Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter 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 Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the A.
Speaker 3: Everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 3: It's an NFL Sunday, Well, it was actually an NFL Saturday. Also,
Speaker 3: we had three NFL games yesterday. We got a bunch
Speaker 3: more today as we head into the stretch run of
Speaker 3: the NFL season. But you have nothing to worry about
Speaker 3: this weekend, Danny, because your team won back on Thursday,
Speaker 3: so there's nothing for you to worry about. But it
Speaker 3: is the Fifth Hour, My Rams. I'll be at the
Speaker 3: Rams game later today. They're playing the Washington football team
Speaker 3: formerly known as the Redskins.
Speaker 4: That's a w for you.
Speaker 3: You better be better be at w I'm guessing my
Speaker 3: guy Magic Johnson will be making the rounds, shaking hands,
Speaker 3: taking photos, kissing babies and all that. Right, isn't that
Speaker 3: Magic will be out there doing his thing.
Speaker 4: They should go back to redskins like logo racist, but
Speaker 4: instead of the Indian face, it should be Magic smiling
Speaker 4: his face.
Speaker 3: The okay, yeah, I don't like the name they have
Speaker 3: now is stupid.
Speaker 4: The command Oh, I don't like it either. Should be
Speaker 4: the Commandos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what they do in their private time,
Speaker 3: the Commandos. But they got to come up with a
Speaker 3: better name than that, just dopey. Anyway, I will be
Speaker 3: at that game, So if you're out there today, send
Speaker 3: me a message on the socials. If I see it,
Speaker 3: I'll try to say hello. So I look forward to that.
Speaker 3: I haven't been to a game in like a week
Speaker 3: or a couple of weeks. Been a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: since I've been been out there schmoozing. But today on
Speaker 3: the podcast, it's the mail Bag. Before we get to
Speaker 3: the mail bag, though, we must first get to Pop
Speaker 3: goes the culture. So let's strike up the band with
Speaker 3: our friend. I hope he's in a better mood now,
Speaker 3: our guy, ohio al.
Speaker 4: John John.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 3: Pop goes to the culture as some random stories that
Speaker 3: happened within the last week or so. That caught my
Speaker 3: attention that we did not mention on my show, The
Speaker 3: Overnight Show. So I saw this story that came out
Speaker 3: involving Netflix that's gotten a lot of attention this week.
Speaker 3: And Netflix, who has always protected the data on who's
Speaker 3: actually watching the show. They've always protected this like it's
Speaker 3: a state secret. They don't want anyone to know the information. Well,
Speaker 3: now for some reason they've decided, okay, we'll release some
Speaker 3: of this information. So I was reading in one of
Speaker 3: the trade papers, I think it was a Hollywood reporter.
Speaker 1: They had a big.
Speaker 3: Story about it was inside the Netflix data trove, And
Speaker 3: so they started snooping around and digging into the grass
Speaker 3: and all that stuff into the rough, and they determined
Speaker 3: there are ten thousand Netflix programs that almost no one
Speaker 3: watched that are there and nobody almost no one clicked
Speaker 3: on it, no engagement, and they just put these shows
Speaker 3: up and but nobody watched them, almost ten thousand shows.
Speaker 4: Now is this just so they can have a complete
Speaker 4: library of programs available.
Speaker 3: I look at it like a good deli, a good
Speaker 3: Jewish deli. You go to a good deli, it's you
Speaker 3: only have these I don't know. If you've been to
Speaker 3: Canters in La. They are massive menu, right, massive manuon
Speaker 3: or kind of like the cheese keke Factory, those restaurants
Speaker 3: that have massive menus. I'm convinced many of the items
Speaker 3: no one orders that there's It's kind of like the
Speaker 3: old thing that you say about cable television, where you
Speaker 3: get two hundred channels, but most people only watched like
Speaker 3: thirteen or fourteen channels.
Speaker 1: At the most. I think it's even less than that.
Speaker 1: I forget what the number was, but it's like less
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 3: And so just because you have a lot of variety
Speaker 3: does not mean that you're going to be It's impossible
Speaker 3: to watch a lot of that stuff anyway. I want
Speaker 3: to know what the show that no one watched was.
Speaker 3: There's got to be a They say ten thousand shows
Speaker 3: had almost no viewers.
Speaker 1: I want to know the names. They did say.
Speaker 3: The Office is still a massive hit, they said outside
Speaker 3: the US, people love it globally.
Speaker 1: They can't get enough of the Office, which is off
Speaker 1: the air for many, many years. All right, what is
Speaker 1: next we have?
Speaker 3: Well, this is from social media on x Elon Musk
Speaker 3: had a hissy fit recently and a bunch of big
Speaker 3: corporations said we're done, We're not advertising on your platform.
Speaker 3: And so they've estimated now the sports business and sports business,
Speaker 3: the business people, not just sports business. They claim that
Speaker 3: that move, the advertising pullback, cost Elon Musk's social media
Speaker 3: platform one point five billion dollars one point five billion
Speaker 3: in lost advertise.
Speaker 1: Mind boggle. But then Elon Musk is worth.
Speaker 4: Like what is he worth?
Speaker 3: Ten billion or something like some ridiculous amounts, some insane
Speaker 3: amount of money.
Speaker 1: What else? On pop gost to culture? How about this one?
Speaker 3: Somebody on a airplane made his way from Russia to
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. The shocking part of this is not the
Speaker 3: plane landed from Russia to LA. The shocking part, according
Speaker 3: to The Guardian, is this guy did not have a passport.
Speaker 3: What Yeah, a Russian man traveled from Europe to LA
Speaker 3: without having a passport, flying his own plane. Now he
Speaker 3: was flying, he was flying skinned the Navian airlines on
Speaker 3: This happened in early November, and according to the tabloid,
Speaker 3: the London tabloid, there he was carrying Israeli and Russian
Speaker 3: identification and a phone and he had no idea how
Speaker 3: he ended up on the flight in the first place.
Speaker 4: Say, what something fishy going on here?
Speaker 3: Somebody either he's lying or he got drugged or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: He took a.
Speaker 1: Twelve hour flight and didn't realize what happened.
Speaker 4: Remember how Jason Bourne couldn't remember things. Yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 4: this guy's a spy.
Speaker 3: Could be guy told the FBI that he's employed in
Speaker 3: Russia as a PhD in economics and marketing.
Speaker 4: I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
Speaker 4: add up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is now facing a federal charge of being
Speaker 3: a stowaway. Claim to the FBI, he does not remember
Speaker 3: the sequence of events leading him on a flight to.
Speaker 1: America.
Speaker 3: So all right, I guess he's in a La jail.
Speaker 3: That's a federal federal crime. And he's Russian, so not
Speaker 3: that he cares.
Speaker 4: He won't be in that jail for long. They're going
Speaker 4: to break him out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be good, he'll be he'll be back in
Speaker 1: Russia before before you know, people waited.
Speaker 3: You see how long people were waiting for that in
Speaker 3: and out burger in Idaho that opened up.
Speaker 4: I would wait for the rush to be over if
Speaker 4: I lived there.
Speaker 1: But will the rush be over within the next two
Speaker 1: or three months that that could go on a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, you'd probably have to wait
Speaker 4: for I don't know, four months for the shiny newness
Speaker 4: to wear off a little bit.
Speaker 1: Eh, that's crazy, man. I'm not a line waiter. I
Speaker 1: did when I was younger, but I don't wait on
Speaker 1: line for I can't wait online. Like when you're going
Speaker 1: to Disneyland.
Speaker 3: Are you prepared, Danny to wait online for a long
Speaker 3: long time?
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 4: No. We've actually used our ninety three year old grandmother's
Speaker 4: handicapped placard before for a theme park.
Speaker 1: What do you like, Andrew Bynum over there.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting to know, damn line Ben, just like you.
Speaker 4: No lines.
Speaker 1: I hate the lines.
Speaker 4: It chargs me this much money. I'm not waiting in
Speaker 4: a line for two hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then doesn't Disney now charge for what used to
Speaker 3: be free the fast pass thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And you know there should be some sort of
Speaker 4: privilege given to you if you have a ninety three
Speaker 4: year old relative.
Speaker 1: I guess now we're gonna hate mail. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Well, she's gonna be with us, but she's not going
Speaker 4: to go on the ride.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh yeah, she's with you. There you go,
Speaker 1: You're good to go.
Speaker 4: She'll get us on the front of the lines and
Speaker 4: then we'll wave to her while we're on the ride.
Speaker 1: Well that's perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I thought you were just going to take
Speaker 3: her placard and be like, Okay, see I have fun
Speaker 3: at the house.
Speaker 4: We're out here.
Speaker 1: Take the family on thunder Mountain and I'll see you later.
Speaker 1: Get out.
Speaker 4: You know, she loves the parade, so we usually take
Speaker 4: her so she could sit there like a vegetable and
Speaker 4: watch the parades.
Speaker 1: Wonder that's our future.
Speaker 4: Wonderful.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait. Anyway, I saw this. Several listeners actually sent
Speaker 1: this story.
Speaker 3: A whistleblower claims that a seamless metallic UFO was kept
Speaker 3: inside Area fifty one and they said that X rays
Speaker 3: could not penetrate it.
Speaker 2: Have big eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was just hang out. They had it.
Speaker 3: They could press around with it and all that is.
Speaker 3: It could not penetrate what was inside this UFO an
Speaker 3: area fifty wor key Yeah, soll kinds of crazy crazy
Speaker 3: stuff out there. I'm convinced, I've said this before on
Speaker 3: this podcast, that the iPhone is alien technology. I am
Speaker 3: one hundred percent convinced that that came from recovered spacecrafts,
Speaker 3: and that's how it goes.
Speaker 1: Have you been to the Spear? You've not been to the.
Speaker 4: Spirit in Vegas, right, we've I haven't.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I saw that they're already planning on building MSG,
Speaker 3: which owns the Spear, is already planning on making two
Speaker 3: more of those around the world, at least two more,
Speaker 3: two international markets.
Speaker 4: And there's already gotten so much attention. I can see
Speaker 4: this being a big hit in other countries.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But if they're if they're pop up all over.
Speaker 4: The place, then well I don't think it's that easy
Speaker 4: obviously for them to pop up, because what did they
Speaker 4: spend like two billion dollars to make that thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was a ton of money.
Speaker 3: They were talking about, uh talks MSG would put a
Speaker 3: spear in the Abu Dhabi area. Well, they've got that
Speaker 3: oil money over there, right, so that's no problem.
Speaker 1: They could use that with interest.
Speaker 4: They have that live golf money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's also talk of putting one in Korea.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing not North Korea though, I think just you know,
Speaker 3: the regular spot there South Korea, I think.
Speaker 4: We'd get that.
Speaker 1: But there you go. A couple of Spears and uh
Speaker 1: saw one of the.
Speaker 3: Story who's going to replace the The act is changing
Speaker 3: at the Spear here the residency is changing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's gonna be Carrot Top.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Penn and Teller no Ah. John Mayer has
Speaker 3: been linked to the Spear with that. That the reading
Speaker 3: for you, right?
Speaker 4: Oh way, I don't want to see John Mayer get
Speaker 4: out here.
Speaker 1: I have to wait. You don't have to wait to.
Speaker 4: I'd rather see Michael Mayor of the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, or what's the guy that used
Speaker 1: to work at Fox Sports Radio, the Mayor producer?
Speaker 4: Get yeah, Mike Mayor, Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: There you go, Mike Mayor.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the Uh well, we have backscratcher. We
Speaker 3: should do that and then we'll get to the mailback.
Speaker 3: So Backscratcher. These are our actual people that went online
Speaker 3: to post a review for this podcast.
Speaker 1: We thank you our bosses. They like this.
Speaker 3: It's very important you follow the podcast. But they also
Speaker 3: checked the reviews. So we'd like to get at least
Speaker 3: a couple every week, and we went about a month
Speaker 3: with none. But now people are starting to realize that
Speaker 3: we're pathetically begging and you're helping us out.
Speaker 1: We thank you. This week we have two reviews, Danny.
Speaker 1: Two reviews this week.
Speaker 3: The first one from Gates Lion, who says Ben and Danny,
Speaker 3: g you guys have a great podcast.
Speaker 1: You deserve great reviews.
Speaker 3: Management, however, I have a review for you. You are
Speaker 3: a one star. Back off having the guys plead for reviews.
Speaker 3: Oh no, just helpful, Danny, because they're gonna know.
Speaker 4: Management reads this stuff. We just talked about this last weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well that was not helpful, sir. How dare you?
Speaker 1: And then we we have who else do we have here?
Speaker 4: Thank you for the five stars? But god again, it's
Speaker 4: the fight Club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't talk about it.
Speaker 3: James and Arkansas rights and he says, happy holidays, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: This is a review on the podcast Bitch the Apple
Speaker 3: podcast Pitch.
Speaker 1: There's a link in the description. Danny put it up.
Speaker 3: He says, has a random thought when I was watching
Speaker 3: my Vikings dominate the Raiders dominate on Sunday with your
Speaker 3: podcast could use a note of encouragement. Unlike the Vikings
Speaker 3: offense without Kirk Cousins, your podcast never disappoints five stars
Speaker 3: only because they don't allow six, and then he wanted
Speaker 3: us to promote old miss basketball coach Chris Beard.
Speaker 1: Who let's get.
Speaker 3: To the mailbag. That means ohio Al is back one
Speaker 3: more time.
Speaker 5: It's mail bag, all right, thank you, ohio Al.
Speaker 3: These are actual letters by actual consumers of the product,
Speaker 3: people that enjoy the product enough to have sent in correspondence,
Speaker 3: which is kind of cool. The first one from Alf
Speaker 3: the Alien Opiners is Alf from the New Year. He writes, in, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: looking in to my crystal ball, it's time.
Speaker 1: It's that time of the year.
Speaker 3: It's time of the year when you go into the
Speaker 3: ben cave, recharge your batteries and write new rejoin copy
Speaker 3: for the show, he says.
Speaker 1: Question one, Will you be using hard words like dingy nexte?
Speaker 3: Yeah, famous famous story. A number of our coworkers did
Speaker 3: not know what a dinghy is. At least they didn't
Speaker 3: know how to spell dinghy or pronounce dinghy, which in
Speaker 3: many ways made them a dingy. Uh So, yeah, I
Speaker 3: try to mix it up. I've been doing these things, Alf,
Speaker 3: as you know, you've been with me a long time.
Speaker 4: I've been doing.
Speaker 3: They do these every year, and if we had a
Speaker 3: guy I don't know a producer or something like that
Speaker 3: that they would do it, but I ended.
Speaker 4: Up doing it. Wait, I thought Coop wrote this stuff.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, that's the ticket. Yeah yeah, he writes all
Speaker 3: of it. He writes to the monologues, the whole thing.
Speaker 3: So I do it once a year and I try
Speaker 3: to mix it up with different verbiage so it sounds
Speaker 3: somewhat fresh at least for the first month, and then
Speaker 3: by the end of the year you're ready for new
Speaker 3: new words.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking as much time off as I have
Speaker 3: in the past, a couple of days here and there.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking the full week like I have in
Speaker 3: the past because I still got to do the TV
Speaker 3: show and ALV Also, is this question two for you, gentlemen?
Speaker 3: Can you eliminate the part where you ask us to
Speaker 3: tag members of the crew in our tweets? Apparently some
Speaker 3: members of the Update staff are not fans of that
Speaker 3: copy and mute loyal followers as a result. I wonder
Speaker 3: who he's talking about things that make you go who hum?
Speaker 3: Could that be a Steelers fan he's talking about.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but thank you, al duly noted nuts.
Speaker 4: It rhymes with Freddy Farcia.
Speaker 3: Kevin in Kansas, right since, says dear Ben and Danny G.
Speaker 3: After watching Patrick Mahomey Patrick mahomes come unglued last week,
Speaker 3: it made me reflect on my own fusses go badly.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it doesn't take much for my short fuse to
Speaker 3: go off. Other times my fuse is really really long.
Speaker 3: What is something that happens in your life that will
Speaker 3: set you off pretty quick?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I usually have one or two meltdowns a year,
Speaker 3: and that's it in terms of my fuse is pretty long.
Speaker 3: The thing that really annoys me is dumb drivers. I
Speaker 3: get really annoyed by that. Lately when I see people
Speaker 3: driving alone with their windows up wearing masks. That also
Speaker 3: annoys me for some reason, not that I do anything
Speaker 3: about it. I'm like, just how stupid could this person be?
Speaker 3: It just fascinates me that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows you get COVID by driving on the freeway.
Speaker 3: Ben, Yes, driving your Toyota with the windows up, you
Speaker 3: must wear a mask. It's very very important. So that
Speaker 3: just I just roll my eyes. I'm like, what are
Speaker 3: we doing here? But people that are bad drivers people
Speaker 3: that don't signal.
Speaker 1: When you're driving. I don't mind if you're going to cut.
Speaker 3: Me off, but at least signal, you know, at least
Speaker 3: signal that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: What about you, Danny, Yeah, I'm like you. I don't
Speaker 4: have meltdowns very often. Only once or twice a day
Speaker 4: with Cavino, once with Rich when I'm in the nothing
Speaker 4: with that show except for their podcast. When I'm in
Speaker 4: the production studio and I am putting the podcast together.
Speaker 4: For those guys, there's this thing, this platform, this website
Speaker 4: where we have to load the podcast to the finished
Speaker 4: product to shoot out to the world, and there's times
Speaker 4: where when you're using it, it just spins and spins relentlessly.
Speaker 4: It will not load. And when that happened, and I
Speaker 4: want to go home, I want to have dinner, I
Speaker 4: want to see my kid when this is going on,
Speaker 4: and I can't leave the studio until I know that
Speaker 4: it's posted worldwide. And the same thing happens sometimes with
Speaker 4: this podcast. So I sit there and I have to
Speaker 4: stare at this thing spinning, and when that happens, I
Speaker 4: lose it. I realized that when I was in the
Speaker 4: studio on last Thursday, when the Raider game was on.
Speaker 4: I wanted to get home so I could see the
Speaker 4: second half of the game, and it was doing the
Speaker 4: stupid spinning thing, and I took my fist and I
Speaker 4: slammed it on the wood table in there.
Speaker 1: Take that for data.
Speaker 4: The whole studio shook, and I was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 4: I better be careful with these these meltdowns with the podcasts.
Speaker 3: That's that's completely reasonable. Those computers with the spinning wheel.
Speaker 3: That is like from the Devil's Play, that spinning wheel, right,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 4: He's so it is. It is. That is a living hell.
Speaker 4: You're right. If God really was the kind of God
Speaker 4: who wanted to punish you, he could sit you in
Speaker 4: front of an old Macintosh and for forever have a
Speaker 4: spinning wheel in front of you on the screen. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also, and we've talked about this, I love when
Speaker 3: the system updates happen while I'm on the air in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night and I need to use
Speaker 3: the computer and I can't use it for forty five
Speaker 3: minutes to an hour because it's updating, and you can't
Speaker 3: turn it off, and you can't stop it once it starts.
Speaker 1: You're screwed.
Speaker 3: Next up on the mailbag, Mike and Fullerton says mule
Speaker 3: tied Greetings Ben and Danny g with Shoheo Tani coming
Speaker 3: to town. Have you tube been brushing up on your
Speaker 3: Japanese at all? There's going to be a lot of
Speaker 3: Japanese sponsorship opportunities for you guys, and I'd hate for
Speaker 3: you to miss out. And if you want to shout
Speaker 3: out that dope Firg dog on any versus the petty
Speaker 3: while picking a lowly Charger.
Speaker 1: Game, would be the time to do so.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, look at that, Mike, You want me to
Speaker 3: promote that Ferg dog guy. Well, the news is here
Speaker 3: that the Chargers did not make the show because they
Speaker 3: played on Thursday. And we still we have like one
Speaker 3: more one or two more airings today on s n
Speaker 3: Y and a couple other affiliates. But but duly noted,
Speaker 3: have you been brushing up on your Japanese?
Speaker 4: Danny there?
Speaker 1: Look at that? That's all you need, you know?
Speaker 4: While everybody else is buying the Otani jersey, I to
Speaker 4: get the Yamamoto jersey just so I could be different.
Speaker 1: How about did I get that right?
Speaker 3: Is that hell Owa racist?
Speaker 4: Okay? We did you know that would be a cool
Speaker 4: language to learn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got upset with a Coveno and Rich take
Speaker 3: by the way, Danny, I gotta I got.
Speaker 1: Upset with it.
Speaker 3: There was a promo that was running where and I
Speaker 3: forget which one of the gentlemen was.
Speaker 4: Is it Rich saying to work harder?
Speaker 1: Yes? Rich, you saw my flout us, you wanted my
Speaker 1: flout us?
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean tell me that's a douche take without
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: I think he was trying to push people's buttons with that.
Speaker 3: Okay, because you work harder so you can give the
Speaker 3: money to the dot.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you know you work hard. You
Speaker 1: your wife.
Speaker 3: Worked harder because you want to go to Disneyland. It
Speaker 3: was a family experience and all that stuff. But irregular
Speaker 3: season game against I don't know, the Rockies on a
Speaker 3: Tuesday night. You got to work an extra job to
Speaker 3: afford to go to that.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 4: He ended that more reasonably by saying, would you rather
Speaker 4: have a middling pitcher get signed to your team or
Speaker 4: would you rather get a superstar and pay an extra
Speaker 4: dollar fifty for your hot dog? All right, from that
Speaker 4: point of view, I understand. So it's a dollar fifty
Speaker 4: more for a dog if I get to see the
Speaker 4: best player on the planet. Yeah, only if it's a
Speaker 4: dollar fifty. Then if they double the price, that's another story.
Speaker 3: Problem is they sign a guy every couple of years,
Speaker 3: so they keep adding a dollar fifty and every couple
Speaker 3: of years, here's the dollar fifty for Mookie Betts. Here's
Speaker 3: a dollar fifty for Freddy Freeman. Here's a dollar fifty
Speaker 3: for show. Hey Otani, all of a sudden, we're almost
Speaker 3: at five.
Speaker 4: Bucks unchallenged Dodger dog.
Speaker 3: Though, as good as Otani is, he is not good
Speaker 3: for our business. He's not a good SoundBite. He's not
Speaker 3: he purposely tries to. He's like, you know, he reminds
Speaker 3: me of Kawhi Leonard, what's wrong with your clippers? He
Speaker 3: doesn't like talking to the media. He doesn't want to.
Speaker 3: You don't really know much about him. We know more
Speaker 3: about Kawhi Leonard we do about Otani.
Speaker 4: No, you're right about this, because Rob G came in,
Speaker 4: who now produces The Odd Couple. One of the editors
Speaker 4: walked in and said, do you want any of the
Speaker 4: press conference stuff from Otani? And Rob G said no,
Speaker 4: it's a translator. And even what the translator is saying
Speaker 4: is boring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you got the translator. That's the first hurdle
Speaker 3: you gotta climb. It's like a steeplechase. So that's the
Speaker 3: first hurdle. And then the other problem is what he
Speaker 3: as you reference what he says Otani is just sportscliche
Speaker 3: dot com. He's very polite. He's not a bad person.
Speaker 3: He's just a bad SoundBite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a good guy, which equals boring in our business.
Speaker 4: He's always going to say the right thing.
Speaker 3: Like I watched that that news conference, the opening news conference,
Speaker 3: and I'm looking for content, you know, I'm going around,
Speaker 3: I'm plowing trying to find some content.
Speaker 4: Now, Paul George, he's a douchebag.
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 3: So I'm watching this and there was not one thing
Speaker 3: that I found even remotely interesting. So my model that
Speaker 3: I did was just about how boring O'tani was. It's like,
Speaker 3: was like and then that whole bullshit story about oh Tony,
Speaker 3: we don't know the name of his dog because his
Speaker 3: dog may end up you know, you know, it might
Speaker 3: be the team they implied it was like the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: His dog was named Dodds.
Speaker 4: Stupid thing with having to find out everybody's name of
Speaker 4: their dogerff.
Speaker 3: Well, this is his name's decoy. It was decoy. I
Speaker 3: think it was decoy something like that.
Speaker 1: It was just it wasn't a team name, Like, what
Speaker 1: the hell? I ain't come on, Uh, what else do
Speaker 1: we have?
Speaker 3: Barry from South Carolina rights and he says, yo, yo ma,
Speaker 3: Benny and Danny g.
Speaker 1: Or Daddy geez, he calls you, daddy.
Speaker 3: I have been watching History channels the Toys that Built America?
Speaker 3: And who is on there as an expert commentator none
Speaker 3: other than Steve Covino. Why didn't they use Benny and
Speaker 3: how how do they choose those commentators?
Speaker 1: Did Danny Gino? Covino was doing.
Speaker 3: Are these new episodes or is this the old that's
Speaker 3: already aired back in the day?
Speaker 4: Oh no, this is the This is the latest season
Speaker 4: of that show.
Speaker 1: Is it back on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's back gone for a new season. Covino has
Speaker 4: been a contributor to that show for a while. The
Speaker 4: way it started is they had an episode about the
Speaker 4: best cars of action shows, so it was like the
Speaker 4: a Team Van versus Kit from Night Rider. I guess
Speaker 4: the bit was Covino and Rich were on the air
Speaker 4: on their Serious XM show in the studio I forget
Speaker 4: it was like mister t or somebody like that in
Speaker 4: the studio, and David Hasselhoff was used for the bit
Speaker 4: riding in his car with Kit and he calls in
Speaker 4: to them on the show and they're talking to him
Speaker 4: as a caller and he's trying to tell them that
Speaker 4: night Rider is the best vehicle from eighties TV. So
Speaker 4: these people that run that show, they liked the guys.
Speaker 4: They especially like Covino's knowledge of eighty stuff and toys
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, and so they've signed him on
Speaker 4: to be a contributor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. I know.
Speaker 3: I've done some of those documentary shows, and I think
Speaker 3: the first one, the first one I did was The
Speaker 3: Sports List with I was her name. She was an
Speaker 3: athlete and she hosted the show was on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Network and that thing aired a lot. But what has happened,
Speaker 3: like everything else in this business, like you get that
Speaker 3: and then that leads to somebody else. One of the
Speaker 3: people that work on that show then does another documentary
Speaker 3: thing that popped up on a lot of those over
Speaker 3: the years. I just did one last year with Peyton
Speaker 3: Manning Peyton Manning documentary that was on What was that?
Speaker 3: I think the channel went out of business? Actually, uh
Speaker 3: was it Vice? Is Vice still around or did they?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I heard they went out of business.
Speaker 3: But it was a Vice documentary about football, and so
Speaker 3: I got dragged in that and done a few of
Speaker 3: those things. But yeah, that's cool. I'm not I did
Speaker 3: not know that show was back. So I will watch
Speaker 3: the toys that made us, right or is it the toys.
Speaker 4: That Yeah, the toys that built America America?
Speaker 1: What are the toys some of the.
Speaker 3: Toys don't give it away, but what are some of
Speaker 3: the toys that they reviewed?
Speaker 4: You know, they did a really good episode that we
Speaker 4: caught two weekends ago, and it was about board games,
Speaker 4: specifically that game, Trivial Pursuit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, yeah, played that one. I was good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was really interesting though, to watch these guys come
Speaker 4: up with these board games and then make it work,
Speaker 4: and then in their garage they put together the first
Speaker 4: few hundred of the games and then they had to
Speaker 4: go find ways to sell them. Man talk about starting
Speaker 4: from zero and then selling millions of them after it
Speaker 4: blows up. Great stories, great background to these board games
Speaker 4: we grew up with as kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I'm gonna check that out.
Speaker 3: I'm glad we learned. I guess I should thank Barry.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize the show.
Speaker 1: I'm not really on Netflix much.
Speaker 3: I'm not like I have like hardly any downtime, and
Speaker 3: I've not been on Netflix.
Speaker 1: But I have a little bit, so I'll have to
Speaker 1: check that out.
Speaker 3: Next up, Scottie from Northern Kentucky rights in and I
Speaker 3: think we'll get out on.
Speaker 1: This, he says, Ben.
Speaker 3: I am your search for hard tacos or bringing tacos.
Speaker 3: I know a place in the Inland Empire. Oh, the
Speaker 3: ie Rosa Marias. They have hardshell tacos, and it sounds
Speaker 3: like you like them. There's a location right off the
Speaker 3: fifteen freeway here in SoCal, just a few exits from
Speaker 3: where you met the truck driver in the parking lot
Speaker 3: in Ontario. Well, thanks for reminding me of that. That's
Speaker 3: moving man, Matt. He blew me off at a hotel
Speaker 3: near lax.
Speaker 1: From Boston. Who was out here?
Speaker 4: Did what in an airport parking lot? No?
Speaker 1: No, I went to a big rig a truck stop.
Speaker 1: I met him at a truck stop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he says.
Speaker 1: I do have a question for both you, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: He says, since you both grew up in close proximity
Speaker 3: to Tijuana, do either of you have a crazy story.
Speaker 1: From a trip there.
Speaker 3: Most of us that grew up there pre nine eleven
Speaker 3: had some wild times down there.
Speaker 1: I love the show and podcast.
Speaker 3: Also, just to rub it in since I am now
Speaker 3: living in I'm from Newsom's California, but I live in
Speaker 3: northern Kentucky now. I paid at two dollars and sixty
Speaker 3: three cents per gas this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got gas.
Speaker 3: I think on Thursday after we recorded the TV show
Speaker 3: and I thought I was getting a deal.
Speaker 1: It was like four to twelve. I thought, boy, this
Speaker 1: is cheap at four to twelve.
Speaker 4: Gap where I live. I thought I was getting a
Speaker 4: great deal. When it was five oh five.
Speaker 1: God, I've noticed with I love Costco.
Speaker 3: I mostly get gas at Costco and even City to
Speaker 3: See because that's where I live. There's like there's like
Speaker 3: three Costcos that are kind of near where I live,
Speaker 3: so I have three options, but they all the prices
Speaker 3: are not the same because they add I guess there's
Speaker 3: city different city tax.
Speaker 1: That some cities have. I think.
Speaker 3: I think that's why it's more expensive in certain places.
Speaker 3: So you got to go on your stupid phone to
Speaker 3: find out who's got the cheapest price of gas.
Speaker 1: What a pain in the Bible.
Speaker 3: As far as Tijuana, uh, you know, my my Jewish
Speaker 3: mother told me as a kid to never go to
Speaker 3: Trijuana because you'll never come back, and blah blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. Sure she instilled the fear, the fear in
Speaker 3: me of not going to Tijuana. So even if I
Speaker 3: worked in San Diego when I was of age to
Speaker 3: enjoy all that in fort nine to eleven, I did
Speaker 3: not go to Tijuana at that time in my life
Speaker 3: when I worked at the mighty six ninety, mostly because
Speaker 3: my mom thought I would be kidnapped by vigilantes and
Speaker 3: that would be the end. Because you know, of course
Speaker 3: you kidnap the massive, tall, weird, fat guy. That's who
Speaker 3: you're kidnap. So what about you, Danny, any Tijuana stories
Speaker 3: from your younger days.
Speaker 4: No, but I did do some DJ gigs in my
Speaker 4: early twenties in other parts of Mexico, like next to the.
Speaker 1: Water port of i Order or something like that, port.
Speaker 4: Of Iarta Cobbos and Lucas nice. Yeah, some really good
Speaker 4: spots where people would have weddings and then I would
Speaker 4: DJ the wedding reception, get spoiled and lay in the
Speaker 4: sun and haint a lot of money, eat lots of seafood,
Speaker 4: and then come back home with E coli.
Speaker 1: Ben Oh, wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had that experience in my early twenties where I
Speaker 4: came back from Cabo very sick. I ended up in
Speaker 4: the emergency room because I had E coli from their
Speaker 4: wonderful water there in Mexico. And let me tell you,
Speaker 4: I've never rushed back there since that experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds sounds driff of my My wife, her,
Speaker 3: her grandfather who passed away a couple of years ago, Luigi.
Speaker 3: She said, when the family would go to Mexico, Luigi, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, the Italian guy from you know, Authentic from Italy,
Speaker 3: and he would take a suitcase filled with nothing but water.
Speaker 1: That's all he did.
Speaker 3: He had like two pairs of clothes and everything was
Speaker 3: just water.
Speaker 1: It's it, you know, Ben.
Speaker 4: I got sick from their water, but not by drinking it.
Speaker 4: It was a really hot day that I was djaying,
Speaker 4: so I was going into the resorts restroom, and I
Speaker 4: kept splashing my face with cold water, and the water
Speaker 4: got into my pores that way, So you get sick
Speaker 4: without even drinking the water. By showering or putting the
Speaker 4: water on you, you could still get sick.
Speaker 3: It's fascinating that the people in Mexico obviously don't get
Speaker 3: sick because they're used to it. But here in the States, like, God,
Speaker 3: you go there, it's like it's everyone's nightmare.
Speaker 1: Going to Mexican.
Speaker 4: You what are you doing? Anyway, maybe we should, That's
Speaker 4: what we've all chosen to go to Hawaii for our
Speaker 4: vacations ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh why is amazing?
Speaker 3: What about Baja California? Is the water terrible there in
Speaker 3: Baja California?
Speaker 4: That's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'll have to ask our friend, the surfing comedian Todd
Speaker 3: the surfing community.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll get out on that. It is Sunday.
Speaker 3: I will be at the Rams game again if you
Speaker 3: missed it earlier, so check that out and then I'll
Speaker 3: be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box barking and
Speaker 3: howling at the moon as we talk about all the
Speaker 3: big stories in the NFL. What do you have going
Speaker 3: on today, Danny.
Speaker 4: It's a Sunday to watch NFL football. So after finishing
Speaker 4: the post production of this fine podcast, I'm gonna plump
Speaker 4: my rear end down on the couch, Ben and watch
Speaker 4: the Red Zone channel.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a fine time.
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, and don't forget
Speaker 3: tonight the radio show. And thanks for listening to these
Speaker 3: podcasts all weekend means a lot. Thanks for following the podcast,
Speaker 3: and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah. By the way, Ben, our numbers last
Speaker 4: weekend were some of the biggest numbers I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Really, all right, goods.
Speaker 4: So thank you so much for all of the downloads.
Speaker 4: We do appreciate it you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've been promoting the pod a little more on the
Speaker 3: on the radio show, trying to promote it a little more.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great day. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 4: Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.