The Fifth Hour: "Roll Russell to His Left" Mail Bag

Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. And it's all about the mail Danny, It's all about what a fantastic weekend so far. We start with a penny and then we had a top five guests in George Nori, who, by the way, Ben is the very first guest that I've had asked me for questions in advance because he's so old school. He's like you, he'll prepare an interview even you gotta admire that. Yeah, I love George. It was great to talk to him. It was It was really surreal because I'm a fan and I've I've run

into him. We don't really know each other. I've run into him a few times over the years at the Premier Networks building, but his show starts before mine and my show ends after his, and so we don't normally run into each other. I actually end up parking near George's car quite a bit in the in the lot, and so I I see more of his car than I see of him. But a few times we've run into each other. I've done shows from across from the

Coast to Coast studio. In fact, when Fox Sports Radio started years ago, the studio, the original studio we had, which was a temporary studio, was right across the hall from uh we had Jim Rome on one side and Coast to Coast was on the other, and so back back then Art Bell hosted Coast to Coast, but George took over shortly after, and it was it was really cool to talk to him. It's like it felt like I was talking to the radio and the radio was talking back to me. That was That was pretty neat.

And it's interesting because me and the other employees at FSR, we know when you parked next to Nori because it looks like a Bentley dealership. Uh no, no, no, it's what doesn't belong here? It's uh, there's a nice car and then uh, both do it overnights. But one well one thing stands out like a sore thumb. Which one would that be? Anyway, let's get to Ohio. Here's the mail back. Here we go. It's right, very good, right

to it we go, ch come back. Pay attention. It's Son from Call first up as Pat from Medina, Ohio. He says, Ben, I have been a super fan for years. Let me stop right there at Mazelto. Thank you, he says, I tweeted you from hadden Field. I have seen that, He's. My question for the mail bag is that since you announced your new new contract with FSR, I have noticed an uptick in promotion for your show on the I heart feed of Fox Sports Radio. Is that part of

the negotiations with management. If so, it was a brilliant move. I never heard any promotion before, and now you are all over the place. Thank you. Keep up the great work. That's from Pat in Medina, Ohio. Well, I was negotiating with these suits at Fox, had several meetings, email correspondence, phone calls by my own agent. So I'm like Lamar Jackson Danny. I don't I want my mom. She passed away years ago, so it's only me. Um and uh, I was I was talking to those guys, and so

we did bring up multiple things. I'd not per se, you know. I didn't say, hey, the I heart feet, you gotta put more promos than anything like that. But I I just wanted to make sure that the Overnight show was not ignored, and I wanted to make sure that we got the proper credit because we we have four hours of real estate and we're all one big, happy family, and let's be honest about it, Ben, They weren't sure if they were gonna whack you or not.

They were on the fence, and then once they decided, all right, let's resign this guy, then then they could like put your promos in place. Well that could actually you could be honest something because they were all, you know, there was a chance I wasn't gonna stay. I mean, there were other people that were interested in me. So I didn't want to leave. I never really want to leave. But it's one of those things where, yeah, you don't know, maybe maybe it goes somewhere else, and whatever the case,

I'm glad you've been listening all these years. Pat, thank you, thank for supporting show, feeding the content machine, which is so important as we attempt to find gold day after day after day, and so we do appreciate it. If only their organization had enough coin, you could have been bar stool Benny. Yes, yes, well, and there's a lot of gambling money passing around these days, Danny g two, there's a lot of that money, al right. Next up here,

where do we have let's see al right? Next up is Pierre from a stone's throwaway of the birthplace of Connie mack not in Springfield, mass right near Muffett McGraw and the Pro Basketball of Fame. Unless he is, Pierre writes in, Ben, with the recent game show cheating scandal of two and the horrid performances of some of the newbies, is there any chance you bring back the word of the week or even coach player entertainer? Secondly, what the

hell happened to Helen and Stu? Spectively, Pierre, who writes in, Well, that's a great question. I hope they're okay. I genuinely hope Helen and Stewart okay. These two emailed every week for many, many months. Maybe even like a year. We heard from them every so off and then all of a sudden, boom goes to dynamite is exited stage right.

And I have noticed on this podcast we have had people who have been big fans of the podcast listen every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then they like vanish right, They just like they move away. Like for example, here's another one. I don't know if you remember this, Pierre. Before Danny g was part of the podcast, we had Kentucky Tay and Jay. This this really cool couple. They sent me a Hilltoppers hat from from Kentucky that's in

my had collection fans of the show. They had had a young family and they would email questions every week, and I don't think I've heard from them since the end of and we're we're getting, you know, closer and closer to the end of two. Like they just they went away. I'm a Pilot also another one who was regular in the mail bag. Yeah, I think it was Guest. It was one of his burner accounts. Yeah. Is it just a coincidence that I'm a Pilot stopped emailing as

soon as Guest Gone left the show? Things that make you go um. But as far as to answer your question, I do not see coach player entertainment coming back, although because I like the Mallard Militia feud, it's more fun when we get good contestants, which is rare. Uh. I could see the word of the week on the podcast, though. We could bring the word of the week to the podcast where I word or phrase of the week, where

I explained the origins. I love the origins of words and phrases, and so I can certainly see that on the podcast on Saturday at some point down the line. Uh. Doing that, things are kind of jumbled right now with Benny versus the penny being on the podcast. We'll see if it stays on the podcast for the long haul. Who knows what's gonna happen with that. It might move somewhere else. All right, Let's keep going on the mail. Mail Mail. These are actual letters by actual listeners, and

it's like a boxing match. We're boxing the mail. Unless we are not boxing the mail. But let's see, I got mail, yea, I got mail yea very from Nashville. Right soon, he says, yo yo, Mom. Benny and Danny g when you do trivia on terrestrial radio. You say I cannot read that on the radio. Have you ever thought about taking those responses you can't read on radio and bringing them over to a segment on the Real fifth Hour. It would be awesome to hear some of

those responses, Barry. I've been asked this a lot of Lane jokes, the really offensive Lane jokes people have been saying to them on the podcast, to him on the podcast. I think we've talked about this, Danny though. The problem with the podcast it's a blessing and a curse. We are allowed to do X rated content and taboo stuff on the podcast. He blew me off at a hotel

near l a X. Okay, come down. It also is out there forever, and it's like somebody, some wokesters could go down the line, could listen to a podcast where we say stuff that's tremendously offensive and then use that against us. You know what I'm saying, Nanny, Well, I would like to say those wokesters right now they would have to find this and be like, oh my god, seventeen minutes and that podcast, did you hear what he

said about me? You're exactly right, though, you have to be careful what you leave out there for the world to consume. Yeah, and I have heard stories where people have gotten in trouble, like lost jobs for stuff they said they were just goofing around the podcast. And the the people who have something shoved up where the sun don't shine heard it and got all bent out of shape and all that, and so some of some of the stuff I would put on. But we gotta pick

our spots, Danny, right, I gotta pick our spots. Yeah, and I and I it's not like we hold back a whole bunch on this podcast. We we speak our minds from time to time. Brian bill Brian Billick. Plus the other thing is a lot of that, the the answers.

It's really funny in the mall out of context. I don't think it would be funny like people are reacting the stuff that I said or question and well, you'd have to take a screenshot too, and then yeah, you'd be going back to like twenty different screenshots and you're right, you'd have to set everything up. It would take way too long. Yeah, Opinony behind you've got mail Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, I assume this is just about the easiest time of the year to come up

with topics for your Malard monologues. So when is the hardest time of the year? And for Danny G when is the easiest and hardest part of the school year? Uh? For you? So I'll go first here, Mike, Really, no hard time, and I don't think there will ever be a hard time again. There were points in my career back in the Stone Age when I started long ago, before the internet really got going, where there were some days where we were really scratching and clawn and trying

to find things to talk about. But in the age of the Internet, in the age of the twenty four hours sports television, sports radio formats, there's billions of dollars on the line. There's TV shows and radio shows looking for content every day. And so it's kind of like the way I look at meat, cut that meat. You know, there's different grades of meat you can get, uh know,

different cuts of meat, different qualities of meat. And there are times, usually I would say June July, where it can can be a little slow, can be a little slow, and you you have to be more creative. But those are often the most fun times of the year, Danny,

because then we have the artistic freedom. Anybody can do sports radio when there's a million NFL stories, and but where you really earn your money is when there's not a lot going on, if you can hold the audience, and so that I like the challenge of that, although I wouldn't like to do that year round, but it's good for a few months of the year. It keeps you on your toes. And as far as the teaching game, Danny was it easier, harder? How does that work as

at the same year round? I would say the kids are at their worst right before the Christmas break because they smell some freedom coming up. At that point, they've been in school long enough to be really sick of it.

I'm thinking back to last school year, and I remember the week leading up to the Christmas break principle and the dean, we're just doing that face palm and rubbing their eyes a lot, and there were there was a line of kids in the office waiting to go into their offices to have little pow wows because there was a lot of misbehaving going on. And I remember one of the gym teachers telling me, these fucking kids can't wait to get out of here. They should have just

let them go a week ago. So that's that's probably the most difficult part of the school year, right there. Yeah, And that must be some kind of primal thing that we all are wired with, because even as a dull, it's like right before you go on a vacation or you have a long weekend, let's just say not a lot of stuff gets done in a timely manner, usually the last day, or in the office, or you're in

the radio station. You know things. You got one foot out the door, right you're you're you're you're thinking about something else. All right, Now, next up on the mail bag. As we bounce around and around and around, all come back, it's time for call. Nick in Wisconsin writes, and he says, Ben and Danny g going back to last week. Next time Danny gets flowers from Trader Joe's, he should tell the cash year they are for someone special and say himself,

because no one ever buys him flowers. There you go, there, you can say that, just to see the reaction, He says. The question is how often do both of you guys by your significant other flowers or a gift randomly? That's from Nick in Wisconsin. So yeah, everyone, So I don't do it enough, and yeah, I've been married for a while now, so I should. Uh. But we we try to take care of each other as much as we can. My wife's very good about that and I I make the effort in different ways. But I and I used

to get flowers quite a bit. You know what turned me off to the flower thing. I've never been a big fan of buying flowers because you're buying something that you know is going to be bad within a couple of days. And that always bothers me. It's like a total waste of money. But I know, you know your your lady likes the flowers, so you get the flowers. But when we were selling the old Mallard mansion, we

were showing the house. We had people coming over, potential buyers and real estate agents, and my wife was very good at staging the house. But one way you stage the house is you get flowers, fresh flowers. People who buy houses love the smell of the flowers. Not so we were buying flowers for the house was on the market for a couple of months. Every week we were buying flowers. I was I was a traitor Joe's buying flowers every week, and I was like, oh man, what

a pain. So we kind of got all the flowers we needed in that period of time a couple of years ago. And that's that. But what about you, Danny, I will give you a tender n e tip instead of flowers that die off, get your girl some succulents, gigy. That is the way to go, because the ice plants or the desert plants come in cool little vases usually, and nowadays there's some creativity. Like the last one I brought home to my girl was a nice color blue and it was a ceramic shark had a cool succulent

in it. And so that's the way to go, because you know, yeah, my my chick, like all others, like flowers. But then you know, they wind up wilting, and unless the girl is first with you, she's not going to dry out the flowers and save them. You give them the succulents though, and they can have them in their apartment or their house for years. That is the way to go, right there. Yeah, that's a good move. And you know my move when I was dating, and it's

probably the reason I was single for so long. As I've told this before, but on Valentine's Day I always had to work through radio, and so I'd be like, all right, let's meet like a day after two days after Valentine's Day. Everything was half off, the flowers, the candies, all that stuff. So I buy flowers. That's why I buy flowers, because they were half off. I was like, all right, that's half off. They're gonna die anyway, That's all right, that's the move. I am such a radio loser,

all right, next time I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yeah. Rights, And he says, big Ben, have you ever thought about putting a best of the Bits fifth hour? I know it would be hard to narrow it down, but I would love to hear the famous hollering James game show while sleeping. But that was an amazing, amazing night a radio and some Marcel and Blair in the octagon and even that that feeling guy singing karaoke. My name is Luca. There are so many good ones the show on the show.

Thanks us from Jay. Uh. Yeah, well, we we have done some. They call them bank shows or evergreen shows. You you did a great job, Danny. When I was I think it was was a traveling was that when I was in North Carolina on the family trip for the wedding, and you did a wonderful job on that. And we do have a lot of material. It takes a long time though to go through all that stuff. But we could have a couple of of shows I guess ready to go, just in case, right, and have

those ready to go. But that that hollering James game show, I would like to hear again myself. That was one of the craziest it's got to be the craziest moments happened in the history of the show. The guy was fast asleep Danny, and we were acing his answers based on whether he snored or not. If he snored, it was too much. If he didn't store, it was not enough. He handed God, he won the game. We didn't doctor it, We didn't play with it at all. He won the game.

Do you know what months that was? What month? What year that was? No? I think that was I want to say that was during the COVID time. Um it was. It wasn't a year end show. Um. If you talked to Coop he might know kind of the rough, rough point of time, but it was it was crazy, man. It was one of the zaniest things that I've had since I've been here, and there's been some crazy stuff, crazy stuff. When Genie and Medford started rapping, doing gangster rap all of a sudden, that was one of the

craziest nights. Uh. When she started yelling at Pete and Pittsburgh and sounded like a different person, it was. It was, Yeah, she was speaking in tons. And then of course when she was having the part again Medford and You're like, there's a party in Medford. Oh. Yeah, she's passed the phone to her. She had a boyfriend there, Yeah, you had a raggedy boyfriend there. She passes the phone to him, and Cooper's in the background going, that's Joe, and he says, Hi,

I like to saint. Yes, yes, that was funny. It was your viral version. Is your version of that viral kid who said I like totals? Yes, yes, that famous TV moment, that's funny totals. Well, Jane, we will consider that, and you never know, we may surprise it coming up. It will be the holiday season before you know it. Here we go, all right. Next up is Kevin in Kansas.

He says, dear Big Bend and Danny G. Danny G. I remember a Clay Travis show where Jason Martin couldn't get to work because of an ice storm and Clay busted him for the next three hours. Have either of you had to drive to work in treacherous conditions? To you ever get ribbed for missing work for a legitimate reason? All right, so I'll go first. Now, being in l A, we have not had really bad when we get really nasty rainstorms every once in a while, but they're not

like Northeastern rainstorms or Midwestern rainstorms or Southern rainstorms. So it's a different animal. In California, with once in a blue moon, they'll get some really bad weather. Uh, that will be legitimately bad weather. I've been late a few times over the years. I had a flat tire. I got a ticket one time when I was doing local radio.

This is really embarrassing. We had studios in Burbank, I was living in Orange County, and I had a set, had a Friday night show, got off at like one in the morning, had a quick turnaround, had to come back. The show started like seven or eight in the morning, and so as I was telling my mom, I'm like I don't and I don't sleep well, I'm concerned. She's I'll just get a hotel room. So I got a hotel room, cheap hotel in Burbank, and I went to you know, went to bed, and I was all excited,

You're gonna do the show. And I slept. I overslept by an hour and I showed up late and all I freaking out. I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna, you know, lose my job. And I was doing the Ben and Dave show and I parked in a lot right near Warner Brothers and I get out of the car and I'm like hustling into the in the studio, into the station, and right next to me is the guy I did the show with, Dave Smith, who was also late, who was also late by an hour. So I was like,

all right, there you go. I don't feel bad anymore. I don't feel bad anymore. And one time that the station Fox Sports Radio actually got me a hotel room right near the studios in Sherman Oaks where Jay Scoop stayed because of Karma Geddon. Remember Karma Geddon. Yeah, they were very concerned that I wouldn't be able to make it to work, and so all the people it had shows on the weekends when the freeway was closed, they got us hotel rooms. And I was I was sitting

in my hotel room. I was looking at the four or five freeway being shut you shut down, but there was no traffic. It was like there was no traffic anywhere. I could have easily just stayed home. But anyway, what about you, Danny, any traffic related. That's a beautiful part of Sherman Oaks. So that's probably the last time you had hookers in cocaine anything you want on Ventura Boulevard. There's a reason there's a lot of songs mentioned in

vent Thor Boulevard. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. There's a lot of stuff happening over there. Yeah, And I wanted to mention about Jason Martin. That was a memorable episode about Kick because he couldn't drive in because snow was coming down there in Nashville. The reason he told Clay he couldn't see out his windshield was because it was an opaque color. What he got the best laugh out of that, So Clay dubbed it opaque Gate. Yeah. Yeah,

So listeners still will mention that to this day. Hey man, I remember opaque Gate and we still bust Jason's balls about that. Um, you know the only thing that comes to mind, And I've talked about it before briefly on this podcast. During the COVID Lockdown, I got pulled over by Burbank p D. And they thought I was a drunk driver for sure, And the female cop who first pulled me over said she didn't like the look in my eyes. Wow, did you have to do the walk?

The the and do the alphabet and all that? Yeah, I had to do the walk. They didn't make me do the alphabet, but I had to do the walk. A couple of backup officers showed up. One was a fan of petros and money, so he understood why I was in a hurry to get to the studios. Clay had a lot of fun with it on the air talk. And then the last officer who showed up was a female and she asked for my phone number before I left. Really took my digits. Wow, look at that. Did she

call you? Uh? No, never got a call from her. But she was a really pretty Latina officer and she was like standing there talking with me like we were at a nightclub before I left, So the first officer basically told me I had a lazy eye, and then the second female wanted my number. It was very hit and missed that night man. But that wonder why she didn't call you. I don't know. She's worried she getting trouble at work or something like that. It is probably

not good I did. One of the other officers probably caught her doing that on their on their cam. Yes, you've gotta be careful on that. You want to lose your job over trying to get a date, all right? Next up on the mail bag, come back, it's side from call our friend Jennifer from Richmond, Virginia. Right, and

she says, hello, Ben and Dany. By the way, you know, Virginia's for lovers, he says it on the license plate when you've never heard that before, Benn and Danny, gy Ben, would you please do me a favor and accidentally delete the Russell Wilson and Sierra SoundBite Go Hawks and go to Sleep from the entire Fox Studio soundboard. My ears bleed and my spirit cringes every single time I'm forced to listen to it, even after Wilson's trade. It still gets played. Please Benn and Danny g make it stop.

Our friend Jennifer says, we don't use that drop on this podcast. She says, I love I love you even more Ben if you do what very kind of Jennifer. Uh, you gotta remember that was an important night of radio

Jennifer and Danny. That was the night I was doing a monologue phrasing the Seahawks for not extending Russell Wilson because the deadline was at midnight on the West Coast my show at the beginning of the show's at eleven o'clock, and by the end of the monologue it had been announced by Adam Schefter that Russell Wilson had a contract. And then we saw we saw what he said on Twitter, and I was like, crap, he's unlimited, man, is it true?

Do you agree with this statement? Russell Wilson is the corny ist quarterback in all of sports, or the I should say, the corny ist athlete in all of sports. He's just a big nerd. But it's like he's trying too hard. Yeah, he is like Carlton from Fresh Prince of bel Air, trying to be easy. Hey, speaking of Russell Wilson. So let me play this audio. This is Pete Carroll after the Monday night game. He's talking on

Seattle radio to the media. And listen to him explain to the Raiders, the Chargers and the Chiefs and anyone else that plays the Broncos what you need to do if you want to own Russell Wilson. Let's go to the audio tape. Yeah, really, the we really were focused in on on Russ's play with our pass rush and and that's really the way to play him. You can move him and you can make him go. I think he moved ten times and he completed two passes on the times we moved him out of the pocket and

moved moved him around like we were trying to. It's really hard. It's it's a hard dynamic to so many factors in there, but we're trying to push them in directions. And when you do, it's hard for me to hear. When I think of Russell Wilson, I think one of the great passers on the run, and you're saying the key is to get him to run alot. Yeah, we moves, we moves to his left. It's it's hard for him,

you know, and in numbers wise and all that. So we we just we were able to do some stuff and and uh it wasn't perfect at all, but it was but it was effective and we felt like we were controlling it. And so, uh, it wasn't always just getting clean to get the sack, was to try and make him go where we wanted to go. And guys did a good job. We could do better. I'd like another shot at that that game pign you know, to

see if we can just just clean it up. But it was a really really good job by by Clinton in his guys, and uh, just a thrilling effort by the guys too to do what they did. Done with the in the red zone and done with the goal, and it was incredible. Isn't that a crazy sound bite? That's wild. He doesn't he doesn't throw well, moving him go to his left. That's like an NBA player Danny, who can only go to his right right. If you make him dribble the other way, he's gonna turn the

ball over, throw it away. That's wild to me that he said that crazy dog vomit if you push him to the left. Wow. Anyway, so Jennifer I don't think we'll be able to delete the audio, but I will make an effort. I'll tell Roberto and Danny if you wanted to, that's good audio though, right, I mean we we can play it every once, So how about we playing?

I mean, yeah, Roberto, it's who she's worried about. I wouldn't want to hear his voice on this podcast unless it was something funny where we were busting his balls. But as far as a drop sounding cool, that's not Russell Wilson. No, not cool is not in his game,

all right? Next up is Big Greg in Iowa. Says Hey, dear Ben and Danny G. Ben, since you have the game shows mixed into your show throughout the week, if Danny G and yourself were to each make a three person team to do a trivia competition and could only choose four for members of the Mallard Militia, the trivia would involve twelve questions of random categories from pop culture, the history to sports. Who would each of you choose

from your team and why? He also says Ben, if you were to choose Justin in Cincinnati, you would lift the band from the game shows. It's Big Greg in Iowa. Thank for your time, he says, we're applied of you, Big Greg. So I would not pick Justin in Cincinnati. Justin lost his trivia mojo and he also lost credibility on the game. The first pick would have to be Uncle Mo from Brooklyn who Uncle Mo is a machine at sports trivia of him. This guy's like rain Man,

unbelievable with the sports trivia. So he'd be the first pick. My buddy in Maine would be the second pick. The third pick, there's like four or five different ways I can go on the third pick. I might take a pop culture person, might go off the grid, not a normal type person on the on the game. Anybody popping your head there, Danny G I think a few people. Who would you pick? Who is our friend from Fremont?

Oh Andrew from Free, California. To block for Andrew, I would have Doc, Mike and Dick and Dayton as his old lineman just for the imidation factor, and then I would let Andrew in Fremont run the ball to the goal line. Oh man, Andrew's really good. It's he's you know, he's kind of like Russell Wilson and that he's great when you're talking baseball. But if you make him go left and talk about football or certain NBA people, he

has nothing. He's got nothing. What's wonderful? And I don't know if I'm sharing a secret I shouldn't, but Jonas Knocks used to call into our show a lot and he would impersonate Andrew in Fremont. In fact that I think I have a drop of him doing that right here, syndosing that, and we would die laughing because it was spot on and a lot of people thought it was Andrew when in fact it was Jonas. Yeah. And the

funniest was we we had Andrew. I think you were there when Andrew came in the studio and he was with his parents, you know, and all that. Normally, and I'm I'm not bragging, but normally, when people coming to the radio station is a special thing. Not everyone gets to do it, and we're not really supposed to have a lot of people visit us, and so there's only a select few group of people that get to go to the radio station. And so, yeah, you have to fill out a fat cells info form. Yeah, yeah, you

have to have credit and all that. But normally what happens is people are are very polite and kind and and really thrilled to be there. Andrew was like, I've been at the station in the Bay Area and it's better, you know, It's like they had better microphones. I was like, what are you doing. You gotta be joking. I'm like, what do you what? What? What hutzpuff for? Andrew? You guys call yourself the l a market. That's great. What kind of control board is that they were knowing the

monitor might burn up? You never never know, never never know. All right, we have time for a few more. It is the mail bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners who have sent them in. If you would like to fill up the mail bag. And some weeks we get a lot of questions. Some weeks it's kind of slow. And we're doing this during football season. We need all the questions we can get and we'd love for you

to be a part of this. And if you want to recommend something you want to hear on the podcast, if you want to tell us you like something something you don't like about the podcast, it is all fair game. Just make sure you put your name and sitting in there. You can send a message to Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com real fifth hour at gmail dot com and spell that all out. Spell the word fifth out, and we may we may use your comment or your

question on the end. We also have the Facebook page which Jennifer and some other people have taken advance a job and so you can be part of the show many many different ways. And thank you to the thousands of listeners who downloaded the mail bag last weekend, last Sunday before the first game kicked off. So it'll be up early enough for you to do that. Your job, by you, Danny, getting that thing up early in the morning, gig. Yeah, we said, I as long as the downloads are good,

it's worth our time to come in here. And the most valuable currency we all have is our time, Danny, and we're dedicating our time to this and so we'll keep it going. And next up, all right, listener Joe in New York writes, and he says, Benn and Danny, g what is a huge hit in our society that really annoys you? Uh, that's get kind of an open ended generic question, Joe. But I guess the thing that pops into my head here and I'll let Danny go after me, is the thing that has changed a lot

in recent is that seems to be very popular. It really bothers me, is celebrating victimhood. I don't like that. I was not raised that way. I was not, you know, raised with that approach to life. And it seems like so many people want to be the victim, loved to play the victim card and love they get clout that way on social media, and that just that's a bad thing. That's a flaw that I would like to see flip back around. But it is a hit in society. It's

very popular, so many people are doing it. Seems like younger and younger people love to be the victim and and get all that attention and all that. So that really annoys me. Anything in society is that's popular or a hit. As Joe says here, that you're you're not happy with that. It bothers you. Did you see the news story recently about the inmate who claimed he was chained up and forced to listen to that Baby Shark song.

I don't think I saw that one. Now. I guess he was trying to drop some lawsuit and it turns out he was actually killed and Jaiy died in jail. I should say. And so now there's some conspiracy theories out there. Can you imagine being forced to listen to that baby shark crap for an hour on a loop? I think it would drive you mental. Yeah, that would not be because every few years there's a song like that.

That's yeah, it's played in the ground. Remember was it Jerry Seinfeld the last like ten days that was complaining. He was upset with Timmy trumpet and he's he compared it to when the Mets were in the World Series, and I think it was who let the Dogs Out? Was that the song that was? It was some kind of weird thing the ground screw was doing back like in two thousands, so twenty two years ago. Whatever the I forget what the song wasn't. I'm sure someone will

email us and let us know. But it was some viral song like that, and seinfeldt was all upset. Anyway, Let's do the Dogs out? That was the Mets theme song throughout the two thousand postseason. Yeah, that was. Seinfeld was triggered by that, and that was you know, it was the last time you hear that song? You well, they still play it at stadiums. It's interesting because there's those ESPN jock jams that still get played thirty years later, and that no matter how brand new the stadium is,

sometimes they just refused to switch up the music. Yeah, you gotta keep up with the times, right, you gotta keep up with the times. And yeah, I mean, there's some classics that will never die. But there's also some songs that were just good in the moment back then,

and we should let some of them rest. There are some old songs I hear and I can close my eyes and imagine watching the Clippers or Lakers run out to warm up before the game, because they would play it as their their warm up music when I was covering basketball all the time. And I or I can envision cheerleaders dancing to that particular song, which hasn't been played in years. All right, we got time for like

two more quick ones. Jr. From Arkansas Rights and he says, Ben and Danny g why does the American media obsessed over the queen's death. It's on every cable news channel. Um, well, Jr. You're probably watching too much cable news. That's number one. Number two. I don't know, Danny, I'm not that interested in it. No, disrespect of the queen. It's it's it really has kind of become like weekend at Bernie's at this point, with all the ceremonies and all that. I

get it. It's tradition and that's part of their culture, but it's not part of our culture. And it does seem odd to me that the American media is obsessed with it. It must get ratings. I guess that that's gotta be it, Danny. We we don't do things in media companies unless it gets ratings. That has to be the reason, right, I guess I'll admit I'll admit it on the podcast I Killed the Queen, Danny. They're gonna

come and get you about the coast are coming. About two weeks prior to her death, we had a Spectrum news channel on in the background and some random story about the queen and the family came on the TV screen and I turned and looked at my girl and I said, she's still alive. I didn't know. And if we're not into that here in our country, most of us don't give a shit about that stuff over there with royalty and all that. That's not how we roll. So then when the news broke that she really did die.

My TINDERRONI looked at me and she was like, you know you killed her? Right? You talked it into Yeah, well not a lot of points if you do a Google pool a death pool. Only four points, right, because she was ninety. How about Marcel when he called up and started crying, he was a ball of tears. Here. Wow, the queen's passing and that was odd. Alright, last one we'll get out on this j from l a Van Eyes, not far away from where we do the shows from.

He says, if an alien spacecraft landed here from another planet, Oh, George Nor, question, this sounds like a Nori quote. You should have sent this to George Nor, you idiot? What's wrong with you? Jay? Anyway, but thanks for downloing the podcast. He says, if an alien craft landed here from another planet on Earth and they laid out a feast of their food and their beverage, would you eat it? And how do you imagine it might taste? All? Right? So fuck no, I'm not eating it, Okay, I'll let I'll

let somebody else eat it. And I can't imagine. I don't know what it tast I mean, I would hope it would taste like stuff on this planet. I kind of think everything in the universe is it's all made up of the same stuff, right, I mean, like, I'm sure there's probably. In fact, we talked to George Norri about this and how vast spaces and all that and the math on that that. You know, people think this

is just like an Earth is an accident. There's probably a lot of other accidents that are just like Earth. So if that's true, their food would be just like our food, I would think are close to What about you, Danny? Would you eat alien food if they visited and offered as a an olive branch between civilizations? Would you eat it? I might try it if it looked tasty. Right now, I'm reading the Hunger Games books. I know they're old now, but I never read those. I want my chicken, So

I picked up a Hunger Games book. I'm on the second one now, and it's not an alien thing. But it's way in the future where the story is set, and she keeps describing the food like futuristic dishes, and it sounds pretty good, like I would feast on it. It look good, Ben, and it smelled good. Why not try it. You only live once. Yeah. Well, George Nori also pointed out, and if you hadn't heard the Nori interview,

I recommend listening to it. But he pointed out that you know how how old the universe it is, and you know, we were a relatively new civilization they believe

based on what science has figured out. So if there's civilizations that are that are older than us, have been around longer than us, Like, think how much better food is today than what people were eating two hundred years ago or three years ago, like with all the spices, Like there was a time when salt, the use of salt changed the way people ate because they were able to keep things longer. And that term you're worth your weight in salt is because salt was so valuable pepper.

When pepper became used by mainstream society, that became a big deal. They can think about how where we came from that to now we we have YouTube channels on cooking and we can make all this crazy, crazy can auctions in our kitchen that would have blown people. And just imagine what that's gonna be like if people are hundreds of years ahead of us, thousands of years ahead of so yeah, what is that place in Orange County? Is it medieval nights? Is that what it's times? I

think medieval times. I've been there before for a birthday. And that platter of food they said in front of you. You're exactly right. It's cool to watch the horses and the joustick and all that, but to give you this bland turkey leg it's nasty. I'm like, man, thank god for the food we have today. Oh yeah, the food is great. But if that's all you knew back in the day, that's all you know, what do you do? We'll get out on that, as we said, So Danny,

anything remote. It is a Sunday in NFL. Sunday week to the full Card Week two in the NFL. And if you missed Benny Versus the Penny, still time to hear it. Friday podcast downloaded. Don't miss it. But back in the radio studio today, Danny, Come on, Derek, wipe

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