November 13, 2022 • 40 mins
Ben Maller is in the studio with Danny G., having some mail bag fun for your Sunday! All questions sent in by P1's of the #MallerMilitia! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Danny G. @DannyGradio and Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere
the podcast do Joe is open for business. The on
air light is flashing. I'm actually on the live air.
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It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
Radio who because listen, five hours a day not enough.
That's actually four hours today, four hours. It seems like
five hour, but it's four I don't even know how
long I'm on the radio, Danny, it's four hours a night.
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It's not trigonometry. It seems like five hours, but it's
four hours a night. With how late you run the
clock at the network, it is five hours. Well, I
use the clock as a tool. I don't believe in
the clock being a hardline clock. Okay, Brandon Daley. It's
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like the spirit of the law or the letter of
the law. I think the clock is a spirit of
the law and not the letter of the law. You're
like Nathaniel Hackett. You need a special advisor for the clock.
I want you to know that I run the two
minute drill better than anybody. I can jam more stuff
in a two minute segment than anyone else. My right
hand was getting a workout. That is true. I'll give
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you that. I'll be like, we did all that in
two minutes now. Unfortunately, not everyone that I have worked
with over the years enjoys the speed ray seeing through
a segment. They do not like that, and that does
become a problem. But anyway, let's get on with the show.
We've got a big old mail bag here, so let's
strike up the band. Ohio, al do your thing, Ohio all.
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It's bag alright, very nice and these are actual letters
by actual listeners. Danny G I love the mail bag.
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It's one of my favorite things that I do during
the week, answering listening questions. And this is a totally
unique feature. There's nothing else quite like this. Yeah, it's
so unique. You do it twice a week. No no, no, no, no,
no no no, that's incorrect. That is a terrestrial radio bit.
That's podcasting is cool, Danny. We're cool doing the podcast
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anything on radio. I mean, come on, it's radio. But
the podcasting, that's where all the hipsters are at right here, right, Yeah,
they don't make movies about radio anymore, but they make
movies about podcasting. Let me tell you that right now.
They love their podcast all right. Anyway, let's get to it.
Here and the first email, I got mail, Yeah, I
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got mail. Yea. This comes from Ulysses in parts unknown.
He says, Ben and or Danny, g please see the
attached new proposal for the mail bag jingle. He says
he wants us to play this on on the areas.
I guess he's upset with Ohio. Al well, we got
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a battle. We have a jingle battle, Danny. Are you
prepared to hear ulysses version of a jingle? He says here, Well,
I'm gonna read this last part after we play it.
I want you to hear it. And then you're a
professional DJ. You've been in radio for years, you know audio, Danny,
so you're the perfect guy to judge. But here is
Ulysses and his version of what he would like us
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to play the mail jingle mail back here It is
what's in the back, what's in the back? Back back,
Let's end the back, let's end your back, then back
sil back. Yeah your thought? Uh, what's next? In the
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mail bag? Ulyss? He says it took heat, says it
took a guy thirty minutes with no musical skills me
to make maybe the chicken. Wait, that took three minutes
or thirty minutes? He said, thirty minutes, he said, I'm
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reading the email right here. He says, he took a
guy thirty minutes with no musical skills. What did he
do with the other twenty seven minutes? Yeah, you didn't
need to tell us you have no musical skills. I'm
terrible at music, but I believe I could have done
just as well. Thanks for the effort, Ulystens. You get
a little gold star for the effort, and never do
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that again, Never ever do that again. It's so good
that I want to use it next week and the
week after that, the week after that. Oh man, oh man,
oh man. All right, let's get to the real mail.
Back here we go. Mike from Fullerton writes, and he says, hey, guys,
if Jeff Saturday decides to fill his staff with the
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Colts with a bunch of TV and radio personalities. Would
either of you be interested in the job or would
you hold out for a better team than the Colts
that signed Mike from Fullerton? Danny, you're about to get married,
you just get you got a big time show you're
working on during the week year. Would you would you
go to the Colts? Well? Yeah, because I think the
Colts have decent ownership and a good general manager. They've
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had issues obviously with free agent signings and things like that,
but overall, good fan base, good stadium. You can turn
that sucker around and then you'd be a hero there
in Indianapolis. You go to the Colts even if they blow.
You go to the Colts because life's all about the
stories you pick up along the way. Can you imagine
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the stories we would get Danny from being an assistant
coach for Saturday with the Colts who play on Sunday,
uh And how how crazy that would be? Absolutely? I
did my radio hit in Kansas City this week and
we were talking about Jeff Saturday, and I was like,
he ought to just put a dream team of TV
and radio people together, like hire Stephen as his defensive coinator.
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You don't want to make an enemy out of me,
Skip Bayless. As an offensive coordinator. Colin Coward can coach
the special teams. You just hire all these guys, like
all these blowhards that are on TV and radio and
just see what they can do. Why not? That would
be awesome, be be so good. Florio could be picking coach.
Yeah yeah, Floria would be. He'd be in charge of
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yeah yeah, the punter and the none no, the person
the long snapper. He's in charge of the long snapper
or the person that runs out to take the t
off the field. That guy, Uh, that's what he does
there and he the crowd goes wild. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's diarrhea. All right. Next, this is the actual mail
bag come back. It's from now Caol Barry in Nashville says,
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yo yo, mob Benny being a big time star that
you guys are. Have you ever had folks come up
to you when you were out in public and ask
for a picture or an autograph? And if so, is
this frightening or flattering? It has not happened that often.
It does happen every once in a while. It happened
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in the days way before Twitter. It's happened a little
bit more because people see what we look like now
because of the videos the company makes and things like that. Uh,
And it's it's never been frightening. I've never been frightened
by it. I don't think I've always been flattered. I
have had people come to me, usually it's like Staples
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I used to be Staples Center or Dodger Stadium, some
sports venue, because that's you know, that's our meat and potatoes.
Danny is sports and so. But I did have somebody
come up to me Tito's Tacos, which was pretty cool.
This this taco shop in Culver City, and they recognized
me from the radio, and so that was that was
kind of neat. But I've never it's never been where
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I've been like like scared. Some of the people have
been very interesting and and I'll say that, but I
don't like scared would be the way. I'm a pretty
big guy. I think I can kind of protect myself
for the most part. So I'm not really frightened by
too much. And it's it's nice that someone thinks you're
cool enough they want to get a picture with you,
or the the autograph thing. What about you, Danny you've
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worked in radio a long time, have you been recognized?
And about Uh, well, the late nineties to about two
thousand three, I had that really nice run at k
C a q SO doing morning drive, especially for that
hip hop R and B radio station. I was like
their version of Big Boy at Power one oh six.
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Back in the day. It was like, you know, a
lot of pictures and stuff like that, especially when you
were out at remote. And the one thing that was
embarrassing though, is we had like Body Solutions and m
D Weight Control as sponsors that we had to read
during morning drive. Right. So, I remember one time I'm
sitting in port Waynini, California, at Carls Jr. And I'm
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about to take a huge bite out of a Western
Bacon cheeseburger and I hear somebody from behind me say
that m D Weight Controls coming in handy. Huh. So
as many autographs and picture that occurred, I also had
a lot of moments like that where people were watching
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you for all the wrong reasons. Yeah. Well, I did
the Body Shaper Body Solutions commercials. We were number two
in the market in l A. The only show that
sold more of that was Howard Stern, who was the
number one show in the market. We were not the
number one show in the market, but we did very
well with that. And I had the same thing Danny,
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and I was really I was like I was as fat.
I was a double wide trailer when I was doing
this and I was not losing weight. And people would
come up to me at remote as well, you're doing
the commercials, you said you're losing weight. You look as
fat as ever. You know that kind of like it
was so embarrassing. And that Body Solutions, you remember one
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teaspoon before bed and it does all the work. Oh yeah,
it was. Yeah. But the gimmick and I can we
say it now the statue of limitations is run out.
I think we can say it. Sales staff made us
do it. No, no, we didn't want to do it,
but they told us to do it. And the whole
gimmick was don't eat three hours before bed. And then
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it was essentially it caused you this ship. It gave
you the Mona Zuma's revenge. And then so you first
of all, if you don't eat three hours before bed,
you're gonna lose weight anyone, right, I mean that they
tell you don't eat before bed your stomachs. So a
lot of people eat right before better they'll get a snack.
And that's just people like to eat whatever. And I
was the same way up until a few years back
when I stopped. But but if you don't eat three
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hours before bed, you're gonna lose weight. And then they
whatever you ate, they'll have you shipped out. And so
there you go. That's that's how that work. Remember, for
a little while, they're fat blockers were all the rage,
and that's what m D Wake Control did. I would
take the fat blockers with with my meal and then
based on what the meal was, all this orange oil
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would come out of your orifice is and it was
so nasty that it made you not want to ever
eat a slice of pizza because then you really had
an orange oil spill. Yeah, I have that obstacle since
my goal bladder went out. I guess I have my
own natural fat blocker because I have what if I
if I go too long with the fast and I
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because my gall bladder it does kind of look that
that direction. But we're talking about ship Verry asked about
about autographs and pictures. We're talking about taking a dump
and the fat blockers and all this the beauty of
the men an all connected. Yeah, it's the hip bones
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connected to Yeah, you know that whole thing, the bone song. Yeah, exactly, man,
all right, Next up, Jet who fled? This is the
real jet who fled, not to be confused with the
fake jet who fled. This is the authentic jet who fled.
And he writes, he says, guys, what percentage of people
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in in your life are you comfortable talking politics and
religion with? Now that's a great question. I don't talk
religion with pretty much anybody, uh In in in the
circle politics I have. I have a group of people
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who are aligned with my beliefs politically, who we we
text and things like that. Then I have a group
of people who are on the extreme on the other side,
and then I'll we'll go back and forth and bust
each other's chops some of those people. But I but oh,
that's your scientology group chat. Yeah exactly, uh so. But
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but no, I mean, for the most part, I don't
just like with my regular friends. I mean, do we
talk about politics. No, we don't talk about politics. We
don't talk about religion because I learned not to talk
about politics and not to talk about religion. Uh, and
these are these are taboo subjects, and so yet I
don't usually do that, um, just to avoid the because
you don't know where people sit on that. And then
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if you if they if they're really hardcore into politics
and I'm not like people think I'm hard I'm not hardcore,
and apolitics, I'm interested. As I've gotten older, I've gotten
more interested in politics, but I'm I think the whole
world's fucked it politically, so I don't really spend that
much time worried about it. Uh. And then the religious stuff, yeah, yeah,
you'll have thoughts, and so as you get older, you
think more about that, you know, and you wonder what's
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going on and all that, But I don't. I don't
obsess about any of that stuff. What about you, Danny.
I never thought I would ever talk about any of
that on the radio until I met this man named
Clay Travis. And Clay could turn any conversation political talk,
and there would be mornings where behind the scenes we'd
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be saying, please don't come to us, Please don't come
to us, Please don't come to the crew, please please
please don't ask the crew what we think about this,
and then he would stop and he'd say, let me
go to the crew. What say you guys boxing man boxing? Yeah? Yeah,
And you know, a lot of the times I disagreed
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with him, which made for a good conversation. There were
other times I agreed with them, you know, back and forth.
But he liked that because he would always say, am
I nuts? Am I nuts? Here? Yeah? Actually in this
case you are nuts. But yeah, most of the time, Ben,
You're right. In the world that we work in, you
don't talk about religion, especially not on the air, and
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you don't talk about politics. Yeah, exactly, And people generally,
I know, Clay did his thing and he worked out well.
He got the Russia limbob job Russia's share, which is
an amazing compliment to the Clay. But usually people tune in.
They don't want to hear any of that, you know,
to what we do. They want to hear us breakdown
how fed up the astros are something like that, or
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talk football for the most part. Jed also says, do
you think merging the machine emerging with machines, brain ships,
et cetera is a why his idea, as well as
the prolification of all things AI, Well, anything can be
good or bad. Yeah, that's I think, like you look
at like nuclear weapons. They were designed to be good
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right in theory, they were good. Now they can be
used terribly wrong, and depends who's in charge of said
nuclear weapons. But I think it is amazing the technology
that is right around the corner where there are people
right now that are paralyzed, there are people that are blind,
there are people that have all these these lifetime illnesses
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that with the proper micro chip will be able to
see or be able to walk again. I think that
is amazing. And how how are we to stop that
from happening? How are we to say that can happen now?
At the same time, that technology can be used for
really bad But does the good outweigh the bad? And
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I think the good does outweigh the bad. And that
and then we're all getting older, and the idea that
certain things could cause us to live a better life,
a better quality of life, have us live longer. I
think that's a wonderful thing. And as far as the AI,
I'm not I'm not spooked out by it. I think
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the balance has to be I'd much rather deal with
the human being than than Ai. But I do know
when I go to the grocery store, I like doing
the self checkout thing or whatever. My side. I don't
think that's a I but I like doing my own
thing and all that. Uh. And then he says, lastly,
most importantly, will the Seminoles beat the Gators in a
couple of weeks? Yes, for you, I hope that that happens. Danny.
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What were you at on brain chips? You pro brain ship,
anti brain chip? Yeah, I'm with you. If it helps
people with ailments, that's awesome. Now, I can't think of
the name of the show. I think it was a
Netflix show where if you had an issue with your
body or body part, they would turn that part of
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your body into a robot to keep you alive. So
everybody walking around had certain degrees of electronics. Now I
like that, Ben, because my lower back has been barking lately,
and if they could just take out my lower back
and put robotics there, dude, I'd be set. I'd go
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play nerve football again. So you've got your lower back,
I've got my right knee, which is all screwed up.
We're doing pretty well over here, Danny, doing good. Right,
life's good. Well, the good thing if when you go
to Hawaii here just stay in the water, you you
won't feel any pain. Your back will feel great. And dude,
I'm gonna lay out on that warm sand, stretch out
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as far as I can stretch, and lay in that
position for hours. Now, are you guys gonna unplug? What's
the plan here? Are you gonna be locked in your phones?
You're gonna leave those behind? Like? Are you gonna limit
that a couple of hours a day or an hour
a day? Like, what's the deal? Good question. We haven't
talked about that yet. Suggestions, Well, my wife will laugh
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if she hears this, because she says, you're always on
your phone, you know, and all that. But we had
in part of Hawaii we had no cell reception, so
we couldn't be on our phones, which was kind of cool,
and I think would if you could limit it to
you know, maybe at the end of the day you
check your phone to see what's going on in the world.
I think that would be the way to do it,
because just you're laying in the beach, you're swimming with
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sea turtles, you're doing that kind of stuff. Do you
really want to worry about what's some douche bag on
on the internet talking about you know what I mean.
I mean, I think we're gonna have to carry the
phones with us to communicate with family members who are
also there on the island, so kind of us Miswaukee talkies,
Twitter and Facebook and all that. I'm definitely gonna unplug
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from that sort of social media. I think, Yeah, you've
got to enjoy the place you live in the moment.
You gotta live in the moment, all right. Next one
from Joe and Darcy in Florida, and the email writes,
Joe and Darcy right in, I only email you a
few times a year, so I have to make this
one count. This has been bothering me for a while,
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and I have had a theory for a while about
one of America's most beloved game shows, and I can
no longer keep my theory to myself. And Shoe and
Darcy right, I believe Pat say Jack might be the
original Marty Berg. It's an Ozark reference. Let me explain.
He says, the average trip that they give away once
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a show almost always has a value of eight thousand dollars.
It doesn't matter whether the trip is skiing in Vermont
or going to a place like Mexico or Costa Ric.
Joe writes, I have been fortunate enough to to in life,
he says, to have stayed in some of the very places,
and the math makes no sense. Wheel of fortune flies
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people coach not first class. On the high end, the
cost maybe his five dollars a ticket for two people
thousand dollars total. That leaves seven thousand dollars for food
and hotel. The hotels I've stayed in that are often
featured have rooms that might approach three hundred dollars a night,
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but often they are less than that. Assuming the high
end there, that leaves about fifty dollars after the hotel
is dealt with. That got Joe went deep, man, He
went deep, He says, Is it possible Joe and Darcy right?
Is it possible that Vanna and Pat have been laundering
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money in plain site? This could explain why Chuck Woolerine
had to be removed in the early eighties. I admit
it might sound crazy, and I came up with this
when drinking with Coda the Cat and everyone knows Coda sucks. Uh.
This does not change that the This does not change that.
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The math, no matter how you work, it does not
add up. You also have to assume that we all
get some sort of corporate frequent user deal that makes
the discrepancy in money even more glaring. What do you think?
Have I blown the lid off a major scandal? The
email rights from Joe and Darcy in Florida? Is it
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worthy of an investigation documentary? And will crime Lord say
Jack seek vengeance on me? Please let me know again,
Signed Joe and Darcy in Florida. Well, that is an
unexpected email, Joe and Darcy. I've actually met pat Cy
Jack a few times. He's got the greatest life, Danny
pat Say Jack. He lives in the Washington, D c. Area.
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I think he lives in Maryland. He flies out to
California like three or four times a year. And when
he flies out, they film like fifty episodes a Wheel
of Fortune in a week or something like that. It's
a ridiculous number. And then he flies back and that's it,
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and and all that the game show prizes? Do they
do the dollar amount for tax reasons? Is there a
reason that it's always around eight thousand dollars? You think
Danny's there's some kind of tax loophole. Could that be
why the numbers always around the same for those prize packages.
I never thought I would research something like this, but
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now he's piqued our interest to the point where I'm
actually gonna start googling this to find out what the
hell is up with that. And I would like to
tell that couple, Ben that yes they are hired as
my next attorney, Joe and Darcy. I want to have
some of what they're happy having, Danny, because they and
Code of the Cat living their best life, that is
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for sure. Next up on the mailback Kevin in Kansas. Right.
Since this, dear Ben and Danny, G I enjoy Ben's
liberty valance reference about when the legend becomes the fact
print the legend. I picture some of the classic westerns
and think about people who saw those films in the
original theater when it was released in the theater originally.
What westerns do you wish you could have seen on
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the big screen back in their heyday that signed Kevin
in Kansas, Well, a lot of those old spaghetti westerns.
Danny would be kind of cool like and I I
had a chance when Gene Autrey owned the Angels, the
Singing Cowboy. I didn't know what that meant. I just
thought it was a nickname. I didn't realize that he
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was a country music guy and he was in movies
and things like that. And I only saw gene Autry
when he was like, really freaking old. But I wonder
what it was like to watch a gene Autry film
when he was young. And my dad told me stories
about John Wayne this and John Wayne that, and so
any of those old westerns. You can go back to
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what the Red River I think was one of the
classics right back in the day, or Stagecoach. I mean,
there's tongue of those old western movies with John Wayne
that was in them. And as Kevin pointed out, the
line that we use all the time from the man
who shot Liberty Valance, John Wayne was in that move
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with with James Stewart and bunch of other people who
were big in that day. And any any Westerns Billy
the Kid or anything, pop out the other Danny or
you're not a Western guy. The modern westerns that they film,
you know that they filmed in the past few decades.
I like those like unforgiven that early nineties, right early nineties. Yeah,
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Morgan Freeman. Um, movies like that I really like. And
also I love the Western TV shows. There's that Inspired
TV channel, and sometimes on weekday mornings as I'm doing
my computer work for Covino and Rich, I'll have on
in the background shows like raw Hide, those old black
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and white or early color Western TV shows. They're pretty cool, man.
The writing, some of the acting is a little corny,
but the storylines and the use of rifles and guns
and gunfights, I really liked that stuff. Yeah, they don't
make those anymore. That's that that that age is passed, right,
there's no more westerns. They're not making westerns any There's
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a lot of bank robbing, and there's a lot of
Kitty and the Dolly and the girl who's all dressed
up with the coke bottle curves. You know what I
mean that. I read a story the other day that,
you know, the Western hero Calamity Jane. Yeah, total bullshit
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that she was not. She just lied about everything, like everything,
total bullshit, like one of the great liars of all time.
But she's That's an example when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend like she made up like
ninety nine percent of the stuff that was told about her,
she just made up. She made up her own nickname,
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Calamity Jane. While Pierre from the lobby at the MGM, Springfield,
mass not down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame or Muppet mcgras and Shrine, he says, following
up from last weekend and your tale of your trip
to visit your cousin in Arizona, any chance that during
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one of your upcoming visits that you pay off your
bet and walk from Phoenix to Tucson. I mean, it's
only been about seventeen and a half years, so no rush, Pierre.
I have been through this with you before. The late
Great Andrew Ashwood May he rest in peace. I told
he was the boss of Fox Sports Radio at the time.
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I made that statement when Arizona blew a ridiculous lead
to Luther Head and Darren Williams and in the fighting
a line. I in an n c A tournament game,
and I went to the boss at Fox Sports Trade
of the big boss at the time, and I said, listen,
I want to do this. I'm a man of my word.
I want to do it. And Andrew looked at me,
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and he looked up and down he did the elevator
rise and he said that I would not make it
from our studios to Riverside without dropping dead. And uh
said that there's no way I can allow you to
do that. And I said, no, no, no, We'll get
like an RV and you know, we'll have a daily
updates and we'll get sponsors. And uh he said no, no, no, no,
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no no. He said, So that's that said. There was
no amount of Premier Networks insurance that could cover this
stunt exactly exactly. But in my head I was like, oh, yeah,
how bad could it be? And uh, I'll walk a
little bit every day and eventually I'll get to where
I need to go and yeah, uh and now man
lu Olsen has gone a lot of those people from
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that game are long gone. All right. Next up, we
have Adrian in the Mile High City, says Ben and
Danny G. You're raising Arizona Saturday podcast brought back some
old memories for me. When I was five years old,
my dad moved our family from Colorado to Phoenix has
he had a job opportunity at the Americopa County Jail.
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We lived in Phoenix from which, of course, were the
glory days of Sir Charles and the Suns. The Phoenix
Suns were the first pro team I started following as
a kid. And he says, Ben, you mentioned the Mad
House on McDowell, the old home of the Sons, the
Arizona Memorial Coliseum. I remember attending Sons games with my
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dad at that venue and what was then brand spanking
new American West Arena. Adrian says, I'll never forget the
NBA Finals between the Suns and Bulls, or the late
great Paul westfall guaranteeing UH guarantee leading up to the finals,
or how about shows am the legendary Al McCoy, the
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voice of the Suns. I was seven years old during
those nineteen three finals, and I remember sitting next to
my dad on the couch watching the games on TV,
crying when John Packson made the three pointer in Game
six to seal the championship. Uh. And he says, do
you remember any of these names? Ben, Uh and Danny
at Sir Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, thundered An Marley, Cedric Saballo's,
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Frank Johnson, Danny Age, Mark West, Tom Chambers, Richard Dumas
and Oliver Miller. Absolutely absolutely, Adrian, I remember so many
of those. Actually, I remember all those names go down
the list. How about that famous kJ dunk He jumped
about as high as you've ever seen a basketball player jump. Yeah. Well,
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Tom Chambers had one of the great dunks of all time,
but he was with I think he was with the
Sonics at the time, if I remember correctly, but he
had a crazy dunk. And I have a great Oliver
Miller's story that I've told a few times over the
years of buddy of mine is a reporter from Germany
and he covers international basketball, and Oliver Miller, at the
end of his NBA career was playing in Europe. I
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think it might have been Germany, might have been Poland,
but he was playing somewhere in Europe, and he didn't
like the food, the local food, the local delicacy. Danny
didn't think it was very good. So he stayed at
a hotel that had like an American theme diner. And
apparently he didn't like his hotel room either, because the
legend is that Oliver Miller sat in the restaurant from
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morning to afternoon to evening until he had to go
to the game and would eat like cheeseburgers, like all day.
He was like cheeseburgers, just enjoying his life and exactly
And Cedric Soballo's actually worked at Fox Sports Radio. We
we had Cedric on our payroll for a brief amount
(31:52):
of time. So he was he was. And how about
thunder Dan Marley great love watching him it. Yeah, that
was a good team. I I thought the Sons were
gonna beat the Bulls that year. I thought they had
had the ability to do it. He did have the ability.
They ended up gagging, but so being anyways, said thanks
(32:12):
for mentioning the Madhouse on McDowell and uh and Al
McCoy I met him too. That was pretty cool and
I I I told al A I when I was
a kid, we we have family in Arizona, so I
go to Arizona lot when I was a child, and
I remember badgering my mom I have to eat at
water Burger because we'd have water Burger in California. Like
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my mom was like, why the heck do you want
to eat at what a burg? I said, because at
late at night I would get the Sun's games on
six twenty out of Phoenix k T A R at
the station. I get it late at night, still remember
the station, and I'd listened to Al McCoy called the
Sun's Games, and he when somebody on the Suns would
hit a three pointer, he'd say, what a shot? What
a burger? You know, like that whole thing. That was it.
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And so I went up to all and I told
him that he smiled and an old man, and this
is several years back, and he told me he was
very proud of the fact that was like one of
the first product placements in an NBA broadcast at that
commercial for water Burger. That that was. That was very
unorthodox for the time. So that was kind of cool.
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It was like their version of logos on a jersey. Yeah, exactly,
sponsor logos. Now everyone's doing it. Noah In Austin writes,
and he says this question for Big Man and Danny
ge what is your favorite curse word? And also what
is one rule that you wish you could change at
your job? All Right, I think the greatest curse word
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is the F word fuck, because you can use it
in a positive context and a negative contest. It's really
the Swiss Army knife of curse words. You can say, man,
I'm so fucking happy, or go funk yourself, you fucking
piece of ship. Like there's so many different ways you
can say it, right, It's it's really inter changing. You
could say, knock off this fucory. Yeah, man, you're gonna
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get a lot of bleeps in this danny. But that's
that's where it's at for me. The F word. Ever
since our meet and greet, Ben I stopped bleeping our
curse words, Oh you did, okay, all right, yeah, let
it rip. Let it rip. The guys like the bad words.
They enjoy the bad words. It's true, and we we
don't say I'm that often. But because this question is
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based in ship and fuck, Ben, I like ship, ship
should be allowed on the radio. There's a bunch of
on every day there's ship on the radio, and it's
so stupid that we can't say that word. It is
dumb because it's it doesn't belong. It doesn't have the
same power as fuck or the sea. You know, um, yeah,
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you know you know what I'm saying, like asshole, bitch,
Like you're right, the F word, the C word, Okay,
if you want to police those a little bit, so
our little kids aren't walking around dropping those words constantly.
I get it. But at school band in the mornings,
the kids say ship all the time. They don't overuse it,
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but they use it in the right circumstances. Yea. And
this has always been the funny thing about the way
adults operate. And now I guess I'm an adult, which
I hate saying, but I am. I mean, I talk
about sports, but my entire life, and I'm pretty sure
my parents life. They always work to not have kids
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say bad words, right, not be exposed to bad words.
But the filthiest place to hear bad words as a playground.
So if society for eight hundred hundred and fifty years
has tried to keep kids from learning these bad words,
and yet if you go to a playground, you hear
every one of these words. Do they not understand it's
(35:49):
not quite working out, their plans not quite working out?
Do they get it? You know what I'm saying? Yeah,
if you feel me on that, you know, you know
what I'm going you know. And by the way, that
is the one rule that I would like to get
rid of at work, the FCC rules. I feel like
if we were able to talk freely. Then that would
(36:10):
add that much more to our content and our fun. Yeah, no,
I would if we didn't have to worry. But but
then at the same time, you've got the the the
people out there. They're just waiting for you to say
the wrong thing. That at Oh you can't say that.
Oh my god, La la la la la. Get a life,
That's what I tell those people. Get a freaking life,
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all right. Jeremy from Vermont writes in for both you've
been and Danny g have either of you been to Vermont?
And would you if you had the chance, and what
would you look forward to that you have heard about Vermont?
So there's there's Jeremy who's a big fan. It sounds
(36:52):
like of his home state of Vermont. So yes, of
course I've heard of Vermont. And when I when I
worked remotely for w E I in Boston for a
couple of years, some of the guys they lived in
New Hampshire and some of the guys lived in Vermont.
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Doesn't our friend, the one and only Arnie Spanier, isn't
he Mr Vermont? Not only is he Mr Vermont, Ben,
but every year he sends those Christmas bags in huge
boxes to the studios and in each bag he puts
Vermont syrup, pancake mix, and beef jerky from Vermont, all
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really good products. So I would like to visit Vermont.
But to me, that's all I think of is what
I can go eat uh and pour on pancakes. Yeah, Like,
I mean, he's beautiful. I know, you know, the geography
is the same as Massachusetts, and you get outside the
cities and it's just so so beautiful as long as
you're not there in the winter when everything's dead. But
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a lot of outdoor stuff. I mean I think of Vermont,
I think of hiking and looking at the forest and
a scenic drive or something like that, or if you're
into any kind of outdoor activities. Is a lot of
like little lakes and things like that and streams in Vermont.
But I would love to. I I hope, And I
don't know if it's gonna work out here, Amy, but
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my I'm dating myself here. But my niece is going
to graduate from high school in New York. So I'm
gonna be back there in the summer. And my goal
is if I time it right, if I get enough
time off, I'm gonna drive up to Maine. So I'll
drive through from New York to Maine and maybe i'll
take the train back. I don't know. We'll see how
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that goes. But I want to stop along the way
as much as I can and see a lot of
places I haven't seen. I've driven from New York to Boston,
so I've been through Connecticut and Rhode Island, and but
I haven't been to Vermont, and I have not been
to New Hampshire. That is not not happen. I think
we'll get out on that, Danny, Yes, I think we're
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a late, but we'll get out on that. I want
to thank Fred in Spring Texas, j Bone in Maine,
and Bob from Parts Unknown who ripped Marcel John in
northern California. There's at bot. I'm ready to bring the
gas exactly. John's getting ready to go back to the ballet.
He I think he wanted some advice on the ballet.
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But we'll get out there and listen. If you didn't
get your email here, send it again next week. If
you want to be part of this mail back, we'd
love to have you great questions this week. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. Danny, Congratulations, you're you're getting close to to
bailing out here and getting getting hit, so I'm happy
for you. Yeah, man, it's gonna be a fun trip
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to MAUI. I'm trying to get over this little cold.
I think I headed it off at the past ben,
but if in the next couple of days I don't
feel I'm definitely gonna go the garlic route. I'm gonna
pull a bed mout Well, you'll keep the vampires away
if nothing else. You might not keep the cold away,
but you'll keep the vampires away. You get away from me,
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have a great rest of your day. I'll be back
on the radio tonight at eleven o'clock in the West
and of course two am in the East, and we'll
do the same old song and dance breakdown all these
NFL games and the good, the bed and the ugly
and all that, and we'll talk to you then later.
Skater gott a murder. I gotta go
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
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It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
Radio who because listen, five hours a day not enough.
That's actually four hours today, four hours. It seems like
five hour, but it's four I don't even know how
long I'm on the radio, Danny, it's four hours a night.
(01:04):
It's not trigonometry. It seems like five hours, but it's
four hours a night. With how late you run the
clock at the network, it is five hours. Well, I
use the clock as a tool. I don't believe in
the clock being a hardline clock. Okay, Brandon Daley. It's
(01:28):
like the spirit of the law or the letter of
the law. I think the clock is a spirit of
the law and not the letter of the law. You're
like Nathaniel Hackett. You need a special advisor for the clock.
I want you to know that I run the two
minute drill better than anybody. I can jam more stuff
in a two minute segment than anyone else. My right
hand was getting a workout. That is true. I'll give
(01:50):
you that. I'll be like, we did all that in
two minutes now. Unfortunately, not everyone that I have worked
with over the years enjoys the speed ray seeing through
a segment. They do not like that, and that does
become a problem. But anyway, let's get on with the show.
We've got a big old mail bag here, so let's
strike up the band. Ohio, al do your thing, Ohio all.
(02:13):
It's bag alright, very nice and these are actual letters
by actual listeners. Danny G I love the mail bag.
(02:34):
It's one of my favorite things that I do during
the week, answering listening questions. And this is a totally
unique feature. There's nothing else quite like this. Yeah, it's
so unique. You do it twice a week. No no, no, no, no,
no no no, that's incorrect. That is a terrestrial radio bit.
That's podcasting is cool, Danny. We're cool doing the podcast
(02:54):
anything on radio. I mean, come on, it's radio. But
the podcasting, that's where all the hipsters are at right here, right, Yeah,
they don't make movies about radio anymore, but they make
movies about podcasting. Let me tell you that right now.
They love their podcast all right. Anyway, let's get to it.
Here and the first email, I got mail, Yeah, I
(03:20):
got mail. Yea. This comes from Ulysses in parts unknown.
He says, Ben and or Danny, g please see the
attached new proposal for the mail bag jingle. He says
he wants us to play this on on the areas.
I guess he's upset with Ohio. Al well, we got
(03:41):
a battle. We have a jingle battle, Danny. Are you
prepared to hear ulysses version of a jingle? He says here, Well,
I'm gonna read this last part after we play it.
I want you to hear it. And then you're a
professional DJ. You've been in radio for years, you know audio, Danny,
so you're the perfect guy to judge. But here is
Ulysses and his version of what he would like us
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to play the mail jingle mail back here It is
what's in the back, what's in the back? Back back,
Let's end the back, let's end your back, then back
sil back. Yeah your thought? Uh, what's next? In the
(04:32):
mail bag? Ulyss? He says it took heat, says it
took a guy thirty minutes with no musical skills me
to make maybe the chicken. Wait, that took three minutes
or thirty minutes? He said, thirty minutes, he said, I'm
(04:52):
reading the email right here. He says, he took a
guy thirty minutes with no musical skills. What did he
do with the other twenty seven minutes? Yeah, you didn't
need to tell us you have no musical skills. I'm
terrible at music, but I believe I could have done
just as well. Thanks for the effort, Ulystens. You get
a little gold star for the effort, and never do
(05:13):
that again, Never ever do that again. It's so good
that I want to use it next week and the
week after that, the week after that. Oh man, oh man,
oh man. All right, let's get to the real mail.
Back here we go. Mike from Fullerton writes, and he says, hey, guys,
if Jeff Saturday decides to fill his staff with the
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Colts with a bunch of TV and radio personalities. Would
either of you be interested in the job or would
you hold out for a better team than the Colts
that signed Mike from Fullerton? Danny, you're about to get married,
you just get you got a big time show you're
working on during the week year. Would you would you
go to the Colts? Well? Yeah, because I think the
Colts have decent ownership and a good general manager. They've
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had issues obviously with free agent signings and things like that,
but overall, good fan base, good stadium. You can turn
that sucker around and then you'd be a hero there
in Indianapolis. You go to the Colts even if they blow.
You go to the Colts because life's all about the
stories you pick up along the way. Can you imagine
(06:21):
the stories we would get Danny from being an assistant
coach for Saturday with the Colts who play on Sunday,
uh And how how crazy that would be? Absolutely? I
did my radio hit in Kansas City this week and
we were talking about Jeff Saturday, and I was like,
he ought to just put a dream team of TV
and radio people together, like hire Stephen as his defensive coinator.
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You don't want to make an enemy out of me,
Skip Bayless. As an offensive coordinator. Colin Coward can coach
the special teams. You just hire all these guys, like
all these blowhards that are on TV and radio and
just see what they can do. Why not? That would
be awesome, be be so good. Florio could be picking coach.
Yeah yeah, Floria would be. He'd be in charge of
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yeah yeah, the punter and the none no, the person
the long snapper. He's in charge of the long snapper
or the person that runs out to take the t
off the field. That guy, Uh, that's what he does
there and he the crowd goes wild. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's diarrhea. All right. Next, this is the actual mail
bag come back. It's from now Caol Barry in Nashville says,
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yo yo, mob Benny being a big time star that
you guys are. Have you ever had folks come up
to you when you were out in public and ask
for a picture or an autograph? And if so, is
this frightening or flattering? It has not happened that often.
It does happen every once in a while. It happened
(07:55):
in the days way before Twitter. It's happened a little
bit more because people see what we look like now
because of the videos the company makes and things like that. Uh,
And it's it's never been frightening. I've never been frightened
by it. I don't think I've always been flattered. I
have had people come to me, usually it's like Staples
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I used to be Staples Center or Dodger Stadium, some
sports venue, because that's you know, that's our meat and potatoes.
Danny is sports and so. But I did have somebody
come up to me Tito's Tacos, which was pretty cool.
This this taco shop in Culver City, and they recognized
me from the radio, and so that was that was
kind of neat. But I've never it's never been where
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I've been like like scared. Some of the people have
been very interesting and and I'll say that, but I
don't like scared would be the way. I'm a pretty
big guy. I think I can kind of protect myself
for the most part. So I'm not really frightened by
too much. And it's it's nice that someone thinks you're
cool enough they want to get a picture with you,
or the the autograph thing. What about you, Danny you've
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worked in radio a long time, have you been recognized?
And about Uh, well, the late nineties to about two
thousand three, I had that really nice run at k
C a q SO doing morning drive, especially for that
hip hop R and B radio station. I was like
their version of Big Boy at Power one oh six.
(09:18):
Back in the day. It was like, you know, a
lot of pictures and stuff like that, especially when you
were out at remote. And the one thing that was
embarrassing though, is we had like Body Solutions and m
D Weight Control as sponsors that we had to read
during morning drive. Right. So, I remember one time I'm
sitting in port Waynini, California, at Carls Jr. And I'm
(09:43):
about to take a huge bite out of a Western
Bacon cheeseburger and I hear somebody from behind me say
that m D Weight Controls coming in handy. Huh. So
as many autographs and picture that occurred, I also had
a lot of moments like that where people were watching
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you for all the wrong reasons. Yeah. Well, I did
the Body Shaper Body Solutions commercials. We were number two
in the market in l A. The only show that
sold more of that was Howard Stern, who was the
number one show in the market. We were not the
number one show in the market, but we did very
well with that. And I had the same thing Danny,
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and I was really I was like I was as fat.
I was a double wide trailer when I was doing
this and I was not losing weight. And people would
come up to me at remote as well, you're doing
the commercials, you said you're losing weight. You look as
fat as ever. You know that kind of like it
was so embarrassing. And that Body Solutions, you remember one
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teaspoon before bed and it does all the work. Oh yeah,
it was. Yeah. But the gimmick and I can we
say it now the statue of limitations is run out.
I think we can say it. Sales staff made us
do it. No, no, we didn't want to do it,
but they told us to do it. And the whole
gimmick was don't eat three hours before bed. And then
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it was essentially it caused you this ship. It gave
you the Mona Zuma's revenge. And then so you first
of all, if you don't eat three hours before bed,
you're gonna lose weight anyone, right, I mean that they
tell you don't eat before bed your stomachs. So a
lot of people eat right before better they'll get a snack.
And that's just people like to eat whatever. And I
was the same way up until a few years back
when I stopped. But but if you don't eat three
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hours before bed, you're gonna lose weight. And then they
whatever you ate, they'll have you shipped out. And so
there you go. That's that's how that work. Remember, for
a little while, they're fat blockers were all the rage,
and that's what m D Wake Control did. I would
take the fat blockers with with my meal and then
based on what the meal was, all this orange oil
(11:53):
would come out of your orifice is and it was
so nasty that it made you not want to ever
eat a slice of pizza because then you really had
an orange oil spill. Yeah, I have that obstacle since
my goal bladder went out. I guess I have my
own natural fat blocker because I have what if I
if I go too long with the fast and I
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because my gall bladder it does kind of look that
that direction. But we're talking about ship Verry asked about
about autographs and pictures. We're talking about taking a dump
and the fat blockers and all this the beauty of
the men an all connected. Yeah, it's the hip bones
(12:38):
connected to Yeah, you know that whole thing, the bone song. Yeah, exactly, man,
all right, Next up, Jet who fled? This is the
real jet who fled, not to be confused with the
fake jet who fled. This is the authentic jet who fled.
And he writes, he says, guys, what percentage of people
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in in your life are you comfortable talking politics and
religion with? Now that's a great question. I don't talk
religion with pretty much anybody, uh In in in the
circle politics I have. I have a group of people
(13:23):
who are aligned with my beliefs politically, who we we
text and things like that. Then I have a group
of people who are on the extreme on the other side,
and then I'll we'll go back and forth and bust
each other's chops some of those people. But I but oh,
that's your scientology group chat. Yeah exactly, uh so. But
(13:45):
but no, I mean, for the most part, I don't
just like with my regular friends. I mean, do we
talk about politics. No, we don't talk about politics. We
don't talk about religion because I learned not to talk
about politics and not to talk about religion. Uh, and
these are these are taboo subjects, and so yet I
don't usually do that, um, just to avoid the because
you don't know where people sit on that. And then
(14:06):
if you if they if they're really hardcore into politics
and I'm not like people think I'm hard I'm not hardcore,
and apolitics, I'm interested. As I've gotten older, I've gotten
more interested in politics, but I'm I think the whole
world's fucked it politically, so I don't really spend that
much time worried about it. Uh. And then the religious stuff, yeah, yeah,
you'll have thoughts, and so as you get older, you
think more about that, you know, and you wonder what's
(14:27):
going on and all that, But I don't. I don't
obsess about any of that stuff. What about you, Danny.
I never thought I would ever talk about any of
that on the radio until I met this man named
Clay Travis. And Clay could turn any conversation political talk,
and there would be mornings where behind the scenes we'd
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be saying, please don't come to us, Please don't come
to us, Please don't come to the crew, please please
please don't ask the crew what we think about this,
and then he would stop and he'd say, let me
go to the crew. What say you guys boxing man boxing? Yeah? Yeah,
And you know, a lot of the times I disagreed
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with him, which made for a good conversation. There were
other times I agreed with them, you know, back and forth.
But he liked that because he would always say, am
I nuts? Am I nuts? Here? Yeah? Actually in this
case you are nuts. But yeah, most of the time, Ben,
You're right. In the world that we work in, you
don't talk about religion, especially not on the air, and
(15:28):
you don't talk about politics. Yeah, exactly, And people generally,
I know, Clay did his thing and he worked out well.
He got the Russia limbob job Russia's share, which is
an amazing compliment to the Clay. But usually people tune in.
They don't want to hear any of that, you know,
to what we do. They want to hear us breakdown
how fed up the astros are something like that, or
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talk football for the most part. Jed also says, do
you think merging the machine emerging with machines, brain ships,
et cetera is a why his idea, as well as
the prolification of all things AI, Well, anything can be
good or bad. Yeah, that's I think, like you look
at like nuclear weapons. They were designed to be good
(16:14):
right in theory, they were good. Now they can be
used terribly wrong, and depends who's in charge of said
nuclear weapons. But I think it is amazing the technology
that is right around the corner where there are people
right now that are paralyzed, there are people that are blind,
there are people that have all these these lifetime illnesses
(16:37):
that with the proper micro chip will be able to
see or be able to walk again. I think that
is amazing. And how how are we to stop that
from happening? How are we to say that can happen now?
At the same time, that technology can be used for
really bad But does the good outweigh the bad? And
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I think the good does outweigh the bad. And that
and then we're all getting older, and the idea that
certain things could cause us to live a better life,
a better quality of life, have us live longer. I
think that's a wonderful thing. And as far as the AI,
I'm not I'm not spooked out by it. I think
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the balance has to be I'd much rather deal with
the human being than than Ai. But I do know
when I go to the grocery store, I like doing
the self checkout thing or whatever. My side. I don't
think that's a I but I like doing my own
thing and all that. Uh. And then he says, lastly,
most importantly, will the Seminoles beat the Gators in a
couple of weeks? Yes, for you, I hope that that happens. Danny.
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What were you at on brain chips? You pro brain ship,
anti brain chip? Yeah, I'm with you. If it helps
people with ailments, that's awesome. Now, I can't think of
the name of the show. I think it was a
Netflix show where if you had an issue with your
body or body part, they would turn that part of
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your body into a robot to keep you alive. So
everybody walking around had certain degrees of electronics. Now I
like that, Ben, because my lower back has been barking lately,
and if they could just take out my lower back
and put robotics there, dude, I'd be set. I'd go
(18:22):
play nerve football again. So you've got your lower back,
I've got my right knee, which is all screwed up.
We're doing pretty well over here, Danny, doing good. Right,
life's good. Well, the good thing if when you go
to Hawaii here just stay in the water, you you
won't feel any pain. Your back will feel great. And dude,
I'm gonna lay out on that warm sand, stretch out
(18:44):
as far as I can stretch, and lay in that
position for hours. Now, are you guys gonna unplug? What's
the plan here? Are you gonna be locked in your phones?
You're gonna leave those behind? Like? Are you gonna limit
that a couple of hours a day or an hour
a day? Like, what's the deal? Good question. We haven't
talked about that yet. Suggestions, Well, my wife will laugh
(19:05):
if she hears this, because she says, you're always on
your phone, you know, and all that. But we had
in part of Hawaii we had no cell reception, so
we couldn't be on our phones, which was kind of cool,
and I think would if you could limit it to
you know, maybe at the end of the day you
check your phone to see what's going on in the world.
I think that would be the way to do it,
because just you're laying in the beach, you're swimming with
(19:27):
sea turtles, you're doing that kind of stuff. Do you
really want to worry about what's some douche bag on
on the internet talking about you know what I mean.
I mean, I think we're gonna have to carry the
phones with us to communicate with family members who are
also there on the island, so kind of us Miswaukee talkies,
Twitter and Facebook and all that. I'm definitely gonna unplug
(19:48):
from that sort of social media. I think, Yeah, you've
got to enjoy the place you live in the moment.
You gotta live in the moment, all right. Next one
from Joe and Darcy in Florida, and the email writes,
Joe and Darcy right in, I only email you a
few times a year, so I have to make this
one count. This has been bothering me for a while,
(20:09):
and I have had a theory for a while about
one of America's most beloved game shows, and I can
no longer keep my theory to myself. And Shoe and
Darcy right, I believe Pat say Jack might be the
original Marty Berg. It's an Ozark reference. Let me explain.
He says, the average trip that they give away once
(20:29):
a show almost always has a value of eight thousand dollars.
It doesn't matter whether the trip is skiing in Vermont
or going to a place like Mexico or Costa Ric.
Joe writes, I have been fortunate enough to to in life,
he says, to have stayed in some of the very places,
and the math makes no sense. Wheel of fortune flies
(20:52):
people coach not first class. On the high end, the
cost maybe his five dollars a ticket for two people
thousand dollars total. That leaves seven thousand dollars for food
and hotel. The hotels I've stayed in that are often
featured have rooms that might approach three hundred dollars a night,
(21:13):
but often they are less than that. Assuming the high
end there, that leaves about fifty dollars after the hotel
is dealt with. That got Joe went deep, man, He
went deep, He says, Is it possible Joe and Darcy right?
Is it possible that Vanna and Pat have been laundering
(21:33):
money in plain site? This could explain why Chuck Woolerine
had to be removed in the early eighties. I admit
it might sound crazy, and I came up with this
when drinking with Coda the Cat and everyone knows Coda sucks. Uh.
This does not change that the This does not change that.
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The math, no matter how you work, it does not
add up. You also have to assume that we all
get some sort of corporate frequent user deal that makes
the discrepancy in money even more glaring. What do you think?
Have I blown the lid off a major scandal? The
email rights from Joe and Darcy in Florida? Is it
(22:16):
worthy of an investigation documentary? And will crime Lord say
Jack seek vengeance on me? Please let me know again,
Signed Joe and Darcy in Florida. Well, that is an
unexpected email, Joe and Darcy. I've actually met pat Cy
Jack a few times. He's got the greatest life, Danny
pat Say Jack. He lives in the Washington, D c. Area.
(22:42):
I think he lives in Maryland. He flies out to
California like three or four times a year. And when
he flies out, they film like fifty episodes a Wheel
of Fortune in a week or something like that. It's
a ridiculous number. And then he flies back and that's it,
(23:03):
and and all that the game show prizes? Do they
do the dollar amount for tax reasons? Is there a
reason that it's always around eight thousand dollars? You think
Danny's there's some kind of tax loophole. Could that be
why the numbers always around the same for those prize packages.
I never thought I would research something like this, but
(23:23):
now he's piqued our interest to the point where I'm
actually gonna start googling this to find out what the
hell is up with that. And I would like to
tell that couple, Ben that yes they are hired as
my next attorney, Joe and Darcy. I want to have
some of what they're happy having, Danny, because they and
Code of the Cat living their best life, that is
(23:46):
for sure. Next up on the mailback Kevin in Kansas. Right.
Since this, dear Ben and Danny, G I enjoy Ben's
liberty valance reference about when the legend becomes the fact
print the legend. I picture some of the classic westerns
and think about people who saw those films in the
original theater when it was released in the theater originally.
What westerns do you wish you could have seen on
(24:08):
the big screen back in their heyday that signed Kevin
in Kansas, Well, a lot of those old spaghetti westerns.
Danny would be kind of cool like and I I
had a chance when Gene Autrey owned the Angels, the
Singing Cowboy. I didn't know what that meant. I just
thought it was a nickname. I didn't realize that he
(24:30):
was a country music guy and he was in movies
and things like that. And I only saw gene Autry
when he was like, really freaking old. But I wonder
what it was like to watch a gene Autry film
when he was young. And my dad told me stories
about John Wayne this and John Wayne that, and so
any of those old westerns. You can go back to
(24:51):
what the Red River I think was one of the
classics right back in the day, or Stagecoach. I mean,
there's tongue of those old western movies with John Wayne
that was in them. And as Kevin pointed out, the
line that we use all the time from the man
who shot Liberty Valance, John Wayne was in that move
(25:12):
with with James Stewart and bunch of other people who
were big in that day. And any any Westerns Billy
the Kid or anything, pop out the other Danny or
you're not a Western guy. The modern westerns that they film,
you know that they filmed in the past few decades.
I like those like unforgiven that early nineties, right early nineties. Yeah,
(25:33):
Morgan Freeman. Um, movies like that I really like. And
also I love the Western TV shows. There's that Inspired
TV channel, and sometimes on weekday mornings as I'm doing
my computer work for Covino and Rich, I'll have on
in the background shows like raw Hide, those old black
(25:55):
and white or early color Western TV shows. They're pretty cool, man.
The writing, some of the acting is a little corny,
but the storylines and the use of rifles and guns
and gunfights, I really liked that stuff. Yeah, they don't
make those anymore. That's that that that age is passed, right,
there's no more westerns. They're not making westerns any There's
(26:17):
a lot of bank robbing, and there's a lot of
Kitty and the Dolly and the girl who's all dressed
up with the coke bottle curves. You know what I
mean that. I read a story the other day that,
you know, the Western hero Calamity Jane. Yeah, total bullshit
(26:40):
that she was not. She just lied about everything, like everything,
total bullshit, like one of the great liars of all time.
But she's That's an example when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend like she made up like
ninety nine percent of the stuff that was told about her,
she just made up. She made up her own nickname,
(27:00):
Calamity Jane. While Pierre from the lobby at the MGM, Springfield,
mass not down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame or Muppet mcgras and Shrine, he says, following
up from last weekend and your tale of your trip
to visit your cousin in Arizona, any chance that during
(27:22):
one of your upcoming visits that you pay off your
bet and walk from Phoenix to Tucson. I mean, it's
only been about seventeen and a half years, so no rush, Pierre.
I have been through this with you before. The late
Great Andrew Ashwood May he rest in peace. I told
he was the boss of Fox Sports Radio at the time.
(27:45):
I made that statement when Arizona blew a ridiculous lead
to Luther Head and Darren Williams and in the fighting
a line. I in an n c A tournament game,
and I went to the boss at Fox Sports Trade
of the big boss at the time, and I said, listen,
I want to do this. I'm a man of my word.
I want to do it. And Andrew looked at me,
(28:07):
and he looked up and down he did the elevator
rise and he said that I would not make it
from our studios to Riverside without dropping dead. And uh
said that there's no way I can allow you to
do that. And I said, no, no, no, We'll get
like an RV and you know, we'll have a daily
updates and we'll get sponsors. And uh he said no, no, no, no,
(28:29):
no no. He said, So that's that said. There was
no amount of Premier Networks insurance that could cover this
stunt exactly exactly. But in my head I was like, oh, yeah,
how bad could it be? And uh, I'll walk a
little bit every day and eventually I'll get to where
I need to go and yeah, uh and now man
lu Olsen has gone a lot of those people from
(28:51):
that game are long gone. All right. Next up, we
have Adrian in the Mile High City, says Ben and
Danny G. You're raising Arizona Saturday podcast brought back some
old memories for me. When I was five years old,
my dad moved our family from Colorado to Phoenix has
he had a job opportunity at the Americopa County Jail.
(29:12):
We lived in Phoenix from which, of course, were the
glory days of Sir Charles and the Suns. The Phoenix
Suns were the first pro team I started following as
a kid. And he says, Ben, you mentioned the Mad
House on McDowell, the old home of the Sons, the
Arizona Memorial Coliseum. I remember attending Sons games with my
(29:35):
dad at that venue and what was then brand spanking
new American West Arena. Adrian says, I'll never forget the
NBA Finals between the Suns and Bulls, or the late
great Paul westfall guaranteeing UH guarantee leading up to the finals,
or how about shows am the legendary Al McCoy, the
(29:57):
voice of the Suns. I was seven years old during
those nineteen three finals, and I remember sitting next to
my dad on the couch watching the games on TV,
crying when John Packson made the three pointer in Game
six to seal the championship. Uh. And he says, do
you remember any of these names? Ben, Uh and Danny
at Sir Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, thundered An Marley, Cedric Saballo's,
(30:21):
Frank Johnson, Danny Age, Mark West, Tom Chambers, Richard Dumas
and Oliver Miller. Absolutely absolutely, Adrian, I remember so many
of those. Actually, I remember all those names go down
the list. How about that famous kJ dunk He jumped
about as high as you've ever seen a basketball player jump. Yeah. Well,
(30:44):
Tom Chambers had one of the great dunks of all time,
but he was with I think he was with the
Sonics at the time, if I remember correctly, but he
had a crazy dunk. And I have a great Oliver
Miller's story that I've told a few times over the
years of buddy of mine is a reporter from Germany
and he covers international basketball, and Oliver Miller, at the
end of his NBA career was playing in Europe. I
(31:05):
think it might have been Germany, might have been Poland,
but he was playing somewhere in Europe, and he didn't
like the food, the local food, the local delicacy. Danny
didn't think it was very good. So he stayed at
a hotel that had like an American theme diner. And
apparently he didn't like his hotel room either, because the
legend is that Oliver Miller sat in the restaurant from
(31:30):
morning to afternoon to evening until he had to go
to the game and would eat like cheeseburgers, like all day.
He was like cheeseburgers, just enjoying his life and exactly
And Cedric Soballo's actually worked at Fox Sports Radio. We
we had Cedric on our payroll for a brief amount
(31:52):
of time. So he was he was. And how about
thunder Dan Marley great love watching him it. Yeah, that
was a good team. I I thought the Sons were
gonna beat the Bulls that year. I thought they had
had the ability to do it. He did have the ability.
They ended up gagging, but so being anyways, said thanks
(32:12):
for mentioning the Madhouse on McDowell and uh and Al
McCoy I met him too. That was pretty cool and
I I I told al A I when I was
a kid, we we have family in Arizona, so I
go to Arizona lot when I was a child, and
I remember badgering my mom I have to eat at
water Burger because we'd have water Burger in California. Like
(32:35):
my mom was like, why the heck do you want
to eat at what a burg? I said, because at
late at night I would get the Sun's games on
six twenty out of Phoenix k T A R at
the station. I get it late at night, still remember
the station, and I'd listened to Al McCoy called the
Sun's Games, and he when somebody on the Suns would
hit a three pointer, he'd say, what a shot? What
a burger? You know, like that whole thing. That was it.
(32:56):
And so I went up to all and I told
him that he smiled and an old man, and this
is several years back, and he told me he was
very proud of the fact that was like one of
the first product placements in an NBA broadcast at that
commercial for water Burger. That that was. That was very
unorthodox for the time. So that was kind of cool.
(33:17):
It was like their version of logos on a jersey. Yeah, exactly,
sponsor logos. Now everyone's doing it. Noah In Austin writes,
and he says this question for Big Man and Danny
ge what is your favorite curse word? And also what
is one rule that you wish you could change at
your job? All Right, I think the greatest curse word
(33:39):
is the F word fuck, because you can use it
in a positive context and a negative contest. It's really
the Swiss Army knife of curse words. You can say, man,
I'm so fucking happy, or go funk yourself, you fucking
piece of ship. Like there's so many different ways you
can say it, right, It's it's really inter changing. You
could say, knock off this fucory. Yeah, man, you're gonna
(34:00):
get a lot of bleeps in this danny. But that's
that's where it's at for me. The F word. Ever
since our meet and greet, Ben I stopped bleeping our
curse words, Oh you did, okay, all right, yeah, let
it rip. Let it rip. The guys like the bad words.
They enjoy the bad words. It's true, and we we
don't say I'm that often. But because this question is
(34:21):
based in ship and fuck, Ben, I like ship, ship
should be allowed on the radio. There's a bunch of
on every day there's ship on the radio, and it's
so stupid that we can't say that word. It is
dumb because it's it doesn't belong. It doesn't have the
same power as fuck or the sea. You know, um, yeah,
(34:46):
you know you know what I'm saying, like asshole, bitch,
Like you're right, the F word, the C word, Okay,
if you want to police those a little bit, so
our little kids aren't walking around dropping those words constantly.
I get it. But at school band in the mornings,
the kids say ship all the time. They don't overuse it,
(35:06):
but they use it in the right circumstances. Yea. And
this has always been the funny thing about the way
adults operate. And now I guess I'm an adult, which
I hate saying, but I am. I mean, I talk
about sports, but my entire life, and I'm pretty sure
my parents life. They always work to not have kids
(35:28):
say bad words, right, not be exposed to bad words.
But the filthiest place to hear bad words as a playground.
So if society for eight hundred hundred and fifty years
has tried to keep kids from learning these bad words,
and yet if you go to a playground, you hear
every one of these words. Do they not understand it's
(35:49):
not quite working out, their plans not quite working out?
Do they get it? You know what I'm saying? Yeah,
if you feel me on that, you know, you know
what I'm going you know. And by the way, that
is the one rule that I would like to get
rid of at work, the FCC rules. I feel like
if we were able to talk freely. Then that would
(36:10):
add that much more to our content and our fun. Yeah, no,
I would if we didn't have to worry. But but
then at the same time, you've got the the the
people out there. They're just waiting for you to say
the wrong thing. That at Oh you can't say that.
Oh my god, La la la la la. Get a life,
That's what I tell those people. Get a freaking life,
(36:31):
all right. Jeremy from Vermont writes in for both you've
been and Danny g have either of you been to Vermont?
And would you if you had the chance, and what
would you look forward to that you have heard about Vermont?
So there's there's Jeremy who's a big fan. It sounds
(36:52):
like of his home state of Vermont. So yes, of
course I've heard of Vermont. And when I when I
worked remotely for w E I in Boston for a
couple of years, some of the guys they lived in
New Hampshire and some of the guys lived in Vermont.
(37:16):
Doesn't our friend, the one and only Arnie Spanier, isn't
he Mr Vermont? Not only is he Mr Vermont, Ben,
but every year he sends those Christmas bags in huge
boxes to the studios and in each bag he puts
Vermont syrup, pancake mix, and beef jerky from Vermont, all
(37:39):
really good products. So I would like to visit Vermont.
But to me, that's all I think of is what
I can go eat uh and pour on pancakes. Yeah, Like,
I mean, he's beautiful. I know, you know, the geography
is the same as Massachusetts, and you get outside the
cities and it's just so so beautiful as long as
you're not there in the winter when everything's dead. But
(38:01):
a lot of outdoor stuff. I mean I think of Vermont,
I think of hiking and looking at the forest and
a scenic drive or something like that, or if you're
into any kind of outdoor activities. Is a lot of
like little lakes and things like that and streams in Vermont.
But I would love to. I I hope, And I
don't know if it's gonna work out here, Amy, but
(38:23):
my I'm dating myself here. But my niece is going
to graduate from high school in New York. So I'm
gonna be back there in the summer. And my goal
is if I time it right, if I get enough
time off, I'm gonna drive up to Maine. So I'll
drive through from New York to Maine and maybe i'll
take the train back. I don't know. We'll see how
(38:43):
that goes. But I want to stop along the way
as much as I can and see a lot of
places I haven't seen. I've driven from New York to Boston,
so I've been through Connecticut and Rhode Island, and but
I haven't been to Vermont, and I have not been
to New Hampshire. That is not not happen. I think
we'll get out on that, Danny, Yes, I think we're
(39:04):
a late, but we'll get out on that. I want
to thank Fred in Spring Texas, j Bone in Maine,
and Bob from Parts Unknown who ripped Marcel John in
northern California. There's at bot. I'm ready to bring the
gas exactly. John's getting ready to go back to the ballet.
He I think he wanted some advice on the ballet.
(39:26):
But we'll get out there and listen. If you didn't
get your email here, send it again next week. If
you want to be part of this mail back, we'd
love to have you great questions this week. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. Danny, Congratulations, you're you're getting close to to
bailing out here and getting getting hit, so I'm happy
for you. Yeah, man, it's gonna be a fun trip
(39:47):
to MAUI. I'm trying to get over this little cold.
I think I headed it off at the past ben,
but if in the next couple of days I don't
feel I'm definitely gonna go the garlic route. I'm gonna
pull a bed mout Well, you'll keep the vampires away
if nothing else. You might not keep the cold away,
but you'll keep the vampires away. You get away from me,
(40:09):
have a great rest of your day. I'll be back
on the radio tonight at eleven o'clock in the West
and of course two am in the East, and we'll
do the same old song and dance breakdown all these
NFL games and the good, the bed and the ugly
and all that, and we'll talk to you then later.
Skater gott a murder. I gotta go
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