May 26, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another fun Friday bonus broadcast! Last weekend's Minnesota Meet & Greet gets it's own postgame show! They talk: the Love Boat, Speed Racer, Happy Days Type Festivities, Near Naked Militia Member & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
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.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Air everywhere you have stumbled on, not by accident, by choice.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio
a spin off of the Overnight show you hear Monday
through Friday on many Fox Sports Radio affiliates across the country.
(00:49):
And we are doing it live well kind of kind
of live a global exclusive Danny G. Nobody else has
the content that we are about to provide. I can
say with a garon t that no one can touch
this podcast when it comes to exclusive, worldwide details. That
is a must listen for every man, woman and child
(01:14):
in the Malard.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Militia speeding at you like a rented malardmobile.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Aha, that is on the list, that is on the agenda.
But this is the thorough, in depth team coverage review
as Danny G will be the inquisitive reporter and he
will be asking all the questions that you wish you
could ask, but Danny has the chance to do that.
(01:39):
So it's the Malard Meet and Greet, the first podcast
since our trip to Minnesota last week had a wonderful time,
and we'll go through all of the details on this
will give you a blow by blow among the features
on this podcast, we'll take a trip on the love Boat,
we'll go speed racer, a rollicking Happy Days type festivity,
(02:05):
and we will also have information that no one else has.
We will tell you which member of the Malad militia
almost stripped buck naked at the Malor Meet and Greet
to the shock of everyone that saw this happen. We
had nudity at the Malor Meet and Greet. We will
(02:25):
get to that and also some sticker fund So there's
a lot, a lot to navigate through, Danny, but I
have my machete and we will be swashbuckling our way
through the festivities on the Friday podcast. So we'll start
out with the love vote. So got to Minnesota. Now
(02:46):
we'll get to the meet and greet, which was a
wonderful affair on Saturday in the evening time from five
to nine. But prior to that, got up really tried
to maximize my time. I figured, no, I don't want
to sit in some room watching TV or listening to
some audio. I want to go out. I want to
experience everything that Minnesota has to offer. So we got
(03:07):
there on Friday and on Saturday morning, we got up
kind of early. My brother drove over from Appleton, Wisconsin,
which is about a four hour drive. I believe he
said about four hours. So I met my brother. My
wife was with me, So me and my wife met
my brother and his wife and we headed to Lake Minnetonka.
(03:30):
So why did we go to Lake Minnetaka, Danny ge,
why do you think this was? There's a ten thousand
plus lakes. There's like twelve thousand lakes in Minnesota, but
we chose Lake Minnetonka. Why do you think that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Is the famous Vikings cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That is correct ding ding ding ding days. So Lake Minnetaka,
which is only like fifteen minutes away from downtown Minneapolis,
a notorious lake if you're a football fan. Because within
the last I want to say, it's probably about fifteen years.
I forget exactly when it happened, but it's been been
a fair amount of time, maybe even longer than that,
but if you were around for it. The Minnesota Vikings
(04:07):
got in a whole lot of trouble because a group
of players decided to rent a boat and they went
out on Lake Minnetonka. And one of the players had
flown in a group of professional ladies, a.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Women who knew exactly what they were doing, and they
also realized that they could get paid for their skills,
and so they had a unbelievably great time out there
on what became known as the Love Boat on Lake Minnetonka.
And so I made my way. We now we did
(04:46):
not actually go on the lake. We walked around the lake.
There's a nice trail around Lake Minnetonka. A bunch of
people are out with boats. The weather was great, it
was really cool. I checked out my first first lake
in Minnesota was lakeman Tanka, and it was a very
nice lot of little towns kind of around the lake
where they have shops and you know, standard touristy stuff
(05:08):
and things like that. So that was that was a
lot of fun. I did not see anyone making love
on a boat though, so I think that it might
have happened, but they did it in the privacy of
the lower deck of the boat.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
We're too modern for that, Ben. This happened back in
two thousand and.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Five, oh Zara, So it's been eighteen years, eighteen years
since the love boat and the vikings around that time.
Not only they have the love boat scandal, but you
remember they also had the Wisonator, which was a few
years after that. The guy got busted Ontario Smith I
(05:43):
believe was his name, Yeah, the airport, because he had
a fake device to deliver urine a fallus, a fake
fallus what taught with and that was was also a
great moments in Viking history. So we had a fake
Dick Cheney, yes exactly, a fake Dick and Dayton, if
(06:04):
you will. But so she had that. So then there
was this great debate whether or not my wife was
going to go to the meet and greet and some
interesting folks that comes to these things. My wife has
been to some of these events in the past, but
not all of them, and she was debating whether or
(06:25):
not to go, and we were talking about that. She
decided kind of at the last minute she was going
to go. But as you know, Danny, you can't just
roll out of bed and go to a Malor meet
and greet. You've got to get all dulled up because
you're representing the show, you're representing the brand, and so
my wife always wants to look as good as possible.
(06:46):
So she had to go to the store to pick
up a few things that she did not have with
her in her suitcase, and we were getting ready. We
had a bit of an issue. We got back to
the place we were staying and the code to get in
was not working, so that delayed us. We were like,
we got locked out, and if we had been locked out,
(07:07):
we would not have been able to make the Mallord
meet and greet, which would have been a slight problem
considering people were traveling from all over to come to
this thing. But anyway, we figured it out. We got
in there, so my wife got ready fine, but we
left a little bit later than I was hoping for.
So I got on the highway there in Minnesota and
(07:31):
started cruising to Mounds View, Minnesota. The Mermaid in an
event center where the Mallard meet and greet was taking place.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I was driving with the flow of traffic. Okay, I
was driving.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I wasn't going.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Faster than everyone. I wasn't out in front, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The pace car.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I was with the pod of people that were going
the same speed. And I look in my rear view
mirror and I notice a police car has now come
up on my bumper. Oh no, And I look in
the rear y mirror again. I thought, well, maybe they're
(08:14):
going to go around me. And then the guy's like
he's mad dog in my license plate. You know, he's
looking at the license plate and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So what color was this rental?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The rental was like a great color. It wasn't anything
like outrageous. So I'm driving whatever. And but I knew
once you kind of get locked in, it's like you
get locked in this asteroid belt or something like that,
this holding pattern. And I was done. I knew I
was done. And the question is do I just pull
(08:45):
over now before he turns his lights on? Do I
wait a little bit, like what's the move? Do I
try to get off the freeway, which would have been
a bad move.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It's like Star Wars where you get locked into their
tractor beam.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, I was heading to the Death Star. So this
is going on. And but the main reason I think
I got pulled over, this is my theory and I'm
sticking with it, is I had the one thing you
do not want to have when you travel and get
a rental car, and that was the trunk. Uh No.
(09:18):
The one thing, the one thing Danny, you do not
want to have is out of state plates. You do
not want to have out of state place because that
is a dead it's a dead giveaway. It's easy money
for the police. They can write the ticket. They know
you're not going to fight the ticket because you don't
(09:39):
live there. They assume you don't live there. So when
I picked up the rental car, I only had two options.
You get to the rental car booth and they say,
all right, there's two cars, pick either one. One of
the cars had a Texas license plate. The other had
a Kansas license plate. So I decided Kansas was closer
to Minnesota, up by a little bit, so I'll take
(10:02):
the Kansas license plate. So I was driving around with
Kansas plates. Wow, and I was in a no win situation. Now,
the officer was totally cool. It was a nice guy.
Young guy looked like he was just out of the
academy and this might have been the first ticket he
had ever written. And so he's like, why why are
(10:22):
you in such a hurry? You know, they ask you
the questions when they asked, Well, so then I had
the chance to say, well, it's funny you should bring
that up, because I actually I do a radio show
and I'm on my way to meet listeners from the
show that's that are here in Minnesota, and so I
was like, oh, maybe that'll give me some Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna double this. Fool's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So so the guy's like, oh, yeah, okay,
and then he just watch back. It went back and
it's a little more confusing when you had a ticket
in a rental car and because you don't you have
to show the insurance, but you don't you have your
own personal insurance, and then you have to obviously the
driver's license is out of state, and so they got
to run that. And so anyway, the guy did all
(11:07):
that stuff. So that caused me to be about a
half an hour late to the malth of meet and greet.
And the ticket was not expensive. It's it's affordable, you
can do it online, you fill out the ticket. Whatever.
It's a nuisance, got a murder, It's an absolute nuisance,
pain in the behind. One complaint. I had a wonderful
(11:27):
time in Minnesota. But the one thing I will complain
about the speed limits in the Greater Minneapolis area. Ridiculous.
The speed limit is like sixty fifty five to sixty
miles an hour. No one is driving fifty five to
sixty miles an hour because the weather was good. Now
(11:47):
maybe in the winter. Maybe in the winter, Danny, when
the weather's nasty. And yeah, I can understand how you'd say, Okay,
this needs It's like.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They need two different sets of signs.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, because I'm going with the
flow of traffic. And I've had this rule. We've talked
about it on the radio show. I got pulled over
years ago a highway patrol officer in California. He told
me said, listen, if you go seventy nine or under,
I will not even bother pulling you over. It's not
(12:21):
worth my time. I go eighty eighty five or above.
So Ever, since then, I had always made sure not
to go seventy nine over seventy nine miles an hour
because I figured I would not get a ticket. As
my plan, my battle plan and all that. So in Minnesota,
I was going seventy six miles an hour and not
(12:46):
to seventy nine. But I still got a ticket because
I had out of state plates. That's my again, that's
my theory, that's what I'm going with. And so anyway,
that was my pain in the ass trip to go
to the the Mermaid for the Malared meet and greet.
So then we get to the Mallard Meet and greet.
The first thing I say, I pull off the highway.
(13:06):
I was only two off ramps away, Danny, two off
ramps away. If I had made it, I would have
been fine. Obviously, got pulled over. So I get back
on the highway. I get off the highway at Moundsview
and I turn and there I see it, like a
beacon of light off in the distance, The Mermaid. Here
(13:27):
it is. I've heard so much about this place. We
promoted it for several weeks. And I see flashing the
jumbo tron. There it is my name in lights, Danny
as a queen, the Queen of the Mala Musia in Minnesota,
she's not Queen Roxanne, but she's spin Cycle Regina, who's
(13:49):
the queen of the Minnesota contingent of the Mala Musia.
So she had had my name put up on the
billboard outside right on this big road in Minnesota. I
saw this. My name was flashing, which was kind of cool.
I was like, I did a double tike. I was like,
is that really my name? I was like, maybe that's
maybe that's Ben Maler or something like that. So I
(14:12):
got there. Now I was still kind of in a
bad mood. Not kind of I was because I'd just
gotten a speeding ticket. But I saw that jumbo tron
and I was like, man, that's great glowing right there,
and it was kind of twilight. The sun was it
was still up because it doesn't get dark in Minnesota
till like eight thirty, but you know, summers down a
little bit, but not all the way down. And I
(14:33):
walked in and everyone was all excited to see me,
and it was a huge crowd there, and it was
really cool. It was a really neat thing, and I
had a wonderful time meeting everybody. We had people come
from all over the place, all over the states. Obviously
in that area around Minnesota from Wisconsin, Iowa. Doc Mike
(14:54):
was there from Chicago. We had northern Minnesota well represented.
We had Nebraska, and also Ernesto flew in from the
Bay Area, so we had northern California represented, and I'm sure,
I'm sure I'm forgetting some other other locations. But it
was great. I had a wonderful time. I got to
(15:15):
meet a bunch of people. I tried to balance my time, Danny,
because you know, a lot of people there and I
and my wife actually was very helpful because she was
like encouraging me to move on to some other people,
because otherwise I just would have talked to like one
person the whole time.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, she was your handler.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah exactly. She was pushing me to the other groups
of people. So I was doing that and it was
it was really really neat. We had a big contention
of the Viking World Order, which I did not know
much about. But this is like the top fan club
of the Minnesota Vikings, which Regina spent cyc A. Regina
(15:56):
the queen of the Minnesota Contingent. She is a part
of that, and so she got a couple of the
other members to come out there. They were all hanging out,
so that was cool. Tommy Kramer. You remember Tommy Kramer,
the quarterback for the Vikings back in the eighties. Yeah,
So Tommy Kramer was there. He made he popped up,
(16:18):
he popped in there. He was kind of signing autographs,
hanging out. He had had merchandise that he was selling,
so he had a little table he was setting up.
And we had live music. Really good local artists there
were performing and it was just a really rollicking happy
days kind of thing there. It was a lot of fun.
(16:40):
Met Eke from Roseville, Minnesota, Rob from Minnesota. All these
guys that are big contributors of content to the show.
Many of them were able to make it. Not everyone.
We didn't meet Hayes the Crazy Guy, allegedly Crazy Guy,
he was not there. Met Mike de Farmer and his
wife who work on a small farm out in the
(17:04):
boondocks in Po Dunk, USA, and they have no kids,
just them working on the farm and he listens every night.
He gets up at two thirty in the morning to
feed all the animals on the farm and he listens
to the overnight show while he's working and says he's
I think he told me, Mike. I don't want to
get this wrong, but he said he hadn't left the
(17:26):
farm more than like twice in the last several years,
but he left to come hang out with us at
the meet and greet. So that was really cool. That
was neat, and you know how these things go, Danny.
Everyone's got a story, everyone's got something they want to
share with you. There were a bunch of introverts, so
I tried to make sure I accommodated the introverts. As
(17:46):
a fellow introvert, I felt like it was important for
me to spend time with them, and everyone seemed to
be having a good time. Angelino was there. She's the
big fan super fan, and she got a lot of
the shirts and she was hanging out with some of
her friends. She got me a nice gift. Some people
(18:06):
did bring me gifts. I got some. I got a
hat from Angelina, Colorado Buffalo's hat, which was kind of cool.
There were some other knickknacks that I got as well.
So as it was very very welcoming. You've heard of
Minnesota nice, A lot of Minnesota nice, dandy, a lot
of Minnesota nice.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now I want you to address the axe throwing video. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So I will get to the ax throwing video in
a moment, but first a global exclusive, Danny g before
we get to that. No one else has what I'm
about to do. Which member of the Malard militia at
the Malor meet and greet almost stripped Buck naked in
the middle of the Mermaid in the middle of the Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So air Force Andrew was there.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Well, you would assume it would be Air Force Andrew
because he's the legend from previous Mallet meet and greets.
But no, it was not Air Force Andrew. He was
not the guy that was there, the person that decided
to turn the Mermaid into a Chippendale's the one and
only hollering James. Hollering James, the crazy caller, Hollering James.
(19:24):
So let me set this up. So James had someone
drive him, very nice gentleman, and I believe his wife
drove hollering James to the meet and greet, and I
was really looking forward to meeting Jims. James has called
the show for years. If you listen to the Overnight show,
James breaks the mold, or maybe he's part of the mold.
So hollering James is the guy that's been evicted from
(19:47):
several places he's lived because he calls the show in
the middle of the night and starts screaming about the
Vikings or the Twins, or the Timberwolves or the Golden Gophers,
like it's why old and crazy, right, wild and crazy.
So anyway, I show up. They say, hey, there's hollering James.
So I go up to hollering James. The first thing
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he does is literally take the hat off his head
and say, hey, I want you to have this. He
hands me this Viking hat which is covered in schmutz.
It's it's got, it's I don't know, it's smelled. It
was disgusting. So I said, you know what, James, that's
very kind that you wanted to give me your hat.
But I'm okay, I want you to have that hat.
(20:31):
So I handed the hat back to hollering j He's
He's like, no, I want you to have I said, no,
no'm James. You listen, you take that. You need the
hat more than me. You're the Viking fan. I'm a
Rams fan. I don't need the hat. But he tried
to give me so fine. So I talked to James
for a little bit. At some point he procured a
(20:53):
Mallard Meet and Greet shirt. There were a couple extra shirts.
He was able to get his hands on a Mallard
Meet and Greet shirt, so got his hands on this.
So he then we have a conversation and he's like, hey,
I want you to autograph the shirt. So I said,
no problem. You're hollering James. That's very flattering. I mean,
(21:14):
what do you want an autograph from me?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And what with that?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So I said, you know what, Okay, I am going
to give you an autograph. And it's very hard to
sign an autograph because you're wearing He was wearing the
shirt at this point. So James is like okay and
starts taking the shirt off, and he starts undressing in
the middle of this restaurant, bowling alley, concert hall type venue.
(21:43):
And now the photo I posted of hollering James, Danny,
I think that's a pretty flattering photo. Pretty flattering photo
of hollering James. And he's a round mound of sports
talk power. He's large and in charge. Hollering James women.
(22:05):
I saw some things when he took the shirt off
that I did not need to see. I didn't Now.
Fortunately I was able to convince him to put the
shirt back on, and I decided just to sign. He
wanted on autograph, so I was like, all right, I'll
sign the autograph, just leave the shirt on, and so
so he did. It's not the cleanest looking autograph, but
(22:29):
he he allowed me to do it, so so I
I autographed that, uh, and he was happy. And I
didn't even see him leave. I told him to come
say bye when he left, but I don't I don't
know where he where he ended up. But that was
hollering James, briefly turning into a Chippendale's dancer. Now you
wanted to know about this axe throwing.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yes, yeah, it reminded me of you throwing those lollipops
at are baseball outing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, that's a bad take by you, Danny. Let me
explain what happened here. It's it's a common misconception that
somehow that I was bad at throwing an axe, which
is fake news. That is not true at all. So
what happened was, at the end of the event, the
thing was kind of whinding down and the spin cycle,
Regina came over to me. She's like, hey, the people
(23:17):
would like you the people of the Mermaid have given
me permission you could throw an axe. I was like, oh, okay, whatever,
So I had to sign a waiver. Now, the young
lady that worked at the axe throwing part of the Mermaid,
she looked like she was just out of high school,
and so she's describing to me the different ways to
throw an axe safely. Now, I had never thrown an
(23:41):
axe before in my life. I didn't anticipate that I
would start throwing an axe at this event. But everyone
was like a nick in Wisconsin, and some of the
other guys were like they were excited and they wanted
me to throw the axe and so okay. So I
(24:04):
went over there, and as I said, the lady there,
the young lady was describing the different ways. There's this technique,
which is the one handed technique, and there's the uh
there's this which is the that's the.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Two over the top of your head.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, that's the two handed technique. So uh, So she
hands me the bucket of axes. She says, you're never
supposed to pass the acts to anyone else. You just
take them out of the buck And so I'm kind
of I'm warming up. I'm loosening up for the axe toss.
Kyle from Denver's there and our buddy from Des Moines,
(24:42):
and so a couple of other people were there. So
I'm kind of loosening up with the axe toss, and
the first couple were not particularly great. And of course
what always happens is the the paparazzo tries to make
you look like you're you're incompetent, and so these idiots,
these nimrods, posted the video which made me look like
(25:06):
I was unable to throw an axe. Of course, they
conveniently left out the clip of the video. Once I
warmed up and once I had my batting practice, my
ax practice, Danny, I nailed, absolutely nailed the axe toss.
It was amazing. In fact, I am now an honorary lumberjack,
(25:27):
one of my just all bunyan and I will challenge
you or anyone else I know. I challenged Cooper Loop
and Eddie and Roberto, and I will challenge you. I
am now a MENSA level axe thrower.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I went through the process, a learning process and batting
practice and all that. But I'm telling you what right now,
and anyone that was there that saw this, whether it's Angelina.
I don't think she saw it, or a wheelchair Brad
or Shane or any of these guys. I promise you
I will beat you. I'm an AX expert.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sounds very defensive.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Not defensive it all. It's an accurate portrayal because when
somebody throws out a video which is clearly there put
on the internet to make you look bad, and they
don't give you the whole story. They tell you part
of the story, but not the whole story. Bad job
by them.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
How many tries later did you actually get one to stick?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
The next one? It was the next try. Yeah. And
Nick and Wisconsin, who's a big fan of the podcast,
Nick explained, there's a cheat code and it's all about
the risk movement. It's all about the risk movement. That's
the key to throwing the acts. And once you master that,
I'm now like a ninja. My right hand was getting
(26:45):
a workout. Yeah, So it's really all about the risk
is like ninety percent of the axe throwing. Once you
get that down, your set. So I'm ready anywhere you
want to go, anytime, any place, and we will do damage.
We will make axe magic is what we're going to make.
(27:07):
There was the axe toss on that I also wanted
to mention and I want to thank Femi. Now, Femi
is from Nigeria. He's actually hoping to call the show
from Nigeria, but he lives in Minnesota. He's lived in
Minnesota for years. Married guy, family guy, hard working guy,
and and so Femi on his own. I didn't tell
(27:31):
him to do this. I didn't say, hey, you should
do this. He's such a big fan of the show
that he went out and had some bumper stickers made
for the show and it was his active kindness and
Femi wanted to pass those out to everyone who showed
up at the Malar meet and greet. He's the bumper
sticker guy, and he was so kind. He made hundreds
(27:53):
of these bumper stickers and we had a great turnout,
but not everyone got bumper stickers, not everyone wanted them.
And so he told me, says he wants to support
the show so much that he said he will send
a bumper sticker to anyone who's a fan of the
Ben Malors Show or the Fifth Hour podcast, and he
will he will cover the shipping for the bumper stickers,
(28:17):
which isn't that much, but it's still a very kind
act by Femi. And so if you're interested, and this
is the number one uber each delivery guy in Minnesota,
if you are interested in getting one of these bumper stickers,
you can email him. I'm gonna give you his email
address right now. It's Femi Vikings at yahoo dot com.
(28:37):
Femi and then just Vikings like the NFL team at
yahoo dot com. You can email Femi and this is
all he's doing. It's got he's got these really cool
bumper stickers in a few different shades and colors, and
it's got the name of the show, it's got the
time of the show. It's got those little microphones. So
(28:58):
it's pretty neat. And check that out if you're interested,
and you don't have to put it on your car.
Maybe you want to put it on something in your
man cave or your office or back of your computer,
whatever it might be, whatever floats your boat. Forehead, well,
if you have a five head, you could put that
on there, making a forehead.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So thank you, thank you, thank you to Femi. That's
very nice, very nice job by you. Good job by you.
So thank you for that. And I'm trying to think
what else I can mention about the meet and greet.
We had the wedding. We had the faux wedding with
Doc Mike, who hands me Danny he's getting married to Regina,
(29:38):
gets me a stack of like fifteen pages of copy
that he wants me as the deacon. Deacon mallard, I'm
overseeing the wedding, so he wants me to go over
all this copy and exchange their vows and women. What
a shit show that turned out to me? Yeah, my goodness,
it was fun. It was fun. My wife was the
(29:59):
flower girl. We had, We had the music going. It
was interesting, and Regina spinsyger. Regina had somebody documenting everything.
She had a camera person, like a professional camera person.
It was like a wedding photographer taking photos of everything.
It was like next level. It was wild and crazy. Dad,
(30:20):
I'm going to decapitate a goat nuts.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What stood out to you about this meet and greet
that was different from all the others?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Uh so, yeah, this one, I would say the Viking
world order being there and just a good happy vie.
People seem genuinely happy. Not that they aren't happy when
I see them elsewhere, but it was like I think
people in Minnesota have this chip on their shoulder where
it's like, ah, we're in Minnesota. No one wants to
(30:52):
come here. It's flyover country, you know. People you think
of the Midwest, people go to Chicago, right, They'll go there.
There's a few other places in the Midwest, but Minneso
is not normally high up on the list, and so
I got a sense for people. They were genuinely happy
that I would go out of my way to go
to minne APIs and I had a wonderful time. It's
a beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Really.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The weather was great, likely the only week the weather
will be good, but it was perfect. I want to
thank all the listeners that did recommend that I come
in May rather than in April where there was still
snow on the ground. So thank you for that. That
was a great hack that I got from people that
are fans of the show who helped me out on that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So this is an important question. I know you don't
like eating in front of people. Did you dabble in
any sort of finger food or juicy lucy action in
front of listeners? No?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
In fact, that's funny should bring that up, because I
had no time from the time I got there. I
was a little late because of the speeding ticket. But
from the time I got there until the time I
walked out of the venue, I had no time. I
had my wife brought me a glass of water, and
that was it. I had no time to eat any
of the food of the mermaid. I was talking to
somebody at all times, because you know how these events go, Danny.
(32:11):
First thing, people you go there, there's a big crowd,
and then people start leaving because they have things to
do and they just wanted to meet me, and then
you know, be part of the event, but then they
had other things to do, and then there's like the
second wave of people. So throughout the night we had
different different waves convoys of people that were showing up,
(32:32):
and then they had to go, and then there'd be
new people that would show up. And so like we
took a group photo, but that only shows you part
of the group that was there. There were many other
people that showed up either early and or they showed
up late after we had already taken the team photo.
So so yeah, I was trying to, you know, be
as polite as I could possibly be to everybody, but
(32:54):
I did not eat. I went out after. We'll actually
talk about that later because I have a mallard of
food review. We'll get to that coming up in the
Saturday podcast. I think we'll leave that to the Saturday one.
I think we're good on this. Anything you want to promote.
It is Friday. You have Covino and Rich. I assume today,
is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Friday morning. So I'm gonna take a little nap here
and then get my ass back up and get to
the studios for Covino and Rich from two to four
pm on the West five to seven pm in New
York City. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I love the Covino and Rich show. There you go,
so enjoy that, Danny, and we'll have amazing pod casting
all weekend long, all weekend long. We have other exclusive details,
another never before told story.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I got a good one for you on Saturday as well.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
All right, well, I look forward to that. So we'll
get out on that note. Have a wonderful rest of
your Friday. It is my day of rest. I did
the overnight show last night, and so now the podcast
here and then I will be hanging out back baking.
I did get the Kitchen Aid mixer that had the
meatball surgery. Did come back, so I will be able
(34:07):
to get back in the kitchen this weekend and make
some delicious goodies. So I look forward to that. But
have a wonderful day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
See you tomorrow. Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go.
Kabooms.
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.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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And we are doing it live well kind of kind
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(01:14):
in the Malard.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Militia speeding at you like a rented malardmobile.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Aha, that is on the list, that is on the agenda.
But this is the thorough, in depth team coverage review
as Danny G will be the inquisitive reporter and he
will be asking all the questions that you wish you
could ask, but Danny has the chance to do that.
(01:39):
So it's the Malard Meet and Greet, the first podcast
since our trip to Minnesota last week had a wonderful time,
and we'll go through all of the details on this
will give you a blow by blow among the features
on this podcast, we'll take a trip on the love Boat,
we'll go speed racer, a rollicking Happy Days type festivity,
(02:05):
and we will also have information that no one else has.
We will tell you which member of the Malad militia
almost stripped buck naked at the Malor Meet and Greet
to the shock of everyone that saw this happen. We
had nudity at the Malor Meet and Greet. We will
(02:25):
get to that and also some sticker fund So there's
a lot, a lot to navigate through, Danny, but I
have my machete and we will be swashbuckling our way
through the festivities on the Friday podcast. So we'll start
out with the love vote. So got to Minnesota. Now
(02:46):
we'll get to the meet and greet, which was a
wonderful affair on Saturday in the evening time from five
to nine. But prior to that, got up really tried
to maximize my time. I figured, no, I don't want
to sit in some room watching TV or listening to
some audio. I want to go out. I want to
experience everything that Minnesota has to offer. So we got
(03:07):
there on Friday and on Saturday morning, we got up
kind of early. My brother drove over from Appleton, Wisconsin,
which is about a four hour drive. I believe he
said about four hours. So I met my brother. My
wife was with me, So me and my wife met
my brother and his wife and we headed to Lake Minnetonka.
(03:30):
So why did we go to Lake Minnetaka, Danny ge,
why do you think this was? There's a ten thousand
plus lakes. There's like twelve thousand lakes in Minnesota, but
we chose Lake Minnetonka. Why do you think that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Is the famous Vikings cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That is correct ding ding ding ding days. So Lake Minnetaka,
which is only like fifteen minutes away from downtown Minneapolis,
a notorious lake if you're a football fan. Because within
the last I want to say, it's probably about fifteen years.
I forget exactly when it happened, but it's been been
a fair amount of time, maybe even longer than that,
but if you were around for it. The Minnesota Vikings
(04:07):
got in a whole lot of trouble because a group
of players decided to rent a boat and they went
out on Lake Minnetonka. And one of the players had
flown in a group of professional ladies, a.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Women who knew exactly what they were doing, and they
also realized that they could get paid for their skills,
and so they had a unbelievably great time out there
on what became known as the Love Boat on Lake Minnetonka.
And so I made my way. We now we did
(04:46):
not actually go on the lake. We walked around the lake.
There's a nice trail around Lake Minnetonka. A bunch of
people are out with boats. The weather was great, it
was really cool. I checked out my first first lake
in Minnesota was lakeman Tanka, and it was a very
nice lot of little towns kind of around the lake
where they have shops and you know, standard touristy stuff
(05:08):
and things like that. So that was that was a
lot of fun. I did not see anyone making love
on a boat though, so I think that it might
have happened, but they did it in the privacy of
the lower deck of the boat.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
We're too modern for that, Ben. This happened back in
two thousand and.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Five, oh Zara, So it's been eighteen years, eighteen years
since the love boat and the vikings around that time.
Not only they have the love boat scandal, but you
remember they also had the Wisonator, which was a few
years after that. The guy got busted Ontario Smith I
(05:43):
believe was his name, Yeah, the airport, because he had
a fake device to deliver urine a fallus, a fake
fallus what taught with and that was was also a
great moments in Viking history. So we had a fake
Dick Cheney, yes exactly, a fake Dick and Dayton, if
(06:04):
you will. But so she had that. So then there
was this great debate whether or not my wife was
going to go to the meet and greet and some
interesting folks that comes to these things. My wife has
been to some of these events in the past, but
not all of them, and she was debating whether or
(06:25):
not to go, and we were talking about that. She
decided kind of at the last minute she was going
to go. But as you know, Danny, you can't just
roll out of bed and go to a Malor meet
and greet. You've got to get all dulled up because
you're representing the show, you're representing the brand, and so
my wife always wants to look as good as possible.
(06:46):
So she had to go to the store to pick
up a few things that she did not have with
her in her suitcase, and we were getting ready. We
had a bit of an issue. We got back to
the place we were staying and the code to get in
was not working, so that delayed us. We were like,
we got locked out, and if we had been locked out,
(07:07):
we would not have been able to make the Mallord
meet and greet, which would have been a slight problem
considering people were traveling from all over to come to
this thing. But anyway, we figured it out. We got
in there, so my wife got ready fine, but we
left a little bit later than I was hoping for.
So I got on the highway there in Minnesota and
(07:31):
started cruising to Mounds View, Minnesota. The Mermaid in an
event center where the Mallard meet and greet was taking place.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I was driving with the flow of traffic. Okay, I
was driving.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I wasn't going.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Faster than everyone. I wasn't out in front, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The pace car.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I was with the pod of people that were going
the same speed. And I look in my rear view
mirror and I notice a police car has now come
up on my bumper. Oh no, And I look in
the rear y mirror again. I thought, well, maybe they're
(08:14):
going to go around me. And then the guy's like
he's mad dog in my license plate. You know, he's
looking at the license plate and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So what color was this rental?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The rental was like a great color. It wasn't anything
like outrageous. So I'm driving whatever. And but I knew
once you kind of get locked in, it's like you
get locked in this asteroid belt or something like that,
this holding pattern. And I was done. I knew I
was done. And the question is do I just pull
(08:45):
over now before he turns his lights on? Do I
wait a little bit, like what's the move? Do I
try to get off the freeway, which would have been
a bad move.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It's like Star Wars where you get locked into their
tractor beam.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, I was heading to the Death Star. So this
is going on. And but the main reason I think
I got pulled over, this is my theory and I'm
sticking with it, is I had the one thing you
do not want to have when you travel and get
a rental car, and that was the trunk. Uh No.
(09:18):
The one thing, the one thing Danny, you do not
want to have is out of state plates. You do
not want to have out of state place because that
is a dead it's a dead giveaway. It's easy money
for the police. They can write the ticket. They know
you're not going to fight the ticket because you don't
(09:39):
live there. They assume you don't live there. So when
I picked up the rental car, I only had two options.
You get to the rental car booth and they say,
all right, there's two cars, pick either one. One of
the cars had a Texas license plate. The other had
a Kansas license plate. So I decided Kansas was closer
to Minnesota, up by a little bit, so I'll take
(10:02):
the Kansas license plate. So I was driving around with
Kansas plates. Wow, and I was in a no win situation. Now,
the officer was totally cool. It was a nice guy.
Young guy looked like he was just out of the
academy and this might have been the first ticket he
had ever written. And so he's like, why why are
(10:22):
you in such a hurry? You know, they ask you
the questions when they asked, Well, so then I had
the chance to say, well, it's funny you should bring
that up, because I actually I do a radio show
and I'm on my way to meet listeners from the
show that's that are here in Minnesota, and so I
was like, oh, maybe that'll give me some Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna double this. Fool's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So so the guy's like, oh, yeah, okay,
and then he just watch back. It went back and
it's a little more confusing when you had a ticket
in a rental car and because you don't you have
to show the insurance, but you don't you have your
own personal insurance, and then you have to obviously the
driver's license is out of state, and so they got
to run that. And so anyway, the guy did all
(11:07):
that stuff. So that caused me to be about a
half an hour late to the malth of meet and greet.
And the ticket was not expensive. It's it's affordable, you
can do it online, you fill out the ticket. Whatever.
It's a nuisance, got a murder, It's an absolute nuisance,
pain in the behind. One complaint. I had a wonderful
(11:27):
time in Minnesota. But the one thing I will complain
about the speed limits in the Greater Minneapolis area. Ridiculous.
The speed limit is like sixty fifty five to sixty
miles an hour. No one is driving fifty five to
sixty miles an hour because the weather was good. Now
(11:47):
maybe in the winter. Maybe in the winter, Danny, when
the weather's nasty. And yeah, I can understand how you'd say, Okay,
this needs It's like.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They need two different sets of signs.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, because I'm going with the
flow of traffic. And I've had this rule. We've talked
about it on the radio show. I got pulled over
years ago a highway patrol officer in California. He told
me said, listen, if you go seventy nine or under,
I will not even bother pulling you over. It's not
(12:21):
worth my time. I go eighty eighty five or above.
So Ever, since then, I had always made sure not
to go seventy nine over seventy nine miles an hour
because I figured I would not get a ticket. As
my plan, my battle plan and all that. So in Minnesota,
I was going seventy six miles an hour and not
(12:46):
to seventy nine. But I still got a ticket because
I had out of state plates. That's my again, that's
my theory, that's what I'm going with. And so anyway,
that was my pain in the ass trip to go
to the the Mermaid for the Malared meet and greet.
So then we get to the Mallard Meet and greet.
The first thing I say, I pull off the highway.
(13:06):
I was only two off ramps away, Danny, two off
ramps away. If I had made it, I would have
been fine. Obviously, got pulled over. So I get back
on the highway. I get off the highway at Moundsview
and I turn and there I see it, like a
beacon of light off in the distance, The Mermaid. Here
(13:27):
it is. I've heard so much about this place. We
promoted it for several weeks. And I see flashing the
jumbo tron. There it is my name in lights, Danny
as a queen, the Queen of the Mala Musia in Minnesota,
she's not Queen Roxanne, but she's spin Cycle Regina, who's
(13:49):
the queen of the Minnesota contingent of the Mala Musia.
So she had had my name put up on the
billboard outside right on this big road in Minnesota. I
saw this. My name was flashing, which was kind of cool.
I was like, I did a double tike. I was like,
is that really my name? I was like, maybe that's
maybe that's Ben Maler or something like that. So I
(14:12):
got there. Now I was still kind of in a
bad mood. Not kind of I was because I'd just
gotten a speeding ticket. But I saw that jumbo tron
and I was like, man, that's great glowing right there,
and it was kind of twilight. The sun was it
was still up because it doesn't get dark in Minnesota
till like eight thirty, but you know, summers down a
little bit, but not all the way down. And I
(14:33):
walked in and everyone was all excited to see me,
and it was a huge crowd there, and it was
really cool. It was a really neat thing, and I
had a wonderful time meeting everybody. We had people come
from all over the place, all over the states. Obviously
in that area around Minnesota from Wisconsin, Iowa. Doc Mike
(14:54):
was there from Chicago. We had northern Minnesota well represented.
We had Nebraska, and also Ernesto flew in from the
Bay Area, so we had northern California represented, and I'm sure,
I'm sure I'm forgetting some other other locations. But it
was great. I had a wonderful time. I got to
(15:15):
meet a bunch of people. I tried to balance my time, Danny,
because you know, a lot of people there and I
and my wife actually was very helpful because she was
like encouraging me to move on to some other people,
because otherwise I just would have talked to like one
person the whole time.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, she was your handler.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah exactly. She was pushing me to the other groups
of people. So I was doing that and it was
it was really really neat. We had a big contention
of the Viking World Order, which I did not know
much about. But this is like the top fan club
of the Minnesota Vikings, which Regina spent cyc A. Regina
(15:56):
the queen of the Minnesota Contingent. She is a part
of that, and so she got a couple of the
other members to come out there. They were all hanging out,
so that was cool. Tommy Kramer. You remember Tommy Kramer,
the quarterback for the Vikings back in the eighties. Yeah,
So Tommy Kramer was there. He made he popped up,
(16:18):
he popped in there. He was kind of signing autographs,
hanging out. He had had merchandise that he was selling,
so he had a little table he was setting up.
And we had live music. Really good local artists there
were performing and it was just a really rollicking happy
days kind of thing there. It was a lot of fun.
(16:40):
Met Eke from Roseville, Minnesota, Rob from Minnesota. All these
guys that are big contributors of content to the show.
Many of them were able to make it. Not everyone.
We didn't meet Hayes the Crazy Guy, allegedly Crazy Guy,
he was not there. Met Mike de Farmer and his
wife who work on a small farm out in the
(17:04):
boondocks in Po Dunk, USA, and they have no kids,
just them working on the farm and he listens every night.
He gets up at two thirty in the morning to
feed all the animals on the farm and he listens
to the overnight show while he's working and says he's
I think he told me, Mike. I don't want to
get this wrong, but he said he hadn't left the
(17:26):
farm more than like twice in the last several years,
but he left to come hang out with us at
the meet and greet. So that was really cool. That
was neat, and you know how these things go, Danny.
Everyone's got a story, everyone's got something they want to
share with you. There were a bunch of introverts, so
I tried to make sure I accommodated the introverts. As
(17:46):
a fellow introvert, I felt like it was important for
me to spend time with them, and everyone seemed to
be having a good time. Angelino was there. She's the
big fan super fan, and she got a lot of
the shirts and she was hanging out with some of
her friends. She got me a nice gift. Some people
(18:06):
did bring me gifts. I got some. I got a
hat from Angelina, Colorado Buffalo's hat, which was kind of cool.
There were some other knickknacks that I got as well.
So as it was very very welcoming. You've heard of
Minnesota nice, A lot of Minnesota nice, dandy, a lot
of Minnesota nice.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now I want you to address the axe throwing video. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So I will get to the ax throwing video in
a moment, but first a global exclusive, Danny g before
we get to that. No one else has what I'm
about to do. Which member of the Malard militia at
the Malor meet and greet almost stripped Buck naked in
the middle of the Mermaid in the middle of the Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So air Force Andrew was there.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Well, you would assume it would be Air Force Andrew
because he's the legend from previous Mallet meet and greets.
But no, it was not Air Force Andrew. He was
not the guy that was there, the person that decided
to turn the Mermaid into a Chippendale's the one and
only hollering James. Hollering James, the crazy caller, Hollering James.
(19:24):
So let me set this up. So James had someone
drive him, very nice gentleman, and I believe his wife
drove hollering James to the meet and greet, and I
was really looking forward to meeting Jims. James has called
the show for years. If you listen to the Overnight show,
James breaks the mold, or maybe he's part of the mold.
So hollering James is the guy that's been evicted from
(19:47):
several places he's lived because he calls the show in
the middle of the night and starts screaming about the
Vikings or the Twins, or the Timberwolves or the Golden Gophers,
like it's why old and crazy, right, wild and crazy.
So anyway, I show up. They say, hey, there's hollering James.
So I go up to hollering James. The first thing
(20:09):
he does is literally take the hat off his head
and say, hey, I want you to have this. He
hands me this Viking hat which is covered in schmutz.
It's it's got, it's I don't know, it's smelled. It
was disgusting. So I said, you know what, James, that's
very kind that you wanted to give me your hat.
But I'm okay, I want you to have that hat.
(20:31):
So I handed the hat back to hollering j He's
He's like, no, I want you to have I said, no,
no'm James. You listen, you take that. You need the
hat more than me. You're the Viking fan. I'm a
Rams fan. I don't need the hat. But he tried
to give me so fine. So I talked to James
for a little bit. At some point he procured a
(20:53):
Mallard Meet and Greet shirt. There were a couple extra shirts.
He was able to get his hands on a Mallard
Meet and Greet shirt, so got his hands on this.
So he then we have a conversation and he's like, hey,
I want you to autograph the shirt. So I said,
no problem. You're hollering James. That's very flattering. I mean,
(21:14):
what do you want an autograph from me?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And what with that?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So I said, you know what, Okay, I am going
to give you an autograph. And it's very hard to
sign an autograph because you're wearing He was wearing the
shirt at this point. So James is like okay and
starts taking the shirt off, and he starts undressing in
the middle of this restaurant, bowling alley, concert hall type venue.
(21:43):
And now the photo I posted of hollering James, Danny,
I think that's a pretty flattering photo. Pretty flattering photo
of hollering James. And he's a round mound of sports
talk power. He's large and in charge. Hollering James women.
(22:05):
I saw some things when he took the shirt off
that I did not need to see. I didn't Now.
Fortunately I was able to convince him to put the
shirt back on, and I decided just to sign. He
wanted on autograph, so I was like, all right, I'll
sign the autograph, just leave the shirt on, and so
so he did. It's not the cleanest looking autograph, but
(22:29):
he he allowed me to do it, so so I
I autographed that, uh, and he was happy. And I
didn't even see him leave. I told him to come
say bye when he left, but I don't I don't
know where he where he ended up. But that was
hollering James, briefly turning into a Chippendale's dancer. Now you
wanted to know about this axe throwing.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yes, yeah, it reminded me of you throwing those lollipops
at are baseball outing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, that's a bad take by you, Danny. Let me
explain what happened here. It's it's a common misconception that
somehow that I was bad at throwing an axe, which
is fake news. That is not true at all. So
what happened was, at the end of the event, the
thing was kind of whinding down and the spin cycle,
Regina came over to me. She's like, hey, the people
(23:17):
would like you the people of the Mermaid have given
me permission you could throw an axe. I was like, oh, okay, whatever,
So I had to sign a waiver. Now, the young
lady that worked at the axe throwing part of the Mermaid,
she looked like she was just out of high school,
and so she's describing to me the different ways to
throw an axe safely. Now, I had never thrown an
(23:41):
axe before in my life. I didn't anticipate that I
would start throwing an axe at this event. But everyone
was like a nick in Wisconsin, and some of the
other guys were like they were excited and they wanted
me to throw the axe and so okay. So I
(24:04):
went over there, and as I said, the lady there,
the young lady was describing the different ways. There's this technique,
which is the one handed technique, and there's the uh
there's this which is the that's the.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Two over the top of your head.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, that's the two handed technique. So uh, So she
hands me the bucket of axes. She says, you're never
supposed to pass the acts to anyone else. You just
take them out of the buck And so I'm kind
of I'm warming up. I'm loosening up for the axe toss.
Kyle from Denver's there and our buddy from Des Moines,
(24:42):
and so a couple of other people were there. So
I'm kind of loosening up with the axe toss, and
the first couple were not particularly great. And of course
what always happens is the the paparazzo tries to make
you look like you're you're incompetent, and so these idiots,
these nimrods, posted the video which made me look like
(25:06):
I was unable to throw an axe. Of course, they
conveniently left out the clip of the video. Once I
warmed up and once I had my batting practice, my
ax practice, Danny, I nailed, absolutely nailed the axe toss.
It was amazing. In fact, I am now an honorary lumberjack,
(25:27):
one of my just all bunyan and I will challenge
you or anyone else I know. I challenged Cooper Loop
and Eddie and Roberto, and I will challenge you. I
am now a MENSA level axe thrower.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I went through the process, a learning process and batting
practice and all that. But I'm telling you what right now,
and anyone that was there that saw this, whether it's Angelina.
I don't think she saw it, or a wheelchair Brad
or Shane or any of these guys. I promise you
I will beat you. I'm an AX expert.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sounds very defensive.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Not defensive it all. It's an accurate portrayal because when
somebody throws out a video which is clearly there put
on the internet to make you look bad, and they
don't give you the whole story. They tell you part
of the story, but not the whole story. Bad job
by them.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
How many tries later did you actually get one to stick?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
The next one? It was the next try. Yeah. And
Nick and Wisconsin, who's a big fan of the podcast,
Nick explained, there's a cheat code and it's all about
the risk movement. It's all about the risk movement. That's
the key to throwing the acts. And once you master that,
I'm now like a ninja. My right hand was getting
(26:45):
a workout. Yeah, So it's really all about the risk
is like ninety percent of the axe throwing. Once you
get that down, your set. So I'm ready anywhere you
want to go, anytime, any place, and we will do damage.
We will make axe magic is what we're going to make.
(27:07):
There was the axe toss on that I also wanted
to mention and I want to thank Femi. Now, Femi
is from Nigeria. He's actually hoping to call the show
from Nigeria, but he lives in Minnesota. He's lived in
Minnesota for years. Married guy, family guy, hard working guy,
and and so Femi on his own. I didn't tell
(27:31):
him to do this. I didn't say, hey, you should
do this. He's such a big fan of the show
that he went out and had some bumper stickers made
for the show and it was his active kindness and
Femi wanted to pass those out to everyone who showed
up at the Malar meet and greet. He's the bumper
sticker guy, and he was so kind. He made hundreds
(27:53):
of these bumper stickers and we had a great turnout,
but not everyone got bumper stickers, not everyone wanted them.
And so he told me, says he wants to support
the show so much that he said he will send
a bumper sticker to anyone who's a fan of the
Ben Malors Show or the Fifth Hour podcast, and he
will he will cover the shipping for the bumper stickers,
(28:17):
which isn't that much, but it's still a very kind
act by Femi. And so if you're interested, and this
is the number one uber each delivery guy in Minnesota,
if you are interested in getting one of these bumper stickers,
you can email him. I'm gonna give you his email
address right now. It's Femi Vikings at yahoo dot com.
(28:37):
Femi and then just Vikings like the NFL team at
yahoo dot com. You can email Femi and this is
all he's doing. It's got he's got these really cool
bumper stickers in a few different shades and colors, and
it's got the name of the show, it's got the
time of the show. It's got those little microphones. So
(28:58):
it's pretty neat. And check that out if you're interested,
and you don't have to put it on your car.
Maybe you want to put it on something in your
man cave or your office or back of your computer,
whatever it might be, whatever floats your boat. Forehead, well,
if you have a five head, you could put that
on there, making a forehead.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So thank you, thank you, thank you to Femi. That's
very nice, very nice job by you. Good job by you.
So thank you for that. And I'm trying to think
what else I can mention about the meet and greet.
We had the wedding. We had the faux wedding with
Doc Mike, who hands me Danny he's getting married to Regina,
(29:38):
gets me a stack of like fifteen pages of copy
that he wants me as the deacon. Deacon mallard, I'm
overseeing the wedding, so he wants me to go over
all this copy and exchange their vows and women. What
a shit show that turned out to me? Yeah, my goodness,
it was fun. It was fun. My wife was the
(29:59):
flower girl. We had, We had the music going. It
was interesting, and Regina spinsyger. Regina had somebody documenting everything.
She had a camera person, like a professional camera person.
It was like a wedding photographer taking photos of everything.
It was like next level. It was wild and crazy. Dad,
(30:20):
I'm going to decapitate a goat nuts.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What stood out to you about this meet and greet
that was different from all the others?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Uh so, yeah, this one, I would say the Viking
world order being there and just a good happy vie.
People seem genuinely happy. Not that they aren't happy when
I see them elsewhere, but it was like I think
people in Minnesota have this chip on their shoulder where
it's like, ah, we're in Minnesota. No one wants to
(30:52):
come here. It's flyover country, you know. People you think
of the Midwest, people go to Chicago, right, They'll go there.
There's a few other places in the Midwest, but Minneso
is not normally high up on the list, and so
I got a sense for people. They were genuinely happy
that I would go out of my way to go
to minne APIs and I had a wonderful time. It's
a beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Really.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The weather was great, likely the only week the weather
will be good, but it was perfect. I want to
thank all the listeners that did recommend that I come
in May rather than in April where there was still
snow on the ground. So thank you for that. That
was a great hack that I got from people that
are fans of the show who helped me out on that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So this is an important question. I know you don't
like eating in front of people. Did you dabble in
any sort of finger food or juicy lucy action in
front of listeners? No?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
In fact, that's funny should bring that up, because I
had no time from the time I got there. I
was a little late because of the speeding ticket. But
from the time I got there until the time I
walked out of the venue, I had no time. I
had my wife brought me a glass of water, and
that was it. I had no time to eat any
of the food of the mermaid. I was talking to
somebody at all times, because you know how these events go, Danny.
(32:11):
First thing, people you go there, there's a big crowd,
and then people start leaving because they have things to
do and they just wanted to meet me, and then
you know, be part of the event, but then they
had other things to do, and then there's like the
second wave of people. So throughout the night we had
different different waves convoys of people that were showing up,
(32:32):
and then they had to go, and then there'd be
new people that would show up. And so like we
took a group photo, but that only shows you part
of the group that was there. There were many other
people that showed up either early and or they showed
up late after we had already taken the team photo.
So so yeah, I was trying to, you know, be
as polite as I could possibly be to everybody, but
(32:54):
I did not eat. I went out after. We'll actually
talk about that later because I have a mallard of
food review. We'll get to that coming up in the
Saturday podcast. I think we'll leave that to the Saturday one.
I think we're good on this. Anything you want to promote.
It is Friday. You have Covino and Rich. I assume today,
is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Friday morning. So I'm gonna take a little nap here
and then get my ass back up and get to
the studios for Covino and Rich from two to four
pm on the West five to seven pm in New
York City. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I love the Covino and Rich show. There you go,
so enjoy that, Danny, and we'll have amazing pod casting
all weekend long, all weekend long. We have other exclusive details,
another never before told story.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I got a good one for you on Saturday as well.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
All right, well, I look forward to that. So we'll
get out on that note. Have a wonderful rest of
your Friday. It is my day of rest. I did
the overnight show last night, and so now the podcast
here and then I will be hanging out back baking.
I did get the Kitchen Aid mixer that had the
meatball surgery. Did come back, so I will be able
(34:07):
to get back in the kitchen this weekend and make
some delicious goodies. So I look forward to that. But
have a wonderful day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
See you tomorrow. Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go.
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