September 21, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
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 1 (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 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio. A Happy Sunday to you.
It is the twenty first day of September and NFL Sunday. Baby,
we got NFL Sunday. Still a chance to watch Benny
versus the Penny before kickoff today, So help us out.
(00:49):
Do us a solve them at Bennyvspenny. It's YouTube dot com.
Slash at Benny Vspenny. Subscribe myself Tom Looney, every key
NFL matchup today against the spread.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Check it out and good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
If you are involved in wagering, and some of you
have reached out and said, hey, I don't gamble, I
still watch your little YouTube show, So thank you, thank
you for that. We do appreciate it and now Danny
developing story. I will be at an NFL game later today.
I will be in attendance. My ass feels so good
right now. How dare you in the hood in Inglewood?
(01:32):
I'll be checking out a team you do not like, Danny,
the Chargers, and another team you do not like, the Broncos,
will be plant.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I will be a Broncos fan today.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, Well, the Chargers are feeling very good about themselves
at this point after the two and one start, with
the win over two divisional opponents, so they can start
the year three and oh against the division It's a
pretty good spot to be in. And I hope to
catch up with our old colleague part of the Fox
Sports Rate Alumni Association, the great Eddie Garcia, who.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is going to be out at that game.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I have been in contact with Edmund over the weekend
and hopefully I'll be able to catch up with him.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But he's he's a super fan. Well, his wife's a.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Super fanah yikes.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
He's a big fan of the Charger, so they he's
a super fan by marriage, but that still makes him
a super fan.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like so they have one parking lot
I know you've been out to Sofar a little bit.
Data have one parking lot that is all tailgating, and
it's it's not as good as.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Arrowhead, obviously, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And Eddie is out there and there's just everyone's got
griddles everywhere, like you know, normal.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Tailgate, and it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So I'm not sure whether I'll find Eddie before the
game or once he enters the stadium. I'm not sure
about that, but at some point today I am planning
on running into Eddie and to see that game.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, you better find it before the game. That way
you can get some of that free barbecue. Yeah, that's
a good that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But I've always sees that the dilemma is I'm gonna
get there pretty early. Once we get done with this,
I'm gonna head over to the to the stadium because
I do want to watch my Rams play the Eagles,
and I am gonna be a media freeloader today, so
they will have that on in the box, the press box,
(03:23):
so I'll probably want to watch if I get there
early enough to see that what's it in the box exactly.
I can also watch it on my laptop you know,
I can get it on one of those Russian websites,
probably on my laptop, so I could watch it that
way as well.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So be checking that out.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And on the other all the Cowboys they play when
the Chargers and Broncos are playing. So I'm gonna be
I'll be multitasking, Danny. I'll be watching what's in front
of me with the Broncos and the Chargers, and then
also some of these other late games that are are
going on. And then then tonight the Chiefs. What a
great match. Oh and two Chiefs and ow and two
(04:01):
Giants your Raiders. I know what a buzzkill that was
back on Monday night, Dandy. But the Raiders back at it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, well, you know, you hopefully can take away something
good when your team stinks it up. That defense there
in Vegas looks better than what I thought going into
the season. I thought that was gonna be their weakness,
not their O line in their production on offense. Hopefully,
hopefully the offense can step up and match the defense
this week. Well, Gino Smith is one of your favorites.
(04:31):
I know, well called you called them and I quote
a turkey. I'm not gonna lie, Danny, that was a
big cock. Yes, I believe I did, like all of
the turkey, but the gino will be he had that
was a total clunker the other night.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So you figure he's probably got three or four more
of those in him. But other than that, he'll be
average for five games, and there'll be a few games
where he does throw for four hundred yards or close
to it in three or four touchdown And so that's
the problem. Though, you got to win every one of
those other games where he's not horrific and writing the
(05:07):
vomit comet, there's no margin for error. Now, they did
beat the Patriots, which is a game. If you're the Raiders,
you're on the same level with the Patriots going into
the year.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You got to win that game. They did that, and
traveling all the way out East, they normally lose that game. Yeah,
Josh McDaniels was still their head coach, they would have
lost that game. Well, Josh McDaniels is a terrible, terrible
head coach. My god, don't give me. Yeah, don't get
me started on him. I mean, with Pete Carroll you
have a chance. But Ben, with that O line in tatters,
(05:40):
their best offensive lineman was out with a concussion. If
you've ever heard Powers Johnson talk, seems like he had
CTE when he was at Oregon. Maybe poor guy, but
he's a bruiser and he moves that line without their
anchor on that line. They stunk it up against the Chargers.
They got to get that offensive line fixed. You gotta
take advantage of having Ashton Genty back there, but you
(06:01):
know you can't have that bull rush back there in
the backfield before the running back even gets the ball
in his hands. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, but some of us also on Genty, he did
not look very aggressive. You Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
On pass protection. He looked lost most of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, like he's waiting for the blue turf to take
on like central Eastern Washington or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But okay, with you were going to say Jaden Daniels,
I was I was a Jayden Daniels was out, So
you got Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Although, as you know gambling from a gambling standpoint, good
teams usually rally around a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, and who usually has a coming out party against
the Raiders throughout their careers in the NFL. Oh, I
don't know. Maybe dudes like Baker Mayfield when the Rams
barely signed him and he hadn't even met everyone on
the Rams, and then he plays one of the games
of his life against the Raiders. If you're a Raiders fan,
(07:02):
you know you know the sorrow of watching backup quarterbacks
have the game of their life against your favorite team.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you don't assume you're going to win that game
because Mario is a mediocre quarterback. The great thing about
Geno Smith is you could have him play like we said,
where he throws four touchdowns in four hundred yards, or
you could have him play where he passes for one
hundred and thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And gives the football away with four turnovers. It's the
turkey experience. You don't know what you're getting. You might
get a fat turkey for Thanksgiving that's delicious, yell me.
Or you might get a skinny burn turkey that you
want to throw in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Let me touch up your work today. It's like a pineapple.
You ever buy pineapples at the store. I never know
whether the pineapple is going to be delicious and juicy
or it's gonna be kind of like that, you know,
where it's not as good. You don't really know like
it's like, it's frustrating. You want the really good juicy pineapple.
It's soft and all right, we have mail bag. Dam
we have mail bag. Enough of that football time? What
(08:05):
is this a sports show?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah? Deris? What do we work for Fox Sports or something?
What's wrong with us? Sorry? Moving on, let's get to
ohio Al. What do you say? It's mail bag? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Thank you very much, ohio Al. And these are actual
letters by actual listeners. If you'd like to send a
message in and I do want to thank you guys,
Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth hour
at gmail dot com, if you'd like to send a
message in. First one is from Scott, who is a regular.
He's in Florida. He says, Ben, the Gremlin attacks have
occurred enough during the past few weeks that maybe it's
(08:52):
time to consider having a set piece in the hopper
where the Rainer or coop just take over and run
with it for a few minutes. Have you all considered
this at all? Would that be disastrous or exhilarating? Or
maybe just open the phone lines and let it rip
with producer fingers on the bleep button. From your friend
(09:12):
Scott from Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, we've had a few.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Gremlin attacks in recent weeks. Normally when the gremlins attack,
it's usually just a quick thing a few minutes and
then the gremlins go away and they eat something else
and that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh. They even tried to attack one of our podcasts
last weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, we did get some attack last weekend, which was
not good. So there's another I'm gonna do Old Guy
Radio Danny. Back in the day, we used technology that
was a hard line and was very reliable, and it
was all. It was very dependable. And now the connection
(09:54):
system that we use in the industry is a Wi
Fi based connection, and so we are dependent on the
Wi Fi gods, and if the Wi Fi gods are upset,
or if the Wi Fi gods get into a street
fight with the gremlins, then we are in some trouble.
So that's the way it is. But I just have
(10:16):
to deal with it because that's the setup that we have.
And just got a roll with the punches and all that,
and I'm supposed to get Scott a backup. There's a
way you can do a backup broadcast line.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Which is also Internet based, but.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It is something that I'm supposed to have that I
don't have. There's a couple of pieces of equipment, the
thing of my jigs and the watching mccallus that I
don't have that I need, and I'm waiting to get
those and then we should be okay. Yeah, Loraina and
Coop could take over. It's a little difficult. We love Loraina,
she's not not a sports fan, and Coop doesn't really
(10:57):
pay much attention during the day, so it's a little
difficult to that off. But I mean they could take calls.
I guess they could futs around with that.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Charles.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Next up, Charles B in San Bernardino writes, and he says, Hey,
Big Ben and Danny G I started listening to you
back in twenty oh one on Fox Sports Radio when
I was a brand new security guard, just looking for
something to kill the long overnight hours, back when you
were only on weekends.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He says.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Fast forward to twenty twenty five, and unfortunately I am
still in security, but I just rediscovered your show after
a long hiatus. Where have you been, Charles, what have
you been listening to?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He says?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I dip back in maybe five or six years ago
when Eddie Garcia was still doing updates but fell off
because my sports fandom faded for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm glad I'm back now, He says. Here's my question.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
If you had to completely give up sports talk tomorrow
and host a daily show about anything else, what subject
do you think you could keep interesting for four hours
every single night. That is from from Charles. So I
couldn't talk about sports.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Anymore, what would I What would I do?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah? So I don't think I would do. The easy
thing would be saying, hey, just do politics, But I don't.
The way politics are these days, I don't really feel
like I need to go that direction.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I could see you doing a cooking show.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, yeah, remember that line from the famous PBS chef
Julia Child. She said that anything and everything can have
drama if done right, even a pancake. So yeah, I
could do a cooking show. Yeah yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah? I would be entertaining.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I need to take down who's that guy with
the spikey hair that I talked about that's in every
restaurant every when?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What's the guy's name? You know? You know what would
be a fun spin is you go to a mall
or militia member's house, different member of the Malicious House
every week, and you cook something for them in their kitchen.
It's a great idea. I can go.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I can start out. We had Dick and Dayton call
up from his retirement home in Ohio and Dayton Ohio.
I could go to Dayton and I can hang out
with all the old folks, and you could just play
music and.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hang out having randall. Some of your stops would be
at shelters.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, I'd be at hostels. I'd be at prisons. It'd
be like Johnny Cash, what would you do?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Don't you go back to music or something?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, I could do that, But I think I would
go back to Tinderoni tips, Oh yeah, I love advice,
that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I could just do relationship talk and create unnecessary drama
with my wife. That way, I have things to talk
about and a breakup to share with everyone during the podcast. Oh,
be good content for the show. Yeah. And then I
could just bang all these girls on Tinder and talk
about and talk about each on the podcast. You do
(14:08):
a breakdown, yeah, A, B and C. It doesn't say although,
now thinking about that for a second, that doesn't sound fun.
That sounds like what used to take place back in
the day where I had to go see a doctor
and make sure everything was good. Yeah, I'm a doctor.
I get some penicillins stuff like much much better being
with Brenda.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Absolutely. Well, thank you, Charles. I'm glad that you have listened,
and I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
He says.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I started listening when I was a brand new security guard,
and unfortunately, twenty five years later, I'm still a security guard. Well,
how do I feel, Charles, You were listening twenty five
years ago and I was doing overnight talk radio, and
twenty five years later, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Still doing overnight talk anyway, Thank you, Charles.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Larry from Vegas writes in He says, greetings, gentlemen, and
Bennett was nice to meet you at the mallor meet
and greet. Thank you for coming to Vegas the last
couple of years. Did not go to the first one,
but I am impressed how you were hanging out with
your listeners like a normal person compared to Colin Callin Coward. Well,
(15:12):
very kind of you, Larry, and I want to thank management.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Larry.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
She asked a different question here, but I want I'll
stop right there. I want to thank management and Danny,
I think you feel the same way. The bosses make
sure that we're very relatable to the common man, and
they do that every two weeks when we get paid.
They want us, you know, Cowhard gets paid and it
ends up in the like the Wall Street Journal, right,
or when he sells a house and moves to Chicago,
(15:38):
it's the La Times real estate page. When we do it,
nobody even knows. And because we're relatable, Danny, we're relatable,
and that's very important to be relatable. And Larry appreciates
that in Vegas, he does so. Anyway, he says, on
to the question, is.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That your way of saying we have poor people problems? Well,
more money, more problems. We don't have more problems, Danny.
We have less money, less problems, but we definitely have problems.
We definitely have problems. Money can't buy you love, but
it can pay your bills.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, it can get you nice vacations and things like that.
And Learry says, I saw this online the other day
and I thought, out of you and Danny, it sounds
like something you guys would do. And then he sent
me a story here from some website. I guess this
(16:31):
is a Las Vegas website. Anyways, it says pocket packing
is on the rise as businesses feel the pinch, and
it's the story here. Let me give you the bullet points.
It says, an inflation squeeze walle as inflation squeeze wallets go,
(16:52):
some diners have been squeezing a little too much. And
then it says restaurants are starting to complain because guests
are pocket packing, and that means taking excessive amounts of
plastic utensils, straws, napkins and condiments, sugar and ketchup packets,
(17:13):
and restaurants are starting to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Fuel the pinch. Yes, the story here.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So well, I was ahead of my time on this, Danny.
When I was a bachelor, I didn't cook. I ate
out all the time, mostly fast food. I had my rotation.
I had my rotation. I had my Windy's, Carl's Junior
out here, I had McDonald's Del Taco Ha. RB's was
(17:39):
in my rotation. That was back when people used to
eat at Arby's, and I would I would take large amounts, Danny,
large amounts of ketchup packets and knives and forks and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So well, let's be real, it's the stuff our grandparents
taught us. We never needed to buy on our own,
because you can get packs of saltines, you can get
ketchup salt pepper, you could get napkins and ask the
place for paper plates. Always ask him do you have plates?
Because nobody needs to be piling up dishes in their
(18:14):
sink right When you have plates, you can throw away. Now.
It's funny this comes up because one Rich Davis. It's
a long running joke on Coveno and Rich that he
steals dozens and dozens of forks from Chipotle anytime he
goes in there. And he justifies it by saying, Hey,
if they're going to charge me forty dollars for two burritos,
(18:34):
I'm taking as many forks as I want. I agree
with I agree with that poside, yeah, yeah, And Coveno's
reply to that is always, well, you're the reason why
two burritos are forty dollars. So they've argued about that.
But Brenda sent me something just a couple of days ago,
and I forwarded it to you. It's funny this comes up.
It's a it's a meme. It says, I wouldn't wish
(18:57):
this upon my worst enemy and it's a pictures in
a Chipotle somebody accidentally dropped their Chipotle bull and the
bag exploded, and what came out of the bag besides
the Chipotle bull all over the ass.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Whole Let's say one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine ten.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That looks like about I don't think it does you
could count all those? Oh I don't think I can.
That's does that almost looks like thirty forks on the ground. Yeah,
those black plastic Chipotle Yeah, so there's uh and then
right underneath it. In the comments, someone said that's karma
for trying to walk out with thirty six forks.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, No, I get the argument, well, that's why
the prices go up on all that stuff. But I
did that twenty years ago when I was a single guy.
If you were to come over to my house, I
had one drawer in my apartment when I lived in
Hollywood that was there was nothing but ketchup packs.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It was like nothing but ketchup packs.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I had another drawer that was sauces fat like those
saw from the restaurants.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I had the plastic utensil thing, and I was because
I didn't do the dishes, and I didn't cook, and
I ate out all the time. And in my car
right now, even to this day, I don't have any
clean X or anything in the car. But I have
if you want raising canes napkins, I have raising cane's
napkins if you If anything spills, I'll use those. And
(20:22):
I have some straws. My wife likes to go to Starbucks.
I'll always grab some extra straws just in case, not
that I even really use them, just in case, maybe
maybe I need a straw.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
See and Spot. They both yell at Rich and tell
them it's stealing. But I turned my mic on and
I said, how can it be stealing when those items
aren't for sale?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, exactly, like it's not stealing. And the prices go up.
They the prices will be what they are based on
what they can get people to pay for.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you know what I mean. It's the price which
as would be the same right now through the roof,
whether or not people are taking too many forks, exactly exactly.
And it's one of these things.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
When I go to a restaurant that charges extra for sauce,
that's a red flag to me.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm saying that's a red flag, like that'd be an
extra dollar for that sauce. Really an extra dollar for
that sauce, A little container of sauce. That's I don't
like that at all. But anyway, Larry, thank you for that.
I appreciate it, and nice meeting you in Vegas. Hopefully
we'll be back next year. A guy slug the hostess
with the Moses who's taking care of us the last
(21:30):
couple of years. Ferg Dog and Fullerton writes into the
mail bag and he says, well, what's up Ben and
Danny G.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
What's been the biggest challenge Ben?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Getting Benny versus the Penny up and running on YouTube
without the enormous budget of the TV show. He says,
I imagine Tom Looney misses bossing around all his assistants.
And he says, Danny G, do you ever find daycare?
If not, why not just bring your kid to Fox
Sports Radio with you. I'm sure there are some loose
wires he can chuan himself entertainment.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
There are some dead and alive cockroaches on the carpet
that he can definitely play with, like the little matchbox cars.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, he could have a he'd have a great day.
And there's some bats flying around every once in a while,
he can play with those.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There's a raccoon in the air conditioning. He could stick
his fingers in the cockroach traps. Oh yeah, and why not?
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There have been talk show hosts I will not name
the guilty, but there have been talk shosts that would
bring their kids and they would run through. We had
an update guy who used to be on TV and
he couldn't get it. He couldn't get a babysitter on
the weekend, so he brought his daughter, his sweet little daughter,
who would run through the building.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
She had a great You have that hallway that goes
oh yeah, oh yeah, and oh yeah. Then when I
was a program director, I had a midday girl who
would bring her little toddler into the studio with her
a lot. And her excuse was, oh, the babysitter had
to cancel today. Oh I was running late. I didn't
have time to take her to the babysitter. So she
(23:07):
brought this kid in the main studio with her all
the time. And there were some live breaks on my
fifty thousand watt FM radio station where you could hear
the kid crying in the background while she was talking.
That's tough. That's a little tough. Yeah, And you know,
as the boss, what could I really do about that
(23:27):
without looking like an a hole?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, that's that's being caught between the devil and the
deep bluecy is what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's not not.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
A great situation as far as the first part of
that for Dog. The biggest challenge of Benny Versus the
Penny is starting from ground zero here and trying to
let people know about Benny versus the Benny right to
because most people just they listen to what they listen to,
they watch what they watch, and to get people to change. Also,
(23:57):
a lot of my core p one people are a
little older, they're not YouTube people, So to try to
get them to go on YouTube, to try to convince them,
how to find the thing, how to subscribe, how to
fus it around. That's been a big challenge. And it
just takes time to grow an audience.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And I'm not going to the.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Rant I did that last weekend about my position on
social media and how bogus a lot of these numbers are.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
But it's just something where you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Have to do it week by week and let people
know about it and then slowly and surely they'll trickle
in and watch the show. And as far as like
the production stuff, it's not going to be a TV show.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We don't have on.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Beny Versus The Penny, we had a cast of probably
twenty people that worked on the show. It was a
national NBC TV show. We have me and Looney on
this show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We don't have it been well, so it's as good
as it's going to be. And we both one thing
about Looney. We take pride in it and we're going
to work on it and get it even better than
it is right now. We'll look back at this year's
from now and say, boy, that show sucked, but it'll
be better.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
And so it's great.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And next up Alf from the Chase Suite Hotel Brea
Slash Fullerton. That must be a shot at Ferkudog. Alf says,
happy week three of the NFL seasons. Gentlemen, No question
this week, just a statement based on your freeloading house
guests from last week. As a well known freeloader, Alf says,
(25:21):
I would never ever abuse your generosity, the fact that
you would go out of your way to invite me
to the Ugly Sweater party and fly me out. I
wouldn't expect you to also put me up in the
guest suite at the Maler Mansion, even though missus Mallard
would insist if I can't get a reservation in Fullerton,
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I'm sure Fergie's mom.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Would make room for me.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well, alf I believe Ferg Dog has bunk beds, so
you could sleep on the top bunk. I think Ferg
sleeps on the bottom bunk because he doesn't want to
fall off the top bunk, So I think that would
work out for you pretty well. I think that would
work out for you pretty well. Jake and Toledo right in,
he says, pro bouncy ball sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thank you for that, Jake.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He also had a comment about Jimmy Kimmel, which we
talked about yesterday on the podcast. He says, put your
tinfoil hat on with me. Kimmel wasn't really canceled for
his comments, he says, but to fall on the sword
to rile up the left. He says, his and all
of the late night ratings have been abysmal, and he
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hasn't been funny since he had girls jumping on trampolines.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
What say you.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So you're saying he was he was canceled like as
a martyr type thing.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, one interesting thing he brought up there. We didn't
mention this yesterday. In a lot of the comments I
was reading under the articles about this, people were saying,
you know what, this was a good excuse for them
to get rid of this guy because late night TV's dead.
Some people's theory is they were looking for an excuse.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, no, no, I agree, you know it's it's one
of those cities.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
We both know, Danny were working in the media business.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
If you're making the company money, if you're very profitable
for the company, they will do anything to keep you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They will go out of their way to keep you right.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And yeah, they love you. You're making them money and you're great.
And if the opposite happens, the first chance they get
to pull the plug, you're out.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're gone.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
We used to have a morning guy at Fox Sports
Radio who was very successful, made a lot of money
and would literally scream and shout at the bosses, and
they put up with it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He made a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
The moment that stopped, the moment that stopped suddenly that
gentleman was no longer the morning host.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You we want to make an enemy out of me?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Did you see one of the rumors I read was
that Steven a would like to host.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Jimmy Yeah, I read that same article. It's his dream job.
What a disaster that would be. Holy crap. We hope that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Happens a couple more. We'll get out on Lucky Tony
writes in and he doesn't called. They didn't call much
this week, he says, Ben and Danny G. Lucky Tony's
in the Bay Area. It's been brought to my attention
that the Denver Broncos unveiled new uniforms in twenty twenty four. Now,
now that the Broncos aren't wearing the Bears colors, can
Danny use his mob connections and Ben your illuminati friends
(28:28):
to keep it this way?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He says?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Cowboys twenty four Bears thirteen. Wow, all right, Lucky Lucky
Tony calling his shot there that the Bears are going
to lose to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I wonder if that's a fake. Lucky Tony.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
See next one, Big men and Danny G Big Brother
just recently installed speed cushions. Oh, This is from our
friend in Vietnam who sent this one in Kwang My
brother recently installed a speed cushion on a perfectly good road.
Do you realize these speed bumps are typically narrow and
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extend across the entire roadway, causing vehicles to slow down significantly,
often forcing in your stop. Speed cushions, though, on the
other hand, are wider and have gaps in the middle,
allowing large vehicles like emergency vehicles to pass without slowing
down or experiencing a jarring bump. I did not know that,
but thanks for thanks for sharing. Clang in Vietnam. Did
(29:31):
you see that video this week Danny of the fire
truck in Hollywood that was going to a call and
one of those delivery robots.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah yeah, And the caption underneath said, whoops, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Fire truck is going lights and sirens to a call
someone needs medical attention or a fire and the fire
truck it was very brief, but it had to stop
for a couple of seconds because one of these delivery robots,
the carts, the old ice.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Cream cart two was in the way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh boy, all right, last one, Kyrie, and okay, see right.
Since hey guys, how's it going good for me? And
being a champion is all and all that. Of course
he loves the Thunder. Anyways, I was wondering, what is
your favorite sports memory? Mine is the Thunder winning the
NBA Finals. But you remember that, Kyrie, you're getting old. Also,
(30:30):
do you think they'll bring back Eddie? Miss him every
day as always, keep up the great work. There you go, Well,
you never say never.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I have no idea what they will do. I would
love for them to bring Eddie back. And he's still
a good friend of mine. We still chat on a
semi regular basis and whatnot, so that's obviously out of
my control. And favorite sports memory, I mean it would say,
I'll probably the Dodgers when I was a kid winning
(30:59):
the World Series, he's little kid. Or the Clippers getting
to the Final four always a popular memory of mine.
You know that was pretty cool, Danny. Was it when
you were a child? The Raiders winning the Super Bowl?
Would that be the Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Like the one vivid memory for sports for me. Marcus
Allen in that brilliant seventy four yard touchdown run in
the Super Bowl against the Redskins where he reversed field
and he just looked like a gazelle man running into
the end zone. That was such a dope run. Longest
run touchdown run in the Super Bowl at the time.
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We listened to Bill King call that on the radio
when I was a little kid, because we were visiting
my grandma in San Jose and she said, you guys
can either come in and watch the game, or you
can stay out here throwing your Raiders football around and
put the Super Bowl on the radio. We turned Bill
King up on the radio and we kept throwing our
football around. We listened to his call of that on
(31:54):
the radio. Brocket giving to Alan setting a wide up.
He asked the revoices he got the light from Mama,
come back, come back to the creddle to the town,
to the dog Leon.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Shutting awesome. I was upset. I genuinely was upset. I
didn't mention this on the radio show Monday Night Football.
I don't know if you caught this or not.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Danny.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
During the Raiders game, they played the clip of the
Holy Roller with Bill King.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, and they didn't know it was Bill King.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yes, Yes, I was screaming at Chris Fowler, dummy, it's
Bill King.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's the legend. Give him some love. I know he's dead,
but you don't know who that is. I was so pissed.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I was so pissed, and I I was lucky enough
to I did some stats for the old Oakland Athletics
when the A's would I'm into Anaheim and I Bill
King was still an announcer, and I've told the story,
it's a famous story of mine where it was a
hot day in Anaheim and Bill took his clothes off
and did the game in his tidy white East But
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he was such a nice gentleman and such a legend.
I mean, whether I had he was a triple threat.
He even did Golden State Warriors games. This guy did football,
basketball and baseball famously for the Oakland A's for decades.
He needs way more respect put on his name.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
And the thing about I was actually having a conversation
with one of my radio buddies back East about this.
That the difference in the business now and we're of
the generation Danny and I don't want to say, well,
once we're gone, it's all over. But there's an art
to it, and certain people are able to make it
seem bigger than it is, and Bill King and I
didn't grow up in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I'd listened to him sometimes late at night. I'd get
a game on the AM radio at night and I'd
hear Bill King. And when I'd go to the Bay
Area to visit relatives or whatever, I'd hear him on
the radio. But he made it seem bigger. His voice
made it seem bigger. And there's not a lot of
people today doing play by play that make it in bigger.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Musburger's voice was like that. It's one of the reasons
al Michaels is still able to hold on because you
hear his voice and it seems like a big setting.
You're right, there's just certain guys, certain voices where it
seems like it is larger than life.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, it's just means something more, and it's about the presentation.
And it seems like a lot of the play by
play people of this generation they just they don't get that.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
They don't do it that way. It's just another random game.
And that's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I appreciate those that are able to pull it off
where it just seems a little extra special. And Bill
King was one of those guys on that note. Thank you, Kyrie.
It's good to know you're still out there, my man. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I'll be back tonight eleven pm on Sunday night in
the West.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
That's two am early.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Monday morning in the East. Have a wonderful, great Sunday,
and we'll talk all week and we'll see you then later.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.
Kutbooms.
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 1 (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 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
Check it out and good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
If you are involved in wagering, and some of you
have reached out and said, hey, I don't gamble, I
still watch your little YouTube show, So thank you, thank
you for that. We do appreciate it and now Danny
developing story. I will be at an NFL game later today.
I will be in attendance. My ass feels so good
right now. How dare you in the hood in Inglewood?
(01:32):
I'll be checking out a team you do not like, Danny,
the Chargers, and another team you do not like, the Broncos,
will be plant.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I will be a Broncos fan today.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, Well, the Chargers are feeling very good about themselves
at this point after the two and one start, with
the win over two divisional opponents, so they can start
the year three and oh against the division It's a
pretty good spot to be in. And I hope to
catch up with our old colleague part of the Fox
Sports Rate Alumni Association, the great Eddie Garcia, who.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is going to be out at that game.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I have been in contact with Edmund over the weekend
and hopefully I'll be able to catch up with him.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But he's he's a super fan. Well, his wife's a.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Super fanah yikes.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
He's a big fan of the Charger, so they he's
a super fan by marriage, but that still makes him
a super fan.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like so they have one parking lot
I know you've been out to Sofar a little bit.
Data have one parking lot that is all tailgating, and
it's it's not as good as.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Arrowhead, obviously, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And Eddie is out there and there's just everyone's got
griddles everywhere, like you know, normal.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Tailgate, and it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So I'm not sure whether I'll find Eddie before the
game or once he enters the stadium. I'm not sure
about that, but at some point today I am planning
on running into Eddie and to see that game.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, you better find it before the game. That way
you can get some of that free barbecue. Yeah, that's
a good that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But I've always sees that the dilemma is I'm gonna
get there pretty early. Once we get done with this,
I'm gonna head over to the to the stadium because
I do want to watch my Rams play the Eagles,
and I am gonna be a media freeloader today, so
they will have that on in the box, the press box,
(03:23):
so I'll probably want to watch if I get there
early enough to see that what's it in the box exactly.
I can also watch it on my laptop you know,
I can get it on one of those Russian websites,
probably on my laptop, so I could watch it that
way as well.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So be checking that out.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And on the other all the Cowboys they play when
the Chargers and Broncos are playing. So I'm gonna be
I'll be multitasking, Danny. I'll be watching what's in front
of me with the Broncos and the Chargers, and then
also some of these other late games that are are
going on. And then then tonight the Chiefs. What a
great match. Oh and two Chiefs and ow and two
(04:01):
Giants your Raiders. I know what a buzzkill that was
back on Monday night, Dandy. But the Raiders back at it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, well, you know, you hopefully can take away something
good when your team stinks it up. That defense there
in Vegas looks better than what I thought going into
the season. I thought that was gonna be their weakness,
not their O line in their production on offense. Hopefully,
hopefully the offense can step up and match the defense
this week. Well, Gino Smith is one of your favorites.
(04:31):
I know, well called you called them and I quote
a turkey. I'm not gonna lie, Danny, that was a
big cock. Yes, I believe I did, like all of
the turkey, but the gino will be he had that
was a total clunker the other night.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So you figure he's probably got three or four more
of those in him. But other than that, he'll be
average for five games, and there'll be a few games
where he does throw for four hundred yards or close
to it in three or four touchdown And so that's
the problem. Though, you got to win every one of
those other games where he's not horrific and writing the
(05:07):
vomit comet, there's no margin for error. Now, they did
beat the Patriots, which is a game. If you're the Raiders,
you're on the same level with the Patriots going into
the year.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You got to win that game. They did that, and
traveling all the way out East, they normally lose that game. Yeah,
Josh McDaniels was still their head coach, they would have
lost that game. Well, Josh McDaniels is a terrible, terrible
head coach. My god, don't give me. Yeah, don't get
me started on him. I mean, with Pete Carroll you
have a chance. But Ben, with that O line in tatters,
(05:40):
their best offensive lineman was out with a concussion. If
you've ever heard Powers Johnson talk, seems like he had
CTE when he was at Oregon. Maybe poor guy, but
he's a bruiser and he moves that line without their
anchor on that line. They stunk it up against the Chargers.
They got to get that offensive line fixed. You gotta
take advantage of having Ashton Genty back there, but you
(06:01):
know you can't have that bull rush back there in
the backfield before the running back even gets the ball
in his hands. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, but some of us also on Genty, he did
not look very aggressive. You Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
On pass protection. He looked lost most of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, like he's waiting for the blue turf to take
on like central Eastern Washington or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But okay, with you were going to say Jaden Daniels,
I was I was a Jayden Daniels was out, So
you got Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Although, as you know gambling from a gambling standpoint, good
teams usually rally around a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, and who usually has a coming out party against
the Raiders throughout their careers in the NFL. Oh, I
don't know. Maybe dudes like Baker Mayfield when the Rams
barely signed him and he hadn't even met everyone on
the Rams, and then he plays one of the games
of his life against the Raiders. If you're a Raiders fan,
(07:02):
you know you know the sorrow of watching backup quarterbacks
have the game of their life against your favorite team.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you don't assume you're going to win that game
because Mario is a mediocre quarterback. The great thing about
Geno Smith is you could have him play like we said,
where he throws four touchdowns in four hundred yards, or
you could have him play where he passes for one
hundred and thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And gives the football away with four turnovers. It's the
turkey experience. You don't know what you're getting. You might
get a fat turkey for Thanksgiving that's delicious, yell me.
Or you might get a skinny burn turkey that you
want to throw in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Let me touch up your work today. It's like a pineapple.
You ever buy pineapples at the store. I never know
whether the pineapple is going to be delicious and juicy
or it's gonna be kind of like that, you know,
where it's not as good. You don't really know like
it's like, it's frustrating. You want the really good juicy pineapple.
It's soft and all right, we have mail bag. Dam
we have mail bag. Enough of that football time? What
(08:05):
is this a sports show?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah? Deris? What do we work for Fox Sports or something?
What's wrong with us? Sorry? Moving on, let's get to
ohio Al. What do you say? It's mail bag? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Thank you very much, ohio Al. And these are actual
letters by actual listeners. If you'd like to send a
message in and I do want to thank you guys,
Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth hour
at gmail dot com, if you'd like to send a
message in. First one is from Scott, who is a regular.
He's in Florida. He says, Ben, the Gremlin attacks have
occurred enough during the past few weeks that maybe it's
(08:52):
time to consider having a set piece in the hopper
where the Rainer or coop just take over and run
with it for a few minutes. Have you all considered
this at all? Would that be disastrous or exhilarating? Or
maybe just open the phone lines and let it rip
with producer fingers on the bleep button. From your friend
(09:12):
Scott from Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, we've had a few.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Gremlin attacks in recent weeks. Normally when the gremlins attack,
it's usually just a quick thing a few minutes and
then the gremlins go away and they eat something else
and that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh. They even tried to attack one of our podcasts
last weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, we did get some attack last weekend, which was
not good. So there's another I'm gonna do Old Guy
Radio Danny. Back in the day, we used technology that
was a hard line and was very reliable, and it
was all. It was very dependable. And now the connection
(09:54):
system that we use in the industry is a Wi
Fi based connection, and so we are dependent on the
Wi Fi gods, and if the Wi Fi gods are upset,
or if the Wi Fi gods get into a street
fight with the gremlins, then we are in some trouble.
So that's the way it is. But I just have
(10:16):
to deal with it because that's the setup that we have.
And just got a roll with the punches and all that,
and I'm supposed to get Scott a backup. There's a
way you can do a backup broadcast line.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Which is also Internet based, but.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It is something that I'm supposed to have that I
don't have. There's a couple of pieces of equipment, the
thing of my jigs and the watching mccallus that I
don't have that I need, and I'm waiting to get
those and then we should be okay. Yeah, Loraina and
Coop could take over. It's a little difficult. We love Loraina,
she's not not a sports fan, and Coop doesn't really
(10:57):
pay much attention during the day, so it's a little
difficult to that off. But I mean they could take calls.
I guess they could futs around with that.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Charles.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Next up, Charles B in San Bernardino writes, and he says, Hey,
Big Ben and Danny G I started listening to you
back in twenty oh one on Fox Sports Radio when
I was a brand new security guard, just looking for
something to kill the long overnight hours, back when you
were only on weekends.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He says.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Fast forward to twenty twenty five, and unfortunately I am
still in security, but I just rediscovered your show after
a long hiatus. Where have you been, Charles, what have
you been listening to?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He says?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I dip back in maybe five or six years ago
when Eddie Garcia was still doing updates but fell off
because my sports fandom faded for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm glad I'm back now, He says. Here's my question.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
If you had to completely give up sports talk tomorrow
and host a daily show about anything else, what subject
do you think you could keep interesting for four hours
every single night. That is from from Charles. So I
couldn't talk about sports.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Anymore, what would I What would I do?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah? So I don't think I would do. The easy
thing would be saying, hey, just do politics, But I don't.
The way politics are these days, I don't really feel
like I need to go that direction.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I could see you doing a cooking show.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, yeah, remember that line from the famous PBS chef
Julia Child. She said that anything and everything can have
drama if done right, even a pancake. So yeah, I
could do a cooking show. Yeah yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah? I would be entertaining.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I need to take down who's that guy with
the spikey hair that I talked about that's in every
restaurant every when?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What's the guy's name? You know? You know what would
be a fun spin is you go to a mall
or militia member's house, different member of the Malicious House
every week, and you cook something for them in their kitchen.
It's a great idea. I can go.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I can start out. We had Dick and Dayton call
up from his retirement home in Ohio and Dayton Ohio.
I could go to Dayton and I can hang out
with all the old folks, and you could just play
music and.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hang out having randall. Some of your stops would be
at shelters.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, I'd be at hostels. I'd be at prisons. It'd
be like Johnny Cash, what would you do?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Don't you go back to music or something?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, I could do that, But I think I would
go back to Tinderoni tips, Oh yeah, I love advice,
that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I could just do relationship talk and create unnecessary drama
with my wife. That way, I have things to talk
about and a breakup to share with everyone during the podcast. Oh,
be good content for the show. Yeah. And then I
could just bang all these girls on Tinder and talk
about and talk about each on the podcast. You do
(14:08):
a breakdown, yeah, A, B and C. It doesn't say although,
now thinking about that for a second, that doesn't sound fun.
That sounds like what used to take place back in
the day where I had to go see a doctor
and make sure everything was good. Yeah, I'm a doctor.
I get some penicillins stuff like much much better being
with Brenda.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Absolutely. Well, thank you, Charles. I'm glad that you have listened,
and I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
He says.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I started listening when I was a brand new security guard,
and unfortunately, twenty five years later, I'm still a security guard. Well,
how do I feel, Charles, You were listening twenty five
years ago and I was doing overnight talk radio, and
twenty five years later, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Still doing overnight talk anyway, Thank you, Charles.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Larry from Vegas writes in He says, greetings, gentlemen, and
Bennett was nice to meet you at the mallor meet
and greet. Thank you for coming to Vegas the last
couple of years. Did not go to the first one,
but I am impressed how you were hanging out with
your listeners like a normal person compared to Colin Callin Coward. Well,
(15:12):
very kind of you, Larry, and I want to thank management.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Larry.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
She asked a different question here, but I want I'll
stop right there. I want to thank management and Danny,
I think you feel the same way. The bosses make
sure that we're very relatable to the common man, and
they do that every two weeks when we get paid.
They want us, you know, Cowhard gets paid and it
ends up in the like the Wall Street Journal, right,
or when he sells a house and moves to Chicago,
(15:38):
it's the La Times real estate page. When we do it,
nobody even knows. And because we're relatable, Danny, we're relatable,
and that's very important to be relatable. And Larry appreciates
that in Vegas, he does so. Anyway, he says, on
to the question, is.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That your way of saying we have poor people problems? Well,
more money, more problems. We don't have more problems, Danny.
We have less money, less problems, but we definitely have problems.
We definitely have problems. Money can't buy you love, but
it can pay your bills.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, it can get you nice vacations and things like that.
And Learry says, I saw this online the other day
and I thought, out of you and Danny, it sounds
like something you guys would do. And then he sent
me a story here from some website. I guess this
(16:31):
is a Las Vegas website. Anyways, it says pocket packing
is on the rise as businesses feel the pinch, and
it's the story here. Let me give you the bullet points.
It says, an inflation squeeze walle as inflation squeeze wallets go,
(16:52):
some diners have been squeezing a little too much. And
then it says restaurants are starting to complain because guests
are pocket packing, and that means taking excessive amounts of
plastic utensils, straws, napkins and condiments, sugar and ketchup packets,
(17:13):
and restaurants are starting to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Fuel the pinch. Yes, the story here.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So well, I was ahead of my time on this, Danny.
When I was a bachelor, I didn't cook. I ate
out all the time, mostly fast food. I had my rotation.
I had my rotation. I had my Windy's, Carl's Junior
out here, I had McDonald's Del Taco Ha. RB's was
(17:39):
in my rotation. That was back when people used to
eat at Arby's, and I would I would take large amounts, Danny,
large amounts of ketchup packets and knives and forks and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So well, let's be real, it's the stuff our grandparents
taught us. We never needed to buy on our own,
because you can get packs of saltines, you can get
ketchup salt pepper, you could get napkins and ask the
place for paper plates. Always ask him do you have plates?
Because nobody needs to be piling up dishes in their
(18:14):
sink right When you have plates, you can throw away. Now.
It's funny this comes up because one Rich Davis. It's
a long running joke on Coveno and Rich that he
steals dozens and dozens of forks from Chipotle anytime he
goes in there. And he justifies it by saying, Hey,
if they're going to charge me forty dollars for two burritos,
(18:34):
I'm taking as many forks as I want. I agree
with I agree with that poside, yeah, yeah, And Coveno's
reply to that is always, well, you're the reason why
two burritos are forty dollars. So they've argued about that.
But Brenda sent me something just a couple of days ago,
and I forwarded it to you. It's funny this comes up.
It's a it's a meme. It says, I wouldn't wish
(18:57):
this upon my worst enemy and it's a pictures in
a Chipotle somebody accidentally dropped their Chipotle bull and the
bag exploded, and what came out of the bag besides
the Chipotle bull all over the ass.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Whole Let's say one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine ten.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That looks like about I don't think it does you
could count all those? Oh I don't think I can.
That's does that almost looks like thirty forks on the ground. Yeah,
those black plastic Chipotle Yeah, so there's uh and then
right underneath it. In the comments, someone said that's karma
for trying to walk out with thirty six forks.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, No, I get the argument, well, that's why
the prices go up on all that stuff. But I
did that twenty years ago when I was a single guy.
If you were to come over to my house, I
had one drawer in my apartment when I lived in
Hollywood that was there was nothing but ketchup packs.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It was like nothing but ketchup packs.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I had another drawer that was sauces fat like those
saw from the restaurants.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I had the plastic utensil thing, and I was because
I didn't do the dishes, and I didn't cook, and
I ate out all the time. And in my car
right now, even to this day, I don't have any
clean X or anything in the car. But I have
if you want raising canes napkins, I have raising cane's
napkins if you If anything spills, I'll use those. And
(20:22):
I have some straws. My wife likes to go to Starbucks.
I'll always grab some extra straws just in case, not
that I even really use them, just in case, maybe
maybe I need a straw.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
See and Spot. They both yell at Rich and tell
them it's stealing. But I turned my mic on and
I said, how can it be stealing when those items
aren't for sale?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, exactly, like it's not stealing. And the prices go up.
They the prices will be what they are based on
what they can get people to pay for.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you know what I mean. It's the price which
as would be the same right now through the roof,
whether or not people are taking too many forks, exactly exactly.
And it's one of these things.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
When I go to a restaurant that charges extra for sauce,
that's a red flag to me.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm saying that's a red flag, like that'd be an
extra dollar for that sauce. Really an extra dollar for
that sauce, A little container of sauce. That's I don't
like that at all. But anyway, Larry, thank you for that.
I appreciate it, and nice meeting you in Vegas. Hopefully
we'll be back next year. A guy slug the hostess
with the Moses who's taking care of us the last
(21:30):
couple of years. Ferg Dog and Fullerton writes into the
mail bag and he says, well, what's up Ben and
Danny G.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
What's been the biggest challenge Ben?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Getting Benny versus the Penny up and running on YouTube
without the enormous budget of the TV show. He says,
I imagine Tom Looney misses bossing around all his assistants.
And he says, Danny G, do you ever find daycare?
If not, why not just bring your kid to Fox
Sports Radio with you. I'm sure there are some loose
wires he can chuan himself entertainment.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
There are some dead and alive cockroaches on the carpet
that he can definitely play with, like the little matchbox cars.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, he could have a he'd have a great day.
And there's some bats flying around every once in a while,
he can play with those.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There's a raccoon in the air conditioning. He could stick
his fingers in the cockroach traps. Oh yeah, and why not?
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There have been talk show hosts I will not name
the guilty, but there have been talk shosts that would
bring their kids and they would run through. We had
an update guy who used to be on TV and
he couldn't get it. He couldn't get a babysitter on
the weekend, so he brought his daughter, his sweet little daughter,
who would run through the building.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
She had a great You have that hallway that goes
oh yeah, oh yeah, and oh yeah. Then when I
was a program director, I had a midday girl who
would bring her little toddler into the studio with her
a lot. And her excuse was, oh, the babysitter had
to cancel today. Oh I was running late. I didn't
have time to take her to the babysitter. So she
(23:07):
brought this kid in the main studio with her all
the time. And there were some live breaks on my
fifty thousand watt FM radio station where you could hear
the kid crying in the background while she was talking.
That's tough. That's a little tough. Yeah, And you know,
as the boss, what could I really do about that
(23:27):
without looking like an a hole?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, that's that's being caught between the devil and the
deep bluecy is what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's not not.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
A great situation as far as the first part of
that for Dog. The biggest challenge of Benny Versus the
Penny is starting from ground zero here and trying to
let people know about Benny versus the Benny right to
because most people just they listen to what they listen to,
they watch what they watch, and to get people to change. Also,
(23:57):
a lot of my core p one people are a
little older, they're not YouTube people, So to try to
get them to go on YouTube, to try to convince them,
how to find the thing, how to subscribe, how to
fus it around. That's been a big challenge. And it
just takes time to grow an audience.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And I'm not going to the.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Rant I did that last weekend about my position on
social media and how bogus a lot of these numbers are.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
But it's just something where you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Have to do it week by week and let people
know about it and then slowly and surely they'll trickle
in and watch the show. And as far as like
the production stuff, it's not going to be a TV show.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We don't have on.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Beny Versus The Penny, we had a cast of probably
twenty people that worked on the show. It was a
national NBC TV show. We have me and Looney on
this show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We don't have it been well, so it's as good
as it's going to be. And we both one thing
about Looney. We take pride in it and we're going
to work on it and get it even better than
it is right now. We'll look back at this year's
from now and say, boy, that show sucked, but it'll
be better.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
And so it's great.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And next up Alf from the Chase Suite Hotel Brea
Slash Fullerton. That must be a shot at Ferkudog. Alf says,
happy week three of the NFL seasons. Gentlemen, No question
this week, just a statement based on your freeloading house
guests from last week. As a well known freeloader, Alf says,
(25:21):
I would never ever abuse your generosity, the fact that
you would go out of your way to invite me
to the Ugly Sweater party and fly me out. I
wouldn't expect you to also put me up in the
guest suite at the Maler Mansion, even though missus Mallard
would insist if I can't get a reservation in Fullerton,
(25:42):
I'm sure Fergie's mom.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Would make room for me.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well, alf I believe Ferg Dog has bunk beds, so
you could sleep on the top bunk. I think Ferg
sleeps on the bottom bunk because he doesn't want to
fall off the top bunk, So I think that would
work out for you pretty well. I think that would
work out for you pretty well. Jake and Toledo right in,
he says, pro bouncy ball sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thank you for that, Jake.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He also had a comment about Jimmy Kimmel, which we
talked about yesterday on the podcast. He says, put your
tinfoil hat on with me. Kimmel wasn't really canceled for
his comments, he says, but to fall on the sword
to rile up the left. He says, his and all
of the late night ratings have been abysmal, and he
(26:26):
hasn't been funny since he had girls jumping on trampolines.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
What say you.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So you're saying he was he was canceled like as
a martyr type thing.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, one interesting thing he brought up there. We didn't
mention this yesterday. In a lot of the comments I
was reading under the articles about this, people were saying,
you know what, this was a good excuse for them
to get rid of this guy because late night TV's dead.
Some people's theory is they were looking for an excuse.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, no, no, I agree, you know it's it's one
of those cities.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
We both know, Danny were working in the media business.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
If you're making the company money, if you're very profitable
for the company, they will do anything to keep you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They will go out of their way to keep you right.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And yeah, they love you. You're making them money and you're great.
And if the opposite happens, the first chance they get
to pull the plug, you're out.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're gone.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
We used to have a morning guy at Fox Sports
Radio who was very successful, made a lot of money
and would literally scream and shout at the bosses, and
they put up with it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He made a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
The moment that stopped, the moment that stopped suddenly that
gentleman was no longer the morning host.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You we want to make an enemy out of me?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Did you see one of the rumors I read was
that Steven a would like to host.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Jimmy Yeah, I read that same article. It's his dream job.
What a disaster that would be. Holy crap. We hope that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Happens a couple more. We'll get out on Lucky Tony
writes in and he doesn't called. They didn't call much
this week, he says, Ben and Danny G. Lucky Tony's
in the Bay Area. It's been brought to my attention
that the Denver Broncos unveiled new uniforms in twenty twenty four. Now,
now that the Broncos aren't wearing the Bears colors, can
Danny use his mob connections and Ben your illuminati friends
(28:28):
to keep it this way?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He says?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Cowboys twenty four Bears thirteen. Wow, all right, Lucky Lucky
Tony calling his shot there that the Bears are going
to lose to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I wonder if that's a fake. Lucky Tony.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
See next one, Big men and Danny G Big Brother
just recently installed speed cushions. Oh, This is from our
friend in Vietnam who sent this one in Kwang My
brother recently installed a speed cushion on a perfectly good road.
Do you realize these speed bumps are typically narrow and
(29:06):
extend across the entire roadway, causing vehicles to slow down significantly,
often forcing in your stop. Speed cushions, though, on the
other hand, are wider and have gaps in the middle,
allowing large vehicles like emergency vehicles to pass without slowing
down or experiencing a jarring bump. I did not know that,
but thanks for thanks for sharing. Clang in Vietnam. Did
(29:31):
you see that video this week Danny of the fire
truck in Hollywood that was going to a call and
one of those delivery robots.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah yeah, And the caption underneath said, whoops, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Fire truck is going lights and sirens to a call
someone needs medical attention or a fire and the fire
truck it was very brief, but it had to stop
for a couple of seconds because one of these delivery robots,
the carts, the old ice.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Cream cart two was in the way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh boy, all right, last one, Kyrie, and okay, see right.
Since hey guys, how's it going good for me? And
being a champion is all and all that. Of course
he loves the Thunder. Anyways, I was wondering, what is
your favorite sports memory? Mine is the Thunder winning the
NBA Finals. But you remember that, Kyrie, you're getting old. Also,
(30:30):
do you think they'll bring back Eddie? Miss him every
day as always, keep up the great work. There you go, Well,
you never say never.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I have no idea what they will do. I would
love for them to bring Eddie back. And he's still
a good friend of mine. We still chat on a
semi regular basis and whatnot, so that's obviously out of
my control. And favorite sports memory, I mean it would say,
I'll probably the Dodgers when I was a kid winning
(30:59):
the World Series, he's little kid. Or the Clippers getting
to the Final four always a popular memory of mine.
You know that was pretty cool, Danny. Was it when
you were a child? The Raiders winning the Super Bowl?
Would that be the Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Like the one vivid memory for sports for me. Marcus
Allen in that brilliant seventy four yard touchdown run in
the Super Bowl against the Redskins where he reversed field
and he just looked like a gazelle man running into
the end zone. That was such a dope run. Longest
run touchdown run in the Super Bowl at the time.
(31:33):
We listened to Bill King call that on the radio
when I was a little kid, because we were visiting
my grandma in San Jose and she said, you guys
can either come in and watch the game, or you
can stay out here throwing your Raiders football around and
put the Super Bowl on the radio. We turned Bill
King up on the radio and we kept throwing our
football around. We listened to his call of that on
(31:54):
the radio. Brocket giving to Alan setting a wide up.
He asked the revoices he got the light from Mama,
come back, come back to the creddle to the town,
to the dog Leon.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Shutting awesome. I was upset. I genuinely was upset. I
didn't mention this on the radio show Monday Night Football.
I don't know if you caught this or not.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Danny.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
During the Raiders game, they played the clip of the
Holy Roller with Bill King.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, and they didn't know it was Bill King.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yes, Yes, I was screaming at Chris Fowler, dummy, it's
Bill King.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's the legend. Give him some love. I know he's dead,
but you don't know who that is. I was so pissed.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I was so pissed, and I I was lucky enough
to I did some stats for the old Oakland Athletics
when the A's would I'm into Anaheim and I Bill
King was still an announcer, and I've told the story,
it's a famous story of mine where it was a
hot day in Anaheim and Bill took his clothes off
and did the game in his tidy white East But
(33:15):
he was such a nice gentleman and such a legend.
I mean, whether I had he was a triple threat.
He even did Golden State Warriors games. This guy did football,
basketball and baseball famously for the Oakland A's for decades.
He needs way more respect put on his name.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
And the thing about I was actually having a conversation
with one of my radio buddies back East about this.
That the difference in the business now and we're of
the generation Danny and I don't want to say, well,
once we're gone, it's all over. But there's an art
to it, and certain people are able to make it
seem bigger than it is, and Bill King and I
didn't grow up in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I'd listened to him sometimes late at night. I'd get
a game on the AM radio at night and I'd
hear Bill King. And when I'd go to the Bay
Area to visit relatives or whatever, I'd hear him on
the radio. But he made it seem bigger. His voice
made it seem bigger. And there's not a lot of
people today doing play by play that make it in bigger.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Musburger's voice was like that. It's one of the reasons
al Michaels is still able to hold on because you
hear his voice and it seems like a big setting.
You're right, there's just certain guys, certain voices where it
seems like it is larger than life.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, it's just means something more, and it's about the presentation.
And it seems like a lot of the play by
play people of this generation they just they don't get that.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
They don't do it that way. It's just another random game.
And that's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I appreciate those that are able to pull it off
where it just seems a little extra special. And Bill
King was one of those guys on that note. Thank you, Kyrie.
It's good to know you're still out there, my man. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I'll be back tonight eleven pm on Sunday night in
the West.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
That's two am early.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Monday morning in the East. Have a wonderful, great Sunday,
and we'll talk all week and we'll see you then later.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.
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