March 26, 2023 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ka boom. 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 sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
hanging out in the audio dojo. It's the Fifth Hour
with Ben Maller and Danny Gee. And it is the
Sunday Bonus edition of The Fifth Hour, And that means
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we get down and dirty. How about Ketty. The safety
net is off, Danny. We're gonna be bobbing and weaving
in the mailbox like Creed three. I saw that last
weekend at a theater. How was that? Did you have
popcorn when you went to the movies? Did you get snacks? Yeah?
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We do popcorn and a slushy? Now did you mix
any chocolate with the popcorn? No? But last weekend we
did get a little thing of red vines to go
with the popcorn. Okay, yeah, Because I gotta tell you
the chocolate the sugar and the salt. You combine those together,
and it's chef's kiss, is what the Oh I know
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my mom she used to make the popcorn at home
because she was a cheapo, and then she would take
ziplock bags and she'd put peanut Eminem's mixed with the popcorn,
seal it up, throw it at you and be like, here,
go to the movies. You fil the animal. That's a
good mom move. That's a solid because she your mom
realized that that is the magic. I've said this many times.
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Olive cooking is just combining fat, salt, sugar, all those things,
like the proper mix. It's all you're doing in the kitchen.
But it's it's awesome. Oh man, it's so great that
that bliss point. Everyone's trying to find that bliss point
in eating. And if you do that, you got me
excited for a Sunday morning breakfast. As soon as we
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get done with ask Ben two point zero. No no, no, no, no,
This is not asked Ben. This is the mail bag
we spill the beans, Danny. This is a much different
segment of radio. This sounds nothing like ask Ben. People do.
There's no confusion. If this were to go to the
Supreme Court. They would say, these are two totally different entities. Good,
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don't don't look at me like that. I don't need
you to look at me like that. Okay, I'm telling you.
I can't emphasize that enough. I'm experienced, Dear Danny, I've
done this a couple of times, and I'm a savvy
better and this is a much different segment. Let's bring
in Ohio l. All right, it's my man Ohio awl
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yet again, dazzling as always, the sound on the countryside
of Ohio al in the background leading us in. So
wherever we go, whatever po dunk backwater place we go
in the mailbag. Now, first up on the mailbag, Big
Greg in Iowa writes in. He says, dear Ben and
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Daddy Danny g Daddy, although I prefer name that too.
Ruined Fox has the masked singer going on Wednesday nights,
Big Greg points out, and he then says, if they
were to ask through your bosses, of course, or who
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whomever they'd reach out to to get in contact with you,
would you do the mass singer show? And he says, Ben,
how awful would it be to find a tall enough
outfit for you. Well, and this guy Greg gets it.
He knows that we are big stars in the Fox
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universe and that we would be perfect. Like I would
get on there and i would do the jitterbug Foo Drizzle.
I'd start out now, I would I would start out
doing the jitterbug, I'd move into the Charleston and then
maybe if we had enough time, the chat chat chop
that would be. That would be how I would do it,
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and it would be you imagine the hosts of that
show when they did your unveiling. They always shoot for
the moon with their guesses, Bradley Cooper, and then they
would take your mask off and they'd be like, who
the fuck is this? How the fuck this guy gets?
Get Fox A Security, Get this idiot out of here.
Who put this guy in here? Shame on you? And
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but no, I'm the guy that did the dipsy, do
the docy, do the whole thing. Come on. That show
is for C list celebrities, not D list celebrities. Well
you you're very kind to say you're a D list.
I'm more of a z Z list generation. I was
calling you a D list. No, No, I'm below d
I'm I'm the Z. I'm the Z guy. I'm right
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there at the very bottom. But thank you, Greg, I
would I would have a lot of fun. I'm not
a great dancer unless nobody knows who I am. If
I had a mask on and I was out there
just kind of doing my thing, and I think I'd
be a really good dancer if I thought no one
would ever find out that it was me in the costume.
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Like we have to be like nineteen twenty style, like
New Year's Z for you. Well, I could do the
humpy you know, I could do the humpy dance. You know,
come on, pimping, got your tims off. Yeah, that was
modern when we were ten years old. About the name,
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I could do the whip name, I can't do it.
That's you could do. What about the salsa? You want
to see me salsa dance? I could no? Thank you
all passed the samba? No anyway. Next up is Andy
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from Hollywood in the Hood, in HollyHood, slap me around
a little bit. No, this is my guy and he
lives right near that Tommy's off the one on one.
I used to sit there and eat my right, that's right.
What's up Andy? My triple chili cheeseburgers and fries and
watch all the crazy drug down people come down from
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the sunset trip and eat their burgers and fries and
all that in chili. And he says, howdy, gentlemen, have
not written in ages. Still diligently listen to the radio
show and obediently download all the casts, enjoy them all. However,
and he says, I am this is a quote. I'm incensed.
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How dare you Ben encourage Roberto to delete the go
King Eddie drop. It is the connective tissue fusing the
different eras of the show and makes me laugh out
loud every time, no matter where I am, Go King
Eddie Go. He says, I love the the Mallarin Danige lifehacks,
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like the chicken sauce dip from Costco. Well, that was
actually from Walmart. The chicken was from Costco. Yeah, rip
off Chick fil At sandwiches. Nobody emailed me to say
they tried that, so I guess nobody did. But the
sauce was from Walmart. The chicken sandwich was from Costco.
So he says, any other inflation busting your life enhancing pointers,
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it might be a good fifth hour segment says, happy Spring.
That's Andy, our friend in the hood in Hollywood. Danny
got anything to save a couple of bucks. We usually
mention these things when they come up, right. Yeah, I
mean this is regional because I don't think Alpoyo Locos
all over the country. But you could probably do this
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at a local chicken slash Mexican spot. Get there bean
and cheese burrito. There's the BRC burrito at Elpoyo Loco,
which is on the West Coast. And then I get
a chicken breast on the side, I peel the chicken,
put it in with their creamy cilantro sauce, and I
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make my own chicken burrito and it is two dollars
cheaper than any chicken burrito on their menu. Oh that's
a pretty good move. I like that. I have. I've
heard some McDonald's hacks. I'll have to share. I'll have
to share some of the things I don't have on
top of my head. And yeah, I will definitely do
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more of that, Andy, because we are tight wahs and
everyone's got to save a couple of bucks these days,
with the way the economy is and everything's so ridiculous.
I did hear a car hack, a rental car hack
that if you rent a car, you say you're renting
a car for a week, and they charge you, I
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don't know, four hundred dollars for the week or something
like that, which is a probably a good deal these days.
Just the date. I've heard that sometimes what you can
do is you can adjust the date for a couple
of days extra that you don't even need the car.
It'll actually be cheaper. It'll be cheaper to rent the car.
And then what you do is when you're done with
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the car, you turn the car in early and sometimes
I'll even give you a bigger discount. How crazy is that?
Like a reward almost? Yeah, Like you turned the car
in early and they're grateful and so they'll give you
a little extra money back. So that's that's kind of cool.
And I did get one of those travel cards where
you get points because we'll be doing a lot of
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mini road trips and flights this year to different locations,
and so we've got one of those credit cards they
tell you to use I was reading up on it.
They tell you to use one credit card, have a
favorite airline, and only use that airline. That way, you
actually get some decent points. Otherwise not so much. Not
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so much. Next up on the mailbag, Mike from Fullerton,
no relation to furg Dog says, last week, you guys
brought up Vinyl outselling CDs for the first time in
thirty five years. I thought that was pretty neat. So
I was wondering if either of you think VHS or
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Beta Max will make a similar comeback against DVDs and
Blu rays. Ah. Did you hear what's going on with
Blockbuster Video? No, what happened perfect timing for Ferg. I
mean Mike's question here. Just a couple of days ago,
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a story popped up about Blockbuster their website has come
back to life suddenly, and they put a message on
their website saying please be kind while we rewind. Oh,
there's lots of speculation out there. Does this mean they're
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gonna start to open up more stores, because obviously they
went bankrupt just over a decade ago and there's only
one location left, which they did that documentary on in Bend, Oregon.
So either this is just a ploy and they're gonna
sell merchandise and stuff like that, or there's rumblings that
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the retro movement like with vinyl, could come back with
video stores. I don't buy it. I'll tell you why,
because the DVD is a better quality than the VHS tape.
So why like the argument, I don't think they would
do VHS tapes there. They would probably do Blu Ray
I'm guessing. But even that is most people are just
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streaming these days, right, isn't that the that's what everyone's doing? True?
But I would argue this, what's the last electronic device
that most of us own where we did watch movies,
and that's Blu Ray. Like I have a Blu Ray
player still with my TV gear. I still can't get
over the story that Blockbuster Video had a chance to
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eliminate Netflix and they didn't. They didn't take advantage of it. Oh,
I know, talk about kicking yourself in the ass. For
how many years now, every night those executives got to
go to bed knowing they made one of the worst
decisions ever. That was one of the coolest things though,
when you'd go to Blockbuster Video and you'd find that
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new movie and there was one left and you'd grab it,
you'd snatch it, and it's like, oh, that was the
coolest thing yet, or you would get one of the
employees to look through the return been oh yeah, yeah,
yeah that too, Yeah, that was awesome, And I was like, oh,
and the candy packages right at the front when you
were checking out solid good memories Blockbuster videos, like what
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are you doing this weekend? We're going to Blockbuster to
find something to watch Blockbuster and chill. Then you'd get
there and they'd have no good fucking movies, so you'd
end up watching some old movie. But you're like, yeah,
that's all you had, And there was that distinct smell
inside every Blockbuster. Mike also says, have either of you
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ever been drunk or high on the air before? I
think you can tell the truth on the fifth hour
without getting in trouble. So I've only been drunk on
the air one time, and I've told the story randomly
in the past. I haven't told a long time. This
is back in the late nineties. I was doing a
nighttime show in LA It was a new sports station
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and we got preempted for Olympic women's hockey, which was
like a trial sport. It wasn't even like a real thing.
But the boss is like, oh, we're going to carry
the network feed and we wanted to do the show.
We were like, we know, who the hell in LA
wants to hear a women's hockey game on the radio.
And we were like, we want to do the show.
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And he's like, NA, no, no, he's we're gonna carry this.
But the feed the Olympics were overseas. I don't remember
what country they were in, you can look it up.
But the guys, the boss at the time, this guy
Bow is like, all right, listen. He said, just kind
of you gotta be the station. You guys can go
out and have a nice meal. I'm probably not gonna
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need you, but just be in the area in case
we need need to fill some time after the Olympic
coverage gets done. So we were like all right. And
this was in Burbank. We went to Dults, which is
a legendary. It's not there. It's been gone for many
many years, probably been gone for twenty years. But this
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place was amazing. It was sandwiched right near Warner Brothers
studios that was on one side. On the other side
he had all the radio stations, all the big radio
stations in LA had studios and so it was all
radio people, TV people. This was back in the nineties.
I used to hang out there all the time. It
was like our local, our local spot. That's where I
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first met Pat O'Brien. Pob Wow. We had a giant.
He was doing that entertainment show and he had a giant.
And this location wasn't that far from your favorite karaoke spot, right, Oh,
it was right down the street from Dimple's. Yeah, right
down the street. So this was back when Drew Carey
was big and sein fell like that area that era
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of television, and a lot of the actors from those
shows and the people on the crew after they were
done taping, they would come hang out and have chicken fingers. Anyway,
long story short, So the boss is like, you just
hang out in the area. Well, the restaurant was in
the next building over these two skyscrapers. It was the
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next building over. I say skyscrapers is Burbank, So they
were probably like fourteen stories whatever. But we went over
to the next building. We were eating and drinking and
and whatever, and then we were about to, you know,
go on our merry way and the boss called. It
wasn't even a text. This is back in the days.
We you call said, hey, I need you to get
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back on. You gotta get back to the radio station.
I probably need you for about half an hour. Oh yeah.
So now we walked back across the street, you know,
and feeling feeling no pain. We get back across the street,
and I'll never forget the late Mark Smith, my engineer.
May he rest in peace. Mark. Mark was this interesting
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character who, Yeah, he came from maybe the wrong part
of town, but for him, it was the great part
of town. And if we screwed something up, Mark was
the kind of engineer that would come in and he
had these massive fists. He was from Englewood, and he
would punch. He would literally punch us if we screwed up.
And it was the The Ben and Dave Show with
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this guy Dave Smith. And I don't even remember what
was going on. All I know is that Mark kept
coming in and punching me in the arm and the
side of the head. I just kept finishing sentences with
curse words. Oh yeah, like I just I didn't realize
I was so I was so inebriated. I didn't know
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what's going on. So that's the only time that happened.
What about you, Danny? Any stories going back I told
the story last week about being drunk on Saint Patty's
Day on the air, where I said Happy Mother's Day.
At the end, I've only been high on the air
one time on an FM station. Our general manager used
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to tell all of us in staff meetings, He's like, look,
I'm not naive. I know you guys all smoke weed.
You do hip hop for a living. I get it,
But do not smoke right before you go on the microphone.
Smoke away from work, at the club, whatever, outside the club,
don't smoke outside the studio. Do not be high on
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the air. You're not going to get good results. Smoke weed.
I didn't smoke a lot back then, but yeah, maybe
a couple of times a week. And I smoked at
one time because I was in pain a bad back
or something at the time, all right, from lifting all
those hoes at the club, and I smoked and went
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on the air. I was having like blank spots where
I couldn't put together my next sentence. And remember bringing
the traffic girl in and she said, are you okay,
went into the restroom, splashed some cold water on my face.
Don't don't shit where you eat, right, And the same
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thing obviously working with school and with kids, and we
would get tested. And so at that point I'm like, well,
I'm not going to smoke at all anymore because obviously,
you know, if you're gonna be tested and or you're
gonna be around kids, that's not a place to smoke either.
So basically, jobs took all the fun out of smoking
back in the day. Having a grow up, it's yeah boo,
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Pierre writes in on the mail bag Pierre from the
Short Attention Span Theater. He says, guys, how devastated will
you be when they banned TikTok in the United States? So, Pierre,
on a scale of one to ten, I on devastation
the Mallard scale of devastation for TikTok possibly being banned,
I am at a solid minus one. I don't use TikTok.
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It has no impact. I mean, I'm not on there.
The only time I see TikTok videos are when Pierre
sends them to me or some other listeners. Seriously, I'm
not I'm not in that world. Are you on TikTok? Danny?
You're not on there? No, But I do get links
from TikTok sent to me by Coveno all the time
from Covino and Rich. So once in a while there'll
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be some sort of sports video or TMZ type video
and they're like, hey, we need the audio from this.
That is the only time I use TikTok. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not in that world of TikTok. But I know
Pierre Man. He's on there. He's going for it. He's
on there all the time. He loves the TikTok and
everything that they have to offer. He's doing the hokey
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pokey and the whole thing. Next up Fred from Spring
Texas Everyboddy Fred Wrights and he says, Hi, there, you
said last week that you had the rights to Benny
versus the penny. Do you have the rights for in
the air everywhere? Fred? No, No, I do not. I
like the phrase. I've used it a lot. I don't
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think I owned the rights to that. I don't know
that you can't own the rights of that. So the
answer is a big n oh. Hey, say, just keep
up the good work. Barry from Nashville Rights and says,
yo yo mo Benny. He says, you have been doing
the sports overnight for a long time. Would you ever
consider jumping from sports to a non sport old program.
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For instance, if the hosting of the Coast to Coast
program became available, would you do that. I would love
to sit in on Coast to Coast one night. I
think that would be a lot of fun if they
ever needed someone to pinch it on Coast to Coast,
like on the weekends or something like that. If I know,
George does it during the week and then they've got
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George Knapp and some other cats that fill it on
the weekends. But I would I think that would be
a lot of fun. What did you make of that
story last week where people report did those comment looking
things that were trailing each other in the sky? Yeah?
I think if I was on Coast to Coast I
could have done four hours on that. I could have like,
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I totally could have knocked that out of the park.
But yeah, it wouldn't be fun to sit there with
some I feel like I do that anyway. I talk
to people that believe in a lot of that stuff,
and they just happened to be sports fans, you know
what I mean. Yeah, I was gonna say you could
have half of your regular callers still call in. Yeah,
I wouldn't be shocked at half our regular callers when
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they get done calling our show, they call the coast
to coast. When they get done, they move over there. Yeah,
wouldn't shock me at all if that was what was
going on. Next up, Thank you Barry, though my man
Barry in the Music City. Ozzy was from Western Australia,
right since, says dear Ben big Ben and Daddy G.
I stuffed up and I think, well, he says, stuffed up,
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And in the United States we say screwed up. In
Australia he says stuffed up. I says, I stuffed up,
And I didn't actually send my question last week. Bad
job by me. I did not hit the send button.
But here we go. You have started daylight savings time
over there, while good for me, I get one extra
hour of the Mallar Show and now only one of
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Colvino and Richest Show due to work hours. So here
we go. Besides farmer not liking it, he says, or
so I think he means my farmers not liking it,
What is the funniest excuse for not having it? For example,
he says. Over here in Australia, Ozzia says I heard
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with the extra hour of sunlight, my curtains will fade
or I will lose an hour of my life. Yeah,
so I don't know what you've heard, Danny. I've heard
that everyone's pretty much in agreement there is no need
for daylight savings time. We should just pick a time
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and just go with it. But the reason they haven't
changed it is because a lot of the technology is
not designed for just one time, so it would be
a lot of work to fix the infrastructure, and it
would take several years to get her done. Allegedly, So
are you saying this is like the two K Millennium
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two thousand was about to roll around, everybody freaked out.
The computers around the world are gonna crash. Yep, yep, yep.
Don't be in an elevator, don't be anywhere near anything computerizer,
You're gonna die. And then it happened, and nothing happened.
The late great Art Bell, the greatest overnight host of
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all time, Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show.
In the lead up he did three years hand to God,
three years of show about how the world was going
to end, and it was all it was. We're all
doomed and it was because of that, and then it happened,
nothing bad happened, and then he just he just continued
to hunt it. He had, he had the show to do,
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and that was that. So there you go, just pretend
like it never happened exactly, Kyrie and okase Wrights and
he says, how is it going, gentlemen? I love the Bennies.
He says, that we did the Bennies, says a couple
of Bennies shows. He says. It points out that you
guys care about your audience and it's a very unique
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feature to give back to the fans and says, say thanks.
Kyrie says the mother Militia. I really appreciate it. Another
reason among countless others why you are the goat in
my eyes. Well, very kind, Kyrie. Anyway, would there be
ever be a fifth Hour Award show? Just wondering because
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I cannot contribute to the main radio show like others can.
The dreaded day shift worker, he says, well, anyway, keep
up the great work as always much loved Kyrie. So yeah,
I don't think we're gonna do a Benny's version because
I don't like to steal material. Danny, as you know
from other other shows and other of course in the business.
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So we won't do that. But I could add a
benny for the top fifth Hour contributor. Oh, that would
be cool. Actually, Yeah, like the person that contributed the
most content to the show, add a category for them,
and I think that would be That would be pretty neat.
Nick in Wisconsin, Right, since says Ben and Danny, g
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you cannot use one of these for the rest of
your life. Would you rather not use toothpaste or not
use the odorant? He says, have a great Sunday. So
from Nick, I don't like that choice, or either of
those choices, because we've all been around that one person
who's allergic to deodorant for some reason, and that is
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not a good space to be in. But then again,
I don't know about you, Ben, but if I don't
taste toothpaste in my mouth, I can't even sleep comfortably. Yeah,
I think your breath will not be right. And that's well,
we're both married, Danny. I don't know that we need
the odor I think the toothpaste is probably more more important.
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How about this, Keep the deodorant and then just use
baking soda. Oh, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, yeah,
you could just use baking soda on your toothbrush. Sure,
for sure. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right she and she says, hello,
Ben and Danny. Gee, I think the Safari Kingdom segment
is a great addition. Maybe you can even include stories
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of animal rescue groups. And she said, she sent me
a link here. I will consider it, Jennifer. As you know, Danny,
we are in the content business, so anywhere we can
get content for it. You know, we can even have
Clay Travis as a guest. Well, I have Clay's willing
to do it. Drum um, drum. Now. I gotta tell you, Danny,
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back back in the day, I used to listen. I
was a little boy and I used to I used
to listen to this show called The Animal Thunderdome and
it was a great show and I loved it a lot.
And you know, so they had a lot of weird
animal stories. Anyway, Jennifer says, My question for you guys,
when you have a light bulbs start flickering in a
room and you know it doesn't have much longer to live,
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do you change it right away or leave it until
the bulbs in the other in the other rooms flicker
and then change them all at once. Yeah. So, Jennifer,
here's the way I'll ask that. First of all, it
is annoying. We all have had that happen when the
light starts flickering. So my move is to look under
the kitchen sink where the light bulbs are stored, or
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in the garage and see if we have lightbulbs. If
we have a light bulb, I will then immediately change
the light bulb. If we don't have any light bulb,
I'm not going down to lows or home depot. I
will wait for all the lights to go out before
I will then buy light bulbs. So that's my move.
What about you, Danny, I will one up you there
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with what's more annoying, Jennifer, how about when the smoke
alarm needs new batteries. Oh I hate that, don't you
hate that stupid chirping sound it makes, And a lot
of times it is in a spot that is hard
to reach, like you need a ladder, and so people
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will leave that sound there for a long time. It
drove me up a wall in my Burbank townhouse that
I had back in the day Finally it got to
the point where I went to poem Depot, bought a ladder,
went up, changed it, and then the next day I
went and returned the ladder because I need a ladder.
I have a wonderful story that just popped in my head,
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and I think Jennifer will appreciate this happened. I was
doing a bonus show for w EI in Boston, so
you'll appreciate this, dandy. So I'm at the old Mallard Mansion,
which you were at a few times. I'm doing the
show and the goddamn smoke detector starts going off while
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I'm on the air. In the background, you hear the
noise while I'm doing the show. So I then go
over to the smoke detector and I like try to
take the battery out. I can't get the thing off
the wall. So there's only a few minutes of commercials,
so I got to go back on the air and
again the background it was from your hot sports takes. Yeah,
(30:55):
I was burning up the thing. So the next commercial
break that we had, I went back and I turned
into the incredible Hulk and just ripped the thing off
the ceiling. We just ripped it down, and because it
was one of these smoke detectors that it had like
a battery that was inside, but it would not he
(31:17):
would not. You couldn't take it out. Once the thing died.
You just had to replace the whole thing, the whole unit.
So that some of them get stuck to walls because
of paint, and other ones, like you said, have the
internal battery and they're impossible to turn off. A lot
of people finally take wire cutters and just cut them
(31:37):
out of the wall. Oh yeah, that's terrible. What a
pain in the ass, What an absolute pain in the ass.
Amish J wrote and he says originally from Cincinnati but
currently reside in c Bus. What are your thoughts on
twin Peaks? He says, it's similar to Hooters and Tilted
(31:57):
Kilt and your favorite were walking favorite walking hiking trails
in the Greater metro parks of Phoenix. He says, I
just did a hike in the South Mountains recently and
attended two spring training games along with some NHL action
in Anaheim and Vegas. To see my sorry ass blue jackets,
(32:22):
he says, So yeah, I've not done any hiking in Phoenix.
I know in Tucson, not Tucson Tempe. There's some pretty
cool trails right around the Angels. I used to go
to Angels spring training. There was some cool cool things
there that I recall. But other than that, no, I
haven't done a lot of hiking in because I usually
(32:44):
go to Arizona other than this year. I usually went
in the summer and it's one hundred and twenty degrees.
You're not hiking in one hundred and twenty degrees. That's
not happening. So forget about that. Any comment on Twin
Peaks there you want chime in on that. Well, when
he said Twin Peaks, I thought about the Grand Tetons,
(33:05):
I did too, That's what I thought. He was. Wyoming
not only a beautiful mountain range, probably one of the
the most beautiful mountain ranges in all of the world,
but there is a great hiking trail at the base
of the Grand Tetons. It's Jenny Lake. So if you
ever get to go to Wyoming, if you ever get
to go through there to visit Yellowstone, make sure you
(33:27):
add that to your bucket list, and that Jenny Lake.
For a couple of hours, you walk around the base
of that lake, and it is just amazing because the
lake is beautiful. Then when you look up, you're looking
at the Grand Tetons. There you go. We had a guide.
Do you remember Steve Stillwell you were you were around
when he was at Fox Sports Radio. I don't know. Yeah,
(33:48):
still A left Fox Sports Radio to take a radio
job in Shyenne, Wyoming. Oh, beautiful area. Yeah, he went
there and still Well I love the guy. Yeah, just
a typical radio dude. He went there, and then once
he realized how much money the job paid, he didn't
stay very long. He quickly got out of there, and
(34:09):
they had him doing like five different radio stations for
That's the thing is that you want to talk about
mob pop operations that Montana, Well, you would be the
program director, the general manager, the morning Am drive guy,
you do afternoon drive, and then you do play by
play for high school sports and get paid less than
(34:31):
somebody working at Burger King. Yeah, the glamorous life of radio.
We had two more quick ones. Joe writes, and he says,
you have encouraged us to download your podcast. Is there
a difference in whether we download a podcast versus just
streaming it on demand? That's a good question. I don't
(34:53):
think there's a is there a difference on that If
you subscribe to the podcast, it'll download to your device
no matter matter what, even if you takes you a
while to get to it. Yeah. Obviously, if you're just
streaming on demand, then that's whatever you have time to
listen to in real time. So yeah, it's probably better
(35:13):
to subscribe that way. The whole library is they're waiting
for you. Yeah, and it listening live on the iHeart app,
for example. That's a wonderful thing because there are how
many thousands of iHeart radio stations and music stations on
that app. It's insane. It's biggest media, biggest audio company
(35:34):
out there. But Fox Sports Radio is always in the
top five. I say always. It's been that way for years.
That Fox Sports Radio is one of the five most
listened to audio streams on the iHeart app, which is yeah,
well it is incredible. A Big Lou writes in from
the LBC at last one. He says, well, Big Lou,
(35:56):
my man, Big Lue. This guy's is super fan. I
hope Big Lu can make soda. What can Big Lou
do for you? But A Fat sALS contributor to the show, yeah,
hockey guy. He's actually watched Eddie play hockey. He says, well,
you ever interview any mallor Militia members on the podcast?
Or must we wait until another pandemic? Well, big lou,
(36:20):
We're not that far away from another pandemic, trust me. No, No,
I've talked to you, Danny. We've thought about maybe having
a theme like a month where we pick some celebrities
in the mallor Militia and have them on and learn
what makes them tick and all that. I had Cowboy
on this podcast, I've had over there during the pandemic.
(36:41):
We put Doc Mike on. We can full of lists
and maybe you could put some Benny winners on. Yeah,
we could do that, But how do you whittle it down?
That's always the problem. There's so many people we have
to choose from, Like, how do you whittle it down?
And are they gonna be good? You know? I could
do an interview with Dick and Dayton. Yeah, but what
(37:03):
if that is right now you don't have a prize
for the Bennis. What if that is a prize for
winning a Benny. You win a Benny and you get
an invite to be on the Fifth Hour podcast. That's great.
You know, that's a wonderful idea. That's a carrot on
the stick. I like that. I'm gonna have to I
would not steal that, Danny, because as you know, I
do not steal ideas. That's perfect because then the competition
(37:29):
will get even more heated, because I want an hour
to myself being interviewed by the great Ben Mallard. Oh
that would be that is yeah, they would love that.
The guys that I get emails all the time, I
want to be on the fifth hour, this, that and
the other thing. That's a great idea. On that note, Danny,
a fitting end to the Sunday Mailbag podcast, the Last
Sunday without Baseball, real baseball and anything you want to sell,
(37:54):
anything you want to promote, you want to give out,
your cameo, your TikTok, any of that. No, just a
big thank you to everybody that participates in the podcast
and your live shows. You're gonna be back on tonight,
Monday afternoon Covino and Rich from two to four pm
on the West coast. That is, I don't know what
(38:14):
time is that five to seven in New York? Yeah,
five to seven. You get that going on and what
time is it in Tokyo? Do you know what time
it is in Tokyo? That would be eleven pm. Just
go with it. Yeah, I made that up. Yeah, they
listened to sports radio and Tokyo the way they watched
that World Baseball Classic. Oh dude, they there was like
(38:36):
fifty million people watching the WBC in Japan. There were
more people watching that than have ever watched the World
Series game. That's crazy. Yeah, they love their baseball more
than us. I like baseball, but I I geez. Anyway,
don't worry Mike Trout. He'll he'll strike out next time too.
(38:57):
He'll let you down. He'll break your heart. Trout. He
has a lifetime reservation at the Heartbreak Hotel. We'll get
out of here. Thank you, Danny. I'll be on tonight
eleven o'clock in the West and that is two am
in the East on all the big Fox sports radio stations,
and we'll catch you next time. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for downloading. Later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go.
Ka boom. 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 sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
hanging out in the audio dojo. It's the Fifth Hour
with Ben Maller and Danny Gee. And it is the
Sunday Bonus edition of The Fifth Hour, And that means
(00:44):
we get down and dirty. How about Ketty. The safety
net is off, Danny. We're gonna be bobbing and weaving
in the mailbox like Creed three. I saw that last
weekend at a theater. How was that? Did you have
popcorn when you went to the movies? Did you get snacks? Yeah?
(01:05):
We do popcorn and a slushy? Now did you mix
any chocolate with the popcorn? No? But last weekend we
did get a little thing of red vines to go
with the popcorn. Okay, yeah, Because I gotta tell you
the chocolate the sugar and the salt. You combine those together,
and it's chef's kiss, is what the Oh I know
(01:27):
my mom she used to make the popcorn at home
because she was a cheapo, and then she would take
ziplock bags and she'd put peanut Eminem's mixed with the popcorn,
seal it up, throw it at you and be like, here,
go to the movies. You fil the animal. That's a
good mom move. That's a solid because she your mom
realized that that is the magic. I've said this many times.
(01:50):
Olive cooking is just combining fat, salt, sugar, all those things,
like the proper mix. It's all you're doing in the kitchen.
But it's it's awesome. Oh man, it's so great that
that bliss point. Everyone's trying to find that bliss point
in eating. And if you do that, you got me
excited for a Sunday morning breakfast. As soon as we
(02:11):
get done with ask Ben two point zero. No no, no, no, no,
This is not asked Ben. This is the mail bag
we spill the beans, Danny. This is a much different
segment of radio. This sounds nothing like ask Ben. People do.
There's no confusion. If this were to go to the
Supreme Court. They would say, these are two totally different entities. Good,
(02:39):
don't don't look at me like that. I don't need
you to look at me like that. Okay, I'm telling you.
I can't emphasize that enough. I'm experienced, Dear Danny, I've
done this a couple of times, and I'm a savvy
better and this is a much different segment. Let's bring
in Ohio l. All right, it's my man Ohio awl
(03:16):
yet again, dazzling as always, the sound on the countryside
of Ohio al in the background leading us in. So
wherever we go, whatever po dunk backwater place we go
in the mailbag. Now, first up on the mailbag, Big
Greg in Iowa writes in. He says, dear Ben and
(03:38):
Daddy Danny g Daddy, although I prefer name that too.
Ruined Fox has the masked singer going on Wednesday nights,
Big Greg points out, and he then says, if they
were to ask through your bosses, of course, or who
(04:03):
whomever they'd reach out to to get in contact with you,
would you do the mass singer show? And he says, Ben,
how awful would it be to find a tall enough
outfit for you. Well, and this guy Greg gets it.
He knows that we are big stars in the Fox
(04:25):
universe and that we would be perfect. Like I would
get on there and i would do the jitterbug Foo Drizzle.
I'd start out now, I would I would start out
doing the jitterbug, I'd move into the Charleston and then
maybe if we had enough time, the chat chat chop
that would be. That would be how I would do it,
(04:46):
and it would be you imagine the hosts of that
show when they did your unveiling. They always shoot for
the moon with their guesses, Bradley Cooper, and then they
would take your mask off and they'd be like, who
the fuck is this? How the fuck this guy gets?
Get Fox A Security, Get this idiot out of here.
Who put this guy in here? Shame on you? And
(05:09):
but no, I'm the guy that did the dipsy, do
the docy, do the whole thing. Come on. That show
is for C list celebrities, not D list celebrities. Well
you you're very kind to say you're a D list.
I'm more of a z Z list generation. I was
calling you a D list. No, No, I'm below d
I'm I'm the Z. I'm the Z guy. I'm right
(05:32):
there at the very bottom. But thank you, Greg, I
would I would have a lot of fun. I'm not
a great dancer unless nobody knows who I am. If
I had a mask on and I was out there
just kind of doing my thing, and I think I'd
be a really good dancer if I thought no one
would ever find out that it was me in the costume.
(05:55):
Like we have to be like nineteen twenty style, like
New Year's Z for you. Well, I could do the
humpy you know, I could do the humpy dance. You know,
come on, pimping, got your tims off. Yeah, that was
modern when we were ten years old. About the name,
(06:15):
I could do the whip name, I can't do it.
That's you could do. What about the salsa? You want
to see me salsa dance? I could no? Thank you
all passed the samba? No anyway. Next up is Andy
(06:36):
from Hollywood in the Hood, in HollyHood, slap me around
a little bit. No, this is my guy and he
lives right near that Tommy's off the one on one.
I used to sit there and eat my right, that's right.
What's up Andy? My triple chili cheeseburgers and fries and
watch all the crazy drug down people come down from
(06:57):
the sunset trip and eat their burgers and fries and
all that in chili. And he says, howdy, gentlemen, have
not written in ages. Still diligently listen to the radio
show and obediently download all the casts, enjoy them all. However,
and he says, I am this is a quote. I'm incensed.
(07:18):
How dare you Ben encourage Roberto to delete the go
King Eddie drop. It is the connective tissue fusing the
different eras of the show and makes me laugh out
loud every time, no matter where I am, Go King
Eddie Go. He says, I love the the Mallarin Danige lifehacks,
(07:43):
like the chicken sauce dip from Costco. Well, that was
actually from Walmart. The chicken was from Costco. Yeah, rip
off Chick fil At sandwiches. Nobody emailed me to say
they tried that, so I guess nobody did. But the
sauce was from Walmart. The chicken sandwich was from Costco.
So he says, any other inflation busting your life enhancing pointers,
(08:07):
it might be a good fifth hour segment says, happy Spring.
That's Andy, our friend in the hood in Hollywood. Danny
got anything to save a couple of bucks. We usually
mention these things when they come up, right. Yeah, I
mean this is regional because I don't think Alpoyo Locos
all over the country. But you could probably do this
(08:28):
at a local chicken slash Mexican spot. Get there bean
and cheese burrito. There's the BRC burrito at Elpoyo Loco,
which is on the West Coast. And then I get
a chicken breast on the side, I peel the chicken,
put it in with their creamy cilantro sauce, and I
(08:48):
make my own chicken burrito and it is two dollars
cheaper than any chicken burrito on their menu. Oh that's
a pretty good move. I like that. I have. I've
heard some McDonald's hacks. I'll have to share. I'll have
to share some of the things I don't have on
top of my head. And yeah, I will definitely do
(09:12):
more of that, Andy, because we are tight wahs and
everyone's got to save a couple of bucks these days,
with the way the economy is and everything's so ridiculous.
I did hear a car hack, a rental car hack
that if you rent a car, you say you're renting
a car for a week, and they charge you, I
(09:34):
don't know, four hundred dollars for the week or something
like that, which is a probably a good deal these days.
Just the date. I've heard that sometimes what you can
do is you can adjust the date for a couple
of days extra that you don't even need the car.
It'll actually be cheaper. It'll be cheaper to rent the car.
And then what you do is when you're done with
(09:54):
the car, you turn the car in early and sometimes
I'll even give you a bigger discount. How crazy is that?
Like a reward almost? Yeah, Like you turned the car
in early and they're grateful and so they'll give you
a little extra money back. So that's that's kind of cool.
And I did get one of those travel cards where
you get points because we'll be doing a lot of
(10:17):
mini road trips and flights this year to different locations,
and so we've got one of those credit cards they
tell you to use I was reading up on it.
They tell you to use one credit card, have a
favorite airline, and only use that airline. That way, you
actually get some decent points. Otherwise not so much. Not
(10:39):
so much. Next up on the mailbag, Mike from Fullerton,
no relation to furg Dog says, last week, you guys
brought up Vinyl outselling CDs for the first time in
thirty five years. I thought that was pretty neat. So
I was wondering if either of you think VHS or
(11:01):
Beta Max will make a similar comeback against DVDs and
Blu rays. Ah. Did you hear what's going on with
Blockbuster Video? No, what happened perfect timing for Ferg. I
mean Mike's question here. Just a couple of days ago,
(11:21):
a story popped up about Blockbuster their website has come
back to life suddenly, and they put a message on
their website saying please be kind while we rewind. Oh,
there's lots of speculation out there. Does this mean they're
(11:43):
gonna start to open up more stores, because obviously they
went bankrupt just over a decade ago and there's only
one location left, which they did that documentary on in Bend, Oregon.
So either this is just a ploy and they're gonna
sell merchandise and stuff like that, or there's rumblings that
(12:04):
the retro movement like with vinyl, could come back with
video stores. I don't buy it. I'll tell you why,
because the DVD is a better quality than the VHS tape.
So why like the argument, I don't think they would
do VHS tapes there. They would probably do Blu Ray
I'm guessing. But even that is most people are just
(12:25):
streaming these days, right, isn't that the that's what everyone's doing? True?
But I would argue this, what's the last electronic device
that most of us own where we did watch movies,
and that's Blu Ray. Like I have a Blu Ray
player still with my TV gear. I still can't get
over the story that Blockbuster Video had a chance to
(12:47):
eliminate Netflix and they didn't. They didn't take advantage of it. Oh,
I know, talk about kicking yourself in the ass. For
how many years now, every night those executives got to
go to bed knowing they made one of the worst
decisions ever. That was one of the coolest things though,
when you'd go to Blockbuster Video and you'd find that
(13:08):
new movie and there was one left and you'd grab it,
you'd snatch it, and it's like, oh, that was the
coolest thing yet, or you would get one of the
employees to look through the return been oh yeah, yeah,
yeah that too, Yeah, that was awesome, And I was like, oh,
and the candy packages right at the front when you
were checking out solid good memories Blockbuster videos, like what
(13:29):
are you doing this weekend? We're going to Blockbuster to
find something to watch Blockbuster and chill. Then you'd get
there and they'd have no good fucking movies, so you'd
end up watching some old movie. But you're like, yeah,
that's all you had, And there was that distinct smell
inside every Blockbuster. Mike also says, have either of you
(13:49):
ever been drunk or high on the air before? I
think you can tell the truth on the fifth hour
without getting in trouble. So I've only been drunk on
the air one time, and I've told the story randomly
in the past. I haven't told a long time. This
is back in the late nineties. I was doing a
nighttime show in LA It was a new sports station
(14:14):
and we got preempted for Olympic women's hockey, which was
like a trial sport. It wasn't even like a real thing.
But the boss is like, oh, we're going to carry
the network feed and we wanted to do the show.
We were like, we know, who the hell in LA
wants to hear a women's hockey game on the radio.
And we were like, we want to do the show.
(14:35):
And he's like, NA, no, no, he's we're gonna carry this.
But the feed the Olympics were overseas. I don't remember
what country they were in, you can look it up.
But the guys, the boss at the time, this guy
Bow is like, all right, listen. He said, just kind
of you gotta be the station. You guys can go
out and have a nice meal. I'm probably not gonna
(14:55):
need you, but just be in the area in case
we need need to fill some time after the Olympic
coverage gets done. So we were like all right. And
this was in Burbank. We went to Dults, which is
a legendary. It's not there. It's been gone for many
many years, probably been gone for twenty years. But this
(15:16):
place was amazing. It was sandwiched right near Warner Brothers
studios that was on one side. On the other side
he had all the radio stations, all the big radio
stations in LA had studios and so it was all
radio people, TV people. This was back in the nineties.
I used to hang out there all the time. It
was like our local, our local spot. That's where I
(15:38):
first met Pat O'Brien. Pob Wow. We had a giant.
He was doing that entertainment show and he had a giant.
And this location wasn't that far from your favorite karaoke spot, right, Oh,
it was right down the street from Dimple's. Yeah, right
down the street. So this was back when Drew Carey
was big and sein fell like that area that era
(16:00):
of television, and a lot of the actors from those
shows and the people on the crew after they were
done taping, they would come hang out and have chicken fingers. Anyway,
long story short, So the boss is like, you just
hang out in the area. Well, the restaurant was in
the next building over these two skyscrapers. It was the
(16:21):
next building over. I say skyscrapers is Burbank, So they
were probably like fourteen stories whatever. But we went over
to the next building. We were eating and drinking and
and whatever, and then we were about to, you know,
go on our merry way and the boss called. It
wasn't even a text. This is back in the days.
We you call said, hey, I need you to get
(16:43):
back on. You gotta get back to the radio station.
I probably need you for about half an hour. Oh yeah.
So now we walked back across the street, you know,
and feeling feeling no pain. We get back across the street,
and I'll never forget the late Mark Smith, my engineer.
May he rest in peace. Mark. Mark was this interesting
(17:08):
character who, Yeah, he came from maybe the wrong part
of town, but for him, it was the great part
of town. And if we screwed something up, Mark was
the kind of engineer that would come in and he
had these massive fists. He was from Englewood, and he
would punch. He would literally punch us if we screwed up.
And it was the The Ben and Dave Show with
(17:30):
this guy Dave Smith. And I don't even remember what
was going on. All I know is that Mark kept
coming in and punching me in the arm and the
side of the head. I just kept finishing sentences with
curse words. Oh yeah, like I just I didn't realize
I was so I was so inebriated. I didn't know
(17:50):
what's going on. So that's the only time that happened.
What about you, Danny? Any stories going back I told
the story last week about being drunk on Saint Patty's
Day on the air, where I said Happy Mother's Day.
At the end, I've only been high on the air
one time on an FM station. Our general manager used
(18:10):
to tell all of us in staff meetings, He's like, look,
I'm not naive. I know you guys all smoke weed.
You do hip hop for a living. I get it,
But do not smoke right before you go on the microphone.
Smoke away from work, at the club, whatever, outside the club,
don't smoke outside the studio. Do not be high on
(18:31):
the air. You're not going to get good results. Smoke weed.
I didn't smoke a lot back then, but yeah, maybe
a couple of times a week. And I smoked at
one time because I was in pain a bad back
or something at the time, all right, from lifting all
those hoes at the club, and I smoked and went
(18:52):
on the air. I was having like blank spots where
I couldn't put together my next sentence. And remember bringing
the traffic girl in and she said, are you okay,
went into the restroom, splashed some cold water on my face.
Don't don't shit where you eat, right, And the same
(19:13):
thing obviously working with school and with kids, and we
would get tested. And so at that point I'm like, well,
I'm not going to smoke at all anymore because obviously,
you know, if you're gonna be tested and or you're
gonna be around kids, that's not a place to smoke either.
So basically, jobs took all the fun out of smoking
back in the day. Having a grow up, it's yeah boo,
(19:36):
Pierre writes in on the mail bag Pierre from the
Short Attention Span Theater. He says, guys, how devastated will
you be when they banned TikTok in the United States? So, Pierre,
on a scale of one to ten, I on devastation
the Mallard scale of devastation for TikTok possibly being banned,
I am at a solid minus one. I don't use TikTok.
(20:02):
It has no impact. I mean, I'm not on there.
The only time I see TikTok videos are when Pierre
sends them to me or some other listeners. Seriously, I'm
not I'm not in that world. Are you on TikTok? Danny?
You're not on there? No, But I do get links
from TikTok sent to me by Coveno all the time
from Covino and Rich. So once in a while there'll
(20:24):
be some sort of sports video or TMZ type video
and they're like, hey, we need the audio from this.
That is the only time I use TikTok. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not in that world of TikTok. But I know
Pierre Man. He's on there. He's going for it. He's
on there all the time. He loves the TikTok and
everything that they have to offer. He's doing the hokey
(20:48):
pokey and the whole thing. Next up Fred from Spring
Texas Everyboddy Fred Wrights and he says, Hi, there, you
said last week that you had the rights to Benny
versus the penny. Do you have the rights for in
the air everywhere? Fred? No, No, I do not. I
like the phrase. I've used it a lot. I don't
(21:08):
think I owned the rights to that. I don't know
that you can't own the rights of that. So the
answer is a big n oh. Hey, say, just keep
up the good work. Barry from Nashville Rights and says,
yo yo mo Benny. He says, you have been doing
the sports overnight for a long time. Would you ever
consider jumping from sports to a non sport old program.
(21:29):
For instance, if the hosting of the Coast to Coast
program became available, would you do that. I would love
to sit in on Coast to Coast one night. I
think that would be a lot of fun if they
ever needed someone to pinch it on Coast to Coast,
like on the weekends or something like that. If I know,
George does it during the week and then they've got
(21:50):
George Knapp and some other cats that fill it on
the weekends. But I would I think that would be
a lot of fun. What did you make of that
story last week where people report did those comment looking
things that were trailing each other in the sky? Yeah?
I think if I was on Coast to Coast I
could have done four hours on that. I could have like,
(22:10):
I totally could have knocked that out of the park.
But yeah, it wouldn't be fun to sit there with
some I feel like I do that anyway. I talk
to people that believe in a lot of that stuff,
and they just happened to be sports fans, you know
what I mean. Yeah, I was gonna say you could
have half of your regular callers still call in. Yeah,
I wouldn't be shocked at half our regular callers when
(22:32):
they get done calling our show, they call the coast
to coast. When they get done, they move over there. Yeah,
wouldn't shock me at all if that was what was
going on. Next up, Thank you Barry, though my man
Barry in the Music City. Ozzy was from Western Australia,
right since, says dear Ben big Ben and Daddy G.
I stuffed up and I think, well, he says, stuffed up,
(22:56):
And in the United States we say screwed up. In
Australia he says stuffed up. I says, I stuffed up,
And I didn't actually send my question last week. Bad
job by me. I did not hit the send button.
But here we go. You have started daylight savings time
over there, while good for me, I get one extra
hour of the Mallar Show and now only one of
(23:21):
Colvino and Richest Show due to work hours. So here
we go. Besides farmer not liking it, he says, or
so I think he means my farmers not liking it,
What is the funniest excuse for not having it? For example,
he says. Over here in Australia, Ozzia says I heard
(23:44):
with the extra hour of sunlight, my curtains will fade
or I will lose an hour of my life. Yeah,
so I don't know what you've heard, Danny. I've heard
that everyone's pretty much in agreement there is no need
for daylight savings time. We should just pick a time
(24:06):
and just go with it. But the reason they haven't
changed it is because a lot of the technology is
not designed for just one time, so it would be
a lot of work to fix the infrastructure, and it
would take several years to get her done. Allegedly, So
are you saying this is like the two K Millennium
(24:28):
two thousand was about to roll around, everybody freaked out.
The computers around the world are gonna crash. Yep, yep, yep.
Don't be in an elevator, don't be anywhere near anything computerizer,
You're gonna die. And then it happened, and nothing happened.
The late great Art Bell, the greatest overnight host of
(24:51):
all time, Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show.
In the lead up he did three years hand to God,
three years of show about how the world was going
to end, and it was all it was. We're all
doomed and it was because of that, and then it happened,
nothing bad happened, and then he just he just continued
to hunt it. He had, he had the show to do,
(25:13):
and that was that. So there you go, just pretend
like it never happened exactly, Kyrie and okase Wrights and
he says, how is it going, gentlemen? I love the Bennies.
He says, that we did the Bennies, says a couple
of Bennies shows. He says. It points out that you
guys care about your audience and it's a very unique
(25:33):
feature to give back to the fans and says, say thanks.
Kyrie says the mother Militia. I really appreciate it. Another
reason among countless others why you are the goat in
my eyes. Well, very kind, Kyrie. Anyway, would there be
ever be a fifth Hour Award show? Just wondering because
(25:54):
I cannot contribute to the main radio show like others can.
The dreaded day shift worker, he says, well, anyway, keep
up the great work as always much loved Kyrie. So yeah,
I don't think we're gonna do a Benny's version because
I don't like to steal material. Danny, as you know
from other other shows and other of course in the business.
(26:19):
So we won't do that. But I could add a
benny for the top fifth Hour contributor. Oh, that would
be cool. Actually, Yeah, like the person that contributed the
most content to the show, add a category for them,
and I think that would be That would be pretty neat.
Nick in Wisconsin, Right, since says Ben and Danny, g
(26:42):
you cannot use one of these for the rest of
your life. Would you rather not use toothpaste or not
use the odorant? He says, have a great Sunday. So
from Nick, I don't like that choice, or either of
those choices, because we've all been around that one person
who's allergic to deodorant for some reason, and that is
(27:06):
not a good space to be in. But then again,
I don't know about you, Ben, but if I don't
taste toothpaste in my mouth, I can't even sleep comfortably. Yeah,
I think your breath will not be right. And that's well,
we're both married, Danny. I don't know that we need
the odor I think the toothpaste is probably more more important.
(27:29):
How about this, Keep the deodorant and then just use
baking soda. Oh, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, yeah,
you could just use baking soda on your toothbrush. Sure,
for sure. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right she and she says, hello,
Ben and Danny. Gee, I think the Safari Kingdom segment
is a great addition. Maybe you can even include stories
(27:52):
of animal rescue groups. And she said, she sent me
a link here. I will consider it, Jennifer. As you know, Danny,
we are in the content business, so anywhere we can
get content for it. You know, we can even have
Clay Travis as a guest. Well, I have Clay's willing
to do it. Drum um, drum. Now. I gotta tell you, Danny,
(28:13):
back back in the day, I used to listen. I
was a little boy and I used to I used
to listen to this show called The Animal Thunderdome and
it was a great show and I loved it a lot.
And you know, so they had a lot of weird
animal stories. Anyway, Jennifer says, My question for you guys,
when you have a light bulbs start flickering in a
room and you know it doesn't have much longer to live,
(28:36):
do you change it right away or leave it until
the bulbs in the other in the other rooms flicker
and then change them all at once. Yeah. So, Jennifer,
here's the way I'll ask that. First of all, it
is annoying. We all have had that happen when the
light starts flickering. So my move is to look under
the kitchen sink where the light bulbs are stored, or
(29:00):
in the garage and see if we have lightbulbs. If
we have a light bulb, I will then immediately change
the light bulb. If we don't have any light bulb,
I'm not going down to lows or home depot. I
will wait for all the lights to go out before
I will then buy light bulbs. So that's my move.
What about you, Danny, I will one up you there
(29:22):
with what's more annoying, Jennifer, how about when the smoke
alarm needs new batteries. Oh I hate that, don't you
hate that stupid chirping sound it makes, And a lot
of times it is in a spot that is hard
to reach, like you need a ladder, and so people
(29:44):
will leave that sound there for a long time. It
drove me up a wall in my Burbank townhouse that
I had back in the day Finally it got to
the point where I went to poem Depot, bought a ladder,
went up, changed it, and then the next day I
went and returned the ladder because I need a ladder.
I have a wonderful story that just popped in my head,
(30:07):
and I think Jennifer will appreciate this happened. I was
doing a bonus show for w EI in Boston, so
you'll appreciate this, dandy. So I'm at the old Mallard Mansion,
which you were at a few times. I'm doing the
show and the goddamn smoke detector starts going off while
(30:28):
I'm on the air. In the background, you hear the
noise while I'm doing the show. So I then go
over to the smoke detector and I like try to
take the battery out. I can't get the thing off
the wall. So there's only a few minutes of commercials,
so I got to go back on the air and
again the background it was from your hot sports takes. Yeah,
(30:55):
I was burning up the thing. So the next commercial
break that we had, I went back and I turned
into the incredible Hulk and just ripped the thing off
the ceiling. We just ripped it down, and because it
was one of these smoke detectors that it had like
a battery that was inside, but it would not he
(31:17):
would not. You couldn't take it out. Once the thing died.
You just had to replace the whole thing, the whole unit.
So that some of them get stuck to walls because
of paint, and other ones, like you said, have the
internal battery and they're impossible to turn off. A lot
of people finally take wire cutters and just cut them
(31:37):
out of the wall. Oh yeah, that's terrible. What a
pain in the ass, What an absolute pain in the ass.
Amish J wrote and he says originally from Cincinnati but
currently reside in c Bus. What are your thoughts on
twin Peaks? He says, it's similar to Hooters and Tilted
(31:57):
Kilt and your favorite were walking favorite walking hiking trails
in the Greater metro parks of Phoenix. He says, I
just did a hike in the South Mountains recently and
attended two spring training games along with some NHL action
in Anaheim and Vegas. To see my sorry ass blue jackets,
(32:22):
he says, So yeah, I've not done any hiking in Phoenix.
I know in Tucson, not Tucson Tempe. There's some pretty
cool trails right around the Angels. I used to go
to Angels spring training. There was some cool cool things
there that I recall. But other than that, no, I
haven't done a lot of hiking in because I usually
(32:44):
go to Arizona other than this year. I usually went
in the summer and it's one hundred and twenty degrees.
You're not hiking in one hundred and twenty degrees. That's
not happening. So forget about that. Any comment on Twin
Peaks there you want chime in on that. Well, when
he said Twin Peaks, I thought about the Grand Tetons,
(33:05):
I did too, That's what I thought. He was. Wyoming
not only a beautiful mountain range, probably one of the
the most beautiful mountain ranges in all of the world,
but there is a great hiking trail at the base
of the Grand Tetons. It's Jenny Lake. So if you
ever get to go to Wyoming, if you ever get
to go through there to visit Yellowstone, make sure you
(33:27):
add that to your bucket list, and that Jenny Lake.
For a couple of hours, you walk around the base
of that lake, and it is just amazing because the
lake is beautiful. Then when you look up, you're looking
at the Grand Tetons. There you go. We had a guide.
Do you remember Steve Stillwell you were you were around
when he was at Fox Sports Radio. I don't know. Yeah,
(33:48):
still A left Fox Sports Radio to take a radio
job in Shyenne, Wyoming. Oh, beautiful area. Yeah, he went
there and still Well I love the guy. Yeah, just
a typical radio dude. He went there, and then once
he realized how much money the job paid, he didn't
stay very long. He quickly got out of there, and
(34:09):
they had him doing like five different radio stations for
That's the thing is that you want to talk about
mob pop operations that Montana, Well, you would be the
program director, the general manager, the morning Am drive guy,
you do afternoon drive, and then you do play by
play for high school sports and get paid less than
(34:31):
somebody working at Burger King. Yeah, the glamorous life of radio.
We had two more quick ones. Joe writes, and he says,
you have encouraged us to download your podcast. Is there
a difference in whether we download a podcast versus just
streaming it on demand? That's a good question. I don't
(34:53):
think there's a is there a difference on that If
you subscribe to the podcast, it'll download to your device
no matter matter what, even if you takes you a
while to get to it. Yeah. Obviously, if you're just
streaming on demand, then that's whatever you have time to
listen to in real time. So yeah, it's probably better
(35:13):
to subscribe that way. The whole library is they're waiting
for you. Yeah, and it listening live on the iHeart app,
for example. That's a wonderful thing because there are how
many thousands of iHeart radio stations and music stations on
that app. It's insane. It's biggest media, biggest audio company
(35:34):
out there. But Fox Sports Radio is always in the
top five. I say always. It's been that way for years.
That Fox Sports Radio is one of the five most
listened to audio streams on the iHeart app, which is yeah,
well it is incredible. A Big Lou writes in from
the LBC at last one. He says, well, Big Lou,
(35:56):
my man, Big Lue. This guy's is super fan. I
hope Big Lu can make soda. What can Big Lou
do for you? But A Fat sALS contributor to the show, yeah,
hockey guy. He's actually watched Eddie play hockey. He says, well,
you ever interview any mallor Militia members on the podcast?
Or must we wait until another pandemic? Well, big lou,
(36:20):
We're not that far away from another pandemic, trust me. No, No,
I've talked to you, Danny. We've thought about maybe having
a theme like a month where we pick some celebrities
in the mallor Militia and have them on and learn
what makes them tick and all that. I had Cowboy
on this podcast, I've had over there during the pandemic.
(36:41):
We put Doc Mike on. We can full of lists
and maybe you could put some Benny winners on. Yeah,
we could do that, But how do you whittle it down?
That's always the problem. There's so many people we have
to choose from, Like, how do you whittle it down?
And are they gonna be good? You know? I could
do an interview with Dick and Dayton. Yeah, but what
(37:03):
if that is right now you don't have a prize
for the Bennis. What if that is a prize for
winning a Benny. You win a Benny and you get
an invite to be on the Fifth Hour podcast. That's great.
You know, that's a wonderful idea. That's a carrot on
the stick. I like that. I'm gonna have to I
would not steal that, Danny, because as you know, I
do not steal ideas. That's perfect because then the competition
(37:29):
will get even more heated, because I want an hour
to myself being interviewed by the great Ben Mallard. Oh
that would be that is yeah, they would love that.
The guys that I get emails all the time, I
want to be on the fifth hour, this, that and
the other thing. That's a great idea. On that note, Danny,
a fitting end to the Sunday Mailbag podcast, the Last
Sunday without Baseball, real baseball and anything you want to sell,
(37:54):
anything you want to promote, you want to give out,
your cameo, your TikTok, any of that. No, just a
big thank you to everybody that participates in the podcast
and your live shows. You're gonna be back on tonight,
Monday afternoon Covino and Rich from two to four pm
on the West coast. That is, I don't know what
(38:14):
time is that five to seven in New York? Yeah,
five to seven. You get that going on and what
time is it in Tokyo? Do you know what time
it is in Tokyo? That would be eleven pm. Just
go with it. Yeah, I made that up. Yeah, they
listened to sports radio and Tokyo the way they watched
that World Baseball Classic. Oh dude, they there was like
(38:36):
fifty million people watching the WBC in Japan. There were
more people watching that than have ever watched the World
Series game. That's crazy. Yeah, they love their baseball more
than us. I like baseball, but I I geez. Anyway,
don't worry Mike Trout. He'll he'll strike out next time too.
(38:57):
He'll let you down. He'll break your heart. Trout. He
has a lifetime reservation at the Heartbreak Hotel. We'll get
out of here. Thank you, Danny. I'll be on tonight
eleven o'clock in the West and that is two am
in the East on all the big Fox sports radio stations,
and we'll catch you next time. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for downloading. Later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go.
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