well, what does that have to do with
Speaker 1: the actual panic button, because you know it's bells. It's
Speaker 1: not that Well, if you go to nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 1: after World War Two, nineteen fifty five, there was a
Speaker 1: guy that came up with a glossary of air force
Speaker 1: slang from pilots at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: And this is for the academic journal American Speech. It
Speaker 1: is still in print to this day under the headline
Speaker 1: hit the Panic Button this book, the guy wrote, there
Speaker 1: is a switch called the panic button in the cockpit
Speaker 1: of a jet craft which Jennison's objects, including extra fuel tanks,
Speaker 1: in order to lighten the plane conditions under which this
Speaker 1: switch is used, are usually quite desperate and continuing to read,
Speaker 1: it says, in case of power failure, for example, when
Speaker 1: all the prescribed remedial processes failed, the pilot might, in desperation,
Speaker 1: push everything that's out and pull everything that's in in
Speaker 1: the hopes that he might actually do something help. Thus
Speaker 1: the phrase panic button was born. So since that was
Speaker 1: published in nineteen fifty five, that has been a phrase
Speaker 1: that we use. And by the way, from what we're told,
Speaker 1: it has now been standard. That's standard. There's actually a
Speaker 1: panic button in military aircraft, the United States military aircraft.
Speaker 1: I've never been in, well, I should say never. I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to go to the open
Speaker 1: house of the marine base and go through all the
Speaker 1: planes and all that in the helicopters, but as far
Speaker 1: as I know, you know, as an adult, I've not
Speaker 1: been in military aircraft. So they do have a standard
Speaker 1: piece of equipment that is known as the panic button.
Speaker 4: So yess, very cool.
Speaker 1: That is pretty neat. It doesn't go back so nobody
Speaker 1: before that, but maybe they said panic button, but it
Speaker 1: didn't didn't really resonate. So phrase the week again, panic
Speaker 1: button hit the panic butt O. Yes, yeah, well there
Speaker 1: you go hit the panic button. Next up, we have
Speaker 1: moving on as we flip the script here and we
Speaker 1: will get scientifical. We're gonna get cy and typical. Why
Speaker 1: why not? What the heck?
Speaker 5: And we'll get to that's right, come on, ohiol.
Speaker 6: Science, All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna help you out, dandy. Do you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone? You have an iPhone? Right?
Speaker 4: Of course I'm not some Android sucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a hack that some dope came up
Speaker 1: with on TikTok. This guy claims unlimited cell phone battery life,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, that's a lie, but you can
Speaker 1: improve your cell phone battery life. And I actually did this,
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you, pretty pretty simple. I'm not
Speaker 1: that right when it comes to technology and all that
Speaker 1: pretty simple, and I believe it worked, although I haven't
Speaker 1: had it on long enough to know for sure if
Speaker 1: it works. But the way this works is you selectively
Speaker 1: dim your screen. But you don't do it the regular way.
Speaker 1: You have to go to the iPhone set. You then
Speaker 1: go to iPhone settings, you click on accessibility. You then
Speaker 1: go to the display and tech size and you switch
Speaker 1: on the reduced white point option. So that's the see
Speaker 1: there's a little switch.
Speaker 4: It says reduced transparency.
Speaker 1: No, it's it says reduce white point. Let me let
Speaker 1: me go do it right now, show you because I
Speaker 1: did this earlier. So you click.
Speaker 4: Oh, I see it, reduce white point to the bottom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you click on that and then you can
Speaker 1: adjust it. If you want better battery life, you would
Speaker 1: make it dinner now. The only problem is if you
Speaker 1: go outside or something like that and you're in the sunlight,
Speaker 1: it might become a problem. But if you reduce it
Speaker 1: a little bit, it'll it'll.
Speaker 4: Help out, got it. Oh that's cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, So I did that the other day right there,
Speaker 1: and there's a little hack. We'll see how good it goes.
Speaker 1: So if you're concerned about battery life, and there's that
Speaker 1: little slider Danny, you see you there, you can go
Speaker 1: all the way down and see how dim you want
Speaker 1: your phone to be, and it would reduce the whites
Speaker 1: on your screen. And so far, so good, so cool.
Speaker 1: First story from let's get scientifical. Uh here, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, how much how much weight do you
Speaker 1: believe the average American is going to gain over the
Speaker 1: next month with Thanksgiving Christmas?
Speaker 4: I would guess eight pounds.
Speaker 1: Did you see this story, Danny, it's oh it's exactly
Speaker 1: eight pounds.
Speaker 4: Wow, No, I swear I did not see this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, are you still going to stick to your diet?
Speaker 1: What's your what's your plan here? I am yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, people have left suits already on the counter
Speaker 3: at FSR and I did not partake.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's good discipline. You gotta have it. You
Speaker 1: gotta have it. You know. It takes like thirty sixty
Speaker 1: I think it's sixty days, and then once that's a
Speaker 1: new habit. Once you do like sixty days, you're good
Speaker 1: to go after that. But three quarters of Americans are
Speaker 1: planning to enjoy a festivus of epic proportions. According to
Speaker 1: a new survey, seventy two percent of Americans want to
Speaker 1: make the most of the end of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and most people the diet. Screw the diet. They're writing
Speaker 1: off the end of the year, and they do estimate
Speaker 1: in the holiday season, you're gonna get eight pounds. Expect
Speaker 1: to get eight pounds every now, you Danny, because you're
Speaker 1: on your diet, but eight pounds heavier. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: it was five and a half pounds, So we're getting it.
Speaker 1: We're getting even deeper into the food here in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. But I'm gonna I'm gonna stick to my
Speaker 1: fasting and all that. I'm not you know, if you're
Speaker 1: wondering what I'm doing. I mean, I'll eat decently. We
Speaker 1: don't make turkey on Thanksgiving, so at least I don't
Speaker 1: think we're making turkey. And I gotta do the TV
Speaker 1: show and all that anyway, So I got a busy week,
Speaker 1: so I'll figure out. I mean, I'll eat it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna eat well, but probably not go crazy. What else
Speaker 1: do we have here? Oh? Very thankful people in the
Speaker 1: United States? The average American? How many times a year,
Speaker 1: Danny is the average American say thank you? According to
Speaker 1: a new scientifical study in it, per year, how many
Speaker 1: times do you say thank you? Wow, go your groucery,
Speaker 1: somebody leaves the door open for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, I would I would guess a couple
Speaker 3: thousand times in a year.
Speaker 1: You're almost exactly right again, two two hundred times per
Speaker 1: year on average.
Speaker 4: Damn, I'm hot, right now, take me to Vegas instead
Speaker 4: of Palm Springs.
Speaker 1: Iron Man, you want to keep going here, you want
Speaker 1: to keep going. I don't know if I have any
Speaker 1: more questions like this, but yeah, they estimate the study
Speaker 1: said two two hundred times a year. Now, there are
Speaker 1: some people that are less, there are some people that
Speaker 1: are more. There's some people that say thank you for everything.
Speaker 1: There's other people say thank you for nothing. So it
Speaker 1: obviously depends. Well, here's good news, Danny. Life expectancy is dropping.
Speaker 1: American men dying six years earlier than women. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna drop dead sooner than our wives, Dandy. That's exciting.
Speaker 4: This is not good news.
Speaker 1: Oh not good Hey, speaking of that, did you guys
Speaker 1: on Kovino and Rich did you talk about the Dana
Speaker 1: White story this week. That's a wild story where he
Speaker 1: lost a bunch. He went on a fast, like a
Speaker 1: water fast. Did you see that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got all ripped up.
Speaker 1: He went on an eighty something hour fast because he
Speaker 1: went to some doctor that said he was going to
Speaker 1: die in ten years. So that jump started his mission,
Speaker 1: his mission for health. That was that was pretty wild.
Speaker 3: I'm right there, man. I gotta make Coha's high school graduation.
Speaker 1: You gotta go well on, you gotta beat the wedding.
Speaker 1: The whole thing and all that, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to pay for it. Is that custom still in effect
Speaker 1: with the bride's family has to pay for the wedding.
Speaker 1: Is that how that works? I don't know.
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound very twenty twenty three of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I thought that was the way
Speaker 1: it was. Well, just have him get have him a
Speaker 1: lope when he gets older, and then you're saving the money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What else do we have here? See, you're doing science.
Speaker 4: I think a scholarship too, that would be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Are you thinking more football? Maybe raiders? You're thinking
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a big guy like offensive line.
Speaker 3: Are we thinking he's going to be a big I'm
Speaker 3: thinking tight end or linebacker.
Speaker 1: That'd be good. How about a pass rushing defensive end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll work.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be like the next Robert Spulane, babe.
Speaker 1: All right, what do we have here? How about this
Speaker 1: years ago corner research scientists are saying that the days
Speaker 1: were back in the early days of eurse history, at
Speaker 1: one point, the days were nineteen hours long. That's it,
Speaker 1: nineteen hours instead of the twenty four so instead of
Speaker 1: the yeah, nineteen. You think, does that mean the days
Speaker 1: will keep getting like someday twenty six hours in a
Speaker 1: day or twenty seven hours in a day? Or is
Speaker 1: it how my entire life has been twenty four? Right,
Speaker 1: we've all been twenty five. But how does that work?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You should be trying to shorten the workday, not make
Speaker 4: it longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is true. Afternoon crash. Average person
Speaker 1: hits the wall at blank time. You want to test
Speaker 1: your luck again? What time?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Most people hit the wall at three pm.
Speaker 1: Oh, you are so close again day to thirty six.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, you're off.
Speaker 1: By twenty four minutes. That's pretty good. Now. I do
Speaker 1: not hit the wall at two thirty six because I'm sleeping.
Speaker 1: Usually I'm just getting up around two thirty six in
Speaker 1: the afternue, so I usually don't. I don't really worry
Speaker 1: about that. I don't have to I have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. Well, here's another one of these science stories
Speaker 1: where I roll my eyes at it and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: this is probably nonsense. But noisy water oceans will be
Speaker 1: five times louder by the year twenty one hundred five
Speaker 1: times louder according to it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love hearing the sound of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Does that mean we won't have to go on YouTube
Speaker 1: to watch those videos of the waves? We'll just hear
Speaker 1: them naturally? El natural?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have Lebron's calm app in my phone.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Oh? Me nice? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 1: all right, we got the mail bag.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I know we did this other stuff, but the mailbag
Speaker 1: is the star of the show. That's the main event.
Speaker 1: The mail bag. People love the mailbag and they also
Speaker 1: love the jingle. So let's get to the jingle. It's
Speaker 1: this bag, thank you very much. First one on the mailbag.
Speaker 1: These are actual letters by actual listeners. You do not
Speaker 1: have to wait. You do not have to wait for
Speaker 1: me to put a message out on social media. You
Speaker 1: can just send these in anytime you want. Ben Maler
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Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Just make sure
Speaker 1: that you have the Fifth Hour and the headlines and
Speaker 1: we may read your question on the air. First one
Speaker 1: from Mike in Fullerton's is Happy Thanksgiving, Ben and Danny G.
Speaker 1: Have you guys been watching the best show on TV,
Speaker 1: The Golden Bachelor. The finale is right around the corner,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to hear who you guys think Jerry
Speaker 1: should give the final rose to, and then he names
Speaker 1: Leslie and Teresa. I guess I have not not seen
Speaker 1: a second of the Golden Match. I've heard people talk
Speaker 1: about it, but I got a lot of plates I'm spinning,
Speaker 1: So that's not one of the plates I've been spinning.
Speaker 1: Have you gotten into that.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the cheat code out of two of them.
Speaker 3: Leslie is probably better looking, a little younger, slightly younger.
Speaker 3: And the other gal that made the other girl who
Speaker 3: made the final two. It was funny the other night
Speaker 3: during the second to last episode, my wife, he said
Speaker 3: she is boring.
Speaker 1: Leslie's for the wind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he mentioned the other girl's name. What's her name, Teresa?
Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, she's like, she's so boring.
Speaker 4: And she told me.
Speaker 3: You notice they don't do two hour episodes of The
Speaker 3: Golden Bachelor because it would be so boring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. They should do just a half hour
Speaker 1: like Benny Versus Band half hour TV show. If I
Speaker 1: could get a daily half hour TV show, that'd be
Speaker 1: the easiest job in the world.
Speaker 3: You're not wrong, because the problem with the Golden Bachelor
Speaker 3: is he's too nice, He's there's not a ton of drama.
Speaker 3: You know, obviously you got more mature people on this show.
Speaker 3: You don't have the twenty two year old, you know,
Speaker 3: cat fighting with the twenty one year old. And also
Speaker 3: the dates are boring. They're not skydiving, they're not doing
Speaker 3: all these crazy dates. Instead, they're going wine tasting, and
Speaker 3: so my chick was like, this is so boring, and
Speaker 3: that's been the sentiment of a lot of people. I
Speaker 3: guess they still have enough ratings to where they're going
Speaker 3: to do it again because they've been running commercials saying
Speaker 3: if you want to be the next Golden Bachelor or
Speaker 3: a contestant, to turn your stuff in, and they give
Speaker 3: the website, so they're going to do it again.
Speaker 1: How old do you have to be to be the
Speaker 1: Golden Batch?
Speaker 3: Sixty five and up something like that. Okay, he's seventy two.
Speaker 3: I want to say, Jerry, Jerry is his name is
Speaker 3: seventy two?
Speaker 1: Jerry? Sure? Yeah. Mike also says how important do you
Speaker 1: think it is for cranberry sauce to be served with
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner? Yeah? Well, I'm not eating a traditional Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: I do love cranberry you know what. I like the
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's has that cranberry orange thing like this. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: that's really good. I could just eat that. I'd be happy.
Speaker 1: That's really good. Shane and Seattle whites and says Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny gene love the podcast. Is this Poppy band legit?
Speaker 1: Is it a bit on the show? Yeah? So Danny,
Speaker 1: this guy Poppy had called for a while from San
Speaker 1: Diego and we gave him a bit on the show.
Speaker 1: He likes to handicap. He's terrible at picking games, so
Speaker 1: we gave him a bit on the show, and it
Speaker 1: was picking with the chicken and farmer in Michigan loaned
Speaker 1: us Abigail with chicken, and then the bit was Poppy
Speaker 1: pix a game and then Abigail picks a game and
Speaker 1: who can pick more winters? So we did it on
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 4: Instead of a penny, it's a chicken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the spin off, you know, because I
Speaker 1: can't do it any versus the penn anymore because it's
Speaker 1: the TV shows, I can't really do it on the radio.
Speaker 1: So so anyway, so Poppy's like, okay, we got we'll
Speaker 1: do it, and so we did it, and it was
Speaker 1: fine whatever. It was cool seeing Abigail with chicken. And
Speaker 1: then we find out by my Mallard militia foot soldiers,
Speaker 1: my boot's on the ground, that Poppy's ripping the bit off,
Speaker 1: doing it on his own social media, making a mockery
Speaker 1: of the radio show. So I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: well we're done with We're done with this, and then
Speaker 1: you go do your own thing. I don't need this.
Speaker 1: But I still allowed him to call in, and then
Speaker 1: he kept spinning at the show. He was like, he
Speaker 1: was disrespecting the show. If Poppy was a good caller,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, he's a good caller, we'll let
Speaker 1: him crap on the show. But he's a terrible caller,
Speaker 1: and he was crapping on the show. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't really need that. They don't pay me to
Speaker 1: deal with idiots like this, so we banned him. Now
Speaker 1: is the permanent I don't know right now. As of today,
Speaker 1: he's not allowed back on the show. If somehow he
Speaker 1: reaches out and Jenya flex and admits that he has
Speaker 1: been a terrible caller and will change his ways, I
Speaker 1: would be open to at some point after a certain
Speaker 1: sentence of punishment allow him to come back if he
Speaker 1: is going into the octagon and battles it out with
Speaker 1: some people. So Shane, to answer your question, it is real.
Speaker 1: I don't hate Poppy. I met him. He was a
Speaker 1: nice gentleman when I met him. It's not personal. But
Speaker 1: I just don't have time for people to call the show.
Speaker 1: And you know, this is my life's work. I don't
Speaker 1: have time for people to ship on the show. It's
Speaker 1: what I do. So that's it, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh, I better scrap the YouTube show plans that I
Speaker 3: had for Danny versus the Nanny.
Speaker 4: I think that's got me picking a game.
Speaker 3: In our hot young nanny for cod picking a game,
Speaker 3: wear hardly any clothes.
Speaker 1: See I When I heard Danny versus the Nanny, I
Speaker 1: thought that was like out in Chatsworth. You would be
Speaker 1: filming that out there. I thought it was a show
Speaker 1: or a refined audience. I thought, but uh, thank you, Mike,
Speaker 1: and Rochester writes and he says, Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your guy. Oh this is a
Speaker 1: sporty question. Is this is a sporty question? He says, Uh, Ben,
Speaker 1: I heard your your monologue about Josh Allen. You called
Speaker 1: him a coach killer, and I saw that a number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of Ken Dorsey. That's what happened. He played so
Speaker 1: bad he got the coach killed. Ken Dorsey is off
Speaker 1: in the corner.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Mike says, Uh, I saw some Bills fans upset
Speaker 1: with you. They sent some nasty things on on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's X by the way, Mike, it's not Twitter's X.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He says, you get offended. Uh when these guys say
Speaker 1: they're going to stop listening to the show. So I
Speaker 1: didn't see particularly those comments, Mike. I don't go on
Speaker 1: X during the day I get ready for the show.
Speaker 1: I'm not on there because it's better for my health
Speaker 1: to not be on there. I'm on there during the show,
Speaker 1: So I didn't see particularly what you said. I did
Speaker 1: get some email from Bill's fans that were upset. But
Speaker 1: the thing I love and I'm sure you appreciate this.
Speaker 1: To Danny the listener, who is I liked you until
Speaker 1: you said something I didn't like about someone. I like
Speaker 1: you know that guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so very high school sounding.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of that guy. It's like, I
Speaker 1: respected your show and I listened to your show, but
Speaker 1: you said something about an athlete that I worship, and
Speaker 1: and you know I can't. I just can't, you know.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, with me being on overnight, say, well,
Speaker 1: that's why you're on at three in the morning. You know,
Speaker 1: that's why you're on so late. No one's listening at
Speaker 1: that hour of course, right after the person has been
Speaker 1: listening for like ten years, you know, and they're the
Speaker 1: idiots listening. But no, I don't care. I mean this
Speaker 1: part of the part of the gig. People are gonna
Speaker 1: you know, they're going to attack you if you say
Speaker 1: something they don't like. That's why a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't say anything mildly controversial or have any opinions because
Speaker 1: they don't want anyone to get upset. But it kind
Speaker 1: of isn't that kind of the job, Danny, that we're
Speaker 1: supposed to have strong opinions, And that's kind of the.
Speaker 3: If you don't get a reaction out of anybody, are
Speaker 3: you really doing a sports radio show. I mean, you're
Speaker 3: gonna ruffle some feathers on either side of your topic.
Speaker 3: So just go with what your gut says, in what
Speaker 3: your brain says, your own opinion is and if people
Speaker 3: don't like it. Oh, well, we're not supposed to agree
Speaker 3: on everything.
Speaker 6: God.
Speaker 1: Exactly. And again, listen. People will say stuff on social media.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of smartphone tough guys. But my experience
Speaker 1: over the years is that the vast majority of people
Speaker 1: say I used to like you, but I'm never listening again.
Speaker 1: The vast majority of those people end up listening again,
Speaker 1: so they'll come back. Maybe they'll go away for a
Speaker 1: little bit, but they'll come back. I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1: Next up, Tommy, the Bengal Reds fan in Maryland, he writes,
Speaker 1: since says good day, Ben, Benny Brightside and Danny g
Speaker 1: Radio Ben I mentioned last week, Tommy says, I mentioned
Speaker 1: last week that I commute to d C from southern Maryland,
Speaker 1: and you wondered what I do for a living if
Speaker 1: I am a political muckety muck. I retired from the
Speaker 1: US Army in twenty oh seven, twenty two years of service,
Speaker 1: traveling the world gang Bang in for Uncle Sam. Hello.
Speaker 1: Since then, I have been working as a contractor for
Speaker 1: the Department of Defense. Oh that's cool. My question this
Speaker 1: week is have either of you dated a friend of
Speaker 1: an ex girlfriend and if so what was the dramatic
Speaker 1: level there. I'll hang up and take my answer off
Speaker 1: the air. Thanks for rocking the Mike gentleman. Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Twenty two years in the US Army and now now
Speaker 1: he's hanging out working as a contract Now, if you're
Speaker 1: in if you're in the military for twenty years, do
Speaker 1: you just automatically get a job as a contractor? Is
Speaker 1: that kind of how that works? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of those guys that are
Speaker 1: in the military for a long time, they just kind
Speaker 1: of slide into a really good contractor gig at the
Speaker 1: Department Offense, or they're working for like Halliburton, you know,
Speaker 1: those those deals. So I have not I have not
Speaker 1: dated any x's, did not date a lot, and certainly
Speaker 1: anyone I knew they weren't interested in me. So no,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling Danny probably has a good
Speaker 1: story or something about this, right, And I think you've
Speaker 1: you've gone to the dark side, I think Danny from
Speaker 1: time to time, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3: This was like the early two thousands, and the whole
Speaker 3: time we hung out, she said, I just can't keep
Speaker 3: thinking about your ex and I'm friends with her, so
Speaker 3: kind of made it exciting the first few times we
Speaker 3: hung out. Yeah, but then it got to the point
Speaker 3: where every time she kept saying that it got more
Speaker 3: and more annoying, and so I stopped hanging out with her.
Speaker 3: But boy, there was some thunder and lightning and.
Speaker 4: Fireworks at the beginning of hanging out with her.
Speaker 1: So when you were at the beginning, when you started
Speaker 1: to you know, enjoy your company, did you see the
Speaker 1: the other you know, friend of your ex? Did you
Speaker 1: did you see or you know, your her ex or whatever?
Speaker 3: Do you from from time to time? She was like
Speaker 3: off again, on again, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, all right, there you go. Thank you Tommy. Let's
Speaker 1: see here page now. Alf Our buddy alf from the
Speaker 1: line at Dairy Queen on the mail bag, alf writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, Coop didn't choose my question for ask Ben.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you a totally different question, not at all
Speaker 1: similar to the one I asked him. What's up with
Speaker 1: the hand soap in public restrooms? It smells awful and
Speaker 1: linger lingers on your hands. While attempting to double down
Speaker 1: down double cheeseburgers and pound blizzards and other fast food
Speaker 1: delicacies from Mark. It was so loyal. This guy outf unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. So I do generally hate public restroom soap.
Speaker 1: There is pretty good soap at Fox Sports Radio. That
Speaker 1: white soap racist, I think's pretty good. I like, that's
Speaker 1: a solid it's a thick soap. It's not it's not.
Speaker 7: A I'm just describing for you to because there are
Speaker 7: it's near the blue sink, you know, or not the
Speaker 7: blue sink, but the blue kitchen sink.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. They usually have pretty
Speaker 1: good soap there. But I yeah, the soap in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: That's a great call out. That sounds like an episode
Speaker 1: of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Like I just do an episode
Speaker 1: how bad the soap is, and then Larry David would
Speaker 1: try to get good soap and try to find good
Speaker 1: soap for the bathroom, and that would be like his
Speaker 1: life's mission to just you go to different soap companies
Speaker 1: and then he'll start his own soap company.
Speaker 4: For sure. He already fixed the toilet issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good to go on that. So thank you,
Speaker 1: Alf and I enjoy your double double cheeseburgers and blizzards.
Speaker 1: Enjoy that. Yeah. Berry Berry from South Carolina via Nashville
Speaker 1: says Yo Yo, Ma, Benny and Danny G. What percentage
Speaker 1: you have a Jed who fled call? Do you actually comprehend?
Speaker 1: I love his calls, but I can't listen fast enough
Speaker 1: to understand more than ten percent of his content. I
Speaker 1: even rewind and listen a second and third time, I'm
Speaker 1: still getting about ten percent. Yeah, one hundred percent. Barry
Speaker 1: and I got headphones on and I'm locked in, right,
Speaker 1: I'm in gay, I'm like, this is my thing. I
Speaker 1: got to be locked in, and it's tough. And some days,
Speaker 1: you know, when he's really drugged out, it's even worse
Speaker 1: because he's going faster and faster and fast. There's some
Speaker 1: nights he's maybe he doesn't have enough money to buy
Speaker 1: the drugs, so it's not quite as bad. But I
Speaker 1: think he only calls up when he is using pharmaceuticals,
Speaker 1: because there are some nights he does not call up.
Speaker 1: So my assumption is there are nights he doesn't even
Speaker 1: do it every night, and he's just out wandering around
Speaker 1: the sticks in Florida in the what they used to
Speaker 1: call I think they still do the Redneck Riviera there
Speaker 1: traveling around in Uh, like, where's he at?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 1: Where is he? I'm trying to I'm having a mental block,
Speaker 1: but it's it's in the area just below Alabama and
Speaker 1: then there's a little stretch of Florida and all that. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tough. And I'll ask Coop sometimes Berry or or
Speaker 1: Eddie or somebody like what did he say? Like I didn't.
Speaker 1: I have noticed. Here's the problem. Jed talked so fast
Speaker 1: that a couple of days ago he put a bad
Speaker 1: word in the middle and he almost got it on
Speaker 1: the air because it slid in so fast that we
Speaker 1: were like, what did he say? It was like right
Speaker 1: in the middle of all these like this word salad,
Speaker 1: like this big word salad. It's crazy they had alive. Uh,
Speaker 1: David in Uh hold Yeah, he says that Danny g
Speaker 1: have you ever listened to his calls? Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Jed? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I worked on your show when he first started calling.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is a reflection on my
Speaker 3: sobriety or not, but I understand every word he says.
Speaker 1: That's a lie. Pinocchio, You're like, you're like that Fox
Speaker 1: Sideline reporter was that a great story? Oh the reactions, Oh,
Speaker 1: the the over the top Shakespearean reactions too.
Speaker 4: On sideline reporters. Get rid of them. They're good for nothing.
Speaker 3: They repeat back what the two announcers have already said
Speaker 3: most of the time.
Speaker 1: Oh, one hundred percent. And it's the reaction. Though, I
Speaker 1: did a whole rant this week, Carrissa Thompson. If you
Speaker 1: didn't see it, CHRISA Thompson's like, oh yeah, sometimes the
Speaker 1: coaches wouldn't come out and talk to me, so I
Speaker 1: just made up a quote, and you'd think they'd be
Speaker 1: like some war tribunal. The reactions of this, like Lisa
Speaker 1: Salters shocked, disappointed, disgusted. She said, they were all these
Speaker 1: other sideline reports. It was like like a cat fight,
Speaker 1: but it was like twelve cats against one cat, and
Speaker 1: they were all pouncing on poor poor you know, the
Speaker 1: poor fox girl. Carissa Thompson, and I defended Christa Thompson.
Speaker 1: I think the whole thing's ridiculous because I'm with you Danny,
Speaker 1: like I I'm there. I don't need the sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: I've done the job. I'm I don't think that these
Speaker 1: people are particularly bad at it, but it's it's unnecessary.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever gotten any great insight where
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, thank god, she's down
Speaker 3: there on the sideline. Nowadays, we get more info from
Speaker 3: people with egle eyes on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. And the only thing that happens when
Speaker 1: when we get viral stuff, it's because somebody's hammered, like
Speaker 1: Joe Namath, I want to kiss you, right, which I
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the sideline reporter other than
Speaker 1: she was attractive and Joe Namath was horny and he
Speaker 1: was drinking and other than that. And then you'll have
Speaker 1: a player or coach who's so frustrated they'll start screaming
Speaker 1: and shouting. But again that's not because of the journalistic
Speaker 1: ability of any of these people who are the sideline reporters.
Speaker 1: Because I have a buddy of mine that is an
Speaker 1: old newspaper man, used to work as an editor at
Speaker 1: some really big newspapers, and he's a friend of the
Speaker 1: show in front of me. I've known him for many years,
Speaker 1: and he will watch these NBA games, in these NFL games,
Speaker 1: and it'll say, I'll here's what they're gonna say after
Speaker 1: the game, how did it feel? That's like the number one.
Speaker 1: How you're not a journalist if you're asking the same
Speaker 1: question to everyone you interview. And then you had Molly McGrath,
Speaker 1: who I guess is a sideline reporter. I think for
Speaker 1: I think she's man. I don't know, but she she
Speaker 1: went over the top. She said, this is not normal
Speaker 1: or ethical. Coaches and players trust us with sensitive information?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Hell is sensitive information in a freaking football game?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Ben?
Speaker 3: I just want to know what was going through your
Speaker 3: mind on the last answer during the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, sensitive information? What because you know who
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback is and when you know what play
Speaker 1: they're going to run in the third quarter?
Speaker 4: Take me through that last play. What were you feeling?
Speaker 1: Oh it's so stupid, it's so dumb. Uh, but thank you.
Speaker 1: I got carried away on a tangent.
Speaker 3: Let's see where you should just have spotters and staffers
Speaker 3: on the field. Throw the headset on the start of
Speaker 3: the game. Play by play color analyst Guy asked the questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right there, and most most people I know
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I talked to you about silent reports.
Speaker 1: Any we'll get out on that. We went too long
Speaker 1: so I'm sorry to David and Jay and Manny and
Speaker 1: all you other guys. Try again next week. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I do want to appreciate because we I sent the
Speaker 1: thing out late Danny this week and people responded, so
Speaker 1: thank you. I totally forgot to send out the post
Speaker 1: to like the late in the day on Thursday, which
Speaker 1: I usually do earlier in the week. So anyway, thank you, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'd be back tonight after all these football games, after
Speaker 1: that Viking Bronco game, I'll be back on the radio
Speaker 1: the kick off the Thanksgiving week Benny Versus De Penny,
Speaker 1: and we will have next week. People have been wondering, Danny,
Speaker 1: are we going to have new shows Thanksgiving weekend? The
Speaker 1: plan is we will have content all Thanksgiving weekend. God
Speaker 1: willing right, that's the plan we'll have.
Speaker 3: We might be talking with mashed potatoes in our mouths
Speaker 3: what We will have three live shows though.
Speaker 1: And pumpkin pie. We'll have some pumpkin pie and all that.
Speaker 1: We'll knock it out of the park. But to have
Speaker 1: a wonderful Sunday, Danny, You're back tomorrow with Covino and
Speaker 1: Rich Yes, is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we check out tomorrow morning, and we're going
Speaker 3: to drive back to the LA area and I'll get
Speaker 3: ready to do the Last Man Standing, which is our
Speaker 3: fun sports trivia game every Monday with your voice on it.
Speaker 4: Oh good, I'm Covino and Rich. That's on the West
Speaker 4: Side two to four pm. And then in New York
Speaker 4: City five to seven pm.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the
Speaker 1: football today. Wish me luck as I battle my nemesis,
Speaker 1: the inanimate object, the penny. Try to slay the penny.
Speaker 1: I need one of these big weeks. And then I
Speaker 1: told the guy, one of my producers at NBC, Danny.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, one of these weeks, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get every pick right and we'll go viral. I'm still waiting.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for that to happen. Anyway, have a
Speaker 1: great day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: I need Antonio Paris and the Raiders to play perfect
Speaker 3: football this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: I need him to cover, Danny. I just need them
Speaker 1: to cover the thirteen. That's all I need, just cover
Speaker 1: the thirteen. I'm good.
Speaker 4: Later, Skater got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go