The Fifth Hour: "Slap with No Kids" Mail Bag

Danny G. Radio. In the podcast do Joe is a very exciting year and one of my favorite moments of the week. The mailbag is that not? Is that now? Wonderful? The mailbag tremendous, tremendous, tremendace and interesting conversation. Danny G. If you missed the Saturday podcast, you are the modern Bill Ny the science guy. We gotta come up with the nickname. We have not yet come up with a nickname for you, but we well, what runs Danny G Radio really flows like. That's a great what you're known

as Danny G Radio? Something science to have the spit ball. One thing I know about the listener to this program and and the radio show The restaurant radio show is very creative. Some people like just Josh, Justin and Cincinnati. They might be X rated names, but they're interesting. The one thing I found out is that science is gonna kill me, literally because I had to bring those projects home in big boxes every day. And my tinder ronis gotta shout her out because she helped me cut holes.

I had like a whole workshop going on on our kitchen table, talk about over time, hours been and that's why all teachers across the board, the good teachers, not the old grouchy ones that are tenured, but the good ones, they bring their work home and so you're really working around the clock. That week felt like three weeks. So yeah, I'm definitely looking for some easier projects and experiments to

get into here. The good thing is the longer you do this, you're you're going to be like that tenured teacher where you have like a whole roll of decks of projects and all that. But then you also want to keep it fresh, right, you know what to do the same things over and over again. So it's like that give and take. Do you wanna yeah, have everything laid out? It's like, uh, my, my mother in law.

She's a she's a teacher, just actually just retired. But she'd been doing it for a long time, so she had like all of her like she knew everything, all the lessons, plans and all that stuff because she's been doing it for so long, so she had all laid up. But it's kind of like doing a radio show. That's one good thing about the radio show. Like every day is different though, there's so much us to react to, so you've got some built in stuff. But you no,

you're right. The rundowns that we do for the show, it's similar to lesson planning. There's a lot of similarities. Yeah, it's you're planning stuff out and making you know, kind of looking at the clock and figuring out what needs to go. Were putting a jigsaw puzzle together every day. Sometimes you don't have enough pieces for the jigsaw puzzle, but you still gotta put it together. And when one of the little kids burns their hand on the hot glue gun, it's like a bad segment on the radio.

Exactly exactly. All right, let's get to the mail back here we go, hit us, strike up the band, ohio, wow, hit that button right there. It's all right. The first email comes from a very polarizing figure on this show, Helen and Stu from Mallard Town, USA. It is signed and the email reads boys extended vacation Deshaun Watson settlement dittos from Cape Cod How about that they're hanging out

on Cape Cod? Uh? They say Benjamin is short on time, but suffice to say that wherever we holiday, the Mallard Militia juggernaut is with us. In the air everywhere. Next week, in the fifth hour mail bag, crazy vacation drama including Code three, Lights and sirens, Stu almost die stayed Helen and Stu. Good to hear that Stu still with us. Now that's a tease, Danny, that's an email tease. She didn't tell you how he almost died. No, no, no, she's she said she's gonna tell us in the next

mail So we have to wait. I'm on the edge of my seat right now. I cannot wait for the next email. Do you want to take a guess? How do you think Stu almost died? Why don't we take a guess? Here they were hiking and he almost fell down a cliff. I almost fell down a cliff. I am going to go. He ate a meal that some combination of foods that caused his innerds to react in

a negative way. Or he was playing tennis at a country club on on the Cape and he overdid a little bit and then he kind of passed out, so they had to call am. I've got two answers. I'm going with one of those, right, What is his food picks? Yeah, exactly, I'm gonna go oodles and noodles, pizza, hot dog, you know a new hot dogs and lamb chops. Yeah right. Marcel gets so upset, like Friday, we didn't have time to do the food picks, and you can tell he

gets upset. It's it's pretty amusing, like he's bummed out. He doesn't get to tell us what he had for dinner the night before when it's one of four things. Next up, Tammy and Montana back to back and belly to belly, Tammy and Helen bitter good, Fey to mambo. Exactly right, these two get together, is yeah? Tammy rights in. I have been listening to the podcast while at work and enjoying the guests stories, life lessons and emails. My question is about fan loyalty out of your top three

teams you are loyal to. Which one would you quit being a fan of if your life dependent on it. Well, Tammy, if my life depended on it, I quit all. All of the teams aren't like. But but to answer your question, this one's gonna surprise a fair amount of people. I you'll be the judge of that. So my three favorite teams are the Rams, the Clippers, and the Dodgers. The one I would get rid of. You want to take a guess which one it is name, I'm gonna say

Rams because they've flipped flop cities. That is correct, the Rams. Because I lived many years of my life without the Rams. In my life, I I liked football, I watched games. I was a gambler. We did the bid on the show where every year I had a different team that I would follow in support for that year, and I

was wearing the clown makeup and all that. So I've lived the life without the Rams, and so for me, it's like, I liked the Rams that are back, and I love the fact they won the Super Bowl and I got to go to the NFC Championship game and all that stuff was really cool. But I would dump the Rams in a second, like I need to see the Clippers win in my life, just one, just one championship. I've seen the Dodgers win back in the day, although it wasn't you know, the World Series I went to.

They didn't win the one, the one that was played in Texas, uh, and not at Dodger Stadium. They won all the games in Texas, So that would be Now what about your Dadny, You're you're the Lakers, Dodgers, and Raiders. So those are your top three? Yeah? This is hard. I guess I would have to say baseball though, because there's a lot of stuff with MLB that I don't agree with. I don't like the commissioner, I don't like the greed of the stadium here in Los Angeles. It's ridiculous.

How Yeah, And because of that, I guess have some sort of reason to walk away from baseball. It would be hard. I love the Dodgers a lot, but well, the Dodgers had always treated their fans so well, now they're just price gouging. I mean, I love the Dogs, That's what I'm saying. I feel like the Dodgers are like the baseball version of gasoline here in Southern California. Yeah, it's yeah, they know I'm still gonna be a fan. They know I have to pay it to see them.

And then Ben, they're pulling this crap where now I'm paying every month for spectrum and some of the games aren't even on the Dodgers station. Now, yeah, well that's going everywhere. That's that's the whole thing you gotta buy. Rob Manford has bent over every hardcore baseball fan. And there's no vasseline. Uh and he's just uh, you know, you know what's going on there. You not only have to have your local cable, you've got to have on Fridays,

it's APT on Sundays it's the pea cock yeah them. Yeah, it's like you're supposed to be growing the sport. But it's just as you said, it's greed personified. It's it doesn't matter. We don't care about the customer. And and that's the bullet excuse my French from the work stoppage, which didn't last very long. It was like both sides, well, we care about the fans. We're all about the fan. No,

you're shut up, shut up, all right. I mean I like going to a game and here in the Oregon, you know, and then here we go like that's cool and all that, but ridiculous. And then and then you've got the angels, and you've got the angels treating media like pieces of crap. They are the pieces of crap for doing that. But at least they're trying to do like family night style promotions. Every ballpark in our country should be bending over backwards to help the working man

and the working class families out right now. Yeah, it's like, do you really need to charge the price? Like the concession prices are so obscene. Yeah, it's bad enough we have to pay those prices at the grocery store, we have to get raped at the gas pump. If you're baseball and you really want to grow your sport, I would do what Atlanta did with their concession stands a few years ago and make those prices one of the selling points of Hey, come here, we're gonna take care

of you. Yeah, or at least have a value, manu, like a legitimate like there is not everything, but some of the items are reasonably priced. It's like, why do they charge so much? Because they can write? Because they can and they know that they've got you. You're like Pavlov's dogs, that you love the team and no matter what you're trained, you are anyway. I'm getting carried away on that. It's like we're at a rave and we took some e We're really dehydrated and it's eight dollars

for a bottled water. We really need that water. We're gonna pass out and die? Is it the electric Daisy Carnival? Is that what it is? That? Yeah? They got you trapped? Baby,

I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, all right, next email, else, says Dear Danny g. And Mr Maller he says, He says, so Mr Mallor has an ongoing streak of not having coffee or pork at sushi in there as well for the rest of his life, as he already already made it this far without them, like a good mench listen from our buddy in Miami, he says, do you have any similar michigas or streaks you are keeping outside of gambling since selling off your baseball cards?

Who could have known? I grew up in the nineties too and had tons of rookie cards and stars and uh in the nineties, But say, lave any chance to get a comedian on the Salad Days Friday episode. What we had we had? I know you sent this before, but we did have a comedian, Sarge, a professional comedian, a lifetime comedian, was on the show on Friday. I hope you heard that and enjoyed it, and we will we have more. Is it from Neil, the real Neil

in in Miami? Who sent this in? Uh? He says, I saw this at a Whole Foods as well on my way to get beer and instantly thought of you Ben and all the guests. Uh. He says here he knows from the Salad Days on Friday, and yeah, it's a sixteen dollar, sixteen dollar nine cent bottle of uh of salads drink called Salad Days. That's what it is, so you can drink your Salad Days. And he then asked the real Neil in Miami says, is Bill Burr and your roll of Days seems like a good Salad

Days guests? Well, sure, I'm sure Bill Burr, very hot comedian these days, would love to come on the fifth hour right no, in between filming Boba Fette. I'm sure he'll be right on it. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, the Mallard Show Yeah, let me go get a at all that salad days white wine, and then I'll I'll do a good twenty minute hit on the Mallard podcast.

What could possibly go wrong? Uh? You know, I loove if in anybody listening who has a friend or somebody that you think would be good for the podcast that is, Do we have to do semi famous or at least famous to us? Yeah, put anybody on. I mean, I'm willing to put listeners on. I don't care, I'll put them in here. I don't I don't want. We can do we can do a series if you want with just random p ones. We did that during COVID in and it was some of the most popular stuff that

we did. But I think that might be because there was nothing else going on. Yeah maybe, yeah, but I guess I'm interested to know the backstory of some of the p ones too, So yeah, I could see how the listeners would like that. All right, next time come back, it's time from that. I'll call our friend Jennifer from

Richmond and Virginia, right, Sin says a little. Ben and Danny always like when Jennifer takes time out to write, and she says, have you ever been rehashing a movie with someone fully confident in your description, only to be corrected and told that you combine two movies and gave a mash up description. She says, men, hope you're feeling better from your wisdom teeth issue. I am feeling better, Jennifer,

thank you. Yes, Well, that's one of the things that's very scary about the way courts worked for so many years, where it was based on eyewitness testimony, and because what you remember and what actually happened are often two totally different things. You know, It's like it's our our memories are so flawed. Like we we we remember certain things,

but there's a lot of stuff we leave out. And and yeah, there's quotes that I've given from movies that I was conveyed Jennifer that I was like, I know that, and then upon further review, it was like, oh man, that's that's that's not it at all. A great example of that is feel the dreams. You know what, you know what the line is, the great line in that old baseball when you feel the dreams? Yeah, what if if you build it, he will come. Yeah, if you build it, he will come. But that is that is

not it, right, the actual the actual line. Oh, it's a little different. Yeah, if you build it, they will come, ye, not he will come, They will come. I guess we're waiting for his dad. So that's why we all say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's just something that said. You know, once it becomes the legend, you go with the who shot Liberty evilence? Once the legend you go with the legend and all that stuff. And there's there's a bunch of movie references

like that. But I'm sure that's happened to you too, right, Danny and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Just last week, I was talking about that Robert Redford classic The Natural Speaking of Baseball, and I was explaining to my tender Rowni son about that movie. He's never seen it, and I'm like, oh, you would love that movie. So I started explaining the movie a little bit my tender OROWNI was like, is that what happened? I don't remember that? And then she tried to play it off like she didn't want to

watch it. She said, oh, yeah, Danny made me watch that movie. H handcuffs or something. No, And then I started reminding her parts of the movie. She's like, I don't remember that. No, that wasn't in that movie. I think I know that movie. I had it on VHS tape as a kid, and we watched that movie over and over and over again. That was in a full time rotation. She just kind of thumbs her nose out of classic, like, yeah, it's ok it's okay, it's shot

think Redemption. She had never seen that. I showed her that movie and she's like it was all right. She has bad taste in some movies. Yeah, well bad damn. And also I just did the As far as the memory thing though, again like the distorted memory, it's it's kind of like I've brought this up before, because all we do is audio here. We promote audio, we we sell audio, and that's what we're in when the audio business.

And they've done studies that point out that in a podcast like this or a radio show, most people only remember seventeen of things they listened to spoken word, that's it. So that means all of this content, at most, at most is retained, which means you can do the math on that at seventy five right down to toilet. So could we record seventeen minutes for a podcast and then repeat the same seventeen minutes. Again. That's a great idea.

That is an absolute wonderful Like it's like some sports guys on the radio doing the first hour live and then playing it over and over and over again, yes, or doing one topic and yeah, repeating the bullet points every hour the audience turns over. I don't need any new content. We're good to happy to say. They do not allow that at Fox Sports Radio. I wouldn't want to be part of a show like that. Would not

come back. It's Finn from now. Call Pierre from Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame were Muffett, mcgraws and Shrine. Says, far be it from me to put the kabash on any fun or for volity on your daily show. But the is a butt. Yeah, I'm a fan of butts, but not this. But I don't like this kind. Better be a nice one. We don't like those flabby asses. Yeah, says the other day on

the Mallard Feud, you're contestant. I couldn't believe that his answer to the question names something that you do when you first get up in the morning, and he said take a pee. Wasn't in the top five of the

one people survey Pierces. My question is, without exposing your game show, who in the hell are the one people being surveyed besides Mrs Bella Bella, Mrs Mallar, rather, Earf Bella, Cooper, Roberto Eddie and yourself, Well, Pierre, as we like to say Danny, on this show, we don't talk about how we make the sausage. Just enjoy the sausage. Don't worry about how we make the sausage, because if you see how we make the sausage, you won't want to eat

the sauce. Only when it comes to monologues and games, though everything else is fair game, Yeah, everything else is are we talked a lot of behind the scenes, but yeah, when people ask you your secret recipe to your monologues or how does this work with a game, that's where we draw the line. We're like, Nope, can't ruin it for everybody will give you some chicken shit answer, some piecemeal answer that would be that. Next up is Carlos in Houston. He says, quick comment on the guy who

asked about old Ben Mallard episodes. Carlos as a life hack, he says, claims on Spotify that they have episodes going as far back as seventeen. He said they have an archive of old shows. He says, I listen to them from time to time, and I'm not gonna lie. He enjoys some of the old content, the old takes from back in the day, says ben Kin, you add Astro Mallard to your list of nicknames since you like to

cheat at the game. Should I do not cheat? That is a misconception that has been thrown out erroneously by my colleagues who have tried to slander my good name. Been going on for years. Well, it's all lies. It's all lies. It's all fake news, is what it is. Anyway, Carlos says, uh, let's get a full rundown of those nicknames. It's been a while since you've done on the podcast. And he says, also, Danny, will there ever be a day that you fill in for Roberto on the show?

I think I know the answer that Danny, that that will not happen. Uh, you can forget about that, right. You have to be honest with you. I don't even know how to fly the spaceship any longer. I'm back behind the pilot and I haven't done that in so

many years. To be honest with you, I would crash the spaceship so I would know how to play the drops, but I wouldn't know some other stuff that's been changed or updated through through the years, like the computer system and some of the methods of connecting the com rex boxes and things like that. Ben, the last time I was doing that, we were still using I SDN boxes. Yeah, which I'm a fan of the I S D. I like the D but yeah, it's like that's like a

hard line for people that are wondering. And as far as the nicknames, you know, Carlos, I would love to give you the nicknames. So I'm gonna give you the nicknames, is what I'm gonna I am noticed, the spin master of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster, the Beethoven of bs. You pay me five thousand dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine.

How dare you, Kurmudgeon of commentary, Chasm of sarcasm, czar of zany I'm on drugs right now, man, the dark night of weeknights sports radio now dumber for having listened to it. Mode of Mischief, Betty the Brazen King of Zing, Moneyball, Mallard, Betty the Bopper, Bill Miller, Facetious Fox, Sultan of insulting. I was gonna post up and take a nap right now. No, no,

I'm not. I'm not even halfway down. The Shaman of schaden Freud, the jumping Jack of wise Track, the Insight of Overnight Medicine, Man Miller, the name Bob of negativity, this Sage of outraged, Pinnacle of senecal, Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda, Tzar of Hyperperly. This isn't the number one station anymore, is it? And the Mad Hatter of Sports Day. Now that Dandy is only half of the nicknames.

Carlos wanted the full Monthy wanted the entire menu, and on a radio show, I can't really do that, but this is the podcast Danny, so dreams can't come true. That would take up the whole seventeen minutes of fresh content. So the rest of my fifty officially sanctioned nicknames are the Baron of Balgladesh, Big gall Bladder, Bennice, the Menace, Captain Nietsuer stop Eddie, General of the Genus, the Tycoon of Tease, Master of Disaster, the hustler of filibuster. My

right hand was getting a workout. Night Light of Nightlife of Producers, Benny Brightside, Manity of Insanity, Marconi Mallard, money Line Mallard, the Emissary of embellishment, week Night, wind Bag Beach, Wizard of Wacky, Slayer of Naysayers, Grand Goober of gab, the olda Gark of Dark. That's one of my newer names, the Oldagark of Dark, Tower of babel On. Oh my, oh my god. Now, don't don't act like your board

you're enjoying. Honest Adonis, nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue and wait for it, I am such a radio loser, the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that is all of the nickname Holy sh it. You don't have to say holy, you say boy, that's impressive. That's a lifetime of people giving you great nickti is what that is? All right now? Out of time because of that, we've used all the a lot of time on the podcast.

And let good job. Who was responsible for that. That's Carlos in the Den of inequity for sports anyway in Houston, Texas. Are you owe me some barbecued ribs, Buddy John and San Francisco is very upset. He says, all these commercials, very little content. He's talking about the radio shows, and no one listens to the last fifteen minutes of any hour anymore. I used to love this show. It's just

unbearably the hours commercials. That's from John. Well, it wouldn't be as bad if you weren't been Andy Reid, Clock Management Mallard. If that should be a new nickname for No, No, Nothing to do Now. They have added some more commercials, but there is a It's like it's like making a cake and you have to have all the ingredients. It's gonna be like there's that sweet spot where it's the right mix of everything. And sometimes we do get a little carried away John where it becomes problematic and I

feel your pain. I would recommend the podcast We're we're not supposed to say this, but you can fast forward? Wow, now that you should do that, because that's taboo, right then he should not do that. No, we need you to support the sponsors that support us. I'll make a deal with you though, if you want to fast forward to the podcast, I will send you a list of the sponsors. You can support the sponsors, and then you're

free to just fast forward through the podcast. Hey that's a good idea, right, and then they get what they want, you get what you want. We're all everyone's happy. The list of the sponsors with a link that would be good a link, just click on it. But so I do thank you, and John, I feel your pain. It sounds like you're tremendously hurt by this, which means a lot. I'd rather you be upset. There's too many commercials than

have apathy. I don't want apathy. Uh to me. That tells me you're a fan, John, you like the show, and you want to see a change, you want to see transformation. And um, I'm somewhere in the middle on this because I do agree with your point that he's gonna be as a perfect amount and and I don't know what that that barometer is, where where that baseline is.

But as we've talked about, Danny, when you do a radio show and there's not a lot of commercials, you got crickets, that's all we got, you start to get a little worried. At least you're not doing a live read every two minutes, because you listen to, like politics on the radio or talk talk radio. There is live commercial after live read after, live read after live read. Well, we do do a lot of live reay, surprising a

surprising number, Lady. We've been doing a lot of live reads, but I hear not as much as the daytime political talk radio people. We don't do that. Well, we'll keep it going. Hang in there, John, hanging there, buddy, stay with us. We're gonna figure this out. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Kevin in Kansas writes, and he says, Dear Benn and Danny, g it's summertime and the living is easy. You have the entire weekend free, including not having to go into work to do any radio show

on Sunday. Are you more likely to take it easy around the house or would you prefer to go away? I feel like we've been asked a version of this question, and uh oh wait, right then, you've talked about that you like to go on weekend trips and that ye hell yeah, and I mentioned it before. I can slap my girls ass super hard. There's no complaints. I mean, there's no complaints at home either, but there are kids in the house, so you gotta be careful a little

bit about what you're doing. Her little rat dog barks at me when I slap her too hard. Offensive yea, she thinks I'm hurting her. But when when? But when we're away, Ben, it's hotel sex. And you know the difference between hotel sex and kids at the house sex. You can let it all hang down, all hang here you go, look at you at the room service, the whole thing. Yeah, I think at that. Uh well, I I like a little bit about We love doing weekend day trips and stuff. And I mentioned like the last

couple of months it's been all about the beach. Like I I never used to go to the beach that much, but now where I'm in the north Woods, it's not that far away, so I've been going to the beach a lot. I love it. It's been great. It's like therapeutic to get my mind off the the rat race. It's also good because that particular beach that the WiFi doesn't the internet on my phone doesn't really work, so I have to like really shut it down, like I

have no connection to the outside world there. That's pretty good. But I like these little day trips around the area in California here, so we do a lot of that. But if you're in Kansas, like Kevin, you know a lot more, have many more options you're geographically it's not that far to drive to multiple different states to leave California. When you're near the Pacific. It's a long haul to get the Arizona or Nevada just to get to the state line. It's a long Yeah. Alright, next up on

this Ni meny mony mo. Let's see who is next. We don't need to play the SoundBite. Tony in Seattle writes in he says a favorite sitcom and why he says, keep up the good work. Well, thank you, Tony, as you are hanging out in a city. We had a Mallard meet and greet, the second to the last one. We did Appleton, Wisconsin this year, but we did Seattle back at the end of twenty nineteen before Armageddon. Uh so, I gotta go old school with the sitcoms. Well before

I do old school does curb your enthusiasm? That's not really a sitcom, right, Yeah, it's not a sitcom. Yeah, there's no laugh track. I love Curby in my favorite scripted or loosely scripted show old school. I watched the classics. It depends on how old you want to go. I love The Office. I think The Office is great, but that's an old show. All the shows I like, all the sitcoms are old, like Cheers Seinfeld. I was not a huge I didn't watch every sign Feld episode, but

I sporadically watched a sign of Frasier. Uh, like, these are all old shows w k RP and were kids watching reruns? Yes, that we can blame that show for our careers. Also reruns of the show Chairs. Yeah, Cheers, Cheers is great? Yeah, of that, let's see. I like, um, everybody loves Raymond and also King of Queens. Sure, sure those are classics. Who doesn't love the Golden Girls, Rob Parker? I know that he's over there. I'm kidding that is Rob Parker's and uh and as a kid, I really

love The Fresh Prince of bel Air. Yeah, yeah for sure. Uh, what are is the most popular show today? What's the most popular sitcom today? I don't know. I don't watch network TV. Yeah I don't either, I have no idea. Me and the Tender RONI we watched stuff like Ninety Day Fiance, I watched Better Call Saul stuff like that. But yeah, Network TV. Well over here, my wife watches like the French baking shows and all the foreign shows.

She loves foreign movies, and she likes movies where it's in a you know, a different language and they've got the words on the screen. And I hate that crap. But I watched a lot of documentaries. I'm pretty boring, all right. Next up balls fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country. He writes into the podcast. He says, the word is that Tiger Woods turned down a billion dollars to play in the Live Golf League. So when you were Danny g turned down a billion dollars to do another job.

Let me think about that. If it was blood money, right, you put up what they're getting at You can rationalize anything. Everyone's got their price. And I'm gonna go I'm not gonna be a phony and said I wouldn't do it. Uh, I would do it. But the goodness is based on my upbringing. I'm pretty sure the Saudies an't gonna throw any money, so I don't worried about that. I think I'm on the wrong tribe for them to send me

any money. But I uh, yeah, I would. Yeah, a billion dollars, Come on, billion dollars, that's life changing money for It's not a good comparison though, because Tiger Woods is already filthy rich, whereas you know, we don't have anything near a billion dollars. So but they're taking these guys, the Saudis are taking these guys that had twenty million, which a lot of money, and they're giving them a hundred and twenty million. But how much is enough? I mean,

how much? I'm sorry. If I had twenty million dollars, then no, I would not sell my soul. I wouldn't. Well. The other argument I've heard is that all of these guys are around more something, around the same age, they're from the same generation of golf, and so they don't want to be the one left behind all of their It's like, imagine, if you will, a world where all of your buddies, all of your friends are no longer there.

It's all different, and you're the last one left. But they're over there doing their thing in a different place, and you could be part of it, but you stayed behind, you know what I'm saying. We had a really good debate about this on the Covino and Rich Show last weekend. I told them, if you guys had a C in our shoe and it was being made in a sweatshop by kids, would you be okay making the profits off

of that? I just feel like, you know, everybody wants money, and it's so it's everything is so greed driven money, money, money, money, But in the end, what is it? My mom always taught me and my siblings, it's paper with m's on it. Now, don't get me wrong, I would love to make a ton of money, but at what cost? Where do your morals lie? If you have any? Well, everyone has morals,

but everyone, as I've said, everyone has a price. Like you say, you wouldn't do this, that and the other thing, but there is a dollar amount and you are true. As I've gotten older, when I was younger, I always thought, well, it's all about getting money and stuff. And as I've seen my parents die and friends of mine die and all that, it's like I've been at so many funerals over the years and like, well, all these people work their lives to get all this money and all this stuff.

And my mom busted her ash you had her own business. And then at the end, you leave it all behind, so you don't take it with you. You know, whatever you got you're leaving. You come into the world with what you had, and yeah, everything else is just you leave it behind. What's the old saying you can't pack

that ship into a hearse? Yeah, well not anyone, but they used to it, like and that's the funny thing, Like, that's why all this two right in the Yeah, I guess if you're Egyptian, right, I'm bringing all my golden riches with me, bitches. Just think all those poor pharaohs in Egypt too, though. I'm gonna leave all my richest right here and I'll be good. I'll come back. And then a bunch of m came in there and then

tore the whole thing up. Man oh man uh. A couple more real quick Berry in Music City, he writes, And he says, Benny, after your trip out east where you experience Zaxby's bow Jangles, And he says, Culvers, what's your ranking of all the fast food joints? Now and Nashville will have a raising Keynes in December. Will enjoy raising Keynes in December. There'll be a long line Berry Kney at combo, no colest Law, extra fries, toast. You can get it regular or on both sides. They'll cook

it on both sides. For that's my My order would lemonade, light ice, lemonade on light eyes, so Culvers. Of those two, I bo Jangles better than Zaxby's. That was a surprise. I thought I was gonna like zax because I've read so much about Zaxby Zachs actors. But I like bo Jangles better and Culver's. I think Culver's is better than bo Jangles. So of those three, Barry, I would have Culver's, which is a local chain in Wisconsin and Illinois and that part of the country. I would have Culver's ahead

of bo Jangles, and then Zaxby's would be third. I love the cheese curds at Culver's. That a lot of different things on the Maybe it's like the in and out Burger of Wisconsin, so it's it's really good. I was looking up online Culver's and I was like, maybe they put one out closer where I am. You know, I think the closest one is in Arizona. I don't like it enough to go to Arizona. I'm just saying, but we may be there for the super Bowl though. Well,

that's true. We are planning on going for the Super Bowl and next year that's gonna be fun. I can't wait for that little roady yass. Mike from Fullerton Rights and he says, Ben, was there any blowback when you exposed Blake Griffin from winning the NBA slam Dunk Contest or anyone that was slam dun contests in twenty even, Well, that's a good story, Mike. I haven't thought about that in a long time. I can't believe it's been eleven years. And uh and he says, for Danny g can you

slam dunk? Yeah? When I was a teenager, me and my older brother could get up and touch the rim because we had enough hops when we were teens. But yeah, as an adult, hell no, I can't get off the ground like that anymore. You need some flubber, that's what you need. You get that flubber. That's an outdated reference to flubber. That's an old movie. But Mike, Yeah, the Blake Griffin thing was interesting because the slam Dunk contest

was at Staples Center. Blake was he was a rookie but he had missed his first year with injury, and he was a big deal. He was like the breakout star in the NBA. The marketing arm of the NBA wanted Blake Griffin to be this big deal and so it was a slam Dunk contest. It was in l A at Staples Center. Were just now the crypto we're losing our ass arena or whatever it's called, and so uh.

The NBA had sent out a press release before the Slam Dunk Contest was concluded, and it's actually before it, actually I remember it was before it, and it said congratulations to Blake Griffin on winning the Kia Slam Dunk concin. Blake was also a brand ambassador for Kia. Whoops, that's how Wait a minute, And that was the one. If I remember, JaVale McGhee had an amazing dunk where he had like multiple basketballs. It was like an octopus kind of dunk. That should have been the one that won it,

but they gave to Blake Griffin. It was all about angles, like girls holding their phone up above their head. That's right, because he didn't really jump over a car, that's true. He did not. You're right, Yeah, it's over the front of the hood. Yeah. If the car had been parked in the land in the painted area facing yeah, jump the length of the car, Now that's something. Yeah, he would have landed on the hood. That would have been

great TV. Yeah, so that's a that's good. As far as blowback, I mean, there were some people saying, you know, what are you doing here? And the NBA people tried to spin it. The PR people for the NBA, as I recall, they were like, well, you know, it's a it was just a test email. I'm like, bull crap. Do you think Jordan and his heyday, do you think he could have cleared a car like for real as a car? Yeah? But I just him. I think there are a bunch of like Dominique Wilkins was an epic

dunker in his day. I think he could have done it. Dr j Julius Irving and there's probably a bunch of other guys right now they could do it. We gotta get out of here, Danny, it's Sunday. You are working your behind off, You're the science guy. Anything to promote here, anything. I'm back on my regular FSR schedule for Sunday. So Covino and Rich at five pm Sific time, and then the lead in show to you, which is Chris plankin Arnie Spaniard and of course your first show of the week.

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