February 25, 2024 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a 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 air away the fifth Hour. You already do
that with me, Ben Hu and Danny Danny g right
there as we keep your company all week in long
eight days a week, Double duty, double duty. Today this Sunday,
(00:49):
the twenty fifth day of the month of February, which
means that not only do you get this podcast, but
then tonight, depending on where you are on the West Coast,
Sunday night, I will begin the new week of programming
at Fox Sports Radio at eleven o'clock. But for people
on the East Coast, where most people live, that'll be
two am early on Monday morning. Early on Monday morning,
(01:13):
So well we are we're doing double duty today, but
celebrating National Chocolate Covered Nut Day, which is always an
important day, so I always I love chocolate covered almonds nuts.
It's also quiet day. I guess we're not celebrating quiet Day,
Danny today. We're not doing that, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have much to get to.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So six month old was just screaming in the background
a minute ago. So he's definitely not partaking in that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Is he cursing? Is he called any more words since
we last spoke, Danny, you know nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Just dad dat.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You should write. You should write a children's book. Baby's
first F word? You know? That would be That would
be funny, that would be good.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It'll be titled says.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A little call was seven months old when he blurted
out fuck and we all laughed and lived happily ever
after and all that stuff. So before we get to
the mailbag, do I did want to go to something
we haven't done in a long time. We've had no
reason to do it. Uh, And that would be the
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back scratcher. And so we go to the Apple podcast
page where you can write a review for this podcast
and help us out. Twizzle writes, in and enjoyed the
podcast we did about the dogs going to the dogs.
He says, this show going to the dogs, and that
is a great thingerferf. The show about your new fur
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babies was spectacular. I love when you guys let us
in and don't worry. They say short lives for bulldogs,
but our first two English bulldogs both lived thirteen years.
Well that's that's wonderful. I love the English bulldog. Now
the wife thinks that we can't have them forever, because
(03:11):
I'm like, oh, we'll just have English bulldogs the rest
of my life, because when we get old, like I'm
I'm kind of getting old. I'm not old yet, but
when I really get old and I can't really lift stuff.
These things are so heavy, these bulldogs that we'll have
to get like go back to a Belli sized dog,
one of those lap dogs and just go with that.
But I think I'll be all right for a while.
I think I think I can pick Moxie up. I'm
(03:32):
not that weak, not yet. You know, I got some
time before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Either that or you'll have to have hospice doggie care.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, that's what was it we mentioned this? I think
Ioa Sam told me that Jimmy Carter, President Jick Carter
went into hospice and then went out of hospice, Like,
how many times does that happen? Usually when you go
into hospice, it's a one way street, right, you don't
usually get out of there. That's it. It's lights out. Yeah, rely, Samley,
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take a deep breath. Stay.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I didn't think anybody rebounded from that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, that's a that was pretty crazy. I was like, wow,
that's that's not so all right. Time now to open
up the bill bag and you know what that means.
It's bound all right jah. Thank you to ohiou our
(04:40):
buddy who has been a part of this podcast for
a while. He's the musical guy without compensation, without compensation. Uh.
These are actual letters from actual listeners to the show.
They have either posted these on social media platforms, sent
them via direct message, or the most popular way that
we get these messages is via the email Real fifth
(05:00):
Hour at gmail dot com, but also the Facebook page.
There's some people that post on Facebook. So the first
email comes from Dan, who is in Miami. Dan says
bandon Danny, I love the show, but I think you
guys should change the name of it. It's called the
fifth Hour podcast. But you have not done a podcast
(05:22):
that has been an actual hour in many many months.
What gives well, Dan, that is I believe when's the
last time we did an hour? Probably an interview or something, Right,
it's been a while since we did an hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's been a while.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But originally you were only supposed to be doing one podcast.
So the fact that we do three, technically it's well
over an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, and Danny, boy, you Schmuck'm sorry, I'll be played.
Send an email. So here's the way it works, Dan,
in the podcast game, we have the data follow the
science is no, the analytics. We follow the analytics.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We follow the analytics, Danny. And it has been determined
by those in the podcast game that the sweet spot
for a podcast is around thirty minutes, that anything over
thirty minutes is a waste of everyone's time. Now, what
about Joe Rogan dance? Probably so Joe Rogan does five
hour podcasts. Okay, I get it. He also, how much
(06:30):
does Joe Rogan make from Spotify? Do you know how
much he's making there over at Spotify?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Danny? It's a five seventy eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, Now, if we got five hundred and seventy eight million.
I think Danny, you'd agree if we shared that money,
we would do four hour podcast every other day, right,
we do four our five.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Hover of course.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah I made that number up, by the way, but
it's something gross like that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So Dan, if you want to be the sugar Daddy,
we will give you more pod. But the sweet spot
for a podcast is about thirty minutes, because that's how
long a lot of people listen to podcasts. When they
go for a walk, they'll walk the dog so the
dogs can shit, or they'll go to the gym and
they'll be on the treadmill for thirty minutes, and that's
when people consume podcasts.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Or they'll commute for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, exactly. Most people have a commute about thirty minutes,
or maybe they'll listen to a couple of podcasts. But
thirty minutes is the sweet spot. So that is why
most of the podcasts are about thirty minutes. But it
is if you listen to a terrestrial radio show with
all the commercials and all that, yeah, you're getting, you know,
maybe only a little more than thirty minutes of content,
but in like forty two minutes of content or something
(07:36):
like that. I think, yeah, something like that. Next up
we stay in Florida, but we go up from Miami
to Weis. We're big in Florida. Joe in Vero Beach Rights,
says Ben and Danny says Ben. I enjoy the Overnight show.
I miss Danny on the show. Would like to meet you. Ben.
In twenty twenty four, Well, that's very nice of you,
(07:56):
Joe that you want to meet me, he says, do
you have a schedule of Malor meet and greets? Also
Big Lou from the LBC had a similar question. He says,
in twenty twenty four, will there be any meet and
greets at sporting events? For example, you did the Malor
meet and greet at the Inland Empire sixty six ers
game back in the day where the first pitches happened. Yah,
we've done a couple of those first pitch things. I
(08:19):
haven't done those in years. Would love to do it.
We'd love to do it, but there's nothing played right now.
Big Lou and Joe, I'm pretty confident that we will
do at least one Mallard meet and greet in southern California.
Last year, I convinced my wife to go to Minnesota
to meet the fans of the show, and it was
a wonderful time thanks to spin Cycle Regina who set
(08:41):
that up. Had a wonderful event at the Mermaid and
other than the speeding ticket I got, but other than that,
it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed Minnesota.
It was great, went all over the state, went up
to the Louth, as you guys know, Big Lou because
you're listening to this stuff. But there's nothing planned. I
don't think I convince my wife. I can convince her
(09:01):
two years in a row to just go on vacation
to meet listeners of the show. I don't think that
can happen two years in a row. But what may happen.
I know I have to go to North Carolina. There's
a my Actually I'm going to South Carolin. I'm going
to South and North Carolina because my niece I'm getting boy,
(09:24):
I'm getting old, she's graduating from college. I'll be in Charleston,
South Carolina. And then my wife's one of her relatives
lives in North Carolina. So since we're gonna be in
the South anyway, we're gonna drive from from South Carolina
Charleston up to some town I don't even know which
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in North Carolina. So there's a chance I may be
able to do a flash mob malor meet and if
anyone knows somebody like in either Charleston or somewhere I
don't even know the town, I'll have to look up
the town. I'll have to say it in a future
episode where I kind of the general area I will be.
(10:07):
But if somebody has like a bar, a restaurant, or
has a friend that does have something that we can
meet at, that's always the hardest part is to find
out where to meet. I did a mallord flash mob
Mala meat and greet in Appleton, Wisconsin. I was visiting
my brother and we didn't have a restaurant, but my
brother had a friend that owned a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, Wisconsin,
(10:29):
like a Mexican fusion restaurant, and so I said, Hey,
We're doing a flash mob Malla meat greet this restaurant
in Appleton. And then people were like, what are you doing?
Why are you eating Mexican food in Appleton, Wisconsin? What's
wrong with you? Busted my balls. There's nothing planned. We
will do at least one in southern California. I think
that's pretty safe to say. I think we have a
venue that is interested in hosting us. Gordon Rightszza Parla. Yeah,
(10:54):
let's go a bunch of lunch, Gordon writes, and he says, Ben,
I love you your show, You're supporting cast Danny everybody,
but you ruin my sleep? What the F? I think
we have a funny bone In commed he says, I'm retired.
I moved to Florida. Moved from Florida, rather from Florida
(11:15):
to Pickens, South Carolina. Oh maybe I'll meet Gordon when
I go to South Carolina. I don't where's Pickens, South Carolina?
Never heard of that? He says. My wife also retired
from a family therapy practice. I taught in university and
have been in business. But funny stuff is my heart.
And he talks about his casting arounds creative outlet. He
(11:38):
started a Facebook group called the Parking Club dedicated to
parking as close as your destination or store as close
to your destination of store as you possibly are able to,
and he says points are self awarded. He says, I
love that kind of stuff. Well, that's that's very funny.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Gordon.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I love it. I could win a lot of points
on that. The closest I've ever parked at a store
was in Kawai where your your your Spawn there has
a named after we were There was a big storm
that passed through like a flash storm. We were in
a kmart in Kawai and this massive store of storm
(12:25):
came through and the lights actually went out. The power
went out in the kmar and so I, oh, crap,
we got to get out of here. You know, I
can send a kmar. I think that place closed. We're
going out of business anyway. So the wife was there,
so I was like, all right, and I'll do the
adult thing. So I went out in the storm and
it slowed down a little bit, and I pulled the
(12:47):
car up and drove on the sidewalk right to the
front of the door of the kmart so the wife
could get in there in the rainstorm. I was technically
parked right in front of the door of a kmart.
What about you, Danny any close parking.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's a little bit of a remix though, because it's
somebody parking very close to me. It was their destination.
Though out kicked the coverage. I had my car parked
on a level by itself where nobody usually parked at
that time in the morning. Veto our production guy came in.
He showed me a picture on his phone and he's like,
(13:25):
look at what some asshole did to your car. No, boy,
one hundred spots wide opened. Somebody parked so close to
my car there was no way they opened their door
and could get out, so I guess they got out
through their passenger side, which freaked me out. I'm like,
why did somebody do that? I still I have a
(13:46):
picture of it. I still have never figured out who
did that or why?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Trying to bust your balls, That's what it felt like.
That has happened a few times where I've come out
to my car and somebody parked so close I couldn't
get in my car. Are that is the worst.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
They were blocking their own driver's side by being so
close to my passenger side.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Got you, got you? Got you?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah? Very strange.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
That is bizarre, Like did this person crawl out the
back of their vehicle?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What is that about? Jim writes in from Parts Unknown?
He says, hey, guys, enjoyed the podcast? How much? He says,
how much of your show? Is scripted, and how much
time do you spend writing it. Who sits on the
writing sessions. Well, Jim, as you know, I'm the talent.
So Cooper Loup actually writes the entire show. Yeah, he's
(14:37):
the head writer on the show. And then Eddie is
part of that, and iowa Sam and then I rolled
in about a minute before the show. Sometimes I'll even
come in after the show starts and I'll sit down
and I'll just they hand me the copy.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Remember when you worked on the show, Danny, we did
the table read during the day. That was always exciting.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
That was fun and I really like you got to
mention who still works for our group there downstairs.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He is the teleprompter man.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, that's right, even though you don't.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Use teleprompter for television the way Looney does you use
a teleprompter for your live radio show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, so everything is you know, I don't know how
much time they spend it on They probably spend about
eight nine hours a day writing the scripts for the
monologues in fact checking, you know, we're rapping and all that.
And it's really good too. I just roll in there
and then whatever they write, I just read it. I'm
like a train seal. I just bounce the ball on
(15:36):
my head and I read the copy. It's a It's
a great way to work, you know. And I really
want to thank Coop and those guys for writing the
show because it means a lot. It does, and it
makes my life easy. Danny, I get all the glory.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
People say, oh, man, you write these big monologues. You
start like at five o'clock in the afternoon getting ready
for the show. That's amazing, right, That's nuts. I mean,
but no, I don't. I don't. I'm sitting on my ass.
I'm watching YouTube videos.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
That's what I'm doing. I'm not. Come on, you think
I'm the talent. You think I would spend time writing
scripts for a radio.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's radio.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Even though a lot of people don't know this about you,
But even though it's twenty twenty four, you're still capturing
Pokemon on your phone.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yeah, I love Pokemon. I'm playing Mario Brothers. I'm
old school man. I'm going to the art I'm going
to the Arcade. I got the Orange Julius. I'm playing
Tron all the old video games. Great time. Yeah, thank you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You're going into Hollywood video.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Steve in Chicago. It's Chicago adjacent, Steve says. He says,
Ben and Danny. I know this is not a political podcast,
but oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now, when the word butt is said, you know what
means what that means? Right, when the word butt is there,
that means that whatever you just said is live and
you don't believe whatever you just say.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
About to be a big ass, that's the.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Butt, yeah, he says. But Steve says, we need the
malor wisdom. How do we get younger people to run
and become president of the United States? Yeah, well, I
guess you got to offer more money. I guess I
(17:26):
don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, this is interesting because Alex Tyshirt, Rob Gara, Wrong Button, Bob,
and myself. Just a couple of weeks ago, somebody in
the studio brought that up that we haven't had young
leadership in our country for a long time. We got
all these dudes that are the age of our grandparents.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, it's you know, Trump is seventy. I guess he
turns seventy eight this summer. Biden turned eighty one last November.
I mean, so there are already on borrowed time, right,
the average American male lifespans I think seventy five. I
think so they're already in bonus time. They're in overtime
(18:08):
right now. Good for them. Although Trump seems to be
doing better than Biden. But I who's I guess they
I'm mumbling here. But Obama didn't. They thought when Obama
won he was considered the young hip guy. But how
old was he when he became president.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, that's a good question. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, let me see. I'm pulling that up right now.
Let's go go godget go, Internet go.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I think I have it. I have it. I have it, Danny,
I win the race.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
My internet gave me a big middle.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Forty seven years and one hundred and sixty nine days
at the time of inauguration. See the youngest president. People
think it's John F. Kennedy, But the youngest president was
Theodore Roosevelt when at the time of inauguration he was
forty two years, three hundred, three hundred and twenty two days. Yes,
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he was a little younger than John F. Kenny Bill Clinton.
Way back in the nineties, he was actually the third youngest.
So we did have in our lifetimes. A a real
young I guess, but no one. What's the minimum age
to be president? Is it forty? Is that the minimum
age to be president?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Thirty five?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I think you're not gonna get anyone younger than that,
So yeah, I don't. It's an interesting question, Steven, if
we had the answer. But you got to go to
politics when you're in your twenties, and you gotta but
you gotta have that. Rathmetask the other problem. Let's be
honest here, most of the people that are into politics
are older, right, for some reason. Before you check it out,
(19:51):
you suddenly become very concerned about politics. And it's like
the new sports. It's when you're younger, you pull for
the for the Dodger of the Reds. I mean, you
get older, it's team blue or team red. It's the
that's what it's about.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I still can't listen to political talk radio. It's just
so boring to me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I could, I could make it to make it
somewhat better.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You could make him through ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, I'm backuld if I did it, I could make it. Interestingly,
the average presidents are sworn in at age fifty.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Five. I know Reagan was almost seventy four, right, because
he was the oldest prior to Biden.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, no, actually Trump Trump Trump Reagan and then Biden
Trump Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, Reagan was the oldest. He was sixty nine, almost
seventy years old, sixty nine years three.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hundred and then seventy three when he was reelected, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The second time. But uh, Trump seventy years old when
he was elected the forty fifth president, and then Biden
seventy eight. Man a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, we just had President's Day a week or so ago,
some fun presidential facts.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Thanks to you, Steve and your little butt that you
tossed in there. Tim and Iowa or Tim Wrightson not
in Iowa? Say, is that Iowa Sam moving on to
the dreaded first shift and where? Uh? Yeah, this has
been going on for several months, but Iowa sim Is
is leaving the overnight and I think are we allowed
(21:26):
to say where we'll be hanging out? Danny, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
We've all had our fingers up our butts on this
one because we were waiting for somebody to be trained
on some of the weekend shows that way Lorena could
move and join your show. And Iowa Sam, I believe
he is going to be now in charge of mopping
the fifth floor of our building day.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
But only the fifth floor, not the fourth or the sixth,
only the.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Fifth floor, just the fifth floor.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He just has to do it Monday through Friday because
nothing gets dirty on the weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, and he said he wanted better hours, so they
said nine am to three pm, you're sweeping the fifth floor.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yes, it's a promotion.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
They're actually paying them five dollars more per hour than
for what he did on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, he was. He's debating that or becoming a bus driver.
You know what is funny is the like you know,
on radio, things change, roles change, and we're all like,
I don't know what we can say and what we
can't say. Right away, when we found out that Iowa
Sam was going to leave the show, Eddie on Eddie
(22:36):
would be like and in his retirement tour is you know,
it's goodbye tour or whatever, Like he's the departing Eddie
didn't waste any time. He's like, oh yeah, Iowa Sam's leaving.
Like he's sitting on the air, I'm like, what are
you doing. You're not supposed to say that.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, I love how Eddie has zero filter. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, And by the way, this might be even more
entertaining than Iowa Sam talk.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
The first left handed president ever jams Garfield.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, that is one twentieth president of the Did you
know Andrew Jackson was the first of seven presidents born
in a log cabin.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I did not know who was the first president that
was a college graduate because there there wasn't a lot
of the early presidents didn't go to college because there
was no college to go to. So they couldn't go
to college because there was no college. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Sean Adams is that right, graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts and he was a waiter right after that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Grover Cleveland the only president in history to hold the
job of a hangman. That Wow, he was a hangman.
He was once that game. He was once the sheriff
of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring
the trap at a hanging so he killed.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, he did that on chalkboards at school the way
we did. He actually had young people.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah. Yeah, did you know that the the S and
Harry S. Truman does not stand for anything. Yeah, so
therefore there is no period after his middle initial. It's
just his parents gave him an S as his middle name.
Middle letter man. All Right, I love presidential random fun
(24:30):
facts about anything. What the hell masshole? Mickey writes in
on the Pot, He says, from the Commonwealth, what is
your number on a concert that you've attended? And that
what made it number one on your big board? Mine
is a tie between a perfect circle and four and
Roger Walter or Waters twenty ten, roughly a week after
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my mom. My mom passed away. That's pretty cool. I
have not been to many content. I can count on
one hand how many concerts I've been to the coolest
experience I ever had was when I did security for
Kiss FM in La of the radio station and they
had the what was it, Wango Tango I think is
(25:15):
what it was called. They still I don't know if
they still do that. There was a Wango Tango concert
and they were so cheap, which is great radio story.
They just had people volunteer to work different jobs at
Wango Tango, and I was a big guy, so they
had me kind of do security and I got to
hang out and escort. They also had professional security, but
(25:36):
I was like, in addition, Hoody and the Blowfish were
the big the big act that I was around in
those days. But so that was like a big fond memory.
But Danny, you've been to I'm sure a bunch of concerts,
many more than I over the years.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
At the hip hop pop up, you probably saw some
Biggie memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, Yeah, there was a bunch of Biggi stuff there
for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah, the legendary notorious Big. I saw him perform at
km EL Summer Jam in Mountain View, California when I
was a kid. It was such a memorable performance because
it was a super a festival show, summer Jam it
used to be. It was super hot that day at
Shoreline Amphitheater, so hot that Biggie's DJ was having trouble
(26:19):
with his vinyl records as he was trying to play
the instrumentals for Biggie to wrap over, and the songs
kept skipping and going off beat, and Biggie got so
pissed he threw a water bottle at his DJ. At
the time, obviously Biggie didn't know why is He must
have thought his DJ had drank too much or something.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It turns out it was so hot his DJ's records warped.
Is that they were.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
From the heat of the sun.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
They were wharping.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And when that happens to a vinyl record, look it
up on the internet. And of course he couldn't stay
on beat. So the poor DJ was doing his and
Biggie just went off on his microphone and people were
scratching their heads wondering what the hell was going on.
But still before that happened, it was amazing to hear
him rap live. And by the way, that was my
(27:11):
very first concert as a kid.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh that's pretty cool. Didn't you tell a story about
that happening to you with the heat in the car?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, I had the same problem.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I drove up to northern California to do a Reunion
gig and it was so hot outside. It was an
outdoor event. It was so hot that my control, my
Serrato control records warped from the sun and the heat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Really hard day to DJ.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, the middle part of California is ridiculously hot. It is.
That's why they grow all the vegetables and all that
stuff there. It's just insane. Audigen's But thank you masshole Mickey.
And you said your mom passed away around twenty ten.
My mom passed in twenty thirteen, so not that far
after that. A Xavier writes, since its Ben, is this
the year I can get my hopes up for your
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Clippers to represent the West and the finals. Well, it
is Hip the Clip, Savior, it is Hip the Clip
And things are looking good right now as long as
we make some kind of deal with the devil. If
the Clippers do win, I know it's gonna happen. Say, well,
it's a conspiracy because Balmer built that arena and they
wanted Balmer to have a trophy and all that when
(28:22):
they move into the Intuit Dome next year. But yeah,
things are looking pretty good. That there are if you
were if you were to look at a big board,
there are roughly five teams that you would say championship,
legitimate shot at championship, and the Clippers are one of
those five teams.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So they're right there in the conversation to win an
NBA championship. But the problem is these guys all get
hurt and they've been mostly healthy, which is shocking. But
I'm always waiting for the other to shoot to drop.
I'm always waiting for the other shoot to.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Drop or and you guys need somebody to never for
Harden when he vomits all over his sneakers.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
No, it's okay because we have four guys. Anybody on
the Clippers is half of what Kobe Bryant is. That
was That was clearly edited. I never never said, is
what you're playing here wrong? One time I sat down
and watched an episode of Like on the Spectrum, which
(29:28):
was a Netflix dating show for people with autism. Does
that sound right?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I saw that. That was pretty crazy. Well, what's the
craziest stuff you watched there, Danny?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I love trash TV. Love Is Blind season six. Have
you heard everybody buzzing about that?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I have her a little talk. I've not seen any
of that.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a girl on there who told the guy they
have a wall between them because they're in a pod. Yeah,
you're not supposed to see what the other person looks like,
and you're not supposed to describe yourself. But the guy
asked her, does anybody tell you you look like any
certain celebrity?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And she made the mistake of telling him Megan Fox,
she looks more like Megan trainer.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Hoo goofed.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, and she.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Has been roasted on social media the past week or so.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's funny, Mike and Fullerton, we do a couple more Mike,
and Fullerton writes in says, I've been and Danny, I've
got a sporty question for you guys this week. Would
you rather be able to slam, dunk or make a
three pointer from anywhere on the court? That's his question.
He says. Also, when your milk is starting to spoil,
do you immediately pour it all out or do you
(30:42):
give it one more go? I give it one more go,
maybe even two yo, says Mike in fulletsin. So as
you know Mike from being a fan of the show.
Back in the day when I played ball, I was
known as Moneyball Maller and you know mister net in
the bottom of the net and all that, and shot the.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Circus shot, Yeah, the high arching shot sponsored by Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Shoes, a rain maker. They called the game was dunker u.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
When I was a kid, I watched there was a
guy named Purvish Short who played in the NBA long
ago and you know, he was old. When I was a.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Kid, never heard of him.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I watched him shoot before. I went to a Clipper game.
Before the Clipper game, and he shot the highest arcing shot.
It was the most beautiful shot. When it went in,
it barely touched the net. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
You know what Crawford used to shoot the ball like that,
Jamal Crawford. Yeah, Jamal Crawford. He shot rainbow threes and
I loved even though I know I wanted the Lakers
to sign him. Yeah, you're right. There were rumors that
he was going to sign with the Lakers. It never
it never happened, and he kind of quietly went off
(32:03):
into the sunset at the end of his career. But boy, man,
I used to love watching him shoot the ball because
it's how you win at a like a theme park.
Yesterday we talked about Universal Studios. Whenever they have that
three point shot to win a stuffed animal, you have
to hiarch the ball like that because they have the
rims smaller than normal, so the ball has to drop
(32:26):
straight down through it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. Jamal Crawford was
a good player for a number of years. Great guy
off the bench for the Lob City Flippers back in
the day. Who else do we have? Keavin Kevin in Kansas,
says Ben and Danyge. Since retiring last spring, I've done
a lot of subbing, which tuts me around coughing, hacking,
(32:49):
and sneezing students of all ages. Currently, I am sucking
on some garlic ear like candy. Well, good for you, Kevin,
That's what I do. I did remember to remove all
that paper like skin this time. Well that is important.
Besides that, what are your guys go to remedies at
this time of the year? Thanks so well. Garlic is mine.
(33:10):
I've talked about that a lot of the years I've
been stayed relatively healthy. I made it through the entire
football season without getting sick and was able to do
the TV show without illness all year, which was pretty cool.
The other thing, which I have added, because my mother
in law is a nurse and it has been a
nurse for many, many years, there's this supplement pack. It's
(33:31):
called Emergency I believe it's what it's called, YEP, and
so I will use that. She recommended it, and since
she's a nurse, I figure she probably knows what she's
talking about. And so when you start feeling sick, I
do the garlic and then I supplement that with It's
a little powder mix and you can get it at
Costco or any.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Of the big Costco is the best place to get
it because you get a big pack for an affordable price.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's like tangerine flavor. They have different flavors and just
mix it with water and take it like a shot.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
A teacher invented that airborne years ago, and after airborne
emergency merged onto the scene, and that's been a really
popular thing. Right before you get on an airplane and
when you're traveling, because obviously you're breathing all the same
air as all the other passengers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, so those are those are a couple of things.
Any other remedies from the old country.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Danny got to take a lot of zinc and just
a ton of fluid's a ton of water. Yeah, you
really got to drink a shit ton of waters, zinc
and emergency.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, thank you, Kevin. By the way, you're retired, but
you're still teaching, so you're kind of not I mean,
I know you do it when you want subbing, but
you're still still out there. You're still in the battlefield,
Ian writes, says, my question is can you please stop
yelling number one? It kills my ear drums. Other than that,
the show is great, well, Ian, it's kind of what
we do on the show. I did. I want to
(34:59):
mention Jonathan from Delaware, formerly from Philly, Barry from South Carolina,
and my guy Mason the Millennial. All those guys, and
there were several others that had got right down the names.
They sent very nice messages. They were saddened about Rachel
from Montabello's passing, so thank you, thank you for that. Also,
I saw Mason. He was upset with the toolbag Carol.
(35:25):
He said, and I don't have time to read that, Mason,
but I thank you for your message. We learned this
week that Mason the Millennial, the nicest comas mellowist guy
that just like smokes weed all the time's kind of cool.
Mellow guy actually went to jail for dealing drugs. That
was kind of wild. That was a wild fun fact
that we learned this week.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Smoke weed every day.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Anyway, I'll be back tonight on the radio on the
radio eleven pm in the West and two am in
the East. I think this is a big week coming up, Danny.
If I'm correct, I think the scouting Combine.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Is that starts on Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, so we've got the scouting Combine to look forward to,
which will feed the content machine of sports radio.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So how many times are we going to hear announcers
say guys running in their underwear?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
The underwear Olympics are my favorite? The underwear LERI it's
a meat market. I will use all those terms on
the radio. All. I will use all of them absolutely,
the scouting combine, and I cannot wait to see the
vertical jump, the three cone drill, and the sixty yard shuttle.
(36:37):
That is what I look forward to, right, All it's
the measurables. You got to get all the lingo, Danny.
It's all about the measurables, right, all about the eye test, coachability.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, did you hear this year they added the groupie impregnation.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh that's a that's a big one, right Instagram booty
models for a thousand sliding into the DMS. They can
add that to the get it anyway. I have a
wonderful day, and Danny, you'll be back tomorrow, right Gomino
and Rich.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, Monday afternoon for a fun show with Last One Standing,
our game where you can hear Ben's voice in the
imaging the big production. Ben says, last one Standing, and
then the beat starts and I come in for the game.
It's a fun game. Monday afternoon two to four pm
on the West. That's five to seven pm in beautiful
South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Charleston, South Carolina, which I will be visiting first time ever.
At some point in a couple of months, I'll be
in Charleston. I have a wonderful, wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a 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 air away the fifth Hour. You already do
that with me, Ben Hu and Danny Danny g right
there as we keep your company all week in long
eight days a week, Double duty, double duty. Today this Sunday,
(00:49):
the twenty fifth day of the month of February, which
means that not only do you get this podcast, but
then tonight, depending on where you are on the West Coast,
Sunday night, I will begin the new week of programming
at Fox Sports Radio at eleven o'clock. But for people
on the East Coast, where most people live, that'll be
two am early on Monday morning. Early on Monday morning,
(01:13):
So well we are we're doing double duty today, but
celebrating National Chocolate Covered Nut Day, which is always an
important day, so I always I love chocolate covered almonds nuts.
It's also quiet day. I guess we're not celebrating quiet Day,
Danny today. We're not doing that, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have much to get to.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So six month old was just screaming in the background
a minute ago. So he's definitely not partaking in that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Is he cursing? Is he called any more words since
we last spoke, Danny, you know nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Just dad dat.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You should write. You should write a children's book. Baby's
first F word? You know? That would be That would
be funny, that would be good.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It'll be titled says.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A little call was seven months old when he blurted
out fuck and we all laughed and lived happily ever
after and all that stuff. So before we get to
the mailbag, do I did want to go to something
we haven't done in a long time. We've had no
reason to do it. Uh, And that would be the
(02:27):
back scratcher. And so we go to the Apple podcast
page where you can write a review for this podcast
and help us out. Twizzle writes, in and enjoyed the
podcast we did about the dogs going to the dogs.
He says, this show going to the dogs, and that
is a great thingerferf. The show about your new fur
(02:50):
babies was spectacular. I love when you guys let us
in and don't worry. They say short lives for bulldogs,
but our first two English bulldogs both lived thirteen years.
Well that's that's wonderful. I love the English bulldog. Now
the wife thinks that we can't have them forever, because
(03:11):
I'm like, oh, we'll just have English bulldogs the rest
of my life, because when we get old, like I'm
I'm kind of getting old. I'm not old yet, but
when I really get old and I can't really lift stuff.
These things are so heavy, these bulldogs that we'll have
to get like go back to a Belli sized dog,
one of those lap dogs and just go with that.
But I think I'll be all right for a while.
I think I think I can pick Moxie up. I'm
(03:32):
not that weak, not yet. You know, I got some
time before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Either that or you'll have to have hospice doggie care.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, that's what was it we mentioned this? I think
Ioa Sam told me that Jimmy Carter, President Jick Carter
went into hospice and then went out of hospice, Like,
how many times does that happen? Usually when you go
into hospice, it's a one way street, right, you don't
usually get out of there. That's it. It's lights out. Yeah, rely, Samley,
(04:04):
take a deep breath. Stay.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I didn't think anybody rebounded from that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, that's a that was pretty crazy. I was like, wow,
that's that's not so all right. Time now to open
up the bill bag and you know what that means.
It's bound all right jah. Thank you to ohiou our
(04:40):
buddy who has been a part of this podcast for
a while. He's the musical guy without compensation, without compensation. Uh.
These are actual letters from actual listeners to the show.
They have either posted these on social media platforms, sent
them via direct message, or the most popular way that
we get these messages is via the email Real fifth
(05:00):
Hour at gmail dot com, but also the Facebook page.
There's some people that post on Facebook. So the first
email comes from Dan, who is in Miami. Dan says
bandon Danny, I love the show, but I think you
guys should change the name of it. It's called the
fifth Hour podcast. But you have not done a podcast
(05:22):
that has been an actual hour in many many months.
What gives well, Dan, that is I believe when's the
last time we did an hour? Probably an interview or something, Right,
it's been a while since we did an hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's been a while.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But originally you were only supposed to be doing one podcast.
So the fact that we do three, technically it's well
over an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, and Danny, boy, you Schmuck'm sorry, I'll be played.
Send an email. So here's the way it works, Dan,
in the podcast game, we have the data follow the
science is no, the analytics. We follow the analytics.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We follow the analytics, Danny. And it has been determined
by those in the podcast game that the sweet spot
for a podcast is around thirty minutes, that anything over
thirty minutes is a waste of everyone's time. Now, what
about Joe Rogan dance? Probably so Joe Rogan does five
hour podcasts. Okay, I get it. He also, how much
(06:30):
does Joe Rogan make from Spotify? Do you know how
much he's making there over at Spotify?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Danny? It's a five seventy eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, Now, if we got five hundred and seventy eight million.
I think Danny, you'd agree if we shared that money,
we would do four hour podcast every other day, right,
we do four our five.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Hover of course.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah I made that number up, by the way, but
it's something gross like that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So Dan, if you want to be the sugar Daddy,
we will give you more pod. But the sweet spot
for a podcast is about thirty minutes, because that's how
long a lot of people listen to podcasts. When they
go for a walk, they'll walk the dog so the
dogs can shit, or they'll go to the gym and
they'll be on the treadmill for thirty minutes, and that's
when people consume podcasts.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Or they'll commute for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, exactly. Most people have a commute about thirty minutes,
or maybe they'll listen to a couple of podcasts. But
thirty minutes is the sweet spot. So that is why
most of the podcasts are about thirty minutes. But it
is if you listen to a terrestrial radio show with
all the commercials and all that, yeah, you're getting, you know,
maybe only a little more than thirty minutes of content,
but in like forty two minutes of content or something
(07:36):
like that. I think, yeah, something like that. Next up
we stay in Florida, but we go up from Miami
to Weis. We're big in Florida. Joe in Vero Beach Rights,
says Ben and Danny says Ben. I enjoy the Overnight show.
I miss Danny on the show. Would like to meet you. Ben.
In twenty twenty four, Well, that's very nice of you,
(07:56):
Joe that you want to meet me, he says, do
you have a schedule of Malor meet and greets? Also
Big Lou from the LBC had a similar question. He says,
in twenty twenty four, will there be any meet and
greets at sporting events? For example, you did the Malor
meet and greet at the Inland Empire sixty six ers
game back in the day where the first pitches happened. Yah,
we've done a couple of those first pitch things. I
(08:19):
haven't done those in years. Would love to do it.
We'd love to do it, but there's nothing played right now.
Big Lou and Joe, I'm pretty confident that we will
do at least one Mallard meet and greet in southern California.
Last year, I convinced my wife to go to Minnesota
to meet the fans of the show, and it was
a wonderful time thanks to spin Cycle Regina who set
(08:41):
that up. Had a wonderful event at the Mermaid and
other than the speeding ticket I got, but other than that,
it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed Minnesota.
It was great, went all over the state, went up
to the Louth, as you guys know, Big Lou because
you're listening to this stuff. But there's nothing planned. I
don't think I convince my wife. I can convince her
(09:01):
two years in a row to just go on vacation
to meet listeners of the show. I don't think that
can happen two years in a row. But what may happen.
I know I have to go to North Carolina. There's
a my Actually I'm going to South Carolin. I'm going
to South and North Carolina because my niece I'm getting boy,
(09:24):
I'm getting old, she's graduating from college. I'll be in Charleston,
South Carolina. And then my wife's one of her relatives
lives in North Carolina. So since we're gonna be in
the South anyway, we're gonna drive from from South Carolina
Charleston up to some town I don't even know which
(09:45):
in North Carolina. So there's a chance I may be
able to do a flash mob malor meet and if
anyone knows somebody like in either Charleston or somewhere I
don't even know the town, I'll have to look up
the town. I'll have to say it in a future
episode where I kind of the general area I will be.
(10:07):
But if somebody has like a bar, a restaurant, or
has a friend that does have something that we can
meet at, that's always the hardest part is to find
out where to meet. I did a mallord flash mob
Mala meat and greet in Appleton, Wisconsin. I was visiting
my brother and we didn't have a restaurant, but my
brother had a friend that owned a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, Wisconsin,
(10:29):
like a Mexican fusion restaurant, and so I said, Hey,
We're doing a flash mob Malla meat greet this restaurant
in Appleton. And then people were like, what are you doing?
Why are you eating Mexican food in Appleton, Wisconsin? What's
wrong with you? Busted my balls. There's nothing planned. We
will do at least one in southern California. I think
that's pretty safe to say. I think we have a
venue that is interested in hosting us. Gordon Rightszza Parla. Yeah,
(10:54):
let's go a bunch of lunch, Gordon writes, and he says, Ben,
I love you your show, You're supporting cast Danny everybody,
but you ruin my sleep? What the F? I think
we have a funny bone In commed he says, I'm retired.
I moved to Florida. Moved from Florida, rather from Florida
(11:15):
to Pickens, South Carolina. Oh maybe I'll meet Gordon when
I go to South Carolina. I don't where's Pickens, South Carolina?
Never heard of that? He says. My wife also retired
from a family therapy practice. I taught in university and
have been in business. But funny stuff is my heart.
And he talks about his casting arounds creative outlet. He
(11:38):
started a Facebook group called the Parking Club dedicated to
parking as close as your destination or store as close
to your destination of store as you possibly are able to,
and he says points are self awarded. He says, I
love that kind of stuff. Well, that's that's very funny.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Gordon.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I love it. I could win a lot of points
on that. The closest I've ever parked at a store
was in Kawai where your your your Spawn there has
a named after we were There was a big storm
that passed through like a flash storm. We were in
a kmart in Kawai and this massive store of storm
(12:25):
came through and the lights actually went out. The power
went out in the kmar and so I, oh, crap,
we got to get out of here. You know, I
can send a kmar. I think that place closed. We're
going out of business anyway. So the wife was there,
so I was like, all right, and I'll do the
adult thing. So I went out in the storm and
it slowed down a little bit, and I pulled the
(12:47):
car up and drove on the sidewalk right to the
front of the door of the kmart so the wife
could get in there in the rainstorm. I was technically
parked right in front of the door of a kmart.
What about you, Danny any close parking.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's a little bit of a remix though, because it's
somebody parking very close to me. It was their destination.
Though out kicked the coverage. I had my car parked
on a level by itself where nobody usually parked at
that time in the morning. Veto our production guy came in.
He showed me a picture on his phone and he's like,
(13:25):
look at what some asshole did to your car. No, boy,
one hundred spots wide opened. Somebody parked so close to
my car there was no way they opened their door
and could get out, so I guess they got out
through their passenger side, which freaked me out. I'm like,
why did somebody do that? I still I have a
(13:46):
picture of it. I still have never figured out who
did that or why?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Trying to bust your balls, That's what it felt like.
That has happened a few times where I've come out
to my car and somebody parked so close I couldn't
get in my car. Are that is the worst.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
They were blocking their own driver's side by being so
close to my passenger side.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Got you, got you? Got you?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah? Very strange.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
That is bizarre, Like did this person crawl out the
back of their vehicle?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What is that about? Jim writes in from Parts Unknown?
He says, hey, guys, enjoyed the podcast? How much? He says,
how much of your show? Is scripted, and how much
time do you spend writing it. Who sits on the
writing sessions. Well, Jim, as you know, I'm the talent.
So Cooper Loup actually writes the entire show. Yeah, he's
(14:37):
the head writer on the show. And then Eddie is
part of that, and iowa Sam and then I rolled
in about a minute before the show. Sometimes I'll even
come in after the show starts and I'll sit down
and I'll just they hand me the copy.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Remember when you worked on the show, Danny, we did
the table read during the day. That was always exciting.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
That was fun and I really like you got to
mention who still works for our group there downstairs.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He is the teleprompter man.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, that's right, even though you don't.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Use teleprompter for television the way Looney does you use
a teleprompter for your live radio show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, so everything is you know, I don't know how
much time they spend it on They probably spend about
eight nine hours a day writing the scripts for the
monologues in fact checking, you know, we're rapping and all that.
And it's really good too. I just roll in there
and then whatever they write, I just read it. I'm
like a train seal. I just bounce the ball on
(15:36):
my head and I read the copy. It's a It's
a great way to work, you know. And I really
want to thank Coop and those guys for writing the
show because it means a lot. It does, and it
makes my life easy. Danny, I get all the glory.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
People say, oh, man, you write these big monologues. You
start like at five o'clock in the afternoon getting ready
for the show. That's amazing, right, That's nuts. I mean,
but no, I don't. I don't. I'm sitting on my ass.
I'm watching YouTube videos.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
That's what I'm doing. I'm not. Come on, you think
I'm the talent. You think I would spend time writing
scripts for a radio.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's radio.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Even though a lot of people don't know this about you,
But even though it's twenty twenty four, you're still capturing
Pokemon on your phone.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yeah, I love Pokemon. I'm playing Mario Brothers. I'm
old school man. I'm going to the art I'm going
to the Arcade. I got the Orange Julius. I'm playing
Tron all the old video games. Great time. Yeah, thank you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You're going into Hollywood video.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Steve in Chicago. It's Chicago adjacent, Steve says. He says,
Ben and Danny. I know this is not a political podcast,
but oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now, when the word butt is said, you know what
means what that means? Right, when the word butt is there,
that means that whatever you just said is live and
you don't believe whatever you just say.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
About to be a big ass, that's the.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Butt, yeah, he says. But Steve says, we need the
malor wisdom. How do we get younger people to run
and become president of the United States? Yeah, well, I
guess you got to offer more money. I guess I
(17:26):
don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, this is interesting because Alex Tyshirt, Rob Gara, Wrong Button, Bob,
and myself. Just a couple of weeks ago, somebody in
the studio brought that up that we haven't had young
leadership in our country for a long time. We got
all these dudes that are the age of our grandparents.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, it's you know, Trump is seventy. I guess he
turns seventy eight this summer. Biden turned eighty one last November.
I mean, so there are already on borrowed time, right,
the average American male lifespans I think seventy five. I
think so they're already in bonus time. They're in overtime
(18:08):
right now. Good for them. Although Trump seems to be
doing better than Biden. But I who's I guess they
I'm mumbling here. But Obama didn't. They thought when Obama
won he was considered the young hip guy. But how
old was he when he became president.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, that's a good question. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, let me see. I'm pulling that up right now.
Let's go go godget go, Internet go.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I think I have it. I have it. I have it, Danny,
I win the race.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
My internet gave me a big middle.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Forty seven years and one hundred and sixty nine days
at the time of inauguration. See the youngest president. People
think it's John F. Kennedy, But the youngest president was
Theodore Roosevelt when at the time of inauguration he was
forty two years, three hundred, three hundred and twenty two days. Yes,
(19:11):
he was a little younger than John F. Kenny Bill Clinton.
Way back in the nineties, he was actually the third youngest.
So we did have in our lifetimes. A a real
young I guess, but no one. What's the minimum age
to be president? Is it forty? Is that the minimum
age to be president?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Thirty five?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I think you're not gonna get anyone younger than that,
So yeah, I don't. It's an interesting question, Steven, if
we had the answer. But you got to go to
politics when you're in your twenties, and you gotta but
you gotta have that. Rathmetask the other problem. Let's be
honest here, most of the people that are into politics
are older, right, for some reason. Before you check it out,
(19:51):
you suddenly become very concerned about politics. And it's like
the new sports. It's when you're younger, you pull for
the for the Dodger of the Reds. I mean, you
get older, it's team blue or team red. It's the
that's what it's about.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I still can't listen to political talk radio. It's just
so boring to me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I could, I could make it to make it
somewhat better.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You could make him through ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, I'm backuld if I did it, I could make it. Interestingly,
the average presidents are sworn in at age fifty.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Five. I know Reagan was almost seventy four, right, because
he was the oldest prior to Biden.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, no, actually Trump Trump Trump Reagan and then Biden
Trump Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, Reagan was the oldest. He was sixty nine, almost
seventy years old, sixty nine years three.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hundred and then seventy three when he was reelected, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The second time. But uh, Trump seventy years old when
he was elected the forty fifth president, and then Biden
seventy eight. Man a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, we just had President's Day a week or so ago,
some fun presidential facts.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Thanks to you, Steve and your little butt that you
tossed in there. Tim and Iowa or Tim Wrightson not
in Iowa? Say, is that Iowa Sam moving on to
the dreaded first shift and where? Uh? Yeah, this has
been going on for several months, but Iowa sim Is
is leaving the overnight and I think are we allowed
(21:26):
to say where we'll be hanging out? Danny, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
We've all had our fingers up our butts on this
one because we were waiting for somebody to be trained
on some of the weekend shows that way Lorena could
move and join your show. And Iowa Sam, I believe
he is going to be now in charge of mopping
the fifth floor of our building day.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
But only the fifth floor, not the fourth or the sixth,
only the.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Fifth floor, just the fifth floor.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He just has to do it Monday through Friday because
nothing gets dirty on the weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, and he said he wanted better hours, so they
said nine am to three pm, you're sweeping the fifth floor.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yes, it's a promotion.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
They're actually paying them five dollars more per hour than
for what he did on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, he was. He's debating that or becoming a bus driver.
You know what is funny is the like you know,
on radio, things change, roles change, and we're all like,
I don't know what we can say and what we
can't say. Right away, when we found out that Iowa
Sam was going to leave the show, Eddie on Eddie
(22:36):
would be like and in his retirement tour is you know,
it's goodbye tour or whatever, Like he's the departing Eddie
didn't waste any time. He's like, oh yeah, Iowa Sam's leaving.
Like he's sitting on the air, I'm like, what are
you doing. You're not supposed to say that.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, I love how Eddie has zero filter. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, And by the way, this might be even more
entertaining than Iowa Sam talk.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
The first left handed president ever jams Garfield.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, that is one twentieth president of the Did you
know Andrew Jackson was the first of seven presidents born
in a log cabin.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I did not know who was the first president that
was a college graduate because there there wasn't a lot
of the early presidents didn't go to college because there
was no college to go to. So they couldn't go
to college because there was no college. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Sean Adams is that right, graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts and he was a waiter right after that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Grover Cleveland the only president in history to hold the
job of a hangman. That Wow, he was a hangman.
He was once that game. He was once the sheriff
of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring
the trap at a hanging so he killed.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, he did that on chalkboards at school the way
we did. He actually had young people.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah. Yeah, did you know that the the S and
Harry S. Truman does not stand for anything. Yeah, so
therefore there is no period after his middle initial. It's
just his parents gave him an S as his middle name.
Middle letter man. All Right, I love presidential random fun
(24:30):
facts about anything. What the hell masshole? Mickey writes in
on the Pot, He says, from the Commonwealth, what is
your number on a concert that you've attended? And that
what made it number one on your big board? Mine
is a tie between a perfect circle and four and
Roger Walter or Waters twenty ten, roughly a week after
(24:55):
my mom. My mom passed away. That's pretty cool. I
have not been to many content. I can count on
one hand how many concerts I've been to the coolest
experience I ever had was when I did security for
Kiss FM in La of the radio station and they
had the what was it, Wango Tango I think is
(25:15):
what it was called. They still I don't know if
they still do that. There was a Wango Tango concert
and they were so cheap, which is great radio story.
They just had people volunteer to work different jobs at
Wango Tango, and I was a big guy, so they
had me kind of do security and I got to
hang out and escort. They also had professional security, but
(25:36):
I was like, in addition, Hoody and the Blowfish were
the big the big act that I was around in
those days. But so that was like a big fond memory.
But Danny, you've been to I'm sure a bunch of concerts,
many more than I over the years.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
At the hip hop pop up, you probably saw some
Biggie memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, Yeah, there was a bunch of Biggi stuff there
for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah, the legendary notorious Big. I saw him perform at
km EL Summer Jam in Mountain View, California when I
was a kid. It was such a memorable performance because
it was a super a festival show, summer Jam it
used to be. It was super hot that day at
Shoreline Amphitheater, so hot that Biggie's DJ was having trouble
(26:19):
with his vinyl records as he was trying to play
the instrumentals for Biggie to wrap over, and the songs
kept skipping and going off beat, and Biggie got so
pissed he threw a water bottle at his DJ. At
the time, obviously Biggie didn't know why is He must
have thought his DJ had drank too much or something.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It turns out it was so hot his DJ's records warped.
Is that they were.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
From the heat of the sun.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
They were wharping.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And when that happens to a vinyl record, look it
up on the internet. And of course he couldn't stay
on beat. So the poor DJ was doing his and
Biggie just went off on his microphone and people were
scratching their heads wondering what the hell was going on.
But still before that happened, it was amazing to hear
him rap live. And by the way, that was my
(27:11):
very first concert as a kid.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh that's pretty cool. Didn't you tell a story about
that happening to you with the heat in the car?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, I had the same problem.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I drove up to northern California to do a Reunion
gig and it was so hot outside. It was an
outdoor event. It was so hot that my control, my
Serrato control records warped from the sun and the heat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Really hard day to DJ.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, the middle part of California is ridiculously hot. It is.
That's why they grow all the vegetables and all that
stuff there. It's just insane. Audigen's But thank you masshole Mickey.
And you said your mom passed away around twenty ten.
My mom passed in twenty thirteen, so not that far
after that. A Xavier writes, since its Ben, is this
the year I can get my hopes up for your
(28:00):
Clippers to represent the West and the finals. Well, it
is Hip the Clip, Savior, it is Hip the Clip
And things are looking good right now as long as
we make some kind of deal with the devil. If
the Clippers do win, I know it's gonna happen. Say, well,
it's a conspiracy because Balmer built that arena and they
wanted Balmer to have a trophy and all that when
(28:22):
they move into the Intuit Dome next year. But yeah,
things are looking pretty good. That there are if you
were if you were to look at a big board,
there are roughly five teams that you would say championship,
legitimate shot at championship, and the Clippers are one of
those five teams.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So they're right there in the conversation to win an
NBA championship. But the problem is these guys all get
hurt and they've been mostly healthy, which is shocking. But
I'm always waiting for the other to shoot to drop.
I'm always waiting for the other shoot to.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Drop or and you guys need somebody to never for
Harden when he vomits all over his sneakers.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
No, it's okay because we have four guys. Anybody on
the Clippers is half of what Kobe Bryant is. That
was That was clearly edited. I never never said, is
what you're playing here wrong? One time I sat down
and watched an episode of Like on the Spectrum, which
(29:28):
was a Netflix dating show for people with autism. Does
that sound right?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I saw that. That was pretty crazy. Well, what's the
craziest stuff you watched there, Danny?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I love trash TV. Love Is Blind season six. Have
you heard everybody buzzing about that?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I have her a little talk. I've not seen any
of that.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a girl on there who told the guy they
have a wall between them because they're in a pod. Yeah,
you're not supposed to see what the other person looks like,
and you're not supposed to describe yourself. But the guy
asked her, does anybody tell you you look like any
certain celebrity?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And she made the mistake of telling him Megan Fox,
she looks more like Megan trainer.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Hoo goofed.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, and she.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Has been roasted on social media the past week or so.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's funny, Mike and Fullerton, we do a couple more Mike,
and Fullerton writes in says, I've been and Danny, I've
got a sporty question for you guys this week. Would
you rather be able to slam, dunk or make a
three pointer from anywhere on the court? That's his question.
He says. Also, when your milk is starting to spoil,
do you immediately pour it all out or do you
(30:42):
give it one more go? I give it one more go,
maybe even two yo, says Mike in fulletsin. So as
you know Mike from being a fan of the show.
Back in the day when I played ball, I was
known as Moneyball Maller and you know mister net in
the bottom of the net and all that, and shot the.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Circus shot, Yeah, the high arching shot sponsored by Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Shoes, a rain maker. They called the game was dunker u.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
When I was a kid, I watched there was a
guy named Purvish Short who played in the NBA long
ago and you know, he was old. When I was a.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Kid, never heard of him.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I watched him shoot before. I went to a Clipper game.
Before the Clipper game, and he shot the highest arcing shot.
It was the most beautiful shot. When it went in,
it barely touched the net. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
You know what Crawford used to shoot the ball like that,
Jamal Crawford. Yeah, Jamal Crawford. He shot rainbow threes and
I loved even though I know I wanted the Lakers
to sign him. Yeah, you're right. There were rumors that
he was going to sign with the Lakers. It never
it never happened, and he kind of quietly went off
(32:03):
into the sunset at the end of his career. But boy, man,
I used to love watching him shoot the ball because
it's how you win at a like a theme park.
Yesterday we talked about Universal Studios. Whenever they have that
three point shot to win a stuffed animal, you have
to hiarch the ball like that because they have the
rims smaller than normal, so the ball has to drop
(32:26):
straight down through it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. Jamal Crawford was
a good player for a number of years. Great guy
off the bench for the Lob City Flippers back in
the day. Who else do we have? Keavin Kevin in Kansas,
says Ben and Danyge. Since retiring last spring, I've done
a lot of subbing, which tuts me around coughing, hacking,
(32:49):
and sneezing students of all ages. Currently, I am sucking
on some garlic ear like candy. Well, good for you, Kevin,
That's what I do. I did remember to remove all
that paper like skin this time. Well that is important.
Besides that, what are your guys go to remedies at
this time of the year? Thanks so well. Garlic is mine.
(33:10):
I've talked about that a lot of the years I've
been stayed relatively healthy. I made it through the entire
football season without getting sick and was able to do
the TV show without illness all year, which was pretty cool.
The other thing, which I have added, because my mother
in law is a nurse and it has been a
nurse for many, many years, there's this supplement pack. It's
(33:31):
called Emergency I believe it's what it's called, YEP, and
so I will use that. She recommended it, and since
she's a nurse, I figure she probably knows what she's
talking about. And so when you start feeling sick, I
do the garlic and then I supplement that with It's
a little powder mix and you can get it at
Costco or any.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Of the big Costco is the best place to get
it because you get a big pack for an affordable price.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's like tangerine flavor. They have different flavors and just
mix it with water and take it like a shot.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
A teacher invented that airborne years ago, and after airborne
emergency merged onto the scene, and that's been a really
popular thing. Right before you get on an airplane and
when you're traveling, because obviously you're breathing all the same
air as all the other passengers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, so those are those are a couple of things.
Any other remedies from the old country.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Danny got to take a lot of zinc and just
a ton of fluid's a ton of water. Yeah, you
really got to drink a shit ton of waters, zinc
and emergency.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, thank you, Kevin. By the way, you're retired, but
you're still teaching, so you're kind of not I mean,
I know you do it when you want subbing, but
you're still still out there. You're still in the battlefield,
Ian writes, says, my question is can you please stop
yelling number one? It kills my ear drums. Other than that,
the show is great, well, Ian, it's kind of what
we do on the show. I did. I want to
(34:59):
mention Jonathan from Delaware, formerly from Philly, Barry from South Carolina,
and my guy Mason the Millennial. All those guys, and
there were several others that had got right down the names.
They sent very nice messages. They were saddened about Rachel
from Montabello's passing, so thank you, thank you for that. Also,
I saw Mason. He was upset with the toolbag Carol.
(35:25):
He said, and I don't have time to read that, Mason,
but I thank you for your message. We learned this
week that Mason the Millennial, the nicest comas mellowist guy
that just like smokes weed all the time's kind of cool.
Mellow guy actually went to jail for dealing drugs. That
was kind of wild. That was a wild fun fact
that we learned this week.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Smoke weed every day.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Anyway, I'll be back tonight on the radio on the
radio eleven pm in the West and two am in
the East. I think this is a big week coming up, Danny.
If I'm correct, I think the scouting Combine.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Is that starts on Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, so we've got the scouting Combine to look forward to,
which will feed the content machine of sports radio.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So how many times are we going to hear announcers
say guys running in their underwear?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
The underwear Olympics are my favorite? The underwear LERI it's
a meat market. I will use all those terms on
the radio. All. I will use all of them absolutely,
the scouting combine, and I cannot wait to see the
vertical jump, the three cone drill, and the sixty yard shuttle.
(36:37):
That is what I look forward to, right, All it's
the measurables. You got to get all the lingo, Danny.
It's all about the measurables, right, all about the eye test, coachability.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, did you hear this year they added the groupie impregnation.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh that's a that's a big one, right Instagram booty
models for a thousand sliding into the DMS. They can
add that to the get it anyway. I have a
wonderful day, and Danny, you'll be back tomorrow, right Gomino
and Rich.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, Monday afternoon for a fun show with Last One Standing,
our game where you can hear Ben's voice in the
imaging the big production. Ben says, last one Standing, and
then the beat starts and I come in for the game.
It's a fun game. Monday afternoon two to four pm
on the West. That's five to seven pm in beautiful
South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Charleston, South Carolina, which I will be visiting first time ever.
At some point in a couple of months, I'll be
in Charleston. I have a wonderful, wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go.
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