January 8, 2023 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Welcome into another Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
g Radio Toda. Just the last Sunday of the regular
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NFL season. Don't say that day. I don't want to
hear that. Danny. Well, you never know. Maybe they'll add
more games or something like that. But it is the
last scheduled Sunday for the National Football League, which is
not terrible news because Danny, you know what happens when
we get to the playoffs. That's always fun. And then
after the playoffs the silly season. We love the silly season.
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Every day there's a new crop of bullshit, there's a bottom.
I ready to bring the gas that the insiders make
up because they make their living making up bullshit and
we love it and we get to break down the
bullshit whether we believe it or not. It's so much fun,
so much fun, and we have that to look forward
to after the playoffs are done. Who won the NFL
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book up last year? I believe Eddie. I think Eddie
one last year. Yeah. Yeah, well, and we have that's
right with the book them to look forward to as well.
But right now we have a bunch bunch of random
emails that are between hay and grass, not easily categorized,
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and they're all over the map. That's the one of
the things we love about the the mail Bag. You
know ever know what you're gonna get. And if you're
new to the podcast, and based on the numbers, there
are actually some new people listening. God bless you. Thank
God for that. And if you want to join the
mail bag, we have a lot of the same people
that email us every week, but we also have new
people and we'd love to hear new voices. If you'd
like to be part of the fun, we'd also love
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to hear old voices. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Some of
the people that used to email us all the time.
You never know what happened. You wonder like some of
these people would emails every week and then they stopped
emailing us. Are they okay? Did they did we say
something to offend them? Did they have a medical condition?
Like you never know. It's it's the weird thing about that.
But but anyway, we we were. We're ready to go
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here with the podcast. You want to email me, you
can do it right now. You don't have to wait,
You don't have to wait. Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Are
you ready for this? Danny? You're prepared? Yeah? Strike up
the band for asked bend two point Oh, it's our guy,
(03:09):
ohio All. I feel like this whole show musically, we
we need a tip of the cap to our buddy
ohio All. He's provided us not only the mail bag,
but he's added you heard it yesterday. Pop goes the
culture all right? The first once from Barry in Nashville.
He says, Yo yo mo, Benny and Danny, help enlighten
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all of us. Why do callers, after waiting for hours
on hold, they finally get on the air and they
speak with you, and then they asked to go back
on hold. This makes no sense to me. Barry says,
There are many ways to listen to the show, doing
it on hold seems the least attractive. Why are these
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numbscles asking to go back on hold? So there's a
few reasons for that, Barry. First of all, I disagree
with your statement that being on hold is the least
attractive way to listen. I would say no, because you
actually get to hear the un filtered addition to the show. Yeah,
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there's a lot of things that don't get broadcast, that
get dump because people have potty mouths and we can't
broadcast and unto rest to radio, and some stuff doesn't
even make the podcast because we have to cut it
out of the podcast. You get to hear the in
its raw state here on Fax Sports Radio, God Radio College.
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So there's that. As far as why people would ask
to go back and hold, sometimes it's because they're out
of radio reception. The only way they can hear the
show is on the phone. Other times I don't know,
like Jet who fled, I don't know what's on with
that guy. But there's reasons for it, like sometimes maybe
they can't talk at that moment, they think they'll be
able to talk a little bit later. There's things like that, right,
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Danny Huny. I also think some listeners like to listen
in real time because there's obviously a delay on affiliates
as well as the Fox Sports Radio app. Yes, yeah,
for sure, there's a very long delay, not quite as
long as there used to be. But I was there
when the big delay came, and we always had a delay.
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But we freaked out. Everyone in radio freaked out years ago.
Has it been twenty years since Janet Jackson showed her
boobies or is it only been like fifteen years. I
don't know. My ass feels so good right now. We
just keep adding years on. But that Super Bowl in Houston,
justin timber Lake and Janet Jackson, when you saw a
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little nipple and apparently no one had ever seen a
nipple before and up close and personal, and that led
to all kinds of systems being put in and it
was like a big, big ship show for every radio
broadcaster and television broadcasting. Although it's impossible, I've tried to
do it, Danny, you can show a nipple on the radio. Possible.
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There's no nip slippage on the radio. It's never happened before.
I'm pretty sure Genie and Medford did it. I have
a statin night. John on Well, Jeannie gave you everything.
She gave you the full Monty. But anyway, Uh so
that's the answer to that. Next up is on the mailback.
Steve in Philadelphia says, hey, guys, Ben, I heard heard
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your meltdown the other day during one of your award
winning Mallard monologues. Uh, you seemed genuinely upset. How did
you continue and finished the monologue? Well, Steve, I think
you're referencing if I'm correct on this, Um, there was
a bit of a walking disaster. This happens every once
in a while, Danny on the on the show, we
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have a lot of moving parts and it's on the
the overnight. We do a lot of different features and
bits and whatnot. And sometimes we have new people that
come on the show. Roberto was under the weather one
night and so we had the new guy. And I
don't play a lot of the top of things. Yeah, yeah,
(07:08):
he's he's quite the guy. He's been a radio for
a while. And um, but you know, we all we
all have hiccups. You know, we all fart five times
a day or whatever. So anyway, I don't usually play
a lot of sound in the monologues. Now, the way
this works, I produced the monologues that produced that part
of the show, So I get all the audio. Any
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audio that we play I have to track down. I
have to log it. It's a big pain in the
s and I spent a lot of time getting ready
for the show, and it's just another thing I have
to do. And so but I I I logged the audio,
and then I will send it and then the editors
will actually cut it up. But I'll be the one
that says I need this fifteen second sound bite or
I need a seventeen second sound bite. So every once
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in a while they'll be something already in the system,
but most of the time it's stuff I tracked that, right,
So that's how that works, just inside inside radio. So
I for some reason, I was feeling frisky on Wednesday,
and I decided, you know, there's a lot of good
sound bites from different people in the NFL. I would
like to incorporate those into my monologues rather than me
just pretend to be them and read the quote. So
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I did. And now, in fairness, in my defense, Danny,
at the time I did it, I was on the
assumption Roberto was going to be on the show. Uh.
And I didn't get the message until after I had
sent the the audio in to be cut up for
the show that Roberto was under the weather and he
wasn't gonna be able to come in. But I figured
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I'd wasted all this time. I'm some dimwitted idiot. I
wasted all this time. I might as well use the
audio anyway. I mean, how hard could it be? And
uh and obviously as you if you listen, and I
guess this guy in Philly, Steve did it did it
was very awkward. Uh, there's no other way around it.
It was not kumbaya. Uh, it was not a Kuna matata.
It was what was the disconnect? Did he not know
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where the audio? Well, no, I'm not sure exactly what happened.
I was, you know, everyone saw I blow my gasket
and uh, and I'm human talk And I got a
little upset because I tossed to the sound bite and
then there's like a like a ten second pause, which
you don't want that that's a bad sign. That's dead air.
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But I figured if I start talking, maybe he'll play it.
I don't want to start talking because I'll talk over it.
So then he he finally played it, but it was
the wrong bite. It was not the bite I had
sent in that I had spent all this time logging.
It was a different bite. It was a shorter bite.
So then I thought, Okay, that must be a mistake,
so why don't we throw to it again. Let's play
a full bite. So so then I'm like, well, let's
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play the full bite. That was a mistake, Dade. That
was a tactical era on my part because there was
another like five second delay, and I'm bracing myself. I'm like,
oh man, I'm I'm starting to get worked up like
a volcano, right and I'm getting I'm getting piste off.
I'm you know, I'm the one. Nobody knows what's going
on behind the scenes. They just know I'm the one
on the air. And uh so five seconds go by,
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which seemed like ten minutes, and then the sound bite
plays and it's the same exacts out bite that we
just played that I just complained about. So at that point,
I I I just I lost it. But but then
I composed myself and and I was able to finish it. Steve, So, yeah,
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there there have been many more screw ups than that,
We've had some. I mean the most famous one of
them all is when I was doing the update and
the Royals are having their problems on the road, and
then we played I was sabotaged on that. So yeah,
that was an Art Martinez, special Artie Martinez, the great
Art Martinez, who who's to this day, said what my fault?
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You know, I just played the sound bite. But anyway,
so that's what happened on that was in there and
he fixed everything. Right, Let's move on, Let's see what
are we happier? Pierre from the Hot Stove counting all
the zeros on Rafael Dever's contract, you congratulations. You can
watch Rafael Devers in the Red Sox finishing around five
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hundred every year for the next eleven. Uh and uh,
Pierre says Ben. How surprised were you and the misses
when Daddy g and Mrs TINDERRONI asked you to be
the godparents of the future Little Rader. Very funny, very funny, Pierre.
I'm sure there's a lot of jockeying, right, Danny for
that title for those kind of things, right, there's a
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lot of movement going on behind the scenes, and family
trying to to sway you and and the wife there
am I correct on that? Well, you know, it's funny
you should ask about that because when I first broke
this news on our podcast, you mentioned you being a godfather.
I talked to my tender Rowni about that, and she said,
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we don't we have to be Catholic for that. Nah, No,
I'm not Catholic either. What are you doing? Come on? No?
And I told her, I'm like benn Is, benn Is
every religion exactly. I represent all people, all sects of religion.
Born Jewish of course. But you know that's whatever. You know, Hey,
it's a ceremonial thing anyway, right, what else? I don't
even know what else goes into that. It's actual stuff
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that if you're the Godfather, I think it would be
funny though, I say, you know, the Godfather my nicknames,
you know, and I'd be like, I'd be a legitimate
godfather because I'd be like like the godfather of you know,
the future, you know, whatever, you know, Jimmy G Radio
or whatever is. Yeah, whatever we decide on his name,
I christen you as the Godfather. There you go say, there,
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you're right, You're absolutely right, Pierre, good job by you,
all right. Next up Mike from Fullerton on the mail bag,
He says, I have to second that guy Pete in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week. You really should quit bullying Bobby,
he says, How dare you? What's the quickest you you've
seen someone give up on a New Year's resolution, assuming
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anyone you have you know, actually tries dumb New Year's resolutions,
he says. And also, go ahead and give us the
second half of the nicknames. We're all dying to hear them, says,
says our friend from Fullerton, Mike from Fullerton. So I
don't I don't make New Year's resolutions. I'm trying to think.
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Nothing really pops in my head. I guess it would
be like, hey, I'm not gonna drink, and then you
start drinking right at like twelve oh one you start
taking a shot or something like that. But any anything
pop in your head there, Danny when it comes to
failed New Year's resolutions, Well, yeah, it's something that was
talked about on Coveno and Rich a couple of afternoons ago.
Did you hear about the story about Equinox? No? What
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they're like a luxury Jim. Yeah, okay, Dave decided to
not accept new members hip applications on New Year's Day.
They do not want people who are making it their
New Year's resolution to work out, I'll come right now.
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This is either to get publicity and to you know,
this is it's either a marketing strategy, or they really
are pissed about people that just come in and then
quit immediately and muck it up for their regulars. Yeah,
this is the dumbest thing. This is like McDonald saying
we've decided we don't want to sell Big Max right now,
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we're gonna take a couple of months off from selling
the Big Max. This. If I own no, it would
be like them saying, if you're only coming for the
mic ribb, oh yeah, yeah, because you're a seasonal customer, bastard.
If you're only coming to get in the way of
our drive through for our big Mac customer, because you're
only in it for the mcribb, we're not gonna sell
you a mic ribb. No, but think about if we
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if we owned a gym like you know, Benny and
Danny G's world class, you know, twenty four hour a day, Jim,
some some bullshit, Jim. This is every year is a
mitzvah because all these dumbasses sign up for the gym,
and I know, I go to the jy. I'm a loser.
I go to the gym since my treadmill died up
a painful death when I moved into the north Woods
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and still has not come back from the dead. So
I have to go to the gym. And I know
every January I see a bunch of new faces, and
by usually early February, they're all gone. They're all coming
that maybe one or two stick around past mid February
by the time the Super Bowls played. And you know,
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because they don't have they have they either don't know
what to wear. They have the new gym clothes with
the tag on it. The women are all dolled up
with the makeup on, like what are you doing? Come on,
you hit the damn gym and that whold thing. So
do you want to hear their statement they put out
on social media. Sure, we don't speak January. The company
posted January is a language we don't understand. The statement
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read a fantasy delivered to your door in a pastel
colored box. It talks about change. It wants you to
start something when you should be in the middle of it.
It thinks time is on its side, it's new, It
needs a new outfit before it can begin stalling, shortcutting,
giving up. So let me ask you this, Danny. What
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happens when the marketing department gets a call from the
accounting department saying, you know how much money we just
lost because because of this promotion. Now, there was a
little bit of a debate between C and R because
I think it was Cavino who said, maybe they're just
trying to make it seem like they're so exclusive that
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that would actually drive more attention and more customers their
way after this little January stunt is over, because if
it's exclusive, then more Layman's wanted. Yeah, I know that's
a flaw and human niches. It's like if you charge more,
people think you're getting a better deal or something like that. Right,
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My argument would be the counter argument would be by
the time February comes, people are like, I'll just do
it next year. I'll just go I'll sign up for
the gym next year. This whole concept of time is
a human invention, Like it's it's just come on, all right, Uh, so,
and as far as the nicknameth you know, Mike, I don't.
I can't. I mean, people get upset when I do
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the nickname. God did this last week? I will I
only did half last week, so it was more than enough.
So I will not tell you that I am known
as the Baron of balderdash, big gall bladder. You did
that one last week. Hold on, of second, let me
give you the other I did this. I really, I've
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already forgotten. That's a bad that's a bad sign. Danny,
all right, the other half of my nicktives. Here we go.
Nobody will hear that I am known as everybody's gonna
hear that? Really? Oh you'll edit that out. It's a podcast.
It's not live. It's a podcast. I am known as
the spin Master of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster, the Beethoven
of BS. I'm an idiot, I don't know how much,
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Kermudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasm. He blew me
off at a hotel near l a x Dare you
the Tsar of zany dark night of week night sports radio,
Pucci mogul of mischief? Please make it stop. No, no,
it's not gonna stop. Benny the brazen King of zing
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Moneyball Mallard, I pity the fool that doesn't give me
my burto Benny the Bopper. Oh yeah, back in my
baseball days, facetious fox like Sultan of Insulting, the Shaman
of schaden freude, jumping Jack of wisecrack, insight of overnight medicine.
Man Mallard, I'm a doctor name Bob of Negativity, the
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Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle of cynical, Prince of preposterous, Professor
of propaganda, Hussar of hi perbole No no no, and
the mad Hatter of sports chatter, and soon to be
the godfather like Benny. We gotta come up if you
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guys want to suggest that an official you would be
the Gradio Godfather. The Gradio Godfather we could come up with.
And if you guys have an idea, and we've got
some very creative people, and Mike and Fullerton, Pierre are
our guy, Barry and Nashville and so many other people
that are very creative, you want to come up with
an idea for that the honorary Godfather. We've self self
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given myself that title, and Danny's given me his blessing,
So we're good. Yeah, alright, h next up on the
mail back Kevin in Kansas. Right, so he says, are
you used to buy music on singles and albums? I
even had a few eight tracks, and then cam cassettes,
the c d s and now downloads. Do you guys
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have a favorite form of listening to music through the years.
So I don't really have the music team that much.
I love listening to music. I don't have a big
music collection, Kevin, although I do have fun memories of
going to Tower Records. That was like the coolest thing. Man.
You felt like, really, I'm like, I'm not cool at all,
but I walked into Tower Records back in the day
and I felt like I was cool because that's where
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the cool people hung out of Tower Records, especially that
one about that Tower Records in Hollywood, that location, Remember
that's the one I'm talking about. Yeah, I lived there,
and I lived in Hollywood. I used to go up
to Sunset and that was like the legendary spot, like
where they're like the big time musicians. He heard stories
about like Elton John would go in there to buy
his music, you know, and all this ship. Um, I
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had a friend who met Tupac in there, and I
actually bought Tupac I get around Maxie cassette single inside
that very tower record store. Yeah that's pretty cool, man,
but we're dating ourselves. But yeah, that's my my the
thing that popped in my head Kevin, when you brought
that up music in the past and buying music Tower records,
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that was the spot. And then they died because of
what the internet, right, people just downloading music and that
was it. That was the death. Yeah, Napster started it all.
That was the downfall any other music file sharing and
uh boy, I met We did a live broadcast there
um in the late nineties with Mariah Carey. Good yeah,
(21:40):
good fond memories of that location right there. Yeah, I
mean I love listening to music on vinyl still, and
it's one of the reasons why vintage vinyl has made
such a comeback because instead of that high digital audio
sound with a lot of highs and mids, you get
that warm, m analog based low end feel from vinyl
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and the crackling, the popping, that sound that we heard
when we were little kids when our grandparents would be
playing their vinyl records. Yeah, it's it's it's all coo.
Remember when I, you know, as a little kid, my
mom had a record player and she played she bought
like kid music seat, you know, a disc and we'd
play that anyway. Jeff from Virginia Rights and he says, Hey, guys,
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who do you think gave Joe Buck the word on
the five minute warm up? Does that come from a producer?
That's a that's a kind of a sportive question. It's
a great controversy this. Yeah, you'd be screaming about it
on the air if it did come from a producer.
I would be throwing the producer under the bush, creating
a monster. Of course. Uh no, my theory on that,
(22:50):
And I did a monologue about it. Jeff, I don't
know if you heard it, but it's it's really a good,
good story. It's the whole thing is a dark story
by what happened. It is a terrible thing that this
guy has his heart stopped twice on the field. They
had to give him CPR and resuscitate him. And I'm
just terrible. But that part of the story, that Joe
Buck part, is fascinating to me because the NFL, this guy,
(23:12):
Troy Vincent is sweat he swears right, He's like, oh no,
I would never, I would never. We would never as
an NFL tell him five minutes to warm up. But
watching that Monday night game, I don't know if you
got the same vibe I did, Danny, But the vibe
I got was Joe Buck was not in his element.
He was very uncomfortable, as I would be, and he
(23:34):
was really kind of going down in flames. He didn't
say a lot, and when he spoke, he sounded like
really shook up, as you would imagine. So my theory
was he was waiting for someone to tell him what
was going on, and then once they did that, he
just kept repeating it. And so that's he claimed. Buck.
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He did an interview with the New York Post, and
from what I read, he said that that rule expert
on the broadcast is the guy that got the five
minute thing from the NFL that they were given five
minutes to warm up, and that came directly from the
NFL rules expert who used to work for the league.
And I don't believe the NFL at all, because the
NFL monitors these life that they monitored these broadcasts in
(24:18):
real time, and it's all about name image and likeness.
They want to protect the brand and Joe Buck. The
first time Joe Bucks had the five minute thing, if
that was bullshoy or bullpucky, as our friend Jay Scoop
likes to say, then the NFL would have corrected him
and said, you can't say that, you take that back.
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He repeated it three other times in the hour and
a half they were on the air, and as a
result of that, I'm and also they showed Joe Burrow
warming up. Yeah, like, why can't the NFL just say,
you know what? It was a fluid situation. We were
trying to figure it out as it was going on.
I don't think it of things ever gonna be perfect
(25:01):
in a situation like that. Yeah, they can't admit that
they screwed up. They can't admit that they left it up.
There can't do can't I do it. What was more
uncomfortable for me watching was Susie kolberg Uh with her
boys Chef Dy and who you know and bugger. Those
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two guys wanted to just shut it down. She was
trying to move the conversation forward, and so Twitter attacked
her as being cold. Yeah, and there's no there's no
good situation in that time, because no matter what you say,
it's not caring enough. It's not you know, people are
(25:46):
so sensitive about that. I'll give you a great example, Dan,
you'll appreciate this. So I had mapped the show out
the other night when this happened, you know, and these
are radio problems. Who the funk cares? But the way
I you the show, I tossed a bunch of stuff out.
I try to come up with ideas. I'm spitballing different
things I might want to talk about for that night,
(26:07):
and you're you're just jotting down some notes on what
you want to talk about. And so some nights it
goes by really quick. Other nights it takes forever and
there's just nothing really that you seem all that interested in.
On this night, it was like, there's a lot of
stuff that I really wanted to talk about. I was like,
it was exciting. And then I'll do an hour on
the NFL game, and I got these other stories I
(26:28):
want to I want to rant about let it rip.
And then I'm watching the Bengals and the Bills game
and living happily ever after there and boom, this this
play happens and then I knew at that moment. Once
I saw the guy stand up and it was like
he fell over, I said, well, that's it. We're gonna
be four hours on that. That's the story. Don't don't
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bury the lead, my man, and and so I shifted.
But we're doing the show, and we're doing serious you know,
we're doing updates throughout the overnight on what happened in Buffalo.
If you're listening and p pull are getting piste off
at me, Danny, They're like, what the funk are you doing?
We tune in for the jokes, we tune in for
the laughs. You're you're not supposed to be the serious guy.
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What's wrong? I'm getting these messages right, And I'm like,
wait a minute here, because I've done a few of
these shows over the years, and sad stuff happens and
things that are depressing and and so you know, so
far as we're talking here, and nobody died in this incident,
but somebody in the past has died. We've been on
the air after accidents, and I was on after the
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Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, for example, which was a devastating thing.
And you can't accommodate everyone, but you try to do
it professionally as a broadcaster, and people are ripping me.
So here's the payoff on the story. So people are
busting my balls. So I for one minute roughly on
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the broadcast, I told that. I said, Eddie, do you
have any heart attack jokes for the people that want
to hear the jokes? Right? Totally sarcastic. Oh no, oh yeah,
So now I got you piece of ship. This guy's
in the fucking hospital and you motherfucker's are are doing
a heart attack jokes. And it was like, I was
(28:13):
totally like tongue in cheek. I was totally tongue in cheek.
It was like one minute and immediately I'm getting assault.
You can't win, you can't you cannot win. Next up,
Angelina writes, and she says, Hi, Ben and Daddy g
I like that name for him now, Daddy Angelina says,
I heard on last Saturday's podcast the couple's re gift
(28:36):
controversy that's right, in which Ben did not show more
excitement when it was presented to them. I am absolutely
on the side with with Ben. The re gift, which
was said to be a couple's gift was an espresso
machine and clearly for his wife. That's right, Angelie, and
should have been given to her. She says. I understand
(28:59):
angel and I understand Danny G's point that maybe there
will be fewer Starbucks charges if it's used, but I
totally agree with Ben that she will definitely still go there.
I speak from personal experience and buying one of those
machines myself. I had expected to cut the bank charges,
(29:20):
but I didn't end up using it once. Angelina says,
I I don't know why the people who gave the
gifts said it was a couple's gift, especially if they
knew that Ben did not drink coffee. Says love listening
to you guys, Happy New Year. Will thank you, Angelina
and I can't update the story here as this is
a podcast exclusive. No one else has this content. Danny,
(29:44):
I'm gonna have Marcel tweet this out. Yeah, this is
a global exclusive, in depth team coverage. I can confirm
despite that nice shiny three espresso maker, my wife has
gone back to Starbucks multiple times, so she still still
enjoying Starbucks. There's that, Angelina says. Ps Pert Nanni's comment,
(30:06):
a couple of weeks back. I will happily, Angelina says, babysit,
baby G when you all make the pilgrimage to uh Minnesota.
So yeah, there you go, Jim hanging out there in Minnesota.
Next up on the middle back, Ozzy was rights in
from Western Australia. I was just watching a show about
(30:29):
Australia and they did they mentioned the population and how little,
how few people live in Western Australia, and I thought
of Ozzy was when I was watching this. I don't
even remember what it was. It was something on the internet,
YouTube or something like that. Anyway, my mates Benny the
Bopper and Daddy G and yes that nickname is staying
a couple more and you can catch Moneyball Mallard. I
(30:51):
played football on the gridiron for ten years, Ozzy was,
says here in what Western Australia, And I will date
myself here. I've been following the NFL for over thirty years.
Oh my god, thirty years? What are you a dinosaur?
Ozzy Wazma uh So anyway, says here we go. My
favorite positions to play we're tight end, fullback, offense, outside
(31:15):
linebacker and strong safety. Never cared for the glory positions
like quarterback or wide receiver. What was your favorite position
to play and or you wanted to play well, Yeah,
I wanted to play tight end. I played offensive line.
I played nose guards. I loved the things I love most.
I was the fat guy on the team. I loved
being on the goal line defense on what right in
(31:37):
the middle, when your jobs to clog up the middle.
I always thought that was fun. And I loved on
on offenses, the bell rings there. I loved on offense
when they would run behind you and you were the
tackle and when and it happened a lot when I
was a freshman. I went downhill after that. But if
my freshman year, I would open up a whole because
(32:00):
I was so much bigger than these little small kids
on the defense, and I would block somebody and then
I turned around and I'd see the running back, this
guy Scott Seal, and he would run straight through and
there's nothing but daylight between him and the end zone.
That's like the greatest feeling when you're playing on the
offensive line. What about you, Danny, I was definitely a
(32:20):
bowling ball of a running back. Low center of gravity,
big thick legs, not very tall, but definitely tough and
could take a hit like Josh Jacobs. Early on, when
we were playing street football at Brown Elementary School, we
would get into some drag out tackle football street games
(32:41):
with kids in the neighborhood and I would love it. Man.
When we would line up and we would have seven
kids on one side, seven on the other, and my
older brother played quarterback. He would hand me the ball
and I would get that little opening that like you said,
you see the daylight and when you step through that
east you catch some elbows, but you gotta keep your
(33:03):
balance and I would run straight into the end zone
that we had some old baseball gloves set up sixty
yards down the field on one side and the other
as the end zones. And dude, that was the best
feeling though, breaking away on a long run. Yeah, for sure,
for sure. It's that's I didn't. I wasn't the one running,
(33:26):
which is probably better, but watching it seeing it all
unfold as you're you make the as an alignment, you
make the block, and then you see everything. It was
just it was awesome, awesome at the time. All right,
we got time for one more here, Danny on the
mail bag. Noah from Austin writes, and he says, big
Ben in, Danny, g what game show do you think
(33:47):
you'd be most and least successful at? Ben? Hoping you're
enjoying your new espresso maker. Yes, great, there you haven't
called yet? No have you? Is a bad job by you.
Aren't you supposed to call? You said you were gonna
starting on said he was going to be one of
your New Years callers? What the what the fuck? He
(34:08):
hasn't called anyway? Game shows? What would you do? Well?
I I remember the old well password we played password.
I think I do okay in that the word Game
of the Stars dominate Eddie at that game that beat down?
You mean that I gave you last night? Um the
sixty four thousand dollar pyramid, which is not on anymore.
(34:30):
I think I do okay at that. Um. Remember let's
make a deal. I could do okay. Price is right.
I think i'd do a kid at that one. I
don't know that i'd be very good at at Jeopardy.
I don't think that's my my wheelhouse on that And
nothing like any of those realities that game shows we
have to do physical ship, I don't do that. What
(34:52):
about you, Danny Well? My tender rowning might not like
this answer, Ben, but I think blind date the rico suave. No.
I mean, because I would go on the show Dominate.
I could tell the chick right off the bat, look,
I don't want anything serious. I'm gonna be honest with you.
And then when they would be doing the interview portion
(35:13):
with her the cutaway, she'd be like, I really like
his honesty, and you know, just smack that booty around
a little bit and not have any strings attached. Yeah.
That never worked for me when I was you know,
I don't want anything seriously. I think you've gotta be like,
really good looking to pull that off. I think you do,
because if you're average looking or ugly, women are like, no,
(35:33):
I don't want any to do with you, what are
you talking about. But if you're you're attractive and they're okay,
you know, it's reasonable. There. He just brings up a
good point, you know, casual. Yeah, all right, we'll get
out on that note, Danny, thank you again. I will
be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box, laying down
quarter hours one at a time, hopefully no audio glitches.
(35:56):
So we've got that to look forward to. Anything going
on in your world. This final Sunday of the NFL
regular season. This is my one day off of the week,
watch some NFL football, eat some nachos, and then like
have some grapes or something like that, so I can
offset all the junk food with some healthy food. Yeah,
and you gotta keep us posted, Danny. And because I
(36:19):
was your stories, my wife, it would tell stories, and
and friends over the years have told stories like when
women are pregnant, there's like certain odd foods they often crave, right,
So what will the little bug in the oven there
for Danny g what will his his son to be
named later? What? What? What kind of food do you
think your son's gonna crave there in the in the world.
(36:41):
In and Out she keeps saying, God, I want to
in and out burger, right, And she doesn't eat burgers,
but she's been craving iron so she's like, I want
a burger and I don't even like burgers. So we've
found ourselves at the in and out drive through a
few times already, so it's really strange to watch her
eat a hamburger on the in and out Burger. She's like,
(37:02):
extra pickles, Oh, I go, no pickles, I'm not nothing
to sorry, sorry, Ernie and alfae Elien Pointer. I want
nothing to do with those. No, no, no, She's like,
I'm not craving sweets. I'm craving savory and sour. So
she wants burgers, pickles, raspberries, grapes, stuff like that. Okay,
(37:24):
all right, well there you go. We'll find out. Maybe
the kid will be coming out with it. He's got
the raider hat on and a double double in his hand,
has some fries animal style. All right, all right, we'll
get out of you. Have a great day. Thank you
for supporting the podcast. Tell a friend, Tell a friend,
and we will catch you next time later. Skater gotta murder,
Gotta go.
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Welcome into another Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
g Radio Toda. Just the last Sunday of the regular
(00:45):
NFL season. Don't say that day. I don't want to
hear that. Danny. Well, you never know. Maybe they'll add
more games or something like that. But it is the
last scheduled Sunday for the National Football League, which is
not terrible news because Danny, you know what happens when
we get to the playoffs. That's always fun. And then
after the playoffs the silly season. We love the silly season.
(01:08):
Every day there's a new crop of bullshit, there's a bottom.
I ready to bring the gas that the insiders make
up because they make their living making up bullshit and
we love it and we get to break down the
bullshit whether we believe it or not. It's so much fun,
so much fun, and we have that to look forward
to after the playoffs are done. Who won the NFL
(01:30):
book up last year? I believe Eddie. I think Eddie
one last year. Yeah. Yeah, well, and we have that's
right with the book them to look forward to as well.
But right now we have a bunch bunch of random
emails that are between hay and grass, not easily categorized,
(01:54):
and they're all over the map. That's the one of
the things we love about the the mail Bag. You
know ever know what you're gonna get. And if you're
new to the podcast, and based on the numbers, there
are actually some new people listening. God bless you. Thank
God for that. And if you want to join the
mail bag, we have a lot of the same people
that email us every week, but we also have new
people and we'd love to hear new voices. If you'd
like to be part of the fun, we'd also love
(02:15):
to hear old voices. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Some of
the people that used to email us all the time.
You never know what happened. You wonder like some of
these people would emails every week and then they stopped
emailing us. Are they okay? Did they did we say
something to offend them? Did they have a medical condition?
Like you never know. It's it's the weird thing about that.
But but anyway, we we were. We're ready to go
(02:37):
here with the podcast. You want to email me, you
can do it right now. You don't have to wait,
You don't have to wait. Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Are
you ready for this? Danny? You're prepared? Yeah? Strike up
the band for asked bend two point Oh, it's our guy,
(03:09):
ohio All. I feel like this whole show musically, we
we need a tip of the cap to our buddy
ohio All. He's provided us not only the mail bag,
but he's added you heard it yesterday. Pop goes the
culture all right? The first once from Barry in Nashville.
He says, Yo yo mo, Benny and Danny, help enlighten
(03:30):
all of us. Why do callers, after waiting for hours
on hold, they finally get on the air and they
speak with you, and then they asked to go back
on hold. This makes no sense to me. Barry says,
There are many ways to listen to the show, doing
it on hold seems the least attractive. Why are these
(03:52):
numbscles asking to go back on hold? So there's a
few reasons for that, Barry. First of all, I disagree
with your statement that being on hold is the least
attractive way to listen. I would say no, because you
actually get to hear the un filtered addition to the show. Yeah,
(04:15):
there's a lot of things that don't get broadcast, that
get dump because people have potty mouths and we can't
broadcast and unto rest to radio, and some stuff doesn't
even make the podcast because we have to cut it
out of the podcast. You get to hear the in
its raw state here on Fax Sports Radio, God Radio College.
(04:37):
So there's that. As far as why people would ask
to go back and hold, sometimes it's because they're out
of radio reception. The only way they can hear the
show is on the phone. Other times I don't know,
like Jet who fled, I don't know what's on with
that guy. But there's reasons for it, like sometimes maybe
they can't talk at that moment, they think they'll be
able to talk a little bit later. There's things like that, right,
(04:59):
Danny Huny. I also think some listeners like to listen
in real time because there's obviously a delay on affiliates
as well as the Fox Sports Radio app. Yes, yeah,
for sure, there's a very long delay, not quite as
long as there used to be. But I was there
when the big delay came, and we always had a delay.
(05:21):
But we freaked out. Everyone in radio freaked out years ago.
Has it been twenty years since Janet Jackson showed her
boobies or is it only been like fifteen years. I
don't know. My ass feels so good right now. We
just keep adding years on. But that Super Bowl in Houston,
justin timber Lake and Janet Jackson, when you saw a
(05:41):
little nipple and apparently no one had ever seen a
nipple before and up close and personal, and that led
to all kinds of systems being put in and it
was like a big, big ship show for every radio
broadcaster and television broadcasting. Although it's impossible, I've tried to
do it, Danny, you can show a nipple on the radio. Possible.
(06:03):
There's no nip slippage on the radio. It's never happened before.
I'm pretty sure Genie and Medford did it. I have
a statin night. John on Well, Jeannie gave you everything.
She gave you the full Monty. But anyway, Uh so
that's the answer to that. Next up is on the mailback.
Steve in Philadelphia says, hey, guys, Ben, I heard heard
(06:24):
your meltdown the other day during one of your award
winning Mallard monologues. Uh, you seemed genuinely upset. How did
you continue and finished the monologue? Well, Steve, I think
you're referencing if I'm correct on this, Um, there was
a bit of a walking disaster. This happens every once
in a while, Danny on the on the show, we
(06:47):
have a lot of moving parts and it's on the
the overnight. We do a lot of different features and
bits and whatnot. And sometimes we have new people that
come on the show. Roberto was under the weather one
night and so we had the new guy. And I
don't play a lot of the top of things. Yeah, yeah,
(07:08):
he's he's quite the guy. He's been a radio for
a while. And um, but you know, we all we
all have hiccups. You know, we all fart five times
a day or whatever. So anyway, I don't usually play
a lot of sound in the monologues. Now, the way
this works, I produced the monologues that produced that part
of the show, So I get all the audio. Any
(07:29):
audio that we play I have to track down. I
have to log it. It's a big pain in the
s and I spent a lot of time getting ready
for the show, and it's just another thing I have
to do. And so but I I I logged the audio,
and then I will send it and then the editors
will actually cut it up. But I'll be the one
that says I need this fifteen second sound bite or
I need a seventeen second sound bite. So every once
(07:52):
in a while they'll be something already in the system,
but most of the time it's stuff I tracked that, right,
So that's how that works, just inside inside radio. So
I for some reason, I was feeling frisky on Wednesday,
and I decided, you know, there's a lot of good
sound bites from different people in the NFL. I would
like to incorporate those into my monologues rather than me
just pretend to be them and read the quote. So
(08:15):
I did. And now, in fairness, in my defense, Danny,
at the time I did it, I was on the
assumption Roberto was going to be on the show. Uh.
And I didn't get the message until after I had
sent the the audio in to be cut up for
the show that Roberto was under the weather and he
wasn't gonna be able to come in. But I figured
(08:36):
I'd wasted all this time. I'm some dimwitted idiot. I
wasted all this time. I might as well use the
audio anyway. I mean, how hard could it be? And
uh and obviously as you if you listen, and I
guess this guy in Philly, Steve did it did it
was very awkward. Uh, there's no other way around it.
It was not kumbaya. Uh, it was not a Kuna matata.
It was what was the disconnect? Did he not know
(08:59):
where the audio? Well, no, I'm not sure exactly what happened.
I was, you know, everyone saw I blow my gasket
and uh, and I'm human talk And I got a
little upset because I tossed to the sound bite and
then there's like a like a ten second pause, which
you don't want that that's a bad sign. That's dead air.
(09:23):
But I figured if I start talking, maybe he'll play it.
I don't want to start talking because I'll talk over it.
So then he he finally played it, but it was
the wrong bite. It was not the bite I had
sent in that I had spent all this time logging.
It was a different bite. It was a shorter bite.
So then I thought, Okay, that must be a mistake,
so why don't we throw to it again. Let's play
a full bite. So so then I'm like, well, let's
(09:44):
play the full bite. That was a mistake, Dade. That
was a tactical era on my part because there was
another like five second delay, and I'm bracing myself. I'm like,
oh man, I'm I'm starting to get worked up like
a volcano, right and I'm getting I'm getting piste off.
I'm you know, I'm the one. Nobody knows what's going
on behind the scenes. They just know I'm the one
on the air. And uh so five seconds go by,
(10:07):
which seemed like ten minutes, and then the sound bite
plays and it's the same exacts out bite that we
just played that I just complained about. So at that point,
I I I just I lost it. But but then
I composed myself and and I was able to finish it. Steve, So, yeah,
(10:28):
there there have been many more screw ups than that,
We've had some. I mean the most famous one of
them all is when I was doing the update and
the Royals are having their problems on the road, and
then we played I was sabotaged on that. So yeah,
that was an Art Martinez, special Artie Martinez, the great
Art Martinez, who who's to this day, said what my fault?
(10:49):
You know, I just played the sound bite. But anyway,
so that's what happened on that was in there and
he fixed everything. Right, Let's move on, Let's see what
are we happier? Pierre from the Hot Stove counting all
the zeros on Rafael Dever's contract, you congratulations. You can
watch Rafael Devers in the Red Sox finishing around five
(11:11):
hundred every year for the next eleven. Uh and uh,
Pierre says Ben. How surprised were you and the misses
when Daddy g and Mrs TINDERRONI asked you to be
the godparents of the future Little Rader. Very funny, very funny, Pierre.
I'm sure there's a lot of jockeying, right, Danny for
that title for those kind of things, right, there's a
(11:33):
lot of movement going on behind the scenes, and family
trying to to sway you and and the wife there
am I correct on that? Well, you know, it's funny
you should ask about that because when I first broke
this news on our podcast, you mentioned you being a godfather.
I talked to my tender Rowni about that, and she said,
(11:55):
we don't we have to be Catholic for that. Nah, No,
I'm not Catholic either. What are you doing? Come on? No?
And I told her, I'm like benn Is, benn Is
every religion exactly. I represent all people, all sects of religion.
Born Jewish of course. But you know that's whatever. You know, Hey,
it's a ceremonial thing anyway, right, what else? I don't
even know what else goes into that. It's actual stuff
(12:18):
that if you're the Godfather, I think it would be
funny though, I say, you know, the Godfather my nicknames,
you know, and I'd be like, I'd be a legitimate
godfather because I'd be like like the godfather of you know,
the future, you know, whatever, you know, Jimmy G Radio
or whatever is. Yeah, whatever we decide on his name,
I christen you as the Godfather. There you go say, there,
(12:40):
you're right, You're absolutely right, Pierre, good job by you,
all right. Next up Mike from Fullerton on the mail bag,
He says, I have to second that guy Pete in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week. You really should quit bullying Bobby,
he says, How dare you? What's the quickest you you've
seen someone give up on a New Year's resolution, assuming
(13:05):
anyone you have you know, actually tries dumb New Year's resolutions,
he says. And also, go ahead and give us the
second half of the nicknames. We're all dying to hear them, says,
says our friend from Fullerton, Mike from Fullerton. So I
don't I don't make New Year's resolutions. I'm trying to think.
(13:29):
Nothing really pops in my head. I guess it would
be like, hey, I'm not gonna drink, and then you
start drinking right at like twelve oh one you start
taking a shot or something like that. But any anything
pop in your head there, Danny when it comes to
failed New Year's resolutions, Well, yeah, it's something that was
talked about on Coveno and Rich a couple of afternoons ago.
Did you hear about the story about Equinox? No? What
(13:53):
they're like a luxury Jim. Yeah, okay, Dave decided to
not accept new members hip applications on New Year's Day.
They do not want people who are making it their
New Year's resolution to work out, I'll come right now.
(14:13):
This is either to get publicity and to you know,
this is it's either a marketing strategy, or they really
are pissed about people that just come in and then
quit immediately and muck it up for their regulars. Yeah,
this is the dumbest thing. This is like McDonald saying
we've decided we don't want to sell Big Max right now,
(14:34):
we're gonna take a couple of months off from selling
the Big Max. This. If I own no, it would
be like them saying, if you're only coming for the
mic ribb, oh yeah, yeah, because you're a seasonal customer, bastard.
If you're only coming to get in the way of
our drive through for our big Mac customer, because you're
only in it for the mcribb, we're not gonna sell
you a mic ribb. No, but think about if we
(14:57):
if we owned a gym like you know, Benny and
Danny G's world class, you know, twenty four hour a day, Jim,
some some bullshit, Jim. This is every year is a
mitzvah because all these dumbasses sign up for the gym,
and I know, I go to the jy. I'm a loser.
I go to the gym since my treadmill died up
a painful death when I moved into the north Woods
(15:19):
and still has not come back from the dead. So
I have to go to the gym. And I know
every January I see a bunch of new faces, and
by usually early February, they're all gone. They're all coming
that maybe one or two stick around past mid February
by the time the Super Bowls played. And you know,
(15:40):
because they don't have they have they either don't know
what to wear. They have the new gym clothes with
the tag on it. The women are all dolled up
with the makeup on, like what are you doing? Come on,
you hit the damn gym and that whold thing. So
do you want to hear their statement they put out
on social media. Sure, we don't speak January. The company
posted January is a language we don't understand. The statement
(16:02):
read a fantasy delivered to your door in a pastel
colored box. It talks about change. It wants you to
start something when you should be in the middle of it.
It thinks time is on its side, it's new, It
needs a new outfit before it can begin stalling, shortcutting,
giving up. So let me ask you this, Danny. What
(16:25):
happens when the marketing department gets a call from the
accounting department saying, you know how much money we just
lost because because of this promotion. Now, there was a
little bit of a debate between C and R because
I think it was Cavino who said, maybe they're just
trying to make it seem like they're so exclusive that
(16:46):
that would actually drive more attention and more customers their
way after this little January stunt is over, because if
it's exclusive, then more Layman's wanted. Yeah, I know that's
a flaw and human niches. It's like if you charge more,
people think you're getting a better deal or something like that. Right,
(17:08):
My argument would be the counter argument would be by
the time February comes, people are like, I'll just do
it next year. I'll just go I'll sign up for
the gym next year. This whole concept of time is
a human invention, Like it's it's just come on, all right, Uh, so,
and as far as the nicknameth you know, Mike, I don't.
I can't. I mean, people get upset when I do
(17:30):
the nickname. God did this last week? I will I
only did half last week, so it was more than enough.
So I will not tell you that I am known
as the Baron of balderdash, big gall bladder. You did
that one last week. Hold on, of second, let me
give you the other I did this. I really, I've
(17:52):
already forgotten. That's a bad that's a bad sign. Danny,
all right, the other half of my nicktives. Here we go.
Nobody will hear that I am known as everybody's gonna
hear that? Really? Oh you'll edit that out. It's a podcast.
It's not live. It's a podcast. I am known as
the spin Master of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster, the Beethoven
of BS. I'm an idiot, I don't know how much,
(18:15):
Kermudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasm. He blew me
off at a hotel near l a x Dare you
the Tsar of zany dark night of week night sports radio,
Pucci mogul of mischief? Please make it stop. No, no,
it's not gonna stop. Benny the brazen King of zing
(18:39):
Moneyball Mallard, I pity the fool that doesn't give me
my burto Benny the Bopper. Oh yeah, back in my
baseball days, facetious fox like Sultan of Insulting, the Shaman
of schaden freude, jumping Jack of wisecrack, insight of overnight medicine.
Man Mallard, I'm a doctor name Bob of Negativity, the
(19:04):
Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle of cynical, Prince of preposterous, Professor
of propaganda, Hussar of hi perbole No no no, and
the mad Hatter of sports chatter, and soon to be
the godfather like Benny. We gotta come up if you
(19:28):
guys want to suggest that an official you would be
the Gradio Godfather. The Gradio Godfather we could come up with.
And if you guys have an idea, and we've got
some very creative people, and Mike and Fullerton, Pierre are
our guy, Barry and Nashville and so many other people
that are very creative, you want to come up with
an idea for that the honorary Godfather. We've self self
(19:49):
given myself that title, and Danny's given me his blessing,
So we're good. Yeah, alright, h next up on the
mail back Kevin in Kansas. Right, so he says, are
you used to buy music on singles and albums? I
even had a few eight tracks, and then cam cassettes,
the c d s and now downloads. Do you guys
(20:11):
have a favorite form of listening to music through the years.
So I don't really have the music team that much.
I love listening to music. I don't have a big
music collection, Kevin, although I do have fun memories of
going to Tower Records. That was like the coolest thing. Man.
You felt like, really, I'm like, I'm not cool at all,
but I walked into Tower Records back in the day
and I felt like I was cool because that's where
(20:32):
the cool people hung out of Tower Records, especially that
one about that Tower Records in Hollywood, that location, Remember
that's the one I'm talking about. Yeah, I lived there,
and I lived in Hollywood. I used to go up
to Sunset and that was like the legendary spot, like
where they're like the big time musicians. He heard stories
about like Elton John would go in there to buy
his music, you know, and all this ship. Um, I
(20:55):
had a friend who met Tupac in there, and I
actually bought Tupac I get around Maxie cassette single inside
that very tower record store. Yeah that's pretty cool, man,
but we're dating ourselves. But yeah, that's my my the
thing that popped in my head Kevin, when you brought
that up music in the past and buying music Tower records,
(21:17):
that was the spot. And then they died because of
what the internet, right, people just downloading music and that
was it. That was the death. Yeah, Napster started it all.
That was the downfall any other music file sharing and
uh boy, I met We did a live broadcast there
um in the late nineties with Mariah Carey. Good yeah,
(21:40):
good fond memories of that location right there. Yeah, I
mean I love listening to music on vinyl still, and
it's one of the reasons why vintage vinyl has made
such a comeback because instead of that high digital audio
sound with a lot of highs and mids, you get
that warm, m analog based low end feel from vinyl
(22:04):
and the crackling, the popping, that sound that we heard
when we were little kids when our grandparents would be
playing their vinyl records. Yeah, it's it's it's all coo.
Remember when I, you know, as a little kid, my
mom had a record player and she played she bought
like kid music seat, you know, a disc and we'd
play that anyway. Jeff from Virginia Rights and he says, Hey, guys,
(22:28):
who do you think gave Joe Buck the word on
the five minute warm up? Does that come from a producer?
That's a that's a kind of a sportive question. It's
a great controversy this. Yeah, you'd be screaming about it
on the air if it did come from a producer.
I would be throwing the producer under the bush, creating
a monster. Of course. Uh no, my theory on that,
(22:50):
And I did a monologue about it. Jeff, I don't
know if you heard it, but it's it's really a good,
good story. It's the whole thing is a dark story
by what happened. It is a terrible thing that this
guy has his heart stopped twice on the field. They
had to give him CPR and resuscitate him. And I'm
just terrible. But that part of the story, that Joe
Buck part, is fascinating to me because the NFL, this guy,
(23:12):
Troy Vincent is sweat he swears right, He's like, oh no,
I would never, I would never. We would never as
an NFL tell him five minutes to warm up. But
watching that Monday night game, I don't know if you
got the same vibe I did, Danny, But the vibe
I got was Joe Buck was not in his element.
He was very uncomfortable, as I would be, and he
(23:34):
was really kind of going down in flames. He didn't
say a lot, and when he spoke, he sounded like
really shook up, as you would imagine. So my theory
was he was waiting for someone to tell him what
was going on, and then once they did that, he
just kept repeating it. And so that's he claimed. Buck.
(23:55):
He did an interview with the New York Post, and
from what I read, he said that that rule expert
on the broadcast is the guy that got the five
minute thing from the NFL that they were given five
minutes to warm up, and that came directly from the
NFL rules expert who used to work for the league.
And I don't believe the NFL at all, because the
NFL monitors these life that they monitored these broadcasts in
(24:18):
real time, and it's all about name image and likeness.
They want to protect the brand and Joe Buck. The
first time Joe Bucks had the five minute thing, if
that was bullshoy or bullpucky, as our friend Jay Scoop
likes to say, then the NFL would have corrected him
and said, you can't say that, you take that back.
(24:40):
He repeated it three other times in the hour and
a half they were on the air, and as a
result of that, I'm and also they showed Joe Burrow
warming up. Yeah, like, why can't the NFL just say,
you know what? It was a fluid situation. We were
trying to figure it out as it was going on.
I don't think it of things ever gonna be perfect
(25:01):
in a situation like that. Yeah, they can't admit that
they screwed up. They can't admit that they left it up.
There can't do can't I do it. What was more
uncomfortable for me watching was Susie kolberg Uh with her
boys Chef Dy and who you know and bugger. Those
(25:24):
two guys wanted to just shut it down. She was
trying to move the conversation forward, and so Twitter attacked
her as being cold. Yeah, and there's no there's no
good situation in that time, because no matter what you say,
it's not caring enough. It's not you know, people are
(25:46):
so sensitive about that. I'll give you a great example, Dan,
you'll appreciate this. So I had mapped the show out
the other night when this happened, you know, and these
are radio problems. Who the funk cares? But the way
I you the show, I tossed a bunch of stuff out.
I try to come up with ideas. I'm spitballing different
things I might want to talk about for that night,
(26:07):
and you're you're just jotting down some notes on what
you want to talk about. And so some nights it
goes by really quick. Other nights it takes forever and
there's just nothing really that you seem all that interested in.
On this night, it was like, there's a lot of
stuff that I really wanted to talk about. I was like,
it was exciting. And then I'll do an hour on
the NFL game, and I got these other stories I
(26:28):
want to I want to rant about let it rip.
And then I'm watching the Bengals and the Bills game
and living happily ever after there and boom, this this
play happens and then I knew at that moment. Once
I saw the guy stand up and it was like
he fell over, I said, well, that's it. We're gonna
be four hours on that. That's the story. Don't don't
(26:48):
bury the lead, my man, and and so I shifted.
But we're doing the show, and we're doing serious you know,
we're doing updates throughout the overnight on what happened in Buffalo.
If you're listening and p pull are getting piste off
at me, Danny, They're like, what the funk are you doing?
We tune in for the jokes, we tune in for
the laughs. You're you're not supposed to be the serious guy.
(27:10):
What's wrong? I'm getting these messages right, And I'm like,
wait a minute here, because I've done a few of
these shows over the years, and sad stuff happens and
things that are depressing and and so you know, so
far as we're talking here, and nobody died in this incident,
but somebody in the past has died. We've been on
the air after accidents, and I was on after the
(27:32):
Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, for example, which was a devastating thing.
And you can't accommodate everyone, but you try to do
it professionally as a broadcaster, and people are ripping me.
So here's the payoff on the story. So people are
busting my balls. So I for one minute roughly on
(27:52):
the broadcast, I told that. I said, Eddie, do you
have any heart attack jokes for the people that want
to hear the jokes? Right? Totally sarcastic. Oh no, oh yeah,
So now I got you piece of ship. This guy's
in the fucking hospital and you motherfucker's are are doing
a heart attack jokes. And it was like, I was
(28:13):
totally like tongue in cheek. I was totally tongue in cheek.
It was like one minute and immediately I'm getting assault.
You can't win, you can't you cannot win. Next up,
Angelina writes, and she says, Hi, Ben and Daddy g
I like that name for him now, Daddy Angelina says,
I heard on last Saturday's podcast the couple's re gift
(28:36):
controversy that's right, in which Ben did not show more
excitement when it was presented to them. I am absolutely
on the side with with Ben. The re gift, which
was said to be a couple's gift was an espresso
machine and clearly for his wife. That's right, Angelie, and
should have been given to her. She says. I understand
(28:59):
angel and I understand Danny G's point that maybe there
will be fewer Starbucks charges if it's used, but I
totally agree with Ben that she will definitely still go there.
I speak from personal experience and buying one of those
machines myself. I had expected to cut the bank charges,
(29:20):
but I didn't end up using it once. Angelina says,
I I don't know why the people who gave the
gifts said it was a couple's gift, especially if they
knew that Ben did not drink coffee. Says love listening
to you guys, Happy New Year. Will thank you, Angelina
and I can't update the story here as this is
a podcast exclusive. No one else has this content. Danny,
(29:44):
I'm gonna have Marcel tweet this out. Yeah, this is
a global exclusive, in depth team coverage. I can confirm
despite that nice shiny three espresso maker, my wife has
gone back to Starbucks multiple times, so she still still
enjoying Starbucks. There's that, Angelina says. Ps Pert Nanni's comment,
(30:06):
a couple of weeks back. I will happily, Angelina says, babysit,
baby G when you all make the pilgrimage to uh Minnesota.
So yeah, there you go, Jim hanging out there in Minnesota.
Next up on the middle back, Ozzy was rights in
from Western Australia. I was just watching a show about
(30:29):
Australia and they did they mentioned the population and how little,
how few people live in Western Australia, and I thought
of Ozzy was when I was watching this. I don't
even remember what it was. It was something on the internet,
YouTube or something like that. Anyway, my mates Benny the
Bopper and Daddy G and yes that nickname is staying
a couple more and you can catch Moneyball Mallard. I
(30:51):
played football on the gridiron for ten years, Ozzy was,
says here in what Western Australia, And I will date
myself here. I've been following the NFL for over thirty years.
Oh my god, thirty years? What are you a dinosaur?
Ozzy Wazma uh So anyway, says here we go. My
favorite positions to play we're tight end, fullback, offense, outside
(31:15):
linebacker and strong safety. Never cared for the glory positions
like quarterback or wide receiver. What was your favorite position
to play and or you wanted to play well, Yeah,
I wanted to play tight end. I played offensive line.
I played nose guards. I loved the things I love most.
I was the fat guy on the team. I loved
being on the goal line defense on what right in
(31:37):
the middle, when your jobs to clog up the middle.
I always thought that was fun. And I loved on
on offenses, the bell rings there. I loved on offense
when they would run behind you and you were the
tackle and when and it happened a lot when I
was a freshman. I went downhill after that. But if
my freshman year, I would open up a whole because
(32:00):
I was so much bigger than these little small kids
on the defense, and I would block somebody and then
I turned around and I'd see the running back, this
guy Scott Seal, and he would run straight through and
there's nothing but daylight between him and the end zone.
That's like the greatest feeling when you're playing on the
offensive line. What about you, Danny, I was definitely a
(32:20):
bowling ball of a running back. Low center of gravity,
big thick legs, not very tall, but definitely tough and
could take a hit like Josh Jacobs. Early on, when
we were playing street football at Brown Elementary School, we
would get into some drag out tackle football street games
(32:41):
with kids in the neighborhood and I would love it. Man.
When we would line up and we would have seven
kids on one side, seven on the other, and my
older brother played quarterback. He would hand me the ball
and I would get that little opening that like you said,
you see the daylight and when you step through that
east you catch some elbows, but you gotta keep your
(33:03):
balance and I would run straight into the end zone
that we had some old baseball gloves set up sixty
yards down the field on one side and the other
as the end zones. And dude, that was the best
feeling though, breaking away on a long run. Yeah, for sure,
for sure. It's that's I didn't. I wasn't the one running,
(33:26):
which is probably better, but watching it seeing it all
unfold as you're you make the as an alignment, you
make the block, and then you see everything. It was
just it was awesome, awesome at the time. All right,
we got time for one more here, Danny on the
mail bag. Noah from Austin writes, and he says, big
Ben in, Danny, g what game show do you think
(33:47):
you'd be most and least successful at? Ben? Hoping you're
enjoying your new espresso maker. Yes, great, there you haven't
called yet? No have you? Is a bad job by you.
Aren't you supposed to call? You said you were gonna
starting on said he was going to be one of
your New Years callers? What the what the fuck? He
(34:08):
hasn't called anyway? Game shows? What would you do? Well?
I I remember the old well password we played password.
I think I do okay in that the word Game
of the Stars dominate Eddie at that game that beat down?
You mean that I gave you last night? Um the
sixty four thousand dollar pyramid, which is not on anymore.
(34:30):
I think I do okay at that. Um. Remember let's
make a deal. I could do okay. Price is right.
I think i'd do a kid at that one. I
don't know that i'd be very good at at Jeopardy.
I don't think that's my my wheelhouse on that And
nothing like any of those realities that game shows we
have to do physical ship, I don't do that. What
(34:52):
about you, Danny Well? My tender rowning might not like
this answer, Ben, but I think blind date the rico suave. No.
I mean, because I would go on the show Dominate.
I could tell the chick right off the bat, look,
I don't want anything serious. I'm gonna be honest with you.
And then when they would be doing the interview portion
(35:13):
with her the cutaway, she'd be like, I really like
his honesty, and you know, just smack that booty around
a little bit and not have any strings attached. Yeah.
That never worked for me when I was you know,
I don't want anything seriously. I think you've gotta be like,
really good looking to pull that off. I think you do,
because if you're average looking or ugly, women are like, no,
(35:33):
I don't want any to do with you, what are
you talking about. But if you're you're attractive and they're okay,
you know, it's reasonable. There. He just brings up a
good point, you know, casual. Yeah, all right, we'll get
out on that note, Danny, thank you again. I will
be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box, laying down
quarter hours one at a time, hopefully no audio glitches.
(35:56):
So we've got that to look forward to. Anything going
on in your world. This final Sunday of the NFL
regular season. This is my one day off of the week,
watch some NFL football, eat some nachos, and then like
have some grapes or something like that, so I can
offset all the junk food with some healthy food. Yeah,
and you gotta keep us posted, Danny. And because I
(36:19):
was your stories, my wife, it would tell stories, and
and friends over the years have told stories like when
women are pregnant, there's like certain odd foods they often crave, right,
So what will the little bug in the oven there
for Danny g what will his his son to be
named later? What? What? What kind of food do you
think your son's gonna crave there in the in the world.
(36:41):
In and Out she keeps saying, God, I want to
in and out burger, right, And she doesn't eat burgers,
but she's been craving iron so she's like, I want
a burger and I don't even like burgers. So we've
found ourselves at the in and out drive through a
few times already, so it's really strange to watch her
eat a hamburger on the in and out Burger. She's like,
(37:02):
extra pickles, Oh, I go, no pickles, I'm not nothing
to sorry, sorry, Ernie and alfae Elien Pointer. I want
nothing to do with those. No, no, no, She's like,
I'm not craving sweets. I'm craving savory and sour. So
she wants burgers, pickles, raspberries, grapes, stuff like that. Okay,
(37:24):
all right, well there you go. We'll find out. Maybe
the kid will be coming out with it. He's got
the raider hat on and a double double in his hand,
has some fries animal style. All right, all right, we'll
get out of you. Have a great day. Thank you
for supporting the podcast. Tell a friend, Tell a friend,
and we will catch you next time later. Skater gotta murder,
Gotta go.
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