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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Evy way. You have found the Fifth Hour with Ben mal You already knew that. And Danny g Radio eight days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show. You hear five nights a week with me, and then Danny G's on his own show with Covino and Rich five days a week you hear him, and we join forces on the weekend for the Fifth Hour and today Danny different than all other days original content today on the Fifth Hour. Are you prepared?
I am ready. This has been battling the NFL for network ratings.
Yeah, we are getting better ratings than Dion Sanders if Dion Sanders did not exist. We're doing very well. So that's great, so thank you for that. But Ohio, Wow, you know what to do.
It's oh okay, very nice.
The first message comes from Alf. He says, fiddling with the dial on my transistor radio. Oh see, there you go, he said fiddling. He didn't say futzing. The word was fuzzing the other day. Anyway, were you guys radio nerds? Growing up? My father introduced me to AM radio at an early age. I recall the good old days of scanning the dial and battling the static to listen to the Penguins on KDKA, or random baseball games from Baltimore
or Detroit way before streaming was a thing. Yeah, we've talked about this a few times, Alf, one hundred percent. I'll go first. I loved scanning the radio dial. It seems so amazing to me in the era before the Internet, where everything you can get anything you want. You read any newspaper, you want, any kind of content from any place. You watch TV stations all over the world. But back then, right, you know, we were naive, and it was it was
special and magical. It was something magical about it. But I am jealous, Alf, because you grew up on the East Coast and on the West coast, and I got a lot of sports. I was like a master of it. And I convinced my mom and dad kind of helped me get into radio because they loved the radio. They always had the radio on. It was a big deal. They were working, but they had the radio on and it was a big thing in our house. And my mom when I would follow her around when she was working,
she always had the radio on. And sometimes she knew I liked sports, so she'd put like a sports show. And then I figured out how to how to get these far away broadcasts, and we even bought some. I forget which radio show might have been the old the original Art Bell Show. They sold this radio antenna that you could get and get far away radio station, and they had this really cool commercial like, oh that things. You know, it's kind of pricey, but you can get
all these radio stations. So we got one of those, and I was able to hear Utah Jazz games on a radio station out of Saint George, Utah Phoenix Suns games with Al McCoy, who just retired this year, I believe is the Sons play by play announcers. I think he's in his nineties now.
And I.
Met Al McCoy and I told him when I was a kid when I went to Phoenix to visit family, I wanted to eat it. What a Burger because that was a sponsor of the Suns, and he would say when when a Phoenix Suns player hit a three point shot, he'd say, what a shot? What a Burger? And that was that was his tagline, and al was he was very proud of that. He said that was one of the first product placements in the NBA. Was that particular commercial that the Sons did back back in there. And
there were a bunch of other ones. I got Giants games off canby R in San Francisco, and at one point I was able to get like real grainy San Antonio Spurs games out of a station obviously in the Alamo City. And I got KOA out of Denver that was big one. And there was a station in Phoenix. This is so long ago. They didn't have Major League Baseball, but they had the Phoenix Firebirds, and so I would listen to that and a bunch of stations out of Vegas. I used to call some of those stations when I
was a kid get on the air. And one show that I remember that I got it wasn't a game. But it was a show on Saturday night, no Sunday night. It was Sunday night. There was this guy named Lee Pete and Lee was an old guy and I was a young guy, but he was an old guy been radio a long time. He hosted a Sunday night show from I remember it was ten to midnight. They called it the Stardust Line. And this is how archaic that
show was. That show was so important because they released the opening NFL lines for the next week, and there was no internet at the time, so the way you could get the lines before everyone else was to listen to the Stardust Line and they would give out the gambling lines for the following week. Now, at that time, I was a kid. I didn't really know about gambling.
Was Stardust Line brought to you by DraftKings?
No, I think it was. Was it fandel Or? I don't know. There's so many of these places, but but anyway, so that was my experience. I love have great memories, great memories, and I now I look him like I can listen to any I go on the iHeartRadio app and listen to twenty five thousand different audio shows and radio shows and it's insane, Danny, do you dabble in that world at all?
I mean, when I was a little kid, I was fortunate enough to hear the original Kday Radio AM fifteen eighty where hip hop was on the air with Eze and Doctor Dre and all the og West Coast hip hop Greg Macattack. It was pretty cool to hear all that in its conception, you know, in the in the eighties. And then going to the Bay Area with my family after that, the college radio station in San Francisco.
K POOH was great to see Pooh.
And they had dudes on turntables playing unedited versions of rap songs, and of course they were in the San Francisco market, so nobody complained to the FCC. Gotta love that because right, a lot of people don't realize it's market to market as far as what people think is inappropriate.
But all it takes is one a hole, true.
But for whatever reason, they got away with it there on that college station. For a long time, we used to take our boombox with the play and record button and record cassette tapes of them and their live mixes, which was awesome and I got to hear some great play by play in both southern California and northern California.
Of course, the legend the icon Vin Scully when we lived in LA and then when we moved up to the Bay later in my life, Ray Fosse, and of course the legendary Bill King Oh Meledo, Yeah, Holy Toledo Bill King calling all kinds of different sports. Both my older brother and I, we were locked in on anything hip hop and sports.
Very very cool. Next up on the mailbag, Ron in the LBC rights in here in SoCal. He says, First off, I have been listening to your weeknight show since day one, usually just the eleven PM hour on the West Coast as I wind down and the missus is already asleep, So thanks for being there. My question, Ron says, a couple of weeks ago you talked about freeway speed. I think you said it was seventy four. Seventy nine was the number to never exceed? Can you expand on that
and maybe explain what the highway patrol officer said? And I think I remember a morning when I was up late that Danny g got pulled over on the way to the station. That is from from Ron, So I'll tell you my part of it. Ron. My wife is a nine to one one operator, So when we get pulled over, if I'm with my wife, I let her try to get me out of the ticket, which doesn't always work. By the way, it does not always work. But in this occasion, years ago, I was driving on
one of the toll roads in southern California. We have a few of those. No one drives on them because people would rather sit in traffic. But I was on a toll road and got pulled over. Cherry tops driver's license registration, got pulled over and was able to get out of it. And the officer was kind of an older officer, and he said, listen. He said, just slow down, which all police officers is slow down. And he told me, he said, you know, if you drive seventy nine or less,
I'm not I don't give tikes. We don't give tickets. He said, it's not really worth our time to do that. It's and he said you probably could get away with it in the eighties, but you know, anything over like eighty five, that's a ticket, you know. But he specifically told to answer Ron's question, he told me seventy nine. So ever since then, and sometimes it annoys my wife because'm actually it seems like I'm driving slow when I'm going seventy nine because people are driving like the autobon,
like butchering the autobon. But I will set my thing is seven. And I've not in California, I have not. This has been years. I've never gotten a ticket. I went to Minnesota this year. I drove seventy nine, just like the officer in California told me, got pulled over, got a ticket.
So different set of rules over there.
Yeah, so I'm trying to remember the incident, Ron says, he remembers. Do you recall this.
Danny g Oh, it was during COVID and you weren't supposed to be out on the roads. That's when they gave us those FEMA cards. Oh yeah, awesome.
That was the coolest thing about the pandemic that I we had. Was it the Marshall Act? Was that roll? Yeah? The market?
Yeah, official FEMA cards because we were important people and they gave us extra pay. Oh wait, no they didn't, but they gave us FEMA cards. And I was the only one on the road and I was going pretty fast on a frontage road in Burbank to get to the freeway. As soon as I passed the police officer going that fast on the frontage road. I knew that because I was the only car on the road too, I knew the cop was going to turn around and
pull me over. Sure enough, pulls me over, flashing the light in my eyes, asking me how much I had to drink. You know, Clay's show here on the West Coast started at three in the morning, so we're talking it's too two, five, two ten am when this happened. And so the police officer thought for sure that I was a dui, so they had me get out of my car. They had me do all the stupid dui tests. The whole time I'm explaining to them I need to get to the network because I got to produce the show.
The female officer would not believe me, Ben until I showed her the text messages from Clay as we were setting up the guests that we're going to be interviewed that day on the show. She thought she had me busted though, because she was like, aha, it says in the seven am hour, and I told her, yeah, that's East Coast time, and she was like, oh okay. So finally they let me go. But of course I had to tell Clay what happened, and yeah, it was pretty funny.
One of the officers there told me that he wanted to shout out from Petros and it was. It was wound up being okay, but just a huge inconvenience. And you know, it's embarrassing when you're walking the line outside and you know, good thing, there weren't cars, a lot of cars on the road at that time, because I'm sure people who are innocent, but they have to do all those DUI sobriety tests. It's embarrassing to be outside your car doing all that with you know, people watching you.
Oh it is. I have had that happen. I've had to do the walk of shame. I've had to do the walk and do the alphabet thing and all that. It's it's not good, not good good.
By the way, who can do the alphabets backwards even when they're sober.
I can't even do it frontwards. I can't do it normal. I'm screwed next up, I think. By the way, thanks Ron, I do appreciate you listening over the years. It does mean a lot, and I thank you. Josh in Seattle writes in. He says, Hey, Slim Mallard, just listen to the podcast of your FSR show, and you had made a comment about that'll be a show trivia question in
regards to cardiacs. Then why don't you have a Ben Mahlor Show trivia game one of these nights questions from the past or recent past, because I know you get new listeners every hour. Let's see who's the ultimate caller of the Ben Malor Show. And for the brand new listeners that wouldn't partake, obviously, they could learn about the callers, famous show moments, he says, etc. Just an idea. You seriously are awesome and I'm happy for you. And there
you go. Glad to get you back on TV. Danny g kick Gass there take care, guys, Josh in Seattle. I like it, Josh, but that would be pretty embarrassing for me if I do a whole trivia board of Ben Malor Show trivia and nobody gets any of them.
Right now, I am not going to name this person, but there may or may not be somebody that works at the company Danny who may or may not have said they grew up listening to my show and may or may not have been asked a series of show trivia questions and may or may not have gotten any of them. Right, Yeah, it's a it's a it's a risky, risky deal. I'm all. I think it's a good idea. Josh, maybe we can do it kind of over the holidays.
I don't believe I'll be taking any time off. I might take like one or two days off, but that TV show. We'll be recording a TV show for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's so I ain't. It's not like years past where I used to just take December and pretty much not do any work. So I'll be here.
So yeah, And I was going to say, man, rest well knowing that all those drops live on on this podcast right here, because in my computer, I have at least three hundred Ben Malors show drops, a lot of them from back in the day, all the famous callers. I use those as often as I can, so Cardiac Stan in his famous call pieces of that get used as drops on this podcast once a month probably I
pull that clip. It's kind of cool, Ben, because for the longtime listeners, when they hear at the very end of each podcast or almost every podcast, I rotate the endings. But when you hear gott a murder, gotta go, gotta murder, gotta go, it puts a smile on my face every time, because I was there for that call when it happened with that police officer who embarrassed himself in one of the games, and so he famously said, gott a murder, gotta go.
I remember it's from Boca in Florida.
Yeah, and so there's a little story, a funny story next to every drop or for every drop, and that's what makes those so special. So I'm happy that we are able to let those live on forever.
Yeah, it's very cool. And we've had I mean, been doing this a long time. There have been some really ridiculous things that have happened on the show. I loved in the early days of the show, and it wasn't even really the early days. It was probably the it was the first decade of the two thousands. But we would get when we first went on Wei in Boston,
and it was like some political story. This was not even when I'm not talking about a few years ago when Trump you know, and you know, everything's kind of become crazy since then, when he ran for President one, and you know, half the people just lost their mind.
But this goes back probably ten years before that, and I was doing the weekend overnight show and for a couple of months, every couple of weeks that I would get a phone call from a like a grandma would stay on on hold and I mean, like, you know, there is like old woman here, Babushka, and they would get on the air and say I hate Fox News, you know something like that. I'm like, okay, that's great, but I work in Fox Sports Radio. And it was it was so funny because these women were like these
old you know, Baboushkas, were like, oh you fired. It was just hilarious. Anyway, Mike wrights and says, Benny, how can we get access to Benny versus the penny out of market?
Oh God, can people please stop sending this question in.
I know, I wish I had an answer. I can tell you what I've heard. Trucker Joe said that he has YouTube TV and he was able to watch it. I went on YouTube TV. I don't see the show on YouTube TV. I don't I know they carried s and y. Part of the problem with this is these
streaming services. They have different versions of their plan depending on the channel lineup, depending on where you leave where you live rather but like the big affiliates for Benny versus the Penny, or NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports Bay Area, all these channels, but they're not on the Peacock, which it was supposed to be on the Peacock. But there's some stuff that's above my pay grade. The only way I know for sure you can get it. There's I believe,
two ways. There's a there's a Fubo TV which you can get, but it's kind of pricey. I'm not telling you it's cheap, but if you happen to have it or know somebody that has it.
Go back to last weekend's podcasts, we explained how to do the free trial on that.
Yeah, you knew a free trial and Fubo TV, I believe, and you have to double check. But if you you don't have to get direct TV. But they have a direct TV stream. They also offer I believe, a five day trial. I think you can watch it there or the other option, which I should tell you not to do because this is wrong, it's moral. You should not do this. But if you happen to know somebody that lives in Boston or New York and pays for cable. You can get their information and you can watch There
is a stream for all of these channels. The problem is, and I've listen, I have the same issue. So I've gone I've gone to like the NBC Sports Boston page to log in, and it says you must sign in with your username or email address and password to use your you have to use your cable, satellite or telco TV provider. There is no additional charge, so you have to have that information.
You know what, Ben, You've been really nice the past few weeks explaining how to watch it. But at this point, let's be honest. You're a big TV star, and when you see TV stars touring and promoting a new show, do they sit there and explain how you can watch it in every single market in the country and Canada. No, they say, check your local listings.
Oh that's a second, I learn that.
Yeah, so that's it besides signing your headshots and wearing sunglasses indoors. Now just repeat after me, check your local listings.
Now. I am on the NBC Sports Boston page though, and it does list it does list YouTube TV, but I don't know if that. You might have to just live in Boston to get that though, so I don't know. Listen, as Danny said, check your local listings. We now move ahead in the broadcast. Danny beat.
You sounded like a d bag, saying that too perfect because you're a TV guy.
No, but I'm honored that people want to see the show, and I'm annoyed that not everyone can get the show because I want everyone that wants to watch it. That's a big thing, like.
Now, and it is annoying when you can't find the show, like the Week one issue here in LA I couldn't find it because I kept looking on the Dodgers channel because there's no way in hell Ben Mallard would be the channel. What's wrong with your Week one? I had the same issue. I get that it's frustrating, but I had to figure it out for myself.
Yeah, I'm on the show, and I've had to figure out. Okay, I'm on the damn show, and I've had to figure out as the host of the show. Because there was some confusion about where it was going to be on and when it was going to be on and all that stuff. Anyway, these are first world problems.
Check your local listings.
Exactly, Mike in Fullerton, Right, since it's happy fall y'all? Was last Saturday's college football malle monologue? Yes, that was a monologue? Was that a one off? Or will Dion watch be a permanent feature of the Fifth Hour moving forward? Well, as long as Dion's the hot to trot and he's the fashion easta and he's in vogue and all that, sure, he says. Also, as a SOCW resident, I am forced to watch Benny Versus the Penny. This is appropriate, Danny,
he says. On the dreaded Lakers station, Mike says, can you please make it more bearable by wearing a clipper hat or a It's Hip the Clip pin during filming of Benny Versus the Penny? Well, that would that would go over well with the big big muckety MUCKs there that I have to deal with. But I can work in. I can work in like It's Hip the Clip And this weekend, Danny, if you have a chance to watch Benny Versus the Penny. I did drop the name of
one of our listeners, one of the radio listeners. I was able to work their name into the dialogue on Benny versus the Penny. It was not planned, It just kind of it just I just spit it out.
Of my mouth. Oh, and I'm still waiting. I'm waiting for the moment Looney gets on your last nerve. And remember I want you to say this phrase to Loony. Ah. Where's Danny G when I need him? Yeah?
No, no, I will. I my goal. We have a lot of shows, we have twenty something shows. I will work in Danny G. I'm gonna at some point. I didn't do it this week, but I will work your name in. I promise. I promise. Jennifer and Richmond Virginia says I cannot wait to leave Richmond, Virginia, Ben, and
Danny thanks for all the airtime. Here the last couple of mailbags, and she says, Hey, remember a while ago when I asked you guys about the light bulb situation and how long you wait to switch out the blinky ones? She says, since then, I have been holding out on replacing the major blinky light bulb, just being lazy. And would you believe it repaired itself or something like that?
How's that for Scientifical from Jennifer, Huh, is it possible that you have a poltergeist that is hanging out with you in Richmond, Virginia, somebody from you know, two hundred years ago, three hundred years ago, or is it possible somebody else that maybe one of your kids was visiting. I think you still live with one of your kids there and they came in there and they changed. How about that?
Or plausibly it regenerated itself.
It's a self generating light bulb. That's like the hell.
It goes off of douchebaggery in her area. It's powered by that, and as she mentioned, there's a lot of that in her area that she's trying to move out of. Boom.
You think Jennifer's gonna become a Saint Louis Cardinal fan living and she moves to Saint.
Louis, Let's hope not. Fuck you, Jack Clark, Yeah, I'm right there, man.
The Redbirds, Yeah, we're.
Like Pedro Guerrero throwing our gloves down on the ground.
They were the original cheating Cardinals. We called them the cheating Cardinals, if you remember, and then the Astro thing happened. We completely forgot about the Cardinals. We just moved on.
I forgot about that.
Yeah, because that guy Jeff Loo, now it's really it's the irony in this. But he accused there was a cardinal executive of stealing his data, and the guy actually went to jail, I think cardinal executive, and so I called him the cheating Cardinals for a while. But since the astros are like, hey, hold my beer, and so they're the kings of the cheating George and Uvaldi Texas rites and says, which is worse testing positive for COVID or Kardashian? Well that's well, I think there's more treatments
for COVID than the Kardashians. I would say that. Now. Ozzie was is in Western Australia says, I do love me a good pizza, or a pizza pie as you call it. Ben, Yeah, Ozzi Was, I love pizza. I I made a meat pizza recently. I might have to send some photos out on that. Maybe I already did. I don't know anyway, and says I do know you will thumb your nose at my choice of toppings, which is pepperoni, onion, mushroom fresh tomato. Yeah, cap sitcom, which I think you you call uh, he says, I think
you call peppers and a little garlic on top. He says, So what are your toppings or go to toppings for a good pizza pizza pie? So I do love onion, but it's gotta be thin. I love my pizza with thin cut sliced onion with a I use a mandolin to cut my onion, so I have a mandolin for the onion. I love as much garlic. I make a garlic butter that is next level. So I have garlic butter on their onion, bell pepper. You know, sometimes I'll mix in you know, some mi like like turkey pepperoni
or something supposedly a little healthier. I don't know, but yeah, it's pretty much it. What about you, Danny, what's your goo? Obviously you talked about this in a previous podcast that we did.
This weekend Yesterdays. Pizza love pepperoni and black olive. Also pepperoni and pineapple is a go to sometimes in the mood for Canadian bacon and we'll do the og Hawaiian style.
Pizza the pineapple.
Yeah, it is Canadian bacon with pineapple. I like green peppers on pizza as well. I do not like onions on pizza. Bell pepper is good. I like the flavor of it, but I don't like it's got a weird texture. So I'll just pull them off the top of the pizza. But that bell pepper juice and flavor is still on the top of the pie.
Question from the back of the room. Let's circle back to the onion thing here. So have you add onion that is done with a mandolin?
No, I have it, and I want to try it because the reason I don't like chunks of onion is because it's so overpowering. I don't like the way that that's all you taste.
Yeah, so the way I do the pizza Maya, it's mya pizza Paia. It's so thin it kind of melts. It's not overpowering, So.
Yeah, I would like that.
Yeah, it's I love it. And I never liked thick onion. I never ate it. And I was just here's the word Danny Futson around and I put the onion on there, and so there you go. Jbone from beautiful Portland, Maine. I like Portland mid a lot, he says, Ben and Daddy g you're at a breakfast place how are you ordering your eggs go bills from Jbone and Portland, Maine. I know that's close to home for you, Danny, because you got the Raiders and Steel.
But you know, I also picked the Bills to go to the Super Bowl before the season began, so it was still a win win for me and my prediction. God eggs. You know what, at a restaurant, you gotta go over medium because then you could dip your toast into the yolk.
Yeah. I disagree here. It's a hard no for me. I'm not a big egg guy anyway, but when I did eat eggs back in the day, it was either an omelet like a cheese omelet with some gloring, or scrambled with cheese.
That's how Granny Gradio used to order her eggs.
Listen, great minds, think alike. I don't know what to tell you, and that's it.
You're just like an eighty year old Sicilian woman.
Damn right. Absolutely nothing wrong with that fred in Spring Texas. So you like your eggs runny, I don't.
Oh no, no, no. Over medium is not runny. It's perfect because you still get that great yolk, but the egg is not watery at all. I'm good, Fred, you're talking easy side or sunny side up. You got to say over medium.
Well, I like burned, I like well done. Is what I like with pepper and all that. Fred in Spring Texas. Right since its greetings, I am wondering how you decide how many commercials to insert in a podcast. Are there guidelines, regulations and such, or is it up to the podcast or the business manager? I says, I look forward to your Guys show every weekend. Thank you, Fred, You've been great filling up the content machine here. Yeah. So we just you know, Danny some weeks wants no commercials, other
weeks he wants fifteen commercials. Isn't that how it works? You just decide on a whim, you just play it by year.
Sure, unless that's not what we do at all. No, there is guidelines. So there's a set format. It's three to open the podcast, three about twelve thirteen minutes in, After about another twelve fifteen minutes goes by, put another three, and then three at the very end after we say goodbye.
So it is a method to the madness. Next one is from the real Neal. Neil, the real Neal and in the real Greenville there if I could talk to would help me, says dear money Mallard and back from the land of Danny g says, I was in northern California, Davis Sacktown, Santa Cruz after two weeks for a work trip.
Yeah.
Well, I don't spend a lot. I've not spent a lot of time in Sack I've been to Sacramento a few times. But Santa Cruz beautiful. Love me Cruise, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. He says. A question, would you rather have a career you hate that gives you elon musk money, or to do the hobbies and all that stuff, or a hobby turned to
a career where you were barely getting by. Curious to hear your thoughts after decades of being on the brink of poverty for you, and now you're making a big well, I listen, I'm doing the TV shows, certainly a great mitzvah. I'm not making Craig cart money. I'm not making Colin Coward money. It's kind of like a starter TV show. Whe if the show does well, then there could be some really big money. But we're very early on.
When I bumped into you, a couple of weeks ago, you were all of a sudden rocking. Yeezis on your feet. You've upgraded in the shoe department, so you're on your way. Yeah.
Yeah, So it's see where this leads. Maybe the lead nowhere. It might just be one year and that's it NBC pulls the plug, but they seem pretty happy with it right now. So who knows.
If they do pull the plug, though, at least you'll get to have a farewell.
Show that is true unlike radio. Yeah, I absolutely. Tony WRIGHTSID says, on a scale of one to ten, how much do you hate Wisconsin sports? He says, I'm on vacation this week, so I will replay later on on the podcast. So, Tony, there's this misnomer that I hate Wisconsin sports. I don't. My my younger brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin. I visited him a couple of years ago. We went
to lambeau Field. It was awesome. I've fond memories of going to the old County Stadium when I was doing stuff with the Dodgers and the brew crew, and I was remembering back to the days when the Brewers had Gorman Thomas and are not Gorman Tumbs, they Rob Deer and like Cecil Cooper and Paul Molly for those games. Fingers, Yeah, exactly, Teddy Higera the starting pitcher. So yeah, I don't. I
don't hate Wiscon. I don't. I don't talk a lot about Wisconsin sports per se unless you know something BIG's going on. Ghanis gets a lot of attention because he's in the in the Sporting News. All right, let's do a couple of quick ones. We'll get out, Kevin. Thank you Tony though for saying I hate Wisconsin sports.
But I guess on a.
Scale of one to ten, I would be like a thirty in your book, Kevin in Kansas, Right, since says dear band and Danny g if you were competing on family feud, which family members would you choose on your team? And then who would you choose to do fast money first? And then the closer to win it all? And when you want it all, would you put Steve Harvey in a celebrity bear hug? Well, me and Steve are contemporaries, as you know, Kevin, and so we've already had our moment.
Steve liked the color of the old mouth and mobile. He told one of his gun carrying security guards that as he was walking out of the iHeart Building in LA when he very briefly hosted the show, I'm upset because Harvey, Steve Harvey moved out to LA and was doing the TV shows on the radio show, and then once COVID happened, he moved back to Atlanta. So we lost our connection with the great Steve Harvey, which was you know, that was great. He was right across the hall.
Now we're in his old studio. We're in the old Steve Harvey studio. It was a combination of Russell Laba and Steve Harvey. But like family feud, Like my brothers are pretty good of that kind of like random factoid stuff. I think a lot of my relatives would be better at Jeopardy. I'd be better at family feud. I think they'd be better at Jeopardy and all that anything you got on that Danny Family Feud anything.
Yeah, my wife would be good because we watched that a lot and we're always guessing the top three on the board. Now doing that at home and in person two different things, right, because I guess you freeze up when you're there on set.
Yeah, I think she would be great.
And then I would have Rich Davis as one of my family members because he talks super fast. He's kind of like a rain Man too, with different topics. Ben like, it's weird. You could ask him any super Bowl and he'll tell you where he was, what the score was, and what he was eating at that super Bowl party. So somebody with a brain whose brain works like that would be great on a TV show like that.
And if I was doing a sports trivia thing, I would bring in Steve Hartman.
Oh yes, that's yeah, a walking sports encyclopedia.
Yeah, he knows every date and all that. Chris and Merricca and Iowa says, Ben, do you get paid for the TV show every week? What day of the week is it on?
There?
You go, oh, he wants to know what day I get paid.
Jesus does he want your routing number? Two?
I don't even know. I just love the fact that I have an expense account, because I've never had that at Fox Sports Radio or any other radio station I've ever worked at. So that's not really an expense account. But they'll they'll pay NBC will pay for like my my wardrobe or if we need to buy something like makeup and stuff like that.
So can you walk into Jersey Mike's order a sandwich and put it on your expense account?
No, no, I can't. I can't do that, fortunately, but they do. They do have a program which there's a lot of AI involved there. I've had to fill out a few expense reports, like when they flew me. I flew myself back to Boston. They paid me back for it when I went back to the production stuff, and they have AI. So I fill out the expense report and then it reads it before it even gets the person that has to approve it, so it reads it over and so I've gotten it puked back to me.
It's been bounced back to me saying, hey you put this, this is not allowed or whatever. So I had to change words and stuff. In fact, I actually have to do that this weekend today probably here's the end of the weekend on Sunday. All right, we'll get out on that. I will be back tonight. Don't forget Benny versus the Penny. If you're hearing this early in the day here, it will be on s n Y New York. I believe later today beyond in LA and rerun all over the place.
I think it'll be on Chicago as well today, so check that out, Benny versus the Penny. It will not be on after the NFL games kickoff at one pm because it would be what would be the point of having it on after that, But anyway, I'll be doing that and get the TV thing this morning, and then on the radio breaking down all the NFL games. What a great time of the year to do sports talk radio, Danny,
It's just wonderful. Come in Sunday night, got all the NFL games and the Sunday night game your Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is gonna be a defensive struggle, but check that out. What do you got going on, Danny?
I know, can somebody please help Max Crosby rush the quarterback? Damn it. Hopefully that'll be a little bit of a bounce back game there with Jacoby Meyers returning for Jimmy g Looking forward to that, Ben and all the NFL action today, and your Rams looking better than what people predicted.
I gotta wait till tomorrow for the Rams though. Yeah, yeah, the Rams. This Puoka Nakua.
Guy, I know, out of nowhere, Wow.
Like Mana from Heaven. The guy dropped out of thin from thin air and he's been insane.
Man ram It in the Puka, He's.
Like the new Cooper Cup. I'm gonna predict right now, Danny hot Hot Ram take is Cooper Cup's on the injured reserve list or whatever. You know, he's out for the first four weeks of the season, so he's out for another game after this, but when he comes back, you got Pooka. You could trade Cooper Cup, right, You
know that take's going to be tossed around. Well, the Rams should trade Cooper Cup because they don't need him anymore because Pooka Nakua is playing the Cooper Cup role in the Ram offense and he's playing it better than he did at least last year.
So you're back on the radio late tonight and I'll be into the same studios, but tomorrow on Monday afternoon with Covino and Rich two to four pm on the West Coast, and that's five to seven pm in New York City. And on Mondays we have that game, Last One Standing, and that's where you can hear your voice been all over that game because in a podcast you said it you are like last one Standing. And after I named the game that, I was like, I think
Ben said that one time, so I went back. I pulled that clip and it's the drop that I have decided to use for that game.
Show love it, love it, love it? Don't It's like AI, Last one Standing. I'm all about it. Hey, have a great rest of your Sunday. Danny's been fun this weekend. Thank you man, and we'll do it again next weekend. What do you say? How about that?
Later?
Skater Go Raiders, go rams, ram it all day, ram it all.
Night, ram it in your puka, watch your mouth.
Hello, Joe Hi, I like the Saints got a murder.
I gotta go.