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In the end everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio, and it is a mail bag kind of a day. But before we get to the mail bag, Danny G we have some business to take care of and that involves op goes to the culture. So we've got a little time for that. And why don't we start out going right into the pop culture world. What do you say? Yes, John, John, thank you, Ohio. So these are some of the stories I most likely did not get mentioned at least on on my show.
But these are things in the real world and we will react to them in real time. And here's a new fad that is going around. This comes out of New York, but apparently it's going on elsewhere. It's called master dating, not master the other thing, master master. Have you heard of master dating, Danny?
No?
Yeah, So this is a new phenomena, or at least so it says. So the Internet says it is the practice of lavishing ones with choice gifts, treats, and outings in an effort to establish a healthy sense of self sufficiency before entering into a serious relationship with someone else. So essentially, essentially what you're doing is you're taking yourself out on dates.
Yes, I have seen a few different girls on Facebook and Instagram doing this, but they didn't have a title for it. Also, you probably have seen this on social media where it shows the guy or the girl and they have two slips of paper in their hand and they have their significant other choose one and like one says Taco bell and the other one says five star restaurant, And based on whichever hand they pick, that's where they lead them to on their date.
Oh, I've seen.
Girls doing this, but they're doing it for themselves. Well, I don't need a man. I'm gonna take myself to a five star meal.
And I gotta tell you, this is one of those things I was ahead of my time, Danny, and I would like to thank all the women that would not date me in my younger days. But I was a master, the master dating thing. I had that down because I had to lavish myself with gifts and food and outings because the opposite sex had pretty much boycotted me for a number of years. So I was ahead of the curb on this one. I was out in front of that. I mastered that back in.
The day you were, Chris Jackson.
Yeah, I was way out in front of that. Next up, the only fans. This blows me away. The only fan things. I don't get it. I don't understand it, but I guess I'm in the minority on this only fans users. You see this story bouncing around this week. Only fans users. You see how much they spent on the platform last year. They have the finance, so those only Fans had to file their taxes, and so they have the amount of revenue they brought in in the year twenty twenty two.
And Only Fans is a It's a porn site. That's mostly what it is. Let's be honest here. It's a young one.
No. When you click on it, it looks nothing like a porn site. It looks like a lifestyle site, and most of it looks like workout crap and stuff like that, where it's kind of like a video diary for a lot of the people that make content. But then buried underneath of that are couples and mostly singles, single ladies who have content where you wouldn't mind paying your ten dollars a month or whatever the subscription is because they have exclusive content. Wink wink, if you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, there's a lot of your click a link, it's got the naughty thing on it, and then you're off to the races. It's all right there. So anyway, listen, people love this. So you want to take you guess how much money they brought in OnlyFans in revenue? Oh, total total revenue last year.
Yeah, it's I mean it's got to be a billion dollars.
How about five point six billion?
Only revenue?
Five point six billion. They tell you that is the most valuable thing TNA people will pay for TNA. And then they were and the revenue increased by sixteen point six percent from the previous year. They made four point eight billion the previous year. And the business model of only fans, all the people that run Only Fans do is set up the platform and allow people to distribute their their naughty, their naughty videos, and they take a twenty percent cut right off the top from the creators.
So that means that the people that run OnlyFans who did not have to make a porn movie, they just provided them and they went away with more than a billion dollars. A billion dollars from OnlyFans.
What a creation.
And especially during COVID, you know, there were a lot of different jobs that people were okay with at home, staying at home.
A lot of people are like, well, what are these jobs where.
People stay at home and they don't have to drive into any office anywhere.
This is one of them.
Yeah, you could, like, if you were one of these really beautiful women, you could do a couple videos in the morning and that's it. You're done, and you can record them whenever and then you're on your way.
Well, remember there's no rule either about how much content you have to post. I read an article last week. It was about a couple and they post like one video a day and it was talking about how it's changed their lives. And if you're good at marketing, you can make it in this world nowadays, because.
That's what a lot of that is.
The article was pointing out that the ones who make actual decent money on OnlyFans are the ones who know how to promote themselves on other social media platforms.
Well, it also helps if you have certain goodies that you won the genetic lottery, if you know what I'm saying. Oh me Lebron won the Genetic Lottery, but some of these women won the genetic Lottery also. I mean, my god, I got it all over me. It's wild, man, it is wild. I saw this story on Popco's The Culture. I thought of you, Danny. The only reason I'm bringing this up is you work in education addition to radio.
See a teacher in Oklahoma this week the first day of teaching at an elementary school and she got dinged for drunk. Teaching was hammered, and she was confronted at the end of the school day around three o'clock after the school had let out. People were I guess kids were complaining, and so they gave her the test and she was completely intoxicated. And so in Perkins, Oklahoma, she got thinks it's all been recorded on video, so she must have been drinking in her coffee cup, right, that
would likely be what she was doing all day. Instead of drinking coffee, she had some Irish coffee, shall we say?
I mean, think about it. You're doing a teaching job. And what's the name of.
The town, Perkins, Oklahoma?
Perkins, Oklahoma. You might want to look that up.
But that sounds like a population of two thousand people.
Yeah, I can leave it up. But Perkins is with a restaurant.
You've heard of the restaurant that was.
Wasn't that part of the famous type wod story He had a s Oh.
Yes, the Perkins waitress. You're right, Yeah, well you're not wrong. Here I'm looking up Perkins, Oklahoma. Let's see here, Perkins, Oklahoma. The population Wow, okay, the population in the twenty ten senses was two thy eight and thirty one.
Oh wow. See that's the thing. Man.
I don't know what grade she was teaching, but you know, she was having a bad week. She's probably like, F them kids, F the dean here at the school, f the principal, and you know, and then she's just tipping it back.
Fun fact about Perkins, Oklahoma. Frank Frank Boardman, better known as pistol Pete is from the Frank Eaton. Frank Boardman Eaton known as pistol Pete, is from from there, and he was a cowboy and a sheriff back in the eighteen hundreds. So there you go. Fun fact. Pistol Pete. Is that the original pistol pet because I when I think of pistol Pete, I think of the basketball player Pistol Pete.
Yeah, it sounds like you're talking about the og one who had a load of guns.
With the sources and here's more information about pistol Pete. There is a statue of this guy at a college in Oklahoma, and you know the symbolic figures the American Old West and Oklahoma and whatnot, and there's a school well it says here Oklahoma State. The Cowboys became the nickname. But their mascot was based off a famous photo of Pistol Pete and that's what their mascot, I guess, is based on him.
So wow, their version of Buffalo Bill.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When I visited Wyoming, I went to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and it was a really cool museum, lots of guns.
I loved it.
When I think of Buffalo Bill. I think of Prim, Nevada on the way to Vegas, Buffalo Bill's resort right there in Prim right on state line, losers. That's what I think of. All right, Next up, what do we have? A woman in Springfield, Missouri was arrested this week first degree arson. The fire department there claims she poured gasoline on some clothes. She then lit a spicy tortilla chip to start the fire. So, of all the ignition devices eight I liked that she didn't just use a regular
tortilla chip. She used a spicy tortilla chip.
Oh, so those chips are replacing bick.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, you don't need matches or anything like that or a lighter. You're good to go. You are absolutely good to go. Well, here's a story that will warm your heart. Danny, I hate this now. Dodger Stadium got of the regular straws. They have paper straws because take care of people. And I hate paper strap Oh it's terrible, and you got to have like seven of them. So now there's a new study out, but we're saving the environment. Well, now paper straws are
being canceled. Scientists are saying that echo friendly utensils like straws contain potentially toxic chemicals and they claim they're just as bad for the environment as plastic versions. So now we have to cancel the paper straw Also.
This is one time we're happy that something is getting canceled.
Bring back the plastic, Bring back the plastic straws. And this is more mostly a California problem, I think, Danny, and maybe a California New York thing, because in a lot of other places they don't have to deal with this kind of nonsense. But it's one of the great things we have about living where we live. And good news or bad news. The good news is if you like radio act to waste, you'd be very happy with this story. The bad news is if you want to
eat food, you're probably not gonna like it. The people over in Japan have dumped one point three million tons of radioactive waste from the famous nuclear power plant meltdown into the Pacific Ocean. They have dumped one point three million tons of radioactive waste, water and whatnot right out into the mighty Pacific Ocean. What could possibly go wrong?
What is that like a five hundred dollars fine?
Yeah, exactly now. They claim, I love this. They claim that they've they've followed all the guidelines and all the rules, and everything's good here. There's nothing to see and everything will be all right. So they say, Danny, So they say, and my theory. And Brian Bilick mentioned this on the Friday podcast. You know, it's the theory of the world.
Nobody knows anything. People think they know, and they can give a masterclass about what they think they know and give webinars and all that and give lectures, but ultimately nobody knows anything.
So yeah, says a guy who spent two years dodging us.
Two years. Let's get to the mail bag. What do you say? It's mail bag? Thank you, ohiol first one. And these are actual letters by actual listeners. If you want to send a message in just do it right now. You don't have to wait for me to post something. You do it right now, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. All letters know numbers, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. And we may use your message on on the show. We may do that. Dan from Durham,
North Carolina. Right, since so Helo, Ben and Daddy G Daddy are people driving crazy fast on the interstate highways there on the West coast post pandemic. Here in North Carolina, if you're going less than ten miles over the speed limit, you better be in the slow lane, says Dan, as it's turning into the Autobahn. So Dan, I would like to file a formal complaint, Dan, because I was in North Carolina not that long ago, and the speed limits
are way too low. So I side with the drivers going ten miles over the speed limit in North Carolina. In LA where we are, it is very difficult most of the time to drive over the speed limit because there's so much traffic. But when I go into work, I do the overnight show. So when I go into work, it is like people are in Fast and the Furious. It is a life movie. Everyone's trying to outdo each other and change lanes as fast as you can. It is the Autobahn is what it is in many respects Dan.
It's it's craziness.
Yeah, I'm not gonna hate on driving fast because, as you know, Ben, I have a need for speed.
I drive, I drive. You know my Michi gos Danny, I had a cop tell me one time seventy nine a under, I won't give you a ticket. The only time I've gotten a ticket since then is in Minnesota. But in California I haven't gotten a ticket. And the other places I've been, I didn't get a ticket in Boston or you know, any of those New England states I drove through, so seventy nine another, but yeah, there are people I go seventy nine and I get past, like I'm going five miles an hour.
Crazy these cars nowadays, they'll tattle on you. Because I was at Jiffy Loube a few days ago, and you know, after they change the oil, they reset your dashboard for you, the electronic dashboard.
Yeah, as I was stepping.
On the gas pedal and the guy was looking through my electronic dash it said highest speed recorded one hundred and ten miles per hour. Oh really, that's in there when I did that, or which day or night that was. But the guy kind of stopped and looked at it, and then he's like okay, and he kept moving up seeing him, Well, you.
Were trying to get your your wife to the hospital for the baby. Wrong, clearly that was the move. Next up Alf the Alien Old Pineer from week one of the NFL season, says Ben you know me well enough. That's correct. I know al very well. Alf's been one of the great p ones of the show over the years, and I would say the most loyal. He listened while on a family vacation at a Disney resort in Orlando. He stayed up to listen to the live show. That's dedication.
That is dedication.
My evergreen question is what in the hell is going on with Benny versus the Penny? Spill the tea and he says, secondly, you know that I read between the lines and listen between the words. So the breadcrumbs you've been dropping about your Northeast barnstorming tour are killing me? Would you like to expand on the subject. So, Al, these are great questions. There is nothing to release at
this moment. I will tell you that if everything goes the way it is going, there will be some kind of Benny Versus the Penny announcement, probably on the upcoming Friday podcast. Danny, I think that's next week's podcast.
This sounds very similar to me teasing the Animal Thunderdome with Klay Traviss.
Well, it feels like that, and you were, of course the Penny last year on this podcast. You did a great job representing the penny and we've done this bit for many, many years and there there may or may not be something brewing. I don't know for sure, and so we'll we'll see what happens. And as far as the Northeast Barnstorming Tour, I am not able to disclose
exactly what that was about. But when the time is right and when I get the green light and everything is taking care of the way it's supposed to be taken care of it, if it needs to be taken care of, I will let you know. Alf of course I will. Why would I not like what am I? You know, I just can't. I can't talk about a lot of this stuff right now, obviously because of there's certain reasons I can't.
Boy after that explanation, we all need fifth Hour podcast to Cooder rings.
I know.
I know. Well. The problem too is I'm definitely in the closet. Yeah, I mean, there's a method the madness, that's all I'll say. There's a method of the madness. But there's nothing bad. It's not bad. It might be really good, or it might be the status quo. Maybe you'll hear Danny G and me back on the Fifth Hour podcast doing Benny versus the Penny or maybe not. I don't know, but I'll get some clarity on that, hopefully very soon. Alf So fingers crossed. Keep the fingers
crossed on that. And next up, let's see who wrote this one in I didn't write the name now, I says, Hi, Ben and Daddy Og sorry to not oh oh this is this is Mike. No relation to ferg Cat, no relation Mike and Fulloton. He says, sorry. I did not make it to the meet and greet last week. Ben. I was convinced that crooked Hurricane Hillary would flood the entire state of California. So I spent the weekend building a boat out of tennis balls with my roommate. Well,
very impressive, he says. Were you guys worried about the hurricane at all or did you know it was just going to be a little rain. Well, I was mildly concerned because Iowa Sam, Danny g the Great Iowa Sam was convinced that we were all going to die. So he was up selling the storm at work. And then I went on the internet and I saw some stories. I was like, worst story, worse storm, since nineteen thirty nine, and that that got me a little riled up. But
the problem is the media. Danny and I guess we're part of the media, but the news media, their instincts are to scare the shit out of everyone, and then they're like their whole business models, Well they'll watch longer if they're scared, and then they just think there's no fallout for being completely wrong, Like people don't grasp the people in television news don't seem to grasp the fact when you're completely wrong, you lose credibility, and people don't
pay attention the next time, and maybe the next time they actually need to pay attention.
Yesterday's podcast on Saturday, make sure you download that. We went into detail about the really funny coverage of the local LATV news stations.
Yeah, what's your favorite TV news station? Are you a Channel five guy? Are you a Channel four? Channel two, Channel seven? Nine? Were you eleven?
They're all kind of just vanilla to me. Honestly, there's not one channel where I'm like, oh, they do it so much better.
It's all bullshit coverage to me.
Yeah, I missed the big over the top ron Burgundy like anchor. We don't really have much of that anymore. That era of television is gone. But at one point in Los Angeles we had the greatest local television news. It was amazing with Hal Fishman at Channel five, and and Paul Moyer and all the other big names. Jerry Dumphy just just wonderful TV people that were were great. And you know, I don't watch too much local TV news these days, but when I do watch it, it's lacking.
Its lacking a little bit. But remember Jerry Dumphy. His famous line was, was it from from the desert to the sea to all of southern California? Now, when there's a car chase or something like that, I got one of my buddies, Jay sends me every time there's a car chase. I don't even need to watch he watched. He must watch local TV news all day because I'll get messages at one o'clock in the afternoon while I'm sleeping. I'll get messages at nine o'clock at night early in
the morning. Hey, there's a chase on Channel nine. You gotta turn it around. I'm all right. Whatever.
Best part is when a retired sheriff joins them on the phone to explain the pit maneuver.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's they get those guys on retainer there. And well, it's like I mentioned Hal Fishman, who was an anchor at Channel five and he was a pilot, so he loved when there was any kind of aviation issue, there was a problem with the plane, you know there the landing gear wouldn't go down. So they remember one time I was watching the news, they had the camera on the plane and they had they Hal would tell everyone. Then he'd brings somebody else in who was also a pilot.
They'd go back and forth. Mike also says, Danny G I'm a little disappointed you did not name your kid Michael after I suggested, but he says it made you made the right decision not naming him alf or even worse, Muffett McGraw truly terrible names. Well, that was your backup plan, right, Muffett was the backup plan, Danny. Either Bartholomew, well, that
would have been great. Bartholomew. Another bart Ozzie was Western Australia Rights, and he said, my mates Big Ben and new Dad Daddy G. So he says, So the Super Bowl, he says, is on at seven in the morning where I live, and we go to the casino about five thirty to get a table and we start to have a few beers and we continue throughout the day. So my question is what would be the earliest you would crack a beer for a major sporting event if you
lived in our time zone. At the moment, we are twelve hours ahead of your East Coast, So twelve hours. Oh yeah, so that's middle of the night. NFL football game starts at one o'clock on the East Coast and it's one am in Western Australia. Yes, I'm not a big like morning. I don't know. I don't think I would be into that drinking in the morning. Maybe when I was younger, but I'm not a big drinker anyway, Danny, would you pop a few? If the Raiders play in London?
Are you cracking all? And that's our equivalent of that on the West Coast because the games start at like six in the morning.
You know, I've been wine tasting with my girl before and we had fun. We felt a little bit out of place, but once we got you know, a little buzz going, it was fun. Day drinking is underrated. I'd rather drink in the daytime, I think than at night because it just it ends your night too soon. I'll say that, because you feel tired when you have too much wine or booze in you. In the daytime, you
get flow and you're not tired yet. With football. There used to be a place called Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills.
Remember that I've been. I used to go there back in then. That was a famous hangout spot in Woodland Hills.
Yeah, and I lived there in Woodland Hills for a decade before I moved to Burbank, and that was the go to spot for Sunday football. I would go there for the morning games at ten am and they would be serving breakfast and brew, so I would have a Guinness with my scrambled eggs.
It was awesome.
The good old is whatever happened that's place is gone, long gone. Yankee Doodles.
There's both those that place and there are brand new restaurants and stores and it's an extension of the mall there now.
No, All right, well that's no, I don't need that. I missed those old sports where we had the National Sports Bar. We used to do remotes at those places in Orange County that were great, and they were all over the place in southern California, these big, beautiful sports bars were great and they all went away too. Wah wan right say, he says, did you ever hook up with someone just because you hung around a team? Ben with the Dodgers, So, you know, I did hang around.
I was friends with a lot of the relief pitchers, and those guys like to booze it up, and you know, let's just say I did not pitch a toe shut out in that in that period of time because the guys, the guys felt pity on me. It was more than anything. There they would try to try to help grease things along. The problem with that, though, I noticed one is that a lot of the young ladies that you would come across on the road, they really were not interested in me.
They just wanted to use me as a vehicle to get to whoever on the team they wanted to hook up with. So that became problematic. That was that was a bit of an issue that I had to deal with. But I mean, that was great, great memories on that and it was wonderful and you were just a young middleman.
Yeah yeah, yeah, in a way, and I still get a kick out of the fact these guys who are major League baseball players, we'd go to on the road to different cities and to get in through the velvet you know, the behind the velvet ropes and all that, the red carpet, they would have to flash their baseball card. They keep their baseball card in their wallet to prove who they were, to show they were ballplayers, because these
were not big names. These were mid relief pitchers and guys back into the bullpen, or the front end of the bullpen, rather.
Moved back then would have been to convinced tops somehow to make your own card.
That would have been cool, man. But they would say they would lie and say it was like the bullpen catcher and stuff like that, and not that that's any more an attractive thing, I guess. Robert writes and says, what happened tode Tammy in Montana. Tammy is fine, Robert. She still listens to the podcast from what I've heard, but she is working the dreaded day shift and she's working some odd hours, so she's been unable to call the show. We missed Tammy. It's been a tough couple
of months. For regular callers, Tammy Felexus has been unable to call the show and also hollering James some big name callers, but that happens. We go through different eras on the show. We have some big name people leave us, and then we get new stars and just the EBB and flow doing the show all these years. People come and go, but we've had some people with us a long time, and we've still got a lot of people
with us. But some of the regulars have stopped calling as often as they did back in the day because their life circumstances have changed. Felexis has a few medical issues and hollering James keeps breaking his phone, which is a problem. So it's a bit of an issue. Andy the Comic Book Guy writes, and he says, what is the What is one of the best pranks you guys pulled as kids? Andy says, I was great meeting you, Andy the Comic Book Guy, as I mentioned in a
previous episode, really impressed with your comic book store. Anyway, to answer the question, there were a lot of pranks. The one that I would like to share as a radio prank that I pulled on my younger brother and you might actually know this. I don't know if I've told this story on this podcast with you, Danny, but years ago there was a guy in the Bay Area, and Ralph Barbieri who was a sports talk show host in San Francisco.
I know that name, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was in the Barrier a long time. So now I didn't live in Northern California, but at night CANBR, I was a radio nerd, so I'd listened to faraway radio stations. This before the Internet. You can listen to any station you want on the iHeartRadio app. But back in those days, you wanted to hear a faraway station, you had to scan the dial and the furthest away we could get was like Northern California, Saint George, Utah, Phoenix, Las Vegas. Living in southern California, so I'd scan. In fact,
even my mom even bought me this thing. Art Bell had an advertiser you could buy this antenna that would help you get far away radio stations. So I would listen sometimes to CANBR at night, and they had the Giants games, and I hear the postgame store. And Ralph Barbieria was a guy on that station, and he had a famous sign off to his broadcast that he used every single time he signed off, he had the same sentence that he used.
So I was.
We happen to be in northern California at a family function with my younger brother who now lives in Wisconsin, and so I, being the radio nerd that I was, I had the radio on, I was listening to the radio and it was just me and him. My parents were at doing something, and so I made a bet with my much younger brother and the bet was, listen, I'm gonna bet you that this guy on the radio is going to say, Remember what was the line, Angels take,
angels fly because they take themselves lightly? I think was the the line. And so my my brother, there's no way. It's a sports show, you know, and no one's gonna no one's gonna say that. You know, you're you're of course, So we made this bet. It was big bet, and and sure enough I was a little concerned because he didn't didn't say it when he normally did. But at the end he said angels fly because they take themselves lightly, and that that really pissed off my younger brother. That
we upset him. We had to defuse the situation. He was very upset that he had a kind of a primal scream that he let out any good pranks you remember, Danny, that you'd like to share with the class.
I remember my older brother and I in rialto California.
We loved April Fool's Day.
Didn't like the punishment after the prank we tried to pull on my mom, though. My older brother had a great idea. He's like, all right, you run inside and act like you're really scared and tell mom that I crashed my BMX bike. He brought some ketchup outside and poured it all over the sidewalk in a pool, and then he strategically placed his bike and his body to make it look like he cracked his head. Oh boy, So I go inside screaming about how he crashed his bike.
My mom comes out to see him laying in a heat next to this pool of red, and she's freakingly f out. She gets up to him to see how he's doing, and he just starts busting up laughing. Well, let me just tell you, man, there's not a fun ending to this story. Because she brought both of us into the house and proceeded to whip the shit out of our behinds, as she should.
Have with a spoon from the kitchen.
Yeah, and how old were you when this happened, Danny?
Hell?
Are you seen you were? How old? Seventeen?
I'm kidding we were You're probably like first, first and third grade.
Okay, So just remember that you have a spawn, Danny, and so you know, you know, wait a few years here and then not that long before you know it, your son will be out there busting your balls and doing similar things. So you have that to look forward too. That's funny. That's a good story you should have. You should have had your like eat the ketchup, you know, just like go for it. Or you should have gone over and eaten the ketchup, you know, like hot dog
in it. Yeah, that would have been solid. Wild Man from Morgantown, West Virginia writes in he says, thank you, thank you, Ben and Danny G. I have been listening to your overnight show, Ben for several years, waking up to your show as my alarm on my Alexa. God bless you, wild Man and my cell phone. I even listened to the in the shower as I get ready for work all the way until I park my car at work and I cannot switch it off until the
end at six am Eastern time. That's wonderful. And he says, when my day is done and I'm on my way home, I've been listening to Cavino and Rich with Danny g And he says, any who, I just wanted to say, thank you guys. You make my day a lot easier. Keep it coming. That's the old man in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Speaking of cross pollination. I will give you one guess of which regular Mallard caller got in on the Covino and Rich show a couple of days ago.
Okay, so now this is that person not from West Virginia. It's not Radio Rich. It's not him. I don't know if he's still around, caller.
And this is the first time he has appeared on the afternoon airwaves.
This is a celebrity caller from the overnight show.
Give you one clue. About five minutes, they wondered if the rambling was gonna stop.
Oh, was it Cowboy John Bred? No, No, it's not cowboy John Bred. Good guests all right, and he rambles Marcel and Brooklyn.
The topic.
They were on was about being a bandwagon fan, sticking with your team even when they don't have any heart and they've quit on the season, all of the Mets, and this guy called up talking about how many years he dealt with a certain baseball team.
Oh is this our friend from northern California?
Oh no, who was it?
Reveal answers think about a man who is newly retired.
Oh okay, all right, all right, wait wait from Ohio. Yeah, the Dixter. Oh yes, the Dickxter.
Oh way, and instantly started making Dick jokes, laughing because after the segment was over, I walked into the main studio and I told Covino, I'm like, you know, you fell right in line there because that's normally what the crew does during the overnight.
Oh you cannot help but embrace the Dixter. Yeah. Yeah, he's a machine. He said.
When I was a kid and I was watching the Indians, And Covino said, so you mean when you were a little Dick.
That's great. I am a fan of Dick.
He kept going and going, and they made some kind of joke about put him on hold and come back he'll still be talking. And then I told the guys, Hey, you don't know who you're addressing. That is Fox Sports Radio Royalty. I explained who he was and plugged your show for you.
Oh well, thank you. Well Dick and Dayton. I know everything about Dick and Dayton. He has the same birthday with Pete Rose. I famously years ago, I was driving from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, across the great state of Pennsylvania, and being the radio nerd I am, I was listening to scanning the dial and I heard a station out of Ohio. I don't even know what station it was. And Dick and Dayton called in and I said, how lucky am I that the stars lined up? And I
got to hear the wisdom of the dixter. I mean, my god, what a gift, What a gift that was. And for guys like us, Danny, that are lifetime radio guys, Dick and Dayton's like the kind of the last of a generation of people that just worship radio. He didn't know what a podcast is. We can talk about him from now until you know, you know, time ends. He doesn't listen to podcasts. He listens to radio. Yeah, it's radio AM FM radio mostly AM, and and he's Also
I found out he's into politics. He calls political shows too.
Congratulations. Oh, that must be a great phone call.
It's got to be great. Yeah. And Ohio isn't Ohio kind of a swing state? Right? I mean it usually goes one way, but every once in a while goes the other. Am I right on that?
I don't know.
I'm not that in the political world. Last one we one more here our friend Angelina rights and she's a super fan. I love Angelina. It was great, meaner too. She was wonderful and lives outside Minneapolis there in that area. And she says, Hello, Ben and Daddy g Congratulations to Danny on the birth of his son, and welcome back to Ben from the East Coast trip. I love hearing about the adventures of your lives. And I am so glad that your voice is back to normal. Thank you, Angeline.
I had a brief travel situation. It sounds like it's back, she says, using the garlic treatment. Yes, the garlic therapy worked, and Angelina says, I wish I was able to go to the meet and greet at the comic book store to see my new friend Regina, who alluded to the idea that she might be there and to meet Eddie and Coop and to try Ben's homemade cookies, but unfortunately I was not able to hope. It was great fun.
We had a wonderful time. And she also says regarding the podcast, she likes the phrase or the word of the week. And Angelina, if you heard the Saturday podcast, which I know you did because you're a superfan, it was punit Pundit was the word of the week. She said, it was always interesting. So she's fully on board Danny with the Fifth Hour podcast. She loves all that we do, So Angelina, anything you would like to promote, We should have done that yesterday. Bad job by me. But it's Sunday.
I'll be back tonight, Danny, I.
Got the live radio show from the broadcast Dojo eleven o'clock in the West and perfect hour to listen to the radio two am in the East.
I'll be doing it live, doing it live.
What do you got going on, Danny, Well, first, really quick, thank you for the well wishes about Tacoha arriving into the world, and also for the nice little gifts. In fact, besides Tammy, which I mentioned last weekend, another little gift derived from the Militia. I think it said from Karen, but then the note was signed Mallard Militia and it was a nice little necklace for Mama.
G Oh. Very cool.
Yeah, so thank you.
Thank you for that, Ben, after getting the big fish, bigger than Michael Jordan. You know, there's a lot of radio shows where they say sports talk radio shows where they say the moment they book Michael Jordan, that's when they've hit the lottery.
That's the big whale in our business.
Well, for us, that big whale has been Brian Billick.
Brian Billick, I'm not available.
After booking him for you for the Friday podcast, I am formally announcing my retirement from broadcasting.
It was a great run and Cole will replace you at some point, but you got to wait about, you know, twenty years or so, you know, give her a take.
I actually need some diaper money right now.
So now I'll be back in the studio Monday, Covino and Rich having a fun start to the NFL week. It's at two to four pm on the West Side and five to seven pm in New York City.
Have a great rest of your day. Thank you for supporting the podcast. We love you, We love you, we love you, we love you for supporting the podcast and the radio shows that we do and all that. And don't forget I'm also on cameo. By the way, if you want to send a you know, it's not free, but i'll personal shout out Mini Malla monologue, things like that, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, you name it, and we will promote it. I think.
Yeah.
So anyway, I have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your day. We'll talk to you next time.
Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go.