March 15, 2026 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny G Radio a very happy selection Sunday
and more importantly, the fifteenth day of March, which is
the kind of the day the Bennies are there tonight
on the West coast, but still early in the morning.
(00:49):
It's tonight in the Monday morning. The Bennies, the one
hundred and fifty eighth edition of the Benny Awards, were
so excited about that. And we're excited because Danny G
is he in the hiszy for this edition of The
Fifth Hour with Me Ben. What's going on? Danny G?
Look at you, y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I missed the pageantry of the Benny's. Remember I used
to wear my tucks into the studio.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's always the biggest night. There's a buzz in the
air and the groupies that are there, Danny, It's unbelievable.
Everyone wants a piece of the Benny winners. It's crazy
what goes on there with the Benny Awards.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So in the red carpet, that's where we first met
Ryan Seacrest back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I remember Steve Harvey and Ryan Seacrest were there. It
was really cool. It was awesome, amazing, amazing event. So
we got that. I guess there's the Academy Awards. Who
cares about that right now? It's all about the Bennies
and Selection Sunday, and this is always one of my
favorite couple of days of the year in sports radio,
the next couple of days, Danny, because the Bennies. This
(01:50):
is where everyone who ignores college of Basketball all year
suddenly has everything you need to know about your bracket.
I love it. I love it. I love it. I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
When our boss, which ultimately is going to happen, sends
us that email that says, all right, click this link
and make your picks so that somebody could win a
twenty five dollars Amazon gift card.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
This year.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I'm gonna let Brenda make every pick for me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Might as well, you might as well. Yeah, yeah, I've
not gotten the email yet. I'll be the first one
I would imagine. Well maybe not. Maybe Arnie and Plank
will get it. We'll get it early on Sunday tonight,
being like, hey, you know read this promo. The bracket
challenge is open until was it Thursday before tip off?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, at least there's a good price for the listeners now,
because when I first started with the network eleven years ago,
we were giving away a Westinghouse TV.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hey, don't knock a Westinghouse TV. When I've been here
so long, we were giving out radio Shack gift cards. Okay,
let me.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Tell you you're giving away battery.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much, pretty much pretty much. But anyway, listen.
So there's a lot going on here. We got the
Benny's tonight. That's the big event any.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Award, And you know, I'm not sure if I'm gonna
call in or try to zoom with your show, but
I heard I am going to get the Lifetime Podcast
Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Lifetime Achievement, Well, you surely on the running for that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have not yet gotten. I am thrilled.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I'm not privy to it, Danny, as you know.
I I'm just the host of the show. I don't
know who's gonna win and who's not gonna win. And
there's still time to vote. If you have not voted yet.
There's a link on the Facebook page and also on
on Actually gonna have to scroll down a little bit.
Actually not that far. I think I sent out the
link again last night. So anyway, check it out. Vote
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if you haven't voted, and trust me, there are several
categories where literally, Danny, like one or two votes can
sway the entire category. So it's that's power. That is
like you imagine you vote for the president of the
United States, and it really depends like in Calornia, Danny,
if you vote for a Republican in California, you might
(04:03):
as well wipe your ass with the ballot right, no
chance of winning. But in this election, who doesn't matter
what side you're on politically, you have a chance of
influencing who wins. So the Bennies are to night check
that out. But we've got mail and Ohio Al, can
you get me in the mood? Ohio Al, It's all right,
(04:34):
very good. First up is Alf from the Antiques road Show.
He says, Ben, you've pointed out my new found affinity
for AI artistry. So I'll explain myself. First and foremost,
we're all living in the matrix, and no one knows
what's real and what's fake. Since I am in fact
(04:55):
a bot, what more, what's more appropriate as an art
form for me to dive into? Then AI, well duly noted,
we are all living in the matrix. You don't know
what's real what's not. That is correct, and AI even
fun to play around with. And I did like the
fact that. And you didn't see this, Danny, but Alf
(05:16):
put me at the Vatican with my wife. We were
meeting with the Pope and so I had a nice
meeting with the Pope. He's a White Sox fan and
there's a photo to prove that. Secondly, he says, I've
been a long time admirer of Mallard prop Guy's creations,
and he pushes me to want to be a better
contributor to the show. That's good. Look get that legend,
(05:37):
legend helping legend, Iron sharpens iron. As far as my
question to you and Danny, g is there any truth
to the rumor that Danny and Brenda bought you a
giant metal cock for Christmas because you were so attracted
to it. And then let me send this to you,
Danny here because this is this is the latest from
(05:58):
this is from alf and he says that you got
me that as a as a gift. Right there, you
can see essentially the link I was attracted to the
giant metal cock.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Ah, man, AI is just take over our universe.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That is a giant cock, Danny, I gotta tell you
that's am.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, not quite, by the way, Ben. It was so
great because when Jake Paul recently sat down with President
Trump speaking of elections, Yeah, Jake Paul said that he
was considering someday a transition into politics. They had a
quick conversation about that, and he said, you know, because
I want to impact some change. In fact, like for
(06:38):
my generation, people ask questions. Young people always ask questions
about what industries they should get into, you know, for
a job for you know, especially with AI taking over.
And I swear to god, Ben Trump did not really
understand what AI was because he told him. He's like, yes,
AI is great to get into if you love computing,
(07:02):
oh boy, And I'm like, no, Donald, he wasn't saying
should I get into AI? He was saying, AI is
taking jobs?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, well you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But by the time, yeah, but it reminded me of
my grandpa, though he didn't understand one damn thing about
computers China.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well. The other thing too, is people take the president
literally like he. I believe he endorsed Jake Paul for
political office, right, didn't. I saw that headline.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
He told him like, yeah, if you want to help
young people in your generation, it would be cool for
you to get into.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well there was a headline saying, hey, you know you
should get into it. You know, I have fully endorse
you or whatever. And I was like, yeah, that sounds like,
you know, Don Trump's of the Don King generation. You know,
the guys that would just get on there and do
radio interviews and you're the greatest host of all time.
This is the greatest radio just like total bull crap.
(07:56):
You know, it's like a total bull crap artist.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So anyway, I didn't mean like some of your callers
who kiss your rump.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, they never kiss me. You're talking about kissed my ass?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Please, No, there's a handful where they're like, man, I
would die without your Overnight show.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well you know, listen.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, but yet there are You're right, there are some
where they just love to torture you. Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yes, yes, they enjoy that very much. Next up Scott
from Florida now working overnight. Look at that Scott working
the overnight. He told us he was gonna do that
on the Mailbag and previous edition, Ben and Danny. When
I saw Geno Smith going back to the Jets this week,
I knew, barring an atomic bomb, it would be the
(08:38):
our number one monologue tragedy. Aside, what's been the best
hour one monologue? Juicy teed up total gift story you
can recall off the top of your head. That's from
Scott in Florida and Scott. There have been so many
over the years. Some of my favorite the night the
(09:02):
cheating astros were exposed, which was I believe early twenty nineteen.
I think it was Danny, I think it was. I
want to say it was like January of twenty nineteen.
That was good all time. If you go back, the
flight Gate was great. That was a lot of fun.
(09:23):
But for a single night, I don't know how you
can beat the malice at the Palace. I don't know
how one could beat the malice at the Palace. The
night that rn our Test and the Indiana Pacers got
into it with the Detroit fans, that was an amazing
just a random Friday night into Saturday. It was an
(09:44):
ESPN game. I was on doing weekend overnights at the time.
That was great. So some of them the Tiger Woods.
When that thing broke, it was like Thanksgiving weekend, I believe,
right around Thanksgiving when that story came out and his
wife and that whole thing a lot. It's the ingredients
are there. You're ready. The ingredients are there, Danny. You
(10:05):
get scandal, you get surprised. That's always great, like unexpected.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
My favorite is when the Lakers acquired Lebron James and
you said famously that the Clippers would win a title
before the Lakers even sniffed the playoffs with Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, the Lakers never won a championship with Lebron the Clippers, but.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Your Clippers sure did. And yes, the Lakers did win
a trophy with Lebron, not a real one.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They got a fake que. Ok here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
If the Clippers had one it that year, you'd still
be wearing that T shirt right now.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
GIFs and butts were candy and nuts. But you're like, well,
the Lakers went to a gift shop in Orlando and
got a little Mickey mount Oh, here we.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Go, we got a little clip play a little tiny
violin for you and Clippers Nation?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What is still wrong with the Clippers? Just a fact? Path,
just a fact.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Are more like Clippers pod?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, I'm thinking about doing a monologue tonight, by the way,
because everyone universally was dog piling on the Clippers. I
can't believe you got rid of Chris Paul. He's so good.
Oh my god, Paul, do you realize the Clippers are
a couple games over? I think there are a couple
of games over five hundred. Now they were when they.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Got there, what were they six and twenty one?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, I think they got it rid him a little
bit before. I think they were five and sixteen or
something like that with him. So but they gotcha Okay, yeah, yeah,
but they did get off to the five. I think
you're right. They lost like five more games after that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I think their record at one point was six and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Something like that. But with Chris Paul playing, they were
like five and sixteen or something like that. And since
he left there like fourteen games or something like that,
over five hundred, so maybe he was part of the
problem for whatever reason. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
They they, Oh, but you sure loved him back in
the Love City days. And when the listener was just
asking that question about your most famous monologues, it got
me thinking to the low days when you were in
love with Blake Griffin and CP three.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
They were fun to watch. They were good ballplayers with
the Clippers. They served their time and they moved on
somewhere else. That's fine, that happens. I enjoyed watching Lop
City Clippers were great. They should have won a championship.
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They like you said about Uncle's nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
All right, all right, calm down, let's see who's next
on this one. Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, says
Big Ben and Danny G Daddy G Radio. Amy Lawrence
was in the air everywhere on my radio before switching
over to the Ben Maler Show. Well, thank you. I
believe Amy quit overnight radio at this point. On what
she's doing. He says on those nights when there are
(12:45):
no Coop Scoop on entertainment or Queen of Hearts with Lorena,
may you please bring back the spelling Bee. It would
be hilarious to listen to callers trying to spell basic
athletic names. That's from quain Quinn. You understand we have
a segment with the Queen of Hearts. Well you have
to use the hashtag Queen Arts. Danny. You know how
many people don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts,
(13:06):
which I would think those are not hard words. Those
are not difficult words to spell, and they have issues.
So can you imagine if I like the names, you know,
the heart, I guess the hardest over the hardest name
to spell be right now in sports would be Janni
Si dent to Kombo? Would that be the yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And also the new one where we just learned everybody
had been saying his name wrong all these years about
Travis h chan h.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Isn't that that? I saw? That? Isn't that the name
of the dolphin? Yes? What is up with that?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I thought the same exact thing when I saw that headline.
I'm like, well, why would he want us to change
to saying it the way the dolphins last name is
really spelled.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
My favorite name change, though, was when the Dolph remember
the guy from Ucla became Kareem abdul Jabbar, much to
the dismay of Kareem abdul Jabbar. You remember the running
back you play you play with the Dolphins too, and
Koree the original Kareem who also had a different name,
Luele Cinder. He lost his lunch, right, it was, Oh
my god, it was there was I believe there was
(14:12):
a lawsuit anyway, Quanne, thank you for listening. I I
don't know. I'm not bringing back the spelling Bee. Maybe
I'll how about this one time if I'm really just
kind of feeling uh, you know, little frisky, I'll bring
it back, but not on a regular basis because it's
a disaster. Although it could be such a terrible disaster
(14:33):
that it actually turns out to be good. That does
happen on a rack.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It could be good during the Olympics too.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, the Olympics. Well the World Cup also.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh that's a great point. Yeah, World Cup would be
great for that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
To uh tag o volleyah George from Florida, right, Sin
says scientists now say, Ben, that bad space weather could
be why we haven't heard from Ali. So what do
you think about that? Well, George, you sent me a
link here. The word could is a weasel word. Word
(15:08):
could is a weasel word. And yeah, I'm not I
don't know. I don't know what's going on. I think
there's stuff on this planet that's coming out of the oceans.
I've said that that's my deep state tinfoil hat thing,
that there are all kinds of other creatures here that
we don't know about that have advanced technology and they're
living here, whether they came from somewhere else, so they've
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always lived here, who knows. I can go through all
the ancient stuff from that that you're left in cave
drawings where they showed flying objects and stuff and said,
well maybe those are the things that we're still seeing,
but they're just you know, for them, it was like,
whoa man, we could space weather? You know how much, George,
(15:51):
I've studied space weather my entire life. I've studied No,
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Brent from SOCO, Well, really quick, can I tell you
about a George sighting?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh? Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I'm answering the phones for Covino and Rich. A
few afternoons, Ago and I get a call just rang
directly to line six on our phone. And usually when
it's like that, it's a somebody calling the wrong number.
I pick up the phone and it's an older gentleman
and he says, hey, uh, you got two gals that
(16:22):
are working on the weekend and they're giving out a
fax number that belongs to George Nori.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's me? Who what really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And he said, I'm getting up to twenty to thirty
facts is every freaking weekend and it's from your two
vals that are working on a weekend show downstairs there?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What is he? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
We have two chicks on sports or something one of
our weekend shows.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, I have no idea what that is. And they
gave out a fax number.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I guess they gave out a fax number. And who
does that on the air anymore?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I don't know, maybe ninety six? What do we?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Maybe they tweeted it along with all the info. I
don't know, but he said that listeners have been faxing
on his line.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is what is he doing with the fax machine?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thank you? I wondered the same thing. But maybe that's
how he communicates with aliens.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well, I'm very proud one of my my proud radio
geek moments Danny at doing the Overnight show. And occasionally
it doesn't happen all the time, but occasionally I will
pull up and I will park side by side with
George Nori, and I'm like, man, right here, this is
the the king of that franchise of Coast to coast
overnight radio. That's the king of it. You know, we're
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doing our old thing. We got our act doing sports.
But side by side awesome. And George has the cleanest
car around he does. I don't know how he does it.
He has nothing in his car. It's not that I
have spied on him. It sounds by you know when
you park and you walk by somebody and you see
what's in the you know, just kind of look glancing
in their car and there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's yeah, you stalker. Yeah, by the way, before you
hung up, I told him, I said, by the way, George,
this is Danny. I booked you on the Fifth Hour
podcast with Ben Maller before and he said, oh, how's
Ben doing?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hell? He yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Remembered being on the on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I should get George on again. George is cool, George
is a good good people. Let's let's see here. What
do we have, Brent from so Cal? This must be
I don't know why you would send this to me,
he says, Ben and Danny. Are you guys big fans
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They Hulu canceled the reboot
(18:34):
of the show, and he wants to know why. We
think whou pulled the Why would you email? What is
this about? Brent? You know how must I've seen a
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don't. I think. I think
I saw one episode one time a million years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I can honestly say I've never seen one episode of
that show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think I was on a date and then happened
to pop up. That's why. But no, I I'm gonna
go out and limb and Brent. It's always about the money, right.
Either they couldn't make enough money or they wanted too
much money, And I don't know what else it would
have been. I have never I've seen like maybe half
of one episode of the show a million years ago,
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So I feel like you should have sent that to
somebody else. Betchy out by you. Ferg Dog writes in
in Fullerton that winter Wonderlander says meow Ben and Danny G.
I didn't know you were allergic to cats. Ben, no
wonder why you never liked me? Is it too late
to add a category for best board op of the
(19:36):
year to the Bennys? If not, I would like to
nominate Mark Ramsey, the Pride of Chicago, Roberto the bus driver,
and Danny G Radio. No they're not. Danny's on a
board op, and neithers Roberto. By the way, he's a
bus driver, he said, you said, Yah.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Plus, I'm already getting a Lifetime Achievement award.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's right, You've time a chieved award. You said you
had a story about Tim McCarver, who I was sad
in here die last week. Let's see let's hear it, Ben, Yeah,
that was tremendous by Tom Brady. Really journalism there by
Tom on the untimely passing of Tim McCarver three years
after he passed away. So I have a couple of
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McCarver stories. We early days of Fox Sports Radio, macarver
was the baseball the lead baseball anas, and we had
him on every once in a while. And mccarver's one
of the all time greatest radio guests, right up there
with Kevin Kennedy, Danny. Where you would ask macarver one question,
he would then ask himself three or four follow up
(20:35):
questions while answering your question, So you'd ask him one.
It's like set it and forget it. It's like the
rom Pole Peel thing as a talk show host, when
you ask somebody a question and then they answer the question,
then they ask three follow up questions. It's amazing. It's amazing.
The other macarver story, this is very embarrassing, and I
(20:58):
learned the important life lesson. At this time, I was
doing stuff with the Dodgers. We were in New York
at the Old Shay Stadium. It was pregame, it was
in August. The Dodgers used to always go to play
the Mets in August in New York. And it was
right around when the big Tennis tournament was going on,
which happens to be right next to where the Mets play,
and so anyway, it was really hot, nasty, and so
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all of us were bunkerd down in the dining room
at Shay Stadium the media dining room, and they had
the pregame thing popped up. This is back on wwor
back in the day. So the Mets opened, the broadcast
popped up. I'm in the media dining room with a
couple of other people and on the open they had
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the play by play guy and there was Tom Sever right.
Tom sever was there. He was in the book The
Well Legend on the Mound. As a broadcaster, not so much.
And I didn't carverde the Mets games on television before that.
I didn't realize he had been replaced. So I said
(22:06):
Danny something to the effect, where the hell's McCarver. This
Seaver's terrible. Well, unfortunately Tom Seaver had actually that was
recorded and he was a few feet away from Uh. Yeah,
it was very awkward. It was that was not That
was not one of my better moments. Uh. I was
(22:28):
trying to praise McCarver, and by praising mcarver, I ended
up bearing myself as it as. I think the Sever's
gone too, I think all those guys are gone.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Unfortunately, I bet at his memorial, did you get up
and say some words and tell that story?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah? Yeah, By the way, I'd like to apologize and
know Tom's not with us anymore. But Carl Carl from
New Jersey rights in or from He says, Jersey not new.
He is not really new anymore. That's bad branding. When
they new York and New Jersey at the time it
was new, they should have planned all right, in twenty
five thirty years were going to change it to just
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Jersey or York And anyway, Carl says, Ben, you've been
at Fox Sports Radio for you say twenty five years,
actually over twenty five years now, which era was your favorite?
And then he sent me this is great Danny. Carl
sends me two stories. One headline. Joe Beningo says, WF
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the fan, WFN will never be what it once was
and it's heyday and Angela and Angela.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Saw yeah, I saw this because of podcasts and tube streaming.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Then he sent me a story from Angelo Cataldi,
who was a big star in Philadelphia radio and they
both he and Howard Eskin ripped WIP in Philadelphia for
not having the edge that it once did. And so
Carl wants to know which era is my favorite? Yeah,
(24:02):
I mean it's obviously the business is a lot different
Now everything's being cannibalized for YouTube clips and social media clips,
and it does disappoint me because I have a lot
I feel like a lot of people just do bits
to get on social media and stuff like that, and
I'm like, ultimately, there's always should be more people listening
to the full the full show. But I understand times
(24:24):
changed and all that, and the edge is definitely not there.
I I've always kind of liked it. I got into
the business, Carl, I like the edge. If you don't
get the job done, you get criticized, and that's part
of it. And you know, a lot of the the
other like the newer guys, I don't think they're into it.
They're not wired that way. They like kind of do like,
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you know, they do their own thing, but it's not
it's not the same. So I from that perspective, I
think the edge is gone. It was always that was
always the gold standard places like Boston, Philadelphia and New York.
The way they approach sports radio. It's still like that
in Boston. I don't think it's like that. IOUSLY haven't listened,
so I can't speak as a listener to WFN or
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WIP in Philadelphia. I just know that those guys are complaining,
but some of that's also just old guys complaining, like
that just what we do we complain about it was
always better twenty years ago, right, So there's there's that,
But I do think the edge is gone. I think
it's more like pe're just softer on athletes. I mean,
I know from my perspective, like my criticism, which I
(25:28):
think I'm pretty light compared to the old guys that
were before me. And yet you would think, like the
things I say, the reaction, I get that I am
like the biggest asshole in the world. I'm like the
word I mean, I'm just over the top, and I'm
I feel like I'm pretty fair and these guys get
so get the feedback. I get it wild. So anyway,
(25:51):
the point is, Carl and Danie, I know you think
about this, but I think it's just that's times change,
and you know, people, there's different generations that do this.
Everyone's got their own act, and so that's kind of
the way. The way that is, I personally just is
a preference. My preference. I like the more critical sports
talk radio. I think that's really great, and I mix
(26:14):
it up though I'll do some ridiculous bits with blind
Scott or hollering James or something. Then you just kind
of have variety.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's evolved or into opinion based debating between hosts rather
than a host getting on the air and just ripping
the shit out of an athlete. You know, So it
depends what style of sports talk radio you prefer.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, you can do that in a two man show,
but I'm one man, So I mean I debate myself,
I guess and have a different personality, but I'm pretty
much I got one one mic and me and for
four hours a night.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Dave, Hey, that's why you rip the shit out of
some athletes.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
There you go, ex pat Dave from Tokyo Rights and
he says, you're my two favorite story here from Japan.
Which one do you guys like better? And then he
said there was a sweet potato truck that was burning
up driving to a fire station, and he says this
went viral and then the and the burger king in
Japan has unleashed a yetti burger that has seventeen hundred calories,
(27:21):
four patties, four slices of cheese, bacon, giant bread. Obviously, uh,
and he well, I I'm gonna go with the I'm
gonna go with the sweet potato truck on fire. I
think that's great because when that's smart trucks on fire,
drive to the fire station, you know, giant burger, you
(27:44):
can get that. I feel like that happens every couple
of years somebody releases a ridiculous heart attack burger.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Lets you know the health benefits to breathing in that fire,
because I was reading about how Jill's cancer it cells
if you eat alners, potato fries, sweet sweet potatoes, anti cancer. Okay,
health benefits.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So yeah, did you see the video on this, by
the way, it's not just a little fire like it's it's.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Did you see, by the way, a few days back
a cement truck spilled all over the ten Freeway in La.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh now they clean that up.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Cars were driving through the sludge and it was drying
on everyone's tires. Oh no, yeah, that's uh, that's a
big time goof goofed.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I've got to oh yeah, we see those every once
in a while. We'll see the trash trucks if somebody
because people throw stuff away they're not supposed to throw away,
and then they tell the people are driving the trash truck.
Just empty the trash truck, right, because it's gonna and
so there's like there'd be trash everywhere, but they the
cement truck. You're not supposed to empty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I don't know if it was user error or a
problem with the truck, but yeah, it just started leaking
all over the ten Freeway.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You imagine the insurance on that. Yeah, so yeah, what's
your claim? Yeah? So I was driving on the tin
near Librea and or wherever it was, and I got,
uh yeah, there's some cement all over my car. It's
uh wait, wait you got cement? Yeah, yeah, I got
some How did that happen? Well, there was a cement
(29:18):
truck and you know that. Uh oh, let me let
me say, have you seen the video that? I mean?
I got the video here? No, I haven't seen that one.
Oh yeah, this is really good, dude, this thing that
it is fully I want to thank this dude? Who
do I need to thank? You're uh expat Dave from Tokyo.
This is awesome. I think I sent you a link
click on to day. This thing is freaking smoking, dude.
(29:41):
You can see the flames and they're still driving you'd
think maybe they say, well, I don't know how safe
that is to drive, But that's a lot of sweet
potatoes up and flames right look at that. That's crazy nuts,
that's a wild man. It's happened a few days ago,
but uh wow.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That looks like it could turn into a gift that
lives for eternity.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Wow. Moonlight mass boldly and roaring down the National Highway,
ignoring traffic lights and bursting into flames, then charging straight
into the fire station under its own power.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You could capture that Clippers season before they let CP
three go.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's the last twenty five years of the Raiders right there,
right Boom.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Ben Mallards drops after Danny g left his overnight show.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Pretty much what drops? But all those look the same?
Uh Like? I love these ever you know, I love
the evergreen drops. I always sucked at a time you
can out suck. That's one of my all time grades,
all time ever evergreen, evergreen. Gottlieb pounding the table coaching
Green Bay. That's an all time evergreen drop, true true.
(30:59):
The This week we had Eric Spolstra, I apologize to
absolutely no one. Boom, that's a great drop, ever green
job and it's very hard to get those in the
word I'm trying to the message has not not been
working very well. Will writes in from upstate. He says,
Ben and Danny, you guys want to move here to
New York. You can buy a home for three hundred
(31:22):
and twenty nine thousand dollars and it has no bedrooms.
This is up what? Yeah? Yeah, there there's a house
for three hundred twenty nine thousand dollars. It has not
a single bedroom and no better property. It's in Selden,
New York. I don't know where that is. It's got
(31:43):
to be upstate. I would think, I would assume. How
about this, It measures four hundred and forty six square
feet according to Listening, four hundred and forty six square feet.
It's described as a studio studio style cottage. Wow, well
that's fine, but you shouldn't have to spend three hundred
(32:04):
twenty nine thousand dollars on that. Like, what are you doing? Uh? Oh,
it says.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It says Selden is in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County,
Long Island.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh, Long Island, Okay, sure, m yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
That's kind of like the the LA listings we see
sometimes where it's like somebody shitty garage like a guest
house that they renovated on the garage and it's listed
for one point two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, it's just a room. It's I guess like a
studio that the price is the thing though, like that's
it doesn't look bad on the inside. I guess see
the link if you want. But it's not like it
looks bad. It's just ummmm no, like as studio. But
the price is that's uh, that's wild. Uh. You go
(32:58):
open house by the way, uh later on today if
you're in in your if you're on Long Island, you
want to go out there. Three hundred twenty nine thousand
the open house from noon to two today so you
can check out. They three hundred and twenty nine thousand
easy to maintain yard. I bet it's easy. A fair
(33:19):
amount of snow there. I have enjoyed the as it's
been ninety degrees here in La. My brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin,
and they had a blizzard this weekend. They're like a
blizzard thing this weekend. What hell? That is just weird?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Right, Yeah, we're blasting our air conditioner all day yesterday
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, it's been toasty, very very toasty. We'll do a
couple more here on the mail bag. What do we got?
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. James from Reno
rites and he wanted to know what we thought about
the the smurf of England. Uh, yeah, I saw I
(34:02):
saw this one. This like, how does that happen? Did
you see this? The guy that was.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Trying Tyler Murray bought property in London.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Pretty much as well. But uh yeah, so this guy
turned blue and they he was rushed to the hospital.
Did you you didn't see this one? So Joe, I
didn't say this. Yeah, so this guy was rushed to
the hospital. His skin suddenly turned blue. He looked like
a smur for I guess some more updated reference would
be an avatar. And so he gets rushed to the hospital.
(34:34):
Forty two year old guy from from England, and they
feared that his terrible condition because he had bright blue skin.
And then it turned out this is so great. It
turned out that he the man slept, he had some
new sheets and he slept without washing them and the
(34:54):
blue dye got all over his body.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
So it looked like google did I'm looking at it
right now.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Wouldn't you think if you but if you're a first responder,
wouldn't you say, well, maybe maybe this is it could
be just die from the sheet.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
This reminds me of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.
You're turning violet violet.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, remember there was a guy that did have a
condition where his skin was blue. Oh it was something
he was eating right that turned his skin blue. Remember
he died a couple of years ago. Do you remember
the story there was a guy legitimately had blue skin
because of something that he ate. You don't remember, I
don't remember that. Yeah, yeah, there was a there was
(35:36):
a guy just google it or ai it, the guy
with blue skin. There was something that he ate that
turned his skin blue, and he lived a full life.
I believe. I think he died somewhat. You know, like
I said, last couple of years. At all one day.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
That would have to be the worst color to turn
because everybody thinks you're, you know, having problems breathing.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's not ideal. It's like the real Blue Man group.
This guy was legitimately blue blue skin. Let me see, man,
let's see. I believe he died, but I'm not sure.
Let me see here. Yeah, okay, Paul Carrison, Yeah yeah, yeh,
he died. Man see here. Oh, oh my god, Danny,
(36:25):
he I thought it was a couple of years. He
died thirteen years ago. Holy crap. Oh lord ah pop
Paul Carrison, known as the Blue Man or Papa Smurf.
Oh can you believe this? I can't believe it's been
that long. He didn't live that long. He lived at
age sixty two. His death was caused by a heart attack.
Blah blah blah blah blah. And he had been using
(36:48):
colloidal silver for years to treat various ailments and that
is what led to his skin turning blue.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
And wow, this is like how Doc Mike has turned yellow.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh, it's a pineapple smoothie with a special sauce he
causes on top. Yikes. Oh, I can't believe it's been
that long since I got Oh wow, it seems like
it was just like a couple of years ago. That's nuts, dude,
that is next level. JT. The Wee Man rights and
says dear Ben and Danny g on the mail bag
from outside Knoxville, Tennessee. And uh, let's see here, Uh,
(37:25):
Serveville from Serville See. JT's upset because I always say
near Knoxville, Tennessee. He wants me to give his town
the proper credit. So I'm gonna try to say it Serveville.
Did I get that right? J T? The wee man,
I think it. Hopefully it did. Serville, Tennessee s E
V I E R V I L L E Tennessee,
(37:47):
says Ben and Danny G. Since I am back on
the Keto train again to shed a few pounds, it
makes snacking a trick of your road to navigate, especially
when I am driving the truck for work. I find
myself going to almonds or peanuts quite frequently. He says,
what are your favorite healthy snacks? Knowing that bends a
(38:08):
faster I'm not sure if you snack at all. One
positive of a keto is if I use my air
fryer and do not bread the wings. I can eat
wings all the time, and they are a great snack.
Back at the Wingman Mountain Compound, there you go, it says,
thanks for the nomination for the bends, but you earned
(38:28):
a JT. It feels good to be recognized as ap
one we love the JT. The man, I'm not a
big snacker. My whole thing is I have a window
usually each day about an hour a little less than that.
I try to eat all my food for the day
in one hour, so it's like a race against time.
So I try to do that. That's my thing. On
the weekends, I do occasionally have a bigger window to
(38:50):
eat in, so I might have some chocolate, almonds or peanuts,
things like that. What about you, Danny, big snack guy.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
We talked about this maybe three weekends ago, and I
brought up pistachios, which are great in the shell, though
I don't like when they do all the work for you.
It takes the fun out of popping them out of
the shell. But the one thing I didn't mention, And
after the show I was thinking, Man, you know what,
maybe I didn't mention that because they're so expensive every time.
(39:19):
That's the thing with snacking, right, Ben. You go in
for your favorite snack, and if you say you like
beef jerky, what is it fifteen dollars a bag?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Now, Oh well it's ridiculous, so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And the one thing I like, but they're always like
seven ninety nine unless they're on sale. Those dots home
style pretzels.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah those are good. Yeah, I like those.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Oh dude, the honey mustard so good.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'd also like the peanut butter filled pretzel, which aren't dots,
just like the regular or whatever brand.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
But there's some good almond butter filled ones at Trader
Joe's and some good peanut butter filled ones at Costco.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Well that's cool. Yeah. I liked m macadamia nuts, but
those are not great for you, and they're very expensive.
The upcharge on Macadamian nuts is yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
See, that's what I'm saying. Like, I think I would
snack more if I didn't have to watch my grocery budget,
which is astronomical right now in twenty twenty six, Denny.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
If this this price of oil thing keeps going the
way it's going, we're all gonna be fasting.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
We're all gonna be skipping. You're not kidding, You are
not kidding. I spent sixty dollars to fill up my
tank halfway the other day.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, it's insane. The same thing. I've been getting gas.
I've been trying to tell the wife. I'm like, listen,
you got it. You can't go all the way to empty,
because every day that you wait to get gas, it's
going up. Like you know what I'm saying. You have
to consistently try to keep a good amount of gas
to avoid the full even though you're I know the math,
they're still paying for it. But to me, at least
(40:54):
in my head, Danny, if you have it at least
at half a tank, you're not filling all the way up.
But it is. You know, you know where I live, Danny,
I'm way out. Oh yeah, I mean I got a Yeah,
it's to me. I mentioned in the podcast two and
a half it was like three three hours or whatever.
Basically I could have phoonn to Seattle. I love my
(41:16):
suit case. That's why I just went back and did
the show from the remote studio. We'll do two more
and get out on this. We got two more, Reggie
from Detroit writes in a regular In the email back,
he says, Hey, Ben and Danny, G do you how
often do you guys check your phone? Do you check
your phone more or less than teenagers? And then he
sent me the story which I saw earlier this week, Danny,
(41:37):
the story that claimed that teenagers check their phones sixty
four times a day on average during school. Our sixty
they did a study sixty four times a day. They're
checking their phone. I have no idea how much I'm
checking my phone, Reggie, it's a lot. However, we have
the ultimate trump card, Danny. It's for our job.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
We I was gonna say, I am checking my phone
that much, but it's eighty percent because of work, not
because of personal life exactly.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I'm not on the social very rarely do I pop
up on there, So yeah, it's that's crazy, man, sixty.
I would have done the same thing if I had
access to a phone in elementary school or junior high school.
You kidding me? Come on, man, you please, we'd all
be doing that. Ryan from Shrewsbury, Mass Rights and he says, hey, boys,
(42:32):
since we are heading into the week of March madness,
who you guys picks for winning the NCAA tournament? And
do you think we will ever see a perfect bracket
in our lifetime? There you'll keep up the great work.
Blah blah blah blah blah. That's from Ryan in Shrewsbury.
So Ryan, we mentioned here earlier. This is the point
where we all become experts. And we're gonna be able
(42:56):
to dazzle you with our Selectionsunday picks and what's going
to happen. And I have not I've not spent too
much time. I've been watching more college basketball. But normally
what I'll do is I'll just be like, oh, let's
see here. The players that I want to watch are
all guys that are going to be drafted in the lottery.
So like Cameron Boozer at Duke right Peterson from Kansas, like,
(43:20):
those are the so I'll lean into those teams. And
that almost never works to any so because I remember
when Kevin Durant was at Texas that one year, I
was like, all right, well, let's go with the Longhorns,
and I think they lost in the first round of
the tournament, if I remember they got they didn't make
it out of the first weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
And this is all guessing except for, like you said,
the teams that are ranked one through ten, and ultimately
everybody puts most of those for their final four. But
otherwise it is you know the old cliche that lady
at the office that knows nothing about college basketball and
she always wins the pool. And that's exactly why I'm
(44:01):
going to have Brenda make all the picks for.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Me this year. Yeah, I should be fine. I like
some of the names. I'm a big point guard guy.
That's old, old school though. Dan, It's always like you
got to get the team with a good point guard
like this guy, Kingston Flemings, I believe, the guard from Houston.
That's a great basketball name. Not a great name, Kingston Flemings,
that's a solid name. Or it could be a restaurant,
(44:25):
you know, let's come to Kingston Flemings and have a
nice stake. Hey, we'll see what we have tonight on that.
Hopefully some of these guys. I hope Boozer and Peterson,
Flemings and all these guys can play because teams like
Sacramento and Washington and Brooklyn and Utah and tanking all
year to get them, So I hope they know how
(44:46):
to play. We'll get out on that, Danny, Thank you
appreciate it. We'll get another big week. I'll be on tonight.
The Benny Awards are tonight, of course, and then normal
week after that. Yeah, we have that and then take
a deep breath.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
All the paparazzi and all the reporters are around you
just just you know, take a moment to take a
breath and just enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Well, I'm most excited, Danny about the parties after and.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
That in the small especially the drugs at those parties.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Well, Jed who fleds
having his own party. That's gonna be an amazing party.
I don't know what's gonna be better. Ed who Fled
Hollering James is sponsored by Sleep Number I think I
think they're a sponsor. And then Lucky, He's got a
bunch of onlyfan models and porn stars. It'll be at
his party, so it'll be a lot of fun. All right, Well,
(45:37):
thank you, Danny. You'll be on the normal WI you
and Coveno, Richard, those guys or something close to normal.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Well, actually we are Monday and Tuesday afternoon this week,
and then the guys are taking Wednesday through Friday off.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
All right, very cool, light light week for you and
enjoy have a great rest of your Sunday. We will
talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Fosta pasta to motor.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Gotta go
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny G Radio a very happy selection Sunday
and more importantly, the fifteenth day of March, which is
the kind of the day the Bennies are there tonight
on the West coast, but still early in the morning.
(00:49):
It's tonight in the Monday morning. The Bennies, the one
hundred and fifty eighth edition of the Benny Awards, were
so excited about that. And we're excited because Danny G
is he in the hiszy for this edition of The
Fifth Hour with Me Ben. What's going on? Danny G?
Look at you, y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I missed the pageantry of the Benny's. Remember I used
to wear my tucks into the studio.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's always the biggest night. There's a buzz in the
air and the groupies that are there, Danny, It's unbelievable.
Everyone wants a piece of the Benny winners. It's crazy
what goes on there with the Benny Awards.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So in the red carpet, that's where we first met
Ryan Seacrest back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I remember Steve Harvey and Ryan Seacrest were there. It
was really cool. It was awesome, amazing, amazing event. So
we got that. I guess there's the Academy Awards. Who
cares about that right now? It's all about the Bennies
and Selection Sunday, and this is always one of my
favorite couple of days of the year in sports radio,
the next couple of days, Danny, because the Bennies. This
(01:50):
is where everyone who ignores college of Basketball all year
suddenly has everything you need to know about your bracket.
I love it. I love it. I love it. I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
When our boss, which ultimately is going to happen, sends
us that email that says, all right, click this link
and make your picks so that somebody could win a
twenty five dollars Amazon gift card.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
This year.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I'm gonna let Brenda make every pick for me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Might as well, you might as well. Yeah, yeah, I've
not gotten the email yet. I'll be the first one
I would imagine. Well maybe not. Maybe Arnie and Plank
will get it. We'll get it early on Sunday tonight,
being like, hey, you know read this promo. The bracket
challenge is open until was it Thursday before tip off?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, at least there's a good price for the listeners now,
because when I first started with the network eleven years ago,
we were giving away a Westinghouse TV.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hey, don't knock a Westinghouse TV. When I've been here
so long, we were giving out radio Shack gift cards. Okay,
let me.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Tell you you're giving away battery.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much, pretty much pretty much. But anyway, listen.
So there's a lot going on here. We got the
Benny's tonight. That's the big event any.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Award, And you know, I'm not sure if I'm gonna
call in or try to zoom with your show, but
I heard I am going to get the Lifetime Podcast
Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Lifetime Achievement, Well, you surely on the running for that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have not yet gotten. I am thrilled.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I'm not privy to it, Danny, as you know.
I I'm just the host of the show. I don't
know who's gonna win and who's not gonna win. And
there's still time to vote. If you have not voted yet.
There's a link on the Facebook page and also on
on Actually gonna have to scroll down a little bit.
Actually not that far. I think I sent out the
link again last night. So anyway, check it out. Vote
(03:43):
if you haven't voted, and trust me, there are several
categories where literally, Danny, like one or two votes can
sway the entire category. So it's that's power. That is
like you imagine you vote for the president of the
United States, and it really depends like in Calornia, Danny,
if you vote for a Republican in California, you might
(04:03):
as well wipe your ass with the ballot right, no
chance of winning. But in this election, who doesn't matter
what side you're on politically, you have a chance of
influencing who wins. So the Bennies are to night check
that out. But we've got mail and Ohio Al, can
you get me in the mood? Ohio Al, It's all right,
(04:34):
very good. First up is Alf from the Antiques road Show.
He says, Ben, you've pointed out my new found affinity
for AI artistry. So I'll explain myself. First and foremost,
we're all living in the matrix, and no one knows
what's real and what's fake. Since I am in fact
(04:55):
a bot, what more, what's more appropriate as an art
form for me to dive into? Then AI, well duly noted,
we are all living in the matrix. You don't know
what's real what's not. That is correct, and AI even
fun to play around with. And I did like the
fact that. And you didn't see this, Danny, but Alf
(05:16):
put me at the Vatican with my wife. We were
meeting with the Pope and so I had a nice
meeting with the Pope. He's a White Sox fan and
there's a photo to prove that. Secondly, he says, I've
been a long time admirer of Mallard prop Guy's creations,
and he pushes me to want to be a better
contributor to the show. That's good. Look get that legend,
(05:37):
legend helping legend, Iron sharpens iron. As far as my
question to you and Danny, g is there any truth
to the rumor that Danny and Brenda bought you a
giant metal cock for Christmas because you were so attracted
to it. And then let me send this to you,
Danny here because this is this is the latest from
(05:58):
this is from alf and he says that you got
me that as a as a gift. Right there, you
can see essentially the link I was attracted to the
giant metal cock.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Ah, man, AI is just take over our universe.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That is a giant cock, Danny, I gotta tell you
that's am.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, not quite, by the way, Ben. It was so
great because when Jake Paul recently sat down with President
Trump speaking of elections, Yeah, Jake Paul said that he
was considering someday a transition into politics. They had a
quick conversation about that, and he said, you know, because
I want to impact some change. In fact, like for
(06:38):
my generation, people ask questions. Young people always ask questions
about what industries they should get into, you know, for
a job for you know, especially with AI taking over.
And I swear to god, Ben Trump did not really
understand what AI was because he told him. He's like, yes,
AI is great to get into if you love computing,
(07:02):
oh boy, And I'm like, no, Donald, he wasn't saying
should I get into AI? He was saying, AI is
taking jobs?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, well you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But by the time, yeah, but it reminded me of
my grandpa, though he didn't understand one damn thing about
computers China.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well. The other thing too, is people take the president
literally like he. I believe he endorsed Jake Paul for
political office, right, didn't. I saw that headline.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
He told him like, yeah, if you want to help
young people in your generation, it would be cool for
you to get into.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well there was a headline saying, hey, you know you
should get into it. You know, I have fully endorse
you or whatever. And I was like, yeah, that sounds like,
you know, Don Trump's of the Don King generation. You know,
the guys that would just get on there and do
radio interviews and you're the greatest host of all time.
This is the greatest radio just like total bull crap.
(07:56):
You know, it's like a total bull crap artist.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So anyway, I didn't mean like some of your callers
who kiss your rump.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, they never kiss me. You're talking about kissed my ass?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Please, No, there's a handful where they're like, man, I
would die without your Overnight show.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well you know, listen.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, but yet there are You're right, there are some
where they just love to torture you. Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yes, yes, they enjoy that very much. Next up Scott
from Florida now working overnight. Look at that Scott working
the overnight. He told us he was gonna do that
on the Mailbag and previous edition, Ben and Danny. When
I saw Geno Smith going back to the Jets this week,
I knew, barring an atomic bomb, it would be the
(08:38):
our number one monologue tragedy. Aside, what's been the best
hour one monologue? Juicy teed up total gift story you
can recall off the top of your head. That's from
Scott in Florida and Scott. There have been so many
over the years. Some of my favorite the night the
(09:02):
cheating astros were exposed, which was I believe early twenty nineteen.
I think it was Danny, I think it was. I
want to say it was like January of twenty nineteen.
That was good all time. If you go back, the
flight Gate was great. That was a lot of fun.
(09:23):
But for a single night, I don't know how you
can beat the malice at the Palace. I don't know
how one could beat the malice at the Palace. The
night that rn our Test and the Indiana Pacers got
into it with the Detroit fans, that was an amazing
just a random Friday night into Saturday. It was an
(09:44):
ESPN game. I was on doing weekend overnights at the time.
That was great. So some of them the Tiger Woods.
When that thing broke, it was like Thanksgiving weekend, I believe,
right around Thanksgiving when that story came out and his
wife and that whole thing a lot. It's the ingredients
are there. You're ready. The ingredients are there, Danny. You
(10:05):
get scandal, you get surprised. That's always great, like unexpected.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
My favorite is when the Lakers acquired Lebron James and
you said famously that the Clippers would win a title
before the Lakers even sniffed the playoffs with Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, the Lakers never won a championship with Lebron the Clippers, but.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Your Clippers sure did. And yes, the Lakers did win
a trophy with Lebron, not a real one.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They got a fake que. Ok here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
If the Clippers had one it that year, you'd still
be wearing that T shirt right now.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
GIFs and butts were candy and nuts. But you're like, well,
the Lakers went to a gift shop in Orlando and
got a little Mickey mount Oh, here we.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Go, we got a little clip play a little tiny
violin for you and Clippers Nation?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What is still wrong with the Clippers? Just a fact? Path,
just a fact.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Are more like Clippers pod?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, I'm thinking about doing a monologue tonight, by the way,
because everyone universally was dog piling on the Clippers. I
can't believe you got rid of Chris Paul. He's so good.
Oh my god, Paul, do you realize the Clippers are
a couple games over? I think there are a couple
of games over five hundred. Now they were when they.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Got there, what were they six and twenty one?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, I think they got it rid him a little
bit before. I think they were five and sixteen or
something like that with him. So but they gotcha Okay, yeah, yeah,
but they did get off to the five. I think
you're right. They lost like five more games after that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I think their record at one point was six and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Something like that. But with Chris Paul playing, they were
like five and sixteen or something like that. And since
he left there like fourteen games or something like that,
over five hundred, so maybe he was part of the
problem for whatever reason. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
They they, Oh, but you sure loved him back in
the Love City days. And when the listener was just
asking that question about your most famous monologues, it got
me thinking to the low days when you were in
love with Blake Griffin and CP three.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
They were fun to watch. They were good ballplayers with
the Clippers. They served their time and they moved on
somewhere else. That's fine, that happens. I enjoyed watching Lop
City Clippers were great. They should have won a championship.
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They like you said about Uncle's nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
All right, all right, calm down, let's see who's next
on this one. Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, says
Big Ben and Danny G Daddy G Radio. Amy Lawrence
was in the air everywhere on my radio before switching
over to the Ben Maler Show. Well, thank you. I
believe Amy quit overnight radio at this point. On what
she's doing. He says on those nights when there are
(12:45):
no Coop Scoop on entertainment or Queen of Hearts with Lorena,
may you please bring back the spelling Bee. It would
be hilarious to listen to callers trying to spell basic
athletic names. That's from quain Quinn. You understand we have
a segment with the Queen of Hearts. Well you have
to use the hashtag Queen Arts. Danny. You know how
many people don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts,
(13:06):
which I would think those are not hard words. Those
are not difficult words to spell, and they have issues.
So can you imagine if I like the names, you know,
the heart, I guess the hardest over the hardest name
to spell be right now in sports would be Janni
Si dent to Kombo? Would that be the yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And also the new one where we just learned everybody
had been saying his name wrong all these years about
Travis h chan h.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Isn't that that? I saw? That? Isn't that the name
of the dolphin? Yes? What is up with that?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I thought the same exact thing when I saw that headline.
I'm like, well, why would he want us to change
to saying it the way the dolphins last name is
really spelled.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
My favorite name change, though, was when the Dolph remember
the guy from Ucla became Kareem abdul Jabbar, much to
the dismay of Kareem abdul Jabbar. You remember the running
back you play you play with the Dolphins too, and
Koree the original Kareem who also had a different name,
Luele Cinder. He lost his lunch, right, it was, Oh
my god, it was there was I believe there was
(14:12):
a lawsuit anyway, Quanne, thank you for listening. I I
don't know. I'm not bringing back the spelling Bee. Maybe
I'll how about this one time if I'm really just
kind of feeling uh, you know, little frisky, I'll bring
it back, but not on a regular basis because it's
a disaster. Although it could be such a terrible disaster
(14:33):
that it actually turns out to be good. That does
happen on a rack.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It could be good during the Olympics too.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, the Olympics. Well the World Cup also.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh that's a great point. Yeah, World Cup would be
great for that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
To uh tag o volleyah George from Florida, right, Sin
says scientists now say, Ben, that bad space weather could
be why we haven't heard from Ali. So what do
you think about that? Well, George, you sent me a
link here. The word could is a weasel word. Word
(15:08):
could is a weasel word. And yeah, I'm not I
don't know. I don't know what's going on. I think
there's stuff on this planet that's coming out of the oceans.
I've said that that's my deep state tinfoil hat thing,
that there are all kinds of other creatures here that
we don't know about that have advanced technology and they're
living here, whether they came from somewhere else, so they've
(15:30):
always lived here, who knows. I can go through all
the ancient stuff from that that you're left in cave
drawings where they showed flying objects and stuff and said,
well maybe those are the things that we're still seeing,
but they're just you know, for them, it was like,
whoa man, we could space weather? You know how much, George,
(15:51):
I've studied space weather my entire life. I've studied No,
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Brent from SOCO, Well, really quick, can I tell you
about a George sighting?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh? Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I'm answering the phones for Covino and Rich. A
few afternoons, Ago and I get a call just rang
directly to line six on our phone. And usually when
it's like that, it's a somebody calling the wrong number.
I pick up the phone and it's an older gentleman
and he says, hey, uh, you got two gals that
(16:22):
are working on the weekend and they're giving out a
fax number that belongs to George Nori.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's me? Who what really? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And he said, I'm getting up to twenty to thirty
facts is every freaking weekend and it's from your two
vals that are working on a weekend show downstairs there?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What is he? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
We have two chicks on sports or something one of
our weekend shows.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, I have no idea what that is. And they
gave out a fax number.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I guess they gave out a fax number. And who
does that on the air anymore?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I don't know, maybe ninety six? What do we?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Maybe they tweeted it along with all the info. I
don't know, but he said that listeners have been faxing
on his line.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is what is he doing with the fax machine?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thank you? I wondered the same thing. But maybe that's
how he communicates with aliens.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well, I'm very proud one of my my proud radio
geek moments Danny at doing the Overnight show. And occasionally
it doesn't happen all the time, but occasionally I will
pull up and I will park side by side with
George Nori, and I'm like, man, right here, this is
the the king of that franchise of Coast to coast
overnight radio. That's the king of it. You know, we're
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doing our old thing. We got our act doing sports.
But side by side awesome. And George has the cleanest
car around he does. I don't know how he does it.
He has nothing in his car. It's not that I
have spied on him. It sounds by you know when
you park and you walk by somebody and you see
what's in the you know, just kind of look glancing
in their car and there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's yeah, you stalker. Yeah, by the way, before you
hung up, I told him, I said, by the way, George,
this is Danny. I booked you on the Fifth Hour
podcast with Ben Maller before and he said, oh, how's
Ben doing?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hell? He yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Remembered being on the on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I should get George on again. George is cool, George
is a good good people. Let's let's see here. What
do we have, Brent from so Cal? This must be
I don't know why you would send this to me,
he says, Ben and Danny. Are you guys big fans
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They Hulu canceled the reboot
(18:34):
of the show, and he wants to know why. We
think whou pulled the Why would you email? What is
this about? Brent? You know how must I've seen a
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don't. I think. I think
I saw one episode one time a million years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I can honestly say I've never seen one episode of
that show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think I was on a date and then happened
to pop up. That's why. But no, I I'm gonna
go out and limb and Brent. It's always about the money, right.
Either they couldn't make enough money or they wanted too
much money, And I don't know what else it would
have been. I have never I've seen like maybe half
of one episode of the show a million years ago,
(19:16):
So I feel like you should have sent that to
somebody else. Betchy out by you. Ferg Dog writes in
in Fullerton that winter Wonderlander says meow Ben and Danny G.
I didn't know you were allergic to cats. Ben, no
wonder why you never liked me? Is it too late
to add a category for best board op of the
(19:36):
year to the Bennys? If not, I would like to
nominate Mark Ramsey, the Pride of Chicago, Roberto the bus driver,
and Danny G Radio. No they're not. Danny's on a
board op, and neithers Roberto. By the way, he's a
bus driver, he said, you said, Yah.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Plus, I'm already getting a Lifetime Achievement award.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's right, You've time a chieved award. You said you
had a story about Tim McCarver, who I was sad
in here die last week. Let's see let's hear it, Ben, Yeah,
that was tremendous by Tom Brady. Really journalism there by
Tom on the untimely passing of Tim McCarver three years
after he passed away. So I have a couple of
(20:14):
McCarver stories. We early days of Fox Sports Radio, macarver
was the baseball the lead baseball anas, and we had
him on every once in a while. And mccarver's one
of the all time greatest radio guests, right up there
with Kevin Kennedy, Danny. Where you would ask macarver one question,
he would then ask himself three or four follow up
(20:35):
questions while answering your question, So you'd ask him one.
It's like set it and forget it. It's like the
rom Pole Peel thing as a talk show host, when
you ask somebody a question and then they answer the question,
then they ask three follow up questions. It's amazing. It's amazing.
The other macarver story, this is very embarrassing, and I
(20:58):
learned the important life lesson. At this time, I was
doing stuff with the Dodgers. We were in New York
at the Old Shay Stadium. It was pregame, it was
in August. The Dodgers used to always go to play
the Mets in August in New York. And it was
right around when the big Tennis tournament was going on,
which happens to be right next to where the Mets play,
and so anyway, it was really hot, nasty, and so
(21:21):
all of us were bunkerd down in the dining room
at Shay Stadium the media dining room, and they had
the pregame thing popped up. This is back on wwor
back in the day. So the Mets opened, the broadcast
popped up. I'm in the media dining room with a
couple of other people and on the open they had
(21:42):
the play by play guy and there was Tom Sever right.
Tom sever was there. He was in the book The
Well Legend on the Mound. As a broadcaster, not so much.
And I didn't carverde the Mets games on television before that.
I didn't realize he had been replaced. So I said
(22:06):
Danny something to the effect, where the hell's McCarver. This
Seaver's terrible. Well, unfortunately Tom Seaver had actually that was
recorded and he was a few feet away from Uh. Yeah,
it was very awkward. It was that was not That
was not one of my better moments. Uh. I was
(22:28):
trying to praise McCarver, and by praising mcarver, I ended
up bearing myself as it as. I think the Sever's
gone too, I think all those guys are gone.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Unfortunately, I bet at his memorial, did you get up
and say some words and tell that story?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah? Yeah, By the way, I'd like to apologize and
know Tom's not with us anymore. But Carl Carl from
New Jersey rights in or from He says, Jersey not new.
He is not really new anymore. That's bad branding. When
they new York and New Jersey at the time it
was new, they should have planned all right, in twenty
five thirty years were going to change it to just
(23:06):
Jersey or York And anyway, Carl says, Ben, you've been
at Fox Sports Radio for you say twenty five years,
actually over twenty five years now, which era was your favorite?
And then he sent me this is great Danny. Carl
sends me two stories. One headline. Joe Beningo says, WF
(23:27):
the fan, WFN will never be what it once was
and it's heyday and Angela and Angela.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Saw yeah, I saw this because of podcasts and tube streaming.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Then he sent me a story from Angelo Cataldi,
who was a big star in Philadelphia radio and they
both he and Howard Eskin ripped WIP in Philadelphia for
not having the edge that it once did. And so
Carl wants to know which era is my favorite? Yeah,
(24:02):
I mean it's obviously the business is a lot different
Now everything's being cannibalized for YouTube clips and social media clips,
and it does disappoint me because I have a lot
I feel like a lot of people just do bits
to get on social media and stuff like that, and
I'm like, ultimately, there's always should be more people listening
to the full the full show. But I understand times
(24:24):
changed and all that, and the edge is definitely not there.
I I've always kind of liked it. I got into
the business, Carl, I like the edge. If you don't
get the job done, you get criticized, and that's part
of it. And you know, a lot of the the
other like the newer guys, I don't think they're into it.
They're not wired that way. They like kind of do like,
(24:45):
you know, they do their own thing, but it's not
it's not the same. So I from that perspective, I
think the edge is gone. It was always that was
always the gold standard places like Boston, Philadelphia and New York.
The way they approach sports radio. It's still like that
in Boston. I don't think it's like that. IOUSLY haven't listened,
so I can't speak as a listener to WFN or
(25:05):
WIP in Philadelphia. I just know that those guys are complaining,
but some of that's also just old guys complaining, like
that just what we do we complain about it was
always better twenty years ago, right, So there's there's that,
But I do think the edge is gone. I think
it's more like pe're just softer on athletes. I mean,
I know from my perspective, like my criticism, which I
(25:28):
think I'm pretty light compared to the old guys that
were before me. And yet you would think, like the
things I say, the reaction, I get that I am
like the biggest asshole in the world. I'm like the
word I mean, I'm just over the top, and I'm
I feel like I'm pretty fair and these guys get
so get the feedback. I get it wild. So anyway,
(25:51):
the point is, Carl and Danie, I know you think
about this, but I think it's just that's times change,
and you know, people, there's different generations that do this.
Everyone's got their own act, and so that's kind of
the way. The way that is, I personally just is
a preference. My preference. I like the more critical sports
talk radio. I think that's really great, and I mix
(26:14):
it up though I'll do some ridiculous bits with blind
Scott or hollering James or something. Then you just kind
of have variety.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's evolved or into opinion based debating between hosts rather
than a host getting on the air and just ripping
the shit out of an athlete. You know, So it
depends what style of sports talk radio you prefer.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, you can do that in a two man show,
but I'm one man, So I mean I debate myself,
I guess and have a different personality, but I'm pretty
much I got one one mic and me and for
four hours a night.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Dave, Hey, that's why you rip the shit out of
some athletes.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
There you go, ex pat Dave from Tokyo Rights and
he says, you're my two favorite story here from Japan.
Which one do you guys like better? And then he
said there was a sweet potato truck that was burning
up driving to a fire station, and he says this
went viral and then the and the burger king in
Japan has unleashed a yetti burger that has seventeen hundred calories,
(27:21):
four patties, four slices of cheese, bacon, giant bread. Obviously, uh,
and he well, I I'm gonna go with the I'm
gonna go with the sweet potato truck on fire. I
think that's great because when that's smart trucks on fire,
drive to the fire station, you know, giant burger, you
(27:44):
can get that. I feel like that happens every couple
of years somebody releases a ridiculous heart attack burger.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Lets you know the health benefits to breathing in that fire,
because I was reading about how Jill's cancer it cells
if you eat alners, potato fries, sweet sweet potatoes, anti cancer. Okay,
health benefits.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So yeah, did you see the video on this, by
the way, it's not just a little fire like it's it's.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Did you see, by the way, a few days back
a cement truck spilled all over the ten Freeway in La.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh now they clean that up.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Cars were driving through the sludge and it was drying
on everyone's tires. Oh no, yeah, that's uh, that's a
big time goof goofed.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I've got to oh yeah, we see those every once
in a while. We'll see the trash trucks if somebody
because people throw stuff away they're not supposed to throw away,
and then they tell the people are driving the trash truck.
Just empty the trash truck, right, because it's gonna and
so there's like there'd be trash everywhere, but they the
cement truck. You're not supposed to empty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I don't know if it was user error or a
problem with the truck, but yeah, it just started leaking
all over the ten Freeway.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You imagine the insurance on that. Yeah, so yeah, what's
your claim? Yeah? So I was driving on the tin
near Librea and or wherever it was, and I got,
uh yeah, there's some cement all over my car. It's
uh wait, wait you got cement? Yeah, yeah, I got
some How did that happen? Well, there was a cement
(29:18):
truck and you know that. Uh oh, let me let
me say, have you seen the video that? I mean?
I got the video here? No, I haven't seen that one.
Oh yeah, this is really good, dude, this thing that
it is fully I want to thank this dude? Who
do I need to thank? You're uh expat Dave from Tokyo.
This is awesome. I think I sent you a link
click on to day. This thing is freaking smoking, dude.
(29:41):
You can see the flames and they're still driving you'd
think maybe they say, well, I don't know how safe
that is to drive, But that's a lot of sweet
potatoes up and flames right look at that. That's crazy nuts,
that's a wild man. It's happened a few days ago,
but uh wow.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That looks like it could turn into a gift that
lives for eternity.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Wow. Moonlight mass boldly and roaring down the National Highway,
ignoring traffic lights and bursting into flames, then charging straight
into the fire station under its own power.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You could capture that Clippers season before they let CP
three go.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's the last twenty five years of the Raiders right there,
right Boom.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Ben Mallards drops after Danny g left his overnight show.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Pretty much what drops? But all those look the same?
Uh Like? I love these ever you know, I love
the evergreen drops. I always sucked at a time you
can out suck. That's one of my all time grades,
all time ever evergreen, evergreen. Gottlieb pounding the table coaching
Green Bay. That's an all time evergreen drop, true true.
(30:59):
The This week we had Eric Spolstra, I apologize to
absolutely no one. Boom, that's a great drop, ever green
job and it's very hard to get those in the
word I'm trying to the message has not not been
working very well. Will writes in from upstate. He says,
Ben and Danny, you guys want to move here to
New York. You can buy a home for three hundred
(31:22):
and twenty nine thousand dollars and it has no bedrooms.
This is up what? Yeah? Yeah, there there's a house
for three hundred twenty nine thousand dollars. It has not
a single bedroom and no better property. It's in Selden,
New York. I don't know where that is. It's got
(31:43):
to be upstate. I would think, I would assume. How
about this, It measures four hundred and forty six square
feet according to Listening, four hundred and forty six square feet.
It's described as a studio studio style cottage. Wow, well
that's fine, but you shouldn't have to spend three hundred
(32:04):
twenty nine thousand dollars on that. Like, what are you doing? Uh? Oh,
it says.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It says Selden is in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County,
Long Island.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh, Long Island, Okay, sure, m yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
That's kind of like the the LA listings we see
sometimes where it's like somebody shitty garage like a guest
house that they renovated on the garage and it's listed
for one point two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, it's just a room. It's I guess like a
studio that the price is the thing though, like that's
it doesn't look bad on the inside. I guess see
the link if you want. But it's not like it
looks bad. It's just ummmm no, like as studio. But
the price is that's uh, that's wild. Uh. You go
(32:58):
open house by the way, uh later on today if
you're in in your if you're on Long Island, you
want to go out there. Three hundred twenty nine thousand
the open house from noon to two today so you
can check out. They three hundred and twenty nine thousand
easy to maintain yard. I bet it's easy. A fair
(33:19):
amount of snow there. I have enjoyed the as it's
been ninety degrees here in La. My brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin,
and they had a blizzard this weekend. They're like a
blizzard thing this weekend. What hell? That is just weird?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Right, Yeah, we're blasting our air conditioner all day yesterday
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, it's been toasty, very very toasty. We'll do a
couple more here on the mail bag. What do we got?
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. James from Reno
rites and he wanted to know what we thought about
the the smurf of England. Uh, yeah, I saw I
(34:02):
saw this one. This like, how does that happen? Did
you see this? The guy that was.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Trying Tyler Murray bought property in London.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Pretty much as well. But uh yeah, so this guy
turned blue and they he was rushed to the hospital.
Did you you didn't see this one? So Joe, I
didn't say this. Yeah, so this guy was rushed to
the hospital. His skin suddenly turned blue. He looked like
a smur for I guess some more updated reference would
be an avatar. And so he gets rushed to the hospital.
(34:34):
Forty two year old guy from from England, and they
feared that his terrible condition because he had bright blue skin.
And then it turned out this is so great. It
turned out that he the man slept, he had some
new sheets and he slept without washing them and the
(34:54):
blue dye got all over his body.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
So it looked like google did I'm looking at it
right now.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Wouldn't you think if you but if you're a first responder,
wouldn't you say, well, maybe maybe this is it could
be just die from the sheet.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
This reminds me of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.
You're turning violet violet.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, remember there was a guy that did have a
condition where his skin was blue. Oh it was something
he was eating right that turned his skin blue. Remember
he died a couple of years ago. Do you remember
the story there was a guy legitimately had blue skin
because of something that he ate. You don't remember, I
don't remember that. Yeah, yeah, there was a there was
(35:36):
a guy just google it or ai it, the guy
with blue skin. There was something that he ate that
turned his skin blue, and he lived a full life.
I believe. I think he died somewhat. You know, like
I said, last couple of years. At all one day.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
That would have to be the worst color to turn
because everybody thinks you're, you know, having problems breathing.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's not ideal. It's like the real Blue Man group.
This guy was legitimately blue blue skin. Let me see, man,
let's see. I believe he died, but I'm not sure.
Let me see here. Yeah, okay, Paul Carrison, Yeah yeah, yeh,
he died. Man see here. Oh, oh my god, Danny,
(36:25):
he I thought it was a couple of years. He
died thirteen years ago. Holy crap. Oh lord ah pop
Paul Carrison, known as the Blue Man or Papa Smurf.
Oh can you believe this? I can't believe it's been
that long. He didn't live that long. He lived at
age sixty two. His death was caused by a heart attack.
Blah blah blah blah blah. And he had been using
(36:48):
colloidal silver for years to treat various ailments and that
is what led to his skin turning blue.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
And wow, this is like how Doc Mike has turned yellow.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh, it's a pineapple smoothie with a special sauce he
causes on top. Yikes. Oh, I can't believe it's been
that long since I got Oh wow, it seems like
it was just like a couple of years ago. That's nuts, dude,
that is next level. JT. The Wee Man rights and
says dear Ben and Danny g on the mail bag
from outside Knoxville, Tennessee. And uh, let's see here, Uh,
(37:25):
Serveville from Serville See. JT's upset because I always say
near Knoxville, Tennessee. He wants me to give his town
the proper credit. So I'm gonna try to say it Serveville.
Did I get that right? J T? The wee man,
I think it. Hopefully it did. Serville, Tennessee s E
V I E R V I L L E Tennessee,
(37:47):
says Ben and Danny G. Since I am back on
the Keto train again to shed a few pounds, it
makes snacking a trick of your road to navigate, especially
when I am driving the truck for work. I find
myself going to almonds or peanuts quite frequently. He says,
what are your favorite healthy snacks? Knowing that bends a
(38:08):
faster I'm not sure if you snack at all. One
positive of a keto is if I use my air
fryer and do not bread the wings. I can eat
wings all the time, and they are a great snack.
Back at the Wingman Mountain Compound, there you go, it says,
thanks for the nomination for the bends, but you earned
(38:28):
a JT. It feels good to be recognized as ap
one we love the JT. The man, I'm not a
big snacker. My whole thing is I have a window
usually each day about an hour a little less than that.
I try to eat all my food for the day
in one hour, so it's like a race against time.
So I try to do that. That's my thing. On
the weekends, I do occasionally have a bigger window to
(38:50):
eat in, so I might have some chocolate, almonds or peanuts,
things like that. What about you, Danny, big snack guy.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
We talked about this maybe three weekends ago, and I
brought up pistachios, which are great in the shell, though
I don't like when they do all the work for you.
It takes the fun out of popping them out of
the shell. But the one thing I didn't mention, And
after the show I was thinking, Man, you know what,
maybe I didn't mention that because they're so expensive every time.
(39:19):
That's the thing with snacking, right, Ben. You go in
for your favorite snack, and if you say you like
beef jerky, what is it fifteen dollars a bag?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Now, Oh well it's ridiculous, so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And the one thing I like, but they're always like
seven ninety nine unless they're on sale. Those dots home
style pretzels.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah those are good. Yeah, I like those.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Oh dude, the honey mustard so good.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'd also like the peanut butter filled pretzel, which aren't dots,
just like the regular or whatever brand.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
But there's some good almond butter filled ones at Trader
Joe's and some good peanut butter filled ones at Costco.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Well that's cool. Yeah. I liked m macadamia nuts, but
those are not great for you, and they're very expensive.
The upcharge on Macadamian nuts is yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
See, that's what I'm saying. Like, I think I would
snack more if I didn't have to watch my grocery budget,
which is astronomical right now in twenty twenty six, Denny.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
If this this price of oil thing keeps going the
way it's going, we're all gonna be fasting.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
We're all gonna be skipping. You're not kidding, You are
not kidding. I spent sixty dollars to fill up my
tank halfway the other day.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, it's insane. The same thing. I've been getting gas.
I've been trying to tell the wife. I'm like, listen,
you got it. You can't go all the way to empty,
because every day that you wait to get gas, it's
going up. Like you know what I'm saying. You have
to consistently try to keep a good amount of gas
to avoid the full even though you're I know the math,
they're still paying for it. But to me, at least
(40:54):
in my head, Danny, if you have it at least
at half a tank, you're not filling all the way up.
But it is. You know, you know where I live, Danny,
I'm way out. Oh yeah, I mean I got a Yeah,
it's to me. I mentioned in the podcast two and
a half it was like three three hours or whatever.
Basically I could have phoonn to Seattle. I love my
(41:16):
suit case. That's why I just went back and did
the show from the remote studio. We'll do two more
and get out on this. We got two more, Reggie
from Detroit writes in a regular In the email back,
he says, Hey, Ben and Danny, G do you how
often do you guys check your phone? Do you check
your phone more or less than teenagers? And then he
sent me the story which I saw earlier this week, Danny,
(41:37):
the story that claimed that teenagers check their phones sixty
four times a day on average during school. Our sixty
they did a study sixty four times a day. They're
checking their phone. I have no idea how much I'm
checking my phone, Reggie, it's a lot. However, we have
the ultimate trump card, Danny. It's for our job.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
We I was gonna say, I am checking my phone
that much, but it's eighty percent because of work, not
because of personal life exactly.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I'm not on the social very rarely do I pop
up on there, So yeah, it's that's crazy, man, sixty.
I would have done the same thing if I had
access to a phone in elementary school or junior high school.
You kidding me? Come on, man, you please, we'd all
be doing that. Ryan from Shrewsbury, Mass Rights and he says, hey, boys,
(42:32):
since we are heading into the week of March madness,
who you guys picks for winning the NCAA tournament? And
do you think we will ever see a perfect bracket
in our lifetime? There you'll keep up the great work.
Blah blah blah blah blah. That's from Ryan in Shrewsbury.
So Ryan, we mentioned here earlier. This is the point
where we all become experts. And we're gonna be able
(42:56):
to dazzle you with our Selectionsunday picks and what's going
to happen. And I have not I've not spent too
much time. I've been watching more college basketball. But normally
what I'll do is I'll just be like, oh, let's
see here. The players that I want to watch are
all guys that are going to be drafted in the lottery.
So like Cameron Boozer at Duke right Peterson from Kansas, like,
(43:20):
those are the so I'll lean into those teams. And
that almost never works to any so because I remember
when Kevin Durant was at Texas that one year, I
was like, all right, well, let's go with the Longhorns,
and I think they lost in the first round of
the tournament, if I remember they got they didn't make
it out of the first weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
And this is all guessing except for, like you said,
the teams that are ranked one through ten, and ultimately
everybody puts most of those for their final four. But
otherwise it is you know the old cliche that lady
at the office that knows nothing about college basketball and
she always wins the pool. And that's exactly why I'm
(44:01):
going to have Brenda make all the picks for.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Me this year. Yeah, I should be fine. I like
some of the names. I'm a big point guard guy.
That's old, old school though. Dan, It's always like you
got to get the team with a good point guard
like this guy, Kingston Flemings, I believe, the guard from Houston.
That's a great basketball name. Not a great name, Kingston Flemings,
that's a solid name. Or it could be a restaurant,
(44:25):
you know, let's come to Kingston Flemings and have a
nice stake. Hey, we'll see what we have tonight on that.
Hopefully some of these guys. I hope Boozer and Peterson,
Flemings and all these guys can play because teams like
Sacramento and Washington and Brooklyn and Utah and tanking all
year to get them, So I hope they know how
(44:46):
to play. We'll get out on that, Danny, Thank you
appreciate it. We'll get another big week. I'll be on tonight.
The Benny Awards are tonight, of course, and then normal
week after that. Yeah, we have that and then take
a deep breath.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
All the paparazzi and all the reporters are around you
just just you know, take a moment to take a
breath and just enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Well, I'm most excited, Danny about the parties after and.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
That in the small especially the drugs at those parties.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Well, Jed who fleds
having his own party. That's gonna be an amazing party.
I don't know what's gonna be better. Ed who Fled
Hollering James is sponsored by Sleep Number I think I
think they're a sponsor. And then Lucky, He's got a
bunch of onlyfan models and porn stars. It'll be at
his party, so it'll be a lot of fun. All right, Well,
(45:37):
thank you, Danny. You'll be on the normal WI you
and Coveno, Richard, those guys or something close to normal.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Well, actually we are Monday and Tuesday afternoon this week,
and then the guys are taking Wednesday through Friday off.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
All right, very cool, light light week for you and
enjoy have a great rest of your Sunday. We will
talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Fosta pasta to motor.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Gotta go
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