July 27, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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 clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G
Radio and a Happy mail Bag kind of a Sunday
as we hang out and celebrate one of the great
days of the year. Today Danny G Radio is National
Chicken Finger Day, a day celebrate one of my favorite
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culinary delights, those golden brown pieces of wonderful deliciousness, the
chicken finger.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
How great is that, Danny.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
J I do have one bone to pick with our place.
It's our spot. You turned me onto this place years
ago and I've been going back ever since. Raising canes. Yeah,
I'm not sure that they should have even done a
promotion if it was going to be this wimpy. You
get one free chicken finger there today.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh goody one.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's it one with a purchase of a box combo
and as you know, those are upwards of thirteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, so that's a little much. That's that's a little
too too light.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
How about if they said get three free fingers with
a box condo purchase.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, and then they did the math, they said, well,
we'll lose too much money on that, so that'll be
a I actually got an email from a publicist for
Raising Canes about National Chicken Finger Day, and they wanted
to do a promotion where they were going to come
in studio and then they found out what time we
were on, you know, and that was all.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But they would have done anybody. It was like, I
don't know. I was like, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I love raising Canes, we support them and all that.
I don't know that I want to do a whole
hour about raising canes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't think I want to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But it is National Chicken Figure today today, so I
of course went down the old rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I love chicken fingers. I've loved them since I was
a kid.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You love ranch the chicken finger. Just dip in for
chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
They say, the first time ever the chicken finger was
served was in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of my favorite
cities to visit.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I love Manchester.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's a little tourist town in between Boston and you
drive up to Maine and right there on the coast
in New Hampshire. It's just a beautiful little you know.
Of course, I've only been there during the summer. I'm
sure it's probably a nightmare in the winter, but it
was beautiful every time I've been there. And the first
I don't know how they know this, but in nineteen
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seventy four, so that predates me. The first chicken finger
was made at this joint in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
then in the nineteen eighties the chicken finger started becoming
a popular item, a substitute for chicken nuggets and raising canes,
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which was my idea.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
By the way, I can back you up on that.
Used to talk about it on the air, long before
we got raising canes in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
My plan was, I'm going to become forget Burger King
or McDonald's or Domino's, all these fast food places.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'm going to be the king of the chicken finger.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
That was my plan, and then Todd Graves established raising
Canes and Baton Rouge Louisiana. And then now we have
National Chicken Finger Day, which is today.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And then there you go. And in England.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Terry can back this up. I'm told the chicken fingers
are known as chicken Gujohn's I believe how you say
g O U j o n s. They're also called
chicken filets and chicken strips. And but here in the gold,
good old Us of A, we love our chicken fingers
and it is a staple of every kid's menu. Right,
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I'm sure CoA, when you take Coati, you got those
mini corn dogs and you've got chicken fingers, and those
are pretty much on every should be on every kids
menu when you go out and about, right, I mean
those that you must have.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That he lives, he practically lives on those lightly breaded
chicken nuggets from Tosco.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh those are good.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, Oh they're they're wonderful and they're actually they're more
like chicken fingers, but they're in the form of a nugget.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, is that are you talking about? They come in
like a white package with kind of green on them.
Is that the one you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, those are.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
A ripoff of Chick fil A. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah? And I feel like they're better than Chick fil a.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you just put them in the air fryer or
you put them in the other.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yep, air fryer every day. That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, the air fryer food has gotten so much better.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's like I feel like they've really.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Mastered the air frer food.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Today is also National Scotch Day. So if you you
a Scotch drink, I'm not a Scotch drinker. You a
Scotch drinker, Danny.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I feel like our older generator, me and me and
you are in the same generation.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I feel like the people older than us.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I just feel like
I remember being at social events and relatives were drinking scotch.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Maybe they were.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I feel like it was our grandparents drink.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yes, yes, yes, I feel like our grandparents were scotch drinkers.
That they did that they had cart I remember our
grandparents had car slide shows from vacation.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
They had always bring.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Us kids over and show slide shows and where they
want to vacation. And then they also had they would
play weird card games. They It wasn't poker, I forget
the name of There was a couple of card games
my grandfather, one of my grandfather's a big card shark,
and he'd have friends and family over to play cards.
But it wasn't I forget the name of it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The whole slide show concept is strange too, when you
think about it. That would be like if nowadays you
trap people in your living room and force them to
look at pictures from your iPhone from when you went
out of town.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, it is odd.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's one of those quirky things that you tell people
who are younger, younger than us, like the next.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Generation, like what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My god? You had to sit in a room and
pretend like you cared because your grandfather went to the
Grand Canyon. You know. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, my grandfather,
my dad's dad.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He was the master man.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He had all these cameras, so for him, like he
would go on vacation. I'm pretty sure he just was
on vacation just to take photos.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh he was Antel Adams. He was just forcing people
to see his artwork exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
As story with everything, and a little story about we
met this.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Gentleman and he's a friend of the family.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know, when you're a kid, you don't give a
flying f you know, you know, I don't care the
friend of the family man. Dude, I just want to
get the f out of here, all right. I don't
sit here and watch this crap. That's that is a
world before the Internet.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Both slide shows would have been better if they would
have shared their scotch with us.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Exactly, kiddos. Let's get hammered kids. Anyway, Let's get to
the mailbag and a man who did very well in
the mal or palooza. Let's give it up now for ohiou.
It's all right, very good, thank you, ohio. A first
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up is our guy Reggie in Detroit, a regular fifth
hour listener. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny, hope you
guys are enjoying July. He then says, Ben, the NFL
is beginning this week. There's exhibition football this week. I
like that, Reggie said, exhibition, not preseason. Danny, he said, exhibition,
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because it is exhibition. And I will never forget the
late great Dennis Green. I was hanging out with Dennis
Green did an interview with him when he was coaching
the Vikings, and I said, I was talking about the
exhibition season and Danny Green, God rest his soul. He
then Danny got on a soapbox and said, well, Ben,
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we don't call it the exhibition season.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's a preseason. The season ticket always get.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They get the regular season, then they get the preseason,
which is a very important part of how teams get
ready for the season. But he was giving me all
the talking points. I still remember it. It's been so
long and I still remember Dennis Green trying to educate me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But I don't care. I still call it exhibition GEPs. Anyway,
I think they.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Charged and you screwed that up, by the way, because
he offered you free tickets and you didn't take them up.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
No, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
He did offer me, and I didn't didn't use them.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Anyway, Reggie says, what's going on is Benny versus the
Penny been canceled. Reggie, I will give you an update
as soon as I can. All I will tell you
is we have not been canceled. The show has not
been canceled. The show has not been picked up, though
which is not good. I will admit that's not good.
But here's the thing. Until you know, I have been
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in conversations with the people the network at NBC. They've
been very good to me. They've been very kind. And
the good thing is we've done the show for two
years now, and I've worked with Tom Looney for almost
thirty years. Me and Luney have done radio and television,
so we work really, really smooth together. It's not it's
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not really an issue. So we're still waiting and I
will let you know. And I'm optimistic, but I'm also
realistic that it's it's not been picked up. And you
are right, Reggie, this is not great this season. The
practice games start this week, so we will find out.
And as soon as I find out either way, we'll
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let you know. I mean, we will do Benny Versus
the Penny. Whether it's on television or whether it's somewhere else,
it'll be done.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's tough because it does cost a lot to produce
that show. It's like the Colbert Show.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, we uh, well, that's well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think as somebody justin and Cincinnati said, have you
been given the Colbert you know that was That's how.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We foolks using it as a verb.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, but I'm happy to report and I can say this,
even if Benny Versus the Penny gets canceled, we did
not call lost NBC forty million dollars a year. They
did not lose forty million dollars a year on the
TV show. I promise you that now. Ferd Dog and
Fullig and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I'm still
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holding out hope, Ben, But if our worst fears come
true and Benny Versus the Penny is not renewed for
a third season, do you think the main reason why
is because the Penny got lucky and beat you in
the regular season last year? He said, no, nobody, that
doesn't matter. In fact, I think that made for a
better show. Not that I was trying to lose to
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the Penny, but that was the whole point of the show.
The whole point of Benny Versus the Penny is, I
actually do handicap the games, and I think I know
a little bit about the NFL, and I go out,
I picked the games, I do my due diligence and
in an adamant object the penny, we flip it up
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and it ends up beating me, even though I have
access to all all the numbers and all the stats,
and and that's the whole point of show. Now. As
as for the email, Uh, Fergnuck says, and Danny g
I know you'll never admit it publicly, but would you
take would you secretly take a little joy in Benny
versus the penny getting canceled? Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And then he says, because of that schmuck Tom.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Looney, Uh, Danny, would you would you do a victory
lap if the show got canceled?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
No, I wouldn't do a victory lap. I do remember
all those early mornings toiling though to put all those
penny sound effects and all that together for every Friday
podcast that we used to do back in the day.
But you don't ever do a you don't ever do
a victory danced. I mean, what's the what's the saying
that Clay always used to say, Uh, rising tide lifts
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all ships.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And also you'll all the people you see on the
way up, you'll see on the way down.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
If you start you to that whole yeah talking, we
start shitting on people.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The clippers coach.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Whatever we talked about him yesterday, it does kind of
come back and hit you a little bit. Scott, thank
you for Doug, Scott writes in Scott says, Bend and
Danny g I was born and raised in Clearwater, Floorida.
My grandfather entertained all of my childhood fascinations and heroic figures.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
During my early years.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like most seventy nine ers, I loved hal Cogan and
Rocky three.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Was my favorite movie as a six year old.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So when I moved back here in twenty twenty about
a house one block from the Hulkster, but considerably cheaper
and certainly more flood prone, I always thought my grandfather
would cackle at the thought of us driving past each
other on a regular basis. Every time I saw his,
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meaning hal Cogan's white goatee driving a hot rod, I
thought of my grandpa. I never had the guts to
introduce myself and to say hi. Scott says it was
something I always was going to get around to doing
and to personally thank him for providing some of the
greatest childhood memories I still have about my grandfather. So
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my question to you is this, do you have any
regrets about not approaching or thanking or even genuflecting at
the altar of people that you have come across as
an adult who you're up to as a child. I
imagine in your line of work the opportunities have been funty,
(14:38):
but the professional code and the awkwardness of adulthood must
hold back in some instances. It sounds like you properly
connected with Vin Scully, which must have been a dream
come true.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And then he says, I love Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He says, then, ps, By the way, Ben, when you die,
my six year old son, Carter is going to be
like my dad always listened to Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He is a regular.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Podcast listener and talks about me or talks to me
about your show.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well that's very sweet of Carter.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But and you and I actually have a story about
this very thing in the FSR building. Yeah, remember standing
outside of that studio where you stole a pen. But
we actually didn't get to meet the guy and shake
his hand.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh that's right, Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yesh, Yeah, we were supposed to meet Rush Limbaugh, the
iconic Rush Limbaugh, greatest political talk shows in the history
of radio and the biggest name and financially for the
company we worked for. He made more money for them
than anybody, and we were supposed to meet Rush. And
I remember every year Rush would come to LA for man.
(15:49):
I've worked at Premiere for twenty something years, and in
those years, Rush would come to La usually a week
or two sporadically he'd show up. And you always knew
when Rush was coming to La because the whole company
was Defcon one. Everybody had to be clean, everything had to.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Be had carpet cleaner services in the week prior.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I mean it was just Rush had his own studio,
even though he only worked for like two weeks a
year in La own studio.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Way nicer than the one we worked in every day
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Mean he had the golden mic, the whole thing. And
so our boss at the time was was like, hey,
we're gonna you know, he was every once in a while,
I'd be like, I want to show you. I'm going
to introduce you to Rush Rush Limbaugh. And so that
that was the plan, and you know, you remember what happened,
Danny did not.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There was a there's a lot going on that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Day, and there was some meetings, as I remember, and
some timing that was supposed to happen did not happen, and.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
It was just awkward anyways, Remember because there were a
couple other people waiting around to meet him as well.
One of those strange things where you want to meet
him but then you don't and you don't pull the trigger.
There were a couple of times where you and I
could have walked up to him and we didn't. He
was in the same room as us, and it's just
so odd and awkward, and finally we just let it pass.
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And I remember though you sneaking into his Golden Mike's
studio and grabbing his pen.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I did I have a rush Limbaugh pen? I have
guilty of that one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean it's a great email, Scott, And I
got to tell you this Hull Cogan thing really did
touch a lot of middle aged guys like us in
the fields, Danny, as the kids say, Uh, there were
a lot of emotions and a lot of us. If
you're around our age and you grew up with wrestling,
like Hulk Hogan was the Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti.
(17:54):
Uh for sure. But I'm trying to think some other people, Scott,
you you did mention Vin Scully and yeah, I got
to know Evan a little bit, which was awesome. And
I was always someone that admired play by play people.
And these are the people that when I was a kid,
like I got to talk to Harry Carey, who was
when I was a kid, was the voice of the
Cubs on WGN the superstation, Skip Carrey, who was the
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Atlanta Braves. I used to watch TBS and all the
Braves games were on there when I was a kid,
and so I'd watched that. And I'm trying to think.
Ralph Kiner was a Mets broadcaster when I was a
kid on w w o R the superstation. Got to
got to meet him, Harry, I meant Harry call I
did meet Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL films,
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The Fighting.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Phils, Nice Eagles, A.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Really nice guy, Harry Callous. Could he I actually had him,
Danny do liners? Remember we used to get people to
do liners. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show, and
this is Harry Callous.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And so I got that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Ernie Harwell, these are legendary if you're broadcasting. Nerd these
were legendary names when I was a kid. So I
did get to meet a lot of those people and
that was pretty cool. But you're right, you didn't really
get to tell them like, hey, you meant a lot
to me. And that's some of them. I did a
lot of them that I didn't, so you know, that's
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part of that's part of it. And plug I did
know a little bit from being around Vin Scully a
little bit and doing some stuff with the Dodgers, Like
people did come up to Vin a lot and say that,
and so I think he kind of liked when people
just treated them regularly, you.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Know, I know, and talk about regular things. And I
think that's part of dragging your feet a little bit,
because you don't want to come off as some super fan.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, Like I remember Fernando Venezuela who would always hang
out in the back of the press box dining room
at Dodger Stadium, and he just loved that the other
Mexican reporters and the other media people that would be
at his table just treated him like a regular person.
Because Fernando in the Mexican American community in Los Angeles
is a god or was it god? Obviously passed away,
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but he just loved the vibey guy from a guy
like that was like he just liked being one of
the guys. And so you know, hey, it's it does
suck when these people die. And like because Hahul Cogan,
you figured out I probably had you know, at least
seven eight years, maybe nine, I don't who knows, but
seventy one man, that whole Cogan. Yeah, yeah, like we
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in the last year with George Foreman, the Foreman, Grille
Boxing gone, Hull Cogan, the kid from the Cosby Show died.
He drowned, and he's a little older than us.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I'm Malcolm Jamal Warner. Really sad.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Ozzy Osbourne, you know these man legends, these are legends.
These are iconic people in our childhood, our youth.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
We're getting old. And that famous jazz musician who has
one of the only instrumentals any of us know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
So we just have eighties and nineties stars dropping like
flies lately, and it is sad because it's definitely like
a piece of your childhood going to the wayside. Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass right sin and he says, hey,
Benny and Danny, I was on TikTok earlier. I saw
this clip and someone asked this question, so I want
to He thought it was a good question. So Ryan
wants to ask us the question. He says, question, in
a one versus one race between Usain Bolt and Joey
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chestnutt in a hundred meter dash.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Who wins?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He says, when the gun goes off to start the race,
each runner has to down one full hot dog then
run the one hundred meter dash?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Who wins?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, so you know the easy answer as well with
Joey Chestnut because you know he'd need it in two
seconds and it would take you sain Bolt a long time.
And here's the thing, though, I would pick Usain Bolt anyway,
because even if Usain Bolt took a long time, like
Joey Chestnut, God love him, he's been on the podcast.
He's just a middle aged guy. He's got a dad body.
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He's not gonna be even Usain Bolt could take.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I don't know, remember how he put that protester into
a choke hold.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, yeah, that's a physical But I'm talking about running.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Though, yeah, point And I bet what he could down
those dogs so fast, Ben that even if he's jogging,
he could still win.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I interviewed Usain Bolt years ago. He was promoting something.
They put him on the show, a show I was
filling in for somebody, and he was very nice and
very cool guy, Usain Bolt. And I remember about that
interview is I, I don't know a lot about running.
I don't know if you know this, Danny. I'm not
an expert track and field.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I implows my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, So I was trying to think of some things
to ask him because I didn't really know a lot.
I watched him. I used to watch while he's not
performing anymore in the Olympics, but I used to watch
him in the Olympics. And so the only time I
watched track and field like anyone else is the Olympics.
And so I tun to He was like, yeah, you know,
when I'm not running, I just want to sit around
and eat and play video games like that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He was like that.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He claimed that guy was his life. He just spent
hours a day playing video games. So if he's doing that,
I'm guessing he can probably put down a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And he runs so much. Isn't the rule of thumb, Danny?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
When you're running around that much and you're doing all
that physical exercise, you gotta eat a lot. You gotta
put it down because you're burning calories.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Right, yeah, the fuel that you need. What is it
like we've seen some of those guys ten thousand callerie diets.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, the NFL, some of the NFL guys Kevin and Kansas.
And it says, dear Ben and Danny g What is
the ohass for me? He says, what has the status
been of the laundry basket that you found on the
side of the road a few years ago?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Has it been I remember this story?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yes, I I think that was was that during the COVID?
I think that might have been during COVID. I don't know. Yeah,
I was driving around and I on the side of
the road was a laundry cart, like a professional laundromat laundry.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Cart on the side of the road you rescued it.
I drove past it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
A couple of times, and I, as I remember, I
said to myself, next time I come down this road,
if that thing's still there, I'm getting it. Because and
next time, I, like the next day I drove down
the road, the damn thing was still there. So I
went and I took it. Uh and uh anyway, Kevin says,
has it been in storage, is being used? Has it
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been repurposed? Inquiring minds want to know. So essentially, it's
it's a bit of one in three. It is not
being used for laundry. It is not being used for laundry.
It is in storage, but it has been repurposed, Kevin,
because we put other junk in it, Like there's other
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stuff in it, So we we have repurposed the laundry cart.
It is not completely gone. I'm sure we're gonna get
rid of it at some point because we don't use it,
and it'll be a sad day, Danny when we get
rid of that thing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But that's the.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's now holding all of your illegal fireworks.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, I gotta get ready my Disneyland style fireworks I
get from Tijuana. Racist Alex from Boston writes in he says, hey,
bndon Danny Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He says, is trying.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
To stop AI. He says his lawyer sent a cease
and assist letter and he wants to know. He says,
you guys work in the media business. Is there any
way AI can seriously be controlled. That's Alex in Boston.
He's talking about this viral video Danny of Lebron pregnant Lebron. Yeah,
(26:06):
pregnant Lebron. Me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Oh, it's so good. All right, I'll let you go first, Danny.
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, we talked a lot about this on the
CNR show. Yeah. I don't know if you're aware of
this or not, Benny, there's actually an AI version of
the two of us. What. Yeah, really, just don't know
if you want to listen to it because there are
some curse words and it's not stuff we normally would say.
(26:35):
But somebody actually took your voice and my voice and
they have us interacting together doing a fake version of
the podcast after this podcast. Oh my, I was unaware
of this. I yeah, it's on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I am blown away though by AI Danny. It is wow.
People have sent me emails like you can do a
full Malar monologue. They will write it in like two seconds.
They will write a Malard monologue in my voice, that
my phrasing.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
With the voice stuff, you can tell that it's you know,
a deep fake.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
The problem with those videos right now, I guess if
you look closely enough, you can tell because it almost
the colors and things look like I.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Don't know, I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Lebron looked pregnant to me.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I don't know what you're doing but that. But look,
here's the thing. The videos uh have tricked people. The
voice stuff is not tricking people yet, but when it
gets better and it starts to trick people just off
of voices, then shit's gonna hit the fan.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, there's no how do you verify anything if you're
you know your voice verify What are you going to do?
Like I, I'm sure there'll be some ways of someone
will figure out, there will be a solution. It is
just mind blowing though, So I don't really have a
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great answer, Alex, I mean you can. That seems like
a game of whack a mole to me, Danny, where
you're not gonna be able to win it. You know,
you play whack a mole, you knock one of things down,
another one pops up, So good luck. Bobby from Florida
writes in on the Fifth Hour mail bag.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He says.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
A team went viral this week. According to Bobby, I
don't think this is the key line, Pie, Bobby, I
think this is a different Bobby. Apparently there's more than
one Bobby lives in Florida, says Ben and Danny. A
team went viral this week, saved one thousand dollars on
driving lessons by watching YouTube videos, and he passed the
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driving test the first time. Thumbs upper thumbs down on
this from Bobby in Florida. You know I'm gonna go
thumbs up. I took I had a driving I went
to driving school.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Drive.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
My mom hired some guy to teach me how to
drive when I was a kid because we didn't have YouTube.
But the whole point, my take on this, Dany, is
the whole point is to learn how to drive. So
if you learn, you can learn multiple ways. Like some
people learn from from writing things now and something I
learned from watching. But if you learn YouTube, I've learned
(29:23):
a million things from YouTube. So what's the problem.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't do What the problem is?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I don't?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I mean, I'm serious, Like once a month I'm learning
how to do something from a YouTube video. Driving no different.
The thing is, though, to get good at it, you
do gotta be on the road. Because I remember when
I taught myself how to drive, I would just keep
getting on the five Freeway, and I would go a
few exits and then get off. And it was so
scary getting on the freeway and getting off the freeway.
(29:51):
After I did it a few times, I started to
get comfortable. But if you watch those videos, at least
you are prepared to then get by the wheel.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Now, if you really when CoA is old enough to drive,
which will be many years from now. But if you
really want to give CoA a real life lesson on driving,
take him on the one ten freeway, Danny in the
La between Dodger Stadium and Pasadena, and just let him
go on and off those off ramps on the avenues
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in La Avenue twenty six, Avenue forty whatever. I used
to live right there in Lincoln Heights. That is the
original freeway in America. And that is designed for cars
that were going what, Danny fifteen miles an hour or
something like that. It is wild, it is next. These
on ramps are literally how many.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Feet you think they are, Danny, like fifty NASCAR drivers
would have a problem on that road.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, like people talk about the autobaon.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We we used to have a guy Autobon Butch who's
now in modesto who calls h but like to me,
that is so and people drive like complete.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Assholes in l A terrible anyway, I just popped into
my head.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Oh no, that's a that's a great idea. And then
to give to a further lesson, I would have them
parallel park in skid row there in downtown La.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, and just get out and you know, go eat
some food and enjoy himself.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam right sent as big
Man and Daddy g Radio. We know if it were
up to Rob Parker, our friend Rob Parker, that NBA
gms would shop for players like Ben Simmons at the
discount rack at TJ Max.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I need a cole shower, he says.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
In the context of TJ Max, did you know that
the numbers one, two, and seven on price tags indicate
the source of the item, And he says, one, when
you go to TJ Max one item, the item with
one are often manufactured by the brand for TJ Max,
(32:05):
I guess maybe there'd be a slight difference. Quality is
not quite the same. Number two there are genuine These
are genuine name brand items that were also sold by
the brand itself, making them a quality if I see
you want that?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And then number seven.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
These are last year's items that are still genuine name
brand products, but they're just offered at a bargain. So
do you ever go to TJ Max Danny shop there?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No, really, I used to go.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I don't go anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Once in a while. If you're looking for I think
we used to go to the mar Marshalls. Yeah, we
used to go to Marshalls for like, like if a
phone case cracked, or you needed a charging cord or
something like that, or a shaving kit or a bathroom bag,
things like that. That's what those stores are good for. Yeah,
we would Gods and Ends.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, Ross dress for least.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think TJ Max if you need like a computer
bag or a backpack.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Like, yes, really good, really good? Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Tony in the Bay Area one of my favorite rights
and says, please improve the bumper music by mentioning chronic
and pussy in your monologues, Grossius and Danny, g are
you part of the Covino and Rich after pod show?
I heard the commercial bears that's Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
So there's Tony there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Check.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, I think he's talking about over promised. They do
a podcast every Thursday. I am not part of that podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Stars attract other stars. Yeah, Barry from South Carolina rights
in says Yo Yo mob, Benny and Danny g Who
would you like to see from your regular ex contributors
or people you have met at Mallard me and Greet's
become callers to your live show. Uh? Yeah, Mar, We've
(34:07):
We've had some people that I'm there's a lot of
people that hide behind their X accounts. Like I don't
know who mister nice guy, Like he's interacted with the
show for years on on X, but I don't think
he's ever called. Maybe he has, I don't remember. I'm
trying to think, like a lot of these guys have called.
(34:28):
I met Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, very nice man, great guy. Uh.
Some of the other guys in Minnesota that kind of
hide behind their their phones, I've I've met them al
in Minnesota. I've not met Ohio l. Hopefully if we
do the Ohio Meet.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And greet, Well, probably wish that weed Man Hippie was
a Texter or a tweeter only.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, when weed Man, Oh God, that's a good question, Barry.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
At the top of my head, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I'm not really nothing's really hitting other than mister nice
guy and Ferd Dog calls in every once in a while.
I don't think Alf does. I have not. I don't
think I've spoken to Al.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Who's the one long time listener where you would love
to finally meet them at a malor meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well, Dick and Dayton, Alf the Alien Opiner. Those are
a couple of the guys for sure that I would
like to be. I'd like to be weed Man, Hippie
a weed Man's been calling the show for twenty years,
fulllexus like these are. I met hollering James. That was
an experience. I didn't say a good one.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Now, Well, weed Man tried to open for you at
a live show convention center and you blew that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It's ran out a casino in Vegas and would have
all his money. There would have been seven people that
showed up to that event, and five of them just
to laugh at weed Man.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
We'll get out on that, Danny. It's Sunday.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I'll be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box to
break it all down.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Should be a normal week for me on.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
The radio side and anything you want to share. Well,
you did chair earlier this weekend that your wife will
be going away, so you'll be running around buck naked
in your house this week Danny. That'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yes, Yeah, I'll have the house to myself for a
few days, and that'll lead into Thursday and Friday when
CNR and myself are in for Colin Cowherd Thursday and Friday,
as all the big time radio stars continue to take
their final days off for vacation before the NFL season starts.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah, and I am. I will be taking some time off.
I have not talked to Mike.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
I said big radio stars.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Well, well I'm big in size, not in Yeah. All right,
we'll enjoy that, Danny.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
And enjoy your couple of days off with your brother.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Not this week, by the way, but he's the following week.
My brother will be hanging out with us. I'll be
hanging out with him anyway. Have a great rest of
your day and we'll catch you. I'll catch you tonight,
Dani'll catch you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Skater 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 clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G
Radio and a Happy mail Bag kind of a Sunday
as we hang out and celebrate one of the great
days of the year. Today Danny G Radio is National
Chicken Finger Day, a day celebrate one of my favorite
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culinary delights, those golden brown pieces of wonderful deliciousness, the
chicken finger.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
How great is that, Danny.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
J I do have one bone to pick with our place.
It's our spot. You turned me onto this place years
ago and I've been going back ever since. Raising canes. Yeah,
I'm not sure that they should have even done a
promotion if it was going to be this wimpy. You
get one free chicken finger there today.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh goody one.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's it one with a purchase of a box combo
and as you know, those are upwards of thirteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, so that's a little much. That's that's a little
too too light.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
How about if they said get three free fingers with
a box condo purchase.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, and then they did the math, they said, well,
we'll lose too much money on that, so that'll be
a I actually got an email from a publicist for
Raising Canes about National Chicken Finger Day, and they wanted
to do a promotion where they were going to come
in studio and then they found out what time we
were on, you know, and that was all.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But they would have done anybody. It was like, I
don't know. I was like, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I love raising Canes, we support them and all that.
I don't know that I want to do a whole
hour about raising canes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't think I want to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But it is National Chicken Figure today today, so I
of course went down the old rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I love chicken fingers. I've loved them since I was
a kid.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You love ranch the chicken finger. Just dip in for
chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
They say, the first time ever the chicken finger was
served was in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of my favorite
cities to visit.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I love Manchester.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's a little tourist town in between Boston and you
drive up to Maine and right there on the coast
in New Hampshire. It's just a beautiful little you know.
Of course, I've only been there during the summer. I'm
sure it's probably a nightmare in the winter, but it
was beautiful every time I've been there. And the first
I don't know how they know this, but in nineteen
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seventy four, so that predates me. The first chicken finger
was made at this joint in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
then in the nineteen eighties the chicken finger started becoming
a popular item, a substitute for chicken nuggets and raising canes,
(03:25):
which was my idea.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
By the way, I can back you up on that.
Used to talk about it on the air, long before
we got raising canes in our neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
My plan was, I'm going to become forget Burger King
or McDonald's or Domino's, all these fast food places.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'm going to be the king of the chicken finger.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
That was my plan, and then Todd Graves established raising
Canes and Baton Rouge Louisiana. And then now we have
National Chicken Finger Day, which is today.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And then there you go. And in England.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Terry can back this up. I'm told the chicken fingers
are known as chicken Gujohn's I believe how you say
g O U j o n s. They're also called
chicken filets and chicken strips. And but here in the gold,
good old Us of A, we love our chicken fingers
and it is a staple of every kid's menu. Right,
(04:28):
I'm sure CoA, when you take Coati, you got those
mini corn dogs and you've got chicken fingers, and those
are pretty much on every should be on every kids
menu when you go out and about, right, I mean
those that you must have.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That he lives, he practically lives on those lightly breaded
chicken nuggets from Tosco.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh those are good.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, Oh they're they're wonderful and they're actually they're more
like chicken fingers, but they're in the form of a nugget.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, is that are you talking about? They come in
like a white package with kind of green on them.
Is that the one you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, those are.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
A ripoff of Chick fil A. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah? And I feel like they're better than Chick fil a.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you just put them in the air fryer or
you put them in the other.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yep, air fryer every day. That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, the air fryer food has gotten so much better.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's like I feel like they've really.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Mastered the air frer food.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Today is also National Scotch Day. So if you you
a Scotch drink, I'm not a Scotch drinker. You a
Scotch drinker, Danny.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I feel like our older generator, me and me and
you are in the same generation.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I feel like the people older than us.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I just feel like
I remember being at social events and relatives were drinking scotch.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Maybe they were.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I feel like it was our grandparents drink.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yes, yes, yes, I feel like our grandparents were scotch drinkers.
That they did that they had cart I remember our
grandparents had car slide shows from vacation.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
They had always bring.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Us kids over and show slide shows and where they
want to vacation. And then they also had they would
play weird card games. They It wasn't poker, I forget
the name of There was a couple of card games
my grandfather, one of my grandfather's a big card shark,
and he'd have friends and family over to play cards.
But it wasn't I forget the name of it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The whole slide show concept is strange too, when you
think about it. That would be like if nowadays you
trap people in your living room and force them to
look at pictures from your iPhone from when you went
out of town.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, it is odd.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's one of those quirky things that you tell people
who are younger, younger than us, like the next.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Generation, like what the f is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My god? You had to sit in a room and
pretend like you cared because your grandfather went to the
Grand Canyon. You know. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, my grandfather,
my dad's dad.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He was the master man.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He had all these cameras, so for him, like he
would go on vacation. I'm pretty sure he just was
on vacation just to take photos.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh he was Antel Adams. He was just forcing people
to see his artwork exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
As story with everything, and a little story about we
met this.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Gentleman and he's a friend of the family.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know, when you're a kid, you don't give a
flying f you know, you know, I don't care the
friend of the family man. Dude, I just want to
get the f out of here, all right. I don't
sit here and watch this crap. That's that is a
world before the Internet.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Both slide shows would have been better if they would
have shared their scotch with us.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Exactly, kiddos. Let's get hammered kids. Anyway, Let's get to
the mailbag and a man who did very well in
the mal or palooza. Let's give it up now for ohiou.
It's all right, very good, thank you, ohio. A first
(08:10):
up is our guy Reggie in Detroit, a regular fifth
hour listener. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny, hope you
guys are enjoying July. He then says, Ben, the NFL
is beginning this week. There's exhibition football this week. I
like that, Reggie said, exhibition, not preseason. Danny, he said, exhibition,
(08:30):
because it is exhibition. And I will never forget the
late great Dennis Green. I was hanging out with Dennis
Green did an interview with him when he was coaching
the Vikings, and I said, I was talking about the
exhibition season and Danny Green, God rest his soul. He
then Danny got on a soapbox and said, well, Ben,
(08:52):
we don't call it the exhibition season.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's a preseason. The season ticket always get.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They get the regular season, then they get the preseason,
which is a very important part of how teams get
ready for the season. But he was giving me all
the talking points. I still remember it. It's been so
long and I still remember Dennis Green trying to educate me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But I don't care. I still call it exhibition GEPs. Anyway,
I think they.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Charged and you screwed that up, by the way, because
he offered you free tickets and you didn't take them up.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
No, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
He did offer me, and I didn't didn't use them.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Anyway, Reggie says, what's going on is Benny versus the
Penny been canceled. Reggie, I will give you an update
as soon as I can. All I will tell you
is we have not been canceled. The show has not
been canceled. The show has not been picked up, though
which is not good. I will admit that's not good.
But here's the thing. Until you know, I have been
(09:45):
in conversations with the people the network at NBC. They've
been very good to me. They've been very kind. And
the good thing is we've done the show for two
years now, and I've worked with Tom Looney for almost
thirty years. Me and Luney have done radio and television,
so we work really, really smooth together. It's not it's
(10:06):
not really an issue. So we're still waiting and I
will let you know. And I'm optimistic, but I'm also
realistic that it's it's not been picked up. And you
are right, Reggie, this is not great this season. The
practice games start this week, so we will find out.
And as soon as I find out either way, we'll
(10:27):
let you know. I mean, we will do Benny Versus
the Penny. Whether it's on television or whether it's somewhere else,
it'll be done.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's tough because it does cost a lot to produce
that show. It's like the Colbert Show.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, we uh, well, that's well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think as somebody justin and Cincinnati said, have you
been given the Colbert you know that was That's how.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We foolks using it as a verb.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, but I'm happy to report and I can say this,
even if Benny Versus the Penny gets canceled, we did
not call lost NBC forty million dollars a year. They
did not lose forty million dollars a year on the
TV show. I promise you that now. Ferd Dog and
Fullig and says, hey, Ben and Danny g I'm still
(11:13):
holding out hope, Ben, But if our worst fears come
true and Benny Versus the Penny is not renewed for
a third season, do you think the main reason why
is because the Penny got lucky and beat you in
the regular season last year? He said, no, nobody, that
doesn't matter. In fact, I think that made for a
better show. Not that I was trying to lose to
(11:35):
the Penny, but that was the whole point of the show.
The whole point of Benny Versus the Penny is, I
actually do handicap the games, and I think I know
a little bit about the NFL, and I go out,
I picked the games, I do my due diligence and
in an adamant object the penny, we flip it up
(11:56):
and it ends up beating me, even though I have
access to all all the numbers and all the stats,
and and that's the whole point of show. Now. As
as for the email, Uh, Fergnuck says, and Danny g
I know you'll never admit it publicly, but would you
take would you secretly take a little joy in Benny
versus the penny getting canceled? Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And then he says, because of that schmuck Tom.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Looney, Uh, Danny, would you would you do a victory
lap if the show got canceled?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
No, I wouldn't do a victory lap. I do remember
all those early mornings toiling though to put all those
penny sound effects and all that together for every Friday
podcast that we used to do back in the day.
But you don't ever do a you don't ever do
a victory danced. I mean, what's the what's the saying
that Clay always used to say, Uh, rising tide lifts
(12:49):
all ships.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And also you'll all the people you see on the
way up, you'll see on the way down.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
If you start you to that whole yeah talking, we
start shitting on people.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The clippers coach.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Whatever we talked about him yesterday, it does kind of
come back and hit you a little bit. Scott, thank
you for Doug, Scott writes in Scott says, Bend and
Danny g I was born and raised in Clearwater, Floorida.
My grandfather entertained all of my childhood fascinations and heroic figures.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
During my early years.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like most seventy nine ers, I loved hal Cogan and
Rocky three.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Was my favorite movie as a six year old.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So when I moved back here in twenty twenty about
a house one block from the Hulkster, but considerably cheaper
and certainly more flood prone, I always thought my grandfather
would cackle at the thought of us driving past each
other on a regular basis. Every time I saw his,
(13:54):
meaning hal Cogan's white goatee driving a hot rod, I
thought of my grandpa. I never had the guts to
introduce myself and to say hi. Scott says it was
something I always was going to get around to doing
and to personally thank him for providing some of the
greatest childhood memories I still have about my grandfather. So
(14:18):
my question to you is this, do you have any
regrets about not approaching or thanking or even genuflecting at
the altar of people that you have come across as
an adult who you're up to as a child. I
imagine in your line of work the opportunities have been funty,
(14:38):
but the professional code and the awkwardness of adulthood must
hold back in some instances. It sounds like you properly
connected with Vin Scully, which must have been a dream
come true.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And then he says, I love Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He says, then, ps, By the way, Ben, when you die,
my six year old son, Carter is going to be
like my dad always listened to Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He is a regular.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Podcast listener and talks about me or talks to me
about your show.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well that's very sweet of Carter.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But and you and I actually have a story about
this very thing in the FSR building. Yeah, remember standing
outside of that studio where you stole a pen. But
we actually didn't get to meet the guy and shake
his hand.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh that's right, Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yesh, Yeah, we were supposed to meet Rush Limbaugh, the
iconic Rush Limbaugh, greatest political talk shows in the history
of radio and the biggest name and financially for the
company we worked for. He made more money for them
than anybody, and we were supposed to meet Rush. And
I remember every year Rush would come to LA for man.
(15:49):
I've worked at Premiere for twenty something years, and in
those years, Rush would come to La usually a week
or two sporadically he'd show up. And you always knew
when Rush was coming to La because the whole company
was Defcon one. Everybody had to be clean, everything had to.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Be had carpet cleaner services in the week prior.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I mean it was just Rush had his own studio,
even though he only worked for like two weeks a
year in La own studio.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Way nicer than the one we worked in every day
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Mean he had the golden mic, the whole thing. And
so our boss at the time was was like, hey,
we're gonna you know, he was every once in a while,
I'd be like, I want to show you. I'm going
to introduce you to Rush Rush Limbaugh. And so that
that was the plan, and you know, you remember what happened,
Danny did not.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There was a there's a lot going on that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Day, and there was some meetings, as I remember, and
some timing that was supposed to happen did not happen, and.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
It was just awkward anyways, Remember because there were a
couple other people waiting around to meet him as well.
One of those strange things where you want to meet
him but then you don't and you don't pull the trigger.
There were a couple of times where you and I
could have walked up to him and we didn't. He
was in the same room as us, and it's just
so odd and awkward, and finally we just let it pass.
(17:22):
And I remember though you sneaking into his Golden Mike's
studio and grabbing his pen.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I did I have a rush Limbaugh pen? I have
guilty of that one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean it's a great email, Scott, And I
got to tell you this Hull Cogan thing really did
touch a lot of middle aged guys like us in
the fields, Danny, as the kids say, Uh, there were
a lot of emotions and a lot of us. If
you're around our age and you grew up with wrestling,
like Hulk Hogan was the Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti Bomiti.
(17:54):
Uh for sure. But I'm trying to think some other people, Scott,
you you did mention Vin Scully and yeah, I got
to know Evan a little bit, which was awesome. And
I was always someone that admired play by play people.
And these are the people that when I was a kid,
like I got to talk to Harry Carey, who was
when I was a kid, was the voice of the
Cubs on WGN the superstation, Skip Carrey, who was the
(18:19):
Atlanta Braves. I used to watch TBS and all the
Braves games were on there when I was a kid,
and so I'd watched that. And I'm trying to think.
Ralph Kiner was a Mets broadcaster when I was a
kid on w w o R the superstation. Got to
got to meet him, Harry, I meant Harry call I
did meet Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL films,
(18:43):
The Fighting.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Phils, Nice Eagles, A.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Really nice guy, Harry Callous. Could he I actually had him,
Danny do liners? Remember we used to get people to
do liners. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show, and
this is Harry Callous.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And so I got that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Ernie Harwell, these are legendary if you're broadcasting. Nerd these
were legendary names when I was a kid. So I
did get to meet a lot of those people and
that was pretty cool. But you're right, you didn't really
get to tell them like, hey, you meant a lot
to me. And that's some of them. I did a
lot of them that I didn't, so you know, that's
(19:23):
part of that's part of it. And plug I did
know a little bit from being around Vin Scully a
little bit and doing some stuff with the Dodgers, Like
people did come up to Vin a lot and say that,
and so I think he kind of liked when people
just treated them regularly, you.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Know, I know, and talk about regular things. And I
think that's part of dragging your feet a little bit,
because you don't want to come off as some super fan.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, Like I remember Fernando Venezuela who would always hang
out in the back of the press box dining room
at Dodger Stadium, and he just loved that the other
Mexican reporters and the other media people that would be
at his table just treated him like a regular person.
Because Fernando in the Mexican American community in Los Angeles
is a god or was it god? Obviously passed away,
(20:11):
but he just loved the vibey guy from a guy
like that was like he just liked being one of
the guys. And so you know, hey, it's it does
suck when these people die. And like because Hahul Cogan,
you figured out I probably had you know, at least
seven eight years, maybe nine, I don't who knows, but
seventy one man, that whole Cogan. Yeah, yeah, like we
(20:34):
in the last year with George Foreman, the Foreman, Grille
Boxing gone, Hull Cogan, the kid from the Cosby Show died.
He drowned, and he's a little older than us.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I'm Malcolm Jamal Warner. Really sad.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Ozzy Osbourne, you know these man legends, these are legends.
These are iconic people in our childhood, our youth.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
We're getting old. And that famous jazz musician who has
one of the only instrumentals any of us know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
So we just have eighties and nineties stars dropping like
flies lately, and it is sad because it's definitely like
a piece of your childhood going to the wayside. Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass right sin and he says, hey,
Benny and Danny, I was on TikTok earlier. I saw
this clip and someone asked this question, so I want
to He thought it was a good question. So Ryan
wants to ask us the question. He says, question, in
a one versus one race between Usain Bolt and Joey
(21:40):
chestnutt in a hundred meter dash.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Who wins?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He says, when the gun goes off to start the race,
each runner has to down one full hot dog then
run the one hundred meter dash?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Who wins?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, so you know the easy answer as well with
Joey Chestnut because you know he'd need it in two
seconds and it would take you sain Bolt a long time.
And here's the thing, though, I would pick Usain Bolt anyway,
because even if Usain Bolt took a long time, like
Joey Chestnut, God love him, he's been on the podcast.
He's just a middle aged guy. He's got a dad body.
(22:21):
He's not gonna be even Usain Bolt could take.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I don't know, remember how he put that protester into
a choke hold.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, yeah, that's a physical But I'm talking about running.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Though, yeah, point And I bet what he could down
those dogs so fast, Ben that even if he's jogging,
he could still win.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I interviewed Usain Bolt years ago. He was promoting something.
They put him on the show, a show I was
filling in for somebody, and he was very nice and
very cool guy, Usain Bolt. And I remember about that
interview is I, I don't know a lot about running.
I don't know if you know this, Danny. I'm not
an expert track and field.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I implows my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, So I was trying to think of some things
to ask him because I didn't really know a lot.
I watched him. I used to watch while he's not
performing anymore in the Olympics, but I used to watch
him in the Olympics. And so the only time I
watched track and field like anyone else is the Olympics.
And so I tun to He was like, yeah, you know,
when I'm not running, I just want to sit around
and eat and play video games like that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He was like that.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He claimed that guy was his life. He just spent
hours a day playing video games. So if he's doing that,
I'm guessing he can probably put down a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And he runs so much. Isn't the rule of thumb, Danny?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
When you're running around that much and you're doing all
that physical exercise, you gotta eat a lot. You gotta
put it down because you're burning calories.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Right, yeah, the fuel that you need. What is it
like we've seen some of those guys ten thousand callerie diets.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, the NFL, some of the NFL guys Kevin and Kansas.
And it says, dear Ben and Danny g What is
the ohass for me? He says, what has the status
been of the laundry basket that you found on the
side of the road a few years ago?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Has it been I remember this story?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yes, I I think that was was that during the COVID?
I think that might have been during COVID. I don't know. Yeah,
I was driving around and I on the side of
the road was a laundry cart, like a professional laundromat laundry.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Cart on the side of the road you rescued it.
I drove past it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
A couple of times, and I, as I remember, I
said to myself, next time I come down this road,
if that thing's still there, I'm getting it. Because and
next time, I, like the next day I drove down
the road, the damn thing was still there. So I
went and I took it. Uh and uh anyway, Kevin says,
has it been in storage, is being used? Has it
(24:51):
been repurposed? Inquiring minds want to know. So essentially, it's
it's a bit of one in three. It is not
being used for laundry. It is not being used for laundry.
It is in storage, but it has been repurposed, Kevin,
because we put other junk in it, Like there's other
(25:12):
stuff in it, So we we have repurposed the laundry cart.
It is not completely gone. I'm sure we're gonna get
rid of it at some point because we don't use it,
and it'll be a sad day, Danny when we get
rid of that thing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But that's the.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's now holding all of your illegal fireworks.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, I gotta get ready my Disneyland style fireworks I
get from Tijuana. Racist Alex from Boston writes in he says, hey,
bndon Danny Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He says, is trying.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
To stop AI. He says his lawyer sent a cease
and assist letter and he wants to know. He says,
you guys work in the media business. Is there any
way AI can seriously be controlled. That's Alex in Boston.
He's talking about this viral video Danny of Lebron pregnant Lebron. Yeah,
(26:06):
pregnant Lebron. Me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Oh, it's so good. All right, I'll let you go first, Danny.
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, we talked a lot about this on the
CNR show. Yeah. I don't know if you're aware of
this or not, Benny, there's actually an AI version of
the two of us. What. Yeah, really, just don't know
if you want to listen to it because there are
some curse words and it's not stuff we normally would say.
(26:35):
But somebody actually took your voice and my voice and
they have us interacting together doing a fake version of
the podcast after this podcast. Oh my, I was unaware
of this. I yeah, it's on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I am blown away though by AI Danny. It is wow.
People have sent me emails like you can do a
full Malar monologue. They will write it in like two seconds.
They will write a Malard monologue in my voice, that
my phrasing.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
With the voice stuff, you can tell that it's you know,
a deep fake.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
The problem with those videos right now, I guess if
you look closely enough, you can tell because it almost
the colors and things look like I.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Don't know, I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Lebron looked pregnant to me.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I don't know what you're doing but that. But look,
here's the thing. The videos uh have tricked people. The
voice stuff is not tricking people yet, but when it
gets better and it starts to trick people just off
of voices, then shit's gonna hit the fan.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, there's no how do you verify anything if you're
you know your voice verify What are you going to do?
Like I, I'm sure there'll be some ways of someone
will figure out, there will be a solution. It is
just mind blowing though, So I don't really have a
(28:08):
great answer, Alex, I mean you can. That seems like
a game of whack a mole to me, Danny, where
you're not gonna be able to win it. You know,
you play whack a mole, you knock one of things down,
another one pops up, So good luck. Bobby from Florida
writes in on the Fifth Hour mail bag.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He says.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
A team went viral this week. According to Bobby, I
don't think this is the key line, Pie, Bobby, I
think this is a different Bobby. Apparently there's more than
one Bobby lives in Florida, says Ben and Danny. A
team went viral this week, saved one thousand dollars on
driving lessons by watching YouTube videos, and he passed the
(28:48):
driving test the first time. Thumbs upper thumbs down on
this from Bobby in Florida. You know I'm gonna go
thumbs up. I took I had a driving I went
to driving school.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Drive.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
My mom hired some guy to teach me how to
drive when I was a kid because we didn't have YouTube.
But the whole point, my take on this, Dany, is
the whole point is to learn how to drive. So
if you learn, you can learn multiple ways. Like some
people learn from from writing things now and something I
learned from watching. But if you learn YouTube, I've learned
(29:23):
a million things from YouTube. So what's the problem.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't do What the problem is?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I don't?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I mean, I'm serious, Like once a month I'm learning
how to do something from a YouTube video. Driving no different.
The thing is, though, to get good at it, you
do gotta be on the road. Because I remember when
I taught myself how to drive, I would just keep
getting on the five Freeway, and I would go a
few exits and then get off. And it was so
scary getting on the freeway and getting off the freeway.
(29:51):
After I did it a few times, I started to
get comfortable. But if you watch those videos, at least
you are prepared to then get by the wheel.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Now, if you really when CoA is old enough to drive,
which will be many years from now. But if you
really want to give CoA a real life lesson on driving,
take him on the one ten freeway, Danny in the
La between Dodger Stadium and Pasadena, and just let him
go on and off those off ramps on the avenues
(30:21):
in La Avenue twenty six, Avenue forty whatever. I used
to live right there in Lincoln Heights. That is the
original freeway in America. And that is designed for cars
that were going what, Danny fifteen miles an hour or
something like that. It is wild, it is next. These
on ramps are literally how many.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Feet you think they are, Danny, like fifty NASCAR drivers
would have a problem on that road.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, like people talk about the autobaon.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We we used to have a guy Autobon Butch who's
now in modesto who calls h but like to me,
that is so and people drive like complete.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Assholes in l A terrible anyway, I just popped into
my head.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Oh no, that's a that's a great idea. And then
to give to a further lesson, I would have them
parallel park in skid row there in downtown La.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, and just get out and you know, go eat
some food and enjoy himself.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam right sent as big
Man and Daddy g Radio. We know if it were
up to Rob Parker, our friend Rob Parker, that NBA
gms would shop for players like Ben Simmons at the
discount rack at TJ Max.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I need a cole shower, he says.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
In the context of TJ Max, did you know that
the numbers one, two, and seven on price tags indicate
the source of the item, And he says, one, when
you go to TJ Max one item, the item with
one are often manufactured by the brand for TJ Max,
(32:05):
I guess maybe there'd be a slight difference. Quality is
not quite the same. Number two there are genuine These
are genuine name brand items that were also sold by
the brand itself, making them a quality if I see
you want that?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And then number seven.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
These are last year's items that are still genuine name
brand products, but they're just offered at a bargain. So
do you ever go to TJ Max Danny shop there?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No, really, I used to go.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I don't go anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Once in a while. If you're looking for I think
we used to go to the mar Marshalls. Yeah, we
used to go to Marshalls for like, like if a
phone case cracked, or you needed a charging cord or
something like that, or a shaving kit or a bathroom bag,
things like that. That's what those stores are good for. Yeah,
we would Gods and Ends.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, Ross dress for least.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think TJ Max if you need like a computer
bag or a backpack.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Like, yes, really good, really good? Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Tony in the Bay Area one of my favorite rights
and says, please improve the bumper music by mentioning chronic
and pussy in your monologues, Grossius and Danny, g are
you part of the Covino and Rich after pod show?
I heard the commercial bears that's Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
So there's Tony there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Check.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, I think he's talking about over promised. They do
a podcast every Thursday. I am not part of that podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Stars attract other stars. Yeah, Barry from South Carolina rights
in says Yo Yo mob, Benny and Danny g Who
would you like to see from your regular ex contributors
or people you have met at Mallard me and Greet's
become callers to your live show. Uh? Yeah, Mar, We've
(34:07):
We've had some people that I'm there's a lot of
people that hide behind their X accounts. Like I don't
know who mister nice guy, Like he's interacted with the
show for years on on X, but I don't think
he's ever called. Maybe he has, I don't remember. I'm
trying to think, like a lot of these guys have called.
(34:28):
I met Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, very nice man, great guy. Uh.
Some of the other guys in Minnesota that kind of
hide behind their their phones, I've I've met them al
in Minnesota. I've not met Ohio l. Hopefully if we
do the Ohio Meet.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And greet, Well, probably wish that weed Man Hippie was
a Texter or a tweeter only.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, when weed Man, Oh God, that's a good question, Barry.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
At the top of my head, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I'm not really nothing's really hitting other than mister nice
guy and Ferd Dog calls in every once in a while.
I don't think Alf does. I have not. I don't
think I've spoken to Al.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Who's the one long time listener where you would love
to finally meet them at a malor meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well, Dick and Dayton, Alf the Alien Opiner. Those are
a couple of the guys for sure that I would
like to be. I'd like to be weed Man, Hippie
a weed Man's been calling the show for twenty years,
fulllexus like these are. I met hollering James. That was
an experience. I didn't say a good one.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Now, Well, weed Man tried to open for you at
a live show convention center and you blew that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It's ran out a casino in Vegas and would have
all his money. There would have been seven people that
showed up to that event, and five of them just
to laugh at weed Man.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
We'll get out on that, Danny. It's Sunday.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I'll be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box to
break it all down.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Should be a normal week for me on.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
The radio side and anything you want to share. Well,
you did chair earlier this weekend that your wife will
be going away, so you'll be running around buck naked
in your house this week Danny. That'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yes, Yeah, I'll have the house to myself for a
few days, and that'll lead into Thursday and Friday when
CNR and myself are in for Colin Cowherd Thursday and Friday,
as all the big time radio stars continue to take
their final days off for vacation before the NFL season starts.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah, and I am. I will be taking some time off.
I have not talked to Mike.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
I said big radio stars.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Well, well I'm big in size, not in Yeah. All right,
we'll enjoy that, Danny.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
And enjoy your couple of days off with your brother.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Not this week, by the way, but he's the following week.
My brother will be hanging out with us. I'll be
hanging out with him anyway. Have a great rest of
your day and we'll catch you. I'll catch you tonight,
Dani'll catch you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Skater gotta murder. I gotta go
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