March 27, 2022 • 53 mins
Ben Maller is in the podcast studio with Danny G. to have some fun with the mail bag, answering select P1 questions from the #MallerMilitia on this edition! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Danny G. @DannyGradio and Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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Maller starts right now, n N in the air everywhere
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Overnight Show. As we are in the air everywhere eight
days a week, and we thank you for supporting the podcast,
supporting the radio show, all of that. And this is
the Sunday mail Bag Danny G. This is a actacking,
spectacular podcast. My favorite podcast of the week, the Mailbag.
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So without further ado, are you ready Danny? Yeah, it
is a big day for the Mallard Militia. Big night
because tonight and Monday morning of course the Bennies. So
we have our steamers out just like Coop. I think
you found some bell bottoms in your closet. Yeah, well,
I was a kid, my mom, I have some photos
I found when I have you know, I went through
the stuff. I was a Bell Bottoms baby. I want
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you to know, Danny, I was a Bell Bottomed I
was that seventies show. Damn right. So we are ready,
here we go. Let's strike. I mean in the mailbag.
You know how we start the mailbag right here bag
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thanks to our buddy ohio Al who sent that one in.
We honor ohio Al every week with that little male ditty.
And let's get into you've got all right. First one
comes from moving man Matt Currently. He says he's in
Barstow but headed to Vegas. I wonder if he had
a taco from Del Taco, the famous Del Taco and Barstow.
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So it's original Del Taco, right or one of the Yeah,
that was one of the very first Del tacos. And
if you go there to this day, they put more
beans inside the burritos there. Yes, their claim to fame.
They have the Barstow menu. Yeah, the burritos like the
size of your head. Wow, if you don't know what
Del Taco is, because it's not all over the country.
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It's like Taco Bell, but it's the you know, yeah,
a little more Mexican? Is it more Mexican? I think
I think they those are gringo tacos, the crunchy tacos
that I like. There they are, but I think the
burritos are a little more Mexican. Movie Man Matt says,
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would you buy the Mallard billboard? It's currently for sale
and a new Mallard billboard will becoming a more luxurious one.
It is a piece of show history after all. Well,
that's very flattering, moving man, Matt, that you would think
that I would want to purchase that, Ay, that I
would want of course I would want it, be I
have nowhere to put it. It's massive. I can't put
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it anywhere and take up too much space. And see
I couldn't afford it. So other than that, uh, we
need somebody else to step up. But thank you for
the very kind offer. I do appreciate that, but unfortunately, uh,
can I do it now? He has a question for Danny.
Moving Man Matt says, what was the coolest thing about
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being able to get former President Donald Trump on the
phone for Clay when you did it? And tell that story, Danny.
For those that have not heard you were producing for
Clay Travis. You were the reason, part of the reason
that Clay became the new Rush Limball. You helped him,
he helps you vice versa. But when you were producing
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his show, you had some very interesting guests. And you've
got to do something that I'm very jealous of. To
talk to a president, the president of the United States
most powerful position, uh finger on the nuclear bombs and
you talked to this guy. What was that like? Yeah,
I haven't got to talk about that on our podcast. Uh,
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it was definitely scary that first time he called to
be answering the phone and knowing that our phone system
is not fool proof. I just totally assume that the
phones are not gonna work. So let's see how this goes,
and me the fool running the phone box. I turned
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on the lights extra bright in the studio because, as
you know, Ben Roberto and I like the lights to
be low in there, like mood lighting. Yes, I set
the mood in there when I'm in the studios. But
I turned the lights on him like I gotta see
what I'm doing. And then I was sweating it because
Clay's teasing this obviously all morning. I'm getting text messages
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from bosses that normally aren't awake at that time, texting
me if they are listening at that time. Usually I
don't hear from them. So I'm hearing from all these
different people. My phone is blowing up. I'm trying to
concentrate on the show that was live and what's going
on on the phone, and then Clay gets nervous, why
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do our phones not work? The crazy part, Ben was
that I figured that when the call did finally come
in during the time that the call was expected, that
you know, it would be like the guy in charge
of White House Communications, the secretary, somebody official, okay, stand
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by for the president. Because I had guests on that
show who were like senators and stuff like that, and
they even had press secretaries who would come on first
make sure the connection was good for the interview, and
then when it was time, they would say, okay, and
here's the senator, and then the senator would come on
the phone. In my mind, that's what I'm expecting. The
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phone's ringing, and in Clay's air, I tell him phones
ringing so he could mentally prepare to set up this
live interview. Now that it's time, I pick up the
phone and it's just Donald J. Trump himself on his soul.
Does he say like, hey, don't be rude. Did you
say that? So I'm like, you know, he answered Fox
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Sports Radio and he was like uh and he says
Danny and I say yeah, and he's like, this is
the president and it's great, right. So I'm like, holy
sh it, this guy just called me by my name.
Isn't a press secretary? What the hell? The best part is,
you know, Clay's doing this whole intro, getting the scene
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set and everything before he's gonna bring him on. So
Clay had told me, okay, you get him because Claire,
He's also thinking I'm on the phone with somebody official.
He's like when when he's ready, and he's the one
on the line, tell me in my ear. So now
instead of talking to a secretary, I'm actually shooting the
ship with the president. He's asking me about how the
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morning's go in, and it was the coolest thing. I'm
just like, hey, everything's good here, and I kind of
joke around with him and he's like, hey, because you
have the President on the phone, Clay definitely needs to
give you a raise. And I said, your lips to
God's Ears and we're kind of laughing about that, and
I tell him, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold
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and I'm gonna let Clay know you're ready. And he's like, okay,
thanks for having me. He's like, by the way, you
guys have a great show. I love it. So I
put him on hold, and Roberto's just kind of staring
at me, like what the fun is going on? So
I tell Clay, hey, he's ready, Clay brings him on
the air, does that interview with him. No matter what
your politics are, it's obviously super cool to have a
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sitting president live on your radio show, you know. And
most of these guys ben if they're if they're a
big shot, whether it's a coach, a big time athlete,
an actor, somebody like that. At the end, when the
host says thank you, and they say thank you and
they part ways, they'll just hang up. Yeah. I've had
people hang up in the middle of interviews, Danny, as
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you know on this podcast. I've interviewed people and right
in the middle I gotta go by. Uh. Sometimes I
don't even say by. They just hang up. When you're
producing a show and you have a guest. Usually they're gone,
Like you'll go to the phone and you'll pick it
up just to see and you'll say it's a courtesy.
There's a lot of times I'll pick up the phone
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and I'll say, hey, thanks again for joining us, and
nobody says anything because they're gone. Well, this time, I
pick up the phone and that's what I'm expecting. But
he stayed on the line, and so now he's talking
to me again after the interview, and he was like,
how was that was that? Was that what you needed?
Was that good? And I'm like, yeah, man, Clay loved
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it obviously, you know. And Clay is trying to talk
to me on the talkback system. Yeah. So I got
two conversations going at once, and Roberto tells Clay on
his talk back He's like, oh, he's still on the
phone with Danny right now. And Clay was like okay,
And so he talks to me for you know, maybe
thirty seconds afterwards. I'll come on the show again. You guys,
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let me know when you want to talk more college football,
because this was during COVID and a lot of that
conversation was how are they going to bring college football back?
It was just like twenty twenty early or when what
would you Yeah, so this was Pete Covid time, So
maybe summer of you know, I'll have to go back
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to look at the official date, but I know it
was when all that drama was going on with the
Pack twelve canceling. Okay, so then maybe we'll college football.
Heason is in October September, you know, around then. So
so they were fighting to get the big ten back, remember, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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Well that's when that was going on, and it was
really crazy. The second time he called, I was more
comfortable because I was like, well, he was cool with
me and he knew me, and Roberto and all those
guys teased me because we're in those commercials when Clay
was on the talk back, I hang up. I kind
of share with Clay off the air what the conversation
was like with him, and Clay's laughing. He's like, Wow,
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that's cool that he just called on his own phone
like that. I want to talk about that on the
air when we come back for the final segment. And
I was like, all right, cool. So we come back,
Clay's laughing about how he called himself and he goes
to me, and he's like, Danny, what was that like
answering the phone? And I told him how nervous I
was to accidentally hang up on the president, And and
then Clay was like and supposedly he said that you
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deserved to raise. I share exactly what happened, like I
just did with you, and Roberto's laughing. Roberto's like yeah right,
And so Clay goes around the horn. He's like, let
me go around the horn, Eddie, do you believe the
president said that? And he's like nope, and he's like
Roberto and Roberto is like, yeah, well, how convenient that
it was on one side of the phone and none
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of us could hear it. Yeah? Right, And so Clay said, hey,
if he does ever join the show again, I'm gonna
ask him if he really said that. So that second
time Trump called the show, Clay asked him, did you
tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise
when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get
the president, but you really do. You have a great show,
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and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the
president of the phone, you deserve a raise. I haven't
done too many of these calls. That's great, that's awesome.
It was the all time radio stories that I I listened.
I remember we were doing the over Night showed. That
was back before I did it from home, and we
hadn't made the transition, and people are like, oh, Trump's
gonna be on and I was like, oh wow, that's
like I had to I couldn't believe it. I thought
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there's no way they were rumors. And then it actually
turned out to be the case. So that was awesome.
That's great. All right, that is a wonderful answer. Thank you,
moving Man, Matt. Moving Man. Matt was part of that
trucker convoy. He sent some photos out. He was around
d C. All Right, what is next? Helen and stew
from palmetto Bay, Florida. Very controversial couple, say Ben and
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Danny Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Ain't no party like the
Fifth Hour Party. This week's letter includes a joke, a
few quick comments, and a question. Let's get to it.
The letter begins, STU, over this, over this for a week?
Bitch uh? He begins, question, what does that one sex
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toy insult trick pony living in Montana get told? On
the tenth of every month Uh. The answer the rent
was due on the first wow, Helen is feisty says
Bruce Jenner was back in the n c A a
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trans swimmer news this week. We missed that guy. Looking back,
he should have told us, given us a chance to
say goodbye by going on a year long farewell tour.
Shout out to our favorite comic Bill Burr, who, as
a big sports fan living in l A, should be
a future guest on the fifth hour. Do you have
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a contact for Bill Burr? Can we get him on
the podcast? But he do the podcast. He's a big,
big name in comedy. Would even come on a podcast
like this? I have no idea we can ask, right,
doesn't uh? And the message continues, Ben jellyfish have survived
six fifty million years without brains. Great news for Fox
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Sports Radio executives who failed to promote you to Clay
Travis's time Slide. Well, very kind, very kind, Helen. But
as I have said many times, the kind of show
that I do overnight, I would not be allowed to
do if I was in a morning time slot. They
would just not allow it. The corporate muckety MUCKs would interfere.
They would put their foot down and say, well, what
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are you talking to a guy from Brooklyn who eats
chef boy Ard for ten minutes? What's wrong with you? Uh?
And and why are you talking to a guy in
Maine who this is like a whack of doodle? What's
up with that? So? Yeah, but I do appreciate the
kind words telling fun facts. Helen says an autopsy showed
that cocaine used contributed to the heart disease that suddenly
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killed TV pitchman Billy Mays. As a reminder, it's one
Benny Awards ballot time. Please vote now for Danny g
as the best crew fill in. So a badge of
honor for you. And Helen also says, Ben, your natural
weight loss of two hundred pounds and keeping that weight
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off remains inspirational and legendary. Question. Who's the biggest cheater?
Whether man Al Roker celebrating his this this week twenty
years since his gastric bypass surgery or the cheating stros Well, Helen,
you know the answer to that. I've never met Al Roker.
I've seen him on TV many times, but I was
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at the seventeen World Series and flow with them astros.
That's what I have to say that's right, all right,
it's a podcast, Danny. I can say that. You can
bleep it out if you want. I don't care, all right,
So thank you, Helen and Stuke. Kevin in Kansas writes
in says, dear Benn and Danny, g it's severe weather
season again. Here in the Great Plains. We get dust storms, blizzards,
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and tornadoes. Any memorable encounters with any of these situations.
I've never been in a tornado. I've never been in
a blizzard. Well, actually, I've been in some nasty snowstorms.
I didn't think it was like a blizzard on the
East Coat. I've got a Boston and New York whatnot.
I've been in some nasty weather, but not really a
real blizzard. Uh. And also also the dust. M I
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have been in a dust storm before, but not like
a real Great Plains dust storm. So that one I
was driving in the desert and that was a little
little wacky a desert storm, which I think was it.
Does it qualifies as a dust a dust storm? What
about you, Danny? Have you been in any of those things.
I've seen a tornado in northern California. They're rare and
they're not as big as the tornadoes that you might
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see in other parts of the country. But my family
when I was a kid, we were in the l
A area. Then we moved up to northern California, where
my mom is from in the San Jose area, but she,
because of money, settled in the Modesto area. So that's
right when northern California begins. But the central part of
the state, and I'll never forget. We were at Brown
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Elementary School playing basketball. My little sister came running and
she's like, you guys, gotta come home. Mom says, you
gotta come home because of the tornado. Like tornado, what
the fund is he talking about? So we get to
the front of our house us and from there you
you had a view towards the west end of the
town and you saw just an ominous sky and a
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tornado from a far distance that was some scary looking ship,
and people were jumping in their cars and driving the
other direction. I remember my mom like throwing my little
baby sister into our car seat, getting everybody into the
car and driving the other direction. And it was on
the news that night and everything. I think it tore
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up some part of the town on the outskirts, but
it didn't make its way into the city. Yeah, but
it's the only time I've ever seen anything like that.
But dude, people that live in the part of the
country where they see that often or they've seen it
more than once in their life. Yeah, that's something that
I think would follow you around in your nightmares. The
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worst weather I've ever been in was in Buffalo. But
it wasn't snow. It was rain. There was like a
storm that was passing through Buffalo. Because of the lake,
it added to the water. It was so bad. I
was on the highway and driving out of Buffalo. I
was at a Bills game and I had to stop.
We could not see where we were going. We had
to stop on this expressway and I was just waiting
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for a car to hit. It hit us from behind.
It was surreal. I'd never see I didn't know it
could rain that much. I'm used to California rain. This
was so ridunculous. Oh yeah, it was. It was nuts.
It was the most ridiculous thing. I thought I was
gonna drown, and then it passed and just kept going
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like nothing happened. That was it. You know, it's water everywhere.
Fred from Spring, Texas right and says, Hi, guys, can
either of you drive a stick shift auto? Have you
ever owned a convertible? What is your current car? Well,
I have the Mallardmobile. I have the fourth or fifth
generation of the Mallanmobile, which is like the Batmobile's Mallanmobile.
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I do not know how to dravistick shift, and I
have never owned a convertible. I have had cars that
have sun roofs that I consider a fat guys convertible.
What about your diddy? Yeah, we've talked about cars on
this podcast before. I loved hot wheels and I loved
fast cars. When I was a kid, I had a
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poster of a Ferrari, so I thought, Man, when I
get my license and I get a job, I'm gonna
get a fast car. So the second car I bought,
because the first one was a beater. The second one, though,
was a turbo and it was super fast. After that,
later in life, I was able to buy a convertible
Mercedes Benz, which was nice. Got in a wreck. The
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insurance company, as you can guess, did not give me
my full value back. Of course, yes, that Mercedes Benz
turned into a Nissan, but with those Nissans. Man, I
found the three seventi z s and those have been
my favorite cars the past few years. I'm on my
second one right now. It's a Heritage Edition, really fast
and it is it is a clutch, it's a six speed,
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and man, I mean when I have open road, that
thing flies. It sucks to drive and bumper to bumper traffic,
but on an open road it's a beauty. Now do
you drive your cars into the ground or do you
just before that, go and get a new car, because
I I have lately been driving cars in the ground.
That's my new thing. I take really really good care
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of my cars. Every week. I make sure it's washed.
Every week. I clean out the inside. My car right
now is four and a half years old, and when
people see it, they think I just bought it recently.
So that's my trink. It's just keep it, man, treat
it like a palace. That way. If I do want
to trade it in, you can get top dollars for it. No,
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that's great. And I used to try to take really
good care of the cars and then I got married.
Well now and now it's just the ugly redheaded step child.
The car. It just gets beaten up. I used to
never eat in car. I've never eaten the car. I
would never you know, drink anything of like soda or
anything like that. When I backed my soda drinking days
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because I don't want to spill any uh. My wife, though,
has a different perspective on that. She is open minded,
and so that I lost that battle. But that's anyway.
Next up, Alan and akeron Ohio birthplace of Lebron and
Steph Kurt. Yeah, how did your diet change after you
had your gallbladder removed? Was there any other lifestyle changes? Alan, So,
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I had my gall bladder taken out November three, twenty nineteen.
I believe it was and I have not really changed
my diet. I do inter minute fasting, so I don't
eat as often as other people that have had their
gallbladder taken out. And I have noticed with the inter
minute fasting, when I go a long time without eating
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and then I eat something, it's off to the races.
After I eat, I within about forty five minutes to
an hour. It's shipped creak is what it is. They're
ship's creek. It's a lot of pooping and all that stuff.
But I really haven't changed my diet. I eat many
of the same things I've always eaten. I've heard stories
that some people can it's different for everybody, but I've
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been pretty lucky and out of sight, out of mind,
I don't think about it. I a gall black is
very small. Then he can't see I'm I'm showing you.
It's like very small the actual gall bladder. Now, how
did you know you needed it taken out? Did you
have bloating? Like? What are the signs that you need
that thing out? Well? I almost died, Actually, I had
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gall stones. I did not realize they were goal stones.
I thought it was heartburk. I had multiple incidents where
I felt like pain in my chest and I thought
it was just I had eaten, and it was always
after I had eaten a really big meal, which is
the gall bladder. But I didn't put two and two together,
and so finally I had a massive attack where I
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couldn't clear the gulf stones and I couldn't sleep. I
was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't drink anything,
I couldn't eat anything. It was just it was terrible.
I thought I was dying, and so I went to
the emergency room and they gave me some was it
morphine I think it was, and within ten minutes it
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cleared the gold stones out and I was I was
all right. But then I had to stay in the
hospital because I had so many gold stones. They wanted
to do the operation. Usually the operations in and out,
you're done within a few hours, you're back home. But
I was so fooled up from all of the gulf
stones and they were really tiny gull stones that had
gone all over the place. So I had to stay
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for a week. I was like in a hospital for
almost a week because they had to wait because they
couldn't do the operation because they had to wait for
everything to kind of clear. And so then I had
had the procedure done, and yeah, it was pretty wild man,
pretty pretty well. It was done on November three, but
I was in the hospital a few days before that.
And the longest fast I ever had, because I was
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on a fast, I went, God, how many hours was it?
I think it was it was like nineties something hours
or something like that without eating anything. So yeah, good times.
I don't know how you do the fasting. I would
get so hungry that by the time I got to food,
I think I would overeat. Nah, I'm all right, I'd
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see one hearty meal and that's it. Falls Fan Jimmy
from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, beat that's right.
Uh oh, that's I'm sorry, bad job, but I have
not been playing that. I got so curried away talking.
It's a bad job by me. There you go, all right,
sorry balls, fan Jimmy, I gotta play. I gotta play
all of them now because I didn't play a bad job.
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What is up? I have this toy here come back
gets time from no call? I got Mayo? Yeah, I
got Mayo. Yeah, you've got Mayo? Played them all valls.
Fan Jimmy Faville, Tennessee says, man, are you planning on
having the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If so,
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will the guest list be slimmed down? Danny G. What
was the last concert you have been to? I'm going
Saturday night to Nashville to see Snoop Dogg, ice Cube
too short and Warren G. Yeah that uh so, I'll
answer that. I plan on having the ugly uh Sweater
party again. We did not do it the last by
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the last couple of years we have not done it
because of the COVID stuff. I hope to bring it back.
It seems like the world's more open to that and
people are back to normal, and I'd like to do that.
I don't know that anyone's gonna show up. I live
in the north Woods now, it's very far and with
the price of gas and all that. But we will
invite many people, and hopefully many will be able to
make it. We'll have a great night, a very memorable
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night with all my my friends and our friends from
radio and people that have met over the years that
are people I like. So hopefully Danny you can make it.
We can meet your TENDERRONI hopefully I'll meet a meet
her before then. Yeah, and so yeah, that's the plan.
What and Dan, was the last concert you you've gotten to?
That's Jimmy's question for you. Let's see. Oh, speaking of her,
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she brought me to see Kane Brown at the Staple
What it was the Staple Center then and we had
to show vaccine cards to get in. And uh, it
was a good concert. Though he is a biracial country star,
it's modern country music. In fact, he even has had
a couple of hits on Top forty radio. If you
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don't know who came brown is, google them. Just google him.
That's all you have. Just google them. Yeah, as our
buddy Mike North used to say, just google them, Um
say you kids, just google. Yes, we don't need to
bring Jonas in and uh boy. The last hip hop
concert I went to, It's been a little while for
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hip hop, but I got to see Bone Thugs and
Harmony do a little reunion concert. And that's and speak.
You know, Modesto, like I was talking about a little
earlier on the podcast, when I went to school there, Ben,
I was a city kid from southern California reuniting with
my San Jose family in the Bay. And when you
would go to the Central Valley in Modesto, in that area,
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the kids there, they had a Garth Brooks CD and
a Doctor dre CD. It was interesting. It was like
kids wanted to go to a Snoop Dogg concert and
they also wanted to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Okay,
I was like a country concert. Who's your favorite, Who's
your who's your favorite country star? That Dirty Boots and
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that's followed me all through my adult life. Um, you know,
I love to go see country concerts and I love
to go see hip hop concerts. Yeah. I watched that
country documentary a few years ago on PBS. Don't if
you saw that. I did. I was told by somebody
that it's it was about radio, and it is a
lot about radio and the radio business and how related.
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And they were intertwined country music. Very good documentary by PBS.
They really nailed that one. And I fell in love
with all those old country music songs like I loved
every one of them. In fact, that's in my rotation now,
many of those old old school country music songs from
the grand old opry. Yeah, wonderful. Well you're a Johnny
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Cash fan just like Yeah, I love Johnny Cash absolutely
all right, thank you for that, and enjoy that concert. Yeah,
I have a good time. How much do you think
Snoop Dogg gets paid for that? Do you think he
gets out of that? Probably gets a cool dollars for
a little live show for one day's work. You've got mail,
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all right, next time we stay in the state of Tennessee,
j C represent the entire volunteer state, says, Hey, Ben,
I write you today because I cannot stand Dan Wilkin.
The man seems to hate sports, but for some reason
he works in sports journalism. He was one of them
that seemed to think that if sports came back while
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COVID was happening, that everyone would die. His sports takes
are so bad that I can just read the headline
of an article and no, it was written by Doo Doo,
Dan the Igluman. In all your years working in sports
talk radio, have you ever come across a radio host
or a sports journalist that had such awful sports takes
(29:29):
that it just made you dislike them as a person. Uh. Yeah,
there's been a lot of disingenuous people. I have been
able to see how they make the hot dogs. And yeah,
the idea that people are a certain way, both athletes
and members of the media that are one way publicly
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and complete assholes, completely phony and you know it, but
you're one of the few people that knows it. And
it's very it's very eye opening and disappointing at the
same time, because you hear about people one way and
then you see them the other way and you're like, well,
that guy's got a great reputation. He's a complete dick,
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you know, I don't get it. So there was and
Dan Wilkins a legend for being fear is mongering, fearmongering,
Sky is falling, Chicken little. This guy has been doing
that act for a long time. I don't know Dan Wilkin,
but all I all I hear about him is really
bad things. His reputation is not very good. Yeah, there's
one other guy that comes to mind for me, and
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that's Mike Florio. Oh the they call him the Nanny
Mike Florio. Yeah. Yeah. I had a personal run in
with him at the Atlanta super Bowl radio row. We
had set Kwan Barkley scheduled to join Clay Travis on stage.
Him and his posse rolled in and Clay was in
the middle of another interview. But I thought, oh, they're
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here a little bit early, you know, so I'll get
him ready. I'll sit him in our little green room
here off to the side of our stage. He does
a bee line though, and he goes over to Florio set,
and I'm like, okay, well that's all right, but it's
gonna make him run late to his interview time with us.
So I go over to Florio set. He's got these
weenie bodyguards over there. They tell me I'm not allowed there,
(31:17):
and I said, you have my guest right now, I
am allowed right here. So I get into it with
his guys on the set there and and uh, Florio
walks over to me and he says, yeah, say, Kwan
is gonna join us on the stage, so you really
need to talk to his manager because he's probably not
gonna get over to your set on time. And I
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was like, this little dick, all right. So I get
to say Kwan's manager, and I'm like, Hey, here's the deal.
I'm not trying to be threatening or anything like that,
but if you piss off Fox Sports Radio, which is
the number one sports network right now, does that make
sense just to appease Florio and his little audience and
the man you're kind of looked at me and he
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was like, all right, well tell you what. I'm gonna
cut it short with him and we'll get over to
you on time, maybe two minutes late. So I go
over there, running more late than that. I'm like, oh,
these assholes. So I go over there. I don't have
to say anything the second time, though, Ben I just
ice grill Florio and the manager, and so Florio says
goodbye to say Quon on the set and they run
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him over to Clay Talk. And so anytime I see
that guy on TV, I'm like, funk that Florio guy.
And of course a lot of people don't like him
because he comes off really grouchy on the air. Yeah,
it seems like he's in a bad mood all the time.
And whenever I see radio or TV guys I like
to feel like And that's one thing I can say
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about Cowherd what I like about him. I feel like
he's in a good mood. What I see or hear
guys that always feel like they're in a bad mood,
it doesn't make me want to tune in. Yeah, I
have not dealt with Actually knew Florio a little bit
for he became like the Mike for there. He was
partnered up with a couple other guys on the original
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Pro Football Talk before he partnered up with NBC. And
back when I was doing Ben Mallory dot Com. He
he was a lawyer, I believe I think he was
a lawyer and he was messing around with the internet
stuff and it was it was a rumor sight. I
was doing a rumor site. So we were competing against
each other for eyeballs back in those days. Uh. And
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just to follow up with j C, there is a
baseball insider. I will not reveal the baseball inside because
I'm still working. Who was a is a complete asshole,
very short baseball writer. They're all short, though, they're all
fun size to these baseball writers who comes across one
way on television and then uh, it's a complete Uh
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hell you go any further than that. So thank you
j C. That is a good behind the scenes question. Yes,
thank you, j C. We'd appreciate that. And the mail
bag continues. Never is this, No, it is never that.
It is always exciting, fascinating and all of that. So
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who is next? You've got mail? Alright, let's see here
we have Pierre, our buddy in Springfield, mass Home with
a pro basketball Hall of Fame. Pierre says, paper or plastic.
When the world shut down two years ago, local grocery
stores in Springfield implemented a reusable bag policy, which seems
less hygienic to me. Shortly thereafter, one local chain started
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to offer paper bags for a fee of ten cents.
Much like you, Ben, I steadfastly refused to pay for bags,
sometimes carrying my groceries by hand. Unfortunately, lately I have
caved and as you know, Ben, those pickle jars can
get very heavy and the paper bags aren't very strong. Well,
that is a pickle problem. It's a real pickle pickle
(34:55):
to be in, Pierre, I'm right there. As I've talked
about this before, I do. I cannot stand the paper
bag policy in California, the plastic bag, paper bag policy,
the charge for the bag, complete rip off, complete scam.
I also don't like bringing bags. I usually forget to
bring the bags to the grocery store, so I have
made many a run where I'm holding my groceries like
(35:18):
a baby or a football going to the parking lot.
I've also done the trick where I'll get a grocery
cart and I'll just leave everything in the cart and
have them put it back in the cart and then
take it take it away. So I've done that, you know,
take it to the car that way. But I usually
forget the bag. It's a pain in the ass and
I would rather just buy a plast a new reusable
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bag than spend the money on the disposable bag at
the store. Because I feel like it's just a waste, Like,
what's the point. I might as well invest towards the
new bag. Then I'm going to get So I hated,
I hated, I hated, and it's not fixing the environment
at all. So stop, okay, stop with your nonsense. Ridiculous anyway,
Travis from Roseberg, Oregon rights in. As we continue the
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amazing mail bang, Travis says, how close were you coming
to the dark side to those delicious bacon wrap hot
dogs at the big Game? Well, that happens every time,
she said, Like, I don't eat the bacon, I eat
turkey bacon. I eat the pig, the swine, and it
smells amazing. In every time I've gone to a sport
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ingum it in l A. If I get out, if
I leave the game and there's still people mulling abound
around the stadium or the whatever venue it is, there's
these brigades of folks who are selling hot dogs bacon wrap.
Talk's amazing. There must be like a secret meeting place
bacon wrap hot dog people all get together and they
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dropped them off with their carts and and they're not griddles,
they're just like rolling carts with aluminum foil on them. Yeah,
bacon wrap. It's like gold, all right, when you grow
up with limited a limited budget. So there would be
times where I would smell bacon and I would think,
oh my god, we're rich right now, We're rich. And
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she would cook it almost burned where it would snap
like that, and Ben, my stepdad, would eat almost all
of it. And I would get so pissed because I
got a couple of pieces and that was it. And
so one of my things in my mind, I was like,
when I grow up, I gotta be rich because I
gotta be able to buy bacon. I'm look at you now,
(37:35):
you're a big radio star. Yeah, so your congratulations. You've
made it. I have bacon at least twice a year.
All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from now.
Call Chris from Falling Waters Rest, Virginia, right below Haggerstown, Maryland. Hey, Gerstown, Maryland,
where the truck convoy has been camping out. Chris says,
(37:57):
my question this week is have you ever regretted saying
something on the air? Maybe you made someone but hurt
by a comment. No, I've never regretted anything I've said.
I have been stunned by the reactions I've gotten over
things I've said that I don't believe are controversial. The
people that took offense the things I said blows me away.
(38:22):
The angry messages I get from certain people who we'll
say in the same email, Danny, that's why you're on Overnight.
Your show sucks, but I'm offended by X, Y and Z.
So to me, though, you're you're you're doing two separate
things here. You're telling me I'm irrelevant and I don't
listen to your show, but you are so offended by
(38:46):
what I said. Yeah, that's my response to that. What
about you, Danny? Who is the will one follow up
question for you? Yeah? Who is the most famous person
to get offended by something you said? Would that be
Deshaun Uh? Deshaun is on the list. I would say
the commissioner of Major League Baseball would probably be higher
(39:08):
up on the list of at that he's on there.
William Shatner, of course, we had the spats with Shats.
He's an all time timeless guy. Number of Dodger players
over the years. I had Ralph Lawlor, who was the
Clipper broadcaster, and I'm like Mr Clipper fanboy. Ralph got
so upset with me when I ripped Michael olivera Candy
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uh famous bust in Clipper history. And I was doing
a midday show in l A the Clippers draft of
this guy, and I knew within five games, Danny, this
guy was a giant turd. This guy couldn't play. And
you just know, you just know he's had a feeling.
This guy is terrible, very rarely. Are you wrong? And
(39:55):
I I laid into that guy, said what are the
Clippers doing with this guy? And Ralph came up to me.
It was at the great Western Forum before a Clipper
Laker game, and he saw me in the bowels of
the great Western Forum and he read me the Riot
Act and he said, you are so wrong. This guy's
gonna be an all time I've told the story before.
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We had Lee Klein on and Lee was there, he
was a witness to it. And and and Ralph promised
that older Candy was gonna be an NBA All Star
within a couple of years, and if not, he was
gonna kiss my ass at center court at Staples or not,
but became Staples. It was that the it was at
Sports Rainy and Uh, needless to say that never happened,
(40:37):
and Ralph. Ralph would always kid around, Well, maybe it'll
happen next week. You never know, it might happen next week.
He's retired now he lives in Florida part of the year,
lives in Oregon. But he's on the list. There's a
bunch of other ones. So what about you, Denny. You've
been on the radio a long time. Anything you say that,
you're like, oh, I wish I could have that back. Well,
I'm like you, I don't think so. I had a
run in with rapper mac Chen when I was doing
(40:59):
that FAM radio also boxer Fernando Vargas. Those both turned
out okay in the end. And then I guess staff members,
like we talked about this on the podcast one time,
how you and I talked about another staff member and
got in trouble. Yeah, but it's just all in fun.
When you do radio, you know, sometimes you get in
(41:20):
a groove. And I think that's one good thing about
your show is that it's its own little world, and
you almost forget that you're broadcasting too. You know, almost
five hundred affiliates across the country. You don't think like that,
You're you're just in the moment and you're in your
little bubble, your little world, and so we're talking to you,
(41:41):
we're talking to one person. We're not thinking about all
the people listening. And I think that's how we could
get into trouble sometimes. Yeah, I know, I completely agree
with you. You're just you're like, oh, we're just doing
this in fun, even though we're busting balls. That's what
we do. We're men. We bust balls. That's when the
women on the show do the same thing. The bust balls.
That's how we operate there. It's fun to listen to.
(42:02):
So to us, we're not doing anything wrong. We're doing
what people want well. And then you've got people that
come in from the outside that aren't regulars and they're
like stop it. You know, they get very upset. Yeah,
they get complain and all that. I'm like, well, we're
just having a good time. We're just having being so sensitive. Yeah,
it's like the drop that we used to play about
the the knuckleball pitchers Joe and Phil forget their last name,
(42:27):
and people would hear that, but all those negroes look
the same. And I would get angry emails from people
who meant well and they were convinced that I had said, uh,
something I didn't say, because it sounded kind of like that.
And people, as we know Danny from being in the
business a long time, even the most engaged listener is
(42:50):
only hearing about of what we're saying and and the
rest of it's just kind of going away and and
all that. And so people listen with half in the
year and they think they hear or something, and then
I get the nasty email. So he didn't stop playing
that because people were calling up complaining because they were
convinced that I had said the thing that I didn't say.
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God bless unfiltered podcasting because I could play it on
this show and get no blowback. I don't know about that.
And all it takes is one person. All it takes
is one person. But the FCC doesn't regulate podcasting. Oh
that is true. It's like cable television. It's radio's version
of cable television. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
(43:33):
Next one's from Adrian in the Mile High City. He's
back Ben and Danny G has been a while, Yes
it has. Adrian. I wonder what happened. I thought you
were offended or something like that, but it sounds like
you're not. I'm happy to return to the Sunday Sunday
Sunday mail Bag. The last few months have been busy
at my job, so, as my man Marcel says, let's
(43:53):
get into it. Adrian rights. First off, Danny g has
been a breath of fresh Mountain air, compre heir to
that narcissist West of the four oh five guy. How's
Gascon doing? By the way, nice, he's the same West
of the four oh five snotty. I was texting him
last night. We were texting about something and he's I
guess he's doing some good play by play jobs. He
(44:14):
was telling me he's doing some FS one stuff and
even working some games. He's a freelancer, so we'll do
some games for ESPN, and he was very braggadosh just
West of the four oh five. He's talking about travels
he's gonna make, going to different parts of the country
to do play by play gigs. So he seems very
happy about that. He's doing well, Adrian continues. In November,
my wife and I made the trip to Dallas to
(44:36):
watch the Broncos take on the Cowboys at Jerry's World.
The stadium is huge, and we were like a couple
of peacocks strunning out out of there with the w Yett.
I was one of the great surprises of the NFL season,
the Broncos beating those Cowboys, and that set the Cowboys
on a sideways stretch of games. He says. The Ben
Mallard T shirt made the trip to Dallas, and I
(44:57):
was walking around a T n T stadium repping the
show before putting my Bronco jersey over it at game time.
Good job, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. Marketing Guerilla marketing,
Adrian says, bring Benny versus the Penny back this fall.
A lot of good advice and good money to be made.
We'll see what happens with Benny versus the Penny. I
(45:18):
had to stop doing it because I had the COVID.
It seems like something always pops up, something life always
gets in the way of your plans. Danny, It's it's
always something. The year before, my pops passed away, so
I had to stopped doing it, and this past year
it was the COVID. Anyway, says Ramad all day, ramadall night.
Congrats Ben on the Rams Super Bowl Championship in February
(45:39):
and Rama Night and how far can Mr Unlimited take
the Broncos in the highly competitive a f C West.
The In and Out Burger and Raising Canes are both
open for business in the city I live in here
in Colorado. They are next door neighbors to each other.
The double double, no onion can nat combo, no slaw
(46:01):
extra fies are might go tibes. What about the animal
style fries with the double double? What about that? Have
you gone that direction? Adrian? Answer that question. I've noticed
that the people that run the Raising Canes franchise they're
very smart, shocking most at least where I am, and
(46:22):
I've been to Raising Canes in multiple cities around the country.
It always seems to be the Raising Canes location is
right next to Chick fil A and In and Out
like they're those three. It's like the the axis of
food is uh, the access of great food right there.
And it's really smart to put a chicken joint next
(46:43):
to Raising cans because you'd say that would be dumb,
But one day a week you have a competitive advantage
over Chick fil A if you're raising canes because they're
not open on something so anyone that's going out. A
lot of people forget that Chick fil A is not
open on Sunday, and they go to get their Chick
fil A on Sunday. They can't get there. They're fixed.
So they wait a minute. There's a raising canes right here.
(47:04):
Let me give them a try, and boom, you got
a new customer. Just like that. Good marketing it is.
Adrian also says, lastly, I still say, how about that
when my wife and I get into a friendly argument
about chores about the house, says I swept the floors
and took out the trash. How about that if the
kids are down one, two or all three, yell out
(47:27):
Ben Maller in the house. How about that you got
the kids trained. My wife gets so annoyed, but I
think it's the funniest thing. Well, thank you, Adrian, very kind,
appreciate it. Just keep the podcast coming and good to
have you back on the long email. And I have
big plans to travel. I don't have any time to
do it, but I'd love to get to Denver and
(47:47):
meet you Adrian and have the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich.
Of course that's available there. Next up, as we continue
the mails. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, I've been
listening to you since and I remember Coop eating the
scoop of vasoline, probably the best segment on radio ever. Anyways,
(48:10):
when are the Bennies whether this weekend? We've already talked
about in the NFL Book, the NFL Book him, I
keep pushing back. I don't know why we haven't done it.
It's not like it's been postponed. Nobody's told us we
can't do it, but something always seems to come up,
a big NFL story or something like that, and we
forget to do it. So I have it on my
list of things to accomplish. Maybe I'll finally get around
(48:31):
to it this week. He says. Also, third Rail Friday
should definitely be a staple of the show. And what
is the origin story of Jet who Fled And how
did he get his nickname? Well, Carlos, Jet who Fled
had a different name when he called the show originally,
and he was in the octagon and I think it
was against what's his name, the guy in New York
(48:53):
that we talk real talk, Yeah, real talk in New York.
Go to hell, Back up, back up, Get Jack Up.
Jack up really got himself man from the show, and
so we had promoted that octagon. It was a big
deal on the show. And then Jed just he fled.
He didn't show up. We couldn't get a hold of him.
(49:14):
We were, well, what happened, and so his new nickname,
we changed his nickname to mock him Jed who Fled,
and that's been his nickname ever since. Hasn't changed. That's
the deal on that and Ozzy momentum. Right, so we
got time for uh. The clock is uh, the clock
is not our friend. The clock is not our friend. Unforce.
We we'll do. Uh'll do at least one more. All right,
(49:35):
come back, it's time from now call Ozzy. Bomenhow says.
So the other day I was watching one of those
Russian slapping competitions. If you haven't seen them, check out
the link. He sent a link. Yeah, I've seen those.
Those are a while anyway. My question is what is
the craziest type of competition to evant that you'd be
prepared to enter into, I e. A slapping, slapping competition,
(49:56):
running with the bulls, cheese wheel, et cetera. I would
love to be in a eating contest, competitive eating. I'm
fascinated by the art of competitive eating. I've interviewed a
few of those guys. In fact, Danny Market down right now.
I want to get Joey Chestnut on this podcast when
we get closer to July, I want to get him on.
I had the guy last year, the promoter of the
(50:18):
Coney Island staple, and he was great. But eating contests,
I don't really run that much, so I probably would
be bull food. I'd get gorged by a bull. I
just run off the side and hide. What about you
did anything jumping out of a plane, anything weird you
would be willing to do. Man, I still have some
(50:39):
decent footwork. So log rolling log where you do log rolling?
Competitive log rolling? Remember the early days of ESPN when
they would put strongman competitions on That was like all
their programming, and it would like people cutting wood, chopping
down trees and lumberjack stuff. It was one. It was
(50:59):
really good, actually looking back, and I don't know that
I enjoyed it as much then as I do now.
I'm fascinated by those things. At this age, when I
was younger, I was like, what they have no programming
where they putting this ship on for But now I'm like, wow,
those guys are like real men. That's like the modern
version now is like the cornhole Championships. Yeah, but let's
come on, anyone can do that? Who can take a
(51:21):
saw and uh cut through it first? And remember the
guys you're calling the big Rig. Remember the guys called
the big Rig? That was awesome? Yea, that that's Wild
Berry in Music City last morning. He says, yo yo, Mom.
Benny Berry says hold on, saying I gotta give you
the property. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
(51:44):
totally enjoy your new toy, the sound drop Machine. How
many drops can that thing hold? Now? Went up to
three billion? Yeah? I have not counted how many drops.
And I have a weird collection that I have put
together that I have hands selected from the sound and
I don't know, I haven't counted them, but there's a lot.
(52:04):
I have a lot here. I mean, I can, you know,
go through all of them if you want to smoke.
If you talk about the Vikings, any reference to Borat
and I get that going nice. You're talking about baseball,
(52:24):
How about Britney Spears. You're talking about Britney Spears. Well,
I could drop battle you. Here's one I pulled last week.
I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish.
Oh hot, dare you how about this one? That's a classic.
That was classic? Yeah, alright, and if you're a Howard
Stern fant that as well. Anyway, we gotta get out
(52:46):
of here. Thanks to everyone else, we didn't get to
a lot of the emails. I apologize for that. Hill
Billy Mike's and a nice letter in Radioactive Ryan in
Salt Lake City. Mike from Fullerton. John wrote in also
t love all you guys, say you, thank you, thank you.
We apologize we're not getting your messages, but send another
one in next week. Hopefully we'll have more time in
the mailbag and we will be able to get to it.
(53:08):
And Danny, thank you. You'll be back at Fox Sports
Radio today right producing. Yeah, I'll be on Coveno and
Rich Sunday afternoon into plankin Spaniard Sunday night leading into
the Bennies. Yes, big night on the show. Tell a
Friend and Tell a Friends to be one of the
most downloaded podcast I know, but you gotta hear it live.
(53:29):
The winners of the Bennies have a wonderful glorious rest
of your Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, last Sunday of March. Right,
this is it, last day March, and before you know,
it's gonna be April, April fools Day. Have a wonderful day.
We'll talk to you next time. Osta pasta gott a murder,
gotta go.
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
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(00:24):
Maller starts right now, n N in the air everywhere
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Overnight Show. As we are in the air everywhere eight
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supporting the radio show, all of that. And this is
the Sunday mail Bag Danny G. This is a actacking,
spectacular podcast. My favorite podcast of the week, the Mailbag.
(01:05):
So without further ado, are you ready Danny? Yeah, it
is a big day for the Mallard Militia. Big night
because tonight and Monday morning of course the Bennies. So
we have our steamers out just like Coop. I think
you found some bell bottoms in your closet. Yeah, well,
I was a kid, my mom, I have some photos
I found when I have you know, I went through
the stuff. I was a Bell Bottoms baby. I want
(01:28):
you to know, Danny, I was a Bell Bottomed I
was that seventies show. Damn right. So we are ready,
here we go. Let's strike. I mean in the mailbag.
You know how we start the mailbag right here bag
(01:50):
thanks to our buddy ohio Al who sent that one in.
We honor ohio Al every week with that little male ditty.
And let's get into you've got all right. First one
comes from moving man Matt Currently. He says he's in
Barstow but headed to Vegas. I wonder if he had
a taco from Del Taco, the famous Del Taco and Barstow.
(02:12):
So it's original Del Taco, right or one of the Yeah,
that was one of the very first Del tacos. And
if you go there to this day, they put more
beans inside the burritos there. Yes, their claim to fame.
They have the Barstow menu. Yeah, the burritos like the
size of your head. Wow, if you don't know what
Del Taco is, because it's not all over the country.
(02:33):
It's like Taco Bell, but it's the you know, yeah,
a little more Mexican? Is it more Mexican? I think
I think they those are gringo tacos, the crunchy tacos
that I like. There they are, but I think the
burritos are a little more Mexican. Movie Man Matt says,
(02:54):
would you buy the Mallard billboard? It's currently for sale
and a new Mallard billboard will becoming a more luxurious one.
It is a piece of show history after all. Well,
that's very flattering, moving man, Matt, that you would think
that I would want to purchase that, Ay, that I
would want of course I would want it, be I
have nowhere to put it. It's massive. I can't put
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it anywhere and take up too much space. And see
I couldn't afford it. So other than that, uh, we
need somebody else to step up. But thank you for
the very kind offer. I do appreciate that, but unfortunately, uh,
can I do it now? He has a question for Danny.
Moving Man Matt says, what was the coolest thing about
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being able to get former President Donald Trump on the
phone for Clay when you did it? And tell that story, Danny.
For those that have not heard you were producing for
Clay Travis. You were the reason, part of the reason
that Clay became the new Rush Limball. You helped him,
he helps you vice versa. But when you were producing
(04:00):
his show, you had some very interesting guests. And you've
got to do something that I'm very jealous of. To
talk to a president, the president of the United States
most powerful position, uh finger on the nuclear bombs and
you talked to this guy. What was that like? Yeah,
I haven't got to talk about that on our podcast. Uh,
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it was definitely scary that first time he called to
be answering the phone and knowing that our phone system
is not fool proof. I just totally assume that the
phones are not gonna work. So let's see how this goes,
and me the fool running the phone box. I turned
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on the lights extra bright in the studio because, as
you know, Ben Roberto and I like the lights to
be low in there, like mood lighting. Yes, I set
the mood in there when I'm in the studios. But
I turned the lights on him like I gotta see
what I'm doing. And then I was sweating it because
Clay's teasing this obviously all morning. I'm getting text messages
(05:05):
from bosses that normally aren't awake at that time, texting
me if they are listening at that time. Usually I
don't hear from them. So I'm hearing from all these
different people. My phone is blowing up. I'm trying to
concentrate on the show that was live and what's going
on on the phone, and then Clay gets nervous, why
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do our phones not work? The crazy part, Ben was
that I figured that when the call did finally come
in during the time that the call was expected, that
you know, it would be like the guy in charge
of White House Communications, the secretary, somebody official, okay, stand
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by for the president. Because I had guests on that
show who were like senators and stuff like that, and
they even had press secretaries who would come on first
make sure the connection was good for the interview, and
then when it was time, they would say, okay, and
here's the senator, and then the senator would come on
the phone. In my mind, that's what I'm expecting. The
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phone's ringing, and in Clay's air, I tell him phones
ringing so he could mentally prepare to set up this
live interview. Now that it's time, I pick up the
phone and it's just Donald J. Trump himself on his soul.
Does he say like, hey, don't be rude. Did you
say that? So I'm like, you know, he answered Fox
(06:33):
Sports Radio and he was like uh and he says
Danny and I say yeah, and he's like, this is
the president and it's great, right. So I'm like, holy
sh it, this guy just called me by my name.
Isn't a press secretary? What the hell? The best part is,
you know, Clay's doing this whole intro, getting the scene
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set and everything before he's gonna bring him on. So
Clay had told me, okay, you get him because Claire,
He's also thinking I'm on the phone with somebody official.
He's like when when he's ready, and he's the one
on the line, tell me in my ear. So now
instead of talking to a secretary, I'm actually shooting the
ship with the president. He's asking me about how the
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morning's go in, and it was the coolest thing. I'm
just like, hey, everything's good here, and I kind of
joke around with him and he's like, hey, because you
have the President on the phone, Clay definitely needs to
give you a raise. And I said, your lips to
God's Ears and we're kind of laughing about that, and
I tell him, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold
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and I'm gonna let Clay know you're ready. And he's like, okay,
thanks for having me. He's like, by the way, you
guys have a great show. I love it. So I
put him on hold, and Roberto's just kind of staring
at me, like what the fun is going on? So
I tell Clay, hey, he's ready, Clay brings him on
the air, does that interview with him. No matter what
your politics are, it's obviously super cool to have a
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sitting president live on your radio show, you know. And
most of these guys ben if they're if they're a
big shot, whether it's a coach, a big time athlete,
an actor, somebody like that. At the end, when the
host says thank you, and they say thank you and
they part ways, they'll just hang up. Yeah. I've had
people hang up in the middle of interviews, Danny, as
(08:23):
you know on this podcast. I've interviewed people and right
in the middle I gotta go by. Uh. Sometimes I
don't even say by. They just hang up. When you're
producing a show and you have a guest. Usually they're gone,
Like you'll go to the phone and you'll pick it
up just to see and you'll say it's a courtesy.
There's a lot of times I'll pick up the phone
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and I'll say, hey, thanks again for joining us, and
nobody says anything because they're gone. Well, this time, I
pick up the phone and that's what I'm expecting. But
he stayed on the line, and so now he's talking
to me again after the interview, and he was like,
how was that was that? Was that what you needed?
Was that good? And I'm like, yeah, man, Clay loved
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it obviously, you know. And Clay is trying to talk
to me on the talkback system. Yeah. So I got
two conversations going at once, and Roberto tells Clay on
his talk back He's like, oh, he's still on the
phone with Danny right now. And Clay was like okay,
And so he talks to me for you know, maybe
thirty seconds afterwards. I'll come on the show again. You guys,
(09:28):
let me know when you want to talk more college football,
because this was during COVID and a lot of that
conversation was how are they going to bring college football back?
It was just like twenty twenty early or when what
would you Yeah, so this was Pete Covid time, So
maybe summer of you know, I'll have to go back
(09:49):
to look at the official date, but I know it
was when all that drama was going on with the
Pack twelve canceling. Okay, so then maybe we'll college football.
Heason is in October September, you know, around then. So
so they were fighting to get the big ten back, remember, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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Well that's when that was going on, and it was
really crazy. The second time he called, I was more
comfortable because I was like, well, he was cool with
me and he knew me, and Roberto and all those
guys teased me because we're in those commercials when Clay
was on the talk back, I hang up. I kind
of share with Clay off the air what the conversation
was like with him, and Clay's laughing. He's like, Wow,
(10:32):
that's cool that he just called on his own phone
like that. I want to talk about that on the
air when we come back for the final segment. And
I was like, all right, cool. So we come back,
Clay's laughing about how he called himself and he goes
to me, and he's like, Danny, what was that like
answering the phone? And I told him how nervous I
was to accidentally hang up on the president, And and
then Clay was like and supposedly he said that you
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deserved to raise. I share exactly what happened, like I
just did with you, and Roberto's laughing. Roberto's like yeah right,
And so Clay goes around the horn. He's like, let
me go around the horn, Eddie, do you believe the
president said that? And he's like nope, and he's like
Roberto and Roberto is like, yeah, well, how convenient that
it was on one side of the phone and none
(11:15):
of us could hear it. Yeah? Right, And so Clay said, hey,
if he does ever join the show again, I'm gonna
ask him if he really said that. So that second
time Trump called the show, Clay asked him, did you
tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise
when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get
the president, but you really do. You have a great show,
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and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the
president of the phone, you deserve a raise. I haven't
done too many of these calls. That's great, that's awesome.
It was the all time radio stories that I I listened.
I remember we were doing the over Night showed. That
was back before I did it from home, and we
hadn't made the transition, and people are like, oh, Trump's
gonna be on and I was like, oh wow, that's
like I had to I couldn't believe it. I thought
(11:59):
there's no way they were rumors. And then it actually
turned out to be the case. So that was awesome.
That's great. All right, that is a wonderful answer. Thank you,
moving Man, Matt. Moving Man. Matt was part of that
trucker convoy. He sent some photos out. He was around
d C. All Right, what is next? Helen and stew
from palmetto Bay, Florida. Very controversial couple, say Ben and
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Danny Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Ain't no party like the
Fifth Hour Party. This week's letter includes a joke, a
few quick comments, and a question. Let's get to it.
The letter begins, STU, over this, over this for a week?
Bitch uh? He begins, question, what does that one sex
(12:48):
toy insult trick pony living in Montana get told? On
the tenth of every month Uh. The answer the rent
was due on the first wow, Helen is feisty says
Bruce Jenner was back in the n c A a
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trans swimmer news this week. We missed that guy. Looking back,
he should have told us, given us a chance to
say goodbye by going on a year long farewell tour.
Shout out to our favorite comic Bill Burr, who, as
a big sports fan living in l A, should be
a future guest on the fifth hour. Do you have
(13:29):
a contact for Bill Burr? Can we get him on
the podcast? But he do the podcast. He's a big,
big name in comedy. Would even come on a podcast
like this? I have no idea we can ask, right,
doesn't uh? And the message continues, Ben jellyfish have survived
six fifty million years without brains. Great news for Fox
(13:51):
Sports Radio executives who failed to promote you to Clay
Travis's time Slide. Well, very kind, very kind, Helen. But
as I have said many times, the kind of show
that I do overnight, I would not be allowed to
do if I was in a morning time slot. They
would just not allow it. The corporate muckety MUCKs would interfere.
They would put their foot down and say, well, what
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are you talking to a guy from Brooklyn who eats
chef boy Ard for ten minutes? What's wrong with you? Uh?
And and why are you talking to a guy in
Maine who this is like a whack of doodle? What's
up with that? So? Yeah, but I do appreciate the
kind words telling fun facts. Helen says an autopsy showed
that cocaine used contributed to the heart disease that suddenly
(14:37):
killed TV pitchman Billy Mays. As a reminder, it's one
Benny Awards ballot time. Please vote now for Danny g
as the best crew fill in. So a badge of
honor for you. And Helen also says, Ben, your natural
weight loss of two hundred pounds and keeping that weight
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off remains inspirational and legendary. Question. Who's the biggest cheater?
Whether man Al Roker celebrating his this this week twenty
years since his gastric bypass surgery or the cheating stros Well, Helen,
you know the answer to that. I've never met Al Roker.
I've seen him on TV many times, but I was
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at the seventeen World Series and flow with them astros.
That's what I have to say that's right, all right,
it's a podcast, Danny. I can say that. You can
bleep it out if you want. I don't care, all right,
So thank you, Helen and Stuke. Kevin in Kansas writes
in says, dear Benn and Danny, g it's severe weather
season again. Here in the Great Plains. We get dust storms, blizzards,
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and tornadoes. Any memorable encounters with any of these situations.
I've never been in a tornado. I've never been in
a blizzard. Well, actually, I've been in some nasty snowstorms.
I didn't think it was like a blizzard on the
East Coat. I've got a Boston and New York whatnot.
I've been in some nasty weather, but not really a
real blizzard. Uh. And also also the dust. M I
(16:00):
have been in a dust storm before, but not like
a real Great Plains dust storm. So that one I
was driving in the desert and that was a little
little wacky a desert storm, which I think was it.
Does it qualifies as a dust a dust storm? What
about you, Danny? Have you been in any of those things.
I've seen a tornado in northern California. They're rare and
they're not as big as the tornadoes that you might
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see in other parts of the country. But my family
when I was a kid, we were in the l
A area. Then we moved up to northern California, where
my mom is from in the San Jose area, but she,
because of money, settled in the Modesto area. So that's
right when northern California begins. But the central part of
the state, and I'll never forget. We were at Brown
(16:44):
Elementary School playing basketball. My little sister came running and
she's like, you guys, gotta come home. Mom says, you
gotta come home because of the tornado. Like tornado, what
the fund is he talking about? So we get to
the front of our house us and from there you
you had a view towards the west end of the
town and you saw just an ominous sky and a
(17:09):
tornado from a far distance that was some scary looking ship,
and people were jumping in their cars and driving the
other direction. I remember my mom like throwing my little
baby sister into our car seat, getting everybody into the
car and driving the other direction. And it was on
the news that night and everything. I think it tore
(17:32):
up some part of the town on the outskirts, but
it didn't make its way into the city. Yeah, but
it's the only time I've ever seen anything like that.
But dude, people that live in the part of the
country where they see that often or they've seen it
more than once in their life. Yeah, that's something that
I think would follow you around in your nightmares. The
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worst weather I've ever been in was in Buffalo. But
it wasn't snow. It was rain. There was like a
storm that was passing through Buffalo. Because of the lake,
it added to the water. It was so bad. I
was on the highway and driving out of Buffalo. I
was at a Bills game and I had to stop.
We could not see where we were going. We had
to stop on this expressway and I was just waiting
(18:16):
for a car to hit. It hit us from behind.
It was surreal. I'd never see I didn't know it
could rain that much. I'm used to California rain. This
was so ridunculous. Oh yeah, it was. It was nuts.
It was the most ridiculous thing. I thought I was
gonna drown, and then it passed and just kept going
(18:38):
like nothing happened. That was it. You know, it's water everywhere.
Fred from Spring, Texas right and says, Hi, guys, can
either of you drive a stick shift auto? Have you
ever owned a convertible? What is your current car? Well,
I have the Mallardmobile. I have the fourth or fifth
generation of the Mallanmobile, which is like the Batmobile's Mallanmobile.
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I do not know how to dravistick shift, and I
have never owned a convertible. I have had cars that
have sun roofs that I consider a fat guys convertible.
What about your diddy? Yeah, we've talked about cars on
this podcast before. I loved hot wheels and I loved
fast cars. When I was a kid, I had a
(19:20):
poster of a Ferrari, so I thought, Man, when I
get my license and I get a job, I'm gonna
get a fast car. So the second car I bought,
because the first one was a beater. The second one, though,
was a turbo and it was super fast. After that,
later in life, I was able to buy a convertible
Mercedes Benz, which was nice. Got in a wreck. The
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insurance company, as you can guess, did not give me
my full value back. Of course, yes, that Mercedes Benz
turned into a Nissan, but with those Nissans. Man, I
found the three seventi z s and those have been
my favorite cars the past few years. I'm on my
second one right now. It's a Heritage Edition, really fast
and it is it is a clutch, it's a six speed,
(20:05):
and man, I mean when I have open road, that
thing flies. It sucks to drive and bumper to bumper traffic,
but on an open road it's a beauty. Now do
you drive your cars into the ground or do you
just before that, go and get a new car, because
I I have lately been driving cars in the ground.
That's my new thing. I take really really good care
(20:27):
of my cars. Every week. I make sure it's washed.
Every week. I clean out the inside. My car right
now is four and a half years old, and when
people see it, they think I just bought it recently.
So that's my trink. It's just keep it, man, treat
it like a palace. That way. If I do want
to trade it in, you can get top dollars for it. No,
(20:48):
that's great. And I used to try to take really
good care of the cars and then I got married.
Well now and now it's just the ugly redheaded step child.
The car. It just gets beaten up. I used to
never eat in car. I've never eaten the car. I
would never you know, drink anything of like soda or
anything like that. When I backed my soda drinking days
(21:09):
because I don't want to spill any uh. My wife, though,
has a different perspective on that. She is open minded,
and so that I lost that battle. But that's anyway.
Next up, Alan and akeron Ohio birthplace of Lebron and
Steph Kurt. Yeah, how did your diet change after you
had your gallbladder removed? Was there any other lifestyle changes? Alan, So,
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I had my gall bladder taken out November three, twenty nineteen.
I believe it was and I have not really changed
my diet. I do inter minute fasting, so I don't
eat as often as other people that have had their
gallbladder taken out. And I have noticed with the inter
minute fasting, when I go a long time without eating
(21:56):
and then I eat something, it's off to the races.
After I eat, I within about forty five minutes to
an hour. It's shipped creak is what it is. They're
ship's creek. It's a lot of pooping and all that stuff.
But I really haven't changed my diet. I eat many
of the same things I've always eaten. I've heard stories
that some people can it's different for everybody, but I've
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been pretty lucky and out of sight, out of mind,
I don't think about it. I a gall black is
very small. Then he can't see I'm I'm showing you.
It's like very small the actual gall bladder. Now, how
did you know you needed it taken out? Did you
have bloating? Like? What are the signs that you need
that thing out? Well? I almost died, Actually, I had
(22:38):
gall stones. I did not realize they were goal stones.
I thought it was heartburk. I had multiple incidents where
I felt like pain in my chest and I thought
it was just I had eaten, and it was always
after I had eaten a really big meal, which is
the gall bladder. But I didn't put two and two together,
and so finally I had a massive attack where I
(23:00):
couldn't clear the gulf stones and I couldn't sleep. I
was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't drink anything,
I couldn't eat anything. It was just it was terrible.
I thought I was dying, and so I went to
the emergency room and they gave me some was it
morphine I think it was, and within ten minutes it
(23:23):
cleared the gold stones out and I was I was
all right. But then I had to stay in the
hospital because I had so many gold stones. They wanted
to do the operation. Usually the operations in and out,
you're done within a few hours, you're back home. But
I was so fooled up from all of the gulf
stones and they were really tiny gull stones that had
gone all over the place. So I had to stay
(23:44):
for a week. I was like in a hospital for
almost a week because they had to wait because they
couldn't do the operation because they had to wait for
everything to kind of clear. And so then I had
had the procedure done, and yeah, it was pretty wild man,
pretty pretty well. It was done on November three, but
I was in the hospital a few days before that.
And the longest fast I ever had, because I was
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on a fast, I went, God, how many hours was it?
I think it was it was like nineties something hours
or something like that without eating anything. So yeah, good times.
I don't know how you do the fasting. I would
get so hungry that by the time I got to food,
I think I would overeat. Nah, I'm all right, I'd
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see one hearty meal and that's it. Falls Fan Jimmy
from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, beat that's right.
Uh oh, that's I'm sorry, bad job, but I have
not been playing that. I got so curried away talking.
It's a bad job by me. There you go, all right,
sorry balls, fan Jimmy, I gotta play. I gotta play
all of them now because I didn't play a bad job.
(24:47):
What is up? I have this toy here come back
gets time from no call? I got Mayo? Yeah, I
got Mayo. Yeah, you've got Mayo? Played them all valls.
Fan Jimmy Faville, Tennessee says, man, are you planning on
having the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If so,
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will the guest list be slimmed down? Danny G. What
was the last concert you have been to? I'm going
Saturday night to Nashville to see Snoop Dogg, ice Cube
too short and Warren G. Yeah that uh so, I'll
answer that. I plan on having the ugly uh Sweater
party again. We did not do it the last by
(25:29):
the last couple of years we have not done it
because of the COVID stuff. I hope to bring it back.
It seems like the world's more open to that and
people are back to normal, and I'd like to do that.
I don't know that anyone's gonna show up. I live
in the north Woods now, it's very far and with
the price of gas and all that. But we will
invite many people, and hopefully many will be able to
make it. We'll have a great night, a very memorable
(25:51):
night with all my my friends and our friends from
radio and people that have met over the years that
are people I like. So hopefully Danny you can make it.
We can meet your TENDERRONI hopefully I'll meet a meet
her before then. Yeah, and so yeah, that's the plan.
What and Dan, was the last concert you you've gotten to?
That's Jimmy's question for you. Let's see. Oh, speaking of her,
(26:12):
she brought me to see Kane Brown at the Staple
What it was the Staple Center then and we had
to show vaccine cards to get in. And uh, it
was a good concert. Though he is a biracial country star,
it's modern country music. In fact, he even has had
a couple of hits on Top forty radio. If you
(26:33):
don't know who came brown is, google them. Just google him.
That's all you have. Just google them. Yeah, as our
buddy Mike North used to say, just google them, Um
say you kids, just google. Yes, we don't need to
bring Jonas in and uh boy. The last hip hop
concert I went to, It's been a little while for
(26:53):
hip hop, but I got to see Bone Thugs and
Harmony do a little reunion concert. And that's and speak.
You know, Modesto, like I was talking about a little
earlier on the podcast, when I went to school there, Ben,
I was a city kid from southern California reuniting with
my San Jose family in the Bay. And when you
would go to the Central Valley in Modesto, in that area,
(27:16):
the kids there, they had a Garth Brooks CD and
a Doctor dre CD. It was interesting. It was like
kids wanted to go to a Snoop Dogg concert and
they also wanted to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Okay,
I was like a country concert. Who's your favorite, Who's
your who's your favorite country star? That Dirty Boots and
(27:41):
that's followed me all through my adult life. Um, you know,
I love to go see country concerts and I love
to go see hip hop concerts. Yeah. I watched that
country documentary a few years ago on PBS. Don't if
you saw that. I did. I was told by somebody
that it's it was about radio, and it is a
lot about radio and the radio business and how related.
(28:03):
And they were intertwined country music. Very good documentary by PBS.
They really nailed that one. And I fell in love
with all those old country music songs like I loved
every one of them. In fact, that's in my rotation now,
many of those old old school country music songs from
the grand old opry. Yeah, wonderful. Well you're a Johnny
(28:23):
Cash fan just like Yeah, I love Johnny Cash absolutely
all right, thank you for that, and enjoy that concert. Yeah,
I have a good time. How much do you think
Snoop Dogg gets paid for that? Do you think he
gets out of that? Probably gets a cool dollars for
a little live show for one day's work. You've got mail,
(28:46):
all right, next time we stay in the state of Tennessee,
j C represent the entire volunteer state, says, Hey, Ben,
I write you today because I cannot stand Dan Wilkin.
The man seems to hate sports, but for some reason
he works in sports journalism. He was one of them
that seemed to think that if sports came back while
(29:07):
COVID was happening, that everyone would die. His sports takes
are so bad that I can just read the headline
of an article and no, it was written by Doo Doo,
Dan the Igluman. In all your years working in sports
talk radio, have you ever come across a radio host
or a sports journalist that had such awful sports takes
(29:29):
that it just made you dislike them as a person. Uh. Yeah,
there's been a lot of disingenuous people. I have been
able to see how they make the hot dogs. And yeah,
the idea that people are a certain way, both athletes
and members of the media that are one way publicly
(29:50):
and complete assholes, completely phony and you know it, but
you're one of the few people that knows it. And
it's very it's very eye opening and disappointing at the
same time, because you hear about people one way and
then you see them the other way and you're like, well,
that guy's got a great reputation. He's a complete dick,
(30:11):
you know, I don't get it. So there was and
Dan Wilkins a legend for being fear is mongering, fearmongering,
Sky is falling, Chicken little. This guy has been doing
that act for a long time. I don't know Dan Wilkin,
but all I all I hear about him is really
bad things. His reputation is not very good. Yeah, there's
one other guy that comes to mind for me, and
(30:32):
that's Mike Florio. Oh the they call him the Nanny
Mike Florio. Yeah. Yeah. I had a personal run in
with him at the Atlanta super Bowl radio row. We
had set Kwan Barkley scheduled to join Clay Travis on stage.
Him and his posse rolled in and Clay was in
the middle of another interview. But I thought, oh, they're
(30:54):
here a little bit early, you know, so I'll get
him ready. I'll sit him in our little green room
here off to the side of our stage. He does
a bee line though, and he goes over to Florio set,
and I'm like, okay, well that's all right, but it's
gonna make him run late to his interview time with us.
So I go over to Florio set. He's got these
weenie bodyguards over there. They tell me I'm not allowed there,
(31:17):
and I said, you have my guest right now, I
am allowed right here. So I get into it with
his guys on the set there and and uh, Florio
walks over to me and he says, yeah, say, Kwan
is gonna join us on the stage, so you really
need to talk to his manager because he's probably not
gonna get over to your set on time. And I
(31:39):
was like, this little dick, all right. So I get
to say Kwan's manager, and I'm like, Hey, here's the deal.
I'm not trying to be threatening or anything like that,
but if you piss off Fox Sports Radio, which is
the number one sports network right now, does that make
sense just to appease Florio and his little audience and
the man you're kind of looked at me and he
(32:01):
was like, all right, well tell you what. I'm gonna
cut it short with him and we'll get over to
you on time, maybe two minutes late. So I go
over there, running more late than that. I'm like, oh,
these assholes. So I go over there. I don't have
to say anything the second time, though, Ben I just
ice grill Florio and the manager, and so Florio says
goodbye to say Quon on the set and they run
(32:23):
him over to Clay Talk. And so anytime I see
that guy on TV, I'm like, funk that Florio guy.
And of course a lot of people don't like him
because he comes off really grouchy on the air. Yeah,
it seems like he's in a bad mood all the time.
And whenever I see radio or TV guys I like
to feel like And that's one thing I can say
(32:44):
about Cowherd what I like about him. I feel like
he's in a good mood. What I see or hear
guys that always feel like they're in a bad mood,
it doesn't make me want to tune in. Yeah, I
have not dealt with Actually knew Florio a little bit
for he became like the Mike for there. He was
partnered up with a couple other guys on the original
(33:06):
Pro Football Talk before he partnered up with NBC. And
back when I was doing Ben Mallory dot Com. He
he was a lawyer, I believe I think he was
a lawyer and he was messing around with the internet
stuff and it was it was a rumor sight. I
was doing a rumor site. So we were competing against
each other for eyeballs back in those days. Uh. And
(33:28):
just to follow up with j C, there is a
baseball insider. I will not reveal the baseball inside because
I'm still working. Who was a is a complete asshole,
very short baseball writer. They're all short, though, they're all
fun size to these baseball writers who comes across one
way on television and then uh, it's a complete Uh
(33:48):
hell you go any further than that. So thank you
j C. That is a good behind the scenes question. Yes,
thank you, j C. We'd appreciate that. And the mail
bag continues. Never is this, No, it is never that.
It is always exciting, fascinating and all of that. So
(34:10):
who is next? You've got mail? Alright, let's see here
we have Pierre, our buddy in Springfield, mass Home with
a pro basketball Hall of Fame. Pierre says, paper or plastic.
When the world shut down two years ago, local grocery
stores in Springfield implemented a reusable bag policy, which seems
less hygienic to me. Shortly thereafter, one local chain started
(34:32):
to offer paper bags for a fee of ten cents.
Much like you, Ben, I steadfastly refused to pay for bags,
sometimes carrying my groceries by hand. Unfortunately, lately I have
caved and as you know, Ben, those pickle jars can
get very heavy and the paper bags aren't very strong. Well,
that is a pickle problem. It's a real pickle pickle
(34:55):
to be in, Pierre, I'm right there. As I've talked
about this before, I do. I cannot stand the paper
bag policy in California, the plastic bag, paper bag policy,
the charge for the bag, complete rip off, complete scam.
I also don't like bringing bags. I usually forget to
bring the bags to the grocery store, so I have
made many a run where I'm holding my groceries like
(35:18):
a baby or a football going to the parking lot.
I've also done the trick where I'll get a grocery
cart and I'll just leave everything in the cart and
have them put it back in the cart and then
take it take it away. So I've done that, you know,
take it to the car that way. But I usually
forget the bag. It's a pain in the ass and
I would rather just buy a plast a new reusable
(35:42):
bag than spend the money on the disposable bag at
the store. Because I feel like it's just a waste, Like,
what's the point. I might as well invest towards the
new bag. Then I'm going to get So I hated,
I hated, I hated, and it's not fixing the environment
at all. So stop, okay, stop with your nonsense. Ridiculous anyway,
Travis from Roseberg, Oregon rights in. As we continue the
(36:09):
amazing mail bang, Travis says, how close were you coming
to the dark side to those delicious bacon wrap hot
dogs at the big Game? Well, that happens every time,
she said, Like, I don't eat the bacon, I eat
turkey bacon. I eat the pig, the swine, and it
smells amazing. In every time I've gone to a sport
(36:31):
ingum it in l A. If I get out, if
I leave the game and there's still people mulling abound
around the stadium or the whatever venue it is, there's
these brigades of folks who are selling hot dogs bacon wrap.
Talk's amazing. There must be like a secret meeting place
bacon wrap hot dog people all get together and they
(36:53):
dropped them off with their carts and and they're not griddles,
they're just like rolling carts with aluminum foil on them. Yeah,
bacon wrap. It's like gold, all right, when you grow
up with limited a limited budget. So there would be
times where I would smell bacon and I would think,
oh my god, we're rich right now, We're rich. And
(37:15):
she would cook it almost burned where it would snap
like that, and Ben, my stepdad, would eat almost all
of it. And I would get so pissed because I
got a couple of pieces and that was it. And
so one of my things in my mind, I was like,
when I grow up, I gotta be rich because I
gotta be able to buy bacon. I'm look at you now,
(37:35):
you're a big radio star. Yeah, so your congratulations. You've
made it. I have bacon at least twice a year.
All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from now.
Call Chris from Falling Waters Rest, Virginia, right below Haggerstown, Maryland. Hey, Gerstown, Maryland,
where the truck convoy has been camping out. Chris says,
(37:57):
my question this week is have you ever regretted saying
something on the air? Maybe you made someone but hurt
by a comment. No, I've never regretted anything I've said.
I have been stunned by the reactions I've gotten over
things I've said that I don't believe are controversial. The
people that took offense the things I said blows me away.
(38:22):
The angry messages I get from certain people who we'll
say in the same email, Danny, that's why you're on Overnight.
Your show sucks, but I'm offended by X, Y and Z.
So to me, though, you're you're you're doing two separate
things here. You're telling me I'm irrelevant and I don't
listen to your show, but you are so offended by
(38:46):
what I said. Yeah, that's my response to that. What
about you, Danny? Who is the will one follow up
question for you? Yeah? Who is the most famous person
to get offended by something you said? Would that be
Deshaun Uh? Deshaun is on the list. I would say
the commissioner of Major League Baseball would probably be higher
(39:08):
up on the list of at that he's on there.
William Shatner, of course, we had the spats with Shats.
He's an all time timeless guy. Number of Dodger players
over the years. I had Ralph Lawlor, who was the
Clipper broadcaster, and I'm like Mr Clipper fanboy. Ralph got
so upset with me when I ripped Michael olivera Candy
(39:32):
uh famous bust in Clipper history. And I was doing
a midday show in l A the Clippers draft of
this guy, and I knew within five games, Danny, this
guy was a giant turd. This guy couldn't play. And
you just know, you just know he's had a feeling.
This guy is terrible, very rarely. Are you wrong? And
(39:55):
I I laid into that guy, said what are the
Clippers doing with this guy? And Ralph came up to me.
It was at the great Western Forum before a Clipper
Laker game, and he saw me in the bowels of
the great Western Forum and he read me the Riot
Act and he said, you are so wrong. This guy's
gonna be an all time I've told the story before.
(40:15):
We had Lee Klein on and Lee was there, he
was a witness to it. And and and Ralph promised
that older Candy was gonna be an NBA All Star
within a couple of years, and if not, he was
gonna kiss my ass at center court at Staples or not,
but became Staples. It was that the it was at
Sports Rainy and Uh, needless to say that never happened,
(40:37):
and Ralph. Ralph would always kid around, Well, maybe it'll
happen next week. You never know, it might happen next week.
He's retired now he lives in Florida part of the year,
lives in Oregon. But he's on the list. There's a
bunch of other ones. So what about you, Denny. You've
been on the radio a long time. Anything you say that,
you're like, oh, I wish I could have that back. Well,
I'm like you, I don't think so. I had a
run in with rapper mac Chen when I was doing
(40:59):
that FAM radio also boxer Fernando Vargas. Those both turned
out okay in the end. And then I guess staff members,
like we talked about this on the podcast one time,
how you and I talked about another staff member and
got in trouble. Yeah, but it's just all in fun.
When you do radio, you know, sometimes you get in
(41:20):
a groove. And I think that's one good thing about
your show is that it's its own little world, and
you almost forget that you're broadcasting too. You know, almost
five hundred affiliates across the country. You don't think like that,
You're you're just in the moment and you're in your
little bubble, your little world, and so we're talking to you,
(41:41):
we're talking to one person. We're not thinking about all
the people listening. And I think that's how we could
get into trouble sometimes. Yeah, I know, I completely agree
with you. You're just you're like, oh, we're just doing
this in fun, even though we're busting balls. That's what
we do. We're men. We bust balls. That's when the
women on the show do the same thing. The bust balls.
That's how we operate there. It's fun to listen to.
(42:02):
So to us, we're not doing anything wrong. We're doing
what people want well. And then you've got people that
come in from the outside that aren't regulars and they're
like stop it. You know, they get very upset. Yeah,
they get complain and all that. I'm like, well, we're
just having a good time. We're just having being so sensitive. Yeah,
it's like the drop that we used to play about
the the knuckleball pitchers Joe and Phil forget their last name,
(42:27):
and people would hear that, but all those negroes look
the same. And I would get angry emails from people
who meant well and they were convinced that I had said, uh,
something I didn't say, because it sounded kind of like that.
And people, as we know Danny from being in the
business a long time, even the most engaged listener is
(42:50):
only hearing about of what we're saying and and the
rest of it's just kind of going away and and
all that. And so people listen with half in the
year and they think they hear or something, and then
I get the nasty email. So he didn't stop playing
that because people were calling up complaining because they were
convinced that I had said the thing that I didn't say.
(43:10):
God bless unfiltered podcasting because I could play it on
this show and get no blowback. I don't know about that.
And all it takes is one person. All it takes
is one person. But the FCC doesn't regulate podcasting. Oh
that is true. It's like cable television. It's radio's version
of cable television. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
(43:33):
Next one's from Adrian in the Mile High City. He's
back Ben and Danny G has been a while, Yes
it has. Adrian. I wonder what happened. I thought you
were offended or something like that, but it sounds like
you're not. I'm happy to return to the Sunday Sunday
Sunday mail Bag. The last few months have been busy
at my job, so, as my man Marcel says, let's
(43:53):
get into it. Adrian rights. First off, Danny g has
been a breath of fresh Mountain air, compre heir to
that narcissist West of the four oh five guy. How's
Gascon doing? By the way, nice, he's the same West
of the four oh five snotty. I was texting him
last night. We were texting about something and he's I
guess he's doing some good play by play jobs. He
(44:14):
was telling me he's doing some FS one stuff and
even working some games. He's a freelancer, so we'll do
some games for ESPN, and he was very braggadosh just
West of the four oh five. He's talking about travels
he's gonna make, going to different parts of the country
to do play by play gigs. So he seems very
happy about that. He's doing well, Adrian continues. In November,
my wife and I made the trip to Dallas to
(44:36):
watch the Broncos take on the Cowboys at Jerry's World.
The stadium is huge, and we were like a couple
of peacocks strunning out out of there with the w Yett.
I was one of the great surprises of the NFL season,
the Broncos beating those Cowboys, and that set the Cowboys
on a sideways stretch of games. He says. The Ben
Mallard T shirt made the trip to Dallas, and I
(44:57):
was walking around a T n T stadium repping the
show before putting my Bronco jersey over it at game time.
Good job, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. Marketing Guerilla marketing,
Adrian says, bring Benny versus the Penny back this fall.
A lot of good advice and good money to be made.
We'll see what happens with Benny versus the Penny. I
(45:18):
had to stop doing it because I had the COVID.
It seems like something always pops up, something life always
gets in the way of your plans. Danny, It's it's
always something. The year before, my pops passed away, so
I had to stopped doing it, and this past year
it was the COVID. Anyway, says Ramad all day, ramadall night.
Congrats Ben on the Rams Super Bowl Championship in February
(45:39):
and Rama Night and how far can Mr Unlimited take
the Broncos in the highly competitive a f C West.
The In and Out Burger and Raising Canes are both
open for business in the city I live in here
in Colorado. They are next door neighbors to each other.
The double double, no onion can nat combo, no slaw
(46:01):
extra fies are might go tibes. What about the animal
style fries with the double double? What about that? Have
you gone that direction? Adrian? Answer that question. I've noticed
that the people that run the Raising Canes franchise they're
very smart, shocking most at least where I am, and
(46:22):
I've been to Raising Canes in multiple cities around the country.
It always seems to be the Raising Canes location is
right next to Chick fil A and In and Out
like they're those three. It's like the the axis of
food is uh, the access of great food right there.
And it's really smart to put a chicken joint next
(46:43):
to Raising cans because you'd say that would be dumb,
But one day a week you have a competitive advantage
over Chick fil A if you're raising canes because they're
not open on something so anyone that's going out. A
lot of people forget that Chick fil A is not
open on Sunday, and they go to get their Chick
fil A on Sunday. They can't get there. They're fixed.
So they wait a minute. There's a raising canes right here.
(47:04):
Let me give them a try, and boom, you got
a new customer. Just like that. Good marketing it is.
Adrian also says, lastly, I still say, how about that
when my wife and I get into a friendly argument
about chores about the house, says I swept the floors
and took out the trash. How about that if the
kids are down one, two or all three, yell out
(47:27):
Ben Maller in the house. How about that you got
the kids trained. My wife gets so annoyed, but I
think it's the funniest thing. Well, thank you, Adrian, very kind,
appreciate it. Just keep the podcast coming and good to
have you back on the long email. And I have
big plans to travel. I don't have any time to
do it, but I'd love to get to Denver and
(47:47):
meet you Adrian and have the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich.
Of course that's available there. Next up, as we continue
the mails. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, I've been
listening to you since and I remember Coop eating the
scoop of vasoline, probably the best segment on radio ever. Anyways,
(48:10):
when are the Bennies whether this weekend? We've already talked
about in the NFL Book, the NFL Book him, I
keep pushing back. I don't know why we haven't done it.
It's not like it's been postponed. Nobody's told us we
can't do it, but something always seems to come up,
a big NFL story or something like that, and we
forget to do it. So I have it on my
list of things to accomplish. Maybe I'll finally get around
(48:31):
to it this week. He says. Also, third Rail Friday
should definitely be a staple of the show. And what
is the origin story of Jet who Fled And how
did he get his nickname? Well, Carlos, Jet who Fled
had a different name when he called the show originally,
and he was in the octagon and I think it
was against what's his name, the guy in New York
(48:53):
that we talk real talk, Yeah, real talk in New York.
Go to hell, Back up, back up, Get Jack Up.
Jack up really got himself man from the show, and
so we had promoted that octagon. It was a big
deal on the show. And then Jed just he fled.
He didn't show up. We couldn't get a hold of him.
(49:14):
We were, well, what happened, and so his new nickname,
we changed his nickname to mock him Jed who Fled,
and that's been his nickname ever since. Hasn't changed. That's
the deal on that and Ozzy momentum. Right, so we
got time for uh. The clock is uh, the clock
is not our friend. The clock is not our friend. Unforce.
We we'll do. Uh'll do at least one more. All right,
(49:35):
come back, it's time from now call Ozzy. Bomenhow says.
So the other day I was watching one of those
Russian slapping competitions. If you haven't seen them, check out
the link. He sent a link. Yeah, I've seen those.
Those are a while anyway. My question is what is
the craziest type of competition to evant that you'd be
prepared to enter into, I e. A slapping, slapping competition,
(49:56):
running with the bulls, cheese wheel, et cetera. I would
love to be in a eating contest, competitive eating. I'm
fascinated by the art of competitive eating. I've interviewed a
few of those guys. In fact, Danny Market down right now.
I want to get Joey Chestnut on this podcast when
we get closer to July, I want to get him on.
I had the guy last year, the promoter of the
(50:18):
Coney Island staple, and he was great. But eating contests,
I don't really run that much, so I probably would
be bull food. I'd get gorged by a bull. I
just run off the side and hide. What about you
did anything jumping out of a plane, anything weird you
would be willing to do. Man, I still have some
(50:39):
decent footwork. So log rolling log where you do log rolling?
Competitive log rolling? Remember the early days of ESPN when
they would put strongman competitions on That was like all
their programming, and it would like people cutting wood, chopping
down trees and lumberjack stuff. It was one. It was
(50:59):
really good, actually looking back, and I don't know that
I enjoyed it as much then as I do now.
I'm fascinated by those things. At this age, when I
was younger, I was like, what they have no programming
where they putting this ship on for But now I'm like, wow,
those guys are like real men. That's like the modern
version now is like the cornhole Championships. Yeah, but let's
come on, anyone can do that? Who can take a
(51:21):
saw and uh cut through it first? And remember the
guys you're calling the big Rig. Remember the guys called
the big Rig? That was awesome? Yea, that that's Wild
Berry in Music City last morning. He says, yo yo, Mom.
Benny Berry says hold on, saying I gotta give you
the property. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
(51:44):
totally enjoy your new toy, the sound drop Machine. How
many drops can that thing hold? Now? Went up to
three billion? Yeah? I have not counted how many drops.
And I have a weird collection that I have put
together that I have hands selected from the sound and
I don't know, I haven't counted them, but there's a lot.
(52:04):
I have a lot here. I mean, I can, you know,
go through all of them if you want to smoke.
If you talk about the Vikings, any reference to Borat
and I get that going nice. You're talking about baseball,
(52:24):
How about Britney Spears. You're talking about Britney Spears. Well,
I could drop battle you. Here's one I pulled last week.
I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish.
Oh hot, dare you how about this one? That's a classic.
That was classic? Yeah, alright, and if you're a Howard
Stern fant that as well. Anyway, we gotta get out
(52:46):
of here. Thanks to everyone else, we didn't get to
a lot of the emails. I apologize for that. Hill
Billy Mike's and a nice letter in Radioactive Ryan in
Salt Lake City. Mike from Fullerton. John wrote in also
t love all you guys, say you, thank you, thank you.
We apologize we're not getting your messages, but send another
one in next week. Hopefully we'll have more time in
the mailbag and we will be able to get to it.
(53:08):
And Danny, thank you. You'll be back at Fox Sports
Radio today right producing. Yeah, I'll be on Coveno and
Rich Sunday afternoon into plankin Spaniard Sunday night leading into
the Bennies. Yes, big night on the show. Tell a
Friend and Tell a Friends to be one of the
most downloaded podcast I know, but you gotta hear it live.
(53:29):
The winners of the Bennies have a wonderful glorious rest
of your Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, last Sunday of March. Right,
this is it, last day March, and before you know,
it's gonna be April, April fools Day. Have a wonderful day.
We'll talk to you next time. Osta pasta gott a murder,
gotta go.
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