The Fifth Hour: "I'm at Your House" Mail Bag

championship Sunday in the National Football League. Think of this as your pregame show without the x former NFL guys and without the chuckles. Well we'll laugh, ha ha ha. We're gonna laugh a little bit. But it is the mail bag The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. You've got your formal raider gear on today. You're all dressed up without the unnecessary field reports on dumb ship that we already know. Is that the most annoying thing when the announcers are like, yeah, it's a

right ankle injury. So let's go down to the sideline with so and so and then go down. Yes, it's a right ankle injury. He's in the tent. Yeah, we know it's a right ankle injury. Don't go to the sideline reporters, Ben, unless it's some ship we have not heard yet. Now I love the sideline. I got a buddy of mine that is a news, old newspaper guy like journalists, like real journalism, back in the old days before newspapers became you know, ghost ships, and he will

text me after the NFL game. Because almost every these NFL games, almost every one of the first recorders, first question from the reporters how does it feel? How does it feel? That's like the number one questioned it. It drives him, It drives him insane. What was going through your mind on that final drive? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It's like, well, I was trying to score. We were trying to score because we were down and we had to score or else we were lost the game.

So I was trying to score. But it's like, you don't have to go to some high falutin journalism school if your first question is going to be how did it feel? You know, you don't know, I could get any schmow out of the crowd asked that question. And the most fascinating thing is a lot of these sideline reporters think that they're gonna win the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism with this line of questioning. It's fascinating to me.

They've convinced themselves that their job is essential and these questions are very important and we as football fans would not be able to survive without them. And I'm like, wow, whatever floats your boat. But I hate to hate to be the bear of bad news. But spoiler alert, yeah, we were the first fifth hour interview after the football is on hiatus, Shannon Spake, that'll be you, Danny. I'll

be taking that weekend off. You'll have to handle that. No, no, no, I know some of these people and they're fine, but it's just you're not You're not moving mountains here, neither or I'm gonna do a sports radio show in the middle of the night. I'm not moving mountains. But at least I don't. I don't pretend, Danny. I don't pretend like I am moving mountains. I don't sit there and

think somehow that these are amazing questions. And a lot of these sideline reporters they're like they're like hugging the players and stuff. They're like, buddy, buddy, it's like the it's like the the w w ET or something. It's crazy. I'm friends with Shannon. I'd like to say she does a fine job, but there's just sometimes where the reporting is just brainless to me. Yeah, well the thing that me and when I when I used to get up early on Sunday with Looney and we did the Football

Show for years. It's like seven or eight years we did that show. But with Looney we would watch the pregame shows and they actually on Fox Sports Radio. They carry the Fox Pregame Show. And the amount of laughter, like and I don't mind a good belly laugh, but on everything's funny, you don't have to laugh at everything. And these guys would laugh at everything. It was like chuckles. Its wild, It's like can studio laughter. It was insane. Anyway,

we've got mail enough of that. Now that we've bashed the NFL television, I think we can move on. Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed, we'll change it up a little bit. We'll get right to the mail bag. These are actual listener questions from actual listeners like yourself, and we love when we get questions from people that aren't regulars. We like, we enjoy our regulars, but it's always nice to hear some new names pop up on our radar or some people that

only email occasionally from time to time. Life keeps you busy and you can't send questions in all the time. So the way you can contact us very simple. It's Ben Mallard Show at Gmail. I don't know that's not It's Ben mallow Show on Facebook. I was screwed it up so easy. I screwed it up. It's Ben Mallard Show on the Facebook page and then real fifth we're at gmail dot com. I wanted to mention we didn't get to this. We ran out of time yesterday on

the Saturday podcast. But we did actually get a great review from on Backscratcher. We got one review on the Apple podcast page, which is what we're really gunning for and a couple of weeks would be great, and this one said it gave us five stars, a must listen on the weekends. It says the Ben Mallard Podcast. Though we misspelled my name, but that's auto correctly when you when you put my name in it auto corrects the Ben Mallett. I don't know why, but the they my name.

According to the algorithm is mallet anyway, so he says. Ben Mallett podcast is a great podcast listen to. Danny G is the perfect co host with great relatable stories as well as old school radio DJ stories. I really enjoy the stories about when Ben started as a radio stringer and his eventual rise. I like what he says in quotes rise to now hosting a nationally syndicated overnight radio show. Danny G brings his own sauce with awesome stories about his daily life, his other career, and awesome

stories about the beginnings as a radio DJ. Love the mail bag and the new pop goes the culture segment. Highly recommend this podcast. Dominican Mike, our guy, Dominican Mike. That's one of the nicest reviews we've gotten. It's very kind. Dominican Mike is one of the great characters, and I'm bummed out he has a day job. But I love that guy, and I love when he was in our rotation of callers because he lived in Arizona part of

the time, lived in Tampa, Florida. I think he's in Florida now full time, but he's working the dreaded day shift and we had a great time. I remember when Dominican Mike tried to take the oath, but he was either tired or in debriated, or maybe a little bit of both, and he really struggled. He was bouncing off the walls there. Did not go well, but it made for hilarious audio that we still play to this day. And it's been several years and we still play that

audio from Dominican Mike. It's tremendous. When some listeners asked the question what happened to this regular or that regular. A lot of the times, day jobs get in the way, but the beauty of podcasting is they're still listening, just at a different time. Yeah, it is really cool because very rarely will someone listen to like Cowherd and be loyal to him and then go to the overnight shift. Normally that doesn't happen. It's it's usually the other way.

People work overnight for a little bit, then they'll go to the day shift, and so it's it's cool. We've got a lot I got people have emailed me Danny that listen ten twelve years ago, I guess longer now. Years keep adding up, and but they're still that they've worked during the day. They got normally, got married and had kids. Used to they were in their twenties working overnight, trying to make money at the grocery store. And then now they're they're all grown up and they got there

their families, but they still listen. That's kind of cool. I liked it. I love that. So alright, what do we have in the mail bag? First up on the mailbag? Oh wait, Ohio? Aw'm so Ohio. All hit that button there? Ohio, Aw, it's all right, thank you, Ohio. All. First one is from Pierre down the road from minute Chog Regional High School. Where As Tombodett would say, we'll leave the light on

for you. Just a couple of fun facts before my question. Uh. He says that Wilbraham, Massachusetts, is the former home of the Friendly's ice Cream corporate headquarters. Ooh, that's a fun fact. Most notable sports related to alumni the minute Chog Regional High School for our our former MLB picture Mike Trombley. I remember him. He was like the middle of the rotation starting pitcher if I remember correctly. Yeah, I remember that guy. Yeah. ESPN, Mike Trombley, do you play for

the Twins Orioles? Something along those lines. I for some reason, I'm thinking Twins and Orioles. He probably played for somebody else, but those are the teams that I associate in my head with. Mike Trombley. Whoa when I typed in Trombley, uh said, Trombley sausage. Oh well, I don't need to see the man sausage. I'm good on that. I don't need to let me put in Trombley baseball. Okay, Mike Trombiley t R O m L. First picture that pops up as him and the Twins. Yeah, I still got it, Danny,

I still got it. I still got it Danny. Probably Orioles and the Dodgers. Oh there, I must if I forgot to dot years. When did he pitched for the Dodgers. What year? Let's take a look, and yeah, that's that's why I know his name is because of the Dodgers. Two thousand one. Okay, so that was a little I was here. I was working in Fox Sports Radio two thousand one. Um. I still went to the to the

Dodging games all the time. But I remember my favorite X Minnesota twinter I became really good friends with when he pitched for the Dodgers. There was a relief pitcher named Mark Guthrie. Oh yeah, pretty had a couple of good years in the big least. Wonderful dude, one of the nicest people. And I became I was a young guy, he was a young guy, and we were you know,

you know, buddy buddy a little bit. That was cool. Uh. There was a picture for the Twins named Kevin Tappani, who was a pretty good starting pitcher in the nineties and he got he ended up on the Dodgers, and uh, you know, he didn't do nearly as good as with the Dodgers as I remember as he did with the Twins. But uh, some random names. But Mike Trombley says, from this high school, Uh, this is a Pierre, He says in minnocha got really quick. I was gonna tell you.

Close to our heart is the town he was born in, because we both have relatives born there, Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh that's right, Yeah, there you go, beautiful all right, And that's where this right next to Springfield and this high school is. Uh. And Pierre also says that the ESPN co founder Scott Rasmussen from that high school and current Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatsy is awesome from that

high school, says. My question to you is do you feel ripped off by SNL for stealing the minute chog light story for their weekend update segment or flattered that the writers are fans of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory and Danny g. I'll take my answer off the year, So I didn't see Saturday Night Lavel last week. I

love the fact that they they had that story. That's a great story that the high school had the lights on for years and these these idiots could not in academia, could not figure out how to turn the lights off. And I mean, that's just wonderful. It's a ten out of ten. But I didn't you watch Saturday Night Live. I don't usually. I don't know anybody that watches that

program any longer. Last time I watched it, I watched it because I'm a big Larry David fan and he was hosting, and so I checked it out to see him. But that was about it. Next up on the mail bag, Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia rights in the Lovely Jennifer says, Hey, Benn and Danny Ge. Last week, my oldest son and I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Minneapolis, and while passing through Wisconsin, I remember your trip last year to see your relatives in Appleton. Did you know that the highway

rest stops have vending machines with cheese kurds. We got a bag, of course, since it is the cheese state. Yummy. In Marcel's voice, she says, that's some. Jennifer, Now, Jennifer, the big the big question is did you take your son to Kenosha where the cheese Castle is? Because that's that's next level. That's ultimate Wisconsin, which is just across it's not far from the Illinois border. When you make the trip from Chicago up the road there into Castle.

Well it it is actually a castle, but it's not made out of cheese. But you've never heard of the chee Castle. No. I got excited. I thought like the moat was gonna be melted nacho cheese. No, dude, this is like the first spot I've not been to Wisconsin. I had not been to Wisconsin since I was doing stuff with the Dodgers like twenty years ago, and I you know, then you're with the team and you don't really go out exploring. You kind of go to the hotel and you go to the stadium and all that ship.

But this thing is insane. I'm gonna send you a link right now, let's sake you. I want you to check this out. Um, and I do recommend it. It It was really cool. Becuse the ultimate like Wisconsin kind of touristy trap thing. When you're you're driving through on your way to Milwaukee or Chicago and you stop by the Mars Cheese Castle, which is I just sent you a link there, and they've got all kinds of Wisconsin products.

They've got a gift shop. You can get your packer, your your Buccaneers stuff, you're not your stuff, any kind of cheese you could possibly want. Yeah, it is pretty neat. They got a restaurant there, they got old They got cheese curds up the wazoo. Um, so yeah, it's pretty pretty neat. But those cheese curds are man man solid. I gotta every couple of years, I gotta visit my brothers, so I get my my cheese fixed when I'm in Wisconsin. But I hope you had safe shovel's. Jennifer, is your

son going to school in Minneapolis. Is that what that's all about? All right? Next up, Barry in Nashville rights and he says, yo yo mo, Benny, you talk a lot about in a minute fasting. Have you hit your weight goal or are you still trying to lose more weight? Yeah, so I don't really wit myself. I I know when my clothes get a little tight that I've gained too much weight. Um. Pretty happy with where I am right now. I probably like to lose a little more weight, and

doctors will tell you to lose weight. But I did have a bunch of blood tests done about a year and a half ago, and surprisingly I was doing pretty well for my age and all that. Um, so it's it's more about my michigasp berry where I'm afraid if I eat three meals in a day that I'm gonna gain all the weight back in like two days, you know, and all that. So it's really more about my neurosis than anything else. And on the weekends, I'll eat a couple of meals, but during the week I'm pretty religious.

Like at the time we're doing this podcast, I have not eaten in over forty hours, so you know, what the hell? Next up, Fred from Spring Texas Rights, and he says, hey, there, guys, how has the rise of advertising revenue through sports gambling businesses affected the radio business? Has it changed the way you cover sports? So that's a that's a pretty good question from our guy, Fred. It's been wonderful for for what we do, it's been great.

It's influx of cash and these gambling companies like we're associated on on our show with DraftKings and they're a big sponsor and they spend a lot of a lot of advertising dollars on Fox Sports Radio. We're very grateful that for that. And yeah, I heard Coop do a live read for them on your show. Well, Koop knows how to make the advertiser very happy. As you know, Danny, I wish I could pull off those suits. Uh but but no, And in all in all seriousness, it's been wonderful.

It's I'm trying to think, what's the comparison, and we've both been in the business a long time, Danny, is there's something else that can match what we've got right now because it's just this big influx of cash. Yeah, I guess some money here. I would think maybe when the dot com things started and people were advertising, was it pets dot com and some of those early websites where they were trying to get people to go to

them and they'd buy radio spots. The other one, Ben, and you can attest to this because I'm sure you did your share of live remotes at cell phone stores. Yes, yes, oh my god. Yeah, when the smartphone face came around. Yes, all these little cell phone stores were battling with each other, all had their run times on radio stations. I remember there would be certain saturdays where we would be at two different cell phone stores broadcasting live. Yeah. I totally

forgot about you. That's a great call by you. Yeah, I remember we were. We used to go when I was doing local radio because it was the nineties when these things kind of came on the scene, and we we were like a T and T store in Santa Monica on his Saturday morning. But then we do a remote from uh what was the other I'm trying to I'm having a blank on the other phone. But it was another one of the big phone companies, and we would, uh yeah, just show up, get people to come down

and buy a phone. And it was brilliant because once you get locked in with a type of phone. It's very difficult to cross old like on the smartphone thing. If you're an iPhone person, you're an iPhone person, and if you're an Android person, they're an Android person. And those were back in the days when people had blackberries, remember the black thing. That was big for business people. And there were still mon pop shops at the time

who carried all the different kinds of phones. Obviously they just had agreements and licensing with all the different carriers. So we had big stores, little ones, mob pop, corporate. It didn't matter. They were all trying to sling these phones.

So I remember hot dogs, three hot dogs for an hour with with the DJ table out right in front of the cell phone store, and of course they were giving away a free phone by the end of the broadcast and big sale that day on on service and you know you can trade your phone in or whatever. Do we spend hours and hours at those dumb stores, Yeah I did. I totally forgot about that, But that was a huge thing for radio, and the phone thing came around, and um, you know, the sports radio business model.

As far as covering sports, I've always been into gambling, but there is a fine line it's really like threatened a needle, because if you do too much gambling, it's a nightmare. Nobody wants to listen to it, so you really have to. And people tune in for the sports that that you know Dud's been on games I get I do we do this podcast. We have Benny Versus the Penny. But the way I've always approached it, even on Benny Versus the Penny, it's more about the matchup

and the you know, the mental part of it. When you some of these gambling shows and I have friends of mine to do these things, Danny, it's like you do a hard oh sports gambling show. To me, that's a heartless. To me, that's a tough list. So you got you gotta balance it. It is. There's those paid one phone number shows we've all heard on local radio stations screaming about do you like boats, because I'm gonna put a boat in the driveway? Yeah? Are you tired a bit a loser? Do you want your wife to

leave you alone? I'll get you a boat. You'll be listening to this on a boat. The first five picks are free, and their locks let me tell you their locks, And there for free the first five are free, call my number right now, operatives are standing by absolutely free. And then you call up, it's like twenty seven minutes

of commercials to buy their product. And then at the very end, by the way, I like the Chiefs minus two, you know, and then and then they call you back and they get your number, and it's a whole ship show. So that's crazy. That's how it used to be. Now it's an app in your phone and you can bet on whatever your heart desires, unless you're in a state like ours. Yeah, well another is it two more years?

We have to wait for one more year and then the Native American groups, the the Indian casinos will control the gambling market. I don't want to mess with those people. Man, they got they I'll tell you what they own the gambling market in California. They are all they beat big gambling. That's insane that they were able to push out these huge gambling companies all hailed at That tells you how much money those gambling operations, these casinos around California make

on Native American land. Uh. Next up on the mail bag we go to Drew, who says, Big Ben love the show. Keep up the arguing, Uh, yeah, we did a little back and Eddie annoys me sometimes and I have to sell at him. And then then usually what happens is Coop will then take eighties side and then Roberto will chime in, and so then I have to I have to talk these guys away. And he says it reminds me of Howard Stern, what he would do

with the stuttering John or Bob a booie. Uh. He enjoyed that play the Mona song Blair, he says, in Maine, reminds me of Jeff the drunk from the Howard Stern Show. He says, Mr Jed who fled cost you the game, Yes he did. Jed was completely inebriated the other night. Should stay off the drugs. Can't stand that, guy says. Anyway, cheers brother. And to the cry babies that can't handle the arguing, he says, they can go listen to Dan Patrick, he says, and then he says some rather unflattering things

about Dan, so I probably will leave those out. Um, but thank you Drew in southern California. I appreciate that great kind of you. It is a tremendous compliment because you didn't say, I sound like Howard Stern, now the woke Coward Stern. He said, I sound like the old Howard Stern, which, when you know he dominated. He was the king of all radio, king of all media in his day for real, And so that is a tremendous compliment.

Next up Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, so Ben and Danny g since since Ben went Benny the bulldozer in the studio, Mike says, he says, guys, have people at fs R started treating you better? Or something like? He's asking me and what would explain? Maybe that would explain. He says, why Steve Disager broke his mike so soon after? At least did you hear about that? No? I didn't

hear about that. Yeah. Yeah, So I had my mike issue where I tried to help out Jonas Knox by putting the mic back where it needed to be, and then somehow my superhuman strength like thor or he Man or whoever, I ripped the mic, ripped the mike off, Peppermint Patty ripped the mic off, and Steve Disager in the update studio the mike came tumbling off also, and Eddie came in on a Sunday night and the mic was like laying on the board in the update studio. So he says, Mike says, do either of you plan

to steal something from the studio? He's talking to me and you Danny to smash office space style before moving into the new one. Good question, what is gonna happen to our current studio? Are they gonna is it gonna be condemned, there's gonna be red tagged. They're gonna turn that part of the building back into a Denny's. Back into it Danny's. It would be great. Uh full circle, Ben, No, I heard that they're gonna leave it the way it is and use it as a backup production studio. Okay, yeah, No,

I like that. There's this big sign they put up on Fox Sports Radio launched this big It looks like the kind of sign you'd see at a gas station, you know, it's kind of plastic or Auto Zone. No, no, I don't want that. It used to be the Auto Zone studios. Yeah, that was they put a sign up and then auto Zone they were a sponsor for a

number of years early on and then they bailed. But they still feel like the American pickers would want that auto zone sign though, Oh yeah, they would totally love that. So it's a great sign. No, I want the big Fox sign that's above it. That's the one I would I want to rip that off the wall. Yeah, I think they're keeping that. They're they're keeping that, all right. If we could take anything we wanted, I would rip that. Casey Cason signed down. Oh that's now that that's worth

a million bucks. You know how many hours of rady millions and millions of people listen to Casey Cayson do the countdown? Yeah, right, staple with our grandparents and our parents. Oh man, and you do you remember his his famous catchphrase? Remember what he would say on about a star? Yes, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for

the star. I'm Casey case almost killed him, almost killed him famous a famous store in the hallways of Fox Sports Radio, and Mr Kayson was doing his countdown show. He's in a recording session. Some bad timing on that the case. Well that's his doctor worked there soon after. Yeah, she was working their lovely lady whatever. What's she doing that? Probably a podcast, right, Probably a podcast. Next up, Chris and Marrit Cocada, Iowa writes in on the mail bag.

He says, Ben and Danny g I highly recommend on the line starring Mel Gibson. For a minute, I thought it was based on on your overnight show it. I'll check this out. This is unflattering, so I thought it was flattering when I first saw this. To anybody, says an aging overnight talk show host who pisces off all his coworkers. He says, have you ever heard that on the line with Mel Gibson? Never heard of that? Let me hold on, I say, let me see here. How old do you think this is? Wait a minute, I

don't think it's at old. I'd want to say, how did we never hear about this? Um? It says it's a film? What they made a film about radio? And we didn't even know about it? What is? I feel like this is sane to me? Thriller. Well, this is probably why it got on Rotten Tomatoes pretty low. Then the Well, but it's about radio, you think we still would have heard about it. Let's see, it's on Prime video. I'm not paying five bucks for it free anywhere, So I mean, I'm thinking it was one of those movies

that went directly to one of those dreaming services. I see the trailer. I should we play the trailer. We're gonna get in trouble if we play that. I don't know know if we credit them? It's okay, all right, let me see if I can get this to work here? This is uh honestly, let me pause this. All right? So this is the trailer for a movie I've never heard of and and you, Danny have never heard of it. But christ and Merri Cocoa I alway says it's a on the Line starring Mel Gibson. We're a couple of

radio dudes, So why not here we go. Let's hit the button here and let's see see how this goes. What are the odds this actually works here? This is the official trailer. That's I'm gonna turned that. That's a commercial for a car company. But well I don't need to play that. Oh I can skip it. Here we go, all right, here, settle and relax. Give me a call. This is one you really we're expecting your calls. Talk to Elvis live on air and tell him about all

of your issues and problems driving rates radio host. Okay, we got Gary on the line. Let's say you Gary, there are you just really tonight? You at home? No? Does the home belong to someone you know? No, it belongs to somebody not very nice. And I'm I'm going to take out his whole family. I'm bringing Gary. Stop what you come on? Why I heard his family smell and get their innocent? You're better than Garry. Tell me

common where exactly are you? I'm at your house? Oh my god, Daddy, make sure and the worst night of your line, see your creatody, and I think you're gonna love it. The clock, there's clock with a countdown. It can still end will it's grabbing the bike. I don't want it to end well and change everything. We don't want to telling a baseball bag and I don't want you to show up. So how about you tell us

the truth? We're all listening. You know yourself? Joct slip Oh scary on the line, Provocative and edgy radio host must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and he's threatening to blow up the whole station. Wow, okay, uh that did kind of remind me though, of this guy that calls the overnight show from Minnesota. The guy's voice sounded and kind of like the man that cleans the bodies in Minnesota. There, I'm at your house. Wow, all right,

thank you Chris Man. He says. Did you did you find mel believable? He? He says, Uh, have you seen the show? No? I haven't. We just heard the trailer. Did you find mel believable as a radio guy? If you haven't seen it? Would you cast who you cast to play you? Um? I don't know. I mean, jeez, that's I don't know that I love radio, Dan, I don't know. I'm gonna watch that movie though, I don't know. Man, do you think that's worth a watch? It's free? He had kind of a Larry King vibe to him there

when he was trying to be on the air. Um, you know, I think I think John c Riley would do a good job playing you. Uh, screw you? All right? Who would play you? Daniel? Who Who would playing Tone Loco? What do we? What do we done? Look? Yeah, John c Riley and Tone Loke would be doing our See the thing about that movie, though, that's a dead giveaway.

HOWAI radio is better than a podcast? You kid? And I listen, I know that we're on a podcast now, But you can't have that kind of drama on a podcast because a podcast is typically recorded and all that. But like that's I mean, there are people to this day and and and a radio is an it's an interesting media. And people listen online a lot, not so much on traditional radio. But we still get people that scan the dial that call up at three in the morning that are like, hey, you want to talk and

I you know, it's it's like it's really wild. Um, but thank you for that. Chris from Parts Unknown rights in he says, guys, have you ever been selected for the Nielsen's I was this fall and made twenty five dollars off of them. As far as they know, I only consume the Ben Maller Show content, so technically it does pay to listen to the show. Well, thank you, Chris. I don't know that you're allowed to say that, but

I guess it's after the fact. Yeah, I mean afterwards, if a listener says something about it, we can't do anything about that. If a listener says something to us while they have what's called a diary, then we're supposed to immediately put our fingers into our ears or AirPod tips and say la la la la la la la. I can hear you la la la la. Yeah, that is we boting. You're not supposed to deal with people

like that, but thank you for that. You you have anything to do with ratings and radio, you're not allowed to talk to radio people about it. Yeah, that's not that's not something that's supposed to happen there for sure. Uh, let's see what else we have. We can't be selected to answer his question. Yes, yes, no, we work for a radio station. You can't do the ratings. Yeah, out

your wish. You would write Ben Mallard, Ben Mallard, Ben Maller, you would write Danny G, Danny G, Danny G. And uh, I remember back in the nineties, there was a guy that got caught like his family got a ratings diary and they filled it out and he got a lot of a lot of trouble, a lot of hiri in. Okay, see write since this dear Ben and Danny G. I write this with a heavy heart due to the fact that I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. So how do you guys remain fans of the Clippers and Raiders? He says

with utter disappointment, looming around the corner. Remember I'm a Cowboy fan, he says. I'm thirty two years old. I was born in so I witnessed their greatness, but have no memory as I was like five years old. I respect real die hard fans, same as Danny g I have my team's tattooed on me for life, just asking as a real heartbroken fan. That's from Kyrie and okay, see well, Kyrie, I feel your pain. Although as the Cowboys, it's a little different, Like the Clippers are never supposed

to win, what is still wrong with the Clippers? The Cowboys are always supposed to win, So it's a different situation between those two teams. But you have to go through as a fan. You have to go through the stages of of grief, right, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, all that stuff, and then you finally accept it and then you forget about it for a while, and then the next season comes around you're like, well, this is gonna be our year, al right, is gonna be our year?

And then that's how you do it when you haven't made the playoffs in a long time, or you went like the Raiders did and they were one and done. Against the Bengals. You're you're happy that your team's moving in the right direction. And unless you work for the team, unless you're a part owner of the team, you can't let it run your life. You can't let it ruin your life. So as passionate as we are about sports and our favorite teams, I think there's a certain maturity

and thick skin. Ben. Part of it is working for a sports radio network. I could have never did this in my early twenties. In my early twenties, if the Raiders lost on Sunday, I mourned for three days. I want to talk about it for three days. Now. I've learned in the past ten years how to talk about the losing while the losing is happening, because I've been in there on a Sunday while they're puking on TV and I'm part of the crew that's on the air. So you quickly have to learn how to deal with

it and and learn to laugh about it. And it's just part of life. Yeah, Like you know, as you said, you don't work for the team, and you know you you learn, like the Dodgers won the World Series, the Rams have won the Super Bowl, like you know, as great as that is and as happy as you are, like, it doesn't necessarily change your life. You still have the same things you had. You just you know, you're a little happier because your team won. But it's not like

you don't get a ring. You don't get the bonus when they didn't. It actually cost you money because you gotta go by this the Super Bowl champion had or the World Series championship or whatever. It's a good problem to have. But that's funny you say that, because what would be awesome? What if it was like this with sports? If we're die hard fans and we signed up, filled out some sort of application and we've had a proven

track record. When our team won the Super Bowl, not only did we go to the parade, but we got a year paid for our job and we just got a year off to celebrate. Oh yeah, now that would be that would be outstanding. You have that. That would crank things up a couple of notch is there. Can you imagine what that parade would be like with the

p Ones. Yeah, I'll be awesome. Tear that city apart. Uh. Next up, Genie writes in she says, why does Roberto say a hundred times, Okay, a hundred times, just to annoy. Eugenie Corey writes in from Minnesota and says, hey, guys, what are your top three fast food Mexican spots? Well, that's an important question. Uh. Let's see. I don't know Elpoil Loco, which I don't think is national. Uh. Yeah, I used to eat a lot when I did in the evening show at Baja Fresh. I think that's a

national chain. Isn't a Fresh national chain? I think so? You seet a lot of the taco back in the day. I don't know what are your go to Mexican chain fast food type places. Uh, definitely Elpoyo Loco and uh and then Taco Bell has always been a fan favorite to this day. I will go get a bean and cheese burrito with no onions, one crunchy taco boom. It's a small snack and a good one, and it's roughly four dollars in seventy cents. And how much was it

when you first started buying it? Uh? Dollar twenty nine for the burrito and probably a dollar for the taco. Yeah. I went from two fifty to four fifty. Yeah, wonderful. Uh No, Chipotle for you, you know, not not a big Chippotle person. I like it while I'm eating it, but I've always felt kind of weird after eating their food, like it sits in my stomach like a rock. When I did the Night Show back in my big eating days, we used to eat Baja Fresh at night. We'd have

the intern go out and get it. And those days you didn't have food delivery, so the intern had to give the intern the order. They go to the Baja Fresh, they'd order the food and all that, and this this one intern would always funk up my order. It was so annoying. Man. It was I like, no vegetables and they put extra vegetables. And I'm convinced he didn't just a mess with me. I pity the fool. It doesn't

give me my burrito. I'm convinced of it. Uh. Let's hear John and Colorado says, have you have you ever pre arranged for someone to call into you during a business meeting, a family function, or a first date so you could gracefully exit if needed? I think, didn't you talk about this something like this? I did? Yes? I uh oh man um, I would like to apologize to my wife he first, she probably won't download this anyways. So I had a girl over we um we danced all night. It was a fun night and then UM.

I get a call from another girl that was in the mix, and she was like, I need you over here right now. And because She's like, because I just want to dance, so get over here now. And I was like can I I don't. I wasn't sure if I had any dancing left in me. But what I did was I took a call from a friend who I texted, and I had him saying that, oh, you need to get down to the radio station right now. Uh. And I think I was at NBC Sports Network at the time, and I told the girl. I was like,

I gotta go. I got called into work and she heard me talking to my friend and my friend was conversing with me as if he was my boss, and I'm like, yes, I'll be right there, because it was real. It was a real conversation. It just wasn't my boss, man. She lab. I walked her to her car and gave her a hug and it was a nice goodbye, and then I ran upstairs, showered, got ready, and drove to the to the next dance partner. Um, yeah, that's the only time I've ever had to fake a shift. You're fired.

I don't my move. I don't recall doing that, like I probably did at some point, John, But I would be like, oh, like, you know, if something wasn't going right, which very usually it was them that we're trying to get out of it, you know me, But if it was me the rare occasion, I'd be like, oh, yeah, you know, I forgot I had to do work. I'm sorry, you know. Uh. Like I wouldn't even have I wouldn't even go to the level of having somebody say, hey, call me at this time. All right, we gotta get

out of here, Danny. Anything to promote Sunday. We've got championships Sunday, got two games today. We'll know who's going to be in the super Bowl by the time. By the time I get back on the Overnight Show tonight, we will have an idea, a great idea of whether we're gonna have a good super Bowl crappy super Bowl. We've got the final four of the NFL today and can't wait to watch it all day long and then yap about it all night. It's gonna be fun. It gonna be a great time to and you know, because

the penny is always right, it's gonna be a Philly Bengals. No, no, no, it's gonna be the forty Niners and they will play the Bengals, which is also a rematch of a long ago Super Bowl A right, forty Niners and Bengals back in the eighties, late eighties, standing pat with the Eagles. They were my pick before the season started, saw me personally, not penny related. I gotta stick with the Eagles to win it all. Are you gonna do it? Eat? G ll eat Eagles chant like that, eat Eat Eat. All right, yeah,

all right, thanks for this morning the podcast. We appreciate it and all that rigamaroor and all that nonsense. So I have a great rest of your day today. Thank you. Tell a friend, Tell a friend, and if you got older parents or grandparents or cousins and uncles and they're not really that tech savvy, just you know, grab their phone. So you want to help him out, give him a podcast, Subscribe to the podcast, have it automatically download, and maybe

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If you're helping them out, maybe they would like to show. You don't know that they're not gonna like the show. You know, just because they haven't watched the sporting events since the sixties does not mean they're not gonna like the show. Maybe maybe they'll be into it. You know, it's not We're not really doing a sport oh show here anyway. I was just gonna say, yeah, we're not sitting here breaking down games. Aside from the Penny, all the other podcasts are mostly about life exactly, and life

is for the living, and we'll catch you neck. So I'm gonna go live our lives right now. Have a great rest of your day. We'll talk to you next time. Let's go Eagles, Yeah, Eagles, forty Niners forty niners later, skater Eagles Gotta murder, Gotta go