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- 0:00Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
- 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 in.
- 0:29Speaker 3: The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me Ben Maler
- 0:34Speaker 3: and Danny g Radio and a Happy Sunday Sunday Sunday.
- 0:41Speaker 1: It is Selection Sunday.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Later today, get your bracket ready, as we will become
- 0:48Speaker 4: Danny professional Bracketologist. Selection Sunday a day unlike any other
- 0:53Speaker 4: when everyone tries to get that perfect bracket. We'll see
- 0:56Speaker 4: all the odds posted that you have a better chance
- 1:01Speaker 4: of finding out how to solve you cancer then getting
- 1:05Speaker 4: a perfect bracket and all that. But today it is
- 1:08Speaker 4: the greatest day of them all, Selection Sunday. Well, I
- 1:11Speaker 4: don't think the greatest day of them all, but later
- 1:13Speaker 4: on today, so excited about that. And it is also
- 1:16Speaker 4: this being studied the day before Saint Patrick's Day, so
- 1:21Speaker 4: a lot of celebrating it. There's also no selfie Day today.
- 1:26Speaker 4: You're supposed to not do any selfies today, Danny. It's
- 1:29Speaker 4: a new holiday, no selfie day, do not do a
- 1:32Speaker 4: selfie day.
- 1:33Speaker 1: I did see a.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Video, speaking of selfies, I saw a video the other
- 1:35Speaker 4: day making the rounds.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I don't think I send to you.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Have you seen the video of people taking selfies with
- 1:44Speaker 4: wild animals, and the wild animals then like attack them.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Have you seen that?
- 1:50Speaker 2: No?
- 1:51Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. Yeah.
- 1:53Speaker 4: These people are like in different locations and they're trying
- 1:56Speaker 4: to do like a little selfie and the animals that
- 1:57Speaker 4: I have none of it, and goes bananas on the people,
- 2:03Speaker 4: like you head budding them or biting.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Them, And let me send this it right now. It
- 2:09Speaker 1: is really funny. It just popped in my head because
- 2:12Speaker 1: of no selfie day to day, which is really like.
- 2:16Speaker 5: No, no, this is something Klay, Travis and I can talk
- 2:18Speaker 5: about on the Animal Thunderdome podcast.
- 2:20Speaker 4: No no, your son is going to be hosting that. Remember,
- 2:22Speaker 4: your son will be getting that. Cole will be hosting
- 2:25Speaker 4: that y and then one of Clay's kids will be
- 2:29Speaker 4: hosting it.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You are not.
- 2:31Speaker 4: We determined long ago that that that's the way that's
- 2:34Speaker 4: gonna go now.
- 2:34Speaker 1: But all right, I send it to you can check
- 2:36Speaker 1: it out. There's some funny videos.
- 2:37Speaker 4: And there's like twenty or thirty different clips of people
- 2:42Speaker 4: just trying to get a selfie.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Be all cool and all that. Now, didn't you know
- 2:45Speaker 1: the first selfie?
- 2:47Speaker 4: This one knows a fun fact for Alfhi alien O
- 2:50Speaker 4: Piner in Springfield, mass the very first selfie. Robert Cornelius
- 2:56Speaker 4: took the first selfie in the United States in eighteen
- 3:00Speaker 4: thirty nine. Put that in your pipe and smoke at
- 3:03Speaker 4: eighteen thirty nine. The instant camera like Polaroid game affordable
- 3:09Speaker 4: nineteen seventies. Have you did you find the video? Did
- 3:12Speaker 4: you get the video? Now you're checking out the clip there?
- 3:15Speaker 4: Did it come through?
- 3:16Speaker 5: Yeah? It's still good.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Animal Thunderdome Department right there.
- 3:20Speaker 5: I'm I'm gonna save this for my son.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be perfect. I co would love that.
- 3:28Speaker 4: I don't think if there's any whale.
- 3:29Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think there's whales in there. Maybe
- 3:31Speaker 1: there are.
- 3:32Speaker 4: You gotta take cole whale watching though, although I call
- 3:35Speaker 4: it dolphin watching because mostly you only see dolphins. Every
- 3:39Speaker 4: time I've gone out whale watching. I've seen dolphins. I've
- 3:42Speaker 4: only seen whales like twice.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Once.
- 3:44Speaker 4: You know where there's good whale watching is in Santa Barbara.
- 3:48Speaker 4: There's some pretty good whale watching in Santa Barbara, at
- 3:51Speaker 4: least that's where I saw my whales.
- 3:53Speaker 5: Whale but not.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Like in Newport. Each mostly dolphins.
- 4:03Speaker 5: Will I saw a lot of overeaters when I visited Idaho,
- 4:06Speaker 5: so CoA would be saying, well, a lot if he
- 4:09Speaker 5: visited Idaho.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Well, well, well, well, well, well well well well.
- 4:15Speaker 4: Before no, no, not at all. All right, let's get
- 4:19Speaker 4: before we get to the mail bag. I did have
- 4:21Speaker 4: a phrase of.
- 4:24Speaker 5: The week mail bag edition of phrase of the week.
- 4:29Speaker 4: All right, phrase of the week. Now, this is in
- 4:31Speaker 4: honor of Saint Patti's day.
- 4:35Speaker 1: It is related. Let me explain.
- 4:37Speaker 4: Gift of gab. Gift of gab is the phrase of
- 4:40Speaker 4: the week. Some will say that you, Danny, have the
- 4:42Speaker 4: gift of gab. People have said I have the gift
- 4:45Speaker 4: gift of gab. I do not believe I do, because
- 4:47Speaker 4: I'm pretty quiet when I'm not working.
- 4:50Speaker 1: But there are people that never turn off the on
- 4:53Speaker 1: air light. They are always on. Much like that high school.
- 4:57Speaker 4: It sounds like that high school official Danny that you
- 4:59Speaker 4: were dealing with, and you told the story yesterday. It
- 5:02Speaker 4: was someone that had the gift of gab and just kept.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Going and going and going anyway.
- 5:06Speaker 4: The whole phrase gift of gab originated around sixteen eighty,
- 5:14Speaker 4: so mid to late sixteen hundreds. By the late seventeen hundreds,
- 5:20Speaker 4: so about one hundred years after that, gab was used
- 5:23Speaker 4: in English to refer to chatter, much like it is,
- 5:25Speaker 4: you know, gabby or gabin or whatever I think gabby,
- 5:30Speaker 4: but chatter, and the adjective gabby came about to describe
- 5:35Speaker 4: someone who is just talking, you know, just a kid,
- 5:38Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah. Remember, of course, over time this
- 5:43Speaker 4: has become a regularly regularly used word gabby in the
- 5:48Speaker 4: American and English lexicon the Western world. But the term
- 5:53Speaker 4: gift of gab is not something that you were born with.
- 5:57Speaker 4: According to the legend, you can acquire at any point
- 6:01Speaker 4: in your life.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Now how do you acquire it?
- 6:03Speaker 4: All you have to do is kiss the Blarney Stone,
- 6:08Speaker 4: the famous Irish Blarney Stone in honor of Saint Patti's Day,
- 6:11Speaker 4: the giant block of limestone in Ireland, and that is
- 6:17Speaker 4: the legend is that if you go there. Blarney is
- 6:20Speaker 4: a small town in Ireland, although it's known worldwide, it
- 6:25Speaker 4: dates back. The significance dates back to the thirteen hundreds
- 6:29Speaker 4: and the historical Kingdom of Desmond assisted the Scots against
- 6:34Speaker 4: the England England and the.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Battle of badock Burn. If I'm saying that right anyway,
- 6:41Speaker 1: don't You don't get in the whole history.
- 6:43Speaker 4: But that's the legend. It started originally all the way
- 6:46Speaker 4: back in the thirteen notes. But the modern time term
- 6:51Speaker 4: gab as in just talk talk talk, talk talk, and
- 6:55Speaker 4: gift of gab is a reference to the Irish Blarney Stones.
- 7:00Speaker 4: If you say somebody's got the gift of gab, they
- 7:03Speaker 4: kissed the Blarnie stone.
- 7:05Speaker 1: It's all related together. Enough of that, let's get to
- 7:07Speaker 1: the letters. Letters, letters, letters, MAYL mail, mayo, mayl mail.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Let's go. It's mail.
- 7:28Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, ohio Al appreciate that first one up
- 7:31Speaker 4: is from j in no Ho.
- 7:36Speaker 1: That's no North Hollywood. Get your mind out of the gutter.
- 7:39Speaker 4: And so callis has been joy you on this week
- 7:43Speaker 4: on AM five seventy with Fred Rogan. Liked when you're
- 7:47Speaker 4: forced to talk about the Lakers and you can't rip them.
- 7:50Speaker 4: Will you be making any appearances locally coming up? Well,
- 7:54Speaker 4: Jay A, I'm not. They don't tell me.
- 7:58Speaker 1: To not rip the Lakers. I can rip Theers anytime
- 8:00Speaker 1: I want.
- 8:01Speaker 4: And I don't know where you get that from.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Jay.
- 8:04Speaker 4: It's not the Lakers station. They're the Dodger station. AM
- 8:07Speaker 4: five seventy, the flagship of the Dodgers, and I am.
- 8:12Speaker 4: I am scheduled Jay to fill in tomorrow. I am
- 8:16Speaker 4: going to be on the Rogan Rodney Show, where neither
- 8:21Speaker 4: Rogan or Rodney will be there because they will both
- 8:24Speaker 4: be in Japan for the Dodgers and the Cubs. They
- 8:29Speaker 4: open up, is it Tuesday morning? Tuesday morning, Dodgers and Cubs,
- 8:33Speaker 4: and so they won't.
- 8:34Speaker 5: Can't believe we're gonna have the Dodgers opener already. That
- 8:36Speaker 5: is crazy, Yea, it is wild.
- 8:38Speaker 4: And the reigning champions of baseball, Daddy, the Dodgers, the
- 8:41Speaker 4: ragning champs.
- 8:42Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Well about the Lakers. It's good news though
- 8:46Speaker 5: that you've been a Luca fan since he entered the
- 8:49Speaker 5: NBA seven seasons ago. So Ben mallor well known Big
- 8:54Speaker 5: Luca Guy.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Ukah Luca and Clipper's own Luca.
- 8:58Speaker 4: I just have him in the playoffs several times, or
- 9:02Speaker 4: at least a couple of times.
- 9:03Speaker 5: It's about the only thing the Clippers on.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Yeah, very funny, Okay, Jack Gass, I don't know. The
- 9:10Speaker 4: Lakers appear to be falling apart here.
- 9:12Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 9:12Speaker 5: I don't know, dam or injured without starters.
- 9:16Speaker 4: That's what happens when you have older people and they
- 9:18Speaker 4: get hurt, their injury prone.
- 9:20Speaker 5: I'm just saying that, I don't know. Maybe that gotta
- 9:22Speaker 5: watch out. I mean, you could pull a half of
- 9:24Speaker 5: me and miss a week of your radio show.
- 9:26Speaker 4: That podcast, man, I don't know that podcast. Coach guy,
- 9:30Speaker 4: everything all right there, and things are going tough for
- 9:33Speaker 4: the Lakers.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Not a not a great week.
- 9:35Speaker 5: Here, and so they lose a few in a row.
- 9:38Speaker 5: But when they won nine in a row, you had
- 9:40Speaker 5: nothing to say.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Oh, they played bad teams, mostly wrong.
- 9:45Speaker 4: I'm just saying anyway, but yeah, Jay, I'll be on
- 9:48Speaker 4: with our guy, Jonas Knox. Actually tomorrow I'm scheduled be
- 9:52Speaker 4: under Marrow and possibly another show later later in the week,
- 9:56Speaker 4: although I try to limit that Danny the day night
- 9:59Speaker 4: double header because if I do too much of that,
- 10:02Speaker 4: I want to poke my eyes out with a butcher knife.
- 10:05Speaker 1: So I love doing it and rare.
- 10:08Speaker 4: And appropriate, not all the time, not all the time.
- 10:15Speaker 4: Alf from the first shift right, So he says two
- 10:18Speaker 4: quick questions, Ben and Danny. Do you drive to the
- 10:22Speaker 4: AM five to seventy studios when you fill in or
- 10:24Speaker 4: do you broadcast from the home studio? And how much
- 10:27Speaker 4: fun is it to have do you have yucking it
- 10:29Speaker 4: up with Fred?
- 10:31Speaker 1: I really enjoy your banter.
- 10:32Speaker 4: It seems like you are very comfortable together, like a
- 10:34Speaker 4: couple of guys having a beer at the bar.
- 10:37Speaker 1: That's from Alf. So the magic of a radio.
- 10:43Speaker 4: I never never say if I drive in or not,
- 10:46Speaker 4: but we're brought together on the radio.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Whether I'm there, whether.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Fred's there or Fred's in Palm Springs and I'm somewhere else,
- 10:52Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. But we do the show and I
- 10:56Speaker 4: enjoy working with Fred. I grew up watching Fred on TV.
- 10:59Speaker 4: We had a few battles when I first got into
- 11:02Speaker 4: the media business. Me and Fred had some battles, but
- 11:04Speaker 4: we've made things made up and we're friends now. And
- 11:08Speaker 4: Fred's Fred's a legend man. He's pop up on the
- 11:11Speaker 4: Tonight Show. Back when I was a kid, and that
- 11:12Speaker 4: was like a big deal to be on with Johnny
- 11:14Speaker 4: Carson and all that and Jay Leno and so Fred's
- 11:18Speaker 4: the dean of LA Sports And I'm glad you enjoy
- 11:22Speaker 4: when we do the show off. I'm honored that you listen.
- 11:25Speaker 4: Barry in South Carolina rights and he says yo yo
- 11:28Speaker 4: Ma Benny and Danny g He says, I find helmet
- 11:31Speaker 4: Man's calls fascinating. How much longer do you think the
- 11:34Speaker 4: OJ trial will last for helmet Man? And when the
- 11:38Speaker 4: trial is over, what will he watch then the Menendez
- 11:41Speaker 4: trial or does he rewatch the OJ trial again? That's
- 11:44Speaker 4: from Barry, So helmet Man. Danny has been giving us
- 11:49Speaker 4: live updates for the last month on the OJ Simpson
- 11:53Speaker 4: murder trial. Nobody else has that content. We're the only one,
- 11:57Speaker 4: We're the only ones. This is on par with the
- 12:00Speaker 4: Titanic sinking. When you had that breaking news. Uh, yeah,
- 12:04Speaker 4: that was one of the That was one of the
- 12:05Speaker 4: great nights. Mars Marcel in Uh, Marcel and Brooklyn breaking
- 12:10Speaker 4: the breaking the news. Nobody else broke that news. Were
- 12:12Speaker 4: the first ones that reported the Titanic was false.
- 12:17Speaker 5: Last time that news was broken, it was done. Morse code.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Yeah, there was no radio when the Titanic hit the icebery,
- 12:24Speaker 4: so literally the only time in the history of radio
- 12:27Speaker 4: that he's that story was broken was courtesy of Marcel
- 12:32Speaker 4: in Brooklyn. Oh my god, Oh my gosh, the stuff
- 12:36Speaker 4: that's happened on the Overnight show. Danny, you were here
- 12:39Speaker 4: for the once you You were there for that, weren't you?
- 12:40Speaker 4: Was that when you were there? Were you gone by then?
- 12:43Speaker 5: I was driving in for the Klae Travis show when
- 12:45Speaker 5: you and Roberto and Eddie broke that news with Marcel.
- 12:48Speaker 4: That was that was great. I can't believe that didn't
- 12:51Speaker 4: get picked up by the by the media. That should
- 12:53Speaker 4: have been a big story.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's by Bart.
- 12:56Speaker 4: I'm trying to think what other famous trials happened around
- 12:59Speaker 4: the Menendez trial. Is a good one that's about thirty
- 13:01Speaker 4: years old. What else famous trials? Mick Martin preschool remember
- 13:08Speaker 4: that one? The preschool one? And I don't know that
- 13:11Speaker 4: was his big game.
- 13:12Speaker 5: Yeah, he might have a jfk assassination to cover good one.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Oh you could do the I'm trying to think.
- 13:20Speaker 4: There was something that popped in my head and just
- 13:21Speaker 4: popped out of my head, and I wanted to pop
- 13:22Speaker 4: back in my head, so I can mention it. Famous trial.
- 13:25Speaker 4: How about the Mike Tyson rape trial? Remember that one
- 13:28Speaker 4: that there was a that that took place. Was that
- 13:30Speaker 4: in the two thousands or the late nineties? I don't remember,
- 13:33Speaker 4: want to say that was the nineties nineties. Okay, so
- 13:36Speaker 4: there's that one. Famous trials for a thousand.
- 13:40Speaker 1: I'm trying to try.
- 13:42Speaker 5: You could do you about the Michael Jackson trial in
- 13:45Speaker 5: Santa Maria, California.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Oh?
- 13:46Speaker 4: Yeah, we had charge was it Charger Dodger Eric?
- 13:52Speaker 1: That guy didn't call anymore. I don't know if he's
- 13:53Speaker 1: still around.
- 13:54Speaker 4: Charger Dodger Eric called us from from Michael Jackson's ranch.
- 14:01Speaker 4: There was a big rally in support of Michael Jackson
- 14:03Speaker 4: while all that was going down, and he got on
- 14:07Speaker 4: a bus. There was like buses picking up dudes in
- 14:09Speaker 4: LA and driving him out to Michael Jackson's.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Was it never Land Ranch? Right? Used to hang out
- 14:14Speaker 1: there when you were younger, right, Danny, never Land Ranch.
- 14:18Speaker 5: No, I went there at a much later age when
- 14:20Speaker 5: I was programming a radio station there in the Pismo
- 14:23Speaker 5: Beach area.
- 14:24Speaker 4: Oh okay, I thought maybe when you were younger, you
- 14:26Speaker 4: and Michael hung out, you know, you know whatever.
- 14:28Speaker 1: But no, no, it never never took place.
- 14:30Speaker 5: Nope, you got me confused with Corey Feldman.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Oh boy, hello for.
- 14:34Speaker 5: One of the Corey's. I forget which Corey.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:38Speaker 4: They speaking of trials. I saw the other day. People
- 14:41Speaker 4: were like stunned at the Diddy. The didd he look right,
- 14:45Speaker 4: he showed up, he pled, not guilty. There were some
- 14:49Speaker 4: new allegations made against him, and people are like, whoa,
- 14:54Speaker 4: his appearance is much different there, he changed his appearance.
- 14:58Speaker 1: He's got white hair and a white beech weird. Are
- 15:01Speaker 1: you not allowed to dye your hair in jail? Is
- 15:04Speaker 1: that why he has that? Or are you allowed to?
- 15:06Speaker 1: I don't know the rules on that, but.
- 15:09Speaker 5: That's a great question. Or or do you look to shoveled?
- 15:15Speaker 5: Is that like his defense lawyer's tactic. One of the
- 15:18Speaker 5: tactics like, dude, look like a shell of yourself so
- 15:22Speaker 5: people can feel pity on you.
- 15:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I that is something that they'll do in court.
- 15:28Speaker 4: But he's stopped obviously he was coloring his hair. He
- 15:31Speaker 4: stopped coloring his How old is Diddy now? He's in
- 15:33Speaker 4: his fifties or is he older than that?
- 15:35Speaker 5: I want to say he's pushing mid late fifties. Gotta
- 15:39Speaker 5: be yeah, fifty seven. I would guess, okay, something like that.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 15:43Speaker 4: But he obviously was dyeing his hair and he stopped
- 15:46Speaker 4: and his natural hair color came through him. But if
- 15:50Speaker 4: you're not allowed to die your hair, now, the real
- 15:52Speaker 4: test is when you go to trial, right, because you
- 15:54Speaker 4: I thought you want to look professional and dressed up.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Up in your suit and all that if you're allowed
- 16:02Speaker 1: to So, yeah, there's different strategies. I'm not a lawyer, Danny,
- 16:08Speaker 1: but I can play one on the radio or the podcast.
- 16:11Speaker 3: Right.
- 16:12Speaker 5: Oh, and he's going to be fifty six in November.
- 16:15Speaker 4: All right, Well that's about the time no stuff starts
- 16:19Speaker 4: going away, I guess. Kevin in Kansas Rights and you're
- 16:23Speaker 4: listening to the mail bag here on the fifth hour,
- 16:26Speaker 4: potches our guy, Kevin says, dear band, and Danny g
- 16:29Speaker 4: In the past two weeks, on the same stretch of
- 16:31Speaker 4: highway in southwest Kansas, I've driven through a near blizzard
- 16:37Speaker 4: and a driving dust storm, Kevin says, having survived both,
- 16:43Speaker 4: I'm wondering, what's the worst weather you've ever driven through? Yeah,
- 16:47Speaker 4: you want to go first, Danny, worst weather driving experience.
- 16:51Speaker 5: It's Nevada. We drove my cousin and I we were
- 16:54Speaker 5: on a hiking trip. We drove through an electrical storm,
- 16:57Speaker 5: lightning everywhere. It was crazy. I mean you could see
- 17:02Speaker 5: the lightning bolts striking the ground all alongside the freeway
- 17:07Speaker 5: and you just.
- 17:07Speaker 4: Kept motoring on, kept going. You don't want to pull
- 17:10Speaker 4: over in that, right, you want to keep it.
- 17:12Speaker 5: Oh, you got it. You have to keep building.
- 17:14Speaker 4: And this was a southern Nevada or northern Nevada zion area.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Oh, going towards going towards Utah, like so.
- 17:22Speaker 4: The yeah, exactly, Okay, yeah, well the worst, Uh, that
- 17:27Speaker 4: sounds terrible, the worst thing I've ever driven through, other
- 17:30Speaker 4: than like some random snowstorm, which wasn't all that bad.
- 17:33Speaker 4: I was actually driving back from Vegas one time. The
- 17:34Speaker 4: hills on the way to California were covered in snow
- 17:38Speaker 4: and it was not supposed to snow, and we were like,
- 17:41Speaker 4: we were not.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Prepared for it.
- 17:42Speaker 4: But in Buffalo, here we go, Buffalo, here we go.
- 17:47Speaker 4: So years ago, attended a Buffalo Bills game against the
- 17:52Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans. It was early in the season. The only
- 17:55Speaker 4: time I've ever been to a Buffalo Bills game, and
- 17:59Speaker 4: after the game, we were this is the famous story
- 18:02Speaker 4: where we were going to try to get a hotel
- 18:04Speaker 4: room at the last minute, and every hotel in Greater
- 18:08Speaker 4: Buffalo was booked up, so I had to sleep in
- 18:11Speaker 4: my car in right across from the Buffalo Niagara Airport
- 18:17Speaker 4: in the parking lot so we could use the free
- 18:19Speaker 4: Wi Fi for the hotel. We just slept in the
- 18:21Speaker 4: car because they had no vacancies and there was nowhere
- 18:23Speaker 4: to stay. But on that same trip leaving Buffalo heading
- 18:29Speaker 4: back down on the New York Expressway down to Manhattan,
- 18:33Speaker 4: the lake unexpected lake effect. It was not It wasn't
- 18:37Speaker 4: a blizzard or anything like that because it was still
- 18:40Speaker 4: early in the football season. But it was the most
- 18:44Speaker 4: ridiculous rain. It was biblical, is the way I would
- 18:49Speaker 4: describe it. It was biblical the rain. It was so bad.
- 18:54Speaker 4: How bad was it. It was so bad that we
- 18:57Speaker 4: literally stopped on the middle of the road because we
- 19:02Speaker 4: couldn't see in front of us, and we couldn't see
- 19:05Speaker 4: behind us, and we were worried we were going to hit.
- 19:07Speaker 1: A car in front of us.
- 19:09Speaker 4: And it was so bad that I literally stopped in
- 19:13Speaker 4: the middle of the road and because I saw I
- 19:17Speaker 4: thought I saw the car in front stop and I
- 19:20Speaker 4: thought I was gonna die that night.
- 19:21Speaker 1: It was that bad.
- 19:22Speaker 4: I thought, well, we're probably just gonna get hit by
- 19:24Speaker 4: a truck and that'll be lights out.
- 19:26Speaker 1: That's game over, and you know, go back to zero.
- 19:30Speaker 4: And fortunately it was a it was about a five
- 19:33Speaker 4: to ten minute storm that passed over and then it
- 19:38Speaker 4: cleared up and that was It was very bizarre.
- 19:41Speaker 1: But that's the worst.
- 19:43Speaker 4: Worst weather, Kevin Man, that's no joke. I can only imagine.
- 19:48Speaker 4: That's what it's like. But with snow when they have
- 19:50Speaker 4: the and we're seeing it at the Bills games, right
- 19:52Speaker 4: when they have one or two games a year that
- 19:55Speaker 4: are played in white out conditions, and it's the same
- 19:58Speaker 4: frickin thing. It's just and that's what happens.
- 20:01Speaker 1: So you mentioned Livy, has it got to be wide
- 20:04Speaker 1: out racist? Now it's we're good now, Danny, Remember we're good.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Things have changed. It's twenty twenty five. We're all right now.
- 20:13Speaker 5: And by the way, awesome question there. Thank you for
- 20:16Speaker 5: letting us relive those traumatic experiences. Yeah.
- 20:19Speaker 4: Yeah, And Kevin lives in Kansas, so he judging by
- 20:22Speaker 4: the week he has those every every every other week.
- 20:25Speaker 4: Uh Cincinnati, Tommy writes, since says, greetings from the Queen City.
- 20:28Speaker 4: Thanks for giving my game show idea a shot. He says,
- 20:32Speaker 4: no doubt it will endure as another Malard classic. I
- 20:35Speaker 4: do believe you have groove two fastballs down the middle
- 20:39Speaker 4: for Loraino so far, Marcel and blind Scott being one
- 20:43Speaker 4: for two. I shudder at the thought of a formidable
- 20:47Speaker 4: Malar Militia opponent squaring off against Lorraine. Uh It says,
- 20:52Speaker 4: thanks for rolling and from work with me every day.
- 20:56Speaker 4: He's a podcaster, Danny Cincinnati Tommy working the dreaded day
- 21:00Speaker 4: shift and he's loves the pod So thank you, tom.
- 21:04Speaker 1: It was a good idea.
- 21:04Speaker 4: We appreciate it, and Lorena loves it because it's all
- 21:07Speaker 4: about Lorena, so she's she's obviously a big fan. And
- 21:11Speaker 4: it seems like it's doing pretty well. We're still trying
- 21:13Speaker 4: to work out some of the kings. It's still in
- 21:15Speaker 4: the beta phase where we're still trying to master it
- 21:18Speaker 4: and we'll get there.
- 21:20Speaker 5: You know. It's scary, and I feel like you should
- 21:22Speaker 5: bring her some sort of gift to the studios next week,
- 21:25Speaker 5: because she never gets any kind of you know, acknowledgement
- 21:29Speaker 5: or anything.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Yeah, it's now at the point where when I run
- 21:36Speaker 4: into people at work and I don't see a lot
- 21:38Speaker 4: of people, I'll get there early. Sometimes I'll see some
- 21:40Speaker 4: of the people during the Jason Smith show that are
- 21:42Speaker 4: wandering around the building and it's always, hey, you know,
- 21:44Speaker 4: there's a couple of packages for Lorraina over there. It's
- 21:46Speaker 4: like every every person I see, they don't even say
- 21:49Speaker 4: hello to me. You know, there's some packages over there
- 21:51Speaker 4: that's got Lorainer's name on it. What is in the
- 21:53Speaker 4: you know, it's like, oh my god.
- 21:54Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a it's a running joke now at the
- 21:57Speaker 5: studios when we sit down for the Coveno and Rich
- 22:00Speaker 5: pre show meeting, we don't even have to look at
- 22:03Speaker 5: who the boxes are addressed to. In the male area
- 22:06Speaker 5: by the white desk there, it's just, oh, look, Lorena
- 22:10Speaker 5: has two boxes today.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Yeah, it's insane.
- 22:13Speaker 4: I told her, I said, you're getting more male than
- 22:16Speaker 4: Colin Cowherd. You're getting more male and like George Nori
- 22:19Speaker 4: all these big time radio people, Lorena is beloved by
- 22:23Speaker 4: the Malad militia.
- 22:24Speaker 1: I don't know why this is. Can you explain why
- 22:26Speaker 1: that is? Danny.
- 22:28Speaker 5: Yeah, because we have some thirsty men listening to the
- 22:31Speaker 5: network and if there's a female voice, if there's a
- 22:34Speaker 5: female with a pulse, they go nuts.
- 22:36Speaker 1: That is generally true.
- 22:38Speaker 4: I will point out though for the record, now I
- 22:41Speaker 4: have and with a boot job.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Well that doesn't hurt, and very open about that.
- 22:45Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you kind of hide that ladies, but
- 22:47Speaker 4: she's very open by it. But the thing too, I've
- 22:49Speaker 4: worked with several women over the years, and you know,
- 22:52Speaker 4: had had good shows with Karen Kay and we had
- 22:55Speaker 4: Moranda Marino as my producer for a while, done shows
- 22:59Speaker 4: with the several deb Carson worked at our place, and
- 23:03Speaker 4: several other fine ladies, but no one has embraced been
- 23:07Speaker 4: embraced quite like Lorena.
- 23:09Speaker 1: It is.
- 23:10Speaker 4: I remember when I worked with Karen and in the
- 23:14Speaker 4: early days, and I love KK, but she got a
- 23:18Speaker 4: lot of like prison mail. They were like dudes in
- 23:20Speaker 4: prison that we're all excited and we're sending her.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Messages and stuff.
- 23:25Speaker 4: But Loraina, these guys aren't in prison, and they're just
- 23:28Speaker 4: like regular super fans of the show, and they love Lorena.
- 23:31Speaker 4: As you said, Danny, a little thirsty and to eat
- 23:35Speaker 4: their own and they just want to spoil Lorena with desserts.
- 23:39Speaker 4: And that's the funny thing. She gets most of its food.
- 23:42Speaker 4: There are some clothes and stuff, but a lot of
- 23:45Speaker 4: its food. And Loraina eats like a bird where she'll
- 23:49Speaker 4: eat a lot, like take a couple of bites of everything.
- 23:51Speaker 1: But she just takes a couple of bites and that's it.
- 23:54Speaker 5: As Eddie used to say, just the taste.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Stop. Yeah, yeah, just a little taste. That's it.
- 24:00Speaker 5: Thank you for that, appreciate it. Let's see here the
- 24:05Speaker 5: person sending Laingerye gift cards. Maybe in prison soon.
- 24:09Speaker 1: She has gotten some of those.
- 24:12Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie Mike in Fullerton, right since says hey, Marathon,
- 24:18Speaker 4: Maller and Danny g wait to pull off the double
- 24:20Speaker 4: shift no problem. Earlier this week, Ben and Danny G.
- 24:23Speaker 4: I'm so sorry Gino Smith is now your quarterback. Danny,
- 24:27Speaker 4: I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. With Chiefs
- 24:30Speaker 4: Kingdom also collapsing and bo Nick's about to enter a
- 24:33Speaker 4: sophomore slump, it looks like the AFC West is ripe
- 24:36Speaker 4: for my chargers to take the division.
- 24:41Speaker 5: Oh you mean the Clippers of the NFL.
- 24:43Speaker 4: You don't have to, You don't have to take a
- 24:45Speaker 4: shot at the Clippers because it is okay. He says,
- 24:48Speaker 4: what do you guys make of chat GPT's prediction of
- 24:51Speaker 4: the next seventy five NBA champions It doesn't think the
- 24:56Speaker 4: Lakers will win another title until twenty forty five, or
- 25:00Speaker 4: that the Clippers will win any uh So that's got
- 25:04Speaker 4: to be an accurate right either way, it's got some
- 25:07Speaker 4: interesting predictions in there. Yeah, he sent a photo here,
- 25:12Speaker 4: you know, come on, it's like that story the other
- 25:14Speaker 4: day the seventy six ers. Darryl Morey's like, oh, yeah,
- 25:17Speaker 4: we have AI artificial intelligence. They get a vote on
- 25:21Speaker 4: what players.
- 25:22Speaker 1: We pick up. Like, what are you doing?
- 25:25Speaker 4: Like, it's it's fun to fight's around with. We're not
- 25:29Speaker 4: we're not quite there. And what happens if they actually
- 25:32Speaker 4: get artificial intelligence that can predict who's going to win
- 25:35Speaker 4: the championship, that'll that'll be the end.
- 25:38Speaker 5: Of Spas Vegas going to deal with.
- 25:39Speaker 4: That exactly right, That's that's back to the future type stuff.
- 25:43Speaker 5: You're you're in the in the Laker thing. You you
- 25:46Speaker 5: being a big Luca fan, you know that that's inaccurate.
- 25:48Speaker 5: It hukah Luca who And it's big on the hookah,
- 25:56Speaker 5: and he's big on the Luca.
- 25:57Speaker 4: What a great nickname, hookah Luca. Such great nickname, man alive,
- 26:02Speaker 4: zach in.
- 26:03Speaker 5: Rich David said, if somebody in LA was a smart entrepreneur,
- 26:06Speaker 5: they would start opening up some hookah spots called Luca's Hookah.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hookah Luca be wonderful.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Yeah, put a picture of Luca on the front of
- 26:16Speaker 5: the building smoking some hookahch.
- 26:19Speaker 4: He ought to open some up, is what he should do,
- 26:22Speaker 4: Zach in Columbus writes in he says, big men, spring
- 26:26Speaker 4: is here, Ohio is calling. We still hope to see
- 26:29Speaker 4: you at the r Bar when you.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Can make the trip. Yeah, I got to get there.
- 26:33Speaker 4: I'm looking at some dates, Zach, and I'll let you
- 26:37Speaker 4: know sometime.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Maybe in June, maybe June. Do the Ohio thing.
- 26:44Speaker 4: I got hopefully Canada in late May, early June. A
- 26:48Speaker 4: lot of traveling. June, July, August, that's usually the time.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Got to get all those trips in before football comes
- 26:56Speaker 4: back around in September. Right, that's the key, Danny, that's
- 26:58Speaker 4: the master plan. Yes, Zach writes, and he says there's
- 27:03Speaker 4: always shenanigans, but this night he has tails from the bar.
- 27:07Speaker 4: This guy's a big time mogul. He runs one of
- 27:10Speaker 4: the coolest bars there in Columbus, and he's invited us
- 27:14Speaker 4: to come to his place. So he says, back in
- 27:17Speaker 4: the day, it was laid on a Sunday night, and
- 27:19Speaker 4: some fellow industry workers from a bar next door came
- 27:22Speaker 4: in after they closed. We stay open till two thirty,
- 27:25Speaker 4: so we always have service industry workers.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah.
- 27:28Speaker 4: And he says he was logging up and someone from
- 27:33Speaker 4: another brewery group went missing.
- 27:36Speaker 1: It was a lady. Her name. Her name is not important.
- 27:41Speaker 4: But Zach said he peeked into the bathroom and he
- 27:45Speaker 4: saw one stall closed with two little arms sticking out.
- 27:49Speaker 1: He tried the door, but it was locked.
- 27:52Speaker 4: He said he didn't want to drag her out to
- 27:54Speaker 4: prevent injury, so he went to the adjacent stall to
- 27:58Speaker 4: hop over and unlocked. He climbed over and this poor
- 28:03Speaker 4: woman was but ass naked, face down.
- 28:09Speaker 1: He said.
- 28:09Speaker 4: It got even worse. Apparently she was in the middle
- 28:12Speaker 4: of going number two and she did not finish the
- 28:18Speaker 4: activity there, Zach says, so he went to unlock the door,
- 28:24Speaker 4: and he said, thank god, one of her co workers.
- 28:26Speaker 4: Was there this guy Timm. He says, okay, he was
- 28:30Speaker 4: a gay guy, and he says, the guy's a hero.
- 28:33Speaker 4: Zach says, fished her close out of the garbage. Apparently
- 28:37Speaker 4: she had thrown her clothes in the garbage and they
- 28:41Speaker 4: had to put her clothes back on, which apparently was
- 28:43Speaker 4: a struggle.
- 28:43Speaker 1: She was a larger woman, the clothes were too.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Small, and Zach said that this is the story he
- 28:50Speaker 4: wanted to share with the class Danny.
- 28:52Speaker 1: So they got an uber for her to go home.
- 28:55Speaker 4: And apparently it was a very messy experience to try
- 28:59Speaker 4: to as you might imagine, just a night at the bar, Danny,
- 29:02Speaker 4: just a night managing the bar.
- 29:04Speaker 1: You never know, you never know what you're gonna get
- 29:06Speaker 1: at the bar. You have no idea. A couple more
- 29:10Speaker 1: quick ones, Reggie, thank you. Zach. By the way, I'll
- 29:13Speaker 1: let you know some dates. We'll see what it works.
- 29:15Speaker 4: I got to make sure Dick and Dayton can be there, though,
- 29:17Speaker 4: because if Dick and Dayton can't be there, I'm not going.
- 29:19Speaker 1: So I got to make sure he's available, Reggie.
- 29:21Speaker 5: From me, he's basically the governor of Ohio.
- 29:24Speaker 1: He is the sovereign nation of Ohio.
- 29:27Speaker 4: Peop will not leave Ohio was fascinat anything in the world.
- 29:31Speaker 4: At least he lives in Ohio and not like Rhode
- 29:33Speaker 4: Island that would be a big problem. Reggie from Detroit says, hey,
- 29:36Speaker 4: Ben and Danny, if you saw this. With college basketball
- 29:39Speaker 4: tournament coming up here soon, Bowling Green's point guard played
- 29:43Speaker 4: three straight games with two broken hands, he says, where
- 29:47Speaker 4: does this rank on your big board of accomplishments? So
- 29:52Speaker 4: I didn't see this. You sent me a link here, Reggie,
- 29:55Speaker 4: so thank you. And Reggie's been a regular emailer off
- 29:58Speaker 4: and on over the years. But I put that behind.
- 30:02Speaker 4: Remember when I think I was working with you, Danny,
- 30:04Speaker 4: I did a week of shows with laryngitis.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
- 30:08Speaker 4: And I I couldn't talk, and I kept doing the
- 30:10Speaker 4: show and no one from management was listening. So I
- 30:13Speaker 4: just kept doing the show because I didn't want to
- 30:16Speaker 4: take a day off and I had laryngitis.
- 30:17Speaker 5: And I was like, he reminded me of Chick hern
- 30:22Speaker 5: trying to keep his record of the most NBA consecutive
- 30:26Speaker 5: play by play games. Oh yeah, and they actually had
- 30:30Speaker 5: him on the air in the first half of a
- 30:32Speaker 5: Lakers game. He could not even speak every other word
- 30:38Speaker 5: you couldn't make out because his laryngitis was so horrible.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, Chicky Burger.
- 30:44Speaker 4: I covered Chick when he did like three thousand consecutive games.
- 30:49Speaker 4: His three thousandth game, it was I think MLK Day
- 30:52Speaker 4: against the Orlando Magic, and they'd given him all these
- 30:56Speaker 4: little trinkets, and I Joe McDonald, who was the afternoon guy,
- 31:01Speaker 4: and I was at that Joe Big Nasty, and Joe
- 31:05Speaker 4: wanted me to have Chick call his show. But at
- 31:09Speaker 4: the Forum at that time, the cell my cell phone
- 31:11Speaker 4: did not work because I guess I had the wrong
- 31:15Speaker 4: cell phone company and it was the Forum. As you know,
- 31:18Speaker 4: it's kind of cavernous still is. So Chick was like
- 31:22Speaker 4: he liked Joe and he wanted to do it, So
- 31:24Speaker 4: I told I told you. So we walked to the
- 31:27Speaker 4: Laker offices at the Forum, me and Chick and Marge
- 31:31Speaker 4: Hearn and Uh. I was carrying the uh he gave.
- 31:36Speaker 4: They give him like a golden basketball and a bunch
- 31:38Speaker 4: of other crap, so I'm holding it because they're, you know,
- 31:41Speaker 4: older people. And we went up to the Laker offices
- 31:44Speaker 4: and Chick called into Joe's show and Joe was so
- 31:46Speaker 4: excited and then we we walked down the stairs with
- 31:51Speaker 4: with Chicky Burger and then he had his car waiting
- 31:55Speaker 4: for him and he took off. But I had to
- 31:56Speaker 4: carry all that crap, and uh, I remember it was
- 31:59Speaker 4: just a random story that popped in my head. I
- 32:00Speaker 4: don't know why I brought that up now, but I did.
- 32:02Speaker 4: That's kind of stupid. Last one, Kevin from Jersey right
- 32:05Speaker 4: since says Ben, I know you're you're a big mascot guy,
- 32:08Speaker 4: and I don't know about Danny. Did you see the
- 32:10Speaker 4: new mister Met. He's now he's now jacked, He's now
- 32:14Speaker 4: a muscle guy.
- 32:15Speaker 1: Are you okay with this?
- 32:17Speaker 4: So, Kevin, I did not see this until you pointed
- 32:19Speaker 4: this out. I have seen some photos from spring training.
- 32:21Speaker 4: Appears to be in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
- 32:23Speaker 1: I hate it. Mascots are not supposed to be in shape.
- 32:26Speaker 4: Mascots are supposed to either be really fat or really
- 32:30Speaker 4: skinny and no muscle. You you should not have a
- 32:34Speaker 4: in shape mascot.
- 32:35Speaker 1: Who goofed?
- 32:36Speaker 4: I've got to know, And is mister Met doing steroids?
- 32:42Speaker 4: That's what I want? Is he going to be suspended?
- 32:44Speaker 4: Mister med for performance enhancing drugs, because that that is
- 32:48Speaker 4: not good. Not a fan, not a fan, Danny. I
- 32:51Speaker 4: do not want mister Mett all all roided up. Don't
- 32:54Speaker 4: need it, do not need it. Mascots should all be shlubs. Yeah,
- 32:58Speaker 4: like you gotta be like the Philly Fanatic or Wally
- 33:01Speaker 4: the Green Monster. You just gotta be either you're really
- 33:05Speaker 4: fat or you're just kind of you're weak looking because you're.
- 33:10Speaker 5: You have to be seconds away from a heart attack,
- 33:12Speaker 5: like the Nuggets mascot when he was lowered from the rafters.
- 33:16Speaker 4: Greatest mascot bit of all time that the mascot scept
- 33:20Speaker 4: it was real.
- 33:21Speaker 5: The dude passed out the mascot uniform. And the best
- 33:26Speaker 5: part was the Denver dancers continue to do their dance
- 33:29Speaker 5: routine around him as he was dead.
- 33:31Speaker 4: Yeah, these women are shaking their asses as Rocky comes down.
- 33:35Speaker 1: It looks like he's dead and they're just the happiest thing. Positively,
- 33:40Speaker 1: that like smiling, so good. That was so funny.
- 33:47Speaker 5: That was the greatest mascot moment in all of sports.
- 33:49Speaker 1: Oh, it was outstanding.
- 33:51Speaker 4: That and when mister Mett gave the bird, remember that
- 33:54Speaker 4: was on the front front of the New York Post.
- 33:56Speaker 4: Mister met gave a fan the bird. All right, get
- 34:00Speaker 4: out on that, Danny. I'll be back tonight with Selection
- 34:04Speaker 4: Sunday fun and all that wonderful stuff. Well, we'll get
- 34:08Speaker 4: to that coming up tonight in the Monday morning two
- 34:11Speaker 4: to six Monday, eleven to three tonight in the west.
- 34:15Speaker 4: We start at eleven pm here on the West coast
- 34:17Speaker 4: and two am on the East coast, and you'll be
- 34:19Speaker 4: back I assume tomorrow.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Danny, right, with full week with Comino and Rich.
- 34:23Speaker 5: Yes, yes, sir, yeah, we had those few days off
- 34:26Speaker 5: and now back on the grindstone in the regular timeslot
- 34:31Speaker 5: from five to seven pm on the East coast that's
- 34:33Speaker 5: two to four pm on the West side, and beautiful Petaluma, California.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Solid Pedaluma. All right, We'll have a wonderful rest of
- 34:41Speaker 1: your day.
- 34:41Speaker 4: Enjoy the selection show if you're into that kind of thing,
- 34:44Speaker 4: and don't forget to fill out your FSR bracket. The
- 34:47Speaker 4: bracket challenge is back. All right, we'll talk to you then.
- 34:50Speaker 4: Aloha later, skater. Oh yeah, no, as you said it,
- 34:56Speaker 4: due later skater today.
- 34:58Speaker 1: I did You're right, you did it.
- 35:00Speaker 5: Got a murder. I gotta go