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- 0:00Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
- 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 sol 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 the clearinghouse
- 0:19Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
- 0:23Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. It's the Fifth Hour.
- 0:35Speaker 3: You know that already with me Ben Maler and Danny
- 0:39Speaker 3: g Radio in the audio dojo, don't you know?
- 0:44Speaker 1: Brew crew?
- 0:45Speaker 3: As the final four in Major League Baseball is set.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Danny g and I.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Mentioned this on the radio show the other night, but
- 0:54Speaker 3: the Toronto Blue Jays announcers said, the blue Jays are
- 0:58Speaker 3: into the final four. Now, you guys all busted my
- 1:01Speaker 3: balls when the Clippers made the Final four. It is
- 1:04Speaker 3: now becoming a colloquial.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Term that, Oh, no, the final four is not an
- 1:09Speaker 4: NBA thing whatsoever.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Oh it is. It's a sports thing.
- 1:13Speaker 3: You're in the five or it's well, how does college
- 1:16Speaker 3: basketball have a choke hold on the final four? There
- 1:19Speaker 3: are four teams left. You're in the final four. We
- 1:23Speaker 3: now know the final four today tonight.
- 1:27Speaker 4: That's a tournament thing. This is not a tournament thing.
- 1:30Speaker 4: We play for championships in pro sports.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Well, we'll have the first of the American League Championship
- 1:37Speaker 3: Series the Seattle Mariners, who, based on what I've been
- 1:39Speaker 3: reading here, Danny, have no chance because they used all
- 1:42Speaker 3: these pitchers back on Friday night against the Tigers, and
- 1:46Speaker 3: so why even bother showing up to Toronto and all that. So,
- 1:50Speaker 3: but that'll be the game tonight, which it's NFL football,
- 1:53Speaker 3: and which has got to be depressing for you, Danny,
- 1:56Speaker 3: but for me it's not as depressing. I'm a little
- 1:59Speaker 3: concerned though, because this game with the Rams play the
- 2:01Speaker 3: Ravens today and it looks too easy. I always worry
- 2:06Speaker 3: when those games look too easy, Like the Ravens don't
- 2:09Speaker 3: have Lamar Jackson, they have no defense. The Rams have
- 2:13Speaker 3: extra rest coming into this game today, and it's just
- 2:16Speaker 3: like that.
- 2:18Speaker 1: I actually took on Benny versus the pan which.
- 2:19Speaker 3: You can still watch it on YouTube YouTube dot com
- 2:23Speaker 3: slash at Bennyvspenny. But I took the Ravens plus the points,
- 2:28Speaker 3: mainly because I think the Rams are gonna futz around.
- 2:30Speaker 1: They're gonna play with their food.
- 2:31Speaker 3: They'll turn the ball over a couple of times, they'll
- 2:33Speaker 3: be a special teams blunder, and somehow, some way, against
- 2:36Speaker 3: all logic, the game will be somewhat close in the
- 2:40Speaker 3: fourth quarter, even if that means the Ravens get a
- 2:42Speaker 3: backdoor cover.
- 2:44Speaker 1: So that's my position.
- 2:46Speaker 4: How about the clip that Uka Nakua is firing at
- 2:49Speaker 4: right now?
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's he's been.
- 2:51Speaker 4: Oldie Nikes man. At this rate, he'll get close to
- 2:56Speaker 4: two thousand yards.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:58Speaker 3: And Matthew Stafford, who I thought would be golfing by now,
- 3:02Speaker 3: I did not believe he would even make it to
- 3:04Speaker 3: the season. I was already planning on Jimmy Garoppolo being
- 3:07Speaker 3: the Rams quarterback by week six. And here's Stafford leading.
- 3:10Speaker 3: I believe he's leading the NFL in past.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Remember that time the Raiders were trying to trade from Stafford.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Instead they got Geno Smith. Damn it, you.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Got the Booby Prize, You got the Booby Prize. Shit, shit, Well,
- 3:27Speaker 1: the Raiders have a winnable game today, at least until Gino.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Oh. If Pete Carroll can't beat the Titans, he should
- 3:33Speaker 4: just hang it up.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Now, I mentioned this on the radio show the other night.
- 3:37Speaker 3: I want to get so you're the Raider guy, so
- 3:39Speaker 3: I want to get your perspective on this. So my
- 3:41Speaker 3: position on Pete Pete Carroll ripping Chip Kelly, it's more
- 3:45Speaker 3: about him being upset because he gave Tom Brady.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. I'm I'm not. I don't have any inside
- 3:53Speaker 1: information anything like that.
- 3:54Speaker 3: It's just my it's using common sense that it's more
- 3:58Speaker 3: likely than not tom Brady wanted Matthew Stafford. Stafford for
- 4:01Speaker 3: whatever reason. They want to go to the Raiders, he
- 4:03Speaker 3: want to stay with the Rams. Fine, so you got that,
- 4:06Speaker 3: and so then they probably.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Had a meeting.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Imagining in my head in the cartoon bubble, tom Brady
- 4:11Speaker 3: had a meeting with Pete Carroll said, you know who
- 4:13Speaker 3: do you want? Pete said, hey, let's see we can
- 4:15Speaker 3: get Geno Smith. I had him in Seattle.
- 4:17Speaker 4: He knows me.
- 4:18Speaker 3: We vibe well, I can win. I can at least
- 4:21Speaker 3: be a competitive team with Gino Smith. And Tom Brady's like, okay,
- 4:24Speaker 3: we'll call Seattle see if we.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Can get Geno Smith. And so Pete put his name.
- 4:29Speaker 3: He endorsed Geno Smith, and Geno Smith has been even
- 4:32Speaker 3: worse than we all imagined he could possibly be.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Like he's the.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Only people worse than him are Joe Flacco who's been
- 4:39Speaker 3: benched and traded, Jake Browning who's been benched, and cam
- 4:43Speaker 3: Ward who they can't bench because he was the number
- 4:46Speaker 3: one pick in the draft and they're just it's a
- 4:48Speaker 3: developmental year for cam Ward.
- 4:51Speaker 4: So Ashton Genty is starting to get a sliver of
- 4:55Speaker 4: room to run. He's been looking like a beast the
- 4:58Speaker 4: past few weeks at LEA East, if you have any
- 5:01Speaker 4: glimmer of hope. But Carol and his son again efen
- 5:05Speaker 4: up on how they put together that old line. Still
- 5:08Speaker 4: they're stubborn with powers Johnson JPJ should be an elite
- 5:13Speaker 4: center in the league, and they've been using them as
- 5:16Speaker 4: a fricking guard and wasting him. And he's been proving
- 5:20Speaker 4: them wrong week in and week out, and yet they're
- 5:23Speaker 4: still staying stubborn with that black ass Meredith dude at
- 5:27Speaker 4: center who can't push that line forward. I don't know, man.
- 5:30Speaker 4: I thought that Carol, because of his age, I thought
- 5:33Speaker 4: he would be in more of an urgency mode and
- 5:36Speaker 4: make better decisions, not looking to win personal arguments and
- 5:41Speaker 4: personal wins. You want your organization and your team to win.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Your little spats and things you have with personnel and players.
- 5:49Speaker 4: Come on, man, you don't have time for that, or
- 5:51Speaker 4: you shouldn't have time for that.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Remember when the Buffalo Bills hired Marv Levy as they're
- 5:59Speaker 1: that gives like the and I remember I did a
- 6:02Speaker 1: rant in a monologue. I was like, this is great.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Every team should hire a GM and they're in like
- 6:07Speaker 3: an old GM because they don't have time for a
- 6:09Speaker 3: five year rebuilding plan.
- 6:11Speaker 1: If you hire an old guy, you don't have You
- 6:14Speaker 1: got to win right now, baby, you know five years
- 6:17Speaker 1: so now you might be alive five years from now,
- 6:20Speaker 1: you know.
- 6:20Speaker 4: So yeah, like your Rams a few seasons ago, when
- 6:24Speaker 4: they were trading all their picks away, you would have
- 6:27Speaker 4: thought that your general manager was ninety three years old.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Oh well yeah, but and then but everyone told me
- 6:32Speaker 3: the Rams, man, they went for it, they won the
- 6:34Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
- 6:35Speaker 1: They're not going to be in the playoffs for years.
- 6:37Speaker 1: They're going to be the Cleveland Browns.
- 6:39Speaker 3: The Rams had like one bad season after that, and
- 6:42Speaker 3: they've been right back to playoffs pretty much every year.
- 6:46Speaker 3: So it was total bullshit.
- 6:49Speaker 4: It just proves that these prospects are mostly suspect.
- 6:55Speaker 3: See now you're stealing my material. Let's get ohio Allen here.
- 6:58Speaker 3: We've got the mail bag.
- 6:59Speaker 4: There quoting you, not stealing. I was quoting you.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Anytime I hear that line, I think because Looney steals
- 7:05Speaker 3: that from me. So you know anyway, ohio Al, it's.
- 7:14Speaker 4: Mail all right.
- 7:22Speaker 3: The first message, thank you, ohio Al. I love the man.
- 7:25Speaker 3: It's a great supporter of our show music tunes for
- 7:28Speaker 3: all the bits that we do. So we have let's
- 7:31Speaker 3: see first up on the mail bak. By the way,
- 7:32Speaker 3: these are actual letters from actual listeners, and the Real
- 7:36Speaker 3: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at
- 7:39Speaker 3: gmail dot com is the email address for a future
- 7:42Speaker 3: episode of this podcast every Sunday. And Danny just want
- 7:46Speaker 3: to point out, for those of you that are new
- 7:47Speaker 3: and I want to learn all the affiliates down the
- 7:49Speaker 3: line here on the podcast that this is nothing like
- 7:52Speaker 3: Ask Ben, nothing all like Ask Ben.
- 7:55Speaker 1: This is a stamp.
- 7:56Speaker 4: This is not ask Ben two point oh.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Not at all. We would never repackage tired old.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Bits from the radio show and put them here on
- 8:04Speaker 3: the podcast. But nonetheless we'll begin here for dog yes
- 8:09Speaker 3: or who else, but fer Dog and Fullerton. He says, Hello,
- 8:12Speaker 3: Ben and Dodger G congrats on your Dodgers advancing to
- 8:16Speaker 3: the NLCS. Making it back to back final fours is
- 8:20Speaker 3: a tremendous accomplishment.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I'm assuming you've.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Both been to games of every sport what's wrong with you?
- 8:29Speaker 3: Many times?
- 8:30Speaker 1: So what's your favorite and least favorite sport to watch
- 8:34Speaker 1: in person? All right, Danny, favorite and least favorite? My favorite?
- 8:40Speaker 1: I'll go first.
- 8:41Speaker 3: My favorite playoff Baseball, close game, late innings, every pitch
- 8:46Speaker 3: is just nails.
- 8:48Speaker 1: I love that. I love that you.
- 8:51Speaker 4: Told me you love fifteen inning games where the pitchers
- 8:54Speaker 4: are probably.
- 8:56Speaker 1: No, not when I have things to do. Danny, No, no, no,
- 8:59Speaker 1: I don't.
- 9:00Speaker 4: Is it all?
- 9:00Speaker 1: In fact?
- 9:01Speaker 3: I loathe those loas loathe those as like a.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Man talk here. It's early on a Sunday.
- 9:07Speaker 3: But no, the thing is, Danny, that like with that
- 9:10Speaker 3: kind of like the worst the thing I hate, I
- 9:12Speaker 3: would say regular season NBA. I just I have no
- 9:17Speaker 3: time for it. The players don't care, the coaches don't care, so.
- 9:20Speaker 1: I don't care. I just can't. I used to love it.
- 9:23Speaker 1: I used to go to every game I was assigned
- 9:25Speaker 1: to cover basketball.
- 9:27Speaker 4: And why are those games christ so damn high if
- 9:30Speaker 4: nobody gives a shit.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Yeah, you got me.
- 9:33Speaker 3: I just I'm over the NBA product. I like the
- 9:37Speaker 3: playoffs in the NBA, now, that's ali. I'm in for that.
- 9:40Speaker 3: I'm still a customer for the playoffs, but I just can't.
- 9:43Speaker 3: I can't get into it, cannot.
- 9:45Speaker 4: Get Yeah, the NBA really should start their season on
- 9:48Speaker 4: Christmas Day.
- 9:49Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, most they starting around Halloween. That's what
- 9:54Speaker 1: they do. Expition's going on right now. It's craziness.
- 9:59Speaker 4: So my favorite sport to see in person is NFL.
- 10:03Speaker 4: I've been lucky enough to go to Allegiance three times.
- 10:05Speaker 4: Now I'm three and zero, so I'm scared to go
- 10:08Speaker 4: back there because I don't want to jinx that and
- 10:11Speaker 4: it would be a good possibility of that if I
- 10:13Speaker 4: went there this season. But yeah, there is nothing like
- 10:17Speaker 4: watching your favorite NFL team, especially in a newer stadium.
- 10:22Speaker 4: And then all those years I had season tickets in Oakland,
- 10:25Speaker 4: and Oakland was just its own culture, its own thing.
- 10:28Speaker 4: It was awesome, from the tailgating to the vibe inside
- 10:32Speaker 4: that stadium, the walking out of the tunnel with everybody channing.
- 10:40Speaker 3: Yeah, I only went to the obviously didn't live in
- 10:43Speaker 3: the Bay Area. I only went there a few times,
- 10:46Speaker 3: and I actually went to the first I was a
- 10:48Speaker 3: sign by the Mighty six ninety. They flew me up
- 10:52Speaker 3: to Oakland for the first Raiders game back in Oakland
- 10:55Speaker 3: when they left Los Angeles. Oh it was Rams, right, Yeah,
- 10:59Speaker 3: I believe you right, they flew me up and so
- 11:02Speaker 3: I was there at the coliseum.
- 11:03Speaker 4: When they were Raider Raiders Rams and I was there
- 11:06Speaker 4: at that game ocome.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Well look at that.
- 11:07Speaker 4: We didn't know each other, but I had no I
- 11:09Speaker 4: had season tickets right behind the black hole. Oh, there
- 11:13Speaker 4: you go.
- 11:14Speaker 1: That's cool, awesome.
- 11:15Speaker 3: So and Firk Dog also says, Dandy G, you've burned
- 11:20Speaker 3: all your remaining Geno Smith gear after last week's disaster.
- 11:23Speaker 4: Correct from oh Lord, I pretty much was out on
- 11:28Speaker 4: Geno Smith all the way back to that Chargers game
- 11:31Speaker 4: where the defense kept giving the ball back to Geno
- 11:34Speaker 4: Smith and he kept doing squat with that ball.
- 11:37Speaker 3: Think about Genos He's You thought he would be okay,
- 11:40Speaker 3: he'd be bad for five or six games, he'll be
- 11:43Speaker 3: good for four games, he'll be average for the rest
- 11:46Speaker 3: of the games.
- 11:47Speaker 1: But it just seems he's been like.
- 11:49Speaker 3: All of his bad games have happened already, and so hey,
- 11:53Speaker 3: all right, I'm moving on.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Let's see here.
- 11:55Speaker 4: What do we have?
- 11:56Speaker 3: Kwang from Ho Chi Men, Vietnam. That's what it says
- 11:59Speaker 3: in the email Big Ben and Daddy G.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Shot in Freuda is the experience of pleasure.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Joy, or self satisfaction that comes from the first or
- 12:11Speaker 3: secondhand learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation
- 12:16Speaker 3: of another. He says, question number one to you Ben,
- 12:20Speaker 3: whatever happened to that wonderful drop out? And then question
- 12:24Speaker 3: two he says, for Danny or Daddy G Radio, what
- 12:26Speaker 3: happened to the school job that you had?
- 12:28Speaker 1: So I'll go first.
- 12:30Speaker 3: We still, as far as I know, we still have
- 12:32Speaker 3: the drop in and this is one of the things
- 12:34Speaker 3: we've changed board ops a lot over the years. And
- 12:38Speaker 3: Loraina is in charge of the drops. I don't have
- 12:40Speaker 3: anything to do with that, and it's really her discretion.
- 12:43Speaker 3: And some of you guys have complained that she uses
- 12:45Speaker 3: certain drops too much. You can plain she doesn't use it, but.
- 12:49Speaker 1: That's her artistic touch on the show.
- 12:51Speaker 3: I have nothing to do with that. I would like
- 12:53Speaker 3: more drops. I would like to have more rotation to
- 12:55Speaker 3: the drops, but I don't control that. I stay in
- 12:58Speaker 3: my lane. I worry about the monologue because I worry
- 13:00Speaker 3: about the show.
- 13:01Speaker 1: So as far as I know, you do.
- 13:03Speaker 4: Pick the bumper music though, because you love bumper music
- 13:06Speaker 4: so much.
- 13:08Speaker 3: God, what about your daddy? Geo Quinn says, what happened
- 13:14Speaker 3: to the school job? That's from quaint so daddy.
- 13:17Speaker 4: I went from one before school program and after school
- 13:21Speaker 4: program to my own before school and after school program.
- 13:25Speaker 4: I had my own kid. Yeah, that's what happened to.
- 13:29Speaker 4: That is now, when my better half is working from
- 13:33Speaker 4: seven thirty or eight am until I leave for Covino
- 13:36Speaker 4: and Rich at one pm, I am doing daddy daycare
- 13:39Speaker 4: here at home.
- 13:40Speaker 3: Now, when co is old enough to go to school,
- 13:43Speaker 3: you get that gig back or try to.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Get something similar where you're out, you know, at the school.
- 13:47Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm at a crossroad right now because
- 13:50Speaker 4: the past couple of weeks he's been at the Dragonfly Room,
- 13:55Speaker 4: which I talked about last weekend. He's been there on Monday,
- 13:58Speaker 4: Wednesdays and Friday. That's only been a couple weeks now,
- 14:02Speaker 4: But it's strange because now I have those days to
- 14:06Speaker 4: do something in the morning, I'm working on the Covino
- 14:10Speaker 4: and Rich show production, prepping their show for that day.
- 14:14Speaker 4: But I do have some hours where I could do
- 14:17Speaker 4: something else. But you know, Ben, with what we do
- 14:20Speaker 4: for a living, at the end of the week and
- 14:22Speaker 4: we work, you know, seven days a week, you and I,
- 14:25Speaker 4: it's mentally exhausting. We're not digging ditches by any means.
- 14:29Speaker 4: It's long hours, it's a lot of screen time, it's
- 14:32Speaker 4: a lot of mic time, and so at the end
- 14:34Speaker 4: of the week it's draining.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Would you just show up and work three hours a day,
- 14:39Speaker 1: what's the big deal?
- 14:41Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah, I wish that's how it was,
- 14:43Speaker 4: but there's a lot involved that people don't see. They
- 14:47Speaker 4: just hear the finished product.
- 14:49Speaker 3: Yeah, I've tried to explain to people it's not just
- 14:53Speaker 3: roll into the rate. Not to be fair that we
- 14:55Speaker 3: all know there are people in radio that are lazy
- 14:58Speaker 3: and don't do any prep and show up literally right
- 15:01Speaker 3: before the show with no preparation.
- 15:03Speaker 1: But those people normally don't last because they're exposed and
- 15:07Speaker 1: they don't generally get an audience.
- 15:09Speaker 3: You got to put the work in. It does it
- 15:11Speaker 3: isn't at least an eight hour day. It's often a
- 15:13Speaker 3: lot longer than that, because of you have to do
- 15:16Speaker 3: stuff before the show, and you have to do stuff
- 15:18Speaker 3: after the show. Next up, Alf from a safe space,
- 15:22Speaker 3: he says, greetings, gentlemen, Have either of you ever heard
- 15:26Speaker 3: of such a thing as a cat parade?
- 15:29Speaker 1: Yes, says I know right Well.
- 15:30Speaker 3: Recently, some brazen individuals, Alf says, thought it would be
- 15:34Speaker 3: a good idea to hold a cat parade in the
- 15:37Speaker 3: town that I lived in for the first twenty plus
- 15:40Speaker 3: years of my life. Now, not only did they hold
- 15:42Speaker 3: said parade, they mocked me for having it in a
- 15:46Speaker 3: park less than one hundred feet from the house I
- 15:50Speaker 3: grew up in. What has this world come to where
- 15:54Speaker 3: cats can roam freely without any fear of being eaten
- 15:59Speaker 3: by an alien?
- 15:59Speaker 4: All?
- 16:00Speaker 3: No, I've not heard of a cat parade. I always
- 16:01Speaker 3: thought cats. You can't walk a cat. A cat's going
- 16:05Speaker 3: to do its own thing, right, that's the difference between
- 16:07Speaker 3: cats and dogs.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Women are cats, men are dogs. Right. You can walk
- 16:12Speaker 1: a dog around, you can't walk a cat around. Isn't
- 16:14Speaker 1: that normally how that goes?
- 16:15Speaker 4: Danny?
- 16:15Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 16:16Speaker 4: I got to shout out the two O nine area
- 16:19Speaker 4: code in northern California because my mom has lived there
- 16:22Speaker 4: for years. She moved us from San Jose, from LA
- 16:25Speaker 4: to San Jose and then to the Central Valley where
- 16:28Speaker 4: housing was affordable when I was in high school and
- 16:31Speaker 4: where she lives her neighborhood. The times I visited her,
- 16:36Speaker 4: I have to do a double take, a triple take.
- 16:38Speaker 4: I'm like, what in that f is that? It's like
- 16:42Speaker 4: a herd of stray cats running the streets. I'm talking
- 16:48Speaker 4: thirty forty fifty feral cats running in a pack. Definitely
- 16:54Speaker 4: shit you don't see in southern California or in a
- 16:56Speaker 4: city setting that we're used to. And I asked my
- 17:00Speaker 4: mom about it. She said, oh, yeah, our town has
- 17:02Speaker 4: had some problems with Farrell's.
- 17:04Speaker 1: So not the ice cream place. Remember there was a
- 17:06Speaker 1: Farrell's ice Cream.
- 17:08Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the Farrells I'd rather go see.
- 17:11Speaker 1: When I think of feral cats, I think of Disneyland.
- 17:13Speaker 1: And here's why.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Because at night, the legend of Disneyland is to keep
- 17:18Speaker 3: the rat population down, they release a bunch of feral
- 17:22Speaker 3: cats at Disneyland once they close the park down.
- 17:25Speaker 4: To take care a true story.
- 17:27Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so they I wonder what they do with
- 17:30Speaker 3: the cats during the day. But they're they're there at night,
- 17:32Speaker 3: they work at night, they let them out and keep
- 17:34Speaker 3: the rest.
- 17:35Speaker 4: Remember yesterday you were talking about island games.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Yes, the island life.
- 17:40Speaker 4: There's this thing called island cats. Our oldest is doing
- 17:44Speaker 4: college right now in Hawaii and where he's at in
- 17:48Speaker 4: yiki Ki every night, every evening he sees island cats
- 17:52Speaker 4: roaming around.
- 17:53Speaker 1: So they just they live in the in the woods.
- 17:55Speaker 4: They're they're just they don't live in the woods, but
- 17:58Speaker 4: they're just you know, they're feral and they they find
- 18:02Speaker 4: food and water and they just roam. Yeah.
- 18:05Speaker 3: I know in Kawhii they have chickens wandering around that
- 18:10Speaker 3: you're not allowed to obviously, they're they're protected. They have
- 18:14Speaker 3: feral chickens.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Buck. Yeah.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, yeah, ALF, that's that's quite the trolling. I
- 18:23Speaker 3: hope your wife was not involved in that, ALF to
- 18:25Speaker 3: control you like that anyway. Scott from Florida Rights and says, Hey,
- 18:29Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g a dad of one of my
- 18:33Speaker 3: kids baseball teams, played one spring training game for the
- 18:37Speaker 3: Colorado Rockies in the late nineties. When we were talking
- 18:39Speaker 3: about it, he said, one of the things that stuck
- 18:41Speaker 3: out from his experience is that he the belt for
- 18:45Speaker 3: his uniform was real leather. He says, I guess when
- 18:48Speaker 3: they were in the minor leagues they had some kind
- 18:50Speaker 3: of cheap composite cotton or plastic or.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Something like that. He says.
- 18:54Speaker 3: Is there anything that sticks out? Scott says, when you
- 18:57Speaker 3: did your first day of professional radio that made you
- 19:01Speaker 3: think you were a pro and had arrived. I'm curious,
- 19:05Speaker 3: and I says Danny, if there was anything on Clay
- 19:09Speaker 3: Travis he talks about his program that took it to
- 19:15Speaker 3: the next level, like a gold plated microphone or some
- 19:19Speaker 3: over the top equipment. I think that's more Rush Rush
- 19:22Speaker 3: Limbaugh did all that. So, but anyway, radio is a
- 19:26Speaker 3: very weird world. I've been to a lot of radio stations.
- 19:29Speaker 3: Some of them you feel really important. Some of them
- 19:33Speaker 3: you feel like you're in a really big space and
- 19:37Speaker 3: you're really just king of the world.
- 19:41Speaker 4: You'll appreciate this one, Ben, because you're a radio nerd.
- 19:45Speaker 4: The word processing, Oh, and I'll explain that. So there's
- 19:50Speaker 4: equipment where in a professional radio studio they have processing
- 19:55Speaker 4: hooked up to the microphones, which processes the voice. It
- 20:00Speaker 4: makes the voice bold. We've been in plenty of studios
- 20:04Speaker 4: you and I been where the processing either wasn't there
- 20:06Speaker 4: or it sucked, and it sounded really thin and almost tinny.
- 20:10Speaker 4: So when you're in a really good studio and it
- 20:14Speaker 4: has good processing, you put your headphones on and you
- 20:17Speaker 4: feel like Rush Limbaugh. You feel big.
- 20:21Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, I would say my time
- 20:25Speaker 3: in radio. I worked out of the iHeart Building in Manhattan.
- 20:29Speaker 3: That felt like a big deal. Although the Ieart I
- 20:32Speaker 3: don't know if it's moved. But the iHeart Building in
- 20:34Speaker 3: Manhattan was in Lower Manhattan, which is the original part
- 20:37Speaker 3: of Manhattan where the.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Streets don't line up. And I was doing the overnight
- 20:41Speaker 1: show and I looked out the window, like I'm in
- 20:42Speaker 1: New York City, the city that never sleeps, And all
- 20:45Speaker 1: I saw was one trash truck. Everyone else was sleeping.
- 20:52Speaker 4: And you saw a raccoon and You're like, oh no, that's.
- 20:54Speaker 1: A rat, Like I'm in the Big Apple Baby.
- 20:57Speaker 3: And then actually the iHeart Building in Vegas on Fremont Street,
- 21:01Speaker 3: that felt like big time radio. But then when I
- 21:04Speaker 3: did college football stuff years ago, we used to go out.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I did a few road games for them, well every
- 21:10Speaker 3: game was a road game, but they did a game
- 21:11Speaker 3: in Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, and I had to record a
- 21:15Speaker 3: one hour college football was a syndicated college football show.
- 21:19Speaker 3: We recorded it on Friday from a local radio station.
- 21:22Speaker 3: So we went to the radio station in Norman, Oklahoma,
- 21:25Speaker 3: and it was like out of the Simpsons where they
- 21:28Speaker 3: had the transmitter, the tower, and then the radio station
- 21:31Speaker 3: was in like a like a double wide trailer next
- 21:36Speaker 3: to the next to the and it had all this.
- 21:39Speaker 3: It had the old equipment Danny with like cart machines
- 21:42Speaker 3: and those twisty knobs.
- 21:43Speaker 1: You know.
- 21:44Speaker 3: I had the old We call that the Rick D's
- 21:46Speaker 3: equipment because Des used that his entire career.
- 21:48Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Anything with Clay before we move on here, Scott wants
- 21:52Speaker 3: to know did he have any special bells and whistles
- 21:54Speaker 3: that you want to share with the class play.
- 21:57Speaker 4: First of all, knows nothing about technology. When he would
- 22:01Speaker 4: have problems, say with his remote equipment, his idea of
- 22:05Speaker 4: fixing a problem was just unplugging it from the outlet
- 22:09Speaker 4: and plugging it back in. And he would always say
- 22:12Speaker 4: the same thing, I unplugged it and plugged it back in,
- 22:15Speaker 4: it should be fine. Now we're like, no, dude, you
- 22:18Speaker 4: need to turn the knob on your microphone setting. Well,
- 22:21Speaker 4: I unplugged it and plugged it back in. He's one
- 22:25Speaker 4: of those dudes too, where he had a cheap laptop.
- 22:28Speaker 4: He didn't care about cars, he didn't care about you know,
- 22:31Speaker 4: equipment and things like that. But what Clay did care
- 22:34Speaker 4: about trips and flights and vacation homes and things with
- 22:40Speaker 4: his family. I give him props for being a good
- 22:42Speaker 4: family guy. He was more into spending his money on
- 22:45Speaker 4: those things instead of expensive equipment and cars and crap
- 22:49Speaker 4: like that. Gotcha, gotcha, dude, We're like Clay get an
- 22:53Speaker 4: Apple computer? You're he sees from the year twenty ten.
- 22:58Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Like I was lucky enough when Limbaugh would come out,
- 23:03Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh, who's been dead for years, But when he
- 23:06Speaker 3: would come to LA they work out of our building
- 23:08Speaker 3: and we weren't allowed to see Rush when he was working.
- 23:12Speaker 3: But then they left the studio because he'd be in
- 23:14Speaker 3: town for.
- 23:15Speaker 4: Like a week or whatever.
- 23:16Speaker 3: And I did walk into the studio and saw the
- 23:19Speaker 3: gold microphone that Rush had. Yeah yeah, I think that's
- 23:23Speaker 3: the time I got one. He left one of his pens.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Remember I got a Rush Limbaugh pen.
- 23:27Speaker 4: Of course, plastic moment Rush Limbaugh would carry a guitar
- 23:31Speaker 4: case around. He wasn't a musician. He had his gold
- 23:34Speaker 4: mic in there.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Gotta be prepared.
- 23:36Speaker 3: Lenny from Jersey Rights and it says, hey, Ben and Danny,
- 23:38Speaker 3: g what is your take on the viral photo of
- 23:42Speaker 3: the United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy working out
- 23:45Speaker 3: in jeans? Lenny, I really thought about it. I did
- 23:51Speaker 3: see the photo. I don't know how you could have
- 23:53Speaker 3: missed it. It's very odd.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Mike.
- 23:55Speaker 3: First, well, I wouldn't do it because I'd be self
- 23:58Speaker 3: conscious that everyone be looking at me like, who's that douchebag.
- 24:01Speaker 3: But the fact that Kennedy RFK is in his seventies
- 24:06Speaker 3: and can still leg press like seven hundred pounds, I
- 24:11Speaker 3: think I'll give him a pass on that.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Right. Damn, that's pretty good. You're in your seventies and
- 24:14Speaker 1: you're still great, great shape.
- 24:17Speaker 4: So this has actually been a topic on Cochino and
- 24:21Speaker 4: Rich in the past because the guys go to that
- 24:23Speaker 4: gym at the Galleria right across the street from our studios.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Beautiful looking at people at that particular gym, Danny, Oh
- 24:30Speaker 3: my god.
- 24:31Speaker 4: That's what they say. And they always have a long
- 24:33Speaker 4: wait for the equipment as well, because there's so many
- 24:35Speaker 4: damn want to be actors and actresses in that gym
- 24:38Speaker 4: in Florence, right, yes, right, So they're at the studios,
- 24:42Speaker 4: they're working, and they have their gym clothes with them.
- 24:45Speaker 4: But there's been times where both guys forget their gym
- 24:48Speaker 4: clothes and then the question they pose is should I
- 24:51Speaker 4: be that douche that goes in his regular clothes and
- 24:54Speaker 4: works out right now, Yeah.
- 24:56Speaker 1: There's a rule.
- 24:57Speaker 3: I go to the gym afair amount not as much
- 24:59Speaker 3: during foot all season because they got so much extra
- 25:01Speaker 3: stuff to do. But the thing is like, when you
- 25:04Speaker 3: get to a certain age, it's the I don't give
- 25:06Speaker 3: an f age I call it where you just show
- 25:08Speaker 3: up and you wear your Like there's old dudes in
- 25:10Speaker 3: Hawaiian shirts on the treadmill, you.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying. I mean, they're just they don't care.
- 25:15Speaker 4: They're just like, Oh, same ones blow drying their balls
- 25:17Speaker 4: in the locker room.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Oh god, that is the worst dude, old guy.
- 25:22Speaker 3: It's and it's not a blow dryer, it's the dryer,
- 25:25Speaker 3: you know, the ones the water, the dryer.
- 25:27Speaker 4: The hand dryer.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Yes, so they doesn't.
- 25:30Speaker 3: Reach your balls, and so you got to pull your
- 25:32Speaker 3: pants open and then you have to towel the old
- 25:35Speaker 3: and it was looking at you and they want to dry.
- 25:37Speaker 1: It.
- 25:37Speaker 4: Sounds like you have experience with us.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the worst was in Glendale.
- 25:41Speaker 2: What up? Bro?
- 25:43Speaker 3: The Glendale Jim the twenty four hour gym that I
- 25:45Speaker 3: went to there? My god, that was something. Frankin Vancouver
- 25:48Speaker 3: writes in he just wanted to complain about the rams
- 25:52Speaker 3: Kyn Williams fumble.
- 25:54Speaker 1: He sent me an email.
- 25:55Speaker 3: I feel you're paying Frankie gambled lost some money on it,
- 25:58Speaker 3: he says, although I should note that my observation has
- 26:01Speaker 3: nothing to do with the load of cash that I
- 26:03Speaker 3: lost in the game. I feel you, Frank the Rams
- 26:06Speaker 3: they played around with the forty nine ers in that game.
- 26:08Speaker 1: They lost. But that's a couple of weeks ago. Terrence
- 26:11Speaker 1: in Virginia Beach writes, and he says, Hey, Ben and
- 26:14Speaker 1: Danny g I love the songs that some of the
- 26:17Speaker 1: Malard militia send in and have submitted over the many
- 26:19Speaker 1: years you've been on.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Is it possible for someone to upload the music somewhere
- 26:24Speaker 3: so we could listen to it whenever we want? Well,
- 26:30Speaker 3: I would have to be on this podcast, I would think.
- 26:32Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'd have to give you my venmos that
- 26:35Speaker 4: you could pay for my time to upload all the songs.
- 26:38Speaker 1: There are a lot of songs I feel like we
- 26:40Speaker 1: did do years ago.
- 26:42Speaker 4: We did do We did a Christmas special on this
- 26:44Speaker 4: podcast back in the day.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if you go through the archive, I bet
- 26:47Speaker 3: Lucky Tony knows what year that was and what day
- 26:49Speaker 3: that was. But we did put a lot of the
- 26:51Speaker 3: holiday songs in and I would love to do that.
- 26:54Speaker 1: I think that'd be great. And I guess we could.
- 26:57Speaker 3: They call those bank shows, right Danny and podcasting those
- 27:00Speaker 3: you put him in the bank, so we could do
- 27:02Speaker 3: that too.
- 27:02Speaker 4: Bad CDs are no longer a thing because you could
- 27:05Speaker 4: have came out with Ben Maller's Greatest Hits CD.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Remember those what was it called Sounds of the Ballpark
- 27:12Speaker 3: or Stadium Rock or something?
- 27:14Speaker 4: Oh, jock jams.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Hock jams, that's right, jocka Yeah.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Dan Patrick's voice was the first thing you heard.
- 27:21Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, Mike from Nashville, right, since says
- 27:24Speaker 3: Ben and Danny, did you guys see the jumbo baby
- 27:27Speaker 3: born in my city?
- 27:29Speaker 1: What's up with this?
- 27:30Speaker 3: And then he sends a photo of a very fat
- 27:32Speaker 3: baby nearly thirteen pounds.
- 27:35Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw this.
- 27:37Speaker 1: It looks like Lemonhead of the Lemon or Stewie from
- 27:41Speaker 1: Family Guy.
- 27:42Speaker 4: Oh, the Chargers and Raiders could use this kid on
- 27:45Speaker 4: their O lines.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Have we done a wellness check on the mom? Is
- 27:48Speaker 1: the mom?
- 27:48Speaker 4: Okay? Holy crap? Oh that's a planned C section right there.
- 27:54Speaker 1: Came out of a woman?
- 27:55Speaker 3: Holy Canoley, my god, is she alive? Lucky Tony, since
- 28:00Speaker 3: says Danny and Ben. Why is David Vessey a fan
- 28:04Speaker 3: of Poppy the Leprechaun and a chicken?
- 28:07Speaker 4: What?
- 28:08Speaker 1: Because Vassa loves the three cock salad? I don't know
- 28:12Speaker 1: what that means? He says.
- 28:13Speaker 3: My fellows enjoy the weekend. He says Redskins thirteen Bears nine.
- 28:18Speaker 3: That's a Lucky Tony who's a Bears fans?
- 28:20Speaker 4: He says the bearsss a going down? That Brewers slide again.
- 28:25Speaker 3: No, I think Vassay though, was busy. Wasn't he a
- 28:29Speaker 3: cuddling with Kershaw after his bad outing?
- 28:31Speaker 1: They're trying to make a.
- 28:34Speaker 3: Reggie from Detroit writes, and he says, I don't think
- 28:37Speaker 3: Reggie wrote in last week?
- 28:38Speaker 1: Where the hell where your Reggie, you schmuck.
- 28:39Speaker 3: You're supposed to write it every anyway, He says, Ben
- 28:42Speaker 3: and Danny, Are you guys jealous that a Taylor Swift
- 28:45Speaker 3: look alike makes more than both?
- 28:47Speaker 1: You do both, both of you guys? Okay, So he
- 28:52Speaker 1: sent a link here.
- 28:53Speaker 3: Taylor Swift lookalike makes up to five hundred and fifty.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Dollars per hour.
- 28:58Speaker 4: Wow.
- 28:59Speaker 3: Because of the the popularity of Life of a Showgirl,
- 29:02Speaker 3: people are paying her five hundred Wow.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Let's set the record straight, man. You make that doing
- 29:09Speaker 4: one tire reck read? Yeah.
- 29:11Speaker 3: When I do my appearances, I was on New Zealand
- 29:14Speaker 3: Radio on Friday. I did the which is weird because
- 29:17Speaker 3: I was on the set. It was Saturday morning in
- 29:21Speaker 3: New Zealand, but it was Friday evening in La Friday afternoon.
- 29:28Speaker 1: But they're like, good morning, it's the morning show here.
- 29:30Speaker 4: On New Zealand.
- 29:32Speaker 1: So that was very odd.
- 29:33Speaker 4: And when you do your appearances at SOFI Stadium, I
- 29:37Speaker 4: heard they're going to give you even a bigger sum
- 29:40Speaker 4: of letting you take a selfie.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think I start charging how that woman?
- 29:48Speaker 4: What an angry?
- 29:50Speaker 1: Just an angry?
- 29:50Speaker 4: They're gonna let you take two selfies?
- 29:53Speaker 1: Angry lady. Why God, your life is short? Chill out, dude,
- 29:57Speaker 1: Quinn from Salt Lake. I don't think we've heard from
- 30:00Speaker 1: Quinn before.
- 30:01Speaker 4: That's an interesting Quinn.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I think I heard you,
- 30:06Speaker 3: Ben say that you liked Long John Silvers.
- 30:09Speaker 1: What do you think of their new logo? I did
- 30:11Speaker 1: see this? Did you see this? This is wild to me.
- 30:13Speaker 4: This is why I didn't I didn't see a new
- 30:15Speaker 4: logo for them, the.
- 30:17Speaker 3: Long John Silvers. Thank you for bringing this up, Quinn.
- 30:19Speaker 3: I had jotted that down. I forgot about it this week,
- 30:22Speaker 3: so thank you for reminding me. So they have gotten rid.
- 30:26Speaker 3: They used to have a fishermen as their logo, then
- 30:28Speaker 3: they had they had a fish their new logo.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Danny, I'm not making this up.
- 30:35Speaker 3: Long John Silver's new logo is a chicken, back back chicken,
- 30:41Speaker 3: because fried chicken. They sell more fried chicken than fish.
- 30:45Speaker 3: I guess it's more popular, so.
- 30:47Speaker 4: They I'm looking at it right now. That looks so strange.
- 30:52Speaker 3: It looks like it was a chat GPT thing or
- 30:54Speaker 3: something like that. And this makes no sense to me. Quinn,
- 30:57Speaker 3: and you Danny as well, because there are seven thousand
- 31:01Speaker 3: fried chicken places. Right, there's only a few fish places
- 31:06Speaker 3: that you have that space.
- 31:07Speaker 4: Yeah. Trump needs to tweet about this immediately.
- 31:13Speaker 1: We no no fish, no money from us. Uh. It
- 31:18Speaker 1: would be like it would be like chick fil A saying,
- 31:20Speaker 1: why don't we put up cheeseburger our logo? No ridiculous.
- 31:26Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to change your name, not just put
- 31:28Speaker 4: a chicken in the logo.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Sickly long John Silver? Was he out hunting chickens?
- 31:34Speaker 4: Yeah, change your name to long neck chickens. All right?
- 31:37Speaker 3: A last one, last one, Danny would like to alert
- 31:40Speaker 3: all the affiliates. Last email Ace from the OC rights
- 31:43Speaker 3: and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny, are you guys
- 31:48Speaker 3: of Ruffles guys or Lays guys? He he sent me
- 31:51Speaker 3: a story here that Lays has This is hilarious. Actually,
- 31:54Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true or not. This
- 31:56Speaker 3: might be the onion, but he sent me a story
- 31:58Speaker 3: that says Lays has read. They found out, according to
- 32:02Speaker 3: market research that I'm gonna I'm gonna run this by
- 32:07Speaker 3: forty two percent of the customers of Lays did not know.
- 32:10Speaker 3: Blank did not What do you think the blank is?
- 32:13Speaker 4: Danny?
- 32:13Speaker 3: Lays has rebranded their packaging because market research indicated forty
- 32:19Speaker 3: two percent of customers did not know blank dude.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Did not know where babies came from.
- 32:26Speaker 3: Pretty much forty two percent of customers Danny did not
- 32:30Speaker 3: know lays were made with potatoes, that lays potato were
- 32:35Speaker 3: made out of potatoes.
- 32:37Speaker 4: Holy well, ruffles are way better. They're better for dipping,
- 32:42Speaker 4: and they're just a better bite.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm team ruffles. Yeah, I don't turn down lays.
- 32:48Speaker 1: I don't turn down lays, but I like the ruffles.
- 32:51Speaker 4: I guess lays are good like inside of sandwich, you know, frontship,
- 32:54Speaker 4: inside of sandwich, but for just straight up chips on plate,
- 32:58Speaker 4: ruffles for sure.
- 32:59Speaker 3: Or if you're going to Hawaii and they give you
- 33:02Speaker 3: a lay when you get or if the other kind
- 33:04Speaker 3: of lay people like a lot too, Danny.
- 33:08Speaker 1: You know.
- 33:08Speaker 3: So anyway, all right, now we'll get out on that.
- 33:10Speaker 3: We got football today, Baseball tonight, Dodgers Milwaukee.
- 33:14Speaker 1: We'll get things started tomorrow. So we've got got some good,
- 33:18Speaker 1: good things coming up here.
- 33:19Speaker 4: It's exciting, yeah, man, exciting time of the sports calendar
- 33:23Speaker 4: right now.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Absolutely right, have a great Sunday.
- 33:25Speaker 3: If you haven't watched Benny Versus the Penny, you can
- 33:28Speaker 3: watch it now before the games kick off. If you're
- 33:30Speaker 3: listening to this podcast after the games have already kicked
- 33:32Speaker 3: off and are all over, you can go back and
- 33:33Speaker 3: see if I was smarter a complete jackass, and enjoy
- 33:37Speaker 3: that YouTube dot com slash at Benny Vspenny Danny. I'll
- 33:42Speaker 3: be on regular tonight and throughout the week. You got
- 33:45Speaker 3: any special plans for Covino and Rich.
- 33:48Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a usual afternoon drive except for Wednesday. We're
- 33:52Speaker 4: going to be in for the Dan Patrick Show on
- 33:54Speaker 4: Wednesday morning.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Awesome.
- 33:56Speaker 3: All right, On that note, have a wonderful rest of
- 33:58Speaker 3: your day, and we love you. We thank you for downloading.
- 34:01Speaker 3: The numbers have been great. God bless you and we'll
- 34:04Speaker 3: talk to you next time. Austa pasta later, skater, No
- 34:10Speaker 4: No gotta murder, I gotta go