February 27, 2022 • 54 mins
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Sunday Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny g Radio
back at it again here to blow viate eight days
a week and uh. One of my favorite podcast to do,
The Mailbag. Danny always looked forward. You never know what
you're gonna get in the mailbag. See, normally I put
the mailbag together, and I don't typically pay that close
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attention because I'm half asleep. You know, I'm kind of
in a trance when I'm putting the email together. I'm
just kind of cherry picking random email. And so then
when I when we do the podcast here, it's like
all of these are new emails because I forget what's
actually and I don't pay that close attention when I'm
actually putting the mail back together from the random people.
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And remember, we're replacing a multibillion dollar industry in the NFL.
No pressure, but we are the Sunday entertainment now. Yes,
that's right. The NFL was taking away from our audience now,
but we have nothing to compete against us on Sunday,
especially those lazy kind of Sunday afternoons, and Baseball's got
this labor crew fluffle thing, so who knows when they'll
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be baseball again on a regular basis during the regular season,
So that's not waste any time. I want to get
right to the mail bag, and so into it we go. Bag.
Thanks so Everyboddy ohio al who sent that little ditty
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in a while back, and we play that every mail bag.
That is the official beginning to the mail bag. If
you like the podcast, you want to support us, you
can always give a review. We talked about that on
the Saturday podcast. We thank you for that. But also
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and help us out and send a question in. If
there's something you you're curious about, or you just want
to hear your name right on the radio because you
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want to ask a question, that's fine as well. You
can send it in. Questions and comments are welcome in
the mail bag. I normally post on Tuesday early in
the day on the Facebook page and then I'll pin
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can contact me Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
It's f I F T H. Spell out fifth Real
fifth hour at gmail dot com. And you can also
send questions to Danny on Twitter. Uh is Danny G
Radio on Twitter? And to me um send it me
on Twitter. I get I don't want them to email me,
send me an email or post a message on the
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Facebook page. So the email getting right into it. Do
you have your hazmat suit on? Danny? Are you prepared
for the for the email? What we're about to get here? Ready? Freddy? Alright,
so here we've got yes, we do. Jennifer from our Richmond, Virginia,
our friend Jennifer Wright since its hey, Ben and Danny G.
Have you ever been grocery shopping but in the middle
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of it, for any reason, you decided you were done
over over it and you just want to leave whatever
didn't make it into the car. You justify how you
don't really need it anyway and you'll get it later,
or you grab just the priorities and rushed to check out.
And I'm not talking about the holiday season, just a
normal day or am I the only weirdo that does that?
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Sometimes against Jennifer, our friend from Richmond, Virginia. I've never
done that one, Jennifer. I am a meticul lists grocery shopper.
I go on. I'm a man on a mission when
I go on and I want to get it. I
do want to get out of the grocery store as
quickly as possible. But I normally go at off hours
because of the overnight schedule that I have, and I'll
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go at some really weird times. The stores around where
I live are not open twenty four hours, but I
will go right when they open or just before closing time.
And I usually do a big shopping trip to Costco
me and the wife on the weekends. But during the
week you know, there's always like random stuff you need
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from time to time, and so I'll just go in quick.
But I've never walked out before my mission was done.
It's like running the New York Marathon and then getting
to the thirteen mile mark and saying, we're good, We're good.
What about your Danny you I've never abandoned ship at
a grocery store, but inside a store like Target. And
I think I learned this from my mom. You know,
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there's all the internet jokes all the time about it.
Into Target for one thing and walked out with two
hundred dollars worth of crap. I didn't. Well. She would
go into Target, spend hours shopping, and then before she
got to check out, she would, you know, start deducing,
do I really need this? I really need that? No,
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and she'd start putting things back. By the time she
checked out, half the cart was emptied. Yeah. So she
she goes in, she gets everything she thinks she needs,
and then she's like, all right, let me do a
cost benefit analysis here and she'll fin the her She's like,
I don't need that, you know, I don't I want
to do with that, you know? And probably I mean
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smart for your budget, but not a good way to
use time. Probably, No. And and they have done social experiments.
The people that run these big stores like Target, Costco
and Gross just regularly big grocery stores. They know exactly
where to place items to get your attention when you're
walking through the store. Are and and they've they've studied
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it's like an art. If you show an ite I'M
a certain amount of times in the store, the person
is more likely to buy it. And you have it
at eye level. There's certainly it's crazy how much effort
goes into that, and then we're just dumb consumers were
walking through like, oh, oh wait a minute, here, Costco
wants me to buy that blender. I don't really need
a blender, but it looks really good. Look at all
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the smoothies I can make if I had that blender. Well,
I've read books. I'm a big fan of infomercials because
in a late night I fell asleep. That's what I'm
competing against. And I remember when I was younger, I
read a book about infomercials and they they also they're
even better than the big box stores because they have
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just a ten fifteen minute paid segment uh to sell
their product, and and all the little mind hacks of
you know, ratcheting up the drama limited supply. You know,
you don't want to miss out, and we're all wired like, oh,
we don't want to miss out fomo right, fear of
missing out. You don't want to miss out on the
car wax. You can light on fire because your life
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will not be complete. You'll you'll go into the grave.
You'll be like, oh, if only I had that, my
life would be better. Anyway, we'll keep it going here,
what do we have a right Jason and Rocky Mount,
Virginia says, Hey, guys, love the Danny G Radio edition.
Much better and cooler than gas Can all those shot
at Gascon. Uh, was what I want to know. He's
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I've asked this before, so I guess this is really
for Danny G. Have you ever been hunting or fishing?
If so, give me the details. Love the podcast as
always the great Jason Rocky Mount, who is one of
the hat benefactors. He sent me a very nice hat
back back in the day. It was last year. Danny,
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You ever been hunting, fishing, any of that? Yeah? Actually
I have. When I was a little kid, my uncle
took me up into the woods in San Bernardino County.
Believe it or not, there is some wilderness and up
in that area, and he would go deer hunting. He
also had a bow and arrow, like one of those
pro bows, and he would take us up there and
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let us shoot the bow and arrow, which I thought
was cool. I have never done that since, but my
dad fishes. In fact, he has invited me and my
older brother for the second year in a row to
a bass lake fishing derby where they tag some smallmouth bass.
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They put like a ten thousand dollar tag on a
few of the fish that they throw in the lake.
A fifty thousand dollar fishes in there, and then like
a hundred one dollar fish supposedly our tagged. Our joke is,
how do we know that they really did what they
say they did? Well, exactly right, said finding a needle
in a haystack or a you have a bass in
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the middle of a pond. Look, it was really funny
because on last year's boat, we're fishing, we're getting nothing.
We saw an eagle, which amazed us, but was even
more amazing he swooped down and grabbed a bass out
of the way and look off and as everyone in
our boat is watching in amazement, just deadpand I said, well,
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there goes the fifty fish. Is that's outstanding? That is
out Yeah. I've only been fishing a couple of random
times and it was one of those deals. It's like,
need to laugh. Yeah, it was city slickers. I didn't
know what the hell I was doing. I was out there,
it was a disaster and didn't catch it. Damn thing.
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I've never been hunting. I've never done that. So maybe
at some point along the way. I'm not against it.
I mean I feel like I would be uh much
more testosterone danny if I went hunting. That's a you know,
I live. I live a life like everyone else. If
I want a piece of meat, I go to the
grocery store and they have anything I need, burgers, steak, whatever.
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But to actually have to to get it and to
chop it up and all that, that's that's old school.
These years later, I want that bow. That uncle is
still alive. I hope he leaves his bow and arrows
to me and his will. You might be the beneficiary
down the line, Barry and Nashville says Yo yo mob Benny.
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What's the biggest challenge you face when you sit in
for a different radio host show. Well, we addressed this
a little bit yesterday, Barry. But the simple answer is
to not funk up. That's the that's the simple answer.
But for me, you know, typically it is adjusting my
sleep schedule. And I mentioned that I'm still all kind
of wonky. Everything's backwards. It's gonna take a couple more
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days here for that to turn around. But that and
also just you have to when when your house sitting,
you have to act a certain way, and so that's
always a challenge. I'm actually on the live are and
there's a little more pressure when you're on during the
day because the big corporate muckety MUCKs are listening, and
they're not usually listening to me overnight. So it's a
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it's a hole, different worlds uncharted waters is what it
is when you're doing stuff at different times. But it's nice,
rare and appropriate, Dan, That's what I was at. Rare
and appropriate unless there is a gigantic check associated with it,
and then then we're good on that. Otherwise, I'm good
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at my little, my little cubicle off to the side here.
I'm good with that ringing every once in a while, like,
oh my god, hold on to sec here. Now, this
is a this is a take that will work at
two in the morning, But will this work with the
business crowd. You know, I could say this at two
in the morning and I get around of applause, But
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during the day I might get that. You know, I
don't want that. So I am Carlos you when your
sip was floating through the night, it's called the safe harbor. Yes,
so I am the captain of the safe heart. Got
mail yea, I got mail, yea. Carlos in Houston write sences,
I absolutely love when you guys talk about the behind
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the scenes stuff. And he then says, I think that
see r CE you next Tuesday. Old hag from Florida
should get in the verbal octagon with Tammy in Montana.
And uh, and then Carlos says, uh, he wants to
annoy Danny G. You know what he wants to annoy
Danny G with? What do you think Carlos wants to
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annoy you with? No? Not the nicknames. Yes, he says, sorry, Danny,
I would like a nickname Rundown. So as we say,
and on the podcast, and and goes the listeners always right, Danny.
So I am known as Carlos, you're aware of this.
I'm known as the Baron of bad Dash, big gall Bladder.
Then it's the Menace, Captain knee Jerk, the general of Degenerates,
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the ty coon of tea is the master of Disaster,
the hustler of Philipbuster, the night Light Life. No, we
don't need any of that. Puddler of producers, Benny Brightside,
Manity of Insanity, Marconi Mallard, money Line Mallard Emissary of embellishment,
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Weeknight wind Bag, Wizard of Wacky, Slayer of Naysayers, Grant
Goober of gab, screw you, Bill Miller, Tower of Babel,
honest Adonist, nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue, and the
Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that is only
part of the nickname Rundown. And as for you, Carlos,
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my man, one of the few good guys in Houston,
a wretched place where they supported cheaters back in the day.
And the Astros, though I haven't had to worry about them,
the cheating Astros in a while, not on my radar
right now now they are not anyway moving here. By
the way, remember last Weekend's mail bag, a listener asked
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about that drop. You got to be kidding me, yes,
and that Eddie and myself would play whenever you did
those stupid nicknames. Well I found that you have got
to be kidding me. A ha, it's from your boy,
Hawk Harrelson. Hawk Harrelson, Yeah, the White Sox he retired,
the old White Sox Hall of Fame broadcaster Hawk Carrolson.
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I've met him a few times that you know. They
called him the Hawk. He used to play for the
White Sox and they called him the Hawk because his
nose is like a beak of a hawk. His name. Well,
I have that drop now, So anytime you try to
pull that, I'm gonna keep playing that drop on you,
all right, And you can go ahead and knock yourself
out there, big guy, I'm I'm prepared. You have got
to be kidding me. I also, finally, and it took
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two weeks, I found the Negros drop. No, no, yes,
don't do that. Tried to hide it. Somebody tried to
hide it in the computer system. It says do not play. Well,
I think we know why that is on the do
not playlist, But all those negroes look the same. Why
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wouldn't you just delete it? Right? Like? What is the
mindset of do not play? Why not just click the
delete button? Probably we need it for evidence when the
FCC files they're complaint. Yeah, I can't wait for that.
I mean, I'll be so excited for that. All right,
Let's see what do we have here? Is? Yes, we do.
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Next email comes in from Tammy in Montana. I guess
I can. I cleaned I cleaned this word up the
last time. But we're on the podcast, so I could
say I could say this word, right, I can anything
kind of goes on the podcast right now for the
most part. Uh, this is from Tammy and Montana. Very polite,
very charming woman, the patron saint, the mother Teresa of
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the Malars. She she always looks out for some of
our more interesting characters on the show. They're a little
down on their luck and Tammy and Montana right since
he says the podcast is great as it has been
from inception, from the point of inception. Helen, Now this
is Helen and Stu. These two, Helen and Stu, very controversial,
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these two in Florida. So Helen wrote a nasty message
last I think it was last week about Tammy and Montana.
So now Tammy is giving her rebuttal and this really
is like a heavyweight boxing match. It is absolutely like that.
So I'm gonna read this verbatim and I'm not going
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to clean it up because we read what Helen said,
and I will read now what the rebuttal from Tammy
and Montana. So says Benny Danny g the podcast is great.
Helen is another Karen. She is a canude out jealous,
is what it's says here her anger comes from having
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dildo denial. I've never heard that one, Danny, have you
ever heard that one? I don't know. I've never heard that.
Will you be adding? Danny, will be adding bleeps to this?
Are you? And when we play this back? Are we gonna?
I think what I'm gonna do is bleep it? But
you could still tell what the word? That's the way.
That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, that's uh.
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I used to listen my favorite radio show and as
a kid, the Jim Healy Show, and that's what he
would do. He would play like the Lee Elia drop,
but just put the bleep in. It's just a little late.
So it was like this and I was like, yeah, yeah,
you can still hear the and the but yeah, you
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get a little bleep. In one of the reviews I read,
the listener said he liked it better when it was
like that rather than just hearing us curse. So once
in a while, if you or I drop an F bomb,
I'll do the Healy trick on it. Yeah, and I'm
fine with that. I'm five. If you want to bleep
what I say, you know, I say, for example, let's
do this right now, let's do a test reading skills. Uh,
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what are the seven deadly words? Cop? Sucker? I think
those are some of the deadly words, and so I
just said them, but you you won't actually hear them.
Can you say asshole? Uh? You can say ass and
you can say whole. You gotta pause for one second.
You have to say as one as a whole like that,
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because God forbid you know, you just say asshole? Got it?
You can't. You can't. You can't say somebody was taking
a ship because that's a bodily function. You can't say
I went outside and took a bit because the bodily function. Yeah,
who decided that we can't hear bodily functions? Somebody that
wanted to be able to eat their lunch while they
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listen to the radio without getting an upset stomach. I guess.
Remember Carlin did the famous bit to seven deadly words,
and it's actually it's like more than seven because it's
a lot of phrases. Right, there's a lot of phrases.
You can't. You can't say I think he parodied that.
Wasn't Carlin took that off the seven deadly sins? Right,
wasn't that is. Yes, it was like a parody. And
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of course those were all famously read to Howard Stern
in his movie Oh Yes, Yes. Well, we had another
reference to the podcast on Friday, but we had Farrell
on who worked for Howard Stern. He told some some
interesting stories about Howard who would show up the parties
for like ten minutes of these massive galla parties and
and then he would, you know, show up for ten
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minutes to have a drink and then leave and and
like where'd you go? And and that. So I think
he's I think I'm wired the same way, because that's
how I would want to do that. I'd be like,
oh right, everyone have a great time. It's and I'll
get out of it. That's gonna be the Ben Mallards
super Bowl party in Glendale, Arizona. Yeah, we're gonna be
there early. So allright, have I have in front of me? Now,
Danny to the magic of the Internet. The seven Deadly words,
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as were written by Carlin in n So It's a
pitch fuck cocker. Tits those are the those are the
magic words. According to Yeah, I guess if somebody said tits,
what about what Mike North used to say? He used
to say, orioles. Yeah, I would be running I'd be
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running the board on daybreak and we're talking about his
neighbor True Story on the Area's Live and he's like
my neighbor, he's a nice fello for an oriental well
the studio or like what did he just say? Oh
my god? Yeah, for sure and it's you. I love
my We've had Mike on the podcast, but Mike's from
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the old school, right, and we've all we we guys
around our age. We've all had the uncomfortable uncle or
grandpa who just doesn't give a sh and uh and
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You know it's and you're You're sitting in a restaurant,
and you know not that I'm the word police, but
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I I don't want to make people feel uncomfortable, But
I have no control over what my relatives say. And
there's a there's many different ways to say certain ethnicities
that the some are acceptable on applied society and others
are not. And you never know. I was at a
part of this guy was not related to me, but
this guy Vinny who showed up to the Christmas party.
(23:58):
I got COVID at the Christmas Eve party and that
guy was Oh my god, he was like he was
like from that Benny Hill show, not been he was
the Archie Griffin. Was that the one in the family? Yeah, exactly.
It was like that old sitcom from Archie Bunker. I said,
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I say, Archie Griffin the cartoon. Hell was that? Where
the hell did that come from? I was that in
my head? Insane? You know you're right. Though our famous
dropped the computer the CPU voice that we've used for years,
I wish I could have a speaker connected to my
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belt and be able to play that racist drop on
some of these older folks. Oh, it's that is the
most I would say, the most popular drop that's regularly used.
People love that, they love it. But what I've noticed
Danny over the years with with you and then Roberto
playing the drop is they love it when it's out
of context, When when you're not saying anything remotely racist,
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and you play that, that gets the biggest laugh. I
love to play it whenever you would say, like imagine
the coach riding out on the white board, it's gonna
be black Friday. Anytime sounds like it could be racist,
but it's definitely not. That's when you play that. Drop. Yeah.
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And the funny thing about that is when you started
doing that on the show, that was just a funny.
But now we're in society now it's kind of like
that where everything is racist, Like you know, you can't
do anything. It's all racist, which is fascinating that we
did that as a cheesy bit on the radio. And
now society and I say society, I think there is
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social media society and decorum and then there's like real
world society. I don't think the two of them aligned.
You know, it's I often talk about it being the matrix.
But anyway, that is a we got carried well. I
don't think I finish reading the email from Tammy and Montana.
She's probably like, what the hell you stopped at dildo denial?
What's wrong with you? Email continues she says, if she
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wasn't talking about Helen, if she wasn't such a bragging, negative, narcissistic,
cold hearted prude, people would like her, and Stu may
want to bend her over Wow, a position that he
doesn't have to look at her hideous face. Hideous Helen
hides behind her keyboard. Usually people that bragg are notorious
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for being liars. Tammy and Montana says, anytime she wants
to do a verbal octagon on the show, I will
take the night off from work, and she signs it
Tammy and Montana, Let's go bitch Wow. I would like
to get all these folks together in the same room,
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Serve him some Kirkland brand alcohol, give him some Benny
the bobble heads that we're gonna have made from our
promotions department, and have them seeing some Kumbayas together Ben
and see if we could change the world. They get
very fired up. It's it's just a dopey weekend podcast.
You don't need to get all worked up. Oh my god,
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the hell? And Tammy she is amazing because Tammy is
like the sweetest woman. She helps out all these people,
but then she turns into this like raging insane, angry.
I am going to take down the world woman. That's
a wild, wild wild right. Moving on, I got mail, yea,
(27:36):
I got mail, yea. It's not that exciting. Pierre from Springfield,
home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you
can see Muffin McGraw and shrine there, says some hot
radio talk for you, Ben. How often do you record
commercials between breaks? And is this why your extra salty?
On some days you mentioned that you don't like to
(27:58):
talk during the breaks, and I were not long ago
you had a tough time recording a spot in the
allotted time, only to have Coop tell you it didn't
matter because it was for the podcast. Yes, Pierre, I
record usually once every couple of weeks. We'll have a
recording session that's typically during the show. Sometimes I have
(28:18):
to do it after the show, which I don't like.
And it's a network radio show, so the commercials have
to be either thirty or sixty seconds, depending on how
much the advertiser pays for and uh they typically give
you about two minutes a copy, about two minutes of
copy to get a thirty second commercial. And I'm not
a fast I'm not a fast reader. So it becomes problematic.
(28:43):
And I like to put my own touch on the commercials.
I like to add things that aren't in the copy,
which sometimes I get in trouble usually when I do that,
but I I feel like it. You know, maybe it's
just me, but I feel like that makes it more
enjoyable for the listener and for the advertiser that you
personalize the commercial. But not everyone wants the commercial personalized.
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I turned in one of your commercials one time and
sales kicked it back to me and they're like, we
don't want Ben to say his name and that commercial.
I was told by a guy when I first got
in the business, and this guy had made a lot
of money as an older guy. He's not in the
business anymore. He told me said, man, you know they're
gonna have you do these commercials, and sometimes they're not
gonna pay you for these commercials. So you take advantage
(29:28):
of this. Every time they give you a commercial, you
put your name on that. That way you are promoting
your brand. You're not getting paid, so the only money
you're getting is your promotion for your name, and make
sure your name is in there. So every time some listener,
here's that commercial, they put your name in there, and
that way, while you're not getting paid money, you're getting
paid with promotion. You're promoting your brand. And so I've
(29:50):
always done that. I've always thrown my name in either
the first name or the last name, and I've always
I will continue to do it, and if anybody doesn't
want me to do that, then you can pay me
a ton of money and then I will not put
my name in them like that. I'm gonna steal that.
That's how I do it. Danny and I was Mercedes Benz,
(30:12):
but that wasn't weird. They're gonna love that. Yeah, that
was an id one, but that answers that. Pierre Also,
he says, ps, since you often spin your roll the
decks of the FSR Alumni Association, is there any chance
of getting k K on the Friday podcast someday the
Great Karen k Uh? Yeah, you know, I've tried. I've
(30:33):
tried to get caring on a few times, but our
schedules haven't worked out. But now just and this was
years ago, but now that I do the most of
the recording in my home studio, I can record anytime
she's available, So which has got to be annoying to
her because there's no way for her to get out
of this because I can say when whenever you're available,
I'll record it, and she wanted to do it. She
loves the fans of the show, and she says I
(30:56):
talked to car In a while back and she said
she's still getting messages on Twitter and Facebook from fans
of the show remember the old days, And so I'm
gonna added to my list right here. Brian Billick Karen Ki, Yes, uh,
we were the only show that has been turned down
by Brian bill Like multiple times. Brian Billy, Brian Billick.
(31:17):
I'd like to talk to Brian, but I don't want
to beg to talk to Brian alright, moving that's the
playoffs drop Voice instead of Playoffs fifth Hour. There's nothing
better as a guy doing a podcast or you, Danny
who's you're doing the show and producing the podcast, from
getting an email on a Saturday saying we're excited to
(31:39):
do the interview campra do it, and then on a
Monday you ask a follow up question and no response.
On a Tuesday you send an email and they say,
oh no, I'm not We're not doing that. Yeah, They're
like no, we'll let you know a future date. You
just told me you look forward to joining the podcast
this week. Yeah, and uh and no. Only when that happens.
(32:01):
That's a sign that you don't need to book anyone else.
That's a sign you've booked a guest. Your job is
done right, you've done your job. You've got your guest
for the podcast, and you're ready to move on. When
someone says, yes, I do a victory lap and you're right,
it's like a load of bricks has been lifted off
my shoulders. See this Billick email saying we're good for
(32:22):
next week, excited to join the podcast, and I'm like, yes,
I do the Tiger Woods fish bump. Sure, and then yeah,
you got to be kidding me. Then it turns out
you're you're you're visiting a place that that's the dark sign,
don't know the power side. I thought Michael Jordan's was
(32:43):
the big fish to get for an interview, but it
turns out it's Billick. Yeah, Brian Billick, of all people,
the the we've had bigger not the briend is not
a big name, but we've had bigger names on the podcast.
I've also noticed there's some snob with the podcast that
there's certain people that are they believe the podcast is
(33:06):
below them. But they'd come on the radio show like
they come on the Ben Maller Show if I booked
them as a guest. But the podcast they feel like
it's listen. I don't think they understand how many people
listen to this podcast. It's a very popular podcast. Like
most podcast Now I'm not you know, Danny there, there's
of the podcast no one's listening to. Not that we
have a Joe Rogan audience, we don't, but we have
(33:27):
a good loyal following and this podcast does as well,
and sometimes it does better than the radio show podcast
because it's only available on the podcast. You can't hear
this on terrestrial radio. You can only hear it on
the podcast. I literally think it's just the words. Sometimes
you did the seven words earlier. Yeah, addst not pussy
(33:48):
for p p for podcast, because I swear to God,
there'll be times where I stay away from using the
word past in my interview request because normally a yes
will come back following that because you say podcasts, and
in somebody's mind immediately they think of some dude in
his underwear with his balls hanging out in his garage
(34:12):
and most of the time that's true. All right, Kevin
in Kansas? Moving on here, we gotta get a speed
up the process here, Kevin and Kansas is dear Ben
and Danny g. You. You went from sidekick gust onto
Danny g Ben. I see a pattern here, besides the
obvious Doug GOTTLIEB What other d G sidekicks would you
(34:32):
like to work with down the road? Who's d d
G initials? Who are some other famous d G s.
Gottlie is the only one, but you mentioned him Kevin
in the email. I have to think famous d G s.
You're a d G Danny g Any Yeah, I can't
think of any others off the top of my head.
(34:53):
It's a brain twister, Kevin. How dare you? How dare
you would mess with our minds? Uh? Let's see who
is next on the mail bag? Come back, it's sign
for mail. Call. Scott from Northern Kentucky says a couple
of questions for you. In all your years around the Dodgers,
did you have an opportunity to have conversations with Vince Scully?
(35:16):
Did he ever swear? He says, I'll answer that first,
you have a couple more. But yes, I actually knew
casually Vince Scully. It's one of the cool things, the
coolest things I could say that I've accomplished, if it's
even an accomplishment. But I started out covering the Dodgers.
I was nineteen years old. I was I was a
green banana. That's awesome. And I really through my formative
(35:41):
years as a young adult in my twenties and thirties,
I pretty much spent five, six, seven nights a week
at Dodger Stadium in the press box, and I I
really I knew Ven a little bit, and I had
dinner with him a few times on the road, which
was awesome. And I'll never forget. One of the greatest
nights with In was at Chase Stadium, and this was
(36:02):
like the one of the last years. Vin didn't usually
make the road trips the last few years of his
career with the Dodgers, but he he would try to
go back to New York. He would make selective trips
because he grew up in New York, and he he'd
go back. And so we're having dinner and and and
then was regaling us with stories about when he was
a kid, and there was a a strike the trash
men in Manhattan, in New York went on strike, and
(36:25):
he told this story and I still remember the detail
the style that Ben told the story about how people
were so desperate when the sanitation workers in New York
went on strike to get rid of the trash. And
it was around Christmas time. And so back in those days,
they had these massive televisions, you know, those huge TVs,
the tube TVs, and so there were some people that
had tube TVs and what they were doing, at least
(36:47):
it happened at one time. Anyway, Ben remembers they would
get the big box that the TV came in, like
the wooden crate, and they'd fill it with trash and
then wrap it in wrapping paper and put a ball
on it. And so obviously the sanitation workers wouldn't take it,
but somebody would steal it, thinking it was a TV
or something like that, and so they'd have their trash
(37:07):
taking care of. Somebody would steal it and then been
told I never heard him curse. Um, you know, I have.
I have many Vince Scully stories. I don't know that
we want to get into that right now. We were
limited time but very nice man. And when he would
say hello Ben, and I was like, oh man, Because
as a little kid, I grew up watching Vin do
the Dodging. My mom was a huge n Scully fan.
So I was like, wow, man, that's all right. That's
(37:29):
like uh talking to the pulp, you know. I was like,
oh my god, the pulp knows your name. And I
was like, holy Cannoli. But anyway, you're not kidding. Man.
We had a little kid in southern California hearing his
voice on a transistor radio during the summer. Everyone shut
up and they listened. And he was a big part
of the soundtrack of Our Lives. Oh. Absolutely. I never
(37:51):
heard him curse. I did ask him one time. I'll
get more to this later, but I asked him if
he you know, I thought I was doing Dodger talk
after the game, so I thought Vin would be listening
on his way home, and I said, hey, Vin, you
know you, what are you doing after the game? What
do you listen to when you're driving back to the valley?
He said, classical music, Like class it's like Jojo on
(38:13):
the radio Kiss FM. Not you not you man, Yeah,
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we're live here outside the Perez family home, just waiting
for the And there they go, almost on time. This morning,
Mom is coming out the front door, strong with a
double arm kid carry looks like Dad has the bags.
Daughter is bringing up the rear. Oh, but the diaper
bag wasn't closed. Diapers and toys are everywhere. Oh, but
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mom has just nailed the perfect car seat buckle for
the toddler. And now the eldest daughter, who looks to
be about nine or ten, has secured herself in the
booster seat. Dad zips the bag clothes and they're off. Ah,
but looks like Mom doesn't realize her coffee cup is
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(40:23):
are you do you ever see yourself going back into
the studio full time? Here's another question about that. Are
you going Howard stirred on us and hiding away? Uh? Yeah, No,
I will go back to the studio occasionally. I don't
think I'll ever go back. I mean, I spent a
lot of money building the studio out here, so I
feel like it would be a total waste of my
(40:43):
money to then not use the studio, and I have
to use it for the podcast anyway because the schedules. Ah,
I will go in. I'm excited to see what the
new studios look like. We're building in Burbank, right where
they used to do the Tonight Show, right across the
street from where Johnny Carson did the Night Show in
Burbank back in the day, and Jay Leno and those guys.
So I'm excited to see that. And I'll go in occasionally.
And one of the one of the things that you
(41:03):
know this Danny from doing the overnight show. One of
the advantages if you're on during the days, you can play,
grab bass and schmooze with executives and salespeople. I have
none of that. I can schmooze if I go and
do the show. I you know, shoots with the guys
and all that, but I can also hang out with
the guys cleaning the toilet and cleaning. Not that those
are bad people. I probably probably talk to them, the
management people, but it's just not I'm not really getting
(41:24):
anything extra out of it by going in. Uh. And
then he asked a question about Helen and Stu. He says,
who the hell are Helen stew It was mildly funny
when they fought with Gascon, but the last email just
showed that they are mean and nasty people, probably the
old grumpy couple that go to dinner at three pm,
complain about everything and don't tip their sir. I have
(41:47):
a feeling they are lonely and bitter people whose families
don't even talk to them. Why shots fired from Scott
in Northern Kentucky. Tim from Augusta, Maine rights in and
again limited time? Uh, he says, Ben. Do you think
that this is the time you break out of Overnight's
number eighteen show? Showing great listener growth and seemed to
(42:11):
be promoted a lot more. Is it time for a promotion? Well?
That's enough to meet him, and I'm very happy during
the Overnight show, and I like it. I have a
good cult following, a good niche following. Not that I
don't think I could do a great job on a
morning show or an afternoon show and dominate and kick ass,
but it would be a much different show. And I
know from experience when I do these other shows and
(42:34):
I go out and I don't do the standard bull
crap that we do on the Overnight show. Uh yeah,
I get a lot of hey, what's wrong with you?
A selloutler? And I want to be called to sell it.
Scott Farrell told the story on the Friday Podcast. He
got hired by the Atlanta Thrashers. He sold out to
become an NHL play by play guy. He lasted one year.
(42:55):
They then had to pay him the rest of his
contract for like three year. As he said, he just
sat around, smoked weed, drank and got checks, uh from
the NHL team. That's kind of the dream, right, isn't
that that? I mean in some way, not that I
want to fail, but to have that kind of set up,
(43:16):
My my god. But you know, Tim, I don't. I
don't see anything in the horizon unless unless the company
gets cheap on me or something like that and I
have to go somewhere else. But other than that, I
see no evidence of that being the cases. They've been
very good to me. They've helped me pay my bills
for a long time, and uh and I think I've
provided them with marginal Overnight sports talk radio Emmett the
(43:39):
Blind Seahawk fan rights and that's hey, that's a kid.
You can't say that word around emmy, emm it's in
high school. How dare you? It's wrong with you again?
And I'll bleep it all right. You gotta bleep that here. Yeah,
there you go, all right. Mt the Blind Sea fan
Olympia says, what is the most awkward phone call you
guys have had to deal with on the radio? I
(44:01):
could write a book, Emmett on this. Two of them
to pop in my head right now. I had a
caller from Phoenix named Monty from Phoenix who was using
a different name. And then I was doing a show
over Thanksgiving weekend. And as I remember the story, which
is probably not actually what happened, but in my head
as I remember it, it it was like Thanksgiving. He starts,
(44:23):
he's clearly had something to drink, more than something. He's
passing the phone around, and then he has this big
admission that he's been living a lie, that he used
a fake name, he's not who he says he was,
and it was very bizarre and it was like out
of completely out of the twilight Zone. And then the
other famous call, I think you were with me on this?
(44:43):
I think you were with me, Danny, were you there
when we had the guy that had the heart attack
on the show? And Coop did not handle them very well?
Neither did I. Neither did I. My my my response
was the guys like he was talking about Chris Collinsworth
or something. As I remember, he was calling from Cincinnati,
(45:05):
Cardiac Stanley. We named him cardiac, yeah, cardiac sant. And
so he calls up and he was on hold for
a while, and he starts huffing and puffing, and he
wants to get his point in, and I forget exactly
what he said. It was something I having. I think
I'm having like a heart attack or something like that,
and so I was like, whoa. And it didn't sound
like he was having some kind of heart issue. His
(45:26):
arm went numb and he was breathing really crazy, and
he's like, I think I'm having a heart attack. Right now,
everybody was daring headlights. You didn't know what to do. Yeah,
you don't expect that. So I think I said, Coop,
it may put you on hold, Coop will take care
of it. We'll get you some help or something like that.
But I didn't know how to how to handle that
(45:47):
one that was a weird one. There was also there
was the guy that proposed to his his girlfriend proposed marriage.
I kept a guy on hold for a long time
because he wanted to talk about Duke, and I was like,
it was like Duke college basket. It wasn't really the
tournament time, so I thought, that's a terrible call. And
then I put him on eventually, and he was like
half he was like half sleeping and uh and and
(46:09):
it was so funny because he he had to wake
up the lady that he was proposing to for marriage,
the lovely woman, and then right after she said whatever
she said, I think she said, yes. They're now divorced.
He told me a couple of years ago. He wrote
me and said they got married, but they're divorced. But
he he hey, can I still talk about Duke? Was
that was that? We used that as a drop. I
(46:30):
think that the show for a while. It was. It
was very funny. Who is next year? He's amazing? Amazing
questions one is better than the next. It's signed from
call all Right, Hill Billy, Mike and Richmond. Virginia says, uh,
let's see this one's for Danny g First the butt
kissing it sucked when you left Ben Show. Hill Billy
(46:52):
writes in you had a way of hitting the perfect
spot with a relevant drop. Uh and man, I sure
missed Genie's drops because of all all but one of
hers disappeared overnight. You never had a problem talking, smacked
a bend when you disagreed with his takes, and things
just flowed. And then he then he'll Billy take shots
(47:12):
at Roberto. He does not like the way that Roberto
plays the drops, and I'll skip over that, but he
I take some shots there at Roberto, and he says,
with you back in studio from time to time, is
there anyway you can share your drop wisdom? Danny g
with Roberto, and he says, because the drops are in
art form and while you are Picasso. He then says
(47:34):
that my guy Roberto is a finger painting shots fired
by hill Billy Mike. But there there is a there
is a technique, and I think Roberto is fine. I
think he does get up. Some days are better than others,
but that's how everything is. I have better days than others.
Some days I suck at radio, other days I'm okay,
and some days I'm pretty good. And that's just life.
In general, but that is it is the timing, especially
(47:55):
me because I I don't pause that often, so you
gotta really pick your spots. When I'm born vating, you
have to have a lot of windows open on the
computers in front of you. It's kind of like being
a gun slinger, Ben, because those are your bullets. You
gotta know exactly where every bullet is for every occasion
and then fire them at the perfect time. I got
(48:16):
a thing about dead bodies. I mean, it's far from easy. Hell,
even on post production of the podcast, it's not easy.
So shouts out to anybody that tries it and does
it on a regular basis. I give love to all
the tech producers that give it their best. I will
say that, you know, when I'm in there filling in,
(48:36):
it's filling in for Coupe. So my head spinning with
answering all the calls coming in from the Mallar militia,
putting together the podcast, putting together the games and the
features that go on during the live show. So there's
so much going on in the producer chair, there's no
way in hell I could lean over and tell Roberto, hey,
(48:57):
pull a couple of these drops. I want and help Mike.
I mean, come on, but I promise you some of
the drops you miss, especially from back in the day,
I will definitely insert into the Fifth Hour podcasts. You
pay me five dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine. Yeah,
we're here to spread love. You were very special, yes,
(49:19):
and Roberto was really nice. Last week three or four
drops I had been looking for. He helped me find
and I was able to load them in and email
them to myself and get him into this weekend's podcast.
So your staff is great, dude, because anytime I asked
the Mallard staff for something, they are usually on top
of it. Might take a day or two because there's
(49:41):
some weed involved, but results happen and they're really nice
about it. Yeah. Yeah, he's got it. Put a lot
of work in and make everything sound good. Well, we've
got time for one more Ozzy Momentum from down says hey,
Ben and Danny Ge, have you guys ever been water
skiing or wakeboarding? It is a pastime here in Perth,
(50:02):
the part of Australia that Assy Momentum lives in. If so,
how did you go? He also says, Danny G can
you please set Ben right? And tell him that Cincinnati,
Ohio is not in the south, and only chumps think
so I love a guy that from Perth, Australia is
trying to teach me about American geography. How what is
(50:22):
wrong with you? What is wrong? You are? You are?
I don't think of since as the South. I do,
I do. I've been to the airport in Cincinnati, and
it's the Cincinnati Kentucky. It's in actually in Kentucky. I
think of Kentucky as the South. So I think of Cincinnati.
There's like the point of demarcation. You crossed the Rubicon
(50:44):
border though, that's right where the time changes. I feel
like I feel like that makes sense a different part
of the country now, it's it is the this I
believe it is in the south. I'm going south on that.
And I will travel at some point to Cincinnati of
meet people, shake hands, kiss babies and all that and
uh and we will have a country jamboree and sounds
(51:07):
like you're gonna count teeth while you're there and no comment.
So the water skiing and wakeboarding, none of that. I
love body boarding here in the Pacific Ocean. That's how
the cool. The bodyboards are fun. But I've never been
pulled by a boat. They go so fast and when
I see people fall, that doesn't look fun at all. Yeah,
(51:31):
you have to do a cost benefit analysis. Is it
worth it? Because they are, it doesn't get talked about.
There's a lot of people die every summer doing that
stuff on lakes and ponds and whatnot. And one thing
goes wrong. That water is like a brick wall and
it looks fine and all that, but you make a
(51:52):
couple of missteps and game over. You have not done
done too much water stuff. I like swimming in the pool,
going to the ocean and whatnot, but not done. Am I.
I'm not a Perth guy. I'd have to come visit
you Azzi momentum in Perth. You have to give me
the we can see some Ozzy rules football. We'll do
that and uh and go around. I think that's it.
(52:12):
That's all we have time for you. Thanks that John
Uh from Parts Unknown, Chris and Marrit Cocoa, Iowa. It
has been a big supporter of the podcast, Nick and
Wisconsin as well. Big fan. We didn't have time to
get your questions and a couple other people who I
did not I did not write your names down unfortunately,
but again, thank you for supporting the podcast. Give us
a review. We will read your review on a future episode,
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the Saturday episode of the podcast. And again thanks to
Scott Farrell. Thank you Danny for booking that and getting
a hold of Scott. And it was wild and crazy
and zany and if you're a fan of radio, dudes,
Scott the first like thirty minutes of that interview, the
first twenty minutes of that any rather, whoa, what is
going on here? This is like next level. I've known
(52:55):
Scott Farrell for years. I know he does crazy stuff
on the radio, but I'm like, whoa. It was bare
I barely said anything. It was just him. He was
bouncing off the walls. It was wild on fire. What
a great week of radio at Fox Sports and with
you and the shows you did. Just a fun, fun week,
good times, good time. I'll be back in the Magic
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especially those lazy kind of Sunday afternoons, and Baseball's got
this labor crew fluffle thing, so who knows when they'll
(02:40):
be baseball again on a regular basis during the regular season,
So that's not waste any time. I want to get
right to the mail bag, and so into it we go. Bag.
Thanks so Everyboddy ohio al who sent that little ditty
(03:02):
in a while back, and we play that every mail bag.
That is the official beginning to the mail bag. If
you like the podcast, you want to support us, you
can always give a review. We talked about that on
the Saturday podcast. We thank you for that. But also
if you want to add content on the show, here
and help us out and send a question in. If
there's something you you're curious about, or you just want
to hear your name right on the radio because you
(03:23):
want to ask a question, that's fine as well. You
can send it in. Questions and comments are welcome in
the mail bag. I normally post on Tuesday early in
the day on the Facebook page and then I'll pin
it to the top of the page. Ben Maller's Show
is the official work Facebook page that we use for
the show, and then we also have the email you
(03:44):
can contact me Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
It's f I F T H. Spell out fifth Real
fifth hour at gmail dot com. And you can also
send questions to Danny on Twitter. Uh is Danny G
Radio on Twitter? And to me um send it me
on Twitter. I get I don't want them to email me,
send me an email or post a message on the
(04:07):
Facebook page. So the email getting right into it. Do
you have your hazmat suit on? Danny? Are you prepared
for the for the email? What we're about to get here? Ready? Freddy? Alright,
so here we've got yes, we do. Jennifer from our Richmond, Virginia,
our friend Jennifer Wright since its hey, Ben and Danny G.
Have you ever been grocery shopping but in the middle
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of it, for any reason, you decided you were done
over over it and you just want to leave whatever
didn't make it into the car. You justify how you
don't really need it anyway and you'll get it later,
or you grab just the priorities and rushed to check out.
And I'm not talking about the holiday season, just a
normal day or am I the only weirdo that does that?
(04:53):
Sometimes against Jennifer, our friend from Richmond, Virginia. I've never
done that one, Jennifer. I am a meticul lists grocery shopper.
I go on. I'm a man on a mission when
I go on and I want to get it. I
do want to get out of the grocery store as
quickly as possible. But I normally go at off hours
because of the overnight schedule that I have, and I'll
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go at some really weird times. The stores around where
I live are not open twenty four hours, but I
will go right when they open or just before closing time.
And I usually do a big shopping trip to Costco
me and the wife on the weekends. But during the
week you know, there's always like random stuff you need
(05:34):
from time to time, and so I'll just go in quick.
But I've never walked out before my mission was done.
It's like running the New York Marathon and then getting
to the thirteen mile mark and saying, we're good, We're good.
What about your Danny you I've never abandoned ship at
a grocery store, but inside a store like Target. And
I think I learned this from my mom. You know,
(05:56):
there's all the internet jokes all the time about it.
Into Target for one thing and walked out with two
hundred dollars worth of crap. I didn't. Well. She would
go into Target, spend hours shopping, and then before she
got to check out, she would, you know, start deducing,
do I really need this? I really need that? No,
(06:19):
and she'd start putting things back. By the time she
checked out, half the cart was emptied. Yeah. So she
she goes in, she gets everything she thinks she needs,
and then she's like, all right, let me do a
cost benefit analysis here and she'll fin the her She's like,
I don't need that, you know, I don't I want
to do with that, you know? And probably I mean
(06:40):
smart for your budget, but not a good way to
use time. Probably, No. And and they have done social experiments.
The people that run these big stores like Target, Costco
and Gross just regularly big grocery stores. They know exactly
where to place items to get your attention when you're
walking through the store. Are and and they've they've studied
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it's like an art. If you show an ite I'M
a certain amount of times in the store, the person
is more likely to buy it. And you have it
at eye level. There's certainly it's crazy how much effort
goes into that, and then we're just dumb consumers were
walking through like, oh, oh wait a minute, here, Costco
wants me to buy that blender. I don't really need
a blender, but it looks really good. Look at all
(07:23):
the smoothies I can make if I had that blender. Well,
I've read books. I'm a big fan of infomercials because
in a late night I fell asleep. That's what I'm
competing against. And I remember when I was younger, I
read a book about infomercials and they they also they're
even better than the big box stores because they have
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just a ten fifteen minute paid segment uh to sell
their product, and and all the little mind hacks of
you know, ratcheting up the drama limited supply. You know,
you don't want to miss out, and we're all wired like, oh,
we don't want to miss out fomo right, fear of
missing out. You don't want to miss out on the
car wax. You can light on fire because your life
(08:06):
will not be complete. You'll you'll go into the grave.
You'll be like, oh, if only I had that, my
life would be better. Anyway, we'll keep it going here,
what do we have a right Jason and Rocky Mount,
Virginia says, Hey, guys, love the Danny G Radio edition.
Much better and cooler than gas Can all those shot
at Gascon. Uh, was what I want to know. He's
(08:27):
I've asked this before, so I guess this is really
for Danny G. Have you ever been hunting or fishing?
If so, give me the details. Love the podcast as
always the great Jason Rocky Mount, who is one of
the hat benefactors. He sent me a very nice hat
back back in the day. It was last year. Danny,
(08:48):
You ever been hunting, fishing, any of that? Yeah? Actually
I have. When I was a little kid, my uncle
took me up into the woods in San Bernardino County.
Believe it or not, there is some wilderness and up
in that area, and he would go deer hunting. He
also had a bow and arrow, like one of those
pro bows, and he would take us up there and
(09:09):
let us shoot the bow and arrow, which I thought
was cool. I have never done that since, but my
dad fishes. In fact, he has invited me and my
older brother for the second year in a row to
a bass lake fishing derby where they tag some smallmouth bass.
(09:30):
They put like a ten thousand dollar tag on a
few of the fish that they throw in the lake.
A fifty thousand dollar fishes in there, and then like
a hundred one dollar fish supposedly our tagged. Our joke is,
how do we know that they really did what they
say they did? Well, exactly right, said finding a needle
in a haystack or a you have a bass in
(09:52):
the middle of a pond. Look, it was really funny
because on last year's boat, we're fishing, we're getting nothing.
We saw an eagle, which amazed us, but was even
more amazing he swooped down and grabbed a bass out
of the way and look off and as everyone in
our boat is watching in amazement, just deadpand I said, well,
(10:16):
there goes the fifty fish. Is that's outstanding? That is
out Yeah. I've only been fishing a couple of random
times and it was one of those deals. It's like,
need to laugh. Yeah, it was city slickers. I didn't
know what the hell I was doing. I was out there,
it was a disaster and didn't catch it. Damn thing.
(10:38):
I've never been hunting. I've never done that. So maybe
at some point along the way. I'm not against it.
I mean I feel like I would be uh much
more testosterone danny if I went hunting. That's a you know,
I live. I live a life like everyone else. If
I want a piece of meat, I go to the
grocery store and they have anything I need, burgers, steak, whatever.
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But to actually have to to get it and to
chop it up and all that, that's that's old school.
These years later, I want that bow. That uncle is
still alive. I hope he leaves his bow and arrows
to me and his will. You might be the beneficiary
down the line, Barry and Nashville says Yo yo mob Benny.
(11:23):
What's the biggest challenge you face when you sit in
for a different radio host show. Well, we addressed this
a little bit yesterday, Barry. But the simple answer is
to not funk up. That's the that's the simple answer.
But for me, you know, typically it is adjusting my
sleep schedule. And I mentioned that I'm still all kind
of wonky. Everything's backwards. It's gonna take a couple more
(11:47):
days here for that to turn around. But that and
also just you have to when when your house sitting,
you have to act a certain way, and so that's
always a challenge. I'm actually on the live are and
there's a little more pressure when you're on during the
day because the big corporate muckety MUCKs are listening, and
they're not usually listening to me overnight. So it's a
(12:07):
it's a hole, different worlds uncharted waters is what it
is when you're doing stuff at different times. But it's nice,
rare and appropriate, Dan, That's what I was at. Rare
and appropriate unless there is a gigantic check associated with it,
and then then we're good on that. Otherwise, I'm good
(12:27):
at my little, my little cubicle off to the side here.
I'm good with that ringing every once in a while, like,
oh my god, hold on to sec here. Now, this
is a this is a take that will work at
two in the morning, But will this work with the
business crowd. You know, I could say this at two
in the morning and I get around of applause, But
(12:51):
during the day I might get that. You know, I
don't want that. So I am Carlos you when your
sip was floating through the night, it's called the safe harbor. Yes,
so I am the captain of the safe heart. Got
mail yea, I got mail, yea. Carlos in Houston write sences,
I absolutely love when you guys talk about the behind
(13:12):
the scenes stuff. And he then says, I think that
see r CE you next Tuesday. Old hag from Florida
should get in the verbal octagon with Tammy in Montana.
And uh, and then Carlos says, uh, he wants to
annoy Danny G. You know what he wants to annoy
Danny G with? What do you think Carlos wants to
(13:33):
annoy you with? No? Not the nicknames. Yes, he says, sorry, Danny,
I would like a nickname Rundown. So as we say,
and on the podcast, and and goes the listeners always right, Danny.
So I am known as Carlos, you're aware of this.
I'm known as the Baron of bad Dash, big gall Bladder.
Then it's the Menace, Captain knee Jerk, the general of Degenerates,
(13:57):
the ty coon of tea is the master of Disaster,
the hustler of Philipbuster, the night Light Life. No, we
don't need any of that. Puddler of producers, Benny Brightside,
Manity of Insanity, Marconi Mallard, money Line Mallard Emissary of embellishment,
(14:19):
Weeknight wind Bag, Wizard of Wacky, Slayer of Naysayers, Grant
Goober of gab, screw you, Bill Miller, Tower of Babel,
honest Adonist, nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue, and the
Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that is only
part of the nickname Rundown. And as for you, Carlos,
(14:42):
my man, one of the few good guys in Houston,
a wretched place where they supported cheaters back in the day.
And the Astros, though I haven't had to worry about them,
the cheating Astros in a while, not on my radar
right now now they are not anyway moving here. By
the way, remember last Weekend's mail bag, a listener asked
(15:04):
about that drop. You got to be kidding me, yes,
and that Eddie and myself would play whenever you did
those stupid nicknames. Well I found that you have got
to be kidding me. A ha, it's from your boy,
Hawk Harrelson. Hawk Harrelson, Yeah, the White Sox he retired,
the old White Sox Hall of Fame broadcaster Hawk Carrolson.
(15:26):
I've met him a few times that you know. They
called him the Hawk. He used to play for the
White Sox and they called him the Hawk because his
nose is like a beak of a hawk. His name. Well,
I have that drop now, So anytime you try to
pull that, I'm gonna keep playing that drop on you,
all right, And you can go ahead and knock yourself
out there, big guy, I'm I'm prepared. You have got
to be kidding me. I also, finally, and it took
(15:50):
two weeks, I found the Negros drop. No, no, yes,
don't do that. Tried to hide it. Somebody tried to
hide it in the computer system. It says do not play. Well,
I think we know why that is on the do
not playlist, But all those negroes look the same. Why
(16:12):
wouldn't you just delete it? Right? Like? What is the
mindset of do not play? Why not just click the
delete button? Probably we need it for evidence when the
FCC files they're complaint. Yeah, I can't wait for that.
I mean, I'll be so excited for that. All right,
Let's see what do we have here? Is? Yes, we do.
(16:34):
Next email comes in from Tammy in Montana. I guess
I can. I cleaned I cleaned this word up the
last time. But we're on the podcast, so I could
say I could say this word, right, I can anything
kind of goes on the podcast right now for the
most part. Uh, this is from Tammy and Montana. Very polite,
very charming woman, the patron saint, the mother Teresa of
(16:57):
the Malars. She she always looks out for some of
our more interesting characters on the show. They're a little
down on their luck and Tammy and Montana right since
he says the podcast is great as it has been
from inception, from the point of inception. Helen, Now this
is Helen and Stu. These two, Helen and Stu, very controversial,
(17:18):
these two in Florida. So Helen wrote a nasty message
last I think it was last week about Tammy and Montana.
So now Tammy is giving her rebuttal and this really
is like a heavyweight boxing match. It is absolutely like that.
So I'm gonna read this verbatim and I'm not going
(17:39):
to clean it up because we read what Helen said,
and I will read now what the rebuttal from Tammy
and Montana. So says Benny Danny g the podcast is great.
Helen is another Karen. She is a canude out jealous,
is what it's says here her anger comes from having
(18:04):
dildo denial. I've never heard that one, Danny, have you
ever heard that one? I don't know. I've never heard that.
Will you be adding? Danny, will be adding bleeps to this?
Are you? And when we play this back? Are we gonna?
I think what I'm gonna do is bleep it? But
you could still tell what the word? That's the way.
That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, that's uh.
(18:25):
I used to listen my favorite radio show and as
a kid, the Jim Healy Show, and that's what he
would do. He would play like the Lee Elia drop,
but just put the bleep in. It's just a little late.
So it was like this and I was like, yeah, yeah,
you can still hear the and the but yeah, you
(18:46):
get a little bleep. In one of the reviews I read,
the listener said he liked it better when it was
like that rather than just hearing us curse. So once
in a while, if you or I drop an F bomb,
I'll do the Healy trick on it. Yeah, and I'm
fine with that. I'm five. If you want to bleep
what I say, you know, I say, for example, let's
do this right now, let's do a test reading skills. Uh,
(19:09):
what are the seven deadly words? Cop? Sucker? I think
those are some of the deadly words, and so I
just said them, but you you won't actually hear them.
Can you say asshole? Uh? You can say ass and
you can say whole. You gotta pause for one second.
You have to say as one as a whole like that,
(19:30):
because God forbid you know, you just say asshole? Got it?
You can't. You can't. You can't say somebody was taking
a ship because that's a bodily function. You can't say
I went outside and took a bit because the bodily function. Yeah,
who decided that we can't hear bodily functions? Somebody that
wanted to be able to eat their lunch while they
(19:51):
listen to the radio without getting an upset stomach. I guess.
Remember Carlin did the famous bit to seven deadly words,
and it's actually it's like more than seven because it's
a lot of phrases. Right, there's a lot of phrases.
You can't. You can't say I think he parodied that.
Wasn't Carlin took that off the seven deadly sins? Right,
wasn't that is. Yes, it was like a parody. And
(20:13):
of course those were all famously read to Howard Stern
in his movie Oh Yes, Yes. Well, we had another
reference to the podcast on Friday, but we had Farrell
on who worked for Howard Stern. He told some some
interesting stories about Howard who would show up the parties
for like ten minutes of these massive galla parties and
and then he would, you know, show up for ten
(20:36):
minutes to have a drink and then leave and and
like where'd you go? And and that. So I think
he's I think I'm wired the same way, because that's
how I would want to do that. I'd be like,
oh right, everyone have a great time. It's and I'll
get out of it. That's gonna be the Ben Mallards
super Bowl party in Glendale, Arizona. Yeah, we're gonna be
there early. So allright, have I have in front of me? Now,
Danny to the magic of the Internet. The seven Deadly words,
(20:59):
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magic words. According to Yeah, I guess if somebody said tits,
what about what Mike North used to say? He used
to say, orioles. Yeah, I would be running I'd be
(21:23):
running the board on daybreak and we're talking about his
neighbor True Story on the Area's Live and he's like
my neighbor, he's a nice fello for an oriental well
the studio or like what did he just say? Oh
my god? Yeah, for sure and it's you. I love
my We've had Mike on the podcast, but Mike's from
(21:43):
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You know it's and you're You're sitting in a restaurant,
and you know not that I'm the word police, but
(23:36):
I I don't want to make people feel uncomfortable, But
I have no control over what my relatives say. And
there's a there's many different ways to say certain ethnicities
that the some are acceptable on applied society and others
are not. And you never know. I was at a
part of this guy was not related to me, but
this guy Vinny who showed up to the Christmas party.
(23:58):
I got COVID at the Christmas Eve party and that
guy was Oh my god, he was like he was
like from that Benny Hill show, not been he was
the Archie Griffin. Was that the one in the family? Yeah, exactly.
It was like that old sitcom from Archie Bunker. I said,
(24:18):
I say, Archie Griffin the cartoon. Hell was that? Where
the hell did that come from? I was that in
my head? Insane? You know you're right. Though our famous
dropped the computer the CPU voice that we've used for years,
I wish I could have a speaker connected to my
(24:40):
belt and be able to play that racist drop on
some of these older folks. Oh, it's that is the
most I would say, the most popular drop that's regularly used.
People love that, they love it. But what I've noticed
Danny over the years with with you and then Roberto
playing the drop is they love it when it's out
of context, When when you're not saying anything remotely racist,
(25:04):
and you play that, that gets the biggest laugh. I
love to play it whenever you would say, like imagine
the coach riding out on the white board, it's gonna
be black Friday. Anytime sounds like it could be racist,
but it's definitely not. That's when you play that. Drop. Yeah.
(25:25):
And the funny thing about that is when you started
doing that on the show, that was just a funny.
But now we're in society now it's kind of like
that where everything is racist, Like you know, you can't
do anything. It's all racist, which is fascinating that we
did that as a cheesy bit on the radio. And
now society and I say society, I think there is
(25:46):
social media society and decorum and then there's like real
world society. I don't think the two of them aligned.
You know, it's I often talk about it being the matrix.
But anyway, that is a we got carried well. I
don't think I finish reading the email from Tammy and Montana.
She's probably like, what the hell you stopped at dildo denial?
What's wrong with you? Email continues she says, if she
(26:08):
wasn't talking about Helen, if she wasn't such a bragging, negative, narcissistic,
cold hearted prude, people would like her, and Stu may
want to bend her over Wow, a position that he
doesn't have to look at her hideous face. Hideous Helen
hides behind her keyboard. Usually people that bragg are notorious
(26:30):
for being liars. Tammy and Montana says, anytime she wants
to do a verbal octagon on the show, I will
take the night off from work, and she signs it
Tammy and Montana, Let's go bitch Wow. I would like
to get all these folks together in the same room,
(26:50):
Serve him some Kirkland brand alcohol, give him some Benny
the bobble heads that we're gonna have made from our
promotions department, and have them seeing some Kumbayas together Ben
and see if we could change the world. They get
very fired up. It's it's just a dopey weekend podcast.
You don't need to get all worked up. Oh my god,
(27:14):
the hell? And Tammy she is amazing because Tammy is
like the sweetest woman. She helps out all these people,
but then she turns into this like raging insane, angry.
I am going to take down the world woman. That's
a wild, wild wild right. Moving on, I got mail, yea,
(27:36):
I got mail, yea. It's not that exciting. Pierre from Springfield,
home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you
can see Muffin McGraw and shrine there, says some hot
radio talk for you, Ben. How often do you record
commercials between breaks? And is this why your extra salty?
On some days you mentioned that you don't like to
(27:58):
talk during the breaks, and I were not long ago
you had a tough time recording a spot in the
allotted time, only to have Coop tell you it didn't
matter because it was for the podcast. Yes, Pierre, I
record usually once every couple of weeks. We'll have a
recording session that's typically during the show. Sometimes I have
(28:18):
to do it after the show, which I don't like.
And it's a network radio show, so the commercials have
to be either thirty or sixty seconds, depending on how
much the advertiser pays for and uh they typically give
you about two minutes a copy, about two minutes of
copy to get a thirty second commercial. And I'm not
a fast I'm not a fast reader. So it becomes problematic.
(28:43):
And I like to put my own touch on the commercials.
I like to add things that aren't in the copy,
which sometimes I get in trouble usually when I do that,
but I I feel like it. You know, maybe it's
just me, but I feel like that makes it more
enjoyable for the listener and for the advertiser that you
personalize the commercial. But not everyone wants the commercial personalized.
(29:06):
I turned in one of your commercials one time and
sales kicked it back to me and they're like, we
don't want Ben to say his name and that commercial.
I was told by a guy when I first got
in the business, and this guy had made a lot
of money as an older guy. He's not in the
business anymore. He told me said, man, you know they're
gonna have you do these commercials, and sometimes they're not
gonna pay you for these commercials. So you take advantage
(29:28):
of this. Every time they give you a commercial, you
put your name on that. That way you are promoting
your brand. You're not getting paid, so the only money
you're getting is your promotion for your name, and make
sure your name is in there. So every time some listener,
here's that commercial, they put your name in there, and
that way, while you're not getting paid money, you're getting
paid with promotion. You're promoting your brand. And so I've
(29:50):
always done that. I've always thrown my name in either
the first name or the last name, and I've always
I will continue to do it, and if anybody doesn't
want me to do that, then you can pay me
a ton of money and then I will not put
my name in them like that. I'm gonna steal that.
That's how I do it. Danny and I was Mercedes Benz,
(30:12):
but that wasn't weird. They're gonna love that. Yeah, that
was an id one, but that answers that. Pierre Also,
he says, ps, since you often spin your roll the
decks of the FSR Alumni Association, is there any chance
of getting k K on the Friday podcast someday the
Great Karen k Uh? Yeah, you know, I've tried. I've
(30:33):
tried to get caring on a few times, but our
schedules haven't worked out. But now just and this was
years ago, but now that I do the most of
the recording in my home studio, I can record anytime
she's available, So which has got to be annoying to
her because there's no way for her to get out
of this because I can say when whenever you're available,
I'll record it, and she wanted to do it. She
loves the fans of the show, and she says I
(30:56):
talked to car In a while back and she said
she's still getting messages on Twitter and Facebook from fans
of the show remember the old days, And so I'm
gonna added to my list right here. Brian Billick Karen Ki, Yes, uh,
we were the only show that has been turned down
by Brian bill Like multiple times. Brian Billy, Brian Billick.
(31:17):
I'd like to talk to Brian, but I don't want
to beg to talk to Brian alright, moving that's the
playoffs drop Voice instead of Playoffs fifth Hour. There's nothing
better as a guy doing a podcast or you, Danny
who's you're doing the show and producing the podcast, from
getting an email on a Saturday saying we're excited to
(31:39):
do the interview campra do it, and then on a
Monday you ask a follow up question and no response.
On a Tuesday you send an email and they say,
oh no, I'm not We're not doing that. Yeah, They're
like no, we'll let you know a future date. You
just told me you look forward to joining the podcast
this week. Yeah, and uh and no. Only when that happens.
(32:01):
That's a sign that you don't need to book anyone else.
That's a sign you've booked a guest. Your job is
done right, you've done your job. You've got your guest
for the podcast, and you're ready to move on. When
someone says, yes, I do a victory lap and you're right,
it's like a load of bricks has been lifted off
my shoulders. See this Billick email saying we're good for
(32:22):
next week, excited to join the podcast, and I'm like, yes,
I do the Tiger Woods fish bump. Sure, and then yeah,
you got to be kidding me. Then it turns out
you're you're you're visiting a place that that's the dark sign,
don't know the power side. I thought Michael Jordan's was
(32:43):
the big fish to get for an interview, but it
turns out it's Billick. Yeah, Brian Billick, of all people,
the the we've had bigger not the briend is not
a big name, but we've had bigger names on the podcast.
I've also noticed there's some snob with the podcast that
there's certain people that are they believe the podcast is
(33:06):
below them. But they'd come on the radio show like
they come on the Ben Maller Show if I booked
them as a guest. But the podcast they feel like
it's listen. I don't think they understand how many people
listen to this podcast. It's a very popular podcast. Like
most podcast Now I'm not you know, Danny there, there's
of the podcast no one's listening to. Not that we
have a Joe Rogan audience, we don't, but we have
(33:27):
a good loyal following and this podcast does as well,
and sometimes it does better than the radio show podcast
because it's only available on the podcast. You can't hear
this on terrestrial radio. You can only hear it on
the podcast. I literally think it's just the words. Sometimes
you did the seven words earlier. Yeah, addst not pussy
(33:48):
for p p for podcast, because I swear to God,
there'll be times where I stay away from using the
word past in my interview request because normally a yes
will come back following that because you say podcasts, and
in somebody's mind immediately they think of some dude in
his underwear with his balls hanging out in his garage
(34:12):
and most of the time that's true. All right, Kevin
in Kansas? Moving on here, we gotta get a speed
up the process here, Kevin and Kansas is dear Ben
and Danny g. You. You went from sidekick gust onto
Danny g Ben. I see a pattern here, besides the
obvious Doug GOTTLIEB What other d G sidekicks would you
(34:32):
like to work with down the road? Who's d d
G initials? Who are some other famous d G s.
Gottlie is the only one, but you mentioned him Kevin
in the email. I have to think famous d G s.
You're a d G Danny g Any Yeah, I can't
think of any others off the top of my head.
(34:53):
It's a brain twister, Kevin. How dare you? How dare
you would mess with our minds? Uh? Let's see who
is next on the mail bag? Come back, it's sign
for mail. Call. Scott from Northern Kentucky says a couple
of questions for you. In all your years around the Dodgers,
did you have an opportunity to have conversations with Vince Scully?
(35:16):
Did he ever swear? He says, I'll answer that first,
you have a couple more. But yes, I actually knew
casually Vince Scully. It's one of the cool things, the
coolest things I could say that I've accomplished, if it's
even an accomplishment. But I started out covering the Dodgers.
I was nineteen years old. I was I was a
green banana. That's awesome. And I really through my formative
(35:41):
years as a young adult in my twenties and thirties,
I pretty much spent five, six, seven nights a week
at Dodger Stadium in the press box, and I I
really I knew Ven a little bit, and I had
dinner with him a few times on the road, which
was awesome. And I'll never forget. One of the greatest
nights with In was at Chase Stadium, and this was
(36:02):
like the one of the last years. Vin didn't usually
make the road trips the last few years of his
career with the Dodgers, but he he would try to
go back to New York. He would make selective trips
because he grew up in New York, and he he'd
go back. And so we're having dinner and and and
then was regaling us with stories about when he was
a kid, and there was a a strike the trash
men in Manhattan, in New York went on strike, and
(36:25):
he told this story and I still remember the detail
the style that Ben told the story about how people
were so desperate when the sanitation workers in New York
went on strike to get rid of the trash. And
it was around Christmas time. And so back in those days,
they had these massive televisions, you know, those huge TVs,
the tube TVs, and so there were some people that
had tube TVs and what they were doing, at least
(36:47):
it happened at one time. Anyway, Ben remembers they would
get the big box that the TV came in, like
the wooden crate, and they'd fill it with trash and
then wrap it in wrapping paper and put a ball
on it. And so obviously the sanitation workers wouldn't take it,
but somebody would steal it, thinking it was a TV
or something like that, and so they'd have their trash
(37:07):
taking care of. Somebody would steal it and then been
told I never heard him curse. Um, you know, I have.
I have many Vince Scully stories. I don't know that
we want to get into that right now. We were
limited time but very nice man. And when he would
say hello Ben, and I was like, oh man, Because
as a little kid, I grew up watching Vin do
the Dodging. My mom was a huge n Scully fan.
So I was like, wow, man, that's all right. That's
(37:29):
like uh talking to the pulp, you know. I was like,
oh my god, the pulp knows your name. And I
was like, holy Cannoli. But anyway, you're not kidding. Man.
We had a little kid in southern California hearing his
voice on a transistor radio during the summer. Everyone shut
up and they listened. And he was a big part
of the soundtrack of Our Lives. Oh. Absolutely. I never
(37:51):
heard him curse. I did ask him one time. I'll
get more to this later, but I asked him if
he you know, I thought I was doing Dodger talk
after the game, so I thought Vin would be listening
on his way home, and I said, hey, Vin, you
know you, what are you doing after the game? What
do you listen to when you're driving back to the valley?
He said, classical music, Like class it's like Jojo on
(38:13):
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we're live here outside the Perez family home, just waiting
for the And there they go, almost on time. This morning,
Mom is coming out the front door, strong with a
double arm kid carry looks like Dad has the bags.
Daughter is bringing up the rear. Oh, but the diaper
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be about nine or ten, has secured herself in the
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(40:23):
are you do you ever see yourself going back into
the studio full time? Here's another question about that. Are
you going Howard stirred on us and hiding away? Uh? Yeah, No,
I will go back to the studio occasionally. I don't
think I'll ever go back. I mean, I spent a
lot of money building the studio out here, so I
feel like it would be a total waste of my
(40:43):
money to then not use the studio, and I have
to use it for the podcast anyway because the schedules. Ah,
I will go in. I'm excited to see what the
new studios look like. We're building in Burbank, right where
they used to do the Tonight Show, right across the
street from where Johnny Carson did the Night Show in
Burbank back in the day, and Jay Leno and those guys.
So I'm excited to see that. And I'll go in occasionally.
And one of the one of the things that you
(41:03):
know this Danny from doing the overnight show. One of
the advantages if you're on during the days, you can play,
grab bass and schmooze with executives and salespeople. I have
none of that. I can schmooze if I go and
do the show. I you know, shoots with the guys
and all that, but I can also hang out with
the guys cleaning the toilet and cleaning. Not that those
are bad people. I probably probably talk to them, the
management people, but it's just not I'm not really getting
(41:24):
anything extra out of it by going in. Uh. And
then he asked a question about Helen and Stu. He says,
who the hell are Helen stew It was mildly funny
when they fought with Gascon, but the last email just
showed that they are mean and nasty people, probably the
old grumpy couple that go to dinner at three pm,
complain about everything and don't tip their sir. I have
(41:47):
a feeling they are lonely and bitter people whose families
don't even talk to them. Why shots fired from Scott
in Northern Kentucky. Tim from Augusta, Maine rights in and
again limited time? Uh, he says, Ben. Do you think
that this is the time you break out of Overnight's
number eighteen show? Showing great listener growth and seemed to
(42:11):
be promoted a lot more. Is it time for a promotion? Well?
That's enough to meet him, and I'm very happy during
the Overnight show, and I like it. I have a
good cult following, a good niche following. Not that I
don't think I could do a great job on a
morning show or an afternoon show and dominate and kick ass,
but it would be a much different show. And I
know from experience when I do these other shows and
(42:34):
I go out and I don't do the standard bull
crap that we do on the Overnight show. Uh yeah,
I get a lot of hey, what's wrong with you?
A selloutler? And I want to be called to sell it.
Scott Farrell told the story on the Friday Podcast. He
got hired by the Atlanta Thrashers. He sold out to
become an NHL play by play guy. He lasted one year.
(42:55):
They then had to pay him the rest of his
contract for like three year. As he said, he just
sat around, smoked weed, drank and got checks, uh from
the NHL team. That's kind of the dream, right, isn't
that that? I mean in some way, not that I
want to fail, but to have that kind of set up,
(43:16):
My my god. But you know, Tim, I don't. I
don't see anything in the horizon unless unless the company
gets cheap on me or something like that and I
have to go somewhere else. But other than that, I
see no evidence of that being the cases. They've been
very good to me. They've helped me pay my bills
for a long time, and uh and I think I've
provided them with marginal Overnight sports talk radio Emmett the
(43:39):
Blind Seahawk fan rights and that's hey, that's a kid.
You can't say that word around emmy, emm it's in
high school. How dare you? It's wrong with you again?
And I'll bleep it all right. You gotta bleep that here. Yeah,
there you go, all right. Mt the Blind Sea fan
Olympia says, what is the most awkward phone call you
guys have had to deal with on the radio? I
(44:01):
could write a book, Emmett on this. Two of them
to pop in my head right now. I had a
caller from Phoenix named Monty from Phoenix who was using
a different name. And then I was doing a show
over Thanksgiving weekend. And as I remember the story, which
is probably not actually what happened, but in my head
as I remember it, it it was like Thanksgiving. He starts,
(44:23):
he's clearly had something to drink, more than something. He's
passing the phone around, and then he has this big
admission that he's been living a lie, that he used
a fake name, he's not who he says he was,
and it was very bizarre and it was like out
of completely out of the twilight Zone. And then the
other famous call, I think you were with me on this?
(44:43):
I think you were with me, Danny, were you there
when we had the guy that had the heart attack
on the show? And Coop did not handle them very well?
Neither did I. Neither did I. My my my response
was the guys like he was talking about Chris Collinsworth
or something. As I remember, he was calling from Cincinnati,
(45:05):
Cardiac Stanley. We named him cardiac, yeah, cardiac sant. And
so he calls up and he was on hold for
a while, and he starts huffing and puffing, and he
wants to get his point in, and I forget exactly
what he said. It was something I having. I think
I'm having like a heart attack or something like that,
and so I was like, whoa. And it didn't sound
like he was having some kind of heart issue. His
(45:26):
arm went numb and he was breathing really crazy, and
he's like, I think I'm having a heart attack. Right now,
everybody was daring headlights. You didn't know what to do. Yeah,
you don't expect that. So I think I said, Coop,
it may put you on hold, Coop will take care
of it. We'll get you some help or something like that.
But I didn't know how to how to handle that
(45:47):
one that was a weird one. There was also there
was the guy that proposed to his his girlfriend proposed marriage.
I kept a guy on hold for a long time
because he wanted to talk about Duke, and I was like,
it was like Duke college basket. It wasn't really the
tournament time, so I thought, that's a terrible call. And
then I put him on eventually, and he was like
half he was like half sleeping and uh and and
(46:09):
it was so funny because he he had to wake
up the lady that he was proposing to for marriage,
the lovely woman, and then right after she said whatever
she said, I think she said, yes. They're now divorced.
He told me a couple of years ago. He wrote
me and said they got married, but they're divorced. But
he he hey, can I still talk about Duke? Was
that was that? We used that as a drop. I
(46:30):
think that the show for a while. It was. It
was very funny. Who is next year? He's amazing? Amazing
questions one is better than the next. It's signed from
call all Right, Hill Billy, Mike and Richmond. Virginia says, uh,
let's see this one's for Danny g First the butt
kissing it sucked when you left Ben Show. Hill Billy
(46:52):
writes in you had a way of hitting the perfect
spot with a relevant drop. Uh and man, I sure
missed Genie's drops because of all all but one of
hers disappeared overnight. You never had a problem talking, smacked
a bend when you disagreed with his takes, and things
just flowed. And then he then he'll Billy take shots
(47:12):
at Roberto. He does not like the way that Roberto
plays the drops, and I'll skip over that, but he
I take some shots there at Roberto, and he says,
with you back in studio from time to time, is
there anyway you can share your drop wisdom? Danny g
with Roberto, and he says, because the drops are in
art form and while you are Picasso. He then says
(47:34):
that my guy Roberto is a finger painting shots fired
by hill Billy Mike. But there there is a there
is a technique, and I think Roberto is fine. I
think he does get up. Some days are better than others,
but that's how everything is. I have better days than others.
Some days I suck at radio, other days I'm okay,
and some days I'm pretty good. And that's just life.
In general, but that is it is the timing, especially
(47:55):
me because I I don't pause that often, so you
gotta really pick your spots. When I'm born vating, you
have to have a lot of windows open on the
computers in front of you. It's kind of like being
a gun slinger, Ben, because those are your bullets. You
gotta know exactly where every bullet is for every occasion
and then fire them at the perfect time. I got
(48:16):
a thing about dead bodies. I mean, it's far from easy. Hell,
even on post production of the podcast, it's not easy.
So shouts out to anybody that tries it and does
it on a regular basis. I give love to all
the tech producers that give it their best. I will
say that, you know, when I'm in there filling in,
(48:36):
it's filling in for Coupe. So my head spinning with
answering all the calls coming in from the Mallar militia,
putting together the podcast, putting together the games and the
features that go on during the live show. So there's
so much going on in the producer chair, there's no
way in hell I could lean over and tell Roberto, hey,
(48:57):
pull a couple of these drops. I want and help Mike.
I mean, come on, but I promise you some of
the drops you miss, especially from back in the day,
I will definitely insert into the Fifth Hour podcasts. You
pay me five dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine. Yeah,
we're here to spread love. You were very special, yes,
(49:19):
and Roberto was really nice. Last week three or four
drops I had been looking for. He helped me find
and I was able to load them in and email
them to myself and get him into this weekend's podcast.
So your staff is great, dude, because anytime I asked
the Mallard staff for something, they are usually on top
of it. Might take a day or two because there's
(49:41):
some weed involved, but results happen and they're really nice
about it. Yeah. Yeah, he's got it. Put a lot
of work in and make everything sound good. Well, we've
got time for one more Ozzy Momentum from down says hey,
Ben and Danny Ge, have you guys ever been water
skiing or wakeboarding? It is a pastime here in Perth,
(50:02):
the part of Australia that Assy Momentum lives in. If so,
how did you go? He also says, Danny G can
you please set Ben right? And tell him that Cincinnati,
Ohio is not in the south, and only chumps think
so I love a guy that from Perth, Australia is
trying to teach me about American geography. How what is
(50:22):
wrong with you? What is wrong? You are? You are?
I don't think of since as the South. I do,
I do. I've been to the airport in Cincinnati, and
it's the Cincinnati Kentucky. It's in actually in Kentucky. I
think of Kentucky as the South. So I think of Cincinnati.
There's like the point of demarcation. You crossed the Rubicon
(50:44):
border though, that's right where the time changes. I feel
like I feel like that makes sense a different part
of the country now, it's it is the this I
believe it is in the south. I'm going south on that.
And I will travel at some point to Cincinnati of
meet people, shake hands, kiss babies and all that and
uh and we will have a country jamboree and sounds
(51:07):
like you're gonna count teeth while you're there and no comment.
So the water skiing and wakeboarding, none of that. I
love body boarding here in the Pacific Ocean. That's how
the cool. The bodyboards are fun. But I've never been
pulled by a boat. They go so fast and when
I see people fall, that doesn't look fun at all. Yeah,
(51:31):
you have to do a cost benefit analysis. Is it
worth it? Because they are, it doesn't get talked about.
There's a lot of people die every summer doing that
stuff on lakes and ponds and whatnot. And one thing
goes wrong. That water is like a brick wall and
it looks fine and all that, but you make a
(51:52):
couple of missteps and game over. You have not done
done too much water stuff. I like swimming in the pool,
going to the ocean and whatnot, but not done. Am I.
I'm not a Perth guy. I'd have to come visit
you Azzi momentum in Perth. You have to give me
the we can see some Ozzy rules football. We'll do
that and uh and go around. I think that's it.
(52:12):
That's all we have time for you. Thanks that John
Uh from Parts Unknown, Chris and Marrit Cocoa, Iowa. It
has been a big supporter of the podcast, Nick and
Wisconsin as well. Big fan. We didn't have time to
get your questions and a couple other people who I
did not I did not write your names down unfortunately,
but again, thank you for supporting the podcast. Give us
a review. We will read your review on a future episode,
(52:34):
the Saturday episode of the podcast. And again thanks to
Scott Farrell. Thank you Danny for booking that and getting
a hold of Scott. And it was wild and crazy
and zany and if you're a fan of radio, dudes,
Scott the first like thirty minutes of that interview, the
first twenty minutes of that any rather, whoa, what is
going on here? This is like next level. I've known
(52:55):
Scott Farrell for years. I know he does crazy stuff
on the radio, but I'm like, whoa. It was bare
I barely said anything. It was just him. He was
bouncing off the walls. It was wild on fire. What
a great week of radio at Fox Sports and with
you and the shows you did. Just a fun, fun week,
good times, good time. I'll be back in the Magic
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