March 19, 2022 • 43 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. take you behind the scenes, with a fun conversation about wizard, back scratcher, flippin' the bird with a mask, ghosted, name that pasta, and more!
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the air everywhere is a Saturday, Saturday Saturday. The content
does not end. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Danny g Radio to get you through the hell that
the weekend could be now. Normally people look forward to
the weekend, but sometimes you have nothing to do. But
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we are here to liven things up. Danny G. Even
on a Saturday. How's your bracket looking? Is it already
in the trash can? Well? They call me Benny Bracketts
for a reason, Danny G. As you can see on
the company website, I was requested by management to fill
out a bracket and I told them, I said, I'm
gonna win. That TV is what I'm gonna win. Now,
you're gonna give me that TV? And no, no, no, Yeah.
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Westing is a big sponsor, which I think I read
seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the
n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivus
year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's
all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse
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is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no,
I don't know. You know, there's there's a million different
TV companies, Danny G. In the Westinghouse an all time
or a classic, it never goes out of style. I've
got on this podcast. I've got my I've got Wizard,
We've got that, We've got Backscratcher, flipping the bird with
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a mask, a swing and a miss, and ghosted. That's
a lot of content that's a. That's a lot of
content in a limited amount of time. So let's get
right into what do you say here? You ready to go? Yeah,
all right, this is just sighting. I'm very excited and
so as you referenced, and it is that time of
the year again, as everyone in sports radio, we all
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undergo a metamorphosis, and it's like transforming, like it's like
a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. And we're all college basketball
experts all of a sudden, Abrica, dabra, hocus pocus. College
basketball does not get a lot of play on radio.
It just doesn't. I was talking to a radio friend
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of mine back East and he thinks that the the
COVID shutdown of the n c A tournament in was
the final blow the college basketball completely knocking it out
of the zeitgeist of now I'm not there yet. I'm
not quite there yet, and I get into the tournament.
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I have some reasons for that. They do call me,
as I said, Benny Bracketts and all that, but we're
all experts on college basketball. So I have been Danny
over the last couple weeks, leaning into this weekend, as
we chopped the field down from sixty four and widowed
away or actually sixty eight with the playing games back
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early in the week. But so I've been immersing myself
in n c A Hoops over the last couple of weeks. Actually,
it is the most wondrous time of the year for
office pools, for for gambling and all this stuff. With
March madness now we have it on, you know, at
the Mallard Mansion a NonStop. But for me, it's all
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about the Wizard, Danny. It's all about the Wizard. The
wizard as in the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend,
well the legend as you as you know, I'm an
ambassador for the memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying,
what is that, you gas bag, you blow hard. Let
(05:52):
me explain. So this will be my twentieth year voting
for the John R. Wooden Award, and uh, I've talked
about it from times. It is really cool. I like,
I mean, we kid around about it. But I don't
need the heisman. I don't need the the m v P,
the cy Young any of that stuff. I don't need
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because I have a vote. I have a there's a
limited number of votes available, media votes and I get
to vote for the the awards a pound for pound,
Danny for my money. The Wooden't Award is at the
very top. It is pile wrong. Now, how did you
get this back in the day? Did you apply for it?
Were they desperate? No? I got a great story. So
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there was a well known sportscaster in Los Angeles named
Ed Arnold. Ed worked at Channel five in l A
k T l A and I was friends with Ed.
Ed was very nice to me early on in my
career when no one should have been nice to me.
No one should have done anything cool to me, and
but he was very kind to me. And he kind
of you know, led me, you know, down the path
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to to have a career in radio. One of the
people that was very positive to me. And I'm very
grateful to Ed Arnold. And Ed was a long time
TV sportscaster in l A. And he said, you know what,
Ben came up to me. It was actually a Dodger
stadium and and said, you know you've been you know,
I forget exactly what he said. He was very kind,
(07:19):
something along the line you know, I think you're gonna
go places. Whether so. He he wanted me to vote
for the Wooden war and uh, this is you know, long, long,
long ago, and I've been in the business for a while,
so I wasn't like a young total young pup, but
gave me the Wooden Award vote and my first year
voting was two and Jay Williams who's now on ESPN,
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but he was at Duke. He was the Wooden Award
winner that year. And over the years we've had legends
like Kevin Durant won the Wooden Award, Andrew Boget was
a number one pick for I think it was the Bucks,
but he won the Wooden Ward JJ Reddick uh. And
then they were like college legends like Himber for Debt
who I loved b y U Jimber for debt, but
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he didn't make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it.
He's a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's
been a lot of fun. So it's been a lot
of fun. And one player come to mind that you
went against the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't
the popular choice. Well I did vote, and he ended
up winning the award. But at the time, Jamir Nelson,
remember Jamir Nelson, look guard out of I think Joe's.
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I believe it was in Philly, and he had a
decent NBA career, but I've remember voting for him, and yeah,
the Orlando Magic, among other teams, a pretty good career.
I'm guessing he's fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah,
they send out a watch list for the Wooden Award,
and so once I get to watch list, that's that's
who I look at. That's my guys. I try to
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watch as many of those games as I can. And
uh and and I'm waiting actually might might have the ballot.
It's an online vote. It's a secure online vote, like
everything these days, and so I'm waiting until the eleventh
hour to fill out the ballot. It's I'm waiting till
this weekend's done, just so I get one last look
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at the top guys in the tournament. And uh, and
then I'll finish up and then right after the show
Sunday and the Monday, so Tomorrow night, after the show,
so early Monday morning, just before the deadline when they
locked the vote, I have set an alarm on my
iPhone to make sure I don't screw this up, because
I I got concerned last year, Danny, I, I I
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changed my email ID, just my email I just changed
and I was worried I was gonna get a vote.
Eddie reminded me, and so I was in a panic.
I was in a tizzy. I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah,
you can't screw this stuff after twenty years. No, I
gotta keep I gotta keep voting. And John Wooden, he's famous.
I would say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course
known as in college basketball circles is the goat of
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all time and all that stuff. But the the one
quote from what he had the seven point creed, which
I'm sure you've heard Danny over there's a seven point creep.
But there's one line in that that has been repeated
at nauseum. It's point number three in the seven point creed. Now,
point number one is be true to yourself. Point number
two is help others. The third one is the money quote,
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and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you
want from me? It's a great quote that it's a
wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every
day your masterpiece, it's a life will live to bat.
A lot of our days are like finger painting, d
D and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of
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time coming up with like sayings and things to put
on signs. He had the Pyramid of success, which is
another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors
to be a successful person in life and all that
stuff which I don't know. How many of these do
you think you actually connect? Done? D Any, I'll give
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Team spirit, honesty, ambition, self control, alertness. I'm a huge
pass by initiative. What else you have? Sincerity, friendship, industrial nous, loyalty, cooperation, enthusiasm,
intentness also on me on the list? Wow? Just like
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the great Jerry West throwing his m v P trophy
through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama. I
haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look like
a douchebag. I have not seen. He doesn't come off
as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off as a
basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I have not
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checked that out. I I don't know is it worth
I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know, but
I think I think you would like it, regardless of
if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also,
I wanted to mention before I forget that we had
a passing this week of someone that I knew and
I didn't get to it on the radio shows, So
pat job by me. Uh, you probably know who this
guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingale,
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the Great Alan Massengille passed away. He had been very sick.
He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone
that you know again we crossed, passed back when he
was doing he was doing the Laker stuff on Cake
cal l A him and I think it was James
Worthy would be on after after Laker games. But Alan
very good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN,
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And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he
was always kind of down to earth and he could
have been a total dick because a lot of people
I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday,
and he worked kind of work. He worked there before
that it really became the monster that it eventually became
announced quite as not as big a monster as it was,
but but he worked there and he was always in
the early days and very very cool guy from Florida,
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from the South, I believes from Florida. Uh. And he
had been sick. I guess he fell and then he
ended up passing away as a result of the fall
because he had made in poor health for a long time.
But rest in peace. Alan Massingale Uh a long time
l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at
ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting
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stuff post games. So rest resting me. Way too young,
I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die,
but he was. I think he was sixty three years
always even younger than my mom. My mom died she
was sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see
that report. Yeah, all right, we have the we went
from the wizard to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. Now.
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Last week we lamented the fact, Danny that that no one,
no one really gave us any love on the reviews.
Remember We're like, wait a minute, what happened? You know,
we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was
depressing and all that stuff, you know, like very sad.
The good news is we got a punch a six
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pack this week. These are actuallys and the deal is, Danny,
if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page,
we will read the review. That's what we agreed to, right,
let's fucking go. All right, that's f h. So Mario
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Keep up the great work. That's from Logan in Memphis.
So that was very kind of Wow. Two really good
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He wrote in you says great work. You and Danny
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I gotta just go to shady massage parlors every single week.
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So we'll just call this person LOUP. But I don't
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which is fine. This thanks a lot for the lack
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been listening for a couple of years now. The monologues
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But thank you Lou or whatever your actual real name is.
We appreciate that. What gud thank you. Last one from
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so flipping the bird with a mask? What is this about?
Danny g What are we? What are we dealing with
this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I was talking a
little bit about how Monday was the first day that
California schools we're no longer requiring you who worked there
at the school or students to have to wear a mask.
It was optional. In fact, we went around the campus
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and hung up these flyers that showed a picture of
a girl with her thumb up a box that was checked,
saying I am comfortable without a mask, and then and
then another picture of her with the other thumb up
saying I AM comfortable with my mask. All the cheesiness
that you would expect from the school just stricks here
(23:00):
in California. Of course, this is a big deal. We're
they're still trying to encourage the kids, like overwhelming the
you should keep wearing the mask and all that. Don't
don't stop. They still you don't know, at least the
school that I work for. I gotta give them props
because they didn't say anything to the staff like that.
They didn't say anything to the students. They only hung
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those those flyers up. So I was like, all right, cool,
I mean, it's up to us what we want to do.
In my mind, I'm thinking the parents are gonna show
up on Monday morning drop off the kids. They are
gonna run in screaming with their friends with no masks on. Sure,
my morning shift. I'm out there in front of the school.
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Some of my responsibilities are with the gate. You're like
you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes, I I'm the muscle
right outside the main gates. You're the ranch hero leading down. Yes.
So I got my walkie talk key that looked very official.
Parents are pulling up. But I noticed something ben that
(24:06):
caught me off guard. Okay, there were parents inside their
cars wearing masks. I'm talking both parents with a mask on,
two kids in the back seat, both wearing masks, and
then the parents pushed the kids out of the car.
And what I heard the parents say was and do
(24:26):
not take it off the entire day. No really, boom,
you can light me on fire. And they're looking right
at me too, like you scumbag without a mask, I
see you. So it felt like not so subtle way
of flipping me off with their masks on while all
(24:49):
of you are getting sick. Now because some of the
masks are off, we're gonna double up our masks and
wear them inside. Bull crap that bull Oh man. I
saw at least six or seven cars Monday morning where
that was their vibe. That's what was going on. And
these are the same cars I've seen before where they
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don't have masks on normally inside the car. Yeah, you
have to have a very low i Q to be
driving with your family or by yourself and wearing a
mask in your car. No, I agree with you. But
the problem is, first of all, I'm not surprised by this. Secondly,
it's you know, bad you know, bad habits die hard,
or I'd say that that's the issue here. See, the
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problem is people have We're all creatures a habit. And
I see the same thing. I'm driving around, You're not
driving around where I'm where I'm living now, and I'll
see people walking by themselves on a beautiful day in
California and they've got the mask all, you know, covering
their face. I'm like, what are you doing? You know?
But they estimate I remember this years ago because I
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was trying to lose weight. I could never lose weight.
I was like, what the hell? And because you gotta
change your habits. But the problem is once people change
their it takes like over two months. They asked him.
A scientists it is study years ago. Maybe it's changed,
but human behavior, something becomes automatic. In sixties six days,
they said, that's exactly. That's a sweet spot for on
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average sixty six days. If you want to change something,
you have to do it for sixty six days, and
then at that point it just becomes part of you.
And we are two years into this, Danny almost I
think we're over the two year mark for the mask thing.
Maybe not, but we're close to it. Two years into
the mass thing, people have been now hardwired. It's like
Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now they have
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to be hardwired the other way. And I was telling
I was doing a buddy of mine when I when
I was growing up, and I think I've told this
story before on the podcast, but when I when I
was getting my mom, God rest her soul, she she
hoarded like everything because she grew up in a household
that her parents went through the depression, and so for
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you know, I had to have you know, when you
had the opportunity to buy a million rolls of toilet
paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she would load
up for like the nuclear winter, and that was the
rest of her entire life. She did that because of
the trauma as a kid. And so I think we're
gonna have the same bull crap, these poor kids of today.
You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but these kids are
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still gonna be wearing masks when they go out a
lot because they they were programmed as children. And it sucks.
But I I don't know a way around it. I don't. Yeah,
it's gonna take a while. Oh My mom and dad
told me I'd better not take it off today. It's
just gonna go on for a long time. Unfortunately. The
one thing I will say for me, and I would
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say about seventy percent of the staff had their masks
off and uh. And the dean of the school, one
thing he did tell me is he's like, I think
it's important for the kids to see our faces, and yes, yeah,
they see our facial expressions and you know, to really
get a handle on things going on on the campus.
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That makes a lot of sense because when kids can't
see your facial expressions, you're only using your words and
that doesn't always work. So, you know, it was nice
to see a lot of the faculty for the first time.
I swear to God, the ladies in the office, I
had never seen their faces. It was it was so strange,
and some of them should have put their masks back on.
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That's the problem, Danny, right, because I you know, it's
kind of a lot of times when will get all
dolled up with a lot of makeup on, but you
have the mask. What's the point of putting the makeup on?
You know what? You got the mask on. Now you
gotta go back and do all that bull crap again,
I guess you. Of course, who am I to talk?
I have a face for radio, obviously, But I go
and I go to the lunch like I talked about
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on yesterday's podcast, I go to work with the kindergarteners,
and that same girl Aria in the afternoon, she was
following me around and she said, I'm gonna marry you.
I'm marrying Mr g I'm gonna marry you. And I'm like,
that's appropriate. She's hugging my leg. Thirty seconds later, and
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and Ben, you know not that you get a big
ego from a five year old telling you they think
that you look nice without your mask. Thirty seconds later,
she was doing a very bad impersonation of me, sticking
out her stomach saying I'm Mr ge whoa who like
very unflattering, you know, uh, talking ship and I was like, wait,
(29:30):
thirty seconds ago, you wanted to marry me. You can't
out women five years old. She's already listen that the
rest of her life should be the same way. She'll be,
you know, twenty some years old, should be dating same
bullcraps canna happen some guy, some other kids that you know,
some other schools gonna be you know, the same age
you're gonna be dating her And be like, what the
hell are you? I don't understand what are you doing?
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One final thought on the mask. I noticed that my
energy levels are way way up. I would say, by
you're breathing is labor, especially when you're outside and you're
chasing kids around and you have a physical job. That
thing was a killer. I would go home and want
to collapse. Now I've actually been coming home and getting
(30:14):
emails and stuff done because I still feel good. Yeah, no,
I agree with you. Like the the breathing, it's not good,
it's not it's not eat And I'd be fully transparent here.
I always thought this was kind of preposterous and ludicrous back,
you know, even when it started. So what I I
would go walking when I lived in the old place.
(30:35):
And also this is nonsensical. But so many people felt like,
if you didn't wear the mask, you know, it's insubordination
of society and all this bull crap. So what I
would do is I'd wear the mask is like a
chin strap, and then I was walking, I walked by people,
I'd raise it up and then as soon as I
walked past them, I'd lower it. And that would be
That would buy be my way to get around it.
(30:57):
But yeah, and I I feel you on the showing up,
the parents, showing up and giving the the stank guy,
you know, giving you the side eye, like what do
you do? I hate that? And I see I see
these pompous assholes. Occasionally, you know, I'll go out to
the store or something like that, and you know, I
don't wear the mask, and there's still people they look
(31:18):
at you, like, well, what's wrong with you? But but
there's part of me also thinks, in addition to people
being programmed and trained now that they have to wear
the mask, and they'll you know, taking a long time
to change their habits. The other issue here is I
think there's a lot of people that don't realize the
mandate's gone. They just they think it's still going around.
(31:38):
They don't pay attention to the headlines and they're just like, well,
it must be still going on. They haven't gotten the memo.
I think there's those people also that don't want to,
you know, they don't acknowledge the media in any way,
and they're like, i't understand. You know, they told me
years you know, a month ago, two years ago, to
do this. I gotta keep doing it. You know those
parents that were like that on Monday morning, I just
gave them a thumbs up and an even bigger smile. Hi,
(32:00):
I like to saint, I'm figured, all right, you're gonna
flip me off with your mask inside your car, I'm
gonna smile at you even bigger. Yeah. No, No, I'll
walk around here and I'll take I take pictures. I
have a photo collection of people sitting in their cars
at red lights with mass on. I do like that.
Those are our fellow human beings. We are all the
(32:22):
same here, We're all It's the most illogical thing ever.
You're not gonna get COVID while you're on the freeway
by yourself in a car. And if COVID was that,
you know, contagious, then what's the point you know, I
mean you really you know, Come on, what do we do?
You know you have anxiety over that? Stop stop with
the emotional collapse and on it. Last thing here, We're
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so real quick so. Over the years, I have been
very blessed to have multiple culinary establishments across the United
(34:33):
States named food dishes after me, and it's been very cool.
Some of them have come and gone. We had the
Mallard Pizza and Grand Rapids, Michigan that didn't last very long.
We also had the originator, the o G in Syracuse,
the mal Zone, which is a it was a cow
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(34:54):
but it was the It was really good. But we
still have we still have three items on the on
the menu of the various us We've got the Mallard
Fowler at the Bird the Ballet there in Lawrence, Kansas.
We have the Mallard Chicken Fingers at the Landing and Liberty, Missouri,
right near the Royals Chiefs Complex there where they play
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That's at three locations now, Danny and Denver. That place
started with one location, three locations the Greater Denver area.
The sports Book Bar and Grill had that. I've had
that sandwich, good sandwich. So I bring this up because
we we were closed at least I thought we were
close to having another foods and the return of the
Mallard pizza you know Vado right, And so I'm bringing
(35:42):
this up because it's got a kind of a disappointing
part to the Miracael to the story. So I have
been corresponding with a fan of the show discussing the
Mallard pie, and the plan was to add this to
the today. The rule is, if you're new to the
show the Mallard the way this works, all you have
to do is put it on the menu. You don't
(36:02):
have to pay me or anything like that. I mean
we and occasionally I will promote these restaurants from time
to time and whatnot. And so the Mallard pizzas roasted garlic,
bell pepper. I like to throw different colors to make
it really pop, red, green, yellow, throw some onions on there.
It's very simple. It's a simple pie. It's the kind
of pie that will keep vampires away because of the
(36:24):
garlic and around of stuff. And so so anyway, this
establishment in the Northeast, in the Boston area was going
to to do this, at least that's what I was told.
And uh, however, I think I need to contact the
ghostbusters here because Danny, all of a sudden I have
been ghosted and uh as it vanished, and so I've
I've decided since I don't think that's gonna happen. I
(36:48):
think it's been long enough. I think that we're we'
moved on from that, or they've moved on for that
or whatever. So, uh, if and I'll just throw this
out there, nobody has to do it. Maybe nobody will.
But if there's some mom and pop shop out there
that I would like he is interested in this, uh,
then you know, contact me, and I I love promoting small,
(37:08):
small restaurants. I know how difficult it is in the
restaurant business. I've had friends in that not tough it
can be, and so I'd love to help me out
and I'd like to bring the Mallard pizza back. So
you can email me, contact me Ben Mallers Show at
gmail dot com. And uh, and again the rules are
very simple. I have to just put the Mallard name
on there, some kind of food dish and then that's it.
(37:29):
And then we've we've had multiple p ones. I know
moving man Matt in Boston has done the Mallard food
toward multiple times. Of course he's got an excuse because
he drives a moving truck all over the country. But
we had a few other listeners that have done that
and then so uh, I've also thought of the if
the pizza is not a thing, how about the Mallard
burger Danny, we could do that. I've never had a mallardburg,
(37:51):
never done the mallarburg, so we could do that too.
So I'm not going to cook on my knees. What
would the Danny jeep dish? B if A restaurants like
I want to. I liked an g more than you, Mallord.
What would a food dish be for Danny G Radio?
What do you think that would be? Then? What would
you come up? Let's see what was my go to dish?
I would say a pasta for me, some kind of
(38:11):
pasta like a Feduccini alfredo or something like that. Yeah, yeah, pasta.
Maybe a lasagna. Okay. It's a really great place here
called Maria's, and the pasta is outstanding. I mean, you
would kill somebody to get their lasagna and they serve
it to you in one of those hot tins. Even
when you get at home. It is super hot. And
(38:32):
you know, a restaurant means business when they're serving up
lasagna like that. The flavors are superb. So yeah, I
would I would like a nice lasagna. When I think
of a Mallard pie, I'm thinking maybe instead of a salami,
maybe you do a bologna. You are the Beethoven of BS. Well,
that would be funny, like a bologna sandwich, you know,
(38:54):
the mallor or something like that. That would be that
would be funny. But I'm on a fast right now
as we're doing this. As where you're doing the podcast
and and you talking about that pasta. Man, it's making
me wish I had some pasta right now. Or it
is some kind of great Italian food. My I had
that last Friday night with my tender Roni and we
took it home and they said it's gonna take forty minutes,
(39:18):
and we were okay with that. We knew they were
making everything fresh, and we know they serve it up
really hot in their in their tins that they send
you off with. So when we got that on the
kitchen table and we spread it out, it was like
a smorgest board of goodness. And I was really strategic.
I'm like, I'm gonna just take one little slice of
this lasagna, save the rest for tomorrow. Brought it to
(39:41):
the studio with me. It lasted for two days. What
a weekend just having that Italian food like that. That's great. Yeah,
I had Lately. The Italian place we've been going to
occasionally is in uh down in Orange County and Huntington
Beach called Casino Romano's Wonderful. Literally the park there's a
(40:01):
parking lot behind it, and then the beach sunset beaches
on the other side, there's like so there's some beaches,
houses on the beach, but there's a parking lot line
of houses and then the beach, and then on the
other side is the restaurant. This place is really good.
I'm making a note of that right now. It's really
hard to convince my tender Roni to go to Italian
(40:23):
and where do white women at That's the least visited
kind of restaurant by us, because she doesn't want pasta
you live once, enjoy life, man, Yeah, here's what you do.
Here's the move. Unfortunately, she's probably listening to this so
she'll hear it. But the move would be take your
your queen tender Roni to Huntington's down in that area
(40:45):
and say, hey, we're down here anyway, why not have
h I know a good Italian place boom done right,
just like that, I'm gonna do that. She had a
nice Caesar salad and she likes chicken poccata, so she'll
do the chicken. Okay, I got you, I got you,
all right. I'm I'm hungry now too, Let's go eat.
I know, right, It's all sounds very appetizing to me.
(41:05):
I mean, I'll take even some some cheese, rabby olie
or something like that. I'm good to go on that.
My taste buds are are water little taste. I have
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the weekend could be now. Normally people look forward to
the weekend, but sometimes you have nothing to do. But
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we are here to liven things up. Danny G. Even
on a Saturday. How's your bracket looking? Is it already
in the trash can? Well? They call me Benny Bracketts
for a reason, Danny G. As you can see on
the company website, I was requested by management to fill
out a bracket and I told them, I said, I'm
gonna win. That TV is what I'm gonna win. Now,
you're gonna give me that TV? And no, no, no, Yeah.
(03:00):
Westing is a big sponsor, which I think I read
seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the
n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivus
year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's
all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse
(03:21):
is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no,
I don't know. You know, there's there's a million different
TV companies, Danny G. In the Westinghouse an all time
or a classic, it never goes out of style. I've
got on this podcast. I've got my I've got Wizard,
We've got that, We've got Backscratcher, flipping the bird with
(03:44):
a mask, a swing and a miss, and ghosted. That's
a lot of content that's a. That's a lot of
content in a limited amount of time. So let's get
right into what do you say here? You ready to go? Yeah,
all right, this is just sighting. I'm very excited and
so as you referenced, and it is that time of
the year again, as everyone in sports radio, we all
(04:06):
undergo a metamorphosis, and it's like transforming, like it's like
a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. And we're all college basketball
experts all of a sudden, Abrica, dabra, hocus pocus. College
basketball does not get a lot of play on radio.
It just doesn't. I was talking to a radio friend
(04:27):
of mine back East and he thinks that the the
COVID shutdown of the n c A tournament in was
the final blow the college basketball completely knocking it out
of the zeitgeist of now I'm not there yet. I'm
not quite there yet, and I get into the tournament.
(04:48):
I have some reasons for that. They do call me,
as I said, Benny Bracketts and all that, but we're
all experts on college basketball. So I have been Danny
over the last couple weeks, leaning into this weekend, as
we chopped the field down from sixty four and widowed
away or actually sixty eight with the playing games back
(05:08):
early in the week. But so I've been immersing myself
in n c A Hoops over the last couple of weeks. Actually,
it is the most wondrous time of the year for
office pools, for for gambling and all this stuff. With
March madness now we have it on, you know, at
the Mallard Mansion a NonStop. But for me, it's all
(05:30):
about the Wizard, Danny. It's all about the Wizard. The
wizard as in the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend,
well the legend as you as you know, I'm an
ambassador for the memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying,
what is that, you gas bag, you blow hard. Let
(05:52):
me explain. So this will be my twentieth year voting
for the John R. Wooden Award, and uh, I've talked
about it from times. It is really cool. I like,
I mean, we kid around about it. But I don't
need the heisman. I don't need the the m v P,
the cy Young any of that stuff. I don't need
(06:13):
because I have a vote. I have a there's a
limited number of votes available, media votes and I get
to vote for the the awards a pound for pound,
Danny for my money. The Wooden't Award is at the
very top. It is pile wrong. Now, how did you
get this back in the day? Did you apply for it?
Were they desperate? No? I got a great story. So
(06:38):
there was a well known sportscaster in Los Angeles named
Ed Arnold. Ed worked at Channel five in l A
k T l A and I was friends with Ed.
Ed was very nice to me early on in my
career when no one should have been nice to me.
No one should have done anything cool to me, and
but he was very kind to me. And he kind
of you know, led me, you know, down the path
(06:58):
to to have a career in radio. One of the
people that was very positive to me. And I'm very
grateful to Ed Arnold. And Ed was a long time
TV sportscaster in l A. And he said, you know what,
Ben came up to me. It was actually a Dodger
stadium and and said, you know you've been you know,
I forget exactly what he said. He was very kind,
(07:19):
something along the line you know, I think you're gonna
go places. Whether so. He he wanted me to vote
for the Wooden war and uh, this is you know, long, long,
long ago, and I've been in the business for a while,
so I wasn't like a young total young pup, but
gave me the Wooden Award vote and my first year
voting was two and Jay Williams who's now on ESPN,
(07:42):
but he was at Duke. He was the Wooden Award
winner that year. And over the years we've had legends
like Kevin Durant won the Wooden Award, Andrew Boget was
a number one pick for I think it was the Bucks,
but he won the Wooden Ward JJ Reddick uh. And
then they were like college legends like Himber for Debt
who I loved b y U Jimber for debt, but
(08:03):
he didn't make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it.
He's a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's
been a lot of fun. So it's been a lot
of fun. And one player come to mind that you
went against the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't
the popular choice. Well I did vote, and he ended
up winning the award. But at the time, Jamir Nelson,
remember Jamir Nelson, look guard out of I think Joe's.
(08:26):
I believe it was in Philly, and he had a
decent NBA career, but I've remember voting for him, and yeah,
the Orlando Magic, among other teams, a pretty good career.
I'm guessing he's fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah,
they send out a watch list for the Wooden Award,
and so once I get to watch list, that's that's
who I look at. That's my guys. I try to
(08:48):
watch as many of those games as I can. And
uh and and I'm waiting actually might might have the ballot.
It's an online vote. It's a secure online vote, like
everything these days, and so I'm waiting until the eleventh
hour to fill out the ballot. It's I'm waiting till
this weekend's done, just so I get one last look
(09:08):
at the top guys in the tournament. And uh, and
then I'll finish up and then right after the show
Sunday and the Monday, so Tomorrow night, after the show,
so early Monday morning, just before the deadline when they
locked the vote, I have set an alarm on my
iPhone to make sure I don't screw this up, because
I I got concerned last year, Danny, I, I I
(09:31):
changed my email ID, just my email I just changed
and I was worried I was gonna get a vote.
Eddie reminded me, and so I was in a panic.
I was in a tizzy. I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah,
you can't screw this stuff after twenty years. No, I
gotta keep I gotta keep voting. And John Wooden, he's famous.
I would say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course
known as in college basketball circles is the goat of
(09:53):
all time and all that stuff. But the the one
quote from what he had the seven point creed, which
I'm sure you've heard Danny over there's a seven point creep.
But there's one line in that that has been repeated
at nauseum. It's point number three in the seven point creed. Now,
point number one is be true to yourself. Point number
two is help others. The third one is the money quote,
(10:18):
and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you
want from me? It's a great quote that it's a
wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every
day your masterpiece, it's a life will live to bat.
A lot of our days are like finger painting, d
D and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of
(10:40):
time coming up with like sayings and things to put
on signs. He had the Pyramid of success, which is
another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors
to be a successful person in life and all that
stuff which I don't know. How many of these do
you think you actually connect? Done? D Any, I'll give
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intentness also on me on the list? Wow? Just like
(11:50):
the great Jerry West throwing his m v P trophy
through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama. I
haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look like
a douchebag. I have not seen. He doesn't come off
as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off as a
basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I have not
(12:11):
checked that out. I I don't know is it worth
I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know, but
I think I think you would like it, regardless of
if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also,
I wanted to mention before I forget that we had
a passing this week of someone that I knew and
I didn't get to it on the radio shows, So
pat job by me. Uh, you probably know who this
guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingale,
(12:36):
the Great Alan Massengille passed away. He had been very sick.
He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone
that you know again we crossed, passed back when he
was doing he was doing the Laker stuff on Cake
cal l A him and I think it was James
Worthy would be on after after Laker games. But Alan
very good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN,
(13:00):
And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he
was always kind of down to earth and he could
have been a total dick because a lot of people
I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday,
and he worked kind of work. He worked there before
that it really became the monster that it eventually became
announced quite as not as big a monster as it was,
but but he worked there and he was always in
the early days and very very cool guy from Florida,
(13:23):
from the South, I believes from Florida. Uh. And he
had been sick. I guess he fell and then he
ended up passing away as a result of the fall
because he had made in poor health for a long time.
But rest in peace. Alan Massingale Uh a long time
l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at
ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting
(13:43):
stuff post games. So rest resting me. Way too young,
I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die,
but he was. I think he was sixty three years
always even younger than my mom. My mom died she
was sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see
that report. Yeah, all right, we have the we went
from the wizard to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. Now.
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Last week we lamented the fact, Danny that that no one,
no one really gave us any love on the reviews.
Remember We're like, wait a minute, what happened? You know,
we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was
depressing and all that stuff, you know, like very sad.
The good news is we got a punch a six
(14:28):
pack this week. These are actuallys and the deal is, Danny,
if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page,
we will read the review. That's what we agreed to, right,
let's fucking go. All right, that's f h. So Mario
is God sent in Mallard, the mench and Danny G
Radio Updated and repackaged Golden Ticket awarded. Review would have
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given more than five stars if possible. If you're a
fan of the Benn Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio
weekdays to Way into six, or even if you're not,
you will find these podcasts thoroughly energy. Friday editions are
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and times of Mallard and interesting surveys study findings. Sundays
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What are you waiting for? Subscribe and download this podcast
as well as past episodes. That is from Mario is God.
Thank you for that. Five stars from Mario who very kind.
(15:59):
Here's one from Logan in Memphis, Tennessee. He says, Uh,
Dear Ken Miller, I like that, love the show. I
am so glad, Logan writes, Danny G is back and
better than ever. I listened to the radio show and
podcast form every day I worked during the day. Also
download the podcast on two different devices to help boost
the numbers. Thank you God, bless you mastone your mention.
(16:22):
Keep up the great work. That's from Logan in Memphis.
So that was very kind of Wow. Two really good
ones in a row there, Yeah, two goes gott craigxter. Uh.
He wrote in you says great work. You and Danny
put on a great show. Massage story was hilarious. Dan hilarious.
(16:45):
I gotta just go to shady massage parlors every single week.
So what all about just have a random women sitting
on your tenderonis backside. Uh No, researches doing the dr
evil fingers right now, show research on the tushy. I
want a camel. Yes, James the Pool Guy rites and
(17:08):
jameson with the show for a long time. We go
way back, He says, I must listen podcast. Just when
I think Ben Maller and Danny g can't do any better,
they opened up a fresh can fresh cans of honest,
hard hitting takes on sports and everyday line. The shows
get better every week. Been listening to Ben's radio show
for almost ten years. That's a round number two radio legends.
(17:31):
That's from James the Pool Guy. Two guys is enough
for me. Very nice. Couple more here. This is from Well,
there's not really a name on this one says lou
o X and then a bunch of other random letters.
So we'll just call this person LOUP. But I don't
even know if that's their name. They didn't sign their name,
which is fine. This thanks a lot for the lack
(17:52):
of sleep. The review five stars. I received the link
you sent me. I have been listing for a couple
of years. Oh, this must be the Donut Guy. I've
been listening for a couple of years now. The monologues
are normally spot on. Your cynical mind is one of
a current I listen every night, or listen to download
shows until you are live. Keep it up. The fifth
hour has been better with Danny g. The staff is awesome.
(18:15):
The Milicia is something else. Thanks for keeping me tired
all day. That's from I believe that's from That means
not no, that's from Lou. The other ones from Benman.
But thank you Lou or whatever your actual real name is.
We appreciate that. What gud thank you. Last one from
(18:35):
Let's see here from Rami. I believe it's from Rami.
My eyes are deceiving me here. It's just just the beginning,
he says Man. Twelve hour shifts would be immensely tough
to tackle without you been truly I noticed myself blast
through the Ben Mallard podcast by noon, I can already
be done with all four hours. Most days, at least
(18:56):
Fridays and Mondays are now filled with a little extra juice.
No juice to help make it through the day. The
banter is so enjoyable no matter who's on set with Ben,
all because, like he says, he's not some regular sports
gas beggar blow hard. Ben's genuine blah blah blah blah blah.
Very nice there, even if that means he admits liking
(19:18):
the Clippers. Wow, yeah, he says, hashtag what's still wrong
with the Clippers? What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Dare you ever? That was from David in Boston? Was
that a total of six? Thank you? Uh? Yeah, I
think we're I think that's all six. I men, Mario,
(19:39):
we had Craig James, the pool guy, this guy Lou
and then vinman or Rami Rami, I think that's all, remember, right, Yeah? Uh?
I mean the dear Ken Miller one from Logan. That
was Logan. So that was Logan, our gout Logan in Memphis, Tennessee,
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so flipping the bird with a mask? What is this about?
Danny g What are we? What are we dealing with
this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I was talking a
little bit about how Monday was the first day that
California schools we're no longer requiring you who worked there
at the school or students to have to wear a mask.
It was optional. In fact, we went around the campus
(22:39):
and hung up these flyers that showed a picture of
a girl with her thumb up a box that was checked,
saying I am comfortable without a mask, and then and
then another picture of her with the other thumb up
saying I AM comfortable with my mask. All the cheesiness
that you would expect from the school just stricks here
(23:00):
in California. Of course, this is a big deal. We're
they're still trying to encourage the kids, like overwhelming the
you should keep wearing the mask and all that. Don't
don't stop. They still you don't know, at least the
school that I work for. I gotta give them props
because they didn't say anything to the staff like that.
They didn't say anything to the students. They only hung
(23:22):
those those flyers up. So I was like, all right, cool,
I mean, it's up to us what we want to do.
In my mind, I'm thinking the parents are gonna show
up on Monday morning drop off the kids. They are
gonna run in screaming with their friends with no masks on. Sure,
my morning shift. I'm out there in front of the school.
(23:44):
Some of my responsibilities are with the gate. You're like
you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes, I I'm the muscle
right outside the main gates. You're the ranch hero leading down. Yes.
So I got my walkie talk key that looked very official.
Parents are pulling up. But I noticed something ben that
(24:06):
caught me off guard. Okay, there were parents inside their
cars wearing masks. I'm talking both parents with a mask on,
two kids in the back seat, both wearing masks, and
then the parents pushed the kids out of the car.
And what I heard the parents say was and do
(24:26):
not take it off the entire day. No really, boom,
you can light me on fire. And they're looking right
at me too, like you scumbag without a mask, I
see you. So it felt like not so subtle way
of flipping me off with their masks on while all
(24:49):
of you are getting sick. Now because some of the
masks are off, we're gonna double up our masks and
wear them inside. Bull crap that bull Oh man. I
saw at least six or seven cars Monday morning where
that was their vibe. That's what was going on. And
these are the same cars I've seen before where they
(25:10):
don't have masks on normally inside the car. Yeah, you
have to have a very low i Q to be
driving with your family or by yourself and wearing a
mask in your car. No, I agree with you. But
the problem is, first of all, I'm not surprised by this. Secondly,
it's you know, bad you know, bad habits die hard,
or I'd say that that's the issue here. See, the
(25:31):
problem is people have We're all creatures a habit. And
I see the same thing. I'm driving around, You're not
driving around where I'm where I'm living now, and I'll
see people walking by themselves on a beautiful day in
California and they've got the mask all, you know, covering
their face. I'm like, what are you doing? You know?
But they estimate I remember this years ago because I
(25:53):
was trying to lose weight. I could never lose weight.
I was like, what the hell? And because you gotta
change your habits. But the problem is once people change
their it takes like over two months. They asked him.
A scientists it is study years ago. Maybe it's changed,
but human behavior, something becomes automatic. In sixties six days,
they said, that's exactly. That's a sweet spot for on
(26:14):
average sixty six days. If you want to change something,
you have to do it for sixty six days, and
then at that point it just becomes part of you.
And we are two years into this, Danny almost I
think we're over the two year mark for the mask thing.
Maybe not, but we're close to it. Two years into
the mass thing, people have been now hardwired. It's like
Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now they have
(26:38):
to be hardwired the other way. And I was telling
I was doing a buddy of mine when I when
I was growing up, and I think I've told this
story before on the podcast, but when I when I
was getting my mom, God rest her soul, she she
hoarded like everything because she grew up in a household
that her parents went through the depression, and so for
(27:00):
you know, I had to have you know, when you
had the opportunity to buy a million rolls of toilet
paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she would load
up for like the nuclear winter, and that was the
rest of her entire life. She did that because of
the trauma as a kid. And so I think we're
gonna have the same bull crap, these poor kids of today.
You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but these kids are
(27:21):
still gonna be wearing masks when they go out a
lot because they they were programmed as children. And it sucks.
But I I don't know a way around it. I don't. Yeah,
it's gonna take a while. Oh My mom and dad
told me I'd better not take it off today. It's
just gonna go on for a long time. Unfortunately. The
one thing I will say for me, and I would
(27:43):
say about seventy percent of the staff had their masks
off and uh. And the dean of the school, one
thing he did tell me is he's like, I think
it's important for the kids to see our faces, and yes, yeah,
they see our facial expressions and you know, to really
get a handle on things going on on the campus.
(28:03):
That makes a lot of sense because when kids can't
see your facial expressions, you're only using your words and
that doesn't always work. So, you know, it was nice
to see a lot of the faculty for the first time.
I swear to God, the ladies in the office, I
had never seen their faces. It was it was so strange,
and some of them should have put their masks back on.
(28:25):
That's the problem, Danny, right, because I you know, it's
kind of a lot of times when will get all
dolled up with a lot of makeup on, but you
have the mask. What's the point of putting the makeup on?
You know what? You got the mask on. Now you
gotta go back and do all that bull crap again,
I guess you. Of course, who am I to talk?
I have a face for radio, obviously, But I go
and I go to the lunch like I talked about
(28:46):
on yesterday's podcast, I go to work with the kindergarteners,
and that same girl Aria in the afternoon, she was
following me around and she said, I'm gonna marry you.
I'm marrying Mr g I'm gonna marry you. And I'm like,
that's appropriate. She's hugging my leg. Thirty seconds later, and
(29:07):
and Ben, you know not that you get a big
ego from a five year old telling you they think
that you look nice without your mask. Thirty seconds later,
she was doing a very bad impersonation of me, sticking
out her stomach saying I'm Mr ge whoa who like
very unflattering, you know, uh, talking ship and I was like, wait,
(29:30):
thirty seconds ago, you wanted to marry me. You can't
out women five years old. She's already listen that the
rest of her life should be the same way. She'll be,
you know, twenty some years old, should be dating same
bullcraps canna happen some guy, some other kids that you know,
some other schools gonna be you know, the same age
you're gonna be dating her And be like, what the
hell are you? I don't understand what are you doing?
(29:52):
One final thought on the mask. I noticed that my
energy levels are way way up. I would say, by
you're breathing is labor, especially when you're outside and you're
chasing kids around and you have a physical job. That
thing was a killer. I would go home and want
to collapse. Now I've actually been coming home and getting
(30:14):
emails and stuff done because I still feel good. Yeah, no,
I agree with you. Like the the breathing, it's not good,
it's not it's not eat And I'd be fully transparent here.
I always thought this was kind of preposterous and ludicrous back,
you know, even when it started. So what I I
would go walking when I lived in the old place.
(30:35):
And also this is nonsensical. But so many people felt like,
if you didn't wear the mask, you know, it's insubordination
of society and all this bull crap. So what I
would do is I'd wear the mask is like a
chin strap, and then I was walking, I walked by people,
I'd raise it up and then as soon as I
walked past them, I'd lower it. And that would be
That would buy be my way to get around it.
(30:57):
But yeah, and I I feel you on the showing up,
the parents, showing up and giving the the stank guy,
you know, giving you the side eye, like what do
you do? I hate that? And I see I see
these pompous assholes. Occasionally, you know, I'll go out to
the store or something like that, and you know, I
don't wear the mask, and there's still people they look
(31:18):
at you, like, well, what's wrong with you? But but
there's part of me also thinks, in addition to people
being programmed and trained now that they have to wear
the mask, and they'll you know, taking a long time
to change their habits. The other issue here is I
think there's a lot of people that don't realize the
mandate's gone. They just they think it's still going around.
(31:38):
They don't pay attention to the headlines and they're just like, well,
it must be still going on. They haven't gotten the memo.
I think there's those people also that don't want to,
you know, they don't acknowledge the media in any way,
and they're like, i't understand. You know, they told me
years you know, a month ago, two years ago, to
do this. I gotta keep doing it. You know those
parents that were like that on Monday morning, I just
gave them a thumbs up and an even bigger smile. Hi,
(32:00):
I like to saint, I'm figured, all right, you're gonna
flip me off with your mask inside your car, I'm
gonna smile at you even bigger. Yeah. No, No, I'll
walk around here and I'll take I take pictures. I
have a photo collection of people sitting in their cars
at red lights with mass on. I do like that.
Those are our fellow human beings. We are all the
(32:22):
same here, We're all It's the most illogical thing ever.
You're not gonna get COVID while you're on the freeway
by yourself in a car. And if COVID was that,
you know, contagious, then what's the point you know, I
mean you really you know, Come on, what do we do?
You know you have anxiety over that? Stop stop with
the emotional collapse and on it. Last thing here, We're
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so real quick so. Over the years, I have been
very blessed to have multiple culinary establishments across the United
(34:33):
States named food dishes after me, and it's been very cool.
Some of them have come and gone. We had the
Mallard Pizza and Grand Rapids, Michigan that didn't last very long.
We also had the originator, the o G in Syracuse,
the mal Zone, which is a it was a cow
zone with the Mallard touch. It was like Philly cheese steak,
(34:54):
but it was the It was really good. But we
still have we still have three items on the on
the menu of the various us We've got the Mallard
Fowler at the Bird the Ballet there in Lawrence, Kansas.
We have the Mallard Chicken Fingers at the Landing and Liberty, Missouri,
right near the Royals Chiefs Complex there where they play
their their sports. In Kansas City, the Mallard Buffalo chicken sandwich.
(35:16):
That's at three locations now, Danny and Denver. That place
started with one location, three locations the Greater Denver area.
The sports Book Bar and Grill had that. I've had
that sandwich, good sandwich. So I bring this up because
we we were closed at least I thought we were
close to having another foods and the return of the
Mallard pizza you know Vado right, And so I'm bringing
(35:42):
this up because it's got a kind of a disappointing
part to the Miracael to the story. So I have
been corresponding with a fan of the show discussing the
Mallard pie, and the plan was to add this to
the today. The rule is, if you're new to the
show the Mallard the way this works, all you have
to do is put it on the menu. You don't
(36:02):
have to pay me or anything like that. I mean
we and occasionally I will promote these restaurants from time
to time and whatnot. And so the Mallard pizzas roasted garlic,
bell pepper. I like to throw different colors to make
it really pop, red, green, yellow, throw some onions on there.
It's very simple. It's a simple pie. It's the kind
of pie that will keep vampires away because of the
(36:24):
garlic and around of stuff. And so so anyway, this
establishment in the Northeast, in the Boston area was going
to to do this, at least that's what I was told.
And uh, however, I think I need to contact the
ghostbusters here because Danny, all of a sudden I have
been ghosted and uh as it vanished, and so I've
I've decided since I don't think that's gonna happen. I
(36:48):
think it's been long enough. I think that we're we'
moved on from that, or they've moved on for that
or whatever. So, uh, if and I'll just throw this
out there, nobody has to do it. Maybe nobody will.
But if there's some mom and pop shop out there
that I would like he is interested in this, uh,
then you know, contact me, and I I love promoting small,
(37:08):
small restaurants. I know how difficult it is in the
restaurant business. I've had friends in that not tough it
can be, and so I'd love to help me out
and I'd like to bring the Mallard pizza back. So
you can email me, contact me Ben Mallers Show at
gmail dot com. And uh, and again the rules are
very simple. I have to just put the Mallard name
on there, some kind of food dish and then that's it.
(37:29):
And then we've we've had multiple p ones. I know
moving man Matt in Boston has done the Mallard food
toward multiple times. Of course he's got an excuse because
he drives a moving truck all over the country. But
we had a few other listeners that have done that
and then so uh, I've also thought of the if
the pizza is not a thing, how about the Mallard
burger Danny, we could do that. I've never had a mallardburg,
(37:51):
never done the mallarburg, so we could do that too.
So I'm not going to cook on my knees. What
would the Danny jeep dish? B if A restaurants like
I want to. I liked an g more than you, Mallord.
What would a food dish be for Danny G Radio?
What do you think that would be? Then? What would
you come up? Let's see what was my go to dish?
I would say a pasta for me, some kind of
(38:11):
pasta like a Feduccini alfredo or something like that. Yeah, yeah, pasta.
Maybe a lasagna. Okay. It's a really great place here
called Maria's, and the pasta is outstanding. I mean, you
would kill somebody to get their lasagna and they serve
it to you in one of those hot tins. Even
when you get at home. It is super hot. And
(38:32):
you know, a restaurant means business when they're serving up
lasagna like that. The flavors are superb. So yeah, I
would I would like a nice lasagna. When I think
of a Mallard pie, I'm thinking maybe instead of a salami,
maybe you do a bologna. You are the Beethoven of BS. Well,
that would be funny, like a bologna sandwich, you know,
(38:54):
the mallor or something like that. That would be that
would be funny. But I'm on a fast right now
as we're doing this. As where you're doing the podcast
and and you talking about that pasta. Man, it's making
me wish I had some pasta right now. Or it
is some kind of great Italian food. My I had
that last Friday night with my tender Roni and we
took it home and they said it's gonna take forty minutes,
(39:18):
and we were okay with that. We knew they were
making everything fresh, and we know they serve it up
really hot in their in their tins that they send
you off with. So when we got that on the
kitchen table and we spread it out, it was like
a smorgest board of goodness. And I was really strategic.
I'm like, I'm gonna just take one little slice of
this lasagna, save the rest for tomorrow. Brought it to
(39:41):
the studio with me. It lasted for two days. What
a weekend just having that Italian food like that. That's great. Yeah,
I had Lately. The Italian place we've been going to
occasionally is in uh down in Orange County and Huntington
Beach called Casino Romano's Wonderful. Literally the park there's a
(40:01):
parking lot behind it, and then the beach sunset beaches
on the other side, there's like so there's some beaches,
houses on the beach, but there's a parking lot line
of houses and then the beach, and then on the
other side is the restaurant. This place is really good.
I'm making a note of that right now. It's really
hard to convince my tender Roni to go to Italian
(40:23):
and where do white women at That's the least visited
kind of restaurant by us, because she doesn't want pasta
you live once, enjoy life, man, Yeah, here's what you do.
Here's the move. Unfortunately, she's probably listening to this so
she'll hear it. But the move would be take your
your queen tender Roni to Huntington's down in that area
(40:45):
and say, hey, we're down here anyway, why not have
h I know a good Italian place boom done right,
just like that, I'm gonna do that. She had a
nice Caesar salad and she likes chicken poccata, so she'll
do the chicken. Okay, I got you, I got you,
all right. I'm I'm hungry now too, Let's go eat.
I know, right, It's all sounds very appetizing to me.
(41:05):
I mean, I'll take even some some cheese, rabby olie
or something like that. I'm good to go on that.
My taste buds are are water little taste. I have
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