December 1, 2024 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have Mail Bag fun for your Sunday! Today’s show is dedicated to the late, great Masshole Mickey! All questions sent in by new listeners & P1's of the #MallerMilitia! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Danny G. @DannyGradio and Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!...Follow, rate & review "The Fifth Hour!"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fastion 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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air eywhere the Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio. And welcome to December, the
first day of the final month of the year, and
we are back at it again, slaving away over the
red hot microphone with the on air light above us
(00:53):
on an NFL Sunday've already been four games played in
the NFL. But this is your unofficial early early pregame
show without Terry Bradshaw, without a lot of just canned
laughter and all that and my rams play out or
(01:13):
not a big game they play the Saints Raiders obviously
played back on on Friday. The biggest game by far today,
not even close, is the Eagles and Ravens game. Right
there's nothing really even close to that on the card today.
That's I know Sunday Night uses the biggest game forty
(01:33):
nine ers in Bills, But the Eagles Ravens game, that's
where it's at. That is the game day.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The weather, the elements should be fun to watch for
Sunday Night football because they're expecting sleet and snow and
thirty mile per hour wins.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, snow globe game. It's supposed to be a snow
glow in Buffalo, which is always kind of kind of cool.
I guess Brock Purdy, if I read correctly, this week,
he's gonna play who knows if he's gonna finish the game.
So there's some debate about that, his health and all that,
but there should be some snow there. And as far
(02:10):
as the other try to look around here. There's a
slight chance of snow for the Washington Tennessee game and
the DMV it's gonna be maybe in the second half,
some snow for that game today. Slight chance of snow
in Baltimore for the Eagles and Ravens. But yeah, the
(02:30):
big one if you want to see a snow game
Buffalo and San Francisco, that's the big snow game today
on the NFL car so we have the mail bag.
But before we get to the mail bag, I teased
this yesterday the word of the.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Week, the word of the week, So.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We're in the week, this weekend, this first day of
December is gremlin. Kremlin. Now, you know in the movie
Gremlin's Danny. We're around the same age, and that was
a big movie in our youth, right, Gremlins, And of
course that's.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What I always think about when we're annihilating wings at
Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I was. When I have to do the show
from the home studio and things get attacked, I think
of the Gremlins. So a gremlin, believe it or not,
a mythical creature in the upper air who causes damage
to airplanes. And the term not that old. The term
it first appeared in the Royal Air Force. It's the
UK Air Force. It was Royal Air Force slang during
(03:29):
the interwar years of the nineteen twenties. Now there are
claims that gremlin was in use during the First World War,
and while the people that study the history of words
say that's plausible, there is no evidence it, meaning it
wasn't written down somewhere earlier. Now, the origin of the
(03:51):
term is actually unknown, But what is known is that
gremlin as first recorded, originally had a much different meaning.
That is, a a low ranking commissioned or non commissioned
Air Force officer. So you were called a gremlin if
you were a low ranking you know, a person in
the military, the Air Force in the UK, one who
(04:12):
performed the routine duties that were beneath the dignity of
the brass. So you were a low level hoi poloid
type person. And they say it was first used in
a poem. The first time I was written down. There
was a poem that appeared in April of nineteen twenty
nine in an issue of the journal Aeroplane, and that
(04:37):
was the first use of the term gremlin. So originally
gremlin meant some low level person in the Royal Air Force,
and for us now it means a little creature, a
little weird creature thing. So all right, let's get to
the mail bag. What do you say you ready for
the mailbag? Let's go, hio.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Al it's.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Mail bag, all right. First one up is alf from
the Great Beyond. These are actual letters. If you want
to send a message in you can send it right now.
Won't get on today's mail bag because this is a podcast,
but you can send it in anyway and we might
(05:27):
use it for next week. Make sure we put your
name in there if you want credit, name and city
so we can give you a little love. So the
mail bag, these are questions sending Ben Mahlor show is
the uh, well, that's the Facebook page. We don't really
use Facebook for this anymore. It's real fifth hour at
gmail dot com. That's all laters, no numbers. Real spell
(05:48):
it out r E A L and then f I
F T H h o U R at gmail dot com.
Music provided as we said by ohio Al first one
up Alf from the Great Beyond. He says, gentlemen, I'll
try not to be Debbie Downer this week. But Masshole
Mickey had asked me weeks ago whether or not I
thought that you'd be doing a mail bag this week,
(06:09):
and he told me he had a great question for you,
which you teased last week when you read his question. Also, Ben,
I thought you were the king of the tees. But
masshole Mickey has outdone you, because now I have to
wait until I passed through the pearly gates to ask
him what his question was. Oh Man Yeah. So now
(06:31):
for my mediocre question, do your wives really get into Christmas?
I mean, like multiple trees and Christmas village pieces and
decorations everywhere, like the ones that my wife puts all
over the Alpha State. Before we get to that, I
did want to address Masshole Mickey major depression. Obviously, we're very,
(06:51):
very sad. We did the mail bag last week. I
did not find out that Masshole Mickey had died until
we found out. I found out on Sunday during I
think it was Sunday during the day what I believe.
I'm trying to think of the timeline. But at the
time we did the mailbag, we did not know that
he had had died. He died on his way to work.
(07:12):
And my condolences to his family, obviously as his wife
and his kids there and his friends many and I
want to thank his friends. A lot of times Danny
and people pass away we don't know, and his buddies
who were also out delivering newspapers or whatever the stores.
They all listened to the show. They're fans of the show,
(07:33):
and they knew him from the show, and they listened
to the show and they wanted me to know that
he had passed away on his way to work and
just terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Super sad. We you and I were texting about it
to start the week, and not only was he a
big part of this Fifth Hour podcast, but he signed
up on Twitter just so he could communicate with us
on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. I know he loved the show. And I met
him when I was back in Boston. We were taking
some stuff for the TV show and I said, like,
last minute, I a couple hours noticed. I was like, Hey,
I'm gonna be outside Bova's Bakery on the North End.
Anybody wants to meet me, come down. I give nobody
really heads up, and mass Ole Mickey's such a big
fan that he drove. He lives out near Worcester, and
(08:19):
he drove all the way in to see me and
hang out for like, you know, twenty thirty minutes or
whatever it was. And I talked to blind Scott a
little bit this week, and blind Scott had gotten there
a little bit earlier and was catching up with mass
Ole Mickey, and blind Scott was really emotional about it too.
We were talking about you know, he had told me
how big a deal the show was for him and
(08:41):
how he loved it and it was such a big
part of his routine, mass O Mickey, and it was
just just sat all the way around, especially and he
almost died during the summer. He told me the story
about he had had major medical problems. He had a
big operation and a lot of health problems, and you know,
he got over that and he went right back to
work because he had to provide food, you know, money
(09:03):
for the family and whatnot, and so he quickly went
back to work. And yeah, I don't know what happened.
I know, I don't know all the details. I just
know he was in an accident eno if he had
a heart attack or there was the weather was bad,
which I heard the weather was bad as he was
driving work. I don't know about all that, but just
just a sad deal. I mean, he was around our age, Danny,
(09:25):
a little bit younger than us. And then that's it.
Lights out. But rest in peace, mass While Mickey will
We'll miss you, and a lot of people were touched.
I mean, it's I heard from a lot of folks.
It's one of those things. They'd heard his name a
lot because he used a lot of it on Twitter.
He only called in a few times, but a lot
of email questions for this podcast, and also he would
(09:48):
send us messages on Twitter all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So but he really was a nice dude, and he
had a great sense of humor obviously, good taste and radio. Yes,
and I'm going to name the podcast today in tribute
to him, Masshole, Mickey mailbag no good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I mean he was. He was great man. I
loved hearing about his life. And he had worked as
a chef, he had some health problems, you know that's
obviously couldn't do that anymore, and spent a little time
in California, had in San Diego, and it was good
to get to know him a little bit. And I'm
really happy I got to meet him. I obviously did
not think that would be the you know, the end
(10:29):
of it. I thought I'd see him every year, going back.
Hopefully the TV show gets picked up and we go
back and hang out and catch up, you know, a
year after year and all that. But you never know.
That's the craziness of life, right, You don't know when
that's it. And this is the second time that's happened
where I met a listener at an event and within
a couple months they died. There was a guy Rick
in Boston. This goes back probably fifteen sixteen years. I
(10:53):
was with Mikey Adams. We were bar hopping around Boston.
Mikey Adams is a big nighttime guy wi and he
knew that guy was like the mayor of Boston, knew
every bartender complete you know, he loved drinking. So we
would bounce from bar to bar around Boston. And Rick,
this guy, one of our callers, showed up and it
(11:14):
was really cool. And again, you know, died in a
car accident and I remember Rick, and that kind of
triggered that memory of Rick from Masshole.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Mickey.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
As far as the question, alf, I yeah, I mean
my wife is obsessed with Christmas. I'm Jewish, so I
you know, I'm not. We celebrate the spirit of Christmas
at the house, but not the not really religious stuff.
But I mean, yeah, there's lights, there's the tree, and
this already yesterday, Danny. On Saturday, we went out and
(11:47):
got the tree. Uh, and my wife's like, she's reading
these stories online. She's like, well, you know, you don't
want to get it too soon because you know you'll
dry out and it's a fire hazard. And then like
two days later, let's go get the tree, you know,
so it's like, well, no, that's proba too soon. But yeah,
there's lights everywhere, all kinds of decorations. It's pretty pretty crazy.
(12:07):
What about you, Danny, your wife all over the Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
For me, my mom didn't like the origins of Christmas
and thought it had pagan roots and didn't want to
follow the crowd to be like a sheep. Okay, she
didn't do Christmas. She didn't say anything bad about it
to anybody, but she just didn't celebrate, which was fine.
So growing up I wasn't accustomed to it. As an adult,
(12:31):
it's been like whatever because I don't have any tradition
with it. But my Wifey loves it because she has
great memories of doing it with her kids and traditions
and so Black Friday, as I was preparing to watch
The Raiders, she was preparing the Christmas tree and decorations.
She took everything out of the balcony closet with very
(12:54):
serious OCD put everything in the exact same spot it
was last Christmas, with some improvements from Amazon. So yeah,
she's really really into it. And she's one of those
ladies where she wants to take pictures where the whole
family has matching pajamas.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh boy, those are the things when your kids are old.
They're like, holy fuck.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm always going to be one of those kids. Because
she took a picture like that last year and I
was the only one not in the matching pajamas.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're like, I'm a Raider fan. I cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, not even for family.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I hear you, all right. Next up Jose from
Van Eyes Beautiful Van Eyes, right, sin He says, Yeah, guys,
bet I like the videos you post on Instagram about
the TV show. I gotta know, though, Have you and
Tom gotten stopped by security while you wander around Universal Studios? No,
(13:52):
not really, there was one. It was one time. Tom's
still embarrassed we did that. There was a security guard
that they're always driving by these little golf carts Universal Students.
Now we have actual passes. Like it's very weird, Hojse
we're there. We feel like interlopers, like we don't really
belong there. We feel like we should be on one
(14:12):
of the trams that goes by every thirty minutes. But
we're allowed. I mean, we have a pass, we got
cleared by security. We are working, we do the TV
show from there, So it's very bizarre. It does feel
like you don't belong there. And we keep going further
and further back in Universal Studios, and the tram goes by,
and this is again this week. We were filming the
(14:34):
video and the tram went by and.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We yeah, I saw that, And because you were panning
your camera around a little bit, I recognized exactly where
you guys were standing from the tram tour when they
take you by and they show you different buildings that
writers work in across from the studio.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we were walking that's like
the main street on the back lot. You walk down
that street and there's like a little dining kitchen area,
there's a writer's room, there's studios all across there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That's gotta feel cool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh, it feels awesome. It feels just amazing. It's it's all.
It's so great to do it. But yeah, one time
we got stopped again, I don't want to say stop
by security, but a guy came by and asked us
if we needed to direct. He thought we were lost
or something like that. You know, he didn't know who
we were, and you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Know, Louis that's got to be because of the dumb
look on Looney's face.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Looney, of course was hurt by that because Looney wants
everyone to know who Looney is. I of course want
no one to know who I am. But we're complete
opposites in that in that regard. But it's been been
great fun and I appreciate it. It does remind me of
the early days of Fox Sports Radio. I have so
many great memories. When Fox Sports Radio launched, we had
(15:51):
studios at the Fox Lot in West La on Pico
and this is amazing. We would go out, and I've
told stories before, my buddy and we would run around
the Fox Lot. I'd just go there sometimes and hang
out and then they didn't care. It was very laid back.
There was hardly any security. Just go through the guard
gate going there and we would f around on the
(16:13):
New York set, the backdrop of New York. And then
nine to eleven happened and that was it. You know,
they I couldn't get anyone in after nine to eleven,
But before that it was cool. But this is a
lot of fun. So but yeah, security is not. They
really don't bother us. They just one time and Loony's
got all offended by that. Reggie from Detroit wright say,
(16:34):
He says, Ben and Danny, I know you guys don't
do sporty on the podcast. I know your thoughts. Ben,
I heard your monologue. How does Danny feel about Blake
Snell going to his Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh, I'm glad this is a question this week.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so, I don't know if you have the same beef.
I I don't like Blake Snell. I don't. I was
very clear about that. He's a good ballplayer, but I
don't like him. I don't think you have his much
hatred as I have for But where are you at
on that? Dan?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
No, he doesn't bother me specifically, But what bothers me
and I still have a bad taste in my mouth
is the uh. It was Thanksgiving Day, actually Thanksgiving morning.
Covino and Rich were filling in for Dan Patrick, and
one of their big topics that morning was the Dodgers
are the new evil Empire. I had a Yankees fan
(17:27):
and a Mets fan ganging up on me saying it
wasn't fair what the Dodgers are doing with contracts.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Oh stop so stupid.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You know, normally I get along really really well with
Coveno and Rich. They're good friends now, but I wanted
to punch both of them in the throat that morning
because I felt like that argument from them was beneath them,
especially being ironically a die hard Yankees fan and Mets fan,
(17:58):
because all baseball teams for money and try for the
big whale free agents, and the bottom line is these
players want to be Dodgers and chose the Dodgers, and
all the fans that are hating on the Dodgers right now,
to me, it just screams jealousy.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The other thing is, you understand, like people are debating
are they gonna get rid of deferred money. They're never
gonna get rid of deferred money, because what's gonna happen, Danny,
and I was talking to somebody who works in baseball,
and they all kind of thought the same thing, Like
the Dodgers for the next ten or twelve years are
gonna be set, but after that they're screwed, like with
(18:37):
all this deferred money with the Otani contract, so they better.
I mean, we're gonna be old, Danny. But by the
time we're old, they're gonna blow. I mean, they're gonna
have so much deferred money, it's highly unlikely. I think
the team will probably be sold by then, and then
whoever buys it is going to inherit all this debt
that they're gonna have to pay out but not it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Be like a huge radio company.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You ain't kid, oh man, what are you doing moment?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But Benny, what's funny is though, when the Dodgers fell
on their faces two postseasons in a row, we didn't
hear any of this.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh no, it was the Dodgers of failures.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
All these same people had all these jokes about the choker,
the choking Dodgers. So come on, man, So you're switching
from that to now this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, and Will Smith the Catcher is a homegrown play
that's oh.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I I brought him up more than once, and they
were making fun of me because I set his name
more than one time. They're like, you keep going back
to Will Smith, and I'm like, cause he's one of
our core players.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So yeah, it just bugs me because I didn't think
they would go down that road. They're usually above the
petty sports cry baby stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, you mark my words. When Juan Soto signs with
either the Yankees or the Mets. It'll be a lot
deferred money. I be shocked if it's not. And then
you can say, well, what about what about soda? What
about one soda you got? You know you signed soda
a deferred.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Mondy I at this point, I am praying the Dodgers
get Sodo, because now I want them to fucking sign everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No no, no, no days off? All right, Mike and
Fullerton writes, and he says, Hi, Ben and g I'm
not exaggerating a bit when I say Friday's Talk with
Brian Finley his hands down the greatest fifth Hour episode
of all time. Did you know you were recording podcast
in the moment or did it hit you afterwards? And
(20:39):
when you say getting Finley on the show is your
biggest get since Brian Billick, that's from I put your
pants back on, Mike, put your pants back up? Bet
you that by you come on, daddy, Daddy. I told
numb nuts, I said, listen, I felt bad the company
laid them off, and so I said, well, I'll throw
(21:00):
your bone. And plus I think it was Mike and
Fullerton that ferg dog that paid twenty thousand dollars for
that appearance, So that was a paid appearance. Nick and
Wisconsin Right. Since its Ben and Danny. I've missed contributing
the last couple of months, always listening, but just purchased
my first house. Congratulations, dig Mazle. Getting to the question
with Thanksgiving just a couple of days removed? What is
(21:23):
the worst small talk that happens at your Thanksgiving family
get togethers? My very leftist grandparents loved talking politics. Oh,
can't stand it? Later, skater got a murder, gotta go?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah? Were they comparing their best Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It's a tough one. You want to want to sit
this one out if you're a leftist this year. But
as far as me, I think we have similar things. Danny.
It's the people that aren't sporty, people that try to
talk sports that's always awkward.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, who's so? Who's going to in the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Because Ben, you're in sports radio. You're in sports talk radio,
so am I. So we have the answers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, we have all the answers. And a lot of
my relatives aren't sports people. They don't have the sports gene.
They don't really understand And I get it. You know,
and I'm I genuinely don't like small talk as it is,
and I know it's awkward. You're supposed to do it
at the holidays, and just it's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
How about this. Uh, some of my family members were
talking about AI recently because Kim Kardashian posed with that
Tesla robot. Okay, did you see the pictures of her?
I did.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
People were wondering if it was paid for, right, if
it was.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Like yeah, well yeah, and she was like some of
the pictures, she was sitting on the robot's lap.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I got turned on and it scared me.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
She was holding its hand. She obviously did this because
she wanted a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Wait, you think of Kardashian would want to take wrong
with you, daddy? Come on, that's outrageous. They don't want
any attention.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, but I mean she wanted she wanted the kind
of attention like, oh, is Kim going to be the
first person to have babies with a robot?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, if there was a way, the Kardashians would
be in on it, right yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The first comment underneath our pictures, Ben said, finally you
have a babysitter for Kanye's kids. Oh, because she's She
was in the news recently bitching about how she's taking
care of the kids all by herself. Anyhow, I mean,
imagine what people think about AI. Like older people, they
(23:45):
think it's the strangest shit because it's straight out of
the I Robot movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
When I think AI, I think allan ivers and I
think Sixers. I think of the Lakers, six Ers, NBA
Finals and the tylu Remember when AI at the Game one?
The Sixers got all the attention. They lost that series,
but that was the only game they won.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yes. I mean, you know, we grew up with the
Jets ins.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We all thought we were gonna have Rosie the robot
in our kitchen. Yeah, in a decade from now, will
there be a Tesla robot in everybody's kitchen? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Who knows. I saw somebody did an interview as wee.
They were talking about like in twelve years, like people
aren't gonna have to work and everything, no job wasn't
it seems seems crazy. I guess we'll be here, hopefully,
if we're lucky enough, we'll be here in twelve years
and we'll.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
See what happened in Flying Deloreans.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Y'all all set, But thank you Nick. Congratulations in your
house man, that's an awesome thing. And hope you love it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And careful who you get as your handyman.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, don't have a guy paint without towels down in
the kitchen before a big party. David in Ottawa. That's
in Canada, Danny, David rise and he says hey, he
says Ben and Danny, is this fair foul? A Montreal
mall has been criticized. They're using the Baby Shark song
to deter homeless people to have them leave the mall,
(25:12):
so they keep playing the Baby Shark songs like this
has happened a lot. I don't think this is the
only time, David, this has happened. But I think that's
fair game. They're trying to their business people, they're trying
to get people to shop at the ball and I
understand it's not the greatest thing in the world, but
it's not. If the homeless people are there and they
don't like the song, they'll leave. If they like the
(25:33):
song and then they can stay. But I don't have
a problem with it. Do you have a problem with it?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Danny?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I think that's fair no, and I heard that it
was a close competition between that song and the original
Ben Mallard songs. How dare you?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I just realized now that a lot of songs that
you and him, Roberto Eddie, all the songs are now outdated.
There's no I mean they there's no songs that are
They're all to me, they're classics, but they.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, well, the militia they're busy mailing Lorena gifts instead
of mailing in Now.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I know we don't get anything. It's all about Lorena.
It's amazing, Danny. You put a nice sounding female on
the radio and all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
To any sounding female.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I know, I know, I know she sounds cute and
she is cute.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But yeah, I mean, let's be on this. Jeanie from
Medford had stalkers.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, it's wild man. You guys are horn dogs. Steve
in Seattle writes in and says, I saw the story
this week. I thought of the podcast. Scientists believe we
will be able to go backwards in time within five years,
Ben and Danny, would you be down to go backwards
in time?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Wow, we were just talking about the future. This is
back to the future.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Back a I think it's bullshit. I don't believe we'll
be able to go backwards in time in five years
because if you go backwards in time, right, isn't this
the back to the future thing? You'll mess things up
and you'll screw everything up and then there will be
no future as you know it and all that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So, yeah, you could erase yourself from the picture.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Now everyone would have the same plan, right, We'd find
out who won the Super Bowl, go bet on the Chiefs,
and then we'd all be rich and be great. But
I don't I don't buy that. Although I do believe
in the multiverse. I do believe there's different dimensions and
every decision changes the future in one way or another.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, it's like that movie Sliding Doors.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
There you go. I didn't see that movie, but I'll
take your word for it. Take a bad job by you,
Carl in New Hampshire. Right, since says Japan has launched
a drinkable mayonnaise, are you and Danny down with? I
don't mind mayonnaise, but I don't want to drink mayonnaise. Danny,
you a big mayo guy.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's taken me years to be okay with the idea
of drinking yogurt mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
No, thank you the yogurt guy. Kyrie and Okase I
checked in. He gave him a little shout out the
other day. He meant a lot. Thank you Kyrie for
checking and he always listens to our podcast religiously. He's
a big fan. I think Doc Mike was going through Oklahoma.
I was like, hey, you got to go see Kyrie man.
We got Kyrie and Okac, Marcus and san Antonio rights in.
(28:19):
He says, Hey, Ben, instead of waiting for Roberto or
Danny g to leave or get let go, can we
possibly have them on that episode at some point? How
about Danny on every week? Marcus? He says, I get
enough of Lorena on the show, so we're good there.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh what does he mean on your live show?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't I'm not sure what. I'm confused by this
because he said he says, got me thinking about some
of my favorite interviews on the Real Fifth Hour the
last couple of years. And he then made this request
and he mentioned you but you're on the podcast every week? Yeah, true,
every week you are part of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You're all Before I joined you on the podcast, I
was a guest on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That is true, you were you did pop up on
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, and I haven't so I haven't been a guest
since then. That was like three and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Has it been there long? I can't believe how far
I mean fastest all Wow. Yeah, Marcus, you didn't really
recommend anyone, I mean other than Roberto and Nanny who
are here. We had Eddie on. I just had Numbnuts
Brian Finley on. If you want to recommend someone by
name in radio or someone I've worked with part of
the Fox Alumni Association, I'd be happy to put them on.
(29:30):
But I'm a little confused anyway. Marcus loves the show,
so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Thank you, Marcus. And I want the Whale. He's hard
to get. We've only had him on one time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Brian Billick, I'm not available, so you leave the message. Yeah,
Billick back the great Brian Billick. Brian Billick, Brian Billick.
We can only hope now. Last one is a pontoon
Pops from Worcester, Mass. I didn't want to mention this night,
this is some of this is not for consumption on
the air, but he sent me a message Danny after
(30:00):
the passing of mass Whole Mickey and I talked about
this on this podcast. Masshole Mickey was planning a event.
He was going to put a Mallard meet and greet
together in his area in Wooster.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Oh, that's right. I remember you mentioning that.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And he was gonna have me like throw out the
first pitch at a Woo Socks game and it was
gonna be all. I was really excited about it. And
obviously he passed away, and so Pontoon Pops checked in.
He lives in Worcester, and he he said that he
would like to know and I guess I'm adding this,
but honor mass whole Mickey. If I do end up
going back, we do the TV show for season three,
(30:39):
have have an event at a wo Socks game. So
he says he he knows who to contact and he
knows some people back there he can make the do
the legwork. So hopefully in honor we'll do it in
honor Pontoon Pops, in honor of mass Whole Mickey, and
we'll have to make sure we say his name and
all I give him some love. But I I'm all that,
(31:01):
I'm down with it, man, I'm there. I love. I
have not been able to throw out the first pitch
in a while. It's been years, so I'm even I'm
a better picture now, Danny, I am better now.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I've got gyle.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You age with grace like the Necro Brothers. Yeah, you know,
we got that nice bench for Genie in La. I
feel like it would be awesome for mass whole Mickey
to get some sort of little black at that baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That'd be great. Yeah. I don't know if they have
a thing like that, but we should do something to
honor Masshole Mickey. That would be a great tribute to
him and something his kids and family can check out
down the line. All right, have a wonderful rest your Sonday,
enjoy the NFL. I'll be back in the Magic Radio
Box tonight doing it live, all night long, doing it live,
(31:51):
hanging out with you. So eleven o'clock in the West,
two am in the East on Monday morning and Danny,
you guys filling in on Covino and this week or
is a regular schedule.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, we're back to our usual afternoon drive time slot
that is two to four pm on the West side
and five to seven pm in Think of an upstate
New York town, Ithaca.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's loony.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Oh yeah, Ithaca.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hey, it's loony.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Five to seven pm in beautiful Ithaca, New York.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
All right, have a great rest of your day. Again,
We'll catch you next time. Later.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fastion 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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air eywhere the Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio. And welcome to December, the
first day of the final month of the year, and
we are back at it again, slaving away over the
red hot microphone with the on air light above us
(00:53):
on an NFL Sunday've already been four games played in
the NFL. But this is your unofficial early early pregame
show without Terry Bradshaw, without a lot of just canned
laughter and all that and my rams play out or
(01:13):
not a big game they play the Saints Raiders obviously
played back on on Friday. The biggest game by far today,
not even close, is the Eagles and Ravens game. Right
there's nothing really even close to that on the card today.
That's I know Sunday Night uses the biggest game forty
(01:33):
nine ers in Bills, But the Eagles Ravens game, that's
where it's at. That is the game day.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The weather, the elements should be fun to watch for
Sunday Night football because they're expecting sleet and snow and
thirty mile per hour wins.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, snow globe game. It's supposed to be a snow
glow in Buffalo, which is always kind of kind of cool.
I guess Brock Purdy, if I read correctly, this week,
he's gonna play who knows if he's gonna finish the game.
So there's some debate about that, his health and all that,
but there should be some snow there. And as far
(02:10):
as the other try to look around here. There's a
slight chance of snow for the Washington Tennessee game and
the DMV it's gonna be maybe in the second half,
some snow for that game today. Slight chance of snow
in Baltimore for the Eagles and Ravens. But yeah, the
(02:30):
big one if you want to see a snow game
Buffalo and San Francisco, that's the big snow game today
on the NFL car so we have the mail bag.
But before we get to the mail bag, I teased
this yesterday the word of the.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Week, the word of the week, So.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We're in the week, this weekend, this first day of
December is gremlin. Kremlin. Now, you know in the movie
Gremlin's Danny. We're around the same age, and that was
a big movie in our youth, right, Gremlins, And of
course that's.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What I always think about when we're annihilating wings at
Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I was. When I have to do the show
from the home studio and things get attacked, I think
of the Gremlins. So a gremlin, believe it or not,
a mythical creature in the upper air who causes damage
to airplanes. And the term not that old. The term
it first appeared in the Royal Air Force. It's the
UK Air Force. It was Royal Air Force slang during
(03:29):
the interwar years of the nineteen twenties. Now there are
claims that gremlin was in use during the First World War,
and while the people that study the history of words
say that's plausible, there is no evidence it, meaning it
wasn't written down somewhere earlier. Now, the origin of the
(03:51):
term is actually unknown, But what is known is that
gremlin as first recorded, originally had a much different meaning.
That is, a a low ranking commissioned or non commissioned
Air Force officer. So you were called a gremlin if
you were a low ranking you know, a person in
the military, the Air Force in the UK, one who
(04:12):
performed the routine duties that were beneath the dignity of
the brass. So you were a low level hoi poloid
type person. And they say it was first used in
a poem. The first time I was written down. There
was a poem that appeared in April of nineteen twenty
nine in an issue of the journal Aeroplane, and that
(04:37):
was the first use of the term gremlin. So originally
gremlin meant some low level person in the Royal Air Force,
and for us now it means a little creature, a
little weird creature thing. So all right, let's get to
the mail bag. What do you say you ready for
the mailbag? Let's go, hio.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Al it's.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Mail bag, all right. First one up is alf from
the Great Beyond. These are actual letters. If you want
to send a message in you can send it right now.
Won't get on today's mail bag because this is a podcast,
but you can send it in anyway and we might
(05:27):
use it for next week. Make sure we put your
name in there if you want credit, name and city
so we can give you a little love. So the
mail bag, these are questions sending Ben Mahlor show is
the uh, well, that's the Facebook page. We don't really
use Facebook for this anymore. It's real fifth hour at
gmail dot com. That's all laters, no numbers. Real spell
(05:48):
it out r E A L and then f I
F T H h o U R at gmail dot com.
Music provided as we said by ohio Al first one
up Alf from the Great Beyond. He says, gentlemen, I'll
try not to be Debbie Downer this week. But Masshole
Mickey had asked me weeks ago whether or not I
thought that you'd be doing a mail bag this week,
(06:09):
and he told me he had a great question for you,
which you teased last week when you read his question. Also, Ben,
I thought you were the king of the tees. But
masshole Mickey has outdone you, because now I have to
wait until I passed through the pearly gates to ask
him what his question was. Oh Man Yeah. So now
(06:31):
for my mediocre question, do your wives really get into Christmas?
I mean, like multiple trees and Christmas village pieces and
decorations everywhere, like the ones that my wife puts all
over the Alpha State. Before we get to that, I
did want to address Masshole Mickey major depression. Obviously, we're very,
(06:51):
very sad. We did the mail bag last week. I
did not find out that Masshole Mickey had died until
we found out. I found out on Sunday during I
think it was Sunday during the day what I believe.
I'm trying to think of the timeline. But at the
time we did the mailbag, we did not know that
he had had died. He died on his way to work.
(07:12):
And my condolences to his family, obviously as his wife
and his kids there and his friends many and I
want to thank his friends. A lot of times Danny
and people pass away we don't know, and his buddies
who were also out delivering newspapers or whatever the stores.
They all listened to the show. They're fans of the show,
(07:33):
and they knew him from the show, and they listened
to the show and they wanted me to know that
he had passed away on his way to work and
just terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Super sad. We you and I were texting about it
to start the week, and not only was he a
big part of this Fifth Hour podcast, but he signed
up on Twitter just so he could communicate with us
on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. I know he loved the show. And I met
him when I was back in Boston. We were taking
some stuff for the TV show and I said, like,
last minute, I a couple hours noticed. I was like, Hey,
I'm gonna be outside Bova's Bakery on the North End.
Anybody wants to meet me, come down. I give nobody
really heads up, and mass Ole Mickey's such a big
fan that he drove. He lives out near Worcester, and
(08:19):
he drove all the way in to see me and
hang out for like, you know, twenty thirty minutes or
whatever it was. And I talked to blind Scott a
little bit this week, and blind Scott had gotten there
a little bit earlier and was catching up with mass
Ole Mickey, and blind Scott was really emotional about it too.
We were talking about you know, he had told me
how big a deal the show was for him and
(08:41):
how he loved it and it was such a big
part of his routine, mass O Mickey, and it was
just just sat all the way around, especially and he
almost died during the summer. He told me the story
about he had had major medical problems. He had a
big operation and a lot of health problems, and you know,
he got over that and he went right back to
work because he had to provide food, you know, money
(09:03):
for the family and whatnot, and so he quickly went
back to work. And yeah, I don't know what happened.
I know, I don't know all the details. I just
know he was in an accident eno if he had
a heart attack or there was the weather was bad,
which I heard the weather was bad as he was
driving work. I don't know about all that, but just
just a sad deal. I mean, he was around our age, Danny,
(09:25):
a little bit younger than us. And then that's it.
Lights out. But rest in peace, mass While Mickey will
We'll miss you, and a lot of people were touched.
I mean, it's I heard from a lot of folks.
It's one of those things. They'd heard his name a
lot because he used a lot of it on Twitter.
He only called in a few times, but a lot
of email questions for this podcast, and also he would
(09:48):
send us messages on Twitter all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So but he really was a nice dude, and he
had a great sense of humor obviously, good taste and radio. Yes,
and I'm going to name the podcast today in tribute
to him, Masshole, Mickey mailbag no good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I mean he was. He was great man. I
loved hearing about his life. And he had worked as
a chef, he had some health problems, you know that's
obviously couldn't do that anymore, and spent a little time
in California, had in San Diego, and it was good
to get to know him a little bit. And I'm
really happy I got to meet him. I obviously did
not think that would be the you know, the end
(10:29):
of it. I thought I'd see him every year, going back.
Hopefully the TV show gets picked up and we go
back and hang out and catch up, you know, a
year after year and all that. But you never know.
That's the craziness of life, right, You don't know when
that's it. And this is the second time that's happened
where I met a listener at an event and within
a couple months they died. There was a guy Rick
in Boston. This goes back probably fifteen sixteen years. I
(10:53):
was with Mikey Adams. We were bar hopping around Boston.
Mikey Adams is a big nighttime guy wi and he
knew that guy was like the mayor of Boston, knew
every bartender complete you know, he loved drinking. So we
would bounce from bar to bar around Boston. And Rick,
this guy, one of our callers, showed up and it
(11:14):
was really cool. And again, you know, died in a
car accident and I remember Rick, and that kind of
triggered that memory of Rick from Masshole.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Mickey.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
As far as the question, alf, I yeah, I mean
my wife is obsessed with Christmas. I'm Jewish, so I
you know, I'm not. We celebrate the spirit of Christmas
at the house, but not the not really religious stuff.
But I mean, yeah, there's lights, there's the tree, and
this already yesterday, Danny. On Saturday, we went out and
(11:47):
got the tree. Uh, and my wife's like, she's reading
these stories online. She's like, well, you know, you don't
want to get it too soon because you know you'll
dry out and it's a fire hazard. And then like
two days later, let's go get the tree, you know,
so it's like, well, no, that's proba too soon. But yeah,
there's lights everywhere, all kinds of decorations. It's pretty pretty crazy.
(12:07):
What about you, Danny, your wife all over the Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
For me, my mom didn't like the origins of Christmas
and thought it had pagan roots and didn't want to
follow the crowd to be like a sheep. Okay, she
didn't do Christmas. She didn't say anything bad about it
to anybody, but she just didn't celebrate, which was fine.
So growing up I wasn't accustomed to it. As an adult,
(12:31):
it's been like whatever because I don't have any tradition
with it. But my Wifey loves it because she has
great memories of doing it with her kids and traditions
and so Black Friday, as I was preparing to watch
The Raiders, she was preparing the Christmas tree and decorations.
She took everything out of the balcony closet with very
(12:54):
serious OCD put everything in the exact same spot it
was last Christmas, with some improvements from Amazon. So yeah,
she's really really into it. And she's one of those
ladies where she wants to take pictures where the whole
family has matching pajamas.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh boy, those are the things when your kids are old.
They're like, holy fuck.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm always going to be one of those kids. Because
she took a picture like that last year and I
was the only one not in the matching pajamas.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're like, I'm a Raider fan. I cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, not even for family.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I hear you, all right. Next up Jose from
Van Eyes Beautiful Van Eyes, right, sin He says, Yeah, guys,
bet I like the videos you post on Instagram about
the TV show. I gotta know, though, Have you and
Tom gotten stopped by security while you wander around Universal Studios? No,
(13:52):
not really, there was one. It was one time. Tom's
still embarrassed we did that. There was a security guard
that they're always driving by these little golf carts Universal Students.
Now we have actual passes. Like it's very weird, Hojse
we're there. We feel like interlopers, like we don't really
belong there. We feel like we should be on one
(14:12):
of the trams that goes by every thirty minutes. But
we're allowed. I mean, we have a pass, we got
cleared by security. We are working, we do the TV
show from there, So it's very bizarre. It does feel
like you don't belong there. And we keep going further
and further back in Universal Studios, and the tram goes by,
and this is again this week. We were filming the
(14:34):
video and the tram went by and.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We yeah, I saw that, And because you were panning
your camera around a little bit, I recognized exactly where
you guys were standing from the tram tour when they
take you by and they show you different buildings that
writers work in across from the studio.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we were walking that's like
the main street on the back lot. You walk down
that street and there's like a little dining kitchen area,
there's a writer's room, there's studios all across there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That's gotta feel cool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh, it feels awesome. It feels just amazing. It's it's all.
It's so great to do it. But yeah, one time
we got stopped again, I don't want to say stop
by security, but a guy came by and asked us
if we needed to direct. He thought we were lost
or something like that. You know, he didn't know who
we were, and you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Know, Louis that's got to be because of the dumb
look on Looney's face.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Looney, of course was hurt by that because Looney wants
everyone to know who Looney is. I of course want
no one to know who I am. But we're complete
opposites in that in that regard. But it's been been
great fun and I appreciate it. It does remind me of
the early days of Fox Sports Radio. I have so
many great memories. When Fox Sports Radio launched, we had
(15:51):
studios at the Fox Lot in West La on Pico
and this is amazing. We would go out, and I've
told stories before, my buddy and we would run around
the Fox Lot. I'd just go there sometimes and hang
out and then they didn't care. It was very laid back.
There was hardly any security. Just go through the guard
gate going there and we would f around on the
(16:13):
New York set, the backdrop of New York. And then
nine to eleven happened and that was it. You know,
they I couldn't get anyone in after nine to eleven,
But before that it was cool. But this is a
lot of fun. So but yeah, security is not. They
really don't bother us. They just one time and Loony's
got all offended by that. Reggie from Detroit wright say,
(16:34):
He says, Ben and Danny, I know you guys don't
do sporty on the podcast. I know your thoughts. Ben,
I heard your monologue. How does Danny feel about Blake
Snell going to his Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh, I'm glad this is a question this week.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so, I don't know if you have the same beef.
I I don't like Blake Snell. I don't. I was
very clear about that. He's a good ballplayer, but I
don't like him. I don't think you have his much
hatred as I have for But where are you at
on that? Dan?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
No, he doesn't bother me specifically, But what bothers me
and I still have a bad taste in my mouth
is the uh. It was Thanksgiving Day, actually Thanksgiving morning.
Covino and Rich were filling in for Dan Patrick, and
one of their big topics that morning was the Dodgers
are the new evil Empire. I had a Yankees fan
(17:27):
and a Mets fan ganging up on me saying it
wasn't fair what the Dodgers are doing with contracts.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Oh stop so stupid.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You know, normally I get along really really well with
Coveno and Rich. They're good friends now, but I wanted
to punch both of them in the throat that morning
because I felt like that argument from them was beneath them,
especially being ironically a die hard Yankees fan and Mets fan,
(17:58):
because all baseball teams for money and try for the
big whale free agents, and the bottom line is these
players want to be Dodgers and chose the Dodgers, and
all the fans that are hating on the Dodgers right now,
to me, it just screams jealousy.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The other thing is, you understand, like people are debating
are they gonna get rid of deferred money. They're never
gonna get rid of deferred money, because what's gonna happen, Danny,
and I was talking to somebody who works in baseball,
and they all kind of thought the same thing, Like
the Dodgers for the next ten or twelve years are
gonna be set, but after that they're screwed, like with
(18:37):
all this deferred money with the Otani contract, so they better.
I mean, we're gonna be old, Danny. But by the
time we're old, they're gonna blow. I mean, they're gonna
have so much deferred money, it's highly unlikely. I think
the team will probably be sold by then, and then
whoever buys it is going to inherit all this debt
that they're gonna have to pay out but not it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Be like a huge radio company.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You ain't kid, oh man, what are you doing moment?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But Benny, what's funny is though, when the Dodgers fell
on their faces two postseasons in a row, we didn't
hear any of this.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh no, it was the Dodgers of failures.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
All these same people had all these jokes about the choker,
the choking Dodgers. So come on, man, So you're switching
from that to now this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, and Will Smith the Catcher is a homegrown play
that's oh.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I I brought him up more than once, and they
were making fun of me because I set his name
more than one time. They're like, you keep going back
to Will Smith, and I'm like, cause he's one of
our core players.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So yeah, it just bugs me because I didn't think
they would go down that road. They're usually above the
petty sports cry baby stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, you mark my words. When Juan Soto signs with
either the Yankees or the Mets. It'll be a lot
deferred money. I be shocked if it's not. And then
you can say, well, what about what about soda? What
about one soda you got? You know you signed soda
a deferred.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Mondy I at this point, I am praying the Dodgers
get Sodo, because now I want them to fucking sign everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No no, no, no days off? All right, Mike and
Fullerton writes, and he says, Hi, Ben and g I'm
not exaggerating a bit when I say Friday's Talk with
Brian Finley his hands down the greatest fifth Hour episode
of all time. Did you know you were recording podcast
in the moment or did it hit you afterwards? And
(20:39):
when you say getting Finley on the show is your
biggest get since Brian Billick, that's from I put your
pants back on, Mike, put your pants back up? Bet
you that by you come on, daddy, Daddy. I told
numb nuts, I said, listen, I felt bad the company
laid them off, and so I said, well, I'll throw
(21:00):
your bone. And plus I think it was Mike and
Fullerton that ferg dog that paid twenty thousand dollars for
that appearance, So that was a paid appearance. Nick and
Wisconsin Right. Since its Ben and Danny. I've missed contributing
the last couple of months, always listening, but just purchased
my first house. Congratulations, dig Mazle. Getting to the question
with Thanksgiving just a couple of days removed? What is
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the worst small talk that happens at your Thanksgiving family
get togethers? My very leftist grandparents loved talking politics. Oh,
can't stand it? Later, skater got a murder, gotta go?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah? Were they comparing their best Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It's a tough one. You want to want to sit
this one out if you're a leftist this year. But
as far as me, I think we have similar things. Danny.
It's the people that aren't sporty, people that try to
talk sports that's always awkward.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, who's so? Who's going to in the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Because Ben, you're in sports radio. You're in sports talk radio,
so am I. So we have the answers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, we have all the answers. And a lot of
my relatives aren't sports people. They don't have the sports gene.
They don't really understand And I get it. You know,
and I'm I genuinely don't like small talk as it is,
and I know it's awkward. You're supposed to do it
at the holidays, and just it's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
How about this. Uh, some of my family members were
talking about AI recently because Kim Kardashian posed with that
Tesla robot. Okay, did you see the pictures of her?
I did.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
People were wondering if it was paid for, right, if
it was.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Like yeah, well yeah, and she was like some of
the pictures, she was sitting on the robot's lap.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I got turned on and it scared me.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
She was holding its hand. She obviously did this because
she wanted a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Wait, you think of Kardashian would want to take wrong
with you, daddy? Come on, that's outrageous. They don't want
any attention.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, but I mean she wanted she wanted the kind
of attention like, oh, is Kim going to be the
first person to have babies with a robot?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, if there was a way, the Kardashians would
be in on it, right yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The first comment underneath our pictures, Ben said, finally you
have a babysitter for Kanye's kids. Oh, because she's She
was in the news recently bitching about how she's taking
care of the kids all by herself. Anyhow, I mean,
imagine what people think about AI. Like older people, they
(23:45):
think it's the strangest shit because it's straight out of
the I Robot movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
When I think AI, I think allan ivers and I
think Sixers. I think of the Lakers, six Ers, NBA
Finals and the tylu Remember when AI at the Game one?
The Sixers got all the attention. They lost that series,
but that was the only game they won.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yes. I mean, you know, we grew up with the
Jets ins.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We all thought we were gonna have Rosie the robot
in our kitchen. Yeah, in a decade from now, will
there be a Tesla robot in everybody's kitchen? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Who knows. I saw somebody did an interview as wee.
They were talking about like in twelve years, like people
aren't gonna have to work and everything, no job wasn't
it seems seems crazy. I guess we'll be here, hopefully,
if we're lucky enough, we'll be here in twelve years
and we'll.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
See what happened in Flying Deloreans.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Y'all all set, But thank you Nick. Congratulations in your
house man, that's an awesome thing. And hope you love it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And careful who you get as your handyman.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, don't have a guy paint without towels down in
the kitchen before a big party. David in Ottawa. That's
in Canada, Danny, David rise and he says hey, he
says Ben and Danny, is this fair foul? A Montreal
mall has been criticized. They're using the Baby Shark song
to deter homeless people to have them leave the mall,
(25:12):
so they keep playing the Baby Shark songs like this
has happened a lot. I don't think this is the
only time, David, this has happened. But I think that's
fair game. They're trying to their business people, they're trying
to get people to shop at the ball and I
understand it's not the greatest thing in the world, but
it's not. If the homeless people are there and they
don't like the song, they'll leave. If they like the
(25:33):
song and then they can stay. But I don't have
a problem with it. Do you have a problem with it?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Danny?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I think that's fair no, and I heard that it
was a close competition between that song and the original
Ben Mallard songs. How dare you?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I just realized now that a lot of songs that
you and him, Roberto Eddie, all the songs are now outdated.
There's no I mean they there's no songs that are
They're all to me, they're classics, but they.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, well, the militia they're busy mailing Lorena gifts instead
of mailing in Now.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I know we don't get anything. It's all about Lorena.
It's amazing, Danny. You put a nice sounding female on
the radio and all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
To any sounding female.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I know, I know, I know she sounds cute and
she is cute.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But yeah, I mean, let's be on this. Jeanie from
Medford had stalkers.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, it's wild man. You guys are horn dogs. Steve
in Seattle writes in and says, I saw the story
this week. I thought of the podcast. Scientists believe we
will be able to go backwards in time within five years,
Ben and Danny, would you be down to go backwards
in time?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Wow, we were just talking about the future. This is
back to the future.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Back a I think it's bullshit. I don't believe we'll
be able to go backwards in time in five years
because if you go backwards in time, right, isn't this
the back to the future thing? You'll mess things up
and you'll screw everything up and then there will be
no future as you know it and all that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So, yeah, you could erase yourself from the picture.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Now everyone would have the same plan, right, We'd find
out who won the Super Bowl, go bet on the Chiefs,
and then we'd all be rich and be great. But
I don't I don't buy that. Although I do believe
in the multiverse. I do believe there's different dimensions and
every decision changes the future in one way or another.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, it's like that movie Sliding Doors.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
There you go. I didn't see that movie, but I'll
take your word for it. Take a bad job by you,
Carl in New Hampshire. Right, since says Japan has launched
a drinkable mayonnaise, are you and Danny down with? I
don't mind mayonnaise, but I don't want to drink mayonnaise. Danny,
you a big mayo guy.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's taken me years to be okay with the idea
of drinking yogurt mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
No, thank you the yogurt guy. Kyrie and Okase I
checked in. He gave him a little shout out the
other day. He meant a lot. Thank you Kyrie for
checking and he always listens to our podcast religiously. He's
a big fan. I think Doc Mike was going through Oklahoma.
I was like, hey, you got to go see Kyrie man.
We got Kyrie and Okac, Marcus and san Antonio rights in.
(28:19):
He says, Hey, Ben, instead of waiting for Roberto or
Danny g to leave or get let go, can we
possibly have them on that episode at some point? How
about Danny on every week? Marcus? He says, I get
enough of Lorena on the show, so we're good there.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh what does he mean on your live show?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't I'm not sure what. I'm confused by this
because he said he says, got me thinking about some
of my favorite interviews on the Real Fifth Hour the
last couple of years. And he then made this request
and he mentioned you but you're on the podcast every week? Yeah, true,
every week you are part of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You're all Before I joined you on the podcast, I
was a guest on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That is true, you were you did pop up on
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, and I haven't so I haven't been a guest
since then. That was like three and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Has it been there long? I can't believe how far
I mean fastest all Wow. Yeah, Marcus, you didn't really
recommend anyone, I mean other than Roberto and Nanny who
are here. We had Eddie on. I just had Numbnuts
Brian Finley on. If you want to recommend someone by
name in radio or someone I've worked with part of
the Fox Alumni Association, I'd be happy to put them on.
(29:30):
But I'm a little confused anyway. Marcus loves the show,
so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Thank you, Marcus. And I want the Whale. He's hard
to get. We've only had him on one time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Brian Billick, I'm not available, so you leave the message. Yeah,
Billick back the great Brian Billick. Brian Billick, Brian Billick.
We can only hope now. Last one is a pontoon
Pops from Worcester, Mass. I didn't want to mention this night,
this is some of this is not for consumption on
the air, but he sent me a message Danny after
(30:00):
the passing of mass Whole Mickey and I talked about
this on this podcast. Masshole Mickey was planning a event.
He was going to put a Mallard meet and greet
together in his area in Wooster.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Oh, that's right. I remember you mentioning that.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And he was gonna have me like throw out the
first pitch at a Woo Socks game and it was
gonna be all. I was really excited about it. And
obviously he passed away, and so Pontoon Pops checked in.
He lives in Worcester, and he he said that he
would like to know and I guess I'm adding this,
but honor mass whole Mickey. If I do end up
going back, we do the TV show for season three,
(30:39):
have have an event at a wo Socks game. So
he says he he knows who to contact and he
knows some people back there he can make the do
the legwork. So hopefully in honor we'll do it in
honor Pontoon Pops, in honor of mass Whole Mickey, and
we'll have to make sure we say his name and
all I give him some love. But I I'm all that,
(31:01):
I'm down with it, man, I'm there. I love. I
have not been able to throw out the first pitch
in a while. It's been years, so I'm even I'm
a better picture now, Danny, I am better now.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I've got gyle.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You age with grace like the Necro Brothers. Yeah, you know,
we got that nice bench for Genie in La. I
feel like it would be awesome for mass whole Mickey
to get some sort of little black at that baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That'd be great. Yeah. I don't know if they have
a thing like that, but we should do something to
honor Masshole Mickey. That would be a great tribute to
him and something his kids and family can check out
down the line. All right, have a wonderful rest your Sonday,
enjoy the NFL. I'll be back in the Magic Radio
Box tonight doing it live, all night long, doing it live,
(31:51):
hanging out with you. So eleven o'clock in the West,
two am in the East on Monday morning and Danny,
you guys filling in on Covino and this week or
is a regular schedule.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, we're back to our usual afternoon drive time slot
that is two to four pm on the West side
and five to seven pm in Think of an upstate
New York town, Ithaca.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's loony.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Oh yeah, Ithaca.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hey, it's loony.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Five to seven pm in beautiful Ithaca, New York.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
All right, have a great rest of your day. Again,
We'll catch you next time. Later.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.
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