March 12, 2023 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred
minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the a Everywhere.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G Radio
back at it in the podcast Dojo on a Sunday,
and that means one thing and one thing only. It
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is time to plump up Danny G. Because we are
about to jump head first into a colossal Bafo sako
addition of the mailbag, and that means, ohio A, let's
at ome. It's all right, thank you for that, ohio.
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All these are actual questions sent in by actual listeners.
I would like to put out we did not get
the backscratcher yesterday. We ran out of time. It's okay
because nobody scratched our back, Danny. Not a single person
scratched our back. Bad job by you. But there's another opportunity.
This week, And if you want to help us out,
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the podcast page is available, the Apple podcast page, and
you can write a nice review. We got shut out
this week. We had a bunch last week. We had
like four or five last week. This week none. I
wouldn't really call it a shutout. I would call it
you being a really bad teacher giving out too much homework. No,
people are busy voting right now for the biggest award
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show this season, and that is tonight. And if you
missed the Friday podcast, go back. It is your partner,
it is your assistant, it is your comrade to walk
you through batch, your significant other to the twenty twenty
three Bennies which are going to kick off tonight, all
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the awards given out, all the honors. What an amazing night,
the greatest night of overnight talk radio and sports that
we have. But so no backscratcher. But let's get to
the mailbag. We played Ohio, how so we must get
to the actual questions by actual listeners. Let's get to it.
The first one, it's from Fred in Spring, Texas. He says, hey, Ben,
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and Danigee. He says, Ben, can you share some of
your experiences on New Zealand radio. Did you ever visit
New Zealand? Did you ever master knowledge of cricket or rugby?
Says Fred So. First of all, I've never been to
New Zealand. I would love to go to New Zealand.
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I was a correspondent. I was the American correspondent on
the They had a bunch of international correspondents raio. It
was called Radio Sport in New Zealand, and I loved it.
It was great, it was wonderful and all that. Unfortunately,
when COVID came around, that's it. They did not make
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it through COVID. They were casualty. The entire network went
out of business during COVID. The reason, the real reason
they went out of business is it cost a lot
of money and the company that owned Radio Sport no
longer wanted to spend the amount of money that it takes,
and so they pulled the plug. They said that's it.
You know, we're done, And so I lost the gig.
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But I had become good friends with Darcy Waldergrave, who
was doing the afternoon show and now does but he does.
He did a morning show. Now he's on the news
talk station. And the comparison on that would be like
in Los Angeles you have KFI. In New York you
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have WINS. I don't know if WINS is the right
example because WINS is just a hard news station. It's
more of a news talk But anyway, Darcy does a
show on the weekends which is the number one show
in New Zealand. It's a morning breakfast show. And I
still go on with him every once in a while,
but it's no longer a paying gig. I was getting
paid to appear on radio sport. I would love to
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go to New Zealand. I have learned that my appearances
can be preempted by cricket. Cricket goes on forever and
ever and ever and ever. And I've learned some fun
facts about people in New Zealand that I didn't know about.
Like a lot of people go on vacation or as
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they call it, holiday to Indonesia. That's a popular spot
in a few other countries which are obviously not that
far away, and New Zealand's not close to anything. But
I did also learn that New Zealand and Australia are
not all that close. It's a it's a big flight
to go for it. Seems on the map, Danny, that
they're right next, but not quite. So it's no surprise
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that they went out of business because here they were
paying big celebrities like you to come on as a guest. Hey,
let me tell you something, all right, we have we
have listeners to this day because of that. On the
overnight people listen. We're actually on in New Zealand as well,
which doesn't hurt Marcus in San Antonio writes, and he says, hello,
Uncle Ben and Daddy, Gee Daddy, and a happy daylight
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savings time to both of you. Growing up as a
military brat, my childhood was mostly spent overseas in Europe.
Once we returned to the States, we landed in a
suburb just outside of Kansas City. This was in the
nineteen eighties and the Royals were at the top of
their game. They won the World Series in nineteen eighty five,
and it was a great season. Upon returning, or upon
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entering rather, the sixth grade, Marcus writes, Upon entering the
sixth grade, one of my classmates was the son of
fledgling middle reliever, a guy named Dennis Leonard, and the
son was a bit on the arrogant side. To say
the least. His dad wasn't a major part of the Royals,
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but when the Royals lost a game, everyone would give
him a hard time. Marcus says. My question for you
guys is have either of you or your family members
ever had to deal with taking crap from someone because
of something said on the radio or social media by
either of you? Marcus says, in today's climate of oversensitive
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people and those who are seeking out any way to
be offended, I was curious of your experiences. Thanks again
for your time, and I will be voting for the Bennis,
he says during his can'tnot wait to hear the winners.
That's from Marcus in San Antonio. So I don't want
to speak for you, Danny, but my experience is my
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wife does not really listen that much, so she's kind
of out of a loop. And she doesn't really do
social media anymore. She stopped at because she heard of
some podcast not to do social media, so she stopped
doing social media. So she's really oblivious to what's going on.
I guess I don't know if that's the right way
to phrase it, but she's she's not She didn't have
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to worry about this stuff because she's not dealing with it.
What about you, Danny? Yeah, same, my dad facebooks. My
girl stays off of Twitter and stuff like that. She
loves Instagram reels. She likes seeing funny videos. That's pretty
much why she has Instagram on her phone, and I
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can relate to that. That's the same reason I use
Instagram as far as like arguing with people are saying
something that gets the family and the weeds. No, my
older brother is on Twitter, but he's very much a
Magic Johnson tweeter. He'll tweet stuff like I wish I
could see this Lakers team all season, so there's nothing
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controversial going on that's funny. Yeah, my dad used to
listen to everything, well, my mom listening to. My dad
would listen when I was convenient for him, which was
when I did the Boston stuff when I was on EI,
and he would listen, and sometimes every once in a
while somebody would track him down a listener, and my
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dad didn't really know how to deal with that, like,
what are they talking about? I don't understand. I was like, hey,
you know, it's a phenomenon, right, because if you first
start doing this, then everyone around you wants to tune in.
When you've been doing this for a long time, no
one arounds you really gives a shit. Yeah, no, they
don't give a crap, Like, yeah, he's he's been doing
that for twenty years. I'm yeah, yeah, good deal. Yeah.
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When you start, it's everyone listens, They comment on your
your takes, what you're saying. Yeah, they got an opinion,
they want to they're proud of you. And then after
a while, so I got you know, it's like it's
just like driving a bus, you know, it's like we're
driving a bus around town. Next up on the mailback,
Mike from Fullerton Rights and says, I'm a big fan
of the Benny Awards, as big a fan as anyone,
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But do you find it worrying how full of themselves
the winners become after winning Best Crew Filling last year?
Danny g has never been the same? Oh me? Is
that true to any Have you not been the same
since you won Best Crew Filling? Well, clearly it catapulted
me to the Cavino and Rich Show, and so I
do a victory lap every single afternoon on the network.
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Well that was what put it over the top. Don
Martin was just trying to decide what should I do here? What?
Wait a minute, crew filling of the year, look me in, coach,
I'm ready to play. My man, you just turned into
a radio legend. My man, oh man, I'm gonna make
you famous moment. He also said, Mike, congrats on me,
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Ben finally becoming an Instagram model. I knew it was
only a matter of time before you were discovered. Well,
thank you, thank you, Mike, and I believe he's referencing
to last week's podcast when I finally was sent an
offer to be an influencer for really ugly women's sunglasses.
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Those orange frames look good on you right now though,
thank you. I took a dozen. I figured they were offering,
so why not. You can't turn down an offer like that.
Next up from Kay Ringing in okac He says, hey, guys,
how's it going? Right to the question on the mail bag?
What are some of your biggest bets that you won?
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What are the biggest bets that you have also lost?
Says I know, Ben Gambles, what about you, daddy? Gee
ha ha ha. I know people get worked up over
betting good or bad. I bet it would be awesome content,
especially when and gets mad it's hilarious. It's not Radio
Gold Kyrie. Somebody wants to hear me angry. They want
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to hear me happy. They want to hear me flexing
and doing a victory laub. So I will not even
share the wins because the wins. Any real gambler who
shares wins is full of shit. The gambler remembers the losses,
not the wins. And I've had some all time losses.
I lost my ass on the Music City Miracle, which
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you probably might not remember if you're of a certain age,
if you're young. But this was the Tennessee Titans wild
card weekend against the Buffalo Bills. Doug Flutie, Brad Johnson,
Wade Phillips, that era of the Buffalo Bills against the
Tennessee Titans, and Buffalo was in position to pull the
upset on the what turned out to me the fateful
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final play. It was called the Music City Miracle. It
was an illegal forward pass from Franky. I checked to
Kevin Dyson. I still I could still close my eyes
Danny and see the play was a total bullshit call.
The ball went forward. That's an illegal forward pass because
they had already lateraled the officials didn't have the balls
to call it, and next thing you know, Tennessee went
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on that play, they scored, They scored the touchdown. I
lose my bet. Freaking nightmare. I'm still pissed about it
all these years later. And then the other one, the
other one I remember really bad. I was convinced the
Atlanta Braves were going to beat the Saint Louis Cardinals
in a playoff series. And this is when the Braves
had Maddox, Clavin and Smoltz, three bona fide Hall of Fames.
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The Cardinals didn't have much at all, and they had
traded for a guy from I think he had been
on the Giants, but he might have been on somebody
after the Giants, Will Clark, Will the thrill Clark. Oh god,
he had that ugly batting stance. Yeah, and this Jabroni
who had seemingly been washed up, so he might have
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come from like the Texas Rangers or the Orioles or
something like that. But this guy Will Clark had a
couple of big hits, as I remember, and the Cardinals,
all these punch and judy hitters were getting hits standard
Cardinal baseball, killing me and I lost that bet, and
I still in retrospect, I still can't believe that a
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team with Maddox, Glavin and Smoltz, bunch of Hall of
Fame position players also and they lost to a second
rate Cardinal team blows me away. I bet on the series.
It wasn't one game. I bet on the entire series.
So you're not much of a gambler, right, You save
your money, Daddy G. I'm a sports purist. I love sports.
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I do not like losing my hard earned money on
said sports. You don't lose your win We're winners. I
want winners. Yeah, I've seen you at four in the
morning at the twenty four hour Diner in Vegas with
your last eight dollars. Hey, but those those eggs over
easy are not beat the Pancakes and not be Kevin
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and Kansas rights in on the mail bag, he says,
Dear Ben and Danny G. Radio. When I was growing up,
I watched the weekly baseball game on in BC and
the Cubs and Braves on Cable. I learned to do
a lot of quick math in my mind by calculating
batting averages after each at bat or figuring out ball
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and strike ratios. I transferred those skills to other sports
as well. Did you guys do similar mental math when
you were watching sports or were you just watching the game?
Does that make me weird? From Kevin? Kevin and Kansas.
So I learned geography from baseball. I learned where the
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states were that had teams. I learned the minor leagues.
I knew everyone's Triple A team and what's state they
were in, and that was a lot of smaller places.
That's how you knew Ottawa was the capital of Canada. Yeah,
I knew all of Like the geography, I memorized so
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much nonsense back in the day. But I recall that,
and I don't know if I should admit it. I
have talked about this in the past, but I at
the gym when I'm on my treadmill doing my workout.
Every once in a while, I'll flip on YouTube. There's
a couple of the channels that put the NBC Game
of the Week on. This past week, I was watching
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nineteen eighty five Dodgers Astros from the Astrodome Intro Guerrero. Yeah, yeah, dominating,
and it was Bob Costas and I think it was
Jim Cott. But they were calling the game and it
was the full broadcast, and they were talking about the
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state of the teams at the time. The trade deadline
was coming up. There was the Dodgers needed a third baseman,
and so it was just I love like stupid stuff
like that. But Bob Costas was like those rumors the
sports writers are saying, the Dodgers are gonna get Buddy
Bell from the Rangers, and Tommy Lasorda went and visited
his buddy Bobby Valentine and Arlington before the Dodgers got
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to Houston, and they ended up Do you remember who
they ended up trading for that year, Danny at the
trade deadline nineteen eighty five. Third baseman guy was prolific
in the eighties, had some off the field problem. Bill Madlock,
Oh that's right, mad Dog big guy right, Uh yeah, pudgy,
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but yeah it was a Kirby Pucket looking dude, right,
not quite to that level, but yeah, he was yet
well Kirby Pucket when he was in shape. How about that.
Let me tell you something. Though, I started covering the
Dodgers in nineteen early nineties, I'll date myself, but it
was not that long after. Bill Mallock and Madlock hadn't
played for the Dodgers for very long, but the people
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he left such a mark on the Dodger people. They
freaking loved Bill Madlock. The guys would talk about Madlock
and how great he was. The two guys I recall,
and there's all ths, but the two off of my time,
I uh that were briefly Dodgers that were beloved in
the locker room and around the people that worked for
the team. Back when the O'Malley family on the Dodgers,
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it was Bill Madlock. And you remember a guy named
Juan Samuel, Yeah, Wan Samuel. Juan Samuel was beloved by
the people around the Dodgers. I don't know what he did,
but they loved the guy. And he was bounced around
and played for a bunch of a bunch of different teams.
But as far as the Math, I got carried away
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to any bad job by mad Dog Madlock. Yeah, there
you go. But you want to answer Kevin's question, the
math and he learned because we didn't have graphics on
the screen like they do now. These kids today and
they're graphics. It was only occasionally when they go to
commercial or come back to commercial they'd put the score up.
Didn't even know what the damn score was. Take that
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for data. Yeah, put that in your pipe. You're right.
We did keep the score Classic Lakers Boston Celtics matchup.
My older brother and I would keep the score and
we would keep saying the score out loud, and then
they would finally flash the score and we would see
if we were right. Try. Yeah, trying to try to
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guess with the score. That's good. I like it. I
like it. Yeah, So definitely, Kevin, You're not weird. I
do recommend Kevin, though, and I don't want you to
stop listening to the podcast. But in addition, as a
companion for you, if you go on YouTube, you can
find links to old baseball games, just random like type
in certain like Monday Night Baseball or NBC Game of
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the Week, and these things will pop up. And some
of them even have the commercials. So if you want
to go full nostalgia and you can go back and
watch some of those old commercials. The car commercials just
kill me. Yeah, please the sea Cow well that, but
they the national commercials. Most of the cars don't even
exist anymore, and you look at them and they're total
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pieces of shit compared to the cars today, right, you know,
Like I mean, this was a brand new car that
was it's all excited to have, and you're like, man,
that that's a total Jalopy. What was a sticker price?
Six thousand dollars? Oh? Yeah, total, it was like five
thousand dollars, four thousand, nine hundred ninety nine dollars right
now for a piece of ship that was worth three
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hundred dollars. Yeah, exactly. Next up on the mailbag, Barry
in Nashville, says Yo Yo Yo yo yo mob Benny
and Danny Gee, have either of you done or would
you do the one ship challenge? So I'm good on
that I've not done it. Yeah, somebody offered me some money.
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I would consider that. Sounds like something Caveno and Rich
and you Danny have either done or will do. Something
about needing to breathe correctly is big, especially like I'm
a boxer, so I've had two broken noses as a kid.
Cartilage in my nose. One of my nostrils is like
sixty percent closed. I need to breathe out of the
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one good nostril. Can you imagine eating one of those
chips and you're choking, you can't breathe. That's a scary thought.
I don't need that in my life. Yeah, I'm good
on that, So you wouldn't want to use that, Joe
missoula thing? Right? Did you see the Celtic coach who's
he tapes his mouth shut? Did you see that at night? Oh?
Hell no? Oh yeah, he tapes his mouth shut. So
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he says he gets better sleep because it forces you
to breathe through your That's one thing is that, man,
I can't sleep breathing through my mouth, So if people
ever call us a mouth breather, that's incorrect. I sleep
through my nose no matter what. So that's why I
freak out if my good nostril gets stuffed up. I
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didn't even know this was a thing until I read
about it this week. Though. Did you realize that there
are people that buy tape to a special sleep tape
to tape your mouth shut? What are you a hostage?
I would want no part of that, Nicholas. But thank
you Berry. Good question. Nicholas from Parts Unknown rights in
on Facebook. He says, why do you keep yelling? Number one? Well,
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the reason I do that, Nicholas, is to just annoy you.
I was trying to figure out how I could annoy you,
and I determined after a minute long investigation that you, Nicholas,
hearing me yell number one would really bother you. But
that is is a tribute, Danny. You know what I'm doing,
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a tribute to two old HR radio stations. No, you
know the soccer play by play, you know the soccer
when there's a goal. Instead, I thought you meant the
number one in general, because that number one jingle we
got it from Big brother Jake back in the day.
Oh yeah, well we had the number one jingle. I
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love jingles. I'm all about the jingles. Jingles are great.
We should have some jingles. I'm sure the company will
buy jingles for us. Ben Maller and Danny g jingles
the weakest but also the most awesome jingles in Bakersfield radio.
As I was driving up the five Freeway last weekend,
everything was a fucking jingle on their radio stations. That's
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great nineteen eighties style. Yeah, easy, top of the hour news.
They even sang to introduce their news. I love it.
I'm all about that. And jingles the way to go.
That's old school radio right there. The jingle and there's
a place in Dallas. We talked about this. There's that
guy that place in Dallas and Clayton Kershaw's father was
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at Jingle. He worked at that place. He made the
jingles and all that. Next up is ni in Wisconsin.
He says, Ben and Danny, if you were offered one
million dollars but you could only eat ballpark hot dogs
for lunch and dinner, breakfast is still okay? Would you
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take the money? Of course now because you just eat
whatever you want for breakfast. You don't have to eat
breakfast food. You could eat barbecue, you could eat pizza
for breakfast whatever. No I mean on this diet he's
talking about. I'm already a winner because he just described
mainly what we ate as kids growing up. Would even
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cut up hot dogs when she was rich, she would
cut hot dogs up and mix those hot dogs into
the macaronian cheese. That's when you knew you were bawling. Yeah,
ballpark hot dogs are hit and miss I do not.
I have an unpopular opinion. I do not enjoy the
dodge dog. I do not enjoy the dodge dog. I
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do not think it's great. But I love of Finnway Franks,
the Monster Dog. And there's a listener, Phil in Massachusetts
who used to send me every year. You might remember this.
Then he'd sent a big box of Finway Franks, which
they sell in the local grocery stores in Boston. Delicious.
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I grilled some up when I was living in Burbank.
They were so good. Yeah, those are good. I really
think Phil. I haven't heard from Phil in a while.
I hope he's all right, But yeah, those were great, man.
I love those monster dogs and the Finway Francs. That's
how you make a hot dog. Cleveland had good hot
dogs too, So if I could only eat, to answer
your question, Nick, only eat ballpark hot dogs, I get
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to pick the ballparks. So I picked the Finnway Frank.
I picked the dog in Cleveland, no dodge of dogs.
I have not been to a Mets or Yankees game
in a while, so I don't know what the hot
dog situation there is, but I'm sure there's others that
I would like as well. And plus remember that hot
dog in Arizona, and they think they have one in
Texas which is like it's like five feet long, and
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they put fries on it, and they put all the
other stuff on top of it, Like that counts as
a hot dog, right, Nick? I could eat that and
then I got the fries. I got everything else on top.
But I'm technically honoring the one million dollar wager and
the one million dollar wager that has to be after taxes, Danny,
that cannot be before taxes. That has to be after taxes.
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Do we agree on that? That's something you see on
the Food Challenges, Right, you have twenty minutes to eat
that whole giant dog with the fries and the chili
and all the other concoctions they mixed together. And that
guy looked like he was gonna freaking die at the
end of it. Yeah. You guy to quit the show
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because of health problems. Allegedly he moved on did other things.
Yeah he's thin now. Mark writes in from Parts and on.
He says a question for you guys, have you ever
been late to your radio shows? Yes, I've done a
lot of radio. It's happened twice twice. I've been late once.
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I overslept and that was my boss's fault. I'm blaming
him because I had a Friday night show and then
he had us coming back. We got off the air
at midnight and we had to be on the air
at seven in the morning. We're doing at seven to
ten on Saturday morning because the boss figured out he
could sell remotes every Saturday at home depots and lows
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and hardware stores and tire stores. So the only reason
we did the Saturday show was because they sold remotes.
But the problem was we'd get off at midnight on Friday,
and then we would want to go and kind of
wind down, and by the time you get to sleep,
it's like three in the morning and you got to
be up at six, and so that didn't work out.
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The other time, I got a flat tire on the
way to work and that deep sixed me. So I
was a little late, and that was at Fox Sports
Radio that one. What about you, Danny, I think that
I am like you. I can count on one hand
how many times because we're psycho about getting there on time,
and we'll set five alarms on our phone. You're not
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allowed to be late to radio. Radio goes twenty four
hours a day and nobody waits for your show to start. Yeah,
it's it's one of those jobs where it's a great
job to have, unlike a like a podcast. You can
be late. It doesn't the podcast starts when you start
doing the podcast. But the radio you're You're powered by
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the radio gods. Yea. Even getting pulled over, there was
a time where I told the officer, I don't mean
to be rude, sir, but I have to get to
my radio program and it starts whether I'm there or not,
you know, And he gave me a ticket, but it
was fine. I was just like, hurry up the tickets
so I can get to my show. Yeah, that's cool.
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Let's see. Can't close the deal, Neil. Right, so he says,
what was your most memorable moment of your tenure in radio.
It's kind of an generic question, Neil. You can do
better than that, Neil. We love you. You can't close
the deal, Neil. It just depends on the day, depends
on the day, the moment that you want to go
back in time. I've had some wonderful shows, individual shows.
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I've often talked about. The night the Malice at the
Palace happened. I was on the air for five hours
after that. That was unbelievably fun. Sports radio met a
lot of cool people, that stand out people I never
thought I would you know, would would know that became
somewhat friendly with me. So legends people I looked up
to when I was a kid, So that was always cool.
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But I don't know if you can whittle it down
to one one moment. Is there one moment for you, Danny?
Is it doing this podcast? Is that it? I mean,
obviously this is way up there. But as a kid,
I got to interview Digital Underground, a little known rapper
was part of their group, Tupac Shakur. Oh wow. And
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so Tupac hopped on the phone and I got to
talk to him on the air for a few minutes,
which I wish I had the cassette tape of that.
Fast forward to when I was an adult in my
early twenties, I interviewed Jay Z and he told a
great story about Biggie Smalls. It all kind of came
full circle because now I'm really on an FM station
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interviewing a big rapper. And then fast forward to doing
sports talk radio and it was a very very very
big deal. Congratulations to have on the President of the
United States. Yeah I remember, Oh yeah, that was Big
the Trumpster on the air, not once, but twice. We
love Big Ben, Big Ben's a friend of mine. Yeah, yeah,
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I always heard those stories when we were when I
was growing up and I am being in politics a
little bit and be like, you know, the President would
call whoever the Red Sox congratulate them or they didn't win.
When I was a kid that the Yankees and the
President would call up and as a standby, the President
of the United States is going to come on the phone, right,
(30:09):
And the President Trump didn't do that, he just did
it as well. If he didn't, he didn't have a
bunch of people call him up, right. That was the
balled on his own cell phone. And you would have
thought Brian know was on the phone talking to me
because he was. He was speaking to me as if
he knew me. And he said, well, I listened to
(30:30):
you guys every morning, and and it's like, I don't
know if he was just bullshitting, but that's what he
told me. So after that, I had a new appreciation
for jeez, people do listen to this crap. That is
outstanding A ten out of ten for President Trump there
(30:50):
calling up and he was a big radio guy. That
was a big part of his life. He does President Trump,
but loved radio. He was a regular on stern Show
before or Stern went Allwaukee and went off the deep
end and became everything he hated and all that. I mean,
he was a big part of that, that show and
some other shows. So Sarah from Minnesota rice in. She says,
(31:15):
you guys had asked for some information regarding the old
Gascon fifth Hour promos and when they were playing, and
she sent me the exact times. She says, during the
Ben Mallar Show on March fifth and sixth, on the
iHeart podcast, they played the old fifth hour promo. What
is going on with this? Danny Hey, Okay, so let
(31:35):
me explain it to you. The old version stashed away
somewhere and he's putting the old version into the podcast
for the Mallards show. Okay, some producers at our network
who have the old version of your promo and they
have that stashed away and their folders or whatever, and
they're just pulling that and putting it in because the
(31:56):
Marching Orders say this week we're putting the Ben Maller
promo in and it attaches the new version of your promo.
But do you think that they go in and pull
what's attached to that email? Oh? Come, on too much work. Yeah,
there you go. Well, thank you, Sarah. So contact Coop
and let Coop know to change the promo if indeed
(32:16):
that is coming from him. In your Ben Mallor podcast. Now,
Sarah says, onto more important things. Juicy Lucy's. She says,
these two restaurants bars invented the Juicy Lucy and there
is a fight as to which did it. I love
I love local city Conna. I love the cuisine battle.
We have that in Los Angeles with the French Dip sandwich,
(32:40):
right with Philip's and Cole's. Yeah, they've they've battled it
out in La on that. This is great. So, Sarah says,
they're battling it out. I've had both and they are excellent.
Matt's Bar and Grill and the fifty eight Club. We
Minnesotans are fired up to see you in May. Well,
thank you, Sarah. And I'm still putting the itinerary together
(33:03):
and as soon as I get all that lockdown, as
soon as the plane tickets purchased, we will let you
guys know. We still have to figure out a venue.
I have been corresponding with Regina spin Cycle. Regina, She's
got a couple of venues lined up, so hopefully that'll
work out. One of those venues will work out and
we'll have a place we can all get together and
(33:24):
hang out for a couple hours on a Friday or
a Saturday and have a wonderful time. I think we'll
get out on that. I Scott took a shot at
Marcel and Blair and the Red Sox and Mike Is
he's a big fan in Saint Louis. He wants me
to come to Saint Louis and hang out. I'll go
eat some toasted ravioli there and Saint Louis with you, Mike,
(33:45):
with thank you everyone else that we didn't get to.
So we'll get out on that. Tonight is the night, Danny,
g Tonight it is. We've waited all year, and here
it is tonight. I haven't been in a tux since
last November when I was on the beach. I've got
my boat tie ready to go. Danny, It's gonna be
an amazing night. Cannot wait. Tonight's the night. It is
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the single greatest night in overnight sports radio. A lot
of hardware to be handed out, a lot of big
names will be winning, a lot of heartbreaks, as well.
If you haven't voted, you gotta vote quickly. You gotta
vote by obviously tonight. The voting will be turned off
right before the show and then it's over. Do you
think there are gonna be any huge upsets? You don't
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know what the elector's gonna do. The worst caller could
go any direction, Rookie of the Year, any direction. These
are wide open categories. I don't know if that counts
as an upset, but if you missed the Friday podcast,
go back and download that. We went methodically, surgically through
every single category, point by point information no one else
(34:56):
has about the bunnies. I never got to give Mike
Epton speech for my twenty twenty one Benny would be
okay if I call in and give my speech one
year late. I think you should do it on the
fifth hour. Whenever that show the fifth hours, and I
think you should do it on the fifth hour. That
would be the way to go. I hate that show.
That's a great show, so you should try listening to
(35:17):
it sometime. Anyway, we'll get out on that. Have a
wonderful rest of your Sunday. Tonight's the night. Tune in, listen,
download support the radio show and we will catch you.
Then where's my damn ballot? No election fraud, Danny, no
election fraud. Later Skater, Hey, hey, let you go. Yeah,
(35:40):
what do you think about the oil? That is a
classic line, Helmet man, we just got a new drop
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred
minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the a Everywhere.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G Radio
back at it in the podcast Dojo on a Sunday,
and that means one thing and one thing only. It
(00:43):
is time to plump up Danny G. Because we are
about to jump head first into a colossal Bafo sako
addition of the mailbag, and that means, ohio A, let's
at ome. It's all right, thank you for that, ohio.
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All these are actual questions sent in by actual listeners.
I would like to put out we did not get
the backscratcher yesterday. We ran out of time. It's okay
because nobody scratched our back, Danny. Not a single person
scratched our back. Bad job by you. But there's another opportunity.
This week, And if you want to help us out,
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the podcast page is available, the Apple podcast page, and
you can write a nice review. We got shut out
this week. We had a bunch last week. We had
like four or five last week. This week none. I
wouldn't really call it a shutout. I would call it
you being a really bad teacher giving out too much homework. No,
people are busy voting right now for the biggest award
(01:59):
show this season, and that is tonight. And if you
missed the Friday podcast, go back. It is your partner,
it is your assistant, it is your comrade to walk
you through batch, your significant other to the twenty twenty
three Bennies which are going to kick off tonight, all
(02:19):
the awards given out, all the honors. What an amazing night,
the greatest night of overnight talk radio and sports that
we have. But so no backscratcher. But let's get to
the mailbag. We played Ohio, how so we must get
to the actual questions by actual listeners. Let's get to it.
The first one, it's from Fred in Spring, Texas. He says, hey, Ben,
(02:40):
and Danigee. He says, Ben, can you share some of
your experiences on New Zealand radio. Did you ever visit
New Zealand? Did you ever master knowledge of cricket or rugby?
Says Fred So. First of all, I've never been to
New Zealand. I would love to go to New Zealand.
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I was a correspondent. I was the American correspondent on
the They had a bunch of international correspondents raio. It
was called Radio Sport in New Zealand, and I loved it.
It was great, it was wonderful and all that. Unfortunately,
when COVID came around, that's it. They did not make
(03:23):
it through COVID. They were casualty. The entire network went
out of business during COVID. The reason, the real reason
they went out of business is it cost a lot
of money and the company that owned Radio Sport no
longer wanted to spend the amount of money that it takes,
and so they pulled the plug. They said that's it.
You know, we're done, And so I lost the gig.
(03:44):
But I had become good friends with Darcy Waldergrave, who
was doing the afternoon show and now does but he does.
He did a morning show. Now he's on the news
talk station. And the comparison on that would be like
in Los Angeles you have KFI. In New York you
(04:05):
have WINS. I don't know if WINS is the right
example because WINS is just a hard news station. It's
more of a news talk But anyway, Darcy does a
show on the weekends which is the number one show
in New Zealand. It's a morning breakfast show. And I
still go on with him every once in a while,
but it's no longer a paying gig. I was getting
paid to appear on radio sport. I would love to
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go to New Zealand. I have learned that my appearances
can be preempted by cricket. Cricket goes on forever and
ever and ever and ever. And I've learned some fun
facts about people in New Zealand that I didn't know about.
Like a lot of people go on vacation or as
(04:49):
they call it, holiday to Indonesia. That's a popular spot
in a few other countries which are obviously not that
far away, and New Zealand's not close to anything. But
I did also learn that New Zealand and Australia are
not all that close. It's a it's a big flight
to go for it. Seems on the map, Danny, that
they're right next, but not quite. So it's no surprise
(05:13):
that they went out of business because here they were
paying big celebrities like you to come on as a guest. Hey,
let me tell you something, all right, we have we
have listeners to this day because of that. On the
overnight people listen. We're actually on in New Zealand as well,
which doesn't hurt Marcus in San Antonio writes, and he says, hello,
Uncle Ben and Daddy, Gee Daddy, and a happy daylight
(05:38):
savings time to both of you. Growing up as a
military brat, my childhood was mostly spent overseas in Europe.
Once we returned to the States, we landed in a
suburb just outside of Kansas City. This was in the
nineteen eighties and the Royals were at the top of
their game. They won the World Series in nineteen eighty five,
and it was a great season. Upon returning, or upon
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entering rather, the sixth grade, Marcus writes, Upon entering the
sixth grade, one of my classmates was the son of
fledgling middle reliever, a guy named Dennis Leonard, and the
son was a bit on the arrogant side. To say
the least. His dad wasn't a major part of the Royals,
(06:23):
but when the Royals lost a game, everyone would give
him a hard time. Marcus says. My question for you
guys is have either of you or your family members
ever had to deal with taking crap from someone because
of something said on the radio or social media by
either of you? Marcus says, in today's climate of oversensitive
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people and those who are seeking out any way to
be offended, I was curious of your experiences. Thanks again
for your time, and I will be voting for the Bennis,
he says during his can'tnot wait to hear the winners.
That's from Marcus in San Antonio. So I don't want
to speak for you, Danny, but my experience is my
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wife does not really listen that much, so she's kind
of out of a loop. And she doesn't really do
social media anymore. She stopped at because she heard of
some podcast not to do social media, so she stopped
doing social media. So she's really oblivious to what's going on.
I guess I don't know if that's the right way
to phrase it, but she's she's not She didn't have
(07:30):
to worry about this stuff because she's not dealing with it.
What about you, Danny? Yeah, same, my dad facebooks. My
girl stays off of Twitter and stuff like that. She
loves Instagram reels. She likes seeing funny videos. That's pretty
much why she has Instagram on her phone, and I
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can relate to that. That's the same reason I use
Instagram as far as like arguing with people are saying
something that gets the family and the weeds. No, my
older brother is on Twitter, but he's very much a
Magic Johnson tweeter. He'll tweet stuff like I wish I
could see this Lakers team all season, so there's nothing
(08:13):
controversial going on that's funny. Yeah, my dad used to
listen to everything, well, my mom listening to. My dad
would listen when I was convenient for him, which was
when I did the Boston stuff when I was on EI,
and he would listen, and sometimes every once in a
while somebody would track him down a listener, and my
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dad didn't really know how to deal with that, like,
what are they talking about? I don't understand. I was like, hey,
you know, it's a phenomenon, right, because if you first
start doing this, then everyone around you wants to tune in.
When you've been doing this for a long time, no
one arounds you really gives a shit. Yeah, no, they
don't give a crap, Like, yeah, he's he's been doing
that for twenty years. I'm yeah, yeah, good deal. Yeah.
(08:56):
When you start, it's everyone listens, They comment on your
your takes, what you're saying. Yeah, they got an opinion,
they want to they're proud of you. And then after
a while, so I got you know, it's like it's
just like driving a bus, you know, it's like we're
driving a bus around town. Next up on the mailback,
Mike from Fullerton Rights and says, I'm a big fan
of the Benny Awards, as big a fan as anyone,
(09:19):
But do you find it worrying how full of themselves
the winners become after winning Best Crew Filling last year?
Danny g has never been the same? Oh me? Is
that true to any Have you not been the same
since you won Best Crew Filling? Well, clearly it catapulted
me to the Cavino and Rich Show, and so I
do a victory lap every single afternoon on the network.
(09:41):
Well that was what put it over the top. Don
Martin was just trying to decide what should I do here? What?
Wait a minute, crew filling of the year, look me in, coach,
I'm ready to play. My man, you just turned into
a radio legend. My man, oh man, I'm gonna make
you famous moment. He also said, Mike, congrats on me,
(10:02):
Ben finally becoming an Instagram model. I knew it was
only a matter of time before you were discovered. Well,
thank you, thank you, Mike, and I believe he's referencing
to last week's podcast when I finally was sent an
offer to be an influencer for really ugly women's sunglasses.
(10:22):
Those orange frames look good on you right now though,
thank you. I took a dozen. I figured they were offering,
so why not. You can't turn down an offer like that.
Next up from Kay Ringing in okac He says, hey, guys,
how's it going? Right to the question on the mail bag?
What are some of your biggest bets that you won?
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What are the biggest bets that you have also lost?
Says I know, Ben Gambles, what about you, daddy? Gee
ha ha ha. I know people get worked up over
betting good or bad. I bet it would be awesome content,
especially when and gets mad it's hilarious. It's not Radio
Gold Kyrie. Somebody wants to hear me angry. They want
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to hear me happy. They want to hear me flexing
and doing a victory laub. So I will not even
share the wins because the wins. Any real gambler who
shares wins is full of shit. The gambler remembers the losses,
not the wins. And I've had some all time losses.
I lost my ass on the Music City Miracle, which
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you probably might not remember if you're of a certain age,
if you're young. But this was the Tennessee Titans wild
card weekend against the Buffalo Bills. Doug Flutie, Brad Johnson,
Wade Phillips, that era of the Buffalo Bills against the
Tennessee Titans, and Buffalo was in position to pull the
upset on the what turned out to me the fateful
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final play. It was called the Music City Miracle. It
was an illegal forward pass from Franky. I checked to
Kevin Dyson. I still I could still close my eyes
Danny and see the play was a total bullshit call.
The ball went forward. That's an illegal forward pass because
they had already lateraled the officials didn't have the balls
to call it, and next thing you know, Tennessee went
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on that play, they scored, They scored the touchdown. I
lose my bet. Freaking nightmare. I'm still pissed about it
all these years later. And then the other one, the
other one I remember really bad. I was convinced the
Atlanta Braves were going to beat the Saint Louis Cardinals
in a playoff series. And this is when the Braves
had Maddox, Clavin and Smoltz, three bona fide Hall of Fames.
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The Cardinals didn't have much at all, and they had
traded for a guy from I think he had been
on the Giants, but he might have been on somebody
after the Giants, Will Clark, Will the thrill Clark. Oh god,
he had that ugly batting stance. Yeah, and this Jabroni
who had seemingly been washed up, so he might have
(13:00):
come from like the Texas Rangers or the Orioles or
something like that. But this guy Will Clark had a
couple of big hits, as I remember, and the Cardinals,
all these punch and judy hitters were getting hits standard
Cardinal baseball, killing me and I lost that bet, and
I still in retrospect, I still can't believe that a
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team with Maddox, Glavin and Smoltz, bunch of Hall of
Fame position players also and they lost to a second
rate Cardinal team blows me away. I bet on the series.
It wasn't one game. I bet on the entire series.
So you're not much of a gambler, right, You save
your money, Daddy G. I'm a sports purist. I love sports.
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I do not like losing my hard earned money on
said sports. You don't lose your win We're winners. I
want winners. Yeah, I've seen you at four in the
morning at the twenty four hour Diner in Vegas with
your last eight dollars. Hey, but those those eggs over
easy are not beat the Pancakes and not be Kevin
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and Kansas rights in on the mail bag, he says,
Dear Ben and Danny G. Radio. When I was growing up,
I watched the weekly baseball game on in BC and
the Cubs and Braves on Cable. I learned to do
a lot of quick math in my mind by calculating
batting averages after each at bat or figuring out ball
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and strike ratios. I transferred those skills to other sports
as well. Did you guys do similar mental math when
you were watching sports or were you just watching the game?
Does that make me weird? From Kevin? Kevin and Kansas.
So I learned geography from baseball. I learned where the
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states were that had teams. I learned the minor leagues.
I knew everyone's Triple A team and what's state they
were in, and that was a lot of smaller places.
That's how you knew Ottawa was the capital of Canada. Yeah,
I knew all of Like the geography, I memorized so
(15:14):
much nonsense back in the day. But I recall that,
and I don't know if I should admit it. I
have talked about this in the past, but I at
the gym when I'm on my treadmill doing my workout.
Every once in a while, I'll flip on YouTube. There's
a couple of the channels that put the NBC Game
of the Week on. This past week, I was watching
(15:35):
nineteen eighty five Dodgers Astros from the Astrodome Intro Guerrero. Yeah, yeah, dominating,
and it was Bob Costas and I think it was
Jim Cott. But they were calling the game and it
was the full broadcast, and they were talking about the
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state of the teams at the time. The trade deadline
was coming up. There was the Dodgers needed a third baseman,
and so it was just I love like stupid stuff
like that. But Bob Costas was like those rumors the
sports writers are saying, the Dodgers are gonna get Buddy
Bell from the Rangers, and Tommy Lasorda went and visited
his buddy Bobby Valentine and Arlington before the Dodgers got
(16:19):
to Houston, and they ended up Do you remember who
they ended up trading for that year, Danny at the
trade deadline nineteen eighty five. Third baseman guy was prolific
in the eighties, had some off the field problem. Bill Madlock,
Oh that's right, mad Dog big guy right, Uh yeah, pudgy,
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but yeah it was a Kirby Pucket looking dude, right,
not quite to that level, but yeah, he was yet
well Kirby Pucket when he was in shape. How about that.
Let me tell you something. Though, I started covering the
Dodgers in nineteen early nineties, I'll date myself, but it
was not that long after. Bill Mallock and Madlock hadn't
played for the Dodgers for very long, but the people
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he left such a mark on the Dodger people. They
freaking loved Bill Madlock. The guys would talk about Madlock
and how great he was. The two guys I recall,
and there's all ths, but the two off of my time,
I uh that were briefly Dodgers that were beloved in
the locker room and around the people that worked for
the team. Back when the O'Malley family on the Dodgers,
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it was Bill Madlock. And you remember a guy named
Juan Samuel, Yeah, Wan Samuel. Juan Samuel was beloved by
the people around the Dodgers. I don't know what he did,
but they loved the guy. And he was bounced around
and played for a bunch of a bunch of different teams.
But as far as the Math, I got carried away
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to any bad job by mad Dog Madlock. Yeah, there
you go. But you want to answer Kevin's question, the
math and he learned because we didn't have graphics on
the screen like they do now. These kids today and
they're graphics. It was only occasionally when they go to
commercial or come back to commercial they'd put the score up.
Didn't even know what the damn score was. Take that
(18:01):
for data. Yeah, put that in your pipe. You're right.
We did keep the score Classic Lakers Boston Celtics matchup.
My older brother and I would keep the score and
we would keep saying the score out loud, and then
they would finally flash the score and we would see
if we were right. Try. Yeah, trying to try to
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guess with the score. That's good. I like it. I
like it. Yeah, So definitely, Kevin, You're not weird. I
do recommend Kevin, though, and I don't want you to
stop listening to the podcast. But in addition, as a
companion for you, if you go on YouTube, you can
find links to old baseball games, just random like type
in certain like Monday Night Baseball or NBC Game of
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the Week, and these things will pop up. And some
of them even have the commercials. So if you want
to go full nostalgia and you can go back and
watch some of those old commercials. The car commercials just
kill me. Yeah, please the sea Cow well that, but
they the national commercials. Most of the cars don't even
exist anymore, and you look at them and they're total
(19:08):
pieces of shit compared to the cars today, right, you know,
Like I mean, this was a brand new car that
was it's all excited to have, and you're like, man,
that that's a total Jalopy. What was a sticker price?
Six thousand dollars? Oh? Yeah, total, it was like five
thousand dollars, four thousand, nine hundred ninety nine dollars right
now for a piece of ship that was worth three
(19:28):
hundred dollars. Yeah, exactly. Next up on the mailbag, Barry
in Nashville, says Yo Yo Yo yo yo mob Benny
and Danny Gee, have either of you done or would
you do the one ship challenge? So I'm good on
that I've not done it. Yeah, somebody offered me some money.
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I would consider that. Sounds like something Caveno and Rich
and you Danny have either done or will do. Something
about needing to breathe correctly is big, especially like I'm
a boxer, so I've had two broken noses as a kid.
Cartilage in my nose. One of my nostrils is like
sixty percent closed. I need to breathe out of the
(20:12):
one good nostril. Can you imagine eating one of those
chips and you're choking, you can't breathe. That's a scary thought.
I don't need that in my life. Yeah, I'm good
on that, So you wouldn't want to use that, Joe
missoula thing? Right? Did you see the Celtic coach who's
he tapes his mouth shut? Did you see that at night? Oh?
Hell no? Oh yeah, he tapes his mouth shut. So
(20:35):
he says he gets better sleep because it forces you
to breathe through your That's one thing is that, man,
I can't sleep breathing through my mouth, So if people
ever call us a mouth breather, that's incorrect. I sleep
through my nose no matter what. So that's why I
freak out if my good nostril gets stuffed up. I
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didn't even know this was a thing until I read
about it this week. Though. Did you realize that there
are people that buy tape to a special sleep tape
to tape your mouth shut? What are you a hostage?
I would want no part of that, Nicholas. But thank
you Berry. Good question. Nicholas from Parts Unknown rights in
on Facebook. He says, why do you keep yelling? Number one? Well,
(21:26):
the reason I do that, Nicholas, is to just annoy you.
I was trying to figure out how I could annoy you,
and I determined after a minute long investigation that you, Nicholas,
hearing me yell number one would really bother you. But
that is is a tribute, Danny. You know what I'm doing,
(21:46):
a tribute to two old HR radio stations. No, you
know the soccer play by play, you know the soccer
when there's a goal. Instead, I thought you meant the
number one in general, because that number one jingle we
got it from Big brother Jake back in the day.
Oh yeah, well we had the number one jingle. I
(22:06):
love jingles. I'm all about the jingles. Jingles are great.
We should have some jingles. I'm sure the company will
buy jingles for us. Ben Maller and Danny g jingles
the weakest but also the most awesome jingles in Bakersfield radio.
As I was driving up the five Freeway last weekend,
everything was a fucking jingle on their radio stations. That's
(22:29):
great nineteen eighties style. Yeah, easy, top of the hour news.
They even sang to introduce their news. I love it.
I'm all about that. And jingles the way to go.
That's old school radio right there. The jingle and there's
a place in Dallas. We talked about this. There's that
guy that place in Dallas and Clayton Kershaw's father was
(22:53):
at Jingle. He worked at that place. He made the
jingles and all that. Next up is ni in Wisconsin.
He says, Ben and Danny, if you were offered one
million dollars but you could only eat ballpark hot dogs
for lunch and dinner, breakfast is still okay? Would you
(23:14):
take the money? Of course now because you just eat
whatever you want for breakfast. You don't have to eat
breakfast food. You could eat barbecue, you could eat pizza
for breakfast whatever. No I mean on this diet he's
talking about. I'm already a winner because he just described
mainly what we ate as kids growing up. Would even
(23:38):
cut up hot dogs when she was rich, she would
cut hot dogs up and mix those hot dogs into
the macaronian cheese. That's when you knew you were bawling. Yeah,
ballpark hot dogs are hit and miss I do not.
I have an unpopular opinion. I do not enjoy the
dodge dog. I do not enjoy the dodge dog. I
(24:00):
do not think it's great. But I love of Finnway Franks,
the Monster Dog. And there's a listener, Phil in Massachusetts
who used to send me every year. You might remember this.
Then he'd sent a big box of Finway Franks, which
they sell in the local grocery stores in Boston. Delicious.
(24:21):
I grilled some up when I was living in Burbank.
They were so good. Yeah, those are good. I really
think Phil. I haven't heard from Phil in a while.
I hope he's all right, But yeah, those were great, man.
I love those monster dogs and the Finway Francs. That's
how you make a hot dog. Cleveland had good hot
dogs too, So if I could only eat, to answer
your question, Nick, only eat ballpark hot dogs, I get
(24:44):
to pick the ballparks. So I picked the Finnway Frank.
I picked the dog in Cleveland, no dodge of dogs.
I have not been to a Mets or Yankees game
in a while, so I don't know what the hot
dog situation there is, but I'm sure there's others that
I would like as well. And plus remember that hot
dog in Arizona, and they think they have one in
Texas which is like it's like five feet long, and
(25:05):
they put fries on it, and they put all the
other stuff on top of it, Like that counts as
a hot dog, right, Nick? I could eat that and
then I got the fries. I got everything else on top.
But I'm technically honoring the one million dollar wager and
the one million dollar wager that has to be after taxes, Danny,
that cannot be before taxes. That has to be after taxes.
(25:26):
Do we agree on that? That's something you see on
the Food Challenges, Right, you have twenty minutes to eat
that whole giant dog with the fries and the chili
and all the other concoctions they mixed together. And that
guy looked like he was gonna freaking die at the
end of it. Yeah. You guy to quit the show
(25:46):
because of health problems. Allegedly he moved on did other things.
Yeah he's thin now. Mark writes in from Parts and on.
He says a question for you guys, have you ever
been late to your radio shows? Yes, I've done a
lot of radio. It's happened twice twice. I've been late once.
(26:06):
I overslept and that was my boss's fault. I'm blaming
him because I had a Friday night show and then
he had us coming back. We got off the air
at midnight and we had to be on the air
at seven in the morning. We're doing at seven to
ten on Saturday morning because the boss figured out he
could sell remotes every Saturday at home depots and lows
(26:29):
and hardware stores and tire stores. So the only reason
we did the Saturday show was because they sold remotes.
But the problem was we'd get off at midnight on Friday,
and then we would want to go and kind of
wind down, and by the time you get to sleep,
it's like three in the morning and you got to
be up at six, and so that didn't work out.
(26:49):
The other time, I got a flat tire on the
way to work and that deep sixed me. So I
was a little late, and that was at Fox Sports
Radio that one. What about you, Danny, I think that
I am like you. I can count on one hand
how many times because we're psycho about getting there on time,
and we'll set five alarms on our phone. You're not
(27:12):
allowed to be late to radio. Radio goes twenty four
hours a day and nobody waits for your show to start. Yeah,
it's it's one of those jobs where it's a great
job to have, unlike a like a podcast. You can
be late. It doesn't the podcast starts when you start
doing the podcast. But the radio you're You're powered by
(27:32):
the radio gods. Yea. Even getting pulled over, there was
a time where I told the officer, I don't mean
to be rude, sir, but I have to get to
my radio program and it starts whether I'm there or not,
you know, And he gave me a ticket, but it
was fine. I was just like, hurry up the tickets
so I can get to my show. Yeah, that's cool.
(27:53):
Let's see. Can't close the deal, Neil. Right, so he says,
what was your most memorable moment of your tenure in radio.
It's kind of an generic question, Neil. You can do
better than that, Neil. We love you. You can't close
the deal, Neil. It just depends on the day, depends
on the day, the moment that you want to go
back in time. I've had some wonderful shows, individual shows.
(28:18):
I've often talked about. The night the Malice at the
Palace happened. I was on the air for five hours
after that. That was unbelievably fun. Sports radio met a
lot of cool people, that stand out people I never
thought I would you know, would would know that became
somewhat friendly with me. So legends people I looked up
to when I was a kid, So that was always cool.
(28:40):
But I don't know if you can whittle it down
to one one moment. Is there one moment for you, Danny?
Is it doing this podcast? Is that it? I mean,
obviously this is way up there. But as a kid,
I got to interview Digital Underground, a little known rapper
was part of their group, Tupac Shakur. Oh wow. And
(29:04):
so Tupac hopped on the phone and I got to
talk to him on the air for a few minutes,
which I wish I had the cassette tape of that.
Fast forward to when I was an adult in my
early twenties, I interviewed Jay Z and he told a
great story about Biggie Smalls. It all kind of came
full circle because now I'm really on an FM station
(29:26):
interviewing a big rapper. And then fast forward to doing
sports talk radio and it was a very very very
big deal. Congratulations to have on the President of the
United States. Yeah I remember, Oh yeah, that was Big
the Trumpster on the air, not once, but twice. We
love Big Ben, Big Ben's a friend of mine. Yeah, yeah,
(29:49):
I always heard those stories when we were when I
was growing up and I am being in politics a
little bit and be like, you know, the President would
call whoever the Red Sox congratulate them or they didn't win.
When I was a kid that the Yankees and the
President would call up and as a standby, the President
of the United States is going to come on the phone, right,
(30:09):
And the President Trump didn't do that, he just did
it as well. If he didn't, he didn't have a
bunch of people call him up, right. That was the
balled on his own cell phone. And you would have
thought Brian know was on the phone talking to me
because he was. He was speaking to me as if
he knew me. And he said, well, I listened to
(30:30):
you guys every morning, and and it's like, I don't
know if he was just bullshitting, but that's what he
told me. So after that, I had a new appreciation
for jeez, people do listen to this crap. That is
outstanding A ten out of ten for President Trump there
(30:50):
calling up and he was a big radio guy. That
was a big part of his life. He does President Trump,
but loved radio. He was a regular on stern Show
before or Stern went Allwaukee and went off the deep
end and became everything he hated and all that. I mean,
he was a big part of that, that show and
some other shows. So Sarah from Minnesota rice in. She says,
(31:15):
you guys had asked for some information regarding the old
Gascon fifth Hour promos and when they were playing, and
she sent me the exact times. She says, during the
Ben Mallar Show on March fifth and sixth, on the
iHeart podcast, they played the old fifth hour promo. What
is going on with this? Danny Hey, Okay, so let
(31:35):
me explain it to you. The old version stashed away
somewhere and he's putting the old version into the podcast
for the Mallards show. Okay, some producers at our network
who have the old version of your promo and they
have that stashed away and their folders or whatever, and
they're just pulling that and putting it in because the
(31:56):
Marching Orders say this week we're putting the Ben Maller
promo in and it attaches the new version of your promo.
But do you think that they go in and pull
what's attached to that email? Oh? Come, on too much work. Yeah,
there you go. Well, thank you, Sarah. So contact Coop
and let Coop know to change the promo if indeed
(32:16):
that is coming from him. In your Ben Mallor podcast. Now,
Sarah says, onto more important things. Juicy Lucy's. She says,
these two restaurants bars invented the Juicy Lucy and there
is a fight as to which did it. I love
I love local city Conna. I love the cuisine battle.
We have that in Los Angeles with the French Dip sandwich,
(32:40):
right with Philip's and Cole's. Yeah, they've they've battled it
out in La on that. This is great. So, Sarah says,
they're battling it out. I've had both and they are excellent.
Matt's Bar and Grill and the fifty eight Club. We
Minnesotans are fired up to see you in May. Well,
thank you, Sarah. And I'm still putting the itinerary together
(33:03):
and as soon as I get all that lockdown, as
soon as the plane tickets purchased, we will let you
guys know. We still have to figure out a venue.
I have been corresponding with Regina spin Cycle. Regina, She's
got a couple of venues lined up, so hopefully that'll
work out. One of those venues will work out and
we'll have a place we can all get together and
(33:24):
hang out for a couple hours on a Friday or
a Saturday and have a wonderful time. I think we'll
get out on that. I Scott took a shot at
Marcel and Blair and the Red Sox and Mike Is
he's a big fan in Saint Louis. He wants me
to come to Saint Louis and hang out. I'll go
eat some toasted ravioli there and Saint Louis with you, Mike,
(33:45):
with thank you everyone else that we didn't get to.
So we'll get out on that. Tonight is the night, Danny,
g Tonight it is. We've waited all year, and here
it is tonight. I haven't been in a tux since
last November when I was on the beach. I've got
my boat tie ready to go. Danny, It's gonna be
an amazing night. Cannot wait. Tonight's the night. It is
(34:07):
the single greatest night in overnight sports radio. A lot
of hardware to be handed out, a lot of big
names will be winning, a lot of heartbreaks, as well.
If you haven't voted, you gotta vote quickly. You gotta
vote by obviously tonight. The voting will be turned off
right before the show and then it's over. Do you
think there are gonna be any huge upsets? You don't
(34:31):
know what the elector's gonna do. The worst caller could
go any direction, Rookie of the Year, any direction. These
are wide open categories. I don't know if that counts
as an upset, but if you missed the Friday podcast,
go back and download that. We went methodically, surgically through
every single category, point by point information no one else
(34:56):
has about the bunnies. I never got to give Mike
Epton speech for my twenty twenty one Benny would be
okay if I call in and give my speech one
year late. I think you should do it on the
fifth hour. Whenever that show the fifth hours, and I
think you should do it on the fifth hour. That
would be the way to go. I hate that show.
That's a great show, so you should try listening to
(35:17):
it sometime. Anyway, we'll get out on that. Have a
wonderful rest of your Sunday. Tonight's the night. Tune in, listen,
download support the radio show and we will catch you.
Then where's my damn ballot? No election fraud, Danny, no
election fraud. Later Skater, Hey, hey, let you go. Yeah,
(35:40):
what do you think about the oil? That is a
classic line, Helmet man, we just got a new drop
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