The Fifth Hour: "Seaver's Terrible" Mail Bag

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3:041200 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the old republic. A sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter, the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The clearing house of hot ticks, break free for something special. The fifth hour with Ben Mallor starts right now. In the air everywhere, the fifth hour with me, Ben Mallor and Danny G Radio, very happy. Selection Sunday. And more importantly, the 15th day of March, which is the kind of the day the pennies are there tonight on the west coast, but still early in the morning. It's tonight in the Monday morning, the pennies, the 158th edition of the Benny Awards were so excited about that. And we're excited because Danny G is here in the hissy for this edition of the fifth hour with me, Ben.

4:06What's going on, Danny G? Look at you. I missed the pageantry of the pennies. Remember, I used to wear my tux into the studio. Well, it's always the biggest night. There's a buzz in the air and the groupies that are there, Danny. It's unbelievable. Everyone wants a piece of the Benny winners. It's crazy what goes on there with the Benny Awards. There's a red carpet. That's where we first met Ryan Seacrest back in the day. Yeah, I remember Steve Harvey and Ryan Seacrest were there. Very cool. It was awesome. Amazing. Amazing event. So we got that. I guess there's the Academy Awards. Who cares about that, right? Now, it's all about the pennies and selection Sunday. And this is always one of my favorite couple of days of the year in sports radio, the next couple of days, Danny. That's because of the pennies. This is where everyone who ignores college basketball all year suddenly has everything you need to know about your bracket. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. And our boss, which ultimately is going to happen sends us that email that says,

5:07all right, click this link and make your picks. Yeah. So that somebody can win a $25 Amazon gift card. I, this year, I'm going to let Brenda make every pick for me. Might as well. You might as well. Yeah, yeah. I have not gotten the email yet. I'll be the first one I would imagine. Well, maybe not. Maybe Arnie and Plank will get it. We'll get it early on Sunday tonight. Hey, you know, read this promo. The bracket challenge is open until is it Thursday before tip off? Well, at least there's a good price for the listeners now, because when I first started with the network 11 years ago, we were given away a Westinghouse TV. Hey, don't, don't knock a Westinghouse TV. When I've been here so long, we were given out radio shack gift cards. Okay. You're giving away battery cards. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, pretty much. But anyway, listen, so it's not going on here. We got the pennies tonight. That's the big event any award.

6:08You know, I'm not sure if I'm going to call in or try to zoom with your show, but I heard I am going to get the lifetime podcast achievement award. The lifetime achievement. Well, you're certainly in the running for that. I have not. Yeah, I am thrilled. Well, I'm not privy to it, Danny, as you know, I'm just the host of the show. I don't know who's going to win and who's not going to win. And there's still time to vote. If you have not voted yet, there's a link on the Facebook page and also on it on actually going to have to scroll down a little bit. Actually, not that far. I think I sent out the link again last night. So anyway, check it out vote if you haven't voted. And trust me, there are several categories where literally, Danny, like one or two votes can sway the entire category. So it's that's power. That is power. Like you imagine, you vote for the president of the United States. And it really depends like in California, Danny. If you vote for a Republican in California, you might as well wipe your ass with the ballot. Right? No chance of winning. But in this election, no matter what side you're on, politically,

7:11you have a chance of influencing who wins. So the bennies are tonight. Check that out. But we've got mail and Ohio. How can you get me in the mood? Ohio. It's in the back. And it's mail back. All right, very good. First up is Alf from the Antiques Road Show. He says, Ben, you've pointed out my new found affinity for AI artistry. So I'll explain myself first and foremost. We're all living in the matrix. And no one knows what's real and what's fake. Since I am, in fact, a bot. What more, what's more appropriate as an art form for me to dive into than AI? Well, duly noted, we are all living in the matrix. You don't know what's real. What's not. That is correct. And AI, fun to play around with.

8:12And I did like the fact that, and you didn't see this, Danny, but Alf put me at the Vatican with my wife. We were meeting with the Pope. And so I had a nice meeting with the Pope. He's a white socks fan. And there's a photo to prove that. Secondly, he says, I've been a long time admirer of Mallor prop guys' creations. And he pushes me to want to be a better contributor to the show. Well, that's good. Look at that. Legend helping legend. Iron sharpens iron. As far as my question to you and Danny G, is there any truth to the rumor that Danny and Brenda bought you a giant metal cock for Christmas because you were so attracted to it? And then let me send this to you, Danny, here, because this is the latest from Alf. And he says that you got me, that is a, as a gift, right there. You can see I sent you the link. I was attracted to the giant metal cock. That's a big. Oh, man.

9:12AI is just a takeover our universe. That is a giant cock, Danny. I got to tell you that's. Yeah. Not quite. By the way, Ben, it was so great because when Jake Paul recently sat down with President Trump speaking of elections. Yeah. Jake Paul said that he was considering someday a transition into politics. They had a quick conversation about that. And he said, you know, because I want to impact some change. Like for my generation, people ask questions, young people always ask questions about what industries they should get into, you know, for a job for, you know, especially with AI taking over. And I swear to God, Ben, Trump did not really understand what AI was because he told him, he's like, yes, AI is great to get into if you love computers. Oh boy. And I'm like, no, Donald, he wasn't saying, should I get into AI? He was saying AI is taking jobs. Yeah. Well, you know, you know, what are you going to do by the time we would reminded me of my

10:15grandpa though, he didn't understand one damn thing about computers. China. Well, the other thing too is people take the, the president literally like he, I believe he endorsed Jake Paul for political office, right? Didn't I saw that headline? He told him like, yes, you want to help young people in your generation. It would be cool for you to get into. Well, there was a headline saying, hey, you know, you should get into it. You know, I have full endorse you, whatever. And I was like, yeah. That sounds like, you know, Don Trump's of the Don King generation. You know, the guys that would just get on there on do radio interviews. And you're the greatest host of all time. This is the greatest radio. It's just like total bull crap. You know, it's like a total bull crap artist. So anyway, I didn't mean like some of your callers who kiss your rum. No, they never kiss. Modi's talking about kiss my ass, please. No, there's a handful where they're like, man, I would die without your overnight show. Well, you know, listen. Yeah, but yet there are, you're right. There are some where they just love to torture you.

11:17Ben Sox. Yes. Yes. They enjoy that very much. Next up, Scott from Florida now working, you know, overnight. Look at that. Scott working the overnight. He told us he was going to do that on the mail bag, a previous edition. Ben and Danny, when I saw Gina Smith going back to the Jets this week, I knew barring an atomic bomb. It would be the hour number one monologue tragedy aside. What's been the best hour one monologue? Juicy teed up total gift story. You can recall off the top of your head. That's from Scott in Florida and Scott. There have been so many over the years, some of my favorites. The night the cheating a Astros were exposed, which was, I believe early 2019. I think it was Danny and he was, I want to say it was like January of 2019. That was good.

12:17All time, if you go back, the flight gate was great. That was a lot of fun. But for a single night, I don't know how you can beat the malice at the palace. I don't know how one could beat the malice at the palace. The night that Ron Artest and the Indiana Pacers got into it with the Detroit fans. That was an amazing, just a random Friday night into Saturday. It was an ESPN game. I was on doing weekend overnight at the time. That was great. So some of them, Tiger Woods, when that thing broke, was like Thanksgiving weekend, I believe. Right around Thanksgiving when that story came out, his wife and that whole thing. A lot. It's the ingredients are there. You're right. The ingredients are there, Danny. You get scandal. You get surprise. That's always great. Like unexpected. My favorite is when the Lakers acquired LeBron James. And you said famously that the Clippers would win a title before the Lakers even sniffed the playoffs with LeBron.

13:22Well, the Lakers never won a championship with LeBron. The Clippers got to the top. But your Clippers sure did. And yes, the Lakers didn't win a trophy with LeBron. Not a real one. They got a fake one. Oh, yeah. Here we go. They went to the Clippers had won it that year. You'd still be wearing that t-shirt right now. Ifson butts were candy and us. But you're like, well, the Lakers went to a gift shop in Orlando and got a little Mickey Mouse. Oh, here we go. We got to play a little tiny violin for you in Clippers nation. What is still wrong with the Clippers? Just a fact, pal. Just a fact. All right. More like Clippers pod. Yeah, I'm thinking about doing a monologue tonight, by the way, because everyone universally was dogpiling on the Clippers. I can't believe you got rid of Chris Paul. He's so good. Oh, my God. Do you realize the Clippers are a couple of games over? I think they're a couple of games over 500 now. They were when they got rid of Chris Paul. They were, what were they? Six and 21. No, I think they'd gotten rid of him a little bit before.

14:24I think there were five and 16 or something like that with him. So. Oh, I got you. Yeah, yeah. But they did get off to the five. I think you're right. They lost like five more games after that. Yeah, I think their record at one point was six and 21. Something like that. But with Chris Paul playing, they were like five and 16 or something like that. And since he left, they're like 14 games or something like that over 500. So maybe he was part of the problem for whatever reason. I don't know what happened. Well, but you sure loved him back in the lob city days. And when listener was just asking that question about your most famous monologues, it got me thinking to the lob city days when you were in love with Blake Griffin in CP3. They were fun to watch. They were good ball players to the clippers. They served their time and they moved on somewhere else. That's fine. That happens. I enjoyed watching the lobster. The clippers were great. They should have won a championship. They didn't. They. Like you said about Uncle's nuts. All right. All right. Calm down.

15:24Let's see who's next on this one. Quang from Ho Chi Minh Vietnam says Big Ben and Danny G. Daddy G radio. Amy Lawrence was in the air everywhere on my radio before switching over to the Ben Mallor Show. Well, thank you. I believe Amy quit overnight radio at this point. I don't know what she's doing. He says on those nights when there are no coups scoop on entertainment or Queen of Hearts with Lorraine, may you please bring back the spelling bee. It would be hilarious to listen to collars trying to spell basic athletic names. That's from Quang. Quang, you understand. We have a segment with Lorraine, the Queen of Hearts. Well, you have to use the hashtag Queen Arts Danny. You know how many people don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts? Which I would think those are not hard words. Those are not difficult words to spell. And they have issues. So can you imagine if I like the names, you know, the heart. I guess the hardest and over the hardest name to spell bee right now in sports. Would be Yannis Adentekumbo. Would that be the.

16:24Yeah. And also the new one where we just learned everybody had been saying his name wrong all these years. About Travis H Ann. H, isn't that the, I saw that. Isn't that the name of. The dolphin. Yes. What is up with that? I thought the same exact thing when I saw that headline. I'm like, well, why would he want us to change to saying it the way the dolphins last name is really spelled. My favorite name change though was when the doll. Remember the guy from UCLA became Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Much to the dismay of Kareem Abdul-Jabar. You remember the running back. You play with the dolphins too. The original Kareem, who also had a different name. Louis Alcindor. He lost his lunch. Right. It was. Oh my god. It was. It was. I believe there was a lawsuit. Anyway. Quain. Thank you for listening. I. I'm not bringing back the spelling bee. Maybe I'll. How about this. One time if I'm really just kind of feeling, you know, frisky.

17:26I'll bring it back. But not on a regular basis because it's a disaster. Although it could be such a terrible disaster that it actually turns out to be good, that does happen on a regular basis. It could be good during the Olympics too. Yeah. Well, the World Cup also. Oh, that's a great point. Yeah. World Cup would be great for that. To a tag. Oh, Valia. Texting privacy policy in terms of conditions posted. Texting terms. US. Texting rolls you for a current amount of data. Text marketing messages. Tired of the nine to five grind. Looking for something different that's flexible, fulfilling, and pays well. How do you like to get paid to work out? Now you can, with ISSA, the global leader in personal fitness certification. There's a huge demand for certified personal trainers right now. And once you get ISSA certified, they guarantee you'll get a job. Trainers can make as much as $100 an hour. Yes, I said $100 an hour. And with ISSA, you can be certified in as little as six weeks. You do everything at your own pace and 100% online. Pursue your passion in specializations like yoga, nutrition, or strength training.

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22:38And they're living here, whether they came from somewhere else or they've always lived here. Who knows? I can go through all the ancient stuff from that left in cave drawings where they showed flying objects and stuff and say, well, maybe those are the things that we're still seeing, but they're just, you know, for them, it was like, oh, man. I couldn't space weather. You know how much George I've studied space weather? My entire life I've studied snow. I have no idea. Brent from so we're really quick. Can I tell you about a George nori sighting? Oh, yeah. What about it? Yeah. I'm answering the phones for Kovino and Rich a few afternoons ago. And I get a call just rang directly to line six on our phone. And usually when it's like that, it's somebody calling the wrong number. I pick up the phone and it's an older gentleman and he says, hey, you got two gals that are working on the weekend.

23:38And they're giving out a fax number that belongs to George nori. That's me. Who? What? Yeah. And he said, I'm getting up to 20 to 30 faxes every freaking weekend. And it's from your two gals that are working on a weekend show downstairs there. What is he? We have two chicks on sports or something. One of our weekend shows. Oh, I have no idea what that is. And they gave out a fax number? I guess they gave out a fax number. And who does that on the air? Or I don't know. 1996. What are we? Yeah. Maybe they tweeted it along with all the info. I don't know. But he said that listeners have been faxing on his line. What is he doing with the fax machine? Thank you. I wondered the same thing. But maybe that's how he communicates with aliens. Well, I'm very proud. One of my proud radio geek moments, Danny, at doing the overnight show. Occasionally. He doesn't have it all the time. But occasionally I will pull up and I will park side by side with George Norrie.

24:41And I'm like, man, right here. This is the king of that franchise of coast to coast overnight radio. That's the king of it. You know, we're doing our old thing. We got our act doing sports. But side by side. Awesome. And George has the cleanest car around. I don't know how he does it. He has nothing in his car. It's not that I've spied on him. It sounds like a thing on a bike. You know, when you park and you walk by somebody and you see what's in there. You know, just kind of look glancing in their car. And there's nothing. Yeah. Yeah. You stalker. Yeah. By the way, before you hung up, I told him. I said, by the way, George, this is Danny. I booked you on the fifth hour podcast with Ben Mowler before. And he said, oh, how's Ben doing? Yeah. Yeah. He remembered being on the podcast. I should get George on. I get George is cool. George is a good good people. Let's see here. What do we have, Brent? From SoCal. This must be, I don't know why you would send this to me. He says, Ben and Danny, are you guys big fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

25:44They, Hulu canceled the reboot of the show. And he wants to know why we think Hulu pulled the, why would you, what is this about, Brent? You know how much I've seen of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I think I saw like one episode, one time, a million years ago. I can honestly say I've never seen one episode of that show. I think I was on a date and happened to pop up. That's why. But no, I'm going to go out and limb. And Brent, it's always about the money, right? Either they couldn't make enough money or they wanted too much money. And I don't know what else it would have been. I have never, I've seen like maybe half of one episode of the show a million years ago. So I feel like you should have sent that to somebody else. Pet job by you. Ferg dog writes in in Fullerton that Winter Wonderland is says, meow! Ben and Danny G, I didn't know you were allergic to cats, Ben.

26:44No wonder why you never liked me. Is it too late to add a category for best board op of the year to the Bennies? If not, I would like to nominate Mark Ramsey, the pride of Chicago, Roberto the bus driver and Danny G radio. No, they're not Danny's on a board op and neither is Roberto by the way. He's a bus driver. He said you said, plus I'm already getting a lifetime achievement award. That's right. You've lifetime achievement award. You said you had a story about Tim Maccarver, who I was saddened here, died last week. Let's see. Let's hear it. But yeah, that was tremendous by Tom Brady. Really. Journalism there by Tom on the untimely passing of Tim Maccarver three years after he passed away. So I have a couple of Maccarver stories. We, when I, early days of Fox Sports radio, Maccarver was the baseball, the lead baseball amus. And we had him on every once in a while. And Maccarver is one of the all-time greatest radio guests right up there with Kevin Kennedy, Danny, where you would ask Maccarver one question.

27:46He would then ask himself three or four follow-up questions while answering your question. So you'd ask him one, it's like, send it and forget it. It's like the rompole peel thing as a talk shows when you ask somebody a question. And then they answer the question. Then they ask three follow-up questions. It's amazing, right? It's amazing. The other Maccarver story, this is very embarrassing. And I learned an important life lesson at this time. I was doing stuff with the Dodgers. We were in New York at the old Shay Stadium. It was pre-game. It was in August. The Dodgers used to always go to play the Mets in August in New York. And it was right around when the big tennis tournament was going on, which happens to be right next to where the Mets play. And so, anyway, it was really hot nasty. And so all of us were bunkered down in the dining room at Shay Stadium, the media dining room. And they had the pre-game thing popped up. This is back on WWOR back in the day.

28:47So the Mets opened the broadcast popped up. I'm in the media dining room with a couple of other people. And on the open, they had the play-by-play guy. And there was Tom Sieber. Right? Tom Sieber was there. He was in the boat. Great Tom Sieber. Well, legend on the mound. As a broadcaster, not so much. And I didn't... Carver had done the Mets games on television before that. I didn't realize he had been replaced. So I said, Danny, something to the effect. Where the hell is McCarver? This Sieber's terrible. Well, unfortunately, Tom Sieber had actually... That was recorded, and he was a few feet away from... Oh, no. Yeah, it was very awkward. It was... That was not one of my better moments. I was trying to praise McCarver. And by praising McCarver, I ended up burying myself as it...

29:49I think the Sieber's gone, too. I think all those guys are gone, unfortunately. Yeah, I bet at his memorial. Did you get up and say some words and tell that story? Yeah. By the way, I'd like to apologize. Well, Tom's not with us anymore, but... Yeah. Carl... Carl from New Jersey writes in, or from... He says, Jersey, not New Jersey. Is he not really new anymore? That's bad branding when they made New York and New Jersey. At the time, it was new. They shoot a plan. In 25, 30 years, we're going to change it to Jersey or York. And anyway. Carl says, Ben, you've been a Fox Sports Radio for... You say 25 years? Actually, over 25 years now. Which era was your favorite? This is great, Danny. Carl sends me two stories. One headline, Jobaningo, says... The fan, WFN, will never be what it once was in a Tay Day. And Angela... I saw this because of podcasts and tube streaming.

30:54Yeah, then he sent me a story from Angela Katalvi, who was a big star in Philadelphia Radio. And they both... He and Howard Eskin ripped WIP in Philadelphia for not having the edge that it once did. And so Carl wants to know which era is my favorite. Yeah, I mean, it's... Obviously, the business is a lot different now. Everything's being cannibalized for YouTube clips and social media clips. And it does disappoint me because I feel like a lot of people just do bits to get on social media and stuff like that. Ultimately, there's always should be more people listening to the full show, but I understand times changing all that. And the edge is definitely not there. I've always kind of liked it. I got into the business carl. I like the edge. If you don't get the job done, you get criticized, and that's part of it. And a lot of the other... Like the newer guys, I don't think they're into it.

31:55They're not wired that way. They kind of do like... You know, they do their own thing, but it's not the same. So from that perspective, I think the edge is gone. That was always the gold standard. Places like Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, the way they approach sports radio. It's still like that in Boston. I don't think it's like that. I just haven't listened. So I can't speak as a listener to WFN or WIP in Philadelphia. I just know that those guys are complaining. But some of that's also just old guys complaining. Like just what we do, we complain about. It was always better 20 years ago, right? So there's that. But I do think the edge is gone. I think it's more... People just softer on athletes. I know from my perspective, like my criticism, which I think I'm pretty light compared to the old guys that were before me. And yet, you would think, like the things I say, the reaction I get, that I am like the biggest asshole in the world. I got like the world.

32:55I mean, I'm just over the top. And I'm... I feel like I'm pretty fair. And these guys get so... They get the feedback. I get it. Wild. So... Anyway, the point is Carl and Danny, I don't know, you think about this. But I think it's just that's, you know, times change. And, you know, people... There's different generations that do this. Everyone's got their own act. And so that's kind of the way... Way that is. I personally, just as a preference, my preference, I like the more critical sports talk radio. I think that's really great. And... I mix it up, though. I'll do some ridiculous bits... With Blind Scott or Hollering James or something. Then, that's... You just kind of have variety. It's evolved or into opinion-based debating between hosts, rather than a host getting on the air, and just ripping the shit out of an athlete. You know, so it depends what style of sports talk radio you prefer. Well, you can do that in a two-man show, but I'm one man. So, I mean, guys, you debate myself, I guess,

33:56and have a different personality, but I'm pretty much... I got one mic in me, and for four hours a night. Dave... And that's why you ripped the shit out of some athletes. There you go. Ex-Pat Dave from Tokyo writes, and he says, here are my two favorite stories here from Japan. Which one do you guys like better? And then he said there was a sweet potato truck that was burning up, driving to a fire station. And he says this one viral, and then the burger king in Japan has unleashed a Yeti burger that has 1700 calories. Four patties, four slices of cheese, bacon, giant bread, obviously. Anyone? Well, I'm gonna go with the... I'm gonna go with the sweet potato truck on fire. I think that's great, because when... That's smart. He trucks on fire, drive to the fire station. Yeah.

34:57You know, giant burger, you can get that... I feel like that happens every couple of years. Somebody releases a ridiculous heart attack burger. Well, you know the health benefits to breathing in that fire because I was reading about, feels cancerous cells if you eat alone in the sweet potato fries. Sweet potatoes, anti-cancer, health benefits. So, yeah. Did you see the video on this, by the way? It's not just a little fire, like it's... Did you see, by the way, a few days back, a cement truck spilled all over the 10 freeway in LA? No, they cleaned that up. Cars were driving through the sludge, and it was driving on everyone's tires. Oh, no. Yeah, that's a big time goof. Oh, goof. I've got to know. Yeah. We see those every once in a while, we'll see the trash trucks. If somebody... Because people throw stuff away, they're not supposed to throw away, and then they tell the people that drive in the trash truck

35:57to just empty the trash truck, right? Because it's gonna... And so, there's like, they'll be trash everywhere. But the cement truck, you're not supposed to empty. I don't know if it was user error or a problem with the truck, but yeah, it just started leaking all over the 10 freeway. You imagine the insurance claim on that? Yeah, so... Yeah, what's your claim? Yeah, so I was driving on the 10 near La Brea, and wherever it was, and I got... Yeah, there's some cement all over my car. It's... Wait, wait, wait. You got cement? Yeah, yeah, I got cement. How did that happen? Well, there was a cement truck, and you know, that... Oh, let me... Have you seen the video? Let me... I got the video. Yeah, let me... No, I haven't seen that one. Oh, yeah, this is really good, dude. This thing... It is fully... I want to thank this, dude. What... Who do I need to thank here? Uh... Expat Dave from Tokyo. This is awesome. All right, I think I sent you a link. Click on a day. This thing is frickin' smokein', dude. And you can see the flames, and they're still driving?

36:58You'd think maybe they say, well, I don't know how safe that is to drive, but that's a lot of sweet potatoes. Up in flames. Right? Look at that. Oh, that's crazy. Then nuts? All right, that's wild, man. I just happened a few days ago, but, uh... Wow. That looks like you could turn into a gift that lives for eternity. Wow. Look at that. Moonlight mass pulled the... roaring down the national highway, ignoring traffic lights, and bursting into flames, then charging straight into the fire station under its own power. You could capture that. Plipper's season before they let CP3 go. That's, uh, the last 25 years of the Raiders right there. Right, boom, boom. Oh. Ben Mowler's drops after Danny G. Left is overnight show. Pretty much. It's what drops. But all those... Look the same. Uh... Like, I love these ever...

37:58You know, I love the Evergreen drops. I always sucked at a time he cannot suck. That's one of my all-time grades. All-time... Evergreen. Evergreen. Uh... Gottlieb pounding the table, coaching Green Bay. That's an all-time Evergreen drop. Chu, Chu. The... Uh... This week we had Eric Spolstra. Uh... I apologize to absolutely no one. Boom. That's a great drop. Evergreen drop. But it's very hard to get those in the words. I'm trying to... The message is not... Not been working very well. Uh... Will writes in from upstate. He says, uh... Ben and Danny, you guys want to move here. To New York, you can buy a home for $329,000. And it has no bedrooms. This is a... For what? Yeah, yeah. There's a house for $329,000. It has not a single bedroom. And, uh... No bedroom. Uh... Property. It's in... Selvan, New York. I don't know where that is. That's got to be upstate, I would think.

38:58I would assume. Yeah. How about this? It measures 446 square feet... According to the listening. 446 square feet... It's described as a studio style cottage. Wow. Well, that's fine. But you shouldn't have to spend $329,000 on that. Like, what are you doing? Uh... Oh, it says... It says Selvan is in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island. Oh, Long Island. Okay. Sure. Um... Yeah. Well, that's kind of like the LA listings we see sometimes, where it's like somebody shitty garage, like a guest house that they renovated out of the garage, and it's listed for $1.2 million. Yeah. It's just a room... I guess, like, a studio... The price is the thing, though. Like, that's... It doesn't look bad on the inside.

39:58I can't say you'll like it if you want, but it's not like it looks bad. Um... No... Like, a studio, but the price is... That's... That's wild. All right. There you go. Open house, by the way. Later on today, if you're in... If you're on Long Island, you want to go out there. Uh... 329,000. Open house from noon to two today, so you can check out the... 329,000. Easy to maintain yard. I bet it's easy. Uh... Fair amount of snow there. I have enjoyed the... As it's been 90 degrees here in LA, my brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, and they had a blizzard this weekend. They're like a blizzard thing this weekend. Oh, well, that is just weird. Right? We're blasting our air conditioner all day yesterday on Saturday. Yeah, it's been toasty. Very, very toasty. Oh, we do a couple more here on the mailbag.

40:59We got... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. James from Reno writes, and he wanted to know what we thought about the... the smurf of... of England. Uh... Yeah, I saw this one. This... Like, how does that happen? Did you see this... The guy that was trying... Tyler Murray bought property in London? Pretty much well, but... Yeah, so this guy turned blue, and he was... rushed to the hospital. Did you... You didn't see this one? So... Oh, I didn't see this. So this guy was rushed to the hospital. His skin suddenly turned blue. He looked like a smurf or... I might get some more updated reference to be an avatar. And... So he gets rushed to the hospital. 42-year-old guy from... from England. And they feared that... It was terrible condition, because he had bright blue skin. He turned out... This is so great.

41:59It turned out that he... The man slept... He had some new sheets, and he slept without washing them. And... Blue die got all over his body, so it looked like... Google did. I'm looking at it right now. Wouldn't you think... But be very first responder. Wouldn't you say... Well, maybe... Maybe this is... I could be just... die from the sheet. Like... This reminds me of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. You're turning violet, violet? Well, remember, there was a guy that... That did have a condition where his skin was blue. Oh, it was something he was... Eating, right? That turned his skin blue. Remember we died a couple years ago. Do you remember the story? There was a guy who legitimately had... Blue skin because of something that he ate. You don't remember? I don't remember that. Yeah, yeah. There was a... There was a guy... Just Google it. Or... The guy with blue skin. There was something that he ate that turned his skin blue.

42:59And... He lived a full life, I believe. I think he died somewhat... Like I said, last couple of years at all is one... There would have to be the worst color to turn because everybody thinks you're... You know, having problems breathing. It's not ideal. It's like the real blue man group. This guy was legitimately blue. Blue skin. Let me see. Man, let's see. Yeah. I believe he died, but I'm not sure. Let me see here. Yeah. Okay. Paul Karrison. Yeah. Yeah. He died. Man. Let's see here. Oh, man. Oh my god, Danny. He died. I thought it was a couple years ago. He died 13 years ago. Holy crap. Paul Lord. Ha ha. Paul Karrison, known as the blue man or Papa Smurf. Oh my god. Can you believe it's been... I can't believe it's been that long. He didn't live that long. He lived age 62. His death was caused by a heart attack. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

43:59And he had been using colloidal silver for years to treat various ailments. And that is what led to his skin turning blue. Wow. This is like how Doc Mike has turned yellow. Oh, it's a pineapple smoothie with a special sauce. He thought it was on top. Yikes. Oh, I can't believe he's been that long since that guy. Oh, wow. It seems like it was just like a couple of years ago. That's nuts, dude. That is next level. Texting privacy policy in terms of conditions posted at TextingTurbs.us. Texting roles you for occurring on a media text marketing. That's just message delivery. It may apply or play. Stopped out. Is it ISSA online for details? Tired of the 9-5 grind. Looking for something different that's flexible, fulfilling, and pays well? How do you like to get paid to work out? Now you can. With ISSA, the global leader in personal fitness certifications. There's a huge demand for certified personal trainers right now. And once you get ISSA certified, they guarantee you'll get a job. Trainers can make as much as $100 an hour. Yes, I said $100 an hour. And with ISSA, you can be certified in as little as six weeks.

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49:09Did I get that right? JT The Wheatman. I think it. Hopefully it did serveville, Tennessee. S-E-V-I-E-R-V-I-L-L-L-E, Tennessee says it's a better than Danny G. Since I am back on the keto, train again to shed a few pounds. It makes snacking a trickier road to navigate, especially when I am driving the truck for work. I find myself going to almonds or peanuts quite frequently. He says, what are your favorite healthy snacks knowing that Ben's a faster. I'm not sure if you snack at all. One positive of a keto is if I use my air fryer and do not bread the wings. I can eat wings all the time. And they are a great snack back at the Wingman Mountain Compound. There you go. Thanks for the nomination for the Ben's. When you earned it, JT feels good to be recognized as a P1. We love you, JT, the man. I'm not a big snacker. My whole thing is I have a window usually each day by an hour, a little less than that.

50:11I try to eat all my food for the day and one hour. So it's like a race against time. So I try to do that. That's my thing. On the weekends, I do occasionally have a bigger window to eat in. So I might have some chocolate almonds or peanuts, things like that. What about you, Danny? Big snack guy? We talked about this maybe three weekends ago. And I brought up pistachios, which are great in the shell, though. I don't like when they do all the work for you. It takes a fun out of popping them out of the shell. But the one thing I didn't mention, and after the show, I was thinking, man, you know what? Maybe I didn't mention that because they're so expensive. Every time, that's the thing with snacking. Right, Ben? You go in for your favorite snack. And if you say you like beef jerky, what is it? $15 a bag now? Well, everything. It's ridiculous. So ridiculous. And the one thing I like, but they're always like $7.99 unless they're on sale. Those dots, home style pretzels. Yeah, those are good. Yeah, I like those.

51:11Oh, dude. The honey mustard. So good. I also like the peanut butter filled pretzels, which aren't dots, just like the regular, whatever brand, but... There's some good almond butter filled ones at Trader Joe's, and some good peanut butter filled ones at Costco. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I liked macadamia nuts, but those are not great for you, and they're very expensive. The upcharge on macadamia nuts is... Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. I think I would snack more if I didn't have to watch my grocery budget, which is astronomical right now in 2026. It's going to be any. If this price of oil thing keeps going the way it's going, we're all going to be fasting. We're all going to be skipping. You're not getting. You are not kidding. I spent $60 to fill up my tank halfway the other day. Yeah, it's insane. Same thing. I've been getting gas. I've been trying to tell the wife, I'm like, listen, you can't go all the way to empty,

52:12because every day that you wait to get gas, it's going up. You know what I'm saying? You have to consistently try to keep a good amount of gas to avoid the full... Even though your... I know the math. There is still pain for it. But to me, at least in my head, Danny, if you have it at least at half a tank, you're not filling all the way up, but it is... You know where I live, Danny. I'm way out. Oh, yeah. I mean, I gotta... Yeah, it's... To me, I mentioned the podcast. Two and a... It was like three hours or whatever, basically. I could have flown to Seattle. I live my suitcase. That's why I just went back and did the show from the remote studio. We'll do two more and get out on this. We got two more. Reggie from Detroit writes in. A regular in the email bag. He says, hey, Ben and Danny, gee. How often do you guys check your phone? Do you check your phone more or less than teenagers? And then he sent me the story, which I saw earlier this week. Danny, the story that claimed that teenagers check their phones 64 times a day on average

53:14during school hours. 60, they did a study. 64 times a day. They're checking their phone. I have no idea how much I'm checking my phone, Reggie. It's a lot. However, we have the ultimate trump card, Danny. It's for our job. Yes. I was gonna say, I am checking my phone that much, but it's 80% because of work, not because of personal life. Exactly. I'm not on the social. Very rarely do I pop up on there. So yeah, that's crazy, man. 60. I would have done the same thing. If I had access to a phone in elementary school or junior high school, you kidding me? Come on, man. Please, we'd all be doing that. Ryan from Shrewsbury Mass, right? He says, hey, boys, since we are heading into the week of March Madness, who are you guys picked for winning the NCAA tournament? And do you think we will ever see a perfect bracket in our lifetime?

54:15They'll keep up the great work. That's from Ryan in Shrewsbury. So Ryan, we mentioned here earlier, this is the point where we all become experts, and we're gonna be able to dazzle you with our selection Sunday, picks, and what's gonna happen, and all that. I've not spent too much time on it. I have been watching more college basketball, but normally what I'll do is I'll just be like, well, let's see here, the players that I want to watch are all guys that are going to be drafted in the lottery. So like Cameron Boosert, Duke, right? Peterson from Kansas, like those are the, so I'll lean into those teams. And that almost never works, Danny. So, because I remember when Kevin Durant was at Texas that one year, I was like, all right, well, let's go with the long warns. And I think they lost in the first round of the tournament, if I remember. They got, they didn't make it out of the first weekend. And this is all guessing, except for, like you said, the teams that are ranked one through 10

55:16and ultimately everybody puts most of those for their final four. But otherwise, it is, you know, the old cliche that lady at the office that knows nothing about college basketball and she always wins the pool. And that's exactly why I'm going to have Brenda make all the picks for me this year. Mama. Yeah, it should be fine. I like some of the names. I got my big point guard guy. That's old, old school, though, Danny. It's always like, you got to get the team with a good point guard. Like this guy Kingston Flemmings, I believe, the guard from Houston. That's a great basketball name. Not a great name, Kingston Flemmings. That's a solid name. Or it could be a restaurant, you know, let's come to Kingston Flemmings and have a, have a nice day. And we'll see what we have tonight on that. Hopefully, some of these guys, I hope Booser and Peterson Flemmings and all these guys can play, because teams like Sacramento and Washington and Brooklyn and Utah have been tanking all year to get them.

56:16So I hope they know how to play. We'll get out on that, Danny. Thank you. Appreciate it. We got another big week I'll be on tonight. The Benny Awards are tonight, of course, and then normal week after that. Yeah. We'll have that. Ben, take a deep breath when all the paparazzi and all the reporters are around you. Just, you know, take a moment to take a breath and just enjoy the moment. Well, I'm most excited, Danny, about the parties after. And that in the squad. Especially the drugs at those parties. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Well, Jed who fled's having his own party. That's going to be a amazing party. I don't know what's going to be better. Jed who fled, hollering James is sponsored by sleep number. I think, I think they're a sponsor. And then Lucky Tony's got a bunch of only fan models and porn stars. It'll be at his party. So it'll be a lot of fun. All right. Well, thank you, Danny. You'll be out in the normal. Will you and Kavino and Richelose guys are something close to normal? Well, actually, we are Monday and Tuesday afternoon this week.

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