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July 20, 2025 • 43 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 clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour

(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller
and Danny g Radio. As we settle in here to
a glorious, wonderful kind of a Sunday. It's a mailbag
kind of a Sunday, and it's an ice cream You scream,
We all scream for ice cream. It's National ice Cream

(00:52):
Day today, Danny, so make sure to eat ice cream
at some point today.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Got to celebrate. Oh yeah, oh yeah. That's one scoop
of Rocky Road for me.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
That's it. One scoop. Come on, man, you gotta live
up a little bit now. Ice cream. We can thank
the Persians who invented kind of an ice cream. It
was a recipe for the Royal family in four hundred BC.
They made it from saffron, ice, rose water, and some

(01:23):
fruit and they mixed all that together and that was
kind of an ice cream. And then over the years,
obviously it has evolved in now we have ice cream everywhere,
anything is possible, and any kind of ice cream you
could possibly want, and so the way to go. So
it's a National ice Cream Day. Forty percent of Americans

(01:45):
have eaten an entire pint of ice cream. That's four
servings supposed to be eaten by four different people, and
forty percent of people have done that by themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
You were saying, just one scoop, Yeah, because anything more
than that ice cream makes me feel sick to my stomach.
I love it in a small dose, but eating too
much ice cream puts you into a coma.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I don't have that problem. I'm a too scoop
guy in a waffle cone. I'm a two scoop guy
in a waffle cone. I normally go my default flavors
are cookie dough strawberry. Normally those are mine, but I've
been going more exotic, more exotic recently. You know, I'll

(02:30):
have some.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Strawberry is underrated, especially when it's a shake. I love
strawberry shakes.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, properly made strawberries outstanding. So and I'm not lactose intolerant,
so I don't have to worry about that. And I
don't eat ice cream when I'm sad. Some people eat
ice cream when they're sad, right, they do that. And
people were depressed, they had plans and the plans got canceled,
they'll eat They'll end up eating ice cream. And I
don't really do that. I'm actually happy when my plans

(02:58):
are canceled and whatnot. But we're gonna get to the mailbag.
But I wanted to start because this is the biggest
day of the summer on the Overnight show. It's the
Mallard Palooza. And this we paid a lot of money, Danny.
We spared no expense. This podcast normally has no budget
the fifth hour. However, we now have enough money to

(03:20):
get the exclusive pregame rights for the twenty twenty five
Mallar Paloosa, which is tonight, the greatest night of the
summer in overnight sports radio. It's going to be amazing.
So the Ben Malor Show, which on this night, we
have a little bit of everything right now. We normally
have some people that are unhinged We have people that

(03:43):
are brilliant, we have people you know somewhere in between,
but nothing we do can compare to the malor palooza.
Tonight it is green light go. The flag is up.
And what exactly for those that have not heard the
Mallard Paloosa, because there are new people. If you're new
to this part of town, you're new to the village.

(04:04):
Imagine if you took the Gong Show and you filtered
it through late night sports talk delirium and then added
just a little dash, no more than a dash of
America's got no talent, that's a spinoff show. And you
put that all in there and let that simmer on

(04:24):
a crock pot all weekend long, and mix in some
radio lunacy and there you go.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Put some cocaine back into Coca Cola and everyone has
a drink of that.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's the original way to go. I saw Trump wants
to get that Mexican coke in America, but they got
to put the original coke, as you said, Danny, in Georgia.
When they put that, you know that white powder in there?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Man?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
And where are the white women at the matth of Plosa?
Is a wonderfully weird circus, and I will be the ringleader.
I will also be the judge. I am the moral
center of the malord militia that doesn't really believe in morals,
so I will be there. I will be the judge,

(05:08):
the middle medieval executioner, the whole thing. So I will listen.
My plan is to listen very patiently. I will NodD
along as you get on the air tonight and you sing.
You know, somebody's gonna get up there and sing an
off key version of I have the Tiger on a ukulele,
mark the full name. Guys back, he's got his harmonica out,

(05:30):
and I will listen. I will then eviscerate most of
the acts like they were jose Albouve of the cheating Astros. Now,
the plan is to be fair. However, it's a radio,
so we have to be entertaining. We you know, I'm
gonna be fair, but I gotta be entertaining, and it

(05:52):
has to be somewhat memorable. So if you're gonna bomb,
at least do it with conviction, take pride in it.
We're gonna have stand up comedy performed into a vacuum.
No laughter, no clapping, just a voice, telling knock knock
jokes or telling jokes. Did you hear the one about

(06:13):
Bill Belichick taking his girlfriend to dinner? Yeah, chuck e
cheese is not that cheap anymore, you know, Bump bump.
So there will be animal impersonations, animal impressments, which are
so gonna be so good you're gonna think you're at
the San Diego Zoo. We're gonna get stupid human tricks,

(06:35):
which is pretty much all of this is stupid human tricks.
And you know, some kind of regrettable decision, like somebody's
probably dared. I'm gonna call up the Malor Show on
six hundred radio stations. That's right. Remember that guy, that's
a guy from Georgia. Remember that it was a farm
of him. Yes, and he only called up that one time.

(06:55):
I think he called one other time. That's it, and
he was really good. But willis Andre from the Commonwealth's
beloved dog who will likely steal the show and also
urinate on the show at the same time. So we'll
have that and it's gonna be great, Mallatplus, it's not
just a talent show. It's a test of endurance and

(07:17):
for those that are brave enough to participate tonight. We
thank you for those of you that are planning on
just listening and he's dropping in. It is a it's
not just a town show. It's a talent show design
for people who are not particularly interested in being talented.
So we're not there to coddle your feelings or anything

(07:39):
like that, and we're not really there to give constructive feedback.
We're not a real entertainment show in that regard, and
we're there to crown a winner and pretty much burn
everyone else to the ground. And it's not the voice
or anything like that. It's, if anything, is the voice
in your head at two thirty in the morning. So

(08:02):
if you're going to impersonate a zebra on national radio,
more power to you. But I've noticed over the years, Danny,
a lot of these acts are imagining your uncle singing
karaoke on three Medello tall Boys, right just out there,
just going for it. And uh, you know, it's not
a corporate thing, and you know the corporate people are
all sleeping and all that, and we'll just like all

(08:25):
other Malapaluza events, it's going to be unfiltered, and it's
amateur hour. It's not not professional.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
You know, I enjoy how the talent covers all bases.
You can go from a guy who belches a song
to a famous pianist who you know, yeah, who plays
something amazing. I've heard a lot of things that are
on the level of a blue collar dude all the
way up to you know, a guy who tours the world.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, we had last year Pam from Seattle, who's a
friend of Vincanter. Pam is a classically trained musician who
was amazing, and like, what are you doing here, You're
ruining the whole bit. It's supposed to be the guy
from Syracuse who's rhythmically farting one of the great acts.
We had a couple of legendary acts. We had the
Boston burper who would burp out words, say well, burp

(09:18):
and talk at the same time. And we had the
guy from Iowa that would squeal songs like a pig.
Always great, always great. So we're excited about it. You know,
it doesn't matter if the act is good. What matters
is that the act happened. It's not art exactly, but
it feels kind of like art, and that's all we need.

(09:39):
And we're very happy about that. And so we thank
those that are doing it. It's not easy to do.
You're on a big platform and you're doing it, and
if it goes well and you'll win, you can tell people.
And if you don't win, you don't have to worry
about it. No one heard it, so you're all good.
And there is that, but there it is. The Malard Palooza. Tonight,

(10:00):
one night, only four hours is going to set a
record for downloads during the summer months on the show.
It's right up there with the Benny Awards, which is
the biggest night in overnight sports radio. But for the summer,
this is it. This is absolutely it. So we're looking
forward to that. To me a lot of fun. And
before I forget Dan, I did want to thank you.

(10:22):
I got several messages this week from people saying, Hey,
I didn't realize you stay it at hotels that have bedbugs.
I had no idea like hotels with bedbugs. So I guess, Danny,
there's a lot of people that are listening to the
Dan Patrick Show and heard you crack the mics and
I was like, I woke up and I'm like, what

(10:44):
the what the freaking.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I didn't say you had bed bugs. I said, you
think bed bugs are a myth, that you know it's
overstated that cheaper hotels have them. That's what I said.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, well what I told you. I said, I'd check.
I stay at cheaper hotels, which I'm fine with because
the whole point of traveling is not to sit in
your hotel room, is to go out and do stuff.
But I'll check. I'm not gonna stay. There's ways you
can see if they're bedbugs. You look, you pick the
pillows up, you look under the sheets.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
As we were roasting Rob Parker because he had a
great post on Instagram this past week, he was traveling
after the All Star Game back to la and he
went to a grocery store the night before his flight
back home, picked up two reduced price sandwiches. One was
a some gouda something in the other was a mayonnaise

(11:38):
based chicken salad sandwich. And He's like, these would have
been eighteen dollars at the airport. I got him for
two dollars and seventy cents. And we're saying, no, there's
some things to be frugal with, not mayonnaise based sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Though No, I saw that too, I said Rob. First
of all, even if you did that, why would you
celebrate it? Why would you post it? You know, like,
I mean, what are you doing? I take it the
chicken salad sandwich. You might as well drive right to
the emergency room and have your stomach pumped, all right, Like.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, in CNAR, they were like, well, the grocery store
wildn't sell it if it's bad, And I'm like, okay,
but he has a long uber ride to the airport,
probably hot in the car, let's be honest. And then
the terminals in most of Atlanta's airport, half of the
place there that I was walking through, I had to
like sit in one section and wait for my flight

(12:31):
to board so I could actually feel some ac Could
you imagine that mayonnaise danwich just rotting in his bag
that whole time.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Or rotting in his stomach. And then the other thing
is he's flyes Spirit Airlines and you have to pay
like seventy five dollars to use the bathroom on a
Spirit floor plate, even if.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's one hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
If you take a dump, oh yeah, forget it. If
you take a dump, I mean that's a that's a
toxic spill. They might they might bring the whole plane down.
So that is that is insan like, I'm all for
saving bug, but you can save even more money if
you just fast. You don't have to, you know, don't
need that. Whatever, my god, what are you doing so well?

Speaker 3 (13:09):
They couldn't do a segment on the Dan Patrick Show
about co workers who like to save money without me
giving you an honorable mention.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
I appreciate that. I was like, I was trying to.
I was like, what what happened? Like? Why are all
these people messaging me? I didn't do anything. I haven't
really been anywhere recently where I've stayed at a cheap
hotel or anything like that. It's like, anyway, well, thanks
for the shout out, Dan, I do appreciate that. And
let's get the mail bag, mail bag, mail bag.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's a big.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Mail bag. Thank you very much, ohio al. First up
is Scott from Clearwater, Florida. He says, uh, if a
traditional heart shape is not that of an actual heart,
what it actually looks like? Where did the heart shape

(14:04):
or phrase heart shaped originate? Why did someone and eventually
all of society thing of heart looks like that? All right?
So I did some digging on this Scott in Clearwater, Florida.
Thank you for listening to the podcast. God Bless you.
So the earliest known heart like shape, they believe it

(14:24):
it came from the seed pod. It's a now extinct plant,
but it was used by the Romans and the ancient Greeks.
And the great thing about this is it was used
as an aphrodisiac, like a contraceptive. It was an early viagra.

(14:45):
This plant, the seed pod, was like early viagra, and
it's part of the Greek mythology and all that, but
it's like it was a legitimate thing, the seed pod,
and it resembled the modern what we consider today to
be the modern heart shape, even though your real heart

(15:05):
does not look like that. They claim those that have
studied it that medieval artistic influence also played a role.
That they took what they did in ancient Greece and
the Romans, and then they added to that. They kind
of copied it and added to it. But there were

(15:26):
depictions of the sacred Heart of Jesus starting around the
eleventeenth century, and it's just kind of it's continued ever
since then, and so it goes way way back. You're
talking about it started because of a plant and no
longer exists. With the Romans, and then by late Middle

(15:50):
Ages the heart shape had been used in literature and
romantic love. In the thirteenth century there were French manuscripts
that included as well. So you can think, as it
turns out, scott and Clearwater, you can think a plant
that is now extinct that they used to make whoopee

(16:12):
back in the you know, the early days, back then.
So there you go. Next up on the mailbag is
Reggie in Motown. Reggie and Detroit writes in says, Hey, guys,
excited for the mal or poloosa Tonight, Ben which kind
of judge are you going to be? Well, you'll have

(16:33):
to find out. Reggie, tune in tonight eleven PM West.
Two Am. I think of myself two am in the East.
I think of myself kind of like Simon Cowell meets
the East German judge.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Does anyway, I don't know, sure, Yeah, you aren't very
easy to impress.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well you get the East German judge. I don't know
that anyone younger in the demo gets it. But that
goes back to the seventies and the eighties, right, It
wasn't The story was the East German Judge would would
only give high scores to communist countries.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Isn't still a pop culture reference of the Russian Judge?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well, yeah, the Russian Judge too, but the always said
the East German Judge was the one that was tougher
on any Western country and would would mark down people
if they were not from a communist country, you get
a lower score. So no, I'm gonna listening, and I
will give my disclaimer. It's not easy to perform Reggie
at the Mallard Palooza, and it's different now. You know,

(17:32):
Eddie's not with the show anymore, and I don't know
what kind of judge Lorraina is gonna be. And Coop
will be there, so we'll see Alf from he says
from the Mallard Paloza. Red carpet says, greetings, gentlemen, Ben,
any chance that someone in the studio tonight will have
an itchy trigger trigger finger on the gong during the

(17:52):
talent show just enough to allow time for the usual bits,
the who am I? The instant trivia, the Malar Riddle.
Alf says, I just feel like I'd be stealing money
from Fox Sports radio, because those are the only bits
I really get paid for being the all time lost
king in all those bits, ain't easy, signed Alf the

(18:15):
Alien Opotter. Well, if we are not planning on having
the who am I? The instant trivia or the Mallard
Riddle of the Day on the show because of the timing,
I'm gonna I'm gonna I am gonna do some Mallor monologues.
They'll be shorter Malar monologues to leave time for the acts.
So it's it's gonna be a little bit of a
different timing thing here. And what I'd like is for

(18:37):
Alf and some of the other regulars to be judges.
I'll get real time feedback from the people because I'll
be judging, and we'll be judging in the studio in
the Mallard plus. And then you guys can chime in
with a like a zinger, a good one liner, and
that'll keep the show.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Moving, so that won't take up any valuable airtime at all.
It sounds like you getting a call from New York
so you can report it back to the field.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, yea, I know it'll be boots on the ground.
Boots on the ground, So I'm all for it. Ferg
Dog and Fullerton writes and says, hey, Ben and Danny
g as Ben knows, I am a huge fan of
bumper music. I look forward to the bumpers on his
show every night.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Ferg says, that's right. I am undefeated with bumper music.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You killed it.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I am the reigning champion of bumper music on the
Ben Mallers Show.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Your nickname is bumper g Yeah or firsts as they
set the tone bumper music for every segment. Would it
be possible for the fifth hour to have bumper music
as well? Or does that not work on a podcast?
I wouldn't even mind if you could only play music
that's in the public domain. What do you think? Also,

(19:50):
in honor of the Big Dumpers home run derby Wynne,
do you guys take any fiber supplements?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Says Ferg Wow.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
All right, Yeah. This is because Lorena played the Titanic
song Danny coming Back to Break and I snapped a
little bit. I said, you got to know the target
demo and that's not target demo and.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
She just played it for no reason. It didn't tie
into anything you were talking about.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, I had mentioned I think I mentioned the Titanic
I'd mentioned something during the monologue. It was just a
throwaway line. It wasn't to play the song I Got you.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
It wasn't like like a main thought of the topic.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, And I snapped because I get email from old
dudes who like I like, I want to hear fucking
a CDC, not Titanic exactly, like I don't know you
play those love songs and those chicks. Yeah, And I
was like, I don't.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I played everything from Boston to Boogie Down productions, and.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm like, you know, my rant Danny, I was like,
I don't. You're tuning into a.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
You're very You've always been very anti bumper music because
your theory is people don't tune in for the ged music.
They tune in for me.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well, yes, just like if I was turning on Kiss FM,
I wouldn't say, boy, I really enjoyed that stop set
by the DJ.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
I mean not right, but ben with sports talk radio,
really really well placed. Bumper music is like icing on
top of a beautifully baked cake. No, I hear you.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I would rather than play the right song like sound
that to me, that's more important, like have any sound
to play. I would like to me, that's much more
important than music. But whatever, listen, so ferg Dog very
funny like that. And as far as fiber supplements, Danny, No,
I do do some. Like I've started eating more yogurt

(21:47):
because it's good for you. It's good for your digestive system.
I guess that that's about it.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I mean, I take let's see, how about are you
on the new Genics. No, I don't like it too.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, yeah, uh.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Fiber you don't really need that, man, Just eat some
fruit and you know, have that as a regular part
of your diet. The one thing, speaking of blood flow,
there are some good supplements that keeps the blood flowing,
especially in your legs China. And then I also take
like clear lungs because we're in the smog in southern California.

(22:29):
I take two supplements that help, like, you know, keep
your chest clean and clear.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
I took for a while. I have a really fed
up My right knee is kind of fed up old
football injury. Back in the day when I was start
Polk High School. I heard my knees somewhere along the way.
In fact, that funny thing is, I think this might
actually be from that media baseball game at Dodger Stadium
when I injured myself and ended up on the Channel

(22:58):
eleven news in LA that night.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
That explains your performance at Bakersfield.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You don't you did that pitch was a strike, and
I don't it it was a strike. There are more
ways than one to get a picture, to get a
hitter out with a different picture.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh, those necros all look the same when they're pitching, all.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Right, Calm down, cowboy anyway, So I uh, I took
that for a while. It helped the cartilage in my
knee for some reason, because my knee was locking up.
But I stopped taking it and I haven't had any problems.
So I'll take it again when my knee starts flaring up,
and that'll be that. Tommy from Vegas writes in He says, Hey,

(23:41):
Ben and Danny, you guys work in these sports media business.
Do you think Shannon Sharp will now return to ESPN?
He settled his lawsuit. I guess he paid off the
cuser this week. Danny. I, I don't think he's gonna return.
I don't know a lot about it. I just had

(24:03):
heard some stuff that Disney Disney was not going to
be down for him to return so I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
I don't know if he's I think the way the
climate is, especially with the Joy Taylor stuff, if you
have any of that swirling around you, then these media
companies don't really want to be dealing with any of
that pr right now.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, that's a lot of money to Shannon Sharp, he
ends up he could have hated the woman off originally
and it would have kept the job.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
But I think he tried ben that was part of
the story.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh okay, all right, maybe.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
He attempted to and it didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, Tommy, I would say, I don't think we'll see
him on ESPN again. And he's got his podcast that's
I guess doing.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know how much he makes from that. Many
from Mesa writes in he says.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
His podcast almost has as many listeners as our wishes.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
It was the fifth Hour. Manny from Masa says, do
you think this will be turned into a Netflix special?
He sent me a story here. Danny says a Virgin
Atlantic forced to respond after luggage was covered with human feces.
This happened at JFK in New York. According to this

(25:21):
very graphic article from the Daily Mail, which manny I
did not see this. Passengers were waiting for their bags
at JFK when they started noticing a smell as the
bags arrived. The bags, a couple of them, appeared to
be covered in a mysterious light brown substance. And it
was the smell that overwhelmed the carousel. And it turns

(25:46):
out there was some poopy. Oh man, this is not
just a little poopy. There is a lot, a lot
of a lot of poopy, a lot of poopy. The
suitcases have flown from Heathrow Airport in London JFK, and
I had the splot. This is not just a little
bit of splatter though day. This is like next level man,

(26:07):
they are.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
This is like the documentary that's on Netflix right now.
How about that poop Cruise.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, which I saw, I talked about it. I think
I don't know I talked about it here or not?
I think did? I don't even know. I talking to
microphones a lot. Have you seen it? You and the
wife watched the Poop Cruise one?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
No, we haven't watched it yet.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
It's pretty good, not bad. The one of the women
in there that's featured, one of the blonde women. She
was supposed to interview Michael Jordan, but she didn't end
up doing it because she was stuck on the boat,
the poop cruise.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
So wow.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
So as far as this story with the luggage, do
you get compensated for that? Do you hire a lawyer?
Are you allowed to sue if there's poopy all over
your bags? It says in an email. The airline said
the substance was grease from a broken pipe in the terminal. Video,

(27:03):
though showed something would appear to be something other than that.
They sent an email saying, we were aware of a
New York JFK system failure that affected the baggage a
small number of arriving customers. This is back on July fourteenth, so.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
It was small number two.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, that is craziness. People said it was human waste.
This never happened toilet, they claimed. The airline said it
was not toilet waste. Bob, look like I'm looking at
the photo I sent you the story Dan, it does
kind of look like I mean, I don't know how

(27:46):
would that happen? Seriously, unless something on the plane, like
when they were taking the baggage off the plane, something
leaked in the plane. I don't. I don't even know
how that would would take place. It's wild.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's not even a little bit of poo. That bag
looks like it was painted in poo.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's like a uh we splatter paint. You know, you
splattered on it? Uh yeah? Why not make that a documentary?
Make that a documentary.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Part of that la installment you were looking at on
yesterday's podcast.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, of course. My god, the splatter poo everywhere?
Why not? What the heck? Just like an overflowing toilet? Man,
oh man, what's the I'm having a mental block. What's
the artist that just rose?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Jackson Pollock?

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, yes, it's a jack a Jackson Pollock. Were you
just doesn't the bag look like a Jackson Pollock where
you just splattered pooh?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, the Jackson Pollock of poo?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh my god? Wild? Okay. A berry from South Carolina says,
trying to sell, but showings are few and far between.
Tough market. Yeah, I've heard that the housing market's not
good right now? Yo yo, Ma, Benny. I would send
this question to you on ask Ben, but I don't
have an X account and won't get it. So here goes,

(29:14):
What is your preferred brand of peanut butter Jiff, Skippy,
Peter Pan or another one. Also, I just watched Untold
Shooting Guards on Netflix on the Gilbert Arenas andvaris Javarvis Crittington,
the gun, the guard that they got the gun into

(29:34):
in the locker room. It's good, very well done. Have
you seen this yet? I've not seen the Gilbert Arenas documentary.
I was friends with Gilbert Arenas's high school teacher who
told me some amazing stories about Gilbert from La Here
when he was in high school. His old high school

(29:55):
teacher is in Usher. Wasn't Usher? I think he's retired
and that was an usher at Dodger State. As far
as peanut butter, I'm I'm team Skippy. I'm team Skippy.
My wife is not. She's actually gone and gotten. Like
the Organic Trader Joe's.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Peanut bald sore. Their peanut butter is god awful. So
is that Costco brand? The Kirkland has no sweetness to
it whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, I usually go skip Skippy. That's what I grew
up with. What about you, Danny?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
You can't go wrong with Jiff or Skippy because both
of those have enough sweetness to them. There is nothing
grosser to me than bitter, unsweetened, slimy peanut butter that
you need to stir nasty.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
You just describe the trader Joe's peanut butter perfectly, is
what you just did. That's that's pretty much it. A
lot of oil, a lot of slime. Yeah, that's pretty
much where we are with that. What else do we
have on the mail bag? Let's see here from the
I E. Soak Coal the nine on nine Riverside says, Hey,

(31:07):
Man and Danny, have you guys seen the new Superman movie?
It apparently led to a big surge in dog adoption interest.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Oh yeah, I read that article the other day.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, I have not. I saw did you see the
Our guy? Funhouse Online sent out the Mike Francessa review
of Superman. I don't know if you had a chance
to watch that. Hilarious. Absolutely, Mike Francessa this old sports
radio legend from New York and he went to see

(31:41):
Superman and he just ripped the He ripped the movie
for like five minutes, just torched it, and it was hilarious.
And he talked about the dog. Why is there a dog?
Why is there a dog in the movie? Superman doesn't
need a dog.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
You know. It was so I bought a dog and
I named a promotion.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
It was so stupid. It was like, I know, I
didn't I did in the movie with you last week.
I saw that f one movie. I'm good. I don't
need to like the movies. Like to me, it's all
just going to eat popcorn, sitting there for a couple
hours and all that stuff. What else do we have this?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Say you're there for the Juju bees.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Something like that. Tony in the Bay Area, right since,
says hey, Ben and Danny g the fifth hour with
Rants was poetry. You guys, ever go to an NFL
stadium when your team is the road team? Tony says,
I went to the coliseum and both Niners stadiums. One
I almost got jumped and the other two were pleasant.

(32:44):
You figure it out, says go Bears. There you go.
You've done that. Danny, You've gone senior team right on
the road a little bit.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I mean, you only got jumped in the Oakland Coliseum.
If you deserve to be jumped, Are you.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Saying Tony was causing problems?

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Is that what you're saying the visiting fans if they
were respectful and quiet and just minded their business and
watched the game. Nobody bothered them. The few fans of
the other team you would see inside a Raiders game
would be popping off for some reason. And I remember
being at a Raider Redskin game and there was just
a couple of specks of red amongst the silver and black,

(33:23):
and this one Redskins fan kept popping up talking shit.
Anytime the Redskins got even, like a simple first down.
People were yelling at him to sit down and shut up.
Redskins were losing and he was still popping off. So
Ben I looked around. I had half of a subway
sandwich left in my hand. This guy, he's talking shit

(33:44):
as you blah blah blah. You guys have a losing record.
I mean, he's in Oakland saying this. So I stood
up and I threw the rest of my subway sandwich.
I nailed him right in the shoulder of his Redskin jersey.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Wow, boom, chucked as yeah okay.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
And my section gave me a standing ovation and the
clowns sat down and he didn't say a word after that.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Wow, that's that's impressive. That's impressive. Uh yeah, I remember
when the Raiders played in LA it was you know,
that was a long half time ago, but you did not.
I mean there were stories, legendary stories about guys getting
their ass kicked Dodger Stadium. We hear that a lot,
not as much recently.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
But if you are a visitor, and I've been a
visitor at other stadiums, I put my head down, I
don't say anything. Do not mix it up with the
home fans. Do not do it. Doesn't matter where you're at,
there's always going to be some fans that take it
way too serious.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah. You know young guys, though, is go for it, man,
you just go for it. And I've been I've been places.
I've been games in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, places like that,
and they'll chuck peanuts and stuff at you. I've never
seen anything really more than that. A lot of fake
tough guy stuff. Yeah, I'm not there all the time.
What do we have? A kwang from Ho Chi Minh

(35:03):
Vietnam rights And he says, Hey, Ben and Danny G
Daddy G. Cameo can be used for birthdays, bar mits
with milestones, or even well dressed roast. Question, Big Ben,
why don't you promote yourself more often, and then he
sent the link from cameo. Well it's there. I do

(35:23):
it when people want me to do it.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
They know.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
I think most super fans of the show Kwang know
that I have a cameo, and I don't promote it
per se as much as I should. I you know,
it's just something extra if you want for birthday or
something like that, your super fans. I've done special Mallard
monologues for different people. I did one. The last one

(35:45):
I did was after Oklahoma City one. Our guy Kyrie
had me do a special Mallard monologue about the thunder
becoming a dynasty and all that stuff. Something I would
never do unless I got paid to do it. So yeah,
it's fun. I don't mind doing them, but I don't
go out of my way. It does take a little
time to put those together. I was told by some people,
Danny that my problem with cameo is I treat it

(36:09):
like a segment on the radio, and I should just
like a lot of these people that are real. I'm like,
I'm not a real celebrity, but a lot of real
celebrities well just half asset. I heard a couple of
years back that guy that played the soup Nazi on
Seinfeld that he was one of the top moneymakers. Probably
not anymore, but he was one of the top moneymakers

(36:31):
on cameo because he do these short, you know, cameo things.
You know, Jimmy from Minnesota, no soap for you.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
You're right, those are the guys that get a lot
of that business because it's just like a funny bit
almost to send somebody for their birthday.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Exactly exactly, Max from Michigan Rights and it says, Hey,
Ben and Danny g you guys think Bill Belichick will
be watching the show. Then he sent me a link
to a Netflix show that'll be coming out. I guess
this is next year, Max. It's called The eight you
heard about the Standing Age of Attraction. It was announced

(37:11):
by Netflix. It matches singles with their soulmates regardless of age.
It'll be hosted by this guy, Nick Vile. I guess
I don't know who that is. He was a bachelor guy.
He's forty four, his wife is twenty six. So there's
an eighteen year Wow, Well that's nothing. How what's the

(37:33):
gap forty something years Belichick forty five, something like that.
Forty eight years. Belichick and his lady friend there, it's
more than a lot more than eighteen. I mean he's
in his seventies, she's in her twenties.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
So, like a Leah said back in the day, and
each is not in but a number. Yeah, as long
as the people are legal, they can do whatever they want, right,
And I mean Hugh Hefner and other people in our
culture were celebrated for always having younger females on their arms.
But Belichick's getting a lot of crap because I think

(38:06):
people just got used to him being like an old
curmudgeon coach, and so it was just strange to see
him suddenly have this personality and a young girl on
his arm.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, all right, we'll get out last one.
Dan from Orlando, Right, So he says, Hey, Ben, Danny
Jake like podcast blah blah blah blah. The the U.
He says, here's another one. It's we are such media experts, Danny.
People people are now like this guy Dan emailing us.
And who's the other guy that? Just the guy from
uh Orlando, No Michigan, Max? Was that the last guy?

(38:40):
I think that was? Like anyway, whatever, Dan says, this
other Dan says Ben and Danny, Are you guys sad
to see The Late Show with Stephen Colbert canceled? By sibbis,
I'm surprised because that had been such a staple. But
they had those late night shows. I don't know about you, Danny.

(39:01):
I don't really watch them anyway, but I see the
clips online, like most people just watch the clips, and
I rarely see anything funny, Like they just don't seem
to be that funny to me. Maybe they are funny
to other people. But then I saw in the trades
that the Late Show with Stephen Colbert was losing forty

(39:24):
million dollars a year. Forty million dollars a year. So
if you're not you know, you don't really have that
huge an audience, and you're losing forty million dollars a year,
what are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (39:38):
So it's not economically viable. Ben, Maybe I'm prejudice here,
but I would rather listen to late night radio. That's right,
watch late night TV. God bless you.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
We see. I'm gonna take credit Danny for canceling Stephen Colbert.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
That we are shows that we out sounds like a
slide move.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
You let me tell you something the fact that we
outlasted the Late Show. That was an institution, that was
David Letterman's legacy, the Late Show on CBS. I was online.
I was such a Letterman fan growing up, watching when
he was on the Late Late Show after the Tonight Show.
And this was back before the internet. We all watched.
I'm old, we all watched those shows. That was very important.

(40:19):
It was part of pop culture. And I remember when
I'd go back to visit my brother lives in Manhattan.
A few times we were online on standby outside the
ed Sullivan Theater where Letterman did his show, to get
into the Late Show. We got bumped from the audience.
We were very close to getting in. I was in
the lobby of the ed Sullivan Theater. They said, no,

(40:41):
we don't have any more seats and they kicked us out.
Was on the little alley next to the ed Sullivan
Theater hoping that Letterman would come out and do some bit.
So I was a huge fan back in the day.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
One time, when I was in New York as a youngster,
I got lucky enough to get some free tickets, got
my ass in there with my girlfriend at the time,
and Dan Rather was his big guest and they talked
politics the whole time. Hand to god, I fell asleep
during the taping.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
That's terrible. Yeah, that's too bad. And Colbert, I don't know.
I he didn't he do a Comedy Central thing like
he was like back in the day. And all the
clips of Colbert, I just see him like a talking
deranged political stuff like that's that's his stick.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I guess, yeah, well that's yeah, that's where he's from.
That's what he's most known for. But I mean he
held the rings there for a while. I didn't know
they lost money like that though.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
According to something called Puck, they the show cost one
hundred million a year to produce. Can you imagine? How
does that? How does that happen? How did they one
hundred million to make that show a year? Colbert, who's
sixty one, was being paid between fifteen and twenty million
dollars a year to host the show. Wow, Okay, well

(42:02):
I hope he saved as much.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Your Overnight show would have to be on the radio
for ten years to lose that much money, yep.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
For them to spend one hundred million a year, Danny,
we would have to be on Fox Sports Radio till
the year twenty three thirty three, I think is uh yeah,
all right, we'll get out on that Danny Mallard Palooza tonight.
We're excited about that nanny car.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
The limos are pulling up.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Benny Red Carpet, Baby Red Carpet. Must listen Radio, Must
listen to audio coming up tonight eleven pm in the West,
two am in the East.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
All night long.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
We've got an amazing variety show. It's a Venice Beach
meets Atlantic City. It's it's Times Square, it's all that.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
There'll be a lot of drugs in those limos.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Well that's you know, this isn't Danny. What happens on
the Malla Paloosa stays on the mallat Palooza forever on
the podcast. Anyway, we get out on that, have a
wonderful rest of your day to day, and we'll talk
to you tonight later.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Skater gotta murder, I gotta go
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