February 22, 2026 • 42 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 sole 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 clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller
and Danny g Radio. As it is Sunday, the final
day of the Olympics. It all ends our time later
this afternoon or something like that. I think, I don't know.
Sometime today is the closing ceremons. I know that everyone's
(00:50):
all gung ho Danny for the hockey game, which is today,
the US trying to win the gold and upset all
of our friends in Canada. So that's the big one, right,
that's the that's the one everyone's been looking forward to.
But so early, man, what's up with that?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Os Sa yous a us asa no Usa.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
My wife's not a huge sports fan, but she is
all about the Olympics, so she's been watching it every
day and I've watched it with her because it's like
sports that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
She's she didn't really want ch an NBA game or
a baseball game, but she'll watch the Olympics, so we'll
check it out.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And I was like, okay, but well, curling is kind
of a sport.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The what what's the one? The uh? Yeah it was?
It was it curling, the one in Canada where they
were blowing. There was the blowing controversy.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that was the one.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, all right, taste like a touchdown in your mouth.
I'll check it out on the rebroadcast or whatever, or
I'll find the stream, uh somewhere online. But we do
have the mail bag today. This is Sunday, a lot
of questions. We thank you guys for sending in your
various questions and all that, and so, ohio al, can
you get me in the mood? Ohio Al?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
These are actual questions by actual listeners from all over
the place. I want to thank everyone who's been sending
mail in. We've got some new names which I like,
some old names which are regulars and whatnot. If you
would like to email the show real fifth hour at
gmail dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
(02:39):
First up is a regular, Reggie from Detroit writes in
he says, hey, guys, mister Beast revealed recently that he
has around one billion unique viewers of his YouTube channel,
and he says that's one eighth of the entire population
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on planet Earth. Reggie says, watches mister Beast. And he says,
you and Danny have talked about mister Beast before. However,
you say you have not seen his videos. Neither have
I or anyone I know, Reggie said, And then he says,
is mister Beast a fraud? That's from Reggie. I don't know.
(03:23):
I really have never seen mister Beast. I think I'm
outside the demo, but I don't know what the demo is.
Kids are kids watching mister Beasts, every single kid, or
there are a billion kids watching mister Beast. You know
how I feel, Danny about Internet download numbers and all that. Skeptical.
I'm very skeptical about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, there's a lot of kids in my house here.
I think one eighth of the kid population. Daddy, they
don't watch him. Maybe we're the exception. Because I was
thinking about it. I haven't watched his videos. Teenager we
have here doesn't watch his videos, so yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Remember was it twenty twenty four mister Beast was brought
in by the NBA. It was either for the Celebrity
Game or he was doing something of the actual All
Star Game. And nobody seemed to know who he was
at the and there were twenty thousand people or whatever
it was in the arena, not this All Star Game,
the one couple. I guess it was a year before,
but nobody kind of knew who he was. It was
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very odd for somebody who, if you believe the hype,
the publicity, is the one of the most famous people
in the world.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Odd. Probably one of the craziest things, one of the
craziest phenomenons, if you will, in our lifetime is that
old video that still makes the rounds guys sitting in
their basement talking about how they were upset because they
only had like forty views on their first YouTube upload.
The creators of YouTube were sitting there kicking rocks because
(04:52):
they thought they failed. Now we legitimately have millionaires and
almost billionaires off of their platform.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, it's it's odd to me. I like they're famous,
but it's not as famous as before the internet. Isn't
it odd.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That you can get it's not real famous, it's Internet
famous exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like you think the celebrities that were famous when we
back in our day, Danny, when we were growing up,
and how everyone knew who these people were, Like Michael
Jordan didn't have social media, but everyone knew who Michael
Jordan was because of TV commercial people watching TV and
actors that were famous in that in those days. Like
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how many actors. I guess Sidney Sweeney, she's an actress, right,
she's I believe? Yes, am I correct?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And I'm sure you do this in your daily prep
for your overnight show. When you go to today's celebrity
birthdays and you type in the date on the first page,
all these Internet stars come up that aren't Hollywood stars.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, yeah, I'll go to the tabloids, and the tabloids
are right, stories about mister Beast for example, because Reggie
brought up mister Beast and some of these other there's
some women's like influencers who will get a lot of publicity.
I have no idea what they I've never I mean,
they're attractive. Congratulations. There's a lot of attractive people in
the world. I don't know. It's just very odd to me.
There was another one in the fact that Reggie brought
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up the mister Beast thing. But there was a story
in one of the tabloids this week that mister Beast
revealed that he's borderline blind in one eye, you know,
and that's why he never smiles because he's blind. Like, okay, great,
congratulations anyway, I don't know, so thank you, Reggie. I
have not seen mister Beast. Neither is Danny or the
many kids in his house. Alf from the Gutter writes
(06:40):
in he says, show up hands. How many people in
studio checked out the website that Blair plugged on air?
So Danny, Blair and Maine called up rare and appropriate
doesn't call very often anymore. And I think I said
something like, well, we lost Blair to TikTok, and then
Blair said, no, I'm on some other I'm streaming on
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some other website. So he named the website and I'd
never heard of it. Well, no, I heard of that,
but he hadn't. He hadn't, and we'd never heard of it.
And whatever we ignored it, and then of all people,
Kathy Sweet Kathy and Madison says, hey, that's a porn site.
(07:24):
Uh and yeah. But Blair was on apparently an adult website.
That's where he had gone to, and I did not
check it out. Once Kathy told me what it was,
I was like, I'm at work. I'm not going to
get the ding on my my hr. I'm not going
to bother I don't I'm not that interested. Because it
was so was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
He saying that that's what's been entertaining him.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yes, like he said, I asked him like, where have
you been, what have you been doing? He's like, yeah,
I'm in on this. He named the website, and oh boy,
I can only imagine what what activity is going on there.
From Waterville, Maine, Blair in the legend there in Maine.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
He's on Metalcocks dot Org.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was attracted to the giant metalcock. There's a lot
going on. There's a lot going on. Joe from Pasadena,
where the Rose Parade is held every year, writes in.
He says, Ben and Danny, there was a viral video
this week about a poker player that tore his acl.
(08:27):
I was excited about it and then I realized that
the video was from seventeen years ago. How does this?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yes, yes, Ben, This happened to me on Friday too,
because it was trending and I'm like, this is great,
and I sent it to Covino and Rich and right
after I sent it to him, I double checked the
story and it said from two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my god. Yeah. I don't know, Joe. I guess
it's different generations or something like that. You just keep
bringing back I have noticed the NFL aggregators. Have you
noticed d it this week? Not at this Last week
was not a huge week for NFL news. Things have
kind of calmed down before things pick up again in
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the NFL, so it was a lot going on. So
they started bringing back stuff from two or three years ago,
and I was noticing stories that were popping up, and
They're like, that's an old I remember talking about that
story in twenty twenty two or twenty three or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They bring me back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But this is like the way I agree with Joe.
Seventeen year old video A seventeen year old video of
a guy tearing his ACL celebrating.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now, to be fair, I never saw that clip. I
just wish that whoever posts it like busting with the boys,
because that's how I got got. I wish they would
start the post by saying, hey, a flashback a Friday,
flashback to two thousand and nine. That would be appropriate,
but they posted as if it just happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
No, I understand they're trying to get engagement, right. You
get paid on down loads, get paid on clicks and
all that stuff, so people are clicking on it. I
guess it doesn't matter. You can just bring stuff back.
You'll live forever on the internet. Danny will just do that, guy,
I bet you bring it back. Every five years, they're
going to bring back that video, so remember listenly or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
I that happens a lot, like a lot of these videos,
(10:16):
like even not necessarily seventeen years ago, but like I said,
three or four years ago, five years ago. There's stories
that are on there that are old and repackaged. Is
new again? Simon from Seattle writes into the mailbag. He says,
Ben and Danny, how is this still a thing? And
then he said there's a a guy got charged fifty
(10:39):
five thousand dollars because of his daughter watching TikTok and
she was not on the TikTok shop here. According to
the story that Simon sent me a link to, this
was in Manchester, England, and the business owner he's facing
(11:01):
this bill because his daughter, Oh, I guess they were
traveling to Morocco, so that his daughter decided to watch
TikTok while they were traveling to Morocco. The guy found
out when he got back to England a phone provider
hit him with a bill of fifty six thousand dollars
forty two thousand pounds two separate bills.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Were get in trouble as a kid. Yes, just did
phone calls?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh my god, I did. Yeah, well they charged by
the minute. Oh my god. Oh it is so bad.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah. Remember nights were free and so our parents would
always scream at us, you cannot call your friend until
it's nighttime.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah it's Chris. I'm so happy they don't do that anymore.
But apparently here they did. His daughter had scrolled around
eight hours on and off, which meant it was costing
five thousand pounds an hour. The cost came because of
a clause in the phone contract which allowed uncap data
roaming outside of Europe. And the I guess, so the
(12:07):
guy got charged all this. I think they were able
to get it off the the you know, roll it
back or whatever. But my god, that is like nineteen nineties,
two thousands, right, Danny, that's like.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That's definitely some nineteen nineties shit right there.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, that's wild man. Yeah. I remember the cell phone
we would have. The first cell phones. My mom was
very expensive. She's like, only in an emergency, do not
use this, and let's this an emergency, you know, because
it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah. Yeah, and you had a tripod to set the
antenna up for the phone.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was a nightmare. Barry, still in South Carolina but
still trying to get out on the mailbag, says yo
Yo Ma, Benny. I know you are a Vegas guy,
and I just got back from Vegas last Friday. They
have these robo taxis that are free for now and
they test as they test this concept out. Have you
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ever taken one of these? If not, would you? That's
from Barry in South Carolina. I have not taken one
of those. I did consider in San Francisco taking a Waimo,
which is I guess the same thing. You got to
pay for it and they're all over San Francisco. But
we ended up taking the cable car instead of the Waimo,
(13:22):
which was more like San Francisco, and almost died on it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But whatever. Ooh, and when I walked down to the
Tenderloine for a minute because I was looking for a
shop that I found.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right there, Danny, if you say walking to the Tenderloin,
you know things are not going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, that's dude. Covino and Rich for the staff thing
that was going on. They said, we don't smoke marijuana,
but they like those drinks that have the THHC in them.
It's like a carbonated orange soda, but it has a
little kick to it. So I found a shop, a
dispensary in San Francisco that sold them. I had to
walk for ten minutes though, to get these drinks. So
(13:59):
I'm walking and there were zombies and wayms. That was
the two things in that area of San Francisco. I'd
see a robot go by, then I'd see a freaked
out drugy go by.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah. I had a similar experience. It was not in
the Tenderloin, but it was Union Square. I think it's
called right, isn't that the big Yeah, yeah, Union Square.
So we walked towards Union Square and that area was fine.
It was I think that's what it was called. But
it was, you know, okay, there were cops everywhere, fine whatever,
(14:32):
A nice little park in the middle of downtown San Francisco.
Good neighborhood, it felt like. And then we walked over
a couple other blocks and oh my god, it was
it was like Sodom and Gomorrah is what it was.
And it was funny. I think I told you about
it last week. We were on the on the podcast
like got not Gottlieb, but what's his name McAfee. Pat
(14:56):
McAfee was bragging about how it wasn't that bad and
every it was fine, you know, and he'd heard a
lot from people saying, how how bout it was San
Francisco or it was fine. I was like, yeah, right
around the convention Center it was okay. But if you
go a couple of blocks any direction.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, mcafeine. Had took the route I took away from
Union Square, he would have been singing a different tune.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It was almost a what's the word apocalyptical.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Looking, Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Somebody who's been five dollars for that big words?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You were too early for a big word. As far
as the like, I said, Barry, I have not been
in one of those self driving autonomous cars. Have you
been in one of those? Dany? Have you been in
a Weaimo?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yes? One time in Arizona we went there for a
Graduate Hotels live broadcast and the only ride that was
available was a Weimo and CNR and me jumped into
the Weimo and you live.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
To tell about it. You live. You've not chosen to
do it again. They have him in La too. There's
some in La, not as many. They like to burn them.
The ones in La. Those really burned really well, the
way moos they can light those a wile burn for hours.
You let a weymou on fire. We learned that. Scott
from Florida writes in He says, Amen and Danny, a
(16:15):
lot of talk about a baseball lockout. Have you ever
been locked out of your home? And how did you
get back in after Hurricane Helene flooded my house in
twenty twenty four or Helen. I had to break a window,
Scott says, to get back inside because my electronic door
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locks fried from salt water. I should have just kept
the house locked up and walked away from it forever,
says Scott from Florida. As an adult, I have not.
I've been locked out of my car, which sucks, but
we have a back so I have to get you know,
I have to get the wife to come wherever I
(17:00):
am and like, I'm locked out of the car, that's
that's but I don't. As a kid, I did have
that happen. We ended up putting one of those you
know the boxes, the plastic boxes where you put the
extra key, I hide it somewhere outside. We did that
because I had locked myself out, But not as an adult.
Have you ever Danny locked yourself out of the Danny
(17:22):
g Casa?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, it's happened one time. I guess the teenager watched
something scary on TV. So she went downstairs and she
locked the top lock, which is an inside lock only.
We never used that lock here. We always use the
two locks down by the door handle. I have no
idea why to even have that top slide lock on
(17:44):
our door. But you know, obviously, from the outside, even
if you have a set of keys, you can't control that.
She got scared that she went downstairs and locked that.
I was at work still. I come back from my shift.
I can't get in. Everybody's asleep. I'm blowing up Brenda's phone.
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She's not answering. I didn't know what to do, so
I was like a nomad. I was driving around in circles.
I went to an eyehop, I sat with my laptop
and did some work all night. Ben. It took until
about two in the morning that my wife woke up
realizing I wasn't around, and freaked out and called my
phone and I'm like, yeah, you think you're freaked out.
(18:27):
I've been driving around in circles for five hours.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I think I remember you telling that story on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. That was four or five
years ago when I first started doing the pod with you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, that's good. I
remember when the kid was little, he and one of
his cousins got locked. We had this weird at the
old house we had. There were these There was a bathroom,
and there were doors on both sides of the bathroom, right,
so one to the hall, one to one of the bedrooms,
and these two knuckleheads locked themselves. Are they locked the no,
(19:02):
they didn't lock themselves in. They locked one of the doors,
and then on the way out they locked the other one,
so both and you can only open them from the
inside or whatever. It was weird the way it was
set up slept. I had to I had to go
on YouTube and try to figure out how to break
break in the what tools you you know, how like
those indoor locks that aren't the outdoors that there's certain.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Things, Yeah exactly. I think that's how most of these
accidents happen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah. Yeah, So I had to go on YouTube and
then I had to get I forget exactly what it was,
but there's there's a couple of things you can get
and unlock the indoor things, but these it was like,
what are you doing? You don't lock both doors? Knuckleheads?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Like you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I was like, you know, kids, they like that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Uh man?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Uh? Who do we have a kwang from Ho Chi
Minh Vietnam rights and says guaranteed human, just like the
iHeart imaging. If you noticed that Danny guaranteed human. Oh yeah,
all right, We'll see how long they use that. Uh.
He says. The domain name Benmallard dot com is for sale.
On go Dead for the buy now price of thirteen
(20:04):
nine hundred and eleven dollars. He said, since Mickey Rourke
claimed that his GoFundMe page was a scam, do you
think that he would donate the money to buy your
former website on your behalf? I would be all about
that quite I actually did. There was a technical snafoo
a number of years ago when I stopped actively doing
(20:24):
Benmallar dot com, which was my gossip website. And I
stopped it because of the radio show and many years ago,
and you have to keep renewing it. And my old
one of my older my older brother. I'm in the middle,
so my older brother had been kind of taking care
of that for me, and he got busy at his
work and he forgot to send the thing in and
(20:46):
within like a day of forgetting to buy the you know,
keep the domain name, it had been purchased, and it's
actually gone down. That thing, I'm pretty sure was over
twenty thousand dollars to buy my name dot com because
I had so much.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I mean, that's your salary for the whole year.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're not kidding. I had so much traffic at that time.
We did. Really you know I was obviously ESPN or
anything like that, but we had a ton of traffic
on that website when I was actively updating it, and
I did a couple of years ago think about maybe
futzing around and doing something online again, kind of multitask
and uh and before the TV show started again and
(21:30):
we did that, and so I did look into it,
and I was like, oh, there's no way. I mean,
I'm not that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I think the alternate route is to go Bill Miller
dot com.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Clearly, if anybody wants to buy me Bill Miller dot com, please,
so Quang, thank you for looking that up. I appreciate it,
and he says alongside, see you later. Excavator baby CooA
canw also read Dingle Hoppers and Thingama Bob's both available
now on Amazon. So there's a link here, Danny if
(22:02):
you want to buy the kid the Dingle Hoppers and
thingam a Bob's. I like that, there's a book. It's
always a Disney vice.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, And I like the excavator line because if it's
a famous Blippy song, if you have a toddler or
little kids, you know this. See Slippy. He has this
hit song called excavator, and he says, I'm an escavator
and parents walk around singing that song to themselves all day.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I like this book though, I like the name. I
love those old sounding words. As we've talked about, Danny,
thing of a jig what you might call it, the
all that stuff, dingle hoppers. I'm gonna have to add
that to my lexicon. I do use thingham a bob's.
I'm more of a thing of a jig guy than
a thing of a bob guy. I can work in
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thingham a bob. I do like dingle hoppers. I'll have
to add that to my lexicon. Thank you very much.
Kwang from ho Chi, Men, Vietnam. Mike from Wisconsin writes
in he says, Ben and Danny, I've heard you Ben
talk about how you like you make the call commercials
from back in the day. I also like those commercials,
So you make the call. And then he sent a
(23:14):
story about a guy in Italy who has been making
headlines here. Apparently there's a dog in Italy whose owner
the police have accused of training it to illegally dump
trash outside. So this guy apparently has got the dog trained.
He gives the dog a bag of trash, and the
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dog walks to the end of the street and drops
the trash off and then walks back. It's on tape
in Italy, and so Mike wants to know is this
really creative or is this really lazy? And that's from
Mike in Wisconsin. So how about all of the above.
It is creative, it's dedicated. I would say, Danny that
(23:59):
Caesar a long level dog training to get your dog.
I can't get Moxie to do anything, as we talked
about on yesterday's podcast, Moxie, we can't get her to
eat a lot of food and then cause mountains of
pooh all over the house. But other than that, like,
are you that lazy? Don't you have trash? If you're
living in an apartment or a home, there's trash, right,
(24:20):
you have to have a place to throw your stuff with,
Like what is the point of littering like that? I
don't understand. Are you charged for the trash or something
like that. That's the part that doesn't make any sense
to me. I understand being lazy, and like having your
dog do it, why not if you're in an apartment building.
I used to live in Park Lebray in La we
had a trash chute. Was great, just squalk down the
(24:41):
hall throwing the trash ute. Teach your dog to go
to the trash chute and throw it down the hall.
There's got to be more to this story, right Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Because we have ye
in our building here there is a couple of covered dumpsters.
They put like this nice red brick thing around it,
so you can't tell there's trash in there. We can't
even get our kids to walk the trash bags over there.
So if I had a dog that would do that
for me. Oh that's money right there.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh yeah, that guy instead of having his dog do that,
he should start a service to train other people's dogs
how to take the trash out that way.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, and then I would teach my dog how to
piss on the red brick. It just right if you're dumping.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
The trash right there?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Two for one special, good doggy, lift your leg now,
all right? Come on?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, a fird dog in Fullerton, right, Sin says happy
two twenty two day Ben and Danny g He says, Ben,
do you get a little annoyed or jealous by callers?
Like Anthony in Louisiana, who call the show just to
flirt with Lorena. I'm not suggesting you swing that way,
but I'm sure you and Danny g would both be
flattered if more callers flirted with you. That's from further
(25:56):
well back in the day, this is before Danny worked
at five Sports Radio. We had one of the callers' names,
I'm Sandy gout He. I mean, there's a guy from Nashville,
Tennessee called Gay Brad. That was his name, is gay
guy from Nashville, and he would he would call, but
I don't think he flirted. I don't think he flirted
with me. Yeah, this guy, Anthony Danny from Louisiana, he
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calls up a couple of times a week and he
he says, hot man, and then Hello, Lorena, how you
doing Lorena? And then just he's just talking to Loraina
and it's a flirt with her, and it's very awkward.
But he's not alone. There's there's a bunch of dudes
that do it. I've become numb to it at this point.
(26:39):
For a dog, it's just kind of a it's just,
you know, that's the way it is. You're just gonna
deal with it. But man, it is a little awkward
that you would what's going on in your world where
you know, I understand guys get a loan, you know,
women in the picture. I understand that I've been in
that spot before. But you know, I'm trying to be
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polite to I'm trying to be politged.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I got too skinny. You got too skinny from all
the fasting, Ben, because you almost had boobs.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I was very close to having massive, massive breasts. Yes,
all right, thank you for you can flirt with me
for Dick.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Remember that drop and I saw her boobs. Oh yeah,
I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, that was a classic. Brian from Minnesota Rights in
Big Benny says, we can all agree that the players
just simply don't care about the All Star Game and
the Pro Bowl anymore. Two things have changed during the
time it was watchable to what it is now social
media and sensitive athlete slash owners. Before social media, players
(27:42):
and owners could tune out the booze and negativity because
the means of expressing displeasure were limited. Now we have
players and owners with burner accounts because they're on the
defensive for their reputations. We have an owner in the
New York Jets. Suck Suck. Suck put the killed on
the NFLPA reviews of team facilities and the experience and
(28:04):
all that. Brian says. They say they want to go
global band, but they don't want to hear what they
have to say. Why would any player entertain fickle fans
that one moment will wear their jerseys and burn it
the next Well, that's part of the it's part of
the deal. That's the first thing. And he had the burner.
(28:26):
The players have always been sensitive. I remember when I
covered the Dodgers in the nineties, they had a guy
named Mike Piazza who was in the home run derby
one year. I think it was in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
He didn't get a ball out of the infield and
he never did the home run derby again. That was it.
He would go on to be a bigger star with
the Mets, but he never did the derby again because
he was so embarrassed because he couldn't. He just was
(28:47):
not a batting practice home run derby guy.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And Jesus, you had a bigger hit in a celebrity
game at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Am right? Baby damn right. Although I did injure my
knee in one of those media baseball games and I'm
still feeling the effects of that all these years later.
I should retroactively sue the Dodgers. Ryan writes in from Shrewsbury, mass.
He says, been the story, the key story on Friday
was truly fascinating. Well, I'm glad because this guy Mark
and Reno is ripping me for the key story, So
(29:15):
I'm glad that you appreciate it. Ryan, I had a
surprise ending. Also a big fan of bringing back Footy fun,
as I was one of those emailers that asked to
bring it back a couple months ago. He says. My
question this week, I listened to the last hour of
the Overnight Show when I'm heading to work. I actually
saved the FSR number under your name so I can
(29:39):
call it call in. Every time I call, I get
the dial tone. Maybe I'm calling too late, but I
don't know. When is the best time to call a show?
Usually listening from five am to six am. That is
from Ryan. So normally Ryan, the top of the hour
is people hang up because that's our long longest pause
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from like fifty six something to one thirty past the
top of the hour and ever we come on. So
typically the top of the hour is good. Earlier in
the show. It's actually easier to get in early in
the show. We have more people listening to the last hour,
more people contributing the last hour, So earlier the better.
(30:22):
And then it's also dependent on the person answering the
phones actually being paying attention to the phones. That sometimes
doesn't happen. So but typically earlier in the hours when
you can get in.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's Mike, and don't call in the last hour of
the show if you can avoid it, because that is
a replay of Ben's first hour of his overnight show.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yes see, I only do one hour. Actually a lot
of people think I do four original hours of talk radio.
But I'm too Danny, I'm very busy. I can't be
and Ryan, I can't stay up on it. I just
do one hour and then we just replay it. That's it.
Back out back. John and Joanna in so Cal write
ins say, hey, big Ben, my wife Joanna and I
were listening to the show on Monday night and heard
(31:04):
you mention our names and our interest in wee Bowl.
In the beginning of the fourth hour. We know you
don't do shout outs, but this was flipping incredible.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'll pay that actually happened in the first hour.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, exactly, thank you so much. Yeah, that was not
And just for the record, out back John and your
lovely wife Joanna. That was not a shout out. That
was a mention, and a mention is much different than
a shoutout. A mention is allowed in copy. In copy.
That is my tribute also to the great late Ernie Harwell,
who was I didn't grow up in Michigan. I'm not
(31:39):
from Detroit, but Ernie Harwell I heard these amazing stories.
I read a book about Ernie Harwell, who was a
Tiger's broadcaster, actually a Brooklyn Dodgers broadcaster before that. But
Ernie Harwell would just he'd throw names in there of
Tiger fans and somebody'd hit a foul ball, Danny, and
he'd say, what a great catch by Steve from Flint, Michigan,
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you know, or something like that. And so I thought, well,
if it was good enough for Ernie Harwell. I met
Ernie when he was very late in his life, and
I thought, why not. You know, I don't know a
great Ernie harwell, he says, Now want of the mailbag question?
Out back John? When it comes to enchiladas? Do you
prefer red beef or green chickens? From John? Outback John?
(32:25):
So is it's really the green sauce or the red sauce?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Which one do you? Which one do you prefer? I'm
more of a green guy. I go green. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
My better half is like you. She goes after the green.
I go after the red sauce. That's the better sauce.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm a green guy. I'm a green teamer. I'm a
green teamer. What else I meant?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Your teeth are green? Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh well till Thursday? All right? Slim the Trucker rights,
and he says, A big fan of the show keeps
me company on long drives and late nights, So I
appreciate all the laughs and random stories you guys bring.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm heading a Las Vegas soon,
Slim the Trucker says. But I don't gamble at all.
I still want to actually experience the city and come
(33:11):
home with some good stories, not just say I walk
through casinos. He says. I figured you and the malor
Militia would have some great ideas food spots, hidden gems,
strange attractions things most taurusts. Miss Slim says, I'm open
to anything. Well Slim, I would recommend I went last
time I was in Vegas, I went to this. It's
(33:32):
a little off the strip. The Neon Museum is really cool.
It's pretty neat. They got a bunch of old Vegas signs,
hotel signs, take a lot of photos. It's great for
social media engagement if you're into that kind of thing
or just having some unique photos. I would recommend that.
There's also a lot of my favorite restaurants are over
(33:52):
in Henderson, which is where the Raiders facility is, so
you can actually see it. It's the Raider practice Facilities assive.
The thing is a monstrosity. So if you want to
drive by that just to say that you did it,
let me see if I can find I'm gonna name
some restling.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Jim Gray would be so disappointed in you right now.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Oh, I know, that's that's right. Jim Gray's got a
museum with all of his old uh all this old
memorabilia that.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Is yeah, him and Tom Brady, the Hall of Excellence what.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Is that the Is it the Fountain Blue Home?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh? I think sure, yeah, sure is.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Have you been to it?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Any of you? No? Next time I go to Vegas,
so I think I'm gonna check it out.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah. And Jim's got an epic collection of of trying
to find the places in that I'd like to eat at. Yeah,
Jim's amazing collection of stuff. So here, Slim the Trucker
some of the places that I like. Let me see
we can find. My favorite barbecue spot is in Henderson's
(34:51):
called Big Bees Texas Barbecue. I recommend that. My favorite
pizza place in Vegas is all and Henderson's called Twisted
Sour Dough Pizza. They've got this huge mazzarella stick thing
that's really bad for you, but man is it good.
And they have these pizza cones which are really bad
(35:12):
for you, but they're they're pretty good. But Big Bee's
Barbecue I love that and then that pizza place. Those
are my two favorites. There's some good restaurants off the
strip and went in Vegas. Just walk around Fremont Street.
You want to see people doing fentanyl, people doing crack,
women shaking their ass. Some that you wish wouldn't shake
their ass. It's all there right there on Fremont Street.
(35:36):
And I think they raised the price of parking down there,
so any other Vegas I know, Red Rock is where
the money is. That's where the rich people live in Vegas,
off the strip, the Red Rocket.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I would also suggest a tour of Allegiant Stadium.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh yeah, you did that, Danny, right, you did the
back Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It was really cool. You don't even need to be
a football fan or a Raiders fan to do that.
Stadium is next level and they take you behind velvet
rope there, so you get to see all the intricate
workings of that stadium.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
That's cool. Yeah, right on. Uh yeah, there's a lot
to do.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
The Arts District in in Vegas surprisingly kind of cool.
It's relatively new, a lot of thrift shops, restaurants so
you don't have to gamble. There's a few museums over
there too. I don't remember when the name of them,
but it's called the Arts District in Vegas. You can
go to that Pond shop, Slim the Trucker. That's what's
(36:36):
the name of that show that Pond Stars?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Is that still on Pond Stars or did that get stars? Yeah,
their store. There are actual stores right across from City
Hall in in Vegas, so those are something that's weird.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Though you don't see any of the actors when you
going to the store.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I wonder why, uh, Howard from Vegas speaking of that,
Howard from Vegas rites in how about that? Aarondipity? He says,
Ben and Danny. I know you guys are long long
past the school age, but can you explain to me
why that twelve year old kid that went viral this
week decided to drive himself to school because he missed
(37:16):
the bus. That's from Howard.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
You're asking about a twelve year old driver.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, exactly, You're asking the wrong guy. I found reasons
not to go to school, Danny. I hated going to school.
I couldn't stand it. I was the fat kid that
got picked on at school. I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So the idea that you would miss the bus and
I took the bus, believe it or not. You know,
growing up in the Orange Groves of Orange County, I
took the bus to school, which blows me away when
I think about it, but I did. Now my mom
is so protective. But she's like, I get on the
school bus, who cares? And I was like in kindergarten
taking the school bus anyway. Yeah, Like if I missed
(37:56):
the bus, I'd be like, Okay, I'm gonna watch Bob
Barker on the Rice is right, and I'm gonna watch
Bob Ross do some paintings on PBS because there's nothing
else on. And if I'm lucky, I'll remember to watch
Monty Hall on Let's make a Deal. And that was
all we had. But yeah, that's why the twelve year
old kid in North Carolina missed the bus and drove
(38:18):
himself to school. That is dedication that gets you get
some kind of award, is what he should get. Man.
I mean, I got a bunch.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Of other random pick one last good one.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right? I got we got a Japanese one or
a McDonald's one. You you picked, Danny, Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
There were comments about how people loved how you brought
foody fun back. So let's go McDonald's, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
JJ from Seattle says, guys, I know you love your
fast food. Actually I don't really eat much other than
raising canes anyway, JJ says, what do you think of
McDonald's becoming one of the world's biggest sock sellers. And
then he sent me this. Apparently they have a Grinch meal.
Have you had one of these limited time Grinch meal?
Is that even still a thing?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I don't know if it's still a thing. But during December, yeah,
our teenager got one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, it says Hoghy promotion, which bundled themed
socks with select meals, sold out, and McDonald's franchise owner revealed,
according to JJ from Seattle, that they became He said,
the largest sock manufacturer producers about one point eight million
pairs per day in its factory. We sold just under
(39:38):
twenty million Grinch socks in the US alone, And that's
how McDonald's became one of the world's biggest sock sellers.
I'm not surprised, but isn't wasn't McDonald's when they started
the happy Meal, Remember that they became like the biggest
toys seller or the biggest buyer of toys.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
It has to do with their worldwide reach. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, McDonald's sold fifty million pairs globally of socks. Fifty
million pairs of socks. Wow, that is that is next level. Wow,
all right, Hey, what's crazy?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The socks tastes better than their filealo fish.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Hey, Hey, hey, hey, I gotta get that poutine they
have in Canada. That sounds good don poutine. All right,
we'll get out of everyone else. Chris in San Francisco,
Mario in SOCl and there's a couple other ones that
didn't sign their name, so we're not gonna bother with those.
(40:38):
But thank you guys for emailing us the questions and
all that. Have a a great Sunday. I'll be back
tonight regular week, as far as I know. I'll be
on the radio normal time eleven pm in the West
and that would be two am in the East. And
we'll be yapping Monday through Friday normal and see what
(41:01):
pops up this week and spring trainings underway. Dan even
watching some of those games this weekend. Don't tell anybody,
just checking them out the little scouting. Have you gotten
your Jack Sawarski jersey yet? The guy that Dodgers got
from the Pirates is as named short the outfield game.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
No. I don't know about you, but I'm not ready
for baseball yet.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You know what, I'm not ready for the hourly updates
on X from Baseball Scribe saying so and so looks
just like Otani because he hit home run against the
beating I mean, come on, dude.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
All right, well yeah, and then a few shows after
you two pm afternoons on the West Side with Covino
and Rich and that is, of course five to seven
pm on the East side in beautiful Chicago, Illinois, where
they might move the Bears. The Bears to Indiana, just
across the state line. All right, have a great day.
(41:56):
We'll talk to you next time later. Excavator, Hey, dingle berry.
Oh no, no, no, dingle hopper, you gotta hold let
me find Yeah, you got dingle berries on the brain.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I do have dingle berries on the brain.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Gott a 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 sole 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 clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller
and Danny g Radio. As it is Sunday, the final
day of the Olympics. It all ends our time later
this afternoon or something like that. I think, I don't know.
Sometime today is the closing ceremons. I know that everyone's
(00:50):
all gung ho Danny for the hockey game, which is today,
the US trying to win the gold and upset all
of our friends in Canada. So that's the big one, right,
that's the that's the one everyone's been looking forward to.
But so early, man, what's up with that?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Os Sa yous a us asa no Usa.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
My wife's not a huge sports fan, but she is
all about the Olympics, so she's been watching it every
day and I've watched it with her because it's like
sports that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
She's she didn't really want ch an NBA game or
a baseball game, but she'll watch the Olympics, so we'll
check it out.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And I was like, okay, but well, curling is kind
of a sport.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The what what's the one? The uh? Yeah it was?
It was it curling, the one in Canada where they
were blowing. There was the blowing controversy.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that was the one.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, all right, taste like a touchdown in your mouth.
I'll check it out on the rebroadcast or whatever, or
I'll find the stream, uh somewhere online. But we do
have the mail bag today. This is Sunday, a lot
of questions. We thank you guys for sending in your
various questions and all that, and so, ohio al, can
you get me in the mood? Ohio Al?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
These are actual questions by actual listeners from all over
the place. I want to thank everyone who's been sending
mail in. We've got some new names which I like,
some old names which are regulars and whatnot. If you
would like to email the show real fifth hour at
gmail dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
(02:39):
First up is a regular, Reggie from Detroit writes in
he says, hey, guys, mister Beast revealed recently that he
has around one billion unique viewers of his YouTube channel,
and he says that's one eighth of the entire population
(03:00):
on planet Earth. Reggie says, watches mister Beast. And he says,
you and Danny have talked about mister Beast before. However,
you say you have not seen his videos. Neither have
I or anyone I know, Reggie said, And then he says,
is mister Beast a fraud? That's from Reggie. I don't know.
(03:23):
I really have never seen mister Beast. I think I'm
outside the demo, but I don't know what the demo is.
Kids are kids watching mister Beasts, every single kid, or
there are a billion kids watching mister Beast. You know
how I feel, Danny about Internet download numbers and all that. Skeptical.
I'm very skeptical about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, there's a lot of kids in my house here.
I think one eighth of the kid population. Daddy, they
don't watch him. Maybe we're the exception. Because I was
thinking about it. I haven't watched his videos. Teenager we
have here doesn't watch his videos, so yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Remember was it twenty twenty four mister Beast was brought
in by the NBA. It was either for the Celebrity
Game or he was doing something of the actual All
Star Game. And nobody seemed to know who he was
at the and there were twenty thousand people or whatever
it was in the arena, not this All Star Game,
the one couple. I guess it was a year before,
but nobody kind of knew who he was. It was
(04:24):
very odd for somebody who, if you believe the hype,
the publicity, is the one of the most famous people
in the world.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Odd. Probably one of the craziest things, one of the
craziest phenomenons, if you will, in our lifetime is that
old video that still makes the rounds guys sitting in
their basement talking about how they were upset because they
only had like forty views on their first YouTube upload.
The creators of YouTube were sitting there kicking rocks because
(04:52):
they thought they failed. Now we legitimately have millionaires and
almost billionaires off of their platform.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, it's it's odd to me. I like they're famous,
but it's not as famous as before the internet. Isn't
it odd.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That you can get it's not real famous, it's Internet
famous exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like you think the celebrities that were famous when we
back in our day, Danny, when we were growing up,
and how everyone knew who these people were, Like Michael
Jordan didn't have social media, but everyone knew who Michael
Jordan was because of TV commercial people watching TV and
actors that were famous in that in those days. Like
(05:36):
how many actors. I guess Sidney Sweeney, she's an actress, right,
she's I believe? Yes, am I correct?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And I'm sure you do this in your daily prep
for your overnight show. When you go to today's celebrity
birthdays and you type in the date on the first page,
all these Internet stars come up that aren't Hollywood stars.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, yeah, I'll go to the tabloids, and the tabloids
are right, stories about mister Beast for example, because Reggie
brought up mister Beast and some of these other there's
some women's like influencers who will get a lot of publicity.
I have no idea what they I've never I mean,
they're attractive. Congratulations. There's a lot of attractive people in
the world. I don't know. It's just very odd to me.
There was another one in the fact that Reggie brought
(06:17):
up the mister Beast thing. But there was a story
in one of the tabloids this week that mister Beast
revealed that he's borderline blind in one eye, you know,
and that's why he never smiles because he's blind. Like, okay, great,
congratulations anyway, I don't know, so thank you, Reggie. I
have not seen mister Beast. Neither is Danny or the
many kids in his house. Alf from the Gutter writes
(06:40):
in he says, show up hands. How many people in
studio checked out the website that Blair plugged on air?
So Danny, Blair and Maine called up rare and appropriate
doesn't call very often anymore. And I think I said
something like, well, we lost Blair to TikTok, and then
Blair said, no, I'm on some other I'm streaming on
(07:03):
some other website. So he named the website and I'd
never heard of it. Well, no, I heard of that,
but he hadn't. He hadn't, and we'd never heard of it.
And whatever we ignored it, and then of all people,
Kathy Sweet Kathy and Madison says, hey, that's a porn site.
(07:24):
Uh and yeah. But Blair was on apparently an adult website.
That's where he had gone to, and I did not
check it out. Once Kathy told me what it was,
I was like, I'm at work. I'm not going to
get the ding on my my hr. I'm not going
to bother I don't I'm not that interested. Because it
was so was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
He saying that that's what's been entertaining him.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yes, like he said, I asked him like, where have
you been, what have you been doing? He's like, yeah,
I'm in on this. He named the website, and oh boy,
I can only imagine what what activity is going on there.
From Waterville, Maine, Blair in the legend there in Maine.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
He's on Metalcocks dot Org.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was attracted to the giant metalcock. There's a lot
going on. There's a lot going on. Joe from Pasadena,
where the Rose Parade is held every year, writes in.
He says, Ben and Danny, there was a viral video
this week about a poker player that tore his acl.
(08:27):
I was excited about it and then I realized that
the video was from seventeen years ago. How does this?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yes, yes, Ben, This happened to me on Friday too,
because it was trending and I'm like, this is great,
and I sent it to Covino and Rich and right
after I sent it to him, I double checked the
story and it said from two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my god. Yeah. I don't know, Joe. I guess
it's different generations or something like that. You just keep
bringing back I have noticed the NFL aggregators. Have you
noticed d it this week? Not at this Last week
was not a huge week for NFL news. Things have
kind of calmed down before things pick up again in
(09:05):
the NFL, so it was a lot going on. So
they started bringing back stuff from two or three years ago,
and I was noticing stories that were popping up, and
They're like, that's an old I remember talking about that
story in twenty twenty two or twenty three or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They bring me back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But this is like the way I agree with Joe.
Seventeen year old video A seventeen year old video of
a guy tearing his ACL celebrating.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now, to be fair, I never saw that clip. I
just wish that whoever posts it like busting with the boys,
because that's how I got got. I wish they would
start the post by saying, hey, a flashback a Friday,
flashback to two thousand and nine. That would be appropriate,
but they posted as if it just happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
No, I understand they're trying to get engagement, right. You
get paid on down loads, get paid on clicks and
all that stuff, so people are clicking on it. I
guess it doesn't matter. You can just bring stuff back.
You'll live forever on the internet. Danny will just do that, guy,
I bet you bring it back. Every five years, they're
going to bring back that video, so remember listenly or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
I that happens a lot, like a lot of these videos,
(10:16):
like even not necessarily seventeen years ago, but like I said,
three or four years ago, five years ago. There's stories
that are on there that are old and repackaged. Is
new again? Simon from Seattle writes into the mailbag. He says,
Ben and Danny, how is this still a thing? And
then he said there's a a guy got charged fifty
(10:39):
five thousand dollars because of his daughter watching TikTok and
she was not on the TikTok shop here. According to
the story that Simon sent me a link to, this
was in Manchester, England, and the business owner he's facing
(11:01):
this bill because his daughter, Oh, I guess they were
traveling to Morocco, so that his daughter decided to watch
TikTok while they were traveling to Morocco. The guy found
out when he got back to England a phone provider
hit him with a bill of fifty six thousand dollars
forty two thousand pounds two separate bills.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Were get in trouble as a kid. Yes, just did
phone calls?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh my god, I did. Yeah, well they charged by
the minute. Oh my god. Oh it is so bad.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah. Remember nights were free and so our parents would
always scream at us, you cannot call your friend until
it's nighttime.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah it's Chris. I'm so happy they don't do that anymore.
But apparently here they did. His daughter had scrolled around
eight hours on and off, which meant it was costing
five thousand pounds an hour. The cost came because of
a clause in the phone contract which allowed uncap data
roaming outside of Europe. And the I guess, so the
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guy got charged all this. I think they were able
to get it off the the you know, roll it
back or whatever. But my god, that is like nineteen nineties,
two thousands, right, Danny, that's like.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That's definitely some nineteen nineties shit right there.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, that's wild man. Yeah. I remember the cell phone
we would have. The first cell phones. My mom was
very expensive. She's like, only in an emergency, do not
use this, and let's this an emergency, you know, because
it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah. Yeah, and you had a tripod to set the
antenna up for the phone.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was a nightmare. Barry, still in South Carolina but
still trying to get out on the mailbag, says yo
Yo Ma, Benny. I know you are a Vegas guy,
and I just got back from Vegas last Friday. They
have these robo taxis that are free for now and
they test as they test this concept out. Have you
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ever taken one of these? If not, would you? That's
from Barry in South Carolina. I have not taken one
of those. I did consider in San Francisco taking a Waimo,
which is I guess the same thing. You got to
pay for it and they're all over San Francisco. But
we ended up taking the cable car instead of the Waimo,
(13:22):
which was more like San Francisco, and almost died on it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But whatever. Ooh, and when I walked down to the
Tenderloine for a minute because I was looking for a
shop that I found.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right there, Danny, if you say walking to the Tenderloin,
you know things are not going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, that's dude. Covino and Rich for the staff thing
that was going on. They said, we don't smoke marijuana,
but they like those drinks that have the THHC in them.
It's like a carbonated orange soda, but it has a
little kick to it. So I found a shop, a
dispensary in San Francisco that sold them. I had to
walk for ten minutes though, to get these drinks. So
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I'm walking and there were zombies and wayms. That was
the two things in that area of San Francisco. I'd
see a robot go by, then I'd see a freaked
out drugy go by.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah. I had a similar experience. It was not in
the Tenderloin, but it was Union Square. I think it's
called right, isn't that the big Yeah, yeah, Union Square.
So we walked towards Union Square and that area was fine.
It was I think that's what it was called. But
it was, you know, okay, there were cops everywhere, fine whatever,
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A nice little park in the middle of downtown San Francisco.
Good neighborhood, it felt like. And then we walked over
a couple other blocks and oh my god, it was
it was like Sodom and Gomorrah is what it was.
And it was funny. I think I told you about
it last week. We were on the on the podcast
like got not Gottlieb, but what's his name McAfee. Pat
(14:56):
McAfee was bragging about how it wasn't that bad and
every it was fine, you know, and he'd heard a
lot from people saying, how how bout it was San
Francisco or it was fine. I was like, yeah, right
around the convention Center it was okay. But if you
go a couple of blocks any direction.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, mcafeine. Had took the route I took away from
Union Square, he would have been singing a different tune.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It was almost a what's the word apocalyptical.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Looking, Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Somebody who's been five dollars for that big words?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You were too early for a big word. As far
as the like, I said, Barry, I have not been
in one of those self driving autonomous cars. Have you
been in one of those? Dany? Have you been in
a Weaimo?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yes? One time in Arizona we went there for a
Graduate Hotels live broadcast and the only ride that was
available was a Weimo and CNR and me jumped into
the Weimo and you live.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
To tell about it. You live. You've not chosen to
do it again. They have him in La too. There's
some in La, not as many. They like to burn them.
The ones in La. Those really burned really well, the
way moos they can light those a wile burn for hours.
You let a weymou on fire. We learned that. Scott
from Florida writes in He says, Amen and Danny, a
(16:15):
lot of talk about a baseball lockout. Have you ever
been locked out of your home? And how did you
get back in after Hurricane Helene flooded my house in
twenty twenty four or Helen. I had to break a window,
Scott says, to get back inside because my electronic door
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locks fried from salt water. I should have just kept
the house locked up and walked away from it forever,
says Scott from Florida. As an adult, I have not.
I've been locked out of my car, which sucks, but
we have a back so I have to get you know,
I have to get the wife to come wherever I
(17:00):
am and like, I'm locked out of the car, that's
that's but I don't. As a kid, I did have
that happen. We ended up putting one of those you
know the boxes, the plastic boxes where you put the
extra key, I hide it somewhere outside. We did that
because I had locked myself out, But not as an adult.
Have you ever Danny locked yourself out of the Danny
(17:22):
g Casa?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, it's happened one time. I guess the teenager watched
something scary on TV. So she went downstairs and she
locked the top lock, which is an inside lock only.
We never used that lock here. We always use the
two locks down by the door handle. I have no
idea why to even have that top slide lock on
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our door. But you know, obviously, from the outside, even
if you have a set of keys, you can't control that.
She got scared that she went downstairs and locked that.
I was at work still. I come back from my shift.
I can't get in. Everybody's asleep. I'm blowing up Brenda's phone.
(18:05):
She's not answering. I didn't know what to do, so
I was like a nomad. I was driving around in circles.
I went to an eyehop, I sat with my laptop
and did some work all night. Ben. It took until
about two in the morning that my wife woke up
realizing I wasn't around, and freaked out and called my
phone and I'm like, yeah, you think you're freaked out.
(18:27):
I've been driving around in circles for five hours.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I think I remember you telling that story on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. That was four or five
years ago when I first started doing the pod with you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, that's good. I
remember when the kid was little, he and one of
his cousins got locked. We had this weird at the
old house we had. There were these There was a bathroom,
and there were doors on both sides of the bathroom, right,
so one to the hall, one to one of the bedrooms,
and these two knuckleheads locked themselves. Are they locked the no,
(19:02):
they didn't lock themselves in. They locked one of the doors,
and then on the way out they locked the other one,
so both and you can only open them from the
inside or whatever. It was weird the way it was
set up slept. I had to I had to go
on YouTube and try to figure out how to break
break in the what tools you you know, how like
those indoor locks that aren't the outdoors that there's certain.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Things, Yeah exactly. I think that's how most of these
accidents happen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah. Yeah, So I had to go on YouTube and
then I had to get I forget exactly what it was,
but there's there's a couple of things you can get
and unlock the indoor things, but these it was like,
what are you doing? You don't lock both doors? Knuckleheads?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Like you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I was like, you know, kids, they like that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Uh man?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Uh? Who do we have a kwang from Ho Chi
Minh Vietnam rights and says guaranteed human, just like the
iHeart imaging. If you noticed that Danny guaranteed human. Oh yeah,
all right, We'll see how long they use that. Uh.
He says. The domain name Benmallard dot com is for sale.
On go Dead for the buy now price of thirteen
(20:04):
nine hundred and eleven dollars. He said, since Mickey Rourke
claimed that his GoFundMe page was a scam, do you
think that he would donate the money to buy your
former website on your behalf? I would be all about
that quite I actually did. There was a technical snafoo
a number of years ago when I stopped actively doing
(20:24):
Benmallar dot com, which was my gossip website. And I
stopped it because of the radio show and many years ago,
and you have to keep renewing it. And my old
one of my older my older brother. I'm in the middle,
so my older brother had been kind of taking care
of that for me, and he got busy at his
work and he forgot to send the thing in and
(20:46):
within like a day of forgetting to buy the you know,
keep the domain name, it had been purchased, and it's
actually gone down. That thing, I'm pretty sure was over
twenty thousand dollars to buy my name dot com because
I had so much.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I mean, that's your salary for the whole year.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're not kidding. I had so much traffic at that time.
We did. Really you know I was obviously ESPN or
anything like that, but we had a ton of traffic
on that website when I was actively updating it, and
I did a couple of years ago think about maybe
futzing around and doing something online again, kind of multitask
and uh and before the TV show started again and
(21:30):
we did that, and so I did look into it,
and I was like, oh, there's no way. I mean,
I'm not that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I think the alternate route is to go Bill Miller
dot com.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Clearly, if anybody wants to buy me Bill Miller dot com, please,
so Quang, thank you for looking that up. I appreciate it,
and he says alongside, see you later. Excavator baby CooA
canw also read Dingle Hoppers and Thingama Bob's both available
now on Amazon. So there's a link here, Danny if
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you want to buy the kid the Dingle Hoppers and
thingam a Bob's. I like that, there's a book. It's
always a Disney vice.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, And I like the excavator line because if it's
a famous Blippy song, if you have a toddler or
little kids, you know this. See Slippy. He has this
hit song called excavator, and he says, I'm an escavator
and parents walk around singing that song to themselves all day.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I like this book though, I like the name. I
love those old sounding words. As we've talked about, Danny,
thing of a jig what you might call it, the
all that stuff, dingle hoppers. I'm gonna have to add
that to my lexicon. I do use thingham a bob's.
I'm more of a thing of a jig guy than
a thing of a bob guy. I can work in
(22:51):
thingham a bob. I do like dingle hoppers. I'll have
to add that to my lexicon. Thank you very much.
Kwang from ho Chi, Men, Vietnam. Mike from Wisconsin writes
in he says, Ben and Danny, I've heard you Ben
talk about how you like you make the call commercials
from back in the day. I also like those commercials,
So you make the call. And then he sent a
(23:14):
story about a guy in Italy who has been making
headlines here. Apparently there's a dog in Italy whose owner
the police have accused of training it to illegally dump
trash outside. So this guy apparently has got the dog trained.
He gives the dog a bag of trash, and the
(23:37):
dog walks to the end of the street and drops
the trash off and then walks back. It's on tape
in Italy, and so Mike wants to know is this
really creative or is this really lazy? And that's from
Mike in Wisconsin. So how about all of the above.
It is creative, it's dedicated. I would say, Danny that
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Caesar a long level dog training to get your dog.
I can't get Moxie to do anything, as we talked
about on yesterday's podcast, Moxie, we can't get her to
eat a lot of food and then cause mountains of
pooh all over the house. But other than that, like,
are you that lazy? Don't you have trash? If you're
living in an apartment or a home, there's trash, right,
(24:20):
you have to have a place to throw your stuff with,
Like what is the point of littering like that? I
don't understand. Are you charged for the trash or something
like that. That's the part that doesn't make any sense
to me. I understand being lazy, and like having your
dog do it, why not if you're in an apartment building.
I used to live in Park Lebray in La we
had a trash chute. Was great, just squalk down the
(24:41):
hall throwing the trash ute. Teach your dog to go
to the trash chute and throw it down the hall.
There's got to be more to this story, right Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Because we have ye
in our building here there is a couple of covered dumpsters.
They put like this nice red brick thing around it,
so you can't tell there's trash in there. We can't
even get our kids to walk the trash bags over there.
So if I had a dog that would do that
for me. Oh that's money right there.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh yeah, that guy instead of having his dog do that,
he should start a service to train other people's dogs
how to take the trash out that way.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, and then I would teach my dog how to
piss on the red brick. It just right if you're dumping.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
The trash right there?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Two for one special, good doggy, lift your leg now,
all right? Come on?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, a fird dog in Fullerton, right, Sin says happy
two twenty two day Ben and Danny g He says, Ben,
do you get a little annoyed or jealous by callers?
Like Anthony in Louisiana, who call the show just to
flirt with Lorena. I'm not suggesting you swing that way,
but I'm sure you and Danny g would both be
flattered if more callers flirted with you. That's from further
(25:56):
well back in the day, this is before Danny worked
at five Sports Radio. We had one of the callers' names,
I'm Sandy gout He. I mean, there's a guy from Nashville,
Tennessee called Gay Brad. That was his name, is gay
guy from Nashville, and he would he would call, but
I don't think he flirted. I don't think he flirted
with me. Yeah, this guy, Anthony Danny from Louisiana, he
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calls up a couple of times a week and he
he says, hot man, and then Hello, Lorena, how you
doing Lorena? And then just he's just talking to Loraina
and it's a flirt with her, and it's very awkward.
But he's not alone. There's there's a bunch of dudes
that do it. I've become numb to it at this point.
(26:39):
For a dog, it's just kind of a it's just,
you know, that's the way it is. You're just gonna
deal with it. But man, it is a little awkward
that you would what's going on in your world where
you know, I understand guys get a loan, you know,
women in the picture. I understand that I've been in
that spot before. But you know, I'm trying to be
(27:00):
polite to I'm trying to be politged.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I got too skinny. You got too skinny from all
the fasting, Ben, because you almost had boobs.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I was very close to having massive, massive breasts. Yes,
all right, thank you for you can flirt with me
for Dick.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Remember that drop and I saw her boobs. Oh yeah,
I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, that was a classic. Brian from Minnesota Rights in
Big Benny says, we can all agree that the players
just simply don't care about the All Star Game and
the Pro Bowl anymore. Two things have changed during the
time it was watchable to what it is now social
media and sensitive athlete slash owners. Before social media, players
(27:42):
and owners could tune out the booze and negativity because
the means of expressing displeasure were limited. Now we have
players and owners with burner accounts because they're on the
defensive for their reputations. We have an owner in the
New York Jets. Suck Suck. Suck put the killed on
the NFLPA reviews of team facilities and the experience and
(28:04):
all that. Brian says. They say they want to go
global band, but they don't want to hear what they
have to say. Why would any player entertain fickle fans
that one moment will wear their jerseys and burn it
the next Well, that's part of the it's part of
the deal. That's the first thing. And he had the burner.
(28:26):
The players have always been sensitive. I remember when I
covered the Dodgers in the nineties, they had a guy
named Mike Piazza who was in the home run derby
one year. I think it was in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
He didn't get a ball out of the infield and
he never did the home run derby again. That was it.
He would go on to be a bigger star with
the Mets, but he never did the derby again because
he was so embarrassed because he couldn't. He just was
(28:47):
not a batting practice home run derby guy.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And Jesus, you had a bigger hit in a celebrity
game at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Am right? Baby damn right. Although I did injure my
knee in one of those media baseball games and I'm
still feeling the effects of that all these years later.
I should retroactively sue the Dodgers. Ryan writes in from Shrewsbury, mass.
He says, been the story, the key story on Friday
was truly fascinating. Well, I'm glad because this guy Mark
and Reno is ripping me for the key story, So
(29:15):
I'm glad that you appreciate it. Ryan, I had a
surprise ending. Also a big fan of bringing back Footy fun,
as I was one of those emailers that asked to
bring it back a couple months ago. He says. My
question this week, I listened to the last hour of
the Overnight Show when I'm heading to work. I actually
saved the FSR number under your name so I can
(29:39):
call it call in. Every time I call, I get
the dial tone. Maybe I'm calling too late, but I
don't know. When is the best time to call a show?
Usually listening from five am to six am. That is
from Ryan. So normally Ryan, the top of the hour
is people hang up because that's our long longest pause
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from like fifty six something to one thirty past the
top of the hour and ever we come on. So
typically the top of the hour is good. Earlier in
the show. It's actually easier to get in early in
the show. We have more people listening to the last hour,
more people contributing the last hour, So earlier the better.
(30:22):
And then it's also dependent on the person answering the
phones actually being paying attention to the phones. That sometimes
doesn't happen. So but typically earlier in the hours when
you can get in.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's Mike, and don't call in the last hour of
the show if you can avoid it, because that is
a replay of Ben's first hour of his overnight show.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yes see, I only do one hour. Actually a lot
of people think I do four original hours of talk radio.
But I'm too Danny, I'm very busy. I can't be
and Ryan, I can't stay up on it. I just
do one hour and then we just replay it. That's it.
Back out back. John and Joanna in so Cal write
ins say, hey, big Ben, my wife Joanna and I
were listening to the show on Monday night and heard
(31:04):
you mention our names and our interest in wee Bowl.
In the beginning of the fourth hour. We know you
don't do shout outs, but this was flipping incredible.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'll pay that actually happened in the first hour.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, exactly, thank you so much. Yeah, that was not
And just for the record, out back John and your
lovely wife Joanna. That was not a shout out. That
was a mention, and a mention is much different than
a shoutout. A mention is allowed in copy. In copy.
That is my tribute also to the great late Ernie Harwell,
who was I didn't grow up in Michigan. I'm not
(31:39):
from Detroit, but Ernie Harwell I heard these amazing stories.
I read a book about Ernie Harwell, who was a
Tiger's broadcaster, actually a Brooklyn Dodgers broadcaster before that. But
Ernie Harwell would just he'd throw names in there of
Tiger fans and somebody'd hit a foul ball, Danny, and
he'd say, what a great catch by Steve from Flint, Michigan,
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you know, or something like that. And so I thought, well,
if it was good enough for Ernie Harwell. I met
Ernie when he was very late in his life, and
I thought, why not. You know, I don't know a
great Ernie harwell, he says, Now want of the mailbag question?
Out back John? When it comes to enchiladas? Do you
prefer red beef or green chickens? From John? Outback John?
(32:25):
So is it's really the green sauce or the red sauce?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Which one do you? Which one do you prefer? I'm
more of a green guy. I go green. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
My better half is like you. She goes after the green.
I go after the red sauce. That's the better sauce.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm a green guy. I'm a green teamer. I'm a
green teamer. What else I meant?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Your teeth are green? Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh well till Thursday? All right? Slim the Trucker rights,
and he says, A big fan of the show keeps
me company on long drives and late nights, So I
appreciate all the laughs and random stories you guys bring.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm heading a Las Vegas soon,
Slim the Trucker says. But I don't gamble at all.
I still want to actually experience the city and come
(33:11):
home with some good stories, not just say I walk
through casinos. He says. I figured you and the malor
Militia would have some great ideas food spots, hidden gems,
strange attractions things most taurusts. Miss Slim says, I'm open
to anything. Well Slim, I would recommend I went last
time I was in Vegas, I went to this. It's
(33:32):
a little off the strip. The Neon Museum is really cool.
It's pretty neat. They got a bunch of old Vegas signs,
hotel signs, take a lot of photos. It's great for
social media engagement if you're into that kind of thing
or just having some unique photos. I would recommend that.
There's also a lot of my favorite restaurants are over
(33:52):
in Henderson, which is where the Raiders facility is, so
you can actually see it. It's the Raider practice Facilities assive.
The thing is a monstrosity. So if you want to
drive by that just to say that you did it,
let me see if I can find I'm gonna name
some restling.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Jim Gray would be so disappointed in you right now.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Oh, I know, that's that's right. Jim Gray's got a
museum with all of his old uh all this old
memorabilia that.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Is yeah, him and Tom Brady, the Hall of Excellence what.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Is that the Is it the Fountain Blue Home?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh? I think sure, yeah, sure is.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Have you been to it?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Any of you? No? Next time I go to Vegas,
so I think I'm gonna check it out.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah. And Jim's got an epic collection of of trying
to find the places in that I'd like to eat at. Yeah,
Jim's amazing collection of stuff. So here, Slim the Trucker
some of the places that I like. Let me see
we can find. My favorite barbecue spot is in Henderson's
(34:51):
called Big Bees Texas Barbecue. I recommend that. My favorite
pizza place in Vegas is all and Henderson's called Twisted
Sour Dough Pizza. They've got this huge mazzarella stick thing
that's really bad for you, but man is it good.
And they have these pizza cones which are really bad
(35:12):
for you, but they're they're pretty good. But Big Bee's
Barbecue I love that and then that pizza place. Those
are my two favorites. There's some good restaurants off the
strip and went in Vegas. Just walk around Fremont Street.
You want to see people doing fentanyl, people doing crack,
women shaking their ass. Some that you wish wouldn't shake
their ass. It's all there right there on Fremont Street.
(35:36):
And I think they raised the price of parking down there,
so any other Vegas I know, Red Rock is where
the money is. That's where the rich people live in Vegas,
off the strip, the Red Rocket.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I would also suggest a tour of Allegiant Stadium.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh yeah, you did that, Danny, right, you did the
back Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It was really cool. You don't even need to be
a football fan or a Raiders fan to do that.
Stadium is next level and they take you behind velvet
rope there, so you get to see all the intricate
workings of that stadium.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
That's cool. Yeah, right on. Uh yeah, there's a lot
to do.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
The Arts District in in Vegas surprisingly kind of cool.
It's relatively new, a lot of thrift shops, restaurants so
you don't have to gamble. There's a few museums over
there too. I don't remember when the name of them,
but it's called the Arts District in Vegas. You can
go to that Pond shop, Slim the Trucker. That's what's
(36:36):
the name of that show that Pond Stars?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Is that still on Pond Stars or did that get stars? Yeah,
their store. There are actual stores right across from City
Hall in in Vegas, so those are something that's weird.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Though you don't see any of the actors when you
going to the store.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I wonder why, uh, Howard from Vegas speaking of that,
Howard from Vegas rites in how about that? Aarondipity? He says,
Ben and Danny. I know you guys are long long
past the school age, but can you explain to me
why that twelve year old kid that went viral this
week decided to drive himself to school because he missed
(37:16):
the bus. That's from Howard.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
You're asking about a twelve year old driver.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, exactly, You're asking the wrong guy. I found reasons
not to go to school, Danny. I hated going to school.
I couldn't stand it. I was the fat kid that
got picked on at school. I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So the idea that you would miss the bus and
I took the bus, believe it or not. You know,
growing up in the Orange Groves of Orange County, I
took the bus to school, which blows me away when
I think about it, but I did. Now my mom
is so protective. But she's like, I get on the
school bus, who cares? And I was like in kindergarten
taking the school bus anyway. Yeah, Like if I missed
(37:56):
the bus, I'd be like, Okay, I'm gonna watch Bob
Barker on the Rice is right, and I'm gonna watch
Bob Ross do some paintings on PBS because there's nothing
else on. And if I'm lucky, I'll remember to watch
Monty Hall on Let's make a Deal. And that was
all we had. But yeah, that's why the twelve year
old kid in North Carolina missed the bus and drove
(38:18):
himself to school. That is dedication that gets you get
some kind of award, is what he should get. Man.
I mean, I got a bunch.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Of other random pick one last good one.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right? I got we got a Japanese one or
a McDonald's one. You you picked, Danny, Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
There were comments about how people loved how you brought
foody fun back. So let's go McDonald's, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
JJ from Seattle says, guys, I know you love your
fast food. Actually I don't really eat much other than
raising canes anyway, JJ says, what do you think of
McDonald's becoming one of the world's biggest sock sellers. And
then he sent me this. Apparently they have a Grinch meal.
Have you had one of these limited time Grinch meal?
Is that even still a thing?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I don't know if it's still a thing. But during December, yeah,
our teenager got one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, it says Hoghy promotion, which bundled themed
socks with select meals, sold out, and McDonald's franchise owner revealed,
according to JJ from Seattle, that they became He said,
the largest sock manufacturer producers about one point eight million
pairs per day in its factory. We sold just under
(39:38):
twenty million Grinch socks in the US alone, And that's
how McDonald's became one of the world's biggest sock sellers.
I'm not surprised, but isn't wasn't McDonald's when they started
the happy Meal, Remember that they became like the biggest
toys seller or the biggest buyer of toys.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
It has to do with their worldwide reach. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, McDonald's sold fifty million pairs globally of socks. Fifty
million pairs of socks. Wow, that is that is next level. Wow,
all right, Hey, what's crazy?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The socks tastes better than their filealo fish.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Hey, Hey, hey, hey, I gotta get that poutine they
have in Canada. That sounds good don poutine. All right,
we'll get out of everyone else. Chris in San Francisco,
Mario in SOCl and there's a couple other ones that
didn't sign their name, so we're not gonna bother with those.
(40:38):
But thank you guys for emailing us the questions and
all that. Have a a great Sunday. I'll be back
tonight regular week, as far as I know. I'll be
on the radio normal time eleven pm in the West
and that would be two am in the East. And
we'll be yapping Monday through Friday normal and see what
(41:01):
pops up this week and spring trainings underway. Dan even
watching some of those games this weekend. Don't tell anybody,
just checking them out the little scouting. Have you gotten
your Jack Sawarski jersey yet? The guy that Dodgers got
from the Pirates is as named short the outfield game.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
No. I don't know about you, but I'm not ready
for baseball yet.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You know what, I'm not ready for the hourly updates
on X from Baseball Scribe saying so and so looks
just like Otani because he hit home run against the
beating I mean, come on, dude.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
All right, well yeah, and then a few shows after
you two pm afternoons on the West Side with Covino
and Rich and that is, of course five to seven
pm on the East side in beautiful Chicago, Illinois, where
they might move the Bears. The Bears to Indiana, just
across the state line. All right, have a great day.
(41:56):
We'll talk to you next time later. Excavator, Hey, dingle berry.
Oh no, no, no, dingle hopper, you gotta hold let
me find Yeah, you got dingle berries on the brain.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I do have dingle berries on the brain.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Gott a murder, I gotta go.
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