March 18, 2022 • 39 mins
A fun Friday with no phone guest! Ben Maller and his 5th Hour co-host Danny G. take you behind the scenes, with a humorous conversation about Davante Adams, Indiana Jones, Weird Science, racist avocados, song time, the cutting room floor, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air every
way it is the Fifth Hour with I, Ben Mallor
and Danny G Radio. Because four hours a night are
not enough, we do this eight days a week and
a Friday podcast. Now. Normally on Friday we have someone
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in here and I shoot the crap with them and
someone who either I know or I want to get
to know a little bit better. But this week is different.
This is not like the normal week. Well, now, that's right,
because by popular demand, the listeners of the Fifth Hour
podcasts have said, Mallard, nobody wants to hear these interviews
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every week. We need more Danny G Radio. Clamoring for
more Danny G Radio after he gave that amazing story
last week of the the head Tinderoni there jumps up
onto the massage table, straddles my girl sits on my
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girl's rare end, is going to town on her and
and was kept slapping her, even slapped her ass. What
went wrong at the massage parlor? So, by popular demand,
an entire weekend of Danny g with Me on the
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fifth hour. So Danny, give the people what they want. Danny,
give them what they want here. I guess that's what
happens when you tell NC seventeen rated stories. Yeah, here
I am Danny. I'm thinking, boy, I I really nailed
it on that podcast. You know, it was a great
pod and no, it was, Oh my god, I love Dandy.
That was the greatest story ever and on all that
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and I'm like, well, what about me? You know, what
about me? And nothing really cares about you. All about
Danny j It's all about that X rated. They loved,
they loved that story. Danny was amazed. We're only here
because of you. And now my tender rowning asked me
if she should make another appointment so that we have
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more content. She used the word content too. It's good
she's in the business now, she's bias Moses. She's learning
about all of the craziness that happens in all the
US nonsense. That surprised motherfucker is rather crazy. But anyway,
on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got uh
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stories from the last few days and whatnot, more of that,
whatever pops I got, I've got Indiana Jones, Weird Science
will tell a tale about avocados. We've got song Time
and Cutting Room Floriday. This is an amazing amount of content,
absolutely free. Nobody had to pay a dollar for that.
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What you actually have to have a device to hear it,
but you have that anyway, right, So you know what
I want to talk about on this Friday morning, Davante Adams. Yeah, Ben,
you've been preaching because of your rams about how draft
picks don't matter, and I know it's not what we
do on this podcast, so I'm sure you'll talk about
it on Sunday night. But you did tweet about how
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Adams to the Raiders bumped March Madness from the front page.
It was wonderful. Yeah, And you tweeted how Aaron Rodgers
Brackett was broken. Um, but you forgot to tweet about
how the Raiders are now one of the Super Bowl favorites.
Calm down, Calm down that baby, all right, So we'll
start with this. The other night, it was a normal
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night at Casa mallor the Mallard mansion. All all stories
started out like there was just a normal night and
then one thing, let do another and a normal night
became abnormal. The abnormal was now normal. So let me
explain what happened. So, um, you know, these are these
are first world radio problems. So imagine if you I'm
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just normally preparing for the show like I I do.
I have a routine, I have a cadence. I've been
doing this for a long time. Not that I'm great
at it, but I kind of have the same routine
every day. Certain parts of the day, I do certain things,
and I got everything down. I get any set. I
changed my schedule a couple of years ago when we
started doing the show from the home studio, and so
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I have that down now. I'm very comfortable. I I
have my routine and so I'm doing my normal thing.
You're like a well oiled machine exactly exactly. So I'm
I'm ready to do my thing. And on the normal
MIDWEKND and so I'm getting ready, I kind of map
out the show in my head. I have an idea.
I start out with a lot of possibilities, and then,
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as you know Danny from doing this a long time,
you kind of whittle things down. It's like starting with
a block of wood and you kind of wheel stuff
away and you're like, all right, what do I want
to make this to be? What make it your masterpiece?
And so I'm doing that. I had a pretty good
idea of what I wanted to go with, and I
started jotting down some chicken scratch for the monologue notes
for the monologues, and I I got to the point
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in the process, trust the process. As they say in Philadelphia,
that weasel Sam Hankey, so the old GM there. So anyway,
so I was like, all I'm good. And there's a
term we use from time to time. It's called, you know,
putting the baby to bed. And that's the point where
you've done everything you can do for the show. You've
got everything ready, you're prepared. Now you just have to
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wait for showtime and you he got some time. Possibly
you'll kill it's your industry jargon, put the baby to bed.
So I had finished my copious amounts of research, I
had everything mapped out, I had a great battle plan,
and the sun Zoo The Art of War, and I'm
gonna settle in and I like to, you know, before
the show, I'd like to settle in, and I'm a loser.
I watched some NBA games. I flip around, watch some
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NBA games whatever, whatever sports are on. It happened to
me that night NBA was on there a couple of games,
and so I'm watching and then boom, all of a sudden,
Oh no, it's a five alarm fire bell sounding. What
is this? What is this? Lights and sirens in our world?
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Freddie Freeman had agreed to sign a contract with the
Los Angeles Dodgers, which meant my mapping of the show
well didn't go so well, so I had to had
to add live Daddy had to do some improv. And
it's one of the great quotes from Indiana Jones with
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my memorable movies when I was a kid. Remember that
scene from Indiana Jones where Indiana somebody asked Indie, uh,
you know, what are you gonna do next? And his
reply was, I don't know, I'm making it up as
we go along. And that was kind of, you know,
just kind of free. So I'm not I was excited.
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I was happy, I'm a Dodger fan, You're a Dodger fan.
So I was happy about all this, but still I
was like, I was texting the guys. I was like,
couldn't this happen? Like, you know, four o'clock in the afternoon,
five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, didn't have to happen
right before the show. And well, it did have to
happen right before the show, and it did happen. And
so this happens every once. I'm normally doing the overnight show.
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There's not much. Things usually shut down when the East
Coach shut down. That's mostly when things shut down. So, now,
did you get covered up for the first hour of
your show by the flamethrower A M five seventy l
A Sports? Did they bring Steve Saxon? I used to
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worry about that stuff, but I have not. I've not
spent too much time. I just do my stay stay in,
you're light and uh so I don't worry. Sometimes we've
gotten covered up by Clipper postgame talk that's happened occasionally.
That the NBA games seem to be ending sooner um,
but yeah, we're guaranteed. Like during baseball season, on our
flagship in l A and five seventy Dodger station. We
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are guaranteed there'll be one or two games in San
Diego or San Francisco or Colorado, Arizona that will go
until two in the morning. The entire show will be
covered up by you know, raining, They'll be raining, not
in Arizona, but in San Francisco, Colorado, or or l
or San Diego. So that's guaranteed. Happened, But yeah, I
don't know. It was. It was interesting, interesting night and
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hopefully Freddie Freeman works out. Well, it ain't my money,
so good luck, and I think for the next couple
of years it should be good. After that, you know,
that's somebody else's problem right there. We don't need to
worry about. Man. I wanted to go to the MLB
All Star Game this year since it's here in l A.
What are those tickets gonna look like? Now? Yeah, well,
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I'm hoping to go to that and not in the media,
but my man, Marlin's Man. A couple of years ago,
Marlin's Man invited me to the All Star Game at
Dodger Staffs sit right behind him at home plate. We
had it all planned out and then that freaking COVID
thing took place, and then that shut it down. So
I'm hoping. I'm still texting Marlins man from time to time,
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so we're still a casual friends. He'll send me messages
from random college basketball games he's hat or whatever, so
I'm hoping we're good. I'm hoping, but I don't think
he responded last time. When Derek Jeter left the Marlins,
I sent him a text saying you're my pick to
be the new new Marlins executive. He didn't respond. I
think he might have been upset by that. So I hope.
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I hope we're still on good terms. But but I
don't know, no idea what you're trying to keep that
bottle of milk warm? Yeah, you know, I just check in,
just see what's going on from time, But he'll he'll
send me like random Martin's Man, I'll send me a
random messages from time. No, it's just kind of cool,
you know. It's it's nice that he's thinking about me.
All right, So weird science. So we go to the
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bag of email. Early this week, Danny a little bag
of email earlier than normal here, and this one came
from Alex in the Netherlands. Alex in the Netherlands. He says, Ben,
thanks for the shout out about a month back. He's
been listening, Danny, to the nonsense that I have done
and you have been part of for a long time,
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sixteen plus years. He's still listening. He and Alex has
a very interesting story. I've talked about him a few
times over the years. But he does high level in
his own words, he does high level science research. It's
not trigonometry. And he has lived all over Europe and
all over the world and he does the scientific research.
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And he says he loves the crew and the collars.
He said, now he I think he was in Germany
before he now in the Netherlands. And he said some
nice things to me that he said, grew up in
southern California and Laguna Beach, so he's an O C
guy like I am. And uh, he did offer. And
this is interesting. The reason I brought this up, Danny,
you know, weird science and all that. He says, let
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me know if you ever need a quantum physics expert,
keep on entertainings. Alex in the Netherlands. And so it
got me thinking, Danny, I mean I did respond to Alex.
I did right back to him. I don't know if
he's written back or not. Maybe I missed it, but
he I said to him and said, hey, you know,
I put you on, but you gotta be relatable to
the you know, the meat head sports radioist. You gotta
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can you dumb it down enough? That's the key. If
he could do it, I'd love to have him on.
If he could explain. And I'm not that bright either,
If you could explain to me and make me understand
the kind of stuff that he's involved in, I think
that would be pretty interesting. I'd like to learn more
about that. But if he's gonna talk a bunch of
science mumbo jumbo, I don't know if that's gonna be
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uh something we want to be part of. Right, he
could help us get Kelly Lebron out of our home computer,
then we'd be interested. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he's
dealing with like nuclear codes or something like that. I
don't know what he's got going on. I have no idea,
but he's he's got stuff going on there, and it's
it's sounds interesting to me. That's a pretty impressive title.
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Quantum physics. My head spins just thinking about my eyeballs
go to the back of my head thinking about quantum physics.
But that's the world he's in. That's his world, and
and it's outstanding. I love that that guys like that
listen and I get emails some people like this every
once in a while that are that are fans, and
then you know, you you juxtapose that with the people
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that call the show, and it's fascinating dichotomy between you know,
the certain people that there are are the casual listeners,
but they don't they don't contribute content usually, and then
the people that call all the time. So it's kind
of like when we will watch something where you don't
have to have your brain on whatsoever, like a bad
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reality show or sixty Day marriage or something like that,
it makes you feel normal and better about yourself because
you're watching all these losers on that TV show. Yeah,
for sure, for sure. Now I did get another email
that I don't know if I want to get into
this now, maybe we'll stay here for later. But this
guy's like he thinks that there was this guy that
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used to email the show when Gascon was on the podcast,
and he named I'm a pilot, and he would tell
these stories about he flew to like China during COVID
early on, and he had he got put in quarantine
on a Chinese hotel and he got taken by people
in space suits and amazing stories. And so there's there's
a guy that's been emailing me saying that guy's a fake,
that was gascon pretending to be I'm a Pilot, and
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I was a I don't believe it was because I
the guy had emailed me. He hadn't emailed in a
long time. I unless, I mean, guess maybe he's diabolical
and had a different email coup. But I'm sure I
know information about I'm a Pilot. I will try to
get ahold of him, just to see what's going on
with him, because he's not emailed the show. But I
do not believe that is a As much as I'd
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love to believe that that that's guests gone pretending to
be I'm a Pilot, I do not believe that to
be true. Guess guys west of the four or five
and all that loves to brag about that stuff, very
pompous and all that, but even that's a bridge too far.
I don't think you're gonna start a fake email account
and pretend to be, you know, a pilot and send
photos and it seems a lot. That's a lot of
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extra work that you don't need to do. So anyway,
So the avocados, the price of avocados, The price of
everything's gone up, including avocados. We have a tale of avocados.
What is this all about, day, Well, it might surprise
you how I get to the avocados. It's more about
the drop that we use on the show Racist. Oh cool,
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of course you're very popular. Oh yeah, you hear the
drop right there? Out of context racist drops. Oh yeah, yeah,
like the white cheeto puffs. Yes, yes, exactly. So yeah,
that drop will come into play on our show from
time to time. So you know, this past week, starting Monday,
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was the first day in California that masks were optional
at all of our schools. Thank god. Oh yeah, we
talked about this a little bit last weekend. I go
to the kindergarteners at lunchtime and I'm thinking of myself, Man, today,
it's gonna be fun because these kids have no filters.
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They don't know what I look like. This is like
an episode of the Twilight Zone where everyone's like wearing masks.
Remember that episode? Maybe not. I'm a I'm a nerd.
I used to watch The Twilight Zone as a kid.
But they had an episode where like everyone was a
merry mask and then they, if I remember it correctly
as I remember, they pulled the mask off and then
they had like weird faces, were looking faces, and they
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didn't look normal. It was a while well yeah, and
it was super strange because I swear to god, there
were co workers I had never seen their faces before. Yeah,
so I'm looking at certain people and I'm like, that's
what he looks like, that's what she looks like. It
was just so odd. I get out to the campus.
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I had my bit already prepared in my mind. I said, Okay,
what I'm gonna do with these little kindergarteners is when
they start talking to me, I'm gonna play it off
like I don't recognize them until I cover up with
my hand their mouth in their lower nose area, so
you know, oh, now, okay, oh that's good. That's a smart.
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That's a smart And then all of a sudden, you
like Rick Flair yea. So they were loving that bit.
They're laughing there talking to me, and I'm like, who
are you. I've never met you before. Oh wait a second,
And then I'd stick my hand in front of their
mouth and I'm like, oh, it's you, okay, um let
her laugh and they get a kick out of that.
But they're staring at me. They're like, you you have
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a beard. You. I thought you were older. I thought
you were younger. I thought this. I thought that it
was just so funny to hear all of them and
all of their commentary based on the fact that they
could finally see our ugly faces. So there's one girl
and I've mentioned her on the show before because Aria
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has no filter. She looks at me and she says,
I didn't know you were Spanish. And there's a girl
named Phoebe sitting right next to her, and she looks
at me with straight face and she says, does that
mean you like avocados? Racist? I have no filter, no
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filter filter, And the only thing I could think of,
there's that TV commercial about avocados from Mexico. Oh yeah,
avocados from Mexico. Yes, yes, that's the only thing I
could think that she was connecting the dots with because
why else would she ask if I liked avocados, that's wonderful.
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The kids say that that Cosby show. We can't say
that because Cosby has been canceled, but rightfully so. But
the the kids say that darned is things you're living
that life didn't. There's a little boy who was at
the same table named Evan, and he caught onto the
avocado thing. So all week long he followed me around
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asking me about avocados. Avocado Did you just start making
stuff up like wild stories about how old are these kids?
Like roughly, what do we what do we look at?
How what age are there? Seventeen? Yeah, hold on, surprise, surprise,
Yeah they're five years old. Okay, yeah, yeah, So that's
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great and they'll they'll reset, right, I mean usually kids
they have that childhood amnesia. What like, what's your earliest memory.
We've talked about this from time to time, but my
earliest memory maybe he's around five, but I like vague
memories of that. I I know they have said, I've
had studies on this where they say, well, kids actually
remember everything that just kind of filed in the back
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of their their brain and stuff, and it's still kind
of there, but you don't. It's not in the front
of your memory like the front of my memory probably
you know, eight or nine. I remember I have really
good memories of everything from that point on in my life.
I would say, what about you. Yeah, I have a
memory of being at Disneyland. And when I told my
mom about it, she was like, you were like maybe
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two and a half. How do you remember that? Um?
But it was because they put me up in that
Dumbo ride and she was holding me. My little head
sticking out of that Dumbo ride. And I remember at
day clearly. Back then at Disneyland, they had a room
that you would go into and there was a whole
bunch of different telephones, different characters, Disney characters pictures next
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to each phone, and you picked up that phone and
the character was talking to you on the phone. I
thought that ship was real. I'm on the phone. I'm like, man,
Mickey Mouse is on this phone. I was all in man,
I thought that was real for sure. Um, that's my
earliest memory. That's great. I love I My first memory
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that I I you know, recall with clarity. I was
on the school bus coming home and they had the
radio on on the school bus and the driver was
really kind of freaked out. And it was the day
that Ronald Reagan had been shot. And I remember like
running in to tell my mom, like, hey, the president
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was shot like that, and I didn't really know what
that meant, but I just knew that the bus driver
was freaking out and there was like emergency programming on
the radio. And I still have very clear like memories
of getting on the school bus hearing on the way
home the you know, the radio reports and all that
the guy in the radio and the you know, the
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people on their yapping about that, and then the bus driver,
you know, turning up the sound to here here with
the guy in the radio is saying about that, which
maybe in some weird way to help me lead lead
to my career. But I do remember that, I do
recall that you were breaking news even back then. Yes, yes, Penny,
the news breaker and unless I wasn't, but those days,
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you really that's way you got the news was from
the radio. Like there was no internet like ye to
wait for the newspaper the next day, or you would
get it on radio or television. That was it old media.
But yeah, word of mouth or as Ludicrous would say,
word of mouth. We had the AP wire when we
were kids in radio. Yes, yes, I love it. But
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that was like the coolest thing when I started in
San Diego at the Extra Sports was the the high
speed sports wires Hackstock called it, and they had had
the sports ticker on one side in the newsroom and
the AP news wire, and they wasted so much paper
because they'd print, you know, the sports sticker would print
everything up and it was a nightmare. It would NonStop,
(22:24):
just keep printing and printing and printing and printing and printing.
But that was the news. Yeah, it was the interns
job to keep putting new boxes of paper there and
connecting it to the printer. Then us like I was
a rookie, so it was my opportunity to kind of
be a producer. I would rip the pages apart and
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then with a highlighter, I would highlight anything that was
good for our format, and then you had to bring
that into the on air personalities. Yeah. So my job
at six ninety when I was working for Haxall when
I first started there, he this is this is pathet.
It was like the Ghoul Report. And I remember because
there'd be race car drivers open wheel race car drivers
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from Europe. There was a guy forgetting the name, but
I remember the story. He had gotten into a terrible
accident and it looked like he was going to die,
and so hacks All he made me monitor this on
the on the wire because he wanted me to run
in with the bulletin if he had he had died,
because he wanted to break the story on the show
and all that stuff. So I remember getting you know,
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you know, a P bulletin one, a P bulletin update
to you know, that kind of stuff they would send
out back back in the day. But yeah, that was
the Internet. I was like, that was the beginning stages
for our purposes. But it's kind a little better since then,
just a little bit. We evolved into the NFL book them, Yeah,
which we have not done. We still need to do
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that on the Overnight show. It will do it. Uh
this this coming. I'm a two time champion, back to back. Well,
I I won my share. I've won my share of
the NFL Book. I had twenty fifteen Steen title holder.
There you go, congratulations, congratulations. Uh So I wanted to
bring a little music, all right, yeah into the podcast.
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You know, Casey Cayson. We both worked there when Casey
worked at the building there. Casey, the legendary Premier Networks host,
passed away a couple of years ago. But keep your
feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Yeah,
damn dead dog, sick and tired coming in here. I
got an upbeat song and we're doing we're doing a
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dedication and you know that's that's when we should highlight
that one of these weeks that is outstanding. So I
bring this up, Ohio al who makes our male jingle?
That's not a weird are our postal jingle? I don't know.
I'm not some kind of nut liquor here? Uh male jingle? Uh?
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He does. But anyway, so Ohio was a talented musician
and he sent me a little did he sent us
a while ago, and bad job by me. You know,
it took me a while to get it on the
radio show, and I wanted to highlight it here on
the podcast for everyone to enjoy the artistical work of Ohio.
So let me set this up. It's obviously a parody
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song of Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. It's called Comfortably
Ben And are you ready Danny for a little little
ditty here from our buddy Ohio. Aw I am ready
all right, here we go. Let's strike up the band.
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Welcome in my name. You can somewhere off the grid
in the northward. This is the show that puts you
to sleep. Everyone, he'd be here every you wear your men,
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They got the kid, get out here, little who gets
you under boone d like glow was dawn. I want
a steamer and fan me. Take you call. I'm actually
going to live here. Take Sandy calls it any me
lighting boll Lord, give me the loan me sufferine brick.
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It's the hard one. Take your father. I'm back at
an on box burd straw to show under lappy child.
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I really to light for the jumps. I'm called every
Rocketory Nick the mag he gets side. I need protectional
gas back what I dilition t d T the palace show.
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So I am known as to be bearing the father
down a ladder, the General of the General who was
master of the popular of disaster, the hustle the problem
for up to a buster. Publer of production. Benny writes
like manity, ving sanity, Mark Purty mat Emson, loving bellishment
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of the lovely Week, like wing Bag and Slayer of
Yss Google get the Tower of Bravel and then ah
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there it is great job, wonderful job there for our
buddy Ohio Owl. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll
spend a lot of time on that. I like it.
A drop, a p loser there. That was highlighting many
of the drops, many of the favorite drops on the show.
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So we have a little time left. Pivot away from
Ohio Owl's song. And we mentioned the cutting room floor,
So I thought, since normally on Friday we bring somebody
in here and ask a bunch of questions and shoot
the crap and all that stuff. But the cutting room
floor so stuff we planned to get to during the
radio show. However, we ran out of time, and so
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think of this as a trip to the refrigerator for
leftover spaghetti or something like that. And so just a
few stories that we would have brought up Danny on
the overnight show, but because of timing reasons, we didn't
get to. Uh, And we'll start with this the expensive
cardboard story. Did you see Nan that Drake spent over
(29:20):
two hundred thousand dollars on basketball cards trying to pull
a very rare card out. I did see this. Yeah, Now,
I know Drake's got a lot of money. But these
these boxes, this NBA Panini, uh, these these I'm not
I'm not into the cards right now. I've gotten out
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of the business. I mean, I still have a bunch
I gotta go through. But the the NBA Panini flawless
sports cards. Each box sells for like fifteen thousand dollars, jeez,
and contains ten cards. Ten cards. The math on that
is not it could be great. Um So anyway, he
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spent over two hundred thousand dollars and for unopened NBA cards,
and he was going through them and trying to find
trying to find gold. The problem I had with this, Dan,
is you already have gold. You're Drake, You're rich. Isn't
this something that somebody who's kind of looking to win
the lottery would do? You know what I mean? This
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is just a rich person who's bored. Right, you start
lighting bills on fire, you like baseball, basketball and football
cards on fire. I remember when my older brother would
get like a San Francisco Giants player and a pack
of baseball cards. He would light it on fire. I'm
(30:47):
not kidding you, Piro, and my mom caught him doing
it one time, and she's like, I swear to God,
if you burn the neighborhood down because you don't like
the San Francisco Giants, you are gonna grounded for a week.
Uh So, now you're gonna have to burn the Jack
(31:07):
Peterson card. I saw Jock sign with the Giants this week.
Douchebag Pearl wearing burnt orange. He's an enemy combatant and
he's got the Jack Pearson's got the reputation of being
a good playoff player. He was a bunch of homers
with the Dodgers. He was terrible for the Braves in
the World Series about this past year. They won, but
(31:29):
as I remember, he was lousy in the place. He's
from northern California, though he's a North count guy, so
he's going back home. But good luck to Drake with
those basketball cards. I guess last year Zion Williamson. One
of those cards sold for two hundred thirty three thousand
dollars last The card business, though I have complained about
(31:50):
this in the past, it's such a racket that the
company you would like to work for are the grading people.
They're the ones that make all the money. Guaranteed to
make their money. The people that grade the cards. He's
a waiting line for those guys. Yeah, that's one of
the problems. I got a whole bunch of cards that
I would some of them might need to get graded
to sell. I'm like, I don't even want to. You
(32:10):
gotta spend money to do it. It's big pain in
the ass, big pain in It took us all right,
We've got limited time here, limited time. You want dumb money?
Lots of camels? Which one picked your poison? Your dad? Oh,
we have a famous drop we used to play on
the live show of you saying I want a camel.
That's right, that's right. And uh, this is a great
(32:33):
camel story. It comes from Tracy McGrady better known as
t MAC back in the day, and he he recently
shared a story that I had not heard, but maybe
you've heard of it, but I had not heard of it.
And so he said years ago, back in his salad days, uh,
that he went to cut her on a trip the
(32:56):
NBA had sent to him and Carmelo, Anthony Clay Thompson
and Luke Walton. So they took a trip over there
to promote the World Cup and so they were all
there and while they were in Cutter, McGrady says he
was asked whether they wanted to do some camel racing.
(33:17):
M hm. And so here's Tracy McGrady at the time,
big NBA you know, legend, Mellow, Clay Thompson, Luke Walton,
all these guys and yeah, exactly. And so McGrady told
the stories. He says, hey, we'll go see the camel race,
and and they were They asked the NBA guys, do
you want to participate? Team Mack told the stories, what
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do you mean by that? So anyway, they go down
to the track, as t Mac tells the story, and
they are on the runway and the camels are over
on the side, and then all these NBA guys are
given remote controls by one of the people from the track.
They're in Cutter, and they're like hey, uh, and the
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guys are like, what are these remotes? And so apparently
what they do in that part of the world they
have he said, a little They got a little man
on the camel, according to Team Mac, with a whip,
and so they they hand a remote control to these
dudes and then based on how you use the remote
(34:22):
control you the little dude on the camel, which I
assume as robotic, right, I would think right, and I yeah.
And then based on how many times you hit the remote,
the camel gets whipped and that's how they race the
the camel. Well, he got whipped a lot in his career.
He did at the end. Yeah, that's fore he probably
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knew how to use that. I was in an elevator
with Team Mac he was playing for the Rockets. I'll
never forget it. It was, you know, he didn't he
had been a big star with their Lando and he
went to the Rocket. He just still well known because
a little penny things and all that. But in the
elevator at then Staples Center, he was complaining because he
had to meet like some do some sponsorship thing and
(35:08):
he was I don't want to do he was complaining.
It was so funny and uh, like you probably I'm
staying in my head, I'm thinking, you're probably gonna get
paid more in for this like ten fifteen minutes sponsor
thing you gotta do. Then I want to be making
for like two years. But he really was having a
bad day. He did not want to do the sponsor gig.
Get at all. So they do you think camel racing
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will be there? For I know they've gotten rid of
dog racing in most of America, but that in the
Middle East, camel racing. I'm sure there's dog racing a
lot of places around around the world. I know we
used to have found very humane. No, no, but the
rest of the world is not woke or any of
that stuff. There they don't care about that. Uh well,
(35:51):
I say the rest of the the the non western world,
they're more into there, you know, having a good time
and all. Did he say how much he used the remote?
Oh yeah, yeah, he said, he he went, you know,
he's a fool. He said he kept hitting the remote,
tearing the camel's ass up. But he did say a
team back that he won the race. So his camel
(36:12):
won the race. But then, of course I probably had
to be put down or something like that. Anyway, all right,
that's it on that note. What a way to end
what you know, there's one other thing. I did want
to bring one other thing up, which never goes well
for me. I didn't want your last sentence to be
tear that camel's out. I remember the camel cake. That
(36:35):
was awesome. That camel that was It was awesome from
the cake benefactor years and years ago. But Buck Ball,
I love this quote, Buck show Walter, manager of the Mets.
We're gonna get to this. We didn't get to it
on the show. So Buck show Walter was asked by
one of the Met Beat writers, are you gonna put
up those motivational quotes, encouragement posts and all that stuff
(36:58):
in the you know, in the in the the Mets clubhouse.
Now were you at Fox Sports Radio and the Andrew
Ashwood or at Danny were you there when he was around?
Just after word? Okay, just after so Andrew was our boss.
He was a big believer, great man, big burly man.
Andrew Ashwood loved him, very nice man. Radio pro d
J went into management. You always loved the management guys
(37:18):
that used to be on the air because they get you.
They understand that. I heard he actually gave raises. Yes,
I didn't get one, but other people did. They got
big extensions. And Andrew had been very sick and he
was very generous. He kind of knew the end was
near and on his way out he took care of
some people. Give him a big, big raises and it
was wonderful. What a wonderful gesture by by Andrew Ashwood.
(37:40):
But so Andrew, he used to put up quotes from
Lombardi and all these different people. He loved the Packers,
so he put a lot of quotes of Lombardi up
around Fox Sports Radio. And so that was his thing.
And I I thought of him because of Buck show
author who said he does not like the random famous
quotes of encouragement posted around. You know, encourage are the
employees and all that, And I gotta kick out of
(38:02):
it because it was such a perfect quote for New York.
Buck show All to the new manager of the Mets says,
if it was up to him, he would have only
one sign in the Mets locker room and it would
have two words on it. What do you think that
sign would say, Danny? What do you think, oh man
for the Mets, for the Mets, the New York Metropolitans
(38:25):
don't suck. Well, Actually that is that's a reference to
Joe matt Remember Joe Madden. Oh No, we shock again.
He put that up in the in the Cubs clubhouse
back in the day, right, Buck Showalter said he would
put up in the clubhouse there he said he would
put up a sign that said play better. Joe Maddens
(38:48):
was trying not to suck. That was the why not
just like which is a version of my favorite quote
of all time, John Tortorello, the hockey coach, after the
Rangers lost the game and somebody asked and why why
did you lose the game or something like that, and
he said, we sucked at a time you cannot suck.
That is the perfect quote, and he's like, Tortorella was awesome.
(39:11):
We sucked from head to toe. It was so good,
so wonderful, so so great. Anyway, all right, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. That's right, Friday. We got
a whole weekend to come of podcast Magic on Saturday.
And I know people are watching the tournament, but we're
a good sidecar to the to the march madness and
all that, right, I think, Yeah, we are like a
(39:32):
side of really good mashed potatoes and gravy. Damn. Right,
We have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Remember five
stars on the review, five stars in the real car,
five stars, five stars on the review. And we will
catch you next time on the fifth hour on the
Saturday podcast but thanks later. Skater
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air every
way it is the Fifth Hour with I, Ben Mallor
and Danny G Radio. Because four hours a night are
not enough, we do this eight days a week and
a Friday podcast. Now. Normally on Friday we have someone
(00:48):
in here and I shoot the crap with them and
someone who either I know or I want to get
to know a little bit better. But this week is different.
This is not like the normal week. Well, now, that's right,
because by popular demand, the listeners of the Fifth Hour
podcasts have said, Mallard, nobody wants to hear these interviews
(01:09):
every week. We need more Danny G Radio. Clamoring for
more Danny G Radio after he gave that amazing story
last week of the the head Tinderoni there jumps up
onto the massage table, straddles my girl sits on my
(01:34):
girl's rare end, is going to town on her and
and was kept slapping her, even slapped her ass. What
went wrong at the massage parlor? So, by popular demand,
an entire weekend of Danny g with Me on the
(01:55):
fifth hour. So Danny, give the people what they want. Danny,
give them what they want here. I guess that's what
happens when you tell NC seventeen rated stories. Yeah, here
I am Danny. I'm thinking, boy, I I really nailed
it on that podcast. You know, it was a great
pod and no, it was, Oh my god, I love Dandy.
That was the greatest story ever and on all that
(02:18):
and I'm like, well, what about me? You know, what
about me? And nothing really cares about you. All about
Danny j It's all about that X rated. They loved,
they loved that story. Danny was amazed. We're only here
because of you. And now my tender rowning asked me
if she should make another appointment so that we have
(02:39):
more content. She used the word content too. It's good
she's in the business now, she's bias Moses. She's learning
about all of the craziness that happens in all the
US nonsense. That surprised motherfucker is rather crazy. But anyway,
on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got uh
(03:01):
stories from the last few days and whatnot, more of that,
whatever pops I got, I've got Indiana Jones, Weird Science
will tell a tale about avocados. We've got song Time
and Cutting Room Floriday. This is an amazing amount of content,
absolutely free. Nobody had to pay a dollar for that.
(03:24):
What you actually have to have a device to hear it,
but you have that anyway, right, So you know what
I want to talk about on this Friday morning, Davante Adams. Yeah, Ben,
you've been preaching because of your rams about how draft
picks don't matter, and I know it's not what we
do on this podcast, so I'm sure you'll talk about
it on Sunday night. But you did tweet about how
(03:47):
Adams to the Raiders bumped March Madness from the front page.
It was wonderful. Yeah, And you tweeted how Aaron Rodgers
Brackett was broken. Um, but you forgot to tweet about
how the Raiders are now one of the Super Bowl favorites.
Calm down, Calm down that baby, all right, So we'll
start with this. The other night, it was a normal
(04:10):
night at Casa mallor the Mallard mansion. All all stories
started out like there was just a normal night and
then one thing, let do another and a normal night
became abnormal. The abnormal was now normal. So let me
explain what happened. So, um, you know, these are these
are first world radio problems. So imagine if you I'm
(04:31):
just normally preparing for the show like I I do.
I have a routine, I have a cadence. I've been
doing this for a long time. Not that I'm great
at it, but I kind of have the same routine
every day. Certain parts of the day, I do certain things,
and I got everything down. I get any set. I
changed my schedule a couple of years ago when we
started doing the show from the home studio, and so
(04:51):
I have that down now. I'm very comfortable. I I
have my routine and so I'm doing my normal thing.
You're like a well oiled machine exactly exactly. So I'm
I'm ready to do my thing. And on the normal
MIDWEKND and so I'm getting ready, I kind of map
out the show in my head. I have an idea.
I start out with a lot of possibilities, and then,
(05:14):
as you know Danny from doing this a long time,
you kind of whittle things down. It's like starting with
a block of wood and you kind of wheel stuff
away and you're like, all right, what do I want
to make this to be? What make it your masterpiece?
And so I'm doing that. I had a pretty good
idea of what I wanted to go with, and I
started jotting down some chicken scratch for the monologue notes
for the monologues, and I I got to the point
(05:37):
in the process, trust the process. As they say in Philadelphia,
that weasel Sam Hankey, so the old GM there. So anyway,
so I was like, all I'm good. And there's a
term we use from time to time. It's called, you know,
putting the baby to bed. And that's the point where
you've done everything you can do for the show. You've
got everything ready, you're prepared. Now you just have to
(05:58):
wait for showtime and you he got some time. Possibly
you'll kill it's your industry jargon, put the baby to bed.
So I had finished my copious amounts of research, I
had everything mapped out, I had a great battle plan,
and the sun Zoo The Art of War, and I'm
gonna settle in and I like to, you know, before
the show, I'd like to settle in, and I'm a loser.
I watched some NBA games. I flip around, watch some
(06:19):
NBA games whatever, whatever sports are on. It happened to
me that night NBA was on there a couple of games,
and so I'm watching and then boom, all of a sudden,
Oh no, it's a five alarm fire bell sounding. What
is this? What is this? Lights and sirens in our world?
(06:42):
Freddie Freeman had agreed to sign a contract with the
Los Angeles Dodgers, which meant my mapping of the show
well didn't go so well, so I had to had
to add live Daddy had to do some improv. And
it's one of the great quotes from Indiana Jones with
(07:03):
my memorable movies when I was a kid. Remember that
scene from Indiana Jones where Indiana somebody asked Indie, uh,
you know, what are you gonna do next? And his
reply was, I don't know, I'm making it up as
we go along. And that was kind of, you know,
just kind of free. So I'm not I was excited.
(07:24):
I was happy, I'm a Dodger fan, You're a Dodger fan.
So I was happy about all this, but still I
was like, I was texting the guys. I was like,
couldn't this happen? Like, you know, four o'clock in the afternoon,
five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, didn't have to happen
right before the show. And well, it did have to
happen right before the show, and it did happen. And
so this happens every once. I'm normally doing the overnight show.
(07:47):
There's not much. Things usually shut down when the East
Coach shut down. That's mostly when things shut down. So, now,
did you get covered up for the first hour of
your show by the flamethrower A M five seventy l
A Sports? Did they bring Steve Saxon? I used to
(08:08):
worry about that stuff, but I have not. I've not
spent too much time. I just do my stay stay in,
you're light and uh so I don't worry. Sometimes we've
gotten covered up by Clipper postgame talk that's happened occasionally.
That the NBA games seem to be ending sooner um,
but yeah, we're guaranteed. Like during baseball season, on our
flagship in l A and five seventy Dodger station. We
(08:30):
are guaranteed there'll be one or two games in San
Diego or San Francisco or Colorado, Arizona that will go
until two in the morning. The entire show will be
covered up by you know, raining, They'll be raining, not
in Arizona, but in San Francisco, Colorado, or or l
or San Diego. So that's guaranteed. Happened, But yeah, I
don't know. It was. It was interesting, interesting night and
(08:52):
hopefully Freddie Freeman works out. Well, it ain't my money,
so good luck, and I think for the next couple
of years it should be good. After that, you know,
that's somebody else's problem right there. We don't need to
worry about. Man. I wanted to go to the MLB
All Star Game this year since it's here in l A.
What are those tickets gonna look like? Now? Yeah, well,
(09:13):
I'm hoping to go to that and not in the media,
but my man, Marlin's Man. A couple of years ago,
Marlin's Man invited me to the All Star Game at
Dodger Staffs sit right behind him at home plate. We
had it all planned out and then that freaking COVID
thing took place, and then that shut it down. So
I'm hoping. I'm still texting Marlins man from time to time,
(09:34):
so we're still a casual friends. He'll send me messages
from random college basketball games he's hat or whatever, so
I'm hoping we're good. I'm hoping, but I don't think
he responded last time. When Derek Jeter left the Marlins,
I sent him a text saying you're my pick to
be the new new Marlins executive. He didn't respond. I
think he might have been upset by that. So I hope.
(09:54):
I hope we're still on good terms. But but I
don't know, no idea what you're trying to keep that
bottle of milk warm? Yeah, you know, I just check in,
just see what's going on from time, But he'll he'll
send me like random Martin's Man, I'll send me a
random messages from time. No, it's just kind of cool,
you know. It's it's nice that he's thinking about me.
All right, So weird science. So we go to the
(10:16):
bag of email. Early this week, Danny a little bag
of email earlier than normal here, and this one came
from Alex in the Netherlands. Alex in the Netherlands. He says, Ben,
thanks for the shout out about a month back. He's
been listening, Danny, to the nonsense that I have done
and you have been part of for a long time,
(10:37):
sixteen plus years. He's still listening. He and Alex has
a very interesting story. I've talked about him a few
times over the years. But he does high level in
his own words, he does high level science research. It's
not trigonometry. And he has lived all over Europe and
all over the world and he does the scientific research.
(11:02):
And he says he loves the crew and the collars.
He said, now he I think he was in Germany
before he now in the Netherlands. And he said some
nice things to me that he said, grew up in
southern California and Laguna Beach, so he's an O C
guy like I am. And uh, he did offer. And
this is interesting. The reason I brought this up, Danny,
you know, weird science and all that. He says, let
(11:23):
me know if you ever need a quantum physics expert,
keep on entertainings. Alex in the Netherlands. And so it
got me thinking, Danny, I mean I did respond to Alex.
I did right back to him. I don't know if
he's written back or not. Maybe I missed it, but
he I said to him and said, hey, you know,
I put you on, but you gotta be relatable to
the you know, the meat head sports radioist. You gotta
(11:44):
can you dumb it down enough? That's the key. If
he could do it, I'd love to have him on.
If he could explain. And I'm not that bright either,
If you could explain to me and make me understand
the kind of stuff that he's involved in, I think
that would be pretty interesting. I'd like to learn more
about that. But if he's gonna talk a bunch of
science mumbo jumbo, I don't know if that's gonna be
(12:05):
uh something we want to be part of. Right, he
could help us get Kelly Lebron out of our home computer,
then we'd be interested. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he's
dealing with like nuclear codes or something like that. I
don't know what he's got going on. I have no idea,
but he's he's got stuff going on there, and it's
it's sounds interesting to me. That's a pretty impressive title.
(12:27):
Quantum physics. My head spins just thinking about my eyeballs
go to the back of my head thinking about quantum physics.
But that's the world he's in. That's his world, and
and it's outstanding. I love that that guys like that
listen and I get emails some people like this every
once in a while that are that are fans, and
then you know, you you juxtapose that with the people
(12:47):
that call the show, and it's fascinating dichotomy between you know,
the certain people that there are are the casual listeners,
but they don't they don't contribute content usually, and then
the people that call all the time. So it's kind
of like when we will watch something where you don't
have to have your brain on whatsoever, like a bad
(13:07):
reality show or sixty Day marriage or something like that,
it makes you feel normal and better about yourself because
you're watching all these losers on that TV show. Yeah,
for sure, for sure. Now I did get another email
that I don't know if I want to get into
this now, maybe we'll stay here for later. But this
guy's like he thinks that there was this guy that
(13:28):
used to email the show when Gascon was on the podcast,
and he named I'm a pilot, and he would tell
these stories about he flew to like China during COVID
early on, and he had he got put in quarantine
on a Chinese hotel and he got taken by people
in space suits and amazing stories. And so there's there's
a guy that's been emailing me saying that guy's a fake,
that was gascon pretending to be I'm a Pilot, and
(13:49):
I was a I don't believe it was because I
the guy had emailed me. He hadn't emailed in a
long time. I unless, I mean, guess maybe he's diabolical
and had a different email coup. But I'm sure I
know information about I'm a Pilot. I will try to
get ahold of him, just to see what's going on
with him, because he's not emailed the show. But I
do not believe that is a As much as I'd
(14:12):
love to believe that that that's guests gone pretending to
be I'm a Pilot, I do not believe that to
be true. Guess guys west of the four or five
and all that loves to brag about that stuff, very
pompous and all that, but even that's a bridge too far.
I don't think you're gonna start a fake email account
and pretend to be, you know, a pilot and send
photos and it seems a lot. That's a lot of
(14:34):
extra work that you don't need to do. So anyway,
So the avocados, the price of avocados, The price of
everything's gone up, including avocados. We have a tale of avocados.
What is this all about, day, Well, it might surprise
you how I get to the avocados. It's more about
the drop that we use on the show Racist. Oh cool,
(14:54):
of course you're very popular. Oh yeah, you hear the
drop right there? Out of context racist drops. Oh yeah, yeah,
like the white cheeto puffs. Yes, yes, exactly. So yeah,
that drop will come into play on our show from
time to time. So you know, this past week, starting Monday,
(15:17):
was the first day in California that masks were optional
at all of our schools. Thank god. Oh yeah, we
talked about this a little bit last weekend. I go
to the kindergarteners at lunchtime and I'm thinking of myself, Man, today,
it's gonna be fun because these kids have no filters.
(15:39):
They don't know what I look like. This is like
an episode of the Twilight Zone where everyone's like wearing masks.
Remember that episode? Maybe not. I'm a I'm a nerd.
I used to watch The Twilight Zone as a kid.
But they had an episode where like everyone was a
merry mask and then they, if I remember it correctly
as I remember, they pulled the mask off and then
they had like weird faces, were looking faces, and they
(16:00):
didn't look normal. It was a while well yeah, and
it was super strange because I swear to god, there
were co workers I had never seen their faces before. Yeah,
so I'm looking at certain people and I'm like, that's
what he looks like, that's what she looks like. It
was just so odd. I get out to the campus.
(16:21):
I had my bit already prepared in my mind. I said, Okay,
what I'm gonna do with these little kindergarteners is when
they start talking to me, I'm gonna play it off
like I don't recognize them until I cover up with
my hand their mouth in their lower nose area, so
you know, oh, now, okay, oh that's good. That's a smart.
(16:42):
That's a smart And then all of a sudden, you
like Rick Flair yea. So they were loving that bit.
They're laughing there talking to me, and I'm like, who
are you. I've never met you before. Oh wait a second,
And then I'd stick my hand in front of their
mouth and I'm like, oh, it's you, okay, um let
her laugh and they get a kick out of that.
But they're staring at me. They're like, you you have
(17:05):
a beard. You. I thought you were older. I thought
you were younger. I thought this. I thought that it
was just so funny to hear all of them and
all of their commentary based on the fact that they
could finally see our ugly faces. So there's one girl
and I've mentioned her on the show before because Aria
(17:27):
has no filter. She looks at me and she says,
I didn't know you were Spanish. And there's a girl
named Phoebe sitting right next to her, and she looks
at me with straight face and she says, does that
mean you like avocados? Racist? I have no filter, no
(17:57):
filter filter, And the only thing I could think of,
there's that TV commercial about avocados from Mexico. Oh yeah,
avocados from Mexico. Yes, yes, that's the only thing I
could think that she was connecting the dots with because
why else would she ask if I liked avocados, that's wonderful.
(18:19):
The kids say that that Cosby show. We can't say
that because Cosby has been canceled, but rightfully so. But
the the kids say that darned is things you're living
that life didn't. There's a little boy who was at
the same table named Evan, and he caught onto the
avocado thing. So all week long he followed me around
(18:40):
asking me about avocados. Avocado Did you just start making
stuff up like wild stories about how old are these kids?
Like roughly, what do we what do we look at?
How what age are there? Seventeen? Yeah, hold on, surprise, surprise,
Yeah they're five years old. Okay, yeah, yeah, So that's
(19:03):
great and they'll they'll reset, right, I mean usually kids
they have that childhood amnesia. What like, what's your earliest memory.
We've talked about this from time to time, but my
earliest memory maybe he's around five, but I like vague
memories of that. I I know they have said, I've
had studies on this where they say, well, kids actually
remember everything that just kind of filed in the back
(19:24):
of their their brain and stuff, and it's still kind
of there, but you don't. It's not in the front
of your memory like the front of my memory probably
you know, eight or nine. I remember I have really
good memories of everything from that point on in my life.
I would say, what about you. Yeah, I have a
memory of being at Disneyland. And when I told my
mom about it, she was like, you were like maybe
(19:46):
two and a half. How do you remember that? Um?
But it was because they put me up in that
Dumbo ride and she was holding me. My little head
sticking out of that Dumbo ride. And I remember at
day clearly. Back then at Disneyland, they had a room
that you would go into and there was a whole
bunch of different telephones, different characters, Disney characters pictures next
(20:11):
to each phone, and you picked up that phone and
the character was talking to you on the phone. I
thought that ship was real. I'm on the phone. I'm like, man,
Mickey Mouse is on this phone. I was all in man,
I thought that was real for sure. Um, that's my
earliest memory. That's great. I love I My first memory
(20:37):
that I I you know, recall with clarity. I was
on the school bus coming home and they had the
radio on on the school bus and the driver was
really kind of freaked out. And it was the day
that Ronald Reagan had been shot. And I remember like
running in to tell my mom, like, hey, the president
(20:59):
was shot like that, and I didn't really know what
that meant, but I just knew that the bus driver
was freaking out and there was like emergency programming on
the radio. And I still have very clear like memories
of getting on the school bus hearing on the way
home the you know, the radio reports and all that
the guy in the radio and the you know, the
(21:19):
people on their yapping about that, and then the bus driver,
you know, turning up the sound to here here with
the guy in the radio is saying about that, which
maybe in some weird way to help me lead lead
to my career. But I do remember that, I do
recall that you were breaking news even back then. Yes, yes, Penny,
the news breaker and unless I wasn't, but those days,
(21:40):
you really that's way you got the news was from
the radio. Like there was no internet like ye to
wait for the newspaper the next day, or you would
get it on radio or television. That was it old media.
But yeah, word of mouth or as Ludicrous would say,
word of mouth. We had the AP wire when we
were kids in radio. Yes, yes, I love it. But
(22:01):
that was like the coolest thing when I started in
San Diego at the Extra Sports was the the high
speed sports wires Hackstock called it, and they had had
the sports ticker on one side in the newsroom and
the AP news wire, and they wasted so much paper
because they'd print, you know, the sports sticker would print
everything up and it was a nightmare. It would NonStop,
(22:24):
just keep printing and printing and printing and printing and printing.
But that was the news. Yeah, it was the interns
job to keep putting new boxes of paper there and
connecting it to the printer. Then us like I was
a rookie, so it was my opportunity to kind of
be a producer. I would rip the pages apart and
(22:44):
then with a highlighter, I would highlight anything that was
good for our format, and then you had to bring
that into the on air personalities. Yeah. So my job
at six ninety when I was working for Haxall when
I first started there, he this is this is pathet.
It was like the Ghoul Report. And I remember because
there'd be race car drivers open wheel race car drivers
(23:07):
from Europe. There was a guy forgetting the name, but
I remember the story. He had gotten into a terrible
accident and it looked like he was going to die,
and so hacks All he made me monitor this on
the on the wire because he wanted me to run
in with the bulletin if he had he had died,
because he wanted to break the story on the show
and all that stuff. So I remember getting you know,
(23:29):
you know, a P bulletin one, a P bulletin update
to you know, that kind of stuff they would send
out back back in the day. But yeah, that was
the Internet. I was like, that was the beginning stages
for our purposes. But it's kind a little better since then,
just a little bit. We evolved into the NFL book them, Yeah,
which we have not done. We still need to do
(23:50):
that on the Overnight show. It will do it. Uh
this this coming. I'm a two time champion, back to back. Well,
I I won my share. I've won my share of
the NFL Book. I had twenty fifteen Steen title holder.
There you go, congratulations, congratulations. Uh So I wanted to
bring a little music, all right, yeah into the podcast.
(24:10):
You know, Casey Cayson. We both worked there when Casey
worked at the building there. Casey, the legendary Premier Networks host,
passed away a couple of years ago. But keep your
feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Yeah,
damn dead dog, sick and tired coming in here. I
got an upbeat song and we're doing we're doing a
(24:30):
dedication and you know that's that's when we should highlight
that one of these weeks that is outstanding. So I
bring this up, Ohio al who makes our male jingle?
That's not a weird are our postal jingle? I don't know.
I'm not some kind of nut liquor here? Uh male jingle? Uh?
(24:51):
He does. But anyway, so Ohio was a talented musician
and he sent me a little did he sent us
a while ago, and bad job by me. You know,
it took me a while to get it on the
radio show, and I wanted to highlight it here on
the podcast for everyone to enjoy the artistical work of Ohio.
So let me set this up. It's obviously a parody
(25:12):
song of Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. It's called Comfortably
Ben And are you ready Danny for a little little
ditty here from our buddy Ohio. Aw I am ready
all right, here we go. Let's strike up the band.
(25:39):
Welcome in my name. You can somewhere off the grid
in the northward. This is the show that puts you
to sleep. Everyone, he'd be here every you wear your men,
(26:06):
They got the kid, get out here, little who gets
you under boone d like glow was dawn. I want
a steamer and fan me. Take you call. I'm actually
going to live here. Take Sandy calls it any me
lighting boll Lord, give me the loan me sufferine brick.
(26:30):
It's the hard one. Take your father. I'm back at
an on box burd straw to show under lappy child.
(26:57):
I really to light for the jumps. I'm called every
Rocketory Nick the mag he gets side. I need protectional
gas back what I dilition t d T the palace show.
(27:32):
So I am known as to be bearing the father
down a ladder, the General of the General who was
master of the popular of disaster, the hustle the problem
for up to a buster. Publer of production. Benny writes
like manity, ving sanity, Mark Purty mat Emson, loving bellishment
(27:53):
of the lovely Week, like wing Bag and Slayer of
Yss Google get the Tower of Bravel and then ah
(28:15):
there it is great job, wonderful job there for our
buddy Ohio Owl. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll
spend a lot of time on that. I like it.
A drop, a p loser there. That was highlighting many
of the drops, many of the favorite drops on the show.
(28:36):
So we have a little time left. Pivot away from
Ohio Owl's song. And we mentioned the cutting room floor,
So I thought, since normally on Friday we bring somebody
in here and ask a bunch of questions and shoot
the crap and all that stuff. But the cutting room
floor so stuff we planned to get to during the
radio show. However, we ran out of time, and so
(29:00):
think of this as a trip to the refrigerator for
leftover spaghetti or something like that. And so just a
few stories that we would have brought up Danny on
the overnight show, but because of timing reasons, we didn't
get to. Uh, And we'll start with this the expensive
cardboard story. Did you see Nan that Drake spent over
(29:20):
two hundred thousand dollars on basketball cards trying to pull
a very rare card out. I did see this. Yeah, Now,
I know Drake's got a lot of money. But these
these boxes, this NBA Panini, uh, these these I'm not
I'm not into the cards right now. I've gotten out
(29:40):
of the business. I mean, I still have a bunch
I gotta go through. But the the NBA Panini flawless
sports cards. Each box sells for like fifteen thousand dollars, jeez,
and contains ten cards. Ten cards. The math on that
is not it could be great. Um So anyway, he
(30:02):
spent over two hundred thousand dollars and for unopened NBA cards,
and he was going through them and trying to find
trying to find gold. The problem I had with this, Dan,
is you already have gold. You're Drake, You're rich. Isn't
this something that somebody who's kind of looking to win
the lottery would do? You know what I mean? This
(30:24):
is just a rich person who's bored. Right, you start
lighting bills on fire, you like baseball, basketball and football
cards on fire. I remember when my older brother would
get like a San Francisco Giants player and a pack
of baseball cards. He would light it on fire. I'm
(30:47):
not kidding you, Piro, and my mom caught him doing
it one time, and she's like, I swear to God,
if you burn the neighborhood down because you don't like
the San Francisco Giants, you are gonna grounded for a week.
Uh So, now you're gonna have to burn the Jack
(31:07):
Peterson card. I saw Jock sign with the Giants this week.
Douchebag Pearl wearing burnt orange. He's an enemy combatant and
he's got the Jack Pearson's got the reputation of being
a good playoff player. He was a bunch of homers
with the Dodgers. He was terrible for the Braves in
the World Series about this past year. They won, but
(31:29):
as I remember, he was lousy in the place. He's
from northern California, though he's a North count guy, so
he's going back home. But good luck to Drake with
those basketball cards. I guess last year Zion Williamson. One
of those cards sold for two hundred thirty three thousand
dollars last The card business, though I have complained about
(31:50):
this in the past, it's such a racket that the
company you would like to work for are the grading people.
They're the ones that make all the money. Guaranteed to
make their money. The people that grade the cards. He's
a waiting line for those guys. Yeah, that's one of
the problems. I got a whole bunch of cards that
I would some of them might need to get graded
to sell. I'm like, I don't even want to. You
(32:10):
gotta spend money to do it. It's big pain in
the ass, big pain in It took us all right,
We've got limited time here, limited time. You want dumb money?
Lots of camels? Which one picked your poison? Your dad? Oh,
we have a famous drop we used to play on
the live show of you saying I want a camel.
That's right, that's right. And uh, this is a great
(32:33):
camel story. It comes from Tracy McGrady better known as
t MAC back in the day, and he he recently
shared a story that I had not heard, but maybe
you've heard of it, but I had not heard of it.
And so he said years ago, back in his salad days, uh,
that he went to cut her on a trip the
(32:56):
NBA had sent to him and Carmelo, Anthony Clay Thompson
and Luke Walton. So they took a trip over there
to promote the World Cup and so they were all
there and while they were in Cutter, McGrady says he
was asked whether they wanted to do some camel racing.
(33:17):
M hm. And so here's Tracy McGrady at the time,
big NBA you know, legend, Mellow, Clay Thompson, Luke Walton,
all these guys and yeah, exactly. And so McGrady told
the stories. He says, hey, we'll go see the camel race,
and and they were They asked the NBA guys, do
you want to participate? Team Mack told the stories, what
(33:40):
do you mean by that? So anyway, they go down
to the track, as t Mac tells the story, and
they are on the runway and the camels are over
on the side, and then all these NBA guys are
given remote controls by one of the people from the track.
They're in Cutter, and they're like hey, uh, and the
(34:01):
guys are like, what are these remotes? And so apparently
what they do in that part of the world they
have he said, a little They got a little man
on the camel, according to Team Mac, with a whip,
and so they they hand a remote control to these
dudes and then based on how you use the remote
(34:22):
control you the little dude on the camel, which I
assume as robotic, right, I would think right, and I yeah.
And then based on how many times you hit the remote,
the camel gets whipped and that's how they race the
the camel. Well, he got whipped a lot in his career.
He did at the end. Yeah, that's fore he probably
(34:44):
knew how to use that. I was in an elevator
with Team Mac he was playing for the Rockets. I'll
never forget it. It was, you know, he didn't he
had been a big star with their Lando and he
went to the Rocket. He just still well known because
a little penny things and all that. But in the
elevator at then Staples Center, he was complaining because he
had to meet like some do some sponsorship thing and
(35:08):
he was I don't want to do he was complaining.
It was so funny and uh, like you probably I'm
staying in my head, I'm thinking, you're probably gonna get
paid more in for this like ten fifteen minutes sponsor
thing you gotta do. Then I want to be making
for like two years. But he really was having a
bad day. He did not want to do the sponsor gig.
Get at all. So they do you think camel racing
(35:30):
will be there? For I know they've gotten rid of
dog racing in most of America, but that in the
Middle East, camel racing. I'm sure there's dog racing a
lot of places around around the world. I know we
used to have found very humane. No, no, but the
rest of the world is not woke or any of
that stuff. There they don't care about that. Uh well,
(35:51):
I say the rest of the the the non western world,
they're more into there, you know, having a good time
and all. Did he say how much he used the remote?
Oh yeah, yeah, he said, he he went, you know,
he's a fool. He said he kept hitting the remote,
tearing the camel's ass up. But he did say a
team back that he won the race. So his camel
(36:12):
won the race. But then, of course I probably had
to be put down or something like that. Anyway, all right,
that's it on that note. What a way to end
what you know, there's one other thing. I did want
to bring one other thing up, which never goes well
for me. I didn't want your last sentence to be
tear that camel's out. I remember the camel cake. That
(36:35):
was awesome. That camel that was It was awesome from
the cake benefactor years and years ago. But Buck Ball,
I love this quote, Buck show Walter, manager of the Mets.
We're gonna get to this. We didn't get to it
on the show. So Buck show Walter was asked by
one of the Met Beat writers, are you gonna put
up those motivational quotes, encouragement posts and all that stuff
(36:58):
in the you know, in the in the the Mets clubhouse.
Now were you at Fox Sports Radio and the Andrew
Ashwood or at Danny were you there when he was around?
Just after word? Okay, just after so Andrew was our boss.
He was a big believer, great man, big burly man.
Andrew Ashwood loved him, very nice man. Radio pro d
J went into management. You always loved the management guys
(37:18):
that used to be on the air because they get you.
They understand that. I heard he actually gave raises. Yes,
I didn't get one, but other people did. They got
big extensions. And Andrew had been very sick and he
was very generous. He kind of knew the end was
near and on his way out he took care of
some people. Give him a big, big raises and it
was wonderful. What a wonderful gesture by by Andrew Ashwood.
(37:40):
But so Andrew, he used to put up quotes from
Lombardi and all these different people. He loved the Packers,
so he put a lot of quotes of Lombardi up
around Fox Sports Radio. And so that was his thing.
And I I thought of him because of Buck show
author who said he does not like the random famous
quotes of encouragement posted around. You know, encourage are the
employees and all that, And I gotta kick out of
(38:02):
it because it was such a perfect quote for New York.
Buck show All to the new manager of the Mets says,
if it was up to him, he would have only
one sign in the Mets locker room and it would
have two words on it. What do you think that
sign would say, Danny? What do you think, oh man
for the Mets, for the Mets, the New York Metropolitans
(38:25):
don't suck. Well, Actually that is that's a reference to
Joe matt Remember Joe Madden. Oh No, we shock again.
He put that up in the in the Cubs clubhouse
back in the day, right, Buck Showalter said he would
put up in the clubhouse there he said he would
put up a sign that said play better. Joe Maddens
(38:48):
was trying not to suck. That was the why not
just like which is a version of my favorite quote
of all time, John Tortorello, the hockey coach, after the
Rangers lost the game and somebody asked and why why
did you lose the game or something like that, and
he said, we sucked at a time you cannot suck.
That is the perfect quote, and he's like, Tortorella was awesome.
(39:11):
We sucked from head to toe. It was so good,
so wonderful, so so great. Anyway, all right, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. That's right, Friday. We got
a whole weekend to come of podcast Magic on Saturday.
And I know people are watching the tournament, but we're
a good sidecar to the to the march madness and
all that, right, I think, Yeah, we are like a
(39:32):
side of really good mashed potatoes and gravy. Damn. Right,
We have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Remember five
stars on the review, five stars in the real car,
five stars, five stars on the review. And we will
catch you next time on the fifth hour on the
Saturday podcast but thanks later. Skater
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