February 5, 2023 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
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break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It is
a glorious, glorious male bag edition of the Fifth Hour
with Ben Maller and Danny g Unlike anything else. It
is fun for all ages. What about a nine year
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old girl. Come on into the big top. The circus
has arrived, Danny. It is the mail bag as we
are back at it. No football, nothing to distract you today,
that is next week. We have nothing to worry about
right now. Wait wait, wait, wait, don't take away from
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Tyler Huntley, who was yesterday's paper or a gummy champion.
I know, I know, it's very As much as we'd
like to do a deep dive on that, we will
not because let's jump right. I don't want to waste
eight time, Danny. We're not wasting eight time here, Okay,
We're not messing around. I want to get pure, authentic questions,
bring the gap for the mail bag, and we must
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start out the proper way. Let's give it up now
to the musical stylings of Ohio All it's all right,
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let's go right to it. And these are actual questions
by actual listeners. Want to thank all of you who
submitted questions this week and the fifth our Real Fifth
Hour at gmail dot com, All letters, no numbers, Real
Fifth Hour at gmail dot com if you would like
to submit a question, or the show Facebook page Ben
Mallard Show, Ben Mallars Show. We have a nice mix
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of spices here, Danny, some sport old questions which we
don't normally take, and then a lot of questions which
we do take, which are about us in life and
things like that. So the first one on the mail
bag comes from ozzywas on the International mail Bag from
Southern Cross Western Australia. He says, Hey, Big Ben, I
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listened to these Saturday podcast and you were talking about
kangaroo leather used by Nike in boots. He says, to
my knowledge, this has been done for quite some time.
He says, there's a couple of suppliers that do do
it as they claim it soft and durable, and he
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claims and he should oh this because he lives in
Australia as he was. He says, there are no farms
as such. They are killed by professional shooters in the
wild and then shipped to the to the market for
their high to be used for leather and the meat
used for steaks that you can buy in supermarkets. And
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he says it does actually taste pretty good and also
pet food, so you can buy some kangaroo pet food
for your for your dog. He says it's gaming meat
and best done medium to get the best flavor. He says,
I found a description to give you guys an idea.
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He says, kangaroo meat is usually uniquely lean with a
rich and robust flavor. See robust could be good or bad, right, Danny,
that doesn't sound good? Yeah, He says it's comparable to
game yeah food. He's love it for its bold and
earthy flavors, he says, still being low and fat at
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the same time, yet high and iron and zinc. It
has a stronger flavor than beef or lamb and is
similar to lean leanness. The texture leanness of chicken or
rabbit rabbit. I knew I should have made a left
chin at out, but Quakey, would you eat a kangaroo burger?
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And I, um, I'm good. You ever had a bison burger?
You ever had that? Yeah? Yeah, I mentioned that a
couple of weeks ago. Right, yeah, I'm not you had
a weird aftertaste. I said, people do go out and
hunt rabbits. They still buffalo me at Costco here you
can get buffalo ground beef. So that's Ozzy was thank you,
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Assy was for the He's our inside. Any questions you have,
if you want to pass, we can pass a question
on to Ozzy. Was this guy knows everything. This guy
is on the chain of commerce Danny in Western Australia.
He is our go to source for all things in Australia.
And I was watching a documentary I love these dopey
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documentaries about Australia last weekend and they pointed out why
population wise Australia, there's hardly anyone living in Australia compared
to the size of the country. And you know, they
pointed out because the lack of water. I got a
question for him, what kind of knife does he carry,
oh yeah, And does he wear one of those crocodile
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Dundee type hats? And does he hate crocodile Dundee for
using every stereotype from Australia. That's a lord. So like,
this guy's a douche bag man. How dare him? He's
detached from reality. That's not how we really live here
in the outback. How dare you? All right? Next up
on the mailbag, twizzle T, and he's saying hello to
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Ben and and to you, Danny H to me and
you uh, he says, well and nice. First of all,
twizzle T. By the review, he says, how do you
handle when a neighbor parks on the street in front
of your house? I feel like I pay taxes on
that stretch of road and we'll do what I can
to prevent it. I'll hang up and listen. That's some
twizzle T. So Twizzle T, it's a great thing. I'm
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glad you brought this up, because this is another one
of those domestic disputes that we have, Danny, Like, we
moved out in the north Woods now and it's a
little different situation than we've had in the past. So
there are people occasion that will park in front of
the Mallard mansion. It drives me nuts, right because not
that I own the space, it is the street. But
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there are other places to park where you're not blocking someone,
you're not in front of the house. And my wife's like,
it doesn't matter, don't, don't who cares, you know, whatever
there they have the right to park there, and I'm like, no,
that's kind of annoying. It's kind of a douche move,
you know, you know, and so I'm I'm I'm just
like this guy, twizzle t. Where do you stand on
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this very important issue, Danny, When strangers are parking their
car in front of your home, it depends how long
they've parked there. Do they see it as long term parking,
because then it's an issue. And if they try to
park it right in front of your house long term,
then you do what my stepdad did when I was
a kid. Stand out there with a really ugly look
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on your face and just observe the land. And he
would be I'm not kidding you, Ben, he would be
out there for an hour staring at the cars, and
so he was so ominous. He had such an aura
about him in an asshole kind of way that it
to toured people from parking right in front of our crib.
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So he had a scowl. Yeah, pretty much. He had
that look on his face of I'm gonna fuck your
car up. Yeah, now I got one for you. When
I lived in Hollywood or Hollywood Adjason, Uh, one of
the name Abers was very possessive of the part. And
I had like an apartment as it was kind of
an apartment building, but there were houses mixed in in
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the neighborhood. And uh, this guy he got those you know,
those orange construction traffic cones. Yeah, I don't know whether
he stole them or not, but he had some and
uh yeah, he put it out. In fact, when we
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were having I I just remembered this. I can't believe
I forgot about this, but it's it's something that would
apply to the story. So when we were renovating the
Mallard mansion, the contractor had hired some guys that we're from,
from Menco. Right, So maybe they were maybe they had
their papers, maybe they did not have They were good
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hard working people and you know, the contractor hired him whatever,
and they had a lot of trucks coming and going
to work on the on the house, and so they
put out We came to to look one day to
see how the progress was going on the renovations, and
there was an orange a couple of orange traffic cones,
but they had the name of a city that we
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don't we don't live in, like the guys that's stolen
it from another and it's like the city works for
the name of the city that it was from. Uh.
And I was like, you know, I think that's a
dead giveaway. I don't I don't think it's hard to
know that. I don't think that the police are going
to arrest you for that or whatever. But it was
pretty amusing when you pull up to look at the
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renovations and you see some orange cones in front of
your house, and then you you see the city and
it's not the city you're in. You know, it's like,
what's going on there? Man? What's up with that? When
the orange cone say Salt Lake, Like yeah, yeah, it's something, yeah,
might be stolen. Yeah. When you look out your house
you see Albuquerque, You're like, well, wait a minute, I
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don't leave an Albuquerque. Yeah, all right. Next up on
the mailbag, these are actual questions by actual listening hers,
and we do thank you for sending these in. I
have a lot of fun with this every week, and
we like that there's new people that are chiming in.
It's great, too great to see that wonderful. Let's see
Pat right, And he says, why is Angry Bill not
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banned for life? He's a dufus and can't answer questions
any nine year old Garrold could. And he says, while
you're at it, band blind Scott? What Blind Scott very
polarizing in the Mallard militia, so so Pat Blind. I'm
not gonna addrest the blind Scott mother Scott's Welcome to
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College show. He's done some crazy things. He's quite the
character on the show, and he's done some douchey things.
But overall, I think Scott's good for the show and
I like him. He's a great character. He's done some
crazy things around the streets of Boston. So and I've
met him, I've hung out with him, and I knew Cramer.
I don't know Dylan, but but I'm all for that.
But in terms of Angry Bill, I didn't ban him
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for life. I just banned him from the game game shows.
I don't know if you're aware of this, Danny, but
we we every week we've played different games. As you know,
Mallard's Mounting of Money and Angry Bill called it. We
had a baseball heavy edition. So he calls up to
play this douche canoe Angry Bill and the questions. It's
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on a sliding scale, so you start out with the
easier questions and you work a way up to the
hardest questions. Questions welcome to our world, and Angry Bills.
Oh yeah, I'll be fine. Whatever. Now, we did say
they were going to be mostly baseball questions, but the
first two questions, we're let me see if you can
get these right. Danny the current starting quarterback for the
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Kansas City Chiefs right now in the Super Bowl. Oh, Chad, Henny, Yeah, exactly.
And uh sharp shooter for the Golden State Warriors, one
of the Splash Brothers, considered the greatest shooter in NBA history.
Uh oh, I know this, um shoot? Hang on, hang
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on all right, Richmond, Mitch Richmond, I thought you might
go Sadale three. I thought you might go that or
who was that other guy they had that? Well, Sadale
three was he bounced? Who was the Terry Teage remember Tea, Yeah,
Terry Teagel. Winston Garland's another old Yeah, I had a
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great midway mid range jump shot. Winston Garland he played
with the Clippers too. But I remember a whole bunch
of kids at school rocking the Chris Mullen hair cut
for a while, the buzz cut. Yeah. Yeah. When I
was a kid, we went to the Bay Area for
some kind of event. And this was when Mullen and
Hardaway and Richmond were like the big stars. And I
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was convinced based on how much attention that Warrior team
was getting, that this was like the greatest team in
the NBA. And like they were like so excited. People
were like fired out. There were wearing Golden State Warrior
jackets and hats and all that stuff. A round the
Bay was like a big deal. And so I was like,
oh man, this must be like a really good team.
You know, there are a couple of runs here and there,
but anyway, um, so yeah, Pat Angry Bill has been
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banned from the game shows, but he's got no life.
If I banned him, I don't know what's going to
happen to him. Gordon says, you guys are killing my
sleep time. I now wake up at two am every night.
Good stuff, right people, funny sticks? Well, thank you, Danny.
Do you want to be the person to let Gordon
know there's a podcast You don't have to get up
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at two in the morning every night. You can get
up whenever you want and hear the podcast. Yeah, and
I think that's a comment directed at your live show,
not the podcast. But we get cross traffic from time
to time. Speaking of which, I've mentioned that Mark the
full name guy has been a caller on Covino and
Rich crossover caller, crossover caller, god Ben. Some of the
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stuff that comes out of that guy's mouth, you would
have loved it. Past week on the show, Linda Ronstad
has been a topic of conversation. One of her hit
songs from back in the Day has blown up again
and has been downloaded by like five percent because it
was on that hit TV show The Last of Us
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on HBO Max, and because of how it was on
that episode three, everybody's been downloading the song and she's
back in the news. So they're talking about this on
the air and Mark calls up shares with the Fellas
that he had an affair back in the day. Uh he.
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He claims he did not know it was her until
she left. I'm not so sure that he's the perfect
role model outside of football that he's made out to me,
you know what. So Yt par of the business as
part of the business that I don't like. So I
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don't really want to talk about it. He had a
great career and I wish him luck. I didn't want
to say, though I knew Whenda Ronstad were a very
brief time lucky her. I don't know about it. I
don't know how lucky she was. Did you quarter her?
Did you, Mark? She walked away from me. I'll tell
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you that, Mark, Mark, come me ask you. You could
tell the Fox Sports Radio Nation. But you gotta be honest, though,
Did you make love to Linda that I knew Linda
rons that I didn't even know I was with Linda
Ronstadt un till a moment she walked away from me, Mark,
I'll be honest. I would give you a fake name too,
kind of Boisey Bob Man going, gentlemen, that's funny. You
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better get that bright here now, Mark, Mark. I I
could send you a And I don't think he listens
to the podcast, so it's kind of it's open season.
A couple of things. I Marked the Full Name Guy. Uh,
he's been banned from the show before for he got
so upset with me. He talked about I think you
were with me when he talked about justifiable homicide for
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the things I said. And uh, yeah, so that's the
first thing that pops up when you think about Marked
the Full Name Guy. He's much more mellow now as
since he moved to Oregon and he left the hard
scrabble streets behind, he's he's much more mellow and so
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so that's good and he amazing that he landed in
Genie's hometown. I know of all the place. And he
was living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, which
is an absolute rat hole, right, I mean it's it's
a really bad part of San Francisco or there's a
lot of debauchery going on and just sodom and gomorrah.
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And he got out of there and he moved, but
he's sent me he's told me for years that he
had an affair with Linda Ronstat, that the mob was
chasing him, there's like seven or eight. Didn't realize So
he's told you this story before. No, no, he has
told me that story before. He's so who knows. Maybe
he's some Do you think there might have been a
woman because Lenda want Ronstad was a big deal back
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in her day, Yeah, you think you might might have
been a woman that kind of looked like her. That
as a gag when they ended the Flames, she like, yeah, yeah,
by the way, I'm Linda Ronstad. How many other Mallard
guys called the show? Has there anybody else? Do we
any regulars that call? I think I've mentioned this before.
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It's just been him and Plastered Paul, plastered Paul. Yeah,
he called the other day their play. He was completely
gone snocker. I thought, I think this guy's a Rob
Parker guy. There's a teacher from the Commonwealth. Andre. He
loves calling sports radio. I think Andre. I think he
calls Rob, though I don't think he calls He calls
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me and Rob. I think that's I think he's been
on a time or two on every show. He gets
Are you saying he gets around? Is that what you're saying? Yeah,
A little bit around, Like we like people who listen
to the entire network. Yeah, share with everybody. We're all
one big, happy family unless we reach our bowling point
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and then we're not. But use your moniker, That's what
I would say, because he calls up as market Medford. Yeah,
don't hide from it, don't run away from And he's
still the full name guy, although he probably doesn't know
Covino and Rich's last name, so he can't be the
full name guy with me. Is I Ben Mallard, Bed
Maller or bed Baal or bed Baal or you know
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like that everything else? So anyway, next up on the mailbag,
we have Kevin in Kansas, a regular contribute to this content.
He feeds the content plate every week. He says, Ben
and Danny g you both have vast awareness and appreciation
of music from the earlier years of rock and roll.
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If you could go back and watch a performance of
singers or groups no longer together or even alive, who
would you like to see? So I would say, I'm
gonna refer to you, Danny, because you really are the
music guy as a as a DJ, I was briefly
a DJ, but just in college, and I like music.
I listen to music. I don't know that I have
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the music gene, so you would be the better guy.
He answers, I will answer it, but I want you
to go first on this one, so you're in the
battess box right right. So I would have Johnny Cash
open for Tupac, who then has Biggie joined him on
stage for a duet just like that. Boom done, Boom,
John and Cash, Tupac Biggie. Well, I definitely have Johnny
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Cash on my my list. I'm also curious. I've heard
stories since I was a little boy about Elvis Presley,
so I wonder, like Elvis before he became fat Elvis Like,
not that I necessarily like a huge fan of his music,
but I wonder what that was like like when he
became a thing. So Johnny Cash, Elvis, and as far
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as like a band, who would would think of the
biggest I guess would be the Beatles, but any of
those rock bands over the years that really took off
in the early days before they kind of took off.
When I think about falling soldiers in in rock music,
I mean Kurt Cobain comes to mind, because we were
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kids at the time, so it never got to see
Nirvan alive. Um also a big Stone Temple Pilots fan
from back in the day, and their lead singer unfortunately
passed away. I did get to see him perform once,
but it was for Velvet Revolver, not Stone Pilots. So
I would like to go back in time and see
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him play live with Stone Temple Pilots. Absolutely all right,
thank you Kevin for that. Next up, Kyrie in Okay
see Rights and he says, shout out to the best
weekend podcast crew out there. Well, it's very nice. Thank you,
hands down, he says, thanks for all your advice and
hard work you guys do I know I speak for
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the entire militia of our appreciation and love for you
guys all week and weekend long. Anyway, you guys make
me laugh and get through hard times with my bipolar
or chores around the house or whatever, a busybody stuff
that I think they call that adulting, right, the chores
and stuff you gotta do, it's adulting what he likes that.
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My question is what are your escapes when you're mad
or upset? What do you listen to or watch to
make you you guys feel better. You guys are therapeutic
to me once again, thank for everything you do. I
much love from Kyrie in Oksey. Thank you Kyrie, very
kind of you. So I'm a big food guy. I
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don't need a lot anymore because I'm on this O
Cockta diet, this in a minute fasting. But when I'm
depressed or someone i know sick or dying or dies,
I I immediately go to comfort food, Danny. That's my thing.
That's that makes me feel better. It's not necessarily listening
to anything or watching anything. It's eating something that makes
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me feel better, and also going for a nice walk
and kind of clearing my head. Um, those would be
it would be the two things that I do. I
would say more times than anything. What about you. It's
funny that we were just talking about Kurt Cobain because
he's inspired me over the years to take up heroin.
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Whenever I'm upset, I'm on drugs right now, man, Yeah
uh no, Um, you know it's music for me. I
will put on some really good hip hop. I'll put
on some classic wrap, I'll put on some gangs to wrap.
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If I'm upset, put on West Side Connection, um, and
then I'll also play some alternative rocks. So it just depends.
But I think music for me and driving fast like
that's a good outlet. You know. If I could have
a racetrack, I don't know what it is, but when
you really put your foot on the gas pedal, it's
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such a good feeling in it and it gets all
the crap out of your system. Well, it's like a
time machine. You're you're going fast through time. You're you're
navigating your way through. Yeah. I feel like NASCAR drivers,
whatever is on their mind or weighing on their shoulders
after a race, they must feel free from a lot
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of that because they got that hug, your adrenaline rush.
You want to be in the fast and furious if
they make another one of those, Danny want to be
in that the next thing. I would love to drive
some of those cars. You'd be like, we have a
caller on the Overnight Show, Butch who's from America. He's
an expat, he lives in Germany, and he calls us up.
He claims, I don't know, maybe he's lying, but he
calls us up from the Autoba, where there's no speed lam.
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He can go however fast you want on the Autoba.
I would love that. Yeah, for sure, all right. Next
up is Nicholas from St. Louis. Now this is an
interesting one. We'll have to follow up on this one.
He says he wanted my address. He says his wedding
is next year. He says me and my wife, Uh,
we will We want to invite you, he said, here,
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we gonna send an invitation. We are lifetime listeners. Wow,
how about that day. That's kind of neat, that's very flattering.
I've been invited a few times over the years. I've
been unable to attend any of these things. So far,
I've never been to St. Louis for for any any
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real time. What do you think I should go to
a listener wedding? Have you ever? Has anyone ever asked
you to officiate a wedding? Before? I did get asked actually, uh,
last and I won't say the name because they don't
want the name. But it was it. It's two years ago.
It's during COVID and it's kind of COVID was still
going on. It was a Vegas wedding and they asked
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if I would be the like, like the master of
ceremonies or whatever, and I I did think about it.
I thought it would be good, and I'm usually like
cool with it because I liked the story and I
think it would be a good story. But I did
did not. I don't think the schedule worked out. I
wasn't able to do it, which sucked. So what about you?
Have you ever done anything like that? No? I mean
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we did it on the radio years ago as a
stunt on our billboard. Yeah, I remember, I think you
talked about that. Yeah. It was right next to the
one on one Freeway and I had Warren g as
the best man, which was pretty funny. So we had
the song, the classic song Regulate playing in the background
while my morning show co host married his lovely bride
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on our billboard. That is classic. What are we looking at?
Nineties radios? That were classic late nineties radio day traffic
jam and we got a harsh warning from the Ventura
County Sheriff's Department. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. That's that's great. I'll
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have to tell you my my fireboats stories. Sometimes I
haven't told that one in a while. After somebody Timmy
wants that, send a question and I'll forget. I have
a great fireboat story from San Francisco. We've got a
few sporty questions. Kind of bunched these altogether, Neil in
fabulous Muncie, Indiana. Right, since this, do you believe the
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Chiefs only committed four penalties in the ANFC Championship? Curtly
Scott and Charlotte says, how many blown calls and big
games will it take for for someone turns Roger Gadell
upside down to shake his wallet check book out of
his trousers and make NFL referees a full time position.
Todd and Iowa says, you want to know what we
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thought about the super Bowl, and then you have some
other sporting questions. Um, and so will the rapid fire here?
So did the Chiefs only commit four penalties? No, of
course not. Of course they didn't commit only four penalties.
That's absurd. But the they their penalties on every play.
The officials just chose to only call four penalties in
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that one uh And and Scott. The NFL will not
make the officials full time because they like the set
up they have. They feel like it's a waste of money.
They feel like there's not enough for the officials to do,
and that it's subjective and even if they hired officials
full time. It really wouldn't change things. So why waste
the money? Why waste the money? And uh so, if
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I saw you guys for the questions, will do a
couple more. Corey writes, and I have you guys ever
been in a fist fight? I think we've been asked
that before, Danny, we've gotten into that. Nick in Wisconsin,
says Ben, and Danny g I walked my oldest child
to school every day, and we walk home every afternoon
unless it's negative fifteen like it is today when I'm
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submitting this question. When you were growing up, did you
walk to school? Did your parents drop you off? Or
did you ride the bus? If you rode the bus,
where would you sit? I sat in the very back,
like the evil child I was, says Nick. So my
childhood it was a little bit of everything I grew
up in, Like Maybury. I was surrounded by orange groves,
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and I walked to school some of the time, but
I was a fat kid, so I I actually took
the bus. And sometimes if I missed the bus and
overslept or whatnot, I couldn't walk, my mom would drop
me off. So it was a little bit of everything.
When I was on up and on the bus, I
always wanted to sit in the back, but occasionally I
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had to sit in the middle or the front. But
I always you always wanted to be the kid in
the back. That's like the coolest man. You're like the
boss in the back. You look at the back window.
It's the way to go. What about you, Danny? Yeah,
similar for me and rialto California. When I was a
little kid, it was kind of the hood and it
was not a nice neighborhood. And I don't know why
parents were like this back then in the in the
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mid to late eighties, but my mom let us walk
the three blocks, and those three blocks were an adventure.
I'm talking groups of uh stray dogs that would chase us. Um.
It was that thing where I had to pretend like
I was picking up a big rock and then you
fake throw at the group of dogs and they would scatter,
(29:48):
and then I would run. And there was a back
entrance into the school and I would sneak through the
gate and run across the big soccer field to get
to the school was some ship and I was in
the first grade. Can you imagine nowadays in a parents saying,
all right, by first grader, you go walk three blocks
(30:10):
through the hood. Yeah, And I like my mom, I
always I am a Jewish mother. I thought she's very protective.
But now looking back at some of the ships she
allowed me to do, I was like, well, man, I
don't know I got to do like as I remember,
I did stuff I like today. I don't know that
that would happen at all, like stuff that I just
like randomly did. So anyway, Sarah from Minnesota, right since
(30:34):
says I bet. She says, bet, I found your your segment. Well,
that won't stop. Bet, I found your segment on Bally's Sports.
Oh yeah, we did a monologue about that Bally's Diamond bankruptcy. Interesting, uh,
says Also, none of these sports talking people are talking
(30:57):
about it. The ripple effect for at least the NBA,
Major League, basically the NHL seems like it would be
quite something. When a rumor is leaked, you always say
who benefits by the leak? My question is, why aren't
any of these sports talkers talking about this? Who is
benefiting from the leak? Well, that is not so much
(31:19):
of a of a leak per se as it's it's
on the public record like that's that is a gigantic mess.
And I actually feel bad for the Bally's people. Not
to get too much into the weeds here, but she
did ask Sarah, because they just bought naming rights, it's
actually that diamond company that is having the financial issues
that they've messed it up, and it will have a
(31:43):
massive effect. But a lot of the reason that talking
heads on television aren't talking about is because their competitors.
That's part of it. They don't want to talk about it. Um.
But it's a gigantic uh a cluster, shall we say,
and and so it's a gigantic message. It's gonna be
playing out through the court system, and they're depending on
(32:05):
Major League Baseball in the NBA bailing them out, and
we'll see whether that happens or not. She also says,
if you go to Minnesota, please go after April nineteen
the weather will be better. Yeah. I haven't formalized any
plans yet. I'm still looking at some dates in April,
and maybe I'll have to go in in May or
so I don't want to go when it's like nasty.
(32:27):
If I'm gonna do that, I might as well go
doing football and see a Viking game. Mike from Fullerton
rights and he says, Hey, Ben, do you consider Mallard
to the third degree the backbone of the show. I
assume it must be a very popular segment, since sometimes
you bump it for ratings purposes. I'd also like to
ask Danny g what he thinks the best segment is
(32:48):
of Cavino and rich That's a loaded question. Uh so, Yeah,
the third degrees been part of the show for a
long time. It's fun. It used to be a little
bit longer. It's kind of rapid fire. Now I like it.
Rapid fire. Keep the thing moving, keep the train moving.
But we we don't typically cancel it. We keep it around.
(33:09):
What about your opinion of Cavino and Rich In there
their number one secon. Yeah. One thing that's been nice
about producing their show is I got to come up
with the benchmarks. There's one each day, and the one
that I helped them build for Tuesdays, as you know
because you participate in it, is Iron Mike Trivia, and
(33:32):
that one's really close to my heart because the idea
came to me whenever I would hear Covino do his
Mike Tyson impersonation. I thought about it, and I'm like,
I could do something with that, and because he can
keep that going for a long time, and so I
was like, man, I will do trivia but in the
first person and pretend like he's there in studio, and
(33:54):
it all just kind of came together. It seemed very
silly to everybody at first, but now it's everybody's face
for it. And in fact, then I did a Tuesday
take over. The past couple of weeks, his Patrick Mahomes
impersonation has come in handy because Mike has been bumped
for fake Patrick Mahomes. I'm really sorry, Mike, How are
(34:16):
you gonna let this happen to him? Did it? My job? Didn't?
Did it? Myra? You just can't come in here? And
like we did take over in diff respect like that?
Why not did that? Mike typon? You get the week off, Mike?
Oh nice, showtime Mahomes trivia the past two weeks because
I'm running out of Mike Tyson trivia questions. Okay, well
(34:38):
that's good one. And Mahomes is like the Muppet Grovers,
so over. Vino does a really good job of the
Patrick Mahomes impersonation. The challenge was he didn't know if
he could keep mahomes going for sentences and sentences and sentences,
because as you know, some people can do impersonations, but
(34:59):
just by catch phrases on the mic. But to have
a whole conversation with somebody, that's a whole another story. Yeah. Absolutely.
Uh what else do we have here? Uh, let's see
page down. I don't have a lot of time left here.
We gotta gotta put the baby to bed. But I
(35:19):
did want to say here. We got an email Jennifer,
our friend from from Virginia. Jennifer, she she's a little upset.
We talked about the cheese Castle. She did not know
about the cheese Castle, so she I'm assuming next time
she's in that area she's gonna stop at the the
Cheese Castle on her way to Minnesota. Her son moved there,
working in the Twin Cities, and she says she's got
(35:41):
another son. She told me this before. It's moving out
to California. And she claims Danny that she's planning her
next trip to Minnesota in April for her son's birthdays
and and also go to the meeting, which would be great.
Be careful, though, hold off Jennifer until we get the
actual date. I will let you know. As soon as
we get an actual date, lockdown, I will let you know.
(36:03):
And uh, that's it. Bury in Nashville Road and he
was have having problems with the review, but it's it's
in the description right you can. You can write the review.
It's right there. It's very simple. Just go into the
description of this very podcast and you'll see where you
can click on to subscribe and leave a review. It
(36:23):
takes you to the Apple podcast page and all you
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Right next to that it says write a review. You
click on that, you make a user name Boom, hit
five stars if we're worthy, and then write your review outstanding.
All right, Sunday Sunday, I'll be back in the Magic
(36:43):
Radio Box facilitating talk radio tonight on the West coast
eleven pm on the West coast, two am on the
East coast Monday morning, and I will be barking and
shouting and all that, and you'll be on your way
to Arizona. Imagine, Danny, right, You'll be hanging out Valley
of the Sun. A little later today, I will be
(37:04):
boarding an airplane with Coveno and Rich and we'll be
flying to Arizona to get ready for Monday afternoon live
at Radio Row. Alright, have fun in Arizona. I may
or may not see you later this week, who knows,
might make an appearance at the Super Bowl media event.
But either way, have fun, have a great rest of
(37:25):
your day, and we will catch you next time. Later,
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break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It is
a glorious, glorious male bag edition of the Fifth Hour
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(00:47):
old girl. Come on into the big top. The circus
has arrived, Danny. It is the mail bag as we
are back at it. No football, nothing to distract you today,
that is next week. We have nothing to worry about
right now. Wait wait, wait, wait, don't take away from
(01:07):
Tyler Huntley, who was yesterday's paper or a gummy champion.
I know, I know, it's very As much as we'd
like to do a deep dive on that, we will
not because let's jump right. I don't want to waste
eight time, Danny. We're not wasting eight time here, Okay,
We're not messing around. I want to get pure, authentic questions,
bring the gap for the mail bag, and we must
(01:30):
start out the proper way. Let's give it up now
to the musical stylings of Ohio All it's all right,
(01:50):
let's go right to it. And these are actual questions
by actual listeners. Want to thank all of you who
submitted questions this week and the fifth our Real Fifth
Hour at gmail dot com, All letters, no numbers, Real
Fifth Hour at gmail dot com if you would like
to submit a question, or the show Facebook page Ben
Mallard Show, Ben Mallars Show. We have a nice mix
(02:15):
of spices here, Danny, some sport old questions which we
don't normally take, and then a lot of questions which
we do take, which are about us in life and
things like that. So the first one on the mail
bag comes from ozzywas on the International mail Bag from
Southern Cross Western Australia. He says, Hey, Big Ben, I
(02:38):
listened to these Saturday podcast and you were talking about
kangaroo leather used by Nike in boots. He says, to
my knowledge, this has been done for quite some time.
He says, there's a couple of suppliers that do do
it as they claim it soft and durable, and he
(02:58):
claims and he should oh this because he lives in
Australia as he was. He says, there are no farms
as such. They are killed by professional shooters in the
wild and then shipped to the to the market for
their high to be used for leather and the meat
used for steaks that you can buy in supermarkets. And
(03:22):
he says it does actually taste pretty good and also
pet food, so you can buy some kangaroo pet food
for your for your dog. He says it's gaming meat
and best done medium to get the best flavor. He says,
I found a description to give you guys an idea.
(03:43):
He says, kangaroo meat is usually uniquely lean with a
rich and robust flavor. See robust could be good or bad, right, Danny,
that doesn't sound good? Yeah, He says it's comparable to
game yeah food. He's love it for its bold and
earthy flavors, he says, still being low and fat at
(04:07):
the same time, yet high and iron and zinc. It
has a stronger flavor than beef or lamb and is
similar to lean leanness. The texture leanness of chicken or
rabbit rabbit. I knew I should have made a left
chin at out, but Quakey, would you eat a kangaroo burger?
(04:30):
And I, um, I'm good. You ever had a bison burger?
You ever had that? Yeah? Yeah, I mentioned that a
couple of weeks ago. Right, yeah, I'm not you had
a weird aftertaste. I said, people do go out and
hunt rabbits. They still buffalo me at Costco here you
can get buffalo ground beef. So that's Ozzy was thank you,
(04:51):
Assy was for the He's our inside. Any questions you have,
if you want to pass, we can pass a question
on to Ozzy. Was this guy knows everything. This guy
is on the chain of commerce Danny in Western Australia.
He is our go to source for all things in Australia.
And I was watching a documentary I love these dopey
(05:11):
documentaries about Australia last weekend and they pointed out why
population wise Australia, there's hardly anyone living in Australia compared
to the size of the country. And you know, they
pointed out because the lack of water. I got a
question for him, what kind of knife does he carry,
oh yeah, And does he wear one of those crocodile
(05:33):
Dundee type hats? And does he hate crocodile Dundee for
using every stereotype from Australia. That's a lord. So like,
this guy's a douche bag man. How dare him? He's
detached from reality. That's not how we really live here
in the outback. How dare you? All right? Next up
on the mailbag, twizzle T, and he's saying hello to
(05:55):
Ben and and to you, Danny H to me and
you uh, he says, well and nice. First of all,
twizzle T. By the review, he says, how do you
handle when a neighbor parks on the street in front
of your house? I feel like I pay taxes on
that stretch of road and we'll do what I can
to prevent it. I'll hang up and listen. That's some
twizzle T. So Twizzle T, it's a great thing. I'm
(06:16):
glad you brought this up, because this is another one
of those domestic disputes that we have, Danny, Like, we
moved out in the north Woods now and it's a
little different situation than we've had in the past. So
there are people occasion that will park in front of
the Mallard mansion. It drives me nuts, right because not
that I own the space, it is the street. But
(06:38):
there are other places to park where you're not blocking someone,
you're not in front of the house. And my wife's like,
it doesn't matter, don't, don't who cares, you know, whatever
there they have the right to park there, and I'm like, no,
that's kind of annoying. It's kind of a douche move,
you know, you know, and so I'm I'm I'm just
like this guy, twizzle t. Where do you stand on
(06:59):
this very important issue, Danny, When strangers are parking their
car in front of your home, it depends how long
they've parked there. Do they see it as long term parking,
because then it's an issue. And if they try to
park it right in front of your house long term,
then you do what my stepdad did when I was
a kid. Stand out there with a really ugly look
(07:22):
on your face and just observe the land. And he
would be I'm not kidding you, Ben, he would be
out there for an hour staring at the cars, and
so he was so ominous. He had such an aura
about him in an asshole kind of way that it
to toured people from parking right in front of our crib.
(07:45):
So he had a scowl. Yeah, pretty much. He had
that look on his face of I'm gonna fuck your
car up. Yeah, now I got one for you. When
I lived in Hollywood or Hollywood Adjason, Uh, one of
the name Abers was very possessive of the part. And
I had like an apartment as it was kind of
an apartment building, but there were houses mixed in in
(08:06):
the neighborhood. And uh, this guy he got those you know,
those orange construction traffic cones. Yeah, I don't know whether
he stole them or not, but he had some and
uh yeah, he put it out. In fact, when we
(08:26):
were having I I just remembered this. I can't believe
I forgot about this, but it's it's something that would
apply to the story. So when we were renovating the
Mallard mansion, the contractor had hired some guys that we're from,
from Menco. Right, So maybe they were maybe they had
their papers, maybe they did not have They were good
(08:47):
hard working people and you know, the contractor hired him whatever,
and they had a lot of trucks coming and going
to work on the on the house, and so they
put out We came to to look one day to
see how the progress was going on the renovations, and
there was an orange a couple of orange traffic cones,
but they had the name of a city that we
(09:09):
don't we don't live in, like the guys that's stolen
it from another and it's like the city works for
the name of the city that it was from. Uh.
And I was like, you know, I think that's a
dead giveaway. I don't I don't think it's hard to
know that. I don't think that the police are going
to arrest you for that or whatever. But it was
pretty amusing when you pull up to look at the
(09:31):
renovations and you see some orange cones in front of
your house, and then you you see the city and
it's not the city you're in. You know, it's like,
what's going on there? Man? What's up with that? When
the orange cone say Salt Lake, Like yeah, yeah, it's something, yeah,
might be stolen. Yeah. When you look out your house
you see Albuquerque, You're like, well, wait a minute, I
(09:51):
don't leave an Albuquerque. Yeah, all right. Next up on
the mailbag, these are actual questions by actual listening hers,
and we do thank you for sending these in. I
have a lot of fun with this every week, and
we like that there's new people that are chiming in.
It's great, too great to see that wonderful. Let's see
Pat right, And he says, why is Angry Bill not
(10:16):
banned for life? He's a dufus and can't answer questions
any nine year old Garrold could. And he says, while
you're at it, band blind Scott? What Blind Scott very
polarizing in the Mallard militia, so so Pat Blind. I'm
not gonna addrest the blind Scott mother Scott's Welcome to
(10:37):
College show. He's done some crazy things. He's quite the
character on the show, and he's done some douchey things.
But overall, I think Scott's good for the show and
I like him. He's a great character. He's done some
crazy things around the streets of Boston. So and I've
met him, I've hung out with him, and I knew Cramer.
I don't know Dylan, but but I'm all for that.
But in terms of Angry Bill, I didn't ban him
(10:58):
for life. I just banned him from the game game shows.
I don't know if you're aware of this, Danny, but
we we every week we've played different games. As you know,
Mallard's Mounting of Money and Angry Bill called it. We
had a baseball heavy edition. So he calls up to
play this douche canoe Angry Bill and the questions. It's
(11:18):
on a sliding scale, so you start out with the
easier questions and you work a way up to the
hardest questions. Questions welcome to our world, and Angry Bills.
Oh yeah, I'll be fine. Whatever. Now, we did say
they were going to be mostly baseball questions, but the
first two questions, we're let me see if you can
get these right. Danny the current starting quarterback for the
(11:41):
Kansas City Chiefs right now in the Super Bowl. Oh, Chad, Henny, Yeah, exactly.
And uh sharp shooter for the Golden State Warriors, one
of the Splash Brothers, considered the greatest shooter in NBA history.
Uh oh, I know this, um shoot? Hang on, hang
(12:01):
on all right, Richmond, Mitch Richmond, I thought you might
go Sadale three. I thought you might go that or
who was that other guy they had that? Well, Sadale
three was he bounced? Who was the Terry Teage remember Tea, Yeah,
Terry Teagel. Winston Garland's another old Yeah, I had a
(12:22):
great midway mid range jump shot. Winston Garland he played
with the Clippers too. But I remember a whole bunch
of kids at school rocking the Chris Mullen hair cut
for a while, the buzz cut. Yeah. Yeah. When I
was a kid, we went to the Bay Area for
some kind of event. And this was when Mullen and
Hardaway and Richmond were like the big stars. And I
(12:47):
was convinced based on how much attention that Warrior team
was getting, that this was like the greatest team in
the NBA. And like they were like so excited. People
were like fired out. There were wearing Golden State Warrior
jackets and hats and all that stuff. A round the
Bay was like a big deal. And so I was like,
oh man, this must be like a really good team.
You know, there are a couple of runs here and there,
but anyway, um, so yeah, Pat Angry Bill has been
(13:11):
banned from the game shows, but he's got no life.
If I banned him, I don't know what's going to
happen to him. Gordon says, you guys are killing my
sleep time. I now wake up at two am every night.
Good stuff, right people, funny sticks? Well, thank you, Danny.
Do you want to be the person to let Gordon
know there's a podcast You don't have to get up
(13:32):
at two in the morning every night. You can get
up whenever you want and hear the podcast. Yeah, and
I think that's a comment directed at your live show,
not the podcast. But we get cross traffic from time
to time. Speaking of which, I've mentioned that Mark the
full name guy has been a caller on Covino and
Rich crossover caller, crossover caller, god Ben. Some of the
(13:56):
stuff that comes out of that guy's mouth, you would
have loved it. Past week on the show, Linda Ronstad
has been a topic of conversation. One of her hit
songs from back in the Day has blown up again
and has been downloaded by like five percent because it
was on that hit TV show The Last of Us
(14:18):
on HBO Max, and because of how it was on
that episode three, everybody's been downloading the song and she's
back in the news. So they're talking about this on
the air and Mark calls up shares with the Fellas
that he had an affair back in the day. Uh he.
(14:41):
He claims he did not know it was her until
she left. I'm not so sure that he's the perfect
role model outside of football that he's made out to me,
you know what. So Yt par of the business as
part of the business that I don't like. So I
(15:03):
don't really want to talk about it. He had a
great career and I wish him luck. I didn't want
to say, though I knew Whenda Ronstad were a very
brief time lucky her. I don't know about it. I
don't know how lucky she was. Did you quarter her?
Did you, Mark? She walked away from me. I'll tell
(15:23):
you that, Mark, Mark, come me ask you. You could
tell the Fox Sports Radio Nation. But you gotta be honest, though,
Did you make love to Linda that I knew Linda
rons that I didn't even know I was with Linda
Ronstadt un till a moment she walked away from me, Mark,
I'll be honest. I would give you a fake name too,
kind of Boisey Bob Man going, gentlemen, that's funny. You
(15:57):
better get that bright here now, Mark, Mark. I I
could send you a And I don't think he listens
to the podcast, so it's kind of it's open season.
A couple of things. I Marked the Full Name Guy. Uh,
he's been banned from the show before for he got
so upset with me. He talked about I think you
were with me when he talked about justifiable homicide for
(16:19):
the things I said. And uh, yeah, so that's the
first thing that pops up when you think about Marked
the Full Name Guy. He's much more mellow now as
since he moved to Oregon and he left the hard
scrabble streets behind, he's he's much more mellow and so
(16:41):
so that's good and he amazing that he landed in
Genie's hometown. I know of all the place. And he
was living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, which
is an absolute rat hole, right, I mean it's it's
a really bad part of San Francisco or there's a
lot of debauchery going on and just sodom and gomorrah.
(17:05):
And he got out of there and he moved, but
he's sent me he's told me for years that he
had an affair with Linda Ronstat, that the mob was
chasing him, there's like seven or eight. Didn't realize So
he's told you this story before. No, no, he has
told me that story before. He's so who knows. Maybe
he's some Do you think there might have been a
woman because Lenda want Ronstad was a big deal back
(17:27):
in her day, Yeah, you think you might might have
been a woman that kind of looked like her. That
as a gag when they ended the Flames, she like, yeah, yeah,
by the way, I'm Linda Ronstad. How many other Mallard
guys called the show? Has there anybody else? Do we
any regulars that call? I think I've mentioned this before.
(17:48):
It's just been him and Plastered Paul, plastered Paul. Yeah,
he called the other day their play. He was completely
gone snocker. I thought, I think this guy's a Rob
Parker guy. There's a teacher from the Commonwealth. Andre. He
loves calling sports radio. I think Andre. I think he
calls Rob, though I don't think he calls He calls
(18:09):
me and Rob. I think that's I think he's been
on a time or two on every show. He gets
Are you saying he gets around? Is that what you're saying? Yeah,
A little bit around, Like we like people who listen
to the entire network. Yeah, share with everybody. We're all
one big, happy family unless we reach our bowling point
(18:30):
and then we're not. But use your moniker, That's what
I would say, because he calls up as market Medford. Yeah,
don't hide from it, don't run away from And he's
still the full name guy, although he probably doesn't know
Covino and Rich's last name, so he can't be the
full name guy with me. Is I Ben Mallard, Bed
Maller or bed Baal or bed Baal or you know
(18:52):
like that everything else? So anyway, next up on the mailbag,
we have Kevin in Kansas, a regular contribute to this content.
He feeds the content plate every week. He says, Ben
and Danny g you both have vast awareness and appreciation
of music from the earlier years of rock and roll.
(19:12):
If you could go back and watch a performance of
singers or groups no longer together or even alive, who
would you like to see? So I would say, I'm
gonna refer to you, Danny, because you really are the
music guy as a as a DJ, I was briefly
a DJ, but just in college, and I like music.
I listen to music. I don't know that I have
(19:33):
the music gene, so you would be the better guy.
He answers, I will answer it, but I want you
to go first on this one, so you're in the
battess box right right. So I would have Johnny Cash
open for Tupac, who then has Biggie joined him on
stage for a duet just like that. Boom done, Boom,
John and Cash, Tupac Biggie. Well, I definitely have Johnny
(19:56):
Cash on my my list. I'm also curious. I've heard
stories since I was a little boy about Elvis Presley,
so I wonder, like Elvis before he became fat Elvis Like,
not that I necessarily like a huge fan of his music,
but I wonder what that was like like when he
became a thing. So Johnny Cash, Elvis, and as far
(20:21):
as like a band, who would would think of the
biggest I guess would be the Beatles, but any of
those rock bands over the years that really took off
in the early days before they kind of took off.
When I think about falling soldiers in in rock music,
I mean Kurt Cobain comes to mind, because we were
(20:42):
kids at the time, so it never got to see
Nirvan alive. Um also a big Stone Temple Pilots fan
from back in the day, and their lead singer unfortunately
passed away. I did get to see him perform once,
but it was for Velvet Revolver, not Stone Pilots. So
I would like to go back in time and see
(21:04):
him play live with Stone Temple Pilots. Absolutely all right,
thank you Kevin for that. Next up, Kyrie in Okay
see Rights and he says, shout out to the best
weekend podcast crew out there. Well, it's very nice. Thank you,
hands down, he says, thanks for all your advice and
hard work you guys do I know I speak for
(21:24):
the entire militia of our appreciation and love for you
guys all week and weekend long. Anyway, you guys make
me laugh and get through hard times with my bipolar
or chores around the house or whatever, a busybody stuff
that I think they call that adulting, right, the chores
and stuff you gotta do, it's adulting what he likes that.
(21:47):
My question is what are your escapes when you're mad
or upset? What do you listen to or watch to
make you you guys feel better. You guys are therapeutic
to me once again, thank for everything you do. I
much love from Kyrie in Oksey. Thank you Kyrie, very
kind of you. So I'm a big food guy. I
(22:08):
don't need a lot anymore because I'm on this O
Cockta diet, this in a minute fasting. But when I'm
depressed or someone i know sick or dying or dies,
I I immediately go to comfort food, Danny. That's my thing.
That's that makes me feel better. It's not necessarily listening
to anything or watching anything. It's eating something that makes
(22:30):
me feel better, and also going for a nice walk
and kind of clearing my head. Um, those would be
it would be the two things that I do. I
would say more times than anything. What about you. It's
funny that we were just talking about Kurt Cobain because
he's inspired me over the years to take up heroin.
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Whenever I'm upset, I'm on drugs right now, man, Yeah
uh no, Um, you know it's music for me. I
will put on some really good hip hop. I'll put
on some classic wrap, I'll put on some gangs to wrap.
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If I'm upset, put on West Side Connection, um, and
then I'll also play some alternative rocks. So it just depends.
But I think music for me and driving fast like
that's a good outlet. You know. If I could have
a racetrack, I don't know what it is, but when
you really put your foot on the gas pedal, it's
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such a good feeling in it and it gets all
the crap out of your system. Well, it's like a
time machine. You're you're going fast through time. You're you're
navigating your way through. Yeah. I feel like NASCAR drivers,
whatever is on their mind or weighing on their shoulders
after a race, they must feel free from a lot
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of that because they got that hug, your adrenaline rush.
You want to be in the fast and furious if
they make another one of those, Danny want to be
in that the next thing. I would love to drive
some of those cars. You'd be like, we have a
caller on the Overnight Show, Butch who's from America. He's
an expat, he lives in Germany, and he calls us up.
He claims, I don't know, maybe he's lying, but he
calls us up from the Autoba, where there's no speed lam.
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He can go however fast you want on the Autoba.
I would love that. Yeah, for sure, all right. Next
up is Nicholas from St. Louis. Now this is an
interesting one. We'll have to follow up on this one.
He says he wanted my address. He says his wedding
is next year. He says me and my wife, Uh,
we will We want to invite you, he said, here,
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we gonna send an invitation. We are lifetime listeners. Wow,
how about that day. That's kind of neat, that's very flattering.
I've been invited a few times over the years. I've
been unable to attend any of these things. So far,
I've never been to St. Louis for for any any
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real time. What do you think I should go to
a listener wedding? Have you ever? Has anyone ever asked
you to officiate a wedding? Before? I did get asked actually, uh,
last and I won't say the name because they don't
want the name. But it was it. It's two years ago.
It's during COVID and it's kind of COVID was still
going on. It was a Vegas wedding and they asked
(25:26):
if I would be the like, like the master of
ceremonies or whatever, and I I did think about it.
I thought it would be good, and I'm usually like
cool with it because I liked the story and I
think it would be a good story. But I did
did not. I don't think the schedule worked out. I
wasn't able to do it, which sucked. So what about you?
Have you ever done anything like that? No? I mean
(25:46):
we did it on the radio years ago as a
stunt on our billboard. Yeah, I remember, I think you
talked about that. Yeah. It was right next to the
one on one Freeway and I had Warren g as
the best man, which was pretty funny. So we had
the song, the classic song Regulate playing in the background
while my morning show co host married his lovely bride
(26:09):
on our billboard. That is classic. What are we looking at?
Nineties radios? That were classic late nineties radio day traffic
jam and we got a harsh warning from the Ventura
County Sheriff's Department. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. That's that's great. I'll
(26:31):
have to tell you my my fireboats stories. Sometimes I
haven't told that one in a while. After somebody Timmy
wants that, send a question and I'll forget. I have
a great fireboat story from San Francisco. We've got a
few sporty questions. Kind of bunched these altogether, Neil in
fabulous Muncie, Indiana. Right, since this, do you believe the
(26:52):
Chiefs only committed four penalties in the ANFC Championship? Curtly
Scott and Charlotte says, how many blown calls and big
games will it take for for someone turns Roger Gadell
upside down to shake his wallet check book out of
his trousers and make NFL referees a full time position.
Todd and Iowa says, you want to know what we
(27:14):
thought about the super Bowl, and then you have some
other sporting questions. Um, and so will the rapid fire here?
So did the Chiefs only commit four penalties? No, of
course not. Of course they didn't commit only four penalties.
That's absurd. But the they their penalties on every play.
The officials just chose to only call four penalties in
(27:36):
that one uh And and Scott. The NFL will not
make the officials full time because they like the set
up they have. They feel like it's a waste of money.
They feel like there's not enough for the officials to do,
and that it's subjective and even if they hired officials
full time. It really wouldn't change things. So why waste
the money? Why waste the money? And uh so, if
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I saw you guys for the questions, will do a
couple more. Corey writes, and I have you guys ever
been in a fist fight? I think we've been asked
that before, Danny, we've gotten into that. Nick in Wisconsin,
says Ben, and Danny g I walked my oldest child
to school every day, and we walk home every afternoon
unless it's negative fifteen like it is today when I'm
(28:21):
submitting this question. When you were growing up, did you
walk to school? Did your parents drop you off? Or
did you ride the bus? If you rode the bus,
where would you sit? I sat in the very back,
like the evil child I was, says Nick. So my
childhood it was a little bit of everything I grew
up in, Like Maybury. I was surrounded by orange groves,
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and I walked to school some of the time, but
I was a fat kid, so I I actually took
the bus. And sometimes if I missed the bus and
overslept or whatnot, I couldn't walk, my mom would drop
me off. So it was a little bit of everything.
When I was on up and on the bus, I
always wanted to sit in the back, but occasionally I
(29:05):
had to sit in the middle or the front. But
I always you always wanted to be the kid in
the back. That's like the coolest man. You're like the
boss in the back. You look at the back window.
It's the way to go. What about you, Danny? Yeah,
similar for me and rialto California. When I was a
little kid, it was kind of the hood and it
was not a nice neighborhood. And I don't know why
parents were like this back then in the in the
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mid to late eighties, but my mom let us walk
the three blocks, and those three blocks were an adventure.
I'm talking groups of uh stray dogs that would chase us. Um.
It was that thing where I had to pretend like
I was picking up a big rock and then you
fake throw at the group of dogs and they would scatter,
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and then I would run. And there was a back
entrance into the school and I would sneak through the
gate and run across the big soccer field to get
to the school was some ship and I was in
the first grade. Can you imagine nowadays in a parents saying,
all right, by first grader, you go walk three blocks
(30:10):
through the hood. Yeah, And I like my mom, I
always I am a Jewish mother. I thought she's very protective.
But now looking back at some of the ships she
allowed me to do, I was like, well, man, I
don't know I got to do like as I remember,
I did stuff I like today. I don't know that
that would happen at all, like stuff that I just
like randomly did. So anyway, Sarah from Minnesota, right since
(30:34):
says I bet. She says, bet, I found your your segment. Well,
that won't stop. Bet, I found your segment on Bally's Sports.
Oh yeah, we did a monologue about that Bally's Diamond bankruptcy. Interesting, uh,
says Also, none of these sports talking people are talking
(30:57):
about it. The ripple effect for at least the NBA,
Major League, basically the NHL seems like it would be
quite something. When a rumor is leaked, you always say
who benefits by the leak? My question is, why aren't
any of these sports talkers talking about this? Who is
benefiting from the leak? Well, that is not so much
(31:19):
of a of a leak per se as it's it's
on the public record like that's that is a gigantic mess.
And I actually feel bad for the Bally's people. Not
to get too much into the weeds here, but she
did ask Sarah, because they just bought naming rights, it's
actually that diamond company that is having the financial issues
that they've messed it up, and it will have a
(31:43):
massive effect. But a lot of the reason that talking
heads on television aren't talking about is because their competitors.
That's part of it. They don't want to talk about it. Um.
But it's a gigantic uh a cluster, shall we say,
and and so it's a gigantic message. It's gonna be
playing out through the court system, and they're depending on
(32:05):
Major League Baseball in the NBA bailing them out, and
we'll see whether that happens or not. She also says,
if you go to Minnesota, please go after April nineteen
the weather will be better. Yeah. I haven't formalized any
plans yet. I'm still looking at some dates in April,
and maybe I'll have to go in in May or
so I don't want to go when it's like nasty.
(32:27):
If I'm gonna do that, I might as well go
doing football and see a Viking game. Mike from Fullerton
rights and he says, Hey, Ben, do you consider Mallard
to the third degree the backbone of the show. I
assume it must be a very popular segment, since sometimes
you bump it for ratings purposes. I'd also like to
ask Danny g what he thinks the best segment is
(32:48):
of Cavino and rich That's a loaded question. Uh so, Yeah,
the third degrees been part of the show for a
long time. It's fun. It used to be a little
bit longer. It's kind of rapid fire. Now I like it.
Rapid fire. Keep the thing moving, keep the train moving.
But we we don't typically cancel it. We keep it around.
(33:09):
What about your opinion of Cavino and Rich In there
their number one secon. Yeah. One thing that's been nice
about producing their show is I got to come up
with the benchmarks. There's one each day, and the one
that I helped them build for Tuesdays, as you know
because you participate in it, is Iron Mike Trivia, and
(33:32):
that one's really close to my heart because the idea
came to me whenever I would hear Covino do his
Mike Tyson impersonation. I thought about it, and I'm like,
I could do something with that, and because he can
keep that going for a long time, and so I
was like, man, I will do trivia but in the
first person and pretend like he's there in studio, and
(33:54):
it all just kind of came together. It seemed very
silly to everybody at first, but now it's everybody's face
for it. And in fact, then I did a Tuesday
take over. The past couple of weeks, his Patrick Mahomes
impersonation has come in handy because Mike has been bumped
for fake Patrick Mahomes. I'm really sorry, Mike, How are
(34:16):
you gonna let this happen to him? Did it? My job? Didn't?
Did it? Myra? You just can't come in here? And
like we did take over in diff respect like that?
Why not did that? Mike typon? You get the week off, Mike?
Oh nice, showtime Mahomes trivia the past two weeks because
I'm running out of Mike Tyson trivia questions. Okay, well
(34:38):
that's good one. And Mahomes is like the Muppet Grovers,
so over. Vino does a really good job of the
Patrick Mahomes impersonation. The challenge was he didn't know if
he could keep mahomes going for sentences and sentences and sentences,
because as you know, some people can do impersonations, but
(34:59):
just by catch phrases on the mic. But to have
a whole conversation with somebody, that's a whole another story. Yeah. Absolutely.
Uh what else do we have here? Uh, let's see
page down. I don't have a lot of time left here.
We gotta gotta put the baby to bed. But I
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did want to say here. We got an email Jennifer,
our friend from from Virginia. Jennifer, she she's a little upset.
We talked about the cheese Castle. She did not know
about the cheese Castle, so she I'm assuming next time
she's in that area she's gonna stop at the the
Cheese Castle on her way to Minnesota. Her son moved there,
working in the Twin Cities, and she says she's got
(35:41):
another son. She told me this before. It's moving out
to California. And she claims Danny that she's planning her
next trip to Minnesota in April for her son's birthdays
and and also go to the meeting, which would be great.
Be careful, though, hold off Jennifer until we get the
actual date. I will let you know. As soon as
we get an actual date, lockdown, I will let you know.
(36:03):
And uh, that's it. Bury in Nashville Road and he
was have having problems with the review, but it's it's
in the description right you can. You can write the review.
It's right there. It's very simple. Just go into the
description of this very podcast and you'll see where you
can click on to subscribe and leave a review. It
(36:23):
takes you to the Apple podcast page and all you
gotta do is scroll down. You'll see the big overall score.
Right next to that it says write a review. You
click on that, you make a user name Boom, hit
five stars if we're worthy, and then write your review outstanding.
All right, Sunday Sunday, I'll be back in the Magic
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Radio Box facilitating talk radio tonight on the West coast
eleven pm on the West coast, two am on the
East coast Monday morning, and I will be barking and
shouting and all that, and you'll be on your way
to Arizona. Imagine, Danny, right, You'll be hanging out Valley
of the Sun. A little later today, I will be
(37:04):
boarding an airplane with Coveno and Rich and we'll be
flying to Arizona to get ready for Monday afternoon live
at Radio Row. Alright, have fun in Arizona. I may
or may not see you later this week, who knows,
might make an appearance at the Super Bowl media event.
But either way, have fun, have a great rest of
(37:25):
your day, and we will catch you next time. Later,
Skater Bofliction
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