July 13, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, Happy Sunday to you. It
is the thirteenth day of July. We have arrived here
and one of the final Sundays before the NFL. What
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kind This is one of those kind of things because
I think today or tomorrow the Chargers begin training camp.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They are, yeah, their rookies are supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today, right, I think it's today, Yes, yeah, So they
play in the Hall of Fame game, and throughout the
week we'll be getting NFL news, We'll have training camps
will start opening up slowly and surely around the NFL.
So it's getting underway, and we're about fifty some odd
days I think away from the first real NFL game,
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they'll be exhibition games in less than a month. They'll
be exhibition football in less than a month, which is
very cool. This is the greatest baker.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You know. The last day of this month is the
Hall of Fame game, right, the thirty first.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh yeah, I think you're right on that.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah. Yeah, so we could say there's football this month.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Very cool. So we're excited about that and we look
forward to it. Obviously, it's where sports radio. That's the
golden time for sports radio, right, that's the golden period there, time.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of the year where we're not supposed to take any
days off.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, that's why I'm taking no no once the season
regular season begins is so I'm gonna try to squeeze
all my time off the rest of July and August
once football begins. I normally don't take any days off
other than the company forces me to take off. I
think it's Christmas Eve because they have best of programming
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in New Year's Eve. But other than that, I'm in.
I'm in, baby, I am all in from September until February.
No days off, no days off. Yeah, we do have
the mailbag. I did also want to point out that
we like dope Holidays. It is National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day.
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I bring this up for a couple of reasons. Number One,
I like barbershop music. That makes me weird. Number two
years ago, there was a listener from Chicago who sent
us some barbershop quartet style music. And one of the
songs that this person may is a classic and there
(03:03):
were two versions made. A gentleman made this song in
honor of the Cubs, the Three Cubs. So this goes
back twenty some odd years ago and it's one of
the all time great parody songs ever delivered. And it
was a fan of the Mallor Show, The Chubby Cubby,
Remember the Chubby Cubby, Danny the c Yeah, that was
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barbershop quartet, and that is a song that we played
on the show. We actually got in trouble with the
score in Chicago for playing that song. They for some reason,
somebody there got upset with us. I don't know why
they did. And so there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's kind of a spinoff of Jingles. And you're such
a big fan of Jingles. I can see how you
love barbershop quartets.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I do. I do you remember watching the movie Hoosiers
it featured a barbershop quartet singing the national anthem before
a game.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's right, yeah, and so that was in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That's a long time ago. And anyway, it's celebrate appropriately.
And if somebody wants to make a Mallor Show theme
song barbershop quartet style. I'm not saying we wouldn't play
it all the time, but we would absolutely play it
every chance we get. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
let's get to the mail bag. What do you say,
Danny G. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Let's go? It's bang.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Thank you very much, ohio A. These are actual letters
by actual listeners to the show. First up, our man
from Michigan. He's a Michigan man. I assume he's from there.
I know he lives there, but I don't know if
I don't know the history of everyone that writes in.
Reggie from Detroit, who's always a muckraker. He writes and
he says, been and daddy G. I hope you guys had
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a great week. Wayne, is malord merch coming? You've been
teasing this bit for a while. Are you actually going
to pull the trigger? Big fan? Reggie in Detroit. Reggie,
thank you first of all for actually admitting you want
some Mallord merch. Secondly, I'm trying to do this the
right way. I have been in contact with a couple
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of people. I just I'm crutching Oways as my grandfather
who says yettish term. I got to pull the trigger
on this. There's some things I'm waiting on before I
do it. I wanna, you know, I want to throw
some stuff out there and give people the opportunity that
are fans of the show to buy some stuff. And
I don't know how much of how much of the
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the stuff I want to put out. There's no budget.
That's the problem. There's no budget. Now some people have
come forward and offered to to set it up and
they'll they'll take a cut of whatever money is there.
Like the whole the whole reason I would do it, Reggie,
is to try to get money to do more Malord
meet and greets in different places. Because the company, I
guess there going through hard times. They don't ever pay
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for anything, none of my travel. So I do these
Mallard meet and greets. It's out of my pocket. No,
it's good marketing for the show. And I don't mind
doing it. You know, I be better if the company
actually paid for it. So I figure, if I can
sell some shirts and some other crap, then I can
use that money not for myself, but to travel to
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to go to some different places and meet fans of
the show in different different cities. And so that's really
the motivation behind it. Kind of create a travel fund
where I hate you know, the Mallard Militia pays for
future Mallor meet and greets, So that would be the
way I would do it. I wouldn't like the money
wouldn't go to me, per se. I just reinvested in
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the show. So I'm definitely close to doing something, Reggie,
I haven't I haven't obviously done it yet. So I'm
very busy during the week. I only have a couple
of days to kind of throw everything out there. I'll
let you know as and Danny, you're aware of this.
One thing I'm never bashful about is promotion. I'm you know,
I'm promoting something I go all in like the Mallard
(07:06):
Palooza is coming up a week from today. Week from
tonight is the Malard Palooza twenty twenty five. The biggest
event in overnight sports talk radio during the summer is
the Mallard Palooza. You were part of some of those
back in the day. We used to be called the
Ben Mallard Talent Show. It's the Mallard Palooza. It's gonna
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be off the hook. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh. I'm gonna call up to do some poetry. My
poet name is the Poet of Rage.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No. I like that. Roses are red, violence of blue,
and I hate you and you can just go yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh. I was gonna say, and I'm gonna kill you
because I'm poet of rage.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's true. Got a murder well that would see that
you're better at poetry. That would be perfect. Yeah, thank you, Richie.
Next up Dodger Kevin in Houston, oh Man, the Belly
of the Beast. Hey Ben, and g Man. Hey Danny,
you're g Man. He says. I grew up in the Valley.
I love LA sports radio. I moved to Houston during COVID,
(08:05):
he says, Kevin, to escape your governor Newsom. He's still here, Kevin,
he says, And I live near my wife's family, the
in laws. So the reason I'm writing you is they
were talking about you on local sports radio here in
Houston as a topic and n Dodger Kevin says, hey,
(08:25):
are you aware of this? And b what do you
think of being a punching bag for these loser astro fans?
I'm surrounded by. That's from Kevin. So, first of all, Kevin,
I was kind of aware that my name came up
on sports radio in Houston, because after I did the
cheating ass whole monologue, we're on podcasts. I can say
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that I all of a sudden got a lot of
email and social media content from people from Houston who
were new names. So I figured either they saw the
video on social media or my name came up on
sports radio in Houston.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So I you know where I got to hear? You
were ant and on the astros recently. Where's that you
were filling in on the blow torch AM five seventy
LA sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's right, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You and Jonas knocks and you were going off on
the astros. And I was laughing in my car as
I was driving to the study.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I was rich listen, uh we enjoyed that. I was
very disappointed the daytime callers on the Rogan and Rodney show,
Danny way too positive, Like, way too positive, Dodd, You're like,
I mean, it's like, come on now, the Dodgers have
had a terrible week of baseball year, you know, and
then they're limping into the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, you guys were like, the Dodgers suck. They suck
right now. By the way, we're giving away tickets at
any moment.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, and Jonas of course, waited until the final segment
of the show to get away. It's but of course, yeah,
that's that's the oldest trick in the book, right, You
never give him away right away.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, it could have happened in five minutes from now.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, it's it's funny because we gave him away. And
the last time I was on that show with Fred,
Fred's like, what number caller bend should we use? And
I was like, I don't know. I don't give anything away.
I don't have any gifts to get away in the overnight,
so I don't call her six. And so I was like,
call her six, and then Fred's like, that's so easy.
So this week I said call her fifty eight, and
(10:29):
they got upset with me because I guess that was
too high call it. I got to find somewhere in
the middle, somewhere, some of them. But anyway, back to
Dodger Kevin, Kevin, thank you for listening. And I'm flattered.
I am flattered that who were.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Talking about you. Do you have any idea?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I do not know their names. I wouldn't know them even.
I mean, it was on seven ninety in Houston, which
is our our affiliate, so I don't know who's on there.
I was told one of the guys that always attacks
me is like a Rockets broadcaster or something. I don't
know if that's true. I don't know. Maybe somebody can
let me know one of our maybe Kevin can write
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back or whatever. I think it's a guy that works
or either did work on the Rockets broadcast the Houston Rockets,
or somebody that does. Now I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'm going to search their station later today and see
if I can find audio of them. They obviously one
of them heard you doing the take and then said,
let's react to that on our show, and then they
spent probably an hour talking about you and your take.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah. I don't know how long they spent talking about you,
but I am I'm flattered that I can say something
at four in the morning in Houston and these Jabbroni's
are gonna talk about me. Now, that's the oldest trick
in the book, Danny. I learned the art of weaponizing
other people's takes from my time at WI. When I
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and this year's ago I got hired to fill in
at WEI, I was doing it remote lee, and I
learned the art of taking something that Rob Parker or
Skip Bayless or Stephen A. Smith said that morning about
Tom Brady and the Patriots and molding that into an
hour of talk radio. There is an art, Yeah, there
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is an art to it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's just like a few days ago that Kansas City
broadcaster called Patrick Mahomes fat.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yes, yes, perfect, that's a great extent.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Everybody was doing a topic out of that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah. It is really a great tool if it's Radio
one oh one. It's something to add to your toolbox
if you want to get into this or the podcast game.
You weaponize other people's takes. Normally the overnight guy does
not have their takes weaponized. So I am flattered that
whoever that nobody in Houston was decided to put my
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name out there. I am such a radio loser. Alf
writes in from Magic City, a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
He said, Hey, guys, I'm going to be there tomorrow.
I heard the recent promo about Coveno and Rich and
the Major League Baseball All Star Game. So I'm assuming
that FSR is sending all of the talent to Atlanta. Well,
(13:14):
you know what happens when you assume Alf for the festivities.
My question is will all of you be attending Rob
Parker's blowout party at Magic City? And will it be
raining lemon pepper wings? That's from the great Alf. Well, Danny,
you're going. I am not invited to these things. I
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am not one of the cool kids. But you will
be there, Danny. So are you going to the infamous
Magic City, which is so good that La Clipper Lou
Williams left the bubble to eat lemon pepper wings at
Magic City?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know I love wings bone in one of my
favorite things to dip in ranch. I definitely want to
try those wings.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I've been told. I've been told by the way that
if you go to Magic City, the only bones there
are on the chicken wings. The women very curvacous, not
a lot of bones showing they they did. Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Rich Davis tells this funny story that he was with
I guess, a couple of radio friends back in the
day when he last visited Atlanta. They were like the
dudes that worked at his sister radio station at the time,
like their urban station, And so they take him into
Magic City and he looks around and he told them,
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He's like, you guys, I'm the only white guy in here.
And he said, at one point he walked out, he
had to walk out to the parking lot to get
some fresh air because he was just overwhelmed by everything
that was going on inside. And he said when he left,
he smelled like cocoa butter and wings.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So I that is great. Like I have not been
to the ballet in a while, but the cocoa butter
is uh. That is the perfect word described the the
the experience at the uh at the ballet. That is uh.
(15:19):
That is great. That is uh. Well. I actually got
into an argument with my guys sports with Coleman, I
think it was back on Friday, because I'd praised the
Atlanta Airport, the Atlanta you know, Hartfield whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Airport, the beautiful airport.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, so you agree with me. So I was like, oh,
it's a great airport, and Sports with Coleman is like,
people hate it, it sucks. He's from Atlanta. Originally He's like,
it's blows. I don't know why you praise it. And
I told him Danny, I said, listen, first of all,
you're completely wrong. Every time I've been to the Atlanta airport,
I've had a good experience. And secondly, I compare everything
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to LAX. So pretty much every airport I go to
other than La Guardia in New York. Other than that,
every other airport is better than LAX and Atlanta. They
have a train system, right, they got a whole. I
mean there's a whole, but going on like that's to me,
that was an efficient, well run airport. So I don't
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agree with Sports with It's a good.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Last time, the last time I flew into Atlanta was
for the Super Bowl there. What was that like maybe
six seven years ago now, And it was crazy because
we land, we get inside and there was a drum
line in there. There was like a band, a marching band,
a black school marching band, and they're going all crazy
on their drums and their instruments and people were dancing
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inside the airport. It was wild.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's great. Yeah, no, I like the Atlanta airport. So
there you go. Are they going to have a staff
meeting at Magic City called by Rob Parker? You think
that'll have and that Rob will get everyone together? I
need a cole showered. All right, we're gonna have a
meeting everyone, you know, team bonding. We're going to Magic City.
Got the back of it.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You're not wrong because when the guys saw the odd
couple on Friday as the show was over for us,
they were telling Rob what time? Which day are we
gonna meet you there?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah? No, I hear you. Now wait till you're turning
the expense report to management and on the.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Bill of Magic City, all right, CBS on top of
the receipt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, there you go. Maddie from Maddie from Michigan Rights
and says, hey, Ben and Danny, I know you guys travel.
Well this is perfect because it says you travel. You
guys travel a lot. Did you see the story in
Maine where passengers were forced to spend over seventeen hours
in at an airport in Maine because a flight was
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diverted because some people were smoking cigarettes in the bathroom
on the plane. So, Matti, I did not see this story.
If that is what happened. What you're saying here, Maddie,
shouldn't those people go to jail? Danny like, what do
you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Of course, yeah, go to chit. I think it's interesting
too to hear about what happens with other people and
cigarette smokers. I walked through the garage at Sherman Oaks,
the big parking garage we have. Once in a while
they'll be idiots who step out of the elevator chain
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smoke cigarettes right by the entrance of the elevators, get
back inside the elevator and go down and go back
into their office. Because we're in a huge bank building.
I walked into a cloud of smoke the other day
that got stuck in my throat. It was in my
lungs all afternoon. And then the same damn thing when
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I went to the mall. And by the way, I
also saw a bunch of nerds walking into the theater
dressed like Superman in costumes.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh boy, Cosplasure.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
One of them had a red cape on and he
was smoking a cigarette outside the theater. People still do
this in the year twenty twenty five. Are you I
was going to say retarded. I can't not allowed to
say that anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Go get canceled, I think, well, no, I think.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Joe, are the people that are smoking cigarettes should be
the ones who get canceled.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's a little much, I know, but I'm always amazed. Guy.
I when I go to Vegas, everyone smokes, and like
usually I don't see a lot of people here, although
I did. I was at the beach. Was it last
week or I don't know it was last week because
it was last week was the fourth of July, so
I guess it was a couple of weeks ago. And
I ended up down Win from some dude was smoking
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on the beach, which I think you're not even allowed
to do that in California, but he was and I
was down Win, so I was I might as well
have been the one smoking, cause it was coming right
in my white right in my lungs, you know, boom,
you know, like, what do you come on? Qwaang from
Vietnam yet again? Right? And this guy is loyal. He
(20:01):
doesn't miss a week anymore. We thank you, Kwang. He
says he's in Ho Chi Minh he loves to say
that super one, Yeah, Big Ben and Daddy g Radio.
He writes, meet ball Triodge. I talked about meatball surgery
on the show, and the person had no idea what
I was talking about. I assume you know that term
(20:22):
like meatball surgery. Ay so Quang says meatball triage is
a term used to describe a method of rapidly processing
a large number of patients, often in a chaotic environment,
prioritizing those most likely to survive. It involves making quick decisions,
performing procedures efficiently, sometimes at the expense of thoroughness, to
(20:45):
save as many lives as possible. He says, the term
game popularity, though on which TV show? All right, Danny
or you should know this right away? What do you
think what TV show did meetball triage meatball surgery become
famous on? I know the answer answers revealing.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
This one's easy. Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That is absolutely right. Remember Laverne came home and she
hurt herself and Shirley had to operate and it was
a she lost to toe, but it was there. You go,
remember Mash back in the day, Mash the story about
Vietnam and.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I don't remember that because whenever reruns of MASH would
come on our TV, we would see who could run
to the TV first to turn it off or change
the channel.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh man, that show though still to this day the
most watched. The ten most watched TV shows are like
all NFL games and then like MASH is in there the.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Final I still don't get it, and I still as
an adult now I've seen reruns and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
All right, Well, I watched as a kid. My parents
were into it, and I remember, in fact, one of
the listeners sent me a Toledo mud Hens hat because
hot it was. It wasn't hot gy. I forget which
one of the characters, Jamie Farr's character, one of the characters,
wore Toledo mud Hen's hat, and so I always thought
that was a cool hat only because I saw it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There canned laughter at the guy that was a cross dresser.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That was that creepy. Yeah, that show was creepy. It
just had a creepy vibe to it, like a creepy
Vietnam vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, it's hard to make a show about war and
have like some comedy in it, you know what it
was like. It's tough. Yeah, it's hard to well remember
the what Hogan's Heroes was about concentration camp, right, or jail,
a German jail or whatever, and they tried to make
that into a comedy. So it's not It's not the
(22:42):
easiest thing to do anyway. So yeah, it was mash So.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Think it would be like if there was canned laughter
during Dexter.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, well that was the era though, Danny. All the shows, right,
they were like it was cookie cutter. Every show's gonna
have a laugh track. You gotta have a laugh track,
so people watching no when to laugh, because nobody knows
when to laugh unless you you have to make it
obvious because it's not really that funny. So you're gonna
make sure you.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Put a little some weird shows. No wonder our grandparents
were so screwed up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, of course, twenty years from now, Cole will be like,
I don't understand what my dad was watching. I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I don't what is happen Love Island? What a bunch
of degenerates?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, man, no culture back then. Ferg Dog and they're right,
Ferg Dog in Fullerton writes and says, Hi, Captain Ben
and Admiral G, sorry for not sending a question last week.
I was busy having a great time on magic Johnson
yacht with huge stars like Rodney Pete. Maybe next year
you guys will get the invite too, he says. So
(23:49):
in thirty or forty years, when both of you guys
end up retiring, would you be okay with an AI
version of you being your successor? I can already imagine
AI Ben dishing out some real hot takes and AI
Danny G Danny G really shining on Animal Thunderdome AI
(24:11):
when AI Klay Travis does the show with Danny G. Uh, there,
that's a great idea. Well, that is a way Thunderdome
will get done. The AI version of Clay and you
together guarantee the show gets done.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know what, what have I've been winning three and
a half years now? I could have put together about
ten episodes by now using AI Clay and me piecing
his voice together myself to make the.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
AI yeah one hundred percent? Well what else? Let's say? Now?
The AI thing is interesting because there is already the
technology which is rather scary that they could already do this, Danny,
if you sign off on it, and even if you
don't sign off it and they can still do.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm about the reporter chick that fooled a lot of
people at Wimbledon. Did you see that? No?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I did not see that. No.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So there were all these sports fans across the world
fawning over this lady who supposedly was a reporter at Wimbledon.
She was not real. Pictures of her at Wimbledon were
AI generated?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And yeah, it tricked a lot of people online. She
somebody made a fake profile and she got all these
followers and people she she made these websites with people
like who's who's she? She's like, you know, the it
girl from Wimbledon this year. Turns out she's not even real.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, that's like the did see the Spotify story this
week that they this hot indie rock band that's been
killing it on Spotify and has more than a million
listeners on Spotify and it's AI generated. Oh it's an
indie rock AI generated band and it's red hot. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We're not going down a good path with this right now. No, well,
we we're definitely not. And that's why I've pushed back Danny.
Everyone's like, I want AI and baseball. I want the
umpires to be AI and all this shit.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I'm like, oh, really, it is a slippery slope
to go down, and you know, ya be careful, and
it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You're yeah, but it's something that can take people's jobs. Beware,
be careful with it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, and for better or worse, I am, I guess
an old head of boomer. I want humans as So
it's like to answer Ferg, go back to his question,
you know, thirty forty years from now, have AI replace Thiss?
Like I always think these are great jobs. And when
my time is done on this planet and I can't
and I die or whatever, I want somebody else to
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have this great job and somebody else to live that
life the next generation. And if you just keep the
same people like I would have never gotten this opportunity.
You would have never gotten this opportunity you have, Danny.
If AI who was before us did these jobs, that
would be it. So No, I want some other future
people that aren't even born yet to have these kind
(27:11):
of jobs. And if you put AI in here, then
that never happens. And how does anything get done, if
everything's done by AI.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, and I'm not going to be the one doing
Animal Thunderdome. It's going to be my son Coha.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you've already got a contract signed with iHeart.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's for call. Yeah, you're his legal guardian, so as
the father. So random woman on social media rights and
she does not want her name revealed. She says, my
boyfriend is a huge fan of yours and has been
waiting for the announcement ben on the Malor meet and
greet event in Columbus. Have you decided yet? And then
(27:52):
she gives some other information that will give her away,
so I will not read that here. She does not
want her to name used. So, first of all, you're
a great girlfriend. I don't know you. But the fact
that you're doing this on behalf of your boyfriend who's
a fan of the show. I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's considered true love.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That is true love. Now, because most of the time
when dudes get hitched up with ladies, the women are like,
all right, we're married.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You got to be a grown up. You can't listen
to that stupid overnight radio show. You know, we got
to cuddle and a spoon in bed. We can't have
that stupid, ugly mallear on there.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know, Yeah, your voice is like repellent.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I can't tell every one of these meeting me it's
the one in Vancouver, the one we did in Vegas,
the la ones we've done Minnesota. There's inevitably at least
one or two women that will come up to me
and yell at me. Now most of them are just
kind of busting my balls about their husband listening to
the show and how they've had to like deal with it,
and they wear ear plugs. It's it's pretty funny. So
(28:56):
I like tap joking exactly exactly. I admit it. I
admit so the Ohio thing has been completely affed up.
I humbly apologize to all of the people. I said
it would happen in July. It's not gonna happen here
in July. I am on standby. I continue to be
on standby. So I've been waiting for something that was
(29:16):
supposed to happen on July. By July first, there was
a soft deadline for a decision to be made July first.
We are now as we wake up this morning Danny's
July thirteenth, No decision has been made. Literally everything is
on old my entire summer plans. Now, remember we talked
(29:37):
about this earlier, Danny. This weekend, like, I am going
to try to take all of my time off July
and August, so when football starts in September, I'm not
going to miss any shows all my I'll be here
over the holidays and all that stuff. Well, any travel
plans that I was gonna make, I can't make other
(29:58):
than the random day here or there where I have
like a staycation because I'm waiting for this news, which
will affect other things. So once I get that, I
will be able to book something. And I need to
get there. My man, Dick and Dayton unfortunately moved into
he moved into an assisted living retirement home. Not that
(30:19):
you know assisted living, but he's a retirement home. So
I need to get there. I'm gonna make it happen.
I'm thinking sometime in August, probably later August at this point,
but I will let everyone know, and I will I
will promote it, much like I will promote what Reggie
asked about the merch, so you'll know you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Know this is starting to sound like your version of
Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
It is, and I feel terrible because I had in
my head, Danny, I had everything mapped out. I was like,
all right, this is gonna happen the best laid plans
of mice, men and people waiting for other people to
make decisions. And that's just the way it is. A
couple more quick ones. What do we have, Shane? When
Dallas says, hey, Benny and Danny, Ben, do you feel
(31:03):
vindicated to see the story this week Amazon was caught
hiking prices before Prime Day's discounts. That is from Shane. Shane, Well,
first of all, thank you for listening, because I used
to rant about this. Remember Danny, you were with me,
I think when I used to rand about when they
said like up to fifty percent off, they'd always These
(31:25):
stores are notorious. It's one of the oldest tricks in business.
You artificially inflate the price of an item and then
you put a discount on it, and you say, well,
you're getting seventy five percent off or whatever. I'll give you.
I'll give you some inside skinny, so not to give
too much away, but I don't want to get you
(31:46):
in trouble. But a friend of this show, and someone
by the way, Danny, who's I'm sure a big fan
of your work as well, reached out to me and
let me know that that Disney they have a store
for Disney employees and friends of Disney employees, and at
(32:06):
this store you can buy all of the merch that
Disney has too much of at those stores at Disneyland,
it's all fifty percent off. All of it is fifty
percent off, right, and they're still making money. They're still
making money. So how overpriced do you think those items
at Disneyland are, Danny? Like, when you buy Cola, that
(32:29):
little stuff Mickey Mouse doll right, you pay a full
price for it. You could go to this other store
if you worked at Disneyland, you pay half price for it.
It's the same thing. And I may or may not
have seen a little stuffed animal Mickey Mouse for ten dollars,
so maybe it was more than fifty percent off, but
it was like ten dollars for a little stuffed stuff Mickey. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, they are rich beyond their wildest dreams. And the
price there at the park just keeps going up and
up and up. I was trying to at the end
of this month, It's Brenda's birthday and I wanted to
take her there. Tickets for just an average day over
two hundred dollars a person.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, it's just will Well. You know, maybe maybe our
guy can can hook you up, Danny. I'll see what.
Maybe he's listening and wants to reach out, and you
can make that happen for you.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Danny. We're at Disney family, and everybody in my family
loves Disney, so we'll still pay the crazy prices. I
mean when we can. Right now, we have no money
to pay that price. But when we have the money, Ben,
we'll give it to them.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No, No, I hear you, I hear you. What else
do we have here that is funny? Amazon got caught
doing that though I'm not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh, and I loved your Disney story that I was jealous.
I'm like, man, Ben has the hookup. No, I mean
it was great. I mean you've met this guy. Yeah,
and you've got Gardelli when you were there.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Every time I go to Disney, I get the Geareddelly.
I love the Gearadelly, Kevin and Kansas. Right, it says
dear Ben and Danny g as I was mowing my
twenty fifth yard for the week. It's a side hustle
in retirement. I was wondering about how many jobs you
have had at one time in your past? When I
taught full time, I taught a night class, I wrote,
(34:12):
as wrote for a newspaper, and I mowed, making that
four jobs at one time. How many jobs have each
of you had at one time? That is from Kevin.
So usually at the high end, it was like three
or four media jobs. I worked at Fox Sports Radio.
(34:35):
I had a TV gig at NBC. This is probably
twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Had a once a
month I would go to Connecticut to do TV for NBC,
and then I did the radio show on the weekends.
And then I filled in at the local LA radio.
So that was my three jobs. And then few years
(34:58):
back I did WEI fill in and Fox Sports Radio
and I had an what was my I had a
third job too. It must not have been a good job, though, Danny,
because I don't remember, so I don't And of course
recently I've had the TV show, the radio show, and
then this podcast. Danny, what about you? You're a hustle man.
(35:20):
You were doing the teaching thing or helping out of
the school.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, I was going to say as recent as twenty
twenty one, twenty two, I was at two different schools,
bouncing back and forth in the same school district between
some of their schools. And then I was doing the
podcast with you, and I was still doing some podcast
stuff with Clay at the time, and also producing weekends
(35:44):
at the network after Jonas and that show in the morning.
When I left that show, obviously I had to fill
in the gap waiting for Covino and Rich to go
full time. And that took a year of Sunday nights
with Covino and Rich. So that whole year, Big Ben,
I was juggling like five jobs all at the same time.
And that was a long year. I feel like I
(36:07):
aged five years in that twelve month period.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, and then it was such cluttons for punishment because like,
when I only have one job, I feel naked. Is
that that's terrible? Right? You shouldn't like you shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well, they always say in La you have to have
a couple of side hustles just to be able to know. Yeah, pay, Yeah,
the cost of living here is insane. So if you
only have one job. It's better be paying you, you know,
four hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, you know, you're right, You're right. All right, we'll
get on on that. I will be back tonight in
the Magic Radio Box to break it all down. Everything
that didn't happen this weekend. I will make it up.
I will make it seem like it happened, Danny. I
will wax poetic. And we are one week away again
from the Mallord Palooza, the greatest night in overnight sports
(37:00):
radio for the summer. And we're excited about that. And Danny,
any thing you want to share here back with Covino
and Rich is Dan Patrick back? Is Cowhard back? These
guys have been on vacation.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Oh they're not. No, Yeah, Dan, remember we were saying
you have to get rid of all your vacation days
prior to the NFL season starting. Yes, So not only
is Dan Patrick out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, but we're filling
in for him those three days live from Atlanta inside
the Capitol one MLB All Star Village.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Oh, that'll be exciting. All right, So you're you're in
Atlanta all week? Are you back Thursday?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Or Thursday. The guys are taking off a couple of
their own days once we're done in Atlanta, So yeah,
we won't be on the radio until the following week
after Wednesday's morning show. But yeah, it's going to be
three days of me running around chasing MLB guests to
get them on the stage, because I guess there's going
to be like former players and some Hall of famers
(37:59):
kind of walking around the fan fest, and so it's
going to be my job to run around and wrangle
the the MLB stars to be interviewed on the air.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, good luck. Baseball players are notorious for not wanting
to do interviews, so hopefully stards.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
They've always been the a holes? They don't want to
do interviews, like I get Basketball guys usually want to talk.
Football guys are shocked anyone to talk to them because
they wear helmets and nobody knows who they are, and
they're like, they're open to talking. But baseball players have
always been Hockey players are great. Baseball players most have
been schmucks. Anyway, Enjoy Atlanta, Danny's some great restaurants down there,
(38:37):
Enjoy the All Star festivies. I'm jealous that you get
to go.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
To the in the in the cocoa butter.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
That's right. Enjoy Magic City and I'll be on the
radio tonight and we'll talk to you, talk to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Then later Skater got a murder. I gotta go.
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio, Happy Sunday to you. It
is the thirteenth day of July. We have arrived here
and one of the final Sundays before the NFL. What
(00:49):
kind This is one of those kind of things because
I think today or tomorrow the Chargers begin training camp.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They are, yeah, their rookies are supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today, right, I think it's today, Yes, yeah, So they
play in the Hall of Fame game, and throughout the
week we'll be getting NFL news, We'll have training camps
will start opening up slowly and surely around the NFL.
So it's getting underway, and we're about fifty some odd
days I think away from the first real NFL game,
(01:23):
they'll be exhibition games in less than a month. They'll
be exhibition football in less than a month, which is
very cool. This is the greatest baker.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You know. The last day of this month is the
Hall of Fame game, right, the thirty first.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh yeah, I think you're right on that.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah. Yeah, so we could say there's football this month.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Very cool. So we're excited about that and we look
forward to it. Obviously, it's where sports radio. That's the
golden time for sports radio, right, that's the golden period there, time.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of the year where we're not supposed to take any
days off.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, that's why I'm taking no no once the season
regular season begins is so I'm gonna try to squeeze
all my time off the rest of July and August
once football begins. I normally don't take any days off
other than the company forces me to take off. I
think it's Christmas Eve because they have best of programming
(02:17):
in New Year's Eve. But other than that, I'm in.
I'm in, baby, I am all in from September until February.
No days off, no days off. Yeah, we do have
the mailbag. I did also want to point out that
we like dope Holidays. It is National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day.
(02:40):
I bring this up for a couple of reasons. Number One,
I like barbershop music. That makes me weird. Number two
years ago, there was a listener from Chicago who sent
us some barbershop quartet style music. And one of the
songs that this person may is a classic and there
(03:03):
were two versions made. A gentleman made this song in
honor of the Cubs, the Three Cubs. So this goes
back twenty some odd years ago and it's one of
the all time great parody songs ever delivered. And it
was a fan of the Mallor Show, The Chubby Cubby,
Remember the Chubby Cubby, Danny the c Yeah, that was
(03:25):
barbershop quartet, and that is a song that we played
on the show. We actually got in trouble with the
score in Chicago for playing that song. They for some reason,
somebody there got upset with us. I don't know why
they did. And so there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's kind of a spinoff of Jingles. And you're such
a big fan of Jingles. I can see how you
love barbershop quartets.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I do. I do you remember watching the movie Hoosiers
it featured a barbershop quartet singing the national anthem before
a game.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's right, yeah, and so that was in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That's a long time ago. And anyway, it's celebrate appropriately.
And if somebody wants to make a Mallor Show theme
song barbershop quartet style. I'm not saying we wouldn't play
it all the time, but we would absolutely play it
every chance we get. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
let's get to the mail bag. What do you say,
Danny G. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Let's go? It's bang.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Thank you very much, ohio A. These are actual letters
by actual listeners to the show. First up, our man
from Michigan. He's a Michigan man. I assume he's from there.
I know he lives there, but I don't know if
I don't know the history of everyone that writes in.
Reggie from Detroit, who's always a muckraker. He writes and
he says, been and daddy G. I hope you guys had
(04:58):
a great week. Wayne, is malord merch coming? You've been
teasing this bit for a while. Are you actually going
to pull the trigger? Big fan? Reggie in Detroit. Reggie,
thank you first of all for actually admitting you want
some Mallord merch. Secondly, I'm trying to do this the
right way. I have been in contact with a couple
(05:19):
of people. I just I'm crutching Oways as my grandfather
who says yettish term. I got to pull the trigger
on this. There's some things I'm waiting on before I
do it. I wanna, you know, I want to throw
some stuff out there and give people the opportunity that
are fans of the show to buy some stuff. And
I don't know how much of how much of the
(05:39):
the stuff I want to put out. There's no budget.
That's the problem. There's no budget. Now some people have
come forward and offered to to set it up and
they'll they'll take a cut of whatever money is there.
Like the whole the whole reason I would do it, Reggie,
is to try to get money to do more Malord
meet and greets in different places. Because the company, I
guess there going through hard times. They don't ever pay
(06:01):
for anything, none of my travel. So I do these
Mallard meet and greets. It's out of my pocket. No,
it's good marketing for the show. And I don't mind
doing it. You know, I be better if the company
actually paid for it. So I figure, if I can
sell some shirts and some other crap, then I can
use that money not for myself, but to travel to
(06:24):
to go to some different places and meet fans of
the show in different different cities. And so that's really
the motivation behind it. Kind of create a travel fund
where I hate you know, the Mallard Militia pays for
future Mallor meet and greets, So that would be the
way I would do it. I wouldn't like the money
wouldn't go to me, per se. I just reinvested in
(06:44):
the show. So I'm definitely close to doing something, Reggie,
I haven't I haven't obviously done it yet. So I'm
very busy during the week. I only have a couple
of days to kind of throw everything out there. I'll
let you know as and Danny, you're aware of this.
One thing I'm never bashful about is promotion. I'm you know,
I'm promoting something I go all in like the Mallard
(07:06):
Palooza is coming up a week from today. Week from
tonight is the Malard Palooza twenty twenty five. The biggest
event in overnight sports talk radio during the summer is
the Mallard Palooza. You were part of some of those
back in the day. We used to be called the
Ben Mallard Talent Show. It's the Mallard Palooza. It's gonna
(07:26):
be off the hook. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh. I'm gonna call up to do some poetry. My
poet name is the Poet of Rage.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No. I like that. Roses are red, violence of blue,
and I hate you and you can just go yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh. I was gonna say, and I'm gonna kill you
because I'm poet of rage.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's true. Got a murder well that would see that
you're better at poetry. That would be perfect. Yeah, thank you, Richie.
Next up Dodger Kevin in Houston, oh Man, the Belly
of the Beast. Hey Ben, and g Man. Hey Danny,
you're g Man. He says. I grew up in the Valley.
I love LA sports radio. I moved to Houston during COVID,
(08:05):
he says, Kevin, to escape your governor Newsom. He's still here, Kevin,
he says, And I live near my wife's family, the
in laws. So the reason I'm writing you is they
were talking about you on local sports radio here in
Houston as a topic and n Dodger Kevin says, hey,
(08:25):
are you aware of this? And b what do you
think of being a punching bag for these loser astro fans?
I'm surrounded by. That's from Kevin. So, first of all, Kevin,
I was kind of aware that my name came up
on sports radio in Houston, because after I did the
cheating ass whole monologue, we're on podcasts. I can say
(08:46):
that I all of a sudden got a lot of
email and social media content from people from Houston who
were new names. So I figured either they saw the
video on social media or my name came up on
sports radio in Houston.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So I you know where I got to hear? You
were ant and on the astros recently. Where's that you
were filling in on the blow torch AM five seventy
LA sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's right, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You and Jonas knocks and you were going off on
the astros. And I was laughing in my car as
I was driving to the study.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I was rich listen, uh we enjoyed that. I was
very disappointed the daytime callers on the Rogan and Rodney show,
Danny way too positive, Like, way too positive, Dodd, You're like,
I mean, it's like, come on now, the Dodgers have
had a terrible week of baseball year, you know, and
then they're limping into the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, you guys were like, the Dodgers suck. They suck
right now. By the way, we're giving away tickets at
any moment.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, and Jonas of course, waited until the final segment
of the show to get away. It's but of course, yeah,
that's that's the oldest trick in the book, right, You
never give him away right away.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, it could have happened in five minutes from now.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, it's it's funny because we gave him away. And
the last time I was on that show with Fred,
Fred's like, what number caller bend should we use? And
I was like, I don't know. I don't give anything away.
I don't have any gifts to get away in the overnight,
so I don't call her six. And so I was like,
call her six, and then Fred's like, that's so easy.
So this week I said call her fifty eight, and
(10:29):
they got upset with me because I guess that was
too high call it. I got to find somewhere in
the middle, somewhere, some of them. But anyway, back to
Dodger Kevin, Kevin, thank you for listening. And I'm flattered.
I am flattered that who were.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Talking about you. Do you have any idea?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I do not know their names. I wouldn't know them even.
I mean, it was on seven ninety in Houston, which
is our our affiliate, so I don't know who's on there.
I was told one of the guys that always attacks
me is like a Rockets broadcaster or something. I don't
know if that's true. I don't know. Maybe somebody can
let me know one of our maybe Kevin can write
(11:10):
back or whatever. I think it's a guy that works
or either did work on the Rockets broadcast the Houston Rockets,
or somebody that does. Now I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'm going to search their station later today and see
if I can find audio of them. They obviously one
of them heard you doing the take and then said,
let's react to that on our show, and then they
spent probably an hour talking about you and your take.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah. I don't know how long they spent talking about you,
but I am I'm flattered that I can say something
at four in the morning in Houston and these Jabbroni's
are gonna talk about me. Now, that's the oldest trick
in the book, Danny. I learned the art of weaponizing
other people's takes from my time at WI. When I
(11:56):
and this year's ago I got hired to fill in
at WEI, I was doing it remote lee, and I
learned the art of taking something that Rob Parker or
Skip Bayless or Stephen A. Smith said that morning about
Tom Brady and the Patriots and molding that into an
hour of talk radio. There is an art, Yeah, there
(12:18):
is an art to it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's just like a few days ago that Kansas City
broadcaster called Patrick Mahomes fat.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yes, yes, perfect, that's a great extent.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Everybody was doing a topic out of that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah. It is really a great tool if it's Radio
one oh one. It's something to add to your toolbox
if you want to get into this or the podcast game.
You weaponize other people's takes. Normally the overnight guy does
not have their takes weaponized. So I am flattered that
whoever that nobody in Houston was decided to put my
(12:51):
name out there. I am such a radio loser. Alf
writes in from Magic City, a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
He said, Hey, guys, I'm going to be there tomorrow.
I heard the recent promo about Coveno and Rich and
the Major League Baseball All Star Game. So I'm assuming
that FSR is sending all of the talent to Atlanta. Well,
(13:14):
you know what happens when you assume Alf for the festivities.
My question is will all of you be attending Rob
Parker's blowout party at Magic City? And will it be
raining lemon pepper wings? That's from the great Alf. Well, Danny,
you're going. I am not invited to these things. I
(13:35):
am not one of the cool kids. But you will
be there, Danny. So are you going to the infamous
Magic City, which is so good that La Clipper Lou
Williams left the bubble to eat lemon pepper wings at
Magic City?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know I love wings bone in one of my
favorite things to dip in ranch. I definitely want to
try those wings.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I've been told. I've been told by the way that
if you go to Magic City, the only bones there
are on the chicken wings. The women very curvacous, not
a lot of bones showing they they did. Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Rich Davis tells this funny story that he was with
I guess, a couple of radio friends back in the
day when he last visited Atlanta. They were like the
dudes that worked at his sister radio station at the time,
like their urban station, And so they take him into
Magic City and he looks around and he told them,
(14:36):
He's like, you guys, I'm the only white guy in here.
And he said, at one point he walked out, he
had to walk out to the parking lot to get
some fresh air because he was just overwhelmed by everything
that was going on inside. And he said when he left,
he smelled like cocoa butter and wings.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So I that is great. Like I have not been
to the ballet in a while, but the cocoa butter
is uh. That is the perfect word described the the
the experience at the uh at the ballet. That is uh.
(15:19):
That is great. That is uh. Well. I actually got
into an argument with my guys sports with Coleman, I
think it was back on Friday, because I'd praised the
Atlanta Airport, the Atlanta you know, Hartfield whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Airport, the beautiful airport.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, so you agree with me. So I was like, oh,
it's a great airport, and Sports with Coleman is like,
people hate it, it sucks. He's from Atlanta. Originally He's like,
it's blows. I don't know why you praise it. And
I told him Danny, I said, listen, first of all,
you're completely wrong. Every time I've been to the Atlanta airport,
I've had a good experience. And secondly, I compare everything
(15:58):
to LAX. So pretty much every airport I go to
other than La Guardia in New York. Other than that,
every other airport is better than LAX and Atlanta. They
have a train system, right, they got a whole. I
mean there's a whole, but going on like that's to me,
that was an efficient, well run airport. So I don't
(16:22):
agree with Sports with It's a good.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Last time, the last time I flew into Atlanta was
for the Super Bowl there. What was that like maybe
six seven years ago now, And it was crazy because
we land, we get inside and there was a drum
line in there. There was like a band, a marching band,
a black school marching band, and they're going all crazy
on their drums and their instruments and people were dancing
(16:48):
inside the airport. It was wild.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's great. Yeah, no, I like the Atlanta airport. So
there you go. Are they going to have a staff
meeting at Magic City called by Rob Parker? You think
that'll have and that Rob will get everyone together? I
need a cole showered. All right, we're gonna have a
meeting everyone, you know, team bonding. We're going to Magic City.
Got the back of it.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You're not wrong because when the guys saw the odd
couple on Friday as the show was over for us,
they were telling Rob what time? Which day are we
gonna meet you there?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah? No, I hear you. Now wait till you're turning
the expense report to management and on the.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Bill of Magic City, all right, CBS on top of
the receipt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, there you go. Maddie from Maddie from Michigan Rights
and says, hey, Ben and Danny, I know you guys travel.
Well this is perfect because it says you travel. You
guys travel a lot. Did you see the story in
Maine where passengers were forced to spend over seventeen hours
in at an airport in Maine because a flight was
(17:52):
diverted because some people were smoking cigarettes in the bathroom
on the plane. So, Matti, I did not see this story.
If that is what happened. What you're saying here, Maddie,
shouldn't those people go to jail? Danny like, what do
you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Of course, yeah, go to chit. I think it's interesting
too to hear about what happens with other people and
cigarette smokers. I walked through the garage at Sherman Oaks,
the big parking garage we have. Once in a while
they'll be idiots who step out of the elevator chain
(18:29):
smoke cigarettes right by the entrance of the elevators, get
back inside the elevator and go down and go back
into their office. Because we're in a huge bank building.
I walked into a cloud of smoke the other day
that got stuck in my throat. It was in my
lungs all afternoon. And then the same damn thing when
(18:50):
I went to the mall. And by the way, I
also saw a bunch of nerds walking into the theater
dressed like Superman in costumes.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh boy, Cosplasure.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
One of them had a red cape on and he
was smoking a cigarette outside the theater. People still do
this in the year twenty twenty five. Are you I
was going to say retarded. I can't not allowed to
say that anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Go get canceled, I think, well, no, I think.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Joe, are the people that are smoking cigarettes should be
the ones who get canceled.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's a little much, I know, but I'm always amazed. Guy.
I when I go to Vegas, everyone smokes, and like
usually I don't see a lot of people here, although
I did. I was at the beach. Was it last
week or I don't know it was last week because
it was last week was the fourth of July, so
I guess it was a couple of weeks ago. And
I ended up down Win from some dude was smoking
(19:41):
on the beach, which I think you're not even allowed
to do that in California, but he was and I
was down Win, so I was I might as well
have been the one smoking, cause it was coming right
in my white right in my lungs, you know, boom,
you know, like, what do you come on? Qwaang from
Vietnam yet again? Right? And this guy is loyal. He
(20:01):
doesn't miss a week anymore. We thank you, Kwang. He
says he's in Ho Chi Minh he loves to say
that super one, Yeah, Big Ben and Daddy g Radio.
He writes, meet ball Triodge. I talked about meatball surgery
on the show, and the person had no idea what
I was talking about. I assume you know that term
(20:22):
like meatball surgery. Ay so Quang says meatball triage is
a term used to describe a method of rapidly processing
a large number of patients, often in a chaotic environment,
prioritizing those most likely to survive. It involves making quick decisions,
performing procedures efficiently, sometimes at the expense of thoroughness, to
(20:45):
save as many lives as possible. He says, the term
game popularity, though on which TV show? All right, Danny
or you should know this right away? What do you
think what TV show did meetball triage meatball surgery become
famous on? I know the answer answers revealing.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
This one's easy. Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That is absolutely right. Remember Laverne came home and she
hurt herself and Shirley had to operate and it was
a she lost to toe, but it was there. You go,
remember Mash back in the day, Mash the story about
Vietnam and.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I don't remember that because whenever reruns of MASH would
come on our TV, we would see who could run
to the TV first to turn it off or change
the channel.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh man, that show though still to this day the
most watched. The ten most watched TV shows are like
all NFL games and then like MASH is in there the.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Final I still don't get it, and I still as
an adult now I've seen reruns and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
All right, Well, I watched as a kid. My parents
were into it, and I remember, in fact, one of
the listeners sent me a Toledo mud Hens hat because
hot it was. It wasn't hot gy. I forget which
one of the characters, Jamie Farr's character, one of the characters,
wore Toledo mud Hen's hat, and so I always thought
that was a cool hat only because I saw it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There canned laughter at the guy that was a cross dresser.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That was that creepy. Yeah, that show was creepy. It
just had a creepy vibe to it, like a creepy
Vietnam vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, it's hard to make a show about war and
have like some comedy in it, you know what it
was like. It's tough. Yeah, it's hard to well remember
the what Hogan's Heroes was about concentration camp, right, or jail,
a German jail or whatever, and they tried to make
that into a comedy. So it's not It's not the
(22:42):
easiest thing to do anyway. So yeah, it was mash So.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Think it would be like if there was canned laughter
during Dexter.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, well that was the era though, Danny. All the shows, right,
they were like it was cookie cutter. Every show's gonna
have a laugh track. You gotta have a laugh track,
so people watching no when to laugh, because nobody knows
when to laugh unless you you have to make it
obvious because it's not really that funny. So you're gonna
make sure you.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Put a little some weird shows. No wonder our grandparents
were so screwed up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, of course, twenty years from now, Cole will be like,
I don't understand what my dad was watching. I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I don't what is happen Love Island? What a bunch
of degenerates?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, man, no culture back then. Ferg Dog and they're right,
Ferg Dog in Fullerton writes and says, Hi, Captain Ben
and Admiral G, sorry for not sending a question last week.
I was busy having a great time on magic Johnson
yacht with huge stars like Rodney Pete. Maybe next year
you guys will get the invite too, he says. So
(23:49):
in thirty or forty years, when both of you guys
end up retiring, would you be okay with an AI
version of you being your successor? I can already imagine
AI Ben dishing out some real hot takes and AI
Danny G Danny G really shining on Animal Thunderdome AI
(24:11):
when AI Klay Travis does the show with Danny G. Uh, there,
that's a great idea. Well, that is a way Thunderdome
will get done. The AI version of Clay and you
together guarantee the show gets done.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know what, what have I've been winning three and
a half years now? I could have put together about
ten episodes by now using AI Clay and me piecing
his voice together myself to make the.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
AI yeah one hundred percent? Well what else? Let's say? Now?
The AI thing is interesting because there is already the
technology which is rather scary that they could already do this, Danny,
if you sign off on it, and even if you
don't sign off it and they can still do.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm about the reporter chick that fooled a lot of
people at Wimbledon. Did you see that? No?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I did not see that. No.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So there were all these sports fans across the world
fawning over this lady who supposedly was a reporter at Wimbledon.
She was not real. Pictures of her at Wimbledon were
AI generated?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And yeah, it tricked a lot of people online. She
somebody made a fake profile and she got all these
followers and people she she made these websites with people
like who's who's she? She's like, you know, the it
girl from Wimbledon this year. Turns out she's not even real.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, that's like the did see the Spotify story this
week that they this hot indie rock band that's been
killing it on Spotify and has more than a million
listeners on Spotify and it's AI generated. Oh it's an
indie rock AI generated band and it's red hot. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We're not going down a good path with this right now. No, well,
we we're definitely not. And that's why I've pushed back Danny.
Everyone's like, I want AI and baseball. I want the
umpires to be AI and all this shit.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I'm like, oh, really, it is a slippery slope
to go down, and you know, ya be careful, and
it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You're yeah, but it's something that can take people's jobs. Beware,
be careful with it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, and for better or worse, I am, I guess
an old head of boomer. I want humans as So
it's like to answer Ferg, go back to his question,
you know, thirty forty years from now, have AI replace Thiss?
Like I always think these are great jobs. And when
my time is done on this planet and I can't
and I die or whatever, I want somebody else to
(26:48):
have this great job and somebody else to live that
life the next generation. And if you just keep the
same people like I would have never gotten this opportunity.
You would have never gotten this opportunity you have, Danny.
If AI who was before us did these jobs, that
would be it. So No, I want some other future
people that aren't even born yet to have these kind
(27:11):
of jobs. And if you put AI in here, then
that never happens. And how does anything get done, if
everything's done by AI.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, and I'm not going to be the one doing
Animal Thunderdome. It's going to be my son Coha.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you've already got a contract signed with iHeart.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's for call. Yeah, you're his legal guardian, so as
the father. So random woman on social media rights and
she does not want her name revealed. She says, my
boyfriend is a huge fan of yours and has been
waiting for the announcement ben on the Malor meet and
greet event in Columbus. Have you decided yet? And then
(27:52):
she gives some other information that will give her away,
so I will not read that here. She does not
want her to name used. So, first of all, you're
a great girlfriend. I don't know you. But the fact
that you're doing this on behalf of your boyfriend who's
a fan of the show. I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's considered true love.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That is true love. Now, because most of the time
when dudes get hitched up with ladies, the women are like,
all right, we're married.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You got to be a grown up. You can't listen
to that stupid overnight radio show. You know, we got
to cuddle and a spoon in bed. We can't have
that stupid, ugly mallear on there.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know, Yeah, your voice is like repellent.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I can't tell every one of these meeting me it's
the one in Vancouver, the one we did in Vegas,
the la ones we've done Minnesota. There's inevitably at least
one or two women that will come up to me
and yell at me. Now most of them are just
kind of busting my balls about their husband listening to
the show and how they've had to like deal with it,
and they wear ear plugs. It's it's pretty funny. So
(28:56):
I like tap joking exactly exactly. I admit it. I
admit so the Ohio thing has been completely affed up.
I humbly apologize to all of the people. I said
it would happen in July. It's not gonna happen here
in July. I am on standby. I continue to be
on standby. So I've been waiting for something that was
(29:16):
supposed to happen on July. By July first, there was
a soft deadline for a decision to be made July first.
We are now as we wake up this morning Danny's
July thirteenth, No decision has been made. Literally everything is
on old my entire summer plans. Now, remember we talked
(29:37):
about this earlier, Danny. This weekend, like, I am going
to try to take all of my time off July
and August, so when football starts in September, I'm not
going to miss any shows all my I'll be here
over the holidays and all that stuff. Well, any travel
plans that I was gonna make, I can't make other
(29:58):
than the random day here or there where I have
like a staycation because I'm waiting for this news, which
will affect other things. So once I get that, I
will be able to book something. And I need to
get there. My man, Dick and Dayton unfortunately moved into
he moved into an assisted living retirement home. Not that
(30:19):
you know assisted living, but he's a retirement home. So
I need to get there. I'm gonna make it happen.
I'm thinking sometime in August, probably later August at this point,
but I will let everyone know, and I will I
will promote it, much like I will promote what Reggie
asked about the merch, so you'll know you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Know this is starting to sound like your version of
Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
It is, and I feel terrible because I had in
my head, Danny, I had everything mapped out. I was like,
all right, this is gonna happen the best laid plans
of mice, men and people waiting for other people to
make decisions. And that's just the way it is. A
couple more quick ones. What do we have, Shane? When
Dallas says, hey, Benny and Danny, Ben, do you feel
(31:03):
vindicated to see the story this week Amazon was caught
hiking prices before Prime Day's discounts. That is from Shane. Shane, Well,
first of all, thank you for listening, because I used
to rant about this. Remember Danny, you were with me,
I think when I used to rand about when they
said like up to fifty percent off, they'd always These
(31:25):
stores are notorious. It's one of the oldest tricks in business.
You artificially inflate the price of an item and then
you put a discount on it, and you say, well,
you're getting seventy five percent off or whatever. I'll give you.
I'll give you some inside skinny, so not to give
too much away, but I don't want to get you
(31:46):
in trouble. But a friend of this show, and someone
by the way, Danny, who's I'm sure a big fan
of your work as well, reached out to me and
let me know that that Disney they have a store
for Disney employees and friends of Disney employees, and at
(32:06):
this store you can buy all of the merch that
Disney has too much of at those stores at Disneyland,
it's all fifty percent off. All of it is fifty
percent off, right, and they're still making money. They're still
making money. So how overpriced do you think those items
at Disneyland are, Danny? Like, when you buy Cola, that
(32:29):
little stuff Mickey Mouse doll right, you pay a full
price for it. You could go to this other store
if you worked at Disneyland, you pay half price for it.
It's the same thing. And I may or may not
have seen a little stuffed animal Mickey Mouse for ten dollars,
so maybe it was more than fifty percent off, but
it was like ten dollars for a little stuffed stuff Mickey. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, they are rich beyond their wildest dreams. And the
price there at the park just keeps going up and
up and up. I was trying to at the end
of this month, It's Brenda's birthday and I wanted to
take her there. Tickets for just an average day over
two hundred dollars a person.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, it's just will Well. You know, maybe maybe our
guy can can hook you up, Danny. I'll see what.
Maybe he's listening and wants to reach out, and you
can make that happen for you.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Danny. We're at Disney family, and everybody in my family
loves Disney, so we'll still pay the crazy prices. I
mean when we can. Right now, we have no money
to pay that price. But when we have the money, Ben,
we'll give it to them.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No, No, I hear you, I hear you. What else
do we have here that is funny? Amazon got caught
doing that though I'm not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh, and I loved your Disney story that I was jealous.
I'm like, man, Ben has the hookup. No, I mean
it was great. I mean you've met this guy. Yeah,
and you've got Gardelli when you were there.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Every time I go to Disney, I get the Geareddelly.
I love the Gearadelly, Kevin and Kansas. Right, it says
dear Ben and Danny g as I was mowing my
twenty fifth yard for the week. It's a side hustle
in retirement. I was wondering about how many jobs you
have had at one time in your past? When I
taught full time, I taught a night class, I wrote,
(34:12):
as wrote for a newspaper, and I mowed, making that
four jobs at one time. How many jobs have each
of you had at one time? That is from Kevin.
So usually at the high end, it was like three
or four media jobs. I worked at Fox Sports Radio.
(34:35):
I had a TV gig at NBC. This is probably
twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Had a once a
month I would go to Connecticut to do TV for NBC,
and then I did the radio show on the weekends.
And then I filled in at the local LA radio.
So that was my three jobs. And then few years
(34:58):
back I did WEI fill in and Fox Sports Radio
and I had an what was my I had a
third job too. It must not have been a good job, though, Danny,
because I don't remember, so I don't And of course
recently I've had the TV show, the radio show, and
then this podcast. Danny, what about you? You're a hustle man.
(35:20):
You were doing the teaching thing or helping out of
the school.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, I was going to say as recent as twenty
twenty one, twenty two, I was at two different schools,
bouncing back and forth in the same school district between
some of their schools. And then I was doing the
podcast with you, and I was still doing some podcast
stuff with Clay at the time, and also producing weekends
(35:44):
at the network after Jonas and that show in the morning.
When I left that show, obviously I had to fill
in the gap waiting for Covino and Rich to go
full time. And that took a year of Sunday nights
with Covino and Rich. So that whole year, Big Ben,
I was juggling like five jobs all at the same time.
And that was a long year. I feel like I
(36:07):
aged five years in that twelve month period.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, and then it was such cluttons for punishment because like,
when I only have one job, I feel naked. Is
that that's terrible? Right? You shouldn't like you shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well, they always say in La you have to have
a couple of side hustles just to be able to know. Yeah, pay, Yeah,
the cost of living here is insane. So if you
only have one job. It's better be paying you, you know,
four hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, you know, you're right, You're right. All right, we'll
get on on that. I will be back tonight in
the Magic Radio Box to break it all down. Everything
that didn't happen this weekend. I will make it up.
I will make it seem like it happened, Danny. I
will wax poetic. And we are one week away again
from the Mallord Palooza, the greatest night in overnight sports
(37:00):
radio for the summer. And we're excited about that. And Danny,
any thing you want to share here back with Covino
and Rich is Dan Patrick back? Is Cowhard back? These
guys have been on vacation.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Oh they're not. No, Yeah, Dan, remember we were saying
you have to get rid of all your vacation days
prior to the NFL season starting. Yes, So not only
is Dan Patrick out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, but we're filling
in for him those three days live from Atlanta inside
the Capitol one MLB All Star Village.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Oh, that'll be exciting. All right, So you're you're in
Atlanta all week? Are you back Thursday?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Or Thursday. The guys are taking off a couple of
their own days once we're done in Atlanta, So yeah,
we won't be on the radio until the following week
after Wednesday's morning show. But yeah, it's going to be
three days of me running around chasing MLB guests to
get them on the stage, because I guess there's going
to be like former players and some Hall of famers
(37:59):
kind of walking around the fan fest, and so it's
going to be my job to run around and wrangle
the the MLB stars to be interviewed on the air.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, good luck. Baseball players are notorious for not wanting
to do interviews, so hopefully stards.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
They've always been the a holes? They don't want to
do interviews, like I get Basketball guys usually want to talk.
Football guys are shocked anyone to talk to them because
they wear helmets and nobody knows who they are, and
they're like, they're open to talking. But baseball players have
always been Hockey players are great. Baseball players most have
been schmucks. Anyway, Enjoy Atlanta, Danny's some great restaurants down there,
(38:37):
Enjoy the All Star festivies. I'm jealous that you get
to go.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
To the in the in the cocoa butter.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
That's right. Enjoy Magic City and I'll be on the
radio tonight and we'll talk to you, talk to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Then later Skater got a murder. I gotta go.
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