May 12, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another fun bonus broadcast! They're talking: Obsolete, the Guilt Kiosk, Word of the Day, Pop Goes the Culture & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The air everywhere back at the podcast dojo. A new
week is upon us here in the month of May
and Danny g Rados The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahller
and Danny g.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Sitting in the dark. Danny, we're in there. I have
seen the light. You have seen the darkness.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, you know. I'm still working on cleaning this garage
out to put my podcast studio together. Suddenly this has
gone from a man cave to a baby cave with
all of the packages of diapers next to me.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, there's a big box.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You can't see if you're looking at the podcast. You
can't see it because it's on the audio. But there's
a giant box which is bigger than Danny.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Gee, what is what's in the box.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's an unopened high chair.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh, essential for every child.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, this is where the kid is going to put
spaghetti all over his face.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you like checking the days in a box before
the kid?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
How many more days are we looking at here, Danny?
What's the estimate. We're sitting here in mid May?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So how many more days are we looking at until
the kid pops out?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What are we looking at here?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Let's see, there are eleven more school days. I know that,
So I got the countdown for school. As far as
the kid goes, it is the very end of July
that he's going to pop out.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We're not too far off, man. The months are going fast.
Before you know it, we're going to be in June.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Before you know it, the kid'll be seventeen years old.
They hadn't been born yet, it'll be seventy.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You're gonna wake up one morning, Danny and say, how
the heck did that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How on God's green earth did that kid that wasn't
even born yet now is seventeen years old?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What about a nine year old girl? I gotta have
that hat you're wearing. It's a hill.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Stoppers yeah, well, this was actually sent by fans of
this podcast. That is the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers hat. It's
my it's in my rotation. It's not a starting it's
more of a relief pitcher.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It would match the red Puma shirt I have on perfectly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well you have an ugly hat on, So if
you want my hat, I can burn the hat that
you have on.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But that's a that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I have a winning hat on right now. I'm a
winning Los Angeles look.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Looks kind of ugly than me.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't know, it doesn't it doesn't go with your
girlish figure. I don't know what to tell you. But anyway,
on the Friday podcast here we actually I want to
tell you listening we had because no one else will
hear it, but we had the opportunity to have someone
on the Friday Podcast. I made an editorial decision, Danny,
you would line someone up, But I made an editorial
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decision that it wasn't necessarily a good fit for this podcast,
and so I decided to punt that or I would
have been sleeping at the time the interview was supposed
to be done so either one of those, but I
think a combination of both. It's like, I want to
have people on the podcast again, but it's got to
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be a good fit. And and I don't do an
awkward interview with an athlete someone from a sport we
don't normally talk about. This is kind of out. It
doesn't really fit, you know, it's gotta there's got to
be a fit there. There's got to be the puzzle piece.
The jigsaw puzzle piece has to fit otherwise not a
(04:02):
great idea.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, I mean, Mike, the situation is a big name,
but cornhole is not a sport that we normally cover.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Now, if you can get me some porn stars on here,
now that's a whole different conversation. But anyway, you pay
me five hundred thousand dollars all endorse a gay magazine.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We've got obsolete. The guilt Kiosk.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Word of the week returns and pop goes the culture
and whatever else pops up on this.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Word of the week. I haven't heard that since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, that's how what's back the word? But doesn't Petro
still do the word of the day. I think he
does on the petrol Some money show.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
When I'm in the car, sometimes driving around I'll hear petrol,
some money, and sometimes I'll.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Hear the word of the day. If I'm in the
car at the right time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'll hear the word of today, which is just a
blatant way to, you know, kind of goof on somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's pretty much all this.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But anyway, so the the first thing on the agenda here,
if there is such an agenda, it's a mixed bag.
So I got some interesting news recently at the Malor mansion.
We decided we were going to change insurance. And it's
one of these grown up things you have to do,
which you know when you're a kid, who the hell cares?
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But insurance is something you have to have, and it's
something that when you need it, it's very hard to
actually use it because the the loop holes you have
to jump through actually use the insurance makes it a
freaking nightmare. So with that as the background, we had
to change insurance. We got a better deal. But if
you've ever done this, I'm sure you probably have. There's
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a lot of bureaucracy to change insurance. You have to
get everything to proved, the insurance company has to make
sure they have to weigh whether or not you're a
liability because they don't actually want to pay you the money.
They just want the money coming their direction. They do
not want to take on a risk. So anyway, with
all that, which is kind of bobbyous stuff, we got
this insurance company and they were.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Like good to go. In stares.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We started having the home review process. The home review
process which been very exciting. So you have to show everything,
all the key stuff in the home and they weigh
whether or not they wanted it. And so we got
to the outside electrical panel and we got red flag.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Did this look like you're a Christmas party? A few
years back, twelve extension cords all tangled up?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well that was actually my That was my tribute to
Chevy Chase in the Great Movies back.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
In the eighties.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But yeah, yeah, so yeah, Well you asked a Jewish
guy to put Christmas lights up?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What do you think was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You were going to get And we had one outlet
for the entire house, so we had to connect everything.
I must have gotten that I must have gotten like
eight or nine. Well, I had extension chords and then
I had those connectors and they were all tied to
the same thing.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, it's the power strips.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, the power strips all t that was so
I would just imagine if you've ever seen in the movies,
they show an electrical panel and there's all kinds of
like wires, stuff's falling out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So we got red flag.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The insurance company determined that our electrical panel was the
O word obsolete.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That it was dated.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And we just moved into this house a couple of
years ago, and so we were cooked. The gizmo had
an extreme fire hazard.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It had not.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Been used in like fifty years. They stopped using it
fifty years ago because houses were lighting on fire, and
we knew nothing about this. So that means the insurance
company said, hey, you know, we're not gonna We're not
gonna do this. You have to change all of the
electrical for this to work, and you have to get
(08:04):
a more modern gadget thing of a jig otherwise forget
about it. And so okay, So it's a good news
bad news situation, Danny, it's a good news bad news situation.
The good news is that we had a nice crew
of people who made a lot of money from us
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at the house, they took out the electrical stuff that
needed to be taken out, the fire hazard, and they
put up a brand spanking new, state of the art
electrical pan. Who doesn't get a little horny when they
get a new electrical pan. Isn't that exciting?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Danny? That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
This sounds like a very expensive project.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, that would be the bad news, Danny, that would
be the bad news. You want to take a guess
how much this cost? How much this without going over
of course, because it's the showcase, showdown, take a ballpark figure,
it's not. Don't go crazy, But this was an unexpected
expense that we did not have on our agenda.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I'm gonna say, twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Fifty twenty seven is a two thousand, seven hundred and
fifty dollars. That is a fine guess, and that is
not far off. How about five? Well, hold on, so
let me check that back.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, I forgot okay, So here's it
gets even better.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So the this was five thousand, but we had just
had some electrical work done which was twenty five hundred.
So all together, seven thousand, five hundred dollars on electrical
so we had we had had a few things changed
because some of the lights were flickering in the house.
(09:49):
So we thought, okay, so this guy came out, this
electricians like, oh, yeah, so here's what you need.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So I was right, but just with the appetizer. The
appetizer was twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So originally the app it was like twenty yeah,
it was like about twenty five twenty seven hundred. And
then so they the electrician who never said anything about, hey,
this is probably gonna burn your whole house down, never
said that, said sure, I'll fix the problem. And then
a few months later we changed insurance and so it's
another five thousand, so seventy five hundred dollars, which means, Danny,
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that we have torpedoed our travel budget.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We will be going nowhere for a long time. And
that's I will not be going anywhere I want. I
just just didn't say we will be going to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So obviously that's paid for, that's booked, that's coming up
next week, a week from tomorrow, but ix nay, Unfortunately,
I will not be visiting my niece who's graduating from
high school.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I will not be going to New York. I will
not be going to.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Maine unless unless I win the lottery. I will not
be going anywhere unless it is paid for. And I
don't know anyone who will be paying for me to
go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So therefore I will go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Anytime soon unless I somehow win the lottery. Other than that,
you can forget about it. So if you I'm really
bummed out because I was looking forward. I was going
to do We're doing the Minnesota thing next week, and
I was thinking, like in late July August we could
do meet and greet in Maine, and it was going
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to be so much fun and all that stuff and
have a great time. And I still want to do it.
I just can't afford to do it. And since no
one pays for these things, it's out of my pocket. Unfortunately,
that is on hold. That is on hold for now.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A couple of times this summer, you and your wife
are going to need to grab a couple of folding
chairs and set them up right in front of the
new power box.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yes, we will admire the powercasts. You know. It's like
we figure about me.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It would be nice to see my brother, you know,
in New York and all that'd be great and the family. No, no, no, no,
let's just go. Let's say we do selfies near the
power box. You know you can get your post those
and uh yeah, absolutely, and this is content you will
not get. I did not mention this at all on
the on the radio show, although I did complain to
(12:12):
Roberto and Coop a little bit. I did scream at
them when I found out the total cost that was
involved in this and what it meant turning the page.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I saw this story bounce.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Around this week and I wanted to rant on it
here because it's one of my pet peeves. I am
the shopper in the in then, well that's not true.
My wife does more shopping than me, but I go
to the grocery store, so I go to like Walmart,
I go to Costco, I go to the you know
those places and Target whatever. On the weekends do the
shopping for the following week. Because we mostly eat at home,
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we eat out once a week. So there's a story
that was bounce around. I don't know if you guys
talked about it on Covino and Rich, but the that
customers there's a lot of backlash because when you go
to these self checked out chios. They ask you to
donate money or to tip at a self checkout Kiosk,
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and this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Is I've noticed this, and it's it's one of my
pet peeves. It's one of my pet peeves.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Who are we tipping?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well exactly, that's the first problem. Then the other thing is.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Like the you know, the the one that's even worse
than the self checkout is when.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You go to pick up food, if you get sad
or something.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then they hand you know, you're like subway and
they hand you a little computer and then it said
the first thing you see is would you like to tip?
Now there's someone right in front of you who's looking
at you, who's going to know whether you tipped or not.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it's so awkward, and none of us know what
the exact requirements are of picking something up. We did
the word, you didn't bring it to us, We went
to you to get it. We maybe called the order in,
but then we physically had to drive to you to
go get the food. So is my tip going to
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you at the cash register because that's your job, or
is my tip going to go back to the kitchen,
Which I don't mind that, but I don't want the
tip to go to you for just doing your job.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm right there, And so I would like to
quote when I was a kid. You're around my age.
You probably know where I'm going with this. I'd like
to quote Nancy Reagan. Just say no, that's what I said.
Just say no, okay, she was she did the drug thing.
I say, kiosk tipping, and especially the charity thing. That's easy.
That's an easy no by me. I won't fall and
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they all it's always for the kids, you know. It's
always to play the kid card from the bottom of
the deck.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But my position, I much like you, is if you
don't physically help, I'm not tippy.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
If I go to Walmart and I have to get
the cart, I then go around pick out the items
I want at Walmart, I then have to check them
out at the Kiosk. I then have to put them
back in the cart because I don't want to pay
ten twenty cents whatever it is for a plastic bag
or a paper bag, and then I have to carry
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it out to the store and put it in my car.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why would I tip you?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What exactly are you doing? I know you're stalking the shelves.
But as you said, Danny List, that's what you're supposed
to do. And you know what, I'll give you a smile.
I will give you a smile. It'll be a nice smile,
it'll be a warm smile, it'll be a great smile.
But that's what you're getting you're gonna get. You're gonna
get a smile is what you're gonna get. Now, if
you help me out, maybe buy some of the stuff
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for me, I'll give you a tip.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
But other than that, no, Yeah, if somebody at the
front goes out of their way to help you, okay,
I understand tipping that person, but if it's just somebody
smiling and bringing you up, that doesn't require a tip.
And then the other pet peeve is when you do
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tip somebody at the front of the house and they
don't even acknowledge it. They don't say thank you, they
don't look at the like with actual physical money, not
on your card maybe, but you know there's been times
like at the frozen yogurt shop, we're all put a
couple of singles into the into the cup. A simple
just recognizing that I put it there would be nice, like,
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but they don't say anything, they act like it didn't happen. Okay,
if you're gonna act like it didn't happen, then I'm
not gonna do that the next time I come in.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, I'm right there.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
This is one of these I don't know how your
your wife feels about this, Danny, but but like I'm
I'm like, hey, I'm not tipping except for X, Y
and Z. My My wife's like she's like the Queen
of tip town. Like she's a big she likes the tip,
she's a big at everything, and she'll like put the
dollars in on the charity stuff, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Like, that's a scam. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What sha on you? You know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Anyway, now, my wife is more like us in that regard,
and we will cut our own check to Saint Jude
Children's Hospital. We don't go for the scams with the
companies doing it because you don't know how much of
your money is physically going to that charity.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So I've told this story in the past, but for
a few years we had a contest. It was actually
one of the Offshore books, and it was for the
Super Bowl. It was like, come up with the most
ridiculous prop bets, and they would actually make them an
actual prop bet on their website, and then they would
donate a couple hundred bucks to charity in the name
of the show.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And so you had to decide what charity you wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And I would go on these various websites trying to
figure out, well, how much of the money actually goes
to research and not awareness, because awareness is a scam.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Research is what actually helps you out.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I lost my mom to cancer, to breast cancer, and
so I'm a big proponent of obviously most people are.
There's a million types of cancer, to help find a
way to slow down and stop cancer. And so I
remember going on to the different cancer websites and they
all had these great pages and all that, but then
you read the fine print, the little minutia at the bottom.
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It's like most of it's going to go to clerical
stuff and employees and things like that, and very little
of it actually ended up going what was supposed to go.
So I did find a couple of charities that were
pretty good, but yeah, it's and plus then you you
know you're better off just.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Doing it on your own. And then kind of if you.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Have these big corporations, it's uh helps them out. They
just they said, we donated all this money to charity.
But you're actually just taking your You're like the middle
person from taking the money from the customer, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And you're entitled to write it off as well at
the end of the year. So if you do it yourself,
you also have that in your favor.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So the word of the week. Are you ready for
the word of the week. This is a new feature.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah, yeah, you're going to transport us back to the
Ben Mallord Show nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, it was nineteen ninety now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Somebody in the email bag asked for this, so I'm
doing it. This is a test run, so I need
your feedback. I need you to let me know whether
you like this content or you don't like this content.
It's very important to let me know. If you like it,
we'll do it from time to time. If not, we'll
never do it again and will burn the podcast. Danny,
We'll pretend it doesn't happen. Okay, that's how all right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So the word of the week is guy? What guy?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Because we're doing guide talk is what we do. We're
doing guide talk, not sports talk. We're doing guy talk
on the fifth hour, and we have a few women
who are intralopers who are part of our family.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They're guys, They're guys like us.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I'm sitting in a guy garage right now. This is
a silver and black high chair sitting next to me.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You go, you're a real guy.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It's what you are. So what a guy Guys weekend?
You know, my guy for the guys, right. So, as
Paul Harvey said back.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
In the day, another dead radio guy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You know what the news is, but in a mid guy.
That's right, You're going to hear the rest of the story.
So this one is going to blow your mind. Do
you know the origins of the word guy.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
The word of the week? Danty?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yes. So there's a guy named appropriate enough.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Guy Faucus, I believe is how you pronounced it, Fawkes.
And that man is responsible for the word guy being
in the lexicon, and he doesn't even know it because.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He's dead, dead dead. He has been dead for a
very long time, very long time.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm talking about the fact that this guy lived in
the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's how long ago.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
This goes back in the hot tub time machine so
the word of the week is Guy Foucus is his name,
and he's responsible. He was part of a crime in
sixteen oh five, a gunpowder plot, as the legend goes,
and he attempted to assassinate King James, the first a
(21:19):
takedown King, not Lebron James, the real King James in
sixteen oh five.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I got that guy's bible exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
So this guy, Guy fock Foucus, and his crew of
criminals attempted to take down King James. But they were stumbling,
bumbling criminals. They failed, they whiffed, and as a result,
they were killed. They were exterminated because of the attempt
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of the assassination. They were killed for treason. And supposedly
what happened after that, these the children of Britain paraded
the effigy of Guy focus on November fifth.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It became part of the tradition.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Every November fifth, the kids would parade around the effigy
of Guy Faucus, and over the course of time they
made the term guy. It became a slang term. Originally
the term guy was for like somebody was not dressed
very well, because apparently Guy Faucus was not dressed very well.
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And then Eventually it morphed into what it is known
today as in just a dude, a man, a guy.
You know, the guy as a man.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That's my word of the week, Danny, guy or guy faucus,
fun fact, fun fact and the word of the week
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That will blow your mind. So would you like to
have a word named after you? Danny? Would you like
to have that?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
No? No, no, I'd like an arena named after me, though,
that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'd like a street named after me. I think that
would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
That would be like doing There is a bench Street
in the San Fernando Valley, and I'm not I think
it's in North Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In LA there's a bench Street.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And I was actually on a date years ago and
I got lost. This is in the days before GPS,
and I found Ben Street, but I had won the
lottery and I don't think I've ever found it again.
It's probably not that hard to find.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
But he blew me.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Off at a hotel near lax It was a long
long time ago. Let's get the pop goes the culture
and that means our guy, ohioow John John. We'll do
(23:56):
a few of these Danny Pop goes to the culture.
Some of the weird stuff we found. It's in the
culture this week because we're doing guy talk, Dandy, we
are honoring a man who attempted to assassinate King James.
We're doing guy talking. Now.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I feel like I'm calling you a slob if I
call you a guy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, exactly. So.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Robert De Niro revealed this week that he's going to
be a dad again. No big deal other than the
fact he's what is he seventy nine years old?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Dandy?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, we talked about this on Covino and Ritch. He's
seventy nine and this is number seven for him.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, so that means if my computer like brand is correct,
when this kid is graduating high school, Robert De Niro
will be the ripe old age of what ninety seven?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Rich told me, he said, you have one on the way.
What do you think about this? And I said, what
do I think about this? I'm praying to God that
I make it to my son's college graduation. What is
d Nio thinking? I just got to make it to kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, the nearest, probably the honor.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'll just write a big check for the kid and
I mean, it'll be fine, it'll be rich.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Whatever, But yeah, it's a wild thing. Man, Robert didn't
who was there? Was an actor? God?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Was it Tony Randall? Didn't Tony Randall have a kid?
I think older than Robert DeNiro.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think he was in his eighties.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You might be right. I'm gonna look that up.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I remember Tony Randall having a kid.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We talked about it because it was so crazy and
he was getting up there in his years. I don't
remember exactly how old he was.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But it's that's that's a little tough. That's a tough
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But the I think we're because like we're both middle
aged guys, Danny, I think we're still kind of okay
for a couple more years.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But then even after that, I think it's kind of
you know, it's a little tough. That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, No, you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, because you want to give the kid a shot, right,
you want to give the kid a shot. And it's yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
We've talked about it on the podcast before. Where when
I've worked at some of the school campus is the
front of the school during dropoff in the morning, there'll
be some older guys dropping kids off. You gotta be
careful not to say, oh, how sweet your grandfather is
dropping you off today, because a lot of those dudes
are actually the dads.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Especially Oh sure, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
In LA, they get the trophy wife, you know, you
get the first marriage out of the way, get the
trophy wife who's much younger, and then you're all, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
You're right. I looked up Tony Randall. What was he famous?
What show was he famous for?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The odd Couple? Wasn't he one?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Okay, yeah, he played that Felix dude.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, let's see pop up on late
night TV.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
He died in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Wait, wait, no, wait, hold on, how old was he?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
In howl?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Was he in two thousand and four?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Two thousand and four? He was eighty four?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, I want I think he was, so you must
have only been a little older than Robert de Niro,
But yeah, I think he incinminated a put a.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh yeah. It says when he was seventy five he
married a twenty five year old named Heather Harlan. Wow
and uh yeah, and they had food children born on
April eleventh, nineteen ninety seven, and then one born in
June of nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Okay, so he was well, Okay, so he was actually
I checked that. So he's younger than the Niro. I
guess right. He died at eighty four. That would put
him at seventy eight when he had the I.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Mean, I guess it's different for rich people and famous people,
and a lot of them have so many nannies and
handlers that they're not very hands on with their kids anyways, right,
So it's not like de Naro's going to be changing diapers.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
No, And I guess it's like, you know, for Tony Randall,
he died in four it's almost twenty years ago, and
now his kids are in their mid twenties, but he's you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Know, long gone, but they're like that's his legacy. They're
still out there, you know. And then it's like, ah, man,
I remember.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
There was a like a second grandson of some former
president that was like one hundred and fifty years after
the guy had starved because he had kids when he
was like on his deathbed, he was very old, and
then they had kids when they were old, and it
was like the math was insane. I'm not a numbers
guy but that doesn't seem to add up.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
What else do we have? Pop goes the culture.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You see, the guy accidentally sent one point five billion
in bitcoin to Jared from Subway, but not the Jared
from Subway, somebody that had the username Jared from Subway.
He mistakenly, he was fussing around and he mistakenly sent
one point five billion in bitcoin to someone that happened
to have the username Jared from Subway, and then then said, hey,
(28:56):
can I get that back? You think he got a back?
You think you got it back? Well, no, exactly. Here's
one from the nose. If you hate your nose. New
research that came out this week says that your nose
is because of ancient cousins. It goes back to the
(29:17):
ne Anderthal DNA that dictates.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The shape of your nose. Yes, well, here's something.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
An influencer is now charging men to date an AI
version of herself. May this woman be struck by lightning, loser,
and may all the men that are keeping track of
this and paying for this, may they also be kicked
(29:46):
in the nuts. She's twenty three years old and she
has created a virtual clone of herself to talk with
fans online. And can engage in erotic discourse. I guess,
you know, phone sex or whatever, or computer sex. And
there is currently a twenty six hour waiting list to
(30:08):
get early access to this, and she's on Snapchat and
she's charging one dollar per minute.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Why would she want to make a version of herself
that looks like Alan Iverson? Did you see that? There's
a meme that AI could replace the equivalent of three
hundred million jobs report? And then somebody got cute. They
put a picture of Alan Iverson and the first comment
underneath of it is some guy who's glueless and he says,
(30:41):
why is he doing this?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, you can take a look for yourself there, Danny,
I sent you the story.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But she I mean, she's easy on the eyes. I mean,
don't get me wrong here, but I mean a dollar
a minute? Is that really? Does that really scratch the
itch that you have?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I mean that sounds like your power box at your house.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's geez.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That is wild. That is wild and crazy. The fact
that there's a waiting list, like is that legit? That
must I'd like to think that's bogus. I think of
Marcel and think of Holler and James in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I can see how.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, you don't think they would sign up for this check?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean fair enough.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
There's a market. I guess there's a market for anything.
You can always find a market. But man, oh man,
well here's one. I don't know if this is pop culture,
but I think I mentioned this that I would like
to have a road named after.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Me, And there is a in Florida they are naming
a road.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
For Rush Limbaugh, the late Rush Limbaugh. We're actually in
Russia's old studio and there's a road that will be named.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
In honor of Rushland. So there you go. I think
you kind of need that when you're alive, though, don't
you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You kind of want to get that? Like in La
they named Rodeo Drive in La. Some call it Rodeo,
but they didn't they change the name of that to Obama.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Where is this where they're putting Rush's Road?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It is in uh Floyd. So there's some complaint about it.
But there's going to be a stretch of Cortes Boulevard
in Brooksville named Rush Limball Way.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Ah. I'm guessing the road only veers to the right.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh, Until Thursday, it's a one way road and goes
off to the Uh there's actually a wing, it's called
the right wing.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
And Uh there's Percoset at the end of this road.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Ello, Megadiddos, Megadidos Rush. Can you believe it's been two
years since he died. That's crazy that at age seventy
and he did not live anywhere near where this road is.
In fact, some are saying that he would not even
be caught dead where road. He lived by packs brackets
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away in Palm Beach.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But they're they're giving him the road here.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Remember his security guys in those black suits. Oh sure,
they looked like men in black How pissed would they
be if they knew we were in his studio right now?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, we're fussing around in his studio and we'll get
out on that anything you want to promote. It is
a Friday, A glorious Friday, the last Friday before I
head to Minie Salta for the Malor Meet and Greet,
which is next Saturday, a week from tomorrow. If you
missed any of the details, they're all on social media,
but you can also catch them on my my podcast
(34:00):
at our podcast last week last Friday, we had Regina
on spin cycle.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Regina, So what do you have to promote here, Danny.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
G Well, we got Covino and Rich coming up this
afternoon two to four pm on the West Coast, five
to seven in New York City.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
In New York, New York.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
All right, wonderful. I have a great day and we'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Austa Pasta Go Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No No, go home, Lakers, go home.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Lakers, six Baby go Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And Coon Here we go, Kid.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Been at home Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Anthony Davis, send it out, Buddy, sit it out. D
take a break, take a breath. All right, we'll get
out of here.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
What is still wrong with the Clippers.
Kabbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The air everywhere back at the podcast dojo. A new
week is upon us here in the month of May
and Danny g Rados The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahller
and Danny g.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Sitting in the dark. Danny, we're in there. I have
seen the light. You have seen the darkness.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, you know. I'm still working on cleaning this garage
out to put my podcast studio together. Suddenly this has
gone from a man cave to a baby cave with
all of the packages of diapers next to me.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, there's a big box.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You can't see if you're looking at the podcast. You
can't see it because it's on the audio. But there's
a giant box which is bigger than Danny.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Gee, what is what's in the box.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's an unopened high chair.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh, essential for every child.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, this is where the kid is going to put
spaghetti all over his face.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you like checking the days in a box before
the kid?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
How many more days are we looking at here, Danny?
What's the estimate. We're sitting here in mid May?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So how many more days are we looking at until
the kid pops out?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What are we looking at here?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Let's see, there are eleven more school days. I know that,
So I got the countdown for school. As far as
the kid goes, it is the very end of July
that he's going to pop out.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We're not too far off, man. The months are going fast.
Before you know it, we're going to be in June.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Before you know it, the kid'll be seventeen years old.
They hadn't been born yet, it'll be seventy.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You're gonna wake up one morning, Danny and say, how
the heck did that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How on God's green earth did that kid that wasn't
even born yet now is seventeen years old?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What about a nine year old girl? I gotta have
that hat you're wearing. It's a hill.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Stoppers yeah, well, this was actually sent by fans of
this podcast. That is the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers hat. It's
my it's in my rotation. It's not a starting it's
more of a relief pitcher.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It would match the red Puma shirt I have on perfectly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well you have an ugly hat on, So if
you want my hat, I can burn the hat that
you have on.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But that's a that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I have a winning hat on right now. I'm a
winning Los Angeles look.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Looks kind of ugly than me.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't know, it doesn't it doesn't go with your
girlish figure. I don't know what to tell you. But anyway,
on the Friday podcast here we actually I want to
tell you listening we had because no one else will
hear it, but we had the opportunity to have someone
on the Friday Podcast. I made an editorial decision, Danny,
you would line someone up, But I made an editorial
(03:20):
decision that it wasn't necessarily a good fit for this podcast,
and so I decided to punt that or I would
have been sleeping at the time the interview was supposed
to be done so either one of those, but I
think a combination of both. It's like, I want to
have people on the podcast again, but it's got to
(03:41):
be a good fit. And and I don't do an
awkward interview with an athlete someone from a sport we
don't normally talk about. This is kind of out. It
doesn't really fit, you know, it's gotta there's got to
be a fit there. There's got to be the puzzle piece.
The jigsaw puzzle piece has to fit otherwise not a
(04:02):
great idea.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, I mean, Mike, the situation is a big name,
but cornhole is not a sport that we normally cover.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Now, if you can get me some porn stars on here,
now that's a whole different conversation. But anyway, you pay
me five hundred thousand dollars all endorse a gay magazine.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We've got obsolete. The guilt Kiosk.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Word of the week returns and pop goes the culture
and whatever else pops up on this.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Word of the week. I haven't heard that since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, that's how what's back the word? But doesn't Petro
still do the word of the day. I think he
does on the petrol Some money show.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
When I'm in the car, sometimes driving around I'll hear petrol,
some money, and sometimes I'll.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Hear the word of the day. If I'm in the
car at the right time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'll hear the word of today, which is just a
blatant way to, you know, kind of goof on somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's pretty much all this.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But anyway, so the the first thing on the agenda here,
if there is such an agenda, it's a mixed bag.
So I got some interesting news recently at the Malor mansion.
We decided we were going to change insurance. And it's
one of these grown up things you have to do,
which you know when you're a kid, who the hell cares?
(05:20):
But insurance is something you have to have, and it's
something that when you need it, it's very hard to
actually use it because the the loop holes you have
to jump through actually use the insurance makes it a
freaking nightmare. So with that as the background, we had
to change insurance. We got a better deal. But if
you've ever done this, I'm sure you probably have. There's
(05:43):
a lot of bureaucracy to change insurance. You have to
get everything to proved, the insurance company has to make
sure they have to weigh whether or not you're a
liability because they don't actually want to pay you the money.
They just want the money coming their direction. They do
not want to take on a risk. So anyway, with
all that, which is kind of bobbyous stuff, we got
this insurance company and they were.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Like good to go. In stares.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We started having the home review process. The home review
process which been very exciting. So you have to show everything,
all the key stuff in the home and they weigh
whether or not they wanted it. And so we got
to the outside electrical panel and we got red flag.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Did this look like you're a Christmas party? A few
years back, twelve extension cords all tangled up?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well that was actually my That was my tribute to
Chevy Chase in the Great Movies back.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
In the eighties.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But yeah, yeah, so yeah, Well you asked a Jewish
guy to put Christmas lights up?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What do you think was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You were going to get And we had one outlet
for the entire house, so we had to connect everything.
I must have gotten that I must have gotten like
eight or nine. Well, I had extension chords and then
I had those connectors and they were all tied to
the same thing.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, it's the power strips.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, the power strips all t that was so
I would just imagine if you've ever seen in the movies,
they show an electrical panel and there's all kinds of
like wires, stuff's falling out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So we got red flag.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The insurance company determined that our electrical panel was the
O word obsolete.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That it was dated.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And we just moved into this house a couple of
years ago, and so we were cooked. The gizmo had
an extreme fire hazard.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It had not.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Been used in like fifty years. They stopped using it
fifty years ago because houses were lighting on fire, and
we knew nothing about this. So that means the insurance
company said, hey, you know, we're not gonna We're not
gonna do this. You have to change all of the
electrical for this to work, and you have to get
(08:04):
a more modern gadget thing of a jig otherwise forget
about it. And so okay, So it's a good news
bad news situation, Danny, it's a good news bad news situation.
The good news is that we had a nice crew
of people who made a lot of money from us
(08:26):
at the house, they took out the electrical stuff that
needed to be taken out, the fire hazard, and they
put up a brand spanking new, state of the art
electrical pan. Who doesn't get a little horny when they
get a new electrical pan. Isn't that exciting?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Danny? That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
This sounds like a very expensive project.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, that would be the bad news, Danny, that would
be the bad news. You want to take a guess
how much this cost? How much this without going over
of course, because it's the showcase, showdown, take a ballpark figure,
it's not. Don't go crazy, But this was an unexpected
expense that we did not have on our agenda.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I'm gonna say, twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Fifty twenty seven is a two thousand, seven hundred and
fifty dollars. That is a fine guess, and that is
not far off. How about five? Well, hold on, so
let me check that back.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, I forgot okay, So here's it
gets even better.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So the this was five thousand, but we had just
had some electrical work done which was twenty five hundred.
So all together, seven thousand, five hundred dollars on electrical
so we had we had had a few things changed
because some of the lights were flickering in the house.
(09:49):
So we thought, okay, so this guy came out, this
electricians like, oh, yeah, so here's what you need.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So I was right, but just with the appetizer. The
appetizer was twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So originally the app it was like twenty yeah,
it was like about twenty five twenty seven hundred. And
then so they the electrician who never said anything about, hey,
this is probably gonna burn your whole house down, never
said that, said sure, I'll fix the problem. And then
a few months later we changed insurance and so it's
another five thousand, so seventy five hundred dollars, which means, Danny,
(10:18):
that we have torpedoed our travel budget.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We will be going nowhere for a long time. And
that's I will not be going anywhere I want. I
just just didn't say we will be going to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So obviously that's paid for, that's booked, that's coming up
next week, a week from tomorrow, but ix nay, Unfortunately,
I will not be visiting my niece who's graduating from
high school.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I will not be going to New York. I will
not be going to.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Maine unless unless I win the lottery. I will not
be going anywhere unless it is paid for. And I
don't know anyone who will be paying for me to
go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So therefore I will go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Anytime soon unless I somehow win the lottery. Other than that,
you can forget about it. So if you I'm really
bummed out because I was looking forward. I was going
to do We're doing the Minnesota thing next week, and
I was thinking, like in late July August we could
do meet and greet in Maine, and it was going
(11:22):
to be so much fun and all that stuff and
have a great time. And I still want to do it.
I just can't afford to do it. And since no
one pays for these things, it's out of my pocket. Unfortunately,
that is on hold. That is on hold for now.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A couple of times this summer, you and your wife
are going to need to grab a couple of folding
chairs and set them up right in front of the
new power box.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yes, we will admire the powercasts. You know. It's like
we figure about me.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It would be nice to see my brother, you know,
in New York and all that'd be great and the family. No, no, no, no,
let's just go. Let's say we do selfies near the
power box. You know you can get your post those
and uh yeah, absolutely, and this is content you will
not get. I did not mention this at all on
the on the radio show, although I did complain to
(12:12):
Roberto and Coop a little bit. I did scream at
them when I found out the total cost that was
involved in this and what it meant turning the page.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I saw this story bounce.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Around this week and I wanted to rant on it
here because it's one of my pet peeves. I am
the shopper in the in then, well that's not true.
My wife does more shopping than me, but I go
to the grocery store, so I go to like Walmart,
I go to Costco, I go to the you know
those places and Target whatever. On the weekends do the
shopping for the following week. Because we mostly eat at home,
(12:46):
we eat out once a week. So there's a story
that was bounce around. I don't know if you guys
talked about it on Covino and Rich, but the that
customers there's a lot of backlash because when you go
to these self checked out chios. They ask you to
donate money or to tip at a self checkout Kiosk,
(13:10):
and this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Is I've noticed this, and it's it's one of my
pet peeves. It's one of my pet peeves.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Who are we tipping?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well exactly, that's the first problem. Then the other thing is.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Like the you know, the the one that's even worse
than the self checkout is when.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You go to pick up food, if you get sad
or something.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then they hand you know, you're like subway and
they hand you a little computer and then it said
the first thing you see is would you like to tip?
Now there's someone right in front of you who's looking
at you, who's going to know whether you tipped or not.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it's so awkward, and none of us know what
the exact requirements are of picking something up. We did
the word, you didn't bring it to us, We went
to you to get it. We maybe called the order in,
but then we physically had to drive to you to
go get the food. So is my tip going to
(14:12):
you at the cash register because that's your job, or
is my tip going to go back to the kitchen,
Which I don't mind that, but I don't want the
tip to go to you for just doing your job.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm right there, And so I would like to
quote when I was a kid. You're around my age.
You probably know where I'm going with this. I'd like
to quote Nancy Reagan. Just say no, that's what I said.
Just say no, okay, she was she did the drug thing.
I say, kiosk tipping, and especially the charity thing. That's easy.
That's an easy no by me. I won't fall and
(14:45):
they all it's always for the kids, you know. It's
always to play the kid card from the bottom of
the deck.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But my position, I much like you, is if you
don't physically help, I'm not tippy.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
If I go to Walmart and I have to get
the cart, I then go around pick out the items
I want at Walmart, I then have to check them
out at the Kiosk. I then have to put them
back in the cart because I don't want to pay
ten twenty cents whatever it is for a plastic bag
or a paper bag, and then I have to carry
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it out to the store and put it in my car.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why would I tip you?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What exactly are you doing? I know you're stalking the shelves.
But as you said, Danny List, that's what you're supposed
to do. And you know what, I'll give you a smile.
I will give you a smile. It'll be a nice smile,
it'll be a warm smile, it'll be a great smile.
But that's what you're getting you're gonna get. You're gonna
get a smile is what you're gonna get. Now, if
you help me out, maybe buy some of the stuff
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for me, I'll give you a tip.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
But other than that, no, Yeah, if somebody at the
front goes out of their way to help you, okay,
I understand tipping that person, but if it's just somebody
smiling and bringing you up, that doesn't require a tip.
And then the other pet peeve is when you do
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tip somebody at the front of the house and they
don't even acknowledge it. They don't say thank you, they
don't look at the like with actual physical money, not
on your card maybe, but you know there's been times
like at the frozen yogurt shop, we're all put a
couple of singles into the into the cup. A simple
just recognizing that I put it there would be nice, like,
(16:28):
but they don't say anything, they act like it didn't happen. Okay,
if you're gonna act like it didn't happen, then I'm
not gonna do that the next time I come in.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, I'm right there.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
This is one of these I don't know how your
your wife feels about this, Danny, but but like I'm
I'm like, hey, I'm not tipping except for X, Y
and Z. My My wife's like she's like the Queen
of tip town. Like she's a big she likes the tip,
she's a big at everything, and she'll like put the
dollars in on the charity stuff, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Like, that's a scam. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What sha on you? You know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Anyway, now, my wife is more like us in that regard,
and we will cut our own check to Saint Jude
Children's Hospital. We don't go for the scams with the
companies doing it because you don't know how much of
your money is physically going to that charity.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So I've told this story in the past, but for
a few years we had a contest. It was actually
one of the Offshore books, and it was for the
Super Bowl. It was like, come up with the most
ridiculous prop bets, and they would actually make them an
actual prop bet on their website, and then they would
donate a couple hundred bucks to charity in the name
of the show.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And so you had to decide what charity you wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And I would go on these various websites trying to
figure out, well, how much of the money actually goes
to research and not awareness, because awareness is a scam.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Research is what actually helps you out.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I lost my mom to cancer, to breast cancer, and
so I'm a big proponent of obviously most people are.
There's a million types of cancer, to help find a
way to slow down and stop cancer. And so I
remember going on to the different cancer websites and they
all had these great pages and all that, but then
you read the fine print, the little minutia at the bottom.
(18:17):
It's like most of it's going to go to clerical
stuff and employees and things like that, and very little
of it actually ended up going what was supposed to go.
So I did find a couple of charities that were
pretty good, but yeah, it's and plus then you you
know you're better off just.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Doing it on your own. And then kind of if you.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Have these big corporations, it's uh helps them out. They
just they said, we donated all this money to charity.
But you're actually just taking your You're like the middle
person from taking the money from the customer, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And you're entitled to write it off as well at
the end of the year. So if you do it yourself,
you also have that in your favor.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So the word of the week. Are you ready for
the word of the week. This is a new feature.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah, yeah, you're going to transport us back to the
Ben Mallord Show nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, it was nineteen ninety now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Somebody in the email bag asked for this, so I'm
doing it. This is a test run, so I need
your feedback. I need you to let me know whether
you like this content or you don't like this content.
It's very important to let me know. If you like it,
we'll do it from time to time. If not, we'll
never do it again and will burn the podcast. Danny,
We'll pretend it doesn't happen. Okay, that's how all right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So the word of the week is guy? What guy?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Because we're doing guide talk is what we do. We're
doing guide talk, not sports talk. We're doing guy talk
on the fifth hour, and we have a few women
who are intralopers who are part of our family.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They're guys, They're guys like us.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I'm sitting in a guy garage right now. This is
a silver and black high chair sitting next to me.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You go, you're a real guy.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It's what you are. So what a guy Guys weekend?
You know, my guy for the guys, right. So, as
Paul Harvey said back.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
In the day, another dead radio guy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You know what the news is, but in a mid guy.
That's right, You're going to hear the rest of the story.
So this one is going to blow your mind. Do
you know the origins of the word guy.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
The word of the week? Danty?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yes. So there's a guy named appropriate enough.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Guy Faucus, I believe is how you pronounced it, Fawkes.
And that man is responsible for the word guy being
in the lexicon, and he doesn't even know it because.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He's dead, dead dead. He has been dead for a
very long time, very long time.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm talking about the fact that this guy lived in
the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's how long ago.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
This goes back in the hot tub time machine so
the word of the week is Guy Foucus is his name,
and he's responsible. He was part of a crime in
sixteen oh five, a gunpowder plot, as the legend goes,
and he attempted to assassinate King James, the first a
(21:19):
takedown King, not Lebron James, the real King James in
sixteen oh five.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I got that guy's bible exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
So this guy, Guy fock Foucus, and his crew of
criminals attempted to take down King James. But they were stumbling,
bumbling criminals. They failed, they whiffed, and as a result,
they were killed. They were exterminated because of the attempt
(21:53):
of the assassination. They were killed for treason. And supposedly
what happened after that, these the children of Britain paraded
the effigy of Guy focus on November fifth.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It became part of the tradition.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Every November fifth, the kids would parade around the effigy
of Guy Faucus, and over the course of time they
made the term guy. It became a slang term. Originally
the term guy was for like somebody was not dressed
very well, because apparently Guy Faucus was not dressed very well.
(22:32):
And then Eventually it morphed into what it is known
today as in just a dude, a man, a guy.
You know, the guy as a man.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That's my word of the week, Danny, guy or guy faucus,
fun fact, fun fact and the word of the week
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That will blow your mind. So would you like to
have a word named after you? Danny? Would you like
to have that?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
No? No, no, I'd like an arena named after me, though,
that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'd like a street named after me. I think that
would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
That would be like doing There is a bench Street
in the San Fernando Valley, and I'm not I think
it's in North Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In LA there's a bench Street.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And I was actually on a date years ago and
I got lost. This is in the days before GPS,
and I found Ben Street, but I had won the
lottery and I don't think I've ever found it again.
It's probably not that hard to find.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
But he blew me.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Off at a hotel near lax It was a long
long time ago. Let's get the pop goes the culture
and that means our guy, ohioow John John. We'll do
(23:56):
a few of these Danny Pop goes to the culture.
Some of the weird stuff we found. It's in the
culture this week because we're doing guy talk, Dandy, we
are honoring a man who attempted to assassinate King James.
We're doing guy talking. Now.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I feel like I'm calling you a slob if I
call you a guy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, exactly. So.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Robert De Niro revealed this week that he's going to
be a dad again. No big deal other than the
fact he's what is he seventy nine years old?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Dandy?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, we talked about this on Covino and Ritch. He's
seventy nine and this is number seven for him.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, so that means if my computer like brand is correct,
when this kid is graduating high school, Robert De Niro
will be the ripe old age of what ninety seven?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Rich told me, he said, you have one on the way.
What do you think about this? And I said, what
do I think about this? I'm praying to God that
I make it to my son's college graduation. What is
d Nio thinking? I just got to make it to kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, the nearest, probably the honor.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'll just write a big check for the kid and
I mean, it'll be fine, it'll be rich.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Whatever, But yeah, it's a wild thing. Man, Robert didn't
who was there? Was an actor? God?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Was it Tony Randall? Didn't Tony Randall have a kid?
I think older than Robert DeNiro.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think he was in his eighties.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You might be right. I'm gonna look that up.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I remember Tony Randall having a kid.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We talked about it because it was so crazy and
he was getting up there in his years. I don't
remember exactly how old he was.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But it's that's that's a little tough. That's a tough
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But the I think we're because like we're both middle
aged guys, Danny, I think we're still kind of okay
for a couple more years.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But then even after that, I think it's kind of
you know, it's a little tough. That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, No, you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, because you want to give the kid a shot, right,
you want to give the kid a shot. And it's yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
We've talked about it on the podcast before. Where when
I've worked at some of the school campus is the
front of the school during dropoff in the morning, there'll
be some older guys dropping kids off. You gotta be
careful not to say, oh, how sweet your grandfather is
dropping you off today, because a lot of those dudes
are actually the dads.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Especially Oh sure, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
In LA, they get the trophy wife, you know, you
get the first marriage out of the way, get the
trophy wife who's much younger, and then you're all, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
You're right. I looked up Tony Randall. What was he famous?
What show was he famous for?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The odd Couple? Wasn't he one?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Okay, yeah, he played that Felix dude.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, let's see pop up on late
night TV.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
He died in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Wait, wait, no, wait, hold on, how old was he?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
In howl?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Was he in two thousand and four?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Two thousand and four? He was eighty four?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, I want I think he was, so you must
have only been a little older than Robert de Niro,
But yeah, I think he incinminated a put a.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh yeah. It says when he was seventy five he
married a twenty five year old named Heather Harlan. Wow
and uh yeah, and they had food children born on
April eleventh, nineteen ninety seven, and then one born in
June of nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Okay, so he was well, Okay, so he was actually
I checked that. So he's younger than the Niro. I
guess right. He died at eighty four. That would put
him at seventy eight when he had the I.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Mean, I guess it's different for rich people and famous people,
and a lot of them have so many nannies and
handlers that they're not very hands on with their kids anyways, right,
So it's not like de Naro's going to be changing diapers.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
No, And I guess it's like, you know, for Tony Randall,
he died in four it's almost twenty years ago, and
now his kids are in their mid twenties, but he's you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Know, long gone, but they're like that's his legacy. They're
still out there, you know. And then it's like, ah, man,
I remember.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
There was a like a second grandson of some former
president that was like one hundred and fifty years after
the guy had starved because he had kids when he
was like on his deathbed, he was very old, and
then they had kids when they were old, and it
was like the math was insane. I'm not a numbers
guy but that doesn't seem to add up.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
What else do we have? Pop goes the culture.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You see, the guy accidentally sent one point five billion
in bitcoin to Jared from Subway, but not the Jared
from Subway, somebody that had the username Jared from Subway.
He mistakenly, he was fussing around and he mistakenly sent
one point five billion in bitcoin to someone that happened
to have the username Jared from Subway, and then then said, hey,
(28:56):
can I get that back? You think he got a back?
You think you got it back? Well, no, exactly. Here's
one from the nose. If you hate your nose. New
research that came out this week says that your nose
is because of ancient cousins. It goes back to the
(29:17):
ne Anderthal DNA that dictates.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The shape of your nose. Yes, well, here's something.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
An influencer is now charging men to date an AI
version of herself. May this woman be struck by lightning, loser,
and may all the men that are keeping track of
this and paying for this, may they also be kicked
(29:46):
in the nuts. She's twenty three years old and she
has created a virtual clone of herself to talk with
fans online. And can engage in erotic discourse. I guess,
you know, phone sex or whatever, or computer sex. And
there is currently a twenty six hour waiting list to
(30:08):
get early access to this, and she's on Snapchat and
she's charging one dollar per minute.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Why would she want to make a version of herself
that looks like Alan Iverson? Did you see that? There's
a meme that AI could replace the equivalent of three
hundred million jobs report? And then somebody got cute. They
put a picture of Alan Iverson and the first comment
underneath of it is some guy who's glueless and he says,
(30:41):
why is he doing this?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, you can take a look for yourself there, Danny,
I sent you the story.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But she I mean, she's easy on the eyes. I mean,
don't get me wrong here, but I mean a dollar
a minute? Is that really? Does that really scratch the
itch that you have?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I mean that sounds like your power box at your house.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's geez.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That is wild. That is wild and crazy. The fact
that there's a waiting list, like is that legit? That
must I'd like to think that's bogus. I think of
Marcel and think of Holler and James in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I can see how.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, you don't think they would sign up for this check?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean fair enough.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
There's a market. I guess there's a market for anything.
You can always find a market. But man, oh man,
well here's one. I don't know if this is pop culture,
but I think I mentioned this that I would like
to have a road named after.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Me, And there is a in Florida they are naming
a road.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
For Rush Limbaugh, the late Rush Limbaugh. We're actually in
Russia's old studio and there's a road that will be named.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
In honor of Rushland. So there you go. I think
you kind of need that when you're alive, though, don't
you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You kind of want to get that? Like in La
they named Rodeo Drive in La. Some call it Rodeo,
but they didn't they change the name of that to Obama.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Where is this where they're putting Rush's Road?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It is in uh Floyd. So there's some complaint about it.
But there's going to be a stretch of Cortes Boulevard
in Brooksville named Rush Limball Way.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Ah. I'm guessing the road only veers to the right.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh, Until Thursday, it's a one way road and goes
off to the Uh there's actually a wing, it's called
the right wing.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
And Uh there's Percoset at the end of this road.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Ello, Megadiddos, Megadidos Rush. Can you believe it's been two
years since he died. That's crazy that at age seventy
and he did not live anywhere near where this road is.
In fact, some are saying that he would not even
be caught dead where road. He lived by packs brackets
(33:21):
away in Palm Beach.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But they're they're giving him the road here.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Remember his security guys in those black suits. Oh sure,
they looked like men in black How pissed would they
be if they knew we were in his studio right now?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, we're fussing around in his studio and we'll get
out on that anything you want to promote. It is
a Friday, A glorious Friday, the last Friday before I
head to Minie Salta for the Malor Meet and Greet,
which is next Saturday, a week from tomorrow. If you
missed any of the details, they're all on social media,
but you can also catch them on my my podcast
(34:00):
at our podcast last week last Friday, we had Regina
on spin cycle.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Regina, So what do you have to promote here, Danny.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
G Well, we got Covino and Rich coming up this
afternoon two to four pm on the West Coast, five
to seven in New York City.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
In New York, New York.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
All right, wonderful. I have a great day and we'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Austa Pasta Go Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No No, go home, Lakers, go home.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Lakers, six Baby go Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And Coon Here we go, Kid.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Been at home Lakers.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Anthony Davis, send it out, Buddy, sit it out. D
take a break, take a breath. All right, we'll get
out of here.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
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