May 28, 2022 • 34 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour homie Danny G. have a fun Saturday morning podcast for you, with conversations about flying a tent kite, shock and awe, tough transitions, a witches brew and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes
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takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
a good Saturday to you. It is another Pipe and
Hot edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Danny g Back in the podcast do Joe and I
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want to thank my guy Ross Porter. I hope you
had a chance to hear that Danny on Friday. Ross.
I love the guy. He's in his mid eighties. He's
still hustling, Danny, He's still going for it. I love
that about Ross. Yeah, it was amazing to hear his voice,
one of the voices we grew up with, especially in
southern California. And then to hear how he has a
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YouTube channel and cool man, I'm like, does he even
know how to work YouTube? I'm actually on the live
are No and and I was corresponding with Ross. I
had not talked to him in a while. I had
an old phone number, and then I contacted him. I
got his new number, and so we were catching up
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a little bit. We were going back and forth, and
he mentioned he had a YouTube channel, he had this,
that and the other thing. I'm like, wait, wait a minute, here,
hold on us, I don't even have a YouTube channel,
and you're telling me, mom Man Ross Porter. Uh, he's
got a YouTube channel. That's great. But I love the stories,
and some of them I've heard before. I did not
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hear the story that he told about how he got
the Dodger job. I had not heard that one before.
That was a new story for me, which was great.
How the Dodgers asked him who he thought would be
good for the job. Uh, he said himself, which was
just wonderful, just absolutely great. Anyway, on this edition of
the Fifth Hour podcast, we have a fly, a kite,
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Shock and Awe, tough Transition, the Witches brew, and a backscratcher.
Do we have any backscratchers to mention? Inquiring minds would
like to know. But let's get right into are you
ready to m let's do it all right? Here we go.
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So this is the Saturday Podcast which is the life
of Mallard and Danny g. This doesn't have the number
one station anymore, is it? This? This past weekend, I
did make a tactical error. I should say we at
the Mallard mansion made a tactical error. By so Cow standards,
it was not The weather was not particularly great, but
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we had limited time. My wife had to work some
overtime on the weekend on Saturday, so we didn't have
a lot of time. So we had a squeeze in
any kind of weekend activities into Friday. That was like
the big thing. So we sated go to the beach.
And now this is not your typical warm, sunny southern California.
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In fact, we got out of the beach and it
was it was cool by California standards. It was more
like Wisconsin weather, where it was like overcast, real cloudy,
kind of windy at the beach, sweater weather. But we
had planned to eat the lunch at the beach. That
was the plan. Seemed like a simple thing. Set the
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tent up. We decided to bring Bella, our lovely dog
Bella with us, the mad pooper Bella, and all was good.
The drive was smooth, everything was great, got out of
the car. The weather seemed a little well, be in
the tent. What's the big deal. You're in the tent,
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nothing going wrong. Now. My wife decided that me and
my buddy here, we would put the tent up while
she kept Bella in the car. So she didn't want
she she was worried Bella was going to attack something.
Last week, I bought a dog and I needed an emotion,
so it's like, fine, whatever, but what a pain in
the keys. It was a Murphy's law situation and UH
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should have known better, and UH like a chicking time dog. Well,
not necessarily Bella, but it was one thing after another.
Because he got out of the car, I was kind
of overcast, felt like I was more in Wisconsin and
I was in Michigan. The wind was howling, the waves
were crashing down like big waves. Normally that beach that
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we go to does not get a lot of big waves.
The tide was rising, but it wasn't that late in
the day, and I was like, what's going on here?
Is there a big storm coming in? And I didn't
know about so I checked my app and it said
there was nothing really big on the horizon. I'm gonna
say it. It is big enough. I'm not going to
enjoy it very much. So we opened up the tent
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and I'm the tent guy, and me and my path
we're tempting to put the tent up, trying to hold
on to the damn thing. And the wind is really
starting to to gust at this point and pushing things around.
It was a perfect day to fly a kite, not
a perfect day to sit on the beach. But finally,
finally we were able to put the tent up as
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the wind is pushing it around. And I've got a
whole system here, Danny. I've become very good at putting
up a beach tent. I went out, I got some
of these steaks. So I've got steaks that I put
in the sand and tie the thing down like I'm
going on. I'm going on. And I thought you were
talking about barbecuing. No, no, no no, I wish I had barbecue,
but no, no, no. So I've always said I'm tying
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the thing down. The winds blowing it around, and like
I said, I should have brought a kite to the beach,
And so finally we got the tent up, but the
wind still being nasty and pushing the thing around, and
so we summoned the queen with Bella, and so Bella
comes over there, and uh, my wife loves the beach.
She loves the beach. One and we both liked the beach.
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And she was not a fan of the weather, though
Dandy not a fan of the weather. It was very
upset with It was California, cool and windy. The tent
did not provide much shelter from the wind, was surprising.
You'd think it would, but it did not. Anyway, she
uh immediately realized this was a mistake and a short
time later ran back to get a giant parka like
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one of those oversized parkas. Meanwhile, Bella, this is our
first time at the beach and many many years. We
took her a while ago, and she she started frosting
at the mouth like she was ready to have a
heart attack. She was so scared by the beach, and
so we took her back our dog. And then she
of course tried to attack all the birds on the beach.
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And so we're trying to eat. The wind's blowing, it's cold,
the whole thing, and Bella starts trying to attack the birth,
but she's on a leash, so she can't do much.
It's a total poop show. And anyway, the jackiet did
not really work. The jacket didn't have work, Danny, and
so we ended up hurrying up scarfing down the food
that we brought as much as much of the food
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as we could, and then we high tailed it get
out of there. But I ended up spending I did
the analysis on this, and using back of the napkin
Mallard math, I estimate Danny that we ended up I
spent more time messing around with the tent then we
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actually spent sitting on the beach that I was like,
it was more to putting it up taking it down,
because taking it down presented another set of challenges because
the wind was still blowing and once you start taking
those steaks out and then then it becomes the degree
of difficulty goes up, up, up and away, just like
a kite would have done on that day. So that
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was my my beach day last weekend, my fly a
kite situation. That's not good Mallard math right there. Now,
so we've determined if it's overcast and windy, the beach
is not a thing. The beach is not going to happen. Sorry,
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not sorry. So on this one, the beach kaota us
and that's how that went. So pressing on from that
and we have the truk and all of it all,
h Danny. So, I I got a call from management
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earlier this week at Fox Sports Rading. And I never
like getting calls during the day because they usually don't
bug me because they know I work at night and
I'm sleeping during the day. But I get a call, Hey,
call me when you wake up, and that's never a
good thing, right, Danny. Has it ever been a good thing?
Call me, call me and wake up. I hated those
calls when I was doing the early morning shift because
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the message was always Hey, I know you're sleeping right now,
but when you wake up, please call uh. I'll be
in the office. Thank you. And you're like, yeah, you
can't tell. Is this good? Is this bad? In my experience,
it's never been good. They've never said hey, call me
when you wake up and said hey, we want to
give you some more money. We think you're doing such
a great job, but we really wanted to praise you
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and celebrate you. That's never happened. I was like in
my head. I'm like going through the roll of decks
in my head. I'm like, what did I say? Uh?
And and I'm like, I didn't really say anything that
interesting that would get me in trouble. And I'm like, well,
what did Roberto say? What did Eddie say? What did
you know Coop say? I'm going through my my my head,
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but not Coop. He was only there one day this
week at the beginning of the week, so I was like, well,
what's going on and all that stuff. So I'm trying
to think, like what is it? What is it? You know,
I'm going going back and forth and all this stuff,
and so if whatever, like I couldn't think anything. So
my guy, I gotta make a call and Scotch Pierre,
our boss. He's the one sent to text. So the
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hammer came crashing down from corporate high level conversations. Has
the Ben Maller Show been canceled? Well, obviously not. I'm here,
trust me, when the show gets canceled, I'm not doing
the podcast. I'm out. I'm out on the podcast. The
show is part of the podcast is part of the show,
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so that's not it. But this was a bit of
shock at all Uh so, because I mentioned the winds,
the winds howling at the beach and me trying to
fly where the winds have changed blowing at Fox Sports Radio,
something that has been very consistent for over two years
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is no longer going to be the place, going to
be in place, I should say. We got word at
the the Ben Mather Show will be leaving the north Woods.
We'll be saying bye bye to the north Woods at
least full time hybrid schedule. So I will be going
back into the radio station. So I'll be going back
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in for a little bit. And uh, which means I'm
getting a pay cut, Danny, That's what that means. So
we'll pick and choose our spots. So that's the news.
But I listen, I'm excited to go back to the
radio station. I have great Mammu's there. She's just gonna
be across the board. So all the announcers, due to
COVID that we're doing everything from home, are they all
gonna be required to come in a little bit? I
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was told yes. I was told yes that everyone that
I am part of a company wide mandate. So Jason Smith,
Mike Carmen, Rob Parker, all the guys that live within
somewhat of a I'd say reasonable driving distance, but in
l A, nothing's really reasonable. The price of the obscene
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price of gas, and the People's Republic of California, I
say maybe. In my head, I'm like, well, if some
of these guys do the shows remotely from like far
away places, different states, I was like, Oh, if I
moved to uh, moved to another state, I won't have
to use the gas. I can just do the show
from home. But but anyway, so I'll get used to it.
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I've been been used to doing the show from the
home studio and creature a habit. Yah, I'm a creature
a habit as most people are. I got my routine down,
and you still have your hybrid mallarmobile right, Well, that's
what the issue is. We have one hybrid mallonmobile. My wife,
who has a long commute to her work, she uses it.
So that means one of us is going to have
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to be have to be driving the gascus uh, which
means I'll be spending a lot of time at Costco
buying Kirkland brand gas. So I got gas on Thursday
and it was almost twice what I thought I was
going to spend because now gas has ticked way back
up for us here what it was for maybe a
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week or two that it went down by thirty cents
and now it's back up by fifty cents. Yeah, and
the summer is usually when gas prices are the highest
because people are driving all over the place during the summer.
But I did hear from a buddy of mine back east.
He said that the usage of gas in comparison to
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normally at this time of the year is way down,
so people are not using as much gas, which is good.
That will hopefully encourage the robber barons of oil to
be more reasonable. But yeah, good luck, good luck on
on that. But I'll be I'll be doing that. So
we'll see how this goes. And see you out a
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motorcycle very soon. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. How can
I what are what are the ways can I get?
I'm like electric bike, how far we're an electric bike?
I'm much further than see. That's the other thing I've
moved during the pandemic. I moved twice, moved to a
temporary Mallard mansion, then now in the north Woods, so
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I'm much further way, much further way. In fact, I
I believe I am the answer to a Fox Sports
Radio CAREERIY question that I, once we all get back
into the studio, that I will have the longest commute
by far. I believe. I think it's me and Gottlieb.
Me and Doug Gottlieb have the longest commute. Do we
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win an award for that or something like that? Is
there in like an award you can win for that? Wrong?
We need a Mallard moped. Yeah, we need a car
sponsorship as win we need That's where you get in
local radio. You know, I've not seen that at our place.
As far as those Manhattan bicycle plays, you know, the
guys on the bicycles in Manhattan, they get hit all
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the time. People think that they know how to drive
their bike and they never get hit, and their experts
and everyone avoids each other. No, you just don't hear
about it. Those people get knocked over all the time,
and in Manhattan, it's just not highly publicized. So the
tough transition, Danny, the tough transition. What is this all about? Yeah,
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so it was a a fun week at school and
in a strange week at school. Obviously, anybody who's in
education or works on a campus. The tragedy that happened
in Texas shook the world. The next day at school
was Wednesday, and it was an airy feeling right away
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because there was a lot of police presents. And I'm
sure this happened at a lot of schools across the country.
But we saw a couple of sheriff vehicles up and
down the street. One stopped and posted himself up in
our school parking lot. And the dean of our school
told me, you know, I know you usually walk around
the campus. He's like, I'm gonna post you up right
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here by the gate. Then if they gave me firearms
to hold, I would have did it. You would be
packing a weapon. I hear you, man, Yeah, you were.
You were the muscle they had. I was. I was
one of the two muscles at the gate. The microphone throttler.
So they make an announcement, you know. One of the
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ladies who works in the office, got on the loudspeaker.
She asked everybody in the school to stand. Now, this
is a huge school. There's over a thousand students and
a large faculty. She asked everybody to stand. Um. They did.
The moment of silence, and she was choked up as
she was talking and trying to put into words what
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she was trying to get across. And she's doing this
on an intercom system, so that had to have been hard.
And she's doing this in front of other people in
the main office, so she's almost crying as she's doing this.
And then it's over and the moment of silence is
over and she thanks everyone, and then seconds later, these
two kids come on intercom, laughing and saying, eighth trainers,
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time to go get your celebration breakfast. And on one hand,
that's cerebral. On the other hand, that's great, right because
it don't give a ship. It's the adults. The kids
think they're invincible. They don't give a ship. It's the
adults that are all freaking out over this stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
And the sheriff he looked over at me and he said, well,
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that was a tough transition future podcasters. Yes, right, yeah,
And it's exactly what I thought of. And I had
to laugh to myself because we've had this happened before,
where you need to tackle something serious and then what's
the cliche? What do we normally hear a broadcaster say well,
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there's no easy way to transition from that. Happened recently
with Dwayne Haskins. Oh oh yeah, they're Dwayne Haskins. Yeah,
they would do a segment on it, and then they'd say, well,
there's no easy way to transition from that, so we'll
just go to break and come back with more. Well,
and the thing too, and I I made a strategic
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decision on the show, like I didn't bring up the shooting.
I know, Jason, some of the other shows did a
whole you know, the whole show was about it, and
I didn't because I I've always felt like what we
do is niche, alternative programming. And I know in recent
years sports radio has become very political. Everything has become political,
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but I still try to limit limit that, and I
I feel terrible for all those involved in and what happened.
Who doesn't, But I tried to give people an opportunity
to avoid the story and just talk about the nonsense
of whatever I was going on that particular day, and
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people were trying to get me to get into it,
and I was like, well, what can what can I
really add to it other than hey, my thoughts are
with the people who were involved in this, and you know,
I'm doing an overnight sports talk radio show. As much
as I'd like to think we have the power to
end all bad stuff, I realized that is not the case.
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And it's more an issue of why someone would get
to that point where they think that's a good idea.
And I don't even think people want to hear the
whole thoughts and prayers thing anymore. Yeah, that's been pretty
clear on the Internet lately, even with teams putting out
their statements that they usually get away with. You click
onto the comments and the first comments on there your
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thoughts in prayer? Yeah. Yeah, And it's kind of like
those draft picks. It's yes, it's gotten, it's gotten to
that point. I'm glad that you stayed true to what
your show is because you're right. We do need alternate programming.
Alternative programming. That's it. That's alternative programming. We do need
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other options. Because my girl, she's on the phone working
the other morning and she started watching coverage of what
was going on in Texas. It got her so emotional
she had to turn the TV off and she was like,
you know what, I can't. I couldn't. I had to
stop reading about the stories and watching the coverage because
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I was I started crying. I got too emotional. I
had to find something else. Yeah, and the thing too
about it. And I have buddies of mine that work
in the news part of the media, friends I've had
for years. And there's so many of these, uh, these
damn shootings that they have it down to a science. Now.
It's like the it's the new circus that comes to town.
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It's satellite trucks, it's the caravan comes in. They don't
have any elephants or animals. It's just people with microphones
and they come in. They set up a camp they
have usually in front of a center where the police
given news conferences every you know, a couple of times
a day. They stay around for three or four days,
depending how bad it is. They interview the uncles, the ants,
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the relatives, anybody who's around, keep a comment, and then
they move on to something else. Yeah, And that's that's
how this it's it's crazy how robotic these things are.
Where where these these shootings take place, because the same
same series of events that happened where whether it's Buffalo
or San Antonio or whatever. They people show up, they
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do their thing for a couple of days, and then
boom on in the next one. Yeah, we've all seen
that meme where it shows the arrows and it shows
the cycle of events that just keep going on over
and over. Um. So yeah, none of us have an
easy answer for it. And it's hard being in education
when something like that happens. And and then bad timing
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for our school district because here we're walking the kids
up and down, preparing them for culmination, and it's supposed
to be a party time. As those two kids laughed
and made the announcement about their celebration breakfast, it broke
the tension. I almost thought, I was like, damn, what
are we all doing here today? Like this is gonna
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be so somber and the kids are supposed to be
practicing their their graduation. But then they get on and
they're laughing and they're you know, and as normal as
it could be for kids. They we're having fun with
their breakfast. So I was happy to see that. In
big props to your l A Rams because when I
went on my lunch, they were down the street at
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another school in my district and they had planned a
place sixty event for one of the days this past
week and they held their schedule. They went set it up.
There were hundreds of kids wearing the white Rams NFL shirts.
Your mascot, what is the rampage? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was running around with the kids on the big field. Yeah.
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They had their big Rams blow ups and kids were
trying to kick field goals and so it was nice
to see something normal going on. Um, although that was
above and beyond normal. Somebody there at that school must
know somebody, right, Yeah, that's that's yeah, because you have
to not every not ever. Your school obviously gets that.
You only select schools get that action. So that's the Rams.
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What player has a kid at that school? The Rams? Though,
that's if I'm if I'm owning the Rams, and I'm like, listen,
I love the Rams, but there's not a lot and
it's it's a lot of old people that grew up
with the Rams, but they for twenty years, an entire
generation grew up without the Rams in l A. If
I own the team, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna spend
all my money on marketing at elementary schools because those kids,
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within twenty five years, they will be the ones that
are having kids, and they'll be the ones that are
out buying tickets to games and things like that. And
so you can't really do anything about the guys that
are in their twenties and thirties now cause they grew
up without football, without the rams. But that next generation,
m Night, from a marketing standpoint, you can absolutely absolutely
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do it, alright, So the moving on. We've got the
witches brew. The last week, I had a few issues.
Now I didn't say anything on the air. I kept
my gums moving. However, I had a massive toothache most
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of the week. And I know things come up and
I don't really make a big deal about it, but
this is like really bad and I don't normally have
these things as an abnormal situation. Uh, And it was
very unusual, and I was like, well, what's going on here?
And I was told a few years ago, right before
(24:57):
the pandemic started, I had gone to the dentist and
they had said, you know, you need to have some
work done. It's not pressing right now, but it needs
to get done. But then the pandemic happened and everything
went on the back part. So I guess my io
user coming due but that's not the story. So I
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I explained to my my wife's like, I'm having some
issues here. I had like I had a toothache which
became an ear ache. It was all this stuff and
I was not doing well. And she randomly mentioned she says,
you know, I, why don't you try this this magical
witches brew. And it was the most simple thing and
something that I used in the past. And it's a
(25:41):
thing where when I used this particular thing with my toothache,
I gargled this thing and abra cadabra, focus, focus pressed out.
My tooth pain vanished within five minutes. And it's just
hydrogen peroxide. Wow, that's all it was, was hydrogen peroxide.
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And I gargle with that and then it's stung like
a murder hornet. And I'm not gonna sit here and
say that it was the most pleasant experience of my life,
because it was not. But the pain that had been
there from the tooth had gone away. It worked and
it has not come back, so that's good. But I
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know that's only a temporary solution. At some point, there's
something that needs to be taken and moved around, and
all that stuff in the old mouth. The problem is this,
as you know doing radio Danny, you have some dental
work done. It's depending on what's done. You're down for
the count for a period of time typically. So yeah,
(26:48):
that sounds like a brown bottle band aid. Yeah, pretty much,
pretty much. I know I have to have something done.
I'm not sure what, and I'm hopeful I can get
it done whatever it is on some some Friday coming up.
That way, I can have the weekend to have misery.
Oh no, it would be like Shaquille O'Neil. Right, just
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do it on company time. You had no offseason workouts? Yeah,
workout on company time. Dentist on company time, that'd be great.
One of the nights you're in the studio physically, you
should have the dentist come to you. Oh yeah, I
can do it on the air. That's a great idea.
We can make it a bit on the show. In fact,
if there's a dentist listening that would like to come
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in and be a celebrity dentist on the show, let
me know that would be that would be great and
be absolutely wonderful. They would need like an assistant with
some of their equipment and all that could be noisy,
But I got a tattoo live on the air one time. Really,
yeah it was. It was noisy, but it worked. Were
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you concerned that the tattoo artists might be distracted by
the radio stuff and mess up the tattoo a little bit?
But they were also filming him for the radio station's website,
so I was hoping that he was showing off. Okay, yeah,
so good for me. Yeah you want I'm impressing, trying
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to impress someone exactly. But I think a lot of
people have in common with you the fact that they
put the dentist off during COVID, because for the first
year of COVID, we were told that the dentist was
a scary situation. Yeah, so we all avoided it. We're
all kind of backlogged on the dentist right now. Yeah.
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And I didn't have any issues, so I was like,
all right, I don't have any pain or anything like that,
and no pain, no problem. But pain came in and
so I gotta have something done. But I will, I'm
sure update on this podcast more than anything on the
Fifth Hour podcast. My dental situation issue. If you are
all right, So the backscratcher, you scratch our back. We
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scratch your back. It is our weekly tip of the
on are light in the podcast Ojo to the p
one meetings that last weekend we complain, we wind, we moaned,
and so there were no reviews for a month we
complained about. This is the Apple podcast page, so podcast
(29:19):
dot Apple dot com, slash us Slash Podcast the fifth
Hour with Ben Matould. Just just google it slash slasher. Yeah,
there's a lot of slashes on that. There's a lot
of lines and squiggly lines and things like that that
you're like, we just mentioned we mentioned that you were away. Yeah. Uh.
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And during the Best of weekend obviously we weren't promoting it,
so there was just a couple of weekends where we
were quiet about it. All right, So I looked it
up and as of the time we are putting this
podcast together. The the reviews we have Drumroll played two
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two new reviews, and that's good. We'll take two a
week to a week will be great, right, more would
be better, but two is good. We'll take two matches
the two dollar drum Roll, one for each of us,
one for you, one for me. Alright, alright, So the
first one is from the Tiger Fan Cajun and the
headline on this review on the Apple podcast page. The
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backscratcher segment says, you guys rock, we're doing rock and
roll sports. Uh, says Ben, I love your shop and
you're human. I recently started listing to you and Danny
g on the fifth hour, Absolutely fantastic. It's the ringing
endorsement here, Did says, I'm awake on the last hour
(30:46):
of your daily show, but I podcast every day. Oh MG,
I love the drunk callers and the sound bites. Keep up.
The great broadcasting man signed the Tiger in Cajun from
Parts unknown will thank you. That's very kind of you
to say. And I'm glad that you listen to the podcasts,
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and I do get a lot of that. Danny that
that overnight show, the last hour. It's a weird thing.
We have more people listening to the the last hour than
the other hours because that last hours early early am
drive on the East Coast where people are trying to
get out and beat the traffic in Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando,
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all the other places where there's a ton of people living,
and so we do a lot more people that last
hour listening than than some of the other hours in
the show. And I'm glad that you're listening to the podcast.
That's great, it's wonderful. So I feel like for that
one hour, your pace should be doubled because it's it's
you know, I just want my gas cover that's all
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I want. I just want my gas covering. You need
a Kirkland gas card, That's what I need. Mackie bing
Bing rights in Mackie bing Bing headline this review on
the Apple podcast page, A weekend Delight. A weekend Delight
says I love the Ben Mallow Show and I love
the fifth hour. Let's freaking I enjoyed the banter between
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Ben and Danny g. I love hearing about both of
your lives. A fun podcast from two great sports radio personnels.
From Mackie bing Bing, that's very kind of you. I
thank you for that. That was nice. Yeah, thank you
for both of those man. And did they give you
two stars because you at least deserve two stars on
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a five stars. Five stars on a five stars, deserve
at least two one star for each personality. Twelve stars.
Twelve stars would be grunting, wonderful. How can we break
the Apple system. When our bosses go look, they'll be
like six point one rating. How the fund did they
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do that? Is there any way to to get over five? Well,
if you know any North Korean hackers or Russian hackers
or Ukrainian hackers whoever, there's there's obviously a way to
do it, but it involved hacking the website, which I
know nothing about. That would be so cool. Okay, So
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what you've learned in this podcast, we need a dentist,
and we need a computer hacker, yes, and someone that
knows how to get cheap gas for both of us.
All right, we need some kind of hook up, some
kind of gas hook up. You're pushing it. It's already
gonna be hard enough to find a computer hacking dentist.
We'll get out of here on that. We've got the
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Bag will answer actual questions by actual listeners like yourself,
So keep those questions coming in. Remember you can email
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This podcast a spin off of the radio show. Anything
to promote Danny ain't at all you'd like to promote.
Today I will be inside the FSR studios with Hartman
and Shorts, and then after that the Brian No Weekend
show with from Salam Awesome. So Dani will be busy
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in the radio studio and I'll be busy doing some
nonsense and we will reconvene with the mail bag on Sunday.
Have a great rest of your day. Will catch you
next time Later, Skater, what's you think about the Wizard
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
a good Saturday to you. It is another Pipe and
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Danny g Back in the podcast do Joe and I
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want to thank my guy Ross Porter. I hope you
had a chance to hear that Danny on Friday. Ross.
I love the guy. He's in his mid eighties. He's
still hustling, Danny, He's still going for it. I love
that about Ross. Yeah, it was amazing to hear his voice,
one of the voices we grew up with, especially in
southern California. And then to hear how he has a
(01:08):
YouTube channel and cool man, I'm like, does he even
know how to work YouTube? I'm actually on the live
are No and and I was corresponding with Ross. I
had not talked to him in a while. I had
an old phone number, and then I contacted him. I
got his new number, and so we were catching up
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a little bit. We were going back and forth, and
he mentioned he had a YouTube channel, he had this,
that and the other thing. I'm like, wait, wait a minute, here,
hold on us, I don't even have a YouTube channel,
and you're telling me, mom Man Ross Porter. Uh, he's
got a YouTube channel. That's great. But I love the stories,
and some of them I've heard before. I did not
(01:48):
hear the story that he told about how he got
the Dodger job. I had not heard that one before.
That was a new story for me, which was great.
How the Dodgers asked him who he thought would be
good for the job. Uh, he said himself, which was
just wonderful, just absolutely great. Anyway, on this edition of
the Fifth Hour podcast, we have a fly, a kite,
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Shock and Awe, tough Transition, the Witches brew, and a backscratcher.
Do we have any backscratchers to mention? Inquiring minds would
like to know. But let's get right into are you
ready to m let's do it all right? Here we go.
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So this is the Saturday Podcast which is the life
of Mallard and Danny g. This doesn't have the number
one station anymore, is it? This? This past weekend, I
did make a tactical error. I should say we at
the Mallard mansion made a tactical error. By so Cow standards,
it was not The weather was not particularly great, but
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we had limited time. My wife had to work some
overtime on the weekend on Saturday, so we didn't have
a lot of time. So we had a squeeze in
any kind of weekend activities into Friday. That was like
the big thing. So we sated go to the beach.
And now this is not your typical warm, sunny southern California.
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In fact, we got out of the beach and it
was it was cool by California standards. It was more
like Wisconsin weather, where it was like overcast, real cloudy,
kind of windy at the beach, sweater weather. But we
had planned to eat the lunch at the beach. That
was the plan. Seemed like a simple thing. Set the
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tent up. We decided to bring Bella, our lovely dog
Bella with us, the mad pooper Bella, and all was good.
The drive was smooth, everything was great, got out of
the car. The weather seemed a little well, be in
the tent. What's the big deal. You're in the tent,
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nothing going wrong. Now. My wife decided that me and
my buddy here, we would put the tent up while
she kept Bella in the car. So she didn't want
she she was worried Bella was going to attack something.
Last week, I bought a dog and I needed an emotion,
so it's like, fine, whatever, but what a pain in
the keys. It was a Murphy's law situation and UH
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should have known better, and UH like a chicking time dog. Well,
not necessarily Bella, but it was one thing after another.
Because he got out of the car, I was kind
of overcast, felt like I was more in Wisconsin and
I was in Michigan. The wind was howling, the waves
were crashing down like big waves. Normally that beach that
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we go to does not get a lot of big waves.
The tide was rising, but it wasn't that late in
the day, and I was like, what's going on here?
Is there a big storm coming in? And I didn't
know about so I checked my app and it said
there was nothing really big on the horizon. I'm gonna
say it. It is big enough. I'm not going to
enjoy it very much. So we opened up the tent
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and I'm the tent guy, and me and my path
we're tempting to put the tent up, trying to hold
on to the damn thing. And the wind is really
starting to to gust at this point and pushing things around.
It was a perfect day to fly a kite, not
a perfect day to sit on the beach. But finally,
finally we were able to put the tent up as
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the wind is pushing it around. And I've got a
whole system here, Danny. I've become very good at putting
up a beach tent. I went out, I got some
of these steaks. So I've got steaks that I put
in the sand and tie the thing down like I'm
going on. I'm going on. And I thought you were
talking about barbecuing. No, no, no no, I wish I had barbecue,
but no, no, no. So I've always said I'm tying
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the thing down. The winds blowing it around, and like
I said, I should have brought a kite to the beach,
And so finally we got the tent up, but the
wind still being nasty and pushing the thing around, and
so we summoned the queen with Bella, and so Bella
comes over there, and uh, my wife loves the beach.
She loves the beach. One and we both liked the beach.
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And she was not a fan of the weather, though
Dandy not a fan of the weather. It was very
upset with It was California, cool and windy. The tent
did not provide much shelter from the wind, was surprising.
You'd think it would, but it did not. Anyway, she
uh immediately realized this was a mistake and a short
time later ran back to get a giant parka like
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one of those oversized parkas. Meanwhile, Bella, this is our
first time at the beach and many many years. We
took her a while ago, and she she started frosting
at the mouth like she was ready to have a
heart attack. She was so scared by the beach, and
so we took her back our dog. And then she
of course tried to attack all the birds on the beach.
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And so we're trying to eat. The wind's blowing, it's cold,
the whole thing, and Bella starts trying to attack the birth,
but she's on a leash, so she can't do much.
It's a total poop show. And anyway, the jackiet did
not really work. The jacket didn't have work, Danny, and
so we ended up hurrying up scarfing down the food
that we brought as much as much of the food
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as we could, and then we high tailed it get
out of there. But I ended up spending I did
the analysis on this, and using back of the napkin
Mallard math, I estimate Danny that we ended up I
spent more time messing around with the tent then we
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actually spent sitting on the beach that I was like,
it was more to putting it up taking it down,
because taking it down presented another set of challenges because
the wind was still blowing and once you start taking
those steaks out and then then it becomes the degree
of difficulty goes up, up, up and away, just like
a kite would have done on that day. So that
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was my my beach day last weekend, my fly a
kite situation. That's not good Mallard math right there. Now,
so we've determined if it's overcast and windy, the beach
is not a thing. The beach is not going to happen. Sorry,
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not sorry. So on this one, the beach kaota us
and that's how that went. So pressing on from that
and we have the truk and all of it all,
h Danny. So, I I got a call from management
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earlier this week at Fox Sports Rading. And I never
like getting calls during the day because they usually don't
bug me because they know I work at night and
I'm sleeping during the day. But I get a call, Hey,
call me when you wake up, and that's never a
good thing, right, Danny. Has it ever been a good thing?
Call me, call me and wake up. I hated those
calls when I was doing the early morning shift because
(09:02):
the message was always Hey, I know you're sleeping right now,
but when you wake up, please call uh. I'll be
in the office. Thank you. And you're like, yeah, you
can't tell. Is this good? Is this bad? In my experience,
it's never been good. They've never said hey, call me
when you wake up and said hey, we want to
give you some more money. We think you're doing such
a great job, but we really wanted to praise you
(09:24):
and celebrate you. That's never happened. I was like in
my head. I'm like going through the roll of decks
in my head. I'm like, what did I say? Uh?
And and I'm like, I didn't really say anything that
interesting that would get me in trouble. And I'm like, well,
what did Roberto say? What did Eddie say? What did
you know Coop say? I'm going through my my my head,
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but not Coop. He was only there one day this
week at the beginning of the week, so I was like, well,
what's going on and all that stuff. So I'm trying
to think, like what is it? What is it? You know,
I'm going going back and forth and all this stuff,
and so if whatever, like I couldn't think anything. So
my guy, I gotta make a call and Scotch Pierre,
our boss. He's the one sent to text. So the
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hammer came crashing down from corporate high level conversations. Has
the Ben Maller Show been canceled? Well, obviously not. I'm here,
trust me, when the show gets canceled, I'm not doing
the podcast. I'm out. I'm out on the podcast. The
show is part of the podcast is part of the show,
(10:30):
so that's not it. But this was a bit of
shock at all Uh so, because I mentioned the winds,
the winds howling at the beach and me trying to
fly where the winds have changed blowing at Fox Sports Radio,
something that has been very consistent for over two years
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is no longer going to be the place, going to
be in place, I should say. We got word at
the the Ben Mather Show will be leaving the north Woods.
We'll be saying bye bye to the north Woods at
least full time hybrid schedule. So I will be going
back into the radio station. So I'll be going back
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in for a little bit. And uh, which means I'm
getting a pay cut, Danny, That's what that means. So
we'll pick and choose our spots. So that's the news.
But I listen, I'm excited to go back to the
radio station. I have great Mammu's there. She's just gonna
be across the board. So all the announcers, due to
COVID that we're doing everything from home, are they all
gonna be required to come in a little bit? I
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was told yes. I was told yes that everyone that
I am part of a company wide mandate. So Jason Smith,
Mike Carmen, Rob Parker, all the guys that live within
somewhat of a I'd say reasonable driving distance, but in
l A, nothing's really reasonable. The price of the obscene
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price of gas, and the People's Republic of California, I
say maybe. In my head, I'm like, well, if some
of these guys do the shows remotely from like far
away places, different states, I was like, Oh, if I
moved to uh, moved to another state, I won't have
to use the gas. I can just do the show
from home. But but anyway, so I'll get used to it.
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I've been been used to doing the show from the
home studio and creature a habit. Yah, I'm a creature
a habit as most people are. I got my routine down,
and you still have your hybrid mallarmobile right, Well, that's
what the issue is. We have one hybrid mallonmobile. My wife,
who has a long commute to her work, she uses it.
So that means one of us is going to have
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to be have to be driving the gascus uh, which
means I'll be spending a lot of time at Costco
buying Kirkland brand gas. So I got gas on Thursday
and it was almost twice what I thought I was
going to spend because now gas has ticked way back
up for us here what it was for maybe a
(12:59):
week or two that it went down by thirty cents
and now it's back up by fifty cents. Yeah, and
the summer is usually when gas prices are the highest
because people are driving all over the place during the summer.
But I did hear from a buddy of mine back east.
He said that the usage of gas in comparison to
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normally at this time of the year is way down,
so people are not using as much gas, which is good.
That will hopefully encourage the robber barons of oil to
be more reasonable. But yeah, good luck, good luck on
on that. But I'll be I'll be doing that. So
we'll see how this goes. And see you out a
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motorcycle very soon. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. How can
I what are what are the ways can I get?
I'm like electric bike, how far we're an electric bike?
I'm much further than see. That's the other thing I've
moved during the pandemic. I moved twice, moved to a
temporary Mallard mansion, then now in the north Woods, so
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I'm much further way, much further way. In fact, I
I believe I am the answer to a Fox Sports
Radio CAREERIY question that I, once we all get back
into the studio, that I will have the longest commute
by far. I believe. I think it's me and Gottlieb.
Me and Doug Gottlieb have the longest commute. Do we
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win an award for that or something like that? Is
there in like an award you can win for that? Wrong?
We need a Mallard moped. Yeah, we need a car
sponsorship as win we need That's where you get in
local radio. You know, I've not seen that at our place.
As far as those Manhattan bicycle plays, you know, the
guys on the bicycles in Manhattan, they get hit all
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the time. People think that they know how to drive
their bike and they never get hit, and their experts
and everyone avoids each other. No, you just don't hear
about it. Those people get knocked over all the time,
and in Manhattan, it's just not highly publicized. So the
tough transition, Danny, the tough transition. What is this all about? Yeah,
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so it was a a fun week at school and
in a strange week at school. Obviously, anybody who's in
education or works on a campus. The tragedy that happened
in Texas shook the world. The next day at school
was Wednesday, and it was an airy feeling right away
(15:34):
because there was a lot of police presents. And I'm
sure this happened at a lot of schools across the country.
But we saw a couple of sheriff vehicles up and
down the street. One stopped and posted himself up in
our school parking lot. And the dean of our school
told me, you know, I know you usually walk around
the campus. He's like, I'm gonna post you up right
(15:55):
here by the gate. Then if they gave me firearms
to hold, I would have did it. You would be
packing a weapon. I hear you, man, Yeah, you were.
You were the muscle they had. I was. I was
one of the two muscles at the gate. The microphone throttler.
So they make an announcement, you know. One of the
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ladies who works in the office, got on the loudspeaker.
She asked everybody in the school to stand. Now, this
is a huge school. There's over a thousand students and
a large faculty. She asked everybody to stand. Um. They did.
The moment of silence, and she was choked up as
she was talking and trying to put into words what
(16:39):
she was trying to get across. And she's doing this
on an intercom system, so that had to have been hard.
And she's doing this in front of other people in
the main office, so she's almost crying as she's doing this.
And then it's over and the moment of silence is
over and she thanks everyone, and then seconds later, these
two kids come on intercom, laughing and saying, eighth trainers,
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time to go get your celebration breakfast. And on one hand,
that's cerebral. On the other hand, that's great, right because
it don't give a ship. It's the adults. The kids
think they're invincible. They don't give a ship. It's the
adults that are all freaking out over this stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
And the sheriff he looked over at me and he said, well,
(17:27):
that was a tough transition future podcasters. Yes, right, yeah,
And it's exactly what I thought of. And I had
to laugh to myself because we've had this happened before,
where you need to tackle something serious and then what's
the cliche? What do we normally hear a broadcaster say well,
(17:49):
there's no easy way to transition from that. Happened recently
with Dwayne Haskins. Oh oh yeah, they're Dwayne Haskins. Yeah,
they would do a segment on it, and then they'd say, well,
there's no easy way to transition from that, so we'll
just go to break and come back with more. Well,
and the thing too, and I I made a strategic
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decision on the show, like I didn't bring up the shooting.
I know, Jason, some of the other shows did a
whole you know, the whole show was about it, and
I didn't because I I've always felt like what we
do is niche, alternative programming. And I know in recent
years sports radio has become very political. Everything has become political,
(18:34):
but I still try to limit limit that, and I
I feel terrible for all those involved in and what happened.
Who doesn't, But I tried to give people an opportunity
to avoid the story and just talk about the nonsense
of whatever I was going on that particular day, and
(18:56):
people were trying to get me to get into it,
and I was like, well, what can what can I
really add to it other than hey, my thoughts are
with the people who were involved in this, and you know,
I'm doing an overnight sports talk radio show. As much
as I'd like to think we have the power to
end all bad stuff, I realized that is not the case.
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And it's more an issue of why someone would get
to that point where they think that's a good idea.
And I don't even think people want to hear the
whole thoughts and prayers thing anymore. Yeah, that's been pretty
clear on the Internet lately, even with teams putting out
their statements that they usually get away with. You click
onto the comments and the first comments on there your
(19:41):
thoughts in prayer? Yeah. Yeah, And it's kind of like
those draft picks. It's yes, it's gotten, it's gotten to
that point. I'm glad that you stayed true to what
your show is because you're right. We do need alternate programming.
Alternative programming. That's it. That's alternative programming. We do need
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other options. Because my girl, she's on the phone working
the other morning and she started watching coverage of what
was going on in Texas. It got her so emotional
she had to turn the TV off and she was like,
you know what, I can't. I couldn't. I had to
stop reading about the stories and watching the coverage because
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I was I started crying. I got too emotional. I
had to find something else. Yeah, and the thing too
about it. And I have buddies of mine that work
in the news part of the media, friends I've had
for years. And there's so many of these, uh, these
damn shootings that they have it down to a science. Now.
It's like the it's the new circus that comes to town.
(20:48):
It's satellite trucks, it's the caravan comes in. They don't
have any elephants or animals. It's just people with microphones
and they come in. They set up a camp they
have usually in front of a center where the police
given news conferences every you know, a couple of times
a day. They stay around for three or four days,
depending how bad it is. They interview the uncles, the ants,
(21:10):
the relatives, anybody who's around, keep a comment, and then
they move on to something else. Yeah, And that's that's
how this it's it's crazy how robotic these things are.
Where where these these shootings take place, because the same
same series of events that happened where whether it's Buffalo
or San Antonio or whatever. They people show up, they
(21:31):
do their thing for a couple of days, and then
boom on in the next one. Yeah, we've all seen
that meme where it shows the arrows and it shows
the cycle of events that just keep going on over
and over. Um. So yeah, none of us have an
easy answer for it. And it's hard being in education
when something like that happens. And and then bad timing
(21:53):
for our school district because here we're walking the kids
up and down, preparing them for culmination, and it's supposed
to be a party time. As those two kids laughed
and made the announcement about their celebration breakfast, it broke
the tension. I almost thought, I was like, damn, what
are we all doing here today? Like this is gonna
(22:13):
be so somber and the kids are supposed to be
practicing their their graduation. But then they get on and
they're laughing and they're you know, and as normal as
it could be for kids. They we're having fun with
their breakfast. So I was happy to see that. In
big props to your l A Rams because when I
went on my lunch, they were down the street at
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another school in my district and they had planned a
place sixty event for one of the days this past
week and they held their schedule. They went set it up.
There were hundreds of kids wearing the white Rams NFL shirts.
Your mascot, what is the rampage? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was running around with the kids on the big field. Yeah.
(22:58):
They had their big Rams blow ups and kids were
trying to kick field goals and so it was nice
to see something normal going on. Um, although that was
above and beyond normal. Somebody there at that school must
know somebody, right, Yeah, that's that's yeah, because you have
to not every not ever. Your school obviously gets that.
You only select schools get that action. So that's the Rams.
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What player has a kid at that school? The Rams? Though,
that's if I'm if I'm owning the Rams, and I'm like, listen,
I love the Rams, but there's not a lot and
it's it's a lot of old people that grew up
with the Rams, but they for twenty years, an entire
generation grew up without the Rams in l A. If
I own the team, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna spend
all my money on marketing at elementary schools because those kids,
(23:48):
within twenty five years, they will be the ones that
are having kids, and they'll be the ones that are
out buying tickets to games and things like that. And
so you can't really do anything about the guys that
are in their twenties and thirties now cause they grew
up without football, without the rams. But that next generation,
m Night, from a marketing standpoint, you can absolutely absolutely
(24:12):
do it, alright, So the moving on. We've got the
witches brew. The last week, I had a few issues.
Now I didn't say anything on the air. I kept
my gums moving. However, I had a massive toothache most
(24:33):
of the week. And I know things come up and
I don't really make a big deal about it, but
this is like really bad and I don't normally have
these things as an abnormal situation. Uh, And it was
very unusual, and I was like, well, what's going on here?
And I was told a few years ago, right before
(24:57):
the pandemic started, I had gone to the dentist and
they had said, you know, you need to have some
work done. It's not pressing right now, but it needs
to get done. But then the pandemic happened and everything
went on the back part. So I guess my io
user coming due but that's not the story. So I
(25:20):
I explained to my my wife's like, I'm having some
issues here. I had like I had a toothache which
became an ear ache. It was all this stuff and
I was not doing well. And she randomly mentioned she says,
you know, I, why don't you try this this magical
witches brew. And it was the most simple thing and
something that I used in the past. And it's a
(25:41):
thing where when I used this particular thing with my toothache,
I gargled this thing and abra cadabra, focus, focus pressed out.
My tooth pain vanished within five minutes. And it's just
hydrogen peroxide. Wow, that's all it was, was hydrogen peroxide.
(26:03):
And I gargle with that and then it's stung like
a murder hornet. And I'm not gonna sit here and
say that it was the most pleasant experience of my life,
because it was not. But the pain that had been
there from the tooth had gone away. It worked and
it has not come back, so that's good. But I
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know that's only a temporary solution. At some point, there's
something that needs to be taken and moved around, and
all that stuff in the old mouth. The problem is this,
as you know doing radio Danny, you have some dental
work done. It's depending on what's done. You're down for
the count for a period of time typically. So yeah,
(26:48):
that sounds like a brown bottle band aid. Yeah, pretty much,
pretty much. I know I have to have something done.
I'm not sure what, and I'm hopeful I can get
it done whatever it is on some some Friday coming up.
That way, I can have the weekend to have misery.
Oh no, it would be like Shaquille O'Neil. Right, just
(27:09):
do it on company time. You had no offseason workouts? Yeah,
workout on company time. Dentist on company time, that'd be great.
One of the nights you're in the studio physically, you
should have the dentist come to you. Oh yeah, I
can do it on the air. That's a great idea.
We can make it a bit on the show. In fact,
if there's a dentist listening that would like to come
(27:31):
in and be a celebrity dentist on the show, let
me know that would be that would be great and
be absolutely wonderful. They would need like an assistant with
some of their equipment and all that could be noisy,
But I got a tattoo live on the air one time. Really,
yeah it was. It was noisy, but it worked. Were
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you concerned that the tattoo artists might be distracted by
the radio stuff and mess up the tattoo a little bit?
But they were also filming him for the radio station's website,
so I was hoping that he was showing off. Okay, yeah,
so good for me. Yeah you want I'm impressing, trying
(28:12):
to impress someone exactly. But I think a lot of
people have in common with you the fact that they
put the dentist off during COVID, because for the first
year of COVID, we were told that the dentist was
a scary situation. Yeah, so we all avoided it. We're
all kind of backlogged on the dentist right now. Yeah.
(28:33):
And I didn't have any issues, so I was like,
all right, I don't have any pain or anything like that,
and no pain, no problem. But pain came in and
so I gotta have something done. But I will, I'm
sure update on this podcast more than anything on the
Fifth Hour podcast. My dental situation issue. If you are
all right, So the backscratcher, you scratch our back. We
(28:55):
scratch your back. It is our weekly tip of the
on are light in the podcast Ojo to the p
one meetings that last weekend we complain, we wind, we moaned,
and so there were no reviews for a month we
complained about. This is the Apple podcast page, so podcast
(29:19):
dot Apple dot com, slash us Slash Podcast the fifth
Hour with Ben Matould. Just just google it slash slasher. Yeah,
there's a lot of slashes on that. There's a lot
of lines and squiggly lines and things like that that
you're like, we just mentioned we mentioned that you were away. Yeah. Uh.
(29:40):
And during the Best of weekend obviously we weren't promoting it,
so there was just a couple of weekends where we
were quiet about it. All right, So I looked it
up and as of the time we are putting this
podcast together. The the reviews we have Drumroll played two
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two new reviews, and that's good. We'll take two a
week to a week will be great, right, more would
be better, but two is good. We'll take two matches
the two dollar drum Roll, one for each of us,
one for you, one for me. Alright, alright, So the
first one is from the Tiger Fan Cajun and the
headline on this review on the Apple podcast page. The
(30:25):
backscratcher segment says, you guys rock, we're doing rock and
roll sports. Uh, says Ben, I love your shop and
you're human. I recently started listing to you and Danny
g on the fifth hour, Absolutely fantastic. It's the ringing
endorsement here, Did says, I'm awake on the last hour
(30:46):
of your daily show, but I podcast every day. Oh MG,
I love the drunk callers and the sound bites. Keep up.
The great broadcasting man signed the Tiger in Cajun from
Parts unknown will thank you. That's very kind of you
to say. And I'm glad that you listen to the podcasts,
(31:07):
and I do get a lot of that. Danny that
that overnight show, the last hour. It's a weird thing.
We have more people listening to the the last hour than
the other hours because that last hours early early am
drive on the East Coast where people are trying to
get out and beat the traffic in Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando,
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all the other places where there's a ton of people living,
and so we do a lot more people that last
hour listening than than some of the other hours in
the show. And I'm glad that you're listening to the podcast.
That's great, it's wonderful. So I feel like for that
one hour, your pace should be doubled because it's it's
you know, I just want my gas cover that's all
(31:48):
I want. I just want my gas covering. You need
a Kirkland gas card, That's what I need. Mackie bing
Bing rights in Mackie bing Bing headline this review on
the Apple podcast page, A weekend Delight. A weekend Delight
says I love the Ben Mallow Show and I love
the fifth hour. Let's freaking I enjoyed the banter between
(32:11):
Ben and Danny g. I love hearing about both of
your lives. A fun podcast from two great sports radio personnels.
From Mackie bing Bing, that's very kind of you. I
thank you for that. That was nice. Yeah, thank you
for both of those man. And did they give you
two stars because you at least deserve two stars on
(32:33):
a five stars. Five stars on a five stars, deserve
at least two one star for each personality. Twelve stars.
Twelve stars would be grunting, wonderful. How can we break
the Apple system. When our bosses go look, they'll be
like six point one rating. How the fund did they
(32:55):
do that? Is there any way to to get over five? Well,
if you know any North Korean hackers or Russian hackers
or Ukrainian hackers whoever, there's there's obviously a way to
do it, but it involved hacking the website, which I
know nothing about. That would be so cool. Okay, So
(33:16):
what you've learned in this podcast, we need a dentist,
and we need a computer hacker, yes, and someone that
knows how to get cheap gas for both of us.
All right, we need some kind of hook up, some
kind of gas hook up. You're pushing it. It's already
gonna be hard enough to find a computer hacking dentist.
We'll get out of here on that. We've got the
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mail bag Tomorrow Sunday. Sunday Fun Day with the mail
Bag will answer actual questions by actual listeners like yourself,
So keep those questions coming in. Remember you can email
those questions anytime. It's Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
Real fifth Hour spell out everything with letters, not numbers,
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and you can
(34:01):
ask anything you want. Also, the Facebook page usually tuesdays
on our show Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show.
This podcast a spin off of the radio show. Anything
to promote Danny ain't at all you'd like to promote.
Today I will be inside the FSR studios with Hartman
and Shorts, and then after that the Brian No Weekend
show with from Salam Awesome. So Dani will be busy
(34:24):
in the radio studio and I'll be busy doing some
nonsense and we will reconvene with the mail bag on Sunday.
Have a great rest of your day. Will catch you
next time Later, Skater, what's you think about the Wizard
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