Latest / The Ben Maller Show / The Fifth Hour: "The Urn's Right Hand" Mail Bag
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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 fastion 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, the Clearinghouse of
- 0:19Speaker 2: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
- 0:23Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:29Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
- 0:34Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G. Radio. As we begin a brand
- 0:38Speaker 1: new month in the early morning hours of the first
- 0:42Speaker 1: day of March twenty twenty six. As we are, we're
- 0:48Speaker 1: on March Madness begins today right now. We can get
- 0:51Speaker 1: suit for that, Danny G. March Madness today, right now,
- 0:54Speaker 1: March first. And what a better way to begin March
- 0:57Speaker 1: than with the mail bag. So let's crank up, Ohio,
- 1:00Speaker 1: I'll get right to the mail bag. Right to the
- 1:02Speaker 1: mail bag we go.
- 1:03Speaker 3: It's yesterday. Been in southern California did not feel like
- 1:21Speaker 3: the very end of February. In the start of March,
- 1:24Speaker 3: it felt like summer was getting burned out in the sun.
- 1:27Speaker 1: The last couple of days have been been tremendous in
- 1:31Speaker 1: terms of we've been where I am in the north
- 1:34Speaker 1: Woods ninety plus both days, the ninety plus, and my
- 1:40Speaker 1: brothers who live in cold weather, especially my brother lives
- 1:44Speaker 1: in New York. He was sending me photos of the
- 1:46Speaker 1: snow that's piled up on the side in Manhattan and
- 1:50Speaker 1: people are putting the trash. You know, every day they
- 1:51Speaker 1: pick up the trash in Manhattan, and they've been putting
- 1:54Speaker 1: the snow on top of the trash. So you're walking
- 1:57Speaker 1: down the street and there's like bags of trash at
- 2:00Speaker 1: eye level. And I said, well, here in La we
- 2:04Speaker 1: have our own blizzard. It's a heat blizzard, and uh
- 2:07Speaker 1: and we're getting overwhelmed with heat. It's it's wild, wild
- 2:11Speaker 1: and crazy. But it's been it's been an adjustment. I
- 2:15Speaker 1: turned my ac on in February.
- 2:19Speaker 3: Dude's, yeah, we're three days in a row. We've been
- 2:21Speaker 3: using the air conditioner. How weird is that that in
- 2:24Speaker 3: other parts of the country they're shoveling snow.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, well, we better get something. I mean,
- 2:30Speaker 1: the taxes that we paid, Danny, we might as well
- 2:33Speaker 1: get something. You're not kidding, all right, Well, we have
- 2:35Speaker 1: a bunch of letters to get to a lot of email.
- 2:37Speaker 1: You guys have been great. You used to have to
- 2:38Speaker 1: beg when we first started this podcast way back in
- 2:41Speaker 1: the day, I had to beg people to post things,
- 2:43Speaker 1: and I haven't had to do that in a long
- 2:45Speaker 1: time because you guys have been great, and we thank you.
- 2:47Speaker 1: And if you'd like to send before I start going
- 2:50Speaker 1: through the email bag, if you would like to send
- 2:52Speaker 1: a letter in in a future edition, you can send
- 2:55Speaker 1: it to Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
- 2:59Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers,
- 3:05Speaker 1: and we thank you. Put your name and city. I'm
- 3:07Speaker 1: still getting messages from people that didn't put their name
- 3:10Speaker 1: in the city in the whole thing. It's I know
- 3:11Speaker 1: it's a little thing, but if you want credit, you
- 3:13Speaker 1: gotta let us know. We don't know. We can't just
- 3:17Speaker 1: type your email into a database and find out where
- 3:20Speaker 1: you're from and all that stuff. So let us know,
- 3:22Speaker 1: all right, JT the wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Severville, Tennessee.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I believe is I believe that's how you say it.
- 3:33Speaker 1: I just like saying your Knoxville anyways, says dear bandon
- 3:36Speaker 1: Danny g as we begin the month of March and
- 3:40Speaker 1: meteorologically spring, I look forward to spending a lot of
- 3:44Speaker 1: time outdoors and enjoying my Harley Davidson. It also means
- 3:49Speaker 1: spring cleaning is upon us as well. What is on
- 3:52Speaker 1: the typical spring cleaning list at the Malor Mansion and
- 3:56Speaker 1: the Kira Deli estate. For me, it is be a
- 4:01Speaker 1: consolidation of things from our move And he says, I've
- 4:05Speaker 1: been lost without the season recap of Benny versus the Penny.
- 4:10Speaker 1: That's Jay T, the wingman. Yeah, we did not end
- 4:13Speaker 1: up doing a season recap. We had planned on it,
- 4:16Speaker 1: and then Looney and myself, both very busy in our schedules,
- 4:22Speaker 1: did not align and we've already moved on now to
- 4:26Speaker 1: try to plan things for the twenty twenty six NFL season.
- 4:30Speaker 1: So we've we've put that to bed as far as
- 4:34Speaker 1: you know as of today. So if that changes, well,
- 4:38Speaker 1: what you know as far as spring cleaning, Yeah, it's
- 4:42Speaker 1: mostly dusting and I try to keep it clean on
- 4:45Speaker 1: a semi regular basis so we do not have to
- 4:49Speaker 1: end up having this massive cleaning situation. Because it's like,
- 4:53Speaker 1: as Jenny just pointed out, whether it's not too bad
- 4:56Speaker 1: most of the time out of here, so not too much.
- 4:59Speaker 1: You know, some stuff outside that need to be picked
- 5:02Speaker 1: up and moved around and things like that, but it's
- 5:06Speaker 1: relatively relatively minor. What about you, Danny.
- 5:10Speaker 3: We're actually in the middle of a little project right
- 5:12Speaker 3: now upstairs. Finally got a new vanity for our bathroom,
- 5:17Speaker 3: put some laminate floor in. They ripped some carpet out,
- 5:22Speaker 3: and in order for the two construction guys to do that,
- 5:25Speaker 3: last week, we had to pull everything out of our closet.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Now this has started a whole cleaning face from you
- 5:32Speaker 3: know who's saying, oh, this is perfect because we need
- 5:36Speaker 3: to really whittle down all the things we had inside
- 5:39Speaker 3: our closet.
- 5:40Speaker 1: No the decluttering, yeah, yep, yeah.
- 5:44Speaker 3: And Brenda loves throwing things away.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Oh ma, yeah, my wife's the same way. My wife.
- 5:51Speaker 1: The thing that kills me is the food thing. We've
- 5:54Speaker 1: talked about this before in the podcast. But you go
- 5:56Speaker 1: through the refrigerator and they put the expiration date on stuff.
- 6:00Speaker 1: But to me, you do the smell test, and you know,
- 6:03Speaker 1: the eyeball and the smell test. If there's if there's
- 6:06Speaker 1: hair growing on it, throw it away. If it smells funky,
- 6:08Speaker 1: throw it away. But otherwise it's probably fine. And I
- 6:12Speaker 1: know you do the taste test and all that stuff,
- 6:14Speaker 1: but if anything is like right at the expiration date,
- 6:17Speaker 1: it gets immediately thrown away.
- 6:19Speaker 3: I'm definitely not a border, but I do have some
- 6:22Speaker 3: of my mom in my personality where she used to
- 6:26Speaker 3: save certain items because she would say, I don't want
- 6:29Speaker 3: to have to go buy this because I already have one.
- 6:32Speaker 3: I'm just gonna save it and it's there when I
- 6:34Speaker 3: need it. And that's coming handy in my garage and
- 6:37Speaker 3: a few things in the closet. And Brenda gets into
- 6:40Speaker 3: this cycle of throwing too many things away, so then
- 6:43Speaker 3: when she needs something she has to buy it again.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I have a similar similar situation we with
- 6:51Speaker 1: certain things we have, and then we end and then
- 6:54Speaker 1: you end up or my other thing is that stuff
- 6:56Speaker 1: gets doesn't get put back where it's supposed to be,
- 7:00Speaker 1: so then you end up buying that thing again, whatever
- 7:03Speaker 1: that item was, and then then you have duplicates exactly exactly,
- 7:08Speaker 1: So all right, moving on, fer Dog in the Winter
- 7:12Speaker 1: Wonder end of Fullerton, writ Sin He says, happy March first,
- 7:16Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g you've been killing my guy Arty
- 7:20Speaker 1: Marino all week. Ben as an Angels fan, I've got
- 7:23Speaker 1: to come to his defense. If you care about winning.
- 7:28Speaker 3: It's the only one coming to Artie's defense.
- 7:30Speaker 1: He says, if you care about winning, Edison Field is
- 7:33Speaker 1: still a great place to catch a game if you're
- 7:36Speaker 1: a fan of the opposing team. And Grave Digger and
- 7:39Speaker 1: Bigfoot have done pretty or plenty of winning, by the way,
- 7:43Speaker 1: the Big A over the past thirty years. That's right.
- 7:45Speaker 1: The Monster truck rallies massive in Anaheim, So he says,
- 7:48Speaker 1: so lay off, all right, he says, you mentioned having
- 7:51Speaker 1: a good, amazing Crescin story on the radio. Could you
- 7:54Speaker 1: please share it now? Yeah. I actually just drove by
- 7:59Speaker 1: last night, Danny, the Big A, and instead of having
- 8:04Speaker 1: a halo on it, it looked like it had devil horns.
- 8:06Speaker 1: I don't know why. Very odd that they would have
- 8:08Speaker 1: that I drove by the Big A. Well, that's one
- 8:12Speaker 1: of the all time great quotes. I've knew this job
- 8:14Speaker 1: a long time, Danny. But Artie Marino coming out basically saying, hey,
- 8:18Speaker 1: we did surveys, market research, and our fans are moms
- 8:22Speaker 1: and they don't care whether we win or not.
- 8:25Speaker 3: It was so good that when I gave the story
- 8:28Speaker 3: to Kovino and Rich. I almost booked you as a
- 8:31Speaker 3: guest for the show if your schedule wasn't completely opposite,
- 8:34Speaker 3: because I wanted you to share with them the story
- 8:37Speaker 3: about the press box.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yoh yeah, the press.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Because they don't know they're just like, oh, known as
- 8:44Speaker 3: a horrible owner. They don't know how bad of an
- 8:46Speaker 3: owner he really is.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, anytime I would. I can you want
- 8:51Speaker 1: next time? But yeah, the Angels. My late buddy, the
- 8:55Speaker 1: great TJ. Simers, who was a friend of mine, died
- 8:57Speaker 1: last year. I think it was last year, and it
- 9:00Speaker 1: might have been two years ago. I don't know. But
- 9:02Speaker 1: TJ was a columnist with the Other Times and he
- 9:05Speaker 1: kept killing Arti Marino. And the legend is because Artie
- 9:10Speaker 1: was so pissed at TJ, he moved the press box,
- 9:14Speaker 1: which is almost always behind home plate, that's where she's
- 9:18Speaker 1: always been, and he moved it down near the right
- 9:22Speaker 1: field foul pole. It's pretty much near the pearly gates.
- 9:26Speaker 1: It's like the worst poss You can't even see home
- 9:28Speaker 1: Plate from the back row, and it's like just like
- 9:31Speaker 1: one little booth and it's embarrassing. It's not major League
- 9:34Speaker 1: at all, and he did that to get back at TJ. Simers,
- 9:38Speaker 1: and they never moved it back because they could sell
- 9:40Speaker 1: the seats behind home plate. They did get in trouble though.
- 9:43Speaker 1: It is interesting note Danny with the BBWAA, the Baseball
- 9:48Speaker 1: Writers Association of America, which is a very powerful cartel,
- 9:52Speaker 1: and they forced the Angels to give them a few
- 9:55Speaker 1: seats behind home plate for members of the cartel, but
- 9:59Speaker 1: everyone else sitting out basically above the foul pole and
- 10:03Speaker 1: right field. It's it, let's put it this way.
- 10:06Speaker 2: I don't.
- 10:06Speaker 1: I don't live that far from there, Danny, and I
- 10:08Speaker 1: could go whenever I want. I don't go because I'd
- 10:10Speaker 1: just rather watch on TV. It's that bad, So I don't.
- 10:14Speaker 3: I don't know. And then I read another There was
- 10:16Speaker 3: another story just a couple of days ago that they're
- 10:18Speaker 3: behind with their electronics equipment at spring training. They don't
- 10:23Speaker 3: have a speed gun on their their pitchers because they
- 10:27Speaker 3: don't have the proper equipment, because it's there's everything is
- 10:30Speaker 3: so outdated with them.
- 10:32Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. The Angels no games on TV this spring.
- 10:38Speaker 3: And they don't have a Spanish broadcast team.
- 10:41Speaker 1: In Southern California, which is wild. But the Angels, though,
- 10:45Speaker 1: you think about the TV thing. I was watching. I
- 10:49Speaker 1: was flipping around the other during the All Star break
- 10:52Speaker 1: in the NBA, and I watched a North Carolina Wilmington
- 10:57Speaker 1: game on the Magic Box. So I was watching and
- 11:00Speaker 1: it was just the radio feed, and they did they
- 11:03Speaker 1: had two cameras. They had a mid court camera and
- 11:06Speaker 1: they had a camera one other camera and they just
- 11:10Speaker 1: simulcast the radio feed. And they just had two cameras.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Like you're telling me, a major League Baseball team couldn't
- 11:15Speaker 1: afford to have just they're doing the games on the radio,
- 11:18Speaker 1: do the radio and then have two cameras and that's
- 11:22Speaker 1: it. It wouldn't cost you that much money. And the Angels
- 11:25Speaker 1: aren't even doing it. As far as the Amazing Crescan,
- 11:28Speaker 1: we had when I was doing show with Looney Tunes
- 11:30Speaker 1: years ago, we had the Amazing Crescin on the show.
- 11:35Speaker 1: It was a big deal. I got, this is a
- 11:36Speaker 1: legend in magic and all that, and so we booked
- 11:40Speaker 1: the Amazing Crescan and he gets on the air and he's,
- 11:45Speaker 1: you know, he's very sociable. Obviously he's a magician. You got,
- 11:48Speaker 1: that's part of the shtick. You can't be an introvert
- 11:51Speaker 1: when you're a magician. And so anyway, he gets on
- 11:55Speaker 1: there and he was he starts revealing things about me
- 11:59Speaker 1: like he would. He was a fan of I know
- 12:02Speaker 1: he was full of crap, but he was. He was
- 12:03Speaker 1: a fan of mine, and he didn't really know who
- 12:06Speaker 1: Looney was. And it was it was hilarious because he
- 12:09Speaker 1: was like, he's like this legend, the amazing Cresken who
- 12:12Speaker 1: sold magic kits and did TV and the Tonight Show
- 12:15Speaker 1: and all and there he was like regaling in my
- 12:19Speaker 1: fun facts. And Looney Looney got really annoyed by that.
- 12:23Speaker 1: So anytime Mooney gets annoyed, I smile. I smile when
- 12:26Speaker 1: he gets annoyed. I don't know why that is. Well
- 12:28Speaker 1: we have let's see. I hold on a sec now,
- 12:31Speaker 1: one say.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Yeah, By the way, I have a bone to pick
- 12:34Speaker 3: with mister Looney. I texted him about two weeks ago,
- 12:37Speaker 3: and I'm still waiting on a reply.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Really all right, I'll I'll send him a message.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Our boy, mister Irrigation mailed a malor ring for Looney.
- 12:48Speaker 3: I have it. So I texted Looney, Hey, I need
- 12:51Speaker 3: your mailing address so I could forward this gift to
- 12:54Speaker 3: you and yeah, crickets.
- 12:57Speaker 1: All right, I'll I'll bust his chops right good? Might
- 13:00Speaker 1: have gone to I don't know where it would have
- 13:03Speaker 1: gone to.
- 13:04Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly what it was my Texaco to spam, I
- 13:07Speaker 3: don't know.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I don't know. Marlene writes in I believe. I'm not
- 13:11Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but I'm ninety nine percent sure that Marlene.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Her dad is Jose, and I remember Jose is from
- 13:19Speaker 1: northern California but lives last we heard from Jose, he
- 13:24Speaker 1: lives in Massachusetts. So I think that is the Marlene
- 13:29Speaker 1: we're dealing with right now. And she asked a very
- 13:31Speaker 1: sweet question. If this is her, I believe it is her.
- 13:36Speaker 1: She said, which sport is better? Baseball or football? So
- 13:41Speaker 1: this is a let's say, well, it's a basic question,
- 13:43Speaker 1: but from Marlene, that's a great question. That's a wonderful question. Marlene.
- 13:49Speaker 3: It's very subjective exactly.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Baseball is an everyday thing, which is cool, right, every day,
- 13:56Speaker 1: and then football is more of an event, right, Danny.
- 13:58Speaker 1: It's once a week. You build up to it. It's
- 14:01Speaker 1: it's exciting because there's only one game a week. That's it.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Your favorite team only plays once a week, like We
- 14:06Speaker 1: like the Dodgers. They play every single day. They get
- 14:09Speaker 1: maybe one day off every two weeks, and that's that.
- 14:13Speaker 1: And plus like just the way the game's played. It's
- 14:16Speaker 1: Baseball is very kind of slow and methodical, and football's
- 14:22Speaker 1: there's more more action. Although yeah, although I don't know
- 14:26Speaker 1: how much more action because they remember they did that
- 14:28Speaker 1: study they said, well, there's a lot of downtime in
- 14:29Speaker 1: football too, but we look forward to it.
- 14:33Speaker 3: Yeah, Baseball is like a marathon. It's like a Nozella
- 14:37Speaker 3: soap opera, good good soap opera, especially when you follow
- 14:40Speaker 3: your team day in and day out. And then football
- 14:43Speaker 3: is like a sprint where you got a couple of
- 14:45Speaker 3: you saying bolts racing to the finish line.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Yeah, they're both great, and for our job, football is
- 14:51Speaker 1: better because that's what pays the bills. And but I
- 14:56Speaker 1: love baseball. I've been checking out some of these spring
- 14:58Speaker 1: training games going on, and I saw a bunch of guys.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I'll probably do a rant about this tonight on the radio.
- 15:03Speaker 1: But Randy Johnson over the weekend just killed Major League
- 15:08Speaker 1: Baseball for allowing teams to get away. They've there's always
- 15:13Speaker 1: been a rule. It's kind of one of those unwritten
- 15:15Speaker 1: rules in baseball where to honor the fans in spring training,
- 15:20Speaker 1: the road team is supposed to bring four or five
- 15:25Speaker 1: regular players. I think you could get away with three,
- 15:29Speaker 1: but I think they want four or five regular players
- 15:32Speaker 1: from your everyday big league roster to be on the
- 15:36Speaker 1: traveling contingent. Well, the players hate doing that because it
- 15:41Speaker 1: screws them up the whole day because they got to
- 15:44Speaker 1: take the bus to the game, and then they and
- 15:46Speaker 1: I got to stay and wait, and sometimes you're able
- 15:49Speaker 1: to drive yourself, but it's it's an inconvenience. So lately
- 15:53Speaker 1: the players have just said, we're not the star players
- 15:55Speaker 1: in baseball. They're too good for that. They make too
- 15:58Speaker 1: much money for that, and so they have I'm doing it,
- 16:00Speaker 1: and Randy Johnson called them out and he said, what
- 16:03Speaker 1: are you doing? Of course, the thing that blows me
- 16:05Speaker 1: a boy about this, Danny, is the amount of fanboys
- 16:09Speaker 1: that are out there right the toatsuckers for the athletes.
- 16:12Speaker 1: They're like, oh, yeah, it's okay, it's only spring training.
- 16:14Speaker 1: You know how much they're charging for these spring training games.
- 16:17Speaker 1: It's insane, like some of these spring training games were,
- 16:22Speaker 1: even if the star players are playing they're only playing
- 16:23Speaker 1: like three or four innings. They're charging over one hundred
- 16:27Speaker 1: dollars a ticket. I saw one matchup in the Grapefruit
- 16:30Speaker 1: League was like one hundred and fifty dollars a ticket
- 16:34Speaker 1: for spring training.
- 16:35Speaker 3: That's ridiculous. Those tickets should be fifteen.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Bucks exactly back in the old day, Back in my day,
- 16:41Speaker 1: they were. So I just popped into my head. Ryan
- 16:45Speaker 1: from Shrewsbury, Mass Rights and he says, hello boys. Ben.
- 16:48Speaker 1: First of off, I want to apologize for not answering
- 16:51Speaker 1: when when I called in, I was outside the plowd truck.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I heard you on the radio, so I raced back
- 16:57Speaker 1: into the truck and grabbed my phone and I got discan.
- 17:00Speaker 1: My question this week is is I know you fast
- 17:05Speaker 1: a lot, but what's your go to snack? If you
- 17:07Speaker 1: had to pick? Since I was working the blizzard, I
- 17:11Speaker 1: was downing bags of sunflower seeds. I think that's a
- 17:14Speaker 1: low key, great snack food. Anyway, Sorry for getting disconnected.
- 17:19Speaker 1: That's right, that happens right you're doing work. I understand
- 17:23Speaker 1: you got stuff going on the plow truck slightly more
- 17:25Speaker 1: important than calling into the show. So I get that
- 17:29Speaker 1: sunflower seeds not my go to snack. I love trail mix.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Like if I go on road trip to Arizona up
- 17:37Speaker 1: to San Francisco, I'll get a big thing a trail mix.
- 17:39Speaker 1: But I don't like raisins, so it's got to have
- 17:42Speaker 1: no raisins, no nuts, chocolate, that kind of stuff. I
- 17:46Speaker 1: like that. Popcorn is great, cheap naked peanuts, things like that.
- 17:51Speaker 1: What about you, Danny?
- 17:53Speaker 3: Yeah, I go almonds, definitely, pistachios. And there's a caramel
- 17:59Speaker 3: trail mix like that's cool.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Yeah, trail mix is great. I just the raisins. I
- 18:04Speaker 1: feel like, and I don't want to go down that
- 18:07Speaker 1: rant again, Danny. But it's like Mexican food. They fill
- 18:10Speaker 1: a lot of the burritos with beans or Chinese food
- 18:14Speaker 1: with rice because it's cheaper. Yeah, and I feel like
- 18:18Speaker 1: the trail makes the raisins.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Dad, and they'll put too many peanuts in it.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a there's a sweet spot. The ratio is
- 18:25Speaker 1: very important of everything. I rotate nuts.
- 18:29Speaker 3: How dare you.
- 18:32Speaker 1: See your Big Ben and Dandy. Oh this is from
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- 18:49Speaker 1: launch a wireless bluetooth speaker shape like a cremation earn.
- 18:55Speaker 1: The Eternal Playlist Earn is not really meant to hold ashes,
- 19:00Speaker 1: but it is instead a collector's item and a seven
- 19:04Speaker 1: inch by eleven point four inch eurn with a Bluetooth
- 19:08Speaker 1: speaker built into the lid, says the coin Spotify. The
- 19:13Speaker 1: urn offers the world's first ever music streaming earn, making
- 19:19Speaker 1: death a lot less boring. And then he says, what
- 19:23Speaker 1: what would you ever? What would your forever music streaming
- 19:27Speaker 1: group be?
- 19:29Speaker 3: Wait? Instead of music streaming on ours, we could have
- 19:32Speaker 3: some clips of sports talk radio we did on a loop.
- 19:36Speaker 1: That's great, amazing. Take standy right those perfect yeah, perfect rants,
- 19:41Speaker 1: perfect bits that we did.
- 19:43Speaker 3: Best drops ever.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're talking. Now you're talking. You get some
- 19:48Speaker 1: of the classic with Genie and Mental.
- 19:50Speaker 3: Yeah. Can you imagine yours on a fireplace and you
- 19:53Speaker 3: keep hearing My right hand was getting to work out.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Yeah, my right hand was getting a workout out. Or
- 20:02Speaker 1: Genie Genie in Medford drops with I'm a doctor. Yeah,
- 20:06Speaker 1: that's great. Quang good old quang.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Uh.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Nobody visiting. What what did that?
- 20:17Speaker 1: Earn? Just say? Who's that? Make it? Solder will last forever,
- 20:23Speaker 1: or at least until the alf from the FCC rights
- 20:27Speaker 1: and he says, Welcome to the first day of March,
- 20:29Speaker 1: otherwise known as Clean Up Australia Day. Ben, you have
- 20:32Speaker 1: said on many occasions that the podcast is not regulated
- 20:36Speaker 1: by the Federal Communications Commission and you were allowed to
- 20:40Speaker 1: say bad words. So on that note, what did you
- 20:44Speaker 1: really say when you awoke to the pungent perfume of
- 20:47Speaker 1: moxies permeating piles of pumpkin on the marble floors of
- 20:52Speaker 1: the palatial Malor mansion. He says, well, there were yeah,
- 20:56Speaker 1: I mean it has a lot of Remember I didn't
- 20:59Speaker 1: notice it right when I woke up. When I woke up,
- 21:00Speaker 1: it was fine because I was in the bedroom and
- 21:02Speaker 1: it was sealed. And then it was only when I
- 21:04Speaker 1: woke up, got out of bed, walked, I opened the
- 21:07Speaker 1: door and I took about two steps and then I
- 21:10Speaker 1: was overwhelmed. It's like I was knocked back, like there
- 21:13Speaker 1: had been a massive explosion. And initially I thought, as
- 21:19Speaker 1: I said in the podcast that I did about it
- 21:21Speaker 1: at my rant, I thought it was like a pipe
- 21:23Speaker 1: had broken or something. It was such a terrific smell.
- 21:27Speaker 1: I thought there had to be some kind of plumbing issue,
- 21:30Speaker 1: And in hindsight, I guess the outcome that it was
- 21:33Speaker 1: just Moxie eating way too much pumpkin and then having
- 21:37Speaker 1: a reversal was the better outcome. But there was a
- 21:40Speaker 1: lot of profanity. I think Danny Alf wants me to curse.
- 21:43Speaker 1: I've really tried to tone back the cursing other than
- 21:46Speaker 1: saying the word shit on the podcast, because I do
- 21:49Speaker 1: use the remote studio for the radio show, and I
- 21:51Speaker 1: don't want to get in the habit of saying bad
- 21:53Speaker 1: stuff in the remote studio because at some point I'm
- 21:57Speaker 1: gonna forget whether I'm doing a podcast or the live
- 22:00Speaker 1: radio show, and then I'm gonna have a lot of
- 22:02Speaker 1: problems with my hands. So there was a tremendous amount
- 22:06Speaker 1: of profanity. Alf. There was you know F this, you
- 22:11Speaker 1: know you know this. I mean, I'm trying to think
- 22:13Speaker 1: about all the most of them started with F. But
- 22:17Speaker 1: then in Moxie. I felt bad for Moxie because Moxie
- 22:19Speaker 1: was like, what will you want? May do you idiots
- 22:22Speaker 1: gave me too much pumpkin? You know it's like vomiting.
- 22:26Speaker 1: So anyway, Reggie from Detroit writes in he says, Ben
- 22:30Speaker 1: and Danny, Ben, I wanted to let you do I
- 22:32Speaker 1: really enjoyed newby Night this week. Why don't you do
- 22:34Speaker 1: it more often on the overnight show? We need to
- 22:37Speaker 1: find some new regulars for the show. As from Reggie
- 22:40Speaker 1: in Detroit. I agree, Reggie, great feedback. I thought it
- 22:43Speaker 1: was a fun night newby Night. And the reason we
- 22:46Speaker 1: don't do it more often is because then it loses
- 22:49Speaker 1: all of its charm and it's not special. And we're
- 22:52Speaker 1: gonna do it once a month. We were two for
- 22:54Speaker 1: two so far, and I want you got Reggie, I
- 22:57Speaker 1: want you to send me an email and you know
- 22:59Speaker 1: you who whoever else is interested in this, let me know.
- 23:02Speaker 1: We get late in the month of March and I've forgotten,
- 23:05Speaker 1: say hey, dummy, do the damn newby Night. I want
- 23:09Speaker 1: to do one every month all year, and that at
- 23:12Speaker 1: least one, at least one man in the summer, we'll
- 23:15Speaker 1: have more than one. But it's cool. It's the word
- 23:19Speaker 1: I will use is therapeutic. I believe it is therapeutic. Sometimes, Danny,
- 23:24Speaker 1: and you know this, you get into a rut you
- 23:26Speaker 1: think there's only the same ten people or whatever that
- 23:29Speaker 1: listen to the show that call in, And then it's
- 23:33Speaker 1: nice to have a whole bunch of different people that
- 23:36Speaker 1: you don't normally talk to that appreciate the show. So
- 23:40Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. Love the newby Night. But that's
- 23:43Speaker 1: why we don't do it. A Scott from Northern Kentucky
- 23:47Speaker 1: rites in on the mail bag. He says, Ben and Danny,
- 23:51Speaker 1: when when was the last time you ran out of gas?
- 23:54Speaker 1: If ever? Also, is it just me? But why is
- 23:59Speaker 1: it every time I get in my wife's car to drive,
- 24:03Speaker 1: it's always on empty? He says. And then, oh, and
- 24:07Speaker 1: don't be fooled by the lunatic blind Scott about going
- 24:11Speaker 1: to a little pony convention. Men who go to this
- 24:16Speaker 1: are called bronis and they are twisted. Just Google. That's
- 24:21Speaker 1: Scott in Northern Kentucky. I have never run out of gas.
- 24:28Speaker 1: I have come very close. There was the time I
- 24:31Speaker 1: was at I tried to time and I had about
- 24:33Speaker 1: ten miles When I got in the car. The gas
- 24:36Speaker 1: station on my GPS said it was like nine miles
- 24:39Speaker 1: away and I was actually in Pasadena coasting down the hill,
- 24:45Speaker 1: and all the gas stations close at night. So I
- 24:48Speaker 1: was like, I went by a couple of gas stations,
- 24:49Speaker 1: they were closed, and I kept going. I was coasting,
- 24:53Speaker 1: I had no gas, and I made it. I had
- 24:57Speaker 1: to have like a mile to go by the time
- 24:59Speaker 1: I rolled into that gas station, the one that I
- 25:01Speaker 1: found that was open. And I agree with you, Scott.
- 25:04Speaker 1: In northern Kentucky, my wife's car is almost always empty,
- 25:08Speaker 1: and she just assumes I'm just the gas guy.
- 25:11Speaker 3: This is a universal thing. Man, same here. And not
- 25:15Speaker 3: only do they not like to fill their cars up
- 25:18Speaker 3: with gas, but they also just use the inside of
- 25:21Speaker 3: their car as a wastebasket fertilized.
- 25:25Speaker 1: It's not a pretty situation. It's not. And the gas thing,
- 25:31Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind getting gas, I don't hate it,
- 25:33Speaker 1: so it's not that big a deal. But at least
- 25:36Speaker 1: to me, you should always have enough where if there
- 25:39Speaker 1: is an emergency and you need to get out of town,
- 25:42Speaker 1: you got enough to get out of town.
- 25:43Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Danny, You're supposed to keep
- 25:46Speaker 3: that fuel tank filled up, because what happens is when
- 25:49Speaker 3: you get to the bottom of the tank, starts getting
- 25:51Speaker 3: the grit and gravel from that tank into your system
- 25:55Speaker 3: and that's not good.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not great. And there's some things coming up here.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Scott's at Northern Kentucky, which is southern Cincinnati, so hopefully
- 26:06Speaker 1: i'll meet Scott. I think I will. We do the
- 26:08Speaker 1: Ohio meet and greet where we are kind of looking
- 26:12Speaker 1: at some dates for Boston and Ohio and it looks like,
- 26:18Speaker 1: you know, not under us insure on both, but like
- 26:20Speaker 1: one will be in April, probably one will be in
- 26:22Speaker 1: May or June, just to give you guys a heads up,
- 26:26Speaker 1: but we'll let you know when we have firm firm
- 26:29Speaker 1: dates out back John and Joanna from SOCOL writing says
- 26:33Speaker 1: Big Ben and Danny g. I am so sick of
- 26:37Speaker 1: these Seahawks fans like j J and Brinton pretending like
- 26:42Speaker 1: the two points that the refs gave them did not
- 26:46Speaker 1: mean anything. I was watching that game and I was
- 26:48Speaker 1: so confused as everyone else was to what happened. Bad
- 26:52Speaker 1: job by the officials. Talk about that Ram game in
- 26:55Speaker 1: the regular season on that Thursday night.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Rams have something to say about this
- 27:00Speaker 3: with the rules committee.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Yeah, goods. It's ridiculous. If everyone stops on the play,
- 27:05Speaker 1: you play to the whistle the referee blew the whistle.
- 27:08Speaker 1: The play is done at that point. You can't give
- 27:11Speaker 1: two points after the whistle, and they did. It's so
- 27:15Speaker 1: stupid it is. Now to the mailback question. We can
- 27:19Speaker 1: all agree that ranch dressing is the devil's blood.
- 27:23Speaker 3: And I know Ben speak for yourself money, and I.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Know Ben is not a salad guy. But are there
- 27:28Speaker 1: any salad dressings that you like that's from outback? John? Yes? John, Yes,
- 27:35Speaker 1: I will have on my burger Thousand Island dressing as
- 27:39Speaker 1: a topping on my burger. And the greatest honey mustard
- 27:43Speaker 1: dip sauce you can buy at a grocery store is
- 27:45Speaker 1: called Kens. It's actually a salad dressing. It's Ken's honey
- 27:49Speaker 1: mustard and it is the bomb dot com. So those
- 27:52Speaker 1: are the two that I would go to. And sometimes
- 27:56Speaker 1: as a marinade, I normally make chicken a big, a
- 28:01Speaker 1: big giant thing of chicken for the week and then
- 28:03Speaker 1: cut it up into little pieces and have that as
- 28:05Speaker 1: our food. So I'll do that and I'll use Italian
- 28:08Speaker 1: dressing as the marinade on that. So those are the
- 28:12Speaker 1: three that I would use. I don't eat salad. I
- 28:16Speaker 1: me and myself Puka, Nakua, and al Michaels are all
- 28:21Speaker 1: anti salad, so we don't believe in the salad. Danny,
- 28:24Speaker 1: your favorite salad dressing.
- 28:26Speaker 3: Caesar is really good. A chicken caesar salad.
- 28:30Speaker 1: I've not had that. I've not had that.
- 28:32Speaker 3: Yeah, Caesar is good, and then balsamic is a good one.
- 28:35Speaker 3: If you're ever out on the West coast and Cali.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Great barbecue restaurant we have here called wood Ranch, and
- 28:42Speaker 3: they have a Jenny salad walnuts and blue cheese and balsamic.
- 28:48Speaker 3: It is so good there you go there.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Well, he's actually he lives out here. John is in.
- 28:55Speaker 1: He's he's the he's the man out near where I
- 28:59Speaker 1: used to live about in the Glendora, Covina that area.
- 29:04Speaker 1: I think they're out that way.
- 29:05Speaker 3: You go google it, type in wood Ranch closest to me. Oh,
- 29:09Speaker 3: by the way, I messed up my side pieces name
- 29:12Speaker 3: with balsamic, not Jenny. That was an next Natalie salad.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Okay, well, then say one name. It's all that.
- 29:21Speaker 3: It's hard to get your salad chicks named straight.
- 29:29Speaker 1: All right, Scott from Florida, Right, since says Ben and
- 29:32Speaker 1: Danny g I live in God's waiting room, Florida, and
- 29:36Speaker 1: I am not sure there is any worse situation than
- 29:40Speaker 1: getting behind an old lady at the cold cuts counter
- 29:43Speaker 1: at the supermarket. They always ask for samples. They want
- 29:48Speaker 1: like a quarter pounds slice thin of eight different items,
- 29:53Speaker 1: when all I want is one easy item that would
- 29:56Speaker 1: take a minute. Oh God, you're you're a preacher of
- 29:59Speaker 1: the KOI here, Scott. I I go to the deli
- 30:03Speaker 1: usually every other week. I'll get like a pound of
- 30:06Speaker 1: thin cut pastrami, and oh the nightmare. I should do
- 30:12Speaker 1: a rant about that. I mean, I I every week
- 30:16Speaker 1: I go to the to the Why I don't go
- 30:19Speaker 1: every week? But every time I go to the Delhi,
- 30:20Speaker 1: there's always something, whether it's the person behind the counter
- 30:24Speaker 1: that you know doesn't want to be there, or the
- 30:27Speaker 1: as as Scott reverenced, that old woman, just in general
- 30:31Speaker 1: the grocery store. Like, I feel like there's these people
- 30:34Speaker 1: that have nothing, they have no outlet, and I feel
- 30:37Speaker 1: bad for them, But you're really effing up my day.
- 30:40Speaker 1: I just want to get in and out. I don't
- 30:42Speaker 1: want to sit there and have a conversation. Like the
- 30:45Speaker 1: main reason I don't like going to Trader Joe's is
- 30:47Speaker 1: because there's no self checkout. You are forced in to
- 30:51Speaker 1: a conversation with the people at Trader Joe's, and it's
- 30:54Speaker 1: always like, it's so annoying. But I feel your pain,
- 31:00Speaker 1: he says, I feel your pain. Your pain. It comes
- 31:03Speaker 1: down to walking away or blowing up twenty minutes of
- 31:06Speaker 1: my life for my lunch, he says. Is LA traffic
- 31:10Speaker 1: like the cold Cuts line every day? That is Scott
- 31:14Speaker 1: from Florida. Yeah, it is. It is a nightm othough
- 31:18Speaker 1: to be fair, I mean, it's terrible in Boston, it's
- 31:20Speaker 1: terrible in New York. I me, there's a lot of
- 31:22Speaker 1: every Bay major city. It's it's terrible. I'm lucky on
- 31:26Speaker 1: the overnight. I don't really have to deal with it
- 31:28Speaker 1: very much. Danny, You've got the worst possible shift for
- 31:31Speaker 1: traffic you could have because of the skip, so you're
- 31:35Speaker 1: getting it both ways.
- 31:36Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks going there, and it sucks even worse
- 31:39Speaker 3: going home in the evening.
- 31:41Speaker 1: It's not Yeah, it's exactly. Steve from Tampa says, Hey,
- 31:47Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g a polarizing issue this week with
- 31:52Speaker 1: all going that's going on in the world. Are you
- 31:54Speaker 1: okay with President Trump serving McDonald's to the Olympic hockey
- 31:58Speaker 1: heroes at the White House, China. There were some people
- 32:02Speaker 1: upset by this, that's Steve and yeah, yeah, I don't
- 32:05Speaker 1: hasn't he been doing that the whole time, Like what's
- 32:07Speaker 1: the big deal?
- 32:08Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been an ongoing thing. You know. I think
- 32:12Speaker 3: people were surprised by this the first time he did it.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Remember it was a college championship team that he first
- 32:18Speaker 3: served McDonald's two back in the day.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves McDonald's. It's some great American company. And
- 32:24Speaker 1: he served double cheeseburgers to the I guess at the
- 32:27Speaker 1: White House. And but yeah, it's one of those things, Danny,
- 32:30Speaker 1: if you're on the other side of the aisle, if
- 32:32Speaker 1: you're a partisan, if Trump served prime rib to the
- 32:37Speaker 1: US Olympic hockey team, the story would have been Trump
- 32:40Speaker 1: wasting tax dollars buying prime rib for US hockey team.
- 32:44Speaker 1: You know, whatever he does, they're going to kill So
- 32:47Speaker 1: it's like that's just the way the way it is
- 32:49Speaker 1: in that political world. But it's fine. Just listen.
- 32:54Speaker 3: The guys looked like they were having fun, so.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Which upset people. They were having a good time. Kevin
- 33:00Speaker 1: from Columbus, Ohio Rights and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny,
- 33:04Speaker 1: you guys for the Ohio Meet and greet if you
- 33:06Speaker 1: can make it out here later this month at the
- 33:10Speaker 1: Great Wolf Lodge here in Ohio, they're gonna be selling
- 33:15Speaker 1: a ranch dressing milkshake.
- 33:19Speaker 3: Let's go.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to you go out there? You should
- 33:22Speaker 1: do a remote, Danny.
- 33:23Speaker 3: So, yeah, that sounds delicious.
- 33:25Speaker 1: The resort for a limited time ranch milkshake, it says
- 33:29Speaker 1: at its locations. Isn't there a southern I think there's
- 33:32Speaker 1: a southern California location. Anyway.
- 33:34Speaker 3: I'm saying that because I know how much you hate ranch,
- 33:37Speaker 3: But honestly, as much as I do like ranch, I'm
- 33:40Speaker 3: not gonna hang on a freaking milkshake made out of ranch.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Here it is, Danny. You got vanilla ice cream blended
- 33:45Speaker 1: with real ranch dressing. Doesn't stop there. They've got topped
- 33:49Speaker 1: with crispy chicken, carrots, celery whipped cream, and finished with
- 33:55Speaker 1: a sweet salty lime rhyme. Yeah, a rim rather rims.
- 34:00Speaker 1: So there you go, Diabeas. Yeah, all right, Kevin, why
- 34:04Speaker 1: don't you go eat two of those? And then when
- 34:06Speaker 1: you're done vomiting, let me know how it is. Okay.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Randy from Dallas writes in he says, Ben, you talk
- 34:15Speaker 1: about science and those things merging with the real world.
- 34:20Speaker 1: They say cutting edge AI controlled cockroaches that carry cutting
- 34:26Speaker 1: edge technology. Apparently it's it's it's real military use. Cockroaches
- 34:33Speaker 1: have been created for military use here. So okay, I
- 34:40Speaker 1: don't know what you want to do with that, Randy,
- 34:41Speaker 1: but I guess that's wonderful. And everything's straight up a
- 34:46Speaker 1: science fiction movie or a video game and all that.
- 34:50Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a bunch of other ones. I
- 34:51Speaker 1: don't know anyone. We've done enough for your Lance from
- 34:56Speaker 1: the Bay Area sent a viral video clip. Did you
- 34:59Speaker 1: see this, Danny? The construction clip from somewhere in I
- 35:04Speaker 1: think this is an asia where the guys in the
- 35:07Speaker 1: porta potty and the excavator destroys the porta potty while
- 35:11Speaker 1: the guy's taking a dik. Yeah. I actually went not that,
- 35:16Speaker 1: but I was at a Bills game, the only Bills
- 35:18Speaker 1: game I've ever been to, and this guy, this guy
- 35:24Speaker 1: went in there to the porta potty with a Miami
- 35:27Speaker 1: Dolphin jersey on. It was not I was not at
- 35:30Speaker 1: a Bill Dolphin. It was a Bills Titans game. But
- 35:32Speaker 1: it was the guy. The guy went in there with
- 35:35Speaker 1: a dolphin jersey on and they tipped the thing over
- 35:38Speaker 1: and it he came out with a Browns jersey on.
- 35:42Speaker 1: It was not not good, Danny. It was horrific.
- 35:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 35:47Speaker 1: That guy could have died though in the video because that.
- 35:51Speaker 3: He went in as Tua and he came out as
- 35:53Speaker 3: Deshaan Watson.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but did the porta potty That excavator almost
- 35:59Speaker 1: hit the guy in the head. Well, he was dropping
- 36:01Speaker 1: a deuce. That's uh.
- 36:04Speaker 3: It almost it almost looked like AI.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Was it AI or was it real?
- 36:09Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't check it, did you. I know,
- 36:13Speaker 3: I assume everything is fake.
- 36:16Speaker 1: I know, I know. The thing that drives me nuts
- 36:18Speaker 1: is that some dudes have come up with the fake
- 36:20Speaker 1: women on the guys. Guys are so stupid. They're making
- 36:25Speaker 1: money as influencers and it's just a.
- 36:28Speaker 3: Did you see, man, did you see the story from
- 36:31Speaker 3: the Sports World a few days ago where high school
- 36:34Speaker 3: kids are using AI to fake their football hates that
- 36:38Speaker 3: they're sending to a collegies.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Yeah, God, I don't blame them, man.
- 36:46Speaker 3: If you're so now, these scouts they're gonna have to
- 36:48Speaker 3: see it with their own eyes. They're not gonna know
- 36:50Speaker 3: what's real and what's fake.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, No, welcome to the world we live in.
- 36:57Speaker 1: On that note, Danny, we will get out. I will
- 36:59Speaker 1: be back tonight to begin the new week on the radio,
- 37:04Speaker 1: kicking off the weekday lineup, bouncing off the walls.
- 37:07Speaker 3: No AI on the overnight show.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Guaranteed human, that's right, baby, as long as iHeart keeps
- 37:12Speaker 1: that slogan, guaranteed human. And they didn't say guaranteed, not
- 37:16Speaker 1: voice tracked, but guaranteed human. And I'm kidding, ah, but
- 37:19Speaker 1: we will be there tonight all night and then all week.
- 37:22Speaker 1: No days off this week, no days off for the
- 37:25Speaker 1: foreseeable future. And so, Danny, what is your schedule?
- 37:28Speaker 3: Like?
- 37:28Speaker 1: Everything normal for you guys?
- 37:30Speaker 3: At normal Monday through Friday afternoon drive for us on
- 37:35Speaker 3: the Covino and Rich Show. That is two to four
- 37:37Speaker 3: pm on the West side, five to seven pm in
- 37:40Speaker 3: beautiful Saint Louis, Missouri.
- 37:42Speaker 1: All right, and we'll be on tonight. I'll be on
- 37:45Speaker 1: at eleven pm two am Monday in the East. And
- 37:49Speaker 1: have a great day, enjoy yourself. We'll talk to you
- 37:51Speaker 1: next time later.
- 37:53Speaker 3: Excavator got a murder. I gotta go