November 19, 2023 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a Everywhere and a Happy Football Sunday. It
is week eleven of the NFL. It actually started the
other day on Thursday with Joe Burrow's wrist getting all
clunky and all that with that Ravens and Bengals game.
(00:49):
But we had a full slate of football action. The
Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g were here
every single weekend. You hear me late at night recording
my podcast in the middle of the night, the Ben
Maler Show on radio, and then Danny G's on during
the day with Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.
(01:11):
And we joined forces and we go together like mac
and cheese on the weekends and all that. And you
might be eating mac and cheese this week. Thanksgiving. Neal
who knows. But today on this Sunday podcast, you were correct, Danny.
I was so flustered by you bringing up animal thunderdome
possibly coming back that I failed the listener. I did
(01:34):
not get to the phrase of the week. I did
not get to the phrase of the week. Does a
bad job by me? Bad job by me? Danny G
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I called it as sure as I was of that,
and CoA not being afraid of the water. He was
like a little fish yesterday afternoon, Ben.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
A little fishy. That's good. So we have a phrase
of the week, scientifical. We're gonna get scientifical and mailbag
mailbag as well. So here we go, phrase of the week.
Are you ready for the phrase of the week?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Here is the phrase, which is not to be confused.
Phrase of the week. Not to be confused with the
idiom of the week, which we did back on Friday.
But the phrase of the week. Hit the panic button. Now,
I use this phrase all the time, Danny. I use
this probably once every other day for an athlete choking yeah,
(02:39):
or for a team or a coach. Oh, they hit
the panic button.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I heard you use this when you were talking about
James Harden recently.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, I have. I used it with Harden. So
it's obviously reacting poorly to a situation. You hit the
panic button, being caught off guard, uh, doing something without
really thinking it through, making bad decisions in a situation
that's hit the panic button. I think most of us
(03:08):
know what that means. But the origin I was fascinated
by the origin of this word, so that's why, or
this phrase rather so, that's why it is the phrase
of Louis. So the origin of the of the phrase
hit the panic button goes back to World War Two,
so it's not that old a phrase. This ain't going
back to ancient times like we had the Idiom of
(03:28):
the Week that went back to ancient Greece. This only
goes back to World War Two, and it is a
reference to the B seventeen and the B twenty four bombers.
Now the B seventeen much more famous than the B
twenty four. Am I correct on that. I'm not a
military guy, but it seems like the B seventeen to
B twenty four you don't hear a lot about anyway. Yeah, yeah,
(03:52):
I don't know. I'm sure there's someone listening that's really
up on their military history. Par I could tell us
the way this phrase originated. It hit the panic Button.
World War two B seventeen B twenty four bombers, they
had bell systems, actual bells that would ring in the
cockpit in the event of a catastrophe about to happen, right,
(04:16):
meaning that there's damage or whatever. And we assigned they'd
ring bells to signal to the crew to jump ship.
So they would literally be like bells ringing. And you know,
people are, well, what does that have to do with
the actual panic button, because you know it's bells. It's
not that Well, if you go to nineteen fifty five,
(04:36):
after World War Two, nineteen fifty five, there was a
guy that came up with a glossary of air force
slang from pilots at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas.
And this is for the academic journal American Speech. It
is still in print to this day under the headline
(04:57):
hit the Panic Button this book, the guy wrote, there
is a switch called the panic button in the cockpit
of a jet craft which Jennison's objects, including extra fuel tanks,
in order to lighten the plane conditions under which this
switch is used, are usually quite desperate and continuing to read,
(05:21):
it says, in case of power failure, for example, when
all the prescribed remedial processes failed, the pilot might, in desperation,
push everything that's out and pull everything that's in in
the hopes that he might actually do something help. Thus
the phrase panic button was born. So since that was
(05:46):
published in nineteen fifty five, that has been a phrase
that we use. And by the way, from what we're told,
it has now been standard. That's standard. There's actually a
panic button in military aircraft, the United States military aircraft.
I've never been in, well, I should say never. I
was a kid, I used to go to the open
(06:08):
house of the marine base and go through all the
planes and all that in the helicopters, but as far
as I know, you know, as an adult, I've not
been in military aircraft. So they do have a standard
piece of equipment that is known as the panic button.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So yess, very cool.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That is pretty neat. It doesn't go back so nobody
before that, but maybe they said panic button, but it
didn't didn't really resonate. So phrase the week again, panic
button hit the panic butt O. Yes, yeah, well there
you go hit the panic button. Next up, we have
moving on as we flip the script here and we
(06:47):
will get scientifical. We're gonna get cy and typical. Why
why not? What the heck?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
And we'll get to that's right, come on, ohiol.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Science, All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now I'm gonna help you out, dandy. Do you have
an iPhone? You have an iPhone? Right?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Of course I'm not some Android sucker.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, so there's a hack that some dope came up
with on TikTok. This guy claims unlimited cell phone battery life,
which is, you know, that's a lie, but you can
improve your cell phone battery life. And I actually did this,
and I gotta tell you, pretty pretty simple. I'm not
(07:43):
that right when it comes to technology and all that
pretty simple, and I believe it worked, although I haven't
had it on long enough to know for sure if
it works. But the way this works is you selectively
dim your screen. But you don't do it the regular way.
You have to go to the iPhone set. You then
go to iPhone settings, you click on accessibility. You then
(08:05):
go to the display and tech size and you switch
on the reduced white point option. So that's the see
there's a little switch.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It says reduced transparency.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
No, it's it says reduce white point. Let me let
me go do it right now, show you because I
did this earlier. So you click.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh, I see it, reduce white point to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, so you click on that and then you can
adjust it. If you want better battery life, you would
make it dinner now. The only problem is if you
go outside or something like that and you're in the sunlight,
it might become a problem. But if you reduce it
a little bit, it'll it'll.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Help out, got it. Oh that's cool?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah? Yeah, So I did that the other day right there,
and there's a little hack. We'll see how good it goes.
So if you're concerned about battery life, and there's that
little slider Danny, you see you there, you can go
all the way down and see how dim you want
your phone to be, and it would reduce the whites
on your screen. And so far, so good, so cool.
(09:16):
First story from let's get scientifical. Uh here, let me
ask you this, how much how much weight do you
believe the average American is going to gain over the
next month with Thanksgiving Christmas?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I would guess eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Did you see this story, Danny, it's oh it's exactly
eight pounds.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Wow, No, I swear I did not see this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. Now, are you still going to stick to your diet?
What's your what's your plan here? I am yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
In fact, people have left suits already on the counter
at FSR and I did not partake.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's good, that's good discipline. You gotta have it. You
gotta have it. You know. It takes like thirty sixty
I think it's sixty days, and then once that's a
new habit. Once you do like sixty days, you're good
to go after that. But three quarters of Americans are
planning to enjoy a festivus of epic proportions. According to
a new survey, seventy two percent of Americans want to
(10:19):
make the most of the end of twenty twenty three,
and most people the diet. Screw the diet. They're writing
off the end of the year, and they do estimate
in the holiday season, you're gonna get eight pounds. Expect
to get eight pounds every now, you Danny, because you're
(10:40):
on your diet, but eight pounds heavier. In twenty twenty two,
it was five and a half pounds, So we're getting it.
We're getting even deeper into the food here in twenty
twenty three. But I'm gonna I'm gonna stick to my
fasting and all that. I'm not you know, if you're
wondering what I'm doing. I mean, I'll eat decently. We
don't make turkey on Thanksgiving, so at least I don't
(11:02):
think we're making turkey. And I gotta do the TV
show and all that anyway, So I got a busy week,
so I'll figure out. I mean, I'll eat it. I'm
gonna eat well, but probably not go crazy. What else
do we have here? Oh? Very thankful people in the
United States? The average American? How many times a year,
Danny is the average American say thank you? According to
(11:24):
a new scientifical study in it, per year, how many
times do you say thank you? Wow, go your groucery,
somebody leaves the door open for you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, oh man, I would I would guess a couple
thousand times in a year.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You're almost exactly right again, two two hundred times per
year on average.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Damn, I'm hot, right now, take me to Vegas instead
of Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Iron Man, you want to keep going here, you want
to keep going. I don't know if I have any
more questions like this, but yeah, they estimate the study
said two two hundred times a year. Now, there are
some people that are less, there are some people that
are more. There's some people that say thank you for everything.
There's other people say thank you for nothing. So it
obviously depends. Well, here's good news, Danny. Life expectancy is dropping.
(12:10):
American men dying six years earlier than women. So we're
gonna drop dead sooner than our wives, Dandy. That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
This is not good news.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh not good Hey, speaking of that, did you guys
on Kovino and Rich did you talk about the Dana
White story this week. That's a wild story where he
lost a bunch. He went on a fast, like a
water fast. Did you see that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, he got all ripped up.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He went on an eighty something hour fast because he
went to some doctor that said he was going to
die in ten years. So that jump started his mission,
his mission for health. That was that was pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm right there, man. I gotta make Coha's high school graduation.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You gotta go well on, you gotta beat the wedding.
The whole thing and all that, and you don't have
to pay for it. Is that custom still in effect
with the bride's family has to pay for the wedding.
Is that how that works? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
That doesn't sound very twenty twenty three of you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I thought that was the way
it was. Well, just have him get have him a
lope when he gets older, and then you're saving the money.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. What else do we have here? See, you're doing science.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I think a scholarship too, that would be good.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah. Are you thinking more football? Maybe raiders? You're thinking
you're gonna be a big guy like offensive line.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Are we thinking he's going to be a big I'm
thinking tight end or linebacker.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That'd be good. How about a pass rushing defensive end.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He's gonna be like the next Robert Spulane, babe.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All right, what do we have here? How about this
years ago corner research scientists are saying that the days
were back in the early days of eurse history, at
one point, the days were nineteen hours long. That's it,
nineteen hours instead of the twenty four so instead of
the yeah, nineteen. You think, does that mean the days
will keep getting like someday twenty six hours in a
(14:08):
day or twenty seven hours in a day? Or is
it how my entire life has been twenty four? Right,
we've all been twenty five. But how does that work?
I'm not sure. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You should be trying to shorten the workday, not make
it longer.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, that is that is true. Afternoon crash. Average person
hits the wall at blank time. You want to test
your luck again? What time?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah? Most people hit the wall at three pm.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh, you are so close again day to thirty six.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Oh wow, you're off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
By twenty four minutes. That's pretty good. Now. I do
not hit the wall at two thirty six because I'm sleeping.
Usually I'm just getting up around two thirty six in
the afternue, so I usually don't. I don't really worry
about that. I don't have to I have to worry
about that. Well, here's another one of these science stories
where I roll my eyes at it and I'm like, ah,
this is probably nonsense. But noisy water oceans will be
(15:10):
five times louder by the year twenty one hundred five
times louder according to it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, I love hearing the sound of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Does that mean we won't have to go on YouTube
to watch those videos of the waves? We'll just hear
them naturally? El natural?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, I have Lebron's calm app in my phone.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh is that right? Oh? Me nice? Yeah? All right,
all right, we got the mail bag.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know we did this other stuff, but the mailbag
is the star of the show. That's the main event.
The mail bag. People love the mailbag and they also
love the jingle. So let's get to the jingle. It's
this bag, thank you very much. First one on the mailbag.
(16:02):
These are actual letters by actual listeners. You do not
have to wait. You do not have to wait for
me to put a message out on social media. You
can just send these in anytime you want. Ben Maler
show on Facebook, but Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Just make sure
(16:22):
that you have the Fifth Hour and the headlines and
we may read your question on the air. First one
from Mike in Fullerton's is Happy Thanksgiving, Ben and Danny G.
Have you guys been watching the best show on TV,
The Golden Bachelor. The finale is right around the corner,
and I'd like to hear who you guys think Jerry
should give the final rose to, and then he names
(16:44):
Leslie and Teresa. I guess I have not not seen
a second of the Golden Match. I've heard people talk
about it, but I got a lot of plates I'm spinning,
So that's not one of the plates I've been spinning.
Have you gotten into that.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll give you the cheat code out of two of them.
Leslie is probably better looking, a little younger, slightly younger.
And the other gal that made the other girl who
made the final two. It was funny the other night
during the second to last episode, my wife, he said
(17:24):
she is boring.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Leslie's for the wind.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, he mentioned the other girl's name. What's her name, Teresa?
I believe, Yeah, she's like, she's so boring.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And she told me.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You notice they don't do two hour episodes of The
Golden Bachelor because it would be so boring.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, that's funny. They should do just a half hour
like Benny Versus Band half hour TV show. If I
could get a daily half hour TV show, that'd be
the easiest job in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You're not wrong, because the problem with the Golden Bachelor
is he's too nice, He's there's not a ton of drama.
You know, obviously you got more mature people on this show.
You don't have the twenty two year old, you know,
cat fighting with the twenty one year old. And also
(18:16):
the dates are boring. They're not skydiving, they're not doing
all these crazy dates. Instead, they're going wine tasting, and
so my chick was like, this is so boring, and
that's been the sentiment of a lot of people. I
guess they still have enough ratings to where they're going
to do it again because they've been running commercials saying
(18:37):
if you want to be the next Golden Bachelor or
a contestant, to turn your stuff in, and they give
the website, so they're going to do it again.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
How old do you have to be to be the
Golden Batch?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Sixty five and up something like that. Okay, he's seventy two.
I want to say, Jerry, Jerry is his name is
seventy two?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Jerry? Sure? Yeah. Mike also says how important do you
think it is for cranberry sauce to be served with
Thanksgiving dinner? Yeah? Well, I'm not eating a traditional Thanksgiving
I do love cranberry you know what. I like the
Trader Joe's has that cranberry orange thing like this. Yeah, yes,
(19:16):
that's really good. I could just eat that. I'd be happy.
That's really good. Shane and Seattle whites and says Ben
and Danny gene love the podcast. Is this Poppy band legit?
Is it a bit on the show? Yeah? So Danny,
this guy Poppy had called for a while from San
(19:37):
Diego and we gave him a bit on the show.
He likes to handicap. He's terrible at picking games, so
we gave him a bit on the show, and it
was picking with the chicken and farmer in Michigan loaned
us Abigail with chicken, and then the bit was Poppy
pix a game and then Abigail picks a game and
(19:59):
who can pick more winters? So we did it on
the air.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Instead of a penny, it's a chicken.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, it's like the spin off, you know, because I
can't do it any versus the penn anymore because it's
the TV shows, I can't really do it on the radio.
So so anyway, so Poppy's like, okay, we got we'll
do it, and so we did it, and it was
fine whatever. It was cool seeing Abigail with chicken. And
then we find out by my Mallard militia foot soldiers,
my boot's on the ground, that Poppy's ripping the bit off,
(20:26):
doing it on his own social media, making a mockery
of the radio show. So I was like, all right,
well we're done with We're done with this, and then
you go do your own thing. I don't need this.
But I still allowed him to call in, and then
he kept spinning at the show. He was like, he
was disrespecting the show. If Poppy was a good caller,
(20:46):
I'd be like, okay, he's a good caller, we'll let
him crap on the show. But he's a terrible caller,
and he was crapping on the show. So I was like,
I don't really need that. They don't pay me to
deal with idiots like this, so we banned him. Now
is the permanent I don't know right now. As of today,
he's not allowed back on the show. If somehow he
(21:07):
reaches out and Jenya flex and admits that he has
been a terrible caller and will change his ways, I
would be open to at some point after a certain
sentence of punishment allow him to come back if he
is going into the octagon and battles it out with
some people. So Shane, to answer your question, it is real.
(21:29):
I don't hate Poppy. I met him. He was a
nice gentleman when I met him. It's not personal. But
I just don't have time for people to call the show.
And you know, this is my life's work. I don't
have time for people to ship on the show. It's
what I do. So that's it, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh, I better scrap the YouTube show plans that I
had for Danny versus the Nanny.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I think that's got me picking a game.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
In our hot young nanny for cod picking a game,
wear hardly any clothes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
See I When I heard Danny versus the Nanny, I
thought that was like out in Chatsworth. You would be
filming that out there. I thought it was a show
or a refined audience. I thought, but uh, thank you, Mike,
and Rochester writes and he says, Ben and Danny g
I wanted to get your guy. Oh this is a
(22:22):
sporty question. Is this is a sporty question? He says, Uh, Ben,
I heard your your monologue about Josh Allen. You called
him a coach killer, and I saw that a number. Yeah,
because of Ken Dorsey. That's what happened. He played so
bad he got the coach killed. Ken Dorsey is off
(22:43):
in the corner.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Anyway, Mike says, Uh, I saw some Bills fans upset
with you. They sent some nasty things on on Twitter.
It's X by the way, Mike, it's not Twitter's X.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He says, you get offended. Uh when these guys say
they're going to stop listening to the show. So I
didn't see particularly those comments, Mike. I don't go on
X during the day I get ready for the show.
I'm not on there because it's better for my health
to not be on there. I'm on there during the show,
So I didn't see particularly what you said. I did
(23:15):
get some email from Bill's fans that were upset. But
the thing I love and I'm sure you appreciate this.
To Danny the listener, who is I liked you until
you said something I didn't like about someone. I like
you know that guy?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, yeah, so very high school sounding.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I get a lot of that guy. It's like, I
respected your show and I listened to your show, but
you said something about an athlete that I worship, and
and you know I can't. I just can't, you know.
And then, of course, with me being on overnight, say, well,
that's why you're on at three in the morning. You know,
that's why you're on so late. No one's listening at
that hour of course, right after the person has been
(23:58):
listening for like ten years, you know, and they're the
idiots listening. But no, I don't care. I mean this
part of the part of the gig. People are gonna
you know, they're going to attack you if you say
something they don't like. That's why a lot of people
don't say anything mildly controversial or have any opinions because
they don't want anyone to get upset. But it kind
(24:19):
of isn't that kind of the job, Danny, that we're
supposed to have strong opinions, And that's kind of the.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
If you don't get a reaction out of anybody, are
you really doing a sports radio show. I mean, you're
gonna ruffle some feathers on either side of your topic.
So just go with what your gut says, in what
your brain says, your own opinion is and if people
don't like it. Oh, well, we're not supposed to agree
(24:44):
on everything.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
God.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Exactly. And again, listen. People will say stuff on social media.
There's a lot of smartphone tough guys. But my experience
over the years is that the vast majority of people
say I used to like you, but I'm never listening again.
The vast majority of those people end up listening again,
so they'll come back. Maybe they'll go away for a
little bit, but they'll come back. I'm sure that'll solve it.
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Next up, Tommy, the Bengal Reds fan in Maryland, he writes,
since says good day, Ben, Benny Brightside and Danny g
Radio Ben I mentioned last week, Tommy says, I mentioned
last week that I commute to d C from southern Maryland,
and you wondered what I do for a living if
I am a political muckety muck. I retired from the
(25:35):
US Army in twenty oh seven, twenty two years of service,
traveling the world gang Bang in for Uncle Sam. Hello.
Since then, I have been working as a contractor for
the Department of Defense. Oh that's cool. My question this
week is have either of you dated a friend of
an ex girlfriend and if so what was the dramatic
(25:57):
level there. I'll hang up and take my answer off
the air. Thanks for rocking the Mike gentleman. Wow, that's impressive.
Twenty two years in the US Army and now now
he's hanging out working as a contract Now, if you're
in if you're in the military for twenty years, do
you just automatically get a job as a contractor? Is
that kind of how that works? I don't know, but
(26:20):
it seems like a lot of those guys that are
in the military for a long time, they just kind
of slide into a really good contractor gig at the
Department Offense, or they're working for like Halliburton, you know,
those those deals. So I have not I have not
dated any x's, did not date a lot, and certainly
anyone I knew they weren't interested in me. So no,
(26:43):
but I have a feeling Danny probably has a good
story or something about this, right, And I think you've
you've gone to the dark side, I think Danny from
time to time, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This was like the early two thousands, and the whole
time we hung out, she said, I just can't keep
thinking about your ex and I'm friends with her, so
kind of made it exciting the first few times we
hung out. Yeah, but then it got to the point
(27:12):
where every time she kept saying that it got more
and more annoying, and so I stopped hanging out with her.
But boy, there was some thunder and lightning and.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Fireworks at the beginning of hanging out with her.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So when you were at the beginning, when you started
to you know, enjoy your company, did you see the
the other you know, friend of your ex? Did you
did you see or you know, your her ex or whatever?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Do you from from time to time? She was like
off again, on again, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Wow, all right, there you go. Thank you Tommy. Let's
see here page now. Alf Our buddy alf from the
line at Dairy Queen on the mail bag, alf writes,
and he says, Coop didn't choose my question for ask Ben.
I'll ask you a totally different question, not at all
similar to the one I asked him. What's up with
(28:09):
the hand soap in public restrooms? It smells awful and
linger lingers on your hands. While attempting to double down
down double cheeseburgers and pound blizzards and other fast food
delicacies from Mark. It was so loyal. This guy outf unbelievable.
It's amazing. So I do generally hate public restroom soap.
(28:34):
There is pretty good soap at Fox Sports Radio. That
white soap racist, I think's pretty good. I like, that's
a solid it's a thick soap. It's not it's not.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
A I'm just describing for you to because there are
it's near the blue sink, you know, or not the
blue sink, but the blue kitchen sink.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know what I'm talking about. They usually have pretty
good soap there. But I yeah, the soap in the bathroom.
That's a great call out. That sounds like an episode
of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Like I just do an episode
how bad the soap is, and then Larry David would
try to get good soap and try to find good
soap for the bathroom, and that would be like his
life's mission to just you go to different soap companies
(29:18):
and then he'll start his own soap company.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
For sure. He already fixed the toilet issue.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah, good to go on that. So thank you,
Alf and I enjoy your double double cheeseburgers and blizzards.
Enjoy that. Yeah. Berry Berry from South Carolina via Nashville
says Yo Yo, Ma, Benny and Danny G. What percentage
you have a Jed who fled call? Do you actually comprehend?
(29:43):
I love his calls, but I can't listen fast enough
to understand more than ten percent of his content. I
even rewind and listen a second and third time, I'm
still getting about ten percent. Yeah, one hundred percent. Barry
and I got headphones on and I'm locked in, right,
I'm in gay, I'm like, this is my thing. I
got to be locked in, and it's tough. And some days,
(30:07):
you know, when he's really drugged out, it's even worse
because he's going faster and faster and fast. There's some
nights he's maybe he doesn't have enough money to buy
the drugs, so it's not quite as bad. But I
think he only calls up when he is using pharmaceuticals,
because there are some nights he does not call up.
(30:27):
So my assumption is there are nights he doesn't even
do it every night, and he's just out wandering around
the sticks in Florida in the what they used to
call I think they still do the Redneck Riviera there
traveling around in Uh, like, where's he at?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Not?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Where is he? I'm trying to I'm having a mental block,
but it's it's in the area just below Alabama and
then there's a little stretch of Florida and all that. So, yeah,
it's tough. And I'll ask Coop sometimes Berry or or
Eddie or somebody like what did he say? Like I didn't.
I have noticed. Here's the problem. Jed talked so fast
(31:08):
that a couple of days ago he put a bad
word in the middle and he almost got it on
the air because it slid in so fast that we
were like, what did he say? It was like right
in the middle of all these like this word salad,
like this big word salad. It's crazy they had alive. Uh,
David in Uh hold Yeah, he says that Danny g
(31:30):
have you ever listened to his calls? Uh? I don't know.
Have you ever heard of Jed? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
And I worked on your show when he first started calling.
I don't know if this is a reflection on my
sobriety or not, but I understand every word he says.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's a lie. Pinocchio, You're like, you're like that Fox
Sideline reporter was that a great story? Oh the reactions, Oh,
the the over the top Shakespearean reactions too.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
On sideline reporters. Get rid of them. They're good for nothing.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
They repeat back what the two announcers have already said
most of the time.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh, one hundred percent. And it's the reaction. Though, I
did a whole rant this week, Carrissa Thompson. If you
didn't see it, CHRISA Thompson's like, oh yeah, sometimes the
coaches wouldn't come out and talk to me, so I
just made up a quote, and you'd think they'd be
like some war tribunal. The reactions of this, like Lisa
(32:30):
Salters shocked, disappointed, disgusted. She said, they were all these
other sideline reports. It was like like a cat fight,
but it was like twelve cats against one cat, and
they were all pouncing on poor poor you know, the
poor fox girl. Carissa Thompson, and I defended Christa Thompson.
(32:52):
I think the whole thing's ridiculous because I'm with you Danny,
like I I'm there. I don't need the sideline reporter.
I've done the job. I'm I don't think that these
people are particularly bad at it, but it's it's unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I don't think I've ever gotten any great insight where
I was like, oh my god, thank god, she's down
there on the sideline. Nowadays, we get more info from
people with egle eyes on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah yeah. And the only thing that happens when
when we get viral stuff, it's because somebody's hammered, like
Joe Namath, I want to kiss you, right, which I
had nothing to do with the sideline reporter other than
she was attractive and Joe Namath was horny and he
was drinking and other than that. And then you'll have
a player or coach who's so frustrated they'll start screaming
and shouting. But again that's not because of the journalistic
(33:37):
ability of any of these people who are the sideline reporters.
Because I have a buddy of mine that is an
old newspaper man, used to work as an editor at
some really big newspapers, and he's a friend of the
show in front of me. I've known him for many years,
and he will watch these NBA games, in these NFL games,
and it'll say, I'll here's what they're gonna say after
the game, how did it feel? That's like the number one.
(34:00):
How you're not a journalist if you're asking the same
question to everyone you interview. And then you had Molly McGrath,
who I guess is a sideline reporter. I think for
I think she's man. I don't know, but she she
went over the top. She said, this is not normal
or ethical. Coaches and players trust us with sensitive information?
(34:20):
Yeah right, Hell is sensitive information in a freaking football game?
What are we doing? Ben?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I just want to know what was going through your
mind on the last answer during the mailbag.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh, my goodness, sensitive information? What because you know who
the backup quarterback is and when you know what play
they're going to run in the third quarter?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Take me through that last play. What were you feeling?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Oh it's so stupid, it's so dumb. Uh, but thank you.
I got carried away on a tangent.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Let's see where you should just have spotters and staffers
on the field. Throw the headset on the start of
the game. Play by play color analyst Guy asked the questions.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I'm right there, and most most people I know
I agree with that. I talked to you about silent reports.
Any we'll get out on that. We went too long
so I'm sorry to David and Jay and Manny and
all you other guys. Try again next week. Thank you.
I do want to appreciate because we I sent the
thing out late Danny this week and people responded, so
thank you. I totally forgot to send out the post
(35:26):
to like the late in the day on Thursday, which
I usually do earlier in the week. So anyway, thank you, Danny.
I'd be back tonight after all these football games, after
that Viking Bronco game, I'll be back on the radio
the kick off the Thanksgiving week Benny Versus De Penny,
and we will have next week. People have been wondering, Danny,
are we going to have new shows Thanksgiving weekend? The
(35:47):
plan is we will have content all Thanksgiving weekend. God
willing right, that's the plan we'll have.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We might be talking with mashed potatoes in our mouths
what We will have three live shows though.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And pumpkin pie. We'll have some pumpkin pie and all that.
We'll knock it out of the park. But to have
a wonderful Sunday, Danny, You're back tomorrow with Covino and
Rich Yes, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, So we check out tomorrow morning, and we're going
to drive back to the LA area and I'll get
ready to do the Last Man Standing, which is our
fun sports trivia game every Monday with your voice on it.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Oh good, I'm Covino and Rich. That's on the West
Side two to four pm. And then in New York
City five to seven pm.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Beautiful, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the
football today. Wish me luck as I battle my nemesis,
the inanimate object, the penny. Try to slay the penny.
I need one of these big weeks. And then I
told the guy, one of my producers at NBC, Danny.
I said, you know, one of these weeks, I'm gonna
get every pick right and we'll go viral. I'm still waiting.
(36:53):
I'm still waiting for that to happen. Anyway, have a
great day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I need Antonio Paris and the Raiders to play perfect
football this morning.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I need him to cover, Danny. I just need them
to cover the thirteen. That's all I need, just cover
the thirteen. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Later, Skater got a murder.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I gotta go
Kabooms.
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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a Everywhere and a Happy Football Sunday. It
is week eleven of the NFL. It actually started the
other day on Thursday with Joe Burrow's wrist getting all
clunky and all that with that Ravens and Bengals game.
(00:49):
But we had a full slate of football action. The
Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g were here
every single weekend. You hear me late at night recording
my podcast in the middle of the night, the Ben
Maler Show on radio, and then Danny G's on during
the day with Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.
(01:11):
And we joined forces and we go together like mac
and cheese on the weekends and all that. And you
might be eating mac and cheese this week. Thanksgiving. Neal
who knows. But today on this Sunday podcast, you were correct, Danny.
I was so flustered by you bringing up animal thunderdome
possibly coming back that I failed the listener. I did
(01:34):
not get to the phrase of the week. I did
not get to the phrase of the week. Does a
bad job by me? Bad job by me? Danny G
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I called it as sure as I was of that,
and CoA not being afraid of the water. He was
like a little fish yesterday afternoon, Ben.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
A little fishy. That's good. So we have a phrase
of the week, scientifical. We're gonna get scientifical and mailbag
mailbag as well. So here we go, phrase of the week.
Are you ready for the phrase of the week?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Here is the phrase, which is not to be confused.
Phrase of the week. Not to be confused with the
idiom of the week, which we did back on Friday.
But the phrase of the week. Hit the panic button. Now,
I use this phrase all the time, Danny. I use
this probably once every other day for an athlete choking yeah,
(02:39):
or for a team or a coach. Oh, they hit
the panic button.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I heard you use this when you were talking about
James Harden recently.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, I have. I used it with Harden. So
it's obviously reacting poorly to a situation. You hit the
panic button, being caught off guard, uh, doing something without
really thinking it through, making bad decisions in a situation
that's hit the panic button. I think most of us
(03:08):
know what that means. But the origin I was fascinated
by the origin of this word, so that's why, or
this phrase rather so, that's why it is the phrase
of Louis. So the origin of the of the phrase
hit the panic button goes back to World War Two,
so it's not that old a phrase. This ain't going
back to ancient times like we had the Idiom of
(03:28):
the Week that went back to ancient Greece. This only
goes back to World War Two, and it is a
reference to the B seventeen and the B twenty four bombers.
Now the B seventeen much more famous than the B
twenty four. Am I correct on that. I'm not a
military guy, but it seems like the B seventeen to
B twenty four you don't hear a lot about anyway. Yeah, yeah,
(03:52):
I don't know. I'm sure there's someone listening that's really
up on their military history. Par I could tell us
the way this phrase originated. It hit the panic Button.
World War two B seventeen B twenty four bombers, they
had bell systems, actual bells that would ring in the
cockpit in the event of a catastrophe about to happen, right,
(04:16):
meaning that there's damage or whatever. And we assigned they'd
ring bells to signal to the crew to jump ship.
So they would literally be like bells ringing. And you know,
people are, well, what does that have to do with
the actual panic button, because you know it's bells. It's
not that Well, if you go to nineteen fifty five,
(04:36):
after World War Two, nineteen fifty five, there was a
guy that came up with a glossary of air force
slang from pilots at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas.
And this is for the academic journal American Speech. It
is still in print to this day under the headline
(04:57):
hit the Panic Button this book, the guy wrote, there
is a switch called the panic button in the cockpit
of a jet craft which Jennison's objects, including extra fuel tanks,
in order to lighten the plane conditions under which this
switch is used, are usually quite desperate and continuing to read,
(05:21):
it says, in case of power failure, for example, when
all the prescribed remedial processes failed, the pilot might, in desperation,
push everything that's out and pull everything that's in in
the hopes that he might actually do something help. Thus
the phrase panic button was born. So since that was
(05:46):
published in nineteen fifty five, that has been a phrase
that we use. And by the way, from what we're told,
it has now been standard. That's standard. There's actually a
panic button in military aircraft, the United States military aircraft.
I've never been in, well, I should say never. I
was a kid, I used to go to the open
(06:08):
house of the marine base and go through all the
planes and all that in the helicopters, but as far
as I know, you know, as an adult, I've not
been in military aircraft. So they do have a standard
piece of equipment that is known as the panic button.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So yess, very cool.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That is pretty neat. It doesn't go back so nobody
before that, but maybe they said panic button, but it
didn't didn't really resonate. So phrase the week again, panic
button hit the panic butt O. Yes, yeah, well there
you go hit the panic button. Next up, we have
moving on as we flip the script here and we
(06:47):
will get scientifical. We're gonna get cy and typical. Why
why not? What the heck?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
And we'll get to that's right, come on, ohiol.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Science, All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now I'm gonna help you out, dandy. Do you have
an iPhone? You have an iPhone? Right?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Of course I'm not some Android sucker.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, so there's a hack that some dope came up
with on TikTok. This guy claims unlimited cell phone battery life,
which is, you know, that's a lie, but you can
improve your cell phone battery life. And I actually did this,
and I gotta tell you, pretty pretty simple. I'm not
(07:43):
that right when it comes to technology and all that
pretty simple, and I believe it worked, although I haven't
had it on long enough to know for sure if
it works. But the way this works is you selectively
dim your screen. But you don't do it the regular way.
You have to go to the iPhone set. You then
go to iPhone settings, you click on accessibility. You then
(08:05):
go to the display and tech size and you switch
on the reduced white point option. So that's the see
there's a little switch.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It says reduced transparency.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
No, it's it says reduce white point. Let me let
me go do it right now, show you because I
did this earlier. So you click.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh, I see it, reduce white point to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, so you click on that and then you can
adjust it. If you want better battery life, you would
make it dinner now. The only problem is if you
go outside or something like that and you're in the sunlight,
it might become a problem. But if you reduce it
a little bit, it'll it'll.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Help out, got it. Oh that's cool?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah? Yeah, So I did that the other day right there,
and there's a little hack. We'll see how good it goes.
So if you're concerned about battery life, and there's that
little slider Danny, you see you there, you can go
all the way down and see how dim you want
your phone to be, and it would reduce the whites
on your screen. And so far, so good, so cool.
(09:16):
First story from let's get scientifical. Uh here, let me
ask you this, how much how much weight do you
believe the average American is going to gain over the
next month with Thanksgiving Christmas?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I would guess eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Did you see this story, Danny, it's oh it's exactly
eight pounds.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Wow, No, I swear I did not see this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. Now, are you still going to stick to your diet?
What's your what's your plan here? I am yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
In fact, people have left suits already on the counter
at FSR and I did not partake.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's good, that's good discipline. You gotta have it. You
gotta have it. You know. It takes like thirty sixty
I think it's sixty days, and then once that's a
new habit. Once you do like sixty days, you're good
to go after that. But three quarters of Americans are
planning to enjoy a festivus of epic proportions. According to
a new survey, seventy two percent of Americans want to
(10:19):
make the most of the end of twenty twenty three,
and most people the diet. Screw the diet. They're writing
off the end of the year, and they do estimate
in the holiday season, you're gonna get eight pounds. Expect
to get eight pounds every now, you Danny, because you're
(10:40):
on your diet, but eight pounds heavier. In twenty twenty two,
it was five and a half pounds, So we're getting it.
We're getting even deeper into the food here in twenty
twenty three. But I'm gonna I'm gonna stick to my
fasting and all that. I'm not you know, if you're
wondering what I'm doing. I mean, I'll eat decently. We
don't make turkey on Thanksgiving, so at least I don't
(11:02):
think we're making turkey. And I gotta do the TV
show and all that anyway, So I got a busy week,
so I'll figure out. I mean, I'll eat it. I'm
gonna eat well, but probably not go crazy. What else
do we have here? Oh? Very thankful people in the
United States? The average American? How many times a year,
Danny is the average American say thank you? According to
(11:24):
a new scientifical study in it, per year, how many
times do you say thank you? Wow, go your groucery,
somebody leaves the door open for you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, oh man, I would I would guess a couple
thousand times in a year.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You're almost exactly right again, two two hundred times per
year on average.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Damn, I'm hot, right now, take me to Vegas instead
of Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Iron Man, you want to keep going here, you want
to keep going. I don't know if I have any
more questions like this, but yeah, they estimate the study
said two two hundred times a year. Now, there are
some people that are less, there are some people that
are more. There's some people that say thank you for everything.
There's other people say thank you for nothing. So it
obviously depends. Well, here's good news, Danny. Life expectancy is dropping.
(12:10):
American men dying six years earlier than women. So we're
gonna drop dead sooner than our wives, Dandy. That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
This is not good news.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh not good Hey, speaking of that, did you guys
on Kovino and Rich did you talk about the Dana
White story this week. That's a wild story where he
lost a bunch. He went on a fast, like a
water fast. Did you see that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, he got all ripped up.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He went on an eighty something hour fast because he
went to some doctor that said he was going to
die in ten years. So that jump started his mission,
his mission for health. That was that was pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm right there, man. I gotta make Coha's high school graduation.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You gotta go well on, you gotta beat the wedding.
The whole thing and all that, and you don't have
to pay for it. Is that custom still in effect
with the bride's family has to pay for the wedding.
Is that how that works? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
That doesn't sound very twenty twenty three of you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I thought that was the way
it was. Well, just have him get have him a
lope when he gets older, and then you're saving the money.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. What else do we have here? See, you're doing science.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I think a scholarship too, that would be good.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah. Are you thinking more football? Maybe raiders? You're thinking
you're gonna be a big guy like offensive line.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Are we thinking he's going to be a big I'm
thinking tight end or linebacker.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That'd be good. How about a pass rushing defensive end.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He's gonna be like the next Robert Spulane, babe.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All right, what do we have here? How about this
years ago corner research scientists are saying that the days
were back in the early days of eurse history, at
one point, the days were nineteen hours long. That's it,
nineteen hours instead of the twenty four so instead of
the yeah, nineteen. You think, does that mean the days
will keep getting like someday twenty six hours in a
(14:08):
day or twenty seven hours in a day? Or is
it how my entire life has been twenty four? Right,
we've all been twenty five. But how does that work?
I'm not sure. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You should be trying to shorten the workday, not make
it longer.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, that is that is true. Afternoon crash. Average person
hits the wall at blank time. You want to test
your luck again? What time?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah? Most people hit the wall at three pm.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh, you are so close again day to thirty six.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Oh wow, you're off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
By twenty four minutes. That's pretty good. Now. I do
not hit the wall at two thirty six because I'm sleeping.
Usually I'm just getting up around two thirty six in
the afternue, so I usually don't. I don't really worry
about that. I don't have to I have to worry
about that. Well, here's another one of these science stories
where I roll my eyes at it and I'm like, ah,
this is probably nonsense. But noisy water oceans will be
(15:10):
five times louder by the year twenty one hundred five
times louder according to it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, I love hearing the sound of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Does that mean we won't have to go on YouTube
to watch those videos of the waves? We'll just hear
them naturally? El natural?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, I have Lebron's calm app in my phone.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh is that right? Oh? Me nice? Yeah? All right,
all right, we got the mail bag.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know we did this other stuff, but the mailbag
is the star of the show. That's the main event.
The mail bag. People love the mailbag and they also
love the jingle. So let's get to the jingle. It's
this bag, thank you very much. First one on the mailbag.
(16:02):
These are actual letters by actual listeners. You do not
have to wait. You do not have to wait for
me to put a message out on social media. You
can just send these in anytime you want. Ben Maler
show on Facebook, but Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Just make sure
(16:22):
that you have the Fifth Hour and the headlines and
we may read your question on the air. First one
from Mike in Fullerton's is Happy Thanksgiving, Ben and Danny G.
Have you guys been watching the best show on TV,
The Golden Bachelor. The finale is right around the corner,
and I'd like to hear who you guys think Jerry
should give the final rose to, and then he names
(16:44):
Leslie and Teresa. I guess I have not not seen
a second of the Golden Match. I've heard people talk
about it, but I got a lot of plates I'm spinning,
So that's not one of the plates I've been spinning.
Have you gotten into that.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll give you the cheat code out of two of them.
Leslie is probably better looking, a little younger, slightly younger.
And the other gal that made the other girl who
made the final two. It was funny the other night
during the second to last episode, my wife, he said
(17:24):
she is boring.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Leslie's for the wind.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, he mentioned the other girl's name. What's her name, Teresa?
I believe, Yeah, she's like, she's so boring.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And she told me.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You notice they don't do two hour episodes of The
Golden Bachelor because it would be so boring.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, that's funny. They should do just a half hour
like Benny Versus Band half hour TV show. If I
could get a daily half hour TV show, that'd be
the easiest job in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You're not wrong, because the problem with the Golden Bachelor
is he's too nice, He's there's not a ton of drama.
You know, obviously you got more mature people on this show.
You don't have the twenty two year old, you know,
cat fighting with the twenty one year old. And also
(18:16):
the dates are boring. They're not skydiving, they're not doing
all these crazy dates. Instead, they're going wine tasting, and
so my chick was like, this is so boring, and
that's been the sentiment of a lot of people. I
guess they still have enough ratings to where they're going
to do it again because they've been running commercials saying
(18:37):
if you want to be the next Golden Bachelor or
a contestant, to turn your stuff in, and they give
the website, so they're going to do it again.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
How old do you have to be to be the
Golden Batch?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Sixty five and up something like that. Okay, he's seventy two.
I want to say, Jerry, Jerry is his name is
seventy two?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Jerry? Sure? Yeah. Mike also says how important do you
think it is for cranberry sauce to be served with
Thanksgiving dinner? Yeah? Well, I'm not eating a traditional Thanksgiving
I do love cranberry you know what. I like the
Trader Joe's has that cranberry orange thing like this. Yeah, yes,
(19:16):
that's really good. I could just eat that. I'd be happy.
That's really good. Shane and Seattle whites and says Ben
and Danny gene love the podcast. Is this Poppy band legit?
Is it a bit on the show? Yeah? So Danny,
this guy Poppy had called for a while from San
(19:37):
Diego and we gave him a bit on the show.
He likes to handicap. He's terrible at picking games, so
we gave him a bit on the show, and it
was picking with the chicken and farmer in Michigan loaned
us Abigail with chicken, and then the bit was Poppy
pix a game and then Abigail picks a game and
(19:59):
who can pick more winters? So we did it on
the air.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Instead of a penny, it's a chicken.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, it's like the spin off, you know, because I
can't do it any versus the penn anymore because it's
the TV shows, I can't really do it on the radio.
So so anyway, so Poppy's like, okay, we got we'll
do it, and so we did it, and it was
fine whatever. It was cool seeing Abigail with chicken. And
then we find out by my Mallard militia foot soldiers,
my boot's on the ground, that Poppy's ripping the bit off,
(20:26):
doing it on his own social media, making a mockery
of the radio show. So I was like, all right,
well we're done with We're done with this, and then
you go do your own thing. I don't need this.
But I still allowed him to call in, and then
he kept spinning at the show. He was like, he
was disrespecting the show. If Poppy was a good caller,
(20:46):
I'd be like, okay, he's a good caller, we'll let
him crap on the show. But he's a terrible caller,
and he was crapping on the show. So I was like,
I don't really need that. They don't pay me to
deal with idiots like this, so we banned him. Now
is the permanent I don't know right now. As of today,
he's not allowed back on the show. If somehow he
(21:07):
reaches out and Jenya flex and admits that he has
been a terrible caller and will change his ways, I
would be open to at some point after a certain
sentence of punishment allow him to come back if he
is going into the octagon and battles it out with
some people. So Shane, to answer your question, it is real.
(21:29):
I don't hate Poppy. I met him. He was a
nice gentleman when I met him. It's not personal. But
I just don't have time for people to call the show.
And you know, this is my life's work. I don't
have time for people to ship on the show. It's
what I do. So that's it, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh, I better scrap the YouTube show plans that I
had for Danny versus the Nanny.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I think that's got me picking a game.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
In our hot young nanny for cod picking a game,
wear hardly any clothes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
See I When I heard Danny versus the Nanny, I
thought that was like out in Chatsworth. You would be
filming that out there. I thought it was a show
or a refined audience. I thought, but uh, thank you, Mike,
and Rochester writes and he says, Ben and Danny g
I wanted to get your guy. Oh this is a
(22:22):
sporty question. Is this is a sporty question? He says, Uh, Ben,
I heard your your monologue about Josh Allen. You called
him a coach killer, and I saw that a number. Yeah,
because of Ken Dorsey. That's what happened. He played so
bad he got the coach killed. Ken Dorsey is off
(22:43):
in the corner.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Anyway, Mike says, Uh, I saw some Bills fans upset
with you. They sent some nasty things on on Twitter.
It's X by the way, Mike, it's not Twitter's X.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He says, you get offended. Uh when these guys say
they're going to stop listening to the show. So I
didn't see particularly those comments, Mike. I don't go on
X during the day I get ready for the show.
I'm not on there because it's better for my health
to not be on there. I'm on there during the show,
So I didn't see particularly what you said. I did
(23:15):
get some email from Bill's fans that were upset. But
the thing I love and I'm sure you appreciate this.
To Danny the listener, who is I liked you until
you said something I didn't like about someone. I like
you know that guy?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, yeah, so very high school sounding.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I get a lot of that guy. It's like, I
respected your show and I listened to your show, but
you said something about an athlete that I worship, and
and you know I can't. I just can't, you know.
And then, of course, with me being on overnight, say, well,
that's why you're on at three in the morning. You know,
that's why you're on so late. No one's listening at
that hour of course, right after the person has been
(23:58):
listening for like ten years, you know, and they're the
idiots listening. But no, I don't care. I mean this
part of the part of the gig. People are gonna
you know, they're going to attack you if you say
something they don't like. That's why a lot of people
don't say anything mildly controversial or have any opinions because
they don't want anyone to get upset. But it kind
(24:19):
of isn't that kind of the job, Danny, that we're
supposed to have strong opinions, And that's kind of the.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
If you don't get a reaction out of anybody, are
you really doing a sports radio show. I mean, you're
gonna ruffle some feathers on either side of your topic.
So just go with what your gut says, in what
your brain says, your own opinion is and if people
don't like it. Oh, well, we're not supposed to agree
(24:44):
on everything.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
God.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Exactly. And again, listen. People will say stuff on social media.
There's a lot of smartphone tough guys. But my experience
over the years is that the vast majority of people
say I used to like you, but I'm never listening again.
The vast majority of those people end up listening again,
so they'll come back. Maybe they'll go away for a
little bit, but they'll come back. I'm sure that'll solve it.
(25:13):
Next up, Tommy, the Bengal Reds fan in Maryland, he writes,
since says good day, Ben, Benny Brightside and Danny g
Radio Ben I mentioned last week, Tommy says, I mentioned
last week that I commute to d C from southern Maryland,
and you wondered what I do for a living if
I am a political muckety muck. I retired from the
(25:35):
US Army in twenty oh seven, twenty two years of service,
traveling the world gang Bang in for Uncle Sam. Hello.
Since then, I have been working as a contractor for
the Department of Defense. Oh that's cool. My question this
week is have either of you dated a friend of
an ex girlfriend and if so what was the dramatic
(25:57):
level there. I'll hang up and take my answer off
the air. Thanks for rocking the Mike gentleman. Wow, that's impressive.
Twenty two years in the US Army and now now
he's hanging out working as a contract Now, if you're
in if you're in the military for twenty years, do
you just automatically get a job as a contractor? Is
that kind of how that works? I don't know, but
(26:20):
it seems like a lot of those guys that are
in the military for a long time, they just kind
of slide into a really good contractor gig at the
Department Offense, or they're working for like Halliburton, you know,
those those deals. So I have not I have not
dated any x's, did not date a lot, and certainly
anyone I knew they weren't interested in me. So no,
(26:43):
but I have a feeling Danny probably has a good
story or something about this, right, And I think you've
you've gone to the dark side, I think Danny from
time to time, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This was like the early two thousands, and the whole
time we hung out, she said, I just can't keep
thinking about your ex and I'm friends with her, so
kind of made it exciting the first few times we
hung out. Yeah, but then it got to the point
(27:12):
where every time she kept saying that it got more
and more annoying, and so I stopped hanging out with her.
But boy, there was some thunder and lightning and.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Fireworks at the beginning of hanging out with her.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So when you were at the beginning, when you started
to you know, enjoy your company, did you see the
the other you know, friend of your ex? Did you
did you see or you know, your her ex or whatever?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Do you from from time to time? She was like
off again, on again, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Wow, all right, there you go. Thank you Tommy. Let's
see here page now. Alf Our buddy alf from the
line at Dairy Queen on the mail bag, alf writes,
and he says, Coop didn't choose my question for ask Ben.
I'll ask you a totally different question, not at all
similar to the one I asked him. What's up with
(28:09):
the hand soap in public restrooms? It smells awful and
linger lingers on your hands. While attempting to double down
down double cheeseburgers and pound blizzards and other fast food
delicacies from Mark. It was so loyal. This guy outf unbelievable.
It's amazing. So I do generally hate public restroom soap.
(28:34):
There is pretty good soap at Fox Sports Radio. That
white soap racist, I think's pretty good. I like, that's
a solid it's a thick soap. It's not it's not.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
A I'm just describing for you to because there are
it's near the blue sink, you know, or not the
blue sink, but the blue kitchen sink.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know what I'm talking about. They usually have pretty
good soap there. But I yeah, the soap in the bathroom.
That's a great call out. That sounds like an episode
of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Like I just do an episode
how bad the soap is, and then Larry David would
try to get good soap and try to find good
soap for the bathroom, and that would be like his
life's mission to just you go to different soap companies
(29:18):
and then he'll start his own soap company.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
For sure. He already fixed the toilet issue.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah, good to go on that. So thank you,
Alf and I enjoy your double double cheeseburgers and blizzards.
Enjoy that. Yeah. Berry Berry from South Carolina via Nashville
says Yo Yo, Ma, Benny and Danny G. What percentage
you have a Jed who fled call? Do you actually comprehend?
(29:43):
I love his calls, but I can't listen fast enough
to understand more than ten percent of his content. I
even rewind and listen a second and third time, I'm
still getting about ten percent. Yeah, one hundred percent. Barry
and I got headphones on and I'm locked in, right,
I'm in gay, I'm like, this is my thing. I
got to be locked in, and it's tough. And some days,
(30:07):
you know, when he's really drugged out, it's even worse
because he's going faster and faster and fast. There's some
nights he's maybe he doesn't have enough money to buy
the drugs, so it's not quite as bad. But I
think he only calls up when he is using pharmaceuticals,
because there are some nights he does not call up.
(30:27):
So my assumption is there are nights he doesn't even
do it every night, and he's just out wandering around
the sticks in Florida in the what they used to
call I think they still do the Redneck Riviera there
traveling around in Uh, like, where's he at?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Not?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Where is he? I'm trying to I'm having a mental block,
but it's it's in the area just below Alabama and
then there's a little stretch of Florida and all that. So, yeah,
it's tough. And I'll ask Coop sometimes Berry or or
Eddie or somebody like what did he say? Like I didn't.
I have noticed. Here's the problem. Jed talked so fast
(31:08):
that a couple of days ago he put a bad
word in the middle and he almost got it on
the air because it slid in so fast that we
were like, what did he say? It was like right
in the middle of all these like this word salad,
like this big word salad. It's crazy they had alive. Uh,
David in Uh hold Yeah, he says that Danny g
(31:30):
have you ever listened to his calls? Uh? I don't know.
Have you ever heard of Jed? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
And I worked on your show when he first started calling.
I don't know if this is a reflection on my
sobriety or not, but I understand every word he says.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's a lie. Pinocchio, You're like, you're like that Fox
Sideline reporter was that a great story? Oh the reactions, Oh,
the the over the top Shakespearean reactions too.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
On sideline reporters. Get rid of them. They're good for nothing.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
They repeat back what the two announcers have already said
most of the time.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh, one hundred percent. And it's the reaction. Though, I
did a whole rant this week, Carrissa Thompson. If you
didn't see it, CHRISA Thompson's like, oh yeah, sometimes the
coaches wouldn't come out and talk to me, so I
just made up a quote, and you'd think they'd be
like some war tribunal. The reactions of this, like Lisa
(32:30):
Salters shocked, disappointed, disgusted. She said, they were all these
other sideline reports. It was like like a cat fight,
but it was like twelve cats against one cat, and
they were all pouncing on poor poor you know, the
poor fox girl. Carissa Thompson, and I defended Christa Thompson.
(32:52):
I think the whole thing's ridiculous because I'm with you Danny,
like I I'm there. I don't need the sideline reporter.
I've done the job. I'm I don't think that these
people are particularly bad at it, but it's it's unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I don't think I've ever gotten any great insight where
I was like, oh my god, thank god, she's down
there on the sideline. Nowadays, we get more info from
people with egle eyes on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah yeah. And the only thing that happens when
when we get viral stuff, it's because somebody's hammered, like
Joe Namath, I want to kiss you, right, which I
had nothing to do with the sideline reporter other than
she was attractive and Joe Namath was horny and he
was drinking and other than that. And then you'll have
a player or coach who's so frustrated they'll start screaming
and shouting. But again that's not because of the journalistic
(33:37):
ability of any of these people who are the sideline reporters.
Because I have a buddy of mine that is an
old newspaper man, used to work as an editor at
some really big newspapers, and he's a friend of the
show in front of me. I've known him for many years,
and he will watch these NBA games, in these NFL games,
and it'll say, I'll here's what they're gonna say after
the game, how did it feel? That's like the number one.
(34:00):
How you're not a journalist if you're asking the same
question to everyone you interview. And then you had Molly McGrath,
who I guess is a sideline reporter. I think for
I think she's man. I don't know, but she she
went over the top. She said, this is not normal
or ethical. Coaches and players trust us with sensitive information?
(34:20):
Yeah right, Hell is sensitive information in a freaking football game?
What are we doing? Ben?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I just want to know what was going through your
mind on the last answer during the mailbag.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh, my goodness, sensitive information? What because you know who
the backup quarterback is and when you know what play
they're going to run in the third quarter?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Take me through that last play. What were you feeling?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Oh it's so stupid, it's so dumb. Uh, but thank you.
I got carried away on a tangent.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Let's see where you should just have spotters and staffers
on the field. Throw the headset on the start of
the game. Play by play color analyst Guy asked the questions.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I'm right there, and most most people I know
I agree with that. I talked to you about silent reports.
Any we'll get out on that. We went too long
so I'm sorry to David and Jay and Manny and
all you other guys. Try again next week. Thank you.
I do want to appreciate because we I sent the
thing out late Danny this week and people responded, so
thank you. I totally forgot to send out the post
(35:26):
to like the late in the day on Thursday, which
I usually do earlier in the week. So anyway, thank you, Danny.
I'd be back tonight after all these football games, after
that Viking Bronco game, I'll be back on the radio
the kick off the Thanksgiving week Benny Versus De Penny,
and we will have next week. People have been wondering, Danny,
are we going to have new shows Thanksgiving weekend? The
(35:47):
plan is we will have content all Thanksgiving weekend. God
willing right, that's the plan we'll have.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We might be talking with mashed potatoes in our mouths
what We will have three live shows though.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And pumpkin pie. We'll have some pumpkin pie and all that.
We'll knock it out of the park. But to have
a wonderful Sunday, Danny, You're back tomorrow with Covino and
Rich Yes, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, So we check out tomorrow morning, and we're going
to drive back to the LA area and I'll get
ready to do the Last Man Standing, which is our
fun sports trivia game every Monday with your voice on it.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Oh good, I'm Covino and Rich. That's on the West
Side two to four pm. And then in New York
City five to seven pm.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Beautiful, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the
football today. Wish me luck as I battle my nemesis,
the inanimate object, the penny. Try to slay the penny.
I need one of these big weeks. And then I
told the guy, one of my producers at NBC, Danny.
I said, you know, one of these weeks, I'm gonna
get every pick right and we'll go viral. I'm still waiting.
(36:53):
I'm still waiting for that to happen. Anyway, have a
great day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I need Antonio Paris and the Raiders to play perfect
football this morning.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I need him to cover, Danny. I just need them
to cover the thirteen. That's all I need, just cover
the thirteen. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Later, Skater got a murder.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I gotta go
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