February 19, 2022 • 36 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour homie Danny G. take you behind the scenes, with a fun conversation about Maller finally hitting Radio Row at a Super Bowl! They talk serendipitous, debonair, customary, critically acclaimed, bunkering, and more!
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Hot Takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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with Ben Maller starts right now in the air Everywhere
another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, back
at it on a Saturday. Here we are very exciting
myself at Danny g Radio the most anticipated podcast Nanny
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of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap
of a trip to Radio Row, which is a very exciting,
very exciting for me. I've not been to Radio Row,
so we we will get into all of the goodness
that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait to get
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it because I've been waiting. You know. I told some
of the stories Danny on the radio, but I didn't
get into it too much. I figured, why not save
this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right,
the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And
this is way better than a recap of the game.
Who watched that game. This is more about Radio Row. Yeah,
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I mean listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like
three d thirty million people in America, so more people
didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl.
But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount
of people get to hear this podcast. This is a
very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering,
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and critically acclaimed. This is a jam packed fifth hour.
The amount of content that you were going to get
on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right, I
mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right, So
Serendipitous Danny, And this is actually before I even ran
into you at the l A Convention Center where Radio
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Row was last week, so I finally making it there
and and being part of the ambiance. But getting their
parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated the
price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd.
So right around Radio Row the parking was like fifty
bucks a lot of those places, but uh, I ended
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up parking about two miles away, at least according to
my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd
cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know
where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot.
And anyway, partly it was like still thirty bucks the park.
So that was the first kicking the in then having
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to pay thirty bucks to park. I wasn't playing me
there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah, it wasn't.
I ended up we ended up staying a lot longer.
But my plan was only to be there a little bit.
I know exactly what the city of l A did
what they always do. They put some pocket money into
their jacket, put them on a bus, and they dropped
them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yah, Well they'll all be
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back now. They're probably already back now that the Super
Bowl is over, and I don't care anymore until the
next big event and then they're gonna ship all the
homeless homeless out. But it's very weird, you know, you
know how things happen in life. And so I ended
up parking in a lot. I usually had this lot
that I parked in when I would go to games
in downtown l A. But I decided not to park there.
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I want to part a little closer, and then I
ended up parking further away, but in a different direction
where I decided a park a couple of miles away.
And you know, I was a long walk. It's fine,
the weather was great, whatever, but it was It was
a serendipitous decision because if I had parked somewhere else,
I would not have been able to run across who
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I ran across there. My path took me directly into
the man known as Helmet Man. Oh yes, I'm actually
on the Live are yes, you're on the superhero Helmet
Man just happened to be out on the street there
selling his products. It was like a light shining from heaven.
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I fell asleep. That's the man right there, the great
helmet Man. And he hadn't called the show in a
couple of years. I was telling you the story, Danny,
when we were at the restaurant there. But he had
not called the show in a couple of years. I
was concerned. Eddie was concerned. We were all concerned because
he had come by the studio and just like knocked
on the door and we put him in and we
hadn't heard from him, and he'd always checked in with
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us every once in a while see what was going on,
and so we were worried he had passed on, gone
to the Pearly Gates or something like that, and uh no,
I ran into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben,
you know like that, And it was great to see him.
He actually called into the show early this week. I
heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell
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a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody
seemed really happy that he was there with us. But
I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he
called in a couple of days later and he said
he was at the super Bowl and he sold a
Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was
his big sale there, which is a big deal for
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helmet man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium.
So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now
Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he
lives over there now that that he moved. He relocated.
But it was he's very charming man and it was
nice to to catch up with him and a great
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start to a very fun day, uh, you know, around
the super Bowl and all that stuff and so so
that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And and then
as far as the Radio Row, I mean, you've been
to these things before. Danny had not been to Radio Row.
But that's a lot of grab bass, a lot of
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grab bass going on. Not good at grab bass, not good. Uh.
An introvert does not do well at radio I thought
I did pretty good all things considered. Yeah, I was
trying to be social. Yeah. No. When we were finishing up,
I made the joke that it felt like Jerry McGuire
where he is taking his wide receiver to do a
lap and he's like, come on, I know you're not
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very social, but let's do a lap. Let's work the
room one time, as I see. And at the end
he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Well, you were,
you were escorting me. We were a tag team here
walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely a class system
that I noticed at Radio Row. That was one of
the first things I noticed, Like most of the station's
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have just a crappy little table and a box of
equipment and maybe they have one of those vinyl signs
behind them if they're lucky. So you've got that's the
vast majority of Radio Row. And then we have the
Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set, which they put
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in the company put in UM and there were some
other big draft kings at a big stage. I saw
CBS had a big one. I mean there were a
few of them that were pretty big. Most of them
were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows with everyone
else on this. I remember it was either Miami Beach
or Atlanta, because they had huge sets like that at both.
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My former program director at NBC Sports Radio was at
one of the tables, like you're talking about and when
I saw him, instead of saying hi, he looked up
at our set and he said, what are you guys doing?
Set up for a Metallica concert? Yeah? It was, And
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I said this. I was on with Jason and Harmon.
I went on for a segment or two, and I
I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a year I
worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut. I was
never on a set that was as nice as the
one for a week at Radio Row. It was insane
uh nice that was And I felt like I felt
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a little shame because I feel like I'm more. I'm
more like the guys at the card tables, you know
what I mean. Like it was. It was a different
world being on the stage and all that. Not that
I'm complaining, but it was. I felt guilty because all
these guys are looking as you said, they're looking up.
They're like, oh, look at you big shots coming in
here with your your massive set and all that stuff
and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini here at
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the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's way better
than riding in one of those Pinto's. And the Mallard
militia would agree that after all these years of doing
sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there at the super Bowl.
But it was nice. It was very cool. And uh,
and I guess I can. I can go p O
B if you want. I can drop some names you
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can drop. I jotted down a few names of people
I met. I met Big Jim Murray and mass from
the Felgern Mashow that is the number one afternoon drive
local big market radio show that's on our affiliate, our
Fox Sports radio affiliate, Night point five FM, the Sports Hub.
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And so those guys are great. I'm in fact, Big
Jim Murshed is he's gonna come on the podcast. We're
gonna get him on in a future podcast and shoot
the crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash
Show in Boston, and that show dominates the radio waves
there in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there
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had a very brief you were actually part of this,
a very brief encounter with the one million dollar man,
Pat mckiw fee. Yeah, because he was a guest on
radio row with me in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage,
and dude had a crazy good memory. You know. I'm
talking to him about a Super Bowl from a couple
of years ago, and he was like, oh yeah, He's like,
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that's when Buffalo Wild Wings had me on your set.
He was right, that's exactly what happened. And so I
was able to then turn it over to you and
got a couple of good pictures of you guys, and
you guys chopped it up. He wanted to know when
you slept. Yeah, we were talking very debonair, very debonair.
Pat McAfee full as you see on his TV radio
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show whatever it is there. If you call ripped jeans Debonair.
Well you know, it's modern debonair, and he was the
only radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the
bro of sports talk radio. And he did have a
huge entourage. I mean, he even had some live performances
going on by different hip hop artists that were stopping
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by throughout the week. And I'm proud of him because
at that time, I remember Clay Travis asking me after
the fifteen minutes with us at that Super Bowl. He
was so good that Clay said, hey, Danny talked to
him and his manager, see if he can do a
weekly hit on out Kick that would be great, And well,
you know the rest of the story. He went on
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to do his own show. Yeah, and that was the
single greatest paid guest in sports radio over the last
year was Aaron Rodgers. No one's even close. Like every
week because of the circumstances of you know, him not
getting the vaccine and people complaining about that and all
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that stuff, and the Packers, who were the top team
in the NFC during the season, is every week. It
was something it was like on the Pat McAfee show.
But good for him. He got a hundred million dollars
here from what fan. Do I think it was? Is
that the one that or DraftKings, one of the gambling
outfits paid him. So that was nice to meet him.
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It was nice, very nice. A brief conversation there and
he but he did have that flotilla of people around him.
They're writing his coattails. But he's like a former NFL player,
so does that like he's not He played in the NFL.
He was a punter, so you've got that. There was
a a name radio person that we walked past Danny
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and did not acknowledge us, not acknowledge us. And I'm
pretty pretty sure, pretty sure the person saw me surprised motherfucker.
Who was it? We will not reveal the name. We
will not reveal the name, but it was someone his
last name rhymes with flick, with someone we both know.
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And it just just randomly we were walking in he
was walking out, ships passing in the night and uh no,
and no even fake hello we got. I don't think
he saw you because he was looking kind of the
other direction, or he looked right through you, maybe because
you're so thin. Now, yeah, I don't know about that.
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He definitely looked my direction. Now, maybe you know because
you're around, You're in a strange environment. There's a bunch
of random people. It is possible, not probable. It's possible
that he did not connect and I. And to be fair,
I mean he's one of the guys that I haven't
seen since I lost a lot of weight. So maybe
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he didn't put two and two together. There is that
possibility that he expected me to be a total large
ass and I didn't show up as a total large ass,
and so that might have been the the issue there. Uh.
As far as the hospitality, Danny, it was okay. They
had for the media. They had a lot of chips,
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soda right, there's vending machines that they had in the
green room. One of the highlights, man of walking around
that event with you once you would I got NFL bags.
We were able to really go to town and put
free bees in the bags. And what I loved is
you had a calculator in your head. Every time we
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got something for free. We were like, there's one dollar
off my parking, there's five off my parking. That's ten
towards my parking. That is outstanding. That TV slash radio
guy to their core adding up the free bees to
make sure the parking got paid. Yeah, so I did.
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I did the math on this, and I said, you know,
with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up.
I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda
probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for
the si I've going well, fo dollars, two dollars for
the soda, two dollars for the soda. Bag of ships,
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I'm not sure. Maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two
bucks depending. So I was doing the matter old spice products. Yeah,
there was old spice, although we really botched that we
could have got more of that. We missed out on
some Panini football cards that we didn't know about until
it was too late. So there were a couple of
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misses on our part. But we know we did clean
up pretty good though. Yeah. Like I remember, I was
walking back to my car through the mean streets of
downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy,
pretty heavy, and boy, we going to the the what
do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it
was something else. They had some name for it. I
forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super
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Bowl Store. Yeah, so we walked through there, and you
know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you
walk through a ride, they let you out in the
gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney
like prices. The NFL, they really know how to make
those cash registers should change chi ching, chi ching, chi ching.
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And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no,
I can't be that much. I only got a couple
of hats and it's sent me back over a hundred
bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold.
I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running
around there trying because you were buying some stuff for
some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan
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and some mother other people, the the the Queen Tinderoni. Well,
so I got her a nice hat that matches her
colors that she loves. We both were able to get
a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well,
that was that was a great well, that was the
unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were
leaving and I was only planning on staying for like
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two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours,
get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding
and I think this was a great decision to avoid
the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in
the belly of the Beast there in down Ton, l A.
We both determined we were having a good time, so
we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended
up staying I don't know when we leave eight o'clock
or something like that. At night. We cut the place
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down pretty much, which was a good decision because you
were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon, which was a lot of fun. And also,
and let me back up a little bit. When we
were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio,
we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts
on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him
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about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a
couple of years and we were having a fun little
conversation with him. He had the headset now. Prior to
talking with him, I asked him, I said, you're not
on right now writing so no, no, no, it's cool.
I'm in a commercial break. He lost track of time.
We say goodbye to him, he puts his headset on
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and I hear him talking to his engineer back at
the Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes?
You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful
made him three minutes late to his radio. So some
some jamok driving around Vegas is like, why is this
jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing
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this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That
P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three
minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah,
that's what happened to your boy to there in Vegas.
The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas
just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheehouse,
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Danny G. That format is crazy, all right. So we
stayed till we were past traffic and our way out,
we'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you
the blow by blow because this is the kind of
content you didn't know you need, but you can't get
enough of. This is the kind of audio content you're
looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out,
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you know those those a decent crowd of people just
mulling around outside the exit, and there were some bunch
of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs. I mean
they lined them up on both sides of the street.
It smelled really good, really really good. And then there
were a couple of dudes with bags of shirts and
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they were Super Bowl shirts. Like, these are good looking shirts. Yeah,
they did a good job on them. These are some
of the l A entrepreneurs that we liked to support.
I'm gonna say, Ben, check the tags on the shirt.
He checked the quality of the shirt, make sure that
the print on both sides was nice, and then made
sure the price was right. Yeah, no, it was inside
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the price gouging NFL store, that same shirt would have
been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye, sixty five bucks,
and we got it outside for twenty bucks. And it's
it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made. It
past the Mather test where I I kind of pulled
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it apart and let me look at that, and I
was like I was ending. But the price of even
counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series in seventeen,
I bought a couple of those shirts out on the
streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten bucks a shirt.
So in five years from two it's got up, but
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you know half it's double. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, these
guys are smart. They know exactly where the price point
was on the inside of the event, and so they
knew that their price point outside of the event was
a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't we I was
gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality
of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was
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gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive.
And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it.
But if you got a deal like that, you gotta
take advanta to that for sure. Hats on the inside
that were official and shirts on the outside which were
semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here,
but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat.
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I was a douche because I was fasting, man, and
I sat there and you had you had a delicious
plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I
was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious.
And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger keep trying, Ryan.
We all went to this restaurant across from from the
crypt Arena, whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to
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Tom's at l A Live there right across from the event,
and I was bummed out because you know, I haven't
got to break bread with you in a while. You know,
back in the live radio days with you, we used
to have pizza parties all the time. You and I
would go to cheesecake Factory in places like that to
break bread. Um, so I know your style of food,
I know what you love. The menu was right up
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your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food.
But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny,
because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm
so paranoid as I recovering fat man every time I
eat a big meal out like that. And then I
figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that.
So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year.
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Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It
was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's
just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's
the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those
anymore because of COVID. We haven't had those in a
long time. I haven't seen a lot. I don't think
i've seen harmon uh since since all this happened. I mean,
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I haven't been in very much, so I haven't seen
any any of you guys that much. And a lot
of the hosts and other announcers are remote from their
homes this past year or two, like Dan Buyer, who
we saw, I hadn't seen him since Kobe passed away,
and we were eating together at the Miami Beach Super
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Bowl Crazy Ride the past couple of years. Yeah, and
I had not seen Gottlieb or Buyers since. We went
to a golf tournament. They had a Fox Sports Radio
golf tournament in the middle of twenty nineteen, which somehow
somebody screwed up and invited me to that, and I
had a wonderful time. It's a tournament you spoke about
with Bucky Brooks on the podcast. That's right, Yes, Bucky.
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Bucky was one of my golf partners there and saw
me hit the worst shot in the history of golf
that I hit a folding chair, which I still don't
know how I was able to pull it off just
ram it. But yeah, that was cool. I was a
good time, even though I didn't eat. Just the company
was great hanging out with you and Harmon and and
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and Burr Singer. After the bar, you spent five ten
good minutes with a horse. I did. I did, That's right,
I got I apologized. You guys had to wait for me.
I was very rude. I've always been a fan of
the Cavalry the Los Angeles. I do the same thing
when I go visit my brother in New York. So
it's not just l a police, but it's like the
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police on horseback. It's just like, for some reason that
just gets me every time. I'm like fascinated by that, right.
And so we were walking back and there was a
couple of horse officers officers on horseback, and they weren't
actual horses, and so I went over to see the
horse and talk to the officer, and it was it
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was pretty neat. He was telling me about how difficult
it is. There's very few officers that are on the
cavalry or whatever they call it, and there's only like twenty,
I think, in all of Los Angeles, and so it
was it was interesting. He was giving me a little
inside skinning. And now if you're on the officers, you
you have to pass all these tests like it's a
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very elite group of people that are allowed to do it.
And so I took a photo. Maybe i'll post that.
I don't think I posted that one last week, but
I did take a photo with the horse. I think
he came out pretty good. Everyone the horse was looking,
I was looking, the officer was looking. Everything was everyone
was happy and and all that stuff. So that was
a good photo. And but you guys had to wait
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for me to get done, and I appreciate you waiting.
Another radio guy we're dropping names here, former very briefly,
a colleague of ours at Fox Sports Radio and one
of the great late night hosts who's done it a
lot longer than I have, and someone I respect in
radio because he's been good at it for a long time.
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That'd be relevant. Yeah, that was one of the highlights
of the entire trip to Radio Row. I remember being
a little kid in the car when my family moved
from l A to the Bay I remember being in
the Bay Area and he was the first sports talk
radio guy to simulcast his show. Actually got to see
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what he looked like as he did his show on
cable TV, and then we would hear him on the
radio as we drove in the car. And one of
his sticks was his listeners would call in and they
would tell him what kind of alcohol they would like
him to pour. Pour me in Old English, and they
had different sound effects of the alcohol being poured. All
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these years later and all the success he's had, it
was very cool to talk to him in person and
then see how much he looked up to you and
guys like you, because you guys have a lot in
common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known, you know, I
listened to Scott two before you know, I was actually
in the business, but it was kind of early on
and stuff. But Scott's been on forever and we worked.
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I worked with him his west he was working at
Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked up by the
local affiliate I was working at, and then you know,
they tried to make it like a local national thing
because he was in l A. He was living in
Orange County, and so he came to some remote and
we kind of hung out together there and then he
came through Fox Sports Radio briefly, but It was great
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to talk to him. He's very kind. He said some
nice things about me on the show, which was cool.
And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast. I think
he's he's good to go. He says he's good to
do it. And we were catching up and we're talking
about his days at Fox Sports Radio and he's told
me he knows me. And there's like a few other people,
it's hardly anybody that It's crazy how long he's been gone.
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It seems like he was just there. To me. My
concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote, what is time?
This time even exists, but it seems like I can
remember it, like it seems like it was like two
months ago Farrell was working at our place. But it's
probably been fifteen, sixteen years, seventeen years since he worked.
There's something along those lines. It's been an insane amount
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of time. And so yeah, everyone's pretty much turned over
multiple times since then, as is the radio world that
we live in, right, A lot of change, a lot
of that. Although we've had some pretty good stability lately
at Fox Sports Radio, what kind of Clay getting promoted
kind of ruined that. But that's good for Clay because
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he got the Limbough Show and all that. So it
was it was neat talking to Farrell and and his
thing and his radio run and he does some internet
TV thing as well, so he's got a lot going on.
He's it's so weird because you know, I knew Farrell
before he really had a family or anything like that,
and now he's, you know, all grown up. We're all
grown up, I guess. Yeah. He was telling us about
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how two of his boys are basketball stars at their school,
so yeah, you're right then to hear somebody talking about
their kids in high school and stuff like that, You're like, wow,
times are passing. Yeah, yeah, time does not slow down
for anyone. The train keeps a moving, uh, that is
for sure. Now that the customary part of this, Danny.
(28:56):
So we both were in agreement on this, and we
had such a good time here. We made some contacts
for the podcast, we booked future guests for the podcast,
we networked, we were schmoozing that we are. I think
we're both in agreement and the company is not gonna
send us these things because you know, but since the
(29:17):
next two Super Bowls, super Bowl fifty seven and Super
Bowl fifty eight are geographically desirable. I think our plan
is to try to make it to Arizona and Glendale, Arizona,
and then Las Vegas after that. That's a big one
for you, Danny, the Las Vegas super Bowl. But we
can get into radio row. So I think the plan
(29:39):
is I might even, you know, go a day early
and do the overnight show from a radio station in
Phoenix and then and then that way I'm in town
for the next day. But I think we're gonna do it, right,
that's the plan. You know, who knows, Maybe we'll both
get different jobs. I don't know, maybe you'll do something else.
But assuming we're in the same situation here, we're gonna
be there, right, that's right there. If it's in driving distance,
(30:00):
then we'll do it again. Look out, Ben Maller on
the loose. Yeah, you'll go from not having gone to
any of the radio rows for how many years to
all of a sudden three years in a row. You'll
become a fixture of radio. I'm excited about that. And
since we'll be on the road, we can do like
a mini Mallard meet and greet in uh in Phoenix,
(30:21):
in Vegas and all that and the next of course
years down the line and all that, and it didn't happen. Well,
it's going to happen, hasn't happened yet. We're looking forward
to now as far as bunkering is concerned. I got
several emails. I didn't want to use this in the emails.
We're going to do the email tomorrow and I don't
(30:41):
want to do that here. But I got several people
asking what did you eat during the Super Bowl? We
were asked what I was going to eat, and so
I just wanted to pay that so you stopped asking me.
I don't know why that's so interesting. Who the hell
cares what I eat? Seriously, I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
but uh so, uh my answer I probably will surprise you.
We're having some work done still, after all this time
(31:04):
at the Mallard mansion, there's still slowly work being done,
and my wife is orchestrating all that. I'm encouraging her
to try to get a lot of this stuff done
quickly because I'm tired of the sporadic construction. We're both
tired of it. So anyway, she had scheduled some some
work done in the kitchen of all places. Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah,
So I was hunkering and bunkering down in my studio
(31:27):
slash office, and my wife actually had to work on
Super Bowl Sunday, but she did. She she works at
night like I do. But on her way out of
the door, she felt pity on me, Danny, because I
couldn't go into the kitchen. It was off limits. It
was a construction zone. So I'm bunkering in the studio
and she very nice. It's good. You know, you picked
a good wife, and she's picked the right person. Maybe
(31:49):
not I'm I'm not the right person. But she she
made these big bowls, these big snack bowls, so I
I had one for the first half and one for
the second half. But it was all like popcorn, flint, Almond's,
that kind of stuff because nothing I can because if
I had had access to the air fryer or the oven,
I would have made like many tacos, two keto's that
(32:11):
you know, that finger foods, that kind of stuff. But
you were at work, weren't you, Danny. Were you in studio? Yeah,
I was part of the coverage team with plankin Spaniard.
I got to the studios at two thirty PM. I
left eighteen minutes into your second hour. Did they buy
(32:32):
pizza for you and the guys? They did? Big Mike
came in to have a meeting with his editing crew.
He also brought in Mulberry Street pizzas. Yeah, now that's
good pizza. That's high end pizza. But my one complaint,
the slices are so big. It goes quick. The slices
(32:53):
are massive on the Mulberry Street. That's called nitpicky. I
did a lot of those Super Bowl shows back in
the day to do they still get a lot of
calls during the game. I was always blown away by
that that you'd be on competing against the Super Bowl
and you'd have a full bank of calls and everyone
wanted to talk and it just blew me away. But
(33:13):
it's cool. Yeah, it was very cool there. There's actually
people who like our network so much they muted the
broadcast team and had us on instead as their audio track.
So that was really flattering. And you're right, a lot
of calls and interaction. I thought it would be more
tumbleweeds and crickets, but there was a lot of people listening.
(33:34):
That is pretty cool, all right. So we'll get out
of here on this. This is critically acclaimed, Danny. So
we have been begging. I've been begging. You've been requesting
people actually right reviews on the Apple page for the
Fifth Hour podcast, and we have since I last checked
Danny three reviews. So in honor, we're gonna we're now
(33:58):
going to read the reviews. I a person very close
to me told me, Ben, you really should read the
reviews when somebody sends a review in since you're begging
people to send reviews and you should read him. I thought,
you know, that makes a lot of sense. So ohio
Al gave us a review five stars, says he loves
the Danny G edition. The Fifth Hour is always entertaining
(34:18):
to fill the weekend while waiting for the next week
of the Ben Mallor Show. Keep up the good stuffs
from ohio Al, a fan of yours and mine. Thank
you for that, ohio Alan. He's a little biased because
he provided a song that we play every weekend on
the podcast for the mail bag, and also Robin Vegas
wrote any headline Fifth Hour great podcast. Big Ben is
(34:41):
a radio legend, huge upgrade, adding Danny G. Then he
takes a potshot at Gascon. He says, the other guy
Blue Major chunks one word narcissist. Well that's not very nice, Rob,
how dare But thank you for the review, Rob, thank
you for the review. And Sassy Jojo, thank you, Sassy Joe.
Joe says, great show, very entertaining. Danny g is good too,
(35:03):
So you got you got that thrown in there as well, Danny,
Thank you, Rob, and thank you Joe Joe. Yeah, and
Ohio all as well. Yeah, the three, Yeah, the three
of you. If we can now multiply that like Gremlin's Ben, Yes,
let's get three more. Let's ask for three more reviews.
That's it. We'll shoot low. And I promise you from
(35:24):
now on I I get on tee every week when
you make a review, we'll read it. We'll read it
right here on the podcast. We'll give you a little
love on the podcast because you're giving us love. We'll
give you a little audio love as a thank you
as because I know it's a pain in the y s.
Who wants to do that? What a pain in the
You don't want to sit there? You gotta fill out
(35:45):
that whole thing. You're like, well, it's a waste of
my time, but we thank you for it does matter
and so thank you. And well, I think we'll check
out for today. We got the mail Bag on Sunday,
right Sunday, Sunday, Sunday the mail Bag. Can't wait for that.
Let's be fun. And boy that Friday podcast if you
missed it a doozy. We don't need to bring Jonas in.
(36:07):
Go back, download, listen the whole thing. Have a great
rest of your Saturday, though, and we will chat with
you again tomorrow. Oh and I almost forgot Ben. Lastly,
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(00:48):
of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap
of a trip to Radio Row, which is a very exciting,
very exciting for me. I've not been to Radio Row,
so we we will get into all of the goodness
that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait to get
(01:10):
it because I've been waiting. You know. I told some
of the stories Danny on the radio, but I didn't
get into it too much. I figured, why not save
this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right,
the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And
this is way better than a recap of the game.
Who watched that game. This is more about Radio Row. Yeah,
(01:30):
I mean listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like
three d thirty million people in America, so more people
didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl.
But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount
of people get to hear this podcast. This is a
very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering,
(01:53):
and critically acclaimed. This is a jam packed fifth hour.
The amount of content that you were going to get
on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right, I
mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right, So
Serendipitous Danny, And this is actually before I even ran
into you at the l A Convention Center where Radio
(02:17):
Row was last week, so I finally making it there
and and being part of the ambiance. But getting their
parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated the
price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd.
So right around Radio Row the parking was like fifty
bucks a lot of those places, but uh, I ended
(02:40):
up parking about two miles away, at least according to
my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd
cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know
where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot.
And anyway, partly it was like still thirty bucks the park.
So that was the first kicking the in then having
(03:00):
to pay thirty bucks to park. I wasn't playing me
there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah, it wasn't.
I ended up we ended up staying a lot longer.
But my plan was only to be there a little bit.
I know exactly what the city of l A did
what they always do. They put some pocket money into
their jacket, put them on a bus, and they dropped
them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yah, Well they'll all be
(03:23):
back now. They're probably already back now that the Super
Bowl is over, and I don't care anymore until the
next big event and then they're gonna ship all the
homeless homeless out. But it's very weird, you know, you
know how things happen in life. And so I ended
up parking in a lot. I usually had this lot
that I parked in when I would go to games
in downtown l A. But I decided not to park there.
(03:45):
I want to part a little closer, and then I
ended up parking further away, but in a different direction
where I decided a park a couple of miles away.
And you know, I was a long walk. It's fine,
the weather was great, whatever, but it was It was
a serendipitous decision because if I had parked somewhere else,
I would not have been able to run across who
(04:06):
I ran across there. My path took me directly into
the man known as Helmet Man. Oh yes, I'm actually
on the Live are yes, you're on the superhero Helmet
Man just happened to be out on the street there
selling his products. It was like a light shining from heaven.
(04:29):
I fell asleep. That's the man right there, the great
helmet Man. And he hadn't called the show in a
couple of years. I was telling you the story, Danny,
when we were at the restaurant there. But he had
not called the show in a couple of years. I
was concerned. Eddie was concerned. We were all concerned because
he had come by the studio and just like knocked
on the door and we put him in and we
hadn't heard from him, and he'd always checked in with
(04:50):
us every once in a while see what was going on,
and so we were worried he had passed on, gone
to the Pearly Gates or something like that, and uh no,
I ran into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben,
you know like that, And it was great to see him.
He actually called into the show early this week. I
heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell
(05:13):
a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody
seemed really happy that he was there with us. But
I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he
called in a couple of days later and he said
he was at the super Bowl and he sold a
Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was
his big sale there, which is a big deal for
(05:35):
helmet man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium.
So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now
Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he
lives over there now that that he moved. He relocated.
But it was he's very charming man and it was
nice to to catch up with him and a great
(05:55):
start to a very fun day, uh, you know, around
the super Bowl and all that stuff and so so
that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And and then
as far as the Radio Row, I mean, you've been
to these things before. Danny had not been to Radio Row.
But that's a lot of grab bass, a lot of
(06:17):
grab bass going on. Not good at grab bass, not good. Uh.
An introvert does not do well at radio I thought
I did pretty good all things considered. Yeah, I was
trying to be social. Yeah. No. When we were finishing up,
I made the joke that it felt like Jerry McGuire
where he is taking his wide receiver to do a
lap and he's like, come on, I know you're not
(06:39):
very social, but let's do a lap. Let's work the
room one time, as I see. And at the end
he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Well, you were,
you were escorting me. We were a tag team here
walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely a class system
that I noticed at Radio Row. That was one of
the first things I noticed, Like most of the station's
(07:00):
have just a crappy little table and a box of
equipment and maybe they have one of those vinyl signs
behind them if they're lucky. So you've got that's the
vast majority of Radio Row. And then we have the
Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set, which they put
(07:20):
in the company put in UM and there were some
other big draft kings at a big stage. I saw
CBS had a big one. I mean there were a
few of them that were pretty big. Most of them
were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows with everyone
else on this. I remember it was either Miami Beach
or Atlanta, because they had huge sets like that at both.
(07:44):
My former program director at NBC Sports Radio was at
one of the tables, like you're talking about and when
I saw him, instead of saying hi, he looked up
at our set and he said, what are you guys doing?
Set up for a Metallica concert? Yeah? It was, And
(08:05):
I said this. I was on with Jason and Harmon.
I went on for a segment or two, and I
I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a year I
worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut. I was
never on a set that was as nice as the
one for a week at Radio Row. It was insane
uh nice that was And I felt like I felt
(08:27):
a little shame because I feel like I'm more. I'm
more like the guys at the card tables, you know
what I mean. Like it was. It was a different
world being on the stage and all that. Not that
I'm complaining, but it was. I felt guilty because all
these guys are looking as you said, they're looking up.
They're like, oh, look at you big shots coming in
here with your your massive set and all that stuff
and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini here at
(08:51):
the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's way better
than riding in one of those Pinto's. And the Mallard
militia would agree that after all these years of doing
sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there at the super Bowl.
But it was nice. It was very cool. And uh,
and I guess I can. I can go p O
B if you want. I can drop some names you
(09:11):
can drop. I jotted down a few names of people
I met. I met Big Jim Murray and mass from
the Felgern Mashow that is the number one afternoon drive
local big market radio show that's on our affiliate, our
Fox Sports radio affiliate, Night point five FM, the Sports Hub.
(09:32):
And so those guys are great. I'm in fact, Big
Jim Murshed is he's gonna come on the podcast. We're
gonna get him on in a future podcast and shoot
the crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash
Show in Boston, and that show dominates the radio waves
there in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there
(09:52):
had a very brief you were actually part of this,
a very brief encounter with the one million dollar man,
Pat mckiw fee. Yeah, because he was a guest on
radio row with me in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage,
and dude had a crazy good memory. You know. I'm
talking to him about a Super Bowl from a couple
of years ago, and he was like, oh yeah, He's like,
(10:14):
that's when Buffalo Wild Wings had me on your set.
He was right, that's exactly what happened. And so I
was able to then turn it over to you and
got a couple of good pictures of you guys, and
you guys chopped it up. He wanted to know when
you slept. Yeah, we were talking very debonair, very debonair.
Pat McAfee full as you see on his TV radio
(10:36):
show whatever it is there. If you call ripped jeans Debonair.
Well you know, it's modern debonair, and he was the
only radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the
bro of sports talk radio. And he did have a
huge entourage. I mean, he even had some live performances
going on by different hip hop artists that were stopping
(10:57):
by throughout the week. And I'm proud of him because
at that time, I remember Clay Travis asking me after
the fifteen minutes with us at that Super Bowl. He
was so good that Clay said, hey, Danny talked to
him and his manager, see if he can do a
weekly hit on out Kick that would be great, And well,
you know the rest of the story. He went on
(11:18):
to do his own show. Yeah, and that was the
single greatest paid guest in sports radio over the last
year was Aaron Rodgers. No one's even close. Like every
week because of the circumstances of you know, him not
getting the vaccine and people complaining about that and all
(11:38):
that stuff, and the Packers, who were the top team
in the NFC during the season, is every week. It
was something it was like on the Pat McAfee show.
But good for him. He got a hundred million dollars
here from what fan. Do I think it was? Is
that the one that or DraftKings, one of the gambling
outfits paid him. So that was nice to meet him.
(11:58):
It was nice, very nice. A brief conversation there and
he but he did have that flotilla of people around him.
They're writing his coattails. But he's like a former NFL player,
so does that like he's not He played in the NFL.
He was a punter, so you've got that. There was
a a name radio person that we walked past Danny
(12:24):
and did not acknowledge us, not acknowledge us. And I'm
pretty pretty sure, pretty sure the person saw me surprised motherfucker.
Who was it? We will not reveal the name. We
will not reveal the name, but it was someone his
last name rhymes with flick, with someone we both know.
(12:47):
And it just just randomly we were walking in he
was walking out, ships passing in the night and uh no,
and no even fake hello we got. I don't think
he saw you because he was looking kind of the
other direction, or he looked right through you, maybe because
you're so thin. Now, yeah, I don't know about that.
(13:09):
He definitely looked my direction. Now, maybe you know because
you're around, You're in a strange environment. There's a bunch
of random people. It is possible, not probable. It's possible
that he did not connect and I. And to be fair,
I mean he's one of the guys that I haven't
seen since I lost a lot of weight. So maybe
(13:30):
he didn't put two and two together. There is that
possibility that he expected me to be a total large
ass and I didn't show up as a total large ass,
and so that might have been the the issue there. Uh.
As far as the hospitality, Danny, it was okay. They
had for the media. They had a lot of chips,
(13:51):
soda right, there's vending machines that they had in the
green room. One of the highlights, man of walking around
that event with you once you would I got NFL bags.
We were able to really go to town and put
free bees in the bags. And what I loved is
you had a calculator in your head. Every time we
(14:11):
got something for free. We were like, there's one dollar
off my parking, there's five off my parking. That's ten
towards my parking. That is outstanding. That TV slash radio
guy to their core adding up the free bees to
make sure the parking got paid. Yeah, so I did.
(14:33):
I did the math on this, and I said, you know,
with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up.
I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda
probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for
the si I've going well, fo dollars, two dollars for
the soda, two dollars for the soda. Bag of ships,
(14:55):
I'm not sure. Maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two
bucks depending. So I was doing the matter old spice products. Yeah,
there was old spice, although we really botched that we
could have got more of that. We missed out on
some Panini football cards that we didn't know about until
it was too late. So there were a couple of
(15:15):
misses on our part. But we know we did clean
up pretty good though. Yeah. Like I remember, I was
walking back to my car through the mean streets of
downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy,
pretty heavy, and boy, we going to the the what
do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it
was something else. They had some name for it. I
forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super
(15:37):
Bowl Store. Yeah, so we walked through there, and you
know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you
walk through a ride, they let you out in the
gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney
like prices. The NFL, they really know how to make
those cash registers should change chi ching, chi ching, chi ching.
(16:03):
And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no,
I can't be that much. I only got a couple
of hats and it's sent me back over a hundred
bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold.
I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running
around there trying because you were buying some stuff for
some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan
(16:26):
and some mother other people, the the the Queen Tinderoni. Well,
so I got her a nice hat that matches her
colors that she loves. We both were able to get
a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well,
that was that was a great well, that was the
unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were
leaving and I was only planning on staying for like
(16:48):
two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours,
get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding
and I think this was a great decision to avoid
the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in
the belly of the Beast there in down Ton, l A.
We both determined we were having a good time, so
we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended
up staying I don't know when we leave eight o'clock
or something like that. At night. We cut the place
(17:09):
down pretty much, which was a good decision because you
were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon, which was a lot of fun. And also,
and let me back up a little bit. When we
were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio,
we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts
on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him
(17:33):
about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a
couple of years and we were having a fun little
conversation with him. He had the headset now. Prior to
talking with him, I asked him, I said, you're not
on right now writing so no, no, no, it's cool.
I'm in a commercial break. He lost track of time.
We say goodbye to him, he puts his headset on
(17:55):
and I hear him talking to his engineer back at
the Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes?
You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful
made him three minutes late to his radio. So some
some jamok driving around Vegas is like, why is this
jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing
(18:18):
this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That
P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three
minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah,
that's what happened to your boy to there in Vegas.
The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas
just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheehouse,
(18:38):
Danny G. That format is crazy, all right. So we
stayed till we were past traffic and our way out,
we'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you
the blow by blow because this is the kind of
content you didn't know you need, but you can't get
enough of. This is the kind of audio content you're
looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out,
(19:02):
you know those those a decent crowd of people just
mulling around outside the exit, and there were some bunch
of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs. I mean
they lined them up on both sides of the street.
It smelled really good, really really good. And then there
were a couple of dudes with bags of shirts and
(19:26):
they were Super Bowl shirts. Like, these are good looking shirts. Yeah,
they did a good job on them. These are some
of the l A entrepreneurs that we liked to support.
I'm gonna say, Ben, check the tags on the shirt.
He checked the quality of the shirt, make sure that
the print on both sides was nice, and then made
sure the price was right. Yeah, no, it was inside
(19:48):
the price gouging NFL store, that same shirt would have
been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye, sixty five bucks,
and we got it outside for twenty bucks. And it's
it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made. It
past the Mather test where I I kind of pulled
(20:10):
it apart and let me look at that, and I
was like I was ending. But the price of even
counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series in seventeen,
I bought a couple of those shirts out on the
streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten bucks a shirt.
So in five years from two it's got up, but
(20:31):
you know half it's double. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, these
guys are smart. They know exactly where the price point
was on the inside of the event, and so they
knew that their price point outside of the event was
a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't we I was
gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality
of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was
(20:52):
gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive.
And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it.
But if you got a deal like that, you gotta
take advanta to that for sure. Hats on the inside
that were official and shirts on the outside which were
semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here,
but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat.
(21:15):
I was a douche because I was fasting, man, and
I sat there and you had you had a delicious
plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I
was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious.
And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger keep trying, Ryan.
We all went to this restaurant across from from the
crypt Arena, whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to
(21:38):
Tom's at l A Live there right across from the event,
and I was bummed out because you know, I haven't
got to break bread with you in a while. You know,
back in the live radio days with you, we used
to have pizza parties all the time. You and I
would go to cheesecake Factory in places like that to
break bread. Um, so I know your style of food,
I know what you love. The menu was right up
(22:01):
your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food.
But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny,
because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm
so paranoid as I recovering fat man every time I
eat a big meal out like that. And then I
figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that.
So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year.
(22:24):
Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It
was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's
just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's
the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those
anymore because of COVID. We haven't had those in a
long time. I haven't seen a lot. I don't think
i've seen harmon uh since since all this happened. I mean,
(22:44):
I haven't been in very much, so I haven't seen
any any of you guys that much. And a lot
of the hosts and other announcers are remote from their
homes this past year or two, like Dan Buyer, who
we saw, I hadn't seen him since Kobe passed away,
and we were eating together at the Miami Beach Super
(23:05):
Bowl Crazy Ride the past couple of years. Yeah, and
I had not seen Gottlieb or Buyers since. We went
to a golf tournament. They had a Fox Sports Radio
golf tournament in the middle of twenty nineteen, which somehow
somebody screwed up and invited me to that, and I
had a wonderful time. It's a tournament you spoke about
with Bucky Brooks on the podcast. That's right, Yes, Bucky.
(23:28):
Bucky was one of my golf partners there and saw
me hit the worst shot in the history of golf
that I hit a folding chair, which I still don't
know how I was able to pull it off just
ram it. But yeah, that was cool. I was a
good time, even though I didn't eat. Just the company
was great hanging out with you and Harmon and and
(23:50):
and Burr Singer. After the bar, you spent five ten
good minutes with a horse. I did. I did, That's right,
I got I apologized. You guys had to wait for me.
I was very rude. I've always been a fan of
the Cavalry the Los Angeles. I do the same thing
when I go visit my brother in New York. So
it's not just l a police, but it's like the
(24:12):
police on horseback. It's just like, for some reason that
just gets me every time. I'm like fascinated by that, right.
And so we were walking back and there was a
couple of horse officers officers on horseback, and they weren't
actual horses, and so I went over to see the
horse and talk to the officer, and it was it
(24:35):
was pretty neat. He was telling me about how difficult
it is. There's very few officers that are on the
cavalry or whatever they call it, and there's only like twenty,
I think, in all of Los Angeles, and so it
was it was interesting. He was giving me a little
inside skinning. And now if you're on the officers, you
you have to pass all these tests like it's a
(24:56):
very elite group of people that are allowed to do it.
And so I took a photo. Maybe i'll post that.
I don't think I posted that one last week, but
I did take a photo with the horse. I think
he came out pretty good. Everyone the horse was looking,
I was looking, the officer was looking. Everything was everyone
was happy and and all that stuff. So that was
a good photo. And but you guys had to wait
(25:18):
for me to get done, and I appreciate you waiting.
Another radio guy we're dropping names here, former very briefly,
a colleague of ours at Fox Sports Radio and one
of the great late night hosts who's done it a
lot longer than I have, and someone I respect in
radio because he's been good at it for a long time.
(25:39):
That'd be relevant. Yeah, that was one of the highlights
of the entire trip to Radio Row. I remember being
a little kid in the car when my family moved
from l A to the Bay I remember being in
the Bay Area and he was the first sports talk
radio guy to simulcast his show. Actually got to see
(26:01):
what he looked like as he did his show on
cable TV, and then we would hear him on the
radio as we drove in the car. And one of
his sticks was his listeners would call in and they
would tell him what kind of alcohol they would like
him to pour. Pour me in Old English, and they
had different sound effects of the alcohol being poured. All
(26:25):
these years later and all the success he's had, it
was very cool to talk to him in person and
then see how much he looked up to you and
guys like you, because you guys have a lot in
common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known, you know, I
listened to Scott two before you know, I was actually
in the business, but it was kind of early on
and stuff. But Scott's been on forever and we worked.
(26:46):
I worked with him his west he was working at
Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked up by the
local affiliate I was working at, and then you know,
they tried to make it like a local national thing
because he was in l A. He was living in
Orange County, and so he came to some remote and
we kind of hung out together there and then he
came through Fox Sports Radio briefly, but It was great
(27:08):
to talk to him. He's very kind. He said some
nice things about me on the show, which was cool.
And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast. I think
he's he's good to go. He says he's good to
do it. And we were catching up and we're talking
about his days at Fox Sports Radio and he's told
me he knows me. And there's like a few other people,
it's hardly anybody that It's crazy how long he's been gone.
(27:29):
It seems like he was just there. To me. My
concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote, what is time?
This time even exists, but it seems like I can
remember it, like it seems like it was like two
months ago Farrell was working at our place. But it's
probably been fifteen, sixteen years, seventeen years since he worked.
There's something along those lines. It's been an insane amount
(27:51):
of time. And so yeah, everyone's pretty much turned over
multiple times since then, as is the radio world that
we live in, right, A lot of change, a lot
of that. Although we've had some pretty good stability lately
at Fox Sports Radio, what kind of Clay getting promoted
kind of ruined that. But that's good for Clay because
(28:11):
he got the Limbough Show and all that. So it
was it was neat talking to Farrell and and his
thing and his radio run and he does some internet
TV thing as well, so he's got a lot going on.
He's it's so weird because you know, I knew Farrell
before he really had a family or anything like that,
and now he's, you know, all grown up. We're all
grown up, I guess. Yeah. He was telling us about
(28:33):
how two of his boys are basketball stars at their school,
so yeah, you're right then to hear somebody talking about
their kids in high school and stuff like that, You're like, wow,
times are passing. Yeah, yeah, time does not slow down
for anyone. The train keeps a moving, uh, that is
for sure. Now that the customary part of this, Danny.
(28:56):
So we both were in agreement on this, and we
had such a good time here. We made some contacts
for the podcast, we booked future guests for the podcast,
we networked, we were schmoozing that we are. I think
we're both in agreement and the company is not gonna
send us these things because you know, but since the
(29:17):
next two Super Bowls, super Bowl fifty seven and Super
Bowl fifty eight are geographically desirable. I think our plan
is to try to make it to Arizona and Glendale, Arizona,
and then Las Vegas after that. That's a big one
for you, Danny, the Las Vegas super Bowl. But we
can get into radio row. So I think the plan
(29:39):
is I might even, you know, go a day early
and do the overnight show from a radio station in
Phoenix and then and then that way I'm in town
for the next day. But I think we're gonna do it, right,
that's the plan. You know, who knows, Maybe we'll both
get different jobs. I don't know, maybe you'll do something else.
But assuming we're in the same situation here, we're gonna
be there, right, that's right there. If it's in driving distance,
(30:00):
then we'll do it again. Look out, Ben Maller on
the loose. Yeah, you'll go from not having gone to
any of the radio rows for how many years to
all of a sudden three years in a row. You'll
become a fixture of radio. I'm excited about that. And
since we'll be on the road, we can do like
a mini Mallard meet and greet in uh in Phoenix,
(30:21):
in Vegas and all that and the next of course
years down the line and all that, and it didn't happen. Well,
it's going to happen, hasn't happened yet. We're looking forward
to now as far as bunkering is concerned. I got
several emails. I didn't want to use this in the emails.
We're going to do the email tomorrow and I don't
(30:41):
want to do that here. But I got several people
asking what did you eat during the Super Bowl? We
were asked what I was going to eat, and so
I just wanted to pay that so you stopped asking me.
I don't know why that's so interesting. Who the hell
cares what I eat? Seriously, I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
but uh so, uh my answer I probably will surprise you.
We're having some work done still, after all this time
(31:04):
at the Mallard mansion, there's still slowly work being done,
and my wife is orchestrating all that. I'm encouraging her
to try to get a lot of this stuff done
quickly because I'm tired of the sporadic construction. We're both
tired of it. So anyway, she had scheduled some some
work done in the kitchen of all places. Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah,
So I was hunkering and bunkering down in my studio
(31:27):
slash office, and my wife actually had to work on
Super Bowl Sunday, but she did. She she works at
night like I do. But on her way out of
the door, she felt pity on me, Danny, because I
couldn't go into the kitchen. It was off limits. It
was a construction zone. So I'm bunkering in the studio
and she very nice. It's good. You know, you picked
a good wife, and she's picked the right person. Maybe
(31:49):
not I'm I'm not the right person. But she she
made these big bowls, these big snack bowls, so I
I had one for the first half and one for
the second half. But it was all like popcorn, flint, Almond's,
that kind of stuff because nothing I can because if
I had had access to the air fryer or the oven,
I would have made like many tacos, two keto's that
(32:11):
you know, that finger foods, that kind of stuff. But
you were at work, weren't you, Danny. Were you in studio? Yeah,
I was part of the coverage team with plankin Spaniard.
I got to the studios at two thirty PM. I
left eighteen minutes into your second hour. Did they buy
(32:32):
pizza for you and the guys? They did? Big Mike
came in to have a meeting with his editing crew.
He also brought in Mulberry Street pizzas. Yeah, now that's
good pizza. That's high end pizza. But my one complaint,
the slices are so big. It goes quick. The slices
(32:53):
are massive on the Mulberry Street. That's called nitpicky. I
did a lot of those Super Bowl shows back in
the day to do they still get a lot of
calls during the game. I was always blown away by
that that you'd be on competing against the Super Bowl
and you'd have a full bank of calls and everyone
wanted to talk and it just blew me away. But
(33:13):
it's cool. Yeah, it was very cool there. There's actually
people who like our network so much they muted the
broadcast team and had us on instead as their audio track.
So that was really flattering. And you're right, a lot
of calls and interaction. I thought it would be more
tumbleweeds and crickets, but there was a lot of people listening.
(33:34):
That is pretty cool, all right. So we'll get out
of here on this. This is critically acclaimed, Danny. So
we have been begging. I've been begging. You've been requesting
people actually right reviews on the Apple page for the
Fifth Hour podcast, and we have since I last checked
Danny three reviews. So in honor, we're gonna we're now
(33:58):
going to read the reviews. I a person very close
to me told me, Ben, you really should read the
reviews when somebody sends a review in since you're begging
people to send reviews and you should read him. I thought,
you know, that makes a lot of sense. So ohio
Al gave us a review five stars, says he loves
the Danny G edition. The Fifth Hour is always entertaining
(34:18):
to fill the weekend while waiting for the next week
of the Ben Mallor Show. Keep up the good stuffs
from ohio Al, a fan of yours and mine. Thank
you for that, ohio Alan. He's a little biased because
he provided a song that we play every weekend on
the podcast for the mail bag, and also Robin Vegas
wrote any headline Fifth Hour great podcast. Big Ben is
(34:41):
a radio legend, huge upgrade, adding Danny G. Then he
takes a potshot at Gascon. He says, the other guy
Blue Major chunks one word narcissist. Well that's not very nice, Rob,
how dare But thank you for the review, Rob, thank
you for the review. And Sassy Jojo, thank you, Sassy Joe.
Joe says, great show, very entertaining. Danny g is good too,
(35:03):
So you got you got that thrown in there as well, Danny,
Thank you, Rob, and thank you Joe Joe. Yeah, and
Ohio all as well. Yeah, the three, Yeah, the three
of you. If we can now multiply that like Gremlin's Ben, Yes,
let's get three more. Let's ask for three more reviews.
That's it. We'll shoot low. And I promise you from
(35:24):
now on I I get on tee every week when
you make a review, we'll read it. We'll read it
right here on the podcast. We'll give you a little
love on the podcast because you're giving us love. We'll
give you a little audio love as a thank you
as because I know it's a pain in the y s.
Who wants to do that? What a pain in the
You don't want to sit there? You gotta fill out
(35:45):
that whole thing. You're like, well, it's a waste of
my time, but we thank you for it does matter
and so thank you. And well, I think we'll check
out for today. We got the mail Bag on Sunday,
right Sunday, Sunday, Sunday the mail Bag. Can't wait for that.
Let's be fun. And boy that Friday podcast if you
missed it a doozy. We don't need to bring Jonas in.
(36:07):
Go back, download, listen the whole thing. Have a great
rest of your Saturday, though, and we will chat with
you again tomorrow. Oh and I almost forgot Ben. Lastly,
at Danny G Radio on Twitter, I have COVID tests
for sale. That's right, compliments of the NFL Radio row
(36:29):
I kept giving us free COVID tests. I think I
have like five of them. Their first sale. It was wonderful.
I see you guys. Population
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