December 7, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor and Danny g
Radio a Happy NFL Sunday Week fourteen continues today on
the what is it the seventh day now of December
and it is Mailbag time and Danny is with me.
But you're on location, Danny, You're not in the normal
(00:54):
podcast studio. You're on location for the mailbag. So Ohio,
get us in the Ohio. Aw, it's all right there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It is Ohio that really got me in the mood.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I was already kind of in the mood, Ben, because
an hour ago when I woke up, I was painting
half my face silver the other half black. I am
on a remote here in Vegas going to go into
Allegiant Stadium in a few hours.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh the Raiders in the Denver Broncos today, Right, that's
the big matchup there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, one team fighting for draft position and the other
team trying to be the road that you have to
take to win the AFC.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, listen, the Raiders made progress last week. They actually
went a whole week without firing a coach. So that's
a step in the right direction for the Raiders. Congratulations
on that.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And I am going to flip off Geno Smith in
person today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh, congratulations on that.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What you should do is say, all right, everyone, at
the start of the second half, when the Raiders come
out of the huddle, everyone just flick off Gino Smith
and he might walk off the field, Danny, he might
just walk off there, and if he does, he'll celebrate.
Today is National cotton Candy Day. I know you're excited
about that, Danny. National cotton candy Day. Now, do you
know what cotton candy was known as when it was
(02:29):
first invented?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Cocaine?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No, it was originally the original name was fairy floss.
That was the original name of cotton candy it debuted.
It was because it's national cotton candidate. So you have
to have a fun fact about cotton candy. It was
actually invented by a dentist. A dentist in eighteen ninety
seven is credited with the invention of the machine that
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spun cotton candy, and then it debuted at the World's Fair.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It sounds like a marketing stunt. It's good for business, right,
I know it'll get people in my chair of terror.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It was the World's Fair in Saint Louis in nineteen
oh four, but it was originally known as fairy floss.
And then it got its name from a guy who
built a machine and sold the treat to patients in
his Louisiana office. This other dentist, not the original dentist.
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And then the people at Tutsi Roll in nineteen sixty
six they began calling it fluffy stuff. But it's known
as it's known as obviously cotton candy. But it had
three names, fairyfloss, cotton candy, and fluffy stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Insert your own joke. I rotate nuts, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But all right, let's get to the actual email questions
of the week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
These are all sent in by various listeners.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You guys have been wonderful but real Fifth hour at
gmail dot com if you want to send an email
in name in city name and city name and city
if you want credit. First one up is from Steve
in the Greater Cleveland area and he says that there's
a clothing tycoon who vows to give away three billion
(04:21):
dollars you know, that's his company for proof that the
Earth is flat. And then Steve says, Ben, do you
know anybody that can help and help with that information. Well, well, Steve,
as you might remember during I think it was during COVID,
you know, you know it wasn't during COVID, it was
when remember Kyrie Irving came out and announced the Earth
(04:41):
was flat.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Remember that story, it's yeah, of course. So we were.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Talking about that on the overnight and then I had
and Steve, you bring up a great memory. We had
the flat Earth people, but we also had the hollow
Earth people.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
There are there are groups of.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
People that believe in the hollow Earth, and then there's
other groups that believe in the flat Earth. And the
hollow Earth people were sending me a lot of propaganda,
like there's portals you can go in the middle of
the planet and there's like a different different group of
people that live there. So yeah, I think I could
reach out to those guys Steve and Hey, Danny, you
want in on this three billion dollar company. This guy's
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going going to give away as long as we can
prove the Earth is flat.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And I know people that swear the Earth is flat.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They swear that that's not around, it's flat. And if
we can get a hold of these people, we can
actually get Columbia's sportswear company.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I feel like the Hollow Earth people are kind of
your people because you buy into that in a way,
you believe there's portals underneath the ocean and the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well I didn't say portals.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What I believe is if you were coming from another
world or even somewhere out in our Solar system, you
would think that this planet is mostly just water because
if you look at it from afar, it's all blue,
so you think that's the majority. So you'd go in
the ocean and you wouldn't have to bother with human beings.
So yeah, I think there are spaceships or whatever you
(06:10):
want to call it, come out of the oceans.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I do buy that there's.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Like an achool person and it has big guys that's
looking at us. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I you go in the middle of the earth.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The guy that's the billionaire CEO of Columbia's Sportswear has
let the world be known that you haven't the opportunity
of a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
His worth is estimated at one point six billion.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The reward would be control of his three billion dollar
family business, which was founded in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'm sure his great grandfather would be broad.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, exactly right. Come on anyway, Steve, Yeah, I'll reach
out to those people. We'll get right on top of it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Reggie from Detroit writes in on the Fifth Hour mail Bag.
He says, Hey, Bandon, Danny, my town of Detroit has
just erected a statue of the iconic movie character RoboCop.
We're very proud here in the Motor City that we
have a statue for RoboCop. And then he says, does
this become now the greatest statue for a movie character
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in any city in America?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, Reggie, I have not have you seen this?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I've not seen a photo of the RoboCop statue, so
I couldn't comment on it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Saw I saw this last week?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, does it look cool?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It is a cool statue.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Okay, I would say, though the Rocky Balboa statue isn't that.
I don't want to upset Reggie, but wouldn't that be
more more on top? You know, that's that's kind of cooler.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Uh yeah, but I mean the the RoboCop one is
more modern.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm looking.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I have it saved because it was something I sent
to Covidno and Rich during the week. As soon as
I find it here, I'm going to text it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I know in Palm Springs they have a Marilyn Monroe statue,
but I don't know this year it's nude. Well her
dress is blowing up, so you know, you kind of
get a get a peek.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, I'm trying to think of some other statues that
I've seen. I haven't. You know, there isn't there a
Fonsie statue in in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I feel like I've been to a place there was
a Fonsie statue.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
There wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
There was one in Minnesota too, that I forget. When
I was in Minnesota, we saw a weird statue. I
don't remember the name. Though it's it's early here, I
don't I don't know, Uh, that's pretty cool though. That's
that's that's that's neat, you know, that's why not. There
you go, RoboCop one.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That movie's old too, though, right, that movie's way back,
way way back in the day. Let's see here.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It says there's a Captain America statue in Brooklyn. I
have never never seen that. There's an Andy Griffith and
Opie statue in mount Airy, North Carolina. Bronze statue of
Andy and Opie.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wow, from the Andy Griffith Show. That sounds that sounds amazing, Danny.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I might have to go next time I am in
North Carolina, I'll have to go to mount Airy, North
Carolina to check that out.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I sent you the I sent you the Detroit Free
Press article with the picture of the statue.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh yeah, that is pretty cool. Oh you should be proud, Reggie.
What a great day for you people in Detroit. My god,
it's got the full full costume on there. It's good
to go.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And it took fifteen years of planning for this.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
And it says RoboCop was a police officer turned cyborg
who saved Detroit from hoodlums. Who Yeah, in a nineteen
eighty seven movie, of course, we all saw that as kids.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Geez, so that movie is a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Almost forty years old, fifteen to put that statue together.
That's a great job by the government there, all right, Kevin,
thank you, Rechie Kevin and Albuquerque Rights. And we don't
get many emails from people in Albuquerque. He says, have
you guys ever been hit by a cosmic ray? And
then he sent me a story here It says that
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in October fifteen, people were hospitalized after a cosmic ray
sent a New Jersey bound jet Blue Flight plunging thousands
of feet, a phenomenon that could potentially pose a.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Threat to all air travel.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
According to the chief of space Policy at the Planetary Society,
I don't know what the hell that is.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Said. We have lots and.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Lots of airplanes flying every day, so very occasionally these
things will occur. And he says, if a particle strikes
a critical circuit in a computer, it can corrupt the
computer's memory, censor data, potentially.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Cause other damage. Oh that sounds great, Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I guess we can file that on top of all
the other things we need to worry about. Danny, the
cosmic ray did you fly to Vegas or did you
drive to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
By the way, did you fly?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I flew?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh you flew?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You got how you guys find Looney's in Vegas this
weekend too? And he flew, I'm the only one that
I love driving.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't know. I like to You know what the
key is.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I got these plane tickets right when the NFL season began,
like week one. And when you get a flight that
many weeks out in advance, you get a great price.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And then you had to take an uber to the hotel,
I guess or shuttle or something.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh no, I had a friend pick me up.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh you got a guy. You know a guy?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, I know a guy. I got hookups out here.
You got a guy, man, You're a made man.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
My plan to drive to Vegas has not been as
enjoyable the last couple of years, since they started.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Charging fifty bucks a day to park.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
At a lot of the hotels, or thirty dollars if
for an hour parking, so it isn't quite as valuable.
At some point, these morons that run these casino companies
will realize, well, maybe maybe we should just give free parking.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
We did it before we made a lot of money.
We've started to charge for parking, We're not making as
much money. I wonder if there's a correlation between those
two things.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Did you worry, Danny when you were flying about a
cosmic ray like Kevin and Alberquerque's talking about.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
No, But now I'm going to be thinking about it
on the flight back, So thank you, okay?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Alarry in Saint Paul writes and he says, hey, Ben
and Danny, I know hollering. James wants you Ben to
come back for another malon mean greet. Do you think
you can come in the wintertime? And do you think
people someday will escape Mars to warm up here in Minnesota?
And then he said that acquoding.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Did you see this, Danny? According to ACI Weather.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thanksgiving Day, they had a temperature of
twenty seven degrees on Thanksgiving last month on Mars, according
to NASA's Curiosity Rover, the temperature on Mars was thirty
degrees so.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It was actually cool. It was colder in Minneapolis than
it was on Mars. That'sa wow. That's wild man. That
is bananas that it gets that cold.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
They say Earth is rarely colder than Mars, and they
average around minus eighty five the temperature on how are
people going to live there?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's minus eighty five?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The air is cleaner there also, Yeah, wait wait.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Till we get there, it says Mars because it does
not have an atmosphere similar to Earth, so the planet
can drop it to temperatures as low as minus two
hundred and twenty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
There.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
One thing, Danny I've learned from being on the radio
in Minnesota all these years is the good people of Minnesota.
They love to let everyone know how effing cold it
is in Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right that like that s yeah you a softies.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
We used to do weather updates on your overnight show
back in the day, remember, and people would call in
from all over the country comparing their degrees and showing
off their temperature.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well it's it's one of those deals where if you say, hey,
the price of gas is you know, X amount of dollars,
then everyone loves to call up and tell you that
their gas is cheaper or more expensive or more expensive, yeah,
or the weather's the weather is the big thing. As
a high high brag factor on that Michael from New York,
(14:40):
I assume Upstate rites and he says, Hey, Ben, and
I know you're not a soccer guy, but soccer fans
are very upset around the world.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They're accusing FIFA of fixing.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The World Cup draw for the United States because President
Trump was.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
There, and you wanted to know what I thought about that.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I'm not a soccer guy, Michael, did you, Danny, did
you pay any attention to this? I I did see
some emails some people complaining on the broadcast, and I
didn't see this, so I'm taking this second hand. But
I had multiple people email me. I think this was
on Fox. They interviewed people from the different countries in
their native language, and they didn't they didn't have an interpreter,
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so unless you spoke that language and you had no
idea what they were talking about. Yeah, I I only
really care about the World Cup when the actual World
Cup's going on, and that's only for content reasons. I
remember that there was the big headbutt controversy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
There was the that sound.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Remember was because it was that it starts with a V.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But yeah, whatever it was called.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Remember, they made made a big deal about that, Like
those kind of stories. That's good talk radio. I'm fine,
fine doing that. Am I gonna worry about the favorable draw?
Do I think, Michael that the people behind the World
Cup are more likely than corrupt?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Probably, just like the Olympics. By the way, uh was
it called zuzella Zella?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Okay, something like that.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
JT the Wingman, the Great JT the Wingman writes in
Ben and Danny g I hope that y'all had a
great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Now it sounded like a cursed in Swahili racist exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Now we move into December and the eastern part of
the country heads into the less desirable weather.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I do have it much better than I did when.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I was in Wisconsin, JT, says JT the Wingman. But
it's still cooler and wetter weather. That's the pattern. Since
you talk about having a place being in the north
woods of LA I wanted to find out if you
have a fire pit at the Malar mansion. I have
just moved to have a small one. I'm contemplating the
(16:53):
purchase of a log splitter. I'm hoping to turn a
nice bonfire into a real home fire burning.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I like a good fire pill.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah, so we do have a fire pit. We
had the wood one. We have a gas kind of
fired table type thing right now. I love a fire
on a cold night. It's cool to huddle around. We're
having a big event here a few weeks the Malord
first ever pajama party, not to be confused with the
(17:26):
ugly sweater party that has been retired. It's a pajama
party now, holiday pajama party. So we'll have to crank
up the fire thing. But yeah, if you can get
a locks but if you've got trees, you should do it.
JT the wing Man, that would be the way to go.
He also says ps, it was great to hear from
Dominican Mike and Doc Mike this week on the show.
Speaking of Dominican Mike, who we both met at the
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South Carolina Meet and Greet, you mentioned a presence requested
back in North Carolina this coming spring. I would love
to get an early heads up on a possible meet
and greet.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I love that area. Yeah, I had a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My father in law lives there, and I have a
sister in law that lives in kind of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So she's having a baby. The baby is.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Due in January or February, and so I believe my
presence will be requested to accompany my wife sometime probably
in spring, get to North Carolina for at least a
few days. So I will let you know if that
actually does happen. Fer Dog in Fullerton writes, and he says,
Happy December, Santa Ben and Danny g Elfman. He says,
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you couldn't have chosen a worse time to take an
episode off. Danny g Ben finally unveiled his mount rushmore
of Thanksgiving leftovers last week. It was magical. Who knew
cranberry sauce would make the cut? What an upset?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
He says. Very funny, Very funny, he says.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Also, Ben, you mentioned having a good Jack Nicholson's story
but didn't have enough time for it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Do you have enough time for it now?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
No? No, not really, not really Jack. I'll just I'll
say this for a dog. When I started covering the Lakers,
and people think this is nuts because you hate the Lakers,
But at the time, I didn't hate the Lakers. Part
of the reason I hate the Lakers is I dealt
with the Lakers, and that's why I hated the Lakers.
But when I was around them at that time, and
they played at the Forum.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
In the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
They didn't have the creature comforts they have these days.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And so, wait a second, the Dodgers haven't been any
fun for you to deal with the past couple of years.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You hate them now, I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Don't like them as much. I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, you must really hate the Angels and Clippers.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Then no, they're fine. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
They don't. They don't.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't really want to go see them play either.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
But no, So the the Jack story was at halftime
and sometimes if the game was a blow, Jack would
come into the media room and drink coffee and hang
out with us in the media room and so like.
And this was back when he was still making You know,
he's like a hermit now retired, obvious, an old man.
But back then, this thirty forty or forty years thirty
(20:17):
years ago, I guess it was mid nineties at the
Forum and Jack would come in and have a cup
of coffee and sit down with the boys, and I
have have fond memories of that.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I was like, this is like the biggest you know,
he was cool, he didn't talk a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I want a big talker, kind of like myself, just
kind of an introverted guy.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So yeah, and thank you for listening for I'm glad
you liked my Thanksgiving Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was an amazing episode of the podcast. Did we
set a record on that Danny for downloads?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know. We need the Texas Instruments calculator to
figure out those numbers.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah, exactly, Roberto from Boston writes in he says, Tom
he Been this week showed off a seven hundred thousand
dollars diamond and crusted luxury watch at the World Cup
draw show off. What's the most expensive jewelry that you have?
(21:15):
I don't have any expensive jewelry. I don't nor do
I want it. Isn't that Danny like Brady. The more
that Brady goes out there, the less I like Brady.
He just comes across as this arrogant, pompous, obnoxious show off.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I just he's always been a pretty boy, except his
rookie season coming out of the draft. Can't get that
image out of your head. His picture from the draft,
not the draft, but the what do you call it?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The combine?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the combine photo. There you go,
the underwear Olympic phones.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He's your owner, though, Dan him. He's doing a hell
of a job. The Raiders are in good shape.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yes, he doesn't owned shit right now. If you're the owner,
you better fire Mark Davis and get things cracking.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You know, how do you fire?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Mark Davis handed the keys to Tom Brady and said here, Tom,
figure this out and sure, no problem Tom Brady.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It sounds like Tom Brady is busy buying watches right now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You think he bought that or somebody just gave it
to him. Here, little taste. I'm betting them Raiders.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, Kwang and Ho Chi Minh Vietnam rights and he says,
Big Ben and Danny Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
G Radio Daddy, He says, did you know that.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Bova's Bakery was founded in nineteen twenty six by Italian
immigrant Antonio Bova on Salem Street on the North End
of Boston has been a family owned and operated business
ever since, despite having blind Scott as a North End resident.
It started as a bread only bakery before expanding to
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include pastries, pizzas, cal zones, becoming known as the It's
twenty four hour service, authentic Italian goods all that. Kwang,
who did a deep dive on the interweb from Vietnam,
said they are all delicious. Those are all delicious fun
facts that even Lizzo would consider ditching ozempic and returning
(23:09):
as a punching bag to Big Ben's lame jokes.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Of the week.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
They would have material again exactly, he says, Ben. What
was your favorite Boba Bakery delicacy? They have really good
cookies and the cream puff. I had a really delicious
cream puff from Bova's Bakery, and it's that's my favorite
part of Boston. I love the North End. I just
(23:33):
love the vibe. It's like a different world. It feels
like you're on a Disney set. And the fact that
so many legendary people lived in that part of Boston
going back hundreds of years. It's just it's pretty cool.
So I love just the whole vibe. I wouldn't want
to drive around there. I have driven around there a
little bit. I don't want to do that. The streets
are not designed for cars, They're designed for horse and buggy.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, Kwang, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
If you've been to Boston, but you got to go
to Bova's Bakery when you go to Boston.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's really really cool. We did a meet and greet.
That's the last one we did in Boston.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We just did a quick kind of get together at
last minute and mass whole Mickey came out from the
sticks and that was the last time we saw me.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He passed away shortly after that.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
ALF from the Bennies, right, he says, what would be
a greater achievement than hollering James winning a game show
while fast asleep? I would say the Late Night Drug
Tester winning caller of the Year with Leapfrog James Late
Night is one of the best callers on the show.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's from That's from ALF. And here's here.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
How about this for serendipity Danny. The next emails from
the Late Night Drug Test. It says Ben, I know
I'm not a regular caller to there.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
In fact, I don't think he's ever called the show yet.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
This week e Dog from Long Island said I was
his favorite caller. Not to cause controversy and drive up
ratings for the show or the Bennies. Do I need
to start as a a caller, started a caller of
the Year campaign? I am already way behind Marcel and Brooklyn,
you killed it, says thanks again for another great year
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of overnight entertainment YouTube content. Benny versus the Penny in
the Fifth Hour podcast, Well, thank you Late Night Drug Tester.
Now this would be one of the greatest. I agree
with Alf and Late Night Drug Tester. If that's never happened, Danny,
you were with me a long time on the radio show.
We've never had a caller of the Year that wasn't
an actual caller. Now that would be next level. That
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would be next level. It's kind of like we've had
presidents that weren't really politicians that have won, but we've
never had a person who didn't actually call the show
as a caller of the Year.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So that would be that would be awesome, So I'm
all for it.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Scott from Florida Wright sind on the mail bag, Good
Old Scottie. Scott says, my nine year old daughter is
a huge baseball fan, but given her age, obviously still very.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
New to the game.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
The minutes so the Twins came up in a conversation
and she was convinced that they did not exist because.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
They had never she had never heard of them. That's
a good strategy.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
What about A nine year old girl answered me that exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
She accused me of making up everything I told her
about the twins in our conversation. My question is, then,
of all major sports teams in America, what is the
most irrelevant franchise? That's from Scott from Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You want to go first, Danny, I can go first
if you want. It's North America sports teams that are.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Irrelevant, relevant as far as like not making money or
not mattering.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I'm madtering, I'm matter, I'll go first. I was asked
this question a couple months ago. I think it was
on FESCO in the morning, Kansas City. Scott and I responded,
the Winnipeg Jets. But you said American sports. You said,
I'm not Canadian. So Dan, I'm gonna I got two options, Danny,
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I've got the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA and
the Columbus Blue Jackets and hockey.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What's wrong with how dare you?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I saw alf wrote in he said that you can
buy a seventy dollars parrot for Christmas. A decoration led
lights Roscoe the parrot. Remember Roscoe?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Though? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well David from Winter Park, Florida.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Last one Tony, Lucky Tony says, I prefer to be
left alone, Hence the saying. If you ever see a
Bears fan and you want to talk football, fuck off.
But the other day, the other day, a guy was
on the phone talking handicapping, and against my better judgment,
I mentioned Benny versus the penny. Usually I would say
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you owe me one. But since you're a fellow Bears fan,
forget about it. Hey, Danny, did the all in bet?
Did the all in bit?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Ever?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Give you the gambling bug? That's from Lucky Tony in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
He says, Bears Bears, Bears Bears.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
In fact, the very first time I ever gambled it
was when I was working on your Overnight show and
I made a trip out here to the desert and
I placed my very first bet as an adult.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
We even did horses.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh yeah, back in the back in the day. You
gotta do it, man, Fox Sports Radio knows it. Horses.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Bet on the ponies, Bet the ponies.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
All right, we'll get out on that, Danny. It is
a football Sunday today. Enjoy all the facilities. I will
not be a game. I'll be at a game tomorrow.
I'm going to the Charger Eagles game on Monday Night
Football at so Far, but Rams are in Arizona today,
so I will just be partaking and observing from the sofa.
So enjoy the game today, Danny, make sure to give
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Gino the double bird salute. That's what real Raider fans do,
and hopefully for you. Do you want the Raiders to
win or do you want them to lose?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It would be nice if they finally suck enough to
have a top three pick instead of winning just enough
to be between eight and thirteen in the draft. Exactly.
If you're gonna suck, do it well, go.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
All the way.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Hello. Anyway, I have a great day. We'll talk to
you next time.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor and Danny g
Radio a Happy NFL Sunday Week fourteen continues today on
the what is it the seventh day now of December
and it is Mailbag time and Danny is with me.
But you're on location, Danny, You're not in the normal
(00:54):
podcast studio. You're on location for the mailbag. So Ohio,
get us in the Ohio. Aw, it's all right there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It is Ohio that really got me in the mood.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I was already kind of in the mood, Ben, because
an hour ago when I woke up, I was painting
half my face silver the other half black. I am
on a remote here in Vegas going to go into
Allegiant Stadium in a few hours.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh the Raiders in the Denver Broncos today, Right, that's
the big matchup there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, one team fighting for draft position and the other
team trying to be the road that you have to
take to win the AFC.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, listen, the Raiders made progress last week. They actually
went a whole week without firing a coach. So that's
a step in the right direction for the Raiders. Congratulations
on that.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And I am going to flip off Geno Smith in
person today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh, congratulations on that.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What you should do is say, all right, everyone, at
the start of the second half, when the Raiders come
out of the huddle, everyone just flick off Gino Smith
and he might walk off the field, Danny, he might
just walk off there, and if he does, he'll celebrate.
Today is National cotton Candy Day. I know you're excited
about that, Danny. National cotton candy Day. Now, do you
know what cotton candy was known as when it was
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first invented?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Cocaine?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No, it was originally the original name was fairy floss.
That was the original name of cotton candy it debuted.
It was because it's national cotton candidate. So you have
to have a fun fact about cotton candy. It was
actually invented by a dentist. A dentist in eighteen ninety
seven is credited with the invention of the machine that
(02:53):
spun cotton candy, and then it debuted at the World's Fair.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It sounds like a marketing stunt. It's good for business, right,
I know it'll get people in my chair of terror.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It was the World's Fair in Saint Louis in nineteen
oh four, but it was originally known as fairy floss.
And then it got its name from a guy who
built a machine and sold the treat to patients in
his Louisiana office. This other dentist, not the original dentist.
(03:29):
And then the people at Tutsi Roll in nineteen sixty
six they began calling it fluffy stuff. But it's known
as it's known as obviously cotton candy. But it had
three names, fairyfloss, cotton candy, and fluffy stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Insert your own joke. I rotate nuts, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But all right, let's get to the actual email questions
of the week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
These are all sent in by various listeners.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You guys have been wonderful but real Fifth hour at
gmail dot com if you want to send an email
in name in city name and city name and city
if you want credit. First one up is from Steve
in the Greater Cleveland area and he says that there's
a clothing tycoon who vows to give away three billion
(04:21):
dollars you know, that's his company for proof that the
Earth is flat. And then Steve says, Ben, do you
know anybody that can help and help with that information. Well, well, Steve,
as you might remember during I think it was during COVID,
you know, you know it wasn't during COVID, it was
when remember Kyrie Irving came out and announced the Earth
(04:41):
was flat.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Remember that story, it's yeah, of course. So we were.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Talking about that on the overnight and then I had
and Steve, you bring up a great memory. We had
the flat Earth people, but we also had the hollow
Earth people.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
There are there are groups of.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
People that believe in the hollow Earth, and then there's
other groups that believe in the flat Earth. And the
hollow Earth people were sending me a lot of propaganda,
like there's portals you can go in the middle of
the planet and there's like a different different group of
people that live there. So yeah, I think I could
reach out to those guys Steve and Hey, Danny, you
want in on this three billion dollar company. This guy's
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going going to give away as long as we can
prove the Earth is flat.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And I know people that swear the Earth is flat.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They swear that that's not around, it's flat. And if
we can get a hold of these people, we can
actually get Columbia's sportswear company.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I feel like the Hollow Earth people are kind of
your people because you buy into that in a way,
you believe there's portals underneath the ocean and the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well I didn't say portals.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What I believe is if you were coming from another
world or even somewhere out in our Solar system, you
would think that this planet is mostly just water because
if you look at it from afar, it's all blue,
so you think that's the majority. So you'd go in
the ocean and you wouldn't have to bother with human beings.
So yeah, I think there are spaceships or whatever you
(06:10):
want to call it, come out of the oceans.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I do buy that there's.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Like an achool person and it has big guys that's
looking at us. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I you go in the middle of the earth.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The guy that's the billionaire CEO of Columbia's Sportswear has
let the world be known that you haven't the opportunity
of a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
His worth is estimated at one point six billion.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The reward would be control of his three billion dollar
family business, which was founded in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'm sure his great grandfather would be broad.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, exactly right. Come on anyway, Steve, Yeah, I'll reach
out to those people. We'll get right on top of it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Reggie from Detroit writes in on the Fifth Hour mail Bag.
He says, Hey, Bandon, Danny, my town of Detroit has
just erected a statue of the iconic movie character RoboCop.
We're very proud here in the Motor City that we
have a statue for RoboCop. And then he says, does
this become now the greatest statue for a movie character
(07:15):
in any city in America?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, Reggie, I have not have you seen this?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I've not seen a photo of the RoboCop statue, so
I couldn't comment on it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Saw I saw this last week?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, does it look cool?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It is a cool statue.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Okay, I would say, though the Rocky Balboa statue isn't that.
I don't want to upset Reggie, but wouldn't that be
more more on top? You know, that's that's kind of cooler.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Uh yeah, but I mean the the RoboCop one is
more modern.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm looking.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I have it saved because it was something I sent
to Covidno and Rich during the week. As soon as
I find it here, I'm going to text it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I know in Palm Springs they have a Marilyn Monroe statue,
but I don't know this year it's nude. Well her
dress is blowing up, so you know, you kind of
get a get a peek.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, I'm trying to think of some other statues that
I've seen. I haven't. You know, there isn't there a
Fonsie statue in in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I feel like I've been to a place there was
a Fonsie statue.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
There wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
There was one in Minnesota too, that I forget. When
I was in Minnesota, we saw a weird statue. I
don't remember the name. Though it's it's early here, I
don't I don't know, Uh, that's pretty cool though. That's
that's that's that's neat, you know, that's why not. There
you go, RoboCop one.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That movie's old too, though, right, that movie's way back,
way way back in the day. Let's see here.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It says there's a Captain America statue in Brooklyn. I
have never never seen that. There's an Andy Griffith and
Opie statue in mount Airy, North Carolina. Bronze statue of
Andy and Opie.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wow, from the Andy Griffith Show. That sounds that sounds amazing, Danny.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I might have to go next time I am in
North Carolina, I'll have to go to mount Airy, North
Carolina to check that out.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I sent you the I sent you the Detroit Free
Press article with the picture of the statue.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh yeah, that is pretty cool. Oh you should be proud, Reggie.
What a great day for you people in Detroit. My god,
it's got the full full costume on there. It's good
to go.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And it took fifteen years of planning for this.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
And it says RoboCop was a police officer turned cyborg
who saved Detroit from hoodlums. Who Yeah, in a nineteen
eighty seven movie, of course, we all saw that as kids.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Geez, so that movie is a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Almost forty years old, fifteen to put that statue together.
That's a great job by the government there, all right, Kevin,
thank you, Rechie Kevin and Albuquerque Rights. And we don't
get many emails from people in Albuquerque. He says, have
you guys ever been hit by a cosmic ray? And
then he sent me a story here It says that
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in October fifteen, people were hospitalized after a cosmic ray
sent a New Jersey bound jet Blue Flight plunging thousands
of feet, a phenomenon that could potentially pose a.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Threat to all air travel.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
According to the chief of space Policy at the Planetary Society,
I don't know what the hell that is.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Said. We have lots and.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Lots of airplanes flying every day, so very occasionally these
things will occur. And he says, if a particle strikes
a critical circuit in a computer, it can corrupt the
computer's memory, censor data, potentially.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Cause other damage. Oh that sounds great, Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I guess we can file that on top of all
the other things we need to worry about. Danny, the
cosmic ray did you fly to Vegas or did you
drive to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
By the way, did you fly?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I flew?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh you flew?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You got how you guys find Looney's in Vegas this
weekend too? And he flew, I'm the only one that
I love driving.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't know. I like to You know what the
key is.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I got these plane tickets right when the NFL season began,
like week one. And when you get a flight that
many weeks out in advance, you get a great price.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And then you had to take an uber to the hotel,
I guess or shuttle or something.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh no, I had a friend pick me up.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh you got a guy. You know a guy?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, I know a guy. I got hookups out here.
You got a guy, man, You're a made man.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
My plan to drive to Vegas has not been as
enjoyable the last couple of years, since they started.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Charging fifty bucks a day to park.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
At a lot of the hotels, or thirty dollars if
for an hour parking, so it isn't quite as valuable.
At some point, these morons that run these casino companies
will realize, well, maybe maybe we should just give free parking.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
We did it before we made a lot of money.
We've started to charge for parking, We're not making as
much money. I wonder if there's a correlation between those
two things.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Did you worry, Danny when you were flying about a
cosmic ray like Kevin and Alberquerque's talking about.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
No, But now I'm going to be thinking about it
on the flight back, So thank you, okay?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Alarry in Saint Paul writes and he says, hey, Ben
and Danny, I know hollering. James wants you Ben to
come back for another malon mean greet. Do you think
you can come in the wintertime? And do you think
people someday will escape Mars to warm up here in Minnesota?
And then he said that acquoding.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Did you see this, Danny? According to ACI Weather.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thanksgiving Day, they had a temperature of
twenty seven degrees on Thanksgiving last month on Mars, according
to NASA's Curiosity Rover, the temperature on Mars was thirty
degrees so.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It was actually cool. It was colder in Minneapolis than
it was on Mars. That'sa wow. That's wild man. That
is bananas that it gets that cold.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
They say Earth is rarely colder than Mars, and they
average around minus eighty five the temperature on how are
people going to live there?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's minus eighty five?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The air is cleaner there also, Yeah, wait wait.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Till we get there, it says Mars because it does
not have an atmosphere similar to Earth, so the planet
can drop it to temperatures as low as minus two
hundred and twenty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
There.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
One thing, Danny I've learned from being on the radio
in Minnesota all these years is the good people of Minnesota.
They love to let everyone know how effing cold it
is in Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right that like that s yeah you a softies.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
We used to do weather updates on your overnight show
back in the day, remember, and people would call in
from all over the country comparing their degrees and showing
off their temperature.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well it's it's one of those deals where if you say, hey,
the price of gas is you know, X amount of dollars,
then everyone loves to call up and tell you that
their gas is cheaper or more expensive or more expensive, yeah,
or the weather's the weather is the big thing. As
a high high brag factor on that Michael from New York,
(14:40):
I assume Upstate rites and he says, Hey, Ben, and
I know you're not a soccer guy, but soccer fans
are very upset around the world.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They're accusing FIFA of fixing.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The World Cup draw for the United States because President
Trump was.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
There, and you wanted to know what I thought about that.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I'm not a soccer guy, Michael, did you, Danny, did
you pay any attention to this? I I did see
some emails some people complaining on the broadcast, and I
didn't see this, so I'm taking this second hand. But
I had multiple people email me. I think this was
on Fox. They interviewed people from the different countries in
their native language, and they didn't they didn't have an interpreter,
(15:21):
so unless you spoke that language and you had no
idea what they were talking about. Yeah, I I only
really care about the World Cup when the actual World
Cup's going on, and that's only for content reasons. I
remember that there was the big headbutt controversy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
There was the that sound.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Remember was because it was that it starts with a V.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But yeah, whatever it was called.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Remember, they made made a big deal about that, Like
those kind of stories. That's good talk radio. I'm fine,
fine doing that. Am I gonna worry about the favorable draw?
Do I think, Michael that the people behind the World
Cup are more likely than corrupt?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Probably, just like the Olympics. By the way, uh was
it called zuzella Zella?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Okay, something like that.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
JT the Wingman, the Great JT the Wingman writes in
Ben and Danny g I hope that y'all had a
great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Now it sounded like a cursed in Swahili racist exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Now we move into December and the eastern part of
the country heads into the less desirable weather.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I do have it much better than I did when.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I was in Wisconsin, JT, says JT the Wingman. But
it's still cooler and wetter weather. That's the pattern. Since
you talk about having a place being in the north
woods of LA I wanted to find out if you
have a fire pit at the Malar mansion. I have
just moved to have a small one. I'm contemplating the
(16:53):
purchase of a log splitter. I'm hoping to turn a
nice bonfire into a real home fire burning.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I like a good fire pill.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah, so we do have a fire pit. We
had the wood one. We have a gas kind of
fired table type thing right now. I love a fire
on a cold night. It's cool to huddle around. We're
having a big event here a few weeks the Malord
first ever pajama party, not to be confused with the
(17:26):
ugly sweater party that has been retired. It's a pajama
party now, holiday pajama party. So we'll have to crank
up the fire thing. But yeah, if you can get
a locks but if you've got trees, you should do it.
JT the wing Man, that would be the way to go.
He also says ps, it was great to hear from
Dominican Mike and Doc Mike this week on the show.
Speaking of Dominican Mike, who we both met at the
(17:48):
South Carolina Meet and Greet, you mentioned a presence requested
back in North Carolina this coming spring. I would love
to get an early heads up on a possible meet
and greet.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I love that area. Yeah, I had a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My father in law lives there, and I have a
sister in law that lives in kind of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So she's having a baby. The baby is.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Due in January or February, and so I believe my
presence will be requested to accompany my wife sometime probably
in spring, get to North Carolina for at least a
few days. So I will let you know if that
actually does happen. Fer Dog in Fullerton writes, and he says,
Happy December, Santa Ben and Danny g Elfman. He says,
(18:38):
you couldn't have chosen a worse time to take an
episode off. Danny g Ben finally unveiled his mount rushmore
of Thanksgiving leftovers last week. It was magical. Who knew
cranberry sauce would make the cut? What an upset?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
He says. Very funny, Very funny, he says.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Also, Ben, you mentioned having a good Jack Nicholson's story
but didn't have enough time for it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Do you have enough time for it now?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
No? No, not really, not really Jack. I'll just I'll
say this for a dog. When I started covering the Lakers,
and people think this is nuts because you hate the Lakers,
But at the time, I didn't hate the Lakers. Part
of the reason I hate the Lakers is I dealt
with the Lakers, and that's why I hated the Lakers.
But when I was around them at that time, and
they played at the Forum.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
In the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
They didn't have the creature comforts they have these days.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And so, wait a second, the Dodgers haven't been any
fun for you to deal with the past couple of years.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You hate them now, I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Don't like them as much. I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, you must really hate the Angels and Clippers.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Then no, they're fine. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
They don't. They don't.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't really want to go see them play either.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
But no, So the the Jack story was at halftime
and sometimes if the game was a blow, Jack would
come into the media room and drink coffee and hang
out with us in the media room and so like.
And this was back when he was still making You know,
he's like a hermit now retired, obvious, an old man.
But back then, this thirty forty or forty years thirty
(20:17):
years ago, I guess it was mid nineties at the
Forum and Jack would come in and have a cup
of coffee and sit down with the boys, and I
have have fond memories of that.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I was like, this is like the biggest you know,
he was cool, he didn't talk a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I want a big talker, kind of like myself, just
kind of an introverted guy.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So yeah, and thank you for listening for I'm glad
you liked my Thanksgiving Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was an amazing episode of the podcast. Did we
set a record on that Danny for downloads?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know. We need the Texas Instruments calculator to
figure out those numbers.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah, exactly, Roberto from Boston writes in he says, Tom
he Been this week showed off a seven hundred thousand
dollars diamond and crusted luxury watch at the World Cup
draw show off. What's the most expensive jewelry that you have?
(21:15):
I don't have any expensive jewelry. I don't nor do
I want it. Isn't that Danny like Brady. The more
that Brady goes out there, the less I like Brady.
He just comes across as this arrogant, pompous, obnoxious show off.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I just he's always been a pretty boy, except his
rookie season coming out of the draft. Can't get that
image out of your head. His picture from the draft,
not the draft, but the what do you call it?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The combine?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the combine photo. There you go,
the underwear Olympic phones.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He's your owner, though, Dan him. He's doing a hell
of a job. The Raiders are in good shape.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yes, he doesn't owned shit right now. If you're the owner,
you better fire Mark Davis and get things cracking.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You know, how do you fire?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Mark Davis handed the keys to Tom Brady and said here, Tom,
figure this out and sure, no problem Tom Brady.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It sounds like Tom Brady is busy buying watches right now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You think he bought that or somebody just gave it
to him. Here, little taste. I'm betting them Raiders.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, Kwang and Ho Chi Minh Vietnam rights and he says,
Big Ben and Danny Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
G Radio Daddy, He says, did you know that.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Bova's Bakery was founded in nineteen twenty six by Italian
immigrant Antonio Bova on Salem Street on the North End
of Boston has been a family owned and operated business
ever since, despite having blind Scott as a North End resident.
It started as a bread only bakery before expanding to
(22:48):
include pastries, pizzas, cal zones, becoming known as the It's
twenty four hour service, authentic Italian goods all that. Kwang,
who did a deep dive on the interweb from Vietnam,
said they are all delicious. Those are all delicious fun
facts that even Lizzo would consider ditching ozempic and returning
(23:09):
as a punching bag to Big Ben's lame jokes.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Of the week.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
They would have material again exactly, he says, Ben. What
was your favorite Boba Bakery delicacy? They have really good
cookies and the cream puff. I had a really delicious
cream puff from Bova's Bakery, and it's that's my favorite
part of Boston. I love the North End. I just
(23:33):
love the vibe. It's like a different world. It feels
like you're on a Disney set. And the fact that
so many legendary people lived in that part of Boston
going back hundreds of years. It's just it's pretty cool.
So I love just the whole vibe. I wouldn't want
to drive around there. I have driven around there a
little bit. I don't want to do that. The streets
are not designed for cars, They're designed for horse and buggy.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, Kwang, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
If you've been to Boston, but you got to go
to Bova's Bakery when you go to Boston.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's really really cool. We did a meet and greet.
That's the last one we did in Boston.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We just did a quick kind of get together at
last minute and mass whole Mickey came out from the
sticks and that was the last time we saw me.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He passed away shortly after that.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
ALF from the Bennies, right, he says, what would be
a greater achievement than hollering James winning a game show
while fast asleep? I would say the Late Night Drug
Tester winning caller of the Year with Leapfrog James Late
Night is one of the best callers on the show.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's from That's from ALF. And here's here.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
How about this for serendipity Danny. The next emails from
the Late Night Drug Test. It says Ben, I know
I'm not a regular caller to there.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
In fact, I don't think he's ever called the show yet.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
This week e Dog from Long Island said I was
his favorite caller. Not to cause controversy and drive up
ratings for the show or the Bennies. Do I need
to start as a a caller, started a caller of
the Year campaign? I am already way behind Marcel and Brooklyn,
you killed it, says thanks again for another great year
(25:10):
of overnight entertainment YouTube content. Benny versus the Penny in
the Fifth Hour podcast, Well, thank you Late Night Drug Tester.
Now this would be one of the greatest. I agree
with Alf and Late Night Drug Tester. If that's never happened, Danny,
you were with me a long time on the radio show.
We've never had a caller of the Year that wasn't
an actual caller. Now that would be next level. That
(25:32):
would be next level. It's kind of like we've had
presidents that weren't really politicians that have won, but we've
never had a person who didn't actually call the show
as a caller of the Year.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So that would be that would be awesome, So I'm
all for it.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Scott from Florida Wright sind on the mail bag, Good
Old Scottie. Scott says, my nine year old daughter is
a huge baseball fan, but given her age, obviously still very.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
New to the game.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
The minutes so the Twins came up in a conversation
and she was convinced that they did not exist because.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
They had never she had never heard of them. That's
a good strategy.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
What about A nine year old girl answered me that exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
She accused me of making up everything I told her
about the twins in our conversation. My question is, then,
of all major sports teams in America, what is the
most irrelevant franchise? That's from Scott from Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You want to go first, Danny, I can go first
if you want. It's North America sports teams that are.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Irrelevant, relevant as far as like not making money or
not mattering.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I'm madtering, I'm matter, I'll go first. I was asked
this question a couple months ago. I think it was
on FESCO in the morning, Kansas City. Scott and I responded,
the Winnipeg Jets. But you said American sports. You said,
I'm not Canadian. So Dan, I'm gonna I got two options, Danny,
(27:11):
I've got the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA and
the Columbus Blue Jackets and hockey.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What's wrong with how dare you?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I saw alf wrote in he said that you can
buy a seventy dollars parrot for Christmas. A decoration led
lights Roscoe the parrot. Remember Roscoe?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Though? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well David from Winter Park, Florida.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Last one Tony, Lucky Tony says, I prefer to be
left alone, Hence the saying. If you ever see a
Bears fan and you want to talk football, fuck off.
But the other day, the other day, a guy was
on the phone talking handicapping, and against my better judgment,
I mentioned Benny versus the penny. Usually I would say
(27:59):
you owe me one. But since you're a fellow Bears fan,
forget about it. Hey, Danny, did the all in bet?
Did the all in bit?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Ever?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Give you the gambling bug? That's from Lucky Tony in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
He says, Bears Bears, Bears Bears.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
In fact, the very first time I ever gambled it
was when I was working on your Overnight show and
I made a trip out here to the desert and
I placed my very first bet as an adult.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
We even did horses.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh yeah, back in the back in the day. You
gotta do it, man, Fox Sports Radio knows it. Horses.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Bet on the ponies, Bet the ponies.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
All right, we'll get out on that, Danny. It is
a football Sunday today. Enjoy all the facilities. I will
not be a game. I'll be at a game tomorrow.
I'm going to the Charger Eagles game on Monday Night
Football at so Far, but Rams are in Arizona today,
so I will just be partaking and observing from the sofa.
So enjoy the game today, Danny, make sure to give
(29:04):
Gino the double bird salute. That's what real Raider fans do,
and hopefully for you. Do you want the Raiders to
win or do you want them to lose?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It would be nice if they finally suck enough to
have a top three pick instead of winning just enough
to be between eight and thirteen in the draft. Exactly.
If you're gonna suck, do it well, go.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
All the way.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Hello. Anyway, I have a great day. We'll talk to
you next time.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.
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