June 3, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. have Saturday fun! They're talking: Horticulture Benny, the Last Trip, Back Scratcher, Scientifical & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the A Everyway.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio
keeping you company, your audio companion all weekend long, your
last line of defense from mediocre weekend conversation audio.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I think, I don't know, maybe we're also mediocre.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Who the hell knows, Danny, but we are back at it,
avoiding hairy situations on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Whoahoa whoa you're giving me Vietnam flashbacks of Annie and
she used to choose to come down to the FSR
studios from her perch up on the fifth floor, and
she'd say, now, remember, guys, you're the last line of defense.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, the Z Dog is a Fox Sports Radio legend.
She worked at FSR. I would say the first fifteen
sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How many years has.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm really bad at keeping track of time. I have
no idea, but it seems like she's been away from
Fox Sports Radio for at least five.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Years, probably five years, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Five years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And yeah, there's so many stories about about the z
Dog and Tom Looney had a great line because he
would say, he said, Ben, everyone at the company loves you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's only one woman that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And she was, of course the only only woman that
worked at the company.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I got along with her management at the company.
But but I got along with her and all that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We're actually I don't want to say we're good friends
because I don't even know how long she's been gone.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But it's one of those people, you know, how you
work with somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
For a while, and even though maybe you're not on
the same page, there's this kinship that you have because
you work together, and so like when you see them,
you want to catch up even though maybe they weren't
your favorite people, but you shared a common life experience.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It reminds me of Dawn when somebody has a bigger
than life persona and you even hear impersonations of them
on the radio. My man, like, we hear that all
the time, and so when I met him for the
first time, it was just strange because he it was
almost like a Saturday Night Live skit where he was
(02:42):
acting out that character, but it was actually him and Annie,
who used to be part of the executive team whatever.
They're at the company. Same thing. Even when I had
never worked yet at Fox Sports Radio, I would be
at other networks and I would hear impersonation of her
from people that were transplants from your network, Like, for instance,
(03:05):
Burgee came over to work at NBC Sports Radio, so
he and Karen Kay would be doing Annie impersonations to
each other, and I had no idea who they were
talking about, but it was pretty funny. So now fast
forward to me being at my interview to get hired
by Fox Sports Radio and Annie is in the interview
(03:27):
and I can't help but smile and almost laugh because
all those impersonations I heard over the years were now
real life in front of me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I will say this for the company, we have had
management people that are very easy to impersonate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We really have. It's like that Howard Stern movie The
w Pig Vomit w a BC and all that. But
the cool thing is Don is to me. He's been great.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I mean, I have nothing bad to say about Don,
but like pig Bomb and according to that movie, holy crap,
that guy was a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
W wait man.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah no, Thank god we have good bosses at this network,
because I could not say the same thing at that
last network I was.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
At, Yes and anyway, So but Don's been great.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But it is very funny.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I meet with him once every couple of years when
I have to negotiate a contract, and which is really
no negotiation. It's pretty much, here's what you get, Ben,
and then I say, yes, sir, can I have another?
And walk away. But it's in my head I'm negotiating.
So so Don, Don's great. We spend a couple hours.
I always plan for extra time. The meeting is supposed
to be half an hour. I go into Don's office.
(04:41):
He's got the Bronco helmet, he's got the Dodger paraphernalia
in there, and we're shooting the shit.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
About radio and life and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then the very end we get to what we're
there for, and then I walk out with my tail
between my legs, and that's the way that goes. So
we have hornic culture. Benny the last trip and michig
Gos the new Michigos for Uncle Benny, backscratcher and scientifical.
That sounds like a lot of stuff, and we'll jump
(05:11):
right into it right now. I'll try to be short
and sweet and get to the point. Please, get to
the point, please before they send me to the rubber room.
So the Malor Mansion getting a bit of an upgrade.
Planting the seed here. It's a new DIY project at
the Malor Mansion. This is the life of Matlar and
(05:33):
Danny g And you can, if you want, call me
horticulture Benny, with the help of someone that has a
green thumb, a family friend.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Say horticulture.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, you didn't take horticulture back in.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
The day, emphasis on the oh.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
We all tried to take that back in the day.
But I was not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Even the whores were not interested to me, but anyway,
I was interested in them. They were not interested me.
But so, with the help of a family friend that
does have a green thumb, these seeds, you know, you
have to get the rake out and do the whole thing.
And so you know, I didn't do much of that,
but the seeds have been planted. The spring harvest, we
(06:13):
hope will be a nice field of green grass. Now
my job in this little exercise horticulture, Benny, is to
literally watch the grass grow. So I have been deputized.
We don't have working sprinklers in that part of the
Malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
They used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sprinklers, but they don't work anymore, and we're too cheap
to get them fixed because we have a nice hose.
So I went to Costco and I bought a massive
one hundred foot yard hose.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's I think it's even bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And I got a nice sprayer. And so my job
here is to water that lawn, all of it. It's
big lawn from beginning to end. And I have to
do it multiple times a day, so I do it
before I go to bed, and then I usually do
it when I wake up.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
In the in the evening time.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Have a strategic back and forth method.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yes, so it's a great question, Danny. You're really good
at this. So I I use the the the sprinkler technique,
the human sprinkler technique is what I use.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Like you're dancing at a wedding.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yes, I I imagine that if I was not a living,
breathing human being. And I was a sprinkler, and so
I go, I go like this, that's that's what I do.
So I am the sprinkler. I channel the sprinkler. My
right hand was getting a workout. Edited audio is what
(07:46):
that is. And uh, yes, I've been doing this, and
I I have been encouraged because there have been some
little little green sprouts of grass, which tells me I'm
not completely off what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That tells me that keep doing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
What you're doing, because there's there's a little sign of
life there that the grass is growing. The grass is
greener on the other side because it was totally mud.
And now I would like some rain because then I
wouldn't have to do this. If it rains, I'm good.
I have a day off. I'm told if it rains,
I don't need to water the lawn the dirt.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, you don't want too much rain though, because then
it'll wipe your seeds away.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, we live in California and right now it's not
ill Nino until next January or whatever. Anyway, so that's
my new Michigas and so far, so good. You saw
that mud pile when you were over at the Malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Danny is not nothing there, but that'll all be nice,
beautiful grass, assuming I don't screw this up, so we will,
we will see.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And if this does become a disaster, that'll be my
last trip. But that's not your last trip. That's my
last trip.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, as you know, just a few weeks away from
the baby.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's right. When is the day? What is the day?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So now we're in June, you can officially say the
baby's coming next month.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And they had a big thank you to you and
your lovely wife for the nice baby gift that you
guys mailed to us.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You know, I am the unofficial godfather of the child
to be named later daddy, So yes, I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Got I can't wait to meet the little fella and
asking me wonderful. And you're going to have him on
the podcast when he's old enough to talk and all that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
For sure, he's going to take over and like like
you said on yesterday's podcast, he will be hosting The
Animal Thunderdome when it debuts in podcast format in hispies.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But that's all right, you know, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
So my wife, she is a travel agent by trade.
She's always booking trips. She loves resorts, she loves nice hotels.
So just for a little bit of background, she loves
to travel. Imagine being pregnant with a huge bowling ball
or a huge watermelon attached to you and it obviously
(10:16):
can you know, derail some of your traveling plans? Oh? No,
though not my wifey. She still planned a Memorial Day
weekend getaway. Bring the gas Pismo Beach, which is an
old favorite of mine. And I know you like that
area as well. As we go north from where we live.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Dude, Central California, that coast.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Is beautiful, so nice. I have to come back a
day earlier than her and the kids though, because with
Covino and Rich on Monday, Memorial Day, we filled in
for the Dan Patrick Show. So I actually followed them
in my car and we had one pit stop on
the way up to Pismo and it was in Santa Maria, California,
(10:58):
now a city that's all on the map, Ben because
they opened a brand new raising canes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh is that right? Well, yeah, I have stopped in
Santa Maria many times. Cof Go Gas, Yes, there's a costume. Yes,
I will go.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And there's never anyone at that because it's Santa Maria
and no one.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Lives there, so yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, well, there's somebody living there now. And I know
that area because I did radio in that area for
three years between two thousand and three and two thousand
and six. I put a hip hop R and B
station on the air for that area, ninety five point
seven The Beat, which is still thriving to this day.
So it's always cool to get up in that area
(11:44):
and turn my station on and hear what they're up to.
So we're listening to my station. We're pulling up to
raising canes and get out and get the combo. Watch
these kids with a fat tire bikes doing wheeli's and
parking lot because there's nothing else to do in Santa Maria,
and get back on the road. Get up to Pismo
(12:07):
Avela Beach and there is a new campground in that
area where you are overlooking the ocean and you're up
on a hill. They have all these RV spots. If
you had a nice RV, you could rent out the
spots and they also have glamping. It's like a studio
with thin walls and a place for you to park
(12:29):
right outside of it. So even if you don't have
camping gear, it kind of still feels like you're camping
because you're on this campground.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Me hold, say, glamping is that I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I mean, they never heard of glamping. It's like glamorous camping.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
My wife always wants to go camping, but I'm like, nah,
I'd rather stay at a hotel.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
See see you would like this, then google flying flags
Avla Beach. I want you to take a look at
what it looks.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like eyeing flags. I want to make sure to get
that right.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
What is it at the Avola Beach?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's popped up here. You see what we have? Okay, yeah,
it's that's very nice. Okay, I see, I got you.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, pretty cool. Now. The one thing I forgot I
have speaking of Costco, I have one of the e
scooters that they sell. As soon as we got there,
my girl was like, oh, you should have brought the
electric scooter, and I'm like, damn it, yeah, I forgot that.
So I'm watching all these people with their e bikes
and their east scooters, and there's these steep hills and
(13:39):
people of all ages are going down these hills, and
I'm like, damn it, that looks fun. Until day two
they're at the campground. I watched this guy in his
fifties with the group of his family up at the
top of the hill and they were all taking turns
bend with some of those old school scooters. Okay, when
(14:01):
I say old school scooters, I mean probably just from
a few years ago. But they don't have a motor
attached to them. Yeah, you know, they still have the
nice wheels. It's still a modern scooter, just doesn't have
the electric isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This isn't like a radio flyer from the nineteen seventies
or something.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Right, you remember our grandparents had like metal skates, Yes,
some skateboards with metal wheels. Like, what in the hell
come a, Yes, we really have. So this guy going
down this hill on this scooter and he is hauling
ass and I don't know if he hit something on
(14:39):
the road or his weight just made him fly forward,
but this guy ate total shit. I mean he somersaulted
down the rest of the hill and I thought the
guy was dead.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Hello, you've reached the police Department's voicemail.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Just with the homicide, it wouldn't be homice. I mean,
you'd missed the Yeah, okay, I got you, I got yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, I was. I was scared. I was like, man,
I'm gonna have to go down there and tell them
I saw everything, because there there's about to be a
body spray painted right there on the road. And his
family goes running down there, and I hear to you,
t you, papa, papa. These people are surrounding him like
it's a dead body. Remember the Nuggets mascot when he
(15:24):
passed out.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, Rocky the mascot. Yes, they thought he was dead.
They were raising him.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They were lowering him from the upper part of the
arena in Denver.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That was great.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This was just like how there was a big circle
around the dead Rocky mascot. Finally, Ben, they were able
to get this guy up. A beautiful, beautiful view there
and I almost got to see somebody die. So what
a great Memorial Day weekend? Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That is that is such. Did you find out what
actually happened to you?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Just you don't know, No, I don't know. I mean
they the way they took him off the pavement, they
looked worried.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Intermittent chest pain and I shortness to breath and pain
in my lift arm.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But he was alive.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, okay, So he had a pulse and he was breathing.
Fun fact, by the way, that no one should ever
besmirch Rocky the mascot. You see this, This pops up
every time the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
His salary.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How much ben Rocky the mascot earns over six hundred
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Over he's the highest paid mascot I think in all
of sports. Rocky is Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
He is a shoot. I would pass out in that
costume for that much money.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That is ten times on the average maskot gets sixty
grand a year, six hundred and twenty five thousand. How
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Is the mascot friends with stan KROCKI the owner, like,
how did that take place? How do you justified paying Rocky?
I mean good for Rocky the mascot. And I've seen
the I've seen Chuck the Condor, the greatest mascot in
the NBA rong, Chuck the Condor, the Clipper mascot practice.
The person who's in there is like a gymnast and
(17:15):
very athletic, and you've got to be to be a mascot.
But still that is that is amaze balls that they
could pay six hundred thousand dollars to a mascot. All right,
moving on from that, we've got your new Michigos for
Uncle Benny. So this past weekend kind of a casual
(17:39):
weekend after the big Malor meet and greet, all the
exciting times we had Minnesota, getting pulled over, getting a
speeding ticket on the way to the meet and greet,
and having a fun time drawing driving through all of Minnesota,
going up to the luth and then back down to Minneapolis,
and my wife giving us directions to a bakery that
was right near the George Floyd Memorial.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So quite quite the trip to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So last weekend I played Uncle Benny it again as
my nephew had a birthday, a big birthday for my
nephew as he turned four.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Years old, four years old for my nephew.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There doing his thing, and they had a big party
at his grandparents' house no relation to me, but at
this this house kind of in the Pasadena area. It's
really nice, big house, and they invited all the kids
from like the kids of preschool or kindergarten wherever he's in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And so there were a bunch of little kids there
and they.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Had a pinata and they were doing the thing the
kid wanted.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
My nephew only wanted.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Hot Wheels, And it was very upsetting to me because
I went out shopping to buy the kid a gift
and they had the Hot Wheels aisle and then right
next to the hot wheel was the ripoff version of
the Hot Wheels, which, by the way, at the store
I was at much cooler than the actual legitimate Hot.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wheels on the selection they had was much cooler.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Interesting, But my wife told me that I am only
allowed to get the original Hot Wheels product, that the kid,
my nephew is only interested in the.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Hot Wheels product.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
What a snob.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, right, he's into the brand.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He must have seen the commercials or whatever on the
internet when he's watching stuff on the YouTube or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I was like, all right, fine, I'll get that. So
I bought a few things, hooked the kid up. And
the cool thing is hot Wheels not that expensive. So
if you're going to have an addiction as a kid,
that's like legos are expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Right, yeah, yeah, man, I love those hot Wheels. And
then remember there were the carrier cases where you could
put all your hot wheels in there. I wanted one
of those so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, yeah, I loved how it was.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And you did the demolition derby thing, right, you did
that where you would did you smash the cars into
each other?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Like, oh yeah, of course you got to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And then we had one one year for Hanuk and
my my my parents got me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
They had the hot Wheels. Remember the racetrack thing that
you had.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
They had that you ever got it, always asked for it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, we had it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
My mom claimed it was a huge waste of money.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
My mom was right, good job by your money. It
was because it never worked like it did in the commercial. Yeah,
the most frustrating thing.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But what would like warp right away and you couldn't
get it to sit flat? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Hard to together barbit.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
So the hot Wheels now, the other brand, I think
they had the match Box, which is like the other
that's like the competitor right of Hot Wheel. They had.
Match Box had some more unique cars. But anyway, I
guys said, I got the kid. I took care of
your uncle. Benny, gotta take care of your your niece
and your nephews and all that. So I made sure
(21:15):
he got the hot Wheelsman and not the evil matchbox
because that would have ruined his whole birthday. So anyway,
at this thing, my brother in law decided to serve
up some food and he bought himself a pizza oven
and was making individual pizzas for everyone.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Now, my wife loves the.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Pizza onion, or a pizza oven, rather not the onion,
the pizza oven. I have been anti pizza oven because
I can make of a great pizza. We already have
an oven. We don't need a pizza oven. That's like
an elitist thing I don't need. I gotta tell you though, Danny,
I'm starting to come around to the pizza oven, and
now it's become my new Michigan. And the reason why
(21:57):
there's only one reason I'm now thinking I might have
to cross the line and get a pizza oven at
the Malor mansion. And that reason you know what it is, Danny.
No bubbles, bubbles, bubbles bubbles. So I have made a
really good pie over the years. I'm pretty proud of
(22:18):
the pizza I make at the mal of mansion. But
I cannot get it hot enough for the bubble, and
I was I was really emasculated because my brother in law,
you know, he's got this little pizza oven. You know,
it's it's the portable kind and whatever. It's fine. He
bought it off eBay. It's got the heatstone on it.
(22:41):
He had a little heat like a gun to check
the temperature. He puts these pies and they come out
and it's bubblicious.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
There's massive bubbles.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, I just saw one of these things on Shark Tank.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, it was a brutello.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I don't remember the name of this one. But there's
a bunch of different kinds of these things. But this
thing looks so good like the bubbles. I'm like, oh man,
and it cooked up in like three minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Now. Whenever a listener would be kind enough to send
Domino's pizza to our radio show, yeah, in Sherman Oaks,
you would always go after the pieces that had bubbles.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why I have always been attracted to bubbles. I feel
like there's a connection with me and bubbles. It's like
getting an extra breadstick at the end of your pizza.
Really is And when the dough bubbles up and the
cheese bubbles up. Oh it's so good, it's so wonderful.
(23:43):
So yeah, I am. I'm thinking about maybe down the line,
we'll go down that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Pizza oven road because it's really really good.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And alf Our buddy, alf the Alien Opiner, he had
actually sent me one of these portable pizza ovens, like
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
He sent me this.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
He's like, oh, you should get one of these things.
They work really good. And I was like, eh, whatever.
But it wasn't until I had this come to Jesus moment,
or come to the bubble moment, and these things have
come down in price too.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I don't see.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I don't know how good that really cheap knockoff versions are, though,
I should probably ask my brother in law what kind
exactly has I think I think it was written down.
But you can get them if you can get them
on like offer up or.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Yeah, some of them have come down to about two
hundred and ninety nine dollars, but you're right, when they
first came onto the market, they were five six hundred dollars,
seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not that into bubbles.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I mean, I would for a couple hundred bucks if
I can get bubbles, I'll be like, Okay, I'm here
for the bubbles, but I'm not going to spend five
hundred bucks to get freaking bubbles. I don't make that
kind of money. I don't make coward money. I don't
make daytime money. I make nighttime money.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So I can't. I can't go down that road.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Not happening, Sorry, not sorry, but anyway, that's my new
michig gost there all because of a kid's birthday party.
Heats a pie in the sky if you will, time
for backscratcher. Last week we got shut out, very embarrassing.
Bad job by us, bad job by you. Shame on you,
(25:23):
shame on us. So this week, Danny, did we get
shut out yet again? Another goose egg? Or did we
have one review? Three reviews? Those are the possibilities there, Danny,
And what say you?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
One review?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Danny G. I am happy to report you are the father.
You got it right. Congratulations, you got it right, daddy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ellie Ramone writes in that's the name posted on the
Apple podcast page, which is available in the descriptions. If
you would like to be one of our favorite people
and write a little review on the Apple podcast page.
We're over four hundred now we need to get to
five hundred. Well, review number four oh one was from
Ellie and short and sweet five stars. Awesome show, keep
(26:20):
up the good work. Boom, just like that. Thank you,
thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You, Ellie.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Appreciate that, and thank you for taking some time out.
And we'd love for you to do it. You scratch
our back, We'll scratch your back. Give you a little
shout out here, a little pod love on the Apple
podcast page, which for some reason the management at iHeartMedia
love to look at the Apple podcast page.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They should probably get a life. What the hell, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
That's fine, we have a little time. Let's get scientifical, Dan,
just a little time for let's get scientifical. A few
science stories that caught my attention, and we'll go through.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
All of these. Are they real or are they bullshit?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So the people over at NASA had a powwow.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They got into.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
UFOs, the first ever public hearing on Mysterious Unidentified Flying objects,
and in that the Department of Defense also was part
of this. They said, over the last twenty seven years,
(27:32):
they said, the last twenty seven years, just two to
five percent of unidentified flying objects were completely unexplained, and
they were saying this as a positive. But that sounds
like a rather large amount. If there's five percent of
(27:54):
alien UFOs out there, that's enough, right, wouldn't that be enough?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Every year? This is pointing to there are freaking aliens
walking amongst us.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, it's it's like we are being manipulated year by year, indoctrinated.
And then when I guess we'll be old dudes, even
older than we are.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Now, Danny.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But then at some point they'll be Toda, we feel
like you earthlings are able to handle this now, and
that will have they'll be I know, I know when
that happens, two things will happen. I can guarantee this.
I might not be around. Maybe you'll not be around, Danny,
it'll be past our time. But whenever that happens and
(28:39):
humanity finds out there's little gremlins and goblins out there
for real and they've made contact, what happens after that
is a run on toilet, paperer and bottled water.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Oh yeah, so guarantee even better guests on Coast to
Coast the.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
First the interview should be with George Norri from the
Goblins should be with George Norri. And unfortunately Art Bell
is not available, but George would be perfect for that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Here's a fun story.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Scientists are now warning that light pollution could make stars
invisible in two decades. So within twenty years, you'll look
up to the heavens and you will not see any
stars in the Milky Way. They will no longer be visible,
they say, to a third of humanity. According to this,
(29:34):
it's like, eh, like we live in La you can
hardly see any stars if you're in La proper. So
I feel like it's already pretty much vanished and you've
got to go out to the forest, out to the
desert to see stars.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Thankfully, where I live now on the border of Ventura County,
I can see some stars at night, which is an
amazing feat for southern California.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, when I want to stars, I think it's is
it Joshua Tree, the one out near Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You go to the desert for stars?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, I just know from like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Well, earlier this year, my cousin was sick and I
was going to Phoenix. We were driving there and we
stopped and at a rest area right near a national park.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I think it was Joshua Tree, but maybe it was
called something else.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And it was unreal. The amount of stars we saw.
It was craziness.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It felt it felt like it was like a It
wasn't real compared to what we normally see as a
light pollution and all that. Now we mentioned earlier in this,
let's get scientifical that they say, as the scientist estimate
that like two to five percent of UFO sightings are
actually unexplained.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That's from NASA.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
How about this from the planet we live on as well?
And it vols critters and crawlers and creatures and all that.
There's this place in the mighty Blue Pacific called the
Clarion Clipperton Zone. You ever heard of that, the Clarion
Clipperton Zone. No, yeah, I never heard of it either.
(31:19):
So A quoting to this, there's this area in the
Pacific Ocean which has been unsullied by evil human beings
and all this. And so they went and they kind
of looked around and they determined there are over five
thousand previously unknown sea creatures, including sea sponges, worms, urchins,
(31:45):
and other random things that were discovered in the almost
untouched area of the Pacific Ocean. Wow, yeah, in that while,
And so they're that now because like, wait a minute, here,
it's called the Clarion Clipperton Zone c CZ. It is
(32:05):
a six million square kilometer area, roughly twice the size
of India. It lies between Hawaii and Mexico in the
central and eastern Pacific.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Why was this never discovered before?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Uh, that's a great question. I don't I'm looking at
the story here.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Doesn't Maybe it shows you that the Earth is so
vast and we just assume every little part of it
has already been, you know, trampled on.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I had a theory when I was younger. I used
to think about these things, had a lot of free
time in my hands, that all of the cures to
all of the diseases that we have are on the planet.
We just haven't found them yet, like cancer and all
this other bullshit that.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
We have to deal with.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Like all, I think all of the answers are here somewhere,
and maybe they're buried deep in the ocean, somewhere far
far away, or on some little shitty island in the
middle of nowhere, where there's no.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Human beings, but just got to explore it. You got
to find that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
And by the way, you're right outside of Palm Springs.
It's where the Mojave and the Colorado come together. The
Joshua Tree National Park beautiful.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
It is wonderful. Although I recommend saving money because they
charge you to go in. There's a little rest area
right outside Joshua Tree which is just as good. You
can see if you're just there to see the stars.
It's like boom right there. Awesome, wonderful, outstanding, and that
is the way to go. We'll get out on that Saturday. Saturday, Saturday,
(33:43):
another day with no pro bouncy ball. The finals will
continue tomorrow on Sunday as scheduled by the mighty powerful NBA.
Anything you got going on today, any trips with your
your bride there that loves to go on trips.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
We can talk her out of booking Disneyland. A. We
don't have the money for that right now. B For
her to waddle around that park for hours and hours
on end would not be a good idea. So no,
it's going to be a day of rest here at
the g Household.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And see Danny, you want to bring the kid.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You know, not right away obviously, but within a couple
of years after the kid's born. You want to take
the kid a because you want photos with Mickey Mouse
and Mini Mouse, and b it's free when the kid's
that little, right, So.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're like, hey, I can go in and you'll go.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Two words with one stone will cost me an extra
two hundred bucks. So that's the way to do it, right.
We'll have a wonderful date today. Whatever you're up to,
don't forget. We've got the mail bag tomorrow and we'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the A Everyway.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio
keeping you company, your audio companion all weekend long, your
last line of defense from mediocre weekend conversation audio.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I think, I don't know, maybe we're also mediocre.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Who the hell knows, Danny, but we are back at it,
avoiding hairy situations on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Whoahoa whoa you're giving me Vietnam flashbacks of Annie and
she used to choose to come down to the FSR
studios from her perch up on the fifth floor, and
she'd say, now, remember, guys, you're the last line of defense.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, the Z Dog is a Fox Sports Radio legend.
She worked at FSR. I would say the first fifteen
sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How many years has.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm really bad at keeping track of time. I have
no idea, but it seems like she's been away from
Fox Sports Radio for at least five.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Years, probably five years, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Five years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And yeah, there's so many stories about about the z
Dog and Tom Looney had a great line because he
would say, he said, Ben, everyone at the company loves you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's only one woman that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And she was, of course the only only woman that
worked at the company.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I got along with her management at the company.
But but I got along with her and all that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We're actually I don't want to say we're good friends
because I don't even know how long she's been gone.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But it's one of those people, you know, how you
work with somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
For a while, and even though maybe you're not on
the same page, there's this kinship that you have because
you work together, and so like when you see them,
you want to catch up even though maybe they weren't
your favorite people, but you shared a common life experience.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It reminds me of Dawn when somebody has a bigger
than life persona and you even hear impersonations of them
on the radio. My man, like, we hear that all
the time, and so when I met him for the
first time, it was just strange because he it was
almost like a Saturday Night Live skit where he was
(02:42):
acting out that character, but it was actually him and Annie,
who used to be part of the executive team whatever.
They're at the company. Same thing. Even when I had
never worked yet at Fox Sports Radio, I would be
at other networks and I would hear impersonation of her
from people that were transplants from your network, Like, for instance,
(03:05):
Burgee came over to work at NBC Sports Radio, so
he and Karen Kay would be doing Annie impersonations to
each other, and I had no idea who they were
talking about, but it was pretty funny. So now fast
forward to me being at my interview to get hired
by Fox Sports Radio and Annie is in the interview
(03:27):
and I can't help but smile and almost laugh because
all those impersonations I heard over the years were now
real life in front of me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I will say this for the company, we have had
management people that are very easy to impersonate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We really have. It's like that Howard Stern movie The
w Pig Vomit w a BC and all that. But
the cool thing is Don is to me. He's been great.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I mean, I have nothing bad to say about Don,
but like pig Bomb and according to that movie, holy crap,
that guy was a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
W wait man.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah no, Thank god we have good bosses at this network,
because I could not say the same thing at that
last network I was.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
At, Yes and anyway, So but Don's been great.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But it is very funny.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I meet with him once every couple of years when
I have to negotiate a contract, and which is really
no negotiation. It's pretty much, here's what you get, Ben,
and then I say, yes, sir, can I have another?
And walk away. But it's in my head I'm negotiating.
So so Don, Don's great. We spend a couple hours.
I always plan for extra time. The meeting is supposed
to be half an hour. I go into Don's office.
(04:41):
He's got the Bronco helmet, he's got the Dodger paraphernalia
in there, and we're shooting the shit.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
About radio and life and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then the very end we get to what we're
there for, and then I walk out with my tail
between my legs, and that's the way that goes. So
we have hornic culture. Benny the last trip and michig
Gos the new Michigos for Uncle Benny, backscratcher and scientifical.
That sounds like a lot of stuff, and we'll jump
(05:11):
right into it right now. I'll try to be short
and sweet and get to the point. Please, get to
the point, please before they send me to the rubber room.
So the Malor Mansion getting a bit of an upgrade.
Planting the seed here. It's a new DIY project at
the Malor Mansion. This is the life of Matlar and
(05:33):
Danny g And you can, if you want, call me
horticulture Benny, with the help of someone that has a
green thumb, a family friend.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Say horticulture.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, you didn't take horticulture back in.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
The day, emphasis on the oh.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
We all tried to take that back in the day.
But I was not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Even the whores were not interested to me, but anyway,
I was interested in them. They were not interested me.
But so, with the help of a family friend that
does have a green thumb, these seeds, you know, you
have to get the rake out and do the whole thing.
And so you know, I didn't do much of that,
but the seeds have been planted. The spring harvest, we
(06:13):
hope will be a nice field of green grass. Now
my job in this little exercise horticulture, Benny, is to
literally watch the grass grow. So I have been deputized.
We don't have working sprinklers in that part of the
Malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
They used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sprinklers, but they don't work anymore, and we're too cheap
to get them fixed because we have a nice hose.
So I went to Costco and I bought a massive
one hundred foot yard hose.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's I think it's even bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And I got a nice sprayer. And so my job
here is to water that lawn, all of it. It's
big lawn from beginning to end. And I have to
do it multiple times a day, so I do it
before I go to bed, and then I usually do
it when I wake up.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
In the in the evening time.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Have a strategic back and forth method.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yes, so it's a great question, Danny. You're really good
at this. So I I use the the the sprinkler technique,
the human sprinkler technique is what I use.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Like you're dancing at a wedding.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yes, I I imagine that if I was not a living,
breathing human being. And I was a sprinkler, and so
I go, I go like this, that's that's what I do.
So I am the sprinkler. I channel the sprinkler. My
right hand was getting a workout. Edited audio is what
(07:46):
that is. And uh, yes, I've been doing this, and
I I have been encouraged because there have been some
little little green sprouts of grass, which tells me I'm
not completely off what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That tells me that keep doing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
What you're doing, because there's there's a little sign of
life there that the grass is growing. The grass is
greener on the other side because it was totally mud.
And now I would like some rain because then I
wouldn't have to do this. If it rains, I'm good.
I have a day off. I'm told if it rains,
I don't need to water the lawn the dirt.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, you don't want too much rain though, because then
it'll wipe your seeds away.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, we live in California and right now it's not
ill Nino until next January or whatever. Anyway, so that's
my new Michigas and so far, so good. You saw
that mud pile when you were over at the Malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Danny is not nothing there, but that'll all be nice,
beautiful grass, assuming I don't screw this up, so we will,
we will see.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And if this does become a disaster, that'll be my
last trip. But that's not your last trip. That's my
last trip.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, as you know, just a few weeks away from
the baby.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's right. When is the day? What is the day?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So now we're in June, you can officially say the
baby's coming next month.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And they had a big thank you to you and
your lovely wife for the nice baby gift that you
guys mailed to us.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You know, I am the unofficial godfather of the child
to be named later daddy, So yes, I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Got I can't wait to meet the little fella and
asking me wonderful. And you're going to have him on
the podcast when he's old enough to talk and all that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
For sure, he's going to take over and like like
you said on yesterday's podcast, he will be hosting The
Animal Thunderdome when it debuts in podcast format in hispies.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But that's all right, you know, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
So my wife, she is a travel agent by trade.
She's always booking trips. She loves resorts, she loves nice hotels.
So just for a little bit of background, she loves
to travel. Imagine being pregnant with a huge bowling ball
or a huge watermelon attached to you and it obviously
(10:16):
can you know, derail some of your traveling plans? Oh? No,
though not my wifey. She still planned a Memorial Day
weekend getaway. Bring the gas Pismo Beach, which is an
old favorite of mine. And I know you like that
area as well. As we go north from where we live.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Dude, Central California, that coast.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Is beautiful, so nice. I have to come back a
day earlier than her and the kids though, because with
Covino and Rich on Monday, Memorial Day, we filled in
for the Dan Patrick Show. So I actually followed them
in my car and we had one pit stop on
the way up to Pismo and it was in Santa Maria, California,
(10:58):
now a city that's all on the map, Ben because
they opened a brand new raising canes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh is that right? Well, yeah, I have stopped in
Santa Maria many times. Cof Go Gas, Yes, there's a costume. Yes,
I will go.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And there's never anyone at that because it's Santa Maria
and no one.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Lives there, so yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, well, there's somebody living there now. And I know
that area because I did radio in that area for
three years between two thousand and three and two thousand
and six. I put a hip hop R and B
station on the air for that area, ninety five point
seven The Beat, which is still thriving to this day.
So it's always cool to get up in that area
(11:44):
and turn my station on and hear what they're up to.
So we're listening to my station. We're pulling up to
raising canes and get out and get the combo. Watch
these kids with a fat tire bikes doing wheeli's and
parking lot because there's nothing else to do in Santa Maria,
and get back on the road. Get up to Pismo
(12:07):
Avela Beach and there is a new campground in that
area where you are overlooking the ocean and you're up
on a hill. They have all these RV spots. If
you had a nice RV, you could rent out the
spots and they also have glamping. It's like a studio
with thin walls and a place for you to park
(12:29):
right outside of it. So even if you don't have
camping gear, it kind of still feels like you're camping
because you're on this campground.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Me hold, say, glamping is that I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I mean, they never heard of glamping. It's like glamorous camping.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
My wife always wants to go camping, but I'm like, nah,
I'd rather stay at a hotel.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
See see you would like this, then google flying flags
Avla Beach. I want you to take a look at
what it looks.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like eyeing flags. I want to make sure to get
that right.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
What is it at the Avola Beach?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's popped up here. You see what we have? Okay, yeah,
it's that's very nice. Okay, I see, I got you.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, pretty cool. Now. The one thing I forgot I
have speaking of Costco, I have one of the e
scooters that they sell. As soon as we got there,
my girl was like, oh, you should have brought the
electric scooter, and I'm like, damn it, yeah, I forgot that.
So I'm watching all these people with their e bikes
and their east scooters, and there's these steep hills and
(13:39):
people of all ages are going down these hills, and
I'm like, damn it, that looks fun. Until day two
they're at the campground. I watched this guy in his
fifties with the group of his family up at the
top of the hill and they were all taking turns
bend with some of those old school scooters. Okay, when
(14:01):
I say old school scooters, I mean probably just from
a few years ago. But they don't have a motor
attached to them. Yeah, you know, they still have the
nice wheels. It's still a modern scooter, just doesn't have
the electric isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This isn't like a radio flyer from the nineteen seventies
or something.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Right, you remember our grandparents had like metal skates, Yes,
some skateboards with metal wheels. Like, what in the hell
come a, Yes, we really have. So this guy going
down this hill on this scooter and he is hauling
ass and I don't know if he hit something on
(14:39):
the road or his weight just made him fly forward,
but this guy ate total shit. I mean he somersaulted
down the rest of the hill and I thought the
guy was dead.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Hello, you've reached the police Department's voicemail.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Just with the homicide, it wouldn't be homice. I mean,
you'd missed the Yeah, okay, I got you, I got yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, I was. I was scared. I was like, man,
I'm gonna have to go down there and tell them
I saw everything, because there there's about to be a
body spray painted right there on the road. And his
family goes running down there, and I hear to you,
t you, papa, papa. These people are surrounding him like
it's a dead body. Remember the Nuggets mascot when he
(15:24):
passed out.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, Rocky the mascot. Yes, they thought he was dead.
They were raising him.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They were lowering him from the upper part of the
arena in Denver.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That was great.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This was just like how there was a big circle
around the dead Rocky mascot. Finally, Ben, they were able
to get this guy up. A beautiful, beautiful view there
and I almost got to see somebody die. So what
a great Memorial Day weekend? Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That is that is such. Did you find out what
actually happened to you?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Just you don't know, No, I don't know. I mean
they the way they took him off the pavement, they
looked worried.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Intermittent chest pain and I shortness to breath and pain
in my lift arm.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But he was alive.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, okay, So he had a pulse and he was breathing.
Fun fact, by the way, that no one should ever
besmirch Rocky the mascot. You see this, This pops up
every time the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
His salary.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How much ben Rocky the mascot earns over six hundred
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Over he's the highest paid mascot I think in all
of sports. Rocky is Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
He is a shoot. I would pass out in that
costume for that much money.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That is ten times on the average maskot gets sixty
grand a year, six hundred and twenty five thousand. How
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Is the mascot friends with stan KROCKI the owner, like,
how did that take place? How do you justified paying Rocky?
I mean good for Rocky the mascot. And I've seen
the I've seen Chuck the Condor, the greatest mascot in
the NBA rong, Chuck the Condor, the Clipper mascot practice.
The person who's in there is like a gymnast and
(17:15):
very athletic, and you've got to be to be a mascot.
But still that is that is amaze balls that they
could pay six hundred thousand dollars to a mascot. All right,
moving on from that, we've got your new Michigos for
Uncle Benny. So this past weekend kind of a casual
(17:39):
weekend after the big Malor meet and greet, all the
exciting times we had Minnesota, getting pulled over, getting a
speeding ticket on the way to the meet and greet,
and having a fun time drawing driving through all of Minnesota,
going up to the luth and then back down to Minneapolis,
and my wife giving us directions to a bakery that
was right near the George Floyd Memorial.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So quite quite the trip to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So last weekend I played Uncle Benny it again as
my nephew had a birthday, a big birthday for my
nephew as he turned four.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Years old, four years old for my nephew.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There doing his thing, and they had a big party
at his grandparents' house no relation to me, but at
this this house kind of in the Pasadena area. It's
really nice, big house, and they invited all the kids
from like the kids of preschool or kindergarten wherever he's in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And so there were a bunch of little kids there
and they.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Had a pinata and they were doing the thing the
kid wanted.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
My nephew only wanted.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Hot Wheels, And it was very upsetting to me because
I went out shopping to buy the kid a gift
and they had the Hot Wheels aisle and then right
next to the hot wheel was the ripoff version of
the Hot Wheels, which, by the way, at the store
I was at much cooler than the actual legitimate Hot.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wheels on the selection they had was much cooler.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Interesting, But my wife told me that I am only
allowed to get the original Hot Wheels product, that the kid,
my nephew is only interested in the.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Hot Wheels product.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
What a snob.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, right, he's into the brand.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He must have seen the commercials or whatever on the
internet when he's watching stuff on the YouTube or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I was like, all right, fine, I'll get that. So
I bought a few things, hooked the kid up. And
the cool thing is hot Wheels not that expensive. So
if you're going to have an addiction as a kid,
that's like legos are expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Right, yeah, yeah, man, I love those hot Wheels. And
then remember there were the carrier cases where you could
put all your hot wheels in there. I wanted one
of those so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, yeah, I loved how it was.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And you did the demolition derby thing, right, you did
that where you would did you smash the cars into
each other?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Like, oh yeah, of course you got to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And then we had one one year for Hanuk and
my my my parents got me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
They had the hot Wheels. Remember the racetrack thing that
you had.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
They had that you ever got it, always asked for it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, we had it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
My mom claimed it was a huge waste of money.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
My mom was right, good job by your money. It
was because it never worked like it did in the commercial. Yeah,
the most frustrating thing.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But what would like warp right away and you couldn't
get it to sit flat? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Hard to together barbit.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
So the hot Wheels now, the other brand, I think
they had the match Box, which is like the other
that's like the competitor right of Hot Wheel. They had.
Match Box had some more unique cars. But anyway, I
guys said, I got the kid. I took care of
your uncle. Benny, gotta take care of your your niece
and your nephews and all that. So I made sure
(21:15):
he got the hot Wheelsman and not the evil matchbox
because that would have ruined his whole birthday. So anyway,
at this thing, my brother in law decided to serve
up some food and he bought himself a pizza oven
and was making individual pizzas for everyone.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Now, my wife loves the.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Pizza onion, or a pizza oven, rather not the onion,
the pizza oven. I have been anti pizza oven because
I can make of a great pizza. We already have
an oven. We don't need a pizza oven. That's like
an elitist thing I don't need. I gotta tell you though, Danny,
I'm starting to come around to the pizza oven, and
now it's become my new Michigan. And the reason why
(21:57):
there's only one reason I'm now thinking I might have
to cross the line and get a pizza oven at
the Malor mansion. And that reason you know what it is, Danny.
No bubbles, bubbles, bubbles bubbles. So I have made a
really good pie over the years. I'm pretty proud of
(22:18):
the pizza I make at the mal of mansion. But
I cannot get it hot enough for the bubble, and
I was I was really emasculated because my brother in law,
you know, he's got this little pizza oven. You know,
it's it's the portable kind and whatever. It's fine. He
bought it off eBay. It's got the heatstone on it.
(22:41):
He had a little heat like a gun to check
the temperature. He puts these pies and they come out
and it's bubblicious.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
There's massive bubbles.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, I just saw one of these things on Shark Tank.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, it was a brutello.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I don't remember the name of this one. But there's
a bunch of different kinds of these things. But this
thing looks so good like the bubbles. I'm like, oh man,
and it cooked up in like three minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Now. Whenever a listener would be kind enough to send
Domino's pizza to our radio show, yeah, in Sherman Oaks,
you would always go after the pieces that had bubbles.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why I have always been attracted to bubbles. I feel
like there's a connection with me and bubbles. It's like
getting an extra breadstick at the end of your pizza.
Really is And when the dough bubbles up and the
cheese bubbles up. Oh it's so good, it's so wonderful.
(23:43):
So yeah, I am. I'm thinking about maybe down the line,
we'll go down that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Pizza oven road because it's really really good.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And alf Our buddy, alf the Alien Opiner, he had
actually sent me one of these portable pizza ovens, like
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
He sent me this.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
He's like, oh, you should get one of these things.
They work really good. And I was like, eh, whatever.
But it wasn't until I had this come to Jesus moment,
or come to the bubble moment, and these things have
come down in price too.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I don't see.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I don't know how good that really cheap knockoff versions are, though,
I should probably ask my brother in law what kind
exactly has I think I think it was written down.
But you can get them if you can get them
on like offer up or.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Yeah, some of them have come down to about two
hundred and ninety nine dollars, but you're right, when they
first came onto the market, they were five six hundred dollars,
seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not that into bubbles.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I mean, I would for a couple hundred bucks if
I can get bubbles, I'll be like, Okay, I'm here
for the bubbles, but I'm not going to spend five
hundred bucks to get freaking bubbles. I don't make that
kind of money. I don't make coward money. I don't
make daytime money. I make nighttime money.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So I can't. I can't go down that road.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Not happening, Sorry, not sorry, but anyway, that's my new
michig gost there all because of a kid's birthday party.
Heats a pie in the sky if you will, time
for backscratcher. Last week we got shut out, very embarrassing.
Bad job by us, bad job by you. Shame on you,
(25:23):
shame on us. So this week, Danny, did we get
shut out yet again? Another goose egg? Or did we
have one review? Three reviews? Those are the possibilities there, Danny,
And what say you?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
One review?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Danny G. I am happy to report you are the father.
You got it right. Congratulations, you got it right, daddy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ellie Ramone writes in that's the name posted on the
Apple podcast page, which is available in the descriptions. If
you would like to be one of our favorite people
and write a little review on the Apple podcast page.
We're over four hundred now we need to get to
five hundred. Well, review number four oh one was from
Ellie and short and sweet five stars. Awesome show, keep
(26:20):
up the good work. Boom, just like that. Thank you,
thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You, Ellie.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Appreciate that, and thank you for taking some time out.
And we'd love for you to do it. You scratch
our back, We'll scratch your back. Give you a little
shout out here, a little pod love on the Apple
podcast page, which for some reason the management at iHeartMedia
love to look at the Apple podcast page.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They should probably get a life. What the hell, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
That's fine, we have a little time. Let's get scientifical, Dan,
just a little time for let's get scientifical. A few
science stories that caught my attention, and we'll go through.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
All of these. Are they real or are they bullshit?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So the people over at NASA had a powwow.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They got into.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
UFOs, the first ever public hearing on Mysterious Unidentified Flying objects,
and in that the Department of Defense also was part
of this. They said, over the last twenty seven years,
(27:32):
they said, the last twenty seven years, just two to
five percent of unidentified flying objects were completely unexplained, and
they were saying this as a positive. But that sounds
like a rather large amount. If there's five percent of
(27:54):
alien UFOs out there, that's enough, right, wouldn't that be enough?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Every year? This is pointing to there are freaking aliens
walking amongst us.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, it's it's like we are being manipulated year by year, indoctrinated.
And then when I guess we'll be old dudes, even
older than we are.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Now, Danny.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But then at some point they'll be Toda, we feel
like you earthlings are able to handle this now, and
that will have they'll be I know, I know when
that happens, two things will happen. I can guarantee this.
I might not be around. Maybe you'll not be around, Danny,
it'll be past our time. But whenever that happens and
(28:39):
humanity finds out there's little gremlins and goblins out there
for real and they've made contact, what happens after that
is a run on toilet, paperer and bottled water.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Oh yeah, so guarantee even better guests on Coast to
Coast the.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
First the interview should be with George Norri from the
Goblins should be with George Norri. And unfortunately Art Bell
is not available, but George would be perfect for that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Here's a fun story.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Scientists are now warning that light pollution could make stars
invisible in two decades. So within twenty years, you'll look
up to the heavens and you will not see any
stars in the Milky Way. They will no longer be visible,
they say, to a third of humanity. According to this,
(29:34):
it's like, eh, like we live in La you can
hardly see any stars if you're in La proper. So
I feel like it's already pretty much vanished and you've
got to go out to the forest, out to the
desert to see stars.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Thankfully, where I live now on the border of Ventura County,
I can see some stars at night, which is an
amazing feat for southern California.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, when I want to stars, I think it's is
it Joshua Tree, the one out near Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You go to the desert for stars?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, I just know from like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Well, earlier this year, my cousin was sick and I
was going to Phoenix. We were driving there and we
stopped and at a rest area right near a national park.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I think it was Joshua Tree, but maybe it was
called something else.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And it was unreal. The amount of stars we saw.
It was craziness.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It felt it felt like it was like a It
wasn't real compared to what we normally see as a
light pollution and all that. Now we mentioned earlier in this,
let's get scientifical that they say, as the scientist estimate
that like two to five percent of UFO sightings are
actually unexplained.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That's from NASA.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
How about this from the planet we live on as well?
And it vols critters and crawlers and creatures and all that.
There's this place in the mighty Blue Pacific called the
Clarion Clipperton Zone. You ever heard of that, the Clarion
Clipperton Zone. No, yeah, I never heard of it either.
(31:19):
So A quoting to this, there's this area in the
Pacific Ocean which has been unsullied by evil human beings
and all this. And so they went and they kind
of looked around and they determined there are over five
thousand previously unknown sea creatures, including sea sponges, worms, urchins,
(31:45):
and other random things that were discovered in the almost
untouched area of the Pacific Ocean. Wow, yeah, in that while,
And so they're that now because like, wait a minute, here,
it's called the Clarion Clipperton Zone c CZ. It is
(32:05):
a six million square kilometer area, roughly twice the size
of India. It lies between Hawaii and Mexico in the
central and eastern Pacific.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Why was this never discovered before?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Uh, that's a great question. I don't I'm looking at
the story here.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Doesn't Maybe it shows you that the Earth is so
vast and we just assume every little part of it
has already been, you know, trampled on.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I had a theory when I was younger. I used
to think about these things, had a lot of free
time in my hands, that all of the cures to
all of the diseases that we have are on the planet.
We just haven't found them yet, like cancer and all
this other bullshit that.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
We have to deal with.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Like all, I think all of the answers are here somewhere,
and maybe they're buried deep in the ocean, somewhere far
far away, or on some little shitty island in the
middle of nowhere, where there's no.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Human beings, but just got to explore it. You got
to find that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
And by the way, you're right outside of Palm Springs.
It's where the Mojave and the Colorado come together. The
Joshua Tree National Park beautiful.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
It is wonderful. Although I recommend saving money because they
charge you to go in. There's a little rest area
right outside Joshua Tree which is just as good. You
can see if you're just there to see the stars.
It's like boom right there. Awesome, wonderful, outstanding, and that
is the way to go. We'll get out on that Saturday. Saturday, Saturday,
(33:43):
another day with no pro bouncy ball. The finals will
continue tomorrow on Sunday as scheduled by the mighty powerful NBA.
Anything you got going on today, any trips with your
your bride there that loves to go on trips.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
We can talk her out of booking Disneyland. A. We
don't have the money for that right now. B For
her to waddle around that park for hours and hours
on end would not be a good idea. So no,
it's going to be a day of rest here at
the g Household.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And see Danny, you want to bring the kid.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You know, not right away obviously, but within a couple
of years after the kid's born. You want to take
the kid a because you want photos with Mickey Mouse
and Mini Mouse, and b it's free when the kid's
that little, right, So.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're like, hey, I can go in and you'll go.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Two words with one stone will cost me an extra
two hundred bucks. So that's the way to do it, right.
We'll have a wonderful date today. Whatever you're up to,
don't forget. We've got the mail bag tomorrow and we'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
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