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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
- 0:19Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
- 0:23Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
- 0:32Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G
- 0:35Speaker 3: Radio and a Happy mail Bag kind of a Sunday
- 0:40Speaker 3: as we hang out and celebrate one of the great
- 0:44Speaker 3: days of the year. Today Danny G Radio is National
- 0:50Speaker 3: Chicken Finger Day, a day celebrate one of my favorite
- 0:55Speaker 3: culinary delights, those golden brown pieces of wonderful deliciousness, the
- 1:02Speaker 3: chicken finger.
- 1:03Speaker 1: How great is that, Danny.
- 1:04Speaker 4: J I do have one bone to pick with our place.
- 1:08Speaker 4: It's our spot. You turned me onto this place years
- 1:12Speaker 4: ago and I've been going back ever since. Raising canes. Yeah,
- 1:17Speaker 4: I'm not sure that they should have even done a
- 1:19Speaker 4: promotion if it was going to be this wimpy. You
- 1:22Speaker 4: get one free chicken finger there today.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Oh goody one.
- 1:28Speaker 4: That's it one with a purchase of a box combo
- 1:33Speaker 4: and as you know, those are upwards of thirteen dollars.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a little much. That's that's a little
- 1:39Speaker 3: too too light.
- 1:41Speaker 4: How about if they said get three free fingers with
- 1:44Speaker 4: a box condo purchase.
- 1:47Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and then they did the math, they said, well,
- 1:49Speaker 3: we'll lose too much money on that, so that'll be
- 1:51Speaker 3: a I actually got an email from a publicist for
- 1:55Speaker 3: Raising Canes about National Chicken Finger Day, and they wanted
- 1:58Speaker 3: to do a promotion where they were going to come
- 2:01Speaker 3: in studio and then they found out what time we
- 2:03Speaker 3: were on, you know, and that was all.
- 2:05Speaker 1: But they would have done anybody. It was like, I
- 2:07Speaker 1: don't know. I was like, I don't know about that.
- 2:10Speaker 3: I love raising Canes, we support them and all that.
- 2:13Speaker 3: I don't know that I want to do a whole
- 2:14Speaker 3: hour about raising canes.
- 2:15Speaker 1: I don't think I want to do that.
- 2:16Speaker 3: But it is National Chicken Figure today today, so I
- 2:19Speaker 3: of course went down the old rabbit hole.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I love chicken fingers. I've loved them since I was
- 2:25Speaker 1: a kid.
- 2:26Speaker 4: You love ranch the chicken finger. Just dip in for
- 2:32Speaker 4: chicken fingers.
- 2:32Speaker 3: They say, the first time ever the chicken finger was
- 2:36Speaker 3: served was in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of my favorite
- 2:41Speaker 3: cities to visit.
- 2:42Speaker 1: I love Manchester.
- 2:43Speaker 3: It's a little tourist town in between Boston and you
- 2:47Speaker 3: drive up to Maine and right there on the coast
- 2:50Speaker 3: in New Hampshire. It's just a beautiful little you know.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Of course, I've only been there during the summer. I'm
- 2:55Speaker 3: sure it's probably a nightmare in the winter, but it
- 2:57Speaker 3: was beautiful every time I've been there. And the first
- 3:01Speaker 3: I don't know how they know this, but in nineteen
- 3:04Speaker 3: seventy four, so that predates me. The first chicken finger
- 3:10Speaker 3: was made at this joint in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
- 3:14Speaker 3: then in the nineteen eighties the chicken finger started becoming
- 3:18Speaker 3: a popular item, a substitute for chicken nuggets and raising canes,
- 3:25Speaker 3: which was my idea.
- 3:26Speaker 4: By the way, I can back you up on that.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Used to talk about it on the air, long before
- 3:32Speaker 4: we got raising canes in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, No.
- 3:35Speaker 3: My plan was, I'm going to become forget Burger King
- 3:38Speaker 3: or McDonald's or Domino's, all these fast food places.
- 3:41Speaker 1: I'm going to be the king of the chicken finger.
- 3:43Speaker 3: That was my plan, and then Todd Graves established raising
- 3:48Speaker 3: Canes and Baton Rouge Louisiana. And then now we have
- 3:53Speaker 3: National Chicken Finger Day, which is today.
- 3:59Speaker 1: And then there you go. And in England.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Terry can back this up. I'm told the chicken fingers
- 4:08Speaker 3: are known as chicken Gujohn's I believe how you say
- 4:11Speaker 3: g O U j o n s. They're also called
- 4:15Speaker 3: chicken filets and chicken strips. And but here in the gold,
- 4:19Speaker 3: good old Us of A, we love our chicken fingers
- 4:24Speaker 3: and it is a staple of every kid's menu. Right,
- 4:28Speaker 3: I'm sure CoA, when you take Coati, you got those
- 4:31Speaker 3: mini corn dogs and you've got chicken fingers, and those
- 4:34Speaker 3: are pretty much on every should be on every kids
- 4:38Speaker 3: menu when you go out and about, right, I mean
- 4:41Speaker 3: those that you must have.
- 4:42Speaker 4: That he lives, he practically lives on those lightly breaded
- 4:46Speaker 4: chicken nuggets from Tosco.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Oh those are good.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh they're they're wonderful and they're actually they're more
- 4:53Speaker 4: like chicken fingers, but they're in the form of a nugget.
- 4:56Speaker 3: Now, is that are you talking about? They come in
- 4:58Speaker 3: like a white package with kind of green on them.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Is that the one you're talking about.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Yes, those are.
- 5:03Speaker 3: A ripoff of Chick fil A. Did you know that?
- 5:06Speaker 4: Yeah? And I feel like they're better than Chick fil a.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Wow.
- 5:09Speaker 1: And you just put them in the air fryer or
- 5:11Speaker 1: you put them in the other.
- 5:12Speaker 4: Yep, air fryer every day. That's great.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Yeah, the air fryer food has gotten so much better.
- 5:19Speaker 3: It's like I feel like they've really.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Mastered the air frer food.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Today is also National Scotch Day. So if you you
- 5:27Speaker 3: a Scotch drink, I'm not a Scotch drinker. You a
- 5:29Speaker 3: Scotch drinker, Danny.
- 5:30Speaker 4: No.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:32Speaker 3: I feel like our older generator, me and me and
- 5:36Speaker 3: you are in the same generation.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I feel like the people older than us.
- 5:39Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I just feel like
- 5:42Speaker 3: I remember being at social events and relatives were drinking scotch.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Maybe they were.
- 5:48Speaker 4: I feel like it was our grandparents drink.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I feel like our grandparents were scotch drinkers.
- 5:55Speaker 3: That they did that they had cart I remember our
- 5:57Speaker 3: grandparents had car slide shows from vacation.
- 6:00Speaker 4: They had always bring.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Us kids over and show slide shows and where they
- 6:03Speaker 3: want to vacation. And then they also had they would
- 6:06Speaker 3: play weird card games. They It wasn't poker, I forget
- 6:11Speaker 3: the name of There was a couple of card games
- 6:13Speaker 3: my grandfather, one of my grandfather's a big card shark,
- 6:17Speaker 3: and he'd have friends and family over to play cards.
- 6:21Speaker 3: But it wasn't I forget the name of it.
- 6:24Speaker 4: The whole slide show concept is strange too, when you
- 6:27Speaker 4: think about it. That would be like if nowadays you
- 6:31Speaker 4: trap people in your living room and force them to
- 6:33Speaker 4: look at pictures from your iPhone from when you went
- 6:37Speaker 4: out of town.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Yeah, it is odd.
- 6:39Speaker 3: It's one of those quirky things that you tell people
- 6:41Speaker 3: who are younger, younger than us, like the next.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Generation, like what the f is wrong with you?
- 6:47Speaker 3: My god? You had to sit in a room and
- 6:50Speaker 3: pretend like you cared because your grandfather went to the
- 6:54Speaker 3: Grand Canyon. You know. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, my grandfather,
- 7:00Speaker 3: my dad's dad.
- 7:01Speaker 1: He was the master man.
- 7:02Speaker 3: He had all these cameras, so for him, like he
- 7:06Speaker 3: would go on vacation. I'm pretty sure he just was
- 7:09Speaker 3: on vacation just to take photos.
- 7:11Speaker 4: Oh he was Antel Adams. He was just forcing people
- 7:14Speaker 4: to see his artwork exactly exactly.
- 7:18Speaker 3: As story with everything, and a little story about we
- 7:20Speaker 3: met this.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Gentleman and he's a friend of the family.
- 7:23Speaker 3: You know, when you're a kid, you don't give a
- 7:24Speaker 3: flying f you know, you know, I don't care the
- 7:27Speaker 3: friend of the family man. Dude, I just want to
- 7:29Speaker 3: get the f out of here, all right. I don't
- 7:31Speaker 3: sit here and watch this crap. That's that is a
- 7:35Speaker 3: world before the Internet.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Both slide shows would have been better if they would
- 7:38Speaker 4: have shared their scotch with us.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Exactly, kiddos. Let's get hammered kids. Anyway, Let's get to
- 7:46Speaker 3: the mailbag and a man who did very well in
- 7:49Speaker 3: the mal or palooza. Let's give it up now for ohiou.
- 7:53Speaker 3: It's all right, very good, thank you, ohio. A first
- 8:10Speaker 3: up is our guy Reggie in Detroit, a regular fifth
- 8:15Speaker 3: hour listener. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny, hope you
- 8:17Speaker 3: guys are enjoying July. He then says, Ben, the NFL
- 8:23Speaker 3: is beginning this week. There's exhibition football this week. I
- 8:27Speaker 3: like that, Reggie said, exhibition, not preseason. Danny, he said, exhibition,
- 8:30Speaker 3: because it is exhibition. And I will never forget the
- 8:34Speaker 3: late great Dennis Green. I was hanging out with Dennis
- 8:37Speaker 3: Green did an interview with him when he was coaching
- 8:40Speaker 3: the Vikings, and I said, I was talking about the
- 8:44Speaker 3: exhibition season and Danny Green, God rest his soul. He
- 8:49Speaker 3: then Danny got on a soapbox and said, well, Ben,
- 8:52Speaker 3: we don't call it the exhibition season.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It's a preseason. The season ticket always get.
- 8:57Speaker 3: They get the regular season, then they get the preseason,
- 9:00Speaker 3: which is a very important part of how teams get
- 9:02Speaker 3: ready for the season. But he was giving me all
- 9:04Speaker 3: the talking points. I still remember it. It's been so
- 9:07Speaker 3: long and I still remember Dennis Green trying to educate me.
- 9:11Speaker 1: But I don't care. I still call it exhibition GEPs. Anyway,
- 9:14Speaker 1: I think they.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Charged and you screwed that up, by the way, because
- 9:16Speaker 4: he offered you free tickets and you didn't take them up.
- 9:19Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, that's true.
- 9:20Speaker 4: He didn't.
- 9:20Speaker 1: He did offer me, and I didn't didn't use them.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Anyway, Reggie says, what's going on is Benny versus the
- 9:26Speaker 3: Penny been canceled. Reggie, I will give you an update
- 9:30Speaker 3: as soon as I can. All I will tell you
- 9:32Speaker 3: is we have not been canceled. The show has not
- 9:35Speaker 3: been canceled. The show has not been picked up, though
- 9:38Speaker 3: which is not good. I will admit that's not good.
- 9:42Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Until you know, I have been
- 9:45Speaker 3: in conversations with the people the network at NBC. They've
- 9:48Speaker 3: been very good to me. They've been very kind. And
- 9:52Speaker 3: the good thing is we've done the show for two
- 9:55Speaker 3: years now, and I've worked with Tom Looney for almost
- 9:58Speaker 3: thirty years. Me and Luney have done radio and television,
- 10:01Speaker 3: so we work really, really smooth together. It's not it's
- 10:06Speaker 3: not really an issue. So we're still waiting and I
- 10:09Speaker 3: will let you know. And I'm optimistic, but I'm also
- 10:12Speaker 3: realistic that it's it's not been picked up. And you
- 10:16Speaker 3: are right, Reggie, this is not great this season. The
- 10:20Speaker 3: practice games start this week, so we will find out.
- 10:24Speaker 3: And as soon as I find out either way, we'll
- 10:27Speaker 3: let you know. I mean, we will do Benny Versus
- 10:28Speaker 3: the Penny. Whether it's on television or whether it's somewhere else,
- 10:32Speaker 3: it'll be done.
- 10:33Speaker 1: So I'll let you know.
- 10:35Speaker 4: It's tough because it does cost a lot to produce
- 10:37Speaker 4: that show. It's like the Colbert Show.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Yeah, we uh, well, that's well, that's funny.
- 10:43Speaker 3: I think as somebody justin and Cincinnati said, have you
- 10:48Speaker 3: been given the Colbert you know that was That's how.
- 10:50Speaker 4: We foolks using it as a verb.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm happy to report and I can say this,
- 10:56Speaker 3: even if Benny Versus the Penny gets canceled, we did
- 10:59Speaker 3: not call lost NBC forty million dollars a year. They
- 11:02Speaker 3: did not lose forty million dollars a year on the
- 11:06Speaker 3: TV show. I promise you that now. Ferd Dog and
- 11:10Speaker 3: Fullig and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I'm still
- 11:13Speaker 3: holding out hope, Ben, But if our worst fears come
- 11:17Speaker 3: true and Benny Versus the Penny is not renewed for
- 11:20Speaker 3: a third season, do you think the main reason why
- 11:23Speaker 3: is because the Penny got lucky and beat you in
- 11:26Speaker 3: the regular season last year? He said, no, nobody, that
- 11:31Speaker 3: doesn't matter. In fact, I think that made for a
- 11:33Speaker 3: better show. Not that I was trying to lose to
- 11:35Speaker 3: the Penny, but that was the whole point of the show.
- 11:38Speaker 3: The whole point of Benny Versus the Penny is, I
- 11:41Speaker 3: actually do handicap the games, and I think I know
- 11:46Speaker 3: a little bit about the NFL, and I go out,
- 11:49Speaker 3: I picked the games, I do my due diligence and
- 11:52Speaker 3: in an adamant object the penny, we flip it up
- 11:56Speaker 3: and it ends up beating me, even though I have
- 11:59Speaker 3: access to all all the numbers and all the stats,
- 12:01Speaker 3: and and that's the whole point of show. Now. As
- 12:05Speaker 3: as for the email, Uh, Fergnuck says, and Danny g
- 12:09Speaker 3: I know you'll never admit it publicly, but would you
- 12:12Speaker 3: take would you secretly take a little joy in Benny
- 12:16Speaker 3: versus the penny getting canceled? Uh?
- 12:18Speaker 1: And then he says, because of that schmuck Tom.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Looney, Uh, Danny, would you would you do a victory
- 12:24Speaker 3: lap if the show got canceled?
- 12:26Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't do a victory lap. I do remember
- 12:29Speaker 4: all those early mornings toiling though to put all those
- 12:32Speaker 4: penny sound effects and all that together for every Friday
- 12:36Speaker 4: podcast that we used to do back in the day.
- 12:39Speaker 4: But you don't ever do a you don't ever do
- 12:42Speaker 4: a victory danced. I mean, what's the what's the saying
- 12:45Speaker 4: that Clay always used to say, Uh, rising tide lifts
- 12:49Speaker 4: all ships.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:51Speaker 3: And also you'll all the people you see on the
- 12:53Speaker 3: way up, you'll see on the way down.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 12:55Speaker 3: If you start you to that whole yeah talking, we
- 12:58Speaker 3: start shitting on people.
- 13:00Speaker 1: The clippers coach.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Whatever we talked about him yesterday, it does kind of
- 13:06Speaker 3: come back and hit you a little bit. Scott, thank
- 13:09Speaker 3: you for Doug, Scott writes in Scott says, Bend and
- 13:13Speaker 3: Danny g I was born and raised in Clearwater, Floorida.
- 13:16Speaker 3: My grandfather entertained all of my childhood fascinations and heroic figures.
- 13:22Speaker 1: During my early years.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Like most seventy nine ers, I loved hal Cogan and
- 13:28Speaker 3: Rocky three.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Was my favorite movie as a six year old.
- 13:32Speaker 3: So when I moved back here in twenty twenty about
- 13:36Speaker 3: a house one block from the Hulkster, but considerably cheaper
- 13:42Speaker 3: and certainly more flood prone, I always thought my grandfather
- 13:46Speaker 3: would cackle at the thought of us driving past each
- 13:50Speaker 3: other on a regular basis. Every time I saw his,
- 13:54Speaker 3: meaning hal Cogan's white goatee driving a hot rod, I
- 13:58Speaker 3: thought of my grandpa. I never had the guts to
- 14:01Speaker 3: introduce myself and to say hi. Scott says it was
- 14:05Speaker 3: something I always was going to get around to doing
- 14:10Speaker 3: and to personally thank him for providing some of the
- 14:12Speaker 3: greatest childhood memories I still have about my grandfather. So
- 14:18Speaker 3: my question to you is this, do you have any
- 14:20Speaker 3: regrets about not approaching or thanking or even genuflecting at
- 14:25Speaker 3: the altar of people that you have come across as
- 14:29Speaker 3: an adult who you're up to as a child. I
- 14:32Speaker 3: imagine in your line of work the opportunities have been funty,
- 14:38Speaker 3: but the professional code and the awkwardness of adulthood must
- 14:43Speaker 3: hold back in some instances. It sounds like you properly
- 14:47Speaker 3: connected with Vin Scully, which must have been a dream
- 14:50Speaker 3: come true.
- 14:51Speaker 1: And then he says, I love Scott.
- 14:54Speaker 3: He says, then, ps, By the way, Ben, when you die,
- 14:57Speaker 3: my six year old son, Carter is going to be
- 14:59Speaker 3: like my dad always listened to Ben Mallor.
- 15:03Speaker 1: He is a regular.
- 15:04Speaker 3: Podcast listener and talks about me or talks to me
- 15:07Speaker 3: about your show.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Well that's very sweet of Carter.
- 15:11Speaker 4: But and you and I actually have a story about
- 15:13Speaker 4: this very thing in the FSR building. Yeah, remember standing
- 15:18Speaker 4: outside of that studio where you stole a pen. But
- 15:22Speaker 4: we actually didn't get to meet the guy and shake
- 15:24Speaker 4: his hand.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Rush Limbaugh.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Yesh, Yeah, we were supposed to meet Rush Limbaugh, the
- 15:30Speaker 3: iconic Rush Limbaugh, greatest political talk shows in the history
- 15:35Speaker 3: of radio and the biggest name and financially for the
- 15:38Speaker 3: company we worked for. He made more money for them
- 15:40Speaker 3: than anybody, and we were supposed to meet Rush. And
- 15:45Speaker 3: I remember every year Rush would come to LA for man.
- 15:49Speaker 3: I've worked at Premiere for twenty something years, and in
- 15:52Speaker 3: those years, Rush would come to La usually a week
- 15:56Speaker 3: or two sporadically he'd show up. And you always knew
- 16:01Speaker 3: when Rush was coming to La because the whole company
- 16:05Speaker 3: was Defcon one. Everybody had to be clean, everything had to.
- 16:09Speaker 4: Be had carpet cleaner services in the week prior.
- 16:12Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was just Rush had his own studio,
- 16:16Speaker 3: even though he only worked for like two weeks a
- 16:18Speaker 3: year in La own studio.
- 16:21Speaker 4: Way nicer than the one we worked in every day
- 16:24Speaker 4: twenty four to seven.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Mean he had the golden mic, the whole thing. And
- 16:27Speaker 3: so our boss at the time was was like, hey,
- 16:32Speaker 3: we're gonna you know, he was every once in a while,
- 16:34Speaker 3: I'd be like, I want to show you. I'm going
- 16:36Speaker 3: to introduce you to Rush Rush Limbaugh. And so that
- 16:40Speaker 3: that was the plan, and you know, you remember what happened,
- 16:44Speaker 3: Danny did not.
- 16:46Speaker 1: There was a there's a lot going on that.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Day, and there was some meetings, as I remember, and
- 16:52Speaker 3: some timing that was supposed to happen did not happen, and.
- 16:58Speaker 4: It was just awkward anyways, Remember because there were a
- 17:01Speaker 4: couple other people waiting around to meet him as well.
- 17:05Speaker 4: One of those strange things where you want to meet
- 17:08Speaker 4: him but then you don't and you don't pull the trigger.
- 17:11Speaker 4: There were a couple of times where you and I
- 17:13Speaker 4: could have walked up to him and we didn't. He
- 17:16Speaker 4: was in the same room as us, and it's just
- 17:18Speaker 4: so odd and awkward, and finally we just let it pass.
- 17:22Speaker 4: And I remember though you sneaking into his Golden Mike's
- 17:26Speaker 4: studio and grabbing his pen.
- 17:28Speaker 3: I did I have a rush Limbaugh pen? I have
- 17:31Speaker 3: guilty of that one hundred percent.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Uh.
- 17:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a great email, Scott, And I
- 17:36Speaker 3: got to tell you this Hull Cogan thing really did
- 17:39Speaker 3: touch a lot of middle aged guys like us in
- 17:41Speaker 3: the fields, Danny, as the kids say, Uh, there were
- 17:43Speaker 3: a lot of emotions and a lot of us. If
- 17:45Speaker 3: you're around our age and you grew up with wrestling,
- 17:49Speaker 3: like Hulk Hogan was the Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti.
- 17:54Speaker 3: Uh for sure. But I'm trying to think some other people, Scott,
- 17:57Speaker 3: you you did mention Vin Scully and yeah, I got
- 17:59Speaker 3: to know Evan a little bit, which was awesome. And
- 18:02Speaker 3: I was always someone that admired play by play people.
- 18:07Speaker 3: And these are the people that when I was a kid,
- 18:09Speaker 3: like I got to talk to Harry Carey, who was
- 18:12Speaker 3: when I was a kid, was the voice of the
- 18:14Speaker 3: Cubs on WGN the superstation, Skip Carrey, who was the
- 18:19Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves. I used to watch TBS and all the
- 18:23Speaker 3: Braves games were on there when I was a kid,
- 18:25Speaker 3: and so I'd watched that. And I'm trying to think.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Ralph Kiner was a Mets broadcaster when I was a
- 18:31Speaker 3: kid on w w o R the superstation. Got to
- 18:35Speaker 3: got to meet him, Harry, I meant Harry call I
- 18:39Speaker 3: did meet Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL films,
- 18:43Speaker 3: The Fighting.
- 18:44Speaker 4: Phils, Nice Eagles, A.
- 18:47Speaker 3: Really nice guy, Harry Callous. Could he I actually had him,
- 18:51Speaker 3: Danny do liners? Remember we used to get people to
- 18:54Speaker 3: do liners. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show, and
- 18:57Speaker 3: this is Harry Callous.
- 18:59Speaker 1: And so I got that.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Ernie Harwell, these are legendary if you're broadcasting. Nerd these
- 19:06Speaker 3: were legendary names when I was a kid. So I
- 19:09Speaker 3: did get to meet a lot of those people and
- 19:10Speaker 3: that was pretty cool. But you're right, you didn't really
- 19:13Speaker 3: get to tell them like, hey, you meant a lot
- 19:15Speaker 3: to me. And that's some of them. I did a
- 19:18Speaker 3: lot of them that I didn't, so you know, that's
- 19:23Speaker 3: part of that's part of it. And plug I did
- 19:26Speaker 3: know a little bit from being around Vin Scully a
- 19:28Speaker 3: little bit and doing some stuff with the Dodgers, Like
- 19:32Speaker 3: people did come up to Vin a lot and say that,
- 19:34Speaker 3: and so I think he kind of liked when people
- 19:38Speaker 3: just treated them regularly, you.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Know, I know, and talk about regular things. And I
- 19:42Speaker 4: think that's part of dragging your feet a little bit,
- 19:45Speaker 4: because you don't want to come off as some super fan.
- 19:49Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I remember Fernando Venezuela who would always hang
- 19:52Speaker 3: out in the back of the press box dining room
- 19:54Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, and he just loved that the other
- 19:58Speaker 3: Mexican reporters and the other media people that would be
- 20:00Speaker 3: at his table just treated him like a regular person.
- 20:04Speaker 3: Because Fernando in the Mexican American community in Los Angeles
- 20:09Speaker 3: is a god or was it god? Obviously passed away,
- 20:11Speaker 3: but he just loved the vibey guy from a guy
- 20:14Speaker 3: like that was like he just liked being one of
- 20:16Speaker 3: the guys. And so you know, hey, it's it does
- 20:19Speaker 3: suck when these people die. And like because Hahul Cogan,
- 20:22Speaker 3: you figured out I probably had you know, at least
- 20:26Speaker 3: seven eight years, maybe nine, I don't who knows, but
- 20:30Speaker 3: seventy one man, that whole Cogan. Yeah, yeah, like we
- 20:34Speaker 3: in the last year with George Foreman, the Foreman, Grille
- 20:39Speaker 3: Boxing gone, Hull Cogan, the kid from the Cosby Show died.
- 20:45Speaker 3: He drowned, and he's a little older than us.
- 20:48Speaker 4: I'm Malcolm Jamal Warner. Really sad.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Ozzy Osbourne, you know these man legends, these are legends.
- 20:55Speaker 3: These are iconic people in our childhood, our youth.
- 20:59Speaker 4: We're getting old. And that famous jazz musician who has
- 21:03Speaker 4: one of the only instrumentals any of us know.
- 21:06Speaker 1: That's right.
- 21:07Speaker 4: So we just have eighties and nineties stars dropping like
- 21:10Speaker 4: flies lately, and it is sad because it's definitely like
- 21:13Speaker 4: a piece of your childhood going to the wayside. Yep.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass right sin and he says, hey,
- 21:23Speaker 3: Benny and Danny, I was on TikTok earlier. I saw
- 21:27Speaker 3: this clip and someone asked this question, so I want
- 21:30Speaker 3: to He thought it was a good question. So Ryan
- 21:33Speaker 3: wants to ask us the question. He says, question, in
- 21:36Speaker 3: a one versus one race between Usain Bolt and Joey
- 21:40Speaker 3: chestnutt in a hundred meter dash.
- 21:42Speaker 4: Who wins?
- 21:44Speaker 1: Now?
- 21:44Speaker 3: He says, when the gun goes off to start the race,
- 21:50Speaker 3: each runner has to down one full hot dog then
- 21:54Speaker 3: run the one hundred meter dash?
- 21:56Speaker 1: Who wins?
- 21:58Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 21:59Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know the easy answer as well with
- 22:03Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut because you know he'd need it in two
- 22:05Speaker 3: seconds and it would take you sain Bolt a long time.
- 22:07Speaker 3: And here's the thing, though, I would pick Usain Bolt anyway,
- 22:11Speaker 3: because even if Usain Bolt took a long time, like
- 22:14Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut, God love him, he's been on the podcast.
- 22:18Speaker 3: He's just a middle aged guy. He's got a dad body.
- 22:21Speaker 3: He's not gonna be even Usain Bolt could take.
- 22:23Speaker 4: I don't know, remember how he put that protester into
- 22:26Speaker 4: a choke hold.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's a physical But I'm talking about running.
- 22:29Speaker 4: Though, yeah, point And I bet what he could down
- 22:35Speaker 4: those dogs so fast, Ben that even if he's jogging,
- 22:37Speaker 4: he could still win.
- 22:39Speaker 3: I interviewed Usain Bolt years ago. He was promoting something.
- 22:44Speaker 3: They put him on the show, a show I was
- 22:46Speaker 3: filling in for somebody, and he was very nice and
- 22:49Speaker 3: very cool guy, Usain Bolt. And I remember about that
- 22:54Speaker 3: interview is I, I don't know a lot about running.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this, Danny. I'm not
- 22:59Speaker 3: an expert track and field.
- 23:01Speaker 4: I implows my mind.
- 23:03Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was trying to think of some things
- 23:05Speaker 3: to ask him because I didn't really know a lot.
- 23:07Speaker 3: I watched him. I used to watch while he's not
- 23:09Speaker 3: performing anymore in the Olympics, but I used to watch
- 23:12Speaker 3: him in the Olympics. And so the only time I
- 23:14Speaker 3: watched track and field like anyone else is the Olympics.
- 23:17Speaker 3: And so I tun to He was like, yeah, you know,
- 23:19Speaker 3: when I'm not running, I just want to sit around
- 23:22Speaker 3: and eat and play video games like that.
- 23:24Speaker 1: He was like that.
- 23:25Speaker 3: He claimed that guy was his life. He just spent
- 23:26Speaker 3: hours a day playing video games. So if he's doing that,
- 23:30Speaker 3: I'm guessing he can probably put down a hot dog.
- 23:33Speaker 1: And he runs so much. Isn't the rule of thumb, Danny?
- 23:36Speaker 3: When you're running around that much and you're doing all
- 23:39Speaker 3: that physical exercise, you gotta eat a lot. You gotta
- 23:44Speaker 3: put it down because you're burning calories.
- 23:46Speaker 4: Right, yeah, the fuel that you need. What is it
- 23:50Speaker 4: like we've seen some of those guys ten thousand callerie diets.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
- 23:56Speaker 3: Yeah, the NFL, some of the NFL guys Kevin and Kansas.
- 24:00Speaker 3: And it says, dear Ben and Danny g What is
- 24:01Speaker 3: the ohass for me? He says, what has the status
- 24:03Speaker 3: been of the laundry basket that you found on the
- 24:07Speaker 3: side of the road a few years ago?
- 24:09Speaker 4: Has it been I remember this story?
- 24:11Speaker 3: Yes, I I think that was was that during the COVID?
- 24:15Speaker 3: I think that might have been during COVID. I don't know. Yeah,
- 24:18Speaker 3: I was driving around and I on the side of
- 24:21Speaker 3: the road was a laundry cart, like a professional laundromat laundry.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Cart on the side of the road you rescued it.
- 24:28Speaker 1: I drove past it.
- 24:29Speaker 3: A couple of times, and I, as I remember, I
- 24:33Speaker 3: said to myself, next time I come down this road,
- 24:35Speaker 3: if that thing's still there, I'm getting it. Because and
- 24:39Speaker 3: next time, I, like the next day I drove down
- 24:41Speaker 3: the road, the damn thing was still there. So I
- 24:44Speaker 3: went and I took it. Uh and uh anyway, Kevin says,
- 24:48Speaker 3: has it been in storage, is being used? Has it
- 24:51Speaker 3: been repurposed? Inquiring minds want to know. So essentially, it's
- 24:58Speaker 3: it's a bit of one in three. It is not
- 25:02Speaker 3: being used for laundry. It is not being used for laundry.
- 25:05Speaker 3: It is in storage, but it has been repurposed, Kevin,
- 25:10Speaker 3: because we put other junk in it, Like there's other
- 25:12Speaker 3: stuff in it, So we we have repurposed the laundry cart.
- 25:18Speaker 3: It is not completely gone. I'm sure we're gonna get
- 25:23Speaker 3: rid of it at some point because we don't use it,
- 25:24Speaker 3: and it'll be a sad day, Danny when we get
- 25:27Speaker 3: rid of that thing.
- 25:28Speaker 1: But that's the.
- 25:29Speaker 4: It's now holding all of your illegal fireworks.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta get ready my Disneyland style fireworks I
- 25:35Speaker 3: get from Tijuana. Racist Alex from Boston writes in he says, hey,
- 25:42Speaker 3: bndon Danny Lebron James.
- 25:45Speaker 1: He says, is trying.
- 25:46Speaker 3: To stop AI. He says his lawyer sent a cease
- 25:51Speaker 3: and assist letter and he wants to know. He says,
- 25:54Speaker 3: you guys work in the media business. Is there any
- 25:57Speaker 3: way AI can seriously be controlled. That's Alex in Boston.
- 26:02Speaker 3: He's talking about this viral video Danny of Lebron pregnant Lebron. Yeah,
- 26:06Speaker 3: pregnant Lebron. Me.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. All right, I'll let you go first, Danny.
- 26:14Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 26:15Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we talked a lot about this on the
- 26:18Speaker 4: CNR show. Yeah. I don't know if you're aware of
- 26:21Speaker 4: this or not, Benny, there's actually an AI version of
- 26:25Speaker 4: the two of us. What. Yeah, really, just don't know
- 26:29Speaker 4: if you want to listen to it because there are
- 26:31Speaker 4: some curse words and it's not stuff we normally would say.
- 26:35Speaker 4: But somebody actually took your voice and my voice and
- 26:39Speaker 4: they have us interacting together doing a fake version of
- 26:43Speaker 4: the podcast after this podcast. Oh my, I was unaware
- 26:48Speaker 4: of this. I yeah, it's on YouTube.
- 26:51Speaker 3: I am blown away though by AI Danny. It is wow.
- 26:59Speaker 3: People have sent me emails like you can do a
- 27:03Speaker 3: full Malar monologue. They will write it in like two seconds.
- 27:07Speaker 3: They will write a Malard monologue in my voice, that
- 27:10Speaker 3: my phrasing.
- 27:12Speaker 4: With the voice stuff, you can tell that it's you know,
- 27:15Speaker 4: a deep fake.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:17Speaker 4: The problem with those videos right now, I guess if
- 27:21Speaker 4: you look closely enough, you can tell because it almost
- 27:24Speaker 4: the colors and things look like I.
- 27:26Speaker 3: Don't know, I don't know what you're doing.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Lebron looked pregnant to me.
- 27:29Speaker 4: I don't know what you're doing but that. But look,
- 27:32Speaker 4: here's the thing. The videos uh have tricked people. The
- 27:38Speaker 4: voice stuff is not tricking people yet, but when it
- 27:41Speaker 4: gets better and it starts to trick people just off
- 27:44Speaker 4: of voices, then shit's gonna hit the fan.
- 27:47Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no how do you verify anything if you're
- 27:51Speaker 3: you know your voice verify What are you going to do?
- 27:54Speaker 3: Like I, I'm sure there'll be some ways of someone
- 27:59Speaker 3: will figure out, there will be a solution. It is
- 28:03Speaker 3: just mind blowing though, So I don't really have a
- 28:08Speaker 3: great answer, Alex, I mean you can. That seems like
- 28:11Speaker 3: a game of whack a mole to me, Danny, where
- 28:13Speaker 3: you're not gonna be able to win it. You know,
- 28:15Speaker 3: you play whack a mole, you knock one of things down,
- 28:17Speaker 3: another one pops up, So good luck. Bobby from Florida
- 28:21Speaker 3: writes in on the Fifth Hour mail bag.
- 28:24Speaker 1: He says.
- 28:26Speaker 3: A team went viral this week. According to Bobby, I
- 28:32Speaker 3: don't think this is the key line, Pie, Bobby, I
- 28:34Speaker 3: think this is a different Bobby. Apparently there's more than
- 28:36Speaker 3: one Bobby lives in Florida, says Ben and Danny. A
- 28:39Speaker 3: team went viral this week, saved one thousand dollars on
- 28:42Speaker 3: driving lessons by watching YouTube videos, and he passed the
- 28:48Speaker 3: driving test the first time. Thumbs upper thumbs down on
- 28:53Speaker 3: this from Bobby in Florida. You know I'm gonna go
- 28:58Speaker 3: thumbs up. I took I had a driving I went
- 29:01Speaker 3: to driving school.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Drive.
- 29:03Speaker 3: My mom hired some guy to teach me how to
- 29:05Speaker 3: drive when I was a kid because we didn't have YouTube.
- 29:07Speaker 3: But the whole point, my take on this, Dany, is
- 29:10Speaker 3: the whole point is to learn how to drive. So
- 29:13Speaker 3: if you learn, you can learn multiple ways. Like some
- 29:16Speaker 3: people learn from from writing things now and something I
- 29:18Speaker 3: learned from watching. But if you learn YouTube, I've learned
- 29:23Speaker 3: a million things from YouTube. So what's the problem.
- 29:25Speaker 1: I don't do What the problem is?
- 29:28Speaker 3: I don't?
- 29:29Speaker 4: I mean, I'm serious, Like once a month I'm learning
- 29:32Speaker 4: how to do something from a YouTube video. Driving no different.
- 29:36Speaker 4: The thing is, though, to get good at it, you
- 29:38Speaker 4: do gotta be on the road. Because I remember when
- 29:41Speaker 4: I taught myself how to drive, I would just keep
- 29:44Speaker 4: getting on the five Freeway, and I would go a
- 29:46Speaker 4: few exits and then get off. And it was so
- 29:48Speaker 4: scary getting on the freeway and getting off the freeway.
- 29:51Speaker 4: After I did it a few times, I started to
- 29:53Speaker 4: get comfortable. But if you watch those videos, at least
- 29:57Speaker 4: you are prepared to then get by the wheel.
- 30:01Speaker 3: Now, if you really when CoA is old enough to drive,
- 30:04Speaker 3: which will be many years from now. But if you
- 30:05Speaker 3: really want to give CoA a real life lesson on driving,
- 30:09Speaker 3: take him on the one ten freeway, Danny in the
- 30:13Speaker 3: La between Dodger Stadium and Pasadena, and just let him
- 30:18Speaker 3: go on and off those off ramps on the avenues
- 30:21Speaker 3: in La Avenue twenty six, Avenue forty whatever. I used
- 30:25Speaker 3: to live right there in Lincoln Heights. That is the
- 30:28Speaker 3: original freeway in America. And that is designed for cars
- 30:33Speaker 3: that were going what, Danny fifteen miles an hour or
- 30:35Speaker 3: something like that. It is wild, it is next. These
- 30:40Speaker 3: on ramps are literally how many.
- 30:43Speaker 4: Feet you think they are, Danny, like fifty NASCAR drivers
- 30:47Speaker 4: would have a problem on that road.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Yeah, like people talk about the autobaon.
- 30:52Speaker 3: We we used to have a guy Autobon Butch who's
- 30:54Speaker 3: now in modesto who calls h but like to me,
- 30:58Speaker 3: that is so and people drive like complete.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Assholes in l A terrible anyway, I just popped into
- 31:06Speaker 1: my head.
- 31:07Speaker 4: Oh no, that's a that's a great idea. And then
- 31:09Speaker 4: to give to a further lesson, I would have them
- 31:12Speaker 4: parallel park in skid row there in downtown La.
- 31:18Speaker 3: Yeah, and just get out and you know, go eat
- 31:20Speaker 3: some food and enjoy himself.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:23Speaker 3: Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam right sent as big
- 31:27Speaker 3: Man and Daddy g Radio. We know if it were
- 31:30Speaker 3: up to Rob Parker, our friend Rob Parker, that NBA
- 31:34Speaker 3: gms would shop for players like Ben Simmons at the
- 31:38Speaker 3: discount rack at TJ Max.
- 31:41Speaker 1: I need a cole shower, he says.
- 31:43Speaker 3: In the context of TJ Max, did you know that
- 31:48Speaker 3: the numbers one, two, and seven on price tags indicate
- 31:51Speaker 3: the source of the item, And he says, one, when
- 31:56Speaker 3: you go to TJ Max one item, the item with
- 31:59Speaker 3: one are often manufactured by the brand for TJ Max,
- 32:05Speaker 3: I guess maybe there'd be a slight difference. Quality is
- 32:09Speaker 3: not quite the same. Number two there are genuine These
- 32:14Speaker 3: are genuine name brand items that were also sold by
- 32:18Speaker 3: the brand itself, making them a quality if I see
- 32:23Speaker 3: you want that?
- 32:23Speaker 1: And then number seven.
- 32:26Speaker 3: These are last year's items that are still genuine name
- 32:31Speaker 3: brand products, but they're just offered at a bargain. So
- 32:35Speaker 3: do you ever go to TJ Max Danny shop there?
- 32:40Speaker 4: No, really, I used to go.
- 32:41Speaker 1: I don't go anymore.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Once in a while. If you're looking for I think
- 32:45Speaker 4: we used to go to the mar Marshalls. Yeah, we
- 32:49Speaker 4: used to go to Marshalls for like, like if a
- 32:51Speaker 4: phone case cracked, or you needed a charging cord or
- 32:55Speaker 4: something like that, or a shaving kit or a bathroom bag,
- 32:59Speaker 4: things like that. That's what those stores are good for. Yeah,
- 33:02Speaker 4: we would Gods and Ends.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Yeah, Ross dress for least.
- 33:05Speaker 3: I think TJ Max if you need like a computer
- 33:08Speaker 3: bag or a backpack.
- 33:09Speaker 4: Like, yes, really good, really good? Yeah. Uh.
- 33:14Speaker 3: Tony in the Bay Area one of my favorite rights
- 33:16Speaker 3: and says, please improve the bumper music by mentioning chronic
- 33:20Speaker 3: and pussy in your monologues, Grossius and Danny, g are
- 33:25Speaker 3: you part of the Covino and Rich after pod show?
- 33:29Speaker 3: I heard the commercial bears that's Tony in the Bay Area.
- 33:33Speaker 4: So there's Tony there.
- 33:36Speaker 3: Check.
- 33:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's talking about over promised. They do
- 33:39Speaker 4: a podcast every Thursday. I am not part of that podcast.
- 33:44Speaker 3: Stars attract other stars. Yeah, Barry from South Carolina rights
- 33:50Speaker 3: in says Yo Yo mob, Benny and Danny g Who
- 33:54Speaker 3: would you like to see from your regular ex contributors
- 33:58Speaker 3: or people you have met at Mallard me and Greet's
- 34:00Speaker 3: become callers to your live show. Uh? Yeah, Mar, We've
- 34:07Speaker 3: We've had some people that I'm there's a lot of
- 34:11Speaker 3: people that hide behind their X accounts. Like I don't
- 34:14Speaker 3: know who mister nice guy, Like he's interacted with the
- 34:18Speaker 3: show for years on on X, but I don't think
- 34:20Speaker 3: he's ever called. Maybe he has, I don't remember. I'm
- 34:26Speaker 3: trying to think, like a lot of these guys have called.
- 34:28Speaker 3: I met Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, very nice man, great guy. Uh.
- 34:33Speaker 3: Some of the other guys in Minnesota that kind of
- 34:35Speaker 3: hide behind their their phones, I've I've met them al
- 34:42Speaker 3: in Minnesota. I've not met Ohio l. Hopefully if we
- 34:44Speaker 3: do the Ohio Meet.
- 34:45Speaker 4: And greet, Well, probably wish that weed Man Hippie was
- 34:49Speaker 4: a Texter or a tweeter only.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when weed Man, Oh God, that's a good question, Barry.
- 34:58Speaker 3: I don't.
- 35:00Speaker 1: At the top of my head, I don't.
- 35:01Speaker 3: I'm not really nothing's really hitting other than mister nice
- 35:04Speaker 3: guy and Ferd Dog calls in every once in a while.
- 35:09Speaker 3: I don't think Alf does. I have not. I don't
- 35:13Speaker 3: think I've spoken to Al.
- 35:14Speaker 4: Who's the one long time listener where you would love
- 35:17Speaker 4: to finally meet them at a malor meet and greet.
- 35:21Speaker 3: Well, Dick and Dayton, Alf the Alien Opiner. Those are
- 35:25Speaker 3: a couple of the guys for sure that I would
- 35:29Speaker 3: like to be. I'd like to be weed Man, Hippie
- 35:31Speaker 3: a weed Man's been calling the show for twenty years,
- 35:34Speaker 3: fulllexus like these are. I met hollering James. That was
- 35:38Speaker 3: an experience. I didn't say a good one.
- 35:40Speaker 4: Now, Well, weed Man tried to open for you at
- 35:43Speaker 4: a live show convention center and you blew that opportunity.
- 35:46Speaker 3: It's ran out a casino in Vegas and would have
- 35:50Speaker 3: all his money. There would have been seven people that
- 35:52Speaker 3: showed up to that event, and five of them just
- 35:56Speaker 3: to laugh at weed Man.
- 36:00Speaker 1: We'll get out on that, Danny. It's Sunday.
- 36:02Speaker 3: I'll be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box to
- 36:04Speaker 3: break it all down.
- 36:05Speaker 1: Should be a normal week for me on.
- 36:07Speaker 3: The radio side and anything you want to share. Well,
- 36:11Speaker 3: you did chair earlier this weekend that your wife will
- 36:14Speaker 3: be going away, so you'll be running around buck naked
- 36:17Speaker 3: in your house this week Danny. That'll be fun.
- 36:19Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, I'll have the house to myself for a
- 36:22Speaker 4: few days, and that'll lead into Thursday and Friday when
- 36:26Speaker 4: CNR and myself are in for Colin Cowherd Thursday and Friday,
- 36:31Speaker 4: as all the big time radio stars continue to take
- 36:34Speaker 4: their final days off for vacation before the NFL season starts.
- 36:39Speaker 3: Yeah, and I am. I will be taking some time off.
- 36:42Speaker 3: I have not talked to Mike.
- 36:44Speaker 4: I said big radio stars.
- 36:45Speaker 3: Well, well I'm big in size, not in Yeah. All right,
- 36:50Speaker 3: we'll enjoy that, Danny.
- 36:52Speaker 4: And enjoy your couple of days off with your brother.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:56Speaker 3: Not this week, by the way, but he's the following week.
- 36:58Speaker 3: My brother will be hanging out with us. I'll be
- 37:01Speaker 3: hanging out with him anyway. Have a great rest of
- 37:03Speaker 3: your day and we'll catch you. I'll catch you tonight,
- 37:07Speaker 3: Dani'll catch you tomorrow later.
- 37:09Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder. I gotta go