Hole to Hole

back at it. It is a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, another dish of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny G. Because five nights a week, four hours a night, clearly not enough bonus coverage. Bonus coverage here on the weekends on Saturday. It's all about all about us, not necessarily about anything. It's the podcast about nothing. And the great thing about podcasting is you can do it from anywhere, any place, anytime. We'll explain more about that coming up

in a little bit. But Danny G, you survived another shift earlier in the week, hanging out on the overnight there and you've got a day job and then occasionally when Coop's away, we call you in to work overnight. And I'm sure that was that was wonderful for your sleep pattern. Yes, sir, I in fact, I just got done with a little road trip and I slept most of the way to the destination because since I was on your show Tuesday into Wednesday, I've been trying to

catch up on sleep ever since. Well worth it, as it was a lot of fun when I pointed out before that doing the overnight hours takes a toll on the body and we should be paid more, not less because of the health ramifications. And let me point out, every time I brought that up to management, I get that response. They think that's very funny, and they pretty much tell That's what they pretty much tell me. But at the very least, those who work late night or

first shifts should at least get premium healthcare. Yeah, yeah, I mean there should be something. Yeah, there's something going on there, you know. I'm just I'm just saying. Anyway, So on this edition to the fifth, I think if you're a regular listener, you know how it ghost. But maybe not maybe maybe all of a sudden we got somebody new, you know, might be great to have a

new listener to the podcast. Boy, that would be awesome. Um. But anyway, so we've got Mellow Yellow, Mr Vegas, the Draconian Doggie, possibly mystery ingredient, and also we'll have the pop quiz. So we got a lot to get to. This is this is an amazing podcast. This could be the greatest podcast in the history of podcasting. I mean,

this is unbelievable. There the amount of content that we are providing, and we might even have a fight, might even have a random fight, might break out, you never know. Let's get it on alright, So Mellow Yellow, We're gonna start with it. So I mentioned this in passing on the radio show. But it was an odd weekend this past weekend for me because I was very close to so Fi Stadium last week and now there was no

game at so Far Stadium. I wasn't going to be my wife's grandfather, which means my grandfather in law had a moment. There was his memorial service last weekend, right, so I and the family all gathered together. Now here's the the odd part about it, Danny, is the my grandfather in law passed away in here we are in two having the funeral or the memorial for for him. Because of COVID at the time he passed away, California, there's so much red tipped they banned funerals in the

state of California. Can I have a funeral? So, I mean can on this guy's life when he passed away, which normally within a recent a lot of time, that's what you normally do. And then it was scheduled at a later date, which was I think sometimes ine. But that was when COVID picked up again, and so they shut it down again. And so finally, uh and and some of the people in the family were a little

freaked out by it. So anyway, finally it took place this past weekend and you know, schedule on and off again. So anyway, I mean it was it was cool, you know, honor the memory of someone who uh, actually I became pretty good friends with uh. You know, we saw him at all the family functions on all this. But it was like fifteen months after he passed away. I think

they do record um. But attended the memorial service and included a trip to the dreaded four oh five And as you know that that's the point of d marketion the four or five freeway from me and I got off the the highway and uh, I became bug eyed Danny because it was shantytown, USA. Man, what I saw surreal. Now I've seen home was I've lived in I lived in Lincoln Heights in l A, which is the in

the hood, the Avenue gangs there in Lincoln Heights. I lived there for several years, and so I've seen, you know, I've seen bad parts of town or whatever. Things go back. This is what I saw. Oh my god, it is worse than it's ever been. It's it's absolutely horrible. It's almost like everyone said, hey, we've got a problem. We don't know what to do. We just give up. All the politicians, all the people that could fix it, just who cares, you know, that's it. We don't have any answers.

We'll just let them do whatever they want. And it was the revelation was the mellow yellow. The water bottles. I saw a lot of water bottles all over near the shanty town, which we're yellow. Yeah. And here's what I don't understand any like my experience with them. If you're homeless, one of the advantages is the planet is your toilet. You know, you can go any where. Why why would you I don't understand the whole water bottle thing.

What are you trying to save it? You're going doc Mike on us and maybe you want to beverage later and maybe you're gonna drink it later. I don't understand that part of it. I don't get it. Guessing it's because in the early cold hours of the morning, maybe you want to stay in your half made tent. Maybe some some were saying, I don't know as you were. Somebody else said that it was because of Uber, like

was Uber drivers, But it wasn't Uber. It was at it was at a homeless encampment, like right, So I don't think it was Uber drivers. You know, I've got some urine in the bottom, so let me drop it off at the shantytown as I'm driving through. I don't think that was going on. That wasn't me. That's gross. So somebody thinks Uber drivers all go to the bathroom

and water bottles. Uh. Somebody, I forget who it was on the show said that that's like a thing now in the Uber community because you're so busy to make any you know, you got a hustle when you're doing Uber, and how do you go into water bottle? Not to brag or anything, ban here we go, I would need a big gulp cup to everything inside and not get urine all over the place. Yes, Uh, well, how do you be into the top of a water bottle? Well, I know the the logistics of how that would work.

I don't know. I think you would probably miss a little bit and it might get on your hands and go all over the place and all that stuff. But yeah, I'm thinking even if you go hold a whole, you're still yeah, you're still gonna have a lot of splatter, I would imagine. Now, I do have a relative who is very lazy, who claims sometimes so get up in the middle. We all get up in the middle of night. Well, I get up in the middle of the day, go bathroom.

And this guy claims he's he's it's too far to walk to the bathroom, which is probably about ten feet away. So he does keep a cup, not a water bottle, but a cup near his bed so he can if he has to go. He don't want to get out of bed, and so he just does a transferred situation. Yeah, there's all a concern for that is always what happens if you end up late at night, you're grabbing your water and you grab the wrong the wrong thing, and

all of a sudden you're like, oh, you're screaming. You're like, I, oh my god. So anyway, I understand the the politicians though, Danny, this is interesting because the politicians in l A. I was there last weekend. On Monday, they started going Defcon one to try to clean all of that up just around the Sofi Stadium area. So when the aristocrats and the oligarchs show up, the top one percent of society who are there on their private planes and all that to go to the Super Bowl, they don't want to

have to see it. I don't know how you avoid it. Where are you putting the people? Where are you moving him to? I mean, I don't get that part of it. But it's it's like sweeping the problem under the rug, right is I haven't move him over here. It's like a shell game. You're like, I haven't move him over here, no problem. I didn't want to mention my my grandfather in law, Luigi, that was his name, Luigi. This guy is authentic Italian, by the way. Then he was born

in Italy. He grew up and he told stories about you having a the family having a hide from the the you know, Germany and all that stuff that was going on back in those days. He wasn't lift to be eighties six. So he lived a long time, lived a good a good life, and it was very welcoming. He kind of he and his wife felt kind of

raised my my wife. So but born in Italy, came to New Jersey like in a boat and that whole thing, and moved l A. And the coolest thing, I don't know, it's the coolest thing, but this guy worked in a paint factory in l A. And all the fumes back in the day is when they didn't really care about the health of the employees. Uh. He ended up having some problems because of it near the end. But he lived a pretty healthy life until the end. But he breathed a lot of toxic fumes and raised six kids

and all that. And so my plan is, I've I've used this word a few times. It's it's something that he used a lot, uh Grandpa Luigi, and it was I've added to my lexicon. It was capech like that, you know, the Italian phraseman understand. So I'll be using that more more and more. But so that wasn't my interesting and do you think he got a kick out of the fact that his funeral lasted for two years? Effectively?

It was just wild day. I was sitting there. I was like, man, because I happened to the family, all got together, you know, he was he was not doing well. We're all there when he passed away, and I'm like, wow, this is this is crazy. I mean, my dad passed away.

We had we were able to have the funeral. I guess we pulled some strings and we had the funeral because you know, the Jewish religion, you're supposed to have it like boom right away, you put them in the grand boom, you don't wait, you know, and all that. But and we were able to get in. But it's pretty pretty crazy anyway for you gonna we'll move on happier things. We got Mr Vegas in in in the

house here. What is this all about? Daddy? Fill me in on this because this podcast a little different than the normal parts. I don't know if it sounds any different anything like that, but this is a slightly slightly different. Yeah, it may not sound any different because the way I record our podcast is through a zoom conference. But I'm in the second room of our two room sweet if you will in Las Vegas. Hopefully I'm not talking so

loud that I'm waking up my party. But we jumped in the car on Friday and headed to Las Vegas, Baby, Vegas, Baby. It's not exactly for fun, although we're gonna try to find some of that. My tender rowning son is in a baseball tournament here thirty three miles off the strip

at Shadow Ridge High School. There he goes. So if you want to say hello to Danny G today, if you're listening in Vegas and you're one of the early birds, you can go meet the legend Danny G at a random baseball field thirty three miles away from the strip. And the question is, Dan, it's a big weekend for football. I know your Raiders aren't, and they're sorry about that, but rams already gonna make your way to a sports book. I mean, you don't have to go to the strip there.

You can go anywhere, you know. And that's a great thing about a state that has legalized gambling, like Nevada that was the mecca, but not the mecca anymore. You're not in the mecca of gambling that is now New Jersey for sports waging that wild New Jersey because so many people, so many more people live and I think New York will probably pass them by. But but at last last year it was New Jersey. So that's pretty crazy. And eventually California will be a player in the game.

Well here's another one, another one of those things that got delayed because of the COVID. The plan was if COVID hadn't happened, they would have already had. I believe twenty was supposed to be the year it was it was. I think that was the year. I think you're right. Yeah, I do remember reading that. I hope that we can find some trouble to get into after the baseball tournament. It's both Saturday and Sunday in the daytime. I'll maybe miss a little bit of Game one. I think I'll

see most of Game two on Sunday. It sounds like all right, so maybe I'll watch most of Game two from a sports book. I've heard you mentioned this on the air before. There is no better place to watch a game futures writing on a win or a loss on that said game. Oh yeah, it's awesome, the in the energy, the emotion in the sports book, especially when

it's like a full car. Now, I have not been there on Championships Sunday where there's two games but everything's tied together with all the prop bets and and all that. It's the what a great hustle they got at these casinos because even if they lose. My let's say, you know, everyone bets on the Chiefs, where everyone bets on the Bengals, and the Bengals end up winning the game, and then you know, they have to pay out all this money, but then they make it back on the prop bets,

a lot of it. They'll make back on the profits. So there's the multiple ways that they can win. But I recommend that there's some great restaurants in Vegas, a couple great barbecue place, there a few other Italian place. So the baseball games of the tournament start early, so that might mean that we could squeak into a slot for the Allegiance Stadium tour. Ah check put baby. I will give you an update on that next week. Now, I do recommend that I've not done it. I hear

it is pretty expensive actually for a stadium tour. But I was told one of my my friends who lives in Vegas actually as a listener and he became a pal. He text me and he said it was awesome, Like they take you in the locker room in the press box and like behind the scenes and they show you everything and you can get a photo in there, and it's like it's really cool. So I want to see Mark Davis's personal barber shop. Yeah, well, well, what's the

doesn't need to like PF Change every day. You probably go over to PF Change and you could convince him to hire whoever you want is to coach. You might even be the coach of the Raiders if you get Mark Davis at the right time. But hey, why not Congratulations buddy, congratulations Yeah, yeah, you are the new coach of the Raiders and you're going who Yeah, that's exciting. Hey and shouts out to Robin Vegas. When I was answering phones on your show the other night, I spoke

with him. He gave me a nice invite. I'm not sure if I'm gonna have time to see him or not, but the Mallard militia is always very welcoming wherever we go. Yeah, everyone's been great, and I was supposed to that's another thing that was knocked off the list. I was supposed to go to Vegas, uh in, and then the COVID struck, And I remember Queen Roxann was very upset in Colorado.

She had planned, like to get to everyone together, everyone's gonn meet in Vegas and then we're all gonna sit around and watch the draft for the first pick in the NFL drafting. But he never got to do that, So damn you, Delta, and exactly all right, So now moving, I got the draconian doggie Danny. Everyone loves a good story about a dog. I think, I don't know. So my beloved dog Bella has become, according to my wife, a terrorist and we are the hostages at the at

the Mallard Mansion. So ever since she had a near death experience bitten by a coyote a while back, she has turned the Mallard Mansion into her own personal porta potti. Now we've talked about that in previous episodes of The Fifth Hour. Yeah, Bella bambs. Yeah, it's a poop fest around here, and everything is camouflaged by the color of the floor matches perfectly. Could not have picked a better color of the floor to match the the ship that comes out of Bella. So it's it's made it a

bit of an obstacle course, as you might imagine. And so but lately Bella has added something new to the the recipe here and it's bark tastic and she she has been chirping up a story. Now. Bella is a small dog, a little lapdog, very weak. The bark is very weak and the sound is annoying. And she never used to that. We were all bragging I she never barked. It's like the most amazing dog. It's like a fake dog. It never barked. Well, she's making up for last time

lost her uh. And it's sporadic and she'll bark it like nothing. That's the like we one thing. If there's like something legitimate to bark it, you'd be like, oh, you gotta pass, you know, if there's something out there, there's the boogeyman. She's just like barking at the at the ceiling or like darkness. It's really bizarre. And so the other day I was trying to sleep after the show and you're going to bed a weird hours in

hand the guy she was such a newisance barking. I finally reached my my boiling point of acts exasperation here and she became a full pain in the assid Danny. And so the barking was so loud. How loud was Let tell you, al right, this this barking just like that, I wish it sounded like that. That's a masculine bark right there. That's a good bark, right, gonna say, speed that up on a tape, Yeah, exactly. She has a high pitched voice, right, yeah, yeah, So it was so loud.

I ended up that was what it sounds like, man, just like that? What is she an owl? But but she it's such a such a nightmare that she was barking consistently enough off and on that I ended up with a massive headache, like front of my forehead is just pulsating. Uh. And that lasted from the time I woke up all the way through the overnight show that night. And uh, it was such an inconvenience. I went online and I picked out a bark caller. You ever used

a barque caller before? Never? I had never used this either. But we heard from somebody this is the way to do it. And so we are doing and going Draconian doggie. We're doing Draconian doggie and it's a special caller, well kind of. It's designed to train young dogs to not bark randomly. And so now there's two different features we got, like this is like the Mercedes Benz the BMW of

these bark collars. So the one we got is rechargeable and it lasts for like ten days supposedly, and it's got a noise feature, and and then if that doesn't work, as you say, Danny, it does have the buzz And so we started with the noise feature where when she barks, she hears a noise like like that kind of like a little beep thing going on. And and then if that doesn't work, the next layer is to go with the shock treatment, which would be death spot level and

she would say what the doing? Yeah, and I think we would actually say that. But so far it's only been a short amount of time. But so far Bella has been confused because she has tried to barking. He doesn't stop you from barking. It just makes a that sounds. So she's been running around confused and she has cut back. So it's a early small sample size, but she's cut back on the barking by I would say roughly, so I'll keep you posted. I know you're very concerned about this, Danny,

but sounds pretty effective so far. So do you hear like little beginnings of barkings and then she stops? Well, actually I witnessed the moment she first barked, but I put it on. I was waiting for the bark and she didn't bark, and I was like, what the hell? You know, come on, we were all like watching like a science experiment. And then she finally started barking, and she's like what she heard the beep and it's like what is that? You know, like, why is that going?

And she couldn't. She was like running, walking in circles, trying to figure out. She was confused. She was trying to figure out what, like, you know, that's just that's that's the collar because you wouldn't stop barking. This is your punishment. I'm sorry, No, no, you earned the punishment. Now do they make these callers and human sizes? Yeah, well we'll find out, Danny, we violate the rules in California.

We might be getting these at some point. But anyway, uh, now, as far as the mystery INGREDI moving on from that, Mr Engred, So I have become Benny the baker again Danny as you know, one of my hobbies. Uh, you know, I'm not as prolific in the kitchen as Danny as. What was it Bern Berno, Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Cooking with the Roberto he made a nice open face. Yeah, very good, very good. He's very talented cook. But I'm

more of a baker. I'm banning the bake and so mission And for some reason, I got this michig As to make Eminem cookies. Are you a fan of the Eminem cookie? Are you? Yeah? Actually feel like it's under rat It's that it's not a top three cookie. It's not a top but it's a top ten. The Eminem is a top ten. It's not top three, but it's

not top ten cookie. Anyway. So I was scouring the dark web to find a new recipe to try, and I looked at a lot of recipes that just kind of look like dud recipes, and then I then I finally hit payter and I found these cookies are so they were so soft and gooey that I made a second batch. I made a second but I drove over some of the cookies to my cousin she with her for her kids. She's still recovering from she had an operation back back in December, I think, yeah, I think

it was December. I don't remember time runs together. But anyway, she still were coming, so I I sent a batch over there, uh and she loved them. Asked for the recipe. The thing that blew me away though, the mystery and greedy. Now I I've baked for a few years now, and this is the secret ingredient that supposedly keeps the cookies soft and chewy. You want to take a guess what it is, Danny, What do you think it is? Close? You're not far off. Cream cheese, Yeah, cream cheese, thicker version.

I've never made any cookies with cream cheese, but it's it's really good. I used to eat cream cheese when I was a kid because my parents would eat bagels with like salmon and you know, they call them locks and the you know, the cream cheese and all that. And I didn't really like the salmon, but I like the cream cheese and the bagel and that was my that was my move. But yeah, pretty pretty good. I think this weekend, I'm gonna I'm gonna try a different

recipe for some other cookies. So I'm gonna maybe i'll make a I can't write a book. I had a I was talking to a guy about a book, but he kind of vanished on me. But maybe I'll just go to the cookie card. I'll start making cookies and I can do it like a cookbook. You said that's in your top ten? What would be Benny's number one cookie? Yeah, so I'm a I'm a traditionalist with a cookie like a well made chocolate chip, but a Macadamian nut white chocolate not far behind a right, not far my snicker

doodle out just standing a great cookie, the snicker doodle. Uh, And I know that's kind of become Make sure. What about you, Danny, what are your top your top cookie? Funny you should mention the snicker doodle because last weekend my girl made a batch of those, and she made them gluten free. Oh okay, Son stays away from the gluten and that's helped me actually, because she's gotten gluten free bread and pizza and it just goes in and

out of your system way better than regular bread. So I was wondered about the cookies, though she caught me in the kitchen inspecting them. I didn't know anybody was watching me. I picked it up like a hockey puck and was smelling it to see if it was edible or not, because you know, you don't know when they say gluten free. Maybe it didn't rise the way it was supposed to baked properly. But it looked okay, it

tasted good. It tasted way better than it looked. Yeah, well, isn't that like the the meatless food that you know, you're like a lot of fast food places have the meatless burgers, and I saw a photo of the I think it was the KFC chicken or meatless chicken. Look disgusting. I think the meatless is way harder to pull off because you can use the the almond flour and you know, there's different replacements to the flower that aren't as noticeable as fake meat. Yeah, my wife is gluten free most

of the time. Occasionally she'll cheat and have gluten but that they just bend you over the table for that. The really good flour, the gluten free flower, they just stick it to you, man. Yeah, that's the downside of doing anything gluten free, you are going to have even a bigger grocery bill than normal. And as we all know right now, grocery prices are through the roof, like a lot of other things in our country. A few

gluten free items in your cart. I think we went to Trader Joe's a couple of weeks ago, maybe had like three or four bags of groceries, and it was easy a couple of hundred bucks. Wow, that's insane. The membrane man, sing the membrane and get a part time job for them groceries. Yeah, and they're never going down. Yea, they're never going They only go off, they don't go there. It's not like all of a sudden like Trader Dells will be like, let's lover the prices on everything. Never happens,

like eight dollars for grapes. You you know what? I've noticed that last weekend we went went out to the Cheesecake Factory. I love the cheese cake factor. I've eaten there for years, big portions, not anymore, though. I've gotten the Casian chicken littles for probably fifteen years. That's my go to it at at Cheesecake Factory and when I in the old days, Danny, they would stack the chicken. You'd get like fifteen pieces of chicken. I'm not kidding

fifteen chickens. What I'm saying, I can't even my fattest I couldn't eat. Now they give you five. They've dropped the Now keep in mind, the price has gone up. The price did not go down on said Casian chicken. Little's the The quantity has gone down, the price has not conned down. So that I was like, Wow, this is this is why I could get the same amount of food at Raising Canes. So pretty much it's pretty wild, man, pretty well. And so I'm gonna go back to that

fake meat thing. The thing that blows me away about fake meat if you're if you're someone who doesn't believe in eating meat whatever, Like, why would you want to pretend to eat me? Like I hate vegetables. I'm not asking someone to make meat that tastes like vegetables. You know what I'm saying. It's very very odd. Yeah, I keep seeing those Chipotle ads for their fake Creiso, and I'm like, I don't want fake creisa. If I'm gonna eat that kind of food, I want the authentic thing.

But you know some people, I guess they'll try the different meatless items. Um only tried one of those beyond burgers one time, and that was one time too many. I won't wind in my mouth and then I ate it? Can I have a new one? Wasn't Al Gore behind that, the old vice president? Wasn't he the one that was behind that beyond meat stuff? I think I read that somewhere that he was who invented the internet, the internet and you know fake chicken, you know, really double right there.

I mean, this guy's one of the great innovators of our time right there. Unbelievable, the contributions that he has made to a polite society. It's it's it's craziness. Um. Anyway, we have a few pop quiz ready for pop quiz, Danny, are you prepared here? I know you're in Vegas and all that, but we'll try anyway. We won't keep you much longer. I know you have things like our usual pop quiz. I'm just wearing less clothes. I'm wearing a

bathrobe and I'm not even sick. You just wanting well, I'll try not to look all right, So, uh, here we go. These are actual things I found scouring the Worldwide Web. And I'll ask Danny and then you can play along in your head and see if if Danny gets it right, if you get it right, if nobody gets it right. So here we go. This is the the number one how to search on the Internet. This is the most how to search thing on the Internet, meaning how to do something? Do do do? Do? Do

do do? How to do do do? Do? Do? Do Do? Do you know how to base the turkey? How to base the turkey? Well, maybe it thinks giving that would be the number one thing, but not not not number in general. Yeah, it is. How to tie a tie? Okay, how to tie a tie is the number one thing everybody's grandfather when you're little. They're supposed to show you how to do that, or they just give you a clip on and tell you to shut up. Yeah, you know what I did TV. I had professional like they

were called zip ties. You ever seen a zip tie? Yeah, they look great, they look perfect, and these were well made and I wore those when I was working at NBC back back in the day because I I could tie a tie, but it was really bad, you know. It was like the fat you know what I felt like, since I was on television, that I probably shouldn't look like a slob and that would not not be good. And my mom couldn't come with me to Connecticut and I didn't you know, I don't have a girlfriend at

the time, so most of that time. So anyway, all right, one thing Grandpa Jarvis taught me how to do besides drink alcohol at an early age. Yeah, he taught me how to tie a tie. And I have this will surprise you, a raider's tie in my closet. Oh, very nice. I had when I was in high school. I had a tie that had all the team logos from the NFL. That was pretty cool. That was in Neat Neat swag item. I went for the NBA too, and I found it.

I actually found the NBA one and it's got the Washington Bullets logo just because you know that's they got canceled a few years back before everyone else got canceled. All right, Uh more, Puck was in a new survey. People were asked what the most important invention was. Now the wheel top the list. What do you think came in second? Behind the wheel? Oh, it should be electricity. Well, no, but this is something that takes electricity. What do you

think you it's something that made dildos on the bills stadium. Yes, yes, the tossing of dildos two. No. Uh, it is the refrigerator. Yeah, the refrigerator which needs power. I mean, but I guess the original refrigerator was just like ice the ice box. Yeah, like on the Little House of the Prairie. Yeah, but the refrigerator which made the consumption of food much much easier.

I remember seeing a documentary about that about how you know the food you had to eat it right away and it would go bad and it was a big pain in the ass. And I remember Mr Olsen was the only one who had a little ice shed. Yes, yeah, you'd have to go in there and chip off some ice. Yeah. So now you don't have to do that anymore. And these big bulky refrigerators and and all that for a long time. Alright, of workers, Sir Bates said, they want

this from their employer, they want this health insurance. Uh no, That's probably the answer is ability to set their own hours. Yeah, I'll take the noon to three shifts. I'll be good. I'd like to work noon to three. The easiest shift in radio. You don't have to get up too early, you're not there too late. Perfect. I did that for I. I I had a midday show a while back, many

years ago now, but it was great. Oh my god. Well, in our line of work, we probably have the least amount of control over the shift time, no, no, no, zero controls. Yeah, because it's radio lineups and different shows and day parts and things like that, whereas some other nine to five types they might give you a couple different options you can choose from. Yeah, and that's always we've we've talked about that. I don't know I talked

about it with you. But when you go to parties and you run into people that don't understand how the business works, and you're like, oh yeah, they always say, well, why don't you just move your show to this time? Yes? I love that, I love that, But why did I think that? Yeah? Why why you I'm so late? I can't stay up that late. Why are you going a little earlier? You know more people will be able to hear yet you know, like, motherfucker, that's not how it works. Okay,

please shop the fuck alright? Anyway, that's funny. U man, oh man, what else. We have a new survey found Americans are doing this a lot less frequently compared to the past thirty years. What is it? Rushing their teeth? But I hope that's not the kid. No, that's not the kid. Uh, it's reading books. Okay, you got the internet. Now. I read a ton, I scan a ton of stuff, but I don't read books. I rarely read a book. I read the internet. You get ready for the show.

I'm I'm reading tons of stuff and it's like endless. So yeah, for sports news, I'm all over my phone and iPad. But an actual novel or book or autobiography. I like having the actual physical book in my hand. Yeah, I know. I mean I've had I have books here and I have a lot of books, and I've kept you. I used to get sent books in the mail all the time, as you know, Danny, working in radio, publishers love to have their books promoted. We might even do

some of that on this podcast. And I am friends with one of the publishing companies, so every once in a while they sent me these these pr pitches, you know, these elevator pitches to get so and so on. Yeah, like the people, I have no interest in talking to Over the years, you and other hosts have left those kind of books and pitches in the studios. And I have a nice collection of sports books. Oh good. Yeah, most of them are reject books, but there's still sports books. Yeah,

I'll give you exam. But last year we had booked Keyshan Johnson on the show. Keishan wrote a book about the first it was the first black player in the NFL, and I don't think he wrote it, but he put his name on it, you know, and somebody else wrote it, but he put his name on it. And so he was promoting the book and I was like, all right, Keishan Johnson, you know, it's interesting NFL player first pick gas bag and blow hard these days, So I'll put

him on. So at the eleventh hour I was getting ready to do the podcast, I get an email It was canceled by ESPN. They were afraid that if he came on, because I'm associated with Fox Sports Radio and all that, and I remember I was I asked the publicist. I was like, why would you even offer him to me if you you know this was the case. He said, well, no, we they they said originally they said it wouldn't be a problem, and then it became a problem. So he

who cares? You know, I was like, it doesn't matter. That's not even what you were going to talk about with him. No, not at all. I don't care about that. Who cares? Anyway? Let's see here fifty of people's sturve aid say that this has happened to them on social media. What is it? Uh, they've been catfished? No, but their account was hacked. I've never been hacked, thank god. Knock on whatever this is in the hotel room. But one

guy that got hacked recently is our friend Brian. No, did he really got In fact, his Instagram account is still hacked right now. They've changed his handle and his password, so he really can't get back into the account. That sucks. Arnie Spanner had that happened. I got my email hacked one time using my work email that I had used. And uh, I used too easy a password. But even when you use a hard pass word, it doesn't matter.

I think the password doesn't matter. You know the way to do it is to do it on your phone, where you have to they have to text you the code, but that's a pain in the aask. But even that they can. Can't They match your phone if they really motivated, right, they can do that too. So a bunch of computer nerds slash Steve's exactly a bunch of dudes in like North Korea or the Ukraine, and they're just they're taking care of business. Now the last one here, Dan, I

know what we're getting along here. You've got things to do. Thirty seven percent of men say they have gained weight recently because of this what is it? Yes, NFL season? Yes, look at that. You got that right, Danny. They're blaming watching football watching football, which is bullshit. Uh, it's not

watching football, it's eating while watching football. If you sit there and watch football, you're not going to Ain't wait, if you're eating a plate of nachos and a Philly cheese steak and all the delicious foods which we're going to be eating watching football, then then it becomes a bit of an issue. Man. Yeah, as you know, Super Bowl Sunday is not far off. As soon as we are done with the Super Bowl, I'm gonna go right back to my triathlon training every weekend. Yes, well, aren't

you going? I think you'll be in the Olympics right after they had the cross over the Olympics and the Super Bowl. You're gonna be going to China. This is gonna be fascinating. Yea. Anyway, listen, thank you for hanging out all the way to the end of the podcast. Tell a friend five stars, give us a good review, help us out on that. That would be wonderful, and we will catch you on the mail bag, the mailbag Sunday Sunday Sunday mail Bag. We'll talk to you that. Yeah,

I'll see you at the club tonight. Yeah,