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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 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.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
- 0:22Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
- 0:34Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G. Radio. It is Sunday, and it's
- 0:38Speaker 1: an NFL Sunday. We got two more games today, including
- 0:43Speaker 1: a possible snow game. But before we get into this,
- 0:46Speaker 1: Ohio al get me in the mood. It's all right,
- 1:03Speaker 1: and we welcome in the Great Danny G Radio. Here
- 1:08Speaker 1: for the mailback. Hello, Danny G. You have been missed,
- 1:10Speaker 1: my man.
- 1:11Speaker 3: You have Oh, hey, man, I would like you to
- 1:14Speaker 3: know going into Sunday here, I am two and oh
- 1:16Speaker 3: with my picks.
- 1:18Speaker 1: You are you two and O? Are you sure? But
- 1:19Speaker 1: you want to you want to give out your No.
- 1:24Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:24Speaker 1: I don't know what to believe, but we are here
- 1:26Speaker 1: hanging out plausibly early on a Sunday with the Patriots
- 1:31Speaker 1: and Detection. Still time to watch Benny Versus the Penny
- 1:34Speaker 1: on YouTube Benny Vspenny.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I clicked on it last week, by the way, and
- 1:39Speaker 3: I like how it's evolved. You and Looney look a
- 1:42Speaker 3: little smoother on those YouTube cameras.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, we we've embraced it. We're
- 1:47Speaker 1: more like mister Beast now or what's that I show
- 1:51Speaker 1: speed or I speed something or I don't know.
- 1:54Speaker 3: A very very broke mister Beast.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so he says he's he's broke.
- 2:00Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Do you believe that?
- 2:01Speaker 3: You believe I would say, and you guys are the
- 2:02Speaker 3: broke version of him.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Oh no, Mister Beest claims that he had no actual money,
- 2:08Speaker 1: that all of his money is tied up in I
- 2:11Speaker 1: forget what he said, but he claimed he doesn't have
- 2:13Speaker 1: any actual.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Fund Yeah, dude, I forgot about that story. But that's
- 2:17Speaker 3: bs right.
- 2:18Speaker 1: It's you'd think. I don't know. I am a big
- 2:22Speaker 1: believer of the matrix theory that social media a lot
- 2:25Speaker 1: of it's just bullshit, So I I don't I mean,
- 2:28Speaker 1: it seems like he's very popular. I I went to
- 2:31Speaker 1: the store the other day. I think I talked about
- 2:33Speaker 1: it in a previous episode, but I saw, like I
- 2:34Speaker 1: think it was mister beasts jerky, and I thought, well, boy,
- 2:38Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people are buying that. They
- 2:39Speaker 1: want that mister Beef's beef jerky or whatever mister Beast
- 2:43Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know, he's absolutely hornswoggled
- 2:47Speaker 1: some people to get on board. So I assume that
- 2:50Speaker 1: that's he's getting paid for that, right I would?
- 2:52Speaker 3: I would think, yes, imagine having your own jerky, Like
- 2:55Speaker 3: if you could have something right at the counter at
- 2:58Speaker 3: seven eleven's, what would it be for product?
- 3:01Speaker 1: Oh see, that's a good, good question. Mallard product, Mallard branding.
- 3:06Speaker 1: How about like a Mallard peanut butter cup? You know,
- 3:08Speaker 1: we could take down the Reese's peanut butter cup. We
- 3:10Speaker 1: could take them down, and I think that would be solid.
- 3:14Speaker 1: You want something right at the checkout stand people grab
- 3:16Speaker 1: real quick. That would be that wouldn't be that?
- 3:18Speaker 3: What would the about an energy drink? Mallard do Maward?
- 3:23Speaker 1: What would Danny's product be? What would your Danny g
- 3:25Speaker 1: product be?
- 3:26Speaker 3: I'd go kind of in the beef jerky lane, but
- 3:29Speaker 3: the slim gym.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Oh slim Jim slim jim.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Okay, oh dude, those slim gym those are a lifesaver.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Like if you're on a road trip and there's you know,
- 3:38Speaker 3: nowhere to stop. If you have a slim gym in
- 3:40Speaker 3: the car, your money.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Well, I could do mallar like a Mallard trail mix,
- 3:44Speaker 1: but not healthy because I hate, you know, my anti
- 3:47Speaker 1: raisin position racist. I have a very strong anti position,
- 3:52Speaker 1: anti raisin position much I did. I'm part of the
- 3:54Speaker 1: anti raisin caucus actually with anti ranch dressing the whole thing.
- 3:59Speaker 1: So yeah, that was a political term the caucus, you know. Uh,
- 4:06Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm against that. I was attracted to the
- 4:09Speaker 1: giant metal cock. How dare you?
- 4:11Speaker 3: So?
- 4:12Speaker 1: I would support trail mix with like extra chocolate and
- 4:16Speaker 1: now you get the peanuts in there, you mix some
- 4:18Speaker 1: other nuts in there, but you have a lot a
- 4:19Speaker 1: lot of unhealthy stuff. Make it, make it delicious. So
- 4:23Speaker 1: we have actual mail from actual listeners on the Wonderful
- 4:26Speaker 1: mail Bag. The first one up is Kwang our buddy
- 4:30Speaker 1: in He claims Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and he says
- 4:34Speaker 1: Grande Ben and Daddy G Radio Duncan Donuts has posted
- 4:39Speaker 1: the following due to a nationwide penny shortage. We kindly
- 4:43Speaker 1: asked the guest pay with exact change when possible. If not,
- 4:48Speaker 1: your change will be rounded up to the nearest nickel
- 4:52Speaker 1: or dime in your favor. And he says, do you
- 4:55Speaker 1: think that this will be a trend in other businesses
- 4:57Speaker 1: as well? I have not seen this? Have you seen this? Nanny?
- 4:59Speaker 1: I have, and I go to there's a lot of
- 5:00Speaker 1: stores I have not seen, as most people pay with
- 5:04Speaker 1: credit cards.
- 5:05Speaker 3: I've seen one sign like this and it was inside
- 5:08Speaker 3: the gas station right off my exit here at the
- 5:10Speaker 3: one on one Freeway.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Oh you have seen it, Okay, I've not. I go
- 5:14Speaker 1: to a Costco, Walmart, the grocery store, a bunch of
- 5:18Speaker 1: other random places, and I have not. I've not seen it. Well,
- 5:22Speaker 1: that works out in your favor. Though, it works out
- 5:24Speaker 1: in your favors, so you'd be you wouldn't be against it, right.
- 5:27Speaker 3: That helps out the hobos. I think they had that
- 5:29Speaker 3: sign up because you got some panhandlers out there by
- 5:32Speaker 3: the freeway and they probably buy a lot of the
- 5:35Speaker 3: candy bars with change.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, if I had, like even if it was
- 5:39Speaker 1: like let's say the candy bar was a dollar eleven,
- 5:43Speaker 1: I would even if I had a penny, I'd be like, okay,
- 5:45Speaker 1: I get an extra four cents. I would like the
- 5:48Speaker 1: extra four cents. I'm good.
- 5:50Speaker 3: You know.
- 5:50Speaker 1: That's how cheap I am. Alf Wrights and now Alf
- 5:52Speaker 1: is our weather guy. He reports there will be some
- 5:55Speaker 1: snow flurries today for the Patriots game. Wow, he gave
- 5:59Speaker 1: me the Wulf. Is it the ALF Doppler two thousand?
- 6:03Speaker 1: I think it is. He sent that in so. He
- 6:05Speaker 1: also says, greetings and salutations, gentlemen. Shortly after the Malor
- 6:08Speaker 1: meet and greet in Minnesota, I received a special delivery
- 6:11Speaker 1: from the Land of ten Thousand Lakes. This delivery came
- 6:14Speaker 1: in an envelope with a return address of the Great
- 6:17Speaker 1: mensch Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, and was none other, he says,
- 6:22Speaker 1: none other than the Mallar bumper sticker produced by Femi.
- 6:27Speaker 1: I believe, I'm greg Yeah, f that's Femi made a
- 6:30Speaker 1: bunch of those bumper stickers in Minnesota's great said bumper sticker.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Grace has grace the back window of the ALF mobile
- 6:37Speaker 1: ever since. Unfortunately, the car wash has recently claimed said
- 6:42Speaker 1: bumper sticker. And I need an emergency Mallard monologue on
- 6:46Speaker 1: the update status of the Mallor merch. What say you,
- 6:50Speaker 1: I may need to reach out to the Mallard branding specialist,
- 6:54Speaker 1: the great Broussard Knee Moving Company if things don't materialize suit.
- 7:00Speaker 1: So al that has gone on, As we say in
- 7:02Speaker 1: the business the back burner, we need to circle back.
- 7:05Speaker 1: The plan was, and this is Danny, you appreciate this.
- 7:07Speaker 1: I thought, boy, I'll get loaded, I'll get rich. I'm
- 7:10Speaker 1: gonna have all this merch out for Christmas and Hanukah
- 7:12Speaker 1: and people are gonna buy Malord merch and give it
- 7:14Speaker 1: to their kids and their grandkids and all this shit.
- 7:17Speaker 1: And never the deal fell apart. So I have not
- 7:21Speaker 1: circled back, as they say in politics, to that, I
- 7:23Speaker 1: do need to do that. There's a lot of layers
- 7:28Speaker 1: to that. The merch game.
- 7:31Speaker 3: At least you never tease people with it by taking
- 7:35Speaker 3: orders because check this out really quick. So all football
- 7:39Speaker 3: season for Covino and Rich, we've been giving away IOUs
- 7:43Speaker 3: for turbo nerve footballs. Okay, and we've done NERF football
- 7:47Speaker 3: giveaways before, but we thought I will spruce it up
- 7:50Speaker 3: and do the turbo balls this time. I'm waiting weeks
- 7:54Speaker 3: and weeks and weeks. This order is not arriving. I'm
- 7:56Speaker 3: getting hit up email after email from the winners, like
- 7:59Speaker 3: where is my where's my prize? At? Did you forget
- 8:01Speaker 3: about me? The order finally arrives Ciris, who you know
- 8:06Speaker 3: well at our building.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 8:08Speaker 3: He walks into the studio and he's like, Jenny, there's
- 8:10Speaker 3: three big boxes upstairs for you. You need to go retrieve them.
- 8:13Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, the footballs are here. I get
- 8:16Speaker 3: up there, Ben, I open up the first box. They
- 8:19Speaker 3: sent many footballs, mini size.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Oh no, you fired.
- 8:25Speaker 3: It's turbo and the logos are right on it. But
- 8:28Speaker 3: it's a tenth of the size of the football we're
- 8:30Speaker 3: supposed to be giving away to the listeners.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Oh no, what did you do?
- 8:34Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had to start all over. The good
- 8:36Speaker 3: news is I get to keep those. Oh. The bad
- 8:39Speaker 3: news is the winners had to wait another month.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Gotcha? Yeah. I was thinking we would do that kind
- 8:47Speaker 1: of setup though, where you have to because the problem
- 8:50Speaker 1: I've done with merch in the past is you got
- 8:52Speaker 1: to store it and before if you buy it, and
- 8:55Speaker 1: then people pay for it when they want or buy
- 8:56Speaker 1: it when they want, you know, if I have pre order.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I think we'll do a pre order thing where you
- 9:00Speaker 1: have to if you want something, you have to pre order,
- 9:02Speaker 1: and we'll put limits on it. That way, it's limited edition,
- 9:07Speaker 1: and it's also we just have a cutoff point. Otherwise
- 9:09Speaker 1: you just keep stuff.
- 9:10Speaker 3: That's one positive of having a mansion. There at the
- 9:13Speaker 3: Mallard Mansion, you have twelve extra bedrooms. Is you use
- 9:16Speaker 3: one of those extra guest rooms as your storage?
- 9:19Speaker 1: Great idea, Ferg Doog rights in and force is this
- 9:21Speaker 1: happy mint condition year, Ben and Danny G. It's way
- 9:26Speaker 1: too late to say news, so I won't be doing
- 9:29Speaker 1: that anymore. Okay, I see what you did there for
- 9:30Speaker 1: dog Got How are you able to send these emails?
- 9:32Speaker 1: I can't believe you have internet connection. It's so cold.
- 9:35Speaker 1: I can't believe you're able to pull that off, He says.
- 9:37Speaker 1: I know you hate bumper music, Ben, bumper music talk,
- 9:40Speaker 1: but I'm surprised it goes all the way back nine
- 9:43Speaker 1: years ago some caller wanted to compliment Danny G's bumps
- 9:47Speaker 1: and you were not having it. I think the only
- 9:50Speaker 1: thing that annoys you more than listeners caring about music
- 9:54Speaker 1: on a sports radio show is shoddy editing from the interns,
- 9:59Speaker 1: he says that, yeah, I had I had to melt down.
- 10:03Speaker 1: I talked about a podcast this weekend. But yeah, I
- 10:06Speaker 1: set up a whole monologue for a SoundBite, Danny, and
- 10:08Speaker 1: then the hook on the sound bite was the pause.
- 10:12Speaker 1: That was the hook, that was the story, the GM
- 10:15Speaker 1: pause for the vikings, and the editor decided to take
- 10:19Speaker 1: out the pause, which is.
- 10:21Speaker 3: Which which normally that would be a good thing.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was, Oh my god, I was like
- 10:26Speaker 1: I was, I was really enhancing it. I was gonna
- 10:28Speaker 1: build it up, you know, pause the hood. Anyway, anyways, yes,
- 10:33Speaker 1: uh oh, I was just gonna say about the bumper music.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I loved playing it on your show because not only
- 10:38Speaker 1: did I get to play a great variety of genres
- 10:41Speaker 1: of music for for the Mallard Militia, but that's when
- 10:44Speaker 1: you were taking laps around the entire building. Yes, I
- 10:48Speaker 1: used to do. Now what I do is I walk
- 10:50Speaker 1: up and down that back hallway, which I know we're
- 10:53Speaker 1: leaving that studio eventually and going somewhere else, which is
- 10:55Speaker 1: gonna suck. But uh yeah, the uh, the the you
- 10:59Speaker 1: know the hallway that goes back to Kiras's office. You
- 11:02Speaker 1: know talking about the old Yeah. Yeah, So I walked
- 11:05Speaker 1: back in a loop. I walked through the which is
- 11:08Speaker 1: I guess the Cowherd La studio, and then I walk
- 11:11Speaker 1: in a loop de loop. But I'm able to hear
- 11:14Speaker 1: when I need to come back. Although I did get
- 11:16Speaker 1: harmonized this week. Mike Harmon, the Great Mike Harmon was
- 11:21Speaker 1: he was there recording his podcast and I saw him
- 11:26Speaker 1: as I was taking the top of the hour. I
- 11:28Speaker 1: think it was the top of the art. I don't know,
- 11:29Speaker 1: one of the timeouts, and so I'm doing a walkie
- 11:32Speaker 1: talkie with Harmon. Right, We're doing the walkie talkie and
- 11:36Speaker 1: he kept going and and I was like, like two
- 11:39Speaker 1: minutes late. I was a little late, but I blame
- 11:42Speaker 1: I blame the gremlins. I blame the gremlins.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Well, you didn't have it timed out back in the
- 11:45Speaker 3: day when you took those big laps around the building.
- 11:48Speaker 3: So I could play like Boston more than a feeling.
- 11:51Speaker 3: And I got to play the intro, the first verse
- 11:54Speaker 3: of the song, and then the hook would come in
- 11:55Speaker 3: and then you came running through the door, and I'm like, yeah,
- 11:58Speaker 3: I got to play a minute of that song.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Well, not only that, but I occasionally, when I was
- 12:02Speaker 1: walking around the building in beautiful Sherman Oaks, I would
- 12:05Speaker 1: have great conversations with some of the vagrants in the neighborhood,
- 12:08Speaker 1: which dragged me aside. It was a lot of fun.
- 12:10Speaker 1: I had such great fun anyway. He says, also from
- 12:15Speaker 1: nine years ago, apparently you got into trouble once for
- 12:18Speaker 1: telling some kind of offensive Jewish joke racist. Have you
- 12:22Speaker 1: been worn since then for saying anything offensive? And if
- 12:26Speaker 1: you can remember what was the joke? Oh, yeah, it
- 12:28Speaker 1: wasn't a joke. It was well, it was kind of
- 12:30Speaker 1: a joke. We had a sponsor that was a bacon company.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I will not say the name. It was bad, I
- 12:37Speaker 1: remember this, Yeah, And the hook was blank Bacon's. You know.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Looney would do the read and we would go back
- 12:43Speaker 1: and forth and then and I said, blank Bacon's so
- 12:46Speaker 1: good even the Jews like it, you know, which is
- 12:49Speaker 1: of course a yeah. I felt like I was allowed
- 12:51Speaker 1: to do that being a Jewish. I'm not a hardcore
- 12:54Speaker 1: Jewish guy. I'm you know, casual whatever, And uh yeah,
- 12:58Speaker 1: one one or two people got very upset and said
- 13:02Speaker 1: that was offensive and the whole thing. So I got
- 13:04Speaker 1: in some trouble. Oh with that, nobody's used the hard
- 13:07Speaker 1: w nobody exactly. Nobody can take a joke. I mean,
- 13:11Speaker 1: come on, can't we all to me some of the
- 13:13Speaker 1: greatest comedies people you know, just goofing on that kind
- 13:16Speaker 1: of you know, racial stuff or religious I think it's funny.
- 13:19Speaker 1: I guess back when I was growing up there we
- 13:22Speaker 1: had comedians that did that kind of stuff, and.
- 13:24Speaker 3: It was in as long as they were eoe and
- 13:26Speaker 3: everybody was fair game, it was great.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, so I didn't think that was a big deal.
- 13:32Speaker 1: But whatever Scott from Florida Wrights and it says Ben
- 13:38Speaker 1: and Danny, my two year old can't have any normal
- 13:40Speaker 1: foods in his lunch because of all the people's allergies
- 13:45Speaker 1: at preschool. Apparently there's one teacher who is deafly allergic
- 13:49Speaker 1: to cinnamon, like it's in the air, she will have
- 13:53Speaker 1: a near death experience. There's no way, right, Like, if
- 13:57Speaker 1: that were the case, the lady would never step forward
- 14:00Speaker 1: in a restaurant or a supermarket. Can I get a
- 14:02Speaker 1: minute long mallor investigation analysis into the situation?
- 14:06Speaker 3: Or a bakery bin or imagine her going inside a
- 14:08Speaker 3: donut shop?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Well, how about this, Danny. How about you fly into
- 14:11Speaker 1: like Denver or Salt Lake and there's a cinabun. You
- 14:16Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Oh my God, to die, I'm
- 14:19Speaker 1: about a cinnabut. So I did look it up here
- 14:21Speaker 1: in my notes. It's estimated that well under one percent
- 14:26Speaker 1: of the population is considered allergic to cinnamon. And they
- 14:31Speaker 1: say that the sensitivity intolerance intolerance is much more common,
- 14:36Speaker 1: or sensitivity rather affects a few percent more than that.
- 14:40Speaker 1: But it's usually sensitive skin oral allergy syndrome, and true
- 14:47Speaker 1: cinemonalogy is extremely rare, Like I said, less one percent
- 14:51Speaker 1: and usually it's just skin or mouth related. Severe reactions
- 14:55Speaker 1: are extremely uncommon. So I it's possible that you happen
- 14:59Speaker 1: to find it teacher for your kid that is in
- 15:02Speaker 1: the less than one percent. But I'm gonna go that.
- 15:05Speaker 1: I don't think it's total bull pucky, but it's close
- 15:08Speaker 1: to bullpucky. How about that, Danny, I don't know. That's
- 15:10Speaker 1: a lot is conceivable. How lucky are you, though, Scott
- 15:13Speaker 1: that you found the one teacher in America.
- 15:16Speaker 3: That is alertic tokinnemy.
- 15:19Speaker 1: That's great. I love I love cinnamon.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Dan, I do too, man. I can't imagine that if
- 15:23Speaker 3: I couldn't have that.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Cinnamon is so good. Marcus in San Antonio writes it, says,
- 15:27Speaker 1: Dear big Man and Danny G. In previous messages to
- 15:31Speaker 1: the mail bag, I have mentioned growing up listening to
- 15:33Speaker 1: a lot of sports talk and a lot of AM
- 15:35Speaker 1: talk radio. God bless you, Marcus, with podcasts making your
- 15:39Speaker 1: favorite broadcast or more available. I appreciate how much easier
- 15:42Speaker 1: it is to find content that I prefer. With that
- 15:45Speaker 1: being said, there are only so many episodes of the
- 15:48Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show and the Weekend Podcast available, Marcus says,
- 15:52Speaker 1: before I get stuck trying to find something else to
- 15:54Speaker 1: entertain me, which I have found becomes more difficult on
- 15:58Speaker 1: the weekends. And now the hook, Danny, We're about to
- 16:02Speaker 1: get the hook, he says. Now the hook, he says.
- 16:04Speaker 1: My question is if you were taking a multi hour
- 16:08Speaker 1: trip in the Maladmobile, your cell phone was dead and
- 16:11Speaker 1: you only had two sports talk shows to listen to
- 16:13Speaker 1: on the weekend, would you prefer a a show hosted
- 16:17Speaker 1: by three former NFL players or be a sports show
- 16:22Speaker 1: hosted by two female radio personalities. Any guidance so suggest
- 16:26Speaker 1: this is like a Sophie's choice here, any guidance or
- 16:30Speaker 1: suggestions would be available. I usually tend to go with
- 16:33Speaker 1: option C, which is a listen to music. He says,
- 16:37Speaker 1: as always, thank you for the greatest show, but it
- 16:40Speaker 1: loves Danny g Hi.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Could I please steal this? I told you about that
- 16:45Speaker 3: game I came up with for CNR called Brainwave. Yeah,
- 16:49Speaker 3: I want to use this next Friday, and I'll ask
- 16:52Speaker 3: the question, would you rather be stuck in a car
- 16:55Speaker 3: listening to two female sports talk hosts? What was the
- 16:59Speaker 3: other one?
- 17:00Speaker 1: Or three professional for former athlete players?
- 17:03Speaker 3: Well, that's great, and then I'll need a third one
- 17:04Speaker 3: because I give three choices.
- 17:06Speaker 1: What would the other option be?
- 17:08Speaker 3: What would the other horrible one be? Like an eighty
- 17:11Speaker 3: year old sports talk guy who used to be a
- 17:14Speaker 3: legend thirty years ago, and he reads.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Stats like Mike francessa radio, Well those are New York guy,
- 17:19Speaker 1: one of them. They're both fro New York. So you
- 17:21Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. You'd have to pick somebody from like
- 17:24Speaker 1: Mike North. Are our buddy Mike North in Chicago? Oh,
- 17:27Speaker 1: there's no question, but I love mine?
- 17:29Speaker 3: Yeah? And North and Northey was great when he had
- 17:33Speaker 3: a partner with him and producers. Remember I got to
- 17:35Speaker 3: produce him after your show for a little while. Yeah,
- 17:38Speaker 3: but on the days where Andy Furman couldn't make the
- 17:41Speaker 3: show and Mike was by himself, oh my lord, and
- 17:46Speaker 3: literally opened up the Chicago Tribune and read baseball box scores.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Let me tell you some of it. I know we
- 17:54Speaker 1: can talk about this on the potas So. When stephen A.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Smith started as a talk showst is, some of his
- 17:58Speaker 1: first shows were at Fox Sports Radio, and I've told
- 18:00Speaker 1: the story before. He did a show with John Ireland
- 18:03Speaker 1: as he was learning radio. Steven A right, radio is
- 18:06Speaker 1: much harder than television. At that time, stephen A was
- 18:09Speaker 1: just kind of starting his TV career at ESPN, but
- 18:11Speaker 1: he was doing a radio show for US. He was
- 18:13Speaker 1: still a columnist in Philadelphia, so he did a show
- 18:15Speaker 1: with John Ireland on a I think it was Saturday morning.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I believe it was Saturday morning. Anyway, I was doing updates.
- 18:23Speaker 1: I was doing the overnight showing that I did updates after.
- 18:25Speaker 1: So steven A he did the show from Philadelphia, was
- 18:28Speaker 1: living in Philadelphia at the time, but every once in
- 18:30Speaker 1: a while he would be in LA and I'd run
- 18:31Speaker 1: into him.
- 18:31Speaker 3: Whatever.
- 18:32Speaker 1: So one time the Lakers were playing on Friday. I
- 18:37Speaker 1: think they were like Salt Lake or Denver somewhere. Anyway,
- 18:40Speaker 1: the flight got delayed so John couldn't make He didn't
- 18:44Speaker 1: couldn't do the show. Oh no, yeah, So Stephen Stephen
- 18:49Speaker 1: A was by himself and I heard a man literally
- 18:52Speaker 1: drown on the radio. People don't realize the skill set.
- 18:57Speaker 1: And I know we're not like fixing any ben.
- 18:59Speaker 3: I think this is because guys like him and Northeast,
- 19:02Speaker 3: they're really good at reacting to what other people set up.
- 19:06Speaker 3: But when it's up to you to set it up
- 19:08Speaker 3: and react, it does not work out well for guys
- 19:11Speaker 3: that can't do both things.
- 19:13Speaker 1: It is a difficult skill set, it is. And it's
- 19:15Speaker 1: also when you work with someone too. It's also if
- 19:18Speaker 1: you if you aren't on the same wavelength. That also
- 19:21Speaker 1: is uh. You know, you a two man show. If
- 19:24Speaker 1: you have somebody that's carrying their weight, that's great. But
- 19:26Speaker 1: I've done shows with people sometimes who let's just say Danny,
- 19:30Speaker 1: they they're not fully invested, you know what I mean,
- 19:33Speaker 1: and it becomes different, that becomes a problem. So both
- 19:36Speaker 1: people there's a it's like poetry in motion or audio, whatever.
- 19:40Speaker 1: When you're when you're working together with somebody and they're
- 19:42Speaker 1: really into it and you're going back and forth, it magical.
- 19:45Speaker 1: You don't need anything else. But if you're working with
- 19:47Speaker 1: someone and they're not into it, holy can I mean, Mike,
- 19:51Speaker 1: it is, it is here, it really is. And would
- 19:55Speaker 1: answer the question, Marcus, I I guess I would pick
- 20:00Speaker 1: I guess I would pick the the athletes. It depends.
- 20:03Speaker 1: I mean, there are some athletes that are okay. A
- 20:05Speaker 1: lot of them though, don't know the formatics, and I mean,
- 20:10Speaker 1: you know, i'd go option CE too. I'd probably just
- 20:12Speaker 1: turn on some.
- 20:13Speaker 3: Music, to be honest, turn on some and sometimes I
- 20:16Speaker 3: just want to hear the athletes opinion on what's going
- 20:19Speaker 3: on right now. I don't need to hear about what
- 20:21Speaker 3: you saw in a game fifteen years ago when you
- 20:24Speaker 3: were on the field. Yeah that's cool, that's cool once
- 20:27Speaker 3: in a while. But I think some of the former
- 20:29Speaker 3: athletes get too caught up in all that.
- 20:32Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Yeah, they want to tell old war stories,
- 20:34Speaker 1: which is fine, but yeah, it's like, you know, I
- 20:36Speaker 1: want to.
- 20:37Speaker 3: That would be like you coming on your Overnight show saying,
- 20:39Speaker 3: you know, this reminds me of an overnight show I
- 20:42Speaker 3: did back in two thousand and five.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, people like who gives a shit on percundred percent?
- 20:49Speaker 1: Keep it going on the mail bag here, Let's see
- 20:51Speaker 1: what else we have. JT the Wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 20:57Speaker 1: He said he's from Wisconsin, though he says, as these
- 20:59Speaker 1: seas and ended so terribly for my packers last week.
- 21:03Speaker 1: JT says, it means that I have a little more
- 21:05Speaker 1: free time in my life to contemplate other things. I
- 21:09Speaker 1: have concluded that I feel like I'm missing out in
- 21:12Speaker 1: a labeled society. Everyone has a label, or disability or
- 21:16Speaker 1: a condition. I am choosing to become OCD. My first dilemma,
- 21:21Speaker 1: JT says, is when I put on shoes and socks,
- 21:25Speaker 1: must it be the right foot sock, then left, then
- 21:29Speaker 1: left shoe followed by right shoe. I am so perplexed.
- 21:33Speaker 1: So I'm seeking the advice and counsel of my favorite
- 21:35Speaker 1: sports radio podcasters. Thanks for your helping this critical first
- 21:40Speaker 1: world matter, your friend JT the Waingmen. Well, great question, So, Danny,
- 21:45Speaker 1: any advice on how JT can be a proper OCD guy?
- 21:49Speaker 3: Anything there? Now? I would say Ben I would lean
- 21:53Speaker 3: on you for this because I feel like you're more
- 21:55Speaker 3: OCD than I am.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I'm I'm OCD is the right word. I am mechanical
- 22:03Speaker 1: I am Is it more routine for you than creature
- 22:08Speaker 1: of habit? Creature of habit? Okay, but when I put
- 22:10Speaker 1: my shoes on, I don't. I probably do put them
- 22:13Speaker 1: on the same way every time, but I don't notice it.
- 22:15Speaker 1: It's not like I have to put the right shoe
- 22:17Speaker 1: on or the left shoe first. It's not That's not
- 22:20Speaker 1: something that I really worry about.
- 22:22Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like the only thing where I'm a
- 22:24Speaker 3: little OCD is the way I prepare for each day
- 22:28Speaker 3: with like my backpacks and things I need for work.
- 22:31Speaker 3: I'll set my things out in the same place. I
- 22:34Speaker 3: make sure everything's in the same spot in my backpack,
- 22:36Speaker 3: because you hate that feeling where something is not in
- 22:40Speaker 3: the spot where it's supposed to be.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm OCD with my again, creature of habit,
- 22:46Speaker 1: with my work, Like when I start getting ready for
- 22:48Speaker 1: the show, like what I'm looking for, Like how the
- 22:52Speaker 1: places I look for stuff to talk about that I
- 22:54Speaker 1: think are interesting.
- 22:55Speaker 3: Like, yeah, your template always is the same, it's the
- 22:59Speaker 3: information and that changes exactly.
- 23:01Speaker 1: The information is different every day, and which is good
- 23:03Speaker 1: because I imagine what a nightmare like we've I've done local,
- 23:07Speaker 1: you've done local radio. You're talking about the same thing, like,
- 23:10Speaker 1: oh my god, it's so great.
- 23:12Speaker 3: Oh that's it's the ad for a little while. I
- 23:15Speaker 3: got to work for LA Sports, so did you, And
- 23:18Speaker 3: even just concentrating on the LA teams was hard.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Yeah, it says. Some days there's not much going on,
- 23:25Speaker 1: you know, there's not there's not too much happening, and
- 23:28Speaker 1: so you're like, what are we, Like, what are we doing?
- 23:31Speaker 1: Hank He says, he's on the Oregon Trail, He's in
- 23:34Speaker 1: He's he's outside Portland. He says, hey, hey guys, you
- 23:38Speaker 1: can now pay one million dollars to reserve a hotel stay.
- 23:41Speaker 3: On the moon.
- 23:43Speaker 1: He then sent a story here a tech startup is
- 23:46Speaker 1: taking applications and fees up to one million dollars for
- 23:49Speaker 1: those interested in being the first two vacation on the Danny.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Does this not sound like one of the great scams
- 23:55Speaker 1: of our time? Right? You're telling me within the next
- 23:59Speaker 1: in your life, there's gonna be a hotel on the moon.
- 24:02Speaker 1: This is bs right, There's no way like, what is anyone?
- 24:08Speaker 3: Ben? My question is is it going to be a timeshare?
- 24:10Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly right. Yeah, that's that's insane. No, I mean,
- 24:15Speaker 1: I guess the rich people are dumb, but come on, uh,
- 24:19Speaker 1: Scott writes in from parts unknown, Scott, you got to
- 24:22Speaker 1: put your name, dude. It's not that hard, okay.
- 24:24Speaker 3: Ah my one eight hundred number now and I could
- 24:26Speaker 3: get you out of any time share.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, even on the moon.
- 24:31Speaker 3: Remember the name?
- 24:32Speaker 1: Is this still around? Where you could name a star?
- 24:34Speaker 1: That was another great you know?
- 24:36Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah that's still around, is it really? Yeah?
- 24:40Speaker 3: Maybe I named a star after you.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's wild. You know. How about this, Danny,
- 24:47Speaker 1: I got a great idea. Here's a good hustle. All right,
- 24:49Speaker 1: no one's listening, right, how about we do name a
- 24:52Speaker 1: grain of sand. We're gonna name some sand in Maui
- 24:55Speaker 1: after you right now. We'll get at your own little
- 24:59Speaker 1: grain of sand right there.
- 25:01Speaker 3: I have an idea. Let's start charging people for shout outs. Wait,
- 25:05Speaker 3: wait a second, Oh how dare you?
- 25:08Speaker 1: Scott?
- 25:09Speaker 3: Scott cameo, how are you doing?
- 25:11Speaker 1: I'm on there if you want, I'm on there. But
- 25:14Speaker 1: I have a raised lition.
- 25:15Speaker 3: You need to charge more. Ben charge more money quality
- 25:18Speaker 3: over quantity.
- 25:20Speaker 1: I agree with you. I should raise my price. In fact,
- 25:23Speaker 1: I'll make a deal right now if you this is
- 25:25Speaker 1: the last week today, Today is Sunday. So if you
- 25:29Speaker 1: want a cameo at the same price it's at right now,
- 25:33Speaker 1: you got to do it by Wednesday. Otherwise the price.
- 25:36Speaker 3: Is going up. How about that I turn it here first.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, Scott, he says he Ben and
- 25:43Speaker 1: Danny scientists are rethinking bamboo. They claim a powerful new
- 25:50Speaker 1: super food. They say, bamboo shoots may. That's a weasel word, Scott,
- 25:57Speaker 1: maybe far more than crunchy dish. A comprehensive review found
- 26:02Speaker 1: they can help control blood sugar, support heart and gut health,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and reduce inflammation. You know, Scott, you know what this means,
- 26:09Speaker 1: Danny g This means we are going to get at
- 26:12Speaker 1: fast food restaurants bamboo smoothies. We're gonna get those right,
- 26:17Speaker 1: come on now, in the next couple of years. Because
- 26:20Speaker 1: I'm convinced, and these conferences that these these quick service
- 26:25Speaker 1: restaurants go to, they all it's all of a sudden,
- 26:27Speaker 1: like chickens everywhere, right, chicken nuggets, chicken nuggies or whatever.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Like certain foods. It's it's universal. They go to the
- 26:34Speaker 1: same conferences, they get get pitched on these certain things.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Right, Ben, let me give you my elevator pitch. All right,
- 26:41Speaker 3: pasta a dry noodle in bags, make the noodles look
- 26:45Speaker 3: like bamboo shoots, and then mix some of the bamboo
- 26:48Speaker 3: in getting the health benefits, and we'll call it bamboozle noodle.
- 26:54Speaker 1: I like it.
- 26:55Speaker 3: I like it.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Let's do it. How about Benny's babe. I'll put my
- 26:58Speaker 1: name out.
- 27:00Speaker 3: I think I just got kicked out of the elevator.
- 27:03Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna remember this, Danny. I'm
- 27:05Speaker 1: gonna file this one away, and I'm gonna see in
- 27:07Speaker 1: the next couple of years do we get bamboo as
- 27:10Speaker 1: a super food. And I'm gonna remember this email from Scott.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Next up, I will do a couple more. The honorary
- 27:16Speaker 1: mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, he does not say
- 27:20Speaker 1: his name, says Ben and Danny, g did you see
- 27:22Speaker 1: that Amazon is opening up a store to take down Walmart?
- 27:28Speaker 1: A new big box Amazon stores opening up outside of Chicago,
- 27:33Speaker 1: And he said, Orland Park. I think it's Oberland Park.
- 27:37Speaker 1: I don't think Orland Park. I don't know. I've never
- 27:39Speaker 1: heard oil over anyway. This is the honorable mayor, He says,
- 27:44Speaker 1: who who you betting on? Between Amazon and Walmart? That's
- 27:49Speaker 1: from the honorable mayor. I don't know. I'm gonna give
- 27:54Speaker 1: the lean to Walmart. And here's why. That's all they have, right,
- 27:57Speaker 1: Amazon does a little bit of everything. This is all
- 28:01Speaker 1: Walmart has. This is it. They're the big box people.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I know they have the online stuff, but I'm gonna
- 28:05Speaker 1: go Walmart. And it doesn't matter. Like Danny, if they
- 28:09Speaker 1: opened up an Amazon big box store down the street,
- 28:14Speaker 1: you'd go there. If it was cheaper than Walmart. Whoever's cheaper,
- 28:17Speaker 1: you're gonna go to. Right, whatever better has better deals,
- 28:19Speaker 1: you're going to go to. Yeah.
- 28:21Speaker 3: And if they had better lighting, that would attract me too.
- 28:24Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care about.
- 28:27Speaker 3: My wife said, everybody looks like a pale zombie inside Walmart.
- 28:32Speaker 3: That lighting is so awkward.
- 28:34Speaker 1: This is justin They are pale zombies. The people that
- 28:37Speaker 1: shop at Walmart are pale zombies. With It's a proven fact.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Whatever last one from this jackass didn't sign his name either.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Ben and Danny. According to scientists. Apparently the microplastic stuff
- 28:55Speaker 1: is bull he says the S word. I guess I
- 28:59Speaker 1: can say it's podcast bullshit. He says, our bodies may
- 29:02Speaker 1: not be riddled with microplastics. After all, scientists now say
- 29:06Speaker 1: research is not biologically plausible and a joke. All right,
- 29:11Speaker 1: So this this is what science does, Danny. There's a
- 29:14Speaker 1: story that comes out that says coffee's gonna even be
- 29:16Speaker 1: good for you. You don't drink a lot of coffee,
- 29:18Speaker 1: and then there's a story to kill you. So who
- 29:21Speaker 1: do you believe? Who do you believe? Danny? What are
- 29:23Speaker 1: you gonna do? Who are gonna believe? Who knows? So
- 29:26Speaker 1: I don't know what do you do with this? I'd
- 29:28Speaker 1: like to think that my body's not filled with microplastics.
- 29:31Speaker 1: I'd like to think that everything kind of gets out there.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Wouldn't there be a way to check that with the
- 29:35Speaker 1: people that have unfortunately met their demise and are gone
- 29:39Speaker 1: and the bodies, you know, do you go back to
- 29:41Speaker 1: the earth, as we like to say, and wouldn't there
- 29:44Speaker 1: still be plastic in there? Because there's microplastics. You'll be
- 29:47Speaker 1: able to find microplastics, right, I would think, I don't
- 29:49Speaker 1: go I mean dark.
- 29:51Speaker 3: Throughout our lives, we hear stories like this, they have
- 29:55Speaker 3: found this inside this And does it really ever change anything?
- 30:01Speaker 1: No, No, it does not. Although I am fascinated and
- 30:04Speaker 1: I'd love to go, we should about how about this
- 30:06Speaker 1: for a hustle, Danny. You know that thing out in
- 30:08Speaker 1: the Pacific with the plastics circling around out there in
- 30:11Speaker 1: the Pacific, the great whatever, I forget what's called. I
- 30:15Speaker 1: know the name, but I'm having a mental block where
- 30:17Speaker 1: it's like a vortex of plastic out in the Pacific
- 30:20Speaker 1: that's just circling around and stuff.
- 30:21Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about.
- 30:23Speaker 1: How about we take boat tours out there. We can
- 30:26Speaker 1: take people out and say you can see the Great
- 30:29Speaker 1: Plastic reef or whatever it's called.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Talk about the garbage barge.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, yeah, I forget it has a name.
- 30:36Speaker 3: The name of that?
- 30:37Speaker 1: I am having a mental block. Guy, all right, Dan's
- 30:42Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna do the Is it ai or we
- 30:45Speaker 1: have we moved on from Google? Are you now aieing
- 30:47Speaker 1: it is that?
- 30:48Speaker 3: I am? Yeah, I'm gon use Alexa go old school?
- 30:52Speaker 1: All right, let me see it.
- 30:53Speaker 3: Can I what is the name of the thing out
- 30:55Speaker 3: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with plastic floating
- 30:58Speaker 3: on top of it. Yeah, great Pacific garbage patch. There
- 31:05Speaker 3: it is.
- 31:07Speaker 1: Yeah, the great Pacific garbage patch. Can take people out
- 31:11Speaker 1: to visit that and take this crazy how many microplastics
- 31:16Speaker 1: are on that thing? Yeah, that's why there's aren't there
- 31:19Speaker 1: critters and creatures in the ocean living on that.
- 31:22Speaker 3: That's nasty. That's where you know what ben for anybody
- 31:28Speaker 3: who hurts a kid, they should put them out there
- 31:30Speaker 3: on that patch and make them rot out there. Okay,
- 31:35Speaker 3: your time should be served out on the patch.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Right in the middle of the Pacific circling around. Yeah.
- 31:41Speaker 3: Yeah, you murder someone, you go to the patch.
- 31:44Speaker 1: You're done. That's it. It'd be like back in the
- 31:46Speaker 1: day they sent people to Australia. Do you think they
- 31:48Speaker 1: the people of Europe realized that Australia is beautiful when
- 31:52Speaker 1: they sent them there, or they thought there was so
- 31:53Speaker 1: many like weird animals they would die, they would be
- 31:55Speaker 1: killed by the weird animals in Australia.
- 31:57Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure they thought they would be eaten
- 31:59Speaker 3: by rock.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Yeah, surprise. All right, we'll get out on that. Danny.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Enjoy the football today. It's good to have you back
- 32:05Speaker 1: for Man, and we will see what happens today.
- 32:08Speaker 3: You think you're Rams? Are you nervous about the Rams
- 32:11Speaker 3: game at all into that weather.
- 32:12Speaker 1: No, they're the better team. The better team should win.
- 32:15Speaker 1: They should win the game. There's the choke factor by
- 32:19Speaker 1: Stafford is pretty high. But I still believe the Rams
- 32:21Speaker 1: will end up winning the game. It'll be ugly. I
- 32:23Speaker 1: took the Bears plus the points. I think it'll be
- 32:25Speaker 1: a field goal game. I don't trust Caleb Williams either.
- 32:28Speaker 1: People must not have watched the first three quarters of
- 32:31Speaker 1: that game last week Danny against the Packers, he didn't
- 32:34Speaker 1: look very good at all, and then in the fourth
- 32:36Speaker 1: quarter he went banana.
- 32:38Speaker 3: So we'll see what They're very much a fourth quarter team,
- 32:41Speaker 3: the same way you know the Bills were hoping they
- 32:43Speaker 3: were a fourth quarter team.
- 32:46Speaker 1: So who are you? Who are you today? Dany? Who
- 32:49Speaker 1: do you a? You got the early game Houston and
- 32:51Speaker 1: New England. I'm taking on Benny versus the Penny. I
- 32:54Speaker 1: took the Texans.
- 32:56Speaker 3: Who you got? Everybody's really high on the Texans defense.
- 33:00Speaker 3: That's for good reason. But the one category they're lat
- 33:03Speaker 3: their defense is dead last in stopping quarterbacks from running
- 33:06Speaker 3: the ball. So if Drake may can pull the ball
- 33:09Speaker 3: down when nothing's there and use his legs. Yeah, I
- 33:11Speaker 3: think the Patriots eat this victory out.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Okay, I'm taking the I'm taking the Texans and then
- 33:17Speaker 1: the Lake game, I'm taking the I'm taking the Bears
- 33:20Speaker 1: plus the points Rams to win, Bears to Bears to
- 33:23Speaker 1: cover the spread.
- 33:23Speaker 3: What about you, Dandy, I took the Bears to cover.
- 33:26Speaker 1: All right, have a great day, thank you. Will be
- 33:28Speaker 1: back new podcast next week obviously, and of course we
- 33:31Speaker 1: will have the radio show tonight.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Dany'll be on tomorrow. Yes, Danny'll be on with the
- 33:35Speaker 3: yea sure. We're going to do our usual schedule Monday
- 33:38Speaker 3: through Friday. Stu Gotts is going to be right before
- 33:40Speaker 3: us on Monday, by.
- 33:41Speaker 1: The way, there you go. Good luck to him.
- 33:43Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's two to four on the West Side,
- 33:45Speaker 3: and that means in beautiful Chicago, Illinois, five to seven pm.
- 33:50Speaker 1: There you go, enjoy.
- 33:51Speaker 3: We're hopefully Ben's rams do not disappear into the winter. Eat.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Oh no, they'll be fine. They'll be They got Sean McVay,
- 33:59Speaker 1: Come on, who got a murder?
- 34:02Speaker 3: I gotta go