March 2, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, who joins us for the
mailbag in a happy Sunday Sunday. It's not just Sunday, though,
it's more for some people. I say, well, that's the
second day of March and all that. No, no, no,
(00:49):
this is a bigger deal because tonight in to Monday,
and really for overnight purposes, it's Monday, but it is
on the twenty twenty five Any Awards, the greatest night
in Overnight Sports Talk Radio. Wow. There is still time
to vote. Vote early, Do not vote off, and vote early,
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and we will name the winners of the Bennies tonight.
How you're excited, Danny, You'll stay up all night right
unless you won't.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know what, I am a two time Benny recipient.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Congratulations, and once you win to Benny, it's always right
there on your resume. Wherever you end up, you always
make sure to put that, usually at the bottom, but
it's still on the resume.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm not sure which fun fact to put in my
professional bio, whether or not I've won two Benny's, or
maybe I should put the two time Book Them championship
in there instead.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, it's one of the great fantasy football events of
the year, and there are rumors there's some rumblings, Danny
in the building that the NFL Bookham may be returning
now that President Trump is back in the White House,
that we may look them back. Baby.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So this is like how John Grew was reinstated into
the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, he was kicked out because the politics said you
got to kick him out. But now come on back, John.
Are they gonna have a ceremony for him again because
they well they didn't have a ceremony to kick him out,
but yes, very similar to that. Well, we have the
mail bag, Danny, So rather than must futs around and
all that, let's hit that button right there in Ohio,
A will serenade us into the mail bag. It's this bag,
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all right, thank you, ohio al And here it is.
These are actual questions from actual listeners to the show.
You don't have to participate, but if you want to
send a message in care of Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
First one this week Danny from Kevin in Kansas. He
says he's visiting Phoenix right now. He wrote in He says,
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Dear Ben and Danny, g. I'm visiting the Phoenix area
this weekend. We went past the site of the new BUCkies. Yes,
this will be the closest BUCkies to LA and I
am planning on making a pilgrimage to the Phoenix area
once this thing open. It's not open yet, Danny, but
there'll be a BUCkies in the Phoenix area. How cool
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is that? That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I cannot wait. You know, I've never been to one before.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've been to one. I was the one in Columbia,
South Carolina, and it was awesome. It was so freaking cool.
I can't wait to not that that's right next door,
but I do have some family in Phoenix, and I
can say I'll go visit family and just go to
BUCkies anyway, Kevin says, there's not a lot to show.
He sent some photos here you can't see him, Danny,
He says, has not a lot to show you, as
(03:51):
you can tell by the photos I'm sending, But it
will be worth the wait. He says, if you guys
got a job at BUCkies, what would you do? Would
you make the pulled pork sandwiches, stock the BUCkies nuggets,
greet the customers. How about doing a live remote or
a meet and greet at a BUCkies? Well I would
be all for that, Dan, I think you'd be down
(04:12):
with that too. If BUCkies wants to pay for us
to do the Fifth Hour podcast at BUCkies, we would
be flattered. We give them all this free publicity. Anyway,
Why don't we just go there, spend a couple of bucks,
and we'll hang out and do the show from BUCkies
while they make those Texas barbecue beef sandwiches. Because it's
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gonna be tough for you to answer this, Danny, because
you've never been to BUCkies. But Kevin, I've been to one,
and I would like to be at that station with
all that smoke meat. That's where I would like to
be that sandwich. One of the top five barbecue sandwiches
I've ever had was at BUCkies, of all places. Now,
it may have been because I was tired, it might
have been because I was in the middle of a fast,
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but it was so fricking good. This Texas barbecue beef
sandwich was awesome, So I would do that at and
BUCkies is like the Costco of truck stops, although it's
not actually a truck stop. I've been told by truck
drivers that trucks aren't actually allowed at BUCkies. It's just
for commuter cars. It's for people traveling down the interstate
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and all that. But it's an amazing place. And I'm
surprised Dan, with all the shows you guys have done
on the road with Covino and Rich that you have
not ended up in a BUCkies area. I'm sure you've
been to a place that had a BUCkies, you just
didn't end up there because you were doing other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Right, We're pretty rushed getting into the city's Graduate hotel,
live broadcast, hang out with listeners afterwards, and then the
next day turn around usually and go right home.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Gotcha all right? Well, Kevin, enjoy your stay in the
Valley of the Sun. I think you must be going
to spring training. Maybe not, though I don't know what
else you got going on there, But whatever it is,
hope you have a fun time in the Valley of
the Sun. Mike and Fullerton writes and says, Hey, Benny
the Bopper and Danny g and Mike says, has there
been any pushback from listeners or someone from tire raq
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dot com for using Fullerton to help sell snow tires
in the live reads? I know you both know Fullerton's
a cold weather city, but the majority don't. He says. Also,
who did you guys vote for in all the Benny categories?
Alf and I would love to know. Yeah, Well, you're
never supposed to announce who you vote for in the
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Bennies and won't. We won't do that now. In fact,
I haven't even voted Yet'm gonna I'm gonna vote later
today because I know my vote will matter more depending
on where the categories are. And as far as the
tire Iraq commercials, exciting news, Danny new copy, we had
a recording session last week. New tire Iraq commercials.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh boy, is it something about spring?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, it's not. Hey, snow and ice are coming.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Usually is when the weather or the season changes, that's
when their copy changes. So you'll say something like, hey,
with baseball coming and lots of spring cleanup action, it's
time to get some new spring wheels.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Something along those lines, Danny. But it's funny, you know,
the copy is resonating with the listeners. I'm pretty sure
the tire rack people love this because, as you know,
Danny from working with me all these years, that I
like to embellish a live read. I like to add
a little flavor, little spice on top, little hot pepper,
and so I'll just start going off the copy. I
(07:31):
make it a bit on the show, and then at
the top of the hour I do the live read.
And it's at the point now where I've got guys
like Fargo, Pete. Hey, it's not there's no more snow here,
all right, the weather's better. Stop with the commercial. These
guys all email it in. What are you doing? All right?
Stop with the snow and ice are coming? We're good, Okay,
We're all right here. You know it's March. Now, what
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are you doing so well?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Do you understand though, that good top notch producer on
your show Yeah, they would annually go into that copy
and change that to say snow and ice is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, not is coming well from your lips to God's ears.
Alf from the tile bag, right said? He says on
the mailbag, he says, guys, since this is a podcast
and you're not held back by the normal constraints of
terrestrial radio, and this is nothing like ask Ben, I've
got some things to say. First of all, let me
(08:25):
give you Alf's word of the week, as it pertains
to scrabble. Alf's word of the word. That's good. He
did this because I was so busy ranting on Friday
about Matthew. No, I know what I do. The Benny
Show on Friday yesterday was the Stafford rant where Stafford
agreed to the deal on Friday, and then I ranted
on Saturday. And now we're at the mailbag. But I
(08:48):
didn't even have time to get to the word of
the week, of the phrase of the week. I never
did that. That's a bad job by me. But Alf
says the word is bingo, in a term that is
adopted from scrap. Alf says, it's when you're able to
place use to place all seven letters, therefore getting a
bingo in contrast to scrabble, where a bingo earns fifty points,
(09:13):
a bingo earns you an extra thirty five points in
Words with Friends after adding multiplier tiles, he says. Then
the email continues. I've used this term because, as you know, Benjamin,
you played two, not just one, but two bingo words
on consecutive turns to turn our maiden scrabble game into
(09:36):
a devastation situation and a beatdown for the ages. I
feel that I've earned this honor or power thanks to
the aforementioned beating, to give you not one but two
new ALF officially sanctioned nicknames. They are Benny Bingo and
Benny beat Down. Feel free to add them to your
(09:57):
rundown going forward. That's great idea, ALF, and I will
likely do that, and it's been a lot of fun. Danny,
I'm on this. It's called the Scrabble Go app on
my iPhone if you're on Android, and if you want
to play scrabble against me, I'm not getting paid. Then
they didn't tell me to do this. I like playing scrabble.
(10:18):
At my downtime, I play scrabble, So if you want
to play against me, and I've got a good group
of listeners. Now Alf is in there, Noah in Austin.
I play against him. Just added a new guy from Ohio.
There's a couple other people that I am forgetting their names,
but they're also playing. So if you want to send
a game, I'm on there under Benny, I got my
(10:38):
avatar has a Dodger hat on Brooklyn Dodger hat.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And if you sign up for this, you get Ben
Maller's personal cell number.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yes, yes, in fact, you can come over and have
dinner if you want, come on, have a dinner. I
don't care thet's see next one boy did not This
person did not sign their name. Danny. You know how
I feel about that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What a shrop boy?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Anonymous Anonymous Ben and Danny, Benny and Danny g Danny.
I know you're a Laker fan. You're probably fired up
about Luca coming to the team. Well, Lebron James went
on a rant this week complaining about the media. I
wanted to get your thoughts. You didn't mention this on
the Overnight show, Ben, I don't know if you saw
it or not, and then he sent the quote I
(11:22):
guess Lebron said, I don't know if you guys covered
this on Covino and Rich this week. Lebron said, why
do you want to be the face of the league
when all the people that cover our game and talk
about our game on a day today basis shit on everybody.
That was the quote from I guess Lebron, But Anonymous
wanted are.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Confused about who he's talking about because when I watch
those boring NBA shows on TV, they kind of just
break down the games shows like ours. On the radio,
we talk about TMZ sports type stuff. So is he
talking about trolls? Is he talking about radio guys?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah? And is the criticism my first point, Anonymous, is
the criticism unjustified. It's a bad product, just little quality control.
The NBA is a league that does not care about
the regular season, so why should the fans care about
the regular seasons? Is that irrational to say that? Is
(12:23):
that some kind of you're just being a hater. Well,
if you're speaking the truth, you're not being a hater.
You're just pointing out what is going on in the world,
what is currently accepted by Adam Silver and the powers
that be in the NBA. It's common knowledge that they
don't care about the people to buy tickets or watch
the games on TV. Load management, which they've tried to
(12:46):
tone down, but the regular season, it just doesn't matter.
There's teams and star players that find it more of
a nuisance than anything. And number two, and this has
always been my rant. I used to hear this a
lot early on. I haven't heard it so much in
recent years since Trump became president. The first time, you're
too negative. You should be positive, you know. And I
(13:09):
made the adjustment years ago. Danny occasionally on Benny Bright's side,
and that's my positive side. But for the most part,
as you know from working in this business, nantial is
using just studying human nature. Humans react to negative negativity.
The Internet, which is where everything is done. All the
commerce has done these days on the internet. Right in
(13:30):
our world we have the live radio show. It's broadcast
on iHeart, which is on the internet streaming, it's repackaged
on the podcast which is on the Internet. The Internet
is a area, an ecosystem that is designed for negativity
because human beings react to negativity. People want engagement. The
way you make money is through engagement, whether it's a
(13:52):
radio show, engaging the audience, whether you're online and negative
things bring more engagement. That's a reality. So if Lebron
has a problem with the media, he's really got a
problem with human beings, right, because that's how we are wired.
That's it. We're wired to react to negative stuff. And again,
I go back to my original point here that generally speaking,
(14:15):
it's not outrageous criticism to say that the vast majority
of the NBA product sucks during the regular season, and
that they have mastered the art of floating on the
inner tube on the lazy river, right that they I
know that's unpleasant to say and all that, but the
(14:35):
regular season is dormant, and the All Star Games even
worse than that, And so are we supposed to protect
I guess Lebron might take away. I guess he wants
guys in the media, Danny to just be toast sucking.
You know, he wants to be prob the news service
for the NBA, and you know that's not how it works.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Honestly, there's too many teams to get into the playoffs
right now, to play in games and all that. It's
a bit of a snooze here and there in the
regular season. The regular season is too long. Still to
this day, my favorite season was the strike shortened year
in the NBA. It was the perfect amount of games
in my opinion, so too many games. US regular NBA
(15:19):
fans don't even get to go to the arenas because
they outpriced us long ago. I can't tell you the
last time I got to go to a Lakers game,
because you know what, I'm not going to spend my
rent money on that. I'll watch it on TV. And
if it wasn't for the Luca ad trade and the
Jimmy Butler trade.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, I stopped going the NBA games when COVID started,
and I remember it was like two days before COVID
and that was the last time I attended an NBA
game and I've not been back. And I if you
would have told me when I was in my twenties,
when I was going to NBA games every night, that
I'd be at a point in my life where I
just didn't miss it, I don't now like you, Danny.
(16:00):
I mean, we've got a job to do, and we're
looking for content. We're always scouring the world for content,
and so I do pay attention, but it is more
the TMZS type stories than it is the games. We
don't break down game. Very rarely do we break down games.
Now when the playoffs come around, we'll throw it down
on a playoff game or something like that. But in
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, in regular season, we're not talking x's and o's.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, and and I have the game on Danny while
I'm putting notes together from my monologues, and it's it's
hum drum man, it is. It's almost as bad as
watching spring training baseball. I don't know if you've watched
any of these spring training games, Holy crap, I mean,
have they always been this bad? I used to love
watching spring training games, and it just I don't know
(16:45):
what it is. Maybe it's me. It just seems like
the broadcast quality sucks. It's dull as dishwater. It's just lifeless.
You gotta watch like the first two innings of a
spring training game because if you turn on the game
past then it's like number seventy six versus number eighty seven.
You know, you don't know who any of these people are,
(17:05):
the broadcaster, the broadcasters don't know, and it's just blah.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's very watered down. MLB fans enjoy it just for
the simple fact that baseball is almost bat but yeah,
you're right, it's not the most exciting thing to watch.
It's like background viewing. I have it on in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's usually what I The sport that we
pay attention to is the NFL. The basketball is on
in the background, for sure, and even worse than that
would be college basketball. Oh my goodness. All right, Fred
from Apple Valley writes, and he says, Ben and Danny,
before I go any further, I know you like to
say this is not a political podcast. However, here we go. Danny,
(17:50):
he says, I am into politics. I also like your show,
and I wanted to know as a talk show host,
what you guys thought of the fight on Friday between
the Ukrainian president Zelenski and the US President Trump, says
Fred from Apple Valley. So, uh I I saw a
(18:13):
three minute clip where they it was Trump, Zelensky and
the vice president what's the guy what's our vice president's name?
I don't remember, uh the guy from Ohio anyway, doesn't matter.
But uh so they were they were sitting in the
Oval office there and they it did get very heated. Uh.
(18:34):
I don't know too much about it to be it's
perfectly honest, Fred, whatever I'm gonna say is probably completely wrong,
but you asked me my opinion, and it's the podcast.
I would argue based on the amount of money that
the United States taxpayers have sent to Ukraine over the
last you know number of years, here, I would I
would have liked to have seen a little more appreciation
(18:54):
from Zelenski, But you know, I don't know all the
nuances of that, but it does seem a very Again,
I'm not into the political game that much, Danny, but
I can't recall any other world leader going to the
White House and acting that way? Can you? I don't.
Off the top of my head, I can't, And maybe
it happened years ago before I was around. But pretty wild,
(19:19):
wild scene there. They were supposed to have some kind
of peace deal, and I guess the think fell apart
and they're screaming at the cameras and pretty wild stuff. Man. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Maybe barstool can get them together for a celebrity boxing match.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, or they can go to that Starbucks at the
Marriott JW. Marriott in Indianapolis. The NFL security can come
over and break them up.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah. I've been friends with Jordan Schultz for years. By
the way, because I produced a weekend show he used
to do on NBC Sports Radio and I was texting
on the other day when all this was going down.
Wrap Aport. Guy's a douchebag.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'm on. I don't know he reached out to me
Jordan Schultz years ago. I don't even I mean just
casual like stuff, and so I don't know him like
you know him. I don't know him, but I'm on
his side. Like the way that played out. It just
having been in some of those similar situations in the past.
(20:22):
You got here. Here's my theory. Let me give you
my theory on that real quick. If I haven't if
you haven't heard yet. So for those that don't recall
what happened, Jordan Schultz has been working for Foxsports dot com. Rade,
Is that correct? I think yes, yeah, he's doing something
for the website and he's NFL insider guy day to day.
You know, Jay Glazer doesn't really do that much anymore.
(20:43):
It's mostly, you know, on the weekends for TV. So
Jordan Schultz has been doing the heavy lifting for Fox
as the NFL insider they're at the combine. He had
a story that Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford were together
in Montana, and Brady was whining and dining Stafford to
try to recruit him to become of the Raiders. So
then Ian Rappaport follows that up. I say, oh, no,
(21:06):
it was just a chance meeting and all that. It
wasn't you know, they weren't doing any recruiting or anything
like that. And then there was a conversation at the Starbucks.
Now I am without knowing either one of these people,
you know, in real life, I'm on the side of Schultz.
Because my theory on this, Danny is that Schultz report
was absolutely right. One of the odds that Stafford, who's
(21:27):
from Texas lives in LA would be in Montana and
Tom Brady at the same exact time, at the same
exact location. They just have to bump into each other.
It was a bull crap story. So my theory is
that Brady's very self conscious. He knows that he wants
everyone to love him and all that stuff, and he
also knows that might have violated some kind of NFL rules.
So Brady deputized Ian Rappaport, who's a former NFL beat
(21:50):
writer for the Patriots. When Tom Brady, by the way,
was with the Patriots and Brady's people his camp called
up Rapaport said hey, do us a solid and Rappaport
did and then made.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
They told, will give you a reach around later.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
With all the trimmings, with all the all the trimans.
I mean, that's that's the way I like get.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm sorry those are called justin Tucker's now.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Hello, yeah, man, yeah, all right. Uh so that's my
theory on that. But as far as the Ukrainian thing,
and you know, it's just can't we all get along?
I don't know. It just seems if if I was
in his position, I don't know that I would would
be fighting in front of the cameras against the President
of the United States. But a uh, to each their own.
Reggie in Detroit writes in uh. He says, hey, Ben
(22:38):
and Danny, it's been a minute. Still listen to the
podcast every every week just about he says. The the
new leader of the FBI, is it Cash Patel? Is
that his name? Yeah, he says. Reggie wanted to know
our thoughts. He said that he wants to form a
partnership between the FBI and the UFC to train FBI agents,
(23:01):
He says, Ben, I know you're not a big MMA fan.
I don't know about Danny. Is this a good idea
or silliness? Says Reggie. My word would be unnecessary? Is
this really necessary? Doesn't the FBI have their own training program?
Are the FBI agents all eating donuts and fat? I
don't know. Don't they already have to have some physical
(23:23):
conditioning to be in the FBI?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I would think he wants to partner the two together,
he says, to establish a formal relationship that would bring
the program to the bureau designated to support physical fitness
for agents. According to ABC News, I guess they want
to add martial arts to the FBI agent's training.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, again, I don't know if it's necessary. Is anything necessary?
I guess it would be cool. Maybe the FBI guys
would like it. Yeah, that's some cool ass. Means FBI
agents now with some of those UFC fighters, some of
them might have had some issues with the police in
(24:08):
the past. Do you think they'd be okay with that
hanging out with the FBI guys or you think they'd
be a little nervous on that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, they could work off some of their sentence.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh yeah, time served or whatever. You get the FBI
agents in shape, and then you're you're good. Let's see
what's next. Mitchell not Mitchell from Ohio. This is Mitchell,
he says from Oregon. As you say, Ben, the Oregon Trail.
That's right. The reason I say Oregon Trail. Danny were
around the same age. Do you remember that game on
the computer, the Oregon Trail game?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Of course, it was something I remember watching my mom
and stepdad play on their first home computer. And I
was a little, little, tiny kid, and I mean, can
I try now, shut up, go watch Brady Bunch.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Brady Bunch, Brady Bunch. When we were in elementary school
the computers. We had a computer lab. That's how old
I am. We had a computer lab and they had
the game called the Oregon Trail, which had the shittiest
graphics in the world. But we thought we were so
cool because we were playing this game and it was
you know, we didn't realize it was actually to educate us.
(25:09):
But for us it was like, man, they had this
little stagecoach thing and they were going on the Oregon
Trail and it was like the coolest, like fun.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It was like atari graphics. Go back and look at
the first atari. I mean we were playing pong and
we thought that was cool.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, exactly, a bunch of sticks and squares. Well, it's
kind of the cool thing about life, right Dan. It's like,
you don't people say, oh, you don't know what, you
don't know what. You don't know if you don't have it,
you know what I mean? Like that's all we had.
We didn't know what this other crap was, which made
it fun. Mitchell says, Ben and Dan, I know, you
guys fly for work and whatnot. He says, have you
(25:45):
ever had someone die on a flight? Did you see
the story from Qatar Airways? And then he sent a
link here Mitchell and I guess a person died on
a flight and they they made aid passengers sit next
to the corpse for four hours on a flight.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, that's like when I used to do a weekend
show with Arnie, except it was three hours.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, at one point we had our morning show. We
had Mike North and Andy Furman, which was no Mitchell,
I've never had someone die on a plane. You knock
on wood. Hopefully that will be the case. I guess
there's a lawsuit or something I don't know the story
Mitchell gave us. Danny says that they violated the FAA,
(26:39):
which I guess wouldn't apply to is the FA is
not It's American, but is it global? I don't know.
He said it violated air travel. The story says it
violated air travel code. You're supposed to put the cadaver
far away from everyone if possible. And I don't know.
That's where do you if you die on a plane?
(27:04):
Like where do they say you die? Like over the
ocean or is it whatever city you land in. I
don't know how that works data.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
By the way, the FAA is international.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, then the fa Sure, there you go. Dave in
San Diego. Right, so, and he says Ben and Dana,
I know you guys say like we all did, got
into trouble when we were kids. Did you see what
happened in Brooklyn? He says that McDonald's has started karting
teenagers to enter the restaurant there in Flatbush, Brooklyn, because
they've destroyed the restaurant so many times. Should you need
(27:37):
an ID for a big mac? Says Dave in San Diego.
This is early in the week, right, I think I
saw this story.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah I saw this too.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So kids have been going in there after school and
maybe they don't even go to school and just destroying
the knocking the shit out of this place. Hey listen, Uh,
you know, McDonald's a giant company, but they're not there,
so you could destroy their business and all that. And
if the parents don't take care of these kids, and
this is what they have to do, it sucks. But
I understand the people that run the McDonald's. What are
(28:09):
they supposed to do. They gotta sell big macs. Nobody's
gonna go and eat a big mac if they're gonna
have some punk teenager messing around with them, right, come on.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I was just telling my better half the other day.
You know what, I just realized I haven't eaten out
of McDonald's in maybe a couple of years now, except
for breakfast here and there, like you know, like on
your way to the airport, you get like one of
their English muffin sandwiches or something and coffee. Yeah, besides
(28:39):
breakfast with McDonald's. When's the last time you told your wife,
Ben oh man, I'm craving a big Mac right now.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, No, it's been years. Last time I ate a McDonald's,
much like you. Was at the airport. I don't remember
what city we were in. We were waiting for a
flight and it just happened to be the closest place
at the airport. So we're like, all right, we'll go
to McDonald's. But that was it. I'm never I've never
gotten in the car and said I want to have
lunch today, Let's go to McDonald But I'm not trying
to sound a lad. It's it's just that there's other
(29:09):
fast food places we'd more likely go to where we
just need it home. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I know some people craved their fries, and I understand that.
And when Brenda was pregnant with CoA, she craved the fries,
and I would go get the fries once in a while,
so that I get. But they're actual burgers. They've fallen
off a cliff to the point where, yeah, man, I
remember back in the day where I actually wanted a
quarter pounder or something like that. And I can't tell
(29:34):
you the last time I wanted to go get a
McDonald's burger.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, no, I'm right there with you. Next up on
the mailbag, John writes in from Hartford, and he says,
I actually heard about Gene Hackman's death on your show, Ben.
You broke the news to me. I was a huge
fan of jeans like everyone else back in the nineteen eighties.
He says, I want to know what you guys think.
Is there more to this story? Any thoughts on what
(30:01):
actually happened? That's from John. Yeah, I read a little
bit about it over the weekend. I'm sure you did
to Danny. It's an interesting story. I guess. The latest
thing that I saw yesterday, I think it was, was
that the theory is that the wife had like a
heart attack or something like that, and she died, and
(30:23):
then Hackman, I guess, had a medical emergency. He fell
down or something like that, and he couldn't get up
because he's ninety five, and then he died, and then
the dog died. But I don't know if that's true.
I read is that?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
But then I heard they have two other dogs that survived.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, And how long they must have been in there
for a long time? Right there?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
A long time, yeah, because her body was starting to decompose,
according to the story I read, and there was a
small space heater next to her in the bathroom on
the floor, so the whole thing is odd.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, I mean, is it a case I'm trying to
think if somewhere it happened to me, who's going to
check on me? Well, because of work people, But Gene
Hackman isn't working, and I guess his wife wasn't working
either as he was younger. But think about that. You
get old enough and you just sit there, and you
could sit there and rot, you drop dead, and no
one for what do you think a month? Think they
(31:19):
were down there for a month.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
No, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
The sponsorship logs on our network don't get done on
their own. Somebody would come look for me in an hour.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, well, if I didn't do a tire rack read,
I've had seven cars out in front of my house too.
So I hear you on that man alive? All right? Yeah?
Who knows? It sucks? I mean, Gene, it's like Saw
ninety five years is a great run. But Gene Hackman o.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Gen, No, it really was. And there's a couple of
underrated films by him that I wanted to mention. One
from the eighties Uncommon Valor. Okay, my stepdad was obsessed
with that Vietnam film where they go in and they
rescue some prisoners of war. And then in the nineties
he had a movie with Tom Cruise called The Firm,
(32:06):
and he was really really good in that film.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So the ones my first real Gene Hackman memories were
when he was in the Superman movies in the eighties.
That's why I first, I.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Remember those were so corny, right.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, but that's like my first Like I remember seeing
Gene Hackman in those uh he was Lex Luthor, Lex
Luthor right in those those eighties, like the Christopher Reeves Superman. Yes, yeah,
so I remember that and and just like seemed like
everything he was in was he was solid, you know,
rock solid. So anyway, it's a very sad way to
(32:41):
check out, and it's a really good way to check out.
I would say not turning into a mummy would be
a better way, but but who knows. Anyway. Manny from Texas,
formerly of Socals, says, Hey, guys, I hope you're doing well. Uh,
he says, Ben, you claim to be a distant relative
of Nostra Damas and friend of Nosterdenis. Is this how
you got your powers? You then send a story saying
(33:03):
that Canadian scientists have discovered all humans can read minds,
and they say that there's a part of the brain
here that you can they can mess around with and
allow you telepathic abilities. What do you want me to say, Manny?
(33:23):
I mean I already have that. I'm friend of Nostradinis,
distant relative of Nostradamis. As you said there, would you
really want to have real telepathic abilities though? I mean
in the real you know what you'd like?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Most of us already hear voices in our head.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, we all have a narrator in our lives, right,
we have a narrator voice. I think most people have that.
Speaking of that, a little off topic, The black irishman
called up the other night Danny, and he had one
of the great takes no one else had has this take?
He said, I don't understand, Ben, why we bet on
games that before they're played, we should bet on them
(34:06):
after they're played. Doesn't that make a lot of sense?
Isn't that a great idea? What a wonderful, believable one?
More last one? Here we go, Harry in beautiful Palm Desert, California,
in your palm springs, he says. Ben. A court in
India this week ordered movie. A movie theater chain to
pay for mental agony because they put too many ads
(34:30):
in the theater. Do you support this?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah? What is there anything worse than going to the movies?
And you're like, one or two trailers is fine. But
then they have buy your snacks and then they have
the commercial for the airline. I don't go to the movies.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Very much, so then there's an ad for Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Then there's an actor talking to us about something. And
the only time that's good is when you're running late.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, that's true. You're going to get your snacks or whatever.
You know, it's a it's fine. But other than that,
that's funny. Though.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
If you're on time, it sucks because you're like, all right,
this is twenty minutes of my life. I can't get back.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, let's get this show on the road. Come on,
all right, we'll get out on that. Remember tonight the Bennies.
The Bennies are here tonight the greatest night in overnight
sports talk radio. Eleven o'clock in the West year on
this Sunday, but two am in the East and four
hours pretty much all monologues and Benny Awards and good
luck to everyone that was nominated. May the top people
(35:27):
win and we'll have a lot of speeches, call up
and celebrate and have a grand old time. So check
that out. Danny, You're back with Comino and Rich this week.
Every day during the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yes, yes, sir, we'll be back five to seven pm
in the East coast, and that is two to four
pm on the West side in beautiful San Diego, California.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And Medford, Oregon, the home of Genie and Medford back
in the day, the.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Great Yeah you know what and the Bennys are dedicated
to Jeanie. Right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yes, the caller of the Year is the Genie and
Medford Caller of the Year the Ben Malor Show, I'm
a Doctor, And we also celebrate beer drinking Brian. The
worst caller on this show is the beer drinking Brian.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I love that we honor our legends. I have a wonderful,
wonderful day. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Yeah, Bosta gotta murder.
I gotta go
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, who joins us for the
mailbag in a happy Sunday Sunday. It's not just Sunday, though,
it's more for some people. I say, well, that's the
second day of March and all that. No, no, no,
(00:49):
this is a bigger deal because tonight in to Monday,
and really for overnight purposes, it's Monday, but it is
on the twenty twenty five Any Awards, the greatest night
in Overnight Sports Talk Radio. Wow. There is still time
to vote. Vote early, Do not vote off, and vote early,
(01:10):
and we will name the winners of the Bennies tonight.
How you're excited, Danny, You'll stay up all night right
unless you won't.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know what, I am a two time Benny recipient.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Congratulations, and once you win to Benny, it's always right
there on your resume. Wherever you end up, you always
make sure to put that, usually at the bottom, but
it's still on the resume.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm not sure which fun fact to put in my
professional bio, whether or not I've won two Benny's, or
maybe I should put the two time Book Them championship
in there instead.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, it's one of the great fantasy football events of
the year, and there are rumors there's some rumblings, Danny
in the building that the NFL Bookham may be returning
now that President Trump is back in the White House,
that we may look them back. Baby.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So this is like how John Grew was reinstated into
the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, he was kicked out because the politics said you
got to kick him out. But now come on back, John.
Are they gonna have a ceremony for him again because
they well they didn't have a ceremony to kick him out,
but yes, very similar to that. Well, we have the
mail bag, Danny, So rather than must futs around and
all that, let's hit that button right there in Ohio,
A will serenade us into the mail bag. It's this bag,
(02:40):
all right, thank you, ohio al And here it is.
These are actual questions from actual listeners to the show.
You don't have to participate, but if you want to
send a message in care of Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
First one this week Danny from Kevin in Kansas. He
says he's visiting Phoenix right now. He wrote in He says,
(03:03):
Dear Ben and Danny, g. I'm visiting the Phoenix area
this weekend. We went past the site of the new BUCkies. Yes,
this will be the closest BUCkies to LA and I
am planning on making a pilgrimage to the Phoenix area
once this thing open. It's not open yet, Danny, but
there'll be a BUCkies in the Phoenix area. How cool
(03:25):
is that? That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I cannot wait. You know, I've never been to one before.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've been to one. I was the one in Columbia,
South Carolina, and it was awesome. It was so freaking cool.
I can't wait to not that that's right next door,
but I do have some family in Phoenix, and I
can say I'll go visit family and just go to
BUCkies anyway, Kevin says, there's not a lot to show.
He sent some photos here you can't see him, Danny,
He says, has not a lot to show you, as
(03:51):
you can tell by the photos I'm sending, But it
will be worth the wait. He says, if you guys
got a job at BUCkies, what would you do? Would
you make the pulled pork sandwiches, stock the BUCkies nuggets,
greet the customers. How about doing a live remote or
a meet and greet at a BUCkies? Well I would
be all for that, Dan, I think you'd be down
(04:12):
with that too. If BUCkies wants to pay for us
to do the Fifth Hour podcast at BUCkies, we would
be flattered. We give them all this free publicity. Anyway,
Why don't we just go there, spend a couple of bucks,
and we'll hang out and do the show from BUCkies
while they make those Texas barbecue beef sandwiches. Because it's
(04:32):
gonna be tough for you to answer this, Danny, because
you've never been to BUCkies. But Kevin, I've been to one,
and I would like to be at that station with
all that smoke meat. That's where I would like to
be that sandwich. One of the top five barbecue sandwiches
I've ever had was at BUCkies, of all places. Now,
it may have been because I was tired, it might
have been because I was in the middle of a fast,
(04:53):
but it was so fricking good. This Texas barbecue beef
sandwich was awesome, So I would do that at and
BUCkies is like the Costco of truck stops, although it's
not actually a truck stop. I've been told by truck
drivers that trucks aren't actually allowed at BUCkies. It's just
for commuter cars. It's for people traveling down the interstate
(05:16):
and all that. But it's an amazing place. And I'm
surprised Dan, with all the shows you guys have done
on the road with Covino and Rich that you have
not ended up in a BUCkies area. I'm sure you've
been to a place that had a BUCkies, you just
didn't end up there because you were doing other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Right, We're pretty rushed getting into the city's Graduate hotel,
live broadcast, hang out with listeners afterwards, and then the
next day turn around usually and go right home.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Gotcha all right? Well, Kevin, enjoy your stay in the
Valley of the Sun. I think you must be going
to spring training. Maybe not, though I don't know what
else you got going on there, But whatever it is,
hope you have a fun time in the Valley of
the Sun. Mike and Fullerton writes and says, Hey, Benny
the Bopper and Danny g and Mike says, has there
been any pushback from listeners or someone from tire raq
(06:04):
dot com for using Fullerton to help sell snow tires
in the live reads? I know you both know Fullerton's
a cold weather city, but the majority don't. He says. Also,
who did you guys vote for in all the Benny categories?
Alf and I would love to know. Yeah, Well, you're
never supposed to announce who you vote for in the
(06:25):
Bennies and won't. We won't do that now. In fact,
I haven't even voted Yet'm gonna I'm gonna vote later
today because I know my vote will matter more depending
on where the categories are. And as far as the
tire Iraq commercials, exciting news, Danny new copy, we had
a recording session last week. New tire Iraq commercials.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh boy, is it something about spring?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, it's not. Hey, snow and ice are coming.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Usually is when the weather or the season changes, that's
when their copy changes. So you'll say something like, hey,
with baseball coming and lots of spring cleanup action, it's
time to get some new spring wheels.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Something along those lines, Danny. But it's funny, you know,
the copy is resonating with the listeners. I'm pretty sure
the tire rack people love this because, as you know,
Danny from working with me all these years, that I
like to embellish a live read. I like to add
a little flavor, little spice on top, little hot pepper,
and so I'll just start going off the copy. I
(07:31):
make it a bit on the show, and then at
the top of the hour I do the live read.
And it's at the point now where I've got guys
like Fargo, Pete. Hey, it's not there's no more snow here,
all right, the weather's better. Stop with the commercial. These
guys all email it in. What are you doing? All right?
Stop with the snow and ice are coming? We're good, Okay,
We're all right here. You know it's March. Now, what
(07:53):
are you doing so well?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Do you understand though, that good top notch producer on
your show Yeah, they would annually go into that copy
and change that to say snow and ice is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, not is coming well from your lips to God's ears.
Alf from the tile bag, right said? He says on
the mailbag, he says, guys, since this is a podcast
and you're not held back by the normal constraints of
terrestrial radio, and this is nothing like ask Ben, I've
got some things to say. First of all, let me
(08:25):
give you Alf's word of the week, as it pertains
to scrabble. Alf's word of the word. That's good. He
did this because I was so busy ranting on Friday
about Matthew. No, I know what I do. The Benny
Show on Friday yesterday was the Stafford rant where Stafford
agreed to the deal on Friday, and then I ranted
on Saturday. And now we're at the mailbag. But I
(08:48):
didn't even have time to get to the word of
the week, of the phrase of the week. I never
did that. That's a bad job by me. But Alf
says the word is bingo, in a term that is
adopted from scrap. Alf says, it's when you're able to
place use to place all seven letters, therefore getting a
bingo in contrast to scrabble, where a bingo earns fifty points,
(09:13):
a bingo earns you an extra thirty five points in
Words with Friends after adding multiplier tiles, he says. Then
the email continues. I've used this term because, as you know, Benjamin,
you played two, not just one, but two bingo words
on consecutive turns to turn our maiden scrabble game into
(09:36):
a devastation situation and a beatdown for the ages. I
feel that I've earned this honor or power thanks to
the aforementioned beating, to give you not one but two
new ALF officially sanctioned nicknames. They are Benny Bingo and
Benny beat Down. Feel free to add them to your
(09:57):
rundown going forward. That's great idea, ALF, and I will
likely do that, and it's been a lot of fun. Danny,
I'm on this. It's called the Scrabble Go app on
my iPhone if you're on Android, and if you want
to play scrabble against me, I'm not getting paid. Then
they didn't tell me to do this. I like playing scrabble.
(10:18):
At my downtime, I play scrabble, So if you want
to play against me, and I've got a good group
of listeners. Now Alf is in there, Noah in Austin.
I play against him. Just added a new guy from Ohio.
There's a couple other people that I am forgetting their names,
but they're also playing. So if you want to send
a game, I'm on there under Benny, I got my
(10:38):
avatar has a Dodger hat on Brooklyn Dodger hat.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And if you sign up for this, you get Ben
Maller's personal cell number.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yes, yes, in fact, you can come over and have
dinner if you want, come on, have a dinner. I
don't care thet's see next one boy did not This
person did not sign their name. Danny. You know how
I feel about that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What a shrop boy?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Anonymous Anonymous Ben and Danny, Benny and Danny g Danny.
I know you're a Laker fan. You're probably fired up
about Luca coming to the team. Well, Lebron James went
on a rant this week complaining about the media. I
wanted to get your thoughts. You didn't mention this on
the Overnight show, Ben, I don't know if you saw
it or not, and then he sent the quote I
(11:22):
guess Lebron said, I don't know if you guys covered
this on Covino and Rich this week. Lebron said, why
do you want to be the face of the league
when all the people that cover our game and talk
about our game on a day today basis shit on everybody.
That was the quote from I guess Lebron, But Anonymous
wanted are.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Confused about who he's talking about because when I watch
those boring NBA shows on TV, they kind of just
break down the games shows like ours. On the radio,
we talk about TMZ sports type stuff. So is he
talking about trolls? Is he talking about radio guys?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah? And is the criticism my first point, Anonymous, is
the criticism unjustified. It's a bad product, just little quality control.
The NBA is a league that does not care about
the regular season, so why should the fans care about
the regular seasons? Is that irrational to say that? Is
(12:23):
that some kind of you're just being a hater. Well,
if you're speaking the truth, you're not being a hater.
You're just pointing out what is going on in the world,
what is currently accepted by Adam Silver and the powers
that be in the NBA. It's common knowledge that they
don't care about the people to buy tickets or watch
the games on TV. Load management, which they've tried to
(12:46):
tone down, but the regular season, it just doesn't matter.
There's teams and star players that find it more of
a nuisance than anything. And number two, and this has
always been my rant. I used to hear this a
lot early on. I haven't heard it so much in
recent years since Trump became president. The first time, you're
too negative. You should be positive, you know. And I
(13:09):
made the adjustment years ago. Danny occasionally on Benny Bright's side,
and that's my positive side. But for the most part,
as you know from working in this business, nantial is
using just studying human nature. Humans react to negative negativity.
The Internet, which is where everything is done. All the
commerce has done these days on the internet. Right in
(13:30):
our world we have the live radio show. It's broadcast
on iHeart, which is on the internet streaming, it's repackaged
on the podcast which is on the Internet. The Internet
is a area, an ecosystem that is designed for negativity
because human beings react to negativity. People want engagement. The
way you make money is through engagement, whether it's a
(13:52):
radio show, engaging the audience, whether you're online and negative
things bring more engagement. That's a reality. So if Lebron
has a problem with the media, he's really got a
problem with human beings, right, because that's how we are wired.
That's it. We're wired to react to negative stuff. And again,
I go back to my original point here that generally speaking,
(14:15):
it's not outrageous criticism to say that the vast majority
of the NBA product sucks during the regular season, and
that they have mastered the art of floating on the
inner tube on the lazy river, right that they I
know that's unpleasant to say and all that, but the
(14:35):
regular season is dormant, and the All Star Games even
worse than that, And so are we supposed to protect
I guess Lebron might take away. I guess he wants
guys in the media, Danny to just be toast sucking.
You know, he wants to be prob the news service
for the NBA, and you know that's not how it works.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Honestly, there's too many teams to get into the playoffs
right now, to play in games and all that. It's
a bit of a snooze here and there in the
regular season. The regular season is too long. Still to
this day, my favorite season was the strike shortened year
in the NBA. It was the perfect amount of games
in my opinion, so too many games. US regular NBA
(15:19):
fans don't even get to go to the arenas because
they outpriced us long ago. I can't tell you the
last time I got to go to a Lakers game,
because you know what, I'm not going to spend my
rent money on that. I'll watch it on TV. And
if it wasn't for the Luca ad trade and the
Jimmy Butler trade.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, I stopped going the NBA games when COVID started,
and I remember it was like two days before COVID
and that was the last time I attended an NBA
game and I've not been back. And I if you
would have told me when I was in my twenties,
when I was going to NBA games every night, that
I'd be at a point in my life where I
just didn't miss it, I don't now like you, Danny.
(16:00):
I mean, we've got a job to do, and we're
looking for content. We're always scouring the world for content,
and so I do pay attention, but it is more
the TMZS type stories than it is the games. We
don't break down game. Very rarely do we break down games.
Now when the playoffs come around, we'll throw it down
on a playoff game or something like that. But in
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, in regular season, we're not talking x's and o's.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, and and I have the game on Danny while
I'm putting notes together from my monologues, and it's it's
hum drum man, it is. It's almost as bad as
watching spring training baseball. I don't know if you've watched
any of these spring training games, Holy crap, I mean,
have they always been this bad? I used to love
watching spring training games, and it just I don't know
(16:45):
what it is. Maybe it's me. It just seems like
the broadcast quality sucks. It's dull as dishwater. It's just lifeless.
You gotta watch like the first two innings of a
spring training game because if you turn on the game
past then it's like number seventy six versus number eighty seven.
You know, you don't know who any of these people are,
(17:05):
the broadcaster, the broadcasters don't know, and it's just blah.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's very watered down. MLB fans enjoy it just for
the simple fact that baseball is almost bat but yeah,
you're right, it's not the most exciting thing to watch.
It's like background viewing. I have it on in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's usually what I The sport that we
pay attention to is the NFL. The basketball is on
in the background, for sure, and even worse than that
would be college basketball. Oh my goodness. All right, Fred
from Apple Valley writes, and he says, Ben and Danny,
before I go any further, I know you like to
say this is not a political podcast. However, here we go. Danny,
(17:50):
he says, I am into politics. I also like your show,
and I wanted to know as a talk show host,
what you guys thought of the fight on Friday between
the Ukrainian president Zelenski and the US President Trump, says
Fred from Apple Valley. So, uh I I saw a
(18:13):
three minute clip where they it was Trump, Zelensky and
the vice president what's the guy what's our vice president's name?
I don't remember, uh the guy from Ohio anyway, doesn't matter.
But uh so they were they were sitting in the
Oval office there and they it did get very heated. Uh.
(18:34):
I don't know too much about it to be it's
perfectly honest, Fred, whatever I'm gonna say is probably completely wrong,
but you asked me my opinion, and it's the podcast.
I would argue based on the amount of money that
the United States taxpayers have sent to Ukraine over the
last you know number of years, here, I would I
would have liked to have seen a little more appreciation
(18:54):
from Zelenski, But you know, I don't know all the
nuances of that, but it does seem a very Again,
I'm not into the political game that much, Danny, but
I can't recall any other world leader going to the
White House and acting that way? Can you? I don't.
Off the top of my head, I can't, And maybe
it happened years ago before I was around. But pretty wild,
(19:19):
wild scene there. They were supposed to have some kind
of peace deal, and I guess the think fell apart
and they're screaming at the cameras and pretty wild stuff. Man. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Maybe barstool can get them together for a celebrity boxing match.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, or they can go to that Starbucks at the
Marriott JW. Marriott in Indianapolis. The NFL security can come
over and break them up.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah. I've been friends with Jordan Schultz for years. By
the way, because I produced a weekend show he used
to do on NBC Sports Radio and I was texting
on the other day when all this was going down.
Wrap Aport. Guy's a douchebag.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'm on. I don't know he reached out to me
Jordan Schultz years ago. I don't even I mean just
casual like stuff, and so I don't know him like
you know him. I don't know him, but I'm on
his side. Like the way that played out. It just
having been in some of those similar situations in the past.
(20:22):
You got here. Here's my theory. Let me give you
my theory on that real quick. If I haven't if
you haven't heard yet. So for those that don't recall
what happened, Jordan Schultz has been working for Foxsports dot com. Rade,
Is that correct? I think yes, yeah, he's doing something
for the website and he's NFL insider guy day to day.
You know, Jay Glazer doesn't really do that much anymore.
(20:43):
It's mostly, you know, on the weekends for TV. So
Jordan Schultz has been doing the heavy lifting for Fox
as the NFL insider they're at the combine. He had
a story that Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford were together
in Montana, and Brady was whining and dining Stafford to
try to recruit him to become of the Raiders. So
then Ian Rappaport follows that up. I say, oh, no,
(21:06):
it was just a chance meeting and all that. It
wasn't you know, they weren't doing any recruiting or anything
like that. And then there was a conversation at the Starbucks.
Now I am without knowing either one of these people,
you know, in real life, I'm on the side of Schultz.
Because my theory on this, Danny is that Schultz report
was absolutely right. One of the odds that Stafford, who's
(21:27):
from Texas lives in LA would be in Montana and
Tom Brady at the same exact time, at the same
exact location. They just have to bump into each other.
It was a bull crap story. So my theory is
that Brady's very self conscious. He knows that he wants
everyone to love him and all that stuff, and he
also knows that might have violated some kind of NFL rules.
So Brady deputized Ian Rappaport, who's a former NFL beat
(21:50):
writer for the Patriots. When Tom Brady, by the way,
was with the Patriots and Brady's people his camp called
up Rapaport said hey, do us a solid and Rappaport
did and then made.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
They told, will give you a reach around later.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
With all the trimmings, with all the all the trimans.
I mean, that's that's the way I like get.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm sorry those are called justin Tucker's now.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Hello, yeah, man, yeah, all right. Uh so that's my
theory on that. But as far as the Ukrainian thing,
and you know, it's just can't we all get along?
I don't know. It just seems if if I was
in his position, I don't know that I would would
be fighting in front of the cameras against the President
of the United States. But a uh, to each their own.
Reggie in Detroit writes in uh. He says, hey, Ben
(22:38):
and Danny, it's been a minute. Still listen to the
podcast every every week just about he says. The the
new leader of the FBI, is it Cash Patel? Is
that his name? Yeah, he says. Reggie wanted to know
our thoughts. He said that he wants to form a
partnership between the FBI and the UFC to train FBI agents,
(23:01):
He says, Ben, I know you're not a big MMA fan.
I don't know about Danny. Is this a good idea
or silliness? Says Reggie. My word would be unnecessary? Is
this really necessary? Doesn't the FBI have their own training program?
Are the FBI agents all eating donuts and fat? I
don't know. Don't they already have to have some physical
(23:23):
conditioning to be in the FBI?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I would think he wants to partner the two together,
he says, to establish a formal relationship that would bring
the program to the bureau designated to support physical fitness
for agents. According to ABC News, I guess they want
to add martial arts to the FBI agent's training.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, again, I don't know if it's necessary. Is anything necessary?
I guess it would be cool. Maybe the FBI guys
would like it. Yeah, that's some cool ass. Means FBI
agents now with some of those UFC fighters, some of
them might have had some issues with the police in
(24:08):
the past. Do you think they'd be okay with that
hanging out with the FBI guys or you think they'd
be a little nervous on that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, they could work off some of their sentence.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh yeah, time served or whatever. You get the FBI
agents in shape, and then you're you're good. Let's see
what's next. Mitchell not Mitchell from Ohio. This is Mitchell,
he says from Oregon. As you say, Ben, the Oregon Trail.
That's right. The reason I say Oregon Trail. Danny were
around the same age. Do you remember that game on
the computer, the Oregon Trail game?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Of course, it was something I remember watching my mom
and stepdad play on their first home computer. And I
was a little, little, tiny kid, and I mean, can
I try now, shut up, go watch Brady Bunch.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Brady Bunch, Brady Bunch. When we were in elementary school
the computers. We had a computer lab. That's how old
I am. We had a computer lab and they had
the game called the Oregon Trail, which had the shittiest
graphics in the world. But we thought we were so
cool because we were playing this game and it was
you know, we didn't realize it was actually to educate us.
(25:09):
But for us it was like, man, they had this
little stagecoach thing and they were going on the Oregon
Trail and it was like the coolest, like fun.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It was like atari graphics. Go back and look at
the first atari. I mean we were playing pong and
we thought that was cool.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, exactly, a bunch of sticks and squares. Well, it's
kind of the cool thing about life, right Dan. It's like,
you don't people say, oh, you don't know what, you
don't know what. You don't know if you don't have it,
you know what I mean? Like that's all we had.
We didn't know what this other crap was, which made
it fun. Mitchell says, Ben and Dan, I know, you
guys fly for work and whatnot. He says, have you
(25:45):
ever had someone die on a flight? Did you see
the story from Qatar Airways? And then he sent a
link here Mitchell and I guess a person died on
a flight and they they made aid passengers sit next
to the corpse for four hours on a flight.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, that's like when I used to do a weekend
show with Arnie, except it was three hours.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, at one point we had our morning show. We
had Mike North and Andy Furman, which was no Mitchell,
I've never had someone die on a plane. You knock
on wood. Hopefully that will be the case. I guess
there's a lawsuit or something I don't know the story
Mitchell gave us. Danny says that they violated the FAA,
(26:39):
which I guess wouldn't apply to is the FA is
not It's American, but is it global? I don't know.
He said it violated air travel. The story says it
violated air travel code. You're supposed to put the cadaver
far away from everyone if possible. And I don't know.
That's where do you if you die on a plane?
(27:04):
Like where do they say you die? Like over the
ocean or is it whatever city you land in. I
don't know how that works data.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
By the way, the FAA is international.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, then the fa Sure, there you go. Dave in
San Diego. Right, so, and he says Ben and Dana,
I know you guys say like we all did, got
into trouble when we were kids. Did you see what
happened in Brooklyn? He says that McDonald's has started karting
teenagers to enter the restaurant there in Flatbush, Brooklyn, because
they've destroyed the restaurant so many times. Should you need
(27:37):
an ID for a big mac? Says Dave in San Diego.
This is early in the week, right, I think I
saw this story.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah I saw this too.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So kids have been going in there after school and
maybe they don't even go to school and just destroying
the knocking the shit out of this place. Hey listen, Uh,
you know, McDonald's a giant company, but they're not there,
so you could destroy their business and all that. And
if the parents don't take care of these kids, and
this is what they have to do, it sucks. But
I understand the people that run the McDonald's. What are
(28:09):
they supposed to do. They gotta sell big macs. Nobody's
gonna go and eat a big mac if they're gonna
have some punk teenager messing around with them, right, come on.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I was just telling my better half the other day.
You know what, I just realized I haven't eaten out
of McDonald's in maybe a couple of years now, except
for breakfast here and there, like you know, like on
your way to the airport, you get like one of
their English muffin sandwiches or something and coffee. Yeah, besides
(28:39):
breakfast with McDonald's. When's the last time you told your wife,
Ben oh man, I'm craving a big Mac right now.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, No, it's been years. Last time I ate a McDonald's,
much like you. Was at the airport. I don't remember
what city we were in. We were waiting for a
flight and it just happened to be the closest place
at the airport. So we're like, all right, we'll go
to McDonald's. But that was it. I'm never I've never
gotten in the car and said I want to have
lunch today, Let's go to McDonald But I'm not trying
to sound a lad. It's it's just that there's other
(29:09):
fast food places we'd more likely go to where we
just need it home. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I know some people craved their fries, and I understand that.
And when Brenda was pregnant with CoA, she craved the fries,
and I would go get the fries once in a while,
so that I get. But they're actual burgers. They've fallen
off a cliff to the point where, yeah, man, I
remember back in the day where I actually wanted a
quarter pounder or something like that. And I can't tell
(29:34):
you the last time I wanted to go get a
McDonald's burger.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, no, I'm right there with you. Next up on
the mailbag, John writes in from Hartford, and he says,
I actually heard about Gene Hackman's death on your show, Ben.
You broke the news to me. I was a huge
fan of jeans like everyone else back in the nineteen eighties.
He says, I want to know what you guys think.
Is there more to this story? Any thoughts on what
(30:01):
actually happened? That's from John. Yeah, I read a little
bit about it over the weekend. I'm sure you did
to Danny. It's an interesting story. I guess. The latest
thing that I saw yesterday, I think it was, was
that the theory is that the wife had like a
heart attack or something like that, and she died, and
(30:23):
then Hackman, I guess, had a medical emergency. He fell
down or something like that, and he couldn't get up
because he's ninety five, and then he died, and then
the dog died. But I don't know if that's true.
I read is that?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
But then I heard they have two other dogs that survived.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, And how long they must have been in there
for a long time? Right there?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
A long time, yeah, because her body was starting to decompose,
according to the story I read, and there was a
small space heater next to her in the bathroom on
the floor, so the whole thing is odd.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, I mean, is it a case I'm trying to
think if somewhere it happened to me, who's going to
check on me? Well, because of work people, But Gene
Hackman isn't working, and I guess his wife wasn't working
either as he was younger. But think about that. You
get old enough and you just sit there, and you
could sit there and rot, you drop dead, and no
one for what do you think a month? Think they
(31:19):
were down there for a month.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
No, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
The sponsorship logs on our network don't get done on
their own. Somebody would come look for me in an hour.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, well, if I didn't do a tire rack read,
I've had seven cars out in front of my house too.
So I hear you on that man alive? All right? Yeah?
Who knows? It sucks? I mean, Gene, it's like Saw
ninety five years is a great run. But Gene Hackman o.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Gen, No, it really was. And there's a couple of
underrated films by him that I wanted to mention. One
from the eighties Uncommon Valor. Okay, my stepdad was obsessed
with that Vietnam film where they go in and they
rescue some prisoners of war. And then in the nineties
he had a movie with Tom Cruise called The Firm,
(32:06):
and he was really really good in that film.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So the ones my first real Gene Hackman memories were
when he was in the Superman movies in the eighties.
That's why I first, I.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Remember those were so corny, right.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, but that's like my first Like I remember seeing
Gene Hackman in those uh he was Lex Luthor, Lex
Luthor right in those those eighties, like the Christopher Reeves Superman. Yes, yeah,
so I remember that and and just like seemed like
everything he was in was he was solid, you know,
rock solid. So anyway, it's a very sad way to
(32:41):
check out, and it's a really good way to check out.
I would say not turning into a mummy would be
a better way, but but who knows. Anyway. Manny from Texas,
formerly of Socals, says, Hey, guys, I hope you're doing well. Uh,
he says, Ben, you claim to be a distant relative
of Nostra Damas and friend of Nosterdenis. Is this how
you got your powers? You then send a story saying
(33:03):
that Canadian scientists have discovered all humans can read minds,
and they say that there's a part of the brain
here that you can they can mess around with and
allow you telepathic abilities. What do you want me to say, Manny?
(33:23):
I mean I already have that. I'm friend of Nostradinis,
distant relative of Nostradamis. As you said there, would you
really want to have real telepathic abilities though? I mean
in the real you know what you'd like?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Most of us already hear voices in our head.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, we all have a narrator in our lives, right,
we have a narrator voice. I think most people have that.
Speaking of that, a little off topic, The black irishman
called up the other night Danny, and he had one
of the great takes no one else had has this take?
He said, I don't understand, Ben, why we bet on
games that before they're played, we should bet on them
(34:06):
after they're played. Doesn't that make a lot of sense?
Isn't that a great idea? What a wonderful, believable one?
More last one? Here we go, Harry in beautiful Palm Desert, California,
in your palm springs, he says. Ben. A court in
India this week ordered movie. A movie theater chain to
pay for mental agony because they put too many ads
(34:30):
in the theater. Do you support this?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah? What is there anything worse than going to the movies?
And you're like, one or two trailers is fine. But
then they have buy your snacks and then they have
the commercial for the airline. I don't go to the movies.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Very much, so then there's an ad for Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Then there's an actor talking to us about something. And
the only time that's good is when you're running late.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, that's true. You're going to get your snacks or whatever.
You know, it's a it's fine. But other than that,
that's funny. Though.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
If you're on time, it sucks because you're like, all right,
this is twenty minutes of my life. I can't get back.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, let's get this show on the road. Come on,
all right, we'll get out on that. Remember tonight the Bennies.
The Bennies are here tonight the greatest night in overnight
sports talk radio. Eleven o'clock in the West year on
this Sunday, but two am in the East and four
hours pretty much all monologues and Benny Awards and good
luck to everyone that was nominated. May the top people
(35:27):
win and we'll have a lot of speeches, call up
and celebrate and have a grand old time. So check
that out. Danny, You're back with Comino and Rich this week.
Every day during the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yes, yes, sir, we'll be back five to seven pm
in the East coast, and that is two to four
pm on the West side in beautiful San Diego, California.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And Medford, Oregon, the home of Genie and Medford back
in the day, the.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Great Yeah you know what and the Bennys are dedicated
to Jeanie. Right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yes, the caller of the Year is the Genie and
Medford Caller of the Year the Ben Malor Show, I'm
a Doctor, And we also celebrate beer drinking Brian. The
worst caller on this show is the beer drinking Brian.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I love that we honor our legends. I have a wonderful,
wonderful day. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Yeah, Bosta gotta murder.
I gotta go
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