The Fifth Hour: "They Said There'd Be No Math" Mail Bag

male male. It's another edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g. Radio is my favorite podcast of the week. So without further ado, let's get to the mail bag. And we have to have the proper open here, and that of course means one thing and one thing only. Thanks to the great ohio Al who sent that in a long ago we played every week on this show. We love the song and so thank

you to our buddy ohio Al. And if you want to send a song in for the radio show or for the podcast, you can contact me many many different ways the mail bag, though if it's just for the mail bag, you can answer the call on Facebook Monday or Tuesday, Ben Maller's show Facebook page and then the email Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com businesses. We've got more and more people who have been emailing questions in so that takes a little pressure off the Facebook

Army Danny, which is which is always nice. Uh. So let's get into it. And again these are actual questions sent in by actual fans of the show. God Love You, Thank you all right. First up is Neil and Jasper Deanna, formerly known as Can't Close the Deal. Neil one of the great callers on the show, and uh famous famous phone call was that woman in Kentucky, right, wasn't it There was a listener in Kentucky. Yes, I forget her name,

was it like Jennifer in Kentucky. Was Jennifer in Kentucky? Yeah, yeah, Jennifer and Kentucky. Very nice woman. And uh she went on a date. Neil and her went on a date and the sparks did not fly, apparently, so the guys gave him the nickname Can't Close the Deal. Neil. Uh, he says, although I did really close the deal. He now he's claiming. Neil's claiming after the fact that he closed the deal. Danny, g what do you think you

think he's just history? You think that's some of that hoo's your state politeness there that he's that he had. But now after the statue of limitations has run out, he's like, yeah, I did it. I did it. I like Neil. I'm not sure about that statement though a little skeptical of that. Neil. Anyway, I can't close the Deal'neil says, can you give me some must things to do or must do things if I visit southern California. I've always had been a dream of mine, He says,

always been a dream of might have visited California. I'm sure you have plenty of advice for me. I'm thinking about doing it within the next year. Uh. Yeah, Well, it depends on what kind of experience you want in California, Neil. There's a lot to do. Uh, spent a lot of time in traffic. You gotta plan out when to drive, when not to drive. That would be the most important thing. It's pretty tough to do, uber if you want to get a good, good grasp of California or southern California,

because it's so spread out. That's one of the problems. But you can do the Hollywood. The studio tours are pretty cool. If you you're into the movies. That's pretty neat. You can see a live taping that's free. Uh if you've never done that before. They tape sitcoms and I think that's stuff back open now after the COVID, right, Danny, I think it is. Um So if you're in the Hollywood stuff, that would be great. Uh, Universal Studios, Disneyland,

Nottsberry Farm. There's a lot of amusement parks around here, the beaches. But it's like there's all these different beach experiences because you've got Malibu Maliboo boo as my phone starts talking to me, but you've got Malibu Boo. I always my favorite place to take people from out of town as Venice Beach. I love going to people watch at Venice Beach. It's a freak show. Smoke weed. That's a good one. Santa Barbara, you and I've talked about

the Central Coast many times on the podcast. From Danna Barbara e Pismo Beach to Passo. If your girl likes to wine taste, there's tons of good wineries where you can get your girl nice and liquored up. Well, yeah, that area around the Hearst Castle is am it's hard to imagine you go to the Hearst Castle on all that land as far as you can see, was owned by a newspaper magnet And it's just and he and he died, his family donated the land of the state

of California. Otherwise there would be massive cities. There'd probably be big cities now with professional sports teams. And it is an amazing geographical location, central California. I love it. I have a big fan, just like you. And and then Yosemite. People don't realize that beautiful national park that we have here. When you are in Yosemite, it doesn't exactly feel like California. No, no, no, absolutely. And and I love Sequoia. The Sequoia trees are amazing, the giant forest.

It's kind of near Fresno a little bit. It's in between Fresno and Baker's Field. It's off the map a bit, but it's it's pretty cool. So it's you know what you want, what expends what you want? You can't do. You can't do everything, so you gotta pick and choose. Uh. There's also I love the beach in Corona del Mar. That's a beautiful Newport beach. That's awesome. Don't forget. Yeah,

don't forget beautiful northern California like Point Reyes. You can go to San Francisco and on the well, you can do that in l A. Also, you can do that in l A skid Row. And Neil said he's gonna visit Southern California's skid Row. Neil, do they still have the ghost Busters Firehouse? It's in skid Row in l A. The not in New York. The outside firehouse is actually in Los Angeles where they feel the original Ghostbusters back in the day. Or you could pull a coop. You

could go to Chico. You can go to Humboldt County. I would like to work with Seth Rogan. I think that'd be really fun. I wonder why, Yeah, you could. The possibilities are endless, are endless, So good luck. Let us know, Neil, what you end up doing, and good luck, safe travels. You'll have a fun time. It's pretty expensive, but you know, if you've never been, so there's that's why so many people want to live in this area and deal with the crazy taxes and the traffic and

the earthquakes and the fires. And we didn't even mentioned San Diego. This state is huge. Literally could spend two weeks on vacation here and not even scratch the surface. It's like a kinned on the east coast. If you combine Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and parts of Virginia, that would be California. Yeah. Yeah, Berry in Nashville is next, he says, Yo yo Ma Benny. Danny G has talked about his tattoos. Do you have any tattoos? If so,

what and where? No tattoos by me, he says. Also, does Danny g regret any of his ninety nine tattoos? Danny and he regrets on the tattoos. Uh, you have anything that you wish you didn't get? No? No, I think that I mentioned that I spent a lot of last year doing some cover ups, and it wasn't because of regret. It was because of old ink. You know, when you have a tattoo that's fifteen years old, the ink is not what it's should be in the art

isn't up to modern standards of a tattoo. Like you look at tattoos nowadays compared to tattoos even twenty just twenty years ago, huge difference. You could even see that in an NBA game. There might be a veteran off the bench and his tattoos just look kind of beat up. And then you see a young kid just out of college and he's got some badass tattoos on him. That is the difference. Back in the day, the art in

the tattoo machines that ink. There was a lot of advancement in technology for tattooing, So it's come a long way in just twenty years. You go to a good tattoo artist now and you could get a masterpiece on your arm. Back in the day, not so much. So I spent a good year doing cover ups. So now I look like I'm an NBA player straight out of college. Right now you look like Birdman. There's one of those birds going have a lot of colored tattoodes. I have

black and gray. Yeah. I spent one night the Birdman. Chris Anderson was playing for the Denver Nuggets and they were playing the Clippers, and I was out there and I was riveted. He was shooting jumpers before the game and he had his whole neck like up until the back of his hand was covered in tattoos. It was unbelievable. A lot of the rappers nowadays have all the face tattoos and everything. See, there's areas I would never tat. I would never go on my neck. I would never

do anywhere near the face. I don't even have full sleeves because I can cover my tattoos up with a longer, short sleeve shirt. And I want to keep it that way because if my mom saw my tattoos, she would faint. Wait, just she doesn't know the really, oh, because when I visit my mom, they're covered up. So yeah, you've been

able to keep this from your mom. Yeah, don't tell her, all right, big fan of the podcast, your mom, I'm sure she Yeah, she'll listen in to FSR Live sometimes the live show, but no, she's not a podcast listener. I got you interesting. That's crazy. How old were you when you got your first tattoo? Seven? I got my first tattoo when I was when I was all right,

that's still a long time. Not not to date you, dandy, but that's a long run to not be around your mom and then not Yeah, well, you know, she lives in northern California. I'm lucky to see her twice a year. With COVID, I saw her zero times a year. You know, it's a little easier to hide something from a parent when you're not around them very often. That is a fair point. And so your mom has not seen your

arms since you were twenty three. That's while the raider tattoo I got when I was twenty three was up on my shoulder. Okay, obviously I'm not gonna be rocking a tank top around my mom. I got you, I got you, all right, moving on here. I got mail yea, I got mail ya. Ravvy and Madison, also known as your feem me on Twitter, says, hey, Ben, if you guys have some extra budget, it would be cool to make animated shorts with audio clips from the show Funniest

Moments an animated form. Also, what is your current favorite drop? I gotta go with the fart drop for me. There are two variations, I believe. Finally, a shout out to my friend Glenn for putting me onto the show. That's from Ravvy. Well, Revvy, that's that's funny. I I always get a kick out of we both like Danny g I think the racist drop when you play it for everything, I get a kick out of that the most. The most non racist things in the world. You put the

racist drop on there, always think that's hilarious. Yeah, you read the letter last week about a black hole and their racist drop. After that, anything where you say white or black, I play that. There are certain drops that just if you fit them in at the right time, they really hit. And I know what he's talking about with that fart joke, Ben, because there's been times on the podcast where all I need to do to end our thought about the topic is just play the fart. Well,

it turns the page. Yeah, And as far as my favorite, it really changes by the day. Rabbit depends what kind of mood I'm in. I always laugh at the funky chicken are said in Cleveland did this little chicken song thing, which is hilarious. Hey Mona is another one of my favorites because it's Madison Wisconsin, Kathleen and Madison who was so excited to sing a song for us and has been immortalized on the show because of that that line, hay Mona, the way she said it. Also, Dick and Dayton.

There's a little clip of Dick and Dayton who's in two bands in Dayton, Ohio, and he sung on the show a little bit of a song and he was it was the most uninterested. He could not have put less effort in to the song. If I always laugh at that, I think that's that's hilarious. And there's also a lot of hollering James stuff from him snoring. Yeah, and I have a good one of him saying bring back the white women. Yeah, that's a that's another good

one white women. There's so there's so many blind Scott talking about his plunger uh and uh, there's there's a ton. So it really depends on my mood some some weeks. There's different things. I like like when somebody asked you, what's your favorite Michael Bolton song? Yeah, we think drops, you think, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's just I'm a fan of the entire catalogue. Yeah, so thank you, Rabby. I'm glad that you like the fart drop, which is just about as generica drop as you can get. But

what's so be it? I was like the out of context ones like the Rob Manford, Uh, Dave Roberts, I really liked him in that spot, the kerk Shaw We don't play those enough. The Kershaw one we goofed on Walker Bueler because he pitched a complete game this week for the Dodgers and like a hundred eight pitches I think it was. And we we were like, how selfish that is of of Walker Bueller to want to pitch a complete game, and I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish. That kind of stuff is

pretty funny, all right. Next up on the mail back, Yes, all right, Carlos in Houston Byang Byang, Texas says, long time, no talk, Ben. I'm always listening, even when I don't send in questions. Thank you for explaining the Mendoza line. I thought it was named after the broadcaster Jessica Mendoza. Uh my question for you this week is will Real Talk ever come back to the show? I need some Ben in the people the game show. Uh well, let me let me stop right there. So I have. I've

lifted the band on Real Talk. Back up, back up, up up. As many know, I came back after my father passed away. It was very emotional. I had, uh my dad. I did not think was gonna check out when he checked out. Unfortunately, you never know when you're gonna check out. He had not been sick up until a couple of days before he passed away, So it was very shocking, uh, and I had a tough time

dealing with that. So when I came back, Real Talk kind of goofed on me a little bit, and we thought that was inappropriate, so we we didn't ban him from the show. We just put him on time out for like six months and then said he could come back. But he's he has not come back to the show, and so it's been been being a year in a few months since my father passed away. So uh, yeah,

I don't know they'll ever come back. At this particular point, I'm not sure was if he was telling the truth, he was getting married, so maybe he's married now he's got kids. I don't know what's going on with him. And Carlos also says, I'm surprised you didn't do a Mallard monologue on the comments made by Adam Schefter and Gil Brandt about the Dwayne Haskins passing. Yeah, I debated

doing that. I try to stay away from the death stuff as much as I can, just it's so sad and I hate talking about that kind of stuff, and I wasn't put enough of that during lame jokes. Pretty much but but Gil brand that definitely crossed the line. Gil But I didn't think the Adam Am I wrong, Dan. I didn't think what Adam Schefter did was like egregious. I think it was just people in the in the moment getting upset by anything. It's not praising of Dwayne Haskins.

But what Gil brand did you just can't do. But Schefter was just stating a fact thought about the guy's career. Brandt obviously sounded like an old Kajer shaking his fist at the clouds. When I read Schefter's thing, I was like, okay, whatever, Like maybe he didn't really think it through all the way, but it wasn't horrible. Yeah, I had the same vibe, and I like Adam, so I don't know. Maybe maybe

that's part of it. But Gil Brandt definitely, oh my god, Like when our grandparents say things that are racist or insensitive, it's sad that I say, we're used to it, but you kind of are because that's the way they talked back in the day, and a lot of them are stubborn and don't want to change the way they talk. But I also think at some point we're all going to be like that even now you live in politically

correct times, Danny. But I think even we we get to a certain age, I believe the human body one of the things when you start to get a little older, the what's the filter? You lose the filter, You become more raw. You don't want to put up with the bullshit of life, and you just want to just let it rip. And so I just think people when they get older, they're like, I don't need to put up, I don't need to impress you. I'm gonna turn into a full time New Yorker. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much?

All right? Next up on the mail bag, Tammy and Montana. Right, since it's Benn Danisy, you are correct. I am a nice person, but when someone attacks me or people I care about, then that changes. When hideous Helen stock Gascon's family and verbally attacked Coop Eddie, et cetera. On top of her bragging that crossed the tolerance line for me, Tammy says, hideous Helen, this is the war that's been going on here. She says, Hideous Helen always makes negative

comments about sexual pleasure and arousal. She obviously isn't capable of arousing a man probably why she was fired as a fluffer. Wow. Uh, there's another meaning for the Mendoza line that Helen definitely fits. It's where a woman's stomach protrudes further than her breast. Wow. That's you Ever heard that? Danny? I don't know, but that one. Uh. Sorry, Danny. There will be no uh kombayya songs with Helen. Question though, Tammy has for Danny fifty seven tattoos and counting. Would

you get a tattoo honoring band? Wow? Wow? Maybe maybe, she says, maybe a Clipper banner for their Final four appearance? What is still wrong with the Clippers? She's going to play in tournament? Well, you know, I do have a Kobe tattoo. The Raider tattoo, now Ben is just updated. It's just uh. I have a sword that has a R and the sword and a Dodger logo. The D in cursive is the handle to the sword. Oh nice, it's my tip of the cap to both the Dodgers

and the Raiders. As far as a radio tattoo, I learned my lesson on that because when I was a youngster, I got a girl's name tattooed on me because of a super bowl bet that I it live on the air, and it caused trouble throughout my adult life because whenever I would date somebody knew, they'd be like, who's this Trina bitch? And so I would have to tell the whole story, and that the girl would just not be impressed and like, yeah, sure, so yeah, that would be

a little awkward. If you're a woman and you're making making with the dude and she's and he's got some some other woman's name on the tattoo, that'd be a little tough. I would think, Well, how about the chicks who got guys names on their back? Well, it's yeah, it works the same way on the back to which is when you get a tattoo in your back, you're really I believe you're doing it for the main reason is, uh, certain activities Danny did so people can enjoy the view

were not wrong in that. Girls like why are you slapping me right there? I want to show you where you need an updated tattoo. There was a guy when I was around the Dodgers, the guy the Dodges traded for from the Minnesota Twins, and I'd say the name. There were a couple of pictures. It's one of two guys and he had it was a journeyman relief picture, and he had he had a tattoo from every team he had played on. And it was kind of cool because it looked he had colored tattoos of the Twins logo,

the Dodgers logo. I think he had the red sox on there. It was really neat and he had all the different teams and it looked it reminded me of the I used to get every year, because I'm old before the Internet, the Red and Green books would come out every year. They with the National League was I think, I think was the Green book, and the American League was the Red book, and it had all the logos on the back. And for some reason I just thought

of that he looked like a NASCAR. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, pretty much, all right, what is next year? We do? And Helen and Stu write in how about that? From palmetto Bay, Florida, says Ben and Danny ge We always enjoy your witty fifth hour commentary and hootspun. I love the word hudspos great word, Benjamin. Time for a long letter today. You need to grab your flat cap and catch a flight, we go right to the spicy

question from Stu and his golf buddies. Okay, so this is Helen asking a question for ste the power couple from palmetto Bay Floor. And Helen says, Ben, what will you and your wife's romantic strategy be while staying at your brother's house in ultra conservative Appleton, Wisconsin, middle of the night, loud and proud relations and deal with the consequences at breakfast or quiet on the down low? Just ram it? Well, we actually have an update. Hell, that's

quite the way to describe it. Uh. And you know how I am Helen from listening to this podcast. Uh, never loud and never proud when it comes to that kind of stuff. Only when it comes to me making a prediction on the radio show A my loud and proud. But when it's making whoopee, it's h was it slow and study wins the race? Quiet? You're in the library. I don't know, and I actually am not. I'm not

gonna be staying with my brother. I have an update. Now, I had assumed that you know what happens when you assumed Danny had assumed the position that I was gonna be staying at my brother's place in Appleton. I called my brother up this week to double confirm he and my other brother from New York who's meeting us. It's a big Mouther get together there in Appleton. I have not seen either one of my brothers in a long time,

so we're all getting together to debor reunion. And my my older brother says, uh, well, he didn't tell me. I'm a younger brother told me my older brother had already booked up the guest room at the house, so that meant we had to scramble to find other other places to stay. But the good news is in Appleton, it's not a vacation destination. It's not Disney World, it's not Manhattan. Not a lot of people going to Appleton, Wisconsin on vacation. So I'm in. I'm in pretty good,

pretty good shape. There. You've got bro blocked. I did. I was. I was shocked. Ait man, Let's get an airmashers so I'll sleep on the floor. What's the big deal? But no, I gotta stay somewhere else, all right? Next up here, what do we have all come back? It's sim Pierre from Springfield says, been your tales of frugality or legend there, would you and Danny g care to share some of your life hacks or fast food hacks with some of us in the back of the class.

He says, also, any chance of getting Rob Parker back on to talk some early season baseball, Trevor Bauer and some more of his bargain basement hacks. I love Rob well absolutely, when I get back, we'll have Rob will be in our rotation, assuming he'll do it. I think

he will. I love talking ball with Rob, and he's got great stories and all that, and his days as a beat writer, and he's the one that inspired He told the story the famous if you're an old school baseball fan, the famous incident in Cincinnati between Lupinella and Rob Dibble was a Rob Parker creation, so to get him on. As far as frugality at fast food restaurants, I don't eat too much fast food these days. I'm not beyond beyond some of the hats you got any

hacks right now? I have a lot of old tricks that wouldn't work anymore. Any tricks at fast food restaurants, Danny, that you want to share with the class, Yeah, I'll give you one for Starbucks. So I don't go there daily, but I go there once in a while as a treat, maybe once a week. Get a frappuccino, some sort of sweet drink that also has caffeine in it, maybe like an iced latte caramel I like. But here's the thing.

If you tell them I'd like some caramel drizzle in that, which is the best part of their sugary drinks, they'll charge you an extra sixty six cents for that caramel. So what you do is order the drink the way it's supposed to come, and then when they're handing it to you, you just say, hey, whould you mind putting some caramel drizzle on that? In nine out of ten times they say, oh, no problem and take the top off, pour all that seventy cents of caramel in there, even

though it really cost seventy cents. You're off to the races. I do that every time, Ben, and so I save a good sixty five cents every time I'm at Starbucks. All right, So you do the math and you go every week once a week. Is that right? Let me pull out the calculator. Hold on a secre. Pull out the calculator. To the math on this and you go every week during the course of the years that it might correct on that there's fifty do the math here

and see you click on that. So there's fifty two weeks so and then sixty five cents, so you end up saving at the end of the fifty two weeks. But this is off. This is this math is off. So it's is it like, uh, it can't be that much? How much is that? Do the math? And my math is not thought there'd be no math on this show. Three hundred is that three? That would be thirty four dollars a year. Oh, I was way off. Hey, that's still pretty good for you know, coffee, thirty four bucks.

That'll buy a quarter of a tank of gas. All right, But is next I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yea. Next up is Mike in Fullerton, he says, ben I was. It was not surprised to find out that you're afraid of alligators. It explains why you just like Kyler Murray and his tiny alligator like arms so much. What would be a harder pill for you to swallow? Kyler Murray being the Rams quarterback in the future, or jose Albouve playing for the Dodgers at some point. Well, come on,

this is very straightforward here. It's as much as I love the goof on Kyler Murray, it is albu Vey by a country month because at that point in time, I was at Game seven of the World Series. I was at I was very fortunately was able to go to the Dodger World Series games in twenty seventeen, Games one and two, and then the final couple of home games they had at Dodger Stadium, and so I was there. I was a waiting as I saw it, I with my own eyes, and I was like, I get to

be there when they win the World Series. Now they did finally win the World Series in twenty I wasn't there, though they wanted in Arlington during COVID, I didn't get to go. So Jose Albouve deprived me of a great life moment and experience that could have had if they hadn't been cheating. We all know the Astros were much worse than the Dodgers as a result. They were cheating, and they scored the same number of runs in that World Series as the Dodgers. So capeche Alright, let's keep going.

Doug in Chicago, right, So I'll be in Chicago a couple of days since you're leaving us behind. And UH, this coming week, what is your worst travel experience? Uh, and he says, this is for both you guys. Well, Doug, there's many stories I've had over the years, back when I used to travel a lot, and one of them actually does involve Chicago. I was stopping in Chicago on my way to New York, but I was flying into LaGuardia. There's no direct flights from the West coast to the

east coast of LaGuardia, so you have to stop. So I stopped in Chicago and Uh and I changed planes, had a layover in Chicago, got on the plane, we left, We rolled away from the gate. This is in the mid nineties. We rolled away from the gate, and as we are waiting to take off, there is a lightning storm that hits the Chicago area and we sat on that plane. It's like an hour and a half two hour flight to New York from Chicago. It's not that long a flight. We sat on that plane for four hours,

four hours in a lightning storm. Oh my, it was horrible. They changed, they changed the rule and they're not had to do that anymore, I believe. I don't think they could do that, but in those days they could. So that was that was ter. I got stuck in an elevator in l a X. That was that was interesting. What about you? Any travel nightmare stories, Danny G. You

want to share with the class here? Yeah? I DJ had a gig in my early twenties in Mexico for somebody's wedding reception, and it was beautiful, ocean was beautiful. I didn't drink the water. I took everyone's advice. I drank bottled water, but it was hot, and during the party, I kept going into the restroom at the resort splashing cold water on my face. Well, I didn't know. I didn't know that water could get in your plores and get you sick. Oh no, Montezuma's revenge. Don't they call

that Montezuma's revenge? I think that's for it. It was horrible. I wound up in the e r when I got back to the States. So you were you had dysentery, it was bad. I had e cole. I wow, you were fighting the water supply in Mexico. When people come from Mexico to California or America and the water is normal. Do they have a weird reaction to it because it's normal or we think is normal? Or are they just fine? That's a good question. But yeah, I had a two

days stay at the hospital through on the IVY. The medicine gave me was heavy duty, and they finally were able to get it out of my system, but it was something that affected me for like a month after the trip. Man, all right, uh, let's keep it going here. Who is next? Do we have a couple of quick questions. We'll get those on right now. Next we know to play a sound bite. John and Northern Colorado says he says original chips Ahoy, nutter butter, or Oreo cookies. As

an old school stoner, I go with chips ahoy. Well, as a recovering fat man, John in Colorado, I go with chips ahoy. Also, although the nutterer butter not bad. What about you, Danny, that's the big three right there. You gotta make a choice. Go ahead, they're all good choices, but I would go Oreo cookie here and then a slight remix. This is in the kitchen right now. The lemon Oreo cookie all those are the ones with a

yellow on top. Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough. I love those chips ahoy though that chocolate and oh man, they're good, although I make a better home cookie now, but back in the day. For convenience, you go in there, you can eat a whole sleeve of those chips ahoy. And and now they have the bags. They've had the bags for a while, so that's good. Also, all right, we'll do a couple more quick ones here. Blind Emmett,

the Seahawk fan. Blind Emmett says in Olympias, how excited were you been this week to know that the person filling in for Garcia a Clipper. Fanny yah Mancy, the the Clipper fan. Yeah, it's it's always interesting when new people come to Fox Sports Radio and you have to there's a feeling out process. Danny have to figure out how that it's all going to work. Um, but it's the first time in like forever. It's not numb nuts. Brian Finley, who's nor only the one that comes in

and fills in so and this one. If you feel are out, it goes to hr department. The good news about the home studio, I do not have to worry about that. I do not have to worry about that kind of activity at all. We're good, We're good, We're good. John in Relief, Kentucky sent this weird email. He was very upset with people goofing on uh. Deshaun watsy. It sounds like John loves massages uh and he's defending the massage. Matt in Rhode Island says that he's not related to

Paula Joan Rhode Island. He says, Alfie, anal pineer, posted something, so that's why he's writing in. He says, how would you guys prepare for the zombie apocalypse, which, the way things are going, might have already happened. Well, that's easy, Matt. I now know how to prepare for these zombie apocalypse You ready, Danny, here's what you do. Buy a lot of toilet paper, water and hand sanitizer, bam, the big three. That's all you need. That's all you need. That is

my final answer. Yeah, what about you anything anything there? Now? Ye? That in some Trito's alright, Heather and Houston says, yeah, she's not an astro. Fancie does live in Houston, though. What's the weirdest internet rabbit hole that you've been down. We don't have a lot of time to do that. Marble racing. I've done that recently. Since I'm going to Appleton, Wisconsin, the home of Harry Houdini, I've been watching Harry Houdini documentaries. Uh.

I love this weekend baseball like weird crap like. I spent several hours watching little clips on w C Fields uh. And the only reason I did is I he has one of my favorite quotes of all time w C Fields. He's the guy Danny that said, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. And that is the mantra of my career right there. Any rabbit holes real quick, Danny that you want to yeah for me?

On YouTube, I'll watch a lot of classic music videos and then, like, for instance, I was watching LLL cool J live performances last week, and then there's a band that I love, Incubus, and I probably watched every live performance that that band has ever done, including all their famous appearances on The Letterman Show. That's cool old school you you go back, you flash back to Are you like me? When I'm watching this Weekend Baseball. I'm like,

all right, how old was I? I probably watched this when I was like twelve years old, and I'm like, what was my life like? What did I think my life was going to be like the rest of my life? What would twelve year old me think of what I'm doing now? Like, the whole thing, All those thoughts go through my head. We got so excited when we were up early on those mornings watching that show and Tommy Losorda would come out with the Genie hat thing that

he wore. Yeah. Also whenever Pete Rose would be on there. I mean, these guys were larger than life to us as little kids. They were baseball gods. So to see them on TV when we were little kids like that, Yeah, it's it's something you can't really describe it or explain it. You just had to be there at that time in

the eighties, Yeah, for sure. And the whole thing with the fact we didn't have games on every night, you only saw the local teams, and so the only time as a kid I saw the Toronto Blue Jays was on this Weekend Baseball. There was this this thing of mystery, and yeah, I remember Mike Schmidt coming on an episode and teaching us how to hit the ball the right way. Oh well, yeah, there was a guy. There was a guy for the Minnesota Twins named Frank Viola. This picture

for the Twins in Twin notes. He gave how to throw the circle change, like how to hold the ball. So then I threw the circle change in Little League. I learned it. I probably could have blown my arm out doing it. But that the split figured fastball. That was awesome. It was great. That's how every kid on the block was getting a leg up on the baseball competition. Absolutely, all right, we gotta get out of here and again next weekend, original podcast, amazing content. What do you got

going on today? Danny? How can people follow you along? Sunday afternoons meaning the Covino and Rich Show. A lot of fun on FSR with that show and then right after that the warm up for the Ben Mallor Show. Chris Plankin, Arnie Spaniard out standing and be safe. Have a great week this week. Don't forget about me. I'll be back. I'll be back. Listen to the show. You know who's going in for you tonight? Do not know who's filling in, but I'm sure it'll be an amazingly

talented talktra host. We will do a fine job. Support the Times Long exactly because I still get some credit for the time slot even though I'm not there. So if all of a sudden people stop listening to the show, that will help my ego, but it won't help the company, so I I gotta look out for that and so support the show. Have a great day, I have a wonderful week, as I said, and we'll catch you next time on the podcast. Have a great trip. Eat a

lot of pork grinds. Yeah right, deep dish Pazza, Danny g. That's what I'm gonna be eating. Ranch No, never,