May 6, 2022 • 36 mins
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The fellas serve up a classic Friday podcast, as Ben travels the U.S. and visits Militia members. Ben makes a special appearance and Danny puts the greatest moments of the live Maller show and 5th Hour podcast together! Laughter ensues when Ben bribes Coop to eat a day old Burger King hot dog! Benny is on Super Bowl Radio Row with Scott Ferrall, then the legend seemingly does a line right during Ben's interview! Danny impersonates the great Rob Parker and has the infamous Carole Baskin on FSR! Plus, a 2015 "Ask Ben" moment!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It is
yet another weekend of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g back at it. You might say, wait
a minute, you told me you were not gonna be here.
You said, Ben, there's no new podcast because you're traveling. Well,
(00:48):
that was partially true. This is a new podcast. It
is timeless. Think of this podcast as honey wrong because
they has eternal life, shelf life. It never goes bad.
If I would open a business, I would sell honey
because I don't have to worry about the honeygoing bad.
(01:10):
You can sell honey from a hundred years ago, two
hundred years ago. Uh, and it doesn't matter little taste.
I am technically away and so my guy, Danny G
Radio has put together a cornucopia of audio gold all
weekend long today and the rest of the weekend. And
(01:33):
it's some of our favorite moments, some of the great
moments from the live overnight show, and things you may
have missed from the podcast. It's for your listening pleasures.
So here you go today's fresh edition of The Fifth
Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Enjoy the This
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is that Danny g takeover? Was that a good enough
evil laugh? Alright? So one live show moment that I
get asked about the most is when coope ate that
hot dog from Burger King that had been sitting for
twelve to seventeen hours. This was and I actually looked
(02:27):
it up. Matched dot com has an article about back
when Burger King was trying to push hot dogs. Says
that they were trying to add it to their already
expansive menu. B K wanted to take over the hot
dog game, but when a Burger King fan took to
read it to mention how the menu item had been discontinued,
one user said, I tried them once and they sucked small, hard,
(02:51):
rubbery hot dogs lost in a seed of relish and mustard.
Another major complaint against the Burger King hot dogs was
that they were frequently burnt. I want a mature guy.
Several Twitter users mentioned being disappointed by the dog and
the fact that it was too burnt to enjoy. Burger
King's hot dogs did not live up to their height
(03:12):
and couldn't steal the show for more trustworthy items on
the menu, like the whopper. This article says back when
Burger King was trying to promote that they were adding
hot dogs two different ones, a chili cheese dog and
their regular dog earf with onions, relish, mustard, and catch up.
(03:34):
The relish is what really killed Coop and almost had
him puking. We were dying laughing. You are really going
to enjoy this clip the Benn Mather Show on Fox.
Later this aurady balderdash. I have an idea. Do you
have any money? And do you have any cash? ID
never carry cash on me? All right, let me bring
(03:58):
Coop and Danny Jane. Coop, are you hungry? Coop? Justin Cooper?
Are you hungry? I'm always husky man. Well, now that's
I don't want all right, all right, all right, would
you like to get a meal and some money? Coop?
He's looking his heads on a swivel. He's like what's
going on here? Being set up for something? I will
(04:20):
pay you to eat a meal? Are you okay with that?
I don't know what is it? Do you enjoy hot dogs?
I'm not eating that hot dog. I cannot. Oh. No,
Coop is turning down food, and I don't understand why,
(04:41):
because he's eating stuff that's been left here over twenty
four hours before. I don't see what the problem is. Look,
I explained before, because it was not everyone's in our
building here at the guy called Fox Sports Radio Studios
the hollow ground we walk in, but we come in
here and in our little break room, someone had left
what looks to be a delicious hot dog with relish
(05:01):
and onions on it. And it's just perfect. It's the
perfect hot dog, and it's been sitting there our entire show.
I am willing, Coop, if you want, I'll throw some
money in. I think Danny g is good for a
couple of bucks. Also, Eddie, I guess doesn't have any cash,
but I could dig around to see if I could pick,
you know, like ten cents or something. We'll throw some
money down. How much would it take? And the reason, well,
(05:24):
we're all you know, we're doing overnights here, coop. But
what would it take to get you to take a
nice big bite of that hot dog? Just one bite? Well,
it's got to be a large Well, that's just getting
very graphic. You've got to take a significant it's exactly
exactly like you want a large amount of the dog.
You gotta. I will allow you to warm it up
(05:45):
if you want. The hot dog was playing this, This
would be easy, but there's been like condiment stuff sitting
on it all day. It's soaking in there. Well, I
think our our rat care of some of that. Danny.
It looks like we're on the left side. No, he's
right there on the left side of the dog. Examin
he's not gonna eat it now the other side, Yeah,
(06:08):
I mean you could eat the other side. This is
the other side looks like it's untouched. And then well,
I'll let you eat the other side. You don't if
you eat the side which looks like the rat took
a little fifteen dollars, that is all, and for for
twenty I'll take a bite off the rats. Oh my god,
but we get to periscope, We get to periscope. Hell yeah, piscope.
(06:32):
But if he's gonna do. Let me let me go
look at the host already getting I haven't. I haven't
seen it for a while. I think it's decomposing right now,
go look at it and make your decision. There, Go
look at it all right. It is the The Benn
Mallar Show on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
(06:56):
I wish I had gone a hundred and eight miles
an hour. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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(07:20):
can tweet me Eddie Garcia at Eddie on Fox Little Taste. Yeah,
that's what Coop is contemplating. I just tweeted out a
picture of him with the hot dog. Will he eat it?
And how much will it cost? That's next, here's Ben Maller. Yeah,
well that's the big issue that's on that's the burning question.
(07:43):
We've got Alex who is the technical producer for Fox
Sports Daybreaking. Here he's already pulled out fifteen large. I
got a match, and he says he's he's thrown at
that row on money. You sent a photo. Let's see
what I got here? Uh so I better match that.
(08:05):
I'll match the fifteen. I'll match. So that's thirty. I'll
match the fifteen. Danny, you want to add throw something
in there? What do you You don't have to throw
fifteen and it's a lot. Yeah, I'm like the looneys.
I got five on five all right, so that's thirty five, Eddie,
what do you want to throw in the pot? Can
I pay him later? See? I don't I don't know.
(08:26):
I don't know that Alex is willing to throw in
the whole fifteen. I think he said he said all
fifteen is out. You're committing him. He's all in on
the fifteen. Now I'll put in five as well. So
it's a forty dollar way now to eat the entire
hot here's the go on periscope. Just in case he
(08:47):
doesn't ready to do this now, I don't know if
he's gonna do it, Just get ready, Well, how can
they fight it on periscope? Just in case, Just in case,
the periscope addresses Eddie E D D I E on
F s R Eddie on F second to get it
up here, I get it up just in case. No sausage.
(09:08):
I sent out a tweet. Yes I want to that's
what a hot dog is, a sausage. That's another way
to say. All right, so, Coop, this is forty dollars
now for for our forty dollars that we're all putting
in here, this is what we get, all right, We
get the joy of watching you eat the dog. You
cannot eat it up. It's been sitting around for at
least twelve hours here at Fox Sports Radio. At least
twelve hours and probably longer. I was able to touch
(09:30):
the bun and it's it's rock hard. It is like
it's like eating a cardboard. I guess it would be
the texture there. It's gonna be a great drop. Yeah,
I'm sure, said forty Coop, we put this. This is
gonna be live on periscope. Okay, Eddie's recording right now, Coop,
(09:54):
what is your answer. I've got I'm holding the money
hash money in my hand. Alex has his money here.
It is cash money right there, I feel like I'm
trying to seduce a stripper. I've got to see. This
is what you do. This is a move. I learned
this and oh, I learned this in all of the
uh the strip clubs. We're forty dollars. We accept the offer.
(10:17):
Do you not accept the alright? Forty dollars? Justin Cooper
is gonna eat a twelve hour old hot dog at
least twelve the twelve hours. We're live on Fox Sports Radio,
Cooper Loop. And it's got covered in relish and onions.
I could smell it from down the hall when it
was in the break room. I'm sure it was good
when it first came here, but not no, and I
(10:38):
just just I'm just going for it. Is it? Should
we all say? Uh? Countdown? We have a prayer or
something like this. I don't know you have three? All right,
let's do it, Cooper Loop. We're live on Fox Sports Radio.
Don't curse, the mics are open to all right, here
we go and you're on your way go all right? Oh,
(10:58):
my guy's discussed and took the first bite once again
on periscope Eddie on f s R. The user name
that did he eat? Just did he Danny, did he
eat the side with the rat on it or the
other side. We went for the other side side. Okay,
that's a good strategy. It's a conservative side there. He's
got to eat the hold. If you don't eat the
whole dog, Coop, you don't get the full forty dollars.
(11:19):
And he just put the trash can closer to him. Okay,
this is good. Here, this is my producer, Justin Cooper
eating old food that was laying around the Guico Fox
Sports Radio studios. You've got a hot dog at least
twelve hours old. What's going on over there? Coop? Burger
King should stick to burgers. I mean, thanks for the
mean thanks for that, very very helpful Coop. I appreciate that. Yes,
(11:45):
it's great, good burger. Yes, alright, thank you, Yes, I
keep eating. Don't stop. The money's on the line. Oh
that again, it's an old It was wonderful. Something came
out of it. Looks like his face, it looks like
(12:05):
his face is turned in colors. How much of the
dog is he eating? Like, yeah, I'm in the other studio,
I'm looking through the glass here. How much of the
dog is he He is almost halfway done? Yeah, Cooper,
you have a reversal of fortune. You don't get the money,
you know, you know I've got the money right here,
I got right here. Come out. This relish is off
(12:28):
the stomach of steel. All right, it's the bennerf No,
that's it's as is the Benn Maller Show. Justin Cooper
is eating old food. Coop. We have a network clock here, Coop,
so we can't. I know you like to take your
time eating, but we have a network clock here. So uh,
Eddie's handing over the camera on periscope to Alex, who
(12:50):
will now hold because Eddie's got to do it, okay,
And you are the slowest eater you know. Let me
tell you something. First of all, if you're gonna eat
something offensive, you do it correctly. You don't take your
time like you're enjoying it like he's enjoying it though,
But he's going he's doing it, Eddie. Isn't the strategy
(13:10):
to do it quickly? Yeah, it's like ripping the band
aid on. You're not eating a fine steak at a restaurant,
and he's eating it like this is unreal. I thought
this would be already done by now he's still eating.
It smells like something died in the studio. How much
of the dog is left? How much do we have
to go? He's like he just playing, all right, you
gotta keep it down for ten minutes, you know, the
(13:33):
rest of the show. Rest of the show, the rest
of the show, of the show for the forty bucks
you get the rest. Can't disappear to the bathroom. Yeah,
you can't. And know if I noticed did it? He
did it. That's amazing. It's the greatest thing ever achieved
on the Ben Mallory Show right there. That's a great
athletic performance here, the lebron James of the show. How
(13:55):
do you feel right now? I feel like we're gonna
need Genie. I would feel cheap? Was it good for you?
Because he was? Well? Get some postgame reaction coming up.
But Coop has done it. He has done it. He
has done it, the great hot dog challenge of the
(14:16):
old food at the radio station. We will get the
update on how Cooper is feeling. We're gonna have balder
dash as well. I'm gonna have to hand over the
money eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Benny's Balderdash.
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. Here's Ben Maller. Let me just say,
I love Burger King. In fact, I am going to
eat Burger King hot dogs for lunch on on Friday.
(14:58):
They're great, They're wonderful. This just happened to be an
item that was laying around for twelve hours and Coop
just ate it. Coop ate the entire dog, my producer
Justin Cooper, a piece of food that was laying around
for twelve hours. We think it might have been nibbled
on by a rat. And then it was yes. And
so we originally were offering Coop fifteen dollars. I matched
(15:19):
the fifteen that Alex, the one of the producers of
Daybreak put up, so we were up to thirty and
then with the extra money from Danny g and Eddie,
we got to forty dollars. And so that's where we
were and coop ate it. But he's got to keep
it down for the next he Look, he does not
look like he's in any kind of trouble at all,
and it just has I don't know, Eddie. During your update,
(15:41):
he kept saying that he was burping something up. It's
the births taste discussing because not because the burger and
hot dog wasn't delicious. Coop, look what I have. I'm
holding a cold seven up soda. How much would you love?
It's just like bucks back. You're listening to the best
(16:10):
of the Fifth Hour. I didn't even know that was
a thing. I'm sure it's not very long, but here
it is the best of the best of the best
of the fifth Hour. Another radio guy we're dropping names here,
former very briefly, a colleague of ours at Fox Sports
(16:34):
Radio and one of the great late night hosts who's
done it a lot longer than I have, and someone
I respect in radio because he's been good at it
for a long time. That relevant, Yeah, that was one
of the highlights of the entire trip to Radio Row.
I remember being a little kid in the car when
(16:55):
my family moved from l A to the Bay. I
remember being in the Bay Area. He was the first
sports talk radio guy to simulcast his show. Actually got
to see what he looked like as he did his
show on cable TV, and then we would hear him
on the radio as we drove in the car. And
(17:15):
one of his sticks was his listeners would call in
and they would tell him what kind of alcohol they
would like him to pour. Pour me in old English
and they had different sound effects of the alcohol being poured.
All these years later and all the success he's had,
it was very cool to talk to him in person
and then see how much he looked up to you
(17:37):
and guys like you, because you guys have a lot
in common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known, you know.
I listened to Scott too before you know, I was
actually in the business, but it was kind of early
on and stuff. But Scott's been on forever and we
worked I worked with him his west he was working
at Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked up by
the local affiliate I was working at, and then you know,
(18:00):
they tried to make it like a local national thing
because he was in l A. He was living in
Orange County, and so he came to some remote and
we kind of hung out together there and then he
came through Fox Sports Radio briefly, but it was great
to talk to him. He's very kind. He said some
nice things about me on the show, which was cool.
And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast. I think
(18:20):
he's he's good to go. He says he's good to
do it. And we were catching up and we're talking
about his days at Fox Sports Radio and he's told
me he knows me, and there's like a few other people,
it's hardly anybody that it's crazy how long he's been gone.
It seems like he was just there. To me. My
concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote, what is time?
This time even exists, But it seems like I can remember,
(18:43):
like it seems like it was like two months ago
Farrell was working at our place. But it's probably been fifteen,
sixteen years, seventeen years since he worked. There's something along
those lines. It's been an insane amount of time. And
so yeah, everyone's pretty much turned over multiple times since then,
as is the radio world that we live in right.
(19:06):
A lot of change, a lot of that. Although we've
had some pretty good stability lately, at Fox Sports Radio.
What kind of Clay getting promoted kind of ruined that.
But that's good for Clay because he got the Limbaugh
Show and all that. So it was it was neat
talking to Farrell and and his thing and his radio
run and he's does some Internet TV thing as well,
so he's got a lot going on. He's It's so
(19:29):
weird because you know, I knew Farrell before he really
had a family or anything like that. Now he's, you know,
all grown up. We're all grown up, I guess. Yeah.
He was telling us about how two of his boys
are basketball stars at their school, so yeah, you're right.
Then to hear somebody talking about their kids in high
school and stuff like that, You're like, wow, times are passing. Yeah. Yeah,
(19:51):
time does not slow down for anyone. The train keeps
a moving, that is for sure. He's joining us now
from a suite at an unnamed hotel in Atlantic City,
and he has been up for a few hours now
as we are having this conversation. So, Scott, has the
(20:14):
trip been good or bad? In Atlantic City? I was
kind of tripping and you know, like one in the morning,
here I am with this giant bag of money and
then I was with my buddy and I walked with
him and I said, Um, if anyone even comes near me,
I'm gonna gouge their fani house. I'm literally yeah. I said,
you're gonna see a side of me you've never seen before. Said,
(20:37):
you've never seen the side of me, but it's gonna
come out if anyone comes near me, because I had
a bag of money that most people will never see
in their lifetime. And then afterwards we took pictures of it.
It was the funniest thing. We went up to the suite.
It was a badass suite. It's the size of Texas,
and we just poured this bag of money all over
the bed and then we took pictures with it, you know,
(20:59):
just for our family sure, and no one else, because
I can't be showing that it's picture to anybody because
it's criminal. No. All I know is I left here
with a ton of money, and my buddy loved to
leave in more money. And we're gonna go eat breakfast
and make fun of people. And um, we're gonna have
(21:20):
to take the bag of money into the restaurant with
us because I'm not leaving it in the car. Yeah. No,
So It's just it's like out of a movie, right, Scott.
This is like you're you know, you break the casino
and your did they did they give you the bag
or did you have to bring the bag for the money?
How did that work? They gave me the bag? And
the guy was funny. I said to him, I said, uh,
(21:41):
I got better than you, Mitchell. And the guy was
like seventy and he goes art. I said, who's better
than you? Mitchell? Anyway? No one? I go, that's right, Mitchell.
Do you know what's better than you? Because you just did.
And then when he counted, when he counted it, I
was like one, two, sree, and I go fans and
(22:07):
my Curke dance bands and my Curd dance bands and
make bands and make im dancel right now. And I'm
naked in my suite. I just took us out bands
and make Curd bands and make youre dance. And let's
just say, um, I'm not talking I'm talking roll over,
roll over six figures. I'm not talking six figures. I'm
(22:30):
talking roll over six figures. I could run in this
account for in a matter of I guess six months,
and you know, in about through four months maybe not
even six months. It was like the last half of
the NFL season and Bold season, and I guess a
little touch of NBA in there as well. And you
(22:52):
don't even funnier is that? Uh? I have a um
just dancing right there naked in my sweep and make
me breathe. That's not a good sign. But I did
play basketball last night, and I did have ten five, one,
one and one the one guime, the one steel of
the one blong shot to go whether it was nice.
But we have a bet this guy and I and
(23:13):
he's a lot smarter than me, and I'm just better
looking at him. We have a bet on MBAT as
the m D p at plus three thousand for ten grand.
Can you do that math? That's three large? And when
I looked at the guy in the mirror in the
in the change, I said, I'll see you soon that
so let's see, I'll see So I want to don't
(23:36):
get a bigger bat. So, Scott, do they put your
photo up in the casino earlier like band now because
you took too much money? How's that worked there? Well,
what happens is they take they make you stand there
and they film you and so they have facial recognition.
And so when I go in and when my buddy
goes into the sports book, we're not allowed to back
(23:59):
on sports anymore because because they don't like they don't
like people that win. They like people that are stupid
and that lose. They love those people. They'll fill you
up with drinks, give you a room, give you a steak. See,
I don't want all that. I already got rooms, sweets.
I got sweets. My buddy sat down last night with
(24:20):
fifty large to play black jack, and un less than
thirty minutes he had sixty. And I said, get up
in line. That's line. That's not now even how much
funny I go, I didn't want to check to look
at me anymore. I looked at her. I go, don't
look at me, don't mean look at me, don't want
to me. And she's like, uh, scared of death of us,
(24:41):
scared to death of us. They thought I was some
kind of criminal because you know my voice, uh rather
grading and painful and acidic, and I'm just you know,
I'm scary. And if I raised my boys, people think
I'm yelling, and I'm just like, we gotta go now.
Now we got sixty. Let's get out of here. We
went to the cha age and to get the money
(25:01):
to get the ten large on top of the fifty.
I'm sitting there and there was a guy. I swear
to god, there was a guy sitting there at two
thirty three in the morning and he was watching the
Nature Boy. He was watching Ric Flair to some kind
of in ring speech at the w w E event
like WrestleMania. And I was like, I looked up my hand,
(25:22):
what's a rich Flair here? And I was like, you
got any read Scott? Are you playing to sleep at
all today? Hey? It's been writing out the storm, the
(25:47):
audio storm, And I thought, what ftter way to ride
out a storm? Then bunker down with some marginal audio
content pencil next and that would be the best of
the fifth hour. I wish I could pull off those suits. Yeah?
Is that is that right? Yeah? I'm just kidding. Are
(26:10):
you gonna go full Rob Parker? You know Rob loves
loves Nikes. I slapped the Fox logo on some Nikes.
Uh well yeah, but Rob, I love him. I don't
you think he's paying full price for the Nikes. I'm
I'm thinking he's got a deal he knows somebody, right.
My favorite part with Rob when we walked into our
(26:33):
green room or is it a greener? I guess it's
a blue room at Fox Sports Radio. The kitchen, the
Smurf kitchen, Yeah, the Smurf kitchen. And he had the
actual racks of clothing. Yes, he had a full wardrobe
of Fox Sports Radio merchandise ready to go. The blue kitchen.
(26:56):
Somebody put a sign on top of it kind of
google around. Was fun. Um, Yeah, that was That was
pretty good Rob's hustling. Man. I love We've got Robbed
on the podcast several times. I was always hosted. I
last time he was on the podcast was during the
the World Series and he told the story about he
flew to Atlanta and he flew Spirit Airlines. It's a
(27:18):
great story and he Spirit Airlines charges for everything. I
think they charge if you breathe when you fly on
the Spirit and per breath you take and per heartbeat
and all that. And so Rob found a work around.
He got the cheapest flight he could to Atlanta, and
he spent like a hundred bucks around trip or some
ridiculous amount of money. And but he saved the money
(27:40):
on the carry on. He brought no clothes. He just
brought like a bag. I guess he was allowed to
bring his computer and that was it. And then when
he got to Atlanta, he just went to like a
ross dress for less type store and bought some a
couple of shirts and a couple of pairs of pants
to wear for the weekend. And then when he when
he left, he couldn't bring the clothe his back, so
(28:00):
he just left him in the hotel. That's awesome. That's
such a I'm a tight wad, but that's like next level.
That's like, yeah, yeah, no, wonder the two of you
get along so well, oh yeah we do. In fact,
I've never told this story. I happened last weekend after
the Rams got pole axed against the Green Bay Packers
(28:21):
and Matthew Stafford through another interception that was returned for
a touchdown. Rob text me and he's like, what do
you think of Staffy? And we're going back and forth
on Stafford. He's advising me that I must I must
jump ship on Matthew Stafford. He's giving me the whole
rap about that Bamford. Yeah, he was going through the
whole thing, and uh, you know, I'm coming back I'm like, no,
(28:44):
I'm okay, you know, yeah, I'm just gonna gonna ride
this thing out. It's just a slump. We all go
through slumps, right, Danny. You know, looking to see here?
Nothing to see here? Yeah, I mean it's like the
first eight games, Matthew Stafford was fine and he beat
Tom Brady and Russell Wilson in the first eight games,
and that now he's gone through a tough patch. But
(29:05):
the good news is that they play Jacksonville tomorrow and
so that now, if if they lose to Jacksonville at
that point eighty, then uh, then I'm gone. I'm out,
and uh I will not I will not look back. Okay,
I will say bye bye, I will pack it in
(29:26):
for the year, and you'll put your Mallard Raiders hat
back on the greatness of the Raids. But for the Rams,
it'll be yeah, not not good, not good, uh for sure.
But what's going on with you, Danny? What have you
been up to? We have not caught up, and we
did text a few times to work out some logistical
(29:48):
things for the podcast, and you were very good at that,
hard working lining up people for the podcast, which I appreciate. Yeah,
I love chasing guests down, you know, with Clay Trap
that was one of the main things that I did.
Whether it was a guy who was national on all
the news programs because he saved his little dog from
(30:10):
the grip of an alligator's teeth while he kept his
cigar in his mouth. There would be stories like that
where Clay would be like, I want that guy on
the show, get him on the show. And I would
track the guy down and get him on the show.
And I really love to hunt though, because it would
be fun actually calling the TV and newspapers, you know
(30:33):
that put out the stories on whoever was in the news,
and then you have to schmooze these people to get
the information on said party. And then once you finally
have that, then you have to schmooze the person that's
in the news to get them on your program. Yeah. No,
it's it's the chase, right, It's just like dating Chase. Yes,
(30:53):
that's a lot of guy love the chase. And then
when you actually find someone, you're like get old board.
You're like, wait a minute, I found somebody. Want to
I want to go back and Chase. I want to
be out in the in the jungle, out there Yeah,
the chase was really cool, though it would take days.
Some guests it would take weeks. Like he wanted Carol
Baskin on, and you know, because she was on Dancing
(31:14):
with the Stars and he got a kick out of that,
and I said, I'm gonna get in touch with her.
So I did. I found an email for her, and
as you can imagine, she was really um. She doesn't
trust many people, and luck yeah, she was gun shy.
Gun shines the white right way to put it. Uh.
So I had to ben, I had to become a friend.
(31:36):
I emailed back and forth with her for like two weeks.
By the time the whole process was over and I
booked her for the show, we were texting each other
like we were buddies. Yeah, she has to do it.
She has pictures of my cat Mac Carol Baskin. As
we go out, one positive is at least you gotta
(31:59):
catch phrase, Danny g who set this up. I appreciate
you coming on, would like for you to say, hey
are you cool cats and kittens? As we as we
had out. Actually I should have started with hey are
you cool cats and kitten? Isn't She's suing Netflix of
over the new Tiger King thing that's out or is
it out yet or is it coming out? It is out. Yeah,
I was gonna tell you got to watch that on Netflix.
(32:21):
I'm a couple of episodes in Okay. Obviously can get
her book, but I I really don't think she's gonna
talk to anybody anymore, not with a pending lawsuit I had.
I had an in with the guy through some friends
of mine, the guy suing the Angels. I think the
lawsuit was kicked out, but it's been refiled. There was
(32:44):
a the guy that paid the price. He was the
clubhouse guy for the Angels that was rubbing up the
baseballs and and and helping the pictures with the sticky,
the tack, the special that wasn't even spot. It wasn't
Spider Tach. It was some special Google who he had
come up with with with the Angels years ago. And
he was like all these star players were, you know,
(33:06):
turning to him to get the stuff. And then when
Baseball decided to crack down on the Google, they fired him.
They got rid of this guy, and uh, we were
gonna have him on and then it didn't. The lawyers
got in a way because there's appending a legal system,
a legal situation, so he couldn't. It's hard to book
a fall guy. Yeah, yeah, that guy was the I mean,
(33:27):
I I remember I covered the Angels a lot like
way back, like in the Stone Age, and this cat
was out there back then, and everyone loved him. And
this is back in the nineties and so, and he
just got let go a couple of years ago. He
was beloved and we actually saw there were some guys
that played in that era while he Joiner and a
few other people that came out defending the guy and
(33:50):
went against major League Baseball, which was which was rare
usually want to break the code or whatever, but some
guys did that back in the day. So what's really
interesting about Carol Baskin in her story is that there
have been some documents that have come to light that
are showing that maybe her ex husband is alive in
(34:11):
Costa Rica. This murderous, cat loving woman that everybody likes
to just assume did something really bad. Uh, there's some
other thoughts out there now that, oh, maybe that dude's
alive in Costa Rica living a secret life. Because the
second season has shown her ex husband was kind of
(34:33):
a shady guy. It looks like, Wow, there's so many
layers to that story. Man, they could have probably four
seasons of that show. Yeah, I know the alternative reality.
That's where I would go Costa Rica if I needed
to go. I've heard it's beautiful. I used to have
guys that were fans of the show that ran illegal
(34:54):
sports books in Costa Rica, and they were pen pals
of mine. And you know that's where two talk went. Oh,
I see he's living. Is that where he's is Elvis?
Elvis is getting old? But is Elvis down there too?
His corpse maybe? But maybe his corpse. I thought he
was working at a fast food place in Louisville Elvis.
That was when I was a kid. That was the
rumor that Elvis was still alive. And Parking is alive
(35:16):
and well though he's definitely taking people's scuba diving, is he.
Have you been to Costa Rica. I've never been to
cost I have not. You know, anywhere where you need
a net over your body because of the bugs. It
doesn't sound fun to me. Most of South America, from
what I've heard, the bugs are bigger and uh, certainly
(35:36):
in the tropical places. Yeah. I have family lives in
Florida and depending on what part of Florida you're in
in the time of the year. I mean it's crazy.
It's like I see these people living in and not
just Florida, but like South Carolina and parts of Georgia,
these alligators wandering around. You're living with dinosaurs. Yeah, it's crazy,
freaking dinosaur. I know there's bears and stuff like that
(35:57):
where we live, and a little small obcats and whatnot,
but still crocodiles. You can kidding me. I'm actually on
the live air. Yes, wrong, it is timeless and here
it is on the fifth hour, real quick, when Benett
ended on a high note, this is for you, straight
(36:18):
from Facebook. Can't make this up from Ruben Ben You
such a b really a question, but I like it.
It's like your fans are up listening. All right. There
you go there, very nice, outstanding. What is still wrong
(36:40):
with the clippers? Osta Pasta gotta murder, I gotta go
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(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It is
yet another weekend of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g back at it. You might say, wait
a minute, you told me you were not gonna be here.
You said, Ben, there's no new podcast because you're traveling. Well,
(00:48):
that was partially true. This is a new podcast. It
is timeless. Think of this podcast as honey wrong because
they has eternal life, shelf life. It never goes bad.
If I would open a business, I would sell honey
because I don't have to worry about the honeygoing bad.
(01:10):
You can sell honey from a hundred years ago, two
hundred years ago. Uh, and it doesn't matter little taste.
I am technically away and so my guy, Danny G
Radio has put together a cornucopia of audio gold all
weekend long today and the rest of the weekend. And
(01:33):
it's some of our favorite moments, some of the great
moments from the live overnight show, and things you may
have missed from the podcast. It's for your listening pleasures.
So here you go today's fresh edition of The Fifth
Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Enjoy the This
(02:00):
is that Danny g takeover? Was that a good enough
evil laugh? Alright? So one live show moment that I
get asked about the most is when coope ate that
hot dog from Burger King that had been sitting for
twelve to seventeen hours. This was and I actually looked
(02:27):
it up. Matched dot com has an article about back
when Burger King was trying to push hot dogs. Says
that they were trying to add it to their already
expansive menu. B K wanted to take over the hot
dog game, but when a Burger King fan took to
read it to mention how the menu item had been discontinued,
one user said, I tried them once and they sucked small, hard,
(02:51):
rubbery hot dogs lost in a seed of relish and mustard.
Another major complaint against the Burger King hot dogs was
that they were frequently burnt. I want a mature guy.
Several Twitter users mentioned being disappointed by the dog and
the fact that it was too burnt to enjoy. Burger
King's hot dogs did not live up to their height
(03:12):
and couldn't steal the show for more trustworthy items on
the menu, like the whopper. This article says back when
Burger King was trying to promote that they were adding
hot dogs two different ones, a chili cheese dog and
their regular dog earf with onions, relish, mustard, and catch up.
(03:34):
The relish is what really killed Coop and almost had
him puking. We were dying laughing. You are really going
to enjoy this clip the Benn Mather Show on Fox.
Later this aurady balderdash. I have an idea. Do you
have any money? And do you have any cash? ID
never carry cash on me? All right, let me bring
(03:58):
Coop and Danny Jane. Coop, are you hungry? Coop? Justin Cooper?
Are you hungry? I'm always husky man. Well, now that's
I don't want all right, all right, all right, would
you like to get a meal and some money? Coop?
He's looking his heads on a swivel. He's like what's
going on here? Being set up for something? I will
(04:20):
pay you to eat a meal? Are you okay with that?
I don't know what is it? Do you enjoy hot dogs?
I'm not eating that hot dog. I cannot. Oh. No,
Coop is turning down food, and I don't understand why,
(04:41):
because he's eating stuff that's been left here over twenty
four hours before. I don't see what the problem is. Look,
I explained before, because it was not everyone's in our
building here at the guy called Fox Sports Radio Studios
the hollow ground we walk in, but we come in
here and in our little break room, someone had left
what looks to be a delicious hot dog with relish
(05:01):
and onions on it. And it's just perfect. It's the
perfect hot dog, and it's been sitting there our entire show.
I am willing, Coop, if you want, I'll throw some
money in. I think Danny g is good for a
couple of bucks. Also, Eddie, I guess doesn't have any cash,
but I could dig around to see if I could pick,
you know, like ten cents or something. We'll throw some
money down. How much would it take? And the reason, well,
(05:24):
we're all you know, we're doing overnights here, coop. But
what would it take to get you to take a
nice big bite of that hot dog? Just one bite? Well,
it's got to be a large Well, that's just getting
very graphic. You've got to take a significant it's exactly
exactly like you want a large amount of the dog.
You gotta. I will allow you to warm it up
(05:45):
if you want. The hot dog was playing this, This
would be easy, but there's been like condiment stuff sitting
on it all day. It's soaking in there. Well, I
think our our rat care of some of that. Danny.
It looks like we're on the left side. No, he's
right there on the left side of the dog. Examin
he's not gonna eat it now the other side, Yeah,
(06:08):
I mean you could eat the other side. This is
the other side looks like it's untouched. And then well,
I'll let you eat the other side. You don't if
you eat the side which looks like the rat took
a little fifteen dollars, that is all, and for for
twenty I'll take a bite off the rats. Oh my god,
but we get to periscope, We get to periscope. Hell yeah, piscope.
(06:32):
But if he's gonna do. Let me let me go
look at the host already getting I haven't. I haven't
seen it for a while. I think it's decomposing right now,
go look at it and make your decision. There, Go
look at it all right. It is the The Benn
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(06:56):
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(07:20):
can tweet me Eddie Garcia at Eddie on Fox Little Taste. Yeah,
that's what Coop is contemplating. I just tweeted out a
picture of him with the hot dog. Will he eat it?
And how much will it cost? That's next, here's Ben Maller. Yeah,
well that's the big issue that's on that's the burning question.
(07:43):
We've got Alex who is the technical producer for Fox
Sports Daybreaking. Here he's already pulled out fifteen large. I
got a match, and he says he's he's thrown at
that row on money. You sent a photo. Let's see
what I got here? Uh so I better match that.
(08:05):
I'll match the fifteen. I'll match. So that's thirty. I'll
match the fifteen. Danny, you want to add throw something
in there? What do you You don't have to throw
fifteen and it's a lot. Yeah, I'm like the looneys.
I got five on five all right, so that's thirty five, Eddie,
what do you want to throw in the pot? Can
I pay him later? See? I don't I don't know.
(08:26):
I don't know that Alex is willing to throw in
the whole fifteen. I think he said he said all
fifteen is out. You're committing him. He's all in on
the fifteen. Now I'll put in five as well. So
it's a forty dollar way now to eat the entire
hot here's the go on periscope. Just in case he
(08:47):
doesn't ready to do this now, I don't know if
he's gonna do it, Just get ready, Well, how can
they fight it on periscope? Just in case, Just in case,
the periscope addresses Eddie E D D I E on
F s R Eddie on F second to get it
up here, I get it up just in case. No sausage.
(09:08):
I sent out a tweet. Yes I want to that's
what a hot dog is, a sausage. That's another way
to say. All right, so, Coop, this is forty dollars
now for for our forty dollars that we're all putting
in here, this is what we get, all right, We
get the joy of watching you eat the dog. You
cannot eat it up. It's been sitting around for at
least twelve hours here at Fox Sports Radio. At least
twelve hours and probably longer. I was able to touch
(09:30):
the bun and it's it's rock hard. It is like
it's like eating a cardboard. I guess it would be
the texture there. It's gonna be a great drop. Yeah,
I'm sure, said forty Coop, we put this. This is
gonna be live on periscope. Okay, Eddie's recording right now, Coop,
(09:54):
what is your answer. I've got I'm holding the money
hash money in my hand. Alex has his money here.
It is cash money right there, I feel like I'm
trying to seduce a stripper. I've got to see. This
is what you do. This is a move. I learned
this and oh, I learned this in all of the
uh the strip clubs. We're forty dollars. We accept the offer.
(10:17):
Do you not accept the alright? Forty dollars? Justin Cooper
is gonna eat a twelve hour old hot dog at
least twelve the twelve hours. We're live on Fox Sports Radio,
Cooper Loop. And it's got covered in relish and onions.
I could smell it from down the hall when it
was in the break room. I'm sure it was good
when it first came here, but not no, and I
(10:38):
just just I'm just going for it. Is it? Should
we all say? Uh? Countdown? We have a prayer or
something like this. I don't know you have three? All right,
let's do it, Cooper Loop. We're live on Fox Sports Radio.
Don't curse, the mics are open to all right, here
we go and you're on your way go all right? Oh,
(10:58):
my guy's discussed and took the first bite once again
on periscope Eddie on f s R. The user name
that did he eat? Just did he Danny, did he
eat the side with the rat on it or the
other side. We went for the other side side. Okay,
that's a good strategy. It's a conservative side there. He's
got to eat the hold. If you don't eat the
whole dog, Coop, you don't get the full forty dollars.
(11:19):
And he just put the trash can closer to him. Okay,
this is good. Here, this is my producer, Justin Cooper
eating old food that was laying around the Guico Fox
Sports Radio studios. You've got a hot dog at least
twelve hours old. What's going on over there? Coop? Burger
King should stick to burgers. I mean, thanks for the
mean thanks for that, very very helpful Coop. I appreciate that. Yes,
(11:45):
it's great, good burger. Yes, alright, thank you, Yes, I
keep eating. Don't stop. The money's on the line. Oh
that again, it's an old It was wonderful. Something came
out of it. Looks like his face, it looks like
(12:05):
his face is turned in colors. How much of the
dog is he eating? Like, yeah, I'm in the other studio,
I'm looking through the glass here. How much of the
dog is he He is almost halfway done? Yeah, Cooper,
you have a reversal of fortune. You don't get the money,
you know, you know I've got the money right here,
I got right here. Come out. This relish is off
(12:28):
the stomach of steel. All right, it's the bennerf No,
that's it's as is the Benn Maller Show. Justin Cooper
is eating old food. Coop. We have a network clock here, Coop,
so we can't. I know you like to take your
time eating, but we have a network clock here. So uh,
Eddie's handing over the camera on periscope to Alex, who
(12:50):
will now hold because Eddie's got to do it, okay,
And you are the slowest eater you know. Let me
tell you something. First of all, if you're gonna eat
something offensive, you do it correctly. You don't take your
time like you're enjoying it like he's enjoying it though,
But he's going he's doing it, Eddie. Isn't the strategy
(13:10):
to do it quickly? Yeah, it's like ripping the band
aid on. You're not eating a fine steak at a restaurant,
and he's eating it like this is unreal. I thought
this would be already done by now he's still eating.
It smells like something died in the studio. How much
of the dog is left? How much do we have
to go? He's like he just playing, all right, you
gotta keep it down for ten minutes, you know, the
(13:33):
rest of the show. Rest of the show, the rest
of the show, of the show for the forty bucks
you get the rest. Can't disappear to the bathroom. Yeah,
you can't. And know if I noticed did it? He
did it. That's amazing. It's the greatest thing ever achieved
on the Ben Mallory Show right there. That's a great
athletic performance here, the lebron James of the show. How
(13:55):
do you feel right now? I feel like we're gonna
need Genie. I would feel cheap? Was it good for you?
Because he was? Well? Get some postgame reaction coming up.
But Coop has done it. He has done it. He
has done it, the great hot dog challenge of the
(14:16):
old food at the radio station. We will get the
update on how Cooper is feeling. We're gonna have balder
dash as well. I'm gonna have to hand over the
money eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Benny's Balderdash.
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. Here's Ben Maller. Let me just say,
I love Burger King. In fact, I am going to
eat Burger King hot dogs for lunch on on Friday.
(14:58):
They're great, They're wonderful. This just happened to be an
item that was laying around for twelve hours and Coop
just ate it. Coop ate the entire dog, my producer
Justin Cooper, a piece of food that was laying around
for twelve hours. We think it might have been nibbled
on by a rat. And then it was yes. And
so we originally were offering Coop fifteen dollars. I matched
(15:19):
the fifteen that Alex, the one of the producers of
Daybreak put up, so we were up to thirty and
then with the extra money from Danny g and Eddie,
we got to forty dollars. And so that's where we
were and coop ate it. But he's got to keep
it down for the next he Look, he does not
look like he's in any kind of trouble at all,
and it just has I don't know, Eddie. During your update,
(15:41):
he kept saying that he was burping something up. It's
the births taste discussing because not because the burger and
hot dog wasn't delicious. Coop, look what I have. I'm
holding a cold seven up soda. How much would you love?
It's just like bucks back. You're listening to the best
(16:10):
of the Fifth Hour. I didn't even know that was
a thing. I'm sure it's not very long, but here
it is the best of the best of the best
of the fifth Hour. Another radio guy we're dropping names here,
former very briefly, a colleague of ours at Fox Sports
(16:34):
Radio and one of the great late night hosts who's
done it a lot longer than I have, and someone
I respect in radio because he's been good at it
for a long time. That relevant, Yeah, that was one
of the highlights of the entire trip to Radio Row.
I remember being a little kid in the car when
(16:55):
my family moved from l A to the Bay. I
remember being in the Bay Area. He was the first
sports talk radio guy to simulcast his show. Actually got
to see what he looked like as he did his
show on cable TV, and then we would hear him
on the radio as we drove in the car. And
(17:15):
one of his sticks was his listeners would call in
and they would tell him what kind of alcohol they
would like him to pour. Pour me in old English
and they had different sound effects of the alcohol being poured.
All these years later and all the success he's had,
it was very cool to talk to him in person
and then see how much he looked up to you
(17:37):
and guys like you, because you guys have a lot
in common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known, you know.
I listened to Scott too before you know, I was
actually in the business, but it was kind of early
on and stuff. But Scott's been on forever and we
worked I worked with him his west he was working
at Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked up by
the local affiliate I was working at, and then you know,
(18:00):
they tried to make it like a local national thing
because he was in l A. He was living in
Orange County, and so he came to some remote and
we kind of hung out together there and then he
came through Fox Sports Radio briefly, but it was great
to talk to him. He's very kind. He said some
nice things about me on the show, which was cool.
And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast. I think
(18:20):
he's he's good to go. He says he's good to
do it. And we were catching up and we're talking
about his days at Fox Sports Radio and he's told
me he knows me, and there's like a few other people,
it's hardly anybody that it's crazy how long he's been gone.
It seems like he was just there. To me. My
concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote, what is time?
This time even exists, But it seems like I can remember,
(18:43):
like it seems like it was like two months ago
Farrell was working at our place. But it's probably been fifteen,
sixteen years, seventeen years since he worked. There's something along
those lines. It's been an insane amount of time. And
so yeah, everyone's pretty much turned over multiple times since then,
as is the radio world that we live in right.
(19:06):
A lot of change, a lot of that. Although we've
had some pretty good stability lately, at Fox Sports Radio.
What kind of Clay getting promoted kind of ruined that.
But that's good for Clay because he got the Limbaugh
Show and all that. So it was it was neat
talking to Farrell and and his thing and his radio
run and he's does some Internet TV thing as well,
so he's got a lot going on. He's It's so
(19:29):
weird because you know, I knew Farrell before he really
had a family or anything like that. Now he's, you know,
all grown up. We're all grown up, I guess. Yeah.
He was telling us about how two of his boys
are basketball stars at their school, so yeah, you're right.
Then to hear somebody talking about their kids in high
school and stuff like that, You're like, wow, times are passing. Yeah. Yeah,
(19:51):
time does not slow down for anyone. The train keeps
a moving, that is for sure. He's joining us now
from a suite at an unnamed hotel in Atlantic City,
and he has been up for a few hours now
as we are having this conversation. So, Scott, has the
(20:14):
trip been good or bad? In Atlantic City? I was
kind of tripping and you know, like one in the morning,
here I am with this giant bag of money and
then I was with my buddy and I walked with
him and I said, Um, if anyone even comes near me,
I'm gonna gouge their fani house. I'm literally yeah. I said,
you're gonna see a side of me you've never seen before. Said,
(20:37):
you've never seen the side of me, but it's gonna
come out if anyone comes near me, because I had
a bag of money that most people will never see
in their lifetime. And then afterwards we took pictures of it.
It was the funniest thing. We went up to the suite.
It was a badass suite. It's the size of Texas,
and we just poured this bag of money all over
the bed and then we took pictures with it, you know,
(20:59):
just for our family sure, and no one else, because
I can't be showing that it's picture to anybody because
it's criminal. No. All I know is I left here
with a ton of money, and my buddy loved to
leave in more money. And we're gonna go eat breakfast
and make fun of people. And um, we're gonna have
(21:20):
to take the bag of money into the restaurant with
us because I'm not leaving it in the car. Yeah. No,
So It's just it's like out of a movie, right, Scott.
This is like you're you know, you break the casino
and your did they did they give you the bag
or did you have to bring the bag for the money?
How did that work? They gave me the bag? And
the guy was funny. I said to him, I said, uh,
(21:41):
I got better than you, Mitchell. And the guy was
like seventy and he goes art. I said, who's better
than you? Mitchell? Anyway? No one? I go, that's right, Mitchell.
Do you know what's better than you? Because you just did.
And then when he counted, when he counted it, I
was like one, two, sree, and I go fans and
(22:07):
my Curke dance bands and my Curd dance bands and
make bands and make im dancel right now. And I'm
naked in my suite. I just took us out bands
and make Curd bands and make youre dance. And let's
just say, um, I'm not talking I'm talking roll over,
roll over six figures. I'm not talking six figures. I'm
(22:30):
talking roll over six figures. I could run in this
account for in a matter of I guess six months,
and you know, in about through four months maybe not
even six months. It was like the last half of
the NFL season and Bold season, and I guess a
little touch of NBA in there as well. And you
(22:52):
don't even funnier is that? Uh? I have a um
just dancing right there naked in my sweep and make
me breathe. That's not a good sign. But I did
play basketball last night, and I did have ten five, one,
one and one the one guime, the one steel of
the one blong shot to go whether it was nice.
But we have a bet this guy and I and
(23:13):
he's a lot smarter than me, and I'm just better
looking at him. We have a bet on MBAT as
the m D p at plus three thousand for ten grand.
Can you do that math? That's three large? And when
I looked at the guy in the mirror in the
in the change, I said, I'll see you soon that
so let's see, I'll see So I want to don't
(23:36):
get a bigger bat. So, Scott, do they put your
photo up in the casino earlier like band now because
you took too much money? How's that worked there? Well,
what happens is they take they make you stand there
and they film you and so they have facial recognition.
And so when I go in and when my buddy
goes into the sports book, we're not allowed to back
(23:59):
on sports anymore because because they don't like they don't
like people that win. They like people that are stupid
and that lose. They love those people. They'll fill you
up with drinks, give you a room, give you a steak. See,
I don't want all that. I already got rooms, sweets.
I got sweets. My buddy sat down last night with
(24:20):
fifty large to play black jack, and un less than
thirty minutes he had sixty. And I said, get up
in line. That's line. That's not now even how much
funny I go, I didn't want to check to look
at me anymore. I looked at her. I go, don't
look at me, don't mean look at me, don't want
to me. And she's like, uh, scared of death of us,
(24:41):
scared to death of us. They thought I was some
kind of criminal because you know my voice, uh rather
grading and painful and acidic, and I'm just you know,
I'm scary. And if I raised my boys, people think
I'm yelling, and I'm just like, we gotta go now.
Now we got sixty. Let's get out of here. We
went to the cha age and to get the money
(25:01):
to get the ten large on top of the fifty.
I'm sitting there and there was a guy. I swear
to god, there was a guy sitting there at two
thirty three in the morning and he was watching the
Nature Boy. He was watching Ric Flair to some kind
of in ring speech at the w w E event
like WrestleMania. And I was like, I looked up my hand,
(25:22):
what's a rich Flair here? And I was like, you
got any read Scott? Are you playing to sleep at
all today? Hey? It's been writing out the storm, the
(25:47):
audio storm, And I thought, what ftter way to ride
out a storm? Then bunker down with some marginal audio
content pencil next and that would be the best of
the fifth hour. I wish I could pull off those suits. Yeah?
Is that is that right? Yeah? I'm just kidding. Are
(26:10):
you gonna go full Rob Parker? You know Rob loves
loves Nikes. I slapped the Fox logo on some Nikes.
Uh well yeah, but Rob, I love him. I don't
you think he's paying full price for the Nikes. I'm
I'm thinking he's got a deal he knows somebody, right.
My favorite part with Rob when we walked into our
(26:33):
green room or is it a greener? I guess it's
a blue room at Fox Sports Radio. The kitchen, the
Smurf kitchen, Yeah, the Smurf kitchen. And he had the
actual racks of clothing. Yes, he had a full wardrobe
of Fox Sports Radio merchandise ready to go. The blue kitchen.
(26:56):
Somebody put a sign on top of it kind of
google around. Was fun. Um, Yeah, that was That was
pretty good Rob's hustling. Man. I love We've got Robbed
on the podcast several times. I was always hosted. I
last time he was on the podcast was during the
the World Series and he told the story about he
flew to Atlanta and he flew Spirit Airlines. It's a
(27:18):
great story and he Spirit Airlines charges for everything. I
think they charge if you breathe when you fly on
the Spirit and per breath you take and per heartbeat
and all that. And so Rob found a work around.
He got the cheapest flight he could to Atlanta, and
he spent like a hundred bucks around trip or some
ridiculous amount of money. And but he saved the money
(27:40):
on the carry on. He brought no clothes. He just
brought like a bag. I guess he was allowed to
bring his computer and that was it. And then when
he got to Atlanta, he just went to like a
ross dress for less type store and bought some a
couple of shirts and a couple of pairs of pants
to wear for the weekend. And then when he when
he left, he couldn't bring the clothe his back, so
(28:00):
he just left him in the hotel. That's awesome. That's
such a I'm a tight wad, but that's like next level.
That's like, yeah, yeah, no, wonder the two of you
get along so well, oh yeah we do. In fact,
I've never told this story. I happened last weekend after
the Rams got pole axed against the Green Bay Packers
(28:21):
and Matthew Stafford through another interception that was returned for
a touchdown. Rob text me and he's like, what do
you think of Staffy? And we're going back and forth
on Stafford. He's advising me that I must I must
jump ship on Matthew Stafford. He's giving me the whole
rap about that Bamford. Yeah, he was going through the
whole thing, and uh, you know, I'm coming back I'm like, no,
(28:44):
I'm okay, you know, yeah, I'm just gonna gonna ride
this thing out. It's just a slump. We all go
through slumps, right, Danny. You know, looking to see here?
Nothing to see here? Yeah, I mean it's like the
first eight games, Matthew Stafford was fine and he beat
Tom Brady and Russell Wilson in the first eight games,
and that now he's gone through a tough patch. But
(29:05):
the good news is that they play Jacksonville tomorrow and
so that now, if if they lose to Jacksonville at
that point eighty, then uh, then I'm gone. I'm out,
and uh I will not I will not look back. Okay,
I will say bye bye, I will pack it in
(29:26):
for the year, and you'll put your Mallard Raiders hat
back on the greatness of the Raids. But for the Rams,
it'll be yeah, not not good, not good, uh for sure.
But what's going on with you, Danny? What have you
been up to? We have not caught up, and we
did text a few times to work out some logistical
(29:48):
things for the podcast, and you were very good at that,
hard working lining up people for the podcast, which I appreciate. Yeah,
I love chasing guests down, you know, with Clay Trap
that was one of the main things that I did.
Whether it was a guy who was national on all
the news programs because he saved his little dog from
(30:10):
the grip of an alligator's teeth while he kept his
cigar in his mouth. There would be stories like that
where Clay would be like, I want that guy on
the show, get him on the show. And I would
track the guy down and get him on the show.
And I really love to hunt though, because it would
be fun actually calling the TV and newspapers, you know
(30:33):
that put out the stories on whoever was in the news,
and then you have to schmooze these people to get
the information on said party. And then once you finally
have that, then you have to schmooze the person that's
in the news to get them on your program. Yeah. No,
it's it's the chase, right, It's just like dating Chase. Yes,
(30:53):
that's a lot of guy love the chase. And then
when you actually find someone, you're like get old board.
You're like, wait a minute, I found somebody. Want to
I want to go back and Chase. I want to
be out in the in the jungle, out there Yeah,
the chase was really cool, though it would take days.
Some guests it would take weeks. Like he wanted Carol
Baskin on, and you know, because she was on Dancing
(31:14):
with the Stars and he got a kick out of that,
and I said, I'm gonna get in touch with her.
So I did. I found an email for her, and
as you can imagine, she was really um. She doesn't
trust many people, and luck yeah, she was gun shy.
Gun shines the white right way to put it. Uh.
So I had to ben, I had to become a friend.
(31:36):
I emailed back and forth with her for like two weeks.
By the time the whole process was over and I
booked her for the show, we were texting each other
like we were buddies. Yeah, she has to do it.
She has pictures of my cat Mac Carol Baskin. As
we go out, one positive is at least you gotta
(31:59):
catch phrase, Danny g who set this up. I appreciate
you coming on, would like for you to say, hey
are you cool cats and kittens? As we as we
had out. Actually I should have started with hey are
you cool cats and kitten? Isn't She's suing Netflix of
over the new Tiger King thing that's out or is
it out yet or is it coming out? It is out. Yeah,
I was gonna tell you got to watch that on Netflix.
(32:21):
I'm a couple of episodes in Okay. Obviously can get
her book, but I I really don't think she's gonna
talk to anybody anymore, not with a pending lawsuit I had.
I had an in with the guy through some friends
of mine, the guy suing the Angels. I think the
lawsuit was kicked out, but it's been refiled. There was
(32:44):
a the guy that paid the price. He was the
clubhouse guy for the Angels that was rubbing up the
baseballs and and and helping the pictures with the sticky,
the tack, the special that wasn't even spot. It wasn't
Spider Tach. It was some special Google who he had
come up with with with the Angels years ago. And
he was like all these star players were, you know,
(33:06):
turning to him to get the stuff. And then when
Baseball decided to crack down on the Google, they fired him.
They got rid of this guy, and uh, we were
gonna have him on and then it didn't. The lawyers
got in a way because there's appending a legal system,
a legal situation, so he couldn't. It's hard to book
a fall guy. Yeah, yeah, that guy was the I mean,
(33:27):
I I remember I covered the Angels a lot like
way back, like in the Stone Age, and this cat
was out there back then, and everyone loved him. And
this is back in the nineties and so, and he
just got let go a couple of years ago. He
was beloved and we actually saw there were some guys
that played in that era while he Joiner and a
few other people that came out defending the guy and
(33:50):
went against major League Baseball, which was which was rare
usually want to break the code or whatever, but some
guys did that back in the day. So what's really
interesting about Carol Baskin in her story is that there
have been some documents that have come to light that
are showing that maybe her ex husband is alive in
(34:11):
Costa Rica. This murderous, cat loving woman that everybody likes
to just assume did something really bad. Uh, there's some
other thoughts out there now that, oh, maybe that dude's
alive in Costa Rica living a secret life. Because the
second season has shown her ex husband was kind of
(34:33):
a shady guy. It looks like, Wow, there's so many
layers to that story. Man, they could have probably four
seasons of that show. Yeah, I know the alternative reality.
That's where I would go Costa Rica if I needed
to go. I've heard it's beautiful. I used to have
guys that were fans of the show that ran illegal
(34:54):
sports books in Costa Rica, and they were pen pals
of mine. And you know that's where two talk went. Oh,
I see he's living. Is that where he's is Elvis?
Elvis is getting old? But is Elvis down there too?
His corpse maybe? But maybe his corpse. I thought he
was working at a fast food place in Louisville Elvis.
That was when I was a kid. That was the
rumor that Elvis was still alive. And Parking is alive
(35:16):
and well though he's definitely taking people's scuba diving, is he.
Have you been to Costa Rica. I've never been to
cost I have not. You know, anywhere where you need
a net over your body because of the bugs. It
doesn't sound fun to me. Most of South America, from
what I've heard, the bugs are bigger and uh, certainly
(35:36):
in the tropical places. Yeah. I have family lives in
Florida and depending on what part of Florida you're in
in the time of the year. I mean it's crazy.
It's like I see these people living in and not
just Florida, but like South Carolina and parts of Georgia,
these alligators wandering around. You're living with dinosaurs. Yeah, it's crazy,
freaking dinosaur. I know there's bears and stuff like that
(35:57):
where we live, and a little small obcats and whatnot,
but still crocodiles. You can kidding me. I'm actually on
the live air. Yes, wrong, it is timeless and here
it is on the fifth hour, real quick, when Benett
ended on a high note, this is for you, straight
(36:18):
from Facebook. Can't make this up from Ruben Ben You
such a b really a question, but I like it.
It's like your fans are up listening. All right. There
you go there, very nice, outstanding. What is still wrong
(36:40):
with the clippers? Osta Pasta gotta murder, I gotta go
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