October 23, 2022 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, dred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot
takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Danny g Radio back in the podcast Ojo on an
NFL Sunday with the Mailbag, the mail bag. Everyone loves
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the man. How can you not like the mailbag. This
is like our tailgate party. Ah, this is great. I
like the mailbag because you never know what you're gonna get.
You never know, you never know until we open up
the mail bag. So without further Ado, let's strike up
the band our man. O. Hi, oh oh, it's all right,
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very good. Are you buckled up? Danny? Are you prepared here?
Do you have you taken your medication, all your vaccines
and all that. I don't know about that, but I'm
drinking a lot of water. After your Halloween party that
Kirkland brand alcohol did the trick. The booze was a flowing,
so we've added some new mail sound effects to dress
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it up a little bit. We figured why not keep
it fresh and let's go to the mailbag. These are
actual questions sent in by actual listeners. You do not
have to wait. You do not have to wait for
me to post something on Tuesday to send question is in.
You can send these questions in whenever you want via
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, letters not numbers,
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and ask away,
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and we make sure to include your name and where
you're listing from, and we may end up using your
question on the next mail bag. Al right, first one
comes from our man Neil from the Real Miami says,
dear Big Ben and Danny g Radio. Good job by
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Big Ben, He says, for voting for the Marines over
the other armed forces. There is a reason why the
Marines guard the POTUS and Air Force one and all
the US embassies around the world. S as I spent
four years. I spent four years at Camp Pendleton, an
hour south of your hometown back in the nineties. Fun times. Yeah,
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I've driven past Camp Pendleton many times coming from l A,
Orange County to San Diego. He says, back to the show,
I just realized the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller is
three years old, So congratulations, I look forward to another
three years. Wish you three times the downloads well, thank you.
I had this thought as I recalled listening to the
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show on a business trip to northern Italy exactly three
years ago, and I had some free time on the weekend,
so I hiked the mountain around Lake Como, listening to
the October en episode A Day with the Elites, when
you talked about your golf outing with the Fox Sports bosses,
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happy Gilmore style, with your grandfather's old clubs. You are
forever in my memories with lake Como and and Gascon thinks.
Here's the question. He says, according to Apple Podcast, September six,
nineteen was the maiden voyage of The Fifth Hour with you,
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Ben Mallor, what do you remember about that day and
what did you envision for the future of this show
at this time, says the real Neil from the real Miami.
So Neil, thank you for rememory. I did not even
remember how many I don't know how long we've been
doing this podcast. I know Danny has been with us
a while now. Gascon was at the start of the podcast,
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and so the way this worked, I had been doing
some extra work. Can I give you the origins of
the podcast. I had been doing some moonlighting. I was
filling in at w e I in Boston remotely, and
I've been doing a couple of shows a week and
the overnight show that we do got picked up by
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w e IES competitor, the Sports Hub in Boston. And
so the way this works, you cannot be on a
competing radio station. It's not allowed. It's taboo and it's
for boating. So I was not allowed to continue my
extra work on the side making the extra money at
e I would not allow me to do that. And
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I was presented with the opportunity from the company to
make a little extra money on the side do the podcast,
and we didn't really know what it would entail. They
were looking for more content. I signed an agreement which
was different than my radio agreement because podcast don't pay
as much as radio, and so I agreed to it
and we we launched and I was like, wow, it'll
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be a gambling thing at first, and then Originally it
was supposed to be only about sports betting, and then
it shifted. It's really morphed into what it is now
over time. But that's how these things worked in you, Right,
you start out with one idea and then you just
kind of see where the thing takes you. Yeah, things
settle on the best number on the board, and you
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don't know what that number is gonna be when you
first started. Yeah, water seeks its own level. A podcast
or a radio show seeks its own level, and it's
gonna roll with the punches, all right. Next up, Kevin
in Kansas. Hold on a second, and I have to
give you the property. Oh and coming email Kevin in Kansas. Right,
since this, dear Benn and Danny, g this November marks
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the final time we'll have to do the fallback, spring forward,
clock changing nonsense. How do you envision this changing your lives?
Moving forward? So, Kevin, I am excited. I'm a little
melancholy because this is one of those big things that
I talked to my dad about. My my we I
used to get so no, my dad would get annoyed.
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He could plain every year about the time change, people
getting more accidents after time Jade him and Clay Travis.
Remember that was one of Clay's big gripes. Every Yes,
I remember Clay with you ranting about that, and I agree.
I think it's dumb. I think it's unnecessary. My dad
would actually send emails to politicians, right, And I wish
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he had lived a little longer for many reasons, but
one of the reasons he would have a Cheshire cat
smile from ear to ear knowing that we can end
the the ridiculousness of the clock moving forward and back.
It's so arcake. It's amazing it took this long for
that to change, and I say hallelujah, And especially doing
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the weekend over that show, which I did for years,
because one part of the year, when we spring forward,
I would lose an hour, and then when we fall back,
I had to do an extra hour. And at one
point I was doing five hours on the overnight, and
they gave me an extra hour, so I do six hours. Yeah,
so much, well much for me? You know, the show
would have been the seventh hour, exactly would have been
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the seventh hour. But does anyone think this is a
bad idea, not changing the clock anymore? Is there anyone
in that camp Danny, have you ever met anyone it's like, oh, no,
there's a bad idea, we need to change the clock.
I've never met anyone like no, which goes to the
point they should have changed this fifty years ago. Yeah, no,
of course, And you know, the wheels of politics turned slowly,
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and it's it's so dumb. They had to have surveys
and committees and all this bullshit just to figure things out.
But I'm right there, Kevin. I love it. I think
it's great, and I cannot wait to not have to
worry about the clocks. It's a lot easier now. And
then we're we're old, Danny. Right, we were kids. There
were a lot of clocks that you had to manually adjust,
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which was not a pleasant experience. It's not a pleasant experience.
All right, what is next year? Let's see? All right,
Blake in Arkansas? Right? Since this Ben, I am normally
a pretty positive guy and not much for bullying on people.
But that being said, what the fuck is going on
with your fill in producer's voice? Sounds like a dog
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whistle came down with laryngitis. For Christ's sake, On what
planet blow? He goes on? He's ripping the guy. But
but here's the thing, Um, he's got a very unique voice,
this guy. And you know, I think that's either a
good thing or a bad It could annoy you. It
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might you know, might not like it. Blah blah blah
blah blah. But he definitely is memorable. And a lot
of people sound the same on the radio. There's a
lot of talk shows that sound the same. Their voice
is similar to other people. You definitely know when he's
cracking the mic that he's he's on an island. I
definitely know when he's in the hallway charing for the
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stupid Padres with his padre's hat and jersey and shorts
and padre socks and do do brown shoes? That's so
many issue I have with him. No, I like it.
I like it. He's a little Yeah. The thing I
would say about him is that some of the the
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normal sies the decorum, he is not mastered, which I
actually am impressed by. Like, for example, there's a rule
in radio, Danny and you know this. You never Actually
one of my friends works at KBC in l A.
We were he he mentioned this to me and reminded
me of this is there's a ruling radio that the
producer should never leave before the host. There's also a
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belief the producer should never get there after the host.
Now I am surrounded by people that get there after
me and also leave before me. But but this, this,
this friend will call the Padre guy. The other night
we did the show, and he sprints out of the
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building right. He runs out of the building. He gets
to his car before me. By the time I get
to my car, he's already driving out of the parking
lot at the I Heart building there, the premier building.
How is that even possible? I guess I'm way too
much of a perfectionist band and spend too much time
on your Guys podcast. How is that even possible to
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run out right at the end of the show. I
got no idea. All I know is he did it.
So he drives by me, which is uh taboo. And
he's got a New York Yankee license plate frame on
his carse wearing a Podre hat and like a Padre jersey,
and he's got a Yankee thing. What yeah? And he's like,
he explains that, well, my dad's a Yankee fan, my
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mom's a Padre fans. So I'm a fan of both.
He said, he's a fan of both dating. I'm gonna
throw a sports flag on him for that. Yeah, that's
a that's a fifteen yard offside penalty right there. Yeah,
my dad, he grew up for most of his team
until he was a teen in Chicago. That doesn't make
me a Chicago Bears fan, no, exactly, exactly so. And
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and the other thing he did is he walked right
through the on air studio to get to the other room.
You know, that's a hallway and then you gotta go
a little further. It's like ten more steps to go
down the hall or the shortcut is right through the
on air studio. That's funny. And he walked right through
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like a short cut, like you weren't even there. He
reminded me of the great Canadian Mike who used to
work at Fox Sports Radio back and then he did
the same thing. Oh boy, And it was like, what
do you? What are you? What are you doing here?
And I have some great Canadian mic stories. We'll have
to share those someday. I'm all about I love Canadian.
We had some good times together and I hope he's
doing okay. I don't know what happened, though, But he's
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doing drunk somewhere well, probably so. Blake in Arkansas writes
in uh with Moore, He says, uh, on your way
to being the king of the overnight, how much if any,
did you work on practice? Worry about the tone of
your radio voice? Ps? I get that guy a filter?
He says, all right, wow. Uh so my voice has
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changed a lot since I started radio because I've gone
through puberty. I found much different now than I did.
Are on the road. Yeah, I know, royals are having
their problems on the road. Royals having their problems on
the road. I'm Ben Mallock. Yeah, so I signed a
lot different now than I did back then. But in
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terms of my voice, no, I'm not smoking a pack
of Marlboroughs. When I first got into radio, a lot
of guys would smoke because it gives you a deeper voice,
the tobacco and all. I didn't. I never did that.
The main things I focus on are the technical aspects
of like how did this show better? Like how to?
How to how to phrase things better? How to mix
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in more not no, not more words. I don't want
a word alphabet thing or a letter alphabet thing. I
just want I want to say something that is I'm
saying a lot of things are the same as other people,
but I want to use different different words to say
the same thing essentially. All right, So that's that's kind
of stuff I focus in on that Danny g over
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there when you were born, when you came out of
the womb, Danny, did you say, hey, mom like that
you have the deep voice going? Or is that something
you acquired later? I was like, where's my tricycle? Mom?
I needed a lollipop. I mean, that's one thing that
has changed over time in radio. When I was a kid,
I had programmers tell me, oh, man, you're naturally blessed
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with those pipes. You gotta lean into that. You gotta
lean into that deep voice. So when you get on
the air, talk slow and used the role and so
like an idiot. As a teenager, I listened to bad
advice and I sat there on my microphone and leaned
into it. You know what that changed because it doesn't
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matter necessarily about voice anymore. It's more about content. There
used to be boss jocks where it was all about
voice and delivery and Wolfman Jack and all that. And yeah,
he was funny, and he had like his bits and
stuff like that, but a lot of it was about
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the voice and the tone and the delivery. That has
changed now to to content and the programmers across the
country they all cared about wit and humor and timing
and um, you know, the different segments and features, and
not so much about what guy's voices sounded like. Unless
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they had like, really really annoying voices, then that might
be a problem. But other than that, you could just
be a normal dude as long as you're funny and entertaining.
I'll tell you a funny story that I got told
by a program director when I first started out in
as We're going in San Diego at the mighty six,
and I was sending air checks out different radio stations
trying to get my big break, and I got told
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by a program director that I was to f emy.
I didn't sound like an AM sports guy. I sounded
too much like an FM guy and it wouldn't work. Yeah. Now,
how outdated is that take? By the way, I know
times changed and all that, but super outdated. Yeah, because
basically he was saying you should be on Kiss FM
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introducing banana rama back then or whatever. The group was
in the Anson Brothers are exactly exactly on for the
second time this hour. Oombo I was like, Okay, we're
good on that. I think I think we're all right
on that. I just want to point that out. I
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got mail, yea, I got mail yea. Our friend Jennifer
in Richmond, Virginia. She's a six percenter. Ninety four percent
of the audience is male, six percenter women. Jennifer is
part of the six percent. You bumped up because you
said you called her a four percenter. Oh that's right,
you know, I got that mixed up for excuse me,
four percenter nineties, six and four. That's right. Anyway, she
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got a promotion. No, no, no, Benn and Danny ge guys,
thanks for doing these podcasts. It's fun hearing about your
lives off air, and the mail bag is always entertaining.
She says, Ben, It's amazing to me how you never
let yourself become complacent with the content on your daily show,
and everything you do on air is done with gusto. Well,
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thank you, Jennifers, so she she loves that. Well, the
main reason I'm doing that, Jennifers have a lot of
bills to pay, and I feel like if I do
one bad show, it's all gonna come crashing down and
I'll be living with weed man hippie eating roches. So
I try to avoid that at all costs. I love
you exactly. My philosophy has always been, they will get
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rid of me someday. They've already gotten rid of me once.
But they're not going to get rid of me because
of the content of the show. They'll get rid of
me because I've been there too long, or they want
somebody else or whatever. It's not big because the show
is bad. And I've been around people, and you've been
around people, Danny, that have lost their job because they
got lazy. They just didn't do the prep. They read
off ESPN dot com. They showed up five minutes before
the show. And I don't want to be that guy.
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So I'm not gonna be that guy. I've made a
pact with myself and that's just the way it is.
She says, you and your crew even make baseball talk
interesting less a shot, uh, in any way that no
other shows do. Thanks, that's from Jennifer. Now, my quick question,
did you see you and Danny see Snoop Dogg's new
four D video in the vein of Larry David and
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Curb theme music and characteristics. I stumbled across it recently,
but I don't understand the point. It was somewhat entertaining,
but not really. She says, well, you look it up,
watch it and tell us what you think. And she
wants to know, Danny, are you a fan of Curb
your enthusiasm? Yeah? I love Curb. My favorite episode was
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back in the day when Larry got the prostitute so
that he could go on to Carpool Carpool Lane. Um oh.
And also the shock episode where he tripped Shaquille O'Neil. Yeah,
that was a good one too. Was at Staples Center
that night when he's called Staple Center. Then when they
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filmed that and everyone was all exciting, like Larry David
there and they did several takes over and over in
and all that stuff. So yeah, and then flash forward
to the more recent episodes. I loved his spiked cafe
that he opened in the toilet he did with the
bathroom Joe's or whatever. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah.
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Have you seen this Snoop Dogg video? I've not seen
this video. We'll have to do some investigative reporting on
that video. Yeah, how much do they spend on these
videos if they're not getting watched that much? But then
on YouTube, I'm not sure how it works, but there's
some of those songs on YouTube. They get so many
views and downloads and then man, yeah, that's how the
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artists do their marketing nowadays, and so really the videos
are made straight to YouTube and straight to you know,
there's a couple of outlets that just do videos. But
other than that, Yeah, I mean, you don't even have
to have a video nowadays to have a hit song
on the radio. And you know, when we were kids,
that's not the case. Yeah, the video was the key
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element to get people buzzing about your you're dealing all that,
All right, let's see what's right. Let's go to Pierre
from the leaf Peeping traffic Capital of the Northeast. He says,
for both of you, do you buy your favorite Halloween
candy to hand out in hopes of leftovers or do
you purposely buy kinds that you don't like so you
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won't over indulge after the holidays. It's a good question.
So normally what happens is me and the wife will
be at Costco, and we'll get like two giant bags
of whatever candy they have at Costco, and then usually
there's a few things we like in there. We get
one bag which is chocolate, and then we get one
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giant bag which is more like Mike and Ikes and
gummy worms and that kind of crap. And so we
got a little bit of each. And normally there's always
leftover candy because there's never that many kids that come
to your house. So that's that's my move back in
the older is my mom. She she knew I love
butterfinger in Baby Ruth. She'd buy me those. It was great,
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but I'd eat them all. Yeah, especially those many. But yeah,
you're double fisting those Hartist Hartists. I was more concerned
about him giving me a double fish put those in
the freezer band. Oh that is wonderful. What is your
all time favorite Halloween candy? Yeah, so I've evolved over
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the years. The Reese's butter Peanut butter cups great, but
butterfinger Baby Ruth, that was my go to for a
long time. Uh so some some combination of that. What
about you butter fingers right up there, sour candy? I
love sour candy, and I love skittles too, hit and
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miss Right, if they've been around too long, they get
really difficult to eat. But if they're soft and kind
of you know what I mean, if they've sitting around
for a long time, they turned into like little pebbles.
A fresh packet of the little skittles, those are wonderful, man.
So if you gave me a whole bunch of mini
butter fingers and a whole bunch of mini Skittles, I'd
be set to get fat. I gotta be careful because
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was it two halloweens ago? Maybe it was three. I've
told the sorry I had so much Halloween candy. I
thought I had diabetes because I was having headaches. I
had eaten so much candy. And I went to the
doctor and all these blood tests, all this blood work done,
and the doctors like, well, we think what you did
is you just your body wasn't used to eating that
much sugar anymore, and you just overdosed on sugar and
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your body had this reaction. They didn't know, but I
didn't know how to handle it. Wow. Wow, I didn't
know that was a thing. I had no idea. But
we gotta watch you over the next few days here closely. Yeah,
I gotta be careful on that. Also, he says, who
is your least favorite update person now that Wreckett Ralph
is gone? And why is it Goldilocks? How I didn't
say it was Goldilocks. He did pick up the nickname, though.
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Brian Finley's new nickname is Goldilocks. Did you hear about
that name? You know you said his new nickname was
love you. Well, yeah, that was his last new nickname, Lovey.
Now he's known as Goldilocks. Jesus, his list is gonna
get as long as yours. Well, here's why you got
the nickname Goldilocks. So I come in there. I I
get ready for the show. The other night Eddie was
away doing a hockey game or whatever. So I come
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into the studio. I walked down the hall and make
my turn. I go to the old Casey case in studio.
I normally get ready for the show, and I've been
doing this for years, and I go I turned the
corner and then I see Ricky, producer Ricky standing in
the hall. I'm like, what's that? What is Ricky doing here?
And he's chatting with Brian Finley, who's sitting in my
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chair that I normally sit in to get ready for
the show. He had moved in there and he had
this this canister of it looked like peanut butter. I
was like, what are you doing, what are you eating?
He said, well, no, I've got some almond butter. He
had like a spoon and he was eating almond butter.
So then he got out of there, and I went
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to put my stuff down and the table was covered
with gobs of almond butter. Oh man, yeah, so he's
like Goldilocks. He had moved into my my territory there,
and he he poured almond butter all over the damn table.
It was terrible. Daddy that's his new nickname. Be a
real man and eat some peanut butter. Go out a limb,
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come on. And Alf also sent some great photos of
his humble abode in Massachusetts. There's beautiful, man, it's we
don't get that. Danny's got pictures of the leaves turning
and all of that. We don't We don't have that here.
And there's also a lot of wild turkeys. Not the
kind of wild turkey a lot of our listeners like,
but the real wild turkeys that are running around. We
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have homeless people who changed color and turnover. That is true.
We have a lot of that. If you want that,
you want us to take some photos of that, alf
we can, We'd be more than happy to send some
photos of that. And boy, would you be happy. Man,
You'd be like, oh, I can't but that's so impressive.
Unless unless you don't do that, Unless you're like, no, no,
that's not You've got mail Mike from Fullerton rights in.
He says, also living in Pierre's head rent free. While
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this will be my first and only warning to Pierre
quit messing with the Fenley fanatics. We can make life
very very difficult for you. Those are threatening words. And Ben,
I hope your Halloween bash did go well. If it
didn't go well, you'll only have yourself to blame for
not inviting the party. King Goldilocks Brian Finland, He says,
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here's my question, which one of you has the most
famous Twitter followers? I'd also like to know which one
of you has the least famous followers. Yeah, so I
haven't done inventory on that. There's a few big verified
accounts to follow me on Twitter. So that's cool and
all that, but I don't I've really obsessed on it
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too much. Any any when you want to drop here, Danny,
any big names you want to drop on the Twitter.
I don't have that many famous people interacting with me
on Twitter. The one that comes to mind though, Chuck
d of Public Enemy. If you were a rap fan
in the eighties and nineties, that's a big deal. And
he actually comments on some of my tweets from time
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to time, which is really cool. As a kid, I
listened to every song he ever recorded. So if you
would have told me later in life, as an adult,
he'd be interacting with me on the Internet, I wouldn't
have believed you. Yeah, that's pretty cool. A lot of
the people that follow me I've known since before they
were a big deal. Uh you know, so I don't know.
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Like I knew Adam Schefter when he was just a
beat writer in Denver before he got the ESPN and
all that. So, and I used to help him out
on my website. He follows me on there. Adam has
always been good to me. Uh try I think who else?
William Shatner does not follow me? It's not unfortunately he did.
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He still have you blocked? No he unblocked me because
somebody spent thousands of dollars to have him locked me.
Somebody actually gave him money for his charity. Yeah, and
unfortunately it was not one of my listeners, one of
our fans here. It was this horse charity and it
was actually a star trek guy who was annoyed at
Trekky was annoyed because our our fans were harassing Shatner
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on Twitter, and so he's like, I just want peace.
I'm gonna pay for this. I don't I want everyone
to get along. And so I didn't know about that,
shouts out to the horse guy. Yeah, well it was
Chattner has a he's got like a bunch of horses
in uh in Burbank, right, and so he's got a
horse charity, and so he was raising money for that.
And that's how all that went down back in the day.
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You don't help, Yeah, I'm sure Nick and was give
him all the horse and let him right out of town.
Nick in Wisconsin has Ben and Danny. Would you rather
would you rather? Is back He says, would you rather
have a car that can also fly? Or a car
that can also drive under the water? Yeah, So the
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idea of a flying car is wonderful, assuming it's somewhat
safe obviously, so they're positives to both these things. But
I'd much rather have a flying car because it is
a pain in the ask to fly domestically the way
airports are and airlines and all that. And if I
gets to be like, all right, let's program the mallon
will be all I'm gonna go to Vegas, I'm gonna
go to Phoenix, I'm gonna go to Dallas, I'm gonna
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go to Chicago, whatever, boom, and you just fly the car.
That'd be awesome. It would also be kind of cool,
Danny to be on a car that goes underwater and
see what's at the bottom of the Pacific and driving
around right. Also, I would take my car international and
finally unlock the mysteries of the lock Neest monster. Oh yeah,
(28:47):
you can do that. Imagine what kind of critters are
down at the bottom of the oceans that we don't
even know about. These oceans are so vast and so deep,
there's places that they can't go. Think about what you
would see there. And also you were underwater, you could
get some old gold booty on, some old gold coins
from pirate ships. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's
(29:08):
the the way to do it for sure. Let's see
who is next year booty pirates, Booty pirates, booty Is
that the Yeah, that's some real pirate's booty back back there,
all right, I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
You got some quick ones here, Rich says, Ken Roberto
(29:30):
make an omelet with platypus eggs? Sure, why not? Uh?
Guy named Ben Wrights, and he says, how did the
Astro fans cheer and root for a team that needed
trash cans to win a World Series without remorse? It's
a great question, but it happens a lot bend. But
that had a funny call this this week, Danny that
(29:50):
we only get on terrestrial radio. So my affiliate in
Houston is seven ninety, which is the Astros station. Yeah,
and we we're on after Astro Talk ended after the
Yankees and the Astros game one. So some guy from
Houston calls up. He's at He's at the game guy,
you know, at the game. Guy at the game. Guy
(30:12):
just wants to talk about the game. He doesn't know
who the hell is on the radio. He just happened
to know. The Astros were on seven ninety in Houston.
So he turned on the station in his car and
it's like, hey, I hear somebody giving out a number.
I'm gonna call up. I'm at the game guy. And
he wanted to tell stories about being at the game,
and so I put him on. After just destroying the Astros,
they did a monologue ripping the ship out of the Astros,
(30:35):
and this guy calls up, like, I didn't say any
of that stuff, and he just starts talking about, well,
I was at the game tonight and he's going through
this whole thing. It was wild. He's at the game guy.
That's the guy. He's at the game guy. Gave you
flashbacks of Dodger Talk. Oh yeah, I had a lot
of that Dodger Talk. Yeah, I was at the game tonight.
I hate when callers start off with that. I don't
(30:56):
give a ship if you were at the game or
you watched on TV. Get to your point, please get
to the point. Please. Well. Also on Dodger Talk, it
was always the the experts that knew more than the
team did and more than you did about the minor
league guys. We used to have a guy Jeane and
Redondo Beach, who would call up and he knew everyone
in Triple A and Double A, and he'd he'd hear
(31:18):
some or he'd see some stats on a relief pictures,
like the Dodgers have to call this guy out. He's
got a great all right at Albuquerque, you know, which
was the Triple A affiliate the time, And it was like,
you know, the guy's a career minor league here. Okay,
they're not. They're not calling him up. He's not even
on the the big forty man roster. There's no more
transistor radios inside the ballpark. Listening to Vince Scully, you
(31:40):
could make the argument that the at the game guy
knows less about the person that was watching and listening
to the TV crew. It's a fair point. That is
a fair point. Next up, as we continue the mail Bag,
the extended dance remix of the mail Bag, These are
actual questions from actual listeners, and we say a load too.
(32:02):
What was that effect? Oh, that was a new one.
That was that's mail blasting off? I see you send mail,
you know any like that? Maybe you don't like that,
maybe like I don't even know what that is. I
don't have no idea. What that is? Uh? John and
Colorado says, Hey, hey, guys, at what age do you
stop saying gone too soon when someone croaks? Yeah, that's
(32:25):
a good question. Uh, And that age has gotten higher
as I've gotten older, So I want you to know
that age is gone higher and higher as I've aged.
What is it? Well? I thought when the queen passed away,
I thought she was You know, I don't think you
can say gone too soon? What do you replace that with?
Do you say appropriate time to die? Life well lived?
(32:48):
I don't I'm not sure what would mean. Anytime you
see that when celebrities or musicians die, you'll see a
lot of gone too soon. We lost that person way
too soon. They could have given us so much more memories. Yeah,
what do you think life would be like if everyone
just lived for three years? What do you think that
(33:10):
would be like? You think it would be better or worse? Uh,
that's a good question. I guess it would depend on
the government and how things were going for us in
our lives, because you think about our adult life been
not to get political or anything like that, because we
don't want our overall rating to go down to a
four point seven. But what year. Do you recall where
(33:34):
you and I were celebrating in the streets because of
our paychecks and the state of the economy and the
government and how everything was going. Have we ever really
had a stretch in our adult lives where things were
stacked in our favor? Absolutely not. I I make less
now than I made when I started. Well, the first
(33:54):
real job I got in radio because it was a
union shop and I was making amazing money. And it's yeah,
so I'm right there with you on that same late
nineties was real money for us. Yeah, big time. Be
still living off that money right now, and I think
(34:15):
it's all gone on my and unfortunately al right. Next up,
Scott writes, and he says the comment regarding woke caller
salsa salsa called up referred to as this. He says
a century ago, black travelers were told to stay woke
as a warning of clan activity in the area they
were staying in. For that reason, Scott says, I will
(34:35):
no longer use the term to describe hypersensitive folks, but
go back to calling them what I always have, the
perpetually professionally offended. Yeah, so I used the term woke. Uh,
I feel like it's a the modern definition of it, Danny,
I don't think is is that I I was asked
(34:56):
by Salsa about this. My interpretation of term woke is
is people that are overly politically correct and it also
are offended by everything and are trying to change everything.
I want to take down statues, want to cancel words,
want to cancel entertainers like, to me, that's woke, like
or or you preach like the NBA was preaching on
(35:20):
on how people should act. The NFL has done a
lot of that. Baseball all the leagues have done that.
That's like, that's to me, that's woke. So I think
that's the modern definition. Am I a bad person? Danny?
For you modern interpretation of the world woke? I mean
some people use that like lit or other words that
are just overused because they think that they're being you know,
(35:41):
with it or trendy, or that they're hip. But the
one thing that caught my attention this past week, and
actually uh Covino and Rich covered a couple of afternoons ago,
there was a recent article about how gen z ears
are rallying to get the thumbs up emoji can sold
(36:01):
on the yes because they're triggered by the thumbs up.
They think it's condescending. So, in other words, if you
sent me a text message and I gave it a
thumbs up, that's me kind of being a dick. That's
how they feel. So their feelings are now getting hurt
by certain emojis. Well, that's actually not I remember the
(36:22):
big controversy at Wrigley Field a couple of years ago
because somebody did the Okay song. That's right. Yeah, we're
now told that that is racist, that that's been hijacked
by some group or something like that, so we're not
allowed to do the okay sign. It was so stupid.
If the thumbs up thing is insulting, then people do
that every day on Facebook when they like somebody's post.
(36:45):
So if I like something, is that insulting you? It
is dumb. Anyway, we we'll get out of here on that.
Thanks to Anthony, Johnny and San Antonio, Mike and Wisconsin,
Joe in in New York and all the other people
here that we did not have time to get to
the questions. But Danny anything to promote here, anything at all.
I guess tonight, right, you told me you'll be in
(37:05):
tonight that's right, two days in a row. I see
your mug, yeah, Danny G. I saw you at at
your Halloween party. Yeah. And then we're recovering today tonight.
I'm gonna be in there to kick off Sunday night
into Monday morning with you and for Coop. All right,
and remember, Danny, you're not that guy. I'll trust me
(37:26):
You're not that guy. Don't be that guy. Don't don't
be that That means I can't race to my car
before you get to yours after the show. If if
I see you burning rubber before I get out of
the garage, we got heads are gonna roll. Danny, have
a great rest of your day. I will be back
with Danny G tonight on the radio show. I'll talk
about all these big NFL games, the good, the bad,
(37:47):
and the including that Pittsburgh Miami Sunday night game, see
how I did against the Penny. And have a have
a great rest of your weekend, and we'll talk to
you on the radio next time. Go Raiders later Skater
the Raiders. Hey, Hey, hey, I'm let you go check
put by me.
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, dred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot
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(00:23):
Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
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(00:50):
the man. How can you not like the mailbag. This
is like our tailgate party. Ah, this is great. I
like the mailbag because you never know what you're gonna get.
You never know, you never know until we open up
the mail bag. So without further Ado, let's strike up
the band our man. O. Hi, oh oh, it's all right,
(01:26):
very good. Are you buckled up? Danny? Are you prepared here?
Do you have you taken your medication, all your vaccines
and all that. I don't know about that, but I'm
drinking a lot of water. After your Halloween party that
Kirkland brand alcohol did the trick. The booze was a flowing,
so we've added some new mail sound effects to dress
(01:47):
it up a little bit. We figured why not keep
it fresh and let's go to the mailbag. These are
actual questions sent in by actual listeners. You do not
have to wait. You do not have to wait for
me to post something on Tuesday to send question is in.
You can send these questions in whenever you want via
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, letters not numbers,
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and ask away,
(02:11):
and we make sure to include your name and where
you're listing from, and we may end up using your
question on the next mail bag. Al right, first one
comes from our man Neil from the Real Miami says,
dear Big Ben and Danny g Radio. Good job by
(02:33):
Big Ben, He says, for voting for the Marines over
the other armed forces. There is a reason why the
Marines guard the POTUS and Air Force one and all
the US embassies around the world. S as I spent
four years. I spent four years at Camp Pendleton, an
hour south of your hometown back in the nineties. Fun times. Yeah,
(02:55):
I've driven past Camp Pendleton many times coming from l A,
Orange County to San Diego. He says, back to the show,
I just realized the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller is
three years old, So congratulations, I look forward to another
three years. Wish you three times the downloads well, thank you.
I had this thought as I recalled listening to the
(03:17):
show on a business trip to northern Italy exactly three
years ago, and I had some free time on the weekend,
so I hiked the mountain around Lake Como, listening to
the October en episode A Day with the Elites, when
you talked about your golf outing with the Fox Sports bosses,
(03:38):
happy Gilmore style, with your grandfather's old clubs. You are
forever in my memories with lake Como and and Gascon thinks.
Here's the question. He says, according to Apple Podcast, September six,
nineteen was the maiden voyage of The Fifth Hour with you,
(04:00):
Ben Mallor, what do you remember about that day and
what did you envision for the future of this show
at this time, says the real Neil from the real Miami.
So Neil, thank you for rememory. I did not even
remember how many I don't know how long we've been
doing this podcast. I know Danny has been with us
a while now. Gascon was at the start of the podcast,
(04:23):
and so the way this worked, I had been doing
some extra work. Can I give you the origins of
the podcast. I had been doing some moonlighting. I was
filling in at w e I in Boston remotely, and
I've been doing a couple of shows a week and
the overnight show that we do got picked up by
(04:45):
w e IES competitor, the Sports Hub in Boston. And
so the way this works, you cannot be on a
competing radio station. It's not allowed. It's taboo and it's
for boating. So I was not allowed to continue my
extra work on the side making the extra money at
e I would not allow me to do that. And
(05:05):
I was presented with the opportunity from the company to
make a little extra money on the side do the podcast,
and we didn't really know what it would entail. They
were looking for more content. I signed an agreement which
was different than my radio agreement because podcast don't pay
as much as radio, and so I agreed to it
and we we launched and I was like, wow, it'll
(05:27):
be a gambling thing at first, and then Originally it
was supposed to be only about sports betting, and then
it shifted. It's really morphed into what it is now
over time. But that's how these things worked in you, Right,
you start out with one idea and then you just
kind of see where the thing takes you. Yeah, things
settle on the best number on the board, and you
(05:49):
don't know what that number is gonna be when you
first started. Yeah, water seeks its own level. A podcast
or a radio show seeks its own level, and it's
gonna roll with the punches, all right. Next up, Kevin
in Kansas. Hold on a second, and I have to
give you the property. Oh and coming email Kevin in Kansas. Right,
since this, dear Benn and Danny, g this November marks
(06:09):
the final time we'll have to do the fallback, spring forward,
clock changing nonsense. How do you envision this changing your lives?
Moving forward? So, Kevin, I am excited. I'm a little
melancholy because this is one of those big things that
I talked to my dad about. My my we I
used to get so no, my dad would get annoyed.
(06:29):
He could plain every year about the time change, people
getting more accidents after time Jade him and Clay Travis.
Remember that was one of Clay's big gripes. Every Yes,
I remember Clay with you ranting about that, and I agree.
I think it's dumb. I think it's unnecessary. My dad
would actually send emails to politicians, right, And I wish
(06:51):
he had lived a little longer for many reasons, but
one of the reasons he would have a Cheshire cat
smile from ear to ear knowing that we can end
the the ridiculousness of the clock moving forward and back.
It's so arcake. It's amazing it took this long for
that to change, and I say hallelujah, And especially doing
(07:13):
the weekend over that show, which I did for years,
because one part of the year, when we spring forward,
I would lose an hour, and then when we fall back,
I had to do an extra hour. And at one
point I was doing five hours on the overnight, and
they gave me an extra hour, so I do six hours. Yeah,
so much, well much for me? You know, the show
would have been the seventh hour, exactly would have been
(07:35):
the seventh hour. But does anyone think this is a
bad idea, not changing the clock anymore? Is there anyone
in that camp Danny, have you ever met anyone it's like, oh, no,
there's a bad idea, we need to change the clock.
I've never met anyone like no, which goes to the
point they should have changed this fifty years ago. Yeah, no,
of course, And you know, the wheels of politics turned slowly,
(07:58):
and it's it's so dumb. They had to have surveys
and committees and all this bullshit just to figure things out.
But I'm right there, Kevin. I love it. I think
it's great, and I cannot wait to not have to
worry about the clocks. It's a lot easier now. And
then we're we're old, Danny. Right, we were kids. There
were a lot of clocks that you had to manually adjust,
(08:18):
which was not a pleasant experience. It's not a pleasant experience.
All right, what is next year? Let's see? All right,
Blake in Arkansas? Right? Since this Ben, I am normally
a pretty positive guy and not much for bullying on people.
But that being said, what the fuck is going on
with your fill in producer's voice? Sounds like a dog
(08:41):
whistle came down with laryngitis. For Christ's sake, On what
planet blow? He goes on? He's ripping the guy. But
but here's the thing, Um, he's got a very unique voice,
this guy. And you know, I think that's either a
good thing or a bad It could annoy you. It
(09:01):
might you know, might not like it. Blah blah blah
blah blah. But he definitely is memorable. And a lot
of people sound the same on the radio. There's a
lot of talk shows that sound the same. Their voice
is similar to other people. You definitely know when he's
cracking the mic that he's he's on an island. I
definitely know when he's in the hallway charing for the
(09:22):
stupid Padres with his padre's hat and jersey and shorts
and padre socks and do do brown shoes? That's so
many issue I have with him. No, I like it.
I like it. He's a little Yeah. The thing I
would say about him is that some of the the
(09:45):
normal sies the decorum, he is not mastered, which I
actually am impressed by. Like, for example, there's a rule
in radio, Danny and you know this. You never Actually
one of my friends works at KBC in l A.
We were he he mentioned this to me and reminded
me of this is there's a ruling radio that the
producer should never leave before the host. There's also a
(10:07):
belief the producer should never get there after the host.
Now I am surrounded by people that get there after
me and also leave before me. But but this, this,
this friend will call the Padre guy. The other night
we did the show, and he sprints out of the
(10:27):
building right. He runs out of the building. He gets
to his car before me. By the time I get
to my car, he's already driving out of the parking
lot at the I Heart building there, the premier building.
How is that even possible? I guess I'm way too
much of a perfectionist band and spend too much time
on your Guys podcast. How is that even possible to
(10:48):
run out right at the end of the show. I
got no idea. All I know is he did it.
So he drives by me, which is uh taboo. And
he's got a New York Yankee license plate frame on
his carse wearing a Podre hat and like a Padre jersey,
and he's got a Yankee thing. What yeah? And he's like,
he explains that, well, my dad's a Yankee fan, my
(11:10):
mom's a Padre fans. So I'm a fan of both.
He said, he's a fan of both dating. I'm gonna
throw a sports flag on him for that. Yeah, that's
a that's a fifteen yard offside penalty right there. Yeah,
my dad, he grew up for most of his team
until he was a teen in Chicago. That doesn't make
me a Chicago Bears fan, no, exactly, exactly so. And
(11:33):
and the other thing he did is he walked right
through the on air studio to get to the other room.
You know, that's a hallway and then you gotta go
a little further. It's like ten more steps to go
down the hall or the shortcut is right through the
on air studio. That's funny. And he walked right through
(11:56):
like a short cut, like you weren't even there. He
reminded me of the great Canadian Mike who used to
work at Fox Sports Radio back and then he did
the same thing. Oh boy, And it was like, what
do you? What are you? What are you doing here?
And I have some great Canadian mic stories. We'll have
to share those someday. I'm all about I love Canadian.
We had some good times together and I hope he's
doing okay. I don't know what happened, though, But he's
(12:17):
doing drunk somewhere well, probably so. Blake in Arkansas writes
in uh with Moore, He says, uh, on your way
to being the king of the overnight, how much if any,
did you work on practice? Worry about the tone of
your radio voice? Ps? I get that guy a filter?
He says, all right, wow. Uh so my voice has
(12:40):
changed a lot since I started radio because I've gone
through puberty. I found much different now than I did.
Are on the road. Yeah, I know, royals are having
their problems on the road. Royals having their problems on
the road. I'm Ben Mallock. Yeah, so I signed a
lot different now than I did back then. But in
(13:02):
terms of my voice, no, I'm not smoking a pack
of Marlboroughs. When I first got into radio, a lot
of guys would smoke because it gives you a deeper voice,
the tobacco and all. I didn't. I never did that.
The main things I focus on are the technical aspects
of like how did this show better? Like how to?
How to how to phrase things better? How to mix
(13:24):
in more not no, not more words. I don't want
a word alphabet thing or a letter alphabet thing. I
just want I want to say something that is I'm
saying a lot of things are the same as other people,
but I want to use different different words to say
the same thing essentially. All right, So that's that's kind
of stuff I focus in on that Danny g over
(13:45):
there when you were born, when you came out of
the womb, Danny, did you say, hey, mom like that
you have the deep voice going? Or is that something
you acquired later? I was like, where's my tricycle? Mom?
I needed a lollipop. I mean, that's one thing that
has changed over time in radio. When I was a kid,
I had programmers tell me, oh, man, you're naturally blessed
(14:09):
with those pipes. You gotta lean into that. You gotta
lean into that deep voice. So when you get on
the air, talk slow and used the role and so
like an idiot. As a teenager, I listened to bad
advice and I sat there on my microphone and leaned
into it. You know what that changed because it doesn't
(14:30):
matter necessarily about voice anymore. It's more about content. There
used to be boss jocks where it was all about
voice and delivery and Wolfman Jack and all that. And yeah,
he was funny, and he had like his bits and
stuff like that, but a lot of it was about
(14:50):
the voice and the tone and the delivery. That has
changed now to to content and the programmers across the
country they all cared about wit and humor and timing
and um, you know, the different segments and features, and
not so much about what guy's voices sounded like. Unless
(15:11):
they had like, really really annoying voices, then that might
be a problem. But other than that, you could just
be a normal dude as long as you're funny and entertaining.
I'll tell you a funny story that I got told
by a program director when I first started out in
as We're going in San Diego at the mighty six,
and I was sending air checks out different radio stations
trying to get my big break, and I got told
(15:33):
by a program director that I was to f emy.
I didn't sound like an AM sports guy. I sounded
too much like an FM guy and it wouldn't work. Yeah. Now,
how outdated is that take? By the way, I know
times changed and all that, but super outdated. Yeah, because
basically he was saying you should be on Kiss FM
(15:54):
introducing banana rama back then or whatever. The group was
in the Anson Brothers are exactly exactly on for the
second time this hour. Oombo I was like, Okay, we're
good on that. I think I think we're all right
on that. I just want to point that out. I
(16:16):
got mail, yea, I got mail yea. Our friend Jennifer
in Richmond, Virginia. She's a six percenter. Ninety four percent
of the audience is male, six percenter women. Jennifer is
part of the six percent. You bumped up because you
said you called her a four percenter. Oh that's right,
you know, I got that mixed up for excuse me,
four percenter nineties, six and four. That's right. Anyway, she
(16:42):
got a promotion. No, no, no, Benn and Danny ge guys,
thanks for doing these podcasts. It's fun hearing about your
lives off air, and the mail bag is always entertaining.
She says, Ben, It's amazing to me how you never
let yourself become complacent with the content on your daily show,
and everything you do on air is done with gusto. Well,
(17:04):
thank you, Jennifers, so she she loves that. Well, the
main reason I'm doing that, Jennifers have a lot of
bills to pay, and I feel like if I do
one bad show, it's all gonna come crashing down and
I'll be living with weed man hippie eating roches. So
I try to avoid that at all costs. I love
you exactly. My philosophy has always been, they will get
(17:26):
rid of me someday. They've already gotten rid of me once.
But they're not going to get rid of me because
of the content of the show. They'll get rid of
me because I've been there too long, or they want
somebody else or whatever. It's not big because the show
is bad. And I've been around people, and you've been
around people, Danny, that have lost their job because they
got lazy. They just didn't do the prep. They read
off ESPN dot com. They showed up five minutes before
the show. And I don't want to be that guy.
(17:48):
So I'm not gonna be that guy. I've made a
pact with myself and that's just the way it is.
She says, you and your crew even make baseball talk
interesting less a shot, uh, in any way that no
other shows do. Thanks, that's from Jennifer. Now, my quick question,
did you see you and Danny see Snoop Dogg's new
four D video in the vein of Larry David and
(18:10):
Curb theme music and characteristics. I stumbled across it recently,
but I don't understand the point. It was somewhat entertaining,
but not really. She says, well, you look it up,
watch it and tell us what you think. And she
wants to know, Danny, are you a fan of Curb
your enthusiasm? Yeah? I love Curb. My favorite episode was
(18:33):
back in the day when Larry got the prostitute so
that he could go on to Carpool Carpool Lane. Um oh.
And also the shock episode where he tripped Shaquille O'Neil. Yeah,
that was a good one too. Was at Staples Center
that night when he's called Staple Center. Then when they
(18:53):
filmed that and everyone was all exciting, like Larry David
there and they did several takes over and over in
and all that stuff. So yeah, and then flash forward
to the more recent episodes. I loved his spiked cafe
that he opened in the toilet he did with the
bathroom Joe's or whatever. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah.
(19:15):
Have you seen this Snoop Dogg video? I've not seen
this video. We'll have to do some investigative reporting on
that video. Yeah, how much do they spend on these
videos if they're not getting watched that much? But then
on YouTube, I'm not sure how it works, but there's
some of those songs on YouTube. They get so many
views and downloads and then man, yeah, that's how the
(19:38):
artists do their marketing nowadays, and so really the videos
are made straight to YouTube and straight to you know,
there's a couple of outlets that just do videos. But
other than that, Yeah, I mean, you don't even have
to have a video nowadays to have a hit song
on the radio. And you know, when we were kids,
that's not the case. Yeah, the video was the key
(20:02):
element to get people buzzing about your you're dealing all that,
All right, let's see what's right. Let's go to Pierre
from the leaf Peeping traffic Capital of the Northeast. He says,
for both of you, do you buy your favorite Halloween
candy to hand out in hopes of leftovers or do
you purposely buy kinds that you don't like so you
(20:24):
won't over indulge after the holidays. It's a good question.
So normally what happens is me and the wife will
be at Costco, and we'll get like two giant bags
of whatever candy they have at Costco, and then usually
there's a few things we like in there. We get
one bag which is chocolate, and then we get one
(20:47):
giant bag which is more like Mike and Ikes and
gummy worms and that kind of crap. And so we
got a little bit of each. And normally there's always
leftover candy because there's never that many kids that come
to your house. So that's that's my move back in
the older is my mom. She she knew I love
butterfinger in Baby Ruth. She'd buy me those. It was great,
(21:08):
but I'd eat them all. Yeah, especially those many. But yeah,
you're double fisting those Hartist Hartists. I was more concerned
about him giving me a double fish put those in
the freezer band. Oh that is wonderful. What is your
all time favorite Halloween candy? Yeah, so I've evolved over
(21:30):
the years. The Reese's butter Peanut butter cups great, but
butterfinger Baby Ruth, that was my go to for a
long time. Uh so some some combination of that. What
about you butter fingers right up there, sour candy? I
love sour candy, and I love skittles too, hit and
(21:50):
miss Right, if they've been around too long, they get
really difficult to eat. But if they're soft and kind
of you know what I mean, if they've sitting around
for a long time, they turned into like little pebbles.
A fresh packet of the little skittles, those are wonderful, man.
So if you gave me a whole bunch of mini
butter fingers and a whole bunch of mini Skittles, I'd
be set to get fat. I gotta be careful because
(22:12):
was it two halloweens ago? Maybe it was three. I've
told the sorry I had so much Halloween candy. I
thought I had diabetes because I was having headaches. I
had eaten so much candy. And I went to the
doctor and all these blood tests, all this blood work done,
and the doctors like, well, we think what you did
is you just your body wasn't used to eating that
much sugar anymore, and you just overdosed on sugar and
(22:33):
your body had this reaction. They didn't know, but I
didn't know how to handle it. Wow. Wow, I didn't
know that was a thing. I had no idea. But
we gotta watch you over the next few days here closely. Yeah,
I gotta be careful on that. Also, he says, who
is your least favorite update person now that Wreckett Ralph
is gone? And why is it Goldilocks? How I didn't
say it was Goldilocks. He did pick up the nickname, though.
(22:55):
Brian Finley's new nickname is Goldilocks. Did you hear about
that name? You know you said his new nickname was
love you. Well, yeah, that was his last new nickname, Lovey.
Now he's known as Goldilocks. Jesus, his list is gonna
get as long as yours. Well, here's why you got
the nickname Goldilocks. So I come in there. I I
get ready for the show. The other night Eddie was
away doing a hockey game or whatever. So I come
(23:16):
into the studio. I walked down the hall and make
my turn. I go to the old Casey case in studio.
I normally get ready for the show, and I've been
doing this for years, and I go I turned the
corner and then I see Ricky, producer Ricky standing in
the hall. I'm like, what's that? What is Ricky doing here?
And he's chatting with Brian Finley, who's sitting in my
(23:38):
chair that I normally sit in to get ready for
the show. He had moved in there and he had
this this canister of it looked like peanut butter. I
was like, what are you doing, what are you eating?
He said, well, no, I've got some almond butter. He
had like a spoon and he was eating almond butter.
So then he got out of there, and I went
(24:01):
to put my stuff down and the table was covered
with gobs of almond butter. Oh man, yeah, so he's
like Goldilocks. He had moved into my my territory there,
and he he poured almond butter all over the damn table.
It was terrible. Daddy that's his new nickname. Be a
real man and eat some peanut butter. Go out a limb,
(24:21):
come on. And Alf also sent some great photos of
his humble abode in Massachusetts. There's beautiful, man, it's we
don't get that. Danny's got pictures of the leaves turning
and all of that. We don't We don't have that here.
And there's also a lot of wild turkeys. Not the
kind of wild turkey a lot of our listeners like,
but the real wild turkeys that are running around. We
(24:44):
have homeless people who changed color and turnover. That is true.
We have a lot of that. If you want that,
you want us to take some photos of that, alf
we can, We'd be more than happy to send some
photos of that. And boy, would you be happy. Man,
You'd be like, oh, I can't but that's so impressive.
Unless unless you don't do that, Unless you're like, no, no,
that's not You've got mail Mike from Fullerton rights in.
He says, also living in Pierre's head rent free. While
(25:07):
this will be my first and only warning to Pierre
quit messing with the Fenley fanatics. We can make life
very very difficult for you. Those are threatening words. And Ben,
I hope your Halloween bash did go well. If it
didn't go well, you'll only have yourself to blame for
not inviting the party. King Goldilocks Brian Finland, He says,
(25:29):
here's my question, which one of you has the most
famous Twitter followers? I'd also like to know which one
of you has the least famous followers. Yeah, so I
haven't done inventory on that. There's a few big verified
accounts to follow me on Twitter. So that's cool and
all that, but I don't I've really obsessed on it
(25:50):
too much. Any any when you want to drop here, Danny,
any big names you want to drop on the Twitter.
I don't have that many famous people interacting with me
on Twitter. The one that comes to mind though, Chuck
d of Public Enemy. If you were a rap fan
in the eighties and nineties, that's a big deal. And
he actually comments on some of my tweets from time
(26:11):
to time, which is really cool. As a kid, I
listened to every song he ever recorded. So if you
would have told me later in life, as an adult,
he'd be interacting with me on the Internet, I wouldn't
have believed you. Yeah, that's pretty cool. A lot of
the people that follow me I've known since before they
were a big deal. Uh you know, so I don't know.
(26:32):
Like I knew Adam Schefter when he was just a
beat writer in Denver before he got the ESPN and
all that. So, and I used to help him out
on my website. He follows me on there. Adam has
always been good to me. Uh try I think who else?
William Shatner does not follow me? It's not unfortunately he did.
(26:54):
He still have you blocked? No he unblocked me because
somebody spent thousands of dollars to have him locked me.
Somebody actually gave him money for his charity. Yeah, and
unfortunately it was not one of my listeners, one of
our fans here. It was this horse charity and it
was actually a star trek guy who was annoyed at
Trekky was annoyed because our our fans were harassing Shatner
(27:16):
on Twitter, and so he's like, I just want peace.
I'm gonna pay for this. I don't I want everyone
to get along. And so I didn't know about that,
shouts out to the horse guy. Yeah, well it was
Chattner has a he's got like a bunch of horses
in uh in Burbank, right, and so he's got a
horse charity, and so he was raising money for that.
And that's how all that went down back in the day.
(27:41):
You don't help, Yeah, I'm sure Nick and was give
him all the horse and let him right out of town.
Nick in Wisconsin has Ben and Danny. Would you rather
would you rather? Is back He says, would you rather
have a car that can also fly? Or a car
that can also drive under the water? Yeah, So the
(28:04):
idea of a flying car is wonderful, assuming it's somewhat
safe obviously, so they're positives to both these things. But
I'd much rather have a flying car because it is
a pain in the ask to fly domestically the way
airports are and airlines and all that. And if I
gets to be like, all right, let's program the mallon
will be all I'm gonna go to Vegas, I'm gonna
go to Phoenix, I'm gonna go to Dallas, I'm gonna
(28:26):
go to Chicago, whatever, boom, and you just fly the car.
That'd be awesome. It would also be kind of cool,
Danny to be on a car that goes underwater and
see what's at the bottom of the Pacific and driving
around right. Also, I would take my car international and
finally unlock the mysteries of the lock Neest monster. Oh yeah,
(28:47):
you can do that. Imagine what kind of critters are
down at the bottom of the oceans that we don't
even know about. These oceans are so vast and so deep,
there's places that they can't go. Think about what you
would see there. And also you were underwater, you could
get some old gold booty on, some old gold coins
from pirate ships. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's
(29:08):
the the way to do it for sure. Let's see
who is next year booty pirates, Booty pirates, booty Is
that the Yeah, that's some real pirate's booty back back there,
all right, I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
You got some quick ones here, Rich says, Ken Roberto
(29:30):
make an omelet with platypus eggs? Sure, why not? Uh?
Guy named Ben Wrights, and he says, how did the
Astro fans cheer and root for a team that needed
trash cans to win a World Series without remorse? It's
a great question, but it happens a lot bend. But
that had a funny call this this week, Danny that
(29:50):
we only get on terrestrial radio. So my affiliate in
Houston is seven ninety, which is the Astros station. Yeah,
and we we're on after Astro Talk ended after the
Yankees and the Astros game one. So some guy from
Houston calls up. He's at He's at the game guy,
you know, at the game. Guy at the game. Guy
(30:12):
just wants to talk about the game. He doesn't know
who the hell is on the radio. He just happened
to know. The Astros were on seven ninety in Houston.
So he turned on the station in his car and
it's like, hey, I hear somebody giving out a number.
I'm gonna call up. I'm at the game guy. And
he wanted to tell stories about being at the game,
and so I put him on. After just destroying the Astros,
they did a monologue ripping the ship out of the Astros,
(30:35):
and this guy calls up, like, I didn't say any
of that stuff, and he just starts talking about, well,
I was at the game tonight and he's going through
this whole thing. It was wild. He's at the game guy.
That's the guy. He's at the game guy. Gave you
flashbacks of Dodger Talk. Oh yeah, I had a lot
of that Dodger Talk. Yeah, I was at the game tonight.
I hate when callers start off with that. I don't
(30:56):
give a ship if you were at the game or
you watched on TV. Get to your point, please get
to the point. Please. Well. Also on Dodger Talk, it
was always the the experts that knew more than the
team did and more than you did about the minor
league guys. We used to have a guy Jeane and
Redondo Beach, who would call up and he knew everyone
in Triple A and Double A, and he'd he'd hear
(31:18):
some or he'd see some stats on a relief pictures,
like the Dodgers have to call this guy out. He's
got a great all right at Albuquerque, you know, which
was the Triple A affiliate the time, And it was like,
you know, the guy's a career minor league here. Okay,
they're not. They're not calling him up. He's not even
on the the big forty man roster. There's no more
transistor radios inside the ballpark. Listening to Vince Scully, you
(31:40):
could make the argument that the at the game guy
knows less about the person that was watching and listening
to the TV crew. It's a fair point. That is
a fair point. Next up, as we continue the mail Bag,
the extended dance remix of the mail Bag, These are
actual questions from actual listeners, and we say a load too.
(32:02):
What was that effect? Oh, that was a new one.
That was that's mail blasting off? I see you send mail,
you know any like that? Maybe you don't like that,
maybe like I don't even know what that is. I
don't have no idea. What that is? Uh? John and
Colorado says, Hey, hey, guys, at what age do you
stop saying gone too soon when someone croaks? Yeah, that's
(32:25):
a good question. Uh, And that age has gotten higher
as I've gotten older, So I want you to know
that age is gone higher and higher as I've aged.
What is it? Well? I thought when the queen passed away,
I thought she was You know, I don't think you
can say gone too soon? What do you replace that with?
Do you say appropriate time to die? Life well lived?
(32:48):
I don't I'm not sure what would mean. Anytime you
see that when celebrities or musicians die, you'll see a
lot of gone too soon. We lost that person way
too soon. They could have given us so much more memories. Yeah,
what do you think life would be like if everyone
just lived for three years? What do you think that
(33:10):
would be like? You think it would be better or worse? Uh,
that's a good question. I guess it would depend on
the government and how things were going for us in
our lives, because you think about our adult life been
not to get political or anything like that, because we
don't want our overall rating to go down to a
four point seven. But what year. Do you recall where
(33:34):
you and I were celebrating in the streets because of
our paychecks and the state of the economy and the
government and how everything was going. Have we ever really
had a stretch in our adult lives where things were
stacked in our favor? Absolutely not. I I make less
now than I made when I started. Well, the first
(33:54):
real job I got in radio because it was a
union shop and I was making amazing money. And it's yeah,
so I'm right there with you on that same late
nineties was real money for us. Yeah, big time. Be
still living off that money right now, and I think
(34:15):
it's all gone on my and unfortunately al right. Next up,
Scott writes, and he says the comment regarding woke caller
salsa salsa called up referred to as this. He says
a century ago, black travelers were told to stay woke
as a warning of clan activity in the area they
were staying in. For that reason, Scott says, I will
(34:35):
no longer use the term to describe hypersensitive folks, but
go back to calling them what I always have, the
perpetually professionally offended. Yeah, so I used the term woke. Uh,
I feel like it's a the modern definition of it, Danny,
I don't think is is that I I was asked
(34:56):
by Salsa about this. My interpretation of term woke is
is people that are overly politically correct and it also
are offended by everything and are trying to change everything.
I want to take down statues, want to cancel words,
want to cancel entertainers like, to me, that's woke, like
or or you preach like the NBA was preaching on
(35:20):
on how people should act. The NFL has done a
lot of that. Baseball all the leagues have done that.
That's like, that's to me, that's woke. So I think
that's the modern definition. Am I a bad person? Danny?
For you modern interpretation of the world woke? I mean
some people use that like lit or other words that
are just overused because they think that they're being you know,
(35:41):
with it or trendy, or that they're hip. But the
one thing that caught my attention this past week, and
actually uh Covino and Rich covered a couple of afternoons ago,
there was a recent article about how gen z ears
are rallying to get the thumbs up emoji can sold
(36:01):
on the yes because they're triggered by the thumbs up.
They think it's condescending. So, in other words, if you
sent me a text message and I gave it a
thumbs up, that's me kind of being a dick. That's
how they feel. So their feelings are now getting hurt
by certain emojis. Well, that's actually not I remember the
(36:22):
big controversy at Wrigley Field a couple of years ago
because somebody did the Okay song. That's right. Yeah, we're
now told that that is racist, that that's been hijacked
by some group or something like that, so we're not
allowed to do the okay sign. It was so stupid.
If the thumbs up thing is insulting, then people do
that every day on Facebook when they like somebody's post.
(36:45):
So if I like something, is that insulting you? It
is dumb. Anyway, we we'll get out of here on that.
Thanks to Anthony, Johnny and San Antonio, Mike and Wisconsin,
Joe in in New York and all the other people
here that we did not have time to get to
the questions. But Danny anything to promote here, anything at all.
I guess tonight, right, you told me you'll be in
(37:05):
tonight that's right, two days in a row. I see
your mug, yeah, Danny G. I saw you at at
your Halloween party. Yeah. And then we're recovering today tonight.
I'm gonna be in there to kick off Sunday night
into Monday morning with you and for Coop. All right,
and remember, Danny, you're not that guy. I'll trust me
(37:26):
You're not that guy. Don't be that guy. Don't don't
be that That means I can't race to my car
before you get to yours after the show. If if
I see you burning rubber before I get out of
the garage, we got heads are gonna roll. Danny, have
a great rest of your day. I will be back
with Danny G tonight on the radio show. I'll talk
about all these big NFL games, the good, the bad,
(37:47):
and the including that Pittsburgh Miami Sunday night game, see
how I did against the Penny. And have a have
a great rest of your weekend, and we'll talk to
you on the radio next time. Go Raiders later Skater
the Raiders. Hey, Hey, hey, I'm let you go check
put by me.
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