February 26, 2022 • 42 mins
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The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. We
are in the air everywhere, another Saturday addition of the
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Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g back in
the Magic Podcast Studio. I know you're saying, no, no, enough.
Well now we're here anyway to dazzle you eight days
a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show, which is
available as you know, five nights a week, typically five
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nights a week, and then the podcast Friday, Saturday and
Sunday and Danny, I know we've got a lot to
get to here in a limited amount of time on
the Saturday podcast, but I gotta tell you we've had
some crazy people on this podcast. I've been doing this
a few years now, and I'm talking like Lenny Dikstra,
guys like that that are really out there. And my
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guy Scott Farrell, who I've known for years my radio
brother from a different mother. I gotta tell you, Danny,
I'm still trying to recover. This is one of the
most amazing conversations I've had with Farrell. And if anybody
missed that, if you if you're listening, is like I
missed the Friday podcast, you gotta go back and listen
to it, because Scott was in a hotel room in
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Atlantic City and it began with that. And I'm just
happy we were on the podcast because Danny, I don't
I don't know how much of that was consumption for
like terrestrial radio, but but boy, Scott, he has a
gift for gab. That guy, he was out of control.
I gotta tell you've been doing the post production on
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that episode. I think it's gonna be one of the
most dreamed editions of the Fifth Hour. Yeah, because when
I posted the photo, uh that you took of me
and Farrell and then with with Pat McAfee, you would
have thought that the biggest reaction would have been for
Pat McAfee because he's the hundred million dollar guy in radio.
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He's the big name in the business right now. But no,
I had much more reaction, not that you judge these
things off that, but on social media people are like
fired off Horrell Man. I grew up listening to him,
and you know, I feel like I've I've inherited a
number of Scott's listeners. And Scott finally retired from from
just doing nighttime radio, and if you listen to the podcast,
(03:57):
he goes into great detail about how that has impacted
his life, doing a life of nighttime radio, and uh,
you know, it was, it was, it was interesting. But
people really love Scott. I think he's worked the last
couple of years a kind of a smaller place, a
smaller shop, and so I think some people lost track
of him. But to me, you should never really be
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able to lose track of people, Danny with social media,
but people do people for whatever reason. Uh they don't
follow certain guys or whatever. But but anyways, fun So
on this edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben and Danny,
we've got drive Time Benny, the Power of Fats eating
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a ship sandwich. That'll be it'll be interesting, Surveys says,
and whatever else there. We have a few other things
that we might get to depending on the timing of
it all, but we must start. I was very excited
this week a rare, inappropriate opportunity to sit in for
one of the big titans in the business, Dan Patrick.
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And when I got called by my boss and they said, hey, uh,
you know, we're having some different people fill in for Dan,
and your name came up and we were wondering if
you're interested, I immediately thought I was being punked, and
I thought that this was a joke and that there's
gonna be like jokes on you, loser, But no, it
turned out to be true, and I would like to
thank Danny all of the p ones who crossed over.
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We had a great turnout of Mallard Militia foot Soldiers,
and it was a rather hectic week. I'm still not
quite over it as we are doing this podcast right
now because um my sleep schedule. I've been a pretty
good routine and I'm in a bizarro world where like
up is down, right is left. It's just trying to
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trying to get back on track here. My bio rhythms
are all messed up. But that's the first world problem
to have, and you deal with that all the time, Danny,
and you you do radio and addition to everything else
you've got going on, you have like a real grown
up job. I guess work with the kids, but but no,
So it was it was fun to fill in for
Dan and uh work with Rob Park A big fan
of Rob. People said I kissed his ass too much.
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He kissed my ass a little bit too. So it
was like a mutual admiration society. And that shows a
big deal. That's a very profitable show for the company.
They have big sexy sponsors like Mercedes Benz on that show,
so you know that's not and that's not a chump show.
You know, that's a big show for the company. And
Dan's a Hall of Famer Dan Patrick, So getting a
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chance to fill in. It's morning drive in the number
one radio market Los Angeles in the country and a
tremendous reach. The audience for that show is humongst I
will argue though, and it's probably my head's going to explode. You.
I think we have the the loyalty that we have
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in the Mallar militia, but I think we can get
that because we're not as big, We don't have as
bigger reach because Moran late at night. But but Dan
obviously has his father and know Dan Yants were there
I was bummed out. I was hoping the Danance would
give me a manny and a petty while I was
doing the Dan Patrick Show, but that did not happen.
So I also would like to address a few of
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the members of the militia Danny have been belly aching
that we were unable to do. I didn't do some
of the usual bits that I do on the overnight show,
and they were like, well why not? I understand, what
do you do? You think you can't do that during
the day, And that's not it at all. So when
you fill in on a radio So this is all
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I was taught from people on radio. When you're the
fill in guy, your house city like you wouldn't go
to somebody's house and rearrange the furniture and bring in
your own sofa. You just you can't do that. You
are a guest. You have to honor that whatever that
show has going. And they have a different Dan Patrick's
got a much different format than I have. If if
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I started doing the stick ala I do overnight on
the Dan Patrick Show, they would drag me off the
studio and that would be it. It would be all
over there. So you have to respect the boundaries as
guard rails, and that's part of it. And I was
an interloper when in Rome, act like a Roman Danny.
That's what you have to do, right, You just gotta
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follow the rules. Let me tell you one thing about radio,
and it is the pits. Is when you've been doing
morning drive for year after year after year, busting your ass,
waking up super early every single day, show prep, post production,
pre production, and really you're burning your candle at both ends,
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and you get tired, and you don't want to take
a vacation, because we know what happens to radio guys
when they go on vacation. A lot of them don't
get to come back because you are tired. When you
finally get to leave, inevitably, whoever fills in for you
sounds nice and fresh. Yeah, but they only have to
do it for a few days, so you're right, they
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should just house it. There was a time at k
c a Q where I made the mistake of having
my afternoon drive DJ phill in for me and my
morning crew while we took one week off. When we
got back, then it was a ship show because this
guy had created this whole morning zoo thing that he
did for a week with all these brand new bells
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and whistles and games and features, and people were blown away.
They were like, that was one of the best things.
Not that we don't like you guys, but what wasn't
fair is obviously he did that for one week and
then got to go back to sleeping at night like
a normal human being and doing his afternoon show. So yeah,
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it's really hard because we've talked about it on your
show a lot about how there was no way in
hell you can take more than five days off as
a radio host. No, And I've explained that to my
wife several times. You know, we always wanted to go
on these exotic vacations and she'd love to go to
Europe and all that night. I never wanted to go
to Europe before. But now as I've gotten older, what
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the hell? Why No, I'm becoming a softie here as
I get older, and I'm like, let's do some things.
We're gonna check out, you know, life before you know it. Anyways,
he might as well enjoy the journey. But uh, yeah,
it's really tough. That's a that's a tough part of
the business. But that is that is so hilarious this
story he told about the guy that filled in because
he was a dick too. He told us behind the
scenes in the hallway, I'm glad you guys are back.
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There's no way I could have kept up that energy
for a second week. Yeah. Yeah, Well, he admitted that
he couldn't do it continually like we did for five
years there. So yeah, it's not fair, But what are
you gonna do. I guess that's why they say some
hosts purposely have boring guys on when they're gone. Oh yeah,
well there's a famous host. I don't know if I
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can say the person. Well, it's it's a podcast. Yeah. Uh,
the great Jim Rome, a legend in sports radio, Jim
for years when he was at the very top. Jim
is not the very top anymore, but he's at the
very top of the business. He would have the worst
people possible filling in for him because he never wanted
to be upstaged by the fill in guy, you know,
and then because then you get that, and you don't
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you want to avoid that, So he'd bring in boring people.
And but there there are some guys, and I've noticed
this over the years in radio, there are there are
guys that are sprinters and they're not marathon and it's
part of the hard part of the business to me
is just doing it every day and showing up. If
anybody could do this like what we do sports radio,
when there's like a big story and there's a lot
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of stuff going on, I feel like anyone could come
in here and do this and be Okay, maybe we
won't have the formatics down, but where we are in
our money is when we're just throwing spaghetti against the
wall and we've got to make it sound like there's
a lot going on. Guys that have the great tape
that I call them the sprinters, and they get hired
because programming people in consultants here these guys and they go, Wow,
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this guy is great. He's got the razmatazz. You know, man,
oh man, this is this is true. It's like hiring
Rick Flair. You know, it's great, and then yeah, higher
and then after one or two shows they got nothing
and you're like, wait and shut the funk up. Okay,
shut the funk up. Yeah. So but I would again
back to the damn Patrick, I would like to thank.
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I'm gonna name some people I want to miss something
I loved that Blind Scott called in immediately annoyed Rob
Parker because anytime Rob SE's Boston on the screen, his
eyes light up. Facts from Philly called in Anthony and
annahe I'm among others and a number of the Mallard
militia holding up the social media platforms alfaata A, Piner,
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Justin and Cincinnati just Josh, and I said this on
the Overnight Show during the week. Some of these guys,
I don't know if they're real or not. They I
have some really wacky hours and whenever I'm doing something, Uh,
these guys, it's like it's like Star Wars. They march in,
you know, all right, Mallard Militia hosstyle take over there
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we up. I was like, they do some of that also.
But it's great. I mean, it's wonderful. These guys have
followed me around all the different nonsense that we've done,
so it was fun. I don't know that we'll ever
do that. I'll ever do the Dan Patrick Show again.
But I heard that management liked it, but I don't know.
Maybe they were lying. They probably told that to everyone,
so who the heck knows, but we will certainly find
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out soon enough. Now as far as the power of
fats and this again goes back to facts in Philadelphia.
So I had a very odd thing happened this week.
Out of thin air, Danny. I get contacted by a
producer of the w i P Morning show in Philadelphia
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and they're like, Hey, we want to have you on.
And I've never been on this show before. I don't
know any of these people on this show. It's hosted
by Angelo Cataldi, who's a Philadelphia radio legend. This guy
Angelo Contaldi. If you're not from Philadelphia, but Tony Bruno
I s work with Tommy Anthony Gargatto. Gargonald's also a
Philadelphia a legend. But the but this guy Angelo Cataldi
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has been on forever. He's about to retire. He's been
in the business for years. He's an old sportswriter, gossip guy.
He's done some amazing bit. So anyway, I get called
by are a contact email by his producer out of
thin air, and they're like, Hey, would you like to
come on that We're doing a segment about Doc Rivers
because there you know, they rip all the Philadelphia coaches
and players pretty much. They went they knew that I Uh,
(14:24):
they that I hate you despise what Doc did with
the Clippers blowing the both the Lob City era and
the beginning of the Kali era, and he was there
for both of that, and I was very upset by
all of the disappearing acts. They went to full who Dany. Yes,
they vanished very quickly there. And so anyway, I was like, yeah, sure,
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I love doing it. I very rarely turned down those
things if I have time. I I love making random
pop up appearances on different radio shows. It's fun to
do if I have the time. I like to do
it because I know I would like people to come
on my show or my podcast. So if they asked me,
it's very nice. It's occurred to see you should do it.
And so I didn't get paid for anything like that.
But the reason I went on the Angelo Cataldi show
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was because of Fats in Philadelphia. Fats loves Cataldi apparently,
and he reached out and said, you gotta get Malaron
and he bugged these people so much that they put
me on the show with. It was Angelo and Billy King,
the old general manager of the Philadelphia seventies sixers. So
I am bashing Doc Rivers what is And a former
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NBA executive is on the show listening to this. He
actually agreed with a lot of the points that I
was making, which which made me feel pretty good. But Angelo,
just give you a brief thumbnail recap of Angelo's career,
and I'm probably missing most of the stuff. But the
most famous things that Angelo Cataldi has done in radio
the wing Bowl. You are you familiar with the wing Bowl?
I don't think they do it anymore in Philadelphia, but
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it was like the weekend before the Super Bowl, that
dead week they had a chicken wigging and contest in
Philadelphia has become a Nash story and it was a
big deal in Philadelphia. Also, Angelo led a group of
listeners of his radio station to the NFL Draft. They
drove up to New York and this was when Ricky
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Williams was in the draft and the Eagles. That show
wanted Ricky Williams to be drafted by the Eagles. They
ended up drafting McNabb Donovan McNabb and the famously booed
me yeah, And it was his listeners that had driven
up from from Philadelphia. Has done a bunch of crazy
other things and he's gotten in a bunch of trouble,
So it was it was cool to talk to him,
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about this this ship sandwich? What what is this all about?
Danny g Now, this is never a good thing when
I hear that in the headline. So what happened here?
A week ago? While you were busy chopping it up
with fur Ball Andy Furman, I had a rare day off,
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so I took my tinder rowny to Santa Barbara. She's
been great about how many days I've been working my
crazy radio hours. So I thought, let me spoiler. I
got a hotel. I have a flatten night. Johne On
had some bells and whistles on it, like they let
you take the bikes out on the waterfront there on
the bike path, so we were getting some exercise. It
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was a beautiful day there. Uh. We get down at
the towards the end of the bike path and we
pull the bikes over lay them down on the grass.
She runs across the bike trail, goes up the stairs
of a lifeguard station. Yeah, and I'm resting. I'm like,
I wonder what she you know, I kind of had
an idea of what she was doing up there. Ben
women love to use their iPhones to do some makeshift
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photo sessions, so she's taking pictures up there. There was
a breeze blowing, her hair is blowing in the wind.
She's doing glamour shots up on this lifeguard station. So
she hops down from the stairs and sees that I
saw what she was doing, and she was embarrassed. So
she runs across the bike path back towards me, and
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there's some green grass right there next to the bike path,
but it was super uneven. How do I know that
because she puts her arms out trying to look cute
like running towards me. The soundtrack if one had been playing,
because this was a rom com movie, it would have
been Whitney Houston run to you and her arms are open.
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The problem she lost her balance when she hit the
uneven grass man. You know the famous YouTube clip of
Bartlo Cologne losing his balance. Yeah, yeah, and everything all
the everything's kind of floating around there. It's like it's
like he's an outer space. Now, she's not the size
of bar Tolo Cologne, obviously, but the way she lost
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her balance and the way it looked like she was
sliding headfirst into second base, she bounced. She hit the
grass so hard that she bounced and then slid towards
me safe. Now, what did she do that? Now, because
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there's a couple of ways to get up from that.
There's option a Okay, dust it off, I'm gonna laugh
and it's all funny jokes on me, or oh my god,
I need to go to the doctor. Well, it was
a busy day in Santa Barbara, because remember this was
the first day of a long President's Day weekend. Well,
there were a lot of people around on this bike
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path and on the beach there. So she hopped up
super fast because of all the eyes that were honest.
Then she had a look of pain on her face, thinking, oh,
now she's hurt. She gets up to me, you could
tell her hands are stinging. She heard her knee. She
had stinging hands, and she sat next to me and
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I saw tears welling up in her eyes. And this
was like me working with the kindergarteners. This has happened
several times during Freeze Monster, where I say it's all right,
it's okay, you're a tough cookie. When she heard those words,
she stopped crying. It works. Those magic words. Yeah, whether
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you're five or thirty five, those words are magic. She
ducked it up. I gave her a lot of props
for that, but I told her, I said, that was
God punishing you for taking that selfie. That is that
is right. This should have been playing in the back
of the Benny Hill music right, and she's running down there.
You could have played I played that man oh man. Anyway,
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have a great story. That's tremendous on Twitter that night.
Then I mosted the pictures she took right before she
ate ship, like the final acted at any moment now,
because everyone's got a professional camera. Like when I was
a kid, I'm we're on the same age, Danny, we
had like the polaroid cameras. Remember that you have to wait.
Now we have professional cameras at any moment, you could
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have a flash mob photo shoot anywhere, any place, anytime. Now.
I love Santa Barbara. I try to go there once
a year. I love one of the vacations. I love
going on like a little weekend getaways. Driving up the
California cos Central can I always usually get to northern
California because I too far, but Central California, the Hearst
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Castle area, righting around their Santa Cruz and then on
the way back, stopping in, Uh, Santa Barbara's beautiful because
you have Solving Pismo Beach, Beach, San Louis, Obispo, Morrow
Base and Simion Pass the Robos. You're right, it's beautiful
up the coast. And every time I drive through Central California,
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i am I'm just blown back by the fact that
all that land around the Hearst Castle is owned by
the State of California's donated. Otherwise there would be massive cities,
amazing real estate right on the California coast, picturesque and
and instead you have like a beach where seals lay
out in fart. I fell asleep. No, that's yeah, on
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the California coast, but it is just wonderful and uh
and my, my wife loves the Madonna And I don't
know if you've been to Have you been to the Haunt?
Is it haunted? Really is? I've been there a few
times because she loves it, so I I have to
take one for the team on that for sure. And
did you eat at the famous Santa Barbara ice cream
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shops at McConnell's. I believe it's called there that everyone's like,
eat mcconals there the ice I know what you're talking about. Well,
we did it, but we did get some good food.
We went to the famous Santa Barbara Fish House, okay,
and they have that pier you can drive on in
Santa And then we had some wonderful eggs benedict in
front of the water. We got fortunate. We had really
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good weather, really good food. Just not so good on
the bike path. Yeah. And uh, whale watching, great whale
watching in Santa bar I've gone on whale watching boats
in like Orange County in l A. And I've not
had much luck Santa Barbara though. I mean you you're
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just surrounded by whales everywhere. Me laying on the beach
during the summer. All right, Well, move we're on from that.
The and the survey says, Danny, Now, this is right
out of the old hokey baseball movie Field the Dreams
that we the quote I've changed and everyone changed with
the quote if you build it, they will come. That's
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not the actual movie quote that's been twisted for everyday use.
And so we asked. We said, listen, we need positive
reviews for this podcast. We demand positive reviews to this podcast,
and if you ask for it, they will come. And
so the survey says, we shamelessly begged for people to
post reviews on the Fifth Hour podcast. And one of
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the deals we've made here is that if you take
time out of your busy life, away from your family
and friends and away from work, even though it takes
five minutes to do this it's busybody work, we will
take time out of our schedule and our podcast to
thank you tit for tat you scratch my back, I
will scratch your back capeche, as my late grandfather in
(25:59):
law would say. So. Uh. These are some of the
actual reviews we've gotten over the last last couple of
weeks or so last I guess it's actually more like
the last ten days. I think. Rabbi Mallard posted uh.
This is on the middle of February. He says, hey, uh, Rabbi,
I left you five stars. I guess that was for me.
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He calls me, Rabbi mal what's very polite to say
that I'm not a rabbi, I says, I left you
five stars. Hopefully Corporate gives you the much needed rays. However,
I must bemoan the fact that you're no longer in
studio during the week. I know that you can't see
the crew, but I feel the difference. Hopefully that changes anyhow,
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keep up the great, awesome work. I get this question
a lot Danny, and I don't understand it because the
way our studios at the mother Ship are set up.
Even when I'm there, I can't see anybody, Like literally,
Eddie's down the hall. You've got to go down the hall,
make a left turn, and then another other left. Roberto.
(27:01):
I can kind of see Roberto, but there's TV monitors
and there's computers between me and Roberto and Cooper. Loop
is far back and off to the side, So literally
it's no different. People seem to think there's a huge
difference with everything that's going on with me in the
home studio. The remote studio. Yeah, you guys have all
been together for so many years. You know how to
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take turns talking whether you're looking at the person or not. Right,
because we also learned that early on in broadcasting is
if you're doing a two man show, we should be
looking at each other. That way, we know you know
when to stop talking and you don't step all over
each other. But when you have good chemistry with somebody,
you don't even need to see them. Yeah, And the
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way the show's format, and typically the first twelve thirteen
minutes of the hour, I'm just barking by myself anyway,
and then we you know, do a segment. We'll take
a couple of calls, and then I'll mix the guys
in and we'll we have the bits that we do.
And there's a certain cadence to the show. But I
do appreciate that you think the show sucks, because where
I'm not in studio, that does mean a lot. Uh
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hermal dude, right, since says not your typical this is
a review, he wrote, Danny, not your typical sports takes.
Whether you're a hardcore sports fan or not, you will
enjoy this show. Does not just regurgitate the normal boring
sports takes, has original thoughts that aren't your run of
the milk PC takes. That's a very flattering, very entertaining
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spinoff from his radio show. I highly recommend giving this
podcast and his radio show listen. You won't be sorry. Wow,
that's that's almost like my mom wrote it. But she's
not alive anymore. But if my mom was alive, that's
something she would probably have written in her own words.
A Juice from Dallas wrote a review. Well, he says
actually from Orlando, so I guess he's in Orlando, but
it says Dallas originally longtime listener Big Band. One thing
(28:53):
I like about is you won't always agree with his take,
but he gives you a good perspective and sides of
his takes. I also love the whole crew and all
the drops and callers that participate in the Mallama. So
glad that guests scan or guest scan, got s can
and Danny G is backed behind the boards and Mike
(29:14):
with Big Ben. So there's a vote for Danny G
Radio from Juice from Orlando. Ronda from Fort Worth roaded.
She wrote a review on the podcast. You actually posted this,
I didn't notice Danny, some people were mistaking the Ben
Maller Show Apple podcast page for the fifth hour, and
not that I don't want good reviews on the Ben
(29:34):
Mallery radio Show, but we have a lot of those.
We need reviews over here is what we need on
the fifth out because this is a newer show. I've
done the radio show for a long time. The podcast
is only a few years old. So it's confusing though, right,
you know what? They all look the same? Yeah, and
you know, I gotta think Linda's boyfriend now, I don't
know his name, but somebody I worked with during the week. Man,
(29:55):
I just happened to mention your name, and a couple
of days later, she told me my boyfriend looked up
his name. He listened to your guys podcast and he
loved it. He subscribed to it. No nice, man, I
love that. Now all we need is click the subscribe
button on the podcast and give us what was it take, Danny?
(30:15):
One minute? Do we need one minute of download listening
time and we're good. Yeah. Rhonda from Fort Worth wrote
a review of the podcast. She says the Ben Mallory
fifth Our podcast is amazing. Rhonda said, well, thank you.
It's a great word amazing. I found the Ben Malla
Show when I started working overnight. I was so pleased
to find entertaining content to help time fly. Four hours
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a night truly aren't enough, and I am always checking
the app to see when the fifth hour podcasts are
available so I can listen. Well, thank you for that.
I appreciate it, Ronna. She says, Ben and Danny G
are great to get. I'm so glad to hear Danny
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Detroit Lions fan there. What's his name? I'm forgetting y'all
the great Joel. Yeah, bad job by meet you, I saw.
I'm sorry, but y'all said, he's doing the interminute fasting thing.
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And we both agree read like we wish we had
known about this when we were a little bit younger.
Could we could have started the lifestyle a little bit younger.
And but you know, you live and learn right, you
live in and and plus the other thing about it is,
I'm pretty sure when I was a big, large ass
in my younger days, if somebody had said, hey, he
just won meal the day, you'll be good, I would
(33:18):
have said, you're full of crap, you loser, because everyone
who's below a certain age thinks they have all the
answers to life's mysteries, and you don't take advantage of
the wisdom of those that have lived and experienced all that.
But it is, I'm part of the cult. It's not
for everybody. In fact, I'll give you the story real quick.
A little sidebar. So I had a buddy of mine
(33:39):
from Dallas, one of my best friends. I've known this
kid since elementary school. We grew up together, we lived,
we used to hang out with were kids. He's lived
in Dallas for like twenty years and he comes out
to visit every year. He wants to move back to
l A. But you know whatever, it was far away.
So he comes out on a Monday, and I was
fasting and I was waiting to eat my meal with
(33:59):
him to have lunch. So he lands at l a X.
I'm like, I don't hear from him. So then I
sent him a text what's going on? And then uh,
I called him. I guess there was a problem with
the rental car. So it took him a little while
to get the rental car. So I was like, all right,
so you know, what do you wanna eat for lunch?
You know? And he he says, oh, no, no, I'm
I'm hungry right now. I'm going I'm going to eat
(34:21):
and about you, but I'm here, you know we're gonna
you No, No, I want to eat by myself. I
just want to eat right now. I'm really hungry. I
can't I'm starving, I said. He's I haven't eaten since
like last night. And I'm like, oh my, that's early
and certainly in the day. And that really pissed me
off day and I was like that, I felt like,
am I wrong? I felt like I was rude, you know,
like I traveled to see somebody and I realized he's
(34:42):
the one traveling. Yeah, you know, I was. I was
piste off. Yeah, it's not a good look. Yeah, fur
Dog wrote a review. He says, pretty pretty good. I
see what he did, quoted the great Larry David. I
give the show five stars. I almost gave it four
stars for the hassle it took to write this review.
That's fair. I would only give you one star if
(35:03):
I was doing it. Ben there you there you Uh
the Craigster right Sin says no ball washing. I love
that Ben gives us the real story, not the popular narrative.
That's exactly right. There you go, the real story, not
the popular narrative. That's what we do right here. Uh now,
I would want one other before I forget it. We're
(35:25):
limited time here because we've got things to do. It's
the weekend. I'm gonna go out and live our life
on a Saturday. But uh, this past weekend, speaking of
living our lives, we had a first party. I called
it the first party at the Mallard mansion. Danny my White.
We got a little disagreement kerfluffle, me and my wife.
We had the in laws over to enjoy a nice
(35:48):
night of family time, and my wife informed me that
this was not an official party. She told me, I said,
it's a party we're having you know, your parents are
coming over, your sister, your brother, the kids that my
nieces and nephews, everyone's here. It's a part She said, no,
(36:09):
that's wrong. Then this is a family get together, not
a party. I said, what's the different. It's a it's
a damn party that it's we're having. We got to
clean up the house, make it seem like we don't
live like pigs. It's not a pig sty and she's not.
He had a party is when you have people that
you don't really know that well over, these are people
that we know, and I said, I disagree. A party
(36:30):
is when you have more than one Kirkland brand items exactly. Well,
speaking of that, I I had provided the menu. We
decided to have a nice meal in the house and
I was the cook Danny g and I had the
the Dean Martin tune in my head when the moon
(36:50):
hits your eye like a pizza pie. That's samar Yeah,
we made pete. I made pizza, made five pizzas, five pizzas,
three pepperoni to cheese pizzas for the non meat eating
members of the family there. And uh, it was. It
was a little hectic. I even made so I'm a
(37:11):
good uncle, Uncle ben. Uh. They got rid of my rice.
But I made cookie dough for my niece and nephew
so I can hang out, and they want to decorate.
My niece wanted it. She want to decorate your little kids.
You want to decorate the cookies, So I made. I
spent a lot of time making sugar dough. You know,
they're kind of especially kind of cookie dough shape. And
(37:32):
I could have had these kids just I could have
pulled out a paper plate and just had them put
food coloring on the plate. They had no interest in
eating the cookies. They just wanted to squeeze all the
blue and pink and all the different nonsense that comes
out of the baking products all over the place and
make a total mess. And they sure they sure did that.
But it was it was. It was a fun good night.
(37:54):
A lot of cooking, a lot of random stuff. I
still gotta get my griddled day. That's my next thing.
I gotta I loved griddle. That's my new Michigans. I
gotta find a good griddle. So anybody wants to recommend
a great griddle for the backyard, I'm all ears. I
want someone that's that's used it that knows the ins
and outs, the good and the bad, and can help
me out on that. What a good week it was
(38:16):
because I had some family time. On Monday, we took
the kids to Universal Studios. Awesome. I hadn't been. I
hadn't been to that park in ten years. Have you
been there since they had How long has Harry Potter
lay had been there that? Yeah? I think it opened. Okay,
so you hadn't been there since they added Harry. But
(38:37):
that castle is insane. But not fat guy friendly. Not
fat guy friendly. I do not, at least back in
the day when I went, I was a big, bigger guy,
but I couldn't fit on the Harry Potter right, Yeah,
I thought you meant because that butter beer has so
many calories. Well listen that. And they've got that little
Simpsons land with most tavern and all the different you
can get a giant Did you see they sell those
(38:59):
giant doughnuts a pink top? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, from
the Simpsons. It was a good time, and you know
that it had been a long time for me not
being there because I was like, where's back draft? At
what happened to backdraft? I mean they took it out. Um, yeah,
(39:21):
so a lot of obviously a lot of updates. No
longer Jurassic Park, the Ride, Jurassic World the Ride. I
love the updates. I love how they metched the old
with the new. So yeah, that was a fun time,
A really good week for radio and personal life. Yeah,
this is one of those guys. Not every week is
like that. This was a cool week for for that.
And just when I used to live in Hollywood, I
(39:42):
would take the Gold Line up and I changed trains
and i'd i'd go across the city walks sometimes just
kind of hang out and people watch, which is you
don't have to pay to get in city walks right
next to Universal Studios, and you just stare at all
the tourists as they walk around and ask you, Ben,
Mike SIDRONI did not believe me that there used to
be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich shop. Oh yeah,
(40:05):
you remember that, Yes, yes, I know every I used
to know every store there. Oh yeah. Well we would
go to concerts there when they had that venue, and
after the concert we'd be buzzed and we would get
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's awesome. Yeah, why would
peanut butter and jelly? That doesn't even make sense. That's a.
(40:25):
That's a that's an all time no. Peanut butter and jelly.
You can make it. You can put it on burgers,
you can put it on all kinds of stuff. It's yeah.
They had like all different kinds of breads. They would
cut the crust off, even you would choose what kind
of jelly. It was an amazing store. Obviously didn't last,
but yeah, that was it. Lights out, all right, we
gotta get out of here. We have the mail bag
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are in the air everywhere, another Saturday addition of the
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Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g back in
the Magic Podcast Studio. I know you're saying, no, no, enough.
Well now we're here anyway to dazzle you eight days
a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show, which is
available as you know, five nights a week, typically five
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nights a week, and then the podcast Friday, Saturday and
Sunday and Danny, I know we've got a lot to
get to here in a limited amount of time on
the Saturday podcast, but I gotta tell you we've had
some crazy people on this podcast. I've been doing this
a few years now, and I'm talking like Lenny Dikstra,
guys like that that are really out there. And my
(02:33):
guy Scott Farrell, who I've known for years my radio
brother from a different mother. I gotta tell you, Danny,
I'm still trying to recover. This is one of the
most amazing conversations I've had with Farrell. And if anybody
missed that, if you if you're listening, is like I
missed the Friday podcast, you gotta go back and listen
to it, because Scott was in a hotel room in
(02:54):
Atlantic City and it began with that. And I'm just
happy we were on the podcast because Danny, I don't
I don't know how much of that was consumption for
like terrestrial radio, but but boy, Scott, he has a
gift for gab. That guy, he was out of control.
I gotta tell you've been doing the post production on
(03:15):
that episode. I think it's gonna be one of the
most dreamed editions of the Fifth Hour. Yeah, because when
I posted the photo, uh that you took of me
and Farrell and then with with Pat McAfee, you would
have thought that the biggest reaction would have been for
Pat McAfee because he's the hundred million dollar guy in radio.
(03:35):
He's the big name in the business right now. But no,
I had much more reaction, not that you judge these
things off that, but on social media people are like
fired off Horrell Man. I grew up listening to him,
and you know, I feel like I've I've inherited a
number of Scott's listeners. And Scott finally retired from from
just doing nighttime radio, and if you listen to the podcast,
(03:57):
he goes into great detail about how that has impacted
his life, doing a life of nighttime radio, and uh,
you know, it was, it was, it was interesting. But
people really love Scott. I think he's worked the last
couple of years a kind of a smaller place, a
smaller shop, and so I think some people lost track
of him. But to me, you should never really be
(04:19):
able to lose track of people, Danny with social media,
but people do people for whatever reason. Uh they don't
follow certain guys or whatever. But but anyways, fun So
on this edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben and Danny,
we've got drive Time Benny, the Power of Fats eating
(04:39):
a ship sandwich. That'll be it'll be interesting, Surveys says,
and whatever else there. We have a few other things
that we might get to depending on the timing of
it all, but we must start. I was very excited
this week a rare, inappropriate opportunity to sit in for
one of the big titans in the business, Dan Patrick.
(05:02):
And when I got called by my boss and they said, hey, uh,
you know, we're having some different people fill in for Dan,
and your name came up and we were wondering if
you're interested, I immediately thought I was being punked, and
I thought that this was a joke and that there's
gonna be like jokes on you, loser, But no, it
turned out to be true, and I would like to
thank Danny all of the p ones who crossed over.
(05:25):
We had a great turnout of Mallard Militia foot Soldiers,
and it was a rather hectic week. I'm still not
quite over it as we are doing this podcast right
now because um my sleep schedule. I've been a pretty
good routine and I'm in a bizarro world where like
up is down, right is left. It's just trying to
(05:47):
trying to get back on track here. My bio rhythms
are all messed up. But that's the first world problem
to have, and you deal with that all the time, Danny,
and you you do radio and addition to everything else
you've got going on, you have like a real grown
up job. I guess work with the kids, but but no,
So it was it was fun to fill in for
Dan and uh work with Rob Park A big fan
of Rob. People said I kissed his ass too much.
(06:09):
He kissed my ass a little bit too. So it
was like a mutual admiration society. And that shows a
big deal. That's a very profitable show for the company.
They have big sexy sponsors like Mercedes Benz on that show,
so you know that's not and that's not a chump show.
You know, that's a big show for the company. And
Dan's a Hall of Famer Dan Patrick, So getting a
(06:30):
chance to fill in. It's morning drive in the number
one radio market Los Angeles in the country and a
tremendous reach. The audience for that show is humongst I
will argue though, and it's probably my head's going to explode. You.
I think we have the the loyalty that we have
(06:51):
in the Mallar militia, but I think we can get
that because we're not as big, We don't have as
bigger reach because Moran late at night. But but Dan
obviously has his father and know Dan Yants were there
I was bummed out. I was hoping the Danance would
give me a manny and a petty while I was
doing the Dan Patrick Show, but that did not happen.
So I also would like to address a few of
(07:13):
the members of the militia Danny have been belly aching
that we were unable to do. I didn't do some
of the usual bits that I do on the overnight show,
and they were like, well why not? I understand, what
do you do? You think you can't do that during
the day, And that's not it at all. So when
you fill in on a radio So this is all
(07:33):
I was taught from people on radio. When you're the
fill in guy, your house city like you wouldn't go
to somebody's house and rearrange the furniture and bring in
your own sofa. You just you can't do that. You
are a guest. You have to honor that whatever that
show has going. And they have a different Dan Patrick's
got a much different format than I have. If if
(07:56):
I started doing the stick ala I do overnight on
the Dan Patrick Show, they would drag me off the
studio and that would be it. It would be all
over there. So you have to respect the boundaries as
guard rails, and that's part of it. And I was
an interloper when in Rome, act like a Roman Danny.
That's what you have to do, right, You just gotta
(08:17):
follow the rules. Let me tell you one thing about radio,
and it is the pits. Is when you've been doing
morning drive for year after year after year, busting your ass,
waking up super early every single day, show prep, post production,
pre production, and really you're burning your candle at both ends,
(08:39):
and you get tired, and you don't want to take
a vacation, because we know what happens to radio guys
when they go on vacation. A lot of them don't
get to come back because you are tired. When you
finally get to leave, inevitably, whoever fills in for you
sounds nice and fresh. Yeah, but they only have to
do it for a few days, so you're right, they
(09:00):
should just house it. There was a time at k
c a Q where I made the mistake of having
my afternoon drive DJ phill in for me and my
morning crew while we took one week off. When we
got back, then it was a ship show because this
guy had created this whole morning zoo thing that he
did for a week with all these brand new bells
(09:21):
and whistles and games and features, and people were blown away.
They were like, that was one of the best things.
Not that we don't like you guys, but what wasn't
fair is obviously he did that for one week and
then got to go back to sleeping at night like
a normal human being and doing his afternoon show. So yeah,
(09:41):
it's really hard because we've talked about it on your
show a lot about how there was no way in
hell you can take more than five days off as
a radio host. No, And I've explained that to my
wife several times. You know, we always wanted to go
on these exotic vacations and she'd love to go to
Europe and all that night. I never wanted to go
to Europe before. But now as I've gotten older, what
(10:02):
the hell? Why No, I'm becoming a softie here as
I get older, and I'm like, let's do some things.
We're gonna check out, you know, life before you know it. Anyways,
he might as well enjoy the journey. But uh, yeah,
it's really tough. That's a that's a tough part of
the business. But that is that is so hilarious this
story he told about the guy that filled in because
he was a dick too. He told us behind the
scenes in the hallway, I'm glad you guys are back.
(10:23):
There's no way I could have kept up that energy
for a second week. Yeah. Yeah, Well, he admitted that
he couldn't do it continually like we did for five
years there. So yeah, it's not fair, But what are
you gonna do. I guess that's why they say some
hosts purposely have boring guys on when they're gone. Oh yeah,
well there's a famous host. I don't know if I
(10:46):
can say the person. Well, it's it's a podcast. Yeah. Uh,
the great Jim Rome, a legend in sports radio, Jim
for years when he was at the very top. Jim
is not the very top anymore, but he's at the
very top of the business. He would have the worst
people possible filling in for him because he never wanted
to be upstaged by the fill in guy, you know,
and then because then you get that, and you don't
(11:08):
you want to avoid that, So he'd bring in boring people.
And but there there are some guys, and I've noticed
this over the years in radio, there are there are
guys that are sprinters and they're not marathon and it's
part of the hard part of the business to me
is just doing it every day and showing up. If
anybody could do this like what we do sports radio,
when there's like a big story and there's a lot
(11:30):
of stuff going on, I feel like anyone could come
in here and do this and be Okay, maybe we
won't have the formatics down, but where we are in
our money is when we're just throwing spaghetti against the
wall and we've got to make it sound like there's
a lot going on. Guys that have the great tape
that I call them the sprinters, and they get hired
because programming people in consultants here these guys and they go, Wow,
(11:53):
this guy is great. He's got the razmatazz. You know, man,
oh man, this is this is true. It's like hiring
Rick Flair. You know, it's great, and then yeah, higher
and then after one or two shows they got nothing
and you're like, wait and shut the funk up. Okay,
shut the funk up. Yeah. So but I would again
back to the damn Patrick, I would like to thank.
(12:14):
I'm gonna name some people I want to miss something
I loved that Blind Scott called in immediately annoyed Rob
Parker because anytime Rob SE's Boston on the screen, his
eyes light up. Facts from Philly called in Anthony and
annahe I'm among others and a number of the Mallard
militia holding up the social media platforms alfaata A, Piner,
(12:37):
Justin and Cincinnati just Josh, and I said this on
the Overnight Show during the week. Some of these guys,
I don't know if they're real or not. They I
have some really wacky hours and whenever I'm doing something, Uh,
these guys, it's like it's like Star Wars. They march in,
you know, all right, Mallard Militia hosstyle take over there
(12:57):
we up. I was like, they do some of that also.
But it's great. I mean, it's wonderful. These guys have
followed me around all the different nonsense that we've done,
so it was fun. I don't know that we'll ever
do that. I'll ever do the Dan Patrick Show again.
But I heard that management liked it, but I don't know.
Maybe they were lying. They probably told that to everyone,
so who the heck knows, but we will certainly find
(13:19):
out soon enough. Now as far as the power of
fats and this again goes back to facts in Philadelphia.
So I had a very odd thing happened this week.
Out of thin air, Danny. I get contacted by a
producer of the w i P Morning show in Philadelphia
(13:39):
and they're like, Hey, we want to have you on.
And I've never been on this show before. I don't
know any of these people on this show. It's hosted
by Angelo Cataldi, who's a Philadelphia radio legend. This guy
Angelo Contaldi. If you're not from Philadelphia, but Tony Bruno
I s work with Tommy Anthony Gargatto. Gargonald's also a
Philadelphia a legend. But the but this guy Angelo Cataldi
(14:03):
has been on forever. He's about to retire. He's been
in the business for years. He's an old sportswriter, gossip guy.
He's done some amazing bit. So anyway, I get called
by are a contact email by his producer out of
thin air, and they're like, Hey, would you like to
come on that We're doing a segment about Doc Rivers
because there you know, they rip all the Philadelphia coaches
and players pretty much. They went they knew that I Uh,
(14:24):
they that I hate you despise what Doc did with
the Clippers blowing the both the Lob City era and
the beginning of the Kali era, and he was there
for both of that, and I was very upset by
all of the disappearing acts. They went to full who Dany. Yes,
they vanished very quickly there. And so anyway, I was like, yeah, sure,
(14:45):
I love doing it. I very rarely turned down those
things if I have time. I I love making random
pop up appearances on different radio shows. It's fun to
do if I have the time. I like to do
it because I know I would like people to come
on my show or my podcast. So if they asked me,
it's very nice. It's occurred to see you should do it.
And so I didn't get paid for anything like that.
But the reason I went on the Angelo Cataldi show
(15:06):
was because of Fats in Philadelphia. Fats loves Cataldi apparently,
and he reached out and said, you gotta get Malaron
and he bugged these people so much that they put
me on the show with. It was Angelo and Billy King,
the old general manager of the Philadelphia seventies sixers. So
I am bashing Doc Rivers what is And a former
(15:30):
NBA executive is on the show listening to this. He
actually agreed with a lot of the points that I
was making, which which made me feel pretty good. But Angelo,
just give you a brief thumbnail recap of Angelo's career,
and I'm probably missing most of the stuff. But the
most famous things that Angelo Cataldi has done in radio
the wing Bowl. You are you familiar with the wing Bowl?
I don't think they do it anymore in Philadelphia, but
(15:52):
it was like the weekend before the Super Bowl, that
dead week they had a chicken wigging and contest in
Philadelphia has become a Nash story and it was a
big deal in Philadelphia. Also, Angelo led a group of
listeners of his radio station to the NFL Draft. They
drove up to New York and this was when Ricky
(16:12):
Williams was in the draft and the Eagles. That show
wanted Ricky Williams to be drafted by the Eagles. They
ended up drafting McNabb Donovan McNabb and the famously booed
me yeah, And it was his listeners that had driven
up from from Philadelphia. Has done a bunch of crazy
other things and he's gotten in a bunch of trouble,
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about this this ship sandwich? What what is this all about?
Danny g Now, this is never a good thing when
I hear that in the headline. So what happened here?
A week ago? While you were busy chopping it up
with fur Ball Andy Furman, I had a rare day off,
(18:30):
so I took my tinder rowny to Santa Barbara. She's
been great about how many days I've been working my
crazy radio hours. So I thought, let me spoiler. I
got a hotel. I have a flatten night. Johne On
had some bells and whistles on it, like they let
you take the bikes out on the waterfront there on
the bike path, so we were getting some exercise. It
(18:50):
was a beautiful day there. Uh. We get down at
the towards the end of the bike path and we
pull the bikes over lay them down on the grass.
She runs across the bike trail, goes up the stairs
of a lifeguard station. Yeah, and I'm resting. I'm like,
I wonder what she you know, I kind of had
an idea of what she was doing up there. Ben
women love to use their iPhones to do some makeshift
(19:14):
photo sessions, so she's taking pictures up there. There was
a breeze blowing, her hair is blowing in the wind.
She's doing glamour shots up on this lifeguard station. So
she hops down from the stairs and sees that I
saw what she was doing, and she was embarrassed. So
she runs across the bike path back towards me, and
(19:38):
there's some green grass right there next to the bike path,
but it was super uneven. How do I know that
because she puts her arms out trying to look cute
like running towards me. The soundtrack if one had been playing,
because this was a rom com movie, it would have
been Whitney Houston run to you and her arms are open.
(20:09):
The problem she lost her balance when she hit the
uneven grass man. You know the famous YouTube clip of
Bartlo Cologne losing his balance. Yeah, yeah, and everything all
the everything's kind of floating around there. It's like it's
like he's an outer space. Now, she's not the size
of bar Tolo Cologne, obviously, but the way she lost
(20:32):
her balance and the way it looked like she was
sliding headfirst into second base, she bounced. She hit the
grass so hard that she bounced and then slid towards
me safe. Now, what did she do that? Now, because
(20:52):
there's a couple of ways to get up from that.
There's option a Okay, dust it off, I'm gonna laugh
and it's all funny jokes on me, or oh my god,
I need to go to the doctor. Well, it was
a busy day in Santa Barbara, because remember this was
the first day of a long President's Day weekend. Well,
there were a lot of people around on this bike
(21:13):
path and on the beach there. So she hopped up
super fast because of all the eyes that were honest.
Then she had a look of pain on her face, thinking, oh,
now she's hurt. She gets up to me, you could
tell her hands are stinging. She heard her knee. She
had stinging hands, and she sat next to me and
(21:35):
I saw tears welling up in her eyes. And this
was like me working with the kindergarteners. This has happened
several times during Freeze Monster, where I say it's all right,
it's okay, you're a tough cookie. When she heard those words,
she stopped crying. It works. Those magic words. Yeah, whether
(21:56):
you're five or thirty five, those words are magic. She
ducked it up. I gave her a lot of props
for that, but I told her, I said, that was
God punishing you for taking that selfie. That is that
is right. This should have been playing in the back
of the Benny Hill music right, and she's running down there.
You could have played I played that man oh man. Anyway,
(22:19):
have a great story. That's tremendous on Twitter that night.
Then I mosted the pictures she took right before she
ate ship, like the final acted at any moment now,
because everyone's got a professional camera. Like when I was
a kid, I'm we're on the same age, Danny, we
had like the polaroid cameras. Remember that you have to wait.
Now we have professional cameras at any moment, you could
(22:41):
have a flash mob photo shoot anywhere, any place, anytime. Now.
I love Santa Barbara. I try to go there once
a year. I love one of the vacations. I love
going on like a little weekend getaways. Driving up the
California cos Central can I always usually get to northern
California because I too far, but Central California, the Hearst
(23:01):
Castle area, righting around their Santa Cruz and then on
the way back, stopping in, Uh, Santa Barbara's beautiful because
you have Solving Pismo Beach, Beach, San Louis, Obispo, Morrow
Base and Simion Pass the Robos. You're right, it's beautiful
up the coast. And every time I drive through Central California,
(23:22):
i am I'm just blown back by the fact that
all that land around the Hearst Castle is owned by
the State of California's donated. Otherwise there would be massive cities,
amazing real estate right on the California coast, picturesque and
and instead you have like a beach where seals lay
out in fart. I fell asleep. No, that's yeah, on
(23:48):
the California coast, but it is just wonderful and uh
and my, my wife loves the Madonna And I don't
know if you've been to Have you been to the Haunt?
Is it haunted? Really is? I've been there a few
times because she loves it, so I I have to
take one for the team on that for sure. And
did you eat at the famous Santa Barbara ice cream
(24:09):
shops at McConnell's. I believe it's called there that everyone's like,
eat mcconals there the ice I know what you're talking about. Well,
we did it, but we did get some good food.
We went to the famous Santa Barbara Fish House, okay,
and they have that pier you can drive on in
Santa And then we had some wonderful eggs benedict in
front of the water. We got fortunate. We had really
(24:32):
good weather, really good food. Just not so good on
the bike path. Yeah. And uh, whale watching, great whale
watching in Santa bar I've gone on whale watching boats
in like Orange County in l A. And I've not
had much luck Santa Barbara though. I mean you you're
(24:52):
just surrounded by whales everywhere. Me laying on the beach
during the summer. All right, Well, move we're on from that.
The and the survey says, Danny, Now, this is right
out of the old hokey baseball movie Field the Dreams
that we the quote I've changed and everyone changed with
the quote if you build it, they will come. That's
(25:13):
not the actual movie quote that's been twisted for everyday use.
And so we asked. We said, listen, we need positive
reviews for this podcast. We demand positive reviews to this podcast,
and if you ask for it, they will come. And
so the survey says, we shamelessly begged for people to
post reviews on the Fifth Hour podcast. And one of
(25:35):
the deals we've made here is that if you take
time out of your busy life, away from your family
and friends and away from work, even though it takes
five minutes to do this it's busybody work, we will
take time out of our schedule and our podcast to
thank you tit for tat you scratch my back, I
will scratch your back capeche, as my late grandfather in
(25:59):
law would say. So. Uh. These are some of the
actual reviews we've gotten over the last last couple of
weeks or so last I guess it's actually more like
the last ten days. I think. Rabbi Mallard posted uh.
This is on the middle of February. He says, hey, uh, Rabbi,
I left you five stars. I guess that was for me.
(26:19):
He calls me, Rabbi mal what's very polite to say
that I'm not a rabbi, I says, I left you
five stars. Hopefully Corporate gives you the much needed rays. However,
I must bemoan the fact that you're no longer in
studio during the week. I know that you can't see
the crew, but I feel the difference. Hopefully that changes anyhow,
(26:39):
keep up the great, awesome work. I get this question
a lot Danny, and I don't understand it because the
way our studios at the mother Ship are set up.
Even when I'm there, I can't see anybody, Like literally,
Eddie's down the hall. You've got to go down the hall,
make a left turn, and then another other left. Roberto.
(27:01):
I can kind of see Roberto, but there's TV monitors
and there's computers between me and Roberto and Cooper. Loop
is far back and off to the side, So literally
it's no different. People seem to think there's a huge
difference with everything that's going on with me in the
home studio. The remote studio. Yeah, you guys have all
been together for so many years. You know how to
(27:24):
take turns talking whether you're looking at the person or not. Right,
because we also learned that early on in broadcasting is
if you're doing a two man show, we should be
looking at each other. That way, we know you know
when to stop talking and you don't step all over
each other. But when you have good chemistry with somebody,
you don't even need to see them. Yeah, And the
(27:46):
way the show's format, and typically the first twelve thirteen
minutes of the hour, I'm just barking by myself anyway,
and then we you know, do a segment. We'll take
a couple of calls, and then I'll mix the guys
in and we'll we have the bits that we do.
And there's a certain cadence to the show. But I
do appreciate that you think the show sucks, because where
I'm not in studio, that does mean a lot. Uh
(28:08):
hermal dude, right, since says not your typical this is
a review, he wrote, Danny, not your typical sports takes.
Whether you're a hardcore sports fan or not, you will
enjoy this show. Does not just regurgitate the normal boring
sports takes, has original thoughts that aren't your run of
the milk PC takes. That's a very flattering, very entertaining
(28:29):
spinoff from his radio show. I highly recommend giving this
podcast and his radio show listen. You won't be sorry. Wow,
that's that's almost like my mom wrote it. But she's
not alive anymore. But if my mom was alive, that's
something she would probably have written in her own words.
A Juice from Dallas wrote a review. Well, he says
actually from Orlando, so I guess he's in Orlando, but
it says Dallas originally longtime listener Big Band. One thing
(28:53):
I like about is you won't always agree with his take,
but he gives you a good perspective and sides of
his takes. I also love the whole crew and all
the drops and callers that participate in the Mallama. So
glad that guests scan or guest scan, got s can
and Danny G is backed behind the boards and Mike
(29:14):
with Big Ben. So there's a vote for Danny G
Radio from Juice from Orlando. Ronda from Fort Worth roaded.
She wrote a review on the podcast. You actually posted this,
I didn't notice Danny, some people were mistaking the Ben
Maller Show Apple podcast page for the fifth hour, and
not that I don't want good reviews on the Ben
(29:34):
Mallery radio Show, but we have a lot of those.
We need reviews over here is what we need on
the fifth out because this is a newer show. I've
done the radio show for a long time. The podcast
is only a few years old. So it's confusing though, right,
you know what? They all look the same? Yeah, and
you know, I gotta think Linda's boyfriend now, I don't
know his name, but somebody I worked with during the week. Man,
(29:55):
I just happened to mention your name, and a couple
of days later, she told me my boyfriend looked up
his name. He listened to your guys podcast and he
loved it. He subscribed to it. No nice, man, I
love that. Now all we need is click the subscribe
button on the podcast and give us what was it take, Danny?
(30:15):
One minute? Do we need one minute of download listening
time and we're good. Yeah. Rhonda from Fort Worth wrote
a review of the podcast. She says the Ben Mallory
fifth Our podcast is amazing. Rhonda said, well, thank you.
It's a great word amazing. I found the Ben Malla
Show when I started working overnight. I was so pleased
to find entertaining content to help time fly. Four hours
(30:38):
a night truly aren't enough, and I am always checking
the app to see when the fifth hour podcasts are
available so I can listen. Well, thank you for that.
I appreciate it, Ronna. She says, Ben and Danny G
are great to get. I'm so glad to hear Danny
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Detroit Lions fan there. What's his name? I'm forgetting y'all
the great Joel. Yeah, bad job by meet you, I saw.
I'm sorry, but y'all said, he's doing the interminute fasting thing.
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And we both agree read like we wish we had
known about this when we were a little bit younger.
Could we could have started the lifestyle a little bit younger.
And but you know, you live and learn right, you
live in and and plus the other thing about it is,
I'm pretty sure when I was a big, large ass
in my younger days, if somebody had said, hey, he
just won meal the day, you'll be good, I would
(33:18):
have said, you're full of crap, you loser, because everyone
who's below a certain age thinks they have all the
answers to life's mysteries, and you don't take advantage of
the wisdom of those that have lived and experienced all that.
But it is, I'm part of the cult. It's not
for everybody. In fact, I'll give you the story real quick.
A little sidebar. So I had a buddy of mine
(33:39):
from Dallas, one of my best friends. I've known this
kid since elementary school. We grew up together, we lived,
we used to hang out with were kids. He's lived
in Dallas for like twenty years and he comes out
to visit every year. He wants to move back to
l A. But you know whatever, it was far away.
So he comes out on a Monday, and I was
fasting and I was waiting to eat my meal with
(33:59):
him to have lunch. So he lands at l a X.
I'm like, I don't hear from him. So then I
sent him a text what's going on? And then uh,
I called him. I guess there was a problem with
the rental car. So it took him a little while
to get the rental car. So I was like, all right,
so you know, what do you wanna eat for lunch?
You know? And he he says, oh, no, no, I'm
I'm hungry right now. I'm going I'm going to eat
(34:21):
and about you, but I'm here, you know we're gonna
you No, No, I want to eat by myself. I
just want to eat right now. I'm really hungry. I
can't I'm starving, I said. He's I haven't eaten since
like last night. And I'm like, oh my, that's early
and certainly in the day. And that really pissed me
off day and I was like that, I felt like,
am I wrong? I felt like I was rude, you know,
like I traveled to see somebody and I realized he's
(34:42):
the one traveling. Yeah, you know, I was. I was
piste off. Yeah, it's not a good look. Yeah, fur
Dog wrote a review. He says, pretty pretty good. I
see what he did, quoted the great Larry David. I
give the show five stars. I almost gave it four
stars for the hassle it took to write this review.
That's fair. I would only give you one star if
(35:03):
I was doing it. Ben there you there you Uh
the Craigster right Sin says no ball washing. I love
that Ben gives us the real story, not the popular narrative.
That's exactly right. There you go, the real story, not
the popular narrative. That's what we do right here. Uh now,
I would want one other before I forget it. We're
(35:25):
limited time here because we've got things to do. It's
the weekend. I'm gonna go out and live our life
on a Saturday. But uh, this past weekend, speaking of
living our lives, we had a first party. I called
it the first party at the Mallard mansion. Danny my White.
We got a little disagreement kerfluffle, me and my wife.
We had the in laws over to enjoy a nice
(35:48):
night of family time, and my wife informed me that
this was not an official party. She told me, I said,
it's a party we're having you know, your parents are
coming over, your sister, your brother, the kids that my
nieces and nephews, everyone's here. It's a part She said, no,
(36:09):
that's wrong. Then this is a family get together, not
a party. I said, what's the different. It's a it's
a damn party that it's we're having. We got to
clean up the house, make it seem like we don't
live like pigs. It's not a pig sty and she's not.
He had a party is when you have people that
you don't really know that well over, these are people
that we know, and I said, I disagree. A party
(36:30):
is when you have more than one Kirkland brand items exactly. Well,
speaking of that, I I had provided the menu. We
decided to have a nice meal in the house and
I was the cook Danny g and I had the
the Dean Martin tune in my head when the moon
(36:50):
hits your eye like a pizza pie. That's samar Yeah,
we made pete. I made pizza, made five pizzas, five pizzas,
three pepperoni to cheese pizzas for the non meat eating
members of the family there. And uh, it was. It
was a little hectic. I even made so I'm a
(37:11):
good uncle, Uncle ben. Uh. They got rid of my rice.
But I made cookie dough for my niece and nephew
so I can hang out, and they want to decorate.
My niece wanted it. She want to decorate your little kids.
You want to decorate the cookies, So I made. I
spent a lot of time making sugar dough. You know,
they're kind of especially kind of cookie dough shape. And
(37:32):
I could have had these kids just I could have
pulled out a paper plate and just had them put
food coloring on the plate. They had no interest in
eating the cookies. They just wanted to squeeze all the
blue and pink and all the different nonsense that comes
out of the baking products all over the place and
make a total mess. And they sure they sure did that.
But it was it was. It was a fun good night.
(37:54):
A lot of cooking, a lot of random stuff. I
still gotta get my griddled day. That's my next thing.
I gotta I loved griddle. That's my new Michigans. I
gotta find a good griddle. So anybody wants to recommend
a great griddle for the backyard, I'm all ears. I
want someone that's that's used it that knows the ins
and outs, the good and the bad, and can help
me out on that. What a good week it was
(38:16):
because I had some family time. On Monday, we took
the kids to Universal Studios. Awesome. I hadn't been. I
hadn't been to that park in ten years. Have you
been there since they had How long has Harry Potter
lay had been there that? Yeah? I think it opened. Okay,
so you hadn't been there since they added Harry. But
(38:37):
that castle is insane. But not fat guy friendly. Not
fat guy friendly. I do not, at least back in
the day when I went, I was a big, bigger guy,
but I couldn't fit on the Harry Potter right, Yeah,
I thought you meant because that butter beer has so
many calories. Well listen that. And they've got that little
Simpsons land with most tavern and all the different you
can get a giant Did you see they sell those
(38:59):
giant doughnuts a pink top? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, from
the Simpsons. It was a good time, and you know
that it had been a long time for me not
being there because I was like, where's back draft? At
what happened to backdraft? I mean they took it out. Um, yeah,
(39:21):
so a lot of obviously a lot of updates. No
longer Jurassic Park, the Ride, Jurassic World the Ride. I
love the updates. I love how they metched the old
with the new. So yeah, that was a fun time,
A really good week for radio and personal life. Yeah,
this is one of those guys. Not every week is
like that. This was a cool week for for that.
And just when I used to live in Hollywood, I
(39:42):
would take the Gold Line up and I changed trains
and i'd i'd go across the city walks sometimes just
kind of hang out and people watch, which is you
don't have to pay to get in city walks right
next to Universal Studios, and you just stare at all
the tourists as they walk around and ask you, Ben,
Mike SIDRONI did not believe me that there used to
be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich shop. Oh yeah,
(40:05):
you remember that, Yes, yes, I know every I used
to know every store there. Oh yeah. Well we would
go to concerts there when they had that venue, and
after the concert we'd be buzzed and we would get
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's awesome. Yeah, why would
peanut butter and jelly? That doesn't even make sense. That's a.
(40:25):
That's a that's an all time no. Peanut butter and jelly.
You can make it. You can put it on burgers,
you can put it on all kinds of stuff. It's yeah.
They had like all different kinds of breads. They would
cut the crust off, even you would choose what kind
of jelly. It was an amazing store. Obviously didn't last,
but yeah, that was it. Lights out, all right, we
gotta get out of here. We have the mail bag
(40:46):
on Sunday, Sunday Sunday, cannot wait for that. Amazing questions
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Danny g like mini Bobblehead. Oh I'm gonna look into that.
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