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In the A Everyway A Happy Sundays Sundays Sunday to you the twelfth day of November. It's in NFL Sunday. We have football action all day long. A chance for me to smash the penny as we have another early game today, Danny six thirty our time, nine to thirty in the east. Who's not for this game? Colts Patriots.
I'm surprised you didn't get credentials and fly to Frankfurt.
Oh, let me tell you Frankfurt. That's the place to be, right there, Colts and Patriots. Why are they playing this game, Danny g.
Because it's on the schedule.
That's why they're playing the game right there. And what we're punishing the people of Germany by putting this game there but there are some games I'm looking forward to. I'm planning on attending. If you're listening to this podcast early, I should be at the Lions Chargers game. That's the plan. See the MotorCity kiddies. And if you're out there, let me know. Maybe I can stop by and say, look, but I'm looking for it. I'm just gonna watch that game.
But tonight, the Sunday night game, I know you'll be into it, Danny, not so much on my end, but yeah, your Raiders another opportunity to win a game that's a winnable game for the Raiders.
Yeah, you and I both picked it right last weekend with Antonio Pierce's debut.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned for the Raiders in the sense that they they celebrated quite a bit after the win. So I'm a little worry there might be a letdown against the Jets because they're the Jets. So we'll see if that's the case. And the early television window, there's two games that are going on that I'll be flipping back and forth to on my laptop when I'm at Sofi Stadium. That is the Browns and the Ravens and the forty nine Ers and Jaguars. Those are the two
games my rams aren't playing. First, you could say they didn't play last week against the Green Bay Packers. But this is a tough week for the NFL because if you look at who's on the bye week, three of the teams that have gotten the most attention in the NFL not playing. Kansas City. They're the reigning champions, the Eagles the runner up, and the Miami Dolphins. They're all off this weekend, so none of them are playing.
And time for the second tier teams to step their game up.
Good look on that. But right now, well this is just for your taste buds. We ask our friend Ohiol to strike up the band because it is that time of the day. It's thank you, ohio al first email. We had a lot this week. Good job by the content creators feeding the content machine. John in Northern Colorado rites and he says in a two part question, does coke taste better out of those old school glass bottles and his pastry better out of a box tied shut
with twine? Yeah? So I don't drink soda anymore. But my father, may he rest in peace. One of his treats in life was. He called it Mexican coke racist? How dare you the coke that was made in Mexico because it had real sugar? I know you're having that pure cane sugar. Yeah, the pure cane sugar. My dad, he didn't spend a lot of money. He was pretty frugal like me, but he would splurge on a coke with the real sugar in it and just said it was just amazing and great and all that. So why
did they make it for Mexico but not here? What is up with that? I don't know. You know what pastry tastes great in a pink box? It has it just can't be a box, right, It's got to be a pink box.
That's weird. Why is that?
I actually know the answer to that, Danny, But now do you believe that? Do the coke?
Did you agree? Right?
We all agree on that?
Oh? Yeah, yeah one.
I mean I don't drink soda anymore either, but if I had my choice, yeah, yeah.
And the twine, I don't know about the twine. I mean it's a nice touch, the twine thing, right, but I don't know.
Not necessary.
Yeah, So pastry, if you if you get and donuts are always pink boxes for donuts. It's always the pink box, right, always the pink box. And so what's up with that? Right? Why the pink cardboard box? What is this all about? What is the the history of it? Uh So it is interesting to note if you go way, way, way way away back right, the the pink donut box. It's just kind of been grandfathered in too. It's what is expected. It's kind you know what it is. It's kind of
like I we we did a study. We read a study. I didn't do it. I just happened to read it that people buy ice cream if the if it's round and not square. Have you have you heard that? No?
I never heard that.
That they sell more ice cream, more ichame is sold in round containers as opposed to square retainers, containers retainers.
But your childhood the pink box thing.
I don't know if this is the most famous donor shop, but Voodoo Donuts in Portland, I know they're very trendy with the hipsters.
But yeah, I went there with Brian.
No, did you enjoy your Voodoo Donuts? Was it game changing?
It was okay a little overhyped?
Yeah, all right, Well, the good news Danny is. According to a story years ago, the pink box actually started in southern California. The origin of the pink boxes in Southern California the epicenter of the donut world, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Light Bo Suction, Don't Be Fat, six eighty donut shops. That's more than New York City and Chicago.
Damn yeah.
It is the donut capital of Southern California. And the pink boxes started in Southern California. They were because of Cambodian refugee. Remember that. Did you see the documentary a year or two ago about the donort I think it was called Donut King or something like that.
I didn't see that.
No, that's pretty good. And so this guy refugee came over and uh, you know, they got into the donut shop game. And this is in the mid seventies, so I guess before the mid seventies didn't do it. Uh, and is a donut Donut boxes were supplied by a paper company called Westcoat, which is still around. And so this is great, this is such a this is like something I would do. So this guy, this Cambodian refugee, guy Ted boy, I believe is the nng O Y anyway, what have you say?
This?
But it's not important. So this guy's trying to save a couple bucks, Danny, and he's like, hey, wait a minute, I can save some money. The pink boxes cost twenty dollars, the white boxes cost twenty five for two hundred, so he was saving five dollars every time he bought two hundred boxes. And he's like, they became very popular his donut shops and that spread all over the country. Isn't that crazy?
No wonder you knew this story?
Yeah, oh, you know. I love stupid crap like that. That's my thing. Kevin in Kansas, right since, says dear Ben and Danny g. Recently, I was cleaning out a box of stuff and I found some newspaper clippings from the nineteen seventy seven World Series where Reggie Jackson hit three home runs on three consecutive pitches. Sorry, that was against your Dodger, he says. Guys, when you were younger, did you ever cut out things from the newspaper? It is rare today with the internet, but it was fun
for memories and school products. Yes, we all had to do. Do they still have to do. You're you're in the education game, do you still have to do those collages where you cut things out and put them on a like a board.
Did you know they do that stuff on their computers? Now, okay, we had to do that though. Each get a computer at the laptop at the beginning of the school year, and so it's all digital now.
Yeah, man, you should go old school though, like, all right, here's I'm gonna give you scissors and some Elmer's glue and a couple of old magazines.
They'd look at you and they'd be like, what are these?
What is a magazine? What's a periodical? Why are you giving me that?
What's what the and here's an encyclopedia for your little ass?
Are you a loser? But yes, Kevin, I don't know how you are. Maybe you're around our age, maybe not. But anyone who's over what do you say, the age of twenty thirty? Yeah, thirty. Anybody over the age of thirty has had that life experience. I used to collect everything. I was like, oh, this is great. Yeah, you know you don't need to. Everything is temporary and on the internet, it all vanishes when you vanished it next Tommy writes
in the Bengal Reds Fan He's in Maryland. He says, salutations Big Ben and Danny G. First time writer, longtime listener.
I love it.
Yeah, I like that, he says, as I am a member of the dreaded day Shift, your show in podcast form and the Fifth Hour podcast roll with me to and from work every day. God bless you your morning drive, afternoon drive. He says. I commute from southern Maryland into Washington, DC and back. So when you Danny and the Bennettes speak of the LA traffic, the La La Land traffic, I can relate. That's the DMV, right, That's how they call that area, the DMV, the DC Maryland Virginia area.
I did a DMV anyway, says question. What's you and Danny G's record for the longest commute time minus minus? He says, three hours. Keep up the Marconi worthy radio blather. Much love to you and the guys. Well, thank you, Tommy, I appreciate. I wonder what Tommy does?
You think?
He's a big political mucket. He mucky you think he works at some political office there in DC.
I don't know a good question.
I'm trying to think the longest commute I didn't.
Have to be a commute, or maybe just a situation when we were in traffic, because it's still bad now, but I remember it being even worse trying to get to San Diego and there. Oh, there was a time where I missed a concert because we literally were in traffic for five hours.
Yeah, I had an experience. It wasn't driving to work. I usually don't have much traffic driving to work because of the time I work. You have tons of traffic when you worked Dandy, but I don't have that much. But the most I've spent on traffic recently was going to Vegas on a Friday from La two accidents got stopped for it took eight hours a trip that should take about four and a half took eight hours to get to Vegas.
Oh, that is crap.
Stopped out in past just past Baker, the Mad Greek restaurant and that UFO Jerky place out in the desert there. We were stopped. A few miles past that. There was a major accident closed the whole fricking highway and we were just stopped. People were getting out of their cars, walking around, urinating, screaming, smoking, weed, having party, plasting, blasting music, having a grand time.
When I finish up Covino in Riches's post production, I don't know whether to celebrate because my workday is over or cry because I'm about to sit on the one oh one freeway at six thirty seven ish pm. And you know, Ben, that's one of the worst times to be on our freeways here.
No, it's a nightmare.
It's the second horrible wave of people going home to go eighteen miles. What do you think it averages? For me?
It was like forty minutes or something there.
It's about an hour for eighteen miles.
Yeah, and there's no you can use all the apps, there's no way around.
No, no your shot because you could go to the side and take Ventura Boulevard, but that's log jammed at that time as well, so you're screwed either way.
There's only two routes.
Yeah, I have experienced that. Every Thursday. We tape Benny Versus De Penny on Thursday, and I've talked about this a little bit in the past, but if you haven't listened, that's fine. So I've told how we have a window to record the show, the TV show and it could be as long as like four or five hours. The only time it's ever been that long was the first week that we did it because we didn't know what we were doing. But ever since then, it's gotten shorter
and shorter. And so I have the same thing that you have, Danny. If we record the show really quick the TV show, that's great, everyone's happy and they're celebrating. But then I just get to spend an extra half hour in traffic. So it's like, it's a catch twenty two situation.
You're creating a Frankenstein.
You're damned if you do. You're damned if you don't. Al from the base of Lady Liberty. He says, Ben, are you concerned at all with the recent exodus at the Mothership that Eddie the Exposer may decide to leave Fox Sports Trader to become a professional photographer. And then there's a question for you, Danny, But I'll answer this first. So did you see the photo that Eddie sent out of the Statue of Liberty? Have you seen that?
I have seen that.
Yeah, it's uh, it's one of the all time greats. There were there were two in particular. Did you see the two that I'm I'm referencing. Are you aware of that?
No, I only saw one photo.
Hey, let me let me hold on a sec let me go to my archive. Here, we have some music we can play. Well, I'll find it all time photos and Alf's not wrong when you see these photos, the artistic ability of Eddie Garcia. I am relatively confident, uh that we're gonna lose Eddie. That you know, the New York Times is going to hire Eddie is one of their photographers. That this is this is gonna happen, and he's gonna it is one of the most amazing folks. Now, there's two which do you want to see? The one
of just the statue of Liberty? You want to see the one of Eddie and the statue of Liberty? Which one? I'll send them both, But which one do you want to see? First?
Eddie with the statue?
All right now, this is probably the top one. Okay, I want you to look. I'm going to send this to you right now. I want you to focus in on Eddie and then look at the contrast with the statue of Liberty. Okay, I want you to look at this. Click send right here, I have click send Danny's about to get the photo on his iPhone and just give me your natural reactions. One of the great photos I've
ever seen from Eddie really just captured the moment. Lady Liberty, great piece of American history and a monument to the world.
Waiting for alien technology to work. Here here it comes all right, uh, what what.
The fuck is that? What?
The other one now too? So I want you to get this is This is.
The top of it. It's the top of his head in the bottom of her feet.
Yeah, and and the thing she's standing on. It's so good. It's so great.
Oh.
And the other one's just as good.
The other one is just by accident.
I don't know what he did. He did, I guess he doesn't know how to use He must, you know what he must do. He must post stuff to Instagram and Facebook at the same time. But you have to use like different the photos. You have to be in a certain box on Instagram that maybe you can't be on on Facebook or vice versa. That must be what he did. But that's hilarious.
And now the second one you sent me is a picture of the Lady of Liberty's knees.
Yeah, yeah, it's a. It's really a nice photo. People do not a pre she the statue of Liberty's knees, Lady Liberty, They really don't.
I mean they're covered. I can't see them, but that's about where the photo points at.
Maybe Eddie's into that he likes the knees, you know, he likes the statue's knees. How about shut up now? Alf also says, Hey, Danny, what the hell are those fuzzy dice at for the FSR students? Yeah, I want to thank Covino and Rich Danny, because I needed a photo for the mail bag, and Covino and Rich I was told this was theirs. They left some giant fuzzy dice in the studio and so I was able to get a photo.
Those actually belong to me.
Oh is that right?
I brought those in a little over a year ago because on Wednesdays we do a feature called mid Week Major where Spot reads sports stories and pop culture news, and those guys get to judge whether it's a mid story week or it's major. Before we start the game, I have them roll the dice to see who gets to answer.
The questions first that week.
Okay, then so they roll and Rich gets a five and Covino gets a ten, so he gets to answer first, and Rich kind of gets the sloppy seconds he gets to say his take second. So because of that, I was like, man, you know, I don't want to flip a coin. That's no, that's old.
Who would do that?
That's all idea? My god, that's taken so and licensed. Apparently, I guess.
So I had these big red dice in my garage. I used those with a kindergarten class back in the day, playing a game, teaching them how teaching them how to gamble. Basically, I brought them in and those guys joked that they were my love dice for me and my girl. So every week you'll hear them say, all right, we're gonna start with Danny's red love dice, and they ask why they're so sticky?
Now usually been Wednesday.
Where do you get those? By the way, where did you find them?
I don't even remember, to be honest with you, I've had them for decades. The very first time I stepped onto a school campus, I remember using those with the younger kids. I don't even remember where I got them, but yeah, it's something that I had in my storage unit that I've held on to for a long time, and Spot is supposed to put them back where they go when our show is over on Wednesdays.
Apparently he did not do his job.
No, they were sitting now. I sit on the side near the door. They were on the other side, but they were just like laying out and I was like, what are these? I was like, this is crazy.
It's a good prop man. It reminds me of something that what's his face? In Las Vegas would have carrot top, carrott Top.
Yeah, yeah, that guy, what's his face? He's got quite the face now carrot top too.
A lot of work done.
Yeah all right, Berry from South Carolina formerly from nash Vegas as yo yo, mab Benny. I don't think you have been asked this, So here it go. Guys. Can you rank these desserts in order of preference? Cookies, cake pie ice cream, cookies cake pie ice cream. So this is an interesting big boy. This is the Mount Rushmore and we don't do Mount Rushmore's. But I don't do the list. This is more of a big board. This is not not a list. So cookies cake pie ice cream.
If the frosting on the cake is great. I would go cake, but my that's not my My answer is gonna go cookies. I'm gonna go cookies first. Here's why. The cookie is the everything. You could have a cake like cookie. You could have you could have a chocolate chip, you could have the oatmeal, the sugar cookie, the snicker. There's so many different cookies you can have. The pie is limited, so the pie is lowered down on the list because really we really only eat a couple of pies.
You got the apple, the pumpkin. Some people are into more exotic pies. There's the the uh, the key lime pie, which some people like. They like that the there's a few us, but there's only a few. The cookie is the most dimensional. So I have cookie at number one. I'm gonna put it's where it gets tough because ice cream on a hot day, ice cream. I'm gonna ice cream number two because it goes the same with the cookie, same concept. Plus you can combine cookie and ice cream.
So I go cookies one, ice cream, two cake, three pie. Last pie is last.
Oh you are crazy.
Now I'm gonna take what you say is last and put that first on my big board. Because pie was made to go with ice all of mode. Baby, When you get really good peach cobbler ben that's made from scratch with quality ingredients, and then you get a big scoop of French vanilla ice cream next to it, and it melts all on it, there is nothing better than that.
All right, that's the worst take you've had all weekend, Danny. And let me tell you why it's the worst take, all right. The greatest dessert of all time proven is too soft, baked, fully thick chocolate chip cookies, too rich in the middle, giant scoop of vanilla ice cream. The ice cream cookie sandwich dessert is the single greatest dessert. Row pie and ice cream. That's cookies and ice cream is what that is.
It's too rich.
That's what you got that dizzy spell that you were talking about yesterday.
I'm about to drop the microphone on you because of that take. I'm about to drop the microphone on you. And I did have when I was in Vegas a few weeks ago, I went to the Garadelli and I had the single greatest dessert, the ice cream cookie Sunday thing they have at Giriedelli, which is just all that.
And now that is good. That one deserves to be up there at the top.
Yeah, that's my If I could just have one dessert, that would be the dessert.
I won't argue with you on that one. Of course, my grandfather came up with that recipe.
It comes back to the old country, right, the Giadelli family when they moved to the States, the g family, Right, that was how they came up with. Next up, we have Well, let's see here, Big Lou, he's on number two. What can he do for you? Biglu from the LBC rights in so Kelly says ask Danny g ask Ben if Doc Brown rolled up to the Fox Sports radio studios in the DeLorean and flipped you the keys, says, you got one trip to go back in time to
make a life changing investment. What would you invest in? Yeah, so it's a great, great question. You might think I'd go back in time. When I had that dinner at the Mexican restaurant, I was eating chips and salsa, and one of my relatives was trying to convince me to buy bitcoin when it was worth nothing, and I said, that's a scam. Why would I do that? Uh? And then it went off to the Moon. Even though it's gone back a little bit, it's still much higher than
I would have paid. I would say, though, if you could go back and buy Amazon Stock or apple Stock when it was just just starting out and nobody thought it was going to make it, oh, you'd be yeah, or or go how about this, go back and buy real estate in Los Angeles, you know, and they you know, they ate like doctor Jerry busted exactly exactly. Yeah, And it's like the San Fernando Valley where we do the show from, like it was just farming. There was nothing there,
like nobody. There were no houses. Now it's like you know, obvious, it's been years, but you could have bought land there for nobody wanted to live there, and now look it.
You know, I wouldn't want to deal with people with the real estate and all that because I think most of those people are greedy bastards. In that industry, a lot of it is red tape and paperwork and hours and hours of crap like that. So to make it easier to get your money, I would go back and get Macintosh and apple Stock.
Yeah, yeah, I got to do that.
And I think about it my elementary school when we moved up to the Bay Area. Was one of the first to have a computer lab and this huge it used to be their library. This is how gangster that school was in the Silicon Valley Bend. They moved all the books and bookcases out of the way and they put rows and rows of Macintosh computers in the library. Is that why they had a book burning party? And
they're like, we're going all digital babies. So I was a little kid on Macintosh and we had computer club every day.
Like the teacher would be like, all right, we're going to computer club.
And it was just a normal part of our day and there was nothing else like that going on in the rest of the country.
That's pretty cool. Like when I started with computers, we're around the same age. I remember. They were like the Oregon Trail game that we would play. There was like an educational game. They had all these really terrible games that we would get to play. They were supposed to teach us like math and geography. I learned geography from baseball. I knew where every minor league affiliate of every Major
League baseball team was. I was such a nerd, and that that's how I learned certain cities why I wanted to visit certain cities because of sports and all that. So yeah, I think going back and getting Apple or Amazon or something like that. I mean, you're Tesla stock right now is big, but Apple and Amazon than last forever. At one point when I was a kid, the most expensive stock I think was like Kodak and Coca Cola and IBM or the Big Boy or you.
You could have cashed in on bitcoin as well.
I don't know what you're talking about, Danny. I think we'll move on. Uh. Next next to the mailbag MIKEY or Mickey Mickey F. Mickey F Central Texas Rights and thank you Mickey F for listening. He says, is there an ideal height for a man and woman? And Mickey F says that his parents, his folks thought it was six feet for a man in five foot seven for a woman. Yeah. I know, some some women get really uncomfortable.
They don't want to be too tall, right because you get looked at as like an Amazon, and the people look down on you like you see other women look down on you.
Women always will sell themselves short on purpose, you know, say either too inches shorter than they really are.
Yeah, men will go the other direction, exactly exactly.
You want to be like maybe six ' one, I have no ight.
Well, one of those dating shows on TV, it was like the chick who hooked up millionaires with dates aname of that show.
Have you ever seen that?
Where Oh she was like a matchmaker to millionaires and she would always say, I.
Don't care about the height.
I care about your body, and if you take care of it, you need to be in good shape. So no matter what height you are, you need to be proportioned.
Gotcha, Yeah, fair enough.
Look at most actors in Hollywood. They're not that tall, but there most of them in good shape.
The camera makes them tall.
The cam exactly, George.
And you've all the Texas rights and says, if you could not have turkey for Thanksgiving, would you preferred duck or a great cut of beef? So, George, we actually don't usually have since my mom passed away, and we're like hosting Thanksgiving at the Malor mansion and I don't know how. I don't cook turkey, so we don't usually have turkey. I haven't had turkey for Thanksgiving in years. Usually what I do is I make something on the griddle that I can make a lot of that doesn't
take that long. So I make fahidas, I'll make a lot of fihetas. I'll make cheese, steak, burgers, hot dogs, stuff that doesn't take all that long to make that I can make a lot of because we have family over and stuff like that. So I don't have a problem with turkey. I ate a lot of it when I was a kid, so that's a bit of an issue. But good cut of beef would be great. I'm not really a duck guy. You can blame my love of Donald What about you, Danny.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of duck either. I would rather have a couple of thin slices of honey baked tam. That's I love that taste with mashed potatoes and gravy. But anything with honey is You're not wrong. I think Lee Wright's in. He says, when you are having Coop Justin uh Lee in Phoenix? I Lee my great supporters over the years Lee and his He's got his whole family involved. Alee says, when are you having Coop Justin Cooper on your podcast or Eddie so we can know them better?
How do you not know them? They've been on the show for years, but no, I've not We've not had those guys on. We've had you know, I've had a bunch of people and we don't really have done guests in a while though we haven't had. Well, last week, I guess we did, so I guess that's a lie. We just did one last week from the from the Track.
But outside of that, do know for a fact that there is a major play by play announcer that calls some of the biggest events in American sports that wants to come on this podcast day.
So yeah, you know, I've been a Vin Scully fan for years.
Yeah, Vin's gonna be on there. It's gonna be awesome, and I can't wait. I cannot wait. It's gonna be I don't know how he's gonna do it, Danny, but it's gonna be really entertaining.
Finally we get the Big Fish.
And that'll set a record for downloads. That'll and then the week after we're gonna have Keith Jackson on it. That's gonna be Big oh Nell from the Arroyo Seco as a humdigger it'll be. And then the one for me, Howard Cosell, speaking of sport he's gonna He's never done a podcasting, you know, Coselle never did a podcast.
Not one podcast, not even Joe Rogan.
Yeah, first podcast interview ever for Howard Kosell. It'll be right here. It'll be a made Marcus right saying says, you guys talked about radio drops last week. The Jeff Garcia and Allen Iverson infamous practice interview made me laugh and think about the Mike Gundy. Oh man, I'm forty. Do either of you have a favorite pissed off coach post game moment? Thanks for the great show, Marcus. Well, yeah, listen, I love these. We've got an entire show about this before. Yeah,
every April. It actually happened. My birthday is April twenty ninth. It happened on my birthday. You know what that is serendipity And I didn't realize it at the time because I was a little kid. But Lee ilya Marcus. If you want to laugh your ass off, find the Lee Ilia clip. It still bounces around the internet. Lee Ilia manager the Chicago Cub's early eighties. Cubs got off to a terrible start. It was like twenty games into the season,
They're playing the Dodgers at Wrigley Field. They lose. In those days, the Cub players had to walk to the clubhouse, which was in center field, so they had to walk, as I remember the story, they had to walk across the field and some of the fans were like throwing trash at the players for the Cubs, and Lee Ilia trying to defend the honor of the Cubs, absolutely went
nuclear on top of the Chicago Cub fans. And the line, which is the signature line of that eighty five percent of the world's f and work the other fifteen play the other fifteen come out here. It's a playground for the blank blanks. Go ahead and get a job. How about your heard a.
Living number one rule, You don't go after the fans.
That is the cardinal sin if you work in sports, you're never supposed to go. You can go off the media, you can go after your coach.
Not after your customers.
Can't do it. Cannot do it. Now these days, the younger generations have kind of gone into that a little more, but still it's taboo. Still taboo.
Yeah.
By the way, the one rant that comes to mind for me is Tommy Lesorda, And you know which one I'm talking about.
Kurt Bravoqua one. Yeah, I laughed my ass off at that.
It was we weren't we never supposed to hear that?
Yes, well actually, uh well, well yeah that was a hit, Mike. I heard from the late Joe McDonald that that the greatest of Thesorta's rants were actually never recorded, that the ones we've heard just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg, that there's so much more, but the Kurt Bovoca one. I highly recommend it. The Kingman one's great. I think the only problem with the Kingdom one is
I've heard it too much. It's kind of like when you listen to top forty radio and you hear a song over and over again, and the line, the signature line from Lesorta Bravoqua he had called the sorta a fat little Italians? What do you call him? And the of course the media they went to Tommy and they said, hey, Tommy, Uh, Kurpavakua called you, you know, a fat little Italian that just set Lasorda off. Uh and and he he went
on and on and on and on. He couldn't uh, he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a fucking boat. Uh i'd i'd, you know, get a limo for the for the m effort, you know, pick him up from the airport, make sure he was on time. Yeah, it was so funny, so good. Oh my god, that was that was an all timer. That's that. Yeah, it
came in. One is great too, just because it's so ridiculous. Anyway, Next up, Mike and Fulton says, Gobble gobble, big Ben and Danny g Have you guys been keeping up with the Uh oh this is He didn't want me to read this one, he says, dated, So I'll skip that one. Chris and Marri cocaa IOWA says two questions. He says, uh, we'll do this one. Which is the catchier earworm jingle? J G Wentworth eight seven seven cash Now or BK Have it your way?
J G Wentworth?
That BK is pretty catchy because every time it comes on, my girl will sing it. If a kid is in the living room, they'll sing it and we always say the same thing afterwards.
Too bad their food sucks.
All of those three, I would go bek, but not on your list. Chris and I don't know if this airs in Iowa and Merrick Cocoa, Iowa. But that cars for Kids jingle that, Oh my god, Danny, that is so such an earworm.
Yeah, don't do a lost cat magnet.
Oh well, that's one of the most famous commercials. Don't do a lost Cat magnet. Not quite as good though. It's the cougars are coming, The cougars are coming. Yeah.
Now, long, long time Fox Sports Radio network listeners will smile when they hear this. If you listen on the app to the live shows, like I'll tune into you sometimes and promos will come on for other shows or yours. Yeah, they'll be a minute long, two minutes long. That didn't used to be there back in the day. It used to be public service announcements. It was all those cars for kids and any kind of charity thing you can think of or remember. That's what used to play on our network to fill time.
Yeah, And what usually happens inside radio how we make the hot dogs is when the promos are playing, the local affiliates play commercials. You're not supposed to hear the promos. They cover it up, so we just it's just filler.
It's spam, right, So say I'm an affiliate, and I only sold two of the five commercials. Then three of them would be public service announcements. Now they're promos though, that advertise the other shows on the network.
Yeah, which which is cool. It's great. So if you're on hold, you're forced to listen to a promo for Covino and rich on the Ben Moler Show, or you'll hear a promo from my show with Covino and Rich or Coward.
I hear your two minute one. Sometimes they seem like ten minutes long.
It's like the Iowa Minute, the greatest thirty six minutes in radio, the Iowa Minute. It's like living in Iowa. Time slows down, just slosed. I'm kid, kid because I care. Fred. That's what Chris Meyers told me. Fred in Spring Texas Rights in trying to pick up the Pace series says, you mentioned last week's show that you are partly of Polish extraction. Have either of you or Danny submitted your DNA to any of those services that send you a report of your lineage or is your knowledge derived from
family lore? Yeah, so I'll go first. Yeah, my wife submitted the DNA a few years ago, and I found out that I'm my bloodline is pretty much all from actually the area where the Ukraine is. I'm in that area which used to be Russia, and I guess maybe Russia again. I don't know, not if Jay Scoop has his way to stop that madness from happening. Have you ever done that? Dan, You ever messed around with that and find out? You find out how far your family's strayed around the world. You know that fun.
I personally haven't, but my older brother did. What is it twenty three in me?
Yeah?
That and there's another one.
Yeah, and it came back mostly Sicily, Spain and Portugal.
Oh that's cool.
Yeah, Like those are our three countries of origin.
That's where it all began, the g Empire. Now you're the king of desserts in the Bay Area of Chocolate. So who knew the microphone throttler Joe and Darcy riding from Floresta's What is your worst or most disappointing celebrity encounter you've had in your career. I'm trying to think what was the worst. I mean, there's been some real people, the people that were portrayed one way in public and then you meet them and they're complete they're complete schmucks
and a holes and all that. I don't know, is there one I guess I could go. The easy one would be Captain Kirk, But I guess people already knew he was a dick, right, But Captain Kirk would be would be on that list that was more of a social media thing. There have been some athletes that I really really despised. Anybody for you that you met a lot of music people back in the.
Day, Yeah, Mary J.
Blige, she was pretty rude, and you know, you always hear, oh, maybe they were just having a bad day. But then she was pretty mean the second time that I met her as well, when I was programming hip hop and R and B radio stations.
So yeah, I don't know.
Maybe she's in a better place in her life right now, but back then she was mean spirited, at least in the circle we were running in with her record company.
I don't know. I yeah, And that's one of the reasons, Ben, I didn't want to meet a lot.
Of athletes, to be honest, because as a kid, you think they're all great guys or girls, and when you start working in this business and you meet some of them, and it's not what you think, and so it kind of ruins the the allure, and yeah, yeah it is.
I really became jaded when I was a radio stringer covering baseball and just total ad like Barry Bonds just a total schmuck. Roger Clemens was a jerk. I mean they just a lot of those guys just treated people like shit.
Yeah, it was.
Terrible and this is a horrible experience. And this is a dated reference. But I think Joe and Darcy will get it. I think they'll get it that. When I was a kid, there was a certain comedian named Don Rickles. I didn't even know who the guy was, right, famous, he's dead, but famous. And my Mom's like, you got to go up to Don Rickles, say hello to him, you know, he's famous. I was all right. He was on with Johnny Carson, which like a big deal tonight.
So I went up to him and he told the story before me, like you know, he's like, get away from me. He made like a fat joke at me, and I was like a little kid, was like, what a dick.
But I guess that was just it's a badge of honor now.
Well yeah, yeah, at the time, though, I was like, why would my mom want me to say hello to that guy? I mean it didn't mean anyway. The last one Nick in Wisconscious has been in Danny g. It's been a while, but I still listen every week now. Nick's the guy that was part of the Acts throwing escapade there. Ah okay, he says, Wednesday night, I had a chance. I had to change right. I had to Chad to change a headlight bulb in my wife's vehicle. A pain in the ass. Do either of you replace
your own bulbs in your vehicles? If so, do you have similar experiences? Thanks? Yeah, so the new cars, not that I have that new a car, but it's it's almost impossible. You watch a YouTube video and it looks like, oh, it'll be done in ninety seconds, and then you start taking stuff apart and you lose a screw or two, and you're like, oh, you know what am I gonna do? Yeah, there's a little hack, Danny that will probably work with
your wife. It works with my wife. Go down to have her go by herself to Pep Boys to buy the light and then they'll sometimes they'll just install it. Four don't have to worry about it for free.
Well, what I was going to say, as a guy, the hack is go online, find the part for cheap, and then bring that to Pep Boys and say how much for your labor?
Oh yeah, that's another way to do it. Yeah, but I don't know. I don't know anything about that. I know how to change a tire, but I've been told that's not safe on the side of the road. I remember San Diego. I had a flat I was working at six ninety the station. It doesn't exist anymore, but it was in San Diego. Had a flat tire on the eight and I changed the tire and my mom would yelled it, what are you doing? We have the auto club. Why would you do it?
The reason they need the cones and the flares and they're flashing lights because so many distracted drivers are on the road that you'll get hit by a car.
Yeah, for sure. No, I get it now, I get it. So I just call a toad truck and do your thing. It's Sunday. I got the TV show still on until the game's well actually after the games kick off, because's got aired eleven thirty in New York, So depending on when you're listening at eleven thirty this morning, Benny versus the Penny. I'll be back tonight. I will be I should be at the Charger Lions game. So if you're in LA and want to say hello, let me know and hopefully I'll be able to see you.
Let's go Lions. Yeah, lose.
I'm pulling for the Lions too. I'm into the whole Lion thing. But I'll be out there and then I'll watch the Raider game and Dany'll be doing that. I'll be on the radio tonight. I'll be back barking into microphones.
Well, that's why I need the Chargers to lose, because they're tied with the Raiders right now with four wins. Hopefully the Antonio Pierce experience stays good and they can beat the Jets and day arrest with NFL Football Ben. After producing this podcast Sunday morning and then Sunday night, you're back on the air, and that means Monday afternoon, I'm back with Covino and Rich for a fun Monday afternoon slash evening two to four pm on the West Side, and that's five to seven pm in New Jersey.
Beautiful New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey.
One of the homes of Cranberry's, or.
You could go to Liberty. No, not Liberty, what is it. It's a woman's name, where the airport is, where the Newark here.
Yeah, yeah, I helped you with this before.
Elizabeth Elizabeth, Yes, Elizabeth, New Jersey where it's just beautiful, picturesque chamber of commerce down Anyway, having wonderful will rest your Sunday, and thank you for downloading this.
We'll catch you next time.
Austa pasta, got a murder. I gotta go.
Hello, Joe, Hi, I like the Saints.