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 3: In the air.
Speaker 1: Everyway, it's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahllor and Danygy.
Speaker 1: It's awesome to have you with It's so cool that
Speaker 1: you're listening on an NFL Sunday. My heart skips a
Speaker 1: beat thinking about the fact that you are taking some
Speaker 1: time on a big day for football consumption and listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast. But you might be listening to it
Speaker 1: on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. You don't have to
Speaker 1: necessarily listen on Sunday, although most people seem to listen
Speaker 1: and when we released the podcast. But anyway, Danny, here
Speaker 1: we are. We have a big Sunday show in store here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the numbers prove that the Sunday Show is
Speaker 3: worth us getting up early and doing. Even if London
Speaker 3: has the Jags.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't like the NFL. They're screwing with
Speaker 1: us putting these early games on, which is affecting our product. Here,
Speaker 1: stay in your lane, right, come on now, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Shame on you.
Speaker 3: This isn't that the number one station anymore?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: On this podcast, we have the mail bag. The mail bag,
Speaker 1: we're going to start with Pop Goo's the Culture. We
Speaker 1: had planned on doing that back on Friday, and we didn't.
Speaker 1: As you predicted, Danny yet again ran out of time.
Speaker 1: It's snowballed. I know it happened. You know. I started
Speaker 1: talking about the viral video and spaghetti with Fernando and anyway,
Speaker 1: So we'll get to the mailbag. We'll start with Pop
Speaker 1: Goes the Culture. This actually was a late submission from
Speaker 1: Ozzi Waz in Western Australia and this is one of
Speaker 1: the coolest thing things on Pop Goes the Culture. But
Speaker 1: by the way, did Ohio il do his little song?
Speaker 1: Do we need ohio Al to do his little song?
Speaker 3: I think we do, right, Let's count him down three
Speaker 3: two ohio Al John John.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, I'm sorry. I almost forgot Ohio
Speaker 1: It's a bad job by me. Uh So this is
Speaker 1: submitted by Ozzie Waz from Western Australia and it is
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. I am going to send this to you, Danny,
Speaker 1: so you can watch in your studio. I have it
Speaker 1: on in my studio. When I was a little kid,
Speaker 1: my mom took me to the Samean Diego Zoo because
Speaker 1: they had a koala bear there. And at that time,
Speaker 1: as I remember, and maybe I'm wrong on this, but
Speaker 1: as I remember it, that was like a big deal.
Speaker 1: You could see a koala bear. And I remember as
Speaker 1: a little boy going to the San Diego Zoo with
Speaker 1: my mom and my dad and my brother and the
Speaker 1: koala bear they said was in there. But it sleeps
Speaker 1: like twenty two hours a day. It's literally the koala
Speaker 1: bears like the laziest animal you could possibly find. They
Speaker 1: rarely drink water, they get hydration, they eat the eucalyptus
Speaker 1: leaves and that's it. They literally sleep eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: two hours a day. I bring that up because Ozzie
Speaker 1: wa send us a video and if you click on
Speaker 1: that video, Danny, you will see this is from an
Speaker 1: Australian YouTube channel. This guy is walking on some deserted
Speaker 1: back road dirt road in Australia and he hears a
Speaker 1: noise coming from the tree and a couple of Koala
Speaker 1: bears get into a wrestling match like a not as
Speaker 1: he says, it's like a professional wrestling. Ozziewah says, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the WWE. They fall out of the tree,
Speaker 1: literally drop all the way down. If you watch the video,
Speaker 1: it's only a couple of minutes drop all the way
Speaker 1: down to where this guy is. And the funniest part
Speaker 1: about it is this this guy is giving verbal directions
Speaker 1: to tell the wild Koala bears in his language, his
Speaker 1: native tongue, to knock it off. And I can't believe
Speaker 1: that these creatures would not pay attention to a to English.
Speaker 1: And they're like grabbing each other's next. Oh, it was
Speaker 1: pretty good, right.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that they fought each other like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I didn't know that either, Danny.
Speaker 1: I never this is this is why this is such
Speaker 1: an amazing video. And I wanted to lead Pop Goes
Speaker 1: the culture. This was an email submission by Ozzie Wise,
Speaker 1: but this Azzia was coming through, big, coming through big
Speaker 1: on Pop Goes the culture. When they rolled down right
Speaker 1: in front of the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That looked like it was out of like a Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise movie or something.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so after you're done listening to the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour podcast here, go to YouTube and type in Koala Fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, type in qualified. It's the All Things Australia YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: But yeah, koa La fight and this I guess this
Speaker 1: is from a few years back. It's not necessarily new,
Speaker 1: but I had never seen it before. This is amazing, right,
Speaker 1: this is nuts.
Speaker 3: That is awesome. Man. It's like you know when two
Speaker 3: kids were about the same size in gym class, when
Speaker 3: you'd be doing wrestling, yeah, and really going at it,
Speaker 3: and the whole class was all fired up. That's what
Speaker 3: these two koalas look like in the video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's pretty pretty neat. It's not necessarily recent,
Speaker 1: but it's we'd never seen it. It's new to us, Danny, Right,
Speaker 1: it's new to us, and it's awesome. And I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that, as you said, we didn't know that
Speaker 1: was possible. If the rest of the world knew about that,
Speaker 1: I think that thing would have like one hundred million views,
Speaker 1: not you know, not a couple million, but anyway.
Speaker 3: They look so dead, like you said, at the zoo,
Speaker 3: they're so boring and lazy. They look cuddly, but they're boring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just eat eucalyptus leaves and they sleep cage
Speaker 1: matches like this at the zoo, people would be lined up.
Speaker 1: They look like little stuffed animals and they're fighting with
Speaker 1: each other. It's hilarious, like the stuffed animals fighting coming
Speaker 1: to life to get into a boxing match with each other.
Speaker 1: It's so good. What else do we have A pop
Speaker 1: goes to the culture. Well, people are freaking out. You were
Speaker 1: just in Vegas last weekend, Danny. People freaking out about
Speaker 1: how expensive everything is. That the Spear in Vegas, this
Speaker 1: newest venue that just opened up, and the U two
Speaker 1: is doing a residency I believe until December. So the
Speaker 1: people are losing their mind about how much the drinks
Speaker 1: are and the parking. They only have a three hundred
Speaker 1: spot parking lot for that massive Spear. Not enough. Not
Speaker 1: enough parking.
Speaker 3: No, you'd have to park somewhere else on the strip
Speaker 3: and then get an uber to the sphere.
Speaker 1: Well, but people don't want to do that. They want
Speaker 1: to park right at the Spirit. But you can't do that,
Speaker 1: and so the spear, of course, is gouging people. The
Speaker 1: price for self parking is one hundred dollars at the spear.
Speaker 1: For valet parking, it's one hundred and twenty five dollars,
Speaker 1: and so they're complaining about that. And then you have
Speaker 1: the alcoholic beverages, which is a must if you're going
Speaker 1: to go to this two billion dollars. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what the spear is, it's We've talked about it.
Speaker 1: It's it's a giant ball.
Speaker 3: And it's the the Madison Square Garden. Folks built this,
Speaker 3: and it's got the world's most led screens on the
Speaker 3: outside inside, and they have the most speakers of any
Speaker 3: center in the world. So this is basically the best
Speaker 3: place you could ever witness a concert.
Speaker 1: Allegedly it's at the Venetian. It's right near the Venetia.
Speaker 1: I think it's part of the property. So it's it's mass,
Speaker 1: it's massive, and it's very expensive. It's got about eighteen
Speaker 1: thousand seats and three hundred parking spaces that that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to work, although as you're right there, I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of parking in Vegas and they'll gouge
Speaker 1: you at any of the hotels.
Speaker 3: It's not like, oh yeah, by the way, it's taller
Speaker 3: than the Statue of Liberty, and the floor it's two
Speaker 3: football fields long, and spoiler alert, the floor is lava. No,
Speaker 3: or at least that's what it looks like with the screens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some people have been going to this obviously,
Speaker 1: and they're posting how much everything costs inside the Spear
Speaker 1: and to get a specialty cocktail thirty dollars at the Spear.
Speaker 1: You want a margarita that'll cost you twenty. You want
Speaker 1: a draft beer that's eighteen to nineteen dollars. A glass
Speaker 1: of wine will cost you twenty dollars. Here's the one
Speaker 1: that's the most outrageous, though, because they always gouge you
Speaker 1: for alcohol. How about this one at the Spear in
Speaker 1: Vegas for a souvenir soda that'll cost you fourteen dollars.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a Dodgers game pretty much. Seven dollars for
Speaker 1: some water. Seven dollars for a little bottle of water. Yep,
Speaker 1: my god, holy crap.
Speaker 3: Welcome to inflation, mother suckers.
Speaker 1: Get you can ever go. I don't know that I'll
Speaker 1: ever be in this spear. I mean maybe if somebody
Speaker 1: hooks me up with the freebie, I'll go.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty cheap, Danny, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I want to want to do that, you know, saying
Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, Well, here we go, on
Speaker 1: pop goes the culture. Here we go. That's my favorite
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott SoundBite of all time when he played the
Speaker 1: Patriots and he kept saying his cadence was here we go,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. It was so so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: All right. Study is trying to uncover why so many
Speaker 1: people are scared of clowns. Afraid of the clowns. International
Speaker 1: Journal of Mental Health, attempting to uncover the reasons why
Speaker 1: so many of us suffer from ulal phobia. I believe
Speaker 1: is how you say it, the fear of clowns, the
Speaker 1: psychology behind it, and why everyone is is terrified. Well,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, Danny, there was a good
Speaker 1: reason to be scared of clowns, because I'd heard stories
Speaker 1: from my parents about a very famous clown who was
Speaker 1: killing people and burying them in his basement. If I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, right, I will Uncle Buck a clown in
Speaker 1: the face.
Speaker 3: Remember John Candy in his famous scene when the drunk
Speaker 3: clown shows up at the door.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Wait have you been Have you been drinking a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's it to you, buddy? And then he bunches up
Speaker 3: in his big clown nose. So good, that is?
Speaker 1: That is so anyway, they haven't figured out yet, but
Speaker 1: they're they're investigating. Well, here's somebody afraid on Popko's the
Speaker 1: culture of bed bugs. Now, this is a good reason
Speaker 1: to be afraid of bed bug because those nasty little
Speaker 1: bastards will really mess with your day and cause you
Speaker 1: all kinds of problems and you just can't get rid
Speaker 1: of them. So one traveler who was so freaked out
Speaker 1: by the bedbug invasion decided, you know, this thing's all
Speaker 1: over Europe right now. People are freaking out about the
Speaker 1: bed bugs. It's supposedly biblical, right anytime bedbugs attack, they
Speaker 1: think it's an infestation out of the Bible, bloodsuckers. So
Speaker 1: this person, I think this person did it to get
Speaker 1: a bunch of views on TikTok and it worked. This
Speaker 1: guy riding a train went viral because he wore a
Speaker 1: full hazmat suit like he was in a bolo worker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he rode around the continent of Europe there wearing a
Speaker 1: full hazmat suit to avoid the bed bugs.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: So bed bugs had been spotted on the transit system
Speaker 1: in the UK, So it's not there got nasty nasd
Speaker 1: nasty for sure. All right. Here's an odd one from
Speaker 1: Popco's The Culture. Were we a Seinfeld fan? I was, okay,
Speaker 1: I watched it sometimes, I wasn't like the cute the
Speaker 1: biggest Seinfeld fan of the world back in the day,
Speaker 1: in the nineties.
Speaker 3: It was one of those reruns where you could have
Speaker 3: it on in the background while you're getting ready for Yeah.
Speaker 1: So some of the episodes, the Big Wallet one was
Speaker 1: funny because I have a big wallet, So people would
Speaker 1: say if that could stands a while. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: things I quote from Seinfeld. But I didn't watch every
Speaker 1: episode of Seinfeld. But the famous thing about Seinfeld was
Speaker 1: how popular it was and how shitty The final episode
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld was. So Jerry Seinfeld recently indicated that they're
Speaker 1: going to remake the finale of Seinfeld. Yes, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna bring the cast back together and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: it again and We'll see if that actually happens.
Speaker 3: But how do they make them look the same age?
Speaker 1: Well, maybe through the magic of television, Danny, they can
Speaker 1: add to the story, right they can they can?
Speaker 3: Oh, I see, Okay, finally they get released from jail
Speaker 3: and now they're this age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could do something like that. Okay exactly, So
Speaker 1: who knows.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's Seinfeld was implying that that's gonna happen. Rolex. Rolex
Speaker 1: Debut has debuted a a first new collection of Rolexes
Speaker 1: in a decade, Perpetual nineteen oh eight is what it's called,
Speaker 1: I believe, unless I'm butchering it, first new collection in
Speaker 1: a decade. And I'm not a watch guy. I have
Speaker 1: a Apple watch that I use because it keeps track
Speaker 1: of my steps. So as far as the Rolex I
Speaker 1: actually have, it's not a Rolex. It's like the next
Speaker 1: lowest brand. But padd O'Brien, I've told the story before.
Speaker 1: Padd O'Brien one of the funniest things he ever did.
Speaker 1: I was working with him, filling in for Steve Hartman,
Speaker 1: and pob is like, Hey, you don't have a watch
Speaker 1: you want to watch? I'm like, oh, I mean, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. So he goes out to his car. He
Speaker 1: gets his plastic zip block bag, brings it back filled
Speaker 1: with high end designer watches, like really expensive watches, and
Speaker 1: he says pick one. Yeah, take whatever you wants. So
Speaker 1: I grabbed the watch. The only catch was the watch
Speaker 1: were not. The battery on the watches was not that
Speaker 1: he needed to replace the battery, so that was a problem. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: where's that watch?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: You know I've moved several times.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no idea I should get her appraise. I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's actually worth as much as it appears
Speaker 1: to be worth. Yeah, but that would be kind of
Speaker 1: rude to Pat. But I don't talk to Pat much anymore. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he'll never know about that, I promise you. Pat O'Brian
Speaker 1: not listening to this podcast. Even when Pat was on
Speaker 1: the podcast, he wasn't listening. He was eating lunch when
Speaker 1: we had Pat on the podcast, TikTok. A couple of
Speaker 1: stories from TikTok. A doctor on TikTok, surprising many people
Speaker 1: because the doctor was giving out health advice on things
Speaker 1: like HIV, cancer and other illnesses. Wearing medical scrubs, only
Speaker 1: to be determined at the person was not actually a doctor,
Speaker 1: was a total quack, total medical quackery.
Speaker 3: I didn't know Doc Mike was going to make it
Speaker 3: into the podcast.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I don't think this was
Speaker 1: Doc Mike, because I don't think Doc knows what TikTok is.
Speaker 1: But somebody was pretending to be a doctor. And that's
Speaker 1: that's a little scary. Now, if you're getting your medical
Speaker 1: your medical stuff from TikTok, that seems like it's a bad,
Speaker 1: bad life decision. It's kind of like taking medical advice
Speaker 1: from somebody on the radio. But every once in a
Speaker 1: while I will get someone that will say, hey, I
Speaker 1: got I got a cousin that's sick. What's the garlic therapy?
Speaker 1: And so I always have to write back Danny, and
Speaker 1: I have to say, well, listen, I am not a doctor.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1: You should not take medical advice from me. But here's
Speaker 1: what I do. Here, here's what I do, and I
Speaker 1: you know, garlic is nature's antibiotic. And I go through
Speaker 1: the whole spiel and all that, and I have never
Speaker 1: had anyone get back to me that has done it,
Speaker 1: that have said they regretted doing, which is good.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't been worried, like somebody's gonna say my burn
Speaker 1: my gums and it didn't do anything and all that.
Speaker 1: But garlic is is divine. I love garlic. I love
Speaker 1: old garlic, I love new garlic. I love all kinds
Speaker 1: of garlic. I am a fan of garlic. Sam I
Speaker 1: am love it. Love it, love it, love it, love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't be listening to people at climby doctors
Speaker 1: on on TikTok. I'm not even on TikTok, but I have.
Speaker 1: Here's another TikTok story, people freaking out because a user
Speaker 1: on that app determine the quickest way, the simplest way
Speaker 1: to soak up grease while cooking. You know what it involves, Danny, Uh,
Speaker 1: your wife's tongue noves. Well, that's an interesting way of
Speaker 1: phrasing it. No, it would be a different item. How
Speaker 1: about a tampon? A tampo, I was close, you were
Speaker 1: not far. Well, it's a different part body, but but yeah,
Speaker 1: the tampon. So of course, the people that have a
Speaker 1: stick up their keyster are freaking out. They're like, oh
Speaker 1: my God, you can't. This is terrible, right. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: getting all freaked out the backlash because of that. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: who cares, it doesn't it's it's an item. I know
Speaker 1: what the tampon's used for, but it has other uses.
Speaker 1: It's multi you could use it for many things. It's
Speaker 1: got a lot of things you can use it for,
Speaker 1: so multi functional exactly. It's it's like a Swiss army knife,
Speaker 1: if you will, depending on how it sounds too sharp,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, all right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: let's get to the mail bag. What do you say,
Speaker 1: let's do it? Ohio, Well you know what to do.
Speaker 1: It's bag. Well, we were remiss last week on the
Speaker 1: mail Bag to point out that we got some listener
Speaker 1: swag as a gift. Danny g And I don't think
Speaker 1: we mentioned this on the podcast. I don't remember mentioned.
Speaker 3: No, we didn't get to mention this last weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we finally got the Pony Express, which is
Speaker 1: I think what we used to get the mail. Our
Speaker 1: friend Neil, the Great Neil, who's a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show, used to live in Miami. Now he's in
Speaker 1: Greenville and the Carolina's there and Neil is a big
Speaker 1: fan of this podcast. We love him. He sent us
Speaker 1: a couple of baseball caps from the local baseball team,
Speaker 1: the South Atlantic League Champions, the Single A. I believe
Speaker 1: it is affiliate or rookie ball affiliate of the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox. And I really want to thank Neil for
Speaker 1: two reasons. Number one, he sent me a hat in
Speaker 1: my size. That's a size eight. Some people send me
Speaker 1: hats and I can't. I can't wear them because they
Speaker 1: don't fit. And then the other thing that's kind of
Speaker 1: cool is this is a good looking hat. It's got
Speaker 1: a frog on it.
Speaker 3: I actually wore mine yesterday and my girl said, are
Speaker 3: those baseball bats or frog legs? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, it's a good looking it's a good looking item.
Speaker 1: So I do want to think Neil's very kind. And
Speaker 1: these things are so expensive these days. I occasionally all
Speaker 1: beg for hats, but I feel bad because they're so
Speaker 1: freaking expensive, you know. And but Neil was very kind,
Speaker 1: and so I know you're a big fan of the podcast.
Speaker 1: You listen every week, Neil, although sometimes you binge listen,
Speaker 1: you stop listening for a while and you go back
Speaker 1: and binge listen. But thank you to Neil, that was awesome,
Speaker 1: Bove and beyond the call of duty. Alf Ai attorney
Speaker 1: to the Stars rights, and says ben do you own
Speaker 1: the name Benny Versus the Penny? Asking for a friend? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's lawyers with NBC involved in that. Let's just
Speaker 1: say Benny Versus the Penny is on loan right now.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm guessing if it does if the
Speaker 1: show doesn't do well, the TV show which is on
Speaker 1: if you're listening to us in the New York City
Speaker 1: area on SNY today at eleven thirty am. So hopefully
Speaker 1: you're hearing this before it runs on SNY and New York.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. If Betty Versus the Penny is
Speaker 1: not a success, I'm pretty sure that NBC is not
Speaker 1: going to hold on to the trademarks like Seinfeld or
Speaker 1: something like that, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 1: don't think it'll be a problem. Alf also says, Benjamin,
Speaker 1: what did you do to upset the apple cart over
Speaker 1: at the Mothership one night? It's classic sparty not even
Speaker 1: able to read your intro at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: The next show, Eddie is back and you asked him
Speaker 1: if he's sick. He downplays it. I forgot I even
Speaker 1: did that. You're right, And then, like manna from heaven,
Speaker 1: Steve de Seger falls in your lap. And then here
Speaker 1: we go again, Here we go, the fly in the ointment,
Speaker 1: old Sparty returns. I much like you and a creature
Speaker 1: of habit. Every night you show up, there's a revolving
Speaker 1: door of people around you. What is that like when
Speaker 1: a personality with the cumpshit and the veteran savvy of
Speaker 1: Steve de Sager shows up to work with you in
Speaker 1: comparison to some of the greener employees. Well, it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're getting me. You're trying to get me to
Speaker 1: trash someone. I will not do that. All I will
Speaker 1: tell you is that I have known Steve de Sager
Speaker 1: for probably thirty years. I mean way back, me and Steve.
Speaker 1: We used to hang out in press boxes and try
Speaker 1: to outsmart each other on baseball names and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So it is just smooth. It's like silk when I
Speaker 1: work with the Seger because we know each other, we
Speaker 1: work together a long time over the years, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: he's really good. He's really good. I've said this, he's
Speaker 1: the top guy that we have. He's one of the
Speaker 1: great news update guys out there. Steve de Seger so detailed, thorough, wonderful,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Not to say the other people suck.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that all. I just think Steve's just
Speaker 1: better head and shoulders above everyone else and some of
Speaker 1: these other guys. You know, it's a work in progress.
Speaker 1: It's a work in progress, and we all have to
Speaker 1: start somewhere. So I have to sometimes I have to
Speaker 1: realize that that. You know, I was terrible when I started.
Speaker 1: I sucked. I was horrific. But I did work at it.
Speaker 1: I did I didn't just look at my phone and
Speaker 1: futs around and not not rewrite things and things like that.
Speaker 1: So but listen, it's it is a challenge some nights.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you, alf but the show
Speaker 1: must go on either way. So people seem to like
Speaker 1: when I'm annoyed, So for whatever that's worth, people find
Speaker 1: that delicious. They think that is just wonderful. When I'm
Speaker 1: really upset and you can tell that I'm annoyed, I
Speaker 1: don't hide it very well. Joe and Darcy, we haven't
Speaker 1: heard from them in a while. In Florida and Vera
Speaker 1: beach right in where have you Guys Been?
Speaker 3: Joe and Darcy.
Speaker 1: That's random anyway, they write in they was there ever
Speaker 1: a verdict as to whether I'm a Pilot was a
Speaker 1: real person or the figment of Gascon's imagination. I know
Speaker 1: you have mentioned seeing Gascon a few times since leaving
Speaker 1: the podcast, and did this topic ever come up? No, Well,
Speaker 1: I have seen Gascon. I've seen him a couple of times.
Speaker 1: He lives in Miami now, so I don't see him
Speaker 1: that often, but he does come back to LA every
Speaker 1: once in a while, even though he hates California with
Speaker 1: a passion. So he's supposed to be in the LA
Speaker 1: area later on, either this month or sometime in November,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine we have no plans, but I
Speaker 1: would imagine that we will end up having a meal
Speaker 1: together and I will bring up I'm a pilot, because
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that I'm a pilot. Either is Gascon
Speaker 1: or someone very close related to Gascon who has no
Speaker 1: interest in what I or Danny g has to say,
Speaker 1: because this person would email every week just about I'm
Speaker 1: a Pilot, claim to live in the Dallas area. Don't
Speaker 1: know much else about I'm a pilot. Other than that,
Speaker 1: during COVID they went to China and sent a bunch
Speaker 1: of photos claiming that they had been detained in the
Speaker 1: hotel room under quarantine and they had people in hazmat
Speaker 1: suits and the whole thing. Pete and Pittsburgh rights and says,
Speaker 1: what separates the fifth hour from the previous four? Where
Speaker 1: that would be the number five? Danny, Right, that's the
Speaker 1: number five. And you're on this show other than the
Speaker 1: regular show. You're not on that exactly.
Speaker 3: And Pete actually gets time on the podcast. I don't
Speaker 3: think he's on your live show much, is he.
Speaker 1: No. Every once in a while, once every three months,
Speaker 1: he'll be stumbling bumbling out of the strip club he
Speaker 1: works at the ballet there, and he'll calls completely hammered,
Speaker 1: and then that's it, dude.
Speaker 3: I love hearing his voice on the phone though. It
Speaker 3: reminds me of the good old Howard Stern days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Howard was so good.
Speaker 3: Hemy was good. Why did he have to.
Speaker 1: Well, he's so rich, he doesn't he can do whatever
Speaker 1: he wants. It's it's his Uh My theory is it's
Speaker 1: the lady. Blame the lady because she convinced him. She
Speaker 1: I think she's the one that wanted to hang out
Speaker 1: with all the celebrities and the Hamptons and all that,
Speaker 1: because he never wanted to be that guy he used
Speaker 1: to brag about. He never wanted to interview somebody that
Speaker 1: he was friends with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pittsburgh Pete is what Howard called him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Pittsburgh Pete and uh and yeah. And
Speaker 1: like Stern back in the day, he he was the
Speaker 1: there's a term in our business, Danny. It's called the
Speaker 1: Stern effect. And they determined that people who actually hated
Speaker 1: Howard Stern listen longer yep, than those that liked Howardstern.
Speaker 1: But now he seems to want everyone to like him,
Speaker 1: except I guess conservatives, but everyone else he wants to
Speaker 1: to love him. And they determined that the people that
Speaker 1: love him, uh, you know, that's fine, they'll listen, but
Speaker 1: the people that don't love him, they they don't want
Speaker 1: to miss a chance to be angered or outraged by
Speaker 1: something he said.
Speaker 3: Very odd. I wish that one day he'd wake up
Speaker 3: and kind of like snap out of it and revert
Speaker 3: back to him old self and get on the air
Speaker 3: and fire people that don't fit his old show, bring
Speaker 3: on people and callers from his old show and go
Speaker 3: full guns blazing. That would be amazing. Imagine if it
Speaker 3: was like the resurrection of the real Howard Stern'd be sweet.
Speaker 3: I'd be there.
Speaker 1: That would be all about that. I would love it.
Speaker 1: And the guys that go super woke, like Stern and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, like those guys, like they were so far
Speaker 1: the other direction and like the internet's forever. There's photos
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Kimmel in blackface from when he did a
Speaker 1: skit with Corolla. He was dressed as like Carl Malone
Speaker 1: and Stern. I mean, there's all kinds of crazy stuff
Speaker 1: with Stern from back in the day, right, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you can't. I don't know. It's just it's odd that
Speaker 1: you think you can go that far the other direction,
Speaker 1: and like that stuff doesn't it doesn't just vanish, it's
Speaker 1: there forever, Danny.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, I don't care about Stern's politics. I
Speaker 3: just care about his radio show. And I was such
Speaker 3: a fan of him early on that I just wish
Speaker 3: his radio show remained the same.
Speaker 1: So I have a hypothesis I want to run buy
Speaker 1: you keep your politics private. Yeah, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Is it possible that, in addition to his lady friend,
Speaker 1: his wife is much younger wife wanting to hang out
Speaker 1: with the celebrities and the Hamptons. Is it also possible
Speaker 1: that Stern has a guilty conscience because he, as much
Speaker 1: as anyone, helped promote Donald Trump? Right, Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: just a real estate the son of a real estate
Speaker 1: mogul in New York who wanted to be famous, and
Speaker 1: it was a regular on the Howard Stern Show back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties. Then congratulations before anyone knew who
Speaker 1: the f he was, and that helped propel him. And
Speaker 1: is it conceivable because Stern's been hanging out with all
Speaker 1: the wokesters there on Long Island. That is why. That's
Speaker 1: part of the reason he feels like he's responsible for
Speaker 1: Trump becoming the president.
Speaker 3: He's over compensating to the crowd that he's hanging out with.
Speaker 3: Now that sucks.
Speaker 1: Come on, I'm psychoanalyzing Howard Stern.
Speaker 3: Yeah you are? I like it? All right? What about
Speaker 3: I hope you're doing good? There, have a drink for me?
Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to ask Pete to do that,
Speaker 1: He'll do it anyway. Kevin in Kansas says, Dear Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny G. With the success of Benny Versus depending
Speaker 1: on TV. What if FSR did a companion show for
Speaker 1: Danny G Danny versus the Granny where Danny picks his
Speaker 1: winner and then Ben tosses the Granny and if she
Speaker 1: lands her head, the grand degrees but her butt she
Speaker 1: disagrees like this, That's like something that would be on
Speaker 1: the old Howard Stern show. Right, toss it Danny versus
Speaker 1: the Granny. That's funny.
Speaker 3: And you could take Baba Buie and dress him up
Speaker 3: as an old lady and literally flip him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can bring back Jackie the joke man.
Speaker 1: Bring bring Jackie back, stuttering, you can bring it.
Speaker 3: Bring him in there, have like a big Andre the
Speaker 3: Giant come to the show, get up addressed as a
Speaker 3: grandmother and flip them in the air.
Speaker 1: Who's next? J Bone from Portland, Maine says, Hello, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny G. Bacon or sausage also home fries or
Speaker 1: hash browns. I just went out to breakfast and had
Speaker 1: to make these tough decisions. Also bonus optional question what
Speaker 1: you guys are? What are you getting for bread? Thanks?
Speaker 3: Boys? Eat up?
Speaker 1: I think he means actual bread, not money. But let's
Speaker 1: see hash Brown's home fries. Let's start with that. That's
Speaker 1: a tough one. I think that's it depends on the
Speaker 1: serving size, I would say.
Speaker 3: I say it depends on how they're cooked, because don't
Speaker 3: you love the hash browns when they're well done on
Speaker 3: the top, nice and speak?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is a good option.
Speaker 3: Takes really good with ketchup like that.
Speaker 1: Home fries like a potato wedch a good potatoch am.
Speaker 1: I wrong on that? Isn't a home fry like a
Speaker 1: potato witch?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The potatoes. I don't like potatoes with breakfast. I
Speaker 3: never really have as kids, obviously, whenever somebody would give
Speaker 3: us a hash brown from McDonald's and squirt some ketchup
Speaker 3: on it, we're like, yeah, nice and greasy. But other
Speaker 3: than that, like when people sit there with a big
Speaker 3: serving of potatoes on their breakfast plate. I don't want
Speaker 3: to start off my morning with potatoes in my stomach.
Speaker 1: I want to have some stars right there, big side. No,
Speaker 1: I got you. The only time I eat breakfast is
Speaker 1: when I am staying at a hotel and I have
Speaker 1: to because my wife drags me to eat breakfast because
Speaker 1: she loves breakfast. It's her favorite favorite. Lastually, the last
Speaker 1: time I eat breakfast was in Pawtucket in Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: because my wife found We were driving through all the
Speaker 1: Northeastern states and she found a what she thought was
Speaker 1: gonna be the greatest little breakfast mom and pop shop.
Speaker 3: We went there.
Speaker 1: It was terrible, but I did eat breakfast.
Speaker 3: Sourdough or English muffin.
Speaker 1: Again, it comes down to the preparation. I go sour though,
Speaker 1: I go sour dough, you, Danny.
Speaker 3: That's not bad either. Or but a well done English
Speaker 3: muffin with those nooks and cranny really good. Problem is
Speaker 3: when you order breakfast, they put the bread in their
Speaker 3: toaster for like twenty seconds. It seems like you have
Speaker 3: to say well done for your toast, otherwise it comes
Speaker 3: out and it's not toasted whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. That's your that's you know
Speaker 1: what you win. Top take of the podcast. That's the
Speaker 1: great Today's podcast, Dandy, that's the top take.
Speaker 3: It's just like a piece of sour dough out of
Speaker 3: the loaf of bread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this shit, it's not toasted and the butter doesn't
Speaker 1: even melt on it because they didn't long enough and.
Speaker 3: Needs some hard butter for a non toasted piece of bread.
Speaker 1: Not right, not right at all. Jabon, as far as
Speaker 1: bacon sausage, I think you gotta go bacon on that right,
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't go the sausage.
Speaker 3: You got to go the bake bacon, and it's got
Speaker 3: to be crispy to where it crumbles.
Speaker 1: Crumble, crumble, crumble. Next up, Mike and Fullerton says hocus pocus,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny G. I'm here to help you with
Speaker 1: your mosquito problem.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 1: Mosquitos are mainly attracted by two things, body odor and
Speaker 1: the carbon dioxide you exhale. So when you're outside, just
Speaker 1: put on plenty of deodorant, hold your breath, and you
Speaker 1: can kiss your mosquito problem. Goodbye. You're welcome. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you very kind there. And yeah, here's a question for
Speaker 1: Danny G. Just for Danny G. Is chili a soup?
Speaker 1: Think very carefully before you answer.
Speaker 3: No, it's not a soup. It's two meaty soup is watery.
Speaker 3: Chili is not, or it shouldn't be at least.
Speaker 1: That's a wrong answer, Danny did. We debated this on
Speaker 1: the Overnight show. We determined that chili is served in
Speaker 1: a bowl with a spoon. How is soup served?
Speaker 3: Danny, Well, cereal is served in a bowl with a spoon,
Speaker 3: and that's not soup.
Speaker 1: It is a soup. It's a breakfast soup. Cereal is
Speaker 1: a breakfast soup. But chili. We also determine no beans,
Speaker 1: only meat in the chili. No beans in the chili.
Speaker 3: Anything that soup though you slurp out of the bowl,
Speaker 3: and your mom says, put that bowl down and be
Speaker 3: a human. You would drink that with with your spoon,
Speaker 3: not the bowl.
Speaker 1: But you can't eat chili out of a bowl.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make it.
Speaker 1: Soup though it's the same. It's it's a thick soup.
Speaker 1: It's like a chunky soup. Nah got matza ball soup.
Speaker 1: It's like a lentil soup. You ever had lentil soup?
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. My mom used to make it, but I
Speaker 1: hate it because I was a kid. I didn't know
Speaker 1: any better, and I would pick around the lentils because
Speaker 1: I hated the lentils. But it's lentil soup. But it's
Speaker 1: very thick.
Speaker 3: Put sour cream on chili. You don't put sour cream
Speaker 3: on soup and soup that's not a meal. Soup is
Speaker 3: a side.
Speaker 1: What about chili? What about French onion soup? That's what
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: I don't put I don't put sour cream on that.
Speaker 1: But that could be a meal, French onion if it's
Speaker 1: thicking off off, the cheese is thicking off and they
Speaker 1: have enough onion content in the soup.
Speaker 3: I would never order french onion as a as an entree.
Speaker 3: But if it was a whole bowl of chili with
Speaker 3: sour cream and crackers and bread, you could actually eat
Speaker 3: chili and be full.
Speaker 1: What about the place in Burbank that's got the great bread.
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting the smokehouse they have on the weekends in
Speaker 1: Burbank here they have tremendous, just wonderful french on your soup.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have that as your meal.
Speaker 3: No, as one of my sides.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's about you went from the take
Speaker 1: of the podcast to the bad take on ChIL. Wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm on the right, I'm on the right side. I
Speaker 1: know my chili.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think Howard Stern would agree
Speaker 3: with you on this one. All right.
Speaker 1: Next up, we have I'll do a couple more and
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 3: He'll Billy.
Speaker 1: Mike sent me some tow advice. He said, I need
Speaker 1: to go to a pediatrist and I can have my
Speaker 1: toenails permanently removed. He said he had this done three
Speaker 1: years ago and he has been loved life ever since.
Speaker 1: Claimed he had all kinds of tow issues, said that
Speaker 1: his toenails got really thick. It resembled the toe fungus.
Speaker 1: That looked like it was fungus. It wasn't. So he says,
Speaker 1: I should have my toenails removed. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm at that point yet.
Speaker 3: How is that one growing in by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we determined there was a rogue nail covering
Speaker 1: the part of the toe that it was actually dried blood.
Speaker 1: But the problem is I've been unable. I have to
Speaker 1: have my wife like cut into the toe to dig
Speaker 1: the nail. I don't know how this happened because the
Speaker 1: nail on top of the other nail has fallen off,
Speaker 1: But the lower nail it just grew over. The toenail
Speaker 1: grew over the other nail, So it's nail on nail
Speaker 1: like that. Mike and Mike it's nail and nail, you know, so.
Speaker 3: I need a cosmetic toe surgeon. Sounds like not good.
Speaker 1: Fred in Spring, Texas says, I know both of you
Speaker 1: have been married for a while.
Speaker 3: Well you know.
Speaker 1: How long you've been married.
Speaker 3: Wow, I haven't even been married for a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, no, that's not a whole time. I've
Speaker 1: been married for ten years now, which blows me away. Anyway, says,
Speaker 1: what's your biggest surprise or your new life after you
Speaker 1: tied the knot? What is the surprised? Any surprises to you?
Speaker 3: You're still I would say the biggest surprise is how
Speaker 3: that makes my wife think that she's the boss somehow.
Speaker 1: Oh the jewelry, the contract.
Speaker 3: The just getting married. Yeah, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I'm the boss. Now, no you're not. You're not the boss.
Speaker 3: I had to tell her the other night you're not
Speaker 3: the boss, and she's mad. She got really mad, and
Speaker 3: she stomped down the stairs, and then later she came
Speaker 3: up She's like, I'm sorry if I'm being boss.
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean I feel
Speaker 1: like things are going pretty smooth. It's just like I
Speaker 1: would only say, and I don't think this is anything
Speaker 1: to do with the wife. It's just that it's it's
Speaker 1: just a whirlwind. It's just flying by, you know. I
Speaker 1: want to slow it down. I want to like land
Speaker 1: the plane. I want to go out and smell the flowers.
Speaker 1: And it's just like every day. It's like something I
Speaker 1: especially now with the TV show because I got to
Speaker 1: spend so much time getting ready for that, with the
Speaker 1: production meetings on top of everything else. I mean, these
Speaker 1: are first world problems. But it's like pretty much Fridays,
Speaker 1: I do this podcast and then I'm a wreck. I
Speaker 1: got to I fall asleep at like eight o'clock. At
Speaker 1: nine o'clock on a Friday night, I got to take
Speaker 1: a nap because I'm just dead to the world. And
Speaker 1: then I have Saturday to kind of futs around and
Speaker 1: have some fun and all that. But then I'm right
Speaker 1: back on Sunday for the radio show. So and I've
Speaker 1: got the podcast. We've got to do all weekends.
Speaker 3: So and by the way, big Man, in case she
Speaker 3: listens to this podcast, she's a wonderful woman.
Speaker 1: She's a lovely lady, and my apologies to her.
Speaker 3: She's still got the boss, though not the bot.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you I got you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I think, Yeah, I gotta learn, Danny. You
Speaker 1: listen and ignore, listen and ignore. That is the key.
Speaker 1: You listen and you pick some things up and you
Speaker 1: ignore the rest, and you know, you just got to
Speaker 1: pacify certain certain things. Chris and Marricca to Iowa right
Speaker 1: since it has been I found this slot machine, sent
Speaker 1: some photos at the Hoe Chunk casino. That can't be
Speaker 1: the real name? Can it in bar Boo, Wisconsin?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: A bar a Boo, Wisconsin, and it's called Benny Big Game.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you should add your nickname list. It would remind
Speaker 1: everyone of all your athletic achievements. Well, thank you for that, Chris.
Speaker 1: As you know, I was Benny the Bopper when I
Speaker 1: played baseball and moneyball mallor when I played basketball. He says,
Speaker 1: putting your face on the machine and you can start
Speaker 1: cashing in those sweet royalty checks. Imagine a bonus round
Speaker 1: where you have to pick from Benny's big board of
Speaker 1: losers for the jackpot. Now that is winning, he says,
Speaker 1: Go Raiders, and then go.
Speaker 3: Raiders, and Ben is the penny still winning this season?
Speaker 1: We don't need to talk about it's very close, Danny.
Speaker 1: We're separated by just a game or two. It's literally
Speaker 1: neither one of us is doing any good. It's both.
Speaker 1: It's like last year I destroyed the penny with you, Danny.
Speaker 1: This year I blame the cameras, I blame the lights,
Speaker 1: and I blame Looney.
Speaker 3: That's the difference. I played along with the bit I
Speaker 3: let you win and loon. Andy's got such an ego
Speaker 3: he wants to beat you.
Speaker 1: Tom Looney owns me. I'm his bitch, clearly, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Edited audio is what that is. And the thing about
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny is like, I'm doing the same
Speaker 1: exact handicapping I.
Speaker 3: Did last year.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing, but this year it's not going
Speaker 1: my way. Last year it went my way. You know
Speaker 1: what that is. That's called gamba. Sometimes sometimes you're the windshield,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're the anyway. Thanks to Jonathan and we didn't
Speaker 1: have time to get this question George and Uvaldi Texas,
Speaker 1: and thanks you to Michael Joe and there's a couple
Speaker 1: other people. Son. I'll be back tonight. I got Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny a little bit before the kickoff of
Speaker 1: the early television games, not the London game, the early
Speaker 1: games on the East Coast at one o'clock eastern, ten
Speaker 1: o'clock in the West. And then I'll be on tonight
Speaker 1: Monday night on the Pacific time zone at eleven o'clock,
Speaker 1: but that's two am in the Eastern time zone where
Speaker 1: most people live. On we'll have the Ben malorship and
Speaker 1: Danny what are you up to?
Speaker 3: I hope Max Crosby terrorizes mac Jones and gets them
Speaker 3: put on the bench again. That would be beautiful. Go Raiders.
Speaker 3: You are on the radio tonight. Tomorrow I'm back on
Speaker 3: the radio with Covino and Rich two to four pm
Speaker 3: on the West Side, and that's five to seven pm
Speaker 3: in New York City. Don't forget Ben. On Mondays, it's
Speaker 3: last one standing where your voice is used in the
Speaker 3: open and during the game.
Speaker 1: What time is that I might have to tune in
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 3: Is three twenty pm West Coast time.
Speaker 1: All right, I might have to flip on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: app and give that a listen. All right, have a
Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your day. May all your picks be
Speaker 1: winning ones, or at least all my picks be winning ones,
Speaker 1: and all the Pennies picks be losing ones. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you next time.
Speaker 3: Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.