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We do not need to do that. And on this Sunday podcast we have the mailbag Dany G. And in addition to that, we have what we have a surprise, a surprise at the beginning and I realized we should probably get at some point to Backscratcher. We didn't do that. We didn't do that on Saturday. That's a bad job by us. We did not do Backscratcher. On Saturday, shame on us. But we begin with a programming update, a
very important programming update for the radio show. So this is Sunday, and normally on Sunday night, I go into the studio and I do the show Sunday through Thursday on the West Coast, Monday through Friday on the East Coast. But this week different than most weeks, I will not be going through the motions. I will not be heading to the Salt Mine because I am headed to the
Big Apple. Danyg headed to the Big Apple. I had mentioned in a previous episode of the podcast that I was supposed to go to New York and then the trip got canceled because of my unexpected electrical bill for an electrical panel from Hell. And I had this hole in my head. I had this great vision I was going to go to New York and I was gonna go up to Maine and hang out with the fans in Maine. They're gonna have a Mallard meet and greet. It was gonna be great. And then I got this
massive bill, so I wasn't gonna go. And then I had some conversations with my brother who lives in New York Danny, and he was able to convince me this is a very important thing that I.
Need to be there.
And so when somebody tells you have to be there, just show up right. You show up for family. And my brother brings up a great point because this is my niece graduated from high school and there's a big family party. And so I got family on the East Coast and they'll be there, and some other relatives and some people who are total strangers who have no idea who they are, will be there, and so we are making the pilgrimage to New York. I've not been to New York in several years, and I used to go
there regularly, like every couple of years. But with COVID, I'm trying to think the last time I went, it probably was five years ago. So it's been a bit of a stretch for me because I usually go every couple of years. And I cannot wait because it's the East Coast version of Los Angeles, Danny. It's it's homeless, it's crime, it's all that.
Sweet music to our ears.
Yeah, I'll have a good time. I don't know whether I'm going to go to a Yankee or a Mets game or any of that. I have no idea, although I did look if I buy tickets to the Mets game. The Mets are so shitty on the secondary market. You can get tickets for like six bucks on the secondary market to a Mets game.
Wow. A broadcast from New York.
Well, no, I wanted to, but I don't know why the company lately has not. They have not encouraged me to do a remote broadcast. I would have loved to have done. I've done the show from New York in the past. I did it from the iHeart Building in Lower Manhattan, which blew me away. By the way, when I did the show from the iHeart Building in Lower Manhattan and I got out of there at six in the morning and it was a ghost town, I thought I was in the twilight. Soon I'm like in the
I'm in Manhattan, man, what the hell? There was nobody around. There were some people, sanitation guys were cleaning up trash. And then I walked by the NYPD Bureau and they had their they were changing shifts, so they were all out in front of the police the police station. Like going over there protocol for the day. But that was it. I didn't see anybody else. I swear that was that was crazy. But no, I'm not broadcasting unfortunately from New York.
This week I will be The show will be dark, I mean the show beyond I will show it's always dark, but I will not be there. And it's also an act of chivalry, Danny, because my wife, of course going with me, and this week is her birthday week, and you know when it's your birthday week, it's a big time. That's a big Birthday week is a big f in deal.
Yeah, there's some females that even do a whole birthday month.
Oh well there's that too, Yeah, there's bad. But the week in particular, I mean that is when the spark really takes place right there. And if I were to work and not go on the trip and all that, I'd be a sline ball. And I don't want to be a sline ball.
Day. How dare you make some money to spoil the person on their birthday month and week? Exactly an hour?
Now? I love doing the show remotely. I don't mind doing it remotely. I like going to different radio stations. I've already been the one in New York and all that that is The cool thing about the iHeart building in New York. They have the cluster of New York stations. Maybe they've moved since I was there, but they have the brains of the iHeart app that we're on right now, and it's got all these supercomputers. It was really cool. It's like the size of a football field in my head.
It's probably not that big, but in my head, it was the size of a football field. And it's just all these servers that keep the audio content going on the different iheartstreams and the podcasts and all that. And that's where they're headquartered, or at least they were headquartered. They're back. Last time I was was in the city.
It's very cool. And when do you return?
So I will be back this coming weekend, but we will have podcasts though next next week, so I want you to know we'll still have the podcast, and I'll post something on Facebook and all the responses will be, Hey, why aren't you hear numb nuts? What's wrong with you? Fat boy entertain me?
How dare you do the podcast but you're not on the live show?
Yeah? Exactly, for fuck's sake, what's wrong with you? You know that I'll think so. I know that's coming. But we will have brand new original podcast next weekend. Just the radio show will not be on, and so that is what we have to look forward to, or maybe not to look forward to this week. But I'm sure there'll be great people. I don't even know who's filling in. They don't tell me these things. I have no control
over it. I'm sure there'll be wonderful people. And you people will send nasty messages to me about the people that fill in, which always happens, and so that's just the way it is. Suck it up, Buttercup, deal with it. Oh hell, Bill Miller. All right now the mail bag that means oh hi, oh ah, it's bag. And these are actual questions by actual listeners. Thank you, ohio Wow. You can send your question right now. You don't have
to wait for me to post something. If you already have a question you want to ask, you're curious about something, whether it's about to show, about life, about anything, you can send questions care of Reeal fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and you can check that out the Facebook page Bain Mallard Show. We post usually on Tuesdays, although this week, God only knows when I'll post to ask for questions. I don't know. Hopefully i'll remember, but
check that out. First one comes from Cliff in Nashville, and he says, Hey, guys, my wife is fasting, but when I'm frying bacon, if she can't resist the temptation. I know you don't eat bacon, but is there something your wife cooks that leads you into temptation? Yes? I love food, Cliff, I can't get enough. I love it. I love the smell of it. I love the taste of it. I want to eat it all. But I have worked up my self, disciplined where I'm I'm good. I have not fallen off the fasting wagon. Let me
let me. I'm going to the app, Danny, I'm going to the app right now. On a second, because I'm streaking.
Man.
We're going streaking, man, We're going streaking.
Hang on, I'm gonna tweet this out on the Fox Sports radio account.
Yeah, this is big. So I, as of this moment, have gone nine hundred and forty six consecutive days fasting. What nine hundred and forty six consecutive days?
How are you still alive.
I'm not. I actually I actually passed away a couple of years ago. So yeah, that's you know, that's closing in. I gotta get to one thousand ninety five days and that'll be three full years. So I have another what is that a hund in something days to go, and then I'll be a three full years, three full years. But I can't stop then. I can't because if I miss one day, I go back to zero. You know how upsetting that would be to me, Danny, after I've
built this big streak up. So I have to do this the rest of my life.
I mean, what counts as a day of fasting?
Yeah, so the minimum fast is sixteen hours, but I usually right now I'm averaging twenty one and a half hours between meals.
How do you do that?
So what I do during the week is I usually skip one day and then I fast. I fast like, you know, twenty twenty three to twenty two hours a couple of days. On the weekends, I'll do like the bare minimum. I like sixteen hours. I feel like I'm cheating on the weekends when I do the sixteen hours, I want a camel. Yeah, that's my mission. Goss. So to answer your question, Cliff, that was like a humble brag by me. There are plenty of things my wife
makes there. There have been days I've been fasting and there's all kinds of delicious Mexican food being made in the house or baked goods, and I can't eat any of it.
So there is that bacon is a tough one to get past, just the way it makes the whole house smell delicious. And if you get that crispy bacon that snaps in two oh, man, that's that's heaven right there.
There's so many foos like that, like French fries, you name it. I mean, the things you make are just just great. Terry and England writes in on the mail bag. He says, Ben, how did you start at WEEI? You were obviously at FSR at the time, how so how did that come about? I used to listen to both shows. I know why the show ended, but how did the
hiring process work? That's from Terry in England, So Terry, the way it worked is that the program director of WEI was someone that I had known, had actually briefly popped in at Fox Sports Radio. We had a pass together he was a fan of my show, The Overnight Show, and I originally when at that time, the second time I had been on WI before, I filled in for Mikey Adams, who we've had on the podcast. I filled in for him many many years ago. But they brought
me back and I was auditioning. They flew me back to Boston for a couple of days. I auditioned on the morning show. I was up for the morning show on WI and it wasn't really a good fit because I would have been like a third wheel and I didn't really want to do that. I kind of like doing my own thing, and you know, I didn't really want to be that guy, and so I didn't think it was a great fit.
Play well with others well, I don't know, but.
They they were they were very nice and they they liked my work, and they said, Hey, would you be willing to do some stuff remotely? We have an opening at night. We've got kind of a rotating group of people at night. Is that something that you would be interested in? And I said, hell, yeah, absolutely, I would love to be in, you know, be part of that, And so I did it for a while. We had a lot of the show did pretty well.
I we're listening and a lot of your FSR live listeners would support you on that station as you talked about Boston hockey.
Yeah. Well I didn't do too much of that, but it was the funniest was I. I did the late night show at EI, and part of that show, the Red Sox covered up the show a lot, so they didn't need somebody full time because they had the Red Sox and those back That was back before the pitchclock when the games would go five hours and Red Sox games would go on forever. So the first hour I did this show called Red Sox Review, which was the like in LA we have Dodger Talk, yes, but in
Boston it's called Red Sox Review. So I would come on from the Malor Mansion in southern California doing the Red Sox Review postgame talk show, and there'd be people leaving Finway Park that would be calling me up to talk about the Red Sox game that night. And this is back in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, so it was spanned a couple of years, and that actually won the World Series in twenty eighteen. They were cheating against
my Dodgers in the World Series. But anyway, so I did that and I did the show, and it ended for those that don't know the backstore and that the reason I had to stop working at WI remotely is because the Overnight show got picked up by the Sports Hub, which is the rival station of Weei, and we have been on the Sports Hub for the last five years, which is great. That is the number one sports station ratings wise in the entire country, and that is an
absolute flamethrower Danny in terms of audience reach. And I'm very lucky that first hour, which is the last hour for us, but it's like the early morning drive hour, absolutely kill it in Boston. There you go, Terry Joshua writes in he says, Slim Mallor and Danny g Hey Malor, how come the Jason Smith Show has so many new and different imaging features, but the Malor Show can't even afford to change the imaging of lame jokes and s on the end of it. I'm outraged, SS Joshua. Well,
there's several reasons for that. I know you're just trying to get under my skin and it's working. It's absolutely working. Get that out of the way your big dummy. But no, I mean usually what happens. I don't know all the inner workings, but typically the producer has to request new imagery. I think Coop is very satisfied with the imaging, apparently doesn't want new stuff. I think he's okay with it,
and that's just that's my interpretation. I don't think we've gotten any new imaging since you were on the show, Danny. I think everything is the same. I think it's all. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I don't recall.
I definitely typed up some imaging for your show and sent it into Vito when I was there. I don't know what happened after me, but yeah, we had we tried a couple of new games when I was on your program.
Yeah, well that's not true. There is one. There is one new thing we had mal d Militia Feud which came after you.
Yeah, that's right, So there is one new piece. So Coop did send something in.
That's Rightoper Loop, and that's my man. But I don't know what's going on on the Jason Smith showing all that. I mean, those are nice guys. I see him at work, but when I'm when I'm coming in where like ship's passing the night they're leaving.
Whenever Jason Smith is rocking the sleeveless shirts, does it does make you want to wear your muscle shirt to work.
I want to come in my banana hammock to work. That's what I want to do. I love Jason is so laid back man, and they now record all these months, so I'm always like, I got to look somewhat decent. You know, I can't be a total slob because I'm on camera. Even though it's radio, I'm on camera. You know it's gonna be on the internet. The Internet's forever. You know, all this craps going through my head. I wish I could be like Jason. Jason doesn't give a shit.
Jason just wears whatever he wants to wear, and he's dressed for comfort, and I give him credit. I'm not. I wear certain things that I'm not really comfortable in because I think they look somewhat better and hide some of my ugliness. So, yeah, Jason, he loves the shirts. Those are like nineteen eighty style. What do you think old school? Yeah?
I wear those when I clean out the garage.
Well, you go out there when you're trying to show the guns off right, you wear those Yeah.
When the neighbors passed by the garage, I just slowly lift the gun show up. More like a beauty gun show right now.
Nick in Wisconsin says, hey, Ben and Danny g Nick popped up at the mall of Meet and Greet. Great to meet Nick back in the day, he says, Ben and Danny with that guy messing his shoulder up on the Price is Right? Which game would you rather be on? The Price is Right? Or Wheel of Fortune and any other game shows that would be your favorite. Nick says, So, I loved Prices right when I was a kid and I would skip school because I was a miscreant, and I would stay home and my mom said, you can't
leave the house. You're going to stay home. And then i'd find when she was doing something else, I would flip on daytime TV and it was these crappy soap operas, but they had in the morning, they had The Price was Right, and I was all about it, man. And then I actually met Bob Barker years later at a college radio conference. I'll have to tell that story sometime. I've told it in the past. But I haven't told them a while. But anyway, I would love to be
on the prices right. I think it'd be great. You know the game that I loved also Deal or No Deal? Oh yeah, yeah with well Monty Hall, I think hosted a Deal or No Deal? And What's Behind Door Number three?
I had a girlfriend back in the day drag me to a taping of that, and it was for my birthday. I did not want to go. I did not want to sit there dressed up. So what I did I put on my entire Tupac costume smoke, so I was Tupac in the audience of Deal or No Deal, the new version of it, of course. And I guess they're racist because they didn't pick me.
Did they? They say, what do you do? Are you going? Jimmy Kimmel as Karl Malone? What are you doing here? How dare you racist?
You know the ones they're gonna pick, because when you're in line and they're interviewing you on their video camera really quick before they let you in, there's all these people with all this fake energy, doing somersaults and dancing for the camera like a chicken on an open flame. And then they get to me, and I'm like, hey, what up, I'm Tupac. Yeah yeah, yeah, go in. We're not picking you. Yeah.
Yeah, it's good to have you here. Thank you for being here, Thanks.
For being here. Get your ass in there. We're not picking you, buddy.
Another show that I love and I actually quote this show on the Overnight show, Press Your Luck. Do you ever watch Press Your Luck? It's Nommy nommy, big money money.
Okay. I was a little kid. My grandmother would watch that, and so yeah, secondhand, I watched it.
Yeah, I loved it because it had the cartoon characters and I was a little you know, I was a kid too, We're around the same age, and I would watch it and I was like, wow, that's pretty good.
You're seventy sam right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great. That is neat man. And there was another another game show, and I forget the name of it, but it it was like you would peel back like pictures on a board and then you had there was like a cartoon drawing and you just say what the cartoon drawing meant?
Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Yeah, I'm trying. I don't remember the name. Let's slick up. I see. That was probably of old.
By saying that, though you made me think of the game that's on the price is right where you punch pull out the amount of money that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah yeah, I remember. Yeah yeah, here's old school game shows. Here's American gladiators, remember that, of course, classic back in the old school days. I think, uh, double talk, No, not that face, the music, the newlywed game now mind readers, matchmakers may remember. I have to see if I can have it pop into my brain at some point here. Anyway, I would rather be on prices right, or press your luck or family feud would be fun too.
It would be fun, yeah, of course, because Steve Harvey's he's one of your mentors.
Legend he liked the Malamobile back in the day, a fan of it. Yeah, rel no, he was. He in his security guard walked by, and then they liked, let's see here, we've got well past where we play on our show. I don't see the name. If I see the name, I would know right away. All right, Yeah, let's move on here. What do we have next? Up on the mailbag? J Bone from Portland, Maine. J Bone, We've gotten this question before, but we'll answer it against
if our answers have changed. J Bone in Portland, Maine says, if you had to eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be. He says, you also are taking a crazy vitamin for all of the health shit, so that doesn't matter. But you can only eat one meal forever. And he says, go bills from Jbone in Portland, Maine. So I will give my answer, Danny. It is a food that is versatile. It is a food that can cover the full spectrum of food. Zah
pizza pizza. Yeah, because you can get a cheese steak pizza, you can get a Mexican style pizza, you can get any kind of topping you want from another food. You can get if you choose to go down that direction.
That's cheating a little bit, but not cheating.
It's one food pizzas of food.
Try to try like one restaurant. Is there a restaurant that makes all those different kinds of pizzas?
Are you accusing me of cheating at the mail bag? Is that what you're accusing me of cheating at the freaking mail bag?
It's almost like Eddie Garcia is a guest this week on the mail Bag.
How about shut up. Well, I know Eddie does bend the rules quite a bit there and then claims that he's not bending the rules. But that's a different conversation, the different conversation. So I'd go pizza. What would you go there, Danny.
I'll just pick one restaurant. It's been our go to lately for big events, like after a graduation or something like that Firestone Grill.
That's your spot, that spot because.
They have the try tip, a great salad. They have all the sides you can imagine, and their bread and their pizza is good. And they have these breadsticks, these garlic parmesan breadsticks ben Oh my god. I don't know how they do it, but they are crispy on the outside, super soft on the inside, and then you dip it into their barbecue sauce. Sounds good to me. Yeah, it is wonderful.
You could also go like a deli, some of those big delis like Canter's Deli has a menu that goes on or Cheesecake Factory, the massive menus you know those.
Oh yes, I like their venue for sure. Yeah.
It's got like ten pages advertising. It's like a program at a stadium when they used to have those. Next up is Chakar John from Redmond, Oregon. He writes in he says, I was surprised and happy Ben to hear you with Zabe. I've been a fan of his for many many moons, going way back. Who the great Steve Zaban? How they going? Former FSR morning host never heard of them? To the hiccups, the statement that upside down doesn't work
is bullshit. Back in my heavy beer consumption days, I would get the hiccups while tossing down the bruise rapidly standing on my head. Not athletic enough to stand on my hands against the wall would cure the hiccups every time. If I was too inebriated, I would bend over the back of a high back couch with my head on the floor. And sometimes that would work, yeah, man.
And then I would choke on my own vomit.
Yes, Then I would I would pass out from all the blood rising to my head, and then I would need a body bag. He says. I hope that someday your taste buds will mature and you will appreciate the fine taste of the Devil's blood ranch dressing. Well, John, I think I'm good Man. Good Man, I'm past that age and I am strong in the anti Devil's Blood camp. And it was wonderful to be on the Zabe Cast my second appearance, Danny on the Zabe Cast.
You've made it the great Steve.
Zaban morning man in Milwaukee and also a longtime radio personality in Washington, d C. Former FSR guy. And I love Zabe. I'm a big fan because he was very nice to me when he worked at Fox Sports Radio, and he didn't have to be nice to me because he was the big morning guy. I was the weekend filling guy. But also the fact that he's a radio guy. He's one of us, Danny. He's not some former TV high poalutant dude or comic or jock. He's a guy like us. He's a radio artisan, is what he is.
Blue collar.
Yeah, I liked it. That's those are my guys, radio people. That's what we got.
And by the way, I had a tremendous rand dressing last night with a pepperoni pizza from Amazon Fresh and I cut the pizza up in the slices and dipped it just slightly into the ranch. It was wonderful and.
You'll be going to hell for that. You'd be hanging out with the devil because you're drinking the devil's blood and the devil does not like that bad job by you. Next up on the mailbag, John in Tacoma Rights and says Ben and Danny g I just listened to your latest podcast. The topic of UFO aliens and extratrestrials was discussed. My question to the both of you, John says, do you believe these aliens are from outer space or are they demonic beings from the underworld?
Ooh, well, my mom did teach us that there were angels that were kicked out of heaven because they were bad angels and what do they do with their free time? Duh? They tore ment humans on Earth. So there could be a segment of bad angels that are, you know, down here causing a ruckus. But I still think there's also life, another life form. We're not alone, definitely. Like I watched Men in Black, the original Men in Black one.
That was a documentary.
It was because go back and if you probably haven't seen it in a while, go back and watch Men in Black one, and it's exactly what's happening right now with all our UFO discussions.
Yeah, it was. It was a movie that was based on real life events. They went back in time. Do you remember the New York Mets outfielder that was in Men in Black at Shay Stadium. No, Bernard Guilkey. Oh okay, they showed Bernard Guilkey, who used to be a big league player. I remember more for the Cardinals and the Mets, but they showed him in the movie. So there's a
fun fact that would be quite the plot twist. You talk about a surprise if they government says these are not aliens from outer space, these creatures live in the middle of the hollow Earth. Surprise. Then they leave from a portal, a demonic portal in the ocean, and that's why they fly out of the ocean. And they've got these powers, right, these unbelievable powers, and they swirl around like a cauldron. And yes, it's this dystopian hellhole that is right in the middle of the Earth. And then
he wakes up. But that would be the next as we said last week, that'll be the next big pandemic. Greg in West Saint Paul, Beautiful Saint Paul. I really liked my time in the Twin Cities. That's a beautiful place. Of course, I was not there in the winter. I was there when the weather was perfect. There were no mosquitoes, there was no snow, there was no sun, there was nothing. It was just perfect.
One.
Greg says, I have a problem. Oh, he's a sporto question, Danny. He says, I have a problem with the way baseball is played and scored. If a pitcher comes up in the top of the ninth and his team is up by one run and he gives up two runs. In the bottom of the ninth, his team scores two runs and wins, why is he given the victory when he blew the save? So he's upset with the the save
rule and how they award wins and all that. Well, the good news is that the wind no longer matters, Greg, that the nerds have eliminated the value of the win. But it is one of those weird things. And when I was a young guy starting out in the media, I actually met one of the people that was responsible for the save rule. He was a buddy of mine. He hosted a radio show in La This guy named irv K's do you know who that is? Probably not No. Yeah, IRV K's was a PR guy and it was an
executive for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also worked for the Yankees and the Raiders and all this stuff and really good guy. He helped me out. I was a teenager when I started in radio, and he kind of showed me some of the ropes. He actually got me an interview with King Griffy Junior when Griffy was the biggest star in baseball with the Mariners. Remember how big a deal Griffy was back in the day, like the biggest
Michael Jordan of baseball. And I got a one on one with Griffy because Irvk's was friends with his dad when he was the Yankee PR guy, Ken Griffy, And which is ironic because Kangriiffy jun hated the Yankees right. He couldn't stand the Yankees because they fucked over his dad. So Irvk's was one of three executives. There was a guy from the Cardinals and a guy from the Dodgers,
and they created the save rule in baseball. They came up with the rule which is really you know, I love irv but like we saw a pitcher I think last week that got a save Danny and it was like a ten run game, and he came in and pitched three innings and all. But this became an official role back in the nineteen I think nineteen sixty nine, the end of the sixties, it became an official role. But anyway, I got sidetracked. I just want to tell my IRVK story. That's all I got, you know, that's it.
Well, back to the original question, who sent that in?
That was from Greg in West Saint Paul.
Greg just become part of the press. Go to the auxiliary press box in Anaheim. Watch all the games from there. You'll never see that play happen.
Yeah, you will not see anything. You will look at the foul pole and then if you look off to your right again, you will see the pearly gates. It's right there. You have a front row seat to the pearly gates.
Yeah.
Absolutely. IRV passed away years ago. I wonder how he feels about all these guys that get into the Hall of Fame because of a rule that he created. There's a bunch of Hall of Fame close. Mariano River, the all time leader in saves, the only guy I think he's still the only guy to be a unanimous Hall of Fame guy. Right, I think he is. He was first first to do it. Next up, we've got Rick from Parts Unknown for both of you guys, He says, do you guys listen to FSR on your off time? Yeah? So,
I don't listen all that much. I will flip around to see, you know, sometimes occasionally. But the main reason I don't is not that I don't think the people are great, because I think they're wonderful.
That sounds like a corporate answer.
Well, the main reason is I don't want to steal someone else's material. I want to do my own.
I totally understand that, because that stuff gets in your head exactly right. Yeah, you could repeat some of it back later without even thinking about it because you heard it somewhere. A lot of times you'll be like, who did I hear say this? Somebody said that? You're right, Sometimes it's better to just not listen to any of it.
Yeah, it gets in your subconscious, right, it gets conscious, and then you start you start repeating it, and I think I'm good. I think I'm okay.
When there is breaking news, though, I'd like to hear how the show that's on the air reacts to it. So that is a time where I will open up my iHeartMedia app and listen to our network. I just want to see what the reaction is of the guys that are on the air.
Yeah, no, I that is true. And there's breaking sports news. It's kind of cool to hear in real time there's a big Super Bowl ends, or there's controversy in a game or something like that. That's kind of cool to tune in and hear what's going on. So I don't listen all that much, but it's not because I don't think I wouldn't enjoy the shows or anything like that. I just want to stay in your lane, as LeVar
Ball says, the great poet Laureate LeVar Ball. Fred, a regular emailer from Spring, Texas, says, Hi, guys, do you have a favorite DVD? How about that a DVD that you like to rewatch now and then? Fred, I love it. I love that you got your DVDs and all that. No, I don't remember the last time I watched the DVD. It's my wife has seventeen thousand streaming services, so you have pretty much anything we want on demand at any given time. So yeah, I don't remember the last time
I watched DVD. I think the last DVD I love. My favorite movie is Goodfellas, so it was probably Goodfellas or a classic sports movie like Major League something like that, but I don't remember.
I have no idea. The last DVD I purchased back in the day was the Trilogy of The Godfather. Yes, yeah, never even took the third one out of the thing, but one and two got played so much that the second one got lost. So when you open up the trilogy pack, it's one in three in there right now.
It's not personal, it's strictly business day. It's right there. And I remember the the leave the gun, take the Canoli. I remember that that was the.
Head in the bed, one of the best, one of the best scenes in cinematic history.
That movie's those movies are old, and it's still to this day that we use lines in pop culture. There are still lines. There's these punks on TikTok who have no idea what the Godfather movies were, and they still use those lines.
Do you know the anniversary last year, they played the movie at all the AMC theaters and I took my lovely wife there. To see it for her first time. She saw it on the big screen the way it was meant to be seen.
Did you tell her I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse?
Yep, And for her that's a slurpy dur a slushy during the movie cherry and coke swirled together.
Solid choice by the wife, and she's about to she upset that she's about to end the as an oven making the child. That's about the kids about to pop out of the oven.
There she Oh, she wants him out now, get away from me.
Yeah, but she's been through this before, so she's a she's a savvy veteran. Yeah, the child birthing process and all that. But yeah, my go to is a big giant bucket of popcorn, buttered popcorn that will literally take thirty days off your life. And then like some chocolate, some kind of chocolate, whether it's peanut m and ms or peanut butter cups.
Popcorn is one of those things where you feel like you're dying as it fills in your stomach and you keep.
Going, yeah, you are dying. Every kernel of popcorn you eat is about an hour of life you will not live. But you still do it. You still do it, and you just It's like Han Solo from Star Wars. May the Force be with you. May you overcome, overcome the things that you're putting in your body and all that. We did not get an email from alf the Alien opiner, but we did get an email from Mike and Fullerton.
We'll close it out on this. Mike and Fullerton says, Hello, Ben and Danny g He says, if you want clean Ecoli free food, you should give Carl's Junior a truck. Since the advent of COVID, they have mandated a strict hand washing policy for all employees. You're welcome for the tip. Well, thank you for that, Mike, I appreciated. He says, I don't find the after I don't know the aftermath yet. Well I think we do now know the aftermath from that that vessel with the Titanic that did not did
not have a happy ending. But anyway, says, will you two think twice before boarding the Finding Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland from now on.
I never got on that stupid thing to begin with. I'm claustrophobic. That is my one superpower weakness, all right, When I'm flying around Metropolis and I'm saving humans from dying and I'm fighting crime. If a Nemesis popped up and he was like, I'm gonna put you in a closet and lock you in there and I couldn't get out, I would freak the you know what out. I hate small spaces. I refuse to get on that ride at Disneyland.
I don't know how those five guys agreed to go in that little that little thing, and then the way they were sitting ben, how do you call that?
It's like, well, I think the photo is it like we used to call it Indian style? Is that what you're talking about? Is? Yeah? And I don't think they say that anymore. Is racist?
I don't know not only not only Indian style, but they had to kind of sit side to side to make themselves all squish in there.
Yeah, it's it's it's terrible.
I mean I read an article about how they were trying to be conservative with certain spending versus science and research, and so there was a guy kind of defending why they would use a cheap remote control like that, and he said that they did spend a lot of money on other parts of it. But on certain parts of the vessel they had to cut corners. But man, hell no, you're gonna put me down that deep and you're gonna cut corners on nothing.
Yeah, for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a person. These are some of the richest people in society. And I mean there was some There was like a teenage kid on there, like nineteen year old kid with his dad on I.
Mean, jeez, that's sad. He's Louise Man.
Anyway, on that positive note, remember I will be away from my post at the watchtower. I'll be sleeping like the security guard at work there. I will be hanging out in the Big Apple.
So if you're in the New York area, Yeah, you talked about pizza during this podcast. You're gonna get a slice as soon as you land.
Unpopular opinion, Danny, I like the pizza in Chicago better than the pizza in New York.
I could see that. Yeah, I could see that because there was a time Covino was talking shit about in and Out on the air and I turned my mic and I said, well, don't get me started on your overrated New York pizza. And oh it was like I dropped a bomb. It's not that the New York pizza is bad. It's just when I went there, I had such high expectations that didn't live up to it.
So years ago I went with my brother.
We went.
There's two famous Brooklyn pizza places, which are supposed to be like the top pizza places in New York, you know, La Di Da, And so we go in there, and I think I upset my brother because I said I'd rather have Costco pizza. It tastes better to me. I'm at this famous Brooklyn pizzaiha, and I'm like, I kind of like the Kirkland brand pizza more than this. All right, you're back tomorrow, Danny, Yes.
Monday after you pissed off the entire East coast right now, But Monday afternoon two to four on the West side, and that's five to seven in New York City, where you're gonna be.
That's right, and I will. There's two things now, food wise in New York. I gotta go to Katz's Delhi, which is it's the greatest deli in New York. And they charge you seven hundred dollars to go there just to look at it. Seven hundred dollars, and then I love the street pretzel salt like the street pretzel big oversized, which is hard fine, It's hard to find that a good spreak.
Also, the street Euros are really good. And the bagels. Go to any good deli there get a bagel and cream cheese. I don't know how they do it. It's the water, supposedly.
I know they claim the world blah blah blah, the water.
I don't know, but every time I had a bagel in New York, I wanted a second one.
Yeah, I will definitely be eating many bagels, and I will My fasting streak will be tested Danny this week. Will I be able to continue my streak pigging my way out through New York? Will find out on the next edition of The Fifth Hour, which we'll be back on Friday. Have a great rest of your Sunday, have a wonderful week, stay safe, and I will be back with Danny g in my position right here on the podcast next week.
Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go