May 7, 2023 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a Everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny G a global reach available you found it
wherever podcasts are available. You can find this podcast on demand.
A spinoff of The Overnight Show, The Ben Mahlercher heard
Monday through Friday, eastn Standard time two in the morning,
(00:55):
two in the morning till six in the morning, but
on the West Coast eleven pm until three am. And
if you're in Hawaii, it's just a night show. And
if you're in Europe, it's on during the day and
you can hear me there. Danny G, who used to
work with me on the Overnight Show, you can hear
him on with Covino and Rich Monday through Friday. Fox
(01:16):
Sports Radio. When can people hear you exactly Danny.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
G on the West coast two to four pm and
on the East coast five.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
To seven, five to seven. Check that out from our
new studio. A couple weeks into the new studio and
it's not been trashed completely yet. I was upset because
they changed the air conditioning the wall and the main
studio like it's still fine, it works, but they had
(01:46):
this really nice box on the wall for the air
conditioning that was like high end, and they took it
off and put this like crappy one on. I don't
know why they did. That's a downgrade.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I wonder why they did that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know. I have no idea, but I noticed
that at and the people have been asking what's the
old what's going on in the old studio? Nothing, it's there.
They didn't change anything, they didn't get rid of it.
I've actually gone in there. I've gotten to work because
I've had to drive in a little bit more from
way out in the north Woods. I'm really happy about that.
(02:19):
I like that drive. It's a good make sure my
car works, and good to support the oil industry with
the gas. So I got out there and I've gotten
it early and sat in that room and watched some
of the NBA playoff games in my old seat, so
that was kind of neat nice.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, in the daytime, they record some podcasts in there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh really, but just recording podcasts.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Got Leave does podcasts and so does Rob Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, so that's the new podcast studio. Yeah, okay, there
you go. So who knew. Well, we we do our
podcast differently and we don't want to use that. We
don't use that studio.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So you don't use that stinking studio, man.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And that studio. We're done with that studio. Absolutely. We
are not done with the mail bag. And that means ohio,
al it's.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This bag. Yeah, just getting started with a mail bag.
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, let's get started here, deep into the mail bag.
If you'd like to send a question in, you do
not have to wait for me to post something on Facebook.
You can email me right now. Email Danny Greel fifth
hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour at gmail
dot com. I cannot guarantee that we will put your
question on the air, but the odds improved dramatically if
(03:53):
you actually send one in as opposed to not sending
one in. I will guarantee if you don't send a
question in we will not be able to read your
question on the air. So with that said, the first
mail bag question comes from Pete the Machinist, who is
listening to this podcast in Albany, Oregon. He says, Guys,
when it's the weekend or maybe a day off, are
(04:16):
you still somewhat like nocturnal? He says? Or do you
adjust your sleep schedule for the weekends and then go
back to sleep regularly or back to sleep the same
sleep schedule for the weekdays. I guess you're talking to
me here. When you do the overnight show, does your
overnight shift conflict with your wife's schedule? So, Pete, here's
(04:41):
the problem. I like to keep the schedule as close
as I can to the weekday schedule, but that would
mean that I would not see any friends or family,
and I like to see some people from time to time.
So I do attempt to tweak my schedule a little
bit on the weekends. It's not easy. My wife does
(05:04):
work similar hours, but she's got a superpower. I'm married.
My wife wants to dress up. She how dare you?
It's very hard for me to get quality sleep. She's
able to sleep whenever she wants. I don't have that,
(05:25):
so I hope that answers your question. Danny. I know
you did the overnight show for a while, so you
had to battle sleep and all that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was one problem dating during that time working on
your show, because I'd have to flip my schedule around
every weekend to be a normal person and keep up
with the girl that I was dating at the time.
It was not easy because I would feel lethargic. I
would feel run down, and this girl is like, you know,
(05:56):
a block ahead of me on her mountain bike if
we were riding bikes that weekend or whatever, and I
just didn't feel like myself. It sucked, and everyone in
your life just expected you to flip a switch with
regular hours on the weekend and then transition back to
the graveyard on Sunday night, super super hard. I have
(06:16):
a lot of respect for everybody that does the third shift.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, it's not easy. The worst was when I did
the weekend overnights Friday and Saturday. And after I did
weekend overnights probably for six, seven, eight years something like
that pretty consistently, and people stop inviting you to parties.
They no longer because they know you won't go because
most Friday parties are on Friday or Saturday, like, well,
(06:42):
he's working, so we won't even invite him. Not that
I would probably go anyway, but they stopped inviting. You
had dating the Nightmare because of that schedule. And then
I had a website where I was working during the week.
So I was doing my website, my gossip site, aggregating
gossip during the week, and then on the weekends doing
the radio stuff. And I was filling in all over
(07:02):
the place. There's a big Nightmare next up on the
But thank you Pete the Machine, it's next up alf
the unofficial official show historian. He says, Ben, I don't
know what the ocean waters are like in California, but
you know what you're into. But do you know what
you're into when you hit the main coast this summer,
(07:25):
he says, be prepared to have some blue balls. Oh,
it was a lot. I was holding ball, touching balls,
you name it. I had a lot of balls. And
here's a fun fact for your privates. And he's got
a graph here, Danny, you can't see. It's got the
water temperature off the coast different places in Maine. So
First of all, Alf, we are tentatively planning on Maine.
(07:49):
That is not confirmed, though you know, the water in
California is probably right now, it's about in the low sixties.
I would say off the coast of californ which is
what it is in the summer, the hottest part of
the main.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But then again, Ben, if you were traveling to Maine,
I don't think your number one thing on your agenda
would be to go run into the water.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You don't think I would do a cannon ball from
the pier or into the water in the Atlantic, No,
I would not.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I don't see that. No, you're the dude on the
beach with the tent.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I am in the tent. Yeah, not pitching a tent. Well,
I think to get the tent. Yeah. But anyway, here's
the other problem. An unpopular opinion. Danny having spent time
on the beach on the East Coast of America and
the West coast West Coast all day, the beaches on
the West coast much better than the beaches on the
(08:43):
East coast, And some people say, well what about Florida. Yeah,
but I just like to hole the sunset on the
West coast. Awesome, It's right over the water.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're looking really cool. It's just a beautiful it's.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Just wonderful, marvelous, marvelous, marvel marvelous, marvelous marvels.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The sun sinks into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, it's really cool. But thank you Alf for that
uplifting message. I appreciate it, and I'll keep you guys posted.
As of now, there is no plane ticket purchase, there
is no hotel booked, and we'll see what happens with that,
with the old finances the Mala Mansion, Mike in Fullerton writes,
and he says, how to Ben and Danny g it's
(09:25):
birthday season. So I'm going to ask what you did?
What was your favorite birthday party? Right? What you guys
do with your kids. My favorite as a kid was
me and a bunch of friends at the long since
bankrupt Discovery Zone. My favorite as an adult was at
a similar place that is still around, according to Mike
(09:49):
in Fullerton, and he of course included as Alf did,
he had a graph and there's also a photo here
that Mike included, which is it's good to know that
you love whether there's the Discovery Zone there, there's is
that you and the photos Mike. I don't know if
that's you in there Discovery Zone. There is a Discovery
(10:12):
Music Science Center, which I don't think is the same thing,
but that's that's a thing in Orange County. I think
it's one in La also, but thank you think you might.
I love Chuck E Cheese. I was a kid that
was not that old. When I was a kid, Chuck
E Cheese that was like a big that was a
big deal. There was a ripoff of Chuck E Cheese
(10:32):
called Bullwinkles, which I thought was kind of cool. That
was fun like that. I'm of the age when we
were little kids. McDonald started the playgrounds. Just going there
you felt like you were like a big shot because
you were hanging out with Ronald McDonald and you had
the ball pit, which was always disgusting. Any great birthday locations,
(10:53):
Danny from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, I mean, I don't want anybody sympathy, but you
know this from you know, because we've known each other
for a long time. I for a portion of my
childhood my mom was single, bouncing around. We didn't have
a place to stay for a while. It was not
good times as a little kid. For a lot of
the years. So like Biggie rapped, birthdays was the worst days.
(11:18):
Now we sip champagne when we Thursday. So yeah, birthdays
weren't really a thing, Ben, You.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Did not celebrate the birthdays.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, just like Biggie. And you know, my
very first official birthday party was when I was in
my early twenties and a radio station held it. They
did a surprise birthday party and it turned out this
is in Ventura, California, but this should have been an Oxnard,
(11:49):
California because it was like a cholo party. Every single
gift I unwrapped was something Raiders, al Raighties.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And you have a very similar closet to Roberto, where
in my head there's one side that is Raiders. It's
it's like a triangle. You've got one side Raiders, one
side Lakers, and then the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There's also the Hawaii section though, Okay, like I got
Hawaii hats, I have not Hawaiian shirts, but shirts from Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, so I don't have that. I have like a
fair amount of a Clipper random shirts, but most I
don't have too many teams, teams, a lot, a lot
of hats, a lot of hats I've got that.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You do have some Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I do have a fair amount of Dodger I have
like every Dodger hat possible. I've got that. A few
Dodger shirts, a couple of Clipper shirts, a couple of
Ram shirts, but not not too much.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, good news for you, Ben. I was at Target
the other day Clipper shirts half off again.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh look at you. Very funny there, what is still
wrong with the Clippers? Very funny. Another class Laker historian.
I saw my man, Ralph Lawler, who's retired. I was
friends with Ralph when he was a Clipper broadcaster, and
I used to listen to him when I was a kid, which.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Is very weird. I like that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So Ralph is retired. So he he was living part
of the year in Florida, part of the year in Oregon.
I guess he sold his house in Florida and moved
to Oregon full time. So whatever, he's an Oregon And
he said he was consolidating items in his house and
he found all these old T shirts. Ironically enough, we
were just talking about T shirts, and they are all
(13:32):
these old Clipper shirts, you know, and they're they're cool things,
vintage shirts. From back in the eighties and the nineties
and all the way up to Lob City and the
Blake Griffin and all that, and so it's just a
harmless post and he's doing his thing whatever. And then
some guy posts, I don't see any NBA championship shirts.
(13:56):
What do you think that was, Danny? You think that
was a Clipper fan or a Laker history orient Who
do you think that was?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know. I know some bitter Clipper fans.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That a classless, scumbag, loser, Laker historian. And another reason
all the NBA cheers against the Lakers the most in
the NBA. And Ralph Wahler came back and buried this guy.
He said, what's your point? He said, I would not
look back at my career anymore fondly if my collection
(14:28):
of shirts included multiple championship shirts. I loved the game
and I enjoy it. I enjoyed every second of my
forty years with the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's why he's lying to himself. If he says a
title during his career wouldn't have mattered, Come on.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Doesn't matter, it doesn't I don't think it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter unless you're making money off it or
something like that. Doesn't matter, all right, Moving on, David
writes in from Jersey. I thought I think he's in
Israel now, he says, mal or Danny g I have
heard you mentioned in the past that you have some
(15:05):
really valuable sports trading cards, specifically Michael Jordan rookie cards
that you have had over the years. I have also
heard you say that you're in the process, or say
you said the process of authentication. Often what's the word?
I even said so early in the morning here, what
is awesome to get verified, valid whatever? You know what
I mean, it's quite pricey. So I was wondering whatever
(15:28):
happened to them? Did you sell them? I would love
to know how much? If you don't mind saying, so,
did you authenticate? I can't say the word, did you verify,
validate them? Whatever? Or do you still have them? Anyway?
I still enjoy authenticate, authenticate. There you go get authenticate, authentic, authentic,
(15:49):
authenticate to infinity and beyond authenticate. Do you do I
really enjoy he says, enjoys the show? And well, thank
you David, and I not heard from you in a while,
so thank you. I know you and your brother Both
were callers at one point to the show. So A,
I still have the collection. B it is collecting dust
in the garage at the Malor Mansion. And see, I
(16:13):
still have on my list a plan to get rid
of them. I'm actually talking to my colleague Mike Harmon
on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith. Mike is very
into the sports memorabilia world. He knows some people, he's
got some ideas. He knows what to keep and what
to get rid of. So I might have to bring
(16:35):
mister Harmon to the Malor Mansion to get him like cheese,
steak and burgers and things like that and uh and
kind of play it that way and kind of have
him as my my advisor, my think tank. So they're
all still there. I haven't touched I haven't touched any
of them.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, Harmon is a card show nerd. No, he is.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He's totally into it, like that's it. That's his world, man.
He's all all about it, like he's buying stuff, stuff,
like he's really invested. Next up on the mail bag,
who do we have here, Big Greg in Iowa? Right,
So he says, dear Ben and Danny g Since it
has been over a week after your new studio has opened. Truthfully,
(17:16):
how many of the chairs in the main studio have
you sat in? Taking off everything except you're tidy white?
He's been, he says the answer. What do you think,
Danny seven eight nine chairs? How many do you think
I've sat in there?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
One?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, one, exactly one. That's it. I don't have to please,
and I would sit elsewhere, but I was told I
have to sit in a certain place because they record
for the internet channels. They record the monologue, so I
was not allowed to sit in random places.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And they told you to stop sweating profusely like Patrick
ewing hat trick.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, I did the first monologue I did in there,
I had the flop sweat going. We told the story
on the podcast, but that's because some a hole, I
think Jason Smith had turned the heater up and it
was like eighty degrees in there, and I'm in there
doing the show and I'm sweating because all these lights
are on and I'm like, what are we doing? This
(18:20):
is terrible, he says Danny G. Also, this is from
Big Greg. Danny G. Have you caught your breath from
having to run a marathon? Taking notes to Covino and Rich.
Serious question, and I'm not sure if it has been asked,
but what's your favorite thing to make on the Blackstone?
(18:42):
That is from Big Greg? There you go, well, Big Greg,
I actually said this a few seconds ago. But the
quality of the cheese steak sandwich. I've been to Philadelphia,
I've had authentic cheese steak. I will put my cheese
steaks in against any of the cheese steak sandwiches that
(19:03):
I've had in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh, those are some strong words.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm telling you, man, these things are amazing and the
only the main reason I've been able to do it.
I would not be possible without the Blackstone griddle, which
I love. It's one of the coolest things. I'm sounding
like a total middle aged human being here. If you
had flashed back and gone in the hot tup time
machine to when I was a kid, and you had
(19:29):
told me, Ben, someday you'll be you know, X number
of years old and you'll be celebrating a griddle, I
would have told you to go pound sand is what
I would have told you. But here we are, and that, Danny,
I believe, is called life. That right there is life,
and I wish my mom had lived a little longer
(19:52):
because I didn't really get into cooking until she had
unfortunately checked out. But she was wonderful in the kitchen,
and so maybe some weird genetic thing passed on where
I've kind of picked it up. They My wife's taught
me a lot of stuff too, so she's very good
cooking and whatnot. So but I love the griddles, wonderful.
And Danny, now that you've got a bun in the
(20:14):
oven there, and you know, you might need to buy
a blackstone and learn how to cook.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No, you're not wrong. We have a balcony and I've
been talking to my girl about buying a nice barbecue
grill for the summer because it's about time to fire
up some steaks and hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now, what kind of what are we looking at? Here?
Are you? Are you gonna do like charcoal? You're gonna
do gas? Like? What's the plan?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
See? I gotta figure that out. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now. I like cooking with gas because it's it's more efficient,
but that some people love the taste. If you're barbecuing
a lot of stuff, you might like the charcoal. It
really it's about preference, and there are charcoal snobs that
spat Loogi's at you. If you say you like cooking
with gas?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
What about the woodchip snobs?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could do that. So that's another I.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Got some woodchips, love eh, I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Got a smoker. Well you should get a smoker like
I have. Okay, you none need a brag. Fred in Spring, Texas,
Right so, and says hi, guys, Ben, you always talk
about the overnight shift is the bottom of the barrel?
Is that really true? In what do you aspire to be?
I love what I do for a living, Fred, But
(21:31):
in the radio business there's the halves and the have nots,
and it's pretty much divided up in radio. Between six
am and six pm, you're really cool, You're important, you matter.
You get to go to the Super Bowl every year
and different events and boxing matches and NBA finals and
World Series and things like that. You're important. And then
(21:54):
if you're on from six pm to six am, you
are like mushrooms that grow at the bottom of the sewer.
And that's just the way it is. I mean, you're
just treated that way. You're a second class citizen. I
get it. I've done it a long time. I've done
overnight's my entire career. I just wish the shift was
respected more because we're actually on more affiliates than the
(22:15):
daytime shows are. Obviously the audience is a little smaller
because most people are sleeping and all that. But no,
I've always wanted to be in radio. My dream was
a little kid to be in radio. So I'm very
happy to do what I do. I love doing the podcast.
I'm sure at some point we'll just do the podcast,
we won't do the radio anymore, and we'll just focus
on the podcast. But there's all the things I'd like
(22:38):
to do. I'd like to get back and try television again.
That would be fun. Maybe start my website up again
and see if I can generate some revenue. It's somewhat
frustrating when I think back when I started my website.
My rivals contemporaries were Mike Florio, he had a website
(22:59):
before Football Talk, and there was a site called dead
Spin that is still around but it's been changed ownership.
And there was a one of my friends who was
a very well known NBA reporter for ESPN. He told me,
he said, Malord, you cost yourself millions by closing your
(23:20):
website before you did you know what I he's probably
not wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He's probably what year did you stop?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It was probably about thirteen, maybe four, I don't know,
ten to thirteen years ago, something like that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, okay, so you probably would have had to hold
on for like five extra years.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah. Yeah, you know. I got some radio stuff and
I just didn't have enough time for everything, so I
had to let it go. But yeah, if I had
held on, man, oh jeez. Oh so so close, but
so far Ozzie was, writes in on the mailbag. He says,
my mate's Big Man and Daddy G Radio. I A'm sorry.
I have not been able to contribute the last couple
(24:04):
of weeks. Been super busy. He's in Western Australia. Download
the podcast and listen while working. So here we go.
He said, you had your big board of memorable moments
in the old FSR studio, So what was your most
embarrassing moment that happened in the old FSR studio? So
(24:28):
any embarrassing. We've had a few things that have happened.
I think on the show. It was All Star weekend.
The All Star Game was in Denver and they booked
a guest and I forget. I forget who they said
it was, but I just remember who it actually was.
(24:50):
They said it was somebody else, so I interviewed the person.
I introduced the person asked a question because I was
told it was one person, and it was actually Clyde
Drexler was not I thought I was talking to somebody else,
but it was. It was kind of embarrassing because he's
a Hall of Fame basketball player.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I would say, and you're gonna laugh when you remember
this too. When I trained Roberto to go into my
shoes in your show, what did he do for the segment?
How did he try to replace Tinderoni tips?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yes, what a freaking nightmare. But we look back on
it with hilarity because I wish we had a recording
of it. Ben talk about a train wreck that killed
one hundred passengers. Roberto got it in his head that, well,
I'll do Tinderoni tips, but for married people, is it weler?
(25:52):
It might have been the worst five minutes of radio
on the network's history.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's a bull strategy, it really is. I will give
Roberto credit. He was thinking outside the box, which was
actually it's weird because it was in the box. Because
he was copying what you were doing, but he added
his own twist to it, so it was outside the box.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So I immediately jumped in and had a powwow with him,
and I helped him come up with that segment where
I had the voting for the drop of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah. We did that for a while. Then he had
weather with Roberto, which was fun. We did that, and
he's done cooking with Roberto, so he's changed his yeah segment.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
If you've been around long enough to remember the very
first week Roberto took over for me in that shift, God,
that was funny. Even Roberto makes fun of it to
this day. He's like, I don't know what I was thinking.
He's like, that was so bad. It just was. It
was great. It was great radio, like for the all
(27:00):
wrong reasons. But it turned out to be a funny,
embarrassing moment.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, now that Ozziwaz brings this up. The other one
I remember. Although it wasn't really embarrassing for me, it
was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for the network, is what
it was. So there was this older gentleman who had
mostly worked in television who got hired as a board
op an engineer, board operator, technical engineer, producer.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Whatever you call.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It was like his first weekend. And so when I
did the weekend overnight show, they always broken the new
board ops with me. They figured, oh, who cares if
you blow, You're on Mallard's show, it doesn't matter. And
I was fine because I got I became friendly with
all the board ops. So when i'd fill in, like
they'd moved to different shows, and I was like, I
knew everybody, and so that was kind of neat. But
(27:52):
let's just say this guy did not grasp the necessary
responsibilities to run the board. And you're in charge. You're
really in charge of piloting the entire operation, all the drops,
all the songs, the ins and outs, the commercials. You're
in charge of hitting right, but in the tones, everything.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The timing, all the affiliates, everything.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And if you don't know what you're doing, or if
you're not confident, it becomes problematic. So I'm doing the
show and I could tell this guy's drowning, you know,
and there's no one there and he's on his own,
and he's having issues with profit the system that we use,
and so it's like it's like almost two o'clock in
(28:42):
the morning, and I've still got a couple hours to go,
because at that point I did a.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Five hour did five hours.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I did five hours, so I had several hours to
take and so this I'm closing out the hour. I
lock out for the hour, and I'll never forget the
look on the face of the board up. He has
the look of like he's seen a ghost. He hits
the talk back button. He says, just keep going, just
(29:16):
just keep going. Oh no, and he somehow he said
the computer he hit the wrong button. Thing froze. So
we just swept the top of the hour, which you're
never supposed to do on a network radio show because
affiliates dropped the show. Show at the top of the hour,
(29:38):
you fired. And so he's like, just keep going, keep going.
So we had no update. The update guy, I was like,
what's going on? I don't understand what that is. That
was awkward, that was uncomfortable. What else do we have
in the middle back I did want to say, and
these are not I don't think they wanted these red
on the air. But Angelina, she is very happy that
(30:00):
the location we picked for the Mallard meet and greet,
and she says it's very good for those of us
who are living living just across the Minnesota border in
Wisconsin as well. She's looking forward to it, and also Jennifer,
our friend in Richmond, Jennifer in Virginia. There, she's said,
unfortunately she's not going to make it, but she is
(30:21):
trying to convince her son and his friends to go
hang out with us, so on her behalf.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
So what's up, Jennifer. Yeah, I'm still I'm in I'm
in the same boat as Jen. I'm waiting for Iheart's reply.
They were supposed to pay for my ticket.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, well, I don't know why they wouldn't do that.
I mean, as you know, the company has been very
generous here. They're very supportive. They've covered I actually bought
a plane ticket, but the company said, you know what, Ben,
we're making a lot of money, so we're gonna we're
gonna reimburse you for your plane ticket and your time.
We're gonna give you some money for meals. We're gonna
treat you like a first class is and we're going
to take care of you. Also, we're gonna upgrade your hotel.
(31:01):
We're gonna you know, President's Suite no problem on.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The nice, real nice.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah. They didn't have to do that, you know, and
most people say, oh, they never do that, but they did,
and I really appreciate that's very kind of them to
do that. They really did not have to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I feel like they're going to buy you a couple
of juicy Lucy's too.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure they had some cheese curds
to be named later. Kevin in Kansas, right since, says
dear Ben, can you provide an update on your found
laundry cart. Is it still in service or have you
repurposed it into something else like a lawn ornament? Have
you found any other interesting items in your new territory?
(31:41):
You and Danny g rule the weekends. So A, I
still have the laundry cart that I found on the
side of the road during COVID A. I'm talking. This
is like a laundry maat quality laundry cart, probably fum
an actual laundromat that somebody stole and tossed on the
side of the road, and I happen to walk by
(32:02):
it and find it. So I still have it. It
is not currently in service. It's what do they call
it's on dry dock. Remember I take a ship and
they put it on dry dock. It's on dry dock
right now, Kevin and I don't know what the plan
is for it. It likely will not be used where
I live now. There's really no need for it because
of the layout on the house, so unlikely that we're
(32:27):
gonna need it. So, Danny, you know what, if you
would like a nice laundry cart, you are more than welcome.
I can, I can get it to you. You can
come pick it up, knock yourself up.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It's a great offer. But like I mentioned on yesterday's podcast,
I'm already trying to get this out of the garage.
Baby's taking over.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
The baby thinks it's his cave. He's not even here yet.
Get the hell out of my garage.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
The boss baby, Man, it's the boss baby, That's what
it is right there.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Daddy, As my grandpa used to say, my mom's name
is Cynthia. He'd yell whenever we'd be visiting him. He'd say, Cynthia,
get your goddamn kids out of my garage.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That's great, I bet you. Your grandfather was like my grandpa.
My Grandma's Yiddish for he's spoke Yiddish at the house
and all that, but he's the same way, very no
beating around the bush, just yell at, screaming, no decorum.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Just none of that. The only time he'd let us
in his garage, he'd unscrew this jar that had quarters
in it and he'd say, are you doing good in school?
And we'd be like yeah, and he'd give us two
quarters and he'd say, now get the hell out of
my garage.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Nice, very nice, and fifty cents. I'm gone fond memories.
And someday your little kid likely will grow up there
and then you'll be that guy and you'll be like,
screw you. I've got my own radio station. They'll say,
what is radio? What is that you have radio? Stay? Yes,
I have my own radio station. How dare you? Gary
(34:05):
writes him from Parts on. He says, guys, what is
your favorite sports memory as a kid. My favorite memory
as a kid is the Carlton Fisk home run in
Game six of the nineteen seventy five World Series against
the Reds. Yes, so I remember the you know, the
Gibson home run in eighty eight. I was a little
kid watching the Mets and the Red Sox World Series,
(34:30):
and I remember the watching the game. Well, that whole
postseason was crazy because the Mets and Astros had a
wild NLCS game that went extra innings. The Angels in
Red Sox had the Dave Henderson Don Baylor home run
in game I think it was Game five, Game six,
so that American League Championship Series, I think it was
Game six, and then they went back to Boston for
(34:50):
Game seven and the Angels lost, I believe, so I
remember that. Those are some of the things I recall.
Those are the two sports memories. Watch some Super Bowls.
I remember the Broncos were playing the Giants in a
Super Bowl in Pasadena and my mom took me out
to the super Bowl site to get shirts. They were
(35:12):
like dirt cheap. The NFL didn't rape people back then
for shirts. You know, you could get shirts for a
reasonable price and all they didn't mark up everything like
they do. You know these days, What about you, Dan,
any anything that stands out there.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
The biggest memory from the World Series is watching or
I was about to watch the A's and the Giants.
Oh the Bay Bridge, and you know what happened. My
family was in Northern California, not far from the San
Francisco Bay area at the time. To see the TV
(35:45):
kind of go off and then the earthquake. My entire childhood,
I never saw my mom panic no matter what was
going on, no matter what challenges we might have faced.
She was a really cool, like calm late But in
this instance, the way the earth was rocking, you couldn't
even stand up, So everybody's falling down. As bad as
(36:08):
you can imagine an earthquake, that's how bad this one was.
We go to the backyard and is real and she's saying,
oh my God, Oh my God, is this gonna stop?
And she's like praying out loud Ben And that scared
the shit out of me because if she's praying to
God out loud because she thinks we're gonna die, I
(36:28):
thought we were gonna die. So you can imagine all
those poor people that were trapped on those freeways and
those buildings that all collapsed.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, and the the A's that was the World Series
that they won in that era, with all those great players,
that was the only one they they want. I'll never
forget the video of the freeway that collapsed there.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
That was mimutes Yeah, that was crazy, and what sucks
for a's in their history. They didn't even get to
celebrate that World series. It was just a very subdue
high five celebrate, you know what I mean. It wasn't
your normal celebrating of a world series victory.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, it was like well kind of with the COVID
they had that a couple of years ago, but it
was obviously much a different situation. But you couldn't really
celebrate good times. See any other you got a few
quick ones. We'll get get out on these. Let's see
here been page down, page down. Uh. David, our buddy
(37:29):
in winter Park, Florida with Roscoe of the parents, says,
what is your favorite ice cream? Favorite ice cream? I'll
go first. I like my Big my Big three. Not
necessarily disorder cookie dough, mint chip strawberry Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Cookie dough is gross.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh it's not.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
How dare you gross?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
No, it's not bad. Take by you, Danny. That's god.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
There's only one ice cream and one ice cream only
walking road rules.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Ben too much stuff going on. You know, the marshmallow
here and there's something over there. You don't need that.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
No perfect combination.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Rocky Road ice cream is the ranch dressing of of
that it is. No, it's like this, throw a bunch
of crap in the ice cream where people will buy it,
like ranch dressing. We got some rotting stuff, we'll put
it out here, people will drink it.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And you know what ice cream is? Gross? Pistachio. What
little kid in his right mind was like, pistachio. Get
the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Oh that's for grown ups though. That so I didn't
realize this. I thought this would be a quick question.
But that's all. That's an amazing question, all right. I
think we're thanks to Shelley from Minnesota, John and parts
unknown and another listener who did not leave their name,
so who they all knows. We'll get out on that.
I will be back tonight from the Mothership, Maine Studio,
(38:55):
the new improved FSR Studios beyond a seven o'clock in
the West, Sunday night, two am in the East, Monday
morning till six am all night long. A lot of
NBA playoff reaction and anything else that has popped up
here over the weekend, Danny, anything you want to promote here.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I will be back on the airwaves with Coveno and
Rich tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, I love the Coveno and Rich show.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
That's Monday two to four pm on the West five
to seven New York Time beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
So have a wonderful rest of your weekend. We thank
you so much, you're my favorite person for downloading this
podcast and we will talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Austa Pasta gotta murder. I gotta go.
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a Everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny G a global reach available you found it
wherever podcasts are available. You can find this podcast on demand.
A spinoff of The Overnight Show, The Ben Mahlercher heard
Monday through Friday, eastn Standard time two in the morning,
(00:55):
two in the morning till six in the morning, but
on the West Coast eleven pm until three am. And
if you're in Hawaii, it's just a night show. And
if you're in Europe, it's on during the day and
you can hear me there. Danny G, who used to
work with me on the Overnight Show, you can hear
him on with Covino and Rich Monday through Friday. Fox
(01:16):
Sports Radio. When can people hear you exactly Danny.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
G on the West coast two to four pm and
on the East coast five.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
To seven, five to seven. Check that out from our
new studio. A couple weeks into the new studio and
it's not been trashed completely yet. I was upset because
they changed the air conditioning the wall and the main
studio like it's still fine, it works, but they had
(01:46):
this really nice box on the wall for the air
conditioning that was like high end, and they took it
off and put this like crappy one on. I don't
know why they did. That's a downgrade.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I wonder why they did that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know. I have no idea, but I noticed
that at and the people have been asking what's the
old what's going on in the old studio? Nothing, it's there.
They didn't change anything, they didn't get rid of it.
I've actually gone in there. I've gotten to work because
I've had to drive in a little bit more from
way out in the north Woods. I'm really happy about that.
(02:19):
I like that drive. It's a good make sure my
car works, and good to support the oil industry with
the gas. So I got out there and I've gotten
it early and sat in that room and watched some
of the NBA playoff games in my old seat, so
that was kind of neat nice.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, in the daytime, they record some podcasts in there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh really, but just recording podcasts.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Got Leave does podcasts and so does Rob Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, so that's the new podcast studio. Yeah, okay, there
you go. So who knew. Well, we we do our
podcast differently and we don't want to use that. We
don't use that studio.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So you don't use that stinking studio, man.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And that studio. We're done with that studio. Absolutely. We
are not done with the mail bag. And that means ohio,
al it's.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This bag. Yeah, just getting started with a mail bag.
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, let's get started here, deep into the mail bag.
If you'd like to send a question in, you do
not have to wait for me to post something on Facebook.
You can email me right now. Email Danny Greel fifth
hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour at gmail
dot com. I cannot guarantee that we will put your
question on the air, but the odds improved dramatically if
(03:53):
you actually send one in as opposed to not sending
one in. I will guarantee if you don't send a
question in we will not be able to read your
question on the air. So with that said, the first
mail bag question comes from Pete the Machinist, who is
listening to this podcast in Albany, Oregon. He says, Guys,
when it's the weekend or maybe a day off, are
(04:16):
you still somewhat like nocturnal? He says? Or do you
adjust your sleep schedule for the weekends and then go
back to sleep regularly or back to sleep the same
sleep schedule for the weekdays. I guess you're talking to
me here. When you do the overnight show, does your
overnight shift conflict with your wife's schedule? So, Pete, here's
(04:41):
the problem. I like to keep the schedule as close
as I can to the weekday schedule, but that would
mean that I would not see any friends or family,
and I like to see some people from time to time.
So I do attempt to tweak my schedule a little
bit on the weekends. It's not easy. My wife does
(05:04):
work similar hours, but she's got a superpower. I'm married.
My wife wants to dress up. She how dare you?
It's very hard for me to get quality sleep. She's
able to sleep whenever she wants. I don't have that,
(05:25):
so I hope that answers your question. Danny. I know
you did the overnight show for a while, so you
had to battle sleep and all that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was one problem dating during that time working on
your show, because I'd have to flip my schedule around
every weekend to be a normal person and keep up
with the girl that I was dating at the time.
It was not easy because I would feel lethargic. I
would feel run down, and this girl is like, you know,
(05:56):
a block ahead of me on her mountain bike if
we were riding bikes that weekend or whatever, and I
just didn't feel like myself. It sucked, and everyone in
your life just expected you to flip a switch with
regular hours on the weekend and then transition back to
the graveyard on Sunday night, super super hard. I have
(06:16):
a lot of respect for everybody that does the third shift.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, it's not easy. The worst was when I did
the weekend overnights Friday and Saturday. And after I did
weekend overnights probably for six, seven, eight years something like
that pretty consistently, and people stop inviting you to parties.
They no longer because they know you won't go because
most Friday parties are on Friday or Saturday, like, well,
(06:42):
he's working, so we won't even invite him. Not that
I would probably go anyway, but they stopped inviting. You
had dating the Nightmare because of that schedule. And then
I had a website where I was working during the week.
So I was doing my website, my gossip site, aggregating
gossip during the week, and then on the weekends doing
the radio stuff. And I was filling in all over
(07:02):
the place. There's a big Nightmare next up on the
But thank you Pete the Machine, it's next up alf
the unofficial official show historian. He says, Ben, I don't
know what the ocean waters are like in California, but
you know what you're into. But do you know what
you're into when you hit the main coast this summer,
(07:25):
he says, be prepared to have some blue balls. Oh,
it was a lot. I was holding ball, touching balls,
you name it. I had a lot of balls. And
here's a fun fact for your privates. And he's got
a graph here, Danny, you can't see. It's got the
water temperature off the coast different places in Maine. So
First of all, Alf, we are tentatively planning on Maine.
(07:49):
That is not confirmed, though you know, the water in
California is probably right now, it's about in the low sixties.
I would say off the coast of californ which is
what it is in the summer, the hottest part of
the main.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But then again, Ben, if you were traveling to Maine,
I don't think your number one thing on your agenda
would be to go run into the water.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You don't think I would do a cannon ball from
the pier or into the water in the Atlantic, No,
I would not.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I don't see that. No, you're the dude on the
beach with the tent.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I am in the tent. Yeah, not pitching a tent. Well,
I think to get the tent. Yeah. But anyway, here's
the other problem. An unpopular opinion. Danny having spent time
on the beach on the East Coast of America and
the West coast West Coast all day, the beaches on
the West coast much better than the beaches on the
(08:43):
East coast, And some people say, well what about Florida. Yeah,
but I just like to hole the sunset on the
West coast. Awesome, It's right over the water.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're looking really cool. It's just a beautiful it's.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Just wonderful, marvelous, marvelous, marvel marvelous, marvelous marvels.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The sun sinks into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, it's really cool. But thank you Alf for that
uplifting message. I appreciate it, and I'll keep you guys posted.
As of now, there is no plane ticket purchase, there
is no hotel booked, and we'll see what happens with that,
with the old finances the Mala Mansion, Mike in Fullerton writes,
and he says, how to Ben and Danny g it's
(09:25):
birthday season. So I'm going to ask what you did?
What was your favorite birthday party? Right? What you guys
do with your kids. My favorite as a kid was
me and a bunch of friends at the long since
bankrupt Discovery Zone. My favorite as an adult was at
a similar place that is still around, according to Mike
(09:49):
in Fullerton, and he of course included as Alf did,
he had a graph and there's also a photo here
that Mike included, which is it's good to know that
you love whether there's the Discovery Zone there, there's is
that you and the photos Mike. I don't know if
that's you in there Discovery Zone. There is a Discovery
(10:12):
Music Science Center, which I don't think is the same thing,
but that's that's a thing in Orange County. I think
it's one in La also, but thank you think you might.
I love Chuck E Cheese. I was a kid that
was not that old. When I was a kid, Chuck
E Cheese that was like a big that was a
big deal. There was a ripoff of Chuck E Cheese
(10:32):
called Bullwinkles, which I thought was kind of cool. That
was fun like that. I'm of the age when we
were little kids. McDonald started the playgrounds. Just going there
you felt like you were like a big shot because
you were hanging out with Ronald McDonald and you had
the ball pit, which was always disgusting. Any great birthday locations,
(10:53):
Danny from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, I mean, I don't want anybody sympathy, but you
know this from you know, because we've known each other
for a long time. I for a portion of my
childhood my mom was single, bouncing around. We didn't have
a place to stay for a while. It was not
good times as a little kid. For a lot of
the years. So like Biggie rapped, birthdays was the worst days.
(11:18):
Now we sip champagne when we Thursday. So yeah, birthdays
weren't really a thing, Ben, You.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Did not celebrate the birthdays.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, just like Biggie. And you know, my
very first official birthday party was when I was in
my early twenties and a radio station held it. They
did a surprise birthday party and it turned out this
is in Ventura, California, but this should have been an Oxnard,
(11:49):
California because it was like a cholo party. Every single
gift I unwrapped was something Raiders, al Raighties.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And you have a very similar closet to Roberto, where
in my head there's one side that is Raiders. It's
it's like a triangle. You've got one side Raiders, one
side Lakers, and then the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There's also the Hawaii section though, Okay, like I got
Hawaii hats, I have not Hawaiian shirts, but shirts from Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, so I don't have that. I have like a
fair amount of a Clipper random shirts, but most I
don't have too many teams, teams, a lot, a lot
of hats, a lot of hats I've got that.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You do have some Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I do have a fair amount of Dodger I have
like every Dodger hat possible. I've got that. A few
Dodger shirts, a couple of Clipper shirts, a couple of
Ram shirts, but not not too much.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, good news for you, Ben. I was at Target
the other day Clipper shirts half off again.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh look at you. Very funny there, what is still
wrong with the Clippers? Very funny. Another class Laker historian.
I saw my man, Ralph Lawler, who's retired. I was
friends with Ralph when he was a Clipper broadcaster, and
I used to listen to him when I was a kid, which.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Is very weird. I like that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So Ralph is retired. So he he was living part
of the year in Florida, part of the year in Oregon.
I guess he sold his house in Florida and moved
to Oregon full time. So whatever, he's an Oregon And
he said he was consolidating items in his house and
he found all these old T shirts. Ironically enough, we
were just talking about T shirts, and they are all
(13:32):
these old Clipper shirts, you know, and they're they're cool things,
vintage shirts. From back in the eighties and the nineties
and all the way up to Lob City and the
Blake Griffin and all that, and so it's just a
harmless post and he's doing his thing whatever. And then
some guy posts, I don't see any NBA championship shirts.
(13:56):
What do you think that was, Danny? You think that
was a Clipper fan or a Laker history orient Who
do you think that was?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know. I know some bitter Clipper fans.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That a classless, scumbag, loser, Laker historian. And another reason
all the NBA cheers against the Lakers the most in
the NBA. And Ralph Wahler came back and buried this guy.
He said, what's your point? He said, I would not
look back at my career anymore fondly if my collection
(14:28):
of shirts included multiple championship shirts. I loved the game
and I enjoy it. I enjoyed every second of my
forty years with the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's why he's lying to himself. If he says a
title during his career wouldn't have mattered, Come on.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Doesn't matter, it doesn't I don't think it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter unless you're making money off it or
something like that. Doesn't matter, all right, Moving on, David
writes in from Jersey. I thought I think he's in
Israel now, he says, mal or Danny g I have
heard you mentioned in the past that you have some
(15:05):
really valuable sports trading cards, specifically Michael Jordan rookie cards
that you have had over the years. I have also
heard you say that you're in the process, or say
you said the process of authentication. Often what's the word?
I even said so early in the morning here, what
is awesome to get verified, valid whatever? You know what
I mean, it's quite pricey. So I was wondering whatever
(15:28):
happened to them? Did you sell them? I would love
to know how much? If you don't mind saying, so,
did you authenticate? I can't say the word, did you verify,
validate them? Whatever? Or do you still have them? Anyway?
I still enjoy authenticate, authenticate. There you go get authenticate, authentic, authentic,
(15:49):
authenticate to infinity and beyond authenticate. Do you do I
really enjoy he says, enjoys the show? And well, thank
you David, and I not heard from you in a while,
so thank you. I know you and your brother Both
were callers at one point to the show. So A,
I still have the collection. B it is collecting dust
in the garage at the Malor Mansion. And see, I
(16:13):
still have on my list a plan to get rid
of them. I'm actually talking to my colleague Mike Harmon
on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith. Mike is very
into the sports memorabilia world. He knows some people, he's
got some ideas. He knows what to keep and what
to get rid of. So I might have to bring
(16:35):
mister Harmon to the Malor Mansion to get him like cheese,
steak and burgers and things like that and uh and
kind of play it that way and kind of have
him as my my advisor, my think tank. So they're
all still there. I haven't touched I haven't touched any
of them.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, Harmon is a card show nerd. No, he is.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He's totally into it, like that's it. That's his world, man.
He's all all about it, like he's buying stuff, stuff,
like he's really invested. Next up on the mail bag,
who do we have here, Big Greg in Iowa? Right,
So he says, dear Ben and Danny g Since it
has been over a week after your new studio has opened. Truthfully,
(17:16):
how many of the chairs in the main studio have
you sat in? Taking off everything except you're tidy white?
He's been, he says the answer. What do you think,
Danny seven eight nine chairs? How many do you think
I've sat in there?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
One?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, one, exactly one. That's it. I don't have to please,
and I would sit elsewhere, but I was told I
have to sit in a certain place because they record
for the internet channels. They record the monologue, so I
was not allowed to sit in random places.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And they told you to stop sweating profusely like Patrick
ewing hat trick.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, I did the first monologue I did in there,
I had the flop sweat going. We told the story
on the podcast, but that's because some a hole, I
think Jason Smith had turned the heater up and it
was like eighty degrees in there, and I'm in there
doing the show and I'm sweating because all these lights
are on and I'm like, what are we doing? This
(18:20):
is terrible, he says Danny G. Also, this is from
Big Greg. Danny G. Have you caught your breath from
having to run a marathon? Taking notes to Covino and Rich.
Serious question, and I'm not sure if it has been asked,
but what's your favorite thing to make on the Blackstone?
(18:42):
That is from Big Greg? There you go, well, Big Greg,
I actually said this a few seconds ago. But the
quality of the cheese steak sandwich. I've been to Philadelphia,
I've had authentic cheese steak. I will put my cheese
steaks in against any of the cheese steak sandwiches that
(19:03):
I've had in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh, those are some strong words.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm telling you, man, these things are amazing and the
only the main reason I've been able to do it.
I would not be possible without the Blackstone griddle, which
I love. It's one of the coolest things. I'm sounding
like a total middle aged human being here. If you
had flashed back and gone in the hot tup time
machine to when I was a kid, and you had
(19:29):
told me, Ben, someday you'll be you know, X number
of years old and you'll be celebrating a griddle, I
would have told you to go pound sand is what
I would have told you. But here we are, and that, Danny,
I believe, is called life. That right there is life,
and I wish my mom had lived a little longer
(19:52):
because I didn't really get into cooking until she had
unfortunately checked out. But she was wonderful in the kitchen,
and so maybe some weird genetic thing passed on where
I've kind of picked it up. They My wife's taught
me a lot of stuff too, so she's very good
cooking and whatnot. So but I love the griddles, wonderful.
And Danny, now that you've got a bun in the
(20:14):
oven there, and you know, you might need to buy
a blackstone and learn how to cook.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No, you're not wrong. We have a balcony and I've
been talking to my girl about buying a nice barbecue
grill for the summer because it's about time to fire
up some steaks and hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now, what kind of what are we looking at? Here?
Are you? Are you gonna do like charcoal? You're gonna
do gas? Like? What's the plan?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
See? I gotta figure that out. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now. I like cooking with gas because it's it's more efficient,
but that some people love the taste. If you're barbecuing
a lot of stuff, you might like the charcoal. It
really it's about preference, and there are charcoal snobs that
spat Loogi's at you. If you say you like cooking
with gas?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
What about the woodchip snobs?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could do that. So that's another I.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Got some woodchips, love eh, I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Got a smoker. Well you should get a smoker like
I have. Okay, you none need a brag. Fred in Spring, Texas,
Right so, and says hi, guys, Ben, you always talk
about the overnight shift is the bottom of the barrel?
Is that really true? In what do you aspire to be?
I love what I do for a living, Fred, But
(21:31):
in the radio business there's the halves and the have nots,
and it's pretty much divided up in radio. Between six
am and six pm, you're really cool, You're important, you matter.
You get to go to the Super Bowl every year
and different events and boxing matches and NBA finals and
World Series and things like that. You're important. And then
(21:54):
if you're on from six pm to six am, you
are like mushrooms that grow at the bottom of the sewer.
And that's just the way it is. I mean, you're
just treated that way. You're a second class citizen. I
get it. I've done it a long time. I've done
overnight's my entire career. I just wish the shift was
respected more because we're actually on more affiliates than the
(22:15):
daytime shows are. Obviously the audience is a little smaller
because most people are sleeping and all that. But no,
I've always wanted to be in radio. My dream was
a little kid to be in radio. So I'm very
happy to do what I do. I love doing the podcast.
I'm sure at some point we'll just do the podcast,
we won't do the radio anymore, and we'll just focus
on the podcast. But there's all the things I'd like
(22:38):
to do. I'd like to get back and try television again.
That would be fun. Maybe start my website up again
and see if I can generate some revenue. It's somewhat
frustrating when I think back when I started my website.
My rivals contemporaries were Mike Florio, he had a website
(22:59):
before Football Talk, and there was a site called dead
Spin that is still around but it's been changed ownership.
And there was a one of my friends who was
a very well known NBA reporter for ESPN. He told me,
he said, Malord, you cost yourself millions by closing your
(23:20):
website before you did you know what I he's probably
not wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He's probably what year did you stop?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It was probably about thirteen, maybe four, I don't know,
ten to thirteen years ago, something like that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, okay, so you probably would have had to hold
on for like five extra years.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah. Yeah, you know. I got some radio stuff and
I just didn't have enough time for everything, so I
had to let it go. But yeah, if I had
held on, man, oh jeez. Oh so so close, but
so far Ozzie was, writes in on the mailbag. He says,
my mate's Big Man and Daddy G Radio. I A'm sorry.
I have not been able to contribute the last couple
(24:04):
of weeks. Been super busy. He's in Western Australia. Download
the podcast and listen while working. So here we go.
He said, you had your big board of memorable moments
in the old FSR studio, So what was your most
embarrassing moment that happened in the old FSR studio? So
(24:28):
any embarrassing. We've had a few things that have happened.
I think on the show. It was All Star weekend.
The All Star Game was in Denver and they booked
a guest and I forget. I forget who they said
it was, but I just remember who it actually was.
(24:50):
They said it was somebody else, so I interviewed the person.
I introduced the person asked a question because I was
told it was one person, and it was actually Clyde
Drexler was not I thought I was talking to somebody else,
but it was. It was kind of embarrassing because he's
a Hall of Fame basketball player.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I would say, and you're gonna laugh when you remember
this too. When I trained Roberto to go into my
shoes in your show, what did he do for the segment?
How did he try to replace Tinderoni tips?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yes, what a freaking nightmare. But we look back on
it with hilarity because I wish we had a recording
of it. Ben talk about a train wreck that killed
one hundred passengers. Roberto got it in his head that, well,
I'll do Tinderoni tips, but for married people, is it weler?
(25:52):
It might have been the worst five minutes of radio
on the network's history.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's a bull strategy, it really is. I will give
Roberto credit. He was thinking outside the box, which was
actually it's weird because it was in the box. Because
he was copying what you were doing, but he added
his own twist to it, so it was outside the box.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So I immediately jumped in and had a powwow with him,
and I helped him come up with that segment where
I had the voting for the drop of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah. We did that for a while. Then he had
weather with Roberto, which was fun. We did that, and
he's done cooking with Roberto, so he's changed his yeah segment.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
If you've been around long enough to remember the very
first week Roberto took over for me in that shift, God,
that was funny. Even Roberto makes fun of it to
this day. He's like, I don't know what I was thinking.
He's like, that was so bad. It just was. It
was great. It was great radio, like for the all
(27:00):
wrong reasons. But it turned out to be a funny,
embarrassing moment.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, now that Ozziwaz brings this up. The other one
I remember. Although it wasn't really embarrassing for me, it
was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for the network, is what
it was. So there was this older gentleman who had
mostly worked in television who got hired as a board
op an engineer, board operator, technical engineer, producer.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Whatever you call.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It was like his first weekend. And so when I
did the weekend overnight show, they always broken the new
board ops with me. They figured, oh, who cares if
you blow, You're on Mallard's show, it doesn't matter. And
I was fine because I got I became friendly with
all the board ops. So when i'd fill in, like
they'd moved to different shows, and I was like, I
knew everybody, and so that was kind of neat. But
(27:52):
let's just say this guy did not grasp the necessary
responsibilities to run the board. And you're in charge. You're
really in charge of piloting the entire operation, all the drops,
all the songs, the ins and outs, the commercials. You're
in charge of hitting right, but in the tones, everything.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The timing, all the affiliates, everything.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And if you don't know what you're doing, or if
you're not confident, it becomes problematic. So I'm doing the
show and I could tell this guy's drowning, you know,
and there's no one there and he's on his own,
and he's having issues with profit the system that we use,
and so it's like it's like almost two o'clock in
(28:42):
the morning, and I've still got a couple hours to go,
because at that point I did a.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Five hour did five hours.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I did five hours, so I had several hours to
take and so this I'm closing out the hour. I
lock out for the hour, and I'll never forget the
look on the face of the board up. He has
the look of like he's seen a ghost. He hits
the talk back button. He says, just keep going, just
(29:16):
just keep going. Oh no, and he somehow he said
the computer he hit the wrong button. Thing froze. So
we just swept the top of the hour, which you're
never supposed to do on a network radio show because
affiliates dropped the show. Show at the top of the hour,
(29:38):
you fired. And so he's like, just keep going, keep going.
So we had no update. The update guy, I was like,
what's going on? I don't understand what that is. That
was awkward, that was uncomfortable. What else do we have
in the middle back I did want to say, and
these are not I don't think they wanted these red
on the air. But Angelina, she is very happy that
(30:00):
the location we picked for the Mallard meet and greet,
and she says it's very good for those of us
who are living living just across the Minnesota border in
Wisconsin as well. She's looking forward to it, and also Jennifer,
our friend in Richmond, Jennifer in Virginia. There, she's said,
unfortunately she's not going to make it, but she is
(30:21):
trying to convince her son and his friends to go
hang out with us, so on her behalf.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
So what's up, Jennifer. Yeah, I'm still I'm in I'm
in the same boat as Jen. I'm waiting for Iheart's reply.
They were supposed to pay for my ticket.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, well, I don't know why they wouldn't do that.
I mean, as you know, the company has been very
generous here. They're very supportive. They've covered I actually bought
a plane ticket, but the company said, you know what, Ben,
we're making a lot of money, so we're gonna we're
gonna reimburse you for your plane ticket and your time.
We're gonna give you some money for meals. We're gonna
treat you like a first class is and we're going
to take care of you. Also, we're gonna upgrade your hotel.
(31:01):
We're gonna you know, President's Suite no problem on.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The nice, real nice.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah. They didn't have to do that, you know, and
most people say, oh, they never do that, but they did,
and I really appreciate that's very kind of them to
do that. They really did not have to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I feel like they're going to buy you a couple
of juicy Lucy's too.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure they had some cheese curds
to be named later. Kevin in Kansas, right since, says
dear Ben, can you provide an update on your found
laundry cart. Is it still in service or have you
repurposed it into something else like a lawn ornament? Have
you found any other interesting items in your new territory?
(31:41):
You and Danny g rule the weekends. So A, I
still have the laundry cart that I found on the
side of the road during COVID A. I'm talking. This
is like a laundry maat quality laundry cart, probably fum
an actual laundromat that somebody stole and tossed on the
side of the road, and I happen to walk by
(32:02):
it and find it. So I still have it. It
is not currently in service. It's what do they call
it's on dry dock. Remember I take a ship and
they put it on dry dock. It's on dry dock
right now, Kevin and I don't know what the plan
is for it. It likely will not be used where
I live now. There's really no need for it because
of the layout on the house, so unlikely that we're
(32:27):
gonna need it. So, Danny, you know what, if you
would like a nice laundry cart, you are more than welcome.
I can, I can get it to you. You can
come pick it up, knock yourself up.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It's a great offer. But like I mentioned on yesterday's podcast,
I'm already trying to get this out of the garage.
Baby's taking over.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
The baby thinks it's his cave. He's not even here yet.
Get the hell out of my garage.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
The boss baby, Man, it's the boss baby, That's what
it is right there.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Daddy, As my grandpa used to say, my mom's name
is Cynthia. He'd yell whenever we'd be visiting him. He'd say, Cynthia,
get your goddamn kids out of my garage.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That's great, I bet you. Your grandfather was like my grandpa.
My Grandma's Yiddish for he's spoke Yiddish at the house
and all that, but he's the same way, very no
beating around the bush, just yell at, screaming, no decorum.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Just none of that. The only time he'd let us
in his garage, he'd unscrew this jar that had quarters
in it and he'd say, are you doing good in school?
And we'd be like yeah, and he'd give us two
quarters and he'd say, now get the hell out of
my garage.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Nice, very nice, and fifty cents. I'm gone fond memories.
And someday your little kid likely will grow up there
and then you'll be that guy and you'll be like,
screw you. I've got my own radio station. They'll say,
what is radio? What is that you have radio? Stay? Yes,
I have my own radio station. How dare you? Gary
(34:05):
writes him from Parts on. He says, guys, what is
your favorite sports memory as a kid. My favorite memory
as a kid is the Carlton Fisk home run in
Game six of the nineteen seventy five World Series against
the Reds. Yes, so I remember the you know, the
Gibson home run in eighty eight. I was a little
kid watching the Mets and the Red Sox World Series,
(34:30):
and I remember the watching the game. Well, that whole
postseason was crazy because the Mets and Astros had a
wild NLCS game that went extra innings. The Angels in
Red Sox had the Dave Henderson Don Baylor home run
in game I think it was Game five, Game six,
so that American League Championship Series, I think it was
Game six, and then they went back to Boston for
(34:50):
Game seven and the Angels lost, I believe, so I
remember that. Those are some of the things I recall.
Those are the two sports memories. Watch some Super Bowls.
I remember the Broncos were playing the Giants in a
Super Bowl in Pasadena and my mom took me out
to the super Bowl site to get shirts. They were
(35:12):
like dirt cheap. The NFL didn't rape people back then
for shirts. You know, you could get shirts for a
reasonable price and all they didn't mark up everything like
they do. You know these days, What about you, Dan,
any anything that stands out there.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
The biggest memory from the World Series is watching or
I was about to watch the A's and the Giants.
Oh the Bay Bridge, and you know what happened. My
family was in Northern California, not far from the San
Francisco Bay area at the time. To see the TV
(35:45):
kind of go off and then the earthquake. My entire childhood,
I never saw my mom panic no matter what was
going on, no matter what challenges we might have faced.
She was a really cool, like calm late But in
this instance, the way the earth was rocking, you couldn't
even stand up, So everybody's falling down. As bad as
(36:08):
you can imagine an earthquake, that's how bad this one was.
We go to the backyard and is real and she's saying,
oh my God, Oh my God, is this gonna stop?
And she's like praying out loud Ben And that scared
the shit out of me because if she's praying to
God out loud because she thinks we're gonna die, I
(36:28):
thought we were gonna die. So you can imagine all
those poor people that were trapped on those freeways and
those buildings that all collapsed.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, and the the A's that was the World Series
that they won in that era, with all those great players,
that was the only one they they want. I'll never
forget the video of the freeway that collapsed there.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
That was mimutes Yeah, that was crazy, and what sucks
for a's in their history. They didn't even get to
celebrate that World series. It was just a very subdue
high five celebrate, you know what I mean. It wasn't
your normal celebrating of a world series victory.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, it was like well kind of with the COVID
they had that a couple of years ago, but it
was obviously much a different situation. But you couldn't really
celebrate good times. See any other you got a few
quick ones. We'll get get out on these. Let's see
here been page down, page down. Uh. David, our buddy
(37:29):
in winter Park, Florida with Roscoe of the parents, says,
what is your favorite ice cream? Favorite ice cream? I'll
go first. I like my Big my Big three. Not
necessarily disorder cookie dough, mint chip strawberry Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Cookie dough is gross.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh it's not.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
How dare you gross?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
No, it's not bad. Take by you, Danny. That's god.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
There's only one ice cream and one ice cream only
walking road rules.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Ben too much stuff going on. You know, the marshmallow
here and there's something over there. You don't need that.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
No perfect combination.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Rocky Road ice cream is the ranch dressing of of
that it is. No, it's like this, throw a bunch
of crap in the ice cream where people will buy it,
like ranch dressing. We got some rotting stuff, we'll put
it out here, people will drink it.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And you know what ice cream is? Gross? Pistachio. What
little kid in his right mind was like, pistachio. Get
the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Oh that's for grown ups though. That so I didn't
realize this. I thought this would be a quick question.
But that's all. That's an amazing question, all right. I
think we're thanks to Shelley from Minnesota, John and parts
unknown and another listener who did not leave their name,
so who they all knows. We'll get out on that.
I will be back tonight from the Mothership, Maine Studio,
(38:55):
the new improved FSR Studios beyond a seven o'clock in
the West, Sunday night, two am in the East, Monday
morning till six am all night long. A lot of
NBA playoff reaction and anything else that has popped up
here over the weekend, Danny, anything you want to promote here.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I will be back on the airwaves with Coveno and
Rich tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, I love the Coveno and Rich show.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
That's Monday two to four pm on the West five
to seven New York Time beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
So have a wonderful rest of your weekend. We thank
you so much, you're my favorite person for downloading this
podcast and we will talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Austa Pasta gotta murder. I gotta go.
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