December 22, 2024 • 32 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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter 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.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air ywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and my man Danny g Radio on this NFL Sunday.
Still sometime to watch Benny Versus the Penny if you're
one of our early bird listeners here on Sunday or otherwise,
you can just watch the games and maybe watch the show,
(00:51):
after which it'll be up on Peacock until you know
next week. I guess I think they leave the this
weekend show up, But anyway, either way, we are hanging
out with you, getting ready to watch some football today.
Although Danny, I know you're you're not at home, so
I don't know how much football you're gonna be watching today.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah. Usually at these hotels we don't turn the TV
on too much, but I'll still watch a lot of
NFL on my phone today. There you go.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, yesterday was national we were supposed to appreciate short women.
Today is just national short persons. So it's a big
weekend if you're short. Just hey shoddy, hey shoddy, vige wee. Again,
it's mathematics day today, so let's ignore that the birth
anniversary of India's famed mathematician. I'm not going to try
to pronounce this dude's name, but India, God bless him.
(01:42):
I'm sure he was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What are the drops that I use on the regular
on our show.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up that math ain't mathing like that. You know,
Hey man, whenever I don't know the answer, I just
say malord math because malor math is never wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Da. Yeah, Radio didn't get into this to do math.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There's no math. Although when I was a kid, you're
around my age, daty, Remember they said you're not going
to have a calculator with you when you're out in
the real world. All they're carrying calculators. They lied to us, Danny.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, not everybody can afford those Cassio calculator watches.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Everyone who has a smartphone has a calculator, so eighty
percent of the world's got calculators on them at any time.
So those teachers that wouldn't let us use calculators are
full of shit.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And when I think of the advanced math classes I
took in high school, what a free waiste.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, this is shame. All right, let's get to it.
This is the mail bag, and that means, ohio au,
it's this bag. All right, thank you, thank you. These
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are actual letters by actual listeners. You guys have been
great a week after week, year after year. Every once
in a while, will see what if nobody sends a question,
I'll be screwed. What are we gonna do? But I've
never had to worry about that. So Real fifth Hour
at Gmail, Well I have worried about it, but it's
one of those things you worry about where you don't
need to worry about. It's a waste of my time.
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour
(03:21):
at gmail dot com. If you want to send a question,
and if you want to send some in I'm not
sure we are going to do the pod next weekend,
but I'm not sure exactly when or probably more of
an evergreen. I'm not sure when we're going to do it,
if you know what I mean. So if you want
to get a question in, you can send it today.
And because I'm not sure exactly when that pod will
(03:43):
be done, so if you want, if we have enough
evergreen questions, I will be more than happy to do
a mail bag. Otherwise we'll do something else. So it's
really up to you, guys, which means.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
All the questions have to be about trees.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, yes, or your favorite kind of chemical spray in
the bathroom. You can talk about that, would you like?
You know, isn't there evergreen spread anyway? Real fifth Hour
no letters or no letters, no numbers, all letters, Real,
spell it out, Real fifth Hour. If you don't know
how to spell, that's probably a problem that you should
deal with on your own. Real fifth Hour at gmail
(04:20):
dot com and send your question in and we'll have
we'll have some fun. So first one is from Alf
from the Storage Unit says happy holidays, gentlemen. What's the
coolest swag or perk that you have received from being
in the radio business? Yeah, so I have, ALF. I
used to do commercials. I'll go first, Danny, I have
(04:41):
a Sleep Number bed, a very nice Sleep Number bed
that was a gift from Sleep Number for me doing
commercials back in the day. That's probably ten years ago,
and I still have the bed. It works great. I
love it. It's amazing and every night I go to bed
on my Sleep Number bed and it's wonderful. You can
adjust it depending on your back and whatnot. My wife
(05:03):
loves it. She I think will ever have another bed.
I mean, if we get another bed, we'll get another
Sleep Numbers. I'm trying to say. It's very expensive though.
Those things are not cheap, and I'd love for them.
Danny to return as a sponsor, if you know what
I mean, Danny wink wink. No, No, that would be cool.
Other than that, I mean, I mean a couple of
trips here, I don't, I don't try. You know, Danny's fortunate.
(05:24):
He gets to go a lot of trips. I very
rarely get trips. I've I've had a lot of fun
with the TV show. They send me to Boston every
year to hang out and record stuff for the TV show,
So that's really been the main main part. When I
first got into radio, I got to go to the
World Series on the you know, back in the nineties
that was awesome and stuff. But the trips have been fun.
(05:44):
But the bed's probably the one that I've used more
than anything. What about you, Danny, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, the trips are cool for Covino and Rich, although
I will say the two of them are the lucky
ones on those trips because they just got to worry
about cracking their microphones or their headsets and talking, whereas
I'm still ring my laptop around producing and editing this
fine podcast, plus doing the same for them and doing
all the behind the scenes work for their broadcasting. So
(06:10):
even though it's fun to travel, it's a shit ton
of work for me. So when they go out and
drink with the listeners afterwards, I go to my hotel
room and collapse. But it's still nice to get to
go visit other cities. Back when I was a kid
in radio ben I got Lasik eye surgery and all
I had to do was voice the commercials.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh I remember that there was a pew time. Everyone
in radio is doing those Lasik eye commerce My name
is so and so, and I had Mike and see
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now, you know, it was awesome if I had to
do an updated commercial for them. Now I could talk
about how I'm one of the national broadcasters who's blind. No,
my eyesight is still cool, although I do have some
floaters from time to time, which worries me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, wasn't that just a sign of getting older? You know?
I don't z.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He knows, I don't know what. Well, we'd have to
do a deep dive on what causes the floaters. So
that's a pretty cool thing that helped you your visions.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh it did, Yeah, and did not have to worry
about contacts or wearing glasses this whole time has been awesome.
And then and then the last thing, Benny, right here
where I'm at in San Diego and in some other
cities where there are theme parks, now you can't get
enough tickets for your whole party. But I've known the
folks at SeaWorld, and I've known the folks at the
(07:33):
Zoo since I programmed FM radio stations back in the day.
So I'm friendly with the promotions directors at all of
the parks. From time to time can get some preebies
from the theme parks, which has been awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, I used to get free, you know,
free stuff back in the day. I really my wife
always gives me a hard time, so you really should
try to get more first, I know, but I hate
asking people for stuff, so I'm always like, that's always
the hard part.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, And it's a it's like a long drawn out
process too, a lot of emails back and forth, a
lot of printing things out two forms of ID and
email a picture of this, and your credentials are needed
for that. And so if you have the time and
patience to do it, it's nice. But there are a lot
(08:20):
of radio people and TV people that are just too
lazy to deal with any of it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, for sure, and like some I think as one
of the guys I was talking to at the party said,
they got they knew somebody at Disney. If you email
somebody at Disney, if you work for our company, they'll
let you, like once a year go to Disney for free.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's a huge It used to be the case, but
Disney put the kebash on that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I was told it was back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, okay, good to know, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Who to hell the email.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, Well, find that you're talking to the guy who
sniffed out the Mike Tyson team and Donald Trump's cell phone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I said, you get the president of the vone, you
deserve a raise.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, Danny, if I will deputize you, if you can
find the right person, let me know. My wife will
be forever grateful. Will make you what any kind of
cookie you want, although I know you're not eating cookies now.
Barry from South Carolina, who might be moving for now
South Carolina says Yo Yo Ma. Benny and Danny g
Inquiring minds want to know, on average, how many questions
do you guys get every week for the mailbag? A
(09:28):
good question, anywhere from eight to I think one. You know,
if something crazy happens like when Ady got let Go,
we got a lot. I am a lot more than that.
It's usually eight to fifteen or so a week. Sometimes
we've gotten twenty five, which is a ton I think
for a podcast whatever, But we usually only have time
(09:50):
for anywhere on ten. Right, Yeah, you get to about
ten a week. A lot of the months Berry I
get I can't even use They're just how do I
describe this? There's people that somehow managed to use email
but don't know how to spell certain things, and they
well they'll just send sporty questions in which we don't
(10:11):
really use on this podcast. We try to avoid that.
But usually anywhere from eight to fifteen to twenty and
you know, some weeks if something when Adie got like,
like I said, that was a lot of a lot
of f you Ben or your show blows or whatever.
You know, it's like that kind of thing, which people,
I think, believe that I was responsible for that, Danny,
that I had some kind of power to do that,
(10:32):
which was not true. I don't have any power, trust me,
no power. I certainly would have done that anyway. So
that's the answer. Barry. Next one Harry in Europe, writing
in Okay. He says he's in Poland. He's just visiting. Well,
I don't know if you want to go to Poland
(10:52):
right now, but I don't know why you're there anyway,
he says, why would anyone buy this? He sent me
a story he found on the Internet of a Michelin
starred restaurant. According to the headline here in Washington, d
C has unveiled luxury water menu. It features a ninety
five dollars bottle of a melted Canadian iceberg.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So they say that actually sounds good. I would drink
more water.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, I know you're guessing here. This is like
the ultimate bullshit. It's like those people that said, we
remember we had the story a couple of weeks back
about the people sending air from I forget somewhere in
Italy or whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's like, it's just bullshit.
It's one of those things. My theory has always been,
it's like those we do foody fun on Friday usually,
(11:42):
and those gimmick items they can overcharge for, right, And
you know, I mean like the nick Ribs sauce, the
gallon of McRib sauce, which probably cost McDonald's about two dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Dude, Maybe we could get the youth of America to
start sniffing smog. They like to vape you and I been.
We could bottle smog from Sherman Oaks, California and sell it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
If you're down. I'm not kidding. If we had a
cool logo made on little bottles. Yeah, and just as
a gimmick, and we charge like fifteen bucks or twenty
bucks a bottle of La smoggy air.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Word of mouth. Can you imagine like a kid seeing
another kid? What is that is that some sort of vape. Nah, man,
this is a smogger.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, this is La Small, not just any smog.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, oh dude, that would be big. And then we
could do different logos for the different city smog.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh yeah, we'd have like like you know, East La Small.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, and bro, after school, we're going to hit the Chicago.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh, big time, big time. That's a great idea, It's all.
But I answer your question, Harry, it's all like it's
a scam because they scam's the right word. But water's water, right,
it's all. I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Please?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And you know ninety five dollars dude?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Can you imagine the Lax smager. Oh that'd be a
top starer anybody. If you ever fly into our neck
of the woods and you fly into Lax, just take
a glimpse.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He blew me off at a hotel near Lax.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The dirty sky around you, right around the airport there.
It's so filthy, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Next one's from Reggie from Detroit, who has been a
semi regular email over these. I'm hurt from Reggie in
a while anyway. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, defend
your city and then he sent me a link here
to the LA Foody event they had celebrating the top
restaurants in Los Angeles where dozens of people were sickened
(13:46):
from eating food. I guess they ate raw oysters at
this top restaurant event and had to go get medical
help and stuff. So Reggie wants us to defend that. Well,
anyone's eating the raw oysters. In my opinion is it's
like essentially playing Russian Roulette with your stomach, asking for
something really bad to happen. You're asking for bad results there.
(14:10):
I did see this actually the other day. I thought
it was like a nineteen eighties comedy Danny, doesn't that
seem like? Or a Saturday Night Live skip back when
Saturday Night was good where they have the top restaurants
and all these foodies are there and they end up
getting sick from the food at the top rest I
mean it sounds like a comedy move.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you know, outside of the event were a whole
bunch of street vendors with the bacon dogs and nobody
got sick from those. Surprisingly.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, that's the funny. The amount of bacon dog salespeople
in LA and they don't follow the safety code. No,
I consume those and enjoy them.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And the only way to eat oysters is baked. If
you're gonna have them, the baked oysters are goodw oysters
your nuts if you eat those.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Not into the seafood thing unless I eat seafood once
a year. Beer battered fish sticks. That's it. Tastes like chicken.
Nelson from the Bay Area Rights and he says, hey,
Ben and Danny, this is probably a minister golf for you, Ben,
But how is this possible? And he sent the story
this week from the forty nine ers quarterback Brock Purty,
who gave his offensive linemen ten brand new toyotas that
(15:29):
cost nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, well he didn't pay all of that. He got
a huge discount.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, not only the You gotta understand that people are
so dumb. This is the season of quarterbacks giving gifts
to their offensive linemen. It is also the season of
those gifts. It's called product placement. I believe, not in
every case, not in every case, but a lot of them.
(16:01):
Our product placement. Okay, that's that's what this is. Where
Brock Party, from what I understand, he has a deal
with Toyota. They does commercials. His salary this year for
the forty nine ers is nine hundred and thirty four
thousand dollars. So are you that naive? Are people that
(16:21):
global Danny like? Oh? I can't but that he spent
his entire salary to get offensive line.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I saw that. And then the starting five O linemen
make almost thirty eight million combined. Should they be buying
him some souped up vehicle? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So no, it's like they put the little cartoon red
you know, those giant oversized bows and crap. They put
that on the Yeah, this was a commercial for Toyota.
Good for Toyota. Right, we're promoting them too. It's free,
not free, they're paying for it. But if you think
that Brock Party went out and spent nine hundred thousand
(16:57):
dollars on cars, you're just a dope. I don't know
what to tell you, all right, And just like you know,
do you think was the story? What's the quarterback of
the Bengals? There? Burrow? He gave his offensive lineman katana sorts.
He probably got to deal with them. And these guys
are neghosting their agents Negotia. Hey, we're gonna give this out.
(17:20):
It's going to be picked up by ESPN and Fox
and they're all gonna write stories about an online and
everyone tries to live through these quarterbacks. So you get
this amount of advertising, what can you do for us? Uh?
Not again, not every case, but a fair amount of
those are product placement. And I remember we worked with
an old offensive lineman back and then he told us
(17:41):
that and we've talked about so his quarterback one one year.
This goes way back to like the early two thousands
in the oats gave some gifts out and the offensive
lineman found out that he had he had a side
deal with There were like suits, he had a side
deal with this haberdashery and they were the offensive line
where we're not rappy about that. Dude, you didn't pay
for this, Mike writes in from the Capital of the North,
(18:09):
Paul Fullerton. He says, Happy Honakh and Merry Christmas to you,
Ben and Danny g With Honkah beginning on the same
day as Christmas this year, do you still think Santa
Claus and Hanakah Harry will be able to deliver presents
to all the good boys and girls around the world.
My nephew's worried they'll crash into each other mid air.
Can you please convince him everything will be okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
By the way, Covino and Rich on Friday's Afternoon Show,
they were saying that the ultimate plug for you would
be to get into Adam Sandler's next version of the
Hanukkah song.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, that would be wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They they were petitioning Adam Sandler to name drop you
in the next version of his classic.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That would be that would that would be a dream
come true because those things get played, as you know, Danny, Yeah, yeah,
one month or one month. Yeah, so I think it'll
be okay. Imagine the bar when they get done for
the night. Now, the problem is, Honakah Harry's got to
work for eight nights. Santa Claus only has one night.
So Santa Claus and Honaka har imagine the I'm going
(19:12):
out to like a dive bar after they get done
for the night. And then but Hanakah Harry, you know,
he can't drink too much. He's because he's got to
come back to work for seven more nights after that,
where Santa just goes back to the North Pole and
chills out until next next Christmas. But yeah, they should
be fine, they should be all right.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now we have a stupid elf on the shelf thing
that parents do for Christmas. Yeah, is there anything Jewish
people do like that?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah? There there, there is actually a Jewish version of
the Elf on the shelf. Because marketing people realize, you
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna find a way
to get the Jews to spend some money on this,
And so it was what's the name of it's Mensch
on the bench is what it is?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Actually, Oh okay, I've heard of that.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mench on a bench is the Jewish counterpart.
And when when Christmas happens? Actually this is kind of crazy.
So Mensch on the Bench and the Elf they also
get together and they have a brunch. They have a
nice and the mench on the bench brings some bagels.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Do you think parents are overdoing things when they set
up these scenes every night when the kids are asleep?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I yeah, I mean it's I think it's competitive for
a lot of parents, right, and some of it is
for the gram right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Some of the stuff is absolutely Hey look at look
at what a great parent. I am, you know, look
at what I'm doing that whole thing, And but it's
kind of fun to mess with your kids, I guess,
and have some fun with it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why not? What the heck? Yeah, if you get to
write on their face and pretend like the elf did it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Exactly, Riley writes in from somewhere in New Jersey, says, hey,
bend and Danny Joe, the pod UFO expert this week
said he believes the recent drone stings here in Jersey
are going to be a precursor to an alien invasion
in twenty twenty five. Are you prepared, Riley says, Yes,
here's my plan, Danny. What I'm gonna do is, I'm
(21:10):
gonna go to Costco over the next couple of weeks
and buy all the toilet paper, the water, bottle water,
and all the cleaning products, disinfectant, whatnot and masks, just
so I'm prepared. And then will I will price gouge
people when the aliens arrive, because they'll all be we
know what happened. We learned in twenty twenty right that
(21:31):
you just run out whatever happens, buy a lot of
toilet paper, water, bottled water, masks, cleaning products and what
else would you need of an alien invasion happened.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There's like an apol person beside it, and another one's inside,
and it has big guys.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's looking at us, giant giant eyes. That's true. Well,
we have them over in we have them over where
the area fifty one in near Vegas, outside Vegas we.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Have Yeah, and then you and I instead of the smagger,
we could market Q sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's a great idea. Yeah, I think this smog thing
we should actually do. We should find out. We'll come
up with a business model, and I think it's a
great I'm sure somebody's done it, right, We have to.
Somebody's had to have done that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
They meet up at the park across the street from
their high school and they would trade smog so good.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's all about the logo, like the sky Yeah La
Hollywood sign. You know, have to see ask our lawyers
what we were allowed to ye, bruh.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
My is dirtier than yours, Bro, Yours is mid get.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
A picture of the four h five at rush hour
with all the tail lights. You know that.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, you got Seattle, Yoh, I got lax Bro, you.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Got Shriman Oaks, Truman Oaks.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
All right, Next up wild Man from Morgantown, Westford, Virginia
college town. And wild Man writes and says, hey, I've
been watching a lot of Peep's debate on weather die Hard,
whether or not the die Hard movie is a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Not this stupid debate. This is like Lebron and Jordan, one.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Of my favorite movies from my youth. What do you
guys think? What do you guys consider to be the
best Christmas movie? Well, wild Man, as you know, best
means among all the rest. So yeah, Dannyway, this is
a story that pops up every year. This is one
of those evergreen holiday Christmas I always do the PSA
what to watch for over the holidays. I'll do that
(23:30):
again next weekend. What to avoid? How you know your
talk show host is not maybe preparing but the die
Hard movie it's around Christmas, right, So but it's not
like when I think Christmas movie, I.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Think, yeah, it's set on Christmas Eve and the famous
run DMC Christmas song is playing inside the limo, and
so yeah, it's set at Christmas time. But the movie
was actually released in July.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, so it's it's fine, what it's like, is a
hot dog a sandwich? Is it? If the hot dogs
a sandwich, is a taco a sandwich. It's the same concept.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
When we think of a Christmas movie, it's a movie
that we always watch every single year around Christmas time.
So look, Gremlins happens at Christmas time? Is that a
Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
No, it's not exactly. By the way I mentioned yesterday
on the pot I was at the same set they
used for Back to the Future. Is what they used
in the opening scene of Gremlins?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh okay, cool?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A little town square thing they have their universal.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Just watch that the other night Man when you see
the effects. If they were able to reboot that or
remake that, it would look way cooler than it did
back in the eighties. Yeah, what was the one? I
looks like a little toy the magwa It looks like
a little like a stuffed animal in the movie? Was
it the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Christmas Story where the kids stuck his is remember his
tongue on the Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Watch that elf?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I don't know, oh the claymation the Rudolph to watch and.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Then National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh yeah, Chevy Chase Classic. And now Elf has joined
the list of classics.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Bad Sansus twenty years old.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I don't know if that's a crazy yeah. And some
people argue whether or not Home Alone two is actually
better than Home Alone.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And I remember on Christmas on I think it was
Channel two, Channel two in La Nanny, they had a
Charlie Brown Christmas you remember that, yep.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Every and now there's some TV channels where all they
do is play Christmas Story on a loop. Oh yeah, yeah,
which was just pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
My wife loves these cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Which I've seen them on in the living room here too.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I want to poke my eyes out till I bleed.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But there's even a Kansas City Chiefs one this year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. I actually know some people that were in that
when they filmed it in Kansas City. When I was
in Kansas City, I met some people that were like
extras in the movie. So about that? Are they fame?
I don't know. Maybe they're famous. You're in a movie.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Ever been in a movie?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't think, As far as I know, I've not
been in a movie. That'd be kind of cool. All right,
time for a couple more. We got to get out
of here. Things to do, places to go, whatnot see
here from Cincinnati Tommy, he writes, Sin says, Hey, Benny
the Brazen and Danny G. Money, I heard you briefly
speak this week of a new bit under consideration involving
Lorraine Up.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
He said.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The streets are talking. I hope it's my suggestion set
last weekend. If so, I appreciate it, and please credit
the idea to Cincinnati Tommy, not Cindy Tommy. I fat
fingered my name.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Love.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Happy holidays, gentlemen. That explained that, Yeah, we are planning
on doing that. We were going to do it last week.
I want to I want to plan it out better.
And plus it's the holidays, and the next couple of
weeks you're going to be kind of messed up schedule wise,
so I think we'll wait until until we get back
into the swing of things on the regular schedule in
early January. So the next ten days or so going
(27:20):
to be kind of crazy. But yeah, we are planning
on doing that. We want to figure out which day
of the week to do it. And it was a
great idea, and I talked to Loraina about it, Tommy,
and she's cool with it, so we'll make it happen.
Are you Smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? We'll be
popping up And my dream board would be to have
(27:41):
we're trying to figure out how many people we want
to play nanny? Is it just Loraina versus a caller?
Should we have Loraina versus two callers? Like we're trying
to figure out the logistics on it. Okay, dream would
be to have Loraina versus Blair in Maine? And what
a time? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Is it going to be multiple choice?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah? See that's the other thing. Do you do? Multiple choice?
And I watched some of Are You Smarter than the
Fifth Grader? But they had like first, second, third, fourth
grade questions working.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Up working up the board?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, okay, that's hard to imagine anyone would get the
first grade questions wrong, but you never know. Anyway, we'll
figure that out. But that great idea, Tommy, and so
thank you. That will be coming to the show at
some point. Here, Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass Right since says,
since this is the last pod until Christmas, what is
your favorite gift you ever gave someone? H And when
(28:38):
your favorite gift that you received. I do we get
this question every year? Right, Not that I'm dissing your question,
but I am dissing your question trying to thing. We
talked about this in the past, Danny, I don't know.
I don't nothing coming. You want to answer that, I
don't know what you want.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Sure, last Christmas, I gave Brenda our big baby CoA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
There you go, friend.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
She couldn't have done that by herself. Well, I guess
she could have went to a sperm bank and done it,
but she used me to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You go the old fashioned way. You saved money, right,
It helped her out. It could have been much more expensive.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, she didn't need a turkey baster. Hello.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Next one, this is from Anonymous again. If you tell
someone to take your meds, I wonder where that term
originated from. It probably originated from someone a long, long
time ago, but you use it in the same sentence
as this is a legend, take your meds. We yes,
I was talking about hollering James Anonymous hollering James pills
(29:41):
in the morning, thirty six pills a night. I'm still upset.
We have not gotten a parody song yet of smoke
two joints in the morning, smoke two joints to night,
thirty six pills in the morning and thirty six pills
at night. It is so easy to write that parody.
So but unfortunately nobody's done it yet. For Hollering James,
I know we're going to get it at some point.
If I have to write it, I'll write it and
(30:02):
send the lyrics to Ohio Al or somebody and we'll
get it at we'll get the song done. Uh. And
he says, how how can you be a.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Leg you're a ghost driter. I mean, I knew you
wrote some hits for p Diddy back in the day, but.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We don't like to talk about that, nor the jokes
I wrote for Bill Cosby. We don't talk about it
either anyway. That's from anonymous. So yeah, James, I said
that about Hollerday James because he takes a lot of meds.
That's it. So we had we have some other ones,
but Ian Craig, you guys, Uh, I think we're we're good. Dan,
(30:36):
we got we got football, Danny, you got San Diego
stuff to do, and I got football. So that's that right.
We'll put the baby.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, CoA gets to meet Pandas later today, and while
he's doing that, I'm gonna be watching YouTube TV on
my cell phone because that's where I have NFL Sunday ticket.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I bet you will not seven hours of commercial free
football anymore, or seven hours of football I put have
a wonderful sy I'll be back tonight on the radio,
and I'll be here most of the week. A couple
of days I will not, but Christmas Eve, there's like
some Christmas even a Christmas Day, the whole network plays
(31:18):
like a vignette of each show gets like an hour.
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yep, yeah, I too. I spent hours putting together the
best of for Covino.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And Rich and I voiced over our our best of hours,
so different bits from the year that we put back
on the radio. So that'll be on. It'll be in rotation,
so you'll hear a little bit of every show if
you listen in the top moments from each show. So
that'll be on Christmas Day. So for us, it's Christmas
Eve and the Christmas Day, but then I'll be on
(31:48):
Christmas Night into the day after Christmas. You can thank
NBC because I have the TV show to do so
have a wonderful sunny and we'll catch you this podcast.
We will have new pods next week and so again.
If you guys send some questions in today or tomorrow
or the next day, then they'll be in there. If not,
if we don't get enough for the Evergreen mail Bag,
(32:09):
then we'll just do something else. But have a wonderful,
wonderful rest of your day. We'll talk to you tonight
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Happy holidays, Aloha, 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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter 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.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air ywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and my man Danny g Radio on this NFL Sunday.
Still sometime to watch Benny Versus the Penny if you're
one of our early bird listeners here on Sunday or otherwise,
you can just watch the games and maybe watch the show,
(00:51):
after which it'll be up on Peacock until you know
next week. I guess I think they leave the this
weekend show up, But anyway, either way, we are hanging
out with you, getting ready to watch some football today.
Although Danny, I know you're you're not at home, so
I don't know how much football you're gonna be watching today.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah. Usually at these hotels we don't turn the TV
on too much, but I'll still watch a lot of
NFL on my phone today. There you go.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, yesterday was national we were supposed to appreciate short women.
Today is just national short persons. So it's a big
weekend if you're short. Just hey shoddy, hey shoddy, vige wee. Again,
it's mathematics day today, so let's ignore that the birth
anniversary of India's famed mathematician. I'm not going to try
to pronounce this dude's name, but India, God bless him.
(01:42):
I'm sure he was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What are the drops that I use on the regular
on our show.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up that math ain't mathing like that. You know,
Hey man, whenever I don't know the answer, I just
say malord math because malor math is never wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Da. Yeah, Radio didn't get into this to do math.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There's no math. Although when I was a kid, you're
around my age, daty, Remember they said you're not going
to have a calculator with you when you're out in
the real world. All they're carrying calculators. They lied to us, Danny.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, not everybody can afford those Cassio calculator watches.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Everyone who has a smartphone has a calculator, so eighty
percent of the world's got calculators on them at any time.
So those teachers that wouldn't let us use calculators are
full of shit.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And when I think of the advanced math classes I
took in high school, what a free waiste.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, this is shame. All right, let's get to it.
This is the mail bag, and that means, ohio au,
it's this bag. All right, thank you, thank you. These
(02:59):
are actual letters by actual listeners. You guys have been
great a week after week, year after year. Every once
in a while, will see what if nobody sends a question,
I'll be screwed. What are we gonna do? But I've
never had to worry about that. So Real fifth Hour
at Gmail, Well I have worried about it, but it's
one of those things you worry about where you don't
need to worry about. It's a waste of my time.
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour
(03:21):
at gmail dot com. If you want to send a question,
and if you want to send some in I'm not
sure we are going to do the pod next weekend,
but I'm not sure exactly when or probably more of
an evergreen. I'm not sure when we're going to do it,
if you know what I mean. So if you want
to get a question in, you can send it today.
And because I'm not sure exactly when that pod will
(03:43):
be done, so if you want, if we have enough
evergreen questions, I will be more than happy to do
a mail bag. Otherwise we'll do something else. So it's
really up to you, guys, which means.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
All the questions have to be about trees.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, yes, or your favorite kind of chemical spray in
the bathroom. You can talk about that, would you like?
You know, isn't there evergreen spread anyway? Real fifth Hour
no letters or no letters, no numbers, all letters, Real,
spell it out, Real fifth Hour. If you don't know
how to spell, that's probably a problem that you should
deal with on your own. Real fifth Hour at gmail
(04:20):
dot com and send your question in and we'll have
we'll have some fun. So first one is from Alf
from the Storage Unit says happy holidays, gentlemen. What's the
coolest swag or perk that you have received from being
in the radio business? Yeah, so I have, ALF. I
used to do commercials. I'll go first, Danny, I have
(04:41):
a Sleep Number bed, a very nice Sleep Number bed
that was a gift from Sleep Number for me doing
commercials back in the day. That's probably ten years ago,
and I still have the bed. It works great. I
love it. It's amazing and every night I go to bed
on my Sleep Number bed and it's wonderful. You can
adjust it depending on your back and whatnot. My wife
(05:03):
loves it. She I think will ever have another bed.
I mean, if we get another bed, we'll get another
Sleep Numbers. I'm trying to say. It's very expensive though.
Those things are not cheap, and I'd love for them.
Danny to return as a sponsor, if you know what
I mean, Danny wink wink. No, No, that would be cool.
Other than that, I mean, I mean a couple of
trips here, I don't, I don't try. You know, Danny's fortunate.
(05:24):
He gets to go a lot of trips. I very
rarely get trips. I've I've had a lot of fun
with the TV show. They send me to Boston every
year to hang out and record stuff for the TV show,
So that's really been the main main part. When I
first got into radio, I got to go to the
World Series on the you know, back in the nineties
that was awesome and stuff. But the trips have been fun.
(05:44):
But the bed's probably the one that I've used more
than anything. What about you, Danny, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, the trips are cool for Covino and Rich, although
I will say the two of them are the lucky
ones on those trips because they just got to worry
about cracking their microphones or their headsets and talking, whereas
I'm still ring my laptop around producing and editing this
fine podcast, plus doing the same for them and doing
all the behind the scenes work for their broadcasting. So
(06:10):
even though it's fun to travel, it's a shit ton
of work for me. So when they go out and
drink with the listeners afterwards, I go to my hotel
room and collapse. But it's still nice to get to
go visit other cities. Back when I was a kid
in radio ben I got Lasik eye surgery and all
I had to do was voice the commercials.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh I remember that there was a pew time. Everyone
in radio is doing those Lasik eye commerce My name
is so and so, and I had Mike and see
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now, you know, it was awesome if I had to
do an updated commercial for them. Now I could talk
about how I'm one of the national broadcasters who's blind. No,
my eyesight is still cool, although I do have some
floaters from time to time, which worries me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, wasn't that just a sign of getting older? You know?
I don't z.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He knows, I don't know what. Well, we'd have to
do a deep dive on what causes the floaters. So
that's a pretty cool thing that helped you your visions.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh it did, Yeah, and did not have to worry
about contacts or wearing glasses this whole time has been awesome.
And then and then the last thing, Benny, right here
where I'm at in San Diego and in some other
cities where there are theme parks, now you can't get
enough tickets for your whole party. But I've known the
folks at SeaWorld, and I've known the folks at the
(07:33):
Zoo since I programmed FM radio stations back in the day.
So I'm friendly with the promotions directors at all of
the parks. From time to time can get some preebies
from the theme parks, which has been awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, I used to get free, you know,
free stuff back in the day. I really my wife
always gives me a hard time, so you really should
try to get more first, I know, but I hate
asking people for stuff, so I'm always like, that's always
the hard part.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, And it's a it's like a long drawn out
process too, a lot of emails back and forth, a
lot of printing things out two forms of ID and
email a picture of this, and your credentials are needed
for that. And so if you have the time and
patience to do it, it's nice. But there are a lot
(08:20):
of radio people and TV people that are just too
lazy to deal with any of it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, for sure, and like some I think as one
of the guys I was talking to at the party said,
they got they knew somebody at Disney. If you email
somebody at Disney, if you work for our company, they'll
let you, like once a year go to Disney for free.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's a huge It used to be the case, but
Disney put the kebash on that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I was told it was back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, okay, good to know, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Who to hell the email.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, Well, find that you're talking to the guy who
sniffed out the Mike Tyson team and Donald Trump's cell phone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I said, you get the president of the vone, you
deserve a raise.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, Danny, if I will deputize you, if you can
find the right person, let me know. My wife will
be forever grateful. Will make you what any kind of
cookie you want, although I know you're not eating cookies now.
Barry from South Carolina, who might be moving for now
South Carolina says Yo Yo Ma. Benny and Danny g
Inquiring minds want to know, on average, how many questions
do you guys get every week for the mailbag? A
(09:28):
good question, anywhere from eight to I think one. You know,
if something crazy happens like when Ady got let Go,
we got a lot. I am a lot more than that.
It's usually eight to fifteen or so a week. Sometimes
we've gotten twenty five, which is a ton I think
for a podcast whatever, But we usually only have time
(09:50):
for anywhere on ten. Right, Yeah, you get to about
ten a week. A lot of the months Berry I
get I can't even use They're just how do I
describe this? There's people that somehow managed to use email
but don't know how to spell certain things, and they
well they'll just send sporty questions in which we don't
(10:11):
really use on this podcast. We try to avoid that.
But usually anywhere from eight to fifteen to twenty and
you know, some weeks if something when Adie got like,
like I said, that was a lot of a lot
of f you Ben or your show blows or whatever.
You know, it's like that kind of thing, which people,
I think, believe that I was responsible for that, Danny,
that I had some kind of power to do that,
(10:32):
which was not true. I don't have any power, trust me,
no power. I certainly would have done that anyway. So
that's the answer. Barry. Next one Harry in Europe, writing
in Okay. He says he's in Poland. He's just visiting. Well,
I don't know if you want to go to Poland
(10:52):
right now, but I don't know why you're there anyway,
he says, why would anyone buy this? He sent me
a story he found on the Internet of a Michelin
starred restaurant. According to the headline here in Washington, d
C has unveiled luxury water menu. It features a ninety
five dollars bottle of a melted Canadian iceberg.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So they say that actually sounds good. I would drink
more water.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, I know you're guessing here. This is like
the ultimate bullshit. It's like those people that said, we
remember we had the story a couple of weeks back
about the people sending air from I forget somewhere in
Italy or whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's like, it's just bullshit.
It's one of those things. My theory has always been,
it's like those we do foody fun on Friday usually,
(11:42):
and those gimmick items they can overcharge for, right, And
you know, I mean like the nick Ribs sauce, the
gallon of McRib sauce, which probably cost McDonald's about two dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Dude, Maybe we could get the youth of America to
start sniffing smog. They like to vape you and I been.
We could bottle smog from Sherman Oaks, California and sell it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
If you're down. I'm not kidding. If we had a
cool logo made on little bottles. Yeah, and just as
a gimmick, and we charge like fifteen bucks or twenty
bucks a bottle of La smoggy air.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Word of mouth. Can you imagine like a kid seeing
another kid? What is that is that some sort of vape. Nah, man,
this is a smogger.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, this is La Small, not just any smog.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, oh dude, that would be big. And then we
could do different logos for the different city smog.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh yeah, we'd have like like you know, East La Small.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, and bro, after school, we're going to hit the Chicago.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh, big time, big time. That's a great idea, It's all.
But I answer your question, Harry, it's all like it's
a scam because they scam's the right word. But water's water, right,
it's all. I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Please?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And you know ninety five dollars dude?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Can you imagine the Lax smager. Oh that'd be a
top starer anybody. If you ever fly into our neck
of the woods and you fly into Lax, just take
a glimpse.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He blew me off at a hotel near Lax.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The dirty sky around you, right around the airport there.
It's so filthy, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Next one's from Reggie from Detroit, who has been a
semi regular email over these. I'm hurt from Reggie in
a while anyway. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, defend
your city and then he sent me a link here
to the LA Foody event they had celebrating the top
restaurants in Los Angeles where dozens of people were sickened
(13:46):
from eating food. I guess they ate raw oysters at
this top restaurant event and had to go get medical
help and stuff. So Reggie wants us to defend that. Well,
anyone's eating the raw oysters. In my opinion is it's
like essentially playing Russian Roulette with your stomach, asking for
something really bad to happen. You're asking for bad results there.
(14:10):
I did see this actually the other day. I thought
it was like a nineteen eighties comedy Danny, doesn't that
seem like? Or a Saturday Night Live skip back when
Saturday Night was good where they have the top restaurants
and all these foodies are there and they end up
getting sick from the food at the top rest I
mean it sounds like a comedy move.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you know, outside of the event were a whole
bunch of street vendors with the bacon dogs and nobody
got sick from those. Surprisingly.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, that's the funny. The amount of bacon dog salespeople
in LA and they don't follow the safety code. No,
I consume those and enjoy them.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And the only way to eat oysters is baked. If
you're gonna have them, the baked oysters are goodw oysters
your nuts if you eat those.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Not into the seafood thing unless I eat seafood once
a year. Beer battered fish sticks. That's it. Tastes like chicken.
Nelson from the Bay Area Rights and he says, hey,
Ben and Danny, this is probably a minister golf for you, Ben,
But how is this possible? And he sent the story
this week from the forty nine ers quarterback Brock Purty,
who gave his offensive linemen ten brand new toyotas that
(15:29):
cost nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, well he didn't pay all of that. He got
a huge discount.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, not only the You gotta understand that people are
so dumb. This is the season of quarterbacks giving gifts
to their offensive linemen. It is also the season of
those gifts. It's called product placement. I believe, not in
every case, not in every case, but a lot of them.
(16:01):
Our product placement. Okay, that's that's what this is. Where
Brock Party, from what I understand, he has a deal
with Toyota. They does commercials. His salary this year for
the forty nine ers is nine hundred and thirty four
thousand dollars. So are you that naive? Are people that
(16:21):
global Danny like? Oh? I can't but that he spent
his entire salary to get offensive line.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I saw that. And then the starting five O linemen
make almost thirty eight million combined. Should they be buying
him some souped up vehicle? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So no, it's like they put the little cartoon red
you know, those giant oversized bows and crap. They put
that on the Yeah, this was a commercial for Toyota.
Good for Toyota. Right, we're promoting them too. It's free,
not free, they're paying for it. But if you think
that Brock Party went out and spent nine hundred thousand
(16:57):
dollars on cars, you're just a dope. I don't know
what to tell you, all right, And just like you know,
do you think was the story? What's the quarterback of
the Bengals? There? Burrow? He gave his offensive lineman katana sorts.
He probably got to deal with them. And these guys
are neghosting their agents Negotia. Hey, we're gonna give this out.
(17:20):
It's going to be picked up by ESPN and Fox
and they're all gonna write stories about an online and
everyone tries to live through these quarterbacks. So you get
this amount of advertising, what can you do for us? Uh?
Not again, not every case, but a fair amount of
those are product placement. And I remember we worked with
an old offensive lineman back and then he told us
(17:41):
that and we've talked about so his quarterback one one year.
This goes way back to like the early two thousands
in the oats gave some gifts out and the offensive
lineman found out that he had he had a side
deal with There were like suits, he had a side
deal with this haberdashery and they were the offensive line
where we're not rappy about that. Dude, you didn't pay
for this, Mike writes in from the Capital of the North,
(18:09):
Paul Fullerton. He says, Happy Honakh and Merry Christmas to you,
Ben and Danny g With Honkah beginning on the same
day as Christmas this year, do you still think Santa
Claus and Hanakah Harry will be able to deliver presents
to all the good boys and girls around the world.
My nephew's worried they'll crash into each other mid air.
Can you please convince him everything will be okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
By the way, Covino and Rich on Friday's Afternoon Show,
they were saying that the ultimate plug for you would
be to get into Adam Sandler's next version of the
Hanukkah song.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, that would be wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They they were petitioning Adam Sandler to name drop you
in the next version of his classic.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That would be that would that would be a dream
come true because those things get played, as you know, Danny, Yeah, yeah,
one month or one month. Yeah, so I think it'll
be okay. Imagine the bar when they get done for
the night. Now, the problem is, Honakah Harry's got to
work for eight nights. Santa Claus only has one night.
So Santa Claus and Honaka har imagine the I'm going
(19:12):
out to like a dive bar after they get done
for the night. And then but Hanakah Harry, you know,
he can't drink too much. He's because he's got to
come back to work for seven more nights after that,
where Santa just goes back to the North Pole and
chills out until next next Christmas. But yeah, they should
be fine, they should be all right.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now we have a stupid elf on the shelf thing
that parents do for Christmas. Yeah, is there anything Jewish
people do like that?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah? There there, there is actually a Jewish version of
the Elf on the shelf. Because marketing people realize, you
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna find a way
to get the Jews to spend some money on this,
And so it was what's the name of it's Mensch
on the bench is what it is?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Actually, Oh okay, I've heard of that.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mench on a bench is the Jewish counterpart.
And when when Christmas happens? Actually this is kind of crazy.
So Mensch on the Bench and the Elf they also
get together and they have a brunch. They have a
nice and the mench on the bench brings some bagels.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Do you think parents are overdoing things when they set
up these scenes every night when the kids are asleep?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I yeah, I mean it's I think it's competitive for
a lot of parents, right, and some of it is
for the gram right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Some of the stuff is absolutely Hey look at look
at what a great parent. I am, you know, look
at what I'm doing that whole thing, And but it's
kind of fun to mess with your kids, I guess,
and have some fun with it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why not? What the heck? Yeah, if you get to
write on their face and pretend like the elf did it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Exactly, Riley writes in from somewhere in New Jersey, says, hey,
bend and Danny Joe, the pod UFO expert this week
said he believes the recent drone stings here in Jersey
are going to be a precursor to an alien invasion
in twenty twenty five. Are you prepared, Riley says, Yes,
here's my plan, Danny. What I'm gonna do is, I'm
(21:10):
gonna go to Costco over the next couple of weeks
and buy all the toilet paper, the water, bottle water,
and all the cleaning products, disinfectant, whatnot and masks, just
so I'm prepared. And then will I will price gouge
people when the aliens arrive, because they'll all be we
know what happened. We learned in twenty twenty right that
(21:31):
you just run out whatever happens, buy a lot of
toilet paper, water, bottled water, masks, cleaning products and what
else would you need of an alien invasion happened.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There's like an apol person beside it, and another one's inside,
and it has big guys.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's looking at us, giant giant eyes. That's true. Well,
we have them over in we have them over where
the area fifty one in near Vegas, outside Vegas we.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Have Yeah, and then you and I instead of the smagger,
we could market Q sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's a great idea. Yeah, I think this smog thing
we should actually do. We should find out. We'll come
up with a business model, and I think it's a
great I'm sure somebody's done it, right, We have to.
Somebody's had to have done that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
They meet up at the park across the street from
their high school and they would trade smog so good.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's all about the logo, like the sky Yeah La
Hollywood sign. You know, have to see ask our lawyers
what we were allowed to ye, bruh.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
My is dirtier than yours, Bro, Yours is mid get.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
A picture of the four h five at rush hour
with all the tail lights. You know that.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, you got Seattle, Yoh, I got lax Bro, you.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Got Shriman Oaks, Truman Oaks.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
All right, Next up wild Man from Morgantown, Westford, Virginia
college town. And wild Man writes and says, hey, I've
been watching a lot of Peep's debate on weather die Hard,
whether or not the die Hard movie is a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Not this stupid debate. This is like Lebron and Jordan, one.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Of my favorite movies from my youth. What do you
guys think? What do you guys consider to be the
best Christmas movie? Well, wild Man, as you know, best
means among all the rest. So yeah, Dannyway, this is
a story that pops up every year. This is one
of those evergreen holiday Christmas I always do the PSA
what to watch for over the holidays. I'll do that
(23:30):
again next weekend. What to avoid? How you know your
talk show host is not maybe preparing but the die
Hard movie it's around Christmas, right, So but it's not
like when I think Christmas movie, I.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Think, yeah, it's set on Christmas Eve and the famous
run DMC Christmas song is playing inside the limo, and
so yeah, it's set at Christmas time. But the movie
was actually released in July.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, so it's it's fine, what it's like, is a
hot dog a sandwich? Is it? If the hot dogs
a sandwich, is a taco a sandwich. It's the same concept.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
When we think of a Christmas movie, it's a movie
that we always watch every single year around Christmas time.
So look, Gremlins happens at Christmas time? Is that a
Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
No, it's not exactly. By the way I mentioned yesterday
on the pot I was at the same set they
used for Back to the Future. Is what they used
in the opening scene of Gremlins?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh okay, cool?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A little town square thing they have their universal.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Just watch that the other night Man when you see
the effects. If they were able to reboot that or
remake that, it would look way cooler than it did
back in the eighties. Yeah, what was the one? I
looks like a little toy the magwa It looks like
a little like a stuffed animal in the movie? Was
it the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Christmas Story where the kids stuck his is remember his
tongue on the Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Watch that elf?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I don't know, oh the claymation the Rudolph to watch and.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Then National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh yeah, Chevy Chase Classic. And now Elf has joined
the list of classics.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Bad Sansus twenty years old.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I don't know if that's a crazy yeah. And some
people argue whether or not Home Alone two is actually
better than Home Alone.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And I remember on Christmas on I think it was
Channel two, Channel two in La Nanny, they had a
Charlie Brown Christmas you remember that, yep.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Every and now there's some TV channels where all they
do is play Christmas Story on a loop. Oh yeah, yeah,
which was just pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
My wife loves these cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Which I've seen them on in the living room here too.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I want to poke my eyes out till I bleed.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But there's even a Kansas City Chiefs one this year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. I actually know some people that were in that
when they filmed it in Kansas City. When I was
in Kansas City, I met some people that were like
extras in the movie. So about that? Are they fame?
I don't know. Maybe they're famous. You're in a movie.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Ever been in a movie?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't think, As far as I know, I've not
been in a movie. That'd be kind of cool. All right,
time for a couple more. We got to get out
of here. Things to do, places to go, whatnot see
here from Cincinnati Tommy, he writes, Sin says, Hey, Benny
the Brazen and Danny G. Money, I heard you briefly
speak this week of a new bit under consideration involving
Lorraine Up.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
He said.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The streets are talking. I hope it's my suggestion set
last weekend. If so, I appreciate it, and please credit
the idea to Cincinnati Tommy, not Cindy Tommy. I fat
fingered my name.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Love.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Happy holidays, gentlemen. That explained that, Yeah, we are planning
on doing that. We were going to do it last week.
I want to I want to plan it out better.
And plus it's the holidays, and the next couple of
weeks you're going to be kind of messed up schedule wise,
so I think we'll wait until until we get back
into the swing of things on the regular schedule in
early January. So the next ten days or so going
(27:20):
to be kind of crazy. But yeah, we are planning
on doing that. We want to figure out which day
of the week to do it. And it was a
great idea, and I talked to Loraina about it, Tommy,
and she's cool with it, so we'll make it happen.
Are you Smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? We'll be
popping up And my dream board would be to have
(27:41):
we're trying to figure out how many people we want
to play nanny? Is it just Loraina versus a caller?
Should we have Loraina versus two callers? Like we're trying
to figure out the logistics on it. Okay, dream would
be to have Loraina versus Blair in Maine? And what
a time? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Is it going to be multiple choice?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah? See that's the other thing. Do you do? Multiple choice?
And I watched some of Are You Smarter than the
Fifth Grader? But they had like first, second, third, fourth
grade questions working.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Up working up the board?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, okay, that's hard to imagine anyone would get the
first grade questions wrong, but you never know. Anyway, we'll
figure that out. But that great idea, Tommy, and so
thank you. That will be coming to the show at
some point. Here, Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass Right since says,
since this is the last pod until Christmas, what is
your favorite gift you ever gave someone? H And when
(28:38):
your favorite gift that you received. I do we get
this question every year? Right, Not that I'm dissing your question,
but I am dissing your question trying to thing. We
talked about this in the past, Danny, I don't know.
I don't nothing coming. You want to answer that, I
don't know what you want.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Sure, last Christmas, I gave Brenda our big baby CoA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
There you go, friend.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
She couldn't have done that by herself. Well, I guess
she could have went to a sperm bank and done it,
but she used me to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You go the old fashioned way. You saved money, right,
It helped her out. It could have been much more expensive.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, she didn't need a turkey baster. Hello.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Next one, this is from Anonymous again. If you tell
someone to take your meds, I wonder where that term
originated from. It probably originated from someone a long, long
time ago, but you use it in the same sentence
as this is a legend, take your meds. We yes,
I was talking about hollering James Anonymous hollering James pills
(29:41):
in the morning, thirty six pills a night. I'm still upset.
We have not gotten a parody song yet of smoke
two joints in the morning, smoke two joints to night,
thirty six pills in the morning and thirty six pills
at night. It is so easy to write that parody.
So but unfortunately nobody's done it yet. For Hollering James,
I know we're going to get it at some point.
If I have to write it, I'll write it and
(30:02):
send the lyrics to Ohio Al or somebody and we'll
get it at we'll get the song done. Uh. And
he says, how how can you be a.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Leg you're a ghost driter. I mean, I knew you
wrote some hits for p Diddy back in the day, but.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We don't like to talk about that, nor the jokes
I wrote for Bill Cosby. We don't talk about it
either anyway. That's from anonymous. So yeah, James, I said
that about Hollerday James because he takes a lot of meds.
That's it. So we had we have some other ones,
but Ian Craig, you guys, Uh, I think we're we're good. Dan,
(30:36):
we got we got football, Danny, you got San Diego
stuff to do, and I got football. So that's that right.
We'll put the baby.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, CoA gets to meet Pandas later today, and while
he's doing that, I'm gonna be watching YouTube TV on
my cell phone because that's where I have NFL Sunday ticket.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I bet you will not seven hours of commercial free
football anymore, or seven hours of football I put have
a wonderful sy I'll be back tonight on the radio,
and I'll be here most of the week. A couple
of days I will not, but Christmas Eve, there's like
some Christmas even a Christmas Day, the whole network plays
(31:18):
like a vignette of each show gets like an hour.
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yep, yeah, I too. I spent hours putting together the
best of for Covino.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And Rich and I voiced over our our best of hours,
so different bits from the year that we put back
on the radio. So that'll be on. It'll be in rotation,
so you'll hear a little bit of every show if
you listen in the top moments from each show. So
that'll be on Christmas Day. So for us, it's Christmas
Eve and the Christmas Day, but then I'll be on
(31:48):
Christmas Night into the day after Christmas. You can thank
NBC because I have the TV show to do so
have a wonderful sunny and we'll catch you this podcast.
We will have new pods next week and so again.
If you guys send some questions in today or tomorrow
or the next day, then they'll be in there. If not,
if we don't get enough for the Evergreen mail Bag,
(32:09):
then we'll just do something else. But have a wonderful,
wonderful rest of your day. We'll talk to you tonight
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Happy holidays, Aloha, gotta murder, I gotta go
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