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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G
Speaker 3: Radio Sunday, Sunday, and we will get to the mailbag
Speaker 3: here on this ninth day of the month of March,
Speaker 3: and Danny G does hang out with us here and Danny,
Speaker 3: I know you've been been away the first couple of
Speaker 3: podcasts of the weekends. So people have been dying to
Speaker 3: know Danny. They want to know more reaction from the
Speaker 3: a big trade that was announced on Friday afternoon the
Speaker 3: Friday News dump the Geno Smith trade. To your raiders,
Speaker 3: defend your squad, go ahead, defend your team, Danny, go ahead,
Speaker 3: defend you guys.
Speaker 4: You know I wasn't with you on Saturday. To remind
Speaker 4: everybody that you have a personal beef with mister Smith.
Speaker 1: Oh oh no, that is not true.
Speaker 4: I yeah. It dates back to you and him going
Speaker 4: back and forth on Twitter, and you have hated that
Speaker 4: guy ever since.
Speaker 3: Well I've been right wrong and this is more validation.
Speaker 3: What listen, you're trying to distract from the real issue here.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm just going out simple facts. This is
Speaker 4: a fact. It has admitted it on your Overnight show before.
Speaker 1: It is a fact.
Speaker 4: You didn't like him from the start, and his little
Speaker 4: rebirth in Seattle, you still hated him.
Speaker 1: It is irrelevant to the conversation we're having.
Speaker 4: You don't we know Pete Carroll did get the best
Speaker 4: season out of him. I hate the turnovers. He throws
Speaker 4: some strange interceptions once in a while that looked like
Speaker 4: Philip Rivers interceptions. But he's also had games where you're like, wow,
Speaker 4: so he's a confusing quarterback.
Speaker 3: Well, I would describe him as a back quarterback is
Speaker 3: the way I would describe him. Danny and you talked
Speaker 3: about that great success he had with Pete Carroll. But
Speaker 3: as I mentioned on the emergency Mallard monologue that I
Speaker 3: did yesterday, I had to do it. It demanded in
Speaker 3: a full Mallar monologue treatment this trade because it happened
Speaker 3: on a Friday news dump, because even the Raiders are embarrassed.
Speaker 1: Seattle's everyone's embarrassed about Gino Smith.
Speaker 4: Oh stop it.
Speaker 3: They were together for two years in Seattle, Pete Carroll
Speaker 3: and Gino Smith. They were eighteen and sixteen was the
Speaker 3: combined record of the Seattle Seahawks those two years. And
Speaker 3: that was with more playmakers around Gino Smith. Gino Smith
Speaker 3: had DK Metcalfe, had all these other young receivers that
Speaker 3: were pretty good.
Speaker 4: Okay, well we haven't even got to the official beginning
Speaker 4: of a free agency. So let that happen. Let the
Speaker 4: draft happen. They're not done.
Speaker 1: Well I go today, though I can't.
Speaker 4: I realize that. But like I told Rob Parker the
Speaker 4: other day, who hated the Max Crosby signing, and he said,
Speaker 4: I have a quarterback. I'm not sure why you would
Speaker 4: let your best player in the building walk out because
Speaker 4: you don't have a quarterback yet. Look at he was wrong,
Speaker 4: then you're wrong. Now the draft hasn't happened yet. This
Speaker 4: is what I think they're aligned to do right now.
Speaker 4: In the draft. I would trade down a few spots
Speaker 4: to collect some more picks. I would go with gent
Speaker 4: so that you have a cash cow running back and
Speaker 4: block him from the Broncos. They love that guy. I
Speaker 4: don't want Nicks and Genty together in my division, and
Speaker 4: the Raiders, obviously without Josh Jacobs they need a great
Speaker 4: running back. Would do that, and then at the top
Speaker 4: of the second I would draft Jackson Dart, who we
Speaker 4: know needs a year or maybe two to sit behind
Speaker 4: a couple of quarterbacks, and that could be Geno Smith
Speaker 4: and AOC. So I'm not mad at it, but I
Speaker 4: would be kind of mad at it if they don't
Speaker 4: get Jackson Dart in the draft.
Speaker 3: Well, I know you're trying to rationalize things, and I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 1: I'm staying. You love the Raiders, I got you. But
Speaker 1: you hired Tom Bradley.
Speaker 3: You don't even hire he bought part of the team
Speaker 3: to recreate the twenty twenty two Seahawks.
Speaker 1: That's what you brought Tom Brady in.
Speaker 3: You could have hired JJ from Renton or No Stradinis
Speaker 3: or Crying Craig or or am At the blind Seahawks
Speaker 3: fan and they'd be like, all right, leuis just sorry,
Speaker 3: Pete Carroll, We'll bring in Geno Smith, we'll recreate the team.
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you do and you're going against
Speaker 3: in that division, as you are well aware, Mahomes and
Speaker 3: Andy Reid, Sean Payton, I don't know. Bow Nicks was
Speaker 3: fine out of his great and Harbaugh and they got
Speaker 3: going on with the charges. It's just like Brady's Oh
Speaker 3: for too. He didn't get the quarterback he wanted Stafford,
Speaker 3: he didn't get the coach he wanted. This is not
Speaker 3: a good sign for Tom Brady and the Raiders and
Speaker 3: him calling the shots.
Speaker 1: It's given me vibes of Michael Jordan with.
Speaker 4: Uh boy, he's been running stem Brittany has not even
Speaker 4: had one off season yet to be with the clubs.
Speaker 4: So this is way too early for you to be
Speaker 4: grading things.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hired the oldest coach in the NFL and
Speaker 3: just acquired a thirty.
Speaker 1: Four year old.
Speaker 4: That guy does not feel like the oldest coach in
Speaker 4: the NFL. And you know it. He doesn't have the
Speaker 4: energy of our grandparents. He has the energy of my dad.
Speaker 4: My dad still works full time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, listen, we will see. Let's save this. It
Speaker 3: is a podcast. It will be saved. I will be
Speaker 3: proven correct and.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's already been a bit of a
Speaker 4: culture shift, and I'm glad Max Crosby got that money.
Speaker 4: He's got that big fat raider tattoo right on his arm.
Speaker 4: And he's been loyal. He's been a hard worker. He's
Speaker 4: not been a MEMI me kind of guy. He's been
Speaker 4: a team guy. And he got rewarded for being the
Speaker 4: first into the facility the last to leave. He worked
Speaker 4: hard for that contract. I'm glad they paid him. It's
Speaker 4: not my money. They had over one hundred million dollars
Speaker 4: to spend, so let's see what they do the rest
Speaker 4: of the offseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. I don't it's not. It's cartoon money.
Speaker 3: Once I'm responsible for the payroll, I'll be concerned. I
Speaker 3: just it's one of those things. It's like the old
Speaker 3: Ralph Kiner line from back in the Old Baseball Player
Speaker 3: when he hit thirty seven home runs one year for
Speaker 3: the Pirates and he went into branch Ricky and said,
Speaker 3: I had like a raise, and he said, well, we
Speaker 3: can finish in the last place where we finished in
Speaker 3: last place. We can finish in the last place without you.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of eazy?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: It's like did you think Magic Johnson, the new ownership
Speaker 4: group and Dan Quinn we're going to be able to
Speaker 4: turn the Commandos around in one season.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not convinced that's guy long term staying power.
Speaker 3: I'm not one hundred percent sure. We got to see
Speaker 3: what they do for an encore when they actually have
Speaker 3: to play a tougher schedule and things like that.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, let's get to the mail bag.
Speaker 3: That means Ohio Al, the great Ohio Al.
Speaker 1: It's all right.
Speaker 3: The first one up is from Barry in South Carolina.
Speaker 3: I want to I guess he's not moving. He was
Speaker 3: talking about moving to Tennessee. No update on that, so
Speaker 3: he's still in South Carolina. He was at that Mallard
Speaker 3: meet and greet we did in Charleston back in the day.
Speaker 3: He says, Yo, Yo, Ma, Benny and Danny g I
Speaker 3: saw this big board of famous celebrity fans of each
Speaker 3: NFL team. How is it possible that you are not
Speaker 3: the most famous celebrity of the l A Rams I
Speaker 3: mean Brian Cranston.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're way bigger than him. Did you see this?
Speaker 3: This, I guess has gone around social media this week
Speaker 3: and it is the celebrity fan by team, most famous
Speaker 3: celebrity fan buy team, and we got a bunch of
Speaker 3: people where, you know, the whole celebrity fan thing, like
Speaker 3: celebrity like basketball fans titles his football.
Speaker 1: Eh you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of like how Snoop dog has had
Speaker 4: three d favorite NFL teams Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and
Speaker 4: Drake Drake has had what six or seven favorite NBA teams.
Speaker 3: Well back when Justin Bieber was famous whenever that was Remember,
Speaker 3: he would have a different jersey on pretty much every week,
Speaker 3: much like Snooped I Snoop Dogg. He admits it's like listen,
Speaker 3: I'll go. You know, they pay me the money.
Speaker 1: And he does a lot of these appearances and stuff.
Speaker 3: He gets paid an s load of money, but just
Speaker 3: just for us and giggles the Since Berry I sent
Speaker 3: this in, now you as the the Raider, are you
Speaker 3: the most famous Raider fan, Danny, do you think you're,
Speaker 3: well know.
Speaker 4: Probably maybe the most known Raider fan on our network.
Speaker 4: But I'm guessing ice Cube is on the top of
Speaker 4: the list for the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's not a list, it's a big board.
Speaker 3: We don't we don't do lists. We do big boards here.
Speaker 4: So what does the list say?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm putting it up right now. Huh, give
Speaker 1: me a second. Do you have any music for this?
Speaker 4: Is I trying to find or since you're looking up
Speaker 4: the Raiders done Dundun and Dundun.
Speaker 1: And Dundun, the greatness of the dunk Dun. What would
Speaker 1: it take for you to get a Geno Smith tattoo?
Speaker 1: What would that require?
Speaker 4: Super Bowl win?
Speaker 3: So if they win a super Bowl, you will get
Speaker 3: a Gino Smith And he has to be the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: What if he plays.
Speaker 4: Terrible Super Bowl? If he if he leads the Raiders
Speaker 4: to a super Bowl win, I'll get a tattoo of
Speaker 4: Geno Smith with his arm in the throwing motion.
Speaker 1: Really and you'll put it. Will it be on your tooks?
Speaker 1: It will?
Speaker 4: No, it would be, It would be it would be
Speaker 4: on my arm next to Kobe.
Speaker 3: Oh really, that's that's hot status, that's size that all right,
Speaker 3: it's not coming up on me.
Speaker 1: Let me check now.
Speaker 3: He sent it to me with the very similar list.
Speaker 3: I had seen it, but the one he sent me
Speaker 3: came the file was pretty small.
Speaker 4: So you just called it a list.
Speaker 3: Was it was a big board. He said big board.
Speaker 3: I for some reason, I don't know why I called it
Speaker 3: a list. That's a it's not a list, it's a
Speaker 3: big board.
Speaker 1: Oh here it is. Here we go. Now I got it.
Speaker 3: Most famous lebrity fan of each NFL team. Let's see
Speaker 3: the the greatness of the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Oh, Guy Fieri, Guy Fi.
Speaker 4: They have him in front of ice cube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's listed here as the number one fan of the.
Speaker 4: He's from Santa Rosa, California. And when they were the
Speaker 4: Oakland Raiders and even now, for one day, he goes
Speaker 4: to wherever their training camp is and he busts out
Speaker 4: a huge trailer, one of those barbecue grills that's pulled
Speaker 4: by a truck. Yeah, and he barbecues for the entire
Speaker 4: organization all day long.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Raiders once a year.
Speaker 1: They live in Vegas. Now I think he lives in Vegas.
Speaker 4: I think he does. Yeah, but he's from Santa Rosa,
Speaker 4: so he grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.
Speaker 3: Let's see Bradley Cooper the biggest Eagle fan, the biggest
Speaker 3: Let's see Taylor Swift the biggest Chiefs fan. Is she
Speaker 3: really a fan of the Chiefs or she's just sleeping
Speaker 3: with one of their players. Isn't that the other guy
Speaker 3: from the office. Isn't that guy from the office The
Speaker 3: biggest celebrity Chiefs fan.
Speaker 4: Also, Phonsie is a big Chiefs fan.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, let's see biggest picking an NFL team?
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 3: Some of these people have no idea Cleveland it was
Speaker 3: the I hope this is it's st I pe Miosic.
Speaker 1: Who is that? I don't know who that is. Biggest
Speaker 1: celebrity Cleveland Browns fan. I have no idea who that is?
Speaker 4: No clue. Sorry, let's see. How about the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers Jeremy Renner biggest fan.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Harry Connock Junior is a Saints fan. Why is he
Speaker 3: a Saints fan? That makes sense?
Speaker 1: John Bonjobi likes the Patriots.
Speaker 4: But the Panthers. We don't know any Panthers fan.
Speaker 1: That's actually Big Mike who works in Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: Big Mike. I know Stephen Curry Stepan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, grew up there. Yeah, I've seen video of
Speaker 4: him there, like hitting the the gong or whatever they
Speaker 4: do before the game starts. Yeah, I think it is
Speaker 4: like the Gong Show.
Speaker 3: There, says Rob Lowe's a Colts fan. Why is Rob
Speaker 3: blow a Colts fan from Indianapolis? I don't know like
Speaker 3: some some of them about M and M Allons fan.
Speaker 3: That's obvious, right.
Speaker 4: That's who's the biggest status New York Giants fan?
Speaker 3: Hugh Jackman huge. I know that I know who Hugh
Speaker 3: Jackman is. But you think he's really a Giants fan.
Speaker 3: He's not from you know, the States or whatever. Maybe
Speaker 3: he is Adam Sandler Jets fan. That's about right, but
Speaker 3: he's from New Hampshire, Adam Sandlers from the Poor Guy.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Well that ends to the celebrities post Malone by the way,
Speaker 3: cowboy fan post Malone?
Speaker 4: You think that's you think he's a country singer?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Is he allegedly? Yeah, he released a country album.
Speaker 1: Is Blake?
Speaker 3: Is Blake Shelton from Arizona? Why is he an Arizona
Speaker 3: Cardinals fan? Then says he's the number one question a
Speaker 3: Cardinals fan?
Speaker 1: That makes no sense. That's stupid.
Speaker 4: Maybe is he from Oklahoma? And let me see, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna look down all right?
Speaker 3: You listen to our live coverage thanks to Berry in
Speaker 3: South Carolina. We are analyzing celebrities and breaking down as
Speaker 3: their relationship to NFL teams, and Barry sent us this
Speaker 3: list and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was right. He's from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: So why the f would he be a Cardinals fan.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense, Like I don't like so stupid.
Speaker 1: George Clooney's a bank supposed he a Bengals fan. I get.
Speaker 3: He's from Cincinnati. His dad was a TV anchor in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Jeff Garland's from Chicago. He's the number one Bears fan.
Speaker 3: Like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: You know how football went when we were kids. Some
Speaker 4: of our friends had strange teams because like, oh, my
Speaker 4: uncle is a Bills fan, so I'm a Bills fan.
Speaker 4: And the person had never been to Buffalo before. We
Speaker 4: all know people like that.
Speaker 3: There are those are rare birds, but it's more likely.
Speaker 3: You know, It's like guys around our age, Danny. It's
Speaker 3: like you are Laker, Yankee, Dolphin fan or Cowboy fan,
Speaker 3: right because the teams that were good right around the
Speaker 3: time you were like ten or eleven nine ten, If you.
Speaker 4: Were, we're a damn bandwagon writing little kid. We used
Speaker 4: to make fun of kids at elementary school that were
Speaker 4: like that, like you're not a fan of And then
Speaker 4: when the Patriots got good. You remember the old Patriots
Speaker 4: logo with Steve Grogan. They didn't have a lot of
Speaker 4: fans back then.
Speaker 1: I love that logo.
Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite logos, the pat Patriot taking
Speaker 3: a dump logo. Much better, much better than the flying
Speaker 3: Elvis logo, which they've had for thirty years out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then okay, after Kobe, when the Lakers went
Speaker 4: through a little bit of a lull, there were all
Speaker 4: these sudden Warriors fans. Remember there were some people in
Speaker 4: northern California that had been Laker fans and then started
Speaker 4: wearing Steph Curry jerseys. We've seen this before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we have.
Speaker 3: It's there's some weird combinations, and a lot of them
Speaker 3: in LA because they had no NFL team for thirty
Speaker 3: well almost thirty years when the Rams and Raiders left.
Speaker 3: So you've got a Dodger forty nin er fans. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of Dog conty Niner fans, which is very.
Speaker 4: And still a lot of Rams and Raiders fans. But
Speaker 4: you're right, besides the two teams who called this place
Speaker 4: home for a long time, it was just like a
Speaker 4: gumbo mix of different teams on TV every Sunday and
Speaker 4: different fans you would see because so many transplants live
Speaker 4: in southern California.
Speaker 1: All right, what else do we have on the mail bag?
Speaker 3: Let's see here, Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass Writes and he says,
Speaker 3: hello boys. Over the last couple of POT episodes, you
Speaker 3: guys have talked about some restaurants and food. I love
Speaker 3: the foodie fun on the Friday episode. So my question
Speaker 3: is this week here in Worcester County, I discovered that.
Speaker 1: We have a raising canes.
Speaker 3: He just discovered it, right. I heard it's good chicken.
Speaker 3: You guys have talked about it here and there. Out
Speaker 3: of all the chicken fast food restaurants, where do you
Speaker 3: rank raising canes on Benny's big board? See not a
Speaker 3: list Benny's big board.
Speaker 4: Oh man, another big board?
Speaker 1: Yeah, raising canes, Ryan is at the very top. Now.
Speaker 3: I have been fortunate in recent years my father in
Speaker 3: law relocated. He lives half the time in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: So I've been down to the south a little bit
Speaker 3: and I've gotten to enjoy bo Jangles.
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed that. What else have I had?
Speaker 3: I've had pretty much every Southern like there's a lot
Speaker 3: of chicken fast food chicken places in the South Zaxby's,
Speaker 3: and I have Canes at No Burrow.
Speaker 1: Number one.
Speaker 3: Now I have my top three again not a list
Speaker 3: Terry in England or Danny g a big board, but
Speaker 3: I have Canes at number one. I will put Chick
Speaker 3: fil A at number two. They can't be number one.
Speaker 3: They're not open on Sunday. So you want chicken on Sunday,
Speaker 3: you're screwed. And I like the Boat Jangles. I put
Speaker 3: Boat Jangles at number three. What about you, Danny your
Speaker 3: big board of chicken, Danny G's big board of Chicken.
Speaker 4: I would go raising canes number one. Number two would
Speaker 4: be a throwback. There's only one location left in all
Speaker 4: of Los Angeles, and that is Pioneer Chicken.
Speaker 3: Oh Og Pioneered chap Yeah that was big in our day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Pioneered Chicken.
Speaker 4: It sure was the logo the guy in a wagon.
Speaker 1: Literally.
Speaker 4: Grandma used to have this tradition where she would go
Speaker 4: through the Pioneer Chicken drive through, get a couple of
Speaker 4: buckets of fried chicken, throw folding chairs in the back
Speaker 4: of her station wagon, sneak two kids in for free,
Speaker 4: pied them under a blanket. And then when we got
Speaker 4: inside the drive in theater, you know, all the kids
Speaker 4: came pouring out of the station wagon and she would
Speaker 4: give us paper plates, smack a couple pieces of fried
Speaker 4: chicken on each plate, and say, shut up, there's your dinner.
Speaker 4: Enjoy the movie, all right.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: That's how you take care of children, right there. That
Speaker 3: is the proper way to handle kids. Just here, shut
Speaker 3: up and eat and watch the movie. That's all you
Speaker 3: need right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so really, I mean, I don't even know
Speaker 4: who I would put third. The down south spots you've mentioned.
Speaker 4: I've not been to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. I thought I was gonna like Zaxby's.
Speaker 1: Zaxby's was fine. I didn't hate it.
Speaker 3: Maybe the place I went to didn't serve it as
Speaker 3: fresh as they could have. But bo Jangles, I thought
Speaker 3: was better than Zaxby's, and they're all right out.
Speaker 4: So what do you think about Popeye's chicken sandwiches?
Speaker 3: I like Pope Pope's chicken sandwiches as solid.
Speaker 1: It's better chick Chick fil A.
Speaker 4: I love their nuggets and they have a pretty good
Speaker 4: original sandwich, and I love their original sauce.
Speaker 3: My problem with Chick fil A is it's like eating
Speaker 3: Chinese food. You're hungry. They don't the portions aren't big enough.
Speaker 3: I feel like you got to get a lot of
Speaker 3: food there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's expensive.
Speaker 3: It is expensive, and so they don't have drink refills.
Speaker 3: Canes says, you can fill up your drink as many
Speaker 3: times as you want, like little things like that that
Speaker 3: do add to the cost. But Ryan and Joy, you
Speaker 3: go to Canes. I go caniat combo Veteranon Keane's move.
Speaker 3: You can have the bread toasted on both sides if
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get an extra piece of the bread too.
Speaker 1: No Coleslaw extra fries that nobody wants coleslaw. I you're
Speaker 1: eating fried chicken. You don't want coleslaw.
Speaker 3: So anyway, JJ writes in from Parts on, he says, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: what did you think of Lebron confronting steven A Smith
Speaker 3: this week at a Laker game over Bronny James. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Danny g our former morning guy steven A Lebron confronting him.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible look for Lebron. I think it's good
Speaker 3: for steven A. It's bad for Lebron. What does Lebron
Speaker 3: care with steven A youre Lebron F and James, what
Speaker 3: do you care about stephen A Smith?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: I think he thought we talked about this on a
Speaker 4: previous episode where Lebron thought he had like a pretty
Speaker 4: cool relationship with him. And then one morning steven A
Speaker 4: woke up on the wrong side of bed and he
Speaker 4: said purtypical parrot, stop it, and like went on this
Speaker 4: whole rant and it made a lot of headlines and
Speaker 4: I think that that rubbed Lebron the wrong way. So
Speaker 4: mostly Lebron I think, got too to talk to him
Speaker 4: about it because of that one incident on live television
Speaker 4: that morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you want to do that, and there's ways.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Lebron has stephen A's phone number and you
Speaker 3: can reach out to him, or you can you can
Speaker 3: do it somewhere where it's clandestine, where you're not you
Speaker 3: new cameras are on you, it's gonna get out and
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 4: And yeah, but you know what, the other morning, stephen
Speaker 4: A explained the whole situation. He should have doubled down
Speaker 4: and defended his tape. Instead, he was like, uh, you
Speaker 4: do not want to make an enemy out of me,
Speaker 4: But he should have said that. But instead he said
Speaker 4: or things Lebron thought he heard. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 4: he did hear it because you said it on live
Speaker 4: TV and.
Speaker 1: You were right.
Speaker 3: I mean, and that's one of the takes that's been validated.
Speaker 3: Bronni James is the NEPO baby does not deserve to
Speaker 3: be in the NBA.
Speaker 1: It's a total joke.
Speaker 3: It's an embarrassment to basketball, even though he's mostly in
Speaker 3: the G League, but he is. He's got a guaranteed
Speaker 3: contract with the Lakers for multiple years.
Speaker 4: It's just an embarrassing situation. It's yeah, they don't need Bunny.
Speaker 4: They're on the way to the finals without them, Clippers.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna be heart heartbreaking. I will be here
Speaker 3: to enjoy the demises you will.
Speaker 1: I will be.
Speaker 4: The team that you had going to the play in game.
Speaker 4: They're in the two seed right now.
Speaker 1: Well it's right now. The season's not not over.
Speaker 4: Well that's all we have is right now, as you
Speaker 4: told me to start the show.
Speaker 1: I'll look at you. You're using my material.
Speaker 3: I'm honored. I'm flattered. Mike from Saint Paul writes in
Speaker 3: on the mailbag. He says, guys, should we send in
Speaker 3: special protection for Diddy and Luigi.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: He says he sent me.
Speaker 3: A story here that they are targets of thugs in prison.
Speaker 3: I guess they're at the same prison in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 3: prison gangs have put a bounty on Diddy and Luigi Mangioni,
Speaker 3: the guy that he's the guy that killed the insurance dude, remember, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's so. Mike wanted to know if we were.
Speaker 4: Worried one of the guy that some of the women
Speaker 4: in our country wanted to give a pass to because
Speaker 4: they thought he was kind of cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to have his baby's stuff. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not really worried about Diddy and Luigi. I'm okay.
Speaker 3: That seems like, Mike, what do we call it, danny
Speaker 3: tabloid fodder? Click on a tabloid is what it sounds
Speaker 3: like to me. But what do I know?
Speaker 1: I think they'll and.
Speaker 4: That one dude. What do you think his jail mail
Speaker 4: looks like? Do you think he has like some wedding proposals?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, women are probably sending naked photos and stuff.
Speaker 1: He's oh my god, but.
Speaker 4: There's some sick, twisted women out there who want to
Speaker 4: marry a guy behind bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't the Menendez brothers get married.
Speaker 3: One of them did, at least their.
Speaker 1: Parents and they if all these women were like, what's
Speaker 1: up with that?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: The there's certain women love the bad boy. You know,
Speaker 3: I want to, but you can't rehab that he's in jail,
Speaker 3: like he's not gonna get out right.
Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons Brenda was attracted to me.
Speaker 4: I'm a two time NFL book I'm champion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there have been rumors the Bookham may be returning,
Speaker 3: by the way to the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 1: We'll see about that.
Speaker 3: As we talked about previously, Dave from North Carolina right
Speaker 3: said he says they've been and Danny, I know I've been.
Speaker 1: You like talking about restaurants.
Speaker 3: Are you excited about Cracker Barrel as they are according
Speaker 3: to Dave here a seven hundred million dollar overhaul of
Speaker 3: Cracker Barrel? Are you Are you excited? I don't know
Speaker 3: that excited would be the right word. I don't think
Speaker 3: that would be the right word. I don't I've only
Speaker 3: been to Cracker Barrel a few times and I thought
Speaker 3: it was it was good.
Speaker 1: I don't know what what do you? What do you
Speaker 1: trying to do?
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're gonna do to make it
Speaker 3: they get better. It's southern cooking. Have you been you've
Speaker 3: been a cracker barrel, I've assumed, Danny at some point. Yes,
Speaker 3: they're they're around now there's.
Speaker 4: Now the family's eating there a couple of times without me.
Speaker 4: They got to Oklahoma one weekend for Dad's weekend for
Speaker 4: for the Sooners, remember, and I went there from Vegas.
Speaker 4: So the family was already there and they sent me
Speaker 4: pictures they were eating at a cracker barrel without me.
Speaker 4: Oh dare they? And then there's one in camer Rio, California.
Speaker 4: They ate there one day without me. So I'm o
Speaker 4: for two.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean it's uh, it's good. You walk in.
Speaker 3: They have a store you can buy, you know, a
Speaker 3: little trinkets and crap.
Speaker 4: My girl bought baby CoA a pair of little cowboy boots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because what more do you need.
Speaker 4: In their gift shop the old country store.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a brilliant strategy because you go in there
Speaker 3: normally it's pretty busy. If you go at rush hour,
Speaker 3: you gotta wait for a table, so you're waiting for
Speaker 3: a table. And then they have a gift shop so
Speaker 3: you can buy crap while you're waiting for a table.
Speaker 3: But they do think about cracker barrel. They give you
Speaker 3: pretty big portions. So you're going out to you know,
Speaker 3: I don't eat out much anymore, but you want out
Speaker 3: to eat, you need decent portions of food. We're just
Speaker 3: talking about Chick fil A, how good it is, but
Speaker 3: they don't give you enough food where you're gonna end
Speaker 3: up feeling full. According to the story that was sent
Speaker 3: by this gentleman, he says they're going to reboot the
Speaker 3: menu and there they've added new options hash hash brown,
Speaker 3: casse role, shepherd's pie, and pot roast.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: I don't need shepherd's pie pot roast. No, that sounds
Speaker 3: like I want to pe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what some family members ate when they were
Speaker 4: waiting for their check.
Speaker 3: I don't want anything to do with that. All right,
Speaker 3: a couple more quick ones. Let's see here al from
Speaker 3: Benny's after party. I'm still a bit hungover from the
Speaker 3: Bennies after parties. I'm writing as I'm writing this, but
Speaker 3: I will say that I I'm truly blessed and humbled
Speaker 3: by the support of all those in the Mallet Militia
Speaker 3: and honored that honored me this past week with their votes.
Speaker 3: Never did I think that I would ever win at
Speaker 3: Benny let alone two. So for that I am eternally
Speaker 3: grateful to all the legends.
Speaker 1: That were nominated.
Speaker 3: I tipped the cap because you are the ones who
Speaker 3: will make me want to set my alarms at such
Speaker 3: an ungodly hour to bond over our favorite radio show
Speaker 3: and family of radio family. Finally, to you, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 3: thank you for the entertaining, for entertaining us all these years,
Speaker 3: including those of us all in fun and keeping us
Speaker 3: smiling throughout all the difficult times.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: One more thing, Ben, how much blowback did you get
Speaker 3: from the nomination committee when you tossed my name into
Speaker 3: the ask Ben category? About ninety nine percent? Sure that
Speaker 3: ask Ben is totally different than this mail bag which
Speaker 3: you read my questions every week. And I'm batting way
Speaker 3: below one hundred on ass Ben. Yeah, So there was
Speaker 3: a committee alf that it was involved in that, and
Speaker 3: it's not everything's gonna be perfect, but you won too
Speaker 3: many awards, and so move on to twenty twenty six
Speaker 3: and we're good Mike and Fullerton writes and says, Hey,
Speaker 3: Moneyball Mallar and Danny g Ben. You've said you got
Speaker 3: your highest ratings ever on the show during COVID when
Speaker 3: you were covering marble racing. Do you think COVID maybe
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with it and that people just
Speaker 3: really like marble racing? Have you considered bringing it back
Speaker 3: to find out? Also put me down for twenty Ben
Speaker 3: mallor meme coins when they come out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mentioned this Danny, that somebody had reached out to
Speaker 3: me said hey, we can do like a Mallard Militia
Speaker 3: meme coin. And I'm not interested because I'm worried. Danny,
Speaker 3: it's a scam and I'm gonna end up in prison.
Speaker 3: I rotate nuts like that that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is like the Hawkta Girl scam.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm dumb enough where I'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I use my name and then next thing I know,
Speaker 3: I'll have the Feds.
Speaker 4: At my door. I'd be like, all right, I'm good.
Speaker 3: I don't need I don't need that. But that's that's
Speaker 3: funny seasons. Great idea, Mike and Fullerton, all right, last one.
Speaker 3: This is from uh who's from Jeff from Parts unknown.
Speaker 3: You idiots got to say where you're from or else.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Just just takes two seconds. Put a city down, even
Speaker 1: make it up. I don't care, Uh says hey.
Speaker 3: Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have set the date for
Speaker 3: their wedding.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: You mentioned in the past that you had dinner with
Speaker 3: Lauren Sanchez when she was a media member in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: What will you be wearing to the wedding of the century. Uh, well, Jeff,
Speaker 3: I'm sure of my invitation. I've not got my invitation yet.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's on the way though, right, I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's in the mail Danny right.
Speaker 4: Maybe in your company inbox that you never check.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe they send it to that's right, the
Speaker 1: world's richest man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, probably an evite. It's an evite. You got
Speaker 4: to check your workI.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, very nice.
Speaker 3: Apparently it's it's going to be a winter Wonderland wedding
Speaker 3: and Aspen, I think it, says your Asspen.
Speaker 1: I don't know though, maybe not.
Speaker 3: It's a tabloid report that Jeff said. But the date
Speaker 3: has been set and it'll be worth up to two
Speaker 3: and a half million dollars. The pink diamond ring she
Speaker 3: got worth two and a half million dollars long Sanchez
Speaker 3: takes us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, good for her, But geez, you.
Speaker 4: Know, they wipe their button with one hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 4: They light cigars with fifties. It's just sickening how much
Speaker 4: money they're wasting on their stupid wedding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty wild. Yeah, I think I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm busy whenever the wedding is. Unless they
Speaker 3: want to pay me a billion dollars, maybe I'll go.
Speaker 4: Well, if you open up your work email, you're going
Speaker 4: to find out you have another forty minute video to
Speaker 4: watch for company policies.
Speaker 1: Oh no, don't tell me that. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that. I gotta go
Speaker 3: back to work tonight. And on the other show, the
Speaker 3: Overnight Show, be back doing that. Yeah, but when supposed
Speaker 3: to be an octagon an hour four, as Tony from
Speaker 3: the Bay Area has challenged Marcel in Brooklyn. So we'll
Speaker 3: see if that actually happens or not. Yes, but it's
Speaker 3: supposed to take place an hour four.
Speaker 1: Danny, you're back. I assume normal week this week for you.
Speaker 4: Yes, you know what. This is the week every year
Speaker 4: that Covino and Rich take off after the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Is like the post super Bowl week that a lot
Speaker 4: of hosts get to take. Yeah, this is that week.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's gonna be Dan Byer and Moncy Bolognos
Speaker 4: filling in on the CNR time slot.
Speaker 1: Are you taking the week off to are you working?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well enjoy.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go somewhere fun. We have an inn on
Speaker 4: a hotel where they have a discount. It's in beautiful Recita, California,
Speaker 4: so we try to go there for a three nights stay.
Speaker 1: Is either that or Van Eyes and you picked your seat?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, have a fun time whatever you're doing there, Danny,
Speaker 3: I'll be in all week, normal week, God willing and
Speaker 3: enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast all week and we appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the numbers have been amazing. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: And remember pass it on to at least one friend
Speaker 4: or family member this weekend.
Speaker 1: Or enemy even I don't care who, as long as
Speaker 1: they listen. It doesn't matter whether you like him or not.
Speaker 4: You do not want to make an Ene meet a
Speaker 4: meet exactly.
Speaker 1: Don't know what you're messing with.
Speaker 4: Later, Skater gotta murder, I gotta go