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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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the ad everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny G Radio the most popular podcast the weekend.
The Mailbag Danny G. We'll get to the mailbag. It's
on the agenda and it will be the star of
the show. Actual questions by actual listeners of this podcast
(00:54):
who took time out to contact us, to write an email,
or to post something on the Facebook page and be
part of the fun. So we will get to the
mail bag and the email address. Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
also on the Facebook page. Ben Malor show. But Danny G.
What isn't ohio al start us off. We'll have a
(01:17):
little pop goes the culture. What say you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's f and go.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
John, John.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Our Man, what a great musician Ohio al Is. I
loved his song in the Talent Show. He was so good,
so talented with that, so happy we were able to
play that. So pop goes the culture. These are some
pop culture stories that popped up on our radar. There's
a theme every week. This week the theme is food Danny.
(01:55):
There's a lot of food related stories. Is that because
it's summertime and restaurants and food places are tossing out
different items. I saw this bouncing around from Thailand. From
Thailand where Burger King has created a new cheeseburger, which
is two slices of bread and the buns of a
(02:16):
regular Burger King, you know, whopper, and then they put
twenty slices of cheese. Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I saw this. Yeah, we talked about this. Yeah, this
is rich at the end of this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, that is a terrible, terrible looking grilled cheese. H
that could be so much better because the art of
the grilled cheese. My wife makes a great grilled cheese.
You got to put grilled cheese on the outside of
the bun too. You got to really go deep into
the grilled cheese. This just looks like a slice of
American cheese. Of that's not a lot of effort. That's lazy.
(02:52):
Who wants that? Nobody wants that, do they?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Covino is lactose intolerant.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So he said, this looks like he would walk up
to the cashier and say, I'd like to order twenty
two farts.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well he should just order that and then go sit
on the toilet and eat it. No, you should have
the nervous heart.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh, this does look like a bathroom break.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
This looks like something that would have you running to
the bathroom within fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Or it could go the other way. You eat that
much cheese, you might get a little clogged up, right,
you know, clogged up? You know? No, no, no, no,
it might work the other way. So I saw that
that was kind of crazy. Well, speaking of crazy foods
on pop goes the culture Dominoes in Japan. I guess
you gotta leave America to get these crazy food i'ms.
(03:42):
But in Japan this thing started making the rounds again.
What is it? It is a Dominoes pizza, but not
just any Dominoes pizza. No, no, no no, this is
a pizza filled with pickles, a pickle pizza and somewhere
in Springfield, mass alf the alien o piner is popa Woody.
(04:06):
He is so excited. He loves pickles. I saw photos.
This is to me a night. I do not like pickles.
I like the smell of them, but this is Are
you a pickle guy, Danny?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I like pickles on burgers. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What about pizza?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Never had it, but I let's see maybe maybe I've
had like you know how sometimes you'll see somebody create
like a Hamburger style pizza.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yep, well, I think I've had that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Before and there were like little slices of pickles on there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I've made Philly cheese steak pizza before, which is pretty good.
That's not bad. I sent you a photo of it,
and it should be in your in your messages there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
My mom used to do this thing back in the
day where it sounds weird, but it tasted good. She'd
make her own refried beans and her own tortillas, and
she made this burrito where she would cut up little
slices of pickles and put those in the refried beans.
And it sounds a little odd, but it tasted really
(05:09):
good when you added the sour cream and the lettuce
in there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you like sweet pickles or do you like the
traditional pickle?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The traditional?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, I like none of the book. So what
do you think of that photo that I sent you
the story there?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It looks like too many damn pickles.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, that looks disgusting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It's one of those things where they are a great addition,
like a great window dressing, but you don't want it
to be the star of the dish.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, that's that's a little much.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
McDonald's announced this week that the miccafe bakery lineup na
na good bye. Yeah, it's dun skis Seilers. Most people
go to McDonald's I think they. I don't eat breakfast
because I'm a loser. I eat one meal a day.
(06:03):
But for those people that do, I think you go.
If you go to McDonald's for breakfast, you go in egg, McMuffin, sausage, mcgriddle,
something like that, Right, that's what you're Oh, yeah that
mcgriddle is good. Yeah, you're doing something along those lines.
But McDonald's has had this McCafe thing for a while
and they announced that, Hey, we're done at the apple fritter,
(06:24):
the blueberry muffin, the cinnamon roll, the only permanent McCafe
bakery offerings will be phased out. So these things have
been around for I don't know, three four years something
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Man, that stuff all stunk anyways, Bring back your original
apple pie?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh you can guess. I think. Do we talk about that?
I think we did.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Did we did? We've talked about that on the podcast before.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We can still get it because of where we live.
You got to go to where's the town.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Oh, Downy, California.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Downey, the original mc donald's or the second McDonald Yeah,
it's worth the trip out there. Yeah. I actually lived
right next to that McDonald's MYO. When we were moving,
we stayed, we were in between houses and we stayed
for like a couple of months in Downey. I spent
some time in Downey's. Got no, I don't want to
(07:18):
say no, but they have very few zoning laws. It's
kind of like Houston where you can get a mansion
right next to like that like just a shithole. You
know it is. You know there's a school and then
there's a strip club. You know that kind of thing
is right.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It's a great place to rent out somebody's back house,
like their pool house because every single building there has
some sort of addition being added on to it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and a lot of those big it's like the
White House. You know those things out in front of
the building. What they called those pillars. Yeah, a lot
of pillars. Yah in Downey, a lot of pillars. As
I remember, Pop goes the alt You next up, man?
This guy. I saw his restaurant last time I was
in Vegas. You ever seen Robert Irvine and his TV
(08:09):
show A restaurant Impossible? Yeah, Well you won't see it anymore.
The Food Network has canceled Robert Irvine's makeover show. It
will be no more. This guy's like a kind of
a little older than us to anybody's completely ripped. He's
built like a Donnis. This guy works out all the time.
(08:30):
And that show after twenty two seasons, twenty two years,
this guy hosted that show and it's out. It's done,
Dunski's According to the Hollywood Trades, the show has been
put out to pasture, so no one. Guy's probably got
(08:51):
a lot of cash. I would think he did that
show for a while. He's got restaurant deals. I think
Robert Irvine's gonna be okay. Yeah, And I think that
show peaked a while ago. Yeah, I have not watched
a lot of the Food Network, although the last time
I did, it was just all people doing competitions against
each other. Is that pretty much all they do now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's about seventy percent of it, I'd say.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, other food stories are food related. This week, they're
making Hungry right Now is a story out of if
this came up on Covino and Rich. But the FTC
is fighting back against edibles because they claim that these
companies are making ripoff Doritos, nerd Ropes and a bunch
of products like that flaming hot Cheetos that look exactly
(09:42):
like the normal products, and they're apparently a bunch of
kids are getting the munchies and they're eating the marijuana
products rather than the regular one because their parents put
them side by side or whatever in the cabinet, and
so the kids are like, hey, I want some Doritos,
and they get and the special Doritos.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
God, what dopey parents are putting this in a cabinet
for their kids to be able to grab.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He's apparently a fair amount of dumb dumbs. I don't
know what to tell you, but there you go. It's
good marketing though, right. I think if you're going to
make a cannabis like product, like a food product, you
want to make it look like the regular one. And
they've done it. I didn't know that was allowed. I
didn't think that was allowed, but apparently it is. Pop
(10:29):
goes the culture. Here's the world's ultimate swear word. A
mathematician has used an algorithm to create what they say
is the new number one offensive term. You want to
take a guess what it is? Redskins? No, the term.
(10:55):
I've actually heard this listening overhearing conversations. I don't really
use it myself. Maybe I should? Would I sound cooler
if I use the word? This is according to King's College, London.
The word is banger. That's a banger.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's a banger right there.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You ever use that word? They say it's the world's
ultimate swear word.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's that's a swear word in America. That's what people
say when they like a song.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, this is what they say. Research fed a list
of popular bad words. In this algorithm. The computer spit
out banger that that is. That's not a curse word though, like, nah,
come on, that doesn't trump fuck? That's the king of
a bad well. Actually the sea word is.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The ultimate one, right, that's the winner. Yeah, that's the
all time winner. I'm mom threatened us. She's like, you know,
say the F word, you're gonna get in trouble. You
say the C word, you're going to be eating a
bar of soap.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, it's we'll see you next Tuesday, I think is
the way that way? Anyway? Another pop goes to the
culture story from the food world. A London brewery has
created the world's first truly carbon negative pint. Does anyone
need this? These stories are such bullshit. This one says
(12:21):
the Gypsy Hill Brewery has created the world's first offset
free carbon negative beer. The beer removes more greenhouse gases
from the atmosphere than it produces. How many beer drinkers
are really concerned about the atmosphere? Danny? What do you think?
What percentage of beer drinkers are? Like, I really hope
my beer is carbon negative?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I really want that probably point zero zero zero five?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, Like know your audience, Okay, now, I know it's
some high full louting places, some of the wokesters and
all that they're into it. But the artsy fartsy types.
But I'm thinking most people that want a beer, I
just want to have a beer and they don't want
any of that other other nonsense. So there's that Oh
(13:12):
I want to do this one too. This. I love
this video. I'm sure you probably talked about this in Cavino, Rich.
Did you see the video of the guy that attempted
to rob the manicure place in Atlanta? Oh? This is
so good. So you didn't see this, I hope you did.
It went viral. So the Atlanta Police Department is looking
trying to find this guy. This surveillance video from this
(13:34):
nail salon outside Atlanta is amazing. So this dude walks
in there and he walks into the nail salon. He's
wearing a blue hat, he's got sunglasses on, blue jeans,
and right as he enters there, he demands that everyone
present get on the ground and hand over the money.
(13:56):
He's like, he probably saw that in a movie. You know,
I saw that in a movie, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna go for that. It worked in the movie, so
I'm gonna go for it. So the guy walks in,
there's some a couple of women sitting down there the
guy walks in. I'm a little concerned though. I think
he might be warning a clipper hat that kind of
looks like a clipper. Yes, I think he's wearing a
(14:17):
damn clipper.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I thought the same thing when I saw this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh it doesn't looks it is a clipper hat. Oh
this is making us look bad? Here, man, what are
you doing? What is still wrong with the Clippers? It's
so funny. No one pays any attention to the guy.
It's as is he pretending like he's hiding a gun?
Is that what he's trying to do? Yes, and then
he gives something. He walks out, Oh, so so good.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It was like he was coached by Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Screw you, oh man. You know what he looks like.
He looks like a Laker player from when Kobe retired, Okay,
right after Kobe retired for several years. That's what he
looks like, the D'Angelo Russell Alonzo ball version of the Lakers.
Let's get to the mailbag. It's these are actual letters
(15:29):
by actual listeners on the mailbag. We thank you, thank you,
thank you so much, and again, if you want to
send a message in real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
all letters, no numbers, real fifth hour at gmail dot
com and name and city, name and city if you
want attention, Mark in Houston or at Houston. Adjasent says,
dear Ben and Danny G How do you guys come
up with the topics? He says, on the show, my show,
(15:52):
the opening show for four topics, five days a week,
four monologues, twenty monologues a week. In the adult jumps
of July, I when nothing is happening in the air
everywhere with Mark. That's an outdated take by you, Mark,
because for years people were talking about the dead zone,
there's nothing going on, But we have all done sports
(16:16):
radio during COVID, so that was the dead zone. This
is not the dead zone. There's always stuff going on.
You gotta be able to work on the edges a
little bit. You got to work out in the suburbs.
But there's always stuff going on. And it's really I
actually like this time of the year, which is kind
of ridiculous because I shouldn't like this time of the year,
(16:37):
but it's a little more challenging, which I like. You know,
you gotta kind of dig a little bit, and if
you don't do your your work. You don't do your diligence,
then it becomes problematic and the show sucks. And I
feel like a lot of guys are exposed this time
of the year because they just depend on football, football, football,
and there's not a lot of stuff going on and
(16:58):
so football wise, but there's stuff going on, it's just
a lot of gossip, a lot of speculation, a lot
of this guy said something, that guy said something. But
it actually has not been that hard. And in fact,
some of the times I've done holiday shows, when you
think those would be easy shows, there's not a lot
going on because people shut it down for the holiday.
So I've had issue. I've had more issues around like
(17:20):
certain big holidays, not Thanksgiving, because there's a ton of stuff,
but sometimes it's a little slower on the holidays. So
what about Covino and Rich? Have you guys been able
to be fine with the topics of conversation here through this?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
They have no problem filling their segments, especially with the
TMZ sports type stories. I'm also just looking at certain
stories like that and then having their own spin and
their own angle on it. The good thing about your
show and their show their entertainment driven. It's not just sports.
(17:56):
It's a lot of entertainment and pop culture.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's not a hard sports show. But thank you, Mark,
Pete and Pittsburgh wrote in the Great Pete and Pittsburgh
retired sports radio legend, Good Old Pete. He says, Ben,
are you angry that people have said the show is
not as good because Roberto left? So Pete, I know
you're trying to rile me up here get a reaction
(18:21):
out of me. Very funny of you. No, I am
not surprised. Just like when Danny G left the show.
People were upset when you left, Danny. They said the
show sucks, It's never going to be the same.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
He had a point back then.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That was not a good point. But before before then,
we had Jake Warner stay awake Jake, and people loved
Jake and they were kind of like, who's this Danny
G guy? And then they lay they liked you, and
it just takes a while for people to get used
to it. We do not have a permanent engineer, so
that chair is a spinning chair, and we have three
(18:56):
people during the week, so I'm working with three different people.
They're working with me. We're trying to feel each other out.
Nobody wants to really take ownership of that because it's
not their job yet. So eventually we'll hire someone permanently,
not me, the company will, and then people will be
used to that, and i'd like some of the traditions
to continue that we've done over the years. A lot
(19:17):
of those have died in the last month or so
because we're just rotating too many people in. But we'll
get to that. We'll get to it at some point.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I heard that Mark Dude talking with you on the air.
He's super animated. He definitely would take your chair someday.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, he's a future talk showst or politician or yeah,
Matt the Warrior Raider former. As Fan writes it, he's
his question for you Ben on the podcast when you
give the malor monologues, are you reading it from a
script just glancing at notes or are you speaking completely
off the top of your head? That is from Matt.
(19:57):
So it's a little bit of everything, Matt. Most of
the time I have talking points that I have bullet
points that I have certain things I want to nail
that I think are important in the monologue. But when
something big happens, when there's a trade or somebody drops
dead in the middle of the night, or there's a
(20:18):
riot and we're talking about it. That's obviously all just
completely ad lib. There's no real notes. You just kind
of going in real time. So there's some of that,
and then every once in a while there's something I
really want to nail it, I'll put a script together.
But most of the time it's just it's just bullet points.
And I can thank my mentor, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton with
(20:40):
the greatest fifteen minutes in radio, who kind of taught
me that style of radio. And I hope I've adjusted
it a little bit that I'm not doing exactly what
he did, and I've got my own polish on it.
But that's kind of how that goes, and everyone's got
their own technique. So to eat David in winter Park,
(21:03):
Florida with his friend Roscale the parents is what kind
of treats do you guys? Do you give your your pets?
Then he mentions Bella, do you you have pets too? Right,
Danny you have what do you have?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You have a dog? Get a cat too?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I only have a dog. Yeah, So I give Bella
we have these papparonis, and I'll do a little dance. Well,
she'll do the dance. Well, she used to do the dance.
She's too old now. But I'll say it's pop Baroni time,
like that, like pop Baroni time, and she'd get excited.
She'd wag her tails, she'd jump up and down. Now
she kind of gives me the look like, just give
(21:38):
me the damn treat. Okay, I've done enough dancing. I'm retired.
Screw you. What treats do you give your cat and
your dog? Danny start with Daisy the dog.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I actually I have these sitting right here because she
was over here begging for some treats earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Hold that up there, Oh, I'll twist dream bone. Looks
like candy cane.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yeah, she's a little dog. She can't have raw hide.
But they have these little twist sticks. And it's funny
because she'll bite them down so they're like the size
of a cigarette and she'll be running up and down
the stairs with what looks like a cigar in her mouth.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's funny. You should take a video of that.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
That's really funny. It's really funny. Whenever she looks like,
who is that?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Really? Old comedian George Burns.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh, yeah, George Burns.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, looks like George Burns running up and down the staircase.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Any of those old comedians they all used to have,
like Milton Burrel is that his name, the guy with
the yeah you know? Okay? And what about the cat?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
For a treat for him, He'll go take a couple
of her dog food pellets. We pour the crunchies in
her bowl, and whenever he hears that bag open, he
runs over there and he steals a couple of them,
and that's his treat.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
He doesn't like cat.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Treats though, little thief there.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, doesn't like wet food, doesn't like human food. He's
really easy. He just likes crunchies.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah. I like country food too, so we have that
in common.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, same sliced pizza.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Robert writes, and he says, what are the chances of
a Malord meet and greet road show at Saratoga? A
couple of horse races, a couple of beers, some good food,
bunch of wacky listeners. I would love to do that, Robert.
I would. I've never been to Saratoga. I've been to
New York. That's outside New York, a little outside the
city there in Saratoga. Would love to go, but I've
(23:40):
gone through my entire travel budget. I will unless unless
something unexpected happens. I am not planning on going anywhere now.
If I always say nanny, if a listener really wants
a meet and greet and has a lot of a
lot of money deep pockets, everyone says, I am more
than willing to to travel pretty much anywhere for a
(24:01):
malor meet and read. Just need enough time to promote
it and we'll have a grand time. Patricia, But thank you, Robert.
I would like to get to Saratoga at sometime. At
some point I can hang out with Mike FRANCESSA doesn't
he hang out at Saratoga. I get maybe move to Florida.
Patricia from Vegas Rights and her friend Patricia, She's been
listening for a long time. She used to live in
the Northeast. She says, Hey, Ben, when you make cookies,
(24:23):
I'm wondering, do you actually make the dough from scratch? Yes, yes, Patricia,
I make the whole thing. I have the flour, I
have the sugar, I've got the baking soda, the baking powder,
and you mix it all together. I've got a nice
mixer my mom got me is a wedding gift, and
so I make the whole the whole thing, so Eddie
(24:44):
and the guys can can shit all over the cookies
I make. So that's kind of how that goes. Hey,
here's the next one from Ozzy wahz. He says Big
Ben and Danny g. Last week we had heavy fog
in the area where visibility was down to about fifty
meters or about one hundred and sixty four feet, says
Ozziewah's math. So my question is what is the worst
(25:05):
conditions that you've had to drive in. The worst driving
I ever had to go through was in Buffalo. It
was after a Bills game. It was early in the year,
so it wasn't snow, but there was a lake effect
storm and I was on the New York Expressway leaving
Buffalo and it was so I think that was the
(25:26):
road that I was on, but it was right near
the Big Lake and it was raining sideways and it
was raining so hard the windshield wipers weren't working and
they were on the highest setting. I've never seen rain
like that. I'm used to California rain. So I was
(25:48):
with my younger brother Mike, and we stopped, literally had
to stop the car in the middle of the highway
because we couldn't see behind us or in front of us.
We kind of made out a tail light, so we thought, Okay,
the traffic stopped, maybe there's an accident, but we weren't.
We didn't know for sure, so we stopped and for
(26:10):
for a little while, Danny, we were like, I don't know,
are we gonna get rear ended? Like we didn't know,
but like everyone kind of stopped. It was wild. So
that's the worst weather I've I've ever dreamed in Elan.
There's been fogg. That's terrible. But what about you, Danny, Yeah,
two things come to mind.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Fog in California, especially through the bakers Field area.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh, that's a terrible that's p that is thick.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
That's that pea soup. Yeah, they call it Bakersfield Peace soup.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And the times we saw that we would be driving
from northern California to LA to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
On the road early early to get to an.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
LA Raiders game as kids, and there would be that
Bakersfield Peace soup that we would drive through. And then uh,
later in life, when I would. I went on a
hiking trip with my cousin and we went to Zion
National Park, about two hours outside of Vegas, Awesome National Park.
On the way back to California through Nevada, in the
(27:13):
middle of nowhere Nevada, there was a lightning storm and
you could see the lightning hitting the side of the freeway,
and that shit is scary when you are in the
middle of that. I mean, you think your car is
going to be struck next Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's that's nuts. I got stuck in a lightning storm.
I was visiting my brother and his buddy who eventually
became like a billionaire. That's a different story, but he
was just out of college and I was like the young,
young punk and they were showing me. My brother was
showing me around New York. I'd never been there at
that time. It's a long time ago. So we took
(27:50):
the Path train to Hoboken, New Jersey, and all of
a sudden, out of nowhere, this is in the days
before weather apps, there was this lightning and rainstorm and
we were outside and there were there was nothing. We
couldn't get cover because there were like these junk yards
and Hoboken and but that was I was not driving,
(28:12):
but I just that flashed in my head when you
mentioned the lightning, and I don't know, it just kind
of flopped worked around in my in my memory. And
Ozzie was let us know the craziest creatures you've seen.
You live in Western Australia, and that appears to be
ground zero for a bunch of freaky, freaky goblins and whatnot.
(28:35):
Maryanne from Tennessee rights in and she says, what is
your favorite guys, what was your favorite childhood memory? That's
kind of a generic question, Mary Anne. I got a
ton of favorite memories everyone does. You know why? I've
determined why we all have great childhood memories because we
block out most of us block out the bad stuff.
We only remember the good stuff, right. Isn't that how
(28:56):
that works? You don't remember the bad days when you
didn't do your homework, you didn't eat your vegetables, you
got sent to your room early. You only remember like
the good stuff for the most part. So I remember
playing in the orange groves when I grew up in
Orange County and there were nothing but orange groves, and
we had massive fights throwing oranges at each other and
as many oranges as far as the eye could see
where orange groves. It was amazing. Great memories of that,
(29:18):
running around with my buddies and playing stickball and with
we played baseball with racquetballs and what not to see
how far we golf balls, to see how far we
could hit the ball. Stuff like that. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I remember being in the courthouse and the judge asking
us which parent we wanted to live with. Good time, well,
fun memories, fun memories, Yes, thanks Mom and Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What else do we have? Sam from Winter Park, Florida says,
best toppings for a burger and do you put any
of them on at the end while the burger is
still on the grill. So I like making the smash
burger on my griddle. That's my go to burger. But
just I'm a basic, basic bitch when it comes to
the burgers. I like the cheese, normally your provolone, sometimes
(30:06):
little American cheese, grilled onions. I like the grilled onions.
Sometimes onion strings are a nice little add on to that,
you know. And then I might my regular toppings, but
not much more than That's all I need and keep
the lettuce away. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I like the real cheeseburger from Burger King. Google it
all cheese all the time. H Yeah, get some nacho
chips and make some nachos out.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Of your burger. So the way to go.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And if you know what, what is it hard Ease
and other parts of the country.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah, Carls Junior love the Western bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's a solid burger. Of course I would get it
without the bacon, but it's a solidar. I used to
get the six dollars burger, which is probably seventy two
dollars at this point, but it used to be the
six dollar burger back in the day. Next up, we
have Big m from Appleton, Wisconsin on the podcast Thank You.
He says, Ben, are you really frustrated? You sound like
(31:06):
you are When Coop and Eddie bash your cookies, he says,
the cookies look good in the photos you posted online. Well,
thank you. The cookies are good.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What problem do they have with them?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Eddie's just a schmuck. He's like, Ah, they're not that good,
you know. Coop complains, I don't even know why I
bring these things in.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Why does Coop complain? He eats anything let's put in
front of him.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, originally he was very positive about the cookies, and
then lately the last couple of times I brought them in,
I guess they're not up to his standard, or he does.
He eats them, so you must like him. But I mean,
maybe he's just trying to bust my balls. I don't know. Anyway,
the cookies are fine, and.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Maybe your skills are deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
My skills are great, and in fact, I'll be making
more cookies when we get done with this podcast, and
maybe I won't bring them in for the You know
who liked my cookie, Former NFL player and morning host
LeVar Errington. I gave him a cook He broke his
diet to eat one of my cookies. He said, that's
a good cookie. He said that you're oatmeal raised it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
If you want to leave a bag for the CNR show, yeah,
are good.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I might have to when the when the the baby
pops out there, I might have to, you know, as
a gift to the family, I might have to make
some oatmeal raisin for the for the wife there of
yours to help rih uh Fred in Spring Texas rights
and says, hey, there, guys, how does one adjust to
the precarious nature of the radio workplace, abrupt firing, stations,
being sold, staff shakeups in planning your careers, do you
(32:43):
have to be ready for the worst? Do you have
a plan for the worst? Says enjoy the show Fred
in Spring, Texas.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
So it's a very happy topic, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Very positive. I just I work each day to try
to do the top notch job that I can do,
the greatest job that I can do, do the heavy lifting.
And if this job doesn't work out, you're fired. There's
always somebody listening in the business or outside the business.
And now with podcasting, we can just do these podcasts.
(33:20):
You don't necessarily need to be with the big media conglomerate.
I'm not guaranteed of any employment. I could lose this
job and never be heard from again, or you know,
it's possible. I know enough people now I could get
another job somewhere. Who knows. I have no idea, but
I don't really I used to obsess about it when
I started Danny. Every day I would go in because
(33:40):
I worked at the station in San Diego, and they
would fire all the time. They'd fire people at Christmas.
Guys would go on vacation friends of mine host and
they would never come back. And I was like, that's
what happened, is why they fired him? And they just
said he was on vacation and then he never came back.
So I was very paranoid, and I started when I
moved from San Diego to La Radio. It was a
(34:02):
it was a startup. They had flipped Kiss AM, which
had played Kiss FM just on the M band. They
flipped it the sports and they spent a lot of
money on it. They got the Dodger contract, but there
was no guarantee they were going to keep the format,
and I was I had such a neurosis. I was
so traumatized that I was convinced I was going to
be fired. Every every day I walked in there, I said,
(34:23):
this is it. It's going to end. But now I
don't really think about it that much.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean, if it happens, I know I'll pivot, I'll
do something else, we'll figure it out, It'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
It's no way to live your life, you know, being
scared or nervous about what could happen. The best thing
to do, besides doing a good on air product, is
the Eddie Haskell. Whenever you see your bosses, you look
very handsome today, sir, yes, man, cut the bullshit, my man.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Well, I don't see my boss is Danny. I do not.
But it's like that my favorite quote from W. C. Fields,
and he was a quote master, but it's it sums up.
I think the show that I've done over the year
is if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them
(35:18):
with bullshit. That's the key right there, Danny, just baffle
the bosses with bullshit. And yeah, that guy, there's a
street named after him.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
W C.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Fields, Old Hollywood, early Hollywood, like in the forties, actor comedian,
right near Universal Studios. There's a street named after him.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Well, it's so weird how little our bosses have been
around us. Our Big Boss was in Vegas and after
the event he said, my man, you work your ass off.
My man, I had no idea, you know, because he's
never he's not in our Sherman Oaks, California building, so
he doesn't really know us all that much.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, it's interesting in with him maybe once a year,
the Big Boss, if I'm lucky, once every few years.
And then when we get together we talk for like
two hours. We always schedule like a half an hour meeting,
but I know it's going to be two hours, and
we just we catch up on everything. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
He's got so many radio stories, and then with your
radio stories, that's like that's like a mini series.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, we're geeking out on radio stuff. Danny. It's great.
You love those stories too. We love talking shop talking
about the crap that happens, usually the things that go wrong.
Bury from South Carolina, formerly of Nashville. He relocated to
South Carolina, and he says, Yo yo Ma, Benny and
Danny G what is the one national park that you
haven't been to that you really want to go to? So, Danny,
(36:49):
is there a national park that you've been dying to
go to.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, I would love to go to Glacier National Park,
which half of it is in Canada. The pictures I've
seen of that park are amazing, So that's definitely one
on the list.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah. I haven't been to too many. So I love
Sequoia and Kings Canyon. That's my go to. That's the
one I normally go to. I don't think I've been
to Smite. I don't recall going to Semite. I've been
to the Grand Canyon. Haven't been to the Great Smoky Mountains.
I'd like to go to Yellowstone, Rocky Mountains, like, I'm
gonna go to all of them. Zion, you've been a
(37:28):
Zion in Utah? I've not. I've not done that. I mean,
there's there's a ton of these around. Is that bad
Lands place in the Dakotas? Is that a National park?
I want to go check that out at some point.
Bad Lands. I think it's a national park? Maybe not?
(37:49):
Yeah it is, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah. It looks
like another planet. It's in the Yeah, it's crazy looking. Yeah,
it doesn't look like a drive through Utah. I was
very surprised. I thought it was going to be boring
and there wasn't going to be much to see.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Man, the canyons there in the colors of all the
rocks and the formations. If you get a chance, go
to Bryce Canyon, just jaw dropping.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Did you go to the Arches in Utah?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
I've been to the Arches? Yeah, amazing, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, there's a ton of the canyons, or not the
canyons of the national parks, the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
That's pretty wild. I've seen photos of that. I mean
you can go on and on that lake in Oregon.
Crater Lake looks pretty wild. I think that's a national park.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
And yeah, and then that little town you mentioned Arches.
There's that little town, Moab. Stay in Moab, Utah, and
then go to the Archie's National Park.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
It's a great trip.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I'll do a few more. We're a little long on
this alf. The alf from Crumble Cookies says Ben, what
happens first you eat a pickle or Eddie actually tweets
out a good picture of one of your cookies. No, no,
I'll be double fisting cookies. Alf. How about shut up
before Eddie sends out a good photo. I guarantee that
(39:26):
will happen. Angelina writes in from Minnesota slash Wisconsin. She's
a super fan. She says, I've been listening. I have
not been writing in emails kind of late, but I
wanted to go over a bunch of things here. Says First,
I enjoyed your tails of your trip for New York.
Glad you were able to go to your first Broadway
(39:47):
production and being sort of tall myself. I can relate
to these small venue yeah, the really small seats there.
She also liked the Staten Island ferry tip free. Yeah,
you gotta take take it right and on a clear
day in Manhattan, and it's just beautiful during the day.
It's also beautiful at night because you see the skyline
(40:09):
all lay up of Lower Manhattan and all the financial
buildings down there near Wall Street. It's very powerful. And
then you go buy the Statue of Liberty and all that.
She says, not to touch up your work. But when
you talked about the old TV game show, I was
wondering if you meant let's make a deal. I love
Let's make a Deal, and she says an older show
(40:30):
that deal or Deal.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, we accidentally called a deal or no Deal, which
is the Howie Mandel.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah may show.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Let's make a Deal was the one with Monty Hall,
and then I think it was alf pointed out as
Classic Concentration was one of the other ones with Alex
Trebek that we were trying to Okay, thank you, And
then I do want to thank Angelina because she mentioned
I was trying to think of the cartoon that I
couldn't think of it. It was family circus. It was family. Yeah.
(41:02):
So anyways, Angelina, thank you so much. You've been a
great support of the show, and I really appreciate you
supporting what we do here. What else do we have?
Neil in Greenville, South Carolina, says, the home of the
Red Sox. That Neil's the guy in Miami. Danny now
relocated to Greenville, South Carolina. He had this, Yeah, he
had that condo right over the apartment right over the
(41:25):
Miami ead Arena and a skyscraper in Miami.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, of course, And then we talked about his moving process.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, he said. We traded the majestic Miami penthouse across
from the arena for the green acre style humble southern
living across the street from the flower Field where the
Greenville Drive the Minor League Red Sox play. Actually going
to a game next week. As in these parts baseball
is popular as it may seem. This is yeah, you go,
(41:56):
He says, front row behind home plate cost you fourteen dollars,
and then he sent a photo of.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
All and everybody could beat Marlin's man.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
He says. The big question, if you and Danny G
would own a professional sports team, what sport would it be?
And what would the name of your team be? And
the mascot of your team? So I would want to
do something original. I don't need the Wildcats or the
Bulldogs or something like that. I mean, and I was
(42:31):
just off the top of my head, how about the
Seattle Shitzus for the new NBA team? What do you
mean Bella is the mascot there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, mascots have to be fat, though. You need a
real fat mascot. That's a fun mascot other than Chuck.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Pot or fun. What comes to mind for me right
away is the Savannah bananas. Oh, that's right, Yeah, in
line with that team, I would do the egg plants.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
The eggplants use that egg plant emoji?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
You do that? Well? Yeah, yeah, that has no other
meaning at all. How about how about the the Georgia
peaches and you use the peach emoji on the hat?
You know you can do that too. What about I'm
trying to think here some of the other stupid the
baba ganoosh people love when I say baba ganoosh, Austin,
(43:26):
you do that. And then here's the most important part.
The reason I had to get this email from Neil on.
He says, what are your skull cap sizes and address?
Where to send the hats to? Do you prefer mesh
or all cluss? So he's going to hook us up
with hats, Dandy. How great is that a new hat?
So we are actually at the same address. Do we
(43:47):
get mail? I've not gotten mail in a while. Do
we still get mail at the building? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
If they put it on that big white circle table
next to the blue kitchen.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Okay, I don't know where the mail room is, but
if you send it to the old address, we will
get it at some point. And I am a size eight,
big head, big brain, a size eight. What are you, Danny?
Speaker 4 (44:08):
And your I am a seven and five eights? Thank you, brother?
Or you can also just do snap back if you want.
I love all hats.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, so I typically do cloth hats if it's a
size eight. If it's not a size eight, I can
do a mesh hat. Typically I prefer the cloth hat.
But thank you very much, Neil. It's very kind of you.
You don't have to don't have to do that. Kevin
and Kansas's dear Ben and Danny g both of you
have talked about mccobby cove. Do either of you have
(44:39):
any special oddball or otherwise interesting stories to tell about
the buzz? Yes, I have a quick one. So way
back when they opened that ballpark, it was called I
think is it pack Bell Park when it opened?
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Was pack Bell when it opened?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yep? Yeah. So I was working local radio in Los
Angeles and we we went up to San Francisco as
a promotion for the radio station, and we rented the
boss rented a boat to drive around mccuby Cove, to
(45:14):
float around mccobby Cove, and it was like this whole bit.
We were going to take on KNBR because at that
time the other sports station which we're on now didn't exist,
and so we're going to take on CAMBR and VIC
the brick Jacobs a Martinez who's now like a he's
been with public radio for a long time. But he
was dressed up. VIC was dressed up a couple other
(45:37):
people at the station. So we had this big boat
which had the it was like a real boat with
a mask and all that, and a bunch of guys
dressed up in pirate costumes. We had remote equipment to
broadcast from the boat. We had big time whale sponsors
of the radio station that were there. So I'm on
the boat. We're floating around McCovey Cove. It's the first
(45:58):
game ever Dodgers are playing, and the Giants at pack
Bell Park their first regular season game, and K and
br had decided to get back at us. They didn't,
I guess, have the proper boat, so they deputized the
San Francisco Fire Department boat and we got blasted from
(46:21):
a fire boat that's there to put out fires for
like cruise ships and crap like that. And I've told
the story in the past, but if you've ever seen
the photos, and it doesn't look like it's that much water,
It's like it's like five or six hoses of water
all shooting at the same time. Danny, right, it flooded.
All of the boat people were diving underboard trying to
(46:42):
get out. The water was so powerful. And I'll never
forget the image of Victor Brick trying to get up
out of the boat, soaking wet in a pirate costume,
and all of the remote equipment on the boat completely fried,
depletely fried. The sponsors that were all dressed up, these
(47:03):
really rich people that paid advertising time in the radio
station completely soaked. It was. It was nuts. But then
we went in. I was able to get in and
see the end of the game. They let me in
a press pass. I walked in and I saw Kevin
Elster hit the third of his three home runs. He
had three home runs in the first game at pack
(47:24):
Bell Park, and the Dodgers won. More important so beat
Barry Bonds and the Higantes.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
And did k NBR get a bill from your general
manager for the remote equipment?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, it is interesting to note, Danny, that we did
not know this, but it is illegal for the San
Francisco and this is a long time ago, the San
Francisco Fire Department to shoot off the water unless there's
an actual emergency or a fire. So they violated the
city code in San Francisco. I do not know what
ever happened with that, though, I don't Did you ever
(47:56):
have any experiences at mccobby Cove, Danny, anything that stands out.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
I mean, the thing that stands out the most to
me about that cove, for always and forever is going
to be Max Muncie. I'm here to fuck off and
you go get the ball out of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
That was that was solid. That was that was good.
Amish from Columbus Rights, and he says, hey, this is quick.
Do you I don't know anything, he said. He's talking
about San Diego's going to San Diego for his fortieth
prior to attending the O's versus the Padres game that
(48:34):
that day, he says, do you know the best place
to eat in the little Italy district of San Diego?
So I my go to and I used to work
in San Diego, but I don't eat I don't eat Italian,
I have any I eat Mexican food when I go
to San Diego. Is that bad of me?
Speaker 3 (48:54):
No, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
I mean a lot of people avoid Italian restaurants because
they don't want to be hired after their meal too heavy.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Do you have a favorite Italian place in little Lialy
there in San Diego?
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I haven't been to a couple of spots there. See that.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
The key is to do an early dinner if you're
going to go Italian, and then take a nice stroll afterwards,
walk some of those carbs off, go.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Over to Cornado and take a nap of the Coronado Bridge.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Ben, I'm trying to think of the name of it.
It's got your name in it, ben Cotto, Bencotto. Oh okay, yeah,
it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Cut that meat. Yeah. I don't know if you've been
to San Diego before you who wrote in here amish,
but I would say always good to Old Town. That's
my my spot. You know that area around there, or
Mission Valley that's where the Padres used to play a
Mission Valley, but that's kind of more of a suburban
(49:54):
type feel. But there's you know, it cost you a
few bucks. But if you want good Mexican food town
and there's some great there are some great time place.
When I worked down there, I did eat some time place,
eat it some time place, but it's it's been a
long time.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
So hey.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
They also have a spaghetti factory there, which is kind
of a treat because you don't see those everywhere.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
That's right, all right, So that's all all the time.
We went long anyway. But Danny, anything you want to
promote it is Sunday. You got some time off coming
up this week?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Yes, yeah, just one day here, so Monday I will
be putting together a bascinet.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
It's exciting and it's just like my club DJ days,
a weed, a bascinet. It's the same thing as going
to a nightclub smoke.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Weed every day. Yeah, that's cool. I'll be back tonight
eleven pm in the west on the West Coast, and
then two am in the East Coast doing it live,
and then we'll have the podcast up on demand. Have
a great day, have a wonderful rest of your weekend,
and we'll catch you next time. Thank you later, Skater
(51:03):
gotta murder, I gotta go.
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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The Mailbag Danny G. We'll get to the mailbag. It's
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the show. Actual questions by actual listeners of this podcast
(00:54):
who took time out to contact us, to write an email,
or to post something on the Facebook page and be
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also on the Facebook page. Ben Malor show. But Danny G.
What isn't ohio al start us off. We'll have a
(01:17):
little pop goes the culture. What say you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's f and go.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
John, John.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Our Man, what a great musician Ohio al Is. I
loved his song in the Talent Show. He was so good,
so talented with that, so happy we were able to
play that. So pop goes the culture. These are some
pop culture stories that popped up on our radar. There's
a theme every week. This week the theme is food Danny.
(01:55):
There's a lot of food related stories. Is that because
it's summertime and restaurants and food places are tossing out
different items. I saw this bouncing around from Thailand. From
Thailand where Burger King has created a new cheeseburger, which
is two slices of bread and the buns of a
(02:16):
regular Burger King, you know, whopper, and then they put
twenty slices of cheese. Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I saw this. Yeah, we talked about this. Yeah, this
is rich at the end of this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, that is a terrible, terrible looking grilled cheese. H
that could be so much better because the art of
the grilled cheese. My wife makes a great grilled cheese.
You got to put grilled cheese on the outside of
the bun too. You got to really go deep into
the grilled cheese. This just looks like a slice of
American cheese. Of that's not a lot of effort. That's lazy.
(02:52):
Who wants that? Nobody wants that, do they?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Covino is lactose intolerant.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So he said, this looks like he would walk up
to the cashier and say, I'd like to order twenty
two farts.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well he should just order that and then go sit
on the toilet and eat it. No, you should have
the nervous heart.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh, this does look like a bathroom break.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
This looks like something that would have you running to
the bathroom within fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Or it could go the other way. You eat that
much cheese, you might get a little clogged up, right,
you know, clogged up? You know? No, no, no, no,
it might work the other way. So I saw that
that was kind of crazy. Well, speaking of crazy foods
on pop goes the culture Dominoes in Japan. I guess
you gotta leave America to get these crazy food i'ms.
(03:42):
But in Japan this thing started making the rounds again.
What is it? It is a Dominoes pizza, but not
just any Dominoes pizza. No, no, no no, this is
a pizza filled with pickles, a pickle pizza and somewhere
in Springfield, mass alf the alien o piner is popa Woody.
(04:06):
He is so excited. He loves pickles. I saw photos.
This is to me a night. I do not like pickles.
I like the smell of them, but this is Are
you a pickle guy, Danny?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I like pickles on burgers. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What about pizza?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Never had it, but I let's see maybe maybe I've
had like you know how sometimes you'll see somebody create
like a Hamburger style pizza.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yep, well, I think I've had that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Before and there were like little slices of pickles on there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I've made Philly cheese steak pizza before, which is pretty good.
That's not bad. I sent you a photo of it,
and it should be in your in your messages there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
My mom used to do this thing back in the
day where it sounds weird, but it tasted good. She'd
make her own refried beans and her own tortillas, and
she made this burrito where she would cut up little
slices of pickles and put those in the refried beans.
And it sounds a little odd, but it tasted really
(05:09):
good when you added the sour cream and the lettuce
in there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you like sweet pickles or do you like the
traditional pickle?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The traditional?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, I like none of the book. So what
do you think of that photo that I sent you
the story there?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It looks like too many damn pickles.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, that looks disgusting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It's one of those things where they are a great addition,
like a great window dressing, but you don't want it
to be the star of the dish.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, that's that's a little much.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
McDonald's announced this week that the miccafe bakery lineup na
na good bye. Yeah, it's dun skis Seilers. Most people
go to McDonald's I think they. I don't eat breakfast
because I'm a loser. I eat one meal a day.
(06:03):
But for those people that do, I think you go.
If you go to McDonald's for breakfast, you go in egg, McMuffin, sausage, mcgriddle,
something like that, Right, that's what you're Oh, yeah that
mcgriddle is good. Yeah, you're doing something along those lines.
But McDonald's has had this McCafe thing for a while
and they announced that, Hey, we're done at the apple fritter,
(06:24):
the blueberry muffin, the cinnamon roll, the only permanent McCafe
bakery offerings will be phased out. So these things have
been around for I don't know, three four years something
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Man, that stuff all stunk anyways, Bring back your original
apple pie?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh you can guess. I think. Do we talk about that?
I think we did.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Did we did? We've talked about that on the podcast before.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We can still get it because of where we live.
You got to go to where's the town.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Oh, Downy, California.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Downey, the original mc donald's or the second McDonald Yeah,
it's worth the trip out there. Yeah. I actually lived
right next to that McDonald's MYO. When we were moving,
we stayed, we were in between houses and we stayed
for like a couple of months in Downey. I spent
some time in Downey's. Got no, I don't want to
(07:18):
say no, but they have very few zoning laws. It's
kind of like Houston where you can get a mansion
right next to like that like just a shithole. You
know it is. You know there's a school and then
there's a strip club. You know that kind of thing
is right.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It's a great place to rent out somebody's back house,
like their pool house because every single building there has
some sort of addition being added on to it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and a lot of those big it's like the
White House. You know those things out in front of
the building. What they called those pillars. Yeah, a lot
of pillars. Yah in Downey, a lot of pillars. As
I remember, Pop goes the alt You next up, man?
This guy. I saw his restaurant last time I was
in Vegas. You ever seen Robert Irvine and his TV
(08:09):
show A restaurant Impossible? Yeah, Well you won't see it anymore.
The Food Network has canceled Robert Irvine's makeover show. It
will be no more. This guy's like a kind of
a little older than us to anybody's completely ripped. He's
built like a Donnis. This guy works out all the time.
(08:30):
And that show after twenty two seasons, twenty two years,
this guy hosted that show and it's out. It's done,
Dunski's According to the Hollywood Trades, the show has been
put out to pasture, so no one. Guy's probably got
(08:51):
a lot of cash. I would think he did that
show for a while. He's got restaurant deals. I think
Robert Irvine's gonna be okay. Yeah, And I think that
show peaked a while ago. Yeah, I have not watched
a lot of the Food Network, although the last time
I did, it was just all people doing competitions against
each other. Is that pretty much all they do now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's about seventy percent of it, I'd say.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, other food stories are food related. This week, they're
making Hungry right Now is a story out of if
this came up on Covino and Rich. But the FTC
is fighting back against edibles because they claim that these
companies are making ripoff Doritos, nerd Ropes and a bunch
of products like that flaming hot Cheetos that look exactly
(09:42):
like the normal products, and they're apparently a bunch of
kids are getting the munchies and they're eating the marijuana
products rather than the regular one because their parents put
them side by side or whatever in the cabinet, and
so the kids are like, hey, I want some Doritos,
and they get and the special Doritos.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
God, what dopey parents are putting this in a cabinet
for their kids to be able to grab.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He's apparently a fair amount of dumb dumbs. I don't
know what to tell you, but there you go. It's
good marketing though, right. I think if you're going to
make a cannabis like product, like a food product, you
want to make it look like the regular one. And
they've done it. I didn't know that was allowed. I
didn't think that was allowed, but apparently it is. Pop
(10:29):
goes the culture. Here's the world's ultimate swear word. A
mathematician has used an algorithm to create what they say
is the new number one offensive term. You want to
take a guess what it is? Redskins? No, the term.
(10:55):
I've actually heard this listening overhearing conversations. I don't really
use it myself. Maybe I should? Would I sound cooler
if I use the word? This is according to King's College, London.
The word is banger. That's a banger.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's a banger right there.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You ever use that word? They say it's the world's
ultimate swear word.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's that's a swear word in America. That's what people
say when they like a song.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, this is what they say. Research fed a list
of popular bad words. In this algorithm. The computer spit
out banger that that is. That's not a curse word though, like, nah,
come on, that doesn't trump fuck? That's the king of
a bad well. Actually the sea word is.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The ultimate one, right, that's the winner. Yeah, that's the
all time winner. I'm mom threatened us. She's like, you know,
say the F word, you're gonna get in trouble. You
say the C word, you're going to be eating a
bar of soap.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, it's we'll see you next Tuesday, I think is
the way that way? Anyway? Another pop goes to the
culture story from the food world. A London brewery has
created the world's first truly carbon negative pint. Does anyone
need this? These stories are such bullshit. This one says
(12:21):
the Gypsy Hill Brewery has created the world's first offset
free carbon negative beer. The beer removes more greenhouse gases
from the atmosphere than it produces. How many beer drinkers
are really concerned about the atmosphere? Danny? What do you think?
What percentage of beer drinkers are? Like, I really hope
my beer is carbon negative?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I really want that probably point zero zero zero five?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, Like know your audience, Okay, now, I know it's
some high full louting places, some of the wokesters and
all that they're into it. But the artsy fartsy types.
But I'm thinking most people that want a beer, I
just want to have a beer and they don't want
any of that other other nonsense. So there's that Oh
(13:12):
I want to do this one too. This. I love
this video. I'm sure you probably talked about this in Cavino, Rich.
Did you see the video of the guy that attempted
to rob the manicure place in Atlanta? Oh? This is
so good. So you didn't see this, I hope you did.
It went viral. So the Atlanta Police Department is looking
trying to find this guy. This surveillance video from this
(13:34):
nail salon outside Atlanta is amazing. So this dude walks
in there and he walks into the nail salon. He's
wearing a blue hat, he's got sunglasses on, blue jeans,
and right as he enters there, he demands that everyone
present get on the ground and hand over the money.
(13:56):
He's like, he probably saw that in a movie. You know,
I saw that in a movie, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna go for that. It worked in the movie, so
I'm gonna go for it. So the guy walks in,
there's some a couple of women sitting down there the
guy walks in. I'm a little concerned though. I think
he might be warning a clipper hat that kind of
looks like a clipper. Yes, I think he's wearing a
(14:17):
damn clipper.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I thought the same thing when I saw this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh it doesn't looks it is a clipper hat. Oh
this is making us look bad? Here, man, what are
you doing? What is still wrong with the Clippers? It's
so funny. No one pays any attention to the guy.
It's as is he pretending like he's hiding a gun?
Is that what he's trying to do? Yes, and then
he gives something. He walks out, Oh, so so good.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It was like he was coached by Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Screw you, oh man. You know what he looks like.
He looks like a Laker player from when Kobe retired, Okay,
right after Kobe retired for several years. That's what he
looks like, the D'Angelo Russell Alonzo ball version of the Lakers.
Let's get to the mailbag. It's these are actual letters
(15:29):
by actual listeners on the mailbag. We thank you, thank you,
thank you so much, and again, if you want to
send a message in real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
all letters, no numbers, real fifth hour at gmail dot
com and name and city, name and city if you
want attention, Mark in Houston or at Houston. Adjasent says,
dear Ben and Danny G How do you guys come
up with the topics? He says, on the show, my show,
(15:52):
the opening show for four topics, five days a week,
four monologues, twenty monologues a week. In the adult jumps
of July, I when nothing is happening in the air
everywhere with Mark. That's an outdated take by you, Mark,
because for years people were talking about the dead zone,
there's nothing going on, But we have all done sports
(16:16):
radio during COVID, so that was the dead zone. This
is not the dead zone. There's always stuff going on.
You gotta be able to work on the edges a
little bit. You got to work out in the suburbs.
But there's always stuff going on. And it's really I
actually like this time of the year, which is kind
of ridiculous because I shouldn't like this time of the year,
(16:37):
but it's a little more challenging, which I like. You know,
you gotta kind of dig a little bit, and if
you don't do your your work. You don't do your diligence,
then it becomes problematic and the show sucks. And I
feel like a lot of guys are exposed this time
of the year because they just depend on football, football, football,
and there's not a lot of stuff going on and
(16:58):
so football wise, but there's stuff going on, it's just
a lot of gossip, a lot of speculation, a lot
of this guy said something, that guy said something. But
it actually has not been that hard. And in fact,
some of the times I've done holiday shows, when you
think those would be easy shows, there's not a lot
going on because people shut it down for the holiday.
So I've had issue. I've had more issues around like
(17:20):
certain big holidays, not Thanksgiving, because there's a ton of stuff,
but sometimes it's a little slower on the holidays. So
what about Covino and Rich? Have you guys been able
to be fine with the topics of conversation here through this?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
They have no problem filling their segments, especially with the
TMZ sports type stories. I'm also just looking at certain
stories like that and then having their own spin and
their own angle on it. The good thing about your
show and their show their entertainment driven. It's not just sports.
(17:56):
It's a lot of entertainment and pop culture.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's not a hard sports show. But thank you, Mark,
Pete and Pittsburgh wrote in the Great Pete and Pittsburgh
retired sports radio legend, Good Old Pete. He says, Ben,
are you angry that people have said the show is
not as good because Roberto left? So Pete, I know
you're trying to rile me up here get a reaction
(18:21):
out of me. Very funny of you. No, I am
not surprised. Just like when Danny G left the show.
People were upset when you left, Danny. They said the
show sucks, It's never going to be the same.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
He had a point back then.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That was not a good point. But before before then,
we had Jake Warner stay awake Jake, and people loved
Jake and they were kind of like, who's this Danny
G guy? And then they lay they liked you, and
it just takes a while for people to get used
to it. We do not have a permanent engineer, so
that chair is a spinning chair, and we have three
(18:56):
people during the week, so I'm working with three different people.
They're working with me. We're trying to feel each other out.
Nobody wants to really take ownership of that because it's
not their job yet. So eventually we'll hire someone permanently,
not me, the company will, and then people will be
used to that, and i'd like some of the traditions
to continue that we've done over the years. A lot
(19:17):
of those have died in the last month or so
because we're just rotating too many people in. But we'll
get to that. We'll get to it at some point.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I heard that Mark Dude talking with you on the air.
He's super animated. He definitely would take your chair someday.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, he's a future talk showst or politician or yeah,
Matt the Warrior Raider former. As Fan writes it, he's
his question for you Ben on the podcast when you
give the malor monologues, are you reading it from a
script just glancing at notes or are you speaking completely
off the top of your head? That is from Matt.
(19:57):
So it's a little bit of everything, Matt. Most of
the time I have talking points that I have bullet
points that I have certain things I want to nail
that I think are important in the monologue. But when
something big happens, when there's a trade or somebody drops
dead in the middle of the night, or there's a
(20:18):
riot and we're talking about it. That's obviously all just
completely ad lib. There's no real notes. You just kind
of going in real time. So there's some of that,
and then every once in a while there's something I
really want to nail it, I'll put a script together.
But most of the time it's just it's just bullet points.
And I can thank my mentor, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton with
(20:40):
the greatest fifteen minutes in radio, who kind of taught
me that style of radio. And I hope I've adjusted
it a little bit that I'm not doing exactly what
he did, and I've got my own polish on it.
But that's kind of how that goes, and everyone's got
their own technique. So to eat David in winter Park,
(21:03):
Florida with his friend Roscale the parents is what kind
of treats do you guys? Do you give your your pets?
Then he mentions Bella, do you you have pets too? Right,
Danny you have what do you have?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You have a dog? Get a cat too?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I only have a dog. Yeah, So I give Bella
we have these papparonis, and I'll do a little dance. Well,
she'll do the dance. Well, she used to do the dance.
She's too old now. But I'll say it's pop Baroni time,
like that, like pop Baroni time, and she'd get excited.
She'd wag her tails, she'd jump up and down. Now
she kind of gives me the look like, just give
(21:38):
me the damn treat. Okay, I've done enough dancing. I'm retired.
Screw you. What treats do you give your cat and
your dog? Danny start with Daisy the dog.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I actually I have these sitting right here because she
was over here begging for some treats earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Hold that up there, Oh, I'll twist dream bone. Looks
like candy cane.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yeah, she's a little dog. She can't have raw hide.
But they have these little twist sticks. And it's funny
because she'll bite them down so they're like the size
of a cigarette and she'll be running up and down
the stairs with what looks like a cigar in her mouth.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's funny. You should take a video of that.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
That's really funny. It's really funny. Whenever she looks like,
who is that?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Really? Old comedian George Burns.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh, yeah, George Burns.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, looks like George Burns running up and down the staircase.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Any of those old comedians they all used to have,
like Milton Burrel is that his name, the guy with
the yeah you know? Okay? And what about the cat?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
For a treat for him, He'll go take a couple
of her dog food pellets. We pour the crunchies in
her bowl, and whenever he hears that bag open, he
runs over there and he steals a couple of them,
and that's his treat.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
He doesn't like cat.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Treats though, little thief there.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, doesn't like wet food, doesn't like human food. He's
really easy. He just likes crunchies.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah. I like country food too, so we have that
in common.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, same sliced pizza.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Robert writes, and he says, what are the chances of
a Malord meet and greet road show at Saratoga? A
couple of horse races, a couple of beers, some good food,
bunch of wacky listeners. I would love to do that, Robert.
I would. I've never been to Saratoga. I've been to
New York. That's outside New York, a little outside the
city there in Saratoga. Would love to go, but I've
(23:40):
gone through my entire travel budget. I will unless unless
something unexpected happens. I am not planning on going anywhere now.
If I always say nanny, if a listener really wants
a meet and greet and has a lot of a
lot of money deep pockets, everyone says, I am more
than willing to to travel pretty much anywhere for a
(24:01):
malor meet and read. Just need enough time to promote
it and we'll have a grand time. Patricia, But thank you, Robert.
I would like to get to Saratoga at sometime. At
some point I can hang out with Mike FRANCESSA doesn't
he hang out at Saratoga. I get maybe move to Florida.
Patricia from Vegas Rights and her friend Patricia, She's been
listening for a long time. She used to live in
the Northeast. She says, Hey, Ben, when you make cookies,
(24:23):
I'm wondering, do you actually make the dough from scratch? Yes, yes, Patricia,
I make the whole thing. I have the flour, I
have the sugar, I've got the baking soda, the baking powder,
and you mix it all together. I've got a nice
mixer my mom got me is a wedding gift, and
so I make the whole the whole thing, so Eddie
(24:44):
and the guys can can shit all over the cookies
I make. So that's kind of how that goes. Hey,
here's the next one from Ozzy wahz. He says Big
Ben and Danny g. Last week we had heavy fog
in the area where visibility was down to about fifty
meters or about one hundred and sixty four feet, says
Ozziewah's math. So my question is what is the worst
(25:05):
conditions that you've had to drive in. The worst driving
I ever had to go through was in Buffalo. It
was after a Bills game. It was early in the year,
so it wasn't snow, but there was a lake effect
storm and I was on the New York Expressway leaving
Buffalo and it was so I think that was the
(25:26):
road that I was on, but it was right near
the Big Lake and it was raining sideways and it
was raining so hard the windshield wipers weren't working and
they were on the highest setting. I've never seen rain
like that. I'm used to California rain. So I was
(25:48):
with my younger brother Mike, and we stopped, literally had
to stop the car in the middle of the highway
because we couldn't see behind us or in front of us.
We kind of made out a tail light, so we thought, Okay,
the traffic stopped, maybe there's an accident, but we weren't.
We didn't know for sure, so we stopped and for
(26:10):
for a little while, Danny, we were like, I don't know,
are we gonna get rear ended? Like we didn't know,
but like everyone kind of stopped. It was wild. So
that's the worst weather I've I've ever dreamed in Elan.
There's been fogg. That's terrible. But what about you, Danny, Yeah,
two things come to mind.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Fog in California, especially through the bakers Field area.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh, that's a terrible that's p that is thick.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
That's that pea soup. Yeah, they call it Bakersfield Peace soup.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And the times we saw that we would be driving
from northern California to LA to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
On the road early early to get to an.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
LA Raiders game as kids, and there would be that
Bakersfield Peace soup that we would drive through. And then uh,
later in life, when I would. I went on a
hiking trip with my cousin and we went to Zion
National Park, about two hours outside of Vegas, Awesome National Park.
On the way back to California through Nevada, in the
(27:13):
middle of nowhere Nevada, there was a lightning storm and
you could see the lightning hitting the side of the freeway,
and that shit is scary when you are in the
middle of that. I mean, you think your car is
going to be struck next Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's that's nuts. I got stuck in a lightning storm.
I was visiting my brother and his buddy who eventually
became like a billionaire. That's a different story, but he
was just out of college and I was like the young,
young punk and they were showing me. My brother was
showing me around New York. I'd never been there at
that time. It's a long time ago. So we took
(27:50):
the Path train to Hoboken, New Jersey, and all of
a sudden, out of nowhere, this is in the days
before weather apps, there was this lightning and rainstorm and
we were outside and there were there was nothing. We
couldn't get cover because there were like these junk yards
and Hoboken and but that was I was not driving,
(28:12):
but I just that flashed in my head when you
mentioned the lightning, and I don't know, it just kind
of flopped worked around in my in my memory. And
Ozzie was let us know the craziest creatures you've seen.
You live in Western Australia, and that appears to be
ground zero for a bunch of freaky, freaky goblins and whatnot.
(28:35):
Maryanne from Tennessee rights in and she says, what is
your favorite guys, what was your favorite childhood memory? That's
kind of a generic question, Mary Anne. I got a
ton of favorite memories everyone does. You know why? I've
determined why we all have great childhood memories because we
block out most of us block out the bad stuff.
We only remember the good stuff, right. Isn't that how
(28:56):
that works? You don't remember the bad days when you
didn't do your homework, you didn't eat your vegetables, you
got sent to your room early. You only remember like
the good stuff for the most part. So I remember
playing in the orange groves when I grew up in
Orange County and there were nothing but orange groves, and
we had massive fights throwing oranges at each other and
as many oranges as far as the eye could see
where orange groves. It was amazing. Great memories of that,
(29:18):
running around with my buddies and playing stickball and with
we played baseball with racquetballs and what not to see
how far we golf balls, to see how far we
could hit the ball. Stuff like that. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I remember being in the courthouse and the judge asking
us which parent we wanted to live with. Good time, well,
fun memories, fun memories, Yes, thanks Mom and Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What else do we have? Sam from Winter Park, Florida says,
best toppings for a burger and do you put any
of them on at the end while the burger is
still on the grill. So I like making the smash
burger on my griddle. That's my go to burger. But
just I'm a basic, basic bitch when it comes to
the burgers. I like the cheese, normally your provolone, sometimes
(30:06):
little American cheese, grilled onions. I like the grilled onions.
Sometimes onion strings are a nice little add on to that,
you know. And then I might my regular toppings, but
not much more than That's all I need and keep
the lettuce away. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I like the real cheeseburger from Burger King. Google it
all cheese all the time. H Yeah, get some nacho
chips and make some nachos out.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Of your burger. So the way to go.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And if you know what, what is it hard Ease
and other parts of the country.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah, Carls Junior love the Western bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's a solid burger. Of course I would get it
without the bacon, but it's a solidar. I used to
get the six dollars burger, which is probably seventy two
dollars at this point, but it used to be the
six dollar burger back in the day. Next up, we
have Big m from Appleton, Wisconsin on the podcast Thank You.
He says, Ben, are you really frustrated? You sound like
(31:06):
you are When Coop and Eddie bash your cookies, he says,
the cookies look good in the photos you posted online. Well,
thank you. The cookies are good.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What problem do they have with them?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Eddie's just a schmuck. He's like, Ah, they're not that good,
you know. Coop complains, I don't even know why I
bring these things in.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Why does Coop complain? He eats anything let's put in
front of him.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, originally he was very positive about the cookies, and
then lately the last couple of times I brought them in,
I guess they're not up to his standard, or he does.
He eats them, so you must like him. But I mean,
maybe he's just trying to bust my balls. I don't know. Anyway,
the cookies are fine, and.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Maybe your skills are deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
My skills are great, and in fact, I'll be making
more cookies when we get done with this podcast, and
maybe I won't bring them in for the You know
who liked my cookie, Former NFL player and morning host
LeVar Errington. I gave him a cook He broke his
diet to eat one of my cookies. He said, that's
a good cookie. He said that you're oatmeal raised it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
If you want to leave a bag for the CNR show, yeah,
are good.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I might have to when the when the the baby
pops out there, I might have to, you know, as
a gift to the family, I might have to make
some oatmeal raisin for the for the wife there of
yours to help rih uh Fred in Spring Texas rights
and says, hey, there, guys, how does one adjust to
the precarious nature of the radio workplace, abrupt firing, stations,
being sold, staff shakeups in planning your careers, do you
(32:43):
have to be ready for the worst? Do you have
a plan for the worst? Says enjoy the show Fred
in Spring, Texas.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
So it's a very happy topic, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Very positive. I just I work each day to try
to do the top notch job that I can do,
the greatest job that I can do, do the heavy lifting.
And if this job doesn't work out, you're fired. There's
always somebody listening in the business or outside the business.
And now with podcasting, we can just do these podcasts.
(33:20):
You don't necessarily need to be with the big media conglomerate.
I'm not guaranteed of any employment. I could lose this
job and never be heard from again, or you know,
it's possible. I know enough people now I could get
another job somewhere. Who knows. I have no idea, but
I don't really I used to obsess about it when
I started Danny. Every day I would go in because
(33:40):
I worked at the station in San Diego, and they
would fire all the time. They'd fire people at Christmas.
Guys would go on vacation friends of mine host and
they would never come back. And I was like, that's
what happened, is why they fired him? And they just
said he was on vacation and then he never came back.
So I was very paranoid, and I started when I
moved from San Diego to La Radio. It was a
(34:02):
it was a startup. They had flipped Kiss AM, which
had played Kiss FM just on the M band. They
flipped it the sports and they spent a lot of
money on it. They got the Dodger contract, but there
was no guarantee they were going to keep the format,
and I was I had such a neurosis. I was
so traumatized that I was convinced I was going to
be fired. Every every day I walked in there, I said,
(34:23):
this is it. It's going to end. But now I
don't really think about it that much.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean, if it happens, I know I'll pivot, I'll
do something else, we'll figure it out, It'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
It's no way to live your life, you know, being
scared or nervous about what could happen. The best thing
to do, besides doing a good on air product, is
the Eddie Haskell. Whenever you see your bosses, you look
very handsome today, sir, yes, man, cut the bullshit, my man.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Well, I don't see my boss is Danny. I do not.
But it's like that my favorite quote from W. C. Fields,
and he was a quote master, but it's it sums up.
I think the show that I've done over the year
is if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them
(35:18):
with bullshit. That's the key right there, Danny, just baffle
the bosses with bullshit. And yeah, that guy, there's a
street named after him.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
W C.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Fields, Old Hollywood, early Hollywood, like in the forties, actor comedian,
right near Universal Studios. There's a street named after him.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Well, it's so weird how little our bosses have been
around us. Our Big Boss was in Vegas and after
the event he said, my man, you work your ass off.
My man, I had no idea, you know, because he's
never he's not in our Sherman Oaks, California building, so
he doesn't really know us all that much.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, it's interesting in with him maybe once a year,
the Big Boss, if I'm lucky, once every few years.
And then when we get together we talk for like
two hours. We always schedule like a half an hour meeting,
but I know it's going to be two hours, and
we just we catch up on everything. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
He's got so many radio stories, and then with your
radio stories, that's like that's like a mini series.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, we're geeking out on radio stuff. Danny. It's great.
You love those stories too. We love talking shop talking
about the crap that happens, usually the things that go wrong.
Bury from South Carolina, formerly of Nashville. He relocated to
South Carolina, and he says, Yo yo Ma, Benny and
Danny G what is the one national park that you
haven't been to that you really want to go to? So, Danny,
(36:49):
is there a national park that you've been dying to
go to.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, I would love to go to Glacier National Park,
which half of it is in Canada. The pictures I've
seen of that park are amazing, So that's definitely one
on the list.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah. I haven't been to too many. So I love
Sequoia and Kings Canyon. That's my go to. That's the
one I normally go to. I don't think I've been
to Smite. I don't recall going to Semite. I've been
to the Grand Canyon. Haven't been to the Great Smoky Mountains.
I'd like to go to Yellowstone, Rocky Mountains, like, I'm
gonna go to all of them. Zion, you've been a
(37:28):
Zion in Utah? I've not. I've not done that. I mean,
there's there's a ton of these around. Is that bad
Lands place in the Dakotas? Is that a National park?
I want to go check that out at some point.
Bad Lands. I think it's a national park? Maybe not?
(37:49):
Yeah it is, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah. It looks
like another planet. It's in the Yeah, it's crazy looking. Yeah,
it doesn't look like a drive through Utah. I was
very surprised. I thought it was going to be boring
and there wasn't going to be much to see.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Man, the canyons there in the colors of all the
rocks and the formations. If you get a chance, go
to Bryce Canyon, just jaw dropping.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Did you go to the Arches in Utah?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
I've been to the Arches? Yeah, amazing, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, there's a ton of the canyons, or not the
canyons of the national parks, the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
That's pretty wild. I've seen photos of that. I mean
you can go on and on that lake in Oregon.
Crater Lake looks pretty wild. I think that's a national park.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
And yeah, and then that little town you mentioned Arches.
There's that little town, Moab. Stay in Moab, Utah, and
then go to the Archie's National Park.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
It's a great trip.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I'll do a few more. We're a little long on
this alf. The alf from Crumble Cookies says Ben, what
happens first you eat a pickle or Eddie actually tweets
out a good picture of one of your cookies. No, no,
I'll be double fisting cookies. Alf. How about shut up
before Eddie sends out a good photo. I guarantee that
(39:26):
will happen. Angelina writes in from Minnesota slash Wisconsin. She's
a super fan. She says, I've been listening. I have
not been writing in emails kind of late, but I
wanted to go over a bunch of things here. Says First,
I enjoyed your tails of your trip for New York.
Glad you were able to go to your first Broadway
(39:47):
production and being sort of tall myself. I can relate
to these small venue yeah, the really small seats there.
She also liked the Staten Island ferry tip free. Yeah,
you gotta take take it right and on a clear
day in Manhattan, and it's just beautiful during the day.
It's also beautiful at night because you see the skyline
(40:09):
all lay up of Lower Manhattan and all the financial
buildings down there near Wall Street. It's very powerful. And
then you go buy the Statue of Liberty and all that.
She says, not to touch up your work. But when
you talked about the old TV game show, I was
wondering if you meant let's make a deal. I love
Let's make a Deal, and she says an older show
(40:30):
that deal or Deal.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, we accidentally called a deal or no Deal, which
is the Howie Mandel.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah may show.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Let's make a Deal was the one with Monty Hall,
and then I think it was alf pointed out as
Classic Concentration was one of the other ones with Alex
Trebek that we were trying to Okay, thank you, And
then I do want to thank Angelina because she mentioned
I was trying to think of the cartoon that I
couldn't think of it. It was family circus. It was family. Yeah.
(41:02):
So anyways, Angelina, thank you so much. You've been a
great support of the show, and I really appreciate you
supporting what we do here. What else do we have?
Neil in Greenville, South Carolina, says, the home of the
Red Sox. That Neil's the guy in Miami. Danny now
relocated to Greenville, South Carolina. He had this, Yeah, he
had that condo right over the apartment right over the
(41:25):
Miami ead Arena and a skyscraper in Miami.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, of course, And then we talked about his moving process.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, he said. We traded the majestic Miami penthouse across
from the arena for the green acre style humble southern
living across the street from the flower Field where the
Greenville Drive the Minor League Red Sox play. Actually going
to a game next week. As in these parts baseball
is popular as it may seem. This is yeah, you go,
(41:56):
He says, front row behind home plate cost you fourteen dollars,
and then he sent a photo of.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
All and everybody could beat Marlin's man.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
He says. The big question, if you and Danny G
would own a professional sports team, what sport would it be?
And what would the name of your team be? And
the mascot of your team? So I would want to
do something original. I don't need the Wildcats or the
Bulldogs or something like that. I mean, and I was
(42:31):
just off the top of my head, how about the
Seattle Shitzus for the new NBA team? What do you
mean Bella is the mascot there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, mascots have to be fat, though. You need a
real fat mascot. That's a fun mascot other than Chuck.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Pot or fun. What comes to mind for me right
away is the Savannah bananas. Oh, that's right, Yeah, in
line with that team, I would do the egg plants.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
The eggplants use that egg plant emoji?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
You do that? Well? Yeah, yeah, that has no other
meaning at all. How about how about the the Georgia
peaches and you use the peach emoji on the hat?
You know you can do that too. What about I'm
trying to think here some of the other stupid the
baba ganoosh people love when I say baba ganoosh, Austin,
(43:26):
you do that. And then here's the most important part.
The reason I had to get this email from Neil on.
He says, what are your skull cap sizes and address?
Where to send the hats to? Do you prefer mesh
or all cluss? So he's going to hook us up
with hats, Dandy. How great is that a new hat?
So we are actually at the same address. Do we
(43:47):
get mail? I've not gotten mail in a while. Do
we still get mail at the building? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
If they put it on that big white circle table
next to the blue kitchen.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Okay, I don't know where the mail room is, but
if you send it to the old address, we will
get it at some point. And I am a size eight,
big head, big brain, a size eight. What are you, Danny?
Speaker 4 (44:08):
And your I am a seven and five eights? Thank you, brother?
Or you can also just do snap back if you want.
I love all hats.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, so I typically do cloth hats if it's a
size eight. If it's not a size eight, I can
do a mesh hat. Typically I prefer the cloth hat.
But thank you very much, Neil. It's very kind of you.
You don't have to don't have to do that. Kevin
and Kansas's dear Ben and Danny g both of you
have talked about mccobby cove. Do either of you have
(44:39):
any special oddball or otherwise interesting stories to tell about
the buzz? Yes, I have a quick one. So way
back when they opened that ballpark, it was called I
think is it pack Bell Park when it opened?
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Was pack Bell when it opened?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yep? Yeah. So I was working local radio in Los
Angeles and we we went up to San Francisco as
a promotion for the radio station, and we rented the
boss rented a boat to drive around mccuby Cove, to
(45:14):
float around mccobby Cove, and it was like this whole bit.
We were going to take on KNBR because at that
time the other sports station which we're on now didn't exist,
and so we're going to take on CAMBR and VIC
the brick Jacobs a Martinez who's now like a he's
been with public radio for a long time. But he
was dressed up. VIC was dressed up a couple other
(45:37):
people at the station. So we had this big boat
which had the it was like a real boat with
a mask and all that, and a bunch of guys
dressed up in pirate costumes. We had remote equipment to
broadcast from the boat. We had big time whale sponsors
of the radio station that were there. So I'm on
the boat. We're floating around McCovey Cove. It's the first
(45:58):
game ever Dodgers are playing, and the Giants at pack
Bell Park their first regular season game, and K and
br had decided to get back at us. They didn't,
I guess, have the proper boat, so they deputized the
San Francisco Fire Department boat and we got blasted from
(46:21):
a fire boat that's there to put out fires for
like cruise ships and crap like that. And I've told
the story in the past, but if you've ever seen
the photos, and it doesn't look like it's that much water,
It's like it's like five or six hoses of water
all shooting at the same time. Danny, right, it flooded.
All of the boat people were diving underboard trying to
(46:42):
get out. The water was so powerful. And I'll never
forget the image of Victor Brick trying to get up
out of the boat, soaking wet in a pirate costume,
and all of the remote equipment on the boat completely fried,
depletely fried. The sponsors that were all dressed up, these
(47:03):
really rich people that paid advertising time in the radio
station completely soaked. It was. It was nuts. But then
we went in. I was able to get in and
see the end of the game. They let me in
a press pass. I walked in and I saw Kevin
Elster hit the third of his three home runs. He
had three home runs in the first game at pack
(47:24):
Bell Park, and the Dodgers won. More important so beat
Barry Bonds and the Higantes.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
And did k NBR get a bill from your general
manager for the remote equipment?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, it is interesting to note, Danny, that we did
not know this, but it is illegal for the San
Francisco and this is a long time ago, the San
Francisco Fire Department to shoot off the water unless there's
an actual emergency or a fire. So they violated the
city code in San Francisco. I do not know what
ever happened with that, though, I don't Did you ever
(47:56):
have any experiences at mccobby Cove, Danny, anything that stands out.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
I mean, the thing that stands out the most to
me about that cove, for always and forever is going
to be Max Muncie. I'm here to fuck off and
you go get the ball out of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
That was that was solid. That was that was good.
Amish from Columbus Rights, and he says, hey, this is quick.
Do you I don't know anything, he said. He's talking
about San Diego's going to San Diego for his fortieth
prior to attending the O's versus the Padres game that
(48:34):
that day, he says, do you know the best place
to eat in the little Italy district of San Diego?
So I my go to and I used to work
in San Diego, but I don't eat I don't eat Italian,
I have any I eat Mexican food when I go
to San Diego. Is that bad of me?
Speaker 3 (48:54):
No, that's not bad.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
I mean a lot of people avoid Italian restaurants because
they don't want to be hired after their meal too heavy.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Do you have a favorite Italian place in little Lialy
there in San Diego?
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I haven't been to a couple of spots there. See that.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
The key is to do an early dinner if you're
going to go Italian, and then take a nice stroll afterwards,
walk some of those carbs off, go.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Over to Cornado and take a nap of the Coronado Bridge.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Ben, I'm trying to think of the name of it.
It's got your name in it, ben Cotto, Bencotto. Oh okay, yeah,
it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Cut that meat. Yeah. I don't know if you've been
to San Diego before you who wrote in here amish,
but I would say always good to Old Town. That's
my my spot. You know that area around there, or
Mission Valley that's where the Padres used to play a
Mission Valley, but that's kind of more of a suburban
(49:54):
type feel. But there's you know, it cost you a
few bucks. But if you want good Mexican food town
and there's some great there are some great time place.
When I worked down there, I did eat some time place,
eat it some time place, but it's it's been a
long time.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
So hey.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
They also have a spaghetti factory there, which is kind
of a treat because you don't see those everywhere.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
That's right, all right, So that's all all the time.
We went long anyway. But Danny, anything you want to
promote it is Sunday. You got some time off coming
up this week?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Yes, yeah, just one day here, so Monday I will
be putting together a bascinet.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
It's exciting and it's just like my club DJ days,
a weed, a bascinet. It's the same thing as going
to a nightclub smoke.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Weed every day. Yeah, that's cool. I'll be back tonight
eleven pm in the west on the West Coast, and
then two am in the East Coast doing it live,
and then we'll have the podcast up on demand. Have
a great day, have a wonderful rest of your weekend,
and we'll catch you next time. Thank you later, Skater
(51:03):
gotta murder, I gotta go.
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