February 19, 2022 • 43 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour homie Danny G. take you behind the scenes, with a fun conversation about Maller finally hitting Radio Row at a Super Bowl! They talk serendipitous, debonair, customary, critically acclaimed, bunkering, and more!
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another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, back
at it on a Saturday. Here we are very exciting
myself at Danny g Radio. The most anticipated podcast Danny
of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap
(01:55):
of a trip to Radio Row, which is is a
very exciting, very exciting for me. I've not been to
Radio Row, so we we will get into all of
the goodness that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait
to get it because I've been waiting. You know. I
told some of the stories Danny on the radio, but
I didn't get into it too much. I figured, why
(02:16):
not save this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right,
the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And
this is way better than a recap of the game.
Who watched that game? This is more about Radio Row. Yeah,
I mean, listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like
three d thirty million people in America, so more people
didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl.
(02:39):
But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount
of people get to hear this podcast. This is a
very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering
and critically acclaimed this is a jam packed fifth Hour.
The amount of cont it that you were going to
(03:00):
get on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right,
I mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right,
So Serendipitous Danny. And this is actually before I even
ran into you at the l A Convention Center where
Radio Row was last week, so I finally making it
(03:21):
there and and being part of the Ambius. But getting
their parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated
the price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd.
So right around Radio Row, the parking was like fifty
bucks a lot of those places. But uh, I ended
up parking about two miles away, at least according to
(03:44):
my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd
cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know
where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot,
and anyway, park like it was like still thirty bucks
the park. So that was the first kicking the in
the nuts, having to pay thirty bucks to park. I
wasn't playing me there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah,
(04:05):
it wasn't. I ended up we ended up staying a
lot longer. But my plan was only to be there
a little bit. I know exactly what the city of
l A did what they always do. They put some
pocket money into their jacket, put them on a bus,
and they dropped them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yeah, well
they'll all be back now. They're probably already back now
(04:26):
that the Super Bowl is over, and I don't care
anymore until the next big event and then they're gonna
ship all the homeless homeless out. But it's very weird,
you know, you know how things happen in life. And
so I ended up parking in a lot. I usually
had this lot that I parked in when I would
go to games in downtown l A. But I decided
not to park there. I want to part a little closer.
(04:48):
And then I ended up parking further away, but in
a different direction, where I decided a park a couple
of miles away, And you know, I was a long walk.
It's fine, the weather was great, whatever, but it was
it was a sarend dip this decision because if I
had parked somewhere else, I would not have been able
to run across who I ran across there? My path
took me directly into the man known as Helmet Man.
(05:12):
Oh yes, I'm actually on the Live are yes, you're
on the superhero Helmet Man just happened to be out
on the street there selling his products. It was like
a light shining from heaven. I fell asleep. That's the
man right there, the great helmet Man. And he hadn't
(05:34):
called the show in a couple of years. I was
telling you the story, Danny, when we were at the
restaurant there, but he had not called the show in
a couple of years. I was concerned. Eddie was concerned.
We were all concerned because he had come by the
studio and just like knocked on the door and we
put him in, and we hadn't heard from him, and
he'd always checked in with us every once in a
while to see what was going on, and so we
were worried he had passed on, gone to the Pearly
(05:56):
Gates or something like that. And uh no. I ran
into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben,
you know like that, And it was great to see him.
He actually called into the show early this week. I
heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell
a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody
seemed really happy that he was there with us. But
(06:19):
I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he
called in a couple of days later and he said
he was at the super Bowl and he sold a
Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was
his big sale there, which is a big deal for
helmet Man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium.
(06:41):
So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now
Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he
lives over there now that that he moved, he relocated.
But it was he's a very charming man and it
was nice to to catch up with him and a
great start to a very fun day, uh, you know,
around on the super Bowl and all that stuff, and
(07:01):
so so that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And
and then as far as the Radio Row, I mean,
you've been to these things before. Danny had not been
to Radio Row. But it's a lot of grab bass,
a lot of grab bass going on. Not good at
grab bass not good. Uh, an introvert does not do
(07:23):
well at radio. I thought I did pretty good all
things considered. Yeah, I was trying to be social. Yeah. No.
When we were finishing up, I made the joke that
it felt like Jerry McGuire where he is taking his
wide receiver to do a lap and he's like, come on,
I know you're not very social, but let's do a lap.
Let's work the room one time, as I see. And
(07:45):
at the end he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Yeah,
well you were. You were escorting me. We were a
tag team here walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely
a class system that I noticed at Radio Row. That
was one of the first things I noticed, Like most
of the station's have just a crappy little table and
a box of equipment and maybe they have one of
(08:07):
those vinyl signs behind them if they're lucky. So you've
got that's the vast majority of Radio Row. And then
we have the Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set,
which they put in the company put in UM And
there were some other big draft kings at a big stage.
I saw CBS had a big one. I mean, there
(08:29):
were a few of them that were pretty big. Most
of them were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows
with everyone else on this. I remember it was either
Miami Beach or Atlanta because they had huge sets like
that at both. My former program director at NBC Sports
Radio was at one of the tables like you're talking about,
(08:52):
and when I saw him, instead of saying hi, he
looked up at our set and he said, what do
you guys do? And setting up for a Metallica concert? Yeah,
it was, And I said this. I was on with
Jason and Harmon. I went on for a segment or two,
and I I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a
(09:12):
year I worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut.
I was never on a set that was as nice
as the one for a week at Radio Row. It
was insane. Uh nice that was And I felt like
I felt a little shame because I feel like I'm
more I'm more like the guys at the card tables,
you know what I mean. Like it was it was
(09:34):
a different world being on the stage and all that.
Not that I'm complaining, but it was I felt guilty
because all these guys are looking as you said, they're
looking up. They're like, oh, look at you big shots
coming in here with your your massive set and all
that stuff and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini
here at the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's
(09:54):
way better than riding in one of those pintos. And
the Mallard militia would agree that after all the these
years of doing sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there
at the super Bowl. But it was nice. It was
very cool. And uh, and I guess I can. I
can go p O B if you want. I can
drop some names you can drop me. I jotted down
(10:14):
a few names of people I met. I met Big
Jim Murray and Mass from the Felgern Mash for that
is the number one afternoon drive local big market radio
show that's on our affiliate, our Fox Sports radio affiliate
nine point five FM, the Sports Hub. And so those
guys are great. I'm in fact Big Jim Murshed is
(10:36):
he's gonna come on the podcast. We're gonna get him
on in a future podcast. Very nice and shoot the
crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash Show
in Boston. And that show dominates the radio waves there
in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there had
a very brief You were actually part of this, a
very brief encounter with the one million dollar man, Pat McAfee. Yeah,
(11:01):
because he was a guest on radio row with me
in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage, and dude had a
crazy good memory. You know, I'm talking to him about
a Super Bowl from a couple of years ago and
he was like, oh yeah, He's like, that's when Buffalo
Wild Wings had me on your set. He was right,
that's exactly what happened. And so I was able to
then turn it over to you and got a couple
(11:23):
of good pictures of you guys, and you guys chopped
it up. He wanted to know when you slept. Yeah.
We we were talking very debonair, very debonair. Pat McAfee
full as you see on his TV radio show whatever
it is there. If you call ripped Jeans debonair, well,
you know it's modern debonair. And he was the only
(11:44):
radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the bro
of sports talk radio. And he did have a huge entourage.
I mean he even had some live performances going on
by different hip hop artists that were stopping by throughout
the week. And I'm proud of him because at that time,
I remember Clay Travis asking me after the fifteen minutes
(12:06):
with us at that Super Bowl. He was so good
that Clay said, Hey, Danny talked to him and his manager,
see if he can do a weekly hit on out
Kick that would be great. And well, you know the
rest of the story. He went on to do his
own show. Yeah, and that was the single greatest paid
guest in sports radio over the last year was Aaron Rodgers.
(12:29):
No one's even close. Like every week because of the
circumstances of you know, him not getting the vaccine and
people complaining about that and all that stuff, and the Packers,
who were the top team in the NFC during the season,
is every week it was something it was like on
the Pat McAfee show. But good for him. He got
a hundred million dollars here from what fan do I
(12:51):
think it was? Is that the one that or DraftKings,
one of the gambling outfits paid him. So that was
nice to meet him. It was nice in a brief
conversation there and he but he did have that flotilla
of people around him. They're writing his coattails. But he's
like a former NFL player, so does that like he's
(13:11):
not He played in the NFL. He was a punter,
so you've got that. There was a a name radio
person that we walked past Danny and did not acknowledge us,
not acknowledge us. And I'm pretty pretty sure, pretty sure
(13:33):
the person saw me. Surprised motherfucker. Who was it? We
will not reveal the name. We will not reveal the name,
but it was someone his last name rhymes with flick,
with someone we both know. And it just just randomly.
We were walking in he was walking out, ships passing
(13:53):
in the night and uh no, and no even fake hello,
we got an I don't think he saw you because
he was looking kind of the other direction, or he
looked right through you, maybe because you're so thin. Now yeah,
I don't know about that. He definitely looked my direction.
Now maybe you know, because you're around you're in a
(14:15):
strange environment, there's a bunch of random people. It is possible,
not probable, it's possible that he did not connect and I.
And to be fair, I mean, he's one of the
guys that I haven't seen since I lost a lot
of weight, so maybe he didn't put two and two together.
There is that possibility that he expected me to be
(14:36):
a total large ass and I didn't show up as
a total large ass, and so that might have been
the the issue there. Uh. As far as the hospitality, Danny,
it was okay. They had for the media, they had
a lot of chips, soda, right, there's a vending machines
that they had in the green room. One of the
highlights Man of walking around that event with you. Once
(15:00):
you and I got NFL bags, we were able to
really go to town and put freebies in the bags.
And what I loved is you had a calculator in
your head. Every time we got something for free. We
were like, there's one dollar off my parking, there's five
off my parking. That's ten towards my parking. Had it
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I did the math on this, and I said, you know,
with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up.
I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda
(18:39):
probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for
the so I've going well, dollars two dollars for the soda,
two dollars for the soda, bag of chips. I'm not sure,
maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two bucks depending. So
I was doing the man that old spice products. Yeah,
there was old spice. Although we we really botched that
we could have got more of that. We missed out
(19:02):
on some Panini football cards that we didn't know about
until it was too late. So there were a couple
of misses on our part, but we know we did
clean up pretty good though. Yeah, Like I remember, I
was walking back to my car through the mean streets
of downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy,
pretty heavy. And boy, we going to the the what
(19:23):
do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it
was something else. They had some name for it. I
forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super
Bowl Store. Yeah. So we walked through there, and you
know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you
walk through a ride, they let you out in the
gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney
(19:44):
like prices. The NFL they really know how to make
those cash registers chi ching chi ching, cheching chi ching,
And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no,
I can't be that much. I only got a couple
of hats, and it's sent me back over a hundred
(20:06):
bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold.
I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running
around there trying because you were buying some stuff for
some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan
and some mother other people, the the the Queen TINDERNI well,
so I got her a nice hat that matches her
(20:27):
colors that she loves. We both were able to get
a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well,
that was that was a great well, that was the
unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were
leaving and I was only planning on staying for like
two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours,
get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding,
and I think this was a great decision to avoid
the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in
(20:50):
the belly of the beast there in downtown l A.
We both determined we were having a good time, so
we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended
up staying I don't know when we leave eight to
talk or something like that, and we shut the place
down pretty much, which was a good decision because you
were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and
Mike Carmen, which was a lot of fun. And also,
(21:12):
and let me back up a little bit. When we
were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio,
we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts
on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him
about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a
couple of years and we're having a fun little conversation
with him. He had the headset now. Prior to talking
(21:36):
with him, I asked him, I said, you're not on
right now writing, so no, no, no, it's cool. I'm
in a commercial break. He lost track of time. We
say goodbye to him. He puts his headset on, and
I hear him talking to his engineer back at the
Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes?
You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful
(22:00):
made him three minutes late to his radio. So some
some jamoke driving around Vegas is like, why is this
jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing
this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That
P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three
minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah,
(22:21):
that's what happened to your boy que there in Vegas.
The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas
just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheelhouse,
Danny g That format is crazy, all right. So we
stayed till we were past traffic and our way out.
We'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you
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looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out,
you know it was it was a decent crowd of
people just mulling around outside the exit, and there were
some bunch of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs.
(23:06):
I mean they lined them up on both sides of
the street. It smelled really good, really really good. And
then there were a couple of dudes with bags of
shirts and they were Super Bowl shirts, Like, these are
good looking shirts. Yeah, they did a good job on them.
These are some of the l A entrepreneurs that we
like to support. I'm gonna say, Ben check the tags
(23:30):
on the shirt. He checked the quality of the shirt
to make sure that the print on both sides was nice,
and then made sure the price was right. Yeah, no,
it was inside the price gouging NFL store. That same
shirt would have been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye,
sixty five bucks, and we got it outside for twenty bucks.
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And it's it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made.
It past the Mather Test where I I kind of
pulled it apart and let me look at that, and
I was like, I was ending. But the price of
even counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series
in Seen, I bought a couple of those shirts out
on the streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten
(24:16):
bucks a shirt. So in five years from two it's
got up, but half it's double. Yeah yeah, So yeah,
these guys are smart. They know exactly where the price
point was on the inside of the event, and so
they knew that their price point outside of the event
(24:37):
was a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't. I was
gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality
of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was
gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive.
And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it.
But if you got a deal like that, you gotta
take advantage of that. For sure. Hats on the inside
that were official and shirts on the outside which were
(24:59):
semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here,
but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat.
I was a douche because I was fasting man, and
I sat there and you had you had a delicious
plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I
was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious.
(25:20):
And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger, keep trying, Ryan.
We all went to this restaurant across from from the
crypt Arena whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to
Tom's at l A live there right across from the event.
And I was bummed out because you know, I haven't
got to break bread with you in a while. You know,
back in the live radio days with you, we used
(25:41):
to have pizza parties all the time. Yeah, you and
I would go to Cheesecake Factory in places like that
to break bread. Um, so I know your style of food,
I know what you love. Their menu was right up
your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food.
But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny,
because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm
(26:02):
so paranoid as a recovering fat man every time I
eat a big meal out like that. And then I
figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that.
So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year.
Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It
was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's
(26:23):
just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's
the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those
anymore because of COVID. We haven't had those in a
long time. I haven't seen a lot. I don't think
I've seen harmon uh since since all this happened. I mean,
I haven't been in very much, so I haven't seen
any any of you guys that much name and a
lot of the hosts and other announcers are remote from
(26:46):
their homes this past year or two. Like Dan Buyer,
who we saw. I hadn't seen him since Kobe passed
away and we were eating together at the Miami Beach
Super Bowl Crazy Ride the past couple of years. Yeah,
and I have not seen Gottlieb or Buyers since we
went to a golf tournament. They had a Fox Sports
(27:07):
Radio golf tournament in the middle of twenty nineteen, which
somehow somebody screwed up and invited me to that, and
I had a wonderful time. It's a tournament you spoke
about with Bucky Brooks on the podcast. That's right, Yes, Bucky.
Bucky was one of my golf partners there and saw
me hit the worst shot in the history of golf
(27:27):
that I hit a folding chair, which I still don't
know how I was able to pull it off, just
ram it. But yeah, that was cool. I was a
good time, even though I didn't eat. Just the company
was great, hanging out with you and Harmon and and
and Burr Singer. After the bar, you spent five ten
good minutes with a horse I did. I did, That's right,
(27:50):
I got I apologize you guys had to wait for me.
I was very rude. I've always been a fan of
the Cavalry, the Los Angeles the Is. I do just
the same thing when I go visit my brother in
New York. So it's not just l a police, but
it's like the police on horseback. It's just like, for
some reason that just gets me every time. I'm like
fascinated by that. Right, And so we were walking back
(28:15):
and there was a couple of horse officers, officers on
horseback and they weren't actual horses, and so I went
over to see the horse and talk to the officer,
and it was it was pretty neat. He was telling
me about how difficult it is. There's very few officers
that are on the cavalry or whatever they call it,
(28:35):
and there's only like twenty, I think, in all of
Los Angeles, and so it was it was interesting. He
was giving me a little inside skinning. And now if
you're one of the officers, you you have to pass
all these tests like it's a very elite group of
people that are allowed to do it. And so I
took a photo. Maybe i'll post that. I don't think
I posted that one last week, but I did take
(28:58):
a photo with the horse. He came out pretty good.
Everyone the horse was looking, I was looking, the officer
was looking. Everything was everyone was happy and and all
that stuff. So that was a good photo. And but
you guys had to wait for me to get done,
and I appreciate you waiting. Another radio guy we're dropping
names here, former very briefly, a colleague of ours at
(29:21):
Fox Sports Radio and one of the great late night
hosts who's done it a lot longer than I have.
And someone I respect in radio because he's been good
at it for a long time. That'd belevant. Yeah, that
was one of the highlights of the entire trip to
Radio Row. I remember being a little kid in the
(29:42):
car when my family moved from l A to the
Bay I remember being in the Bay Area and he
was the first sports talk radio guy to simulcast his show.
Actually got to see what he looked like as he
did his show on cable TV, and then we would
hear him on the radio as we drove in the car.
(30:03):
And one of his sticks was his listeners would call
in and they would tell him what kind of alcohol
they would like him to pour. Pour me in old
English and they had different sound effects of the alcohol
being poured. All these years later and all the success
he's had, it was very cool to talk to him
in person and then see how much he looked up
(30:24):
to you and guys like you, because you guys have
a lot in common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known,
you know, I listened to Scott too before you know,
I was actually in the business, but it was kind
of early on and stuff. But Scott's been on forever
and we worked I worked with him his West he
was working at Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked
up by the local affiliate I was working at, and then,
(30:48):
you know, they tried to make it like a local
national thing because he was in l A. He was
living in Orange County, and so he came to some
remote and we kind of hung out together there and
then he came through Fox Sports Radio, Bree, but it
was great to talk to him. He's very kind. He
said some nice things about me on the show, which
was cool. And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast.
(31:08):
I think he's he's good to go. He says he's
good to do it. And we were catching up and
we're talking about his days at Fox Sports Radio, and
he's told me he knows me. And there's like a
few other people, it's hardly anybody that it's crazy how
long he's been gone. It seems like he was just there.
To me. My concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote,
what is time? This time even exists, But it seems
(31:30):
like I can remember it, like it seems like it
was like two months ago Farrell was working at our place.
But it's probably been fifteen, sixteen years, seventeen years since
he worked, there's something along those lines. It's been an
insane amount of time, and so yeah, everyone's pretty much
turned over multiple times since then, as is the radio
(31:53):
world that we live in, right, A lot of change,
a lot of that. Although we've had some pretty good
stability lately at Fox Sports Radio. What kind of Clay
getting promoted kind of ruined that. But that's good for
Clay because he got the Limbough Show and all that.
So it was it was neat talking to Farrell and
and his thing and his radio run and he does
some internet TV thing as well, so he's got a
(32:15):
lot going on. He's it's so weird because you know,
I knew Farrell before he really had a family or
anything like that, and now he's, you know, all grown up.
We're all grown up, I guess. Yeah. He was telling
us about how two of his boys are basketball stars
at their school. So yeah, you're right then to hear
somebody talking about their kids in high school and stuff
like that, You're like, wow, times of passing? Yeah, Yeah,
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So we both were in agreement on this, and we
had such a good time here. We made some contacts
for the podcast, We booked future guests for the podcast,
we network. We were schmoozing that we are. I think
we're both in agreement and the company is not gonna
send us these things because you know, but since the
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next two Super Bowls super Bowl fifty seven super Bowl
fifty eight are geographically desirable, I think our plan is
to try to make it to Arizona and Glendale, Arizona,
and then Las Vegas after that. That's a big one
for you, Danny, the Las Vegas super Bowl. But we
can get into radio rows. So I think the plan
(35:32):
is I might even, you know, go a day early
and do the overnight show from a radio station in
Phoenix and then and then that way I'm in town
for the next day. But I think we're gonna do it, right,
that's the plan. You know, who knows, maybe we'll both
get different jobs. I don't know, maybe you'll do something else.
But assuming we're in the same situation here, we're gonna
be there right, that's right there. If it's in driving distance,
(35:53):
then we'll do it again. Look out, Ben Maller on
the loose. Yeah, you'll go from not having onto any
of the radio rose for how many years to all
of a sudden three years in a row you'll become
a fixture of I'm excited about that. And since we'll
be on the road, we can do like a mini
Mallard meet and greet in uh in Phoenix, in Vegas
(36:15):
and all that and the next of course years down
the line and all that. And it didn't happen well,
it's going to happen, hasn't happened yet. We're looking forward
now as far as bunkering is concerned. I got several emails.
I didn't want to use this in the emails. We're
going to do the email tomorrow and I don't want
to do that here. But I got several people asking
(36:37):
what did you eat during the Super Bowl? We were
asked what I was going to eat, and so I
just wanted to pay that so you stopped asking me.
I don't know why that's so interesting. Who the hell
cares would I eat? Seriously, I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
but so uh my answer actually probably will surprise you.
We're having some work done still, after all this time
at the Mallard mansion, there's still slowly work being done,
(37:00):
and my wife is orchestrating all that. I'm encouraging her
to try to get a lot of this stuff done
quickly because I'm tired of the sporadic construction. We're both
tired of it. So anyway, she had scheduled some some
work done in the kitchen of all places, super Bowl Sunday. Yeah,
so I was hunkering and bunkering down in my studio
(37:20):
slash office, and my wife actually had to work on
Super Bowl Sunday, but she did. She she works at
night like I do. But on her way out of
the door, she felt pity on me, Danny, because I
couldn't go into the kitchen. It was off limits. It
was a construction zone. So I'm bunkering in the studio
and she very nice. It's good. You know, you picked
a good wife, and she's picked the right person. Maybe
(37:42):
not I, I'm not the right person. But she she
made these big bowls, these big snack bowls. So I
had one for the first half and one for the
second half. But it was all like popcorn, chocolate, almond's,
that kind of stuff. Because nothing I could be because
if I had had access to the air fryer or
the oven, I would have made like many tacos, two keto's,
(38:04):
you know that finger foods, that kind of stuff. But
you were at work, weren't you, Danny. Were you in studio? Yeah,
I was part of the coverage team with plankin Spaniard.
I got to the studios at two thirty pm. I
left eighteen minutes into your second hour. Did they buy
(38:26):
pizza for you and the guys. They did big. Mike
came in to have a meeting with his editing crew.
He also brought in Mulberry Street pizzas. Yeah, now that's
good pizza. That's high end pizza. But my one complaint,
the slices are so big. It goes quick. The slices
(38:46):
are massive on the Mulberry Street. That's called nitpicky. I
did a lot of those Super Bowl shows back in
the day to do they still get a lot of
calls during the game. I was always blown away by
that that you'd be on competing against the Super Ball
and you'd have a full bank of calls and everyone
wanted to talk and it just blew me away. But
(39:06):
it's cool. Yeah, it was very cool there. There's actually
people who like our network so much they muted the
broadcast team and had us on instead as their audio track.
So that was really flattering. And you're right, a lot
of calls and interaction. I thought it would be more
tumbleweeds and crickets, but there was a lot of people listening.
(39:28):
That is pretty cool, all right, So we'll get out
of here on this. This is critically acclaimed, Danny, So
we have been begging. I've been begging. You've been requesting
people actually right reviews on the Apple page for the
Fifth Hour podcast, and we have since I last checked
Danny three reviews. So in honor, we're gonna we're now
(39:51):
going to read the reviews. I a person very close
to me told me, you, Ben, you really should read
the reviews when somebody sends a review in since you're
begging people to send reviews and you should read him.
I thought, you know, that makes a lot of sense.
So ohio Al gave us a review five stars, says
he loves the Danny G edition. The Fifth Hour is
always entertaining to fill the weekend while waiting for the
(40:13):
next week of the Ben Mallor Show. Keep up the
good stuff. It's from ohio Al, a fan of yours
and mine. Thank you for that, ohio Al. He's a
little biased because he provided a song that we play
every weekend on the podcast for the mail bag, and
also Robin Vegas wrote any headline Fifth Hour great podcast.
Big Ben is a radio legend. Huge upgrade adding Danny G.
(40:38):
Then he takes a potshot at Gascon. He says the
other guy Blue Major chunks one word narcissist. Well, that's
not very nice. Rob, how dare But thank you for
the review. Rob, thank you for the review. And Sassy Jojo,
thank you, Sassy Joe. Joe says, great show, very entertaining.
Danny g is good too, So you got you got
that thrown in there as well, Danny, Thank you, Rob,
(41:00):
and thank you Joe Joe. Yeah, and Ohio all as well?
Who yeah, the three yeah, the three of you. If
we can now multiply that like Gremlin's Ben, Yes, let's
get three more. Let's ask for three more reviews. That's it.
We'll shoot low. And I promise you from now on,
all I get on te every week when you make
(41:22):
a review, we'll read it. We'll read it right here
on the podcast. We'll give you a little love on
the podcast because you're giving us love. We'll give you
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I know it's a pain in the y s. Who
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don't want to sit there? You gotta fill out that
whole thing and you're like, well, it's a waste of
my time, but we thank you for it does matter,
(41:44):
and so thank you, And well I think we'll check
out for today. We got the mail bag on Sunday,
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of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap
(01:55):
of a trip to Radio Row, which is is a
very exciting, very exciting for me. I've not been to
Radio Row, so we we will get into all of
the goodness that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait
to get it because I've been waiting. You know. I
told some of the stories Danny on the radio, but
I didn't get into it too much. I figured, why
(02:16):
not save this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right,
the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And
this is way better than a recap of the game.
Who watched that game? This is more about Radio Row. Yeah,
I mean, listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like
three d thirty million people in America, so more people
didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl.
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But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount
of people get to hear this podcast. This is a
very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering
and critically acclaimed this is a jam packed fifth Hour.
The amount of cont it that you were going to
(03:00):
get on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right,
I mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right,
So Serendipitous Danny. And this is actually before I even
ran into you at the l A Convention Center where
Radio Row was last week, so I finally making it
(03:21):
there and and being part of the Ambius. But getting
their parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated
the price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd.
So right around Radio Row, the parking was like fifty
bucks a lot of those places. But uh, I ended
up parking about two miles away, at least according to
(03:44):
my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd
cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know
where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot,
and anyway, park like it was like still thirty bucks
the park. So that was the first kicking the in
the nuts, having to pay thirty bucks to park. I
wasn't playing me there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah,
(04:05):
it wasn't. I ended up we ended up staying a
lot longer. But my plan was only to be there
a little bit. I know exactly what the city of
l A did what they always do. They put some
pocket money into their jacket, put them on a bus,
and they dropped them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yeah, well
they'll all be back now. They're probably already back now
(04:26):
that the Super Bowl is over, and I don't care
anymore until the next big event and then they're gonna
ship all the homeless homeless out. But it's very weird,
you know, you know how things happen in life. And
so I ended up parking in a lot. I usually
had this lot that I parked in when I would
go to games in downtown l A. But I decided
not to park there. I want to part a little closer.
(04:48):
And then I ended up parking further away, but in
a different direction, where I decided a park a couple
of miles away, And you know, I was a long walk.
It's fine, the weather was great, whatever, but it was
it was a sarend dip this decision because if I
had parked somewhere else, I would not have been able
to run across who I ran across there? My path
took me directly into the man known as Helmet Man.
(05:12):
Oh yes, I'm actually on the Live are yes, you're
on the superhero Helmet Man just happened to be out
on the street there selling his products. It was like
a light shining from heaven. I fell asleep. That's the
man right there, the great helmet Man. And he hadn't
(05:34):
called the show in a couple of years. I was
telling you the story, Danny, when we were at the
restaurant there, but he had not called the show in
a couple of years. I was concerned. Eddie was concerned.
We were all concerned because he had come by the
studio and just like knocked on the door and we
put him in, and we hadn't heard from him, and
he'd always checked in with us every once in a
while to see what was going on, and so we
were worried he had passed on, gone to the Pearly
(05:56):
Gates or something like that. And uh no. I ran
into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben,
you know like that, And it was great to see him.
He actually called into the show early this week. I
heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell
a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody
seemed really happy that he was there with us. But
(06:19):
I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he
called in a couple of days later and he said
he was at the super Bowl and he sold a
Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was
his big sale there, which is a big deal for
helmet Man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium.
(06:41):
So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now
Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he
lives over there now that that he moved, he relocated.
But it was he's a very charming man and it
was nice to to catch up with him and a
great start to a very fun day, uh, you know,
around on the super Bowl and all that stuff, and
(07:01):
so so that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And
and then as far as the Radio Row, I mean,
you've been to these things before. Danny had not been
to Radio Row. But it's a lot of grab bass,
a lot of grab bass going on. Not good at
grab bass not good. Uh, an introvert does not do
(07:23):
well at radio. I thought I did pretty good all
things considered. Yeah, I was trying to be social. Yeah. No.
When we were finishing up, I made the joke that
it felt like Jerry McGuire where he is taking his
wide receiver to do a lap and he's like, come on,
I know you're not very social, but let's do a lap.
Let's work the room one time, as I see. And
(07:45):
at the end he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Yeah,
well you were. You were escorting me. We were a
tag team here walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely
a class system that I noticed at Radio Row. That
was one of the first things I noticed, Like most
of the station's have just a crappy little table and
a box of equipment and maybe they have one of
(08:07):
those vinyl signs behind them if they're lucky. So you've
got that's the vast majority of Radio Row. And then
we have the Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set,
which they put in the company put in UM And
there were some other big draft kings at a big stage.
I saw CBS had a big one. I mean, there
(08:29):
were a few of them that were pretty big. Most
of them were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows
with everyone else on this. I remember it was either
Miami Beach or Atlanta because they had huge sets like
that at both. My former program director at NBC Sports
Radio was at one of the tables like you're talking about,
(08:52):
and when I saw him, instead of saying hi, he
looked up at our set and he said, what do
you guys do? And setting up for a Metallica concert? Yeah,
it was, And I said this. I was on with
Jason and Harmon. I went on for a segment or two,
and I I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a
(09:12):
year I worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut.
I was never on a set that was as nice
as the one for a week at Radio Row. It
was insane. Uh nice that was And I felt like
I felt a little shame because I feel like I'm
more I'm more like the guys at the card tables,
you know what I mean. Like it was it was
(09:34):
a different world being on the stage and all that.
Not that I'm complaining, but it was I felt guilty
because all these guys are looking as you said, they're
looking up. They're like, oh, look at you big shots
coming in here with your your massive set and all
that stuff and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini
here at the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's
(09:54):
way better than riding in one of those pintos. And
the Mallard militia would agree that after all the these
years of doing sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there
at the super Bowl. But it was nice. It was
very cool. And uh, and I guess I can. I
can go p O B if you want. I can
drop some names you can drop me. I jotted down
(10:14):
a few names of people I met. I met Big
Jim Murray and Mass from the Felgern Mash for that
is the number one afternoon drive local big market radio
show that's on our affiliate, our Fox Sports radio affiliate
nine point five FM, the Sports Hub. And so those
guys are great. I'm in fact Big Jim Murshed is
(10:36):
he's gonna come on the podcast. We're gonna get him
on in a future podcast. Very nice and shoot the
crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash Show
in Boston. And that show dominates the radio waves there
in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there had
a very brief You were actually part of this, a
very brief encounter with the one million dollar man, Pat McAfee. Yeah,
(11:01):
because he was a guest on radio row with me
in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage, and dude had a
crazy good memory. You know, I'm talking to him about
a Super Bowl from a couple of years ago and
he was like, oh yeah, He's like, that's when Buffalo
Wild Wings had me on your set. He was right,
that's exactly what happened. And so I was able to
then turn it over to you and got a couple
(11:23):
of good pictures of you guys, and you guys chopped
it up. He wanted to know when you slept. Yeah.
We we were talking very debonair, very debonair. Pat McAfee
full as you see on his TV radio show whatever
it is there. If you call ripped Jeans debonair, well,
you know it's modern debonair. And he was the only
(11:44):
radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the bro
of sports talk radio. And he did have a huge entourage.
I mean he even had some live performances going on
by different hip hop artists that were stopping by throughout
the week. And I'm proud of him because at that time,
I remember Clay Travis asking me after the fifteen minutes
(12:06):
with us at that Super Bowl. He was so good
that Clay said, Hey, Danny talked to him and his manager,
see if he can do a weekly hit on out
Kick that would be great. And well, you know the
rest of the story. He went on to do his
own show. Yeah, and that was the single greatest paid
guest in sports radio over the last year was Aaron Rodgers.
(12:29):
No one's even close. Like every week because of the
circumstances of you know, him not getting the vaccine and
people complaining about that and all that stuff, and the Packers,
who were the top team in the NFC during the season,
is every week it was something it was like on
the Pat McAfee show. But good for him. He got
a hundred million dollars here from what fan do I
(12:51):
think it was? Is that the one that or DraftKings,
one of the gambling outfits paid him. So that was
nice to meet him. It was nice in a brief
conversation there and he but he did have that flotilla
of people around him. They're writing his coattails. But he's
like a former NFL player, so does that like he's
(13:11):
not He played in the NFL. He was a punter,
so you've got that. There was a a name radio
person that we walked past Danny and did not acknowledge us,
not acknowledge us. And I'm pretty pretty sure, pretty sure
(13:33):
the person saw me. Surprised motherfucker. Who was it? We
will not reveal the name. We will not reveal the name,
but it was someone his last name rhymes with flick,
with someone we both know. And it just just randomly.
We were walking in he was walking out, ships passing
(13:53):
in the night and uh no, and no even fake hello,
we got an I don't think he saw you because
he was looking kind of the other direction, or he
looked right through you, maybe because you're so thin. Now yeah,
I don't know about that. He definitely looked my direction.
Now maybe you know, because you're around you're in a
(14:15):
strange environment, there's a bunch of random people. It is possible,
not probable, it's possible that he did not connect and I.
And to be fair, I mean, he's one of the
guys that I haven't seen since I lost a lot
of weight, so maybe he didn't put two and two together.
There is that possibility that he expected me to be
(14:36):
a total large ass and I didn't show up as
a total large ass, and so that might have been
the the issue there. Uh. As far as the hospitality, Danny,
it was okay. They had for the media, they had
a lot of chips, soda, right, there's a vending machines
that they had in the green room. One of the
highlights Man of walking around that event with you. Once
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I did the math on this, and I said, you know,
with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up.
I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda
(18:39):
probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for
the so I've going well, dollars two dollars for the soda,
two dollars for the soda, bag of chips. I'm not sure,
maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two bucks depending. So
I was doing the man that old spice products. Yeah,
there was old spice. Although we we really botched that
we could have got more of that. We missed out
(19:02):
on some Panini football cards that we didn't know about
until it was too late. So there were a couple
of misses on our part, but we know we did
clean up pretty good though. Yeah, Like I remember, I
was walking back to my car through the mean streets
of downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy,
pretty heavy. And boy, we going to the the what
(19:23):
do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it
was something else. They had some name for it. I
forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super
Bowl Store. Yeah. So we walked through there, and you
know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you
walk through a ride, they let you out in the
gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney
(19:44):
like prices. The NFL they really know how to make
those cash registers chi ching chi ching, cheching chi ching,
And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no,
I can't be that much. I only got a couple
of hats, and it's sent me back over a hundred
(20:06):
bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold.
I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running
around there trying because you were buying some stuff for
some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan
and some mother other people, the the the Queen TINDERNI well,
so I got her a nice hat that matches her
(20:27):
colors that she loves. We both were able to get
a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well,
that was that was a great well, that was the
unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were
leaving and I was only planning on staying for like
two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours,
get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding,
and I think this was a great decision to avoid
the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in
(20:50):
the belly of the beast there in downtown l A.
We both determined we were having a good time, so
we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended
up staying I don't know when we leave eight to
talk or something like that, and we shut the place
down pretty much, which was a good decision because you
were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and
Mike Carmen, which was a lot of fun. And also,
(21:12):
and let me back up a little bit. When we
were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio,
we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts
on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him
about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a
couple of years and we're having a fun little conversation
with him. He had the headset now. Prior to talking
(21:36):
with him, I asked him, I said, you're not on
right now writing, so no, no, no, it's cool. I'm
in a commercial break. He lost track of time. We
say goodbye to him. He puts his headset on, and
I hear him talking to his engineer back at the
Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes?
You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful
(22:00):
made him three minutes late to his radio. So some
some jamoke driving around Vegas is like, why is this
jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing
this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That
P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three
minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah,
(22:21):
that's what happened to your boy que there in Vegas.
The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas
just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheelhouse,
Danny g That format is crazy, all right. So we
stayed till we were past traffic and our way out.
We'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you
(22:42):
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content you didn't know you need, but you can't get
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looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out,
you know it was it was a decent crowd of
people just mulling around outside the exit, and there were
some bunch of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs.
(23:06):
I mean they lined them up on both sides of
the street. It smelled really good, really really good. And
then there were a couple of dudes with bags of
shirts and they were Super Bowl shirts, Like, these are
good looking shirts. Yeah, they did a good job on them.
These are some of the l A entrepreneurs that we
like to support. I'm gonna say, Ben check the tags
(23:30):
on the shirt. He checked the quality of the shirt
to make sure that the print on both sides was nice,
and then made sure the price was right. Yeah, no,
it was inside the price gouging NFL store. That same
shirt would have been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye,
sixty five bucks, and we got it outside for twenty bucks.
(23:53):
And it's it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made.
It past the Mather Test where I I kind of
pulled it apart and let me look at that, and
I was like, I was ending. But the price of
even counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series
in Seen, I bought a couple of those shirts out
on the streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten
(24:16):
bucks a shirt. So in five years from two it's
got up, but half it's double. Yeah yeah, So yeah,
these guys are smart. They know exactly where the price
point was on the inside of the event, and so
they knew that their price point outside of the event
(24:37):
was a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't. I was
gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality
of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was
gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive.
And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it.
But if you got a deal like that, you gotta
take advantage of that. For sure. Hats on the inside
that were official and shirts on the outside which were
(24:59):
semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here,
but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat.
I was a douche because I was fasting man, and
I sat there and you had you had a delicious
plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I
was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious.
(25:20):
And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger, keep trying, Ryan.
We all went to this restaurant across from from the
crypt Arena whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to
Tom's at l A live there right across from the event.
And I was bummed out because you know, I haven't
got to break bread with you in a while. You know,
back in the live radio days with you, we used
(25:41):
to have pizza parties all the time. Yeah, you and
I would go to Cheesecake Factory in places like that
to break bread. Um, so I know your style of food,
I know what you love. Their menu was right up
your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food.
But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny,
because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm
(26:02):
so paranoid as a recovering fat man every time I
eat a big meal out like that. And then I
figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that.
So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year.
Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It
was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's
(26:23):
just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's
the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those
anymore because of COVID. We haven't had those in a
long time. I haven't seen a lot. I don't think
I've seen harmon uh since since all this happened. I mean,
I haven't been in very much, so I haven't seen
any any of you guys that much name and a
lot of the hosts and other announcers are remote from
(26:46):
their homes this past year or two. Like Dan Buyer,
who we saw. I hadn't seen him since Kobe passed
away and we were eating together at the Miami Beach
Super Bowl Crazy Ride the past couple of years. Yeah,
and I have not seen Gottlieb or Buyers since we
went to a golf tournament. They had a Fox Sports
(27:07):
Radio golf tournament in the middle of twenty nineteen, which
somehow somebody screwed up and invited me to that, and
I had a wonderful time. It's a tournament you spoke
about with Bucky Brooks on the podcast. That's right, Yes, Bucky.
Bucky was one of my golf partners there and saw
me hit the worst shot in the history of golf
(27:27):
that I hit a folding chair, which I still don't
know how I was able to pull it off, just
ram it. But yeah, that was cool. I was a
good time, even though I didn't eat. Just the company
was great, hanging out with you and Harmon and and
and Burr Singer. After the bar, you spent five ten
good minutes with a horse I did. I did, That's right,
(27:50):
I got I apologize you guys had to wait for me.
I was very rude. I've always been a fan of
the Cavalry, the Los Angeles the Is. I do just
the same thing when I go visit my brother in
New York. So it's not just l a police, but
it's like the police on horseback. It's just like, for
some reason that just gets me every time. I'm like
fascinated by that. Right, And so we were walking back
(28:15):
and there was a couple of horse officers, officers on
horseback and they weren't actual horses, and so I went
over to see the horse and talk to the officer,
and it was it was pretty neat. He was telling
me about how difficult it is. There's very few officers
that are on the cavalry or whatever they call it,
(28:35):
and there's only like twenty, I think, in all of
Los Angeles, and so it was it was interesting. He
was giving me a little inside skinning. And now if
you're one of the officers, you you have to pass
all these tests like it's a very elite group of
people that are allowed to do it. And so I
took a photo. Maybe i'll post that. I don't think
I posted that one last week, but I did take
(28:58):
a photo with the horse. He came out pretty good.
Everyone the horse was looking, I was looking, the officer
was looking. Everything was everyone was happy and and all
that stuff. So that was a good photo. And but
you guys had to wait for me to get done,
and I appreciate you waiting. Another radio guy we're dropping
names here, former very briefly, a colleague of ours at
(29:21):
Fox Sports Radio and one of the great late night
hosts who's done it a lot longer than I have.
And someone I respect in radio because he's been good
at it for a long time. That'd belevant. Yeah, that
was one of the highlights of the entire trip to
Radio Row. I remember being a little kid in the
(29:42):
car when my family moved from l A to the
Bay I remember being in the Bay Area and he
was the first sports talk radio guy to simulcast his show.
Actually got to see what he looked like as he
did his show on cable TV, and then we would
hear him on the radio as we drove in the car.
(30:03):
And one of his sticks was his listeners would call
in and they would tell him what kind of alcohol
they would like him to pour. Pour me in old
English and they had different sound effects of the alcohol
being poured. All these years later and all the success
he's had, it was very cool to talk to him
in person and then see how much he looked up
(30:24):
to you and guys like you, because you guys have
a lot in common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known,
you know, I listened to Scott too before you know,
I was actually in the business, but it was kind
of early on and stuff. But Scott's been on forever
and we worked I worked with him his West he
was working at Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked
up by the local affiliate I was working at, and then,
(30:48):
you know, they tried to make it like a local
national thing because he was in l A. He was
living in Orange County, and so he came to some
remote and we kind of hung out together there and
then he came through Fox Sports Radio, Bree, but it
was great to talk to him. He's very kind. He
said some nice things about me on the show, which
was cool. And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast.
(31:08):
I think he's he's good to go. He says he's
good to do it. And we were catching up and
we're talking about his days at Fox Sports Radio, and
he's told me he knows me. And there's like a
few other people, it's hardly anybody that it's crazy how
long he's been gone. It seems like he was just there.
To me. My concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote,
what is time? This time even exists, But it seems
(31:30):
like I can remember it, like it seems like it
was like two months ago Farrell was working at our place.
But it's probably been fifteen, sixteen years, seventeen years since
he worked, there's something along those lines. It's been an
insane amount of time, and so yeah, everyone's pretty much
turned over multiple times since then, as is the radio
(31:53):
world that we live in, right, A lot of change,
a lot of that. Although we've had some pretty good
stability lately at Fox Sports Radio. What kind of Clay
getting promoted kind of ruined that. But that's good for
Clay because he got the Limbough Show and all that.
So it was it was neat talking to Farrell and
and his thing and his radio run and he does
some internet TV thing as well, so he's got a
(32:15):
lot going on. He's it's so weird because you know,
I knew Farrell before he really had a family or
anything like that, and now he's, you know, all grown up.
We're all grown up, I guess. Yeah. He was telling
us about how two of his boys are basketball stars
at their school. So yeah, you're right then to hear
somebody talking about their kids in high school and stuff
like that, You're like, wow, times of passing? Yeah, Yeah,
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So we both were in agreement on this, and we
had such a good time here. We made some contacts
for the podcast, We booked future guests for the podcast,
we network. We were schmoozing that we are. I think
we're both in agreement and the company is not gonna
send us these things because you know, but since the
(35:10):
next two Super Bowls super Bowl fifty seven super Bowl
fifty eight are geographically desirable, I think our plan is
to try to make it to Arizona and Glendale, Arizona,
and then Las Vegas after that. That's a big one
for you, Danny, the Las Vegas super Bowl. But we
can get into radio rows. So I think the plan
(35:32):
is I might even, you know, go a day early
and do the overnight show from a radio station in
Phoenix and then and then that way I'm in town
for the next day. But I think we're gonna do it, right,
that's the plan. You know, who knows, maybe we'll both
get different jobs. I don't know, maybe you'll do something else.
But assuming we're in the same situation here, we're gonna
be there right, that's right there. If it's in driving distance,
(35:53):
then we'll do it again. Look out, Ben Maller on
the loose. Yeah, you'll go from not having onto any
of the radio rose for how many years to all
of a sudden three years in a row you'll become
a fixture of I'm excited about that. And since we'll
be on the road, we can do like a mini
Mallard meet and greet in uh in Phoenix, in Vegas
(36:15):
and all that and the next of course years down
the line and all that. And it didn't happen well,
it's going to happen, hasn't happened yet. We're looking forward
now as far as bunkering is concerned. I got several emails.
I didn't want to use this in the emails. We're
going to do the email tomorrow and I don't want
to do that here. But I got several people asking
(36:37):
what did you eat during the Super Bowl? We were
asked what I was going to eat, and so I
just wanted to pay that so you stopped asking me.
I don't know why that's so interesting. Who the hell
cares would I eat? Seriously, I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
but so uh my answer actually probably will surprise you.
We're having some work done still, after all this time
at the Mallard mansion, there's still slowly work being done,
(37:00):
and my wife is orchestrating all that. I'm encouraging her
to try to get a lot of this stuff done
quickly because I'm tired of the sporadic construction. We're both
tired of it. So anyway, she had scheduled some some
work done in the kitchen of all places, super Bowl Sunday. Yeah,
so I was hunkering and bunkering down in my studio
(37:20):
slash office, and my wife actually had to work on
Super Bowl Sunday, but she did. She she works at
night like I do. But on her way out of
the door, she felt pity on me, Danny, because I
couldn't go into the kitchen. It was off limits. It
was a construction zone. So I'm bunkering in the studio
and she very nice. It's good. You know, you picked
a good wife, and she's picked the right person. Maybe
(37:42):
not I, I'm not the right person. But she she
made these big bowls, these big snack bowls. So I
had one for the first half and one for the
second half. But it was all like popcorn, chocolate, almond's,
that kind of stuff. Because nothing I could be because
if I had had access to the air fryer or
the oven, I would have made like many tacos, two keto's,
(38:04):
you know that finger foods, that kind of stuff. But
you were at work, weren't you, Danny. Were you in studio? Yeah,
I was part of the coverage team with plankin Spaniard.
I got to the studios at two thirty pm. I
left eighteen minutes into your second hour. Did they buy
(38:26):
pizza for you and the guys. They did big. Mike
came in to have a meeting with his editing crew.
He also brought in Mulberry Street pizzas. Yeah, now that's
good pizza. That's high end pizza. But my one complaint,
the slices are so big. It goes quick. The slices
(38:46):
are massive on the Mulberry Street. That's called nitpicky. I
did a lot of those Super Bowl shows back in
the day to do they still get a lot of
calls during the game. I was always blown away by
that that you'd be on competing against the Super Ball
and you'd have a full bank of calls and everyone
wanted to talk and it just blew me away. But
(39:06):
it's cool. Yeah, it was very cool there. There's actually
people who like our network so much they muted the
broadcast team and had us on instead as their audio track.
So that was really flattering. And you're right, a lot
of calls and interaction. I thought it would be more
tumbleweeds and crickets, but there was a lot of people listening.
(39:28):
That is pretty cool, all right, So we'll get out
of here on this. This is critically acclaimed, Danny, So
we have been begging. I've been begging. You've been requesting
people actually right reviews on the Apple page for the
Fifth Hour podcast, and we have since I last checked
Danny three reviews. So in honor, we're gonna we're now
(39:51):
going to read the reviews. I a person very close
to me told me, you, Ben, you really should read
the reviews when somebody sends a review in since you're
begging people to send reviews and you should read him.
I thought, you know, that makes a lot of sense.
So ohio Al gave us a review five stars, says
he loves the Danny G edition. The Fifth Hour is
always entertaining to fill the weekend while waiting for the
(40:13):
next week of the Ben Mallor Show. Keep up the
good stuff. It's from ohio Al, a fan of yours
and mine. Thank you for that, ohio Al. He's a
little biased because he provided a song that we play
every weekend on the podcast for the mail bag, and
also Robin Vegas wrote any headline Fifth Hour great podcast.
Big Ben is a radio legend. Huge upgrade adding Danny G.
(40:38):
Then he takes a potshot at Gascon. He says the
other guy Blue Major chunks one word narcissist. Well, that's
not very nice. Rob, how dare But thank you for
the review. Rob, thank you for the review. And Sassy Jojo,
thank you, Sassy Joe. Joe says, great show, very entertaining.
Danny g is good too, So you got you got
that thrown in there as well, Danny, Thank you, Rob,
(41:00):
and thank you Joe Joe. Yeah, and Ohio all as well?
Who yeah, the three yeah, the three of you. If
we can now multiply that like Gremlin's Ben, Yes, let's
get three more. Let's ask for three more reviews. That's it.
We'll shoot low. And I promise you from now on,
all I get on te every week when you make
(41:22):
a review, we'll read it. We'll read it right here
on the podcast. We'll give you a little love on
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I know it's a pain in the y s. Who
wants to do that? What a pain in the You
don't want to sit there? You gotta fill out that
whole thing and you're like, well, it's a waste of
my time, but we thank you for it does matter,
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and so thank you, And well I think we'll check
out for today. We got the mail bag on Sunday,
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