September 16, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. have some Saturday fun for you! They're talking: Rock A Bye Baby, (Bleeps) Away, Back Scratcher, Word of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearing
house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
(00:23):
Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, hanging out in the podcast dojo.
We are honored to have you as we do this
mindless work. Well it's actually not mindless work when you
think about it's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and
Danny G. But you already knew that. And my man
Danny G right there hanging out with me. He's on
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with Covino and Rich all week. I do, of course
the Overnight Show, the Ben Maller Show, and Danny. If
you're new to the podcast, if you weren't listening years ago,
Danny used to work on the show. He was my
right hand man for several years on the Overnight Show,
and then he moved on. We're with Clay Travis and
all kinds of stuff. When's that Animal Thunderdome coming. Do
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we have a date on the Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I got a text from Clay Travis last week. I'm
sure that'll solve it. Let me see, let me pull
it up on my phone. I'll tell you exactly what
he wrote here. Where are you there? It is? He
sent me a story of an alligator that weighed eight
hundred and two point five pounds and measured fourteen feet
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three inches long, longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters.
So he sent that link and he said, we are
close on an extension on my contract so I can
be able to get rolling on Animal Thunderdome with you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, So, I mean, you know that's been i'mgoing for
a while now. But at least he texted with a
little update last week. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Speaking of alligators, I talked about this on the Overnight
Show the other night, but I recalled the story out
of Alabama. Did you see the Alabama football team what
they had for dinner this week? They had it looked
like a four hundred pound gator that they cooked the
entire gator and they were just picking away at the
flesh of the gator.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah. Yeah, it was really.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Disgusting looking like the image was really over the top,
and and the ironic things they were not. They're not
playing the Florida Gators today, you know, in the college
football world, they're playing South Florida, which is the Bulls.
But still they decided the great minds there in Tuscal looser.
They're like, ah, screw it, We'll just have gator and
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they cooked the How do you cook that is? Where
do you find an oven that's big enough to put
a full sized gator in? Do you have to barbecue it?
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't know what the hell? Does gator taste like?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I've never had it? Does it taste fishy? I don't know,
but I guarantee you we have listeners of the Fifth
Hour based on I've seen the numbers here Danny, where
people are listening, and we have listeners in Gator country.
And I know a guy, our friend, the guy that
used to be known as Sir scratch Off and now
he's known the Wild Southern whatever. He said, a four
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to six hundred pound gator will cost you between one
thousand and twelve hundred dollars if you want to buy.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
One to eat, and the Internet says that gator tastes
like quail with a mildly fishy flavor and is often chewy,
depending on preparation.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if I want that. That sounds disgusting.
What do you think dinosaurs tastes like? Probably like gators?
I think of gators. Is I think that's in that's
a dinosaur. I look at it an alligator. That's a
dinosaur to me. I know they say it's not and
chickens or relatives of dinosaurs, but for my money, I'm
(04:08):
saying that is a damn dinosaur when I see those
things walking around golf courses in South Carolina or Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Same with cortoises. Yeah yeah, man, and those hard shell
creatures live a long time. They definitely are the last
dinosaurs left on earth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So I've got on this podcast. We've got rock a
Bye Baby's Away, Backscratcher, the word of the week, and
time permitting, will have pop Goes the Culture. So we'll
have all of that content for you and we'll get
started with this. So once upon a time like last week, Danny,
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Once upon a time like a week ago. It was
last Friday. So my wife had to work overtime. She's
a nine to one operators, so you had to do
an extra shift at the police station. So I had
my gambling buddy. I had the night free of my
my wife, so I had my gambling but she was busy,
(05:12):
so I had my gambling pole. Came over to hang
out my guy Hunter. And I've known this guy since
high school. We played football together in high school. We
both have very busy lives, and even though we don't
live that far away from each other, this socializing doesn't
happen as often as as shit. So had a free knight.
(05:33):
Decided to have the Malard Pizza party from scratch made.
I love the pizza party Danny rip off parmeersan garlic twist.
Oh yeah, just like they have it roundtable, except they'll
cost you about three dollars instead of twenty dollars. And
then I made the mallard pie, the traditional mallar pie,
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garlic onion, bell pepper, thinly sliced onion. It melts in
your mouth. The garlic ah nice, the bell pepper. Really
a pizza artisan if I pull a muscle patting myself
in the back. But no, this is one of the
few things I make that I think I could like
serve in a restaurant. I think it's not good anyway,
So slaving over the hot stove and everything tasted the
(06:15):
delicious chef's kiss, right, I was very happy Michelin Star meal,
whatever you want to say. So then after the meal,
I was kind of hanging out, you know, talking about life,
how we're going to solve all of life's problems. Then
we were like, well, we can't really solve that problem,
screw it, and had a piece of celebratory cake. I
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sent out a photo on Instagram and I think I
put it on Facebook also where the wife to celebrate
the TV thing, decided let them eat cake, right, let
them eat cake, And so she bought this big cake,
which my favorite cake was like a Smurf cake. It's
got like thick frosting and this like blue cake.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's really good. Yeah, saw the photos.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah it's pretty. So so we had a piece of
the cake. So then we're just hanging out. My buddy
was trying to sober up, to be honest with it,
because he had had a bunch of alcohol and I
did not. By the way, I did not, you know,
I got to keep my lean television body. He was
trying to sober up. We were sitting on the sofa,
you know, chatting again, you know, telling old stories, old
(07:22):
war stories, back in my day and my day is
his day because we were the same age. So this
is the part of the story where things started to
go hey wire, dating like, this is the part where
things went a little crazy. So my buddy, we're talking
about college football because he's got a sibling that works
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at a major college football program, like a top ten
college football program. His sister is a big deal in
that world, actually works for one of us, Nick Saban
would say, one of the organizations. So he knows a
lot of crap, and he knows I won't repeat it
because I hardly ever talk about college football, but he
(08:03):
hears everything. So that's kind of like a safe zone, Danny,
because you know, you work with me a long time.
College football just doesn't usually come up that much on
the show unless it's Deon Sanders or Nick Saban. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It doesn't move your needle very often.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And I pointed out people get upset. I get emails
from people from time to time who live in the South,
let's say Southern Fried football or in the Midwest where
the Big Ten is mostly and they'll be like, well,
you really need to talk more about collegeball. And I've
always pointed out if the show was on a different schedule,
we would absolutely do it. But during football season the
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show we come on Sunday night in the West, right
after the NFL games, like the late Sunday night NBC
game ends, and then week come on a couple hours
after that hour and a half after that that game,
depending on the schedule, sometimes whatever, it's within a couple
hours of the Sunday night football game inning, so that's
a fresh story. It's always the biggest game of the week,
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and so we start running rhymes about that and whatever
else happened in the NFL that day, and we don't
talk about college football. And then on Monday night, you think, well,
maybe you talk college football on Monday night and the
Tuesday no, No, because we have a Monday night game
to talk about. So we talk about the Monday night game,
and that's how.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We do it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So we do that, and then Tuesday, usually it's still
fallout from Monday night. Wednesday, we start looking ahead to
Thursday's NFL come.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, surely on Thursday night into Friday morning. You talk
about college.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, because we have a Thursday night NFL game to
talk about it. Just see the problem here, You understand
the problem. So there has to be a tremendously wonderful
scandal for us to get into college football. Now. Fortunately
we've had Dion Sanders who wants to rip the head
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off every other coach that he plays because of some
great injustice. The coach said, disrespect and all that, and
Dion able to work his magic the other coach makes it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Parsonal, Yeah, how let.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Me ask you this, Danny, how long can that stick
last for Dion? At some point? Isn't that not going
to work? When you when you get to week seven
or eight of the coma, I.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Think it has legs to carry him to his next job.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You want to take a bet on where his next
job will be?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What do you think next gig for gig? I'm gonna
say it is going to be a team that drafts
Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I had said, as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of Nosterdenis, I had said the Atlanta Falcons.
I tossed that out. I don't think the Cowboys. I
don't think Jerry Jones would go down that road, even
though that would be amazing fodder for those of us
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that are in the sports media world. And then you
look around. You got to look at the Southeastern Conference
because that's the top of college football. So at anybody
who's about to get whacked. Jed who fled the knucklehead
Jed who fled from Florida. He actually had. I thought
a pretty good line that even though he was probably
(11:29):
higher than a kite, I think he's onto something. He
mentioned Texas A and m as possibility.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's not mad. But I could definitely see Dion taking
his talent to the NFL. Would his style of coaching
work in the National Football League?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's like short term, but he'd probably wear out as
welcome right, because a lot of the guys, like the players,
don't want to deal with the bull crap in the
in the NFL. I don't want anything to do with that.
And I was like, eh, but it might if he
gets a young team and he hasn't played in so long.
It's like the players in college they know of Dion Sanders,
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but it's not like they watched him play. And the
guys even in the NFL. Dion played so long ago
that the guys in the NFL who were the younger guys,
they were like five or six maybe the last time
Dion Sanders was playing in the NFL. But the Texas
A and m row with Jimbo Fisher not exactly like
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in the World on Fire, I could see that. I
can see that happening, though. That would be the mother
of all payouts. Does this count as college football talk.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
By the way, Danny, it sure does.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I got distracted. I was telling a story.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You were talking about how you don't cover college football,
and then now you covered college football.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Did about ten minutes on college well, but no, back
to the story. Sorry, but you carry away. It's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So my buddy's telling me stuff about college football because
that's a world he's familiar with and he's got relative
in it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And so I'm listing.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I don't remember much more than that, because next
thing I know, it's rock by Baby in the tree top.
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You know that whole thing. You sing that to.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Your son, by the way, you got to sing nursery
rhymes and those little those little things.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, Yeah, I sing that, and then I pretend like
he's falling down to the floor. Nice, you gotta I
bump his head on the carpet softly, but he laughs.
He thinks it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, I have I have fun like hush, little baby
and all that. I remember my mom. I hardly have
any memories when I was really little, but I hear
those songs and I in my head, I'm like my mom.
I remember my mom reading those songs to me when
I was a little baby. So we'll get to the point, please.
So I fell asleep while my friend was talking to me,
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tell me some college football story. I was so zonked
from staying up twenty five hours last week. I actually
over twenty five hours to do the TV thing, the
radio thing and all that. It finally caught up to me.
I completely zonked. I it was like I had NARPLELEPSI.
I passed out and uh yeah. So that my friend left.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
My buddy like.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Left, well, I fell asleep on the seb He just
took off. He said, I had to go. That was
and I won't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You weren't a good thing. You weren't on a date.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I know, I woke up and I was like, wait
a minute.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I was like, what happened? You know, like crap.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was like half awake, half asleep. You know, you're bedraggled,
You're not sure what's going on. And then on Saturday
last week, my my wife had me at you know,
because part of the marriage dealing, you know this Danny
is when you're married, you're the plus one. When the
wife goes to a party, you're the plus one.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You gotta go.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And so I got taken to a work party and
I was in total zombie mode. Still I think I
had I barely recovered now, so I'm in zombie mode,
unable to function properly throughout the day and night, in
a general malaise.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And this is kind of eh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's like being hungover, but I didn't even have alcohols,
just sleep lack of sleep. And then this, you know,
this whole thing has been wonderful, it's been a vortex
of goodness, but my sleep schedule is completely effed up.
So anyway, that's the whole point. I rock a bye baby.
I fell asleep while my friend was telling me a
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college football story, and that was that, and it was
just was away Danny for for him and for you apparently.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah. It so very similar to how our college football
talk put people to sleep. Your buddies did the same
thing to you.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That is correct.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yes, fast asleep, fast asleep. Oh my, oh my gosh. Monday,
for nine to eleven, there was, as you referenced on
yesterday's podcast, there was an iHeart event at the old
Johnny Carson studio. I don't think you've been to that
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studio since iHeart took it over, have you? I have not. No.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I used to go by there quite a bit when
Jay Leno, and you know, that was years ago when
he had the Tonight show and I was around there.
But no, I have not.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I knew they took it over, but I didn't really
know what they had done with it. So how is
it over there?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It's very cool. They've built it into a small TV
studio for live performances. So anytime a big music star
has an album that's being released or an event that
they want to throw, iHeart will hold it there with
their TV cameras and an iHeart host. Usually, you know,
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one of their big boys will come out, Like if
it's a country show, it'll be Bobby Bones. They're interviewing
the artist, and what they do is like a mini
concert for one hour. They will air it on all
of Iheart's channels and their YouTube channel, and they'll broadcast
it live across the world. And they have a small
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audience in there of clients, VIP and iHeart employees, so
it only holds, as you know, a couple hundred people
in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, it's not very big at all. Yeah, And so
you were did you you got you went to this
where you were able to attend this thing?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Is that? Yeah, big country and rock superstar Jelly Roll
from Tennessee was performing. He flew and he's been opening
for that big country star Eric Church. He took a
break off that tour to fly into LA for the
nine to eleven tribute show that iHeart wanted him to
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do for wounded warriors and some other organizations, some other
charities for soldiers, which was really cool of him. Get
to the Burbank studios there and it's Monday night football
Jets and as you know the debut of one Aaron Rodgers.
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It's broke. It's broke. Our oldest went along with me
to the show because he's a big country music fan,
kind of like take your kid to work day for
me because our boss was nice enough to let my
kid hang out in the studio as I produced Covino
and Rich on Monday afternoon, hurried up and did the
post production, and as we were walking in to the theater,
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that's when it's broke. It's broke. That's what's when Aaron
Rodgers got hurt. Oh boy, oh man in the coup
one hundred people in front of the theater waiting to
get in, the whole place was buzzing about Aaron Rodgers
and the Jets. Let you know how even more how
NFL is king because people were out there for music
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and everybody was talking about Aaron Rodgers in the NFL.
So we get inside the theater. They basically spent millions
of dollars to pimp this place out so that these
star musicians look like stars up on this stage for
when they filmed them. And what's really cool about it
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is you're standing right in front of the stage. If
you were a stalker, you literally could reach your hand
out and grab Jelly Roll's ankle, although that wouldn't end well.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Back in my younger days, I did have a lot
of jelly rolls. I did enjoy a jelly roll.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I did. Yeah, you're not familiar with jelly Roll. You
can google him and he's got a hit on the
radio right now called save Me. No.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I actually I have heard of jelly Row. You probably
don't think I have, because you know, I'm not really
up on too much pop culture. But I had heard
of this guy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He's got a really good documentary out on Hulu right
now called Save Me. So add that to your list
of documentaries to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I do love documentaries. Now, before you go on, I'm
gonna hit the pause button here, daddy, So before you
go on here, Now, the kid, your son that you
took to the Covino and Ritual. Was he a into
the show? Was he impressed at what you do or see?
Was he just futzing around on his phone the whole time,
bored out of his mind?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He wasn't on his phone. He had his laptop with
him because he is a new student at KL lou University,
so he was doing some homework. All right, that's cool. Yeah,
so he was kind of paying attention to what was
going on. I'd hear him laugh once in a while.
Then during commercial breaks, he would walk over and kind
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of take a look at what I was doing on
the computers, and then he would wander back over and
start working on his on his history page. Again, he
was half engaged. I would say, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, you always just just like when me and you
would walk into a radio station.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh yeah, so dude, us at that age, well, I
mean both of us were already in radio at his age,
but back up earlier. If somebody had taken us to
studios when we were little kids, oh man, it would
be the same thing as when we went to stadiums
for the first time.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, this is amazing, like this is the hallowed ground
and so cool, so cool.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So he did. He was pretty impressed with the new studios.
He thought it was really cool. And then of course
he got to see the iHeart Theater, which he thought
was really really cool. And now we're standing just a
few feet away from mister Jelly roll and put on
a great show. He's got like four or five hits now.
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He did his hits in between talking about first responders
and what that meant to him after the tragedy and everything.
And he was a little kid at the time, but
after watching the first responders rush into those buildings, he
had a whole new appreciation for firefighters and policemen. Obviously
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there were some military folks in the building, and so
it was really a warm, like a really nice feeling
there inside the building and all over the world. They
put this out for everybody to watch and listen to,
and he's belting out these tunes, Big Ben, like, this
guy's got some crazy vocals. So the crowd was super
(22:45):
impressed with his singing. And then there's a director who's
kind of like cut like, letting him know you are
no longer on the iheartfeed, which means he's now just
performing for us inside the little Johnny Carson theater. Nice well,
Ben was away because Jelly Roll gets on his mic
(23:08):
and he said, all right, so the forty minutes on
the Feet is over. I'm just live in the theater.
And somebody gave him a thumbs up and he's like, huh.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Fu, fuck, damn it fuck, And people are just kind
of standing there looking and half the crowd is laughing,
and he's like, I'm sorry, just how to get that
out of my system?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
For forty minutes there, I felt like I was performing
at fucking Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So he obviously he's used to, you know, letting it
rip and saying whatever he wants to say. And he's
got a good message in his music that also accompanies
the some of the party style that that he's known for.
But yeah, man, it was funny because I thought you
could appreciate that, because you know, especially on regular FAMFM,
(24:11):
we don't curse in the hallway. You cursed a lot.
I noticed when I worked with you on your live show, blank, my,
blank and blank. You like radio savant. You would crack
the microphone and no curse words ever came out of
your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I've been every once in a while. I've had
a few hiccups over the years, but.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Very few, very few hiccups.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But yeah, I get my cursing out in the commercials,
and I usually in the main studio. I tried to
avoid that as a rule of thumb. In the podcast studio,
we can say all those words. But I did work
with the guy years ago, early on in my career,
and he had one of the legendary stories in LA radio.
(24:54):
He was working at a station I think you know
who this is. He was working at a station, the
station w was changing formats. He was about to lose
his job and the last night this is why you
never get a final show on radio. So his last
night on the air, he was completely schnockered, and near
the end of the show he said, like, you know,
(25:17):
who cares. They can't fire us, And then he just
started saying the F word and the S word, like
over and over and over, just like you heard with
Jelly Roll. And he did it into the microphone on
a radio station. And this is back in the days
when everyone was like freaking out, Oh my god, the yes,
the FCC is going to get you in all that.
(25:38):
And I don't think he got in any trouble for it,
but he did it. He like did it on the air.
How crazy is that?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, maybe screw him. He's one of the reasons why
we didn't get to say goodbye to our listeners when
we got fired from radio stations.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
He's the reason. That's the reason right there we didn't
get to have farewells shows.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's not right, man, it's not right. You never get
to goodbye. He's just vanished. Did you go off into
the cosmos? And that is that all right, so we
have what we we've got Backscratcher. That is what's next, Backscratcher, Danny.
These are actual reviews by actual people that have listened
to the podcast, and it does help us out the
Apple podcast pages. In the description this week, Danny, do
(26:25):
we have one, two, three, or four reviews on the
Backscratcher Apple podcast page?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wow, you went all the way up to four. I'm
gonna say three.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, Danny, you'll be happy to know that we have
not one, not two, but d n Nate Nate name,
you got it right?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Three? Three? Yeah? Man, I'm good at this game.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I think you did. You cheat, Danny, don't cheat now.
First one is from our friend Peter, who is from Cleveland,
and he gave us five stars. He said he rarely
misses an episode. Says his brother in law listens live
every night. He recommended the show, and I started podcasting
(27:10):
it and now rarely miss an episode. He says he
especially loves the fifth hour, and he loves the listener letters.
He likes the mail bag. Danny loves the mail bag.
I love the mail bag.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Too, Peter. I love I love ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
He just not ask Ben. This is a totally different feature,
and it'll be on tomorrow's podcast. He says, thanks for
consistent excellence. Highly recommend the show and follow up. It
just keeps getting better. Best duel on the dial. Danny
and Benny rocketed to my top podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How about that, Danny, nice man. I'm gonna show that
to our boss. We are.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We are number one on Peter's smartphone, loud and clear,
right there.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Number one, number one, number one now with a bullet,
number one on an iPhone or an Android or whatever
he happens to have.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Next up, Thank you, Peter. Next up, we have a
splendid Daddy from Leesburg, Alabama. Daddy's four point nine stars,
Nobody's perfect, Ben and Danny and Splendid Daddy says, I
have listened to all twenty three hours a week, twenty
(28:30):
for the show and three for the fifth hour for
three years running.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Now and then his mind must be warped.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Smartest guy in Leesburg, Alabama, and to prove that he's
really from Leesburg, Alabama, he says, y'all are down to earth,
anti woke, and best of all, I love the sarcasm.
Keep up the good work. Hopefully all get another twenty years.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, I think we.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Prout both Danny probably need to work in other twenty years.
I think that's pretty fair to say, right, I don't know,
unless we win the lottery or something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Right, well, we are definitely retiring at seventy five years old.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I think, I think, I think so, I think
that's gonna that's gonna happen. Cliff in Nashville rights away
twenty years. How will you think I am?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Cliff in Nashville rights and so, he says, I so
look forward to the real Fifth Hour with Mallard and
Danny g Every weekend. They share their interesting life experiences
with candor and humor we can all relate to. And
then he says, Ben's quick wit, Danny's calm approach me
(29:39):
for a great team.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So they go, thank you, And everyone's been very nice here, Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And the reason everyone's been nice is we just we
don't even read the bad reviews.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
We just leave those the side. We only read the
good reviews.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But no, we would read the bad reviews, but we
don't get too many of those, which is pretty cool. Actually,
most of the ones we got were when I was
doing the show with guests, and he would go through
his Rolodex and put like these really polarizing political people
on the podcast, and I'm like, all right, whatever your book,
I'll talk to whoever.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I don't really I rarely.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Turned down anyone, but certain people really got like freaked out,
you know, and I'm I'm of the mindset I'll talk
to pretty much anybody. I'm not, you know, on either
side of the aisle. Obviously I'm on the anti woke side,
but I'll talk to people I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And some people just lose their mind. They lose their mind.
And we've had to rebuild your overall score ever since.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I know, we were like what happened? Man, People were
like us.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
When I joined your show, you had like a three
point nine overall rating. Well give or take, you know,
give me. But thank you to all the nice regular
listeners of the podcast, because that number is up to
a four point nine right now. Loujah Hei you Jesus. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And the cool thing about this and I thank you
for downloading the podcast and supporting what we do here
because originally, when we started the podcast, it was going
to be like another Sporto podcast. It was gonna be
a gambling podcast, which it was for a while, and
then it was just gonna be all interviews. And now,
even though we talked some hot college football earlier in
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this podcast, it is I would say ninety two percent
just about like us.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And ten percent shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up. Yeah, and it's like, listen, we're in the
same battle everyone's in, right, We're all trying to make
it through the crazy cornfield maze that is life, and
stupid is as stupid does.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And that's the way.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The way it works. All right, we have with the
word of the week, the word all the week. I
think I used this word yesterday, Danny. The word of.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
The week, the word of the week.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
The word of the week. The word of the week
is moxie. Moxie is the word of the week. So moxie,
it's to me, it's a synonym of gumption, courage, I
guess would be the way a lot of people look
at it, that moxie means you have intestinal fortitude. If
(32:28):
you got moxie, that's a compliment. Now, I didn't really
know much about the history of the word, so I
was like, all right, let's make this the word of
the week. I use it from time to time. It's
in my lexicon. What exactly does it mean? And I
know what it kind of means? But where did it
come from? So there's a couple of avenues you can
go down from what I was able to uncover. It
(32:48):
actually goes back about the modern usage goes back about
one hundred years, and it was a brand name. The
term moxie was a brand name of a bitter, non
alcoholic drink, So that's in like the nineteen thirties, and
then you go back to the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies,
(33:13):
it was the name of a medicine advertised to build
up your nerve. Yeah, that kind of makes sense. And
despite the beginnings of the word, there's all kinds of
stories on the internet, I believe it or not. People
people love words.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I love words.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And they claim that the company, that company, the medical company,
put out all these wild stories about it. But they
think the term actually came from a New England Indian word.
And they say there's a fair amount of rivers, like
there's a there's a river and a lake in Maine
(33:56):
that are named moxie. They say, in the original Indian language,
it means dark water. Okay, dark water. So there's a
couple of different meetings on that. And they say in
the nineteen teens, nineteen seventeen, there was a moxie company
(34:19):
that won an infringement lawsuit against a competitor. Somebody started
a different beverage called Proxy. That's pretty funny. That's like
that coming to America where they had McDowell's.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, it's like you're selling a lot of beverages called moxie.
So we're going to go the other way. We're going
to go proxy. What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Man alive?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
All right, we'll get out on that note, Danny, we
will push pop goes the culture to the Sunday mail
Bag podcast, but I will go first with the begging.
And it's Saturday, which means I am not doing radio,
but I am doing television. So Benny versus the Penny.
(35:06):
If you have not watched it yet, please try to
check it out. It's all over cable television regional cable
television on the NBC Sports affiliates around the country in Boston, Chicago, La,
New York, Philadelphia, and a bunch of other cities. You
don't have to point out at every time, Danny, you
don't point that out.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, let it be known. The Lakers channel in La
is where you can watch Ben Malley.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, okay, so that is going to be available off
and on throughout the day, depending on which city you
are in. If you've already watched it, watch it again.
That would help us out a lot. That would help
us out a lot. If you did that, that would mean
a lot to me. So I do appreciate that. I'm
trying to make sure this thing doesn't get canceled by
week nine, and if people actually watch it, maybe they'll
actually bring it back for another year.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
That would be wild.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Also, we've only made it through two weeks though, so
we have many, many more shows to get through. Danny,
what do you have going on here? You're not working today? Right, Saturday,
day of rest.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Day of travel, because in about an hour we are
going to pack baby Koa into the car. He's gonna
go on his first little trip. We're gonna drive about
forty five minutes north to the ocean and spend one
night there on the beach, just because we are sick
(36:27):
of being stuck indoors.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Nice and co on the Rota. Right, it kind of
it flows right, you get like you have that as
a slogan.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
CoA Bryant with his first road trip. You always remember
your first road tips.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And that's the story you'll tell when he gets his
driver's license someday. I remember the first trip we took.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I remember, you know, we went, you know here, and
it's Hollywood Shores, Ben, So who wouldn't want their first
trip to be an Oxnard, California.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Beautiful ox Star. That's the training camp home of the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, ox nord America's team.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, have a great Saturday. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for listening to this. And we have the
mail Bag on Sunday, and you better listen to the
mail Bag on Sunday because that happens to be Peter
from Cleveland's Favorite Podcast, and I know we've got Peter listening,
and so you should listen as well. We'll catch you
next time. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearing
house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
(00:23):
Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, hanging out in the podcast dojo.
We are honored to have you as we do this
mindless work. Well it's actually not mindless work when you
think about it's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and
Danny G. But you already knew that. And my man
Danny G right there hanging out with me. He's on
(00:51):
with Covino and Rich all week. I do, of course
the Overnight Show, the Ben Maller Show, and Danny. If
you're new to the podcast, if you weren't listening years ago,
Danny used to work on the show. He was my
right hand man for several years on the Overnight Show,
and then he moved on. We're with Clay Travis and
all kinds of stuff. When's that Animal Thunderdome coming. Do
(01:13):
we have a date on the Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I got a text from Clay Travis last week. I'm
sure that'll solve it. Let me see, let me pull
it up on my phone. I'll tell you exactly what
he wrote here. Where are you there? It is? He
sent me a story of an alligator that weighed eight
hundred and two point five pounds and measured fourteen feet
(01:38):
three inches long, longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters.
So he sent that link and he said, we are
close on an extension on my contract so I can
be able to get rolling on Animal Thunderdome with you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, So, I mean, you know that's been i'mgoing for
a while now. But at least he texted with a
little update last week. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Speaking of alligators, I talked about this on the Overnight
Show the other night, but I recalled the story out
of Alabama. Did you see the Alabama football team what
they had for dinner this week? They had it looked
like a four hundred pound gator that they cooked the
entire gator and they were just picking away at the
flesh of the gator.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah. Yeah, it was really.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Disgusting looking like the image was really over the top,
and and the ironic things they were not. They're not
playing the Florida Gators today, you know, in the college
football world, they're playing South Florida, which is the Bulls.
But still they decided the great minds there in Tuscal looser.
They're like, ah, screw it, We'll just have gator and
(02:52):
they cooked the How do you cook that is? Where
do you find an oven that's big enough to put
a full sized gator in? Do you have to barbecue it?
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't know what the hell? Does gator taste like?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I've never had it? Does it taste fishy? I don't know,
but I guarantee you we have listeners of the Fifth
Hour based on I've seen the numbers here Danny, where
people are listening, and we have listeners in Gator country.
And I know a guy, our friend, the guy that
used to be known as Sir scratch Off and now
he's known the Wild Southern whatever. He said, a four
(03:28):
to six hundred pound gator will cost you between one
thousand and twelve hundred dollars if you want to buy.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
One to eat, and the Internet says that gator tastes
like quail with a mildly fishy flavor and is often chewy,
depending on preparation.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if I want that. That sounds disgusting.
What do you think dinosaurs tastes like? Probably like gators?
I think of gators. Is I think that's in that's
a dinosaur. I look at it an alligator. That's a
dinosaur to me. I know they say it's not and
chickens or relatives of dinosaurs, but for my money, I'm
(04:08):
saying that is a damn dinosaur when I see those
things walking around golf courses in South Carolina or Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Same with cortoises. Yeah yeah, man, and those hard shell
creatures live a long time. They definitely are the last
dinosaurs left on earth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So I've got on this podcast. We've got rock a
Bye Baby's Away, Backscratcher, the word of the week, and
time permitting, will have pop Goes the Culture. So we'll
have all of that content for you and we'll get
started with this. So once upon a time like last week, Danny,
(04:50):
Once upon a time like a week ago. It was
last Friday. So my wife had to work overtime. She's
a nine to one operators, so you had to do
an extra shift at the police station. So I had
my gambling buddy. I had the night free of my
my wife, so I had my gambling but she was busy,
(05:12):
so I had my gambling pole. Came over to hang
out my guy Hunter. And I've known this guy since
high school. We played football together in high school. We
both have very busy lives, and even though we don't
live that far away from each other, this socializing doesn't
happen as often as as shit. So had a free knight.
(05:33):
Decided to have the Malard Pizza party from scratch made.
I love the pizza party Danny rip off parmeersan garlic twist.
Oh yeah, just like they have it roundtable, except they'll
cost you about three dollars instead of twenty dollars. And
then I made the mallard pie, the traditional mallar pie,
(05:53):
garlic onion, bell pepper, thinly sliced onion. It melts in
your mouth. The garlic ah nice, the bell pepper. Really
a pizza artisan if I pull a muscle patting myself
in the back. But no, this is one of the
few things I make that I think I could like
serve in a restaurant. I think it's not good anyway,
So slaving over the hot stove and everything tasted the
(06:15):
delicious chef's kiss, right, I was very happy Michelin Star meal,
whatever you want to say. So then after the meal,
I was kind of hanging out, you know, talking about life,
how we're going to solve all of life's problems. Then
we were like, well, we can't really solve that problem,
screw it, and had a piece of celebratory cake. I
(06:35):
sent out a photo on Instagram and I think I
put it on Facebook also where the wife to celebrate
the TV thing, decided let them eat cake, right, let
them eat cake, And so she bought this big cake,
which my favorite cake was like a Smurf cake. It's
got like thick frosting and this like blue cake.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's really good. Yeah, saw the photos.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah it's pretty. So so we had a piece of
the cake. So then we're just hanging out. My buddy
was trying to sober up, to be honest with it,
because he had had a bunch of alcohol and I
did not. By the way, I did not, you know,
I got to keep my lean television body. He was
trying to sober up. We were sitting on the sofa,
you know, chatting again, you know, telling old stories, old
(07:22):
war stories, back in my day and my day is
his day because we were the same age. So this
is the part of the story where things started to
go hey wire, dating like, this is the part where
things went a little crazy. So my buddy, we're talking
about college football because he's got a sibling that works
(07:42):
at a major college football program, like a top ten
college football program. His sister is a big deal in
that world, actually works for one of us, Nick Saban
would say, one of the organizations. So he knows a
lot of crap, and he knows I won't repeat it
because I hardly ever talk about college football, but he
(08:03):
hears everything. So that's kind of like a safe zone, Danny,
because you know, you work with me a long time.
College football just doesn't usually come up that much on
the show unless it's Deon Sanders or Nick Saban. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It doesn't move your needle very often.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And I pointed out people get upset. I get emails
from people from time to time who live in the South,
let's say Southern Fried football or in the Midwest where
the Big Ten is mostly and they'll be like, well,
you really need to talk more about collegeball. And I've
always pointed out if the show was on a different schedule,
we would absolutely do it. But during football season the
(08:41):
show we come on Sunday night in the West, right
after the NFL games, like the late Sunday night NBC
game ends, and then week come on a couple hours
after that hour and a half after that that game,
depending on the schedule, sometimes whatever, it's within a couple
hours of the Sunday night football game inning, so that's
a fresh story. It's always the biggest game of the week,
(09:02):
and so we start running rhymes about that and whatever
else happened in the NFL that day, and we don't
talk about college football. And then on Monday night, you think, well,
maybe you talk college football on Monday night and the
Tuesday no, No, because we have a Monday night game
to talk about. So we talk about the Monday night game,
and that's how.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We do it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So we do that, and then Tuesday, usually it's still
fallout from Monday night. Wednesday, we start looking ahead to
Thursday's NFL come.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, surely on Thursday night into Friday morning. You talk
about college.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, because we have a Thursday night NFL game to
talk about it. Just see the problem here, You understand
the problem. So there has to be a tremendously wonderful
scandal for us to get into college football. Now. Fortunately
we've had Dion Sanders who wants to rip the head
(09:58):
off every other coach that he plays because of some
great injustice. The coach said, disrespect and all that, and
Dion able to work his magic the other coach makes it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Parsonal, Yeah, how let.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Me ask you this, Danny, how long can that stick
last for Dion? At some point? Isn't that not going
to work? When you when you get to week seven
or eight of the coma, I.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Think it has legs to carry him to his next job.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You want to take a bet on where his next
job will be?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What do you think next gig for gig? I'm gonna
say it is going to be a team that drafts
Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I had said, as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of Nosterdenis, I had said the Atlanta Falcons.
I tossed that out. I don't think the Cowboys. I
don't think Jerry Jones would go down that road, even
though that would be amazing fodder for those of us
(11:08):
that are in the sports media world. And then you
look around. You got to look at the Southeastern Conference
because that's the top of college football. So at anybody
who's about to get whacked. Jed who fled the knucklehead
Jed who fled from Florida. He actually had. I thought
a pretty good line that even though he was probably
(11:29):
higher than a kite, I think he's onto something. He
mentioned Texas A and m as possibility.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's not mad. But I could definitely see Dion taking
his talent to the NFL. Would his style of coaching
work in the National Football League?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's like short term, but he'd probably wear out as
welcome right, because a lot of the guys, like the players,
don't want to deal with the bull crap in the
in the NFL. I don't want anything to do with that.
And I was like, eh, but it might if he
gets a young team and he hasn't played in so long.
It's like the players in college they know of Dion Sanders,
(12:14):
but it's not like they watched him play. And the
guys even in the NFL. Dion played so long ago
that the guys in the NFL who were the younger guys,
they were like five or six maybe the last time
Dion Sanders was playing in the NFL. But the Texas
A and m row with Jimbo Fisher not exactly like
(12:35):
in the World on Fire, I could see that. I
can see that happening, though. That would be the mother
of all payouts. Does this count as college football talk.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
By the way, Danny, it sure does.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I got distracted. I was telling a story.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You were talking about how you don't cover college football,
and then now you covered college football.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Did about ten minutes on college well, but no, back
to the story. Sorry, but you carry away. It's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So my buddy's telling me stuff about college football because
that's a world he's familiar with and he's got relative
in it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And so I'm listing.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I don't remember much more than that, because next
thing I know, it's rock by Baby in the tree top.
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You know that whole thing. You sing that to.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Your son, by the way, you got to sing nursery
rhymes and those little those little things.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, Yeah, I sing that, and then I pretend like
he's falling down to the floor. Nice, you gotta I
bump his head on the carpet softly, but he laughs.
He thinks it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, I have I have fun like hush, little baby
and all that. I remember my mom. I hardly have
any memories when I was really little, but I hear
those songs and I in my head, I'm like my mom.
I remember my mom reading those songs to me when
I was a little baby. So we'll get to the point, please.
So I fell asleep while my friend was talking to me,
(14:11):
tell me some college football story. I was so zonked
from staying up twenty five hours last week. I actually
over twenty five hours to do the TV thing, the
radio thing and all that. It finally caught up to me.
I completely zonked. I it was like I had NARPLELEPSI.
I passed out and uh yeah. So that my friend left.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
My buddy like.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Left, well, I fell asleep on the seb He just
took off. He said, I had to go. That was
and I won't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You weren't a good thing. You weren't on a date.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I know, I woke up and I was like, wait
a minute.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I was like, what happened? You know, like crap.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was like half awake, half asleep. You know, you're bedraggled,
You're not sure what's going on. And then on Saturday
last week, my my wife had me at you know,
because part of the marriage dealing, you know this Danny
is when you're married, you're the plus one. When the
wife goes to a party, you're the plus one.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You gotta go.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And so I got taken to a work party and
I was in total zombie mode. Still I think I
had I barely recovered now, so I'm in zombie mode,
unable to function properly throughout the day and night, in
a general malaise.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And this is kind of eh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's like being hungover, but I didn't even have alcohols,
just sleep lack of sleep. And then this, you know,
this whole thing has been wonderful, it's been a vortex
of goodness, but my sleep schedule is completely effed up.
So anyway, that's the whole point. I rock a bye baby.
I fell asleep while my friend was telling me a
(15:53):
college football story, and that was that, and it was
just was away Danny for for him and for you apparently.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah. It so very similar to how our college football
talk put people to sleep. Your buddies did the same
thing to you.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That is correct.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yes, fast asleep, fast asleep. Oh my, oh my gosh. Monday,
for nine to eleven, there was, as you referenced on
yesterday's podcast, there was an iHeart event at the old
Johnny Carson studio. I don't think you've been to that
(16:31):
studio since iHeart took it over, have you? I have not. No.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I used to go by there quite a bit when
Jay Leno, and you know, that was years ago when
he had the Tonight show and I was around there.
But no, I have not.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I knew they took it over, but I didn't really
know what they had done with it. So how is
it over there?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It's very cool. They've built it into a small TV
studio for live performances. So anytime a big music star
has an album that's being released or an event that
they want to throw, iHeart will hold it there with
their TV cameras and an iHeart host. Usually, you know,
(17:10):
one of their big boys will come out, Like if
it's a country show, it'll be Bobby Bones. They're interviewing
the artist, and what they do is like a mini
concert for one hour. They will air it on all
of Iheart's channels and their YouTube channel, and they'll broadcast
it live across the world. And they have a small
(17:31):
audience in there of clients, VIP and iHeart employees, so
it only holds, as you know, a couple hundred people
in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, it's not very big at all. Yeah, And so
you were did you you got you went to this
where you were able to attend this thing?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Is that? Yeah, big country and rock superstar Jelly Roll
from Tennessee was performing. He flew and he's been opening
for that big country star Eric Church. He took a
break off that tour to fly into LA for the
nine to eleven tribute show that iHeart wanted him to
(18:07):
do for wounded warriors and some other organizations, some other
charities for soldiers, which was really cool of him. Get
to the Burbank studios there and it's Monday night football
Jets and as you know the debut of one Aaron Rodgers.
(18:27):
It's broke. It's broke. Our oldest went along with me
to the show because he's a big country music fan,
kind of like take your kid to work day for
me because our boss was nice enough to let my
kid hang out in the studio as I produced Covino
and Rich on Monday afternoon, hurried up and did the
post production, and as we were walking in to the theater,
(18:52):
that's when it's broke. It's broke. That's what's when Aaron
Rodgers got hurt. Oh boy, oh man in the coup
one hundred people in front of the theater waiting to
get in, the whole place was buzzing about Aaron Rodgers
and the Jets. Let you know how even more how
NFL is king because people were out there for music
(19:13):
and everybody was talking about Aaron Rodgers in the NFL.
So we get inside the theater. They basically spent millions
of dollars to pimp this place out so that these
star musicians look like stars up on this stage for
when they filmed them. And what's really cool about it
(19:34):
is you're standing right in front of the stage. If
you were a stalker, you literally could reach your hand
out and grab Jelly Roll's ankle, although that wouldn't end well.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Back in my younger days, I did have a lot
of jelly rolls. I did enjoy a jelly roll.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I did. Yeah, you're not familiar with jelly Roll. You
can google him and he's got a hit on the
radio right now called save Me. No.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I actually I have heard of jelly Row. You probably
don't think I have, because you know, I'm not really
up on too much pop culture. But I had heard
of this guy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He's got a really good documentary out on Hulu right
now called Save Me. So add that to your list
of documentaries to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I do love documentaries. Now, before you go on, I'm
gonna hit the pause button here, daddy, So before you
go on here, Now, the kid, your son that you
took to the Covino and Ritual. Was he a into
the show? Was he impressed at what you do or see?
Was he just futzing around on his phone the whole time,
bored out of his mind?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He wasn't on his phone. He had his laptop with
him because he is a new student at KL lou University,
so he was doing some homework. All right, that's cool. Yeah,
so he was kind of paying attention to what was
going on. I'd hear him laugh once in a while.
Then during commercial breaks, he would walk over and kind
(20:58):
of take a look at what I was doing on
the computers, and then he would wander back over and
start working on his on his history page. Again, he
was half engaged. I would say, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, you always just just like when me and you
would walk into a radio station.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh yeah, so dude, us at that age, well, I
mean both of us were already in radio at his age,
but back up earlier. If somebody had taken us to
studios when we were little kids, oh man, it would
be the same thing as when we went to stadiums
for the first time.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, this is amazing, like this is the hallowed ground
and so cool, so cool.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So he did. He was pretty impressed with the new studios.
He thought it was really cool. And then of course
he got to see the iHeart Theater, which he thought
was really really cool. And now we're standing just a
few feet away from mister Jelly roll and put on
a great show. He's got like four or five hits now.
(22:04):
He did his hits in between talking about first responders
and what that meant to him after the tragedy and everything.
And he was a little kid at the time, but
after watching the first responders rush into those buildings, he
had a whole new appreciation for firefighters and policemen. Obviously
(22:24):
there were some military folks in the building, and so
it was really a warm, like a really nice feeling
there inside the building and all over the world. They
put this out for everybody to watch and listen to,
and he's belting out these tunes, Big Ben, like, this
guy's got some crazy vocals. So the crowd was super
(22:45):
impressed with his singing. And then there's a director who's
kind of like cut like, letting him know you are
no longer on the iheartfeed, which means he's now just
performing for us inside the little Johnny Carson theater. Nice well,
Ben was away because Jelly Roll gets on his mic
(23:08):
and he said, all right, so the forty minutes on
the Feet is over. I'm just live in the theater.
And somebody gave him a thumbs up and he's like, huh.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Fu, fuck, damn it fuck, And people are just kind
of standing there looking and half the crowd is laughing,
and he's like, I'm sorry, just how to get that
out of my system?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
For forty minutes there, I felt like I was performing
at fucking Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So he obviously he's used to, you know, letting it
rip and saying whatever he wants to say. And he's
got a good message in his music that also accompanies
the some of the party style that that he's known for.
But yeah, man, it was funny because I thought you
could appreciate that, because you know, especially on regular FAMFM,
(24:11):
we don't curse in the hallway. You cursed a lot.
I noticed when I worked with you on your live show, blank, my,
blank and blank. You like radio savant. You would crack
the microphone and no curse words ever came out of
your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I've been every once in a while. I've had
a few hiccups over the years, but.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Very few, very few hiccups.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But yeah, I get my cursing out in the commercials,
and I usually in the main studio. I tried to
avoid that as a rule of thumb. In the podcast studio,
we can say all those words. But I did work
with the guy years ago, early on in my career,
and he had one of the legendary stories in LA radio.
(24:54):
He was working at a station I think you know
who this is. He was working at a station, the
station w was changing formats. He was about to lose
his job and the last night this is why you
never get a final show on radio. So his last
night on the air, he was completely schnockered, and near
the end of the show he said, like, you know,
(25:17):
who cares. They can't fire us, And then he just
started saying the F word and the S word, like
over and over and over, just like you heard with
Jelly Roll. And he did it into the microphone on
a radio station. And this is back in the days
when everyone was like freaking out, Oh my god, the yes,
the FCC is going to get you in all that.
(25:38):
And I don't think he got in any trouble for it,
but he did it. He like did it on the air.
How crazy is that?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, maybe screw him. He's one of the reasons why
we didn't get to say goodbye to our listeners when
we got fired from radio stations.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
He's the reason. That's the reason right there we didn't
get to have farewells shows.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's not right, man, it's not right. You never get
to goodbye. He's just vanished. Did you go off into
the cosmos? And that is that all right, so we
have what we we've got Backscratcher. That is what's next, Backscratcher, Danny.
These are actual reviews by actual people that have listened
to the podcast, and it does help us out the
Apple podcast pages. In the description this week, Danny, do
(26:25):
we have one, two, three, or four reviews on the
Backscratcher Apple podcast page?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wow, you went all the way up to four. I'm
gonna say three.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, Danny, you'll be happy to know that we have
not one, not two, but d n Nate Nate name,
you got it right?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Three? Three? Yeah? Man, I'm good at this game.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I think you did. You cheat, Danny, don't cheat now.
First one is from our friend Peter, who is from Cleveland,
and he gave us five stars. He said he rarely
misses an episode. Says his brother in law listens live
every night. He recommended the show, and I started podcasting
(27:10):
it and now rarely miss an episode. He says he
especially loves the fifth hour, and he loves the listener letters.
He likes the mail bag. Danny loves the mail bag.
I love the mail bag.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Too, Peter. I love I love ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
He just not ask Ben. This is a totally different feature,
and it'll be on tomorrow's podcast. He says, thanks for
consistent excellence. Highly recommend the show and follow up. It
just keeps getting better. Best duel on the dial. Danny
and Benny rocketed to my top podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How about that, Danny, nice man. I'm gonna show that
to our boss. We are.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We are number one on Peter's smartphone, loud and clear,
right there.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Number one, number one, number one now with a bullet,
number one on an iPhone or an Android or whatever
he happens to have.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Next up, Thank you, Peter. Next up, we have a
splendid Daddy from Leesburg, Alabama. Daddy's four point nine stars,
Nobody's perfect, Ben and Danny and Splendid Daddy says, I
have listened to all twenty three hours a week, twenty
(28:30):
for the show and three for the fifth hour for
three years running.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Now and then his mind must be warped.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Smartest guy in Leesburg, Alabama, and to prove that he's
really from Leesburg, Alabama, he says, y'all are down to earth,
anti woke, and best of all, I love the sarcasm.
Keep up the good work. Hopefully all get another twenty years.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, I think we.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Prout both Danny probably need to work in other twenty years.
I think that's pretty fair to say, right, I don't know,
unless we win the lottery or something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Right, well, we are definitely retiring at seventy five years old.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I think, I think, I think so, I think
that's gonna that's gonna happen. Cliff in Nashville rights away
twenty years. How will you think I am?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Cliff in Nashville rights and so, he says, I so
look forward to the real Fifth Hour with Mallard and
Danny g Every weekend. They share their interesting life experiences
with candor and humor we can all relate to. And
then he says, Ben's quick wit, Danny's calm approach me
(29:39):
for a great team.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So they go, thank you, And everyone's been very nice here, Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And the reason everyone's been nice is we just we
don't even read the bad reviews.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
We just leave those the side. We only read the
good reviews.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But no, we would read the bad reviews, but we
don't get too many of those, which is pretty cool. Actually,
most of the ones we got were when I was
doing the show with guests, and he would go through
his Rolodex and put like these really polarizing political people
on the podcast, and I'm like, all right, whatever your book,
I'll talk to whoever.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I don't really I rarely.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Turned down anyone, but certain people really got like freaked out,
you know, and I'm I'm of the mindset I'll talk
to pretty much anybody. I'm not, you know, on either
side of the aisle. Obviously I'm on the anti woke side,
but I'll talk to people I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And some people just lose their mind. They lose their mind.
And we've had to rebuild your overall score ever since.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I know, we were like what happened? Man, People were
like us.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
When I joined your show, you had like a three
point nine overall rating. Well give or take, you know,
give me. But thank you to all the nice regular
listeners of the podcast, because that number is up to
a four point nine right now. Loujah Hei you Jesus. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And the cool thing about this and I thank you
for downloading the podcast and supporting what we do here
because originally, when we started the podcast, it was going
to be like another Sporto podcast. It was gonna be
a gambling podcast, which it was for a while, and
then it was just gonna be all interviews. And now,
even though we talked some hot college football earlier in
(31:25):
this podcast, it is I would say ninety two percent
just about like us.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And ten percent shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
add up. Yeah, and it's like, listen, we're in the
same battle everyone's in, right, We're all trying to make
it through the crazy cornfield maze that is life, and
stupid is as stupid does.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And that's the way.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The way it works. All right, we have with the
word of the week, the word all the week. I
think I used this word yesterday, Danny. The word of.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
The week, the word of the week.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
The word of the week. The word of the week
is moxie. Moxie is the word of the week. So moxie,
it's to me, it's a synonym of gumption, courage, I
guess would be the way a lot of people look
at it, that moxie means you have intestinal fortitude. If
(32:28):
you got moxie, that's a compliment. Now, I didn't really
know much about the history of the word, so I
was like, all right, let's make this the word of
the week. I use it from time to time. It's
in my lexicon. What exactly does it mean? And I
know what it kind of means? But where did it
come from? So there's a couple of avenues you can
go down from what I was able to uncover. It
(32:48):
actually goes back about the modern usage goes back about
one hundred years, and it was a brand name. The
term moxie was a brand name of a bitter, non
alcoholic drink, So that's in like the nineteen thirties, and
then you go back to the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies,
(33:13):
it was the name of a medicine advertised to build
up your nerve. Yeah, that kind of makes sense. And
despite the beginnings of the word, there's all kinds of
stories on the internet, I believe it or not. People
people love words.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I love words.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And they claim that the company, that company, the medical company,
put out all these wild stories about it. But they
think the term actually came from a New England Indian word.
And they say there's a fair amount of rivers, like
there's a there's a river and a lake in Maine
(33:56):
that are named moxie. They say, in the original Indian language,
it means dark water. Okay, dark water. So there's a
couple of different meetings on that. And they say in
the nineteen teens, nineteen seventeen, there was a moxie company
(34:19):
that won an infringement lawsuit against a competitor. Somebody started
a different beverage called Proxy. That's pretty funny. That's like
that coming to America where they had McDowell's.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, it's like you're selling a lot of beverages called moxie.
So we're going to go the other way. We're going
to go proxy. What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Man alive?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
All right, we'll get out on that note, Danny, we
will push pop goes the culture to the Sunday mail
Bag podcast, but I will go first with the begging.
And it's Saturday, which means I am not doing radio,
but I am doing television. So Benny versus the Penny.
(35:06):
If you have not watched it yet, please try to
check it out. It's all over cable television regional cable
television on the NBC Sports affiliates around the country in Boston, Chicago, La,
New York, Philadelphia, and a bunch of other cities. You
don't have to point out at every time, Danny, you
don't point that out.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, let it be known. The Lakers channel in La
is where you can watch Ben Malley.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, okay, so that is going to be available off
and on throughout the day, depending on which city you
are in. If you've already watched it, watch it again.
That would help us out a lot. That would help
us out a lot. If you did that, that would mean
a lot to me. So I do appreciate that. I'm
trying to make sure this thing doesn't get canceled by
week nine, and if people actually watch it, maybe they'll
actually bring it back for another year.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
That would be wild.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Also, we've only made it through two weeks though, so
we have many, many more shows to get through. Danny,
what do you have going on here? You're not working today? Right, Saturday,
day of rest.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Day of travel, because in about an hour we are
going to pack baby Koa into the car. He's gonna
go on his first little trip. We're gonna drive about
forty five minutes north to the ocean and spend one
night there on the beach, just because we are sick
(36:27):
of being stuck indoors.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Nice and co on the Rota. Right, it kind of
it flows right, you get like you have that as
a slogan.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
CoA Bryant with his first road trip. You always remember
your first road tips.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And that's the story you'll tell when he gets his
driver's license someday. I remember the first trip we took.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I remember, you know, we went, you know here, and
it's Hollywood Shores, Ben, So who wouldn't want their first
trip to be an Oxnard, California.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Beautiful ox Star. That's the training camp home of the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, ox nord America's team.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, have a great Saturday. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for listening to this. And we have the
mail Bag on Sunday, and you better listen to the
mail Bag on Sunday because that happens to be Peter
from Cleveland's Favorite Podcast, and I know we've got Peter listening,
and so you should listen as well. We'll catch you
next time. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go
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