March 1, 2026 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of
Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny G. Radio. As we begin a brand
new month in the early morning hours of the first
day of March twenty twenty six. As we are, we're
on March Madness begins today right now. We can get
(00:51):
suit for that, Danny G. March Madness today, right now,
March first. And what a better way to begin March
than with the mail bag. So let's crank up, Ohio,
I'll get right to the mail bag. Right to the
mail bag we go.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's yesterday. Been in southern California did not feel like
the very end of February. In the start of March,
(01:24):
it felt like summer was getting burned out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The last couple of days have been been tremendous in
terms of we've been where I am in the north
Woods ninety plus both days, the ninety plus, and my
brothers who live in cold weather, especially my brother lives
in New York. He was sending me photos of the
snow that's piled up on the side in Manhattan and
(01:50):
people are putting the trash. You know, every day they
pick up the trash in Manhattan, and they've been putting
the snow on top of the trash. So you're walking
down the street and there's like bags of trash at
eye level. And I said, well, here in La we
have our own blizzard. It's a heat blizzard, and uh
and we're getting overwhelmed with heat. It's it's wild, wild
(02:11):
and crazy. But it's been it's been an adjustment. I
turned my ac on in February.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Dude's, yeah, we're three days in a row. We've been
using the air conditioner. How weird is that that in
other parts of the country they're shoveling snow.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh, well, we better get something. I mean,
the taxes that we paid, Danny, we might as well
get something. You're not kidding, all right, Well, we have
a bunch of letters to get to a lot of email.
You guys have been great. You used to have to
beg when we first started this podcast way back in
the day, I had to beg people to post things,
and I haven't had to do that in a long
time because you guys have been great, and we thank you.
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And if you'd like to send before I start going
through the email bag, if you would like to send
a letter in in a future edition, you can send
it to Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers,
and we thank you. Put your name and city. I'm
still getting messages from people that didn't put their name
(03:10):
in the city in the whole thing. It's I know
it's a little thing, but if you want credit, you
gotta let us know. We don't know. We can't just
type your email into a database and find out where
you're from and all that stuff. So let us know,
all right, JT the wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Severville, Tennessee.
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I believe is I believe that's how you say it.
I just like saying your Knoxville anyways, says dear bandon
Danny g as we begin the month of March and
meteorologically spring, I look forward to spending a lot of
time outdoors and enjoying my Harley Davidson. It also means
spring cleaning is upon us as well. What is on
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the typical spring cleaning list at the Malor Mansion and
the Kira Deli estate. For me, it is be a
consolidation of things from our move And he says, I've
been lost without the season recap of Benny versus the Penny.
That's Jay T, the wingman. Yeah, we did not end
(04:13):
up doing a season recap. We had planned on it,
and then Looney and myself, both very busy in our schedules,
did not align and we've already moved on now to
try to plan things for the twenty twenty six NFL season.
So we've we've put that to bed as far as
(04:34):
you know as of today. So if that changes, well,
what you know as far as spring cleaning, Yeah, it's
mostly dusting and I try to keep it clean on
a semi regular basis so we do not have to
end up having this massive cleaning situation. Because it's like,
as Jenny just pointed out, whether it's not too bad
(04:56):
most of the time out of here, so not too much.
You know, some stuff outside that need to be picked
up and moved around and things like that, but it's
relatively relatively minor. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
We're actually in the middle of a little project right
now upstairs. Finally got a new vanity for our bathroom,
put some laminate floor in. They ripped some carpet out,
and in order for the two construction guys to do that,
last week, we had to pull everything out of our closet.
Now this has started a whole cleaning face from you
(05:32):
know who's saying, oh, this is perfect because we need
to really whittle down all the things we had inside
our closet.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No the decluttering, yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And Brenda loves throwing things away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh ma, yeah, my wife's the same way. My wife.
The thing that kills me is the food thing. We've
talked about this before in the podcast. But you go
through the refrigerator and they put the expiration date on stuff.
But to me, you do the smell test, and you know,
the eyeball and the smell test. If there's if there's
hair growing on it, throw it away. If it smells funky,
(06:08):
throw it away. But otherwise it's probably fine. And I
know you do the taste test and all that stuff,
but if anything is like right at the expiration date,
it gets immediately thrown away.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I'm definitely not a border, but I do have some
of my mom in my personality where she used to
save certain items because she would say, I don't want
to have to go buy this because I already have one.
I'm just gonna save it and it's there when I
need it. And that's coming handy in my garage and
a few things in the closet. And Brenda gets into
(06:40):
this cycle of throwing too many things away, so then
when she needs something she has to buy it again.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah. Yeah, I have a similar similar situation we with
certain things we have, and then we end and then
you end up or my other thing is that stuff
gets doesn't get put back where it's supposed to be,
so then you end up buying that thing again, whatever
that item was, and then then you have duplicates exactly exactly,
(07:08):
So all right, moving on, fer Dog in the Winter
Wonder end of Fullerton, writ Sin He says, happy March first,
Ben and Danny g you've been killing my guy Arty
Marino all week. Ben as an Angels fan, I've got
to come to his defense. If you care about winning.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's the only one coming to Artie's defense.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He says, if you care about winning, Edison Field is
still a great place to catch a game if you're
a fan of the opposing team. And Grave Digger and
Bigfoot have done pretty or plenty of winning, by the way,
the Big A over the past thirty years. That's right.
The Monster truck rallies massive in Anaheim, So he says,
so lay off, all right, he says, you mentioned having
(07:51):
a good, amazing Crescin story on the radio. Could you
please share it now? Yeah. I actually just drove by
last night, Danny, the Big A, and instead of having
a halo on it, it looked like it had devil horns.
I don't know why. Very odd that they would have
that I drove by the Big A. Well, that's one
(08:12):
of the all time great quotes. I've knew this job
a long time, Danny. But Artie Marino coming out basically saying, hey,
we did surveys, market research, and our fans are moms
and they don't care whether we win or not.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was so good that when I gave the story
to Kovino and Rich. I almost booked you as a
guest for the show if your schedule wasn't completely opposite,
because I wanted you to share with them the story
about the press box.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh yeah, yoh yeah, the press.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Because they don't know they're just like, oh, known as
a horrible owner. They don't know how bad of an
owner he really is.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, yeah, yeah, anytime I would. I can you want
next time? But yeah, the Angels. My late buddy, the
great TJ. Simers, who was a friend of mine, died
last year. I think it was last year, and it
might have been two years ago. I don't know. But
TJ was a columnist with the Other Times and he
kept killing Arti Marino. And the legend is because Artie
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was so pissed at TJ, he moved the press box,
which is almost always behind home plate, that's where she's
always been, and he moved it down near the right
field foul pole. It's pretty much near the pearly gates.
It's like the worst poss You can't even see home
Plate from the back row, and it's like just like
(09:31):
one little booth and it's embarrassing. It's not major League
at all, and he did that to get back at TJ. Simers,
and they never moved it back because they could sell
the seats behind home plate. They did get in trouble though.
It is interesting note Danny with the BBWAA, the Baseball
Writers Association of America, which is a very powerful cartel,
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and they forced the Angels to give them a few
seats behind home plate for members of the cartel, but
everyone else sitting out basically above the foul pole and
right field. It's it, let's put it this way.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't live that far from there, Danny, and I
could go whenever I want. I don't go because I'd
just rather watch on TV. It's that bad, So I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't know. And then I read another There was
another story just a couple of days ago that they're
behind with their electronics equipment at spring training. They don't
have a speed gun on their their pitchers because they
don't have the proper equipment, because it's there's everything is
so outdated with them.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's it's crazy. The Angels no games on TV this spring.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And they don't have a Spanish broadcast team.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
In Southern California, which is wild. But the Angels, though,
you think about the TV thing. I was watching. I
was flipping around the other during the All Star break
in the NBA, and I watched a North Carolina Wilmington
game on the Magic Box. So I was watching and
it was just the radio feed, and they did they
(11:03):
had two cameras. They had a mid court camera and
they had a camera one other camera and they just
simulcast the radio feed. And they just had two cameras.
Like you're telling me, a major League Baseball team couldn't
afford to have just they're doing the games on the radio,
do the radio and then have two cameras and that's
it. It wouldn't cost you that much money. And the Angels
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aren't even doing it. As far as the Amazing Crescan,
we had when I was doing show with Looney Tunes
years ago, we had the Amazing Crescin on the show.
It was a big deal. I got, this is a
legend in magic and all that, and so we booked
the Amazing Crescan and he gets on the air and he's,
you know, he's very sociable. Obviously he's a magician. You got,
(11:48):
that's part of the shtick. You can't be an introvert
when you're a magician. And so anyway, he gets on
there and he was he starts revealing things about me
like he would. He was a fan of I know
he was full of crap, but he was. He was
a fan of mine, and he didn't really know who
Looney was. And it was it was hilarious because he
(12:09):
was like, he's like this legend, the amazing Cresken who
sold magic kits and did TV and the Tonight Show
and all and there he was like regaling in my
fun facts. And Looney Looney got really annoyed by that.
So anytime Mooney gets annoyed, I smile. I smile when
he gets annoyed. I don't know why that is. Well
we have let's see. I hold on a sec now,
(12:31):
one say.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, By the way, I have a bone to pick
with mister Looney. I texted him about two weeks ago,
and I'm still waiting on a reply.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Really all right, I'll I'll send him a message.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Our boy, mister Irrigation mailed a malor ring for Looney.
I have it. So I texted Looney, Hey, I need
your mailing address so I could forward this gift to
you and yeah, crickets.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All right, I'll I'll bust his chops right good? Might
have gone to I don't know where it would have
gone to.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, exactly what it was my Texaco to spam, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know. Marlene writes in I believe. I'm not
one hundred percent, but I'm ninety nine percent sure that Marlene.
Her dad is Jose, and I remember Jose is from
northern California but lives last we heard from Jose, he
lives in Massachusetts. So I think that is the Marlene
(13:29):
we're dealing with right now. And she asked a very
sweet question. If this is her, I believe it is her.
She said, which sport is better? Baseball or football? So
this is a let's say, well, it's a basic question,
but from Marlene, that's a great question. That's a wonderful question. Marlene.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's very subjective exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Baseball is an everyday thing, which is cool, right, every day,
and then football is more of an event, right, Danny.
It's once a week. You build up to it. It's
it's exciting because there's only one game a week. That's it.
Your favorite team only plays once a week, like We
like the Dodgers. They play every single day. They get
maybe one day off every two weeks, and that's that.
(14:13):
And plus like just the way the game's played. It's
Baseball is very kind of slow and methodical, and football's
there's more more action. Although yeah, although I don't know
how much more action because they remember they did that
study they said, well, there's a lot of downtime in
football too, but we look forward to it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, Baseball is like a marathon. It's like a Nozella
soap opera, good good soap opera, especially when you follow
your team day in and day out. And then football
is like a sprint where you got a couple of
you saying bolts racing to the finish line.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, they're both great, and for our job, football is
better because that's what pays the bills. And but I
love baseball. I've been checking out some of these spring
training games going on, and I saw a bunch of guys.
I'll probably do a rant about this tonight on the radio.
But Randy Johnson over the weekend just killed Major League
Baseball for allowing teams to get away. They've there's always
(15:13):
been a rule. It's kind of one of those unwritten
rules in baseball where to honor the fans in spring training,
the road team is supposed to bring four or five
regular players. I think you could get away with three,
but I think they want four or five regular players
from your everyday big league roster to be on the
(15:36):
traveling contingent. Well, the players hate doing that because it
screws them up the whole day because they got to
take the bus to the game, and then they and
I got to stay and wait, and sometimes you're able
to drive yourself, but it's it's an inconvenience. So lately
the players have just said, we're not the star players
in baseball. They're too good for that. They make too
(15:58):
much money for that, and so they have I'm doing it,
and Randy Johnson called them out and he said, what
are you doing? Of course, the thing that blows me
a boy about this, Danny, is the amount of fanboys
that are out there right the toatsuckers for the athletes.
They're like, oh, yeah, it's okay, it's only spring training.
You know how much they're charging for these spring training games.
It's insane, like some of these spring training games were,
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even if the star players are playing they're only playing
like three or four innings. They're charging over one hundred
dollars a ticket. I saw one matchup in the Grapefruit
League was like one hundred and fifty dollars a ticket
for spring training.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's ridiculous. Those tickets should be fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Bucks exactly back in the old day, Back in my day,
they were. So I just popped into my head. Ryan
from Shrewsbury, Mass Rights and he says, hello boys. Ben.
First of off, I want to apologize for not answering
when when I called in, I was outside the plowd truck.
I heard you on the radio, so I raced back
into the truck and grabbed my phone and I got discan.
(17:00):
My question this week is is I know you fast
a lot, but what's your go to snack? If you
had to pick? Since I was working the blizzard, I
was downing bags of sunflower seeds. I think that's a
low key, great snack food. Anyway, Sorry for getting disconnected.
That's right, that happens right you're doing work. I understand
(17:23):
you got stuff going on the plow truck slightly more
important than calling into the show. So I get that
sunflower seeds not my go to snack. I love trail mix.
Like if I go on road trip to Arizona up
to San Francisco, I'll get a big thing a trail mix.
But I don't like raisins, so it's got to have
no raisins, no nuts, chocolate, that kind of stuff. I
(17:46):
like that. Popcorn is great, cheap naked peanuts, things like that.
What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I go almonds, definitely, pistachios. And there's a caramel
trail mix like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, trail mix is great. I just the raisins. I
feel like, and I don't want to go down that
rant again, Danny. But it's like Mexican food. They fill
a lot of the burritos with beans or Chinese food
with rice because it's cheaper. Yeah, and I feel like
the trail makes the raisins.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Dad, and they'll put too many peanuts in it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, there's a there's a sweet spot. The ratio is
very important of everything. I rotate nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
See your Big Ben and Dandy. Oh this is from
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(18:55):
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(19:19):
death a lot less boring. And then he says, what
what would you ever? What would your forever music streaming
group be?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Wait? Instead of music streaming on ours, we could have
some clips of sports talk radio we did on a loop.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's great, amazing. Take standy right those perfect yeah, perfect rants,
perfect bits that we did.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Best drops ever.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, now you're talking. Now you're talking. You get some
of the classic with Genie and Mental.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah. Can you imagine yours on a fireplace and you
keep hearing My right hand was getting to work out.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, my right hand was getting a workout out. Or
Genie Genie in Medford drops with I'm a doctor. Yeah,
that's great. Quang good old quang.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nobody visiting. What what did that?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Earn? Just say? Who's that? Make it? Solder will last forever,
or at least until the alf from the FCC rights
and he says, Welcome to the first day of March,
otherwise known as Clean Up Australia Day. Ben, you have
said on many occasions that the podcast is not regulated
by the Federal Communications Commission and you were allowed to
(20:40):
say bad words. So on that note, what did you
really say when you awoke to the pungent perfume of
moxies permeating piles of pumpkin on the marble floors of
the palatial Malor mansion. He says, well, there were yeah,
I mean it has a lot of Remember I didn't
notice it right when I woke up. When I woke up,
(21:00):
it was fine because I was in the bedroom and
it was sealed. And then it was only when I
woke up, got out of bed, walked, I opened the
door and I took about two steps and then I
was overwhelmed. It's like I was knocked back, like there
had been a massive explosion. And initially I thought, as
I said in the podcast that I did about it
(21:21):
at my rant, I thought it was like a pipe
had broken or something. It was such a terrific smell.
I thought there had to be some kind of plumbing issue,
And in hindsight, I guess the outcome that it was
just Moxie eating way too much pumpkin and then having
a reversal was the better outcome. But there was a
lot of profanity. I think Danny Alf wants me to curse.
(21:43):
I've really tried to tone back the cursing other than
saying the word shit on the podcast, because I do
use the remote studio for the radio show, and I
don't want to get in the habit of saying bad
stuff in the remote studio because at some point I'm
gonna forget whether I'm doing a podcast or the live
radio show, and then I'm gonna have a lot of
problems with my hands. So there was a tremendous amount
(22:06):
of profanity. Alf. There was you know F this, you
know you know this. I mean, I'm trying to think
about all the most of them started with F. But
then in Moxie. I felt bad for Moxie because Moxie
was like, what will you want? May do you idiots
gave me too much pumpkin? You know it's like vomiting.
So anyway, Reggie from Detroit writes in he says, Ben
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and Danny, Ben, I wanted to let you do I
really enjoyed newby Night this week. Why don't you do
it more often on the overnight show? We need to
find some new regulars for the show. As from Reggie
in Detroit. I agree, Reggie, great feedback. I thought it
was a fun night newby Night. And the reason we
don't do it more often is because then it loses
all of its charm and it's not special. And we're
(22:52):
gonna do it once a month. We were two for
two so far, and I want you got Reggie, I
want you to send me an email and you know
you who whoever else is interested in this, let me know.
We get late in the month of March and I've forgotten,
say hey, dummy, do the damn newby Night. I want
to do one every month all year, and that at
(23:12):
least one, at least one man in the summer, we'll
have more than one. But it's cool. It's the word
I will use is therapeutic. I believe it is therapeutic. Sometimes, Danny,
and you know this, you get into a rut you
think there's only the same ten people or whatever that
listen to the show that call in, And then it's
(23:33):
nice to have a whole bunch of different people that
you don't normally talk to that appreciate the show. So
it's a wonderful thing. Love the newby Night. But that's
why we don't do it. A Scott from Northern Kentucky
rites in on the mail bag. He says, Ben and Danny,
when when was the last time you ran out of gas?
(23:54):
If ever? Also, is it just me? But why is
it every time I get in my wife's car to drive,
it's always on empty? He says. And then, oh, and
don't be fooled by the lunatic blind Scott about going
to a little pony convention. Men who go to this
(24:16):
are called bronis and they are twisted. Just Google. That's
Scott in Northern Kentucky. I have never run out of gas.
I have come very close. There was the time I
was at I tried to time and I had about
ten miles When I got in the car. The gas
(24:36):
station on my GPS said it was like nine miles
away and I was actually in Pasadena coasting down the hill,
and all the gas stations close at night. So I
was like, I went by a couple of gas stations,
they were closed, and I kept going. I was coasting,
I had no gas, and I made it. I had
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to have like a mile to go by the time
I rolled into that gas station, the one that I
found that was open. And I agree with you, Scott.
In northern Kentucky, my wife's car is almost always empty,
and she just assumes I'm just the gas guy.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This is a universal thing. Man, same here. And not
only do they not like to fill their cars up
with gas, but they also just use the inside of
their car as a wastebasket fertilized.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's not a pretty situation. It's not. And the gas thing,
I mean, I don't mind getting gas, I don't hate it,
so it's not that big a deal. But at least
to me, you should always have enough where if there
is an emergency and you need to get out of town,
you got enough to get out of town.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You know what I'm saying, Danny, You're supposed to keep
that fuel tank filled up, because what happens is when
you get to the bottom of the tank, starts getting
the grit and gravel from that tank into your system
and that's not good.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, it's not great. And there's some things coming up here.
Scott's at Northern Kentucky, which is southern Cincinnati, so hopefully
i'll meet Scott. I think I will. We do the
Ohio meet and greet where we are kind of looking
at some dates for Boston and Ohio and it looks like,
(26:18):
you know, not under us insure on both, but like
one will be in April, probably one will be in
May or June, just to give you guys a heads up,
but we'll let you know when we have firm firm
dates out back John and Joanna from SOCOL writing says
Big Ben and Danny g. I am so sick of
these Seahawks fans like j J and Brinton pretending like
(26:42):
the two points that the refs gave them did not
mean anything. I was watching that game and I was
so confused as everyone else was to what happened. Bad
job by the officials. Talk about that Ram game in
the regular season on that Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, yeah, the Rams have something to say about this
with the rules committee.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, goods. It's ridiculous. If everyone stops on the play,
you play to the whistle the referee blew the whistle.
The play is done at that point. You can't give
two points after the whistle, and they did. It's so
stupid it is. Now to the mailback question. We can
all agree that ranch dressing is the devil's blood.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And I know Ben speak for yourself money, and I.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Know Ben is not a salad guy. But are there
any salad dressings that you like that's from outback? John? Yes? John, Yes,
I will have on my burger Thousand Island dressing as
a topping on my burger. And the greatest honey mustard
dip sauce you can buy at a grocery store is
called Kens. It's actually a salad dressing. It's Ken's honey
(27:49):
mustard and it is the bomb dot com. So those
are the two that I would go to. And sometimes
as a marinade, I normally make chicken a big, a
big giant thing of chicken for the week and then
cut it up into little pieces and have that as
our food. So I'll do that and I'll use Italian
dressing as the marinade on that. So those are the
(28:12):
three that I would use. I don't eat salad. I
me and myself Puka, Nakua, and al Michaels are all
anti salad, so we don't believe in the salad. Danny,
your favorite salad dressing.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Caesar is really good. A chicken caesar salad.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I've not had that. I've not had that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, Caesar is good, and then balsamic is a good one.
If you're ever out on the West coast and Cali.
Great barbecue restaurant we have here called wood Ranch, and
they have a Jenny salad walnuts and blue cheese and balsamic.
It is so good there you go there.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, he's actually he lives out here. John is in.
He's he's the he's the man out near where I
used to live about in the Glendora, Covina that area.
I think they're out that way.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You go google it, type in wood Ranch closest to me. Oh,
by the way, I messed up my side pieces name
with balsamic, not Jenny. That was an next Natalie salad.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, well, then say one name. It's all that.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
It's hard to get your salad chicks named straight.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All right, Scott from Florida, Right, since says Ben and
Danny g I live in God's waiting room, Florida, and
I am not sure there is any worse situation than
getting behind an old lady at the cold cuts counter
at the supermarket. They always ask for samples. They want
like a quarter pounds slice thin of eight different items,
(29:53):
when all I want is one easy item that would
take a minute. Oh God, you're you're a preacher of
the KOI here, Scott. I I go to the deli
usually every other week. I'll get like a pound of
thin cut pastrami, and oh the nightmare. I should do
a rant about that. I mean, I I every week
(30:16):
I go to the to the Why I don't go
every week? But every time I go to the Delhi,
there's always something, whether it's the person behind the counter
that you know doesn't want to be there, or the
as as Scott reverenced, that old woman, just in general
the grocery store. Like, I feel like there's these people
that have nothing, they have no outlet, and I feel
(30:37):
bad for them, But you're really effing up my day.
I just want to get in and out. I don't
want to sit there and have a conversation. Like the
main reason I don't like going to Trader Joe's is
because there's no self checkout. You are forced in to
a conversation with the people at Trader Joe's, and it's
always like, it's so annoying. But I feel your pain,
(31:00):
he says, I feel your pain. Your pain. It comes
down to walking away or blowing up twenty minutes of
my life for my lunch, he says. Is LA traffic
like the cold Cuts line every day? That is Scott
from Florida. Yeah, it is. It is a nightm othough
to be fair, I mean, it's terrible in Boston, it's
(31:20):
terrible in New York. I me, there's a lot of
every Bay major city. It's it's terrible. I'm lucky on
the overnight. I don't really have to deal with it
very much. Danny, You've got the worst possible shift for
traffic you could have because of the skip, so you're
getting it both ways.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, it sucks going there, and it sucks even worse
going home in the evening.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's not Yeah, it's exactly. Steve from Tampa says, Hey,
Ben and Danny g a polarizing issue this week with
all going that's going on in the world. Are you
okay with President Trump serving McDonald's to the Olympic hockey
heroes at the White House, China. There were some people
(32:02):
upset by this, that's Steve and yeah, yeah, I don't
hasn't he been doing that the whole time, Like what's
the big deal?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, that's been an ongoing thing. You know. I think
people were surprised by this the first time he did it.
Remember it was a college championship team that he first
served McDonald's two back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, he loves McDonald's. It's some great American company. And
he served double cheeseburgers to the I guess at the
White House. And but yeah, it's one of those things, Danny,
if you're on the other side of the aisle, if
you're a partisan, if Trump served prime rib to the
US Olympic hockey team, the story would have been Trump
wasting tax dollars buying prime rib for US hockey team.
(32:44):
You know, whatever he does, they're going to kill So
it's like that's just the way the way it is
in that political world. But it's fine. Just listen.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The guys looked like they were having fun, so.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Which upset people. They were having a good time. Kevin
from Columbus, Ohio Rights and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny,
you guys for the Ohio Meet and greet if you
can make it out here later this month at the
Great Wolf Lodge here in Ohio, they're gonna be selling
a ranch dressing milkshake.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, you want to you go out there? You should
do a remote, Danny.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So, yeah, that sounds delicious.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The resort for a limited time ranch milkshake, it says
at its locations. Isn't there a southern I think there's
a southern California location. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I'm saying that because I know how much you hate ranch,
But honestly, as much as I do like ranch, I'm
not gonna hang on a freaking milkshake made out of ranch.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Here it is, Danny. You got vanilla ice cream blended
with real ranch dressing. Doesn't stop there. They've got topped
with crispy chicken, carrots, celery whipped cream, and finished with
a sweet salty lime rhyme. Yeah, a rim rather rims.
So there you go, Diabeas. Yeah, all right, Kevin, why
(34:04):
don't you go eat two of those? And then when
you're done vomiting, let me know how it is. Okay.
Randy from Dallas writes in he says, Ben, you talk
about science and those things merging with the real world.
They say cutting edge AI controlled cockroaches that carry cutting
(34:26):
edge technology. Apparently it's it's it's real military use. Cockroaches
have been created for military use here. So okay, I
don't know what you want to do with that, Randy,
but I guess that's wonderful. And everything's straight up a
(34:46):
science fiction movie or a video game and all that.
I mean, you've got a bunch of other ones. I
don't know anyone. We've done enough for your Lance from
the Bay Area sent a viral video clip. Did you
see this, Danny? The construction clip from somewhere in I
think this is an asia where the guys in the
(35:07):
porta potty and the excavator destroys the porta potty while
the guy's taking a dik. Yeah. I actually went not that,
but I was at a Bills game, the only Bills
game I've ever been to, and this guy, this guy
went in there to the porta potty with a Miami
Dolphin jersey on. It was not I was not at
(35:30):
a Bill Dolphin. It was a Bills Titans game. But
it was the guy. The guy went in there with
a dolphin jersey on and they tipped the thing over
and it he came out with a Browns jersey on.
It was not not good, Danny. It was horrific.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That guy could have died though in the video because that.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
He went in as Tua and he came out as
Deshaan Watson.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Oh yeah, but did the porta potty That excavator almost
hit the guy in the head. Well, he was dropping
a deuce. That's uh.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It almost it almost looked like AI.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Was it AI or was it real?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I don't know. I didn't check it, did you. I know,
I assume everything is fake.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I know, I know. The thing that drives me nuts
is that some dudes have come up with the fake
women on the guys. Guys are so stupid. They're making
money as influencers and it's just a.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Did you see, man, did you see the story from
the Sports World a few days ago where high school
kids are using AI to fake their football hates that
they're sending to a collegies.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, God, I don't blame them, man.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
If you're so now, these scouts they're gonna have to
see it with their own eyes. They're not gonna know
what's real and what's fake.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah. Wow, No, welcome to the world we live in.
On that note, Danny, we will get out. I will
be back tonight to begin the new week on the radio,
kicking off the weekday lineup, bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
No AI on the overnight show.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Guaranteed human, that's right, baby, as long as iHeart keeps
that slogan, guaranteed human. And they didn't say guaranteed, not
voice tracked, but guaranteed human. And I'm kidding, ah, but
we will be there tonight all night and then all week.
No days off this week, no days off for the
foreseeable future. And so, Danny, what is your schedule?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Like?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Everything normal for you guys?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
At normal Monday through Friday afternoon drive for us on
the Covino and Rich Show. That is two to four
pm on the West side, five to seven pm in
beautiful Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All right, and we'll be on tonight. I'll be on
at eleven pm two am Monday in the East. And
have a great day, enjoy yourself. We'll talk to you
next time later.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Excavator got a murder. I gotta go
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny G. Radio. As we begin a brand
new month in the early morning hours of the first
day of March twenty twenty six. As we are, we're
on March Madness begins today right now. We can get
(00:51):
suit for that, Danny G. March Madness today, right now,
March first. And what a better way to begin March
than with the mail bag. So let's crank up, Ohio,
I'll get right to the mail bag. Right to the
mail bag we go.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's yesterday. Been in southern California did not feel like
the very end of February. In the start of March,
(01:24):
it felt like summer was getting burned out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The last couple of days have been been tremendous in
terms of we've been where I am in the north
Woods ninety plus both days, the ninety plus, and my
brothers who live in cold weather, especially my brother lives
in New York. He was sending me photos of the
snow that's piled up on the side in Manhattan and
(01:50):
people are putting the trash. You know, every day they
pick up the trash in Manhattan, and they've been putting
the snow on top of the trash. So you're walking
down the street and there's like bags of trash at
eye level. And I said, well, here in La we
have our own blizzard. It's a heat blizzard, and uh
and we're getting overwhelmed with heat. It's it's wild, wild
(02:11):
and crazy. But it's been it's been an adjustment. I
turned my ac on in February.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Dude's, yeah, we're three days in a row. We've been
using the air conditioner. How weird is that that in
other parts of the country they're shoveling snow.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh, well, we better get something. I mean,
the taxes that we paid, Danny, we might as well
get something. You're not kidding, all right, Well, we have
a bunch of letters to get to a lot of email.
You guys have been great. You used to have to
beg when we first started this podcast way back in
the day, I had to beg people to post things,
and I haven't had to do that in a long
time because you guys have been great, and we thank you.
(02:47):
And if you'd like to send before I start going
through the email bag, if you would like to send
a letter in in a future edition, you can send
it to Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers,
and we thank you. Put your name and city. I'm
still getting messages from people that didn't put their name
(03:10):
in the city in the whole thing. It's I know
it's a little thing, but if you want credit, you
gotta let us know. We don't know. We can't just
type your email into a database and find out where
you're from and all that stuff. So let us know,
all right, JT the wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Severville, Tennessee.
(03:30):
I believe is I believe that's how you say it.
I just like saying your Knoxville anyways, says dear bandon
Danny g as we begin the month of March and
meteorologically spring, I look forward to spending a lot of
time outdoors and enjoying my Harley Davidson. It also means
spring cleaning is upon us as well. What is on
(03:52):
the typical spring cleaning list at the Malor Mansion and
the Kira Deli estate. For me, it is be a
consolidation of things from our move And he says, I've
been lost without the season recap of Benny versus the Penny.
That's Jay T, the wingman. Yeah, we did not end
(04:13):
up doing a season recap. We had planned on it,
and then Looney and myself, both very busy in our schedules,
did not align and we've already moved on now to
try to plan things for the twenty twenty six NFL season.
So we've we've put that to bed as far as
(04:34):
you know as of today. So if that changes, well,
what you know as far as spring cleaning, Yeah, it's
mostly dusting and I try to keep it clean on
a semi regular basis so we do not have to
end up having this massive cleaning situation. Because it's like,
as Jenny just pointed out, whether it's not too bad
(04:56):
most of the time out of here, so not too much.
You know, some stuff outside that need to be picked
up and moved around and things like that, but it's
relatively relatively minor. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
We're actually in the middle of a little project right
now upstairs. Finally got a new vanity for our bathroom,
put some laminate floor in. They ripped some carpet out,
and in order for the two construction guys to do that,
last week, we had to pull everything out of our closet.
Now this has started a whole cleaning face from you
(05:32):
know who's saying, oh, this is perfect because we need
to really whittle down all the things we had inside
our closet.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No the decluttering, yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And Brenda loves throwing things away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh ma, yeah, my wife's the same way. My wife.
The thing that kills me is the food thing. We've
talked about this before in the podcast. But you go
through the refrigerator and they put the expiration date on stuff.
But to me, you do the smell test, and you know,
the eyeball and the smell test. If there's if there's
hair growing on it, throw it away. If it smells funky,
(06:08):
throw it away. But otherwise it's probably fine. And I
know you do the taste test and all that stuff,
but if anything is like right at the expiration date,
it gets immediately thrown away.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I'm definitely not a border, but I do have some
of my mom in my personality where she used to
save certain items because she would say, I don't want
to have to go buy this because I already have one.
I'm just gonna save it and it's there when I
need it. And that's coming handy in my garage and
a few things in the closet. And Brenda gets into
(06:40):
this cycle of throwing too many things away, so then
when she needs something she has to buy it again.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah. Yeah, I have a similar similar situation we with
certain things we have, and then we end and then
you end up or my other thing is that stuff
gets doesn't get put back where it's supposed to be,
so then you end up buying that thing again, whatever
that item was, and then then you have duplicates exactly exactly,
(07:08):
So all right, moving on, fer Dog in the Winter
Wonder end of Fullerton, writ Sin He says, happy March first,
Ben and Danny g you've been killing my guy Arty
Marino all week. Ben as an Angels fan, I've got
to come to his defense. If you care about winning.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's the only one coming to Artie's defense.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He says, if you care about winning, Edison Field is
still a great place to catch a game if you're
a fan of the opposing team. And Grave Digger and
Bigfoot have done pretty or plenty of winning, by the way,
the Big A over the past thirty years. That's right.
The Monster truck rallies massive in Anaheim, So he says,
so lay off, all right, he says, you mentioned having
(07:51):
a good, amazing Crescin story on the radio. Could you
please share it now? Yeah. I actually just drove by
last night, Danny, the Big A, and instead of having
a halo on it, it looked like it had devil horns.
I don't know why. Very odd that they would have
that I drove by the Big A. Well, that's one
(08:12):
of the all time great quotes. I've knew this job
a long time, Danny. But Artie Marino coming out basically saying, hey,
we did surveys, market research, and our fans are moms
and they don't care whether we win or not.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was so good that when I gave the story
to Kovino and Rich. I almost booked you as a
guest for the show if your schedule wasn't completely opposite,
because I wanted you to share with them the story
about the press box.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh yeah, yoh yeah, the press.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Because they don't know they're just like, oh, known as
a horrible owner. They don't know how bad of an
owner he really is.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, yeah, yeah, anytime I would. I can you want
next time? But yeah, the Angels. My late buddy, the
great TJ. Simers, who was a friend of mine, died
last year. I think it was last year, and it
might have been two years ago. I don't know. But
TJ was a columnist with the Other Times and he
kept killing Arti Marino. And the legend is because Artie
(09:10):
was so pissed at TJ, he moved the press box,
which is almost always behind home plate, that's where she's
always been, and he moved it down near the right
field foul pole. It's pretty much near the pearly gates.
It's like the worst poss You can't even see home
Plate from the back row, and it's like just like
(09:31):
one little booth and it's embarrassing. It's not major League
at all, and he did that to get back at TJ. Simers,
and they never moved it back because they could sell
the seats behind home plate. They did get in trouble though.
It is interesting note Danny with the BBWAA, the Baseball
Writers Association of America, which is a very powerful cartel,
(09:52):
and they forced the Angels to give them a few
seats behind home plate for members of the cartel, but
everyone else sitting out basically above the foul pole and
right field. It's it, let's put it this way.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't live that far from there, Danny, and I
could go whenever I want. I don't go because I'd
just rather watch on TV. It's that bad, So I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't know. And then I read another There was
another story just a couple of days ago that they're
behind with their electronics equipment at spring training. They don't
have a speed gun on their their pitchers because they
don't have the proper equipment, because it's there's everything is
so outdated with them.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's it's crazy. The Angels no games on TV this spring.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And they don't have a Spanish broadcast team.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
In Southern California, which is wild. But the Angels, though,
you think about the TV thing. I was watching. I
was flipping around the other during the All Star break
in the NBA, and I watched a North Carolina Wilmington
game on the Magic Box. So I was watching and
it was just the radio feed, and they did they
(11:03):
had two cameras. They had a mid court camera and
they had a camera one other camera and they just
simulcast the radio feed. And they just had two cameras.
Like you're telling me, a major League Baseball team couldn't
afford to have just they're doing the games on the radio,
do the radio and then have two cameras and that's
it. It wouldn't cost you that much money. And the Angels
(11:25):
aren't even doing it. As far as the Amazing Crescan,
we had when I was doing show with Looney Tunes
years ago, we had the Amazing Crescin on the show.
It was a big deal. I got, this is a
legend in magic and all that, and so we booked
the Amazing Crescan and he gets on the air and he's,
you know, he's very sociable. Obviously he's a magician. You got,
(11:48):
that's part of the shtick. You can't be an introvert
when you're a magician. And so anyway, he gets on
there and he was he starts revealing things about me
like he would. He was a fan of I know
he was full of crap, but he was. He was
a fan of mine, and he didn't really know who
Looney was. And it was it was hilarious because he
(12:09):
was like, he's like this legend, the amazing Cresken who
sold magic kits and did TV and the Tonight Show
and all and there he was like regaling in my
fun facts. And Looney Looney got really annoyed by that.
So anytime Mooney gets annoyed, I smile. I smile when
he gets annoyed. I don't know why that is. Well
we have let's see. I hold on a sec now,
(12:31):
one say.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, By the way, I have a bone to pick
with mister Looney. I texted him about two weeks ago,
and I'm still waiting on a reply.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Really all right, I'll I'll send him a message.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Our boy, mister Irrigation mailed a malor ring for Looney.
I have it. So I texted Looney, Hey, I need
your mailing address so I could forward this gift to
you and yeah, crickets.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All right, I'll I'll bust his chops right good? Might
have gone to I don't know where it would have
gone to.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, exactly what it was my Texaco to spam, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know. Marlene writes in I believe. I'm not
one hundred percent, but I'm ninety nine percent sure that Marlene.
Her dad is Jose, and I remember Jose is from
northern California but lives last we heard from Jose, he
lives in Massachusetts. So I think that is the Marlene
(13:29):
we're dealing with right now. And she asked a very
sweet question. If this is her, I believe it is her.
She said, which sport is better? Baseball or football? So
this is a let's say, well, it's a basic question,
but from Marlene, that's a great question. That's a wonderful question. Marlene.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's very subjective exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Baseball is an everyday thing, which is cool, right, every day,
and then football is more of an event, right, Danny.
It's once a week. You build up to it. It's
it's exciting because there's only one game a week. That's it.
Your favorite team only plays once a week, like We
like the Dodgers. They play every single day. They get
maybe one day off every two weeks, and that's that.
(14:13):
And plus like just the way the game's played. It's
Baseball is very kind of slow and methodical, and football's
there's more more action. Although yeah, although I don't know
how much more action because they remember they did that
study they said, well, there's a lot of downtime in
football too, but we look forward to it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, Baseball is like a marathon. It's like a Nozella
soap opera, good good soap opera, especially when you follow
your team day in and day out. And then football
is like a sprint where you got a couple of
you saying bolts racing to the finish line.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, they're both great, and for our job, football is
better because that's what pays the bills. And but I
love baseball. I've been checking out some of these spring
training games going on, and I saw a bunch of guys.
I'll probably do a rant about this tonight on the radio.
But Randy Johnson over the weekend just killed Major League
Baseball for allowing teams to get away. They've there's always
(15:13):
been a rule. It's kind of one of those unwritten
rules in baseball where to honor the fans in spring training,
the road team is supposed to bring four or five
regular players. I think you could get away with three,
but I think they want four or five regular players
from your everyday big league roster to be on the
(15:36):
traveling contingent. Well, the players hate doing that because it
screws them up the whole day because they got to
take the bus to the game, and then they and
I got to stay and wait, and sometimes you're able
to drive yourself, but it's it's an inconvenience. So lately
the players have just said, we're not the star players
in baseball. They're too good for that. They make too
(15:58):
much money for that, and so they have I'm doing it,
and Randy Johnson called them out and he said, what
are you doing? Of course, the thing that blows me
a boy about this, Danny, is the amount of fanboys
that are out there right the toatsuckers for the athletes.
They're like, oh, yeah, it's okay, it's only spring training.
You know how much they're charging for these spring training games.
It's insane, like some of these spring training games were,
(16:22):
even if the star players are playing they're only playing
like three or four innings. They're charging over one hundred
dollars a ticket. I saw one matchup in the Grapefruit
League was like one hundred and fifty dollars a ticket
for spring training.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's ridiculous. Those tickets should be fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Bucks exactly back in the old day, Back in my day,
they were. So I just popped into my head. Ryan
from Shrewsbury, Mass Rights and he says, hello boys. Ben.
First of off, I want to apologize for not answering
when when I called in, I was outside the plowd truck.
I heard you on the radio, so I raced back
into the truck and grabbed my phone and I got discan.
(17:00):
My question this week is is I know you fast
a lot, but what's your go to snack? If you
had to pick? Since I was working the blizzard, I
was downing bags of sunflower seeds. I think that's a
low key, great snack food. Anyway, Sorry for getting disconnected.
That's right, that happens right you're doing work. I understand
(17:23):
you got stuff going on the plow truck slightly more
important than calling into the show. So I get that
sunflower seeds not my go to snack. I love trail mix.
Like if I go on road trip to Arizona up
to San Francisco, I'll get a big thing a trail mix.
But I don't like raisins, so it's got to have
no raisins, no nuts, chocolate, that kind of stuff. I
(17:46):
like that. Popcorn is great, cheap naked peanuts, things like that.
What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I go almonds, definitely, pistachios. And there's a caramel
trail mix like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, trail mix is great. I just the raisins. I
feel like, and I don't want to go down that
rant again, Danny. But it's like Mexican food. They fill
a lot of the burritos with beans or Chinese food
with rice because it's cheaper. Yeah, and I feel like
the trail makes the raisins.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Dad, and they'll put too many peanuts in it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, there's a there's a sweet spot. The ratio is
very important of everything. I rotate nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
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(19:19):
death a lot less boring. And then he says, what
what would you ever? What would your forever music streaming
group be?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Wait? Instead of music streaming on ours, we could have
some clips of sports talk radio we did on a loop.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's great, amazing. Take standy right those perfect yeah, perfect rants,
perfect bits that we did.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Best drops ever.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, now you're talking. Now you're talking. You get some
of the classic with Genie and Mental.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah. Can you imagine yours on a fireplace and you
keep hearing My right hand was getting to work out.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, my right hand was getting a workout out. Or
Genie Genie in Medford drops with I'm a doctor. Yeah,
that's great. Quang good old quang.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nobody visiting. What what did that?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Earn? Just say? Who's that? Make it? Solder will last forever,
or at least until the alf from the FCC rights
and he says, Welcome to the first day of March,
otherwise known as Clean Up Australia Day. Ben, you have
said on many occasions that the podcast is not regulated
by the Federal Communications Commission and you were allowed to
(20:40):
say bad words. So on that note, what did you
really say when you awoke to the pungent perfume of
moxies permeating piles of pumpkin on the marble floors of
the palatial Malor mansion. He says, well, there were yeah,
I mean it has a lot of Remember I didn't
notice it right when I woke up. When I woke up,
(21:00):
it was fine because I was in the bedroom and
it was sealed. And then it was only when I
woke up, got out of bed, walked, I opened the
door and I took about two steps and then I
was overwhelmed. It's like I was knocked back, like there
had been a massive explosion. And initially I thought, as
I said in the podcast that I did about it
(21:21):
at my rant, I thought it was like a pipe
had broken or something. It was such a terrific smell.
I thought there had to be some kind of plumbing issue,
And in hindsight, I guess the outcome that it was
just Moxie eating way too much pumpkin and then having
a reversal was the better outcome. But there was a
lot of profanity. I think Danny Alf wants me to curse.
(21:43):
I've really tried to tone back the cursing other than
saying the word shit on the podcast, because I do
use the remote studio for the radio show, and I
don't want to get in the habit of saying bad
stuff in the remote studio because at some point I'm
gonna forget whether I'm doing a podcast or the live
radio show, and then I'm gonna have a lot of
problems with my hands. So there was a tremendous amount
(22:06):
of profanity. Alf. There was you know F this, you
know you know this. I mean, I'm trying to think
about all the most of them started with F. But
then in Moxie. I felt bad for Moxie because Moxie
was like, what will you want? May do you idiots
gave me too much pumpkin? You know it's like vomiting.
So anyway, Reggie from Detroit writes in he says, Ben
(22:30):
and Danny, Ben, I wanted to let you do I
really enjoyed newby Night this week. Why don't you do
it more often on the overnight show? We need to
find some new regulars for the show. As from Reggie
in Detroit. I agree, Reggie, great feedback. I thought it
was a fun night newby Night. And the reason we
don't do it more often is because then it loses
all of its charm and it's not special. And we're
(22:52):
gonna do it once a month. We were two for
two so far, and I want you got Reggie, I
want you to send me an email and you know
you who whoever else is interested in this, let me know.
We get late in the month of March and I've forgotten,
say hey, dummy, do the damn newby Night. I want
to do one every month all year, and that at
(23:12):
least one, at least one man in the summer, we'll
have more than one. But it's cool. It's the word
I will use is therapeutic. I believe it is therapeutic. Sometimes, Danny,
and you know this, you get into a rut you
think there's only the same ten people or whatever that
listen to the show that call in, And then it's
(23:33):
nice to have a whole bunch of different people that
you don't normally talk to that appreciate the show. So
it's a wonderful thing. Love the newby Night. But that's
why we don't do it. A Scott from Northern Kentucky
rites in on the mail bag. He says, Ben and Danny,
when when was the last time you ran out of gas?
(23:54):
If ever? Also, is it just me? But why is
it every time I get in my wife's car to drive,
it's always on empty? He says. And then, oh, and
don't be fooled by the lunatic blind Scott about going
to a little pony convention. Men who go to this
(24:16):
are called bronis and they are twisted. Just Google. That's
Scott in Northern Kentucky. I have never run out of gas.
I have come very close. There was the time I
was at I tried to time and I had about
ten miles When I got in the car. The gas
(24:36):
station on my GPS said it was like nine miles
away and I was actually in Pasadena coasting down the hill,
and all the gas stations close at night. So I
was like, I went by a couple of gas stations,
they were closed, and I kept going. I was coasting,
I had no gas, and I made it. I had
(24:57):
to have like a mile to go by the time
I rolled into that gas station, the one that I
found that was open. And I agree with you, Scott.
In northern Kentucky, my wife's car is almost always empty,
and she just assumes I'm just the gas guy.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This is a universal thing. Man, same here. And not
only do they not like to fill their cars up
with gas, but they also just use the inside of
their car as a wastebasket fertilized.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's not a pretty situation. It's not. And the gas thing,
I mean, I don't mind getting gas, I don't hate it,
so it's not that big a deal. But at least
to me, you should always have enough where if there
is an emergency and you need to get out of town,
you got enough to get out of town.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You know what I'm saying, Danny, You're supposed to keep
that fuel tank filled up, because what happens is when
you get to the bottom of the tank, starts getting
the grit and gravel from that tank into your system
and that's not good.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, it's not great. And there's some things coming up here.
Scott's at Northern Kentucky, which is southern Cincinnati, so hopefully
i'll meet Scott. I think I will. We do the
Ohio meet and greet where we are kind of looking
at some dates for Boston and Ohio and it looks like,
(26:18):
you know, not under us insure on both, but like
one will be in April, probably one will be in
May or June, just to give you guys a heads up,
but we'll let you know when we have firm firm
dates out back John and Joanna from SOCOL writing says
Big Ben and Danny g. I am so sick of
these Seahawks fans like j J and Brinton pretending like
(26:42):
the two points that the refs gave them did not
mean anything. I was watching that game and I was
so confused as everyone else was to what happened. Bad
job by the officials. Talk about that Ram game in
the regular season on that Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, yeah, the Rams have something to say about this
with the rules committee.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, goods. It's ridiculous. If everyone stops on the play,
you play to the whistle the referee blew the whistle.
The play is done at that point. You can't give
two points after the whistle, and they did. It's so
stupid it is. Now to the mailback question. We can
all agree that ranch dressing is the devil's blood.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And I know Ben speak for yourself money, and I.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Know Ben is not a salad guy. But are there
any salad dressings that you like that's from outback? John? Yes? John, Yes,
I will have on my burger Thousand Island dressing as
a topping on my burger. And the greatest honey mustard
dip sauce you can buy at a grocery store is
called Kens. It's actually a salad dressing. It's Ken's honey
(27:49):
mustard and it is the bomb dot com. So those
are the two that I would go to. And sometimes
as a marinade, I normally make chicken a big, a
big giant thing of chicken for the week and then
cut it up into little pieces and have that as
our food. So I'll do that and I'll use Italian
dressing as the marinade on that. So those are the
(28:12):
three that I would use. I don't eat salad. I
me and myself Puka, Nakua, and al Michaels are all
anti salad, so we don't believe in the salad. Danny,
your favorite salad dressing.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Caesar is really good. A chicken caesar salad.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I've not had that. I've not had that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, Caesar is good, and then balsamic is a good one.
If you're ever out on the West coast and Cali.
Great barbecue restaurant we have here called wood Ranch, and
they have a Jenny salad walnuts and blue cheese and balsamic.
It is so good there you go there.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, he's actually he lives out here. John is in.
He's he's the he's the man out near where I
used to live about in the Glendora, Covina that area.
I think they're out that way.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You go google it, type in wood Ranch closest to me. Oh,
by the way, I messed up my side pieces name
with balsamic, not Jenny. That was an next Natalie salad.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, well, then say one name. It's all that.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
It's hard to get your salad chicks named straight.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All right, Scott from Florida, Right, since says Ben and
Danny g I live in God's waiting room, Florida, and
I am not sure there is any worse situation than
getting behind an old lady at the cold cuts counter
at the supermarket. They always ask for samples. They want
like a quarter pounds slice thin of eight different items,
(29:53):
when all I want is one easy item that would
take a minute. Oh God, you're you're a preacher of
the KOI here, Scott. I I go to the deli
usually every other week. I'll get like a pound of
thin cut pastrami, and oh the nightmare. I should do
a rant about that. I mean, I I every week
(30:16):
I go to the to the Why I don't go
every week? But every time I go to the Delhi,
there's always something, whether it's the person behind the counter
that you know doesn't want to be there, or the
as as Scott reverenced, that old woman, just in general
the grocery store. Like, I feel like there's these people
that have nothing, they have no outlet, and I feel
(30:37):
bad for them, But you're really effing up my day.
I just want to get in and out. I don't
want to sit there and have a conversation. Like the
main reason I don't like going to Trader Joe's is
because there's no self checkout. You are forced in to
a conversation with the people at Trader Joe's, and it's
always like, it's so annoying. But I feel your pain,
(31:00):
he says, I feel your pain. Your pain. It comes
down to walking away or blowing up twenty minutes of
my life for my lunch, he says. Is LA traffic
like the cold Cuts line every day? That is Scott
from Florida. Yeah, it is. It is a nightm othough
to be fair, I mean, it's terrible in Boston, it's
(31:20):
terrible in New York. I me, there's a lot of
every Bay major city. It's it's terrible. I'm lucky on
the overnight. I don't really have to deal with it
very much. Danny, You've got the worst possible shift for
traffic you could have because of the skip, so you're
getting it both ways.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, it sucks going there, and it sucks even worse
going home in the evening.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's not Yeah, it's exactly. Steve from Tampa says, Hey,
Ben and Danny g a polarizing issue this week with
all going that's going on in the world. Are you
okay with President Trump serving McDonald's to the Olympic hockey
heroes at the White House, China. There were some people
(32:02):
upset by this, that's Steve and yeah, yeah, I don't
hasn't he been doing that the whole time, Like what's
the big deal?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, that's been an ongoing thing. You know. I think
people were surprised by this the first time he did it.
Remember it was a college championship team that he first
served McDonald's two back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, he loves McDonald's. It's some great American company. And
he served double cheeseburgers to the I guess at the
White House. And but yeah, it's one of those things, Danny,
if you're on the other side of the aisle, if
you're a partisan, if Trump served prime rib to the
US Olympic hockey team, the story would have been Trump
wasting tax dollars buying prime rib for US hockey team.
(32:44):
You know, whatever he does, they're going to kill So
it's like that's just the way the way it is
in that political world. But it's fine. Just listen.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The guys looked like they were having fun, so.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Which upset people. They were having a good time. Kevin
from Columbus, Ohio Rights and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny,
you guys for the Ohio Meet and greet if you
can make it out here later this month at the
Great Wolf Lodge here in Ohio, they're gonna be selling
a ranch dressing milkshake.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, you want to you go out there? You should
do a remote, Danny.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So, yeah, that sounds delicious.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The resort for a limited time ranch milkshake, it says
at its locations. Isn't there a southern I think there's
a southern California location. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I'm saying that because I know how much you hate ranch,
But honestly, as much as I do like ranch, I'm
not gonna hang on a freaking milkshake made out of ranch.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Here it is, Danny. You got vanilla ice cream blended
with real ranch dressing. Doesn't stop there. They've got topped
with crispy chicken, carrots, celery whipped cream, and finished with
a sweet salty lime rhyme. Yeah, a rim rather rims.
So there you go, Diabeas. Yeah, all right, Kevin, why
(34:04):
don't you go eat two of those? And then when
you're done vomiting, let me know how it is. Okay.
Randy from Dallas writes in he says, Ben, you talk
about science and those things merging with the real world.
They say cutting edge AI controlled cockroaches that carry cutting
(34:26):
edge technology. Apparently it's it's it's real military use. Cockroaches
have been created for military use here. So okay, I
don't know what you want to do with that, Randy,
but I guess that's wonderful. And everything's straight up a
(34:46):
science fiction movie or a video game and all that.
I mean, you've got a bunch of other ones. I
don't know anyone. We've done enough for your Lance from
the Bay Area sent a viral video clip. Did you
see this, Danny? The construction clip from somewhere in I
think this is an asia where the guys in the
(35:07):
porta potty and the excavator destroys the porta potty while
the guy's taking a dik. Yeah. I actually went not that,
but I was at a Bills game, the only Bills
game I've ever been to, and this guy, this guy
went in there to the porta potty with a Miami
Dolphin jersey on. It was not I was not at
(35:30):
a Bill Dolphin. It was a Bills Titans game. But
it was the guy. The guy went in there with
a dolphin jersey on and they tipped the thing over
and it he came out with a Browns jersey on.
It was not not good, Danny. It was horrific.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That guy could have died though in the video because that.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
He went in as Tua and he came out as
Deshaan Watson.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Oh yeah, but did the porta potty That excavator almost
hit the guy in the head. Well, he was dropping
a deuce. That's uh.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It almost it almost looked like AI.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Was it AI or was it real?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I don't know. I didn't check it, did you. I know,
I assume everything is fake.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I know, I know. The thing that drives me nuts
is that some dudes have come up with the fake
women on the guys. Guys are so stupid. They're making
money as influencers and it's just a.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Did you see, man, did you see the story from
the Sports World a few days ago where high school
kids are using AI to fake their football hates that
they're sending to a collegies.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, God, I don't blame them, man.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
If you're so now, these scouts they're gonna have to
see it with their own eyes. They're not gonna know
what's real and what's fake.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah. Wow, No, welcome to the world we live in.
On that note, Danny, we will get out. I will
be back tonight to begin the new week on the radio,
kicking off the weekday lineup, bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
No AI on the overnight show.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Guaranteed human, that's right, baby, as long as iHeart keeps
that slogan, guaranteed human. And they didn't say guaranteed, not
voice tracked, but guaranteed human. And I'm kidding, ah, but
we will be there tonight all night and then all week.
No days off this week, no days off for the
foreseeable future. And so, Danny, what is your schedule?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Like?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Everything normal for you guys?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
At normal Monday through Friday afternoon drive for us on
the Covino and Rich Show. That is two to four
pm on the West side, five to seven pm in
beautiful Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All right, and we'll be on tonight. I'll be on
at eleven pm two am Monday in the East. And
have a great day, enjoy yourself. We'll talk to you
next time later.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Excavator got a murder. I gotta go
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